Speaking on his show “The Lead,” CNN’s Jake Tapper accused Republicans of “obviously seizing” on the murder of a Georgia nursing student that was allegedly committed by an illegal immigrant so the GOP could attack President Joe Biden on his immigration policies.
The body of Laken Riley, 22, who had been jogging on the campus of the University of Georgia, was found last week. Police used footage from video cameras to track down Jose Ibarra, 26, a Venezuelan illegal immigrant who has been named a suspect in the case.
“Republicans obviously seizing on this horrific tragedy at the University of Georgia,” Tapper intoned. “This girl, this nursing student, killed by an undocumented Venezuelan migrant, and they&#8217;re seizing on this as an example of Biden&#8217;s failure to protect the American people, and to secure the border.”
Tapper turned to former President Trump’s response: “Today, President Trump posted on his social media site Truth Social, quote, &#8216;When I am your president, we will immediately seal the border, stop the invasion. And on day one, we will begin the largest deportation operation of illegal criminals in American history. May God bless Laken Riley and her family.&#8217; That&#8217;s the poor nursing student that was killed.”
“What&#8217;s your reaction to that?” Tapper asked political commentator Doug Heye.
Heye obliged Tapper by agreeing: “Well, first, obviously, it&#8217;s a tragedy and we should — we should recognize that before the politics enter this. But let&#8217;s not be naive. Politics enter these things very quickly. And Donald Trump knows how to take advantage of a situation like this and exploit it.”
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CNN&#39;s Jake Tapper whines &quot;Republicans, obviously, seizing on this horrific tragedy at the University of Georgia.&quot; He admits the killer was an illegal but huffs: &quot;They&#39;re seizing on this as an example of Biden&#39;s failure to protect the American people and secure the border.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kKNHFhXVlZ">pic.twitter.com/kKNHFhXVlZ</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1762232766953898003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trump was not the only prominent Republican to show his anger at the murder; on Saturday, Georgia GOP Governor Brian Kemp fired off a letter to Biden regarding Riley’s death. He wrote:
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Dear Mr. President: As I have stated many times in the past, your actions and those of your administration have resulted in every state in the country experiencing the disastrous impacts of an unsecured U.S. southern border. More than nine million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since you took office — additional, unknown number of migrants who were not detained and processed — while at least 58 people on the terror watchlist have been encountered between ports of entry this fiscal year alone. Moreover, nearly two thousand pounds of fentanyl and five thousand pounds of methamphetamines were seized at the border in just the month of January. In addition to the serious national security implications of this crisis, the increased burden on state and local resources is not only unsustainable, it also presents a clear and present danger to our citizens and communities.
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Laken Riley&#39;s tragic death struck the hearts of Georgians everywhere and has sparked national outrage.
Joe Biden&#39;s failed policies have turned every state into a border state, and I&#39;m demanding information from him so we can protect our people when the federal government won’t! <a href="https://t.co/wsD4H6BSr6">pic.twitter.com/wsD4H6BSr6</a>
&mdash; Governor Brian P. Kemp (@GovKemp) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovKemp/status/1761470345674903780?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Also on Saturday, House Speaker Mike Johnson tweeted, “The brutal murderer who took the life of Laken was one of the millions of illegal aliens that the Biden Administration simply released and unleashed upon our country. For Laken, and the countless many others lost to this border catastrophe, House Republicans will continue to fight tooth and nail for a return to law and order.”
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Every parent, and every American, is saddened—and outraged—to hear about the loss of University of Georgia student Laken Riley. Our prayers are with her family and friends as they mourn this tragedy. 
The brutal murderer who took the life of Laken was one of the millions of… <a href="https://t.co/rlNr9J6sU4">https://t.co/rlNr9J6sU4</a>
&mdash; Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1761414113467437435?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) blasted Democrats during an interview over the weekend for prioritizing funding for Ukraine while neglecting fixing the &#8220;invasion&#8221; that is occurring on the U.S. southern border.
