Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appeared on MSNBC Friday evening to debrief about the $2 trillion bipartisan stimulus bill, which was approved by the House earlier in the day and promptly signed by President Trump, but ended up spending a portion of the interview talking about Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), the rogue Republican who signaled he would temporarily stall the House vote by invoking a call for quorum. 
“I tried to be respectful of his enthusiasm for his idea, but I did tell him that it wasn’t going to work, that we will have a voice vote, and it wasn’t going to hold us up to much,” Pelosi told Maddow on Friday evening, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dangerous-nuisance-pelosi-slams-republican-who-requested-roll-call-vote-on-coronavirus-relief-bill">The Washington Examiner</a>. 
“We always knew we would pass this bill and we would pass it today, and we would not let any nuisance stand in the way,” continued Pelosi. “That’s really what he was, a dangerous nuisance.”
Amidst the last-minute stunt, Massie received bipartisan blowback from leading political figures, including President Trump, who called him a third-rate grandstander just looking for publicity. 
Former Secretary of State John Kerry also unloaded on the GOP Congressman in a Twitter post Friday morning, complete with a crude hashtag: “Breaking news: Congressman Massie has tested positive for being an a**hole. He must be quarantined to prevent the spread of his massive stupidity He&#8217;s given new meaning to the term #Masshole.”
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Breaking news: Congressman Massie has tested positive for being an asshole. He must be quarantined to prevent the spread of his massive stupidity. He&#8217;s given new meaning to the term <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Masshole?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Masshole</a>. (Finally, something the president and I can agree on!) <a href="https://t.co/N1CNLPsZjc">https://t.co/N1CNLPsZjc</a>
— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKerry/status/1243552337429438464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
Although President Trump promptly signed the stimulus package, Pelosi told Maddow on Friday that the president’s comments in the oval office during the signing made him a “dangerous president.”
“Later in the day we saw the president sign the bill, and he was a dangerous president,” said Pelosi, who explained that she took issue with Trump remarking that earlier in the month everything was great, but now the nation is facing a strong challenge. 
“Twenty days ago we had nearly 500 cases, 17 deaths, we had a threat that he chose to ignore, and now we have about 100,000 cases and over 1,500 deaths, and he’s still in that state where he’s not doing enough,” said Pelosi. 
Both Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) have praised the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus epidemic at various points, with Cuomo <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cuomo-praises-trumps-coronavirus-response-his-team-is-on-it/">remarking</a> that the president has been “ready and willing to help” last week. According to The San Jose Mercury News, Newsom <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/27/coronavirus-gavin-newsom-california-response-trump/">called Trump</a> “terrific” on Friday, and said he appreciated the president’s “nice words.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-blasts-general-motors-for-wasting-time-to-produce-ventilators-uses-defense-production-act">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on Friday to compel General Motors to begin producing medical ventilators after negotiations with the company stalled. 
“Our negotiations with GM regarding its ability to supply ventilators have been productive, but our fight against the virus is too urgent to allow the give-and-take of the contracting process to continue to run its normal course,” said Trump.

Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry

Pelosi Calls Rogue Republican ‘Dangerous Nuisance,’ Jabs Trump As ‘Dangerous President’

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Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, an Obama administration official, stormed off MSNBC on Thursday during a segment on how the federal government should be responding to the coronavirus pandemic, declaring that he did not &#8220;have time to listen to bulls**t people.&#8221;
Former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Andy Slavitt argued that the federal government needed to be more involved in responding to the outbreak while Fugate argued that state and local governments needed to take the lead.
&#8220;The myth of a single person in charge taking control and running this is a myth,&#8221; Fugate said. &#8220;This is going to be dealt with on the frontlines at local and state levels, and each state is going to be addressing this unique to their systems.&#8221;
&#8220;But I&#8217;ve always believed the best way the federal government can support our governors is to get out of their way, get them funding, use CDC to give guidance,&#8221; Fugate continued. &#8220;As we&#8217;re running out of stuff, I&#8217;m asking the question, why are we not looking at idle capabilities now and governors go contract for that resource? Why wait for the federal government? If they will go to 100% on protective measures and reimburse them, how much more can states do so we can focus the few federal resources we have on the hardest hit areas.&#8221;
&#8220;So with all due respect to your other guest, there&#8217;s not a governor in the country that&#8217;s waiting for the federal government right now,&#8221; Slavitt said, later adding, &#8220;So, what your other guest is suggesting here is not helpful. We need a great partnership between the federal and state government.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t have time to listen to bullsh** people,&#8221; Fugate responded.
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<blockquote>KATY TUR: Joining me former FEMA administrator Craig Fugate and acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, Andy Slavitt. Gentlemen, thank you, so we&#8217;re hearing about FEMA taking the lead on this, Craig. What does that mean?
CRAIG FUGATE: Well, they&#8217;re not taking the lead on it. That’s going to be Health and Human Service that will the lead on the disease. What FEMA is going to be doing is supporting health and human services and the governors as we start getting more and more requests for assistance, so FEMA&#8217;s job will be coordinating on behalf of the president, federal resources in support of our lead federal agency this, for Health and Human Services as well as supporting the governors as we see these outbreaks in all of our states.
TUR: Alright, so when they start to try and coordinate the response federally and what we&#8217;re seeing is just a frantic lack of personal protective equipment. We just got this word from the CDC saying, hey, listen, if you&#8217;re out of face masks, use a bandanna or a scarf. I mean Andy, that is &#8212; that is astonishing to think that here in the united States, this first world with all of our advanced, all of our advances, all of our money, all of our resources, that here in this country, doctors and nurses are being told to tie a scarf around their face.
ANDY SLAVITT: Well, we owe them more than that. These folks, the frontline doctors and nurses and first responders, they&#8217;re going to be on the frontline for quite some time. It&#8217;s not going to be measured in days or weeks. It’s going to be measured in months and we’re already sending them into battle without the things that they need to protect us and themselves and that&#8217;s not right and that&#8217;s what happens when there&#8217;s a lack of preparation. But, you know, we can&#8217;t navigate from where we wish we were. We have to navigate from where we are and so we are going to have to do some dramatic things that so far the President has been unwilling to do. Number one, he seems to be backtracking from using the Defense Production Act, which would allow him to start making these masks in large numbers which could be done in a very short time and getting them out to people. He has to face the pressure to do that. It doesn’t make sense. If he wants to be a wartime general, he has got to arm his troops and he says he’s a wartime general. He’s got to do that. The second thing, I called for this yesterday, we need to pass a $5,000 a month payment for every frontline health care worker in the country so they can afford to take care of their family, they can afford child care, they can afford all of the things they need. We need to start thinking of them the same way as veterans and people in the military. They&#8217;re a protected class and we owe them a great deal.
TUR: Why don&#8217;t you think we are mobilizing to the extent that&#8217;s needed on a federal level? Why is the President not using all of those levers, Andy?
SLAVITT: Yeah, I think frankly &#8212; yeah, I think frankly, he doesn&#8217;t have the command and control structure in that he needs. He doesn&#8217;t have the Ron Klain. If I were him, I would call up General Dunford, I would call up General Mattis, and say I want you to come back and I want you to run this effort. You know, it’s not &#8212; it&#8217;s not very comforting to hear that HHS runs it but FEMA is helping them. That&#8217;s going to create more cooks in the kitchen. You need a very streamlined command and control structure here with one person in charge who has been in battle, commanded hundreds of thousands of people, who moved both systems and units and personnel and operations, like tented hospitals, across the country, very, very quickly and we don&#8217;t have that person in place. So I would love for President Trump to be the wartime general. As someone who&#8217;s been a critic of President Trump&#8217;s in the past, I am 100% on his side in solving this problem. But he has got to do the things he claims he wants to do.
TUR: I&#8217;m just still confused about why we are so behind in testing and this was a Reuters report out of South Korea. Craig, I’m going to give this to you. “South Korea’s swift actions stands in stark contrast to what has transpired in the United States….the Koreans have tested well over 290,000 people and classified over 8,000 infections. New cases are falling off: 93 reported Wednesday down from a daily peak of 909 two weeks earlier.” The [U.S.], whose first case was detected the same day as South Korea&#8217;s is not even close to meeting demands. About 60,000 tests have been run by public hand private labs in a country of 330 million, federal officials said Tuesday.” So, not to be too backward looking here, but if you don&#8217;t have a handle on the tests, you don&#8217;t have a handle on the infection or how to contain the infection, why is this &#8212; why is this so delayed and how can we start expediting it?
FUGATE: I think we were using hope as a strategy. It wasn&#8217;t going to be this bad, we could ease into it. We had a lot of capacity. The alarms were going off early. I think we’re slow to this. Now, we’re playing catch-up and that’s the worst position to be in. And the whole thing about having a single person in charge? I&#8217;m going to call B.S. on it. I strongly disagree that comes as a single point of failure. We actually have 50 people that are the lead and that&#8217;s the state governors and their public health departments. The biggest thing right now the federal government can do is get them money because there&#8217;s not enough federal resources to do what needs to be done. Governors need to be in power to take dramatic action to protect lives, make sure they’re doing everything to maximize their resources, start up production, and get things moving. If we wait for the federal government, we&#8217;re too late.
TUR: Well, let me ask you this. There are governors ramping things up across the country but taking different steps than other governors. This is a virus not respecting state lines. How can you have a coordinate the response if you don&#8217;t have it coordinated from the very top?
FUGATE: The myth of a single person in charge taking control and running this is a myth. This is going to be dealt with on the frontlines at local and state levels, and each state is going to be addressing this unique to their systems. There will be some variation and it gives us resiliency cause there are different ways to approach this. Hopefully they&#8217;re sharing information. But I&#8217;ve always believed the best way the federal government can support our governors is to get out of their way, get them funding, use CDC to give guidance. As we&#8217;re running out of stuff, I&#8217;m asking the question, why are we not looking at idle capabilities now and governors go contract for that resource? Why wait for the federal government? If they will go to 100% on protective measures and reimburse them, how much more can states do so we can focus the few federal resources we have on the hardest hit areas.
TUR: I just got news from Mayor de Blasio here in New York and there&#8217;s been a dramatic increase in the number of cases here in New York City: 3,615 positive cases of COVID and 22 fatalities. Currently, to spread that out, there are 980 cases in Queens, 976 in Manhattan, 1,030 in Brooklyn, and 436 in the Bronx, 165 in Staten Island. I&#8217;m struck, Andy, by how quickly this escalated. Just last week we were considering whether or not some people in this company would go to Florida to cover the primary. That was on, you know, Wednesday. On Thursday that was off the table. Friday all travel seems &#8212; was off the table. And that&#8217;s just mirroring what&#8217;s been happening across the country. At first lockdowns weren&#8217;t even considered and now we&#8217;re seeing lockdowns around the country. What we saw in China seemed so draconian and now people are wondering why we aren&#8217;t doing these fever tests for people walking into buildings? Why aren&#8217;t we going out and aggressively trying to find those who might be spreading symptoms and separating them from the population?
SLAVITT: Right. So, it&#8217;s a hard thing for people to grasp, but the number of cases we have right now and even those tragic figures you just read are going to seem minuscule in a week. The number of cases we have will double every three days. Right now it&#8217;s exceeding that and we have a large number of cases that are untested still. So with all due respect to your other guest, there&#8217;s not a governor in the country that&#8217;s waiting for the federal government right now. They are all acting. What they need is coordination because we have believe it or not we have masks, we have a lot of these things. Guess where they are? They&#8217;re sitting in the supply chain, people are profiteering off of them or they&#8217;re going to places where people are hoarding them. Now, that happens in a crisis. It&#8217;s only because &#8212; it’s only by someone looking through the entire system, and seeing where those needs are, that you can say, stop hoarding them in Texas. We need them in New York right now while we build manufacturing capability and put them in Texas. So, what your other guest is suggesting here is not helpful. We need a great partnership between the federal and state government.
FUGATE: I don’t have time to listen to bullsh** people.
TUR: Ah, Craig, you want to sit down and respond to this? I guess Craig has left. Andy, he doesn&#8217;t agree with you at all.
SLAVITT: I guess not. But look, these are trying times and everyone is trying their best, and I know Craig is &#8212; I don&#8217;t know Craig personally, but I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s working as hard and trying his best. Everybody is. These are unprecedented times. So understandable that he&#8217;s frustrated.
TUR: Can we see if we can get Craig back? I&#8217;d just like him to respond. I never like to leave a conversation like that. Andy I&#8217;m going to say goodbye to you in the meantime. Thank you very much for joining us.</blockquote>

