Columbia University anti-Israel agitator Mahmoud Khalil filed a $20 million claim against President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration on Thursday, claiming that he was &#8220;falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted, and smeared as an antisemite&#8221; when the U.S. State Department moved to deport him.
Khalil told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-ice-release-trump-columbia-protests-570f7af32010c16b1a00dd7e78f4c687">The Associated Press</a> that he could not forgive the Trump administration for the fact that he&#8217;d been detained hundreds of miles away while his wife gave birth to their son. &#8220;I cannot describe the pain of that night,&#8221; he said. The AP noted Khalil&#8217;s &#8220;anguish&#8221; but made no mention of the Jewish students who felt unsafe while he and his cohorts fomented a culture of antisemitism on Columbia&#8217;s campus and across the United States.
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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil just filed a $20M damages claim against the Trump admin, alleging it terrorized his family and smeared him as an antisemite for political gain. He spoke with us about the filing, and the moments of bliss and anguish since his release <a href="https://t.co/3lh1Krdua1">https://t.co/3lh1Krdua1</a> <a href="https://t.co/640Hbm4eCo">pic.twitter.com/640Hbm4eCo</a>
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Khalil&#8217;s deportation order is still in limbo as it moves through the American court system, but the claim filed on Thursday — according to The AP — &#8220;is a precursor to a lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act&#8221; and &#8220;names the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the State Department&#8221; as codefendants.
The anti-Israel activist told The AP that the reason for his claim was to bring more attention to his cause, saying, &#8220;They are abusing their power because they think they are untouchable. Unless they feel there is some sort of accountability, it will continue to go unchecked.&#8221;
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He also claimed that if the government were to pay out any amount of money, he would share the settlement with others he said were also being &#8220;targeted&#8221; by the Trump administration. He also said that he would settle for an &#8220;official apology&#8221; from the administration along with changes to policy to make sure that what happened to him could not happen to anyone else.
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Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that Khalil&#8217;s claim was &#8220;absurd,&#8221; and that he had participated in and led the &#8220;hateful behavior and rhetoric&#8221; that left so many Jewish students feeling unsafe.

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Former Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan is accusing President Donald Trump and his administration of &#8220;weaponizing&#8221; the intelligence community in their efforts to investigate his actions in 2016 — which, according to a recently published <a href="https://www.cia.gov/static/Tradecraft-Review-2016-ICA-on-Election-Interference-062625.pdf">CIA review</a>, amounted to him weaponizing the intelligence community against Trump.
CIA Director <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-doj-puts-brennan-and-comey-under-investigation-for-russiagate-report">John Ratcliffe</a> referred both Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey to the FBI for investigation and potential prosecution pursuant to their actions during the Trump-Russia investigation — and Brennan specifically was cited in the review as showing &#8220;a preference for narrative consistency over analytical soundness.&#8221;
The review also indicated that Brennan accepted evidence that backed his predetermined conclusions — such as the widely discredited Steele Dossier — even when others in the intelligence community warned against it, and was &#8220;more swayed by the Dossier&#8217;s general conformity with existing theories than by legitimate tradecraft concerns.&#8221;
But now that Brennan is in the hot seat, he&#8217;s arguing that investigating the &#8220;multiple procedural anomalies&#8221; — over which he presided, alongside Comey — is what actually amounts to the weaponization of intelligence.
Brennan, speaking to MSNBC&#8217;s Nicolle Wallace, claimed that he was a victim of &#8220;the authoritarian playbook&#8221; and that the Trump administration was taking actions that were reflective of the early days of Nazi Germany.
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🚨John Brennan says the investigation into him and James Comey for their role in the Russian Collusion Hoax is &#8220;the authoritarian playbook.&#8221;
He compares it to Nazi Germany.
&#8220;If a president of the United States is willing to weaponize intelligence and justice&#8230;we really are in… <a href="https://t.co/cl1sekq79x">pic.twitter.com/cl1sekq79x</a>
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&#8220;If a President of the United States is willing to weaponize intelligence and justice and, you know, law enforcement investigators, and the people who head up these departments and agencies are willing to bow to it, we really are in deep, deep trouble,&#8221; he claimed.
Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume weighed in on the investigation as well, saying first that it was worth looking into and then reminding audiences that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had financed the Steele Dossier upon which Brennan and Comey had built their case.
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🚨 WATCH: Fox’s <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brithume</a> on the investigation into former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey: “It’s worthy of investigation.”
“It all comes down once again after all these years to the Steele Dossier which was a dogs breakfast of scurrilous… <a href="https://t.co/p1KSiUsxIZ">pic.twitter.com/p1KSiUsxIZ</a>
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/1943075038745317684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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John Brennan Weaponized Intel Against Trump. Now He’s Mad The Worm Has Turned.

