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Int'l Business Times
4 days ago
- Politics
- Int'l Business Times
MAGA Podcaster Calls for Trump Impeachment Over President's Iran Response: 'All of His Supporters Should Turn on Him'
A MAGA-supporting podcaster has seemingly turned on President Donald Trump, going as far as to call for his impeachment as a result of Trump's policy on Iran. Dave Smith, the man who hosts the libertarian podcast Part of the Problem, appeared on YouTube show Breaking Points on Monday, during which he discussed the 47th President with hosts Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. Smith criticized Trump's response to the developments in the Middle East after the President has consistently supported Israel's actions against Iran while simultaneously claiming that the US had nothing to do with them. Smith proceeded to bash Trump for his willingness to reenter talks with Iran as the conflict escalates. "Donald Trump telling [Iran] to come back to the negotiating table now is a joke. I mean, what an impotent leader! To be sitting there talking about coming back to the negotiating table—it's like sitting there after Pearl Harbor and telling FDR now is the time to go negotiate with the Japanese. Negotiations are over now," Smith said. "I supported him this last year, I apologize for doing so. It was a bad calculation, at the time it seemed like the right one. He should be impeached and removed for this course, Congress will never do it because they're all a bunch of corrupt hacks. Donald Trump should be impeached and removed for this," Smith stated. "All of his supporters should turn on him. It's an absolute betrayal of everything he ran and campaigned on and everything that he stood for. And I will say, despite the fact that Donald Trump supporters have been labelled a cult following, and that certainly is true for a percentage of his supporters, he is going to lose his coalition over this," he continued. "I don't just speak for myself. There are a lot of us who simply will not go along with this. Just a devastating mistake," he concluded. Smith is not the only MAGA-supporter-turned-opponent in the wake of the recent escalations in the conflict in the Middle East. Former FOX News host and Trump supporter Tucker Carlson warned on Monday that Trump's response to the conflict, if it were to result in a war with Iran, would signal the "end" of his presidency. "If Trump is genuine about diplomacy and interested in stopping this war, next steps are consequential. It takes one phone call from Washington to muzzle someone like Netanyahu," said Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, in a statement posted to X. "That may pave the way for a return to diplomacy." Originally published on Latin Times
Int'l Business Times
11-06-2025
- Business
- Int'l Business Times
MAGA Supporters Call for Walmart Boycott After Heiress Publishes NYT Ad Promoting 'No Kings' Anti-Trump Protests: 'Good Riddance'
Supporters of President Donald Trump are calling for boycotts against Walmart after the company's billionaire heiress placed a full-page "No Kings" ad in the New York Times encouraging Americans to engage in civic discourse. Walmart heiress and philanthropist Christy Walton, widow to John T. Walton and daughter-in-law to Walmart founder Sam Walton, placed the ad in the June 9 print edition of the New York Times. "No Kings," the text atop of the full page ad reads. "June 14. Mobilize." "We are the people of the United States of America. The honor, dignity and integrity of our country are not for sale," the ad continues. "Our government is of the people, by the people, for the people." "The advertisements from Christy Walton are in no way connected to or endorsed by Walmart. She does not serve on the board or play any role in decision making at Walmart," a Walmart spokesperson told Newsweek. MAGA-supporting social media users quickly took to online platforms to berate Walton and call for boycotts directed toward the company. "Just cancelled my Walmart+ membership. When prompted to state why, I checked 'other' and stated...'The honor, dignity and integrity of my Country is not for sale.' It works both ways," wrote one user. Just cancelled my Walmart+ membership. When prompted to state why, I checked 'other' and stated…' The honor, dignity and integrity of my Country is not for sale'. It works both ways. — Lori with an AW (@lawaechter) June 10, 2025 "Time to boycott Walmart. Walmart heiress Christy Walton funded a political ad campaign against Trump, published in major national newspapers. The ad urges a 'nationwide day of defiance' and calls for people to 'rise up' on June 14th," said another. Time to boycott Walmart. Walmart heiress Christy Walton funded a political ad campaign against Trump, published in major national newspapers. The ad urges a "nationwide day of defiance" and calls for people to "rise up" on June 14th. — 🌸 DigiGal (@DigitalGal_) June 10, 2025 "Walmart is finished - good riddance," wrote a third. Walmart is finished - good riddance 👋 — John Zito (@John_S_Zito) June 