On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that he would slow the process of confirming political nominees for the Department of Justice (DOJ) until more clarity is given on President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-defends-400-million-flying-palace-offered-as-gift-from-qatar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plan</a> to receive a roughly $400 million luxury aircraft known as the &#8220;Flying Palace&#8221; from Qatar.
The move comes after sources told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story?id=121680511" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a> that Attorney General Pam Bondi provided a legal memo to White House lawyer David Warrington and they determined it was &#8220;legally permissible&#8221; for the donation of the Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet to be conditioned on transferring ownership to the Trump presidential library foundation shortly before the end of the president&#8217;s term.
&#8220;This is not just naked corruption, it is also a grave national security threat,&#8221; Schumer said in a Senate floor speech. &#8220;So, in light of the deeply troubling news of a possible Qatari-funded Air Force One, and the reports that the attorney general personally signed off on this clearly unethical deal, I am announcing a hold on all DOJ political nominees until we get more answers.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a>: &#8220;In light of the deeply troubling news of a possible Qatari-funded Air Force One and the reports that the Attorney General personally signed off on this clearly unethical deal I am announcing a hold on all DOJ political nominees until we get more answers.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/0TFPTWnxJM">pic.twitter.com/0TFPTWnxJM</a>
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Schumer listed a number of questions focused on security risks and seeking clarity on whether taxpayers would be on the hook for the plane.
The top Democrat said the DOJ’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit needs to “disclose all activities by Qatari foreign agents inside the US that could benefit President Trump or the Trump Organization.&#8221; He also declared that Bondi &#8220;must testify before both the House and the Senate to explain why gifting Donald Trump a private jet does not violate the Emoluments Clause — which requires congressional approval — or any ethics law.&#8221;
A hold requires Senate majority leadership to schedule a floor vote for a nominee, bypassing the faster unanimous consent process that would allow the upper chamber to confirm the president&#8217;s picks in batches. Democrats have employed the hold strategy and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-intervenes-block-trumps-us-attorney-nominees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">other</a> tactics to stymie other Trump nominees.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngpt6czKdiw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signaled</a> on Monday that Republicans would move forward with Trump&#8217;s picks, adding that he hoped Democrats would stop their &#8220;pointless obstruction&#8221; because allowing the upper chamber to confirm nominees would allow lawmakers more room to legislate and spend more time in their states. &#8220;But if we have to do this the hard way, we will,&#8221; Thune said. &#8220;We’re going to get the president’s team in place.&#8221;
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It’s pretty clear that obstructing, not legislating, is Democrats’ priority right now.
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Qatar is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and it spends massive sums of money to gain influence in the United States. It also uses its riches to bankroll the terrorist group Hamas and the Middle Eastern news powerhouse Al Jazeera. The oil-rich government frequently invites politicians on state-funded junkets to the Middle East, where they are treated to all the luxuries that Qatar has to offer.