John Brennan Weaponized Intel Against Trump. Now He's Mad The Worm Has Turned

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Defense Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson torched The Atlantic over a hit piece claiming that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is making policy changes that will effectively &#8220;sideline&#8221; women in the military.
Staff writer Missy Ryan shared the article along with the following tease line, on X: &#8220;NEW: Will Pete Hegseth&#8217;s &#8216;War on Woke&#8217; sideline women in the military? A team appointed by Hegseth to look at fitness/combat standards will review and possibly redo the &#8216;women in combat&#8217; study that led to the integration of ground combat roles 10 yrs ago.&#8221;
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NEW: Will Pete Hegseth&#8217;s &#8216;War on Woke&#8217; sideline women in the military? A team appointed by Hegseth to look at fitness/combat standards will review and possibly redo the &#8216;women in combat&#8217; study that led to the integration of ground combat roles 10 yrs ago. <a href="https://t.co/HlQo4B1Bzi">https://t.co/HlQo4B1Bzi</a>
— Missy Ryan (@missy_ryan) <a href="https://twitter.com/missy_ryan/status/1943298384762425494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The article suggested that Hegseth was so driven to remove &#8220;woke&#8221; culture from the military that he was willing to undo years of &#8220;progress&#8221; that had ultimately led to women serving in combat roles.
Wilson responded first by mocking the outlet for apparently updating the article with a new headline, and suggested that its first effort had not been &#8220;woke&#8221; enough.
&#8220;.@TheAtlantic headline wasn&#8217;t woke enough so they changed it,&#8221; she posted, sharing screenshots of the original and the update, in side-by-side format.
The original headline read, &#8220;Will Pete Hegseth&#8217;s &#8216;War On Woke&#8217; Sideline Women?&#8221; — and the updated version read, &#8220;The Backdoor Way That Pete Hegseth Could Keep Women Out Of Combat.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheAtlantic</a> headline wasn&#8217;t woke enough so they changed it. <a href="https://t.co/2gKhbWctoy">https://t.co/2gKhbWctoy</a> <a href="https://t.co/jL6xMhYD6j">pic.twitter.com/jL6xMhYD6j</a>
— Kingsley Wilson (@PressSecDOD) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSecDOD/status/1943336054389436886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In a follow-up post, Wilson noted that she had given the outlet a comment for the story — but that it had been selectively edited prior to publication.
&#8220;.@TheAtlantic also didn&#8217;t want to run my whole statement because it would have discredited their story,&#8221; she said, sharing the full statement: &#8216;Military standards across the board have largely been ignored by leadership of the past. Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to basics and restoring the warrior ethos. Our standards for combat arms positions will be elite, uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re a man or a woman. We will not compromise our standards to satisfy quotas or an ideological agenda—this is common sense.'&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheAtlantic</a> also didn&#8217;t want to run my whole statement because it would have discredited their story:
“Military standards across the board have largely been ignored by leadership of the past. Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to… <a href="https://t.co/6I2rK5CGqo">https://t.co/6I2rK5CGqo</a>
— Kingsley Wilson (@PressSecDOD) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSecDOD/status/1943336313417015519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The only part of Wilson&#8217;s statement that was used was her description of  to goal standards for combat positions: &#8220;elite, uniform, and sex neutral, because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn’t care if you’re a man or a woman.&#8221;

