Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a failed vice presidential candidate in last year&#8217;s election, blurted out a deflection when pressed on Sunday about President Joe Biden running for re-election until a fumbling debate performance and pressure from within the party pushed him out of the race.
On CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; anchor Jake Tapper asked, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you think your party needs to acknowledge that President Biden was not up for the job of running for re-election and that this was a major mistake by the —&#8221;
Walz interrupted, exclaiming, &#8220;He made that decision!&#8221;
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Tapper: Don’t you think your party needs to take responsibility for running Biden when he was clearly not up for the job?
Walz: We may have made a &quot;mistake,&quot; but let me tell you about Trump. <a href="https://t.co/cShWilmbV8">pic.twitter.com/cShWilmbV8</a>
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Tapper said, &#8220;I know.&#8221; He went on to explain: &#8220;You all went along with the idea that he was up for it. And he wasn&#8217;t. And everybody saw it, and the country rejected it.&#8221;
A brief pause ensued before Waltz shrugged it off.
&#8220;Yea, well, I — look, history will tell us to go back on that. That very well could be the case, Jake. What I&#8217;m concerned about is learning from those lessons. I would hope we would never do it again, make a mistake. Make sure we go through and get someone. But I don&#8217;t know where it helps us going forward.&#8221;
Walz then went on to criticize President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs.
After the debate, Biden left the 2024 contest amid pressure from allies concerned about his age, mental acuity, and fitness to lead. Vice President Kamala Harris took Biden&#8217;s place on the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential ticket, and Walz became her running mate. Together, Harris and Walz lost every battleground state and the election to Trump.
Walz recently made some public appearances in which he said said the Democrats got into a &#8220;mess&#8221; for not being &#8220;bold enough&#8221; in explaining and defending their &#8220;woke,&#8221; immigration, and DEI policies.
When pressed on his critique, Walz defended the Democratic Party’s immigration stance, describing it as an effort to reach bipartisan consensus. He claimed that critics were distorting other issues. However, he admitted that Democrats had grown overly &#8220;timid&#8221; and did not &#8220;pass things that improved people&#8217;s lives&#8221; when in power.
Walz later acknowledged, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m the best spokesperson to do it after just losing an election.&#8221; The governor also commented on his assertion last month that the 2024 campaign he was part of had been too <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/tim-walz-2024-presidential-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cautious</a>, stating, &#8220;I&#8217;m criticizing myself. I own this. I&#8217;m part of the ticket. And somebody has to come up with a strategy.&#8221;

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‘He Made That Decision!’ Tim Walz Snaps Over Biden Question

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Tim Walz

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper was quick to spin the margin of victory for Florida&#8217;s former Chief Financial Officer Jim Patronis, who won the seat vacated by former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Tuesday.
Gaetz, who was initially tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as Attorney General, withdrew his nomination for the post — but not before he resigned his seat in the House of Representatives. But when Patronis was projected to win the seat on Tuesday, CNN&#8217;s Tapper was quick to point out that his margin of victory would not come close to Gaetz&#8217;s 37-point margin in November of 2024.
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You know things are bad for the Democrats when they&#39;re celebrating double digit losses in Congressional races.
&quot;He is going to win, we&#39;re projecting a win for him [Patronis]. But Dana, it&#39;s not a 35 point win.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/xWhxjltMVU">pic.twitter.com/xWhxjltMVU</a>
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&#8220;Patronis is a strong candidate,&#8221; Tapper said, before adding, &#8220;And he is — he&#8217;s going to win, we&#8217;re projecting a win for him — but Dana, it&#8217;s not a 35-point win that it should be in ruby red panhandle Florida.&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re exactly right,&#8221; fellow anchor Dana Bash agreed. &#8220;And it is the whole question of the margins, Jake, that is what Democrats have been looking at all night.&#8221;
Critics pointed out that Tapper was trying to spin a double-digit loss as some kind of a win for Democrats.
&#8220;CNN is always funny to watch on election night when Republican are winning!&#8221; Brigitte Gabriel posted.
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CNN is always funny to watch on election night when Republican are winning!
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Others pointed out that Patronis&#8217; race — and the other Florida race to fill the seat vacated by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz — were special elections held alongside municipal elections and, therefore, required a different calculus when looking at what the margins of victory might mean.
Special elections often see much lower turnout — and that can lead to slimmer margins of victory and even upsets in the final results.
In 2017, a very <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/special-house-elections-trump-era-opposing-party/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">similar scene</a> played out in Kansas after President Donald Trump nominated then-Congressman Mike Pompeo to serve as his CIA Director. Despite Pompeo winning his seat the previous November by a comfortable 31 points, his replacement Ron Estes was only able to eke out a six-point victory. In 2020, Estes won the same seat by 27 points. He won by 27 points again in 2022, and by 30 points in 2024.