Amid a torrent of criticism, including many who generally support Trump, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-11/trump-set-to-accept-luxury-747-from-qatar-to-use-as-air-force-one-abc-news-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Any gift given by a foreign government is always accepted in full compliance with all applicable laws. President Trump’s administration is committed to full transparency.&#8221;
Trump, who is expected to visit Qatar this week during a swing through the Middle East, also dismissed the concerns in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114492082555622686" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Truth Social.
&#8220;So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane. Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA,&#8221; Trump said.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) attempted to lay a trap for one of the witnesses at a hearing earlier this week and nabbed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) by mistake.
During the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s hearing titled, &#8220;Rule by District Judges II: Exploring Legislative Solutions to the Bipartisan Problem of Universal Injunctions,&#8221; Klobuchar raised the question of publicly attacking judges on social media because they issue an unfavorable ruling.
Clearly jabbing at Trump and his administration — as well as Republican lawmakers who have moved to impeach the judges issuing blanket nationwide injunctions from their perches in district courts — Klobuchar directed the question to attorney Jesse Panuccio, who previously served as the Acting Associate Attorney General of the United States.
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&#8220;Not in a partisan way, just normal, as a partner in a law firm, would you ever — have you ever taken to social media to personally attack a judge who ruled against you? That&#8217;s all my question is,&#8221; Klobuchar said.
&#8220;Senator, thanks for the question,&#8221; Panuccio replied. &#8220;I think that attacking judges personally, and not their reasoning, well, let me just give you a quote: &#8216;I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price —'&#8221;
Klobuchar attempted to interrupt and regain control of the situation as soon as she realized where he was going, but Panuccio kept going: &#8220;&#8216;— you won&#8217;t know what hit you if you go forward with those awful decisions.&#8217; That was something that Senator Schumer said, and I thought it was awful, and it unleashed a wave of violent threats against Supreme Court Justices. I do think that&#8217;s problematic, that kind of language.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course it is,&#8221; Klobuchar replied, shrugging off Panuccio&#8217;s statement. &#8220;I have no doubt the language is a problem on the left or right.&#8221;
During that same hearing, Panuccio advised the committee to find a way to stop judges from overreaching, or lawmakers on both sides of the aisle could continue the pattern of judge-shopping in favorable districts to tie the hands of the executive branch.
&#8220;I think the incentive for forum shopping is that you think you can get a judge who can be a ruler for the whole nation. So, fix the problem of judges overreaching,&#8221; he explained.
Panuccio also raised the topic in mid-March in an X post, saying: &#8220;Rule by district judges repeatedly overreaching to impose relief beyond parties to a case is not &#8216;rule of law.&#8217; Congress should eliminate the nonparty injunction &amp; make SCOTUS jurisdiction *mandatory* for any injunction certified as an emergency by DOJ.&#8221;
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Rule by district judges repeatedly overreaching to impose relief beyond parties to a case is not “rule of law.” Congress should eliminate the nonparty injunction &amp; make SCOTUS jurisdiction *mandatory* for any injunction certified as an emergency by DOJ.
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Amy Klobuchar Lays A Trap For Witness On ‘Attacking’ Judges, Nabs Chuck Schumer By Mistake

