<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thats-not-fairsuch-a-cheap-shot-the-view-blows-up-as-alyssa-farah-griffin-and-kellyanne-conway-clash/">Alyssa Farah Griffin</a> admitted on Monday that she had &#8220;worked together&#8221; with New York Times reporter <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/maggie-haberman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maggie Haberman</a> — who just published a book about former President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> — while she was still working in the Trump White House.
Griffin, who recently joined ABC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-view/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The View</a>&#8221; as one of two Republican cohosts — the other being Ana Navarro — took on several different roles while working for the former president but left the White House after the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill. She and her cohosts welcomed Haberman to join Monday&#8217;s discussion.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin admits she &quot;worked together&quot; with NYT&#39;s Maggie Haberman while at the White House and wonders about Trump&#39;s obsession with her. &quot;I think it&#39;s about The New York Times which he is uniquely obsessed with [because he wants their approval],&quot; Haberman said. <a href="https://t.co/y2e5jNwZuH">pic.twitter.com/y2e5jNwZuH</a>
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&#8220;Maggie, I can speak from personal experience — we worked together when I was at the White House — and there was no reporter who got under Donald Trump&#8217;s skin the way you did, but he was also fixated on and almost seemed to want your approval,&#8221; Griffin began, referencing her time as the White House Communications Director.
&#8220;There were countless times you&#8217;ll remember that I would have to go grab you and say, &#8216;He wants to do an interview now,'&#8221; Griffin continued. &#8220;And in fact, a couple of times, if the terms weren&#8217;t right, you&#8217;d say no. Why do you think he&#8217;s so fixated on you — and it goes into the same question of afraid of you?&#8221;
&#8220;Alyssa, I really think it&#8217;s about The New York Times, which he is uniquely obsessed with, and this has gone back for decades,&#8221; Haberman replied. &#8220;His sense of being from the outer boroughs in New York City, the elites who he felt like looked down on him, even though he wanted their approval.&#8221;
&#8220;I really think that&#8217;s a lot of what it&#8217;s about,&#8221; Haberman concluded, noting that she was just the reporter with whom he had direct interaction — which was why to the outsider, it might appear as though the obsession was with her rather than with the outlet for which she worked.
Haberman later went on to blame the media — primarily in the decade prior to Trump&#8217;s foray into politics — for essentially allowing him to build an empire of mythology around himself.
&#8220;Where I do think there is a significant criticism of the media is the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, when he was doing all of this myth making about himself and building this artifice brick by brick — and each brick was a news story&#8230; that, I think, is something the industry needs to deal with,&#8221; Haberman concluded.
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Instead of blaming the media for doing Hillary Clinton&#39;s bidding by promoting Trump in 2016 because he&#39;s who she wanted to face, Haberman blames the media of the 70s, 80s, and 90s for helping Trump with his &quot;mythmaking&quot; and &quot;building this artifice brick by brick.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UQQHiY7w8w">pic.twitter.com/UQQHiY7w8w</a>
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Ex-Trump Staffer Admits She ‘Worked Together’ With NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman During White House Years

Ex-Trump Staffer Admits She 'Worked Together' With NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman During White House Years

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Journalist Lara Logan ripped first lady Jill Biden, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/lara-logan-trashes-jill-biden-for-lying-about-her-husbands-dementia-truly-reprehensible-and-disgusting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling her out</a> and accusing her of covering up what Logan called President Biden’s “dementia.”
Logan was responding to a New York Times <a href="//2C096BA2-6640-434B-8461-AF97178AE9A8/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> by a member of their editorial board that mocked Republican candidates having their wives act as major parts of their campaigns.
“The notion that there is some meaningful insight about a candidate to be had from his spouse praising him in ads or defending him in interviews or simply appearing at his campaign events is weak at best. Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey, may genuinely believe he’s the cat’s pajamas; that doesn’t change the guy’s disturbing authoritarian Trumpiness,” Michelle Cottle wrote.
Asked about the NYT piece by Newsmax’s Eric Bolling, Logan savaged Jill Biden.
“I believe in following the facts and the truth – and finding the principles – and there’s a principle here in what you’re talking about, right? Which is that you’re never going to see the New York Times doing an article about the fact that Jill Biden is propping up her husband,” she snapped.
“I mean, if you want to know something that is truly reprehensible and disgusting, here is this woman who knows that her husband has dementia, and yet she’s lying to the whole country,” she declared. “She’s lying to her own base, lying to her own supporters. I mean, if there’s anything nauseating about what anyone’s spouse is doing, it’s really quite extraordinary to watch this woman trying to cover up with for the absolute embarrassment that passes for a cognizant human being in the president today.”
At the end of her diatribe, Cottle wrote, “Women who value the ability to control their own bodies should make clear at the polls that they are too smart to fall for this lazy whitewashing.”
Logan commented that the Times piece arose out of desperation at the GOP’s chances in November. She asserted, “This article is very small. We’ve become very, very small across the New York Times and much of the media. To me, it’s really an act of desperation, because the vast majority of people in this country see through these tactics, right? They know it’s not nice to talk about people like that in your personal life yet alone in the newspapers.”

