Gladys Sicknick, mother of the late Capitol Police Officer <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/d-c-medical-examiner-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-suffered-two-strokes-died-of-natural-causes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brian Sicknick</a>, claimed in a new ad that her son had died because of &#8220;people like&#8221; Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/kari-lake-blows-up-at-media-for-running-garbage-bulls-story-to-carry-water-for-katie-hobbs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kari Lake</a>.
The Republican Accountability Project, chaired by Bill Kristol and formerly known as Republican Voters Against Trump, shared the ad on Tuesday with the caption, &#8220;&#8216;My son died because of people like Kari Lake.&#8217; Watch this powerful testimony from Gladys Sicknick, mother of the Capitol Police officer who died after January 6.&#8221;
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&quot;My son died because of people like Kari Lake.&quot;
Watch this powerful testimony from Gladys Sicknick, mother of the Capitol Police officer who died after January 6. 
NEW from Republican Accountability PAC: <a href="https://t.co/2n0FgeEdnb">pic.twitter.com/2n0FgeEdnb</a>
&mdash; The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AccountableGOP/status/1587556705826504704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;m Gladys Sicknick, I&#8217;m the mother of Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died defending our country on January 6,&#8221; Sicknick said over footage of the Capitol Hill riot.
&#8220;Kari Lake is very dangerous for our country. She saw what happened on January 6 and continues to spread &#8216;The Big Lie,'&#8221; Sicknick continued. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to have more violence because people — they believe whatever she says. It&#8217;s very dire for our democracy, for our country, with candidates like Kari Lake. My son died because of people like Kari Lake.&#8221;
Lake has certainly — and repeatedly — questioned the integrity of the 2020 election. She said during a Republican <a href="https://www.azmirror.com/2022/08/25/kari-lake-is-one-of-4-big-lie-swing-state-gop-guv-candidates-they-could-upend-the-2024-presidential-election/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">primary debate</a> in June that she would not have certified Arizona&#8217;s vote counts in the 2020 presidential election, calling the whole process corrupt and later saying of President Joe Biden, &#8220;He lost the election, and shouldn’t be in the White House.&#8221;
But still, the ad draws a conclusion that doesn&#8217;t appear to fit the facts. Gladys Sicknick lays out the narrative in such a way that it seems designed to make viewers believe that her son died in the thick of the riot while protesters were crushing and beating him, spraying him with chemicals. She even describes him as &#8220;the Capitol Police officer who died defending our country on January 6th.&#8221;
But Sicknick actually died the following day — on January 7th — and according to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Francisco Diaz, he died of natural causes. Sicknick collapsed at the Capitol around 10 p.m. on the evening of the 6th, and died nearly 24 hours later after suffering two strokes, Diaz&#8217;s report confirmed. The medical examiner also stated that Sicknick did not suffer any allergic reaction to chemicals that were sprayed on him, nor did he appear to have any serious internal or external injuries that would have contributed to his death.

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‘Very Dangerous For Our Country’: Officer Sicknick’s Mother Blames ‘People Like’ Kari Lake For Her Son’s Death In New Ad

Officer Sicknick's Mother Blames 'People Like' Kari Lake For Her Son's Death In New Ad

