On Sunday, it was learned by <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/03/nearly-900-city-inmates-may-be-freed-even-before-bail-reform-law-takes-effect/">The New York Post</a> that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, has plans to release nearly 900 inmates before the new year, days before a new bail-reform law takes effect.
But the criminals don&#8217;t just get early release; New York City mayor and failed 2020 presidential candidate Bill de Blasio is sweetening the deal, the Post reported, by giving the convicts free Mets tickets, gift cards, and movie passes to entice them into showing up for their court dates.
“You’re literally rewarding them for committing a crime,’’ a senior staffer in Manhattan Criminal Court told the New York outlet.
And it gets better. De Blasio has admitted that he&#8217;s not even sure how much the program will cost, or where the funds will come from to fund Convict Day in Citi Field Stadium.
&#8220;Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted Wednesday he has no idea how much his administration is spending on tickets to movies and Mets games used to entice accused criminals into returning for their mandated court appearances — three days after The Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/03/nearly-900-city-inmates-may-be-freed-even-before-bail-reform-law-takes-effect/">revealed the program’s existence</a>,&#8221; the Post reported Wednesday.
“I’m not aware of the specifics of the budgeting and how it works and where the funds come from,” the mayor said during a press conference.
The program is reportedly run by de Blasio&#8217;s &#8220;Office of Criminal Justice in conjunction with the not-for-profit Criminal Justice Agency,&#8221; the Post noted.
“In a world where want speedier trials, if small incentives are part of what actually makes it work then that’s a smart policy,” de Blasio argued.
Think the deal can&#8217;t get any sweeter for the law-abiding citizens of NY? Think again. The criminals who would potentially receive early release and score sweet Mets tickets have committed violent crimes, including homicide, according to the Post:
<blockquote>&#8220;The more than 400 offenses include such heinous acts as criminally negligent homicide, aggravated assault on a child under 11 and selling drugs on or near school grounds, according to a memo being circulated by prosecutors across the state and obtained by The Post.&#8221;</blockquote>
Trump reacted to the expected release of the criminals on Tuesday, writing via Twitter: &#8220;So sad to see what is happening in New York where Governor Cuomo &amp; Mayor DeBlasio are letting out 900 Criminals, some hardened &amp; bad, onto the sidewalks of our rapidly declining, because of them, city. The Radical Left Dems are killing our cities. NYPD Commissioner is resigning!&#8221;
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So sad to see what is happening in New York where Governor Cuomo &amp; Mayor DeBlasio are letting out 900 Criminals, some hardened &amp; bad, onto the sidewalks of our rapidly declining, because of them, city. The Radical Left Dems are killing our cities. NYPD Commissioner is resigning!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191718159583240192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The New York City mayor was once a 2020 hopeful, but his dismal polling triggered him to drop out of the race in September.
“Getting out there, being able to hear people’s concerns, address them with new ideas, has been an extraordinary experience,” de Blasio said at the time, as noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-mocks-de-blasios-exit-presidential-race-nyc-ashe-schow">The Daily Wire</a>. “But I have to tell you, at the same time, I feel like I’ve contributed all I can to this primary election and it’s clearly not my time so I’m going to end my presidential campaign.”
Trump was quick to mock the short-lived run, tweeting:
<blockquote>“Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio">@BilldeBlasio</a>, who was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth, has shocking [sic] dropped out of the Presidential race. NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!”</blockquote>
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Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BilldeBlasio</a>, who was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth, has shocking dropped out of the Presidential race. NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1175017370139729926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CRIMINALS FIRST: De Blasio Giving Away 900 Mets Tickets To Convicts. Seriously.

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Last week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio mocked President Trump after he announced he would leave New York and make Florida the state of his permanent residence. Cuomo <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1190059166129426432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1190059166129426432&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fandrew-cuomo-snaps-good-riddance-at-trump-leaving-ny-don-jr-levels-">tweeted,</a>&#8221; Good riddance. It’s not like <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> paid taxes here anyway&#8230; He’s all yours, Florida.” De Blasio <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1190118081181487104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1190118081181487104&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2019%2F11%2Fhateful-idiots-nyc-mayor-de-blasio-and-ny-governor-cuomo-">echoed</a>, “Our deepest condolences to the good people of Florida as Trump attempts to outrun his past (and near future).”
What Cuomo and de Blasio ignore are these salient facts: more people reportedly leave New York City daily than any other city in the nation, and according to the U.S. Census Bureau, between July 2017 and July 2018, New York state lost 48,560 people, the biggest plunge in the U.S. The <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/why-more-people-are-leaving-new-york-than-any-other-state/">New York Post</a> added, “In 2017, roughly 131 people left the metropolitan area each day, compared with 43 in 2014.”
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-29/new-york-city-metro-area-exodus-soars-to-277-people-every-day">Bloomberg News</a> wrote in August that according to 2018 Census data, “Scores of people are leaving the New York City area behind every day. New York leads all U.S. metro areas as the largest net loser with 277 people moving every day — more than double the exodus of 132 just one year ago.” Bloomberg added, “Seven cities had on average more than 100 new arrivals every day. Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Austin.”
<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/09/05/new-yorkers-are-leaving-the-city-in-droves-heres-why-theyre-moving-and-where-theyre-going/#455da51a41ac">Forbes</a> noted in September 2019:
<blockquote>The costly living expenses, crumbling infrastructure and high tax rates are a big problem for residents. If you live in NYC, you are forced to pay exorbitant taxes. The schools, bridges, tunnels, trains, airports and hospitals are falling apart. Casually walk the streets of NYC and you’ll notice that they are crowded and dirty … The politicians don&#8217;t seem to care. Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, was out of the state—busy with his Don Quixote quest for the presidency of the United States—while New York suffered a major blackout.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/3-reasons-so-many-people-are-getting-the-hell-out-of-the-northeast-2018-10-20">Marketwatch</a> reported in January 2019, “<a href="https://www.gobankingrates.com/retirement/survey-reveals-americans-biggest-money-fears-2017/">Data released by personal finance site GoBankingRates.com</a> reveals that the No. 1 financial fear of people who live in the Northeast is that they will live in debt forever; the Northeast is the only region of the country ranking this factor as No. 1.”
As Kristin Tate wrote in <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/442210-moving-from-new-york-to-florida-saves-much-more-than-just-taxes">The Hill </a>in May 2019 of a fictional character considering whether to move to Florida from New York, his “$100,000 salary would go much further outside the Empire State. After inflation and relative costs, that amount would be equivalent to only $87,000. In Florida, the same $100,000 is worth roughly $101,000. Tally up the totals and it is easy to understand why so many people flee New York for Florida, especially as they enter peak earning years and think about retirement.”
Trump wrote on Twitter, “I cherish New York, and the people of New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned.”

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NY Dems Mock Trump For Leaving. Data Shows Trump Is Far From Alone.

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President Donald Trump slammed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio – both Democrats – on Friday after they lashed out at him for his decision to leave New York and make Florida his permanent residence after his time in the White House is done.
&#8220;I love New York, but New York can never be great again under the current leadership of Governor Andrew Cuomo (the brother of Fredo), or Mayor Bill DeBlasio,&#8221; Trump tweeted. &#8220;Cuomo has weaponized the prosecutors to do his dirty work (and to keep him out of jams), a reason some don’t want to be in New York, and another reason they are leaving. Taxes and energy costs are way too high, Upstate is being allowed to die as other nearby states frack &amp; drill for Gold (oil) while reducing taxes &amp; creating jobs by the thousands.&#8221;
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&#8230;.in New York, and another reason they are leaving. Taxes and energy costs are way too high, Upstate is being allowed to die as other nearby states frack &amp; drill for Gold (oil) while reducing taxes &amp; creating jobs by the thousands. NYC is getting dirty &amp; unsafe again, as&#8230;.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190375830247104513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;NYC is getting dirty &amp; unsafe again, as our great police are being disrespected, even with water dumped on them, because a Mayor and Governor just don’t ‘have their backs.’ New York’s Finest must be cherished, respected and loved,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Too many prople are leaving our special New York. Great leaders would work with a President and Federal Government that wants our wonerful City and State to flourish and thrive. I Love New York!&#8221;
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&#8230;..with a President and Federal Government that wants our wonerful City and State to flourish and thrive. I Love New York!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190375834529468423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
The president&#8217;s remarks came after Cuomo and de Blasio <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-leaves-new-york-for-florida-de-blasio-and-cuomo-mock">attacked</a> him for moving out of the state.
&#8220;Don’t let the door hit you on the way out or whatever,&#8221; de Blasio tweeted. &#8220;Our deepest condolences to the good people of Florida as Trump attempts to outrun his past (and near future).&#8221;
&#8220;Good riddance,&#8221; Cuomo tweeted. &#8220;It’s not like <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" data-mentioned-user-id="25073877" data-scribe="element:mention">@realDonaldTrump</a> paid taxes here anyway&#8230; He’s all yours, Florida.&#8221;
CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/01/why-president-trumps-move-from-new-york-to-florida-could-hit-a-wall.html">noted</a> the tax benefits that come with living in Florida versus living in New York:
<blockquote>The warm weather isn’t the only reason why someone would want to leave New York for the Sunshine State.
Florida doesn’t tax personal income, and it has no estate or inheritance tax.
In New York, the top state income tax rate is 8.82%. Residents of New York City also face top rate of 3.8% on income.</blockquote>
The remarks from the New York Democrats came after Trump tweeted on Thursday: &#8220;1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House, is the place I have come to love and will stay for, hopefully, another 5 years as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, but my family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence. I cherish New York, and the people of New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse.&#8221;
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&#8230;.New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make&#8230;.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190079192358105088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
Trump added, &#8220;I hated having to make this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!&#8221;
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&#8230;.this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190079193582899200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>