11, 2025 "Paid for by Christy Walton. Walmart heiress. STOP SHOPPING AT WALMART," said a fourth. "We condemn violence, including when it's directed towards law enforcement, and the damaging of property. As a company with associates and customers in the Los Angeles region, we remain focused on their safety and that of impacted associates. The advertisements from Christy Walton are in no way connected to or endorsed by Walmart. She does not serve on the board or play any role in decision making at Walmart," the company said in another statement published by conservative media personality Laura Loomer. SCOOP: Walmart to release a statement tonight condemning violence after Walmart heiress Christy Walton took out an ad promoting the June 14th anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest in the @nytimes. I was able to get to this ad that was published by Walmart heiress Christy Walton in… — Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) June 10, 2025 "I am glad Walmart took this opportunity to distance themselves from Christy Walton's anti-Trump multi-city ad and to condemn political violence," Loomer continued. Originally published on Latin Times © Latin Times. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce without permission.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Alex Jones Ignites MAGA Fury by Pressing Trump on Musk's Bombshell Epstein Claim
Infowars host Alex Jones set off a furious MAGA backlash by calling for President Trump to address Elon Musk's explosive allegation that Trump's name appears in the 'Epstein files.' With the Trump administration creaking amid the fallout between Musk and the president, conspiracy theorist Jones—who insisted he does not believe Trump was connected to Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking crimes—still pressed Trump to respond to the sensational claim from his former 'First Buddy.' 'Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,' Musk tweeted Have a nice day, DJT!' Musk tweeted Thursday. 'Mark this post for the future. The truth will come out.' In a reply to Musk's post, Jones wrote: 'Trump needs to respond asap. I notice he did not take questions at his public meeting today.' The conspiracy theorist's post quickly drew the ire of pro-Trump influencers, including @catturd2, who went on the attack in front of their 3.7 million followers. 'He's been silent all day while Trump has been viciously attacked with lies. I used to respect Alex Jones, but now he's just a piece of s--t fraud. What a f---ing sellout,' the right-winger wrote. 'You are just virtue signaling,' Jones replied. 'I have said in at least five videos today that I don't believe Trump is connected to Epstein crimes. The sooner he comes out and responds to the allegation the better. I had Roger Stone on within two hours of the allegations breaking debunking it. Grow up.' That was one of a series of tweets he fired off while coming under pressure from other MAGA-supporting accounts, including one in which he protested: 'I am not on team Trump or team Elon. I am on team humanity, which equals team truth.' He added bluntly: 'I am not in your cult.' Several other MAGA accounts joined in with @catturd2's salvo towards Jones. One accused Jones of speaking out for 'engagement money.' 'Everyone acts like X is the place for news, but all that really happens is things get inflamed like a wildfire by people trying to make the headlines juicy for engagement,' they wrote. 'Alex needs money.' Another sent Jones a clown emoji along with the indignant question: 'So MAGA is a cult now?' One user—who wrongly insists in their bio that Trump won the 2020 presidential election—confessed they 'never really liked' Jones, but they were nevertheless 'shocked he was so ready to ditch President Trump.' 'Trump literally took a bullet for this country, where is the loyalty or at a min the benefit of the doubt?!' they added. 'Infuriating!' Others came to Jones' defense. One self-described patriot said that Jones was merely saying that 'Trump needs to address the issue from a political standpoint.' 'Why are you going nuclear?' they wrote to Catturd, adding: 'Losing respect.' Jones responded to the post with: 'Cat poop doesn't want the truth. He just wants to grandstand as holier than anyone else.' Jeffrey Epstein was accused of sex trafficking minors in 2019 but pleaded not guilty. The disgraced financier died by suicide in a prison cell a month after his arrest. Epstein and the president were friends in the 1990s and early 2000s, but fell out in 2004, according to The Washington Post. When asked about Epstein's arrest in 2019, Trump told a reporter: 'Well I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him. I mean, people in Palm Beach knew him. I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan. I was not a fan of his.' The president has not been accused of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein. He has never been implicated in Epstein's alleged abuse. The White House did not respond to the Daily Beast's request for comment on Musk's accusations.
