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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CNN’s Jake Tapper admitted Friday afternoon that Donald Trump was correct and Joe Biden was wrong about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden’s</a> foreign business deals when the two addressed the issue during a 2020 presidential debate.
Tapper made the comment during a roundtable discussion on the current scandal embroiling the president and his administration as Congressional Republicans dig further into Hunter’s foreign business dealings and his father’s alleged influence in securing over $20 million since he took office as vice president in 2009. Tapper started the segment by citing a Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/01/biden-said-his-son-earned-no-money-china-his-son-says-otherwise/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> that stated, “Hunter Biden reported nearly $2.4 million in income in 2017 and $2.2 million in income in 2018 — most of which came from Chinese or Ukrainian interests.&#8221;
“And this directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate in 2020 with Donald Trump,” Tapper said before playing a clip of Biden denying that Hunter made money from Chinese business dealings while Trump berated Biden, saying that his son “made a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in Moscow.”
“Trump was right,” Tapper added. “I mean, [Hunter] did make a fortune from China, and Joe Biden was wrong. I don’t know that he was lying about it. He might not have been told by Hunter, but this blind spot is a problem.”
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According to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-oversight-releases-memo-alleging-hunter-biden-received-millions-from-oligarchs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> released last week by the Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, bank records show that oligarchs from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan paid millions of dollars to Hunter Biden, his Rosemont Seneca entities, and his business partner Devon Archer — in some cases for work services (such as his board role at Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings), in other cases less clear — when Joe Biden was vice president.
“It appears no real services were provided other than access to the Biden network, including Joe Biden himself. And Hunter Biden seems to have delivered,” Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said in a statement. “This is made clear,” Comer added, by meals at Café Milano in Washington, D.C., where then-Vice President Joe Biden “dined with oligarchs from around the world who had sent money to his son.”
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In a recent appearance before the House Oversight Committee, Archer testified to Biden attending dinners with his son’s business partners, as shown in a lightly-redacted transcript released by the panel. Archer indicated that Joe Biden did not discuss anything of consequence during these meals or in calls with Hunter’s associates, though he repeatedly emphasized how the Biden family “brand” went a long way in their ventures.
Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.

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A Gold Star mom who lost her son in the terrorist bombing during the botched Afghanistan withdrawal confronted CNN host Jake Tapper about the media silence over President Biden&#8217;s handling of the withdrawal.
Kelly Barnett, the mother of Staff Sergeant Taylor Hoover, had noted in the past that her son had served in Afghanistan twice before he was murdered in the attack. She said he had told her he was concerned “the moment that he landed and saw what he saw. His words were chaos, no communication, lack of leadership. He said he never [saw] anything like it.”
“He told me, Mom, I now know that the command cares nothing for us,” Barnett had stated. “My son, these 12 others left this earth thinking that their command cared nothing for them.”
“Ms. Barnett, I know you&#8217;ve been hesitant to speak out about what happened to your son,” Tapper said as he started his interview with her on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” “And I totally respect that. Why have you decided to talk publicly now about it?”
“If you give me a little leeway here, when I first saw, you know, the text saying CNN wanted to talk to me, I was so happy,” Barnett responded. “Where have you all been? We need you, Jake. We need you. We need CNN. We need all the other networks to voice our opinions, our truths and get it out there.”
“We need the country to come together,” she continued. “I want justice for my son. He fought and he died for this country, not for conservatives, not for liberals. He fought for all of us. My job as his mom is to make sure that we come together and make sure this never happens again.”
Tapper protested, “We&#8217;ve been covering the story of the botched withdrawal since it happened. And it&#8217;s just heartbreaking.”
“You have said that the Biden administration lied to you about what happened that day,” Tapper said. “Tell us more about that. What did they tell you that was wrong?”
“First off, they told me that my son died on impact, which is completely 100 percent false,” Barnett revealed. “He lived. He put a tourniquet on himself. He handed out his ammo to his men because, you know, gunfire is going off. So he, you know, he did live for a little while. I now know because of witnesses that were there. You know, how he &#8212; where he was when he passed. They lied about where he was standing.”
“And again, from witnesses, I now know where that truth is,” she continued. “I&#8217;m not really sure, you know, they even know where he was at this point. But I know where he was. They&#8217;ve given false statements.”
“If President Biden were watching right now, what would you want to say to him?” Tapper asked.
“I wanted to say to him that he needs to be a grown man,” Barnett replied. “He needs to come out and say, yes, I made a mistake. I chose wrong. I was looking for a photo op and I messed up. That&#8217;s what he needs to do.”

