A senior Fox News reporter swiftly shut down an anti-ICE protester’s foul-mouth hile covering the chaos at a New Jersey detention center on Tuesday. Alexis McAdams was outside Newark’s Delaney Hall, where detainees are purportedly staging a hunger strike to protest conditions inside the facility. When she weaved her way through the crowd while trying...
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's son, Philip Alito, has been working as a political appointee attorney at the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the General Counsel since the early months of President Donald Trump's second administration, raising serious conflict of interest concerns.According to reports by NOTUS, Philip Alito's presence was treated as something close to a government secret. "If people were introducing themselves by first and last name, he'd just say 'Phil,' not Phil Alito," said one former official. "He's a pretty soft-spoken guy."Four former government officials also claimed he maintains no public resume or LinkedIn profile. As an attorney-adviser in the general counsel's front office, he was briefed on important Treasury matters and provided legal feedback at the highest levels. The Treasury Department's general counsel's office handles legal matters related to taxation, economic policy, and law enforcement, including potential cases challenging Trump's anti-weaponization fund that could reach the Supreme Court. A tariff lawsuit naming the Treasury as defendant was argued before the justices in November, with Philip Alito's employment never disclosed in court documents. Justice Alito did not recuse himself from the case, nor did he respond to a request for comments by NOTUS.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Fox News commentator Harris Faulkner went all in on Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's ongoing threat to pull customs officers out of airports in sanctuary cities — a plan that, if enacted, could cause widespread collapse of the national air traffic system and mass flight cancellations."The latest DHS list of sanctuary cities includes Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco," said Faulkner. "All of those airports handle 1,100 international flights per day. They're not just gonna not fly. They're going to go to red states and cities. A boon for red states. People will hate living in blue states."This remark was immediately met with scorn from observers on social media."This is idiotic," wrote American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. "No, if you cancel international flights to those cities, they are NOT going to be diverted to red cities. Those airports are already operating near full capacity, and could not even remotely handle the volume! Instead, there would be mass flight cancellations.""It's really hard to understand how people can be this monumentally stupid," wrote Ron Filipkowski of Meidas Touch. "This will never, ever happen. Flights are not going to be diverted by airlines to red states. Idiocracy.""Is she always this obtuse?" wrote Harvard Kennedy School professor and national security analyst Juliette Kayyem. "The planes are not going to red states since the blue city airports in red states are already at capacity. The planes will be canceled. And it will become apparent real fast that crashing the economy of blue states will hurt the taker red states more.""It's not just that people like Harris Faulkner and Markwayne Mullin are evil and extremely stupid," wrote Aaron Rupar of Public Notice. "It's that they are unshakably confident in their brilliance while in fact being evil and extremely stupid.""Make sure not to tell them about all those critical House races in states like Pennsylvania, New York, California, and Michigan," wrote Greg Sargent of The New Republic."I'd bet a lot that this Trump administration 'no flights to New York or Los Angeles' rule won't apply to private jets," wrote former George W. Bush presidential speechwriter David Frum."These people are walking, talking head injuries," wrote author and conspiracy theory analyst Mike Rothschild. "Do they really think independent-leaning suburban voters are just not going to fly internationally anymore to own the libs? The GOP lives or dies on the outskirts of major cities, and doing this would be insane."
