First Lady Melania Trump appeared on Capitol Hill on Monday and called out Democrats for not taking on the serious issue of youth online safety with the passage of the “Take it Down Act.”
Introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the <a href="https://x.com/cspan/status/1896643926146105364">first lady</a> said during her first solo public appearance that she was there “with a common goal, to protect our youth from online harm,” calling on Congress to pass the act from Cruz that would “criminalize the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII),&#8221; including AI-generated &#8221;deepfake pornography,” per a Cruz office <a href="https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/6/sen-cruz-leads-colleagues-in-unveiling-landmark-bill-to-protect-victims-of-deepfake-revenge-porn">release</a>.
“Addressing this issue is essential for fostering a safe and supportive environment for our young people,” Melania said during a panel discussion with victims of NCII. “I hope today’s roundtable builds awareness of the harm caused by non-consensual intimate imagery and eventually the approval of the ‘Take it Down Act’ in Congress.”
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First Lady <a href="https://twitter.com/FLOTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FLOTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MELANIATRUMP</a> on &#8216;Take it Down Act&#8217;: &#8220;I must admit, however, I expected to see more Democrat leaders with us here today to address this serious issue. Surely as adults we can prioritize America&#8217;s children ahead of partisan politics.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/0j9MIRv3cu">pic.twitter.com/0j9MIRv3cu</a>
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&#8220;In today&#8217;s AI-driven world, the threat of privacy breaches is alarmingly high. As organizations harness the power of our data, the risk of unauthorized access and misuse of personal information escalates,” she added. “We must prioritize robust security measures and uphold strict ethical standards to protect individual privacy.&#8221;
“I was heartened to learn that Sen. Cruz and Sen. Klobuchar [D-MN] unified to prioritize this fundamental matter,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;I must admit, however, I expected to see more Democrat leaders with us here today to address this serious issue. Surely, as adults we can prioritize America’s children ahead of partisan politics.”
The first lady then called on Congress to “prioritize the passage of the ‘Take it Down Act’ bill,” calling it essential to deal with the “growing concerns of online safety.”
Ahead of Monday’s roundtable, Cruz posted on <a href="https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/1896639815766168017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a>, “I am looking forward to a robust discussion with @FLOTUS.”
“My bill, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, passed unanimously in the Senate with a 100-0 vote,” he added. “This crucial legislation will protect ALL Americans, especially teenagers and young women. We need to get this done!&#8221;
The bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support in February, but has yet to pass the House, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/02/politics/melania-trump-public-remarks-deepfake/index.html">CNN</a> noted.
During President Donald Trump’s first term, Melania introduced her “Be Best” initiative, which dealt with making the online platform safer for young people. At Monday’s event, the <a href="https://x.com/FLOTUS/status/1896628735136379010">first lady</a> noted that the “Take it Down Act” supports her “Be Best” platform by providing “important legislation to safeguard our youth.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/melania-trumps-plans-as-first-lady-second-time-around-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melania Trump’s Plans As First Lady Second Time Around: Report</a>

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When President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> and Vice President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JD Vance</a> are sworn into office on Inauguration Day, flags at the U.S. Capitol will fly at full-staff, House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) announced on Tuesday.
Flags at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., had been <a href="https://x.com/ABCPolitics/status/1873799350150631675" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowered</a> to half-staff at the end of December for a 30-day mourning period after former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jimmy-carter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Carter</a> died at the age of 100.
&#8220;On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump,&#8221; Johnson said in a <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1879195077446389850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;The flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter.&#8221;
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On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump. 
The flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter.
&mdash; Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1879195077446389850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On X, Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/RepNateMoran/status/1879201691947655299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thanked</a> Johnson, writing: &#8220;Inauguration Day should be a day of celebration &#8211; NOT a day when our nation’s flag is flown at half mast.&#8221;
Moran also noted that he is a &#8220;proud&#8221; co-sponsor of a bill from Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-TX) that would mandate American flags fly at their <a href="https://delacruz.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2355" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;highest peak&#8221;</a> on Inauguration Day.
The speaker&#8217;s move comes after governors in some states ordered flags to return to full-staff at their state capitols and state buildings for Inauguration Day.
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&#8220;Inauguration Day is a day of celebration for America,&#8221; Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said in a <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1878826334396580075" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> to X on Monday. &#8220;Today, I ordered flags raised to full-staff at the Texas Capitol &amp; state buildings for President Trump’s inauguration. While we honor President Carter’s service, we also celebrate an incoming President &amp; our bright future.&#8221;
Among the others who did the same were Alabama Republican Governor <a href="https://x.com/GovernorKayIvey/status/1878940382953922763" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kay Ivey</a> and North Dakota Republican Governor <a href="https://www.governor.nd.gov/news/armstrong-directs-full-staff-jan-20-celebration-president-elect-trumps-inauguration-flags" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kelly Armstrong</a>.
The Associated Press <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-flies-mar-a-lago-flag-at-full-height-before-end-of-mourning-period-for-carter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that a large flag at Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida was lowered to half-staff but had been raised to full height in recent days before the end of the 30-day mourning period for Carter.
Trump and other dignitaries traveled to Washington, D.C., last week to pay their respects to Carter, where the late president laid in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. His <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jimmy-carters-funeral-living-presidents-together-national-cathedral/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funeral</a> was held in the National Cathedral.

