Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cori-bush" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) faced backlash online on Wednesday over a false and inflammatory tweet on the ninth anniversary of when Michael Brown attacked a police officer and was subsequently killed when the officer defended himself.
&#8220;Today is the 9th anniversary of Mike Brown’s killing,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;He would be alive today if the institutions of racism and white supremacy were eradicated. He should be alive today. We will never forget. We will continue to fight for justice and accountability.&#8221;
Former President Barack Obama&#8217;s Department of Justice (DOJ) concluded that there was no credible evidence to disprove Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson&#8217;s story that he shot Brown after Brown attacked him while he was seated in his police vehicle. The encounter happened after Wilson was called to the area to respond to Brown reportedly stealing from a store and attacking a store clerk.
&#8220;Brown’s DNA inside the SUV and on Wilson’s shirt collar and the bullet trajectory and close-range gunshot wound to Brown’s hand, establish that Brown’s arms and/or torso were inside the SUV,&#8221; the report <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. Brown was 6&#8217;5&#8221; and <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/08/10/the-cop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weighed</a> nearly 300 pounds.
&#8220;As detailed throughout this report, several witnesses stated that Brown appeared to pose a physical threat to Wilson as he moved toward Wilson,&#8221; the report added. &#8220;According to these witnesses, who are corroborated by blood evidence in the roadway, as Brown continued to move toward Wilson, Wilson fired at Brown in what appeared to be self-defense and stopped firing once Brown fell to the ground.&#8221;
Radio host Dana Loesch responded to Bush, &#8220;He would be alive today if he had not chosen to steal from a convenience store, resulting in the owner calling police, resulting in police stopping him, at which point Brown CHOSE to attack a cop and try to take his gun &#8212; which Eric Holder&#8217;s own DOJ concluded with its forensics report. Stop YOUR shameful and racist rewrite of facts.&#8221;
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He would be alive today if he had not chosen to steal from a convenience store, resulting in the owner calling police, resulting in police stopping him, at which point Brown CHOSE to attack a cop and try to take his gun &#8212; which Eric Holder&#39;s own DOJ concluded with its forensics… <a href="https://t.co/CQonKiGT3g">https://t.co/CQonKiGT3g</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1689318416090374171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This only goes to show how the Left plays the long game,&#8221; said Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh. &#8220;The whole Michael Brown narrative has been definitively exposed as a hoax but they will keep repeating it year after year after year until we get tired of correcting it and the truth is forgotten by history.&#8221;
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Other notable responses included:
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Mike Brown attacked and tried to kill a cop, after robbing a minority-owned liquor store.
Unbelievable they&#39;re still trying this &quot;new civil rights heroes&quot; crap. <a href="https://t.co/QyRzNU4DyO">https://t.co/QyRzNU4DyO</a>
&mdash; Wilfred Reilly (@wil_da_beast630) <a href="https://twitter.com/wil_da_beast630/status/1689335180547215360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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He choked a bodega owner in the act of shoplifting and attempted to assault the responding police officer while grabbing his firearm. 
Eric Holder&#39;s justice department cleared the officer of any wrongdoing. <a href="https://t.co/WsDOnBPryK">https://t.co/WsDOnBPryK</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1689351109020958720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Democrat Cori Bush Slammed Over Tweet About Michael Brown On 9th Anniversary Of His Attack On Cop

