Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden was quick to attack President Donald Trump on Tuesday after Trump referred to impeachment as a &#8220;lynching,&#8221; which is the same term that Biden used in 1998 to describe the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton.
&#8220;So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here &#8211; a lynching. But we will WIN!&#8221;
Biden responded: &#8220;Impeachment is not &#8216;lynching,&#8217; it is part of our Constitution. Our country has a dark, shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent. It&#8217;s despicable.&#8221;
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Impeachment is not &#8220;lynching,&#8221; it is part of our Constitution. Our country has a dark, shameful history with lynching, and to even think about making this comparison is abhorrent. It&#8217;s despicable. <a href="https://t.co/QcC25vhNeb">https://t.co/QcC25vhNeb</a>
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1186691273870233601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
In an appearance on CNN in October 1998, however, Biden referred to the Clinton impeachment as a “partisan lynching,” saying:
<blockquote>Even if the President should be impeached, history is going to question whether or not this was just a partisan lynching or whether or not it was something that in fact met the standard, the very high bar, that was set by the founders as to what constituted an impeachable offense.</blockquote>
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While Biden has called Trump’s lynching comments “abhorrent” and “despicable,” in 1998 appearance on CNN, Biden said impeachment could end up being viewed as a “partisan lynching.” <a href="https://t.co/4jGo8hSQSZ">https://t.co/4jGo8hSQSZ</a><a href="https://t.co/6p210g7M6l">https://t.co/6p210g7M6l</a> <a href="https://t.co/UkJiXLsHOG">pic.twitter.com/UkJiXLsHOG</a>
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) <a href="https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1186781140352454657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The term &#8216;lynching&#8217; is associated with the extrajudicial killings of African Americans, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th century when it was used to terrorize black Americans and to maintain white political supremacy,&#8221; CNN reported.
&#8220;The impeachment of Clinton was initiated days after Biden&#8217;s 1998 comments on CNN, and the House of Representatives formally impeached him for lying under oath and obstruction of justice in a largely party line vote in December 1998,&#8221; CNN added. &#8220;Biden, who was a senator at the time, voted to acquit Clinton during the trial phase in the senate in February 1999.&#8221;
At least five Democrat members of Congress have <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/at-least-5-house-democrats-called-bill-clinton-s-impeachment-a-lynching-in-1998/ar-AAJbmN2?ocid=st">previously</a> referred to impeachment as a lynching, including: Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), then-Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and then-Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA).
GOP Rapid Response Director Steve Guest highlighted one of the lynching comments from Nadler, who in 2008, said: &#8220;I am the president’s defender in the sense that I haven’t seen anything yet that would rise, in my opinion, to the level of impeachable offense. … I wish we could get this over with quickly. … In pushing the process, in pushing the arguments of fairness and due process the Republicans so far have been running a lynch mob.&#8221;
In 1998, Davis said: &#8220;I will not vote for this nightmare before Christmas. I will not vote for this lynching in the people&#8217;s House. I will vote against these resolutions.&#8221;
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Democrat Rep. Danny Davis (Illinois) on the impeachment of Bill Clinton: &#8220;I will not vote for this nightmare before Christmas. I will not vote for this lynching in the people&#8217;s House. I will vote against these resolutions.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/TgmAwXCQHu">pic.twitter.com/TgmAwXCQHu</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1186714956135391232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
In 1998, Meeks said: &#8220;What we are doing here is not a prosecution, it is a persecution and indeed it is a political lynching.&#8221;
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Democrats are being total hypocrites right now in response to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>&#8216;s tweet this morning.
Dem. Rep. Gregory Meeks on Bill Clinton&#8217;s impeachment in 1998: &#8220;What we are doing here is not a prosecution, it is a persecution and indeed it is a political lynching.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/5wgjuzOYQt">pic.twitter.com/5wgjuzOYQt</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1186714766896717831?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
In 1998, McDermott said: “We&#8217;re taking a step down the road to becoming a political Lynch Mob&#8230; We are going to find a rope find a tree and ask a bunch of questions later&#8230;”
In 1998, Rangel referred to Clinton&#8217;s impeachment as a a “lynch mob mentality, that says this man has to go.”
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SUPERCUT: Democrats are super consistent on the topic of using the word “lynching” in reference to an impeachment <a href="https://t.co/qT0QHAUwpf">pic.twitter.com/qT0QHAUwpf</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1186809231808303104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2019</a></blockquote>

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1998 Remarks From Biden Surface After He Attacks Trump’s ‘Lynching’ Remarks

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After conservatives across social media were wondering when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would rise up in defense of President Donald Trump with the same furious force that he exhibited during the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, the senator publicly declared on Tuesday that Trump was right to declare the Democrats&#8217; impeachment inquiry a &#8220;lynching.&#8221;
“I think it’s pretty well accurate—this is a shame, this is a joke,” Graham <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/lindsey-graham-stands-up-for-trump-impeachment-inquiry-a-lynching-in-every-sense">told reporters</a>. “This is a lynching in every sense. This is un-American. I’ve never seen a situation in my lifetime as a lawyer where somebody’s accused of a major misconduct who cannot confront the accusers, call witnesses on their behalf, and have the discussion in the light of day so the public can judge.”
Graham&#8217;s comments came in response to the president&#8217;s use of the word &#8220;lynching&#8221; in reference to the impeachment inquiry in a Twitter post on Tuesday, prompting outrage from Democrats, who were seemingly unaware of the fact that they used the exact same word in reference to President Bill Clinton&#8217;s impeachment during the late-90s.
“So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the president, without due process or fairness or any legal rights,” Trump said. “All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. But we will WIN!”
Democratic leadership immediately demanded an apology from the president.
“Thousands of African Americans were slaughtered during the lynching epidemic in this country for no reason other than the color of their skin,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) told reporters. “The president should not compare a constitutionally mandated impeachment inquiry to such a dangerous and dark chapter of American history. It’s irresponsible for him to do so and I hope that he will apologize.”
“I really believe this man is prone to inflammatory statements, and that is one word no president ought to apply to himself,” House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said. “I’ve studied presidential history quite a bit, and I don’t know if we’ve ever seen anything quite like this.”
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Graham&#8217;s colleague in the state, said the president should not have used the word lynching, though he understands the frustration.
“There’s no question that the impeachment process is the closet thing to a political death row trial, so I get his absolute rejection of the process,” Scott told reporters. “I wouldn’t use the word ‘lynching.’”
Graham has been a staunch defender of the president throughout the impeachment process. Shortly after Trump released the transcript of his July phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Graham flatly dared the Democrats to impeach Trump.
“Those who believe that the transcript is a ‘Smoking Gun’ for impeachment, do something about it — have the courage of your convictions,” the South Carolina Republican tweeted. “The House of Reps should take a vote to formally open an impeachment inquiry. Let the American people see where Members of Congress stand!”
Speaking with reporters, Graham also said that it would be “insane” for the U.S. government to impeach Trump based on the phone call with Zelensky. “From my point of view, to impeach any president over a phone call like this would be insane,” <a href="https://theweek.com/speedreads/867581/lindsey-graham-calls-ukraine-transcript-appropriate-mitt-romney-says-deeply-troubling">said Graham</a>.