President Barack Obama Makes Statement On Hurricane Matthew

Obama’s Top FEMA Official Storms Off MSNBC: ‘I Don’t Have Time’ For ‘Bulls**t People’

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On Saturday, a British reporter triggered outrage and had her interview with MSNBC cut off when she remarked that many people consider British Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan Markle, “five steps up from trailer trash.”
Victoria Mather, who has been employed by The Telegraph and Vanity Fair, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8090989/British-journalist-says-people-consider-Meghan-Markle-five-clicks-trailer-trash.html">The Daily Mail</a>,  was being interviewed by MSNBC’s Lindsey Reiser regarding Prince Harry and his wife walking away from their royal duties when she commented, “I think what has really, really upset the British public is that Meghan Markle, who many people consider as only, you know, five clicks up from trailer trash, has actually tried to disrespect the queen. And the queen is the most respected person, most respected woman, in the world.”
Prior to that comment, Mather opined that Markle opted out of being part of the royal family because she would be “second-best” to her sister-in-law, Princess Kate. She stated, “I don&#8217;t think Meghan Markle wanted to spend the rest of her life looking at Kate Middleton&#8217;s back as she sat in the second row to the future queen. I don&#8217;t think she wanted — she didn&#8217;t want to be second best …  I do hear that she gave Kate a knife for Christmas. Which is quite something, isn&#8217;t it?&#8217;
After the &#8220;trailer trash&#8221; comment, Reiser said, “Victoria Mather, we should mention — NBC News has not confirmed what you had mentioned about a knife gifting, but we thank you for your time. Thanks for joining us this morning.”
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will step down from royal duties at the end of March.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/queen-win-harry-and-meghan-forced-to-drop-branding-name-trademark-applications-removed-markle-upset">The Daily Wire</a> reported on February 21 that Prince Harry and Markle agreed that they would abide by Queen Elizabeth II’s ban of them cashing in on the &#8220;Sussex Royal&#8221; brand. <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/meghan-and-prince-harry-drop-sussex-royal-branding-after-dustup-with-queen">The Washington Examiner</a> reported that the couple issued a statement through a spokesman:
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While The Duke and Duchess are focused on plans to establish a new non-profit organisation, given the specific UK Government rules surrounding use of the word Royal, it has been therefore agreed that their non-profit organisation, when it is announced this Spring, will not be named Sussex Royal Foundation. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use &#8220;Sussex Royal&#8221; in any territory post Spring 2020. Therefore, the trademark applications that were filed as protective measures, acting on advice from and following the same model for the Royal Foundation, have been removed.
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The Examiner continued, &#8220;Meghan said <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8021867/Defiant-Meghan-says-theres-legally-stopping-using-Sussex-Royal-name.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">she was</a> upset about the news and that there was &#8216;nothing legally stopping&#8217; her and Prince Harry from using the branding.&#8221; According to <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-meghan-markle-tells-friends-21548463">The Daily Mail</a>, Markle told friends that using the term &#8220;royal&#8221; &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t even be an issue in the first place and it&#8217;s not like they want to be in the business of selling T-shirts and pencils.&#8221; The Daily Mail also reported, “Harry and Meghan have spent tens of thousands of pounds on a new Sussex Royal website to complement their hugely popular Instagram feed. They have also sought to register Sussex Royal as a global trademark for a range of items and activities, including clothing, stationery, books and teaching materials.”
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British Reporter: Many People Consider Meghan Markle ‘Five Steps Up From Trailer Trash’

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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) announced on Sunday evening that he and his staff had sustained contact with a person who had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and that his office would be closed all week.
&#8220;I am announcing that I, along with 3 of my senior staff, are officially under self-quarantine after sustained contact at CPAC with a person who has since been hospitalized with the Wuhan Virus,&#8221; Gosar tweeted. &#8220;My office will be closed for the week.&#8221;
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1. I am announcing that I, along with 3 of my senior staff, are officially under self-quarantine after sustained contact at CPAC with a person who has since been hospitalized with the Wuhan Virus. My office will be closed for the week.
&mdash; Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1236821135964004352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We are all asymptomatic and feel great. But we are being proactive and cautious,&#8221; Gosar continued. &#8220;Keep the person in the hospital in your prayers. We are in touch with the CDC and the White House. They are doing a great job staying on top of this.&#8221;
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3. Keep the person in the hospital in your prayers. We are in touch with the CDC and the White House. They are doing a great job staying on top of this.
&mdash; Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1236821138853859328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Far-left MSNBC host Chris Hayes rushed to attack Gosar for calling the coronavirus the &#8220;Wuhan Virus,&#8221; despite the fact that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has repeatedly referred to the coronavirus as the &#8220;Wuhan Virus.&#8221;
&#8220;Just astoundingly gross to call it the Wuhan Virus,&#8221; Hayes tweeted.
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Just astoundingly gross to call it the Wuhan Virus. <a href="https://t.co/cMrsA59xTH">https://t.co/cMrsA59xTH</a>
&mdash; Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1236829231633620999?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hayes&#8217; eagerness to pounce on the opportunity to attack a Republican member of Congress for using the term &#8220;Wuhan Virus&#8221; comes despite the fact that even left-wing media has referred to the coronavirus as the &#8220;Wuhan Virus.&#8221;
CNN <a href="http://archive.is/aeucs">tweeted</a> in late January, &#8220;Of all the aspects of the rapidly spreading Wuhan virus, this is perhaps the most alarming: A single patient has infected 14 health care workers. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s called a &#8220;super spreader&#8221; – and identifying them is a key element of fighting the virus.&#8221;
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Of all the aspects of the rapidly spreading Wuhan virus, this is perhaps the most alarming: A single patient has infected 14 health care workers. That&#39;s what&#39;s called a &quot;super spreader&quot; &#8212; and identifying them is a key element of fighting the virus. <a href="https://t.co/PfxvY35AAc">https://t.co/PfxvY35AAc</a>
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In February, CNN wrote a piece <a href="http://archive.is/XeKem#selection-1165.0-1165.95">titled</a>: &#8220;Chen Qiushi spoke out about the Wuhan virus. Now his family and friends fear he&#8217;s been silenced.&#8221;
Online, Hayes and other far-left activists in the media received criticism over their remarks and for trying to portray the remarks as racist.
Angela Morabito noted: &#8220;Ebola was named for a river in the Congo. Zika, for a forest in Uganda. Lyme disease for Lyme, Connecticut. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and West Nile Virus also fit the bill.&#8221;
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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and West Nile Virus also fit the bill.
&mdash; Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito/status/1236837565648560128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Political strategist Drew Holden tweeted: &#8220;Y’all gonna come up with another name for MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) too, while you’re at it? This faux drama is just astoundingly stupid.&#8221;
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Y’all gonna come up with another name for MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) too, while you’re at it?
This faux drama is just astoundingly stupid. <a href="https://t.co/m6vnvXCbkM">https://t.co/m6vnvXCbkM</a>
&mdash; Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1236847721337835521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New York Post reporter Jon Levine tweeted: &#8220;Virus originated in Wuhan. Calm down. Not everything needs to be a social justice crisis.&#8221;
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Virus originated in Wuhan. Calm down. Not everything needs to be a social justice crisis <a href="https://t.co/5gPpBkRFfj">https://t.co/5gPpBkRFfj</a>
&mdash; Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1236841056790097920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Human Events Managing Editor Ian Miles Cheong responded to a tweet from an MSNBC reporter who declared that the term was &#8220;racist&#8221; by writing, &#8220;I call it the Wuhan Virus. I&#8217;m Chinese. I must be suffering from a serious case of internalized racism.&#8221;
Cheong concluded: &#8220;Someone should show David his own tweet about the Ebola Virus, which was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.&#8221;
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Someone should show David his own tweet about the Ebola Virus, which was named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <a href="https://t.co/DTpCPBSaoW">pic.twitter.com/DTpCPBSaoW</a>
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1236841074225639424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cheong added: &#8220;The &#8216;racist&#8217; narrative against calling the Wuhan Virus by its colloquial name is one put forth by the Chinese government to absolve them of any responsibility for letting the outbreak spread. And the media is propagating it.&#8221;
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The &quot;racist&quot; narrative against calling the Wuhan Virus by its colloquial name is one put forth by the Chinese government to absolve them of any responsibility for letting the outbreak spread. And the media is propagating it.
&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1236848663453822976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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U.S. Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) seen speaking during

Congressman To Self-Quarantine Over Exposure To ‘Wuhan Virus.’ MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Attacks Him.

