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- ‘There’s No Freakin’ Way’: Moskowitz Mocks Republican Witness Who Told H...
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) had an incredible exchange with a Republican witness that culminated in the lawmaker telling her there is absolutely no way he will buy her book. On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee convened for a hearing about the Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit group that monitors and brings legal actions against hate groups. In April, a federal grand jury indicted the organization after it was revealed the SPLC improperly paid informants via a scheme to infiltrate white supremacist groups. The organization had long been a target of conservatives, and has become even more so since the indictment. During the hearing, Dr. Carol Swain, a Republican witness, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, and critic of the SPLC, told the committee that the organization has “drifted from its original mission of monitoring genuine hate groups — such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis — toward targeting mainstream conservatives.” Moskowitz used his time to ask Swain about Neo-Nazi ideology and whether or not they are “supremacists”: MOSKOWITZ: Are neo-Nazis supremacists? SWAIN: It depends on which ones. They’re individuals– MOSKOWITZ: I didn’t ask you which ones. [CROSSTALK] MOSKOWITZ: Ms. Swain, listen, I’m not reading your book if you literally can’t answer this question. Are Neo-Nazi supremacists? SWAIN: They’re individuals. Some are and some may be just plain old anti-Semites. MOSKOWITZ: No, no, Neo-Nazis are anti-Semites, ok? We’re gonna agree there. But they’re also supremacists, Ms. Swain. SWAIN: Ok, if you– MOSKOWITZ: No, no, you don’t have to take my word for it. Right? Like, they are. That’s the whole reason they exist. SWAIN: But you all don’t say– MOSKOWITZ: –because they believe they are supreme. SWAIN: You all don’t seem to understand that a white supremacist– MOSKOWITZ: Who’s they all?! I’m not a Neo-Nazi. Who’s they all? I’m a regular person asking another regular person if we can agree that Neo-Nazis are supremacists. SWAIN: I will agree with you. MOSKOWITZ: Ok, I don’t want you to be forced into it. SWAIN: I would agree with you, but I suggest you all take the time and read my Cambridge University Press book that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. MOSKOWITZ: Dr. Swain, I can promise you there’s no freakin’ way I’m buying your book when when it took two minutes for you to look at me and not and– and how to convince you that Neo-Nazis– SWAIN: Because… [TheTopNews] Read More.22 mins ago - CNN’s Harry Enten Makes the Case Democrats Can ‘Absolutely’ Win Texas Sena...CNN senior data correspondent Harry Enten joined anchor John Berman on Wednesday to discuss the latest polling out of Texas’s U.S. Senate race and made the case that the Democrats can “absolutely” win the seat. “It’s simply put—they’re looking at the numbers. They are looking at numbers, and the idea that Democrats can’t win in Texas, I want to put that to rest. They could very well do it. James Talarico could very well win in Texas,” Enten began adding: And I want to use a comparison point with 2018 because there was all this talk about Beto O’Rourke, right? “Oh, could he beat Ted Cruz?” He could beat Ted. The numbers at this point in that campaign simply put did not support that conclusion. But the numbers at that point absolutely support the conclusion that James Talarico can win. So take a look. Texas Senate polls in May of the election year. When you matched up O’Rourke, Beto O’Rourke versus Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz was up by 7 points. He was clearly ahead. But look at the polling average now when you match up Ken Paxton versus James Talarico. It’s actually Talarico that’s ahead by 4 points. And Johnny B, I was looking back at every single Texas Senate race that I could find, and at this point in the campaign, James Talarico is polling better than any Democrat in at least 24 years. You have to go all the way back to 2002 to find a Democrat even polling anywhere close to where Talarico is polling right now. Texas Democrats have dreamt about turning it blue. This time, the numbers actually support the idea that they may actually be able to do it. Berman followed up, “Be able to do it. I have to say this is a difference that I have not seen before, and I was not aware of, and a lot of people are making the comparison to 2018. One of the reasons is that Ken Paxton, if he’s a nominee—not a super popular nominee—and people like, ‘Oh, well Ted Cruz as an incumbent Senator, he wasn’t that popular either.’ So what’s the difference between Cruz and Ken Paxton?” “Yeah, the idea that Ted Cruz was not that popular—that’s a falsehood. That is simply put a false statement,” Enten replied, adding: If you go back? Again, just look at these differences right here,… [TheTopNews] Read More.35 mins ago
- JUST IN: Former Fed Prosecutor Indicted for Allegedly Emailing Herself Jack Smit...