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Trump Punches Back At ‘The Brother Of Fredo’ And De Blasio Over Leaving New York

The New York Post has done it again. The paper best-known for its hilarious front-page headlines (the most famous of which being “Headless Body in Topless Bar”) published an “obituary” to commemorate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s exit from the Democratic primary.
“Obituary: Bill de Blasio’s presidential campaign, May 15, 2019-Sept. 20, 2019, dead of ego-induced psychosis,” the fake obituary reads. It continues:
<blockquote>Neighbors said the body had been in rigor mortis for some time.
It died doing what it loves best – being as far away from New York City as possible.
It was surrounded in the end by friends, MSNBC hosts. It’s in a better place now – a Park Slope gym.
Whether it was in the empty churches of South Carolina, the sun-kissed empty deserts of Nevada or begging someone, anyone, to talk to de Blasio at the Iowa State Fair, the campaign always gave 100% &#8211; and always polled at 1%.
“Can’t” was never part of its vocabulary. Neither was “won’t,” “please stop,” or “this is a dumb idea.”
The campaign is survived by hotel industry officials who expect favors from City Hall. And 8 million suffering New Yorkers.
In lieu of flowers, de Blasio asks for donations to his slush fund.</blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">“In lieu of flowers, de Blasio asks for donations to his slush fund.” <a href="https://t.co/RNoreC4A5o">pic.twitter.com/RNoreC4A5o</a>
— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) <a href="https://twitter.com/harrysiegel/status/1175376107564126208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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De Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/52020/trump-mocks-de-blasios-exit-presidential-race-nyc-ashe-schow">announced</a> he was abandoning his bid for the Democratic nomination Friday Morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“Getting out there, being able to hear people’s concerns, address them with new ideas, has been an extraordinary experience,” de Blasio told the hosts. “But I have to tell you, at the same time, I feel like I’ve contributed all I can to this primary election and it&#8217;s clearly not my time so I&#8217;m going to end my presidential campaign.”
De Blasio consistently polled below 1%. His final polling average, according to RealClear Politics, was 0.2%, above only Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam, The Daily Wire previously reported.
The Post “obituary” highlights some of the lowlights of de Blasio’s campaign. De Blasio has been regularly criticized for decrying climate change while taking SUVs across town nearly every day so that he can use a Park Slope gym. As for the hotel-industry favors, a state watchdog agency revealed the day before de Blasio exited the race that three developers settled after being accused of making illegal gifts to de Blasio. The City <a href="https://thecity.nyc/2019/09/state-fines-developers-for-their-gifts-to-mayor-de-blasio.html">reported</a> that the developers wrote “five-figure checks to his now-defunct charity, the Campaign for One New York.”
De Blasio also agreed to require hotel developers to seek a special permit after a major industry union announced its support for his presidential campaign, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-de-blasio-hotel-development-special-permit-htc-trades-council-20190826-65pehba2pnagddulbup7tjwjam-story.html">reported</a> the New York Daily News.
De Blasio’s campaign may be over, but investigations into his campaign finances are not. Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2019/09/20/fec-finds-fault-with-de-blasios-campaign-finances-1203806">reported</a> Friday that the campaign received a letter from the Federal Election Commission detailing issues with his fundraising practices:
<blockquote>In a July public filing, the de Blasio camp noted a $52,852 debt owed to the NY Fairness PAC, a state political action committee controlled by the mayor. The campaign had argued that this was a permissible loan from one organization to another. But the FEC&#8217;s senior campaign finance analyst, Robin Kelly, wrote this week that the practice is not allowed by campaign finance rules.
Such transfers are capped at $5,000 per election cycle, Kelly&#8217;s letter said, meaning the campaign took more than ten times the permissible amount from the state PAC and spent it on travel and advertising. Kelly mandated that the campaign refile an amended report by late October that corrects the transfer, and noted that an audit of the campaign may follow.
The campaign repaid the loan Thursday, the day it received the FEC’s letter, spokesperson Jaclyn Rothenberg said.</blockquote>
Politico further reported that “donors who had already given the max to de Blasio&#8217;s presidential campaign were also donating to both of his PACs. And PAC money was being shifted back into the presidential warchest.”

Bill De Blasio

New York Post Publishes Hilarious Obituary For Mayor De Blasio’s Campaign

New York Post

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Friday morning, prompting a mocking tweet from President Donald Trump.
De Blasio, 58, announced he was exiting the race during an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
&#8220;Getting out there, being able to hear people&#8217;s concerns, address them with new ideas, has been an extraordinary experience,&#8221; de Blasio said. &#8220;But I have to tell you, at the same time, I feel like I&#8217;ve contributed all I can to this primary election and it&#8217;s clearly not my time so I&#8217;m going to end my presidential campaign.&#8221;
In response to de Blasio’s announcement, Trump trolled the former candidate on Twitter.
“Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio">@BilldeBlasio</a>, who was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth, has shocking [sic] dropped out of the Presidential race. NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!” Trump tweeted.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Oh no, really big political news, perhaps the biggest story in years! Part time Mayor of New York City, <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BilldeBlasio</a>, who was polling at a solid ZERO but had tremendous room for growth, has shocking dropped out of the Presidential race. NYC is devastated, he’s coming home!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1175017370139729926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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De Blasio had, in fact, failed to poll above 0%. He is currently hovering around 0.2% on the RealClear Politics <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">polling average</a>. That’s down from his peak polling average from June, where he reached 1%.
The only person on the RealClear polling average below de Blasio was Miramar, Florida, Mayor Wayne Messam, who is polling at absolute zero. A Siena College <a href="https://scri.siena.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SNY0919-Crosstabs-091719.pdf">poll</a> from earlier this week put de Blasio below 1%, meaning even people in his home state of New York didn’t want him to be president.
De Blasio announced he was running for president back in May, highlighting the progressive policies of New York City such as the city’s minimum wage of $15 per hour.
&#8220;As president, I will take on the wealthy, I will take on the big corporations, I will not rest until this government serves working people,&#8221; de Blasio said in his announcement video. &#8220;As mayor of the largest city in America, I&#8217;ve done just that.&#8221;
De Blasio announced he was running for president even though an “overwhelming majority of the mayor&#8217;s constituents said last month that they did not want to see him join the 2020 field,” USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/15/new-york-city-mayor-bill-de-blasio-announce-2020-presidential-bid-thursday/3687622002/">reported</a> at the time. A Quinnipiac poll published in April found that 76% of voters in New York City did not want the mayor to run for president.
De Blasio struggled to appear radically progressive in a field of radically progressive candidates. He chastised former Rep. Beto O’Rourke during a debate for suggesting Medicare and private health insurance could coexist.
“Private insurance is not working for tens of millions of Americans when you talk about the co-pays,” de Blasio said. “The premiums, the out of pocket expenses, it’s not working.”
This assertion didn’t set him apart from top-tier candidates like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) who support a “Medicare for All” health insurance solution. The plan would increase taxes on middle-class Americans, something Warren <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/20/taxes-are-the-least-of-elizabeth-warrens-medicare-for-all-problems.html">has avoided discussing</a> in recent weeks. She has been so elusive on the subject that left-wing late-night host Stephen Colbert actually <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/09/18/stephen-colbert-grills-elizabeth-warren-on-middle-class-tax-hikes/">gave her campaign advice</a> on how to handle the issue.

Bill DeBlasio

Trump Mocks De Blasio’s Exit From Presidential Race: ‘NYC Is Devastated, He’s Coming Home!’

