A new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal estimates that the death rate of coronavirus is significantly lower than previously reported.
In early March, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the estimated mortality rate of COVID-19 globally was about <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-04-20-intl-hnk/h_a1954f4ce9c0fdf276846cb53f9ecabb">3.4%</a>, while Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-04-20-intl-hnk/h_a1954f4ce9c0fdf276846cb53f9ecabb">said</a> it could be anywhere from 1-2% if &#8220;you just do the math,&#8221; based on initial reports out of other countries.
“What we&#8217;re hearing right now, on a recent call from the WHO this morning is that there aren&#8217;t as many asymptotic cases as we think. Which made them elevate, I think, what their mortality is,&#8221; Fauci <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/coronavirus-outbreak-03-04-20-intl-hnk/h_a1954f4ce9c0fdf276846cb53f9ecabb">explained</a> in the first week of March. &#8220;You know as well as anybody that the mortality for seasonal flu is .1% so even if it goes down to 1% it&#8217;s still 10 times more fatal.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/30/health/coronavirus-lower-death-rate/index.html">CNN</a> Tuesday, a new study published in <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/tl-pss_1033020.php">Lancet</a> estimates that even the lower-end 1% fatality rate estimation is too high. A more accurate estimation of the percentage of people who will die due to complications from the virus, researchers say, is about two-thirds that, 0.66%.
&#8220;That coronavirus death rate, which is lower than earlier estimates, takes into account potentially milder cases that often go undiagnosed — but it&#8217;s still far higher than the 0.1% of people who are killed by the flu,&#8221; CNN explains. &#8220;When undetected infections aren&#8217;t taken into account, the Lancet study found that the coronavirus death rate was 1.38%, which is more consistent with earlier reports.&#8221;
As noted by CNN, when Dr. Fauci presented his 2% estimation in March, he stressed that determining the true death rate requires accurate data on the number of people who have contracted the virus but are asymptomatic, or show no symptoms, a metric that has been glaringly lacking thus far. Only taking into account confirmed cases results in an incomplete data set and generally includes those with the more severe symptoms, rather than the more mild cases, which some previous studies suggest could be about half the number of COVID-19 cases.
The new study attempts to account for the asymptomatic or very mild cases, not just the confirmed cases. To do so, the researchers looked at infection rates of  people who returned to their home countries on flights from Wuhan, China, CNN explains.
&#8220;According to the study, these people received PCR tests — a type of test that would be able to identify how many of those travelers were shedding the virus, even if they didn&#8217;t show symptoms,&#8221; CNN explains. &#8220;Researchers combined that data on &#8216;infection prevalence&#8217; with public information on reported cases and deaths, estimating the overall death rate to be about two-thirds of 1%.&#8221;
For those younger than 40, the estimated fatality rate is even lower, just 0.16%, while those younger than 9 have only an estimated 0.00161% chance of dying from complications related to the virus. For those 80 or older, however, the fatality rate is an alarming 7.8%, researchers found.
&#8220;There might be outlying cases that get a lot of media attention, but our analysis very clearly shows that at aged 50 and over, hospitalisation is much more likely than in those under 50, and a greater proportion of cases are likely to be fatal,&#8221; said Imperial College London professor and study co-author Azra Ghani said, as reported by CNN.
While researchers found that the fatality rate is far lower than some previous estimates, they also note that the often prolonged recovery time for the virus, which can take over three weeks, threatens to overwhelm health care systems.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uks-top-expert-epidemic-just-about-slowing-antibody-test-may-be-ready-in-days-rather-than-weeks">UK’s Top Expert: Epidemic ‘Just About Slowing,’ Antibody Test May Be Ready In ‘Days Rather Than Weeks’</a>

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Study: Coronavirus Death Rate Lower Than Previously Reported

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President Donald Trump torched a CNN reporter during a press conference on Sunday after the reporter asked Trump about a remark that he made last week, and left out the full context of his remarks.
“I would also like to ask you about some comments you made on Friday,” CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond said. “You were talking about governors of different states and you said I want them to be appreciative. You also said if they don&#8217;t treat you right, I don&#8217;t call.”
“I didn&#8217;t say that,” Trump fired back. “Excuse me, ready? Take a look at what I said. I want them to be appreciative of me, okay, and then you cut it off because it is fake news [reporter interrupts] please, let me just finish. … Your statement and your response in your answer is a lie because here&#8217;s the story, are you ready? I said I want you to be appreciative of me, and then you go on &#8212; and then I go on, you cut it off.”
Trump then got the CNN reporter to read off the full context of his remarks last week when Trump said: &#8220;I want them to be appreciative. I don&#8217;t want them to say things that aren&#8217;t true. I want them to be appreciative. We&#8217;ve done a great job. And I&#8217;m not talking about me. I&#8217;m talking about Mike Pence, the task force, I&#8217;m talking about FEMA, the Army Corps of Engineers.&#8221;
Diamond then brought up additional remarks that Trump made during that same press conference from last week when Trump appeared to say in a semi-joking manner that he did not call two Democrat governors because of how the treat the administration but that Vice President Mike Pence calls them and works with them.
“You are not appreciating these incredible people, from private enterprise that are delivering things in numbers that nobody&#8217;s ever seen,” Trump told the reporter. “That&#8217;s why people aren&#8217;t watching CNN very much anymore. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t like it. That&#8217;s why your ratings are no good because you even after knowing the truth for days now, you bring up the old lie. Read the rest of your question, the rest of your statement, you didn&#8217;t put in. You have to put that in. And it said in there FEMA. It said in there Army Corps of Engineers because when they disrespect me, they&#8217;re disrespecting our government. And you know what? I don&#8217;t mind if I&#8217;m disrespected, but they can&#8217;t disrespect the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA.”
Trump then called on a different reporter but the CNN reporter continued to shout and interrupt.
“I want them to appreciate the incredible job we&#8217;re doing,” Trump responded. “We are doing a job the likes of which has never been done before. And there are a couple of people that know that, but for political reasons, let&#8217;s say they are Democrats, they don&#8217;t want to give this administration credit, then&#8217;s okay &#8212; and that&#8217;s okay, but I don&#8217;t have to deal with them. But our vice president does deal with them.
“That&#8217;s why CNN is not trusted anymore,” Trump continued. They are not trusted. They are fake news. Remember that.”
“We are not fake news!” the reporter responded.
“Yes, you are,” Trump fired back.
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President Trump calls out CNN for taking his comments about being appreciative out of context.
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Dr. Deborah Birx is about to learn what happens to people when they go against the media&#8217;s narrative.
On Thursday, Dr. Birx instilled hope in the American people when she shredded some of the alarmist models being cited in the media, particularly, the  Imperial College London Model that dramatically decreased its predicted number of COVID-19 cases from 500,000 to 20,000.
&#8220;I am sure many ever you saw the recent report out of the U.K. about them adjusting completely their needs,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-deborah-birx-shreds-media-for-salacious-claims-we-dont-have-evidence-of-that">she said</a>. &#8220;This is really quite important. If you remember that was the report that said there would be 500,000 deaths in the U.K. and 2.2 million deaths in the United States. They’ve adjusted that number in the U.K. to 20,000. So, half a million to 20,000. We are looking into this in great details to understand that adjustment.&#8221;
&#8220;Models are models,&#8221; she later said. &#8220;There is enough data now of the real experience with the Coronavirus on the ground to really make these predictions much more sound. So, when people start talking about 20% of a population getting infected. It’s very scary, but we don’t have data that matches that based on the experience.&#8221;
In a series of tweets on Thursday, CNN analyst Joe Lockhart accused Dr. Birx, whose name he mistakenly spelled as Birk, of drinking the Trump &#8220;Kool-Aid.&#8221;
&#8220;Dr. Birk has drunk the Kool-Aid,&#8221; tweeted Lockhart.
&#8220;How do you think the er docs and nurses in NYC feel about getting a lecture from Dr/ Birk about how irresponsible they are to be crying for help? They are putting their lives on the line, who the hell are you to lecture them,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;I suggest Dr. Birk visit a hospital in NYC and then come back and brief on what she saw. I think it will be a very different briefing than we saw today. If she tells the truth which people around Trump don&#8217;t do very often,&#8221; he later added.
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Dr Birk has drunk the Kool Aid
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How do you think the er docs and nurses in nyc feel about getting a lecture from dr birk about how irresponsible they are to be crying for help? They are putting their lives on the line, who the hell are you to lecture them,
&mdash; Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) <a href="https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1243303582532845570?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I suggest Dr. Birk visit a hospital in NYC and then come back and brief on what she saw. I think it will be a very different briefing than we saw today. If she tells the truth which people around Trump don&#39;t do very often
&mdash; Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) <a href="https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1243320921894588416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Joe Lockhart was referring to Dr. Birx&#8217;s comment (whose name he routinely misspelled) regarding the number of ventilators and ICU beds in New York:
<blockquote>We were reassured after meeting with colleagues in New York there are still ICU beds remaining and there’s still significant, over a thousand or 2,000 ventilators that have not been used yet. Please for the reassurance of people around the world, to wake up this morning and look at people talking about creating DNR situations, do not resuscitate situations for patients, there is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion. You could be thinking about it in a hospital, certainly many hospitals talk about it this on a daily basis. But to say that to the American people, to make the implication, that when they need a hospital bed it’s not going be there or when they need that ventilator it won’t be there, we don’t have evidence of that right now.</blockquote>
On Friday, Lockart employed his own brand of sexism by referring to Dr. Birx, whose name he still misspelled, as an unthinking &#8220;Stepford Doc.&#8221;
&#8220;I, for one, am no longer interested in hearing from Dr. Brix. Her vouching for Trump&#8217;s vast scientific abilities from his business background was the breaking point. Stepford Doc,&#8221; he tweeted.
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I, for one, am no longer interested in hearing from Dr. Brix. Her vouching for Trump&#39;s vast scientific abilities from his business background was the breaking point. Stepford Doc
&mdash; Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) <a href="https://twitter.com/joelockhart/status/1243563311532302336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It should be noted that this &#8220;Stepford Doc&#8221; who drinks Trump Kool-Aid over science previously <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150325130200/http://www.pepfar.gov/press/releases/2014/224403.htm">served as President Obama&#8217;s</a> U.S. Global Aids Coordinator.
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CNN Analyst Joe Lockhart Rips Dr. Birx For Shredding Alarmist Theories: She’s A ‘Stepford Doc’