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Joy Behar said on Thursday that she had a mind to just stop paying federal income taxes altogether if President Donald Trump and his administration continue to make cuts with regard to what those taxes will ultimately fund.
Behar joined her cohosts on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; for a discussion about the recently passed &#8220;Big Beautiful Bill&#8221; — and the cuts that came with it — and argued that she should only have to continue paying state taxes &#8220;if they want the states to take care of everything.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;d like to know, why am I paying federal taxes if they&#8217;re not going to do anything, by the way? Is there anybody that can tell me that?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;If they want the states to take care of everything, I&#8217;ll pay state taxes, and not federal taxes. Watch the IRS come after me now.&#8221;
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Whoopi Goldberg seems to suggest that Secretary Marco Rubio has been replaced by someone else, a &#8220;new Marco&#8221;: 
&#8220;People are imitating. You don&#8217;t know who Marco is anymore. You don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s Marco you talking to or, you know, some kind of new Marco.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/6axwN1N29A">pic.twitter.com/6axwN1N29A</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1943328869571842543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin jumped in to talk about the role played by the National Security Council — and its acting head, Secretary of State Marco Rubio — when it came to parceling out aid, and cohost Whoopi Goldberg immediately made reference to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marco-rubio-impostor-uses-ai-to-deceive-high-ranking-officials">recent story</a> about an individual using AI to impersonate Rubio to contact various foreign and domestic officials.
&#8220;People are imitating Marco,&#8221; she pointed out. &#8220;You don&#8217;t know who Marco is anymore. You don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s Marco you&#8217;re talking to or, you know, some kind of new Marco.&#8221;
Goldberg recently raised eyebrows when both she and cohost Sunny Hostin claimed that black Americans in 2025 were facing more discrimination and worse circumstances than people living under the thumb of Iran&#8217;s Islamist regime.

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‘Watch The IRS Come After Me’: Joy Behar Says She’ll Skip Federal Taxes If Trump Keeps Making Cuts

'Watch The IRS Come After Me': Joy Behar Says She'll Skip Federal Taxes If Trump Keeps Making Cuts

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Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville warned that if men were feeling let down by the Democratic Party, it was because Democrats had effectively &#8220;erased them&#8221; from society.
Carville made the comments during a recent podcast appearance with host Dan Koh on &#8220;The People&#8217;s Cabinet&#8221; — and he argued that while it had been wise for former Vice President Kamala Harris to choose a male running mate, but that simply asking Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) to go from state to state &#8220;screaming&#8221; about how masculine he was had been ineffective at best.
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🚨NEW: James Carville goes on 4-minute rant about how *BADLY* Dems have communicated to men🚨
&#8220;Let’s say you work in an Atlanta tire shop, 9–10 hours a day. You’re changing tires &#8230; You’re working your *ss off. It’s hot! Okay? You go home. You want a cold beer, you want a… <a href="https://t.co/XlNBYCJjEv">pic.twitter.com/XlNBYCJjEv</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1942987821502865850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If you ever want to understand the problem we have with younger men, listen to NPR for five minutes, four times a day, and you will understand,&#8221; Carville said, reflecting on recent polls that show a drop off in male support for Democrats.
Carville, known to many in political circles as &#8220;The Ragin&#8217; Cajun&#8221; due to his excitable nature and thick Louisiana accent, explained that Democrats had done men a disservice by adopting buzzwords and phrases like &#8220;the future is female&#8221; or &#8220;the woman is never wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;Men are like, ‘S***, do I count?'&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;&#8216;What about my life? I mean, we’re only 48% of the voting population.'&#8221;
&#8220;Let’s say you work in an Atlanta tire shop, nine, 10 hours a day. You’re changing tires,&#8221; Carville explained. &#8220;You’re working your ass off. It’s hot. You go home. You want a cold beer, you want a hamburger, and you want to watch the football game. No. No. You can’t do that. Not football. No. No hamburgers. How many calories does that have? Do you know what that does? Beer? No. You should be drinking a nice fruit spritzer or something.’ They’re like, ‘Oh, get off of my back,’ right? And then, ‘If you have sex, you must wear a condom.’ We just never communicated with them.&#8221;
Carville concluded by saying that at the end of the day, the party would have to meet men where they were instead of constantly subjecting them to lectures.
&#8220;I understand we’ve had tectonic societal shifts, demographic shifts in this country, but there are no television shows about these people anymore. They’ve been erased from the culture,&#8221; he said of men in general. &#8220;We’ve just erased them. &#8216;You don’t exist. No one sees you. No one cares about you. You’ve had it made all your life.&#8217; And a lot of these people say, ‘I got it made? What are you talking about?’ And we just lecture people too much. As opposed to saying, ‘Man, you work hard.'&#8221;

