On Monday&#8217;s episode of “Fearless with Jason Whitlock,” the former ESPN columnist took aim at Disney, saying that the company purchased ESPN in order to “feminize ESPN and the sports world.” (Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for kids entertainment content.)
“For the last 20 years, and really starting with the purchase of ESPN in 1996, Disney has gone about the business of feminizing and wokefying sports,” Whitlock said on his weekly show. “This isn’t some overnight thing that just happened the last two or three years. This isn’t some Colin Kaepernick-coincidence that they took advantage of. This has been a plot and a strategy for nearly 30 years.”
“When Disney got a hold of ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports, the goal was to Disney-fy ESPN and the sports world, and to feminize ESPN and the sports world,” Whitlock continued. “And that’s what’s gone on the last 25, 26 years. The sports world and ESPN have been feminized. They do it through their little key catchphrase, ‘diversity, inclusion, and equity.’ They call it diversity, equity, and inclusion, I call it diversity, inclusion, and equity. Cause it’s D – I – E. It’s the death of men. It’s the assassination of men. That’s what Disney and ESPN are about. Imposing the matriarchy on the rest of the world, particularly on American culture through sports.”
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&quot;For the last 20 years, and really starting with the purchase of ESPN in 1996, Disney has gone about the business of feminizing and wokeifying sports &#8230; It’s the assassination of men!&quot; claimed <a href="https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhitlockJason</a>. <a href="https://t.co/pAcB6KXN4R">https://t.co/pAcB6KXN4R</a> <a href="https://t.co/21WfLSJzTZ">pic.twitter.com/21WfLSJzTZ</a>
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In the nearly one hour and thirty minute long podcast, Whitlock harkened back to his college days, where he played college football at Ball State, saying that he was built for the real world due to what sports taught him — that it wasn’t about diversity, inclusion, and equity; it was about who was best suited of the job. Whitlock claims that after Disney took over ESPN, the “best man for the job” mentality went out the window, and diversity, inclusion, and equity became the focus.
“When I entered the workforce and entered the real world, I was built for the real world because I could play,&#8221; Whitlock <a href="https://youtu.be/9LFfDCETU7k">said</a>. &#8220;I was going to put in the practice time and the work to learn how to play the journalism game at the highest level. The only thing that separated me from success in the journalism field was my willingness to work hard. And I was willing to work hard. So, I became successful.”
“Once Disney takes over the worldwide leader in sports, and starts imposing it’s culture of diversity, inclusion, and equity, being qualified — whether you can play or not — in the field of journalism and broadcasting, it did not matter,&#8221; Whitlock continued. &#8220;Oh, ‘let’s give Scoop Jackson a writing job even though he writes at a third-grade level. Let’s throw him out there as an ESPN columnist because that’s diverse.’”
The episode caught the attention of Never-Trumper Joe Walsh, who attacked Whitlock on Twitter.
“Disney is ‘the assassination of men,’” Walsh wrote on Twitter. “I remember saying s*** like that to get my right wing audience outraged. I’m glad I don’t do that anymore.”
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Disney is “the assassination of men.” 
I remember saying shit like that to get my right wing audience outraged. I’m glad I don’t do that anymore. <a href="https://t.co/SJtTPBHTJh">https://t.co/SJtTPBHTJh</a>
&mdash; Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1514195768994938886?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Whitlock responded by saying that it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;outrage&#8221; that he is seeking, but an &#8220;audience of responsible men.&#8221;
&#8220;Don&#8217;t project your motive onto me,&#8221; Whitlock <a href="https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1514285387065303043?s=20&amp;t=ZeXBiEOGTTR_sT5mNFnIXg">wrote</a>. &#8220;No interest in outrage. I&#8217;m trying to wake up men, particularly black men, to what&#8217;s happening to us and our dereliction of duty. I&#8217;m not seeking a ‘right wing audience.’ I&#8217;m seeking an audience of responsible men.&#8221;
Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.

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Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh, whose campaign went largely unnoticed nationally, announced Friday that he was officially suspending his campaign — but made sure to take a final shot at &#8220;the Cult of Trump&#8221; in the process.
