Rep. Lisa McClain rebukes a Michigan school board for trying to remove a conservative member who missed meetings while on military deployment.
The moment is just the most recent clash between Republicans and school boards over policies that, in their view, are gatekeeping schools against diversity of thought and accountability.
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins took Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) to task over his support of President Donald Trump’s widely panned Memorandum of Understanding, forcing him to defend several of the plan's more outrageous points.“My point of view is that we have to give peace a chance to get done,” Moreno told Collins. “We have absolutely not made Iran stronger. We've killed almost 80 of their top leaders. We've destroyed their army, their navy, their ballistic missile program. Like I said, they are absolutely in a dramatically worse position as a result of president Trump's actions. And he prevented them from actually using a nuclear weapon that they could have cobbled together.”“[But] this deal lets them have waivers,” Collins pointed out. “They can start selling oil tonight. Eventually it will potentially unfreeze billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen assets. Iran is still a state sponsor of terrorism, according to the United States. Do you have an issue with the U.S. doing things that allows them to have money to potentially rebuild all of those things that you just mentioned?”“What's the alternative, Kaitlan?" Moreno demanded. "What would you want the president to do? Allow them to have built a nuclear weapon?”“That's a question for some Republicans, too, it sounds like,” said Collins, referring to many GOP critics who find the deal offensive. She also pointed out that Iran now stands “make more money because they're selling it at competitive market prices to buyers with more attractive currencies.”She also reminded Moreno that he said in April that money from Iran’s oil sales doesn't “go to the people. It goes to a corrupt leadership.”“Aren't you worried that corrupt leadership is now going to get tens of billions of dollars from these sales?” she asked.“Yeah, but we'll be watching exactly what they do with the money,” said Moreno.“But the president pledged not to get involved in their domestic affairs in the MOU that he signed,” Collins quickly countered, to which Moreno could only repeat: “We're going to make certain that they behave, and they do exactly what they need to do.”Moreno then made a comparison to Trump’s intervention in Venezuela, saying Trump “saved Latin America,” and promised “you’re gonna see that happen in Cuba.”“It’s not the same thing. You can’t really compare the two,” said Collins, before then asking Moreno about the plight of the Iranian people. “[Trump] told that Iranian people that this was their chance to rise up and take back their government. Their government is being run by the former leader’s son. Do you think that they have been left hung out to dry here?”“Look, I don't know what's going to happen there,” said Moreno. “Again. We don't know.” - YouTube youtu.be
“The Democratic Party must change. The party of the past will not be what leads us into the future, for we need a democratic party with a backbone," Mayor Zohran Mamdani told the crowd.
Vice President JD Vance tried defending President Donald Trump's tone by describing it as in line with the working class, and it backfired.The New York Times opinion columnist Ross Douthat asked Vance about the tone of Trump and the administration, saying that it "is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity."Vance responded that "tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working-class ways of communication and covering them in elite preferences."However, online commentators expressed offense at hearing Vance equate the Trump administration's tone with the way the working class speaks.Tim Miller, the host of The Bulwark podcast, summarized Vance's defense as "Working class people are all a— who don't care about their neighbor's feelings" in a post on X."It seems like he thinks that regular people are all sociopaths like him," Miller wrote. "Classic"MS NOW host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough said, "How insulting to suggest that hateful rhetoric that runs counter to the Gospel of Jesus Christ is just the way working class people talk—and that elites don’t get that.""What an absurd response," Reason reporter Billy Binion sounded off. "Donald Trump is not 'working class.' And this is very condescending toward people who actually *are* working class because it implies they're all mean and uncharitable by default. Is that all the respect JD Vance has for working people?"Journalist Jane Coaston, the host of What A Day, agreed, "I really think some people think that working class Americans are the worst human beings to ever live."Christian broadcaster Erick Erickson simply said, "Bad answer."
President Donald Trump joked Vice President JD Vance would bear blame if the Iran peace deal fails, but Republicans are already privately criticizing the agreement while publicly remaining silent. Oil industry insiders and GOP lawmakers object to economic support for Iran and Trump's defense of Iran's ballistic missile rights, with one Republican calling it total surrender, reported Politico's Playbook. "Plenty of Republican lawmakers are also uncomfortable, in private at least," Playbook wrote. Vance's team welcomes the deal being framed as the "Vance Peace Deal," given the war's broad unpopularity, reports Dasha [Burns] on the Playbook Podcast. White House officials view ending the conflict as politically necessary, and Vance's willingness to front the agreement reflects this. A White House insider noted that GOP attacks inadvertently inoculate Vance from the war's unpopularity while positioning him to defend Trump from criticism. The dynamic paradoxically strengthens Vance's political standing as he defends the president against his own party's complaints.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
President Trump on Thursday reemphasized the terms of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran, calling on all countries in the Middle East to "maintain their commitment to allowing our negotiations to beautifully unfold." Trump signed the 14-point MOU on Wednesday while having dinner at the Palace of Versailles with European leaders. The post NEW: Trump Calls for Ceasefire on All Fronts – Blasts “Fools” Attacking Him Over MOU: “Jealous, Bad People, or Stupid” appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. military officials are in the final stages of reviewing an internal investigation into a deadly airstrike on an Iranian elementary school and preparing to share it with lawmakers, according to a person familiar with the probe.
