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- Trump Claims Texas and Alaska Could Be ‘Alternatives’ to the Strait of Hormu...
President Donald Trump curiously claimed that pipelines in Texas and Alaska could be “alternatives” to the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East. On Tuesday, the U.S. bombed Iran for a fourth consecutive day after U.S. officials accused the Iranian government of violating the memorandum of understanding that the countries signed last month. Iranian officials insist that Article 5 of the memo states that Iran is to arrange all passages through the vital passageway in Iranian waters. However, some ships have sought to bypass this by traveling along the Omani coast instead. Last week, Iran bombed several tankers, killing one crewmember. In response, the U.S. has resumed its blockade of Iranian ships in the Gulf of Oman, in addition to bombing Iran. Trump and other U.S. officials have claimed that the strait is open. Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst interviewed Trump on Tuesday and noted that traffic through the strait has drastically decreased. “Shipping data trackers indicate that just 10 vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday,” Yingst stated. “Less than 10% of what normally goes through this critical waterway. When you say the strait is open, what do you mean?” “It’s open if people want to go through it,” the president said. “We’re not opening it for Iran. That’s the only one it’s closed for. It’s closed for Iran both in and out. But it’s open now. A lot of things have happened, Trey, in the last few months. Pipelines are being built. We’re coming up with great alternatives, including Texas, including Alaska.” Despite Trump’s claim, the U.S. is not policing which vessels are allowed through the strait. Rather, the U.S. naval blockade is being enforced well outside the strait, in the Gulf of Oman. Watch above via Fox News.The post Trump Claims Texas and Alaska Could Be ‘Alternatives’ to the Strait of Hormuz first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Laura Ingraham in Disbelief After 10 States That Voted for Trump Are Deemed the ...Fox News host Laura Ingraham expressed disbelief and skepticism at a report that claims the 10 worst states to live in all happened to vote for President Donald Trump. On Tuesday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle, the host pointed to a recent survey that asked CEOs which states are the most business-friendly. “Six hundred fifty CEOs were polled, and they rated the best states in which to do business,” Ingraham said. “The top 10, including Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, are Republican. They are run by Republicans, except Virginia, which is at number 10, and North Carolina, kind of a purple state, at number five. So, money and people, resources, are pouring into red states. How do the socialists brush this off? Well, they do so either by ignoring it or distorting the data, or [with] a little help from their friends.” The aforementioned “friends” apparently include CNBC, the famously pro-business news organization. Last week, CNBC released a report titled, “These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026.” Among the factors considered in assessing states’ quality of life were crime rates, air quality, healthcare, worker rights, and civil rights. The 10 states rounding out the bottom were Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Missouri, Utah, Georgia, Louisiana, Indiana, Texas, and Tennessee. With the exception of Georgia in 2020, all 10 states voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024. “This CNBC report just came out,” Ingraham continued. “They listed the 10 worst states to live in for 2026. All the states on this list, ok, Trump won. Every state except Georgia in 2020. And the list included four of the top 10 states for business. How does that make any sense?! They have kind of a weird calculus there, but this is obviously a blatant effort to denigrate more conservative states. But it’s really nothing new.” Watch above via Fox News.The post Laura Ingraham in Disbelief After 10 States That Voted for Trump Are Deemed the Worst To Live In first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- ‘Just Stunning’: CNN’s Erin Burnett Counts the Times Trump’s Talked ‘R...CNN’s Erin Burnett counted all the times President Donald Trump has mentioned “rigged” elections publicly in just a month, calling it “just stunning.” On Tuesday’s OutFront, Burnett noted her team had found Trump mentioned “rigged” elections at least 18 times in speeches and public comments since Bill Pulte was made Acting Director of National Intelligence early last month. Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday, when he will reportedly discuss the 2020 presidential election. Burnett reported: There’s been nothing in six years. And of course, audit after audit after audit and state after state after state. Jamal, on June 4th, Trump said his acting national intelligence director, Bill Pulte, who of course comes from the home building industry, would look into the rigged elections. That was specifically the reason they gave for him in that role as national intelligence director. Since that particular day, June 4th, the best we could find, Jamal, Trump has talked about rigged elections in at least 18 different interviews or speeches. Eighteen Which is just stunning. The president continues to claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent, though there has been no proof of the type of widespread fraud he’s alleged over the years. Pulte’s appointment raised concerns among critics, as he has no military or national security experience, and he faced accusations of targeting Trump’s political enemies through his role as the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. CNN political commentator Jamal Simmons argued on Tuesday that Trump is making specific comments to discourage people from voting. He said: The president of the United States has been using his position to make political statements that are going to make it harder for people to vote. He’s looking not to enable people to vote, which is what we usually expect the Justice Department to do when the Justice Department goes into a community to monitor an election, it’s to help people vote — this looks like he’s trying to keep people from voting. Here’s the thing, the president keeps saying that the election was rigged but rigged against him. Everybody else in the country thinks that the economy is rigged against them. What they’re looking at is a trillionaire friend of the president. They’re looking at people making more and more money at the top of the income ladder, while they’re making less and less. And all the time the… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- Jake Tapper Gobsmacked by Guest’s Wild Trump Theory: ‘Are You Saying He’s ...CNN’s Jake Tapper was surprised by a