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A Democrat yelled &#8220;your bills are racist!&#8221; while Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/steve-scalise">Steve Scalise</a> (R-LA) spoke in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives">House</a> chamber on Thursday.
The moment happened after the GOP-led House passed the first of 12 annual appropriations bills, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4123560-cori-bush-yells-at-steve-scalise-on-house-floor-your-bills-are-racist/">as reported by The Hill</a>, and Scalise announced the lower chamber would be heading into summer recess at the end of the day.
During <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1684631574963212288">a back-and-forth</a> with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), Scalise got interrupted by someone who shouted, &#8220;Your bills are racist!&#8221;
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As Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SteveScalise</a> speaks, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepCori?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepCori</a> Bush yells in House chamber: &quot;Your bills are racist!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/JNxh9lfL8M">pic.twitter.com/JNxh9lfL8M</a>
&mdash; CSPAN (@cspan) <a href="https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1684631126952845312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The chamber quickly erupted with a chorus of boos and calls for the House to get back to order. It was pointed out by multiple news outlets that Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cori-bush">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) was the one who shouted.
Bush owned up to the disruption with an unapologetic <a href="https://twitter.com/RepCori/status/1684634655260102656">post to X</a>, saying, &#8220;I said what I said,&#8221; along with shrugging emoji.
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I said what I said 🤷🏾‍♀️ <a href="https://t.co/ZTjfUfJ24K">https://t.co/ZTjfUfJ24K</a>
&mdash; Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepCori/status/1684634655260102656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Clark went on to speak about the effort to pass spending legislation.
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&#8220;We hope that you will say no to extremism, to hatred, to bigotry that is put into these appropriation bills, and say yes to solutions and fairness for the American people and to build an economy where they can see themselves,&#8221; <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/cori-bush-shouts-your-bills-are-racist-at-republican-leader-scalise-during-heated-house-debate/">she said</a> in her remarks.
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The House approved <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023380">by a 219-211 vote</a> a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4366">spending bill</a> to fund military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies in fiscal year 2024. The tally was virtually on party lines, although two Republicans voted against the measure.
&#8220;Every single House Democrat just voted AGAINST funding the Veterans Affairs Department and veterans&#8217; benefits,&#8221; Scalise said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1684665580203241472">post to X</a>. &#8220;Thankfully Republicans were there to pass the bill to fully fund the VA and give our veterans the benefits they deserve.&#8221;
The House&#8217;s summer recess is poised to <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1684614632898428931">last for six weeks</a>, unless leadership calls members back to Capitol Hill sooner. When lawmakers return, they will be hard-pressed to pass remaining spending legislation — particularly bills that the Democrat-led Senate will accept — as the end of the fiscal year is the last day of September.
If there is a failure to reach an agreement in the appropriations process, federal employees may be staring down the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-congressman-makes-case-for-why-we-should-not-fear-a-government-shutdown">prospect of a government shutdown</a>.

Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO)

House Democrat Shouts ‘Your Bills Are Racist!’ At GOP Leader

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The gravy train keeps flowing for Congresswoman Cori &#8216;Defund The Police&#8217; Bush&#8217;s (D-MO) bodyguard hubby. A new report indicates that he has received thousands of dollars for private security and  &#8220;wage expenses&#8221; from Bush&#8217;s campaign. Yet, he allegedly doesn&#8217;t have the proper authorization for such services in either St. Louis or Washington, D.C.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cori-bush-campaign-continues-shell-thousands-dollars-husband-private-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Sunday that Bush&#8217;s campaign has paid her husband, Courtney Merrits, $30,000 so far in 2023. That&#8217;s on top of the $60,000 her campaign sent him in 2022, per Fox.
What exactly does he do? Well, it&#8217;s hard to say.
Bush&#8217;s team didn&#8217;t answer any questions from Fox about what sort of protection Merritts is providing since he isn&#8217;t in D.C.&#8217;s official security specialists database — nor does he have a license in Bush&#8217;s home district in Missouri.
Bush has also doled out $62,000 to a group of St. Louis-based PEACE Security officers in 2023. Bush has infamously denigrated the police as racists. Yet, PEACE is made up of many individuals with law enforcement or military experience, the outlet noted. She also paid another gentleman more than $140,000 over the past year and a half for &#8220;security.&#8221;
For her part, she is one of the last remaining members of Congress, let alone the Democratic Party, who maintains that &#8220;Defunding the Police&#8221; is a sound policy. Defund the Police movements, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-defund-the-police-became-a-suicide-pact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Wire readers know well</a>, have led to rising crime and lawlessness in cities across the country.
The congresswoman also supports <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cori-bushs-gun-control-ramblings-are-incoherent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heavy gun control</a>. In 2021, when the press asked her about her security services spending, Bush was adamant that she needed to be protected by firearms.
&#8220;You would rather me die? Is that what you want to see? You want to see me die? You know because that could be the alternative,&#8221; Bush said.
When the St. Louis representative isn&#8217;t calling to leave the average American unarmed, she&#8217;s demanding reparations.
&#8220;The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human,&#8221; Bush <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-cori-bush-slammed-for-july-4th-tweet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> on July 4. &#8220;Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now.&#8221;
As readers can tell, she&#8217;s a real charmer whose convictions are as strong as her persuasive rhetoric &#8230; Or maybe that&#8217;s just what her husband tells her in exchange for tens of thousands of dollars from campaign funds.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Cori 'Defund The Police' Bush Pays Big Money For Hubby's Security Business

