After the tyrannical Iranian regime turned off the internet in Iran — effectively preventing the Iranian people from knowing the damage caused to the regime by Israel’s military strikes and thus emboldening them to challenge the regime — free speech advocate Elon Musk confirmed he had turned on Starlink, allowing the Iranian people access to the Internet.
Musk responded to Fox News host and radio host Mark Levin, who noted, “Elon Musk can put the final nail in the coffin of the Iranian regime by providing Star link internet to the Iranian people! Iran cut off all internet so that the people cannot organize a coup and communicate.”
“The beams are on,” Musk succinctly responded.
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The beams are on
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Iranian dissidents have cheered the Israeli strikes on Iran and criticized the regime for its war with Israel. Iranian scholar and filmmaker Faezeh Alavi, who saw her event “From Conflict to Connection: Israelis and Iranians in Dialogue,” at King&#8217;s College canceled in February after anti-Israel activists protested, responded to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu saying to the Iranian people, “Our fight is not with you. Our fight is with the brutal dictatorship that has oppressed you for 46 years” by posting on X: “Bibi is spot on. We are sharing the same enemy. The Islamic Republic&#8217;s nuclear program must be stopped; otherwise, a nuclear war would start by this regime soon, and Iranian people would lose ANY chance of freeing Iran. Many world leaders also owe Israel for protecting them from this threat.”
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Bibi is spot on. We are sharing the same enemy.
The Islamic Republic&#39;s nuclear program must be stopped; otherwise, a nuclear war would start by this regime soon, and Iranian people would lose ANY chance of freeing Iran.
Many world leaders also owe Israel for protecting them… <a href="https://t.co/MMNPIKGzax">pic.twitter.com/MMNPIKGzax</a>
&mdash; Faezeh Alavi (@SFaeze_Alavi) <a href="https://twitter.com/SFaeze_Alavi/status/1933330701371273390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“Only the deaths of Khamenei, his son Mojtaba, and Pazakhian will shorten the path to victory over the despotic regime of the jihadists in Tehran. After that, there will be no alternative leadership left — not even within the Revolutionary Guards. Otherwise, Iranians and Israelis are in for a very long period of suffering,” Professor Afshin Ellian wrote.
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רק מותם של ח&#39;אמנאי, בנו מוג&#39;תבא ופזשכיאן יקצר את הדרך לניצחון על המשטר הדספוטי של הג&#39;יהאדיסטים בטהראן. לאחר מכן לא תישאר שום הנהגה חלופית — אפילו לא בתוך משמרות המהפכה. אחרת, צפויה לאיראנים ולישראלים תקופה מאוד ארוכה של סבל.
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Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi <a href="https://www.jns.org/iranian-opposition-calls-to-overthrow-the-mullahs/">urged</a> Iranians “to overthrow the Islamic Republic through street protests and nationwide strikes,” adding, “Ali Khamenei, the foolish leader of the anti-Iranian regime of the Islamic Republic, has once again embroiled Iran in a war; a war that is not [against] Iran and the Iranian nation, but [against] the Islamic Republic and Khamenei.”
Famed Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad wrote on X, “The Islamic Republic&#8217;s insistence on continuing confrontation with Israel is based on illusions, ideological slogans, and unrealistic calculations, and it has no result other than the destruction of our Iran. A disaster whose costs will not only be political, but also human and security. And what&#8217;s even more bitter is that these costs will be paid with the lives of people who have no role or authority in these decision-making. How long will the Iranian people have to pay the price for a war that was neither their choice nor their benefit?”
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اصرار جمهوری اسلامی بر تداوم تقابل‌جویانه با اسرائیل، بر اساس توهمات و‌ شعارهای ایدئولوژیک و محاسبات غیرواقع‌بینانه است و بس و هیچ نتیجه‌ای ندارد جز ویرانی ایران ما.
فاجعه‌ای که هزینه‌های آن نه صرفاً سیاسی، بلکه انسانی و امنیتی خواهد بود. و نکته‌ی تلخ‌تر آن‌که، این هزینه‌ها از… <a href="https://t.co/6EmVZz84pn">pic.twitter.com/6EmVZz84pn</a>
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‘The Beams Are On’: Iran Axes Internet, Musk Turns On Starlink To Allow Iranian Dissidents Access

'The Beams Are On': Iran Axes Internet, Musk Turns On Starlink To Allow Iranian Dissidents Access

