WASHINGTON—First Lady Melania Trump honored female recipients with the &#8220;International Women of Courage Awards&#8221; on Tuesday afternoon, sharing that these awardees &#8220;prove that love can inspire extraordinary valor even in the face of vulnerability.&#8221;
The First Lady co-hosted the annual International Women of Courage Awards ceremony at the State Department with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Dressed in a long, leopard print trench coat, Melania focused on the unique capability of these female advocates, activists, and leaders to act in the name of love.
&#8220;Today, we celebrate courage —a strength that is based in love,&#8221; she said.&#8221;This truth is illustrated through our honorees, who prove that love can inspire extraordinary valor even in the face of vulnerability.&#8221;
&#8220;Their remarkable stories are a testament to the power of love in practice — for family, community, and our world,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;This is especially evident in places where their passion defies convention and when it has been shown at great personal risk of stigma, persecution, or harm.&#8221;
This is the fifth year that Melania Trump has attended the event. Her predecessor, Jill Biden, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-gives-international-women-of-courage-award-to-a-biological-man">previously gave</a> an International Women of Courage award to a man who identifies as a woman named Alba Rueda, Argentina’s Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and the first trans-identifying politician to hold a senior governmental position. Rueda had made a name for himself pushing pro-transgender policies in Argentina.
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Awardees at Tuesday&#8217;s event included human rights defender Henriette Da; Hamas hostage survivor Amit Soussana; womens&#8217; rights activist Major Velena Iga; Phillippines &#8220;Mama Ranger&#8221; Angelique Songco; human rights advocate Georgiana Pascu; women&#8217;s rights leader Zabib Musa Loro Bakhit; journalist Namini Wijedasa; and Yemeni advocate Amat Al-Salam Abdullah Abdo al-Hajj.
Additionally, the Madeleine Albright Honorary Group Award was given to the “Women Student Protest Leaders of Bangladesh.&#8221;
The First Lady described these awardees as &#8220;brave women&#8221; who have &#8220;refused to let fear or hardship define them.&#8221; She specifically singled out Pascu, saying that she &#8220;exemplifies love in action.&#8221;
&#8220;Georgiana is a &#8216;watchdog&#8217; who defends the dignity of Romanians whose voices cannot be heard,&#8221; Melania explained.
&#8220;She fearlessly enters facilities designated as &#8216;care centers&#8217; to rescue people with disabilities who are unwittingly held captive. In fact, Georgiana usually shows up unannounced and discovers the unimaginable — helpless adults and children bound, sedated, starving, and in extreme cases, dying. Thanks to Georgiana’s brave work, dozens of offenders have been charged with human trafficking, exploitation, and even organized crime.&#8221;
The First Lady also extended a message to women across the world who advocate on behalf of others.
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&#8220;Let us also take a moment to acknowledge those who persist in their struggles,&#8221; she said. &#8220;For each of them, love serves as a powerful catalyst, instilling a profound sense of purpose in their endeavors. To the women who are driven to speak out for justice, even though their voices are trembling. To the women who are motivated to rise up for their community, when all others remain indifferent.To the women who feel compelled to heal wounds caused by hatred – and cherish peace.&#8221;
&#8220;These extraordinary women illuminate the transformative power of love in shaping our world,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Their journeys remind us that true courage is born from a deep commitment to others, showing that love fuels the call for justice. Through their brave actions, they inspire us to embrace our own potential for change, teaching us that while courage drives us forward, it is love that lays the groundwork for lasting impact. Let their stories motivate us to take courageous steps, knowing that each act of love can spark a ripple of transformation.&#8221;

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Melania Celebrates Women At State Department Awards Ceremony: ‘Strength That Is Based In Love’

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Melania Trump

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Longtime Democrat strategist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-carville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Carville</a> unloaded on former President Joe Biden in a recent episode of the &#8220;Politics War Room&#8221; podcast, telling cohost Al Hunt that Biden would do well to simply return to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, &#8220;and stay there.&#8221;
Carville, who had been critical of Democrats leading into the November election and had often commented that they were leaning too far into &#8220;woke&#8221; ideology, said that Biden was solely responsible for the fact that the American people no longer care to hear from him.
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Wow, James Carville did not hold back on Joe Biden: &quot;What he&#39;s done to himself is no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. Just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there.&quot;
&quot;Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party&#39;s moving on.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/CajCL7xPhO">pic.twitter.com/CajCL7xPhO</a>
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&#8220;What he’s done to himself is no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. Okay, just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there. And that’s not because we’re bad people or we’re mean people. It was all his doing. All his doing, this entire thing,&#8221; Carville said, noting that the Democratic Party was not interested in talking to Biden either.
Carville briefly mentioned Biden&#8217;s repeated claim that he could have beaten Trump in November if he&#8217;d remained in the race, and made it clear that he wasn&#8217;t buying it: &#8220;No one f***ing believes that at all!&#8221;
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&#8220;And then fighting with Jill Biden and Alexandra Pelosi,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;I mean, just look, guy — you had a noble career. Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party’s moving on. I mean, they’re really moving on, and it’s very sad, but that’s just where we are. And he created this himself. He has nobody to blame but himself. Nobody.&#8221;
Hunt said that he &#8220;really has no role to play in the national dialogue,&#8221; and would be better served to simply step back from the spotlight and focus on raising money to build a library.
Carville took that a step further, saying that if Biden did insist on playing a role in public politics moving forward, that it would be a negative role.