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The New York Times&#8217; chief political analyst said Monday that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2022-midterms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022 midterms</a> may be yet another massive miss for the polling industry.
Democrats have been surging in the polls in several key battleground states. But, in an article entitled &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/upshot/polling-midterms-warning.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yes, the Polling Warning Signs Are Flashing Again</a>,&#8221; New York Times Chief Political Analyst Nate Cohn said that the same errors in data collection that vastly overstated Democratic support in the 2020 election are cropping up again in the same areas in recent polling, meaning that Democrats may not be as strong as polls indicate.
Cohn began his article with a data table from 2020 showing the gap between media and university polling and the actual election results in 11 battleground states. Among the more egregious errors:
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<li>in Wisconsin, President Joe Biden had a 10-point advantage over former President Trump in the statewide polling average; Biden won the state by less than one point, a 9-point miss.</li>
<li>In Pennsylvania, Biden led Trump by 5 points in the polls; he won the state by 1 point, a 4-point miss.</li>
<li>in Florida, Biden held a 2-point advantage over Trump; Trump won Florida by 3 points, a 5-point miss.</li>
<li>in Ohio, polls showed that Trump led Biden by less than one point: he won it by 8, a 7-point miss.</li>
<li>Trump led in Iowa by 1 point; he won it by 8, another 7-point miss.</li>
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&#8220;We created this poll error table for a reason: Early in the 2020 cycle, we noticed that Joe Biden seemed to be outperforming [Hillary] Clinton in the same places where the polls overestimated her [in 2016],&#8221; Cohn recalled. &#8220;That pattern didn’t necessarily mean the polls would be wrong — it could have just reflected Mr. Biden’s promised strength among white working-class voters, for instance — but it was a warning sign.&#8221;
&#8220;That warning sign is flashing again: Democratic Senate candidates are outrunning expectations in the same places where the polls overestimated Mr. Biden in 2020 and Mrs. Clinton in 2016,&#8221; he added.
A similar phenomenon is taking place in states like <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/Wisconsin.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wisconsin</a> in 2022, Cohn wrote. According to FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s electoral fundamentals index, Johnson is a <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/senate/wisconsin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two-point favorite</a> over Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes. But a recent Marquette University poll, which Cohn calls the &#8220;gold-standard&#8221; in Wisconsin, has Barnes leading Johnson by 7 points. Wisconsin was &#8220;ground zero for survey error in 2020,&#8221; said Cohn, and the potential polling misses between the 2020 and 2022 elections closely mirror each other.
&#8220;It raises the possibility that the apparent Democratic strength in Wisconsin and elsewhere is a mirage — an artifact of persistent and unaddressed biases in survey research,&#8221; Cohn wrote. &#8220;If the polls are wrong yet again, it will not be hard to explain. Most pollsters haven’t made significant methodological changes since the last election.&#8221;
Cohn&#8217;s analysis come after at least one independent pollster pointed out that institutional polling firms missed badly in battleground states in 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020. On his podcast, &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1GY386dRg&amp;t=549s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside the Numbers</a>,&#8221; Big Data Poll director Richard Baris pointed out on Friday that Ron Johnson ran behind former Senator Russ Feingold for most of the 2016 election cycle in public polling, by double-digit margins in some polls; the final polling average, according to RealClearPolitics, showed Feingold ahead by 2.7 points. Johnson won the election by 3.4 points, a nearly five-points miss.
Other polling misses Baris pointed out included: <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/senate/pa/pennsylvania_senate_toomey_vs_mcginty-5074.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pat Toomey</a> vs. Katie McGinty in 2016, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/senate/nc/north_carolina_senate_tillis_vs_cunningham-6908.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thom Tillis</a> vs. Cal Cunningham in 2020, and even <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/ga/georgia_senate_perdue_vs_nunn-4040.html#polls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Purdue</a> vs Michelle Nunn in 2014.

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NYT: Polls May Be Headed For Another Major Miss, Overstating Dem Support In Battleground States

New York Times Analyst Says Polls May Be Headed For Another Major Miss, Overstating Dem Support In Battleground States

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The New York Times offered an indirect paean to Chinese Communist President Xi Jinping, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/07/world/asia/china-communist-cadre-fashion.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes">reporting</a> that many young Chinese people are emulating his fashion choices.
Titling their article, “So Square It’s Hip: ​​Gen Z Tries on the Communist Cadre Look,” the Times opined the movement to dress like the repressive leader and other Chinese civil servants might arise from a “longing for stability in uncertain times.”
“A dull blue jacket, oversize trousers, a Communist Party member pin adding a splash of red on the chest, a small briefcase in hand,” the Times describes, outlining the typical dress of a Chinese Communist Party worker. It then added that “now the cadre look is cool.”
Young men have taken on the look, whose “paragon of this determinedly dull look is China’s top leader, Xi Jinping,” The Times wrote, arguing that although for some young people, the look is ironic, for others the fashion statement “suggests a stable career path and a respectable lifestyle.”
“The emergence of the unabashedly conventional look reflects China’s conservative political turn,” The Times decided, adding that “Xi’s signature blue jacket has echoes of the Mao suit,” in a reference to the Chinese leader whose brutal reign killed an estimated 60 million people.
The Times apparently has an abiding interest in how Chinese leaders are dressed; in August, the Times published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/world/asia/china-wang-yi-diplomacy.html">article</a> revolving around China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi. The article began by mentioning Yi was a “dapper man in well-pressed suits,” before noting, “He is the campaigner for the global ambitions of his boss, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, carrying the message that Beijing will not be pushed around, least of all by the United States.”
The Times has not evinced any reluctance to publish articles by someone Chinese bashing the U.S. In early August, the Times published a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/09/opinion/china-us-relations.html">guest essay</a> titled “Why China’s People No Longer Look Up to America.” The author wrote, “ &#8230; after years of watching America’s wars overseas, reckless economic policies and destructive partisanship — culminating in last year’s disgraceful assault on the U.S. Capitol ­­— many Chinese, including me, can barely make out that shining beacon anymore.”
“The sense of America as a dangerous force in the world has filtered into Chinese public attitudes as well,” the author continued, concluding, “Solving some of the planet’s biggest problems requires that we work together. But that doesn’t mean following America over the cliff.”
The Spectator <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/new-york-times-quashed-covid-origins-inquiry/">reported</a> in August 2021 that two employees of the Times alleged that a top editor at the Times told staffers not to investigate the origins of COVID.
One of the employees stated, “In early 2020 I suggested to a senior editor at the paper that we investigate the origins of COVID-19. I was told it was dangerous to run a piece about the origins of the coronavirus. There was resistance to running anything that could suggest that [COVID-19 was manmade or had leaked accidentally from a lab].”