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Political commentator Mark Levin, who also <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114355616823261590" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serves</a> on the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security advisory council, delivered a message from Jerusalem warning that the Trump administration must not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons.
Levin was in Israel for the two days of Yom HaZikaron (Day of Remembrance), which honors the tens of thousands of Israeli soldiers, men and women, who gave their lives for the Jewish state, and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israeli Independence Day), the following day.
Standing in front of the Western wall, the retaining wall behind which is the Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism and where the First and Second Temples stood, Levin pointed out that Jerusalem and Israel are sacred for both Jews and Christians, stating, “I’m standing here at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Holy Land for Jews and Christians. That wall was breached by the Romans, and the Second Temple was burned to the ground. Jews survived.”
“I want to make something very, very clear,” he declared. “The Iranian regime, Islamo-Nazi terrorist genocidal regime wants to get nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles, shoot at America one day, destroy this: the Holy Land of Jews and Christians.”
“Let me tell you something, folks: we don’t get second chances with maniacs like this,” he warned. “So rather than them have nuclear bombs to attack us, why are we protecting their nuclear sites from our bombs? Explain that to me. So we’re going to have an EO (executive order), we’re gonna write it on paper, and they’re gonna say, ‘Y’know, we’re terrorists, we violate rules; we cut people’s throats, but we’re gonna honor the deal?’”
“No. They’re not gonna honor any deal, especially if there’s some deal where President Trump is president and then he leaves office. What about the next regime or the regime after that?” he asked rhetorically.
“This cannot be tolerated,” he asserted. “It’s bad enough that Communists have nuclear weapons, that fascists have nuclear weapons, but there’s not a terrorist country on the face of the earth that has a nuclear weapon. We must not usher it in.”
“This cannot stand,” Levin warned. “And I say that as an American that’s concerned about what happened on 9/11 and then other times that we have been attacked by these terrorists, too. They’re here. They’re here. They’re in this part of the world. Right here.”
“And now they’re vulnerable,” he stressed. “We’re gonna wait for their nuclear weapons and then wring our hands about it and say what are we gonna do about it? I don’t think so.”
“America, it’s time to speak out,” he proclaimed. “It’s time to rise up. Stop the Iranian nukes. Now is the time. “
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MARK AT THE WESTERN WALL IN JERUSALEM RIGHT NOW WARNING THE WORLD THAT IRAN MUST NEVER GET NUCLEAR WEAPONS PERIOD. <a href="https://t.co/7IWUfyO1uF">pic.twitter.com/7IWUfyO1uF</a>
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‘We Don’t Get Second Chances With Maniacs Like This’: Levin Warns Iran Must Not Get Nuclear Weapons

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Fox News host Mark Levin said Sunday that he believed that President Donald Trump was the &#8220;right man&#8221; to ensure that Iran doesn&#8217;t get nuclear weapons.
Levin made the comment during a discussion on the necessity of eliminating Iran&#8217;s capacity for having nuclear weapons with Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton, the Iraq War veteran who is the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and sits on the Armed Services Committee. Cotton has long been a staunch opponent of Iran having a nuclear weapon; he led the charge against the Obama nuclear deal with Iran that permitted the terrorist regime to continue the pursuit of building nuclear weapons.
&#8220;I’m not asking you to violate any secrets, obviously, or anything of that sort,&#8221; Levin began. &#8220;Is Iran really close to having a nuclear weapon and is that something we should take seriously? Or, as some people say, &#8216;It’s very manageable. Don’t be a warmonger. Don’t interfere. Don’t be a neo-con. Just let the good little terrorists do whatever they’re going to do and we’ll be just fine.'&#8221;
&#8220;Mark, Iran is very close to having a nuclear weapon, and it’s something that we should fear and that we shouldn’t tolerate.&#8221; Cotton replied. &#8220;Donald Trump’s been very clear about this; for as long as he’s been in politics, going back 10 years. In fact, the first conversation I ever had with Donald Trump, he was coming to Arkansas to speak at a Republican party dinner. I happened to be going to Vienna that weekend to meet with the International Atomic Energy Agency. And he called me and he said that the one thing we can’t do is let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And he’s been clear about that publicly over and over again because Iran is not a normal nation. It’s a fanatical theocratic dictatorship. And if they get nuclear weapons, they’re likely to use them.&#8221;
Answering Levin&#8217;s question about how close Iran was to having a nuclear weapon, Cotton continued, &#8220;How close are they? They have enough enriched uranium now that they could probably produce enough weapons-grade in just a matter of days, maybe a few weeks. And then it’s only a matter of marrying up that nuclear weapon to the missiles they already have that can reach our friends in Israel and throughout the Middle East.&#8221;
&#8220;But it’s worse than that, Mark,&#8221; Cotton declared. &#8220;They have a space launch program which is really just flimsy cover for a ballistic missile program, and they’re probably just a few years away from having missiles that could hit us here in the United States, that could hit Florida or Arkansas or Washington, D.C. So it is a grave threat, not just to our friends in the Middle East but to the United States itself. And that’s why President Trump has been completely clear that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.&#8221;
&#8220;And Mark, I think it’s important to remember how we got to this point as well,&#8221; he recalled. &#8220;We got here because of the terrible Obama deal with Iran that allowed them to enrich uranium, that allowed them to keep all their centrifuges, that allowed them to continue research into ballistic missiles. President Trump has been clear that Iran has no reason to enrich uranium. They therefore have no reason to keep their centrifuges, and they certainly have no reason to be developing intercontinental missiles that could hit the United States. If Iran is willing to make a deal on those terms, and as President Trump said last week, we can have peace and they can live happily without death.&#8221;
Trump has recently said, &#8220;Iran has a chance to have a great country and to live happily without death.&#8221;
&#8220;But if they insist on keeping all that enriched uranium and all those centrifuges and their missile program, as he has said, we’re going to have to take a different path,&#8221; Cotton said.
&#8220;In other words, they need to dismantle this, and it needs to be provable in a way in the past it hasn’t been provable, cause they cheat and they lie and they steal,&#8221; Levin stated. &#8220;I mean, after all, they are terrorists and just because they signed a piece of paper, &#8216;Oh, yeah, we’ll sign whatever you give us. Oh, that all you have? Sure, sure, sure,&#8217; it means absolutely nothing.&#8221;
&#8220;I have complete faith in Donald Trump on this; he’s the right man at the right time,&#8221; Levin asserted. &#8220;I have complete faith in Benjamin Netanyahu; he’s the right man at the right time. And I think there’s a lot of static out there by a cabal of individuals who seem to think that nuclear weapons in the hands of an enemy — not just any enemy, but one that doesn’t believe in mutually assured destruction, it just believes in destruction — is manageable or it’s OK. And I’m not willing to bet our country, society, my children and grandchildren, on that. Are you?&#8221;
&#8220;No,&#8221; Cotton said firmly. &#8220;Absolutely not, Mark. And I agree with you: I have confidence in President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu; they understand the stakes here; they understand that the only acceptable deal is one in which Iran dismantles its nuclear program, turns over its enriched uranium, turns over its centrifuges, stops ballistic missile research.&#8221;
Cotton pointed out that the U.S. had intervened before to stop a rogue state from having nuclear weaponry, recalling, &#8220;Libya did the exact same thing in 2003. It was scared straight; it threw open the doors, let us come in and take away all of its nuclear programs as well as biological and chemical weapons programs as well. And we took Libya off the list of state sponsors of terrorism; we lifted sanctions on them. They became a de facto ally, even though Muammar Khadafi still had a lot of American blood on his hands in the past.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s a clear model of what a good, enforceable, verifiable deal would look like here,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It does not involve any enrichment of uranium, or Iran possessing centrifuges or continuing its production of ballistic missiles. That’s the kind of deal that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu have both been clear about for many years.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, senator, if Iran doesn’t intend to build nuclear weapons to harm us or anybody else, then what’s the problem?&#8221; Levin asked. &#8220;Why won’t they dismantle it? But if they won’t dismantle it, then they’ve revealed what they’re really up to.&#8221;
&#8220;They claim they want a nuclear energy program; there are plenty of countries around the world that have nuclear energy and don’t enrich uranium, that don’t have centrifuges, that acquire it [nuclear energy] from countries that do,&#8221; Cotton noted. &#8220;There’s no reason for Iran, as you say, to have this vast nuclear infrastructure. That’s why they’re only a few months away from getting the bomb. It’s what Barack  Obama let them get.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s funny; they sell their oil to Communist China. I guess they’re not exactly running out of energy. But they’re liars, they’re thieves, and they’re terrorists. That’s what the regime is. That’s the bottom line,&#8221; Levin concluded.
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Levin, Cotton On Iran: President Trump The ‘Right Man At The Right Time’