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James Carville: Biden ‘Has Nobody To Blame But Himself’ For Damaged Legacy

James Carville: Biden 'Has Nobody To Blame But Himself' For Damaged Legacy

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House Speaker Emerita <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a>&#8216;s (D-CA) daughter, Alexandria Pelosi, took a swipe at first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> in a burgeoning clash between two of the most powerful families in Democrat circles.
In a recent interview, Jill Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-lashes-out-at-pelosi-after-2024-shiv-moment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voiced displeasure</a> with how Nancy Pelosi fueled a Democrat revolt against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 election</a>. Now, Alexandria Pelosi has sounded off with a not-so-subtle Shakespeare reference.
&#8220;If I was Lady McBiden, I’d put on my big girl pants, play the long game and think about my husband’s legacy,&#8221; said Alexandra Pelosi, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/19/lady-mcbiden-alexandra-pelosi-first-lady-00199164" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a>&#8216;s senior political columnist and politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin. &#8220;There aren’t that many people left in America who have something nice to say about Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi is one of them.&#8221;
Martin&#8217;s report stressed that Alexandra Pelosi &#8220;made clear she was speaking only for herself,&#8221; but also noted the &#8220;deafening silence from the White House in response to a request for comment marks the culmination of the bitter feud between the president and onetime speaker, two of the age’s most prominent Democrats and the bookends of the party’s Obama-era high and Trump restoration low.&#8221;
Although he won the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, with Biden&#8217;s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats&#8217; presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump.
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During this time, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — an interview on MSNBC’s &#8220;Morning Joe &#8221; — Pelosi <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nancy-pelosi-stops-short-saying-biden-stay-race-says-time-running-shor-rcna161097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. &#8220;It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,&#8221; she said. Her remarks on MSNBC <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/nancy-pelosis-art-of-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly emboldened</a> more Democrats to turn on Biden.
The Washington Post published a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/01/15/jill-biden-interview-first-lady/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Wednesday about its &#8220;exit interview&#8221; with Jill Biden in which the first lady was quoted mentioning how she was thinking &#8220;a lot&#8221; about relationships and took a dig at Nancy Pelosi. &#8220;We were friends for 50 years,&#8221; Jill Biden said. &#8220;It was disappointing.&#8221;
As reported by Martin, Nancy Pelosi has received a wave of &#8220;messages, flowers and calls of concern from heads of state, colleagues in both parties and even royalty&#8221; since breaking her hip in Europe last month, but &#8220;it’s who she has not heard from that’s most remarkable, and that has infuriated Pelosi’s friends and family: Joe and Jill Biden.&#8221;
Martin wrote that he was informed that Nancy Pelosi has tried multiple times to speak with Joe Biden, only to be turned down. &#8220;She’s been told they’re not over it, don’t make more overtures because he’s blaming her,&#8221; an insider told the columnist. Martin&#8217;s report also noted that &#8220;Biden did briefly chat with Pelosi, her husband, Paul, and daughter Christine at a White House holiday party last month. But that encounter only served to remind them of the rupture.&#8221;

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Pelosi’s Daughter Disses Jill Biden In Growing Family Feud