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On Thursday, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, who frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">Jewish politics</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43388/hammer-anti-semites-ilhan-omar-and-rashida-tlaib-josh-hammer">anti-Semitism</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50850/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">Israel</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9hH2jloilc">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1170063071752151041">astonishing</a> rise in <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/430477/no-one-cares-about-attacks-against-the-orthodox-because-youve-been/">violent anti-Semitic incidents</a> in New York City in the year 2019.
Over this past week, there have been <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/beating-of-jewish-man-in-brooklyn-is-fourth-anti-semitic-attack-in-one-week">four violent anti-Semitic assaults</a> in Brooklyn, New York. Wheeler and Hammer discussed why it is the case that anti-Semitic violence may be on the rise and, just as importantly, why political leaders — which, in New York City, are nearly exclusively Democrats — seem to barely be paying attention to the harrowing phenomenon.
Wheeler began by pointing out how &#8220;Democrats, on the campaign trail, constantly condemn hatred and bigotry and violence of any kind — and yet, when this [violence] is in their own district and it&#8217;s anti-Semitism that motivates the violence, we hear nothing from them.&#8221;
Hammer responded by pointing out just how dangerous the current phenomenon is, and also stressed how it is imperative that, no matter one&#8217;s personal politics, <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/columnist/294171/why-downplay-hate-crimes-against-jews/">all forms of anti-Semitism</a> must be treated extremely seriously. Hammer singled out feckless Democratic Party leadership for harboring and nurturing toxic anti-Zionism, but also bluntly stated that anyone not treating all forms of anti-Semitism seriously should &#8220;shut up and re-evaluate his priorities,&#8221; Hammer warned:
<blockquote>The Central Council of [Jews] in Germany actually [recently] <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/26/europe/germany-antisemitism-kippah-intl-scli-ger/index.html">advised German Jews to not wear kippahs in public</a> — they literally said you should wear baseball caps for fear of not getting violently assaulted by Syrian refugees. But I didn&#8217;t think we would get to the point where this might be a concern in New York City. New York City has the largest Jewish population of literally any metropolitan area in the world — the entire Jewish population in the broader New York area is almost that of the entire nation of Israel. It is that big. And we&#8217;re getting to the point where it&#8217;s becoming dangerous to literally wear a kippah, tzitzit, or any kind of public demonstration you are Jewish in the city with the world&#8217;s largest Jewish population.
I don&#8217;t know how we got here, but here&#8217;s what we have to do. There are three main types of anti-Semitism in this world. There is far-right, neo-Nazi white nationalist anti-Semitism; there is Islamist, radical Muslim anti-Semitism, and there&#8217;s anti-Zionist anti-Semitism. Anyone who is not taking all three strands seriously should shut up and re-evaluate his priorities, because all three need to be seriously dealt with and combatted. &#8230; Right now, the alt-right, far-right white nationalist strand is the most violent — that&#8217;s what happened in Pittsburgh and at the Chabad of Poway in California, but it is the anti-Zionist strand that is the most pernicious because it is not being quashed. It is not being eliminated, and is only festered and encouraged by the Democratic Party and leftist elites.</blockquote>
Wheeler followed up, asking Hammer whether the reason Democratic politicians are not condemning the rising anti-Semitic violence in Brooklyn is because, were they to do so, they would also have to condemn the anti-Semitism of up-and-coming Democratic stars like Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Hammer responded by discussing how part of the problem is that the identities of the anti-Semitic attackers do not fit a politically convenient narrative for the Left:
<blockquote>So my boss at The Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37888/new-york-times-just-made-stunning-admission-about-ben-shapiro">wrote a piece for our site</a> last [November]. The New York Times actually <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/nyregion/jewish-bias-safety-nyc.html">wrote a piece on this last year</a> — they made a stunning admission. The New York Times literally admitted that the reason why anti-Semitic hate crimes in New York City are not reported is due to the identity of the attackers — that it doesn&#8217;t fit a convenient narrative. That is just astonishing and you know what? Leftist [Mayor] Bill de Blasio in New York City, I&#8217;m not gonna call him an anti-Semite, but he&#8217;s indifferent at best. At best. It&#8217;s true, he created a new &#8230; task force that allegedly is going to crack down on this, but he&#8217;s at least two years too late.
This year has seen an <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/299369/nypd-83-increase-in-nyc-hate-crimes-in-2019/">83% increase</a> in anti-Semitic hate crimes, year-over-year. Jews already, by the way, Liz, we are less than 2% of the U.S. population — according to &#8230; FBI federal statistics, Jews are <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/topic-pages/victims">58.1% of all religiously motivated hate crimes in America</a>. That is almost shocking: That&#8217;s three and a half to four times more than the second-most &#8220;hate crimed&#8221; group, if we can say, that which is the Muslim community. It&#8217;s just astonishing — this is a huge problem and our politicians are totally feckless and not dealing with it.</blockquote>
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio revealed on Thursday that if elected president, he would implement a federal gun confiscation program where American citizens would be required to turn over their semi-automatic rifles to the government, but law enforcement officers would be excluded from the ban.
&#8220;You have said that you&#8217;re for mandatory buybacks of semi-automatic rifles,&#8221; Fox News host Tucker Carlson said to de Blasio. &#8220;There are tens of millions of these rifles in circulation now, and presumably some large number of people won&#8217;t feel like selling them to the government. What do you do with those people?&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to end the availability of assault weapons in this country, so I think if there was a ban on assault weapons and there was a buyback program, the vast majority of people, I think, would do the smart thing and they would sell them back,&#8221; the Democratic mayor replied. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a specific answer for you, but I think it&#8217;s a good question.&#8221;
Carlson sounded the alarm that a federal gun-grab could lead to violent clashes across the nation as law-abiding gun owners fear they would be losing their ability to defend themselves and their families. He subsequently pressed the Democratic presidential hopeful on the logistics of how the plan would be executed considering it is unlikely that gun owners would willingly hand over their firearms.
&#8220;I&#8217;m being honest with you, I think anyone in public life should say, you know, when we think we have an answer or whether it&#8217;s something we still have to work out,&#8221; de Blasio said. &#8220;What I know is this: we cannot have assault weapons in our society – we&#8217;ve seen the devastating impact, they need to be banned. And that means by definition you don&#8217;t leave millions and millions of them out there.&#8221;
&#8220;The buyback&#8217;s the obvious approach,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;How we deal with someone who doesn&#8217;t want to participate in the buyback, that&#8217;s something we&#8217;ll have to resolve going forward.&#8221;
De Blasio put forth that the ban would not violate the Second Amendment considering there would still be a variety of other firearms available for both hunting and self-defense, but the so-called &#8220;military grade assault weapons&#8221; do not belong in the hands of ordinary Americans.
Carlson further questioned whether the security detail that de Blasio is provided as mayor would be subject to the same limitations as their fellow citizens. The Democratic lawmaker contended that as a government official he is potentially more exposed to violence and therefore needs the additional protection that semi-automatic rifles provide.
&#8220;They&#8217;re sworn law enforcement officers,&#8221; de Blasio said referring to his bodyguards. &#8220;Sworn law enforcement officers who are here to protect all of us.&#8221;
&#8220;Someone who serves in public office for a limited period of time, and in the society that we&#8217;re living in, and I hate to say it but public servants are vulnerable to violence in a different way,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Our law enforcement officers are there to protect all of us.&#8221;

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WATCH: De Blasio Wants To Seize Semi-Automatic Rifles From Citizens, But His Bodyguards Can Keep Theirs

