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- Kash Patel Slams Dem Senator’s ‘Charade of Lies’ in Fiery Clash
FBI Director Kash Patel accused Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) of staging a “charade of lies” Tuesday as a Senate hearing descended into a bitter confrontation over the bureau’s role in November’s midterm elections. The clash erupted during Patel’s oversight appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Welch pressed the FBI chief over whether federal agents would be present at polling places on Election Day. Patel said the FBI has an election crimes community coordinator in each of its field offices, adding: “so you bet we’re going to have them there and manning the polls for election interference matters.” “Election integrity is of paramount importance,” Patel said. “This FBI’s not going to shy away from this effort.” Welch seized on the remarks, arguing they appeared to conflict with Patel’s earlier assurances. “This is existential. You told Mr. [Richard] Blumenthal you weren’t sending FBI agents to election sites and, according to Mr. James, you said ‘the FBI is on the way.’ This is about whether the United States citizens, Republicans, Democrats, independents are the deciders of this election or there’s election interference led by the FBI in the Trump administration,” the Democrat railed. “That’s what this is about.” “Do you pledge that you will not in any way interfere in the will of the American people when they go to the polls in November?” Welch asked. “I pledge unequivocally that I will not participate in your charade of lies,” Patel replied. Welch followed: “Then why are you being such a panderer to President [Donald] Trump, who’s still claiming that he won the 2020 election, and who has said the only way Democrats can win in 2026 is if they cheat? Do you believe that?” “What I believe in is the rule of law. What I will always believe –” Patel began. “The rule of law is the president saying in advance it’s been rigged,” Welch interjected. “Are you done with your campaign ad, by the way?” Patel shot back. Patel then turned the exchange personal, telling Welch: “I want to know how your wealth increased 4,000% since you became a United States senator, that’s a magic act all Americans should be [aware of].” The jab prompted applause from a lone member of the public observing the hearing. “Let’s knock it off,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R) said as he restored order only for Welch to pivot to a new… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago - Johnson Dances Around Question Comparing Trump’s $5K Check Plan to Communism: ...House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) dodged a pointed question from Eric Michael Garcia, The Independent’s DC bureau chief, about President Donald Trump’s promise to give out $5,000 checks should the GOP win in November. “You’re talking a lot about communism. How is communism any different from what President Trump is doing, getting equity stakes and promising $5,000 checks to Americans and having equity in steel?” Garcia asked Johnson during a Tuesday presser. “So, what the president is articulating—and he comes up with creative ideas all the time, he’s the ideas president, and we have a hard time keeping pace with it sometimes—he debuted at the convention, famously, the idea of basically a dividend check to Americans, right? We’re processing that,” Johnson replied, ignoring the communism comparison. “I mean, we’ve just now gotten everybody here, and we’re talking about all that. What he’s trying to articulate is the obvious truth that is demonstrable, and we can stay here all morning. We can talk to you about that. If you want more money in your pockets, you’ve got to keep Republicans in charge. That’s what the President’s talking about,” Johnson continued, adding: We have done that—not just, again, not rhetoric, it’s record. Look what’s happened. When we did our legislation—the Working Families Tax Cut, for example, the Big Beautiful Bill—it put more money in your pocket. In my state of Louisiana, the average Louisianan has $2,915 more in their pocket right now. They did not have to send it in on their taxes this year, because we got our policies enacted. The average take-home pay in Louisiana is around $8,000 more than Americans have, because of our policies. We cut taxes, we cut regulations, we limited the size of government. I mentioned a million new jobs added—those are private sector jobs. We’re shrinking government and growing the private sector. That is the free enterprise system, that is the free market, that is what we defend. That is where Democrats have disdain. If you put them in charge—listen, look at what they’re doing. Mamdani in New York, he wants to grow government. What happens when you grow government? You have to tax more, and they take more of your hard-earned resources. It never works. We started a website, ContrastForAmerica.com—everybody go look at that, because in just a couple of pages we summarize for you the nightmare that is the road to… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- White House Press Aide Jabs Back at Journalist Who Dismissed Her as ‘Blonde Tr...
