On Tuesday, White House advisor Ivanka Trump was confronted by aggressive CNN reporter and avid self-promoter Jim Acosta at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Mr. Acosta rushed Ivanka as she was coming down a flight of stairs at the forum. &#8220;Your father’s impeachment trial is today, what are your thoughts?” he questioned the eldest Trump daughter. &#8220;Any comment on your father&#8217;s impeachment trial?&#8221;
Ivanka brushed off Acosta and walked around him. As she continued on her walk, Acosta can be heard repeating his questions concerning impeachment.
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CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@acosta</a> catches up with <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IvankaTrump</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Davos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Davos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEF20?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WEF20</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cnn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cnn</a> <a href="https://t.co/gDMM9yIyQm">pic.twitter.com/gDMM9yIyQm</a>
&mdash; Matt Hoye (@mattyhoyeCNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattyhoyeCNN/status/1219604447619420161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Acosta quickly commented on the interaction via Twitter: &#8220;Ivanka Trump declines to comment to [CNN] on her father’s impeachment trial as it gets underway. #WEF2020.&#8221;
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Ivanka Trump declines to comment to <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> on her father’s impeachment trial as it gets underway. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WEF2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WEF2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/ttQJVVLnV4">https://t.co/ttQJVVLnV4</a>
&mdash; Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1219604724883906561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka&#8217;s eldest brother, jumped in to defend his sister and ridicule Acosta.
&#8220;Why should she give a comment to one of the most dishonest reporters in all of Washington???&#8221; he quote-tweeted Acosta&#8217;s post via Twitter.
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Why should she give a comment to one of the most dishonest reporters in all of Washington??? <a href="https://t.co/YYmD30WL5P">https://t.co/YYmD30WL5P</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1219637944312639489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Acosta had his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-secret-service-takes-jim-acostas-press-ryan-saavedra">hard press pass temporarily revoked</a> in 2018 after he physically pushed back against a young female White House intern trying to grab the communal mic.
&#8220;I’ve just been denied entrance to the [White House]. Secret Service just informed me I cannot enter the [White House] grounds for my 8pm hit,” Acosta posted at the time.
Then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement on the matter: “President Trump believes in a free press and expects and welcomes tough questions of him and his administration,” she said. “We will, however, never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern.”
&#8220;This conduct is absolutely unacceptable. It is also completely disrespectful to the reporter’s colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question. President Trump has given the press more access than any president in history,&#8221; added Sanders.
Acosta has sparked issues with President Donald Trump on numerous occasions. Just last week, for example, the president told the reporter to be &#8220;quiet&#8221; after continuous interruptions.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-acosta-interrupts-one-time-too-many-trump-shuts-him-up-with-one-word">reported</a>: &#8220;President Trump spoke to reporters who were asking him about Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who claims Trump was aware of efforts to get information about rival presidential candidates. In the process, CNN’s Jim Acosta, as per his usual style, kept interrupting Trump, at which point Trump looked at him and shut him down, saying sternly, &#8216;Quiet.'&#8221;
After Acosta interrupted Trump at least three times, the president looked directly at the reporter and told him, “Quiet.”
In a post published Monday, Ivanka said she was attending the Davos forum on behalf of the White House.
“Headed to Davos to call on the world’s largest employers to sign our #PledgetoAmericasWorkers and join us in unleashing the potential of our people and accelerating the historic wave of opportunity, wage growth and job creation in the United States,” she announced.
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Headed to Davos to call on the world’s largest employers to sign our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PledgetoAmericasWorkers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PledgetoAmericasWorkers</a> and join us in unleashing the potential of our people and accelerating the historic wave of opportunity, wage growth and job creation in the United States.
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1219305872553209860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In December, Ivanka &#8220;touted the administration’s recent success in securing a new federal employee paid leave policy,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivanka-trump-touts-another-victory-the-trump-administration-has-achieved?itm_source=parsely-api">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ivanka-trump-touts-another-victory-the-trump-administration-has-achieved?itm_source=parsely-api">Ivanka Trump Touts Another Victory The Trump Administration Has Achieved</a>

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WATCH: Ivanka Brushes Off CNN’s Jim Acosta. Don Jr. Chimes In.

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Donald Trump Jr. told Fox News&#8217; Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did not delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate because of anything pertaining to President Donald Trump, but allegedly to harm Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
While discussing the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, Trump Jr. said, &#8220;The other thing I think Nancy&#8217;s trying to do with the delay is prevent other people, like Bernie, from actually being on the campaign trail.&#8221;
&#8220;Right,&#8221; Bartiromo responded.
&#8220;In other words, to try to guarantee&#8230;” Trump Jr. continued.
&#8220;Once again, they&#8217;re colluding against Bernie Sanders,&#8221; Bartiromo responded.
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Trump Jr. replied. &#8220;By the way, I love that they collude against themselves in this way, because the last time they colluded to rig the Democrat primary, it worked out perfectly for us because we got Hillary, and that was a godsend.&#8221;
Political analyst Ari Fleicher also believes that is what Pelosi was doing in delaying sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1215623354738065413">writing</a>, &#8220;Don’t rule out that the reason Pelosi hasn’t sent impeachment to the Senate is to hurt Warren and Sanders, and to help Biden. She knows she has no leverage over Sen. McConnell, but by timing the trial so it takes place during the Iowa lead-up, she has leverage over the liberals.&#8221;
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President Trump also agreed, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1218195021930926082">writing</a> on Twitter: &#8220;They are rigging the election again against Bernie Sanders, just like last time, only even more obviously. They are bringing him out of so important Iowa in order that, as a Senator, he sit through the Impeachment Hoax Trial. Crazy Nancy thereby gives the strong edge to Sleepy Joe Biden, and Bernie is shut out again. Very unfair, but that’s the way the Democrats play the game. Anyway, it’s a lot of fun to watch!&#8221;
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox News&#8217; Maria Bartiromo: “This is the dirty little secret nobody is talking about: why the Speaker held these papers. This benefits Joe Biden. This harms Senator Sanders, who is in first place and could become their nominee.”
The Federalist ran a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/16/is-impeachment-delay-how-democrats-are-rigging-iowa-against-bernie-again/">piece</a> recently that floated the same reason for Pelosi&#8217;s actions, writing: &#8220;Sanders, however, clearly has momentum at a critical point in the primary that will now be interrupted by the impeachment proceedings. The fact that the impeachment trial will trap Sanders, Warren, and Klobuchar in the nation’s capital for the final days before the caucus leave the state wide open to Biden and Buttigieg in the senators’ absence.&#8221;
The Federalist added, &#8220;Pelosi’s bizarre and politically unwise decision to delay impeachment until this crucial moment provokes the question, then, of whether Pelosi deliberately held up the impeachment trial to sabotage the far-left senators’ campaigns.&#8221;
The New York Times said in a report last week that the idea was a conspiracy theory and said there was no evidence suggesting that it was true.
Fleischer responded: &#8220;Conspiracy theory? My NYT-labeled &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; tweet re why Speaker Pelosi delayed sending impeachment to the Sen is more plausible than the Speaker’s own words. Everyone knows she had no leverage over McConnell. So why do it? To help Biden.&#8221;
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Conspiracy theory? My NYT-labeled “conspiracy theory” tweet re why Speaker Pelosi delayed sending impeachment to the Sen is more plausible than the Speaker’s own words. Everyone knows she had no leverage over McConnell. So why do it? To help Biden. <a href="https://t.co/1ZjUNq40OC">https://t.co/1ZjUNq40OC</a>
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1218608891422027776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I, along with other Rs, made a plausible case. The NYT labels my case a &#8216;conspiracy theory.&#8217; When Ds cited the Steele dossier, or collusion, or Michael Cohen in Prague, the media typically called those &#8216;allegations&#8217;,&#8221; Fleischer responded. &#8220;Back to my tweet. It&#8217;s no conspiracy theory to say Pelosi delayed the trial so Warren and Sanders would be in DC while Biden (and others) are in Iowa. Nothing is more important to her than winning the WH. That&#8217;s not a conspiracy theory. It&#8217;s a good analysis.&#8221;
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Back to my tweet. It&#39;s no conspiracy theory to say Pelosi delayed the trial so Warren and Sanders would be in DC while Biden (and others) are in Iowa. Nothing is more important to her than winning the WH. That&#39;s not a conspiracy theory. It&#39;s a good analysis.
&mdash; Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1218610657148506112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr: Pelosi Had Devious Plan In Holding Articles Of Impeachment, Had Nothing To Do With Trump

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On Saturday night, House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) openly celebrated the impeachment of President Donald Trump with liberal Bill Maher, offering the HBO host a fist bump and a smile.
&#8220;Thank you so much for waiting for us to get back on the air before starting the impeachment,&#8221; Maher told Pelosi during Saturday night&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher.&#8221; Smiling and giving off a laugh, the leading Democrat fist-bumped Maher to overwhelming audience applause.
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Nancy Pelosi fist bumps impeachment with Bill Maher. 
Spare us the lecture about being serious and somber, Nancy. <a href="https://t.co/E0t2ZNWX91">pic.twitter.com/E0t2ZNWX91</a>
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Eldest Trump son Donald Trump Jr. quickly reacted to the clip of Pelosi&#8217;s on-air celebration.
&#8220;Not that anyone ever believed her &#8216;somber moment&#8217; BS but this really drive[s] the point home,&#8221; he wrote via Twitter. 
&#8220;While [Donald Trump] gets USMCA done, china trade done, takes out terrorists, etc, the Dems have to stop him because his continued success is a threat to their failed leftist bulls***!&#8221; Trump added.
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Not that anyone ever believed her “somber moment” BS but this really drive the point home.
While <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> gets USMCA done, china trade done, takes out terrorists etc, the Dems have to stop him because his continued success is a threat to their failed leftist bullshit! <a href="https://t.co/Dy1nzolanE">https://t.co/Dy1nzolanE</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1218644511510945792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Pelosi has repeatedly attempted to paint the impeachment process as a &#8220;sad&#8221; and &#8220;somber&#8221; affair.
Notably, when Democrats started to openly cheer the House votes in favor of the two impeachment articles last month, the California representative gave a scowl and motioned to cut off the cheering and celebratory selfie-taking.
The celebrations came despite leading Democrats reportedly instructing their colleagues to avoid “cheering” following the impeachment vote, and to keep it “solemn.”
“House Democratic leaders told caucus members not to cheer or applaud when today’s impeachment vote totals are announced, and Democratic members described the day as sad and solemn,” an <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-impeachment-vote-congress-5da8c1df-8434-4401-8625-d97c8e392d7a.html?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=organic&amp;utm_content=1100">Axios</a> report said.
“One Democratic member from a Trump-won district said the instruction is: ‘Don’t cheer, keep it solemn,’” the report added.
As noted by The Daily Wire, the House voted along partisan lines for both articles of impeachment: &#8220;abuse of power&#8221; and &#8220;obstruction of Congress.&#8221; Not a single Republican voted in favor the articles.
After a noteworthy stall, Pelosi finally brought the articles of impeachment to the Senate on Wednesday.
&#8220;So sad, so tragic for our country that the actions taken by the president undermined our national security, to violate his oath of office, and to jeopardize the security of our elections, the integrity of our elections, has taken us to this place,&#8221; the House Speaker said. &#8220;So, today we will make history when the managers walk down the hallway, we will cross a threshold in history, delivering articles of impeachment against the President of the United States for abuse of power and obstruction of the House.&#8221;
Pelosi flashed a grin when she signed the articles, undermining her &#8220;sad&#8221; and &#8220;tragic&#8221; narrative. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sad-pelosi-grins-while-signing-impeachment-articles-internet-explodes-over-her-golden-pens">The Daily Wire</a>, the House Speaker &#8220;had dozens of taxpayer-funded golden pens made for the event and passed them out to those who attended and reportedly posed for photos after the signing.&#8221;
The president has repeatedly slammed Democrats over the partisan impeachment. Following the House votes on the articles, Trump told the American people that what the Democrats are really after are his supporters.
“In reality, they’re not after me, they’re after you,” reads the text of the post, which features a photo of the president. “I’m just in the way.”
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Smiling Pelosi Fist-Bumps Over ‘Somber’ Impeachment With Bill Maher. Don Jr. Responds.