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New York Times Calls Chinese Dictator’s Clothes ‘Hip’

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> editorial board <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/opinion/trump-documents-jan-6-prosecute.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Trump</a>, calling for him to be indicted if “Attorney General Merrick Garland and his staff conclude that there is sufficient evidence” to do so.
The New York Times boasts of its editorial board that is comprised of a “group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/opinion/editorialboard.html?module=inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adding</a> that it “aims to provide a consistent, independent view of the world based on time-tested institutional values.”
Citing the House select committee’s hearings regarding January 6, 2021 — enthusing that the Jan. 6 committee had “meticulously assembled” “disturbing details” of Trump’s “postelection misfeasance,” while insisting the American public has been “transfixed” by them — The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/26/opinion/trump-documents-jan-6-prosecute.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accuses</a> Trump of having “roused an armed mob that stormed the Capitol and threatened lawmakers.”
“No American president has ever been criminally prosecuted after leaving office,” The Times noted, pointing out then when former President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, he warned that prosecuting Nixon risked catalyzing “ugly passions” and further polarization.
Admitting “that warning is just as salient today,” The Times then continues, “There is a substantial risk that, if the Justice Department does prosecute Mr. Trump, future presidents — whether Mr. Trump himself or someone of his ilk — could misuse the precedent to punish political rivals. &#8230; There is an even more immediate threat of further violence, and it is a possibility that Americans should, sadly, be prepared for.”
Praising Garland for being “deliberate, methodical and scrupulous,” The Times added, “No matter how careful Mr. Garland is or how measured the prosecution might be, there is a real and significant risk from those who believe that any criticism of Mr. Trump justifies an extreme response.”
But then The Times ignored precedent, arguing, “Yet it is a far greater risk to do nothing when action is called for. Aside from letting Mr. Trump escape punishment, doing nothing to hold him accountable for his actions in the months leading up to Jan. 6 could set an irresistible precedent for future presidents.”
The Times acknowledged its past support for Trump’s impeachment and removal from office, arguing that “the threat that Mr. Trump and his most ardent supporters pose to American democracy has metastasized.”
“He used the power of his office to subvert the rule of law. If we hesitate to call those actions and their perpetrator criminal, then we are saying he is above the law and giving license to future presidents to do whatever they want,” The Times claimed.
Prospective cases the government could bring against Trump, The Times wrote, would include “Trump’s fraudulent efforts to get election officials in Georgia, Arizona, and elsewhere to declare him the winner even though he lost their states; to get Mr. Pence, at the Jan. 6 congressional certification of the election, to throw out slates of electors from states he lost and replace them with electors loyal to Mr. Trump; and to enlist from the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Defense to persuade officials in certain states to swing the election to him and ultimately stir up a mob that attacked the Capitol.”
The Times added another charge: “seditious conspiracy.”
“More than 850 other Americans have already been charged with crimes for their roles in the Capitol attack,” The Times wrote. “It would be unjust if Mr. Trump, the man who inspired them, faced no consequences.”
Claiming Trump’s actions have “brought shame on one of the world’s oldest democracies and destabilized its future,” The Times concluded, “Even justice before the law will not erase that stain. Nor will prosecuting Mr. Trump fix the structural problems that led to the greatest crisis in American democracy since the Civil War. But it is a necessary first step toward doing so.”

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‘Necessary First Step’: New York Times Insists DOJ Should Indict Trump

Indictment

On Friday, The New York Times published its latest op-ed calling for the end of the Constitution of the United States. The authors, Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, teach law at Harvard and Yale respectively. They argue that the Left’s progress has been stymied by Constitutionalism itself. “The idea of constitutionalism,” they correctly write, “is that there needs to be some higher law that is more difficult to change than the rest of the legal order. Having a constitution is about setting more sacrosanct rules than the ones the legislature can pass day-to-day.” This, of course, orients the process of law toward the past: there are certain lines that simply cannot be crossed. And, as Doerfler and Moyn point out, “constitutionalism of any sort demands extraordinary consensus for meaningful progress.”
And herein lies the problem for Doerfler and Moyn: constitutions “misdirect the present into a dispute over what people agreed on once upon a time, not on what the present and future demand for and from those who live now.” The solution, they say, lies in dispensing with the Constitution entirely; the proper solution to the Constitution is in “direct arguments about what fairness or justice demands.” After all, they admit, “It’s difficult to find a constitution basis for abortion or labor unions in a document written by largely affluent men more than two centuries ago. It would be far better if liberal legislators could simply make a case for abortion and labor rights on their own merits without having to bother with the Constitution.”
How can the Constitution be jettisoned? The authors suggest packing the Union with more states; “reorganization our legislature in ways that are more fairly representative of where people actually live and vote”; turning the Senate into a legislative vestigial organ, without any actual power. 
At least they’re saying the quiet part out loud.
The truth is that the Constitution is “anti-democratic,” in the sense that it sets up a series of limits on what a democratically-elected government can do. The Constitution is a charter of limited powers, delegated by the people and the States to the federal government; neither the people nor the state governments would ever have consented to the sort of pure populism promoted by Doerfler and Moyn. The founders deplored the idea of an unfettered federal government ruled only by popular passions. That is why they put in place a system of check and balances to forestall mob majoritarianism. They recognized a simple truth: that the best and most responsive government presides over homogenous interests, generally locally, and that as we abstract rule away from the people, interests diverge. This means that as government abstracts away from the people, it ought to be granted less and less power.
The Left hates the Constitution for precisely that reason. To the Left, the Constitution is a mere barrier against the utopian mission to restructure human relations, and ultimately, humanity itself. In this view, large government is to be the levelling force among human beings, cramming down the views of one half of the country on the other half. Local governance is dangerous because it might lead to diversity of viewpoint and practice; federal government is the best available tool for shaping and molding. Dispense with the Constitution’s limits on the powers of the federal government, and suddenly transformational change becomes possible.
The only problem is that such a viewpoint utterly disregards the history of human relations. A government that presides over 330 million human beings with a variety of different viewpoints on core moral issues is unlikely to rule either benevolently or successfully if granted the unfettered power to flatten a multiplicity of jurisdictions and ways of life. Limits are the key to both benevolence and success in governance. Dispensing with the Constitution may sound pleasing to those who seek drastic change on the greatest scale, but drastic change of that nature typically looks more like tyranny than progress.

