Senator Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) took Thursday&#8217;s Senate Finance Committee hearing in a bizarre direction when he claimed that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was not &#8220;worthy&#8221; of a starfish pin he claimed he&#8217;d received from someone in his home state.
Lujan claimed that he&#8217;d been given the pin at a town hall in New Mexico, and said that it was supposed to stand for the idea that even the smallest thing – or the smallest action — could make a difference in the world. Kennedy, he then argued, was not &#8220;worthy&#8221; of wearing such a symbol.
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&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry you are not worthy of this nice little pin.&#8221;
&#8220;I was going to give it to you today, but I don&#8217;t think you deserve it.&#8221;
Senator Ben Ray Luján makes a fool of himself in bizarre moment with starfish pin during hearing. Not sure how RFK Jr. will survive this. <a href="https://t.co/iMXdKR153O">pic.twitter.com/iMXdKR153O</a>
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThomasMHern/status/1963648186414735533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Look, two young ladies in Las Cruces, New Mexico, at a town hall recently gave me this starfish pin,&#8221; he said, removing it from his lapel and holding it up. &#8220;I was going to give it to you today, but after your questioning today, I don&#8217;t think you deserve it.&#8221;
&#8220;Because what this represents is to remember that every one of us can make a difference, sir,&#8221; Lujan continued. &#8220;Something as small as a starfish on a beach that maybe got washed up, you throw it back in the ocean. You might not save them all, but you can save one.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that you&#8217;re not worthy of this nice little pin, sir, as a nice reminder,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to pray for you, Secretary Kennedy, I hope we do better. I want you to do better. But today was a failure for you, man.&#8221;
Kennedy spent the majority of Thursday&#8217;s hearing listening as the committee&#8217;s Democrats testified in his place, asking only a few <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-deserve-the-truth-rfk-jr-squares-off-with-colorado-senator-in-testy-hearing">contentious questions</a> before talking over him and refusing to let him answer.

Budget, Nominee Hurdles Sow Senate Frustration

Dem Makes A Mockery Of Capitol Hill Hearing, Says RFK Jr. Does Not ‘Deserve’ His Starfish Pin

Dem Makes A Mockery Of Capitol Hill Hearing, Says RFK Jr. Does Not 'Deserve' His Starfish Pin

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired back at Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) in the early moments of what turned out to be a very contentious Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday, exclaiming at one point, &#8220;Do I get a reply?&#8221;
Throughout the Senate Finance Committee hearing, Kennedy fielded a number of pointed questions about recent shake-ups at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and his complete overhaul of the panel meant to make recommendations on vaccines — and numerous senators used their time to effectively offer their own testimony in place of his, routinely leaving him barely enough time to answer yes-or-no questions.
Wyden, after using some of his time to complain that Kennedy was &#8220;politicizing&#8221; the committee that recommends vaccines, accused him of compromising children&#8217;s health.
&#8220;[You&#8217;re] enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense,&#8221; Wyden claimed, before ceding the floor back to the committee chair.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! RFK Jr. just absolutely EVISCERATED Democrat Senator Ron Wyden
&#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve sat in that chair for how long? 20, 25 years? While the chronic disease in our children went up to 76%. And you said NOTHING. You never ASKED the question why it&#8217;s happening!&#8221;
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— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) <a href="https://twitter.com/nicksortor/status/1963613460236816488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Do I get a reply?&#8221; Kennedy asked then, and after apparently getting the go-ahead to respond, he directed his comments at Wyden. &#8220;Senator, you&#8217;ve sat in that chair for how long? 20, 25 years? While the chronic disease in our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing. You never asked the question why it&#8217;s happening, why is this happening?&#8221;
&#8220;Today, for the first time in 20 years, we learned that infant mortality has increased in our country,&#8221; Kennedy continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not because I came in here. It&#8217;s because of what happened during the Biden administration that we&#8217;re going to end.&#8221;

HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr Testifies At Senate Finance Hearing

‘Do I Get A Reply?’: Kennedy Steamrolls Democrat In Health Care Hearing Shouting Match

'Do I Get A Reply?': Kennedy Steamrolls Democrat In Health Care Hearing Shouting Match