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Donald Trump Jr. slammed incoming Florida Senate President Bill Galvano, a Republican, for siding with extreme anti-Second Amendment advocate and communist China <a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/michael-bloomberg-china-pbs-climate-xi-dictator.html">sympathizer</a> Michael Bloomberg.
On Friday, Breitbart Second Amendment columnist AWR Hawkins called <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/17/floridas-gop-sen-leader-grateful-money-bloomberg-gun-control/">attention</a> to two massive contributions totaling <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-ne-florida-nra-influence-20200117-nxzo5kmgtncytnuklr75rdkvf4-story.html">$500,000</a> that Bloomberg&#8217;s far-left group Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund gave to Galvano&#8217;s political committee, the Innovate Florida committee, after the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018.
Galvano <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/09/17/nra-blasts-bill-galvano-over-donation-from-gun-control-group-our-second-amendment-rights-were-sold/">responded</a> to the contribution by saying in September 2018 that he &#8220;will make no apologies&#8221; for supporting gun control championed by Bloomberg, and said that he was &#8220;grateful for the support&#8221; from Bloomberg&#8217;s group.
In a statement to The Daily Wire, Trump Jr. slammed Galvano for siding with Bloomberg, who is running for president as a Democrat and on the issue of stripping Americans of their Second Amendment rights.
“Any supposed ‘Republican’ who proudly accepts money from Mini Mike Bloomberg and is supportive of his gun control agenda is nothing more than a stone cold RINO,” Trump Jr. told The Daily Wire. “The last thing Florida Republicans need is a liberal, gun-grabbing Bloomberg minion leading them in the State Senate.”
Andrew Pollack, who lost his daughter in the Parkland tragedy, slammed Galvano in a tweet, writing: &#8220;Democrats exploited the murder of my daughter. I never imagined a Republican would do the same, but that’s exactly what Bill Galvano did He took $500,000 from Bloomberg &amp; tried to reinstate disgraced Sheriff Scott Israel This boils my blood! #FixIt&#8221;
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Democrats exploited the murder of my daughter.
I never imagined a Republican would do the same, but that’s exactly what Bill Galvano did
He took $500,000 from Bloomberg &amp; tried to reinstate disgraced Sheriff Scott Israel
This boils my blood! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FixIt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FixIt</a> <a href="https://t.co/d2xLFKQDR5">https://t.co/d2xLFKQDR5</a>
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewPollackFL/status/1218724826187210752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
In a separate tweet, Pollack highlighted the money that Galvano got from Bloomberg&#8217;s far-left group, writing: &#8220;Florida Senate President @BillGalvano is bought and paid for by Michael Bloomberg. He’s accepted over $500k from Bloomberg’s anti-gun PAC. He’s constantly working against Governor Desantis and the Republican Party. He’s a RINO #FixIt&#8221;
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Florida Senate President <a href="https://twitter.com/BillGalvano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BillGalvano</a> is bought and paid for by Michael Bloomberg.
He’s accepted over $500k from Bloomberg’s anti-gun PAC.
He’s constantly working against Governor Desantis and the Republican Party.
He’s a RINO <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FixIt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FixIt</a> <a href="https://t.co/47Yeu4Qu42">pic.twitter.com/47Yeu4Qu42</a>
&mdash; Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewPollackFL/status/1218272346081021954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The past donations from Bloomberg&#8217;s far-left group to Galvano garnered attention because Galvano led a Senate panel this last week to ram through Bloomberg&#8217;s gun control agenda in Florida.
News 4 Jax <a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/2020/01/14/florida-senate-panel-backs-gun-control-measure/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>A Senate panel Monday unanimously signed off on a far-reaching measure that would close the gun-show “loophole,” create a record-keeping system for private gun sales and set aside $5 million to establish a “statewide strategy for violence prevention.” The proposal (SB 7028) is a priority of Senate President Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, as evidenced by the Senate Infrastructure and Security Committee’s consideration and passage of the measure the day before the 2020 legislative session begins.
The sweeping legislation would require background checks and a three-day waiting period for firearms sold “on property to which the public has the right of access,” such as “a flea market, a gun show, or a firearm exhibit.” The measure would also mandate that guns be securely stored in households and other places where minors under age 18 &#8212; up from the current threshold of 16 &#8212; could have access to the weapons.</blockquote>
Former NRA President Marion P. Hammer responded at the time by indicating that Galvano betrayed those who voted for him, <a href="https://www.nraila.org/articles/20180917/florida-alert-galvano-committee-gets-200k-from-everytown-group">saying</a>, &#8220;Looks like our Second Amendment Rights were sold for a large contribution from anti-gun former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.&#8221;
Hammer <a href="https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200115/alert-florida-republican-senators-vote-for-massive-gun-control-bill">said</a> that the gun control bill advocated for by Galvano this week, SB-7028, was &#8220;the worst I have ever seen&#8221; and &#8220;is clearly meant to simply ban all private sales of firearms through red tape and fear.&#8221;
&#8220;This bill contains so much red tape and nonsense that there is almost no way a law-abiding person could comply,&#8221; Hammer continued. &#8220;The only thing we know for sure is that this bill will only stop law-abiding people from exercising a constitutional right, and it will be completely ignored by criminals.&#8221;
&#8220;Voting in favor of this bill is like a doctor giving a patient an antibiotic for a virus. The doctor knows an antibiotic won’t cure the illness, but at least he can make people think he’s &#8216;doing something,'&#8221; Hammer added. &#8220;Supporting a bill so you can say you’re doing something is &#8216;political eyewash.'&#8221;

Trump Jr Blasts FL Republican Bill Galvano Over Past Support From Anti-Gun Extremist Bloomberg

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Abu Abdul Bari, a heavyweight terrorist responsible for ordering the executions of religious figures who didn&#8217;t bow down to ISIS, was captured this week after an Iraqi military group surrounded him in his bed in Mosul, Iraq. 
According to <a href="https://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/islamic-state-s-very-own-jabba-the-hutt-captured-in-mosul-1.615184">Stars and Stripes</a>: 
<blockquote>The arrest of ISIS mufti Abu Abdul Bari, also known as Shifa al-Nima, was announced by the Iraqi government’s security media cell in a statement Thursday.
Bari, a preacher known for “provocative speeches against the security forces” is considered one of the top leaders of “ISIS gangs,” the statement said.
Considered by ISIS to be an authority in Quranic law, Bari issued religious rulings, or fatwas, ordering the execution of scholars and clerics who refused to pledge allegiance to the terrorist group when it occupied Mosul, the statement said. He also ordered the July 2014 destruction of a mosque built at the site believed to be the burial place of the biblical prophet Jonah, who once had a notable encounter with a whale.</blockquote>
The report features an image of the morbidly obese terrorist, dressed in beige garb, who seems unable to move from his perch on the bed. A later image of the arrest shows military officials surrounding the monster-sized murderer, who had to be transported via pickup truck due to his weight.
According to the New York Post, Maajid Nawaz, an anti-Islamist extremism leader based out of the United Kingdom, roasted the ginormous jihadist on a social media post. 
“Most religious justifications provided to ISIS for enslaving, raping, torturing, ethnic cleansing &amp; massacring Iraqis, Syrians &amp; others are from this paltry beast who can’t even stand on his own two legs,” wrote Nawaz. 
“Do not underestimate the psychological blow the image of this obese monster being arrested is to ISIS. Gluttony is frowned upon by jihadists,” Nawaz continued. “But also, ISIS branded themselves as fighters possessing rare courage &amp; discipline … meanwhile this walrus was their top religious cleric.”
The news agency also reported that the terrorist, who has been nicknamed “Jabba the Jihadi,” weighed in at 560 pounds. 
In response to the arrest, Donald Trump Jr. praised the work the United States has done to demolish ISIS, weighing in on a story about the terrorist published by the New York Post. 
“I’m glad [President Trump’s] actions in the region supporting our great military have gotten most of the other so this is what&#8217;s left?”
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I&#8217;m glad <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realdonaldtrump</a>&#8216;s actions in the region supporting our great military have gotten most of the the others so this is whats left?
ISIS leader dubbed &#8216;Jabba the Jihadi&#8217; captured in Iraq <a href="https://t.co/LKlnOiJfAL">https://t.co/LKlnOiJfAL</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nypost</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1218250052315099141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
Macer Gifford, a self-described anti-ISIS campaigner and human rights activist, also celebrated the arrest with a series of funny tweets. 
“I’m delighted to say that the Islamic States very own Jabba the Hut has been captured in Mosul,” writes Gifford. “Responsible for the execution of men, women and children. This animal raped and murdered.”
“Good luck hanging him in Iraq,” concludes Giffords, who also said that the terrorist resembles a roasted chicken in a separate tweet .
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I&#8217;m delighted to say that the Islamic States very own Jabba the Hut has been captured in Mosul. 
Responsible for the execution of men, women and children. 
This animal raped and murdered.
Good luck hanging him Iraq <a href="https://t.co/r1naWIXYMA">pic.twitter.com/r1naWIXYMA</a>
— Macer Gifford (@macergifford) <a href="https://twitter.com/macergifford/status/1217941920590258177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As long as the Devil bastes him properly Shifa al Nima should crisp nicely in hell&#8230;
He literally looks like the world&#8217;s biggest chicken.. <a href="https://t.co/duoLirZt9m">pic.twitter.com/duoLirZt9m</a>
— Macer Gifford (@macergifford) <a href="https://twitter.com/macergifford/status/1218165891545862144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>

&#8220;Star Wars&#8221; fan project before opening

‘Jabba The Jihadi,’ 560-Pound Terrorist, Arrested In Iraq. Donald Trump Jr. Weighs In.