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On Monday, author and TV host Mark Levin blistered critics of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, taking on President Biden and his anti-Israel regime, Biden’s Democratic Party, and the legacy media, as well as the few Republicans who have taken sides against the prime minister.
Writing on Twitter, Levin started, “I am fed up with these attacks on Benjamin Netanyahu by the Biden regime, the Democrat Party, and the American Al Jazeera media. I am fed up with the attacks from certain Republican operatives, who are trying to make a buck off the Arab countries, such as Qatar and others.”
After praising Netanyahu for his leadership in the face of his enemies, both foreign and domestic, Levin continued: “We have never, ever seen the kind of organized international campaign, headquartered in our Oval Office and State Department, and including NGOs and Democrat Party donors, target any ally head of state as we are witnessing today. It is disgusting. It is appalling.”
“And the demands that Netanyahu abandon his country&#8217;s sovereignty and well-being at the say-so of the Biden regime and its surrogates is unconscionable. Biden continues to send (Secretary of State Antony) Blinken and (National Security Advisor Jake) Sullivan to Israel to plot against its government.”
“He has put relentless pressure on Israel to effectively surrender to the terrorists who surround it,” Levin noted. “He has told Israel it must not defeat Hamas (what is victory, they ask!), they must not attack Hezbollah (which is constantly firing rockets and drones into Israel, attacking its people and infrastructure), he is using the UN and foreign governments to pressure Israel, and he has stated over and over again that after Israel surrenders to it all, he will force upon Israel a final solution, which Biden calls a two-state solution, requiring Israel to abandon 30% of its country (its ancestral homeland in Judea and Samaria) to the very people who are trying to annihilate it, making it impossible for Israel to defend itself.”
Levin asserted that Netanyahu refuses to bow to Biden because he knows “this would ultimately destroy Israel.” Then Levin turned to Israel’s deadly enemy Iran and Biden’s part in helping Iran against Israel: “He (Netanyahu) is leading his country in an incredibly successful war started by Iran and its surrogate, Hamas, and funded by the Biden regime, which has enabled Iran to rebuild its economy, rearm itself and its terrorist puppets, and virtually complete its nuclear program. In fact, it is Biden who has undermined Israel&#8217;s efforts, prolonged the war and increased casualties, including the deaths of brave IDF soldiers (Biden never mentions them).”
“The Biden regime&#8217;s actions and public statements, as well as its diplomacy and coordination with a supportive media, have resulted in the spread of Jew-hatred not only in the United States, but throughout the world, the likes of which we have never seen in our own country and is reminiscent of the 1930s in Europe. And Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the rest of Terrorism, Inc., are more emboldened than ever. “
“Millions of us, patriotic Americans, Jew and Gentile alike, stand with Benjamin Netanyahu and the state of Israel,” Levin declared. “There is a reason both are extremely popular and supported in the United States, despite all the saboteurs, haters, and self-aggrandizers. And we will not be moved. We know good from evil. We know right from wrong. We know that those who hate Israel hate us, both here at home and abroad. We know that the attacks on Netanyahu are intended as attacks on Israel.”
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“We want terrorism and terrorists destroyed, period, as we have suffered from horrendous acts of terrorism and may well in the future,” he wrote. “We know that Israel is fighting not just for its own survival but for us and our country too. The Islamists tell us again and again, openly, in writing, in speeches, with mission statements, and acts of terrorism, that they intend to destroy we, the people of the United States and, in fact, the entire western world. We have no patience for those who undermine Israel so they can profit from appeasing the Arab countries.”
“We admire Netanyahu and the Israeli people. And we also know that the war on Netanyahu is led by those who wish Israel ill. The self-appointed elitists in and out of our government, as well as those in foreign capitals around the world, do not represent us. Indeed, they hate us. But we will not be fooled, silenced, or intimidated by any of them or any of this. We stand with Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu,” he concluded.
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Mark Levin Hammers Critics Of Netanyahu, Targets Biden, Democrats, Legacy Media