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Bill Kristol

Elections

January 6

Kari Lake

Politics

Former conservative William Kristol envisions a scenario in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) slips into the presidency.
Kristol, the founder and editor-at-large of the now-defunct political magazine The Weekly Standard, thinks the coronavirus will take out President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, opening the door to the next person in the line of succession, the 80-year-old California Democrat.
In a post on Twitter, Kristol wrote:
<blockquote>Straightforward from here:
* President Trump has to self-quarantine due to possible exposure to coronavirus, can’t fulfill duties of presidency in quarantine, steps down.
* VP Pence has to self-quarantine, can’t fulfill duties of vice presidency, steps down.
* President Pelosi.</blockquote>
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Straightforward from here: * President Trump has to self-quarantine due to possible exposure to coronavirus, can’t fulfill duties of presidency in quarantine, steps down. * VP Pence has to self-quarantine, can’t fulfill duties of vice presidency, steps down. * President Pelosi.😉
&mdash; Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1259270620916965379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Yes, Kristol is hoping that America&#8217;s president and vice president get so sick they have to leave office, and he&#8217;s hoping Pelosi gets to take over, so much does he hate Trump.
White House aides have recently been diagnosed with COVID-19 and Pence&#8217;s press secretary has tested positive for the virus, a spokesman said Sunday. Pence will be working from home for a while, although he is not under an official quarantine.
&#8220;Vice President Pence will continue to follow the advice of the White House Medical Unit and is not in quarantine. Additionally, Vice President Pence has tested negative every single day and plans to be at the White House tomorrow,&#8221; Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley said in a statement.
Three other top health officials have also announced they will self-quarantine after interacting with Pence&#8217;s press secretary.
Food and Drug Administration Administrator Stephen Hahn and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield both plan to self-quarantine, according to their offices. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases expert at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) also said he will go into a form of &#8220;modified&#8221; self-quarantine.
In 2016, Kristol sought out a third-party candidate in hopes of splitting the vote and knocking out Trump &#8212; preferring Hillary Clinton in the White House (for some reason). Instead, Clinton got crushed.
After Trump won, Kristol has spent the last three years hyping the president&#8217;s alleged Russia collusion (although that didn&#8217;t work out too well, either).
In February, Kristol wrote on Twitter that until Trump is out of office, he considers himself a Democrat.
&#8220;Not presumably forever; not perhaps for a day after Nov. 3, 2020; not on every issue or in every way until then. But for the time being one has to say: We are all Democrats now,&#8221; he wrote.
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Not presumably forever; not perhaps for a day after Nov. 3, 2020; not on every issue or in every way until then. But for the time being one has to say: We are all Democrats now.
&mdash; Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1223639550209200129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“I&#8217;m very honestly just agnostic about what the future looks like,” he says. “I do think in the short term, I think a second term of Donald Trump is very dangerous,&#8221; Krostol said, according to WBUR-TV.
“Trump has to be defeated,” he said. “Even then, I think I&#8217;m much more pessimistic than I was a couple of years ago that it would be easy or even possible to get beyond Trump.&#8221;
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Never Trump Leader Bill Kristol Envisions ‘President Pelosi’

