Kanye West said he plans to have seven kids with wife Kim Kardashian West, emphasizing that children are what make a person &#8220;rich.&#8221;
“[I want] seven kids. The richest thing that you can have is as many children as possible,&#8221; the &#8220;Closed on Sunday&#8221; rapper said on a recent episode of &#8220;Carpool Karaoke.&#8221;
West, who recently released a gospel album called &#8220;Jesus is King,&#8221; told host James Corden that he reads the Bible at night.
&#8220;I don’t like going out at nighttime. I like being at home with my family at night as much as possible,&#8221; West said, according to <a href="https://people.com/music/kanye-west-does-carpool-karaoke-on-a-plane-and-opens-up-about-kim-kardashian-marriage/">People magazine</a>. &#8220;We’ll eat dinner and we’ll play with the kids and then we’ll put the kids to bed and then we go to bed. And then my wife watches Dateline [and] I read the Bible.”
The 42-year-old also praised marriage. &#8220;People thought it would be uncool to be married,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Then I got married and people were like, ‘Oh, that’d be cool. It’s more than cool. It’s more than cool as hell.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s heavenly. It’s great. It’s magnificent,&#8221; West added. &#8220;Nobody thought it would be uncool to marry Kim Kardashian.”
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/radically-saved-kanye-called-rap-the-devils-music-almost-quit-industry-pastor-reveals">The Daily Wire</a> last week, Christian pastor Adam Tyson recently revealed in an interview that West told him in May that he had been &#8220;radically saved&#8221; by Christ:
<blockquote>“[Kanye] said, ‘About five weeks ago, I got radically saved,’” Tyson said, according to XXL. “He just started telling me a little about his testimony.”
According to Tyson, West told him that he was raised as a Christian but began “chasing all the things of this world” after hitting it big in the music industry. “He would say the devil basically brought him to a place where he just felt like he was in bondage to his sin. So he said, ‘I got delivered,&#8217;” Tyson recalled.</blockquote>
Since his religious conversion, West started a Sunday service event in Calabasas, which he believes was part of God&#8217;s plan for him.
&#8220;When I went to the hospital a few years ago, I wrote in the hospital, &#8216;Start a church in Calabasas,'&#8221; he told Corden. &#8220;It’s something I had a feeling I needed to do that God put on my heart. And now, He just keeps taking me to new levels and taking us to new levels that we just didn’t imagine before.&#8221;
&#8220;God’s always had a plan for me and he’s always wanted to use me, but I think He wanted me to suffer more and wanted people to see my suffering and see my pain and put stigmas on me and have me go through all the human experiences,&#8221; West continued. &#8220;So now when I talk about how Jesus saved me, more people can relate to that experience. If it was just, ‘We grew up with this guys music and now he’s a superstar,’ it’s less compelling than, ‘Oh, this guy had a mental breakdown, this guy’s in debt …”
The musical talent released his highly-anticipated &#8220;Jesus is King&#8221; album on October 25.
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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West

Kanye West: &#8216;The Richest Thing You Can Have Is As Many Children As Possible&#8217;

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Kanye West

Kim Kardashian

On Thursday’s episode of “The Michael Knowles Show,” Knowles discusses a conversation between Kim Kardashian and Kayne West, in which the rapper brings up to his wife that it negatively affects him when she wears revealing dresses in public. Video and partial transcript below:  
[Kanye West is a perplexing public figure, who played] himself off as one of the most narcissistic people in politics. He said George Bush doesn&#8217;t care about black people, [which] made him a big Leftist hero. Then Kanye West endorses Donald Trump, hugs him in the Oval Office. Kanye West starts talking about Christianity very seriously, starts reading the Bible seriously, makes an album now called “Jesus is King.”
Kanye West was caught on reality TV telling his wife, Kim Kardashian, that she needs to dress more modestly because she&#8217;s his wife and he loves her and she&#8217;s part of his soul. [He says] when she does that, it hurts his soul. [Now], I count myself in the blessed few Americans who have never seen an episode of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” but I might start watching. This clip is really, really good for the culture. 
<blockquote>KARDASHIAN: You now say that you&#8217;re not into me wearing a tight dress?
WEST: You are my wife and it affects me when pictures are too sexy … . Corset is like a form of underwear, it’s hot, it’s like, it’s hot for who though?
KARDASHIAN: So like, the night before the Met, you’re going to come in here and say that you’re not into a corset?
WEST: I just feel like I&#8217;ve just went through this transition where — from being a rapper, looking at all these girls and looking at my wife [thinking], Oh my girl needs to be just like the other girls, showing her body off, showing this, showing that, and I didn&#8217;t realize that that was affecting like my soul and my spirit, as someone that&#8217;s married and love and the father of like now about to be four kids. 
NARRATOR: Kim shut that down real quick.
KARDASHIAN: You built me up to be this like sexy person and confidence and all this stuff, and just because you&#8217;re on a journey — and you&#8217;re on your transformation — doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m in the same spot with you. </blockquote>
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This is a tremendous exchange. People are talking about Kanye West&#8217;s new comments on politics, culture, and religion. They&#8217;re speaking about it from a primarily racial perspective, like Blexit and that kind of thing. That is legitimate, sure. I think even more exemplary here is Kanye West, as a millennial — as someone who speaks to millennials and Gen Zers and someone who&#8217;s pretty young himself — Kanye West is coming out of the same culture we all came out of: increasingly irreligious, increasingly uncultured, increasingly shallow politically. And he is going through a transformation because he is learning things, and he&#8217;s learning things on every one of those levels. 
He&#8217;s learning. Oh, hey, maybe the Left isn&#8217;t really helping the black community. Oh, maybe the Left isn&#8217;t really helping anybody. Oh, hey, maybe these conservatives aren&#8217;t so bad after all. Hey, maybe Republicans do care about black people is learning that, and then he&#8217;s learning on the metaphysical level. Oh, maybe life isn&#8217;t all materialistic. Maybe it&#8217;s not all just about appeasing appetites and it&#8217;s not all about a cult of the self. Maybe there&#8217;s a metaphysical universe and a moral order. Maybe there&#8217;s a God. Maybe that God has a personality. Maybe he&#8217;s a real person that we can talk to. Maybe my relationship with my wife is not just a kind of sexy, lustful relationship, maybe that relationship is emblematic of something higher. Maybe the relationship of Christ to his church. Maybe I should privilege modesty over just this kind of material appetite, satisfaction. 
[Kanye] says all of that to her and then her answer is great too, because she said you&#8217;re going through this transformation, but I&#8217;m not where you are necessarily, maybe I&#8217;m a little behind where you are. 
I love it, it&#8217;s an interaction that the culture is working out right now and Kanye West is a little ahead of the curve, because Kanye West has always been a little ahead of the curve on pop culture. That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s probably the leading pop culture figure in the United States. I think this is a great thing, and we can either react to it by knocking Kanye West for not really knowing everything politically, and not really knowing everything spiritually, and getting some things wrong here in there, or we can react to it with encouragement. 
Because Kanye West is actually asking questions. He&#8217;s curious. He&#8217;s following ideas with some logical rigor, and he&#8217;s leading people back from this brink of cultural destruction — pulling them back a little bit. We can either criticize him for not doing it fast enough or well enough, or we can applaud him for doing it at all. I think it&#8217;s a great thing and I encourage Kanye on his journey. 
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KNOWLES: Kanye West Demonstrates He&#8217;s Ahead Of The Culture

