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- GOP Senator Hopes Jerome Powell Doesn’t Stay On At the Fed: ‘Good Time For H...
Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday morning and urged Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to leave the Fed altogether once his term as chair ends. “It’d be, first of all, it’d be unusual for a Fed chair to, you know, remain on as a governor, as a board member of the FOMC, and for good reason,” Cramer began, referring to the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets interest rates. President Donald Trump has regularly attacked Powell in recent months, claiming the Fed hasn’t lowered interest rates fast enough. Trump’s attacks on Powell are unprecedented for a U.S. president and sound alarm bells for those concerned about the White House trying to politicize monetary policy. “Also, by the way, you know, it’s a good time for him to cash in, if you will, on his experience and his Rolodex and his notoriety. He’s certainly earned that opportunity,” continued Cramer, adding: I would hope that he would not do that and stay on just to fight this IG. I mean, the IG, the Inspector General, this is their job. There were large cost overruns. It’s not unreasonable to expect an audit of the books, if you will. And if J-Powell has no concern about illegal activity or fraud — he certainly didn’t — it doesn’t seem in any way like he enriched himself in any way. He was either incompetent, perhaps, or maybe it was just out of his control, or I think to some degree, arrogant. That $700 million or a billion dollars of cost overruns is natural for a building in Washington, D.C. — something I don’t accept. I don’t think most Americans do. But, you know, as far as it leading to anything more, if he’s confident that that’s not the case, there’s really no reason for him not to exit gracefully and with his head held high. Earlier in the week, Trump’s DOJ dropped a probe into Powell, widely seen as retribution for not lowering interest rates, over what Trump claims are exploding costs on a new Fed building. Powell has defended the spending and pushed back against Trump’s claims of massive overruns. Watch the clip above via CNBC.The post GOP Senator Hopes Jerome Powell Doesn’t Stay On At the Fed: ‘Good Time For Him to Cash In’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.41 mins ago - BREAKING: James Comey Indicted for Second Time by Trump DOJ
Former FBI director James Comey was indicted for the second time in less than a year by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice on Tuesday. According to CNN, which broke the story Tuesday afternoon, “the specific charges” against Comey “were not immediately clear.” Comey was indicted last September for lying to Congress, but the case was dismissed a few months later after a federal judge found that Lindsey Halligan, the interim U.S. attorney who brought the charges, was not appointed legally. This is a developing story and will be updated.The post BREAKING: James Comey Indicted for Second Time by Trump DOJ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.43 mins ago - MIDTERM SHOCKER: GOP Tied With Democrats in Latest Stunning House Poll
AP Photo/Alex Brandon A stunning new survey from Harvard’s Center For American Political Studies and HarrisX found that Republicans and Democrats are tied in the generic congressional ballot roughly six month out from November’s midterm elections. The poll of 2,745 registered voters was conducted between April 23 and 26 and carried a 1.87% margin of error, and asked the question, “If the congressional election were held today would you be more likely to vote for a Democrat or a Republican for Congress?” Fifty percent of those surveyed indicated they’d vote for their local Democrat, while the other 50% said they bled red. Democrats do boast a 52%-48% advantage with independents, however. All in all, 71% of respondents aid they were “definitely” or “probably” going to vote, but Republicans boasted a slight advantage in that regard. Sixty-two percent of Republican respondents indicated they were definitely going to vote, and an additional 18% said they’d probably vote. For Democrats, those figures were 59% and 17%, while for independents, they were 40% and 17%. Americans are also evenly split (50%-50%) on the question of whether Trump is performing better or worse than his predecessor, former President Joe Biden. His net approval rating presently stands at -9 (42%-53%) but is a few points better with likely midterm voters (46%-51%). The most pressing issue to the electorate remains inflation/affordability (35% call it one of “the most important issues facing the country today”), followed by economy and jobs (28%), immigration (24%), health care (22%), the U.S.-Iran conflict (20%), and corruption (18%).The post MIDTERM SHOCKER: GOP Tied With Democrats in Latest Stunning House Poll first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.58 mins ago - MAGA Fan Adam Carolla Defends Pal Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Widow’ Joke Amid Ramped-... Adam Carolla offered what he called a “different take” on the latest chapter of the ongoing feud between his longtime friend Jimmy Kimmel and President Donald Trump, whom the podcast veteran supported and also seems to have a good relationship with. Carolla weighed in on Monday night, hours after Trump and First Lady Melania Trump called for ABC to fire Kimmel. The Trumps were livid over a crack Kimmel made about Melania Trump being an “expectant widow” last week — two days before the president was targeted in another assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. Carolla defended Kimmel for the joke, saying he did not feel it was “egregious,” even though many others did. He shared a few reasons why, and started off by saying it was simply a matter of bad timing. “When you make a joke and then nothing happens — like there was no shooting,” then it’s not a huge deal, Carolla said. He said “no one made a thing about” the joke before the latest assassination attempt. Carolla then said it would be like if he joked that he hoped his co-host that day Elisha Krauss would die, and then two days later she perished in a car crash. “And then everyone looks at me and goes, ‘Now I’m angry at you.’ But I’m like, ‘If she never got in a car crash, you’d [have] never said anything.'” The same applies to the Trump-Kimmel beef, Carolla said. Carolla then said it was a “pretty typical roast” joke from Kimmel. “It is also a trope — any younger, beautiful woman whose married to an older guy, especially if the guys rumored to be sort of a douche-y [guy], you would make that joke at any roast you would be at,” Carolla said. Krauss added you could make the same “widow” joke about rich guys like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez, even though their ages are closer together. Carolla agreed. “If Trump was at a roast on Thursday, you would do that joke to his face, [even] if he’d never been president,” Carolla said. “But here’s the problem: Once there’s a lot of sewage under the bridge, then the pump is already primed.” He was obviously referring to the years-long feud between Kimmel and Trump. Their disdain for each other was reignited after the latest assassination attempt, which followed Kimmel doing… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- BREAKING: FCC Reviewing Disney’s Broadcast License Amid Jimmy Kimmel-Trump Feu...The FCC is reportedly prepping a review of Disney’s broadcast licenses, a day after late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel refused to apologize for a remark that First Lady Melania Trump had the “glow of an expectant widow,” a crack that has reignited a feud with President Donald Trump. The agency’s review of the ABC parent company’s right to broadcast its programming over public airwaves “would up the pressure” on the entertainment powerhouse, Semafor reported exclusively on Tuesday, after the latest Kimmel controversy. The Semafor report was later confirmed by CNN’s chief media analyst Brian Stelter, who said the move “will be a major escalation” by FCC boss Brendan Carr. The eight ABC licenses are not due for review for another several years, Stelter reported. Breaking: The Trump-aligned FCC is planning to file paperwork as early as this afternoon that will challenge Disney's eight licenses for its eight ABC stations. This early-renewal move will be a major escalation by @BrendanCarrFCC. https://t.co/WWpAVTXLM9 — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 28, 2026 The reports come a day after both the president and first lady took to social media to demand ABC fire Kimmel over the joke, which has been branded an assassination threat by those on the right. “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,” the first lady posted on X. “His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.” Instead of apologizing, Kimmel scoffed and defended the joke during Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am,” he insisted. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination.” The joke was made days before a gunman stormed the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which was attended by the Trumps. After the suspected gunman, 31-year-old Cole Allen, was taken into custody, the Justice Department said that President Trump and several members of his cabinet were among those targeted in the shooting. Watch above via CNN.The post BREAKING: FCC Reviewing Disney’s Broadcast License Amid Jimmy Kimmel-Trump Feud first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘Backwards-Looking’: UK’s Ambassador to US Dismisses Idea of ‘Special Re...
(Roberto Schmidt/Pool via AP) Britain’s new ambassador to Washington privately trashed the idea of a “special relationship” between the U.K. and U.S. as “backwards-looking” and claimed the U.S. now reserves that designation for Israel in newly leaked audio. The Financial Times first reported on Ambassador Christian Turner’s comments, which were made in February to a group of high school students visiting the U.S. The leaked audio was made public Tuesday, the same day King Charles III began his multi-day visit to Washington, which Turner is present for. Turner can reportedly be heard candidly telling the students he “dislikes the phrase ‘special relationship,’” describing it as “quite nostalgic.” “it’s quite backwards-looking, and it has a lot of baggage about it,” he said. He added that there is “probably one country that has a special relationship with the United States and that is probably Israel,” suggesting Britain’s ties with Washington are “going to have to be different.” BREAKING: The new UK ambassador to the US, Christian Turner, privately said that the US "special relationship" is with Israel, not the UK The leak risks overshadowing the King's state visit [@FT] pic.twitter.com/HSMgRB1MlX — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) April 28, 2026 The diplomat also drew attention to the fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein files, calling it “extraordinary” that it had “brought down a senior member of the royal family, a British ambassador to Washington, potentially the prime minister, and yet here in the U.S., it really hasn’t touched anybody.” He questioned accountability in the U.S., asking: “How many Americans have been called to testify before Congress?” Turner’s predecessor Peter Mandelson was fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last year over his past correspondence with Epstein, revealed in early document releases by the Justice Department. Scandal over Mandelson’s appointment has threatened Starmer’s premiership in recent weeks after revelations the former ambassador failed vetting but was put in the role anyway. In other remarks, according to The Financial Times, Turner characterized the controversy surrounding Mandelson as a “crisis” that “has nearly brought down the government and ended the prime minister’s tenure.” He told the students Starmer was “pretty clearly on the ropes” and his future “quite touch and go.” He predicted that if May elections in the U.S. go badly Starmer’s party will “remove him.” Responding to the leaks, a spokesperson for the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said the ambassador’s comments… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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