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- ‘Oh Boy’: Republican Senators Recoil at Trump Endorsement in Texas Race, Wor...
AP Photo/Nick Wagner Republican senators are not exactly thrilled with President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the state’s GOP primary. Paxton is challenging Sen. John Cornyn for the Republican nomination. The two will square off in a runoff next week after neither notched a majority of the vote in March’s primary. On Tuesday, Trump finally made an endorsement in the race and backed Paxton. The attorney has a scandal-ridden record that includes an impeachment by the GOP-controlled Texas House of Representatives for abusing his office. Those impeachment articles allege that Paxton used his office to assist a donor, Nate Paul, who was the subject of a federal investigation. Paul also employed a woman who was having an affair with Paxton, at the attorney general’s behest. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that Republican senators are unhappy with Trump’s endorsement of Paxton. “Oh boy,” reacted Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND), who learned of the endorsement on Capitol Hill. “Well, obviously, I support Senator Cornyn.” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) refused to even answer questions about it. However, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) went so far as to say that the president’s endorsement risks losing the seat. “I think that this puts that seat in jeopardy,” she told reporters. The winner of next week’s GOP runoff will face state Rep. James Talarico (D), who defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary. Republicans hold the Senate 53-47, but Democrats are hoping to gain the necessary four seats to flip control of the upper chamber in November. Wresting a seat from Republicans in Texas would likely put Democrats well on their way to doing so.The post ‘Oh Boy’: Republican Senators Recoil at Trump Endorsement in Texas Race, Worry It Could Give Dems the Senate first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - NEW: San Diego Mosque Shooters Live-Streamed Attack
AP Photo/Gregory Bull The shooters who killed three people at the Islamic Center of San Diego on Monday live-streamed the attack, including their own deaths, CNN reported on Tuesday. When Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, killed three people, including a security guard, at San Diego’s largest mosque, they were filming the event. The video appears to show both shooters entering the mosque, holding pistols and rifles. Their clothing and weapons displayed Nazi and White supremacist imagery. One of the gunmen can be seen firing his weapon through the door of the mosque to the outside. One of the men appears to adjust his weapon while they walk around the building. In the same clip, the shooters exit the building. One fires his weapon, and the video shows a body lying in a pool of blood. The men enter a vehicle, and the clip ends. A second clip is filmed from the passenger seat of the vehicle. A gun is fired through the window while the passenger speaks to the camera. The video does not have audio. The driver pulls over, seems to shoot the passenger, then shoots himself in the head. Sources told ABC News that it was Clark who shot Vasquez before killing himself. Those same sources claimed that the video was posted to a gore website. Investigators confirmed to CNN, which reviewed the video obtained by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, that the film is believed to be legitimate, while CNN geolocation matched the second clip’s location to where police discovered the bodies of the attackers. Also obtained by the ISD was a seventy-five-page document allegedly written by the gunmen, professing support for White supremacy and antisemitism. “The ISD researchers told CNN they believed the document is legitimate because the content lines up with what is shown in the livestream video and it references usernames matching social media accounts that posted similar ideology before the shooting,” CNN’s report reads. The document contains separate statements allegedly written by each of the shooters, including references to the “Great Replacement” theory and praising past mass shooters. One of the shooters mentioned was the attacker at a mosque in New Zealand in 2019, who also livestreamed the event. Vazquez’s section praises “hero” Adolf Hitler and discusses “intel” culture, while Clark’s focuses on hatred for non-White and non-Christian groups. The pages also discuss scouting possible locations for a shooting in person, claiming… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Eight Democrats Vote to Confirm Judicial Nominee Who Refused To Say Trump Lost 2...
Senate Judiciary Committee Eight Senate Democrats crossed the aisle on Tuesday to vote to confirm a judicial nominee who, at her confirmation hearing, refused to say President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. The Senate voted to confirm Sheria Akins Clarke as a judge for the District of South Carolina by a vote of 52-38, with 10 senators not voting. During a confirmation hearing in March, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) asked Clarke and three other Trump judicial nominees about the 2020 election and the 2021 Capitol riot. “Ms. Clarke, who won the 2020 election?” Blumenthal asked. “Under our Constitution, the mechanism for electing a president–,” she responded as Blumenthal interrupted. “I am amazed, I am just amazed by the insult to this committee of witness after witness seeking to be a federal judge subverting our Constitution and showing how you have no independence, which is essential to a federal judge,” he said. The senator asked Clarke and the other nominees basic questions such as, “Was the Capitol attacked on January 6th?” And yet, the nominees refused to answer. Clarke’s response – or lack thereof – was not disqualifying as far as eight Democratic senators were concerned on Tuesday. Those Democrats voting in favor were: Dick Durbin (IL) John Fetterman (PA) Ruben Gallego (AZ) Maggie Hassan (NH) Martin Heinrich (NM) Jack Reed (RI) Jeanne Shaheen (NH) Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) Trump has falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him. In numerous confirmation hearings, Democratic senators have asked many of the president’s nominees about the 2020 election and related questions, which the nominees have refused to answer.The post Eight Democrats Vote to Confirm Judicial Nominee Who Refused To Say Trump Lost 2020 Election first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Thomas Massie Says Fox News Banned Him From Network as Trump Endorsed His Primar...