Rubio made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; while talking about bills to help fund Israel and Ukraine.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t oppose giving them the help that they need, especially in the case of Israel,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;And if you put the Israel thing up to a right now, it would pass. I don&#8217;t even know, maybe a couple of people would vote against it, but, basically, it would pass very quickly. The problem is, Israel is being held hostage so they could get Ukraine.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to explain to my constituents, I have to explain to the people of Florida, I have to explain to the American people because I&#8217;m a U.S. senator, and my number one obligation is America. If America is not strong, we can&#8217;t help any of our allies,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And I will have to explain to them why the Senate is going to work all through Super Bowl weekend, which is fine with me. we&#8217;re going to make a big priority, except on something that&#8217;s critical to this country, which is the invasion that&#8217;s going on, on our own border, on our own border.&#8221;
&#8220;According to a House committee and the documents and the statistics they put out — I think these numbers are low, but let&#8217;s just use them — 3.3 million people have been released into the country who arrived here illegally,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Over 600,000 of them either have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges against them.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, this is a huge problem and it has to be addressed and they put out a bill,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They can call it whatever they want. It wasn&#8217;t a border security bill. It wasn&#8217;t tough. And, frankly, it was negotiated by three people. I don&#8217;t begrudge it, but I wasn&#8217;t involved in that negotiation. I didn&#8217;t even ask for a bill. I asked for the president to reverse the executive orders that created this crisis when he took over in January of 2021.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jake-tapper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a> pressed Transportation Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pete-buttigieg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pete Buttigieg</a> about the Biden administration&#8217;s response to the Norfolk Southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio-train-disaster">train derailment</a> nearly a year after the toxic disaster in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/east-palestine">East Palestine</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ohio">Ohio</a>.
In an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/01/22/the-lead-pete-buttigieg-east-palestine-jake-tapper-live.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange that aired</a> on Monday, Tapper asked Buttigieg why calls for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-governor-asks-biden-for-east-palestine-disaster-declaration-150-days-after-train-derailment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">major disaster declaration</a> — including from Ohio Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-dewine">Mike DeWine</a> and <a href="https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/sherrod-brown-biden-administration-declare-east-palestine-derailment-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)</a> — that could unlock additional resources such as health screenings to residents are not being heeded by the federal government.
&#8220;The Biden administration refuses to do that,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;They say a disaster declaration does not apply because it&#8217;s not a natural disaster. They say Norfolk Southern is responsible. So is that disaster declaration still just off the table for these residents who are clearly suffering?&#8221;
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CNN: Why won&#39;t Biden approve the Ohio governor&#39;s disaster declaration for East Palestine, Ohio?
PETE BUTTIGIEG: &quot;I don&#39;t know all the legalities of the emergency management process&quot; <a href="https://t.co/5Dj6m6Em0q">pic.twitter.com/5Dj6m6Em0q</a>
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Buttigieg replied, &#8220;Look, leaving aside — I don&#8217;t know all the legalities of the emergency management process, I do know what we can do as a department to make sure that railroads are safer. We&#8217;ve been taking action on everything from focused inspection of railroads, to making sure that there&#8217;s better hazardous material-related regulations, to just investing in better railroad infrastructure.&#8221;
Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/09/20/executive-order-on-ensuring-the-people-of-east-palestine-are-protected-now-and-in-the-future/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> an executive order in September instructing FEMA to designate a federal disaster recovery coordinator to &#8220;oversee long-term recovery efforts in the affected communities and conduct a comprehensive assessment of unmet needs of the affected communities in recovering from the derailment beyond the cleanup work directed by EPA.&#8221; A coordinator, Jim McPherson, was <a href="https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/special-reports/train-derailment/fema-appoints-coordinator-recovery-efforts-east-palestine-toxic-train-derailment/95-1019191e-d9ce-463f-8373-0eec065caf91" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointed</a> later that month. But no <a href="https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/special-reports/train-derailment/biden-norfolk-southern-accountable-ohio-derailment/95-46dc5fca-9626-4c64-94b5-1c772a383854" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disaster declaration</a>.
Tapper also confronted Buttigieg on why Biden has not visited East Palestine since the derailment in early February of 2023 — a question which has been <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1748089612382134759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posed to the White House many times</a> over the past year, often answered by statements about how the president was planning to go at some point but did not get around to scheduling it.