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On Sunday, Donald Trump Jr. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-jr-instagram-ar15-weapon-rifle-hillary-clinton-behind-bars/">decided to exercise</a> his Second Amendment rights at the local shooting range. And in an Instagram post, he shared an image of a very special magazine that was affixed to his AR-style sporting rifle.
&#8220;Nice day at the range,&#8221; Trump wrote on Instagram. &#8220;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/rarebreedfirearms/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@rarebreedfirearms</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/spikes_tactical/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@spikes_tactical</a> adding a little extra awesome to my AR and that mag &#8230; .&#8221;
It turns out that the magazine was an image of former first lady, senator, secretary of State, and two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton &#8230; behind prison bars.
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&#8220;The rifle was also adorned with a cross symbol used during the Crusades,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/477014-trump-jr-displays-gun-magazine-showing-hillary-clinton-behind-bars">reported</a>. &#8220;The Instagram post featured a variety of pictures of the AR-15 style rifle, which was made by Texas-based Rare Breed Firearms and named the Crusader. It remains unclear if Trump Jr. owns the weapon.&#8221;
&#8220;In response to some backlash online, a spokesperson for Trump Jr. told The Hill that the &#8216;Instagram post was strictly about him using a famous meme to mock Hillary Clinton, as he and many others have done on numerous occasions and will surely do again in the future, so long as it continues triggering humorless liberals,'&#8221; the outlet continued.
Trump Jr. is &#8220;an avid gun enthusiast and hunter,&#8221; as CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/06/donald-trump-jr-rifle-magazine-shows-hillary-clinton-cross.html">observed</a>.
As the Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/05/donald-trump-jr-ar-15-hillary-clinton-magazine/">noted</a>, the Clinton-behind-bars rifle magazine is a fairly direct reference to the &#8220;lock her up&#8221; chants that often dominated Trump presidential campaign rallies in 2016: &#8220;President Trump and his supporters have continued to chant &#8216;lock her up&#8217; at rallies when Clinton’s name is mentioned, something that was heard at nearly every rally when Trump was running for president in 2016.&#8221;
The Instagram post will only continue to stir up rumors about Trump Jr.&#8217;s possible future political plans. Politico recently <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/01/03/2024-presidential-election-candidates-091055">profiled</a> what it apparently considers the leading 2024 presidential contenders, and had this to say about Trump Jr.:
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While his sister Ivanka has earned a reputation as an ineffectual inside player who is ideologically out of step with her father and the Republican Party, Junior has been a caustic, partisan warrior on social media, and a rock star on the campaign trail for his father and congressional candidates. When speaking at a San Antonio event in October, a shout of “2024!” was heard from the crowd. One attendee told a reporter, “He’s just like his father and I can’t wait to vote for him someday too.”
That Trump voters would be intrigued by Trump Jr. should surprise no one. 
If Republican voters had a problem with a man born into wealth styling himself as a man of the people by lobbing verbal bombs at liberals and media figures, then Donald Trump, Sr., wouldn’t be president.
What to watch for in 2020: Will we see Donald Trump, Jr., get a prime-time speaking slot at the 2020 convention? Will we see the crowd launch into a “2024” chant? And if Pence does get dumped from the ticket, would Trump, Sr., replace him with someone who disavows interest in running for the presidency, making it easier to keep the Oval Office in the family?
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Donald Trump Jr. Shares Image Of AR-15 With Depiction Of Hillary Clinton Behind Bars

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He&#8217;d be 47, she&#8217;d be 43 on Jan. 20, 2025 – Inauguration Day.
And both already spend a lot of time in the White House.
A new poll found that Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump are two of the top four picks by Republicans for the 2024 presidential nomination.
The poll, conducted by <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/curiosity/axiossurveymonkey-2024-presidential-vote-poll-gop/">Survey Monkey</a> and Axios, puts Vice President Mike Pence at the top of the list, with 40% of Republicans saying they&#8217;d vote for him in 2024. Trump Jr. had 29%, followed by former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley with 26%. And Ivanka, the president’s eldest daughter, came in at 16% support.
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott were the only other candidates in double digits.
&#8220;An early poll like this is largely a measure of name ID. But it&#8217;s also a vivid illustration of just how strong Trump&#8217;s brand is with the GOP,&#8221; <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024-election-polls-republicans-60f37160-a4fb-48e6-b054-22bd303604a6.html">Axios</a> wrote.
<blockquote>The big picture: Don Jr. has emerged as one of the most prominent defenders of his dad, frequently going after the left on Twitter, where he has 4.2 million followers, and serving as a popular warm-up act for presidential rallies.</blockquote>
<blockquote>His book – “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us,&#8221; released in November – reached No. 1 on the N.Y. Times nonfiction bestseller list.</blockquote>
<blockquote>In October, at a rally in San Antonio for president Trump&#8217;s re-election, the crowd chanted &#8220;2024!&#8221; as Don Jr. spoke.</blockquote>
Lloyd Green, a book reviewer for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/03/triggered-review-donald-trump-jr">The Guardian</a>, wrote that Don Jr.&#8217;s book was “a better campaign biography than most” and was “best viewed as the opening salvo of the Trump child with real political chops.&#8221;
The president’s oldest child, Green wrote, “truly connects with the party’s base” and “is convention speech [in 2016] warranted the attention it received.&#8221;
<blockquote>Don Jr offers a less impulsive and younger version of the incumbent. He’s a bona fide hunter and outdoorsman. For him, guns aren’t a prop. In a rifle-centric party, that counts for plenty. Unlike Jared Kushner, there’s a there there and he’s a lot more fun than Mike Pence.</blockquote>
“Bottom line, come 2024 Don Jr. could well be on the ticket,&#8221; Green wrote.
Ivanka has been even more active. She goes to the White House nearly every day and has the title &#8220;Adviser to the President.&#8221; She has worked on education programs and economic empowerment of women and families, including pay equity. &#8220;She has championed paid family leave, which she says is &#8216;grounded in conservative values of work and of family,&#8217; and said on the edition of CBS News&#8217; &#8216;Face the Nation&#8217; aired on Dec. 29: &#8216;[W]e have made more progress on paid family leave than in the 25 years since the Family and Medical Leave Act was passed,'&#8221; Axios reported.
Ivanka also travels the world to serve as Trump&#8217;s representative. She has also pushed the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative.
“A White House initiative spearheaded by Ivanka Trump to help women in developing countries get ahead economically announced its first batch of grants on Wednesday: $27 million for 14 projects in 22 countries, mostly in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. The Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative was launched in February with an initial investment of $50 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development,&#8221; the <a href="https://apnews.com/f53f6d5853c84eccafc68d047a761244">Associated Press</a> reported in July.

Republican National Convention: Day Three

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Don Jr., Ivanka Trump Among Top Republican Picks For 2024

On Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. defended his father against #Resistance Democrats in a viral post on Twitter that outlined the alleged attacks President Donald Trump has faced since he won the 2016 election.
&#8220;They protested his 2016 victory. Tried to rig the Electoral College. Objected to certifying the results. Spied on his transition. Boycotted his inauguration. Immediately started impeachment. Called him illegitimate. Falsely accused him of treason,&#8221; the eldest Trump son posted.
&#8220;And he’s still winning,&#8221; added Don Jr.
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They protested his 2016 victory.
Tried to rig the Electoral College.
Objected to certifying the results.
Spied on his transition.
Boycotted his inauguration.
Immediately started impeachment.
Called him illegitimate.
Falsely accused him of treason.
And he’s still winning. <a href="https://t.co/tJNiOGUTBE">pic.twitter.com/tJNiOGUTBE</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1207311365309898752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Regarding at least the most egregious claim — regarding President Trump&#8217;s transition team being spied upon — Attorney General (AG) William Barr is in agreement.
Last week, the AG slammed the FBI during an interview with NBC News, &#8220;saying that the campaign was &#8216;clearly spied upon&#8217; and that it was the &#8216;first time in history&#8217; that something like that had ever happened to a presidential candidate,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/barr-bombshell-trump-campaign-clearly-spied-upon-first-time-in-history-to-happen-to-presidential-campaign/">The Daily Wire</a> noted.
“Based on what you know so far, do you still stand by your statement that the campaign was spied upon?” asked NBC News&#8217; Pete Williams.
“Oh, it was clearly spied upon,&#8221; Barr answered. &#8220;I mean, that’s what electronic surveillance is. I think wiring people up to go in and talk to people and make recordings of their conversations is spying. I think going through people’s emails which they did as a result of the FISA warrant. They went through everything, you know, from Page’s life.”
The president&#8217;s family, especially Don Jr., have been some of his fiercest and most effective defenders. Following a fiery appearance last month on &#8220;The View,&#8221; the eldest Trump son joined legendary conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to similarly outline the persistent attacks on his father.
The push for impeachment “began on November 9th, when he did the unthinkable, which was to beat the establishment,” he told Limbaugh, as reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-at-war-don-jr-joins-rush-limbaugh-and-unloads-on-the-left">The Daily Wire</a>. “The Washington Post dropped their first headline about it 19 minutes after the inauguration, ‘The Case for Impeaching Trump.’ Nineteen minutes, Rush, you know, that was about the amount of time that it took Obama to get nominated for the [Nobel] Peace Prize.”
“The press took an eight-year vacation,” Don Jr. continued. “It’s why they’re so energized now. Under the Obama administration there was nothing he could do wrong, regardless of the idiocy of the some of the policies.”
However, the partisan impeachment proceedings against the president do not seem to be bringing the political success Democrats presumably expected it to bring.
“A new poll released hours before the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives was poised to impeach President Trump indicates that by a slight 51%–45% majority, Americans oppose removing the president from office,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-approval-impeachment-poll">Fox News</a> reported Wednesday.
&#8220;The poll from <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/271691/trump-approval-inches-support-impeachment-dips.aspx">Gallup</a> also showed that support for impeachment has been steadily dropping since October, when Democrats launched an inquiry to investigate whether or not Trump committed an impeachable offense during his now-infamous phone call this past July with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,&#8221; The Daily Wire noted, adding:
<blockquote>The latest Gallup poll lends further support to the polls from <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3652">Quinnipiac University</a>,<a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/12/16/787896163/poll-opinions-of-impeachment-remain-unchanged-signs-point-to-base-election-in-20"> PBS/NPR/Marist</a>, and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/12/16/trump-impeachment-2020-election-leads-democratic-rivals/2663659001/">USA Today/Suffolk University</a> all generally showing that support for impeachment among independent voters has further decreased. In the battleground states — Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — the Democrats have fared even worse. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-swing-voters-from-2016-are-sticking-with-donald-trump">reported</a> by The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti, swing voters from 2016 are now firmly in the Trump camp, admitting that the Democratic Party’s focus on impeachment has distracted from the issues voters care about: Health care, Social Security, jobs, and so forth.</blockquote>

Donald Trump Jr. Defends Father Against #Resistance Dems In Viral Post: ‘And He’s Still Winning’