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Gold Star Mom Slams Tapper, Media For Silence On Biden’s Botched Withdrawal

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Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said during an interview this week that as president controversial transgender policies in the U.S. military would come to a swift end because he wants the military to focus on its job — winning wars.
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview Tuesday evening with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on &#8220;The Lead.&#8221;
&#8220;Well look, in the military, it&#8217;s all about the mission first,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So there&#8217;s a whole bunch of reasons why you focus on Mission First. People&#8217;s individuality, you do have to check that at the door. And that&#8217;s not the only example. There&#8217;s a whole host of other examples. So I think the military culture is unique in terms of that.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, in terms of the larger issue, the question is, what role does someone that&#8217;s a man have in women&#8217;s activities, even if they conceive themselves to be a woman?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s wrong to have men compete in women&#8217;s sports, I understand some of those men conceive of themselves differently. But it&#8217;s not fair to the girls who are competing. It&#8217;s not fair to the women athletes, the swimmers who lost that national championship, to the Penn swimmer, I mean, they&#8217;ve been training too.&#8221;
DeSantis also slammed institutions that have forced girls to have to share locker rooms with men who claim to be women.
&#8220;What I wouldn&#8217;t do is turn society upside down to be able to accommodate, what is a very, very small percentage of the population,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> on transgenderism: &quot;In the military, it&#39;s all about the mission first&#8230;People&#39;s individuality&#8230;.you do have to check that at the door&#8230;What role does someone that&#39;s a man have in women&#39;s activities?&#8230;I thin it&#39;s wrong to have men compete in women&#39;s sports&quot; <a href="https://t.co/gmaAs8yPjK">pic.twitter.com/gmaAs8yPjK</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1681409414031392798?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/time-to-rip-woke-out-of-the-military-what-desantis-wants-to-do-with-his-policy-proposal/#:~:text=After%20graduating%20from%20Harvard%20Law,was%20awarded%20a%20Bronze%20Star." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Speaking</a> in South Carolina this week, DeSantis stated, “There was no greater honor than knowing I was wearing the cloth of my country when I served in the military, but our nation’s once-proud fighting force has been infected and paralyzed by a political agenda. It is time to rip the woke out of the military and return it to its core mission. We must restore a sense of confidence, conviction, and patriotic duty to our institutions — and that begins with our military.”