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On Monday, a Democratic Representative compared the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> pill mifepristone to the headache and pain reliever Tylenol, even referring to the abortion pills as a “lifeline” for women.
Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) made the comments during a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5078114/user-clip-rep-cori-bush-calls-abortion-pills-life-saving-health-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> on “Medication Abortion Access and Republican Efforts to Ban Abortion Nationwide.” Bush was <a href="https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-bush-rep-crockett-and-oversight-ranking-member-raskin-to-host-roundtable-on" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined by</a> fellow Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, including Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin and Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett.
&#8220;Banning medication abortion would be like placing a ban on Tylenol [or] a ban on antibiotics,” Bush <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1681100057637191680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1681100057637191680%7Ctwgr%5E1af2a108a522994f883d48cc860a50101a8b6751%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthepostmillennial.com%2Fsquad-member-cori-bush-compares-removing-a-human-life-to-removing-a-headache-in-response-to-abortion-pill-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “There is no scientific, no valid medical reason to do so. It is only political propaganda.”
The Missouri congresswoman <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rep-cori-bush-calls-abortion-pills-life-saving-health-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> the pills were “effective” and “safe” and said they were “no different from any other medication that&#8217;s safe and effective.&#8221; She said that for 23 years, the Food and Drug Administration approved of the pills, and went on to explain that, in her view, abortion pills are actually a “lifeline.”
&#8220;Medication abortion is a lifeline,&#8221; she said. “A lifeline for the person working multiple jobs that cannot afford to take a day off work because wages are too low or they don&#8217;t have paid sick leave, a lifeline for the mom of two who cannot afford childcare or cannot find affordable childcare.”
“It&#8217;s a lifeline for the trans folks who face transphobia and bigotry because of anti-LGBT+ laws and outrageous bans on gender-affirming care,” the congresswoman added.
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Rep. Cori Bush says restricting access to abortion pills is equivalent to “placing a ban on Tylenol.”
Last I checked Tylenol didn’t kill babies, but ok…<a href="https://t.co/OAR954RtgJ">pic.twitter.com/OAR954RtgJ</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1681100057637191680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Mifepristone is used to end the life of an unborn child in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-in-texas-suspends-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-used-in-up-to-half-of-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roughly half</a> of all abortions in the United States. In April, a federal judge in Texas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-judge-in-texas-suspends-fda-approval-of-abortion-pill-used-in-up-to-half-of-abortions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> the FDA approval of the pill, while around the same time, a U.S. district judge in Washington state issued a conflicting ruling.
Shortly after the Texas judge’s restriction of the abortion pill, the United States Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-releases-decision-on-abortion-pill-mifepristone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> the ruling, allowing the approval of the pill while a lawsuit proceeds in federal court.
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In the year since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republican state legislatures have been passing pro-life laws protecting the unborn. Last week, Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iowa-governor-signs-six-week-abortion-ban" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> an abortion ban that prevented abortions, with some exceptions, when a heartbeat was detected, usually around six weeks. However, three days later, a district court judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iowa-judge-temporarily-blocks-six-week-abortion-ban-days-after-gov-reynolds-signed-legislation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">temporarily blocked</a> the law, which is being challenged in court by abortion providers.
And last month, a study was released estimating that as a result of the Texas Heartbeat Act, which went into effect in September 2021, nearly 10,000 more babies were born in the state between April and December 2022, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-heartbeat-act-resulted-in-10k-additional-babies-born-last-year-study-suggests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“This new study highlights the significant success of our movement in the last two years, while we look forward to helping the mothers and families of our state care for their children,&#8221; Right to Life president John Seago said regarding the study.

