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- CNN’s Abby Phillip Falsely Claims NYC Terror Attack’s Target Was Zohran Mamd...
CNN’s Abby Phillip falsely claimed that Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) was the target of a terror attack in New York City over the weekend during Tuesday evening’s edition of CNN NewsNight. Teasing the next segment before commercial break, Phillip said the following: Up next, two Republicans say Muslims don’t belong here after an attempted terror attack against New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani. And the House speaker, Mike Johnson, says nothing, really, to condemn those comments. Another special guest is going to be with us at the table when we come back. But that’s not what happened. Far-right protesters gathered outside of Gracie Mansion on Saturday to protest Mamdani and what they called the “Islamic Takeover of New York City,” where they were met by counter-protesters. As the two groups confronted one another, a member of the latter group, Emir Balat, proceeded to hurl an improvised explosive device at the former. Balat and a co-conspirator, Ibrahim Kayumi, have been arrested in connection with the attack. Authorities have since revealed that Balat and Kayumi were inspired by ISIS and confirmed that the right-wing protesters were their target. “These were ISIS-inspired actions,” said Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York on Monday. “Violence, particularly violence that has a terrorist bent, violence that is meant to chill free speech, violence that is meant to prevent us from gathering peaceably, will be met with swift justice.” Phillip’s was the second major flub of the story by her network. A CNN tweet and report about the attack had read: Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home. Here’s what we know so far. CNN later deleted the tweet and issued a statement acknowledging that it had “failed to reflect the gravity of the incident” and breached “the editorial standards we require for all our reporting.” Watch above via CNN.The post CNN’s Abby Phillip Falsely Claims NYC Terror Attack’s Target Was Zohran Mamdani first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.39 mins ago - Joe Scarborough Slaps Steve Witkoff With Blunt Warning for Trusting Putin’s Ir...Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough slapped President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff with a blunt warning about trusting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that the Kremlin was “not” sharing intelligence with Iran. The show opened as the MS NOW crew rolled back a clip of Witkoff’s CNBC interview on Tuesday, when he was asked about reports Russia shared intel on the locations of U.S. military assets with Tehran amid the ongoing conflict. Witkoff told the host that he’d spoken with Putin and Russian officials on a call Monday, during which they denied the reports. “We can take them at their word,” he said, saying Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner had heard the same on a similar call, before adding: “But let’s hope that they’re not sharing.” As the video finished rolling, Scarborough quoted back the statement: “‘Let’s hope they’re not sharing.’” He immediately recalled a 2018 Politico interview Trump had with his co-host Jonathan Lemire, in which he was asked whether he trusted his own intel chiefs more than Putin. “The president said, fill in the blank…” Scarborough said, cuing up Lemire. Lemire continued: “At the time, the president made clear he sided with Vladimir Putin, that he took Vladimir Putin at his word. And yesterday his lead negotiator, Steve Witkoff, suggested the same.” Scarborough interjected, mocking Witkoff’s statement as perhaps a tactful, at best: “And then he said, ‘Well, let’s hope they don’t do that.’ Yes. You know, diplomats, you gotta work with both sides.” Looking down lens, the host called out Witkoff directly. “But I will just say, if Steve is watching: ‘Steve, they lie! This is what Russians do. They think it’s the smart move to always lie. That’s the very nature of it, they are disruptors. They count on American suckers to think that they’re going to win them over by force of personality. It never happens.”” Scarborough mused that trusting Russia was what former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt “tried to do” during the Cold War, and joked, “You wake up the next day and Eastern Europe has a wall just right through Berlin.” “Because FDR thought he was going to win Stalin over at Yalta with the force of his personality,” the host said, imitating a game show wrong-answer buzzer. Watch above via MS NOW.The post Joe Scarborough Slaps Steve Witkoff With Blunt Warning for Trusting Putin’s Iran Intel Denial: Russians ‘Lie’ first… [TheTopNews] Read More.41 mins ago
- CNN Guest Boasts Desert Storm Was ‘Very Popular’ in Defense of Trump’s Ira...New York Post correspondent Lydia Moynihan boasted on Tuesday that former President George H. W. Bush’s 1991 Operation Desert Storm in Iraq was “very popular” and led to an “89% approval rating” during a defense of President Donald Trump’s war with Iran — ignoring the fact that Bush and the Republican Party proceeded to be wiped out in the election the following year. “The American people love to win,” said Moynihan during a debate on CNN NewsNight. “If you go back and you look at Desert Storm, and obviously you can speak to this much better than I, I mean it was very successful.” She continued, “The amount of time they had troops on the ground for was days, not even weeks, and you look at Bush’s ratings coming out of that and he had an 89% approval rating, so the fact of the matter is we don’t know how this is going to end, and if it is a month, I think that’s gonna be huge.” CNN host Abby Phillip