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(AP Photo) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine skepticism is well established — and yet the HHS Secretary is not moving fast enough on the issue for President Donald Trump’s liking. According to the Wall Street Journal and reporter Liz Essley Whyte, Trump confronted Kennedy back in May about “why he wasn’t doing more to probe the alleged connection between vaccines and autism.” Kennedy was reportedly “taken aback” — as White House staffers had asked him to tone down his rhetoric on vaccines ahead of the midterms. But Trump himself contradicted that directive. Essley Whyte wrote Trump wants to see Kennedy “do more to reduce the number of shots that federal guidelines recommend for children,” with Trump believing autism rates would eventually drop as a result. “The issue has been an ongoing point of tension between the two men,” Essley White wrote. “In a mid-June meeting in the Oval Office, the president vented to Kennedy that he wasn’t doing enough, people familiar with the matter said. “The president has made clear he thinks he has given Kennedy enough time and is disappointed the health secretary hasn’t accomplished more in the past year and a half, the people said.” The Journal’s report on RFK comes on the heels of a Bloomberg feature on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz — who is reportedly seen as the “heir apparent” to Kennedy. The Journal is now likewise reporting Oz is a serious contender to replace RFK Jr. at some point. “The president often calls or texts Oz on health policy matters that have nothing to do with his agency, people familiar with the matter said, and Oz takes responsibility for ensuring the president gets what he wants,” Essley Whyte wrote. “Oz advised the president on marijuana ahead of an executive order in December to loosen restrictions on the drug, some of the people said. Oz, an adept surrogate for the administration on TV and in the halls of Congress, is also a favorite of the White House staff.” ——The post Trump Frustrated With RFK Jr. — Thinks He Isn’t Doing Enough to Cut Childhood Vaccinations: Report first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - GOP Senate Leader Bluntly Tells Fox’s Hannity That Trump’s Bid to Kill Filib...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SC) bluntly declared on Hannity Monday evening that efforts to persuade the Senate to kill the filibuster would not succeed, noting he had attempted to convey this message to President Donald Trump “many times.” Trump has vociferously called for Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, demanding that the narrow Republican majorities in the House and Senate to vote for it, and even urged them to take steps like giving up their scheduled August recess or killing the filibuster in the Senate to do so. But some of the members of that narrow GOP majority are fighting tough re-election battles and others are now counting down their final days in office after losing brutal internecine primary battles to Trump-backed challengers, their feelings about party loyalty perhaps no longer quite so fervent. Regardless, both Thune and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) have repeatedly said the math just does not add up to enough votes to pass the bill. Last week, Thune told reporters who were asking about Trump’s unrelenting insistence on passing the SAVE America Act that if he wants it passed, maybe he or White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt “or somebody else ought to get on the phone and get the votes.” That message does not appear to have sunken in; Trump raged at Thune on his Truth Social account Monday morning. So the Senate Majority Leader sat down with Sean Hannity, a longtime confidant of the president, who is known to watch his show. Hannity noted the “very slim majorities” that Thune and Johnson had and commented that he knew that Trump “has leaned on you hard,” before asking the Senator what “percentage” of Trump’s “priorities” he thought they could “have done before the midterm elections,” noting that the president “has a lot on his wish list.” Thune acknowledged that the “main thing” Trump wants is the SAVE America Act, and they had had “multiple votes on it,” with “not a single Democrat” voting for it. He spoke briefly about some procedural tactics, like putting it in a budget reconciliation bill, before emphasizing that it was “no easy feat” to move forward because “we don’t have 50 votes for it today, but hopefully we can get there.” “Getting rid of the filibuster — nonstarter? You don’t have the votes?” asked Hannity. Replied Thune: Well, we don’t. And I’ve actually… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - CNN’s Katilan Collins Responds to Trump’s Attack on Her in Daily Show Interv...
screenshot Kaitlan Collins is speaking out about President Donald Trump’s attack on her at Friday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The CNN anchor sat down with Jon Stewart Monday to tape an interview for the Daily Show which will air at 11 p.m. ET Monday night. Status obtained an early transcript, and the Daily Show posted the interview on X. Collins told Stewart she was “not surprised” that Trump went after her. “I’ve always felt this, regardless of who’s the president, whether it’s Joe Biden, Donald Trump — those are the two I’ve covered — it’s really not about me, and I don’t want it to be about my reaction,” Collins said. “And so I think if you let it become about that, then it becomes a back-and-forth between the two of us.” .@KaitlanCollins on Trump's verbal attacks: "It's really not about me, and I don't want it to be about my reaction. … In those moments it's important to put the reminder back on the work, on the question, and on the non-answers that we get." pic.twitter.com/DY009dNy3k — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 28, 2026 During an hour-long speech at Friday’s dinner, Trump launched a shocking attack on Collins — comparing her to trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney and taking aim at an award she was given earlier in the evening for her coverage of the Trump White House. “I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award,” Trump said. “It was all about me. It was a fake, she shouldn’t get the award, it was a fake. But I didn’t mind. I said, ‘Kaitlan, congratulations.’ But it was fake, there’s no question about it.” Though she sought to distance herself from the president’s attack, Collins did argue that Trump seemed perturbed at her award. “I think it’s more effective to remind people in those moments when he is insulting me or when he is criticizing me about the question I asked, or the reporting that I did that he was so angry about in this moment, and the fact that I got an award for it that really bothered him clearly, and so I just think in those moments it’s important to put the reminder back on the work, on the question, and on the non-answers that we get,” she said. ——The post CNN’s Katilan Collins Responds to Trump’s Attack on… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Trump DOJ’s Own Witness Said Reflecting Pool Had ‘Substantial Preexisting Da...
