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- White House Teleprompter Operator Bet on Trump Speeches, Kalshi Says
A technical assistant to President Trump won around $100,000, according to the prediction market, which flagged the activity to the federal government. [TheTopNews] Read More.18 mins ago - Josh Hawley Goes Off On Biden Official’s ‘Astoundingly Terrible’ Judgment ...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) scolded former Justice Department Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer in a heated hearing moment where he grilled her over what he called her “astoundingly terrible” judgment. During the Thursday Senate hearing, Hawley noted that Oyer recommended that 40 people on death row be given clemency by former President Joe Biden. He ended up granting clemency to 37 death row inmates. Oyer repeatedly said she could not discuss the details of each case, so Hawley ran through the grisly details of the crimes and, at one point, even scolded the witness for her branded merchandise line. “We have your memo. Your memo of November 4th, 2024 says, and I quote, disparity and undue severity of sentence, which are present in many, if not all of these cases, have been recognized as grounds for clemency,” Hawley said, reading from Oyer’s memo. Hawley said he was “absolutely amazed” she had even been called to the hearing, and he then ran through some of the people she requested clemency for, including Dylann Roof, who was convicted of killing nine people in a racially motivated shooting at a South Carolina church. Roof was not ultimately granted clemency. “Here’s his victims. Do you wanna look at them?” Hawley asked Oyer as he pointed to photos of the victims next to him. He continued: There they are. Nine of them, at a Bible study, in a church, killed in cold blood. The DOJ knew from day one that he had decided, I’m gonna quote from the prosecutors, decided to attack African Americans because of their race. He further decided to attack African American worshipers in a Black church in order to make his attack more notorious. More notorious. And yet you recommended that he be granted clemency, live at the expense of taxpayers for the rest of his life, substitute your judgment for that of the American judicial system. Do you stand by that recommendation today? Oyer said she couldn’t discuss the specifics of the recommendations, but assured Hawley that Roof will die in prison. Hawley said: Oh, he’s gonna live in prison for a very long time because of you, because of your recommendations. And here’s what you said in your memo of October 30th, 2024. You said that actually, Roof is not a compelling candidate for clemency, but you recommended it anyway. Why? Because he suffered from anxiety, you said,… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Stephen Miller Announces Trump Admin Officially Declaring ‘Left-Wing Violenceâ...Top Trump aide Stephen Miller announced Thursday that the Trump administration had officially declared “left-wing violence” as “terrorism” that needed to be stamped out. Miller spoke at a conference in Washington, D.C., called The Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism, hosted at the U.S. State Department. “Here in the United States, we have taken the necessary and essential action of formally recognizing left-wing violence as a form of political terrorism that is a direct threat to our national security and the survival of our republican form of government,” Miller said at the top of his remarks. He continued: President Trump issued a directive — in our parlance, it’s called a national security presidential memorandum or NSPM, NSPM 7 to be exact — that directs for the first time in American history all of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to work together to disrupt, identify, defund, debank, arrest, and prosecute these political terrorists that are operating in our country. It’s very important to understand that left-wing political terrorism seeks as its ultimate end the overthrow of our system and form of government. And we’ve seen this has taken place many times in many places throughout the years. Left-wing terrorism always ends in bloodshed, misery and suffering. It only can travel in one direction. There’s no point at which the left-wing terrorist is satisfied with his gains and ceases progressing. Inevitably, left to run its course, it always becomes a gulag, it always becomes the mass imprisonment of political enemies, the stripping of their rights and freedoms, inflicting immense pain, humiliation, suffering in order to establish complete and total control, control through psychological and physical and actual terror. And we have to understand that that is the scope and the extent of the threat that we face. Miller did not mention right-wing terrorism in his speech. Real America Voice host Gina Loudon called Miller’s comments, “quite a far cry from the Democrats telling us that Americans were the most dangerous thing, you know, that conservative, Christian, patriotic Americans were the most dangerous people to our republic.” Watch the clip above via Real America’s Voice.The post Stephen Miller Announces Trump Admin Officially Declaring ‘Left-Wing Violence’ As ‘Terrorism’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Fox’s Jennifer Griffin Calls Out Zelensky For a ‘Huge Mistake’ In Battle A...