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Lindsey Graham On Impeachment: ‘This Is A Lynching In Every Sense’

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After holding out in hopes she may be able to beat the rap, actress Lori Loughlin is now reportedly seeking to get a plea deal similar to the one that Felicity Huffman received over her involvement in the college admissions scandal.  
According to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/10/22/lori-loughlin-cop-plea-deal-felicity-huffman-sentence/?adid=foxnewstmztrafficexchange">TMZ</a>, Lori Loughlin may not be going to trial, with sources close to the situation confirming that an opportunity has opened up for her to reach a plea deal in order to obtain a light sentence. 
“Multiple sources involved in the various college admissions cases say Lori&#8217;s big break came with the probation department&#8217;s sentencing report for Felicity, specifically, the part where the dept. says no one suffered a loss as a result of the actress&#8217;s conduct,&#8221; reported TMZ. &#8220;Prosecutors argued someone who took the SAT was probably denied admission somewhere because Felicity&#8217;s daughter scored higher than she should have because of a rigged test. Probation said &#8230; not the case.&#8221;
Basically, the sources with U.S. Attorney expressed worry to TMZ that prosecutors would go through a lengthy trial of Loughlin and her husband only to have them be recommended to a few simple weeks in prison. This is compounded by the fact that Felicity Huffman earned just 14 days in prison against prosecutors&#8217; wishes for a one-year prison term.
&#8220;Prosecutors, we&#8217;re told, are worried it will become an embarrassment for the office if Lori goes to trial, gets convicted and gets a short sentence,&#8221; TMZ continued. &#8220;And remember, Felicity rigged an SAT test that potentially affects every applicant. With Lori, even though she paid way more ($500,000), the bribe didn&#8217;t really affect anyone else.”
This past April, Loughlin and her husband <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45978/lori-loughlin-mossimo-giannulli-plead-not-guilty-paul-bois">waived their right </a>to appear in court for an arraignment and simply pleaded not guilty against charges of mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy in the college bribery scam. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston charged them with “conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering in connection with a scheme to use bribery to cheat on college entrance exams and to facilitate their children’s admission to selective colleges and universities as purported athletic recruits.”
Loughlin and Giannulli allegedly worked in concert with William “Rick” Singer to bribe college officials and rig the entrance exams so that their children could be accepted into elite universities. If convicted to the fullest extent of the law, the pair could face up to 40 years in prison.
Following Huffman’s light sentence, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-lori-loughlin-regrets-not-taking-plea-deal-paul-bois">a source close to Loughlin and her husband</a> said she regrets not taking the initial plea deal.
“Lori is aware of Felicity’s sentence and is processing what that means for her,” the source said. “Her only move now is to take this to court and to prove that she is not guilty of what she’s charged with.”
“This has been a rough day,” the source continued. “Lori is going to move forward as best as she can, but now she has a little more clarity about what will happen next.”
The source also said that even though Loughlin now regrets not taking the plea deal, she still believes that she did nothing illegal in the first place.
“If she’s found guilty, she will go to jail; that is clear. And if another deal is offered to her, which I don’t think it will be, she will go to jail,” the source said. “Her only chance of avoiding jail is to beat these charges. Lori is a smart woman; she understands that. She’s scared and upset, but she’s resolved to be strong and to fight this. She will do what she has to do to protect herself and her family.”

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REPORT: Lori Loughlin Looking For A Plea Deal, May Not Face Trial

Lori Loughlin

The alleged sex scandal involving Democratic Rep. Katie Hill (CA) worsened on Tuesday after RedState &#8212; which published the initial story documenting the explosive allegations &#8212; released a new report on the scandal which raises questions about possible abuse by Hill toward the young female campaign staffer with whom she was allegedly having a sexual relationship. The new report also raises questions about the staffer&#8217;s ability to give consent in the alleged relationship.
RedState <a href="https://www.redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2019/10/22/metoo-concerns-arise-katie-hills-throuple-partner-describes-toxic-relationship-boss/">reports</a>:
<blockquote>In the age of #MeToo, activists contend that when a large power imbalance exists, such as between a CEO and an employee, the employee is incapable of giving consent. Even assuming that true consent existed at the beginning of the relationship, the power imbalance could keep an employee in a bad relationship for fear that they will lose their job or suffer other negative consequences.
In the case of the Hill throuple, text messages between Kenny Heslep [Hill&#8217;s husband] and Hill’s staffer from June 2019 depict an unhealthy, toxic relationship – Heslep even characterizes the way in which he and Hill treated the staffer as “abusive” as he apologizes for hurting her.</blockquote>
RedState&#8217;s Jennifer Van Laar exclusively reported on Friday that Hill was involved in a &#8220;throuple&#8221; relationship involving her then-husband and a young female campaign staffer.
RedState released blurred photos allegedly showing the explicit sexual contact between Hill and the young staffer.
The young female campaign staffer, who described the relationship as being &#8220;toxic,&#8221; reportedly wrote Hill a message in June 2019, saying in part: &#8220;I am terrified of pushing back against you or upsetting you. I have seen how you treat Kenny and I think that if I cause any issues, even if I am very worried about how you are acting, that very quickly you will decide you don&#8217;t want me in your life.&#8221;
In a message to Heslep, the staffer reportedly said: “Idk, I was getting ready and I was thinking about how much Katie liked to watch me [reference to a hobby]…It’s ok, she can’t take [this] from me. She can ruin politics, take all my friends, and isolate me, but she can’t have [this].”
RedState added:
<blockquote>The staffer continued her work on the campaign side despite the awkwardness and emotional distress it caused. Hill, however, seemed tone-deaf, asking her former lover to apply sunscreen on her prior to an event – in front of the rest of the staff. The young woman later texted Hill to express her displeasure.</blockquote>
A Congressional GOP source told The Daily Wire: “The mainstream media has a blackout on this story, which is amusing.&#8221;
&#8220;The press typically loves politicians embroiled in sex scandals,&#8221; the source added. &#8220;But the perpetrator is a Democrat in a swing district, so the press will pretend like there’s nothing to see here.&#8221;
In RedState&#8217;s initial report, the publication reported on allegations that Hill was having an affair with her legislative director, Graham Kelly.
Roll Call reported in February 2018 that the then-Republican House majority passed new rules prohibiting sexual relationships between members of Congress and their congressional offices.
Roll Call <a href="https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/house-adopts-rules-curb-sexual-harassment">reported</a>:
<blockquote>In the wake of high-profile resignations over sexual harassment claims, the House on Tuesday approved sweeping changes to its internal rules intended to protect staffers, including a prohibition on sexual relationships between members and their aides.</blockquote>
&#8220;If Congresswoman Hill is engaged in a romantic relationship with one of her paid staffers, that is a clear-cut ethics violation,&#8221; a senior congressional staffer <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/21/kompromat-nude-photos-of-democrat-katie-hill-multiple-affairs-swirling-around-congresswoman-threaten-to-undermine-impeachment/">told</a> Breitbart News. &#8220;These rules are in place to ensure Congress is a workplace free from abuse and sexual misconduct. The reports paint a troubling pattern that deserve a full investigation.&#8221;
Hill&#8217;s only response to this scandal came today in a Politico article where she portrayed herself as being the victim of the entire ordeal.
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&#8220;The fact is I am going through a divorce from an abusive husband who seems determined to try to humiliate me,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;I am disgusted that my opponents would seek to exploit such a private matter for political gain. This coordinated effort to try to destroy me and people close to me is despicable and will not succeed. I, like many women who have faced attacks like this before, am stronger than those who want me to be afraid.&#8221;
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&#8220;Intimate photos of me and another individual were published by Republican operatives on the internet without my consent,&#8221; Hill continued. &#8220;I have notified Capitol Hill police who are investigating the situation and potential legal violations of those who posted and distributed the photos, and therefore will have no further comment on the digital materials.&#8221;
Hill also claimed that the allegation that she had an affair with Kelly was not true, saying: &#8220;Allegations that I have been involved in a relationship with Mr. Kelly are absolutely false. I am saddened that the deeply personal matter of my divorce has been brought into public view and the vindictive claims of my ex have now involved the lives and reputations of unrelated parties.&#8221;
RedState noted in a report earlier this month that &#8220;according to the text messages reviewed, after Hill left the throuple, Heslep was told &#8216;by numerous sources&#8217; that Hill had been involved in a <a href="https://www.redstate.com/mirandamorales/2019/10/10/bisexual-rep.-katie-hill-allegedly-left-husband-male-finance-director" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sexual relationship</a> for a year with her then-finance director, now Legislative Director, Graham Kelly. In a post on his now-deleted Facebook account, Heslep posted a screenshot of a text message between himself and a friend of the couple in which the friend admits that he now knows about the Hill/Kelly affair.&#8221;
In that report, RedState documented the following Facebook post from Heslep:
<blockquote>Out lesbian?!? Then why has she been sleeping with her (male) finance director for the past year at least?
I couldn’t dispute this if she was still holding to being bisexual. But but being with her husband (me) for almost 15 years and then leaving me for another MAN, not woman, whom she is still seeing, is not her being a lesbian. Bisexual yes, as I will back up her claims to this. But not lesbian alone.
Maybe you simply reported incorrectly, in which case you should correct it to bisexual. As she made this a major part of her platform while campaigning.</blockquote>
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Katie Hill Sex Scandal Worsens: Staffer Felt Abused In ‘Toxic’ Relationship, Consent Questions Emerge, Report Says

