Grabien Stories https://grabien.com/stories/Feed Grabien recent stories en tom@grabien.com Sun, 31 May 2026 11:45:52 -0400 Sun, 31 May 2026 11:45:52 -0400 News 60 https://images.grabien.com/logo_header.png Grabien recent stories 60 60 https://grabien.com/stories/Feed NEC Dir. Kevin Hassett on Trump’s Job Market: Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance Are at the Lowest They’ve Been Since the 1960s ‘Real incomes are going up’ grabienrecentstories591898 https://grabien.com/story?id=591898 Sun, 31 May 2026 10:59:06 -0400 NEC Dir. Kevin Hassett: Real Incomes Are Soaring, the Typical American Family Has Gained About $3,000 Since Trump Took Office ‘For mining workers, their real incomes this year are up $7,000’ grabienrecentstories591896 https://grabien.com/story?id=591896 Sun, 31 May 2026 10:54:51 -0400 Sec. Burgum on Trump’s Call to Cancel ‘Freedom 250’ After Artists Opt Out: I Don’t Know If That’s Going To Be the Case ‘This is a 15 daylong celebration’ grabienrecentstories591894 https://grabien.com/story?id=591894 Sun, 31 May 2026 10:43:02 -0400 Sec. Burgum on Artists Opting Out of Freedom 250 for Being Partisan: ‘This Is About Celebrating Our Nation’ ‘Spin magazine, what an appropriate name to get your information’ grabienrecentstories591892 https://grabien.com/story?id=591892 Sun, 31 May 2026 10:39:25 -0400 Sec. Burgum on Artists Backing Out of 250 Concert: The Big Picture Is Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary as a Country ‘You think about the revolutionaries that fought Great Britain, won independence’ grabienrecentstories591890 https://grabien.com/story?id=591890 Sun, 31 May 2026 10:26:24 -0400 Trump Shows the W.H.’s UFC Freedom250 Construction: We’re Going to Have Maybe 100,000 People in the Park, 8 Giant Screens, All Free ‘This will be the highest rated event, maybe one of them, ever in sports’ grabienrecentstories591888 https://grabien.com/story?id=591888 Sun, 31 May 2026 09:41:38 -0400 Trump on Beautification Projects in D.C. Such as the Triumphal Arch: That’s Going To Be Very Much Like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris ‘Except a larger version’ grabienrecentstories591886 https://grabien.com/story?id=591886 Sun, 31 May 2026 09:26:30 -0400 Trump Shows Lara Trump Where the Glass Tunnel to the Future East Wing Will Stand: It’s a Gift from Me and from Great Patriots ‘It’s the most secure facility ever built, and obviously with the way the world is now, that’s very important’ grabienrecentstories591884 https://grabien.com/story?id=591884 Sun, 31 May 2026 09:22:52 -0400 Robert Faturechi: Experts Say Non–Merit-Based Government Funding Leads to ‘Inefficient Use of Taxpayer Dollars’ ‘This may not be the only example of a loan that will help the Trump family‘ grabienrecentstories591882 https://grabien.com/story?id=591882 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:51:14 -0400 Robert Faturechi: Democrats Seeking Subpoena of Trump Jr. Over ‘Vulcan Deal’ ‘Trump Administration’s actions benefiting businesses that Trump family members either hold stakes in or hold positions in‘ grabienrecentstories591880 https://grabien.com/story?id=591880 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:50:27 -0400 Robert Faturechi: Donald Trump Jr. Venture Firm Invested in Startup Before ‘$600 Million’ Pentagon Loan ‘The the timing is quite interesting’ grabienrecentstories591878 https://grabien.com/story?id=591878 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:49:34 -0400 Josh Marshall: Trump’s Political Style Is ‘Always About Playing for Time’ and Obfuscation ‘He had the audacity to run on this as one of his central proof points of his campaign‘ grabienrecentstories591876 https://grabien.com/story?id=591876 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:44:32 -0400 Gretchen Carlson: The ‘FBI Scrubbed Files Before They Even Reached the DoJ’ ‘Mainly the Democrats are saying we got to get Kash Patel in here‘ grabienrecentstories591874 https://grabien.com/story?id=591874 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:41:17 -0400 Gretchen Carlson: DoJ Hearing Had ‘Predetermined’ Terms Preventing Questions About Trump ‘I’m sure their constituents would like to know that that they don’t care enough about the Epstein files to be there in person‘ grabienrecentstories591872 https://grabien.com/story?id=591872 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:37:57 -0400 Josh Marshall: Administration Is ‘Breaking as Many Laws as They Can’ While Managing Political Fallout ‘This was a way for him to show that he was still in charge, still has power‘ grabienrecentstories591870 https://grabien.com/story?id=591870 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:34:53 -0400 Tim Miller: Trump Faced Temporary Political Consequences Within His Own Base After January 6 ‘I think he wasn’t giving his real thoughts