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Sixteen-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg was named TIME &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; on Wednesday, becoming the youngest person in history to receive such a high honor.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> is TIME&#39;s 2019 Person of the Year <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TIMEPOY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TIMEPOY</a> <a href="https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v">https://t.co/YZ7U6Up76v</a> <a href="https://t.co/SWALBfeGl6">pic.twitter.com/SWALBfeGl6</a>
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&#8220;Thunberg is not a leader of any political party or advocacy group,&#8221; TIME said in the article. &#8220;She is neither the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis nor the most qualified to fix it. She is not a scientist or a politician. She has no access to traditional levers of influence: she’s not a billionaire or a princess, a pop star or even an adult. She is an ordinary teenage girl who, in summoning the courage to speak truth to power, became the icon of a generation. By clarifying an abstract danger with piercing outrage, Thunberg became the most compelling voice on the most important issue facing the planet.&#8221;
Predictably, leftists have been celebrating the news, seemingly unbothered by the fact she won over the Hong Kong Protesters.
&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t think of a better Person of the Year than [Greta Thunberg],&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1204775997079539712?s=20">tweeted</a> none other than failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. &#8220;I am grateful for all she&#8217;s done to raise awareness of the climate crisis and her willingness to tell hard, motivating truths. As she said today: &#8216;Change is coming, whether you like it or not.'&#8221;
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I couldn&#39;t think of a better Person of the Year than <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a>. I am grateful for all she&#39;s done to raise awareness of the climate crisis and her willingness to tell hard, motivating truths. 
As she said today: &quot;Change is coming, whether you like it or not.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/gutsywomen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#gutsywomen</a> <a href="https://t.co/ltCoo9NbS2">pic.twitter.com/ltCoo9NbS2</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1204775997079539712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Deserved. Also, I want to rub it in the smug faces of the bitter men who are intimidated by her power,&#8221; tweeted author Kimberly Johnson. &#8220;All the angry mantrolls are very upset Greta Thunberg is Time&#8217;s person of the year. When I point out their petty insecurity, they swarm and say I&#8217;m smug, angry, bloated (period reference) and bitter. They are so sad and predictable.&#8221;
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Deserved. 
Also, I want to rub it in the smug faces of the bitter men who are intimidated by her power. <a href="https://t.co/QpMsyWOmuI">https://t.co/QpMsyWOmuI</a>
&mdash; Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) <a href="https://twitter.com/AuthorKimberley/status/1204766401392713729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Even though I was rooting for the Hong Kong protestors, I am overjoyed for Greta Thunberg and her well deserved Time Magazine Person of the Year award,&#8221; tweeted Dr. Eugene Gu. &#8220;Rather than snubbing Donald Trump, this is about having faith in the power of youth to save our world. Go Greta!&#8221;
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Even though I was rooting for the Hong Kong protestors, I am overjoyed for Greta Thunberg and her well deserved Time Magazine Person of the Year award. Rather than snubbing Donald Trump, this is about having faith in the power of youth to save our world. Go Greta! <a href="https://t.co/IbXDwB6dyL">pic.twitter.com/IbXDwB6dyL</a>
&mdash; Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1204776381051105282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Greta Thunberg wins <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimeMagazine?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#TimeMagazine</a> 2019 Person of the Year. She simultaneously awakens the spirit of our collective childhood along with the wisdom of Mother Earth. Greta gives us hope, inspiration, wisdom, and a profound sense of urgency,&#8221; tweeted Dr. Jack Brown.
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Greta Thunberg wins <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimeMagazine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TimeMagazine</a> 2019 Person of the Year. She simultaneously awakens the spirit of our collective childhood along with the wisdom of Mother Earth. Greta gives us hope, inspiration, wisdom, and a profound sense of urgency.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GretaThunberg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GretaThunberg</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TIMEPersonoftheYear2019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TIMEPersonoftheYear2019</a> <a href="https://t.co/oxzYn9F7Wr">pic.twitter.com/oxzYn9F7Wr</a>
&mdash; Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrGJackBrown/status/1204776104839352320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Among the powerful things about this choice of [Thunberg] is that she doesn&#8217;t believe in the fantasy of the &#8216;win-win,'&#8221; tweeted TIME editor-at-large Anand Giridharadas. &#8220;She is telling us that real change is costly, real change requires giving things up, the loss of power and privilege, new systems, new ways of life. She isn&#8217;t just inspirational, and she isn&#8217;t just talking about the planet, as big as that is! She is indicting an entire way of life, and a way of telling ourselves we are making a difference when we are not.&#8221;
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She isn&#39;t just inspirational, and she isn&#39;t just talking about the planet, as big as that is!
She is indicting an entire way of life, and a way of telling ourselves we are making a difference when we are not.
&mdash; Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1204780346438488066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Conservatives had a different reaction to the news in light of the fact that the protesters in Hong Kong were made to take a backseat to a teenaged climate change activist. Among those unimpressed with Time&#8217;s choice was Donald Trump Jr., who worked in a reference to Thunberg&#8217;s U.N. speech:
&#8220;Time leaves out the Hong Kong Protesters fighting for their lives and freedoms to push a teen being used as a marketing gimmick. How dare you?&#8221; tweeted Trump Jr.
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Time leaves out the Hong Kong Protesters fighting for their lives and freedoms to push a teen being used as a marketing gimmick. 
How dare you? <a href="https://t.co/dnV9mESM6G">https://t.co/dnV9mESM6G</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1204768478722433024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Wow cisgendered white girl as person of the year. Time Magazine reinforcing white heteronormativity once again. Outrageous,&#8221; tweeted Matt Walsh.
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Wow cisgendered white girl as person of the year. Time Magazine reinforcing white heteronormativity once again. Outrageous. <a href="https://t.co/pb4zgeDUFp">https://t.co/pb4zgeDUFp</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1204759704909561856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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More realistic a choice than <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a>. <a href="https://t.co/ihPIri4fDe">https://t.co/ihPIri4fDe</a>
&mdash; Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) <a href="https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1204779785408458752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In an appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today,&#8221; TIME&#8217;s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said that Thunberg represents the cultural shift in which the protests of young people are changing the world, from Hong Kong to Parkland.
“She also represents a broader generational shift in the culture that we’re seeing from the campuses of Hong Kong to the protests in Chile to Parkland, Florida, where the students marched against gun violence where young people are demanding change urgently,” said Felsenthal.
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“She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year.” TIME Editor-in-Chief <a href="https://twitter.com/efelsenthal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@efelsenthal</a> talks about why TIME chose <a href="https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GretaThunberg</a> to be Person of the Year.
Thunberg, 16, is also the youngest person to ever receive the honor. <a href="https://t.co/eTvLAiRtFW">pic.twitter.com/eTvLAiRtFW</a>
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Last year, TIME selected &#8220;The Guardians and the War on Truth&#8221; as the &#8220;Person of the Year,&#8221; represented by journalists who have either been jailed or killed in their line of work.

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On the day before Thanksgiving, Donald Trump Jr. poked fun at a travel report pertaining to the holiday with a GIF of climate change icon Greta Thunberg.
&#8220;US skies packed with planes carrying Thanksgiving travelers,&#8221; a <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/27/us-skies-packed-with-planes-carrying-thanksgiving-travelers/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow">New York Post</a> headline reads. The thumbnail photo used in the tweet of the report shows a U.S. map packed with fuel-guzzling airplanes in its airspace.
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US skies packed with planes carrying Thanksgiving travelers <a href="https://t.co/OJ0kjyMA72">https://t.co/OJ0kjyMA72</a> <a href="https://t.co/ASFpQ2Uk3M">pic.twitter.com/ASFpQ2Uk3M</a>
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&#8220;The airspace above the United States was packed with planes on Wednesday as millions of Americans traveled for Thanksgiving,&#8221; the report reads. &#8220;The flight-tracking computer image above shows flights over the continental US at 11:30 a.m. EST Thursday.&#8221;
&#8220;All told, more than 55 million people took to the roads, rails and skies on the holiday eve, according to the American Automobile Association,&#8221; the Post noted.
Reacting to the story, the eldest Trump son posted a GIF of the 16-year-old Swedish climate extremist mouthing, &#8220;How dare you!&#8221; &#8212; words Thunberg memorably repeated during a recent speech at the United Nations.
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Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media have helped to advance Ms. Thunberg as the figurehead of the alarmist climate change movement. She even delivered a widely-covered, gloom-and-doom climate speech at the U.N. in September. The teen blamed world leaders and older generations for her &#8220;lost childhood&#8221; and warned that &#8220;people are dying&#8221; and &#8220;entire ecosystems are collapsing&#8221; due to mass inaction on the environment.
“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” the teen said. “And yet I’m one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
“How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you’re doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight,” Thunberg continued, adding: “You are failing us but the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line the world is waking up and change is coming whether you like it or not.”
However, Thunberg is not winning over everyone in the climate change camp. The teen, who goes out of her way to travel by boat as opposed to plane or jet, has criticized other activists who, in her view, are not living by their word.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace/a-nobel-for-swedens-greta-thunberg-a-tough-decision-for-prize-committee-idUSKBN1WA18Z?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=twitter">Reuters reports</a> that Thunberg has made enemies among the old school eco-agitators with her &#8216;confrontational&#8217; style, largely because Thunberg calls out climate &#8216;hypocrites,&#8217; including those activists, like Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio and former Vice President Al Gore, for taking carbon-spewing private flights to major environmental conferences — and, really, using airplanes at all,&#8221; The Daily Wire highlighted in September.
Don Jr.&#8217;s climate change troll elicited nearly 5,000 replies on Twitter, and garnered over 16,000 likes.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-trolls-democrats-on-thanksgiving-break">White House Trolls Democrats On Thanksgiving Break</a>

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Don Jr Posts Greta Thunberg GIF In Reaction To Thanksgiving Travel Report

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After over two years of accusing the NFL of &#8220;collusion&#8221; against him, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick was given a unique chance by the league on Saturday to prove that he deserves a shot back on the field despite the potential distraction the mediocre QB might pose for teams. The anthem-kneeling former player responded by suddenly refusing to attend, instead holding his own workout at a high school with about a third of the number of scouts there, and then accusing the league of &#8220;running&#8221; from him.
The self-created fiasco has prompted even analysts from the Kaepernick-apologist four-letter network to slap the player-turned-social justice warrior for wanting to &#8220;play martyr&#8221; rather than &#8220;play ball.&#8221; The whole debacle also gave Donald Trump Jr. an excuse to work in a dig at his father&#8217;s least favorite former QB while celebrating the economic success of his administration.
&#8220;Trump has unemployment so low, even Colin Kaepernick got a job interview&#8230;&#8221; Trump Jr. posted on Instagram Monday along with a picture of his father giving the thumbs up.
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Kaepernick started his league-disrupting protest movement in the preseason of 2016 while he was riding the bench for the 49ers. After the press noticed that he was refusing to stand during the performance of &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner,&#8221; Kaepernick explained that the country did not deserve his respect because it &#8220;oppresses&#8221; minorities. &#8220;I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.&#8221; After keeping himself in headlines for the rest of the season and helping lead the team to a dismal 2-14 record, Kaepernick opted for free agency and soon found himself with no suitors. In response, he sued the league for &#8220;collusion,&#8221; a lawsuit settled in February 2019 for a reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-much-money-did-kaepernick-get-nfl-settlement-james-barrett">disappointing sum</a>.
While his protest of the country was big news in 2016, the issue exploded during the 2017 season when President Trump famously slammed the &#8220;son of a b****&#8221; players refusing to honor the flag.
The protests have largely died off, only a few players still staying loyal to Kaepernick&#8217;s &#8220;cause,&#8221; including his former teammate safety Eric Reid, now with the Carolina Panthers. The controversy largely over and the lawsuit settled, Kaepernick finally had his big chance this weekend to get back on the field. Instead, he skipped the tryout, which had scouts from 25 teams present, and held his own &#8220;publicity stunt&#8221; tryout in front of reportedly just eight or so scouts. After his meagerly attended last-second workout at the high school on Saturday, Kaepernick accused the league of &#8220;running&#8221; rather than vice versa, painting himself, once again, as the victim.
&#8220;I’ve been ready for three years. I’ve been denied for three years,&#8221; said the former quarterback, who wore a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kaepernick-skips-workout-organized-by-nfl-wears-t-shirt-comparing-himself-to-a-slave">shirt invoking slavery</a> at the event. &#8220;We all know why I came out here today and showed it today in front of everybody. We have nothing to hide, so we’re waiting for the 32 owners, 32 teams, Roger Goodell, all of them to stop running. To stop running from the truth. To stop running from the people.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/espn-cbs-sports-analysts-kaepernick-shouldnt-wait-by-his-phone-nobodys-calling">The Daily Wire</a> reported, sports analysts from CBS and even ESPN — which has consistently given fawning coverage of Kaepernick — agree that Kaepernick&#8217;s attempt to &#8220;control the narrative&#8221; likely lost him any chance of getting back in the league.  Along with fellow ESPN analysts Mike Goulic and Rex Ryan, Stephen A. Smith called out Kaepernick after the stunt. Instead of proving he&#8217;s &#8220;ready to play&#8221; football, as he claimed in front of cameras, the activist just demonstrated that all he&#8217;s ready to play is the &#8220;martyr,&#8221; said Smith.
&#8220;So, let me get this straight. Colin Kaepernick has been working out all of this time. Him, people in this camp, his … loved ones – everybody talking about, &#8216;He wants to play football! He wants to play football! He’s ready to play! Just give him the chance!'&#8221; said Smith. &#8220;So, what does the NFL do, recognizing that teams need a shield because they need something to hide behind because they know that, guess what, &#8216;If we bring this brother in for a workout and we don’t like him or we don’t want him, who knows what we’re going to get accused of? We need cover.&#8217; So the NFL provides that … Colin Kaepernick wants to change the venue; Colin Kaepernick wants his own receivers; Colin Kaepernick wants to video things himself; Colin Kaepernick wants the media. This Colin Kaepernick, media can’t find him! He ain’t done no interviews; he ain’t talked to nobody; media can’t find him – but he wants the media available now. You see? You see? He don’t want to play; he wants to be a martyr. But guess what? It ain’t working this time.&#8221;
CBS&#8217;s “The NFL Today” host James Brown made similar comments. &#8220;Colin Kaepernick missed the opportunity, both to return to play and more meaningfully to further impact social justice on the broader and the bigger platform of the NFL,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’s also abundantly clear, however, that there is mutual distrust in the relationship between Kaepernick and the league, its office, owners and teams as evidenced by yesterday’s fiasco. But that notwithstanding, it was an opportunity, no matter how you cut it, to build a bridge toward a return to the league. 25 teams expressed their interest to come see the workout and he didn’t take advantage of it. Now, history has shown that to move forward, it is most effectively done inclusively to move from protest to progress and this was a moment missed.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jay-z-disappointed-over-colin-kaepernick-publicity-stunt-report">Jay-Z ‘Disappointed’ Over Colin Kaepernick ‘Publicity Stunt’: Report</a>

