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- Trump FCC Chair Brendan Carr to Attend WHCD Amid Growing Outrage From Journalist...
Brandon Bell/Pool via AP Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner, Oliver Darcy reported Monday evening, part of a controversial effort to honor President Donald Trump’s administration that he described in his Status newsletter as “akin to a fire department inviting arsonists to a gathering aimed at celebrating firefighting.” The WHCD was already facing blowback from journalists over inviting Trump as an “honoree” and CBS News hosting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as guests at their table. More than 250 journalists signed an open letter urging any reporters who attend to “forcefully demonstrate opposition” to the Trump administration’s “systematic, sustained, and unprecedented attacks on the free press” that were a “profound contradiction” of the purpose of the dinner, to serve as “a celebration of the First Amendment and the journalists who uphold it.” According to Darcy, “Trump’s lapdog” FCC chair Carr will also be in attendance, courtesy of an invite from CBS News’ parent company, Paramount. “I am planning on attending,” Carr confirmed he would be at the dinner via text message after Status reached out for comment, but “not with CBS for it.” Carr did not answer when Status asked him to confirm if he would be sitting at the Paramount table, or if he had received other invitations. As Darcy’s report noted, rolling out the red carpet for Carr “to clink glasses in celebration of a free press is, at the very least, difficult to square.” Since taking the reins at the FCC, Carr has been an eager attack dog pursuing Trump’s critics in the media, going after seemingly every network except for Fox, threatening to yank station licenses, publicly pressuring local carriers to drop Jimmy Kimmel’s show, launched “enforcement proceedings” against The View, made demands for what the media should cover, and repeatedly claimed he has the right to review the content of what journalists report. Paramount, which declined to comment about the Carr invite, needed the Trump administration’s approval for its merger with Skydance, and that was widely viewed as the instigator for its push for CBS News to settle a lawsuit Trump filed regarding a 60 Minutes interview of then-Vice President Kamala Harris, despite numerous legal scholars viewing the president as having a weak case. Now, Paramount has its eye on acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery, and will once again… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - John Gotti’s Grandson Sentenced to Prison for $1 Million+ Covid Fraud After Mo...
Screenshot via Long Island News 12. Carmine G. Agnello Jr., the grandson of infamous mob boss John J. Gotti Jr., was sentenced Monday to fifteen months in prison for fraudulently obtaining Covid relief loans, despite the fervent courtroom pleas from his mother begging the judge for leniency and claiming he intended to donate a kidney to her. Gotti earned the nickname “the Teflon Don” after prosecutors repeatedly found themselves unable to get juries to find the Gambino crime boss guilty in three trials, later found to be due to Gotti’s jury tampering, witness intimidation, and other schemes. Eventually, after his underboss, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, turned state’s evidence and testified against him, Gotti was convicted in 1992 for five murders, racketeering, conspiracy to murder, loansharking, illegal gambling, obstruction of justice, bribery, and tax evasion. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole and died from cancer in a federal prison in Missouri in 2002. John Gotti mugshot, Public domain photo via FBI. The younger Gotti family member’s criminal ambitions are fortunately less bloody, but still will change his residential address to the federal penitentiary system. According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Agnello, 39, fraudulently obtained funds from the Covid relief loans administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and used the money to buy cryptocurrency: As set forth in court filings and on the record during the defendant’s plea and sentencing hearings, between April 2020 and November 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Agnello fraudulently applied for, and received, at least three EIDLP [COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program] loans totaling approximately $1.1 million, which he submitted on behalf of Crown Auto Parts & Recycling, LLC (Crown), a Jamaica, Queens-based business that he operated. In an effort to receive loans to which he was not entitled, Agnello submitted false information to the SBA about the number of employees who worked for Crown, as well as about the intended use of the loan proceeds. Instead of using the funds for Crown, Agnello diverted them for his personal use, including by investing approximately $420,000 in a cryptocurrency business. Agnello pleaded guilty to defrauding the federal government and to wire fraud connected to his scheme to obtain the EIDLP funds. According to TMZ, prosecutors were seeking a harsher sentence of about three years in prison and about… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - ‘Creepy McCreepster!’ Van Jones Can’t Believe Text From Dad of Ousted Cabi...
