A former NFL safety who once supported Barack Obama but then became an ardent supporter of Donald Trump has threatened MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid with a lawsuit after she publicly chastised him for taking a group of young black boys from his after-school club to join Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis as he signed the Stop WOKE Act, which targets the inculcation of Critical Race Theory in schools.
Last Friday, former Minnesota Viking Jack Brewer took children from his Jack Brewer Foundation to DeSantis’ signing; the children held up signs opposing Critical Race Theory.
Reid retweeted a photo of three young back boys brandishing signs with CRT surrounded by a red circle and a line through it, captioning the photo, “This mis-use of Black boys is tantamount to child abuse. I would really like to hear the back-story on who these kids were and how they wound up at a DeSantis event. Given how anti-Black DeSantis is, using Black children this way is extra sick.”
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Brewer fired back, telling the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-nfl-player-threatens-lawsuit-against-joy-reid-for-child-abuse-remark">The Washington Examiner</a> that either Reid should apologize or he would sue her for defamation. He stated, &#8220;She has completely humiliated my kids and my program.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s just so hurtful, and she needs to be held accountable. She does it so often. And you know, her words and the way that she comes across to black America leaves a stain on all of us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I won&#8217;t put up with it when it comes to my kids.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a vocal advocate against CRT — anything that teaches kids anti-Christ rhetoric and teaches kids to hate and to see each other based on the color of their skin,&#8221; Brewer continued.  &#8220;I have students in my program who have gone to school and been told that they can&#8217;t accomplish something because of the color of [their] skin.&#8221;
Jane Halbritter, whose two nephews were featured in the photo Reid retweeted,  asserted that both boys, aged 9 and 14, were invited to the signing because they were participants in the American Heroes Program. She ripped Reid, telling the Examiner:
<blockquote>I mean, she&#8217;s painting these kids like they&#8217;re just little black boys that don&#8217;t know anything and could be exploited, like they don&#8217;t even have their own minds. &#8230;  And I don&#8217;t see her doing it with white kids. &#8230; She doesn&#8217;t know the love we have for these kids, and to assume that we would send them into a situation that they were not equipped to deal with or understood in an age-appropriate fashion, that&#8217;s just so monumentally insulting, but it also put them at risk because now they&#8217;re this poster child for this and kind of at the center of the storm. It&#8217;s terrible. It&#8217;s really a sad thing.</blockquote>
HB 7, nicknamed the Stop Woke Act, <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2022/04/22/governor-ron-desantis-signs-legislation-to-protect-floridians-from-discrimination-and-woke-indoctrination/">specifies</a> that subjecting a student to a required activity that promotes, advances, or compels individuals to believe discriminatory concepts, constitutes unlawful discrimination.
Ideas of unlawful discrimination include:
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<li>That members of one race, color, national origin or sex are morally superior to members of another race, color, national origin or sex.</li>
<li>A person by virtue of their race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive.</li>
<li>A person’s moral character or status as privileged or oppressed is determined by race, color, national origin or sex.</li>
<li>A person, by virtue of their race, color, national origin or sex should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment to achieve diversity, equity or inclusion.</li>
</ul>
DeSantis stated, “No one should be instructed to feel as if they are not equal or shamed because of their race. In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces. There is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida.”

Reid

Former NFL Safety Threatens Lawsuit After Joy Reid Rants About Him Taking Black Children To DeSantis Event

Joy-Ann Reid

Ron DeSantis

Wokeness

President Biden’s U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has suggested that Fox News should fire host Jesse Watters or &#8220;passively endorse&#8221; statements that “endorse violence” against Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The Biden administration formally waded into the controversy between Watters and Fauci during Tuesday night’s episode of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut.”
“I love talking with smart people, General Murthy, but I’m now going to ask you about one of the dumbest people, sorry to say, in public life. His name is Jesse Watters,” said Joy Reid, as Murthy laughed at her insult.
She then read an extremely truncated version of Watters’ remarks to young people at a Turning Point USA conference, where “The Five” co-host used the terms “ambushes” and “kill shot” in reference to interviewing dissembling politicians on video. Some media outlets sought to interpret his remarks as an incitement to violence against Fauci.
“Well Joy, I did hear about the comment,” Murthy responded. “For anybody out there to use language that would encourage violence or speak to violence – not just against Dr. Fauci, but against anybody, especially somebody who is trying to do good for the country – that’s reprehensible.”
“I’ll say this: If somebody like that worked in my office, in any organization that I ran, they certainly wouldn’t be working there for much longer after a comment like that,” he said. “We, all of us and the roles that we have in our life, we have choices to make about whether we support or passively endorse values and statements like that, that endorse violence. And this is a time where we have to take a stand against the kind of nonsense and disgusting rhetoric that I think have poisoned public debate.”
“The voices of disunity, voices that endorse violence, those are the voices that threaten to tear our country apart, that make it harder to get through a pandemic like this,” said Murthy, adding that, during a global health pandemic, people should not be “trying to turn people against one another.”
“You are a calming presence,” Reid told Murthy at the end of the interview.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Surgeon_General</a>: This is the time that we have to take a stand against the kind of&#8230; disgusting rhetoric that [has] poisoned public debate and turned people against each other when what we need is for people to come together in the face of this pandemic. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheReidOut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheReidOut</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/reiders?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#reiders</a> <a href="https://t.co/522BMPfebi">pic.twitter.com/522BMPfebi</a>
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The Surgeon General became the second member of the Biden administration to suggest that Fox News should fire the “Watters’ World” star, after Fauci himself. “You have some guy out there saying that people should be giving me a ‘kill shot,’ to ‘ambush me.’ I mean, what kind of craziness is there in society these days?” Fauci asked. “Whatever network he’s on is not going to do anything,” Fauci <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/should-be-fired-on-the-spot-fauci-wants-fox-news-jesse-watters-canned-for-conference-speech">told</a> CNN’s John Berman earlier on Tuesday. “The guy should be fired on the spot.”
Watters and Fox News have strongly rebuffed the notion that his remarks had anything to do with violence, noting they had been wrenched out of context to fit a narrative of victimization. Watters’ speech explained to young people at Turning Point USA “how you do these ambushes like [<a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/">Project Veritas</a> founder James] O’Keefe.” O’Keefe, who has never been accused of committing homicide, records undercover videos of public figures and institutions that he believes mislead the American people. Watters called confronting someone with proof of his lie on camera as a “kill shot.” As Amanda Prestigiacomo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fox-news-issues-strong-response-after-fauci-calls-for-jesse-watters-to-be-fired">reported</a> at The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>Fox News on Tuesday said in a statement to The Daily Wire that “it’s more than clear” that Watters was not being literal, and noted the controversy surrounding Fauci’s apparent ties to gain-of-function research.
“Based on watching the full clip and reading the entire transcript, it’s more than clear that Jesse Watters was using a metaphor for asking hard-hitting questions to Dr. Fauci about gain-of-function research and his words have been twisted completely out of context,” the statement read.</blockquote>
You can see the full clip, in context, below:
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We heard everyone is talking about Jesse Watters’ speech at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AMFEST2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AMFEST2021</a> 
Here’s the full clip of <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseBWatters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JesseBWatters</a> calling for “respectful” and “legal” citizen journalism <a href="https://t.co/zAHu5hKdBU">pic.twitter.com/zAHu5hKdBU</a>
&mdash; Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1473347739870121986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Yet Murthy maintained that Watters had endorsed violence, and Murthy endorsed Fauci as “a public servant of high integrity who has sought to serve the United States of America for more than four decades. And he is somebody we should be thanking for the efforts he has made to keep us safe during COVID-19.”
Murthy’s assessment of Fauci closely mirrors that of Dr. Fauci himself. “The only thing that I have ever done throughout these two years is to encourage people to practice good public health practices: to get vaccinated, to be careful in public settings, to wear a mask,” Fauci stated on CNN Tuesday.
In fact, Dr. Fauci encouraged the American people not to wear masks during the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-flips-flops-again-says-masks-not-needed-outdoors">said</a> Dr. Fauci in March 2020. “When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is.” By the following January, he endorsed wearing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/double-up-dr-fauci-again-changes-mask-wearing-recommendation">two masks</a>, and later evolved his position <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-flip-flops-again-now-admits-wearing-a-mask-while-fully-vaccinated-was-political-theater">even more</a>.
Watters did not explicitly reference the controversy while guest hosting “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday night, but he did mention Fauci and outgoing National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins in passing. “You mean Biden’s scientific brain trust of Fauci and Collins couldn’t foresee this? Why am I not surprised?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;After all, these are the same clowns who thought funding dangerous experiments on bat coronavirus at the Wuhan lab was a grand idea.”
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Biden’s Surgeon General Suggests Fox News Should Fire Jesse Watters Or ‘Endorse Violence’