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Nancy Pelosi

Ahead of her departure from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a>, first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> voiced displeasure with Speaker Emerita <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-pelosi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Pelosi</a> (D-CA) over how the prominent House Democrat fueled a revolt against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 election</a>.
The Washington Post published a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/01/15/jill-biden-interview-first-lady/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Wednesday about its &#8220;exit interview&#8221; with Jill Biden, noting that the first lady has become the &#8220;keeper of the family grudges&#8221; — a nod to what she wrote in her 2019 memoir about recalling &#8220;every slight committed&#8221; against the people that she loves.
&#8220;Which brings us to Nancy Pelosi, whom Jill has known nearly as long as Joe,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Who had been a close friend to Joe as they ascended to the highest tier of American politics. Whom Jill couldn’t wait to invite to the White House once coronavirus restrictions allowed the Bidens to entertain. And who went on MSNBC’s &#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; in July with a shiv.&#8221;
Though he won the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2024 nomination with the support of more than 14 million primary voters, then-81-year-old Joe Biden bowed out of the White House race in July following a fumbling debate performance against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> under pressure from allies who raised concerns about his age, mental acuity, and electability. Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>, with Biden&#8217;s endorsement, quickly garnered support and became the Democrats&#8217; presidential nominee. Harris ended up losing to Trump.
During this time, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Pelosi privately told Biden that polls showed he could not defeat Trump like he did in 2020 and that he could hurt other members of his party in down-ticket races if he did not bow out. And, in what is widely viewed as a key tipping point — the MSNBC interview — Pelosi <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nancy-pelosi-stops-short-saying-biden-stay-race-says-time-running-shor-rcna161097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized</a> that she would support whatever decision Biden made about his political future at a time when the president was already insisting he would not leave the race. &#8220;It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run,&#8221; she said. Her remarks on MSNBC <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/nancy-pelosis-art-of-power" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly emboldened</a> more Democrats to turn on Biden.
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According to The Washington Post, this is how the exchange with Jill Biden when it came to Pelosi went down:
<blockquote>&#8220;&#8216;Like I said,&#8217; Jill says now, seated in the Green Room of the White House on the first Sunday of January, &#8216;I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships.&#8217;
Her face, nearly pearlescent with lustrous foundation, betrays no particular emotion. She’s holding a china cup.
Tea. With honey and lemon.
&#8216;It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and — &#8216;
Jill pauses.
&#8216;We were friends for 50 years.&#8217; She is using her teacher’s voice now. &#8216;It was disappointing.'&#8221;</blockquote>
After Harris lost the presidential election to Trump, Pelosi appeared to blame the outcome on Joe Biden during an interview with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/us/politics/pelosi-harris-biden-open-primary.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
&#8220;Had the president gotten out sooner, there may have been other candidates in the race,” Pelosi <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-blames-kamalas-loss-on-joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, adding, &#8220;The anticipation was that, if the president were to step aside, that there would be an open primary.&#8221;
Pelosi also said: &#8220;And as I say, Kamala may have, I think she would have done well in that and been stronger going forward. But we don’t know that. That didn’t happen. We live with what happened. And because the president endorsed Kamala Harris immediately, that really made it almost impossible to have a primary at that time. If it had been much earlier, it would have been different.&#8221;
There had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hes-furious-at-you-pelosi-grilled-about-dem-mutiny-against-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that Joe Biden was frustrated at Pelosi, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/14/biden-frustration-obama-pelosi-00173883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">among others</a>, for pressing him to step aside. However, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-does-not-deny-democrats-forced-him-out-claims-he-wouldve-won" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> during an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; in September that his relationship with Pelosi was &#8220;fine.&#8221; Joe Biden also claimed — as he has done <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-the-hell-knows-biden-gets-asked-if-he-would-have-the-vigor-to-serve-another-term" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multiple times</a> now — that he was &#8220;confident&#8221; that he would have beaten Trump in a rematch.

Jill Biden Lashes Out At Pelosi After 2024 ‘Shiv’ Moment

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NBC News chief political analyst <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbcs-chuck-todd-baffled-team-biden-pushed-for-debate-rules-that-make-trump-seem-more-presidential" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Todd</a> tore into President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> after the president issued a pardon on Sunday to their son, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a>, who was facing possible prison time over gun and tax crimes.
In a <a href="https://chriscillizza.substack.com/p/why-joe-biden-needs-therapy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> with journalist Chris Cillizza, Todd said he knew &#8220;100%&#8221; the pardon was going to happen and insisted President Biden &#8220;needs therapy&#8221; because he has &#8220;not processed&#8221; the death of his older son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who passed away of brain cancer at the age of 46 in 2015.
President Biden has an &#8220;issue&#8221; with Hunter Biden in which he blames himself for Hunter Biden&#8217;s struggles over the years, including drug addiction, &#8220;second-guesses everything&#8221; with raising Hunter compared to how he raised Beau, Todd contended.
Todd also reportedly said he believed that Biden was never going to stand for the possible &#8220;humiliation&#8221; that President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> would be the one to pardon Hunter Biden.
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I talk to <a href="https://twitter.com/chucktodd?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chucktodd</a> every Monday for my newsletter. 
It&#39;s always a good conversation.
But, I thought Chuck NAILED it today on why the Hunter Biden trial really mattered when thinking about the Biden presidency and the pardon.
Watch the whole thing at the link in my bio. <a href="https://t.co/FzBUBKM1cI">pic.twitter.com/FzBUBKM1cI</a>
&mdash; Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCillizza/status/1863762907718197263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The conversation then turned to the summer, when a jury in Delaware convicted Hunter Biden on three felony counts of lying on paperwork for a revolver and owning the firearm while being a drug addict in 2018. Todd mentioned Beau Biden&#8217;s widow, Hallie Biden. After Beau&#8217;s death, she started a romantic relationship with Hunter. Her public disposal of Hunter&#8217;s gun <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/02/hunter-biden-beau-widow-gun-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led to</a> the firearm case against him.
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&#8220;I followed the Hunter Biden trial very closely. I read every transcript, all the testimony, because all that was made public. &#8230; You want to get angry? Just as somebody in — just all these mixed emotions,&#8221; Todd said.
&#8220;You read the Hallie Biden transcript, and that’s Beau’s widow. And essentially, [Hunter] turned her into a crack addict. And this was all happening in 2017 and 2018. And Joe and Jill Biden were so concerned about their family that they decided to run for president,&#8221; Todd continued. &#8220;When you talk about the word selfish &#8230; their decision to run for president put the entire Democratic Party and the United States of America in the position it&#8217;s in now.&#8221;
Cillizza, a former CNN editor at large who now has a <a href="https://chriscillizza.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">newsletter</a> called &#8220;So What?&#8221; on Substack, posted a clip of the discussion to X on Monday. Some of those who commented on the post noted how Todd appeared to be more defensive of the Bidens in the past.
Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1863790931331162405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-january-15-2023-n1302361" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with</a> Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; early last year in which Todd <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1863790931331162405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;went to the mat&#8221;</a> for Hunter Biden when the first son was under investigation but had not yet been charged with any crimes.
&#8220;Senator, do you have a crime that you think Hunter Biden committed because I&#8217;ve yet to see anybody explain. It is not a crime to make money off of your last name,&#8221; Todd said at one point. At another, he said, &#8220;Look, you can go back on your partisan cable cocoon and talk about media bias all you want. I understand it&#8217;s part of your identity.&#8221;