CNN commentator Van Jones offered an incredulous reaction to reporting about the father of Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who resigned as Secretary of Labor on Monday amid an inspector general investigation. Last week, The New York Times published more bad press for Chavez-DeRemer, whose tenure at the department was beset by reports of inappropriate and unethical behavior. The Times published texts from Chavez-DeRemer’s husband, Dr. Shawn DeRemer, and her father, Richard Chavez. In one exchange from April 2025, DeRemer’s father texted a young female staffer, “Hearing u/r in town. Wishing you would let me know. I could have made some excuses to get out and show u around. Please keep this private.” Weeks later, the same staffer texted the secretary’s husband, who was banned from the Labor Department after being accused of inappropriately touching two staffers, and apologized for not reaching out to him. “I’ve been having so much fun traveling with LCD and being in the moment for everything!! I promise from now on I’ll check in,” she wrote. “You better. I was feeling forgotten. I figured you were still in church repenting after your exposure to the demon state of Oregon,” DeRemer responded. On Monday’s episode of The Source on CNN, host Kaitlan Collins read Richard Chavez’s alleged text to the staffer. “I mean, it’s incredibly odd stuff that her father is texting staff in her department,” Collins noted. “When your daddy is in there being Creepy McCreepster, your husband is booted out because he’s Creepy McCreepster, like, this is not a good group,” Jones replied. “This should have been ended as soon as the dad was doing weird stuff. And so, I think that for everyday people, they’re looking at this White House and they’re saying, ‘This is not what I voted for.'” Chavez-DeRemer reportedly used staff for non-government business. According to the Times, she asked an aide to bring wine to her hotel room. “Do they sell by the bottle,” she asked. The staffer said yes, but the hotel was out of rosé. Chavez-DeRemer asked, “How about the josh sauvi B.” On another occasion, Chavez-DeRemer reportedly brought subordinates to a strip club. Watch above via CNN.The post ‘Creepy McCreepster!’ Van Jones Can’t Believe Text From Dad of Ousted Cabinet Secretary first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - GOP Congressman Calls Somalis a ‘Net Drain’ on Society
Screenshot via The Benny Show Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) called Somalis a “net drain” on society during an appearance on MAGA influencer Benny Johnson’s podcast, The Benny Show. On Monday’s episode, Johnson pulled up a graph from a March report by the Center for Immigration, which suggests that 54 percent of non-citizen households in the U.S. from “top sending” countries are on welfare. Clearly appalled by this stat, he asked Gill to explain the data. “One, if we’re bringing the best and brightest, and they have to be here on welfare, why are we bringing them here at all?” Johnson quizzed. “Two, shouldn’t this be illegal? If you’re coming here, shouldn’t the point be that you contribute immediately and not parasitically make our country poorer and steal from the taxpayers, of which you’ve contributed nothing?” In an effort to justify his point, Johnson rattled off a list of things his aforementioned “non-citizens” had not done in the U.S., ending with, “You haven’t mowed a lawn in this country! Why are you entitled to welfare?” Gill agreed and claimed most Americans would, too, citing an issue of “cultural compatibility.” “If you come into the United States, you are expected to become American, you are not expected to be a hyphenated American perpetually,” he said. “You’re expected to adopt American culture and revere our history and adhere to the cultural norms in our civilization, which by the way, is the whole reason why people immigrate into the United States, because our culture, I believe in many ways, is superior to other cultures across the globe.” He proceeded to lambast other cultures. “We’ve got to recognize that not all cultures are equal,” Gil added. “They’re not all compatible with America’s governing framework, they’re not all equally moral, they don’t all have equal dignity. And we have to recognize that bringing in third-world countries where some lunatic is grilling a cat in an American park where children are playing around is a culture that is incompatible with our own.” "The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped … they're a net drain on the society" — even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking pic.twitter.com/zYH8NLLV0t — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 20, 2026 Johnson took the thread of “incompatibility” as an opportunity to pull… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Hannity Suggests Mamdani Sparked Mets Losing Streak by Hugging MascotSean Hannity suggested that the New York Mets’ 11-game losing streak has something to do with the team’s mascots hugging New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani, who has described himself as a casual Mets fan, visited Citi Field on April 9, and he hugged and took photos with team mascots Mr. Met and Mrs. Met. At the time, the team was on a one-game losing streak, and since then, the Mets have lost 10 more games in a row to bring the streak to 11. It is the team’s longest losing streak since 2004. On Monday’s Hannity on Fox News, the host noted that Mamdani and former President Barack Obama visited a preschool in the Bronx last week and promoted free child care. Hannity played a clip of the pair singing “The Wheels on the Bus” with a group of children. “And by the way, the New York Mets? They are on an 11-game losing streak, including right after the mayor met and hugged the team mascot, Mr. Met, at Citi Field on April 9, a phenomenon people are calling the ‘Mamdani Curse.'” He added, “Kind of hard to lose 11 games in a row in baseball, but he pulled it off. I think everything the government promises, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, headed for bankruptcy. Obamacare promises, they all failed. Every one of them. Now, all of a sudden, we’re gonna hand over our kids, where we have horrible government-run schools, and now they can start their indoctrination when they are one and two?” Mamdani’s visit to Citi Field so enraged New York talk radio gabber Sid Rosenberg that he switched his allegiance from the Mets to the New York Yankees. Rosenberg has referred to Mamdani as an “animal” and a “radical Islam cockroach.” Watch above via Fox News.The post Hannity Suggests Mamdani Sparked Mets Losing Streak by Hugging Mascot first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- AOC Says She Wants Trump on the Golf Course: ‘Keep Him Out of Consequential De...
MeidasTouch/X Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she actually prefers President Donald Trump to be on the golf course rather than in the White House. On Monday, Pablo Manríquez of MeidasTouch caught up with the congresswoman at the Capitol, where he asked about Trump playing golf as the Iran war, which is currently paused by a ceasefire, remains unresolved. “Donald Trump has been playing a lot of golf while we’re at war,” Manríquez said. “Prices are going up. What do you make of Donald Trump’s, I guess, work ethic, if you will?” “Obviously, it’s awful that this guy’s playing golf, but in a way, we’re already seeing that some of the most important military decisionmakers in the country are trying to keep him out of consequential decisions,” she responded. “So, in some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more than you want him in the Oval Office. But that also calls into question the 25th Amendment, because… if the determination is that Donald Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room and in unfolding scenarios, then he’s not fit to be president.” AOC: In some ways, you kind of want this guy on a golf course more than you want him in the Oval Office. But that also calls into question the 25th Amendment, because if the determination is that Trump cannot be trusted in the Situation Room, then he’s not fit to be president. pic.twitter.com/FslM0Eubog — Acyn (@Acyn) April 20, 2026 As they did during Trump’s first term, some Democratic lawmakers and liberal pundits have floated the idea of using the 25th Amendment to undercut him. According to Section 4 of the amendment, the president is stripped of his powers if a majority of the cabinet and the vice president agree that the president is unable to carry out his duties. At that point, Vice President JD Vance would become acting president. Alternatively, Congress can pass legislation to create a body that would determine if Trump is unable to continue as president. However, the legislation would require approval of both Republican-controlled houses of Congress and Trump’s signature. Last week, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) filed a bill to create such a commission.The post AOC Says She Wants Trump on the Golf Course: ‘Keep Him Out of Consequential Decisions’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
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