NewsNation host Chris Cuomo blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during a Thursday broadcast, warning Democrats not to get behind her as she tours the country with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — and appears ready to potentially mount a presidential campaign in 2028.
Cuomo, in addition to criticizing Ocasio-Cortez&#8217; thin Congressional resume, referred to the Bronx native as an &#8220;80/20 loser&#8221; whose only real accomplishments can be measured in social media &#8220;likes.&#8221;
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🚨NEW: <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisCuomo</a> WARNS Dems it&#39;s foolish to elevate &quot;socialist&quot; AOC as top presidential contender🚨
&quot;AOC has done nothing meaningful in Congress. She&#39;s done it all on social media. And she&#39;s one of your leading names and who&#39;s going to be president? &#8230; She&#39;s an 80/20 loser… <a href="https://t.co/nwO2K3ghcn">pic.twitter.com/nwO2K3ghcn</a>
&mdash; Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1915419115788829030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;AOC has done nothing meaningful in Congress. She&#8217;s done it all on social media,&#8221; Cuomo began. &#8220;And she&#8217;s one of your leading names and who&#8217;s going to be president?&#8221;
&#8220;Do you not get this concept of 80/20? She&#8217;s an 80/20 loser all day long,&#8221; Cuomo continued, suggesting that on most major issues that Americans cared about, Ocasio-Cortez would side with 20% while 80% sided against her. &#8220;Why? She is clearly catering to a minority. She&#8217;s her own version of MAGA. She&#8217;s looking for an outraged enclave.&#8221;
&#8220;She&#8217;s not about the majority, she&#8217;s not about consensus. She&#8217;s not about solutions,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;She wants government to give you everything. She&#8217;s a socialist in a capitalist society. What are you thinking!?&#8221;
A number of people have suggested that Ocasio-Cortez is likely to mount a primary challenge against Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — and Schumer&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-data-guru-its-time-for-chuck-schumer-to-panic-sirens-should-be-going-off" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent poll numbers</a>, according to CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten, have many wondering whether he could withstand such a battle.
&#8220;They simply don’t like the job he’s doing as Senate leader. I mean, look at this — should Schumer stay as Senate leader? Again, according to New York Democrats, just 50% say yes. Look at this number — 48% say no,” Enten said. “This screams — sirens should be going off. Primary challenge. Primary challenge. Primary challenge. When you’re a Democrat in New York and these are your ratings — this is a big wake-up call if you’re Chuck Schumer.&#8221;
But others have suggested that the New York Congresswoman might be plotting a much bigger move:
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She&#39;s running for president.<a href="https://t.co/nWbnbnn0Ar">pic.twitter.com/nWbnbnn0Ar</a>
&mdash; Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1915529189488263488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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She’s going to run and her message of economic populism is more powerful than people are giving her credit for. <a href="https://t.co/izAoGvR70y">https://t.co/izAoGvR70y</a>
&mdash; Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/1915453416731459991?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Since we all seem to agree that AOC is running in 2028, I want to start the clock on the inevitable &quot;she&#39;s always been a moderate&quot; reform tour that she&#39;s already laying the groundwork for by being absent from a lot of the squad&#39;s bullshit these days. <a href="https://t.co/1O2nLFfHZi">https://t.co/1O2nLFfHZi</a>
&mdash; Noam Blum (@neontaster) <a href="https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1915771670817628437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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I am telling you…she is running and she is going to be more formidable than some Democrats seem to think <a href="https://t.co/rifJTFv2Ns">https://t.co/rifJTFv2Ns</a>
&mdash; Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1915236450511081938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Also, she&#39;s running. Notice how she&#39;s shifting from intersectional divisiveness to progressive economics. And if Republicans underestimate her they&#39;re making a crucial mistake. If the economy craters, she&#39;s the likely frontrunner to be president in 2028.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1915662794629775742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Chris Cuomo Blasts ’80-20 Loser’ Ocasio-Cortez, Warns Dems Not To Pick Her In 2028

Chris Cuomo Blasts '80-20 Loser' AOC, Warns Dems Not To Pick Her In 2028

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) delivered a quick fact-check to Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) during a Tuesday hearing, using her own previous actions to discredit her current position on the impeachment of judges.
Crockett, along with several other Democrats, used her time during the committee hearing to complain that democracy itself would be left in shambles if Republicans were to succeed in impeaching any of the judges who have unilaterally blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from taking certain actions.
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🔥Jasmine Crockett starts HYPERVENTILATING about protecting the institution of the judiciary — before PROMPTLY being reminded by <a href="https://twitter.com/repdarrellissa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@repdarrellissa</a> that she cosponsored legislation to impeach Justices Thomas &amp; Alito!
&quot;AOC filed articles of impeachment on Justice Thomas &amp; Alito.… <a href="https://t.co/lQZwj3tAWT">pic.twitter.com/lQZwj3tAWT</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1907134854317142079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“The problem that we have right now is that if we continue down this road, we will not have a rule of law because we have people that are currently serving and they’re saying things like, ‘Ignore the judge’s order.’”
Making no mention of the fact that President Joe Biden had done exactly that when he pushed ahead with student loan forgiveness despite a Supreme Court decision stating that he did not have the authority to do so, Crockett continued.
“What it means to have law and order in this country is that you follow the order and you go through the appeals process even if you dislike what the judge did,” Crockett said before yielding back her time.
She relied, as have other Democrats and media talking heads alike, on the narrative claiming that Republicans wanted to impeach the federal judges over rulings they “did not like” — despite the fact that the reasoning given by those calling for impeachment is rooted instead in those judges’ alleged abuses of power.
Issa stepped in briefly then, observing that when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had introduced articles of impeachment against conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, Crockett herself had co-sponsored the move.
“It does seem interesting that when the shoe is on the other foot, everyone is self-righteous!” Issa said before moving on to the next agenda item.