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During this week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4QmB_zZELw&amp;t=1849s">The Sunday Special</a>&#8221; with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, prominent attorney and former Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz revealed his plan to likely sue CNN for allegedly maliciously misrepresenting the speech he gave on the Senate floor concerning the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
According to Dershowitz, &#8220;idiots&#8221; on the network intentionally &#8220;lied&#8221; about him in an effort to ding the attorney&#8217;s credibility, (since he was on the side of Trump), suggesting the clip CNN ran of him was &#8220;doctored,&#8221; and not merely &#8220;taken out of context.”
&#8220;The case that you made in front of the Senate is not the case that CNN said you made in front of the Senate,&#8221; Shapiro told Dershowitz. &#8220;The case that CNN said you made in front of the Senate was effectively that if a politician of any sort does something in pursuit of their own re-election, then this is not impeachable activity.”
Shapiro argued that the clip was clearly &#8220;taken out of context,&#8221; but Dershowitz used stronger language.
&#8220;It was doctored,&#8221; he accused. &#8220;It was as if I said the following, let me tell you now what I don&#8217;t believe. I don&#8217;t believe a president seeking re-election can do anything, and CNN ran: A president seeking re-election can do anything.”
&#8220;That&#8217;s not protected by the First Amendment, and it shouldn&#8217;t be protected,&#8221; the attorney later emphasized, regarding CNN&#8217;s alleged actions against him.
&#8220;What CNN did is they took all of that out and they made it sound like I was saying [something else]. And then you had these idiots on CNN, people like Paul Begala, who said basically what I said was a president can do anything illegal,&#8221; Dershowitz continued, adding that CNN contributor Joe Lockhart was &#8220;another liar&#8221; who misrepresented him.
The attorney said he has information to back his suspicions that CNN misrepresented him intentionally, rather than ignorantly misquoting him.
&#8220;I suspect that what happened is, and it&#8217;s more than a suspicion, it&#8217;s based on information that I have, is that [Jeff] Zucker, the head of CNN, made a willful deliberate decision to have me say something that sounded idiotic in order to hurt my credibility on the hour and ten [minute] speech that I made in front of the Senate,” Dershowitz stated. “And they deliberately omitted what I had said about criminal conduct to make it sound like I was saying a president can do anything, and then everybody followed suit, everybody on CNN.”
With regard to the First Amendment, Dershowitz said you would not be &#8220;talking about actually changing the standard.”
&#8220;But we&#8217;d have to make new law, saying that, basically, if you use the words that were actually spoken, but you purposely, willfully, and with malice leave out words just before and just after that totally, completely changed the meaning, that&#8217;s not protected by the First Amendment,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And I think that&#8217;s right.”
&#8220;I think we start small by looking at people who willfully and deliberately abuse the First Amendment for partisan or personal or financial benefit – that&#8217;s where you begin, and I think we can do that, okay,&#8221; added Dershowitz.
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I’m thinking of suing cnn for doctoring a video of me. <a href="https://t.co/PDDtYb2dgh">https://t.co/PDDtYb2dgh</a>
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Alan Dershowitz: ‘Idiots’ On CNN ‘Lied’ About My Trump Comments And I’ll Likely Sue Them; Hints At New 1A Media Standard

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On Friday, President Trump’s re-election campaign sued CNN, claiming the network had published false and defamatory statements by stating the campaign “assessed the potential risks and benefits of again seeking Russia’s help in 2020 and has decided to leave that option on the table.”
The senior legal advisor for the Trump campaign, Jenna Ellis, told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-campaign-sues-cnn-false-defamatory-statements-millions-damages">Fox News</a>:
<blockquote>The complaint alleges CNN was aware of the falsity at the time it published them but did so for the intentional purpose of hurting the campaign while misleading its own readers in the process &#8230; the campaign filed this lawsuit against CNN and the preceding suits against The New York Times and The Washington Post to hold the publishers accountable for their reckless false reporting and also to establish the truth.</blockquote>
The <a href="http://assets.donaldjtrump.com/2017/web/hero_images/Complaint(1).pdf">lawsuit states</a>, “The Campaign, through counsel, sent a written demand to CNN on February 25, 2020, to retract and apologize for the aforementioned false and defamatory statements. CNN refused. The Campaign therefore was left with no alternative but to file this lawsuit to: publicly establish the truth, properly inform CNN’s readers and audience (and the rest of the world)of the true facts, and seek appropriate remedies for the harm caused by CNN’s false reporting and failure and retract and apologize for it.&#8221;
The lawsuit continues, “CNN has engaged in a systematic pattern of bias against the Campaign, designed to maliciously interfere with and damage its reputation and ultimately cause the organization to fail … On or about June 13, 2019, CNN published an article on the www,CNN.com website entitled &#8216;Soliciting dirt on your opponents from a foreign government is a crime. Mueller should have charged Trump campaign officials with it&#8217; by Larry Noble, (the ‘Defamatory Article’).”
The lawsuit delineates why the article was false, citing examples such as then-Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stating in August 2018, “Since the beginning of his administration, President Trump has implemented a whole-of-government approach to safeguard our nations’ elections. The president has made it clear that his administration will not tolerate foreign interference in our elections from any nation-state or other dangerous actor.”
Another example: The White House issuing a statement in September 2018 saying, “The United States will not tolerate any form of foreign meddling in our elections.” A third example: May 13, 2019: The White House said it would not use any information hacked or stolen by foreign adversaries in the 2020 election.
The lawsuit then clearly accuses CNN of bias, writing: &#8220;It is not entirely surprising that CNN would publish such blatantly false statements against the Campaign. There is extensive evidence that CNN and its writer, Larry Noble, are extremely biased against the Campaign. This evidence includes, among other things, undercover video footage taken by the Project Veritas News Organization in which CNN staff members admit on camera that CNN’s coverage is extremely biased against the Campaign, the administration, and Republicans in general.&#8221;
The lawsuit concludes, “The Defamatory Article has forced, and will continue to force, the Campaign to expend funds on corrective advertisements and to otherwise publicize the fact that the Campaign is not seeking Russia’s help, nor leaving that ‘option on the table’ in the 2020 election campaign. The Campaign was damaged in an amount to be proven at trial, in the millions of dollars.”

President Elect Trump Continues His &#8220;Thank You Tour&#8221; In Grand Rapids, Michigan