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Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis slammed an analysis presented to him on CNN during an interview this week that claimed that his policies hurt his electability with suburban moms, saying that his policies actually won over suburban moms in the state of Florida.
Speaking with Jake Tapper on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Lead&#8221; on Tuesday evening, DeSantis was asked about the claim that his policies on &#8220;divisive social issues&#8221; can &#8220;alienate moderate suburban moms.&#8221;
&#8220;Well I don’t think that’s true. I mean, the proof is in the pudding,&#8221; DeSantis fired back. &#8220;I mean, I took a state that had been a one-point state, and we won it by 20 percentage points, 1.5 million votes. Our bread and butter were people like suburban moms. We’re leading a big movement for parents&#8217; rights that the parents be involved in education, school choice, get the indoctrination out of schools. Of course, there&#8217;s bread and butter issues that matter, too. Inflation, more economic opportunity — Florida&#8217;s economy is ranked number one of all 50 states. We&#8217;ve worked hard to make that happen.&#8221;
DeSantis said that the reason that his poll numbers have taken a slight hit over the past several months was because he was getting &#8220;a lot of media attention at the time, coming off the victory&#8221; and then he returned to his role as governor to focus on the state&#8217;s legislative session and did not immediately begin campaigning.
&#8220;So I think that that analysis is wrong,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And so I was basically taking fire really nonstop since then because a lot of people view me as a threat. I think the Left views me as a threat because they think I’ll beat Biden and actually deliver on all this stuff. And then, of course, people would have their allegiances on the Republican side, you know, have gone after me. But the reality is, this is a state-by-state process. I&#8217;m not running a campaign to try to juice, you know, whatever we are in the national polls.&#8221;
DeSantis said that he is focused on building a strong organization that can mobilize a large ground game that can help him win the early states.
&#8220;Now that is not going to make the same type of splash as if you were trying to run ads nationally or do those other things,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;And so we&#8217;ve been making really good progress. I think this weekend was really good in terms of The FAMiLY Leader and some of the other things we were doing in Iowa.  We&#8217;re here in South Carolina; we&#8217;re going to do a lot in New Hampshire. But that&#8217;s going to be our focus, focusing on those early states, continuing to build our coalitions and going forward.&#8221;
DeSantis also addressed narratives that have been pushed by his opponents in the past that turned out to be false, including a 2018 CNN poll that had him down roughly 15 points before he won election as Florida&#8217;s governor for the first time.
&#8220;So I think some of this is motivated reasoning, but I tend to get a kick out of it when they say, &#8216;He didn&#8217;t fundraise well&#8217;, when I did more than Biden and Trump in the second quarter, and I&#8217;m just the governor,&#8221; DeSantis added.
Tapper added at the end that he &#8220;didn&#8217;t believe that poll was accurate, just for the record.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn">CNN</a> anchor Jake Tapper admitted Monday that the long-awaited 2016 Trump-Russia investigation report from special counsel John Durham exonerates the former president &#8220;to a degree.&#8221;
&#8220;The report is now here. It has dropped, and it might not have produced everything of what some Republicans hoped for,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;It is, regardless, devastating to the FBI, and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump.&#8221;
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TAPPER: Durham report is &quot;devastating to the FBI and to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/DC30fNpEve">pic.twitter.com/DC30fNpEve</a>
&mdash; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1658206330157408273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Durham, who former Attorney General Bill Barr tasked to examine the propriety of the FBI&#8217;s investigation of President Trump, released a 306-page report Monday that found that the FBI had no evidence to support a Trump-Russia scandal when it began its investigation and found &#8220;sobering&#8221; differences in how it approached the Trump probe compared to other politically sensitive investigations.
&#8220;Based on the review of Crossfire Hurricane and related intelligence activities, we concluded the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report,&#8221; the report says.
&#8220;The FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – both then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probably cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of foreign power,&#8221; the report said.
Tapper&#8217;s remarks over the report stirred up backlash across social media Monday.
Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, called Tapper &#8220;Patient Zero&#8221; for pushing the alleged collusion back in January 2017.
&#8220;He deliberately helped kick off the hysteria with his &#8216;reporting&#8217; on Comey&#8217;s bogus meeting to set-up Trump using the dossier, which fueled the hoax for years,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;Tapper should personally apologize for his role.&#8221;&#8216;
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Tapper was Patient Zero for the collusion hoax back in January of 2017. He deliberately helped kick off the hysteria with his &quot;reporting&quot; on Comey&#39;s bogus meeting to set-up Trump using the dossier, which fueled the hoax for years. Tapper should personally apologize for his role. <a href="https://t.co/mgxPIMkgdB">https://t.co/mgxPIMkgdB</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1658217025448058895?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Former CNN sports correspondent Keith Olbermann called Tapper&#8217;s remarks the network&#8217;s latest scandal.
&#8220;@jaketapper says the Durham Report is &#8216;devastating to the FBI,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;It isn&#8217;t. Not even close. No charges, just partisan &#8220;conclusions.&#8221; And Tapper of the new non-journalistic Chris Licht CNN is propagandizing.&#8221;
&#8220;Jake Tapper needs to resign,&#8221; he added.
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CNN&#39;s new scandal:<a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> says the Durham Report is &quot;devastating to the FBI&quot;
It isn&#39;t. Not even close. No charges, just partisan &quot;conclusions.&quot; And Tapper of the new non-journalistic Chris Licht CNN is propagandizing
Jake Tapper needs to resign <a href="https://t.co/EcJo6qwfA3">pic.twitter.com/EcJo6qwfA3</a>
&mdash; Keith Olbermann↙️ (@KeithOlbermann) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/1658227637586673664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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CNN’s Jake Tapper Says Durham Report Devastating To FBI, Exonerates Trump ‘To A Degree’

