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A cyber security expert says deleting chat history could lead to a lack of accountability if things go wrong. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - MAGA Pastor Declares ‘It Doesn’t Matter’ When Confronted On Trump Grabbing...
Laura Brett/Sipa USA via AP Images Mark Burns, a MAGA pastor and reported spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, declared in an interview on Tuesday that “it doesn’t matter” the president “grabbed” women and bragged about it. After New Yorker staff writer Isaac Chotiner criticized some of Trump’s behavior during an interview with Burns, the pastor responded, “Well, I think that it could be said about all of us. I mean, Isaac, you have things in your closet that you pray never show up on CNN. There are things that you’ve done that you pray to God never become a New Yorker story.” “That’s interesting, but I haven’t grabbed women against their will and bragged about it,” shot back Chotiner. “Or posted a video of the Obamas as apes. So maybe there’s a sliding scale of what people do and how we should judge them?” Burns then argued, “Ultimately, God is our judge, not people. And we may have a sliding scale, as you say, in man’s law, because it is true, murder is way more dangerous and carries heavier weights than jaywalking or eating too much. Gluttony is just as much a sin as murder, but in the eyes of man, murder carries way more weight, and it should be handled the way that the word of God says it should be handled. But in the eyes of God, who is our ultimate judge, God is a God of forgiveness. God is a God of love. So, having said that, it doesn’t matter what President Trump has done in his past.” “It doesn’t matter?” pressed Chotiner, to which Burns replied, “It doesn’t matter in the eyes of the Lord, and apparently, it doesn’t really matter to the eyes of the American voters because they voted for him and made him President twice. Many would argue three times.” Earlier this year, after Trump receieved backlash for posting a video which featured former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as a pair of apes, Burns issued a statement blaming a rogue employee of the president. “I just spoke directly with President Trump regarding the offensive Obama ape video that circulated online,” said Burns. “The President assured me clearly and unequivocally that he did not post it. He understands the painful and racist history in America of depicting African Americans as apes, a tactic long used by white supremacists… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘Attack, Attack, Attack’: Trump’s Top Midterm Strategist Vows to Lead Onsl...
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) James Blair, the White House deputy chief of staff who’s planning on taking a leave of absence from the Trump administration to lead Trump’s midterm operation, laid out his aggressive strategy for the GOP in new interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns. After taking a victory lap over Republicans’ gains in the redistricting wars and vowing that they wouldn’t be outspent without pledging to use Trump’s war chest, Blair was asked, “What should we expect in the coming weeks and months?” He replied: We’ve cleared most primaries. Our guys aren’t beating each other up for the most part. They’re raising a bunch of money and building war chests, whereas their guys are not doing that, right? … They have incumbents getting attacked from the left, while we have a candidate who’s just sitting there building a war chest, endorsed with a clear field. We’ve also got incumbents like Mike Lawler, who’s facing a handful of people who are all killing each other while he builds his war chest. … The Democrats are tied up in a complete ideological party split, tearing themselves apart. … They just blew $80 million on their illegal Virginia fiasco. Hakeem Jeffries humiliated himself with his big press conference two weeks ago just to be crushed in the couple weeks since. Their party is divided, they don’t have confidence in their leadership, their candidates are fighting themselves, they are wasting their money. These are all good situations for us that help us get a little closer to the prize. Burns and Blair continued: BURNS: Let’s talk about the war. People are not happy with the policy of this administration. And yes, things could change by November, but they might not. How do you contend with that? BLAIR: Well, the Democrats will have to convince the electorate how they’re going to make their lives more affordable when they tried to raise taxes on 90 percent of Americans by $4 trillion last summer. They are all on the record for tax hikes. They’ve opposed every single tax cut. That’s going to be a tough message to stick in the center of the electorate who already don’t like Democrats. And that’s just the beginning of the contrasts we will make with them. Swing voters already think the Democratic Party’s too far left, and we’re going to make sure voters know just how far left they are. They… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘This Is a Problem’ Comer Promises Potential Subpoenas in ‘Suspicious Pred...
