House Judiciary Chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-jordan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Jordan</a> (R-OH) is looking into whether GoFundMe and Eventbrite cooperated with federal law enforcement during their investigation into the financial transactions of supporters of former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>. 
Jordan wrote to executives at both companies on Monday, asking them to provide any communications with the FBI and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a bureau of the Treasury Department. He noted that FinCEN emailed banks about flagging “MAGA” and “TRUMP” transactions. 
After the January 6, 2021, breach at the U.S. Capitol, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-flagged-terms-like-trump-maga-for-banks-to-comb-through-customer-data-jordan-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FinCEN asked banks</a> to help federal law enforcement identify transactions of Trump supporters and others who purchased religious texts or visited certain outdoor stores, such as Cabela&#8217;s and Bass Pro Shops. FinCEN provided the banks with documentation on various typologies, suggested search terms, and also pointed them to crowdfunding sites, according to Jordan. The congressman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-flagged-terms-like-trump-maga-for-banks-to-comb-through-customer-data-jordan-says">previously said</a>, &#8220;FinCEN warned financial institutions of &#8216;extremism&#8217; indicators.&#8221; 
Jordan said in <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-03-04%20JDJ%20to%20GoFundMe.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his letter</a> to GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan that FinCen “emailed financial institutions a list of ‘crowdfunding sites’ that included GoFundMe, Eventbrite, and Anedot, among others, and explained how financial institutions could use a ‘transaction reference’ to identify customers making certain transactions on crowdfunding sites.”
“For example, in the email, FinCEN alerted financial institutions to customers’ use of Eventbrite, noting that ‘people have been observed using this site to post an event and sell tickets including bus tickets to the demonstrations,’” Jordan added. 
Jordan noted how transactions for individuals who “purchased tickets to events in support of President Trump” were flagged by FinCEN as potential targets for investigation. 
“Despite these transactions having no apparent nexus to criminal activity — and, in fact, relate to Americans exercising their First Amendment rights — FinCEN seems to have adopted a characterization of these Americans as potential threat actors,” Jordan wrote. “This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with federal law enforcement, without legal process, into Americans’ private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the federal government’s potential abuses of Americans’ fundamental civil liberties.”
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In his letters, Jordan requested any communications from the FBI or FinCEN to either GoFundMe or Eventbrite. He gave the companies a March 18 deadline to comply with his requests. 
The revelations about the federal government’s investigation into Trump supporters have lawmakers concerned about potential violations of constitutional liberties, the government’s use of private financial information, and coordination between FinCEN and the private sector.
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Jim Jordan Investigating Whether GoFundMe And Eventbrite Helped Feds Snoop On Trump Supporters

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Former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign team released a memo on Tuesday blasting his GOP rival Nikki Haley and predicting &#8220;the end is near,&#8221; saying her campaign will conclude on Saturday when voters in her home state of South Carolina go to the polls. 
The memo — addressed to “Interested Parties” and written by Trump campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles — was released as Haley gave a “State of the Race” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-refuses-to-drop-out-the-political-elite-are-against-me-trump-unstable" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> in Greenville, South Carolina, vowing to remain in the contest and saying that she feels &#8220;no need to kiss the ring&#8221; and has “no fear of Trump’s retribution.” 
“Nikki Haley’s campaign ends Saturday, February 24th, fittingly, in her home state, rejected by those who know her best,” Team Trump’s memo began. 
“Of course, like any wailing loser hell-bent on an alternative reality and refusing to come to grips with her imminent political mortality, we should expect more references to Kings and Coronations — even though the results of 5 elections overwhelmingly sent an unmistaken message: Nikki Haley doesn’t represent Republicans any more than Joe Biden does,” the memo added. 
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The former South Carolina governor, who served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under Trump, trails her former boss by 25 points in her home state, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average. Saturday’s South Carolina primary will take place a month after Trump cruised to victories in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary, defeating Haley by more than 30 points in Iowa and 11 points in New Hampshire. 
Both Trump and Haley have ramped up their criticisms of each other in recent weeks. The former president recently brought up <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-fires-back-at-trump-over-his-comments-about-her-husband" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Haley’s husband</a>, critiquing his absence from the campaign trail as he is deployed overseas with the National Guard, and Haley has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nikki-haley-hits-trump-over-his-response-to-alexei-navalnys-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed</a> Trump’s rhetoric on Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin, especially following the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. 
In her &#8220;State of the Race&#8221; speech on Tuesday, Haley said that Trump is becoming &#8220;unstable,&#8221; and she teared up when she discussed her husband&#8217;s deployment. Haley added that the &#8220;political elite&#8221; are against her and want her to drop out of the race.
“I refuse to quit,” she said. “South Carolina will vote on Saturday. But on Sunday, I’ll still be running for President. I’m not going anywhere.”
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The Trump campaign memo detailed the path to the Republican nomination, saying that even with the “most-generous model” for Haley, Trump will secure the nomination by March 19. The memo then went into “the next step for Team Trump,” which read:
<ul>
<li>Acknowledge that Nikki Haley is irrelevant and not newsworthy — and unworthy of said attention.</li>
<li>The Republican National Committee becomes one with the Donald J. Trump for President campaign.</li>
<li>Convention planning, fundraising, strategy, and state party tactics — including full coordination with the NRCC and the NRSC — begin in earnest.</li>
<li>The General Election begins (even though we have always known it started months ago) and the case to Fire Joe Biden is prosecuted.  </li>
</ul>

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Team Trump Releases Memo Predicting Haley’s Campaign Will End On Saturday

