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AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein The head of the company that owns the firm responsible for part of the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool pleaded guilty to bribing a congressman, The New York Times reported on Thursday night. President Donald Trump fixated on the Reflecting Pool in recent months, taking a personal interest in seeing to its renovation. He frequently brought up the topic during press gaggles, even when reporters had not asked him about it. Since the job was completed, the pool has been plagued by algae blooms. This week, passersby at the pool began to notice paint starting to peel away from the bottom. Rather than reflect the color Trump chose for the bottom – American flag blue – the algae has given the pool a distinct green hue. As part of the renovation, Trump awarded a $1,7 million no-bid contract to an Ohio company to install a water purification system. The name of the company is – and this is true – Greenwater Services. The Times reported that the company is owned by the J.J. Cafaro Trust, helmed by John J. Cafaro, a Trump donor and one of the president’s Mar-a-Lago neighbors. His water purification company lists Cafaro’s mansion in Palm Beach as its address in Florida corporate records. The report added that Cafaro’s daughter served as a Democratic Ohio state senator from 2007 to 2016, and said he has donated money to Republicans and Democrats. One of the Democrats Cafaro “donated” money to was former Rep. James Traficant (D-OH) – by bribing him: Mr. Cafaro’s family business was in developing shopping centers, but he branched into other industries, including aerospace. He pleaded guilty in 2001 to conspiracy to bribe Representative James A. Traficant Jr., Democrat of Ohio, and later testified against Mr. Traficant. In 2001, the U.S. House of Representatives expelled Traficant, who, until former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) in 2023, was the most recent member to be expelled. Traficant was convicted of bribery and racketeering in 2002 and was released in 2009 before dying in 2014. Traficant was infamous for his ridiculous hairdo and one-minute floor speeches that had nothing to do with House business. And also the crimes.The post Owner of Company Responsible for Part of Trump’s Reflecting Pool Renovation Pleaded Guilty to Bribing Congressman first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Have You Bought a Tesla Recently? We Want to Hear From You.
Tesla sales are rebounding in Europe even though many people have negative feelings about Elon Musk, the company’s chief executive. We want to know why. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - John Kruk Suggests He’d Been Drinking Before Comically Horrendous At Bat Again...
Philadelphia Phillies play-by-play man John Kruk suggested on Thursday that he had been drinking before his comically inept at bat against Randy Johnson in the 1993 MLB All-Star Game. During the game at Camden Yards in Baltimore, Kruk, a left-handed batter, faced the flame-throwing southpaw for the first time in his career. On the first pitch, Johnson whizzed the ball over the head of Kruk, who strolled away from the batter’s box, tapped on his heart, and breathed a heavy sigh. On the next pitch, Kruk took a fastball for strike one. On pitches three and four, he waved at two sliders on the outside part of the plate, doing so half-heartedly with one hand while spinning around in some sort of poor man’s pirouette. During Thursday’s NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast of the Phillies-Mets game, Kruk and play-by-play man Tom McCarthy spoke with Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt and George Brett, the latter of whom brought up Johnson and told Kruk, “I saw your at bat against him. I had to face him.” “I could’ve been a little tipsy that day,” Kruk replied. “You could’ve called in sick,” Schmidt replied. “I thought I was gonna call in dead,” Kruk deadpanned, suggesting he had been partying the night before the game. “I could have been a little tipsy that day” – John Kruk on his infamous All-Star Game at-bat against Randy Johnson [image or embed] — Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social) June 18, 2026 at 7:36 PM Not surprisingly, Johnson, a lefty who stood 6’10 and regularly hit 100 miles per hour, was extremely difficult to hit against, especially for left-handed batters. Four years after the 1993 All-Star Game, Larry Walker, another left-handed batter, faced Johnson. During the plate appearance, Walker put his helmet on backward and switched around to bat right-handed. He ended up walking.The post John Kruk Suggests He’d Been Drinking Before Comically Horrendous At Bat Against Randy Johnson first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Mike Florio Says GOP Official Was ‘Only Off by 117.4 Million’ With White Hou...
AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson In a Thursday Pro Football Talk article, NBC Sports’ Mike Florio noted that RNC Chair Joe Gruters was “only off by 117.4 million” in his prediction that President Donald Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event was more watched than the Super Bowl. Per Paramount stats released on Thursday, 8.2 million watched Sunday’s event, in commemoration of both the 250th anniversary of the United States and Trump’s own 80th birthday, on Paramount+, making it the company’s largest live exclusive event to date. Seven million viewers hailed from the U.S., and 1.2 million from Latin America, with the UFC releasing stats from outside the U.S. and Latin America next week. As Variety explained, the event reached 17 million total viewers, “which refers to the number of unique people who tuned in for at least a minute at any point in the broadcast.” Puck’s Matthew Belloni wrote on X of the figures, “A good number for a Par+ exclusive but a fraction of marquee sports and less than half of what MARSHALS or TRACKER rates on CBS/Par+.” Paramount says UFC Freedom 250 averaged 8.2M viewers. A good number for a Par+ exclusive but a fraction of marquee sports and less than half of what MARSHALS or TRACKER rates on CBS/Par+. — Matthew Belloni (@MattBelloni) June 18, 2026 However, during an appearance this week on Fox News, Gruters, also a Florida state senator, outlandishly claimed that more viewers tuned in than to this year’s Super Bowl. As Florio noted, Super Bowl LX had an audience of 125.6 million. Additionally, during an early June interview with TNT, UFC President Dana White shared a similar prediction, saying, “For UFC fans all over the world, this is a very unique experience for everybody; and, you know, we’re expecting Super Bowl-type numbers for this fight.” “Joe Gruters was only off by 117.4 million,” wrote Pro Football Talk editor-in-chief Florio in his piece. He continued, “But who cares about the truth? The truth is an annoyance. An impediment. A pesky little thing that gets in the way of preferred narratives. No matter how outlandish those narratives may be.”The post Mike Florio Says GOP Official Was ‘Only Off by 117.4 Million’ With White House UFC Viewership Claim first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ‘It’s Literally What Happened!’ Tarlov Erupts on Watters Over False Claim ...Fox News’s Jessica Tarlov went off on co-host Jesse Watters after the latter denied a demonstrable fact about the lenient deal a child molester received in Texas. Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, has come under fire after his office agreed to a plea deal for former Waco attorney Adam Hoffman. In June 2025, Hoffman went on trial for first-degree felony continuous sexual abuse of a young child. A friend of Hoffman’s son testified that the ex-lawyer sexually assaulted him multiple times over three years, starting when the child was in the third grade. The trial ended with a 7-5 hung jury. Hoffman was facing a possible sentence of life without parole. After the mistrial, Hoffman reached a plea agreement with Paxton’s office and was sentenced to 60 days in jail. He ended up serving 29 days. During Thursday’s edition of The Five, Tarlov defended Paxton’s opponent, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, and brought up the Hoffman plea deal. As she spoke, Watters interrupted and falsely claimed that the plea agreement story was “debunked.” Co-host Greg Gutfeld also insisted the story was fake: TARLOV: …James Talarico [was] standing outside Paxton’s office asking about how this admitted child molester Hoffman got a deal where he was only in jail for 29 years. Someone who literally said, “I molested a child.” And he didn’t have to register as a sex offender. WATTERS: That’s been debunked. TARLOV: It hasn’t been debunked, actually. WATTERS: We’ve been debunking it for weeks. TARLOV: No. GUTFELD: Yeah. TARLOV: It’s literally what happened! The guy admitted to doing it! Listen to the mother talking about it. WATTERS: We don’t have time to explain it to you. Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn in the Republican primary after receiving an endorsement from President Donald Trump. Watch above via Fox News.The post ‘It’s Literally What Happened!’ Tarlov Erupts on Watters Over False Claim About Child Molester first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- White House Staff Reportedly Monitored Trump’s Trash Because ‘He Was Sometim...
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin An excerpt from The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s upcoming book, published on Thursday by the Daily Mail, revealed that White House staff allegedly needed to monitor President Donald Trump’s trash after it was discovered that “he was sometimes throwing out” sterling silver utensils. The snippet came from Swan and Haberman’s new book on the first 14 months of Trump’s first term, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. According to them, staffers responsible for maintaining the president’s private quarters were dealing with a variety of unusual housekeeping challenges. “A nighttime snacker, the President would frequently leave an array of empty potato chip bags, Starbucks wrappers, and ice cream cartons in the trash, or on the floor,” they wrote. That habit reportedly prompted closer scrutiny of the trash after aides realized valuable White House items were disappearing along with the food waste. “The staff had to begin monitoring the trash after it was discovered he was sometimes throwing out White House sterling silver utensils,” Haberman and Swan added. Also in the Daily Mail exclusive, the pair describe his intense interest in redecorating his private living space — at times competing with First Lady Melania Trump — and recount concerns among staff over a carpeted bathroom that allegedly required frequent attention. “Once, when staff gently reminded the President that he was taking things from the Center Hall his wife had personally selected, he made clear he didn’t care,” they wrote. “He seemed almost to be competing with her – determined to have the better room.” The journalists added, “The President’s redecorating generated such a flurry of activity that staff often felt caught between the two Trumps, who were the only presidential couple to regularly use and maintain separate bedrooms since Richard and Pat Nixon.” Of his required carpeted bathroom, Haberman and Swan detailed, “The portion nearest the shower would often be soaked through; the staff was never quite sure why, but they worried about mold growing underneath.”The post White House Staff Reportedly Monitored Trump’s Trash Because ‘He Was Sometimes Throwing Out’ High-End Silverware first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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