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Real America’s Voice White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that whatever room President Donald Trump occupies, he is “always” the most informed person. Leavitt was at George Washington University on Thursday for a Turning Point USA event, where she was interviewed by Erika Kirk, the widow of TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. At one point during the exchange, Leavitt passed on some advice that she said former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino once gave her. “That was a piece of advice one of my predecessors, Dana Perino, gave to me before I took this job,” Leavitt reminisced. “She said, ‘You always want to be the most well-read person in the room.’ And I try to be every day, but Donald Trump always is. That man does not miss a story. Let me tell you, he is always reading the papers and watching the TV. He doesn’t miss anything anyone says in the whole world. I don’t know how he does it and consumes it all. And it’s a lot.” Leavitt: “You always want to be the most well-read person in the room, and I try to be every day. But Donald Trump always is.” [image or embed] — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM Trump administration officials often heap effusive praise on the president. Over the weekend, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. alleged that Trump is able to draw a “perfect map” of the Middle East. “And we started talking about Syria. And he got a placemat, and he turned it on its back,” Kennedy said. “And then he took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Mideast. And then, he put the troop strength of every country on every border on that map. And it just challenged a lot of the assumptions that I had been told about him.”The post Karoline Leavitt Claims Trump Is ‘Always’ the ‘Most Well-Read Person in the Room’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Trump Goes on Ballroom Posting Spree After Oil Waltzes Past $112 a Barrel
AP Photo/Alex Brandon President Donald Trump fired off posts about the massive ballroom he has ordered built shortly after oil closed at $112 a barrel on Thursday. West Texas Intermediate crude futures rose 12% on the session, ending at $112.06 for the week with U.S. markets closed on Good Friday. That is the highest in nearly three years. The jump showed that Trump’s primetime address to the nation did nothing to quell energy traders’ fears of a prolonged conflict with Iran, which has established a nascent tolling system in the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil flows. Substantial amounts of fertilizers, aluminum, helium, and other vital commodities also typically flow through the strait. Before launching the war on Iran on Feb. 28, Trump reportedly dismissed the idea that Iran would close the strait in response to U.S. airstrikes. About 90 minutes after oil markets closed, Trump, who hadn’t posted in several hours, fired off three posts in quick succession. All were about the privately-funded $400 million ballroom that is being built where the White House’s East Wing used to be until Trump razed it last year. On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered construction halted, and the Trump administration is appealing. This week, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon ruled that the president is required to obtain congressional approval to build the ballroom. “Unless and until Congress blesses this project through statutory authorization, construction has to stop!” Leon wrote in his ruling. During Trump’s address on Wednesday, West Texas Intermediate spiked five percent to $103 a barrel over the course of the 20-minute speech. The upward trend continued into Thursday, when AAA reported that the national average for a gallon of gasoline was $4.08.The post Trump Goes on Ballroom Posting Spree After Oil Waltzes Past $112 a Barrel first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Kaitlan Collins Reports Half of Iran’s Missile Launchers Are Still Intact
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reported that around half of Iran’s missile launchers were still intact on Thursday, describing a military force still capable of causing damage despite U.S. and Israeli strikes. Collins discussed the ongoing U.S. military operation in Iran on The Source, claiming that sources told CNN that the information on Iran’s military capabilities had come from U.S. intelligence. “As sources are telling us here tonight, that recent U.S. intelligence assessments found roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and that thousands of one-way attack drones are still in Iran’s arsenal tonight,” she said. “That’s despite daily U.S. and Israeli airstrikes that we’ve seen against Iranian military targets for the past five weeks.” The host clarified that despite the staggering number reported, some of these weapons might not be actually functional in conducting warfare. “And I should note this assessment that my colleagues are reporting on tonight might include launchers that are currently inaccessible, such as those that are buried by strikes or not just completely destroyed,” Collins said. She also noted that the numbers reported painted a different picture of Iran’s performance in the war than that given by President Donald Trump’s administration. “The intelligence, though, does offer a more nuanced picture that we’re getting of Iran’s capabilities that they still have right now than what we have heard from the white house since the beginning of this war,” she said. Trump has claimed on multiple occasions that the U.S. has “won” the war, including in his speech last night when he said that Iran’s “rocket launchers are being blown to pieces, very few of them left.” “Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks,” the president said. Thousands of Iranian drones have yet to be destroyed, CNN’s print report claims, along with a significant amount of coastal defense cruise missiles. Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell characterized the report as “completely wrong.” “The United States military has delivered a crippling series of blows to the Iranian regime,” Parnell said to the outlet. “We are far ahead of schedule on accomplishing our military objectives: destroy Iran’s missile arsenal, annihilate their Navy, destroy their terrorist proxies, and ensure Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon.” Watch above via CNN.The post Kaitlan Collins Reports Half of Iran’s Missile Launchers Are Still Intact first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Trump Reportedly Told Bondi She Was Toast Day Before Firing: ‘It’s Time’
