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Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) dabbled in some newfangled election denialism being pushed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. On Thursday, Trump will give a primetime address in which he is expected to repeat his bogus claims about election fraud in the 2020 election, which he insists was rigged against him. The president is expected to allege that foreign interference clinched the election for Joe Biden. To avoid angering Trump, some Republican lawmakers have claimed outright that the election was stolen, while others have asked unfounded questions meant to cast doubt on the contest. But in Thursday’s speech, the president is also expected to allege that Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia were elected in rigged elections. The two senators won runoff contests on Jan. 5, 2021, thus giving control of the Senate to the Democrats. Warnock, who was elected in 2021 to finish the term of the resigned Sen. Johnny Isakson (R), subsequently won reelection in 2022. Ossoff is up for reelection in November. On Wednesday, Fox News Chief Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram asked Lummis if she believes Ossoff and Warnock were elected legitimately. “In your mind, are Senators Ossoff and Warnock duly chosen and sworn?” Pergram asked. The senator paused for several seconds. “I don’t know,” she replied. Lummis is retiring from the Senate in January after declining to run for reelection this year. Earlier on Wednesday during a Senate confirmation hearing, Ossoff asked Jay Clayton, Trump’s nominee for Director of National Intelligence, “Who won the 2020 election?” Clayton, who is currently the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, refused to say Biden won or that Trump lost. Watch above via Fox News.The post Republican Senator Pauses Awkwardly When Fox News Reporter Asks if Democratic Colleagues Were Elected Legitimately first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.22 mins ago - Trump Reportedly Unpaused ICE Traffic Stops After Tomi Lahren and Steve Bannon C...
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana President Donald Trump reportedly reversed his administration’s decision to suspend most ICE traffic stops after facing intense criticism from prominent MAGA allies, according to a report in The Atlantic on Wednesday. The magazine’s Jonathan Lemire and Nick Miroff reported that Trump ultimately decided to scrap the directive after a wave of backlash from his supporters, including conservative commentator Tomi Lahren, former Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino, and War Room host Steve Bannon. White House officials told The Atlantic that criticism on cable news Wednesday morning influenced the president’s decision. According to the report, Trump concluded that pausing traffic stops would “make them all look weak.” The reversal came just more than a day after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin ordered ICE officers to suspend most vehicle stops following two fatal shootings involving immigration agents within a week. One incident involved the shooting of 26-year-old Colombian delivery driver Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine, while the other involved Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican construction contractor who had lived in the United States for 35 years, in Texas. As The Atlantic notes, neither man had a criminal record, and neither was the intended target of the law enforcement action that led to his death. On Wednesday morning, Trump publicly rejected the policy in a Truth Social post. “We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” Trump wrote. “Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.” The Atlantic reported that the administration’s about-face represented an embarrassing setback for Mullin, with DHS and ICE officials telling the magazine they found it unlikely the original order would have been issued without White House approval. However, a senior administration official disputed that account, telling the outlet Trump had not signed off on the pause beforehand. Following Trump’s post, Mullin issued his own statement but did not explicitly tell ICE officers to resume traffic stops. “President Trump and I are on the same page,” Mullin said in a statement provided to The Atlantic by the Department of Homeland Security. “We want our ICE officers to have all options available to keep them safe while executing our mission of deporting as many illegal alien criminals from our country as possible.”The post Trump Reportedly Unpaused ICE Traffic Stops After Tomi Lahren and Steve Bannon Criticized the Move first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.42 mins ago - ‘When Did This Get So Hard?’ Kasie Hunt Mystified When GOP Senator Calls Que...Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) threw CNN’s Kasie Hunt for a loop when he referred to a straightforward question about the 2020 election as a “game.” During the Senate confirmation hearings of many of President Donald Trump’s nominees, Democratic senators have asked the nominees who the winner of the 2020 election was. The nominees have typically acknowledged that Joe Biden was the president, but have avoided saying Biden won or Trump lost the election. Quite infamously, Trump has falsely claimed that the contest was rigged against him. For the most part, humoring this delusion has become necessary for Republicans to remain in Trump’s good graces. Kennedy joined Wednesday’s edition of The Arena, where Hunt played a clip from the confirmation hearing of Jay Clayton, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The president has nominated him to be the next Director of National Intelligence. In the clip, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) asked, “Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?” “Uh, Senator, I’m not an election denier,” Clayton responded. “Joe Biden was certified as the president of the United States.” Elsewhere, Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) asked the nominee, “Who won the 2020 election?” Clayton claimed he “answered” the question, but at no point did he say Biden “won” the election. “He did not want to straight say that President Biden won the 2020 election,” Hunt noted to Kennedy. “Why not?” “Well, I don’t know,” Kennedy replied. “But there’s this little game, if you followed all the committees, it happens every time we have a nominee in Judiciary, where the Democrats… want the nominee to use the magic words that Trump lost the election. And the nominees, understandably, in my opinion, don’t want to play that game. I haven’t.” “But how is it a game?” Hunt interjected. “I mean, it’s just what happened.” “No, it is a game. Kasie,” Kennedy protested. “So, it’s a game of words by my Democratic colleagues.” Kennedy then turned the matter on its head by defending the nominees, noting that none of them had claimed Trump won the 2020 election. “Sure, but again, I mean, we live in a democracy where, in the past, everyone called the winner to concede and say, ‘Congratulations on your win. It was a tough loss for me.’ What does it say about where we are that you think that this is a game of words? I mean,… [TheTopNews] Read More.58 mins ago