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Apparently, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/corruption" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scandal</a> has been uncovered deep inside the offices of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
On Tuesday, The NewsGuild of New York Local 31003, CWA <a href="https://www.nyguild.org/2022-nyt-performance-evaluations-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a lengthy report arguing that the management of the Left&#8217;s favorite paper is not living up to its equitable commitment. The data was compiled by The NYT Guild Equity Committee and reportedly shows that white people are treated more favorably — leading to promotions and better career opportunities — than black, Asian, and Hispanic colleagues.
The back and forth has been going on since November 6, 2020, when the NYT Guild Equity Committee first claimed discrimination was fueling racial disparities in performance bonuses and other metrics. Flash forward two years, and after internal and external reviews — as well as changes to the system itself — the problems still allegedly persist.
&#8220;The analysis, which relied on data provided by the company on performance ratings for all Guild-represented employees, found that in 2021, being Hispanic reduced the odds of receiving a high score by about 60 percent, and being Black cut the chances of high scores by nearly 50 percent&#8221; the committee alleged on Tuesday. &#8220;Asians were also less likely than white employees to get high scores.&#8221;
&#8220;In 2020, zero Black employees received the highest rating, while white employees accounted for more than 90 percent of the roughly 50 people who received the top score,&#8221; the group argued.
Now, according to the committee, the only thing that could explain such differences is the system — not individual efforts.
&#8220;It is not clear whether the racial imbalance is a result of problems in the performance review system itself or whether that system is simply revealing barriers to success for employees of color at the company,&#8221; the committee opined.
In recent years, The Times has committed itself to diversify its newsroom and hiring more minorities.
&#8220;To ensure we tell and share stories with respect, empathy and accuracy, we are committed to fostering a diverse staff that reflects the society we report on. And we’re committed to giving our people a workplace that feels inclusive and rewarding to all,&#8221; it says in a Diversity and Inclusion statement.
Nonetheless, staffers argue that recently hired minorities are not given enough support to succeed once they are in the job. Paper management even admitted that new employees were more likely to have bad reviews.
&#8220;If our recently hired Black and brown colleagues are disproportionately receiving low performance ratings, that suggests that The Times is not doing an effective job making our workplace a welcoming and nurturing environment for all employees – something we have heard anecdotally from many current and former colleagues, some of whom left the company for this exact reason,&#8221; the report claimed.
You hate to see such strife occurring amongst such self-proclaimed defenders of democracy.
Yet there is a solution: Reparations.
The white NYT employees could redistribute their wealth and ill-gotten bonuses to their colleagues who identify as people of color. It would set a great example for leftists across the country who believe in that sort of thing. It is the least they could do.
Take Ben Casselman for instance. He is an economics reporter and recently told NPR that he loves working at The Gray Lady, but he wants to see more done to help diversity efforts.
&#8220;The Times is far from unique here. The Times is trying to build a more diverse staff. I believe they really mean that,&#8221; Casselman <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1118817023/new-york-times-race-employees-job-review-union?utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet. &#8220;But building a diverse staff means more than hiring a diverse staff &#8230; This whole process has been evidence there&#8217;s still a long way to go on all the rest of it.&#8221;
Casselman can take the first step of doing &#8220;more than hiring a diverse staff&#8221; by donating part of his salary to those colleagues less fortunate than him — victims of a system rigged against them. He must have had inherent privileges within the walls of The Times.
In the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/12/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-oakland-generation-fund-event/">words</a> of Vice President Kamala Harris, &#8220;&#8230; Equity, as a concept, says: Recognize that everyone has the same capacity, but in order for them to have equal opportunity to reach that capacity, we must pay attention to this issue of equity if we are to expect and allow people to compete on equal footing.&#8221;
What does that mean? Who knows, but obviously all the reporters at The Times have the same capacity, they just need some extra help attaining the same outcome.
The Left has set these standards, and it is time they live up to them. Until that happens, we will just step back and enjoy watching them eat their own.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

The premises of The New York Times during a strike by the newspaper printing pressmen’s local union, New York City, USA, 1978.