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CNN Spins Margin In Effort To Downplay Republican Win In Florida

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper is co-authoring a book with Axios correspondent Alex Thompson detailing the “cover-up” of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s “serious decline,” CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/media/joe-biden-book-jake-tapper-alex-thompson/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Wednesday.
The book, titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” pins the blame on Biden and his family for being &#8220;part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents,&#8221; according to the book&#8217;s publisher, Penguin Press. Tapper co-hosted Biden&#8217;s disastrous June 2024 debate against Donald Trump, which eventually led to Biden&#8217;s exit from the presidential race, while Thompson reported on the debate fallout and the White House&#8217;s attempts to keep Biden in the 2024 contest.
“What you will learn makes President Biden’s decision to run for reelection seem shockingly narcissistic, self-delusional, and reckless — a desperate bet that went bust — and part of a larger act of extended public deception that has few precedents,” Penguin said in a press release, adding that Biden, &#8220;his family, and his senior aides were so convinced that only he could beat Trump again, they lied to themselves, allies, and the public about his condition and limitations.”
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ORIGINAL SIN, now available for pre-order at <a href="https://t.co/a9TcEIjAnV">https://t.co/a9TcEIjAnV</a> from <a href="https://twitter.com/penguinpress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Penguinpress</a>. Been working hard on this with <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexThomp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlexThomp</a>, from interviews with more than 200 WH insiders, Dem leaders, and more. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OriginalSinBook?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OriginalSinBook</a> <a href="https://t.co/e7hd4bqNHM">pic.twitter.com/e7hd4bqNHM</a>
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In the book, Tapper and Thompson examine what they call Biden&#8217;s &#8220;original sin&#8221; — his decision to run for a second term at 81 years old. &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; will be released on May 20.
The book announcement was blasted by conservatives on social media, who argued that Tapper and Thompson were part of the legacy media&#8217;s cover-up of Biden&#8217;s mental decline. Before Biden&#8217;s catastrophic debate performance against Trump, both Tapper and Thompson criticized conservatives for pointing out clear signs that the former president&#8217;s mental capabilities were going downhill.
During the 2020 campaign, Tapper came to Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/jaketapper/status/1318570778468777984" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defense</a> multiple times when Republicans criticized him for struggling during his campaign speeches. In January 2020, Tapper <a href="https://x.com/jaketapper/status/1218211112195362818" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reposted</a> a clip of Lara Trump saying she felt &#8220;kind of sad for Biden&#8221; for struggling to &#8220;get the words out.&#8221; Tapper commented on Trump&#8217;s remarks on social media, writing, &#8220;Whatever you think of @JoeBiden and his politics, worth reading this remarkable piece about his stutter,&#8221; and linking to an Atlantic article that argued that voters should &#8220;be more understanding&#8221; of Biden&#8217;s gaffes because &#8220;he’s still fighting a stutter.&#8221;
In June 2023, Thompson wrote a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/06/18/biden-god-save-the-queen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a> for Axios on &#8220;Biden&#8217;s weird words&#8221; and defended the former president&#8217;s &#8220;unique phrases&#8221; from Republican attacks.
&#8220;Biden’s quirky aphorisms are sometimes weaponized by Republicans to insinuate the 80-year-old president is in mental decline,&#8221; Thompson wrote. &#8220;But Biden has been using unique phrases for years — but even some of his aides aren&#8217;t exactly sure what he means by them.&#8221; Thompson added, &#8220;There are legitimate questions about Biden&#8217;s age and stamina as he runs for a second term — but his off-beat proverbs are just Biden being Biden.&#8221;

Jake Tapper, Who Ignored Signs Of Biden’s Decline, Releasing Book On The ‘Cover-Up’

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-kaine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Kaine</a> (D-VA) was asked over the weekend why the Democrat Party has become so deeply unpopular among voters.
Kaine was asked the question during a Sunday interview with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; after new polling from last week showed that Democrats are more unpopular now than they have ever been.
&#8220;You see there this is Quinnipiac poll; 57 percent of the American people have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, only 31 percent favorable,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;This is the worst number for the Democratic Party since Quinnipiac University began asking the question. And it&#8217;s not an outlier. A recent CNN poll found a 33-year low favorable rating with the Democratic Party.&#8221;
&#8220;Why is your party so staggeringly unpopular with the public?&#8221; he asked.
Kaine claimed he did not know what happens in the other 49 states, just Virginia.
&#8220;We focus on the economy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is what we do in Virginia. And I think, sometimes, national Democrats don&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s just that so often, Democratic candidates don&#8217;t emphasize that,&#8221; he later added.
&#8220;And so, yes, the American public looks at standard campaigns,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They don&#8217;t see Democrats advertising on the economy, which is their principal concern, and so they have wonders about us. Let&#8217;s return to the bread-and-butter basics that people want to really focus on.&#8221;
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WATCH: Jake Tapper asks Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine why Democrats are so unpopular.
“57 percent of the American people have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party, only 31 percent favorable. This is the worst number for the Democratic Party since Quinnipiac University began… <a href="https://t.co/aUkY60bEkX">pic.twitter.com/aUkY60bEkX</a>
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WATCH: Tim Kaine Is Asked Why Democrats Are So Unpopular

