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- Pentagon Reportedly Warned Will Take Six Months to Clear Strait of Hormuz of Ira...
CNN reported on Thursday that a Pentagon official told lawmakers on Capitol Hill in a classified briefing that it could take up to six months to clear the Strait of Hormuz from mines laid by Iran. Anchor Brianna Keilar brought on Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) to discuss the reporting. “As the president is making these threats against Iranian mine boats, talking about shooting and killing them, the Pentagon briefed lawmakers on House Armed Services Tuesday on an intel assessment where it says that it could take up to six months to fully clear the strait of mines after the war with Iran ends, which obviously it has not. Can you tell us more about the briefing? Is there more context to it than that?” Keilar asked Moulton, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee. “No, I can’t talk about the classified briefing, but I’ll say this: President Trump is not only losing this war that he started, he’s losing the peace as well. I mean, it was just weeks ago that he demanded unconditional surrender from the Iranians,” Moulton replied, adding: Unconditional surrender. And now he’s begging them to come back to the negotiating table so that he can work out some sort of deal to reopen the strait, a strait that was open before he started this war. And why does it matter? Because oil prices are going to continue to go up, Americans are going to continue to pay more at the pump as long as the strait is closed. So the Iranians, to be honest, have all the time in the world. They are in control right now. They control the straits, not the Americans. And that’s why Trump needs to find a way to bring this negotiation to a close so that they actually can reopen the strait and they can get to work demining, or whatever else they need to do to ensure safe passage of these ships. Keilar followed up, “But even after — let’s say that this comes to an end, there is an agreement and nominally the strait is open — should we as Americans be prepared to deal for months with all of the things that come with the strait being essentially closed: the high gas prices, the high prices for other products, when you consider that fertilizer, so much of it is hung up there in the… [TheTopNews] Read More.32 mins ago - CBS’s Ed O’Keefe Presses Trump On Using Foreign Granite In White House Const...CBS’s Ed O’Keefe pressed President Donald Trump on his administration’s use of foreign granite in White House construction projects while in the Oval Office on Thursday. As he fielded questions from the press, the president revealed his administration is adding granite to his White House improvements. He directed reporters to look outside as he explained some of the construction and “big, big beautification.” “We’re putting magnificent new granite, charcoal, black granite, against the white, beautiful white walls, and we’ve stripped all of the paint off,” he said. “We had 200 years of paint, and we’ve redone it, and it’s beautiful. And you can see the building, but you can also see the columns and everything else, but we’re replacing it … You see the large slabs of black granite. Granite is rated as, this particular granite, at over a million year life. As an example, concrete gets rated for about 200 years if you get very high grade. Can you imagine, nature produces something better than you can make? So, it’s very interesting. It’s a beautiful job they are doing. And it’s highly polished granite in the areas you don’t walk on, and it’s called flame-finished, so if you do walk on it, there is no slip.” As the reporters were being ushered out of the Oval Office upon the conclusion of the press conference, O’Keefe stopped in front of the president’s desk to inquire about the new granite’s origins: “Where did the granite come from?” Trump informed him it came from Italy as O’Keefe quizzed, “From Italy? So it’s Italian granite?” The president explained in further detail. “Well, it came from Italy, it was carved in Italy, it came from another location,” he said. You know where the location is? Africa.” “So you have African and Italian granite outside the Oval Office?” O’Keefe dug further. “Yeah, is that okay?” Trump asked. “I’m just asking,” O’Keefe claimed as he left the Oval Office.The post CBS’s Ed O’Keefe Presses Trump On Using Foreign Granite In White House Construction first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.45 mins ago
- ‘The Man Was Disarmed!’ Tom Homan Grilled On Alex Pretti Shooting In Tense E...Trump official Tom Homan was confronted with a challenging question at a Turning Point USA event, where podcaster Benny Johnson hosted a Q&A with the border czar. “So, my question is specifically in response to the administration’s response to the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota,” the audience member began. “The biggest issue I have with that, obviously, is beyond the actual act itself, which, we all saw the video, right? There was a protester. Upwards of 15 ICE agents gathered around him. They disarmed him about five seconds before he was shot and killed. That’s extremely concerning to someone who believes in limited government and who believes in civil liberties.” He continued: Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller put out tweets saying that this guy was a “domestic terrorist.” I believe it was Stephen Miller that said he was trying to do “maximum harm to law enforcement.” It reminds me of the George Orwell quote in 1984, “The party told you to forget your eyes and ears.” We all saw the video, we all saw what happened, and the administration’s gut response by top officials was to immediately deny any accountability for what happened. And I understand there’s videos of [Pretti] kicking cars, I understand that. All of that is irrelevant. The man was disarmed…And then, rightfully, the president pulled Greg Bovino and put you there. That made me happy. I believe you are a professional, and I respect the work that you do. But is the administration ever going to take accountability? And are those ICE agents that shot and murdered that man ever going to be held accountable? “After those shootings, I get a call from President Trump, and he wanted me to go to Minnesota and fix some things and de-escalate,” Homan said. “I didn’t ask for Minnesota; the president sent me there the very next day. I can tell you, the deaths that occurred up there are tragedies and unfortunate. But they’re being investigated. I can assure you the FBI is.” Homan said he was doing an interview with a news network when the Renee Good shooting happened, and the reporter asked for his comments. “I says, ‘I’m not going to comment. It needs to be investigated, and we’ll hold people that violate law policy accountable,'” Homan said. “I’m not going to comment on an ongoing investigation. As a career cop, you just don’t do… [TheTopNews] Read More.52 mins ago