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Speaker Johnson Orders Flags At U.S. Capitol To Fly At Full-Staff For Trump’s Inauguration

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Popular broadcast news journalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/katie-couric">Katie Couric</a> weighed in on the Capitol Hill bathroom controversy, stating that she found it “sh***y” that members of Congress are expected to use the bathroom that matches their biological sex.
Her statements come on the heels of Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-mace">Nancy Mace</a> (R-SC) introducing legislation that would require “members, officers, and employees of the House” to use bathrooms according to sex. 
The bill was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mace-on-trans-bathroom-ban-as-a-rape-survivor-i-know-how-vulnerable-women-are-in-private-spaces">introduced</a> this week as Democrats are preparing for their new member, Sarah McBride from Delaware, to become the first member of Congress to identify as transgender.
A reporter asked Mace, “Is this effort in response to Congresswoman McBride coming to Congress?”
“Yes and absolutely, and then some,” Mace replied. “I’m not going to stand for a man, you know, when someone with a penis is in the women’s locker room, that’s not okay.”
Couric, meanwhile, took issue with Mace&#8217;s tone. 
“Hey everyone, I&#8217;m just so disappointed that this Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, is being so rude, and I don&#8217;t know, just bigoted against Sarah McBride, who is a new congressperson from the state of Delaware,” the 67-year-old TV personality said in a video <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@katiecouric/video/7439545297161751850?lang=en">posted</a> on TikTok Thursday.
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“I know Sarah. She is the first openly transgender member of Congress, and she&#8217;s an extraordinary human being, has done a great job representing the people of Delaware and is now going to be doing it in Washington, and it just seems nasty and mean, and cruel because she is the only member who is now forbidden to use the ladies&#8217; room and it&#8217;s just sh***y, you know. Anyway, I just wanted to say that.”
Couric isn’t the only one upset over the bill. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was fuming over the idea of people sticking to the bathroom that matched their sex, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-keeping-men-out-of-womens-bathrooms-is-endangering-women">saying</a>, “It’s disgusting. And everybody, no matter how you feel on this issue, should reject it completely.” 
“They’re doing this so that Nancy Mace can make a buck and send a text and fundraise off an email. They’re not doing this to protect people. They’re endangering women,” she continued. “They’re endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It’s gross.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) supported the move, noting that “each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”
McBride also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-identifying-congressman-agrees-not-to-use-female-bathrooms-after-johnson-brings-the-hammer-down">weighed in</a>, saying, “I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson even if I disagree with them. This effort to distract from the real issues facing this country hasn’t distracted me over the last several days, as I’ve remained hard at work preparing to represent the greatest state in the union come January.”

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Katie Couric Says It’s ‘Sh***y’ That Trans-Identifying Male Congress Member Can’t Use Ladies’ Room

Katie Couric Says It's 'Sh**y' That Trans-Identifying Male Congress Member Can't Use Ladies' Room

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Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) got a virtual earful after he tried to shame Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for putting forth a bill that would prevent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biological males</a> from using the women&#8217;s restrooms on Capitol Hill.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mace-introduces-bill-to-ban-men-from-using-womens-bathrooms-in-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mace&#8217;s bill</a> comes on the heels of the November 5th election of Sarah <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/knowles-urges-gop-to-hold-the-line-after-democrat-becomes-first-trans-person-elected-to-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McBride</a> (D-DE), a trans-identifying man, to the U.S. House of Representatives — and Phillips called Mace &#8220;pathetic&#8221; for demanding that women&#8217;s spaces be protected.
&#8220;Pathetic. What are you scared of, Nancy?&#8221; Phillips, who challenged President Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic primary, posted on X.
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Pathetic.
What are you scared of, Nancy? <a href="https://t.co/xPW5LPwH9j">https://t.co/xPW5LPwH9j</a>
&mdash; Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) <a href="https://twitter.com/deanbphillips/status/1858667281972125756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What&#8217;s pathetic about it, @Deanbphillips?&#8221; podcast host Megyn Kelly asked. &#8220;Women have a right to know when they go into a bathroom, no men will be in there. Why should members of Congress or female Hill staffers have to sacrifice this security so that men pretending to be women can feel better?&#8221;
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What’s pathetic about it <a href="https://twitter.com/deanbphillips?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@deanbphillips</a>? Women have a right to know when they go into a bathroom, no men will be in there. Why should members of Congress or female Hill staffers have to sacrifice this security so that men pretending to be women can feel better? <a href="https://t.co/tLRyqedvt6">https://t.co/tLRyqedvt6</a>
&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1858897551870636072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Men attacking women for not wanting men in their bathrooms, with challenges of &#8216;oh so you&#8217;re a wimp?&#8217;, is f***ing disgusting,&#8221; another posted.
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Men attacking women for not wanting men in their bathrooms, with challenges of &quot;oh so you&#39;re a wimp?&quot;, is fucking disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/p32tfZWvQD">https://t.co/p32tfZWvQD</a>
&mdash; Sunny (@sunnyright) <a href="https://twitter.com/sunnyright/status/1858895364767596967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Women have many reasons to desire female only spaces. And legitimate fear of dealing with men while vulnerable is actually a significant part of that. Men trying to force other men into women only spaces is beyond creepy, Dean,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Mollie Hemingway added.
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Women have many reasons to desire female only spaces. And legitimate fear of dealing with men while vulnerable is actually a significant part of that. 
Men trying to force other men into women only spaces is beyond creepy, Dean.
&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href="https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1858954982298427884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;She&#8217;s afraid of predatory, mentally ill men having unrestricted access to the women&#8217;s bathroom,&#8221; Jordan Schachtel said.
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She&#39;s afraid of predatory, mentally ill men having unrestricted access to the women&#39;s bathroom.
&mdash; Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1858898038879588651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Several critics pointed out the fact that Mace is a rape survivor herself, making Phillips&#8217; attack on her even more out of line.
&#8220;Demanding that a rape survivor share a bathroom with a biological male and then calling her &#8216;pathetic&#8217; is about as low and disgusting as it gets,&#8221; one commented.
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Demanding that a rape survivor share a bathroom with a biological male and then calling her “pathetic” is about as low and disgusting as it gets. <a href="https://t.co/SKHLKCOmOr">https://t.co/SKHLKCOmOr</a>
&mdash; Chris Barron 🇺🇸 (@ChrisRBarron) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisRBarron/status/1858913990207795597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;d guess Based Mace is scared of&#8230;men coming into the women&#8217;s resteoom. Given that she survived a rape, that seems like a pretty rational fear,&#8221; Andrew Follett added.
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I&#39;d guess Based Mace is scared of&#8230;men coming into the women&#39;s resteoom.
Given that she survived a rape, that seems like a pretty rational fear.
&mdash; Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewCFollett/status/1858680028638154929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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2024 Democratic National Convention: Day 1

