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- Senate Votes Before Sunrise to Confirm Todd Blanche as U.S. Attorney General
Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP Photo The Senate voted in the wee hours Saturday to confirm Todd Blanche as U.S. Attorney General, confirming the nomination of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney by a vote of 50-49. The vote, conducted just before 4:30 a.m., capped weeks of drama as Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) opposed Blanche’s nomination at the committee level, before each folded earlier this week. The confirmation of the appointment was all but sealed Friday after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) took to the Senate floor to announce his support. Every Democrat opposed the nomination, as did two Republicans, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Murkowski announced her opposition to Blanche as Attorney General in a lengthy X post Friday morning. Blanche, 52, took to X after the vote, which began at 4:17 a.m. and took less than 15 minutes. “I am deeply honored by the trust and confidence President Trump has placed in me to lead the Department of Justice as our great nation’s 88th Attorney General,” he posted. “I am grateful to the Senate for staying late to complete this process. To the dedicated public servants of the Department of Justice, thank you for your work each day to uphold the law and keep our country safe,” he wrote, adding, “God bless America.” Blanche has been serving as Acting U.S. Attorney General since April, when President Trump fired Pam Bondi in a disute over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Installing Blanche at US Attorney opens the door further to the president’s “pervasive, breathtaking corruption,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a statement on X. “Senate Republicans have handed Trump an excuse on a silver platter to keep up his pervasive, breathtaking corruption. If you want to wipe out corruption, you can’t have the president’s personal attorney as the Attorney General,” he wrote. “You don’t need a PhD in political science to know that. Todd Blanche has no intention of stopping Trump’s corruption. He advanced his career enabling it. “Every senator who voted to confirm him has now branded themselves as an enabler, too,” Schumer continued. “Senate Democrats will continue fighting against the Trump administration’s assault on the rule of law and undermining of democratic values. The American people deserve a government that serves the public interest and the law instead of one person’s greed, corruption, and ambition.”… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Trump Identifies Another Election He Claims Was Stolen: ‘They Rigged Him Out o...
President Donald Trump baselessly claimed that a 2024 U.S. Senate race was stolen from Republicans. In an interview with Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News released on Friday, Trump said that many voters “are very angry at Republicans,” but he took no responsibility for this state of affairs even though his approval rating is 39%, according to the most recent Fox News poll. “Why is that?” Sherman asked. “I don’t know,” Trump responded. “I mean, they’re angry at Republicans. But they’re not angry at me.” The president then boasted of winning Michigan “easily” in 2024, even though he won the state by just 1.4 percentage points. Sherman replied by bringing up former Rep. Mike Rogers, who is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in the state. It is the second go-around for Rogers, who lost his 2024 bid for Senate against then-Rep. Elissa Slotkin. During Trump’s exchange with Sherman, the president posited that that contest was also stolen: SHERMAN: Rogers lost when you were on the ballot. TRUMP: Yeah, uh– SHERMAN: And now he’s up again. TRUMP: Well, he lost when I’m on the ballot and I won big in Michigan. But I happen to think he won. SHERMAN: Ok, well– TRUMP: No, no. I think it was a rigged deal. I think they rigged him out of it. But he’s a very good candidate. I think he should do well if we believe in polls. I actually sort of believe in polls. The president then went on a brief digression about Rogers’ Democratic opponent, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed. “It’s ‘Abdul,’ but I call him ‘Abdullah,'” he continued. “The actual name is ‘Abdullah,’ and then it’s much longer than that. But if you believe in the polls, [Rogers] does better against Abdullah than he did against the young congresswoman [Haley Stevens].” El-Sayed’s full name is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed. The candidate has noted that Rogers and other political foes have taken to using it as a racist dog whistle. “They think they want to use my whole name against me,” El-Sayed said on Wednesday, the day after he won the primary. “Mike, listen, man, if you can’t say the name — it’s Abdulrahman — keep the name out of your damn mouth. I’ll be happy to give you lessons.”The post Trump Identifies Another Election He Claims Was Stolen: ‘They Rigged Him Out of It’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - ‘REVOKED’: Pentagon Strips Former Air Force Secretary’s Security Clearance
AP Photo/Kevin Wolf The Pentagon “REVOKED” former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s security clearance Friday after accusing him of improperly sharing classified details about Air Force One with the press. Top Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell posted on X: Effective immediately, the Department of War has REVOKED former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall’s eligibility for access to classified information and his ability to hold any sensitive position. This action follows his unauthorized disclosure of classified information regarding Air Force One’s capabilities to a media outlet. Safeguarding classified information is a non-negotiable duty. Those who violate that trust forfeit the privilege of access and any role requiring it. Kendall led the Air Force from 2021 until 2025 under former President Joe Biden, having spent decades prior working in national security. He now serves as a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center for American Progress. In July, President Donald Trump’s administration subpoenaed four journalists from The New York Times over their reporting on security issues with the new Air Force One, a gift from the Qatari royal family, even seeking phone records from the relatives of those involved. The Department of Justice was later forced to withdraw the subpoenas, with Judge Arun Subramanian of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York grilling the government’s lawyers over whether they’d even followed the legal standards for subpoenaing journalists. While the Times‘ initial story on the matter was published on July 8, a July 25 story from the outlet quotes Kendall as having said of the gifted plane, “People need to be aware it has a lot of shortfalls compared to Air Force One; they do add a measure of risk.” Also in July, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released a video vowing to crack down on Pentagon leakers. However, he drew immediate criticism over his own history of mishandling sensitive national security information — namely the 2025 SignalGate scandal. Trump, in the same month, called leakers “people that are cowards,” “unpatriotic,” and “treasonous.”The post ‘REVOKED’: Pentagon Strips Former Air Force Secretary’s Security Clearance first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago - Hunter Biden Tells Tucker Carlson He Likes ‘Woken Up’ Marjorie Taylor Greene...