Health

Health Care

vaccine

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) read Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) the riot act after his colleague claimed that it was &#8220;extremely troubling&#8221; to hear a nominee for a federal post claim that rights were given by God, not governments.
The nominee in question was Riley Barnes, who previously worked in the U.S. State Department and has been nominated to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Barnes said that he agreed with his boss, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who recently said &#8220;that all men are created equal because our rights come from God, our Creator; not from our laws, not from our governments.&#8221;
Kaine took issue with Barnes&#8217; statement, and argued that only a theocratic government — such as the one in Iran — would attribute the source of rights to God rather than the law.
&#8220;The notion that rights don&#8217;t come from laws and don&#8217;t come from the government, but come from the Creator — that&#8217;s what the Iranian government believes. It&#8217;s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Sharia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá&#8217;ís, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities,&#8221; Kaine claimed. &#8220;And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the the motto over the Supreme Court is &#8216;equal justice under law,&#8217; — the oath that you and I take pledged to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, not arbitrarily defined natural rights,&#8221; Kaine continued.
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Our rights don’t come from government or the DNC.
They come from God. <a href="https://twitter.com/timkaine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@timkaine</a>, I suggest the Dems go back and read the words of our Founding Fathers. <a href="https://t.co/QRmhTcbbOH">pic.twitter.com/QRmhTcbbOH</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1963299914034663825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cruz pushed back on Kaine&#8217;s claims a short time later in the hearing, saying that it was the Virginia Senator&#8217;s comments that were of concern rather than Barnes&#8217;.
&#8220;I just walked into the hearing as he was saying that, and I almost fell out of my chair, because that &#8216;radical and dangerous notion&#8217; — in his words — is literally the founding principle upon which the United States of America was created,&#8221; said Cruz.
Quoting former President Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s words from the Declaration of Independence, Cruz added, &#8220;&#8216;We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator&#8217; — not by government, not by the Democratic National Committee, but by God — &#8216;with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.'&#8221;

Senate DCA Crash Hearing

‘Stunning’: Ted Cruz Reads Tim Kaine The Riot Act Over Claim That Rights Aren’t God-Given

'Stunning': Ted Cruz Reads Tim Kaine The Riot Act Over Claim That Rights Aren't God-Given

Ted Cruz

Thomas Jefferson

Tim Kaine

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tore into Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) after the latter repeatedly called Kennedy a liar during a heated hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday.
Kennedy had already fielded a series of clearly antagonistic questions about vaccines and recent shake-ups at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from several senators before Bennet started in, accusing him of reconfiguring the panel tasked with recommend vaccines and filling the seats with vaccine skeptics. Kennedy conceded that some — including Dr. Robert Malone, who pioneered the mRNA technology used in the COVID-19 vaccine — were skeptical of the long-term impact of mRNA vaccines, but said that he did not anticipate changes in the recommended vaccines for school children.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SecKennedy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecKennedy</a> says the Trump Administration&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/HHSGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HHSGov</a> answers to the American people, not the pharmaceutical companies, for the first time in history — sending <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorBennet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorBennet</a> into a deluded fit of rage.
Must watch. <a href="https://t.co/CUsoGqrr8e">pic.twitter.com/CUsoGqrr8e</a>
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&#8220;I think it’s critical for you to share the evidence that this panel will rely on. Will you give the American people … six weeks in advance, the record that they’re going to rely on to make these decisions? Will you make it transparent for the American people?&#8221; Bennet demanded to know.
&#8220;All the evidence is transparent,&#8221; Kennedy replied.
&#8220;Will you make it in advance, transparent for the American people so they can comment?&#8221; Bennet asked again.
&#8220;On all the evidence? It’s transparent for the first time in history, and you were never there complaining when the pharmaceutical companies were picking those people and then running their products through with no safety &#8230;&#8221; Kennedy objected.
&#8220;You can … characterize it any way you want. I quoted them today. What I said was accurate. What you said were lies!&#8221; Bennet claimed.
&#8220;Senator, are you saying the mRNA vaccine has never been associated with myocarditis and pericarditis?&#8221; Kennedy asked, referring to Bennet&#8217;s earlier claim that he had lied about there being risks associated with the COVID-19 vaccine.
&#8220;I am saying, I am simply trying to say that the people that you have put on that panel, after firing the entire —&#8221; Bennet attempted to interrupt.
&#8220;You are evading the question!&#8221; Kennedy pointed out.
Bennet, incensed, shouted back, &#8220;No, I’m asking the questions here! I’m asking the questions, Mr. Kennedy, on behalf of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better than your leadership. That’s what this conversation is about.&#8221;
Kennedy had the last word in response, saying, &#8220;They deserve the truth. And that’s what we’re going to give them. For the first time in the history of that agency!&#8221;