- Secret Service Reportedly ‘Fed Up’ With JD Vance’s Travel Plans
Oliver Contreras/Pool Photo via AP Secret Service agents assigned to Vice President JD Vance and his family are reportedly “fed up” with their frequent last-minute travel requests, MS NOW reported on Wednesday. The outlet’s Carol Leonnig and Vaughn Hillyard wrote that agents complained among themselves last Thursday as they prepared for Vance and his son to travel aboard the Marine Two helicopter for the elementary school student’s golf lesson. The flight was ultimately canceled because of severe thunderstorms and high winds in the Washington, D.C., area. While there is no formal Secret Service rule barring a vice president’s child from traveling aboard a government helicopter, current and former Secret Service supervisors told the outlet they were unaware of any precedent for using one for such a purpose. According to MS NOW, using Marine Two costs taxpayers anywhere between $16,000 and $24,600 per hour. “That is RIDICULOUS,” one person familiar with the planned trip said. “[Former Vice President Mike] Pence and [former Vice President Kamala] Harris never pulled anything like that.” The episode reportedly reflects broader frustration among members of Vance’s security detail over the family’s tendency to make sudden changes to their travel plans, with sources telling MS NOW those agents are “fed up.” The Vances have also recently taken several last-minute helicopter trips to the Middleburg, Virginia, area while searching for a home to buy or rent, according to the report. “They change everything,” one person said. “They don’t stick to their schedules, and that costs shit-tons of taxpayer money.” These types of quickly planned trips are known within the Secret Service as “off the record” movements and can force agents to cancel days off and quickly develop new security plans, per the outlet. The frustration has also allegedly inspired agents to create custom coins and stickers reading “Bobcat OTR Survivors Club,” a reference to Vance’s Secret Service code name. The items also feature the motto, “Advance. OTR. Repeat.” “The detail is tired of them not giving notice on things and making everything an OTR,” one person familiar with the agents’ frustration said. “He [Vance] thinks he can still move around like a U.S. Senator.” The vice president’s office praised the agents protecting the family in a statement to MS NOW, saying the Vances are “grateful to the men and women of the U.S. Secret Service who serve our country with distinction.” An official from President Donald Trump’s administration,… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Go to Hell’: JD Vance Rages At Israeli ‘Influencer Campaign’ Trying to ...Vice President JD Vance fumed to Joe Rogan in a Wednesday interview about a report that a former Trump campaign manager is working on behalf of Israel to wage an online influence campaign against his Iran negotiations. “But I definitely think you have seen this very discreet, extremely well-funded campaign to try to derail the negotiation and try to derail the deal. And there was, again, there’s this Time article that came out yesterday — a friend sent it to me — it’s worth reading because it lists a bunch of people who have quite literally been paid by a former Trump campaign person, who was himself paid by certain elements within the Israeli government,” Vance told Rogan. On Tuesday, Time magazine reported that Brad Parscale, who briefly ran Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, and his company Clock Tower X are being paid by Israel to conduct an influence campaign, according to US Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) filings. “And those people are attacking me viciously for quite literally trying to accomplish the negotiation objective that the president set for the country,” Vance added. “So what is their position? They’re attacking you. How?” Rogan pressed. “Oh, it’s social media posts. It’s, you know, they’re leaking to reporters. They are attacking, obsessively saying that we should not be negotiating with Iran, that we should just keep the military campaign going indefinitely. And that is their explicit position,” Vance claimed, adding: And coming after me, saying that, you know, people have come after me and said that I’m influenced by Qatar, that I am influenced by foreign governments, that I take my marching orders from Tucker Carlson — there’s just so much bullshit out there, when what I’m actually trying to do is accomplish what the President of the United States told me to accomplish, which is a settlement of this that accomplishes our objectives: Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon, and we have the free flow of oil and gas. And I should be clear — and, you know, I don’t actually mind that certain elements of the Israeli government want to criticize the deal or have disagreements about the deal. I don’t even mind an effort to try to influence — you know, foreign governments try to influence the United States all the time. Israel does it, other countries do it — it’s just sort of the nature of the… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Trump Lays Out New National Security Demand: ‘We Need Magnets’ President Donald Trump called on defense contractors to “do magnets,” saying that they are vital to national security and profitable for companies that produce them. Trump attended the Pennsylvania Defense & Innovation Summit on Wednesday, where he addressed some of the country’s leading defense industry companies. He encouraged them to produce magnets, but offered no specifics: Firepoint Energy in Tunnelton will be investing at least $170 million in [a] pilot program to convert coal waste into jet fuel, electrical power, critical minerals. And I hope you’re gonna do magnets. Somebody out there, I hope, you’re all brilliant people, magnets. Do magnets, ok? I’ll tell you how to make money. Do magnets. You’re doing a lot of great stuff. Do magnets. Because one thing we don’t have, but we are getting close, but do magnets. So, I hope that [U.S.Air Force Contracting Officer] John Gray is listening to me so he can give ’em couple of bucks and go into the magnet business. I guarantee it’s gonna be a [intelligible]. It’s one thing, we don’t, for some reason, it’s not complex, not hard. We have the material. For some reason, they just don’t do it. We need magnets. So, one of you companies out there, go out, I’ll teach you how to make money. The president did not elaborate on why the U.S. military needs magnets, about which he has made some curious remarks. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office in November, Trump declared that “nobody knows what magnets are.” “Now, nobody knows what magnets are,” he said at the time. “And not overly sophisticated, but to build a magnet system would take two years. So if I weren’t able to say to China, ‘Look, if you’re gonna do that to us, we’re gonna charge you a 158% tariff.'” During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump erroneously claimed that dropping water on magnets causes them to lose their magnetic properties. Watch above via Fox News.The post Trump Lays Out New National Security Demand: ‘We Need Magnets’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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