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In a new video produced by conservative group TPUSA, several Democratic presidential candidates are asked at the Iowa State Fair if they will denounce the violence-embracing radical leftist group Antifa, which Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (TX) and Bill Cassady (LA) want to be officially labeled a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49659/cruz-cassidy-introduce-resolution-take-action-ryan-saavedra">domestic terrorist organization</a>.&#8221; Most of the candidates refuse to specifically denounce Antifa, either stating that they&#8217;ve never heard of the group that has repeatedly been in the headlines over the last two years, ignoring the question, or insisting on staying general in their responses.
The man-on-the-street video, hosted by TPUSA&#8217;s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/graylauryn/?hl=en">Lauryn Gray</a> along with other TPUSA activists, attempts to get some straight answers from the glad-handing candidates, who frequently appear annoyed by the question. TPUSA manages to talk with several Democratic candidates, including Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Gov. Jay Inslee (WA), front-runner former Vice President Joe Biden, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio, Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT), businessman Andrew Yang, former HUD Sec. Julian Castro, Sen. Cory Booker (NJ), Rep. John Delaney (NJ), Gov. Steve Bullock (MT), Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, and Marianne Williamson.
While TPUSA is generous in giving some of the candidates a checkmark for vaguely condemning Antifa, the reality is most of them are unwilling to expressly condemn the group, sticking only to generalizations about disavowing all violence and hate. Of those interviewed, Gabbard and Yang are the most emphatic in their denunciation of the group, while most of the other candidates resort to various deflections or generalizations.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Far-Left ANTIFA is a domestic terror group.
They beat journalists, fight cops and destroy cities.
They want full communism and terrorize innocent Americans to try and get it.
So will America’s leading Democrats denounce ANTIFA?
We asked. This is scary. <a href="https://t.co/aYO6sWEB2j">pic.twitter.com/aYO6sWEB2j</a>
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Gillibrand claims that she doesn&#8217;t even know who the infamous group is. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who Antifa is,&#8221; she says when asked if she&#8217;ll condemn them.
Inslee states, &#8220;I condemn violence of anyone against this community,&#8221; which he says has been &#8220;totally victimized in so many ways.&#8221; It&#8217;s unclear which &#8220;community&#8221; he is referencing. The governor then adds, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know exactly this organization you&#8217;re referring to, but if it&#8217;s the one I&#8217;m thinking of, then yes.&#8221; TPUSA gives Inslee the benefit of the doubt by putting him in the &#8220;Condemns Antifa&#8221; category.
Asked if he will denounce &#8220;the hate group Antifa,&#8221; Biden says, &#8220;Yes. The answer is I denounce all hate groups.&#8221;
Though he clearly hears the question about denouncing Antifa, De Blasio ignores the interviewer managing to maintain what appears like a slightly uncomfortable smile on his face as he strides on.
Like De Blasio, Sanders appears to be too busy walking wherever he&#8217;s walking to have time to respond.
Yang, who has supported Andy Ngo, who was violently assaulted by Antifa, is much more talkative and emphatically denounces all &#8220;violent extremism.&#8221;
Castro laughs when asked if he is willing to denounce Antifa but refuses to answer, saying only, &#8220;Thanks a lot for the question.&#8221;
Delaney says if Antifa resorts to violence, then he denounces it.
Bullock agrees that &#8220;we&#8217;re better&#8221; than &#8220;any group that spread seeds of discontent,&#8221; but ultimately fails to condemn Antifa, instead trying to blame Trump for &#8220;not standing up,&#8221; though to what he doesn&#8217;t explain.
Gabbard responds by pointing out that she&#8217;s already denounced Antifa.
Williamson responds by stating she&#8217;s &#8220;not denouncing anybody.&#8221;
In the resolution they presented to the Senate in July, Cruz and Cassidy lay out some of the violence the group has enacted over the last couple of years. Below is the full text of the <a href="https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-cruz-antifa-is-a-domestic-terrorist-organization">resolution</a>:
<blockquote>Title: Calling for the designation of Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization.
Whereas members of Antifa, because they believe that free speech is equivalent to violence, have used threats of violence in the pursuit of suppressing opposing political ideologies;
Whereas Antifa represents opposition to the democratic ideals of peaceful assembly and free speech for all;
Whereas members of Antifa have physically assaulted journalists and other individuals during protests and riots in Berkeley, California;
Whereas in February of 2018, journalist Andy Ngo was intimidated and threatened with violence by protestors affiliated with Antifa;
Whereas on June 29, 2019, while covering demonstrations in Portland, Oregon, journalist Andy Ngo was physically attacked by protestors affiliated with Antifa;
Whereas employees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (referred to in this preamble as “ICE”) were subjected to doxxing and violent threats after their social media profiles, phone numbers, and home addresses were posted on the Internet by left wing activists;
Whereas according to the Wall Street Journal, an ICE officer was followed by left wing activists and “confronted when he went to pick up his daughter from summer camp”, and another “had his name and photo plastered on flyers outside his home accusing him of being part of the ‘Gestapo’”;
Whereas the ICE office in southwest Portland, Oregon, was shut down for days due to threats and occupation by Antifa members;
Whereas Rose City Antifa, an Antifa group founded in 2007 in Portland, Oregon, explicitly rejects the authority of law enforcement officers in the United States, and Federal, State, and local governments, to protect free speech and stop acts of violence;
Whereas Rose City Antifa rejects the civil treatment of individuals the group labels as fascists, stating: “We can’t just argue against them; we have to prevent them from organizing by any means necessary.”; and
Whereas there is no place for violence in the discourse between people in the United States, or in any civil society, because the United States is a place where there is a diversity of ideas and opinions: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate—
(1) calls for the groups and organizations across the country who act under the banner of Antifa to be designated as domestic terrorist organizations;
(2) unequivocally condemns the violent actions of Antifa groups as unacceptable acts for anyone in the United States;
(3) expresses the need for the peaceful communication of varied ideas in the United States;
(4) urges any group or organizations in the United States to voice its opinions without using violence or threatening the health, safety, or well-being of any other persons, groups, or law enforcement officers in the United States; and
(5) calls upon the Federal Government to redouble its efforts, using all available and appropriate tools, to combat the spread of all forms of domestic terrorism, including White supremacist terrorism.</blockquote>

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A petition to rename the one-block stretch of New York City&#8217;s Fifth Avenue where Trump Tower is located as &#8220;President Barack H. Obama Avenue&#8221; is gaining momentum, amassing over 275,000 signatures and garnering more mainstream media attention.
&#8220;Rename Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower: &#8216;PresidentBarackH.ObamaAvenue,'&#8221; the MoveOn.org petition reads. The petition&#8217;s total signatures now top 276,000, gaining over 60,000 over a span of the last 24 hours.
Addressed to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Council, the petition requests that &#8220;the stretch of Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets be renamed &#8216;President Barack H. Obama Avenue.&#8217; Any addresses on that stretch of Fifth Avenue should be changed accordingly.&#8221; That block happens to include Trump Tower.
The petition presents the following background, which includes the claim that Obama&#8217;s administration was &#8220;completely scandal-free&#8221; and touts the killing of radical Islamic terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden during his tenure:
<blockquote>The City of Los Angeles recently honored former President Barack Obama by renaming a stretch of the 134 Freeway near Downtown L.A. in his honor. We request the New York City Mayor and City Council do the same by renaming a block of Fifth Avenue after the former president whose many accomplishments include: saving our nation from the Great Recession; serving two completely scandal-free terms in office; and taking out Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind September 11th, which killed over 3,000 New Yorkers.</blockquote>
In comments to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tower-nyc-address-obama-avenue-petition-more-than-200000-signatures-rename-5th-avenue-president-barack-obama/">CBS News</a>, the creator of the petition, Los Angeles resident Elizabeth Rowin, made clear to any who might&#8217;ve missed it why she started the petition: to &#8220;troll&#8221; Trump.
Having seen a comedian joke online in December about renaming the street after Obama to stick it to Trump, Rowin said she thought that was a &#8220;great idea&#8221; and promptly posted the petition. &#8220;I thought, &#8216;That&#8217;s a great idea and probably no one is going to do anything about it,&#8217; so I decided to do it,&#8221; she told CBS.
While the petition got some news coverage in January, it lost momentum. But after a viral tweet from a man in Scotland this week, said Rowin, the petition started to blow up. &#8220;I really didn&#8217;t think there was a chance that it could happen,&#8221; she told CBS on Wednesday.
&#8220;I think it would be fabulous. I think people feel kind of helpless right now, and it&#8217;s a way to troll him,&#8221; she added. &#8220;If he does hear about it, maybe it would slow him down and distract him.&#8221;
Rowin hopes the liberal leadership of New York City will follow Los Angeles&#8217; lead in renaming a stretch of a street after the former president, but as CBS notes, the city prohibits re-naming streets after people who are still alive. Rowin dismissed the rule as &#8220;arbitrary,&#8221; and maintained that if L.A. could do it, why not New York.
CBS cites City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who said he&#8217;s &#8220;not positive&#8221; that Rowin&#8217;s idea is &#8220;the best way&#8221; to honor Obama. &#8220;I&#8217;m pretty confident we can find a better way to honor the greatest president of my lifetime than by trolling the worst president of my lifetime,&#8221; he said. Meanwhile, New York City Mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Bill de Blasio&#8217;s office cheered &#8220;New Yorkers&#8221; finding &#8220;creative outlets for resistance,&#8221; but says the mayor is leaving the decision to the council.
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Veterans Group Protests Against President Trump Outside Of Trump Tower In New York

Petition To Rename Trump Tower’s Street To ‘Resist’ Trump Gains Momentum

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Nobody’s favorite mayor held a campaign event in Iowa over the weekend, and just 15 likely Democratic voters attended.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to woo Iowa caucus voters by holding an event at the Parlor City Pub in Cedar Rapids Sunday morning. The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/11/de-blasio-campaign-event-in-iowa-draws-roughly-15-attendees/">reported</a> that “about 15 likely Democratic voters” attended, not including his staff, the press, or state Sen. Rob Hogg who organized the event.
“Everything should be about our families, our lives, what everyday people are going through, what working people are going through,” de Blasio told the small crowd, according to the Post.
“If we as Democrats are talking about that, we’re winning,” he added.
“Here’s the bottom line: We have a country that’s favored the 1 percent now for literally 40 years,” he continued. “The rich have gotten richer. Everybody else has been pretty much treading water.”
The few attendees indicated to the Post that de Blasio’s remarks were not that inspiring.
Carol Wickey, 78, told the outlet that while she “liked a lot of what he said,” his tone was too divisive.
“I thought in his prepared comments he focused too much on working people,” she said.
“He did not say anything that would sway me that he would be my choice as a candidate,” she added. “Nothing made him stand out among the other two dozen people.”
Geoff Johnson, 40, said de Blasio was “high” on his list of favored candidates, but he just didn’t see the New York City mayor as viable.
“There are 25 candidates,” he told the Post. “He’s fairly high on the list, but I’m not sure he quite makes the top five at this point, but some of that may just be because of the viability situation.”
As the Post noted, protesters in Iowa passed out fake dollar bills with de Blasio’s face on them in response to the mayor’s efforts to put a homeless shelter on “Billionaire’s Row” in Manhattan. Critics say they don’t oppose the homeless shelter, but feel the building de Blasio plans to use is dangerous. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/billionaires-row-new-york-homeless-shelter-mayor-bill-de-blasio-fire-trap">reported</a> that one of the critics, Michael Fischer, said the chosen building “is plagued with serious fire and safety issues that could cause a loss of life.”
De Blasio also couldn’t escape criticism back home, with fellow New York politicians calling him out for missing the annual Dominican Day Parade.
City Councilman Ben Kallos, a Democrat, said the mayor should have been at the parade to “see the diversity that makes this city and country great.”
State Attorney General Letitia James, also a Democrat, told the Post that the “mayor should definitely be here” and that he “has a lot of potholes to fix in the city.”
De Blasio is currently tied for last place among other 2020 Democrat candidates, according to the RealClear Politic&#8217;s <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">polling averages</a>. He clocks in at just 0.3%, tied with Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and self-help guru Marianne Williamson.

Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend Iowa Democratic Party Hall Of Fame Celebration

Bill De Blasio Held A Campaign Event In Iowa And (Almost) Nobody Came

On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ripped the NYPD and New York mayor Bill de Blasio, calling New York City police officers who simply walked away after being doused with water “impotent.”
Speaking on <a href="https://www.wamc.org/programs/roundtable">WAMC</a> radio, Cuomo snapped:
<blockquote>There was an incident in New York City where police officers were doused with water and the police officers walked away and got back in the car. That is wholly unacceptable. Walking away was one of the most disturbing and embarrassing actions I&#8217;ve seen, I don&#8217;t blame those officers, I believe they were relatively new.”</blockquote>
Cuomo then took a shot at de Blasio, asserting, “I look to the training and the policies of the police department that would’ve instructed them to act that way. The training has to be you don’t turn around and get back in the car and drive away. You literally make law enforcement ineffective and impotent and that hurts everyone. You’re assaulted; you take the perpetrator into custody; that’s what you do.”
Cuomo boasted of New York State Police, “If that ever happened to the New York State Police, I would bet you my bottom dollar that you would not see State Police officers assaulted and they turn around and get back in the car,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7324459/Governor-Cuomo-slams-impotent-NYPD-cops-embarrassing-reaction-getting-doused-water.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported.
Cuomo added, “If a police officer is being assaulted, the police officer has to do something. If the police officer is not willing to defend himself or herself, how are they going to defend me?” Speaking of de Blasio, he said, “I think both situations require his intervention and action.”
As <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/05/disturbing-and-embarrassing-cuomo-slams-nypd-cops-over-response-to-water-dousing/">The New York Post</a> reported, Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch, who has long been at odds with de Blasio, echoed, “Gov. Cuomo is right: the NYPD is frozen, but don’t blame the cops. Instead, blame the complete lack of leadership from City Hall,” adding that officers with the NYPD “have nothing even remotely close to that kind of support from our city’s elected leaders. Troopers may be patrolling city streets in increasing numbers, but they do not have to deal with a mayor who demonizes them for his own political gain, a City Council that imposes new burdens and second-guessing at every turn, or NYPD bosses who look to protect their own careers at the expense of the men and women they lead. It also doesn’t hurt that state troopers are paid about 30 percent more than NYPD cops.”
After the Democratic debate in late June in which de Blasio recalled discussing with his biracial son how to act around NYPD officers so he didn’t become a target, Lynch <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/06/27/pba-chief-slams-de-blasio-over-anti-police-rhetoric-at-debate/">snapped</a>:
<blockquote>Mayor de Blasio has apparently learned nothing over the past six years about the extremely damaging impact of anti-police rhetoric on both cops and the communities we serve. The hostile and dangerous environment we now face on the street is a direct result of the demonization of cops by de Blasio and other elected officials. By rolling out that rhetoric again on a national stage, it’s clear he wants to take the country down the same path.</blockquote>

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Holds Media Briefing

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Rips NY Cops’ Response After They Were Doused: ‘Impotent’

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Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City apparently thinks he has the moral authority to say whether or not a sitting U.S. president is welcome back in his home city once his tenure concludes.
According to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/trump/bill-de-blasio-trump-will-not-be-welcome-back-in-new-york-city-after-presidency/">Mediaite</a>, de Blasio told BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith at an event on Thursday night that President Trump will &#8220;not be welcome back&#8221; in the city he called home prior to his relocation to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
&#8220;I challenge you, Donald Trump, to come to New York City, and I will debate you about what’s right for New York City,&#8221; de Blasio said. &#8220;And BuzzFeed can host it! Because he doesn’t understand New York City. And when his presidency is over, really soon, he will not be welcome back in New York City!&#8221;
The New York mayor&#8217;s comments come shortly after getting into a Twitter spat this week with the president over recent viral videos of NYC denizens dousing NYPD cops with water. Trump claimed the spate of incidences were a product of de Blasio&#8217;s longstanding disrespect for the police.
Indeed, de Blasio and the NYPD have not exactly been on friendly terms since 2015, when two police officers were murdered in retaliation for the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. In response to the mayor&#8217;s lack of support, <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/scores-nypd-cops-turn-backs-de-blasio-officer-funeral-article-1.3318292">hundreds of cops</a> turned their backs on de Blasio as he delivered the eulogy for the slain officers at their funerals.
&#8220;The officers’ deaths strained the relationship between city police unions and de Blasio, who union leaders have said contributed to an environment that allowed the killings by supporting protests following the deaths of Eric Garner on Staten Island and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,&#8221; The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/04/wenjian-liu-funeral-nypd-police-officers-de-blasio">reported</a> at the time.
&#8220;We love our Law Enforcement Officers all around this great Country,&#8221; Trump said on Twitter. &#8220;What took place in NYC with water being tossed on NYPD officers was a total disgrace. It is time for [de Blasio] to STAND UP for those who protect our lives and serve us all so well. What took place was completely unacceptable, and will not be tolerated. Bill de Blasio should act immediately!&#8221;
De Blasio responded by saying crime has gone down in New York City ever since Trump &#8220;left town,&#8221; which the mayor meant as an insult, seemingly unaware that it also implies crime went down in New York City after Trump became president.
&#8220;Crime’s gone down year after year in New York City and it’s not just because you finally left town,&#8221; de Blasio tweeted. “Here are the facts: New York City is the safest big city in America — and we got there because our NYPD officers and our communities worked together to drive crime to all-time lows. The real work that we’ve done that ACTUALLY protects officers.&#8221;
&#8220;[Trump] knows NOTHING about his hometown. He never lived a real New York City life. He should get off Twitter and stick to what he’s good at: watching TV when he claims to be working,&#8221; de Blasio continued.

Mayor Bill De Blasio: Trump ‘Not Welcome Back’ In New York City

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President Donald Trump called on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to “stand up” for the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) law enforcement after multiple officers were drenched with water while responding to calls.
“We love our Law Enforcement Officers all around this great Country. What took place in NYC with water being tossed on NYPD officers was a total disgrace,” Trump tweeted on Thursday. “It is time for [De Blasio] to STAND UP for those who protect our lives and serve us all so well…”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">&#8230;What took place was completely unacceptable, and will not be tolerated. Bill de Blasio should act immediately!
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“…What took place was completely unacceptable, and will not be tolerated,” he continued. “Bill de Blasio should act immediately!”
The president’s remarks were in response to two separate incidents over the weekend where bystanders threw buckets of water onto NYPD officers.
The first video surfaced on Monday showing two officers making an arrest in Harlem. As they were handcuffing an individual, the officers were doused with buckets of water and further pelted with the empty buckets.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">RESTRAINT <a href="https://t.co/MhvXjceiI6">pic.twitter.com/MhvXjceiI6</a>
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A second video posted in Instagram shows two drenched NYPD officers walking back to their car in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. As they walk away from a crowd, individuals continue to repeatedly run up to the officers and dump buckets of water over their heads.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">DISRESPECT: This is what <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYPD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NYPD</a> Officers are faced with today. Petrified to take action. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlueLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlueLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCMayor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BilldeBlasio</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPDnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYPDnews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NYPD73Pct?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYPD73Pct</a> <a href="https://t.co/VRpVKBS5Jb">pic.twitter.com/VRpVKBS5Jb</a>
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYScanner/status/1153357145389326336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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De Blasio responded to the incidents hours after they appeared on social media, telling <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nypd-doused-with-water-videos-show-water-thrown-on-nyc-cops-being-attacked-with-buckets-harlem-2019-07-23/">CBS News</a> that “throwing things at NYPD officers is not only not acceptable, it can lead to charges. All of those actions can lead to charges.”
The NYPD revealed on Wednesday that one arrest has been made in connection with one of the two incidents.
Courtney Thompson, a 28-year-old Brooklyn resident, turned himself in later in the week, reported <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/nypd-arrests-man-accused-of-throwing-water-at-police-11564008300">The Wall Street Journal</a>. Thompson faces three misdemeanor charges including for criminal nuisance and obstruction of governmental administration.
Two others individuals, Isiah Scott and Chad Bowden, were <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/arrest-water-bucket-nypd-police-monahan-gang-member-513138501.html">also arrested</a> for their involvement and face a variety of charges.
Vice President Mike Pence also <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/1153723315607003138?s=20">weighed in</a> on the incidents on Monday, calling their conduct “disgraceful.”
“President [Trump] and I will ALWAYS stand with the brave men [and] women of our law enforcement who serve on the thin blue line every day,” Pence said.
De Blasio, however, responded to Trump’s tweet urging the New York City mayor to stand up for his police force.
“Crime’s gone down year after year in New York City and it’s not just because you finally left town,” de Blasio responded from his official mayoral Twitter account.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Here are the facts: New York City is the safest big city in America — and we got there because our NYPD officers and our communities worked together to drive crime to all-time lows. That’s real work that we’ve done that ACTUALLY protects our officers.
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1154477338568122373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“Here are the facts: New York City is the safest big city in America — and we got there because our NYPD officers and our communities worked together to drive crime to all-time lows,” he continued. “The real work that we’ve done that ACTUALLY protects officers.”
The Democratic presidential hopeful then <a href="https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1154477619267530752?s=20">fired back</a> at the president claiming that he was out of touch with his hometown of New York City.
“[Trump] knows NOTHING about his hometown. He never lived a real New York City life. He should get off Twitter and stick to what he’s good at: watching TV when he claims to be working,” de Blasio wrote.
The NYPD is still investigating the incident that took place in Harlem.