‘They Deserve The Truth!’: RFK Jr. Squares Off With Colorado Senator In Testy Hearing

'They Deserve The Truth!': RFK Jr. Squares Off With Colorado Senator In Testy Hearing

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Media

Irish comedian Graham Linehan trolled a British court on Thursday when he arrived outside the Westminster courthouse wearing a sandwich board proclaiming, &#8220;There is no such thing as a transgender child.&#8221;
Standing outside the court, Linehan turned the sign around after several moments to reveal another that read, &#8220;Keep men out of women&#8217;s sports.&#8221; The underside of one of the signs was also briefly visible: &#8220;Gender ideology does not belong in schools.&#8221;
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Father Ted co-creator Graham Linehan arrives for trial over alleged harassment of a transgender woman <a href="https://t.co/dOTDtXoDK9">pic.twitter.com/dOTDtXoDK9</a>
— Irish Daily Mirror (@IrishMirror) <a href="https://twitter.com/IrishMirror/status/1963528987658874997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/irish-comedian-recounts-shocking-arrest-over-anti-trans-social-media-posts">Linehan</a> was approached by armed officers upon his arrival at London&#8217;s Heathrow airport, some of whom apparently were unable to even explain to him what he&#8217;d done to warrant being &#8220;arrested at an airport like a terrorist.&#8221;
&#8220;The moment I stepped off the plane at Heathrow, five armed police officers were waiting. They escorted me to a private area and told me I was under arrest for three posts on X,&#8221; Linehan wrote in an op-ed for <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-posted-on-x-the-british-police-arrested-me-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Free Press</a>. “In a country where pedophiles escape prison, where knife crime is out of control, the state had mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for these three posts.&#8221;
The posts that prompted the arrest, as The Daily Wire previously reported, include one that says, &#8220;If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.&#8221;
Another has a photo of a trans activist gathering and includes the caption, &#8220;A photo you can smell.&#8221;
The third one says, &#8220;I hate them all. Misogynists and homophobes. F*** em.&#8221;
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines commented on the video of Linehan outside the court, cheering him on.
&#8220;This is how Graham Linehan shows up for trial in the UK just days after being arrested in the London airport for posting &#8216;offensive tweets.&#8217; This is how you deal with the trans mob. Double down. We&#8217;re cheering you on, @glinner.&#8221;
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This is how Graham Linehan shows up for trial in the UK just days after being arrested in the London airport for posting &#8220;offensive tweets&#8221;
This is how you deal with the trans mob. Double down. We&#8217;re cheering you on, <a href="https://twitter.com/Glinner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Glinner</a> 👏🏼🔥<a href="https://t.co/vWVItcwUGK">pic.twitter.com/vWVItcwUGK</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1963571669571612847?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Nigel Farage flew across the Atlantic to discuss British censorship. Graham Linehan came the other way to head to court, and was arrested by armed police over a set of posts. Politicians who pretend Britain doesn&#8217;t have a free speech problem are only fooling themselves,&#8221; Sam Ashworth-Hayes of The Telegraph added.
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Nigel Farage flew across the Atlantic to discuss British censorship. Graham Linehan came the other way to head to court, and was arrested by armed police over a set of posts.
Politicians who pretend Britain doesn&#8217;t have a free speech problem are only fooling themselves: <a href="https://t.co/MlOX5SK50m">pic.twitter.com/MlOX5SK50m</a>
— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1962950250961740138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The more I think about the #GrahamLinehan case, the more disgusted I feel. An Irish citizen, living in the USA, is arrested by 5 ARMED cops when he arrives in the UK, because of some tweets he wrote on a website that&#8217;s owned by an American &amp; based in the USA. Total clownery!&#8221; another posted.
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The more I think about the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GrahamLinehan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GrahamLinehan</a> case, the more disgusted I feel. An Irish citizen, living in the USA, is arrested by 5 ARMED cops when he arrives in the UK, because of some tweets he wrote on a website that&#8217;s owned by an American &amp; based in the USA. Total clownery!
— Simon Fox (@SimonFoxWriter) <a href="https://twitter.com/SimonFoxWriter/status/1963134862522519914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Comedian Trolls Court, Doubles Down After Arrest For ‘Anti-Trans’ Posts