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What, precisely, is it about America you love?
That’s the question this July 4 as just 29% of Democrats say they’re extremely proud of the country, accompanied by just 33% of independents and 60% of Republicans. In fact, Democratic love of country has always fallen far behind that of Republicans, even during the Obama era, when it hit a temporary high of just over 50% (Republicans at the time said they were extremely proud of the country at a rate of approximately 70%).
Why is it that liberals in the United States are so much less proud of America than conservatives? These days, the answer typically given is America’s inherent sinfulness; there is nothing in the American founding worth conserving. On Independence Day, Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) tweeted, “The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human. Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now.” Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) similarly tweeted, “This July 4th, we must remember that we stand on stolen land toiled by enslaved Africans and recommit ourselves to the fight for freedom, equality, &amp; justice so that these ideals are accessible to everyone, not just a privileged few. We are not free until everyone is truly free.”
America, to these types, is a platform for utopianism rather than a set of ideals worthy of emulation. The Declaration of Independence was a lie; the Constitution was merely a guise for power. And the quest for a perfect world must begin in tearing down such institutions with whatever means are at our disposal. The ends justify the means.
Thus, while Democrats fulminate over supposed threats to democracy, a federal judge this week ruled that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment in pressuring social media companies to restrict free speech regarding covid and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, among others; the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden White House had violated its constitutional boundaries in waiving student loan debt. Biden’s response: he pledged to utilize the executive branch to work around the Supreme Court’s ruling. 
Respect for the founding means respect for founding principles. Biden and his ilk have used a misinterpretation of one founding principle — “equality” — to vitiate the natural rights for which the founders originally fought. When the founders said that “all men are created equal,” they meant specifically that human beings had been “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” They did not mean, as Biden suggests, that all human beings ought to be made equal in result, or that indeed, all human beings are equal in all capacities. Biden’s idea is utopian nonsense; the founders’ idea was grounded in millennia of evidence and Judeo-Christian tradition.
Patriots celebrate the founding for what it was: a breakthrough in the nature of human governance, a ringing statement in favor of liberty from the heavy hand of tyranny. Today, too many celebrate the founding only as a platform for future change — change that would annihilate the ideals of the founding along the road to a “higher good.” This, presumably, is why Republicans are far more patriotic than Democrats even while saying that America is in the midst of a moral crisis; meanwhile, Democrats are far less patriotic while suggesting pride in America’s current moral state. Conservatives are disappointed with man’s sinfulness, but proud of the founders’ ideals; many liberals are disappointed with the founders’ ideals, and proud of man’s sinfulness.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cori-bush" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) faced backlash on Independence Day for demanding that the U.S. pay reparations to black people.
&#8220;The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now.&#8221;
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The Declaration of Independence was written by enslavers and didn’t recognize Black people as human.
Today is a great day to demand Reparations Now ✊🏾
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The response to her tweet was overwhelmingly negative as most of the responses were hostile.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t you think more than enough white people paid for it with their blood during the Civil War?&#8221; writer Ian Miles Cheong asked.
Jeremy Redfern, press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, tweeted: &#8220;You’re gonna need reparations for this ratio.&#8221;
&#8220;Today is a great day to shut the f*** up,&#8221; another account tweeted.
Chris Loesch responded, &#8220;This is rubbish. Cori has no knowledge of what the framers did or didn’t believe evidently or what their efforts were. She should understand why people like Frederick Douglass honored and revered them.&#8221;
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Political strategist Ryan Girdusky tweeted, &#8220;People like Cori Bush could never build anything as great as what she’s trying to destroy.&#8221;
&#8220;Shut up you buffoonette,&#8221; said attorney and columnist Kurt Schlichter.
Political commentator Varad Mehta added: &#8220;Just an absolute pile of rancid filth.&#8221;
&#8220;Of the 56, 11 signers were guilty of enslaving others,&#8221; Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial, tweeted. &#8220;Jefferson&#8217;s clause about the need to abolish slavery was removed from the document in order to appease the colonies that backed the practice. Adams, Franklin and 2 others were abolitionists.&#8221;

Democrat Cori Bush Slammed For July 4th Tweet

Congresswoman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/defund-the-police-advocate-cori-bush-marries-security-guard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) has shelled out six figures since 2020 for one security guard/anti-Semitic spiritual guru who reportedly believes he is &#8220;109 trillion&#8221; years old and can &#8220;summon tornadoes.&#8221;
According to a <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-the-anti-semitic-spiritual-guru-on-cori-bushs-payroll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> — published on Tuesday by reporter Andrew Kerr at The Washington Free Beacon — Nathaniel Davis III is Bush&#8217;s close friend in addition to being the highest-paid security guard on her payroll. From 2020 to as late as December of 2022, SEC filings show that Bush paid Davis $137,000.
As detailed in Kerr&#8217;s report, Davis is also known as Aha Sen Piankhy — a spiritual guru in St. Louis, Missouri, &#8220;who teaches classes on how to read minds, summon mythical beings, and maintain urban gardens—to avoid having to buy food from the Jews.&#8221;
Davis also reportedly believes himself to be &#8220;intergalactic master of psychic self-defense&#8221; who is &#8220;109 trillion&#8221; years old and claims to have the ability to &#8220;summon tornadoes at will, cause earthquakes with his hate, and conduct blood rituals to bring ruin upon his enemies.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a teacher,&#8221; Davis says in a video shared by WFB, before declaring that he was &#8220;not Martin [Luther King Jr.],&#8221; adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m not peaceful at all. You mess with me, I&#8217;m messing with you. I&#8217;m doing you ten times worse than what you did me.&#8221;
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He went on to suggest using animal sacrifice to bring destruction down on his enemies and claimed to have studied Sufism and in doing so, had learned how to &#8220;make tornadoes.&#8221; He also claimed to be able to use the book of Proverbs to control the direction of lightning &#8220;and burn some s*** down.&#8221;
Davis then pivoted to quote Spider-Man — &#8220;with great power comes great responsibility&#8221; — before claiming, &#8220;I&#8217;m a very humble individual because I know what I can actually do. I&#8217;ve done it.&#8221;
Congresswoman Bush herself has been a part of a sect that specializes in faith-healing — and members there claim to have cured everything from cancer to Bush&#8217;s own case of COVID-19.
&#8220;Cori, she had COVID, and she called me from the hospital,&#8221; Ndifon, the presiding apostle of Kingdom Embassy International churches told <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/meet-rep-cori-bush-and-her-fellow-faith-healers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a> in 2021. &#8220;And 30 minutes later, she was breathing. Healed. It was that simple.&#8221;