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President Joe Biden challenged former president Donald Trump to debates last week because Biden needs to swivel the political spotlight away from his record ahead of the election, according to Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro, who co-founded The Daily Wire, appeared on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty, and Levin” with host Mark Levin on Saturday evening and analyzed the state of the presidential race so far. Biden shook up the race last week agreeing to two debates ahead of November after months of needling from Trump.
“[Biden] believes that if he just says ‘January 6’ then ‘Trump’ over and over and over, then he’s going to win. Presumably, that is why he is now acceding to a debate with Trump,” Shapiro said. “He realizes that this election is a referendum on him. He’s hoping that if he can get Trump on stage, he can make the election a referendum on Donald Trump.”
If recent polls are accurate, Biden needs to shake up the race to avoid losing his reelection bid to his predecessor. Trump is beating Biden in every key battleground state with leads ranging from 0.6 in Wisconsin to 6.2 in Nevada, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states">Real Clear Politics</a> polling averages.
Biden is skeptical about the state of his campaign as reflected in polling, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/biden-polls-denial-trump-2024-election">Axios</a>.
“While the press doesn&#8217;t write about it, the momentum is clearly in our favor, with the polls moving towards us and away from Trump,” Biden told donors recently.
In an interview with CNN, the president said: “The polling data has been wrong all along. How many — you guys do a poll at CNN. How many folks you have to call to get one response?”
Shapiro said the president’s trouble acknowledging his poor performance in numerous polls is “the mark of a losing campaign.”
For Trump, the aim of a debate should be to keep the focus of the campaign on Biden’s poor governance, the Daily Wire co-founder said.
“If Donald Trump during those debates simply stands there and points physically at Joe Biden, Donald Trump will be president again,” Shapiro said. “The reality is most Americans, most moderates care far less about the supposed threat of Donald Trump to the democracy. He was president before, he didn’t threaten democracy. He was actually pretty good at the job. [Americans] are much less worried about that than they are about Joe Biden wrecking the country day by day.”
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Joe Biden Wants To Debate To Save His Sinking Campaign, Ben Shapiro Says

