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U.S. Vice President JD Vance put down President Volodymyr Zelensky after he dismissed the effectiveness of American diplomacy, forcefully telling the Ukrainian he was acting without respect. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the White House on Friday for talks with President Donald Trump and, it is thought, to sign the much-discussed minerals deal. As is customary, Trump and his senior colleagues sat down with Zelensky in the oval office with press cameras present for a brief discussion before the real talks would begin in private, but a beligerent attitude from Zelensky derailed proceedings before they even began. Responding to...

Governor Mike DeWine (R-OH) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that Springfield, OH officials say Haitian migrants have not been eating pets. DeWine said, “Look, there’s a lot of garbage on the Internet, and, you know, this is a piece of garbage that was simply not true. There’s no evidence of this at all.” He added, “There are hate groups coming into Springfield. We don’t need these hate groups. I saw a piece of literature yesterday that the mayor told me about from, purportedly, the KKK. Look. Springfield is a good city. They are good people. They are welcoming people....

The conservative talk show host called out House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan of Ohio, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer of Kentucky and House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana for not doing enough to help the MAGA cause. "Once again. I beg of you. Where is Jim Jordan, where's Comer, where's Polly Pockets Johnson. Where are the subpoenas? Where is an investigation? Why are people not being held accountable? Why does it take [conservative activist] Mike Davis and [former Trump aide] Kash Patel and the same people over, and over, and over again. [Former Republican Nevada attorney general candidate]...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized Donald Trump for claiming he doesn’t know who gave Dr. Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation that the former president awarded him. “It literally says President Trump awards commendation. Is this the immaculate commendation or something like that? Did this just happen out of thin air?” DeSantis said in a radio interview with Jimmy Failla on “FOX Across America.” ... In January 19, 2021, Trump awarded Fauci and 51 other people who served on the Operation Warp Speed task force during the Covid-19 pandemic presidential commendations. “Give me a break, people need to take responsibility for...

Fox News pundit and Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen railed against Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s foreign policy proposals, calling them “criminally stupid,” and “utterly disqualifying.” Thiessen took to social media on Monday in response to an article Ramaswamy wrote with The American Conservative centered on how he would approach the Russia-Ukraine war and U.S. relations with China. “This by @VivekGRamaswamy is criminally stupid,” Thiessen wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, before quoting one of the lines from Ramaswamy’s piece. “Like a freshman foreign policy paper. Utterly disqualifying,” Thiessen continued. Thiessen chose a quote from Ramaswamy’s...

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said this week that former President Trump’s taunts regarding his last name are “petty” and “juvenile.” “I think it’s so petty. I think it’s so juvenile. I don’t think that’s what voters want,” DeSantis told Jack Heath on “The Pulse of New Hampshire.” Trump recently mocked DeSantis for the pronunciation of his last name and referred to the Florida governor as “Ron DeSanctimonious,” a nickname the former president frequently uses. DeSantis told Heath that Trump’s behavior is one of the reasons why he lost the 2020 presidential election.

Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to former President Donald Trump, told Newsmax on Wednesday that he voted for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis twice but he doesn't think now is the time for him to launch a presidential bid. "He was just reelected less than five months ago," Stone told "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE." "The state still has very substantial problems. Recently you had a majority of the congressional delegation, Congressman Gus Bilirakis, Congressman Vern Buchanan, Congressman Byron Donalds, Congressman Matt Gaetz, Carlos Gimenez, Anna Paulina Luna, Brian Mast, Cory Mills, John Rutherford, Greg Steube, Mike Waltz, and now Dan Webster...

MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace said Monday on her show “Deadline” that former Fox News host Tucker Carlson was “serving as the American mouthpiece for Russian propaganda.” Wallace said, “There is a brazen war criminal in Vladimir Putin carrying out atrocities for which there is abundant evidence, and this is how Tucker Carlson has been defending him .”

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 3h These Morons in the White House, who are systematically destroying our Country, headed up by the biggest Moron of them all, Hopeless Joe Biden, have a new disinformation game they are playing - Blame “TRUMP” for their grossly incompetent SURRENDER in Afghanistan. I watched this disaster unfold just like everyone else. I saw them take out the Military FIRST, GIVE $85 Billion of military equipment, allow killing of our soldiers, and leave Americans behind. Biden is responsible, no one else!