House Oversight And Accountability Members And Watchdog Group Court Accountability Focus On Supreme Court Ethics

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As we all know, in last November’s presidential election, Donald Trump defeated what’s-her-name and left Democrats trailing Republicans in popularity by a margin of approximately everybody to nothing. Now, Democrats are trying to find a new way forward that does not involve finding a new way forward. Democrat National Committee Chairman Mao Tse Muhammed Jihad Vladimir Muhammed Allahu Akbar Stalin Jihad Mohammed recently addressed the subject in a speech entitled “How Can They Hate Us When We’re So Hep?” The Speech was delivered to the annual meeting of the Future Illegal Alien Terrorists Who Hate America of America, or the FIATWHA – and then another A. Mr. Jihad, who goes by the name of Miss Jihad and uses the pronouns He and Be, as in the sentence “He be giving me the heebee geebees,” told the gathering, “It’s time to face up to the truth. We Democrats instigated fatal riots and then pretended they weren’t happening, we opened our borders to criminals and terrorists and pretended that wasn’t happening, we sexually mutilated children in the name of a perverted fantasy, we censored anyone who disagreed with us and tried to put our political opponents in jail, and we acted with such weakness and incompetence overseas that it inspired our enemies to begin wars in both Europe and the Middle East. Now we must ask ourselves, since we’re doing everything perfectly according to plan, why the hell doesn’t the public love us like they should?”
In an attempt to refresh the party’s image, the Democrats have turned to 83-year-old Senator Bernie Sanders, a man who lived through the Communist gulags of Russia, the Communist enslavement of Eastern Europe, the Communist slaughter in China, and the Communist genocide in Cambodia without once changing his opinion that Communism works great, especially in Norway, where they don’t have it. Sanders has been declared the new face of the Democrat party and has been teamed up with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez who has been declared the new rack of the Democrat party. Asked about this arrangement, Sheldon Whitehouse, the Junior Senator from the State of Unbelievable Corruption, said “With Bernie Sanders as our new face and AOC as our new rack we will have a hideous old face with a great rack and that’s a winning combination because when you have a great rack, no one looks at your face.”
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1223-stuck-in-the-story">WATCH: The Andrew Klavan Show</a></h3>
Sanders and AOC have been traveling the country staging what they call the “Rally in Favor of a Failed Economic System that has led to Enslavement and Mass Murder Wherever it’s Been Tried but For Some Reason we still Think Is Great.”
The rallies generally open with a ringing speech from Sanders who tells the crowd, “I happen to believe that billionaires should pay their fair share of utterly useless programs that nonetheless convince poor people to vote for us even as their states and cities descend into apocalyptic dysfunction because of those same programs. I happen to believe that socialism has worked really great, especially in Norway. And I happen to believe that what I happen to believe should happen to matter to every person who happens to care what an octogenarian Communist just happens to believe. And by the way, here’s AOC and, golly, will you look at the rack on that woman.”
When Sanders finishes his speech, he turns the microphone over to AOC who says, “I’ve come here today to say completely nonsensical things in a loud shrill voice full of make-believe sincerity. All across this country, I see people left behind by capitalism for no other reason than that they don’t work or contribute to society in any way. It isn’t fair. Well, okay, it actually is kind of fair, but it isn’t right. And even if it is right, I think there are enough total wastrels who feel entitled to a portion of the wealth created by other people that we might have enough votes to turn this country around. And hey, my eyes are up here. Why aren’t you looking in my eyes?”
So far the rallies have been filled with thousands of cheering people, most of them Republicans who feel they’ll never lose an election again.
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This excerpt is taken from the opening satirical monologue of “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Andrew Klavan Show</a>.”
The views expressed in this satirical article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Andrew Klavan is the host of “The Andrew Klavan Show” at The Daily Wire. Follow him on X: @andrewklavan
Klavan is the bestselling author of numerous books, including the Cameron Winter Mystery series. The fourth installment, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613165536?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_thcv_3&amp;storeType=ebooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Woman Underground.</a>” His most recent nonfiction release is “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Cain-Finding-Literature-Darkness/dp/0310368340/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=nMYjR&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_p=bc3ba8d1-5076-4ab7-9ba8-a5c6211e002d&amp;pf_rd_r=133-8344803-2786917&amp;pd_rd_wg=7a8J3&amp;pd_rd_r=5791ea0f-6d96-4732-9d6a-3a4e6b348bb5&amp;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness.</a>” (May 2025, Zondervan/HarperCollins).

