Tom Durante

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President Donald Trump will not return security details to some of his former officials even as tensions with Iran escalate, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday. “That’s not in consideration,” Leavitt said in response to a reporter’s question about whether Secret Service protections would be restored to former officials like John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Gen. Mark Milley during Thursday’s White House press briefing.

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The View panelist Ana Navarro took aim at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Thursday, mocking the former Fox News host as a “big suck-up to Trump” after his fiery Pentagon press briefing hours earlier. During a discussion on the U.S. strike on Iran and President Donald Trump’s rhetoric toward news outlets and reporters, Navarro raised a comparison between the president’s two terms, suggesting that former Defense Secretary Gen.

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The supreme leader of Iran has declared victory over the U.S. in his first public statement since American forces bombarded several nuclear facilities with bunker-busting bombs. “My congratulations on our dear Iran’s victory over the US regime,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted to X Thursday. “The US regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn’t, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed.

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Kari Lake left a Democratic congressman furious and flustered after she brought up a fake story about a House colleague having a gay lover during an intense back-and-forth on the House floor. The moment came after Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ) grilled Lake, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser at the Agency for Global Media on Wednesday, an exchange that often got personal as he challenged Lake on her two state election losses, the results of which she refused to accept.

2 days ago | mediaite.com | Tom Durante

President Donald Trump showed his tender side as he fielded a question from a Ukrainian reporter whose husband remains in the war-torn country. Trump, speaking from the NATO summit in the Netherlands Wednesday, called on the “excited” BBC reporter from Ukraine, who caught him off guard as she shared some of her story while asking if the U.S. intends to sell anti-aircraft missile systems to Kyiv. “Are you yourself living now in Ukraine?” a curious Trump asked.