Amy Klobuchar Lays A Trap For Witness On 'Attacking' Judges, Nabs Chuck Schumer By Mistake

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Democrats in Congress are starting to openly talk about Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) stepping aside from his top perch in the upper chamber.
The New York Democrat is facing blowback after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-clears-key-hurdle-to-avert-shutdown-after-schumer-surrenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to vote in favor of blocking a Republican-backed stopgap bill to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-officially-sends-funding-bill-to-trumps-desk-after-dems-cave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">avert</a> a partial government shutdown last week and provide funds to various federal agencies through September 30.
&#8220;It may be time for the Senate Democrats to pick new leadership,&#8221; Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) <a href="https://x.com/HowardMortman/status/1902357548855869682" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a town hall on Tuesday.
During a different event, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) nodded and said &#8220;yes&#8221; when asked whether Schumer should &#8220;retire or step down,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/chuck-schumer-house-democrat-calls-step-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a>.
They join liberal groups that had already begun to push for Schumer to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/15/dem-group-calls-schumer-step-down-minority-leader-spending-bill-vote-00232194" target="_blank" rel="noopener">step down</a> as Senate minority leader in response to his decision not to stymie the Republican funding patch.
Schumer warned that a shutdown would empower President Donald Trump to keep cutting programs as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort led by Elon Musk.
But not everyone bought Schumer&#8217;s argument: some Democrats have chided the Senate minority leader over the view that he abdicated to Republicans, but have not gone quite so far as to call for his ouster.
&#8220;I myself don’t give away anything for nothing, and I think that&#8217;s what happened the other day,&#8221; former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) <a href="https://x.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1902154540775821319" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during an event on Tuesday.
Still, both Pelosi and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) <a href="https://x.com/mkraju/status/1902020041144521045" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> that they <a href="https://x.com/ChadPergram/status/1902107816908963997" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have</a> confidence in Schumer, although the latter initially <a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1900607500472275423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hesitated</a> to do so.
Eight other Democrats and one independent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-clears-key-hurdle-to-avert-shutdown-after-schumer-surrenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banded</a> with Schumer in voting to overcome the filibuster threshold on the Republican continuing resolution. Democrats did get votes on some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-officially-sends-funding-bill-to-trumps-desk-after-dems-cave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amendments</a> that were ultimately rejected.
Joining ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; on Tuesday, Schumer took a defiant stance when co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asked whether it might be time for him to step aside as President Joe Biden did in the 2024 election.
&#8220;I should be the leader,&#8221; Schumer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-think-you-caved-schumer-gets-an-absolute-grilling-on-the-view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>, adding that he is &#8220;known&#8221; to be good with elections and has &#8220;a lot of talent&#8221; in orchestrating messaging strategies.