‘F**king Disgusting’: Dem Rep Trashed For Attacking Mace’s Bill To Keep Men Out Of Women’s Bathrooms

'F**king Disgusting': Dem Rep Trashed For Attacking Mace's Bill To Keep Men Out Of Women's Bathrooms

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CNN hosts will moderate the presidential debate on Thursday — and why not? They have such amazing journalistic credibility.
On Tuesday, CNN’s Sara Sidner interviewed a drag queen, a woman who dresses up as a man who dresses up as a woman. (This woman couldn&#8217;t just be a woman; she had to dress up as a man dressed up as a woman. We have moved beyond the boundaries of logic.) This person goes by Brigitte Bandit. During the interview, Bandit talked about how it&#8217;s a scary time to exist in America as a drag queen.
Apparently, it’s not a scary enough time in America that Bandit can’t appear on national TV wearing drag.
When I first saw this, I wondered which one of these people was the CNN anchor because CNN is so filled with clowns. A CNN anchor is interviewing a woman dressed up as a man dressed up as a cartoon woman whom we are all supposed to take very seriously. We are all supposed to worship before the power of drag and acknowledge that this is what the Founders saw when they enshrined the First Amendment. Brigitte Bandit <a href="https://twitter.com/BrigitteBandit/status/1805634853779415422" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pontificated</a>:
<blockquote>We already see so many attacks on our queer community. I already don&#8217;t feel safe in my own hometown, just dressed in drag like this. And it&#8217;s very scary for queer people to exist in a time where we see this kind of rhetoric being pushed by our lawmakers and the people who should care about other issues that actually affect the American people, other than attacking our community, our LGBTQIA+ community. It&#8217;s very disappointing and I hope for better for our country.</blockquote>
Why would people look weirdly at this person? Why? Why would you give weird looks to that person walking down the street with those eyebrows, that plastic Barbie doll stewardess outfit from 1955, and that weird eye makeup — while being a man?
Why would you look weirdly at that?
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But CNN has its own perspective on this. Sidner praised the look: “The queens are calling on lawmakers to pass a national equality act. It could amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act, providing explicit protections for LGBTQ individuals. Joining me now is drag queen and activist Brigitte Bandit. Thank you, darling. Wow, what a wonderful look you have this morning. I know that took you some time.”
That&#8217;s a woman dressed as a man who is dressed as a woman.
But it&#8217;s society that has a problem, folks. It&#8217;s society and our lack of tolerance.
Bandit is “non-binary” and uses the personal pronouns “she,” “her,” “they,” and “them.”
What a country we&#8217;ve created for ourselves. George Washington would have been so proud.
Apparently CNN is.

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said he had a &#8220;positive meeting&#8221; with former President Donald Trump on Thursday after Trump traveled to Capitol Hill to talk with Republican lawmakers.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee praised the GOP Senate leader during his comments at the D.C. meeting, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/06/13/congress/mcconnell-and-trump-speak-00163236" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“We had a really positive meeting, he and I got a chance to talk a little bit, we shook hands a few times, he got a lot of standing ovations, it was an entirely positive meeting. Mitt Romney was there, as well, and I can’t think of anything to tell you about it that was negative,” McConnell said.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) added that Trump &#8220;immediately went in to address Mitch McConnell and said he&#8217;s done his best while he was here. He understands elections. And he understands how important two seats are and we need to be focused on those.&#8221;
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Trump and McConnell have had a rocky relationship over the past four years, and Thursday&#8217;s private meeting marked the first time the two had spoken in person since a month after the contentious 2020 election, according to POLITICO. Trump has slammed McConnell for approving Democrat legislation in the Senate, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-intensifies-attacks-mcconnell-death-wish-remark-social-media-pla-rcna50293" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> in 2022 that the Kentuckian has a &#8220;death wish,&#8221; which a Trump spokesman said was in reference to &#8220;killing the Republican Party through weakness and cowardice.&#8221;
McConnell has also blasted Trump, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/02/13/mcconnell-condemns-trump-acquitted-469002" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> he was &#8220;practically and morally responsible for provoking&#8221; the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
On Thursday at the Republican meeting, however, there was nothing but solidarity, according to some of the senators who attended.
“There was a lot of unity. A lot of people think we’re going in the wrong direction now,” McConnell&#8217;s fellow Kentucky senator, Rand Paul said, adding that most of the discussions centered on policy.
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“I haven’t seen that Republican group as strongly united on all of those policy issues in a long, long time,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), who has also <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/gop-senator-spars-trump-after-calling-out-stolen-election-lie-n1287279" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> Trump over the former president&#8217;s allegations that the 2020 election was &#8220;rigged&#8221; and &#8220;stolen.&#8221;
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HAPPENING NOW: President Trump begins remarks in D.C. flanked by Republican Senators <a href="https://t.co/kgcBkwO31C">pic.twitter.com/kgcBkwO31C</a>
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) <a href="https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1801309386691789172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In February, the 82-year-old McConnell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-to-step-down-as-senate-republican-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he would be stepping down from his Senate leadership after Republicans select a new leader in November. He added that he still plans to serve the remainder of his term as senator, which ends in 2027.