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Chuck Todd Rips The Bidens: They ‘Put The Entire Democratic Party…In The Position It’s In Now’

2020 Election

Hunter Biden

First Lady Jill Biden took delivery of the official White House Christmas tree just before the Thanksgiving holiday — but her announcement about where the tree had come from raised eyebrows.
Biden explained that the massive Fraser Fir had come from a family-owned Christmas tree farm in North Carolina — and that the family had nicknamed it &#8220;Tree-mendous&#8221; when it remained standing after thousands of their trees were lost during Hurricane Helene.
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“This one remained standing.&quot;
First lady Jill Biden received the 2024 White House Christmas tree, a Frasier fir from the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, a community recently impacted by Hurricane Helene. <a href="https://t.co/CPqKq27kh9">pic.twitter.com/CPqKq27kh9</a>
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&#8220;Their farm is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a region that was recently devastated by Hurricane Helene,&#8221; Biden said of the more-than-60-year-old farm. &#8220;The Cartner family lost thousands of trees to the storm. But this one remained standing—and they named it &#8216;Tremendous&#8217; for the extraordinary hope that it represents.&#8221;
But critics were not impressed with Biden&#8217;s remarks, arguing that if the tree was a symbol of &#8220;extraordinary hope,&#8221; maybe the political elites should have left it where it stood.
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&#8220;This is the sort of tone deafness that cost the Democrats this year. They cut down a tree that survived Helene and want you to know it &#8216;remained standing&#8217; until the government showed up ready to help,&#8221; Erick Erickson posted.
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This is the sort of tone deafness that cost the Democrats this year. They cut down a tree that survived Helene and want you to know it “remained standing” until the government showed up ready to help. <a href="https://t.co/bBBZNFQEvd">https://t.co/bBBZNFQEvd</a>
&mdash; Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) <a href="https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1862297268226789703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;lol …They really hacked down a tree from a devastated area and shipped it to Washington for the elites to enjoy. It’s poetic,&#8221; RedState&#8217;s Bonchie added.
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lol…They really hacked down a tree from a devastated area and shipped it to Washington for the elites to enjoy.
It’s poetic. <a href="https://t.co/9Nmoex04xn">https://t.co/9Nmoex04xn</a>
&mdash; Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1862298925480177911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Federalist&#8217;s Sean Davis asked, &#8220;You were able to go to North Carolina to cut down one of their trees for your party, but you couldn’t manage to help the actual people stranded after the floods?&#8221;
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You were able to go to North Carolina to cut down one of their trees for your party, but you couldn’t manage to help the actual people stranded after the floods? <a href="https://t.co/JfLn7n3k5V">https://t.co/JfLn7n3k5V</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1862517977762947271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So, let me get this straight. The one tree that remained symbolically standing in an area on the receiving end of the unprecedented destruction, having earned the nickname &#8216;Treemendous&#8217; for its fortitude in surviving and standing as a symbol of resilience, was cut down and dragged to the White House to be put on temporary display before getting tossed aside as, for lack of a better term, garbage?&#8221; another posted. &#8220;Who the hell thought that was a good idea? Speaking of symbolism, this move by Team Deep State is very on-brand.&#8221;
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So, let me get this straight.
The one tree that remained symbolically standing in an area on the receiving end of the unprecedented destruction, having earned the nickname &#39;Treemendous&#39; for its fortitude in surviving and standing as a symbol of resilience, was cut down and… <a href="https://t.co/yDttFwgWHO">https://t.co/yDttFwgWHO</a>
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White House Christmas Tree Presentation With First Lady Jill Biden

Jill Biden Trashed For Getting White House Christmas Tree From Farm Impacted By Hurricane Helene

Jill Biden Trashed For Getting White House Christmas Tree From NC Farm Impacted By Hurricane Helene