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‘It May Be Time’: Dem Lawmakers Begin Calling For Schumer To Step Aside

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ridiculed Americans who dare to suggest that people should be allowed to keep what they earn, promising that government was there to stop them from doing so.
Schumer, who made an appearance Tuesday on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; spent much of the broadcast on his heels playing defense as the hosts grilled him over his last-minute support for the Republican-led Continuing Resolution that passed Friday and will fund the federal government through September.
During one segment, however, he paused to mock American conservatives and business owners who have the audacity to argue that they should be able to keep what they&#8217;ve earned and operate the businesses they&#8217;ve built in the way that they see fit.
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&#8220;You know what their attitude is?&#8221; Schumer asked, and then answered his own question in mocking tones: &#8220;&#8216;I made my money all by myself. How dare your government take my money from me? I don&#8217;t want to pay taxes.&#8217; Or, &#8216;I built my company with my bare hands. How dare your government tell me how I should treat my customers, my – the land and water that I own, or my employees?'&#8221;
&#8220;They hate government, government is a barrier to people. A barrier to stop them from doing things,&#8221; Schumer continued, raising his arms and shaking both fists. &#8220;They want to destroy it. We are not letting them do it, and we&#8217;re united!&#8221;
Despite Schumer&#8217;s claims, the Democratic Party has not appeared united of late. In the aftermath of Friday&#8217;s CR vote, a number of House Democrats and media personalities have come out and publicly criticized Schumer, arguing that he &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-think-you-caved-schumer-gets-an-absolute-grilling-on-the-view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">caved</a>&#8221; and suggesting that he might not be the right person to lead the Democrats in the Senate.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) led all but one Democrat in the lower chamber (Rep. Jared Golden of Maine) to vote against the CR, and while he is not normally one to be critical of Schumer, refused to answer when asked whether he believed Schumer was fit to continue leading in the Senate. &#8220;Next question,&#8221; was all he would say.