there’ grabienrecentstories591868 https://grabien.com/story?id=591868 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:23:22 -0400 Jason Johnson: ‘No Other President Was Shameless Enough in the Modern Era to Pardon Seditionists’ ‘We’ve got we still have victims who are alive from the Tulsa bombing who have never been gotten any sort of compensation‘ grabienrecentstories591866 https://grabien.com/story?id=591866 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:21:09 -0400 Tim Miller: on DoJ Under Trump: ‘If You’re a Friend of the President, This Is the Golden Age for Doing Crimes’ ‘We’re seeing some trends with where he’s failing and where he’s succeeding‘ grabienrecentstories591864 https://grabien.com/story?id=591864 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:19:20 -0400 Victor Davis Hanson on Deterrence and Global Conflict: ‘We Can Reestablish Deterrence at Least for Two Years,’ China ‘Is Not in Good Position’ ‘We are ascending but we have to manage that a little better‘ grabienrecentstories591862 https://grabien.com/story?id=591862 Sun, 31 May 2026 05:12:12 -0400 Victor Davis Hanson on Iran ‘Victory’: ‘You Cannot Escalate Enough to Humiliate the Enemy’ in Nuclear Age ‘You turn military victory into strategic resolution by making it impossible for the enemy to continue the war‘ grabienrecentstories591860 https://grabien.com/story?id=591860 Sun, 31 May 2026 04:53:06 -0400 Michael Oren: New Middle East Peace Depends on America Showing ‘Muscle’ and Strength ‘America had their backing but we cannot have a situation the war ends‘ grabienrecentstories591858 https://grabien.com/story?id=591858 Sun, 31 May 2026 04:25:32 -0400 Michael Oren: Iran ‘Will Lie About Its Nuclear Program’ As They Previously Misrepresented Missile Range ‘So you’re doing with a regime that lies and does want to destroy us‘ grabienrecentstories591856 https://grabien.com/story?id=591856 Sun, 31 May 2026 04:23:19 -0400 Michael Oren: Iran Sought Arsenal of ‘About 8,000 Ballistic Missiles’ in Pre-War Build-Up ‘It is the potential existential threat‘ grabienrecentstories591854 https://grabien.com/story?id=591854 Sun, 31 May 2026 04:19:04 -0400 Michael Oren on Iran Negotiations: ‘Fourfold Goals’ Include Nuclear Program, Stockpile Removal and Missile Limits ‘The individual goals that were set out both by the nine seats in Israel the outset of this operation of epic fury‘ grabienrecentstories591852 https://grabien.com/story?id=591852 Sun, 31 May 2026 04:16:51 -0400 Ali Veshi: Delaney Hall Was Like ‘Just Another Warehouse’ Outside, but Symbolic Flashpoint Inside Immigration Debate ‘This is a very lucrative business‘ grabienrecentstories591850 https://grabien.com/story?id=591850 Sun, 31 May 2026 03:20:02 -0400 Ali Velshi: Police Generally Have Authority to Move Media Back If They Determine a Public Safety Concern ‘Every municipality is a little bit different, in every state’s a little bit different‘ grabienrecentstories591848 https://grabien.com/story?id=591848 Sun, 31 May 2026 03:13:20 -0400 Ali Velshi: Escalation Happened ‘in Minutes’ as Police Began Forming New Lines and Press Was Pushed Back ‘There have been drones up there all night‘ grabienrecentstories591846 https://grabien.com/story?id=591846 Sun, 31 May 2026 03:11:59 -0400 Rob D’Amico: Freedom of the Press Is Being ’Pushed to the Point Where It Is Starting to Limit It’ ‘Getting them to a safe area that where they could still film would be the normalcy of what they used to do‘ grabienrecentstories591844 https://grabien.com/story?id=591844 Sun, 31 May 2026 03:09:23 -0400 Rob D’Amico: It Would Be ‘Not Normal’ If Police Are Restricting Media Access in the Same Manner as Protesters ‘I think nowadays they’re trying to limit some of what the media can see‘ grabienrecentstories591842 https://grabien.com/story?id=591842 Sun, 31 May 2026 03:07:54 -0400 Ali Velshi: Media and Crew Are Being Escorted by a ‘Phalanx of Police’ Toward Another Line of Officers ‘Now we’re in a police sandwich‘ grabienrecentstories591840 https://grabien.com/story?id=591840 Sun, 31 May 2026 03:06:21 -0400 Ali Veshi Describes Roughly Equal Numbers of Protesters and Police at Anti-Immigration Raid Demonstration ‘I would probably say there are 20 or 25 protesters and about that many cops‘ grabienrecentstories591838 https://grabien.com/story?id=591838 Sun, 31 May 2026 03:03:52 -0400 Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile on Jill Biden Saying She Thought Joe Biden Was Having a Stroke in Debate ‘We made that decision in 2024 when the then president decided to step down and pass the torch to Kamala’ grabienrecentstories591836 https://grabien.com/story?id=591836 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:32:44 -0400 Anti-ICE Rioters Break Through the Temporary Barricades Near Delaney Hall Facility ‘Quit your f**king jobs!’ grabienrecentstories591834 