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- Mamdani Rips $1.8B Trump ‘Slush Fund’: ‘Could Make Every Bus Free — Twic...
[jwvideo id= New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) ripped President Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion “slush fund,” pointing out it could “make every bus” in New York “free — twice!” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News this week that “we’re currently drawing up plans to say, listen, in these sanctuary cities where the local, radical left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities either because they don’t want us to enforce immigration.” Mamdani was a guest on Thursday’s edition of MS NOW’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, during which he told host Jen Psaki that “We will not be threatened” over immigration: PSAKI: You’ve clearly been focused on cutting waste and going through the budget, I assume, dollar by dollar, a little more than that. (LAUGHTER) MAMDANI: Yes. PSAKI: To find savings so that you can do the things you want to do. Having just gone through all that, I just have to ask you about some of the spending we’ve been seeing out of Washington. I mean, in particular, Trump’s decision to use $1.8 billion of taxpayer money as a slush fund for his aggrieved supporters. I mean, that’s a lot of money. The people it’s going to is its own separate, outrageous problem. And the same people who are defending this fund are the ones who spent months claiming you were going to bankrupt New York with your policies. I — I know, because we’ve talked a number of times, you never stop smiling through all this, but that has to make you furious, right? MAMDANI: I — I think it just shows that it’s never been about the amount of money. It’s about what it’s being spent on. And there is a politics across this country that is completely at peace with the idea of spending billions of dollars to enrich those who already have more money than they know what to do with. And what they are offended by is the idea of spending that money to help those who have been left behind by our politics. The idea that we have money in Washington for these kinds of initiatives, when here in New York City, we are looking to protect our New Yorkers from cuts happening the same city of Washington, D.C., to the tune of similar amounts of money,… [TheTopNews] Read More.35 mins ago - ‘Cheered for My Death From Behind a Keyboard’: Purple Heart Vet Nukes Graham...
(Christian Science Monitor via AP) Teddy Daniels, the Purple Heart veteran who was mocked by presumptive Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner for sustaining injuries during a firefight with the Taliban, took to The Wall Street Journal to excoriate Platner in new op-ed. Reacting to the clip of Daniels engaging in a firefight with the Taliban back in 2012 on Reddit, Platner wrote, in a 2019 comment resurfaced by Fox News Digital, “This video never gets old. Dumb mother f*cker. At least his stupidity and fat a** wheezing are available for all future infantrymen to witness and hold in contempt. Poor marksmanship on the Taliban’s part is the only reason this mouthbreather made it home, he managed to make every possible shit decision possible when it comes to small unit combat.” Daniels told Fox that “The stuff that this guy [Platner] put out there publicly is beyond locker room talk. It is just vile and disgusting,” and expanded on his thoughts for the Journal. “Democratic men are having an identity crisis. Maine’s Graham Platner, the party’s presumptive nominee for U.S. Senate, is a prime example. Mr. Platner presents himself as a savior for working-class Americans while his background screams the opposite and his offensive comments about fellow veterans—including me—speak poorly of his character,” wrote Daniels, who pointed out that while “the tough-talking Marine veteran struts around in a Carhartt jacket and jeans,” Platner actually “comes from a prestigious family where he had access to an elite private-school education and a lifestyle of privilege.” “Mr. Platner has been caught disparaging the service of fellow veterans like decorated Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and Vice President JD Vance. He also disparaged me while commenting on a viral video of a firefight in which I sustained numerous wounds from a Taliban ambush,” he continued. “I received a Purple Heart for my injuries, but Mr. Platner cheered for my death from behind a keyboard.” “Flannel shirt and all, Graham Platner is Tim Walz on steroids. An entitled brat who campaigns with socialist Bernie Sanders. A real man by the lights of the Democratic Party, he presents himself as ‘relatable’ to working-class Americans, but in reality he’s a typical elitist who believes blue-collar, hardworking, salt-of-the-earth rural Americans are stupid and racist,” concluded Daniewls. “I couldn’t care less about the comments he made about me, but they are a reflection of his character. I never thought I’d see the day… [TheTopNews] Read More.39 mins ago - CNBC Host Hammers Brendan Carr Over Disney Inquiry: ‘You’re Not Trying to Ge...