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JAKE TAPPER: &quot;[Biden] still has not visited East Palestine, Ohio. I don&#39;t know why that is — that doesn&#39;t seem to make much sense to me &#8230; why wouldn&#39;t he just go to East Palestine?&quot;
BUTTIGIEG: &quot;I don&#39;t have any updates&quot; <a href="https://t.co/s7OWEghsI7">pic.twitter.com/s7OWEghsI7</a>
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Biden &#8220;still has not visited East Palestine, Ohio. I don&#8217;t know why that is — that doesn&#8217;t seem to make much sense to me,&#8221; the CNN anchor said. Tapper asked why Biden would not go to East Palestine and &#8220;use the bully pulpit&#8221; to get <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senators-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-improve-rail-safety-after-ohio-train-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan legislation</a> from Brown and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to increase railroad safety regulations passed through Congress.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any updates on the scheduling front for the White House but what I can tell you is it shouldn&#8217;t take anything more than we&#8217;ve already seen happen for Congress to act,&#8221; Buttigieg said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why we have to persuade anybody to do something that members in both parties claim to care about, which is to make our railroads safer.&#8221;

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CNN’s Tapper Confronts Buttigieg Over East Palestine Train Disaster

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper cut into former President Donald Trump&#8217;s victory speech — following Monday evening&#8217;s Iowa caucuses, which Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-projected-to-win-iowa-caucuses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">won decisively</a> — to complain about what he said was &#8220;anti-immigrant rhetoric.&#8221;
Trump, who finished the night with 51% of the vote — followed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) with 21% and former Governor Nikki Haley (R-SC) with 19% — gave a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-delivers-speech-after-win-in-iowa-caucuses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> from Des Moines, during which he addressed the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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CNN&#39;s Jake Tapper cuts away from former President Trump&#39;s Iowa victory speech immediately after he started talking about President Biden&#39;s border crisis. &quot;Here he is, right now, under my voice. You can hear him repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric,&quot; he decried. <a href="https://t.co/1FRLfyj62H">pic.twitter.com/1FRLfyj62H</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1747108987567251689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We&#8217;re going to seal up the border,&#8221; Trump said to applause. &#8220;Because right now we have an invasion. An invasion of millions and millions of people that are coming into our country. I can&#8217;t imagine why they think that&#8217;s a good thing &#8230;&#8221;
Tapper broke in then, speaking over the live feed from Des Moines, saying, &#8220;Donald Trump declaring victory with a historically strong showing in the Iowa Caucuses if these numbers hold — the biggest victory for a non-incumbent president in the modern era for this contest.&#8221;
&#8220;A relatively subdued speech as these things go so far, although here he is right now, under my voice, you hear him repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric,&#8221; Tapper continued.
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Much of Trump&#8217;s focus on the campaign trail has been aimed at the ongoing border crisis, which he says has only been exacerbated by President Joe Biden and his administration&#8217;s policies — an assertion that appears to have been borne out over and over again by month after month of record high border crossings.
According to the most recent data, more than <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-mike-johnson-jake-tapper-spar-over-border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">300,000 illegal immigrant</a> encounters were recorded at the border in the month of December alone — the highest one-month total on record — and thousands more migrants were believed to have crossed without being spotted.
Despite attempts from Democrats and media to assert otherwise — claiming that he is anti-immigrant across the board — former President Trump has been clear that his criticism is directed at the porous southern border and those who cross it illegally rather than at those who choose to come to the United States through legal channels.

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House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> sparred with CNN anchor Jake Tapper during a Wednesday afternoon segment addressing the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border and record-breaking number of illegal immigrants flowing across it on a daily basis.
Johnson began by rattling off a series of numbers — the number of people who have come across the border, the number of &#8220;known gotaways,&#8221; and the number who may have crossed the border without being apprehended. It wasn&#8217;t until he got to reports of terrorists crossing the border that Tapper pushed back.
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SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: Over 300 known terrorists apprehended at the border 
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&#8220;Jake, seven million people have come into the country since Biden walked into the Oval Office,&#8221; Johnson said from Eagle Pass, Texas. &#8220;And that&#8217;s a low estimate &#8212; most people believe it may be twice that high. We have nearly two million &#8216;gotaways&#8217; that we know about, not to mention those who evaded capture.&#8221;
&#8220;Over 300 known terrorists apprehended at the border, trying to come in,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We don&#8217;t know how many evaded capture and detection — they&#8217;re in the country, potentially setting up terrorist cells everywhere. Fentanyl is the number one cause of death for Americans aged 18-49, flowing over the border like an open sewer.&#8221;
&#8220;Human trafficking is the number one business of the cartels here,&#8221; Johnson added, noting that cartels were raking in billions of dollars — &#8220;$32 million a week,&#8221; according to a local sheriff — trafficking people across the border, and President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration was doing nothing to even slow them down.
Johnson suggested that there were a number of options Biden could implement, from executive orders to the reinstatement of the &#8220;Remain in Mexico&#8221; policy and the end of &#8220;catch and release,&#8221; that could help to stem the tide — but noted that so far, he did not seem interested.