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Cori Bush’s Highest Paid Security Guard Believes He’s ‘109 Trillion’ Years Old And Can ‘Summon Tornadoes’: Report

Cori Bush's Highest Paid Security Guard Believes He's '109 Trillion' Years Old And Can 'Summon Tornadoes': Report

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Some believe that the cushiest job in the world is playing as a backup quarterback in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nfl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL</a> but, as of late, perhaps the sweetest gig one can land is being the spouse of a Democratic member of Congress.
Per several reports on Tuesday, Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) and retired Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) are just the latest lefties accused of shelling out big bucks to their spouses for no-show jobs on the campaign trail and beyond.
Over the weekend, Bush quietly married her security guard Cortney Merritts. The Missouri Democrat has often called to &#8220;Defund the Police&#8221; while claiming that she needs security because her life would be in danger without it. As for the well-being of the plebs who can&#8217;t afford private security, well, she hasn&#8217;t quite addressed those concerns.
The receipts show that Bush paid Merritts $60,000 for his &#8220;security services.&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cori-bushs-campaign-paid-husband-security-services-doesnt-have-private-security-license" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Tuesday that Merritt isn&#8217;t actually licensed to practice any security in Bush&#8217;s district — as required by state law. Nonetheless, Bush&#8217;s campaign paid Merritt throughout 2022 via a series of $2,500 checks. At the same time, Bush&#8217;s campaign paid PEACE Security $225,281.80 for personal protection.
Adding to the intrigue, Bush&#8217;s office confirmed that the newlyweds have been an item since 2021 — which means Bush hired her boyfriend for supposed personal security despite him not having the authority to act in that capacity since 2012, Fox News claimed.
Also on Tuesday, The Washington Examiner reported that former Congressman Bobby Rush is accused of handing out potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of campaign funds to not only his wife, but his son, mother, and even his church in Chicago where he serves as the pastor.
The Examiner&#8217;s Gabe Kaminsky noted that Rush’s campaign has paid his ex-convict son, Jeffrey Rush, roughly $45,000 since 2019. In 2022, his campaign paid $13,500 to his wife for &#8220;accounting services,&#8221; according to Kaminsky. Rush had announced his plans to retire in January 2023 and wasn&#8217;t up for re-election. Right before exiting office, he gave his wife another 900 smackeroos, per The Examiner.
Rush and Bush aren&#8217;t alone in their family jobs program.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) gave the firm co-owned by her husband (not her brother) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-cuts-ties-to-husbands-firm-after-funneling-millions-in-campaign-funds-to-it-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly three million dollars</a> during the 2020 election. She then cut ties immediately after she won.
In 2022, the team of Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) <a href="https://freebeacon.com/democrats/report-dem-maxine-waters-funnels-tens-of-thousands-in-campaign-funds-to-daughters-business/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paid</a> more than $200,000 to her daughter for campaign services such as creating mailers. Per The Washington Free Beacon, Waters&#8217; daughter has been given more than $1.2 million over the past few decades by Auntie Maxine — as she is known by her fans.
And then there&#8217;s Vice President Kamala Harris, who wasn&#8217;t a spouse but a girlfriend to San Fransisco Mayor Willie Brown. Many have claimed that &#8220;love connection&#8221; helped kickstart her career.
Here&#8217;s what he had to say about his ex-<a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Sure-I-dated-Kamala-Harris-So-what-13562972.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inamorata</a> in 2019: &#8220;Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker. And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco.&#8221;
Brown went on to claim he also helped other Californian women advance in their careers, but that Harris was the only one to threaten to put him in jail for &#8220;so much as jaywalking.&#8221;
That being said, given the general insanity of leftists, maybe it&#8217;s a better choice to go for the backup QB gig for your next career if you are reading this column and seeing green. Learning an NFL playbook would be a lot less hassle than trying to make sure campaign expenditures comply with the law over family dinners.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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It Pays To Be A Democrat’s Spouse: The Latest Members Of Congress Accused Of Shelling Out Big Bucks To Loved Ones