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) testified under oath and admitted how farfetched former President Donald Trump's voter fraud claims really were. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaking at the 2015 Iowa Growth & Opportunity Party at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, Gage Skidmore Sen. Lindsey Graham speaking at the 2015 Iowa Growth & Opportunity Party at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, Gage Skidmore © provided by AlterNet In fact, the Republican lawmaker likened Trump's outlandish conspiracy theories to aliens coming down and stealing the former president's ballots. During a recent interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, multiple jurors...

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) stated Wednesday in response to former President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-FL) for House speaker that the former president’s renewed endorsement of McCarthy was “sad.” Gaetz is one of 20 conservative holdouts who opposed McCarthy’s bid for speakership on Tuesday. McCarthy was 16 votes shy of the threshold. Twenty GOP lawmakers opposed McCarthy – about 10 percent of the Republican House majority. “Sad!” Gaetz told Fox News. “This changes neither my view of McCarthy, nor Trump, nor my vote.”

Actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger strode onto the international political stage Thursday in the self-cast role of global peacemaker, telling told Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to back off and abandon his war in Ukraine. “Ukraine did not start this war,” the Terminator star said in a direct message to the people of Russia and its leader.

Chris Hayes called out Tucker Carlson during Wednesday's All In With Chris Hayes. Hayes pointed out that Carlson has been a vocal opponent to vaccine mandates, both in the private and public sectors, while also adhering to his own company’s policies. Carlson has bashed mandates as “tyrannical” and referred to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate as “a form of sadomasochism,” which Hayes found ironic. “The Fox News vaccine requirement is stricter than the one proposed by President Joe Biden and described as ‘tyranny’ and ‘creeping communism,’” Hayes said. Over the past several months, Carlson and other Fox News personalities have...

Queen’s Brian May called anti-vaxxers “fruitcakes” in a new wide-ranging interview. The guitarist and astrophysicist offered that criticism to The Independent. He reportedly shook his head upon the journalist’s mention of artists like Eric Clapton questioning vaccine safety and refusing to play concerts with strict COVID-19 protocols. “I love Eric Clapton, he’s my hero, but he has very different views from me in many ways,” May said. “He's a person who thinks it’s OK to shoot animals for fun, so we have our disagreements, but I would never stop respecting the man. Anti-vax people, I’m sorry, I think they’re fruitcakes....

It’s a night full of Tucker Carlson news mentions here at RedState, but that’s not surprising given his current standing within the conservative media-sphere. The highest rated cable news host found himself on the opposite end of a lot of the right-wing chatter last night when he challenged Sidney Powell to come on his show and provide evidence for her extensive claims of voter fraud.In a much talked about press conference yesterday, Powell laid out claims of millions of votes being switched through abuse of voting software. What she didn’t provide was much of any actual evidence, something Trump supporters...

We asked the Trump campaign attorney for proof of her bombshell claims. She gave us nothing. On Thursday, Rudy Giuliani and a number of President Trump's other lawyers held a press conference on the topic of voter fraud. If you didn't actually see it, you've probably heard about it by now. Giuliani, along with former federal prosecutor called Sidney Powell and a number of others, alleged that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. To demonstrate that, they exhibited some of what they found after two weeks of investigating. The presentation went on for 90 minutes with many different...

Under a Trump presidency, Americans would lose their gun rights and religious liberty and see abortion rights dramatically expanded, Cruz said Monday morning on Fox News.

This is an actual obituary for a Navy veteran, Robert W. Snyder, Jr., who left this earth in June. I didn't know him either, but after reading his obit, I wish I had.

You don't expect wisdom from people who have too-often sided with fools, but conservatives found an unexpected ally today in Mayor Mike Bloomberg. He basically says that, while he understands how fun and rhetorically useful Marxist class-based demagoguery is, we'd be fools to actually govern that way. BLOOMY BLASTS RICH TAX WARNS OF WEALTH EXODUSBy DAVID SEIFMAN, February 14, 2009 Charging that it's "easy to rile against the rich," Mayor Bloomberg warned yesterday that the income-tax increases being considered for the wealthiest New Yorkers would drive them from the city. "One percent of the households that file in this city...

The Chicago Tribune briefly revives the Obama-birth-certificate kerfuffle in an update today, if only to throw more cold water on it. Tomorrow, the Supreme Court confabs over whether to grant a review to Leo Donofrio’s lawsuit after having it rejected in district and appellate courts: The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama’s election. The meeting of justices will coincide with a vigil by the filer’s supporters in Washington on the steps of the nation’s highest...