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Multiple political commentators and influential figures expressed concern after Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro revealed his findings on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-posts-shocking-thread-revealing-dei-at-work-in-medicine-even-if-doctors-injure-patients-they-might-still-be-protected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at work in medicine</a>.
<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762195994123407577" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a thread</a> posted to X on Monday, Shapiro dove into how some medical schools and doctors have pushed DEI in an effort to recruit more minority surgeons and stop hiring so many &#8220;walls of white men,&#8221; especially after the death of George Floyd and the ensuing riots in the summer of 2020. The Daily Wire editor emeritus said that his findings even show how some &#8220;top hospitals are abandoning key metrics when hiring surgeons.&#8221;
“It’s bad enough when teachers or government bureaucrats talk like this, but valuing intersectionality over merit can literally mean life or death in surgery,” Shapiro said.
The thread has been viewed over three million times and was quickly reposted by over a thousand people, including billionaire Tesla and X owner Elon Musk, conservative broadcaster and news analyst Mark Levin, and former ESPN anchor Sage Steele.
&#8220;DEI puts the lives of your loved ones at risk,&#8221; said Musk.
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DEI puts the lives of your loved ones at risk <a href="https://t.co/dV6l3MCOPd">https://t.co/dV6l3MCOPd</a>
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Steele — who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/longtime-espn-anchor-who-criticized-covid-mandates-leaving-network-to-exercise-first-amendment-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued ESPN</a> alleging the network retaliated against her for making negative comments about the COVID vaccine — <a href="https://twitter.com/sagesteele/status/1762219432984957097" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>, &#8220;The last sentence in the final tweet of this must-read thread should scare all of us: &#8216;Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the US&#8217; &#8230; yet these universities &amp; hospitals are more concerned about DEI than hiring the most qualified person for the job??!!&#8221;
&#8220;MUST READ — the destruction of our medical system by the Democrat bigots and racists is underway,&#8221; Levin <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1762204807782162933" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
Dave Rubin said he wasn&#8217;t surprised by the revelations in Shapiro&#8217;s thread, even though it should shock people.
&#8220;I’d say this thread is insane, but it’s actually obvious,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1762209825662919073" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;DEI will lead many people to DIE. Some intentionally …&#8221;
Shapiro began his thread by discussing Kychelle Del Rosario, a Wake Forest medical student who is getting ready to graduate from the school and potentially start a career in the medical field. Del Rosario made headlines in 2022 after she injured a patient who laughed at her “She/Her” pronoun pin. The Wake Forest medical student posted about her actions on social media, seemingly joking about missing the vein of the patient who made fun of her pin.
Del Rosario was defended by fellow Wake Forest medical student Ewen Liu who said the jab was an accident, but it “seemed ‘karma-tic.’” Shapiro said that he has learned Liu was recently hired by UPenn Health where she focuses on “substance use disorder, LGBTQ+ health, community medicine.”
“Both UPenn and Liu’s medical school, Wake Forest, have attempted to hide Liu’s hiring,” Shapiro wrote. “Wake Forest didn’t list Liu’s hospital in graduation materials, and UPenn doesn’t list Liu’s medical school on its website.”
Later in the thread, Shapiro shows video of award-winning Duke surgical resident Vignesh Raman discussing his goal to reduce the number of white men in surgery after the events surrounding George Floyd&#8217;s death “collectively galvanized the consciousness of Duke University and certainly our department to try to do something, and recognizing there’s like centuries-long history of racism and slavery in which Duke University essentially was founded [on].”
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6/ Raman adds that post-George Floyd, Duke made a concerted effort to stop hiring so many “walls of white men.” He says the team is now &quot;abandoning &#8230; all sort[s] of metrics&quot; and adopting a &quot;completely holistic&quot; application practice in order to recruit more women and non-white… <a href="https://t.co/Jxo93giLoQ">pic.twitter.com/Jxo93giLoQ</a>
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Raman goes on to say that he and his team are “abandoning … all sort[s] of metrics” and adopting “completely holistic” application practices so Duke can bring on more women and “non-white” surgeons, Shapiro said.
“Raman also tweeted that he won’t ‘amplify’ medical literature involving only white men – because it’s not as if white men have ever advanced medicine or anything,” Shapiro added. “Vignesh Raman is just one example of a much larger trend. The American College of Surgeons, or ACS, recently gave its 88,000 members a definition of ‘racism’ that implies it’s impossible to be racist against white people.”
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Shapiro also pointed out how the ACS invited speaker Madeline B. Torres to a 2021 conference where she said, “[W]hen patients see physicians who look like them, they tend to do better.” Torres also said that surgeons are receiving grants and awards based on their minority status.
At another 2021 DEI conference, this one at UPenn, a surgeon said it is “off putting” to see so many white men as surgeons.
“The doctors also state that surgery needs something like the NFL’s Rooney Rule, which requires that teams interview minority candidates,” Shapiro wrote. “But the doctors say surgery needs an expanded version that goes further and ensures that minority candidates are selected.”
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10/ This is now the prevailing view in surgical medicine. At a recent conference on DEI at UPenn, where Ewen Liu now works, one surgeon says that it&#39;s &quot;off putting&quot; that so many surgeons are white men. <a href="https://t.co/S1wIdWLfmF">pic.twitter.com/S1wIdWLfmF</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1762196015330037965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In a single tweet, best-selling author and news analyst Mark Levin shredded CNN’s Jake Tapper apart for his anti-Israel reporting.
Levin began by noting Tapper trying to bully an Israeli spokesman by saying, &#8220;There are a lot of innocent people being killed by bombs that Israel is raining down upon Gaza, and even if, as I know the IDF believes that Israel has killed 5,000 members of Hamas, that’s thousands of innocent people, including women and children, babies, that Israel has killed. Even if it’s an accident, even if it’s collateral damage, it’s a lot of innocent lives that have been killed by Israel.&#8221;
Then Levin went to work: “Tapper&#8217;s self-righteous moral outrage does not extend to all the countries around the world, and particularly in the Middle East, where civilians are being intentionally targeted for slaughter &#8212; from Syria and Iran, to Yemen and beyond. It does not extend to the several million Muslims in China who have been shipped to concentration camps where they are raped, tortured, and murdered. It does not extend to Russia, which is specifically targeting Ukrainian civilians for annihilation, killing tens of thousands of them. And on and on.”
He quoted Tapper claiming Israel is &#8220;raining bombs&#8221; down on Gaza, then fired, “No it is not. If Israel wanted to ‘rain bombs’ down on Gaza it would not be sending tens of thousands of its young men and women into Gaza, the IDF infantry, to fight street by street, house by house, room by room, thereby increasing Israeli casualties as it seeks to limit civilian casualties. It wouldn&#8217;t be dropping leaflets, sending text messages, dropping bump bombs, etc., warning Palestinians to get out of harms way.”
“Name another military on the face of the earth that does this,” he challenged Tapper. “Name another country on the face of the earth that would show such restraint after its girls were gang raped and executed, after its babies were decapitated, after over 100 of its citizens were taken hostage (from a 10 month old infant to an 89 year old Holocaust survivor), most of whom have been tortured and many of whom (the women and girls in particular) will not be returned so they can&#8217;t tell the world how they were horribly abused.”
“Israel must wipe out the Palestinian terrorists who name themselves Hamas, which was voted into power by the Palestinians in Gaza, who are overwhelmingly supported by the Palestinian civilians not only in Gaza but Judea and Samaria (according to a serious survey conducted a few weeks ago of the Palestinians in these areas), and who support the slaughter of Israeli Jews on Oct. 7 and their annihilation,” he declared, before turning back to Tapper: “Tapper has never gone through this report with his audience because he is pushing a narrative and projecting his own bigotry, which belie the report&#8217;s findings and, of course, what most serious observers have always known to be true. At no time does Tapper explain how he would destroy these terrorists without harming civilians, given that Hamas wants its own citizens killed in order to influence Tapper&#8217;s reporting (and the rest of American media).”
“The fact is that every death is on the head of Hamas, not the Israeli defense forces,” Levin wrote. “But Tapper continues to berate Israeli officials. He would just assume Israeli citizens face endless acts of terrorism, as they have since 1948 (and Jews have for thousands of years before), because that is the outcome if Israel does not destroy Hamas. Hamas itself has said it will never stop and that Oct. 7 was a dry run for worse. In other words, it is one thing to proclaim ‘Never Again,’ but when the Israeli Jews actually take affirmative steps to prevent future atrocities against themselves, they&#8217;re perpetrators and oppressors not better than the marauding terrorists who seek to wipe them out.”
“If Tapper and his ilk were serious journalists they would spend at least 10 percent of the time they use to attack Israel or 5 percent of the time they use to attack Donald Trump explaining that the Biden administration has waived sanctions against Iran, has continued funding UNRWA (which, in turn, funds Hamas, which the UN refuses to label a terrorist group), and continued funding the PLO (the Palestinian terrorist organization founded by Arafat), all terrorist and terrorist supporting entities,” he noted. “Biden saved the Iranian regime, their economy, and rearmed its military, despite the fact that it also sought to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former National Security Adviser John Bolton, and killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers in Iraq. Biden is funding terrorism, directly and indirectly, and Iran is pouring money and armaments into Gaza and supporting terrorist operations in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, etc. to be used for the purpose of killing Israeli Jews (and others).”
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“Tapper&#8217;s small audience might benefit from this information rather than his constant self-righteous tirades and blaming the Israelis,” he continued. “Biden and Blinken blew up the Middle East as a direct result of their policies, and they blew up Trump&#8217;s policies which led to the Abraham Accords, Iran&#8217;s unraveling, Israeli-Saudi relations, and much more. Indeed, as Iran attacks American armed forces through proxies, thus far Biden has done nothing serious to punish that regime and protect our men and women.&#8221;
“But Tapper hates Trump, he supports Biden and the Democrat Party, and the disastrous foreign policy of Obama that continues to this day through his former staffers in the Biden regime,” Levin asserted. “Tapper is not a serious journalist. He has a long resume of working for Democrats and Democrat causes, and a media background that includes working with a radical left-wing media website ‘Salon.’ His true purpose is to provide propaganda for the Left, to stop Israel from winning a war it did not start, to turn Israeli restraint into Israeli oppression and barbarism, and ‘cover the war’ through the lens of the perpetrators. And he does it with sanctimony and self-righteousness, and under cover of a so-called news organization, CNN.”
He concluded, “Of course, like the rest of the media, he denounces what happened on Oct. 7 and Hamas, but then condemns Israel for trying to prevent a future Oct. 7 the only way it truly can, by defeating a monstrous enemy that commits war crimes as a purposeful strategy for destroying a democracy and civil society generally. If Oct. 7 doesn&#8217;t prove this point to someone like Tapper and the pro-Hamas protestors in our colleges and streets, and Hamas&#8217;s own mission statement underscores it all, than nothing will. Tapper&#8217;s sympathy for Israelis ended soon after Oct. 7, as he and his network predictably turned against the Israeli defenders, as they have in the past &#8212; indeed, as most of the rest of the American media have. Now, they use moral equivalency or worse to push their narrative and project their agenda. Thankfully, the media do not represent the American people. They represent a small but powerful group of self-appointed elitists and leftists, who can be counted on to root against Israel as they root against America. Israel will survive if it rejects these media reprobates and the suicidal demands of the Biden regime.”
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Mark Levin Shreds Jake Tapper For His Anti-Israel Narrative