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MSNBC&#8217;s Brian Williams and New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay made an embarrassing math error late on Thursday night regarding the amount of money that Mike Bloomberg spent on his failed Democratic presidential campaign.
&#8220;Somebody tweeted recently that actually with the money that he spent, he could have given every American a million dollars,&#8221; Gay said.
Williams&#8217; show aired the tweet on national television.
&#8220;I’ve got it. Let’s put it on the screen,&#8221; Williams said. &#8220;When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear.&#8221;
Williams then read the tweet: &#8220;Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and have had lunch money left over.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s an incredible way of putting it,&#8221; Williams said.
&#8220;It’s an incredible way of putting it,&#8221; Gay said. “It’s true. It’s disturbing.&#8221;
There&#8217;s only one problem: $500 million divided by 327,000,000 people is $1.53 per person, not over $1 million per person.
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MSNBC’s Brian Williams reads a tweet: &quot;Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. U.S. Population, 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million&quot;
NYT Editorial Board Member Mara Gay: “It’s an incredible way of putting it. It’s true. It’s disturbing”
It&#39;s $1.53 per person <a href="https://t.co/dIiwCESgh8">pic.twitter.com/dIiwCESgh8</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1235802419734269952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: MSNBC’s Brian Williams, New York Times’ Mara Gay Make Embarrassing Math Error

Michael Bloomberg

New York Times

Earlier this week, MSNBC host Chris Matthews resigned following a week of bad publicity, including claims of sexual harassment and his comparison of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) win in Nevada to Adolf Hitler taking over France.
On Monday, Matthews left the network. GQ, the magazine that published an article by columnist Laura Bassett that claimed Matthews sexually harassed her by giving her compliments before her appearances, took a victory lap. The outlet posted an update to Bassett’s article stating that “On March 3rd, three days after this story was published, Chris Matthews retired from MSNBC on air.”
But Kyle Smith, writing at <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/03/the-real-reason-chris-matthews-was-fired-from-msnbc/amp/">The New York Post</a>, suggests Matthews wasn’t fired over the claims in the GQ article, but because he did his job by posing tough questions to Democrats running for the party presidential nomination. Smith wrote that Matthews’ job was to “represent the non-crazy, ‘No Kool-Aid for me, thanks’ Left on television, while being entertaining and pointed and wacky.” Yet the GQ article, Smith wrote, “artfully weaved” two different types of complaints against Matthews – that he complimented women and he was tough on two female presidential candidates – to claim he was a sexist:
<blockquote>One complaint was that Matthews <a href="https://pagesix.com/2020/02/28/chris-matthews-accused-of-inappropriately-flirting-with-female-guest/?_ga=2.225706393.2029211440.1583173800-2047514065.1564425125">would compliment women’s looks</a>. He said of Sarah Palin that there was “something electric” and “very attractive” about her. He told Erin Burnett, “You’re a knockout.” All true. He made a couple of mild compliments to Bassett: “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” True, men shouldn’t talk this way around the office, and few guys under 50 have failed to get the message that this kind of thing makes (some) women uncomfortable. But Matthews is 70. Old guys flirt with young women as a way of telling themselves they’re still in the game. Young women used to be more forgiving, to recognize the pathos underlying the impulse and shrug it off. Now they exaggerate their emotional reaction, pretend that they’re “shaken” or “couldn’t breathe.” Bassett writes that a couple of flirty comments from Matthews “undermined my ability to do my job well.” That’s hard to believe.</blockquote>
In the age of #MeToo and “believe all women,” allegations like the ones Bassett made against Matthews have become routine. Women are now equating a man complimenting them, even in a weird way, with sexual harassment and acting as if they are the victim of some horrible event. It detracts from real victims of sexual harassment and assault.
Smith asked why “women pretend to be undone by a stray compliment?” and suggested Bassett’s real motive was that she didn’t like the way Matthews questioned Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren.
“Bassett is utterly blatant about her real motive: She wanted Matthews fired for the way he interviewed Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren. She thinks Matthews damaged her political favorites, thinking (probably correctly) that when a prominent Democrat criticizes such candidates, he signals other moderate Democrats and centrists that it’s okay to vote for someone else,” Smith wrote.
Smith argued that Bassett was selective in her criticism, as Matthews has been antagonistic toward many male politicians as well. The Sanders-Hitler comparison was just one such example. Matthews, however, made his living off of “hysterical analogies” to drive viewership to his program, “Hardball.”

Chris Matthews

Writer Suggests Chris Matthews Was Fired For Being Tough On Democrat Candidates, Not Sexism

Sexual Harassment

Chris Matthews abruptly announced his retirement on Monday night during his show &#8220;Hardball&#8221; on MSNBC. Then, he was gone.
&#8220;I’m retiring. This is the last &#8216;Hardball&#8217; on MSNBC, and obviously this isn&#8217;t for lack of interest in politics,&#8221; said Matthews, 74. &#8220;As you can tell, I&#8217;ve loved every minute of my 20 years as host of &#8216;Hardball.&#8217; Every morning, I read the papers and I&#8217;m gung-ho to get to work. Not many people have had this privilege.&#8221;
In his defense, Matthews said: &#8220;A lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other. Compliments on a woman’s appearance, that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay. Not then and certainly not today.&#8221;
The network went to commercial, and when they came back, Matthews had disappeared. POOF.
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> veteran &quot;Hardball&quot; anchor Chris Matthews abruptly resigned from the network tonight, leaving his colleagues shocked after he announced his resignation and did not return after the commercial break. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BreakingNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BreakingNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChrisMatthews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChrisMatthews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hardball</a> <a href="https://t.co/tNz93vHLqe">pic.twitter.com/tNz93vHLqe</a>
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The surprise announcement came just three days after the longtime anchor was accused of sexual harassment by GQ columnist Laura Bassett.
In a <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience">GQ </a><a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience">piece</a> Friday headlined, &#8220;Like Warren, I Had My Own Sexist Run-In with Chris Matthews,&#8221; Bassett claimed Matthews had used sexist language several times when she appeared on his show as a guest.
Basset wrote that Matthews had sexually harassed her in 2016, saying, &#8220;Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?&#8221; while she was getting her makeup done for an appearance,
<blockquote>The number of on-air incidents is long, exhausting, and creepy, including commenting to Erin Burnett, for example, “You’re a knockout&#8230; it’s all right getting bad news from you,” while telling her to move closer to the camera. Behind the scenes, one of Matthews’s former producers told The Daily Caller in 2017 that he allegedly rated his female guests on a numerical scale and would name a “hottest of the week,” like a “teenage boy.” In 1999, an assistant producer accused Matthews of sexual harassment, which CNBC, the show&#8217;s network at the time, investigated. They concluded that the comments were &#8220;inappropriate,&#8221; and Matthews received a “stern reprimand,” according to an MSNBC spokesperson.
This tendency to objectify women in his orbit has bled into his treatment of female politicians and candidates. He has repeatedly lusted over women in politics on air, including remarking in 2011 that there’s “something electric” and “very attractive” about the way former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin walks and moves, and noting in 2017 that acting attorney general Sally Yates is “attractive, obviously.” But he has reserved a particular contempt for the woman who made it closest to ascending the heights of American political power, Hillary Clinton, calling her “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “She-Devil.”</blockquote>
Not surprisingly, liberals came out of the woodwork to defend Matthews (so much for the #MeToo movement). And not one of them said, &#8220;I believe her.&#8221;
&#8220;Chris Matthews is a friend of mine. He and I have flirted unabashedly for 20 years. This is an atrocious end to a noble, happy-warrior career. I will continue to be his friend. Angry column to follow,&#8221; Kathleen Parker, a syndicated columnist at The Washington Post, wrote on Twitter.
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Chris Matthews is a friend of mine. He and I have flirted unabashedly for 20 years. This is an atrocious end to a noble, happy-warrior career. I will continue to be his friend. Angry column to follow. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChrisMatthews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChrisMatthews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoCryingInBaseball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NoCryingInBaseball</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hardball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hardball</a>
&mdash; kathleenparker (@kathleenparker) <a href="https://twitter.com/kathleenparker/status/1234633204482613248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; with Mika Brzezinski, also got Matthews&#8217; back.
&#8220;Mika and I were deeply moved by @SteveKornacki’s tribute to Chris Matthews. Actually, we are wiping tears from our eyes. We love Chris and will miss him every night in our home at 7pm. As Steve said, Chris was the most human TV guy and &#8216;I say that as the highest compliment,'&#8221; he wrote.
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Mika and I were deeply moved by <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SteveKornacki</a>’s tribute to Chris Matthews. Actually, we are wiping tears from our eyes. We love Chris and will miss him every night in our home at 7pm. As Steve said, Chris was the most human TV guy and “I say that as the highest compliment.” <a href="https://t.co/M7uGj61kAB">pic.twitter.com/M7uGj61kAB</a>
&mdash; Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC/status/1234647388117196801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Mike Barnicle, a journalist and regular guest on MSNBC shows, said: &#8220;Chris Matthews resigned from MSNBC tonight. He is an honest, honorable, kind and compassionate human being and we wish him only the best in his career which is far from over.&#8221;
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Chris Matthews resigned from MSNBC tonight. He is an honest, honorable, kind and compassionate human being and we wish him only the best in his career which is far from over.
&mdash; Mike Barnicle (@mikebarnicle) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikebarnicle/status/1234655266920071174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Robby Soave, senior editor at Reason magazine, said: &#8220;A question: Why does Christ Matthews have to retire, but Joy Reid can get away with lying about her past homophobia and getting hacking? She&#8217;s woke, he&#8217;s not, is that the difference?&#8221;
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A question: Why does Christ Matthews have to retire, but Joy Reid can get away with lying about her past homophobia and getting hacking? She&#39;s woke, he&#39;s not, is that the difference? <a href="https://t.co/VYMoTTjbie">https://t.co/VYMoTTjbie</a>
&mdash; Robby Soave (@robbysoave) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1234666941475778560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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For her part, Bassett, the author of the GQ story, wrote: &#8220;All I gotta say is&#8230; it’s about time.&#8221;
Then she added: &#8220;No, I have more to say than that. Since calling out Chris Matthews, this week has been really rough. The harassment has been invasive, cruel and personal. And it’s all worth it if he will never have the platform to demean and objectify us again.&#8221;
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No, I have more to say than that. Since calling out Chris Matthews, this week has been really rough. The harassment has been invasive, cruel and personal. And it’s all worth it if he will never have the platform to demean and objectify us again. <a href="https://t.co/YS1FxW25zt">https://t.co/YS1FxW25zt</a>
&mdash; Laura Bassett (@LEBassett) <a href="https://twitter.com/LEBassett/status/1234632845911560197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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DON’T BELIEVE HER: Liberals Race To Defend MSNBC’s Chris Matthews