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McConnell Had ‘Entirely Positive Meeting’ With Trump During Capitol Hill Visit

McConnell Had 'Entirely Positive Meeting' With Trump During Capitol Hill Visit

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Rapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/50-cent">50 Cent</a> made an appearance on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-hill">Capitol Hill</a> on Wednesday to speak with lawmakers about creating generational wealth for black Americans. While there, the recording artist said black men are “identifying with” presidential hopeful Donald Trump over President Joe Biden.
The 48-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">celebrity</a>, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, stated his opinions from the perspective of a business person and liquor company owner. 50 Cent appeared with famed civil rights attorney Ben Crump to promote black representation in the liquor industry. 
“This is really exciting for me to be here. I got a chance to meet with both sides today, and it feels really good,” he <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/politics/2024/06/05/50-cent-promotes-black-representation-in-liquor-industry-at-us-capitol/73989728007/">said</a>. “[Lawmakers] don’t agree on a lot of stuff, and so to get them to agree on seeing me was an accomplishment in itself.”
“My experience here has been great,” Jackson continued. “I went to talk to them about economic opportunities for everybody, and it’s really exciting. The response I got makes me feel that there’s bright things ahead of us.”
When CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rapper-50-cent-black-men-identifying-with-trump/">asked</a> about who he’s endorsing in the upcoming presidential election, the rapper said he hasn’t made a choice yet. 
50 Cent also said he believes black men could be more likely to back Trump now. “I see them identifying with Trump. Because they got RICO charges,” he told Killion, referring to a RICO charge in the Georgia election interference case.
As he mentioned, the rapper met with representatives on both sides of the political aisle during his visit. He posted a photo of himself with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) to X. 
“Speaker of the house (sic) Mike Johnson (R) my fellow Shreveport friend said he is happy to see me making things happen creating lots of jobs,” Jackson shared in the caption.
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Speaker of the house Mike Johnson (R) my fellow Shreveport friend said he is happy to see me making things happen creating lots of jobs. <a href="https://twitter.com/bransoncognac?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bransoncognac</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/lecheminduroi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lecheminduroi</a> <a href="https://t.co/PiBsQb1qs8">pic.twitter.com/PiBsQb1qs8</a>
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The Grammy Award-winning artist publicly endorsed Donald Trump in the 2020 election but later backtracked in a social media exchange with his ex-girlfriend, comedian Chelsea Handler.
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“He says he doesn’t want to pay 62 percent in taxes — which, by the way, isn’t a plan of Joe Biden’s, that’s a lie — so he doesn’t want to pay 62 percent in taxes because he doesn’t want to go from being 50 Cent to 20 Cent,” Handler told Jimmy Fallon in 2020. 
“I had to remind him that he was a black person, so he can’t vote for Donald Trump, and that he shouldn’t be influencing an entire swath of people who may listen to him because he’s worried about his own personal pocketbook,” she added.
50 Cent responded by tweeting a clip of the exchange and adding the <a href="https://x.com/50cent/status/1320184040654295040">caption</a>, “a what, another spin, Fu*k Donald Trump, I never liked him,” it said.

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Rapper 50 Cent Said Black Men Are ‘Identifying With Trump’ Over Biden

