Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer grilled Security Council spokesman John Kirby during a Monday interview, asking him to point to anywhere that he could say that &#8220;American strength and persuasion&#8221; had improved since President Joe Biden took office.
Hemmer laid out a list of global conflicts and situations that he said appeared to have been mishandled by the Biden administration — from the disastrous troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 to Iran&#8217;s unprecedented direct attack on Israel over the weekend — and then asked Kirby whether he could really say that the United States&#8217; stature had really improved on the world stage.
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&#8220;I was looking back at the track record for President Biden,&#8221; Hemmer began. &#8220;Here&#8217;s what sticks out: the Afghanistan withdrawal was a mess, we failed to stop Putin from going into Ukraine, the war with Israel and Hamas has been absolutely dreadful and destructive — again, it&#8217;s the first time Iran has aimed at Israel – China&#8217;s military buildup is substantial &#8230; and that was just this morning, what I came up with.&#8221;
&#8220;Can you argue that American strength and persuasion is better today than it was four years ago globally?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;Oh, yeah,&#8221; Kirby replied. &#8220;Yeah, 100% I can.&#8221;
Hemmer&#8217;s follow-up question was just one word: &#8220;Where?&#8221;
Kirby skirted the direct question and did not give any specific instances or locations, instead offering the vague claim that the Biden administration had displayed &#8220;leadership&#8221; and built the kind of global ties that were necessary to bolster national security.
&#8220;I can do that very comfortably. After serving for as long as I did in uniform, I&#8217;ll tell you, this is a president who understands American leadership on the world stage,&#8221; Kirby said, adding that Biden had made the right connections &#8220;not just militarily but diplomatically, economically — around the world to advance our national security interests.&#8221;

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Fox News Anchor Grills John Kirby: ‘Can You Argue That American Strength And Persuasion Is Better Today?’

Fox News Anchor Grills John Kirby: 'Can You Argue That American Strength And Persuasion Is Better Today?'

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Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner stopped former Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) cold, chastising him during a Thursday morning appearance for referring to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas</a> terrorists as simply &#8220;bad people.&#8221;
Faulkner voiced her surprise at the fact that Murphy — a combat paratrooper and the first Iraq War veteran to serve in Congress — would not use harsher terms to describe the terrorists who had slaughtered more than 1,200 Israelis on October 7 and routinely used Palestinian children as human shields.
&#8220;We absolutely need to understand that he is in a vise, in a sense, because we have to bring Hamas to justice,&#8221; Murphy said of President Joe Biden, acknowledging the fact that even members of his own party were pressuring Biden to push back harder on Israel.
&#8220;We have to make a priority of the 130 hostages, including Americans. We gotta get them there. And so, the debate really isn’t really about bringing them to justice — and by the way, Hamas is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. They are bad people,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;The problem is, is that on the other side, and this is why people are upset with the uncommitted vote, is the fact that there’s been 32,000 innocent folks that are not part of Hamas that have been killed,&#8221; Murphy continued, citing the death toll provided by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.
Faulkner cut in then, rebuffing the former congressman for his use of the term &#8220;bad people.&#8221;
&#8220;You know what, describing Hamas — and you served in the military — so, it boggles my mind why you would describe them simply as ‘bad people.’ They put babies in ovens. They tortured women. And those women who were raped —&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I can’t say what I really want to say about them ’cause we’re on TV,&#8221; Murphy protested, interrupting.
&#8220;You can say whatever you want,&#8221; Harris replied.
&#8220;Well, I don’t want to curse,&#8221; from Murphy.
&#8220;Well, we can say the truth without cuss words,&#8221; Faulkner suggested, adding, &#8220;The women who were raped, who survived, were not even believed by the United Nations for months. This is more than just the vise on the other side or some bad people who&#8217;ve done some things. By the way, that 130 plus number, my heart is with you, my heart and prayers are with those families, but yesterday, Hamas said they probably couldn’t come up with 50 to meet the release agreement. I don’t know if that means the rest are dead, they can’t find them, they’ve sold them off to Islamist Jihad and these other groups. We are playing with the devil here. So that’s what’s on one side. … It seems like an easy thing to do as an ally. If [Biden] wants to struggle as a human being that sounds like personal time.&#8221;
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Fox News Anchor Isn't Satisfied When Former Congressman Self-Censors, Calls Hamas 'Bad People'

