Rand Paul: ‘Anthony Fauci will answer to the American people’

Fox News mocked for spinning Trump's sparse Great American State Fair crowd

Fox News was roundly mocked on Sunday after one segment claimed that pictures of the sparsely attended Great American State Fair, organized by an entity linked to President Donald Trump called Freedom 250, did not tell the full story of the event. Kevin Corke, Fox News's senior national correspondent, claimed on "The Big Weekend Show" that the energy at the state fair was much greater than what pictures of the event showed. Several photos emerged online on Sunday showing that few people were at the event, held at the National Mall, due to rainstorms in the area. "Sometimes the pictures don't tell the full story because if you look behind us, a couple of hundred people back there, but when you make your way over here, and you're in this wash of people," Corke said. Onlookers mocked Corke's claims on social media. "Don't believe your lying eyes. Believe Fox," Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch, posted on X. "Pictures tell the story," Fred Wellman, a Democratic political candidate in Missouri, posted on X. "Allow me to explain why you should not believe your lying eyes," Kelly Scaletta, a political commentator known as "Machine Pun Kelly" online, posted on X. "Are the people in the room with you right now?" Hemant Mehta, a writer and former "Jeopardy!" champion, posted on X. FOX: Sometimes the pictures don't tell the full story because if you look behind us, a couple hundred people back there but when you make your way over here and you're in this wash of people. pic.twitter.com/pQIiqX1CjX— Acyn (@Acyn) June 28, 2026

Ohio Governor with Deep Personal Ties to “Shithole Country”, Says It’s More Important to Protect Haitians Than Americans

There’s a lot of interesting mask-dropping in this interview.  Jake Tapper outlines his view on illegal alien migrants from Haiti by admitting he put his Mom in a nursing home and pays Haitian migrants to care for her. On a 1998 trip to Cite Soleil, a slum of Port-au-Prince, Mike and Fran DeWine met Tom Hagan, […] The post Ohio Governor with Deep Personal Ties to “Shithole Country”, Says It’s More Important to Protect Haitians Than Americans appeared first on The Last Refuge.

Japanese tourist visiting for the World Cup reacts to ‘American hospitality’ — and people’s jaws are on the floor

"In my land, hospitality is a debt," the shocked tourist wrote.

The American Revolution is the only one in world history that actually delivered on the promises it made

At 250, it's worth celebrating the fact that the American Revolution got it right—while other countries' revolutions devolved into chaos and bloodshed.

American ingenuity transformed the world. Energy investments will define next 250 years

There is a phrase we have returned to again and again to explain the arc of our country: “American ingenuity.” It defines how a young nation became a world leader in innovation and how it built the systems that powered our dynamic economy.  As we mark 250 years of that story, the celebration is well-earned, […]

'I get it now': Anthony Scaramucci reveals epiphany he had thanks to 'not well' Trump

Anthony Scaramucci, who lasted about eleven days as President Donald Trump's communications director in 2017, says he finally understands a children's story that puzzled him as a boy — thanks to the man he once worked for.In a post shared with his followers, the former White House aide turned vocal Trump critic offered a blunt assessment of the president's fitness, writing that Trump "is not well and he's probably too old for the job." Scaramucci acknowledged the line wasn't "politically correct," but argued it was "probably right."The bulk of his post, however, was less about Trump than about everyone around him. Scaramucci described an administration paralyzed by fear, staffed with people afraid of losing their jobs, afraid of being attacked online, and afraid of being primaried by a challenger Trump himself would select to take them out."That's why we're frozen," he said.Then came the epiphany that gives the post its punch. Scaramucci recalled his first-grade teacher reading the class "The Emperor's New Clothes," the fable in which a vain ruler parades naked while terrified subjects pretend to admire his nonexistent garments. As a child, he found the premise absurd, wondering why anyone would go along with such an obvious lie."I'm 62 now," Scaramucci said. "Now I get it."The implication was hard to miss: in Scaramucci's telling, the people surrounding Trump are the courtiers too frightened to say what they plainly see, and Trump is the emperor convinced of his own splendor.Scaramucci has spent years warning about his former boss, but the fable framing casts the dysfunction less as a policy failure than as a psychological one, sustained by everyone too afraid to point it out.

Defense official stuns with answer to why US keeps having to restrike same Iranian sites

A senior U.S. defense official has explained why the American military keeps returning to bomb the same Iranian targets it has already struck repeatedly since the conflict began in late February, according to Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin.In a post on social media, Griffin said she pressed the official on why the U.S. has had to go back and restrike sites that have been hit multiple times since February 28, when the war began. The answer, she reported, was that Iran has rebuilt its air defense and missile systems along the Strait of Hormuz in the months since the U.S. bombing campaign wound down on April 7.That reconstitution, the source told Griffin, is why the military is now having to strike areas like Qeshm Island and Sirik that it had already targeted in the past."In the time since the cease fire on 7 April, Iran has reconstituted — thus the targets around the Strait of Hormuz," the official told Griffin.The official acknowledged the scale of the damage already inflicted on Iranian positions while making clear that Tehran has adapted."There is a LOT that is damaged… a LOT… but they moved things around," the source said.Griffin noted that roughly 10 weeks had passed since the April ceasefire was announced — a window during which, by the official's account, Iran was able to rebuild enough capability to draw fresh U.S. strikes.The reporting offers a window into the cyclical nature of the campaign, in which previously degraded Iranian systems are repaired and repositioned, prompting renewed American attacks. The post was amplified by conservative commentator Erick Erickson.I asked a senior defense official why the US has had to go back and restrike these sites that have been hit multiple times since February 28 when the war began. I was told Iran has reconstituted its air defense and missile systems along the Strait of Hormuz since the US bombing…— Jennifer Griffin (@JenGriffinFNC) June 27, 2026

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