Bulwark writer Joe Perticone says President Donald Trump’s Senate supporters are regretting their off-kilter president and his drastic policy missteps, and they increasingly "want the clown show they’re performing in to end."“Just take a look at Trump’s disruptions of Senate business over the last few weeks,” wrote Perticone. “Trump supported reauthorization of FISA 702. He later demanded that FISA reauthorization be paired with the SAVE Act, an unrelated voter-suppression bill that has no chance of clearing the Senate. Trump tapped Bill Pulte to serve as interim Director of National Intelligence. Trump then nominated U.S. attorney Jay Clayton to be the permanent DNI in response to pushback he received on Pulte, including the prospect of FISA not being reauthorized.”Perticone added, “Trump directed Clayton not to testify before the Intelligence Committee and announced he was delaying his nomination to try to force the Senate to vote on the SAVE Act.Trump also signed the ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Iran, but withheld the text from Congress and did not brief them on its contents. The details of the MOU, now public, show broad sanctions relief for Iran without any guarantee that the country will reduce its long-term nuclear ambitions or its support of terrorism or militant proxies."The growing unpopularity of the [MOU] probably lowers the likelihood that it will actually come before Congress," said Perticone, but Democrats are so eager to end hostilities by any means possible that they will likely saddle Republicans and the White House with the rotten deal and then blame both for ever presenting when Americans revolt.The conservative commentator continued that, as a result of these mistakes, Senate Republicans are extraordinarily frustrated, even by the standards of the oft-difficult Trump.“I don’t think it’s intentional,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) when asked about the FISA 702 and Clayton fiascos. “I think somebody’s not dialing the president in to the complexities of what he’s done here.”The outgoing lawmaker added, “I mean, my God, we were on the brink of getting 702 reauthorized and they put this sycophant Pulte in place for an interim job—a guy that already used information on loan applications—how could anybody think he’d be a credible choice? So that tanks it for a while. Then you find somebody stellar like Jay Clayton. I don’t even need to meet with the guy. I know him so well and what a reputation he has to support his nomination. So it’s just another kink in the Slinky that makes no sense.”Regarding the past month’s list of issues, Tillis concluded that “it’s undermining our ability to produce the very results wants” on issues like Homeland Security funding, appointing a new DNI head and getting FISA 702 reauthorized.Tillis was not alone among concerned Senate Republicans. Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-MS) said that Trump’s $300 billion fund to the Iranian government “would make Iran’s payoff under President Obama’s 2015 deal look like a pittance by comparison.” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) described Trump’s Iran war memorandum of understanding as the “worst foreign policy blunder in decades.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told The Daily Wire that Trump’s payout to Iran could be used to finance terrorism.“It has also been discussed that the financial reward could be $300 billion to the Ayatollah,” Cruz said. “If that is true, that would be three times more than the money Joe Biden and Kamala Harris funneled to the Ayatollah. It is a virtual certainty that if $300 billion went to the Ayatollah, that money would be used to murder Americans.”Senate Republicans are also frustrated by Trump endorsing extreme candidates simply because they are loyal to him in key primaries. Because those candidates have prevailed, Republicans are now vulnerable in key races like those in Georgia (where Trump picked Rep. Mike Collins over college football coach Derek Dooley to oppose the incumbent, Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff) and Texas (where Trump picked the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn to oppose the Democratic nominee, seminarian James Talarico). Because of these endorsements, Senate Republicans fear they will lose control of that legislative chamber. For that to happen, Democrats would need to hold the states where they are already in power and swing Texas as well as pick up states like Alaska, Iowa, Maine and Ohio."The constant chaos that has descended on the Senate is the creation of a president who thrives on misdirection and surprise," said Perticone. "His poor attention span and susceptibility to easy persuasion by anyone who can grab his ear makes disorder a recurring feature of the administration, not an aberration. That may be navigable on occasion. But it becomes a serious liability in an election year when many members are facing tough contests."