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- Republican Lawmaker Presses SPLC Boss On Whether Graham Platner’s Nazi Tattoo ...
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) pressed Southern Poverty Law Center interim CEO Bryan Fair on whether Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) should be disqualified from holding public office, considering he had a Nazi tattoo for years. Gill asked Fair for his take on Platner during a House Judiciary Committee hearing focused on the SPLC on Tuesday. “Do people who aren’t Nazis normally get Nazi tattoos on their chest?” Gill asked. Gill was holding up a picture of a shirtless Platner that showed his infamous Totenkopf tattoo on his portly chest; Platner has since had it removed. “I assume they don’t,” Fair said. Gill continued, asking whether Fair believed someone with a Nazi tattoo should serve in the U.S. Senate. “I wouldn’t vote for that person,” Fair said. That made the conservative lawmaker chuckle. “I certainly wouldn’t either,” Gill said. “Do you think this should disqualify him politically from serving in the Senate?” Gill continued. After a bit of quibbling from Fair, Gill said the SPLC has referred to the Totenkopf as a “racist skinhead symbol.” Fair then said he wouldn’t want someone with that tattoo serving as a senator. “I appreciate your candor,” Gill said. Tuesday’s hearing comes after the Justice Department in April indicted the SPLC on fraud charges for allegedly running a stealth years-long campaign that paid millions of dollars to hate group members. It also comes as Platner has faced several recent controversies. Beyond the Nazi tattoo, a ton of sordid Reddit comments have emerged — including one where complimented Nazi era military helmets — and The Wall Street Journal broke the news he sexted several women who were not his wife; Platner bashed the report, saying it was the “establishment media” trying to sabotage his loving marriage. That was followed up by a report from The New York Times last week where Platner was accused of “unsettling” behavior by women he used to date. As for Gill, he went fairly viral last week when a Democratic lawmaker from Ohio said he almost made her cry when he asked if her state had benefited from Somali immigrants. Watch above via C-SPAN.The post Republican Lawmaker Presses SPLC Boss On Whether Graham Platner’s Nazi Tattoo Should DQ Him From Senate first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.31 mins ago - McConnell Warns Trump Admin Defense Budget Will Put ‘Key Priorities at Unneces...
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was highly critical of the defense budget request by President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday, shredding it during a committee hearing as putting “key priorities at unnecessary risk” of “major disruptions.” The 84-year-old senior senator from Kentucky is retiring, having announced in February 2025 that he would not be running for re-election. He has served in the Senate since 1985 and spent years as both Senate Majority and Minority Leader as the Republicans’ electoral fortunes waxed and waned. McConnell previously stepped down from his party leadership role in 2024 and was replaced by Sen. John Thune (R-SD). At Tuesday’s hearing for the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to review the Trump administration’s budget request for the Air Force and Space Force (which was established as part of the Air Force), McConnell delivered opening remarks before Air Force Secretary Troy Meink, Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach, and Space Force Chief of Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman testified about budgetary needs and plans. After speaking briefly to acknowledge the “devotion and sacrifice” of U.S. service members, McConnell, who chairs the subcommittee, dug into the specifics of the administration’s budget, warning that the “structure” of this request “would put consistent funding for key priorities at unnecessary risk.” A main reason for McConnell’s criticism was his assessment that there were “core pieces of the president’s defense agenda” that were “requested as one-off reconciliation spending, not full-year base appropriations,” including “multi-year procurement contracts for critical munitions, half of the F-35 program, Golden Dome, and drone dominance initiatives.” “This is especially mystifying for multiyear procurement contracts,” he explained. “I mean, the need to budget for them annually is right there in the name.” “The Administration’s choice to structure an ambitious $1.5 trillion dollar request in this way is yet another missed opportunity to put key aspects of our common defense on a stronger and more enduring fiscal footing,” McConnell added, arguing that the problem was bigger than just semantics, but was “a recipe for major disruptions in the very possible event that party-line reconciliation fails.” He further warned that the Pentagon “will continue to step on its own tail if it insists in housing procurement of new airframes [for the F-35] primarily in one-off reconciliation spending,” calling the F-35 key to “operational readiness” for both the U.S. and our “key allies.” Therefore, McConnell said, “there’s really no excuse for… [TheTopNews] Read More.39 mins ago - Pro-Trump PAC Drops AI-Generated Attack Ad of James Talarico In a Dress
Screenshot via social media A pro-Trump PAC is reportedly set to drop a six-figure ad buy to promote an AI-generated clip attacking Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, putting him in a dress. Daily Caller White House Correspondent Reagan Reese reported on Tuesday that Citizens for Sanity (CFS), a conservative political action committee, created the attack ad, which shows Talarico as the main character from “The Sound of Music,” Maria. In the clip, the AI Talarico sings the musical’s hit number “My Favorite Things” with the lyrics changed to a satire of pro-trans messaging. “Boys in white dresses with blue satin sashes. Girls dosed with hormones til they grow mustaches. Changing the gender of all your offspring. These are a few of my favorite things,” sings the AI-generated Talarico. Talarico has recently walked back some of his past comments related to gender and trans issues, including saying in 2021 that “God is nonbinary.” In late May, ABC News reported on Talarico “waking back” that comment: When pressed on his comments, Talarico replied that they were “meant to be deliberately provocative” and that he believes “you can’t use human categories to define God.” He said that Republicans are seizing on the comments “to try and distract from the corrupt system that Ken Paxton embodies.” Reese added that CFS is known for “targeting Democratic woke agendas, absent