Are Reparations Needed At The New York Times? NewsGuild Alleges ‘Racial Disparities’ At ‘Paper Of Record’

Are Reparations Needed At The New York Times? NewsGuild Alleges 'Racial Disparities' At 'Paper Of Record'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times">The New York Times</a> has cut ties with a fixer in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gaza">Gaza Strip</a> after his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/facebook">Facebook</a> posts calling Jews “the children of dogs” and expressing support for the late Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler resurfaced.
Fady Hanona has worked with multiple major news outlets to aid their reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hanona was listed as a contributor in six of the NYT’s eight stories written on the latest conflagration between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group in the Gaza Strip.
The NYT apparently ended its relationship with Hanona on Friday, according to <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/ny-times-cuts-ties-with-gaza-freelancer-who-called-to-kill-jews-like-hitler-did/">The Times Of Israel</a>. The fixer has a history of making anti-Semitic statements, and the media watchdog <a href="https://honestreporting.com/the-fix-is-in-how-hitler-quoting-palestinians-are-warping-gaza-conflict-coverage/">Honest Reporting</a> uncovered a slew of Hanona’s Facebook posts in which he called for “killing” and “burning” Jews “like Hitler did,” according to translations of the posts preserved by Honest Reporting. The date of the post is unclear.
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&quot;the Jews are sons of dogs and I am with killing them, and burning them like Hitler did to them (smiley face)&quot; &#8211; Fady Hossam Hanona
This Hitler praising antisemite covers the Israel/Palestinian conflict for the NY Times, Guardian, and VICE News. <a href="https://t.co/dWYmCdv1y3">pic.twitter.com/dWYmCdv1y3</a>
&mdash; StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1557751387571765248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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“I’m speaking for myself. I tell you I don’t accept a Jew or an Israeli or a Zionist or anyone else who speaks Hebrew,” Hanona wrote in another post, according to a translation by Honest Reporting. “I’m with killing them wherever they are – children, elderly, soldiers. I’m for killing the Jews wherever they are.”
Hanona posted other messages in 2013 and 2014 where he wrote repeatedly of a hatred for Jews and called for the destruction of the state of Israel. He also wanted a renewal of a “culture” of “fighting and killing” Israelis. The posts have since been deleted.
The NYT told <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2022/08/12/jews-are-sons-of-the-dogs-i-am-in-favor-of-killing-them-and-burning-them-like-hitler-did-said-gaza-based-new-york-times-reporter/">The Algemeiner</a> in a statement that the outlet is “no longer” working with Hanona. “The New York Times had worked with this freelance reporter only in recent weeks. We are no longer doing so,” a spokeswoman said.
Fighting between terrorist militants in Gaza and Israel flared up over a week ago after the Israeli military began conducting airstrikes in Gaza on August 5. Israel killed a PIJ commander, Tayseer Jabari, who ran the terror group’s operations in southern Gaza. The PIJ responded with a number of rocket strikes that sent Israelis rushing to bunkers for cover. The Iron Dome, Israel’s anti-missile defense system, shot down an estimated 97% of the PIJ rockets, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/07/israel-gaza-jerusalem-rockets/">The Washington Post</a>.
The Israeli military reported striking 140 PIJ targets and “neutralizing” the terror group’s top commanders. The strikes also knocked out tunnels the terror group would use for attacks along with weapon storages and rocket launch sites.
The fighting resulted in at least 43 dead civilians and hundreds of wounded. The Israeli military said the vast majority of civilian casualties came from PIJ strikes after the terror group’s rockets landed inside Gaza.
“580 rockets fired by Islamic Jihad = 580 attempts to kill Israelis. The Iron Dome intercepted 97% of the rockets that directly threatened Israelis. But 120+ rockets landed in Gaza and killed innocent Palestinians. The Iron Dome protects Israel. Islamic Jihad endangers Gaza,” the Israel Defense Force said in a post.
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580 rockets fired by Islamic Jihad = 580 attempts to kill Israelis.
The Iron Dome intercepted 97% of the rockets that directly threatened Israelis. 
But 120+ rockets landed in Gaza and killed innocent Palestinians.
The Iron Dome protects Israel. 
Islamic Jihad endangers Gaza.
&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1556203001831952384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times

NYT Cuts Ties With Reporter Who Called For ‘Killing,’ ‘Burning’ Jews ‘Like What Hitler Did’