Anthony Fauci

Jesse Watters

Joy Reid

Media Bias

MSNBC

Vivek Murthy

If you feel like you can’t find any news on cable news networks, you’re right.
A new study has found that the vast majority of cable news broadcasts feature opinion, analysis, and spin instead of hard news.
Hard news — defined as a statement of facts, or on-the-spot reporting — amounts to just 22.3% of all footage aired on cable news networks. That amounts to nine minutes, 15 seconds of hard news for every hour of broadcasting.
Each hour of broadcasting on cable news networks contains nearly twice as much commercial time than hard news.
Interviews with newsmakers account for another 16% of broadcast news time.
Commentary from a host, or panel discussions and “analysis” from a panel of talking heads, make up the vast majority of cable news time (60%).
The mix of objective vs. subjective reporting gets worse as the night went on. Just 9.3% of the programs that air between 7 p.m. and midnight consists of fact-based news reporting.
The Media Research Center monitored MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News Channel, then assessed how much of the content consisted of facts and how much was a matter of opinion.
By comparison, 72% of the Big Three networks’ evening news broadcasts is hard news. Even the fluffiest hour of their morning news programs like “Today,” “Good Morning America,” and “CBS This Morning” have a slightly higher percentage of hard news content than cable news programming.
“For this report, Media Research Center analysts reviewed a sample of 108 hours of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel programming from February 1 through June 30,” <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2021/08/24/study-actual-news-hard-find-todays-cable-news">reported</a> MRC. “The sample consisted of two randomly selected hours of weekday programming from each network for each hour beginning at 6am ET and ending at midnight ET.”
Commercials and teases of upcoming stories did not count toward the total two-hour sample.
Part of the reason for the dearth of facts is that cable news has fixated on political issues, which have absorbed vast swaths of program time formerly dedicated to other topics.
In all, 60% of cable news discussed U.S. political news, relegating once hot-button topics to a peripheral role on the networks. A mere 15% of all news coverage involved crime. Health news amounted to 7% of the broadcast day, even during the era of COVID-19 — although stories about the way political leaders handled the pandemic were considered political for the purposes of this study. Segments focused on the spread or extent of COVID-19 infections counted as health stories.
All other news topics made up a tiny proportion of airtime. Major accidents, the economy, business or financial stories, sports, and weather combined make up only 6% of all network footage.
Cable news networks featured only two segments about religion — both on Fox News — constituting a grand total of 0.14% of cable news coverage.
The survey was taken before the fall of Kabul, which featured on-the-ground reporting by such figures as CNN’s Clarissa Ward.
The study reinforces surveys and polls in which the American people say they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trust-in-media-hits-record-low-new-study-blames-readers-for-lack-of-confidence">long for facts</a>. Two out of every three Americans <a href="https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey-research/how-we-studied-moral-values/">endorsed</a> “factualism,” the “idea that the more facts people have, the closer they will get to the truth,” according to a recent poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Only 29% agreed that “a good way to make society better is to spotlight its problems,” something the survey considered a key journalistic value.
The networks’ pronounced shift from news to commentary over the last eight years reflects their consumers’ desire to live in an echo chamber, according to the MRC.
“Both Republicans and Democrats, both conservatives and liberals, are looking for information that confirms a worldview, and the opposing worldview is too unconscionable to consider,” <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2021/08/25/column-news-channels-could-use-more-news">wrote</a> the Media Research Center’s Tim Graham. “It used to be routine to see conservative vs. liberal pundit debates on the cable channels. It’s much more common today for everyone on a panel to have a similar if not identical view on issues.”
That trend has accelerated, as CNN <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-fires-rick-santorum-after-he-claimed-founding-fathers-birthed-a-nation-from-nothing">fired</a> former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) as a conservative commentator in May. Many or most of the network’s “Republican” commentators have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rick-santorums-firing-proves-cnn-doesnt-want-to-hear-anyone-who-sounds-like-you">endorsed</a> or voted for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 presidential election.
Fox News still has featured debates between people of both sides of an issue on “The Story with Martha McCallum,” and Dan Bongino has a weekly segment where he goes head-to-head with a spokesperson from the Democratic Party on Saturday’s “Unfiltered.”
In July, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough hosted an even-handed and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-radical-philosophy-rooted-in-marxism-chris-rufo-returns-to-msnbc-for-debate-on-crt">respectful debate</a> on Critical Race Theory between CRT opponent Chris Rufo, a <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/expert/christopher-f-rufo">senior fellow</a> at the <a href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/">Manhattan Institute</a>, and Eddie Glaude Jr., a professor of <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/eddie-s-glaude-jr">African American Studies</a> and <a href="https://religion.princeton.edu/people/faculty/associated-faculty/eddie-glaude/">Religion</a> at Princeton University. That contrasts sharply with fellow MSNBC host Joy Reid, who interrupted Rufo <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-petulant-and-childish-outburst-msnbcs-joy-reid-goes-on-tirade-against-anti-crt-guest">27 times in 13 minutes</a> during the June 23 episode of “The ReidOut.”
Unfortunately, Reid’s approach predominates on cable news, on the rare occasions when cable news hosts deign to invite someone with an opposing viewpoint.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Joe Biden