CNN's Jake Tapper Says Durham Report Devastating To FBI, Exonerates Trump 'To A Degree'

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CNN anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jake-tapper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a> invoked the late Supreme Court Justice <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ruth-bader-ginsburg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ruth Bader Ginsburg</a> in questioning the top Senate Judiciary Committee Democrat about the extended absence of Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/dianne-feinstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dianne Feinstein</a> (D-CA) and its impact on the panel&#8217;s ability to approve judicial nominees.
During an exchange on Sunday, Tapper pressed Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) to consider the political repercussions of not pushing Feinstein to retire, as many Democrats were hesitant to do with Ginsburg in the lead-up to her death in 2020 despite concerns about her age and health.
&#8220;All due respect, sir, you and your fellow Democrats were very ginger and very polite when it came to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and not pushing her to retire when you had a Democratic majority in the Senate. How&#8217;d that work out for you? How&#8217;d that work out for Roe v. Wade?&#8221; Tapper asked on &#8220;State of the Union.&#8221;
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Dang. Jake Tapper to Durbin: &quot;All due respect, sir, you and your fellow Democrats were very ginger and very polite when it came to RBG and not pushing her to retire when you had a Democrat majority in the Senate. How&#39;d that work out for you? How&#39;d that work out for Roe v Wade?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fC4RdQMHbu">pic.twitter.com/fC4RdQMHbu</a>
&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1655205157884293120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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After 87-year-old Ginsburg died in 2020 due to complications from pancreatic cancer, former President Donald Trump picked Amy Coney Barrett to replace her on the high court, solidifying a conservative majority that would go on to do away with Roe last year.
After Feinstein, 89, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dianne-feinstein-not-running-for-re-election-in-2024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed in February</a> she would not seek re-election in 2024 amid concerns about her mental health, the senator announced in early March that she had been diagnosed with shingles. Feinstein&#8217;s months-long absence while recovering has been holding up the ability of the judiciary panel, which is <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/members" target="_blank" rel="noopener">split 10-10</a> along party lines without her, to advance some of President Joe Biden’s nominees to federal courts around the nation.
In his response to Tapper, Durbin shrugged off the comparison to Ginsburg as a guessing game and said he wants to treat Feinstein &#8220;fairly&#8221; and be &#8220;sensitive&#8221; to her situation, considering other senators have had medical issues that temporarily kept them from Capitol Hill. Still, Durbin conceded as a &#8220;bottom line&#8221; that the business of the Judiciary Committee &#8220;is affected&#8221; by Feinstein&#8217;s absence.
Just when Feinstein will return remains unclear, and while a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-says-dianne-feinstein-should-resign-calls-anti-feminist-criticisms-a-farce" target="_blank" rel="noopener">small but growing number of Democrats</a> call for her to resign, Republicans declined to do Democrats a favor by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-gop-blocks-dem-bid-to-replace-feinstein-on-judiciary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocking a bid</a> to replace Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee.
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In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dianne-feinstein-releases-new-statement-on-her-absence-from-the-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a> on Thursday, Feinstein did not say when she plans to return to Capitol Hill but argued that there &#8220;has been no slowdown&#8221; with judicial nominees. Still, Feinstein said she was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; that Republicans on the committee have been blocking a few nominees from moving forward. Feinstein said she expects them to advance &#8220;quickly&#8221; upon her return.

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