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On Tuesday, Blaze personality and &#8220;Louder With Crowder&#8221; host Steven Crowder <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHHQl3ND6bk">went live on his YouTube channel</a> to present evidence he believes shows YouTube and Google censoring 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and removing her videos and YouTube channel from American search results at key times.
Crowder, who came across the evidence as a result of his prior dealings with YouTube &#8212; including enduring a coordinated attack on his ability to monetize his channel, pushed by Vox Media &#8212; claims that, following former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton&#8217;s attacks on Gabbard, Friday, YouTube throttled Gabbard&#8217;s channel, removing it from American search results, even though the channel and videos remained visible in other countries.
Crowder and his team report that they used several different VPNs to conduct searches for Gabbard&#8217;s content, each VPN for a different nation. The team then recorded the results of their experiment. Crowder released the videos on his Twitter feed Tuesday afternoon during his live broadcast.
The first video shows results for Gabbard on Friday, after Clinton claimed that Gabbard was a Russian asset and that Russia was assisting in promoting Gabbard in order to upend the 2020 presidential election with a viable third party candidate.
&#8220;We searched for Tulsi Gabbard, her channel and her videos all showed up first,&#8221; Crowder claimed on his livestream. &#8220;When we switched our VPN to the United Sates &#8230; nothing.&#8221;
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YouTube search results on Sunday, October 20th for &quot;Tulsi Gabbard&quot; first set to US results, then Spain via VPN. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CrowderExposesYouTube?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CrowderExposesYouTube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouTube2020ElectionBlacklist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YouTube2020ElectionBlacklist</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZZXwFoeEMF">pic.twitter.com/ZZXwFoeEMF</a>
&mdash; Steven Crowder (@scrowder) <a href="https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1186729969784803328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The second video shows Gabbard&#8217;s results returning to normal on Sunday, well after she had passed out of social media&#8217;s trending topics. The results, Crowder says, &#8220;magically switched back to being identical.&#8221;
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YouTube search results on Sunday, October 20th for &quot;Tulsi Gabbard&quot; first set to US results, then Spain via VPN. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CrowderExposesYouTube?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CrowderExposesYouTube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouTube2020ElectionBlacklist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#YouTube2020ElectionBlacklist</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZZXwFoeEMF">pic.twitter.com/ZZXwFoeEMF</a>
&mdash; Steven Crowder (@scrowder) <a href="https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1186729969784803328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Crowder called the results &#8220;chilling,&#8221; and suggested that the searchers were proof that YouTube&#8217;s algorithm can be altered and that YouTube can effectively control the flow of information to its users.
The late-night Internet host then went on to say that he believes, based on his own experience working with YouTube in the wake of his channel&#8217;s demonitziation, that it is a YouTube employee (or employees) &#8212; a real person or persons &#8212; &#8220;flipping the switch&#8221; on Gabbard&#8217;s channel and not simply a result of a flaw in YouTube&#8217;s master algorithm or location-based search result tailoring.
Months ago, when Crowder was demonitized by YouTube, following a protracted battle with a far-left journalist, the team at &#8220;Louder with Crowder&#8221; noticed that the organic reach of their videos was declining, resulting in a dearth of new users, despite what Crowder claims were record views: &#8220;Our views were better than ever, so was our retention &#8230; all the most valued metrics according to YouTube.&#8221;
Crowder says his team then began to dig into reasons for the decline in his organic reach, eventually discovering what Crowder terms &#8220;peculiarities&#8221; and &#8220;tomfoolery&#8221; in YouTube&#8217;s search function. Trying to find one of his own &#8220;Change My Mind&#8221; videos, Crowder says he ran a YouTube search using the basic search term, &#8220;Steven Crowder change my mind.&#8221; When nothing showed up, he and his team ran similar searches, he says, and alerted viewers, who reported the &#8220;exact same result.&#8221;
Other viewers claimed Crowder was &#8220;doctoring&#8221; photos of his own search results, because they had no trouble with their search function.
The issue, Crowder says he and his team discovered, only applied to American viewers. Using alternate VPNs, the team discovered that &#8220;blacklisting on this channel was occurring in the United States exclusively.&#8221; Crowder claims that he was sent proof of this phenomenon from &#8220;all across the world.&#8221;
When Crowder did an impromptu video on the issue &#8212; and asked his audience to consider whether the same phenomenon could happen to others, including political candidates who ran afoul of YouTube and its parent company, Google &#8212; he says he received a phone call from someone at YouTube who said they could make changes that would &#8220;ameliorate the situation.&#8221;
Crowder now charges that his conversation with a YouTube &#8220;higher up&#8221; demonstrates that YouTube employees can manually control the algorithm, leaving situations like Tulsi Gabbard&#8217;s the fault of subjective censorship from within Google&#8217;s ranks.
Crowder says he will continue to gather evidence of YouTube&#8217;s alleged censorship and has encouraged his audience to do the same.
Gabbard, meanwhile, is already embroiled in a lawsuit against Google, YouTube, and parent company, Alphabet, alleging similar censorhip on Google&#8217;s AdSense platform, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/technology/tulsi-gabbard-sues-google.html">according to the New York Times</a>. Gabbard&#8217;s litigation centers around claims that Google throttled Gabbard&#8217;s AdSense ads when she was trending on Twitter during the first Democratic debate, even though she and her team had purchased ads on key search terms related to her campaign.
You can watch Crowder&#8217;s full report here:
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REPORT: Steven Crowder Claims YouTube Is Selectively Censoring Tulsi Gabbard

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As other Democrats distance themselves from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s paranoid antics of seeing a Russian under every stone, the die-hard Hillary devotees of “The View” sided with her completely over the latest feud with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), referring to the 2020 presidential candidate as a “useful idiot.”
“She told us about Russia, she told us about the probable interference,” said co-host Sunny Hostin. “She was secretary of state. She has deep world knowledge of world issues. I thought, where’s the lie? I’ve often said that Tulsi is sort of the Trojan horse in this. She’s polling at only 1.2 percent, yet she’s still in the race. You have her <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-campaign-is-being-boosted-by-russophiles" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbards-campaign-is-being-boosted-by-russophiles&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1571860422748000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF9AoMU7dpBMfN5_2ySDen0xBrxpw">being touted</a> by people like Fox News personalities like Tucker Carlson.”
Co-host Joy Behar then added that Gabbard has not explicitly denied Hillary’s claims that she is a Russian asset, asserting that she is a “useful idiot.”
“She hasn’t denied it,” Behar said. “She hasn’t said anything in her tweets. ‘How dare you? It’s outrageous. Of course, I’m not.’ She didn’t say that. She’s just going after Hillary. I just think that she could be a useful idiot the way Trump is a useful idiot to the Russians,” the liberal co-host proclaimed. “That they see something. They say, ‘Oh look, a useful idiot. Let’s play this.’”
Conservative co-host Abby Huntsman, however, believed that Hillary Clinton had a personal vendetta over the 2016 election.  “It surprised me Hillary Clinton was not smarter and more tactful in how she talked about it,” said Huntsman.
The feud between Gabbard and Hillary erupted into a social media firestorm last Friday when the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-lights-up-hillary-clinton-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-the-queen-of-warmongers" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailywire.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-lights-up-hillary-clinton-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-the-queen-of-warmongers&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1571860422748000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0MbrzZXRAzII9O2Hc9vzTLtrkXg">former first lady said</a> that Russia is grooming Gabbard for a third-party run during an appearance on the podcast “Campaign HQ.”
“I think they have got their eye on someone who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She is the favorite of the Russians,” Clinton said. “They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far.”
“That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she’s a Russian asset — I mean, totally,” she continued. “They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate. So I don’t know who it’s going to be, but I will guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most needed.”
Gabbard immediately took to Twitter to blast Clinton as “the queen of warmongers.”
“Great! Thank you [Hillary Clinton],” Gabbard said. “You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain.”
“From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why,” she continued. “Now we know — it was always you, through your proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose.”