Only 22% Of Cable ‘News’ Is News: Study

Media

On Sunday, during a long rant against Attorney General William Barr, MSNBC anchor Joy-Ann Reid insinuated that the Department of Justice under the Trump administration might cover up the circumstances of the death of Jeffrey Epstein.
On Monday, Barr <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/ag-barr-we-re-learning-of-serious-irregularities-in-facility-where-jeffrey-epstein-died-65929285528">stated</a> that the case of Epstein was very important to him personally, adding, “Most importantly, this case was important to the victims, who had the courage to come forward and deserved the opportunity to confront the accused in the courtroom. I was appalled, and indeed the whole department was, and frankly, angry, to learn of the MCC’s failure to adequately secure this prisoner. We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning, and demand a thorough investigation.”
On Sunday, Reid started by playing a clip of special advisor to the president Kellyanne Conway stating that President Trump retweeted a tweet insinuating that former president Bill Clinton was somehow involved in the death of Jeffrey Epstein because Trump wanted the incident to be investigated.
Reid said:
<blockquote>Okay, take that in for a moment. That’s a member of the federal government, a member of the presidential administration who just did that, who just advanced an insane conspiracy theory against the former president, okay. So meanwhile the investigation of Epstein’s death now falls into the hands of William Barr. Donald Trump’s consigliere, an Attorney general who refused to recuse himself on the Epstein case despite his association with a law firm once involved with Epstein, whose father once hired Jeffrey Epstein as a teacher with neither experience nor degree and whose prime directive is to protect Donald Trump no matter what. In other words, we may never get the answer to how Jeffrey Epstein was allowed to die and deprive all those victims of their opportunity for justice.</blockquote>
Speaking to Carol Lenning, investigative reporter for The Washington Post, Reid posited, “Now the one person who we, in theory, must wait for answers from is William Barr. And William Barr’s record, just to be candid, doesn’t seem to denote somebody who is willing to tell truths that hurt Donald Trump or could make Donald Trump uncomfortable or unhappy.&#8221;
Later in the show, after playing clips of former Rep. Beto O’Rourke and Sen. Cory Booker condemning Trump for retweeting the tweet, Reid turned to her panel, which included Above The Law editor Elie Mystal, comedian and attorney Dean Obeidallah, and Karine Jean-Pierre, chief public affairs officer for the leftist group MoveOn.org.
Mystal started the ball rolling by calling Attorney General William Barr the “compromised stooge” of the Trump Administration, adding, “It is not just that I do not trust William Barr to investigate this case fairly; it is also that William Barr has done nothing to make me trust him … This is what happens when you have a government that nobody can trust.”
Obeidallah echoed, “I do not trust Bill Barr. Anybody with eyes and ears does not trust Bill Barr.”
Reid opined that people on the Right “have gone back home to Mama” by discussing a possible conspiracy involving the Clintons.
Jean-Pierre protested that the Obama administration was nothing like the Trump administration, snapping, “You have a president who’s turned the DOJ into his political arm, it’s a 2020 campaign arm for him.” She accused special advisor to the president Kellyanne Conway of “degrading herself” for defending Trump. 
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WATCH: MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid Insinuates Bill Barr Might Cover Up Epstein’s Death