Michael Knowles

Pastor Adam Tyson revealed during a podcast last week that musical talent Kanye West told him he almost stopped rapping soon after being save by God because he thought rap was “the devil’s music.” 
Tyson, the pastor at the California-based Placerita Bible Church that West began attending in mid-May, encouraged the pro-Trump performer to continue with the genre, but to do so in a way that glorifies God. 
“One time, he (West) told me that he wasn’t going to rap,” Tyson told Christian outlet <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&amp;v=YDUmbkdQksU">Apologia</a>, <a href="https://www.xxlmag.com/news/2019/10/kanye-west-considered-quitting-rap-devil-music/">XXL</a> magazine reported. “I said, ‘Why not?’ He said, ‘Well, that’s the devil’s music.’ I said, ‘Hey, man. Rap is a genre. You can rap for God.’ I think he was already thinking about it a little bit, but I just definitely said, ‘Hey, bro. I think you need to use your talents that God’s given you and use that platform for God.’”
West announced Monday that his highly-anticipated “Jesus is King” album is set for release on October 25. 
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Tyson told Apologia that West was connected to his church through a young couple who knows the rapper and his wife Kim Kardashian. The young man who knows West told Tyson that the artist kept asking him questions about God, some of which he couldn’t answer. Tyson and others at the church prayed for West and suggested the couple invite him to the church, knowing it was a long shot. 
But in May, West started attending Placerita Bible Church and soon revealed to Tyson that he had recently been “radically saved.”
“[Kanye] said, ‘About five weeks ago, I got radically saved,&#8217;” Tyson said, according to XXL. “He just started telling me a little about his testimony.”
According to Tyson, West told him that he was raised as a Christian but began “chasing all the things of this world” after hitting it big in the music industry. “He would say the devil basically brought him to a place where he just felt like he was in bondage to his sin. So he said, ‘I got delivered,'&#8221; Tyson recalled.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-kanye-confronts-kim-over-her-sexy-outfits-hurting-his-soul-and-spirit">The Daily Wire</a> last week, West confronted Kardashian over her sexy outfits during a recent episode of E!’s “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.” West explained to Kardashian that while he used to think his wife should look like other girls who constantly show off their bodies, he now realizes that Kardashian’s revealing looks are negatively “affecting” his “soul and &#8230; spirit.”
“The corset, underwear, all of that vibe,” West said of Kardashian’s Met Gala dress, “I just feel like I went through this transition from being a rapper, looking at all these girls, and then looking at my wife like, ‘Oh, my girl needs to be just like these other girls, showing her body off, showing this, showing that.’”
“I didn’t realize that that was affecting my soul and my spirit as someone that’s married and loved, the father of what’s about to be four kids,” he continued. “A corset is a form of underwear. It’s hot. It’s like, it’s hot for who though?”
“You are my wife, and it affects me when pictures are too sexy,” West added after Kardashian protested. 
As reported by The Daily Wire in July, West said that his “radical obedience to Christ” helped stabilize his mental health. Moreover, earlier this year, the rap icon created “Sunday Service” events that include gospel music.
“It’s honestly more like a healing experience for my husband. It’s just music; there’s no sermon. It’s definitely something he believes in – Jesus – and there’s a Christian vibe. But there’s no preaching. It’s just a very spiritual Christian experience,” Kardashian told Elle magazine of the services.
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&#8216;Radically Saved&#8217; Kanye Called Rap &#8216;The Devil&#8217;s Music,&#8217; Almost Quit Industry, Pastor Reveals

Music

Kanye West confronted his wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, over her sexy outfits during a recent episode of E!&#8217;s &#8220;Keeping Up with the Kardashians.&#8221; West explained to Kardashian that while he used to think his wife should look like other girls who constantly show off their bodies, he now realizes that Kardashian’s revealing looks are negatively “affecting” his “soul and . . . spirit.&#8221;
West sparked the conversation while Kardashian was gearing up for the Met Gala. The 38-year-old&#8217;s nude-colored “wet” dress was comprised of a corset and plunging v-neck exposing much of her breasts.
&#8220;The corset, underwear, all of that vibe, I just feel like I went through this transition from being a rapper, looking at all these girls, and then looking at my wife like, &#8216;Oh, my girl needs to be just like these other girls, showing her body off, showing this, showing that,'&#8221; West told his wife, according to <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/elliewoodward/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-argument-met-gala-dress-too-sexy">BuzzFeed</a>.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize that that was affecting my soul and my spirit as someone that&#8217;s married and loved, the father of what&#8217;s about to be four kids,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;A corset is a form of underwear. It&#8217;s hot. It&#8217;s like, it&#8217;s hot for who though?&#8221;
Kardashian protested, telling West that he was giving her &#8220;really bad anxiety.&#8221;
&#8220;The night before the Met, you&#8217;re gonna come in here and say that you&#8217;re not into a corset vibe? You&#8217;re giving me really bad anxiety — what are you talking about?&#8221; she told her husband, adding, &#8220;You knew last night that I was having really bad anxiety, and I don&#8217;t need any more negative energy for you to now say that you&#8217;re not into me wearing a tight dress.&#8221;
&#8220;You are my wife,&#8221; West told her, &#8220;and it affects me when pictures are too sexy.&#8221;
&#8220;You built me up to be this sexy person and have confidence and all this stuff, and just because you&#8217;re on your journey and you&#8217;re on a transformation, doesn&#8217;t mean that I&#8217;m in the same spot with you,&#8221; Kardashian retorted.
&#8220;That&#8217;s absolutely ridiculous,&#8221; West responded, before leaving the room. 
As argued by Kardashian, West has encouraged his wife&#8217;s signature sexy style in the past, telling <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/fashion/photography/a16784/kanye-west-kim-kardashian-interview/">Harper&#8217;s Bazaar</a> in July 2016, &#8220;I love her nude selfies. &#8230; I feel like it&#8217;s almost a Renaissance thing, a painting, a modern version of a painting. I think it&#8217;s important for Kim to have her figure. To not show it would be like Adele not singing.&#8221;
West&#8217;s apparent change of heart, however, coincides with his increasingly public life as a Christian. As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-radical-obedience-christ-helped-my-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> in July, West said that his “radical obedience to Christ&#8221; helped stabilize his mental health. Moreover, earlier this year, the rap icon created “Sunday Service” events that include gospel music. 
“It’s honestly more like a healing experience for my husband. It’s just music; there’s no sermon. It’s definitely something he believes in — Jesus — and there’s a Christian vibe. But there’s no preaching. It’s just a very spiritual Christian experience,” Kardashian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-radical-obedience-christ-helped-my-paul-bois">told</a> Elle magazine of the services. 
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Kanye West And Kim Kardashian West

WATCH: Kanye Confronts Kim Over Her &#8216;Sexy&#8217; Outfits Hurting His &#8216;Soul And Spirit&#8217;