Team Trump Releases Memo Predicting Haley's Campaign Will End On Saturday

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Senator <a class="c-link c-link--focus-visible" href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-scott" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Tim Scott</a> (R-SC) pressed Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday over a report that said federal officials instructed banks to turn over customer data of transactions flagged with terms like “TRUMP” or “MAGA.”
Scott’s letter came after documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government showed that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) had flagged the terms as part of its investigation related to the January 6 riot. Banks were also told to look at transactions involving the purchase of religious texts and outdoor sporting goods stores like Cabela’s. 
“These allegations, if true, represent a flagrant violation of Americans’ privacy and the improper targeting of U.S. citizens for exercising their constitutional rights without due process,” Scott, the ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, <a href="https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/rmscottlettertofincen11924.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
FinCEN reportedly asked banks to help federal law enforcement identify transactions of persons of interest using specific typologies and Merchant Category Codes after January 6, 2021. The letter was also sent to FinCEN Director Andrea Gacki.
In the letter, Scott asked Yellen if the Treasury Department had any role in soliciting private financial data from the banks and whether it was directed to do so by the FBI or the Justice Department. Scott also asked Yellen about what religious texts were seen as indicative of extremism and why sporting goods store shoppers were targeted in the federal investigation. 
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“These allegations are particularly concerning given past efforts to weaponize the financial system and payment activity against politically disfavored, lawful activity. Under the Obama- administration’s ‘Operation Choke Point’ initiative, the Department of Justice (DOJ) coordinated with federal financial regulators to intimidate financial institutions into denying services to legitimate businesses that the administration was ideologically opposed to, including gun retailers,” Scott said. 
On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-flagged-terms-like-trump-maga-for-banks-to-comb-through-customer-data-jordan-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested an interview</a> with Noah Bishoff, the former director of the Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations Division of FinCEN, to discuss the report. 
The letter asks Bishoff to be prepared to speak to lawmakers about what safeguards FinCEN has in place to safeguard constitutional liberties, the government’s use of private financial information, and coordination between FinCEN and the private sector.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Holds Meeting Of The Financial Stability Oversight Council

Tim Scott Presses Treasury Secretary Over Flagging Of ‘Trump,’ ‘MAGA’ Transactions

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Federal officials instructed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banks</a> to comb through customer data if terms like “TRUMP” or “MAGA” were used in transactions, according to documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. 

The revelations <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/federal-government-flagged-transactions-using-terms-maga-and-trump-financial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were</a> made as House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced he had requested an interview with Noah Bishoff, the former director of the Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations Division of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
“We now know the federal government flagged terms like ‘MAGA’ and ‘TRUMP,’ to financial institutions if Americans completed transactions using those terms,” Jordan <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1747718053365010737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “What was also flagged? If you bought a religious text, like a BIBLE, or shopped at Bass Pro Shop.”
FinCEN reportedly asked banks to help federal law enforcement identify transactions of persons of interest using specific typologies and Merchant Category Codes after January 6, 2021. FinCEN provided the banks with documentation on various typologies and suggested search terms, according to Jordan.
“These materials included a document recommending the use of generic terms like &#8216;TRUMP&#8217; and &#8216;MAGA&#8217; to &#8216;search Zelle payment messages&#8217; as well as a &#8216;prior FinCEN analysis&#8217; of &#8216;Lone Actor/Homegrown Violent Extremism Indicators,’” Jordan <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-01-17-jdj-to-bishoff-re-ti-request.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
“According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of &#8216;extremism&#8217; indicators that include &#8216;transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel to areas with no apparent purpose,&#8217; or &#8216;the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.&#8217; In other words, FinCEN urged large financial institutions to comb through the private transactions of their customers for suspicious charges on the basis of protected political and religious expression,” Jordan added.
The letter also said that other transaction keywords identified by the feds included “Cabela’s” and “Dick’s Sporting Goods.”
“Despite these transactions having no apparent criminal nexus — and, in fact, relate to Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights — FinCEN seems to have adopted a characterization of these Americans as potential threat actors. This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans&#8217; private transactions is alarming and raises serious doubts about FinCEN&#8217;s respect for fundamental civil liberties,” Jordan wrote.
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The letter asks Bishoff to be prepared to speak to lawmakers about what safeguards FinCEN has in place to safeguard constitutional liberties, the government&#8217;s use of private financial information, and coordination between FinCEN and the private sector.
Jordan also sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray to request an interview with FBI official Peter Sullivan over testimony that the FBI had requested information from Bank of America on “ANY historical purchase” of a gun six months before January 6, 2021, of anyone who had been in Washington, D.C., around January 6.

FBI Director Chris Wray Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee

Feds Flagged Terms Like ‘Trump,’ ‘MAGA’ For Banks To Comb Through Customer Data, Jordan Says

Feds Flagged Terms Like 'Trump,' 'MAGA' For Banks To Comb Through Customer Data, Jordan Says

