Tom Bettenhausen

Technology guy . Building and maintaining websites, applications and Internet technologies.

Trump Officials Stumped At Hearing When Asked If Goldberg Can Post Bombshell Texts Since They Claim No Classified Info from Mediaite Tommy Christopher

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) stumped Trump officials at a hearing by asking if the leaked text chain can be published in full since the Trump administration claims they weren’t classified. The political media world was stunned Monday when Jeffrey Goldberg dropped a blockbuster report that revealed he was (apparently inadvertently) included in a text chain in which the Principals Committee discussed…

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Dem Lawmaker Rips Into CIA Honcho Over Leaked Text Chain: ‘Utterly Unprofessional’ from Mediaite Tom Durante

A Democratic senator absolutely tore apart CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Tuesday as he and other lawmakers raked U.S. intel officials over the coals after a leaked text message chain was exposed the day before. It all started when Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA), the last of several members of the Senate Intelligence Committee to grill…

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Tulsi Gabbard Called Out by Senate Dem for Repeatedly Dodging Questions By Claiming Leaked Chat is ‘Under Review’ from Mediaite Ahmad Austin Jr.

Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday for refusing to answer a question regarding the Signal chat between Trump cabinet members. On Monday, a report from The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg lit the political landscape ablaze when he revealed he was mistakenly added to the chat. He received the…

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Jill Biden’s Ex-Press Secretary Explains How Biden White House Bullied ‘A Lot of Journalists’: They Demanded Pre-Screened Questions and ‘Quote Approval’ from Mediaite Isaac Schorr

Michael LaRosa, the former press secretary for First Lady Jill Biden, explained to The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur how the Biden administration bullied “a lot of journalists” in a newly released interview. LaRosa made waves last month when he told an audience that the Biden campaign was guilty of “gaslighting” the public over then-President Joe Biden’s…

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‘Let Me Finish!’ Tiffany Cross And CNN’s Scott Jennings Go At It In Heated Brawl Over Anti-Trump Town Halls from Mediaite Tommy Christopher

Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross and GOP analyst Scott Jennings got into it when Jennings insisted “none” of the town hall attendees complaining about President Donald Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk are Republican. Republicans have faced raucous and hostile constituents at town halls in red states, with voters angry about job cuts and the economy getting outsized media attention….

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WATCH: Bernie Sanders Browbeats Trump’s Social Security Chief Nominee Into Admitting DOGE’s Staff Cuts Are a Bad Idea from Mediaite Sarah Rumpf

Screenshot via X. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) grilled Frank Bisignano, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration (SSA), in a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday, being unsatisfied with how Bisiginano was ducking his questions about staff cuts. Trump and Elon Musk’s efforts with DOGE to reshape the federal government have been highly…

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Trump’s NatSec Advisor Seethes About Journalists ‘Making Up Lies’ in Bizarre Attempt to Spin Stunning Leak of War Plans from Mediaite Michael Luciano

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz attacked the media on Tuesday, the day after it was revealed the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was inadvertently leaked forthcoming plans for airstrikes in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg published a bombshell report explaining that Waltz requested to connect with him on Signal, an encrypted messaging app. Two days later, Goldberg was…

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Trump Firm in His Defense of Mike Waltz As Reporters Blitz POTUS About Leaked Chat: ‘I Don’t Think He Should Apologize’ from Mediaite Isaac Schorr

President Donald Trump was firm in his defense of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz on Tuesday, even as reporters hounded him for answers about Waltz’s inadvertent adding of The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal groupchat in which Waltz and other top administration officials — including Vice President JD Vance — discussed plans to strike Yemen’s…

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