&#8220;So, just one note on the terrorist thing,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;There aren&#8217;t hundreds of known terrorists getting into the country, there are people whose identity have been flagged on a certain database, I just don&#8217;t want people out there thinking that there are, you know, 200 members of Hamas have flown into the country and we don&#8217;t even know about it.&#8221;
What Tapper did not mention was the fact that the &#8220;certain database&#8221; he referenced has an official name: the Terrorist Screening Database — which is commonly referred to as the &#8220;Terror Watch List.&#8221;
And while it is true that no one can definitively say that everyone on that list is a terrorist, it is also not possible to say for sure that anyone on that list is not a terrorist without proper vetting — something that most can agree is not happening at the southern border.

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In a single tweet, best-selling author and news analyst Mark Levin shredded CNN’s Jake Tapper apart for his anti-Israel reporting.
Levin began by noting Tapper trying to bully an Israeli spokesman by saying, &#8220;There are a lot of innocent people being killed by bombs that Israel is raining down upon Gaza, and even if, as I know the IDF believes that Israel has killed 5,000 members of Hamas, that’s thousands of innocent people, including women and children, babies, that Israel has killed. Even if it’s an accident, even if it’s collateral damage, it’s a lot of innocent lives that have been killed by Israel.&#8221;
Then Levin went to work: “Tapper&#8217;s self-righteous moral outrage does not extend to all the countries around the world, and particularly in the Middle East, where civilians are being intentionally targeted for slaughter &#8212; from Syria and Iran, to Yemen and beyond. It does not extend to the several million Muslims in China who have been shipped to concentration camps where they are raped, tortured, and murdered. It does not extend to Russia, which is specifically targeting Ukrainian civilians for annihilation, killing tens of thousands of them. And on and on.”
He quoted Tapper claiming Israel is &#8220;raining bombs&#8221; down on Gaza, then fired, “No it is not. If Israel wanted to ‘rain bombs’ down on Gaza it would not be sending tens of thousands of its young men and women into Gaza, the IDF infantry, to fight street by street, house by house, room by room, thereby increasing Israeli casualties as it seeks to limit civilian casualties. It wouldn&#8217;t be dropping leaflets, sending text messages, dropping bump bombs, etc., warning Palestinians to get out of harms way.”
“Name another military on the face of the earth that does this,” he challenged Tapper. “Name another country on the face of the earth that would show such restraint after its girls were gang raped and executed, after its babies were decapitated, after over 100 of its citizens were taken hostage (from a 10 month old infant to an 89 year old Holocaust survivor), most of whom have been tortured and many of whom (the women and girls in particular) will not be returned so they can&#8217;t tell the world how they were horribly abused.”
“Israel must wipe out the Palestinian terrorists who name themselves Hamas, which was voted into power by the Palestinians in Gaza, who are overwhelmingly supported by the Palestinian civilians not only in Gaza but Judea and Samaria (according to a serious survey conducted a few weeks ago of the Palestinians in these areas), and who support the slaughter of Israeli Jews on Oct. 7 and their annihilation,” he declared, before turning back to Tapper: “Tapper has never gone through this report with his audience because he is pushing a narrative and projecting his own bigotry, which belie the report&#8217;s findings and, of course, what most serious observers have always known to be true. At no time does Tapper explain how he would destroy these terrorists without harming civilians, given that Hamas wants its own citizens killed in order to influence Tapper&#8217;s reporting (and the rest of American media).”
“The fact is that every death is on the head of Hamas, not the Israeli defense forces,” Levin wrote. “But Tapper continues to berate Israeli officials. He would just assume Israeli citizens face endless acts of terrorism, as they have since 1948 (and Jews have for thousands of years before), because that is the outcome if Israel does not destroy Hamas. Hamas itself has said it will never stop and that Oct. 7 was a dry run for worse. In other words, it is one thing to proclaim ‘Never Again,’ but when the Israeli Jews actually take affirmative steps to prevent future atrocities against themselves, they&#8217;re perpetrators and oppressors not better than the marauding terrorists who seek to wipe them out.”