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On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) insisted that he is &#8220;best&#8221; suited to lead Democrats in the upper chamber as he faces a crisis of confidence in his party after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-clears-key-hurdle-to-avert-shutdown-after-schumer-surrenders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refusing</a> to vote in favor of blocking a Republican-backed stopgap bill to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-officially-sends-funding-bill-to-trumps-desk-after-dems-cave" target="_blank" rel="noopener">avert</a> a partial government shutdown last week.
&#8220;I&#8217;m the best leader for the Senate,&#8221; Schumer said during a &#8220;CBS Mornings&#8221; interview when pressed on calls for him to step aside. &#8220;We have a lot of leaders — you know, when you don&#8217;t have a president, there&#8217;s not one leader of the party. There are lots of them. We have a lot of good people, but we — I am the best at keep — winning Senate seats. I&#8217;ve done it in 2005 to — just in 2020, no one thought we&#8217;d take back the Senate; under my leadership we took it.&#8221;
Democrats offered a four-week continuing resolution (CR) as an alternative to the GOP&#8217;s six-month measure, claiming it would give both sides time to reach a bipartisan agreement. However, Schumer declared he would not vote to stop the Republican funding patch, saying that allowing a shutdown would empower President Donald Trump to keep cutting programs as part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort led by Elon Musk.
Immense blowback within the party ensued.
Liberal groups called for Schumer to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/15/dem-group-calls-schumer-step-down-minority-leader-spending-bill-vote-00232194" target="_blank" rel="noopener">step down</a> as Senate minority leader. Some Democrats in Congress openly rejected his stance in the spending fight, while House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) notably <a href="https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1900607500472275423" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> &#8220;next question&#8221; when asked if he had confidence in Schumer. And CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/ocasio-cortez-schumer-democratic-shutdown-plan/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was mobilizing Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-rises-against-schumer-amid-shutdown-meltdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against</a> Schumer’s plan and noted some colleagues were privately urging the leftist firebrand to consider a primary challenge against him.
Schumer, who just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chuck-schumer-scraps-book-tour-citing-security-concerns-amid-backlash-over-cr-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrapped</a> book tour appearances while citing safety concerns, claimed that he and Jeffries have a &#8220;plan&#8221; to counter Trump. As an example, Schumer referred to a <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-jeffries-joint-statement-on-medicaid-day-of-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joint statement</a> that he and Jeffries issued on Tuesday morning touting a &#8220;Medicaid Day of Action&#8221; they claimed would &#8220;push back&#8221; against the &#8220;extreme&#8221; Republican budget. The Senate minority leader added that they would highlight a variety of issues, such as tariffs.
&#8220;It&#8217;s beginning to work,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;His numbers have come down. If we keep at it, every day relentless fighting, and showing how they&#8217;re hurting people so badly, Trump&#8217;s numbers will get much lower and his both popularity but also his effectiveness will decline.&#8221;
Schumer will have his work cut out for him.
A national survey from NBC found that Trump and his second-term administration reached a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yuge-poll-numbers-for-trump-president-cracks-right-direction-threshold-not-seen-since-2004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">significant milestone</a>, with 44% of Americans saying they believed the United States was &#8220;headed in the right direction&#8221; — the highest level since early 2004 when George W. Bush was president. Meanwhile, the same poll <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yuge-poll-numbers-for-trump-president-cracks-right-direction-threshold-not-seen-since-2004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> just 27% of respondents had a positive view of the Democrats. A survey from CNN that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/cnn-poll-democrats/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> their party at 29% favorability.
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Embattled Schumer Crowns Himself ‘The Best Leader For The Senate’

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Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has reportedly scrapped his upcoming book tour — citing concerns for his own safety — amid a wave of backlash over his eleventh-hour decision to support the Republican-led Continuing Resolution that passed on Friday, funding the federal government through September.
The New York Times published a report on Monday stating that the Senate Minority Leader was canceling a multi-city tour — that was supposed to include stops in several California cities in addition to Atlanta, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York — during which he had planned to promote his new book, &#8220;Antisemitism In America: A Warning.&#8221;
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According to a spokesperson for Schumer, the tour was going to be rescheduled due to &#8220;security concerns&#8221; — but even before he voted Friday to avert a government shutdown, there were protests planned to coincide with the launch of the book.
At least <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/16/us-news/jewish-foes-plan-nyc-protest-against-schumer-on-day-of-book-launch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one planned protest</a> stemmed from the fact that some Jewish activists blame Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, for the failure of the Antisemitism Awareness Act — aimed at reining in rampant anti-Semitism on college campuses — after he and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) reached an impasse regarding how it should be done.
&#8220;The only thing Chuck Schumer knows about Antisemitism is how to spread it,” said Jewish activist Aliza Licht. &#8220;The Jewish community will not allow Schumer to masquerade as the self-proclaimed ‘shomer of the Jews’ when he has fueled Antisemitism in America with his double-speak and failure to protect Jewish Civil Rights.&#8221;
Democratic activists angry that Schumer has not done enough to &#8220;stand up to&#8221; President Donald Trump had also, according to The Times, planned protests at every stop on his planned book tour.
CNN Congressional correspondent Manu Raju discussed the issue with &#8220;The Situation Room&#8221; anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown, and he pointed out that Schumer&#8217;s vote on the CR had come just as polls indicated voters were already angry with the direction Democrats were taking the party.
A recent CNN poll said that more than half of Democrats (52%) believed their party was headed in the wrong direction, and an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yuge-poll-numbers-for-trump-president-cracks-right-direction-threshold-not-seen-since-2004" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News poll</a> released over the weekend indicated that only about one-fourth (27%) of voters held a &#8220;positive view&#8221; of the Democratic Party. Even fewer — just 7% — said that view was &#8220;very positive.&#8221;
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Chuck Schumer Scraps Book Tour Citing ‘Security Concerns’ Amid Backlash Over CR Vote