Christmas Tree

Hurricane Helene

Nature

Melania Trump has turned down an invitation to meet with Jill Biden on Wednesday —  when President-elect Donald Trump will visit President Joe Biden — with sources reportedly close to Melania citing the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago as a key reason why.
Melania did visit and toured the White House with then-first lady Michelle Obama after Trump won the 2016 election.
“She ain’t going,” a source told <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/11/us-news/melania-trump-declines-to-meet-with-jill-biden-at-white-house-citing-mar-a-lago-raid-source/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting. &#8230;Jill Biden isn’t someone Melania needs to meet.”
The FBI executed a search warrant and raided the Trumps’ Florida Mar-a-Lago residence on August 8, 2022, as part of its investigation into Trump’s handling of presidential documents. Mr. Trump was at Trump Tower in New York City at the time.
In September, Melania Trump posted a video on X in which she quoted the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated &#8230;”
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She followed by stating, &#8220;I never imagined my privacy would be invaded by the government here in America. The FBI raided my home in Florida and searched through my personal belongings. This is not just my story; it serves as a warning to all Americans, a reminder that our freedom and rights must be respected.”
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&mdash; MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) <a href="https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/1834937662207103146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Melania stated that the FBI “rummaged through my personal belongings.” Asked if that made her angry, she <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SeanHannity/videos/melania-trump-mar-a-lago-raid-made-me-angry-it-was-invasion-of-privacy/411406728648329/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recalled</a>, “Yeah, it made me angry. Yes. Invasion of privacy. The way it was done, I was really surprised. &#8230; I saw unpleasant stuff, that nobody wants to see it. And you get angry because, you know, nobody should be putting up with that kind of stuff. Some person, I don’t even know who, or how many people, they went through my stuff.”
Roughly one month after the FBI raid, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109021143394347374" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Truth Social, “I’ll soon be heading to the scene of the unwarranted, unjust, and illegal Raid and Break-In of my home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago. I’ll be able to see for myself the results of the unnecessary ransacking of rooms and other areas of the house. It has already been proven that so much has been wrongfully taken, it is not a &#8216;pretty thing.&#8217; So sad! The 4th Amendment, and much more, has been totally violated, a grave invasion of privacy. I will keep the American public informed on TRUTH!”
Trump’s confidential documents case was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-classified-documents-smith-c66d5ffb7ba86c1b991f95e89bdeba0c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> in July by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon.

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Melania Turns Down Meeting With Jill Biden, Source Cites Mar-A-Lago Raid: Report

Donald Trump

Executive

Mar-a-Lago

Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Monday that if Vice President Kamala Harris were to win the presidency, former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) would be a good choice to be the Attorney General.
Goldberg, who only became a fan of Cheney and her father, who was previously referred to by Democrats as satan incarnate, when she turned on former President Donald Trump after January 6, 2021, argued that she would &#8220;feel a lot better&#8221; if the recently-ousted Wyoming congresswoman was in charge of things.
&#8220;Whoopi Goldberg says to Liz Cheney that she wants her to be Kamala Harris&#8217; Attorney General and that she would &#8216;feel a lot better with you leading the FBI or the CIA,'&#8221; conservative communications strategist Greg Price posted via X.
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Whoppi Goldberg says to Liz Cheney that she wants her to be Kamala Harris&#39; Attorney General and that she would &quot;feel a lot better with you leading the FBI or the CIA.&quot;
If you want Cheneys in control of foreign policy, vote for Kamala Harris.<a href="https://t.co/k6HKDPniiu">pic.twitter.com/k6HKDPniiu</a>
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1853507834354217417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Stating that Cheney&#8217;s &#8220;moral core is magnificent,&#8221; Goldberg added, &#8220;I would feel a lot better with you leading the FBI, the CIA, the NBC, the LMNOP, everybody &#8230; I&#8217;m putting it in the universe because that&#8217;s how we do things.&#8221;
Cheney, during her appearance on Monday&#8217;s broadcast, advocated for Trump to lose but also argued that Republicans needed to lose control of the House.
Critics were not impressed with Goldberg&#8217;s sudden advocacy — and a number pointed out that she had called early on for the &#8220;amazing doctor&#8221; Dr. Jill Biden, whose doctorate is actually in education, to be named President Joe Biden&#8217;s surgeon general.
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&#8220;I don’t care what side of things you’re on, saying you want Liz Cheney to head the CIA is completely deranged,&#8221; New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino posted on X.
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I don’t care what side of things you’re on, saying you want Liz Cheney to head the CIA is completely deranged. <a href="https://t.co/axgwsECU4C">https://t.co/axgwsECU4C</a>
&mdash; Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/VickieforNYC/status/1853611813906083937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;A Democrat being the one to put a Cheney back in charge of the deep state. 2005 me is laughing hysterically,&#8221; Rachel Bovard added.
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A Democrat being the one to put a Cheney back in charge of the deep state. 2005 me is laughing hysterically. <a href="https://t.co/TW8y4n2G2D">https://t.co/TW8y4n2G2D</a>
&mdash; Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) <a href="https://twitter.com/rachelbovard/status/1853509881719857197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Because trusting a Cheney to end foreign wars and the spilling of young American blood is always a good idea,&#8221; John Cardillo said.
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Because trusting a Cheney to end foreign wars and the spilling of young American blood is always a good idea. <a href="https://t.co/a0sXPAeQ6b">https://t.co/a0sXPAeQ6b</a>
&mdash; John Cardillo (@johncardillo) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1853545177631064372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Whoopi wanted Dr. Jill Biden to be the Surgeon General so&#8230;&#8221; another added.
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Whoopi wanted Dr. Jill Biden to be the Surgeon General so&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/gb7Chmdl7K">https://t.co/gb7Chmdl7K</a>
&mdash; Still Boneless (@still_boneless) <a href="https://twitter.com/still_boneless/status/1853512665311977594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Four years ago the same Whoopi Goldberg called Jill Biden &#8216;an amazing doctor&#8217; and suggested that Joe should appoint her as his surgeon general,&#8221; Michael Dorstewitz said.
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Four years ago the same Whoppi Goldberg called Jill Biden &quot;an amazing doctor&quot; and suggested that Joe should appoint her as his surgeon general. <a href="https://t.co/WADTsjktXF">https://t.co/WADTsjktXF</a>
&mdash; Michael Dorstewitz (@MikeDorstewitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeDorstewitz/status/1853517735201845491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Whoopi Goldberg says Jill Biden should become Surgeon General: “She’s an amazing doctor.”
Jill Biden’s doctorate is in education. <a href="https://t.co/Y0t2wzZEWO">pic.twitter.com/Y0t2wzZEWO</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1551898904920195075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Day 1 – Tribeca Festival Lisboa 2024