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James Carville Warns Democrats Who They’ve Failed To Reach: ‘Men Are Like, S***, Do I Count?’

James Carville Warns Democrats Who They've Failed To Reach: 'Men Are Like, S***, Do I Count?'

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has made it clear over the course of several interviews that he does not want to talk about New York City&#8217;s Democratic mayoral frontrunner, Zohran Mamdani.
Shortly after Mamdani — a self-described Democratic Socialist — bested disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) to win the Democratic primary, ABC&#8217;s Jonathan Karl asked Jeffries whether he was prepared to endorse his fellow New Yorker.
Jeffries, at the time, said that he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-mamdani">did not know</a> Mamdani well enough yet to throw his weight behind the campaign — and he mentioned one sticking point in particular that he believed would have to be addressed before he could do so: Mamdani&#8217;s position on Israel.
&#8220;Globalizing the Intifada, by way of example, is not an acceptable phrasing,” Jeffries said. “He’s going to have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward. With respect to the Jewish communities that I represent, I think our nominee is going to have to convince folks that he is prepared to aggressively address the rise in antisemitism in the city of New York, which has been an unacceptable development.&#8221;
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries hesitated when pressed by <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> about endorsing Democratic New York City mayor contender Zohran Mamdani.
&#8220;I have never had a substantive conversation with him. That’s the next step in terms of this process.” <a href="https://t.co/XdRBpVxN5K">https://t.co/XdRBpVxN5K</a> <a href="https://t.co/hM0H4CywiC">pic.twitter.com/hM0H4CywiC</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1939335443935281620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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When Jeffries appeared on ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; about a week later, the hosts asked him whether he planned to join those in his party — like Mamdani — who were calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be defunded. Jeffries tiptoed around the question, saying that he believed there should be &#8220;oversight&#8221; when ICE agents were using more aggressive tactics, but he did not directly answer the question.
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Hakeem Jeffries is asked if he will embrace calls from his own party to DEFUND ICE.
He doesn&#8217;t rule it out — then pivots.
The man flat out refuses to ever answer the question that is asked. <a href="https://t.co/a6MVIobH4M">pic.twitter.com/a6MVIobH4M</a>
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1942271084553986184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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One day later, on MSNBC, Ari Melber asked Jeffries about Mamdani directly, wondering whether he believed the socialist&#8217;s surprise win over &#8220;establishment&#8221; Cuomo was good for the Democratic Party.
Instead of addressing whether or not Mamdani&#8217;s win was good for the party, Jeffries explained how he had &#8220;outworked&#8221; and &#8220;out-communicated&#8221; his opposition. He then pivoted to claim President Donald Trump — whose second term has seen falling gas prices and egg prices as well as rising jobs numbers and lowering inflation rates — had done nothing to address the high cost of living that most Americans were facing.
Melber immediately called him out, saying, &#8220;Respectfully, I see the pivot. You know, you&#8217;re good at this. That&#8217;s how you got this job.&#8221;
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He’s at it AGAIN — Hakeem Jeffries pivots so hard from question about Mamdani that even MSNBC’s Ari Melber calls him out:
&#8220;Respectfully, I see the pivot. You know, you&#8217;re good at this. That&#8217;s how you got this job.&#8221;
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— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1942713734520267243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And on Wednesday morning, CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer pressed Jeffries about new reports indicating that Mamdani&#8217;s allies planned to mount a primary challenge against him. Jeffries waved away the question, and attempted — as he usually does — to turn the topic to Trump.
&#8220;I have no idea what these people are talking about!&#8221; Jeffries said, clarifying that his sole focus was on pushing back against President Trump&#8217;s agenda. &#8220;We are going to continue to focus our efforts as we did on the House floor in connection with Donald Trump’s one big, ugly bill on pushing back against the extremism that has been unleashed on the American people.&#8221;
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Here we go again — Hakeem Jeffries flips out when asked about Mamdani’s supporters trying to mount a primary challenge against him —
Then rants about Trump:
“I have no idea what these people are talking about! The problem is Donald Trump!&#8221;
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— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1942972349877469597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Jeffries&#8217; senior advisor Andre Richardson added, &#8220;If Team Gentrification wants a primary fight, our response will be forceful and unrelenting. We will teach them and all of their incumbents a painful lesson on June 23, 2026.&#8221;