Irish Comedian Trolls British Court, Doubles Down After Arrest For 'Anti-Trans' Posts

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Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) blew off concerns about the rampant crime in Chicago, saying that &#8220;big cities have crime&#8221; and the real problem was still President Donald Trump.
Pritzker has been sparring with Trump of late over the president&#8217;s threat to send National Guard troops to Chicago, hoping to clean up the city in much the same way he did in Washington, D.C., and has said that he&#8217;s doing well enough without bringing in the Guard.
Pritzker responded to a reporter who noted that he&#8217;d likely face more pointed questions after an especially deadly Labor Day weekend — according to ABC News, there were 37 separate <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/58-shot-weekend-chicago-governor-rejects-trumps-threat/story?id=125134744">shootings</a> between Friday evening and Monday night — that left 58 shot and eight dead.
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REPORTER: &#8220;This past weekend, 54 shot, 7 dead&#8230;&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/GovPritzker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovPritzker</a>: &#8220;Big cities have crime&#8221;
President Trump finds this completely unacceptable — and his success in Washington, D.C. has proven that Americans don&#8217;t have to live this way. <a href="https://t.co/vaKj5fxvSa">pic.twitter.com/vaKj5fxvSa</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1962949118088675839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You&#8217;re going to hear people, especially after this past weekend — 54 shot, seven dead,&#8221; the reporter began. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to say the city&#8217;s not safe. Would you ask your friends to ride the El [elevated train] after midnight? You know, or after nine o&#8217;clock at night, even, to go down to the city from O&#8217;Hare [International Airport]?&#8221;
&#8220;Look, big cities have crime, there&#8217;s no doubt about it,&#8221; Pritzker said, before pivoting to attack Trump. &#8220;But let&#8217;s just pay attention to what President Trump is doing, targeting Chicago. He&#8217;s overlooking red states that have much higher crime rates.&#8221;
Pritzker has made that argument several times before, arguing that some of the cities with the highest crime rates are in red states — and he is correct, but leaves out the fact that of the 20 cities with the highest murder rates, all but one are controlled by Democrats. St. Louis, for example, currently has the highest murder rate and is in a very red state — Missouri — but is run by a Democrat, Mayor Cara Spencer.

DES MOINES – JANUARY 15: Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker speak

‘Big Cities Have Crime’: Dem 2028 Hopeful Blows Off Deadly Chicago Weekend, Attacks Trump

'Big Cities Have Crime': Dem 2028 Hopeful Blows Off Deadly Chicago Weekend, Attacks Trump

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Crime

Donald Trump

Illinois

JB Pritzker

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy got a strange look from President Donald Trump — and a chuckle from Vice President JD Vance — when he asked the president point blank about the rumors of his death that had circulated over the weekend.
During an Oval Office event on Tuesday afternoon, Doocy pressed Trump to reveal when and how he&#8217;d come to find out that he&#8217;d died over the weekend.
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President Trump just SLAMMED his critics who wished him dead after not having a news conference for TWO DAYS!
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t do any for two days, and they said there must be something wrong with him.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden wouldn&#8217;t do &#8217;em for MONTHS! You wouldn&#8217;t see him! And nobody ever said… <a href="https://t.co/W5X7aRsuuY">pic.twitter.com/W5X7aRsuuY</a>
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1962955369241526579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?&#8221; Doocy asked, prompting a quick sideways glance from the president, but no other change in his expression. Vance, standing behind Trump and to his left, was clearly amused by the question.
&#8220;Did you see that?&#8221; Doocy pressed on as Trump said he hadn&#8217;t. &#8220;People didn&#8217;t see you for a couple of days, 1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.&#8221;
Vance shook his head, still smiling, and only then did Trump&#8217;s eyebrows raise: &#8220;Really? I didn&#8217;t see that. You know, I have heard — it&#8217;s sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences, all successful, they went very well like this is going very well. And then I didn&#8217;t do any for two days and they said, &#8216;There must be something wrong with him.'&#8221;
Trump then pivoted to compare his busy schedule to that of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, who routinely went weeks without speaking directly to the press.
&#8220;Biden didn&#8217;t do &#8217;em for MONTHS!&#8221; he exclaimed, prompting laughs around the room as he continued, &#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t see him! And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him! And we know he wasn&#8217;t in the greatest of shape.&#8221;

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Reporter Presses Trump On Crazy Rumor: ‘How Did You Find Out Over The Weekend That You Were Dead?’

