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For publishers, songwriters and rights holders, Shamrock Capital’s latest capital raise is a clear signal that entertainment IP continues to attract serious long-term money. The Los Angeles-based investment firm said Wednesday that it closed a fourth fund with more than $810 million in committed capital, adding fresh firepower to a [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Democratic Governor Censured by Own Party for Freeing Trump Ally Convicted in El...
AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File The Colorado Democratic Party censured Governor Jared Polis (D) on Wednesday in a stinging rebuke of his decision to grant Tina Peters early release from prison. Peters, a former Mesa County clerk, was convicted in Colorado state court in 2024 on seven counts, including four felony charges, after she conspired to breach her county’s voting systems in 2021. She was sentenced to nine years in prison. “I’m convinced you would do it all over again if you could,” the judge told her at sentencing. “You’re as defiant as a defendant as this court has ever seen.” Last week, Polis granted Peters clemency and said she will be released on June 1, after President Donald Trump repeatedly demanded she be freed. Peters was convicted after the jury found she conspired with associates of election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell in a harebrained attempt to prove the 2020 election was rigged against Trump. In justifying granting her clemency, the governor has made several misleading claims about Peters’ conviction, prompting a lengthy fact check from CNN. On Wednesday, the Colorado Democratic Party voted overwhelmingly to censure Polis. “This is not a small policy disagreement at all whatsoever,” Zane Schichtel, a Democrat from Montezuma County, told The Colorado Sun. “I think it is a direct rebuke of the principles of accountability and election integrity that uphold our democracy, and as such, we need to treat it for the serious matter that it is.” Trump had repeatedly called on Polis to commute Peters’ sentence. In December, the president went so far as to grant her a “pardon,” which he cannot do because she was convicted of state crimes, and not federal ones. “Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the “crime” of demanding Honest Elections,” Trump posted on Truth Social at the time. “Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!”The post Democratic Governor Censured by Own Party for Freeing Trump Ally Convicted in Election Scheme first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Trump Administration Overpaid for DHS Warehouses Owned by President’s Allies: ...
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana The Department of Homeland Security spent millions in taxpayer funds to purchase property for warehouses owned by investors with close ties to President Donald Trump, a new report claims. DHS spent $1 billion in 2026 to buy warehouses to house detained immigrants. In multiple cases, the Department paid a price far higher than a warehouse’s market valuation, often on properties that had been up for sale for years, data from activist group Project Salt Box showed. Some of these properties were financed with bank debt, meaning their purchase equated to those loans being paid off. “In other words, some of these warehouse sales are effectively acting as a vehicle for these institutions to sell off otherwise distressed assets and profit from taxpayer-funded investment,” a report on the data from More Perfect Union reads. The report gives multiple specific examples of instances where DHS paid up to a thousand percent markup on warehouses, including one Pennsylvania property bought at double the estimated market value owned by Blue Owl Capital. The investment company gave large donations to Republican congressional groups, while one of its directors was previously on the board of one of Trump’s companies. “ICE didn’t necessarily want to be using warehouses,” said Salt Box’s Michael Wriston. “The plan came from folks very close to the White House who were sitting on properties that were causing them losses every year, and the decision was to buy them at taxpayer expense.” More Perfect Union cites at least thirty-three members of the president’s administration who publicly reported investing in the funds under Blue Owl or the agency that brokers the purchasing deals, with the president himself owning around $5 million in Blue Owl. Blue Owl did not respond to the organization’s request for comment. NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money. We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price. It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it. pic.twitter.com/MmUDL9kFsW — More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) May 20, 2026 Goldman Sachs also owned or controlled loans for properties purchased by DHS, including one that the bank refinanced only months before its sale to the department. Former employees of Goldman, like former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, have frequently held roles in both of Trump’s administrations.… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Tucker Carlson Says Trump Has ‘Diminished American Power’ in ‘Unimaginable...
The Tucker Carlson Show Tucker Carlson torched President Donald Trump on Wednesday, stating that not only has Trump not made the country great again, but he has “diminished American power.” The ex-Trump ally has been increasingly critical of the president, but his most recent remarks are one of the most striking condemnations of what Carlson sees as something as a betrayal by the president. On Wednesday’s edition of The Tucker Carlson Show, the former Fox News host wondered if Trump is a one-man “sleeper cell” for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom the president launched the Iran war in February. Carlson has been among the harshest critics of the conflict, which he unsuccessfully lobbied Trump against. The war prompted Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, which has sent oil and gas prices skyrocketing, adding to the existing inflationary pressures caused by the president’s tariffs. Carlson pointed to remarks Trump made on Tuesday, where the president said, “I’m at 99% [approval] in Israel. I could run for prime minister. So, maybe after I do this, I’ll go to Israel and run for prime minister. I had a poll this morning. I’m 99%, so that’s good.” An indignant Carlson responded (8:50 to 11:00): The president of the United States bragging about his popularity in a foreign country. “I’m 99% in Israel.” Unmentioned is the fact that he’s 35% in the United States. Thirty-five percent support from Americans, the people he pledged to represent, to fight for, whose side he promised to take in every conflict, foreign and domestic. And yet, there he is, bragging about how popular he is in a foreign country, the same country that got us into the war that is, to some extent, causing his unpopularity in this country, speaking of cold-hearted globalist betrayals. Now, you could say, “That’s just Trump searching for affirmation where he can. Unpopular at home, he retreats into the fantasy of his popularity in another country.” Well yes, true. But it’s not a one-time exhibition of this. That president has spent the last year looking outward toward the approval of other nations. That president has spent the last year fighting for people who are not his voters and in many cases, not even American and allowing his own country to languish. The last year has not made America great again. The last year has diminished American power at a rate some… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘I Don’t Buy It’: Newsmax Host Flat-Out Tells James Comer He Doesn’t Bel...
