President Donald Trump lashed out at the Obamas, among other Democrats, during a press conference Tuesday morning, connecting them to Hollywood mogul-turned-convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein in a vicious, pointed attack.
The Washington Examiner reported that Trump called out Michelle Obama specifically, noting her cozy relationship with Weinstein, who was a frequent guest of the Obama White House and a prominent Democratic bundler and donor.
“I will say the people who liked him were the Democrats. Michelle Obama loved him — loved him. Hillary Clinton loved him, and he gave tremendous money to the Democrats,” Trump said during a presser in India.
&#8220;I was never a fan of Harvey Weinstein, as you know,” he added. “In fact, he said he was going to work hard to defeat me in the election.”
Trump went on to call Weinstein&#8217;s conviction a &#8220;great victory&#8221; for women that &#8220;sends a very strong message&#8221; to high profile men in the entertainment industry, casually sidestepping the several sexual harassment and sexual assault claims that he&#8217;s fought off over the decades.
Weinstein was convicted on one count of first degree sexual assault and one count of third degree rape on Monday, shocking the former movie mogul, who prosecutors claimed had been stalking, sexually harassing, and even sexually abusing women for decades. Weinstein now faces up to three decades in jail and, shortly after the jury read its verdict, was remanded to Rikers Island to await his sentencing on March 11.
Monday morning, Weinstein&#8217;s attorneys claimed that Weinstein was suffering from chest pains and high blood pressure, and the police escort taking him to Rikers was rerouted to Bellevue Hospital, where he remains under observation.
Weinstein will likely remain in jail in New York until early spring, when he will stand trial on similar charges of sexual assault and rape in Los Angeles County.
The Obama family certainly had a good relationship with Weinstein. <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/video-resurfaces-michelle-obama-praising-wonderful-human-being-harvey-weinstein-after-sex-abuse-1488875">Video resurfaced Monday of Michelle Obama</a> praising Weinstein as a &#8220;wonderful human being,&#8221; &#8220;a good friend and just a powerhouse&#8221; at a White House event in 2013, before the &#8220;#MeToo&#8221; movement gained momentum. The Obama&#8217;s daughter, Malia, served as an intern for Weinstein&#8217;s production company, Miramax, and Weinstein bundled millions for Obama&#8217;s election and re-election campaign.
Shortly after the allegations against Weinstein surfaced in 2017, the Obamas made every effort to distance themselves from the digraced movie producer, telling reporters, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/10/weinstein-barack-obama-michelle-243654">in a statement</a>, that they were &#8220;disgusted&#8221; by Weinstein&#8217;s alleged behavior.
Hillary Clinton was also a good friend of Weinstein&#8217;s, joining him for a number of Democratic fundraisers, cashing checks written and bundled by Weinstein for her 2016 presidential campaign, and even palling around with the mega-producer following her epic loss to now-President Donald Trump. At one time, Clinton and Weinstein were working together on a potential documentary about Clinton&#8217;s life, but those plans went by the wayside after Weinstein&#8217;s fall from glory.
In a newly released Hulu documentary, Clinton addressed her relationship with Weinstein, claiming that it was impossible to know about Weinstein&#8217;s personal life, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-harvey-weinstein-ronan-farrow">according to Fox News</a>, even though some of her top advisors &#8212; including marquee feminist Lena Dunham &#8212; have said they warned Clinton about Weinstein&#8217;s history of improper behavior.
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‘Michelle Loved Harvey’: Trump Trashes Obamas Over Relationship With Weinstein

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The Trump administration moved on Friday to decimate the school nutrition standards pushed by Michelle Obama during her time in the White House, a move that the Department of Agriculture (USDA) took on the former first lady&#8217;s birthday.
The USDA <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2020/01/17/usda-announces-school-and-summer-meals-reforms">said</a> that the new proposals would give &#8220;school nutrition professionals &#8230; more flexibility to serve appetizing and healthy meals that appeal to their students’ preferences and subsequently reduce food waste. The proposed rule also encourages state and local operators to focus resources on feeding children rather than administrative paperwork.&#8221;
“Schools and school districts continue to tell us that there is still too much food waste and that more common-sense flexibility is needed to provide students nutritious and appetizing meals. We listened and now we’re getting to work,” U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said. “Our proposed changes empower schools to give their very best to our children nationwide and have the potential to benefit nearly 100,000 schools and institutions that feed 30 million children each school day through USDA’s school meal programs. Providing children with wholesome, nutritious food is part of our motto at USDA, which is to ‘do right and feed everyone.’”
The USDA said that the first proposed rule aimed to ensure that kids still receive quality nutrition while at the same time giving flexibility to local school districts to serve kids food that they actually are willing to eat in an effort to reduce waste. The USDA said they planned to accomplish this by:
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The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/us/politics/michelle-obama-school-nutrition-trump.html">reported</a> that Democrats on Capitol Hill believed that the Trump administration intentionally rolled this out on Michelle Obama&#8217;s birthday, even though a USDA spokesperson said that was not the case, and that &#8220;Democrats reacted furiously.&#8221;
Far-left Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley (MA) fumed over the announcement, writing on Twitter: &#8220;Egregious. The Occupant is trying to play petty with the food our babies eat. Add it to the list affirming that the cruelty is the point with this White House.&#8221;
Far-left Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) fired back by suggesting that the government should provide all the food that kids eat: &#8220;Counter proposal: make *healthy* school meals universal year-round. The #UniversalSchoolMealsProgramAct will guarantee breakfast, lunch, and dinner for every student in America.&#8221;

First Lady Michelle Obama Hosts 3rd Annual &#8220;Beating The Odds&#8221;

SAVAGE: Trump Targets Signature Michelle Obama Accomplishment On Her Birthday

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Italian artist AleXsandro Palombo has been raising awareness about violence against women by creating doctored photos of prominent political figures like Michelle Obama, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Hillary Clinton that make them appear as if they are battered victims.
&#8220;The &#8216;Just Because I am a Woman&#8217; campaign created by AleXsandro Palombo, which is currently on display in Milan, also features altered portraits of German Chancellor  Angela Merkel and French first lady Brigitte Macron,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/violence-against-women-art-campaign">Fox News</a>. &#8220;The posters note that such violence against women does not differ between races, classes or religions.&#8221;
Each poster features a message beneath it that reads, &#8220;I am a victim of domestic abuse. I am paid less. I&#8217;ve experienced genital mutilation. I do not have the right to dress as I want. I can&#8217;t decide who I&#8217;m going to marry. I was raped.&#8221;
Speaking with the BBC, Palombo said he created the posters &#8220;to illustrate the drama that affects millions of women throughout the world &#8230; with the aim of denouncing, raising awareness and obtaining a real response from institutions and politics.&#8221;
Palombo previously used the famous faces of Kim Kardashian and Angelina Jolie back in 2015 to highlight violence against women. “No woman is immune from domestic abuse,&#8221; the posters read.
Palombo gave no indication that the choice of certain female figures were meant as a political statement beyond raising awareness about violence against women. He also previously created campaigns such as Disabled Disney Princesses and The Simpsons Go To Auschwitz. Here is one such example:
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According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/index.html">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> (CDC), roughly 1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men experience domestic violence each year. Below is an excerpt from the CDC&#8217;s report on &#8220;intimate partner violence&#8221; in the U.S.:
<blockquote>Intimate partner violence (IPV) is abuse or aggression that occurs in a close relationship. “Intimate partner” refers to both current and former spouses and dating partners. IPV can vary in how often it happens and how severe it is. It can range from one episode of violence that could have lasting impact to chronic and severe episodes over multiple years.
IPV is common.  It affects millions of people in the United States each year. Data from CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) indicate:
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<li>About 1 in 4 women and nearly 1 in 10 men have experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner during their lifetime and reported some form of IPV-related impact.</li>
<li>Over 43 million women and 38 million men experienced psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime.</li>
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IPV is a significant public health issue that has many individual and societal costs. About 41% of female IPV survivors and 14% of male IPV survivors experience some form of physical injury related to IPV. IPV can also extend beyond physical injury and result in death. Data from U.S. crime reports suggest that 16% (about 1 in 6) of homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner. The reports also found that nearly half of female homicide victims in the U.S. are killed by a current or former male intimate partner.</blockquote>
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Violence Against Women Campaign Features Doctored Photos Of Hillary Clinton, AOC, Michelle Obama As Battered Victims