Democratic Party

On Tuesday night, President Trump&#8217;s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, repeatedly countered CNN’s Jake Tapper&#8217;s attempts to vilify Trump’s order to pause federal funds.
Prior to the interview, Tapper spoke of the order, asserting, “We&#8217;re pushing for answers,” then conjectured that the order would hurt vulnerable people in society, saying:
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It is a freeze or a pause on hundreds of billions of dollars appropriated by Congress and spent by the federal government on things such as, well, school breakfast and lunch programs that feed more than 10 million children, and Section Eight housing assistance that helps pay the rent for more than 9 million people.  The majority of them, we should note, are seniors, children or those with a disability, or grants from the EPA to states and localities to ensure that they have clean drinking water or Head Start programs that serve nearly 800,000 low income children from birth to age five. And of course, Meals on Wheels, which feeds more than 2 million seniors who have no other means of purchasing or preparing meals.
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Tapper then asked Miller, “Let&#8217;s just walk through this because obviously there&#8217;s confusion. Is this pause going to affect Medicaid?”
Miller responded with a straightforward answer: “It does not affect any service that the government is required to provide, does not affect any entitlement, does not affect any service to citizens, does not affect any individual benefit, any public assistance program or anything of that nature.”
Miller then offered an example of the misuse of government funds: &#8220;We found after the president had issued a pause on funding to NGOs that were settling illegal immigrants, we found that bureaucrats at HHS were trying to funnel billions of more dollars to those resettlement agencies and try to get around the executive order. It became clear that bureaucrats were still trying to funnel unapproved discretionary grants of funds to their pet projects. So OMB, led by Russ Vought felt it was necessary to protect taxpayer resources to issue clearer guidance establishing for these discretionary grants of funding that are not directed by Congress that they go through a political approval process at the agency.&#8221;
Despite Miller having just laid out a salient reason for the pause, Tapper asked, “First of all, why a pause? An investigation &#8212; sure, I get that. Auditing, sure. Why a pause?”
“Well, Jake, once you spend money, you can&#8217;t get it back,” Miller explained. &#8220;So in other words, if you don&#8217;t put federal programs under review that are wasteful or harmful to taxpayers, and then people hit send &#8230; you wouldn&#8217;t believe the payments we&#8217;ve had to pause over the last few days with bureaucrats trying to funnel money out of the door, to funnel money to the World Health Organization, funnel money to resettlement organizations, funnel money to foreign countries.&#8221; For that reason, Miller said, &#8220;of course, you have to put a pause on these discretionary grants of funding and have a political review process.&#8221;
Miller underscored that &#8220;the review process does not include any public benefit programs,&#8221; including Meals on Wheels.
“OMB has been clear about this. Jake, we have to get control over this government,” Miller said bluntly. “You know, I&#8217;ll just say on this point about NGOs, nongovernmental organizations, Joe Biden gave just one NGO responsible for resettling illegal aliens, $3 billion with a B, $3 billion. President Trump, when he said drain the swamp, he meant it. And yes. So those kinds of spending programs are going to be put under review.”
Miller then highlighted the political affiliations of the current bureaucracy. “There&#8217;s two million employees in the federal government, overwhelmingly the career federal service in this country is far-left, left-wing,&#8221; he said.
“I don&#8217;t know that to be a fact,” Tapper interjected.
“Well, I&#8217;ll give you a great example,&#8221; Miller replied. &#8220;We looked at USAID as an example. Ninety-eight percent, 98 percent of the workforce either donated to Kamala Harris or another left-wing candidate, just as an example.&#8221;
“You&#8217;re demonizing an entire workforce as having a–,&#8221; Tapper pronounced.
“Wait, wait,” Miller countered. “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Did you just say that, saying someone voted for Kamala Harris is demonizing them?”
“No,” Tapper claimed. “So your suggestion is that there&#8217;s a bias.”
“No,” Miller answered. “But you use the word &#8216;demonizing.&#8217; You just said that I&#8217;m demonizing somebody by saying they voted for Kamala Harris.”
Tapper scrambled to regain control, insisting, “Let&#8217;s get back on track.”
“I am on track,” Miller said. &#8220;What I&#8217;m saying to you is this, there are two million employees in the federal government. &#8230; They&#8217;re overwhelmingly left of center &#8230; The American people voted for dramatic change implemented by Donald Trump. So it is essential for him to get control of government, to establish a whole of government process for Donald Trump&#8217;s political appointees, to review discretionary grants of spending for pet projects that are not directed by Congress. In other words, these are pots of money where Congress hasn&#8217;t said how to spend it or where to spend it. This might be something like saying, I want to build a $500 million fountain in the courtyard of the Department of Commerce. This might be something like saying, I want to fund gender studies in Afghanistan. There has to be political control and review.&#8221;
Miller then slammed the media for deliberately characterizing the OMB guidance as confusing, saying, &#8220;I can&#8217;t help it if left-wing media outlets published a fake news story that caused confusion.”
“Does anyone believe that an unaccountable career-tenured bureaucrat should be able to approve vast sums of money for the projects that they personally agree with, that no accountable employee in the federal government has reviewed?&#8221; Miller asked.
“We always knew that the media was going to spin up fake stories, to try to create controversy, to try to create scandal,” Miller concluded, then slyly added, “I&#8217;m not saying you, Jake. I would never say you.”
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Stephen Miller Torches Jake Tapper Over Trump Funding Freeze, ‘Far-Left’ Bureaucracy