The View

‘The View’ Backs Hillary’s Tulsi Gabbard Smear: She’s A ‘Useful Idiot’

Hillary Clinton

Top Democrats have been expressing their outrage on Tuesday after President Donald Trump compared the ongoing impeachment inquiry against him to a lynching.
&#8220;So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights,&#8221; Trump said in an early morning tweet. &#8220;All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here – a lynching. But we will WIN!&#8221;
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So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here &#8211; a lynching. But we will WIN!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1186611272231636992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The comparison ignited an immediate firestorm on the left side of the aisle, with Democratic leadership even demanding an apology.
&#8220;Thousands of African Americans were slaughtered during the lynching epidemic in this country for no reason other than the color of their skin,&#8221; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who chairs the House Democratic Caucus, told reporters. &#8220;The president should not compare a constitutionally mandated impeachment inquiry to such a dangerous and dark chapter of American history. It&#8217;s irresponsible for him to do so and I hope that he will apologize.&#8221;
House Democrats announced in September that they would be moving forward with an impeachment inquiry. The move was initially in response to a whistleblower&#8217;s testimony accusing Trump of asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for allegedly using his former position as vice president to remove a prosecutor who was looking into his son&#8217;s business dealings.
The reports were not confirmed at the time of the announcement, and it was not until a day later that the White House released a transcript of Trump&#8217;s exchange with Zelensky. After the transcript was made public, many argued that it fails to show the direct quid-pro-quo agreement initially alleged, and the inquiry has since shifted to focus on other possible, yet unmentioned, high crimes or misdemeanors.
The president has been increasingly frustrated with the shifting impeachment investigation, which Democrats have failed to even bring to the House floor for a formal vote, leaving an actual impeachment inquiry open-ended.
&#8220;I really believe this man is prone to inflammatory statements, and that is one word no president ought to apply to himself,&#8221; House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) said in response to Trump&#8217;s tweet. &#8220;I&#8217;ve studied presidential history quite a bit, and I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ve ever seen anything quite like this.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how to characterize that from our president except as grotesque,&#8221; said Rep. Katherine Clarke (D-MA), the sixth-ranking House Democrat. Holding back tears, Clarke further urged reporters to visit the lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama.
The White House, however, defended the president&#8217;s remarks, contending that Trump &#8220;is not comparing what has happened to him with one of our darkest moments in American history.&#8221;
&#8220;What he&#8217;s explaining, clearly, is the way he has been treated by the media since he announced for president,&#8221; said Hogan Gidley, the White House deputy press secretary.
While lynching refers to any public and extrajudicial murder by a mob of individuals, the term harkens back to the American Reconstruction era and into the 20th century when lynchings of African Americans became relatively frequent in the southern United States.

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Top Democrats Express Outrage Over Trump&#8217;s Use Of The Word &#8216;Lynching&#8217;

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With pro-democracy Hong Kong demonstrators both inside and outside the arena and Chinese state television blacking out the contest — as it did all the other league games — LeBron James&#8217; Los Angeles Lakers lost their much-hyped season opener against Kawhi Leonard&#8217;s L.A. Clippers in a game that felt more significant than just a single opening game.
As reported by <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27905614/chinese-state-tv-air-nba-opening-slate-protests-staples-center">ESPN</a>, Chinese state television did not air any of the NBA&#8217;s opening games as part of its continued punishment of the league after Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey posted a pro-democracy tweet on Oct. 4 simply stating, &#8220;Fight For Freedom, Stand For Hong Kong.&#8221;
Morey deleted the post and apologized as the NBA scrambled to appease China, while also trying to express support for free speech amid backlash from fans. But the oppressive communist government has clearly not been satisfied with the league&#8217;s response.
While Chinese state television completely blacked out the opening games, the Chinese-based streaming platform Tencent, a media partner of the NBA and ESPN, only aired a single opener: the Lakers vs. the Clippers.
James became a central figure in the controversy when he infamously upbraided Morey for his &#8220;misinformed&#8221; tweet and spoke dismissively of free speech.
&#8220;I don’t want to get into a word or sentence feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke,&#8221; James told reporters on October 15.  &#8220;So many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, and spiritually. So, just be careful what we tweet and say and what we do even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech, there can be a lot of negatives that comes with that too.&#8221;
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LeBron James rips Daryl Morey, says Morey was uneducated. Says, “We do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negatives that come with that too.” Really. <a href="https://t.co/ZTw6a3FZ5n">pic.twitter.com/ZTw6a3FZ5n</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1183921775647875072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Wearing &#8220;Fight For Freedom, Stand For Hong Kong&#8221; t-shirts bought with money from a GoFundMe drive, some 60-75 protesters, according to ESPN&#8217;s estimate, gathered outside the Staples Center Tuesday night.
The organizer of the protest, who felt compelled to refer to himself as only &#8220;MWG&#8221; and cover his face for &#8220;personal safety&#8221; and to protect his family in China, pointed to James&#8217; much-criticized response as emblematic of the NBA&#8217;s China dilemma.
&#8220;What LeBron James said, we&#8217;re not mad, we&#8217;re just disappointed,&#8221; the protest organizer told ESPN. James, he said, is &#8220;really out there (on issues) and then for him to say, &#8216;Oh, it was hard on us (during the China trip),&#8217; that was kind of a slap in the face.&#8221;
In a follow-up to his comments criticizing Morey, James tweeted, &#8220;My team and this league just went through a difficult week. I think people need to understand what a tweet or statement can do to others. And I believe nobody stopped and considered what would happen. Could have waited a week to send it.&#8221;
&#8220;To be LeBron James, so articulate and so meticulous about your words and how you say them and how you present yourself and all of the sudden when it comes to money, it takes a precedent over any sort of human rights — basic human rights?&#8221; MWG said. &#8220;That&#8217;s what our country was founded on. His home base is here. So you&#8217;re going to turn your back on your home base for money over there?&#8221;
<div id="attachment_57480" style="width: 1029px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-57480" class="wp-image-57480 size-full" src="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LeBron-James-Protest.jpg" alt=" A pro-Hong Kong activist holds an image depicting LeBron James aboard a Chinese tank in Tiananmen Square before the Los Angeles Lakers season opening game against the LA Clippers outside Staples Center on October 22, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Activists also printed at least 10,000 pro-Hong Kong t-shirts to hand out to those attending the game and encouraged them to wear the free shirts as a form of peaceful protest against China amidst Chinese censorship of NBA games. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)" width="1019" height="638" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/10/LeBron-James-Protest.jpg 1019w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/10/LeBron-James-Protest-300x188.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2019/10/LeBron-James-Protest-768x481.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px" />Mario Tama/Getty Images</div>
&#8220;We want to stand with Morey, we want to stand with Hong Kong, but most of all, we want to fight foreign attempts to censor us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our first amendment rights to free speech — so if you have a government that&#8217;s not the United States telling us we can&#8217;t talk, what&#8217;s the point of having a government? What&#8217;s the point of having a first amendment right? We&#8217;re not saying that we&#8217;re trying to do anything other than show solidarity. We&#8217;re not trying to protest. We just want to show the NBA and show foreign governments that they can&#8217;t censor us.&#8221;
Along with the protesters outside the arena, some people also showed support for Hong Kong inside, where fans watched the Clippers&#8217; newly acquired star Leonard lead his team to a 112-102 victory in a game that one sports analyst said &#8220;<a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/27905616/why-clippers-lakers-felt-bigger-just-one-game">felt bigger than just one game</a>.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shaq-blasts-china-were-going-to-say-whatever-we-want-to-say-when-we-want-to-say-it">Shaq Blasts China: ‘We’re Going To Say Whatever We Want To Say, When We Want To Say It’</a>