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Angela Merkel

Americans have ranked former President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump equally in an annual “most admired man in the world” poll, according to a survey conducted by <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/273125/obama-trump-tie-admired-man-2019.aspx">Gallup</a> earlier this month. 
The survey, which asked Americans “What man that you have heard or read about, living today in any part of the world, do you admire most,” showed that respondents named both Obama and Trump as the most admired man 18% of the time. Respondents also had a similar answer for the most admired woman, with 10% naming former First Lady Michelle Obama and 5% naming First Lady Melania Trump. 
“Trump&#8217;s popularity grew enough this year to allow him to tie Barack Obama as the most admired man, but not to end Obama&#8217;s streak of 12 first-place finishes,” reads the report. “The results reflect the significant party divide in the U.S., with Republicans overwhelmingly naming Trump and Democrats Obama, and few other men garnering significant mention.”
“Meanwhile, Obama&#8217;s wife Michelle has been named as the most admired woman the past two years after 25 years that saw Hillary Clinton finish first 22 times,” the report continues. “In fact, Obama has had stronger finishes in the past two years than during her eight years as first lady, when no more than 8% of Americans named her.”
The report also features a new, but perhaps unsurprising arrival on the list: Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Although the activist is not even old enough to be surveyed, she tied with media mogul Oprah Winfrey and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for the most influential woman in the world, with each person receiving 3% support from respondents. Thunberg also out-ranked other popular choices, including Queen Elizabeth II, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, who each received 2% support. 
Thunberg, who made headlines after traveling to the U.S. via boat to speak at the U.N. about climate, has become an odd fixation for left-wing pundits and voters alike. In fact, according to The Hill, people on the online dating website OKCupid have started mentioning Thunberg as a way to find and weed out potential partners. 
“One of the issues we’re hearing people care about is climate change,” Melissa Hobley, the chief marketing officer for OKCupid, told <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/476213-okcupid-2019-was-the-year-greta-thunberg-helped-people-get">The Hill</a>. “They’re talking about Greta on their profiles. &#8230; I think people feel that supporting her or not shows how you feel about the issue and its impact.”
Time Magazine also awarded Thunberg its &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; award, writing in an article that “her moral clarity” serves to inspire “other young people around the world.” President Trump, who was also a contender for the title, issued the following response to the announcement, drawing attention to Thunberg’s propensity to scold others for not doing enough. 
“So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill!”
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So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger Management problem, then go to a good old fashioned movie with a friend! Chill Greta, Chill! <a href="https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE">https://t.co/M8ZtS8okzE</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1205100602025545730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-gretathunberg/trump-mocks-teen-climate-activist-thunberg-chill-greta-chill-idUSKBN1YG1H1">Reuters</a>, Thunberg respondend by updating her Twitter bio to read the following: “A teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old-fashioned movie with a friend.”

U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s Second Year In The Oval Office

Who Do Americans Most Admire? Presidents, First Ladies, And Greta Thunberg, Says Gallup.

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Bill Clinton

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George W. Bush

Greta Thunberg

Laura Bush

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In a moment reminiscent of her husband’s 2008 narcissistic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2pZSvq9bto">claim</a> that his clinching the nomination for the presidency was the moment when “the rise of the oceans began to slow and the planet began to heal,” former First Lady Michelle Obama, speaking at the Obama Foundation Summit at the Illinois Institute of Technology, posited that people all over the world feel that Barack Obama <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/michelle-obama-claims-so-many-people-around-the-world-feel-like-barack-obama-is-their-president?utm_content=bufferbe0f6&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=tw-theblaze">is their president</a>.
Michelle Obama stated:
<blockquote>Barack&#8217;s presidential library could have been anywhere in the world because there are so many people who feel like he is their president all over the world. New York wanted it; Hawaii wants it; because it’s also an economic engine because it will be a visited presidential library. Because it’s going to be a live, It’s a first. So we had to think of where will we put this resource, because it will be a resource.</blockquote>
Perhaps Michelle Obama might want to check with the people of Poland. In 2009, Obama canceled an anti-ballistic missile system. In 2012, President Bronislaw Komorowski slammed Obama saying, &#8220;Our mistake was that by accepting the American offer of a shield we failed to take into account the political risk associated with a change of president. We paid a high political price. We do not want to make the same mistake again. We must have a missile system as an element of our defenses.&#8221; The <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9456610/Polish-president-accuses-Obama-of-betraying-Poland.html">Telegraph</a> noted, “Mr. Obama&#8217;s decision to scrap George W Bush&#8217;s original missile shield dismayed the Polish government, especially as many Poles saw it as an attempt to appease Russia, Poland&#8217;s historical and Cold War foe.”
Or Michelle Obama could ask the people of Israel, who watched during the 2014 Gaza War against the terrorist group Hamas as Obama <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-official-confirms-us-nixed-missile-sale-pm-blamed-for-soured-ties/">suspended a shipment of Hellfire missiles to Israel</a>, endangering Israel, which was under siege from rocket attacks. Or the people of Israel could remember Barack Obama ignoring the numerous murderous terrorist attacks launched in Israel by Palestinian Arabs, saying as a presidential candidate in 2008:
<blockquote>This is the moment when we must defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it. This threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it. If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman; in London and Bali; in Washington and New York.” Obama didn’t mention Israel.</blockquote>
Or Michelle Obama could ask the people of Crimea, who watched as Russia’s Vladmir Putin launched an annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Obama’s White House weakly protested, calling it a &#8220;breach of international law.&#8221; As <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/putin-declares-war-1393773084?tesla=y">The Wall Street Journal</a> mocked Obama in an op-ed, “That will have the Kremlin quaking.” The Journal added, “The only concrete U.S. action was to suspend participation in preparations for June&#8217;s G-8 summit in Sochi.” The Journal concluded, “The Ukrainians can&#8217;t be left alone to face Russia, and the Kremlin&#8217;s annexation of Crimea can&#8217;t be allowed to stand.”
Or Michelle Obama could ask the people of Syria, who watched after Syrian president Bashar al-Assad allegedly launched a Sarin nerve gas attack that “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/16/syrian-chemical-attack-sarin-says-un">killed more than 1,000 people</a>, hundreds of them children,” as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/10/epic-failure-of-our-age-how-west-failed-syria">The Guardian</a> reported, and Obama, who had insisted that use of chemical weapons would be crossing a “red line,” announced the U.S. would not attack the Assad regime.

Barack And Michelle Obama Speak At Obama Foundation Summit

Michelle Obama Boasts: The World Feels Barack Is ‘Their President’

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that she &#8220;can&#8217;t make people not afraid of black people,&#8221; though she tries to &#8220;pick away at the scabs of discrimination.&#8221;
&#8220;As people doubted us coming through — &#8216;Are you Princeton material? Can you really make the grade? Can you cut it?&#8217; — what do you do in those instances? All you can do is put your head down and do the work and let the work, your truth, speak for itself,&#8221; Mrs. Obama explained at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago, as reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/467941-michelle-obama-i-cant-make-people-not-afraid-of-black-people">The Hill</a>.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t make people not afraid of black people. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. I can&#8217;t explain what&#8217;s happening in your head,&#8221; she said.
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&#8220;But maybe if I show up every day as a human, a good human, doing wonderful things, loving my family, loving our kids, taking care of things that I care about — maybe, just maybe that work will pick away at the scabs of our discrimination,&#8221; the 55-year-old continued, receiving cheers from the audience. &#8220;Maybe that will slowly unravel it.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s all we have,&#8221; Mrs. Obama continued. &#8220;Because we can&#8217;t do it for them, because they&#8217;re broken. Their brokenness in how they see us is a reflection of this brokenness. And you can&#8217;t fix that. All you can do is the work.&#8221;
The former First Lady also lamented so-called &#8220;white flight&#8221; during the summit interview.
&#8220;As families like ours — upstanding families like ours who were doing everything we were supposed to do and better. As we moved in, white folks moved out because they were afraid of what our families represented,&#8221; she said, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/yall-were-running-from-us-michelle-obama-claims-white-folks-are-afraid-of-living-in-black-neighborhoods">The Washington Examiner</a>.
&#8220;I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us &#8230; This family, with all the values that you read about, you were running from us. And you’re still running because we’re no different than the immigrant families that are moving in,&#8221; Mrs. Obama claimed. &#8220;The families that are coming from other places to try to do better. But, because we can so easily wash over who we really were — because of the color of our skin, because of the texture of our hair — that’s what divides countries, artificial things.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/internet-wrecks-obamas-over-15-million-marthas-amanda-prestigiacomo">reporting</a> this summer, the Obamas are on track to buy a $15 million beachfront property at Martha’s Vineyard.
Mrs. Obama, a Princeton University graduate, was our nation&#8217;s First Lady for eight years. In 2018, Americans named Mrs. Obama the most admirable woman, edging out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/245669/michelle-obama-ends-hillary-clinton-run-admired.aspx">Gallop</a> polling. Oprah Winfrey came in a distant second to Mrs. Obama.
Moreover, Mrs. Obama&#8217;s husband, former President Barack Obama, &#8220;was the winner among men for the 11th consecutive year, including one year as president-elect, eight as president and two as former president,&#8221; Gallop reported.
Mr. Obama served three terms in the Illinois Senate and then as president of the United States for eight years, elected each time despite what the Democrats suggest is America&#8217;s endemic racism.
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Michelle Obama: &quot;I can&#39;t make people not afraid of black people. I don&#39;t know what&#39;s going on, I can&#39;t explain what&#39;s happening in your head, but maybe if I show up every day as a human, a good human &#8230; Just maybe that work will pick away at the scabs of your discrimination.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/DBo169sN0Y">pic.twitter.com/DBo169sN0Y</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-get-over-being-woke-stop-online-outrage-cancel-culture">Obama: ‘Get Over’ Being ‘Woke,’ Stop Online Outrage Cancel Culture</a>
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WATCH: Michelle Obama Says She ‘Can’t Make People Not Afraid Of Black People,’ Laments ‘White Flight’