“If Tapper and his ilk were serious journalists they would spend at least 10 percent of the time they use to attack Israel or 5 percent of the time they use to attack Donald Trump explaining that the Biden administration has waived sanctions against Iran, has continued funding UNRWA (which, in turn, funds Hamas, which the UN refuses to label a terrorist group), and continued funding the PLO (the Palestinian terrorist organization founded by Arafat), all terrorist and terrorist supporting entities,” he noted. “Biden saved the Iranian regime, their economy, and rearmed its military, despite the fact that it also sought to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers in Iraq. Biden is funding terrorism, directly and indirectly, and Iran is pouring money and armaments into Gaza and supporting terrorist operations in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, etc. to be used for the purpose of killing Israeli Jews (and others).”
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“Tapper&#8217;s small audience might benefit from this information rather than his constant self-righteous tirades and blaming the Israelis,” he continued. “Biden and Blinken blew up the Middle East as a direct result of their policies, and they blew up Trump&#8217;s policies which led to the Abraham Accords, Iran&#8217;s unraveling, Israeli-Saudi relations, and much more. Indeed, as Iran attacks American armed forces through proxies, thus far Biden has done nothing serious to punish that regime and protect our men and women.&#8221;
“But Tapper hates Trump, he supports Biden and the Democrat Party, and the disastrous foreign policy of Obama that continues to this day through his former staffers in the Biden regime,” Levin asserted. “Tapper is not a serious journalist. He has a long resume of working for Democrats and Democrat causes, and a media background that includes working with a radical left-wing media website ‘Salon.’ His true purpose is to provide propaganda for the Left, to stop Israel from winning a war it did not start, to turn Israeli restraint into Israeli oppression and barbarism, and ‘cover the war’ through the lens of the perpetrators. And he does it with sanctimony and self-righteousness, and under cover of a so-called news organization, CNN.”
He concluded, “Of course, like the rest of the media, he denounces what happened on Oct. 7 and Hamas, but then condemns Israel for trying to prevent a future Oct. 7 the only way it truly can, by defeating a monstrous enemy that commits war crimes as a purposeful strategy for destroying a democracy and civil society generally. If Oct. 7 doesn&#8217;t prove this point to someone like Tapper and the pro-Hamas protestors in our colleges and streets, and Hamas&#8217;s own mission statement underscores it all, than nothing will. Tapper&#8217;s sympathy for Israelis ended soon after Oct. 7, as he and his network predictably turned against the Israeli defenders, as they have in the past &#8212; indeed, as most of the rest of the American media have. Now, they use moral equivalency or worse to push their narrative and project their agenda. Thankfully, the media do not represent the American people. They represent a small but powerful group of self-appointed elitists and leftists, who can be counted on to root against Israel as they root against America. Israel will survive if it rejects these media reprobates and the suicidal demands of the Biden regime.”
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CNN&#39;s Jake Tapper said, in part, the following to an Israeli spokesman: &quot; There are a lot of innocent people being killed by bombs that Israel is raining down upon Gaza, and even if, as I know the IDF believes that Israel has killed 5,000 members of…
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CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper made false claims over the weekend about remarks that X owner Elon Musk made on the social media platform last week.
Tapper made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis while pushing the Republican presidential candidate to condemn Musk for the remarks.
Tapper claimed that Musk &#8220;openly endorsed&#8221; an &#8220;antisemitic conspiracy theory that Jews are conspiring to replace white Americans with minority immigrants.&#8221;
When DeSantis said that he had not seen the comments but he knew that Musk had been a target of the political Left ever since he bought Twitter, Tapper responded by showing DeSantis only a portion of Musk&#8217;s comments on the matter.
The controversy started when Musk responded to the following post on X:
<blockquote>Okay. Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. I&#8217;m deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest s**t now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don&#8217;t exactly like them too much. You want truth said to your face, there it is.</blockquote>
&#8220;You have said the actual truth,&#8221; Musk responded.
Tapper claimed that Musk later went on to say he was &#8220;talking about the ADL and other Jewish groups are pushing replacements of whites.&#8221;
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DeSantis responded by refusing to condemn Musk, telling Tapper that he would not do so because, &#8220;I have no idea what the context is.&#8221;
&#8220;I know Elon Musk. I have never seen him do anything [like that],&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s a guy that believes in America. I have never seen him indulge in any of that. So it&#8217;s surprising, if that&#8217;s true, but I have not seen it. So I don&#8217;t want to sit there and pass judgment on the fly.&#8221;
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Such a pathetic hack move by <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> going after <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> here and then trying to loop <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> into it.
Masterclass answer by RD, as usual.
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Nowhere in the post that Musk was responding to was there an explicit anti-Semitic conspiracy theory involving &#8220;pushing replacements of white.&#8221;
Tapper did not read Musk&#8217;s several follow-up posts, including where he said, &#8220;The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat. It is not right and needs to stop.&#8221;
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The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. 