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CNN anchor Jake Tapper appeared concerned about the spread of “disinformation” online and how that could impact the next election just days after his network was found guilty of defamation.
During CNN’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, Tapper focused on a group of tech executives that have grown closer to Trump since the president’s November victory. One of those executives, X CEO Elon Musk, was instrumental in Trump’s victory.
Other executives who have made peace with the president include Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Tapper’s emphasis on the influence those men will have on information and elections comes as his own network just suffered a blow to its own credibility after losing a $5 million defamation case.
Tapper showed a photo of those executives minus Musk in St. John’s Church for a Monday morning service and remarked on the influence the group has over the spread of information.
“Those five people that I just mentioned – the four in the photograph and also Elon Musk – control so much of the information that we receive. So much is in their hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring, or refusing to monitor what is real, what is not real,” Tapper said.
“We&#8217;re about to enter an era of deepfakes and all sorts of misinformation, and the degree to which those five gentlemen play a role or do not play a role will be pivotal in terms of where the American people are four years from now in terms of understanding what is true and what is false,” he continued.
Tapper’s colleague, anchor Anderson Cooper, emphasized that the tech titans are “the gatekeepers, in many ways, to information for the entire planet.”
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WATCH: CNN&#39;s Jake Tapper melts down at the fact X&#39;s Elon Musk, Meta&#39;s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon&#39;s Jeff Bezos, Apple&#39;s Tim Cook, and Google&#39;s Sundar Pichai attended the inauguration church service with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>: 
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On Friday, CNN <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cnn-found-liable-for-defaming-u-s-navy-veteran-in-afghanistan-evacuation-story-619ed824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled</a> a defamation case brought by veteran Zachary Young over a segment the network aired in 2021 on Young’s efforts to extract people from Afghanistan during the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal. The segment portrayed Young as a pariah, according to the lawsuit.
A Florida jury agreed with Young and found that CNN had defamed the veteran and that the veteran should be awarded $5 million. The jurors were debating extra punitive damages to be paid out by the network when CNN and Young settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of money.
CNN said in a statement after the settlement that it would “take what useful lessons we can from this case.”
Young’s attorney, Devin Freedman, said: “We are very happy with the result. We cleared our client’s name, held CNN to account, and then settled to avoid protracted appeals.”
Tapper has a record of controversial statements against Trump that at best blur and at worst cross the line between objective journalism and partisan commentary. In 2020, the CNN anchor repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-jake-tapper-repeatedly-mocks-trumps-children-as-spawn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to Trump’s children derisively as his “spawn.” Also that year, Tapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-jake-tapper-mocks-trump-the-single-most-negative-sleazy-campaign-in-american-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Trump’s presidential campaign “the single most negative, sleazy campaign in American history for a major party candidate.”

Jake Tapper Worries About Disinformation In Future Elections. CNN Just Lost A $5M Defamation Case

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Sunday&#8217;s narrative focused primarily on the terrorist attack that took place last week in New Orleans — along with a concerted effort to drive conversation away from the terror risk posed by the open southern border and toward the threat of homegrown terrorism.
As soon as it was clear that the truck attack in New Orleans had been motivated by radical Islamist ideology — coupled with conflicting reports about the truck that was used and whether it had recently crossed the border — a number, President-elect Donald Trump among them, pointed to the porous border and questioned whether more such attacks might be possible or even imminent.
But Democrats and legacy media were quick to put distance on the topic of the border and the crisis that has unfolded there under the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s lax policies — and they emphasized the fact that at least in this particular case, the perpetrator was an American citizen who had been radicalized.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas raised the question of how exactly the New Orleans terror suspect had been radicalized — specifically, whether ISIS had recruited him or he had come to them.
&#8220;The main focus of the investigation right now: trying to figure out if the suspect was radicalized on his own or if someone from ISIS directed him in anyway,&#8221; Thomas told anchor George Stephanopoulos.
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“The main focus of the investigation right now: trying to figure out if the suspect was radicalized on his own or if someone from ISIS directed him in anyway.” <a href="https://t.co/8o1oMWvGZN">https://t.co/8o1oMWvGZN</a> <a href="https://t.co/dhsDNS4kDu">pic.twitter.com/dhsDNS4kDu</a>
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas doubled down on that narrative, saying outright that the border was not part of the problem, at least in this current case.