&#8220;I’m suspending my campaign, but our fight against the Cult of Trump is just getting started,&#8221; Walsh wrote in a brief announcement posted on social media Friday. &#8220;I’m committed to doing everything I can to defeat Trump and his enablers this November. I can’t do it alone. Join me at joewalsh.org.&#8221;
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I’m suspending my campaign, but our fight against the Cult of Trump is just getting started. I’m committed to doing everything I can to defeat Trump and his enablers this November. I can’t do it alone. Join me at <a href="https://t.co/d40HA9h2Kz">https://t.co/d40HA9h2Kz</a>.
&mdash; Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1225758957723148289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A former Illinois congressman-turned-radio host, Walsh announced his candidacy in August, telling ABC&#8217;s George Stephanopoulos that he was running because he believes Trump is &#8220;unfit to be president.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a guy in the White House who is unfit, completely unfit to be president,&#8221; Walsh <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/joe-walsh-suspends-gop-presidential-campaign-against-trump/2215098/">told</a> Stephanopoulos, a former Bill Clinton adviser. &#8220;And it stuns me that nobody stepped up. Nobody in the Republican Party has stepped up.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m running because he&#8217;s unfit, somebody needs to step up and there needs to be an alternative,&#8221; said Walsh. &#8220;The country is sick of this guy&#8217;s tantrum, he&#8217;s a child&#8230;. He lies every time he opens his mouth. Look at what happened this week. The President of the United States is tweeting us into a recession.&#8221;
Asked to explain why Republicans stand so strongly behind the president, Walsh said, &#8220;Because they&#8217;re scared to death. Look, George, this isn&#8217;t easy to do. I just sat down with you and said I&#8217;m going to run for president. I&#8217;m going to challenge this guy. I&#8217;m opening up my life to tweets and attacks. Everything I&#8217;ve said and tweeted now Trump&#8217;s going to go after and his bullies are going to go after.&#8221;
&#8220;Here&#8217;s what I think most of my former colleagues believe: They think Trump&#8217;s going to lose in November,&#8221; Walsh declared.
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&quot;I&#39;m running because he&#39;s unfit, somebody needs to step up and there needs to be an alternative. The country is sick of this guy&#39;s tantrum, he&#39;s a child,&quot; Joe Walsh tells <a href="https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GStephanopoulos</a> when asked about GOP support for Trump <a href="https://t.co/bLWbG7aCAU">https://t.co/bLWbG7aCAU</a> <a href="https://t.co/KeFCo7sJmL">pic.twitter.com/KeFCo7sJmL</a>
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Rather than leading the nation into a &#8220;recession,&#8221; as Walsh claimed back in August, Trump&#8217;s administration has presided over an economic boom that has continued to defy such pessimistic predictions. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-caps-off-successful-week-by-outpacing-jobs-expectations">The Daily Wire</a> highlighted Friday, the latest jobs report presents yet more good economic news for Trump as the economy, again, outpaced expectations (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>In the month of January, 225,000 jobs were added, according to Labor Department figures, far exceeding the Wall Street estimate of 158,000 jobs, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/07/us-nonfarm-payrolls-january-2019.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&amp;par=sharebar">CNBC</a>reported. Moreover, according to CNBC, the unemployment rate ticked to 3.6%, “for the right reason as the labor force participation rate increased 0.2 percentage points to 63.4%, matching its highest level since June 2013, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department.” Wages are also on the rise. “Average hourly earnings rose 3.1% over a year ago to $28.44, ahead of estimates for 3% growth,” CNBC noted. “That marked 18 consecutive months of wage gains above 3%, as the initially reported 2.9% for December was revised up to 3%.”</blockquote>
As for Walsh&#8217;s seeming certainty that Trump is &#8220;going to lose in November,&#8221; a recent analysis gives the president a 59.99% chance of winning re-election. &#8220;Betting aggregator <a href="https://www.oddschecker.com/us/insight/specials/politics/20190318-2020-election-odds-who-will-be-the-next-us-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Oddschecker.com</a> put Trump’s chances at 59.99%, and the site shows that Trump has been soaring in the past few weeks, paralleling national job approval surveys including Gallup and the highly watched RealClearPolitics &#8216;Trump Job Approval&#8217; average,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/2020-odds-jump-for-trump-59-99-chance-for-reelection-16-7-for-sanders">Washington Examiner</a> reported Thursday.

