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Ted Shaffrey/AP photo A New York appeals court granted Fox News some additional discovery rights to defend against Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit — but that discovery will be of limited use as a potential defense and the court also allowed the case to continue toward trial. The litigation so far In 2021, Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion defamation suit against Fox, alleging that the network’s coverage falsely accused the voting technology company of committing fraud in the 2020 election to steal the victory from President Donald Trump and give it to President Joe Biden, and that these false statements damaged the company’s reputation and resulted in its employees being subjected to death threats and harassment. The case has a number of similarities with the defamation lawsuit filed against Fox by another voting technology company, Dominion Voting Systems, which settled in April 2023 for a stunning $787.5 million just as the trial was ready to begin in Delaware. Discovery in the Dominion case revealed a trove of emails, text messages, and other communications between the network’s executives and on-air personalities admitting they knew the election fraud claims were false, mocking Trump’s attorneys and surrogates as “crazy” for pushing them, and fretting about falling in the ratings to upstart competitors like Newsmax and OANN if they didn’t indulge MAGA viewers. Likewise, no current or former Fox employee who testified in the Smartmatic case said they believed Smartmatic switched votes or otherwise committed fraud in the 2020 election, and discovery has unearthed another pile of internal Fox communications relating to this case, some of which were included in a redacted motion filed in June 2025, which was then updated with fewer redactions that August. One of these communications was a Dec. 5, 2020 text message from Fox News host Jesse Watters to his colleague Greg Gutfeld that said, “Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL,” contradicted by Watters’ testimony that he never “bought into” the claims that “software and voting machines” like Smartmatic’s were used to switch votes, calling such claims “pretty out there” and he had “seen no evidence that Smartmatic Technology switched votes in the 2020 Election in the United States.” Other internal Fox communications sharply criticized the election fraud claims by Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and other Trump allies about Smartmatic by using words that included “crazy,” “really crazy,” “f*cking crazy,” “[t]ons… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Wishes Happy Mother’s Day Weekend ‘To All’ – Including Just Anyone...
AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana President Donald Trump wished a Happy Mother’s Day weekend to everyone, but “especially” every American who got a job in the month of April – regardless of whether they are mothers or even women. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 115,000 jobs last month, beating expectations of 55,000. The unemployment rate remained at 4.3%. On Friday night, the president took to Truth Social to boast about the jobs numbers while fusing them with a message about Mother’s Day, as well as his long-running complaint against outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The result was well-wishes “to all,” regardless of gender or parental status: Happy Mother’s Day weekend to all, especially to the 115 THOUSAND AMERICANS who found jobs in the month of April alone! As usual, over 90 percent of Bloomberg Economists (nearly all of whom have a “Terminal” case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!) underestimated the strength of the Trump Economy. Despite the best efforts of Jerome “Too Late and Won’t Leave” Powell, and the America Hating Democrat Party, more Americans are working today than ever before. Happy Mother’s Day and, know that, we are MAKING AMERICA WEALTHY AND SAFE AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP The post was accompanied by a bar chart showing April’s gains versus expected job gains. On Mother’s Day in 2023, Trump – then a presidential candidate – fired off a message to the moms of his political opponents. “Happy Mother’s Day to ALL, in particular the Mothers, Wives and Lovers of the Radical Left Fascists, Marxists, and Communists who are doing everything within their power to destroy and obliterate our once great Country,” he wrote at the time. Earlier in the day, Madison Mills of Axios panned the jobs gains. “But if you look under the hood, unfortunately not the best news, right? When you look at the revisions, we’re still negative over the last couple of months,” she told CNN.The post Trump Wishes Happy Mother’s Day Weekend ‘To All’ – Including Just Anyone Who Got a Job Last Month first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Reporter Confronts Trump Over Iran School Bombing: ‘Who Fired That Missile?’