Taylor Swift laid out a series of accusations Sunday after the former manager of Kanye West purchased the rights to all of her past albums for $300 million.
Swift, who has been in the headlines for more than her music increasingly over the last year, posted a <a href="https://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/185958366550/for-years-i-asked-pleaded-for-a-chance-to-own-my">statement</a> on Tumblr Sunday slamming Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta for selling the rights to all six of her past albums to Scooter Braun, Kanye&#8217;s former manager. Braun, she alleged, was involved in &#8220;incessant, manipulative bullying&#8221; of her &#8220;for years,&#8221; with the help of West and Kardashian.
&#8220;Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world,&#8221; she writes in a &#8220;sad and grossed out&#8221; post on Tumblr Sunday. &#8220;All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked.&#8221;
&#8220;Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy,&#8221; she continues. &#8220;Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.&#8221;
Swift&#8217;s &#8220;revenge porn&#8221; accusation is a reference to Kanye&#8217;s &#8220;Famous&#8221; video in which West appears to be lying in bed with several nude celebrities, including what appears to be a fully naked Swift lying next to him. A few months ago, Swift <a href="https://stylecaster.com/taylor-swift-kanye-west-shade-revenge-porn/">liked</a> a post by one of her fans calling the &#8220;Famous&#8221; video &#8220;straight up revenge porn&#8221;: &#8220;The [&#8216;Famous&#8217;] music video was straight up revenge porn. not to mention putting abuse victims next to their abusers and celebrating sexual assaulters. it was disgusting and he doesn’t get enough crap for it.&#8221; (<a href="https://youtu.be/p7FCgw_GlWc">Here&#8217;s the video; warning: NSFW</a>.)
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-kanye-west-scooter-braun-scott-borchetta-bullying">Fox News</a> notes, Swift&#8217;s accusation against Kardashian is a reference to her &#8220;<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/25/taylor-swifts-celebrity-feud-history-from-kanye-west-to-katy-perry-and-beyond.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">infamous recording</a> of Swift and West&#8217;s &#8216;snippet&#8217; of a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-goes-on-defensive-once-again-over-famous-song" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">phone call</a> in which [Swift] appeared to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/taylor-swift-bothered-by-misogynistic-kanye-west-lyrics-about-having-sex-with-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">give her blessing</a> to the lyrics to his song &#8216;Famous.'&#8221; After Swift publicly denied giving West permission to use her name in the song, Kardashian posted the &#8220;snippet&#8221; on Snapchat.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48581/taylor-swifts-pro-pride-video-gets-ripped-shreds-james-barrett">Taylor Swift&#8217;s Pro-Pride Video Gets Ripped To Shreds By Left And Right</a>
In 2018, Swift <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-record-deal-republic-records-umg-757711/">signed</a> with Republic Records, which she praises in her post for believing &#8220;I should own anything I create.&#8221;
Below is Swift&#8217;s full <a href="https://taylorswift.tumblr.com/post/185958366550/for-years-i-asked-pleaded-for-a-chance-to-own-my">post</a> about Braun on Tumblr:
<blockquote>For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums.
Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years.
Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.
This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it.
When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever.
Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create. Thankfully, I left my past in Scott’s hands and not my future. And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make.
I will always be proud of my past work. But for a healthier option, Lover will be out August 23.
Sad and grossed out,
Taylor</blockquote>
Update: Borchetta responded to Swift&#8217;s statement in a lengthy statement of his own, along with some communications and contract documents, in which he maintains that &#8220;Taylor had every chance in the world to own not just her master recordings, but every video, photograph, everything associated to her career. She chose to leave.&#8221; <a href="https://www.bigmachinelabelgroup.com/news/so-its-time-some-truth">Read the full statement here</a>.
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Taylor Swift Lays Out Accusations Against Kanye, Kim Kardashian, &#038; Kanye’s Former Manager

Taylor Swift

Kim Kardashian was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kim-kardashian-returns-white-house-criminal-justice">back at the White House</a> this week to peddle her pernicious &#8220;criminal justice reform&#8221; agenda. While Kardashian&#8217;s passion about helping ex-felons reintegrate into society may be well-intentioned, the cold truth is that an absolutely staggering <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/staggering-doj-study-83-percent-of-prisoners-re-arrested-within-9-years-of-release/">83% of state prisoners</a> are re-arrested within nine years of their release. According to the <a href="https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/18upr9yfup0514.pdf">U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics</a> (BJS), furthermore, the so-called &#8220;low-level drug offenders&#8221; that Kardashian and much of the weak-on-crime/jailbreak cartel so aggressively promote are, in fact, also huge recidivism risks for acts of violent crime:
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Overall, 68 percent of released state prisoners were arrested within three years, 79 percent within six years and 83 percent within nine years. The 401,288 released state prisoners were arrested an estimated 2 million times during the nine years after their release, an average of five arrests per released prisoner. &#8230;
More than three-quarters (77 percent) of released drug offenders were arrested for a non-drug crime within nine years, and more than a third (34 percent) were arrested for a violent crime.
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The risk of recidivism is not just a fantasy concocted by law-and-order conservatives &#8212; it is very, very real.
But the broader reality is that weak-on-crime political operatives often operate under misleading or disingenuous premises. As Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/first-step-criminal-justice-reform-bill-whats-in-it/">pointed out at National Review</a> in the debate leading up to a vote on the White House-supported &#8220;First Step Act&#8221; criminal justice reform jailbreak bill, this &#8220;low-level drug offender&#8221;-centric law actually allows for <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/these-are-the-violent-criminals-slated-for-early-release-under-the-jailbreak-bill/">early prison release</a> for a veritable hodgepodge of thugs &#8212; everyone from dangerous weapon-wielding robbers to law enforcement officer assaulters to violent carjackers to traffickers of fentanyl, a narcotic so potent that a sugar packet-sized dose could kill a whole room. The general profiles of these miscreants would more readily resemble MS-13 brutes than they would the &#8220;low-level drug offenders&#8221; that the weak-on-crime sycophants would have you believe are the true target of &#8220;reform.&#8221;
Far from having a general over-incarceration problem, the United States in the year 2019 actually has an under-incarceration problem &#8212; especially for violent criminals and mid-high level drug traffickers. As Sen. Cotton <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/tom-cotton-under-incarceration-223371">argued</a> in 2016, the actual percentage of violent criminals even arrested &#8212; let alone prosecuted and subsequently convicted &#8212; is harrowingly low: &#8220;Law enforcement is able to arrest or identify a likely perpetrator for only 19 percent of property crimes and 47 percent of violent crimes. If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem.&#8221; Indeed, according to <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017">2017 FBI Uniform Crime Reporting statistics</a>, the number of cases uncleared by law enforcement in a given year is astonishing: 6,013 murder cases, 79,310 rape cases, 206,091 robbery cases, and 349,190 aggravated assault cases in 2017 alone.
The good news, from a broader perspective, is that crime in America has indeed dramatically plummeted over the past few decades. According to <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/03/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/">Pew</a>, citing FBI statistics, violent crime fell 49% between 1993 and 2017. That is outstanding news and ought to be applauded. But as Pew also <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/03/5-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/">notes</a>, violent crime actually recently rose from 2014&#8211;2016. Furthermore, BJS&#8217;s <a href="https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/cv17pr.cfm">2017 National Crime Victimization Survey</a> showed a &#8220;statistically significant increase&#8221; in violent crime victims from 2015&#8211;2017.
Distressingly, this recent increase in violent crime has coincided with a continued hollowing out of America&#8217;s prison population. As psychology professors Keith Humphreys and Richard Lane <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/30/weve-made-remarkable-progress-black-incarceration-now-we-need-know-why/">observed</a> in April, in <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-lurching-left-crime-will-not-win-re-election/">focusing solely upon</a> the black subset of our prison population, &#8220;the African American male imprisonment rate has dropped by a third since its peak and is now at a level not seen since 1991. African American women&#8217;s rate of imprisonment has dropped 57 percent from its peak and is now at a 30-year low.&#8221; Amazingly, Pew actually <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/02/americas-incarceration-rate-is-at-a-two-decade-low/">noted</a> last year that America&#8217;s total incarcerated population is now at a two decade-low:
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The nation&#8217;s incarceration rate peaked at 1,000 inmates per 100,000 adults during the three-year period between 2006 and 2008. It has declined every year since then and is now at its lowest point since 1996, when there were 830 inmates per 100,000 adults.
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The generally tough-on-crime policies of the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton presidencies blessed this country with decades of relative tranquility. Why on earth would we risk throwing that away to satisfy law enforcement officer assaulters and MS-13 fentanyl traffickers? Why on earth would we now be further hollowing out the nation&#8217;s prison population, amidst a two-decade low in the prison population and recent increases, contrary to the longstanding trend, of increased violent crime?
On the contrary, now is the time to double down on giving law enforcement the resources they need to arrest more violent criminals and on giving prosecutors the resources they need to charge and ultimately convict more violent criminals. There are far, far too many violent criminals and drug traffickers who get off scot-free.
Now is not the time to be hoodwinked by perhaps well-intentioned, but nonetheless naive, promoters of the weak-on-crime and jailbreak agenda. And as for President Donald Trump, he should stop <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1139277199180259328">appeasing weak-on-crime</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46959/hammer-be-very-skeptical-jared-kushners-new-josh-hammer">libertarians</a> within his White House and quickly retreat to his 2016 campaign-era rhetoric on drugs and crime. He had it right back then.
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This election is a choice between law, order &amp; safety &#8211; or chaos, crime &amp; violence. I will make America safe again for everyone. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImWithYou?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImWithYou</a>
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/752849315094298624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Violent crime is rising across the United States, yet the DNC convention ignored it. Crime reduction will be one of my top priorities.
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Look how bad it is getting! How much more crime, how many more shootings, will it take for African-Americans and Latinos to vote Trump=SAFE!
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HAMMER: Don’t Let Kim Kardashian Fool You. America Has An UNDER-Incarceration Problem.