Trump Calls On De Blasio To ‘Act Immediately’ In Response To NYPD Officers Doused With Water

In a move being blasted by critics as egregious &#8220;pandering,&#8221; three Democrat presidential candidates have added preferred pronouns to their social media bios: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Obama administration official Julian Castro, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
On Twitter, Warren’s bio now reads (emphasis added): &#8220;U.S. Senator, former teacher, and candidate for president. Wife, mom&#8230;grandmother, and Okie. She/hers. Official campaign account.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Warren has added preferred pronouns to her bio. “She/her” <a href="https://t.co/mUcytwVCvv">pic.twitter.com/mUcytwVCvv</a>
— Amanda Prestigiacomo (@AmandaPresto) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1153316889906618368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Castro added the pronouns &#8220;He/Him/Él&#8221; to his Twitter bio.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">As has <a href="https://twitter.com/JulianCastro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JulianCastro</a> <a href="https://t.co/UgN3jUwEIr">pic.twitter.com/UgN3jUwEIr</a>
— Amanda Prestigiacomo (@AmandaPresto) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1153319096366379008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Castro made headlines last month when he asked a &#8220;nonbinary&#8221; activist what their preferred pronouns were at an event for the nation&#8217;s leading provider of abortion, Planned Parenthood.
&#8220;At Planned Parenthood event: a non-binary activist just asked Castro how he’ll expand sexual &amp; reproductive health for trans people. Castro responds by first asking which pronoun the activist prefers. They replied, &#8216;I actually don’t use any pronoun,&#8217; which received some applause,&#8221; reported New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">At Planned Parenthood event: a non-binary activist just asked Castro how he’ll expand sexual &amp; reproductive health for trans people. Castro responds by first asking which pronoun the activist prefers. They replied, “I actually don’t use any pronoun,” which received some applause.
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) <a href="https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1142503353789898752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Pushing deeper into the radical gender agenda, Castro said at a Democrat presidential primary debate that transgender women, who are biological men, can get pregnant and need abortion access.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor, doesn&#8217;t mean they shouldn&#8217;t have the right to exercise that right to choose,&#8221; the Democratic presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48929/pc-insanity-julian-castros-transgender-abortion-hank-berrien">said</a>.
A pandering expert, Mayor de Blasio, also added pronouns to his Twitter bio: &#8220;He/him.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">&#8230;. and Bill de Blasio <a href="https://t.co/fpWrj7btkA">pic.twitter.com/fpWrj7btkA</a>
— Amanda Prestigiacomo (@AmandaPresto) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1153319374914297856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;On the surface, it’s just two words. But the inclusion of ‘she/hers’ on a frontrunner candidate’s social media profile is no small feat in the eyes of LGBTQ advocates,&#8221; NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/she-hers-progressive-move-3-presidential-hopefuls-add-pronouns-their-n1032101?fbclid=IwAR2m5_jcdFHwuLiYktY9MkiNMwwCqBohrX_B080JJ-OaZaml2L0t0-mKTFM">gushed</a> of Warren’s pronoun addition. &#8220;Among the LGBTQ community and its allies, including pronouns in social media profiles has become increasingly common practice in order to avoid misgendering and to indicate solidarity with transgender and nonbinary people.&#8221;
“Elizabeth is committed to running an inclusive campaign, and wants every person to know that they are welcome in this movement,” Warren campaign spokesperson Alexis Krieg told NBC News in a statement.

Three Democrat Presidential Candidates Add &#8216;Preferred Pronouns&#8217; To Their Bios

Elizabeth Warren

Gender

Gender Pronouns

Over the weekend, Georgia Democratic State Rep. Erica Thomas posted a video to social media accusing a &#8220;white man&#8221; of telling her to &#8220;go back&#8221; to where she &#8220;came from&#8221; for being in an express checkout lane with more items than she was allowed.
&#8220;People are getting really out of control with this — with this white privilege stuff,&#8221; Thomas says in the video, sobbing uncontrollably. &#8220;I&#8217;m at the grocery store … and this white man comes up to me and says, &#8216;You lazy son of a b****, you need to go back where you came from.[&#8216;] … And it hurt me so bad. … All I could tell him was please leave me alone. And my child was just sitting there, and she said, &#8216;Mama, why would he call you that, why would he do that?&#8217; I can&#8217;t even explain to her why he had so much hate in his heart.&#8221;
WATCH:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Dear <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>:
Your racism is inciting hatred all over America&#8230;
You have torn our nation apart—but we will come together in 2020 to defeat you.
By the way she is <a href="https://twitter.com/itsericathomas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@itsericathomas</a> &amp; she is more American than you will ever be.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithErica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithErica</a> <a href="https://t.co/vmjoNanpO7">pic.twitter.com/vmjoNanpO7</a>
— Ryan Knight (@ProudResister) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProudResister/status/1152618892826558464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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But once the man in the alleged incident came forward to refute the claims made by Thomas, the state representative changed her story.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to say he said &#8216;go back to your country&#8217; or &#8216;go back to where you came from,&#8217; but he was making those types of references is what I remember,&#8221; Thomas said.
The &#8220;white man&#8221; she accused of saying such things told reporters he called Thomas a &#8220;lazy (expletive)&#8221; but never told her to go back to where she came from. &#8220;This woman is playing the victim for political purposes because she is a state legislator,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Democrat and will vote Democrat for the rest of my life, so call me whatever you want to believe. For her political purposes, make it black, white, brown, whatever. It is untrue.&#8221;
The left-leaning media, of course, jumped on the story; the recent string of &#8220;hate hoaxes&#8221; from the likes of Jussie Smollett and the Covington High School debacle did not serve as an effective reminder to be skeptical and wait for evidence.
Additionally, Democrat presidential candidates jumped on the story for political gain, though their knee-jerk reactions are now prompting blowback.
Failed Senate candidate Robert &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke, a Democrat from Texas, tied the alleged interaction to President Donald Trump.
&#8220;These are the consequences of a president who foments hate every day—and sees our diversity not as a strength but as a weakness. Erica, thank you for serving your state and thanks to your husband for serving our country. We are better than this, and together, we will prove it,&#8221; posted O’Rourke.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">These are the consequences of a president who foments hate every day—and sees our diversity not as a strength but as a weakness. Erica, thank you for serving your state and thanks to your husband for serving our country. We are better than this, and together, we will prove it. <a href="https://t.co/eCrdZFgAPl">https://t.co/eCrdZFgAPl</a>
— Beto O&#8217;Rourke (@BetoORourke) <a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1152623895964524545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, linked Thomas’ claims to Trump, too.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be clear: this is on [Donald Trump] and every single person who refuses to condemn his vile racism,&#8221; he said in a tweet.
In another post, the Democrat said, “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: It begins with a tweet. Then a chant. Now a racist attack on a 9-month pregnant lawmaker and military wife just trying to feed her family.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Let’s be clear: this is on <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and every single person who refuses to condemn his vile racism. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithErica?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithErica</a> <a href="https://t.co/Asx5kZaqbs">https://t.co/Asx5kZaqbs</a>
— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) <a href="https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1152638775996178445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Democrat Presidential Candidates Push Erica Thomas &#8216;Hate Hoax&#8217;