&#8220;The assailant who perpetrated the terrorist attack in New Orleans was born in the United States, raised in the United States and served in our armed forces. It is not an issue of the border,&#8221; he said.
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He went on to add that officials had noted a &#8220;significant increase&#8221; in &#8220;homegrown violent extremism&#8221; in recent years, specifically over the last decade.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a very difficult threat landscape,&#8221; he said.
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Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas tells George Stephanopoulos that officials have seen a “significant increase” over the last 10 years in “homegrown violent extremism.”
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also addressed the idea of violent extremism coming from domestic sources, claiming that it was a deterrent for women who might otherwise run for office.
&#8220;Women are known to be more, shall we say, ethical, than men,&#8221; Pelosi claimed, giving no evidence to support her theory. &#8220;And so, when they go after women candidates, they go after their ethics. And they&#8217;ll say this, that and the other thing. And then the child comes home from school crying because somebody said a bad thing about mom on TV. And nobody wants that.&#8221;
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The threat of domestic violent extremism is discouraging women from running for public office, says <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a>, telling <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> that women candidates are attacked particularly for their ethics.
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&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1875939269451063489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Pelosi then pivoted to January 6th, as Congress prepares to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, claiming that the American people had only voted for President-elect Trump a second time because they were more worried about their bank accounts than the threat of violence.
&#8220;They just had a different view as to what was in their interest, economically and the rest,&#8221; she told his Margaret Brennan.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> says she doesn&#39;t believe the American people disregarded the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol attack by voting to reelect Donald Trump, but &quot;they just had a different view as to what was in their interest, economically and the rest.&quot; Trump&#39;s continued efforts to falsely… <a href="https://t.co/km4MOA8SGp">pic.twitter.com/km4MOA8SGp</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1875938011424391179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) on the issue — asking specifically whether Trump had jumped the gun when he linked terror threats in the United States to the porous border and the lax immigration policies under Biden and Harris.
&#8220;Wasn&#8217;t that premature given that this was an American citizen?&#8221; Tapper asked.
Banks pushed back, noting that former President Barack Obama had referred to ISIS as &#8220;the JV team of terrorism, and obviously they&#8217;re not.&#8221; He went on to note that Trump had essentially cut ISIS off at the knees during his first term and was prepared to do the same again.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> presses GOP <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorBanks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorBanks</a> on his and Trump&#39;s comments connecting the New Orleans terror attack to Biden&#39;s border policies: &quot;Wasn&#39;t that premature?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/MhN6BNWdKe">pic.twitter.com/MhN6BNWdKe</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1875938781854884319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NBC News took a different tack and a different direction, with the focus primarily on the end of Biden&#8217;s presidency and the imminent certification of Trump&#8217;s victory.
On &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; after addressing the New Orleans attack, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ran defense for Biden — and his surrogates in the Democratic Party and legacy media — claiming that no one had misled the American people with regard to the president&#8217;s obvious mental decline.
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Schumer says ‘we didn’t’ mislead Americans on Biden’s mental acuity: Full interview <a href="https://t.co/IfpizHdPFR">https://t.co/IfpizHdPFR</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1875917176646799800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC&#8217;s soon to be spun off affiliate MSNBC, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was laser-focused on her favorite target: Trump. Her guests joined her to discuss the upcoming sentencing in his Manhattan hush-money trial and how that was likely to impact the beginning of the presidency.
&#8220;The final thing that&#8217;s important to note is by sentencing Donald Trump this Friday, [Judge Merchan] will trigger Donald Trump&#8217;s appellate rights …&#8221; guest Andrew Weissmann noted. &#8220;It gives finality to the trial court&#8217;s ruling here, and it sends a message about this case to the public.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AWeissmann_</a>: “The final thing that&#39;s important to note is by sentencing Donald Trump this Friday, [Judge Merchan] will trigger Donald Trump&#39;s appellate rights… It gives finality to the trial court&#39;s ruling here, and it sends a message about this case to the public.”… <a href="https://t.co/a9SsufKIDz">pic.twitter.com/a9SsufKIDz</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1875985476621947244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NOLANEWS