This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.
It is not right and needs to stop.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724932619203420203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You (sic) right that this does not extend to all Jewish communities, but it is also not just limited to ADL,&#8221; Musk later added. &#8220;And, at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind. I’m sick of it. Stop now.&#8221;
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And, at the risk of being repetitive, I am deeply offended by ADL’s messaging and any other groups who push de facto anti-white racism or anti-Asian racism or racism of any kind.
I’m sick of it. Stop now.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1724934935943979269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ben Shapiro, founding editor-in-chief and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” defended Musk on his show last week over the controversy, saying that Musk &#8220;made a rather large Twitter boo boo&#8221; because he was not specific enough with what he was talking about in his initial post.
&#8220;So it is true, obviously, that certain Jewish organizations have bought into and promoted things like diversity, equity, and inclusion, which are gross distortions of the American dream,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;Nobody hates DEI more than I do. There are certain Jewish groups that are liberal in orientation, who have supported that sort of stuff. Many of those groups have also pushed for open borders. It is also true that some of those organizations are now realizing post-October 7, that actually open immigration for people who hate Jews on an intersectional basis was pretty stupid. The problem with the original tweet is that it labels Jewish communities en masse. So my community, for example, pretty Jewish, has always opposed DEI and open borders. In fact, most Orthodox communities do.&#8221;
Shapiro then went on to read Musk&#8217;s follow-up tweets, something that Tapper did not do, where Musk was more specific about what he was talking about.
&#8220;That&#8217;s a much more specific point and it&#8217;s certainly true,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;There are a lot of liberal Jewish organizations that supported a lot of the same policies that have now imported a lot of people who really hate Jews and Westerners into the West. And a lot of the very same people who are pushing DEI intersectional politics are now realizing the wages of that. That&#8217;s true. The original tweet was wildly overbroad, but a huge number of people in the media decided now was the time to link Musk and the alt-right, and the so called &#8216;Jewish question&#8217; and support the notion that Musk is some sort of crypto Nazi.&#8221;
&#8220;Now it&#8217;s not a coincidence again, that a lot of the people doing just that are happily calling for Israel to ceasefire in its war with Hamas,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;See, very often anti semitism becomes a political football, when you can hang the label on Donald Trump or Elon Musk and you&#8217;re on the Left, you do it. However, when you&#8217;re forced to denounce pro-Hamas protesters shouting, &#8216;from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free,&#8217; suddenly they get a little shy. Thus the same media leaping on both Trump and Musk has been downplaying the open Jew hatred and massive pro Hamas protests around the world, instead propagating lies about Israel&#8217;s supposed human rights violations.&#8221;
&#8220;Instead, they&#8217;re focusing in on their political enemies like Trump and Musk and deeming them the Acolytes of Hitler,&#8221; he concluded in the clip, which Musk shared on X. &#8220;Meanwhile, the actual Hitler acolytes who were out there waving Mein Kampf, they&#8217;re like, &#8216;Those people are oppressed and brown&#8217;. It might have more bite to hit Trump and Musk for supposed anti semitism if these people actually spent some actual time talking about the people who actually like Hitler on planet Earth, who are right now holding some 240 Jews and others hostage in Gaza and killed 1,200 people and have subjected the Gaza Strip to complete hellish tyranny for the last 20 years. But a lot of these same people are totally silent.&#8221;
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Former Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/liz-cheney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Cheney</a> (R-WY) said on Sunday she would not rule out a presidential run.
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not,&#8221; Cheney said after being asked by anchor Jake Tapper in an interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221;
Moments earlier, Tapper pressed Cheney on whether she would vote for President Joe Biden over former President Donald Trump.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a>: But you&#39;re not ruling out a presidential run?<a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Liz_Cheney</a>: No, I&#39;m not.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/tIcYK7dAUD">pic.twitter.com/tIcYK7dAUD</a>
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&#8220;We&#8217;re going to see what happens. We&#8217;re going to see how things unfold,&#8221; Cheney said.
Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, called Trump a &#8220;threat&#8221; and said she would &#8220;imagine that there will be a number of other candidates in the race.&#8221;
She also said Biden is more effective on the international stage than Trump, but Cheney conceded that she thought Biden&#8217;s withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan was &#8220;probably the biggest mistake that we made post-9/11.&#8221;
Trump is running a 2024 campaign for a second term in the White House and has <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2024/president/us/2024_republican_presidential_nomination-7548.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dominated</a> Republican presidential nomination polls in a field with several other candidates. If he prevails in the primary contest, Trump is poised to have a 2020 rematch against Biden.