Whoopi Pitches Liz Cheney As Attorney General. Remember What She Wanted (Dr.) Jill Biden To Do?

ABC News

Liz Cheney

The View

Whoopi Goldberg

The biggest political scandal of our lifetime is unfolding right before us.
Joe Biden is the current president of the United States. Just a few weeks ago, he was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States.
Then, he took part in a debate with Donald Trump, and he completely collapsed on stage and demonstrated to the entire world that he actually is senile, that there is nothing going on upstairs, that he does not have working synapses, and that the neurons are not firing. That became clear to literally everyone, so much so that the entire Left-wing press, which had been on Biden&#8217;s side, decided he had to be replaced as the nominee, but not as the president.
That is the point: The current president of the United States — the most powerful man on planet Earth, by every available description — is effectively dead. That person has been dead for years at this point, and he is clearly dead right now, which means the vice president of the United States, in a typical working scenario, would have a constitutional duty under the 25th Amendment to supplant the president.
Kamala Harris has a constitutional duty today to oust Joe Biden. This man is not functional, which does have ramifications for the United States and for the world. Thank God the Founders built an incredibly durable system in which many of the cogs in the machine can be replaced so the machine continues to function.
But the world is becoming a more dangerous place — not just because Biden was the president, but also because he currently is the president.
Astonishingly, we are all supposed to simply forget he is the president of the United States. Yet he is not alive. He&#8217;s spending half of his time sleeping on a beach in Delaware and the other half wandering around into walls in the White House.
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On Friday, tape emerged of a public <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-slammed-for-appearance-at-first-wh-cabinet-meeting-in-nearly-a-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cabinet meeting</a>, the first to be held in quite a while.
Joe Biden was not leading that cabinet meeting. So who was?
Jill Biden.
Jill Biden has been elected by no one. (This sounds like Harris getting the presidential nomination, doesn’t it?)
Jill Biden has no public support to be doing what she is doing right now. She sat at the head of the table and led the cabinet meeting.
This is a person with a doctoral degree in education from a local college who&#8217;s never, ever been elected to a political position. All she did was marry Biden some decades ago.
And now, she is the sitting president of the United States.
This is insane. At least Edith Wilson had to pretend that Woodrow Wilson was still standing, even though he was a vegetable. Joe Biden isn&#8217;t even pretending.
This is a scandal. Did you elect her? I didn&#8217;t elect her. I didn&#8217;t vote for Joe Biden, but he&#8217;s still the president of the United States, even if he is brain-dead.
The tape of the meeting shows Joe Biden sitting slack-jawed, staring off into the distance at death approaching.
And we&#8217;re supposed to pretend this is normal?
The entire media have decided this is not interesting. For them, it is not worth covering because all they care about is maintaining the functioning of the Democratic media machine.
That is all they care about. It doesn&#8217;t matter to the media who is the head of it. Slap a new coat of paint on it. Call it Kamala Harris. It doesn&#8217;t matter.
The presidency, however, does not work that way. The president has plenary power over, for example, foreign policy. So who exactly is filling the seat right now? Who is the president of the United States?
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Over the weekend, Joe Biden <a href="https://x.com/SebGorka/status/1837872134900560240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave a speech</a> in which he was supposed to introduce the Prime Minister of India. Right in the middle of speaking, he lost it. He had no idea who he was introducing. None.
This was not some obscure world leader. Prime Minister Modi is the leader of the most populous country on the planet. On the planet.
And Biden couldn’t remember who he was supposed to introduce. He started yelling into the microphone, asking, “Who am I introducing today? Who’s next?”
That is the person who is currently the president of the United States.
How is this not the biggest scandal in modern American history? It&#8217;s happening right in front of our eyes. And we&#8217;re all supposed to pretend it means nothing.
Why?
The answer is pretty obvious. The reason we are all supposed to pretend that it does not matter that the current President of the United States is non compos mentis is because if we were to notice, the constitutional solution to that is to make Harris the president.
So why doesn’t she step up? Why doesn’t she, along with the Cabinet, declare the 25th Amendment and put herself in Biden’s place?
Two reasons. One: She is afraid that, as a revenge move for being ousted from the presidency, the zombie corpse of Biden would wander the landscape and explain to the American people just how terrible she is. That&#8217;s part of it.
But that&#8217;s not the real reason.
Two: Harris can only run and win if she is not perceived as part of the Biden administration, if she is perceived as having nothing to do with the policies of this administration.
That&#8217;s the dirty secret of this entire campaign.
Harris cannot run on the Biden record. Joe Biden couldn&#8217;t even run on the Biden record. His record is trash, which means her record is trash. She can&#8217;t run on that record. She has to run as a “change” candidate.
The problem, of course, is that she is not a change.
If you spend one iota of a second thinking about it, you know she&#8217;s not a change, but she needs the patina of not being the current president of the United States. She can&#8217;t politically remove Biden and put herself at the top of the White House without losing the election because then she would be viewed as obviously responsible for the things that have been done. She wants all of the credit for being vice president and none of the accountability for anything her entire administration has done.
The minute she supplants Biden, the facade falls away, the Potemkin village that is this administration falls away.
And Harris is the person left responsible.
That&#8217;s the whole campaign. They have to promote the lie: Joe Biden doesn&#8217;t exist. In fact, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris never existed.
It’s a massive scandal. It’s a massive lie.
And they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.
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President Biden Meets With His Cabinet At The White House