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File A former federal prosecutor in Florida has been indicted for allegedly emailing herself documents that the court had ordered not to be shared, related to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal prosecution of President Donald Trump — and the Department of Justice says she disguised the documents as cake recipes. Prior to the president getting elected to his second term, Smith had been pursuing criminal cases against Trump accusing him of mishandling classified documents and keeping them at his residence at Mar-a-Lago and for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. When Trump won the 2024 election, that was the effective end of the criminal cases due to long-standing DOJ policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted. Last December, Smith testified before the House Judiciary Committee that his office’s investigation “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power” and ” also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.” The 9-page indictment was filed against Carmen Mercedes Lineberger in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Lineberger previously served as the Managing Assistant U.S. Attorney of the Fort Pierce, Florida branch of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in that district. According to the indictment, Lineberger received copies of Smith’s “Volume II Report” related to Trump’s prosecution on January 16, 2025. U.S. District for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon, who had been assigned to the case, “issued an order regarding the Report, which prohibited ‘the Department of Justice, its officers, agents, officials, and employees from [] releasing, sharing, or transmitting [the Report] outside the Department of Justice, or [] otherwise releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in [the Report] or in drafts thereof.'” Lawsuits have been filed by media organizations and others challenging Cannon’s sealing of Smith’s reports and other matters related to the case, arguing that it is in the public interest of… [TheTopNews] Read More.45 mins ago - Pro-MAGA Outlet OAN ‘Seriously Considering’ Filing a Claim for a Payout from...
Screenshot via YouTube President Donald Trump’s allies in the media are eyeing potential payouts from the massive weaponization fund created this week in a settlement between the president and his own Justice Department. Trump’s DOJ stirred widespread controversy this week by settling the president’s lawsuit against the IRS and creating a nearly $1.8 billion fund to pay out anyone the admin finds had the government weaponized against them. Critics of the settlement have decried its unprecedented nature, a president suing and settling with his own administration, and denounced the “slush fund” as a gift to MAGA allies. CNN’s Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, and Donie O’Sullivan took a deep dive on Wednesday into all the various MAGA-affiliated organizations and individuals who are now looking to cash in from the fund. The report noted that January 6th rioters, 2020 election deniers and so-called fake electors, and pro-MAGA media outlets may all file claims. Among the media outlets mentioned in the report is One America News Network, OAN. A lawyer for the avowedly pro-MAGA network, Chris Babcock, told CNN the company “is seriously considering pursuing rights under this fund and will make a decision shortly about whether to file a claim.” OAN settled lawsuits related to 2020 pro-Trump election conspiracy theories with both Dominion and Smartmatic. CNN also reached out Fox News, which settled a lawsuit with Dominion for a whopping $787 million, for comment if it would also pursue payment through the fund, but did not receive a reply. Election conspiracy theorist and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who also owns Lindell TV, praised the fund as “looking out for these people that were attacked.” CNN also reported that Lindell “believes his company lost $400 million due to what he views as government weaponization in the aftermath of the 2020 election. He was perhaps the loudest promoter of baseless voter-fraud claims – drawing boycotts from businesses, defamation lawsuits and even FBI scrutiny.” Vice President JD Vance was pressed during Tuesday’s White House press briefing on whether or not the fund could be used to give taxpayer dollars to rioters who violently attacked law enforcement. Vance replied by saying anyone who believes they have been aggrieved by the government can file a claim for compensation from the fund, including Hunter Biden and presumably those rioters who attacked cops. Vance held up Tina Peters, the recently pardoned election official imprisoned for breaking into voting machines… [TheTopNews] Read More.60 mins ago - Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pulls Back the Curtain on Its Finances
Mr. Musk’s rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance for the first time, as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Ben Shapiro Accuses Thomas Massie of Trying to Be Tucker Carlson 2.0 With ‘Not... Ben Shapiro mocked Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Wednesday for losing his primary battle the night before and said the lame duck lawmaker likely knew he was “toast” once President Donald Trump endorsed his rival. So what did Massie do in response? Shapiro argued the Kentucky lawmaker doubled down on “full-scale conspiratorial anti-Israel” rhetoric in an effort to become a podcaster like Tucker Carlson, Shapiro argued on his show. “The minute that Trump came out and went after Massie, Massie knew he was in trouble. And so he figured you know what, ‘I want to be a podcaster, I want to be like Joe Kent or Tucker Carlson. I want the strange new respect. I want the podcast woke right, and I also want the strange new respect of the left,'” Shapiro said. “And so I’m going to go all the way, I’m going to throw out conspiracy theories, go full-scale conspiratorial anti-Israel.’ So that was Massie’s plan, was that he knew he was toast anyway, so the best way to make money on the other side is to do that sort of thing.” Shapiro said Massie’s concession speech on Tuesday night was “pretty good evidence” to back up that theory. Massie mocked Trump’s “Roman Empire” ballroom and quipped that it was hard for him to reach the victorious Ed Gallrein “in Tel Aviv.”Shapiro said it was “ugly stuff” and “not particularly subtle antisemitism” from the lawmaker. But he said it was unsurprising, based on Massie’s complaints about how Israel “dragged” the U.S. into the Iran war and his other comments of late. Carlson has been bashing Israel a lot as well recently, especially since the start of the Iran war. The former cable news star said the war is being “waged” strictly on behalf of Israel, which he said is “in charge” of Trump. Shapiro said Massie’s focus on Israel made no sense for a congressman who was actually trying to win in Kentucky. “What was he thinking?” Shapiro asked. “Why in the world in a district that has fewer than 500 Jews would you decide that it was really, really important to run on the’ Zionist organized government the Jews control everything’ platform?” Instead, it makes more sense if Massie is aiming to become an anti-Trump political pundit, Shapiro argued. We’ll find out soon enough, with Massie’s time in Congress coming to an end in early 2027. Watch… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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