Nancy Pelosi

The Boston Globe found itself in hot water on Wednesday after publishing <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2019/04/10/oneil/t0wEh4yEXHTzBttu77AGWK/story.html">an opinion piece</a> from a man who said he regretted &#8220;not pissing&#8221; on a Neo-conservative pundit&#8217;s food and encouraging waiters to &#8220;tamper&#8221; with the food of outgoing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
The article, titled &#8220;Keep Kirstjen Nielsen unemployed and eating Grubhub over her kitchen sink,&#8221; was written by Luke O&#8217;Neil, a former waiter and occasional writer for the Globe. The article now has an editor&#8217;s note at the top and has been stealth edited for &#8220;tone.&#8221; The article originally began:
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One of the biggest regrets of my life is not pissing in Bill Kristol&#8217;s salmon. I was waiting on the disgraced neoconservative pundit and chief Iraq War cheerleader about 10 years ago at a restaurant in Cambridge and to my eternal dismay, some combination of professionalism and pusillanimity prevented me from appropriately seasoning his entrée. A ramekin of blood on the side might have been the better option, come to think of it, he always did seem really thirsty for the stuff.
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Kristol is the former founder and editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard, which stopped publication in December 2018. Kristol was the editor-in-chief of the magazine until two years ago, when he switched his title to editor-at-large.
O&#8217;Neil originally concluded the op-ed encouraging food service employees to &#8220;tamper&#8221; with the food of a Trump official:
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As for the waiters out there, I&#8217;m not saying you should tamper with anyone&#8217;s food, as that could get you into trouble. You might lose your serving job. But you&#8217;d be serving America. And you won&#8217;t have any regrets years later.
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An editor&#8217;s note at the top of the article now reads: &#8220;A version of this column as originally published did not meet Globe standards and has been changed. The Globe regrets the previous tone of the piece.&#8221;
After the initial outrage, the sentence was changed to say O&#8217;Neal regretted &#8220;not defiling Bill Kristol&#8217;s salmon,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1116099352643219458">according to a screenshot</a> from Daily Caller opinion contributor Eddie Zipperer.
&#8220;Update: .@bostonglobe has now stealth edited the opinion piece,&#8221; Zipperer wrote.
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Update: .<a href="https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bostonglobe</a> has now stealth edited the opinion piece: <a href="https://t.co/iEQOdEiaXj">pic.twitter.com/iEQOdEiaXj</a>
&#8212; Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1116099352643219458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2019</a></blockquote>
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It appears to have been changed once again. The lede paragraph no longer mentions &#8220;pissing in&#8221; or &#8220;defiling&#8221; Kristol&#8217;s salmon. It instead states that one of the biggest regrets of O&#8217;Neil&#8217;s life was &#8220;serving Bill Kristol salmon and not telling the neoconservative pundit and chief Iraq War cheerleader what I really thought about him.&#8221;
The final paragraph no longer suggests defiling the food of Republicans or former Trump officials, instead suggesting food service workers tell them off if they visit their restaurants&#8221;:
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And when they show up in our restaurants, you have my permission, as an official member of the mainstream media, to tell them where to go and what they can do with themselves when they arrive there, but, you know, said in a more specific and traditional Boston colloquialism.
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The Federalist* noted that O&#8217;Neil&#8217;s original conclusion paragraph may have gone <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/11/boston-globe-op-ed-urges-waiters-tamper-trump-officials-food/">beyond the protections of the First Amendment</a> and is more aligned with incitement than free speech.
O&#8217;Neil defended his comments on Twitter, but has since protected his tweets.
&#8220;People who carry out policies of ethnic cleansing or cheerlead for disastrous wars leading to tens of thousands suffering or dead should not expect to be able to show their faces in public anymore thank you for understanding this basic premise,&#8221; he tweeted in response to criticism from conservative pundit Caleb Hull.
*I am also a senior contributor to the Federalist.

Boston Globe Publishes, Then Edits Op-Ed Encouraging Waiters To ‘Tamper With’ Trump Official’s Food

Kirstjen Nielsen

Media Bias

On Friday, conservative mainstay magazine The Weekly Standard was shuttered after 23 years of weekly publication. The ownership of the magazine, Clarity Media, held a meeting with staffers at the magazine in which they announced that everyone was to clear out their offices by 5 p.m., then released this statement:
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For more than twenty years The Weekly Standard has provided a valued and important perspective on political, literary and cultural issues of the day. The magazine has been home to some of the industry&#8217;s most dedicated and talented staff and I thank them for their hard work and contributions, not just to the publication, but the field of journalism. Despite investing significant resources into the publication, the financial performance of the publication over the last five years &#8212; with double-digit declines in its subscriber base all but one year since 2013 &#8212; made it clear that a decision had to be made. After careful consideration of all possible options for its future, it became clear that this was the step we needed to take.
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Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hayes told staff, &#8220;To put it simply: I&#8217;m proud that we&#8217;ve remained both conservative and independent, providing substantive reporting and analysis based on facts, logic and reason.&#8221;
As John Podhoretz, a co-founder of the magazine, has noted, Clarity made no effort to sell the brand. Instead, they sought to integrate the subscribers of the Standard into the subscriber base of their new Washington Examiner weekly magazine.
The death of The Weekly Standard has spurred accusations that the magazine was shuttered for its anti-Trump position. But that neglects the fact that the new editor of the Washington Examiner magazine is Seth Mandel, another Trump-skeptical conservative. While the Standard may have taken a more stridently anti-Trump position than any other conservative outlet, it was far from the only outlet to oppose many of President Trump&#8217;s policies as well as critiquing his lack of moral fiber. The biggest problem for the Standard, at least in the mainstream conservative mind, was the consistently anti-Trump tone taken by many of its leading voices, even when Trump was accomplishing conservative goals. To a large extent, this was due to the ideological shadow cast by longtime Standard editor-in-chief Bill Kristol, who has been loudly proclaiming that he is seeking a primary alternative to Trump in 2020.
In any case, the demise of The Weekly Standard is indeed a tragedy for commentary. I spent years subscribing to it; the writing was unparalleled, the analysis brilliant. The magazine had one of the best staffs around, and injected a much-needed dose of cultural awareness into the conservative movement. Its death doesn&#8217;t signal a serious sea change in conservatism so much as a branding failure on the part of the magazine, and a cutthroat decision on the part of its owners.