Screenshot via X/@atrupar CNBC host Sara Eisen hammered FCC chief Brendan Carr on Friday over his agency’s inquiry into Disney, asking him repeatedly about the company’s allegations that the move was an effort to stifle free speech. FCC ordered eight TV stations owned by Disney’s ABC to file early license renewal requests in April, soon after President Donald Trump called for the broadcaster to fire Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made about himself and First Lady Melania Trump. Days before the shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Kimmel joked that Melania had a “glow like an expectant widow,” a remark that many figures on the right, including those within the Trump administration, were quick to characterize as a call to harm the president. The move to begin license renewal for Kimmel’s network early, purportedly over Disney’s DEI practices, was called out by FCC commissioner Anna Gomez as a “direct assault on the First Amendment.” ABC echoed those remarks on Thursday in an application asking the FCC to review its licenses, claiming the review “is inconsistent with a legitimate exercise of investigative authority and is plainly incompatible with the First Amendment.” Eisen asked Carr about these allegations during his Friday appearance on CNBC. Carr said Disney had been “embroiled in controversies for years now related to their DEI policies,” noting that the investigation was launched by the FCC over a year ago and was focused on potential discriminatory hiring, compensating, and promoting staff. “But they say that it’s not about that,” pushed back Eisen. “They say this is about the First Amendment. They think it’s about you trying to chill their free speech and exert editorial control on the networks.” Carr claimed that the FCC had been clear about the purpose of the investigation and had notified the company that “in the staff’s view, Disney had been filing incomplete responses” and was “disingenuous” in FCC submissions. “And at the end of the day, a lot of what Disney’s arguments appear to go is a fundamental disagreement that they should be held accountable to the unique regulatory framework that justifies broadcasters,” added Carr, invoking the Supreme Court’s decision that “there is no 1st Amendment right to hold a broadcast license.” Eisen continued to hammer the point, asking Carr if he “could see why they think this is about something else.” “I mean, you called for the early review of the broadcast licenses right after President Trump called for Jimmy… [TheTopNews] Read More.53 mins ago - James Comer Pressed by Epstein Survivors Outside Pam Bondi Deposition: ‘We Wan...House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) was pressed by Epstein survivors outside a deposition with former Attorney General Pam Bondi. Comer spoke to reporters on Capitol Hill ahead of Bondi’s closed-door deposition, and multiple women who were abused by late convicted predator Jeffrey Epstein were there and pressed him to get more answers. Bondi spoke to lawmakers about her role in releasing files related to the Epstein case. In her opening statement, she claimed the federal government followed the law in releasing the files and said she “delegated” oversight of the effort to current Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Epstein died in 2019 of apparent suicide while facing sex trafficking charges. His longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell is currently serving 20 years for sex trafficking, which the Department of Justice said she did in coordination with Epstein. Despite this known sex trafficking, the DOJ has since claimed women were only trafficked for Epstein and not high-profile associates. Comer was asked about “leads” not being pursued from the files and was pressed to get some people to testify under oath. “We’re bringing people in that have never been brought in before. Most of the people, what I find fascinating about this is we brought in Epstein’s top assistant, we’ve brought in Epstein lawyer, and we’ve got in Epstein’s accountant. They were never interviewed by the people who were supposedly investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. How do you not interview those three people?” Comer said. Epstein survivor Liz Stein then asked Comer whether he would press Bondi for answers on redactions in the files, noting that survivors’ names were at points not redacted while numerous other names are. “Survivors’ names over and over and were exposed, yet we see time and time again perpetrators’ names have been redacted and they shouldn’t have been. Are we going to get some answers about that?” Stein asked. “I hope so. Those are questions we’re going to ask and we’re doing this. We want justice for the survivors. We do. Every, you know, we’ve got Nancy Mace and Lauren Boebert and, you know, you got the Democrat members. Everyone has gone to great lengths to try to get this far. And I think — I hope that you all see many of these people have never been interviewed before,” Comer said. “I don’t know how that can even be possible. So we’re going to… [TheTopNews] Read More.59 mins ago