Pro-Hong Kong Activists Protest Outside NBA Opening-Night Games

LeBron&#8217;s Lakers Lose Amid Pro-Hong Protests, China State TV Blackout

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Former NBA star Shaquille O&#8217;Neal slammed China on Tuesday while discussing the NBA&#8217;s controversial stance to cower to the Communist Party of China (CPC) by censoring criticisms around the league directed at China&#8217;s human rights abuses and clamp down on freedom.
Shaq made the remarks during TNT’s pre-game show on the opening night of the NBA season Tuesday, defending Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey&#8217;s decision to tweet support for the protesters in Hong Kong.
&#8220;As American people, we do a lot of business in China,&#8221; O’Neal said. &#8220;And they know and understand our values and we understand their values. And one of our best values in America is free speech. We’re allowed to say what we want to say and we’re allowed to speak up on injustices, and that’s just how it goes.&#8221;
A few weeks ago, Morey tweeted out a graphic that stated: “Fight For Freedom Stand With Hong Kong.”
“The Houston Rockets suddenly find themselves in the middle of a geopolitical controversy that could put their chief front-office executive’s job in jeopardy,” The Ringer <a href="https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/nba/2019/10/6/20901828/daryl-morey-hong-kong-china-houston-rockets-tweet-controversy">reported</a>. “After general manager Daryl Morey expressed support in a since-deleted tweet for pro-democracy efforts in Hong Kong, the Chinese government, the Chinese Basketball Association, and various Chinese businesses quickly denounced Morey and moved to sever ties with the Rockets. As a consequence, league sources told The Ringer that Rockets ownership has debated Morey’s employment status and whether to replace him.”
Shaq stood up for Morey, saying that he did the right thing by calling out injustices being committed by China.
&#8220;Daryl Morey was right,&#8221; O’Neal said. &#8220;Whenever you see something going on wrong anywhere in the world, you should have the right to say that’s not right, and that’s what he did.&#8221;
“Here, we have the right to speak,&#8221; O&#8217;Neal continued. &#8220;And especially with social media, we’re going to say whatever we want to say, when we want to say it.&#8221;
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SHAQ on China: “They know and understand our values &#8230; and one of our best values in America is free speech. We’re allowed to say what we want to say and we’re allowed to speak up on injustices, and that’s just how it goes”
“Daryl Morey was right” <a href="https://t.co/CBQWHfszhp">pic.twitter.com/CBQWHfszhp</a>
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O&#8217;Neal&#8217;s words were in stark contrast to what his former teammate, Lebron James, said recently about China.
“We all talk about this freedom of speech, yes, we all do have freedom of speech but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you’re not thinking about others and you’re only thinking about yourself,” James said on October 15. “I don’t want to get into a … feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke. So many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, and spiritually.”
“So, just be careful what we tweet and say and what we do even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech there can be a lot of negatives that comes with that too,” James concluded.
After facing intense backlash online, James played the victim, suggesting that people needed to sympathize with him.
&#8220;Let me clear up the confusion. I do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of the tweet,&#8221; James tweeted. &#8220;I’m not discussing the substance. Others can talk About that.&#8221;
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Let me clear up the confusion. I do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of the tweet. I’m not discussing the substance. Others can talk About that.
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&#8220;My team and this league just went through a difficult week. I think people need to understand what a tweet or statement can do to others,&#8221; James added. &#8220;And I believe nobody stopped and considered what would happen. Could have waited a week to send it.&#8221;
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My team and this league just went through a difficult week. I think people need to understand what a tweet or statement can do to others. And I believe nobody stopped and considered what would happen. Could have waited a week to send it.
— LeBron James (@KingJames) <a href="https://twitter.com/KingJames/status/1183934569411530752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>

Shaquille O&#8217;Neal

Shaq Blasts China: ‘We’re Going To Say Whatever We Want To Say, When We Want To Say It’

Shaquille O'Neal

Transgender activist Jessica Yaniv, a biological male who identifies as a female, filed at least 15 human rights complaints against female estheticians in Canada for refusing to wax his male genitals, as covered this summer by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-woman-suing-female-estheticians-refusing-wax-amanda-prestigiacomo">The Daily Wire</a>.
On Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.jccf.ca/aestheticians-justified-in-refusing-to-handle-male-genitals-against-their-will-bc-human-rights-tribunal/">Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms</a>, which is representing five of the women being targeted by Yaniv, announced that the activist’s cases against their clients have been tossed by the BC Human Rights Tribunal. Moreover, Yaniv will be forced to pay $2,000 each to at least three of the women.
“The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) is pleased to announce that the BC Human Rights Tribunal has ruled in favour of home estheticians’ right to refuse to handle male genitalia against their will,” a press release from JCCF said, as highlighted by <a href="https://www.thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jessica-yaniv-loses-cases-against-women-who-wouldnt-wax-her-balls/">The Post Millennial</a>.
According to the group, the tribunal’s decision said that “human rights legislation does not require a service provider to wax a type of genitals they are not trained for and have not consented to wax.” Moreover, it was noted that Yaniv “engaged in improper conduct” and “filed complaints for improper purposes.” The activist’s testimony, according to the ruling, was “disingenuous and self-serving,” and Yaniv was “evasive and argumentative and contradicted herself.”
Yaniv filed complaints against 15 female and largely immigrant-owned businesses when he was turned away for a genital waxing for a variety of reasons, which included some of the businesses not being specialized in male genital waxing.
The complainant was seeking as much as $15,000 in damages against each esthetician, according to JCCF, and at least one of the women being targeted, a devout Sikh, was forced to close down her small at-home business due to the activist’s complaint.
“The Justice Centre represented Blue Heaven Beauty Lounge and its owner, Sandeep Banipal, who is an adherent to the Sikh religion. Ms. Banipal is not trained to wax male genitals, and as she explained in the response to the complaint against her, it ‘is not something I am comfortable with or trained to do,’” the JCCF press release outlined.
Sukhi Hehar Gill, also represented by JCCF, “was forced to close her business due to the complaint against her,” the release said. &#8220;Ms. Gill, also a practicing adherent of the Sikh faith, provided waxing services only to female clients, attending alone at her clients’ homes. She explained in her response to Yaniv’s complaint against her that it &#8216;is contrary to my faith&#8217; to provide waxing services to a biological male. Yaniv had requested that Gill attend at Yaniv’s personal residence to provide arm and leg waxing services.”
Yaniv, at order by the tribunal, must now pay out $2,000 to Banipal, Gill, and other JCCF client, Marcia Da Silva.
“Self-identification does not erase physiological reality,” said Jay Cameron, JCCF Litigation Manager and counsel for the estheticians. “Our clients do not offer the service requested. No woman should be compelled to touch male genitals against her will, irrespective of how the owner of the genitals identifies.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49717/woman-forced-close-business-after-refusing-wax-amanda-prestigiacomo">Woman Forced To Close Business After Refusing To Wax Male Genitals Of Transgender Person</a>

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Transgender Activist Loses Cases Against Female Estheticians Who Refused To Wax Male Genitals

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau narrowly won re-election in Canada&#8217;s national elections Tuesday, as his Liberal Party held on to around 150 seats in Parliament, but failed to secure himself a Liberal majority.
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50134640">The BBC reports</a> that Liberals are projected to win 157 seats &#8212; 13 short of the majority that Trudeau would have needed to continue governing with a mandate. Canada&#8217;s Conservative Party, which saw a surge in support in recent weeks, is projected to take 121 seats, a gain of around 30 seats. The Conservative Party also won the popular vote, 34% to the Liberal Party&#8217;s 33%.
Canada&#8217;s left-leaning parties, the Liberals and the New Democrats, both suffered losses, and came out of Monday night&#8217;s election with less support than they enjoyed in the last election. According to the BBC, however, the New Democrats leader, Jagmeet Singh, may become &#8220;kingmaker,&#8221; if he decides to ink a deal with Trudeau (or, less likely, Trudeau&#8217;s conservative opposition) to form a coalition government.
The big news of the night, though, was that Bloc Québécois, the province of Quebec&#8217;s separatist party, gained 20 more seats than it earned in 2015, at its previous high.
Trudeau was clearly happy with the result, which he considered, the BBC says, a referendum on his leadership, even though his Liberal Party ultimately suffered. Speaking to a crowd in his native Montreal, Trudeau claimed that Canada &#8220;rejected division and negativity &#8230; and they rejected cuts and austerity and voted in favour of a progressive agenda and strong action on climate change.&#8221;
That Trudeau pulled out a victory is an achievement in itself, however. The past year has been a rough one for Trudeau, first facing allegations that the self-proclaimed feminist had bullied a female minister out of his government after she, an attorney general, refused to pull back on prosecuting an energy company with ties to some of Trudeau&#8217;s close friends. Other female ministers made similar allegations about Trudeau&#8217;s bullying, and an ethics committee sided with the alleged victims.
Late last month, the famously woke Trudeau was broadsided by a set of photos and videos from his past, showing him dressed in racially charged costumes and made up in blackface. Trudeau was revealed to have dressed as Aladdin for an &#8220;Arabian Nights&#8221; themed fundraiser, complete with brown makeup on his face and hands, and as singer Harry Belafonte, to perform Belafonte&#8217;s hit &#8220;Day-O&#8221; in a video.
Trudeau apologized for the incidents but had difficulty explaining how he was still dressing in racially inappropriate costumes in the early 2000s, when he was well into his twenties, and when it was abundantly clear that blackface was considered racist.
Although the incidents didn&#8217;t seem to matter to voters, they did dog Trudeau as his victory was announced. On Twitter, plenty of commentators saw a certain poetic justice in his new &#8220;minority&#8221; government.
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Jussie Trudeau is now a real minority — and he doesn’t have to wear blackface! <a href="https://t.co/u7Zkx1J8Jd">https://t.co/u7Zkx1J8Jd</a>
&mdash; Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1186482800297295872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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someone explain to Justin that minority here does not mean he has to go shoe polish shopping
&mdash; Shirley Serious (@_therealNobody) <a href="https://twitter.com/_therealNobody/status/1186470753031450624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trudeau finally gets to be a real minority.
&mdash; Game_Enders (@GameEnders1) <a href="https://twitter.com/GameEnders1/status/1186474387769180160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump weighed in on Trudeau&#8217;s victory on Twitter, wishing the Prime Minister good luck in his second term: &#8220;Congratulations to <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau" data-mentioned-user-id="14260960" data-scribe="element:mention">@JustinTrudeau</a> on a wonderful and hard fought victory. Canada is well served. I look forward to working with you toward the betterment of both of our countries!&#8221;