Screenshot via @TuckerCarlson on X During a teaser for an upcoming episode of The Tucker Carlson Show released Friday, Hunter Biden admitted he likes the “woken up” version of former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s conversation with Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, is set to be released in full on Monday. In the meantime, however, a supercut gave viewers an interesting preview. Our conversation with Hunter Biden. Monday. pic.twitter.com/bEZQTwFh3W — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 7, 2026 “I love Candace [Owens],” Biden first remarked in the clip. In May, the controversial podcaster had the former first son on her show, during which she apologized for contributing to the media storm surrounding his struggle with addiction, emphasizing, “I just feel really sh*tty.” “I like Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Biden continued. “I like that there are people that have kind of woken up.” Both Greene and Massie, despite initially supporting President Donald Trump, have since turned on him. Greene called the president a “traitor” in June, while Massie has been outspoken in his criticism on a variety of issues, including the administration’s war in Iran and its handling of the FBI files on Jeffrey Epstein. Just last weekend, Greene posted a photo of her and her new husband Brian Glenn, Carlson, Massie, and Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center who quit earlier this year in protest of the Iran war, writing, “The movement has begun,” fueling speculation about the group creating a third political party. And on Wednesday, Carlson released a 10-point manifesto, adding to rumors he plans to run for president in 2028. Massie has defended the younger Biden before, slamming the 2024 verdict that found him guilty on three gun-related charges. Yet Greene, in 2023, showed the GOP-led House Oversight Committee a series of increasingly graphic, minimally censored pics of the former first son, stressing, “This was prostitution.”The post Hunter Biden Tells Tucker Carlson He Likes ‘Woken Up’ Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago - ‘Caine Is Looking for an Off Ramp’: Joint Chiefs Chairman Reportedly Wants U...
AP Photo/Alex Brandon Gen. Dan Caine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has spoken with other top Trump administration officials about ending the U.S. war on Iran, according to a CNN report published on Friday night. The war began in February with joint airstrikes by the U.S. and Israel. President Donald Trump previously referred to the action as “a little excursion,” but the conflict is now in its sixth month. In response to the ongoing airstrikes on the country, Iran has restricted travel through the Strait of Hormuz. “Caine is looking for an off ramp,” one of three sources CNN spoke with said. CNN reported that Caine has made it plain to Trump and other high-level advisers that the U.S. should find a way out of the conflict because U.S. airstrikes alone are not likely to achieve Trump’s objectives. Moreover, other Trump officials are also looking for a way for the U.S. to disengage while saving face: Caine is not alone in his view that the war has reached a crossroads. He has discussed concerns about the military options for escalating the conflict and raised the prospect of finding an off-ramp from the war with other key Cabinet officials, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance, two of the sources said. The top US general has recently side-barred with some of those key, like-minded Trump advisers in an effort to facilitate interagency coordination and ensure they are on the same page ahead of meetings with the president. The aim has been to make clear the limitations and pitfalls of the available military options, including those that do not involve putting US boots on the ground, the sources said, In a statement to CNN, a spokesperson for Caine said, “General Caine is an incredible asset to President Trump’s national security team, and the overwhelming success of Operations Epic Fury, Midnight Hammer, and Absolute Resolve speaks for itself.” Caine and other administration officials were skeptical of a series of U.S. strikes on Iran late last month, where the U.S. bombed the country for at least 12 straight days. “The only ones in favor of the operation were elements of CENTCOM,” a source told CNN, noting that Israel also supported the effort to escalate hostilities. Eventually, the U.S. eased up on the strikes after Middle East allies told Trump the bombings were endangering… [TheTopNews] Read More.11 hours ago
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