The Trump administration's supposed "war on fraud" is benefiting from the support of a group of alleged fraudsters, according to new reporting. Cuts to Medicaid and raids on daycare centers are part of the president's stated crackdown on fraud, which has been backed by a nonprofit called the State Financial Officers Foundation, according to reporting by The Lever. State auditors and treasurers are part of the State Financial Officers Foundation, which throws its support behind Trump with reports and statements touting the war on fraud's success, The Lever reported. However, the nonprofit's board president, Seth Metcalf, is facing corruption allegations, according to The Lever. Metcalf, a former Ohio deputy treasurer, allegedly colluded with board members of the state's teachers' pension fund to direct $65 billion to his investment firm, according to whistleblowers. An Ohio judge wrote in a February ruling that the pension board members were "mere puppets" of Metcalf, The Lever noted. He reportedly penned documents accusing the pension board of "committing fraud" to pressure them, The Lever added. Metcalf is also being sued for fraud and mismanagement related to an AI start-up's money, according to The Lever. Meanwhile, the State Financial Officers Foundation's vice chair, Adam Crum, allegedly misused state funds while working as Alaska's revenue commissioner. Crum allegedly tried to take $75 million from state reserve funds and invest it in a private equity fund, which a lawmaker described as "gross incompetence" because of the move's high risk, according to The Lever. He also reportedly gave $8.5 million worth of contracts to a consulting firm that sponsored a glacier cruise for the State Financial Officers Foundation, according to reporting by the Juneau Independent. Red states have called out the group for exaggerating fraud numbers, too. An independent auditor found that one of the nonprofit's members, who was Florida's chief financial officer, used a DOGE formula to misrepresent hurricane recovery efforts as massive misspending. Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said one of the nonprofit's claims of fraud was "wildly inflated."
Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" series finale drew 6.7 million viewers, while Byron Allen's replacement program "Comics Unleashed" attracted only 995,000 in its debut on CBS. The stark ratings disparity underscores the challenge of replacing Colbert, whose show ended following alleged pressure from President Donald Trump on the network's parent company, according to Nielsen data and reports by The Daily Beast. Although CBS cited financial reasons for the cancellation, Colbert and political analysts have suggested Trump's criticism drove the decision. Late-night competitors Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon each drew over 1.5 million viewers the same night "Comics Unleashed" premiered. Even Colbert's YouTube appearance on the public access show "Only in Monroe" garnered 928,000 views, nearly matching Allen's broadcast audience. Long-time late-night reporter Bill Carter suggested Trump was "personally involved" in Colbert's removal from the network, Fox News reported.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson described how a social post knocked down one of President Donald Trump's longest and closest advisers — and sent MAGA into a rage this week.The co-founder of the anti-Trump group, The Lincoln Project, revealed in a Substack post Thursday that, after Miller delivered a bigoted attack on Democratic Texas Senate hopeful Rep. James Talarico, the Democrats swung back. The moment stung for Trump's MAGA coalition — and Miller — becoming a "hard punch in the mouth that that soft-handed sadist Stephen Miller has obviously needed since middle school.""The official Democratic Party account looked at Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, the architect of ICE thugs murdering American citizens in our streets, the Grima Wormtongue of the Trump White House immigration policy, the majordomo of white nat modern apartheid fantasies, and told him, in five tidy words: 'shut up, you ugly ----,'" Wilson wrote."That’s it. That’s the tweet. Five words. No policy. No nuance. No 14-part thread with a land acknowledgment quote bolted onto the front, nothing soft or nurturing or politically correct," Wilson wrote.He called the Democrat's clapback moment "the sight of a man who built an entire political religion around the public performance of cruelty to others discovering through the glorious avenue of social media that cruelty has a return address.""And reader, I want you to enjoy the rich, full-bodied irony of what happened next, because it is a clarifying moment in American politics, one on par with the invention of the hot mic," Wilson added. "Stephen Miller’s feelings got hurt."Miller might be used to just firing off insults or brutal comments, Wilson said, but this time it was different."For once, the Democrats brought a gun to the gunfight," Wilson wrote.
Police late Wednesday night responded to a call for 'suspicious noise' thought to be gunshots at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The post Swatting Incident Thwarted as Police Respond to Reports of Gunshots Fired Near Home of Amy Coney Barrett in Latest Assassination Attempt Against Conservative Justice appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
Oil pared gains on a report that the US and Iran have reached a preliminary agreement to extend the ceasefire between the two countries and launch negotiations on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. The memorandum of understanding would extend the truce by 60 days and states that shipping through the vital Strait of Hormuz would be “unrestricted,” without any tolls paid to Iran, but the potential pact still requires President Trump’s approval, Axios reported. Trump wants several days to mull over the deal, according to the report. An agreement to extend the truce would represent a diplomatic breakthrough and potentially bring the US and Iran closer to reopening normal maritime traffic through the strait, which usually carries around a fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas supply. For more, we speak with Mike McGlone, Senior Commodity Strategist for Bloomberg Intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)