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Holds Election Night Watch Party In Montreal

Justin Trudeau Wins Re-Election In Canada But Loses Majority Government

Justin Trudeau

Anthropologists in the future will spend a lot of time discussing and debating the question of when, exactly, the once-great American civilization went insane, why it happened, and how. I can only imagine what conclusions they will draw. As an American citizen in the present day, actually bearing witness to the collapse of sanity and reason in real time, I&#8217;m not sure that I can even answer those questions. Perhaps hindsight will lend some clarity to the issue.
What I do know is that <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-jury-rules-against-dad-trying-to-save-his-7-year-old-from-gender-transition">this case</a> will be viewed as a seminal moment in our collective plunge into madness. It will be seen as, at least from a legal standpoint, the point of no return. The crossing of some kind of terrible Rubicon. I refer to the story of 7-year-old James Younger, whose father, Jeff Younger, has been trying to save him from a forced gender &#8220;transition.&#8221;
Jeff has been locked in a bitter court battle with his ex-wife, Anne Georgulas. Despite being a medical professional &#8212; a pediatrician, God help us &#8212; who presumably understands basic facts about human biology and child psychology, Georgulas got it into her apparently deranged head that her son James is really a girl.
As The Texan previously <a href="https://thetexan.news/dallas-custody-battle-over-alleged-transgender-seven-year-old-will-resume-next-week/">reported</a>, the factors that convinced Georgulas that her son is really her daughter include his affinity for the movie &#8220;Frozen&#8221; and his request to get a &#8220;girl toy&#8221; from McDonald&#8217;s. She also says he started expressing a wish to dress in girl&#8217;s clothing. But Jeff Younger recently <a href="http://According to the father, the boy's mother began dressing him in girl clothes and foisting gender confusion on him when he was 3-years-old.">explained in an interview</a> that if James ever had any desire to wear dresses, it&#8217;s only because his mother started putting him in dresses and painting his nails when he was just 3-years-old. He claims that she used several other methods of manipulation, including locking the boy in his room and telling him that &#8220;the monsters only eat boys.&#8221; Jeff speculates that Georgulas would withhold affection from James if he did not act like a girl.
The court case revolved around Jeff&#8217;s efforts to rescue his sons (James and his twin brother) from the abuse of this sick and twisted woman. However, the decision was passed down yesterday, and the court <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-jury-rules-against-dad-trying-to-save-his-7-year-old-from-gender-transition">ruled against the father</a>. Virtually all control over James and his brother have now been handed to Georgulas. She is free to continue his &#8220;social transition&#8221; into a girl &#8212; a process already well under way, as he goes by &#8220;Luna&#8221; and poses as a girl at his mother&#8217;s house and at school. Eventually she can, and presumably will, start James on drugs to chemically castrate him. There is nothing his father can do to stop it, short of &#8220;kidnapping&#8221; the boy and fleeing the country (a move that would be not only morally justified, but heroic).
It should be noted that, according to Jeff, James &#8220;violently refuses&#8221; to wear girl clothes when he is at his father&#8217;s house. Free from the clutches of his mother, Jeff says, James is relieved to act like a boy, dress like a boy, and play like a boy. The mother claims the opposite, insisting that James is excited to return to his mother and his identity as &#8220;Luna.&#8221; I think both claims are probably true, in a sense. The poor boy realizes that it pleases his mother for him to be Luna, and so he &#8220;wants&#8221; to play that role for her sake.
But, in any case, the question of how he really identifies is irrelevant. The point is that James is a boy, plain and simple. Whatever confusion he is suffering from &#8212; confusion painstakingly planted in his head by a mother who, in my opinion, should be locked in prison for the rest of her life &#8212; could be alleviated through counseling and therapy. There is precisely zero chance that James is &#8220;really&#8221; a girl trapped in a boy&#8217;s body, because that concept is nonsensical. James is who he is. And he is a boy.
In a morbid coincidence, there are <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-colorado-mother-munchhausen-proxy-daughter-make-a-wish-murder-20191022-2rzishgiorgq7j23rboqltxfku-story.html">reports</a> today about the mother of a supposedly terminally ill Make-a-Wish kid who is now accused of murdering the 7-year-old daughter she claimed was sick. Investigators believe that the mother has Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, a mental disorder in which parents invent or create illnesses in their children. I bring this case up because I believe that James Younger is the victim of a new, and increasingly common, kind of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. His disturbed mother has, in effect, created gender confusion in her child. This case hopefully will not end in murder, but it may well end with the child&#8217;s physical mutilation at the behest of his mother. And considering the very high rate of suicide in the transgender community, it could certainly be argued that she is putting her son&#8217;s life at risk. She is certainly ruining it, at the very least.
We would make a huge mistake to treat James Younger&#8217;s plight as some kind of tragic anomaly. We live in a time when many children are having left-wing gender theories shoved down their throats. If most of these situations don&#8217;t result in heated legal disputes, it&#8217;s only because both parents are guilty of the abuse so there is no one around to bring the case. And the situation will only get worse if we don&#8217;t start paying attention. Children are being exploited and manipulated in the most insidious ways imaginable. We can&#8217;t sit by and watch it happen anymore.