Trump Administration

MSNBC <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/05/31/joy-reid-reportedly-once-touted-notorious-9-11-conspiracy-film/">conspiracy theorist</a> Joy Reid said on Tuesday that she believes that President Donald Trump is trying to send a &#8220;threat&#8221; to &#8220;his fellow Americans&#8221; by having a July 4th celebration that will feature tanks and military aircraft.
Reid&#8217;s comments came after Trump tweeted on Tuesday morning: &#8220;Big 4th of July in D.C. &#8216;Salute to America.&#8217; The Pentagon &amp; our great Military Leaders are thrilled to be doing this &amp; showing to the American people, among other things, the strongest and most advanced Military anywhere in the World. Incredible Flyovers &amp; biggest ever Fireworks!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Big 4th of July in D.C. “Salute to America.” The Pentagon &amp; our great Military Leaders are thrilled to be doing this &amp; showing to the American people, among other things, the strongest and most advanced Military anywhere in the World. Incredible Flyovers &amp; biggest ever Fireworks!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1146062242388959238?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He sort of aspires to be sort of a mini-Putin or Kim Jong-Un,&#8221; Reid said in a clip first reported on by <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/joy-reid-trumps-july-fourth-celebration-is-a-threat-to-americans/">The Washington Free Beacon</a>. &#8220;He wants to have that kind of absolute power.&#8221;
&#8220;What is the message Donald Trump is trying to send by rolling tanks down Constitution Avenue?&#8221; Reid continued. &#8220;Who is that message to? It&#8217;s certainly not to tyrants because he likes tyrants, he loves tyrants. It&#8217;s not to Putin, it&#8217;s not to Kim Jong-Un, not to the Saudis. Is it to our friends, to Western democracies who he doesn&#8217;t particularly like, or is it to us? Is it to the resistance in this country?&#8221;
&#8220;I got tanks. I have this military armada. The message is a threat, but it&#8217;s always a threat when you roll out your military,&#8221; Reid concluded. &#8220;But it&#8217;s to whom is the threat, and I suspect that the threat is to his fellow Americans. And I hate to say that, but I think that Donald Trump styles himself a tyrant, not a defeater of tyrants.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid claims Trump intends July 4th celebrations in DC to be a threat to Americans and says he aspires to be like Kim Jong-Un <a href="https://t.co/bQrYcu25Pf">https://t.co/bQrYcu25Pf</a> <a href="https://t.co/y8YvTOEOHc">pic.twitter.com/y8YvTOEOHc</a>
— Jeff Cimmino (@jeffcimmino) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffcimmino/status/1146168972401942528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/02/4th-july-what-we-know-trumps-parade-washington-dc/1628111001/">USA Today</a> reports that the &#8220;Salute to America&#8221; will include &#8220;flyovers of the Blue Angels and Air Force One, a lineup of military vehicles including tanks, and a pyrotechnic display that will illuminate &#8216;over a mile of sky above and to the left and right of the Lincoln Memorial,&#8217; according to fireworks makers Phantom and Grucci which is donating extra pyrotechnics.&#8221;
Trump added on Twitter: &#8220;Thanks to &#8216;Phantom Fireworks&#8217; and &#8216;Fireworks by Grucci&#8217; for their generosity in donating the biggest fireworks show Washington D.C. has ever seen. CEO&#8217;s Bruce Zoldan and Phil Grucci are helping to make this the greatest 4th of July celebration in our Nations history!&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Thanks to “Phantom Fireworks” and “Fireworks by Grucci&#8221; for their generosity in donating the biggest fireworks show Washington D.C. has ever seen. CEO&#8217;s Bruce Zoldan and Phil Grucci are helping to make this the greatest 4th of July celebration in our Nations history!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1146178214819172355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2019</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid: Trump Having July 4th Parade To Threaten Americans

MSNBC faced intense blowback on Easter Sunday after they went to Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s church and confronted him about the investigation on the Christian holy day.
&#8220;So the &#8212; Bob Mueller, the director &#8212; the former director of the FBI, of course, the special prosecutor &#8212; special counsel attended church services just across Lafayette Park here at St. John&#8217;s Episcopal Church,&#8221; MSNBC reporter Mike Viqueira <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/04/21/msnbc-ambushes-mueller-outside-church-after-easter-service">told</a> MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid. &#8220;Of course, that is known as the church of the President. President Trump and Melania Trump were there just recently.&#8221;
&#8220;We knew that he was going to be, he&#8217;s been there. He&#8217;s been there in the past so we waited for him,&#8221; Viqueria continued. &#8220;Easter services, tried to be as respectful as possible. He came out the side door of the church. I did have a couple of prepared questions to ask him. Let&#8217;s just roll the tape.&#8221;
&#8220;Sir, could I ask you a couple of questions? Will you testify before Congress, sir?&#8221; Viqueira asked Mueller.
&#8220;No comment,&#8221; Mueller responded.
&#8220;Are you sure about that, sir?&#8221; Viqueira asked.
&#8220;No comment,&#8221; Mueller responded.
&#8220;If he were anybody but the president, would Mr. Trump be indicted, sir?&#8221; Viqueira pressed. &#8220;Sir, why didn&#8217;t you make a recommendation to Congress one way or the other? Did the attorney general accurately characterize your positions on conspiracy and obstruction, sir?&#8221;
Mueller then got into his car and drove off.
&#8220;This is, you know, what some people would characterize as an ambush interview of a man coming out of Easter services at a church,&#8221; Viqueira later told Reid. &#8220;Some passersby weren&#8217;t happy that we were doing that.&#8221;
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WATCH: Special Counsel Mueller is questioned by <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> about the details of his report, and whether he will testify about the report before Congress. <a href="https://t.co/yzjl7p6svF">pic.twitter.com/yzjl7p6svF</a>
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Many, including Mueller&#8217;s critics, came to his defense after seeing the clip of MSNBC harassing him at church on Easter Sunday.
Patricia Heaton tweeted: &#8220;Hello @MSNBC. Today is Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the Christian calendar. Some of the faithful were murdered today while they worshiped. But you ambush Robert Mueller outside of his church and chuckle about it afterward. This is loathesome. Shame on you.&#8221;
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Hello <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>. Today is Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the Christian calendar. Some of the faithful were murdered today while they worshiped. But you ambush Robert Mueller outside of his church and chuckle about it afterward. This is loathesome [sic]. Shame on you. <a href="https://t.co/30BAoivnVp">https://t.co/30BAoivnVp</a>
&#8212; Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1120083505625452544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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M. Zuhdi Jasser tweeted: &#8220;.@MSNBC just proved itself to be the &#8216;human troll network&#8217; and is also doubling down apparently proud of this grotesque display of human indecency after a workship [sic] service on a spiritual holiday. #selfown&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> just proved itself to be the &#8220;human troll network&#8221; and is also doubling down apparently proud of this grotesque display of human indecency after a workship service on a spiritual holiday. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/selfown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#selfown</a> <a href="https://t.co/TqiTWaq8Bn">https://t.co/TqiTWaq8Bn</a>
&#8212; M. Zuhdi Jasser &#1586;&#1607;&#1583;&#1610; &#1580;&#1575;&#1587;&#1585; (@DrZuhdiJasser) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrZuhdiJasser/status/1120093773101277184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Julie Wilcox tweeted: &#8220;So. Wrong. This is what gives legitimate journalists a bad rep. It&#8217;s Easter and he&#8217;s at church. And the banner: &#8216;Mueller Spotted&#8230;&#8217;. He&#8217;s not an escaped zoo animal. I know it&#8217;s a holiday and interns may be ruining things but really @MSNBC?&#8221;
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So. Wrong. This is what gives legitimate journalists a bad rep. It&#8217;s Easter and he&#8217;s at church. And the banner: &#8216;Mueller Spotted&#8230;&#8217;. He&#8217;s not an escaped zoo animal. I know it&#8217;s a holiday and interns may be ruining things but really <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> ? <a href="https://t.co/l9ssgxNZ5x">https://t.co/l9ssgxNZ5x</a>
&#8212; Julie Wilcox WX (@JulieWilcoxWX) <a href="https://twitter.com/JulieWilcoxWX/status/1120069471425769473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Steve Cortes tweeted: &#8220;I&#8217;m far from a Mueller fan, but this harassment outside Easter service is outrageous. @MSNBC often typifies the very worst of the dismal state of &#8216;journalism&#8217; in America today. Fourth Estate, please do better!&#8221;
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I&#8217;m far from a Mueller fan, but this harassment outside Easter service is outrageous. <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> often typifies the very worst of the dismal state of &#8220;journalism&#8221; in America today. Fourth Estate, please do better! <a href="https://t.co/0BmvJBn12y">https://t.co/0BmvJBn12y</a>
&#8212; Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) <a href="https://twitter.com/CortesSteve/status/1120066379040862208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Michael Berry tweeted: &#8220;This is sick. Some pissant reporter harassing a man in his private time, and broadcasting that to the country. Disgusting.&#8221;
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This is sick. Some pissant reporter harassing a man in his private time, and broadcasting that to the country. Disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/42XUpUtXLc">https://t.co/42XUpUtXLc</a>
&#8212; Michael Berry (@MichaelBerrySho) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelBerrySho/status/1120026965140963330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Carl Higbie tweeted: &#8220;Dude. #Mueller is a partisan hack and jackass but leave him alone while he goes to church on Easter #mediafail&#8221;
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Dude. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mueller?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mueller</a> is a partisan hack and jackass but leave him alone while he goes to church on Easter <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mediafail?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#mediafail</a> <a href="https://t.co/rBvKH70hqK">https://t.co/rBvKH70hqK</a>
&#8212; Carl Higbie (@CarlHigbie) <a href="https://twitter.com/CarlHigbie/status/1120013210667687936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC Faces Backlash For Harassing Robert Mueller At Church On Easter

