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- Several Democratic Critics of Iran War Say They Might Vote to Fund It Anyway: â€...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Several prominent Democrats who have criticized President Donald Trump for launching a war against Iran are nonetheless suggesting they might vote to fund the military venture if the administration asks. The U.S. and Israel have been bombing Iran since Saturday in what is the second such campaign since the summer, though Trump said that this operation will likely last longer, perhaps five weeks or more. The president has not explained what the endgame is, and has refused to rule out the deployment of soldiers to Iran. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the strikes, as were dozens of top officials. More than 1,000 civilians have been killed so far, according to a human rights watchdog. More than 165 people – mostly children – were killed in a strike on an all-girls’ elementary school in southern Iran. An Iranian retaliatory strike in Kuwait killed six U.S. service members. Most Democrats have criticized the U.S. attacks, which Trump said are necessary to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, which last year Trump claimed was “totally obliterated” by U.S. and Israeli bombs. On Wednesday, Politico published a report featuring prominent Democrats who say they oppose the war, but might be open to funding it. “I need to know the goals and the plan. … I don’t rule anything out,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said. “I mean, we’re in it.” “We have to look at what they need,” stated Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), who is the ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Some of it might be to fill in critical issues and other theaters of war they’ve taken things from.” “Clearly, there’s going to be a cost to this war that we haven’t budgeted for,” added Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). “So there is going to be a need for funding, and we need some answers before we provide it.” The report also noted that Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), who is the ranking member on the appropriations committee that oversees the Department of Defense, is also open to backing a funding bill, but said Trump officials must publicly testify about “failures in planning.” And, Pete Aguilar (D-CA), who is the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, said he is “incredibly skeptical” about requests for more money, but added that he has “a duty and a responsibility to help protect this country.” Politico added that Sens. Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Gary Peters (D-MI) are also… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Matt Schlapp Suggests Iranian Schoolgirls Killed in Airstrike Are Better off Dea...
Matt Schlapp, the head of the influential Conservative Union, which runs CPAC, suggested that the Iranian schoolgirls who died in an airstrike are better off dead than alive under the current government. The U.S. and Israel have carried out more than 2,000 strikes inside Iran since Saturday, when it commenced a bombing campaign that President Donald Trump has said could last for at least five weeks. Among the first buildings hit was an elementary school for girls in southern Iran. At least 175 people – mostly young girls – were killed in the bombing, according to the Iranian government. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday that the administration is “investigating” the bombing, a response echoed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. On Wednesday’s edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored, the host suggested that the school may have been hit by Iranian fire. “I just think you need to get your facts,” Piers Morgan told Peter Beinart, editor-at-large at Jewish Currents and a critic of the war. “Piers, even if it was an Iranian missile that was fired in response to the attack from Israel and the United States, even if it was an Iranian missile, those girls would still be alive today if the United States and Israel had not launched the attack,” Beinart replied. “So, you are right, we don’t know who launched the missile. But we know that if the U.S. and Israel had not attacked a country that poses no serious threat to them – Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, America has thousands – that those girls would be alive.” “They’d be alive in a burka,” Schlapp interjected. “This is… a barbaric society.” Morgan cut off Schlapp to continue making his point. Women and girls in Iran are not required to wear a burka, which covers the entire body. They are required by law to wear a hijab, which covers the head and neck. Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.The post Matt Schlapp Suggests Iranian Schoolgirls Killed in Airstrike Are Better off Dead Than ‘In a Burka’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Sen. Mark Kelly Says ‘Random Group Of People Off The Street’ Could Do A Bett...Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) told MS NOW’s Jen Psaki that “a random group of people off the street” could do a better job handling the conflict in Iran than President Donald Trump’s administration. Kelly joined Wednesday’s edition of The Briefing with Jen Psaki to discuss the ongoing U.S. military operation in Iran. Psaki asked the senator, a retired U.S. Navy captain and former combat pilot, to share his thoughts on the administration’s justifications for the operation. “Well, very quickly I started thinking back to 1991, when I was on an aircraft carrier heading across the Indian Ocean to get into the Persian Gulf at the beginning of the first Gulf War,” said Kelly. “And I remember my commanding officer– I was in an A-6 Intruder squadron. I was 25, 26 years old. And I remember my commander, one day before my first strike, talking to us about how they expect us to lose half of the airplanes.” He continued: Now that didn’t come to pass, but I just remember that leading up to that period of time, how stressful this was for him. He was our boss. He was the commander of the squadron. He was only 39 years old at the time. I remember when he turned 40. He was such a great guy, a great leader, and he was under so much pressure. And he wasn’t even the guy that made the decision to send us there. But you could just feel, just in his core, that he understood, you know, how significant of an issue this was that some of us might die. And he took it so seriously, and he wanted our airplanes to be ready. He wanted the entire team to be ready. And he wasn’t sure that was going to happen. And I watch this group of people who were supposed to be leading our country, not just the president, secretary of defense and others you know, five people that were on the background on the slide here, and I’m thinking you could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in Washington, D.C., just a random group, and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now with this. They don’t have a goal. There’s no strategic plan. There’s no timeline. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