Reporter Presses Trump On Crazy Rumor: 'How Did You Find Out Over The Weekend That You Were Dead?'

Fox News

Joe Biden

Peter Doocy

President Donald Trump trashed ABC News in a Sunday post on his Truth Social platform, criticizing the network specifically for giving air time to former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile.
Trump referenced the recent lawsuit against ABC News and Democrat strategist-turned-anchor George Stephanopoulos — which he won, to the tune of $16,000,000 — and suggested that Brazile&#8217;s coverage might leave the network vulnerable to another similar lawsuit.
&#8220;Why does Fake News ABC’S This Week With George Slopadopolus have Low IQ &#8216;commentator&#8217; Donna Brazile on the show?&#8221; Trump asked in his post. &#8220;Wasn’t she totally discredited when she gave Crooked Hillary Clinton the questions to a Debate??? Wasn’t she FIRED by Fake News CNN for so doing??? Why would ABC &#8216;News&#8217; hire such a dumb retread?&#8221;
&#8220;Check out her disastrous interview with Megyn Kelly from years ago — A total Classic!!! Donna is dumb as a rock, and a liar besides,&#8221; the president continued. &#8220;She, and Sloppy Chris Christie, should be fired from a highly discredited ABC Fake News. They just paid me $16,000,000 for &#8216;inaccurate&#8217; reporting, now they should pay me more!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s post came within hours of Brazile&#8217;s appearance on Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;This Week,&#8221; where she had criticized Trump&#8217;s tariff plan and claimed that it had &#8220;created a level of uncertainty that the American people can’t afford.&#8221;
She also lashed out at the president for rescinding Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris — a privilege that former President Joe Biden had extended her in his final days as president — and claimed that Trump was only stripping her security detail because he was &#8220;petty&#8221; and &#8220;vindictive.&#8221;
Brazile, as Trump noted in his post, left her previous position as a commentator at CNN after it was revealed that she had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/donna-brazile-resigns-cnn-after-another-wikileak-frank-camp">passed details about debate questions</a> to twice-failed presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential debate held in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Trump Name-Drops ‘Slopadopolus’ Lawsuit In Jab At ABC, Former DNC Chair

ABC News

Donna Brazile

George Stephanopoulos

Lawsuit

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) faced a wave of backlash over her speech pattern and mannerisms in a recent video — mannerisms that prompted at least one critic to respond by declaring, &#8220;Her code-switch is broken.&#8221;
The comments arose after Crockett — who attended several prestigious schools and earned a law degree — was seen on the video adopting speech patterns that were more commonly seen among those who were far less educated than the Texas Congresswoman.
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“Baby, deez people, day are crazy because they always talking bout how Christian they is…”
Jasmine Crockett, US House Representative <a href="https://t.co/eYLsnAPGVv">pic.twitter.com/eYLsnAPGVv</a>
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1962669869704392809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Baby, cuz deez people, day are crazy, because they always talking bout how Christian they is, yet I don&#8217;t know how many dem on dat side are getting divorced cuz they gettin&#8217; caught up sleepin&#8217; with they coworkers, staffers, interns, all the things,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Yeah, you ain&#8217;t gotta believe me, just go Google, you&#8217;ll find some of it. I&#8217;m telling&#8217; you, and the wives is bein&#8217; messy and petty &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Her code switch is broken,&#8221; Joe DeVito commented. Code switching, as he mentioned, is an active effort to modify one&#8217;s appearance, behavior, or speech in order to fit in with a particular group of people.
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Her code switch is broken <a href="https://t.co/d1vPZVwtBx">https://t.co/d1vPZVwtBx</a>
— Joe DeVito (@JoeDeVitoComedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeDeVitoComedy/status/1962715393027420247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When I was doing theater, I knew a few actors, not many, who got so swept up in a given character they played on stage, that they basically became that person in real life. Forever. I think Crockett has passed this point. This is who she is now,&#8221; David Marcus added.
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When I was doing theater, I knew a few actors, not many, who got so swept up in a given character they played on stage, that they basically became that person in real life. Forever. I think Crockett has passed this point. This is who she is now. <a href="https://t.co/En4XhXwPwl">https://t.co/En4XhXwPwl</a>
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueBoxDave/status/1962698612892192876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It’s okay to expect your political representatives to speak basic English. And she can,&#8221; Red State&#8217;s Bonchie posted. &#8220;She’s actually very well spoken. This is all an act. She’s a rich kid who went to finest private schools. She’s not from the streets.&#8221;
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It’s okay to expect your political representatives to speak basic English.
And she can. She’s actually very well spoken. This is all an act. She’s a rich kid who went to finest private schools. She’s not from the streets. <a href="https://t.co/dM0KW5WgWR">https://t.co/dM0KW5WgWR</a>
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1962671363522527671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Matt Whitlock shared a video of Crockett before the &#8220;code-switch,&#8221; in which her speech was much more measured and articulate.
&#8220;Compare that bizarre bit of theater to Jasmine Crockett BEFORE she got to Congress. There’s &#8216;code switching&#8217; then there’s &#8216;playing a character from TV,'&#8221; he said.
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Compare that bizarre bit of theater to Jasmine Crockett BEFORE she got to Congress.
There’s “code switching” then there’s “playing a character from TV.” <a href="https://t.co/lJYvZuj3Z2">https://t.co/lJYvZuj3Z2</a> <a href="https://t.co/7GaUCbU3dm">pic.twitter.com/7GaUCbU3dm</a>
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1962689089464914083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Jasmine Crockett is the Jussie Smollett of AOCs,&#8221; another added.
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Jasmine Crockett is the Jussie Smollett of AOCs. <a href="https://t.co/nN5JnI26la">https://t.co/nN5JnI26la</a>
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/1962872801150316873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘Her Code-Switch Is Broken’: Jasmine Crockett Mocked Over Dramatic Change In Speech