President Donald Trump sidestepped a question about a likely U.S. strike on an Iranian girls’ elementary school in which nearly 175 people were killed, most of them children. On the first day of the Iran war on Feb. 28, a missile struck the school in Minab in southern Iran. Trump initially claimed the school was hit by an Iranian projectile, but an analysis by The New York Times shows that the school was almost certainly struck by the U.S. military. Video evidence shows a Tomahawk cruise missile hitting the school. Only five countries are known to possess Tomahawks: the U.S., Australia, the U.K., the Netherlands, and Japan. Of those, only the U.S. is participating in the Iran war. Not even Israel, which started the conflict with the U.S., has the missiles. When asked about the strike on March 4, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that “we’re investigating that.” Trump took questions from reporters on Friday evening outside the White House, where Niall Stanage of The Hill asked about the bombing. “We’re at a point, almost 10 weeks after a missile hit a girls’ school in Iran,” Stanage noted. “Who fired that missile?” “So, uh, that’s under study right now,” Trump replied. “And we’ll give you a report as soon as we have it.” The U.S. and Iran are currently in a ceasefire of sorts. On Thursday, the two countries exchanged fire amid the pause in the conflict. Trump referred to the latest U.S. strikes on the country as “a love tap.” Meanwhile, Iran is continuing to restrict travel through the vital Strait of Hormuz, which has sent oil and gas prices surging. Watch above via NewsNation.The post Reporter Confronts Trump Over Iran School Bombing: ‘Who Fired That Missile?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - AOC Brushes Aside 2028 Question: ‘My Ambition Is Way Bigger’On Friday night, during a conversation hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics with Democratic strategist David Axelrod, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) brushed aside the question of whether she’ll run for president in 2028, declaring, “My ambition is way bigger.” Axelrod first brought up the idea of her either running for president or replacing Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in 2028. Ocasio-Cortez responded: You know, it’s funny because in this op-ed that Jeff Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was this line that you even mentioned earlier, about, “Well, as a potential 2028 contender, X, Y, Z.” And in the context of that, it was very clear that this was a veiled threat, right? This was the elite saying, “If you want this job, you just stepped out of line. And we want you to know where the real power is. And it’s in the modern-day barons who own the Post and own the algorithms, and we’re gonna — we’ll make an example out of you.” And what’s funny about that is that they assume that my ambition is positional. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, Senate, House seats, elected officials, come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights — all of that. And so, anyways, a finer point to your question is that, when you aren’t attached, right? When you haven’t been, like, fantasizing about being this or that since the time you were seven years old, um, it is tremendously liberating, because I get to wake up every day and say, “How am I gonna meet the moment?” Watch the full clip above via C-SPAN.The post AOC Brushes Aside 2028 Question: ‘My Ambition Is Way Bigger’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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Andrew Rogers explores new tech trials helping people stay underwater for longer. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Trump Media Lost More Than $400 Million Last Quarter – While Notching Paltry S...
AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, lost more than $400 million last quarter and brought in less than $1 million in sales, according to a Friday press release from the company. The company reported $871,200 in revenue during the first three months of 2026, a modest increase from the same period a year earlier, alongside a $405.9 million net loss and a $387.8 million adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) loss. Notably, President Donald Trump’s revocable trust owned about 41% of the company’s outstanding shares as of the end of April, according to Trump Media’s most recent annual filing. They recorded a $712 million net loss in 2025. Trump Media said most of the red ink stemmed from accounting-related charges rather than day-to-day operations, citing “non-cash losses including unrealized losses on digital assets, digital assets pledged, and equity securities ($368.7 million), accreted interest ($11.5 million), and stock-based compensation ($11.8 million).” The earnings release marks the first quarterly report since former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) stepped down as chief executive last month. Trump Media named media executive Kevin McGurn, whose résumé includes roles at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile, as interim CEO. At the time, Nunes wrote on Truth Social, “This will allow me to focus more intently on my role as Chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and on other ventures, knowing the company is in safe hands under Kevin’s stewardship.” The company, which trades under the ticker DJT, said it ended the quarter with $2.2 billion in total assets and roughly $2.1 billion in financial holdings, nearly triple what it reported a year earlier. Trump Media also said it posted positive operating cash flow for the fourth consecutive quarter, with $17.9 million generated from operations. In a statement as part of the release, McGurn said Trump Media & Technology Group is pursuing growth opportunities while advancing its proposed merger with TAE Technologies, a nuclear fusion company. He added that Truth Social “remains a bastion of free speech with innovative enhancements coming soon.” “I look forward to rapidly growing our Truth Social and Truth+ communities and building out these powerful, uncancellable platforms for free expression,” his statement concluded.The post Trump Media Lost More Than $400 Million Last Quarter – While Notching Paltry Sales Figure first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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