https://grabien.com/story?id=591834 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:17:16 -0400 Harley Lippman: Preventing Iran From Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon Would Be Trump’s Defining Legacy ‘I think in the future, people will thank President Trump because this is a universal theme’ grabienrecentstories591832 https://grabien.com/story?id=591832 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:11:43 -0400 Smerconish Torches Elizabeth Warren for Flagging Sec. Hegseth’s Christian Tattoos While Ignoring Platner’s Nazi Tattoo ‘It’s the same Elizabeth Warren who eviscerated Michael Bloomberg, you’ll remember, on the debate stage over NDAs signed by women who settled claims against him’ grabienrecentstories591830 https://grabien.com/story?id=591830 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:10:35 -0400 Harley Lippman: Anti-American Messaging Has Been Used to ‘Brainwash Their People’ for Decades ‘They want to take over the world’ grabienrecentstories591828 https://grabien.com/story?id=591828 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:10:11 -0400 Harley Lippman: Seizing Villas and Estates of Iranian Leaders ‘Really Hurts’ the Regime ‘It’s a creative approach‘ grabienrecentstories591826 https://grabien.com/story?id=591826 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:08:16 -0400 Harley Lippman: Praises ‘No Dust, No Deal’ Approach as Central Objective of Iran Policy ‘They were building ICBMs that have the sole purpose to carry a nuclear warhead on it‘ grabienrecentstories591824 https://grabien.com/story?id=591824 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:06:05 -0400 Adam Mockler Defends Graham Platner: A Populist Plagued with Scandals Is Basically Every MAGA Candidate ‘I live in Chicago, so I don‘t have much say on this election’ grabienrecentstories591822 https://grabien.com/story?id=591822 Sun, 31 May 2026 01:03:03 -0400 Trump on UFC Amid Freedom250 at the W.H.: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It, It’s Going To Be Very Exciting ‘We’re doing some amazing things’ grabienrecentstories591820 https://grabien.com/story?id=591820 Sat, 30 May 2026 23:57:29 -0400 Trump: We Have Very Bad Elections, We Really Have to Pass the Save America Act ‘The Republican senate has to Get Going’ grabienrecentstories591818 https://grabien.com/story?id=591818 Sat, 30 May 2026 23:48:31 -0400 Trump on Dems: ‘I Want Borders,’ They Don’t Want Borders, They Want to Get Rid of Your Second Amendment, I Have to Protect It ‘If they won this election, I don’t think we’d have a country anymore’ grabienrecentstories591816 https://grabien.com/story?id=591816 Sat, 30 May 2026 23:44:32 -0400 Trump: VP Vance Is Doing a Great Job with His Team and They’ve Caught Already Hundreds of Billions of Dollars of Fraud ‘We’re going to have a balanced budget very soon’ grabienrecentstories591814 https://grabien.com/story?id=591814 Sat, 30 May 2026 23:40:44 -0400 Trump says Iran’s ‘Biggest Asset’ is the Fake News Media, Diminishing the U.S. Successes: You Have a Big Win in a Battle and They Say You Lost ‘It’s just a terrible thing for our country’ grabienrecentstories591812 https://grabien.com/story?id=591812 Sat, 30 May 2026 23:37:11 -0400 Trump on Iran: If We Don’t Get What We Want, We’re Going to End It a Different Way ‘Slowly but surely, we’re getting, I think, what we want’ grabienrecentstories591810 https://grabien.com/story?id=591810 Sat, 30 May 2026 23:35:27 -0400 Trump on QB Jaxson Dart Facing Hate After Rally Intro: ‘Is He a Male Model or What?’ He’s a Beautiful Guy ‘I wish I looked just like Jaxon’ grabienrecentstories591808 https://grabien.com/story?id=591808 Sat, 30 May 2026 22:50:25 -0400 Fox News: Trump Says Iran’s Military Hasn’t Been Hit Aggressively Because It’s Moderate Compared to Other Elements of the Regime ‘He argues that wiping out everybody could cause a country to be unable to rebuild for generations’ grabienrecentstories591806 https://grabien.com/story?id=591806 Sat, 30 May 2026 22:11:15 -0400 Fox News: U.S. Forces Struck a Suspected Drug-Trafficking Boat in the Eastern Pacific, SOUTHCOM Says Three Narco-Terrorists Were Killed ‘New video, released by U.S. Southern Command, shows the moment the vessel is hit’ grabienrecentstories591804 https://grabien.com/story?id=591804 Sat, 30 May 2026 21:50:25 -0400 Secretary Hegseth on Iran: ‘Any Deal Will Be a Good Deal’ ‘I don’t think enough credit has been given to President Trump’s willingness to take on this global threat’ grabienrecentstories591802 https://grabien.com/story?id=591802 Sat, 30 May 2026 21:10:38 -0400 Sen. Roger Marshall on DHS Funding: The Democrats Continue To Be the Party of ‘Defund the Police’ ‘The Republicans continue to be the party of law and order’ grabienrecentstories591800 https://grabien.com/story?id=591800 Sat, 30 May 2026 19:26:54 -0400