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Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama are now Hollywood power players, according to the latest top 100 list from <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/thr-100-hollywood-reporters-powerful-people-entertainment-1246527/item/thr-100-2019-dick-wolf-1246575" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-track-label="inline|intext|n/a">The Hollywood Reporter</a>.
Clocking in at number 50 ahead of top names like Jeffrey Katzenberg and James Cameron, THR said that the Obamas are soaring into Hollywood with deals from every corner:
<blockquote>Who wouldn&#8217;t take their call? The former president, 58, and first lady, 55, kicked off 2019 with a Sundance acquisition — doc American Factory, which premiered to strong reviews on Netflix in August en route to an awards-season run. Tonia Davis and Priya Swaminathan, co-heads of Obama banner Higher Ground, are steering projects under the couple&#8217;s deal with the streamer — including adaptations of David W. Blight&#8217;s Frederick Douglass bio and Michael Lewis&#8217; Fifth Risk, and Bloom, a post-World War II-era show about fashion — plus podcasts under a new deal with Spotify.</blockquote>
Earlier this year, the Obamas&#8217; production company, Higher Ground, announced an impressive slate of content for Netflix and Spotify. Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos hailed their slate as a symbol of their commitment to “diverse creators and unique voices.”
“President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and the Higher Ground team are building a company focused on storytelling that exemplifies their core values,” Sarandos said. “The breadth of their initial slate across series, film, documentary, and family programming shows their commitment to diverse creators and unique voices that will resonate with our members around the world.”
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-seven-projects-barack-and-michelle-obama-paul-bois">statement announcing the projects</a> at the time, former President Obama said that Higher Ground is proud to use the power of dramatic narrative to explore social justice issues. “We created Higher Ground to harness the power of storytelling,” he said. “That’s why we couldn’t be more excited about these projects. Touching on issues of race and class, democracy and civil rights, and much more, we believe each of these productions won’t just entertain, but will educate, connect and inspire us all.”
Michelle Obama said the projects will offer something “for everyone” that will likely generate conversations. “We love this slate because it spans so many different interests and experiences, yet it’s all woven together with stories that are relevant to our daily lives,” she said. “We think there’s something here for everyone — moms and dads, curious kids, and anyone simply looking for an engaging, uplifting watch at the end of a busy day. We can’t wait to see these projects come to life — and the conversations they’ll generate.”
In May of 2018, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28789/netflix-names-former-obama-ambassador-susan-rice-paul-bois">Netflix announced</a> it would be adding to its board of directors former Obama administration United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice.
“We are delighted to welcome Ambassdor Rice to the Netflix board,” said Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings at the time. “For decades, she has tackled difficult, complex global issues with intelligence, integrity and insight, and we look forward to benefiting from her experience and wisdom.”
Former Ambassador Rice said she was “thrilled” to be joining the “cutting-edge” company. “I am thrilled to be joining the board of directors of Netflix, a cutting-edge company whose leadership, high-quality productions, and unique culture I deeply admire,” she said at the time.

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Barack And Michelle Obama Make List Of Hollywood’s ‘Most Powerful’ People

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Former White House aide Tina Tchen will take the reins of the &#8220;#MeToo&#8221;-centered Time&#8217;s Up foundation, which advocates for women who face discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault in the entertainment industry &#8212; and its the same Tina Tchen that tried to wield her influence to get former &#8220;Empire&#8221; actor Jussie Smollet off the hook for allegedly filing a false police report in Chicago.
Time&#8217;s Up was formed by Hollywood A-listers in the wake of a high-profile wave of sexual harassment allegations aimed at some of the entertainment industry&#8217;s biggest names. <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/10/times-up-names-former-obama-aide-tina-tchen-as-its-new-president-and-ceo-1202753957/">According to Deadline</a>, the organization primarily runs the Time&#8217;s Up Legal Defense Fund, which helps &#8220;defray legal and public relations costs for those pursuing sexual harassment retaliation claims,&#8221; and which Tchen co-founded back in 2018.
Time&#8217;s Up announced their new hire on Monday in a Tweet. Tchen released a video in partnership with Time&#8217;s Out Monday afternoon. In it, she explains her firm commitment to victims rights and due process.
&#8216;I have been a single working mother throughout my career, and I have never witnessed such an inspiring and honest conversation about the challenges facing women and all workers, including sexual harassment, power, and equity,” Tchen says in the video statement. “I am more optimistic than ever that we can create workplaces where everyone has an equal opportunity to reach their full potential and, in this new role, I’m determined to make it happen.”
Her official biography on the Time&#8217;s Up website describes Tchen as a tireless advocate for women and girls, and a former aide to both Barack and Michelle Obama, serving on the Obama White House&#8217;s gender equality and sexual assault task forces. She most recently worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center, helping to identify and process sexual harassment claims made against some of SPLC&#8217;s power players.
Her goal, she says, is to force workplaces in Hollywood to abide by the letter of the law.
“[We’re going to] work hard at the root cause of sexual harassment: because sexual harassment occurs when we have workplaces that aren’t diverse, that aren’t inclusive, that don’t respect their workers,” Tchen says. “And so we’re going to work with companies, with employers, with employees to make those workplaces ones that are safe, respectful, and where everyone can reach their full potential.”
Tchen has recently made headlines for her involvement in a high profile criminal case recently, but not on the side of victims &#8212; or taxpayers.
According to the Sun Times, Tchen is the former Obama aide who reached out to Cook County State&#8217;s Attorney Kim Foxx to plead Jussie Smollet&#8217;s case.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-michelle-obama-chief-staff-pushed-get-james-barrett">The Daily Wire reported extensively</a> on Tchen&#8217;s involvement in the Smollet case at the time. <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/03/13/jussie-smollett-former-obama-aide-asked-fbi-lead-investigation/3156693002/">Court documents revealed</a> that Tchen texted and emailed Foxx at the behest of Jussie Smollet&#8217;s family, begging the Cook County prosecutor to convince the police to drop their case against Smollet or turn over the case to the FBI (which probably would have relegated the case to a low priority).
Foxx ended up recusing herself from the investigation &#8212; at least according to Foxx &#8212; before it concluded, citing her messages with Tchen as evidence she could not claim impartiality in the case. The prosecutor&#8217;s office eventually charged Smollet with 16 counts of lying to police but dropped all counts in an unofficial &#8220;plea deal&#8221; with Jussie, who agreed to do a dozen hours of community service and forfeit a $10,000 bond.
Foxx has come under fire for that decision, particularly in light of recent revelations about her office, including evidence that non-celebrities charged with Smollet&#8217;s same crime received much harsher treatment.

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New #MeToo Leader Is Former Obama Aide Who Ran Interference For Jussie Smollet