House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) promised potential subpoenas will be dropping in an investigation into “suspicious market trades” around the Iran war. On Wednesday’s Mornings with Maria, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo pressed Comer about the state of his investigation following seven Democratic lawmakers signing their names to a letter demanding subpoenas. “This is a problem,” Comer admitted, adding later that prediction markets have put lawmakers in “uncharted territory” where they may need to draft a new law to address the issue. Reps. Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Sarah Jacobs (D-CA), Seth Magaziner (D-RI), Seth Moulton (D-MA), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Dina Titus (D-NE), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) all signed their names to the letter where they said they are “deeply concerned that individuals with access to sensitive government information have used that access for personal financial gain.” “Congress has both the authority and the responsibility to determine whether existing ethics, classification, and financial disclosure laws have been violated, and whether legislative action is necessary to prevent recurrence. We cannot fulfill that responsibility without knowing who placed these trades,” the Democrats wrote. Prediction market bets can be made through companies like Kalshi and Polymarket. The letter noted multiple instances, including an individual who “made nearly $1 million with a 93 percent success rate on wagers predicting unannounced U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran, placing bets hours before strikes in October 2024, June 2025, and February 2026,” which was highlighted in a recent CNN report. “I don’t know what the law is, but if we need to make a law and change a law with respect to that, we will certainly do it. But at the end of the day, it’s very unethical and it doesn’t need to happen,” Comer said on Wednesday. “How does that happen? I mean, so I’d like you to get more information on it. Where are you in that investigation?” Bartiromo asked. Comer said he’s begun to “request information” and that may lead to subpoenas as Democrats are requesting. “We’ll request information, and if we have trouble getting it, then a subpoena will follow. My subpoenas hold up in court,” he said. Check out the full exchange below: MARIA BARTIROMO: I want to move on to get your take on other things. In fact, seven House Democrats sent you a letter requesting subpoenas for an investigation into suspicious prediction market trades tied to the Iran… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly
Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders don’t agree on much. But both think that AI is a disaster for the working class. The Vermont senator recently wrote that “AI oligarchs do not want to just replace specific jobs. They want to replace workers.” Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist, made similar comments last week: Silicon Valley does “not care about the little guy,” he said in a podcast episode titled “Stopping the AI Oligarchs From Stealing Humanity.” This emergent “Bernie-to-Bannon” coalition points to the growing bipartisan anxiety over AI. In polls, the United States ranks among the countries most concerned about AI. America is both the world’s foremost developer of AI and its chief hater.Recently, Maine passed the country’s first statewide data-center moratorium (though the bill was vetoed by the governor). Nationally, a record number of proposed projects were canceled in the first quarter of this year following local pushback. Meanwhile, in extreme cases, concerns about AI appear to be tipping into violence. In April, someone shot 13 rounds at an Indianapolis councilman’s house and left a note under his doormat: “NO DATA CENTERS,” it read. Days later, a man threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s home before heading to OpenAI’s headquarters, where he allegedly threatened to burn down the building and kill anyone inside. (The man has since pleaded not guilty to several charges, including attempted murder.) Social-media posts applauding the attack racked up thousands of likes: “I hope that Molotov is okay!” wrote one commenter.All of this may be only the start. The AI industry has spent recent years warning of a jobless future. So far, narratives about labor displacement have been largely speculation. While a smattering of tech executives have attributed job cuts to AI, many analysts have accused these CEOs of “AI-washing”—essentially, using the technology as a scapegoat for roles they would have eliminated regardless. If anything, AI has mostly been a financial boon for the country, buoying the stock market and driving growth. But that could all change, of course. Imagine the uproar if jobs across the economy truly start disappearing en masse.Even absent any uptick in AI-induced layoffs, the anti-AI sentiment is likely to keep growing. With the midterms approaching, political operatives are tapping into Americans’ fears over the technology. Blue Rose Research, a progressive polling firm, has found that messaging that addresses the AI threat in “bold, populist terms” is particularly effective at increasing… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Has Instructions for Vance in Event He is Killed, Sebastian Gorka RevealsPresident Donald Trump has left Vice President JD Vance written instructions to follow in the event he is assassinated, White House counterterrorism official Sebastian Gorka revealed Wednesday. Speaking on the New York Post’s podcast Pod Force One, hosted by Miranda Devine, Gorka said Trump had prepared for a succession scenario amid continued security concerns surrounding the president during his second term. “There is a letter in the drawer in the Resolute Desk that is addressed to the vice president should something happen to him,” Gorka said. The comments came after Gorka said he did not personally fear an attempt on Trump’s life by a foreign adversary when Devine expressed concern about the president travelling to China to meet President Xi Jinping and described the president as someone who “alone stands between them and world domination.” “So they have every reason in the world to take him out,” she said, referring to Beijing. After speaking about the letter, Devine pressed Gorka on Trump’s safety, claiming China could hurt him in a “sneaky” way. “We have protocols, trust me. Not ones I can discuss, but we have protocols,” he replied. The president has previously spoken publicly about contingency plans in relation to assassination threats from Iran. In January, Trump said he had left “very firm instructions” that the “whole” of Iran should be “blown up” if he were killed. At home, meanwhile, Trump has faced multiple assassination attempts in recent years. During the 2024 presidential campaign, a gunman opened fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing Trump’s ear before being killed by Secret Service agents. A second suspect was arrested after allegedly hiding near Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle, and in April, a would-be assassin attempted to rush the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton before being stopped by agents. Watch above via YouTube.The post Trump Has Instructions for Vance in Event He is Killed, Sebastian Gorka Reveals first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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