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- Politico’s Dasha Burns Reports It’s ‘Only a Matter of Time’ Before Kash ...
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Politico’s Dash Burns reported Saturday that FBI Director Kash Patel will be the next Trump official to have his head on the chopping block. Burns posted to X, “A top White House official tells me that Kash Patel is likely the next Cabinet-level official to go. ‘It’s only a matter of time,’ the official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, told me.” Burns added, “There are several reasons, the official said, but top among them is the number of negative stories centered on Patel is ‘not a good look for a Cabinet secretary,’ and Trump is fed up with the level of distraction.” NEW: A top White House official tells me that Kash Patel is likely the next Cabinet-level official to go. “It’s only a matter of time,” the official, who was granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, told me. There are several reasons, the official said, but top among… pic.twitter.com/FUKftCuZNg — Dasha Burns (@DashaBurns) April 25, 2026 Burns wrote that speculation in Washington ramped up after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Navy Secretary John Phelan this week. Trump had reportedly questioned Phelan’s ability to keep up with building ships at the rate needed by the Navy. Patel recently filed a $250 million lawsuit against The Atlantic after staff writer Sarah Fitzpatrick’s article claiming he had “alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.” The article also detailed a Patel “freak out” when he was unable to log into his FBI computer account and thought Trump had fired him. The Atlantic responded to Patel’s lawsuit by stating, “We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit.” Patel came under scrutiny in February when he was filmed enthusiastically chugging a beer with the U.S.A. Men’s Olympic Hockey Team after they won the gold in Milan, Italy. The FBI director put the incident down to being a proud American. On Friday, The Intercept reported that Patel was arrested twice in alcohol-related incidents while in college and law school, as outlined in a newly surfaced disclosure letter. Patel disclosed the arrests in a 2005 letter with his application to the Florida Bar Association. Patel wrote that he was arrested while an underage college student for public intoxication after being escorted out of a basketball game. The second arrest… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Ben Shapiro Torpedoes Trump Allies With Buyer’s Remorse
Tucker Carlson may regret endorsing President Donald Trump, but Ben Shapiro sure doesn’t. Shapiro said he is not second guessing his endorsement of Trump one bit, even as other pundits who backed the president in 2024 are now saying they made a mistake. “I do not regret my vote for President Trump in 2024. Not one iota. Not one bit. ” Shapiro said on Saturday. The YouTube video title left no room for misinterpretation, either: “Why I Don’t Regret My Vote for Trump.” “And frankly, I find the entire conversation about regret pretty confusing, because here is the thing: the alternative would have been President Kamala Harris,” he continued. Shapiro then made his case, saying Trump has been a man of his word on issues he campaigned on, like cracking down on illegal immigration. “Let’s be clear, the vast majority of things that President Trump said he would deliver on, he has delivered on,” Shapiro said. “And the vast majority of principles that he said that be believed in, he has effectuated.” He then said Trump has been a godsend when you consider the “DEI crap” Harris pushed — and would have continued to push in the White House. Same goes for trans issues, Shapiro said. “President Trump reversed the trans issue. He said that Democrats were for they them and he was for you,” Shapiro said. “And he was right about that — and he issued executive orders to that effect.” Shapiro added that perhaps Trump’s fans-turned-critics are upset with his foreign policy, including him launching the war on Iran. Shapiro said that is a dumb reason to regret voting for the president, saying “maybe what you’re looking for is an America that is not strong in the world, that is actually weak in the world.” His defense of Trump comes after Carlson apologized to his fans last week for endorsing Trump in ’24. Carlson said he felt “terrible” about it and that he was “sorry for misleading people.” The former Fox News star has ripped Trump for the Iran war several times recently, saying it was “disgusting and evil” and being “waged” strictly on behalf of Israel. He’s not the only pro-Trump media pundit who has gone against the president recently, though. Megyn Kelly has been critical of the war as well, and Candace Owens said last year that she was “embarrassed” to have supported Trump. The president… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - LIVE STREAM: President Trump Headlines WH Correspondents Dinner — Watch Live o... This should be interesting. President Donald Trump is set to attend his first White House Correspondents’ Dinner since he became commander-in-chief on Saturday night, and you can watch it live via Mediaite’s YouTube channel featured at the top of this page. Mentalist Oz Pearlman is hosting the bash, which will start at 8:00 p.m. ET. The event has been highly anticipated in media circles, considering the president’s complex and often combative relationship with the mainstream press. Trump routinely slams outlets for peddling what he deems to be “fake news” and has sued a number of them, including ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the BBC. ABC News notably paid Trump $15 million last year after anchor George Stephanopoulos said the president was found “liable for rape”. In fact, Trump was found liable for sexual abuse in civil court, which carries a different definition in New York. Trump’s $10 billion defamation case against the WSJ was recently thrown out, as was his case against the Times, while his case against the BBC is still ongoing. And while Trump routinely squabbles with media, he also seems to love being the dominant news figure of the last decade. CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins — whom Trump has publicly insulted — marveled last year at how “accessible” Trump was compared to former President Joe Biden. “Sometimes presidents are press averse; Trump embraced the media,” Collins said. “He did it for decades as like this New York mogul, and so he just had a different approach to the press, and always has.” Trump’s phone number is reportedly one of the easiest for reporters in Washington, D.C. to find, too. That has been reinforced lately, with Trump seemingly talking to every major outlet about the Iran war. Trump did not attend the WHC Dinner during his first term, and he was not there last year as well. But he famously attended when President Barack Obama was in office in 2011, where Obama skewered Trump for his claims about Obama’s birth certificate being bogus and sardonically mocked him for hosting “The Apprentice.” Many have speculated those shots spurred Trump to make