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Everyone knows about that big impeachment thing going on in Washington, D.C., but there&#8217;s another presidential impeachment looming at &#8230; the University of Florida?
&#8220;The student body president of the University of Florida is facing impeachment calls for alleged misuse of funds to bring Donald Trump Jr. and presidential campaign adviser Kimberly Guilfoyle to campus last month, according to reports,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/13/university-of-florida-student-president-faces-impeachment-after-funding-trump-jr-s-visit/">New York Post</a> reports.
The student president, Michael C. Murphy, was served with a formal <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6547791-Michael-Murphy-Impeachment-Resolution.html">impeachment resolution</a> on Tuesday, signed by more than 100 students and alumni. The resolution says that in this year&#8217;s fall session, Murphy &#8220;colluded with Trump Victory National Financial Consultant Caroline Wren to expend $50,000 of mandatory student fees to further enrich Donald Trump, Jr., and Kimberly Guilfoyle through the ACCENT Speakers Bureau.&#8221;
&#8220;By using student fees to advance his own expressed political beliefs at the expense of the … Student Government writ large, Mr. Murphy not only endangered students marginalized by the speakers’ white nationalist supporters, but also abused his power to advance a particular political party at the expense of the students he should represent,&#8221; the impeachment resolution states.
President Trump&#8217;s oldest son and girlfriend Guilfoyle visited the Gainesville campus on October 10.
&#8220;Questions have been raised about the legality of the visit, as Murphy agreed to pay the pair $50,000 in publicly funded student activity fees and the law says public funds cannot be used to support political campaigns,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2019/11/12/uf-student-president-faces-impeachment-threat-over-trump-jr-visit/">Tampa Bay Times</a> wrote.
&#8220;[A]n email surfaced, as first reported by UF’s independent student newspaper, The Alligator, showing Murphy worked to set up the event with Caroline Wren, national finance consultant for Trump Victory, a fundraising committee for the president’s campaign,&#8221; the paper wrote.
<blockquote>Wren declined to be interviewed for this story, instead releasing a statement that she met Murphy for the first time in the summer, &#8220;when he expressed interest in bringing Donald Trump Jr. to campus.&#8221;
“I followed up with him via my private email in my personal capacity and mistakenly forgot to remove my Trump Victory signature,” she wrote. “After an initial call to discuss a potential visit, University of Florida representatives were connected to Donald Trump Jr’s office.”</blockquote>
Murphy, though, told the student newspaper that because the visit by Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle was not an official campaign stop, it did not violate university rules.
Henry Fair, head of the ACCENT Speakers Bureau, an arm of the student government, also told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-students-object-as-trump-jr-speaks-on-campus--for-a-50000-fee/2019/10/10/4a123a88-eb82-11e9-85c0-85a098e47b37_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_15" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a> last month that “this event is a campus speaking engagement, not a campaign event.”
But the Times quoted one student body senator saying the event was political.
<blockquote>“Public records show that Michael Murphy colluded with a member of the Donald Trump campaign,” student senator Ben Lima said during a student government meeting last week. Lima is leading the impeachment charge.
“If this was not a campaign event, then why was the student body president in communication with the Trump campaign to bring these speakers to campus?” he asked.</blockquote>
Student senators will soon vote on his impeachment. &#8220;If at least two-thirds of the group votes in favor,&#8221; The Times wrote, &#8220;Murphy will be immediately suspended. Then the other half of the senate will take a final vote on whether to permanently remove him from office.&#8221;

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Student Body President Faces Impeachment For Bringing Trump Jr. To College Campus

Donald Trump Jr. explained on Sunday that he coined the term &#8220;blue collar billionaire&#8221; to describe his father because while the president is a billionaire, he relates on a personal level to the blue collar workers that he has long worked alongside.
&#8220;I say that because he&#8217;s a builder, he spent his career building projects,&#8221; Trump told host Mark Levin during an appearance on &#8220;Life, Liberty &amp; Levin.&#8221; &#8220;He did not build in the confines of a high office tower surrounded by executives telling him what he wants — he spent time on the ground and on the construction sites.&#8221;
&#8220;He spent time with the blue collar — often times Union, often times Democrat — builders, construction workers, he knows those people, he spoke with them that’s what made him a better builder,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;He got information from them and he utilized that throughout his career. So while he&#8217;s an unlikely voice to be able to be able to speak to working class America, he is able to do that because these been doing it his whole life. He knows those guys, and listened to those guys, and understands those guys.&#8221;
Trump further acknowledged that none of the candidates in the crowded Democratic presidential primary field have any practical experience, which he noted is a common occurrence among politicians. The fact that his father has been able to run a business sets him, and his presidency, apart.
&#8220;They talk in theory, not in practice,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I think when you look at the successes of [my father&#8217;s] presidency &#8230; it&#8217;s because he has actually done this. He has actually signed the front of a paycheck not just the back. He has actually created jobs, not just talking about it in theory. He has had people, their families, their livelihood, their well-being dependent on his success every day for 40 years. He has actually done it.&#8221;
&#8220;So when he talks about it — and he talked about it on the campaign trail, this is what we&#8217;re going to do in this is how we will achieve X, Y, and Z — now we&#8217;re reaping the benefits of that &#8230; He understands it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;The political class does not. That&#8217;s a big problem, the political class are politicians and have done these things. They often times cannot relate to the people they represent.&#8221;
Trump subsequently recalled a female congresswoman who was hosting lavish seminars for Democratic candidates to attend in order to learn how to relatably speak to their constituents.
&#8220;I just had the greatest laugh about that because imagine that you live there, these are your neighbors and you have to go to someone else in another district to learn how to speak to your neighbors,&#8221;  Trump said. &#8220;Yet the brash billionaire from New York City is able to just go out there and have a conversation with — not the conversation at, we get plenty of lecturing from the other side — but he’s having that conversation with the hardworking men and women of the this country who want to live their American dream. That makes them a terrible person these days.&#8221;
&#8220;Wanting to experience the American dream for themselves rather than it be our sort of number one export as a country — we sent that American dream to countries in far off lands [where] they hate our guts, they hate our  freedoms, they hate our religion, they hate our values,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We&#8217;ve sent them our American dream due to stupid practices, incompetent politicians, and string of bad decision-making from people who are in charge when no business being in charge of anything, let alone our country.&#8221;

Donald Trump Holds MAGA Rally In Grand Rapids, Michigan

Don Jr. Explains Why His Dad Is A &#8216;Blue Collar Billionaire&#8217;

Mark Levin

Speaking on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/donald-trump-jr-robert-mueller-witch-hunt">Fox News’</a> “Life, Liberty &amp; Levin” to promote his new book, “Triggered,”  Donald Trump Jr. spoke directly to the American people, asserting that they realized in 30 seconds that when the Democrats chose Special Counsel Robert Mueller it was “one big joke,” that it was part of a “witch hunt” designed to target his father, President Donald Trump.
Trump Jr, stated, &#8220;They&#8217;re trying to, you know, reverse the results of an election that they didn&#8217;t agree with, though the American people obviously agreed.” He said of Mueller, &#8220;Obviously, they only brought him in because he was the former head of the FBI and he was a decorated Marine. So he&#8217;s above reproach. Trump cannot possibly attack him … Then, they were going to get him, finally — they were going to get Trump. We&#8217;re gonna put him on the stand. And, within about 30 seconds, the American public realized that this thing was one big joke, that they used Robert Mueller simply because of the credentials and &#8230; the fact that he was beyond reproach because of his resume. They realized this guy had no idea what he&#8217;s even talking about.&#8221;
Trump Jr. noted Mueller’s remarks from the July Congressional hearing in which he stated that allegations against ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele were a subject &#8220;beyond my purview,” followed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) retorting, “No, that’s directly in your purview, Mr. Mueller and here’s why. Either Steele made this whole thing up and there were never any Russians telling him of this vast criminal conspiracy that you didn’t find, or, Russians lied to Steele.”
Trump Jr. commented, &#8220;It was a joke. And I do believe that despite the media attacks, the American people get it &#8230; They see the nonsense. They see the witch hunt.&#8221;
Trump Jr. posited that that the president has served as an example of how Republicans should counter Democrats, saying, &#8220;And I think it&#8217;s been a great thing in the sense that it&#8217;s shown conservatives that you can actually fight back. You don&#8217;t just have to turn the other cheek We&#8217;ve done that for 50 years and all we&#8217;ve done to cede ground to the lunatic fringe of the left and their policies.&#8221;
Last Thursday, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-at-war-don-jr-joins-rush-limbaugh-and-unloads-on-the-left">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Trump Jr. told radio show host Rush Limbaugh:
<blockquote>We’re at war, and we’re at war for our freedoms. We’re at war for our culture. You know, this is the largest divide between the two political parties in the history of the country. You know, I write a lot in the book about socialism and communism, ’cause my mother escaped from it. You know, I grew up with grandparents that lived through that stuff. You know, I spent summers in what was then communist Czechoslovakia. I can tell you those bread lines that Bernie talks about are not nearly so wonderful.&#8221;</blockquote>
Trump bashed the media recently, telling <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-donald-trump-jr-weighs-in-on-new-book-and-the-future-of-conservatism-republican-party">The Daily Wire</a>, “The hypocrisy of the Left, the hypocrisy of the mainstream media, and their sort of unabashed willingness to just disregard the notion of fairness — the notion that they are there to report the news and just be a cheerleader for one side and that&#8217;s obviously what they are. They are the marketing wing of the DNC.”
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WATCH: Donald Trump Jr.: ‘The American People Get It &#8230; They See The Witch Hunt’