Robert Mueller

The fallout from the breathlessly awaited final report by Robert Mueller has included a whole lot of celebration by Team Trump and Republicans and a whole lot of &#8220;Collusion Denial&#8221; from the Democrats and their allies in the media. Among those refusing to let go of the collusion narrative is one of the leaders of the &#8220;Impeach Trump&#8221; crusade, Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who insists the report is &#8220;not the end of anything&#8221; and suggested that Trump had effectively brainwashed people into thinking there was no collusion.
In an appearance on MSNBC with Joy Reid over the weekend, Waters declared that &#8212; despite the thousands of subpoenas and hundreds of search warrants issued by Mueller only to find no evidence of any collusion by any member of the Trump campaign &#8212; the report doesn&#8217;t put to rest &#8220;anything&#8221; about Trump-Russia collusion.
&#8220;You have Donald Trump supporters, including his former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, out there tweeting and essentially presuming that the president has been exonerated,&#8221; said Reid, a presumption that Attorney General Bill Barr&#8217;s summary of the report confirmed on Sunday.
Reid showed a tweet from Haley posted Friday after multiple reports revealed that Justice Department sources said Mueller found no collusion and was issuing no further indictments. &#8220;After this long investigation both sides agreed to let Mueller do his job &amp; complete the investigation,&#8221; wrote Haley. &#8220;Everyone has to acknowledge that @realDonaldTrump did not interfere in the investigation. Now the American public needs to accept the results and move on. #EnoughAlready&#8221;
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After this long investigation both sides agreed to let Mueller do his job &amp; complete the investigation. Everyone has to acknowledge that <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> did not interfere in the investigation. Now the American public needs to accept the results and move on. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EnoughAlready?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EnoughAlready</a>
&#8212; Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1109239319947083776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s a curious position to take since we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s in the report,&#8221; said Reid. &#8220;But do you see colleagues on the other side of the aisle sort of declaring this whole thing at an end and wanting no further inquiry? I know that the House has something like 80 subpoenas still out.&#8221;
Waters responded by citing Trump&#8217;s ability to &#8220;get into people&#8217;s heads and indoctrinate&#8221; them.
&#8220;Absolutely. Well, I wanted to tell you that this president has a way of trying to get into people&#8217;s heads and indoctrinate them,&#8221; said Waters. &#8220;He&#8217;s been saying &#8216;No collusion, no collusion, no collusion,&#8217; over and over again for a long time now and he&#8217;s going to try to conclude that this report is proving that there&#8217;s no collusion. And you have a lot of his sycophants who will, you know, take the nod from him and they&#8217;ll say the same thing.&#8221;
Waters then stressed that &#8220;we&#8221; must not allow Team Trump put to bed the collusion narrative.
&#8220;But we cannot allow them to get away with this,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He does this all the time. This is not the end of anything.&#8221;
She then admitted that, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s the end of the report and the investigation by Mueller,&#8221; but added, &#8220;But those of us who chair these committees have a responsibility to continue with our oversight. There&#8217;s so much that needs to be, you know, taken a look at at this point. So it&#8217;s not the end of everything.&#8221;
In the wake of Barr&#8217;s summary, Democrats have signaled that they will continue to push their own investigations despite the exhaustive nature of Mueller&#8217;s nearly two-year investigation, which &#8220;issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communication records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses,&#8221; as Barr notes (full text below).
Video below (h/t <a href="http://www.theamericanmirror.com/maxine-meltdown-this-is-not-the-end-of-anything/">American Mirror</a>):
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45039/democrats-hold-emergency-call-mueller-report-turn-emily-zanotti">Democrats Hold Emergency Call On Mueller Report, Turn Down Classified Briefings, Plot Subpoenas</a>
Below is the full text of Barr&#8217;s summary of Mueller&#8217;s report:
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Dear Chairman Graham, Chairman Nadler, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Ranking Member Collins:
As a supplement to the notification provided on Friday, March 22, 2019, I am writing today to advise you of the principal conclusions reached by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III and to inform you about the status of my initial review of the report he has prepared.
The Special Counsel&#8217;s Report
On Friday, the Special Counsel submitted to me a &#8220;confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions&#8221; he has reached, as required by 28 C.F.R. 600.8(c). This report is entitled &#8220;Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.&#8221; Although my review is ongoing, I believe that it is in the public interest to describe the report and to summarize the principal conclusions reached by the Special Counsel and the results of his investigation.
The report explains that the Special Counsel and his staff thoroughly investigated allegations that members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, and others associated with it, conspired with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, or sought to obstruct the related federal investigations. In the report, the Special Counsel noted that, in completing his investigation, he employed 19 lawyers who were assisted by a team of approximately 40 FBI agents, intelligence analysts, forensic accountants, and other professional staff. The Special Counsel issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communication records, issued almost 50 orders authorizing use of pen registers, made 13 requests to foreign governments for evidence, and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses.
The Special Counsel obtained a number of indictments and convictions of individuals and entities in connection with his investigation, all of which have been publicly disclosed. During the course of his investigation, the Special Counsel also referred several matters to other offices for further action. The report does not recommend any further indictments, nor did the Special Counsel obtain any sealed indictments that have yet to be made public. Below, I summarize the principal conclusions laid out in the Special Counsel&#8217;s report.
Russian Interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. The Special Counsel&#8217;s report is divided into two parts. The first describes the results of the Special Counsel&#8217;s investigation into Russia&#8217;s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The report outlines the Russian effort to influence the election and documents crimes committed by persons associated with the Russian government in connection with those efforts. The report further explains that a primary consideration for the Special Counsel&#8217;s investigation was whether any Americans &#8212; including individuals associated with the Trump campaign &#8212; joined the Russian conspiracies to influence the election, which would be a federal crime. The Special Counsel&#8217;s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. As the report states: &#8220;[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.&#8221;