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Alternative rock band <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">Green Day</a> faced backlash for their anti-MAGA lyrics change during a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-years">New Year’s Eve</a> performance, and now Tesla CEO Elon Musk is weighing in on the debate.
&#8220;Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,&#8221; the billionaire entrepreneur <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1741866490817642875?s=20">shared</a> in an X post on Sunday evening, adding two laughing-crying emojis. He was responding to an article from Not the Bee about the altered line.
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Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it 🤣🤣
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While performing the band’s 2004 hit song “American Idiot” Sunday night, the band&#8217;s lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong sang, “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda” instead of the original lyrics, “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda,” as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rocker-changes-lyrics-to-take-shot-at-trump-supporters-during-new-years-eve-performance-on-abc">reported</a>.
This performance aired on ABC as part of the “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” presentation. 
“American Idiot” was made as a political statement. It was released following the 9/11 terror attacks as a form of protest against then-President George W. Bush and the resulting war with Iraq. 
Armstrong has been an outspoken critic of former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> for years. He said in 2018, “I f***ing hate Donald Trump so much,” and “I used to scream I hated George Bush. This one is a little different. This one is bad, it’s like acid gone bad. F***ing LSD and the American Right, man.”
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In 2016, the band popularized the slogan &#8220;No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA,” per <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-beefs-with-green-day-maga-trump-american-idiot-2024-1#">Business Insider</a>.
Musk has been more critical of leftist policies in recent years. He’s criticized both Trump and President Joe Biden.
In the recently released biography “Elon Musk,” the SpaceX founder said Trump was “kind of nuts” but “may turn out okay.”
“Trump might be one of the best bullsh***ers ever,” Musk told biographer Walter Isaacson. “If you just think of Trump as a sort of con-man performance, then his behavior sort of makes sense.”
Musk also said Biden could plausibly “audition for role of Crypt Keeper – no makeup or special effects needed!”
“When he was vice president, I went to a lunch with him in San Francisco where he droned on for an hour and was boring as hell, like one of those dolls where you pull the string and it just says the same mindless phrases over and over,” Musk told Isaacson.

Musk and Green Day

Elon Musk Mocks Green Day For Anti-MAGA Lyrics During NYE Performance

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There are a lot of threats facing America these days.
One is the threat of fiscal collapse.
Mid-to-long-term, America’s economic system is increasingly unsustainable. We’re running a $33 trillion national debt; our actual national debt, including unfunded liabilities, runs another $80 trillion over the next 75 years. Virtually all of those figures are driven by Medicare and Social Security shortfalls. This means, sooner or later, we’re going to have to radically increase taxes, cut benefits, or inflate our currency.
Another threat is the threat of foreign aggression.
The United States is lucky in that we are surrounded by an ocean on one side, Mexicans to the South, and Canadians to the North.
But that doesn’t mean we’re invulnerable. As the world becomes a more dangerous place — as American power recedes — we will feel that everywhere from our pocketbook to our military budget. American hegemony has created a global economy which has paid off for the American consumer in extraordinary ways. That can easily be reversed — and indicators are, it will be.
A third thread is the threat of internal moral collapse.
Indeed, this threat is the chief factor behind the first two threats. As our communities die, our local institutions lose credibility and loyalty, we stop having children, and our economy turns upside down. The government grows, but the population that has to fund it doesn’t; government spending increases, but the population supporting it doesn’t. As the post-American future takes hold at home, it will similarly take hold abroad, with our enemies ready to fill the gap.
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That last threat is the truly frightening one.
It is the reason for America’s polarized politics: We once shared basic values, particularly at the local level, but now, those values have fallen away, replaced with hatred and rage at Christians and white Americans.
Take, for example, James Carville. Carville is a Clintonian political voice and a person who has routinely urged the Democratic Party to move away from its most extreme and radical positions, understanding they are electoral poison. But now, he has apparently decided that the Republican Party in general is a threat to the United States — that it is a Christian nationalist party.
What does he mean by that term? Apparently, he doesn’t mean that many Republicans prefer to see a revitalized church at the center of American life, a proposition with which I wholeheartedly agree as an Orthodox Jew. No, he means the Republican Party is — in the words of far-Left Daily Kos founder, Markos Moulitsas — an American Taliban.
Carville <a href="https://twitter.com/JCNSeverino/status/1731684523040014751" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Bill Maher’s show on Friday night, “(House Speaker) Mike Johnson and what he believes is one of the greatest threats we have today to the United States. I know these people. (Christian nationalists). This is a bigger threat than Al Qaeda to this country. … They have the Speaker of the House; they got at least two Supreme Court Justices, maybe more. Don’t kid yourself.”
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Democratic strategist James Carville claimed that Speaker Mike Johnson and “at least two Supreme Court justices” are Christian nationalists who represent a bigger threat to the United States than Al-Qaeda terrorists. <a href="https://t.co/hANiHUcBpB">pic.twitter.com/hANiHUcBpB</a>
&mdash; Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) <a href="https://twitter.com/JCNSeverino/status/1731684523040014751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Now, this is truly nutty stuff. In Carville’s view, two Supreme Court justices and the Speaker of the House are leading the charge for a Christian theocracy. And they are a bigger threat than the terrorist group responsible for September 11.
Carville isn’t the only Democratic voice who sees traditional Republicans as the enemy. There is also grifter extraordinaire Ibram X. Kendi, who says his fellow Americans are generally white supremacists.
This, apparently, will be the Democratic Party’s campaign in 2024: Republicans are Christian theocrats and white supremacists. The entire Republican Party is dominated by a desire for white Christian fascism — or something like that.
The response, presumably, would be an alliance of the secularists and people of color. Not shockingly, that’s precisely the coalition the Democratic Party seems to be wooing.
And they are doing so with ugly scare tactics.
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That’s why the Atlantic is dedicating its first issue of 2024 to suggesting that a vote for Donald Trump in 2024 is a vote for a fascist regime. A note from official Obama jockstrap-carrier Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of the rag, reads, “I encourage you to read all of the articles in this special issue carefully (though perhaps not in one sitting, for reasons of mental hygiene). Our team of brilliant writers makes a convincingly dispositive case that both Trump and Trumpism pose an existential threat to America and to the ideas that animate it.”
Yes, according to the Atlantic, if you vote for Trump, you have handed away America’s future.
This sort of messaging is being promoted by Republicans experiencing “Strange New Respect™” (i.e., the respect you receive when you start mimicking Democratic lines), like Liz Cheney, who is mirroring the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/liz-cheney-tells-cbs-news-sunday-morning-that-the-u-s-is-sleepwalking-into-a-dictatorship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doom-mongering</a> of the Left.
Ironically, this very alarmism is one of the root threats to America. 
Countries in which both sides start speaking about how the next election is the last election — about how their political opponents, if they win, mean the end of the country — are in serious danger. That sort of scaremongering may get out votes, but it also sets the house on fire in the name of saving the house. 
Understand, I want Joe Biden to lose. I think he is a terrible president doing dangerous things that will be difficult to rectify. But the end of America is not nigh in 2024 — not unless, ironically, everyone keeps saying it is. The closer both sides draw to the abyss — the more each party says the next election is the last election — the more that fantasy draws closer to reality.
And that is a true threat to the Republic.
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Democrats Run Against ‘Whiteness’ And ‘Christian Nationalism’