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A former Biden aide expressed her &#8220;concern&#8221; on Monday after President Donald Trump did not appear publicly for several days, sparking rumors across social media that he was unwell or even dead.
Meghan Hays, who served as a special assistant to former President Joe Biden, said that Trump&#8217;s absence from the public eye coupled with a series of posts on his Truth Social platform was proof that the White House was not being &#8220;transparent&#8221; about whether or not the president was in good health.
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🚨NEW: Ex-*BIDEN* Admin Official Meghan Hayes HAS NERVE to sound alarm about Trump&#8217;s health based on few days out of spotlight🚨
&#8220;I think that it’s really disconcerting. The president has been very vocal with press all the time. I think in August he spent 26 days doing public… <a href="https://t.co/f2aPlcEgJS">pic.twitter.com/f2aPlcEgJS</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1962663368717705279?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hays appeared on Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Lead&#8221; on CNN, where she told host Phil Mattingly that Trump&#8217;s behavior was &#8220;disconcerting&#8221; and &#8220;concerning&#8221; — despite the fact that she herself had worked in a White House that had actively hidden Biden from both the press and the public.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I think that everyone would like to know. I think that it’s really disconcerting,&#8221; she said of Trump&#8217;s weekend spent firing off a few social media posts but otherwise staying away from the press and the public. &#8220;The president has been very vocal with press all the time. I think in August, he spent 26 days doing public events or talking to press. So to go down for 6 days and just have a slew of Truth Social posts that are very chaotic and people can’t follow all of them — it’s very concerning, and I think that people — it could be raising questions.&#8221;
&#8220;The president could just be taking a few days down in August — which is normal for presidents to do. Or there could be actually something wrong. The problem is we don’t know. And they’re not being transparent about it,&#8221; she argued.
Mattingly reeled the segment back in, saying that he wasn&#8217;t &#8220;totally opposed&#8221; to Trump &#8220;going dark for a couple of days,&#8221; especially since, as Hays had noted, he had been going nonstop for the entire month of August.
The rumors of President Trump&#8217;s health were put to rest on Tuesday when the president spoke live at the White House about the new location for Space Command headquarters &#8212; Huntsville, Alabama.