Gaza

Israel

Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

The New York Times floated a conspiracy theory on Tuesday, suggesting that the man who allegedly attacked gubernatorial candidate Rep. <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/lee-zeldins-alleged-attacker-arrested-for-second-time-faces-federal-charges/">Lee Zeldin</a> (R-NY) was part of a carefully orchestrated plan to draw more attention to <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-republican-congressman-and-ny-gubernatorial-candidate-lee-zeldin-attacked-at-campaign-event/">Zeldin&#8217;s</a> tough-on-crime platform.
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/26/nyregion/zeldin-bail-assault.html">article</a>, written by Jonah E. Bromwich and Jay Root, noted that shortly after the attack — which was quickly thwarted by <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/the-lee-zeldin-attack-and-the-perils-of-bail-reform-in-americas-democrat-run-cities/">Zeldin</a> and others nearby — the candidate predicted that his assailant would likely be back out on the street, thanks to New York&#8217;s bail laws.
&#8220;How Did a Man Accused of Attacking Lee Zeldin Go Free Without Bail?&#8221; the headline read, followed by a sub-headline that laid out the conspiracy theory: &#8220;The decision to release the suspect was seen by some Democrats as a ploy to fuel Mr. Zeldin’s anti-crime campaign as he runs for governor of New York.&#8221;
Shortly after the attack, Zeldin shared his prediction on Twitter. &#8220;His words as he tried to stab me a few hours ago were &#8216;you&#8217;re done,&#8217; but several attendees, including @espositoforNY, quickly jumped into action &amp; tackled the guy,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;Law enforcement was on the scene within minutes. The attacker will. likely be instantly released under NY&#8217;s laws.&#8221;
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His words as he tried to stab me a few hours ago were “you’re done”, but several attendees, including <a href="https://twitter.com/EspositoforNY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@EspositoforNY</a>, quickly jumped into action &amp; tackled the guy. 
Law enforcement was on the scene within minutes. 
The attacker will likely be instantly released under NY’s laws. <a href="https://t.co/wZEyIyrjFe">pic.twitter.com/wZEyIyrjFe</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/leezeldin/status/1550352498078130176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Zeldin followed with an update just 16 hours later, saying, &#8220;Just as I predicted, after the man who tried stabbing me last night was charged with Attempted Assault in the Second Degree, a felony, he was then immediately released under the state&#8217;s insane cashless bail law, which MUST be repealed!&#8221;
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Just as I predicted, after the man who tried stabbing me last night was charged with Attempted Assault in the Second Degree, a felony, he was then immediately released under the state’s insane cashless bail law, which MUST be repealed! My full statement⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/mdPAOowcAu">pic.twitter.com/mdPAOowcAu</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/leezeldin/status/1550596909697536007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The NYT piece noted just how quickly the incident became a &#8220;flash point&#8221; for the campaign — and how quickly Zeldin had been able to capitalize on the fact that it was a perfect example of the failures of the system he said needed to go. It also pointed out the fact that the sheriff who filed the charge — Todd K. Baxter of Monroe County — was an opponent of the bail law and that the attacker could have been charged with a more serious, bail-eligible offense.
&#8220;I have no idea why a prosecutor would not charge the more serious offense,&#8221; said Charles D. Lavine (D), chair of the Assembly’s judiciary committee and a former defense attorney. &#8220;Here’s a situation where someone attacks an elected official with a weapon. Could it have been — as some people are suggesting — that the charge was drafted in such a way as to allow Zeldin to complain about the bail laws in the state of New York? That I don’t know.&#8221;
State Assemblyman Demond Meeks (D-Rochester) went a bit further, calling the whole sequence of events &#8220;definitely a political ploy.&#8221;
And while Zeldin&#8217;s campaign team has certainly capitalized on the way the incident showed the need for just the kind of reform his platform proposes, there did not appear to be any solid evidence to back up the claims being made.
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We cannot live in a state where someone who commits a felony trying to stab me on stage at a campaign rally then gets immediately released. New York’s cashless bail law must be REPEALED!  Kathy Hochul refuses to get this job done. I will! <a href="https://t.co/QUhwIiYyov">pic.twitter.com/QUhwIiYyov</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/leezeldin/status/1550876073587798016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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🚨Just released our new ad, “REPEAL Cashless Bail!&quot;, now airing digitally statewide. Just this summer alone, there have been A LOT of high profile cases of suspects released under cashless bail. We have to FIRE Kathy Hochul on 11/8, repeal cashless bail, &amp; secure our streets. <a href="https://t.co/KCz80FPzgG">pic.twitter.com/KCz80FPzgG</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/leezeldin/status/1552357144237903874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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And buried eight paragraphs into the piece the NYT authors admitted as much: &#8220;No evidence has emerged to indicate that the charge was chosen to ensure Mr. Jakubonis’s release, serving to amplify Mr. Zeldin’s campaign message. Several criminal lawyers from Monroe County say the charge was fitting given the particulars of the attack on July 21.&#8221;

NY GOP Candidate For Governor Lee Zeldin Holds Election Night Party

NYT Floats Inside Job Conspiracy After Lee Zeldin Attacker’s Quick Release

NYT Floats Inside Job Conspiracy After Lee Zeldin Attacker's Quick Release

Crime

Lee Zeldin

Violent Crime

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pulitzer-prize">Pulitzer Prize Board</a>&#8216;s decision to stand by its 2018 media awards for coverage of the 2016 allegations of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russiagate">Russian collusion</a> between Russia and then-candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> is a &#8220;big win&#8221; for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vladimir-putin">Russian President Vladimir Putin</a>, a former defense intelligence official told The Daily Wire.
On Sunday, the board <a href="https://www.pulitzer.org/news/statement-pulitzer-prize-board-2">announced</a> that it would not revoke the awards in national reporting that it gave to The Washington Post and The New York Times after &#8220;separate reviews converged in their conclusions: that no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that emerged subsequent to the conferral of the prizes.&#8221; Former President Donald Trump had previously requested that Pulitzer scrub the awards after new information has been revealed through various government investigations and additional reporting into the matter which showed that no such collusion existed between his campaign and Russia.
&#8220;Pulitzer’s refusal to take back the award given for the inaccurate coverage of the Russiagate Hoax is a big win for Putin,&#8221; said Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer specializing in Russian Doctrine &amp; Strategy.
Koffler told The Daily Wire that any interference Putin did in previous elections was meant to cause division and that The Times and The Post played a role in that effort, even if unwittingly.
&#8220;Putin’s goal for intervening in the U.S. presidential election in 2016 (as well as in 2018 and 2020) by running cyber-enabled and clandestine influence operations was to divide America by pitting Trump and Clinton supporters against one another,&#8221; Koffler explained. &#8220;The media outlets, which spread the false &#8216;Russia-Trump collusion&#8217; narratives, essentially helped Putin foment chaos in our country and undermine the confidence of the American people in the election process.&#8221;
Allegations of collusion with Russia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-other-words-it-was-made-up-jim-jordan-rips-trump-russia-conspiracy-after-latest-durham-filing">dogged</a> Trump during his campaign and throughout his presidency. Ex-special counsel Robert Mueller for three years investigated claims that the Trump campaign had illegally coordinated with Russian agents to influence the 2016 election. He eventually concluded that no such evidence exists.
Koffler, the author of &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Playbook-Russias-Secret-America/dp/1684510031">Putin’s Playbook: Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat America</a>,&#8221; also told The Daily Wire that Pulitzer&#8217;s decision will have negative impacts on American democracy.
&#8220;Instead of revoking it from the purveyors of fake news, is a major loss for democracy and a big win for Putin and America’s foes,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This misguided decision also discredits the award itself, which has been the hallmark of journalistic achievement for over a century.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s attorneys blasted the board for not revoking the awards and claimed that the papers in question fed the false narrative that their client had somehow worked with Putin to win in 2016.
&#8220;The idea that President Trump plotted with Vladimir Putin to skew the 2016 election in his favor was always preposterous. Since 2018, if not before, it has been clear that the articles upon which the Pulitzer Board based its Prize include numerous false statements that are defamatory to our client,&#8221; the attorney&#8217;s letter <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-scolds-pulitzer-prize-board-for-standing-by-2018-russiagate-honors">said</a>. &#8220;We assume that in awarding the Prize, the Board was misled by frenzied media reports alleging that President Trump colluded with Russia. That was never plausible, and it has since been proven to have been a cynical invention of Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and the DNC.&#8221;
As p<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-scolds-pulitzer-prize-board-for-standing-by-2018-russiagate-honors">ointed out by Fox News</a>, Pulitzer&#8217;s awards were given for articles that included citations of the now largely-debunked Steele Dossier and that reporting after the fact showed much of the allegations against Trump were mere rumors.