Democrats Run Against 'Whiteness' And 'Christian Nationalism'

Ben Shapiro

Christians

National Debt

Readers Pass

U.S. Military

White Supremacy

Whiteness

For nearly a month now, pretty much every college campus in the country has made it clear that &#8220;decolonization&#8221; means &#8220;kill whitey.&#8221; It&#8217;s long been obvious that this is always what the Left meant by &#8220;decolonization,&#8221; as I outlined a few weeks ago. But after Hamas&#8217; attack on Israel, activist groups have made it explicit. They want similar murders to happen in this country. They don&#8217;t view their enemies as human, and they want them exterminated.
For its part, the establishment Left didn&#8217;t join in on these calls for violence, at least not directly. But that all changed yesterday, when the online outlet Salon — which passes for mainstream among Leftists — published an <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/11/02/maga-and-christian-nationalism-bigger-to-america-than-hamas-could-ever-be/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> from a journalist named Brian Karem. In no uncertain terms, the point of this op-ed is to justify the murder of the conservatives, and in particular conservative Christians. Karem&#8217;s piece is entitled, &#8220;MAGA and Christian nationalism: Bigger threat to America than Hamas could ever be.&#8221;
This article went viral the other day. Elon Musk tweeted about it a few times. It caused a lot of outrage. What a lot of people are missing is that this op-ed is just the latest iteration of a long line of Brian Karem op-eds in Salon that accuse conservatives of being terrorists. In fact, just a month ago, Karem <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/10/12/hamas-and-the-are-both-terrorist-groups--its-just-a-matter-of-degree/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> a piece in Salon entitled, &#8220;Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it&#8217;s just a matter of degree.&#8221;
In that article, Karem asserted, &#8220;There is little or no difference between most of the GOP leadership, including Jim Jordan and Donald Trump, and the leaders of Hamas. Both groups will do anything they can to win. Both groups have engaged in atrocities. Both groups continue to lie. Both groups use human beings as hostages. Both groups are extremely dangerous. Both groups threaten the world’s internal and external peace. The fact is, many Americans viscerally understand this: Donald Trump and his followers are terrorists.&#8221;
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As melodramatic and deranged as that op-ed was, no one paid any attention to it whatsoever. So this week, Karem basically rewrote the same article, except he added a little more bite to it this time around. Before I get any further into specifics of the unhinged screeds of Brian Karem, it&#8217;s important to emphasize a couple of things. First of all, Karem is not an intern, or a random troll or anything like that. He&#8217;s the former senior White House Correspondent for Playboy, and for years he&#8217;s been a credentialed member of the White House press pool. This is one of the most coveted positions among mainstream journalists. Back when we had journalistic standards, it used to mean something to be a White House correspondent. But we don&#8217;t have journalistic standards anymore, and so Brian Karem is free to publish op-eds saying that his domestic political opponents are worse than Hamas terrorists who kill civilians, while retaining his White House press credentials.
The other important point to emphasize is that, while I&#8217;m going to refer to Karem&#8217;s writing specifically, he&#8217;s far from the only prominent figure on the Left who feels this way. First of all, whatever editors still work at Salon had to approve his pieces and publish them. But more to the point, the leaders of the Democratic Party have been demonizing their political opponents for years, in ways that aren&#8217;t that dissimilar to what Karem is doing.
It was just a year ago that Joe Biden all but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHfbuwBifbU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared war</a> on &#8220;MAGA Republicans,&#8221; calling them a threat to democracy for disagreeing with him. Let’s relive that moment together: 
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There&#8217;s Joe Biden, standing in front of the Marines with the blood-red backdrop, shaking his fists and telling the country that democracy means voting for Joe Biden. Everyone who doesn&#8217;t vote for Joe Biden, by contrast, is a terrorist.
We saw that kind of rhetoric constantly last year. Around the same time as Joe Biden&#8217;s diatribe about MAGA Republicans, various outlets, including The Daily Beast, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dont-act-surprised-we-knew-the-right-was-stoking-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labeled</a> me a &#8220;stochastic terrorist.&#8221; They used the same term to describe &#8220;Libs of TikTok&#8221; and many others. That&#8217;s a term that means nothing but sounds vaguely intelligent, so you hear it all the time now. It also have very clear implications. Everyone instinctively agrees that terrorists should be killed. They’re a threat to the country. So when you call someone a terrorist, well it’s not hard to connect the dots.
But this Salon piece stands out for how blatant and flagrant it is. Here&#8217;s how the piece begins: &#8220;The House of Representatives, now run by [Mike] Johnson, offers a discount version of the apocalyptic orgasm the holy rollers have dreamed of for years. They’ve renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible, but haven’t read much of it.&#8221;
At this point, you&#8217;re probably wondering: Where has that happened? What is he talking about? Where have Republicans done anything that could be remotely compared to the Inquisition? In what way is Mike Johnson ushering in a theocracy? Has he proposed making church attendance compulsory? Has he tried to pass a law forbidding the practice of non-Christian religions? Has he burned any atheists at the stake recently? As far as I know, the answer is “No” on all accounts.