BREAKING: Trump Campaign Sues CNN

In the wee morning hours after Tuesday night’s Super Tuesday primary voting across the nation, a CNN panel surmised that the across-the-board rejection of Senator Elizabeth Warren by Democrat voters was due to —you guessed it — sexism.
As <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/03/04/late-night-cnn-makes-excuses-warren-losing-its-your-fault-sexist">Curtis Houck of Newsbusters</a> delineated in his transcript and report, both host Don Lemon and some of his guests could not fathom why Warren got destroyed in primary after primary unless it was because she’s a woman. Houck noted, “At 3:31 a.m. Eastern, CNN spent almost eight minutes bashing Democratic primary voters as sexist heathens for not supporting Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).”
Lemon initiated the slam at Democrat voters for their supposed sexism by prompting, “I want to bring it now to the women who are here to talk about that. You have these women, these very strong, very powerful, very smart women in this race. You had Hillary Clinton, who is defeated despite winning the popular vote. You have Elizabeth Warren who didn&#8217;t do well, Amy Klobuchar who has dropped out of this race. You had this very diverse Democratic Party and then you have the women, you have all the white guys who have the delegates. What&#8217;s going on here?
After positing that Klobuchar lost because of her lack of money, The Daily Beast’s  Jackie Kucinich offered this for Warren: “If just the fact that this ground game did not turn out votes for her, did not get people to the polls for Elizabeth Warren is really — there&#8217;s really a lot of digging as to why that didn&#8217;t happen, whether it&#8217;s sexism, whether it&#8217;s the fact someone did just changed their mind. I heard women when I was in Iowa tell me we&#8217;re Warren fans, we’re worried that people — they liked Warren, they heard her speak. They went to the polls and then they were worried that a woman couldn&#8217;t beat Donald Trump.”
Lemon, pleased that Kucinich agreed, replied, “But you&#8217;re reading my mind. I&#8217;m wanting — does it say something about the candidate or about the electorate?”
Karen Finney, who was aspokesperson for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign,offered her own version of the sexism charge: “When it comes to executive office, our country is still very uncomfortable with women in power, and that&#8217;s part of why women have to over credential again and again. So in 16, we said, she would be — Hillary Clinton would have been the most qualified, right? You&#8217;ve heard — and you also have heard both Klobuchar and Warren and certainly Kamala when she was still talking about their electability and remember that for women what goes into electability is do I think she — I like her? We don&#8217;t care if we like male candidates or not. Men come into a race with the expectation that they&#8217;re qualified. Women have to prove themselves …&#8221;
After Finney opined that the electorate didn’t like when Warren targeted Mike Bloomberg too harshly, Patty Solis Doyle, who was campaign chief of staff for Joe Biden when he ran with Barack Obama in 2008, offered, “I have to say this whole dynamic really upsets me. The fact that we&#8217;re even still talking about, well, she can&#8217;t go too far, she can&#8217;t hit too hard. You know, in 2018 more women than ever before in our history ran for public office. More women than ever won public office. Women are going to be pivotal in this election. We started this presidential election with six women running, more than ever before in an election cycle. We&#8217;re down to two, and it really upsets me that someone like Elizabeth Warren who was stellar on the debate stage, had a great organization, smart, tough, had resources, somehow just seemed to — has been like shoved aside and we don&#8217;t know why.”
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Elizabeth Warren Holds Event On Super Tuesday

CNN: Warren Lost Big Because Of — Wait For It — Sexism

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Lawyers for Covington Catholic High School senior Nick Sandmann reportedly will file lawsuits against five additional media companies this week for smearing Sandmann last year.
Sandmann’s lawyers submitted a status report with the U.S. District Court in Covington last week that showed that &#8220;they intend to file complaints against Gannett, ABC, CBS, The New York Times and Rolling Stone before March 9,&#8221; Fox 19 <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2020/02/27/sandmann-intends-sue-additional-media-outlets-including-abc-cbs/">reported</a>.
&#8220;All of the future defendants listed above have published or republished statements made by Nathan Phillips and others that Nicholas blocked or otherwise restricted Phillips’ free movement and would not allow Phillips to retreat at the National Mall on January 18, 2019,&#8221; the document said. &#8220;Nicholas reserves his right to file complaints in this Court or any other court against any other potential defendant not listed above, subject to the applicable statute of limitations.&#8221;
Left-wing media companies and Democrats smeared Sandmann following an incident at the January 2019 March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Sandmann has previously filed lawsuits ranging from $250 million to $275 million against The Washington Post, CNN, and NBC Universal for their reporting on the incident.
In January, Sandmann received his first major win in his legal fight against the media after CNN settled the $275 million lawsuit that Sandmann&#8217;s team filed against them.
“CNN was probably more vicious in its direct attacks on Nicholas than The Washington Post. And CNN goes into millions of individuals’ homes,” Wood <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-be-sued-250-million-over-vicious-ryan-saavedra">told</a> Fox News’ Mark Levin last year. “CNN couldn’t resist the idea that here’s a guy with a young boy, with that Make America Great Again cap on. So they go after him.”
“They really went after Nicholas with the idea that he was part of a mob that was attacking the Black Hebrew Israelites, yelling racist slurs at the Black Hebrew Israelites. Totally false,” Wood continued. “Now you say you’ve seen the tape; if you took the time to look at the full context of what happened that day, Nicholas Sandmann did absolutely nothing wrong. He was, as I’ve said to others, he was the only adult in the room.”
In an interview on Fox News last year, McMurtry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nick-sandmanns-lawyer-reveals-massive-275-ryan-saavedra">told</a> anchor Sandra Smith, “Well, what CNN’s tagline is is ‘facts first.’ And what we believe their reporting was in this circumstance was lies first, cover up second, and facts not yet determined by that organization. So the difference between this lawsuit and the other lawsuit that we have filed is that CNN is a very significant media organization with a much broader reach than, say, the Washington Post. It has Twitter followers of 41 million people. It published four videos. Nine online articles that were tweeted out. So that’s millions and millions and millions of repetitions of the lies and falsehoods that CNN spread.”
“Well, we’ve talked about the impact on Nicholas Sandmann a number of times and it — it is significant,” McMurtry continued. “Nicholas Sandmann was a 16-year-old man who had a perfect reputation. He was loved by his parents, respected at his school, and had many good friends at Covington Catholic High School. So he was a person that was doing very well in life, and due to his strong character, he still is. But nevertheless, his character has now been determined by the lies issued by CNN. So the facts were not first, the lies were.”

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Nick Sandmann’s Lawyers Filing Lawsuits Against Five More Media Companies

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President Trump held a White House roundtable meeting on Thursday to discuss the positive steps the administration has taken toward helping members of the black community.
During the meeting, Jack Brewer, a professor at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University and former NFL player, told Trump that the president had inspired him to abandon the Democratic Party. 
“I ran the NFL players for Obama, I’ve been a Democrat all my life &#8230; and you changed me, you changed me, you touched me, and you made my work go to another level, you inspire me,” said Brewer. Later in the meeting, Brewer dropped this line: &#8220;Mr. President, I don&#8217;t mean to interrupt, but I&#8217;ve got to say this because it&#8217;s Black History Month: Man, you the first black president.”
After the remark, the room burst into applause. The remark echoed similar comments made earlier in the meeting, when two different members of the roundtable called Trump the best president since Abraham Lincoln.
According to <a href="https://realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/27/cnns_keith_boykin_man_who_called_trump_first_black_president_an_uncle_tom.html">RealClearPolitics</a>, during an episode of “CNN Tonight” with Don Lemon, commentator Keith Boykin said the event was unserious, and condemned the president’s outreach to the black community.
“He’s been president for almost four years now, and he’s never made a single visit to a black community to attend a black event,” said Boykin. “For g*ds sake, he hasn’t even gone to the black community in Washington D.C., he hasn’t gone to the black community in New York, in Harlem, or in Brooklyn where he lived.”
“The idea that anybody would sit in the room with Donald Trump and call him the first black president, after we had Barack Obama as the president of the United States, shows just what kind of Uncle Toms were sitting in that room in the first place,” Boykin told Lemon, who audibly cringed. “That&#8217;s ridiculous. It’s an outrage that anyone would sit in that room and say something like that.”
During the meeting, Trump offered a story about helping students who attend historically black colleges and universities, a story he said that “the press doesn’t write about.”
“Every year, a group of wonderful people from the Black colleges and universities, would come up to my office – a lot of people, forty, thirty-five, fifty, [during] one year – and after the second year I said, ‘How come you keep coming back,’” asked Trump.
“One of the gentlemen, who is a great guy from one of the schools, good school, very good school, he said ‘we come back because we have to,’” recalled Trump. “‘They want us to come back every single year, they want us to beg.’ He used that word.”
Last year, Trump signed a bill authorizing over $250 million for minority-serving colleges and universities, including $85 million for historically black colleges, reports the <a href="https://apnews.com/c4834e48841d97c5a93312b1bf75302a">Associated Press</a>.
“When I took office, I promised to fight for HBCUs, and my administration continues to deliver,” Trump said at the time. “A few months ago, funding for HBCUs was in jeopardy, but the White House and Congress came together and reached a historic agreement.”