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President Trump started off this week on a Twitter tear, trolling the Democrats on the dead &#8220;collusion&#8221; narrative and the dying &#8220;obstruction&#8221; allegations, flaunting his judicial appointments and America&#8217;s energy progress, smacking the &#8220;horrible&#8221; people in the media for yet another &#8220;assault&#8221; on Brett Kavanaugh, and suggesting it&#8217;s time to start investigating Barack Obama&#8217;s post-presidency Netflix deal.
As The Daily Wire has reported, not long after leaving the White House, Barack and Michelle Obama inked a lucrative, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46582/here-are-seven-projects-barack-and-michelle-obama-paul-bois">multi-project deal</a> with Netflix, which has run into a few <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51462/obamas-new-production-company-gets-deplorable-james-barrett">legal problems</a> due to a copyright issue, but is still moving forward on cranking out a slate of features, documentaries, and TV series for the streaming platform in the near future.
Trump kicked off Monday by tweaking the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee over collusion and obstruction, then found a way to tie his taunts to Obama. &#8220;House Judiciary has given up on the Mueller Report, sadly for them after two years and $40,000,000 spent — ZERO COLLUSION, ZERO OBSTRUCTION,&#8221; Trump wrote (tweets below). &#8220;So they say, OK, lets look at everything else, and all of the deals that &#8216;Trump&#8217; has done over his lifetime. But it doesn&#8217;t work that way.&#8221;
He then offered the committee &#8220;a better idea&#8221;: &#8220;Look at the Obama Book Deal, or the ridiculous Netflix deal. Then look at all the deals made by the Dems in Congress, the &#8216;Congressional Slush Fund,&#8217; and lastly the IG Reports. Take a look at them. Those investigations would be over FAST!&#8221;
Trump returned to the Obama-Netflix theme a few hours later amid another Mueller report-themed mini-rant. &#8220;[The Democrats] failed on the Mueller Report, they failed on Robert Mueller’s testimony, they failed on everything else, so now the Democrats are trying to build a case that I enrich myself by being President,&#8221; he tweeted. &#8220;Good idea, except I will, and have always expected to, lose BILLIONS of DOLLARS for the privilege of being your President — and doing the best job that has been done in many decades. I am far beyond somebody paying for a hotel room for the evening, or filling up a gas tank at an airport I do not own. These Radical Left Democrats are CRAZY! Obama Netflix?&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s trolling was successful over at the left-leaning outlet <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-suggests-justice-department-investigate-barack-obamas-publishing-and-netflix-deals/">Mediaite</a>, which was clearly incensed about him taunting Obama and spiking the football over the Democrat-disappointing Mueller report. House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler, Mediaite noted, &#8220;announced just last week an active Congressional investigation based in part on details emerged from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office.&#8221; So obstruction isn&#8217;t dead, at least not totally.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51808/trump-check-out-what-nyt-just-had-do-after-james-barrett">The Daily Wire</a> reported earlier, Trump also blasted out to his 64 million followers his thoughts on The New York Times&#8217; recent &#8220;assault&#8221; on Kavanaugh, which it was forced to correct amid pushback by other journalists.
&#8220;&#8216;The New York Times walks back report on Kavanaugh assault claim,'&#8221; he tweeted, citing &#8220;Fox and Friends.&#8221; &#8220;The one who is actually being assaulted is Justice Kavanaugh &#8211; Assaulted by lies and Fake News! This is all about the LameStream Media working with their partner, the Dems.&#8221;
&#8220;Just Out: &#8216;Kavanaugh accuser doesn’t recall incident,'&#8221; he added later, again citing his favorite morning show. &#8220;DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE WILL DO OR SAY. They are looking to destroy, and influence his opinions &#8211; but played the game badly. They should be sued!&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51462/obamas-new-production-company-gets-deplorable-james-barrett">Obamas’ New Company Gets ‘Deplorable’ With Smaller Business, Says Lawyer</a>
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1173552937542569986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">&#8230;.work that way. I have a better idea. Look at the Obama Book Deal, or the ridiculous Netflix deal. Then look at all the deals made by the Dems in Congress, the “Congressional Slush Fund,” and lastly the IG Reports. Take a look at them. Those investigations would be over FAST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1173552939019001857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">They failed on the Mueller Report, they failed on Robert Mueller’s testimony, they failed on everything else, so now the Democrats are trying to build a case that I enrich myself by being President. Good idea, except I will, and have always expected to, lose BILLIONS of DOLLARS..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1173597713860046848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">&#8230;.for the privilege of being your President &#8211; and doing the best job that has been done in many decades. I am far beyond somebody paying for a hotel room for the evening, or filling up a gas tank at an airport I do not own. These Radical Left Democrats are CRAZY! Obama Netflix?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1173597715487477760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">“The New York Times walks back report on Kavanaugh assault claim.” <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxandfriends</a> The one who is actually being assaulted is Justice Kavanaugh &#8211; Assaulted by lies and Fake News! This is all about the LameStream Media working with their partner, the Dems.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1173568871481171974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Just Out: “Kavanaugh accuser doesn’t recall incident.” <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxandfriends</a> DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT THESE HORRIBLE PEOPLE WILL DO OR SAY. They are looking to destroy, and influence his opinions &#8211; but played the game badly. They should be sued!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1173576122811985920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump: Time To Start Looking Into Obama’s Netflix Deal

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A production company founded by former first couple Barack and Michelle Obama that was granted a massive contract with Netflix is taking legal action to save its name, &#8220;Higher Ground Productions&#8221; — a nod to Michelle&#8217;s famous line about when their enemies &#8220;go low, we go high.&#8221; But the lawyer for the much-less financially robust company in the Obamas&#8217; crosshairs is decrying their legal team&#8217;s &#8220;deplorable behavior&#8221; and says the Obamas are failing to practice &#8220;the values they preach.&#8221;
On Aug. 20, Higher Grounds Productions, founded shortly after Obama left office, demanded the cancellation of another company&#8217;s earlier trademark, Higher Ground Enterprises, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/barack-obamas-production-company-runs-a-trademark-problem-1236219">The Hollywood Reporter</a>&#8216;s Eriq Gardner reports.
&#8220;Higher Ground Enterprises is run by Hanisya Massey, who, according to her attorney Larry Zerner, is in the business of helping authors publish e-books. Her trademark is in Class 41, which includes entertainment services. Zerner says Massey has been using &#8216;Higher Ground&#8217; since 2008,&#8221; Gardner explains. &#8220;Naturally, as the Obamas came to a lucrative agreement with Netflix for films and television series, Higher Ground Productions came into conflict with Higher Ground Enterprises.&#8221;
The couple contends that the two trademarks should be able to coexist, but a Trademark Examiner disagreed, maintaining that the names of the two companies and the services they offer are too similar. When the office refused to register the Higher Ground Productions mark on April 10, the Obamas chose to take further action, demanding the cancellation of the 2008-founded company&#8217;s trademark.
In response to Obamas&#8217; cancellation demand, Zerner expressed disgust. &#8220;The Obamas have known for almost a year that their Higher Ground trademark application was rejected by the USPTO because it infringed my client&#8217;s rights,&#8221; he said in comments reported by THR. &#8220;Instead, of simply picking another name, the Obamas&#8217; lawyers have now filed a meritless petition to cancel my client&#8217;s trademark so they can take it for themselves. This is really deplorable behavior. I hope that the Obamas realize that these actions are not consistent with the values they preach and that they instruct their attorneys to immediately dismiss the petition.&#8221;
In their failed initial bid to let both trademarks co-exist, the Obamas&#8217; production company sent a letter to the Trademark Office, which, as Hot Air&#8217;s <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2019/09/05/legal-woes-obamas-deplorable-behavior-cited/">Karen Townsend</a> puts it, &#8220;arrogantly implies it&#8217;s a distinction between a big, important entertainment deal with the former First Couple and a small business that promotes e-books.&#8221;
&#8220;[T]he consumers of &#8216;media production services&#8217; covered by the Application are likely to be highly sophisticated,&#8221; the letter states, as reported by THR. &#8220;Media production services are generally offered not to individual consumers but to commercial entities and professionals in their field. Indeed, Applicant has entered a deal with Netflix in connection with its media production services. Such customers, whether multi-billion-dollar media companies or smaller commercial entities in need of media production services, will exercise the height of care in selecting a media production company and are highly unlikely to be confused by a photographer or e-book publisher — particularly when the other party uses a distinguishable mark.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/04/barack-michelle-obamas-higher-ground-sets-first-netflix-slate-1202604661/">Deadline</a>, in April, the Obamas unveiled their first slate of productions for Netflix, which includes &#8220;American Factory,&#8221; a film that &#8220;takes a deep dive into a post-industrial Ohio, where a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant and hires two thousand blue-collar Americans&#8221;; &#8220;Bloom,&#8221; a &#8220;drama series set in the world of fashion in post-WWII New York City that depicts barriers faced by women and by people of color in an era marked by hurdles but also tremendous progress,&#8221; and a feature film adaptation of &#8220;Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom&#8221; by David W. Blight.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49676/watch-students-slam-trump-statement-immigration-james-barrett">WATCH: Students Slam Trump Statement On Immigration, Then Learn Obama Said It</a>