Cheney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-liz-cheney-destroyed-in-wyoming-gop-primary-trump-responds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost</a> her primary last year to now-Rep. Harriet Hageman, who was endorsed by Trump, after establishing herself as a top foe of the &#8220;MAGA&#8221; movement and serving as vice chairwoman of the January 6 Committee.
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The former lawmaker said she is &#8220;definitely&#8221; going to spend next year helping to elect &#8220;serious&#8221; and &#8220;sane&#8221; people in both major parties to Congress.
&#8220;We have got to elect people who believe in the Constitution and who take their responsibility seriously to Congress,&#8221; Cheney said.
Cheney was once the third-ranking Republican in the House, but acknowledged that she does not carry so much sway in the current GOP conference. On the topic of the GOP-led House finding a new speaker, Cheney demurred.
&#8220;I hesitate to endorse anybody because I think that won&#8217;t be helpful for them,&#8221; Cheney said.
After leaving Congress, Cheney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/liz-cheney-lands-on-her-feet-with-gig-at-university-of-virginia">landed</a> a position as a professor of politics at the University of Virginia earlier this year and has been working on a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/20/liz-cheney-book-cover-new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> that is due out in December.
Cheney told Tapper the book would offer a &#8220;cautionary tale&#8221; on how the Republican conference embraced Trump.

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Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said during an interview over the weekend that the reason that Arab nations did not want to take Palestinian refugees into their countries was because they could not vet them and they did not want terrorists living in their countries.
Haley made the remarks during a Sunday interview with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; when asked about the hundreds of thousands of people being displaced as a result of Hamas&#8217; terrorist attacks against Israel.
The Republican presidential candidate noted that Hamas was doing everything they could to prevent civilians from leaving their homes because they use those people as shields in an effort to prevent Israeli airstrikes.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t ever forget what Hamas did. Don&#8217;t ever forget those girls running for their life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever forget those babies that were killed in cribs. Don&#8217;t ever forget the people that they were dragging through the streets. And what were they saying, Jake? They were saying, &#8216;Death to Israel, death to America.'&#8221;
&#8220;I dealt with this at the United Nations. You&#8217;re going to hear all of those Arab countries vilify Israel for what&#8217;s about to happen,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We should care about the Palestinian citizens, especially the innocent ones, because they didn&#8217;t ask for this. But where are the Arab countries? Where are they? Where is Qatar? Where is Lebanon? Where is Jordan? Where is Egypt? Do you know we give Egypt over a billion dollars a year? Why aren&#8217;t they opening the gates? Why aren&#8217;t they taking the Palestinians?&#8221;
&#8220;You know why? Because they know they can&#8217;t vet them, and they don&#8217;t want Hamas in their neighborhood,&#8221; she added. &#8220;So why would Israel want them in their neighborhood? So let&#8217;s be honest with what&#8217;s going on. The Arab countries aren&#8217;t doing anything to help the Palestinians because they don&#8217;t trust who is right, who is good, who is evil, and they don&#8217;t want it in their country.&#8221;
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CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper confronted Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) over the weekend about whether his &#8220;personal animus&#8221; against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was behind his drive to oust him from his position.
Gaetz said during interviews on Sunday that he intends to file a motion to remove McCarthy as speaker because he claims that McCarthy — who has had to operate with a razor-thin majority — did not keep his word with some House conservatives.
CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper asked Gaetz on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; what his motivation was for trying to give McCarthy the boot.
&#8220;Last question for you, because the reason you talk about this being about the issue and not animus, because there are a lot of people, a lot of House Republicans who think that there is this personal animus between you and Speaker McCarthy,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;And I just have to ask you, how much do you blame Speaker McCarthy for the fact that you are under investigation by the House Ethics Committee? How much is that part of what&#8217;s going on here?&#8221;
Gaetz responded: &#8220;Not at all.&#8221;
&#8220;Jake, I am the most investigated man in the United States Congress,&#8221; Gaetz continued. &#8220;I have been cleared by the DOJ, the FEC by a 5-0 vote. And the people who spread criminal lies about me are sitting in federal prison right now. So, I&#8217;m fine being investigated by anyone and everyone.&#8221;
Tapper then said he had &#8220;seen personal communications between you and other people in which you blame McCarthy for your ethics investigation.&#8221;
Gaetz responded that he made those remarks after McCarthy publicly stated that he believed Gaetz was seeking to remove him because of the House Ethics investigation.
