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Matt Rourke/AP Photo FIFA has officially scrapped a controversial plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors — as some experts say anger at the proposal could hinder FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s hopes for a fourth term. Infantino, 56, who took over FIFA in 2016 from the disgraced Sepp Blatter, just wrapped up a World Cup which brought in $15 billion in revenue. But his push to bring in $20 billion with a proposal to involve private investors in the tournament — including Josh Kushner, brother of President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — angered many. Infantino had been expected to coast to victory for a new term, which would last from 2027 to 2031. “It’s hard to think of a situation where a person’s political fortunes changed so rapidly,” Victor Matheson, a sports business expert at the College of the Holy Cross, told Reuters. “Again, as close as two weeks ago, he’s riding, you know, on top of the world, the most successful sports mega event in the history of this planet,” he said, adding, “And just two weeks later, he’s fighting for his political life.” The backlash isn’t the first time Infantino has irked FIFA’s member associations. “He’s obviously been kind of egomaniacal in everything that he’s done. I know that he’s rubbed many of the member associations the wrong way with some of his decisions,” sports marketing analyst Bob Dorfman, a sports marketing analyst told the outlet. “Some of the countries that have been awarded World Cups have been kind of questionable. Politics has gotten involved in this a little too much.” The plan, which Infantino made public earlier this week, calls for the creation of a new body, FIFA Forward Enterprises or FFE, which would give investors “influence” over future World Cups and was expected to be bankrolled by Josh Kushner, according to reports. The plan was so controversial it prompted Carlos Cordeiro, FIFA’s White House representative for the World Cup, to quit. Cordeiro slammed the private investment plan in a statement Friday announcing his resignation. The proposed deal had sparked rebellion in the global soccer community, with more than 100 countries rejecting the deal. “I cannot stand by while FIFA considers selling a stake in the World Cup,” Cordeiro said in his statement. “Let me be clear. I had no involvement in this proposal, and I oppose it unequivocally,” he said, calling… [TheTopNews] Read More.54 mins ago - Scott Jennings Says Man Prosecuted by Jeanine Pirro Should Sue Trump Administrat...
Republican strategist Scott Jennings said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro made the Trump administration look foolish by prosecuting a man she claimed damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He even went as far as to say the man should take legal action. On Friday, Pirro’s office moved to drop a felony charge against David Hearn, a former Olympic canoe slalomist. Earlier this month, Hearn was charged with one felony count of destruction of property. In a press conference announcing the charge, Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, emphatically stated that the government could prove that Hearn damaged the pool by ripping up the lining. Hearn pleaded not guilty. At the time, the pool, which has been undergoing renovations ordered by President Donald Trump, was enduring algae blooms and its lining had begun peeling off. Some onlookers reportedly took pieces of the damaged lining as souvenirs. Trump blamed vandals for the issues. In her filing on Friday, Pirro said it was moving to drop the charge after her office found out from the Department of the Interior that the damage to the pool was due to a botched installation. The filing blamed Interior for her aborted prosecution in what one CNN legal analyst called “a true embarrassment for Jeanine Pirro.” Hours later, Jennings appeared on The Source, where guest host Erica Hill asked him if the Department of Justice jumped the gun. “Do you have any concerns about a rush to judgment from this DOJ?” she inquired. Jennings replied: Yeah, of course. I mean, on this one, the administration looks like a monkey having intimate relations with a football. It looks terrible. And, you know, after everything that was said, this guy, he is owed an apology. And I don’t know what the procedures are for it, but he ought to sue anybody that he thinks he can to get his name back. I have a strong reaction, to be honest with you, when people have their name dragged through the mud. And that’s obviously what happened here. So, I’m glad the charges got dropped. But they don’t have evidence. They shouldn’t be trying to go to trial. So, that’s good that they admitted it. They dragged this guy’s name through the mud. The Reflecting Pool was renovated by Atlantic Industrial Coatings, a Virginia-based company that the Trump administration awarded a $13.1 million no-bid contract for the project. Meanwhile,… [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago - Kamala Harris Snubs Biden When Revealing Her Top Presidents: ‘And Of Course, B...Former Vice President Kamala Harris was asked to list the “most effective presidents in American history,” and her response omitted former President Joe Biden, under whom she served. Harris became the Democratic nominee in the summer of 2024 after Biden, who was dogged by bad poll numbers at the time, imploded during a debate against Donald Trump. During a rambling response about the national debt that ended with the declaration, “We finally beat Medicare.” Biden dropped his reelection bid three weeks later and threw his support behind Harris, who ran an abbreviated campaign using some of Biden’s campaign staffers. She lost both the electoral vote count and the popular vote to Trump. However, there is speculation that she may run again in 2028. On Friday night, Harris spoke at the National Urban League in New York, where President Marc Morial asked the former veep to rank her top presidents. “In your view, rank the top three most effective presidents in