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African American

Education

Keith Boykin

CNN has altered its report on a bill that would require medical professionals to provide medical care to a baby that survived an abortion attempt.
CNN’s original report suggested a baby born after a botched abortion was somehow different than all other babies. The report was about Sen. Ben Sasse’s (R-NE) bill, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, and described the bill as requiring “abortion providers to work to ‘preserve the life and health’ of a fetus that was born following an attempted abortion as they would for a newborn baby, or face up to five years in prison.”
It was the latest example in a long line of left-leaning media outlets attempting to soften abortion for their audiences, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-a-baby-surviving-an-abortion-and-a-newborn-arent-the-same-thing">reported</a>.
On Wednesday, CNN updated the article by removing the ridiculous phrasing, though in a “clarification” note at the bottom of the article the outlet says it merely updated the story “to more precisely reflect the language used in Sasse&#8217;s bill” and to add “additional developments Tuesday.”
Gone is the language suggesting abortion survivors are not babies. It has been replaced with a quote from Sasse’s actual bill:
<blockquote>The second bill to be considered Tuesday is the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, sponsored by Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, pertains to cases in which &#8220;an abortion results in the live birth of an infant.&#8221; It would require abortion providers to &#8220;exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child as a reasonably diligent and conscientious health care practitioner would render to any other child born alive at the same gestational age.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/meredithshiner/status/1163994678657724418">Opponents</a> have argued that such measures restrict abortion access by threatening health care providers.</blockquote>
Yes, threatening health care providers to provide health care – something abortion supporters don’t want, apparently.
The article still paints Sasse’s bill as an “abortion restriction” bill even though it says nothing about a woman’s ability to get an abortion. The bill only states that if a baby survives an abortion, it receives medical care rather than be left to die. Democrats and their media supporters, however, have been increasingly in favor of infanticide in recent years.
In response to the changes CNN made to its report, Sasse released a statement to The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>Just read the bill. The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is about babies who have already been born. I’m glad CNN finally made the correction, but there’s no reason this needed to take two days. Planned Parenthood desperately wants to misrepresent this bipartisan, pro-babies bill and unfortunately too many reporters have bought their spin hook line and sinker.</blockquote>
Democrats, except for Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama, continue to vote against Sasse’s bill. Last year, Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) made comments on a radio program suggesting that a baby could be killed after it was born if the mother so wanted (emphasis added):
<blockquote>This is why decisions such as this should be made by providers, physicians, and the mothers and fathers that are involved. When we talk about third-trimester abortions, these are done with the consent of the mother, with the consent of physicians, more than one physician by the way, and it’s done in cases where there may be severe deformities, there may be a fetus which is non-viable. So in this particular example, if the mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if this is what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physician and the mother.</blockquote>
Sasse’s bill has been routinely misinterpreted by Democrats and their media supporters. Earlier this month, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) suggested the bill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-claims-anti-infanticide-bill-is-a-solution-to-a-problem-that-does-not-exist-ben-sasse-sets-the-record-straight">was unnecessary</a> because infanticide is already illegal.
“Infanticide is indeed illegal in the U.S., and yet in half of the states, there is no criminalization of walking away from the baby and allowing it to die by exposure,” Sasse responded. “There’s an active-passive distinction and a state-federal distinction which are both pretty fundamental.”
Updated with additional comment from Sasse.

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CNN Changes Report Suggesting A Baby Surviving An Abortion And A Newborn Aren’t The Same

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Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren praised President Donald Trump during a CNN town hall event on Wednesday night over his administration&#8217;s decision to ban many flavored e-cigarette products, which aimed to stop the rise in young people taking up smoking.
&#8220;Senator Warren, earlier this month, the Trump Administration policy that banned many flavored E-cigarettes went into effect,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon said. &#8220;Does President Trump deserve some credit for that?&#8221;
&#8220;Uh, actually, yes,&#8221; Warren responded. &#8220;The head of FDA who did this, I spoke to him many times and said I would support him if he did this.”
&#8220;Look, when we see movement in the right direction we have to be willing to stand up and say &#8216;good,'&#8221; Warren continued. &#8220;Because it is good.&#8221;
WATCH:
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A shocking clip of Elizabeth Warren&#8230; actually praising something from <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> admin. She supports his move to ban flavored e-cigs. <a href="https://t.co/BOjmceGbiC">pic.twitter.com/BOjmceGbiC</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1232876883416477698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/federal-flavor-ban-goes-effect-thursday-many-flavored-vape-products-n1130466">reported</a> on the ban when it went into effect earlier this month:
<blockquote>The ban covers a number of kid-friendly flavorings, such as mint and fruit, though menthol and tobacco flavorings will remain legal. However, the ban only applies to specific types of devices: cartridge or pre-filled pod devices, like the ones made popular by Juul. All other devices will be left on the market.
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Plans for restricting e-cigarette flavors on a federal level first came up in September, when key national data on teen vaping was released. It was revealed that from 2017 to 2019, rates of vaping had more than doubled among 8th, 10th and 12th grade students.
That report coincided with the peak of a public health crisis: mysterious, severe lung diseases linked to vaping.</blockquote>
Warren is not the only Democrat presidential candidate to praise Trump this week.
Michael Bloomberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-bloomberg-praises-trump-during-democrat-debate">praised</a> Trump during last night&#8217;s debate on CBS News, saying that the administration has done a phenomenal job of strengthening the U.S. military.
CBS News asked Bloomberg, “Mayor Bloomberg, voters have not heard much about your foreign policy views, would you pull all combat troops out of the Middle East?”
“No, you want to cut it back as much as you can,” Bloomberg responded. “But, I think if we learned something from 9/11, people plan things overseas and execute them here, we have to be able to stop terrorism, and there’s no guarantees that you’re going to be able to do it.”
“But we have to have some troops in places where terrorists congregate and to not do so is just irresponsible,” Bloomberg continued. “We shouldn’t be fighting wars that we can’t win, we should go to war only as a last resort, nobody argues with that, but this is a dangerous world and if we haven’t learned that after 9/11 I don’t know what’s going to teach us what to do.”
“We have to do something, and I think that the things that I’ve seen recently convinced me that the military today is better prepared than they’ve been in an awful long time,” Bloomberg concluded. “And that the moneys they are spending on the war of weapons we need for the next war and not the last, a common mistake that they are not making now. They’re doing a good job.”

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2020 Election

Left-wing CNN political commentator Ana Navarro ripped socialist Bernie Sanders following the Democrats&#8217; debate on Tuesday over his continued praise of communist dictators, saying that there is &#8220;no f***ing bright side.&#8221;
Navarro&#8217;s remarks came after Sanders has repeatedly defended his praise of murderous Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro this week by falsely claiming that he made the Cuban people literate – they already had a high literacy rate.
&#8220;I was born in Nicaragua. My parents live there. My husband was born in Cuba,&#8221; Navarro tweeted. &#8220;Castros &amp; Ortega are corrupt, anti-American, murderous thugs. They jail, kill, torture, starve, beat, persecute political dissidents while enriching themselves. There is no f***ing bright side. Period.”
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I was born in Nicaragua. My parents live there. My husband was born in Cuba. Castros &amp; Ortega are corrupt, anti-American, murderous thugs. They jail, kill, torture, starve, beat, persecute political dissidents while enriching themselves.
There is no fucking bright side.
Period.
&mdash; Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) <a href="https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/1232496056048291841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Sanders reignited controversy over his fringe views this week during an interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; with Anderson Cooper that aired on Sunday night.
“Back in the 1980s, Sanders had some positive things to say about the former Soviet Union and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua,” Cooper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-praises-murderous-communist-dictator-fidel-castro-had-massive-literacy-program">said</a> while narrating during the segment. “Here he is explaining why the Cuban people didn’t rise up and help the U.S. overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro: ‘…he educated their kids, gave them health care, totally transformed the society, you know?&#8217;”
“We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad,” Sanders responded. “You know? When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
“A lot of dissidents imprisoned in Cuba,” Cooper responded.
During the debate on Tuesday, Sanders again doubled down on his support for Castro, saying, “Of course you have a dictatorship in Cuba. What I said is what Barack Obama said in terms of Cuba, that Cuba made progress on education.”
The crowd booed.
Sanders yelled back, “Really?!”
The crowd booed even louder.
“Really? Literacy programs are bad?” Sanders fired back, again parroting debunked communist talking points.
Following the debate, Sanders again continued to defend his remarks during an interview with CBS News.
“On this issue of the potential political peril you and Democrats could suffer in Florida, Congresswoman Donna Shalala said come on down to Miami and meet with the people who have been affected by his regime,” CBS News’ Ed O’Keefe said. “Would you be willing to do that?”
“Cuba is a dictatorship, I’ve said that 8 million times,” Sanders <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-continues-defending-communism-good-things-can-happen-under-a-dictatorship">said</a>. “But that does not mean to say, as Obama pointed out, that even under a dictatorship, you can teach people to read and to write, that you can provide health care to all people.”
Sanders&#8217; remarks were deemed so offensive that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-dnc-spokeswoman-goes-on-fox-news-and-bashes-bernie-sanders">Democratic Party</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernies-pro-castro-remarks-backfire-sound-of-bernies-latino-voter-wave-crashing">numerous politicians</a> from the party condemned Sanders&#8217; remarks.
The City of Miami, which has a large Cuban population, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/city-of-miami-announces-big-event-after-bernie-makes-pro-communist-remarks">responded</a> by announcing that it was holding an anti-communism concert.
“Sadly, even now, we see individuals defend and even promote communism and socialism,” Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said. “Just yesterday, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders glorified socialism in a 60 Minutes interview by defending elements of Castro’s regime.”
Suarez continued, “What Senator Sanders conveniently omitted from his colorful characterization of communist Cuba was Castro’s forceful and violent imposition of power, attacking human rights and freedom of speech, thereby minimizing the sacrifice of those who fought to break free from his suffocating hand.”