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Business Insider has invited former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), former Gov. Bill Weld (R-MA), former Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC), and President Donald Trump to participate in a Republican presidential primary election debate on Tuesday, September 24, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/long-shot-gop-presidential-primary-challengers-to-face-off-in-debate-this-month">Fox News</a>.
&#8220;The political landscape has changed immeasurably since Donald Trump ran for and was elected President,&#8221; says Business Insider in a press release reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/460766-business-insider-to-host-gop-debate-with-trump-challengers">The Hill</a>. &#8220;It’s vitally important to have an honest conversation about what it means to be a Republican in the era of Trump; our debate will be a valuable part of that discussion.&#8221;
Walsh and Weld have confirmed that they will participate in the debate, which will be live-streamed by Business Insider on Facebook, reports Fox News. Although Sanford plans to participate in the debate, he has not yet confirmed his participation due to a current schedule conflict. Trump has not yet responded to the invitation.
The debate announcement comes as a small but vocal faction of the conservative movement continues to search for a nominee to replace President Trump at the top of the Republican Party ticket next November.
Both Walsh and Sanford previously supported Trump, although Sanford wrote in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/opinion/i-support-you-donald-trump-now-release-your-tax-returns.html?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20160814">The New York Times</a> in 2016 that he found Trump&#8217;s style distasteful.
&#8220;I am a conservative Republican who, though I have no stomach for his personal style and his penchant for regularly demeaning others, intends to support my party&#8217;s nominee because of the importance of filling the existing vacancy on the Supreme Court, and others that might open in the next four years,&#8221; wrote Sanford.
Walsh stopped supporting the president after Trump appeared alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin in a press conference in Helsinki, in which Trump questioned whether Russia interfered in the 2016 elections. Trump&#8217;s questioning contradicted information provided to him by U.S. intelligence sources, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629601233/trumps-helsinki-bow-to-putin-leaves-world-wondering-whats-up">NPR</a>.
&#8220;Trump was a traitor today. I cannot &amp; will not support a traitor. No decent American should,&#8221; Walsh tweeted at the time.
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No decent American should.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1018898310847975425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Recent surveys show that a majority of registered Republicans still approve of Trump&#8217;s performance in office. Last month, a <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/265487/trump-latest-approval-rating-stable.aspx">Gallup</a> poll found that 88% of Republicans approve of his performance. Another poll, conducted by <a href="https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/news/documents/2019-09/2019_reuters_tracking_-_core_political_congressional_approval_tracker_09_04_2019.pdf">Ipsos</a> and published in early September, shows that 77% of Republicans approve of the president.
Last week, Trump announced on Twitter that he has a 94% approval rating among Republicans, but it remains unclear how he arrived at that number.
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1171022839962644480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Despite a growing crop of Republican challengers to the president, South Carolina, Nevada, and Kansas have all announced they will not hold Republican presidential primaries and will commit all their delegates to Trump. South Carolina and Kansas made a similar decision ahead of the 2004 Republican presidential primaries, according to <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/canceled-elections/">The Nation</a>.
Nonetheless, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has previously remained open to the idea of allowing Republican challengers to Trump, although she publicly cautioned earlier this year at CPAC that any challenger would &#8220;lose horribly,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/politics/rnc-trump-primary/index.html">CNN</a>.
&#8220;What would any Republican be thinking, saying this is a guy I’m going to run against? So have at it, go ahead, waste your money, waste your time, and go ahead and lose,&#8221; said McDaniel.

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On Friday, former congressman Joe Walsh appeared on Fox Business Network to discuss his primary challenge against President Trump with host Stuart Varney.
After Varney called out Walsh for having &#8220;insulted the president&#8221; in his announcement of his candidacy, the Fox Business Network host and the former congressman engaged in a heated back-and-forth about President Trump.
During the exchange, Walsh claimed that the president often &#8220;lies.&#8221; Varney disagreed, saying that the president has never lied to the American people, insisting that he simply &#8220;exaggerates and spins.&#8221;
<blockquote>WALSH: You asked me a question. I&#8217;m running against this president because I believe he lies virtually every time he opens his mouth – you know that, too.
VARNEY: No, I don&#8217;t. I do not know that.
WALSH: I believe he’s morally unfit, and I believe he’s a danger to this country.