‘The Weekly Standard’ Died Today. Here’s What That Means.

The rumors were everyone around Washington in recent days, but now it&#8217;s official: Bill Kristol&#8217;s magazine The Weekly Standard will shut down.
The magazine, founded in 1995, will shut down after its final issue is published Monday. &#8220;Ryan McKibben the CEO of the magazine&#8217;s parent company Clarity Media told staffers in an all-hands meeting on Friday morning,&#8221; <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/weekly-standard-shut-down-bill-kristol/">The Wrap</a> reported.
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&#8220;The Weekly Standard has been hampered by many of the same challenges that countless other magazines and newspapers across the country have been wrestling with,&#8221; McKibben said.
&#8220;Despite investing significant resources into the publication, the financial performance of the publication over the last five years &#8212; with double-digit declines in its subscriber base all but one year since 2013 &#8212; made it clear that a decision had to be made,&#8221; he added. &#8220;After careful consideration of all possible options for its future, it became clear that this was the step we needed to take.&#8221;
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Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/media/weekly-standard-future-uncertain/index.html'">CNN</a> reported that Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hayes had informed his staff that the magazine&#8217;s existence is in jeopardy.
Sources told CNN that the leaders of The Weekly Standard had been at odds with its publisher, and that Hayes had been permitted to look for another owner, but that MediaDC had then said it was not interested in selling the magazine. MediaDC also owns The Washington Examiner, which may soon offer its magazine as a weekly publication.
Clarity Media Group, Inc., the parent company of MediaDC, released this statement to CNN:
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It is no secret that news organizations across the U.S. are dealing with an evolving business landscape. The Weekly Standard is dealing with these same issues. Clarity Media has been exploring a number of possibilities regarding the future of The Weekly Standard. At this time, Clarity does not have any news to share about its evaluation process.
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Kristol and Fred Barnes co-founded the magazine during the Clinton administration and strongly supported George W. Bush during his presidency. But Kristol was critical of President Trump, writing in September: &#8220;We are thinking of and doing preliminary work to prepare for a primary run against Trump. People aren&#8217;t going to say they will run against Trump unless they have the infrastructure but I&#8217;ve been trying to persuade people that it may not be that difficult.&#8221;
Shortly after the November 2018 election, Kristol said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve started laying the groundwork for the possibility of a serious challenge to President Trump in the 2020 GOP primary,&#8221; adding, &#8220;President Trump is less dominant than many people think. Polls show it, focus groups show it, and the Republican House seats we lost in suburban districts that we&#8217;d held for years show it, too.&#8221;