Sunny Hostin, a leftist co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; made multiple false claims on Thursday as she interviewed Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, falsely suggesting that Trump committed a felony by outing the Ukraine whistleblower and deceptively presenting to viewers the transcript of President Donald Trump&#8217;s July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The first problematic exchange occured when Hostin asked Guilfoyle about whether she advised Trump tweet out the name of the alleged whistleblower. Multiple members of the media, including &#8220;The View,&#8221; have falsely claimed that Trump outed the whistleblower this week when he tweeted out the person&#8217;s name which was included in the title of a news article that he tweeted out.
Here&#8217;s the transcript of the interaction:
<blockquote>Hostin: Kimberly, you&#8217;re a lawyer, and we&#8217;ve known each other and you&#8217;re a former prosecutor, I mean did you advise your boyfriend that it is a federal crime to out a whistleblower?
Guilfoyle: I didn&#8217;t advise him that it was a federal crime&#8230;
Trump: Well it&#8217;s not a federal crime, it&#8217;s only a federal crime for the IG [Inspector General] to do it, that&#8217;s in the statute.
Hostin: But that&#8217;s not true, that&#8217;s a lie. That&#8217;s not true.
&#8230;
Hostin: Under U.S. Code § 1505 it, it, it is a crime
Trump: That&#8217;s not accurate. Just ask Rand Paul, he went into great detail on it the other [day].
Hostin: Well, my law degree says it is.</blockquote>
WATCH:
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Sunny Hostin, leftist co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; falsely claims that it was a federal crime for Donald Trump Jr to tweet out a news article that contained the name of the alleged whistleblower. <a href="https://t.co/skLno12VVL">pic.twitter.com/skLno12VVL</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1192742735599390720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
Experts say that Hostin&#8217;s claim is false.
Daily Mail U.S. Political Editor David Martosko noted on Thursday that the &#8220;federal Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 includes one section about protecting the anonymity of whistle-blowers — and it only applies to the (permanent) United States Office of Special Counsel. There&#8217;s nothing in there about private citizens or anyone else.&#8221;
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Today I learned the federal Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 includes one section about protecting the anonymity of whistle-blowers&#8211;and it only applies to the (permanent) United States Office of Special Counsel. There&#8217;s nothing in there about private citizens or anyone else. <a href="https://t.co/nTndDwm2jo">pic.twitter.com/nTndDwm2jo</a>
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) <a href="https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/1192496445187919872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
A <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-whistleblower-e/explainer-is-it-illegal-for-trump-or-congress-to-name-the-impeachment-whistleblower-idUSKBN1XH2QS">report</a> from Reuters on Thursday cited national security lawyer Kel McClanahan&#8217;s analysis of the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act of 1998 (ICWPA):
<blockquote>That provision says the inspector general should not disclose the whistleblower’s identity without their consent, unless the watchdog determines that “such disclosure is unavoidable during the course of the investigation.”
Once the complaint is out of the inspector general’s hands the law does little to guarantee the whistleblower anonymity, said McClanahan, the executive director of National Security Counselors, a public interest law firm.</blockquote>
NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/11/06/776481504/can-trump-legally-out-the-whistleblower-experts-say-it-would-not-violate-any-law">reported</a> on Wednesday that according to former &#8220;top federal government officials who worked in intelligence and national security&#8221; it is not a crime for President Trump to reveal the name of the alleged whistleblower.
&#8220;Similarly, if a news outlet, member of Congress or member of the public outed the whistleblower, legal experts said, no criminal law would be violated,&#8221; NPR reported.
Two experts that NPR cited said that it was not a crime:
<ul>
<li>Robert Litt, former general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under President Barack Obama: &#8220;If Trump thinks he knows the name, he can come out and say it, and he&#8217;s probably as protected as anyone is.&#8221;</li>
<li>Dan Meyer, a lawyer and the former executive director of the intelligence community whistleblower program: &#8220;There is no overarching protection for the identity of the whistleblower under federal law. Congress has never provided that protection.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
Here&#8217;s the transcript of the second problematic set of claims that Hostin made:
<blockquote>Hostin: I want to talk about the the memo of the call cause I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s a transcript. In the memo of the call that was released from the White House between your father and the Ukraine president, your father said &#8220;I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it&#8221; and we have the entire part part of the memo here.
The other thing, &#8220;there&#8217;s a lot of talk about Biden&#8217;s son that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great.&#8221; This is the basis of the impeachment inquiry. Why is that a sham?</blockquote>
WATCH:
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Sunny Hostin, leftist co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; makes multiple false claims about the transcript of President Donald Trump&#8217;s phone call with Ukraine <a href="https://t.co/u2s0gQUBYV">pic.twitter.com/u2s0gQUBYV</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1192745123618021376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
The transcript that Hostin showed was deceptively edited, cutting out 489 words, to falsely suggest that President Trump engaged in a quid pro quo.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Here&#8217;s is a pic of the actual transcript provided by the White House that shows that 489 words that &#8220;The View&#8221; cut out in order to falsely suggest that Trump engaged in a quid pro quo <a href="https://t.co/JQIOqKU51E">pic.twitter.com/JQIOqKU51E</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1192752373229211648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
This tactic was employed by numerous media left-wing personalities following the release of the transcript, including MSNBC&#8217;s Katy Tur, CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar, and former Fox News anchor Shepard Smith.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
MSNBC&#8217;s Katy Tur, CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar, and Fox News&#8217; Shepard Smith all lie about the Ukraine transcript
&#8220;I would like you to do us a favor&#8221; was in reference to helping DOJ with the origin of the 2016 Russia probe
All 3 skip over 548 words to falsely connect it to Biden <a href="https://t.co/mHVlG9nxQm">pic.twitter.com/mHVlG9nxQm</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1176951616823410688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
Here is the portion of the transcript that &#8220;The View&#8221; selectively edited, words that appear in bold were cut out by &#8220;The View&#8221;:
Trump: I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike&#8230; I guess you have one of your wealthy people&#8230; The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you&#8217;re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it&#8217;s very important that you do it if that&#8217;s possible.
Zelenskyy: Yes it is very important for me and everything that you just mentioned earlier. For me as a President, it is very important and we are open for any future cooperation. We are ready to open a new page on cooperation in relations between the United States and Ukraine. For that purpose, I just recalled our ambassador from United States and he will be replaced by a very competent and very experienced ambassador who will work hard on making sure that our two nations are getting closer. I would also like and hope to see him having your trust and your confidence and have personal relations with you so we can cooperate even more so. I will personally tell you that one of my assistants spoke with Mr. Giuliani just recently and we are hoping very much that Mr. Giuliani will be able to travel to Ukraine and we will meet once he comes to Ukraine. I just wanted to assure you once again that you have nobody but friends around us. I will make sure that I surround myself with the best and most experienced people. I also wanted to tell you that we are friends. We are great friends and you Mr. President have friends in our country so we can continue our strategic partnership. I also plan to surround myself with great people and in addition to that investigation, I guarantee as the President of Ukraine that all the investigations will be done openly and candidly.. That I can assure you.
Trump: Good because I heard you had a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that&#8217;s really unfair. A lot of people are talking about that, the way they shut your very good prosecutor down and you had some very bad people involved. Mr. Giuliani is a highly respected man. He was the mayor of New York City, a great mayor, and I would like him to call you. I will ask him to call you along with the Attorney General. Rudy very much knows what&#8217;s happening and he is a very capable guy. If you could speak to him that would be great. The former ambassador from the United States, the woman, was bad news and the people she was dealing with in the Ukraine were bad news so I just want to let you know that. The other thing, There&#8217;s a lot of talk about Biden&#8217;s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it&#8230; It sounds horrible to me.

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Hostin Attacks Trump Jr With False Claims On Whistleblower, Transcript. Here’s The Truth.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

Ukraine

After stopping by &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/guilfoyle-nails-goldberg-for-pushing-impeachment-goldberg-denies-heres-proof-goldberg-said-it">The View</a>&#8221; on Thursday morning, Donald Trump Jr., the president&#8217;s eldest son, joined conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and unloaded on the Left.
Asked about the constant attacks from Democrats and their allies in the media, Don Jr. made clear that he sees no letting up anytime soon, telling Limbaugh, bluntly, &#8220;we&#8217;re at war.&#8221;
&#8220;We’re at war, and we’re at war for our freedoms,&#8221; Don Jr. said. &#8220;We’re at war for our culture. You know, this is the largest divide between the two political parties in the history of the country. You know, I write a lot in the book about socialism and communism, ’cause my mother escaped from it. You know, I grew up with grandparents that lived through that stuff. You know, I spent summers in what was then communist Czechoslovakia. I can tell you those bread lines that Bernie talks about are not nearly so wonderful.&#8221;
Zeroing-in on the mainstream media, Don Jr. said the &#8220;case&#8221; for impeaching his father was made 19 minutes after he was elected president.
The push for impeachment &#8220;began on November 9th when he did the unthinkable, which was to beat the establishment,&#8221; he told the iconic radio host. &#8220;The Washington Post dropped their first headline about it 19 minutes after the inauguration, &#8216;The Case for Impeaching Trump.&#8217; Nineteen minutes, Rush, you know, that was about the amount of time that it took Obama to get nominated for the peace prize.&#8221;
&#8220;The press took an eight-year vacation,&#8221; the Trump son added. &#8220;It’s why they’re so energized now. Under the Obama administration there was nothing he could do wrong, regardless of the idiocy of the some of the policies.&#8221;
While on the program, Don Jr. made it a point to outline the difference between him and former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s son Hunter Biden. Hunter made tens of thousands of dollars a month serving on the board of one of Ukraine&#8217;s largest natural gas companies while his father was serving as vice president, despite Hunter&#8217;s glaring lack of qualifications.
&#8220;They go, &#8216;Well, Donald Trump Jr., he’s also the son of a guy with a famous last name and he capitalized on it,&#8217; and I go, &#8216;Yeah, I know. A hundred percent,'&#8221; Don Jr. started. &#8220;I don’t even hide from that. But we did it at private citizens, as capitalists. We didn’t utilize… We were international businesspeople, Rush, for two decades. This is what I did.&#8221;
&#8220;When my father won, he said, &#8216;We will not do any new international deals going forward,'&#8221; he explained. &#8220;Hunter Biden — who’d never done any deals in his life — magically becomes this international businessman.&#8221;
&#8220;[Hunter] knows nothing about oil and gas,&#8221; added Don Jr. &#8220;He doesn’t speak Ukrainian. Minor details. But he’s willing to take $83,000 a month. You know, he had six weeks to prep for that ABC interview and he still didn’t know why the heck he got the job.&#8221;
The 41-year-old also shared a comical anecdote that was featured in his new book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-donald-trump-jr-weighs-in-on-new-book-and-the-future-of-conservatism-republican-party">Triggered</a>.&#8221; The Trump son recalled getting a call from the White House and being connected to his father, only to be scolded for being too aggressive on social media. Don Jr. laughed telling the story, noting of his father&#8217;s reputation for using his Twitter account with, at times, little caution:
<blockquote>One of the interesting stories in the book is my father actually calling me, and I get the call from the White House. &#8220;This is White House operator. The president would like to speak to you.&#8221;
“Hey, Dad. What’s going on?”
“Don, you’re getting a little aggressive on social media these days.”
I go, “Wait a minute, Dad. (laughing) Dad, I love you. I love you very much. I respect you dearly. I will listen to you on just about anything. This may be the one place, the one place where we may cede a little bit of the high ground here.” So I’ve had some fun with that.</blockquote>
Transcript via <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/11/07/donald-trump-jr-calls-the-show/">RushLimbaugh.com</a>