a real push for the White House. It’ll be worth seeing what verbal punches Trump throws on Saturday night – and which ones he receives. Watch above at 8:00 p.m. ET.The post LIVE STREAM: President Trump Headlines WH Correspondents Dinner — Watch Live… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Trump Rages About Powell Probe In Tarmac Scrum Outside Air Force One: ‘It’s ...President Donald Trump raged against the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and a Fed building project while on the tarmac in Palm Beach, FL, Saturday, before heading back to Washington to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. During a gaggle, a reporter asked how Trump felt about U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro’s decision to drop the criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve chair. Trump had alleged that Powell misrepresented the cost to Congress of a $2.5 billion renovation on the Federal Reserve’s headquarters, but critics claimed Trump was just going after another one of his enemies. “Well, I wanna find out — you know, it’s not dropped,” Trump claimed. “What I wanna look at is, how can a building that I could have done for $25 million cost $4 billion? That’s a big thing, and he was in charge.” Trump continued: So, we’ll get to the bottom of it. I think Jeanine was fantastic, and she worked with other people on that. I tell you, I want to find out — I have an obligation to find out — this was done during Biden — but I have an obligation to find out — I would have done that building for $25 million, had money left over, and it would have been open a long time ago. I want to find out because, for the country. Look, we have a railroad under construction in California that’s the worst thing I’ve ever seen under Gavin Newscum and I want to find out why that one is costing 20 times what it was projected to cost. Likewise, the Fed building is a small — I built a hotel in Washington, the Waldorf-Astoria — I built it for $201 million, and I believe it’s bigger than the Fed building. Add your bathrooms, you have a lot of — you know, it’s much tougher, much more expensive to build a hotel than an office. I want to find out how can a building of that size cost four — whatever it’s going to be — nobody knows, by the way, what it’s going to be. Kevin is going to be fantastic. Kevin Warsh — he may never get get to be in that building. The reporter asked if Warsh had a smooth road to confirmation. “I would imagine it’s smooth,” Trump answered, “But whether it is or not, somebody has to find out… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘Bunch of Bigots’: Fox Star Wants Trump DOJ to Throw Book at ‘Completely B...Fox Business anchor Larry Kudlow went off on the Southern Poverty Law Center for being a “bogus group of haters” who tried to sabotage President Donald Trump’s first term by helping fund the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Kudlow scorched the SLPC on Friday, days after the Justice Department indicted the SPLC on fraud charges for allegedly running a stealth years-long campaign that paid millions of dollars to hate group members. “I hope they really bust this poverty center,” Kudlow said. He continued, “They are a bunch of bigots, and the whole Democratic Party used that Charlotesville, Virginia flap to run on against Trump and democracy and all the rest of it. And it was completely bogus and it was set up by a bogus group of haters themselves.” His guest, Fox & Friends Weekend co-host Charlie Hurt, agreed with Kudlow as he made his end-of-segment comments. Hurt had said a moment earlier the Democratic Party was the “hate party” if you look back on American history, including being the “anti-Semitic party” and the “anti-Black party.” That led into Kudlow going on his mini-rant against the SPLC, which Democrats and mainstream media outlets have tended to lean on for hate crime data. As Mediaite’s Alex Griffing wrote on Friday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced 11 charges against the SPLC, ranging from bank fraud to conspiracy to money laundering. The DOJ indictment allged the group covertly paid around $3 million to informants inside some of the country’s most notorious hate groups — groups that the SPLC claimed to monitor. The SPLC allegedly paid big bucks to informants affiliated with the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America, and the “Aryan Nations-linked Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, among others,” Fox News reported. Those payments were made between 2014 and 2023, per the DOJ. “As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups,” Blanche said on Tuesday. “It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.” Watch above via Fox Business.The post ‘Bunch of Bigots’: Fox Star Wants Trump DOJ to Throw Book at ‘Completely Bogus’ SPLC first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Trump Claims Iran Sent a ‘Much Better’ Deal Offer 10 Minutes After Canceling...President Donald Trump said Iran’s leaders came scurrying back with a “much better” proposal to end the war, minutes after he canceled sending a U.S. delegation back to Pakistan for a second round of negotiations. The president shared the update while speaking to reporters in front of Air Force One in Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday. “Interestingly, immediately when I canceled it, within 10 minutes, we got a new paper that was much better,” Trump said. He was referring to his decision to scrap sending Vice President JD Vance, as well as special envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, back to Islamabad, Pakistan for another summit. The trio had went to Pakistan earlier this month for a marathon negotiating session with Iranian leaders; Vance said the talks failed to result in a deal because Iran would not make an “affirmative commitment” to stop pursing nuclear weapons. Trump told reporters that remains the key sticking point on Saturday. “It’s very simple,” Trump said. “Look, that whole deal is not complicated — Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Very simple.” He was then asked if he planned on extending the ceasefire deal. “Haven’t even thought about it,” Trump said. His remarks to the reporters came about 20 minutes after he posted about the canceled Pakistan trip on Truth Social. The president wrote: I just cancelled the trip of my representatives going to Islamabad, Pakistan, to meet with the Iranians. Too much time wasted on traveling, too much work! Besides which, there is tremendous infighting and confusion within their “leadership.” Nobody knows who is in charge, including them. Also, we have all the cards, they have none! If they want to talk, all they have to do is call!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP Trump told the press a few minutes later that he will deal with whoever is “runs the show” in Iran, but that they seem to be in too much disarray right now. Watch above via CNN.The post Trump Claims Iran Sent a ‘Much Better’ Deal Offer 10 Minutes After Canceling Pakistan Summit first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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