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-being-lied-to-ben-shapiro-reveals-truth-about-israel-and-palestine-in-latest-facts-episode" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> blasted the American legacy media for seemingly allying with Hamas after the terrorist organization brutally attacked Israel on October 7. 
Shapiro’s comments came while discussing the Israel-Hamas war with conservative analyst Mark Levin on his Fox News show “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6339216896112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Life, Liberty, Levin</a>” on Sunday. The two political commentators first discussed the “insanity” of the Biden administration <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-aid-palestine-hamas-attack-israel-trump-1833168" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sending aid</a> to the Gaza Strip, which likely ended up in the hands of Hamas, and unfreezing $6 billion for Hamas’ backer Iran. 
But the commentators’ criticism didn’t stop with those in the White House. 
“Isn’t it also insane, Ben Shapiro, that the greatest ally the terrorists have in the United States is the American media?” Levin asked. “Just as it was the greatest ally of the Nazis by covering up the Holocaust?” 
“It’s absolutely despicable,” Shapiro replied. “The American media has drawn a moral parity between Israel and its enemies for decades at this point.”
Hamas killed more than 1,300 people after invading Israel last Saturday, slaughtering Israeli families. Over the course of the week, the scale of Hamas’ atrocities against the Israelis has become more evident. During their attack, the terrorists targeted the most vulnerable, including raping and killing young women and slaughtering children and infants.
The Daily Wire host said that the legacy media “pretends” what Hamas is upset over is “a territorial dispute,” even though Hamas will “literally say to your face what they want is to kill Jews.” 
“And the entire American media looks the other way and pretends it’s not happening,” Shapiro added. “They’ll say, ‘Well, but we can examine your ulterior motive. We can tell what you’re really thinking.’ And this really goes to the absolute arrogance of Western liberals and that is [believing] ‘everyone thinks like they do.’” 
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“The media buys into that same nonsense because when it comes to this particular conflict, the media has decided in their heads that the Western country has to be wrong by nature,” said Shapiro. “And because it’s wrong by nature, that means that anything that happens to that country must have inevitably been caused by the ‘occupation.’” 
Shapiro noted that the Israel-Hamas conflict that the legacy media attempts to spin as stemming from Israel’s “oppressive occupation” — even though Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005. 
“The victims [of the Hamas attack] are living in unoccupied areas. … They’re living in the south of Israel which has been a part of Israel since 1947-48. And even the people getting slaughtered are disproportionately people of the political Left,” Shapiro said, noting that Hamas killed hundreds of young people at a dance festival.  
“That doesn&#8217;t matter to [the media] at all. The facts are completely irrelevant to the narrative.”