&#8216;We&#8217;re At War&#8217;: Don Jr. Joins Rush Limbaugh And Unloads On The Left

Rush Limbaugh

Donald Trump Jr. unloaded on &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Abby Huntsman for falsely suggesting that he outed the Ukraine whistleblower by thoroughly debunking her claim and then highlighting ABC&#8217;s current scandal involving convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
&#8220;You did something that triggered a lot of people yesterday, including myself, by releasing the name of the whistleblower. The whistleblower whose complaint has now led to impeachment hearings,&#8221; Huntsman said in a hostile manner. &#8220;The whole point of releasing a name is to intimidate someone, to threaten someone, and to scare other people from coming out. That’s something dictators do. I’ve lived in China, I’ve seen that firsthand. That’s not what America does, we stand by our people. Why did you want to release the name?”
Trump responded, &#8220;The reality of the answer is, the whistleblower’s name was on a little website called The Drudge Report a couple of days ago. It was in RealClearPolitics. I literally quote-tweeted an article that had the guy’s name in the title of the article.&#8221;
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-jr-tweets-name-of-alleged-whistleblower-leftists-explode-heres-the-problem-with-their-outrage">reported</a> yesterday:
<blockquote>The assertion that Trump outed the whistleblower is false, as the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/joe-bidens-point-man-on-ukraine-rand-paul-calls-on-house-to-subpoena-whistleblower">Washington Examiner</a>, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/30/realclear-investigations-suggests-whistleblower-likely-33-year-old-cia-analyst-eric-ciaramella/">Breitbart</a>, and <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/30/anti-trump-whistleblower-worked-with-dnc-operative-who-sought-dirt-on-trump-from-ukrainian-officials/">the Federalist</a> all reported on the identity of the alleged whistleblower last week which was based off a report from <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/10/30/whistleblower_exposed_close_to_biden_brennan_dnc_oppo_researcher_120996.html">RealClearInvestigations</a>.</blockquote>
&#8220;So, that whole thing is nonsense but I wish the outrage would be equal. There was no outrage when my family got an exploding letter of white powder substance in it,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;They’re protecting a guy in the CIA and there’s great outrage but when your family gets something [the outrage isn’t there].”
&#8220;But his [name] was already out there [seen by] millions of people and for days he’s been out there in the media. So, what’s the difference between me tweeting about it? I’m a private citizen putting this out there,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;It seems to me that everyone is outraged that his name is out there because now people are saying, &#8216;He’s tied to Joe Biden while Joe Biden was working in the White House. He has ties to Brennan who&#8217;s been leading the cabal on Trump.&#8217; Let’s be honest about what it is.&#8221;
Huntsman responded, &#8220;Just to be clear, that’s not why I’m outraged. I’m outraged because I care about diplomacy in this country. I care how we protect people when they see a wrongdoing, that they go through the proper political channels and they are protect for doing that.&#8221;
Trump then highlighted the bombshell revelation this week from James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas that showed anchor Amy Robach admitting that the network killed a bombshell story on Epstein involving former Democratic President Bill Clinton.
&#8220;ABC is right now chasing down a whistleblower about all of the Epstein stuff because those stories were killed. So, If we&#8217;re going to have the conversation about the outrage about whistleblowers, you work with CBS to out the whistleblower [who revealed that ABC covered up the Epstein story],&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;It&#8217;s hypocrisy &#8230; The mainstream media is left leading and I don&#8217;t think anybody doubted that for a long time, but they have gotten rid of the pretense of objectivity.&#8221;
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg desperately tried to change the subject.
Trump responded, &#8220;My point is about the hypocrisy. The mainstream media is left leading and I don&#8217;t think anybody doubted that for a long time, but they have gotten rid of the pretense of objectivity.&#8221;
WATCH:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a> shoots down every single one of The View&#8217;s Abby Huntsman&#8217;s arguments.
WATCH: <a href="https://t.co/trlD4oeInd">pic.twitter.com/trlD4oeInd</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1192536523616530445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>

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Huntsman Falsely Suggests Trump Jr. Outed Whistleblower. His Response Destroys Her.

Donald Trump Jr. blasted a far-left co-host of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; during an interview on Thursday, hitting back at comments that she made by reminding her that she is not perfect, saying, &#8220;Joy, you&#8217;ve worn blackface.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve all done things that we regret,&#8221; Trump Jr. said. &#8220;I mean, if we&#8217;re talking about bringing the discourse down. Joy, you&#8217;ve worn blackface.&#8221;
&#8220;No I haven&#8217;t!&#8221; Behar shouted back. &#8220;I did not go in blackface, please!&#8221;
WATCH:
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2019: <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a>: &#8220;We&#8217;ve all done things that we regret. I mean, if we&#8217;re talking about bringing the discourse down. Joy, you&#8217;ve worn blackface.&#8221;
Behar: &#8220;I did not go in blackface, please!&#8221;
2016: Joy Behar: &#8220;It was a Halloween party, I went as a beautiful African woman.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/wtGNvM6mbz">pic.twitter.com/wtGNvM6mbz</a>
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/1192491757369528326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
However, it appears as though that Behar&#8217;s claim is false, according to a report earlier this year from entertainment journalist Jon Levine.
Levine, who now works at The New York Post, <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/that-time-joy-behar-wore-darker-makeup-to-dress-as-a-beautiful-african-woman-in-the-70s-video/">reported</a> at The Wrap:
<blockquote>“The View” co-host Joy Behar attended a Halloween party dressed as a “beautiful African woman” during the 1970s, which included darkening her face with makeup, the host said in a 2016 episode of the daytime talk show.</blockquote>
“That is me. I was 29. It was a Halloween party, I went as a beautiful African woman. That’s my hair,” Behar said. “I had makeup that was a little bit darker than my skin, but that’s my actual hair, though.”
Then co-host Raven-Symoné, who is African-American, responded, “You mean blackface.”
“Joy, are you my auntie, Joy?” Symoné continued. “She looks black.”
&#8220;The View&#8221; even posted a photograph of Behar&#8217;s costume.
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Joy Behar admitted during a taping of The View in 2016 to dressing as a “beautiful African women” at a Halloween party when she was 29 which involved makeup “that was a little bit darker than my skin”
The show even ran an image of the old photo <a href="https://t.co/qKQqzDPxyn">pic.twitter.com/qKQqzDPxyn</a>
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1093272835076837377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
RNC Rapid Response Director Steve Guest posted a side-by-side photo of Behar next to her wearing the costume, writing, &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@</a>DonaldJTrumpJr is right. Here&#8217;s the picture of Joy Behar wearing blackface.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a> is right.
Here&#8217;s the picture of Joy Behar wearing blackface. <a href="https://t.co/Z8Fv6zg8fq">pic.twitter.com/Z8Fv6zg8fq</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1192481682558988288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
Left-wing website Jezebel <a href="https://jezebel.com/hmm-here-is-joy-behar-dressed-as-a-beautiful-african-w-1776541379">reported</a> on the segment where Behar discussed her costume when it first aired in 2016, calling Behar&#8217;s look, &#8220;blackface-lite.&#8221;
Trump Jr. shared the segment showing Behar in her custome, writing, &#8220;Here&#8217;s @TheView&#8217;s Joy Behar admitting on national TV that she in fact wore blackface. Why are they denying it now?&#8221;
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Here&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/TheView?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheView</a>&#8216;s Joy Behar admitting on national TV that she in fact wore blackface. Why are they denying it now? <a href="https://t.co/B9ReOYrwXY">https://t.co/B9ReOYrwXY</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1192482760885227522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
Behar made news earlier this week when she suggested that Democrats should deceive American voters by not telling them about their desire to confiscate people&#8217;s guns until after they get into office.
“They should not tell everything they’re going to do,” Behar said. “Like if you are going to take people’s guns away, wait until you get elected and then take the guns away. Don’t tell them ahead of time.”
Co-host Meghan McCain quickly responded, “That’s what people like me think you’re going to do.”
Behar also strongly opposes free speech. She stated over the summer that she wanted President Donald Trump to be charged with &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;
“Why can’t he be brought up on charges of ‘hate speech’?” Behar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-joy-behar-wants-trump-arrested-hate-speech-amanda-prestigiacomo">stated</a>. “Why can’t he be sued by the ACLU [American Civil Liberties Union] for ‘hate speech’?”
“I don’t get it,” Behar continued. “How does he get away with this?”
Behar, who is often consumed by her disdain for the president, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-claims-trump-culprit-behind-synagogue-ryan-saavedra">falsely claimed</a> earlier this year that Trump was responsible for the April attack on a synagogue in California.
“He’s provocative. He gives dog whistles constantly to these people,” Behar said. “Take responsibility for your actions, Mr. President. You are the culprit.”
<div id="div-gpt-ad-DW_Body2" class="advertisment" data-google-query-id="CM7XtLPh2OUCFVNXAQodoFgDIw">Behar failed to tell the audience that the attacker hated the president because he was a strong ally of the Jewish community and Israel.</div>

Trump Jr

Trump Jr Torches Behar: ‘You’ve Worn Blackface,’ Behar Denies. Here’s The Photo Of Behar’s ‘African Woman’ Costume.

