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- Joe Kent Claims Probe Into Trump’s Would-Be Assassin and Link to Iran Was Shut...
Former Trump administration counterterrorism official Joe Kent claimed in an interview that a probe into finding a connection between Iran and President Donald Trump’s would-be assassin was shut down. In a Thursday chat with Young Turks host Cenk Uygur, Kent said he had concerns about Thomas Crooks, 20, not acting alone when he tried to assassinate Trump during a Pennsylvania rally in 2024. Kent resigned from his position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in protest of the U.S. strikes against Iran. “Two days prior to Crooks taking the shot in Butler, there was a guy named Asif Merchant, who was hired by the Iranians to come here and assassinate President Trump in retaliation for killing Qasem Soleimani,” Kent told Uygur, adding the FBI was “all over” Merchant when he came to the U.S. Merchant was arrested one day before Crooks took his shot at the president and was killed himself by a Secret Service agent. He has since been convicted of “murder for hire and attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries.” According to the Department of Justice, Merchant admitted he was a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and he was sent to the U.S. to assassinate political leaders. “My basic question was, ‘Have we done our due diligence to make sure that there was no linkage between the two events?'” Kent asked. Kent said that in light of very little information being released about Crooks, he found information about his online presence from a documentary released by Tucker Carlson in 2025. “I wanted to go back and make sure that we checked all that through intelligence channels and really researched into what we had learned through Tucker’s investigative journalism about Crooks’ online persona,” Kent said. The inquiries, however, were not welcome, he added. “The FBI did not tolerate this at all. They basically said, ‘Hey, there’s nothing else to see here’ and stopped us from investigating any of those potentials, to my knowledge,” Kent said, adding later, “Why wouldn’t we look into everything? And then we were stopped.” White House Assistant Director for Public Affairs Ben Williamson denied Kent’s claims through an X post responding to a Daily Caller story about Kent’s theory about a possible Iranian “plot” to kill the president. Williamson called Kent a “dishonest hack” who had zero “investigative authority” when it came to the near-assassination of… [TheTopNews] Read More.23 mins ago - Scott Jennings Gets Bashed for ‘Trashing Trump’ in CNN Green Room in New Cal...
CNN star and frequent Trump defender Scott Jennings was called out for a third time over “trashing Trump” in the CNN green room, this time by former CNN NewsNight regular Julie Roginsky. Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor accused Jennings this week of mocking President Donald Trump “in the green room” during commercial breaks before going back to being a die-hard defender in front of the cameras. The next day, CNN regular Joe Walsh confirmed Taylor’s accusation and accused Jennings of having him blackballed from CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip: Roginsky joined the pile, backing up the Trump-trashing accusation and claiming that Jennings had her “banned” from CNN. Roginsky wrote: Can corroborate @MilesTaylorUSA and @WalshFreedom accounts that Scott Jennings trashed Trump in the green room repeatedly in front of me. Also have my suspicions that he has a say in getting people banned from the show who stick it to him and make him look like a fool. When another user asked why she goes on the air with Jennings if that’s the case, Roginsky replied, “I don’t. CNN banned me after I called Jennings out publicly.” Another former CNN regular, Wajahat Ali, also corroborated Taylor, Walsh, and Roginsky, writing that Jennings “did the same when I was at CNN. In fact, nearly every GOP hack did so except Paris Dennard and Jeffrey Lord.” Current Newsnight regular Neera Tanden wrote, for some reason, “I haven’t been banned and he had a full meltdown the first time I went on.” Roginsky last appeared on CNN in a January 18 segment with Jennings — the day before she dropped a blistering Substack post trashing Jennings and CNN: CNN once sold itself as the grown-up in the room. It was the network you turned to when the stakes got real. That reputation — earned over decades — was built on restraint, seriousness, and a basic respect for viewers. Which is why CNN’s continued reliance on Scott Jennings is not just baffling, but corrosive to its brand. This is not about ideology. CNN has long — and rightly — made room for conservative voices. The problem is not that Jennings is a Republican. The problem is how he behaves, what he contributes, and what his presence signals about what CNN now tolerates. On air, Jennings does not debate; he blathers. He talks over women with particular frequency, interrupts relentlessly, and treats panel discussions as contests of volume and… [TheTopNews] Read More.58 mins ago - Trump Promised to Lower Grocery Bills. He Made Them Worse.