Senate Holds Confirmation Hearings For HHS Secretary Nominee Robert Kennedy

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A promotional video featuring a handful of female Democrats taking fight stances — while theme music from the Super Smash Brothers video game plays in the background — got absolutely trashed by critics.
In the video, which was originally posted on TikTok by influencer Sulhee Jessica Woo, also featured several female Democratic House members along with their &#8220;stats&#8221; — each of whom was shown posturing or shadowboxing for several seconds.
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Our side will be in power forever if this is our opposition <a href="https://t.co/JnrKQhEchl">pic.twitter.com/JnrKQhEchl</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1897638214174687633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Woo superimposed angel wings on herself to kick off the video, listing her own stats as follows: &#8220;bento box queen; mommy of the century; sleep deprived.&#8221; Her post also included the hashtags, &#8220;#womenshistorymonth, #womenwhofight, #fighter, #savedemocracy, and #girlpower.&#8221;
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appeared next, along with her stats: &#8220;New York&#8217;s 14th Congressional District; youngest women + Latina to be elected to the House; Trekkie.&#8221;
Next came Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-IL), who was described as the &#8220;youngest black woman ever elected to Congress; cofounded the black maternal office,&#8221; and &#8220;hates balloons.&#8221;
The video went on to describe Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), the House Minority Whip, as being from Massachusetts&#8217; 5th Congressional District and noted that she was &#8220;not into hair dye.&#8221;
Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) was described as &#8220;too sweet,&#8221; and the post noted that she was the first Chinese-American woman elected to Congress.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) had the following stats listed: &#8220;Texas&#8217; 30th Congressional District; Public defender + attorney; not a morning person.&#8221;
The video concluded with Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV), who serves Nevada&#8217;s 3rd Congressional District, is &#8220;President of Communities in Schools of Nevada,&#8221; and apparently has &#8220;2 sprained fingers.&#8221;
Critics were not impressed with the attempt, however, and made it clear in their responses on X.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), for example, responded to the video with an application to clown college.
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<a href="https://t.co/184U1OTDF4">https://t.co/184U1OTDF4</a> <a href="https://t.co/80EXti6uWA">pic.twitter.com/80EXti6uWA</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1897678059399987620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Mark Hemingway added, &#8220;I literally wrote a piece this morning headlined, &#8216;Democrats’ Biggest Problem Right Now Is That They Are Out Of Touch And Uncool.&#8217; I rest my case.&#8221;
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I literally wrote a piece this morning headlined, &quot;Democrats’ Biggest Problem Right Now Is That They Are Out Of Touch And Uncool.&quot;
I rest my case. <a href="https://t.co/uCfdQ7pivt">https://t.co/uCfdQ7pivt</a> <a href="https://t.co/uE7vZtIFgU">https://t.co/uE7vZtIFgU</a>
&mdash; Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/1897657993308569949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Oh my goodness,&#8221; was all former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer could manage.
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oh my goodness <a href="https://t.co/ZoJcOGOQjy">https://t.co/ZoJcOGOQjy</a>
&mdash; Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanspicer/status/1897668867926700381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Why can’t they just be normal?&#8221; another asked.
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Why can’t they just be normal <a href="https://t.co/xau1OjkzwI">https://t.co/xau1OjkzwI</a>
&mdash; Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmmaJoNYC/status/1897678392855519352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is nuts. Dems are getting terrible political advice. As @elonmusk says, this is not rocket science. It’s politics 101 — and the Dems are failing,&#8221; Tom Bevan posted.
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This is nuts. Dems are getting terrible political advice. As <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> says, this is not rocket science. It’s politics 101 &#8211; and the Dems are failing. <a href="https://t.co/Z44zyEKdd7">https://t.co/Z44zyEKdd7</a>
&mdash; Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomBevanRCP/status/1897634363128291430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Democrats have ceased to be anything more than performative activism by unserious people,&#8221; Jim Hanson said.
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The Democrats have ceased to be anything more than performative activism by unserious people <a href="https://t.co/cgW74hjz3c">https://t.co/cgW74hjz3c</a>
&mdash; Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimHansonDC/status/1897628344901943343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This cannot possibly be real,&#8221; CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings posted.
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This cannot possibly be real <a href="https://t.co/fUVUDZv6eb">https://t.co/fUVUDZv6eb</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1897641672596492703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Choose your character? Lmao, just know if you choose any of these characters, you’re about to get your butt kicked. I’m just saying…&#8221; Shermichael Singleton said.
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Choose your character? Lmao, just know if you choose any of these characters, you’re about to get your butt kicked. I’m just saying… <a href="https://t.co/VBhgJxygL8">https://t.co/VBhgJxygL8</a>
&mdash; Shermichael Singleton (@MrShermichael) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrShermichael/status/1897660076254491073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Alright repeal the 19th,&#8221; Olivia Rondeau declared, referencing the Constitutional Amendment that gave women the right to vote.
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Alright repeal the 19th <a href="https://t.co/3f7hD37q4x">https://t.co/3f7hD37q4x</a>
&mdash; Olivia Rondeau 🇺🇸 (@rondeaulivia) <a href="https://twitter.com/rondeaulivia/status/1897670840461746216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is at a level of abject absurdity that always makes me think I must be missing something, that it can’t just be what it is. But sometimes a pipe is just a pipe,&#8221; David Marcus observed.
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This is at a level of abject absurdity that always makes me think I must be missing something, that it can’t just be what it is. But sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. <a href="https://t.co/GAskJD3Ni6">https://t.co/GAskJD3Ni6</a>
&mdash; David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueBoxDave/status/1897657551111516314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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119th Congress Begins Its Term On Capitol Hill