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Ana Navarro

Bernie Sanders

Socialism

Following in the media’s kowtowing to abortion activists who seek to change the language to make abortion sound less horrific, CNN is now suggesting there is a difference between a baby who survived an abortion and all other babies.
In an <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/25/politics/senate-abortion-vote/index.html">article</a> slanted heavily toward abortion CNN actually described the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act as requiring “abortion providers to work to ‘preserve the life and health’ of a fetus that was born following an attempted abortion as they would for a newborn baby, or face up to five years in prison.”
In CNN’s world, a “fetus that was born” is not the same as a “newborn baby,” apparently simply due to the fact that one was wanted and the other was nearly killed.
Beyond the disturbing euphemism that tries to dehumanize a baby that survives an abortion, CNN also referred to the Born-Alive Act as an “anti-abortion” bill, even though the bill doesn’t place any restrictions on a woman’s ability to get an abortion, it only states that newborn babies should get health care. The media has been deliberately misrepresenting this bill for more than a year in an attempt to paint supporters as trying to limit a woman’s ability to choose. Despite their best efforts, even two Democrat senators – Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Doug Jones of Alabama – have supported the bill previously and indicated this week they will do so again.
Earlier this month, the Born Alive act was again <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-senator-claims-anti-infanticide-bill-is-a-solution-to-a-problem-that-does-not-exist-ben-sasse-sets-the-record-straight">misrepresented</a> by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), who claimed the bill was “a solution to a problem that does not exist,” even though the problem does, in fact, exist. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), responded to Hirono’s claims that laws against infanticide apply in these cases and that the bill is really about restricting a woman’s ability to choose to terminate her pregnancy.
“Infanticide is indeed illegal in the U.S., and yet in half of the states, there is no criminalization of walking away from the baby and allowing it to die by exposure,” Sasse responded. “There’s an active-passive distinction and a state-federal distinction which are both pretty fundamental.”
Hirono cited a 2002 bill that made it illegal to kill an infant, but that law didn’t specify what health care providers had to do in order to care for the child and it didn’t include punishments for providers who simply allowed the child to die without helping.
The media has been trying to dehumanize unborn babies for years. Last year, as states across the country passed laws banning abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected, abortion proponents and their supporters in the media <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-comes-up-with-another-euphemism-for-babys-heartbeat">rushed to find a way</a> to avoid calling it a “heartbeat.” The New York Times, for example, referred to it first as “embryonic pulsing” and then as “the pulsing of what becomes the fetus’s heart beat.” Abortion champion Dr. Jen Gunter previously referred to the heartbeat as “fetal pole cardiac activity.”
In the past, other abortion proponents have tried to claim a baby in the womb is not a baby, but a “potential person,” or a “clump of cells.”

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CNN: A Baby Surviving An Abortion And A Newborn Aren’t The Same Thing

Liberal &#8220;news&#8221; network CNN has a weird obsession with President Trump&#8217;s eating habits.
As the president and first lady were flying to India for a whirlwind 36-hour state visit on Sunday, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/23/politics/donald-trump-india-beef-vegetarian/index.html">CNN posted</a> a story headlined, &#8220;&#8216;I have never seen him eat a vegetable:&#8217; Trump braces for a beef-free menu in India.&#8221;
&#8220;When President Donald Trump travels abroad — be it to Saudi Arabia or Singapore — his hosts usually try make him feel at home with his favorite meal: steak with miniature bottles of ketchup on the side. But what&#8217;s a beef-lover to do in India?&#8221; said the piece, which took three people to write.
&#8220;The President, whose diet is often a rotation of steaks, burgers and meatloaf, faces a potential shock as he prepares to travel to three Indian cities this week. His trip includes stops in Gujarat state, Agra and Delhi, where Hindus are the majority and cows are revered as sacred. In some neighborhoods, meat eating is so taboo that it&#8217;s not done in public.&#8221;
See, in India, cows are revered and not on the menu, so what will Trump, who likes meat, do?!
Then CNN does what it often does: quote some unnamed sources.
&#8220;A person close to the President who has dined with him on several occasions said Trump has salad with a meal every now and then — but other than that, &#8216;I have never seen him eat a vegetable.'&#8221;
Then the three authors turned to someone identified only as a &#8220;former official,&#8221; who said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s going to do in this case.&#8221;
That&#8217;s right, CNN didn&#8217;t talk about the crucial U.S. and India alliance, the important military and trade deals the two nation were set to make, or the massive rally Trump was set to hold, which drew some 125,000 to a massive cricket stadium. No, The Most Trusted Name In News thinks what you really need to know about is the fact that &#8220;even one of the President&#8217;s favorite fast food restaurants, McDonald&#8217;s, doesn&#8217;t serve beef in India.&#8221;
CNN got mocked for the weird obsession about what Trump eats.
&#8220;If there was just one article that encapsulated how CNN’s obsession with attacking President Trump borders on parody, this might be it,&#8221; Media Research Center analyst Kristine Marsh wrote on <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2020/02/24/journalism-cnn-mocks-trump-bracing-beef-free-menu-while-india">Newsbusters</a>.
&#8220;The rhetorical thrust of this particular story, however, seems to be that Trump is ethnocentric and quirky,&#8221; DePauw University professor and media critic Jeffrey McCall told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-trump-meat-food-options-india">Fox News</a>. &#8220;For CNN, this story is not so much about giving the public a look into Trump&#8217;s trip to India as it is to characterize Trump&#8217;s picky personal habits. That Trump is particular on these matters just makes him like most other American presidents over the years,&#8221; McCall said.
But CNN got all wee-weed up whenever former President Barack Obama popped out for a hamburger (which he did often, always bringing a throng of photographers to capture the &#8220;regular guy&#8221; eating some regular food). Back then, it was deemed cool — not &#8220;ethnocentric.&#8221;
CNN has even mocked Trump for the way he once took a sip of water while giving a speech.
“That is the sippy-cup grip that you’re using right now,” Chris Cuomo said in December 2017. The CNN host then held a vase like he was drinking, saying, “This is what I drink out of and I hold it like a man, with one hand. That’s me.”
When the New York Times reported that Trump sometimes downs 12 Diet Cokes in a day, CNN was there with the breaking news. “A 12 Diet Cokes-a-day habit like Trump’s is worth changing,” a concerned CNN wrote in 2017.
“One-a-day diet soda drinkers were nearly three times as likely as those who never drink diet soda to be diagnosed with dementia, as well, the researchers found,” CNN said. Boom! If one soda a day can do that, a dozen must surely mean Trump has dementia, right?
And of course, CNN was all over “Ice Cream Gate.”
“According to an extensive interview with TIME Magazine, Trump’s White House staff has settled into Trump’s routine and know his desires, sometimes before he does,” CNN reported. “For example: Trump takes two scoops of ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, TIME reported, while everyone else around the table gets just one.”
The three CNN reporters also claimed in their Sunday piece that Trump — who has been traveling the world for 50 years — is &#8220;an impatient traveler, one who does not particularly relish experiencing foreign cultures and would prefer instead to be sleeping in his own bed.&#8221;
All that is intended to fit the narrative that Trump is an uncouth, unsophisticated rube who can&#8217;t tolerate foreigners and their cultures.
Which is why Trump calls the network &#8220;fake news.&#8221;
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CNN Continues Bizarre Obsession Over Trump’s Eating Habits, This Time Over Food Choices In India

President Trump and CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta are not pals.
The two have clashed repeatedly in the past, and did so again on Tuesday as the president traveled through India, trailed by the U.S. press corps.
Eventually in his 45-minute press conference, Trump called on Acosta, who asked: “Can you pledge to the American people that you will not accept any foreign assistance in the upcoming election?”
“First of all, I want no help from any country,” Trump said, “and I haven’t been given help from any country and if you see what CNN, your wonderful network, said, I guess they apologized in a way for — didn’t they apologize for the fact that they said certain things that weren’t true? Tell me, what was their apology yesterday? What did they say?”
“Mr. President,” Acosta broke in, “I think our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than yours sometimes, if you don’t mind me saying.
“Let me tell you about your record, your record is so bad you ought to be ashamed of yourself,” Trump added. “You have the worst record in the history of broadcasting.”
“I’m not ashamed of anything and our organization is not ashamed,” Acosta said.
The exchange brought a few giggles from the gaggle of reporters in the room.
Back in 2018, Acosta had his press pass pulled by the White House after he refused to give up the microphone during a presidential press conference, and even swiped away the hand of a young White House staffer.
Then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said at the time: &#8220;CNN, who has nearly 50 additional hard pass holders, and Mr. Acosta is no more or less special than any other media outlet or reporter with respect to the First Amendment. After Mr. Acosta asked the President two questions — each of which the President answered — he physically refused to surrender a White House microphone to an intern, so that other reporters might ask their questions. This was not the first time this reporter has inappropriately refused to yield to other reporters.&#8221;
CNN objected, saying: “The wrongful revocation of these credentials violates CNN and Acosta’s First Amendment rights of freedom of the press, and their Fifth Amendment rights to due process. We have asked the court for an immediate restraining order requiring the pass to be returned to Jim, and will seek permanent relief as part of this process.”
The White House eventually relented and returned the press pass to Acosta, who has cashed in on his fame, writing a book in 2019 titled: &#8220;The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.&#8221;
When Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham took over for Sanders, she put daily briefings on hold because of grandstanding reporters like Acosta.
&#8220;Ultimately, if the president decided it’s something we should do, we can do that, but right now he’s doing just fine and to be honest, the briefings had become a lot of just theater,&#8221; Grisham said. &#8220;And to be honest, the briefings have become a lot of theater. And I think that a lot of reporters were doing it to get famous. I mean, yeah, they’re writing books now. I mean, they’re all getting famous off of this presidency. And so, I think it’s great what we’re doing now.&#8221;