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) got testy with Fox Business Reporter Hillary Vaughn over a question about a rally in her home district where anti-Israel protesters chanted &#8220;Death to America&#8221; and called for the eradication of Israel.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protesters-at-islamic-event-in-americas-jihad-capital-chant-death-to-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rally in question</a>, which took place in Dearborn, Michigan, featured a speaker named Tarek Bazzi, who is affiliated with the Hadi Institute. He said: &#8220;We have been asked in the past why our protests on the International Al-Quds Day are so anti-America. Why don’t we just focus on Israel and not talk so much about America? Gaza has shown the entire world why their protests are so anti-America. Because it’s the United States government that provides the funds for all of the atrocities that we just heard about.&#8221;
Attendees at the rally responded to him by shouting, &#8220;Death to America!&#8221; and &#8220;Death to Israel!&#8221;
Vaughn approached Tlaib in a hallway on Capitol Hill, asking several times whether She would respond to the chants. At first, the Michigan Congresswoman said she wouldn&#8217;t talk to anyone from Fox.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib lost it at Fox Business&#39; <a href="https://twitter.com/hillary__vaughn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hillary__vaughn</a> who asked if she condemns the &quot;death to America&quot; chants at a rally in her district.
The White House condemned the chants in a statement to <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/h00Vss0DLa">pic.twitter.com/h00Vss0DLa</a>
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&#8220;Congresswoman Tlaib —&#8221; Vaughn began, but Tlaib interrupted before she could even get the question out.
&#8220;I don’t talk to Fox News! I don’t talk to Fox News!&#8221; she insisted.
&#8220;At a rally &#8230; in your district —&#8221; Vaughn tried again, but Tlaib pushed back.
&#8220;I’m not talking to Fox News.,&#8221; she said again.
&#8220;People were chanting &#8216;death to America.&#8217; Do you condemn?&#8221; Vaughn asked.
 &#8220;I do not talk to Fox News,&#8221; Tlaib repeated.
&#8220;But do you condemn chants of death to America?&#8221; Vaughn asked once more.
 &#8220;I don’t talk to people that use racist tropes,&#8221; Tlaib said then, suggesting that Vaughn&#8217;s network was guilty of that.
Vaughn pressed again, asking, &#8220;Why can’t you just say whether or not you condemn —&#8221;
But Tlaib interrupted her again, saying, &#8220;Because I don’t talk to Fox News.&#8221;
&#8220;— people chanting &#8216;death to America?'&#8221; Vaughn completed her thought, then asked, &#8220;Why are you afraid to talk to Fox?&#8221;
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&#8220;Fox News is not nice,&#8221; Tlaib claimed. &#8220;Listen, using racist tropes towards my community is what Fox News is about and I don&#8217;t talk to Fox News.&#8221;
Vaughn tried one more tack, noting that some might see the &#8220;death to America&#8221; chants as racist.
&#8220;Is &#8216;death to America&#8217; racist?” Is chanting &#8216;death to America&#8217; racist?&#8221; she asked.
&#8220;Never talk to Fox News,&#8221; Tlaib said again, adding, &#8220;I’m talking about your guys’s racist tropes. You know, you guys are — you guys know exactly what you do. And I know you’re Islamophobic, but you guys gotta go deal with it on your own selves, not going to use me.&#8221;

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Tlaib Loses Her Mind On Fox Reporter, Won’t Address ‘Death To America’ Chants In Her District

Tlaib Loses Her Mind On Fox Reporter, Won't Address 'Death To America' Chants In Her District