It appears that he has earned the label of theocrat simply because he is a Christian with conservative political views. That might not seem like a big deal to you if you&#8217;re a well-adjusted, sane person, but the Left-wing media, of course, is comprised of people who are neither of those things. For a long time now, Brian Karem specifically has viewed Christians who hold conservative political views as demonic. Here he was in the White House Rose Garden just a couple of years ago, during the Trump presidency, explaining that conservatives are &#8220;eager for demonic possession&#8221;:
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VIDEO FLASHBACK: This insane article was written by the same radical leftwing clown that almost got into a physical altercation at a Trump press event.
Brian Karem is not a journalist, he is a hyper-partisan, unhinged activist.
Unedited video. Appearances by <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesOKeefeIII</a>… <a href="https://t.co/0CCeuVdNbV">https://t.co/0CCeuVdNbV</a> <a href="https://t.co/oJ6KMZHpJX">pic.twitter.com/oJ6KMZHpJX</a>
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I’m not exactly sure what “eager for demonic possession” is even supposed to mean, to be honest. At the time, a handful of commentators chastised Brian Karem for acting out. They praised Sebastian Gorka for putting him in his place. But in reality, Karem&#8217;s outburst was a revealing moment. He was echoing an increasingly common view on the Left, which is that conservatives — and in particular Christians — need to be eliminated. They need to be exorcised.
This is a view that wasn&#8217;t widely advertised a couple of years ago, but you see all over the place now. A couple of days ago, for example, Rolling Stone ran a detailed <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mike-johnson-alliance-defending-freedom-anti-lgbtq-1234865340/">hit piece</a> on Johnson, focusing on his work at Alliance Defending Freedom for nearly a decade. In that capacity, Johnson advanced legal positions that are completely consistent with his faith. He opposed sodomy. He rejected the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage. And he wrote an <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-kfile/134019997/">op-ed</a> predicting — correctly — that the so-called LGBTQ movement, left unchallenged, will be the “the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”
You can disagree with Mike Johnson&#8217;s views, but there&#8217;s no denying that every single one of them is consistent with a Christian worldview. He was also undeniably correct in his prediction, as recent events have shown. In fact, his views are completely consistent with the Democratic Party&#8217;s platform circa 2006. The 2008 version of Barack Obama wouldn&#8217;t take issue with any of it. And yet — back when most people thought like this, across the political spectrum —  we were not living, as the media now predicts, in a theocratic dystopian wasteland.
Karem&#8217;s piece doesn&#8217;t grapple with any of this. Instead, in something of a manic rage, Karem goes on to ramble about everything from Israel bombing a refugee camp in Gaza, to artificial intelligence, to the dangers of climate change: &#8220;That is our world today. It took an asteroid the size of a modern city to wipe out the dinosaurs. People, being smarter than dinosaurs, have figured out how to destroy everything all by ourselves. Climate change is slowly creeping up on us and we are killing each other at an increasing rate. It took a Category 5 hurricane to kill 40-odd people in Acapulco last week. We killed that many in two mass shootings in the U.S. in about the same amount of time — and spared the property. Pogo was right: We have met the enemy and he is us.&#8221;
Keep in mind that when the Left talks about &#8220;mass shootings,&#8221; they love to imply it&#8217;s always MAGA Republicans doing the shooting. They get a lot of mileage out of that. But in the overwhelming number of cases — including one of the shootings that Karem appears to be referencing there — these mass shootings are taking place in overwhelmingly black neighborhoods. According to authorities, more than a dozen people were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/us/chicago-mass-shooting-halloween-suspect-charged/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot</a> by a felon at a Halloween party in Chicago just a couple of days ago. That&#8217;s not the result of Christianity, or Christian nationalism, or Trump supporters. Maybe the reason the media buries any mention of these mass shootings in black communities is that, if they covered them, then everyone would realize what an absurd and counterfactual talking point this is.
But even if you accept everything Karem says — even if you suspend reality for a second, and agree that MAGA Republicans are somehow doing all the mass shootings — it still wouldn&#8217;t come close to supporting his thesis, which is that conservatives are a terrorist group that&#8217;s more dangerous to Americans than Hamas. There are well over 200 million Christians in this country. If you polled those Christians, you would find 0% support for murdering nonbelievers. There would not be any enthusiasm for gunning down elderly women at bus stops.
By contrast, the founding charter of Hamas calls for genocide. Every single militant of Hamas wants to murder non-Muslims and in particular Jews. And, as we&#8217;ve learned recently, some of these militants <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hamas-militants-potentially-crossing-southern-border-us-officials/story?id=104236095" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could easily be entering</a> this country through the southern border.
Brian Karem knows that, and so do his editors, and so does the rest of the media. The reason there will be no condemnation from anyone — from the Left-wing media, to the White House press corps, to the Biden administration — is that they understand what he is really getting at here. He&#8217;s not really trying to make any meaningful point about Hamas, or artificial intelligence, or climate change. He&#8217;s trying to communicate the same message that Joe Biden did one year ago, except he&#8217;s putting a finer point on it — that many on the Left want their political opponents to die. They don&#8217;t just want them to lose elections. They don&#8217;t just want to censor them. They want to dehumanize them. Criminalize them. And worse.
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They Want You Dead And They Aren’t Trying To Hide It