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Kim Kardashian is out to prove that she&#8217;s made a major life transition, from vacuous reality television star to serious criminal justice reform advocate &#8212; and if her latest effort is any indication, she&#8217;s well on her way.
<a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/05/07/kim-kardashian-help-free-inmate-prisoner-life-sentence/">TMZ reports that Kardashian</a> is helping to bankroll a project called &#8220;90 Days of Freedom,&#8221; a legal team that uses provisions outlined in last year&#8217;s major criminal justice reform initiative, the First Step Act, to free inmates serving outrageously long prison sentences for minor drug crimes.
So far, the program has helped 17 people go free, including &#8220;Jamelle Carraway (who served 11 years of a life sentence on a cocaine charge), Eric Balcom (who got life without parole for a drug charge at age 29), and Terrence Byrd (who spent half his life behind bars on drug possession charges),&#8221; <a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/05/kim-kardashian-legal-team-help-free-17-prisoners-90-days">Complex reports</a>.
All of the inmates targeted in the program are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole, according to TMZ.
Since late 2017, Kardashian has employed her ample resources and public image to make changes in how the United States treats drug offenders. Initially, she compiled a high-powered legal team to work on specific cases, like that of Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother who was sentenced to decades in prison for drug possession, and that of &#8220;Jeffrey in Miami,&#8221; who was <a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/05/kim-kardashian-helped-another-inmate-get-released-prison-jeffrey-in-miami">sentenced to 22 years for a &#8220;low level drug case</a>.&#8221;
Kardashian worked directly with the White House to secure Alice Marie Johnson&#8217;s clemency, and helped to trigger President Donald Trump&#8217;s support for <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/5682/text">the First Step Act</a> &#8212; a bipartisan effort led by CNN&#8217;s Van Jones and libertarian think tank, FreedomWorks, among others, to help improve and reform sentencing guidelines for low-level drug offenders.
It&#8217;s not known how much Kardashian is pouring into the &#8220;90 Days of Freedom&#8221; program, but she&#8217;s clearly trying to make criminal justice reform a big part of her life. Recently, she announced that she was attending law school classes in California and had plans to take the California Bar Exam in 2021.
&#8220;I told my dad years ago that I was really into criminal justice and he was like, &#8216;This will stress you out so much. You do not really want to take this on,'&#8221; the reality start noted on a recent episode of her family&#8217;s E! reality television series, &#8220;Keeping Up with the Kardashians.&#8221; &#8220;But I think now, having gotten so deep in helping Alice, I&#8217;m really motivated to get to know the law more and fight for people that deserve a second chance, like her.&#8221;
Don&#8217;t worry, though. Kardashian&#8217;s work won&#8217;t be all done behind the scenes. <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/oxygen-greenlights-kim-kardashian-criminal-justice-documentary-5-new-true-crime-series-1203207564/?fbclid=IwAR09ullWdzJAnGSz15sExcPUDeHUh_vtYZuwqx13GlwZPDhSqYuWLKtMWeA">Variety reports that Kardashian</a> has been working with the Oxygen network, which focuses largely on women-targeted television programming, to produce a documentary about Kardashian&#8217;s efforts at reforming the criminal justice system.
The documentary, tentatively titled, &#8220;Kim Kardashian: The Justice Project,&#8221; &#8220;will capture Kardashian&#8217;s efforts to secure freedom for Americans who she believes have been wronged by the justice system,&#8221; according to the network. Kardashian herself is listed as a producer, as is Bunim/Murray, the group that helped create the Kardashian family&#8217;s first reality project, &#8220;Keeping Up.&#8221;

Kim Kardashian Is Funding A Legal Team That Has Gotten 17 People Out Of Jail In 90 Days

Reality star and business mogul Kim Kardashian <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/kim-kardashian-west-cover-may-2019?mbid=social_twitter&amp;utm_brand=vogue&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_source=twitter">revealed</a> to Vogue magazine that she is studying to become a lawyer, with her eye on 2022 to take the bar exam.
Kardashian has recently shown an interest in criminal justice reform, notably helping to secure the early release of nonviolent offender Alice Marie Johnson, 63, last summer. And it might just be in her blood: the 38-year-old&#8217;s father, Robert Kardashian, was a high-profile figure on the O. J. Simpson defense team. He passed away in 2003.
But Kardashian does not have a college degree, nor is she planning on going to law school to achieve her newest dream. As noted by Vogue, California is one of four U.S. states which offers an unorthodox path to the bar exam: &#8220;what is known as &#8216;reading the law,&#8217; or apprenticing with a practicing lawyer or judge.&#8221;
Kardashian has already started working on a four-year apprenticeship at a San Francisco-based firm and is planning to take the exam in 2022.
&#8220;First year of law school, you have to cover three subjects: criminal law, torts, and contracts. To me, torts is the most confusing, contracts the most boring, and crim law I can do in my sleep. Took my first test, I got a 100,&#8221; the queen of the selfie told Vogue. &#8220;Super easy for me. The reading is what really gets me. It&#8217;s so time-consuming. The concepts I grasp in two seconds.&#8221;
The outlet noted that Kardashian will take a test known as the &#8220;baby bar&#8221; in the summer; &#8220;if she passes, she will be given the OK to continue for three more years of study.&#8221;
&#8220;I had to think long and hard about this,&#8221; the mother of three explained, noting that her work to obtain Johnson&#8217;s clemency helped seal the deal.
&#8220;The White House called me to advise to help change the system of clemency, and I&#8217;m sitting in the Roosevelt Room with, like, a judge who had sentenced criminals and a lot of really powerful people and I just sat there, like, Oh, s***. I need to know more,&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;I would say what I had to say, about the human side and why this is so unfair. But I had attorneys with me who could back that up with all the facts of the case. It&#8217;s never one person who gets things done; it&#8217;s always a collective of people, and I&#8217;ve always known my role, but I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society. I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more.&#8221;
The decision to meet with Trump at the White House came replete with warnings from those around her, Kardashian recalled. &#8220;I made a decision to go to the White House when everyone was telling me, &#8216;Don&#8217;t go, your career will be over; you can&#8217;t step foot in there,&#8217;&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I was like, &#8216;It&#8217;s my reputation over someone&#8217;s life?&#8217; Weigh that out. People talk shit about me all day long. It will just be another story about me versus someone getting their life back.&#8221;
And as far as the naysayers go: they are of no concern to Kardashian. &#8220;I don&#8217;t pay attention to that anymore,&#8221; she said of critics who perceive her as shallow. &#8220;I love to be put in a situation where I can have a conversation with someone who might not be inclined to think much of me, because I can guarantee they will have a different opinion and understand what&#8217;s important to me after they&#8217;ve met me.&#8221;

Kim Kardashian Is Becoming A Lawyer. Here Are The Steps She&#8217;s Taken And Her Future Plans.