Beto O'Rourke

Hoax

Race

If you watched either or both of the two Democratic Party presidential candidate debates, and if you are a liberal, a conservative or a centrist, you had to have been depressed. The intellectual shallowness, the demagoguery and the alienation from reality were probably unprecedented in American political history. Only a leftist, a socialist or a communist could have gone to bed a happy person on either night.
If you think this is a baseless generalization, here are a few of myriad examples from the first night:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: &#8220;(The economy is not doing great) for the African Americans and Latinx whose families are torn apart, whose lives are destroyed and whose communities are ruined.&#8221;
Two things stand out: First is Warren&#8217;s morally reprehensible and false description of the economy. She never explains how the American economy is tearing families apart, destroying lives or ruining communities. Aside from being baseless, it is another left-wing libel against America.
She went on to explain economic inequality in America: &#8220;Corruption, pure and simple. We need to call it out.&#8221; It is difficult to overstate the contempt she and the rest of the left have for America.
Even more troubling was Warren&#8217;s use of the term &#8220;Latinx.&#8221; When leftist Orwellian newspeak makes its way into the United States Senate and into the vocabulary of a presidential candidate, the country is in trouble.
Here is how HuffPost explains the term (of which it approves):
&#8220;Latinx is the gender-neutral alternative to Latino, Latina and even Latin@. &#8230; Latinx is quickly gaining popularity among the general public. It&#8217;s part of a &#8216;linguistic revolution&#8217; that aims to move beyond gender binaries and is inclusive of the intersecting identities of Latin American descendants. In addition to men and women from all racial backgrounds, Latinx also makes room for people who are trans, queer, agender, non-binary, gender non-conforming or gender fluid.&#8221;
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.: &#8220;If billionaires can pay off their yachts, students should be able to pay off their student loans.&#8221;
My only response to this statement is to ask, Do most Democrats find that a compelling argument? Do they not realize what a non sequitur it is — and therefore how demagogic?
Billionaires, like non-billionaires, pay off their debts because they do not incur debts they cannot repay, not because they are billionaires. Senator Klobuchar apparently believes that non-billionaires need not pay off their debts. Every Democrat who addressed this issue said American society should repay student debts — which amount to $1.6 trillion. The party of &#8220;fairness&#8221; thinks it&#8217;s fair that every student who repaid his or college debts — and every young American who never went to college — must pay off that debt.
Former Rep. Beto O&#8217;Rourke, D-Texas, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro spoke in Spanish. Perhaps they — like all on the left — are unaware of the importance of all Americans speaking English in uniting the most ethnically disparate nation in human history. You cannot say &#8220;diversity is our strength&#8221; if you do not work to unite all the diverse cultures into Americans. And you cannot unite Americans without one language.
Their speaking Spanish was so transparently pandering to Latin, Latino, Latina, Latin@ and Latinx Americans that, for that reason alone, that group should decline to vote Democrat.
O&#8217;Rourke: &#8220;This economy has got to work for everyone. And right now, we know that it isn&#8217;t.&#8221;
This is just not true. Given some of the lowest unemployment rates in modern American history, this economy seems to be working quite well — certainly for all those willing to work.
Booker: &#8220;This is actually an economy that&#8217;s hurting small businesses and not allowing them to compete.&#8221;
The question I always want answered when someone on the left tells an outright lie is, Does he or she believe it? Someone should ask this of Booker. As the National Federation of Independent Businesses announced last month:
&#8220;Optimism among small business owners has surged back to historically high levels, thanks to strong hiring, investment, and sales,&#8221; said NFIB President and CEO Juanita D. Duggan. &#8220;The small business half of the economy is leading the way, taking advantage of lower taxes and fewer regulations, and reinvesting in their businesses, their employees, and the economy as a whole.&#8221;
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio: &#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of money in this country. It&#8217;s just in the wrong hands. Democrats have to fix that.&#8221;
The notion that America&#8217;s money is &#8220;in the wrong hands, (and) Democrats have to fix that&#8221; should frighten every American who believes in private property and who opposes dictatorships and theft.
Castro: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe only in reproductive freedom; I believe in reproductive justice.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s an important rule: Whenever anyone adds an adjective to the word &#8220;justice,&#8221; know that the person is not speaking about justice but about something else entirely. &#8220;Social&#8221; justice is another such example.
Castro boldly proclaimed his view that unauthorized border crossing should be decriminalized and announced, &#8220;In my first 100 days with immigration reform (I) would put undocumented (i.e., illegal) immigrants, as long as they haven&#8217;t committed a serious crime, on a pathway to citizenship.&#8221;
Though not one Democrat candidate used the term, every single one believes in open borders.
NBC reporter Lester Holt: &#8220;So, a show of hands: Who as president would sign on to the 2015 nuclear deal as it was originally negotiated?&#8221;
Every Democrat was for returning to the original Iran nuclear agreement. For those Americans who believe Iran is the greatest threat to peace in the world, and the greatest sponsor of international terrorism, this alone should determine their vote.
I have chosen only a few examples — and only from the first debate — to illustrate how low the Democratic Party has sunk morally and intellectually. Americans who love America — or just love reason or truth or real people, as opposed to abstract ideas — cannot justify voting Democrat in 2020.
Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in April 2018, is &#8220;The Rational Bible,&#8221; a commentary on the book of Exodus. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

PRAGER: D Is For Damaged, Dangerous And Delusional

Democratic Party

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he&#8217;s taking E. Jean Carroll&#8217;s story of being sexually assaulted by now-President Donald Trump in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room seriously, and if Carroll wants to make an official complaint to the New York City police department, de Blasio will ensure the NYPD conducts a follow-up investigation.
<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/bill-de-blasio-says-nypd-will-investigate-the-latest-rape-allegations-against-trump-an-expert-says-it-probably-cant/">Mother Jones reports</a> that de Blasio made the claim while on the campaign trail in South Carolina.
&#8220;This is the most serious of all the charges,&#8221; de Blasio told a reporter who asked about Carroll&#8217;s claims. &#8220;The moment we, in New York City with our police department have a complaint, we will investigate immediately, and we will find out the truth.&#8221;
Carroll, a longtime New York City gossip columnist, accused (then-New York real estate developer) Donald Trump of sexual assault in an interview with New York Magazine, published late last week. Carroll claims that, after meeting Trump by chance at Bergdorf&#8217;s, the pair shopped together in the lingerie department. At one point, Trump pulled a see-through one-piece off the rack and the pair jokingly argued over who should try it on. Then, Carroll says, Trump pushed her into a dressing room, pinned her arms to her sides and pulled down her tights, clearly intending to sexually assault her.
Before Trump could complete the act, Carroll says, she fought him off and ran from the store. She told New York Magazine and other interviewers that she still has the unwashed dress from the incident, and claims to have told at least two people, contemporaneously, about having been assaulted.
When asked, though, Carroll has come up with a litany of excuses as to why she never found a need to file an official complaint against Trump &#8212; and why she won&#8217;t file one now. In interviews over the weekend, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48751/watch-woman-who-claims-trump-raped-her-gives-amanda-prestigiacomo">Carroll claimed she wouldn&#8217;t go to authorities</a> because an investigation into her own sexual assault would distract from the women being &#8220;raped around the clock&#8221; at the United States-Mexico border. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48789/watch-cnn-interview-woman-accusing-trump-rape-goes-amanda-prestigiacomo">On Monday, she changed her excuse</a>, citing the statute of limitations, which prevents Trump from being prosecuted for a sexual assault that happened at least 20 years ago.
The statute of limitations is certainly a consideration. As Mother Jones sorrowfully points out, New York allows alleged victims of a felony five years to bring details of that crime to authorities and initiate prosecution. For misdemeanors, victims must make their claim within two years of the alleged incident. Although the state recently lifted the statute of limitations on felony rape and 1st-degree criminal sexual conduct, at the time Carroll says she was assaulted, felony rape was included in the five year column, so that limit would govern her claims.
And de Blasio cannot, effectively, &#8220;revive&#8221; a case once the statute of limitations has tolled. The Supreme Court has routinely spoken on the issue and found reviving cases to be a violation of the Constitution&#8217;s clause barring ex post facto prosecutions.
What Mother Jones seems to miss, though, is that de Blasio probably doesn&#8217;t see prosecuting Trump as necessary &#8212; only investigating Trump. A criminal investigation, de Blasio likely believes, could hurt Trump at the polls, and one so close to the 2020 presidential election would, no doubt, have some impact on how Trump is received, particularly by female voters.
The problem then, of course, becomes whether de Blasio is violating Trump&#8217;s rights by undertaking an investigation that cannot legally go anywhere &#8212; but that&#8217;s probably a secondary concern for de Blasio, who is running at the back of the pack of potential 2020 Democratic presidential nominees and desperately needs a reason to command the spotlight.
An NYPD investigation may turn up absolutely nothing in the way of evidence that Trump committed a crime &#8212; in fact, Bergdorf already says that they have no surveillance footage of the incident, and the only evidence Carroll has presented to prove that she and Trump were familiar is a publicity still from a charity event taken around the same time. In the photo, neither Trump nor Carroll is acknowledging the other and both are shown with dates.

