NEW YORK CITY — Former CNN anchor Don Lemon denounced the federal charges stemming from his presence at a January protest inside a St. Paul, Minnesota, church as “racist” during a panel at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network convention. “To me, and to most people — most sane, rational people — these are cooked-up charges to, I believe, to embarrass, […]
Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets, which is something of a deep dive into Vice President JD Vance’s role in the Trump administration. Much of it is played behind a wall of silence. His aides are not bigging up his achievements or strategically leaking to bolster his position. The result has been an assumption […]
Podcast host Tucker Carlson said the United States’s and President Donald Trump’s ceasefire with Iran is a win. “A ceasefire would still be a win for the United States because war is just that bad. It’s so bad that even absorbing some humiliation and some measurable losses is still better than that,” Carlson said on […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence said the United States needs to “finish the fight” in its “brilliant campaign” against Iran. The U.S. and Iran began a two-week ceasefire on Tuesday, over a month after Operation Epic Fury began in late February. Pence, who served with President Donald Trump in his first term, gave his former boss “all the credit […]
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has authorized federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against three alleged MS-13 gang members accused of executing a cooperating witness in Los Angeles, marking one of his first major enforcement decisions since taking over the Justice Department. In a memo dated Wednesday and obtained by the Washington Examiner, Blanche […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long-running corruption trial will resume on Sunday, now that the state of emergency order was lifted following the implementation of the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran. “With the lifting of the state of emergency and the return of the judicial system to work, hearings will resume as […]
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said President Donald Trump is operating with a level of political power not seen in decades, arguing that Congress has ceded its constitutional authority. Speaking at the Harvard University Kennedy School Institute of Politics, McCarthy compared Trump’s influence to that of past presidents, including Ronald Reagan and Franklin […]
Iran attempted to clear up why ships have refrained from passing through the Strait of Hormuz, claiming the danger of mines made travel without the coordination of Iran’s military hazardous. Only four ships passed through the strait in the first 24 hours of the ceasefire, none of them oil or gas tankers, and passage stopped […]
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) pushed back against members of his own party for mocking President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran on Wednesday. A common saying Trump’s opponents have been mocking him with is the word “TACO,” an acronym for “Trump always chickens out.” This taunt was used when Trump reached a two-week ceasefire deal […]
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is delivering an address on Thursday after meeting with President Donald Trump, who has fiercely condemned the alliance for not doing more to support the United States’s war against Iran and other conflicts. TRUMP RIPS INTO NATO AFTER RUTTE MEETING, CALLS GREENLAND ‘POORLY RUN PIECE OF ICE’ Rutte is set to […]