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

Hakeem Jeffries Really Doesn’t Want To Talk About Zohran Mamdani

Hakeem Jeffries Really Does Not Want To Talk About Zohran Mamdani, Like At All

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Axed MSNBC host Tiffany Cross claimed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was &#8220;kidnapping people&#8221; off the streets of America and sending them off to &#8220;concentration camps.&#8221;
Cross joined a panel discussion on &#8220;CNN NewsNight&#8221; with host Abby Phillip, and she argued that the Trump administration was using Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — with the help of the Army National Guard — to &#8220;disappear&#8221; people the way the Nazi regime did in Germany.
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CNN&#8217;s Tiffany Cross repeatedly accuses President Trump of disappearing people and sending them to Nazi style concertation camps.
&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about it like it&#8217;s no big deal that they are kidnaping people and transporting them to concentration camps&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/vKLbbSLQT2">pic.twitter.com/vKLbbSLQT2</a>
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThomasMHern/status/1942808618958553530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I think this is the challenge I have with even talking about this,&#8221; Cross said. &#8220;We are normalizing a government agency disappearing people. We’re normalizing — we’re talking about it like it’s no big deal that they are kidnapping people and transporting them to concentration camps, both domestic and foreign.&#8221;
New York Post Editor-at-Large Kelly Jane Torrance objected to the terminology, saying, &#8220;I think that’s kind of insulting to Jewish Holocaust survivors.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it’s insulting what they’re doing. It is not insulting to the Jewish Holocaust,&#8221; Cross protested. &#8220;I find it insulting that you could even fix your mouth to defend this disgusting behavior.&#8221;
&#8220;Are there gas ovens at these —?&#8221; Torrance attempted to get a straight answer out of Cross, to no avail.
&#8220;It doesn’t matter! It’s a concentration camp what they’re doing and they are disappearing people, claiming that these are people who have committed the most harsh crimes, but according to the reporting less than 10% of these people have committed harsh crimes so to do the victim Olympics and decide who had it worse I can tell you I can participate in that too,&#8221; Cross claimed.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be accurate and honest,&#8221; Torrance challenged her.
&#8220;The fact that we&#8217;re presenting this like it&#8217;s political fodder that a government agency is disappearing people, it is not a political point, it is nothing to do with Jewish people,&#8221; Cross claimed — despite the fact that she&#8217;d been the one to draw the direct comparison when she invoked the concentration camps — and then blamed Torrance for trying to &#8220;make yourself of somebody else the center of attention.&#8221;
&#8220;Tensions are so heightened, using that kind of language is not helpful,” she said.
&#8220;Tensions are heightened because this BS administration is kidnapping people. It has nothing to do with my language. It has to do with the actions that are being taken by this administration,&#8221; Cross objected, refusing to let the point go.
Border czar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-not-going-to-stop-homan-says-ice-will-keep-deporting-illegals-amid-ambush-attacks">Tom Homan</a> would disagree with Cross, however. He told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, during an appearance on &#8220;The Story,&#8221; that rhetoric like Cross&#8217; was what was driving violent ambush attacks against ICE agents — and he did not believe it was likely to stop.