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed this week that Elon Musk, the CEO of multiple highly successful companies, was not a smart person.
AOC made the remarks in a video she posted on Instagram as Musk helps Trump eliminate wasteful government spending via the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
“This dude is probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed,” AOC said.
“They don’t do their homework, clearly, like, they’re putting 19-year-olds in at the treasury,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;This dude is not smart. And the danger in the lack of intelligence and the lack of expertise that Elon has &#8230; I mean, this guy is one of the most morally vacant, but also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we really know of.&#8221;
&#8220;But the point is that what that means is that they’re going to hit a button, inevitably, they are going to hit a button and things can go sideways,&#8221; she said.
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Imagine calling <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElonMusk</a> — the world’s richest man and a trailblazer in rockets, flamethrowers, and electric cars — &#8220;unintelligent.&#8221;
Meanwhile, what has <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> ever done but cosplay as a Soviet socialist?<a href="https://t.co/KKkFbnbUYV">pic.twitter.com/KKkFbnbUYV</a>
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1886796636799517095?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
AOC&#8217;s remarks come after Musk has repeatedly taunted and mocked her on social media.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s latest attack on Musk comes after she accused him of making a Nazi salute at an inaugural celebration event last month.
“I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind a presidential seal,” she <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rips-elon-090800264.html">said</a>. “In this country, we hate Nazis.”
“I like, you’re gonna do a Sieg Heil, you’re going to do a Heil Hitler … from behind the presidential seal of the United States of America?” she continued. “It’s on! It’s on!”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netanyahu-defends-musk-after-aoc-leftist-media-smear-him-as-a-nazi">Netanyahu Defends Musk After AOC, Leftist Media Smear Him As A Nazi</a>

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Elon Musk on Thursday after far-Left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and others smeared him as a Nazi for a gesture that he made during President Donald Trump&#8217;s inaugural celebrations earlier this week.
Musk made the gesture at the end of his remarks inside Capitol One Arena when he told the crowd, “Thank you. My heart goes out to you.”
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DO NOT BELIEVE THE MEDIA
The media is misleading you. Elon Musk never did a Nazi salute. Watch the full video: He simply gestured and said, “Thank you, my heart goes out to you.” <a href="https://t.co/e3vBaLoVqx">pic.twitter.com/e3vBaLoVqx</a>
— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) <a href="https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1881451556656345170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez made the accusation during remarks she made during an Instagram livestream.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t care what Elon Musk is doing behind a presidential seal,&#8221; she said. &#8220;In this country, we hate Nazis.&#8221;
&#8220;I like, you&#8217;re gonna do a Sieg Heil, you&#8217;re going to do a Heil Hitler &#8230; from behind the presidential seal of the United States of America?&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s on! It&#8217;s on!&#8221;
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Netanyahu responded to accusations by saying that Musk was &#8220;being falsely smeared.&#8221;
&#8220;Elon is a great friend of Israel,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust.&#8221;
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&#8220;He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I thank him for this.&#8221;
Even the left-wing Anti-Defamation League (ADL) defended Musk over the accusations.
&#8220;It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge,&#8221; they said. &#8220;In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.&#8221;
AOC fumed at the ADL&#8217;s statement: &#8220;Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.&#8221;
&#8220;People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now,&#8221; she said. &#8220;You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.&#8221;

President Biden Hosts Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu At White House

Netanyahu Defends Musk After AOC, Leftist Media Smear Him As A Nazi

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sunny-hostin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunny Hostin</a> claimed on Wednesday that self-described Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was not actually as &#8220;far-Left&#8221; as Republicans say — but the evidence she offered made the opposite of her intended point.
Hostin&#8217;s assessment comes just a day after Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-loses-bid-to-become-top-oversight-dem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost her bid</a> to be the ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee — the position went instead to Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who was reportedly backed by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
&#8220;The other thing that I will say is — about AOC — she has been demonized by the Right, and she&#8217;s been demonized as this, like, too progressive far-Left person,&#8221; Hostin complained. &#8220;And I want to set — try to set the record straight because if she is too progressive then the Democrats really are going to lose the working class.&#8221;
Hostin made no effort to explain the shift to the right — and toward President-elect Donald Trump in particular — among working class voters, insisting instead that the policies Ocasio-Cortez supported were proof that she was not &#8220;far-Left.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is her platform, the key issues: health care for all people, affordable housing, rebuild the unions, federal job guarantee, free public college, create clean energy jobs, paid parental leave, and expand protections for the LGBTQ+ community,&#8221; Hostin read.
WATCH:
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Alyssa Farah Griffin actually calls out how AOC&#39;s Green New Deal would be catastrophic for the economy and the lies about it creating jobs: &quot;International travel virtually impossible to do because of [airplane regulations].&quot; She notes Americans don&#39;t want government healthcare. <a href="https://t.co/NABxhfzzpk">pic.twitter.com/NABxhfzzpk</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1869416908354654608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back, explaining to Hostin that those policies were far to the left of what many Americans wanted from the federal government.
&#8220;The devil is in the details,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Because a lot of this country does not support, for example, the Green New Deal, which would absolutely crush jobs across this country, wreak havoc on the economy, it would actually make international travel virtually impossible to do because of some of the regulations that it&#8217;d put in place.&#8221;
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Hostin tried to object, claiming that the Green New Deal would create &#8220;millions&#8221; of new jobs, but Griffin kept going.
She went on to note that many Americans did not like the idea of universal health care either, mainly because it would take choice out of the equation: &#8220;I would argue that AOC is definitely too left for the majority of the country.&#8221;