Spin Cycle: New Orleans Terror Attack Was Not About The Border, Stop Talking About The Border

ABC News

Alejandro Mayorkas

Border Crisis

CBS News

Chuck Schumer

Fox News

George Stephanopoulos

Legacy Media

MSNBC

Nancy Pelosi

NBC News

New Orleans

For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
With less than two weeks to go before Christmas — and just over a month before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated to serve a second term in the White House — the news cycle is as jumbled as ever. Some of the focus remains overseas, as unrest continues to to rule the day in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad — but things at home are also quite literally &#8220;up in the air&#8221; as rumors swirl about mysterious drone sightings over states along the east coast.
After multiple reports of the strange aerial phenomena — many of which seem to be concentrated in northern New Jersey — local officials have admitted to being completely baffled and federal authorities have done little to dispel fears that all is not exactly what it seems.
During the week, the FBI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-fbi-release-statement-about-drone-sightings-in-new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a statement</a> alongside the Department of Homeland Security, claiming that the majority of the sightings had likely been manned aircraft operating in a lawful manner — and while they could not give a definitive answer on what the people were seeing, they were certain that the public was not at any risk.
On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas admitted that some of the sightings were, in fact, drones — but again said that he did not believe anyone was in danger.
&#8220;There’s no question that drones are being sighted…There are thousands of drones flown every day in the United States — recreational drones, commercial drones,&#8221; Mayorkas said, apparently suggesting that the things people were seeing were not really anything out of the ordinary.
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“There’s no question that drones are being sighted…There are thousands of drones flown every day in the United States — recreational drones, commercial drones.&quot;
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Mayorkas also responded to claims that the drones were potentially being sent or operated by foreign adversaries, saying that he did not have any information leading him to believe that. Mayorkas told ABC host George Stephanopoulos that he had heard of &#8220;no foreign involvement with respect to the sightings in the Northeast.&#8221;
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tells <a href="https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GStephanopoulos</a> that his agency knows “of no foreign involvement with respect to the sightings in the Northeast” of aerial drones. 
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&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1868306745950425331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But former Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) also weighed in on the issue, and he pointed out the fact that the longer the American people went without any definitive answers, the more likely it was that conspiracy theories would run wild about what they could be seeing.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve lived in New Jersey my whole life,&#8221; the former governor explained. &#8220;This is the first time that I&#8217;ve noticed drones over my house.&#8221;
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“I’ve lived in New Jersey my whole life. This is the first time that I’ve noticed drones over my house.”
Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie warns that conspiracy theories will grow if the federal government does not address reported aerial sightings. <a href="https://t.co/MkRObTfDiQ">https://t.co/MkRObTfDiQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/e206NSI4Se">pic.twitter.com/e206NSI4Se</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1868313041911050312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Many local officials don&#8217;t appear convinced but the explanations offered thus far, either:
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Sheriffs and other local officials in New Jersey are demanding more action from the federal government following a spate of drone sightings that has confused authorities and sparked alarm among residents. <a href="https://twitter.com/GioBenitez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GioBenitez</a> has the latest: <a href="https://t.co/yTqK0GprGa">https://t.co/yTqK0GprGa</a> <a href="https://t.co/ULsbf3Zx8U">pic.twitter.com/ULsbf3Zx8U</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1868298476666208532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rp. Michael Waltz (R-FL) joined CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; to discuss the issue as well, and he argued that the failure to address the situation showed the obvious gaps in the official capacity to handle such things.
&#8220;We need to get to the bottom of it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I think the Biden administration is working to do that.&#8221;
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Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaelgwaltz</a> says drones being spotted above some East Coast states demonstrate “gaps in our agencies, gaps in our authorities,” saying, &quot;We need to get to the bottom of it, and I think the Biden administration is working to do that.&quot;
But Waltz, President-elect Trump&#39;s… <a href="https://t.co/VUtPlqpAcj">pic.twitter.com/VUtPlqpAcj</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1868339235394400700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) also joined host Margaret Brennan on Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; and she called for &#8220;more transparency&#8221; on the issue.
&#8220;This just can&#8217;t be, no one knows why this huge drone is over their house,&#8221; she said, promising to work with the incoming administration to get to the bottom of it.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) says senators &quot;need a briefing&quot; and &quot;more transparency&quot; on the mysterious drones seen over the East Coast, though she notes the Biden administration &quot;has repeatedly assured people that they are safe.&quot; She said she plans to work with the incoming… <a href="https://t.co/cAXsNuBuyJ">pic.twitter.com/cAXsNuBuyJ</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1868343536820617238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Klobuchar also took some time to discuss a slew of pardons and commutations issued by President Joe Biden as his presidency nears its end.
While Biden&#8217;s Thanksgiving weekend pardon for his embattled son Hunter Biden certainly raised the most eyebrows — on both sides of the political aisle — Klobuchar noted that just by sheer volume, Biden was testing the limits of what she found to be acceptable.
Klobuchar first said that she was among those who did not like the fact that Biden had pardoned his son — but then said she also worried about the some 1500 sentence commutations he issued in the past week.
She proposed an &#8220;outside board&#8221; to aid the president in selecting cases for pardons or sentence commutations &#8220;instead of people just doing it in the middle of the night, and people in the White House — this makes no sense to me.&#8221;
&#8220;This whole process cries out for reform, because otherwise you undermine the justice system,&#8221; she added.
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) says she&#39;s not comfortable with some of President Biden&#39;s decisions when he commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people last week, and also &quot;didn&#39;t agree&quot; with Biden&#39;s pardon of his son, Hunter. 
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&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1868343326040023273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told NBC anchor Kristen Welker on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; that Biden had set a &#8220;dangerous&#8221; precedent when he pardoned Hunter — and he urged the president to consider the possibility of preemptive pardons &#8220;very seriously.&#8221;
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BERNIE SANDERS: The pardon of Hunter Biden sets a dangerous precedent. 
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&mdash; Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1868365660092613044?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; retiring Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said that despite having often been at odds with Trump himself, he was not overly concerned that the president-elect might use the Justice Department to attack those who had opposed him.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not particularly worried about criminal investigations,&#8221; he told anchor Jake Tapper. &#8220;I think President Trump is likely to try and focus on the future.&#8221;
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&quot;I&#39;m not particularly worried about criminal investigations.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorRomney</a> shrugs off concerns he could face retribution from Trump, telling <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a>, &quot;I think President Trump is likely to try and focus on the future.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wtExtxZ1kN">pic.twitter.com/wtExtxZ1kN</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1868296795446497514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio De Janeiro

Spin Cycle: Here Come The Drones … And The Pardons

Spin Cycle: Here Come The Drones ... And The Pardons

Amy Klobuchar

Bernie Sanders

Chris Christie

Mike Waltz

Mitt Romney

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said during an interview over the weekend that critics of President-elect Donald Trump should give him a chance to deliver on the things that he has promised to deliver in his second term in office.
Romney made the remarks during a Sunday CNN interview with Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; while reflecting the outcome of last month&#8217;s elections.
&#8220;Donald Trump won,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He won overwhelmingly. He said what he was going to do, and that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, people are saying, &#8216;oh, I don&#8217;t like this appointment or this policy that he&#8217;s talking about,'&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But those are the things he said he was going to do when he ran. So you can&#8217;t complain about someone who does what he said he was going to do.&#8221;
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&#8220;And I agree with him on a lot of policy fronts. I disagree with him on some things,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But it&#8217;s like, OK, give him a chance to do what he said he&#8217;s going to do and see how it works out.&#8221;
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Even Senator Mitt Romney knows President Trump has a mandate:
&#8220;Donald Trump won. He won overwhelmingly. He said what he was going to do — and that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing &#8230; You can&#8217;t complain about someone who does what he said he was going to do.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/xtNv2FkXJU">pic.twitter.com/xtNv2FkXJU</a>
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Romney also dispelled fears that Trump could weaponize the justice system to go after his political opponents.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how much of what the president says is hyperbole, because there was a lot of &#8216;this person ought to be jailed and that person ought to be jailed&#8217; that was said during the last two campaigns,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;But I think President Trump is likely to try and focus on the future,&#8221; he added. &#8220;People who committed crimes, I&#8217;m sure, will be prosecuted. But I think that&#8217;s few and far between.&#8221;