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate responds to U.K. rape charges: 'Never give in'
Self-described misogynist Andrew Tate sought to portray himself as a victim on Wednesday after British officials confirmed rape charges have been authorized against the MAGA-supporting influencer. 'The matrix is angry,' Tate wrote in a post on X. 'They do this to ANY man who fights against them. Never give up men. Never give in. Do not be scared. Strength and honor.' Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate — who were born in the United States and hold dual U.S. and U.K. citizenship — already face human trafficking charges in Romania as part of a separate criminal inquiry. British prosecutors announced Wednesday that the brothers faces a total of 21 charges, including rape and human trafficking, in the U.K. As The New York Times reported: British prosecutors said the brothers "would be extradited to the United Kingdom after the conclusion of separate criminal proceedings in Romania. Charges can be lodged against suspects only when they are physically in Britain." The brothers have denied the allegations against them in both Romania and the United Kingdom. Naturally, Andrew Tate, who's amassed a large following online by spewing rank bigotry — particularly toward women — sought the warm embrace of his hypermasculine horde through a conspiratorial social media post framing the U.K. charges as nothing more than an assault on true manhood. I have some better advice than "never give in" for the 38-year-old former professional kickboxer — and for men everywhere: Always get consent. And as an aside, that 'strength and honor' line Tate included in his social media response to the new rape charge appears to be faux-macho schlock pulled from a 'Gladiator' film. Various members of the Trump administration have publicly supported the Tate brothers, despite the allegations against them. And when the brothers visited the U.S. earlier this year, they were treated to a sort of hero's welcome from Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White, a close ally of Donald Trump. The greeting caused division in the conservative movement, with some right-wing influencers noting the terrible optics. Florida's Republican attorney general has even opened a criminal investigation into allegations of sexually predatory behavior, showing there's more than a little intraparty uneasiness among Republicans when it comes the these two. One wonders how the president's allies will interact with the brothers going forward. Granted, conservatives have broadly coalesced around Trump, who's been found liable for sexual abuse and who's boasted about groping women without their consent, so sexual misconduct allegations may not deter too many of their MAGA-aligned supporters. This article was originally published on
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘No MAGA left behind': Trump's pardons get even more political
As President Donald Trump's interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin was remarkably blunt about intermingling Trump's political goals with the ostensibly independent actions of the Justice Department. That might have cost him the permanent gig. So leave it to Martin, now Trump's pardon attorney, to say the quiet part out loud about Trump's pardons. 'No MAGA left behind,' Martin posted Monday on X. Martin's missive came after Trump pardoned a MAGA-supporting former Virginia sheriff, Scott Jenkins, who had been convicted of bribery. Martin's further posts suggested this pardon wasn't about rewarding a Trump ally, per se – a more problematic proposition – but rather about correcting what Trump allies argue was a weaponized Biden administration prosecution. However, if you look closely at how Trump's used his pardon power – which he has exercised dramatically this week, with a slew of new pardons and commutations on Wednesday alone – it's virtually impossible to miss the political overtones. Many of Trump's acts of clemency have rewarded an ally or someone tied to an ally, or they have served a clear and not terribly subtle political purpose. Politics have loomed over other controversial and high-profile pardons – from Andrew Jackson's, to Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon, to Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich, to Joe Biden pardoning his own son. (Biden in his closing days also preemptively pardoned other family members and Trump critics who hadn't been accused or convicted of crimes, because Trump and his allies had suggested they could be targeted.) But Trump took things up a level by pardoning a spate of key convicted allies in his first term, often without the kind of extensive process usually used in pardons. And his second term continues to push the envelope. The big