Sunny Hostin Claims AOC Is Not ‘Far Left’ — And Then Lists The Far Left Policies She Supports

Sunny Hostin Claims AOC Is Not 'Far Left' — And Then Lists The Far Left Policies She Supports

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was mocked this week after claiming that the United States was about to enter a time of &#8220;fascism&#8221; after President-elect Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris.
&#8220;We are about to enter a political period that will have consequences for the rest of our lives. We cannot give up,&#8221; the leftist lawmaker said in a video <a href="https://www.instagram.com/teamaoc/reel/DCE_5V3Rhau/">posted</a> on social media.
&#8220;We now find ourselves in a time in history that has precedent and we find ourselves, I believe, in a time where there are, let&#8217;s say, peers in history of mass movements of people that mobilize to protect one another, in times of fascism and authoritarianism,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;And this is the era that we are poised to enter,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;Donald Trump has talked about turning the military on US citizens that he deems his domestic political enemies, authoritarians, and people that he affiliates closely with and strong men abroad.&#8221;
She fretted that Trump may &#8220;jail political dissidents or legislative opponents&#8221; in his upcoming term.
&#8220;This is the world that we very realistically may be entering,&#8221; she claimed.
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Media analyst Joe Concha <a href="https://x.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1854406732136526183">responded</a> to AOC&#8217;s rant: &#8220;AOC is one of the main reasons the Democratic Party is where it is right now. Take your cues from her or MSNBC or CNN and expect this result.&#8221;
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon <a href="https://x.com/SethDillon/status/1854413467588972937">responded</a>: &#8220;This is all they’ve got. Even after they lose because of it, they can’t help but double down.&#8221;
WATCH:
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AOC: &#8220;We are about to enter a period of fascism and authoritarianism&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/VDkyeB99zz">pic.twitter.com/VDkyeB99zz</a>
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1854398031107354859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/immigration-expert-shreds-ocasio-cortez-comparing-ryan-saavedra">compared</a> Trump to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler when she falsely claimed that Trump had set up &#8220;concentration camps&#8221; for illegal aliens that had entered the U.S.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-refuses-apologize-concentration-camp-ryan-saavedra">Ocasio-Cortez Refuses To Apologize For ‘Concentration Camp’ Remarks, Spreads New Lie </a>

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AOC Frets That ‘Fascist’ Trump May Throw Her In Jail

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed during an interview on Monday that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump&#8217;s rally in New York City over the weekend was a &#8220;hate rally&#8221; that was about &#8220;inciting violence&#8221; against minorities.
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks during an appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; while talking about the event at Madison Square Garden.
&#8220;This was a hate rally,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;This was not just a presidential rally. This was also not just a campaign rally. I think it&#8217;s very important for people to understand that these are mini January 6 rallies. These are mini &#8216;Stop The Steal&#8217; rallies.&#8221;
She claimed that the rally was meant to &#8220;prime an electorate&#8221; to reject the results of the election if Trump does not win.
&#8220;That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re doing when they are inciting violence and hatred against Latinos, against black Americans, against Americans who don&#8217;t have children,&#8221; she claimed.
She said that when looking at Trump&#8217;s rally over the weekend, Americans needed to &#8220;connect the dots&#8221; to the January 6 riot nearly a full four years ago.
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AOC also suggested that Trump was behind a manipulated video that was posted on social media showing someone ripping up ballots.
The FBI said Russia was behind the video, not a political campaign.
WATCH:
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NEW: MSNBC enlists AOC to desperately demagogue and propagandize the Trump MSG event:
&#8220;This was a HATE rally.&#8221;
“They are inciting violence and hatred against Latinos, against black Americans&#8230;the only reason that their rhetoric has gotten this far is precisely because they are… <a href="https://t.co/VHrIPp2gIS">pic.twitter.com/VHrIPp2gIS</a>
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1850874140611215639?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>

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AOC: Trump ‘Hate Rally’ Was About ‘Inciting Violence’ Against Latinos, Blacks, Childless Voters