MeToo

Chris Matthews was noticeably missing from MSNBC&#8217;s coverage of the South Carolina primary on Saturday, just a day after the longtime anchor of &#8220;Fastball&#8221; was accused of “sexist” behavior by a former network contributor.
Matthews is a regular on every election night, offering his high octane take on the goings on.  That made his absence Saturday night all the more glaring.
In a <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience">GQ </a><a href="https://www.gq.com/story/chris-matthews-experience">piece</a> Friday headlined, &#8220;Like Warren, I Had My Own Sexist Run-In with Chris Matthews,&#8221; journalist Laura Bassett claimed that Matthews had used sexist language several times when she appeared on his show as a guest.
Matthews had pressed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) after the Democrats&#8217; latest debate on Tuesday about why she harangued former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg over accusations of sexist behavior in his past, including a charge that he once told a pregnant employee to “kill it.”
“Why would he lie?” Matthews said of Bloomberg’s denial. “Because just to protect himself?”
&#8220;You believe he&#8217;s lying,&#8221; Matthews told Warren. When Warren said she believed the woman, Matthews asked why Bloomberg would lie.
Warren responded: &#8220;Yeah, and why would she lie? I mean, that&#8217;s the question, Chris.&#8221;
Basset wrote that Matthews had sexually harassed her in 2016, saying, “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” while she was getting her makeup done for an appearance,
<blockquote>The number of on-air incidents is long, exhausting, and creepy, including commenting to Erin Burnett, for example, “You’re a knockout&#8230; it’s all right getting bad news from you,” while telling her to move closer to the camera. Behind the scenes, one of Matthews’s former producers told The Daily Caller in 2017 that he allegedly rated his female guests on a numerical scale and would name a “hottest of the week,” like a “teenage boy.” In 1999, an assistant producer accused Matthews of sexual harassment, which CNBC, the show&#8217;s network at the time, investigated. They concluded that the comments were &#8220;inappropriate,&#8221; and Matthews received a “stern reprimand,” according to an MSNBC spokesperson.
This tendency to objectify women in his orbit has bled into his treatment of female politicians and candidates. He has repeatedly lusted over women in politics on air, including remarking in 2011 that there’s “something electric” and “very attractive” about the way former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin walks and moves, and noting in 2017 that acting attorney general Sally Yates is “attractive, obviously.” But he has reserved a particular contempt for the woman who made it closest to ascending the heights of American political power, Hillary Clinton, calling her “witchy,” “anti-male,” and “She-Devil.”
The Cut obtained footage of him joking in early 2016, just before a live interview with then candidate Clinton, “where’s that Bill Cosby pill,” referring to the date-rape drug. In 2005, he openly wondered whether the troops would “take the orders” from a female president; after another interview, he pinched Clinton’s cheek; and in another, he suggested that she had only had so much political success because her husband had “messed around.” This evening anchor, in addition to everything else, has repeatedly challenged whether women are legitimate politicians or could be president at all. &#8220;I was thinking how hard it is for a woman to take on a job that&#8217;s always been held by men,&#8221; he said of Clinton in 2006.</blockquote>
Matthews&#8217; disappearing act comes as MSNBC faces calls from a feminist organization to fire the anchor over the sexism and sexual misconduct allegations.
“MSNBC needs to fire Chris Matthews. Today,” UltraViolet President Shaunna Thomas said in a statement, which she posted on <a href="https://twitter.com/SLThomas/status/1232684310974603264" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter</a>. &#8220;Matthews’ refusal to believe women, and history of sexual harassment, make it clear that he is not fit to continue to cover this election. MSNBC can and must do better, and they can start by firing Chris Matthews.”
Matthews has had a bad run lately. He was blasted after he said Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) decisive victory in Nevada last weekend was like the Nazi invasion of France during World War II. He later apologized for the remark.
On Friday, Matthews mistook South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison for another black politician, Tim Scott (R-SC), <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chris-matthews-absent-from-msnbcs-primary-coverage-after-sexism-allegations-on-air-slip-up">Fox News</a> reported.
<blockquote>&#8220;Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy you&#8217;re going to beat right there, maybe,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Maybe? Maybe, maybe? Lindsey Graham?&#8221;
Soon Matthews realized his error and apologized to Harrison.
&#8220;What am I saying? Big mistake. Mistaken identity, sir. Sorry,&#8221; Matthews said.
Harrison appeared to roll his eyes and looked shocked, but kept a smile on his face and answered Matthews&#8217; question.</blockquote>

Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In Las Vegas Ahead Of Nevada Caucuses

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Disappears After Allegations Of Sexism

Sexism

Had a Fox News host done this, he or she would instantly have been called a racist, but because MSNBC host Chris Matthews is a liberal, he will get a complete pass from the left-leaning media.
Jaime Harrison is a Democrat running to unseat Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). On Friday night he appeared on MSNBC to discuss his candidacy with Matthews, but when the network showed a video of Graham attending a Trump campaign rally in the state, the host confused Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) for Harrison.
“Jaime, I see you standing next to the guy you’re going to beat right there maybe, maybe, Lindsey Graham,” Matthews said.
The camera then shows Matthews and Harrison, who appears a little perplexed by the mistake, though he maintains a smile throughout Matthews’ blunder.
After Matthews makes the mistake, two people off camera tell him that the man next to Graham is actually “Tim Scott.” Matthews appears to be in a loud room, as he doesn’t seem to hear what everyone is telling him.
“Who’s that? I’m sorry,” he says as he struggles to hear his producer correct him. “Oh! It’s the other senator. What am I saying? Big mistake. Mistaken identity there, sorry.”
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Chris Matthews confused <a href="https://twitter.com/harrisonjaime?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@harrisonjaime</a>, who is a black Democrat running against Lindsey Graham, for Tim Scott, the black Republican US Senator from South Carolina
This is very awkward <a href="https://t.co/kMFITMjU4A">pic.twitter.com/kMFITMjU4A</a>
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1233560953431547905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Journalist Yashar Ali, who posted the clip of Matthews mistaking a Black Democrat for a Black Republican, had previously posted Friday night that, “The question none of my sources at NBC and MSNBC can answer&#8230;what value does Chris Matthews bring to the network?”
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The question none of my sources at NBC and MSNBC can answer&#8230;what value does Chris Matthews bring to the network?
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Just last week, Matthews found himself embroiled in controversy when he compared Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) win in the Nevada caucus to Adolf Hitler taking over France. As The Daily Wire’s Paul Bois <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-matthews-faces-rebuke-calls-for-resignation-after-comparing-sanders-win-to-nazi-invasion">reported</a>, some on social media, including Sanders’ communication director Mike Casca, began calling for Matthews to resign.
“Never thought part of my job would be pleading with a national news network to stop likening the campaign of a Jewish presidential candidate whose family was wiped out by the Nazis to the Third Reich,” Casca tweeted.
Investigative reporter Alex Kotch joined in, saying he was “dead serious” about being “really, really insulted by a major pundit on an allegedly liberal news network comparing a Jewish candidate&#8217;s overwhelming caucus victory to the French losing a battle with the Nazis.”
“Get this lunatic off the air,” Kotch added.
Matthews has made no secret of his disdain for Sanders, and began the segment simple enough.
“It looks like Bernie Sanders is hard to beat right now,” Matthews said. “I’m with [James] Carville all the way in terms of the dangers of what lurks, what lies ahead in November. I’m very much aware that they’re sitting on so much oppo research on Bernie, what he said in the past about world affairs, how far-left he is … they are going to make the most of that in terms of world politics. They’re going to kill him.”
But it was what he said next that sent even liberals into a frenzy.
“I was reading last night, Brian [Williams], I know you’re a history guy too, I was reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940, and the general, Renault, calls up Churchill and says, ‘It’s over.’ And Churchill says ‘How can it be? You’ve got the greatest army in Europe. How can it be over?’ He said, ‘It’s over,’” Matthews said. “So I have that suppressed feeling. I can’t be as wild as Carville, but he is damn smart, and I think he’s damn right on this one.”