Rapper 50 Cent Said Black Men Are 'Identifying With Trump' Over Biden

2024 Election

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Felony

Madison Cawthorn isn&#8217;t a name you hear a lot anymore. He was elected to succeed Mark Meadows in Congress, when Meadows became Donald Trump&#8217;s chief of staff in 2020 — even though neither Meadows nor Trump had endorsed Cawthorn in the primary. That year, Cawthorn became the youngest person elected to the House of Representatives in modern history. For a while, it looked like he would become a major insurgent figure on the Right — sort of like the conservative version of A.O.C., with a few dozen more I.Q. points. But then everything changed. And it changed very quickly.
Starting around early 2022, Cawthorn began saying things that were extremely unpopular in Washington, among both Democrats and Republicans. For one thing, Cawthorn described Ukraine&#8217;s government as corrupt, and he suggested that we probably shouldn&#8217;t write them blank checks indefinitely. That was a big no-no. Even more alarming to the power centers in the nation&#8217;s capital, Cawthorn publicly began talking about what he called, &#8220;the sexual perversion that goes on in Washington.&#8221; As CNN reported at the time, &#8220;Cawthorn claimed that he has been invited to an orgy in Washington and had personally seen leaders in the efforts to curb drug addiction doing cocaine.&#8221;&#8216;
Those comments upset House Republicans, who <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/29/cawthorn-orgies-freedom-caucus-00021548" target="_blank" rel="noopener">challenged</a> Cawthorn and implied he was lying. Not long afterwards, a coordinated smear campaign began. This was not subtle. It was as obvious as it could&#8217;ve possibly been. Within a month, senior political figures in both parties were publicly <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/crypto-probe-thom-tillis-urges-probe-of-madison-cawthorn-over-possible-insider-trading.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing</a> Cawthorn of insider trading, in connection with his promotion of a cryptocurrency. Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/22/madison-cawthorn-photos-00027286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> embarrassing photos of Cawthorn wearing women’s clothing in college. Reports surfaced that he had been driving with a revoked license. As NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/05/02/1095770735/madison-cawthorn-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, &#8220;Rep. Madison Cawthorn is under mounting pressure from scandals ahead of midterms.&#8221; And indeed, the smears worked. Roughly 95% of House members typically <a href="https://time.com/6178176/madison-cawthorn-lost-north-carolina/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">win</a> re-election, but in the summer of 2022, Cawthorn was not one of them. He lost his primary.
Even by the standards of Washington, that&#8217;s a quick clean-up job. Madison Cawthorn stepped out of line, and within weeks, he was gone. No one really asked any questions about who ordered this hit job, or what they were trying to cover up. Could it be that this freshman congressman is right — and that weird, degenerate sex stuff is happening all the time in the U.S. Capitol, right out in the open? No journalists or politicians seemed to care about the answer to that question. They all took Kevin McCarthy&#8217;s word, and assumed Cawthorn was lying.
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But this weekend, it became pretty clear to everyone that yes, Madison Cawthorn was right. The depravity that goes on in Congress is far beyond what most people would imagine. There&#8217;s really no way to deny that anymore. That&#8217;s because, as The Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/15/staffer-caught-filming-sex-tape-senate-hearing-room/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, a staffer for Maryland senator Ben Cardin decided to make a gay sex tape inside the Senate hearing room. The Daily Caller posted an excerpt from the sex tape on its website. There&#8217;s no doubt that this staffer, Aidan Maese-Czeropski, knew he was being filmed. The man he was having sex with was the photographer. And then, Aidan <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/andy-ngo-reports-fired-democrat-senate-staffer-who-made-sex-tape-in-iconic-senate-room-has-long-history-of-making-porn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uploaded</a> this footage to the Internet, noting that it was the same room in which Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor sat for her confirmation hearings. And then when he was exposed, in more ways than one, Aidan put out a statement admitting he was in the video — but saying only homophobes would be outraged by it. Yes, you have to be a homophobe to object to sodomy in the Capitol building. That’s the excuse he went with.
But regardless of the excuse, the reality is that this event is unironically worse than January 6th, by a wide margin. If our democracy is this sacred thing that we are supposed to treat with awed reverence, as Democrats have frequently claimed, then you would think that someone making a gay sex tape inside those hallowed halls of congress would be considered one of the worst acts of desecration imaginable. Now, granted, the American people get screwed all the time on Capitol Hill, so this may not seem like much of a deviation. This is probably not the first time, in that sense, that a Senate hearing room became a Senate rearing room — to steal a joke that a thousand people already made on Twitter/X. Even so, this is still a scandal, and an especially disgusting one. 
And yet, if you rely on the corporate media for your news, you may have missed this story entirely. For the most part, media outlets have refused to cover it. And the few outlets that have covered the story have left out a lot of key details. Here for example is how one local Fox station reported on this:
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Notice what&#8217;s not mentioned in that report. You have no idea who filmed this sex tape, or who&#8217;s in it. For all you know, it could be some random tourists. When that report aired, Fox was aware of The Daily Caller&#8217;s reporting. They could have worked their sources and tried to confirm it. Instead, they keep it as vague as possible. 
This was a common theme over the past few days. Some major outlets, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, simply chose to ignore the story entirely over the weekend. For its part, NBC News decided to blame conservatives for the whole situation. This was their <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-staffer-alleged-conservative-outlets-sex-hearing-room-rcna130095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a>: &#8220;Senate staffer alleged by conservative outlets to have had sex in a hearing room is no longer employed.&#8221; So, they&#8217;re making &#8220;conservative outlets&#8221; the boogeyman in the story, implying that they might be lying — even though this staffer uploaded this footage to the Internet himself. They’re also saying that the scandal is only “alleged,” even though the guy is on video, and he admitted it. He wasn’t fired, either. He’s just “no longer employed.”