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for more &#8220;media literacy&#8221; in a recent video posted to social media — but when she elaborated on the topic, it sounded as though what she was really calling for was censorship.
The congresswoman said that she had been in conversation with other members about the steps they might need to take to &#8220;rein in&#8221; media in order to prevent them from spreading &#8220;disinformation and misinformation.&#8221;
WATCH:
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AOC advocates for more censorship
“We&#39;re going to have to figure out how we reign in the media” <a href="https://t.co/ljKac1vdf7">pic.twitter.com/ljKac1vdf7</a>
&mdash; HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) <a href="https://twitter.com/HotSpotHotSpot/status/1837955814457262178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You know, I do think that — several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what happened here,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And we’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation &amp; misinformation.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s one thing to have differing opinions, but it’s another thing entirely to just say things that are false,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And so that&#8217;s something that we&#8217;re looking into.&#8221;
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Critics were quick to point out that there was no carveout for lying or &#8220;disinformation&#8221; in the First Amendment, meaning that the government had neither the responsibility — as Ocasio-Cortez suggested — nor the right to tell the people what they could and could not say.
One social media user noted the roots of the term &#8220;disinformation&#8221; in the Communist Soviet Union, arguing that what Ocasio-Cortez was pushing was simply a means for the government to control who could speak and what they could say.
&#8220;The term &#8216;dezinformatsiya&#8217; was coined by Josef Stalin in the 1920s as the name of the section of the KGB tasked with deceiving enemies and influencing public opinion. And here we have AOC telling us that &#8216;&#8230; you (the people) can&#8217;t just spew disinformation and misinformation. That&#8217;s something WE are looking into,'&#8221; the post read. &#8220;Who decides what is disinformation, AOC? Who decides what is false. If it is Government that decides, then maybe, just maybe, government will use this to stop dissent, stop debate, and keep control. (A bit like Stalin&#8230;) In the past, when government controlled the media, it did not end well.&#8221;
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The term &quot;dezinformatsiya&quot; was coined by Josef Stalin in the 1920s as the name of the section of the KGB tasked with deceiving enemies and influencing public opinion.
And here we have AOC telling us that &quot;.. you (the people) can&#39;t just spew disinformation and misinformation.… <a href="https://t.co/DorcmB72Df">https://t.co/DorcmB72Df</a>
&mdash; RefugeOfSinners (ROS) (@RefugeOfSinner5) <a href="https://twitter.com/RefugeOfSinner5/status/1838168404865478932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If they control what you&#8217;re allowed to say, they control what you&#8217;re allowed to think. Authoritarians like @AOC also think they&#8217;re the only ones who can discern truth from falsehood,&#8221; another added.
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If they control what you&#39;re allowed to say, they control what you&#39;re allowed to think.
Authoritarians like <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> also think they&#39;re the only ones who can discern truth from falsehood. <a href="https://t.co/Htp69n9P2M">https://t.co/Htp69n9P2M</a>
&mdash; Phineas Fahrquar (@irishspy) <a href="https://twitter.com/irishspy/status/1838005527852560591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sept 12

AOC Calls For More ‘Media Literacy,’ But It Sounds A Lot Like Censorship

AOC Calls For More 'Media Literacy,' But It Sounds A Lot Like Censorship

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) began yelling during her speech at the DNC on Monday as she seethed at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“We know Trump would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his own pockets and greasing palms of his Wall Street friends,” she claimed. “And I, for one, am tired of hearing about how a two-bit union buster thinks of himself as more of a patriot than the woman who fights every single day to lift working people out from under the boots of greed trampling on our way of life.”
Many people on social media were quick to point out that Ocasio-Cortez, who claims she is a fighter for the working class, was the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-yorkers-stung-by-amazon-loss-amid-pandemic-rip-aoc-do-something-positive-with-your-big-mouth">primary reason</a> that Amazon decided to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-blew-it-amazon-reportedly-looking-headquarters-hank-berrien">cancel</a> its plans to build a massive headquarters in New York City that would have brought tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars a year in revenue.
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Senior Trump campaign official Tim Murtaugh responded to the clip of AOC on X: &#8220;Oh yes, you can see how she’s always filled with joy. Watching AOC with the sound off is the best. She looks furious all the time.&#8221;
WATCH:
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AOC: &#8220;Trump would sell this country for a dollar to line his own pockets.&#8221;
Biden: *&#8221;defrauded the United States to enrich his family&#8221; according to the <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseGOP</a> report released this morning* <a href="https://t.co/oK7CZBw5Kt">pic.twitter.com/oK7CZBw5Kt</a>
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1825716004649132235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
AOC&#8217;s remarks came on the same day that the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House Ways and Means Committee released a joint report that concluded there was “overwhelming evidence” that President Joe Biden took part in his family’s foreign business dealings by using his public office “to enrich his family.”
The report further alleged that the Biden family and its associates were paid more than $27 million by foreign individuals or entities since 2014.
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“As Vice President, President Biden actively participated in his conspiracy by, among other things, attending dinners with his family’s foreign business partners and speaking to them by phone, often when being placed on speakerphone by Hunter Biden,” the report states.
It adds, “Foreign money was transmitted to the Biden family through complicated financial transactions. The Biden family laundered funds through intermediate entities and broke up large transactions into numerous smaller transactions.” House Republicans state in their report that in 2014, then-Vice President Biden attended a dinner with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina. Following the dinner, Baturina wired $3.5 million to Hunter Biden’s firm, Rosemont Seneca Thornton.

AOC Rages At Trump During DNC: ‘Looks Furious All The Time’