Vladimir Putin

‘Big Win For Putin’: Former Intelligence Officer Blasts Pulitzer Board After Refusing To Take Back Russiagate Prizes

'Big Win For Putin': Former Intelligence Officer Blasts Pulitzer After Refusing To Take Back Russiagate Hoax Prizes

Russia

Russiagate

Washington Post

A glowing profile of Ray Epps published last week by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times">The New York Times</a> has done little to quell suspicions on the right that the self-professed onetime Trump supporter had a mystery role in the January 6 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot">Capitol riot</a>.
Epps, a 61-year-old Arizona man, is seen in multiple video clips from January 6 and the day before trying to whip up other <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Trump</a> supporters to &#8220;go into the Capitol&#8221; the next day. Whether by virtue of his own size and air of authority or some unknown factor, Epps appears in many clips to be taking on a leadership role among Trump supporters who showed up to protest what they believed was a stolen 2020 presidential election.
&#8220;In fact, tomorrow, I don&#8217;t even like to say it cause I&#8217;ll be arrested,&#8221; Epps <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1451272067173736455">tells</a> a man filming him with a phone camera.
&#8220;Well, let&#8217;s not say it,&#8221; the man responds.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll say it. We need to go into the Capitol,&#8221; Epps says.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to put it out there. I&#8217;m probably going to go to jail for this. Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol, into the Capitol!&#8221; Epps tells fellow protesters in another clip.
&#8220;What? No! No!&#8221; members of the crowd respond in unison.
&#8220;Peacefully!&#8221; Epps adds.
The crowd of Trump supporters then starts chanting, &#8220;Fed! Fed! Fed!&#8221; at Epps.
&#8220;Okay folks, spread the word. As soon as the president is done speaking we go to the Capitol. The Capitol is this direction,&#8221; Epps tells a crowd in a clip from the next day, January 6.
&#8220;He&#8217;s done speaking! We are going to the Capitol where our problems are. It&#8217;s that direction. Please spread the word,&#8221; Epps shouts at passersby in another clip.
Over and over again, at least four times on video, Epps repeats his call to action.
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I just played this video for AG Merrick Garland. He refused to comment on how many agents or assets of the federal government were present in the crowd on Jan 5th and 6th and how many entered the Capitol. <a href="https://t.co/lvd9n4mMHK">pic.twitter.com/lvd9n4mMHK</a>
&mdash; Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1451272067173736455?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Later, while the vast majority of MAGA supporters were still near the National Mall where Trump was speaking, Epps is seen at the front of the very first crowd that breached the security perimeter around the Capitol. Moments before the crowd pushes past Capitol police officers, Epps whispers something into fellow protester Ryan Samsel&#8217;s ear. Later in January, Epps and Samsel both told the FBI separately that Epps had been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/us/jan-6-ray-epps-evidence.html">encouraging</a> Samsel to relax because the cops were just &#8220;doing their job.&#8221;
No charges were ever filed against Epps for his role in the riot.
The unproven theory that Epps, a member of the right-wing group the Oath Keepers, was working with the federal government, perhaps persuaded by the FBI to turn informant for protection, was first floated on a 4chan message board last summer and was <a href="https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/">taken up</a> by Revolver News, the right-wing media outlet started by former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie. Fox News host Tucker Carlson has since <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylYF6-sZkgM">discussed</a> the Epps theory several times on his show. Even Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/reallizusa/status/1482551602661761025?s=21">mentioned</a> Epps at a rally, and the hashtag #WhoIsRayEpps trended on Twitter.
In the Times&#8217; profile of Epps, which <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1547249552486449153">referred</a> to Epps as a &#8220;victim,&#8221; criminal justice reporter Alan Feuer acknowledged that Epps was &#8220;not just a bystander&#8221; on January 6 but said that his role was &#8220;twisted&#8221; as the FBI asset theory gained momentum.
Revolver News used &#8220;selectively edited videos and unfounded leaps of logic&#8221; to try to show Epps was a government plant, the Times claimed. It&#8217;s not clear what &#8220;selectively edited&#8221; means in this case.
&#8220;Things became significantly worse&#8221; for Epps after Carlson and top Republicans began to &#8220;amplify the lies,&#8221; the Times article said, and meanwhile Trump, whom Epps had supported, &#8220;tarred his name and destroyed his reputation.&#8221; Epps has &#8220;suffered enormously,&#8221; and his &#8220;life has been ruined by a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory,&#8221; the Times lamented.
Notably, the Times said Epps was taped urging people to go &#8220;to the Capitol,&#8221; strange phrasing since Epps clearly states again and again that he wants protesters to go &#8220;into the Capitol&#8221; specifically.
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Nowhere in the Times article does Feuer appear to press Epps, who he says wore a look of &#8220;pained exhaustion&#8221; during the interview, on why exactly he wanted protesters to physically enter the Capitol building or why he happened to be at the front of the crowd when they penetrated the security perimeter.
The Times&#8217; treatment of Epps is gentle compared to its coverage of other January 6 participants, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/opinion/january-6-hearing-trump.html">dubbing</a> them in a June editorial, &#8220;flag-draped thugs storming the halls&#8221; and a &#8220;howling mob&#8221; that &#8220;rampaged through the Capitol&#8221; as part of a &#8220;coordinated assault.&#8221; In January, the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/us/politics/jan-6-terrorism-explainer.html">gave oxygen</a> to the idea that some of the events of January 6 could be considered domestic terrorism.