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/martin-scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> will host and produce a documentary series about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity">Christian</a> saints for Fox News&#8217;s streaming service, Fox Nation. 
The 81-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">director</a> will spearhead “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” to air as part of an eight-part limited series, with the first four episodes debuting in November 2024 and the second four in May 2025. The drama will cover “the remarkable stories of eight men and women who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait — faith,” the network wrote of the project.
“Having the greatest storyteller tell some of the greatest stories of all time is exactly the kind of exclusive content that is driving Fox Nation’s success,” Fox News Media’s chief digital and marketing officer Jason Klarman said in a statement, per <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/martin-scorsese-fox-nation-show-1234968476/">IndieWire</a>. “It’s an honor to welcome the world-renowned Martin Scorsese to the Fox Nation platform.”
Scorsese said of the project, “I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set. These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different periods of history and struggling to follow the way of love revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ words in the gospels. I’m so excited that this project is underway, and that I’m working with so many trusted and talented collaborators.”
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The outlet noted that the eight saints covered in the series will be Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian, and Maximillian Kolbe.
Earlier this year, Scorsese said he was working on a “film about Jesus” in an effort to alter public perceptions of religion.
“I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized religion,” the filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/martin-scorsese-says-his-new-film-about-jesus-will-remove-negative-onus-from-organized-religion">told</a> the LA Times during a January interview.
“Right now, ‘religion,’ you say that word and everyone is up in arms because it’s failed in so many ways,” Scorsese continued. “You may reject it. But it might make a difference in how you live your life — even in rejecting it. Don’t dismiss it offhand.”

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Former President Donald Trump said during an interview over the weekend that he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin was &#8220;probably&#8221; involved in the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
Trump made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Howard Kurtz on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Media Buzz&#8221; when asked about Navalny&#8217;s mysterious death earlier this year inside a Russian prison.
&#8220;Do you believe Vladimir Putin has some responsibility for the death of Alexei Navalny?&#8221; Kurtz asked Trump.
&#8220;I don’t know, but perhaps I mean, possibly I could say, &#8216;probably&#8217;,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I don’t know. He’s a young man, so statistically he’d be alive for a long time. If you go by the insurance numbers, he’d be alive for another 40 years. So something happened that was unusual.&#8221;
Kurtz noted how the Kremlin was accused of trying to poison Navalny in the past and that when he went back to Russia he was jailed — and following his death, officials would not release the body.
&#8220;How could anything like that happen without Putin and high ranking Kremlin officials sanctioning it?&#8221; Kurtz asked.
&#8220;Well, I don’t know, you certainly can’t say for sure, but certainly that would look like something very bad happened, right?&#8221; Trump responded.
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Trump asked if he believes Putin is involved in the death of Navalny:
&#8220;Possibly. I could say probably. I don&#8217;t know. He&#8217;s a young man so statistically he&#8217;d be alive for a long time.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/md2FWUQt4v">pic.twitter.com/md2FWUQt4v</a>
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1769403215907373087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2024</a></blockquote>

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President Joe Biden, as expected, won most of the Democratic primary contests that took place on Super Tuesday — but he was also handed his first loss of the 2024 primary season, and at the hands of a candidate almost no one had heard of before Tuesday evening&#8217;s results rolled in.
Jason Palmer won the caucuses that took place Tuesday in the U.S. territory of American Samoa with 56% of the vote, earning four delegates to Biden&#8217;s two in that particular contest. Biden got 44% of the vote.
&#8220;Fox projects that Biden loses American Samoa Democratic Caucus to Jason Palmer. He is a self-described entrepreneur and investor. This is Biden’s first loss in the 2024 primaries. Palmer gets 4 delegates. Biden: 2,&#8221; Chad Pergram reported.
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Fox projects that Biden loses American Samoa Democratic Caucus to Jason Palmer. He is a self-described entrepreneur and investor. This is Biden’s first loss in the 2024 primaries. Palmer gets 4 delegates. Biden: 2.
&mdash; Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1765206648715407751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The upset came as such a surprise that even major media outlets appeared unprepared for Palmer&#8217;s win.
CNN posted a graphic that included photos of the other two Democratic candidates — President Biden and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) — but a generic face for Palmer.
&#8220;Joe Biden is losing to a guy that nobody’s heard of and that CNN doesn’t even have a picture of in the American Samoa caucus tonight,&#8221; Jasmine Keith posted.
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Joe Biden is losing to a guy that nobody’s heard of and that CNN doesn’t even have a picture of in the American Samoa caucus tonight <a href="https://t.co/p1xmkkoSlg">pic.twitter.com/p1xmkkoSlg</a>
&mdash; Jasmine Keith (@Jasmine_Keith1) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jasmine_Keith1/status/1765219068532109458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;BREAKING: Joe Biden has lost the American Samoa primary. A guy named Jason Palmer, who has less than 4k followers on X, beat him!&#8221; Alec Lace added.
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BREAKING: Joe Biden has lost the American Samoa primary.
A guy named Jason Palmer, who has less than 4k followers on X, beat him! <a href="https://t.co/G1RqaIpIk3">pic.twitter.com/G1RqaIpIk3</a>
&mdash; Alec Lace (@AlecLace) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlecLace/status/1765217070239699018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Fox News anchor Bret Baier was caught off guard as well, reading off the news alert as it came in: &#8216;We just have a call now in American Samoa. President Biden will lose to Jason Palmer, a self-described entrepreneur and investor.&#8221;
&#8220;He is going to win the American Samoa Democratic caucus. This marks President Biden’s first loss in the 2024 primaries. Palmer takes four delegates. President Biden takes two,&#8221; Baier continued, and then paused briefly before adding, &#8220;I don’t even know who Jason Palmer is. But he is now the winner.&#8221;