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Lawyers for David Hearn, the former Olympian who was arrested and accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, filed a motion Monday citing key testimony they say supports dismissing their client’s case — from a witness for the prosecution. President Donald Trump has been infuriated by the troubles plaguing the work he has directed for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, including bright green algae and peeling paint. Trump and others in his administration have claimed the problems have been caused by vandals; these claims have been met with much skepticism by the media and local D.C. residents, but several arrests have been made nonetheless. One of these arrests was Hearn, who was hit with a charge for destruction of government property when he stopped at the Reflecting Pool to check it out after a bicycle ride. Hearn has maintained his innocence, telling The Washington Post, “I reached in there, and I was able to grab the end of that flapping piece, the already peeling piece. It was still attached to the bottom. I didn’t remove anything.” “I didn’t vandalize anything,” he insisted. “I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.” Norm Eisen with the group Democracy Defenders Fund, Mary Dohrmann with the Washington Litigation Group, and Steve Levin from Steptoe LLC are representing Hearn, who pleaded not guilty earlier this month. In a motion filed on Monday, Hearn’s attorneys sought the disclosure of “the legal instructions provided to the grand jury concerning the elements of the charged offense” against their client, because they were challenging whether the grand jury was given “legally sufficient evidence” and “was properly instructed” on an “essential element” of the charge, specifically the “amount of loss.” The felony charge against Hearn requires the government to show damages of $1,000 or more, the attorneys noted, and a misdemeanor charge requires showing damage of “some value.” But that’s not what the witness presented by prosecutors with Trump’s DOJ, a National Park Service official, said in his testimony, the lawyers argued; they were given a copy of his transcript as part of the prosecution’s required document production. “Here, based on the discovery provided to date, the Government’s sole grand-jury witness on damages testified that the property was already damaged before Mr. Hearn allegedly touched it; that the same repairs would have been required regardless of Mr.… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - ‘It’s Really, Really Disgusting!’ Stephen A. Smith Torches Trump for Calli...Stephen A. Smith went to bat for LeBron James — with whom he has had a longstanding feud — and blasted President Donald Trump for calling the NBA icon a “racist.” In a scorching commentary to kick off his YouTube show Monday, Smith absolutely blasted Trump’s comments last week from the Oval Office in which he said, “I think LeBron is, maybe he’s a racist. But maybe he doesn’t like Trump I don’t know?” “Our president is trifling,” Smith said. He added, “When you’re calling LeBron James a racist, you know what? You know, it’s really getting ridiculous. The divisiveness, the way that this man acts, the things that he says, it’s really really disgusting. And it needs to be said. I held it in long enough. I was waiting a few days, but then obviously being back to work today, and listening to this nonsense, it’s just really, really disgusting!” Smith and James got into a tense altercation at a Lakers game in May 2025 over Smith’s past criticism of James’s son, Bronny James. The ESPN First Take host has criticized James countless times over the years, and there doesn’t seem to be any love lost between the two. “We don’t like each other,” Smith said on a February 2026 podcast. “The world needs to know that.” Nonetheless Smith defended James against the president’s attacks. “We gotta call stuff out,” Smith said. “We gotta call it out for what we see. We gotta call it out for what it is. Because the only way that the world is going to become a better place is when we call out trifling tendencies. Even if it’s from our president, even if it’s from our commander-in-chief. And this is the latest salvo that he’s thrown in somebody’s direction ultimately to distract from the job that he’s doing. And we got to call him out on it. We just have to.” Watch above, via YouTube. Jason Cohen contributed to this post. The post ‘It’s Really, Really Disgusting!’ Stephen A. Smith Torches Trump for Calling LeBron James a ‘Racist’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- Senate Republican Accuses GOP Colleague of ‘Self-Aggrandizement’ in Fiery Fe...
L: Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images; R: AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) reportedly had some sharp words for Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) Monday, accusing the Utah Republican’s push for a vote on the pending August recess of “demoralizing” the GOP base and being motivated out of “self-aggrandizement.” Cornyn has seemed less willing to bite his tongue amidst internecine party squabbles after losing a viciously contentious primary battle to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who was endorsed by President Donald Trump. He might be headed out the exit door next January, but due to his long tenure in the Senate and seat on several key committees, he still wields substantial power. In recent weeks, Cornyn has declared he is “undecided” on Trump’s troubled Attorney General nominee, Todd Blanche, and poured ice-cold water over the chances of the SAVE America Act passing. But Trump and his allies are loudly pushing for the SAVE America Act, with the president frequently mentioning the legislation during press conferences and rally speeches. On Monday, Lee tweeted that the Senate should move forward with the SAVE America Act next month, repeating previous calls he has made to skip the August recess. “There’s time in August,” he wrote. “Let’s use it.” Earlier this year, it was “we can’t fully debate the SAVE America Act until DHS is fully funded.” Then it was “we’ll get back to the SAVE America Act later this year if there’s time.” Now it’s “sorry, there just isn’t time.” There’s time in August. Let’s use it. — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) July 27, 2026 The Senate is currently scheduled to go on recess starting August 6 through mid-September; Trump has openly called for the Senate to forgo that recess to pass this legislation. Cornyn, however, remains unpersuaded. According to Punchbowl News’ senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio, Cornyn “went off” on Lee “for his vow to force a vote on recessing for August.” Sen. Cornyn just went off on Sen. Mike Lee for his vow to force a vote on recessing for August Cornyn said Lee is “demoralizing our base” “I mean, what possible rationale could there be for that other than self-aggrandizement?” Also said of Collins, Husted, Sullivan… — Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) July 27, 2026 Lee was “demoralizing our base” with this tactic, Cornyn said, according to Desiderio. “I mean, what possible rationale could there… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
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