(Footnote 1: In assessing potential conspiracy charges, the Special Counsel also considered whether members of the Trump campaign &#8220;coordinated&#8221; with Russian election interference activities. The Special Counsel defined &#8220;coordination&#8221; as an &#8220;agreement &#8212; tacit or express &#8212; between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference.&#8221;)
The Special Counsel&#8217;s investigation determined that there were two main Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. The first involved attempts by a Russian organization, the Internet Research Agency (IRA), to conduct disinformation and social media operations in the United States designed to sow social discord, eventually with the aim of interfering with the election. As noted above, the Special Counsel did not find that any U.S. person or Trump campaign official or associate conspired or knowingly coordinated with the IRA in its efforts, although the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian nationals and entities in connection with these activities.
The second element involved the Russian government&#8217;s efforts to conduct computer hacking operations designed to gather and disseminate information to influence the election. The Special Counsel found that Russian government actors successfully hacked into computers and obtained emails from persons associated with the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party organizations, and publicly disseminated those materials through various intermediaries, including WikiLeaks. Based on these activities, the Special Counsel brought criminal charges against a number of Russian military officers for conspiring to hack into computers in the United States for the purposes of influencing the election. But as noted above, the Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign.
Obstruction of Justice. The report&#8217;s second part addresses a number of actions by the President &#8212; most of which have been the subject of public reporting &#8212; that the Special Counsel investigated as potentially raising obstruction-of-justice concerns. After making a &#8220;thorough factual investigation&#8221; into these matters, the Special Counsel considered whether to evaluate the conduct under Department standards regarding prosecution and conviction but ultimately determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment. The Special Counsel therefore did not draw a conclusion &#8212; one way or the other &#8212; as to whether the examined conduct constituted obstruction. Instead, for each of the relevant actions investigated, the report sets out evidence on both sides of the question and leaves unresolved what the Special Counsel views as &#8220;difficult issues&#8221; of law and fact concerning whether the President&#8217;s actions and intent could be viewed as obstruction. The Special Counsel&#8217;s report states that &#8220;while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.&#8221;
The Special Counsel&#8217;s decision to describe the facts of his obstruction investigation without reaching any legal conclusions leaves it to the Attorney General to determine whether the conduct described in the report constitutes a crime. Over the course of the investigation, the Special Counsel&#8217;s office engaged in discussions with certain Department officials regarding many of the legal and factual matters at issue in the Special Counsel&#8217;s obstruction investigation. After reviewing the Special Counsel&#8217;s final report on these issues; consulting with Department officials, including the Office of Legal Counsel; and applying the principles of federal prosecution that guide our charging decisions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel&#8217;s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense. Our determination was made without regard to, and is not based on, the constitutional considerations that surround the indictment and criminal prosecution of a sitting president.
(Footnote 2: See A Sitting President&#8217;s Amenability to Indictment and Criminal Prosecution, 24 Op. O.L.C, 222 (2000).)
In making this determination, we noted that the Special Counsel recognized that &#8220;the evidence does not establish that the President was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference,&#8221; and that, while not determinative, the absence of such evidence bears upon the President&#8217;s intent with respect to obstruction. Generally speaking, to obtain and sustain an obstruction conviction, the government would need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a person, acting with corrupt intent, engaged in obstructive conduct with a sufficient nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding. In cataloguing the President&#8217;s actions, many of which took place in public view, the report identifies no actions that, in our judgment, constitute obstructive conduct, had a nexus to a pending or contemplated proceeding, and were done with corrupt intent, each of which, under the Department&#8217;s principles of federal prosecution guiding charging decisions, would need to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt to establish an obstruction-of-justice offense.
Status of the Department&#8217;s Review
The relevant regulations contemplate that the Special Counsel&#8217;s report will be a &#8220;confidential report&#8221; to the Attorney General. See Office of Special Counsel, 64 Fed. Reg. 27,038, 37,040-41 (July 9, 1999). As I have previously stated, however, I am mindful of the public interest in this matter. For that reason, my goal and intent is to release as much of the Special Counsel&#8217;s report as I can consistent with applicable law, regulations, and Departmental policies.
Based on my discussions with the Special Counsel and my initial review, it is apparent that the report contains material that is or could be subject to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(e), which imposes restrictions on the use and disclosure of information relating to &#8220;matter[s] occurring before [a] grand jury.&#8221; Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)(2)(B). Rule 6(e) generally limits disclosure of certain grand jury information in a criminal investigation and prosecution. Id. Disclosure of 6(e) material beyond the strict limits set forth in the rule is a crime in certain circumstances. See, e.g., 18 U.S.C. 401(3). This restriction protects the integrity of grand jury proceedings and ensures that the unique and invaluable investigative powers of a grand jury are used strictly for their intended criminal justice function.
Given these restrictions, the schedule for processing the report depends in part on how quickly the Department can identify the 6(e) material that by law cannot be made public. I have requested the assistance of the Special Counsel in identifying all 6(e) information contained in the report as quickly as possible. Separately, I also must identify any information that could impact other ongoing matters, including those that the Special Counsel has referred to other offices. As soon as that process is complete, I will be in a position to move forward expeditiously in determining what can be released in light of applicable law, regulations, and Departmental policies.
***
As I observed in my initial notification, the Special Counsel regulations provide that &#8220;the Attorney General may determine that public release of&#8221; notifications to your respective Committees &#8220;would be in the public interest.&#8221; 28 C.F.R. 600.9(c). I have so determined, and I will disclose the letter to the public after delivering it to you.
Sincerely,
William P. Barr
Attorney General
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WATCH: Maxine Waters Says Trump ‘Got Into People’s Heads’ To Believe ‘No Collusion’