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President Donald Trump is expected to announce a plan to move the United States Space Force Command Headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama, on Tuesday.
According to several reports, Trump plans to reverse a Biden-era decision to move the Command HQ to Colorado Springs — a move that was itself a reversal of Trump&#8217;s initial plan to locate the branch&#8217;s command headquarters in Huntsville.
Reuters White House Correspondent Nandita Bose shared the news in a post on X, saying, &#8220;The Trump administration is planning to announce as early as Tuesday that it will relocate U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the deliberations via @MichaelStone The decision would reverse a move made under President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, which had selected Colorado Springs as the permanent home for the military&#8217;s newest combatant command in 2023.&#8221;
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WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) &#8211; The Trump administration is planning to announce as early as Tuesday that it will relocate U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Huntsville, Alabama, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the…
— Nandita Bose (@nanditab1) <a href="https://twitter.com/nanditab1/status/1962881908066370016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Governor Kay Ivey (R-AL) suggested the move might be coming soon a week prior to the announcement: &#8220;Space Command coming to Huntsville? Count on it. Huntsville was already chosen once before as the home for U.S. Space Command — and for good reason. I remain confident that Alabama is the right place for this mission to take root and thrive.&#8221;
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Space Command coming to Huntsville? Count on it.
Huntsville was already chosen once before as the home for U.S. Space Command — and for good reason. I remain confident that Alabama is the right place for this mission to take root and thrive. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/alpolitics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#alpolitics</a>
📰: <a href="https://twitter.com/waff48?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@waff48</a> <a href="https://t.co/dU45jWSr7u">pic.twitter.com/dU45jWSr7u</a>
— Governor Kay Ivey (@GovernorKayIvey) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorKayIvey/status/1961101072052928582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A number of Republicans argued that Biden&#8217;s decision to move the Space Force Command HQ from Alabama to Colorado was politically motivated — and part of a concerted effort to only build military installations in states that did not have abortion restrictions.
&#8220;My concern is, it looks like it’s payback from the President of the United States – and payback is a very dangerous game,&#8221; Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA) said in 2023 during a hearing about the move with Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.
Radio host Jeff Hunt suggested that Trump could also be hitting back at Colorado over lawsuits against him and his administration.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying Trump is right to move Space Force from Colorado. However, having every statewide official constantly bragging about how many lawsuits they have against the president and a Secretary of State who tried to keep him off the ballot sure didn&#8217;t help the situation,&#8221; he said.
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I&#8217;m not saying Trump is right to move Space Force from Colorado. However, having every statewide official constantly bragging about how many lawsuits they have against the President and a Secretary of State who tried to keep him off the ballot sure didn&#8217;t help the situation.
— Jeff Hunt (@jeffhunt) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffhunt/status/1962910435734409282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And OANN White House Correspondent Daniel Baldwin noted that cost could also play a role, saying that Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) had said the move could result in nearly half a billion dollars saved.
&#8220;Moving the Space Force Command from Colorado to Alabama will save taxpayers $420,000,000 per Rep. Mike Rogers,&#8221; Baldwin said. &#8220;Erases a politically motivated move from Biden.&#8221;
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Moving the Space Force Command from Colorado to Alabama will save taxpayers $420,000,000 per Rep. Mike Rogers.
Erases a politically motivated move from Biden.
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) <a href="https://twitter.com/baldwin_daniel_/status/1962899093614739651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), 78, has declared that he will not seek reelection next year — and that he plans to step aside in an effort to allow for younger Democrats to step into leadership positions.
As reported on Monday by The New York Times, Nadler said that watching former President Joe Biden over the last several years had moved him to consider making way for the next generation of leaders.
“Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that,” Nadler explained, saying that he hoped the next person to fill his seat “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”
With 34 years in Congress, Nadler is both the longest-serving New Yorker and the longest-serving Jewish member of the U.S. House — and he claimed that he was a bit uncertain about bowing out at first because he believed he still needed to fight against President Donald Trump — but the writing may have been on the wall long before Nadler was willing to read it.
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The New York Rep. recently lost his leadership position in the House Judiciary Committee at the beginning of the current Congress when the party shifted its focus toward younger leaders — and he was expected to face a primary in his home district, likely from a number of candidates who are younger and more progressive than he is.
Nadler was involved in both Trump impeachment attempts &#8212; in 2019 and 2021 &#8212; <a href="https://time.com/5743613/jerry-nadler-trump-impeachment-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">helping to lead</a> the former.
The news of Nadler’s retirement comes in the wake of a new congressional map in Texas that may net Republicans as many as five additional seats — and as several other states move to change their maps as well, either in retaliation to or in an effort to supplement Texas’ actions.
Nadler’s exit will not likely change the balance in Congress, however, since his district covers a large swath of Manhattan and is considered to be a safely blue district.

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Dem Who Led Trump Impeachment Effort To Bow Out Of Congress

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