Chuck Schumer Scraps Book Tour Citing 'Security Concerns' Amid Backlash Over CR Vote

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On Monday, while much of the nation celebrated Donald Trump’s certification as the President-elect, Democrat leaders Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a prayer session commemorating January 6, 2021, while ripping Republicans.
The session started with House Chaplain Margaret Kibben intoning a prayer that included her saying, “What was intended to be a historical parliamentary procedure turned quickly into turmoil and frustration and anger and fear.&#8221; Kibben then went on to discuss &#8220;enemies within&#8221; the country.
&#8220;Wherever we find ourselves to be today we ask that You would in some way transform our memories, that the blessing we would have would be to be the reminder of the calling to which You have called us,&#8221; Kibben said. &#8220;To serve You carefully and faithfully; to deal with all that comes across the threshold, enemies within, enemies from without our own country.”
Schumer then said: “We’re also here because we must never forget: Right in this area is where the people who sought to intimidate and also use violence to overturn our government breached the Capitol walls and the Capitol barrier. And there’s lots of people who want us to forget; who want to sweep it under the rug, who want to change the story. We will never forget. &#8230; We hope also we serve as an example to our Republican colleagues. We are not election deniers.”
Jeffries followed with his own hyperbolic statement, using the opportunity to leech President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s statement after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, when the Japanese killed over 2,400 civilians and military personnel. Roosevelt had stated, “Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
“January 6, 2021, is a day that will forever live in infamy,” Jeffries declared. “A violent mob attacked the Capitol as part of a concerted effort to halt the peaceful transfer of power in the United States of America for the first time in our history.” He called the protests of January 6 “unconscionable, unacceptable, and unAmerican.”
Jeffries, however, has a history of questioning election results.
In March 2019, Jeffries <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-rep-hakeem-jeffries-on-face-the-nation-march-24-2019/">stated</a> on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,”  “The American people deserve to know whether Donald Trump is either A) A legitimate president B) A Russian asset C) The functional equivalent of an organized crime boss or D) Just a useful idiot who happens to have been victimized by the greatest collection of coincidences in the history of the republic.”
Schumer concluded, “And one more thing I’d like to say, and that is: to those who used violence and intimidation to threaten our government, to hurt our government, particularly to those who threatened police officers, pardoning them would set a terrible example for the future in American and for the world, that it was okay, that it was forgivable to do this.”
With reference to “threatening the government,” in March 2020, at a rally hosted by the far-left Center for Reproductive Rights near the Supreme Court, Schumer, then-Senate minority leader, appeared to threaten U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
“Inside the walls of this court, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments, as you know, for the first major abortion rights cases since Justice Kavanaugh and Justice Gorsuch came to the bench,” Schumer said. “We know what’s at stake. Over the last three years, women’s reproductive rights have come under attack in a way we haven’t seen in modern history. Republican legislatures are waging a war on women, all women, and they’re taking away fundamental rights. I want to tell you Gorsuch; I want to tell you Kavanaugh; you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won&#8217;t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
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🚨 UNHINGED → Schumer threatened conservative justices Kavanaugh &amp; Gorsuch on the steps of the Supreme Court:
&quot;You have released the whirlwind &amp; you will pay the price. You won&#39;t know what hit you.&quot;
Enough. This rhetoric has dangerous consequences. Where&#39;s the media outrage? <a href="https://t.co/SiGNHxG0iX">pic.twitter.com/SiGNHxG0iX</a>
&mdash; Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1235299202542063616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, normally voluble Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was hilariously caught in a vise and resembled a talking parrot repeating itself as reporters questioned him about President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter. Schumer dodged answering the questions while his Senate Democrat colleagues Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) stood uncomfortably behind him.
“Do you agree with some of your Democrat colleagues that President Biden pardoning Hunter Biden was wrong, unwise, and put personal interest ahead of unity?” a reporter asked.
“I got nothin’ for you on that,” Schumer dodged.
“Can I follow up on that? Are you concerned about the lack of transparency, the lack of honesty, around Biden’s decision to pardon his son?” another reporter queried.
“As I’ve said, I got nothin’ for you on that,” Schumer answered.
“Can I follow up on that, too?” the reporter persisted.
“Nope,” Schumer said defiantly.
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A third reporter asked, “Are you concerned that pardoning anyone on the way out of office, family members, sets a poor precedent?”
“Thank you. I’ve got nothing for you on that,” Schumer repeated.
A fourth reporter asked, “But the question is: You’ve talked about the January 6 pardons; this is a playbook for incoming President Trump, isn’t this a problem? Did he not establish a bad precedent for pardons?”
“I’ve got nothin’ for you on that. Any other subjects?” Schumer said.
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Schumer is typically loquacious when it comes to other subjects, even going so far last March as to intervene in another country’s political process, calling for the Netanyahu government in Israel to be toppled in the middle of its desperate war with Hamas. Schumer made comments <a href="//A466FB8F-43F9-4614-9DAD-B4D436D170B2/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a>, “The fourth major obstacle to peace is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu &#8230; he has shown zero interest in doing the courageous and visionary work required to pave the way for peace, even before this present conflict. &#8230; The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after October 7. &#8230; Nobody expects Prime Minister Netanyahu to do the things that must be done to break the cycle of violence &#8230;”
Or consider September 2022, when Schumer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DzXRa6HnhA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cursed Republicans</a> who opposed President Biden’s White House&#8217;s student debt forgiveness plan. “Those damn Republicans!” Schumer raged. “They are bellyaching, you know, when anyone helps regular people. When they give tax cuts to the rich, they say they&#8217;re helping the middle class. When we help the middle class, they say we&#8217;re helping the rich.”
“They only want to help the rich,” Schumer continued. “The reason they don’t like this &#8230; this might mean their rich friends might have to pay a little more in taxes. Disgraceful, disgraceful, disgraceful.”

