Trump Attacks ‘Milktoast’ Ex-Press Sec. for Unfavorable Fox News Report

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Trump Attacks ‘Milktoast’ Ex-Press Sec. for Unfavorable Fox News Report

(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump chastised his former press secretary, Fox News analyst Kayleigh McEnany, for posting unfavorable poll numbers for Trump in the 2024 Republican primaries, Media Right News reported.

McEnany, who has vaguely signaled support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the past, cited an American Greatness poll suggesting that Trump is up 25 points in South Carolina, which Trump declared was wrong.

“Kayleigh ‘Milktoast’ McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews. I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The term “milquetoast” derives from the name of a character in an obscure 1920s comic book and has come to mean someone who is “timid, meek, or unassertive”—hardly a fitting description for McEnany.

Trump’s use of the term set his unique spelling of it trending on Twitter.

In his post, Trump went on to assert that he would be better off without the support of McEnany, who spent years defending him from the corporate media while in the White House.

“The RINOS & Globalists can have her,” Trump wrote. “FoxNews should only use REAL Stars!!!”

But some observers thought that Trump’s misspelling might not have been the biggest blunder in his post.

As the GOP primary picks up, DeSantis—who formally announced his candidacy last week—has unleashed a wave of attacks on Trump, blaming him for letting Americans suffer under COVID lockdowns.

“After Fauci’s lockdowns destroyed millions of lives, Donald Trump actually said Fauci ‘should be respected for the job’ he did,” DeSantis’s war room wrote on Twitter.

DeSantis also took shots at Trump for having softened his stances on important issues for conservatives.

​​”But when he’s taken Disney’s side against me, I just kind of wonder, like, okay, I get he wants to hit me, but don’t take the side of a multinational corporation that wants to sexualize kids,” DeSantis said.

He also noted that Trump has even given up on arguably his most successful policy in 2016: building a wall and keeping out illegal immigrants.

“He’s also hitting me against voting against immigration amnesty … So I’m not sure what his strategy is, but I think he’s taking positions that are a little bit different than four or five years ago.”

In response, Trump has claimed that DeSantis is in need of a “personality transplant.”

RINOs, Freedom Caucus Unite in Outrage over Debt Capitulation, Threaten to Oust McCarthy

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RINOs, Freedom Caucus Unite in Outrage over Debt Capitulation, Threaten to Oust McCarthy

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) The two opposite ends of the House Republican majority both turned inward on Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., over a face-saving debt deal that many agreed granted little more than the illusion of concessions from radical and profligate Biden Democrats. 

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., a Charleston centrist considered by some MAGA supporters to be an unreliable RINO, offered a scathing rebuke suggesting that the cognitively impaired President Joe Biden had “outsmarted” GOP negotiators (i.e. McCarthy).

On the other flank, Freedom Caucus conservatives issued their own sharp criticism in a press conference Tuesday.

“No one sent us here to borrow an additional $4 trillion and get nothing in return,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas.

Despite the impressive feat of bringing together both RINOs and Freedom Caucus members, united in their outrage against him, McCarthy is now weathering internal criticism that his leadership has driven a wedge in the party—and his future as speaker may be in jeopardy.

“The Republican conference has been torn asunder,” Roy said during the press conference.

Rep. Dan Bishop, R-N.C., signaled to Politico that a vote on the debt deal opposed by a wide swath of Republicans could trigger a vote to oust the precarious party leader.

McCarthy was elected speaker in January after a staggering 15 rounds of voting, only after he agreed to cede some of the unilateral power snatched by his predecessor, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, and return it to rank-and-file members.

That included the ability to “vacate the chair” at any time via simple majority.

Bishop clarified that he would not invoke such a measure without the backing of others in the caucus.

“I don’t make single decisions like that alone,” he told Politico. “And so it depends on what the members who have courage” choose to do.

But in a separate interview with Axios, he seemed more assured that McCarthy’s fate had already been set in motion.

“It is clear that, as steward of Republican unity, Kevin has made an unrecoverable failure,” Bishop said.

The motion, he continued, “will be at a time and circumstance of our choosing.”

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who was one of McCarthy’s most outspoken opponents during the January speakership standoff, indicated that he, too, would support using the newly established House rules against the speaker if the debt deal went through without GOP backing.

“If a majority of Republicans are against a piece of legislation, and you use Democrats to pass it, that would immediately be a black-letter violation of the deal we had with McCarthy,” Gaetz told Newsmax.

