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In one of the more horrific moments, even for it, to be aired so far this year on CNN, panelists on one of the network’s late-night programs joked and laughed about the domestic terror campaign against Tesla cars, dealerships, and owners, a campaign of property destruction and violence meant to get Elon Musk to back off running the Department of Government Efficiency. President Trump, as background, has said that because attacks on Telsa are obviously political in nature, they will be treated as domestic terrorism. Making that pledge, Trump announced, “I will label attacks on Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism…....

FIRST ON FOX - FBI Director Kash Patel is strongly refuting a CNN report alleging he is implementing a "major cutback" of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in a memo to ATF employees, Fox News Digital has learned. CNN reported Saturday that Patel "has outlined plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI" and "cutting ATF’s agents by more than a third," according to three unnamed sources. **SNIP** "I want to address a report from this weekend speculating about the intentions of FBI leadership with personnel decisions at the ATF," Patel began...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Health Secretary pick, just launched a bombshell move to ban Big Pharma ads on TV, and it’s a direct strike at the heart of networks like CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC—leaving Trump supporters cheering and the left in panic. In a video, Patrick Bet-David exposes the dirty truth: “Big Pharma is keeping Cable TV in business. 75% of ad revenue on cable television comes from the Pharmaceutical Industry.” That’s $4.5 billion in 2022 alone, per MediaRadar, propping up these networks while they push drugs like Ozempic.

Greenland’s prime minister said a planned visit to the island by US officials, including second lady Usha Vance, is “highly aggressive,” plunging relations to a new low after President Donald Trump vowed to annex the autonomous Danish territory. Vance, the wife of US Vice President JD Vance, will travel to Greenland this week to watch the island’s national dogsled race and “celebrate Greenlandic culture and unity,” according to a statement from the White House. National security adviser Mike Waltz is also expected to visit the territory this week, according to a source familiar with the trip. Greenland Prime Minister Mute...

Would it be so hard for biased CNN, its Arab "journalists" [Nadeen Ebrahim, Ibrahim Dachman] to spell out Hamas (AKA genocidal 'dead baby strategy'), instead of hiding it under just "health"? At least 'HAMAS' controlled "health ministry". The death cult arm. Oh, 'women' casualties? Are Hamas' women /terror-assistants somehow " civilians," too? And propaganda group exaggerating numbers, might be "independent," but still Israelophobic.

Former Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called Elon Musk a “thief” and a “Nazi” during a fiery CNN segment Thursday night. After Joe Borelli, the ex-Republican leader on the New York City Council, argued that much of the discontent at Republican congressmen’s town hall events were protests organized by Democrats, Bowman interrupted to insist that “that’s not true.” “That’s not true. And this shows, again, the American people do not trust Elon Musk,” began Bowman. “And Elon Musk is incompetent in his position. And how do we know? Because they fired tens of thousands of people, it was challenged in...

President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to expand the definition of domestic terrorism as it aims to crack down on a wave of attacks in which Teslas have been shot and set on fire, apparently to protest CEO Elon Musk’s powerful but murky role in cutting the US government. Critics of Musk and Trump will see irony in use of the term “domestic terrorism” to describe people attacking electric vehicles after Trump issued mass pardons for more than 1,000 January 6 rioters who stormed the Capitol and tried to disrupt confirmation of the 2020 election results. Under President Joe Biden’s...

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces since the early days of the war, could be restored and protected by US ownership – at least according to the Americans. But it’s unclear how the operation would work in practice, experts say, especially as the plant is on the front line, in territory controlled by Russia. As part of ongoing talks to inch toward a partial ceasefire, US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky “discussed Ukraine’s electrical supply and nuclear power plants” during a Wednesday phone call, according to the US readout of the call. On Thursday,...

Average CNN anchor IQ has to be around 90

On Friday, CNN News Central co-host Boris Sanchez brought on GOP Rep. Lisa McClain of Michigan to discuss President Trump’s ongoing trade wars, particularly with Canada. As one would expect, things got testy almost immediately.