It Pays To Be A Democrat's Spouse: The Latest Members Of Congress Accused Of Shelling Out Big Bucks To Loved Ones

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Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), who is one of the top promoters of the far-left &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement in Congress, has reportedly married a private security guard that her campaign hired.
Bush was married at a private ceremony last weekend to Cortney Merritts after signing a marriage license with him a few days prior.
NBC affiliate KSDK <a href="https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/congresswoman-cori-bush-marries-campaign-security-guard-wedding/63-7652bd27-3e9b-48e3-94ae-3971ae551749">reported</a> that Bush&#8217;s campaign paid Merritts $62,359 in direct payments in 2022 for security services and $2,359 for cash reimbursements.
The payments to Merritts started after the two entered a relationship with each other, the report said, noting that the campaign expenses could draw the attention of the FEC and the Congressional Ethics Office.
&#8220;Campaign funds are not to be used to enhance a Member&#8217;s lifestyle, or to pay a Member&#8217;s personal obligations,&#8221; House rules state. &#8220;Members have wide discretion in determining what constitutes a bona fide campaign or political purpose to which campaign funds and resources may be devoted, but Members have no discretion whatsoever to convert campaign funds to personal use.&#8221;
A spokesperson for Bush released a statement on Monday confirming the marriage, saying that Merritts was &#8220;the love of [Bush&#8217;s] life.&#8221;
&#8220;Mr. Merritts, a veteran of the U.S. Army and a security professional, has been Congresswoman Bush’s partner since before her Congressional tenure and is not employed by her Congressional office,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;Our team has come to know and appreciate Mr. Merritts as a loving and caring Congressional spouse.&#8221;
Bush is a staunch opponent of law enforcement and has repeatedly called for defunding the police and has doubled down on position when confronted by left-wing media organizations.
&#8220;If you could do it again, would you still double down or use that slogan, ‘defund the police?’&#8221; CNN host Don Lemon <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrat-cori-bush-doubles-down-defunding-police-cnn-absolutely-still-supports">asked</a> in October 2022. &#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Bush responded.
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Bush made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-cori-bush-reignites-calls-for-defunding-the-police-amid-violent-crime-surge">similar remarks</a> around that time during an interview with ABC News when she was asked if her rhetoric could hurt vulnerable Democrats in competitive districts.
“The thing about ‘defund the police’ is we have to tell the entire narrative,” Bush responded. “People hear ‘defund the police,’ but you know what they’ll say, say ‘reallocate,’ say ‘divest,’ say ‘move,’ but it’s still the same thing.”
“We can’t get caught up on the words,” Bush continued. “People spend more time focusing on the word ‘defund’ than they spend on caring and addressing the problem of police violence in this country.”

