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Louise Lucas, the Democratic President Pro Tempore of the Virginia Senate, slammed Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) for barely reaching out to her, in stark contrast to former GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin. D.C.’s WJLA reporter Nick Minock spoke to Lucas in an interview centered on Virginia’s controversial data centers that aired Monday evening. A major legislative battle over whether Virginia should continue to offer tax exemptions to data center operators has divided the state’s Democratic party, with proponents like Spanberger arguing that Virginia should abide by its contracts and strive to maintain a pro-business reputation. On the other hand, Lucas has strongly opposed the tax exemptions and is among those who argue they deprive the state of a possible $2 billion in annual revenue. Lucas’s conversation with Minock highlighted this intra-party divide. “I think we’ll win this one,” Lucas said of those who stand with her, against the tax exemptions. “At least, we’re on the side with the voters, and I’m always on the side with the people. That’s how I always manage to get reelected.” With that, Minock asked Lucas if her relationship with Youngkin “was better or worse” than her relationship with Spanberger. “It was no worse, for sure,” Lucas said. “Well, at least he would call me on the phone and talk to me.” Minock clarified, “Governor Spanberger won’t?” “Not often, no, and I think some of that is partly my fault, too, but anyway,” Lucas said. While Minock ignored mentioning that some of it is “partly” Lucas’s “fault,” he proceeded to ask when Spanberger last called Lucas. “Well, I’m sure it was several weeks ago,” she said, to Minock’s disbelief. Watch above via WJLA.The post Top Virginia Dem Slams Spanberger For Barely Reaching Out to Her: ‘At Least’ GOP’s Youngkin ‘Would Call Me’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.57 mins ago - Azerion unveils self-service omnichannel advertising platform
self-serve digital advertising platforms emerging at a rate that seems to be reshaping the industry, and the accessibility of audio advertising. AI-powered Dutch tech company Azerion, which operates across 17 countries, has launched a self-service platform that aspires to bring omnichannel advertising to small and medium businesses. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Insane’: Laura Loomer Rips JD Vance for Going on Megyn Kelly’s Show to Pr...
MAGA influencer Laura Loomer went off on Vice President JD Vance joining Megyn Kelly’s show on Tuesday to pitch his new book, following weeks of Kelly criticizing the Trump administration over the war in Iran. “Bizarre,” wrote Loomer on X, sharing a post from Kelly’s show announcing the Vance interview about his upcoming book “Communion.” “Why would our Vice President go on Megyn Kelly’s show?” Loomer continued, adding: Megyn Kelly @megynkelly is constantly bashing President Trump @POTUS and she recently said MAGA is dead and that Trump is “losing his mind”. I find this to be insane. Megyn Kelly has been condemned by Trump and she accused him of being “owned” by Israel… in addition to defending Candace Owens’s vicious attacks on @MrsErikaKirk. Megyn Kelly has entertained the lie that the Trump administration killed Charlie Kirk and she has insinuated Trump is covering up for Jeffrey Epstein. Not a good look. Hopefully @JDVance tells Megyn to pound sand, as she is truly out to destroy President Trump. She is incredibly subversive and anti-Trump. That’s why President Trump disavowed her. This is terrible optics. Just terrible. I cannot believe this is real. Wow. Whoever told our VP this was a good idea is leading him astray. I say this in the most respectful and sincere way. Who thought this was a good idea? Megyn = Grandma Groyper Loomer has taken it upon herself during Trump’s second term to purge people around Trump she finds disloyal to MAGA and Trump personally. She regularly drops opposition-style research on people close to Trump in an effort to remove them from MAGA’s ranks. Trump has taken Loomer’s advice and made several very high-profile terminations based on her recommendations, including those related to national security officials. Kelly’s criticism of Trump has reached beyond jabbing him over the war in recent months as well. In late May, Kelly hammered Trump’s moral character. “Talk about a glass house!” Kelly said while defending Trump critic Joe Kent from a personal attack. “I mean, Trump has cheated on every wife he’s had. I mean, he met Marla Maples while he was still married to the mother of his children, Ivana. It was all over the New York papers.” “And by the way,” Kelly continued, “Ivana, his first wife, accused him of raping her. She alleged in her first book that he was so angry over the hair transplant he got, that… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Kash Patel Accused of Using ‘Slush Fund’ to Pay Out ‘MAGA Henchmen’ By T...