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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) was heavily mocked on Sunday over a Father&#8217;s Day post he published on X that he later deleted.
&#8220;Our family has lived in an apartment building for all our years, but my daughter and her wife just bought a house with a backyard and for the first time we&#8217;re having a barbecue with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill!&#8221; he posted. &#8220;Father&#8217;s Day Heaven!&#8221;
The photo showed Schumer putting cheese on a raw hamburger patty while his reading glasses were next to him on a completely clean cutting board.
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Chuck Schumer cooks a burger incorrectly showing cheese on a Raw Beef patty on the grill causing an uproar on the internet 
⁰📌<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Newyork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Newyork</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USA</a> 
⁰Senator Chuck Schumer, New York’s Senator, posted a photo of himself having a good time at his family&#8217;s apartment… <a href="https://t.co/zSuB0RS9zh">pic.twitter.com/zSuB0RS9zh</a>
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) <a href="https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1802527950534856935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
The photo drew comparisons to other Democrats who posted BBQ photos on social media and later went on to lose their elections, including former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and North Carolina Senate candidate Cal Cunningham.
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&#8220;I get that you’re playing to the masses but literally no one puts cheese on a raw beef patty,&#8221; said Donald Trump Jr. &#8220;If you need help learning how to do basic grilling stuff let me know. Nice try relating though. 🙄 Fuc$&amp;?g communists!!!&#8221;
Journalist Jordan Schachtel posted on X: &#8220;Chuck Schumer has been a politician for his entire life and has never held a real job. He also apparently has never used a grill. How can this man possibly relate to any of his constituents? He may as well be from a different planet.&#8221;
&#8220;Hard pass on the tapeworms there Wolfgang Puck…&#8221; one account commented, while another posted: &#8220;Chuck is making an E. coli with cheese.&#8221;
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) posted: &#8220;Things I trust more than a Schumer burger: Epstein’s prison guards. The CIA. Gas station sushi.&#8221;

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Former President Donald Trump slammed Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/charles-schumer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Schumer</a> (D-NY) during an interview this week for abandoning his support for Israel, saying that the Democrat had &#8220;become like a Palestinian.&#8221;
Trump made the remarks during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday night while talking about Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas.
&#8220;They have to finish the job. Israel has to finish that job,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;They have to finish it quickly, strongly, and they have to get back to life again because it&#8217;s taking too long. Gotta win, gotta win.&#8221;
&#8220;The attack on October 7th, and it&#8217;s getting more and more demeaned, they&#8217;re demeaning it. I have people telling me they don&#8217;t think the attack ever happened,&#8221; Trump said in reference to modern day anti-Semitic Holocaust deniers. &#8220;And take a look, you watch the news reports &#8212; you watch these people on television and just like you have Holocaust deniers also, they say the Holocaust never happened. It&#8217;s the exact same people. They&#8217;re saying it never happened.&#8221;
Trump noted that Israel used to have much more support in the U.S. among lawmakers, but lawmakers like the Squad — Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and others — have eroded that support.
&#8220;I&#8217;m good,&#8221; Trump said about his support for Israel. &#8220;But they don&#8217;t have the backing. Even Schumer, he&#8217;s become like a Palestinian. Chuck Schumer, Jewish, always strong for Israel. He&#8217;s become like a Palestinian.&#8221;
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Trump: Democrat Chuck Schumer has become so radical against Israel that “he’s become like a Palestinian” <a href="https://t.co/1YKbPqGlOT">pic.twitter.com/1YKbPqGlOT</a>
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1798821265110954328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2024</a></blockquote>

Senate Takes Up Foreign Aid Package Passed By House

Trump: Schumer So Radical Now That ‘He’s Become Like A Palestinian’

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The top four U.S. congressional leaders sent a joint letter to Israeli Prime Minister <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/benjamin-netanyahu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Benjamin Netanyahu</a> inviting him to come to the U.S. to address Congress.
&#8220;Last year, Congress was proud to host Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Washington to celebrate 75 years of friendship and partnership between our two democracies,&#8221; the letter said, which was signed by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY), and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).
&#8220;Less than three months later, the horrific attacks of October 7th shocked the world and forced your nation into a fight for its very existence,&#8221; the leaders said. &#8220;We join the State of Israel in your struggle against terror, especially as Hamas continues to hold American and Israeli citizens captive and its leaders jeopardize regional stability.&#8221;
They said that because Israel was having to fight for its very existence, they wanted to invite Netanyahu to &#8220;address a Joint Meeting of Congress.&#8221;
&#8220;The existential challenges we face, including the growing partnership between Iran, Russia, and China, threaten the security, peace, and prosperity of our countries and of free people around the world,&#8221; they said. &#8220;To build on our enduring relationship and to highlight America&#8217;s solidarity with Israel, we invite you to share the Israeli government&#8217;s vision for defending democracy, combatting terror, and establishing a just and lasting peace in the region.&#8221;
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The top four leaders of the House and Senate have invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress. <a href="https://t.co/lTR2iUi4nz">pic.twitter.com/lTR2iUi4nz</a>
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1796631491398799722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 31, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Top Four U.S. Congressional Leaders Invite Netanyahu To Address Congress