Obamas’ New Company Gets ‘Deplorable’ With Smaller Business, Says Lawyer

The man who spent eight years lecturing Americans about the evils of wealth and economic inequality, and fear mongered about global warming and climate change is reportedly set to buy a nearly $15 million beachfront Martha&#8217;s Vineyard estate.
According to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/08/22/barack-michelle-obama-buying-mega-mansion-marthas-vinyard/">TMZ</a>, former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are in escrow for the multimillion-dollar mansion currently owned by the NBA&#8217;s Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck. &#8220;The former Prez and First Lady have been renting the house this summer and loved it so much, we&#8217;ve learned they made an offer. The property is listed at $14,850,000. Our sources say they&#8217;re paying less, but we don&#8217;t know how much,&#8221; the report says.
The mansion is nearly 6,900 square feet, complete with seven bedrooms, a pool, outdoor fireplace, second-floor balcony jacuzzi, boathouse, and two guest wings, per TMZ.
The irony of Mr. You-didn&#8217;t-build-that and At-a-certain-point-you&#8217;ve-made-enough-money himself living so lavishly was not lost on the internet. Nor was the fact that the property is beachfront (with a massive carbon footprint!). If one were to truthfully believe in the climate hysteria echoed by Obama, this purchase would be highly unwise, as the house will surely be underwater in a matter of years.
Founder of the satirical Babylon Bee Adam Ford pointedly posted:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Obama, 2008: &#8220;When you spread the wealth around, it&#8217;s good for everybody&#8221;
Obama, 2010: &#8220;At a certain point, you&#8217;ve made enough money&#8221;
Obama, 2019: &#8220;I&#8217;ll take the $15 million Martha&#8217;s Vineyard mansion on 29 beachfront acres&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/VVbdAkaq0G">https://t.co/VVbdAkaq0G</a>
— Adam Ford (@Adam4d) <a href="https://twitter.com/Adam4d/status/1164515575156105217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The Federalist’s Inez Stepman mocked, &#8220;You didn&#8217;t build that, guys.&#8221;
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— Inez Stepman (@InezFeltscher) <a href="https://twitter.com/InezFeltscher/status/1164576991665885186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Radio host Mark Simone wrote, &#8220;The Obama&#8217;s totally reject socialism and buy another mega mansion – a $15 million dollar Martha&#8217;s Vineyard estate that they&#8217;ll only use a few weeks a year, in an attempt to set a new record for income inequality.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The Obama&#8217;s totally reject socialism and buy another mega mansion &#8211; a $15 million dollar Martha&#8217;s Vineyard estate that they&#8217;ll only use a few weeks a year, in an attempt to set a new record for income inequality: <a href="https://t.co/uSnGSEeaS0">https://t.co/uSnGSEeaS0</a>
— MARK SIMONE (@MarkSimoneNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkSimoneNY/status/1164753421489954817?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;At a certain point, you&#8217;ve made enough money.&#8217; – guy who got a $65M book deal then bought a 7-bdrm 7,000 sq-foot Martha&#8217;s Vineyard mansion on 29 acres worth $15 million,&#8221; the popular Twitter politico known as Razor jabbed.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">&#8220;At a certain point, you&#8217;ve made enough money.&#8221; -guy who got a $65M book deal then bought a 7-bdrm 7,000 sq-foot Martha&#8217;s Vineyard mansion on 29 acres worth $15 million. <a href="https://t.co/GDryricGp7">https://t.co/GDryricGp7</a>
— Razor (@hale_razor) <a href="https://twitter.com/hale_razor/status/1164635633047855104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If I genuinely believed in 12 years coastal areas would be under water, I wouldn&#8217;t by a $15 million mansion on&#8230;Martha&#8217;s Vineyard,&#8221; said podcast host <a href="https://twitter.com/RantyAmyCurtis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Amy Curtis</a>. &#8220;Call me crazy, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like Obama is taking climate change all that seriously.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">If I genuinely believed in 12 years coastal areas would be under water, I wouldn’t by a $15 million mansion on&#8230;Martha’s Vineyard.
Call me crazy, but it doesn’t seem like Obama is taking climate change all that seriously. <a href="https://t.co/VPqaFsovqw">https://t.co/VPqaFsovqw</a>
— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RantyAmyCurtis/status/1164702001474736128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Poor investment. Martha&#8217;s Vineyard is literally going to be swallowed by the ocean if we don&#8217;t hand over all of our money and freedom to the government to stop Global Warming,&#8221; snarked Federalist contributor known as the &#8220;red-headed libertarian.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Poor investment. Martha’s Vineyard is literally going to be swallowed by the ocean if we don’t hand over all of our money and freedom to the government to stop Global Warming. <a href="https://t.co/oCkFjK45mK">https://t.co/oCkFjK45mK</a>
— The Red-Headed Libertarian (@TRHLofficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1164888447909355521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The estate is currently in escrow and it&#8217;s not a done deal just yet. We&#8217;re told there are contingencies so it&#8217;s possible it could fall apart, but we&#8217;re told so far it&#8217;s a go,&#8221; TMZ said.
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/22/barack-and-michelle-obama-are-buying-15m-estate-in-marthas-vineyard/">New York Post</a>, the Obamas recently spent $8.1 million on a nine-bedroom home in Washington, D.C. The Post also noted that Mr. Obama had a $40 million net worth in 2018, and combined with the former First Lady’s wealth, the duo are worth an estimated $135 million.

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On Thursday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Andrew Klavan Show,”&#8221;Klavan discusses what&#8217;s really behind the Democrats&#8217; desire to have Michelle Obama run for president. Video and partial transcript below:
You know, it&#8217;s funny. Just my take, I was watching some of the Democrats reacting to the Democrats, [by that] I mean the press. [They were] reacting to the debate, and I think they have this sinking feeling. There is this idea that the left-wing ideas of the people who are being reasonable, who don&#8217;t want to spend all our money, and don&#8217;t want to offer people all the stuff that we can&#8217;t pay for, and that wouldn&#8217;t work, and would take our freedoms away — those people are the second-tier candidates. It&#8217;s the Elizabeth Warrens and the you know, Bernie Sanders, who are in the lead. And then there&#8217;s Joe Biden and Joe Biden is in this weird position, in that people like him because he looks normal. He represents normalcy. He&#8217;s been around for 150 years, so he&#8217;s not a swamp creature. He is just basically saying, &#8220;You can trust me. I&#8217;m your old pal Joe,&#8221; even though he obviously stands for nothing. He caves in whenever he&#8217;s under pressure. He judges the audience, he judges the voters, without really having any principles to bring to bear. Even so, he reminds people of normalcy. But he&#8217;s kind of dull, and a little bit doddering, and no one knows whether to believe anything he says or not.
And so, it was really interesting, Michael Moore, he was on either CNN or MSNBC. What&#8217;s the difference? Michael Moore the filmmaker, the radical filmmaker went on a 12-minute rant. It was MSNBC which ended with this. Before I play it, I just want to remind you that Moore, as he reminded people, said that Trump was going to win in the last election. Moore&#8217;s superpower is that he is from Detroit Michigan. He is from a working-class background, and so he has some feel — unlike a lot of these people — he has some feel for what ordinary people are thinking, and that&#8217;s why he knew Trump was going to win. And this is what he said:
<blockquote>MOORE: Who can crush Trump? Who&#8217;s the street fighter? We saw it in Bernie last night. Who&#8217;s the street fighter that can crush Trump? And frankly I think there&#8217;s a person that could do this if the election were held today. There is one person that would crush Trump. And she hasn&#8217;t announced yet. And her last name rhymes with Obama, [it] is Obama. Michelle Obama. Everybody watching this right now, knows she is a beloved American. And she would go in there and she would beat him. She would beat him in the debates; he wouldn&#8217;t be able to bully her. He wouldn&#8217;t be able to nickname her. She is beloved.</blockquote>
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You know, it&#8217;s interesting. He&#8217;s making a good point and it could happen. I mean, we all have noticed that Barack Obama has not endorsed Joe Biden, and why not, you know? Is he holding fire? Does he hate Joe, no. I mean, he may be waiting to see what Michelle wants to do. Plus, Michelle&#8217;s autobiography which I have not yet read, but I hear that every conservative should read it because it really sells her as kind of the all-American story. The true up and comer.
She&#8217;s got all the identity politics that the Left wants, she&#8217;s a woman, she&#8217;s black. They loved Obama, and it&#8217;s an interesting thing because she is a beloved American. There&#8217;s just no getting around that, Moore is just telling the truth. She&#8217;s a beloved American. The question is are people going to fall again for [Obama]. I think people voted for Obama, a lot because it made them feel good about themselves. It made them feel good about America. We&#8217;ve gotten past the racism. We&#8217;ve elevated this guy, and I think they got burned.
And it is interesting that even though Obama won re-election, and even though he remained personally popular in the polls; the Democrat Party under Obama was gutted. There was nobody left. There were no governors, there were no state assembly people, there was no senators. They lost both houses. I mean it was amazing how he destroyed the Democrat Party, while remaining popular himself. People liked him. People maybe, like themselves, when they liked him. Maybe they would feel the same way about Michelle. Or maybe they would feel, yeah thanks very much. You know, get a talk show and that&#8217;ll be fine and we&#8217;ll love you there. But we don&#8217;t want you destroying this stuff that Donald Trump has done like increase our wages, and increase our jobs, and keep the peace. Do all the things that Obama failed to do. &#8230;
So, it would be the ultimate left-right race if you think about it for a minute because it would be an attractive, nice, beloved person — whose policies have been proven failure. They have a proven track record of failure. And it would be a mean, belligerent, nasty Donald Trump — whose policies have worked. And that&#8217;s the ultimate Right and Left fight because the Right is the daddy party. It&#8217;s a mean party. It&#8217;s the party who tells you the truth. It&#8217;s the party who gives you a shot in the head when you&#8217;re misbehaving. It&#8217;s the party who thinks people who break the law should be arrested. It&#8217;s the party who thinks what works should be there, instead of what makes us feel good about ourselves.
And the Left is the party of we&#8217;re nice. Here&#8217;s some money, we&#8217;ll take that money from that evil rich guy, and we&#8217;ll give it to you.
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KLAVAN: Why The Democrats Are Now Turning To Michelle Obama To Be Their Nominee