(AP Photo/Matt Freed) I was watching the Knicks with my 22-year-old son, Nate, Thursday night, when he checked his phone and started listing what’s gotten more expensive. Groceries. Gas. Rent. The usual. He’s not obsessed with politics. He just knows what things cost. That’s a massive problem for pro-Trump Republicans heading into the midterms. Donald Trump ran his comeback on one core promise. Not democracy. Not foreign policy. He ran on your grocery bill. He repeatedly said Joe Biden had crushed working Americans with inflation and that he alone could fix it. He promised grocery prices would fall on Day 1. He promised energy costs would be cut in half within 18 months. He promised relief. More than a year in, that promise has failed. Start with groceries. Trump has insisted prices are “way down.” They are not. Ground beef is up 17.2% from a year ago. Coffee has jumped 18.3%. Orange juice has risen 28% since he took office. Eggs are cheaper than during the bird flu peak. That is the win column. One item. Energy tells the same story. Household energy prices are up 6.2% year over year. Electricity prices rose at more than twice the overall inflation rate in 2025, the fastest increase in over a decade. Trump promised to cut energy costs in half. They went up instead. Now add Iran. The strikes that began in late February sent gas prices up 19% in a single month, pushing the national average to roughly $3.45. Analysts warn that if oil prices stay elevated, inflation could climb back toward 3% by year’s end. Trump closed his campaign by hammering Biden on gas prices. His own war did what Biden never could. It sent gas prices spiking. Then there are the tariffs. Trump sold them as both punishment for foreign competitors and relief for American consumers. It was always a contradiction. It delivered on neither. Estimates from the Yale Budget Lab show tariffs cost the average household between $1,300 and $1,700 in 2026 compared to a pre-Trump baseline. Many economists say inflation would likely be at the Fed’s 2% target if not for those tariffs. When the Supreme Court struck them down last month as unconstitutional, Trump reimposed new ones within hours. The administration has quietly carved out exemptions for items like beef, coffee, and bananas after internal polling showed food prices were dragging down approval, which is not… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Hegseth Official Told Military Officer President Doesn’t ‘Want to Stand Next...
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth struck the names of two Black and two female officers from a military promotions list, sparking bias concerns, according to a new report on Friday. The New York Times published a lengthy report, citing 11 current and former military administration officials, that suggested Hegseth’s chief of staff told a military leader that President Donald Trump doesn’t “want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events.” The promotions list in question is for officers who could be jumping to a one-star general position. About three dozen names are reportedly on the list, but Hegseth pushed to remove four, two of whom are Black officers. The other two are women. Hegseth reportedly struck two of the four names from the list over past statements and performance. One, a Black armor officer, wrote a paper more than a decade prior on why Black service members historically have taken support roles in the military over frontline positions. Another, a female logistics officer, is believed to have been targeted over her involvement in the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, which led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members. Hegseth called the operation a disaster. Some inside the military have reportedly been questioning whether Hegseth even has the legal authority to strike names from promotion lists. Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll had refused Hegseth’s requests, according to the report, and had a meeting with Hegseth’s chief of staff, during which a shocking statement was allegedly made. Ricky Buria, Hegseth’s chief of staff, and Driscoll reportedly had a heated exchange last summer when Buria pushed Driscoll on a decision to promote Maj. Gen. Antoinette R. Gant to take charge of the Military District of Washington. “Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said,” according to the Times report. Gant, however, was ultimately put in the position and recently promoted to a two-star. “The president is not a racist or sexist,” Driscoll reportedly told Buria. Buria denied the heated interaction, calling it “completely false.” “Whoever placed this made-up story is clearly trying to sow division among our ranks in the department and the administration,” he said. “It’s not going to work, and it will never work when this department is led by clear-eyed, mission-driven