Joy Behar

The View

Donald Trump Jr. spoke briefly to The Daily Wire late on Monday night about his new book, &#8220;Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us,&#8221; and about the future of the Republican Party and the conservative movement.
CNN <a href="http://archive.is/GWmhS">reported</a> on Tuesday that the book was already ranked as number three on Amazon&#8217;s bestsellers list on the first day that it hit bookshelves.
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Let’s send a loud message to the liberal elites. It would TRIGGER our haters coast to coast if we made the NYT list! This is the book that liberals don’t want you to read or share with others. Get your copy now! <a href="https://t.co/HKA9knF0Ko">https://t.co/HKA9knF0Ko</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1191088537938137088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
In a brief interview with The Daily Wire, Trump revealed what inspired him to write the book, the future of the conservative movement, the future of the Republican Party, and talked about the media and political Left&#8217;s hypocrisy.
Question: What inspired you to write the book?
Trump:
For years, people would say, &#8220;Don, you should write a business book&#8221; and honestly, I think my dad sort of covered that ground, but for me, when you get to be the tip of the spear for the greatest political upset in history, to go through that, to see that, to have a front row seat for that part of American history, then to be attacked and maligned and the number two target of the Mueller hoax and the ongoing nonsense, it really was one of those things where I said there&#8217;s something here.
There&#8217;s a story to me here that is the story of an unlikely conservative being the son of a billionaire from New York City, but also my life experiences growing up with a mother who escaped communism. Seeing the hatred from the Left as we went in there and just tried to do the right thing and do this for the country. Being attacked and watching what they would be willing to do to try to get their way politically and just who they were willing to destroy along the way. I sort of got fed up and you sort of see some of that on Twitter or in five-minute interview here and there on TV, this was the real chance to do the long-form version of that with all the details.
Question: In one section of your book, you talked about the incident where an Elizabeth Warren donor had <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/dem-activist-arrested-sending-threatening-letters-white-powder-donald-trump-jr/">sent</a> your wife a white powder that caused a pretty serious scare. Did Elizabeth Warren ever reach out to you and say anything after one of her donors sent powder to your wife?
Trump: No, I double checked, I think it was like a staffer or a volunteer on the campaign. No, but not a peep. But more importantly, it was barely a peep in the media. If a Trump supporter sent that to Elizabeth Warren it would be the end of the world, we would be hearing about it to this day. Three of the major 90 publications covered it for about one second on the back page somewhere and it was forgotten about the next day. I think it goes to speak about a big part of the book: The hypocrisy of the Left, the hypocrisy of the mainstream media, and their sort of unabashed willingness to just disregard the notion of fairness — the notion that they are there to report the news and just be a cheerleader for one side and that&#8217;s obviously what they are. They are the marketing wing of the DNC.
Question: In your book, you talk about the decision to give up drinking. When did you decide to do that and did your father’s decision not to drink impact your decision?
Trump: It was just about understanding myself. Some people can do it and some people can&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t have the genes for it. I just saw what it did to his brother and so luckily I&#8217;ve been able to avoid that for the most part and it&#8217;s been a good thing for me and for my life. [My father] spoke to us a lot about what his experience was like growing up with a brother who ultimately died of it and it was pretty clear that I probably have that trait [where] I don&#8217;t have an off-switch, and so it was an important decision in my life.
Question: In the book, you talk about your father’s work ethic and you specifically mentioned an instance where your father got mad at Steve Bannon and the campaign for trying to give him an afternoon off during the campaign. Has he always had an intense need to work hard non-stop and where do you think he got that work ethic from?
Trump: For him, work is his passion, it&#8217;s his vocation, he&#8217;s just a worker. It wasn&#8217;t just Bannon, it was Reince, it was everyone. It was a pretty big number, it was like 87 days or something like that and we&#8217;re there and I&#8217;m just looking at what&#8217;s going on as they are laying this out and you see [my father] getting more and more frustrated. My brother, my sister, and I just look at each other and we pulled back and just walked away and [my father] goes, &#8220;I don&#8217;t need any days off! It&#8217;s 90 days! I&#8217;ll have plenty of time to rest when it&#8217;s over.&#8221;
He thinks, we&#8217;ll lose or draw but we&#8217;re not anything on the field. We&#8217;re not going to miss a blown opportunity. If Hillary made an appearance every other day, it was a miracle, and he beat her for many other reasons, but he also just outworked the hell out of her and you could see that mentality. And you could also, more importantly, see that sort of mentality was so foreign to some of these sort of professional politicos, where [they&#8217;re] like, &#8220;we&#8217;ll work hard when we need to but obviously you need a nine-to-five job and once you&#8217;re done, you&#8217;re done.&#8221; Well for [my father] there is no &#8220;done.&#8221; There is no &#8220;it&#8217;s over.&#8221; That mentality has been there his whole life.
I talked about getting the call at five o&#8217;clock in the morning on a Saturday when I was in my 20s, probably still having some fun and [my father&#8217;s] like, &#8220;why aren&#8217;t you in the office?&#8221; Me, talking some smack back, asked, &#8220;why aren&#8217;t you in the office?&#8221; [My father responded] &#8220;I am, I&#8217;m standing in your office right now and you&#8217;re not here.&#8221; And I&#8217;m [thinking to myself] &#8220;that didn&#8217;t work out so well.&#8221; So he&#8217;s always had that mentality and that general attitude and I think you see it today.
Question: How important are young people, women, and minorities to the future of the Republican Party? How can Republicans win over those demographics when the media tells them that Republicans hate them?
Trump: They have to keep trying, they have to be out there and willing to do it. You see what I do with Charlie Kirk and hey I get it, I&#8217;m not going to be that welcome on college campuses, but man I do a lot of them. We go there anyway, we got to be heard. As it relates to the minority communities, it&#8217;s the same exact thing. The results should speak for themselves. It&#8217;s the economy, you look at what [my father&#8217;s] done. My father is doing criminal justice reform, he&#8217;s doing opportunity zones. All these things are not exactly GOP platform type of things, they&#8217;re just the right thing to do.
But again, it&#8217;s not easy to get the message down to the final consumer and ultimately that voter because the DNC does, and they&#8217;ve had a stranglehold, albeit artificially, but historically on a lot of those communities. And so to get that message down those filters is not that easy but you got to keep trying. They are an important part of this country. My father said in 2016 that he is going to be a president for all Americans, not just his base, not just the people who love him. I think he&#8217;s done that and I think the results speak for themselves. But you have to keep trying [to reach those voters], and you got to get back into those communities and make sure that you are making your efforts there, as well.
Question: You briefly mentioned Charlie Kirk. Who and what do you see as being the future of the conservative movement?
Trump: I mean obviously, from a youth perspective, I think he’s the best we have. He gets it. He started doing this when he was young, he does it intelligently. He&#8217;s working and he shows up, he puts in the time and the effort, so he&#8217;s one of the one of the rock stars there. Now whether he wants to have any specific political role in time or not is yet to be determined.
I think what Trump has shown conservatives is that it&#8217;s okay to fight back. You don&#8217;t just have to turn the other cheek and take the loss because the other side wants you to and that was their mentality forever, sort of the Mitt Romney mentality of &#8220;well, we have our principles and we&#8217;ll have our principles on the stump when we&#8217;re talking to our voters, but then when we get called out on it we would rather be loved by the mainstream media and the Left than fight for what we believe and what&#8217;s right.&#8221; That&#8217;s a sales concept, we&#8217;ve ceded ground for 50 years because of that mentality and that was the old Republican school of thought and that has failed miserably. It&#8217;s cost us dearly.
[President Trump&#8217;s mentality] has allowed for some of those Republicans who are willing to stand up, who are willing to fight back, there&#8217;s a bunch of them now — whether it&#8217;s the Mark Meadows and Jim Jordans of the world, whether it&#8217;s the Lee Zeldins of the world — guys have come out of the word work and become real fighters. There&#8217;s a bunch of them and they are doing good and honestly even some of the establishment guys have learned from that. I think Kevin McCarthy is doing a great job at that right now and recruiting candidates that can actually win, not just guys who have been there longer and I think that&#8217;s a huge aspect of our future. I think the future&#8217;s bright and I think Trump opened the window for these guys to see what it&#8217;s actually going to take to win when you&#8217;re competing with the insanity that is today&#8217;s Left.

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Jr. Weighs In On New Book And The Future Of Conservatism, Republican Party

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Republican Party

On Thursday, President Trump announced he was leaving New York and would make Florida his permanent residence. He tweeted:
<blockquote>1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House, is the place I have come to love and will stay for, hopefully, another 5 years as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, but my family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence. I cherish New York, and the people of New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make.this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!</blockquote>
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1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House, is the place I have come to love and will stay for, hopefully, another 5 years as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, but my family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence. I cherish New York, and the people of&#8230;..
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190079191355670529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make&#8230;.
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190079192358105088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190079193582899200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times, in their own inimitable way, announced Trump’s plans, writing, “President Trump doesn&#8217;t want to be a New Yorker anymore. He filed residency paperwork for Florida, a favorite of the wealthy for tax reasons.”
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President Trump doesn&#39;t want to be a New Yorker anymore. He filed residency paperwork for Florida, a favorite of the wealthy for tax reasons.<a href="https://t.co/NSz8FVxFre">https://t.co/NSz8FVxFre</a>
&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1190053604037668864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2019</a></blockquote>
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That prompted New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to issue a biting tweet, snapping, “Good riddance. It’s not like <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> paid taxes here anyway&#8230; He’s all yours, Florida.”
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Good riddance.
It’s not like <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> paid taxes here anyway&#8230; 
He’s all yours, Florida. <a href="https://t.co/9AX0q1aBkQ">https://t.co/9AX0q1aBkQ</a>
&mdash; Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1190059166129426432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Unfortunately for Cuomo, a member of Trump’s family happened to notice his dismissal of Trump. Donald Trump Jr. fired back with a tweet that sledgehammered Cuomo, writing, “Nice soundbite. Now do the tens of thousands of other successful New Yorkers and businesses fleeing your idiotic policies every week. I’ll wait. Also I don’t remember this sentiment ever stopping you from coming to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a>’s office begging for $. I was there. GOOD TIMES.”
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Nice soundbite. Now do the tens of thousands of other successful New Yorkers and businesses fleeing your idiotic policies every week. I’ll wait.
Also I don’t remember this sentiment ever stopping you from coming to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>’s office begging for $. I was there. GOOD TIMES <a href="https://t.co/jDbK3k9daY">https://t.co/jDbK3k9daY</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1190250969747116032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham fired back at Cuomo as well, asserting on Fox News, “We&#8217;re not going to waste our time with a governor who would say something like that. That was petty and that was silly. I’ll leave it at that,” as <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/01/trump-jr-andrew-cuomo-good-riddance-063782">Politico</a> reported.
Cuomo also went on MSNBC to slam the president, snapping, “The fight will continue, and I think it is a desperate legal move where he&#8217;s now going to argue, ‘Well, the state should have no right to my taxes because I moved out; I&#8217;m a Florida resident.’ That&#8217;s besides the point. When you filed your taxes, you were a New York resident. If you defrauded the state, you defrauded it when you are a New York state resident.”
In July 2018, Cuomo was asked about the $64,000 Trump had donated to him in the past for his campaign. Cuomo responded, “I’m going to be deeply critical of him and keep the contributions,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-york-playbook/2018/07/06/cuomo-holds-onto-his-trump-donations-lead-in-housing-is-a-statewide-problemnew-condos-rise-in-flood-zones-trump-loses-a-nyc-tax-break-283739">Politico</a> noted.
When apprised of the fact that Cuomo&#8217;s 2018 opponent in the Democratic primary, Cynthia Nixon, had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/experience/confirmation/?experience_id=198901694146514">launched attacks</a> against Cuomo for taking the money from Trump,  Cuomo spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer wailed, “No governor has fought harder against Donald Trump than Gov. Cuomo. In fact, Trump considered running against the governor in 2014. Gov. Cuomo is 100 percent focused on continuing to lead the fight against the Trump Administration and win the U.S. House and State Senate so we can keep families together, protect New Yorkers from Trump’s disastrous tax plan, safeguard our state’s environment and defend New Yorkers’ civil rights — and no press release is going to change that.”
H/T <a href="https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/11/01/ouch-donald-trump-jr-fires-back-at-andrew-cuomo-with-a-flashback-reality-check-after-gov-bids-florida-bound-family-good-riddance/">Twitchy</a>
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