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Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign responded to criticisms from CNN over its socialist platform late this week by quoting Shakespeare and making a false claim.
Nina Turner, national co-chair of the Sanders campaign, made the remarks during a segment on CNN’s “Newsroom,” which featured fallout from this week’s Democrat debate on NBC.
CNN&#8217;s Brooke Baldwin said, &#8220;There&#8217;s this new &#8216;Wall Street Journal&#8217;/NBC News poll that found that two-thirds of the respondents said that they were actually uncomfortable with a socialist president.&#8221;
&#8220;But when you break it down – Shakespeare once said, what is in a name? A rose by any other name smells just as sweet,&#8221; Turner responded. &#8220;What is Democratic socialism? It is government of the people, by the people, and for the people. What does that mean?&#8221;
&#8220;I am talking about this particular poll,&#8221; Baldwin responded. &#8220;And I want to – I want an answer on the fact that the majority of America is not comfortable with a socialist president.&#8221;
&#8220;He is a Democratic socialist,&#8221; Turner said, later claiming that &#8220;the majority of the American people&#8221; support Sanders&#8217; government run health care program and free college.
&#8220;Nina, you keep pivoting,&#8221; Baldwin pressed. &#8220;You got to answer the question.&#8221;
&#8220;So, for all of the people trying to make hay over the word, Senator Sanders is not talking about socialism in a traditional sense, in terms of what happens in Europe,&#8221; Turner falsely claimed. &#8220;He never once said that the government should take over the production of all goods and services in this country.&#8221;
For starters, Sanders, who is a socialist, has repeatedly tried to brand his socialism as being the same thing that European countries like <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=denmark%20(from%3ASenSanders%20OR%20from%3ABernieSanders)&amp;src=typed_query">Denmark</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=finland%20(from%3ASenSanders%20OR%20from%3ABernieSanders)&amp;src=typed_query">Finland</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=norway%20(from%3ASenSanders%20OR%20from%3ABernieSanders)&amp;src=typed_query">Norway</a>, have – which is false. Those countries are <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/is-denmark-socialist/">capitalist</a> countries that have large social safety nets – also known as big government welfare programs – that hamper economic growth.
Forbes <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2018/07/08/sorry-bernie-bros-but-nordic-countries-are-not-socialist/#224f70174ad3">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The myth of Nordic socialism is partially created by a confusion between socialism, meaning government exerting control or ownership of businesses, and the welfare state in the form of government-provided social safety net programs. However, the left’s embrace of socialism is not merely a case of redefining a word. Simply look at the long-running affinity of leftists with socialist dictators in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela for proof many on the left long for real socialism.
To the extent that the left wants to point to an example of successful socialism, not just generous welfare states, the Nordic countries are actually a poor case to cite. Regardless of the perception, in reality the Nordic countries practice mostly free market economics paired with high taxes exchanged for generous government entitlement programs.
First, it is worth noting that the Nordic counties were economic successes before they built their welfare states. Those productive economies, generating good incomes for their workers, allowed the governments to raise the tax revenue needed to pay for the social benefits. It was not the government benefits that created wealth, but wealth that allowed the luxury of such generous government programs.</blockquote>
Sanders&#8217; claim that he wants to be like those countries is false, which is evidenced by his repeated demonization of capitalism – which leads to the next point: Sanders is a socialist.
Turner&#8217;s claim that Sanders has &#8220;never once&#8221; advocated for the government to take over the production of goods and services in the U.S. is false.
Sanders has repeatedly advocated for nationalization ranging from the 1970s – when he &#8220;urged the nationalization of most major industries,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/politics/kfile-bernie-nationalization/index.html">CNN</a> – to his current socialist campaign for president, where is he advocating for forcing everyone off of their private health insurance plans and onto a government run health care system, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/health/private-health-insurance-medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders.html">The New York Times</a>.
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Rally Against Closing of Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia

CNN Grills Sanders Campaign Over Socialism. They Respond By Quoting Shakespeare, Making False Claims.

On Sunday, CNN’s Brian Stelter, host of “Reliable Sources,” discussed President Trump awarding the Medal of Freedom to conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, and how he was disgusted by individuals celebrating Limbaugh’s recent cancer diagnosis.
<blockquote>STELTER: There’s also controversy about Rush Limbaugh receiving this Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union. Rush announced on Monday that he has been diagnosed with advanced-stage lung cancer. And I know some people don&#8217;t think he should have been getting this metal, but Sarah, some of the comments I&#8217;m seeing on social media from lefties who hate Rush, saying they hope that the cancer takes him away as fast as possible, it’s revolting to me, and I just, you know, as much we talk about Trump and misinformation, there is a strain of contempt on the Left that also worries me. Why can&#8217;t people just say, “We hope that Rush gets better quickly”?</blockquote>
After Stelter’s initial comments, CNN political analyst and Dispatch staff writer Sarah Isgur pushed back, suggesting that the Limbaugh-hatred “highlights a larger problem with Twitter and what we elevate on Twitter.”
Stelter replied: “You’re right. Those are not the normal voices. You&#8217;re right, you’re right.”
Isgur then noted that it’s difficult to know from whom some of the vile comments are coming, and Stelter agreed, saying they might not even be “real people.”
<blockquote>ISGUR: But when candidates, journalists often find – we&#8217;re all on Twitter, frankly, all the time, let’s be honest – but we think of that as some type of reality when in fact, it&#8217;s not. We don&#8217;t know who some of those people are. They’re not checked by Twitter&#8230;
STELTER: You’re right. They may not even be real people.
ISGUR: They could be Russian bots; they can be paid. So then candidates respond to that because reporters respond to it. And a lot of, I think, the Democratic candidates have fallen into that trap of living in a Twitterverse that is not actually representative in the country&#8230;</blockquote>
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Isgur is broadly correct in her assessment that Twitter is home to many unidentified people and bots. However, it should be noted that one of the critical hits on Limbaugh came from an individual associated with CNN.
When the radio host announced his cancer diagnosis, producer and religious scholar Reza Aslan tweeted: “Ask yourself this simple question: Is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?”
Aslan later claimed that he wasn’t “celebrating” Rush’s diagnosis, but posing a philosophical question. He then added that Limbaugh is a “a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people.”
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1. I am not “celebrating” anyone’s diagnosis. I’m posing an important philosophical question 
2. Rush is not “my adversary” &#8211; he is a curse upon this nation, a purveyor of hatred and racism who’s at the very least indirectly responsible for the mass suffering of countless people. <a href="https://t.co/buUdG0V3IF">https://t.co/buUdG0V3IF</a>
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) <a href="https://twitter.com/rezaaslan/status/1224476896227778561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
Producer and author Tariq Nasheed tweeted: “Rush Limbaugh has spend decades spewing dangerous anti-Black racism. Now he has cancer&#8230;I know we shouldn&#8217;t celebrate one&#8217;s misfortunes&#8230;.but #PartyOverHere.” Nasheed followed his comment with a gif of a man dancing.
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Rush Limbaugh has spend decades spewing dangerous anti-Black racism.
Now he has cancer&#8230;
I know we shouldn&#8217;t celebrate one&#8217;s misfortunes&#8230;.
but
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PartyOverHere?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PartyOverHere</a> <a href="https://t.co/NVI1mVg2hW">pic.twitter.com/NVI1mVg2hW</a>
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) <a href="https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1224443800791109636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
Self-proclaimed comedian Johnny McNulty tweeted: “It&#8217;s not cool to joke about Rush Limbaugh having cancer. You might jinx it.”
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It&#8217;s not cool to joke about Rush Limbaugh having cancer. You might jinx it.
— Johnny McNulty (@JohnnyMcNulty) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnnyMcNulty/status/1224434062095310850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
Limbaugh began treatment for his cancer this week.
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Brian Stelter.