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CNN Lets Axed MSNBC Host Rant About Trump ‘Kidnapping People’ And Using ‘Concentration Camps’

CNN Lets Axed MSNBC Host Rant About Trump 'Kidnapping People' And Using 'Concentration Camps'

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Just days after flash floods ravaged central Texas — leaving at least 100 people killed and more than 160 still missing — a similar warning went out along New Mexico&#8217;s Ruidoso River as it rose rapidly on Tuesday.
The National Weather Service office in Albuquerque posted a warning as the river began to rise, warning residents to avoid the area and not to make any effort to drive through the floodwaters.
&#8220;A DANGEROUS situation is unfolding in RUIDOSO! A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY remains in effect! Seek HIGHER GROUND NOW! Do NOT attempt to drive through the floodwaters. The current will carry away your vehicle!&#8221; the initial post read.
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A DANGEROUS situation is unfolding in RUIDOSO! A FLASH FLOOD EMERGENCY remains in effect! Seek HIGHER GROUND NOW! Do NOT attempt to drive through the floodwaters. The current will carry away your vehicle! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nmwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nmwx</a>
— NWS Albuquerque (@NWSAlbuquerque) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSAlbuquerque/status/1942690477632893088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Additional warnings came out a short time later, showing just how quickly the river was rising.
&#8220;The flood wave on the Rio Ruidoso has reached the Hollywood gage. Stay away from the river! This is a look at the change in the river depth in just 30 minutes, courtesy of the USGS!,&#8221; the post read. Side by side photos showed the change over 30 minutes.
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Another 30 minutes later and it&#8217;s hard to tell where the riverbed is. The river is now in major flood stage at over 15 feet. Stay away from the river! Seek higher ground NOW! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nmwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nmwx</a> <a href="https://t.co/gd3ecndelG">pic.twitter.com/gd3ecndelG</a>
— NWS Albuquerque (@NWSAlbuquerque) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSAlbuquerque/status/1942706313244361145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A follow-up post showed a photo taken after another 30 minutes, and the river bed was even higher: &#8220;Another 30 minutes later and it&#8217;s hard to tell where the riverbed is. The river is now in major flood stage at over 15 feet. Stay away from the river! Seek higher ground NOW!&#8221; the NWS warned.
The latest update showed data indicating that the river&#8217;s 20.24 foot provisional crest on Tuesday was a full five feet higher than last year&#8217;s 15.86 foot crest on July 20, 2024.
&#8220;The Rio Ruidoso at Hollywood reached a provisional crest of 20.24 feet this afternoon while significant flash flooding was occurring. If this is confirmed, it would be a record high crest (compared to last year&#8217;s crest of 15.86 feet on July 20th),&#8221; the NWS announced.
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The Rio Ruidoso at Hollywood reached a provisional crest of 20.24 feet this afternoon while significant flash flooding was occurring . If this is confirmed, it would be a record high crest (compared to last year&#8217;s crest of 15.86 feet on July 20th). <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NMwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NMwx</a> <a href="https://t.co/QHtTrXLf3H">pic.twitter.com/QHtTrXLf3H</a>
— NWS Albuquerque (@NWSAlbuquerque) <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSAlbuquerque/status/1942733999396286668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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ANOTHER Catastrophic Flood event unfolding NOW this Tuesday evening in New Mexico. The Ruidoso River in NM rose by 20 feet+ in less than an hour shattering a record. Videos coming in now breaking of homes floating down the Ruidoso River. Several inches of rain has fallen on burn… <a href="https://t.co/7yZufCdejH">pic.twitter.com/7yZufCdejH</a>
— Noah Bergren (@NbergWX) <a href="https://twitter.com/NbergWX/status/1942721251954332091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Border Czar Tom Homan said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents would continue to apprehend and deport illegal aliens despite a recent rash of ambush attacks aimed at preventing them from carrying out their mission.
Homan joined Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum, host of &#8220;The Story,&#8221; to discuss the news that murder charges had been filed against ten people who had been involved in a &#8220;coordinated attack&#8221; against ICE agents in Alvarado, Texas.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RealTomHoman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTomHoman</a>: &#8220;This is a well-planned attack, and it&#8217;s because of the rhetoric. These nuts that want to take it beyond protests&#8230; they&#8217;re getting rhetoric from members of Congress&#8230; we&#8217;re NOT going to stop enforcing immigration law.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/DnrBEzaqVl">https://t.co/DnrBEzaqVl</a> <a href="https://t.co/xx0w4B3BTD">pic.twitter.com/xx0w4B3BTD</a>
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&#8220;What do you make of the organization and sophistication level of this, and what are you doing to protect your agents in light of these attacks?&#8221; MacCallum asked.
&#8220;I said over two months ago, if the rhetoric continues against ICE agents and Border Patrol agents about being compared to terrorists, like Congresswoman Jayapal did, being compared to Nazis and racists, that it&#8217;s going to end with a use of force that either a criminal is going to die or an officer is going to die,&#8221; Homan explained.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen this recipe before,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I know it&#8217;s coming, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s over. &#8230; And look, this was a well-planned attack, and it&#8217;s because of the rhetoric. These nuts that want to take it beyond protests into criminal activity, they&#8217;re getting rhetoric from members of Congress — Senators who compare ICE to the Nazis. And Congresswoman Jayapal compared them to terrorist organizations.&#8221;
&#8220;So these people, these fringe groups, feel emboldened — if a member of Congress can attack ICE, why can&#8217;t we?&#8221; he added. &#8220;But here&#8217;s what they need to understand: we&#8217;re not going to stop enforcing immigration law.&#8221;