Politico, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/16/cardin-staffer-linked-to-sex-tape-leaves-senate-00132147" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that, &#8220;Cardin staffer linked to sex tape leaves Senate.&#8221; That&#8217;s the actual headline they ran. The dude is merely  &#8220;linked to the sex tape.&#8221; That&#8217;s the extent of his involvement. And again he wasn&#8217;t fired. Instead, he merely &#8220;leaves the Senate.” Keep in mind how all of these outlets responded when Lauren Boebert got handsy with some guy in a dark theater. That was treated as a major scandal. A massive violation of congressional decorum and ethics. Meanwhile we have this guy taking off his clothes and having gay sex in the Capitol building, on video, and it is treated as only a minor story, at most.
At this point, you&#8217;re probably getting the sense that Madison Cawthorn might&#8217;ve been on to something. It&#8217;s not just that a depraved sex act took place in a Senate hearing room. It&#8217;s also the fact that major media outlets and political figures are blatantly covering it up. They&#8217;re intentionally writing their stories so that people reading them won&#8217;t have any idea what&#8217;s going on. That&#8217;s the kind of thing that makes you wonder what else is going on in Washington that you&#8217;re not seeing.  Maybe, as Cawthorn alleged, there&#8217;s a whole lot of degenerate sex stuff happening in Congress. It happened to the Roman Empire in its final days, and now it&#8217;s happening to us.
But in reality, that would undersell the problem. To be fair to the late Roman Empire, they at least arrested the pagans. We&#8217;re idolizing them. Remember that this was the scene in the Iowa statehouse this week:
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As you heard on this show, a Christian military veteran named Michael Cassidy tore this satanic display down. He was arrested for it and charged with &#8220;mischief.&#8221; On social media, you&#8217;ll find a lot of conservatives defending Cassidy&#8217;s arrest. They&#8217;ll say they don&#8217;t like the way this satanic idol was established in the middle of a government building. But they&#8217;ll insist that the only reasonable way to remove it is through &#8220;the legal process.&#8221; They say conservatives should play by the rules of whatever bureaucratic system decided it was a good idea to allow this display to exist in the first place. They&#8217;ll suggest that the First Amendment guarantees the right of these cultists to have their little display.
First of all, just as a factual matter, that&#8217;s not true. If you showed any of the founding fathers this satanic goat head, they&#8217;d destroy it immediately. That&#8217;s because satanism was understood, for most of world history, as an anti-religion. Indeed, it was understood that way for most of this country&#8217;s history, as well. It was the polar opposite of what the First Amendment respected. It wasn&#8217;t until 2019 that the U.S. government decided to <a href="https://apnews.com/general-news-6addf2f0ecb646919cb1cfcfdacfc6c1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recognize</a> the satanic temple as a bona fide religious group. So this is something of a new idea — that &#8220;religion&#8221; means &#8220;whatever degenerates claim is a religion.&#8221; 
But more importantly, whatever the First Amendment or the founders say, here&#8217;s a more important law than even the First Amendment, which is natural law. This goes back to Plato and Aristotle. It&#8217;s rooted in Catholic, jurisprudential, and philosophical tradition. And it transcends whatever bureaucracy exists in Iowa that allowed this satanic idol to be erected in the statehouse. It transcends lawfare and endless litigation in federal courts. Natural law builds Western civilization— not bureaucrats in Iowa, or Left-wing district court judges in San Francisco. Satanism is an affront to natural law. It&#8217;s maybe the most explicit affront to natural law imaginable. Michael Cassidy understood that.
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The only thing that&#8217;s surprising about what Michael Cassidy did is that he didn&#8217;t have a lot of accomplices. Why was he the only one who decided to take this thing out? Just to recap, this past week alone, Democrats have put up a satanic altar in one capitol building and recorded themselves being sodomized in another. And none of this is particularly surprising, given what we&#8217;ve seen in capitol buildings all over the country this year. A few months ago they were marching through the Tennessee statehouse with bullhorns and barging into other state capitols waving rainbow flags. The White House raised a so-called pride flag. So did several other state governments: 
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When all of these trans flags went up, we were told it was just about love and respecting one another. It&#8217;s not about satanism, they insisted. And if you disagree, you&#8217;re a bigot. You want to incite division.
This weekend, Madison Cawthorn tweeted three simple words. He wrote,  &#8220;I told you.&#8221; And indeed, Madison Cawthorn did tell us that degeneracy was on the march. Now it&#8217;s all around us. There&#8217;s Sam Brinton, the cross-dressing, luggage-stealing &#8220;nuclear waste expert.&#8221; The guy who had a confessed dog fetish and liked dressing up in leather bondage gear on camera, and yet was given an important position in the Administration along with a high security clearance. Then there&#8217;s the trans activist who went topless at the White House, at Joe Biden&#8217;s invitation. Then there&#8217;s Rachel Levine, the fake admiral and child mutilation enthusiast who makes a mockery of women every time he appears in public. All of these indignities are brought to us by the party that tells us they&#8217;re returning &#8220;decency&#8221; to the ballot. They tell us they care deeply about the inner sanctums of democracy, while they&#8217;re filming pornos inside them.
None of this is an accident. Consider the fact that, as Andy Ngo recently reported, the Senate staffer in that porn video, Aiden, has posted a lot of pornographic videos online, going back several years. These are videos where his face is clearly visible, and the accounts are clearly his. None of this was hidden, at any point. But Ben Cardin hired him anyway. And then he kept promoting him. No one thought it was a problem for all that time. 
Washington has been Sodom and Gomorrah for a long time. But they&#8217;ve never been so brazen about it. And they’ve never been more empowered by both political parties in Washington. That means we’re probably going to see a lot more of this kind of thing. Which is disgusting and nauseating and sickening on many different levels. But at least there’s no denying the truth now. We are a country run by depraved, pervert lunatics. We might as well face the fact. It is hard not to face it, when it is standing exposed right in front of us. Or kneeling on all fours, as the case may be.