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) accused Fox News of refusing to let him on the network’s airwaves amid his feud with President Donald Trump. Massie, a longtime conservative stalwart, lost his bid for reelection on Tuesday night after Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein defeated him in the Republican primary for Kentucky’s fourth congressional district, which he has represented since 2012 after winning a special election. The congressman ran afoul of Trump after splitting with the president on several issues. Notably, Massie co-sponsored a bill requiring the Department of Justice to release its files on deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a former friend of Trump’s. Massie has also been critical of U.S. support for Israel, and in response, pro-Israel groups and donors spent millions to unseat him. In his concession speech, Massie alleged that Fox News had banned him from the network during the campaign. “By the way, after 18 months of a blackout of not letting me on Fox, they finally let me on Fox today, four hours into the election,” the congressman said as the crowd booed. “Their slop is selling, so they’ll keep selling it. But listen, I got to watch Fox also for the first time in 18 months.” Earlier in the day, Massie appeared on Fox’s America’s Newsroom. A spokesperson for Fox News told Mediaite that the network invited Massie to appear on Fox News Live in June 2025, but the congressman declined. Massie went on to reference Fox’s coverage of Trump’s under-construction White House ballroom, which the congressman said gives off late-stage Roman Empire vibes. Trump had made defeating Massie a pet project. On Monday, Trump posted on X for the first time in months to attack Massie. Watch above via C-SPAN.The post Thomas Massie Says Fox News Banned Him From Network as Trump Endorsed His Primary Challenger first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Massie Mocks Trump’s Ballroom After Defeat: ‘Looks Like the Roman Empire –...Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took a swipe at President Donald Trump in his concession speech on Tuesday, calling out the president after losing his reelection bid to a candidate the president endorsed. Massie, who held his seat for fourteen years, lost the most expensive primary race in history to former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, with Trump’s pick gaining about 55% of the vote. The historic race saw the president ramp up his efforts to punish his critics, attacking Massie consistently while his allies and pro-Israel groups poured millions into anti-Massie ad spending in the state. The congressman split with Trump on multiple issues, with Massie heading up the charge to release files relating to Jeffrey Epstein and often excoriating administration officials over their role in handling the scandal. Massie voted against Trump’s Big Beautiful bill, spoke out against strikes on Iran, and called out the president’s rhetoric on multiple occasions. In his concession speech on Tuesday night, Massie hit back at Trump, criticizing his push to build his White House ballroom while Americans struggled to pay their bills. After claiming Fox News had kept him off the air for months before his appearance on Tuesday, Massie told a crowd of supporters that his return to the network was the first time he had watched its coverage– and he didn’t like what he saw. “I got to watch Fox also for the first time in eighteen months. And there was the president talking about– by the way, while gas is almost five dollars, and diesel is almost six dollars, they’re talking about a big ballroom they’re going to build, and it looks like the Roman Empire, architecture from the Roman Empire,” he said. “I see a few analogies there. And people are just trying to make ends meet.” Massie went on to joke that GOP mega-donor Miriam Adelson, one of the funders of the ballroom, had put so much cash into the primary that the size of the $400 million project might need to be reduced. “But we were promised that Miriam Adelson would pay for that ballroom,” he said. “She spent so much money in this race, they’re going to have to reduce the footprint of that thing.” Watch above via C-SPAN.The post Massie Mocks Trump’s Ballroom After Defeat: ‘Looks Like the Roman Empire – I See a Few Analogies There’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- Erin Burnett Confronts Former CNN Colleague-Turned-Candidate Who Switched Partie...CNN host Erin Burnett confronted former CNN contributor Geoff Duncan on Tuesday over his choice to switch parties, pressing him on whether President Donald Trump’s attacks on him have “helped” him in his run for Georgia governor. The former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia joined OutFront to discuss his gubernatorial run as a Democrat. Duncan was expelled from the Georgia Republican Party after backing former President Joe Biden and endorsing former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. Duncan, a vocal anti-Trump critic, testified in the investigation into possible election interference in his state, despite Trump warning him against doing so. Burnett questioned Duncan on his party switch, asking him about how much the president played a role in that choice. “So, just people say, okay, look, lieutenant governor, and at that time, popular Republican administration, all of a sudden, now a Democrat. How much does President Trump have to do with your decision to switch parties?” she asked. Duncan claimed that while Trump was a part of his calculus, there was a broader problem with his former party that triggered his conversion. “It’s certainly part of it. I mean, a sitting president trying to steal an election as a statewide elected official, like I was, certainly is part of it,” he said. “But I think it’s the toxic, corrosive leadership style that spread like an infection across all Republicans in all circles. It’s really just been an unfortunate series of missteps by them.” The CNN host then pressed her former colleague on the president’s many attacks on him personally, asking the former Republican if Trump’s stance against him had helped him in his race. Duncan responded that Trump’s opposition had aided him in his run, calling the president “the worst decision this country has ever made.” Read their exchange below: BURNETT: Trump has called you out as a “failed former lieutenant governor.” He’s called you a “total lightweight.” He’s called you a “total loser.” All of which is obviously consistent with things, words, he uses to describe opponents or people who’ve challenged him. Has that helped you out at all in this race? DUNCAN: Yeah. Everywhere I go, I get, you know. pats on the back. You know, Thanks for your courage to stand up to Donald Trump. And the reality is, almost everybody that I meet would have done exactly the same thing. Most people don’t wake up wanting to tell bold-faced… [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
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