one, of course, was the blanket pardoning of virtually all January 6, 2021, defendants – about 1,500 people in total. These were people who quite literally rose up on Trump's behalf and in some cases assaulted police. Trump pardoned nearly all of them even as polling later showed 83% of Americans opposed his pardons for those convicted of violent crimes. There has been more where that came from this week. On Monday, Trump pardoned the MAGA-supporting former sheriff. Jenkins was sentenced to 10 years in prison (during the Trump administration) for offering local businessmen positions as auxiliary deputy sheriffs in return for campaign contributions. On Tuesday, Trump made a splash when he spared reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley lengthy prison sentences for bank fraud after their daughter campaigned extensively for Trump in 2024. Campaign assistance appears to be a common denominator for some Trump pardons. The New York Times reported on Tuesday, for example, that Trump's April pardon of convicted nursing home executive Paul Walczak came after Walczak's mother raised millions for Trump and other Republicans, sought to publicize the diary of Biden's daughter, and attended a $1-million-per-person fundraising dinner last month. Walczak even cited his mother's pro-Trump political activity in his pardon application. And on Wednesday, as Martin took to social media again to proclaim it 'pardon day,' Trump granted clemency to even more individuals, including pardoning former GOP Rep. Michael Grimm of New York. That means Trump has now pardoned no fewer than eight convicted former GOP members of Congress, between his first and second terms. Earlier in the day, Trump suggested that next in line for pardons could be two men convicted of conspiring to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. ('It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job,' Trump said.) Beyond the pardons mentioned above, Trump has also pardoned or granted clemency to: Former Republican Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, who was convicted on two separate occasions in recent decades Mark Bashaw, an officer who formerly served at the Army Public Health Center and was found guilty of violating the Biden administration's military Covid safety rules by a court martial Trevor Milton, who with his wife gave Trump's reelection effort $1.8 million just a month before the 2024 election and had been represented by lawyers with ties to Trump Ross Ulbricht, whom Trump had pledged to pardon during the 2024 campaign as an appeal to potential libertarian supporters Two key witnesses in the Biden impeachment inquiry (Devon Archer and Jason Galanis) Brian Kelsey, a Republican former state senator from Tennessee Ex-Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who has supported Trump and called himself a 'Trumpocrat' Former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore, a Republican who some have labeled 'Lady Trump' About two dozen people convicted of blocking access to abortion clinics In case the politics of that last one weren't clear enough, Trump announced the pardons just a day before he addressed the anti-abortion-rights 'March for Life' in January. Indeed, you have to strain pretty hard to find Trump pardons or grants of clemency that don't have some kind of political element. Trump in March pardoned three cryptocurrency figures who don't have an obvious political connection to him. But he's also made inroads – both political and personal – into the crypto world, and has pushed for deregulation. He pardoned two DC police officers convicted in a deadly pursuit, and he did so with at least some support from D.C.'s police chief and Democratic mayor. But he also suggested the police had been targeted 'because they went after an illegal' – suggesting the decision was linked to his harsh anti-illegal immigration efforts. Jean Pinkard might be Trump's most normal-sounding act of clemency, given she was sentenced to just one year in prison and has battled cancer. But even there, she was represented by a lawyer who prominently pushed Trump's baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election. Trump on Wednesday also made several pardons and commutations with no immediately apparent political nexus. For instance, he commuted the sentence of former Gangster Disciples co-founder Larry Hoover, just months after Biden pardoned Hoover's second-in-command. Regardless of intent, the pattern of Trump's pardons is pretty clear. They're heavily focused on people who support Trump or have ties to him, those who targeted people Trump also doesn't like, and instances where the pardons could send messages to key constituencies. And there's no sign it's going to slow down any time soon – especially where Martin is involved.
