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Via Mediaite: “CNN is blaming Donald Trump for ruining the White House sports and fitness day because they say he’s not fit,” he said, before playing edited clips of CNN reporting from the White House about Trump eating only the bottom bun of his cheeseburger and using a golf cart to play golf. “CNN fat-shaming President Trump,” Watters quipped. Then …

“The president said, ‘Dinesh, you’ve been a great voice for freedom.’ And he said that, ‘I got to tell you, man-to-man, you’ve been screwed.’ He goes, ‘I’ve been looking at the case. I knew from the beginning that it was fishy.’ But he said upon reviewing it he felt a great injustice had been done and that using his power …

The Washington Examiner reports: First lady Melania Trump, who has not been seen in public since May 10, responded to rampant speculation about her health Wednesday, saying she is actually at the White House. Conjecture has swirled about Trump’s whereabouts since she had surgery May 14 for a “benign kidney condition.” She stayed in the hospital for a week to …

UPI reports: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is scheduled to give an on-camera press briefing on Wednesday afternoon. Sanders likely will address a potential meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, which the U.S. president said “hasn’t changed” despite earlier canceling the meeting. She also may face questions about a tweet Trump posted earlier …

“I think this move today only serves to sort of strengthen Trump’s hand here. And I think that these guys are to be commended for it. We’re not getting announcements from the White House – we’re getting the letter that the president sent the chairman. This is the transparency and the sort of scalding honesty that is on display here …

Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway really outdid her trademark diversion tactics today in a wild 20-minute interview with CNN’s Brian Stelter that careened from topic to topic. Here’s just one bit via Mediaite: The Reliable Sources host moved on to press about leaks coming out of the White House, asking if any staffers have been fired, and after Conway took a …

“Jeff Sessions has done nothing to make anyone responsible for the blatant corruption, the unmistakable perjury, the in-your-face obstruction of our laws that we’ve seen play out every day. He has fought the release of telling documents that will put an end to this horrible period in America’s political history. This man has done nothing to create confidence that wrongdoers …

Media Matters reports: Hours after a school shooting that left at least 10 high school students dead, Fox host Tucker Carlson almost completely ignored the massacre, spending a total of 17 seconds of his hour long primetime show on the shooting. Carlson instead filled the show with segments about robots, diapers and the royal wedding. While Tucker did host NRATV’s …

PBS reports: White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah is expected to hold a briefing at 1:30 p.m. ET today. Addressing the opening ceremony of the new American Embassy in Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu called it a “glorious” day. Netanyahu thanked President Donald Trump for showing the “courage” to keep a key campaign promise and says relations with the U.S. have …

Media Matters reports: Ever since President Donald Trump’s disastrous interview with NBC’s Lester Holt on May 11 2017 — in which he may have admitted to obstructing justice — Trump has given in-person TV interviews to only friendly journalists who mostly avoid asking tough questions. Over the past year, Trump has appeared on television for in-person interviews 14 times and …

New York Magazine reports: Their chats begin casually, with How are yous and What’s going ons. On some days, they speak multiple times, with one calling the other to inform him of the latest developments. White House staff are aware that the calls happen, thanks to the president entering a room and announcing, “I just hung up with Hannity,” or …

Mediaite reports: Kellyanne Conway, the White House counselor, invited her followers to read Ronan Farrow and Jane Meyer’s report for the New Yorker, calling the allegations “harrowing.” Conway has repeatedly dismissed the accusers of her boss, President Trump. In a subsequent tweet, Conway resurfaced an old Trump tweet in which Schneiderman said Trump is not “above the law” for his …

“I believe she should double down and say, ‘I’m proud of what I accomplished, whether it was black sites, enhanced interrogation, and I dare anyone to sit in my shoes and accomplish as much as I’ve done.’ And she could even, if she wanted to, if they could un-classify everything, tell us everything that you were able to pick up, …

The evil queen of gaslighting strikes again: Counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that she doesn’t believe the Trump White House has a credibility problem. “No, I don’t,” Conway told CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked if she thinks the White House has issues with its credibility. Conway, when pressed on President Trump’s falsehoods, insisted “the president …

Via Mediaite: Last night Jeanine Pirro went on an epic rant ripping the Department of Justice and accusing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein of being part of a conspiracy — one that has long been debunked — that links Hillary Clinton to uranium sales. “So why does Rosenstein even have so much power? He has irrefutable power,” Pirro opined. “More …

Media Matters reports: A branch of the Russian-owned news outlet Sputnik reported as real a fake story that Israel had used a nuclear weapon on Syria from YourNewsWire, a fake news site that experts have described as a proxy and a pusher of Russian-supported narratives. On April 30, Israel launched a missile attack on facilities in Syria allegedly connected to …

Via Mediaite: Kanye West appeared on TMZ for a live-streamed meltdown on Tuesday, ranting at the online tabloid’s staffers about his support for President Donald Trump, belief that slavery is “a choice,” and opioid abuse that followed a liposuction procedure. Brian Kilmeade noted the controversy surrounding West’s slavery remarks, and Steve Doocy quoted his comments that there is a “class …

Newsweek reports: Under-fire Fox News anchor Sean Hannity attacked the New York Times over its story on a list of questions the Mueller special counsel wants President Donald Trump to answer, dismissing the newspaper as “full of crap.” “I am told by my sources tonight that The New York Times is full of crap,” Hannity said on his show during …

“Michelle Wolf, like Stephen Colbert in front of George Bush, was wildly inappropriate and performing for a crowd that was not in attendance. That crowd, OK, many of whom were probably laughing at Colbert. Very few, I can tell you, were laughing at Michelle Wolf. Cringing, more likely. Because — because there was a victim. With comedy, the victim should …

This morning Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway pretended to be outraged when asked about her husband’s critical tweets about Glorious Leader, some of which have since been deleted. Conway accused CNN host Dana Bash of only asking about the tweets because she’s a woman. Mediaite reports: Conway got in a dig at Hillary Clinton before saying, “It’s fascinating to me that …