Senators Continue Work On Capitol Hill

Romney To Trump Critics: ‘Give Him A Chance’

CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings and anchor Jake Tapper squared off over illegal immigration and the potential impact of President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to begin deporting illegal immigrants from the United States.
Jennings noted that a number of Democrats have raised objections to the plan — and some have made the argument that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-trump-official-triggers-cnn-commentator-over-mass-deportations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mass deportation</a> would adversely impact grocery prices because of the number of illegal migrants who work in agriculture. Tapper appeared to object, but ended up making the same argument.
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CNN’s Jake Tapper: “Who’s having a meltdown [about Trump deporting farm workers]?”<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>: “Uhhhh — I mean, everybody seems to be on the same sheet of music today that this is going to mess up the agriculture industry and drive the grocery prices higher. I’ve seen… <a href="https://t.co/MMQIBphssn">pic.twitter.com/MMQIBphssn</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1858638834709172522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Who’s having a meltdown?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;Uhhhh — I mean, everybody seems to be on the same sheet of music today that this is going to mess up the agriculture industry and drive the grocery prices higher,&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;I’ve seen numerous pieces on it. I’ve seen everybody seems to be out there talking about it and so, it strikes me, Jake, that Democrats — this is their new line of attack, that Donald Trump’s got a plan to raise your grocery prices simply by following through on his campaign promises. And I don’t — I just don’t think it’s true.&#8221;
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&#8220;I’ve been covering this issue since the first Bush administration in 2001,&#8221; Tapper pushed back. &#8220;I mean, this is always one of the issues with it — is that there are a lot of undocumented immigrants who work for the agricultural sector and there’s always concerns about are those people actually going to be deported and, if so, what happens to prices for, you know, regular folk just trying to make a — make an honest living and buy some eggs.&#8221;
Prior to Trump&#8217;s sweeping victory on November 5, Vice President-elect JD Vance explained that a new Trump administration would start by deporting illegal immigrants who had committed crimes in the United States or who already had standing deportation orders. President-elect Trump has confirmed that he would use <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-confirms-plan-to-use-military-assets-for-mass-deportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military assets</a> to aid in the deportation process.

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WATCH: Jake Tapper, Scott Jennings Square Off Over Deportations