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&#8220;The View&#8221; host Whoopi Goldberg was shocked to admit that President Donald Trump is not at fault for the massive flash floods that have devastated central Texas, killing more than 100 people when the Guadalupe River rose some 26 feet in about 45 minutes.
Goldberg, who still refuses to speak Trump&#8217;s name aloud on the ABC midday talk show, actually stepped in to stop cohost Joy Behar when she pointed the finger at the president during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin addressed those who were attempting to politicize the flooding, claiming that President Donald Trump&#8217;s efforts to streamline the federal government — mainly through the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — had had a negative impact on the National Weather Service&#8217;s ability to accurately predict the floods and warn residents in time.
&#8220;I think after action reports are really important but politicizing and pointing fingers is not the answer,&#8221; Griffin said.
&#8220;Yeah, but Trump does it all the time. He immediately — he immediately starts the blame game,&#8221; Behar objected. &#8220;So maybe Ms. Leavitt should talk to her boss.&#8221;
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Whoopi says she&#8217;s shocked to admit that the Texas flooding was NOT Trump&#8217;s fault: 
&#8220;I&#8217;m shocked that this is coming out of my mouth. I&#8217;m not pointing a finger at the man in the White House. I&#8217;m saying there&#8217;s a state that&#8217;s in trouble and has been. And it doesn&#8217;t seem like… <a href="https://t.co/0ik2sHHFsL">pic.twitter.com/0ik2sHHFsL</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1942620029813473587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg jumped into the conversation, saying that she believed people should have been more prepared simply because that particular area was prone to flash flooding and had flooded quickly in the past. She argued instead that any failures were at the state level rather than the federal level.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important, I think, for everyone to understand — and I&#8217;m shocked that this is coming out of my mouth. I&#8217;m not pointing a finger at the man in the White House,&#8221; Goldberg said. &#8220;I&#8217;m saying there&#8217;s a state that is in trouble and has been. And it doesn&#8217;t seem like anything is changing. And maybe we need to get on top of that.&#8221;