Bill Kristol’s ‘The Weekly Standard’ WILL Shut Down, Report Says

On Tuesday, news broke that the magazine The Weekly Standard might close its operations in the coming weeks.
According to One America News Network:
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BREAKING: Multiple sources tell me that neocon magazine <a href="https://twitter.com/weeklystandard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@weeklystandard</a> is expected to close its operations in a few weeks. It had lost many subscribers since the 2016 election as its <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeverTrumper?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NeverTrumper</a> editors <a href="https://twitter.com/BillKristol?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillKristol</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/stephenfhayes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stephenfhayes</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SykesCharlie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SykesCharlie</a> publicly aligned with the Left.
&#8212; Emerald Robinson (@EmeraldRobinson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1070067821844070400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/media/weekly-standard-future-uncertain/index.html'">CNN</a> reported that Editor-in-Chief Stephen Hayes informed his staff that the magazine&#8217;s existence is in jeopardy.
Sources told CNN that the leaders of The Weekly Standard had been at odds with its publisher, and that Hayes had been permitted to look for another owner, but that MediaDC had then said it was not interested in selling the magazine. MediaDC also owns The Washington Examiner, which may soon offer its magazine as a weekly publication.
Clarity Media Group, Inc., the parent company of MediaDC, released this statement to CNN:
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It is no secret that news organizations across the U.S. are dealing with an evolving business landscape. The Weekly Standard is dealing with these same issues. Clarity Media has been exploring a number of possibilities regarding the future of The Weekly Standard. At this time, Clarity does not have any news to share about its evaluation process.&#8221;
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The Weekly Standard, founded in 1995 by Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes, strongly supported George W. Bush during his presidency but has been more critical of President Trump, especially editor-at-large Bill Kristol. In September he <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/bill-kristol-prepares-2020-primary-juggernaut-to-take-on-trump.html">said</a>, &#8220;We are thinking of and doing preliminary work to prepare for a primary run against Trump. People aren&#8217;t going to say they will run against Trump unless they have the infrastructure but I&#8217;ve been trying to persuade people that it may not be that difficult.&#8221;
After the November 2018 election, Kristol <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2018/11/09/bill-kristol-stoking-anti-trump-flames-in-new-hampshire/">said</a>, &#8220;We&#8217;ve started laying the groundwork for the possibility of a serious challenge to President Trump in the 2020 GOP primary,&#8221; adding, &#8220;President Trump is less dominant than many people think. Polls show it, focus groups show it, and the Republican House seats we lost in suburban districts that we&#8217;d held for years show it, too.&#8221;
But other writers from the Standard are more nuanced; contributing editor Jay Cost has criticized Trump, but also <a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2018/08/19/Jay-Cost-An-ace-for-Trump/stories/201808190069">wrote in August</a>, &#8220; &#8230; the indicators right now suggest that we can look forward, finally, to a noticeable uptick in wages for average Americans. For this president, that would be yuuge. Americans are willing to tolerate a lot from a president if the economy is good. Bill Clinton retained fantastic job approval ratings during the Monica Lewinsky scandal because the economy was going gangbusters. Similarly, if Mr. Trump can go back to the voters in 2020 and say, &#8216;I delivered on meaningful growth,&#8217; my hunch is that Americans would re-elect him.&#8221;
Another nuanced perspective comes from writer Jonathan Last, who <a href="https://www.weeklystandard.com/jonathan-v-last/never-trump-is-from-venus-always-trump-is-from-mars">wrote</a>, &#8220;Someday there will be a Democratic president giving rhetorical cover to Antifa thugs and attacking an independent counsel and refusing to release her tax returns and pushing through a Supreme Court justice of questionable moral worth (or packing the Court) and passing single-payer, socialized medicine on a one-vote majority&#8212;and a whole host of other things we can&#8217;t even imagine yet. And when that day comes, the same people who revel in Trump&#8217;s norm-defying antics now will be screaming bloody murder, oblivious to the fact that they helped create this timeline.&#8221;
Pundit Erick Erickson <a href="Erick%20Erickson,">commented</a> on Twitter, &#8220;One of the great things about Weekly Standard and National Review is that I still think the most interesting debate to be had on the right is between those who defend the President at all costs and those who like a lot of what he has done, but are still deeply skeptical of him.&#8221;