American history,” he said. “Oh Marc, don’t make me do that,” Harris replied, before naming Franklin Roosevelt. “He did some good things,” she said. “In fact, it was he who talked about the expansion of the Supreme Court, and then he got ferocious… blowback for that. Social Security. When I think about what he did in terms of investing in the people during dire times and talking about the role and responsibility of government, that it should not just be about the benevolence of community organizations or just interpersonal relationships. The government has a role. I think he was a very important president.” She went on to list John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. “I credit Kennedy, of course, in terms of what he laid the groundwork for,” Harris stated. “And then Johnson followed up on.” She later added, “And then of course, Barack Obama and what he did with the Affordable Care Act, among many things. But in particular, if we had one issue that’s been ailing America for generations, which is a healthcare system that has failed anyone other than the rich, and addressing the way that he did and took a lot of heat for it, I think he’s one of the greatest presidents.” In her book released last year, Harris wrote that Biden, who is 83, made the “reckless” decision to run again because of his “ego.” Watch above via C-SPAN.The post Kamala Harris… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
- Joy Reid Claims Trump ‘Only Wants to Kill Young White Men’ in Wild RantFormer MS NOW (then MSNBC) star Joy Reid ripped into President Donald Trump on Friday, declaring that his war in Iran — coupled with how he “stripped” the military of its ties to women and people of color — proves he “only wants to kill young white men.” Pointing out that “we don’t even know how many people have died in Iran” on The Joy Reid Show, Reid continued, “Donald Trump is killing your sons, after stripping the history of anybody Black, anybody that’s a woman, or anybody gay from the military, making it clear that he only wants to kill young white men.” While Reid made no indication of the specific instances she was referencing, in March, The New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff told a military leader that Trump doesn’t “want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.” And in March of 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could move forward with its ban on transgender people in the military. Regarding Reid’s assertion that the death toll in Iran remains unknown, just last Thursday, the Times revealed that the administration removed four American service members from the Pentagon’s public casualty count after determining they died following the president’s April ceasefire declaration. Reid continued: And every single young white man that signs up for the military — because that’s the only people they want — that man is going to send you to Iran. This is going to escalate. There will be — probably — a ground invasion, and it’s your sons he’s trying to suck in. He’s gonna kill your sons and then not tell you how they died. Donald Trump is presiding over what feels like a return of lynching, or at least lynching culture, or at least the lynching vibe all across the South. Watch the full clip above via YouTube.The post Joy Reid Claims Trump ‘Only Wants to Kill Young White Men’ in Wild Rant first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
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Jose Luis Magana/AP photo A Politico poll, released Thursday, found that nearly three-quarters of self-identified MAGA voters would continue supporting a Republican candidate accused of domestic violence. According to the survey, conducted by Public First, 72% of MAGA voters — big fans of President Donald Trump — said they would still vote for a Republican candidate accused of domestic violence if the midterms were held tomorrow. That figure was notably higher than the 61% of Trump 2024 voters overall who said the same. Among former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 voters, by contrast, just 39% said they would continue backing a Democratic candidate accused of domestic violence. The survey found a similar divide over allegations of sexual assault. 66% of MAGA voters said they would stick with a Republican candidate accused of sexual assault, compared with 53% of Trump voters overall and 40% of Harris voters who said they would continue supporting a Democratic candidate facing the same accusation. Those were among the more striking findings in a poll that tested voter reactions to a dozen hypothetical scandals. None of the scenarios pushed support among MAGA respondents below a majority. 82% said they would still back a GOP candidate who used legal tax loopholes, 76% said they would support one with a previous DUI conviction, 75% would stick with a candidate who accepted gifts from lobbyists, and 74% said they would remain behind candidates photographed wearing blackface or accused of workplace bullying. Even 58% said they would continue supporting a Republican candidate who made antisemitic statements, while 57% said the same of a candidate who shared classified information with a foreign government. The poll also highlighted a sharp partisan double standard when voters were asked whether candidates from each party should leave the race over identical scandals. 71% of Republicans said a Democratic candidate accused of sexual assault should drop out. Yet when asked that same question about a Republican candidate, only 52% agreed. Democrats also showed a partisan split, though a much smaller one, with respondents generally about five percentage points more likely to say Republicans should withdraw than Democrats accused of the same misconduct. The poll, conducted from July 12-15, surveyed 2,061 U.S. adults online with an overall margin of error of ±2.16 percentage points.The post Poll: 72% of MAGA Voters Would Back Republican Candidate Accused of Domestic Violence first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago
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