WATCH: Chris Matthews Mistakes Black Democrat For Republican Tim Scott

Lindsey Graham

Tim Scott

A Democratic congressman&#8217;s appearance on MSNBC on Friday resulted in an on-air threat of physical violence against presidential first son Donald Trump Jr. over his comments about the Democrats and coronavirus.
The threat by the congressman came in response to Trump Jr. saying earlier Friday that Democrats are &#8220;seemingly hop[ing]&#8221; that the coronavirus &#8220;kills million&#8221; in the U.S. to end his father&#8217;s &#8220;streak of winning.&#8221;
On &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; Friday morning, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Don Jr. if he was &#8220;surprised&#8221; by how Democrats have been handling the epidemic. &#8220;And so now we&#8217;re getting to sprint towards November &#8230; to see if your dad can get four more years,&#8221; said Kilmeade. &#8220;Are you surprised the way they&#8217;ve been handling the coronavirus situation, meaning Democrats?&#8221;
&#8220;Not at all,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/28/politics/donald-trump-jr-coronavirus-democrats/index.html">said</a> Don Jr. &#8220;&#8230;Like you said, we&#8217;ve seen this play out for four years. Anything that they can use to try to hurt Trump, they will. Anything he does in a positive sense, like you heard from the reporter that was just suspended from ABC, they will not give him credit for. The playbook is old at this point.&#8221;
Don Jr. then offered the comment that would quickly result in a fiery segment on another cable news network. &#8220;But for them to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here, and kills millions of people so that they could end Donald Trump&#8217;s streak of winning, is a new level of sickness,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t know if this is coronavirus or Trump derangement syndrome, but these people are infected badly.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/congressman-threatens-don-jr-on-live-tv-for-saying-dems-want-coronavirus-to-spread-if-i-see-him-there-would-be-a-serious-altercation/">Mediaite,</a> California Democratic Rep. John Garamendi appeared on MSNBC afterward to discuss the coronavirus situation and what he said was the Center Disease Control&#8217;s failure to adequately respond to it. Garamendi, as noted by MSNBC&#8217;s Hallie Jackson, was &#8220;angry&#8221; and &#8220;visibly emotional&#8221; about the CDC&#8217;s handling of the situation.
After discussing the CDC&#8217;s response, Jackson highlighted Don Jr.&#8217;s comment and asked for Garamendi&#8217;s reaction.
&#8220;He shouldn’t be near me when he says that,&#8221; Garamendi asserted tensely. &#8220;There would be a serious altercation.&#8221;
&#8220;That is just totally outrageous. That is just totally outrageous,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I can assure you that there’s not a Democrat or a Republican in Congress that wants anybody to be sick. Don Jr. better not get any place close to me. It would not be a healthy situation.&#8221; (<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/congressman-threatens-don-jr-on-live-tv-for-saying-dems-want-coronavirus-to-spread-if-i-see-him-there-would-be-a-serious-altercation/">Watch the moment here</a>.)
While President Trump hasn&#8217;t gone as far as his eldest son with his criticism of the Democrats&#8217; response, he has repeatedly accused them of working — in conjunction with left-wing outlets, like MSNBC — to benefit politically from the crisis.
&#8220;Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) &amp; [CNN] are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible,” Trump tweeted Wednesday. &#8220;Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!&#8221;
&#8220;So, the Coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S. because President Trump closed our border, and ended flights, VERY EARLY, is now being blamed, by the Do Nothing Democrats, to be the fault of &#8216;Trump&#8217;,&#8221; the president wrote Thursday.
&#8220;The Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the Immigration Hoax, &amp; anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early BORDER &amp; FLIGHT closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with Coronavirus,&#8221; Trump added in a follow-up post. &#8220;Dems called it VERY wrong!&#8221;
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I will be having a News Conference at the White House, on this subject, today at 6:00 P.M. CDC representatives, and others, will be there. Thank you!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1232652397325037568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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At a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/">press conference</a> on the coronavirus situation Wednesday afternoon, Trump assured Americans that his administration is on top of the issue.
“I have just received another briefing from a great group of talented people on the virus that is going around to various parts of the world,” said the president. “We have, through some very good early decisions — decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning — we closed up our borders to flights coming in from certain areas, areas that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard.  And we did it very early … and it turned out to be a very good thing.”
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“And the number one priority from our standpoint is the health and safety of the American people,” he continued. “And that’s the way I viewed it when I made that decision. Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. We have the greatest experts in the world — really, in the world, right here — people that are called upon by other countries when things like this happen. We’re ready to adapt and we’re ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-chief-of-staff-expect-disruptions-to-schools-transportation-due-to-coronavirus">White House Chief of Staff: Expect Disruptions To Schools, Transportation Due To Coronavirus</a>
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As is the case with all issues in the Age of Trump, the national conversation about the coronavirus has become hyper-politicized, and President Trump is right in the middle of the fray, battling it out with the Democrats and the Trump-critical media to gain control of the latest political football.
On Wednesday, President Trump held a press conference to address growing concerns about the coronavirus, which has infected over 80,000 people and killed over 2,800 people, a vast majority of the cases in China. In his announcement of the televised address, Trump shamed the media, particularly MSNBC and CNN, for overhyping the epidemic for what he suggested are political purposes.
&#8220;Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) &amp; [CNN] are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!&#8221;
&#8220;I will be having a News Conference at the White House, on this subject, today at 6:00 P.M. CDC representatives, and others, will be there,&#8221; the president added in a follow-up post.
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I will be having a News Conference at the White House, on this subject, today at 6:00 P.M. CDC representatives, and others, will be there. Thank you!
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At the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference/">press conference</a> Wednesday afternoon, Trump offered Americans some reassurance about the federal government&#8217;s preparedness and response to the epidemic.
&#8220;I have just received another briefing from a great group of talented people on the virus that is going around to various parts of the world,&#8221; said the president. &#8220;We have, through some very good early decisions — decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning — we closed up our borders to flights coming in from certain areas, areas that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard.  And we did it very early &#8230; and it turned out to be a very good thing.&#8221;
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&#8220;And the number one priority from our standpoint is the health and safety of the American people,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And that’s the way I viewed it when I made that decision. Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. We have the greatest experts in the world — really, in the world, right here — people that are called upon by other countries when things like this happen. We’re ready to adapt and we’re ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads.&#8221;
&#8220;As most of you know, the — the level that we’ve had in our country is very low, and those people are getting better, or we think that in almost all cases they’re [getting] better,&#8221; he said, citing the &#8220;original 15&#8221; cases in the U.S. from which the individuals are recovering.
Trump also said that he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping and was given some encouraging numbers. &#8220;The infection seems to have gone down over the last two days,&#8221; said the president. He went on to note that, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, &#8220;The flu, in our country, kills from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year.&#8221;
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In response to his press conference, MSNBC invited on World Health Organization (WHO) Special Adviser to the Director Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who promptly slammed Trump&#8217;s press conference as &#8220;ignorant.&#8221;
&#8220;He just revealed how ignorant he is about the situation,&#8221; said Emanuel, slamming Trump for what he suggested was downplaying the event.
Emanuel said we do not have sufficient data on the mortality rate yet to making any declarative statements about the deadliness of the virus and that comparing it to the flu was potentially misleading.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t know how similar or dissimilar this is to the flu,&#8221; he said, as reported by <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-ignorant-coronavirus-understand-public-health-flu-who-official-warns-ezekiel-emanuel-1489433">Newsweek</a>. &#8220;We know one thing, it actually is more communicable than the flu, it passes between people very, very easily.&#8221;
Experts believe the mortality rate is around 2.5 to 3%, but could also be lower if mild cases are not being reported, Emanuel explained.
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-reveals-which-countries-are-best-worst-prepared-to-deal-with-coronavirus">The Daily Wire</a> reported, during his press conference Wednesday, Trump cited a recent report from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health that ranked the U.S. extremely highly on a variety of factors related to fighting pandemics. The 140 GHS Index ranked countries according to the following seven categories:
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<li>Prevention: Prevention of the emergence or release of pathogens</li>
<li>Detection and Reporting: Early detection and reporting for epidemics of potential international concern</li>
<li>Rapid Response: Rapid response to and mitigation of the spread of an epidemic</li>
<li>Health System: Sufficient and robust health system to treat the sick and protect health workers</li>
<li>Compliance with International Norms: Commitments to improving national capacity, financing plans to address gaps, and adhering to global norms</li>
<li>Risk Environment: Overall risk environment and country vulnerability to biological threats</li>
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The United States ranked first in all categories except Rapid Response (#2) and Risk Environment (#19).
China, on the other hand, ranked quite poorly across the board:
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<li>Overall: #51</li>
<li>Prevention: #50</li>
<li>Detection and Reporting: #64</li>
<li>Rapid Response: #47</li>
<li>Health System: #30</li>
<li>Compliance with International Norms: #141</li>
<li>Risk Environment: #58</li>
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Trump Slams MSNBC For Causing Coronavirus Panic; MSNBC Invites On WHO Official To Slam Trump

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MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson has been benched from appearing on the network after bashing Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) staffers.
According to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-benches-contributor-jason-johnson-who-said-bernie-sanders-staffers-are-island-of-misfit-black-girls">The Daily Beast</a>, Johnson, who serves as an editor at The Root, came under fire last week after during an appearance on Sirius XM&#8217;s &#8220;The Karen Hunter&#8221; show, where he referred to Sanders&#8217; supporters as “racist white liberals” while charging the senator with doing “nothing for intersectionality.” He reserved his harshest critique for the black women on Sanders&#8217; staff.
“I don’t care how many people from the island of misfit black girls you throw out there to defend you,” Johnson said.
Shortly thereafter, Sanders’ national press secretary Briahna Joy Gray accused Johnson of racism and sexism. “I hope we can have political disputes without engaging in open racism and sexism. This misogynoir is disappointing, but not surprising from [Jason Johnson],&#8221; she tweeted.
Though calls erupted for Jason Johnson&#8217;s firing, MSNBC ultimately sidelined him and issued no official comment on the matter.
More from The Daily Beast:
<blockquote>Johnson’s temporary sidelining included him not being involved in coverage of last weekend’s Nevada caucuses or the post-game coverage of Tuesday evening’s South Carolina debate, which aired on CBS. In an email to media outlets hyping its post-debate plans, Johnson’s name was nowhere to be found.
The punishment appears to have also cost Johnson his chance to be on-air during the network’s coverage of this past Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, which Sanders won in a landslide.
Johnson’s absence has been noticeable, as he has become a staple of MSNBC’s Democratic primary analysis roster. Prior to his benching, he made nearly 40 appearances on the network in 2020 alone.</blockquote>
Prior to his benching, Jason Johnson was regularly featured on programs like &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; &#8220;The Beat with Ari Melber,&#8221; and &#8220;The 11th Hour.&#8221; He was also regularly featured on panels during the Nevada primary debate. His last appearance came on February 21, just hours before his comments about Sanders&#8217; staffers.
Most recently, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-contributor-goes-bonkers-trump-could-shut-down-voting-in-california">Johnson asserted</a> that President Trump would shut down voting in California after the president’s attorney Alan Dershowitz argued during the impeachment trial that &#8220;abuse of power&#8221; was not an impeachable offense if the president did not commit a crime.
&#8220;And when people spout nonsense, whether its Dershowitz or whether it’s Fox News, Donald Trump always listens,&#8221; said Johnson. &#8220;The scenario that he set up yesterday, by basically saying the president can do what he wants; imagine Donald Trump deciding, sometime in June, well, I heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants voted in California. So, I’ve decided that, during the presidential election, California has to undergo extreme vetting because we can’t trust their votes. We’re going to shut down voting in a state. This is literally the kind of thing he will do now. We’re not talking hypotheticals, anymore.&#8221;
He continued, “And that’s the part that I think disturbs me; for all of these people who were worried about their elections, we’re talking about the actual country. And anything he’ll do to Joe Biden, he’ll do to a senator, he’ll do to a senator in his own party. So why people aren’t concerned, why people don’t realize that this is step one to actual autocracy. Not the theoretical one, not the one we talk about in class, but an actual president who will say, ‘This state’s votes don’t count. These people don’t have a right to vote. These people can’t come into the country.’ That is what they are allowing to happen here. And I don’t understand how anyone can not be terrified, not just angry, but literally terrified about what the future’s gonna bring.”