Kim Kardashian has once again been taken to task for cultural appropriation; this time for wearing traditional Indian maang tikka head jewelry.
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/kim-kardashian-blasted-for-cultural-appropriation-in-sunday-service-outfit">Fox News</a>, the wife of rapper Kanye West sparked controversy on social media upon posting photos of her church outfit, which included the Indian head jewelry. &#8220;Sunday Service Vibe,&#8221; she referred to the garb in an Instagram post.
As is typically the case in these instances, followers of Kim Kardashian were outraged that she used another culture as her &#8220;costume.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not a Sunday Service Vibe, it&#8217;s an Indian vibe,&#8221; one commenter lamented, according to Fox News.
Another commenter noted that the maang tikka has nothing to do with Christianity, saying Kim Kardashian appropriated a religious symbol as jewelry. &#8220;For those of you who don&#8217;t know, the maang tikka is a ceremonial head piece traditionally worn by the bride. Wearing white in India is traditionally reserved for funerals,&#8221; the person said. &#8220;On top of that she wore this to a Christian service. She probably thought it was just jewelry, but when that piece has literally been used for centuries wouldn&#8217;t you kinda think there must be some sort of significant meaning held towards it?&#8221;
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Kim Kardashian did, however, have a few defenders, including one Indian woman, who thought she looked fabulous. &#8220;As an Indian woman [I] think Kim K looks GREAT and frankly don&#8217;t care what she wears,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We all get influenced by each other&#8217;s culture, ethnicities&#8230; we should be honored that such a stylish woman appreciates our culture instead.&#8221;
The 38-year-old pop cultural icon has been criticized for cultural appropriation before. In 2018, she sparked much ire on social media when she showed up to the MTV Movie and TV Awards with braided hair.
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Most recently, Kim Kardashian&#8217;s younger sister, Kendall Jenner, faced heavy criticism for posing in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37519/vogue-photographed-kendall-jenner-afro-hair-now-paul-bois">Vogue </a><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37519/vogue-photographed-kendall-jenner-afro-hair-now-paul-bois">photoshoot</a><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37519/vogue-photographed-kendall-jenner-afro-hair-now-paul-bois"> with afro-style hair</a>, which prompted heavy backlash on social media.
&#8220;FOR YEARS WE have been penalized about our looks and especially our hair, It is a slap in the face when non-Blacks try to imitate our look,&#8221; one Instagram user wrote.
&#8220;I like Kendall but why didn&#8217;t they use an ethnic model who has hair like that,&#8221; another wrote.
Other Instagram users defended Kendall Jenner: &#8220;Backlash for this photo?? Seriously?? That is the stupidest thing I&#8217;ve ever heard!! So now someone has decided who can have a full curly look/ afro?? That is just BS!! Pick your battles people and get over it&#8230;seriously!!&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m so sick and tired of people criticizing Kendall Jenner,&#8221; another said. &#8220;She could wear her hair straight and have a green bow and it would be offensive. I&#8217;m honestly ashamed to say this, but y&#8217;all need to step back and look in the mirror, who are you to come at her when your just a HUMAN LIKE HER. Y&#8217;all should be ashamed, LEAVE HER BE. (Also that&#8217;s not an Afro).&#8221;
The backlash prompted an apology from Vogue, who said they &#8220;did not mean to offend anyone.&#8221;
&#8220;The image is meant to be an update of the romantic Edwardian/Gibson Girl hair which suits the period feel of the Brock Collection, and also the big hair of the &#8217;60s and the early &#8217;70s, that puffed-out, teased-out look of those eras,&#8221; the Conde Nast publication said in a statement to <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/979489/vogue-responds-to-kendall-jenner-s-controversial-photo-shoot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">E! News</a>. &#8220;We apologize if it came across differently than intended, and we certainly did not mean to offend anyone by it.&#8221;

Kim Kardashian’s Indian Head Jewelry Blasted For Cultural Appropriation

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CNN political analyst April Ryan used a man who made a sex tape with Kim Kardashian to attack Kardashian&#8217;s husband, rapper Kanye West, on Thursday over the meeting that he had with President Donald Trump.
Ryan, who appeared on CNN with host Wolf Blitzer to break down the meeting between Trump and West, brought up rapper Ray J, saying that he was &#8220;a little concerned&#8221; about the meeting.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnns-april-ryan-asks-ray-j-for-comment-on-kanye-wests-white-house-meeting">Fox News</a> notes that &#8220;Ray J is a musician who is more known for his role in an infamous 2003 sex tape with West&#8217;s wife, Kim Kardashian, that was made long before West and Kardashian began their relationship.&#8221;
&#8220;I talked to someone who is very familiar with the Kardashians, or used to be, text messaging with Ray J. You know who Ray J is, he was once close with Kim Kardashian,&#8221; Ryan said.
The embarrassing segment for the far-left network comes two days after CNN ran a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/36945/watch-guests-cnn-panel-mock-kanye-west-supporting-hank-berrien">segment</a> using racial slurs to smear West for his support for the president.
&#8220;CNN again proved that they will go to anyone that will assist them in pushing their narrative,&#8221; NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck told Fox News. &#8220;Kanye and Ray J won&#8217;t be caught exchanging Christmas cards, so for April Ryan to invoke him to counter the White House meeting is the very definition of trolling. He&#8217;s clearly not relevant.&#8221;
Even left-wing pundits were shocked by Ryan&#8217;s lack of professionalism, as former Obama official Tommy Vietor tweeted:
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Fox News&#8217; Brian Flood also weighed in on Ryan&#8217;s stunt, writing on Twitter:
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CNN&#8217;s April Ryan used Ray J, who once made a sex tape with Kim Kardashian, to attack Kanye West: &#8220;I talked to someone who is very familiar with the Kardashians, or used to be, text messaging with Ray J &#8230; he was once close with Kim Kardashian.&#8221;
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WATCH: CNN Uses Man Who Made Kardashian Sex Tape To Attack Kanye West