leaders unfazed by fake Washington… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Joe Rogan Rips MAGA Fringe as ‘Bunch of F*cking Dorks’ Lumped With ‘Real P...Joe Rogan has launched one of his sharpest attacks yet on the MAGA movement Thursday as he dismissed large swathes of its supporters as “f*cking dorks” and “uninteresting, unintelligent people” while questioning President Donald Trump’s handling of the Iran war. Speaking on Thursday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the podcaster sat down with comedian Dave Smith to argue the coalition was increasingly filled with fringe voices that have been grouped together with “real, genuine patriots.” The snipe came as Rogan took aim at Trump’s MAGA slogan itself, saying it “sucks,” adding: “America is great. Make America greater? I’m down.” He argued the catch-all phrase had left the movement largely undefined, slamming movement’s fluidity: “It becomes a movement of a bunch of f*cking dorks because a lot of them are dorks. A lot of them these really weird f*cking uninteresting, unintelligent people that have got something they cling to and and there’s a lot of people that are just real genuine patriots and they’re all lumped into this one group and you got to accept the dorks, too? F*ck that!” He continued: “Like the concept of making America great is a great idea. But as soon as you have a f*cking team and you allow anybody to join up, you don’t even have try-outs for your team, so you’ve got a bunch of f*cking dipsh*ts that are running around spouting out opinions and you have to go along with them because they’re MAGA.” Branding the conflict with Iran a “clusterf*ck,” Rogan singled out “crackpot Christian nationalists” he said were jumping on the MAGA bandwagon to push for the Iran war as “a way to get Jesus to return on a white horse.” The remarks came during a ranging conversation with Smith, who backed Trump in 2024 but said he no longer aligns with the administration on key issues, including the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files and Iran. Rogan, who endorsed Trump during the 2024 election after having him on his podcast, has also increasingly broken with the president in recent months. He has criticized the administration’s handling of the Epstein files as a “terrible look for Trump” and accused officials of protecting “powerful billionaire guys.” At one point during the podcast, Smith jibed that Democratic influencers were now looking to adopt their own “Joe Rogan” after seeing how his platform brought young voters to Trump. “You already had… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- White House Drops Cryptic Teaser With Reversed Audio Promising Trump ‘Announce...
(Screengrab via X) A cryptic social media post from the White House continued to amp up online speculation on Thursday after X users reversed the audio on the distorted video to discover it’s promising a mystery “announcement.” In the video, a black screen flashes a sketch of the presidential residence alongside the words “President Donald J Trump,” while a garbled audio track plays in the background. pic.twitter.com/suWOUeiXF6 — The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 27, 2026 When reversed by internet sleuths, however, the audio includes a voice that says: “Exciting announcement tomorrow.” EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT. TOMORROW. pic.twitter.com/ntLXqSjbdJ — Jim Zimmer (@OldJimZimmer) March 27, 2026 The clip is part of a series of strange posts in recent days published by the account, all featuring heavily pixelated images seemingly depicting President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, as well as another separate shaky video in which a woman asks, “It’s launching soon, right?” and a man responds: “Yes.” The White House has not provided any official explanation for the posts, leaving observers and political operatives alike questioning their meaning. Attention has also turned to a newly launched government website, Freedom.gov. The holding page features similar stylization, including partially obscured cowboy figure and the message: “Freedom is coming. Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.” (Screengrab via freedom.gov) The rollout follows reporting from Reuters in February that officials were preparing a platform aimed at allowing international users to access content restricted in their own countries, potentially through bypass tools that mask location data. Elsewhere, speculation has been fueled by the recent registration of Aliens.gov, a dormant domain that has prompted questions about whether the administration could be preparing disclosures related to extraterrestrial life and UFOs.The post White House Drops Cryptic Teaser With Reversed Audio Promising Trump ‘Announcement’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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