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MSNBC Contributor Benched After Bashing Bernie Staffers: ‘Island Of Misfit Black Girls’

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While the Democratic primary debate Wednesday night in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been called the most tumultuous of the primary season, debate hosts NBC and MSNBC have taken the opportunity to pat themselves on the back for the record-shattering ratings.
“NBC News and MSNBC once again made television history with the most-watched Democratic debate ever, averaging nearly 20 million total viewers across the two networks, according to Nielsen Fast National Data,” <a href="http://press.nbcnews.com/2020/02/20/nbc-news-and-msnbc-break-ratings-record-again-with-the-most-watched-democratic-debate-ever/">announced</a> the networks in a joint statement.
The news agencies were particularly proud of achieving record-high ratings among adults between the ages of 25 and 54: “Last night’s debate was also the top-rated Democratic debate ever in the key A25-54 demo and attracted 13.5 million live stream viewers, surpassing any previously hosted debate this election cycle.”
But while the Democratic debate may have been great for the networks, the night was full of moments between candidates that may prove disastrous for long-term party unity.
During the debate, Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of Southbend, Indiana, chastised former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and self-avowed democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for making Democratic voters choose between two candidates who aren’t actually Democrats.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s put forward somebody who&#8217;s actually a Democrat,&#8221; Buttigieg told the applauding crowd, reports <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/19/buttigieg_democrats_shouldnt_have_to_choose_between_candidates_that_want_to_burn_party_down_or_buy_it.html">RealClearPolitics</a>. &#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and another candidate who wants to buy this party out. We can do better.&#8221;
Also during the debate, Bloomberg nailed Sanders, the current front-runner in national polls, for simultaneously advocating for socialism and having three different homes.
“What a wonderful country we have,” Bloomberg said, as The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bloomberg-nails-socialist-bernie-youre-a-millionaire-with-3-houses">Daily Wire</a> previously reported. “The best known socialist happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What’d I miss here?”
Sanders deflected from the attack by pointing out that it is normal for Vermonters to have a summer home, and that since Sanders works in Washington, it was also appropriate for him to have a home in the nation’s capital.
As the Daily Wire previously reported, another notable feature of the debate was that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was on offense almost the entire night, and delivered a particularly devastating attack on Bloomberg for his answer about his alleged treatment of women.
“I hope you heard what [Bloomberg’s] defense was, ‘I’ve been nice to some women,&#8217;” Warren told the crowd after Bloomberg was booed. “That just doesn’t cut it. The mayor has to stand on his record, and what we need to know is exactly what is lurking out there. He has gotten some number of women, dozens, who knows, to sign non-disclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace.”
“We have very few non-disclosure agreements. None of them accuse me of doing anything other than maybe they didn’t like a joke I told,” said Bloomberg, who was promptly booed. “There’s an agreement between two parties that wanted to keep it quiet and that’s up to them. They signed those agreements, and we’ll live with it.”
After some more back-and-forth, Warren responded: “We are not going to beat Donald Trump with a man who has who knows how many non-disclosure agreements and the drip-drip-drip of stories of women saying they have been harassed and discriminated against.”
Other notable remarks from the evening included Warren telling the audience that Bloomberg called women “horse-faced lesbians,” Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) asking Buttigieg if he thought she was “dumb” for not knowing the name of the president of Mexico, and Buttigeig telling Sanders that the budget hole in his proposals was the size of the U.S. economy.
After the debate concluded, President Trump took to twitter and declared Bloomberg’s performance “the worst in the history of debates.”
“Mini Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones. He was stumbling, bumbling, and grossly incompetent. If this doesn’t knock him out of the race, nothing will. Not so easy to do what I did,” Trump tweeted. 
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Mini Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance tonight was perhaps the worst in the history of debates, and there have been some really bad ones. He was stumbling, bumbling and grossly incompetent. If this doesn’t knock him out of the race, nothing will. Not so easy to do what I did!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1230376522663391232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2020</a></blockquote>

MSNBC Celebrates Debate As ‘Television History’ Amidst Record-Breaking Disaster

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On Tuesday, MSNBC anchor Katy Tur attempted to speak to a supporter of presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), pinpointing a potential voter outside the democratic socialist&#8217;s rally.
However, the man Tur approached turned out to be a proud supporter of President Donald Trump. And when he was asked if he thought Sanders had any appeal, the Trump backer ripped apart the Left&#8217;s ideology as &#8220;anti-growth,&#8221; &#8220;anti-family,&#8221; &#8220;anti-American,&#8221; and &#8220;anti-life,&#8221; clearly surprising the MSNBC reporter.
&#8220;Can you tell us who you voted for?&#8221; asked Tur.
&#8220;Donald John Trump,&#8221; the voter proudly told the anchor.
&#8220;You voted for Donald John Trump. Look at that,&#8221; said Tur. &#8220;Bernie Sanders is not appealing to you?&#8221;
&#8220;The whole ideology would be destructive to the country,&#8221; the man replied. &#8220;It&#8217;s anti-growth. It&#8217;s anti-family. It&#8217;s anti-American. And, as a Roman Catholic, it&#8217;s anti-life.&#8221;
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&quot;Can you tell us who you voted for?&quot;
&quot;Donald John Trump.&quot;
&quot;Bernie is not appealing?&quot;
&quot;The whole ideology would be destructive to the country
&quot;It&#39;s anti-growth. It&#39;s anti-family. It&#39;s anti-American. And, as a Roman Catholic, it&#39;s anti-life.&quot;
Someone check on Nicole Wallace 😂 <a href="https://t.co/D9R8cRaPiy">pic.twitter.com/D9R8cRaPiy</a>
&mdash; Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1227340169201831936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The interview wasn&#8217;t the only shocking moment for MSNBC on Tuesday, either. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nh-dem-tells-msnbc-she-voted-for-bernie-sanders-after-network-treated-him-unfairly">The Daily Wire</a>, a Sanders backer told the network on live air that she shifted her vote to the Vermont senator because of MSNBC&#8217;s alleged biased treatment of Sanders.
“I want to say, the reason I went for Bernie is MSNBC,” the voter told MSNBC’s Ari Melber.
“I think it is completely cynical to say that he has lost 50% of his vote from the last time when there were two candidates,” the woman said. “Now there are multiple, wonderful candidates that would be great candidates and people that we could unify behind.”
“The kind of ‘Stop Bernie’ cynicism that I heard from a number of people… It made me angry, so I said, ‘Bernie’s got my vote,&#8217;” she added.
“This is such an interesting point,” Melber reacted. “What you’re saying is, and we take criticism because we’re journalists, you’re saying that hearing from people, whether it’s guests, contributors, the conversations you’ve heard, that you felt were designed to tear down Senator Sanders, actually endeared him to you.&#8221;
“Absolutely, I could have chosen several candidates, but that’s what pushed me over the edge for Bernie,” the voter answer.
President Trump dominated in New Hampshire on Tuesday, absolutely crushing past incumbent presidents&#8217; numbers in the primary by tens of thousands of votes.
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Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale noted Tuesday night: “With approximately 54% of precincts reporting, President Trump has already received more votes than Presidents Barack Obama (49,080), George W. Bush (52,962) and Ronald Reagan (65,033) in their respective re-election New Hampshire Primaries.”
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With approximately 54% of precincts reporting, President Trump has already received more votes than Presidents Barack Obama (49,080), George W. Bush (52,962) and Ronald Reagan (65,033) in their respective re-election New Hampshire Primaries.
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“The Democrat story in New Hampshire is the continued dominance of big government socialist policies and the success of their standard bearer, Bernie Sanders,” Parscale said in a statement, as noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-campaign-releases-numbers-showing-massive-support-declares-victory-in-new-hampshire">The Daily Wire</a>.
“No matter which Democrat eventually emerges from their months-long dumpster fire of a primary process, we know the contrast will be President Trump’s record of accomplishment and optimistic view of the future versus Democrats and their socialist, job-killing agenda,&#8221; the campaign manager added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-campaign-releases-numbers-showing-massive-support-declares-victory-in-new-hampshire">Trump Campaign Releases Numbers Showing Massive Support, Declares Victory In New Hampshire</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-nh-dem-tells-msnbc-she-voted-for-bernie-sanders-after-network-treated-him-unfairly">WATCH: NH Dem Tells MSNBC She Voted For Bernie Sanders After Network Treated Him Unfairly</a>

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WATCH: MSNBC Tries To Speak To Bernie Supporter, Accidentally Interviews Trump Supporter Who Unloads On The Left

