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Hackers are spoofing Paperless Post, Evite and Punchbowl to creep into your hard drive. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Maggie Haberman Says Trump Is Over the War: ‘The President Would Like to Just ...
CNN commentator and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said President Donald Trump wants the Iran war that he started to end because “he has other things he’d like to focus on.” On Wednesday, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan was fired after he reportedly clashed with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Phelan’s ouster was the 34th of a military officer in Trump’s second term. Phelan, who was a Republican megadonor, had no prior military experience. The move comes amid the ongoing U.S. naval blockade of Iran, which is restricting traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. and Iran are currently in a ceasefire. Vice President JD Vance was scheduled to travel to Pakistan for additional peace talks, but postponed the trip. Haberman appeared on Wednesday’s edition of The Source on CNN, where Kaitlan Collins asked, “What’s your sense of where the president’s head is at on things right now?” “Look at his Truth Social feed now,” Haberman advised, referring to the president’s posting sprees on his social media platform. “He’s clearly frustrated. He’s voicing that almost every day.” She went on to reference the roles of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, and Steve Witkoff, Trump’s New York real estate pal, in the high-stakes negotiations with Iran. “They clearly do know who they are talking to,” Haberman said of Kushner and Witkoff. “It just doesn’t mean that everything is contiguous. And my sense is the president would like to just be done with this, and he has other things he’d like to focus on.” On Tuesday, Trump announced he was extending the ceasefire so that “Iranians can get their sh*t together,” as one U.S. official told Axios. Watch above via CNN.The post Maggie Haberman Says Trump Is Over the War: ‘The President Would Like to Just Be Done With This’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.7 hours ago - RFK Jr. Defends Trump’s Bogus Math: ‘Has a Different Way of Calculating’
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed on Wednesday that President Donald Trump had “a different way of calculating” percentages, sharing a baffling system that allowed the president to claim he had reduced drug prices by over a hundred percent. Kennedy answered questions during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing where he was grilled on some of his past comments, as well as his actions as HHS secretary. During one stunning exchange, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) pushed Kennedy to explain Trump’s claims surrounding his TrumpRx initiative, which he claimed would sell drugs to Americans at the “lowest number” they are sold at around the world. “The president pitched his Trump RX website as the answer for Americans who are worried about healthcare costs. He claims that Trump RX has reduced prices by as much as six hundred percent. Six hundred percent, which I think means companies should be paying you to take their drugs. But, let’s do some real math here,” said Warren. “Take one drug, Protonix. A thirty-day supply of this heartburn medication costs $200 on Trump RX, but there is an identical generic version of this pill called Pantoprazole. Secretary Kennedy, do you know how much it costs for a thirty-day supply of that drug at Costco?” Kennedy said that there were “two ways” to calculate percentages, telling the senator that the president could accurately say he had lowered a drug’s cost by hundreds of percentage points. “President Trump has a different way of calculating if– there’s two ways of calculating percentage,” said Kennedy. “If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that’s a six hundred percent reduction.” RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction." pic.twitter.com/MjDNADqc8p — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 22, 2026 The secretary’s calculation is not, in any way, correct. A decrease from $600 to $10 would be a 98 percent drop in price. Kennedy echoed Trump’s own words on the subject. In February, the president explained his method for calculating the percentage drop in drugs, which, like Kennedy’s, was wholly incorrect. “Novo Nordisk will be slashing the price – as an example – of Ozempic from more than $1,000 to $199,” said Trump at the launch of TrumpRx. “And the price of WeGovy… [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - House Republicans Have No Idea Where Colleague Has Been for Past Month: ‘Radio...
Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) last cast a vote on March 5, and no one in Congress seems to have heard from him since last month – not even his Republican colleagues. Kean, 57, is reportedly experiencing unspecified health problems. Politico reported on Wednesday that Kean’s fellow New Jersey House Republicans have not heard from their colleague. Rep. Jeff Van Drew it has been “radio silence” on Kean’s end. Rep. Chris Smith also does not know where Kean has been. House Republicans from New York who have worked with Kean on legislation echoed the mystification. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said he was unaware Kean was AWOL until he attempted to locate him on the House floor on Tuesday. “I don’t even know the truth myself or even enough to disclose any information,” Union County Republican Chair Carlos Santos told Politico. “But I have been texting with him and was told he’ll be fine and make a full recovery in the next couple weeks.” Kean represents New Jersey’s seventh district, which Cook Political Report deems a toss-up in November’s midterms. The state’s primaries are on June 2. A consultant for Kean said the congressman will be back soon. “I know the congressman and his family appreciate all of the well wishes and support,” Harrison Neely, a consultant for the lawmaker, said. “Please know that he will be back on a regular full schedule very soon.” “It’s been a long absence,” Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) told Politico. “I hope he’s doing all right. But I haven’t heard anything.”The post House Republicans Have No Idea Where Colleague Has Been for Past Month: ‘Radio Silence’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.8 hours ago - Scott MacFarlane Marvels at ‘Typos’ and ‘Bad Grammar’ in Kash Patel’s ...MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane claimed on Wednesday that FBI Director Kash Patel’s lawsuit against The Atlantic was full of “typos” and “bad grammar,” telling Jake Tapper that those kinds of mistakes were rare in a federal complaint. MacFarlane joined The Lead to discuss Patel’s legal battle, after writer Sarah Fitzpatrick’s bombshell report that the director engaged in “bouts of excessive drinking” and had “unexplained absences,” which “often alarmed officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice.” Patel sued Fitzpatrick and The Atlantic for $250 million on Monday, alleging that the claims made in the article were “obviously fabricated,” and “designed to destroy Director Patel’s reputation and drive him from office.” “How do you see this lawsuit against The Atlantic ending for the FBI director?” Tapper asked MacFarlane in their discussion on Wednesday. MacFarlane claimed that to assess the outcome of the suit, he was first looking at “where it begins,” claiming the document’s many errors pointed to a lack of thought on the part of its filers. “Let’s see where it begins first with typos, with bad grammar, with the types of things you don’t typically see in a federal civil complaint, as if this thing was rushed or expedited versus thought out and methodically put together,” he said. “It is, charitably, Jake, a distraction for the top law enforcement official at the FBI to be mired in a federal civil lawsuit about his own publicity.” The nineteen-page suit contains multiple spelling errors, including writing the word “feeble” as “feable” and the word “discussed” as “dicussed.” The lawsuit also accuses the outlet of violating its own “politices,” rather than “policies.” Though none of these errors, identified by Newsweek, affected the content of the suit’s arguments, the outlet noted that “court filings are typically reviewed by multiple attorneys before submission, making such errors notable.” The MeidasTouch reporter went on to discuss the probe into Patel launched by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee in the wake of The Atlantic’s allegations. The group, headed by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), began an investigation into the director’s conduct and demanded he submit answers to the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test– a questionnaire developed by the World Health Organization. McFarlane read through some of the questions, telling Tapper there was “no earthly way” Patel would give the Democrats a response. “But this ten-question audit survey the House Democrats have given to Kash Patel, demanding he respond by April 28th, it’s a pretty forthright set of questions,” he… [TheTopNews] Read More.9 hours ago
- RFK Jr. Flails as Senator Interrogates Him for Saying Black Kids Need To Be ‘R...Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was grilled on Wednesday over comments he made about Black children needing to be “reparented.” During a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) pointed to some remarks Kennedy made during a June 2024 appearance on the Earn Your Leisure podcast. “Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, Benzos, which are known to induce violence,” Kennedy said at the time. “And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented — to live in a community where there’ll be no cellphones, no screens. You’ll actually have to talk to people.” Kennedy also referred to “wellness farms” during the podcast. In Wednesday’s hearing, Alsobrooks cited Kennedy’s tense exchange last week with Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) about the same subject and attempted to get the secretary to admit he had said Black kids should be reparented: ALSOBROOKS: Can you admit today that you said every Black kid can get reparented on a wellness farm? Can you admit that you said that? KENNEDY: Reparented on a wellness farm?” ALSOBROOKS: You said, “Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, Benzos, which are known to induce violence. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented — to live in a community where there’ll be no cellphones, no screens.” You know, you claimed, in fact, you went on say, actually the whole transcript is even worse. You said that if you could, you would send quote, “every Black kid” – again, “to go live on farms and work.” Is that your– KENNEDY: I would have to see, hear that recording. ALSOBROOKS: Well, I have the recording. KENNEDY: I have no memory of saying anything like that. ALSOBROOKS: Yeah, well, I actually have the recording that I can give to you. But that is absolutely what you said. And if you want me to play it, I can play it. KENNEDY: If you ask me what my opinion is, I do not believe that every Black kid should be reparented on a wellness farm or whatever. And I have never believed that. ALSOBROOKS: Well, you said it, Sir. I have the video here. In fact– KENNEDY: I’m telling you, I don’t believe it. That’s not my vision for our… [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago
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