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Whoopi Goldberg ‘Shocked’ To Report That Texas Flooding Is NOT Trump’s Fault

Whoopi Goldberg 'Shocked' To Report That Texas Flooding Is NOT Trump’s Fault

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt set the record straight on Monday after multiple media outlets had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dana-bash-blames-climate-change-donald-trumps-administration-for-texas-floods">blamed President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration</a> for what they claimed was a lack of necessary staffing at the National Weather Service (NWS).
Multiple reports have circulated — in the wake of devastating flash flooding in central Texas — suggesting that Trump&#8217;s efforts to shrink the size of the federal government through the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had led to a shortage of key staffers in the Texas NWS offices responsible for warning the local population in the event of a flood.
Leavitt pushed back, saying that the offices in question were, in fact, fully staffed.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> dispels the fake news around National Weather Service staffing in the wake of the weekend&#8217;s devastating Texas flooding: &#8220;The San Angelo office was fully staffed with 12 forecast meteorologists &#8230; The San Antonio office was operating with 11 forecasters.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/sk5rPG1Tv1">pic.twitter.com/sk5rPG1Tv1</a>
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&#8220;Are there concerns within the White House or from the president himself that the cuts that happened under Musk while he was advising DOGE, including the National Weather Service?&#8221; one reporter asked.
&#8220;I think I&#8217;ve already addressed that &#8230; and what I can tell you is that these offices were fully staffed,&#8221; Leavitt explained. &#8220;The San Angelo office was fully staffed with 12 forecast meteorologists, there were no vacancies. The San Antonio office was operating with 11 forecasters, and &#8230; the union themselves said that there was adequate staffing, so I think those words speak for themselves, and the numbers speak for themselves.&#8221;
&#8220;This was a once-in-a-century flash flood, a tragic natural disaster, and the administration is doing all that we can on the ground to help these families during this time of need,&#8221; she added.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Sunday that he planned to visit the flood-ravaged state in the near future, but wanted to wait until his presence would not be a hindrance to relief efforts.

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‘These Offices Were Fully Staffed’: Karoline Leavitt Corrects The Record On National Weather Service

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The largest teachers union in the United States has demanded that $3500 be set aside so that it can officially refer to President Donald Trump and his &#8220;programs and actions&#8221; as &#8220;fascist.&#8221;
Members of the National Education Association, during its annual convention, adopted a resolution that would have the group put up the cash so that all official NEA materials would &#8220;correctly characterize&#8221; the agenda of the Trump administration as &#8220;fascist.&#8221;
Corey DeAngelis shared several of the resolutions that were adopted by the NEA, saying in a Monday X post, &#8220;I just received a copy of the National Education Association&#8217;s resolutions that they passed at their annual convention. They kept them private this year.&#8221;
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The nation&#8217;s largest teachers union adopted a business item &#8220;to defend against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials correctly characterize Donald Trump&#8217;s program and actions.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/xNdksH3nQZ">pic.twitter.com/xNdksH3nQZ</a>
— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1942277260154921437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The nation&#8217;s largest teachers union adopted a business item &#8216;to defend against Trump’s embrace of fascism by using the term facism [sic] in NEA materials correctly characterize Donald Trump&#8217;s program and actions,'&#8221; he added.
Just below that, under the heading of &#8220;Cost Implications,&#8221; the union asserted that it would cost $3500 for materials to be printed reflecting that change.
Other resolutions included one &#8220;to oppose any move to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education as an illegal, anti-democratic, and racist attempt to destroy public education and privatize it in the interests of the billionaires&#8221;; another that said the NEA would &#8220;defend birthright citizenship and oppose the attempt to revert to pre-civil rights movement – Jim Crow – legal concepts of &#8216;states rights&#8217; in order to deny citizenship to the children of immigrants&#8221;; and one that said the NEA would support students &#8220;dissenting and organizing against Trump’s policies,&#8221; specifically with regard to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities.
The price tags on those resolutions were $2000, $34,500, and $32,500, respectively.

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