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- Source Tells CNN That ‘Trigger Happy’ Hegseth Thinks ‘Blowing Sh*t Up’ I...
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta CNN reported on Tuesday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth believes that the best way to keep his job is by “blowing sh*t” up, according to a person familiar with his mindset. The piece casts Hegseth as a leading advocate of the ongoing Iran war, which has entered its second month. President Donald Trump said as much last week at an event that Hegseth also attended. “And Pete, I think you were the first one to speak up. And you said, ‘Let’s do it, because you can’t let them have a nuclear weapon,'” the president said at the time. “Once the president made the decision, [Hegseth] was the No. 1 supporter of it, as he should be,” a senior White House official told CNN. “He’s still responsible for making sure it’s a success.” Another source told CNN that Hegseth is “trigger happy,” while the senior White House official disputed that the secretary should be concerned about his job security: “He’s very trigger happy,” one source familiar with Hegseth’s current mindset told CNN, adding that he believes “blowing sh*t up” is the best way for him to keep his job. The senior White House official pushed back on the notion that Hegseth would be concerned about his job. “The president is very pleased with him, and was before the Iran situation,” the source said. Trump himself has suggested that Hegseth has been keen on continuing the Iran war. “You know, the only two people that were quite disappointed, I don’t want to say this, but I have to,” Trump said during an event in the Oval Office on March 24. “I said, ‘Pete and Gen. Razin’ Caine, I think this thing’s going to be settled very soon.’ They go, ‘Oh, that’s too bad, right?’ Pete didn’t want it to be settled.” The report states that Hegseth has held more press briefings since the beginning of the war on Feb. 28 than he had previously during his tenure. “When Trump decided to launch combat operations, the White House wanted the Pentagon to serve as the administration’s primary communicator — a decision based, in part, on Hegseth’s credentials as a former Fox News anchor and his typically bombastic demeanor while defending the president’s actions,” CNN said. Hegseth has also spearheaded the administration’s attacks on “narco-terrorists” on boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific. The Department of Defense has carried… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Abby Phillip Cuts Down Scott Jennings’s Trump-Inspired War Claim With Simple Q...
CNN host Abby Phillip cut down panelist Scott Jennings on Tuesday, asking him a simple question that shut down his claim that Iran has “nothing to shoot” at the U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that Iran was “not even shooting at us” in the ongoing conflict with Iran, despite recent reports that Iran struck at least one U.S. aircraft in recent days. The president has made similar claims in the past, telling reporters a few weeks into the conflict that “nobody” was attacking U.S. planes. “The navy’s gone. Their air force is gone. Their anti-aircraft equipment is gone,” Trump said two weeks ago. “We’re flying wherever we want. We have nobody even shooting at us.” Jennings made a similar point on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s NewsNight, telling panelists that Iran was in such a “weak position” that they were no longer able to shoot at U.S. forces. “But you would admit Iran is in a much weaker position today. I mean, we’ve bombed 13,000 military targets,” he said, a point which Phillip agreed with as Jennings continued. “And we’ve taken away– last night, you know, their underground missile stores in Isfahan. I mean, we control the skies,” said Jennings. “We’re refueling B52s over their airspace. They’re in a much weaker position. So when it comes to talking, whether they’re reasonable or accessible or whatever, I know this: they’ve got really nothing to shoot back at us with right now. And that’s a weak position.” Phillip was quick to hit back at the idea that the U.S. had an advantage in the war, asking Jennings bluntly why the critical oil passageway in Iran was still shut down. “So why is the Strait of Hormuz closed then?” asked Phillip. “If that’s the case.” Jennings did not offer a response to the question. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since the conflict began in February, leading to skyrocketing gas prices, which reached $4 a gallon this week. Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed Iran’s ongoing blockage of the passway on Tuesday, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the issue was ultimately “a problem for the world” because in the U.S., “we depend very little on the Strait.” Watch above via CNN.The post Abby Phillip Cuts Down Scott Jennings’s Trump-Inspired War Claim With Simple Question first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - CNN Legal Analyst Predicts Shellacking for Trump in Citizenship Case: ‘He’s ...CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig said President Donald Trump will find himself in a “bad mood” if the president decides to attend Wednesday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Trump took questions from reporters at the White House on Tuesday, where he said he will attend the hearing in Trump v. Barbara. The case stems from an executive order Trump signed on the first day of his second term that argues that people born in the U.S. are not citizens if their parents lacked legal status in the country. The argument flies directly in the face of the 14th Amendment, which states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” Honig joined Tuesday’s edition of The Source, where host Kaitlan Collins noted that Trump would be the first sitting president to attend oral arguments before the Supreme Court. She then played the clip of the president claiming he would attend arguments. “I’m going,” Trump said. “I think so. I do believe.” “If he shows up there tomorrow, what do you think, Elie, that’s gonna be like if he’s sitting there?” Collins asked Honig. “Three of the justices, he appointed, several of those that he criticized heavily and said their families should be embarrassed of them after the tariff decision.” Honig responded by noting that Trump has the right to attend, but said the president may want to reconsider: He’s a member of the public. He’s a party to this case, but let me tell you, he’s not gonna like what he sees playing out because his administration lawyers are making arguments that are vast stretches of law arrayed against his legal position, is the plain text of the Constitution, the 14th Amendment on birthright citizenship, 157 years of traditions and norms and congressional action, and the decisions of every lower court federal judge to hear this exact case. Four federal district court judges, three federal circuits have all ruled against the Trump administration. So if he does, in fact choose to attend Kaitlan, it will indeed be unprecedented. I think it’s gonna be hard to ignore the fact that he’s in the room. I do not think it will have any influence on the judges. And I think when he leaves that courthouse tomorrow, if he does… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Marco Rubio Shrugs About Reopening Strait of Hormuz: ‘We Depend Very Little on...Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz as a major problem for the United States, arguing it will affect allies and other countries more. Rubio joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity as the Iran war continues, with President Donald Trump claiming on Tuesday that U.S. involvement should be wrapped up in two or three weeks. Hannity asked Rubio if the Strait of Hormuz, where roughly 20% of the world’s oil moves through, being open for the “for the free flow of oil” will be a condition on the U.S. leaving Iran. Iran has been attacking cargo ships and reportedly charging tolls for use of the Strait of Hormuz following U.S. and Israeli strikes on the country. Rubio said Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz is a problem for the world, but he stressed that the U.S. does not rely on it. The Iran conflict has led to soaring gas prices stateside, with the national price topping $4 this week for the first time since 2022. Trump claimed on Tuesday that prices will drop once the U.S. leaves Iran. Rubio said: Well, the Strait of Hormuz, those are international waters, so anything Iran does to impede commercial traffic is illegal. For all these countries that like to talk about international law, it’s a violation of maritime law to impede the free flow of travel in international waters, so that’s number one. Number two, it’s illegal to bomb and hit and attack commercial shipping and sink them. That’s what the Nazis did during World War II in the Atlantic and that’s what they are doing now to ships from countries they don’t like. These are terroristic acts they are undertaking so the United States gets very little energy through the Strait of Hormuz. Our allies ship a lot of oil through there, meaning our Gulf allies, and certainly countries in Asia and Europe depend on it. We depend very little on the Straits so if, in fact, Iran decides to set up a toll, if they decide they are going to illegally control the Strait and decide they are going to try to do that, look, I imagine that will be the president’s call whether he wants to help but this is a problem for the world. It’s countries around the world that should be stepping up and dealing with that and saying that’s… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Alex Jones Says It’s Time To ‘Cut Bait on Trump’ Because the President ‘...
Screenshot/The Alex Jones Show Conspiracy theorist and podcaster Alex Jones said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was in “freefall,” claiming that it was time to “cut the bait” on the president before the upcoming midterms. Jones, a longtime supporter of Trump in his first term, has frequently criticized the president in recent months over everything from Trump’s attacks on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), his administration’s handling of the documents relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and the aging president’s health. The podcaster upped the ante on Tuesday’s edition of The Alex Jones Show, claiming Republican candidates needed to distance themselves from Trump while campaigning in the midterm elections. “When your ankles swell up three times the size they were before, that means heart failure. And he does look sick. And he does babble and, you know, sound like the brain’s not doing too hot,” said Jones. “And so we just cut bait on Trump, and we just mobilize against the Democrats.” Jones later told a story about his father’s decline due to dementia, claiming the same type of deterioration was true for Trump and advocating that the president to “take some time off.” “Not the man he was that last year. And that– we need to be sad about Trump. This is not funny. This is not good. But he’s gone. And that’s it,” said Jones. “And all the people rallied around him, you can see, [Pete] Hegseth’s freaked out. You can see, the press secretary’s freaked out. They’re being loyal. They think it’s a lesser of two evils. And I, okay, but I just– Trump needs intervention. He needs to take some time off.” Jones also noted the devastating new poll from the University of Massachusetts Amherst that put Trump’s approval rating at just 33%, claiming it showed that Republicans needed to distance themselves from the president. “These are real numbers, folks, and I see it in the streets. Trump is at 33%. He was up at 56, six months ago, the most popular he’s ever been,” said Jones. He continued: In Independents, that 80% voted for him, he’s lost 80%. In minute forty-five, he’s lost half of them. Trump is in free fall, and that means we’re in free fall in the midterms, unless Republican candidates say, “we are real America firsters, we liked Trump of the past, we’re sorry he’s obviously had an aneurysm or something or a… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - StreamGuys, Nueva Network Launch SGcreative
Sample screen, click to enlarge StreamGuys has launched an audio advertising service called SGcreative in partnership with Nueva Network. They said this creates “a unique audio product combining national reach with local relevancy,” combining AI and ad-insertion technology. Nueva Network serves the U.S. Latino market with audio on various platforms. StreamGuys said SGcreative helps Nueva Network “deliver real-time, location-specific sponsored content to Hispanic and multicultural audiences at scale.” It said the partnership “helps publishers get access to national advertising campaigns that they otherwise might not participate in.” The listener-facing content is branded by Nueva Network as “Que Onnda Today,” a format built around time-sensitive, geo-targeted audio segments. StreamGuys said its platform turns real-time data into audio ads. “It pulls in things like weather, traffic and local updates, then uses AI technology to quickly generate sponsored messages. Because SGcreative uses dynamic ad insertion, each listener hears ads tailored to their specific location.” It provided an example that listeners in Los Angeles might hear a sponsored message followed by a local forecast or traffic story, while a person in Chicago hears the same type of message but with details for Chicago. The ads are automatically updated in real time. Campaigns run across the StreamGuys Ad-Network in English and Spanish. At the NAB Show, StreamGuys will be in the ENCO booth, C2116. The post StreamGuys, Nueva Network Launch SGcreative appeared first on Radio World. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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