Report: Weekly Standard To Be Shut Down

Donald Trump

President Trump is furious that the FBI raided the offices of his personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
&#8220;Attorney-client privilege is dead!&#8221; Trump said on Twitter on Tuesday.
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Attorney&#8211;client privilege is dead!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983662868540346371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In another tweet, Trump called the raid &#8220;A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!&#8221;
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A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/983662953894436864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trump&#8217;s got a point on the attorney-client privilege. Under the U.S. Constitution, communications between clients and their lawyers are almost always beyond the reach of law enforcement, Business Insider reported.
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Business Insider on Monday reported that such a raid would have a high burden for approval, with authorities needing to convince a judge that less intrusive measures had no chance of success. The exact reason for the raid was unclear, but reports Monday indicated that the matter was referred to the FBI by Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the Russia investigation.
A former federal prosecutor, Ken White, in a blog for Reason, wrote: &#8220;That&#8217;s a very fraught and extraordinary move that requires multiple levels of authorization within the Department of Justice&#8221; and an &#8220;elaborate review process.&#8221;
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In the raid, the FBI reportedly collected records related to Cohen&#8217;s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election, The New York Times reported Monday.
Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ripped the raid, musing about whether the American Civil Liberties Union will seek to protect the Constitution.
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Waiting to see if ACLU will weigh in on the raid of Michael Cohen&#8217;s office and home. If gov&#8217;t can seize privileged communication between a client and lawyer, what civil liberties are left? Hate <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> if you must, but 4th and 5th amendments shouldn&#8217;t be shredded.
&#8212; Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/983470083203911680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz said it is a &#8220;dangerous day today for lawyer-client relations.&#8221;
&#8220;If this were Hillary Clinton [having her lawyer&#8217;s office raided], the ACLU would be on every TV station in America jumping up and down,&#8221; he said on Fox News. &#8220;The deafening silence of the ACLU and civil libertarians about the intrusion into the lawyer-client confidentiality is really appalling.&#8221;
Other heavyweights also weighed in.
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If by raiding the office of <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>&#8217;s attorney, the <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@fbi</a> violated Trump&#8217;s attorney-client privilege, this is about to get really ugly.
&#8212; Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/983444184513335299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The [attorney-client] privilege takes flight if the relation is abused. A client who consults an attorney for advice that will serve him in the commission of a fraud will have no help from the law. He must let the truth be told.&#8221; 
Justice Cardozo for the Court, Clark v U.S., 1933
&#8212; Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/983681967077183489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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To all the Democrats saying &#8220;this is the process&#8221; and &#8220;nobody is above the law&#8221;
No, it&#8217;s not, this is a hyper aggressive tactic under the circumstances that undermines attorney client privilege
and we already saw from DOJ&#8217;s actions that Hillary was considered above the law
&#8212; Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/983484718653100033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2018</a></blockquote>
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What Rosenstein and Mueller did violated our laws on so many levels yesterday.
The Attorney client privilege is no different than Hippa in medical.
Now imagine the outrage from the left or ACLU had the F.B.I. raided Hillary Clinton&#8217;s doctors or Attorneys offices?
&#8212; Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/983681217898926081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trump Berates FBI For Raid On Lawyer’s Office: ‘Attorney-Client Privilege Is Dead!’

Laura Ingraham

Mike Huckabee

&#8220;We&#8217;ve created a kind of endless, perpetual adolescence,&#8221; said Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oocDcZEhtm0">recently published interview</a> with Bill Kristol. &#8220;There has never been a civilization that&#8217;s had perpetual adolescence before. Adolescence itself is only about a 2,500 year old concept, and it&#8217;s a pretty special gift.&#8221;

Taking a broad view of human history, Sasse spoke of adolescence as a relatively new phenomenon allowing young persons to develop mind and spirit beyond pubescent maturation.

Contemporary sociological phenomena, added Sasse, have extended the adolescent phase to unhealthy lengths; stultifying of both individual actualization and broader civilizational development.