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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called out over the weekend after he rejected the notion that the federal government bore responsibility for the murder of a student in Georgia student last month who was allegedly killed by an illegal alien.
Police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illegal-immigrant-suspect-in-laken-riley-murder-accused-of-disfiguring-her-skull">arrested</a> 26-year-old Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan national, late last month for allegedly murdering 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley.
CBS News &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; host Margaret Brennan asked Mayorkas on Sunday about Riley&#8217;s death and whether Ibarra should have been deported earlier since he was arrested multiple times in different jurisdictions across the country.
&#8220;The suspect had been detained by Border Patrol upon crossing, released with temporary permission to stay in the country,&#8221; Brennan said. &#8220;He then went on allegedly to commit crimes twice, once in New York for driving a scooter without a license, and once in connection with a shoplifting case in Georgia.&#8221;
&#8220;Did those states and their law enforcement communicate to the federal government that this had happened?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Should this man have been deported?&#8221;
Mayorkas responded, &#8220;As a prosecutor, having prosecuted violent crime and other crimes for 12 years, one individual is responsible for the murder, and that is the murderer. And we work very closely with state and local law enforcement to ensure that individuals who pose a threat to public safety are indeed our highest priority for detention and removal.&#8221;
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WATCH: Biden DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas has to read from notes in response to the murder of 22-year-old Laken Riley by an illegal alien. 
Mayorkas refuses to admit the murderer should never have been in America in the first place. <a href="https://t.co/JVNy9jVJRn">pic.twitter.com/JVNy9jVJRn</a>
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Mayorkas went on to say that the federal government was not notified by other jurisdictions that Ibarra might pose a threat to public safety and claimed the Biden administration works to ensure dangerous illegal aliens are detained and deported.
Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin, one of the leading reporters covering the border crisis, responded to Mayorkas&#8217; remarks on X.
&#8220;Mayorkas points finger at sanctuary city here but it was the Feds who first released Ibarra into the U.S., like hundreds of thousands of other adult men, and they continue to mass import Venezuelans into the U.S. via controversial use of parole authority, knowing 99% will never leave or be deported because Venezuela won’t take its citizens back,&#8221; Melugin wrote.
&#8220;So far DHS has paroled over 86,000 Venezuelans into the U.S. using the parole program (completely separate from the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans crossing illegally) despite the fact that U.S. law is specific in that parole is only to be granted on a &#8216;case by case&#8217; basis for urgent humanitarian reasons (medical procedure, funeral, etc), or significant public benefit (testify in a trial as a witness etc),&#8221; he continued. &#8220;According to ICE data, only 834 Venezuelans were deported in fiscal year 2023, despite 335,000 Venezuelans being encountered in the same year. They aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.&#8221;
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Mayorkas points finger at sanctuary city here but it was the Feds who first released Ibarra into the U.S., like hundreds of thousands of other adult men, and they continue to mass import Venezuelans into the U.S. via controversial use of parole authority, knowing 99% will never… <a href="https://t.co/JlgxINAznZ">https://t.co/JlgxINAznZ</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1764356872239190268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Mayorkas Says Feds ‘Not Notified’ About Suspected Laken Riley Killer’s Alleged Crimes, Blames Sanctuary City