(Screengrab via CSPAN/Aaron Rupar) White House Press Assistant Ellie Acra jabbed back at liberal journalist Aaron Rupar on Tuesday, two days after he branded her a “blonde Trump flunkie” for shooing away journalists from President Donald Trump. “BREAKING: I am a press wrangler actually wrangling!” Acra posted on X. She was responding to a clip Rupar shared on Sunday, where Acra was seen telling reporters they were finished speaking with the president because he was about to board his flight back from Ireland. The C-SPAN clip showed Acra repeatedly thanking reporters but telling them they were done asking questions, all while Trump spoke to his family a few feet away. “Sorry, that’s what I’m told to do,” she was heard saying. “You have to go. Press! Thank you, thank you.” But Rupar felt she was a bit too aggressive, apparently. He captioned the clip, “Another blonde Trump flunkie starts literally shoving photographers away from Trump.” The clip only showed Acra’s head, so it’s unclear if she was “literally shoving” people away, as he claimed. BREAKING: I am a press wrangler actually wrangling! https://t.co/cMGzvYdtir — Ellie Acra (@ellieacra) September 15, 2026 Before Acra’s response on Tuesday, several reporters from right-leaning outlets and other White House officials came to her defense and bashed Rupar. The Daily Wire reporter Mary Margaret Olohan called Rupar’s post “ignorant” and “misogynistic,” and Fox News reporter Peter D’Abrosca scoffed at his complaint, saying Acra’s “job is literally to wrangle the press.” Rupar is one of the top accounts on X when it comes to clipping videos of Trump and other politicians. The self-described “lifelong liberal Democrat” was dubbed “the man who watches Trump all day, every day” in an April profile by The New York Times, which reported he spends 80 hours a week monitoring the president. Rupar has made no secret to his 1.1 million followers that he loathes Trump , including in a post earlier this year when he called the president a “demented old man.” His beef with Acra comes on the heels of the White House ripping Rupar for his “creepy” posts about Trump’s executive aide Natalie Harp.The post White House Press Aide Jabs Back at Journalist Who Dismissed Her as ‘Blonde Trump Flunkie’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - Preliminary Data Shows 60 Minutes Premiere Ratings Dropped to 25-Year Low
60 Minutes 2026 Season 60 Minutes appears on track to record its worst season premiere ratings in more than a quarter-century as the storied CBS newsmagazine returned Sunday following a staff overhaul under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. Sunday’s season opener drew an estimated 7.7 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen figures, making it the least-watched 60 Minutes premiere in records stretching back to at least 2000. Under these figures the audience was down 19% from last year’s premiere, while viewership among adults aged 25 to 54 plunged 33%. The final figures are scheduled for release at 4pm (ET) on Tuesday, but the result is an early setback for CBS after months of intense scrutiny surrounding Weiss’s remake of one of television’s most prominent news programs. Perhaps more striking was the audience delivered to the broadcast. An NFL game immediately preceding 60 Minutes attracted 18.4 million viewers, meaning more than 10 million viewers disappeared before the newsmagazine began. The numbers, however, are preliminary and could rise when Nielsen releases its final figures Tuesday afternoon. Sunday’s premiere featured correspondent Norah O’Donnell interviewing an Air Force officer shot down over Iran, Lesley Stahl investigating the presidential pardon business and Jon Wertheim profiling the Los Angeles Rams. Former New York Times conservative columnist Ross Douthat closed the broadcast with a segment about artificial intelligence and the importance of “journalism you can trust.” The show was met with some backlash from liberal pundits and critics, who focused on the appearance of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, but was largely well-received. Puck media correspondent Dylan Byers also cautioned against drawing sweeping conclusions from the initial comparison, pointing to changes in how television audiences are now measured. “Critics will treat that as a big deal, and it’ll sting inside 60, but the truth is that Nielsen just changed its methodology (pissing off NFL, among others) and, as CBS PR is eager to point out, Fox also has double header NFL game this year. Main point here is that, as with so much TV, ratings are impacted by myriad forces,” Byers wrote on X. “In any event, preliminary numbers are 7.7 million but will likely finish slightly higher,” he added. NEW: Based on preliminary Nielsen data, the 60 Minutes debut is going to come in lower than last year’s premiere. Critics will treat that as a big deal, and it’ll sting inside 60, but the truth is that… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago - ‘No Bueno!’ CNN Data Guru Warns ‘Republicans Should Be Running Scared’ O...CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten broke down President Donald Trump’s plummeting support among working-class Latino voters ahead of the midterm elections. Enten began the Tuesday morning segment by noting Trump gained historic support among that group of voters in the 2024 election. Against former Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump actually won working-class Latinos by a point. Since then, however, that support has evaporated, according to Enten: No bueno if you’re the president of the United States, because just take a look here: working-class Latinos, he had a massive breakthrough in 2024. He won working-class Latinos, he won non-college Latino voters by a point over Kamala Harris. That’s a major breakthrough for a Republican president or Republican running for president. But that win that he had? Adios, amigos. Goodbye, see you later. Look at his net approval rating now in an average of polls — CNN, SSRS polls across 2026 — he’s 42 points underwater! That is a switcheroo, Kate Bolduan, of what, 43 points shifting away from the President of the United States. His support rapidly declining, plummeting among working-class Latinos, a group that helped get him elected back in 2024. That support has cratered primarily due to Trump’s handling of immigration. In 2024, non-college Latino voters trusted Trump over Harris by a margin of nine points. In 2026, Trump’s net approval on the issue dropped to -47. Enten then pointed to highly-anticipated Senate election between James Talarico (D)and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), noting that Talarico’s polling edge with non-college Latino voters mirrored the margin by which Trump won the same group in the state in 2024. He added: Donald Trump won that vote by 15 points, but we have a key Senate race going on between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton. Look at this: James Talarico is up by 13 points among non-college Latinos in the great state of Texas. That is a shift away of 28 points, and this is the type of movement that could help James Talarico become the first Democrat to win a Senate race in Texas since 1988. You put together these big gains with working class Latinos for James Talarico, along with those massive gains among whites with a college degree in Texas, and that is a winning formula for Democrats in Texas. Republicans should be running scared. Ken Paxton should be running scared. These are… [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
- NEW POLL: Dems Wallop GOP on Congressional Ballot As GOP Approval of Trump’s E...
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) A new New York Times-Siena University poll released on Tuesday found Democrats walloping Republicans on the generic congressional ballot by 51 to 43%. The poll conducted between Sept. 8 and Sept. 13 also found that among the 1,503 likely voters surveyed nationwide, 52% would support a Democrat for governor while 41% would support a Republican. Republicans fared best in the race for the Senate, with Democrats leading by six points, 49 to 43%. Broken down by issue, Democrats also scored decisive leads over Republicans – even on some of the key issues that got President Donald Trump reelected. On healthcare, Democrats led 60 to 36% – a massive 24-point margin. On the economy and immigration, Democrats also held a lead – beating the GOP by 7 points on both. Democrats also led on the deficit, the cost of living, foreign wars, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The GOP led by a two-point margin on artificial intelligence. On the economy, which voters ranked as the top issue, the poll found nothing but dire news for the president and his party. Only 14% of respondents said the economy was better off today than it was a year ago, down from 31% in January. “The erosion among Republicans is especially stark. While 72 percent of Republicans said in January that the economy was better than it had been the prior year, only 29 percent of Republicans said so now,” noted The Times’ summary of the poll, adding: Still, independent voters have especially soured on Mr. Trump. Just 10 percent of them said the economy was better today than a year ago and only 27 percent approve of Mr. Trump’s job performance overall. And in the fight for Congress, 57 percent of independent voters said they planned to vote for a Democrat compared to only 34 percent for a Republican. Concerns about the economy have realigned many of the voters who made up Trump’s winning 2024 coalition. “Those earning less than $50,000 were more than twice as likely to say they would vote for a Democratic congressional candidate this fall rather than a Republican, 63 percent to 31 percent. That would represent a dramatic shift from 2024, when Mr. Trump narrowly carried that group, according to exit polling,” added the Times.The post NEW POLL: Dems Wallop GOP on Congressional Ballot As GOP Approval of Trump’s Economy Collapses first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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