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- Tim Walz Hints at Investigation Into Kristi Noem: ‘Get Used to Spending More T...
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) seemed to suggest that former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be investigated by Minnesota officials over the deployment of DHS agents in the state. President Donald Trump fired Noem on Thursday after a rocky tenure, which culminated in several embarrassing exchanges while Noem testified on Capitol Hill this week. Lawmakers grilled Noem on her $220 million splurge on an ad, which Noem said was approved by the president, who later disputed her claim. Noem was also pressed about a $143 million no-bid contract DHS awarded to a company run by the husband of Tricia McLaughlin, who recently resigned from the department. Most dramatically, one Democrat asked about Noem’s long-rumored affair with Corey Lewandowski, who was her subordinate at DHS. Trump announced he is nominating Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to replace her. Walz appeared on Thursday’s edition of The Briefing on MS NOW, where he hailed Noem’s departure and pledge to hold her accountable for sometimes violent anti-immigration operations in Minnesota that DHS carried out under her tenure. In January, DHS agents fatally shot U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in separate incidents. Noem immediately accused the deceased of engaging in domestic terrorism. “What should accountability for Kristi Noem, given everything she’s done, look like in your view?” host Jen Psaki asked. “There needs to be,” Walz replied. “And I think that that’s one of our founding principles, that no one’s above the law and they’re accountable. I would just say at this time that former Secretary Noem should probably get used to spending more time in Minnesota, because I have a pretty good feeling in the future she may be doing that because we have got to get accountability.” The governor added that while he is thankful that Noem has been ousted, she will simply be replaced by another “sycophant.” “On a day like this, I’m glad she’s gone,” he said. “But they just keep lining up sycophants. There’s one qualification for this job, and that’s loyalty to Donald Trump.” Watch above via MS NOW.The post Tim Walz Hints at Investigation Into Kristi Noem: ‘Get Used to Spending More Time in Minnesota’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.42 mins ago - Trump Depicted Getting Spanked by Justice Roberts in Utterly Savage Magazine Cov...
AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson President Donald Trump was brutally mocked by the Friday edition of left-leaning magazine The Week with a cover depicting him getting spanked by Chief Justice John Roberts. The Supreme Court ruled in February that Trump’s sweeping emergency tariffs were illegal, knocking down a cornerstone of the president’s economic policy. The move surprised many, coming from a conservative court that had previously given the president almost total carte blanche in his administration’s quest to expand executive powers. The ruling came directly from the chief justice, who shot down the president’s arguments for the legality of his tariffs. “Had Congress intended to convey the distinct and extraordinary power to impose tariffs,” Robers noted in the ruling, “it would have done so expressly.” Screenshot The Week noted this scathing line in their cover story on the decision, under the headline ‘A Supreme spanking.’ Alonside these words, a resolute Roberts is drawn with left hand raised, the other steadying a screaming President Trump. Trump lies draped across the justice’s lap, gripping the legs of Robert’s chair. The magazine’s article charted Trump’s anger at the ruling, from his raging that the decision was “ridiculous,” to his later screed claiming he was “absolutely ashamed” of the justices, along with some sharper digs. Yet despite The Week’s image of a Trump suitably restrained by the court, the president quickly instituted a 10% tariff on goods from every country — effective almost immediately after the ruling– before upping the ante on his “retribution” for countries, bumping the tariffs up to 15%. Twenty-four states sued Trump on Thursday in an attempt to block these new import tariffs. The White House has not yet commented on the suit. “We had a little, a complicating factor with tariffs the other day with the Supreme Court,” Trump said at an event on Thursday. “They did the wrong thing, but it didn’t make any difference because we have another way of doing it. They always have to make it the hard way.”The post Trump Depicted Getting Spanked by Justice Roberts in Utterly Savage Magazine Cover first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.55 mins ago - Anthropic vows to sue Pentagon over risk designation
The supply chain risk designation of the artificial intelligence firm is a first for a US company. [TheTopNews] Read More.57 mins ago - Trump Says ‘I Guess’ When Asked if Americans Should Fear Iranian Attacks: â€...
AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Donald Trump acknowledged that Americans should fear Iranian reprisals in the U.S., claiming in an interview that “we expect some things.” The president spoke with Eric Cortellessa of TIME for a wide-ranging profile of his ongoing U.S. military operation in Iran that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over the weekend. Cortellessa depicted the moment after the Saturday strike that killed the Ayaltolla. “I’ve killed all their leaders,” Trump said. “That room is gone.” Iran soon retaliated with massive numbers of drone strikes on U.S. and Israeli targets, which have so far led to the deaths of at least six American servicemembers. Cortellessa asked the president in a phone call on Wednesday whether Americans should fear an expansion of strikes to within the United States. “I guess,” he said. “But I think they’re worried about that all the time. We think about it all the time. We plan for it. But yeah, you know, we expect some things. Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die.” The president made similar comments over the course of the week. In his six-minute video message on Sunday– the first time Trump spoke to the nation since the strikes– he claimed that more Americans would likely die due to the conflict. “We pray for the full recovery of the wounded and send our immense love and eternal gratitude to the families of the fallen,” the president said in the video. “And sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is, likely be more.” In the TIME piece, Trump also doubled down on two other points of contention about his military campaign– his timeline for the operation and his possible involvement in the future leadership of Iran. “I have no time limits on anything,” said Trump. “I want to get it done.” The president’s words echoed comments made at Thursday breifing by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who claimed the U.S timeline for the operation was “ours alone to control.” Trump told Cortellessa that he wanted to be involved in choosing the new leader of Iran, a sentiment he also expressed to Axios on Thursday. “One of the things I’m going to be asking for is the ability to work with them on choosing a new leader,” he said to TIME. “I’m not going through this to end up with another… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Laura Ingraham Asks Why Trump Didn’t Remove Kristi Noem Sooner: ‘Why Didn’...Laura Ingraham wondered why, given the ample self-inflicted bad press surrounding Kristi Noem, President Donald Trump did not fire her sooner. Trump removed Noem as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday and shortly afterward nominated Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) for the job. Hours later on Thursday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News, the host noted that Noem had deemed Alex Pretti, who was killed by DHS agents in Minneapolis in January, a domestic terrorist immediately after the incident. But video emerged showing that Pretti was not being aggressive toward officers before they shot him in the back. Ingraham also pointed out that Noem spent $220 million on a DHS television ad featuring herself on a horse. Noem testified before Congress that Trump approved the expenditure, a claim Trump later denied. During her testimony, Noem was also asked about a long-rumored affair she has allegedly been having with Corey Lewandowski, who served as a special government employee at DHS. Noem, who was under oath, refused to answer the question, which she dodged by calling it “tabloid garbage.” Speaking to Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer, Ingraham asked what had taken so long. “Why didn’t they fire her right away?” the host asked. “Because that would have given a scalp to those who were actually trying to hinder and impede ICE on the streets? Why drag this out?” Fleischer postulated that the pricey TV ad taking center stage in a public hearing pushed Trump to act. “Well, because I think the president is reluctant to let people go, and especially on his singular issue,” he said. “So, I think the advertisement piece we heard yesterday is also what tipped the president over. She was on thin ice after Minnesota.” Watch above via Fox News.The post Laura Ingraham Asks Why Trump Didn’t Remove Kristi Noem Sooner: ‘Why Didn’t They Fire Her Right Away?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Reporter Who Documented ICE Activities Arrested and in Detention
Nashville Noticias/Instagram A Nashville reporter who documented ICE activities was arrested and detained by immigration agents on Wednesday. Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias, was detained while driving with her husband, a U.S. citizen, in South Nashville. There was no warrant for her arrest. Rodríguez claimed she was shown a Notice To Appear (NTA), rather than a warrant, upon her arrest. ICE officials told members of Rodríguez’s immigration legal team that her arrest was due to her failure to appear at two meetings with ICE, deeming her a flight risk. Her immigration attorney, Joel Coxander, claimed that Rodríguez received a G-56 letter requesting that she come to an ICE office for “processing and additional information” in late January, which noted that she would be issued an NTA. “They’re invitations,” Coxander said of the letters. “They don’t say they’re required. They say, ‘Come in so we can help ensure the best outcome for your case.’ They cite no legal requirement to come.” Rodríguez, who fled her home country of Colombia after facing death threats due to her work as a journalist, entered the U.S. legally on a tourist visa in 2021, after which she applied for political asylum. She was unable to attend the first requested meeting with ICE due to an ice storm in the area that forced the office to close. After receiving another letter with a date for a makeup appointment in early February, Rodríguez’s husband and an agent of Coxander visited the ICE office to confirm the details of the meeting. The duty officer told them that, after running her Alien Registration Number, Rodríguez was not in the system and did not need to show up for her February appointment. An additional agent looked over Rodríguez’s information and gave Rodríguez’s husband a check-in sheet with a future meeting date in March. “She’s being told, ‘We’re holding it against you that you didn’t do this thing we told you you didn’t have to do,” said Coxander, later adding that Rodríguez was “somebody that has been trying to follow the rules the whole time.” Rodríguez has reported several stories on ICE activities for Nashville Noticias, which issued a statement on Thursday expressing hope that the situation would be resolved quickly so that their reporter could “reunite with her young daughter and husband.” “Nashville Noticias LLC expresses its respect for the laws of the United States and hopes that this… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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