“And it would likely trigger an immediate motion to vacate,” Gaetz added. “I think Speaker McCarthy knows that—that’s why he’s working hard to make sure he gets 120, 150, 160 votes.”

McCarthy, currently the most powerful elected Republican, has been steadfast in defending the deal as he tries to sell it to his fellow legislators ahead of a Wednesday deadline.

But its passage was far from certain, with more than 30 Republicans in the GOP’s narrow majority signaling their opposition as of Tuesday.

Without a debt-ceiling hike, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the government will run out of money by next Monday.

That would force it to limit discretionary spending, although Democrats claim it would result in a default on U.S. debt obligations and potentially impact crucial welfare programs such as social security.

While several other GOP presidential candidates have weighed in, it remained unclear whether former President Donald Trump, who notably backed McCarthy’s speakership, supported the deal.

However, several of Trump’s most loyal allies, such as former Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini, activist Laura Loomer and former Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon, were among the first to call for a motion to vacate against McCarthy after the debt deal was announced over the weekend.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers.

Headline USA’s Ezekiel Loseke contributed to this report. 

DeSantis Smacks Back at Trump, Blisters Biden at Iowa Rally

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DeSantis Smacks Back at Trump, Blisters Biden at Iowa Rally

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Dusting off criticisms of a failure to launch Twitter presidential campaign announcement, including a roasting from former President Donald Trump, that nonetheless melted the social media site and raised upwards of $8 million, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis came out swinging at an Iowa rally, tossing roundhouses at President Joe Biden and delivering a few jabs towards Trump.

“It is great to be back. And it’s great for me to report that our great American comeback starts by sending Joe Biden back to his basement in Delaware,” DeSantis told an enthusiastic crowd at a suburban church in Des Moines on Tuesday. “I mean, he’s spent so much of his time as president on vacation, we might as well make it permanent.”

The Iowa stump was his first major campaign stop, part of a three-state swing that is slated to hit New Hampshire and South Carolina, the country’s first two presidential primary state.

Iowans gave DeSantis a largely positive reception, with a glowing introduction from the state’s governor.

“Politicians, we tend to talk a lot. But only a few actually get things done,” Kim Reynolds said of DeSantis. “Only a few have the resolve and the willingness to stand strong for us, and that’s who Ron is at his core.”

DeSantis took dead aim the debt deal and spending plan reached by Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., that he said had the country “careening toward bankruptcy” because of a lack of leadership.

“We now see Washington has now cooked up their latest ‘debt deal.’ And I can tell you this, our nation was careening towards bankruptcy before the debt deal, and it will still be careening towards bankruptcy after this debt deal,” DeSantis said.

“This is green-lighting $4 trillion in new debt in less than two years. It took us almost 200 years to get to $4 trillion in debt in the first place. It locks in inflated COVID-era levels of spending. And it keeps 98% of the 87,000 new IRS agents that Joe Biden instituted.”

DeSantis also took a swing at Biden’s open borders policy and the horrific toll it has taken on the nation.

“Millions of illegal aliens have poured into this country including criminal aliens, and even individuals on the terrorist watch list,” he said. “The massive amounts of fentanyl that the cartels are bringing in have killed tens of thousands of our fellow Americans.”

DeSantis’s delivery drew solid marks from Fox News host Jesse Water, who wrote that the governor “would rip the stitches off Joe Biden in a general and the media’s already insisting he’s more ‘dangerous’ than Trump.”

DeSantis never directly mentioned Trump during his Iowa speech, but took several veiled swipes, including a declaration that, “At the end of the day, leadership is not about entertainment, it’s not about building a brand, it’s not about virtue signaling. It is about results.” He also rapped Trump for nixing a prior visit to Iowa, an instance when DeSantis visited the state.

DeSantis was reportedly more direct in punching back against Trump after the speech.

“When we disagreed, I never bashed him publicly because he was taking all this incoming from the media, the left, and even some Republicans,” DeSantis said of Trump’s tenure in the White House.

“So, I never really would air those disagreements,” he told reporters. “Well, now he’s attacking me over some of these disagreements, but I think he’s doing it in a way that the voters are going to side with me.”

Trump got in his retaliatory rhetoric early, releasing a statement that ripped DeSantis as “A Failure For Iowa and Farmers,” and a “creature of the swamp.”

With Trump out of office and lobbing attacks, DeSantis said, “I’m going to fight back,” and did so by smacking down Trump’s criticism of Florida’s pandemic response, CNN reported.