They Want You Dead And They Aren't Trying To Hide It

Hamas

Matt Walsh

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> defended supporters of former President Donald Trump during an interview this week after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this week that they needed &#8220;deprogramming&#8221; as she compared them to a &#8220;cult.&#8221;
Clinton made the <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4241678-hillary-clinton-maga-cult-members-need-deprogramming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> during an interview on CNN where she said that &#8220;MAGA extremists&#8221; were &#8220;taking their marching orders from Donald Trump.&#8221;
DeSantis responded during an interview on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; Friday morning when asked by host Joe Kernen about Clinton&#8217;s remarks.
&#8220;Hillary Clinton just said something like, maybe that cult needs [to] go to some re-education training or something just to get out of the Trump cult &#8212; but you see what you’re up against and how difficult it is,&#8221; said Kernen.
&#8220;I don’t, I reject that,&#8221; DeSantis responded. &#8220;I mean, look, these are patriotic Americans. They want to see the country do well.&#8221;
Kernen asked how DeSantis planned on winning the former president&#8217;s supporters over if he starts attacking Trump on the campaign trail.
&#8220;These folks get it. They want to see the country do well,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;Some people will be with Trump no matter what. But I think the bulk of the people are people that appreciate what he did. They also understand that he has got limitations in terms of his electability. He would be a lame duck on day one. If he could even get elected, I think he’d have major problems with personnel. And of course, he didn’t deliver on his core promises to drain the swamp or to have Mexico pay for the border wall or to eliminate the debt.&#8221;
&#8220;He added 7.8 trillion to the debt,&#8221; DeSantis concluded. &#8220;So, that’s all fair game. We’re going to be able to make that case.&#8221;
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Florida Governor DeSantis Campaigns For President In Tampa

DeSantis Defends MAGA After Clinton Calls For ‘Deprogramming’ Of ‘Cult’: ‘These Are Patriotic Americans’

Hillary Clinton

Ron DeSantis

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) expressed his frustration with keyboard warriors who have slammed conservative Republicans legislators like him from a distance and called them RINOs, saying, “You want to come at me and call me a RINO, you can kiss my a**.”
Roy <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhgLDqS59TU">spoke</a> with radio host Steve Deace during the challenge that ultimately ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker. Deace, pointing out that some social media users had called Roy a &#8220;RINO&#8221; for not endorsing the move to oust McCarthy, declared he was fed-up with the internecine warfare in the GOP, saying, “I’m about to just ‘Get thee to a nunnery’ and just go full-on Billy Graham and you all, I don’t care. &#8230; This is a joke. It’s rudderless and it seems as if we want to sell each other talking points rather than actually produce some form of substantive whatsoever. Tell me I’m wrong.”
“Some of our brothers and sisters – particularly in the, you know, MAGA camp, I think – particularly enjoy the circular firing squad,” Roy asserted. “You wanna come out me and call me a RINO? You can kiss my a**. Look, I’ve spent a lifetime fighting for limited government conservatism. I have laid it all on the line. I have not seen my family for two days in the last 30 days. You go around talking your big game and you thumping your chest on Twitter? Yeah. Come to my office, come have a debate, mother.”
“I’m not gonna go to a nunnery, because godda**it, there were people who are buried over in Normandy who deserve us to stand up for what they fought for!” he continued. “So that’s what I’m gonna do. And all of you f***ers out there who are out there saying what you’re saying out on social media, you stick it! I’m gonna go down to the floor and do my job and I’m gonna stand up for the people who fought for this country.”
“Like, I respect what Gaetz and my four, five, six brothers are doing right now because they want to change things,” he said. “I respect friends of mine who went to the mic, who are your heroes out there, ladies and gentlemen, who are taking a different position because we’re trying to figure out how to navigate through a world in which Democrats control the Senate, the Republican conference in the Senate is garbage, the House Republican Conference has a variety of views from all over the country with 221. But if people wanna play this out in real time and deal with this every single minute and every single day on social media, don’t think that that’s somehow going to change the game, because what we gotta do is we have to actually define the fight.”
Roy followed up with comments when he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoM5ttn_des">spoke</a> to The Blaze’s Dana Loesch. “Part of what frustrates me, Dana, is when you get pundits — my reaction there wasn’t really to Matt,” he clarified. “It wasn’t to any of my friends who had a good faith belief that we weren’t getting the job done through the speaker, and they called the question. So, now we gotta go choose another speaker. I didn’t agree with the play call, but I don’t fault them for it.”
Roy then pointed out the realities of trying to get things done in Washington, D.C. “I do fault the pundits who are spinning people up with lies, saying, ‘Chip Roy supports giving all the money in the world to Ukraine; he’s selling out,” he said. “Why? Because I made a statement that said we should consider attaching H.R. 2, border security, to any Ukraine deal. Yeah, I don’t think we ought to be giving a blank check to Ukraine, or frankly, any more money at all to Ukraine, but I am going to try to play the leverage to try to secure the border of the United States. I’m paid to be smart and try to figure out how to get this done. So look, that is what I was frustrated about.”
“Look, I should not have used the language that I used–” he said before Loesch interjected, “Oh, no, no. I’m not gonna have you come and apologize and do all that stuff, Congressman. You know what? You were, you were mad on behalf of the American people. And what you were expressing is what– is the frustration of people all over this country because, you know, at the end of the day, whoever the speaker is, isn’t gonna change inflation. It’s not gonna change what’s happening at the border. We just want to get stuff done. We know who you are; we know that if anyone’s saying that Chip Roy’s a RINO those people have not been paying attention to what you are doing. You’ve fought a lot; you’ve put your reputation on the line.”