VARNEY: Do not impute that to me, Joe Walsh. Don’t do it. &#8230; You’re on this program because I’ve got questions that I want to ask, and when I get an answer like, &#8220;I know – Stuart Varney knows that the president lies,&#8221; I&#8217;m gonna push back because that&#8217;s nonsense, and you know it&#8217;s nonsense, and don&#8217;t try to bring me into your phony arguments.
WALSH: You asked me – and let&#8217;s get back to where we started, my friend – you asked me why I would do something as monumental as this. You can disagree with why I&#8217;m doing it, my friend, but I&#8217;m doing it because I believe he&#8217;s unfit and he&#8217;s a danger to this country. I would not take on a task like this, Stuart, [because] admittedly, it’s a difficult thing to do unless I felt that strongly about it. That’s all.
VARNEY: Alright. Explain yourself. Explain yourself. You say he&#8217;s &#8220;unfit to be the President of the United States,&#8221; Trump is &#8220;an unfit con man who doesn&#8217;t care about anything but himself.&#8221; Explain it. So, what are you talking about?
WALSH: I think he does – let me explain and then you can jump in and disagree – I do believe we&#8217;ve never had a situation like this where we have a president who we fundamentally can&#8217;t believe. I do believe he lies virtually every time he opens his mouth.
VARNEY: Give me an example.
WALSH: I&#8217;ll give you an example just from yesterday – and even his staff, Stuart, admitted that he lied this week when he said there were high-level phone calls between the United States and China. Trump said that repeatedly. His staff came out yesterday and admitted that the President of the United States lied to the world to manipulate the markets. I have a problem with that.
VARNEY: That’s not a lie. Let’s not get technical.
WALSH: That’s not a lie?
VARNEY: No, it&#8217;s not a lie. If the man says – and he did – that high-level talks had been held with China, that is not a lie. They were held with China.
WALSH: Stuart, he said there were high-level phone calls with Chinese officials; his staff admitted that was not true, that he lied in order to manipulate the market. Period.
VARNEY: Okay, give me another one. Give me another one. That doesn’t work.
WALSH: Hey, Stuart, you really don&#8217;t believe that that&#8217;s a lie?
VARNEY: No, I don&#8217;t.
WALSH: You don&#8217;t?
VARNEY: And I really object to you saying to me, &#8220;and you know it is, Stuart.&#8221; I do not know it is, and please, do not bring me into your nonsense.
WALSH: Stuart, do you believe this president lies?
VARNEY: No.
WALSH: You don&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s ever lied?
VARNEY: He exaggerates and spins.
WALSH: Okay, do you believe he&#8217;s ever told the American people a lie?
VARNEY: No.
WALSH: Okay, I do, and I think that&#8217;s a problem.</blockquote>
Varney went on to accuse Walsh of lying, citing the times he called former President Barack Obama a &#8220;Muslim.&#8221; Walsh then noted that he has apologized for his remarks.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Joe Walsh: &#8220;Stuart, do you believe this president lies?&#8221; 
Fox Biz host Stuart Varney: &#8220;No.&#8221;
Walsh: &#8220;You don&#8217;t believe he&#8217;s ever lied?&#8221; 
Varney: &#8220;He exaggerates and spins.&#8221;
Walsh: &#8220;Okay, do you believe he&#8217;s ever told the American people a lie?&#8221; 
Varney: &#8220;No.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/zpEXSvc63z">pic.twitter.com/zpEXSvc63z</a>
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Regarding the alleged lie pertaining to talks with the Chinese, during the G7 Summit on Monday, President Trump claimed that China had called the night before, and wanted to &#8220;get back to the table,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/26/chinese-newspaper-editor-hu-xijin-china-didnt-change-its-position.html">CNBC</a>.
<blockquote>China called last night our top trade people and said &#8220;let’s get back to the table,&#8221; so we will be getting back to the table, and I think they want to do something. They have been hurt very badly, but they understand this is the right thing to do, and I have great respect for it. This is a very positive development for the world.</blockquote>
However, the Chinese denied ever engaging in such calls.
According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/politics/donald-trump-2020-election-pardons-walls-victories/index.html">CNN</a>, &#8220;two officials said Trump was eager to project optimism that might boost markets, and conflated comments from China&#8217;s vice premier with direct communication from the Chinese.&#8221;
It&#8217;s sometimes difficult to discern the difference between a misleading statement or an unintentionally uninformed remark, and an outright lie. A lie requires intent to deceive. That being said, many would argue that President Trump has indeed lied on numerous occasions.