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Rapper Kanye West, who has said that he and President Trump both share &#8220;dragon energy,&#8221; will drop by the White House this week to have lunch with the president, the White House said Tuesday.
Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner will also meet with West when he visits, press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
&#8220;Topics of discussions will include manufacturing resurgence in America, prison reform, how to prevent gang violence, and what can be done to reduce violence in Chicago,&#8221; Sanders said.
Trump on Monday said he had instructed the Department of Justice to work with law enforcement in West&#8217;s hometown of Chicago to &#8220;straighten out the terrible shooting wave.&#8221; The president has also threatened to send in federal forces to clean up Chicago.
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If Chicago doesn&#8217;t fix the horrible &#8220;carnage&#8221; going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!
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West is scheduled to visit on Thursday, The New York Times reports.
&#8220;Mr. Kushner, who serves as a senior adviser to Mr. Trump, has been focused on overhauling the criminal justice system, and one person briefed on the meeting said that Mr. West wanted to discuss the availability of job opportunities for former convicts. He also hopes to discuss with Mr. Trump how to increase the number of manufacturing jobs in the Chicago area, where Mr. West grew up and recently said he planned to return, according to the person briefed on the meeting,&#8221; said the Times.
West&#8217;s wife, reality TV star Kim Kardashian has met with Trump twice to plead for release of prisoners and discuss prison reform efforts. After discussions with her, Trump commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a black grandmother sentenced to life without parole for a first-time drug offense.
West ruffled feathers when he delivered a pro-Trump rant in front of a hyper-liberal crowd at the &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; premiere earlier this month. After the show was over, West donned a &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; hat and went on a tear.
&#8220;So many times I talk to a white person about this and they say &#8216;how can you like Trump? He&#8217;s racist,&#8221; said West. &#8220;If I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago.&#8221;
&#8220;You see they laughing at me. You heard &#8217;em, they scream at me, they bully me. They bullied me backstage,&#8221; said West, who has said he&#8217;s considering a presidential run in 2020. &#8220;They said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t go out there with that hat on.&#8217; They bullied me backstage. They bullied me.&#8221; &#8230;
&#8220;And the liberals bully you and tell you what you can and cannot wear. And they look at me and say, &#8216;It&#8217;s not fair. How the hell did you get here?&#8217; &#8220;
In an apparent reference to Trump, Yeezy said: &#8220;If someone inspires me and I connect with them, I don&#8217;t have to believe in all their policies &#8230; We need to have a dialogue not a diatribe, because if you want something to change, it&#8217;s not going to change by saying, &#8216;F**k that person.&#8217; Try love. Try love.&#8221;

Doubling Down, Kanye West To Dine With President Trump At White House

Chicago

Reality show superstar Kim Kardashian refused to take Jimmy Kimmel&#8217;s bait to bash President Trump on Monday. In fact, in her appearance on the late-night show, the icon said she had &#8220;nothing bad to say about the president.&#8221;
Just a few months ago, all hell broke loose when world-famous rapper Kanye West, husband of Kim, announced he felt a deep-spirited surge in &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29931/dragon-energy-john-legend-tries-intimidate-kanye-ben-shapiro">dragon energy</a>&#8221; for President Trump. He refused to back down despite multiple attempts by entertainment elites to make him recant. Following that, Kim Kardashian successfully lobbied President Trump to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31538/trump-commutes-drug-dealers-life-sentence-because-ben-shapiro">pardon convicted felon Alice Marie Johnson</a>, who had been serving a life sentence for drug trafficking. Not once did Kim Kardashian condemn her husband&#8217;s opinions throughout the controversy.
On her visit to the White House, Kim Kardashian said she felt &#8220;hopeful&#8221; about &#8220;good things&#8221; to come from her conversations with the president.
When Kimmel asked Kardashian about her husband&#8217;s support of President Trump, she expressed respect for his opinion without going too deep into the political situation.
&#8220;To make it clear, when Kanye &#8212;we would talk about it and would talk about policies, he doesn&#8217;t necessarily agree with his policies,&#8221; said Kimmel. &#8220;He likes his personality and how he made it to be president when everyone really underestimated him.&#8221;
&#8220;I have nothing bad to say about the president,&#8221; Kardashian responded. &#8220;You know, he&#8217;s done something amazing. I am very focused. I don&#8217;t agree with everything either. I had no idea what to expect going in there, and I was like, &#8216;Look, I&#8217;m going to be focused.&#8217; It really turned my idea around in this category.&#8221;
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Kim Kardashian On Kimmel: &#8216;I Have Nothing Bad To Say About The President&#8217;

Jimmy Kimmel

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has ruffled some feathers due to her recent cooperation with President Donald Trump, which resulted in the pardoning of non-violent drug offender <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31219/kim-kardashian-meeting-donald-trump-white-house-amanda-prestigiacomo">Alice Johnson</a>. Trump is toxic in lefty Hollywood, but Kardashian, seemingly taking a cue from her husband <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/29890/president-trump-and-kanye-west-send-twitter-ryan-saavedra">Kanye West</a>, met with the president and even tweeted a message of gratitude following the Johnson pardon.
But she&#8217;s not stopping there.
In an <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kim-kardashian-west-talks-her-first-kkw-beauty-store-opening-la-today-politics-more-1121824?utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral">interview</a> with The Hollywood Reporter, the makeup guru explicitly said she&#8217;s rooting for the president to &#8220;win,&#8221; expressing political tolerance often preached in Hollywood but almost never actually practiced.
&#8220;I try to see all sides, especially after this experience [referring to the controversy over her visit to the White House]. There&#8217;s obviously a lot that we don&#8217;t agree with, but I want him [President Trump] to win,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kim-kardashian-west-talks-her-first-kkw-beauty-store-opening-la-today-politics-more-1121824?utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral">explained</a> the 37 year old. &#8220;I want him to succeed, because it&#8217;s our country. It&#8217;s so crazy that everyone doesn&#8217;t want that.&#8221;
Well said.
She also expressed more understanding of the current Southern border crisis than most of the mainstream media. &#8220;It is really complex,&#8221; Kardashian admitted. &#8220;It&#8217;s heartbreaking. When you see those images, it breaks your heart and I hope that it all gets resolved. You don&#8217;t want to see these things.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32103/must-watch-border-patrol-agent-sets-record-amanda-prestigiacomo">noted</a> by National Border Patrol Council spokesman Chris Cabrera on Wednesday, the complexity of the situation at the border is not being shown by the media. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think everybody understands what&#8217;s happening down here. You know, a lot of these kids that are coming here, and put through terrible, terrible situations by their parents; they are brought over in extremely dangerous conditions, in extremely dangerous terrain, and all this can be avoided if they just go through the port of entry,&#8221; the border patrol agent said.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve had this situation going on for four years now. I don&#8217;t think you can necessarily blame it on one administration or another. It started under one and is continuing under another. It hasn&#8217;t been fixed and it needs to be fixed.&#8221;
On a lighter note, the mother of three also cleared up recent comments concerning a potential run for office.
&#8220;Would you ever run for office?&#8221; asked the magazine.
&#8220;You know, everyone&#8217;s been asking me that and I said in one interview, &#8216;Never say never.&#8217; And then I was like, &#8216;Why did I say that?&#8217; I don&#8217;t have political aspirations. I really don&#8217;t!&#8221;

Did Kim Kardashian Just Jump On The Trump Train? &#8216;I Want Him To Win&#8217;