replied, “Well, it’s already been much longer than Desert Storm, and it’s also, of the conflicts that we’ve seen over the last, you know, 50 years, this is perhaps the most unpopular. The American people are already unhappy with this.” While Bush did receive a high approval rating coming out of Operation Desert Storm, he was defeated by Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton in the election the following year – ending 12 years of Republican leadership in the U.S. After the 2000 election, Clinton was replaced in the White House with President George W. Bush, who proceeded to enter the United States into a much longer conflict – the Iraq War – three years later. Watch above via CNN.The post CNN Guest Boasts Desert Storm Was ‘Very Popular’ in Defense of Trump’s Iran War – Ignoring That Republicans Lost Next Election first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.44 mins ago
- Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump’s Iran ‘Distraction’ From Epstein Is Turning Out â...Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump’s Iran “mess” on Tuesday as a “distraction” from scrutiny of his mention in the Jeffrey Epstein documents, as he scoffed that the war was “ironically” turning out to be “more damaging” to the president than the files themselves. The remarks came during the host’s opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! as the 11th day of strikes against the Iranian regime by the U.S. and Israel drew to a close. The attack came weeks after the Justice Department released millions of files, including images and correspondence, related to Epstein, increasing interest in the president’s past associations with the disgraced financier. Kimmel drew a line between both situations, as he framed the war as designed to “distract us” and mocked the Trump administration’s messaging around the objectives of the Iran mission. “You should declare victory,” the host recommended to Trump. “Maybe they can go to Kinko’s and print up a banner that says ‘Mission Accomplished’ too. Right?” He continued, “That is basically what he is going to do. He’s going to make a huge mess and walk away like it’s the new toilet in the Lincoln bathroom. Trump claims we are way ahead of schedule on the war. He’s got a schedule, which means it should be over just around the time we see his taxes and the rest of the Trump-Epstein files.” “Ironically, this war he launched to distract us from those could turn out to be more damaging to him than the Trump Epstein files themselves,” he jabbed, adding, “They’re saying this could be worse. And that would mean he’d have to come up with another distraction from the war.” Addressing Trump again, Kimmel said: “If you do need that, Mr. President, I got a good war. You know what would distract us from the war? Release the unreleased Trump Epstein files!” Watch above via ABC.The post Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump’s Iran ‘Distraction’ From Epstein Is Turning Out ‘More Damaging’ Than Files first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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Thomson Reuters, best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, provides an investigative tool to immigration enforcers. Its Minnesota employees want that to stop. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Administration Reportedly Asks Israel To Stop Bombing Iran’s Oil Facilit...
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Trump administration officials on Monday asked their Israeli counterparts not to continue bombing Iran’s energy infrastructure, Axios reported on Tuesday. It is the latest indication that the U.S. and Israel have different aims in the war they jointly started 10 days ago. The U.S. request comes after Israel bombed Iranian oil facilities that created clouds of black smoke above Tehran. The Axios report cited three sources familiar with the situation. It said the Trump administration pointed to three reasons why it does not want Israel to continue its attacks on Iran’s energy industry: The Trump administration cited three reasons for its request, according to a source with knowledge of the matter: Such strikes harm the Iranian public, a large portion of which opposes the regime. Trump aims to cooperate with Iran’s oil sector after the war — similar to the approach he has taken with Venezuela. The strikes could trigger massive Iranian retaliatory attacks on energy infrastructure across Gulf states. Hours later, The Wall Street Journal reported that even though President Donald Trump has claimed the war is just about over, “Israel has other ideas.” “There is some concern among White House officials that Israel wants the war to last after the U.S. expresses its desire to end the bombing campaign, the officials said,” the Journal said on Tuesday. “U.S. and Israeli officials say the Israeli message is it will stop its campaign in Iran whenever U.S. involvement stops.” The Journal noted that U.S. strikes have largely targeted the Iranian military, while Israel’s bombings have homed in on Iranian leaders and its energy facilities. Over the years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly urged the U.S. to act against Iran. More than 1,000 Iranians have been killed in the bombings, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of top officials. An elementary school was hit in southern Iran, killing at least 175 people, mostly children. Trump administration officials reportedly believe the U.S. was responsible, though so far the president denies it. Seven Americans have been killed by Iranian retaliatory strikes.The post Trump Administration Reportedly Asks Israel To Stop Bombing Iran’s Oil Facilities first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
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