Photo by Annabelle Gordon/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images President Donald Trump told Attorney General Pam Bondi she was going to be fired a day before he officially removed her on Thursday, according to a new report. Trump confirmed on Truth Social on Thursday that the attorney general would be leaving the Department of Justice for a job in the private sector. But according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Trump broke the news to Bondi a day earlier, while the two traveled together to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Minutes before the attorney general appeared by the president’s side during oral arguments over a case concerning birthright citizenship, Trump told Bondi she would be leaving her post. “I think it’s time,” the president reportedly told her. Bondi later asked Trump if she could remain as attorney general until the summer, a request the president declined. Though the president’s discontent with Bondi has been well known for some time – primarily surrounding her handling of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein and her ineffectiveness in going after Trump’s political enemies – the Journal report claims that it was a slow culmination of many factors that led to her ouster. Trump reportedly showed printouts of negative social media posts about Bondi from conservatives to White House visitors, going so far as to consider appointing special counsels to speed along objectives he felt Bondi was not achieving. “When one ally mentioned Bondi’s name in a casual setting at a sporting event in January, Trump unleashed into a diatribe immediately, saying she was doing a ‘terrible job’ and expressing frustration he chose her for attorney general,” the report read. Bondi had already left Washington, D.C., when her firing was announced on Thursday, flying to Florida to meet with local sheriffs to promote the National Child ID Kit program. Her departure comes amid other leadership changes in Trump’s administration, announced just a month after the president fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and the same day that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to retire. Trump is allegedly considering removing more of his cabinet in the coming weeks, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer.The post Trump Reportedly Told Bondi She Was Toast Day Before Firing: ‘It’s Time’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - Jesse Watters Grills Bondi’s Replacement on Epstein: ‘You Don’t Think He M...Jesse Watters grilled newly minted Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Justice Department’s handling of its files on Jeffrey Epstein. Blanche ascended to the post on Thursday after President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. The president had grown frustrated with the DOJ’s inability to successfully prosecute some of his political enemies, including former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA). Bondi had also drawn criticism over her handling of the Epstein case. In February 2025, claimed to have Epstein’s long-rumored client list, but later said there was no list. When Congress compelled the release of all of the DOJ’s material on Epstein, the department slow-walked releasing the files past the deadline mandated by law. Blanche, who was previously Trump’s personal attorney, appeared on Thursday’s Jesse Watters Primetime on Fox News, where the host asked about the Epstein files. “Now, the Epstein files,” Watters said. “You’d agree – not handled well?” “First of all, I have never heard President Trump say that the attorney general was– anything that happened to her had anything to do with the Epstein files,” Blanche replied. “And so, look, the Epstein files has been a saga that’s lasted for the past year. And what happened when the president signed the transparency act is that the Department of Justice has now released all the files with respect to the Epstein saga.” Blanche’s contention that the DOJ has released all of its files on Epstein is not true, as far as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are concerned. “So I think to the extent the Epstein files was a part of the past year of this Justice Department, it should not be a part of anything going forward,” the acting attorney general continued. Watters then asked which country Epstein was spying for, leading to this exchange: WATTERS: Ok, well, I mean, you’ve combed through these files, right? Who was Epstein spying for? BLANCHE: Look, everything– I don’t know that he was spying for anybody. Nobody’s ever said that. WATTERS: No? You don’t think he might’ve been a spy for a foreign country? BLANCHE: I have no idea if he was a spy. All I know is that we don’t have any evidence in the Epstein files that the FBI collected over 15 years that suggest that, Jesse. I wasn’t– I don’t know. I… [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago
- Eric Swalwell Addresses Claim That Pam Bondi Was Fired for Leaking Info to HimRep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) denied claims that Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired because she leaked information to him, claiming on Thursday that “the attorney general did not tip us off.” Swalwell joined MS NOW’s Antonia Hylton to discuss President Donald Trump’s announcement that he had fired Bondi on Thursday, a choice many have linked to the president’s discontent over the attorney general’s mishandling of the files relating to Jeffrey Epstein and her ineffectiveness in going after his political enemies. But some outlets have reported yet another reason for Bondi’s ouster– the president’s belief that the attorney general may have given Swalwell a heads-up about the administration’s plans to release information on a years-old investigation involving the congressman’s past. FBI Director Kash Patel has reportedly been personally involved in the effort to release files related to Swalwell’s past association with suspected Chinese intelligence operative Christine Fang. “Fang Fang,” as she is known, allegedly worked to develop relationships with California politicians from 2011 to 2015. The congressman has not been accused of any wrongdoing, and allegedly cut ties with Fang when he was alerted to the suspicions surrounding her by federal agents. Swalwell strongly denied that Bondi had leaked information to him or his team, telling Hylton that the story became public after a tip-off from FBI agents who spoke to The Washington Post. “No, no. The attorney general did not tip us off,” he said. “No one in her orbit tipped us off. It was FBI agents who tipped off The Washington Post because they saw this effort by Kash Patel and Donald Trump to try and interfere in a California governor’s race that I have been leading.” The congressman sent a cease and desist letter to Patel’s office on Monday, calling the move “a transparent attempt to smear him and undermine his campaign for Governor of California.” A senior Trump administration source denied claims that Bondi was fired because the president thought she was responsible for this leak, telling The New York Post that “the president has been considering this change for a long time.” Watch above via MS NOW.The post Eric Swalwell Addresses Claim That Pam Bondi Was Fired for Leaking Info to Him first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago
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