Here are several of the most outrageous examples:
Opioid Bill
In October 2018, President Trump <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2018/oct/24/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-opioid-bill-didnt-get-much-demo/">said</a>: &#8220;I&#8217;ll soon sign into the law the largest legislative effort in history to address the opioid crisis where just this year we got $6 billion from Congress – thanks to (Ohio Republican Sen.) Rob Portman and a lot of others – thank you, Rob – but Rob and so many others helped. Very little Democrat support.&#8221;
This is false.
The bill <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/1099/all-actions?overview=closed&amp;q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D">passed</a> the House 393-8, and the Senate 98-1. All eight of the &#8220;nay&#8221; votes for the House bill came from Republicans, and the only senator who voted against the bill was Mike Lee (R-UT).
Harry Reid
In February 2019, President Trump <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/feb/25/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-harry-reid-was-thrown-out-offic/">tweeted</a>: &#8220;Former Senator Harry Reid (he got thrown out) is working hard to put a good spin on his failed career.&#8221;
Former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) wasn&#8217;t &#8220;thrown out&#8221; in any sense. Reid served in the legislative body for nearly 30 years prior to announcing in March 2015 that he would not seek re-election in the next cycle.
Tax Cuts
In November 2017, President Trump <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-no-tax-cuts-passed-reagan/​">said</a>: &#8220;You know, for years, they have not been able to get tax cuts – many, many years, since Reagan.&#8221;
This is false.
According to <a href="https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/nov/30/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-no-tax-cuts-passed-reagan/">Politifact</a>, &#8220;Congress enacted nine tax bills&#8221; under Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama. For example, President Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act, and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act in 2001 and 2003, respectively, both of which cut taxes.
Oswald
In July 2016, President Trump <a href="https://insider.foxnews.com/2016/07/22/trump-cruz-never-denied-his-father-was-photo-oswald​">claimed</a> that Sen. Ted Crux (R-TX) &#8220;never denied&#8221; that his father was in a photo with Lee Harvey Oswald:
<blockquote>All I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of him and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast. Now, Ted never denied that it was his father. Instead he said, &#8220;Donald Trump.&#8221; I had nothing to do with it. This was a magazine that frankly, in many respects, should be very respected.</blockquote>
Not only had Cruz&#8217;s communications director <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article73449297.html​">denied</a> that the senator&#8217;s father was in the picture in April 2016, but in May, Cruz <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ql74N5QkNC4​">stated in part</a>: &#8220;This morning Donald Trump went on national television and attacked my father. Donald Trump alleges that my dad was involved in assassinating JFK. Let&#8217;s be clear, this is nuts. This is not a reasonable position, this is just kooky.&#8221;
Cruz went on to call the publication &#8220;tabloid trash,&#8221; and the story &#8220;idiotic.&#8221;

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Former congressman and newly announced Republican presidential candidate Joe Walsh told CNN Monday night that just before coming into the studio, he learned that his radio show was canceled. The notification, he pointed out, came just one day after he announced that he was taking on Donald Trump for the GOP nomination.
On Sunday, Walsh, a former single-term representative for Illinois, announced that he&#8217;s &#8220;in&#8221; the race because the country &#8220;can&#8217;t take four more years of Donald Trump. And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m running for President. It won&#8217;t be easy, but bravery is never easy. But together, we can do it.&#8221;
By Monday, Walsh found himself defending some past offensive tweets, which he admitted including some &#8220;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-challenger-joe-walsh-i-wouldnt-call-myself-a-racist-but-ive-said-racist-things">racist things</a>,&#8221; and to which he responded by accusing Trump of being a &#8220;sexual predator&#8221; and &#8220;serial liar&#8221; who is guilty of obstruction of justice. &#8220;I’m running against a sexual predator, a serial liar, a malignant narcissist, an obstructer of justice, a psychopath, a betrayer of this nation’s interests, a bigot, an incompetent boob, a failed businessman&#8230; and I’m getting attacked for some offensive &amp; inappropriate tweets.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Friends, I&#8217;m in. We can&#8217;t take four more years of Donald Trump. And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m running for President.
It won&#8217;t be easy, but bravery is never easy. But together, we can do it. Join me&#8230; join us: go to <a href="https://t.co/d40HA9h2Kz">https://t.co/d40HA9h2Kz</a>.