“Hell, his whole family moved to Florida under my governorship,” DeSantis said of Trump. “Are you kidding me?”

The Florida governor said voters were ready to move on from what he has called the GOP’s electoral misfires, including a red wave midterm that Trump had promised but never materialized.

“I think our voters are looking at this and they say, yeah we appreciate what he did, but we also recognize there are a lot of voters that just aren’t gonna ever vote for him,” DeSantis told reporters.

“I know people in Florida who voted against me in ’18 and for me in ‘22. They said in ‘18, ‘I thought you were too much like him and in ‘22 we realized you were your own guy, we’re gonna do it.’”

MSNBC Guest Claims Boycotts of Bud Light, Target Are ‘Literally Terrorism’

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MSNBC Guest Claims Boycotts of Bud Light, Target Are ‘Literally Terrorism’

(Headline USA) An economics professor claimed conservative boycotts of woke companies, such as Bud Light, Target and Kohl’s, were “literally terrorism” during an MSNBC interview last week.

Justin Wolfers, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, was asked about companies’ efforts to distance themselves from LGBT themes following brutally effective backlash from consumers. Wolfers argued the only explanation was that companies such as Bud Light, which publicly distanced itself from transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney after its sales dropped, were “cowards” or victims of “terrorism.”

“Look, one of two things is true,” Wolfers said. “It could be that they’re cowards and used that as protection and a smokescreen so they could make a cowardly decision, or it could be that they’re actually genuinely concerned about the well-being of their employees and have had credible threats.”

Wolfers urged Target, specifically, not to “cave” to boycotts, since doing so would prove that consumers can affect company policy.

“When Target caves into this, then it says that the moment you threaten the employees of even a very large corporation you get to control its policies. This is economic terrorism. Literally terrorism,” he said. “Creating fear among the workers and forcing the corporations to sell the things you want, not sell the things you don’t. So I think it’s very worrying.”

Target is just the latest company to start hemorrhaging sales after embracing woke LGBT ideology. A company insider recently said many locations, especially in rural, southern parts of the country, have relocated their Pride sections to the very back of the store and remove it from all mannequins.

“We were given 36 hours, told to take all of our Pride stuff, the entire section, and move it into a section that’s a third the size. From the front of the store to the back of the store, you can’t have anything on mannequins and no large signage,” the Target insider said.

Biden Laughs Off Question about Whether He Would Pardon Trump

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Biden Laughs Off Question about Whether He Would Pardon Trump

(Headline USA) With his White House tenure and family connections reeling under multiple investigations, President Joe Biden laughed off a question this weekend about whether he would pardon former President Donald Trump, should Trump be convicted in any one of myriad witch hunts passing as federal probes of which he is the subject.

The question came from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy following comments by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running for the GOP presidential nomination, that he would mull pardoning Trump if elected.

“Where are you on the idea of a president pardoning Trump?” Doocy asked Biden as he prepared to board Marine One.

Biden started laughing and waved off the question, saying, “It’s a great question … I’ll see you guys.”

Trump is currently under investigation by federal special counsels for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol protests and his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. 

Most recently, Trump was charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for alleged campaign finance violations regarding a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign.

The charges have been blasted by Republicans across the board, including Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah.

“I believe President Trump’s character and conduct make him unfit for office. Even so, I believe the New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda,” Romney, who twice voted to convict Trump in impeachment trials, said in a statement. “The prosecutor’s overreach sets a dangerous precedent for criminalizing political opponents and damages the public’s faith in our justice system.”

Even liberal professor Richard Hasen, a campaign finance expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, called Bragg’s case a “circus.”

“It is said that if you go after the king, you should not miss,” Hasen said. “In this vein, it is very easy to see this case tossed for legal insufficiency or tied up in the courts well past the 2024 election before it might ever go to trial. It will be a circus that will embolden Trump, especially if he walks.”

NYTimes Film Critic Calls for ‘Kink’ in Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Remake

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NYTimes Film Critic Calls for ‘Kink’ in Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Remake

(Headline USA) The New York Times posted a tweet over the weekend calling for “more kink” in the new Disney remake of The Little Mermaid.

The publication tweeted a review of the children’s movie by culture critic Wesley Morris, who slammed the moving for missing “joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavor, and kink.”

The movie also “reeks of obligation and noble intentions,” Morris claimed.

The word “kink” is typically defined as “a person’s unusual sexual preference.” Disney’s The Little Mermaid remake is rated PG and is being marketed to families and children.