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> will again move to pass legislation providing aid to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israel</a> in response to a drone and missile attack from Iran, Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) said on Sunday.
Republicans &#8220;understand the necessity of standing with Israel,&#8221; Johnson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLwv_zuTA4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo, adding, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to try again this week, and the details of that package are being put together.&#8221;
During the interview on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures,&#8221; Johnson suggested the package could provide emergency support to other countries as well, noting that lawmakers are &#8220;looking at the options and all these supplemental issues.&#8221;
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Johnson addressed the debate over providing more aid to Ukraine, too, while discussing his visit with former President Donald Trump in Florida on Friday.
&#8220;He and I are 100% united on these big agenda items,&#8221; Johnson said of Trump. He added that Trump floated the idea of a loan concept. The speaker additionally raised the <a href="https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/rep/release/risch-whitehouse-applaud-committee-passage-of-repo-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">REPO Act</a> to use seized assets from Russian oligarchs to help fund Ukraine&#8217;s war effort.
&#8220;These are ideas that I think can get consensus, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve been working through. We&#8217;ll send our package, we&#8217;ll put something together and send it to the Senate and get these obligations completed,&#8221; Johnson said.
Like other Republicans, Johnson chided Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after the Senate <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/senate-blocks-14-3-billion-in-aid-for-israel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> a House-passed bill that would have provided $14.3 billion in emergency aid to Israel with an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offset.
&#8220;What a concept, we took from the IRS expansion slush fund to pay for the Israel priority,&#8221; Johnson said.
The speaker noted that the House later considered an Israel aid bill without the IRS offset. It was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/israel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejected</a>, with 166 Democrats and 14 Republicans voting against it after President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-threatens-veto-us-houses-standalone-israel-aid-bill-2024-02-05/#:~:text=Feb%205%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20U.S.,providing%20new%20funds%20for%20border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> a veto.
On the Senate side, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-passes-95-billion-foreign-aid-bill-despite-opposition-from-over-half-of-republican-senators" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$95 billion foreign aid bill</a> to boost U.S. allies such as Israel and Ukraine was passed in February, but the House has not taken up the legislation. Some Democrats are renewing a push for that package following the Iran attack.
&#8220;The world is on fire. We should stand with our Democratic allies and push back against the enemies of freedom. The House must pass the bipartisan national security bill. Tomorrow,&#8221; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJeffries/status/1779501281477845042" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X on Sunday morning.
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Johnson also rebuked Schumer over his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-rebukes-schumer-over-israel-remarks-grotesque-and-hypocritical" target="_blank" rel="noopener">call last month</a> for Israel to hold a new election while criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership amid a months-long campaign in Gaza seeking to root out Hamas terrorists following an attack in October.
&#8220;What&#8217;s important right now is that we stand with Israel. We should not be dictating to them what their policy is; we certainly shouldn&#8217;t be doing what Chuck Schumer did, trying to suggest they should have new elections at this critical time,&#8221; Johnson said.
&#8220;They&#8217;re fighting for their very existence, and it&#8217;s never been more important for us to be there with them. And we&#8217;re resolved to do that. I hope that continues,&#8221; he added.

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Speaker Johnson Says House Will ‘Try Again’ With Israel Aid Following Iran Attack

Speaker Johnson Says House Will 'Try Again' With Israel Aid Following Iran Attack

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