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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) said President Donald Trump does not actually believe his own lies about the 2020 election. Christie, a former adviser to Trump, spoke at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on Monday night, where he was asked whether the U.S. will have free and fair elections this November. Trump has repeatedly made wild and baseless allegations about mail-in voting, even as he has voted by mail on multiple occasions. Last week, Trump signed an executive order attempting to restrict mail-in voting, even though the president lacks authority over state elections. After losing in 2020, Trump infamously and falsely alleged the election had been rigged against him. It is a falsehood the president repeats, even today. “We’ve never not had them, so we will have them again,” Christie said. “The crap that Donald Trump put out there about the 2020 election is fiction. It’s make-believe. And by the way, I was there in 2020. He doesn’t even believe it. He didn’t believe it. He thought he lost. And he was afraid he was gonna lose all during that fall. So, it’s all a bunch of make-believe stuff.” Trump spent weeks after the 2020 election trying to overturn the results by trying to pressure Republican officials in states he lost to somehow undo the final election numbers. In one notorious phone call, he unsuccessfully pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to “find” him the number of votes necessary to win the state. When these efforts failed, Trump held a rally in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, which ultimately culminated in the deadly Capitol riot. Trump was later criminally charged in federal court for his attempt to overturn the election, but the charges were dropped after he was elected again in 2024, per a Department of Justice policy barring sitting presidents from being indicted. Watch above via C-SPAN.The post ‘He Thought He Lost’: Former Trump Adviser Chris Christie Says President ‘Doesn’t Even Believe’ His Own Election Lies first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Democratic Senate Candidate Once Defended a Marine Who Urinated on Dead Fighters
AP Photo/Caleb Jones Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner once defended a Marine who had urinated on a dead Taliban fighter. On Monday, The New York Post claimed to have gained access to now-deleted Reddit posts from 2013 through 2020 made by the Senate hopeful himself — and it’s not the first time his Reddit posts have been exposed. CNN first linked the former Reddit handle, “P-Hustle,” to Platner in 2025. In the newly leaked post, Platner contradicted himself, asserting that urinating on “bodies is a poor choice” only because of “current media affairs.” “Out of curiosity, what would you say to the many Marines and Soldiers who took trophies and desecrated bodies while fighting the Japanese?” Platner wrote in the Reddit screenshot shared by The New York Post. “I find the urinating on bodies is a poor choice, but only because of the current state of media affairs. It’s amusing that today killing a man isn’t worthy of comment, but God forbid you display dominance. Only 50 years ago, and for the rest of the history of warfare, this stuff was pretty standard.” Platner, a Marine veteran and oyster farmer running on an anti-establishment, populist platform, also called war the “most enjoyable experience of my life” in another Reddit comment, though he recently told The New York Post in a statement that his views have evolved. “I was a teenager when I enlisted in the Marine Corps,” Platner said in the statement. “I was searching for a way to serve my country and I had pride in that service. But also in the years since, like many veterans, I realized how much we were taken advantage of and developed a new understanding of war.” In 2025, CNN called out Platner’s foul-mouthed Reddit tirades. “I have to ask, and I do mean this in the most charitable of ways, but are you retarded?” Platner wrote in one CNN-exposed post, responding to a Canadian commenter who questioned a 2021 vote in Maine to block a U.S.-Canada power transmission project. “We shouldn’t have to eat the pain because you c*nts and Massachusetts couldn’t act like adults. F*ck off and die, leave Maine out of your capitalist fantasies.” The Senate candidate has been the subject of other controversies, too, from an alleged Nazi tattoo that he claims is “just a skull and cross-bones” to his controversial Reddit posts on rape. When his Reddit… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Chris Christie Says He’s ‘Disgusted’ With GOP, Takes Swipe at ‘Vacant Hu...Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R) had some pointed words about Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), stating that the senator typifies what is wrong with today’s GOP. Christie, a former political adviser to President Donald Trump, who unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the 2016 and 2024 Republican presidential nominations, said the president’s hold on the Republican Party has left it morally adrift. “I think anybody who follows politics right now can tell there are no principles left in my party,” Christie said during an interview at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government on Monday night. “And even for people who agree with some of the stuff the president is doing, if you’re really honest with yourself, you know it’s not based on principle. He wakes up every morning and tries to figure out what is the best thing for him to do in his self-interest that day, and that day only. And if it changes the next day, he’ll change.” Christie then lambasted congressional Republicans for being Trump’s “lemmings” who are too scared to call out the president. In particular, the former governor put Graham on blast: The best example of this right now in the 535 members of the United States Congress is Lindsey Graham. This is a man who only cares about his title. Nothing else. Absolutely nothing else. He is a vapid, vacant human being. And for him to say the things he has said about Donald Trump in the past, and all he wants to do is suck up and play another round of golf and pray that he gets the endorsement for the United States Senate. You know, lots of people in my party will say, “Oh, you know, it isn’t the way it used to be and people lack principles.” You gotta say the names. If you really want to be credible on this. And there’s a bunch of other ones I will probably say during this hour tonight. But Graham is the first one. And the reason is because a guy who is a hard-edged politician, but had some principles was John McCain. And John McCain mentored Lindsey Graham. He saw him as like a son. John McCain, I can guarantee you, is spinning in his grave watching Lindsey Graham suck up to Donald Trump. And so, I’m disgusted by what my party looks like in Washington. Watch above via C-SPAN.The post Chris… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- James Carville Says Trump Is Losing It: ‘This Man Is Deteriorating at a Really...Democratic strategist James Carville said one does not need to be a physician to