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Michael Moore angered his fellow leftists in 2016 — and greatly improved his credibility as a political analyst — when he accurately predicted that we&#8217;d all soon be referring to Donald Trump as &#8220;PRESIDENT TRUMP.&#8221;
&#8220;I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I gave it to you straight last summer when I told you that Donald Trump would be the Republican nominee for president,&#8221; Moore famously wrote in a post on his website titled &#8220;<a href="https://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/">5 Reasons Why Trump Will Win</a>.&#8221; &#8220;And now I have even more awful, depressing news for you: Donald J. Trump is going to win in November. This wretched, ignorant, dangerous part-time clown and full time sociopath is going to be our next president. President Trump. Go ahead and say the words, ‘cause you’ll be saying them for the next four years: &#8216;PRESIDENT TRUMP.'&#8221;
And now Moore is engaging in more electoral prognostications that Democrats probably won&#8217;t want to hear at this point in the process: The only candidate who Moore believes can truly &#8220;crush&#8221; Trump is not running.
In an interview with MSNBC reported by <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/455702-michael-moore-urges-michelle-obama-to-run-against-trump">The Hill</a>, the progressive documentarian declared that only a person whose last name &#8220;rhymes with Obama&#8221; can beat Trump. The only silver bullet to finally put to death the reign of the Democrats&#8217; archnemesis is &#8220;Michelle Obama.&#8221;
&#8220;Everybody watching this right now knows she is a beloved American and she would go in there and she would beat him,&#8221; Moore told MSNBC.
Beating Trump in total votes is not enough, he said, pointing to twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton garnering 3 million more votes than Trump only to be drowned in red on the electoral map. What Democrats need is a &#8220;street fighter,&#8221; Moore said, because they can&#8217;t remove Trump without first &#8220;crushing&#8221; him.
&#8220;The only way to remove Trump is to crush Trump,&#8221; said Moore. &#8220;And that’s the question that has to be asked, who can crush Trump? Who’s the street fighter?&#8221;
While four of the current candidates have a chance at beating him in total votes, Moore fears that will not be enough. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) could potentially beat Trump, but they can&#8217;t &#8220;crush&#8221; him in the way Moore believes necessary to truly take him down.
&#8220;She would beat him in the debates, he wouldn’t be able to bully her, he wouldn’t be able to nickname her,&#8221; said Moore, describing her as &#8220;powerful&#8221; and &#8220;so good&#8221; on stage. Moore pleaded with someone to ask her step up and serve.
In his famous 2016 <a href="http://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/">Trump analysis</a>, Moore listed five reasons he believed Trump would win, including his appeal to the Rust Belt voters, backlash among &#8220;angry white men,&#8221; Hillary&#8217;s widespread unpopularity, including among Democrats, the &#8220;depressed Sanders vote,&#8221; and &#8220;the electorate’s ability to be mischievous&#8221; and vote for a nonpolitical figure who shakes things up. The most specific and prescient of his predictions was his assessment of the Rust Belt situation heading into November, which read in part:
<blockquote>Trump is ahead of Hillary in the latest polls in Pennsylvania and tied with her in Ohio. Tied? How can the race be this close after everything Trump has said and done? Well maybe it’s because he’s said (correctly) that the Clintons’ support of NAFTA helped to destroy the industrial states of the Upper Midwest. Trump is going to hammer Clinton on this and her support of TPP and other trade policies that have royally screwed the people of these four states. When Trump stood in the shadow of a Ford Motor factory during the Michigan primary, he threatened the corporation that if they did indeed go ahead with their planned closure of that factory and move it to Mexico, he would slap a 35% tariff on any Mexican-built cars shipped back to the United States. It was sweet, sweet music to the ears of the working class of Michigan, and when he tossed in his threat to Apple that he would force them to stop making their iPhones in China and build them here in America, well, hearts swooned and Trump walked away with a big victory that should have gone to the governor next-door, John Kasich. [&#8230;] In 2012, Mitt Romney lost by 64 electoral votes. Add up the electoral votes cast by Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It’s 64. All Trump needs to do to win is to carry, as he’s expected to do, the swath of traditional red states from Idaho to Georgia (states that’ll never vote for Hillary Clinton), and then he just needs these four rust belt states. He doesn’t need Florida. He doesn’t need Colorado or Virginia. Just Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And that will put him over the top. This is how it will happen in November.</blockquote>

Michael Moore: Only One Candidate Can ‘Crush’ Trump, And She’s Not Running

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In the midst of President Trump’s fierce criticism of Rep. Elijah Cummings and Baltimore city officials for letting Baltimore slide into decrepitude, former First Lady Michelle Obama took a shot at Trump, trolling him by tweeting an homage to a Baltimore step-dancing team who pointedly intoned, “When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don&#8217;t stoop to their level. When they go low, we go high.” Obama tweeted, “On <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalDanceDay?src=hash">#NationalDanceDay</a>, I&#8217;m shouting out the Lethal Ladies, a Baltimore STEP team who I saw perform back in 2017. I’m so proud of you all—and everyone who’s dancing today!”
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— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/1155164280544739328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/us/michelle-obama-baltimore-trump-tweets-trnd/index.html?utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_content=2019-07-30T06%3A31%3A03">CNN</a> hyperventilated, “Michelle Obama is a master in the subtle art of shade.&#8221;
After the president slammed the “squad” of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Obama tweeted, “What truly makes our country great is its diversity. I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for us all. We must remember it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">What truly makes our country great is its diversity. I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for us all. We must remember it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) <a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/1152303775236919296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CNN<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/michelle-obama-tweet-trump-the-squad/index.html"> referred</a> to the tweets Trump had issued targeting the “squad” as racist. CNN wrote, “Her comment comes after Trump launched days of controversy with a racist attack ….”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49229/michelle-obama-rips-trumps-2017-inaugural-crowd-hank-berrien">Sometimes</a> Michelle Obama is not “a master in the subtle art of shade.” In early July, she <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/07/07/michelle-obama-inaguration-essence-orig-me.cnn">ripped the crowd</a> that attended President Trump’s 2017 inauguration, snapping that they were “not reflective of the country.”
Speaking at the Essence Festival in New Orleans with CNN host Gayle King, Michelle Obama <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/451925-michelle-obama-reveals-how-she-felt-during-trumps-inauguration">stated</a>, “And then we had to meet the Trumps. That day was very emotional and then to sit at that inauguration and to look around at a crowd that was not reflective of the country, and I had to sit in that audience, one of a handful of people of color, and then listen to that speech, all that I had sort of held on to for eight years, watching my husband get raked over the coals, feeling like we had to do everything perfectly, so by the time I got on that plane, it was release of eight years of having to try to show up, as we all know we have to do, not only perfectly but a little bit better than perfect to even be considered equal.”
One month after Trump was elected, Michelle Obama posited that Trump’s election portended hopelessness in America, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11726/michelle-ripped-trump-heres-his-crushing-response-james-barrett">opining</a>, &#8220;We feel the difference now. See, now, we are feeling what not having hope feels like. Hope is necessary. It&#8217;s a necessary concept and Barack didn&#8217;t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. He and I and so many believe that — what else do you have if you don&#8217;t have hope. What do you give your kids if you can&#8217;t give them hope?&#8221;
The next day, Trump fired back, asserting, “Michelle Obama said yesterday that there’s no hope. But I assume she was talking about the past, not the future&#8230; Because I’m telling you, we have tremendous hope, and we have tremendous promise and tremendous potential. We are going to be so successful as a country again. We are going to be amazing.&#8221;

Michelle Obama, CNN’s ‘Master In The Subtle Art Of Shade,’ Trolls Trump Over Baltimore

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour dodged questions about First Lady Melania Trump on Sunday and instead pivoted to offer high praise of former First Lady Michelle Obama.
“I think it’s important for Vogue to support women who are leading change in this country,” Wintour said while being interviewed by Anna McElvoy for “The Economist.”
McElvoy suggested that President Donald Trump could be dressing “in his sort of ill-fitting suits and the strange trousers and red baseball camp” as a way to purposely echo his political base, but noted that the first lady is much more stylish and collected.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Which first lady wore the role best? Anna Wintour talks politics and fashion with <a href="https://twitter.com/annemcelvoy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AnneMcElvoy</a> on “The Economist asks” podcast <a href="https://t.co/0mHlLjtf06">https://t.co/0mHlLjtf06</a> <a href="https://t.co/gIoUpd3teo">pic.twitter.com/gIoUpd3teo</a>
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“Melania, put together in a much more put-together way,” McElvoy said. “She did come to the UK, and I think very consciously, wanted to see herself as an ambassador for British fashion, in this case, or a transatlantic ambassador, I mean. Do you value that?”
“Well, I think first lady Michelle Obama really was so incredible in every decision she made about fashion,” Wintour responded. “She supported young American designers. She supported designers, indeed, from all over the world.”
“She was the best ambassador that this country could possibly have in many ways, obviously, way beyond fashion,” Wintour added.
When McElvoy clarified that Michelle Obama is no longer the first lady and again asked her thoughts on Melania Trump, Wintour responded that Michelle Obama is the example of a fashion ambassador whom she admires.
Wintour has headed Vogue, the world’s leading fashion magazine, for more than three decades. Although the New York-based editor was born in London, she later became an American citizen. However, she has also received multiple honors from the Queen including Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2008 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2017, according to <a href="https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/anna-wintour-dbe-queen-elizabeth-buckingham-palace-bee-shaffer-10882140/">The Guardian</a>.
Wintour has been an outspoken supporter of former President Barack Obama but has not been shy about her criticism of the Trump administration and consequent dislike of the Trump family.
While discussing Vogue’s longstanding tradition of featuring first ladies on the cover when they get into office, Wintour implied during an interview in April that the current first lady will not be seen on any of her future covers.
Responding to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour’s contention that she has been “overtly political,” Wintour noted that when it comes to cover features and profiles, the Vogue editor-in-chief must take a stand.
“I also feel even more strongly now that this is a time to try and – I think that one has to be fair, one has to look at all sides – but I don’t think it’s a moment not to take a stand,” Wintour said at the time. “I think you can’t be everything to everybody.”
“To be on the cover of Vogue doesn’t define Mrs. Trump, she’s been there and done that long before she was first lady,” Melania Trump’s office fired back <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/melania-trump-anna-wintour-vogue-cnn-first-lady">in a statement</a>. “Her role as first lady of the United States and all that she does is much more important than some superficial shoot and cover.”
“This just further demonstrates how biased the fashion magazine industry is and shows how insecure and small-minded Anna Wintour really is,&#8221; the statement continued. “Unfortunately, Mrs. Trump is used to this kind of behavior.&#8221;