CNN’s Brian Stelter On Those Celebrating Limbaugh’s Cancer Diagnosis: ‘Revolting To Me’

Brian Stelter

Cancer

Leftism

Rush Limbaugh

On Sunday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” with host Jake Tapper.
During the segment, Tapper asked Sanders about a 1974 comment in which the senator reportedly advocated for a wage cap.
<blockquote>TAPPER: Our investigative Kfile team found that early in your political career, way back in 1974, you said that it should be illegal to earn more money than someone could spend in his or her lifetime. You proposed a maximum wage cap on the highest earners.
SANDERS: What year was that?
TAPPER: It was 45 years ago.
SANDERS: Jake, in all due respect, [that was] seven years before I was [elected]. Did you go back to my third-grade essay when I was in P.S. 197 about what I said?
TAPPER: You were a grown man in your 30s.
SANDERS: Yeah, but that was 50 years ago. Let&#8217;s talk about my mayor’s record where I was a transformative mayor, re-elected three times. You know, we can go back to things that I said in the 70s. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s productive. I&#8217;ve been a senator for 14 years, a congressman for 16 years – but here&#8217;s the bottom line. This is what I do believe. When you have three people who own more wealth than the bottom half of America; when half of our people are living paycheck to paycheck; when 500,000 Americans are sleeping out in the street, yes, the rich have gotta pay, and the large corporations have gotta pay their fair share of taxes. We will raise taxes vary substantially on billionaires. No apologies for that.
TAPPER: But you do not favor a wage cap as you once proposed? That&#8217;s the only question.
SANDERS: 50 years ago, mmm. Look, what I just said is when you have massive levels of income and wealth inequality – by the way, in the last three years under Trump, the billionaire class has seen a hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars increase in their wealth. The average American worker has seen less than a 1% increase in real wages last year. All right, that&#8217;s the issue that we’ve got to deal with right now. We need an economy that works for working people, not just for the billionaire class, which is what we have under Trump&#8217;s economy.</blockquote>
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Bernie Sanders fires back after Jake Tapper asks him about his backing of a wage cap in 1974 that CNN recently dug up.
&#8220;Did you go back to my third-grade essay when I was in PS 197 about what I said?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/FYpjudY3Yu">pic.twitter.com/FYpjudY3Yu</a>
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) <a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1226516385968349184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
Just as Sanders did during a town hall with CNN’s Chris Cuomo in April 2019, he refused to recant his former statement, and instead, pivoted the conversation to the alleged solutions for which he is currently advocating as a Democratic presidential candidate.
Despite Tapper giving Sanders multiple chances to recant his prior statement pertaining to wage caps, the senator didn’t take the opportunity.
In the April 2019 town hall, the following eerily similar exchange took place:
<blockquote>CUOMO: You used to argue that you should have government control of the means of capitalism, energy companies, factories, banks –
SANDERS: When did I say that?
CUOMO: In the 70s.
SANDERS:  Okay, right.
CUOMO:  No, but hold on.
SANDERS: What did you say in the 70s?
CUOMO: Ga ga goo goo. What I’m saying is that you’ve changed.
SANDERS: Wait a minute. First [thought], he hears me criticizing media all the time and he gets nervous about it.
CUOMO: One of many things that makes me nervous.
SANDERS: I was a mayor of a city for eight years. Did I nationalized any of the industry in the city of Burlington, Vermont? I don’t think so. Congressman for 16 years.
Look, I said what I said, and that is, I want to live in a nation in which all people in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world can have a decent standard of living. I’m not talking about everybody owning a big, fancy house or Cadillac or anything like that, but I think we can do what other nations in the world are already doing. The ideas that I’m advocating for you tonight, you know, they’re not so radical. Health care as a right exists in virtually every other major country on Earth. Does anyone here know how much it costs to go to college in Germany? It’s free.
I once was giving a speech, Chris, and I said that in Finland, college is free, and some guy jumped up, and said, “I’m from Finland. You’re wrong. It’s not free.” … He said they pay us to go to college. So, these ideas about guaranteeing economic rights to working people rather than seeing in New Hampshire and in Vermont, and all over this country, people working two or three jobs, for $8 or $9 an hour, living under great stress, not having time for their kids, marriages dissolving as a result. Yeah, that’s what I believe. I believe in a nation in which we guarantee fundamental economic rights, basic necessities of life to all of our people.</blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-van-jones-claims-young-sanders-supporters-arent-really-socialist-policies-actually-pretty-reasonable">noted</a> when reporting on the April 2019 town hall, Sanders has proposed several policies that would nationalize certain industries, or portions of industries, and rack up staggering costs, which would be paid for by the American taxpayer.
Those policies include Medicare for All, which would cost an estimated $32 trillion over ten years, a Green New Deal, which could cost approximately $16.3 trillion, according to the Sanders campaign, student loan forgiveness, which would cost an estimated $1.6 trillion, and free tuition, which would cost at least $48 billion annually, according to Sanders’ own website.
Sanders even believes in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-van-jones-claims-young-sanders-supporters-arent-really-socialist-policies-actually-pretty-reasonable">public ownership</a> of utilities.
Despite a messy Iowa caucus, Sanders can claim a win, having come in a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=iowa+caucus+results&amp;rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS876US876&amp;oq=iowa+cacus+r&amp;aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.2839j0j7&amp;hl=en-US&amp;sourceid=chrome-mobile&amp;ie=UTF-8">stunningly close second place</a> with 26.1% and 12 delegates compared with rival Pete Buttigieg’s 26.2% and 14 delegates.
In New Hampshire, which holds its primary on Tuesday, Sanders leads Buttigieg 26.1% to 21.3%, according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/nh/new_hampshire_democratic_presidential_primary-6276.html">RealClearPolitics</a> polling average.

Sen. Bernie Sanders

WATCH: Sanders Dodges, Will Not Disavow Prior Comment On Capping Wages

Leftist CNN commentator John Harwood and a panel of other left-wing commentators at CNN unloaded on President Donald Trump late this week after he gave his post-impeachment acquittal speech in the White House.
&#8220;Look, this was a very disturbing tableau for the country,&#8221; Harwood said. &#8220;It was dark because he’s made clear that his mind is dark. This is someone who is in deep psychological distress right now, self-pitying, insecure, angry.&#8221;
Harwood later continued by mocking the president, &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t recognize abstract concepts like right and wrong, like morality or immorality, like true or false.&#8221;
Leftist Axios reporter Alexi McCammond claimed that Trump was trying to play on “the inherent tribalism that I think a lot of people feel since President Trump was elected.”
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<a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2020/02/06/cnn-seethes-over-dark-disturbing-mean-spirited-poisonous-trump">TRANSCRIPT</a>:
<blockquote>BRIANNA KEILAR: To hear Mitt Romney explain, it really comes from a genuine place of conviction where he searched his searched his soul, he said essentially that he was looking for a reason to convict. But he couldn’t and that was because he had really an oath to God that he couldn’t move past that without feeling like he was breaking that to acquit the President. I was struck by just what a dark place this was in this speech. Other speeches in history strike a somber tone, strike a conciliatory tone, strike a forward looking tone. This was so dark, Nia.
NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: Yeah, and surprising. I mean, not surprising that the President can be vindictive, can be petty, can be, you know, frame himself as the victim and want to air grievances all the time, but it felt like this was a real moment, right, where he could have some focus on a forward-looking message for the country, borrow from some of the themes in the hope from the State of the Union, Republicans certainly received that very well, but here he was talking about Bill Clinton, talking — or Hillary Clinton, talking about the FBI agents, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. So it was very, very bizarre, in some ways a missed opportunity. Look, he spent a lot of time yesterday having to look at Mitt Romney on screen all day and give that very passionate address where he talked about his faith and really, in some ways, dismantled the Republicans arguments against impeachment and removing the President from office. So here this was just a long and rambling speech. You know, I was watching it and this was sort of like a session with your therapist, right, where you&#8217;re sitting on the couch and you&#8217;re kinda talking about the internal emotions that you&#8217;re having cause that’s what it sounded like and listen, he&#8217;s not going to get over the Mitt Romney thing. That was very deep-wounding to him. He very much prize — prizes the fact that he&#8217;s been able to keep Republicans together, and the fact that Mitt Romney has strayed away from the Republican pack in aligning, you know, not aligning himself with the President. I think this is not something he&#8217;s going to forgive.
KEILAR: I might argue it’s more a dear diary or certainly you’re not getting your money’s worth because a therapist might interject in the middle of that and this was more of like a — this was more just a monologue. John Harwood, you cover him day in and day out. What struck you?
JOHN HARWOOD: Look, this was a very disturbing tableau for the country. It was dark because he’s made clear that his mind is dark. This is someone who is in deep psychological distress right now, self-pitying, insecure, angry. He almost said plaintively at the end when he was reading a text from Strzok to Page, where he said I’m a good — I&#8217;m not a bad person. He was sort of imploring people to accept that view of him. When Kaitlan and Alexi said, he thinks I did nothing wrong, that sentence stops with the word “I” because, with Donald Trump, if he did it, it’s not wrong. He doesn&#8217;t recognize abstract concepts like right and wrong, like morality or immorality, like true or false. He recognizes what is good for him in the moment and what has happened, what Mitt Romney has done by casting that vote, what Nancy — Pelosi has done has felt very, very unpleasant to him. He said impeachment is a very ugly. By going after Romney, the other part of it that I think is striking is that the entire Republican Party reduced to sitting applauding this rambling, disordered set of remarks, and one of the reasons why it is an uncomfortable moment for them is that Mitt Romney, when he gave that speech, said, I&#8217;ve looked at the facts. I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion and I can&#8217;t avoid this. He stripped naked the rationalizations that they have used for their votes. Remember they started off saying, look, the whistleblower broke. They started out saying, well, it would be terrible if there was a quid pro quo, but there’s no evidence of a quick. Now, when we got to the end of the process, Ted Cruz told the White House lawyers well, we all know it’s a quid pro quo and what they’re saying is, yes, it was a quid pro quo. They approved that case but it&#8217;s not that big a deal. They were starting from the end point of — of protecting this President and Romney has shown that the — the calculations behind that are pretty hollow.
GLORIA BORGER: He is the victim here.
KEILAR: Yeah.
BORGER: There — this is how he sees himself. He is the victim in all of this. He has done nothing wrong, and as you point out, John, lots of Republicans are now saying, well, the call was inappropriate — he thinks — but not impeachable. He said there is nothing wrong with it, he is the good guy, they are the bad guy, and this is the way this campaign is going to be run. Make no mistake about it. No matter who his opponent is, the world will be divided into good and evil and most of the country, I don&#8217;t think, is in the good and evil thing. I think the country looks at politicians and says, well, there are some good things he says, there are some bad things she says. I don’t — you know —
[CROSSTALK]
HARWOOD: Most of the country is against it.
BORGER: That’s right. That’s right. But people don&#8217;t see people as black and white.
ALEXI MCCAMMOND: And he&#8217;s playing on the inherent tribalism that I think a lot of people feel since President Trump was elected and clearly that a lot of people were feeling —
BORGER: Absolutely
MCCAMMOND: — bubble up, you know, when Obama was President.</blockquote>