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&#8220;But here&#8217;s the thing, Jake, I&#8217;m not alone,&#8221; Gaetz said. &#8220;People can say this is a party of one. I have tens of millions of Americans who stand with me on this. And I have a requisite number of House Republicans, a sufficient number, to ensure that we don&#8217;t own Kevin McCarthy anymore.&#8221;
&#8220;By week&#8217;s end, he will either not be speaker or he will be speaker serving at the pleasure of House Democrats,&#8221; he concluded.
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Jake Tapper conducted an interview with Chris Christie the other day. He asked him a question that a lot of people in the Left-leaning media constantly ask: Do Republicans have an authoritarian problem? 
Authoritarianism is not what people in the media think it is. They think authoritarianism is Donald Trump tweeting. But there are many forms of authoritarianism. In fact, fascism is an element of both Left and Right. It is not merely a Right-wing action. Authoritarianism can just as easily be implemented by a series of executive orders that go outside the Constitution, that radically re-shift the balance between people in the government, something Joe Biden does with alacrity. 
Tapper told Christie, “There was a column in ‘The Philadelphia Inquirer’ by a progressive journalist named Will Bunch talking about how he thought the news media was doing a disservice to the public by not frankly and candidly describing what he views as an authoritarian streak going on in the Republican Party. You haven&#8217;t read the column I assume so I&#8217;m not even going to ask you about it. But you do describe the conduct of Donald Trump trying to overturn the election as reprehensible. You do condemn it?”
Christie: “Yeah.”
“But so many people in your party, and I&#8217;m not just talking about people running for president or on Capitol Hill, but I mean voters, Republican voters, don&#8217;t seem to have a problem with it,” Tapper declared. “And I&#8217;m wondering, do you think that your party has an authoritarian problem? That they really honestly don&#8217;t have a problem with violently trying to stop a free and fair election from going — going forward?” 
 
“No, Jake, I absolutely don&#8217;t think that we have that problem,” Christie responded. “I think what we have is a Donald Trump problem. And that right now what&#8217;s gone on is that people view Donald Trump synonymously with the Republican Party. And that if you oppose Trump, that is somehow favoring Biden. And many Republicans don&#8217;t want to do that for very obvious reasons.”
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It is true that for many Republicans, Trump is seen as synonymous with the Republican Party. And if you tell people it&#8217;s either Biden or the Republican Party, a lot of people are going to vote Republican. But what&#8217;s insulting to the intelligence is this generalized narrative that the media are constantly drawing, in which they suggest that fascism or authoritarianism or tyranny is an element of the Right, and the Left is completely free, that their hands are completely clean.</h4>
It&#8217;s obviously not true. The truth is that fascism as an ideology is closer to the American Left than it is to the American Right. Fascism is an ideology that was generalized in response to communism, but it drew from Marxism, Hegelian politics, and progressive-era ideas, which is why many of the early supporters of Mussolini were members of the Left, including people who had worked in Woodrow Wilson’s administration who went on to work in the FDR administration.
But the media feels free to lie, saying that the Right is universally authoritarian and the Left is for freedom.
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CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper grilled White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> on Tuesday about recent polling that shows the majority of Americans are concerned about President Joe Biden being 80 years old.
“77% of adults are worried,” Tapper said in reference to the Associated Press poll.
“What did you make of it the other day when former ambassador and Governor Nikki Haley said that President Biden is – I’m paraphrasing here but – something along the lines of degrading before our eyes, and that ultimately, Vice President Kamala Harris will be president in a second term?”
Jean-Pierre claimed that she couldn&#8217;t respond to the question because of the Hatch Act, saying: 
“I’m not going to respond directly to Nikki Haley.&#8221; She later touted some of Biden&#8217;s alleged accomplishments.
Tapper pushed back by noting that he was asking her about Biden&#8217;s age and whether he had the stamina and the ability to do the job at such an advanced age.
&#8220;And you’re talking about the record, and I understand why you’d rather talk about the record,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But I’m talking about what Americans see when they turn on the TV and they see, you know, Joe Biden’s been in politics literally since before you were born. And like, he’s aged, as we all do. I’m not saying he’s not able to walk.&#8221;
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“He’s 80,” Tapper added. “I think the average age of the American male only lives to be 77 or something.”
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