NBC News took a wave of backlash over a Monday headline addressing the most recent terror attack — driven by anti-Israel sentiment — that took place over the weekend in Boulder, Colorado.
The <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lone-wolf-attacks-boulder-dc-highlight-difficulties-securing-public-sp-rcna210369?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma&amp;taid=683eef431dc732000173e815&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">headline</a> read, &#8220;Lone wolf attacks on Jewish Americans in Boulder and D.C. highlight the difficulties in securing public spaces&#8221; — and appeared to attribute the dramatic uptick in violent attacks on Jewish Americans to the complexities of managing public safety.
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Lone wolf attacks on Jewish Americans in Boulder and D.C. highlight the difficulties in securing public spaces. <a href="https://t.co/IyAYfjqHv1">https://t.co/IyAYfjqHv1</a>
— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1929883043663138930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But as critics quickly pointed out, a string of &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; attacks all apparently driven by the same hatred, the same ideological views — and, in some cases, the same religion — quickly becomes less of a lone wolf and more of a predictable pattern of behavior.
&#8220;Just a string of &#8216;lone wolf&#8217; attacks aimed at the same group using the same rhetoric based on the same ideology,&#8221; David Harsanyi posted.
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Just a string of &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; attacks aimed at the same group using the same rhetoric based on the same ideology. <a href="https://t.co/fqSJuXz5zD">https://t.co/fqSJuXz5zD</a>
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1929885792660267337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;Lone wolf attacks.&#8217; Pluralizing lone wolf is perfection,&#8221; John Ekdahl added.
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“Lone wolf attacks” 
Pluralizing lone wolf is perfection. <a href="https://t.co/pBBFEjk5Gu">https://t.co/pBBFEjk5Gu</a>
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnEkdahl/status/1929896994719273324?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There was a time when the OK hand gesture was used to link everyone, from West Point cadets to firemen to high school students, to a single, insidious white supremacy conspiracy,&#8221; T. Becket Adams said. &#8220;But we&#8217;re at &#8216;lone wolves&#8217; now for back-to-back targeted attacks on Jews. That&#8217;s &#8230; telling.&#8221;
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There was a time when the OK hand gesture was used to link everyone, from West Point cadets to firemen to high school students, to a single, insidious white supremacy conspiracy.
But we&#8217;re at &#8220;lone wolves&#8221; now for back-to-back targeted attacks on Jews. That&#8217;s &#8230; telling. <a href="https://t.co/alLZl957QZ">https://t.co/alLZl957QZ</a>
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) <a href="https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/1929906990127382960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;More than one and it’s not &#8216;lone wolf.&#8217; It never was,&#8221; radio host Dana Loesch declared.
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More than one and it’s not “lone wolf,” 
It never was. <a href="https://t.co/Akf3YxMNyu">https://t.co/Akf3YxMNyu</a>
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1929913699323568623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In the horrific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terror-in-colorado-pro-israel-demonstrators-attacked-in-firebombing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attack in Boulder</a>, Mohamed Sabry Soliman attacked a pro-Israel group protesting the terror group Hamas and calling for the immediate return of all remaining hostages. Using a homemade flamethrower, he injured several of the demonstrators — one critically. That attack came just 11 days after Elias Rodriguez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-house-issues-statement-of-outrage-after-terror-attack-on-israeli-embassy-staffers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gunned down</a> two young Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. Both, according to reports, used the phrase &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; either during or after the attacks.

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With the Republican-led One Big Beautiful Bill over its first major hurdle in the U.S. House, Democrats and media are making sure the knives are out at every opportunity lest it pass the Senate and give President Donald Trump another win.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Discussion regarding what the bill will and won’t cut — particularly with regard to Medicaid — took center stage on several broadcasts as Democrats and show hosts alike insisted people would lose health care coverage if it passed. The bill’s defenders argued that anyone stripped of coverage by this bill — namely illegal immigrants and those who were receiving payments through fraudulent means — should not have been getting Medicaid coverage in the first place.
On ABC News’ “This Week,” former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus defended the measure, saying that Medicaid had become bloated in recent years but that the cuts being discussed were targeted to remove benefits going to people who were in the United States illegally.
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Donna Brazile pressed the point by first claiming that the Trump administration was cutting aid across the board, particularly to areas hit by recent storms — and she argued that the American people would not be pleased with the &#8220;bone-crushing&#8221; changes.
&#8220;We had 50 million people on Medicaid in 2011. Today we’ve got 80 million people on Medicaid. This bill doesn&#8217;t cut Medicaid, he said. &#8220;It says that for illegal immigrants, there will be cuts.&#8221;
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On GOP-led budget bill, former RNC chair <a href="https://twitter.com/Reince?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reince</a> Priebus said: “We had 50 million people on Medicaid in 2011. Today we’ve got 80 million people on Medicaid. This bill doesn&#8217;t cut Medicaid &#8230; It says that for illegal immigrants, there will be cuts.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/qjCkcbK2qg">https://t.co/qjCkcbK2qg</a> <a href="https://t.co/1qfVKhXEae">pic.twitter.com/1qfVKhXEae</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1929198183277600981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times&#8217; national correspondent Astead Herndon said that Democrats were leaning in to what they saw as disappointment among Trump supporters because he&#8217;d been so focused on getting the budget bill over the line. He went on to claim that there was &#8220;a sense that he is not actually delivering on the core promises&#8221; — but he left out the fact that the One Big Beautiful Bill represents the fulfillment of major campaign promises such as &#8220;no tax on tips&#8221; and the permanent extension of the tax rates implemented under Trump&#8217;s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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NYT’s <a href="https://twitter.com/AsteadWH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AsteadWH</a> said some of Pres. Trump&#8217;s supporters are surprised “about the things that he has been focusing on&#8221; like tariffs or the spending bill, adding that there&#8217;s a &#8220;sense that he is not actually delivering on the core promises.” <a href="https://t.co/naOG3dmK1b">https://t.co/naOG3dmK1b</a> <a href="https://t.co/LE58bUd94u">pic.twitter.com/LE58bUd94u</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1929199711711322544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Brazile also brought billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk into the conversation, saying that despite his announcement that he&#8217;d be stepping away from his role in the Trump administration, he had already done more damage than could easily be undone.
&#8220;Elon Musk may have walked away from his temporary special government job, but no one will forget the harm that he has done to not only America&#8217;s reputation across the world, but also the harm that he&#8217;s done to the American people,&#8221;she claimed.
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“Elon Musk may have walked away from his temporary special government job, but no one will forget the harm that he has done to not only America&#8217;s reputation across the world, but also the harm that he&#8217;s done to the American people,” <a href="https://twitter.com/donnabrazile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonnaBrazile</a> said. <a href="https://t.co/88pTxxsTQQ">https://t.co/88pTxxsTQQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/pVk9msZd0L">pic.twitter.com/pVk9msZd0L</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1929204844448952549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; anchor Margaret Brennan highlighted the fact that the Senate — if it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill at all — was likely to make changes, and she spoke with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about how those changes might be received.
Bessent outlined the items that he said &#8220;have to stay in&#8221; — specifically: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans for American-made automobiles — and made it clear that it was not his call, but President Trump&#8217;s. &#8220;They&#8217;re not necessarily my red lines. The president has his campaign promises that he wants to fulfill for working Americans,&#8221; he said.
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President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will be taken up next in the Senate — with some changes expected. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there are some items that &#8220;have to stay in&#8221; — no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans… <a href="https://t.co/MpAxXs2NBS">pic.twitter.com/MpAxXs2NBS</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1929221177945272465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke with Brennan about the bill, which he opposes in its current form, saying that in his mind, &#8220;the math doesn&#8217;t really add up.&#8221; Paul has also vocally opposed Trump&#8217;s willingness to use tariffs as leverage to bring foreign nations to the table regarding trade agreements.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; on Sunday that &#8220;the math doesn&#8217;t really add up&#8221; on the cost of President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill,&#8221; while outlining his opposition as the legislation moves to the Senate this week. <a href="https://t.co/p7VFMlpZcN">https://t.co/p7VFMlpZcN</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1929251077364322647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Paul also said that if a provision raising the debt ceiling was removed, he would likely support the measure. &#8220;I would be very surprised if the bill at least is not modified in a good direction,&#8221; he said of possible Senate changes.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he thinks there are now four Senate Republicans who would vote to block President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big, beautiful bill,&#8221; and &#8220;I would be very surprised if the bill at least is not modified in a good direction.&#8221;
Paul adds that he would likely support the bill… <a href="https://t.co/2VDikZ8hjZ">pic.twitter.com/2VDikZ8hjZ</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1929199658779455997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; anchor Dana Bash circled back to the idea of Medicaid cuts coming from the bill&#8217;s passage during an interview with OMB Director Russell Vought — and she cited Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and his comments suggesting that there would be cuts to the program.
&#8220;No one will lose coverage as a result of this bill,&#8221; Vought said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not what Josh Hawley, who is not exactly a liberal Democrat, said. He said, &#8216;It&#8217;s wrong to cut health care for the working poor, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about here with Medicaid,'&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Well, we continue to work with people in the Senate as to working them through with the specifics of the bill, what it does and what it doesn&#8217;t do,&#8221; Vought pushed back.
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VOUGHT: “No one will lose coverage as a result of this bill.”
BASH: “That&#8217;s not what Josh Hawley, who is not exactly a liberal Democrat, said. He said, ‘It&#8217;s wrong to cut health care for the working poor, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about here with Medicaid.’”
VOUGHT: “Well,… <a href="https://t.co/1w99EWULm9">pic.twitter.com/1w99EWULm9</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1929193721196609694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Bash also brought in House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who blasted the bill outright: &#8220;Trump&#8217;s one, big ugly bill narrowly escaped the House of Representatives. And we&#8217;re going to continue to press our case across the country, partner with Senate Democrats in making clear to the American people the type of damage that this bill would do if it ever became law.&#8221;
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“Trump&#8217;s one, big ugly bill narrowly escaped the House of Representatives. And we&#8217;re going to continue to press our case across the country, partner with Senate… <a href="https://t.co/ikJ5aeUu4s">pic.twitter.com/ikJ5aeUu4s</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1929173562033619424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Spin Cycle: To Deal Or Not To Deal — On Tariffs, Trade, And One Big Beautiful Bill