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Ben Shapiro Talks Israel With Mark Levin, Slams ‘Absolutely Despicable’ Legacy Media For Drawing ‘Moral Parity Between Israel And Its Enemies’

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Florida Republican Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> spoke with Fox News host Mark Levin Sunday evening in a wide ranging interview about his new book that is set to be released this week and about the numerous successes that he has secured as governor.
The interview comes amid mounting speculation that DeSantis will announce sometime over the next few months that he will run for president in 2024 as polling has repeatedly showed that he and former President Donald Trump are the top two candidates for the GOP primary.
DeSantis told Levin that he wrote his new book &#8220;The Courage to Be Free: Florida&#8217;s Blueprint for America&#8217;s Revival&#8221; and did not rely on a ghostwriter to do the work.
&#8220;I think it comes across as more authentic because it is me writing this,&#8221; DeSantis said, adding that he did not include attacks against others in the book because he doesn&#8217;t believe in sharing details from private conversations that he has had with other officials because those conversations were in confidence.
DeSantis said that Republicans needed to learn how to go on offense instead of always having to be on defense where they are having to respond to what the Democrats are doing.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a lot easier for a governor — an executive to be on offense, but what I would say is one of the things I did when I was becoming governor, I compiled all the constitutional authorities the governor had, all the statutory authority, so I know what could I do by myself, what do I need to legislature for, what&#8217;s my relationship with local government officials?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because I&#8217;ve removed bad election officials, I removed the Soros-backed prosecutor, and so we have certain authorities under Florida&#8217;s constitution, and so I understood that because you have an agenda you want to get passed or you want it to stick, but you don&#8217;t just say I want this and it happens, you&#8217;ve got to get it through those constitutional checks and balances.&#8221;
DeSantis said that one of the decisions that he made early on that proved to be critical was not relying on polls to dictate how to govern.
&#8220;You and I could go out, we could poll a group of 100 people; that&#8217;s just a static analysis of how they respond to a certain question. If I phrase the question different, probably get a different response,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;So I don&#8217;t need to know what the static view [is]. What I need to know is if I set out the vision, if I execute that vision, if I produce favorable results, then will they be — will they be with me?&#8221;
&#8220;As a leader don&#8217;t be captive to public opinion, shape public opinion,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;And I think we&#8217;ve proven that we did that. I went from winning by 32,000 votes to winning by 1.5 million votes.&#8221;
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DeSantis said that the people that he has hired in his administration are true believers in what he is doing as evidenced by the fact that his administration has had no leaks to the media.
&#8220;No leaking, none of your own agenda, and we laid that down very early and from the time we did that, I didn&#8217;t have a single leak in the administration for 4 years,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I ran the highest profile governor reelection campaign in the country, not one leak from my campaign apparatus. That&#8217;s how you know you have people that are committed to the mission.&#8221;

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&#8220;The Great One&#8221; has some advice for all Americans: Stop reading The New York Times.
Radio host Mark Levin called the contents of the paper, whose motto is &#8220;all the news that&#8217;s fit to print,&#8221; worse than fake news.
On his Fox News show &#8220;Life, Liberty &amp; Levin,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/levin-new-york-times-worse-fake-news">blasted</a> the paper&#8217;s coverage of the Holocaust. Reading from his new book, &#8220;Unfreedom of the Press,&#8221; Levin claimed the paper &#8220;almost always&#8221; put stories about the Holocaust on the back pages.
&#8220;Surely the New York Times, with its wide reach, resources, access to foreign sources of information, reputation as the foremost newspaper in the country, large Jewish readership and its Jewish ownership would do everything possible to investigate and disclose the horror of Jewish genocide,&#8221; Levin said. &#8220;But the opposite was true.&#8221;
&#8220;The mass media treated the systematic murder of millions of Jews as though it were minor,&#8221; Levin said.
The radio host also said the paper is now pushing a &#8220;radical agenda&#8221; that makes it &#8220;an extremely destructive force in this country and outside this country.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s worse than fake news. It tried to take down an elected president, Donald Trump. It tried to push him out of office, supported both impeachments, supported criminal investigation, still supports these various prosecutors who are investigating the former president. And on and on and on,&#8221; Levin said.
Levin made headlines last week when he blasted the leak of a Supreme Court draft on overturning the abortion landmark decision Roe v. Wade, which was published by Politico. The opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, said, “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences.”
“There is no federal constitutional right to abortion, period!” Levin said, according to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/its-not-a-salami-sandwich-its-a-viable-baby-mark-levin-yells-into-the-camera-after-liberals-slam-supreme-court-opinion/">Mediaite</a>. “They amended the Constitution without amending the Constitution!”
&#8220;Is that a baby in the womb?!&#8221; he asked. &#8220;Is that a viable baby in the womb at the very last minute? Yes! It&#8217;s not a salami sandwich! It’s a viable baby in the womb! And we have states and governors that say you can abort that baby even though it&#8217;s viable. It&#8217;s not a choice! It&#8217;s a human being! So to the Democrat Party – &#8216;Women aren’t women, babies aren’t babies.&#8217; This is insanity!&#8221;
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Mark Levin Urges Americans Stop Reading NY Times, ‘Worse Than Fake News’

Radio Host Mark Levin Urges Americans To Stop Reading The New York Times, 'Worse Than Fake News'