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Democrat Staffer Fired For Filming Gay Porn In Capitol Building 

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Matt Walsh

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A Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill was apparently triggered by the Christmas decorations put up outside a neighboring congressman&#8217;s office, calling the U.S. Border Patrol-themed display &#8220;insensitive, charged and insulting.&#8221;
Jason Tufele Carl Johnson, who works in communications for Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), objected to the decor outside Rep. Eli Crane&#8217;s (R-AZ) office in a post he shared on X — complete with photos of the offending display.
&#8220;Normally Longworth 2nd floor Christmas decorations are a bipartisan and amiable contest,&#8221; Johnson complained. &#8220;Rep. Eli Crane&#8217;s office has the most insensitive, charged and insulting Christmas decor I&#8217;ve ever seen in my 5 years on Capitol Hill.&#8221;
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Normally Longworth 2nd floor Christmas decorations are a bipartisan and amiable contest. 
Rep. Eli Crane&#39;s office has the most insensitive, charged and insulting Christmas decor I&#39;ve ever seen in my 5 years on Capitol Hill. <a href="https://t.co/6NmYz6ERAc">pic.twitter.com/6NmYz6ERAc</a>
&mdash; Jason Tufele Carl Johnson (@jasontcjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasontcjohnson/status/1730339545487417757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The display showed several glittery elf figures standing atop a brick &#8220;border wall.&#8221; A sign on one door read, &#8220;Have documents ready,&#8221; and another read, &#8220;Border Patrol elves only.&#8221; A large &#8220;Port of Entry&#8221; sign was displayed over the door to Crane&#8217;s office.
Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) joined Johnson in complaining about the display, saying, &#8220;This is how Republicans choose to use their time and resources in the halls of Congress. This is disgusting and dehumanizing rhetoric, and as a fellow member of Congress, I can think of so many better uses of our time than hanging up crude signs.&#8221;
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This is how Republicans choose to use their time and resources in the halls of Congress. 
This is disgusting and dehumanizing rhetoric, and as a fellow member of Congress, I can think of so many better uses of our time than hanging up crude signs. <a href="https://t.co/4nPaEY8xY4">https://t.co/4nPaEY8xY4</a>
&mdash; Grace Meng (@RepGraceMeng) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGraceMeng/status/1730367833282908543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Others poked fun at Johnson, suggesting that perhaps he was taking the holiday decorating contest a bit too seriously.
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&#8220;I&#8217;m really sorry this is happening to you. I know firsthand how insulting it must be to see border security themed Christmas decorations. Praying for you in this trying time,&#8221; Greg Price said.
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I&#39;m really sorry this is happening to you.
I know firsthand how insulting it must be to see border security themed Christmas decorations.
Praying for you in this trying time 🙏 <a href="https://t.co/kKv3NuFtIi">https://t.co/kKv3NuFtIi</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1730370150518476839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We got Democrat congresscritters siding with Hamas and he’s worried about Christmas decorations. Cry harder,&#8221; Erick Erickson pointed out.
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We got Democrat congresscritters siding with Hamas and he’s worried about Christmas decorations. Cry harder. <a href="https://t.co/FjOgBOadpo">https://t.co/FjOgBOadpo</a>
&mdash; Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1730374749765640436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Abigail Jackson, Communications Director for Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) defended the decor and asked a pointed question: &#8220;1. These decorations rock; 2. Why is a secure border w legal ports of entry &#8216;insulting&#8217; and &#8216;insensitive&#8217;??&#8221;
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1. These decorations rock
2. Why is a secure border w legal ports of entry “insulting” and “insensitive” ?? <a href="https://t.co/QHFqrjX4dI">https://t.co/QHFqrjX4dI</a>
&mdash; Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) <a href="https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1730366446704738366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Staffer Triggered By Border Patrol-Themed Christmas Decor

Democrat Staffer Triggered By Border Patrol-Themed Christmas Decor

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Members of Congress were allowed to view footage of the October 7 attacks committed in Israel by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a> terrorists, and Jewish Insider&#8217;s Capitol Hill reporter Marc Rod gave a detailed description of their reactions.
Rod shared a thread via X on Tuesday, describing the <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2023/11/capitol-hill-israel-hamas-attacks-footage-screening/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emotional reactions</a> he observed as at least one of the members — Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) left the room in tears just a few minutes into the screening, apparently unable to watch the footage in its entirety.
&#8220;Dozens of House members are currently watching footage from the Hamas attack on Israel. One member just came out in tears less than 5 minutes after going into the room,&#8221; Rod began.
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“I’m feeling like I felt when I went to Birkenau,” Rep. Darrell Issa told me, shaking his head in disbelief. “It’s just war crimes. Unbelievable.”
&mdash; Marc Rod (@marcrod97) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcrod97/status/1724424152487018754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) compared what he saw to the brutality of the Nazi regime, saying as he exited, &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling like I felt when I went to Birkenau [concentration camp]. It&#8217;s just war crimes. Unbelievable.&#8221;
&#8220;The screening just wrapped up and the overall reaction from members is stunned silence. Many seem at a loss for words. Numerous members crying. Have been told by multiple people that it’s hard to believe things like this are happening in 2023,&#8221; Rod continued.
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I didn&#39;t get a count but it looked from what I could see through the door like the caucus room was mostly full. So at least 100+. Speaker Johnson was there for a few minutes. Some of the folks who are supporting a ceasefire, like Reps. AOC and Casar, also attended.
&mdash; Marc Rod (@marcrod97) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcrod97/status/1724432572405391379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rod said that while he did not have an exact count, there were probably 100 or more members present for the screening. Among them, he said, were some who have openly called for a ceasefire, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
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He went on to document as many of the members&#8217; reactions as he could.
Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA): &#8220;It&#8217;s obviously horrific and gruesome and it&#8217;s hard to believe that in the year 2023 things like this are still happening, but unfortunately they are.&#8221;
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Mike Lawler: “How anyone could call for a ceasefire after watching that — they’re not understanding what is actually happening.”
&mdash; Marc Rod (@marcrod97) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcrod97/status/1724432679280492659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY): &#8220;How anyone could call for a ceasefire after watching that — they&#8217;re not understanding what is actually happening.&#8221;
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI): &#8220;I’m absolutely gutted. And I think seeing the video footage of people celebrating the killing of Jews shows what we’re up against. And the fact that anybody would encourage or condone what Hamas did that day. It’s outrageous &#8230; It’s unbelievable seeing footage like that in the year 2023, in places we’ve all been.&#8221;
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Stevens cont&#39;d: &quot;&#8230;It’s unbelievable seeing footage like that in the year 2023, in places we’ve all been.”
&mdash; Marc Rod (@marcrod97) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcrod97/status/1724432856842121280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL): &#8220;I feel the same way I felt watching what occurred on social media. Israel must do everything it needs do to obliterate Hamas. Period.&#8221;
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Ted Lieu: “Never again.”
&mdash; Marc Rod (@marcrod97) <a href="https://twitter.com/marcrod97/status/1724432901465387126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA): &#8220;Never again.&#8221;

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Capitol Hill Reporter Describes Congressional Viewing Of October 7 Hamas Attacks