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The U.S. House met its stated goal, passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend — and by Sunday morning, the talking heads were doing their best to direct as much rain as possible onto the House Republicans&#8217; parade.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; host Margaret Brennan spoke with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) about the total projected cost of the bill as well as some of the provisions that were included before it was sent on to the U.S. Senate.
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says $4 to $5 trillion over the next decade is &#8220;about the right estimate&#8221; for the total cost of President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill,&#8221; which passed the House last week, and he says &#8220;cuts to government&#8221; through the bill will give the American… <a href="https://t.co/VBNuI7huRY">pic.twitter.com/VBNuI7huRY</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1926653258107338988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Johnson said that $4 to $5 trillion over approximately ten years was &#8220;about the right estimate&#8221; for the measure&#8217;s total cost, but he also said that the cuts included in the bill would provide savings to taxpayers as well.
&#8220;At the same time, we have historic savings for the American people — cuts to government to make it more efficient and effective and work better for the people,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;That was a big campaign promise of President Trump and a big promise of ours, and we&#8217;re going to achieve that. So in the calculation here, there&#8217;s more than $1.5 trillion in savings, Margaret, for the people.&#8221;
Johnson referred to the bill as &#8220;arguably the most consequential legislation Congress will pass in many generations.&#8221;
Brennan pushed back, noting that the Kaiser Foundation had evaluated the bill and said that changes to Medicaid could result in 200,000 people in Johnson&#8217;s home state of Louisiana losing their health care coverage. Johnson said that the only thing the bill would cut with regard to Medicaid was waste and abuse.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a moral component to what we&#8217;re doing. When you make young men work, it&#8217;s good for them, it&#8217;s good for their dignity, it&#8217;s good for their self-worth and it&#8217;s good for the community that they live in,&#8221; he explained.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates nearly 200,000 people in Louisiana could lose Medicaid coverage under cuts from President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill.&#8221;
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) denies that there will be cuts and says the focus is on &#8220;fraud, waste and abuse,&#8221;… <a href="https://t.co/JeKUjhH2Gn">pic.twitter.com/JeKUjhH2Gn</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1926657133568839898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Johnson also acknowledged that some Senate Republicans objected to the expanded SALT (state and local taxes) cap, but noted that the large number of House Republicans in blue states had made the expansion a &#8220;political reality.&#8221;
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Several Senate Republicans may oppose changes to the expanded SALT (state and local taxes) cap in President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill&#8221; that just passed in the House.
Speaker Mike Johnson says &#8220;there&#8217;s got to be a modification to SALT,&#8221; and that this is a &#8220;political… <a href="https://t.co/iRPykObz48">pic.twitter.com/iRPykObz48</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1926664743156142186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Brennan then spoke with Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), who was in favor of the expanded SALT cap because Connecticut has a higher state and local tax burden, but opposed the bill otherwise.
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The House-passed budget bill&#8217;s SALT cap increase &#8220;is going to be good&#8221; for Connecticut, which has one of the highest state and local tax burdens in the U.S., says Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), but adds, the bill &#8220;fails spectacularly&#8221; otherwise.
&#8220;The American people want basically three… <a href="https://t.co/XdAjfZ3pXu">pic.twitter.com/XdAjfZ3pXu</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1926667714690433478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that he believed there was enough opposition in the Senate to &#8220;hold up&#8221; the bill.
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Sen. Ron Johnson says there&#8217;s enough opposition in the Senate to hold up Trump&#8217;s &#8216;big, beautiful&#8217; bill <a href="https://t.co/yT8FaA6NBc">https://t.co/yT8FaA6NBc</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1926727234477256757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Johnson also made an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where he claimed that the bill was &#8220;immoral,&#8221; and added, &#8220;It&#8217;s wrong. It has to stop.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RonJohnsonWI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonJohnsonWI</a> says the House tax and spending cut bill is mortgaging American children&#8217;s future: &#8220;It&#8217;s immoral. It&#8217;s wrong. It has to stop.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/rd0Gnanxlt">pic.twitter.com/rd0Gnanxlt</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1926633584959324344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Speaker Johnson also made a stop on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; telling anchor Jake Tapper that he hoped to see it move through the Senate without major changes. &#8220;It&#8217;s best not to meddle with it too much,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a> warns senators about making changes to President Trump&#8217;s tax and spending cut bill: &#8220;It&#8217;s best not to meddle with it too much.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/SsBPUkYsev">pic.twitter.com/SsBPUkYsev</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1926628762889703470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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House Lawmakers Pass Budget Bill Ahead Of Speaker Johnson’s Memorial Day Deadline