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Bill DeBlasio Says The NYPD Will Investigate Trump Rape Claim If Accuser Makes Official Complaint

Sexual Assault

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio says that the city&#8217;s specialized high schools have a diversity problem. He&#8217;s joined by New York City Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza, educators, students and community leaders who want to fix the diversity problem. I bet you can easily guess what they will do to &#8220;improve&#8221; the racial mix of students (aka diversity). If you guessed they would propose eliminating the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test as the sole criterion for admissions, go to the head of the class. The Specialized High Schools Admissions Test is an examination that is administered to New York City&#8217;s eighth- and ninth-grade students. By state law, it is used to determine admission to all but one of the city&#8217;s nine specialized high schools.
It&#8217;s taken as axiomatic that the relatively few blacks admitted to these high-powered schools is somehow tied to racial discrimination. In a June 2, 2018 &#8220;<a href="https://tinyurl.com/y64delc3">Chalkbeat</a>&#8221; article, de Blasio writes: &#8220;The problem is clear. Eight of our most renowned high schools &#8212; including Stuyvesant High School, Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Technical High School &#8212; rely on a single, high-stakes exam. The Specialized High School Admissions Test isn&#8217;t just flawed &#8212; it&#8217;s a roadblock to justice, progress and academic excellence.&#8221;
Let&#8217;s look at a bit of history to raise some questions about the mayor&#8217;s diversity hypothesis. Dr. Thomas Sowell provides some interesting statistics about Stuyvesant High School in his book &#8220;Wealth, Poverty and Politics.&#8221; He reports that, &#8220;In 1938, the proportion of blacks attending Stuyvesant High School, a specialized school, was almost as high as the proportion of blacks in the population of New York City.&#8221; Since then, it has spiraled downward. In 1979, blacks were 12.9% of students at Stuyvesant, falling to 4.8% in 1995. By 2012, The New York Times reported that blacks were 1.2% of the student body.
What explains the decline? None of the usual explanations for racial disparities make sense. In other words, would one want to argue that there was less racial discrimination in 1938? Or, argue that in 1938 the &#8220;legacy of slavery&#8221; had not taken effect whereby now it is in full bloom? Genetic or environmental arguments cannot explain why blacks of an earlier generation were able to meet the demanding mental test standards to get into an elite high school. Socioeconomic conditions for blacks have improved dramatically since 1938. The only other plausible reason for the decline in academic achievement is that there has been a change in black culture. It doesn&#8217;t take much to reach this conclusion. Simply look at school behavior today versus yesteryear.
An Education Week article reported that in the 2015-16 school year, &#8220;5.8% of the nation&#8217;s 3.8 million teachers were physically attacked by a student.&#8221; The Justice Department&#8217;s Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Education&#8217;s National Center for Education Statistics show that in the 2011-12 academic year, there were a record 209,800 primary- and secondary-school teachers who reported being physically attacked by a student. Nationally, an average of 1,175 teachers and staff were physically attacked, including being knocked out, each day of that school year.
In the city of Baltimore, each school day in 2010, an average of four teachers and staff were assaulted. A National Center for Education Statistics study found that 18% of the nation&#8217;s schools accounted for 75% of the reported incidents of violence, and 6.6% accounted for half of all reported incidents. These are schools with predominantly black student populations. It&#8217;s not only assaults on teachers but cursing and disorderly conduct that are the standard fare in so many predominantly black schools.
Here are questions that might be asked of de Blasio and others who want to &#8220;fix the diversity problem&#8221; at New York&#8217;s specialized schools: What has the triumph of egalitarian and diversity principles done for the rest of New York&#8217;s school system? Are their academic achievement scores better than students at New York&#8217;s specialized schools? The most important question for black parents: What has been allowed to happen to cripple black academic excellence?
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

WILLIAMS: Black Education Decline

Education

Progressivism

New York City&#8217;s Democratic mayor and city council speaker proudly announced a new budget agreement Friday that &#8220;makes New York the first city in the nation to directly fund abortion services.&#8221;
The new budget for the city now contains a line item dedicated to directly funding abortions. The city will give $250,000 in taxpayer money to the New York Abortion Access Fund, which helps pay for abortions for low-income women, many of whom travel from outside the state to get access to the funds.
&#8220;Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, both Democrats, announced a budget agreement Friday, set to be voted on this week, that would allocate $250,000 to the New York Abortion Access Fund, which called it &#8216;extremely good news&#8217; amid other states passing anti-abortion laws,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-abortion-nyc-free-funding">Fox News</a> reports.
Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, also a Democrat, touted the decision to directly fund abortions as historic and one that sends a clear message to Americans living in other states with more restrictive abortion laws: They &#8220;can come and get the services they need&#8221; in New York City.
&#8220;This initiative not only makes New York the first city in the nation to directly fund abortion services, but also lets any American who is facing increasing abortion restrictions in their home state know that they can come and get the services they need in the five boroughs,&#8221; said Rivera in a statement reported by Fox. &#8220;This fund is just another signal, another example of how New York State and New York City has to be that leader on this issue.&#8221;
The New York Times notes that a third of the women who take advantage of the New York Abortion Access Fund come from outside the state, while Fox underscores that the fund, unlike other unwanted pregnancy non-profits, &#8220;only supports women who are seeking to terminate their pregnancies.&#8221;
In January, New York passed its &#8220;<a href="https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/A21">Reproductive Health Act</a>,&#8221; which states that &#8220;every individual who becomes pregnant has the fundamental right to choose to carry the pregnancy to term, to give birth to a child, or to have an abortion.&#8221; To lawfully abort a child up until birth, the law requires only that a licensed practitioner acts in &#8220;good faith professional judgment&#8221; to &#8220;protect the patient&#8217;s life or health,&#8221; including mental health.
&#8220;A health care practitioner licensed, certified, or authorized under title eight of the education law, acting within his or her lawful scope of practice, may perform an abortion when, according to the practitioner&#8217;s reasonable and good faith professional judgment based on the facts of the patient&#8217;s case: the patient is within twenty-four weeks from the commencement of pregnancy, or there is an absence of fetal viability, or the abortion is necessary to protect the patient&#8217;s life or health,&#8221; reads the legislation. The bill also removed abortion from the penal code entirely, impacting cases where an unborn child dies due to domestic violence cases or other forms of violence.
Since New York passed its radically pro-abortion bill, some southern states have passed pro-life &#8220;heartbeat bills,&#8221; resulting in outrage from progressives. Georgia is now facing boycotts from Hollywood over their bill protecting unborn children.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday criticized President Donald Trump&#8217;s statement that he would listen to opposition research about an opponent from a foreign country.
De Blasio, who is trying to run for president in a crowded Democratic field, told MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; hosts that Trump&#8217;s acceptance of foreign information was &#8220;openly treasonous.&#8221;
The Associated Press <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/14/nyc-mayor-trumps-openness-to-foreign-help-treasono/">reported</a> de Blasio said Trump&#8217;s comments were &#8220;the last straw,&#8221; and that Congress should open an impeachment inquiry. He claimed Trump&#8217;s answer to a question from ABC amounted to an open invitation for foreign government &#8220;interference in our election.&#8221;
De Blasio is struggling to even register in may Democrat primary polls. He currently is tied for last in the Real Clear Politics polling average &#8212; <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">at 0.3%</a> &#8212; with Reps. John Delaney of Maryland, Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, Eric Swalwell of California, and new-age author and activist Marianne Williamson.
In an interview with former advisor to President Bill Clinton and ABC host George Stephanopoulos, Trump said he wouldn&#8217;t immediately call the FBI if a foreign government offered dirt on his opponent.
It&#8217;s not an interference. They have information. I think I&#8217;d take it. If I thought there was something wrong, I&#8217;d go maybe to the FBI, if I thought there was something wrong,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48362/trump-hammered-saying-hed-accept-intel-2020-joseph-curl">Trump said</a>.
&#8220;I think I&#8217;d want to hear it &#8230; I think you might want to listen, there isn&#8217;t anything wrong with listening,&#8221; he added, calling the information &#8220;opposition research.&#8221;
He added: &#8220;If somebody called from a country &#8212; Norway &#8212; &#8216;we have information on your opponent&#8217; &#8212; oh, I think I&#8217;d want to hear it.&#8221;
Naturally, Trump&#8217;s opponents went nuts. While they had a good reason to worry about whether the president would accept foreign intelligence to use against an opponent, they completely missed that their outrage was completely partisan.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s report found that the Trump campaign did not work with a foreign government to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Clinton and her campaign, however, are a different story. Not only did the Clinton campaign pay law firm Perkins Coie to hire opposition law firm Fusion GPS to pay ex-British Intelligence agent Christopher Steele to use his Russian sources to create an uncorroborated and largely debunked dossier full of dirt on Trump, they concealed their payment to avoid federal finance reporting laws.
In 2017, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) asked then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions about the violation.
&#8220;It seems to me that a presidential campaign using a law firm as a conduit to pay for activities with which the campaign itself doesn&#8217;t want to be associated is more than just dirty politics, it&#8217;s also quite possibly illegal,&#8221; Chabot said. &#8220;To me it seems that it&#8217;s at least a violation of campaign finance laws and a failure to accurately disclose the actual recipients of campaign disbursements. However, this type of arrangement is not illegal &#8212; if it&#8217;s not illegal under current law &#8212; I fear we&#8217;re risking opening Pandora&#8217;s Box with all sorts of underhanded activities by campaigns being laundered through law firms and being shielded by attorney-client privilege.&#8221;
Chabot then asked for Sessions&#8217; thoughts on the matter. Sessions said he couldn&#8217;t comment without looking into the specific details of the allegation.

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