Let&#8217;s show the world we&#8217;re ready to be brave.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1165610817208934400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">I’m running against a sexual predator, a serial liar, a malignant narcissist, an obstructer of justice, a psychopath, a betrayer of this nation’s interests, a bigot, an incompetent boob, a failed businessman&#8230;
and I’m getting attacked for some offensive &amp; inappropriate tweets.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) <a href="https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1166175012329578496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Monday evening, Walsh said, he learned that his show, which is distributed by Salem Radio Network, was &#8220;gone.&#8221;
&#8220;I just found out that I lost my national radio show, so that&#8217;s gone,&#8221; Walsh told CNN&#8217;s John Berman, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-walsh-says-hes-lost-radio-show-since-launching-trump-challenge">Fox News</a>. &#8220;But I figured that might happen.&#8221;
When Berman asked Walsh why exactly he lost the show, the candidate said he wasn&#8217;t sure. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why,&#8221; said Walsh. &#8220;I just got a notice before I came into the studio. I&#8217;m running for president. I oppose this president. Most of my listeners support the president. It&#8217;s not an easy thing to do to be in conservative talk radio and oppose this president.&#8221;
Estimating that around 80 to 90% of his audience back the president, Walsh said, he knew that when he made the announcement Sunday, his show &#8220;could be in jeopardy.&#8221;
&#8220;No more radio show, but that&#8217;s OK,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to campaign full time.&#8221;
While he said the decision to run was &#8220;difficult,&#8221; he believes it&#8217;s &#8220;urgent&#8221; because Trump is &#8220;a danger.&#8221;
&#8220;We cannot let get elected for another four years,&#8221; he said, echoing his campaign announcement.
Salem Radio Network has not yet responded to Walsh&#8217;s claim.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51025/watch-trump-primary-challenger-joe-walsh-calls-frank-camp">The Daily Wire</a> reported, Walsh told ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; host George Stephanopoulos Sunday that he was taking on Trump because he&#8217;s &#8220;completely unfit to be president.&#8221;
&#8220;George, no surprise, we&#8217;ve got a guy in the White House who&#8217;s unfit, completely unfit to be president, and it stuns me that nobody stepped up, nobody in the Republican party stepped up,&#8221; said Walsh. &#8220;Because I&#8217;ll tell you what, George, everybody believes – in the Republican Party, everybody believes that he&#8217;s unfit. He lies every time he opens his mouth.&#8221;
Asked about polls showing a vast majority of Republicans backing Trump, Walsh said it&#8217;s just because &#8220;they don&#8217;t have an alternative.&#8221;
&#8220;The country is sick of this guy&#8217;s tantrum. He&#8217;s a child,&#8221; said Walsh. &#8220;Again, the litany – he lies every time he opens his mouth. Look at what&#8217;s happened this week. The President of the United States is tweeting us into a recession. I can tell you, George, that most of my former colleagues up on the Hill, they agree privately with everything I&#8217;m saying.&#8221;
Walsh went on to describe Trump as &#8220;nuts,&#8221; &#8220;erratic,&#8221; and &#8220;cruel.&#8221;
&#8220;He stokes bigotry. He&#8217;s incompetent. He doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing. George, he&#8217;s a narcissist. Everything he cares about – the only thing he cares about – is Trump. He doesn&#8217;t give a damn about America. He doesn&#8217;t care about the border,&#8221; he said
Walsh also appeared on Deadline on Monday and was pressed on past offensive comments, including pushing the birther conspiracy about Barack Obama, calling him a Muslim, and once using the N-word to make a point.
&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t call myself a racist but I would say, [MSNBC analyst John Heilemann], I&#8217;ve said racist things on Twitter,” Walsh replied, as reported by <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-challenger-joe-walsh-i-wouldnt-call-myself-a-racist-but-ive-said-racist-things">The Daily Beast</a>. &#8220;There’s no doubt about it. And an apology is not enough.&#8221;
As for saying Obama was a Muslim, he said that was a reaction to being &#8220;so disgusted with Obama’s policy towards Israel&#8221; and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll get down on my knees because that was a horrible thing to say.&#8221;

Joe Walsh: I Lost My Radio Show After Announcing I’d Run Against Trump