LISTEN: Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour Snubs Melania As First Lady … Again

Former First Lady Michelle Obama took a veiled shot at President Trump for his public feud with &#8220;The Squad&#8221; — the four far-left congresswomen whom he told to &#8220;go back&#8221; to their countries of origin if they don&#8217;t like the United States.
In a tweet on Friday, Michelle Obama made no mention of the current president when she hailed America&#8217;s &#8220;diversity&#8221; as the source of its greatness and said that &#8220;there&#8217;s a place for all of us.&#8221;
&#8220;What truly makes our country great is its diversity,&#8221; the former first lady tweeted. &#8220;I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for us all. We must remember it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.&#8221;
Though she did not utter President Trump&#8217;s name, the tweet appears to be a response to president&#8217;s &#8220;go back&#8221; tweet directed at Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) this past Sunday.
“So interesting to see ‘Progressive’ Democrat Congresswomen, who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world (if they even have a functioning government at all), now loudly and viciously telling the people of the United States, the greatest and most powerful Nation on earth, how our government is to be run,&#8221; President Trump tweeted. &#8220;Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done.&#8221;
As accusations of racism mounted, President Trump&#8217;s HUD Secretary Ben Carson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49593/ben-carson-trumps-not-racist-paul-bois">came to his defense</a> to highlight the many fruits his administration&#8217;s policies have yielded for minorities.
&#8220;I have an advantage of knowing the president very well, and he&#8217;s not a racist and his comments are not racist,&#8221; Ben Carson said on America&#8217;s Newsroom, as noted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ben-carson-trump-not-racist">Fox News</a>. &#8220;But he loves the country very much and, you know, he has a feeling that those who represent the country should love it as well.&#8221;
The feud between President Trump and &#8220;The Squad&#8221; escalated further later in the week when people in attendance at a campaign rally speech of his in North Carolina began chanting &#8220;send her back&#8221; in reference to Ilhan Omar — a criticism that both left-wing and right-wing pundits felt went too far. The next day, however, President Trump said he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49641/excellent-trump-president-denounces-send-her-back-ryan-saavedra">disagreed with the chant</a>.
&#8220;I disagree with it &#8230; I felt a little bit badly about it &#8230; I was not happy with it, I disagree with it,&#8221; the president told reporters.
Of his supporters who participated in the chant, the president said: &#8220;These are people that love our country. I want them to keep loving our country. And I think the congresswomen, by the way, should be more positive than they are … they have a big obligation … to love your country. … I’ve seen statements that they’ve made with such hatred toward our country, and I don’t think that’s a good thing.&#8221;

Michelle Obama Appears To Take Tacit Shot At Trump For Fighting ‘The Squad’

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not be coming to former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s defense anytime soon as he faces severe criticism from members of the Democratic Party for recently praising two white segregationists as examples in political civility.
Speaking with Gayle King on Saturday at the Essence Festival, Michelle Obama refused to comment on the brewing feud between Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Joe Biden as they fight for the 2020 nomination.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been doing this rodeo far too long,&#8221; Obama said in response to King&#8217;s question about the controversy, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michelle-obama-comment-biden-apology-holds-off-endorsement/story?id=64174424">ABC News</a>. &#8220;And no comment.&#8221;
Joe Biden stepped into some serious trouble last month when he reminisced about working closely with two Democratic segregationists to get bills passed during his rookie years in the United States Senate.
&#8220;I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland,&#8221; Biden said, reportedly in a southern accent. “He never called me boy, he always called me son.&#8221;
Sen. James O. Eastland (D-MS) fervently opposed civil rights and has been referred to as the &#8220;Voice of the White South.&#8221; Biden also held up Sen. Herman Talmadge (D-GA) as an example of political civility — a man whom Biden described as being &#8220;one of the meanest guys I ever knew.&#8221;
&#8220;Well guess what? At least there was some civility,&#8221; he said of Talmadge. &#8220;We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don’t talk to each other anymore.&#8221;
At the first Democratic Party presidential debate, Kamala Harris used Biden&#8217;s comments against him when she publicly accused him on national television of being insensitive on race relations. Polls following the debate showed his lead <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48996/joe-bidens-support-drops-10-points-following-paul-bois">dropping significantly</a>.
&#8220;It was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing,&#8221; Harris said on the debate stage. &#8220;And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.&#8221;
Though Biden largely refused to back down from his comments, he finally caved to the political pressure over the weekend when he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49216/now-joe-biden-regrets-segregationist-remarks-paul-bois">expressed &#8220;regret&#8221;</a> for what he had said of Eastland and Talmadge.
&#8220;Was I wrong a few weeks ago to somehow give the impression to people that I was praising those men whom I successfully opposed time and again? Yes, I was,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I regret it, and I’m sorry for any of the pain or misconception maybe I caused anybody.&#8221;
In the same interview with King on Saturday, Michelle Obama reiterated that she and her husband will not be endorsing Joe Biden (or any candidate) until after the primary has concluded.
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&#8220;Barack and I are going to support whoever wins the primary, so &#8230; our primary focus is letting the primary process play out, because it&#8217;s very early,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I mean, that&#8217;s one of the things that we learned in the campaign. It is early; it&#8217;s like trying to figure out who&#8217;s winning the World Series on the first seven games. I mean that&#8217;s where we are right now, it is so early.&#8221;

Michelle Obama Will Not Defend Joe Biden, Holds Off Endorsement

On Saturday, former First Lady Michelle Obama <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/07/07/michelle-obama-inaguration-essence-orig-me.cnn">ripped the crowd</a> that attended President Trump’s 2017 inauguration, snapping that they were “not reflective of the country.”
Speaking at the Essence Festival in New Orleans with CNN host Gayle King, Michelle Obama <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/451925-michelle-obama-reveals-how-she-felt-during-trumps-inauguration">stated</a>, “And then we had to meet the Trumps. That day was very emotional and then to sit at that inauguration and to look around at a crowd that was not reflective of the country, and I had to sit in that audience, one of a handful of people of color, and then listen to that speech, all that I had sort of held on to for eight years, watching my husband get raked over the coals, feeling like we had to do everything perfectly, so by the time I got on that plane, it was release of eight years of having to try to show up, as we all know we have to do, not only perfectly but a little bit better than perfect to even be considered equal.”
Asked about what it was like campaigning with her husband, Michelle Obama <a>said</a> Americans tried to “take me out by the knees,” claiming, “For a minute there, I was an angry black woman who was emasculating her husband. As I got more popular, that&#8217;s when people of all sides &#8212; Democrats and Republicans &#8212; tried to take me out by the knees and the best way to do it was to focus on the one thing people were afraid of: the strength of a black woman.”
Obama consoled the audience by asserting, “Don’t be upset over our legacy; me and Barack are cool, y’know. What we have to be really conscientious of is what kind of country are we leaving for our children and our grandchildren.”
One month after Trump was elected, Michelle Obama posited that Trump’s election portended hopelessness in America, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/11726/michelle-ripped-trump-heres-his-crushing-response-james-barrett">opining</a>, &#8220;We feel the difference now. See, now, we are feeling what not having hope feels like. Hope is necessary. It&#8217;s a necessary concept and Barack didn&#8217;t just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes. He and I and so many believe that — what else do you have if you don&#8217;t have hope. What do you give your kids if you can&#8217;t give them hope?&#8221;
The next day, Trump fired back, asserting, “Michelle Obama said yesterday that there’s no hope. But I assume she was talking about the past, not the future&#8230; Because I’m telling you, we have tremendous hope, and we have tremendous promise and tremendous potential. We are going to be so successful as a country again. We are going to be amazing.&#8221;
In April 2018, Michelle Obama <a href="%2522And%20now%20we%20have%20the%20other%20parent,%2522%20she%20continued.%20%2522We%20thought%20it'd%20feel%20fun%20%25E2%2580%2594%20maybe%20it%20feels%20fun%20for%20now%20because%20we%20can%20eat%20candy%20all%20day%20and%20stay%20up%20late%20and%20not%20follow%20the%20rules.%2522">told an audience</a> that her husband&#8217;s administration was like &#8220;having the &#8216;good parent&#8217; at home — the responsible parent, the one who told you to eat your carrots and go to bed on time,&#8221; then mocked President Trump’s by saying, &#8220;And now we have the other parent. We thought it&#8217;d feel fun — maybe it feels fun for now because we can eat candy all day and stay up late and not follow the rules.&#8221;