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Capitol Hill authorities issued an advisory to members of Congress and their staffers on Friday, warning them to stay alert as violent attacks against lawmakers have increased around Washington, D.C., in recent months.
The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms reportedly sent a bulletin to Senate chiefs of staff, administrative managers, chief clerks, and staff directors suggesting tips to reduce the risk of becoming a victim of carjackings, armed robberies, or other criminal activity around the nation&#8217;s capital.
&#8220;Local authorities note an increase in carjacking incidents in and around Capitol Hill and the District of Columbia,&#8221; the bulletin reportedly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-warns-increased-crime-capitol-hill-lawmakers-staff-face-string-robberies-carjackings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, according to Fox News.
The advisory included basic cautionary tips, including securing car doors and windows, hiding valuable items, and parking in a well-lit location near walkways. Other suggestions include never stopping to help a stranger with a broken-down vehicle and reducing walking alone in public.
The executive officer of the Senate also advised Capitol Hill personnel on how to handle being &#8220;confronted by a carjacker with a weapon.&#8221;
&#8220;Your safety is paramount; surrender your car without argument and swiftly leave the area,&#8221; the bulletin reportedly read. &#8220;Attempt to recall the carjacker&#8217;s physical details (gender, race, age, hair/eye color, distinctive features, clothing).&#8221;
Criminal activity in the D.C. area has surged in recent years, according to Metropolitan Police Department data reported by the outlet. In 2021, homicides reached a nearly two-decade high in the nation&#8217;s capital after authorities recorded 226 murders. The rate of homicides dropped in 2022 but still crossed over the 200 mark.
Acting D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith reportedly said the city already recorded its 200th homicide in 2023, meaning murders could reach levels the area hasn&#8217;t seen since the 1990s.
Other crime statistics reported indicate violent crime is up nearly 40% from last year while property crime continues to surge, including motor vehicle thefts increasing 106% and robberies up 65%.
A number of congressional lawmakers and staffers have been victims of violent assaults around Capitol Hill in recent months, including armed robberies and carjackings.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/20/senator-staff-robbed-capitol-hill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week a male robbed Amanda Peper — a staffer for Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) — at gunpoint roughly a mile from the Capitol Building. Peper reportedly was walking to her building when the robbery occurred. Authorities said a man approached her, pointed a gun at her face, and demanded she hand over her belongings.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked by three armed assailants in D.C.&#8217;s upscale Navy Yard neighborhood earlier this month.
Cuellar later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/carjacked-congressman-says-d-c-two-or-three-times-more-dangerous-than-texas-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Washington, D.C., is about &#8220;two to three&#8221; times more dangerous than his border district in south Texas.
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve always said when I talk about the border that there is an immigration crisis there. But I would say that when you look at the numbers of murders, rape, assaults at the border — let&#8217;s say in Laredo, Texas — I&#8217;ve always said that Washington is about two or three times more dangerous, and we certainly see it now,&#8221; Cuellar said during an interview with Fox News earlier this month.
Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-staffer-attacked-at-gunpoint-near-capitol-building-rep-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in June that a member of his staff was attacked by an armed assailant just blocks away from the Capitol Building. The staffer was assaulted near his home following the annual Congressional baseball game, according to a statement from the congressman. He sustained minor injuries.
Another Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, said in March that one of his staffers was &#8220;brutally attacked in broad daylight&#8221; in D.C. The Metropolitan Police Department said the adult male victim was stabbed multiple times and treated at a hospital for life-threatening injuries. Court documents show the victim told a detective at the hospital that he did not know the suspect, nor did the suspect make any demands before the attack.
In February, Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) was assaulted by a 26-year-old homeless man in an elevator at her D.C. apartment building. Craig said she was &#8220;very, very lucky that [she] was not more injured.&#8221;
Daniel Chaitin and Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) delivered a silent message to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Israel</a> protesters who swarmed the lower rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, standing above them and waving an Israeli flag.
The protesters gathered to call for an immediate ceasefire in Israel and Gaza — just days after a series of horrific attacks were perpetrated against Israel by Hamas terrorists. In those attacks, over 1,300 Israelis were killed and thousands more were injured — most were civilians, and some were women, children, and even babies.
Williams, himself a veteran of the U.S. Navy, shared a short video on X, showing the chaotic protest in the rotunda below as he took up an Israeli flag and positioned himself where they could see him.
&#8220;I stand with Israel!&#8221; Williams captioned the clip.
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I stand with Israel! <a href="https://t.co/a2KdZHuWXk">pic.twitter.com/a2KdZHuWXk</a>
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The protesters were joined outside by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tlaib-explodes-at-pro-palestinian-rally-falsely-claims-israel-bombed-hospital-threatens-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI), who repeated the false claim that Israeli forces were responsible for the blast that reportedly killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital — a blast that both American and Israeli intelligence services have determined came from inside Gaza and fell short of its likely intended target: Israel.
&#8220;That’s what’s been really painful … continue to watch people think it’s okay to bomb a hospital where children [are],” she <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1714737128494465296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a>, screaming and crying as she continued. &#8220;You know what’s so hard sometimes, it’s watching those videos and the people telling the kids don’t cry, and like let them cry! And they’re shaking and they kept telling them not to cry in Arabic! They can cry, I can cry, we all can cry. If we’re not crying, something is wrong.&#8221;
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&#8220;And so I’m telling you right now, President Biden, not all Americans [are] with you on this one. And you need to wake up and understand that. We are literally watching people commit your genocide and killing the vast majority just like this, and we still stand by and say nothing. We will remember this,&#8221; she warned.
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.