(Bernat Armangue/Russian Presidential Press Service/AP photos) Fox News’s senior national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin called out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for firing his defense minister, who has helped the country make recent gains against Russia in the form of drone attacks. “Huge mistake by Zelenskyy in firing his very qualified defense minister who had turned the tide of the war with Russia by creatively using asymmetric warfare,” wrote Griffin on X, sharing a speech from the ousted minister, Mykhailo Fedorov. In the clip, Fedorov says, “We need to fight for every single person. We have to win through asymmetry.” Fedorov, who is only 35, was described as “tech-savvy” in reports, which noted he “pushed for innovation in the battlefield through the use of drones and turned the tables on Russia.” Ukraine has used drones to strike deep into Russia, attacking energy infrastructure key to Vladimir Putin’s economy and war effort. Huge mistake by Zelenskyy in firing his very qualified defense minister who had turned the tide of the war with Russia by creatively using asymmetric warfare. https://t.co/BV5EEpbuol — Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) July 16, 2026 Fedorov only served as defense minister for six months and his exit comes amid a government reshuffle. NPR reported, “Parliament has already approved Zelenskyy’s choice for prime minister, Serhii Koretskyi, former CEO of Naftogaz, the country’s largest oil and gas company. Lawmakers must also approve Fedorov’s replacement.” He reported noted that Fedorov had been offered lucrative tech jobs following his term as defense minister: Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Fedorov said he was proud of what his team had accomplished in just six months. He said he had received supportive messages from other defense ministers as well as the leaders of tech giants, including Alex Karp of Palantir, who offered him a job that he turned down. “I don’t need to be Minister of Defense just to be Minister of Defense. I need this position so we can win this war,” told reporters.The post Fox’s Jennifer Griffin Calls Out Zelensky For a ‘Huge Mistake’ In Battle Against Putin first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘The President Must Be Mad!’ The View Roasts JD Vance’s Trump-Epstein Comm...The View’s Alyssa Farah Griffin was stunned at how Vice President J.D. Vance “undermined” Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche on the Epstein files, at the same time Blanche was defending himself before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Blanche sat for his second day of confirmation testimony Thursday in his bid to become attorney general, when Griffin brought up Vance’s comments made to podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday. “What I thought was interesting was this,” Griffin began. “Todd Blanche was grilled more about the administration’s handling. He more or less said there was no evidence that there was a grand conspiracy with more actors beyond Epstein. But while he said this, and while he’s selling to the American public that he should be attorney general, J.D. Vance was on Joe Rogan. And I want to play what he said.” Griffin then rolled tape: VANCE: People want to say we mishandled the Epstein release? Guilty. We did mishandle it, especially the communications of it. ROGAN: What do you think should have been done? VANCE: We should have just dropped everything at the very beginning, and, obviously, like it takes a little time to review the stuff, to find the stuff, to redact things where you have victims, and so forth. But we should have just done it as quickly as possible. “Oh, Trump’s gonna be mad!” taunted Joe Behar, causing laughter in the audience. “J.D. Vance was absolutely right there, but I’ve never seen a vice president so undermine the attorney general pick while he’s literally testifying on Capitol Hill that he handled this the right way!” Griffin said. “It was unbelev — I mean, the president must be mad!” Ana Navarro added, “In that answer, he said that they mishandled it, that they mishandled the comms. I think they mishandled a lot more than the comms. I think they mishandled the substance.” Navarro continued: Let us remember that the only reason that we have gotten only half of the Epstein files released is because Republican women — people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, like Nancy Mace, like Lauren Boebert — refused to bend the knee to Trump. Despite the fact that Trump brought them into the Situation Room, brought Lauren Boebert into the Situation Room and tried to bully her into changing her vote. So, it was because these Republican women, because there was a bipartisan vote to force the release… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Made $100k Betting on His Speeches on Prediction...
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) A longtime teleprompter operator of President Donald Trump reportedly made six figures betting on what the president would say in his speeches. News of the betting activity was revealed in a report from ABC News. According to the report, technical assistant Gabriel Perez allegedly placed bets on “more than a dozen” of Trump’s speeches using the prediction market Kalshi. Those bets even included Trump’s State of the Union address this past February. The report continued: Gabriel Perez, a technical assistant to the president who has been operating Trump’s teleprompter since 2016, is in talks with federal regulators to settle allegations he used his inside knowledge of the president’s speeches to win more than $100,000, the sources said. According to the sources, Kalshi alerted its regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), to the suspicious activity on its “Mentions” market, where users can bet on whether specific words, phrases or topics are uttered during a public speech. Sources also claimed that the bets all took place over a three month period. The president’s speeches during that period included the State of the Union address, a primetime address in December, a speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland in January, and a Medal of Honor ceremony in March. In a statement obtained by ABC News, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said Perez was “fully cooperating with the CFTC.” Shortly after ABC’s report, Kalshi sent a statement to Fox News confirming that its surveillance team “promptly flagged and referred these trades to the CFTC after an exchange investigation.” “We have been assisting regulators on this matter and provided evidence we collected,” said Robert DeNault, the head of enforcement, “as we do in any referral.” Robert DeNault, Head of Enforcement, Kalshi tells FOX:“Our surveillance team promptly flagged and referred these trades to the CFTC after an exchange investigation. We have been assisting regulators on this matter and provided evidence we collected, as we do in any referral.” https://t.co/oTNfSV8gkx — Patrick Ward (@WardDPatrick) July 16, 2026 —The post Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Made $100k Betting on His Speeches on Prediction Market first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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