Michelle Obama Rips Trump’s 2017 Inaugural: Crowd Not  ‘Reflective’ Of America

On Tuesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan discusses a new video released by The New York Times which claims that the United States is not great, and what that means for the other political side of the aisle. Video and partial transcript below.
The New York Times, this morning, the former newspaper, ran a video op-ed called something like &#8220;Stop telling me America is great&#8221;, and they ran this thing. It&#8217;s very well-made. It&#8217;s very clever and it puts forward the idea that this whole concept of America being great is ridiculous. Here&#8217;s a cut.
<blockquote>Video: &#8220;America, the greatest country on earth. A narrative packed and sold to tiny patriots. Reinforced by every cartoon, movie, cheeseburger and mattress sale. A mythology so entrenched our most beloved personalities urges never to question it. &#8211; Don&#8217;t let anyone ever tell you that this country isn&#8217;t great. This right now is the greatest country on earth. Greatest country God ever gave. We&#8217;re the greatest country in the world. America is the greatest country in the world. &#8211; But what if we did question it?”</blockquote>
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It&#8217;s a really dishonest video in a lot of ways. First of all, the entire setup in which children are being taught, all the pictures of the children are from the &#8217;50s. So, the idea that children are being taught this is a great country is kind of garbage. The fact that they put Michelle Obama and then they put Sean Hannity say oh it&#8217;s bad, both on the left and the right, that they&#8217;re saying it&#8217;s a great country. We know that the Obamas did nothing but apologize for this country. We didn&#8217;t forget that Michelle Obama said the first time she was ever proud of her country was the day her husband happened to get elected. So, we know it&#8217;s really only one side. They go on afterwards, I&#8217;m not going to play the whole thing, but they talk about all the ways they think America is not great and some of the stuff they say is fair, but a lot of it is questionable.
So, they use our high poverty rates without mentioning the fact that poverty in America is wealth anywhere else because of wealth transfers. The problem we have here is not that people don&#8217;t have enough money because they can get enough wealth transfer so that people living in poverty today are living at a fairly high level compared to other countries if you&#8217;ve ever been to another country with the exception of Democrat cities where people are homeless. That&#8217;s the kind of poverty that is widespread in a lot of other countries. We&#8217;ll talk about the high mortality rate among infants without mentioning the fact that we try to save a lot more infants who have been born so early that they would die in any other country. So you know the statistics are questionable but I don&#8217;t think that there is any question that this is not the country that it was. That is the fact and is the reason Trump is so popular with his slogan &#8220;Make America Great Again,&#8221; the idea that something has been lost.
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I think after eight years of listening to Obama apologize for this country, after eight years of listening to news people, like Katie Couric, who said she was uncomfortable when she saw somebody wearing an American flag pin. Questioning if it wasn&#8217;t going too far, when we were supposed to wonder why Al-Qaeda disliked us, instead of just bombing them into the Stone Age. I mean why should we wonder why animals like al-Qaeda dislike us?
They dislike us because we&#8217;re better than they are and we&#8217;re free. That&#8217;s why they dislike it. And it goes on to talk about how we&#8217;re not free. I mean it really is a dishonest video but still, I can&#8217;t help feeling that everybody senses that this is not the country that it was, and something was lost and a lot of the people in the left say oh that&#8217;s because you&#8217;re a racist. You want to go back to those days of Jim Crow and go back to the days when women were stuck in the house and all this stuff but that&#8217;s nonsense. That&#8217;s absolutely absurd.
What people want is to go back to the days when people were proud of their country when their children were taught to be proud of their country. And yes, now we understand that people were left out. Let&#8217;s include them too. I don&#8217;t think anybody is against that. I think the problem is that we&#8217;ve lost some sense of pride.
You know Gallup has a poll out that says as Americans prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, their pride in the U.S. has hit its lowest point since Gallup&#8217;s first measurement in 2001. While 70 percent of U.S. adults overall say they are proud to be Americans, this includes fewer than half who are extremely proud. Marking the second consecutive year that this reading is below the majority level, it&#8217;s only really a two percent decline which is kind of meaningless. Still, people were extremely proud of America. The last time that number really spiked was after 9/11 when people suddenly realized, &#8220;Oh yeah good country.&#8221; But when you read more closely into this Gallup poll, it&#8217;s the Democrats who weren&#8217;t proud. The latest overall declines in patriotism are largely driven by Democrats whose self-reported pride has historically been lower and has fluctuated more than Republicans.
Democrats latest 22 percent &#8220;extreme pride&#8221; reading is the group&#8217;s lowest in Gallup&#8217;s 19 years of measurement and is half of what it was several months before Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 election victory. So they&#8217;re happy when they&#8217;re winning. They&#8217;re not happy when they&#8217;re losing, which is not true of the Republicans, who remained very proud even during Barack Obama. Republicans have remained extremely proud of their country, and the latest 76 percent reading is just 10 points below the high recorded in 2003. Even when Barack Obama was in office, Republicans&#8217; extreme pride never fell below 68 percent. And that&#8217;s really telling to me; it&#8217;s really telling that when the Democrats lose, they lose their pride.
In other words, they&#8217;re only proud like Michelle Obama. They&#8217;re only proud of a country they run, and they cannot see that there might be another way whereas Republicans are proud of the structure that the friends of the founding right. They understand that the founding is still in place even if they lose an election the fact that there&#8217;s an election, the fact that it works the way it&#8217;s supposed to work, the fact that we transfer power peacefully, that people are still constrained by the Constitution. Obama less than any other president I can think of but still you know was constrained to some degree by the Constitution and by the separation of powers and by the courts who gave him a record number of 9-0 defeats in the Supreme Court because he overreached on his executive powers.
So we remain proud because we feel the system is in place, whereas we know when the Democrats lose, it&#8217;s suddenly all we&#8217;ve got to get rid of the system, we got to stack the Supreme Court, we got to get rid of the electoral college, because they are only proud of this country when they win. And that is the difference between somebody who&#8217;s proud of the founding, who&#8217;s a friend of the founding, and someone who is just proud of himself and think he&#8217;s his own glorious compassion and virtue is going to transform the world into something it has never been ever. And that is the difference.
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Barack and Michelle Obama are expanding their media empire beyond just Netflix and have inked a multiyear deal with Spotify to create and host podcasts.
The podcasts will be produced by the Obama family&#8217;s production company, Higher Ground, which already has as many as seven film and television projects in the works with Netflix, reports <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/obamas-ink-deal-spotify-produce-host-podcasts-1216253">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. The podcast division, Higher Ground Audio, will seek to &#8220;build connections&#8221; while sparking &#8220;thought-provoking conversations,&#8221; according to a statement from the former president.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve always believed in the value of entertaining, thought-provoking conversation,&#8221; Barack Obama said. &#8220;It helps us build connections with each other and open ourselves up to new ideas. We&#8217;re excited about Higher Ground Audio because podcasts offer an extraordinary opportunity to foster productive dialogue, make people smile and make people think, and, hopefully, bring us all a little closer together.&#8221;
Former First Lady Michelle Obama said that the audio division of Higher Ground will be focused on amplifying &#8220;voices that are too often ignored or silenced altogether.&#8221;
&#8220;Our hope is that through compelling, inspirational storytelling, Higher Ground Audio will not only produce engaging podcasts, but help people connect emotionally and open up their minds &#8212; and their hearts,&#8221; said Michelle Obama.
Dawn Ostroff, Spotify&#8217;s chief content officer, said that having Barack and Michelle Obama on the platform, which boasts 217 million monthly users, will be a great privilege, believing that they offer an &#8220;unrepresented and indispensable&#8221; narrative.
&#8220;President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are two of the world&#8217;s most important voices and it is a privilege to be working with them to identify and share stories that will inspire our global audience, which looks to Spotify for unique, breakthrough content,&#8221; Ostroff said in a statement. &#8220;Connecting people with original and thoughtful creators &#8212; especially those with the ability to highlight underrepresented and indispensable narratives &#8212; is at the core of our mission and we are thrilled that not only will the Obamas be producing content, but that they will be lending their voices to this effort.&#8221;
In a partnership with Netflix, Higher Ground will also be developing a variety of content, from scripted to non-scripted series along with documentary films. <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/barack-obama-michelle-obama-higher-ground-productions-co-heads-1203149983/">Variety</a> reported earlier this year that the Obamas put together an impressive executive team of varying film pedigrees. <a data-tag="priya-swaminathan" href="https://variety.com/t/priya-swaminathan/">Priya Swaminathan</a>, a former director of development at Annapurna, and <a data-tag="tonia-davis" href="https://variety.com/t/tonia-davis/">Tonia Davis</a>, former head of development at Chernin Entertainment, were both appointed as co-heads of Higher Ground. Qadriyyah &#8220;Q&#8221; Shamsid-Deen will also serve as a creative executive for the company.
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said that Higher Ground will express the Obamas&#8217; &#8220;core values,&#8221; hailing their slate as a symbol of their commitment to &#8220;diverse creators and unique voices.&#8221;
&#8220;President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and the Higher Ground team are building a company focused on storytelling that exemplifies their core values,&#8221; Sarandos said. &#8220;The breadth of their initial slate across series, film, documentary, and family programming shows their commitment to diverse creators and unique voices that will resonate with our members around the world.&#8221;

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