Spin Cycle: Kill Bill — The One Big Beautiful One, That Is

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt sparred with NBC News White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor during Thursday&#8217;s briefing after Alcindor claimed that President Donald Trump had presented an &#8220;unsubstantiated&#8221; video of crosses marking the graves of white farmers in South Africa.
Alcindor repeated several times that the video was &#8220;unsubstantiated&#8221; and &#8220;not true&#8221; before asking what the process was for vetting such videos before showing them to world leaders like Trump did during an Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. Leavitt, who was having none of it, fired back immediately.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> nukes Fake News <a href="https://twitter.com/Yamiche?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Yamiche</a> for LYING about the burial ground of white farmers killed in South Africa <a href="https://t.co/BhCTGumnoz">pic.twitter.com/BhCTGumnoz</a>
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&#8220;The president showed a video that he said showed more than 1,000 burial sites of white South Africans that he said were murdered. We know that that was not true and that the video wasn&#8217;t true, and so I wonder, why did the president choose to show that —&#8221; Alcindor said.
&#8220;What&#8217;s not true, Yamiche?&#8221; Leavitt interrupted.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not true that the video was showing a burial site. It is unsubstantiated that&#8217;s the case —&#8221; Alcindor continued.
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s — it is true that that video showed the crosses that represent —&#8221; Leavitt pushed back.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not the burial site and that&#8217;s what the president claimed —&#8221; Alcindor tried again.
&#8220;The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin, and those crosses are representing their lives and the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it,&#8221; Leavitt said as Alcindor continued to try to talk over her.
&#8220;Are you disputing that there&#8217;s no —&#8221; Leavitt pressed.
&#8220;I&#8217;m disputing the fact that the video showed what the president claimed it showed, because it did not show that,&#8221; Alcindor insisted. &#8220;But even more, who at the White House is responsible for —&#8221;
&#8220;It did show that, it showed white crosses representing people who have perished because of racial persecution,&#8221; Leavitt continued.
&#8220;— verifying the videos that the president shows, and what protocols are in place when there&#8217;s unsubstantiated information being put out for the world leaders —&#8221; Alcindor tried one more time.
&#8220;Yamiche, what&#8217;s unsubstantiated about the video?&#8221; Leavitt asked again — and then she noted that The Associated Press had also shared a photo of the same memorial, along with a caption that read, &#8220;A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder, is seen on a hillside in Ysterberg near Polokwane, South Africa.&#8221;
&#8220;So it is substantiated, not just by that video and the physical evidence that everybody saw on display in the Oval Office, but also by another outlet in this room, The Associated Press, so you should take it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated.&#8221;
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

Karoline Leavitt Spars With NBC Reporter In Briefing Room Spat Over White South African Murders

Karoline Leavitt

White House

With just days to go before the release of &#8220;Original Sin&#8221; — a book exploring former President Joe Biden&#8217;s obvious cognitive decline from Jake Tapper (CNN) and Alex Thompson (Axios) — everyone on the Sunday political shows was talking about Biden, who knew what, and when they knew it.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
If one were to simply watch those interviews cold, not having lived through four years of a Biden presidency or seen dozens of speeches and interviews even from midway through his single term, one might be inclined to believe the pundits and elected Democrats when they insisted that Biden was absolutely fine at least until his disaster of a televised debate with President Donald Trump — and, according to at least one, he might even still be fine.
But Democrats and pundits said those things to an audience made up of Americans who did watch Biden as he repeatedly got lost on stage, tripped up the stairs of Air Force One, alternately shouted and whispered at awkward times, and lost his train of thought on a regular basis. Still, they committed to the narrative — Biden was definitely at his best until maybe the debate, and there was no reason for anyone to suggest otherwise or believe that anyone was covering up Biden&#8217;s condition.
On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Rep. Ro Khanna insisted that there was no cover-up, but also said that the people who had been closest to President Biden during the last year or so of his presidency owed the American people &#8220;an explanation — but he did not clarify why they needed to explain if they were not covering anything up.
&#8220;It’s painfully obvious President Biden should not have run,&#8221; Khanna said.
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“It’s painfully obvious President Biden should not have run.”
Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said there wasn&#8217;t a cover-up of former Pres. Biden mental fitness ahead of the 2024 election, but added those close to Biden and his advisers “owe an explanation.” <a href="https://t.co/MTbOVJxR88">https://t.co/MTbOVJxR88</a> <a href="https://t.co/9UJQqpL4gF">pic.twitter.com/9UJQqpL4gF</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1924122551883645008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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During a panel discussion later on in the broadcast, former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile claimed that since she had lost a step or two with age, it was totally fine for the same thing to have happened to Biden.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to stick by Joe Biden. And look, we all — I don&#8217;t have the pep in my step that I used to have,&#8221; she said.
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On questions of former Pres. Biden’s mental fitness ahead of the 2024 election, former DNC chair <a href="https://twitter.com/donnabrazile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonnaBrazile</a> says, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to stick by Joe Biden. And look, we all — I don&#8217;t have the pep in my step that I used to have.”<a href="https://t.co/KJmZwLyqkW">https://t.co/KJmZwLyqkW</a> <a href="https://t.co/yPGHteC3gZ">pic.twitter.com/yPGHteC3gZ</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1924134592497271104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus pushed back, noting that conservatives had been repeatedly mocked and gaslighted — not to mention shut down by legacy media hosts — when they stated the obvious about the president&#8217;s declining faculties.
&#8220;People were put to shame — me and others out there — that talked about Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity &#8230; The fact is they were managing his decline in a nursing home in the White House,&#8221; he said.
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Former RNC chair <a href="https://twitter.com/Reince?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reince</a> Priebus: &#8220;People were put to shame — me and others out there — that talked about Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity &#8230; The fact is they were managing his decline in a nursing home in the White House.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/mEq24OQYpx">https://t.co/mEq24OQYpx</a> <a href="https://t.co/glQtYP9iwY">pic.twitter.com/glQtYP9iwY</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1924136867680735338?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) took time out from defending criminal illegal alien gang members to address the recently released audio from Biden&#8217;s interview with former Special Counsel Robert Hur — which he said shed light on a problem that no one had been aware of at the time.
&#8220;Obviously, if we could redo this tape and play it over again, we would do things differently,&#8221; Van Hollen said. &#8220;I think we can acknowledge that this was a — people overlooked a serious problem or were just not aware.&#8221;
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&#8220;Hindsight is 20/20,&#8221; Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says of the audio tapes that have been released of then-President Biden&#8217;s interview with special counsel Robert Hur, highlighting Biden&#8217;s memory lapses at the time.
&#8220;Obviously, if we could redo this tape and play it over again,… <a href="https://t.co/iITJ2PC9aH">pic.twitter.com/iITJ2PC9aH</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1924134615121375425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) took a similar approach on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; saying that Democrats might have encouraged Biden to exit the 2024 presidential race sooner if only they had known. Murphy also said that Democrats had been wrong to brush off voters&#8217; concerns about Biden&#8217;s acuity during the 2024 election cycle.
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In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says that former President Biden should have exited the 2024 race earlier as newly released audio tapes renew concerns over Biden&#8217;s health and fitness while in office. <a href="https://t.co/KU1cqLKcHR">https://t.co/KU1cqLKcHR</a> <a href="https://t.co/mTJHsYG5rI">pic.twitter.com/mTJHsYG5rI</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1924102792177725590?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. James Clyburn took things to a whole different level on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; telling anchor Jake Tapper that he wasn&#8217;t even sure Biden would be incapable of serving a second term in the White House.
&#8220;Yes, I thought [he could serve another term] back then. I still think that, but I don&#8217;t know that,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesClyburn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesClyburn</a> on whether he still believes President Biden could have served another term: &#8220;Yes, I thought that back then. I still think that, but I don&#8217;t know that.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/hfRtH5REyl">pic.twitter.com/hfRtH5REyl</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1924123561721000190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As to Biden&#8217;s disastrous debate performance, Clyburn continued to play defense. &#8220;Whether or not that was just an incident or whether that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way of knowing which one was true,&#8221; he claimed.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesClyburn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesClyburn</a> reflects on Biden’s disastrous 2024 debate performance: “Whether or not that was just an incident or whether that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way of knowing which one was true.” <a href="https://t.co/Sso7mSltX0">pic.twitter.com/Sso7mSltX0</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1924100037597884572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Van Jones and David Axelrod were less magnanimous to Biden, his White House, and the party that enabled him.
&#8220;There are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against this Republic,&#8221; Jones said.
&#8220;I blame the people around him,&#8221; Axelrod added. &#8220;Real loyalty demanded that they say, &#8216;Mr. President, it&#8217;s just not there and it&#8217;s not in your interest&#8217; [to run again].&#8221;
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Longtime Democratic strategists react to new reporting that top Biden aides hid signs of decline from the public.<a href="https://twitter.com/VanJones68?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VanJones68</a>: &#8220;There are people who knew and said nothing, and that is a crime against this Republic.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@davidaxelrod</a>: “I blame the people around him&#8230; real loyalty… <a href="https://t.co/Obz2wpk3Jm">pic.twitter.com/Obz2wpk3Jm</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1924101934442569760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio De Janeiro

Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix

Axios

Jake Tapper

Joe Biden

Three House Democrats — all from New Jersey — and the Mayor of Newark descended on Delaney Hall on Friday, demanding access to and oversight of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center that is being used to house criminal illegal aliens. What followed was a &#8220;they said &#8211; they said&#8221; scenario involving the Department of Homeland Security and the Democrats — and some of it played out on the Sunday morning political talk shows.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
The protest that took place on Friday — according to Newark&#8217;s Democratic Mayor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newark-mayor-arrested-after-dem-reps-storm-new-jersey-ice-facility-charge-past-security-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ras Baraka</a> and Garden State Democratic Reps. LaMonica McIver, Bonnie Watson-Coleman, and Rob Menendez — was simply several members of Congress exercising their oversight authority. Watson-Coleman told CNN on Saturday that the group was simply waiting for &#8220;a tour&#8221; of the facility, the obvious implication being that the tour had been prearranged.
Mayor Baraka, who is currently campaigning to be New Jersey&#8217;s next governor, has been protesting Delaney Hall&#8217;s existence since the beginning. During the week prior to the protest, city workers parked a bulldozer in front of the gate in order to block access to the facility. Baraka was arrested during the protest and detained by ICE agents.
The Department of Homeland Security offered an entirely different take on the incident: initial reports stated that the New Jersey Democrats had been part of a protest group that waited outside the gates until they were opened for a vehicle transporting detainees – at which point they rushed past security and onto the property. DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that if they had requested a tour rather than simply staging a protest outside the gate, one would have been arranged.
On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) addressed reports that ICE could potentially arrest the three Democratic representatives who had been involved in the protests as well.
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After ICE threatened to arrest three Democratic members of Congress following a protest in Newark, New Jersey, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) says any such arrests would &#8220;be a very drastic move.&#8221;
&#8220;I would only do that if they were complicit with a crime,&#8221; he says. <a href="https://t.co/N1Qa6fOGHJ">pic.twitter.com/N1Qa6fOGHJ</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1921601294113878082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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McCaul said that ICE arresting the members of Congress would be a &#8220;very drastic move,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I would only do that if they were complicit with a crime.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know all the facts behind this,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;If they were just visiting a detention center, that&#8217;s — I&#8217;ve done that many times. If they were disrupting law enforcement, that&#8217;s another question. We can peacefully protest in this country, but you cannot be complicit with gang violence against our law enforcement, and I think perhaps that&#8217;s what it comes down to.&#8221;
Anchor Dana Bash also brought up the incident during Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; — and she brought in the three New Jersey Democrats to weigh in on what had happened.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepBonnie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepBonnie</a> on clash with ICE outside Newark detention facility: “Chaos ensued when someone on the phone above the leaders of ICE who were with us at that facility instructed them to go out of the facility, go to the private property and lock the mayor of the largest city in the… <a href="https://t.co/EEqEYmukMp">pic.twitter.com/EEqEYmukMp</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1921561701293363522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Chaos ensued when someone on the phone above the leaders of ICE who were with us at that facility instructed them to go out of the facility, go to the private property, and lock the mayor of the largest city in the state of New Jersey up. That&#8217;s absurd. That&#8217;s un-American. That&#8217;s scary. That&#8217;s determination to intimidate people in this country,&#8221; Rep. Watson-Coleman said.
During a previous CNN interview on Saturday, Watson-Coleman had claimed that DHS officials were &#8220;lying&#8221; when they accused the Democrats and protesters of getting rough with ICE agents, and said that any body cam footage that showed such actions would have to be &#8220;manufactured.
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Responding to DHS accusing her of &#8220;body slamming&#8221; an ICE officer, <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLaMonica?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepLaMonica</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a>, &#8220;I honestly do not know how to body slam anyone. There&#8217;s no video that supports me body slamming anyone.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMenendez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMenendez</a> says, &#8220;There were a lot of opportunities for DHS, for ICE to… <a href="https://t.co/Fhfpq06jHq">pic.twitter.com/Fhfpq06jHq</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1921578454127882426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. McIver responded to DHS reports that she had &#8220;body-slammed&#8221; an ICE agent during the scuffle, saying, &#8220;I honestly do not know how to body slam anyone. There&#8217;s no video that supports me body slamming anyone.&#8221;
Menendez then claimed that ICE agents had intentionally escalated the situation, adding, &#8220;There were a lot of opportunities for DHS, for ICE to de-escalate the situation. They chose not to&#8230; It&#8217;s something that should really shock all Americans.&#8221;
Later on in the broadcast, Bash brought in a panel to discuss the situation — and the possibility that the three Democratic Reps. could face arrest.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepSuhas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepSuhas</a> on DHS threatening to arrest members of Congress: “If I&#8217;m going to be put behind bars for trying to stand up for the constitutional rights of my constituents, for standing up for civil liberties, bring it on.”<a href="https://twitter.com/KSoltisAnderson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KSoltisAnderson</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/BradOnMessage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BradOnMessage</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/XochitlHinojosa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@XochitlHinojosa</a> join… <a href="https://t.co/IhnQI47pJe">pic.twitter.com/IhnQI47pJe</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1921581066390745219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Spin Cycle: The Democrats Went Down To Newark …

Spin Cycle: The Democrats Went Down To Newark ...