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Even by the nonexistent standards of America&#8217;s bloated and now-leaderless federal bureaucracy, it&#8217;s hard to believe that former Pepsi executive Kimberly Cheatle held onto her job for as long as she did. Cheatle is the director of the Secret Service, the agency that allowed a 20-year-old assassin to shoot the leading presidential candidate in the head just ten days ago. Or she was the director. It was just announced this morning that she is resigning from her position, finally.
It took a while, despite the fact that both parties, and Cheatle herself, readily admit that the best-case scenario here is that the Secret Service displayed stratospheric levels of incompetence — ineptitude so profound that it very nearly changed the course of world history. And yet Cheatle remained in office. In fact, Cheatle&#8217;s boss at D.H.S. said he has &#8220;100 percent&#8221; confidence in her. On top of that, Cheatle hasn&#8217;t fired or even disciplined a single employee of the Secret Service.
At a minimum, we are witnessing a staggering level of bureaucratic dysfunction. And after Cheatle&#8217;s testimony yesterday at the House oversight committee, there&#8217;s reason to think we&#8217;re seeing something even more sinister than that. Cheatle should resign. She should have resigned the day after Trump was nearly killed. But the way that she resigned, and the timing, only lends more credence to the idea that there’s a cover up going on. I’ll explain why.
Let’s begin with what happened on capitol hill yesterday. Throughout several hours of testimony, Cheatle acted more like a criminal with something to hide than the head of a government agency who has a legal duty to comply with a congressional subpoena. Cheatle refused to answer even basic questions about the attempt on Donald Trump&#8217;s life in Butler, Pennsylvania. These are questions that any competent investigator would have been able to answer within 24 hours of the shooting. These are questions that, in some cases, Cheatle said she knew the answer to — but she still refused to provide an answer to the committee. Again and again, Cheatle stonewalled. It was almost as if she wanted to avoid providing any information that could possibly be contradicted later, if the official narrative should have to change. Short of outright admitting that the assassination attempt was an inside job, Kimberly Cheatle could not possibly have done more to validate the so-called &#8220;conspiracy theories&#8221; surrounding what happened in Butler.
If the DOJ cared even slightly about the appearance of fairness and impartial justice, they&#8217;d immediately charge Kimberly Cheatle with evading her subpoena. Steve Bannon&#8217;s in jail for supposedly failing to comply with a subpoena, after all. And that&#8217;s precisely what Kimberly Cheatle did yesterday. We know that because she admitted it. Listen to this exchange between Cheatle and congresswoman Lisa McClain of Michigan. First, McClain gets Cheatle to acknowledge that she&#8217;s spoken to the FBI about their investigation into the assassination. Then the congresswoman asks Cheatle whether the FBI has determined how many shell casings were found on the roof, next to the shooter&#8217;s dead body. Watch:
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This is one of the most basic questions of the entire investigation. It should have been disclosed to the public in a press conference within a day of the shooting: How many shell casings were on the roof with the shooter? There&#8217;s no conceivable, legitimate reason why the government would want to hide this information. But here we are, nine days later, and the head of the Secret Service won&#8217;t tell us. She admits she knows the truth. But she&#8217;s defying a congressional subpoena and refusing to talk about it anyway.
The number of shell casings on the roof is a critical piece of information. It would obviously give us insight into how many times the shooter fired from that particular rooftop. If the number of shell casings doesn&#8217;t match the number of shots we can hear from footage of the rally, then there&#8217;s a major problem with the official narrative. It could mean that the crime scene was tampered with. Or it could mean that there was more than one shooter, beyond the one who&#8217;s already been identified.
If those possibilities sound outlandish, take a look at Cheatle&#8217;s response to this question from congressman Andy Biggs. He asks her point-blank whether the shooter was acting alone. Watch:
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Again, this should not be a difficult question to answer. She could say, &#8220;Yes, it seems he was acting alone.&#8221; Or she could say &#8220;We think he had help.&#8221; Or she could say she&#8217;s genuinely not sure at this point. Instead, she refuses to provide any kind of answer whatsoever. She says she has no information she can provide, and that the congressman should talk to the FBI. And of course, the FBI won&#8217;t answer the question either. This is the kind of bureaucratic runaround you&#8217;d expect to get when you try to cancel your phone plan. And it&#8217;s how the federal government is handling the investigation into the most serious attempt on the life of a presidential candidate (and former president) in decades.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1407-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
Again, it&#8217;s hard to conceive of any innocent reason why she would decline to answer these questions if the answers line up with the official narrative. It shouldn&#8217;t take anywhere near this long to have some answers to these questions, even if those answers are tentative. Think of how quickly the police charged Jennifer and James Crumbley with involuntary manslaughter. Those were the parents who allowed their son to access their handgun, which he then used to commit a school shooting. They were charged in less than a week. Why haven&#8217;t police charged the parents who allowed the Trump assassin to access their rifle? Have the authorities been looking at anyone else to charge who might have helped him? Why don&#8217;t we have any answers to any of these questions?
Right now, we&#8217;re learning more from investigators on social media than we are from the Secret Service. Yesterday, for example, the &#8220;Oversight Project&#8221; — part of the Heritage Foundation — took a look at databases of mobile advertising data. They <a href="https://x.com/OversightPR/status/1815446057829974267">found</a> that: &#8220;Someone who regularly visited [the shooters&#8217;] home and work also visited a building in Washington, DC located in Gallery Place. This is in the same vicinity of an @FBI office on June 26, 2023.&#8221;
Who is that person who links the shooter&#8217;s home to an area in Washington, D.C. near a mall and an FBI field office? We have no idea. It could be nothing. It could be significant. But the more the Secret Service stonewalls on basic questions, the more people are entitled to come up with their own theories and conduct their own investigation. That piece of reporting from the Heritage Foundation — whether it pans out or not — is more believable than anything Kimberly Cheatle said yesterday. She spent 95% of the time dodging every question she was asked.