The Biggest Scandal In Modern American HISTORY — And No One Cares!

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Biden Administration

Kamala Harris

Opinion

Presidency

First lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> was slammed on social media Friday afternoon after she participated in the first cabinet meeting that the Biden-Harris administration has held in nearly a full year.
President Joe Biden introduced Jill to the meeting where she was speaking about a White House initiative.
&#8220;Here and across previous administrations, first ladies have attended these meetings for specific reasons,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This is the first time Jill has joined us, and it goes to show how important the issue is, which she is about to speak to.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s all yours, kid,&#8221; he said in passing the torch off to his wife.
Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros posted on X: &#8220;I’m unsure which part is more disturbing. 1. That the White House held its first Cabinet meeting in a year; or… 2. Jill Biden is leading the first White House Cabinet meeting in a year.&#8221;
&#8220;She cannot lead a presidential Cabinet meeting,&#8221; she added. &#8220;She doesn’t hold a Security Clearance.&#8221;
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Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X: &#8220;The same number of people have voted for Jill Biden to be President as have voted for Kamala: zero. Their new rule appears to be: the fewer votes you’ve earned, the more power you get to exercise.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh neat, an unelected person married to the mostly incapacitated elected president is overseeing the first Cabinet meeting in forever,&#8221; said commentator Mary Katharine Ham. &#8220;Does anyone have any questions about this?&#8221;
Media analyst Joe Concha slammed MSNBC&#8217;s characterization of the event. &#8220;Of course, this is how MSNBC characterizes the First Lady running a cabinet meeting,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If this was Melania Trump, these same &#8216;reporters&#8217; would melt into an unrecognizable pile of goo&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;She’s officially Edith Wilson,&#8221; added columnist Marc Thiessen. &#8220;She is not elected, has no official position, is not even a government employee. WTH is she doing running a cabinet meeting?&#8221;
&#8220;Who is running the country?&#8221; asked Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL).
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Jill Biden is kicking off the first cabinet meeting the White House has had in almost a year and we’re expected to act like this is normal. <a href="https://t.co/cocPx6xMb8">pic.twitter.com/cocPx6xMb8</a>
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/KateHydeNY/status/1837169830429892770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2024</a></blockquote>