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New York Times

A slew of conservative accounts came back to Twitter Monday, following news that Tesla founder Elon Musk has reached a deal to purchase the Left-wing site.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson tweeted simply, &#8220;We&#8217;re back.&#8221;
The host and author was suspended for agreeing that Dr. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, is a biological man.
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Fellow Fox News host Mark Levin came back to the site on Monday, too. &#8220;Thanks to new ownership, I&#8217;ve decided to come back!&#8221; he wrote.
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Thanks to new ownership, I’ve decided to come back! 😊
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Anti-lockdown group Truckers For Freedom, which was banned from Twitter, came back to the platform Monday as well, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/babylon-bee-others-return-twitter-after-musk-buys">according</a> to Fox Business.
&#8220;Friends, it is happening again like the last time,&#8221; the account tweeted. &#8220;We already have 1000 followers in one hour since we have rejoined twitter! Last time we had the same growth (but not from the first hour!!!) Follow us to support, Elon Musk is with us! <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/truckersforfreedom?src=hashtag_click">#truckersforfreedom</a>.&#8221;
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Actor Michael Caine, who was a <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/michael-caine-brexit-boris-johnson-b1940075.html">supporter</a> of Brexit and has voted conservative, sparked some attention on Twitter, too, when he posted for the first time in months on Monday. The timing made Twitter users wonder if the actor came back to the site because of the Musk buyout, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10753641/Sir-Michael-Caines-Twitter-return-raising-questions-Elon-Musk-buys-platform-44B.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline">reported</a>.
On the flip side, race-hustler Shaun King appeared to <a href="https://twitter.com/shaunking">delete</a> his account from the platform. The move came following King claiming South African-born Musk was motived by &#8220;white power&#8221; in his quest to purchase Twitter.
“At its root, [Elon Musk] wanting to purchase Twitter is not about left vs right,” he wrote earlier in the day. “It’s about white power.”
King later appeared on Twitter and claimed that he never deleted his account.
In other notable Twitter news, former President Donald Trump, who had his account <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension">permanently suspended</a> in January 2021, said he will not return to the platform if his account is reinstated.
Instead, Trump said, he will use his own social media platform Truth Social.
“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on Truth,” the former president <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/25/trump-wont-return-to-twitter/">told</a> Fox News. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth. The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.”

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Roundup: Who’s Back On Twitter After Musk Buyout, And Who Deleted Their Account

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Sitting down with Fox News host Mark Levin, Florida GOP governor Ron DeSantis responded to Levin’s comment that DeSantis has been the target of the media and Democrats because he has been so effective asserting, “If you stand your ground, if you lead, if you don’t back down and just stand for the right things, there’s a groundswell of folks who will have your back.”
Levin pointed out, “You know, the bigger picture here, there’s a lot of governors — at least 50 last time I checked — there’s many Republican governors. Yet you are the focus. So I suspect if you are an ineffective governor, you wouldn’t threaten the left-wing media, the Democrat party&#8230;.You have some really terrible media here. This is me speaking. Palm Beach is just a disaster; Orlando, Tampa, disaster, like most of the rest of the country.”
“If you were a mediocre Democrat governor, or if you had been a Cuomo, a disastrous governor, you wouldn’t be getting this kind of attention, would you?” he asked.
“No,” DeSantis answered bluntly. “Look, when you’re over the target, they’re gonna come at you. But what I view it as, I view it as positive feedback. If the corporate press nationally isn’t attacking me, then I’m probably not doing my job. So the fact that they are attacking me is a good indication that you know what? I’m tackling the big issues. We’re going after Critical Race Theory; we’re fighting back against Biden’s mandates; we’re fighting back against the illegal immigration, all those things that a vast majority of Floridians and Americans want to see done.”
“But that does threaten the ruling class and the regime,” he continued. “And so when you stand up in this day and age that we’re in, when you’re speaking the truth, those folks do not want that to get out. And so they are gonna throw arrows at you.”
“But I think what we’ve been able to show is: If you stand your ground; if you lead; if you don’t back down and just stand for the right things, there’s a groundswell of folks who will have your back,” he declared. “And that ultimately is what it’s all about.”
Levin segued to the trouble Florida has had in obtaining monoclonal antibodies, which deal with the coronavirus therapeutically, from the federal government, asking, “Did you ever think an issue like a pandemic or vaccines or this monoclonal antibody, did you ever think that that would be politicized the way that Washington has politicized it and Biden and stuff like that? You’ve had to fight like hell to get the citizens of this state the monoclonal antibodies that you have focused on very heavily, this therapeutic.”
“And as a side point, as a footnote, I was in Florida; my family was in Florida; I got the Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine; I got the booster, then I got the virus,” Levin recalled. “And we looked it up on the internet and there was a center 20 miles away where we could go to get the monoclonal antibody, which you really are supposed to get within 48 hours if you can, and after the first day where I felt lousy I felt fine. I mean, it actually works, and you have them all over the state, you’re really the only governor who’s done this and yet you’re the focus of Washington. The bureaucrats and the Democrat politicians who are saying, ‘That works. Let’s withhold the monoclonal antibodies.’ What do you make of that?”
“It’s all political,” DeSantis replied. “And we set up these centers this summer when we started to see Delta variant rear its head, and it worked. We were keeping tens of thousands of people out of the hospitals, saved thousands of lives. No one disputes that. Well, as that was happening in September, they, the federal government, decided to seize control of the monoclonal antibodies and cut supplies to Florida and Texas, mainly. Now I was able to do a deal with another company &#8230; and then our numbers were so low that there just wasn’t a lot of demand for it for many months.”
“Well, now that you see Omicron, you start to see more prevalence in the winter, which we anticipated, there’d be an increase in demand, we’re not getting what we need,” DeSantis pointed out. “And so we’re working through that; we think we have the potential to have a positive solution on that, but you know, what HHS will say is, ‘Florida, you use too much of it.’ Well, part of the reason we use more than other states is because we’ve actually embraced treatment. Most of these other governors and the people like Fauci in the federal leadership, they basically say, ‘Get a shot. Wear a mask.’ They never talk about treatment. And we&#8217;ve really embraced treatment because that’s just the reality of what we’re facing.”
“You were vaccinated and yet you still got it,” DeSantis said. “I wish the vaccines were sterilizing but they’re not providing that type of immunity. So to just not deal with treatment and be hostile to people like me, who are, it shows so much of this is about a political agenda; it’s about partisanship, and it’s not about the best interests of the American people when you talk about how these folks are acting.”
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