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On Monday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles talked about Tulsi Gabbard’s absolutely brutal takedown of Hillary Clinton, after the failed 2016 presidential candidate implied that Gabbard is a “Russian asset.” Video and partial transcript below:
So you have Hillary Clinton, a crook, a twice-failed presidential candidate, someone whose nearest contribution to the American public was lying about being under Bosnian sniper fire. And then you have Tulsi Gabbard, who I think is extreme and Leftist – and I would never even consider voting for her – but she just returned from serving our country in uniform. She is actually a dedicated public servant, and she&#8217;s far more reasonable on most issues than her fellow Democrats.
Those are the two people. And Hillary Clinton, crooked crone &#8212; never did anything for this country &#8212; is accusing Tulsi Gabbard, [who] actually put on a uniform, of being a Russian asset, of being a traitor, of being somebody who sold out her country.
Here&#8217;s Tulsi&#8217;s response on Twitter:
<blockquote>GABBARD: Great, thank you. Hillary Clinton, you the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation. We wondered who was behind it and why. Now we know – it was always you, through your proxies and powerful allies in the corporate media and war machine, afraid of the threat I pose. It&#8217;s now clear that this primary is between you and me. Don&#8217;t cowardly hide behind your proxies. Join the race directly.</blockquote>
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Great! Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain. From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a &#8230;
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&#8230; Oh My goodness gracious, I don&#8217;t care what&#8217;s going on in the Middle East, nothing could possibly be [more] fiery, cruel, or devastating than that. Very smart for Tulsi Gabbard, [she’s] going to finally try to launch her candidacy into the top tier by saying that she is the chief antagonist to Hillary Clinton in the way that Bernie Sanders was the chief antagonist to Hillary Clinton in 2016. 
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It might work. Tulsi had a very good performance at that last debate, and so as the front runner, Joe Biden, falls apart, and as Hillary Clinton goes after her, it really could help her out. Hillary Clinton seriously overestimates her significance in the Democratic Party. Or rather, I&#8217;ll put it a different way, she seriously underestimates how furious the Democrats are at her, not for her corruption, not for her decades and decades of lies and misdeeds &#8212; for losing. She lost to Donald Trump, she didn&#8217;t get the job done, and Democrats are really hard on their losing candidates. 
When was the last time we heard from Michael Dukakis? Do you know many of the listeners to this podcast don&#8217;t even know who Michael Dukakis is? Dukakis lost the election to George Bush. How about Walter Mondale. Do we hear a lot from Walter Mondale? No. George McGovern? Not so much. Democrats are pretty hard on their losers, and Hillary Clinton thinks that she&#8217;s somehow still an important voice in the Democratic Party.
She isn&#8217;t really. A lot of people don&#8217;t like her. She went on that speaking tour with Bill Clinton. So she actually had a former president with her. They couldn&#8217;t sell tickets. The tickets were dropping from $300 a ticket to $6 or $9 a ticket. They ended up canceling most of the tour. 
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Alabama Congressional candidate Jessica Taylor made waves on Monday by kicking off her 2020 campaign with an advertisement vowing to take on socialist Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her so-called &#8220;Squad.&#8221;
&#8220;Like you, I&#8217;m tired of arrogant socialists like [Ocasio-Cortez] &#8212; who has never even run a lemonade stand &#8212; telling us how we should live in Alabama, and more government is the answer,&#8221; Taylor said in the campaign video.
&#8220;I&#8217;m a steadfast conservative, a mom, a patriot, a business owner, and job creator, and even though it might trigger a few liberals, I&#8217;ll fight to protect life, the Second Amendment, our borders, our military, our families, and President Trump from socialists in the swamp,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And I won&#8217;t apologize for it.&#8221;
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As an Alabama conservative, I’m sick of arrogant socialists like <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> who’ve never even run a lemonade stand trying to tell us how to live in Alabama. Are you? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AL02?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AL02</a> <a href="https://t.co/IIsqDQLcTt">pic.twitter.com/IIsqDQLcTt</a>
&mdash; Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylorAL) <a href="https://twitter.com/JessicaTaylorAL/status/1186268834988253185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Taylor, an entrepreneur and wife of a former Alabama state senator, is running for Alabama&#8217;s 2nd Congressional District. Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), who has held the seat since 2010, announced in July that she was resigning at the end of her term.
Roby was first elected to serve after narrowly edging out incumbent Bobby Bright and flipping the district red. She went on to win re-election for a fifth term in 2018, receiving more than 60% of the vote. Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District is considered a Republican stronghold, and Taylor joins an already crowded primary field.
Taylor&#8217;s campaign video went viral shortly after it was posted on social media, and the Alabama congressional candidate subsequently appeared on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; on Tuesday morning to discuss her platform.
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On <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxandfriends</a> this morning I highlighted my conservative campaign platform. We need to take socialism head-on with conservative squad of our own! I&#39;m pro-life, pro-<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2A</a>, pro-wall, &amp; pro-TRUMP and I won&#39;t apologize for it!
Join the new squad: <a href="https://t.co/Xrpw8ioCjm">https://t.co/Xrpw8ioCjm</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AL02?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AL02</a> <a href="https://t.co/9MRoYt9XB4">pic.twitter.com/9MRoYt9XB4</a>
&mdash; Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylorAL) <a href="https://twitter.com/JessicaTaylorAL/status/1186664906059386886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I think now is the right time for me to fill this slot because we need a new generation of conservatives, folks who can go toe-to-toe with people like AOC and her squad who believe socialism is a legitimate ideology that our nation should embrace,&#8221; Taylor told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade. &#8220;I&#8217;m pro-life, pro-second amendment, pro-wall, and pro-Trump.&#8221;
The &#8220;Squad&#8221; refers to Ocasio-Cortez, a self-proclaimed &#8220;radical,&#8221; and three of her progressive House colleagues, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA). The freshmen quartet are considered among the most far-left members in the House of Representatives and have largely voted as a bloc. The Squad, however, has been embroiled in allegations of anti-Semitism and anti-American sentiments since even prior to taking office.
&#8220;We need somebody who can convince my generation and others that more government is not the answer, more government is the problem,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;This country was founded on small business and private citizens who can make a difference. More government is not what we need.&#8221;
Taylor introduced herself to constituents as the candidate that will create her own &#8220;Squad&#8221; that will promote conservative values, and further noted that she initially decided to run for Congress due to her concern over the spread of socialism in America.
&#8220;We have got to get back to our fundamental values – our freedom is at stake here,&#8221; Taylor said. &#8220;So we&#8217;re going to be talking about that on the campaign trail. We’d love for folks to follow us.&#8221;

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  And Bernie Sanders Attend Green New Deal Rally At Howard University

WATCH: Alabama Congressional Candidate Vows To Take On Ocasio-Cortez With Her Own Conservative Squad

2020 Election

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On Monday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talked about AOC’s endorsement speech for Bernie Sanders. Video and partial transcript below:
What you&#8217;re hearing, when you hear the news, is the Democrats; and what you&#8217;re hearing, when you hear the Democrats, is the slow move to socialize this country as much as it&#8217;s possible to do political — at any given moment until we are a socialist country. That means that you make money — you work, you earn it — they spend it, [and] they decide where.
They shut down your free speech by declaring it hate speech. They de-platform you. You know, Mark Zuckerberg went to the Capitol Hill and said Facebook is in favor of free speech, and the Democrats attacked him. They said, No, no, you&#8217;re playing Trump ads, you can&#8217;t play Trump ads.
Kamala Harris wants Trump taken off Twitter. It&#8217;s really funny, Leftists love to compare guns to penises, basically. They say it&#8217;s a phallic symbol, and if you&#8217;re insecure about your manhood, you have to carry a gun. Let me tell you something: They&#8217;re right. They are absolutely right. Men need guns if they want to be free, guns are for men who don&#8217;t want to be taken care of, but want to take care of themselves and are willing to fight to keep that right. If that&#8217;s an extension of your manhood, it&#8217;s a pretty useful one, because you&#8217;ll need it to stop what they&#8217;re trying to do.
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Let me play you a cut, an amazing cut really, of Alexandria “Occasional-Cortex.” She had her weekend at Bernie&#8217;s — Bernie, as you know, Bernie Sanders passed away sadly, unfortunately, passed away of a heart attack a few weeks ago, but they&#8217;re still carrying him around from place to place. And there was this massive, massive rally for him in New York, and AOC backed him and gave him her coveted endorsement. Here&#8217;s what she told people that we need for the future of America. 
<blockquote>OCASIO-CORTEZ: The future, and our future is in public systems, and it’s publicly owned systems. Because we need to take power over our lives again. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want Mark Zuckerberg making decisions over my life. I don’t know about you, but the Waltons have already been making decisions over our lives, and what we got was nothing. We need a United States that really, truly, and authentically, is operated, owned, and decided by working – and all – people in the United States of America. </blockquote>
I hope you were paying attention to that, because what she&#8217;s saying is if you want to be free, you have to give everything to the government. Free people like Mark Zuckerberg, who built a business, and the Waltons, who build businesses, they can&#8217;t be free to do that. It has to be owned by the government in order for you to be free. Individuals can&#8217;t be free because then they can do what they want. But if the government can control everybody, then you&#8217;re free. I mean, that&#8217;s “1984” Orwellian reasoning.
I don&#8217;t even think she&#8217;s smart enough, to be honest with you, to be Orwellian. I think she&#8217;s a product of a public education system that simply doesn&#8217;t teach kids civics, and she doesn&#8217;t even know how this country works or what it&#8217;s about. She is just talking, echoing stuff that she has heard. But she&#8217;s Nurse Ratched. That&#8217;s a government of Nurse Ratched. That&#8217;s the evil nurse in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest,” who tell you that they&#8217;re going to take care of you. But in fact, are taking away all your freedom and basically leaving you, you know, sitting there in a chair, absolutely useless and helpless.
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The following is satirical.
If there’s one thing that&#8217;s important for every American to know, it’s how to play by the rules of politics. Playing by the rules allows you to maintain an atmosphere of civility and dignity while the Democrats run roughshod over every norm of behavior and destroy everything good and true about America.
So let’s learn some of the rules.
When someone completely unassociated with Donald Trump produces a video in which Trump shoots his enemies in the Democrat Party and the media, it proves that Trump is degrading public discourse and inspiring violence.
When a sportswear company puts an enormous billboard in Times Square showing a woman tying Trump up and stomping on the president’s face, then it’s time to buy some new sportswear.
When Arizona’s lady Governor Jan Brewer pointed a finger at President Barack Obama and told him she needed some border security, that was called “Fingergate” and was an example of Brewer’s racist disrespect for our first black president – who, did I mention, was black?
When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stuck out her finger at Donald Trump, that was an example of feminist independence and courage and time to buy some new sportswear and stomp on the president’s face.
When Barack Obama’s Justice Department and Intelligence Agencies spied on the opposing party’s campaign, that was our heroic deep state protecting Americans from their incorrect decisions.
When Donald Trump suggested Ukraine examine corruption that might include opposition candidate Joe Biden, that was worse than Watergate in which a president spied on the opposing party like Barack Obama did to Trump.
Finally, when the news media lie and distort in order to support a deep state coup, that’s freedom of speech. When Americans speak out freely against the media’s corruption, that endangers the First Amendment.
You must follow these rules carefully or else you could wake up and find yourself telling a power-obsessed bunch of baby-killing Communist Democrats and media to kiss your butt and then go straight to hell.
And we wouldn’t want that.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/doj-review-of-origins-of-russia-probe-expanded-cia-officials-reportedly-hiring-lawyers">Report: DOJ Review Of Origins Of Russia Probe Expanded, CIA Officials ‘Hiring Lawyers’</a>