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, sent a letter on Tuesday to FBI Director Kash Patel, demanding answers regarding allegations he’s using a “slush fund” to pay out allies. “We have been receiving troubling reports that you may be using part of the budget of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as a personal slush fund to make tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in unlawful ‘bonus’ payments to loyalist MAGA henchmen who have engaged in misconduct,” begins the letter, adding: We write to find out precisely how much slush fund largess you have put on the American taxpayer’s tab. According to information received by the House Committee on the Judiciary, your office has issued more than $1 million in awards to special agents serving on your “Director’s Advisory Team” —a curated group of agents who are willing to carry out your unlawful partisan and personal orders—and special agents on your security detail, circumventing the mandatory maximum pay caps established by statute. Raskin goes on to suggest that Patel’s payouts may be illegal. “By issuing these side payments, your office may be knowingly breaking federal law. In some cases, nearly $8,000 payments have been made to multiple individuals every two-week pay period despite many of the beneficiaries of your selective generosity already maxing out on a federal employee’s salary,” the letter continued. Raskin added that he was uncertain as to exactly how many of Patel’s loyalists had received the bonuses, adding, however, “we can confirm that numerous loyalist employees have received at least five such payments in consecutive pay periods, amounting to nearly $40,000 per agent. We can also confirm you have depleted this reserve at such a frenzied rate that some of the payments have bounced back from exhausted accounts.” Read the full letter here.The post Kash Patel Accused of Using ‘Slush Fund’ to Pay Out ‘MAGA Henchmen’ By Top Democrat first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘Disaster’: Fox’s Andy McCarthy Goes Scorched Earth on ‘Neville Trump’...
(Screenshots) Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy has spent the last 24 hours burning crops and salting earth over President Donald Trump’s Memorandum of Understanding with Iran. In a series of pieces for National Review, McCarthy left no doubt as to his view of the deal. In an initial post published on Monday evening under the headline, “Trump’s Iran Deal: Billions Up Front for Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism,” the former federal prosecutor argued that “It is laughable, of course, to speak of an agreement (or ‘understanding’) with Iran, which has a long, undeniable history of breaking agreements, in particular about its nuclear weapons ambitions. And while President Trump either doesn’t grasp or can’t be bothered to address the regime’s ideology, a core principle of sharia supremacism, including Iran’s Shiite version, is that lying to the enemy is a key part of warfare (‘War is deception,’ said Islam’s prophet in an oft-quoted hadith).” “Since the administration is trying to dizzy us with spin about the MOU rather than just showing us the MOU, it’s important to understand: There is not an agreement. The MOU is an agreement to talk about an eventual agreement (and talk, and talk, and talk, as the Iranians have mastered doing) rather than to make binding commitments on matters of vital American interest,” he continued. “The only thing that seems clear is that the world’s leading state sponsor of anti-American terrorism is going to get lots of money — we might even analogize it to ‘pallets of cash’ — for nothing more than opening the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran had not closed until Trump decided to launch a war he had no intention of fighting to victory and to wave off advisers who warned him that Iran could close the strait. The figure under discussion is $24 billion up front — that’s before we get to astronomical sums down the line.” “On this score, the Washington Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo reports the Trump White House’s emphasis that Iran is merely getting ‘its own money back,’ not American taxpayer funds,” added McCarthy. “How stupid do they think we are?” His next post, by the way, is titled “The Trump Administration Thinks We’re Imbeciles.” “To repeat what I contended yesterday, they think we’re idiots. Let’s take it down to the simple basics. Trump’s agreement with Iran is not an agreement, it’s a memorandum of understanding (MOU), reportedly stating that the… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Publicly Scolds Netanyahu, Urges Israel to Step Aside and Let Syria ‘Do ...President Donald Trump publicly chided Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, suggesting to reporters that Syria could do a better job taking on Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon. Trump, speaking in Evian-les-Bains, France, where he is attending the G7 Summit, was discussing the Iran peace deal when he was asked about the expectations for Israel, and if the agreement “could survive if Israel attacked Lebanon.” “It can,” Trump replied, calling the Israel-Hezbollah conflict “the minor war” in comparison to the Iran “big one.” Trump called Hezbollah a “little pin prick out there that constantly rears its head,” and endorsed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa — a former ISIS leader wanted by the U.S. — as the man who can finish them off. “He’s done an amazing job of pulling it together,” Trump said. “He’s not a Boy Scout. But he’s done an amazing job pulling it together. And he is very good with Hezbollah, does not like them. And I’ll tell you what, Israel’s fighting Hezbollah too long, and too many people are being killed. And you don’t have to knock down an apartment house every time you’re looking for somebody. Because there are a lot of people in those apartment houses, and they’re not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you. I suggested to Israel, ‘Let Syria take care of Hezbollah.’ Because to be honest with you, I think they’ll do a better job of doing it.” He added: “If Israel can’t do the job without killing everyone else, he’ll do the job, Syria will do the job.” When asked if he was “frustrated” with Netanyahu in particular, Trump said, “No, we have a great relationship, we are talking about end details.” But what followed was a less-than-flattering rebuke of the prime minister: I did not like the fact he attacked, you know, very minor little thing with drones and he ends up, I saw that attack, I saw where that bomb went. That was vicious, too much, you can do too much also. We have a very effective relationship, without the united States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel. No other president willing to do what I did. I’ve had a great relationship with Bibi, now Bibi has to be more responsible with respect to Lebanon. Lebanon used to be a great country with professors, lawyers, doctors, great intellect. Now it… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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