Deportations

Illegal Immigration

House Speaker Mike Johnson made a simple but important point about President-elect Donald Trump’s list of nominees, saying that the American people have demanded that Trump shake up the status quo.
Johnson <a href="https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1483#:~:text=This%20is%20what%20I'll,shake%20up%20the%20status%20quo.">told</a> CNN’s Jake Tapper:
<blockquote>This is what I&#8217;ll say about the nominees that the President has put forward, is that they are persons who will shake up the status quo. And I think what the American people have believed, and what they&#8217;ve delivered with the mandate in this election, is they demand that we shake up the status quo. It&#8217;s not working for the American people.
So, you used the term in the opening about how these are disruptors. They are, I think that&#8217;s by design. Any president has the right to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they think will fulfill their agenda. And the people that are on this list will do that. They will go into the agencies that they&#8217;re being asked to lead, and they will reform them.
These agencies need reform, and I think the vast majority of American people understand that. You can&#8217;t have status quo appointments in a moment like this.</blockquote>
Johnson is correct. 
The thing that is truly obvious about all of these picks is that they are meant to shake up the status quo.
And that is driving the Left nuts. They can say it&#8217;s all about the accusations against Matt Gaetz or Pete Hegseth and his tattoos, but that’s not really what it&#8217;s about — because we know for a fact that if these people were on the Left, all of that would be ignored willy-nilly. It wouldn&#8217;t matter to them one iota.
It is perfectly obvious the big objection is that Trump is moving fast, not on nominees per se, but moving fast on the policies to be pursued by the nominees.
That is the actual goal here for the Left. 
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For example, Joe Biden and the Left have been touting the so-called “green energy revolution.”
The problem with the green energy revolution is that it is utterly and completely failing. It doesn&#8217;t mean that there can&#8217;t be development of green energy or electric cars.
But it does mean that the so-called green energy revolution is not going to replace fossil fuels any time soon. Fossil fuels are too efficient; they are too durable. Biden’s attempt to cut them off has been a mistake.
Over the weekend Biden <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/17/biden-trump-amazon-rainforest-climate-speech-00190049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that’s underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it. Nobody.&#8221; 
Good luck, because actually somebody can reverse it. That person is President Trump — not to reverse the so-called green energy revolution, but to rely on fossil fuels that are actually going to power the American economy.
Trump, pushing the shale boom, selected Chris Wright as the nominee for Energy Secretary, a man who was “front-and-center” for the fracking revolution, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/trumps-choice-for-energy-secretary-is-a-fracking-booster-and-climate-skeptic-c94ed844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a>.
The idea that we are going to up the ante on the fracking revolution is great. It has completely shifted, not just economically with regard to the global balance of power, but also geopolitically in terms of military power, in terms of leverage. The energy revolution in the United States has totally shifted the balance of power, and that is wonderful.
And Trump is reinvigorating that. The amount of energy production in the United States is going to skyrocket. Wright will join the newly formed National Energy Council alongside North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, who will roll back the Biden regulations that have hampered resource development.
All of this means a booming American economy. The boom is here.
Trump picked Brendan Carr for FCC chairman, who has announced that he will take on what he called the “censorship cartel”: Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft. 
So, in energy, Trump&#8217;s going to blow things up. In communications, Trump&#8217;s going to blow things up.
And then, of course, he&#8217;s going to blow things up over at Defense. The Left is afraid Hegseth will come in and clean house.
Democrat senator-elect Elissa Slotkin from Michigan <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4994842-slotkin-were-really-at-risk-of-politicizing-the-military/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “I think we&#8217;re really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can&#8217;t put the genie back in the bottle.”
Hold on. You Democrats politicized the military. You loved General Mark Milley out there explaining that white rage was the biggest problem in the military. You and the Left decided that the American military had to be turned into some sort of experimental laboratory for left-wing social policy and we needed to fly the Pride Progress flag. Your big idea was that wokeness was going to be the centerpiece for defense.
Pete Hegseth is not going to do any of that. That&#8217;s the real reason people are angry at Hegseth.
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Trump picked Matt Gaetz for Attorney General to blow up the status quo. That is the goal. If the Left wants to know how they got Gaetz, the answer is: They kept elevating people like Adam Schiff, the representative from California who spent an enormous amount of time targeting Trump (in both impeachments) and has now been elevated to Senator-elect from the state of California.
Gaetz is also a big middle finger to the DOJ and the FBI.
When people like Jen Psaki, the former press secretary for Joe Biden and now MSNBC host, criticize the picks, she is obviously not criticizing the picks because of their supposed personal morality or personal foibles. That&#8217;s not what this is about. It&#8217;s about their politics. Psaki commented on her show, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/msnbcs-jen-psaki-tears-apart-trumps-cartoonish-yet-dangerous-picks-in-blistering-show-open/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>:
<blockquote>These are the people who will be advising the president on every crisis that crosses his desk and representing the United States for some of them overseas, and they’re the people who have an impact also on your daily lives. See, these choices are on the one hand cartoonishly outrageous, but when that dust settles, it’s not really just about the scandals and the personal lives of these nominees and there are many, it’s about what their positions and their lack of experience could do to our health system, our national security and the rights we have in this country.</blockquote>
That’s what she&#8217;s worried about. She says it right there at the end. It&#8217;s not about personal issues. It&#8217;s not about Gaetz and underage girls. It&#8217;s not about Hegseth and any accusations against him or his tattoos.
It is just that they might blow up the entire system the Democrats have been building on and counting on and manipulating for decades.

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CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jake-tapper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a> fact-checked Vice President Kamala Harris’ lie that former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> was talking about abortion when he said he wanted to “protect women” whether they “like it or not,” when the comment was made about protecting women and children from illegal criminal migrants and missiles from foreign adversaries.
During a panel on “<a href="https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1852342236140228795">The Lead</a>,” the anchor played the quote by Harris and called her out for changing it to fit a narrative about Trump being a misogynist.
&#8220;When Trump said he was going to do something for women, whether they like it or not, ‘whether the women like it or not,’ he was talking about protecting women, protecting women whether they like it or not,” Tapper told the panel. “Certainly, you can take issue with the language, but he wasn&#8217;t saying he was just going to do whatever he wanted, regardless.”
&#8220;But you take my point,” he added. “He’s saying I&#8217;m gonna protect them, whether women want me to protect them.”
When he got pushback from some on the panel, the CNN anchor replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s not as she presented it. … So just quote it accurately.”
At a rally in Phoenix on Thursday, the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-tapper-live-fact-checks-harris-trumps-quote-protecting-women-just-quote-him-accurately" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala said</a>, &#8220;Now in America, one in three women lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions, even for rape and incest, which is immoral. And Donald Trump’s not done. Did everyone hear what he just said yesterday? That he will do what he wants, quote, and here&#8217;s where I&#8217;m going to quote, ‘whether the women like it or not.’ We must vote because this is the thing. You know, there&#8217;s a saying that you got to listen to people when they tell you who [they] are, and this is not the first time he has told us who he is. He does not believe women should have the agency and authority to make decisions about their own bodies.&#8221;
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Trump’s actual <a href="https://x.com/alx/status/1851801808642941242">quote</a> was, “Kamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions all over the world, from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals who assault, rape, and murder our women and girls.”
“Anyone who would let monsters kidnap and kill our children does not belong anywhere near the Oval Office,&#8221; he added, noting that his team weeks ago told him not to say he wanted to protect women and children. “I said why? I’m president. I want to protect the women and children of our country. … I said, &#8216;Well, I&#8217;m gonna do it whether the women like it or not.&#8217; I&#8217;m gonna protect them. I’m gonna protect them from migrants coming in. I’m gonna protect them from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles…”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-panel-explodes-over-suggestion-kamala-was-chosen-by-dem-party-elites" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN Panel Explodes Over Suggestion Kamala Was ‘Chosen’ By Dem Party Elites</a>

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