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- Florida Sheriff Pulls Out Photo of MAGA Influencer Arrested in Human Trafficking...
The sheriff of Polk Co., FL, pulled out a photo of a “MAGA influencer” posing with President Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. when discussing arrests in a major human trafficking sting. Sheriff Grady Judd highlighted several suspects of the 266 people arrested, two of whom had Trump ties. “Then there’s Craig Long arrested,” Judd said at a press conference Friday. “He’s 41. Some of you may recognize him — he’s an influencer. He also owns Craig Long Fitness in Tampa. He was seeking the services of a prostitute.” When recounting Long’s social media followers, the sheriff neglected to add “hundred thousand” after the numbers. “Did I tell you that he’s married, that he’s got 125 [sic] followers on instagram, 568 [sic] followers on TikTok? Well, I’m going to give him some content for social media today. He was a previous felon who straighened up — really what we want to see in life. Now he’s an influencer. You know, he moves in big circles, even with the president,” Judd said, when slamming the photo on the dais. “This is a photograph with the president and his son not long ago,” he continued. “Now, we’d like to see people who make mistakes early in life — and he had a long history — straighten up. We like the fact that he likes the. cops, heck, he liked him so much. he got caught up in a sting and got to be up and real close with the cops. we asked what his attitude was. he said oh he had a great attitude. he appreciates law enforcement. well, there you go, got arrested in a human trafficking sting. Influence that for a while.” Long’s attorney entered a plea of not guilty. Also nabbed in the sting was Ryan Yates, who was arrested during the Jan. 6th Capitol riots. Yates was sentenced to six months in prison, but received a blanket pardon from President Trump. “He got away with it with the federal system, but not here,” Judd said. “He came here to violate the law. We arrested him. The state’s attorney is going to make sure that he’s prosecuted. And think about this: he didn’t resist us like he did the Capitol Police. He knew better.” Information about Yates’s plea was not available. Watch the clips above via WFLA and WOFL.The post Florida Sheriff Pulls Out Photo of… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Tucker Carlson Claims Hanging Out With Trump Feels Like ‘Smoking Hash’ — P...
(AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Tucker Carlson claimed spending time with President Donald Trump makes you feel like you’ve been “smoking hash” — and attributed it to a mystical and/or “supernatural component” the president has. But Carlson said he cannot be sure of the exact reason Trump makes people in his orbit experience a hash-like high, because he is “not a theologian.” Those interesting comments were made during a lengthy interview with The New York Times on Saturday. Carlson was talking about the president’s mindset leading up to the Iran war — something the ex-Fox News star has heavily criticized Trump for — and said there were not a lot of people around Trump pushing for him to launch Operation Epic Fury. But he claimed those around Trump often end up supporting whatever the president wants because he has a quality “that’s spellbinding.” “And I think it probably literally is a spell,” Carlson continued. “And the effect is to weaken people around him and make them more compliant and more confused. And I’ve experienced this myself. You spend a day with Trump and you’re in this kind of dreamland. It’s like smoking hash or something. It’s interesting, very interesting.” He added “there be a supernatural component to it. I’m not a theologian, but it’s real, and anyone who’s been around him can tell you it’s true.” Tucker tells the NYT that President Trump puts a literal “spell” on people to “weaken them and make them compliant” and it might be “supernatural.” pic.twitter.com/ihh4R6uYXu — Ally (@AllyJKiss) May 2, 2026 Trump’s supposed unearthly powers were a topic of conversation at other points in Carlson’s interview with NYT reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro. He denied questioning on his YouTube show whether Trump was the “antichrist” — even after Garcia-Navarro brought up a specific example of him doing so last month. There were other standout moments from the interview, including Carlson saying he regretted interviewing Nick Fuentes and Carlson floating a sinister reason for Trump loosening restrictions on medical marijuana. Carlson said it was so Trump can “lower testosterone levels even more, [and] make people more passive.”The post Tucker Carlson Claims Hanging Out With Trump Feels Like ‘Smoking Hash’ — Possibly Because of His ‘Supernatural’ Powers first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - ‘Don Jr.’s No Don Sr.’ CNN Panel Cracks Up at Trump’s Shaky Endorsement ...Most of a CNN panel couldn’t help but crack up at President Donald Trump’s shaky endorsement for his son Donald Trump Jr. to host a reboot of The Apprentice. On CNN’s Table for Five on Saturday, anchor Abby Phillip and a majority of her panel found themselves laughing at the president’s response to reports Trump Jr. could take over a reboot of The Apprentice for Amazon. The company previously paid out $40 million to acquire the rights to a documentary about First Lady Melania Trump. “He’s a good guy,” Trump said about his son, who previously appeared numerous times on the show as a judge next to his father. “He’s probably good. He’s got a little charisma going. You need a little charisma for that… so we’ll see what happens. Yeah, they told me about it. We’ll see.” “‘Probably has some charisma’?” Phillip asked after watching the clip. “Not exactly the greatest endorsement.” Geraldo Rivera, progressive Sirius XM host John Fugelsang, and former Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh all cracked up at the line. Pete Seat — a former spokesman for former President George W. Bush — did confess to being a fan of the show and argued the competition’s appeal is less about the host than the contestants and challenges. Rivera compete on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice during its seventh season and he came in second place. The former contestant said he doesn’t believe Trump Jr. can fill the shoes of his father, whom Rivera was friends with for years. “Well, I’ve known Don Jr. For a long time, almost his whole life, in fact, and Don Jr.’s no Don Sr. There’s a big difference, I mean, just because you’re related to him —” Rivera began before Phillip added, “I think we got that from his father’s reaction,” cracking up the table again. Rivera called the president one of the best performers he’s ever seen and argued his son’s version of his show would likely attract a much smaller audience. “Is there a market for it? I think that maybe if it goes streaming, there’ll be enough of an [audience],” he said. “The audience is fractured enough that there’ll a fringe that will dig Don Jr. doing Don Sr.’s act, but there’s only one Donald Trump. And he’s much bigger than Don Jr., he’s more commanding, much more charismatic. I think of the father as one of… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- CNN’s Abby Phillip Worries Supreme Court Ruling Will ‘Eradicate’ Political...CNN anchor Abby Phillip said she is worried the Supreme Court’s ruling that race-based gerrymandering violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act could ultimately “eradicate” political representation for Black Americans and other minority groups in the South. Phillip shared her opinion before opening the discussion up to the panel on Table for Five on Saturday morning, a few days after the landmark 6-3 ruling. “I’m not sure people are fully understanding where this puts us. I think that the reality is that people will start to see states both red and blue start to look dramatically different from the way that they looked like before,” Phillip said. “And that if you are a person of color in the South, they may eradicate virtually all political representation for you in some of those states. That’s an extraordinary thing.” Progressive SiriusXM radio host John Fugelsang agreed with Phillip — and warned the “aristocrats” on the Supreme Court were opening the door to blatant racism against non-White Americans. He said: These laws exist. The Voting Rights Act exists because people marched and protested and fought and bled and died for these rights. And this week, these six aristocrats took a look at that and said, ‘Okay, but it’s too much.’ We can’t have any kind of race consciousness when it comes to things like education, getting into school. We can’t have race consciousness when it comes to politics or to voting. But when it comes to, you know, cops stopping someone when it comes to immigration policy, we can be as race conscious as we want. They only say colorblind when it’s a policy that helps nonwhite people. They never pull that for a policy that hurts nonwhite people. And these justices, what they’ve done now is unleash it. We’re seeing all the all the red states are now trying to speed redistrict. And what it really is, is racist Photoshop. They’re putting it all through an Instagram filter to make everything whiter. And you’re going to see the Blue states come back in kind, saying, “We’re going to redistrict like Virginia did, like California did.” Phillip added to Fugelsang’s point about the ruling coming back to bite Republicans in Blue states, saying this “Pandora’s box that has been opened up” could lead to 13 more Democratic seats in Congress. “We’re just spiraling at this point,” she said, after pointing out President Donald… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘You Want To Bet?’ Geraldo Rivera Battles CNN Panel On Trump’s Reason for ...Geraldo Rivera defended President Donald Trump’s reasons for entering the Iran war, asking a panelist if he wanted to place a “bet” after he claimed Trump’s reason would mean the military has been “lying” for years. Comedian and SiriusXM host John Fugelsang argued on CNN’s Table for Five on Saturday that there was a “functioning nuclear deal” previously in place, referring to a 2015 agreement made by former President Barack Obama, aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear capabilities in exchange for sanctions relief. If Trump is concerned about Iran getting a nuclear weapon, according to Fugelsang, it means the military has been “lying” for years, something Rivera immediately pushed back on. Fugelsang said: We had a functioning nuclear deal with Iran. Barack Obama’s probably the first person to ever earn his Nobel Peace Prize a few years after he got it. But many nations came together to form this nuclear deal with Iran and our military swore up and down for years that Iran was complying with the deal, up until the moment Donald Trump tore it up. So if you’re going to come out here and say, we have to do this war because we can’t let them get a nuke after this is the same team that tore up the deal keeping them from getting a nuke — they’re essentially saying you have to believe our military was lying for years. “You want to bet on that?” Rivera, a once friend of Trump’s, said. “What if you’re wrong? And what if Iran is really, as the president indicated, on the verge of creating a shortcut to a nuclear weapon?” “Well imagine the surprise of all the Republicans who believed him for years when he said no more wars, no more wars. He swore up and down,” Fugelsang said. “The one thing that, to answer Geraldo’s question, I mean, we don’t have a lot of actual hard evidence about this one way or another. We do have the sworn congressional testimony of the director of national intelligence who said that after we bombed their facilities last summer, they had made no efforts to constitute their nuclear program,” host Abby Phillip added after some crosstalk. “But isn’t the real question who gets the right to determine what the facts on the ground are? Isn’t that the commander-in-chief’s role?” Rivera asked, adding, “He may be wrong, but he’s the commander-in-chief.”… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Tucker Carlson Denies Suggesting Trump Could Be the ‘Antichrist’ in NYT Inte...
Screenshot Conservative host Tucker Carlson denied calling President Donald Trump the “antichrist” when pressed by New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro during a deep-dive sit-down for the paper’s show, The Interview. Carlson has had a recent very public falling-out with the president over issues like the Iran war and memes depicting himself as Jesus Christ. In one recent show, Carlson asked if Trump could be the antichrist, and on another show with accused rapist-turned-Christian Russell Brand, the two discussed Bible passages about the antichrist, with Carlson calling one passage, “Ripped from the headlines.” “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the ‘antichrist,'” Garcia-Navarro said during the interview, to which Carlson replied, “I have not said that.” NYT: “You’ve been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist” Tucker Carlson: “I have not said that” NYT: *plays clip of him saying that* pic.twitter.com/L0sUQnfhpb — Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) May 2, 2026 “On your show, the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible during his swearing-in ceremony as president —” “Correct,” Carlson agreed. Garcia-Navarro continued, “— and you said, and I’m quoting, ‘Maybe he didn’t put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively rejects what’s inside that book.’ And then on a recent show, you went further, saying: ‘Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods and exalting himself above them. Could this be the antichrist?’” “I actually did not say, ‘Could this be the Antichrist,'” Carlson maintained. “I don’t know where that comes from, but I know that those words never left my lips because I’m not sure I fully understand what the antichrist is, if there’s just one. I actually tried to understand it. I may have said some are asking that. I am not weighing in on that because I don’t understand it.” “So to be clear, though, that was not what you were suggesting?” Garcia-Navarro asked. “If I thought Trump was the antichrist, I would just say so. If I understood what the antichrist is, I’d say so, and I don’t really,” Carlson answered. “You’ve been discussing it repeatedly on your show, so I’m just trying to understand why,” Garcia-Navarro continued. “What do you want your audience to be considering?” “I just want to make the point repeatedly again and again that there are unseen forces… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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