In an interview released on Friday, CNN&#8217;s Van Jones spoke with Kim Kardashian about potentially running for office. Kardashian was recently able to convince President Trump to commute the prison sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, the alleged leader of a &#8220;multimillion-dollar&#8221; <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7964949/the_tennessean_nashville_tn_2231997/">cocaine ring</a>, who had spent more than two decades behind bars.
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JONES: Now, once you get the law degree, people are gonna say, would you ever run for office?
KARDASHIAN: Oh, I don&#8217;t &#8211; I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s even on my mind.
JONES: Trump&#8217;s president. It could happen.
KARDASHIAN: I know. That&#8217;s why Kanye loves him. It&#8217;s the idea that anything can happen.
JONES: So, could anything happen with uh&#8230;
KARDASHIAN: I guess never say never, but that&#8217;s not gonna be like a &#8220;Kim&#8217;s running!&#8221;
JONES: Okay okay.
KARDASHIAN: That&#8217;s not where I&#8217;m, what I&#8217;m going for. I just want to help, starting one person at a time. I think sometimes if more people would just put their personal feelings aside, and talk about really important issues that have to be discussed, then so much more can get done.
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Kim Kardashian West for President?
&#8220;I guess never say never. But that&#8217;s not going to be like, Kim&#8217;s running. That&#8217;s not where I am,&#8221; she says <a href="https://t.co/2VVNf9PLoQ">https://t.co/2VVNf9PLoQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/eeKiDX6Xdr">pic.twitter.com/eeKiDX6Xdr</a>
&#8212; CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1007790199336787968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Van Jones Asks Kim Kardashian If She Plans To Run For Office

Van Jones

This week, three major stories broke. First, President Trump canceled a visit to the White House for the Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles were sending too few representatives, and Trump&#8212;angry at the possibility of being humiliated in a photo op&#8212;decided to back out of the event. He then proceeded to suggest that the Eagles had avoided his White House because they supported kneeling for the National Anthem, and rescheduled a patriotic event complete with a military choir rendition of &#8220;God Bless America&#8221; to poke them in the eye. LeBron James and Steph Curry responded by stating that neither of their teams would be interested in visiting the White House after the NBA Finals.
Second, President Trump commuted the sentence of 63-year-old convicted drug dealer Alice Marie Johnson who was sentenced to life in prison in 1996 after trafficking 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms of cocaine. Trump&#8217;s stated policy is that he would like to consider the death penalty for drug dealers. So what changed his mind here? Kim Kardashian visited the White House and lobbied for Johnson, who received her commutation less than a week later.
Finally, we found out that according to the government, Medicare is scheduled to become insolvent as of 2026, and Social Security is scheduled to do the same by 2034. More than 49 million Americans are currently reliant on Medicare; approximately 63 million Americans are currently reliant on Social Security. These two programs comprise more than sixty percent of the mandatory spending in our annual budget. And if we don&#8217;t do something relatively drastic almost immediately, we will be faced with serious shortfalls. How big will those shortfalls be? Our current national debt is about $20 trillion; if we included expected shortfalls from these two programs, our national debt would be about $91 trillion.
Now, which of these three stories got the least attention?
<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/ben-shapiro-america-needs-stop-treating-celebrities-politicians-opinion-964370">Read the rest here</a>.

Shapiro At &#8216;Newsweek&#8217;: Americans Need To Stop Treating Celebrities Like Politicians

On Wednesday, President Trump announced that he would be commuting the sentence of drug trafficker Alice Johnson. She was sentenced in 1996 to life in prison for her role as a leader of a multi-million dollar cocaine ring trafficking in 2,000 to 3,000 kilograms in involvement with the deadly Colombian Cali drug cartel. The judge in that case (who now sits on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and was confirmed to that seat by a 95-0 vote in the Senate) called Johnson &#8220;the quintessential entrepreneur.&#8221; Cocaine trafficking ends with dead people on both ends of the business &#8212; in both the gathering and shipment of cocaine, and in the addiction to it by users.
But Mic made a video about her:
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Alice Marie Johnson has been in prison for 21 years for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. <a href="https://t.co/VFe29D2ve8">pic.twitter.com/VFe29D2ve8</a>
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Kim Kardashian saw the video and decided to get involved. That&#8217;s how we got here.
Johnson told her story to CNN:
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[A]fter almost two decades together and a tumultuous relationship, my husband and I divorced in 1989. It was during this time that my life began to spiral out of control. I lost my job &#8212; and &#8212; then my youngest son was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident. No mother should have to bury her child. This weight was unbelievable, and it was a burden I couldn&#8217;t sustain. I <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/20/the-punishment-is-the-crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">made some very poor decisions </a>out of desperation. I want this part to be clear: I acknowledge that I have done wrong. I made the biggest mistake of my life to make ends meet and got involved with people selling drugs.
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Johnson didn&#8217;t &#8220;get involved with people selling drugs.&#8221; She was an integral part of a drug ring, as the trial documents demonstrate. Johnson writes plays and she&#8217;s a grandmother. That&#8217;s the case for her clemency. But we all get older. That&#8217;s not a case for commutation. And some people write plays. That isn&#8217;t either.
Now, as a libertarian-leaner on the drug war altogether, I&#8217;m not supremely perturbed by Johnson&#8217;s commutation. But I am perturbed by the fact that celebrity suitors seem to have sprung Johnson, rather than a principled examination of the issues. President Trump has said he wants to seek the death penalty for drug traffickers. He stated, &#8220;If you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death penalty. These [drug dealers] can kill 2,000, 3,000 people, and nothing happens to them.&#8221; Trump has suggested that illegal immigration presents a threat to the United States thanks to drug trafficking. Johnson was guilty of these sins.
Kim Kardashian&#8217;s visit to the Oval Office got Johnson out of prison. If Trump really wants to reconsider the drug war, he should go ahead and do that &#8212; it&#8217;s long beyond reconsideration. But if he just wants to cater to whatever big names with a sex tape wander into his office, that&#8217;s bad policymaking.

Trump Commutes Drug Dealer&#8217;s Life Sentence Because Kim Kardashian Asked Him To Do So

In an amazing display of brave journalism and speaking truth to power, CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta ripped the Trump administration for taking a meeting with . . . Kim Kardashian? 
Yes, Kardashian met one-on-one with the president of the United States to discuss prison reform and plead for a pardon of Alice Marie Johnson. Johnson is a 63 year old serving a life sentence after being convicted of selling drugs and laundering money.
The meeting with Kardashian came on the heels of discussions held at the White House on how to tackle the newest issue that&#8217;s perked the ears of the administration: Prison reform. 
&#8220;Kim Kardashian is at the White House today,&#8221; a frustrated Acosta <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ncrO4Nmis#action=share">said</a> on CNN Wednesday. &#8220;What planet that is anything resembling normal because it&#8217;s not. She shouldn&#8217;t be here, talking about prison reform. It&#8217;s very nice that she is here, but that&#8217;s not a serious thing to have happen here at the White House.&#8221;
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Acosta&#8217;s disparaging comments about Kardashian&#8217;s visit seem rather peculiar given his prior celebration of Grammy-winning artist and prison reform activist John Legend. 
In 2015, Acosta had a lengthy interview with Legend titled<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqkV-iZelFw"> &#8220;John Legend: Musician On a Mission&#8221;</a> in which he lauded Legend&#8217;s efforts to achieve prison reform and get President Obama re-elected.
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Why is Acosta responding with such vitriol to the Kardashian meeting with the Trump administration to advocate for an issue he&#8217;s supported in the past? It&#8217;s simple: If the media decided to be consistent, they would have to praise Trump in certain circumstances. As a result, they would risk admitting Trump&#8217;s successes as president, and his approval ratings would continue to rise. 
The war on fake news will rage on as long as the left-leaning media&#8217;s political interests trounce their journalistic standards.
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WATCH: CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta Is Being Hypocritical Again!

