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The stress cracks are undeniably starting to show in the White House, if explosions from White House staff are an indicator. M S NOW anchor Nicole Wallace cited White House spokesperson Steven Cheung’s social media response to Mike Pompeo criticism of a deal being negotiated by the Trump administration to end the Iran war, telling the one-time Trump ally to “shut his stupid mouth.” “Mike Pompeo has no idea what the f—— he's talking about. He should shut his stupid mouth and leave the real work to the professionals. He's not read into anything that's happening, so how would he know?” Wallace quoted Cheung saying . “Yeah, that's some top notch communicating from the communications director right there,” said Atlantic Staff Writer Tom Nichols, adding that the White House is clearly at the point of breaking over their botched Iran war, which has inflamed voters’ fuel and food prices. “[T]his was a little glimpse into what I think is kind of sweaty panic inside the White ...

President Donald Trump was the first reality TV star to become president, but when it comes to tabloid entertainment entering the White House, he may not be the last — at least according to one expert. After discussing how former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden recently appeared on Candace Owens' podcast to discuss the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, America’s relationship with Israel and the Charlie Kirk assassination, The Bulwark’s Sarah Longwell , an expert on tracking voting patterns, argued that Owens may soon run for president in her Monday post. To illustrate her point, she quoted a number of voters, such as a Biden-to-Trump North Carolina voter named Mycal who said “I think Candace Owens is great. I would vote for her in a minute.” Another Biden-to-Trump North Carolina voter, Daniela, wrote that “if we would’ve swapped out Candace for Kamala, they would’ve had this in the bag.” Similarly a Trump-voting Gen Z woman, Kim from Virginia, adopted the popular far right ma...

President Donald Trump is accused of having a conflict of interest in a Trump Tower he plans on building the capital city of a former Soviet republic. Planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, the potential Trump Tower is slated to be constructed on land currently part-owned by the son of a leader who was sanctioned by the United States, according to a Monday report by The Guardian . Specifically it is owned by the International Charity Fund Cartu, which is solely owned by Cartu Group JSC. That group is in turn mainly owned (with a 35 percent stake) by Uta Ivanishvili, the eldest son of the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is honorary chair of Georgia’s ruling party and regarded as the de facto leader of the Georgian government. While the younger Ivanishvili is not under sanctions, Trump’s willingness to do business with them constitutes a potential conflict of interest given that he is still serving as president. By contrast the White House has insisted that “neither the president ...

President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" slush fund appears to be the straw that broke the camel's back for many Republicans in Congress, but as a Republican strategist wrote for MS NOW , this pushback might, in reality, be more self-serving than noble. Susan Del Percio is a GOP strategist who serves as a political analyst for MS NOW, and on Monday, she published a new piece for the network digging into the pushback Trump's fund is getting from his own party. While Republicans have largely gone along with much of Trump's agenda, this latest cash grab for himself and his allies appears to have been too much for them, at last, with Senate Republicans torpedoing a key immigration funding bill over the situation and some lawmakers signing on to a plan to kill the fund altogether . "Senate Republicans typically offer more muted criticism, but this fund’s legal and ethical problems — or at least, the perception of those problems — was too m...

Amid reports that a new ceasefire deal was imminent, the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board warned President Donald Trump to avoid a deal that functions as an economic bailout for Iran. Over the weekend, Trump claimed that the U.S. and Iran were close to reaching a deal for a 60-day ceasefire in the conflict that has ravaged the world economy and sent oil prices skyrocketing . Iranian officials confirmed that talks were progressing, but stressed that major sticking points were still holding it back, adding that a deal was nowhere near as close as the president suggested. Nevertheless, news of an impending reprieve sent oil prices tumbling slightly. In response to these reports, the WSJ board — which is commonly viewed as a major conservative voice on economic and political issues — published a new piece, warning Trump that one aspect of the supposed plan would amount to an economic bailout for Iran, and would leave the U.S. with only the most extreme leverage to get a ...

Along with other currencies, the rand benefited as hopes of ‌a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz ⁠pushed oil prices below $100 per barrel, even as the US played down ⁠the chances of reaching an agreement with Iran soon. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/fjtoCEb via sinceretalk