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In two clips that did not make it into Sunday&#8217;s NBC News broadcast, President Donald Trump sparred with the &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host over the tone of her questions — and of legacy media outlets in general — and jabbed at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over alleged insider trading.
&#8220;The media is so fake,&#8221; Trump told Welker. &#8220;Like even the way you ask questions, every question is asked in a negative vein. &#8216;There&#8217;s a toy company that took a toddler&#8217;s you know, whatever &#8230;&#8217; But you don&#8217;t talk about the fact that gasoline is down at numbers that nobody believes possible. You know why they&#8217;re down, by the way? Drill, baby, drill! We&#8217;re drilling like crazy right now.&#8221;
Welker pushed back, protesting, &#8220;We try to make sure every question is fair, Mr. President.&#8221;
&#8220;Every question you ask says a very negative slant. And I’m fine for responding to you. I don’t think you’re very difficult at all to respond to, to be honest with you. But you know what? You should ask some positive things,&#8221; Trump insisted. &#8220;Like, &#8216;Sir, it&#8217;s amazing what you&#8217;ve done with gasoline.&#8217; Because you know what? Gasoline&#8217;s big business.&#8221;
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🚨NEW: Trump ROASTS Kristen Welker in interview segment that didn&#8217;t air on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; Sunday morning🚨
WELKER: &#8220;We try to make sure every question is fair, Mr. President.&#8221;
TRUMP: &#8220;Every question you ask says a very negative slant. And I’m fine for responding to you. I… <a href="https://t.co/S6koLuWY86">pic.twitter.com/S6koLuWY86</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1919124993323270375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump also took aim at Pelosi in another clip that didn&#8217;t make it into the final broadcast, saying that someone should look into how much money she made investing while in Congress — where she potentially had access to information that the general public did not have.
Responding to a question about how he could personally profit from his time as president, Trump said, &#8220;If I own stock in something and I do a good job, and the stock market goes up, I guess I&#8217;m profiting.&#8221;
&#8220;But who really profits is somebody like Nancy Pelosi, who uses inside information,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;She worked for $175,000 a year, and that’s at the high end. And she’s worth $150, $200 million? Okay? You ought to look at Nancy Pelosi and you ought to look at some of these politicians that are stone cold crooks.&#8221;
&#8220;I was very wealthy when I came in. Being president probably cost me money if you really look,&#8221; he concluded.
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🚨NEW: Trump CALLS OUT Nancy Pelosi in interview segment that didn&#8217;t air on &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; Sunday morning🚨
&#8220;If I own stock in something and I do a good job, and the stock market goes up, I guess I’m profiting.&#8221;
&#8220;But who really profits is somebody like Nancy Pelosi, who uses… <a href="https://t.co/aPcMe5NYnK">pic.twitter.com/aPcMe5NYnK</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1919127974848180487?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘The Media Is So Fake’: Trump Jabs At Welker, Nancy Pelosi In Unaired ‘Meet The Press’ Clips

Kristen Welker

Meet the Press

President Donald Trump sat down with host Kristen Welker for a full length interview on Sunday&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; — and throughout the conversation, he often paused to challenge the mainstream media narratives and the framing Welker chose for her questions.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Trump&#8217;s repeated jabs at Welker during the interview reflect the tone that most associated with his second administration have taken with members of the press — and the tone that Trump himself exhibited in a previous wide-ranging interview with ABC News anchor Terry Moran — making his interview the perfect summary of a week in legacy media narratives.
Welker began the interview with questions about the economy, asking Trump whether he deserved credit  — or blame — for the general direction the economy has taken during the first 100 days of his administration. The president threaded the needle a bit on that question, noting that some policy changes impact the economy more quickly than others — meaning that some of the current economic numbers were still a direct result of policies implemented by former President Joe Biden.
To Welker, who asked whether the economy was truly a Trump economy, the president replied, &#8220;I think certain aspects of it are. Costs are. I was able to get down the costs, but even that, it takes awhile to get them down but we got them down good. &#8230; We lost $5-6 billion a day [on trade] with Biden — $5-6 billion. And I&#8217;ve got that down to a great number right now in a record time.&#8221;
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NBC: Is this now your economy, sir?<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;I think certain aspects of it are. Costs are. I was able to get down the costs&#8230; We lost $5-6 billion a day with Biden&#8230; and I&#8217;ve got that down to a great number right now in a record time.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Qy2LkRzsm2">pic.twitter.com/Qy2LkRzsm2</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919020316489126364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NBC News, true to form, published that same clip under a headline suggesting that Trump was passing off the less positive economic numbers on Biden — without noting that the president was right when he said that some policies took longer to show results than others might.
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President Trump says ‘good parts’ of economy are his and ‘bad parts are the Biden economy’ <a href="https://t.co/9mEbnABSAq">https://t.co/9mEbnABSAq</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1919019693156843824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Welker pressed the president on the tariffs, arguing that there were some small businesses hurt by the initial impact — but Trump immediately challenged her framing of the issue.
&#8220;You pick a couple of little businesses. What about the car business? They&#8217;re going to make a fortune because of the tariffs &#8230; the head of the union who was no fan of mine &#8230; now he&#8217;s saying&#8230; &#8216;We&#8217;ve been waiting 40 years for somebody to do what Trump is doing.'&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> calls out Fake News NBC: &#8220;You pick [out] a couple of little businesses. What about the car business? They&#8217;re going to make a fortune because of the tariffs&#8230; the head of the union who was no fan of mine&#8230; now he&#8217;s saying&#8230; &#8216;We&#8217;ve been waiting 40 years for somebody to… <a href="https://t.co/iVSAr0w9UZ">pic.twitter.com/iVSAr0w9UZ</a>
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When the topic turned to illegal immigration, Trump referenced what Attorney General Pam Bondi has labeled the &#8220;real constitutional crisis&#8221; — the fact that Democrats and a number of carefully-shopped district court judges have attempted to overwhelm the system by forcing the Trump administration to adjudicate every illegal immigrant&#8217;s individual case prior to ordering deportation.
&#8220;The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out — and we have some judges that want everybody to go to court,&#8221; Trump said, arguing that based on the numbers, it would take hundreds of years to process every illegal immigrant through the court system. &#8220;We have millions of people. We&#8217;re going to have millions of court cases?&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;The big emergency right now is that we have thousands of people that we want to take out — and we have some judges that want everybody to go to court &#8230; We have millions of people. We&#8217;re going to have millions of court cases?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Eli9acE8Dd">pic.twitter.com/Eli9acE8Dd</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919020763912220928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Welker pressed Trump on whether or not he believed everyone in the United States — whether citizen or not — was entitled to due process and the right to plead their case before a judge, and Trump&#8217;s reply was simple: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m not a lawyer.&#8221;
&#8220;We have thousands of people &#8230; some of the worst, most dangerous on earth — and I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it,&#8221; Trump added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;We have thousands of people &#8230; some of the worst, most dangerous on earth — and I was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/uNJESyWas1">pic.twitter.com/uNJESyWas1</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919022289397452899?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NBC&#8217;s interpretation of that exchange was slightly different: &#8220;Trump, asked if he has to &#8216;uphold the Constitution,&#8217; says, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know&#8217;.&#8221;
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Welker went on to challenge Trump&#8217;s actions regarding certain political adversaries – in particular those who were directly involved in prosecuting the legal cases against him — asking whether he was making matters worse by stripping their security clearances.
&#8220;You said you wanted to unify the country. Does going after political foes undercut that goal?&#8221; she asked.
Trump, who has often said that the cases against him were entirely political in nature, said no — the goal was to make sure that the people filling such roles were &#8220;honest people.&#8221;
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Welker: “You said you wanted to unify the country. Does going after political foes undercut that goal?”<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: “No. We want honest people.” <a href="https://t.co/ESGFrufqPC">pic.twitter.com/ESGFrufqPC</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919023028702224674?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What do you say to those who believe you are taking the country down an authoritarian path?&#8221; Welker asked, provoking an immediate reaction from Trump.
&#8220;There you go again. Why don&#8217;t you ask in a different way? Many people want to come into our country. Many people love Trump &#8230; I won the popular vote,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;They had their chance at the election, and they lost big.&#8221;
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NBC: What do you say to those who believe you are taking the country down an authoritarian path?<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;There you go again. Why don&#8217;t you ask in a different way? Many people want to come into our country. Many people love Trump&#8230; I won the popular vote&#8230; they had their… <a href="https://t.co/XFx4X21jfF">pic.twitter.com/XFx4X21jfF</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919024153950134384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Welker even asked Trump about rumors that he was actively considering running for a third term as president — rumors that the president quickly laughed off.
&#8220;I&#8217;m looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody — ideally a great Republican, a great Republican — to carry it forward,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Four years is plenty of time to do something really spectacular.&#8221;
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&#8220;I&#8217;m looking to have four great years and turn it over to somebody — ideally a great Republican, a great Republican — to carry it forward,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>.
&#8220;Four years is plenty of time to do something really spectacular.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/pK6t6X3AiA">pic.twitter.com/pK6t6X3AiA</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1919026233943187660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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When asked directly, Trump named Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential successors.