Chip Roy

Chip Roy Blasts Keyboard Warriors Calling Him A RINO

Kevin McCarthy

Former Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hillary Clinton</a> has determined that this summer is excessively hot — and rather than the earth’s tilt coupled with the time of year, it’s “MAGA Republicans” who are at fault.
Clinton shared a graphic from the Center for American Progress, which showed a series of headlines about heatwaves and record high temperatures across the country along with the caption, &#8220;MAGA Republicans are pouring fuel on the climate crisis fire.&#8221; Clinton added her own thoughts as well, tweeting, &#8220;Hot enough for you? Thank a MAGA Republican. Or better yet, vote them out of office.&#8221;
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Hot enough for you? 
Thank a MAGA Republican. 
Or better yet, vote them out of office. <a href="https://t.co/0MFC6rPq6o">https://t.co/0MFC6rPq6o</a>
&mdash; Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1683819246042710018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The implication, of course, was that &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; were directly causing the earth&#8217;s temperature to rise by standing in the way of the Left&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-are-coming-for-everything-gas-stoves-light-bulbs-and-now-gas-stations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increasingly intrusive</a> demands in the name of reducing global temperatures.
Critics quickly began to mock Clinton, some noting that unless it was particularly convenient for Democrats, most insisted that <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/hot-planet/dont-be-fooled-weather-is-not-climate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate and weather</a> were not the same.
&#8220;MAGA Republicans are powerful enough to control the seasons apparently, and without them we&#8217;d have no summer,&#8221; syndicated radio host Dana Loesch commented.
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MAGA Republicans are powerful enough to control the seasons apparently, and without them we&#39;d have no summer <a href="https://t.co/NdB1ZvWFil">https://t.co/NdB1ZvWFil</a>
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The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh weighed in as well, saying, &#8220;They are now directly blaming &#8216;MAGA Republicans&#8217; for the temperature outside. The Democrat Party has fallen fully into a state of primitive superstition. They have all the scientific credibility of an Aztec priest in the year 1450.&#8221;
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They are now directly blaming “MAGA Republicans” for the temperature outside. 
The Democrat Party has fallen fully into a state of primitive superstition. They have all the scientific credibility of an Aztec priest in the year 1450. <a href="https://t.co/qh3WXYshAD">https://t.co/qh3WXYshAD</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1683834029252935681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If you elect Democrats the weather will improve,&#8221; Seth Dillon <a href="https://twitter.com/SethDillon/status/1683883353940930585" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
&#8220;China permits two new coal plants each week. If you’re angry about climate change, thank a Communist. Or politicians like the Clintons who take their cash,&#8221; former CIA agent Bryan Dean Wright observed.
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China permits two new coal plants each week.
If you’re angry about climate change, thank a Communist. Or politicians like the Clintons who take their cash. <a href="https://t.co/08ttmOa57g">https://t.co/08ttmOa57g</a>
&mdash; BDW (@BryanDeanWright) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1683886253207605248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Politicizing summer is the dumbest, most desperate and embarrassing of all the dumb, desperate and embarrassing things,&#8221; Doug Powers <a href="https://twitter.com/ThePowersThatBe/status/1683884129987833856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
&#8220;The almost (too bad!) democrat president encouraging her emotionally unstable followers to blame their political opponents for the weather,&#8221; radio host Buck Sexton replied.
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The almost (too bad!) democrat president encouraging her emotionally unstable followers to blame their political opponents for the weather <a href="https://t.co/SCb7ugyh4R">https://t.co/SCb7ugyh4R</a>
&mdash; Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1683835582957633536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A number pointed out the fact that comparatively speaking, the United States accounted for less than <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/3185/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions/#:~:text=The%20United%20States%20is%20one,U.S.%20accounted%20for%2014%20percent.">15%</a> of global emissions while China accounted for nearly twice that, at <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1037051/china-global-carbon-emission-share/">27%</a>.