Donald Trump

Maxine Waters

Russia

The MSNBC hosts have blown the lid off the real story behind the Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s report on whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to impact the outcome of the 2016 presidential election: host Joy-Ann Reid suggested that Attorney General William Barr has orchestrated a &#8220;cover up&#8221; designed to protect the President.
<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/joy-reid-it-feels-like-the-seeds-of-a-cover-up-are-here/">Mediaite</a> captured the exchange involving Reid and Above the Law editor Elie Mystal, as well as former Watergate proscutor, Nick Akerman. In it, it appears neither Reid nor Mystal are able to wrap their minds around the idea that the completed report may exonerate the President and key members of his campaign team of charges that they illegally manipulated the election outcome.
&#8220;Is Trump&#8217;s flunky going to release a report that might be damaging to his sugar daddy? I don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Mystal mused.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know why we think that Barr isn&#8217;t the one who stopped the investigation,&#8221; he continued, outlining the motive behind a Barr-driven conspiracy within the Justice Department. &#8220;This is a 22-month-long investigation, Barr&#8217;s been on the scene for a month, and now we&#8217;re done? That doesn&#8217;t strike anybody as odd? No, I have absolutely no confidence that Bill Barr will do anything other than what is in the best interest of Donald Trump.&#8221;
Reid immediately agreed, despite the obvious fact that Trump ally Jeff Sessions served in the position of Attorney General during at least 18 of the 22 months of Mueller&#8217;s investigation, and Barr reported that Mueller experienced no interference from the White House or the DOJ while conducting his independent probe.
Instead, Reid, says, it&#8217;s very clear that Barr&#8217;s letter, which accompanied news of Mueller&#8217;s report, demonstrated that the &#8220;seeds of a cover-up&#8221; has aleady been planted.
&#8220;The fact that this investigation takes place within the Justice Department, which Donald Trump essentially controls,&#8221; Reid suggested, &#8220;and that he got rid of the problem, Jeff Sessions, who&#8211;&#8211;the one decent thing that he did was just recuse himself. This guy is not recused. It feels like the seeds of a cover-up are here.&#8221;
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MSNBC conspiracy theorist Joy Reid on Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s report: &#8220;It feels like the seeds of a cover-up are here.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/rZMF76nBWc">pic.twitter.com/rZMF76nBWc</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1109529653163679744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
For his part, Akerman, who has experienced with presidential investigations (and, ultimately, prosecutions), noted that Barr&#8217;s conduct has been nothing but professional since he assumed office in early 2019: &#8220;So far so good. The letter says all the right things, and he&#8217;s really adhered to the letter of the regulations, which is good.&#8221;
Reid remained unconvinced.
Reid, of course, is only joining a vocal chorus of Democrats, progressive activists, and media luminaries, proposing alternative theories and explanations for news that Mueller did not recommend any further indictments beyond the 30 or so his team has already pursued.
Although this development reveals little about Mueller&#8217;s final report, it does seem to suggest that President Trump and his son, Donald Trump, Jr., will not be arrested and President Trump removed from office as some had hoped. Disappointed, some Democrats and media figures have suggested waiting for the Southern District of New York to conclude its own investigation (which they now claim was the &#8220;showpiece&#8221; investigation, and not Mueller&#8217;s), and are demanding that the notoriously silent Mueller sit in front of Congress for grilling by House Democrats.

WATCH: MSNBC Hosts Suspect Mueller Has Been Compromised, Report Shows ‘Seeds Of A Cover Up’

MSNBC Host Joy Reid has lost more than 20% of her audience in the weeks following her &#8220;blog hacking&#8221; scandal.
<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbcs-joy-reid-loses-over-20-of-viewers-after-blog-controversy/">According to Mediaite</a>, Reid&#8217;s show &#8220;AM Joy&#8221; has been in a ratings free-fall since mid-April, when investigative journalists discovered a cache of homophobic posts, buried on Reid&#8217;s former blog, &#8220;The Reid Report.&#8221; At first Reid appeared to acknowledge the posts, and even apologized for them, but quickly changed her story, and claimed an outside party &#8212; perhaps Russian hackers &#8212; had hacked into her old blog and placed the posts in a complicated effort to discredit her.
<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/exclusive-joy-reid-claims-newly-discovered-homophobic-posts-from-her-blog-were-fabricated/">An internet sleuth later found evidence</a> that Reid&#8217;s posts were indeed made several years ago, and calculated that any hacking effort would have to include a party of time travelers to make Reid&#8217;s story credible.
Since the scandal broke, Reid&#8217;s <a href="http://contemptor.com/2018/07/11/msnbcs-am-joy-has-lost-over-20-percent-of-its-audience-following-blog-controversy/">audience has fallen</a> from an average of 1.113 million total viewers per week, to 876,000 total viewers, a decline of about 20%. Her pull in her target demographic has fallen by more than a third, from around 238,000 viewers per week to just 175,000 viewers per week.
While the drop may not be entirely the result of Reid&#8217;s controversy, Contemptor, which measures and records television audiences, says the correlation is hard to miss. Reid&#8217;s audience began to drop off in the weeks following her &#8220;apology,&#8221; and the drop gained speed once Reid began concocting her conspiracy theories.