- Trump Says High Oil Prices Worth It to Prevent ‘Nuclear Holocaust In Europe’President Donald Trump was pressed in the Oval Office on Thursday about gas prices after he said he once worried they could go as high as $200 a barrel due to the war in Iran. A reporter asked if Trump would be willing to accept $200 oil in order to continue the war. “I think that there’s nothing worse than a nuclear weapon that takes out one of your cities, or two of your cities, or three. I think there’s something worse than the nuclear weapon is going to destroy the Middle East, including Israel,” Trump replied, adding: I think there is nothing worse than Europe being under attack by people that have missiles now that reach Europe. As you know, they don’t reach us, but they reach Europe — but they will reach us at some time, probably in the not too distant future, unless we stop them now. I think there would be nothing worse than having a nuclear holocaust in Europe — London, Paris, various places in Germany — all targeted. Now, what I say is you can’t let them have. I don’t think it will happen, by the way. I really think — we actually, it turns out, that we are “drill, baby, drill” and it turns out we’re producing a lot of oil, and they’re buying the oil. They’re going to Alaska, they’re going to Texas, Louisiana. And our guys have done a fantastic job. We’re putting out, right now, more oil and gas than we ever have in the history of our country. And one other thing — there are more people employed today in the United States than ever in the history of the country, okay? Watch the clip above via Fox News.The post Trump Says High Oil Prices Worth It to Prevent ‘Nuclear Holocaust In Europe’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- ‘Stupid Question!’ Trump Fumes At Being Asked If He’d Ever Use a Nuke on I...President Donald Trump took exception to a reporter asking him Thursday if he’d ever consider using a nuclear weapon on Iran. At the time of writing, the war was in its eighth week, with the U.S. and Iran still unable to finalize a peace agreement. The two sides agreed on a ceasefire weeks earlier in the month, and after Trump initially set a deadline for April 22 and vowed to resume attacks if an agreement wasn’t reached, he announced an extension so the sides could continue dialogue. Prior to the initial ceasefire announcement, Trump left the global community in a frenzy when he threatened to wipe out the entirety of Iran’s civilization. Supporters of his dismissed the threats as a negotiating tactic, while critics interpreted the remarks as a threat to use nuclear arms. During a Q&A in the Oval Office on Thursday, PBS correspondent Liz Landers bluntly asked Trump if he’d ever resort to nukes against Iran. The exchange went as follows: LANDERS: Sir, would you use a nuclear weapon against Iran? You posted on Social a few weeks ago– TRUMP: No, no, we don’t need it. Why do I need it? Why would a stupid question like that be asked? Why would I use a nuclear weapon when we’ve totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it? No, I wouldn’t use it. A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody. Watch above via Fox NewsThe post ‘Stupid Question!’ Trump Fumes At Being Asked If He’d Ever Use a Nuke on Iran first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- ‘You’re Such a Disgrace!’ Trump Rages At Reporter Questioning Trump’s Ir...President Donald Trump raged at a reporter for being “such a disgrace!” after questioning his Iran War timeline. Trump took questions from the press in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon, with one reporter asking the president to elaborate on the duration of the Iran War, which is now in its eighth week, after his administration initially claimed it would be over within “four to six weeks.” In his response, the president said he “hoped” the timing would have been that brief, but it did not account for the “break” to broker a deal. “I hoped that, but I also took a little break, I gave them a break,” he said. “And remember this: I want to make the best deal. I could make a deal right now. Do you know that if I left right now — we had a tremendous success, it would take them 20 years to rebuild, but I don’t want to do that. I want to have it everlasting. I want to have it where they never have a chance to get — I mean, the way you ask that question, yeah, I did say it. I thought it would take 4-6 weeks, and I was right, because at the end of six weeks, at the end of four weeks, their military was decimated.” He declined to put time restrictions on the current proceedings. “I don’t want to put that kind of a timetable on it,” he said. “But it will go pretty quickly. And we’ll have the Strait [of Hormuz] opened up. Now, right now we have it closed. We have total control of the strait, and the fact that it slows — you know, they would have opened it up three days ago. They came to us and they said we will agree to open the strait, and all my people were happy, everybody was happy except me. And I said, ‘Wait a minute if we open the strait that means they’re going to make $500 million a day. I don’t want them to make $500 million a day until they settle this thing.’ So I’m the one that kept it closed. We have total control of it. And it will open when they make a deal, or something else happens, that’s very possible.” Nonetheless, the questions about timeline kept rolling in with Jasmine Wright, NOTUS’s White House Correspondent, asking, “Excuse me,… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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