Audie Cornish wants Trump's tariffs cast in the most negative possible light. On today's CNN This Morning, host Cornish played a clip of a plain-spoken Iowa soybean farmer saying, "You know, it's just a p---ing match, you know? And nobody's going to win." The p-word was muted but it's clear what he said. A bit later, when panelist Kevin Frey [a Spectrum News reporter] launched an earnest, factual description of the effects of tariffs, Cornish eventually cut him off, saying: "We just got a deep dive into commodities from you, which, you know, I like it. You're bringing some good...

Times are tough all over for the liberal media. CNN and MSNBC have lost a painful amount of their already small audiences, the Washington Post is retooling their approach because people stopped reading, and now the same whirlwind has reached the New York Times. The liberal paper is telling members of their editorial board to take new positions at the paper, or take a buyout, and a walk, presumably. Over the last eight years, vast swaths of the American media torpedoed whatever credibility they had left in their pursuit of Trump. They pushed countless lies and conspiracy theories and now...

Americans are far happier with the economic leadership of President Trump than they were under Joe Biden just a few months ago, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday. While American households are still laboring under the weight Biden-era inflation, the worst in forty years, their opinion of the president’s handling of the economy has surged higher with the changing of the guard at the White House. Biden left office in January with just 33 percent of Americans saying they approved of his handling of the economy, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS in January. A super-majority of...

Our item of yesterday pointed out the paucity of pro-Trump Republicans on CNN This Morning under its new host, Audie Cornish, a former host of NPR's All Things Considered. Shockingly, it looks like Audie didn't read, or certainly did not take to heart, our item. Her panel today consisted of two confirmed liberals: Jackie Kucinich of the Boston Globe and Chuck Rocha, a former Bernie '20 campaign advisor, whose shtick is sporting a big cowboy hat. And for the Republican on today's panel, Cornish chose Ashley Davis, a former aide to President George W. Bush. Davis promptly proceeded to employ...

CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein said Monday that the Democratic Party was in its weakest position since the 1980s, the Reagan-Bush era, as the party continues to determine its best way forward. "If you talk to Democrats, you know, they recognize they are in a hole. I mean, the image of the party is probably in a weaker position than at any point since I think the 1980s, the Reagan and George H.W. Bush era," Brownstein told CNN's Audie Cornish. Cornish and Brownstein discussed the Friday federal government funding deadline, as Cornish said GOP lawmakers were hoping to offset...

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) claimed Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that “xenophobic and racist” Republican voters respond with campaign donations to GOP members and petition signatures when Republican lawmakers call her out. Co-host Pamela Brown said, “I want to follow up with something else, because we recently had one of your Republican colleagues, Brandon Gill, on the show. He said that America would be better off if you were arrested and deported. He also said that there was audio of you advising what he said are illegal immigrants here from Somalia on how to evade ICE detection. I want...

No one would call Kasie Hunt a conservative. But as the host of CNN This Morning, Hunt did regularly include actual Republicans, most often Brad Todd or Matt Gorman, on her panels. But one week ago today, Audie Cornish replaced Hunt as host of CNN This Morning. And--poof!--Trump-friendly Republicans have virtually disappeared from the show. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Representative Don Bacon (R-NE) said Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that President Donald Trump was playing into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine conflict. Host Pamela Brown said, “Ukrainian President Zelensky will also be in Saudi Arabia but is not expected to attend these talks. Do you believe the white House is sidelining Zelensky in this peace process?” Bacon said, “That’s a terrible mistake not to have the Ukrainian leader in the talks.”

The process of restoring relations between Moscow and Washington is still in its “initial stages,” the Kremlin said on Monday, as bilateral contacts began after Donald Trump took over as US president in January. -snip- Peskov, however, denied media reports that top Russian and US officials will meet in Saudi Arabia this week, describing them as “not true.” On Sunday, CNN reported that top officials from the Trump administration will separately meet Russian and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia, in a bid to reach a deal between the two warring countries.

As the Pentagon and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency set their sights on climate-related programs at the Defense Department, officials and experts are warning that slashing them could put US troops and military operations at risk, both in the near and long term. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other senior Pentagon officials have pointed to climate programs as a prime example of wasteful spending in the military. Hegseth told reporters in Germany in February that the Pentagon is “not in the business of climate change.” Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Salesses also made it clear that funding would...