Alejandro Mayorkas

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Border Crisis

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Laken Riley

Leftist blogger Timony Burke was arrested by federal law enforcement officials on Thursday and charged with 14 crimes for allegedly illegally accessing videos of former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fox-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> host Tucker Carlson while he was still at the network.
The federal indictment says that Burke worked with a co-conspirator, who was not named, to hack Fox News&#8217; systems and leak damaging unaired footage of Carlson&#8217;s interview with Kanye West that showed the now-disgraced rapper making anti-Semitic remarks. Other unaired footage of Carlson was also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-raids-democrat-politicians-home-over-hack-of-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leaked</a> to Media Matters.
Burke &#8220;played multiple roles in the conspiracy, including utilizing compromised credentials to gain unauthorized access to protected computers, scouring those protected computers for electronic items and information, obtaining and stealing electronic items and information deemed desirable, organizing and exploiting some of those electronic items and information, and intercepting and disclosing the contents of wire, oral, and/or electronic video communications,&#8221; the indictment <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438/gov.uscourts.flmd.424438.1.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Burke was charged with one count of Conspiracy; six counts of Intentionally Accessing Protected Computer Without Authorization; five counts of Intentional Interception of a Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communication; and two counts of Intentionally Disclosing Illegally Intercepted Wire, Oral, or Electronic Communication.
The FBI raided Burke&#8217;s home — which he shares with his wife, far-Left Tampa City Council member Lynn Hurtak — in May 2023.
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“It’s not hacking, it’s just good investigative journalism,” claimed Burke&#8217;s attorney, Michael Maddux, before entering court on Thursday. “We obviously emphatically deny these charges and we’re looking forward to the opportunity to defend him and exonerate him.”

Tim Burke

Blogger Who Allegedly Hacked Fox News Arrested On 14 Federal Charges

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Tucker Carlson

The $350 million verdict against Donald Trump in the New York civil fraud trial is a “form of Navalny,” according to the former president. 
Trump discussed the recent death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a town hall event with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Tuesday night, where he compared Navalny’s death in a Russian prison last week to the multiple civil and criminal trials he faces. 
“Navalny is a very sad situation and he’s very brave, he was a very brave guy,” Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-navalny-russia-putin-2024-indictments-71513abe8f128ab885d9d2382f92e9d6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “He went back, he could have stayed away, and frankly probably would have been a lot better off staying away and talking from outside of the country as opposed to having to go back in, because people thought that could happen, and it did happen.”
The leading Republican presidential candidate then said what happened to Navalny is “happening in our country too,” adding that the U.S. is “turning into a communist country in many ways.”
“I’m the leading candidate, and I got indicted four times … I have eight or nine trials all because of the fact that I’m in politics,” he said. “They indicted me with things that are so ridiculous.”
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Trump on the death of Alexei Navalny:
&quot;It&#39;s happening in our country too.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/w4sssKuN6J">pic.twitter.com/w4sssKuN6J</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1760100523896607009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“It is a form of Navalny,” Trump added. “It is a form of communism, of fascism.”
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Trump says it is “a form of Navalny” when asked about how he was going to pay the nearly $355 million he and his companies were ordered to pay in his New York civil fraud trial. <a href="https://t.co/XkBmGuQoif">pic.twitter.com/XkBmGuQoif</a>
&mdash; Kate Sullivan (@KateSullivanDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/KateSullivanDC/status/1760106183761760530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Last week, Judge Arthur Engoron <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-fined-350-million-in-civil-business-fraud-trial-banned-from-doing-business-in-ny-for-3-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> Trump and his organization to pay more than $350 million and banned him from running his businesses in the state for three years. The civil fraud trial started after New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, alleging that he inflated his net worth and misled lenders. The verdict came down a month after a New York jury ordered Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83 million in a defamation case. 
Trump also faces four criminal trials in connection to his handling of classified documents after leaving office and his challenging of the 2020 election results.
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The former president compared Navalny’s death to his trials just a day after he was criticized for his first public <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-alexei-navalnys-death-made-him-more-aware-of-what-is-happening-in-u-s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on the death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s harshest critic. In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump wrote, “The sudden death of Alexei Navalny has made me more and more aware of what is happening in our Country.”
“It is a slow, steady progression, with CROOKED, Radical Left Politicians, Prosecutors, and Judges leading us down a path to destruction,” Trump continued. “Open Borders, Rigged Elections, and Grossly Unfair Courtroom Decisions are DESTROYING AMERICA. WE ARE A NATION IN DECLINE, A FAILING NATION! MAGA2024.”
Trump’s GOP rival Nikki Haley <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-hits-trump-over-his-response-to-alexei-navalnys-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> the former president over his statement on Navalny, saying it appeared to come out of the “liberals’ playbook.”
“Donald Trump could have condemned Vladimir Putin for being a murderous thug. Trump could have praised Navalny’s courage. Instead, he stole a page from liberals’ playbook, denouncing America and comparing our country to Russia,” Haley said. 
Navalny’s death was immediately viewed as suspicious by the White House, and President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-condemns-putin-for-death-of-navalny-putin-is-responsible" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press conference hours after initial reports that “Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death.” 
Trump made no mention of Putin in his initial statement on Truth Social nor in his answer to Ingraham’s question about Navalny on Tuesday night.