Newsmax host Rob Finnerty straight-up told House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) on Wednesday that he doesn’t believe President Donald Trump’s claims about Cuba, telling the congressman the administration’s hawkish posture toward Cuba seems “like a false flag.” Comer joined Finnerty to discuss, among other topics, the administration’s recent actions surrounding Cuba. Wednesday saw Secretary of State Marco Rubio release a five-minute video addressing the Cuban people and their increasing difficulties in relation to Trump’s oil blockade on the country. Hours later, the Department of Justice indicted former Cuban President Raúl Castro for the alleged murder of American citizens in relation to the downing of two planes near the Cuban coast in 1996. Finnerty mentioned these actions before pressing Comer on why the administration was focusing on Cuba while Americans were struggling at home. “I get it. The ayatollah is gone. Nicolas Maduro is in jail. But now Cuba, I just– look, I think people struggle with how this is America First when gas is $4.55 a gallon right now,” he said. Comer defended the administration’s actions, using the line repeated by many in Trump’s orbit that the country poses a national security threat to the U.S. Finnerty pushed back strongly, pressing the congressman over whether he genuinely believed the words he was saying while telling Comer directly that it sounded like “we’re just trying to make the case to attack Cuba.” Read their exchange below: COMER: It is, and you’re absolutely right. But at the end of the day, Cuba has always been a national security threat. And as you said earlier, we’ve been negotiating with Cuba since before I was born. I’m fifty-three years old, so the negotiations have gone nowhere. Cuba’s leader is at the end of his lifespan. The Cuban people, clearly, unlike maybe the Iranian people, the Cuban people clearly want a regime change in Cuba. It’s just, you know, minutes away from Miami and Florida and the United States. So it’s a strategic problem for the United States, and– FINNERTY: But do you really think they’re a threat, Mr. Chairman? COMER: –if Cuba falls into the wrong hands. FINNERTY: Do you really think that Cuba’s a threat? COMER: If some country went in and loaded Cuba with the same drones that Iran had when we first started bombing Iran, then yes, I think it could be a threat. I don’t think that’s there. I know John Ratcliffe has been… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Attorney General Bizarrely Claims, ‘People That Hurt Police Get Money Al...Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche bizarrely claimed on Wednesday that “people that hurt police get money all the time,” in a wild defense of President Donald Trump’s new “anti-weaponization fund.” Blanche sat down with CNN’s Paula Reid to discuss his department’s new $1.776 billion fund set up as part of a settlement of Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the 2019 leak of his tax returns. The Department claimed the fund was meant “for victims of lawfare and weaponization to be heard and seek redress,” leading many to question whether Jan. 6 rioters could receive money through the fund. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Vice President JD Vance were grilled by reporters over that possibility, with both men refusing to state definitively if those who attacked cops would be excluded from receiving payments. The acting Attorney General was also pressed by Reid on the issue, with the CNN reporter asking Blanche to clarify his remarks on Tuesday to a Senate subcommittee, where he refused to rule out that use of the fund. “Would you be okay with people who were convicted of hurting police getting taxpayer money?” asked Reid. While Blanche also refused to explicitly exclude the possibility, his explanation of why that was the case began on an odd note, with Blanche insisting that the situation Reid was describing was actually a common occurrence. He said: Just to be clear, people that hurt police get money all the time. Okay? There’s a process where, where if you are, if you believe you have your rights violated, you can apply for funds, you can sue, you can file a claim, you can go to court. And some of those cases, the state, the government, the federal government settles those cases. It’s abhorrent to ever, ever touch a law enforcement officer, which is why anytime anybody does that and it’s a federal officer we’ll prosecute them. But that’s a completely different question with whether an individual is allowed to apply for a claim. Whether they’ll get a claim, who depends. I can’t– it would not be appropriate for me to talk about absolutes. Like, “Absolutely not. Under no circumstances.” I mean, we can talk about hypotheticals until we’re blue in the face, but that really wouldn’t be fruitful. Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two police officers who were on duty at the Capitol on Jan. 6, filed a lawsuit… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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