@niallstanage.bsky.social
White House Columnist at The Hill, TV with “Rising,” NewsNation and elsewhere, product of Ireland.
Full CBS story:
www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...
The conservative site The Blaze recklessly named a woman who it said — on the spurious basis of anonymous “gait analysis” — was a “forensic match” for the Jan. 6 pipe bomber.
Turns out she has a solid alibi and has been ruled out by the FBI, per CBS News.
Grossly irresponsible.
“Federal authorities say that the former president and his co-conspirators almost immediately began mapping out an illegal path to retain the presidency.”
25.11.2025 23:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Orders are presumed to be lawful.”
25.11.2025 02:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good NYT opinion piece by Frank Bruni on the moral contortions required from Trump supporters on his behalf:
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The Outrageous False Equivalences That Prop Up President Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
My day-after assessment of the Trump-Mamdani meeting:
Pretty, pretty, pretty funny.
Speaking to Alexis Conran earlier on Britain’s Times Radio.
My take on today’s festivities, now up at The Hill.
thehill.com/homenews/cam...
Plenty of media activity outside the West Wing as we await @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s arrival.
21.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."
21.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 17539 🔁 4464 💬 334 📌 169University College Dublin’s student news organization, The University Observer, sought me out for an interview about media, my career and advice for aspiring journalists.
My words of highly dubious wisdom are here:
universityobserver.ie/how-niall-st...
Not sure how we got to the point of weak, bitter little men like this believing they’re providing some kind of template of masculinity.
Embarrassing.
The BBC messed up but Trump’s defamation threat is one more example of him trying to rewrite the history of Jan. 6.
youtu.be/qGoVbzH3eQI?...
Come for the debates on the pressing political issues of the day, stay for the debates about whether I bear some passing resemblance to…Billy Bob Thornton??
10.11.2025 21:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is complete fiction — apparently originating with a satirical website — but shared as fact by the President of the United States.
Obama does not receive any “royalties” from the Affordable Care Act.
Full story: m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
03.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
It probably says something ominous about the state of U.S. politics when I’m getting a write-up in my hometown newspaper.
But here we are.
Very fair and extensive interview by Gillian Halliday in today’s Belfast Telegraph. Link to full story below.
Given Trump’s obsession with image and the appearance of dominance, he won’t like how this went.
The body language here is very much Trump-as-supplicant.
If I was in Mamdani’s shoes, I’d be nervous about the amount of social media comment from supporters assuming the election’s as good as won.
He’s clearly the favorite and, yes, some of the attacks are ridiculous, rancid or both.
But there’s still a week to go.
Zohran Mamdani leads the NYC polls, so Cuomo allies (like Bill Ackman) are pushing Curtis Sliwa to drop out.
I don't see why Sliwa — the nominee of a major party, unlike Cuomo — should do that.
Trump and a third term?
I don't *think* something so obviously unconstitutional could happen. But I also don't assume he or Bannon are joking.
Huge crowd at the D.C. #NoKings protest, under scrutiny from the rooftops.
18.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Hopefully we can all survive this outbreak of dangerous radicalism.
DC #NoKings protest.
No Kings, MAGA getting mad, and the criminalization of dissent.
Part of my monologue today on Rising.
Connecting the dots here is not hard.
17.10.2025 02:01 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0@kaitlancollins.bsky.social: “ls she [Marjorie Taylor Greene] someone that you could see yourself working with?”
@aoc.bsky.social : “Uhh…on what?” [Laughter] “Listen, I think people can talk a good game. But until they actually support policy that helps people, I’m not particularly interested.”
I got flattered back from The Other Place.
Hi (again).
Trump, Harvard, research funding and college blacklists…
Another robust but very enjoyable debate with Leland Vittert on @
NewsNation’s “On Balance.”
(Full clip below.)
If Harvard’s not going to fight Trump, who is?
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Tried my best to make an important point as sensitively as I could —
youtu.be/bdlj8MFstXM?...