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On Friday, MSNBC host Katy Tur appeared to believe that the Republicans controlled the U.S. Senate because of gerrymandering, or the lack thereof, even though gerrymandering has nothing to do with how Senators are elected.
&#8220;In case you missed it, majority doesn’t always rule in this country,&#8221; Tur Said. &#8220;Forty-eight senators voted to remove the President from office. Fifty-two voted to acquit. But the 48 actually represent 12 million more voters than the senators who decided to keep Donald Trump in the White House.”
“We’re not arguing that a simple majority of the population should decide whether to remove an impeached president from office,&#8221; Tur continued. &#8220;That is not in the Constitution. But it does serve to highlight a broad trend in our politics, the outsized influence of rural voters over those concentrated in the cities and suburbs.&#8221;
Tur then brought on Washington Post columnist Philip Bump and asked him, &#8220;So what’s the resolution to that? Is gerrymandering something that would help improve the situation? How does that sort of divide promote consensus in the Senate or even in the House?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I mean, the only resolution – gerrymandering is not going to do anything because in the Senate, we’re talking about states, right?&#8221; Bump responded. &#8220;You can’t gerrymander states. The only solution is for Democrats to appeal to voters in those states, right?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KatyTurNBC</a> worries about &quot;gerrymandering&quot; helping Republicans get elected to the SENATE, Washington Post&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/pbump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pbump</a> has to awkwardly correct her <a href="https://t.co/Jyr37B9O8y">pic.twitter.com/Jyr37B9O8y</a>
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<blockquote>KATY TUR: In case you missed it, majority doesn’t always rule in this country. Forty-eight senators voted to remove the President from office. Fifty-two voted to acquit. But the 48 actually represent 12 million more voters than the senators who decided to keep Donald Trump in the White House.
We’re not arguing that a simple majority of the population should decide whether to remove an impeached a president from office. That is not in the Constitution. But it does serve to highlight a broad trend in our politics, the outsized influence of rural voters over those concentrated in the cities and suburbs.
Joining me now, the Washington Post political reporter who pulled those numbers, Philip Bump.
Alright, so impeachment is an example of this. The 48 senators – I mean, 12 million more voters, that’s a lot.
PHILIP BUMP: Yeah. And this is votes, this isn’t population. I think that’s important to note because part of what inspired me to actually do this calculation is Trump and his team were always saying what about the will of these 63 million people who voted for him? Which is a fair point.
TUR: Yeah.
BUMP: But then by contrast, you had of course the voters who supported Hillary Clinton, speaking of the –
TUR: Sixty-five million.
BUMP: Exactly, that discrepancy. But then you had the 69 million who actually supported senators who wanted to see him removed from office.
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TUR: It’s also – when you look at judges and the way judges have been appointed. Not only the judges that Donald Trump has appointed since he’s been in office. The judges that were not appointed when President Obama was in office, I&#8217;m thinking very – I’m thinking of Merrick Garland in particular.
BUMP: Right. Yeah, no, exactly. What Mitch McConnell has done is he’s exacerbated the problem by weaponizing it, right? So he recognizes that he has this power to act as a check, to use this minority population as a check on what the rest of the country is doing. I mean, the example I use is Brett Kavanaugh. Who Brett Kavanaugh was appointed by a president who lost the popular vote and he was confirmed by a Senate which represented less than half the country, right? I mean, that is a stark example, and it’s one that Mitch McConnell has use repeatedly to act in contrast to the House.
TUR: It’s a bit of a kerfuffle.
BUMP: It is, it is. It’s a bit of a conundrum.
TUR: So what’s the resolution to that? Is gerrymandering something that would help improve the situation? Is – how does that sort of divide promote consensus in the Senate or even in the House?
BUMP: Well, I mean, the only resolution – gerrymandering is not going to do anything because in the Senate we’re talking about states, right? You can’t gerrymander states. The only solution is for Democrats to appeal to voters in those states, right?
And so, one of the things we see, one of the contrasts in American politics right now, is that Republicans are much more conservative than are Democrats liberal. Democrats are getting more liberal over time. But Democrats need to be able to appeal to people in those states, and one of the concerns that a lot of Democrats have is how do we do that well while at the same time effectively representing our more diverse base and our more diverse electorate?</blockquote>

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MSNBC’s Katy Tur: ‘Is Gerrymandering Something That Would Help’ Keep GOP Out Of Senate?

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On Monday night, reporting amid the Iowa caucuses that turned out to be a debacle, an MSNBC reporter reported on what a disastrous night it was for the Biden campaign, but as he did, a man and a woman apparently working for MSNBC and caught on a hot mic were discussing the night when the man commented, “God, what an f***ing disaster.”
 The reporter was in the middle of his spiel, which started like this:
<blockquote>But if we talk about what we can maybe call the “Joni Ernst factor,” how much is (sic)  the impeachment proceedings in Washington weighing on the mindset of these caucus-goers, what the Biden campaign has actually said is that they had some of their best fund-raising numbers in January as his name was being repeated often, but we also need to talk about the Mike Bloomberg factor, which is the fact that he’s now waiting in the wings —</blockquote>
At that point, a male voice could be heard in the background saying, “God, what an f***ing disaster.”
 The reporter continued, “ — waiting for Super Tuesday, potentially  to step in if Biden is not seen as as strong a candidate as he entered this race; the fundraising could really shrink in a hurry for the former vice-president with a poor showing here, and that’s the biggest concern, the fundraising more than the results here.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-top-biden-surrogate-iowa-caucus-results-cant-be-trusted">The Daily Wire</a> noted, Dana Remus, general counsel for the Biden campaign, sent a letter to the Iowa Democratic Party demanding answers for what happened at the caucuses, writing:
<blockquote>I write on behalf of the Biden for President Campaign regarding the considerable flaws in tonight’s Iowa Caucus reporting system, The app that was intended to relay Caucus results to the Party failed; the Party’s back-up telephonic reporting system likewise has failed. Now, we understand that Caucus Chairs are attempting to — and, in many cases, failing to — report results telephonically to the Party. These acute failures are concurring statewide …
We appreciate that you plan to brief the campaigns momentarily on these issues, and we plan to participate. However, we believe that the campaigns deserve full explanations and relevant information regarding the methods of quality control you are employing, and an opportunity to respond, before any official results are released. We look forward to hearing from you promptly.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shadow-faulty-iowa-caucus-app-linked-to-clinton-campaign-veterans">also reported</a>, “Iowa Democrats are blaming reporting inconsistencies and tabulation errors linked to coding problems inside the application, which left organizers confused and unable to report precinct results to the central party, and Democratic candidates all declaring victory in the first-in-the-nation presidential contest. ‘While our plan is to release results as soon as possible today, our ultimate goal is to ensure that the integrity and accuracy of the process continues to be upheld,’ the Iowa Democratic Party said in a statement released early Tuesday morning.”
Michael Bloomberg, sensing the disarray, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-bloomberg-makes-major-moves-after-democrats-screw-up-iowa-caucuses">committed to spending even more money</a> on his campaign. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/us/politics/michael-bloomberg-campaign-ads.html">reported</a>, “Encouraged by the murky outcome, Mr. Bloomberg authorized his campaign team to double his spending on television commercials in every market where he is currently advertising and expand his campaign’s field staff to more than two thousand people, strategists involved in the conversations said.”
Video of hot mic moment below:
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MSNBC host last night on a hot mic regarding Democrats&#39; Iowa caucuses: “What an F’ing distaster” <a href="https://t.co/idSaQWEJq0">pic.twitter.com/idSaQWEJq0</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1224827037954838528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: MSNBC Caught On Hot Mic About Iowa Caucuses: ‘What A F***ing Disaster’

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker and far-left activist Spike Lee told MSNBC&#8217;s Al Sharpton that senators will &#8220;burn in hell&#8221; if they acquit Trump.
“Let me ask you a question,” Lee said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/spike-lee-al-sharpton-msnbc-senators-will-burn-in-hell-impeachment">Fox News</a>. “Did they have to put their hands on the Bible when they took the vow?”
“I don’t know if they had a Bible out there but I think that they had the Bible up on the podium,” Sharpton responded. “Why do you ask?”
Erupting into laughter, Lee answered, &#8220;They’re going to burn in hell if they put their hand on that Bible.&#8221;
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Film Director and Activist Spike Lee shares his thoughts on impeachment and the importance of voting in the 2020 election live on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PoliticsNation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PoliticsNation</a> <a href="https://t.co/fDhd2GFToc">pic.twitter.com/fDhd2GFToc</a>
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As Lee went on, he said that Republicans will be &#8220;struck by lightning,&#8221; arguing that history will judge them harshly.
“I wouldn’t want to be standing [next] to none of those guys because they’re gonna be struck by lightning,” Lee said.  “History will say they were on the wrong side of history. The wrong side, the wrong side. So everybody — here&#8217;s the thing. I&#8217;m not speaking for anybody but myself. This is me speaking, everybody. Whoever comes out of the Democratic convention I’m voting for, because we cannot have another four years of Agent Orange.”
Spike Lee, who has called President Trump a &#8220;white supremacist,&#8221; has previously played the &#8220;wrong side of history&#8221; card when referencing the president and his supporters.
“I think that people out there really look in their heart and I truly believe people know what’s right and what’s wrong. You know that.” Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spike-lee-trump-white-supremacist-supporters-wrong-paul-bois">said in 2019</a>. “And a lot of these people getting behind this guy … they’re gonna be on the wrong side of history with him. … For money? What are you doing it for? I mean … you kneel down before the altar of the almighty dollar, then I guess all bets are off.”
Prior to that, Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-snakebit-sore-loser-spike-lee-furious-green-paul-bois">used his Oscar acceptance speech</a> after winning an award for screenwriting last year as a call to oust President Trump from office.
“The 2020 presidential election is around the corner,” said Lee. “Let’s all mobilize, let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing!”
President Trump ripped Lee on Twitter for his “racist hit,” mocking the director for being barely able to read his notes.
“Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!” he wrote.
When Lee&#8217;s &#8220;BlacKkKlansman&#8221; lost Best Picture to &#8220;Green Book,&#8221; he responded <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-snakebit-sore-loser-spike-lee-furious-green-paul-bois">like a sore loser</a> and nearly stormed out of the Dolby Theater.
“After presenter Julia Roberts announced ‘<a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/news/green-book-wins-oscar-best-picture-1203146929/" data-tag="green-book">Green Book</a>‘ as Best Picture, AP reporter Andrew Dalton was one of several journalists who <a href="https://twitter.com/andyjamesdalton/status/1099889513537536000" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">noticed</a> Lee wave his arms in anger before storming out of the theater,” reported Variety last year. “However, before he could leave, he was stopped at the doors and was forced to return to his seat once the speeches had stopped.”