MSNBC Host Joy Reid’s Ratings In Freefall After Blog ‘Hacking’ Controversy

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) took a shot at the Democratic leadership in Washington on Sunday after they criticized her for calling for the harassment of Trump administration officials, saying that they &#8220;will do anything&#8221; to protect their power.
Speaking on Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer&#8217;s decision to criticize her, Waters told MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid, &#8220;You know, I was surprised that Chuck Schumer, you know, reached into the other house to do that.&#8221;
Waters then took a shot at the Democratic leadership, suggesting that the only reason that they criticized her was that they wanted to protect their leadership positions.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve not quite seen that done before,&#8221; Waters continued. &#8220;But one of the things I recognize, being an elected official, is in the final analysis, you know, leadership will do anything that they think is necessary to protect their leadership.&#8221;
Waters drew widespread condemnation after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32232/watch-maxine-waters-calls-attacks-members-trump-ryan-saavedra">called for attacks</a> on members of the Trump administration, yelling at an event: &#8220;&#8230; if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they&#8217;re not welcome anymore, anywhere.&#8221;
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WATCH: Maxine Waters Slams Democratic Leadership For Criticizing Her After She Called For Harassment Of Trump Officials

Charles Schumer

Democratic Party

Nancy Pelosi

Embattled MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid has repeatedly attacked President Donald Trump over illegal immigrant children being separated from their parents despite the fact that she attacked former President Bill Clinton&#8217;s Attorney General for not wanting to rip an immigrant child away from their family in 2000.
In a satire spinoff of Dr. Seuss, Reid attacked former Attorney General Janet Reno for her not wanting to take Elian Gonzalez away from family in Florida and return him to Cuba.
Gonzalez was five years old when he was found floating in the water off the coast of Florida after a raft filled with Cuban immigrants was unable to traverse the ocean, leading to 11 deaths including his mother. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/15/world/cuba-elian-gonzalez-update/index.html">CNN</a> reports:
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Elian&#8217;s father, Juan Miguel, fought to bring the boy back to Cuba. Cuban leader Fidel Castro led massive protests on the island demanding Elian&#8217;s return&#8230;
&#8230;Elian&#8217;s Miami relatives argued if the boy went back to Cuba, he would become a brainwashed trophy for Castro in his long-running feud with the US.
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The Clinton administration ultimately decided to deport Gonzalez, but his relatives in Miami refused to give him up to be deported back to Cuba. CNN adds:
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In a nighttime raid, armed federal agents stormed the home of his uncle and seized the boy. An Associated Press photograph of the terrified child, cowering as an officer in riot gear points an assault rifle at him, inflamed passions even more.
Rioting broke out in Miami as many in the Cuban-American community reacted angrily to the seizure of the boy.
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Two days before the infamous raid happened, Reid wrote an article for <a href="https://www.salon.com/2000/04/21/renopoem/">Salon</a> attacking the Clinton administration, writing from the perspective that she was Attorney General Janet Reno:
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I am Jan,
Jan I am.
I will not pick up Elian.
I will not put him in a car,
I will not take him near or far,
I will not go inside that house,
That Waco thing still freaks me out.
I will not take him in the rain,
I will not put him on a plane,
I will not pick him up, you see,
The exiles would be mad at me.
I will not take him to his dad,
Would you make Gloria Estefan mad?
I will not send him to Fidel,
Cause Marisleysis says it&#8217;s hell.
I will not go and do my job,
I&#8217;m too scared of that angry mob,
I will not push old Uncle Laz,
He&#8217;s got more lawyers than I have.
I know I promised, but oh well,
That&#8217;s just too bad for Juan Miguel.
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This is another example of Reid&#8217;s past coming back to bite her, showing that she does not have the views that she preaches every weekend on far-left MSNBC.
In numerous tweets, Reid has tried to show that she cares about the children who are separated from their parents at the border after their parents are arrested for committing crimes:
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And the process of separating children from their parents is as cruel as you can imagine. <a href="https://t.co/yAIGVwLvul">pic.twitter.com/yAIGVwLvul</a>
&#8212; Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1008460570394288129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Infants &#8211; even breastfeeding infants &#8211; are taken as well&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/bWDVmCIKOu">pic.twitter.com/bWDVmCIKOu</a>
&#8212; Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1008459882620706826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Read this and weep. It&#8217;s so cruel it&#8217;s actually breathtaking. <a href="https://t.co/UfyYNzy1Ph">https://t.co/UfyYNzy1Ph</a>
&#8212; Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1008459188039766018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 17, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Joy Reid Attacked Clinton Admin For Not Wanting To Deport Immigrant Children

On Monday, the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States demanded that MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid be fired for her blatant anti-Semitism.
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) made the demand after multiple anti-Semitic comments and conspiracy theories from Reid&#8217;s past had surfaced on her now-defunct blog and web archive sites. In a statement, <a href="https://zoa.org/2018/06/10378130-zoa-to-msnbc-fire-joy-reid-for-anti-semitic-comments-conspiracy-theories/">ZOA</a> wrote:
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The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon the TV broadcasting network MSNBC to fire Joy Reid, host of &#8216;MSNBC&#8217;s AM Joy&#8217; program, for uttering outrageous anti-Semitic comments and for espousing bizarre conspiracy theories. The ZOA is appalled that someone espousing her views and making the comments she has made on air has a paid slot on a major TV network and calls upon MSNBC to fire her forthwith.
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Reid first came under fire last December when a Twitter account tracked down her old blog on a web archive and published screenshots of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/24247/msnbcs-joy-reid-justifies-offensive-anti-gay-ryan-saavedra">anti-gay remarks</a> she made.
Reid later apologized for her remarks, calling them &#8220;insensitive, tone-deaf and dumb.&#8221;
More controversial blog posts were discovered in April that included <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31323/exclusive-new-joy-reid-blog-posts-promote-insane-ryan-saavedra">anti-Semitic</a> remarks and conspiracy theories, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29988/more-controversial-joy-reid-posts-revealed-time-ryan-saavedra">Islamophobia</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29851/gay-rights-group-rescinds-award-given-joy-reid-ryan-saavedra">anti-LGBT</a> comments, and attacks against women using <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29899/joy-reid-made-vile-sexual-comments-about-scotus-ryan-saavedra">sexual slurs</a>.
Reid then hired a cyber security expert, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29881/report-joy-reid-hired-man-who-bragged-about-ryan-saavedra">bragged</a> about his affiliations with neo-Nazis, to prove that she was hacked &#8212; a claim that was quickly debunked and was even harshly criticized by left-wing news organizations.

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