Alex Griffing
Senior Editor at Mediaite
New New Yorker, Tel Avivian for life, Coloradoan at heart. Senior editor/writer @mediaite, formerly @haaretzcom.
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Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency deleted over 40 different government contracts from its website’s “Wall of Receipts” this week after a New York Times investigation found them to still be active. The Times’s David A. Fahrenthold and Jeremy Singer-Vine reported last week on what they called “DOGE’s Zombie Contracts” – federal spending Musk’s team had claimed had been “terminated,” but in reality continued under various federal agencies.
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Tucker Carlson spoke to comedian turned foreign policy commentator Dave Smith on the most recent episode of his podcast. Carlson, who was fired by Fox News while the top-rated host on cable news, spoke to Smith about his recent debate with Douglas Murray on the Israel-Hamas war and got his take on media figures like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh.
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President Donald Trump received some rare praise on Tuesday from some of his fiercest critics over his decision to lift all U.S. sanctions on Syria. Former Obama aide Tommy Vietor shared a clip of Trump making the announcement during his speech in Saudi Arabia and commented, “Credit to @POTUS — this is a politically fraught decision that is absolutely the right thing to do. Keeping crushing sanctions intended for Assad on the new Syrian government was bound to end in disaster.
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Fox News congressional reporter Chad Pergram pressed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on recent threats from the Trump administration that some of his members could be arrested and charged with assault of federal officers resulting from a recent scuffle outside of an ICE detention facility.
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President Donald Trump urged Saudi Arabia to join the Abraham Accords while giving a speech in the country on Tuesday as part of his first overseas trip in his second term. “And with the historic Abraham Accords that we’re so proud of, all the momentum was aimed at peace, and it aimed very successfully. It’s been an amazing thing, the Abraham Accords,” Trump said of the agreement that normalized relations between Israel and some Gulf states – primarily the United Arab Emirates.
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