border security and rising crime rates” and that the group “dropped $93 million during the 2022 midterms, funding ads that exposed the climbing number of crimes in Democrat-governed cities.” Talarico is running against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) in November’s general election. Paxton, who received Trump’s endorsement, has long been plagued by corruption scandals and is currently being divorced by his wife on “biblical grounds.” NEW: The Trump-aligned org Citizens for Sanity is dropping a six-figure ad buy in the Texas Senate race. The ad is a 15 second clip of AI-generated James Talarico singing a "trans kids" rendition of “Favorite Things." Obtained first by @DailyCaller: pic.twitter.com/JNY8vxYueG — Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) June 9, 2026 Watch the clip above.The post Pro-Trump PAC Drops AI-Generated Attack Ad of James Talarico In a Dress first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - GOP Senate Leader Claims Trump is ‘Weighing Seriously’ a New DNI Pick to Rep...A week after President Donald Trump appointed Bill Pulte to take over as acting Director of National Intelligence, it seems the White House is already looking to move on from him. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) signaled on Tuesday that the Trump administration may soon announce a more permanent pick for the DNI role, The Hill reported. “I don’t think about replacing Pulte,” Thune said on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “I think they’re weighing seriously making a long-term pick. Pulte, the former head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was named by Trump just last week to replace Tulsi Gabbard, who stepped down from Trump’s cabinet while her husband battles cancer. The pick quickly ignited controversy, given Pulte’s lack of military or intelligence experience, and his efforts to dig up mortgage fraud allegations against Trump’s perceived enemies, like New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. It’s not the first time Thune has spoken out against the Pulte appointment. When asked about the possibility of Pulte potentially weaponizing his position last week, Thune said, “We don’t need a weaponized DNI; we need professionals there.” Watch above via CNN.The post GOP Senate Leader Claims Trump is ‘Weighing Seriously’ a New DNI Pick to Replace BIll Pulte — Who He Appointed Last Week first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- CNN’s Kailtan Collins: MAGA Doesn’t Realize Trump ‘Seeks Validation’ Fro...
(Photo Credit: CNN) CNN star Kaitlan Collins said President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” base doesn’t realize he “seeks validation” from the same mainstream media outlets he and MAGA all deride as “fake news.” Collins gave her take on Trump’s relationship with the press for a piece she did with Interview Magazine on Tuesday. “I do think he’s very much someone who is one way in front of the cameras and another when he’s off the record. He has always played the media game,” Collins said about Trump. “He used to impersonate someone and call in and speak positively about himself. I think his base doesn’t always realize he seeks validation from the same mainstream media they all trash.” She then told her interviewer, The New York Times White House correspondent Shawn McCreesh, that should be obvious if you look at who he speaks to. “Look at who he’s calling about the war. He’s calling mainstream reporters,” Collins said. McCreesh then asked, “Do you think he’s back to his old insecurities about the coverage?” Collins answered: I think he’s always felt the same about coverage, and I think there’s a reason he calls reporters or answers their calls. He really believes he’s his own best spokesperson. The other day he joked—and I say joked because he kind of laughed, but I’m still not sure—about why he gets such bad press coverage. He said, “Maybe it’s because of my people.” Every press secretary he’s ever had, from Kayleigh McEnany and Sarah [Huckabee] Sanders to Sean Spicer and Stephanie Grisham, has dealt with this. There is always the risk he’ll say something that undermines what they’ve said. The Interview story ran a week after Trump went scorched earth on Collins at the White House on live TV. “[Collins] never smiles. You never-, she’s a young, beautiful woman. Never smiles, I never see a smile off her face, I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes,” Trump said. “She has hatred because we have borders, because we have a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because we do things that everybody wanted.” The Interview interview happened on April 22, so McCreesh did not get her reaction to that wild moment. She did reference another time Trump bashed her for not smiling enough earlier this year. “I remember looking at the Republican lawmakers who were in the room… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - ‘ICE Is Not Welcome!’ Knicks Superfan Spike Lee Demands ICE Steer Clear of P... Acclaimed filmmaker and New York Knicks superfan Spike Lee wants ICE agents to steer clear of the team’s championship parade if it manages to win the NBA Finals. The Knicks won the first two games of the series against the San Antonio Spurs. On Monday, the Knicks hosted the Spurs with a chance to take a commanding 3-0 lead. A win on Monday would have all but guaranteed a championship for New York, as no team has ever come back to win a best-of-seven series after trailing 3-0. The Spurs narrowly avoided that fate with a 115-111 win. Prior to Monday’s Game 3, Lee was already immensely confident that the Knicks were going to win it all. In a recent interview with Andscape’s Bill C. Rhoden, Lee began to paint a picture of what the parade would look like. “It’s going to be a love fest,” Lee said, “and people gonna be hugging and kissing each other. Total strangers. You know what? But we’re New Yorkers. That’s the bomb. I’m telling you, it’s going to happen. This is going to happen.” Later in the conversation, Lee claimed that NYPD would not be able to contain the chaos of the championship celebrations. He then added that ICE was not welcome if the city looked to bring in additional resources. “When we win, whether it’s home or away, there’s going to be such– it’s going to be bananas,” Lee said. “It’s going to be craziness. It’s going to be love. And NYPD can’t control that. The Marines, National Guard– just don’t bring in the motherf*cking ICE. No ICE. I’ve said this more than once. ICE is not welcome.”The post ‘ICE Is Not Welcome!’ Knicks Superfan Spike Lee Demands ICE Steer Clear of Parade If NY Wins NBA Finals first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
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