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Two Fox News hosts question Trump’s comments about Iran: ‘This just doesn’t add up’ By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business CNN June 23, 2019 New York (CNN)Fox News hosts Chris Wallace and Shep Smith challenged President Donald Trump’s comments about when and why he decided to call off a strike against Iran. Trump said Friday that the military was “cocked and loaded” to fire on Iran in retaliation for shooting down a US drone earlier this week. But he reversed course “10 minutes before the strike” when he learned 150 people could die in the attack, the president said…
Pence says US ‘not convinced’ downing of US drone by Iran ‘was authorized at the highest levels’ By Kate Sullivan CNN June 23, 2019 Washington (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday reiterated President Donald Trump’s claim that there are doubts the order to shoot down a US drone by Iran was made at the highest levels. “The President also had doubts as to whether or not the downing of our unmanned aircraft was actually authorized at the highest levels,” Pence told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” Pence said, “We’re not convinced that it was authorized…
Bolton to Iran: Don’t mistake ‘US prudence and discretion for weakness’ By Dom Calicchio Fox News June 23, 2019 U.S. national security adviser John Bolton had a message for Iran on Sunday during his visit to Israel: He advised the leaders of the Islamic nation not to “mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness.” Bolton’s comment followed Friday’s confirmation by President Trump that he had called off a planned retaliatory attack against Iran following that country’s downing of a U.S. military drone Thursday in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz. Continue Reading…..
Read: Texts detail Hannity-Manafort exchanges Fox News June 22, 2019 Text messages sent between Fox News host Sean Hannity and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort have been released, showing the two expressing outrage over the Russia probe and concern for the direction of the country. Read the texts here. Continue Reading…..
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‘Fox & Friends’ Calls Donald Trump ‘Weak,’ Tries to Goad Him Into War With Iran The Daily Beast June 21, 2019 The Fox & Friends morning crew was fired up Friday morning, ditching their usual white sofa for a red-backed war room set to discuss President Trump’s last-minute abandoning of airstrikes against Iran overnight. Hosts Brian Kilmeade and Ainsley Earhardt were at odds about what the news meant. An unusually dovish Earhardt insisted Trump “knows more than we do” and that “something’s happening behind the scenes, there’s a reason he hunkered down.” Kilmeade instead seemed to goad the…
Steyer airing impeachment ad on ‘Fox & Friends’ By Tal Axelrod TheHill June 21, 2019 Billionaire Tom Steyer will air a new commercial on “Fox & Friends” Friday and Monday advocating for impeachment. Politico reports that Steyer’s group Need to Impeach is putting $700,000 behind the ad and timed the commercial’s airing with the hope that President Trump, a frequent viewer of the Fox News show, will see it. “Right now, Donald Trump is committing crimes in the open,” Steyer says in the ad, citing Trump’s vow to fight congressional subpoenas and declaration that he would listen to…
Daily Wire June 21, 2019 Far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) repeatedly advocated for Iran — the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism — on Thursday, tweeting multiple times that the United States should not take action against Iran, even as Iran has repeatedly attacked cargo ships in the area and shot down a U.S. military drone this week. “‘To carry out such wars, American leaders have contrived pretexts to justify American aggression,” Omar said in a tweet that included a link to a news article. “That’s what Donald Trump’s administration—and especially its national security adviser, John Bolton—is doing now…
Hannity promises Trump would ‘bomb the hell out of’ Iran following downing of US drone By John Bowden TheHill June 21, 2019 Fox News host Sean Hannity opened his show Thursday with a vow that President Trump would soon declare war on Iran unless Iran’s leader take a “small opportunity” for peace. Hannity said Thursday night that if the “Mullahs are smart enough” they will take a quickly disappearing option to negotiate peace with the U.S. following the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone overnight Wednesday. If not, Hannity said, Trump would proceed to “bomb the hell out…
Washington Examiner June 20, 2019 Ilhan Omar retweeted a video clip Thursday in which from CNN contributor Angela Rye argued that the United States is on a path that will lead to “death camps.” Rye’s comments were made during a Tuesday night debate with fellow contributor and Trump supporter Steve Cortes. The two of them were arguing over comments made by Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alleging that the migrant camps housing detained immigrants are the equivalent of “concentration camps.” It’s not enough to say what’s happening at the border is a damn shame. It’s not enough to…