‘Defund The Police’ Advocate Cori Bush Marries Security Guard

Congressman Dan Bishop (R-NC) took to the House floor on Thursday to call out colleague Cori Bush (D-MO) for a &#8220;grotesquely racist&#8221; comment she made about Congressman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/gop-holdouts-rally-behind-byron-donalds-to-deny-kevin-mccarthy-the-house-speakers-gavel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Byron Donalds</a> (R-FL).
The dust-up comes amid a contentious battle primarily among Republicans over who will become the next Speaker of the House, and Donalds was one of the suggested alternatives to Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — who currently holds a majority among Republicans, but not in the chamber as a whole.
After Donalds received a nomination on Wednesday, he earned 20 votes — while the remaining Republicans voted in McCarthy&#8217;s favor. But a short time later, Bush took to Twitter to express her opinion about Donalds&#8217; nomination.
&#8220;FWIW, @ByronDonalds is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He is a prop. Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy. His name being in the mix is not progress—it’s pathetic,&#8221; she tweeted.
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FWIW, <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ByronDonalds</a> is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He is a prop. Despite being Black, he supports a policy agenda intent on upholding and perpetuating white supremacy.
His name being in the mix is not progress—it’s pathetic.
&mdash; Cori Bush (@CoriBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1610726873792929792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Bush later doubled down on her assessment, arguing that because Republican Party leadership had not spent the last two years promoting Donalds, the fact that he was nominated could only mean that the party intended to use him.
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Cori Bush expands on her Byron Donalds &quot;prop&quot; comment to <a href="https://twitter.com/ArthurDelaneyHP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArthurDelaneyHP</a>:
&quot;My issue is because he was not someone they have been promoting for the last 2 years.&quot;
&quot;I want him to understand: They’re only using you.&quot;
“I’m glad [Republicans] took offense.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/nIyii9ViMs">https://t.co/nIyii9ViMs</a>
&mdash; Akbar Shahid Ahmed (@AkbarSAhmed) <a href="https://twitter.com/AkbarSAhmed/status/1610780636700381184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Donalds responded during an appearance on &#8220;Varney &amp; Co,&#8221; saying, &#8220;If you see a Black man rise, let the man rise even if you disagree with them. I’d be happy to sit down and debate our policies one on one whenever you’d like. As a Black man to a Black woman, I’d never do that to you. It’s a shame you did it to me.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoriBush</a>, if you see a Black man rise, let the man rise even if you disagree with them. 
I’d be happy to sit down and debate our policies one on one whenever you’d like. 
As a Black man to a Black woman, I’d never do that to you. It’s a shame you did it to me. <a href="https://t.co/ojpEHLhSI4">pic.twitter.com/ojpEHLhSI4</a>
&mdash; Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDonaldsPress/status/1611009574135562253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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But Bush pushed back again, insisting that Donalds was being used and again accusing him of promoting &#8220;white supremacist chaos.&#8221;
&#8220;Working to overturn the 2020 election &amp; embracing Trump MAGA fascism is not you rising, Byron. You’re being used. It helps you politically at the expense of our community. THAT’S what’s shameful. It’s clear which party promotes white supremacist chaos and which works against it,&#8221; she <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1611069843159060485" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a>.
By the time Bishop took the House floor on Thursday, he had seen enough — and he laid into Bush over her tweet.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepDanBishop?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDanBishop</a> calls out <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CoriBush</a>&#39;s racist tweet against <a href="https://twitter.com/ByronDonalds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ByronDonalds</a>:
&quot;He ain&#39;t no prop&#8230;This is the tired, old, grotesquely racist rhetoric that we’ve seen far too long!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/T2CF3Q1vsI">pic.twitter.com/T2CF3Q1vsI</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1611052952315219968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Last night, I sat within feet of Mr. Donalds as the tweet of another member-elect appeared on the screen. That member-elect wrote, and sent out to America, that Byron Donalds is &#8216;a prop,’” Bishop began. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent a good bit of time with Mr. Donalds, especially lately. He ain&#8217;t no prop.&#8221;
House Republicans stood to applaud, and Bishop continued after a brief pause — as Congressman Burgess Owens (R-UT) nodded in agreement behind him. &#8220;And if he were a prop, he wouldn&#8217;t be sitting where he&#8217;s sitting. This is the tired, old, grotesquely racist rhetoric that we’ve seen far too long!&#8221;

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‘He Ain’t No Prop’: Dan Bishop Torches Cori Bush For ‘Grotesquely Racist’ Attack On Byron Donalds