Jim Acosta

Media Bias

On Wednesday, CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta shouted at White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders as she was leaving the podium, asking where President Donald Trump&#8217;s apology was for people he has offended.
Acosta&#8217;s comments came after Sanders pointed out the hypocrisy of the media with regard to the recent circus surrounding Roseanne Barr, whose show &#8220;Roseanne&#8221; was canceled on Tuesday after she tweeted racist remarks.
&#8220;Sarah, where is the president&#8217;s apologies for things he&#8217;s said over the years?&#8221; Acosta shouted at Sanders as she left the room.
Acosta later joined CNN&#8217;s Brooke Baldwin, where he expounded on the incident and then pivoted to attacking the White House for having Kim Kardashian visit to discuss prison reform, saying that the meeting wasn&#8217;t &#8220;a serious thing.&#8221;
&#8220;Forget about the fact that Kim Kardashian is here at the White House today and what planet that is anything resembling normal because it&#8217;s not,&#8221; Acosta whined. &#8220;She shouldn&#8217;t be here talking about prison reform. It&#8217;s very nice that she is here but that&#8217;s not a serious thing to have happen here at the White House.&#8221;
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WATCH: CNN&#8217;s Acosta Demands Trump Apology Then Mocks Kim Kardashian

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

On Wednesday, reality TV star Kim Kardashian is meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform and the potential pardon for a non-violent female drug offender.
According to a <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/keeping-up-with-the-kushners-kim-kardashian-white-house-visit-prison-reform/amp?__twitter_impression=true">report</a> from Vanity Fair, Kardashian has been working with her lawyer for months in preparation for the White House meeting. Kardashian will first meet with White House Advisor Jared Kushner, who has been focused heavily on prison reform, and then meet up with President Trump, most likely in the Oval Office.
Sending a signal that she is serious, the intensely public star will not have &#8220;Keeping Up with the Kardashian&#8221; cameras with her, nor her sisters. She will reportedly be hosted by First Daughter Ivanka Trump and Kushner for dinner later Wednesday night.
Kardashian is expected to ask Mr. Trump for the pardon of Alice Johnson, a 62-year-old grandmother who is 21 years into a life sentence for a first-time drug offense. According to Page Six, the reality star stumbled upon Johnson&#8217;s story via Twitter earlier in the year and reached out to Ivanka, who then directed Kardashian to her husband.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in communication with the White House and trying to bring her case to the president&#8217;s desk and figure out how we can get her out,&#8221; Kardashian revealed in a MIC interview earlier this month.
As noted by Vanity Fair, Kushner has a personal connection to prison reform through his own father, Charles Kushner. In 2005 and 2006, Charles spent over a year in a federal prison camp for charges of tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions, and witness tampering.
&#8220;The experience left an indelible mark on the young Kushner who, for years, carried a wallet his father made for him in prison; when he joined the White House as senior adviser, he vowed to help improve the system that his father had come through,&#8221; <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/05/keeping-up-with-the-kushners-kim-kardashian-white-house-visit-prison-reform/amp?__twitter_impression=true">reports</a> the outlet.
Among the actions Kushner has taken to make progress on prison reform is bringing religious leaders and law enforcement officials to the White House to address the issue, holding a series of meetings and hosting dinners with &#8220;key Washington power players,&#8221; and promoting the bipartisan First Step Act, which offers programs to help inmates be more prepared for civilian life and gives nonviolent offenders more options on how to finish out their sentences, including in home confinement and halfway houses.
&#8220;If we can start showing that we can make the prisons more purposeful and more effective at lowering the recidivism rate over time, that may help the people who are trying to make the argument for sentencing reform,&#8221; Kushner said in early May.
Trump, in turn, promised: &#8220;Get a bill to my desk, and I will sign it.&#8221;

Kim Kardashian Is Meeting With Donald Trump At The White House. Here&#8217;s Her Agenda.

Jared Kushner

In the spirit of &#8220;Avengers: Infinity War,&#8221; we&#8217;ve got a super-celebrity team-up going on behind the scenes that&#8217;s as unlikely as &#8220;Mr. Lord&#8221; joining forces with &#8220;the Pirate Angel&#8221; (Star Lord and Thor, for those who haven&#8217;t seen it yet). According to online publication <a href="https://mic.com/articles/189162/exclusive-kardashian-west-in-talks-with-white-house-about-pardoning-nonviolent-drug-offender#.RsXeTYWxa">Mic</a>, Kim Kardashian, wife of MAGA convert Kanye West, has connected with Trump&#8217;s son-in-law Jared Kushner to help get a 62-year-old woman out of prison.
The woman, Alice Marie Johnson, has been serving a life sentence in federal prison since October 1996 for a nonviolent drug offense, something Kardashian views as a gross miscarriage of justice. As <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/05/kim-kardashian-jared-kushner">Vanity Fair </a>frames it, Kushner &#8212; whose father once spent a few years in prison &#8212; likely sympathizes with her perspective.
Mic reports that &#8220;sources with knowledge of the conversations&#8221; say that Kardashian and Kushner have spoken on the phone multiple times over the last several months and those talks &#8220;have picked up in intensity over the last several days&#8221;:
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A representative for Kardashian West confirmed to Mic that she has been in communication with the White House and is working to bring Johnson&#8217;s case to the president&#8217;s desk.
The source with knowledge of the conversations also told Mic that Johnson&#8217;s case has been reviewed by White House attorneys.
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Kardashian began to get involved in November when she &#8220;enlisted a team of lawyers, including her Los Angeles-based attorney Shawn Holley, to advocate for Johnson&#8217;s release.&#8221;
Mic reports that Kardashian and Holley have both spoken with Johnson in person, and she has expressed her gratitude for the women acting on her behalf. Right now, the women&#8217;s best hope is either a presidential pardon or clemency, which President Obama declined offering Johnson.
Vanity Fair notes that Kushner, though an &#8220;unlikely&#8221; criminal justice reform advocate, has been taking some action recently to promote more lenient sentencing:
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Kushner has been an unlikely proponent of criminal-justice reform, putting him at odds with Attorney General Jeff Sessions who has been vocal about his <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/jeff-sessions-being-soft-on-sentencing-means-more-violent-crime-its-time-to-get-tough-again/2017/06/16/618ef1fe-4a19-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.134903e52c15">tough-on-crime approach</a>. Kushner and his wife, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/people/ivanka-trump#intcid=dt-hot-link">Ivanka Trump</a>, have <a href="https://www.axios.com/jared-and-ivankas-bipartisan-dinners-1513306046-5e471336-7cdc-4d48-b942-84b809416b63.html">hosted dinners</a>, inviting both Democrats and Republicans to discuss the cause, and they support <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/us/politics/jeff-sessions-jared-kushner-prisons.html">a bill</a> that would lighten sentences for nonviolent offenses and promote education, drug rehabilitation, and work training inside of prisons.
At one of the dinners he co-hosted, Kushner explained that his interest in criminal-justice reform began when his father, Charles Kushner, was sentenced to two years in prison for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering. The elder Kushner was released in August 2006.
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Kardashian likely learned of Johnson through an ACLU campaign to end mass incarceration that features her along with five other prisoners as examples of people suffering unfair sentencing. Johnson has gained some public attention via Skype conversations with companies, including Google, and universities, including NYU and Yale.
Johnson says she first got involved in drug trafficking during a crisis period in her life. As a result of her gambling addiction, she lost her 10-year job at FedEx and got divorced. She then suffered the heartbreaking loss of her son, who died in a motorcycle accident. To make ends meet, she began trafficking drugs. <a href="https://mic.com/articles/189164/meet-alice-marie-johnson-the-woman-kim-kardashian-west-wants-trump-to-pardon#.MSVkr6zoT">Read more about Johnson here</a>.

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