- House Republican Admits to Affair With Staffer Who Later Committed Suicide – T...Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) admitted to having an affair with his deceased staffer after weeks of controversy surrounding their relationship and her suicide by self-immolation. Gonzales has been at the center of a growing scandal since a bombshell report from Express News alleged that the congressman had an affair with his staffer, Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, months before she covered herself in gasoline outside her home in September of 2025. The congressman denied any improper relationship with Santos-Aviles, even after alleged text messages obtained by Juliegrace Brufke of 24sight News showed that Gonzales “made explicit sexual requests to his late congressional staffer who repeatedly resisted.” The congressman refused to resign from his seat, despite calls for his resignation from five Republican House members: Reps. Lauren Boebert (CO), Anna Paulina Luna (FL), Nancy Mace (SC), Thomas Massie (R-KY), and Tim Burchett (R-TN). Gonzales was forced into a primary runoff on Tuesday after failing to obtain over 50% of the vote. Yet the following day, the congressman chose to admit to the affair for the first time, the same day the House Ethics Committee announced it was forming a panel to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against him. “I made a mistake, and I had a lapse in judgment, and there was a lack of faith, and I take full responsibility for those actions,” Gonzales told conservative talk show host Joe Pagliarulo. “Since then, I’ve reconciled with my wife, Angel. I’ve asked God to forgive me, which he has. And my faith is as strong as ever.” The congressman denied having “anything to do with” Santos-Aviles’s death, telling Pagliarulo he was “shocked” at her passing. “I had absolutely nothing to do with her tragic passing, and in fact, I was shocked just as much as everyone else was,” he said. He went on to allege that Santos-Aviles’s husband, Adrian Aviles, asked the congressman for money “or else,” claiming Aviles launched a “coordinated” effort to extort him. Gonzales claimed: Within hours [of Santos-Aviles’s death], her estranged husband reached out to our office and asked, within hours, asked about her death benefits and how he could gain access to her retirement fund. […] It was eerie. It was creepy. […] A few months later, his criminal defense attorney, which I also thought was weird, not a civil offense attorney, his criminal defense attorney reaches out and and essentially ask me for money or else,… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- NewsNation Host Gushes Over Trump’s War on Iran: ‘One of the Great Military ...NewsNation host Leland Vittert showered effusive praise on President Donald Trump for the ongoing bombing campaign against Iran, which he compared to the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. The U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran on Saturday for the second time since last summer. However, Trump said that this campaign will likely last longer, perhaps five weeks or more. The president has not explained what the endgame is, and has refused to rule out the deployment of soldiers to Iran. Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in the strikes, as were dozens of top officials. More than 1,000 civilians have been killed so far, according to a human rights watchdog. More than 165 people – mostly children – were killed in a strike on an all-girls’ elementary school in southern Iran. An Iranian strike in Kuwait killed six U.S. service members. The Trump administration has said the attacks are necessary to totally obliterate Iran’s nuclear program, which last year Trump claimed was “totally obliterated” by U.S. and Israeli bombs. On Wednesday’s On Balance, Vittert, a former Fox News correspondent, applauded the latest wave of attacks, dubbed Operation Epic Fury, and said the campaign, which is less than a week old, will be studied for generations to come: In a bizarre twist of events, an American president is winning big on the battlefield – that is unquestionably true – and though losing at home from a strategic standpoint. Epic Fury right now will go down as one of the great military achievements in American history. A hundred years from now, cadets at West Point and the plebes at Annapolis will learn about the battle tactics and the intelligence use. It’s up there with the D-Day invasion, the Battle of Midway, Gettysburg, the first Gulf War. And the trump administration rightfully knows that. […] What the U.S. military and the Israeli military has accomplished in such a short period of time is nothing short of extraordinary, and anybody who would root against them is well, there’s a word for that. I’ll start with ‘confused.’ You can take it from there. As evidence of the war’s success, Vittert cited numbers provided by the Trump administration, though the host did not note where they came from. “U.S. air strikes reduced Iranian drone launches by 73%, ballistic missile launches by 86%,” he continued. “More than 2,000 strikes with over 2,000 precision munitions launched from air, land, and sea, and… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- Florida Gov. Candidate Says His Campaign Was Banned From Waffle House After Tuck...
The Tucker Carlson Show Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback, a Republican, announced on Wednesday that his campaign has been banned from every Waffle House in the state. Fishback’s campaign has been riddled with scandal since he launched his bid to follow Ron DeSantis as Florida’s next governor last November. From reports that a Florida school district “cut ties” with the candidate after a student claimed he had an “inappropriate relationship” with her while she was underage, to his racist attack on his Trump-endorsed Republican primary rival, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Fishback’s scandals have drawn scrutiny and stymied fundraising. The candidate made his bigoted comments about Donalds in a January interview with Tucker Carlson, who endorsed Fishback during their conversation. In the same interview, Fishback shared his plans to visit “every single Waffle House” in the state of Florida– a move he dubbed “a statewide Waffle House tour.” In his statement announcing that his campaign had been banned from the restaurant chain on Wednesday, Fishback claimed he had initially been permitted to campaign inside those locations. “In January, I announced on The Tucker Carlson Show that I would visit every Waffle House in Florida to meet voters where they are,” his statement read. “I was grateful that Waffle House Corporate gave us permission to do exactly that.” Fishback claimed that permission was then revoked by the company, declining to give further details about the situation. “This morning, Waffle House abruptly revoked our permission, and criminally trespassed us from all of their Florida locations,” he said. “I am disappointed in Waffle House’s decision, especially since they had given us explicit permission to visit their restaurants just 3 weeks ago.” Waffle House Corporate has not yet commented on Fishback’s claims. Fishback will face Donald and the current governor’s wife, Casey DeSantis, in November. The latest polling from the University of North Florida gives Donalds a significant lead over DeSantis, with Fishback trailing in single digits.The post Florida Gov. Candidate Says His Campaign Was Banned From Waffle House After Tucker Carlson Interview first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
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