guest’s take on President Donald Trump and asked if she was suggesting Trump is a secret “Democratic operative.” Tapper brought on Xochitl Hinojosa, a former communications director with the Democratic National Committee, and Mike Dubke, a former White House communications director during Trump’s first term, on Tuesday’s The Lead, and during a discussion about the midterms, Hinojosa argued it looked like Trump was trying to purposefully “sabotage” Republicans. “He’s not talking about the war, he’s not talking about gas prices, he is not talking about prices at the grocery store or all these great things that Mike just talked about. What he is talking about is that potentially two senators from Georgia were illegitimate. He is talking the 2020 election, which, why are we looking back?” Hinojosa said, referring to the president’s scheduled Thursday address to the nation where he will reportedly be discussing the 2020 presidential election. Hinojosa added she hopes networks do not cover Trump’s address live. “These are conspiracy theories. My hope is that it is not covered live on a lot of networks. But it is. It is a joke, I’m sorry, that he is trying to sabotage the midterm elections for Republicans. This is not what he should be talking about,” she said. “Are you saying he’s a Democratic operative?” a surprised Tapper asked. “I think maybe,” Hinojosa joked. “He was once a Democrat,” Tapper responded. “This is a long, long play. That is a long play. That doesn’t make any sense to me.” “Manchurian Candidate territory,” Dubke joked, referring to the 1962 film starring Frank Sinatra or the 1959 novel it’s based on by Richard Condon. “I know. Somebody call Budd Schulberg,” Tapper added, referring to the screenwriter behind films like 1954’s On the Waterfront and 1957’s A Face in the Crowd. Watch above via CNN.The post Jake Tapper Gobsmacked by Guest’s Wild Trump Theory: ‘Are You Saying He’s a Democratic Operative?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
- NYC Bar Sends Letter Opposing Todd Blanche’s AG Nomination, Calling Him ‘Unf...
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images The New York City Bar Association released a letter it sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing the nomination of Todd Blanche as Attorney General, denouncing him for his “misplaced loyalty” to President Donald Trump and numerous egregious ethical issues. Blanche previously served as Deputy Attorney General during Pam Bondi’s tenure leading the Department of Justice, and became interim Attorney General after her ouster. Keeping the gig on a permanent basis, however, requires Senate confirmation, and Blanche has drawn notably vocal opposition for multiple reasons, including his past work as Trump’s personal lawyer, his role in shepherding the pardons for the January 6 Capitol rioters, the handling of the Epstein files, and his controversial interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell — not to mention her transfer shortly thereafter to Federal Prison Camp (FPC) Bryan in Bryan, Texas, a minimum-security facility that is not commonly used to house inmates convicted of crimes as serious as Maxwell’s. The move to this “cushy prison camp” was sharply criticized by several of Epstein and Maxwell’s victims. Last week, more than 1,200 former DOJ employees signed a letter urging the Senate to not confirm Blanche. The signatories included those who had worked for both Republican and Democratic administrations and cited multiple “corruption and abuses” during Blanche’s time at the DOJ, including “vindictive prosecutions” of Trump’s political opponents, the “erasure of accountability for January 6,” and the “mishandling of the Epstein files.” Other groups of attorneys and judges have sent their own letters opposing Blanche’s nomination. Lawyers for Good Government gathered more than 2,600 signatures from attorneys, and another coalition of 101 former judges have filed a complaint with the New York State Bar Association’s Attorney Grievance Commission requesting an investigation be initiated into Blanche for violation of the state bar rules of professional conduct. The New York City Bar Association added its voice to the chorus of opposition in a letter signed by City Bar President Matthew Diller and Rule of Law Task Force Chair Susan J. Kohlmann and addressed to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-NY), the chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, respectively. In a statement on its website, the NYC Bar urged the committee to reject Blanche’s nomination and listed five categories of reasons why: “politically motivated prosecutions, violations of constitutional rights and court orders, misplaced loyalty to the… [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - Trump Flat-Out Says ‘I Don’t Want To Negotiate’ End To WarPresident Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he is not interested in negotiating with the Iranians to bring an end to hostilities at the moment. Trump sat for an interview with Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst amid a fresh round of U.S. strikes on Iran. U.S. officials accused Iran of violating a memorandum of understanding between the two countries, aimed at pausing hostilities while both sides worked out the details. Specifically, Iran has fired on and struck tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz via Oman’s territorial waters. Iranian officials, meanwhile, have said that Article 5 of the memorandum requires vessels to arrange safe passage via their country and through its waters. The U.S. has resumed its blockade of Iranian ships in the Gulf of Oman in response to Iran once again restricting travel through the strait. During the Fox News interview, Trump said he is not presently interested in negotiating: YINGST: You’ve called the new leadership in Iran a changed regime Do you still believe that? TRUMP: Well, I knew the first group for a little while, and they were evil. And they’re no longer with us. I knew the second group also a little bit better, and they were evil. And they’re no longer with us. And the third group, they have some bad ones in there, some very bad ones in there. And I think they’re the ones that are stopping a deal. YINGST: So, are you negotiating with the wrong people? TRUMP: Well, now, I don’t want to negotiate now. I said, “Let’s not negotiate.” Three days ago, we had a deal. The president later said Iran should make a deal or else, “You’re not gonna have anybody left.” Trump launched the war in February with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who reportedly convinced the president that attacking Iran could topple the regime quickly and that the Iranians would not close the Strait of Hormuz. Watch above via Fox News.The post Trump Flat-Out Says ‘I Don’t Want To Negotiate’ End To War first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
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