Trump Says His NY Civil Fraud Trial Verdict ‘Is A Form Of Navalny’

Trump Says His NY Civil Fraud Trial Verdict 'Is A Form Of Navalny'

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Fox News anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dana-perino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dana Perino</a> criticized President Joe Biden and his White House staffers over their refusal to give real answers in a professional setting to questions that the press — and, by extension, the American people — are asking.
Perino, who hosts &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; alongside Bill Hemmer, was responding to a clip of the president as he was about to depart the White House aboard Marine One, and had stopped briefly to answer a few questions over the noise of the chopper.
&#8220;I’ve done all I can do,&#8221; Biden said in response to a question about the ongoing chaotic scene at the southern border, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-true-fox-news-reporter-busts-biden-claim-that-he-needs-border-deal-to-take-executive-action" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming that he had no authority</a> to act unless Congress moved forward with a bipartisan deal. &#8220;Give me the power. I’ve asked for it from the very day I got in office. Give me the Border Patrol, give me the people, give me the people &#8212; the judges. Give me the people who can stop this and make it work —&#8221;
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Fox News&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaPerino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaPerino</a> slams the Biden White House as Biden shuffles away towards Marine One:
&quot;I find it professionally insulting as someone who used to work there that they think that this is good enough.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/2d1LPDU419">pic.twitter.com/2d1LPDU419</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1752362812297372088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Perino held nothing back in her reaction: &#8220;That’s terrible to me. That’s terrible!&#8221;
&#8220;If they at the White House communications office want him to make news and want him to take questions, do it in a way where the American people, our allies, and our adversaries can hear him clearly, and then you won’t get all the questions as to his mental capacity, because you could actually hear him if he’s being coherent,&#8221; she continued.
Perino, who served as White House Press Secretary under former President George W. Bush, added, &#8220;I’m just, I find it professionally insulting as somebody who used to work there, that they think that this is good enough for the president to just, to take a question like that when you can’t actually hear him above the rotating blades. The other day, he was at the Nowhere Coffee Company, he answers a very important question about troops that have just been killed? It’s not good enough!&#8221;
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Biden has often been criticized for his failure to give regular press conferences — and for keeping notes and cheat sheets on which reporters to call on and what questions they might ask. But still, Perino made it clear that she was willing to give him another chance: &#8220;He’s welcome to come on here! We’d love to ask him some questions.&#8221;

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‘Professionally Insulting’: Dana Perino Thrashes White House For Failure To Address Real Questions

'Professionally Insulting': Dana Perino Thrashes White House For Failure To Address Real Questions