Dan Bishop Torches Cori Bush For 'Grotesquely Racist' Attack On Byron Donalds

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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) slammed Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) on Wednesday for accusing some Republican legislators of being responsible for terrorism targeting the LGBTQ community.
The exchange between &#8220;The Squad&#8221; member and the Republican congressman came during a Congressional hearing on anti-LGBTQ violence in America. During the hearing, Bush charged, “The rise of hate and violence against the LBGTQ community follows a surge of anti-LBGTQ legislation driven by Republican state lawmakers including in my home state of Missouri.”
“In 2020, the Missouri state house introduced 23 pieces of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. They’re repeatedly — it’s absolutely disgusting — filed library book bans on doctor-recommended care, student organization bans, and sports bans,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Hate drives these Republican bills, which in turn drive dangerous hate and violence towards our LGBTQ+ community. In Missouri, my state, we have seen multiple hate-driven murders of our trans siblings in recent years as part of Missouri Republicans’ obsessive attack on trans and gay rights.”
Comer fired back by pointing out that Bush&#8217;s own community was full of violence.
&#8220;Crime is going to be a top priority for the Republicans on this committee in the next Congress, and perhaps Ms. Bush could come give us some pointers on how she&#8217;s reduced crime in St. Louis, since she&#8217;s been in Congress and what her ideas are to further reduce crime in St. Louis. But wait a minute. St. Louis has one of the highest crime rates in America,&#8221; he said.
Earlier at the hearing, in an exchange with Brandon Wolf, a survivor of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, Texas GOP Rep. Pat Fallon pointed out the dangers of ascribing violent acts to the rhetoric of one political side of the aisle.
“My heart goes out to you,” Fallon said. “What I want to avoid though, is to place blame on people that have a different political philosophy, because the vast majority — and I’m talking 99.99 and you just keep going of Americans — don’t want to harm anyone and don’t harm anyone. And to place blame on an ideology, and I think you said earlier, ‘Right-wing extremism’ &#8230; do you fear, Mr. Wolf, Left-wing extremism?”
Wolf replied, “Do you have an example of a left-wing extremist engaging in anti-LGBTQ violence?”
Fallon cited the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise by a Bernie Sanders supporter. “None of us blamed Bernie Sanders because he didn’t do it. Now there’s rhetoric on that side that could encourage very unstable people but unstable people are dangerous inherently.”
He pointed out that Scalise had a security detail that killed the shooter, adding that if Scalise had not been there, 15 to 20 members of Congress could have been murdered. He noted the shooter had asked the members of Congress, who were at the site for a Congressional baseball game. “Are you Republicans?”
“And when they answered, ‘Yes,’ that’s when the rifle came out,” Fallon noted. “The only person responsible for that shooting was that man and no one else.”
“The Pulse nightclub shooting, was that perpetrated by a ‘Right-wing extremist’?” he asked.
“The Pulse nightclub shooting was perpetrated by a man who pledged allegiance to ISIS,” Wolf acknowledged.
“I don’t think there are many ISIS members that are terrorists and also GOP voters,” Fallon replied.

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‘Squad’ Member Cori Bush Accuses GOP Of Inciting Violence Against LGBTQ Community. James Comer Fires Back.

Cori Bush Accuses GOP Of Inciting Violence Against LGBTQ Community. James Comer Fires Back.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cori-bush">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) revealed details about an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion">abortion</a> she had as a teen.
Bush said that just as the surgical abortion was about to begin, she told the abortionist that she was not ready, but the doctor and clinic staff ignored her and shut her objections down.
The Democratic congresswoman related the story during an interview on PBS&#8217;s &#8220;Firing Line with Margaret Hoover.&#8221; Hoover noted the incident was included in Bush&#8217;s new political memoir “The Forerunner,” which went on sale this week.
The incident occurred during Bush&#8217;s second abortion.
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&quot;I said, no, you know what, I&#39;m not ready. And the nurse just wouldn&#39;t listen to me.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/RepCori?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepCori</a> tells the &quot;complicated&quot; story of her second abortion, when her pleas to halt the procedure were ignored.
&quot;I felt like it was, &#39;Oh well, we know better. You don&#39;t know what you need.&#39;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/sdJaQRxVWb">pic.twitter.com/sdJaQRxVWb</a>
&mdash; Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (@FiringLineShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/FiringLineShow/status/1578376341875032065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You became pregnant two years later when you were 19, and you chose to have an abortion. You went to an abortion clinic, at this time you were enrolled in university,&#8221; Hoover said. &#8220;You got to the clinic and had second thoughts.&#8221;
&#8220;I was thinking back to the first abortion,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;Okay, you&#8217;ve done this before, you know the rooms, you know what it looks like, you know what it feels like in this place, you know what to expect. You know that you may even experience even some harm or some racism in this space. I thought I was ready.&#8221;
Bush said she went from room to room going through all the preliminary steps, which was like an &#8220;assembly line,&#8221; but after she was helped up onto the operating table she started having second thoughts.
One thing she thought about was that she hadn&#8217;t told the father of her child about the abortion.
&#8220;I just felt like I needed more time,&#8221; Bush said. &#8220;So I said &#8216;no, you know what, I&#8217;m not ready.'&#8221;
&#8220;And the nurse just wouldn&#8217;t listen to me. And I said, &#8216;no, I&#8217;m not ready,'&#8221; she said.
As Bush repeatedly told the clinic staff she was not ready, they continued to prepare instruments for the abortion, she said.
&#8220;They absolutely ignored me even to the point of &#8216;calm down,&#8217; as if I was the problem,&#8221; Bush said.
Bush said that as she lay on the table, she looked around for someone else in the room who would listen to her, but she found no one.
&#8220;During this time, they put the instrument inside me and started the instrument, and I&#8217;m saying &#8216;no,&#8217; but it was too late, because you couldn&#8217;t stop once it started,&#8221; she said.
Besides representing Missouri in the House, Bush is a registered nurse, pastor, and Black Lives Matter activist.

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