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Spin Cycle: Trump Takes On NBC Anchor In Combative ‘Meet The Press’ Interview

Spin Cycle: Trump Takes On NBC Anchor In Combative 'Meet The Press' Interview

Legacy Media

President Trump

Tariffs

According to data compiled by the Media Research Center, 92% of the major network media coverage — throughout the first 100 days of President Donald Trump&#8217;s second term — has been negative.
The MRC looked at coverage across the three major broadcast companies — ABC, CBS, and NBC — and set aside comments made by expressly partisan guests, whether they were in support of or opposition to the Trump administration. Instead, they only recorded &#8220;evaluative comments&#8221; made by those whose role with the networks suggests they are to behave in a non-partisan fashion: anchors, reporters, and experts.
This is the same rubric by which MRC graded the bias of networks covering former President Joe Biden in 2021 and of networks covering Trump during his first term in 2017 — and based on the data, Trump&#8217;s coverage has been even more negative during his second term than it was during his first.
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🚨 BREAKING STUDY: The Trump-hating media gives President Trump 92% negative coverage in his first 100 days in office. <a href="https://t.co/fr3XUB8eWS">https://t.co/fr3XUB8eWS</a>
— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) <a href="https://twitter.com/newsbusters/status/1916820547415003383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;MRC analysts tallied 1,841 explicitly evaluative statements about  President Trump and his Trump administration, of which 1,698 (92.2%) were negative vs. a mere 143 (7.8%) which were positive,&#8221; the report stated, noting that the data were pulled from some 899 stories about President Trump or his administration that aired during evening news broadcasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC between January 20 and April 9.
The biggest takeaway, according to the report, was the dramatic shift from the 59% positive coverage the same three networks offered former President Biden.
Another change of note was the focus on policies rather than Trump&#8217;s personality, which drove the 89% negative coverage Trump received in 2017. Major story topics included tariffs (361 minutes of coverage), the Department Of Government Efficiency (310 minutes) and illegal immigration (233 minutes) — and all showcased networks that stood in opposition to Trump&#8217;s positions and policies on those issues.
The data also pointed to a disparity between the way the public views President Trump and his policies — particularly with regard to illegal immigration, where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent polling</a> indicates the majority of Americans largely favor Trump&#8217;s deportation plan. Despite that, the legacy networks&#8217; messaging on the issue of illegal immigration has been 93% negative.
Trump fared better than a few associated with his administration, however. Elon Musk and DOGE saw 96% negative coverage, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8217;s coverage was 100% negative.