In fact, at several points, Cheatle simply lied under oath. She didn&#8217;t just filibuster, or give the typical bureaucratic runaround. She actually lied. For example, here&#8217;s her answer when she was asked about the Secret Service&#8217;s DEI hiring policies. Watch:
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&#8220;Everyone who moves through the application process has to meet the same standards to become a special agent.&#8221; That&#8217;s what the Secret Service director said under oath.
It&#8217;s not remotely true. Anyone with Google can verify that it&#8217;s not true. Female trainees in the Secret Service have drastically lower fitness <a href="https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1812504684571099618" target="_blank" rel="noopener">standards</a> than male trainees. For example, the Secret Service considers it &#8220;excellent&#8221; if a 29 year-old male applicant can complete 55 or more pushups. They&#8217;ll get maximum points on their fitness test, which is critical for getting the job. But a 29-year-old female applicant receives the same &#8220;excellent&#8221; score if she can complete just 40 pushups. The cut-off for a &#8220;good&#8221; score for a 29-year-old male is 46 pushups, while a woman can achieve a &#8220;Good score&#8221; with just 26 pushups.
In other words, the director of the Secret Service lied under oath. There&#8217;s no conceivable way that she&#8217;s not aware of her agency&#8217;s hiring standards. To the extent Kimberly Cheatle has done anything during her tenure, she&#8217;s been pushing DEI hiring. She stated publicly that she wants 30 percent of the agency to be female. And she understands that one way to achieve that result is to have lower standards for women. But when she&#8217;s asked about this under oath, she just denies it outright. She knows no one&#8217;s going to come after her for perjury.
I could go through the rest of Cheatle&#8217;s testimony, which isn&#8217;t any better than what I&#8217;ve shown you. At one point, Cheatle admits that she still hasn&#8217;t even visited the shooting site in Butler. That&#8217;s how little she cares. She also refused to explain why no one was guarding the roof where the shooter was positioned — saying only that there was some kind of &#8220;overwatch&#8221; on the roof, which clearly didn&#8217;t work. Cheatle also admitted that somehow she doesn&#8217;t have a timeline of events from that day. This was one of the moments during her testimony when people in the room burst out laughing at how absurd it was. Watch:
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&#8220;I have a timeline that does not have specifics.&#8221; So she just showed up and winged it basically. It&#8217;s like watching an actor who was told to play the head of the Secret Service for a day. If you found some random woman off the street, and told her to stonewall Congress about the assassination attempt, how would the results be any different than this?
Separately, Cheatle said she didn&#8217;t sign off on the security plan for the event because she doesn&#8217;t sign off for the security plans at any events. When asked for the name of the person who did sign off on the security plan for the Butler rally, she wouldn&#8217;t say. In fact, she implied that many people sign off on these plans, so no single person can be blamed. It&#8217;s a classic bureaucratic coverup. Cheatle also refused to talk about all the times that the Secret Service turned down the Trump campaign&#8217;s requests for additional security. And on and on.
But there&#8217;s one more clip that is very important to see. It&#8217;s AOC going after Kimberly Cheatle. Online, a lot of people on the Right are praising AOC for this performance. But along with Mike Cernovich, I think it reveals something a lot more troubling than it appears. Watch:
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AOC wasn&#8217;t the only Democrat to rip into Cheatle like this. Several Democrats did the same thing. And there&#8217;s two possible interpretations for that. One is that the security failures were so bad that Democrats are putting aside politics for the first time in modern history. They&#8217;re just as outraged as Trump supporters. 
The other interpretation, however, is that whenever AOC agrees with the entire Republican caucus, we should take a step back and think about what&#8217;s going on. Maybe Kimberly Cheatle was sent out there to testify in order to serve as a sacrificial lamb. Maybe the point of this hearing was for both Democrats and Republicans to beat her up like a piñata. And then, when she inevitably resigns, members of both parties will feel like justice has been done. The problem has been solved. A replaceable cog in the bureaucratic machine has been removed. The implication would be: No need to look higher. No need to investigate any other connections this shooter may have had with the government. The problem is taken care of. And that seems to be exactly what happened. They knew they were going to force her resignation. But they had her testify to congress first. That way she could stonewall, absorb all the blame, and then leave. Now they can put someone else in charge of the agency who will not have to answer any questions at all. 
That can&#8217;t be the end of it, though. For lack of a better word, these are very strange times right now in this country. It&#8217;s not even clear who&#8217;s running the federal government. We don&#8217;t know who has the authority to fire Kimberly Cheatle. The president of the United States is technically her boss. But he hasn&#8217;t been seen in public for several days. He allegedly just phoned into a rally for Kamala Harris, but no one could see his face. After weeks of insisting he&#8217;s not dropping out of the race, now he&#8217;s suddenly issuing full-throated endorsements for his running mate. Meanwhile the president&#8217;s brother is suggesting Biden doesn&#8217;t have long to live. And the press is pretending this is all completely normal.
But none of this is normal. We still don&#8217;t understand what just happened to Joe Biden. And from Kimberly Cheatle&#8217;s testimony, it looks like we may never know what happened in Butler, either. At the very least, the government won&#8217;t tell us. It&#8217;s hard to think of a stronger argument for completely dismantling the federal government bureaucracy if and when Donald Trump gets back into office. Even assuming they&#8217;re not actively trying to sabotage this country — which is quite an assumption at this point — then at the very least, these bureaucrats so incompetent that they&#8217;re destroying any faith that Americans have in the proper functioning of their government. 
Mediocre men and women like Kimberly Cheatle are leading pretty much every federal agency in this country. And just like Joe Biden, these bureaucrats can&#8217;t be reasoned with. They can&#8217;t be shamed. They won&#8217;t go anywhere unless they&#8217;re forced to.

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