Jill Biden Slammed For Appearance At First WH Cabinet Meeting In Nearly A Year

First Lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jill-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jill Biden</a> praised the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Paris that has faced backlash for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-features-drag-parody-of-last-supper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mocking Christianity</a> as a &#8220;spectacular&#8221; display.
Biden, who <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/07/22/president-biden-announces-full-presidential-delegations-to-paris-france-to-attend-the-opening-and-closing-ceremonies-of-the-paris-2024-olympic-games/#:~:text=First%20Lady%20Jill%20Biden%20will,place%20on%20July%2026%2C%202024.&amp;text=Second%20Gentleman%20Douglas%20Emhoff%20will,place%20on%20August%2011%2C%202024." target="_blank" rel="noopener">led the U.S. delegation</a> to the opening ceremony on Friday, made the comments <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/paris-2024-summer-olympics/paris-opening-ceremony-first-lady-jill-biden-la-2028-olympics/3470647/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during a brunch</a> celebrating the fact that the 2028 Olympics are going to be held in Los Angeles.
&#8220;It was spectacular,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1817575741887758789" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “The rain did not dampen our spirits. &#8230; Every step of the way, I was thinking to myself, &#8216;Oh my god, oh my god. How are we going to top this?'&#8221;
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&#39;IT WAS SPECTACULAR&#39;: First lady Jill Biden fawns over Olympics opening ceremony that&#39;s received widespread backlash for featuring drag queens making fun of Last Supper. <a href="https://t.co/tpcZp4XFOe">pic.twitter.com/tpcZp4XFOe</a>
&mdash; Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1817575741887758789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Biden <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/paris-2024-summer-olympics/paris-opening-ceremony-first-lady-jill-biden-la-2028-olympics/3470647/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went on to note</a> how Paris has the Eiffel Tower, but Los Angeles has Hollywood.
&#8220;The magic of Hollywood that makes all dreams come true,&#8221; she said, adding later, &#8220;It’s a city where new generations of dreamers shape our culture.”
This year&#8217;s opening ceremony, which featured a number of acts, drew controversy for including a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paris-olympics-opening-ceremony-features-drag-parody-of-last-supper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drag show parody</a> of &#8220;The Last Supper&#8221; with Jesus Christ, his apostles, and Greek god Dionysus.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1817229481972473922" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in</a> a post to X that the scene was &#8220;shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world who watched the opening ceremony.&#8221;
C Spire, a tech company based in Mississippi, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tech-company-drops-olympics-support-over-mockery-of-christianity-in-opening-ceremony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it would be removing ads from the Olympics.
“We were shocked by the mockery of the Last Supper during the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. C Spire will be pulling our advertising from the Olympics,” the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tech-company-drops-olympics-support-over-mockery-of-christianity-in-opening-ceremony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">firm said</a> on X.
NFL kicker <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/chiefs-harrison-butker-slams-paris-olympics-parody-last-supper-this-crazy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Butker</a>, who earlier this year <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-kicker-slams-biden-and-dei-in-commencement-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a> President Joe Biden had betrayed his Catholic faith by supporting abortion access, and <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258429/catholic-leaders-condemn-last-supper-scene-at-paris-olympics-opening" target="_blank" rel="noopener">religious leaders</a> also lashed out.
Amid the outrage, <a href="https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/40661411/paris-2024-apologizes-last-supper-sketch-criticism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to ESPN</a>, organizers for this summer&#8217;s games apologized to Catholics and other Christian groups who took offense.
&#8220;Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group. [The opening ceremony] tried to celebrate community tolerance,&#8221; said Paris 2024 spokesperson Anne Descamps.
She added, &#8220;We believe this ambition was achieved. If people have taken any offense, we are really sorry.&#8221;
The ceremony&#8217;s artistic director, Thomas Jolly, said, &#8220;We wanted to talk about diversity. Diversity means being together. We wanted to include everyone, as simple as that.&#8221;

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President Joe Biden&#8217;s family has reportedly begun discussing what his potential exit from the 2024 presidential race could look like.
The considerations include Biden&#8217;s health, his family and the stability of the country, and any decision should help the Democratic Party beat former President Donald Trump and be worthy of Biden&#8217;s long career as an elected official, which spans over half a century, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/bidens-family-starts-discussing-exit-plan-2024-race-rcna162658" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Friday morning.
Those family members reportedly include first lady Jill Biden, his son Hunter, and his sister, Valerie Owens.
Publicly, the Biden campaign has been insisting for days that he will not be dropping out, and White House spokesman Andrew Bates denied the Biden family is having any such discussions.
&#8220;That is not happening, period,&#8221; Bates told NBC. &#8220;The individuals making those claims are not speaking for his family or his team — and they will be proven wrong. Keep the faith.&#8221;
Biden campaign manager Jen O&#8217;Malley Dillon <a href="https://x.com/Morning_Joe/status/1814287762792579267" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8216;Morning Joe&#8217; Friday morning, &#8220;Absolutely the president is still in this race. You&#8217;ve heard him say that time and time again.&#8221;
On Thursday, Biden campaign senior advisor TJ Ducklo tried to dispel rumors as well.
“Joe Biden is his party’s nominee. He’s the President of the United States. He’s running for reelection,” Ducklo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-campaign-pushes-back-on-reports-of-his-exit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X on Thursday.
“Baseless conjecture from anonymous sources isn’t a scoop,” Ducklo said, apparently referring to reports that senior members of Congress had met with Biden and advised him to step aside.
On Wednesday, it leaked that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had both met with Biden in person and reportedly told him he should end his re-election campaign for the good of the country.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/nancy-pelosi-biden-conversation/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> told the president privately that he cannot win in November and could even ruin Democrats’ chances of winning the House if he stays in the race.
Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/07/19/every-big-name-urging-biden-to-drop-out-four-reps-issue-joint-statement-joining-24-other-congressional-democrats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly</a> 30 congressional Democrats have gone public with calls for the president to drop out of the race, including at least five more members of the House just on Friday.
Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Thursday that it is time for Biden to “pass the torch.”
So far, three senators have called on the president to drop out, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Senator Jon Tester (D-MT), and Senator Peter Welch (D-NV).
Several celebrities have called on Biden to leave the race as well, most notably actor George Clooney, who hosted a massive fundraiser for Biden before his disastrous debate performance last month. After the debate, Clooney penned an op-ed in The New York Times saying Biden must &#8220;voluntarily step aside&#8221; to &#8220;save democracy.&#8221;
Former President Donald Trump currently <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leads</a> Biden nationally by three percentage points, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls. He also leads in eight swing states:  Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.
At this time in 2020, Biden was leading Trump by 8.6 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics.
The reports of the Biden family&#8217;s discussions come a day after Trump addressed the Republican National Convention and officially accepted the party&#8217;s nomination.

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