see that President Donald Trump is mentally “deteriorating.” Trump held a press conference at the White House on Monday amid the ongoing war in Iran. On Sunday, he warned Iran that he would bomb the country’s power plants and other civilian infrastructure if it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz, writing on Truth Social, “Open the F*ckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards.” Trump signed off the post by writing, “Praise be to Allah. President Donald J. Trump.” Carville appeared on Monday’s edition of The Beat on MS NOW, where host Ari Melber noted the growing discontent among some MAGA commentators, including Alex Jones, who last week said it is time to “cut bait on Trump.” “I’m gonna show you Alex Jones, not because he’s a source for anything true,” Melber told Carville. But only because he has been in this right-wing swamp.” “They’ve closed the strait,” Jones said in the clip. “It’s killing the economy. America is sinking in global rankings, likability. It’s just not what we voted for. We’ve never seen rhetoric out of presidents like this when we go to war, even if you’re for this war. This is really bad PR, folks. This is what I’m talking about, the way Trump’s behaving, way more erratic. His speech is not coherent all the time. You can’t deny this is happening. This is a clown show, folks, and I’m really worried.” Carville reacted: You don’t have to be a neurologist or Dr. Jonathan Reiner or anything like that. We’ve all had experience with people aging. We’ve all had this experience. And you could just look at the guy as just an average person and say, “This man is deteriorating at a really rapid rate.” I don’t know, I mean, but it’s evident. I mean, Alex Jones sees it, you see, can see it all over the right. Got Megyn Kelly and Tucker [Carlson] fighting with Mark Levin. I can’t even keep track of all of them. They hate each other when they hate us. Watch above via MS NOW.The post James Carville Says Trump Is Losing It: ‘This Man Is Deteriorating at a Really Rapid Rate’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Kevin Williamson Calls Bondi’s Reign at DOJ ‘A Crime Spree’ — Calls for ...
AP Photo/Tom Brenner The Dispatch’s national correspondent Kevin Williamson eviscerated Pam Bondi’s tenure as Attorney General in a column Monday, accusing her of having presided over “a crime spree” and calling for the Florida Bar to disbar her. Last Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that Bondi was leaving her position as Attorney General, and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would step into the role on an interim basis. Rumors had been circulating for weeks that the president was unhappy with Bondi’s work as AG for multiple reasons, but especially her handling of the Epstein files. Earlier this month, Bondi had back-to-back appearances before congressional committees on the topic of the deceased child sex predator that were widely viewed as a disaster. Still, Trump maintains he is still happy with Bondi and wished her well in her future private sector gig. The matter seems far from settled for Bondi’s numerous critics on both sides of the aisle, including both MAGA Republicans frustrated with the lack of new prosecutions from the Epstein files and those who have denounced many of the DOJ’s prosecutions under her leadership as unconstitutional, politically motivated, or otherwise improper. Williamson focused on Bondi’s use of prosecutions as a form of “political vendetta” in his column on Monday, which was titled “Justice, Upside Down.” The former attorney general “is an exemplary specimen of the sort of people who thrive in Donald Trump’s orbit: She is in a profound moral sense a criminal, but we lack an appropriate law under which to prosecute her,” wrote Williamson, declaring Bondi’s 14 months leading DOJ as using “her official duties” to conduct “a crime spree.” “Her legacy is that she used the DOJ to launch a series of pretextual criminal investigations and prosecutions targeting the president’s political enemies, even when there was not the hint of an actual legal case to be made against them,” listing numerous local officials in Minnesota, Democratic elected officials, and several former Trump administration officials who had become targets of the president’s wrath — and ended up facing a prosecution from a DOJ run by his appointees as a result. Bondi accomplished “very little” while she was at DOJ other than abuse the awesome powers of the DOJ to abuse, harass, and conduct retribution against the president’s political enemies,” he added, other than the surreal photo-op where she handed out “a bunch of fake ‘Epstein files’ binders” to… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - The ChatGPT Symptom Spiral
After George Mallon had his blood drawn at a routine physical, he learned that something may be gravely wrong. The preliminary results showed he might have blood cancer. Further tests would be needed. Left in suspense, he did what so many people do these days: He opened ChatGPT.For nearly two weeks, Mallon, a 46-year-old in Liverpool, England, spent hours each day talking with the chatbot about the potential diagnosis. “It just sent me around on this crazy Ferris wheel of emotion and fear,” Mallon told me. His follow-up tests showed it wasn’t cancer after all, but he could not stop talking to ChatGPT about health concerns, querying the bot about every sensation he felt in his body for months. He became convinced that something must be wrong—that a different cancer, or maybe multiple sclerosis or ALS, was lurking in his body. Prompted by his conversations with ChatGPT, he saw various specialists and got MRIs on his head, neck, and spine.Mallon told me he believes that the cancer scare and ChatGPT together caused him to develop this crippling health anxiety. But he blames the chatbot for keeping him spiraling even after the additional tests indicated that he wasn’t sick. “I couldn’t put it down,” he said. The chatbot kept the conversation going and surfaced articles for him to read. Its humanlike replies led Mallon to view it as a friend.The first time we met over a video call, Mallon was still shaken by the experience even though the better part of a year had passed. He told me he was “seven months sober” from talking with the chatbot about health symptoms after seeking help from a mental-health coach and starting anxiety medication. But he also feared he could get sucked back in at any moment. When we spoke again a few months later, he shared that he had briefly fallen into the routine again.Others seem to be struggling with this problem. Online communities focused on health anxiety—an umbrella term for excessive worrying about illness or bodily sensations—are filling up with conversations about ChatGPT and other AI tools. Some say it makes them spiral more than ever, while others who feel like it helps in the moment admit it’s morphed into a compulsion they struggle to resist. I spoke with four therapists who treat the condition (including my own); they all said that they’re seeing clients use chatbots in this way, and… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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