President Trump Speaks On Impeachment Acquittal At The White House

CNN Melts Down Over Trump’s Acquittal Speech: ‘His Mind Is Dark’, ‘Angry’, ‘Disturbing’

The Democratic Party has spent the past four years cooking up anything they can to use as grist with which to impeach President Donald Trump. Now that Trump has been acquitted by the Senate, the mainstream media are clutching their pearls over the president&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/politics/donald-trump-impeachment-victory-lap/index.html">vindictive impeachment victory lap</a>.&#8221;
Writing at CNN, Kevin Liptak lamented how President Trump gave a victory speech on Thursday that was &#8220;vindictive and angry.&#8221;
&#8220;There was no indication he planned to adopt a new approach following the ordeal. Instead, Trump spent more than an hour bouncing between disparate injustices and angry asides,&#8221; lamented Liptak.
&#8220;The formal White House event was meant to be the final word on the impeachment saga. But few expect the ordeal to fade from view; Trump is stung and angry at being impeached by the House and his allies say it&#8217;s unlikely he&#8217;ll let it go anytime soon,&#8221; he later added.
Speaking in the White House East Room, President Trump rightly minced no words in the wake of the Democratic Party&#8217;s failed attempt to forcefully remove him from office, denouncing the leading Democrats as &#8220;dirty cops&#8221; who enacted a plan that was both &#8220;evil&#8221; and &#8220;corrupt.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been going through this now for over three years,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars. And this should never, ever happen to another president, ever.&#8221;
On CNN, Brianna Keilar referred to the president&#8217;s remarks as &#8220;unscripted&#8221; and &#8220;vindictive,&#8221; adding that it was &#8220;at times profane&#8221; and &#8220;angry.&#8221;
&#8220;An avalanche of grievances &#8230; It was vindictive &#8230; it was mean-spirited, it was poisonous, it was spiteful,&#8221; said Gloria Borger. Take a look:
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Keiler, &quot;You have been watching the President &#8230;. with an unscripted, vindictive, at times profane, angry, rambling response to his impeachment acquittal.
Borger: &quot;An avalanche of grievances &#8230; It was vindictive&#8230;it was mean-spirited, it was poisonous, it was spiteful.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/bi0urv9Y2Y">pic.twitter.com/bi0urv9Y2Y</a>
&mdash; Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1225487462467801090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Also at CNN, John Harwood <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-john-harwood-and-panel-stunned-by-dark-trump-speech-hes-in-deep-psychological-distress/">fretted over the darkness</a> of Trump&#8217;s speech, asserting that it offered a glimpse into the dark depths of his mind.
“This was a very disturbing tableau for the country. It was dark because he’s made clear that his mind is dark,” said Harwood. “This is somebody in deep psychological distress right now. Self-pitying, insecure, angry.”
“With Donald Trump, if he did it, it’s not wrong. He doesn’t recognize abstract concepts like right and wrong, like morality or immorality, like true or false, he recognizes what is good for him in the moment,” Harwood continued. “And what has happened … what Mitt Romney has done by casting that vote, what Nancy Pelosi has done, has felt very, very unpleasant to him.”
Marina Fang of <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-impeachment-acquittal-speech_n_5e3c25cdc5b6bb0ffc0c7210">HuffPost</a> referred to the moment as a &#8220;horror show in the East Room,&#8221; lamenting the president&#8217;s &#8220;improvisational ramblings that appeared more like fascist propaganda than a White House event.&#8221;
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&#8220;As the former reality television host walked to his lectern, he received a standing ovation while &#8216;Hail to the Chief&#8217; played, before launching into an unhinged riff targeting some of his favorite and most frequently mentioned subjects, listing them off in a Mad Libs-like frenzy,&#8221; wrote Fang. &#8220;The speech, which resembled his ad-libbed campaign rallies, was held in the East Room, typically reserved for more measured and sometimes somber official White House events.&#8221;
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US President Donald Trump

WATCH: Media Triggered Over Trump’s ‘Vindictive Impeachment Victory Lap’

Impeachment

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) got testy during a Thursday morning press conference after a CNN reporter questioned the top Democrat&#8217;s message of &#8220;dignity&#8221; when she decided to rip up a physical copy of President Donald Trump&#8217;s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. According to Pelosi, not only were her actions &#8220;dignified&#8221; and &#8220;appropriate,&#8221; they were &#8220;courteous,&#8221; considering what she was dealing with from the president.
CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju questioned Pelosi if the now-infamous speech-tearing stepped on her messages about being &#8220;dignified&#8221; and taking the &#8220;high ground.&#8221;
&#8220;Did you step on that message?&#8221; Raju bluntly asked.
&#8220;No, I did not. No, I did not. I tore up a manifesto of mistruths,&#8221; contended Pelosi.
&#8220;It was necessary to get the attention of the American people, to say this is not true,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;And I don&#8217;t need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, about dignity. Dignity,&#8221; a visibly irritated Pelosi scoffed.
&#8220;Is it okay to start saying &#8216;four more years&#8217; in the House of Representatives?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;It&#8217;s just unheard of.&#8221;
&#8220;It was completely, entirely appropriate,&#8221; the speaker concluded. &#8220;And considering the other exuberances within me, the courteous thing to do.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a>: &quot;I tore up a manifesto of mistruths…It was necessary to get the attention of the American people, to say this is not true…And I don&#39;t need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, about dignity.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/N4PLK1wGyG">pic.twitter.com/N4PLK1wGyG</a>
&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1225458453117837314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a statement reported by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pelosi-shreds-trumps-speech-reflecting-a-tumultuous-year-in-washington/2020/02/04/c378856c-4771-11ea-ab15-b5df3261b710_story.html">The Washington Post</a> on Wednesday, Pelosi echoed the same “manifesto of mistruths” line.
“The manifesto of mistruths presented in page after page of the address tonight should be a call to action for everyone who expects truth from the president and policies worthy of his office and the American people,” the statement said.
In addition to ripping up Trump&#8217;s speech, the speaker seemingly refused to announce the president as he has traditionally been announced.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-violates-protocol-by-refusing-to-announce-trump-properly-at-sotu-rips-up-speech">The Daily Wire</a>, <a href="https://www.c-span.org/search/?sdate=&amp;edate=&amp;searchtype=Videos&amp;sort=Least+Recent+Event&amp;text=0&amp;tagid%5B%5D=2109&amp;show100=">decades of past SOTU addresses show</a> that is protocol for the House Speaker to announce the president by noting that it is their “high privilege and distinct honor” to do so:
<blockquote>“Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.”</blockquote>
In fact, as recently as <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?323791-1/2015-state-union-address">2015</a>, during then-President Barack Obama’s SOTU address, then-House Speaker John Boehner announced Mr. Obama: “Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and the distinct honor to present to you, the president of the United States.”
Pelosi took a different route, and instead merely <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdU4MGyOmLA">announced</a> President Trump to Congress: “Members of Congress, the president of the United States.”
The snubbing of President Trump did not end there. Eight House Democrats boycotted the speech, apparently as a protest against Trump’s legitimacy, and at least four other Democrats walked out of the SOTU as Trump was speaking.
Far-left Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-stormed-out-of-sotu-heres-what-she-said-triggered-her">Rashida Tlaib</a> (D-MI), for example, said she had to walk out of the speech when she heard the mere mentioning of the name of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
“I think, you know, even the mention of Brett Kavanaugh for me is a trigger,” the Democrat told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/481611-tlaib-says-mention-of-kavanaugh-was-trigger-to-walk-out-of-trump-speech">The Hill</a>.
“Just as a woman in America, the fact that he, you know, rightfully was accused, and having an incredibly strong woman come before the public and the world and tell her story of sexual assault by this person that was appointed to the Supreme Court is just — I couldn’t stand still and not do anything about it, and I needed to walk away from that,” said Tlaib.
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Imagine the outrage and meltdown if Nancy Pelosi was a Republican. <a href="https://t.co/x0i8OAdwyk">pic.twitter.com/x0i8OAdwyk</a>
&mdash; The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1224900334218178560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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