- ‘There Were Glaring Signs!’ The View Sounds Off on Biden’s DeclineThe View hosts agreed Friday that it was painful to re-watch Joe Biden’s performance in his disastrous 2024 debate with Donald Trump, and blamed former First Lady Jill Biden and other Democrats for missing the opportunity to have him drop out of the race sooner. The discussion came as the co-hosts commented on Jill Biden’s recent CBS News interview where she said she was scared that her husband was having a stroke during the debate, but carried on afterward as if all was well. “Yeah, she has to spin. That’s the only thing she can do the morning after,” said Alyssa Farah Griffin. “I’m not interested in litigating what Jill Biden did or didn’t know. I came to the table the morning after the election and was not remotely surprised that Donald Trump won.” She continued: There were glaring signs, I argued it at this table for two-plus years that however anyone might personally feel about Joe Biden, he was losing the country because there were concerns, not about his ability to do the job while still in office, it was that he was going to have four more years and be the oldest president in history and had seen some slowing down. Seventy-two percent of Americans said that before this debate. And he stayed in for another month after that, which led this narrow window for Kamala Harris to try to do a hail Mary and win. A lot of why we’re here in this moment that we’re in, where a lot of us are afraid of the direction the country is going, is because people who were raising their voices and saying, “America deserves other options than this” were told to shut up, sit down and not use their voice, but stand up for democracy somehow. How are you standing up for democracy if you’re not allowed to have opinion on the state of the commander in chief? Sara Haines said she also felt silenced on the issue. “With what Alyssa is saying, I spoke up here and got flack when I said I thought he should step out, President Biden, early on,” Haines said. “Right after the debate I said, you know what, people have been concerned in the fact that it’s polling so high, and people are being told, ‘Shut up, don’t notice his age, it’s not a problem,’ and then it became a… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Cornyn Raises Eyebrows With Scorpion and Frog Tweet: ‘Definitely Not a Metapho...
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Just days after Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) lost his primary in Tuesday’s runoff and vowed to support the “Republican ticket,” he posted several tweets that were widely interpreted as throwing shade at his victorious opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R). To say that the Cornyn v. Paxton primary battle was bitter and brutal is an epic understatement. The incumbent was widely viewed as a stronger candidate in the general election due to Paxton’s series of scandals, lawsuits, and controversies — not to mention a messy and contentious pending divorce — but the attorney general got support from the MAGA wing of the GOP for his combative, far-right stances. President Donald Trump initially declined to endorse for the primary, and rumors were swirling that he was expected to endorse Cornyn, but in the final days of the runoff (and when polling showed Paxton with a substantial lead), Trump threw his support behind the AG. The primary was far less fractious on the Democratic side. State Rep. James Talarico (D) surpassed Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) by a comfortable margin and without needing a runoff; she conceded the race the next morning and tweeted a call for her supporters to “remain united” and “rally around our nominees.” Tuesday evening, as Cornyn spoke to disappointed supporters, he said he’d support the man he had spent the last few years calling a crook. “I’ve spent most of my time in the Senate building the Republican party in Texas and in the U.S. Senate, and I’ve always supported the Republican ticket, and I intend to do so again in this general election,” said Cornyn. “I’ve said throughout this race that I trust the voters of Texas, and they’ve made their decision, and I must respect it.” On Friday morning, Cornyn posted a tweet with what he called “[a]n old, but apt fable,” the story of the scorpion and the frog that echoes “The Snake” poem Trump habitually shares on the campaign trail. An old, but apt fable: A scorpion wants to cross a river but cannot swim, so it asks a frog to carry it across. The frog hesitates, afraid that the scorpion might sting it, but the scorpion promises not to, pointing out that it would drown if it killed the frog in the middle of… — Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) May 29, 2026 Wrote Cornyn, tagging Wikipedia as the source:… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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