Adolescents should not resemble Peter Pan, said Sasse:

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&#8220;We&#8217;ve created this new idea that you can have a greenhouse-sheltered environment for two, three, or four years. And it&#8217;s great. It&#8217;s glorious. And yet, it&#8217;s always been a transitional state. It&#8217;s not supposed to be Peter Pan. You don&#8217;t want to be stranded in Neverland. It&#8217;s a hell if you don&#8217;t get to become an adult. 
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The number one address for college graduates in America, right now, is moving back into their parents&#8217; basement. By far the number one address. We have 18- to 24-year-old males, a large share of whom play video games a majority of their waking hours. I don&#8217;t want those guys marrying my daughters.&#8221;
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A large swathe of young persons entering colleges and universities have never been employed, said Sasse, recalling an anecdote from his former role as Midland University&#8217;s president:

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&#8220;What shocked me about the experience of arriving at the school is that overwhelmingly, the incoming students had never worked before. They&#8217;d never done any hard labor &#8230; They just never really had to do any work of any kind.

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When I went to college in 1990 &#8230; all of them had worked. I don&#8217;t think I knew a soul who hadn&#8217;t done some hard before.

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What have we done to lose the transmission of a work ethic to these kids?&#8221;
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The modern era in America, said Sasse, has largely divorced production from consumption in the lives of many young persons. The absence of meaningful work for many young persons obstructs their pursuit of the Good Life, he added.

Children in modern American life, said Sasse, are largely missing out on character development associated with work:
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&#8220;We live in a time in history where work has been so separated from the home, that there isn&#8217;t really much work for kids to do when they&#8217;re ten or twelve or fourteen. You don&#8217;t grow up around a house where there&#8217;s a lot that needs to be done.&#8221;
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On the pedagogical front, Sasse critiqued the status quo of classrooms as the primary means of educating teenagers. &#8220;Progressive&#8221; educational approaches to &#8220;protect kids from work,&#8221; he said, interfered with education&#8217;s higher purpose of &#8220;freeing kids] up to find meaning in work:&#8221;

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&#8220;I think it&#8217;s highly dangerous to think that the main thing fourteen- to eighteen-year-olds should do is sit still and be in a classroom inside for the majority of their waking hours, Monday through Friday.&#8221;
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Contrasting young Israelis serving in the military (Israelis subject to the draft are conscripted for military service at eighteen years of age) with their American counterparts, Sasse and Kristol observed the disparity of maturity between the two cohorts.

Last week saw the publication of Sasse&#8217;s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Vanishing-American-Adult-Coming-Crisis/dp/1250114403/ref=la_B072DWDG8D_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1494875972&amp;sr=1-1">new book</a>, &#8220;The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis&#8211;and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance.&#8221;
 

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Sasse: We’ve Created ‘Endless, Perpetual Adolescence’ Like ‘Peter Pan’