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Media Bias

Media Research Center

Democrats and their media counterparts did their level best on Sunday to convince viewers that President Donald Trump had crossed the line they&#8217;ve all been clutching their pearls over for weeks and deported American citizens — minor children, no less. But as Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained, that is not at all what transpired.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
The discussion around illegal immigration — and President Trump&#8217;s ambitious mass deportation plan — has been contentious since long before he won reelection in November of 2024. And as his administration began to make good on his promises to deport illegal aliens in large numbers — beginning with those who had committed crimes in addition to crossing the border illegally — poll numbers backed his play as a majority of Americans said they were in favor of all illegal aliens facing deportation.
But opponents of his policies have thrown caution to the wind as they back the illegals instead, taking up the cause of an illegal immigrant member of a transnational gang and defending a judge who has been charged with crimes related to assisting an illegal immigrant in evading capture. When they learned that three children, aged two, four, and seven — who are American citizens — were relocated with their illegal immigrant mother when she was deported, they thought they finally had the narrative that so many had been predicting.
MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-says-black-american-citizens-next-in-line-if-deportations-are-allowed-to-continue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Symone Sanders-Townsend</a> said just a week prior that the deportation of Salvadoran national and MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was proof that the Trump administration would eventually come for American citizens. She also argued that he would start with communities of color.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-claims-that-if-trump-can-deport-terrorists-he-can-deport-any-one-of-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> claimed a month earlier on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; that the Trump administration could come for anyone if they could deport terrorists. &#8220;You just gotta keep your eyes open, y’all,&#8221; she warned, going on to imply that even American citizens were at risk of deportation. &#8220;Because if they can just come up and take somebody because they’ve made a decision that you’re supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country when we’ve never been there.&#8221;
By Sunday morning, the narrative was set: Trump&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security was deporting minor children who were American citizens.
On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; host Margaret Brennan blindsided Border Czar Tom Homan, who said he did not know about that specific case, with the story.
&#8220;On Friday, there were three American citizen children, born here, who were deported along with their mothers from Louisiana down to Honduras,&#8221; Brennan began, noting that one of the three children was a four-year-old who had stage-four cancer and saying that the child had been sent to Honduras without being allowed to first speak with a doctor &#8220;and without medication.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand this child&#8217;s mother entered this country illegally, but isn&#8217;t there some basis for compassionate consideration here that should have allowed for more consultation or treatment?&#8221; Brennan asked.
Homan objected to Brennan&#8217;s framing of the question, saying that he was not familiar with the specific case but adding, &#8220;No U.S. citizen child was deported.&#8221;
&#8220;The mother was deported along with the children,&#8221; Brennan insisted.
&#8220;The children aren&#8217;t deported,&#8221; Homan said again. &#8220;The mother chose to take the children with her.&#8221;
&#8220;Having a U.S. citizen child after you enter this country illegally is not a get out of jail free card. It doesn&#8217;t make you immune from our laws,&#8221; he added.
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White House &quot;border czar&quot; Tom Homan says he is not aware of the case last week when a mother who had entered the U.S. illegally was deported to Honduras with her 4-year-old child who has stage-four cancer. But he adds: &quot;Having a U.S. citizen child after you enter this country… <a href="https://t.co/aEr57Y5Ga2">pic.twitter.com/aEr57Y5Ga2</a>
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&#8220;Having a U.S. citizen child doesn&#8217;t make you immune from our laws of the country. American families get separated every day by law enforcement,&#8221; Homan repeated, saying that the mothers in question had received due process and had chosen to take their children with them when they were removed from the United States.
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White House &quot;border czar&quot; Tom Homan says he disagrees with the federal judge who said there was &quot;no meaningful process&quot; behind the deportation of a woman to Honduras with her children, one of whom is a 2-year-old U.S. citizen. He says the woman &quot;had due process&quot; and decided to… <a href="https://t.co/WR3wDZ7Ouj">pic.twitter.com/WR3wDZ7Ouj</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1916527787109687485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash used the same framing on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; posing a question to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about the &#8220;three American citizen children&#8221; who &#8220;were deported with their families, including one suffering from metastatic cancer.&#8221;
Schumer used the opportunity to claim that the Trump administration was violating due process by deporting illegal aliens whose presence in the United States is in itself a violation of the immigration process.
&#8220;Due process is a hallmark of what our country is all about, the rule of law, and ICE and Trump seem to break it in every single way. He believes he’s a king. He is not, and the American people are totally against what he is doing in this regard,&#8221; Schumer claimed — despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling data</a> that says the people are, in fact, in favor of mass deportations.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a> responds to reports that the Trump administration deported three US citizen children with their families: “Due process is a hallmark of what our country is all about, the rule of law, and ICE and Trump seem to break it in every single way. He believes he’s a king. He… <a href="https://t.co/zYwaMEpyCC">pic.twitter.com/zYwaMEpyCC</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1916487619761803332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; host Kristen Welker tried the exact same set-up with Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-just-not-true-rubio-spars-with-nbc-host-over-claim-american-kids-were-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rubio</a> — even after he explained, as Homan had, that it was the illegal alien mothers who were subject to the deportation orders and the children were simply taken with them when they were removed from the country. He noted that for the children, because of their citizenship status, there was no bar for reentry to the United States for them.
Welker pushed back anyway, asking, &#8220;Is it the U.S. policy to deport children, even U.S. citizens, with their families — and I hear what you’re saying — without due process, just to be very clear?&#8221;
“No, no, no,” Rubio objected. “No, no, again: if someone’s in the country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported. If that person is with a two-year-old child, or has a two-year-old child, and says, ‘I want to take my child with me,’ well then what —? You have two choices. You can say, ‘Yes, of course you can take your child, whether they’re a citizen or not, because it’s your child.’ Or you can say, ‘Yes, you can go, but your child must stay behind.&#8217;”
Rubio noted that would create a whole new problem, saying, “And then your headlines would read, ‘U.S. holding hostage two-year-old, four-year-old, seven-year-old, while mother deported.’ The parents make that choice.”
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&quot;We have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavor that we want to continue to be involved in,&quot; says <a href="https://twitter.com/SecRubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecRubio</a> on negotiations around Ukraine.
&quot;There are reasons to be optimistic, but there are reasons to be realistic&#8230; We&#39;re close, but we&#39;re not close enough.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BtVrodmRUy">pic.twitter.com/BtVrodmRUy</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1916480429235769647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Spin Cycle: Dems, Media Desperate To Convince Everyone That Trump Is ‘Deporting Americans’

Spin Cycle: Dems, Media Desperate To Convince Everyone That Trump Is 'Deporting Americans'

Deportations

Illegal Immigration

Secretary of State Marco Rubio fired back Sunday over a &#8220;misleading headline&#8221; that claimed President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration officials had &#8220;deported&#8221; three American citizens, all of whom are minor children.
Rubio took issue with the claim itself, telling &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker that the three children were citizens and had not been deported at all, explaining that they were welcome to return to the United States at any time and had only left because their mothers — who were in the country illegally — chose to take them along when they were deported.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SecRubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecRubio</a> nukes <a href="https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kwelkernbc</a> on the latest misleading Fake News hoax: &#8220;Three U.S. citizens ages 4, 7, and 2 were not deported — their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers! &#8230; The parents make that choice.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/IJt1Lz1xWN">pic.twitter.com/IJt1Lz1xWN</a>
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&#8220;On the headline, that&#8217;s a misleading headline,&#8221; Rubio protested. &#8220;Three U.S. citizens ages four, seven, and two, were not deported — their mothers, who were illegally in this country, were deported. The children went with their mothers!&#8221;
&#8220;If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States if their father or someone here wants to assume them, but ultimately who was deported was their mothers, who were here illegally,&#8221; Rubio continued. &#8220;The children just went with their mothers. But it wasn&#8217;t like — you guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the two-year-old and threw him on an airplane, that&#8217;s misleading! That&#8217;s just not true!&#8221;
Welker pushed back, asking whether it was the Trump administration&#8217;s official policy to &#8220;deport&#8221; American citizens if they were children whose parents were in the country illegally and thus subject to deportation.
&#8220;Is it the U.S. policy to deport children, even U.S. citizens, with their families — and I hear what you&#8217;re saying — without due process, just to be very clear?&#8221; Welker asked.
&#8220;No, no, no,&#8221; Rubio objected. &#8220;No, no, again: if someone&#8217;s in the country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported. If that person is with a two-year-old child, or has a two-year-old child, and says, &#8216;I want to take my child with me,&#8217; well then what —? You have two choices. You can say, &#8216;Yes, of course you can take your child, whether they&#8217;re a citizen or not, because it&#8217;s your child.&#8217; Or you can say, &#8216;Yes, you can go, but your child must stay behind.'&#8221;
Rubio noted that would create a whole new problem, saying, &#8220;And then your headlines would read, &#8216;U.S. holding hostage two-year-old, four-year-old, seven-year-old, while mother deported.&#8217; The parents make that choice.&#8221;

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‘That’s Just Not True!’: Rubio Spars With NBC Host Over Claim American Kids Were Deported

'That's Just Not True!': Rubio Spars With NBC Host Over Claim American Kids Were Deported