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WATCH: Spike Lee Tells Al Sharpton Senators Will ‘Burn In Hell’ For Acquitting Trump

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Spike Lee

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Chris Matthews likened it to a &#8220;three car funeral,&#8221; Joe Scarborough called it a bad omen, and Jeffrey Toobin simply hailed it an embarrassment. No matter who one consults about Monday night&#8217;s Iowa Democratic Party caucuses, the opinions among Democrats and their allies are nearly universal: Trump won big.
Over at MSNBC, a noticeably disgusted Chris Matthews said President Trump was &#8220;chuckling all night&#8221; as the Democratic Party struggled to so much as organize a &#8220;three car funeral.&#8221;
&#8220;The guy in the White House is chuckling all night here, showing the Democrats can&#8217;t even get a three car funeral organized, or whatever you want to call it. I would say to the people of Iowa, &#8216;Will the last person leaving Des Moines, please turn out the lights?&#8217;  This has not been a success,&#8221; Matthews frustratingly declared, as reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2020/02/04/disgusted-matthews-mocks-three-car-funeral-iowa-preview-dem">Newsbusters</a>.
Matthews then tried to spin this gross display of incompetence on the part of the Democrats into the fault of the Iowa caucuses themselves, even though Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez was <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1224475047974330369?s=20">literally boasting</a> hours before the election about the &#8220;reforms&#8221; the party had instituted to ensure a more transparent primary process.
&#8220;I think we have to ask ourselves about the viability of the Iowa caucuses as an institution to start off this decision this country has to make to find someone to challenge Trump,&#8221; continued Matthews.
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Chris Matthews on Iowa Caucuses: This has not been a success. <a href="https://t.co/tAmEUmfDXO">pic.twitter.com/tAmEUmfDXO</a>
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Joe Scarborough of &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; blasted the party for leaving the results of Monday night&#8217;s important election in the hands of a &#8220;crappy app&#8221; they did not even know would properly work.
&#8220;What is wrong with the Iowa Democratic Party?&#8221; Scarborough began on Tuesday morning. &#8220;Again, this is a party who botched the call four years ago, rushed it when the media was shocked that they would be so transparent, and now they get on the phone for 74 seconds? The world&#8217;s watching this. We&#8217;re not being melodramatic.&#8221;
&#8220;For a year and a half, American politics has been focused on this moment, and the Democratic Party has a crappy app and say, well, nothing happened to the app,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Then you hear reports something did happen to the app. Was there election interference? Did somebody try to hack into the app? Was it just pure incompetence? Did they lose the information? Why were they only on the phone for 74 seconds when they should be holding two-hour press conferences explaining to America and the world what happened.&#8221;
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&quot;The world&#39;s watching this,&quot; says <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeNBC</a> of the delayed results for the Iowa caucuses <a href="https://t.co/RqtL1EY6Qj">pic.twitter.com/RqtL1EY6Qj</a>
&mdash; Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/1224656620447289345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Writing at CNN, legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/opinions/iowa-caucus-is-an-embarrassment-toobin/index.html">minced no words</a> by deeming the night an &#8220;embarrassment.&#8221; Toobin even argued that the whole concept of the Iowa caucuses should be scrapped altogether.
&#8220;Maybe the fiasco of the late reporting results from the Iowa caucus this year will have a positive legacy — the end of the caucus process and the invitation to another state to start the delegate selection process,&#8221; wrote Toobin. &#8220;The caucuses are an embarrassment to the Democratic Party and the United States. This is no way to pick a nominee.&#8221;
None other than hardcore Bernie Sanders supporter Cenk Uygur of &#8220;The Young Turks&#8221; expressed the most outrage over the Iowa results.
&#8220;I’m enraged about the lack of transparency from Democratic officials in Iowa &amp; nationally. Who designed the vote counting app &amp; who paid for it? The point of winning #IowaCaucuses is to get positive press coverage and now that’s ruined,&#8221; Uygur declared on Twitter. 
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I’m enraged about the lack of transparency from Democratic officials in Iowa &amp; nationally. Who designed the vote counting app &amp; who paid for it? The point of winning <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IowaCaucuses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IowaCaucuses</a> is to get positive press coverage and now that’s ruined. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotMeUs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NotMeUs</a>
&mdash; Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) <a href="https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1224566964623798272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/cenkuygur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cenkuygur</a> on impact of delayed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IowaCaucus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IowaCaucus</a> results, &quot;The press that you get out of it is the relevant part of Iowa and they just ruined that for the winner.&quot;
Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/tytlive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#tytlive</a>: <a href="https://t.co/epNjbsjqnS">https://t.co/epNjbsjqnS</a> <a href="https://t.co/vL7WIf6FuG">pic.twitter.com/vL7WIf6FuG</a>
&mdash; The Young Turks (@TheYoungTurks) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks/status/1224567250994094080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘Three Car Funeral’: Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Others Freak Over Iowa Embarrassment

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Joe Scarborough

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On Friday, Jason Johnson. politics editor of The Root and MSNBC contributor, attacked President Trump, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/not-talking-hypotheticals-msnbc-pundit-says-trump-could-end-voting-in-california">saying</a> that Trump’s attorney Alan Dershowitz had asserted that Trump could do whatever he wants, and that because Trump would listen to Dershowitz he might shut down voting in the entire state of California. Johnson snapped, “Imagine Donald Trump deciding, sometime in June, well, I heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants voted in California. So, I&#8217;ve decided that, during the presidential election, California has to undergo extreme vetting because we can’t trust their votes. We’re going to shut down voting in a state.”
Johnson was responding to Trump defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who had stated that the president <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dershowitz-abuse-of-power-not-an-impeachable-offense" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">could not be impeached</a> unless he committed an actual crime. Dershowitz had asserted:
<blockquote>Abuse of power, even if proved, is not an impeachable offense. That’s exactly what the framers rejected. They didn’t want to give Congress the authority to remove a president because he abused his power. They have to prove treason, they have to prove bribery, or they have to prove other crimes and misdemeanors. Virtually half of American presidents — from Adams, to Jefferson, to Lincoln, to Roosevelt — have been accused of abuse of power, and the framers explicitly rejected those kinds of broad, open-ended criteria,</blockquote>
Johnson launched into his rant like this:
<blockquote>And when people spout nonsense, whether its Dershowitz or whether it’s Fox News, Donald Trump always listens. The scenario that he set up yesterday, by basically saying the president can do what he wants; imagine Donald Trump deciding, sometime in June, well, I heard this conspiracy theory that a whole lot of illegal immigrants voted in California. So, I&#8217;ve decided that, during the presidential election, California has to undergo extreme vetting because we can’t trust their votes. We’re going to shut down voting in a state. This is literally the kind of thing he will do now. We’re not talking hypotheticals, anymore.</blockquote>
He continued, “And that’s the part that I think disturbs me; for all of these people who were worried about their elections, we’re talking about the actual country.  And anything he’ll do to Joe Biden he’ll do to a senator, he’ll do to a senator in his own party. So why people aren’t concerned, why people don’t realize that this is step one to actual autocracy. Not the theoretical one, not the one we talk about in class, but an actual president who will say, ‘This state’s votes don’t count. These people don’t have a right to vote. These people can’t come into the country.’ That is what they are allowing to happen here. And I don’t understand how anyone can not be terrified, not just angry, but literally terrified about what the future’s gonna bring.”
Johnson also ripped Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5_Fhyt3K0">saying</a>, “I’m on the side of the American people, and I’m on the side of history. And history will look shamefully on this; history will look shamefully on John Roberts, the way that he has sat there through this process; it’s akin, you said he’s sorta fading in the back, it’s like, imagine being at a restaurant where you’re getting really terrible service,; and you keep saying out loud, &#8216;Man, if only the manager would do something.&#8217; The manager’s right there. He’s watching as you’re being mis-served and everything’s coming out wrong. That is essentially what he’s done.”

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MSNBC Contributor Goes Bonkers: Trump Could Shut Down Voting In California

Far-left conspiracy network MSNBC promoted a new conspiracy theory on Monday, tying President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to kill Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) commander Qassem Soleimani to testimony that Democrats want in Trump&#8217;s Senate impeachment trial.
Trump authorized a drone strike on Solemani, who was a terrorist responsible for murdering hundreds of American soldiers, as he was leaving Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020, in response to Soleimani&#8217;s involvement in an Iranian terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Former national security adviser John Bolton responded at the time by writing, &#8220;Congratulations to all involved in eliminating Qassem Soleimani. Long in the making, this was a decisive blow against Iran&#8217;s malign Quds Force activities worldwide. Hope this is the first step to regime change in Tehran.&#8221;
On Monday, far-left MSNBC opinion host Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell suggested without evidence that Trump may have authorized Soleimani&#8217;s killing in an effort to dissuade Bolton from testifying against him in the Senate.
O&#8217;Donnell suggested that the proof of his unfounded conspiracy theory was the timing of events, saying that the White House received a manuscript of Bolton&#8217;s book, which alleges that Trump withheld financial assistance from Ukraine until the country would announce an investigation into the Bidens, two days before the strike took out Soleimani.
&#8220;John Bolton is an extreme hawk on Iran,&#8221; O&#8217;Donnell wrote. &#8220;2 days after Bolton submitted his manuscript to the White House, Trump killed Iran&#8217;s General Qassem Soleimani. Coincidence? Or was Trump trying to influence Bolton not to testify to the Senate?&#8221;
O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s conspiracy theory is completely false as Trump authorized the military to be able to kill Soleimani <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-soleimani-strike-planned-months-ago-trump-waited-for-embassy-attack">seven months ago</a>, which not only predates Democrats&#8217; entire partisan impeachment, but also predates Trump&#8217;s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky which was the catalyst for Democrats&#8217; partisan impeachment.
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I guess one good thing about this impeachment hearing is that it will hopefully go late so I don&#39;t have to listen to conspiracy theories like this tonight. <a href="https://t.co/aoOZrDTau3">pic.twitter.com/aoOZrDTau3</a>
&mdash; Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cam_Cawthorne/status/1221963718000508929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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