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Learn To Play By The Rules Of Politics So Democrats Can Destroy The Country [Satire]

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Former &#8220;Empire&#8221; actor Jussie Smollett and his attorneys lost their bid, Tuesday, to toss out a civil case, filed by the city of Chicago seeking to recoup around $130,000 spent investigating Smollett&#8217;s alleged hoax hate crime.
A Federal judge told Smollett&#8217;s attorneys that the case can move forward into discovery and the court set a loose timeline for trial, tabling litigation until early 2020.
The city of Chicago filed the civil suit against Smollett after he failed to pay a $130,000 bill, levied by the city&#8217;s Finance Department, to recoup dozens of overtime hours accrued by Chicago Police Department detectives while the chased down two racist, homophobic individuals who, Smollett said, attacked him outside of his apartment in the city&#8217;s tony Streeterville neighborhood in the wee hours of January 19th.
Smollett claimed that two white attackers wearing &#8220;Make America Great Again Hats&#8221; accosted him as he made his way back home from a nearby Subway sandwich shop. According to Smollett, the two men assaulted him, punched him in the face, tossed a noose around his neck, and doused him with a chemical before yelling, &#8220;This is MAGA country!&#8221; and taking off, leaving him lying in the street.
Smollett filed two police reports, one almost immediately after the incident and a second one later in the day after being released from the hospital, where he&#8217;d gone for treatment for minor injuries.
It later emerged, following an intense, multi-week investigation by Chicago Police Department detectives, that Smollett may have orchestrated his own hate crime, paying two former &#8220;Empire&#8221; extras &#8212; a pair of Nigerian-American brothers who also served as Smollett&#8217;s sometimes-personal trainers &#8212; to stage the attack in order to elevate his profile (which he thought could earn him more on &#8220;Empire&#8221;).
Following these revelations, which came alongside surveillance footage, further police interviews, and sworn testimony from the two brothers, Smollett was charged with 16 counts of filing a false police report &#8212; one count for each crime he alleged.
Smollett was eventually let off the hook, inking a de facto plea deal with the Cook County States Attorney, who dropped all charges against Smollett in return for two dozen hours of community service, which Smollett had previously completed, and Smollett&#8217;s $10,000 bond deposit. Smollett was not &#8220;cleared&#8221; of the charges, but the deal effectively ended the city of Chicago&#8217;s involvement in the case. An FBI and United States Postal Service investigation, into allegations that Smollett sent himself a noxious substance through the mail, has yet to conclude.
The city of Chicago then filed their suit seeking reimbursement.
Smollett&#8217;s attorneys argued Tuesday, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2019/10/22/jussie-smollett-chicago-lawsuit-actor-still-facing-130-k-civil-suit/4000512002/">USA Today reports</a>, that Smollett should not be forced to pay because &#8220;Smollett himself did not direct Chicago police to spend weeks investigating his claim and could not have known how much time and money would be spent.&#8221;
The judge did not agree, noting that &#8220;if someone was going to falsely claim a racist and homophobic attack, it isn’t unreasonable to think the Chicago Police wouldn’t spend the hours necessary to investigate it,&#8221; according to local <a href="https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1186658483896229892">Chicago reporter Rafer Weigel</a>.
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Judge Kendall denies <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JussieSmollett?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JussieSmollett</a> lawyers request to dismiss the case. Saying, if someone was going to falsely claim a racist and homophobic attack, it isn’t unreasonable to think the <a href="https://twitter.com/Chicago_Police?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Chicago_Police</a> wouldn’t spend the hours necessary to investigate it. Moving to discovery. <a href="https://t.co/Qv6t9GwioL">https://t.co/Qv6t9GwioL</a>
&mdash; Rafer Weigel (@RaferWeigel) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1186646829263400960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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When asked why Smollett wanted to pursue the case, despite the likelihood that his legal fees will total more than the original $130,000 fine, <a href="https://twitter.com/RaferWeigel/status/1186658483896229892">his attorney told Weigel</a> that “my client has maintained his innocence and he believes you don’t put a price tag on that. He’s willing to spend what it takes to prove his innocence because, unfortunately, he has been proven guilty in the media more than proven innocent.&#8221;
His attorney later added, “(Jussie) has always maintained his innocence and is happy to have this decided on the facts and when the facts come out they will show his innocence.”
The judge opened the case up to discovery and pre-trial motions. A trial on the merits of the case is likely to wait until summer of 2020.

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Jussie Smollett Loses Bid To Boot Civil Suit From Chicago Finance Department

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Jussie Smollett

A police chief in China has been detained after he voiced his concerns about the communist country’s mass incarceration of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region.
Himit Qari, the police chief of Ucha township in Kuchar county, was detained after criticizing the country’s detention of his fellow Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic minorities. Radio Free Asia (RFA) <a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/detained-10212019174917.html">reported</a> that Qari made his remarks about 1.5 million minorities held for having “strong religious views” while “attending a gathering at a friend’s home early this year.” Several weeks later, the 45-year-old was “summoned by the Kuchar County Public Security Bureau’s disciplinary office for questioning, taken to a prison amid a further investigation into his case, and accused of ‘revealing state secrets,’” a source told the outlet.
At the same gathering, Qari apparently suggested “many people died” at one of China’s concentration camps in Ucha, where he worked as a security guard.
China had, until this year, denied that the country was running internment camps. It finally acknowledged the camps, claiming they were educational facilities to tamp down radicalism and promote a better life.
RFA reported that “a Han Chinese staff member at a crematorium in Kuchar county told RFA that the Aksu government was investing in ‘burial management centers’ in the prefecture and had earmarked funding to expand the size of the facility where he was employed.” From RFA:
<blockquote>Among the ethnic minority corpses brought to his crematorium were those who had died in internment camps, he said at the time, adding that he and other staff members “have no right to get involved in these matters, and we have no knowledge of any details of the arrangements—only the officials know.”</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-prisoner-in-one-of-chinas-re-education-camps-speaks-out-torture-and-rape-were-common">reported</a>, a woman who was once forced to teach detainees in one of the camps described her time inside.
“There were almost 20 people in a room of 16 square meters [172 sq. ft.],” she said. “There were cameras in their rooms, too, and also in the corridor. Each room had a plastic bucket for a toilet. Every prisoner was given two minutes a day to use the toilet, and the bucket was emptied only once a day. If it filled up, you had to wait until the next day. The prisoners wore uniforms and their heads were shaved. Their hands and feet were shackled all day, except when they had to write. Even in sleep they were shackled, and they were required to sleep on their right side &#8212; anyone who turned over was punished.”
She said prisoners &#8212; young men and women &#8212; were routinely sexually assaulted. She said detainees were tortured for almost any alleged offense, and said she had once been “punished” because a new detainee recognized her as part of her ethnic group and hugged her. Though the woman didn’t reciprocate, she was punished. In another example, the woman said a young woman was raped in front of dozens of other detainees, and anyone who reacted to the rape was punished.
She also said detainees were given pills allegedly to combat the flu and AIDS, but these pills &#8212; according to camp rumors &#8212; made men sterile and stopped women from getting periods. They believed those in charge of the camps were running human experiments.

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