Conservatives blasted Morris and the Times, pointing out that this is yet another example of the Left sexualizing children.

“Will ‘G’ ratings now be denied to children’s movies not displaying enough ‘kink’?” wrote Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wrote: “@NYTIMES upset children’s movie missing “kink.” Further confirmation that adults who want to push sexual activity with children are running our elite institutions…”

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw agreed: “What’s wrong with the media! Kids movies don’t need ‘kink’ sickos.”

In his review, Morris went on to praise Disney for embracing a “diverse” cast, including the lead actress Halle Bailey, who is black. Disney is “atoning for the racism and chauvinism and de facto whiteness of its expanded catalog (it owns Pixar and Marvel, too), in part by turning its nettlesome cartoons into live-action corrections,” he said.

“This is important, culturally reparative work from a corporation,” Morris added.

However, the movie’s obsession with diversity is ultimately what caused it to fall flat on its face, Morris admitted.

“The movie is saying, ‘We tried!’ Tried not to offend, appall, challenge, imagine,” he wrote, adding the film was too “worried about what we’ll say, about whether they got it right. That allergy to creative risk produces hazards anyway.”

Target VP Was Board Member for K-12 Trans Advocacy Group

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Target VP Was Board Member for K-12 Trans Advocacy Group

(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The controversy around Target’s tucking swimsuits and satanic merchandise continued, as recent reports revealed the retailer’s vice president for brand marketing is a fervent gay activist.

According to Breitbart, Carlos Saavedra is currently board member of an activist group GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network—an organization that grooms K-12 kids.

Saavedra “leads Target brand stewardship and campaign development for initiatives including Holiday, Back-to-School/College, Target Run, Discovery, Inclusive Marketing, and Digital and Social engagement,” according to the Target website.

The VP started at Target in 2019 after working at PepsiCo for nearly 18 years. His work at the soda company largely involved finding ways to increase sales within cultural subgroups, such as Hispanics.

However, one article describing his coming out experience, published in 2005, suggested his tendency towards gay activism.

“You can bring your whole self to work rather than seeming isolated and distant because you can’t talk about what you do outside work,” he said.

Saavedra works closely with Jennifer Breeden Okun, senior vice president for design and packaging at Target, who is loudly pro-transgender and displays gay advocacy symbols on her LinkedIn profile.

Since Saavedra joined the Target team, the company donated more than $2.1 million to GLSEN and funded a documentary commemorating the group’s 25th anniversary.

Target’s CEO, Brian Cornell, defended the company’s decision to partner with a satanist to promote child mutilation, claiming it was “the right thing for our business.”

“I think we make really good decisions, and we add value for our shareholders,” he said in an interview on Fortune. “That’s part of why we’ve seen explosive top line growth. So I think the facts are in the results for us, and the things we’ve done from a DEI standpoint — it’s adding value.”

Shortly after the interview, Target’s stock price crashed by $140 per share and deprived shareholders of an estimated $9 billion combined.

Target premiered their “pride month” items a few weeks in advance, leading to a massive boycott as the store’s customer base—largely white, suburban mothers—rejected the trans invasion into the store.

‘Christian’ Chick-Fil-A Shows True Colors, Goes Woke

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‘Christian’ Chick-Fil-A Shows True Colors, Goes Woke

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Chick-fil-A which has been pretending to be a Christian fast-food restaurant chain recently showed its true colors and received a backlash for advancing several “diversity” initiates.

According to the Daily Wire, Chick-fil-A decided to gamble with its fate during the time of massive boycotts of Bud Light and Target by not firing Erick Reynolds from his job as a vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion that he got two years ago.

The company also features diversity programs that are meant for women and non-white people only.

Additionally, three years ago, Chick-fil-A Chairman Dan Cathy called for white Americans to shine the shoes of black people because the latter were once discriminated against in the United States. After that, he started shining the shoes of a black man himself while telling white people to have a sense of “shame” and “embarrassment.”

Aside from collaborating with race-exclusionary organizations like the National Black MBA Association, the Association of Latino Professionals of America and the Black Employee Resource Group, the company also wants to develop “mentorship, development and partnership opportunities for minority-owned businesses to strategically engage” with their supply chain.

In its employment nondiscrimination statement, Chick-fil-A also includes sexual orientation, “gender identity,” and “gender expression” as categories alongside race, sex, religion and veteran status.