King Felipe of Spain Attend Audiences At Zarzuela Palace

Hillary Clinton Says MAGA Republicans Are The Reason Summer Is Hot

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General

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A major donor to former President Donald Trump identified himself as the small aircraft owner that entered a no-fly zone over Washington, D.C., on Sunday and later crashed in southwest Virginia, leaving one crew member and three passengers dead.
Residents throughout the Washington, D.C., area reportedly heard a loud sonic boom after F-16 jets from Joint Base Andrews scrambled to respond to a Cessna Citation jet owned by Florida businessman and prominent &#8220;MAGA&#8221; donor John Rumpel.
Rumpel, 75, owner of Encore Motors of Melbourne Inc., <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/04/sonic-boom-washington-virginia-maryland/">told</a> The Washington Post that his &#8220;entire family,&#8221; including his daughter, Adina Azarian, his two-year-old grandchild, and her nanny, were on board the jet when it crashed into a sparsely populated area near Montebello, Virginia.
&#8220;We know nothing about the crash,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are talking to the FAA now — I&#8217;ve got to keep the line clear.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve found the wreckage yet,&#8221; Rumpel <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/sonic-boom-washington-dc-maryland.html">told</a> the New York Times. &#8220;It descended at 20,000 feet a minute, and nobody could survive a crash from that speed.&#8221;
Virginia state police <a href="https://wjla.com/news/local/sonic-boom-annapolis-bowie-washington-dc-virginia-maryland-dmv-department-of-defense-dod-authorized-flight-andrews-air-force-twitter-trending-social-media-residents-house-shook-loud-sound-plane-us-capitol-emergency-management" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> local media that authorities found no survivors at the crash site.
US aviation officials on Monday were investigating the fatal crash of an &#8220;unresponsive&#8221; private jet. Authorities reportedly attempted to contact its pilot after the aircraft approached areas around the nation&#8217;s capital, including the White House.
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) officials said it was not immediately known why the pilot did not respond to attention flares or why the plane later crashed.
&#8220;During this event, the NORAD aircraft also used flares — which may have been visible to the public — in an attempt to draw attention from the pilot,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Flares are employed with highest regard for safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the ground. Flares burn out quickly and completely and there is no danger to the people on the ground when dispensed.&#8221;
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the aircraft departed from Elizabethton Municipal Airport in Elizabethton, Tennessee, and was bound for Long Island MacArthur Airport in New York, but eventually crashed about 150 miles southwest of D.C., in the Shenandoah Valley.
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Rumpel reportedly said his family was returning to their home in East Hampton on Long Island after visiting his house in North Carolina, departing from an airport in East Tennessee.
Rumpel had been a staunch Trump supporter and has <a href="https://www.the-sun.com/news/8286552/prominent-maga-donors-entire-family-plane-crash-dc-area/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> donated approximately $250,000 to the former president&#8217;s campaign in 2020.
Rumpel&#8217;s wife, Barabara, served on Trump&#8217;s 2nd Amendment Coalition, representing the NRA women&#8217;s leadership forum.
The National Transportation Safety Board will reportedly handle the investigation into the crash and is expected to release a preliminary report in approximately three weeks.

Cessna plane crashes in US state of Virginia

Prominent MAGA Donor Says ‘Entire Family’ Killed In Virginia Plane Crash

Prominent MAGA Donor Says 'Entire Family' Killed In Virginia Plane Crash

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Virginia

Washington D.C.

Democrats attempt to smear anybody who goes against their agenda as a &#8220;MAGA&#8221; extremist — even if those individuals are liberal members of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States Supreme Court</a>.
For example, this week, the Supreme Court released a unanimous 9 &#8211; 0 decision against the Environmental Protection Agency and the Biden administration, thereby drastically cutting back the federal government&#8217;s overreach. So, what did Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) do? Well, he threw them all under the bus with a warning to Americans.
&#8220;This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws,&#8221; Schumer tweeted. &#8220;Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands. We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters.&#8221;
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This MAGA Supreme Court is continuing to erode our country’s environmental laws.
Make no mistake—this ruling will mean more polluted water, and more destruction of wetlands.
We’ll keep fighting to protect our waters. <a href="https://t.co/wlp1LTvZJB">https://t.co/wlp1LTvZJB</a>
&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1661764643692462082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Dan McLaughlin of National Review summed up how ludicrous Schumer&#8217;s claim was.
&#8220;Unanimous SCOTUS decision written by George W. Bush appointee. Outcome joined by GHW Bush appointee, 2d GW Bush appointee, 2 Obama appointees, &amp; a Biden appointee. The 3 Dems joined a concurring opinion written by a Trump appointee,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Chuck Schumer: That&#8217;s so MAGA!&#8221;
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Unanimous SCOTUS decision written by George W. Bush appointee. Outcome joined by GHW Bush appointee, 2d GW Bush appointee, 2 Obama appointees, &amp; a Biden appointee. The 3 Dems joined a concurring opinion written by a Trump appointee.
Chuck Schumer: That&#39;s so MAGA! <a href="https://t.co/oL6Ugjfvu3">https://t.co/oL6Ugjfvu3</a>
&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1661786325735944228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Four of the justices — the three liberals and Justice Brett Kavanugh — disagreed over the limits the EPA is afforded by Congress.
&#8220;All nine justices rejected the standard proposed by the EPA,&#8221; he further explained. &#8220;The 5-4 split was over less expansive readings of the statute.&#8221;
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All nine justices rejected the standard proposed by the EPA. The 5-4 split was over less expansive readings of the statute. <a href="https://t.co/1Oi9L9AGj8">https://t.co/1Oi9L9AGj8</a>
&mdash; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1661877784174632961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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For his part, Kavanaugh <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/supreme-court-epa-water-pollution.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “By narrowing the act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands, the court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States.&#8221;
Readers should keep in mind that Kavanaugh is one of the justices who Schumer threatened in 2020.
&#8220;I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh — you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,&#8221; he said in front of a raging crowd at the Supreme Court building in D.C.  &#8220;You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.&#8221;
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Wow:
Chuck Schumer to Justices Gorsuch &amp; Kavanaugh:
“You have released the whirlwind &amp; you will pay the price.”
“You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these decisions”
Can you imagine the media outrage if McConnell said this about RBG?
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&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1235290061568192518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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So Schumer has a long history of revving up his base with fear-mongering and demagoguery. This is exactly his goal in labeling the High Court a &#8220;MAGA Supreme Court.&#8221; He, and other Democrats, want the American people to believe that it is somehow &#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/may/21/supreme-court-expansion-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegitimate</a>&#8221; and dangerous.
Despite his qualms about former President Donald Trump&#8217;s supposed undermining of norms and democracy, he does not hesitate to sow distrust of any institution that stands in his party&#8217;s way for power.
Schumer is one of the party&#8217;s top leaders. There is no appeasing the Left — they will always paint you in the worst light possible so that they can gain more power.
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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WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 24: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks during a news conference about abortion rights outside the U.S. Capitol January 24, 2023 in Washington, DC. The group of Senate Democrats held the news conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.

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