Dana Perino

Executive

Fox News reporter Bill Melugin took a moment on Monday to call out President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration over recent claims addressing the ongoing chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Biden&#8217;s National Security spokesman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reporter-asks-if-biden-will-consult-polls-before-striking-iran-backed-terrorists-and-kirby-blows-up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Kirby</a> spoke to the issue during a recent briefing, saying — as Biden has — that he is willing to use executive authority at the border, but that he needs the bipartisan bill to pass first.
Melugin argued that wasn&#8217;t so in a post via X.
&#8220;Notable: a reporter just asked John Kirby why President Biden doesn&#8217;t just use his executive authority at the border &#8230;&#8221; Melugin began. &#8220;Kirby replied Biden is willing to, but wants/needs the Senate border bill first. Reporter asked why? Kirby says Biden needs the authority in the bill.&#8221;
&#8220;That is not true,&#8221; Melugin continued. &#8220;The same authority Biden used to reverse almost every Trump policy at the border — including terminating the national emergency declaration at the border upon taking office — can be used to make significant changes.&#8221;
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Notable: A reporter asked John Kirby why President Biden doesn’t just use his executive authority at the border…
Kirby replied Biden is willing to, but wants/needs the Senate border bill first.
Reporter asked why? 
Kirby says Biden needs the authority in the bill.
That is… <a href="https://t.co/bJ2h3etMMG">pic.twitter.com/bJ2h3etMMG</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1752057080822022444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich pressed Kirby along the same line of questioning, asking whether Biden was holding back on using executive actions as leverage to force the border security bill — which is tied to additional funding for Ukraine — through Congress.
&#8220;I also asked Kirby if Biden was withholding executive action on the border until he gets the money in the supplemental. Kirby: &#8216;No, I&#8217;m not suggesting that. I&#8217;m suggesting that the way forward, the proper way forward is to get this supplemental passed,'&#8221; Heinrich posted, recounting the conversation.
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I also asked Kirby if Biden was withholding executive action on the border until he gets the money in the supplemental. 
Kirby: “No, I&#39;m not suggesting that. I&#39;m suggesting that the way forward, the proper way forward is to get this supplemental passed.” <a href="https://t.co/EQMUL71v0F">https://t.co/EQMUL71v0F</a>
&mdash; Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) <a href="https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1752058886578634775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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House Speaker Mike Johnson has also weighed in on the bill, calling it a &#8220;non-starter&#8221; if it allows even one person to cross illegally into the United States before closing the border to stop the flow.
&#8220;Any border &#8216;shutdown&#8217; authority that ALLOWS even one illegal crossing is a non-starter. Thousands each day is outrageous. The number must be ZERO,&#8221; he posted.
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Any border &quot;shutdown&quot; authority that ALLOWS even one illegal crossing is a non-starter. Thousands each day is outrageous. The number must be ZERO.
&mdash; Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1752049256750305758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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‘Not True’: Fox News Reporter Busts Biden Claim That He Needs Border Deal To Take Executive Action

'Not True': Fox News Reporter Busts Biden Claim That He Needs Border Deal To Take Executive Action

Southern Border

Fox News host Martha MacCallum blasted U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby during an interview this week for saying President Joe Biden is taking the border crisis seriously.
The Wednesday interview happened as millions of illegal aliens have unlawfully entered the U.S. southern border under Biden&#8217;s administration, which has resulted in states starting to act on their own.
MacCallum noted that the illegal immigration issue had been the top concern for voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.
When Kirby said that Biden has tried to act with a sense of urgency to fix the crisis, MacCallum shot back: &#8220;He’s been president for three years.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not just the same old immigration issue we’ve had going on for a decade as he said the other day,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;These are record numbers all the time. And people in Iowa and New Hampshire are the ones that are expressing concerns about it. This isn’t Arizona and Texas. This is Iowa and New Hampshire. I don’t think that people sense that there’s an urgency to address this.&#8221;
Kirby said that Biden was &#8220;limited&#8221; in what actions he could take, saying that Congress was moving forward with a plan to address the issue.
“They’re not really moving along well,” MacCallum fired back. “You say he’s been concerned about it for three years, but that’s failing, obviously. When you have record numbers of people coming in, that means the policy’s failing. So, why not change gears and try to do something that works?”
MacCallum continued to press Kirby: &#8220;John, do we have a border? Do we have a southern border? Do we have a southern border?&#8221;
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&#8220;Yes, ma’am,&#8221; he responded. &#8220;Of course we do.&#8221;
&#8220;Then how come people can flow across it every single day?&#8221; she pressed. &#8220;Hundreds of thousands of people? Three hundred thousand people in December.&#8221;
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DO WE HAVE A SOUTHERN BORDER? I asked John Kirby, here’s what he had to say: <a href="https://t.co/MD5vIW129y">pic.twitter.com/MD5vIW129y</a>
&mdash; Martha MacCallum (@marthamaccallum) <a href="https://twitter.com/marthamaccallum/status/1750544193519231482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre And NSC Coordinator John Kirby Hold Daily Press Briefing

WATCH: Martha MacCallum Blasts John Kirby For Claiming Biden Is Trying To Fix Border Crisis

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