Ben Sasse

Economy

Teenagers

On Thursday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough lost his cool when conservative commentator Bill Kristol correctly pointed out that Scarborough and his cohost of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski had facilitated the rise of Donald Trump during the primary season.
Kristol prompted the confrontation when he asserted that Trump was a &#8220;failed, fluke presidential candidate &#8230; he won the nomination in a fluky way.&#8221;
Brzezinski snapped, &#8220;You people elected him and nominated him. That&#8217;s not a fluke.&#8221;
The two cohosts started laughing, prompting Kristol&#8217;s fury: &#8220;You feel great because the Republican Party nominated a guy who&#8217;s really a bad guy as president. You think it&#8217;s funny and amusing.&#8221;
Brzezinski condescended that Republicans &#8220;need to come clean on themselves, including leaders of the Republican party.&#8221;
Kristol fired back, &#8220;This show was really tough on Trump in late 2015, early 2016. Are you going to pretend that? If that&#8217;s you&#8217;re way of rewriting history, that&#8217;s on you guys.&#8221; As the two cohosts affected outrage, Kristol continued, &#8220;A lot of people accommodated Donald Trump at different times. But I&#8217;m not going to get into it.&#8221;
Scarborough patronized, &#8220;Please don&#8217;t come on my air and lie. I can&#8217;t even believe you&#8217;re doing this. I don&#8217;t know why you&#8217;re so bitter. You&#8217;re practically crying. You&#8217;re practically crying.&#8221;
Kristol acknowledged he was deeply upset. Scarborough protested that he had compared Trump to Adolf Hitler, prompting Kristol to snap back, &#8220;You treated him that way when he called in? Is that right? You treated him tough, you asked him those tough questions?&#8221;
Scarborough burst out, &#8220;While you&#8217;re attacking me personally, I said from the beginning I would never vote for him. I said I was voting for Jeb Bush, and I said I was voting for John Kasich. Then we said after the Muslim ban that this is what Germany looked like in 1933. &#8230; I&#8217;m sorry we were easy on him. If comparing him to Hitler in 1933 is going easy on him &#8212; that was three months before anyone voted &#8212; then we were easy on him then.&#8221;
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&#8220;You treated him that way when he called in? Is that right? You treated him tough, you asked him those tough questions?&#8221;
Bill Kristol
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Scarborough&#8217;s protestations notwithstanding, there is abundant evidence of how he and Brzezinski enabled Trump to rise. Examples include:
1. <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/02/22/hot-mic-morning-joe-and-donald-trump-love-affair">Leaked audio</a> from a conversation that the two hosts had with Trump in February, in which there was this exchange:
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BRZEZINSKI: No. You know what I thought was the&#8212;kind of WOW moment; was the guy you brought up on stage.
TRUMP: Yeah, that was great.
SCARBOROUGH: We played it several times this morning.
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2. March 3: Brzezinski <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/03/03/brzezinski-you-cant-start-telling-truth-now-about-trump">ripping</a> Mitt Romney&#8217;s speech condemning Trump even before he gave it, bloviating, &#8220;You know what? If you don&#8217;t have something to offer, if you&#8217;re not going to jump in and get the fight, then what is it that you&#8217;re saying or doing at this point?&#8221; She added protectively, &#8220;This is the problem. You can&#8217;t get real now. You can&#8217;t start telling the truth now. And that&#8217;s what everybody&#8217;s doing.
<a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/03/04/hypocrite-joe-romney-should-jump-or-shut-immediately-hits">Scarborough</a>, after Romney actually gave the speech: &#8220;Dude, if you&#8217;re going to get into the pool, jump in. You&#8217;re standing at the side. Jump in or go and put the towel on and go back in[side].&#8221; 
3. Scarborough on March 15, <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/03/15/morning-joe-ignores-delegate-math-declares-trump-nominee">trumpeting</a> that the GOP presidential race was over: &#8220;And let me say that at ten after the hour right here, Mika, the overwhelming odds are that Donald Trump&#8217;s going to win this thing outright.&#8221;
4. After Ted Cruz&#8217;s blowout victory in Wisconsin, Brzezinski <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/04/06/joe-and-mika-openly-campaign-trump">mewling</a>, &#8220;I think the establishment and the Stop Trump forces are shooting themselves in the foot because they&#8217;re so blindly focused their hatred on Trump to the point where they can&#8217;t see that what they&#8217;re going to get is Cruz.&#8221; Even more astonishingly, the two sycophants praised the statement Trump issued after his loss; Scarborough insisted, &#8220;Then there&#8217;s the statement last night, instead of a barrage of angry tweets at Fox News and all these other stuff, that&#8217;s what he has to do. That statement was tough and you know what? It was on message.&#8221;
5. Scarborough, who had been so eager to anoint Trump the GOP nominee on March 15, bleating, &#8220;Listen. Let&#8217;s be clear here, Ted Cruz will never be the nominee of the Republican Party.&#8221;
Video of the Kristol-Scarborough exchange below:

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