Marco Rubio

Democrats and their media surrogates were clearly back on their heels Sunday as they attempted to simultaneously defend efforts to retrieve deported illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and fight their way out of increasingly dismal approval ratings.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Sunday&#8217;s spin was largely focused on Abrego-Garcia — as Democrats and Republicans split on whether the illegal alien, who had been living in Maryland despite a legal deportation order issued in 2019, had been denied due process — and Senator Chris Van Hollen&#8217;s (D-MD) trip to El Salvador on his behalf.
But Democrats also have to contend with the fact that their party is increasingly unpopular even with their own base — and that members of the party do not agree on what&#8217;s causing that problem or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-honeymoon-is-over-longtime-dem-strategist-trashes-contemptible-little-twerp-david-hogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how to fix it</a>. Newly-elected Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg announced early in the week that his organization, Leaders We Deserve, planned to dump $20 million into primary challenges against aging Democrats.
Hogg&#8217;s announcement prompted the ire of longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who referred to the DNC Vice Chair as a &#8220;contemptible little twerp&#8221; and suggested that the DNC could sue him for working against the party&#8217;s interests. Hogg fired back, saying that Carville had not won an election since before he was born.
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🔥HOGG vs. CARVILLE feud heats up: Hogg tears into Carville for calling him “a contemptible little twerp.&quot;
&quot;James Carville has not won an election since before I was born. These are the same ones that had $2 billion to win an election and still lost.&quot;
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Rep. James Coburn (D-SC) made an appearance on MSNBC, where he claimed that there was nothing wrong with his party&#8217;s message and that depressingly low approval ratings were due to legacy media failing to promote that message heavily enough.
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🚨Clyburn: Democrats have a great message. The reason they&#39;re having problems is because the media isn’t leftwing enough. <a href="https://t.co/tsb0cvn4bW">pic.twitter.com/tsb0cvn4bW</a>
&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1913784052223742219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Complicating matters even further are recent polls that indicate more and more Americans are siding with President Donald Trump on illegal immigration, with a majority of voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">favoring the deportation</a> of all illegal immigrants.
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Immigration is &quot;where Trump wants the focus&#8230; Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top.&quot; 
-His net approval on immigration is positive
-A plurality say under Trump immigration policy is on the right track (unlike under Biden)
-Most want all undocumented immigrants deported <a href="https://t.co/5RbgJPjW7D">pic.twitter.com/5RbgJPjW7D</a>
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By Sunday, Van Hollen had returned from his humanitarian mission to visit deported illegal alien Abrego-Garcia in El Salvador — so his next order of business was a netw0rk-by-network tour to talk about it.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Van Hollen leaned into the assertion that Abrego-Garcia had been denied due process and attempted to spin the trip solely as an effort to defend the illegal&#8217;s rights.
&#8220;I am not defending the man. I&#8217;m defending the rights of this man to due process,&#8221; he claimed. CNN assisted Van Hollen in his efforts, describing Abrego-Garcia simply as a &#8220;Maryland resident.&#8221;
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“I am not defending the man. I&#39;m defending the rights of this man to due process.” 
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen responds to criticism after advocating for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident deported for alleged gang ties despite a court order. <a href="https://t.co/BZt1UFtQGG">https://t.co/BZt1UFtQGG</a> <a href="https://t.co/AC5H0nSGyG">pic.twitter.com/AC5H0nSGyG</a>
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Van Hollen also criticized Salvadoran officials, whom he said had set up photo ops during their meeting to make it appear as though Abrego-Garcia was being treated better than he actually was: &#8220;The Salvadoran authorities tried to deceive people. They tried to make it look like he was in paradise.&#8221;
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen describes his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. 
&quot;The Salvadoran authorities tried to deceive people. They tried to make it look like he was in paradise.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/CB4ds4BOgX">https://t.co/CB4ds4BOgX</a> <a href="https://t.co/VvekLMi59J">pic.twitter.com/VvekLMi59J</a>
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Van Hollen repeated that same sentiment on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; saying, &#8220;They go to great lengths to deceive people, and that&#8217;s what you saw. These government guys essentially told the waiters to bring these drinks that appear to look like margaritas to the table. No one touched them.&#8221;
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says El Salvador&#39;s government &quot;staged&quot; elements of his photos with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a Salvadoran supermax prison, &quot;to create the impression that this is a guy in paradise.&quot;
&quot;They go to great lengths… <a href="https://t.co/KmKlcFQrok">pic.twitter.com/KmKlcFQrok</a>
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On NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Van Hollen claimed that the Trump administration was &#8220;flouting the courts&#8221; and  provoking a &#8220;constitutional crisis&#8221; by allowing Abrego-Garcia – who is a citizen of El Salvador — to remain in Salvadoran custody.
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Sen. Van Hollen says U.S. in constitutional crisis with Trump ‘flouting the courts’: Full interview <a href="https://t.co/tigmhVXude">https://t.co/tigmhVXude</a>
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And on &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; Van Hollen admitted to anchor Shannon Bream that his trip to El Salvador had been an &#8220;official Congressional trip,&#8221; meaning that it had been financed with taxpayer dollars.
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🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisVanHollen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisVanHollen</a> confirms taxpayers paid for him to fly to El Salvador and sip margaritas with a deported illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member <a href="https://t.co/xByXzeRoYi">pic.twitter.com/xByXzeRoYi</a>
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CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed Van Hollen on Abrego-Garcia&#8217;s alleged ties to violent Salvadoran street gang MS-13 — noting that the Trump administration has cited court documents indicating that he is or was a member — but the Maryland Senator admitted he had not even asked about that.
&#8220;Can you say with absolute certainty that he is not, nor has he ever been a member of the MS-13 gang, and did you ask him point blank?&#8221; Bash asked.
&#8220;What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject. The subject at hand is that he and his administration are defying a court order to give to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights. They are trying to litigate on social media what they should be doing in the courts,&#8221; Van Hollen complained. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t ask him that because I know what his answer is what he told me was he was sad and traumatized that he was being in prison because he has committed no crimes, and that goes to the heart of this issue because he&#8217;s being denied his due process rights.&#8221;
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BASH: “Can you say with absolute certainty that he is not, nor has he ever been a member of the MS-13 gang, and did you ask him point blank?”
VAN HOLLEN: “What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject. The subject at hand is that he and his administration are… <a href="https://t.co/QlXZZANLXf">pic.twitter.com/QlXZZANLXf</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1913945462542942658?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, during a different segment on ABC News, host Jon Karl pressed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on the party&#8217;s struggles with low popularity numbers — and Hogg&#8217;s promise to aid in unseating some incumbent Democrats going into 2026.
&#8220;I look forward to standing behind every single Democratic incumbent, from the most progressive, to the most centrist, and all points in between,&#8221; Jeffries replied.
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When asked about DNC vice chair David Hogg pushing to unseat some incumbents, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says, “I look forward to standing behind every single Democratic incumbent, from the most progressive, to the most centrist, and all points in between.” <a href="https://t.co/QVCltLFudC">https://t.co/QVCltLFudC</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vr4s5xkLTm">pic.twitter.com/Vr4s5xkLTm</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1913983140319600783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But Hogg also made it clear later in the broadcast that he had no intention of backing down either. &#8220;We cannot just be the party that is against Donald Trump. We have to be a party that doesn&#8217;t have a 27% approval rating from our own base. That is not a survivable future.&#8221;
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“We cannot just be the party that is against Donald Trump. We have to be a party that doesn&#39;t have a 27% approval rating from our own base. That is not a survivable future,” DNC vice chair David Hogg says of his push to challenge incumbent House Democrats. <a href="https://t.co/DaDPijvbEu">https://t.co/DaDPijvbEu</a> <a href="https://t.co/K1rfpnOzsn">pic.twitter.com/K1rfpnOzsn</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1913996362988847126?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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