For a recent sustainability report, the firm created an evaluation of “top ESG issues that internal and external stakeholders expect to grow in importance in the next five years,” which included “climate and energy stewardship” and “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Chick-fil-A published another sustainability report last week that also cited the firm’s commitment to “diversity,” saying that the company established a steering committee to provide insights for DEI initiatives and seeks to make diversity an “integral part” of their “culture of care.”

The fast-food company also halted its donations to several Christian organizations like the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, while donating to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Black Lives Matter and other leftist organizations.

“I’d love to see a conservative Christian company put out a statement that just says, ‘We fear God more than we fear you,'” one of the Twitter users wrote.

Fox News Implements Shocking Word Ban for Employees, On-Air Hosts

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Fox News Implements Shocking Word Ban for Employees, On-Air Hosts

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A prominent journalist has brought attention to an alarming development at Fox News, revealing that the network has prohibited its journalists and on-air hosts from mentioning the name of the recently ousted host Tucker Carlson.

Chadwick Moore, known for his biography of Carlson, took to Twitter on Sunday to drop a bombshell, alleging that he bad been privately informed by current Fox News employees that “all on-air talent have been banned from saying the name ‘Tucker’ on air.”

Carlson’s abrupt removal from the network on April 24 left many viewers angry and puzzled, as the specific reasons for his ousting remained unclear.

However, Moore said in his latest book, “Tucker: The Biography,” set to be published on July 16, that Carlson’s departure was a direct result of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit settlement, which amounted to a staggering $787 million.

Following Carlson’s exit, Fox made several changes to its primetime setlist, likely in response to scathingly low viewership. Reports suggested that the network’s investigative unit has been disbanded to make way for financial programming. Hannity host Sean Hannity, for instance, was moved from 9:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Carlson’s old time slot.

In a series of separate tweets, Moore also warned that Fox News “banned” him because of his disclosure of the reasons behind Carlson’s departure and his book about the popular TV host.

“I’m not allowed on Fox anymore, because I wrote a book about @TuckerCarlson. I’ve been banned from the network,” Moore revealed on Sunday, with the tweet quickly gaining over 500,000 views.

Moore went on to say that Fox has implemented a policy prohibiting any guest from promoting books that are not published by Harper Collins, a subsidiary of Fox News’s parent company, News Corp.

“This is FACT: Fox News has a new policy (aside from banning me): they won’t plug any book from a guest unless it was published by HarperCollins,” Moore stated. “You can’t be a guest on Fox unless you’re a Fox author…it’s all so hilarious and grotesque. Fox News will not let you promote your book unless your book is published by Fox News.”

In a follow up tweet on Monday, Moore said that Fox News had “reserved” its policy to not publicize any “non-News Corp books.”

Comer to Hold FBI Director in Contempt over Biden ‘Bribery’ File

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Comer to Hold FBI Director in Contempt over Biden ‘Bribery’ File

(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has promised to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress following the bureau’s inexplicable refusal to turn over an informant file that could potentially expose an alleged bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden when he served Vice President under the Obama administration in 2015. 

In a bombshell statement released by the Oversight Committee on Monday, Comer slammed the FBI’s decision to withhold the unclassified document, calling the bureau’s tactics “obstructionist and unacceptable,” highlighting the importance of congressional oversight.  

“Today, the FBI informed the Committee that it will not provide the unclassified documents subpoenaed by the Committee. The FBI’s decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructionist and unacceptable,” Comer said.

Comer warned that while he had a scheduled call with Wray on Tuesday, the Oversight Committee is moving forward with appropriate action to protect congressional oversight authorities, including “taking steps to hold the FBI Director in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena.”

The Oversight Committee chairman also emphasized that the American people deserved the truth and that House Republicans would persist in demanding transparency from the FBI, particularly amid growing conservative concern that the bureau is rallying against the Republican Party and its voters.

The FBI, under Wray’s leadership, has defied GOP demands, including calls from Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for an FD-1023 informant report that was reportedly created in June 2020 that details a complaint of a “bribery scheme with a foreign national” involving then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015. A whistleblower revealed the details of the potentially damning document to Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

Comer and Grassley first issued a subpoena on May 3, saying, “We believe the FBI possesses an unclassified internal document that includes very serious and detailed allegations implicating the current President of the United States.”

The Republican leaders called out the FBI for allegedly taking no action to verify the allegations further, citing the “FBI’s recent history of botching politically charged investigations” as sufficient reason to justify congressional oversight.

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