One of the most eyebrow-raising details of the Epps case is that Epps was mysteriously removed from the FBI&#8217;s <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/capitol-violence">wanted list</a> as federal investigators poured money and resources into tracking down hundreds of individuals who participated in the Capitol breach.
A former DOJ official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ray-epps-atty-fbi-scrubbed-his-face-from-suspect-list-because-he-was-no-longer-unidentified">said</a> in January that Epps was removed from the list because he had already been identified, and the FBI was no longer looking for him. Epps himself reached out to the FBI two days after January 6 and &#8220;explained his position,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/18/ray-epps-jan-6-select-committee-527306">according to his lawyer</a>, John Blischak, who said Epps “was never in the Capitol building.” Less than a week after the riot, Epps tried to disavow the rioters&#8217; violent entry into the Capitol building, <a href="https://archive.ph/CuMA4">telling</a> The Arizona Republic, &#8220;The only thing that meant is we would go in the doors like everyone else. It was totally, totally wrong the way they went in.&#8221;
Two months later, Epps also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-ray-epps.html">sat down</a> with FBI agents for a formal discussion. The FBI has so far declined to comment on Epps, even when pointedly pressed by GOP lawmakers.
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According to the legal definition of incitement, an individual&#8217;s words must carry an imminent risk of harm to persons or property. So far, the Biden administration&#8217;s Justice Department does not appear to think Epps&#8217; calls to enter the Capitol meet that standard, or break the <a href="https://code.dccouncil.us/us/dc/council/code/sections/10-503.16.html">laws</a> governing behavior on Capitol grounds, which bar disorderly or disruptive conduct.
Meanwhile, the DOJ has <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-proud-boys-and-four-other-members-indicted-federal-court-seditious-conspiracy-and">charged</a> other January 6 rioters including five Proud Boys with seditious conspiracy for offenses that include behaving similarly to Epps, urging people to enter the Capitol.
A 69-year-old Idaho <a href="https://twitter.com/BreezeJenifa/status/1546900762436833282">grandma</a> who is <a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/sit-down-with-pam-hemphill-who-was-the-capitol-on-january-6/277-70b9504d-4eb6-4d6d-bf65-b3d334b506d9">reportedly</a> a breast cancer survivor was <a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/crime/boise-woman-sentenced-for-role-in-us-capitol-riot-pamela-hemphill-january-6-2021/277-3aa12194-5a54-4abe-88a2-d644cf5043aa">sentenced</a> to two months in prison for her <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/video-captures-person-of-interest-before-capitol-breach/65-86c5ac27-3cc8-45d2-8a7e-562ee1f289e0">role</a> in the riot, which included encouraging rioters to &#8220;just come in&#8221; to the Capitol, telling them, &#8220;This is your house.&#8221; An Indiana grandma, 49, was the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/jun/23/anna-morgan-lloyd-indiana-grandmother-sentenced-ca/">very first</a> person to be sentenced on charges related to January 6. She admitted she was inside the Capitol for 10 minutes but said she did not damage anything.
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Over the past year, Republican members of Congress have attempted to get answers on Epps, peppering federal law enforcement officials with questions about him during congressional hearings last year and this year.
&#8220;Can you tell us without talking about particular incidents or particular videos how many agents or assets of the federal government were present on January 6, whether they agitated to go into the Capitol, and if any of them did?&#8221; Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1451290535981948935">asked</a> Attorney General Merrick Garland in October during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in October.
&#8220;So I&#8217;m not going to violate this norm of the rule of law. I&#8217;m not going to comment on an investigation that&#8217;s ongoing,&#8221; Garland responded.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) followed a similar line of questioning during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January.
&#8220;Who is Ray Epps?&#8221; Cruz <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/ted-cruz-grills-fbi-on-ray-epps-asks-if-fbi-had-informants-on-jan-6">asked</a> Jill Sanborn, executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch.
&#8220;I&#8217;m aware of the individual, sir. I don&#8217;t have the specific background of him,&#8221; she responded.
“Was Ray Epps a fed?” Cruz later asked.
“Sir, I can’t answer that question,” Sanborn replied.
Epps was interviewed by the January 6 select committee in November and again in January.
On January 11, the same day as Cruz&#8217;s questioning, the committee released a <a href="https://twitter.com/January6thCmte/status/1481007562187280387">statement</a> saying it is aware of &#8220;unsupported claims&#8221; that Epps was an FBI informant and revealing that Epps informed them that &#8220;he was not employed by, working with, or acting at the direction of any law enforcement agency on Jan 5th or 6th or at any other time, &amp; that he has never been an informant for the FBI or any other law enforcement agency.&#8221;
Beattie is suspicious of the timing and substance of  the Times article.
&#8220;Ray Epps, the only person caught &#8230; repeatedly directing people into the Capitol is the only January 6 rioter the New York Times has written a puff piece for,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/DarrenJBeattie/status/1547396003690577921?s=20&amp;t=pv3MMziUv1f16vafRFMNPA">he tweeted last week</a>. &#8220;And this likely is the beginning of a monumental damage control campaign.&#8221;
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v2 Elordi – What Role Did Ray Epps Play In January 6_ (1)

NY Times Sympathetic Profile Of Mysterious January 6 Figure Ray Epps Only Raises More Questions

January 6

Ray Epps

It’s not just Republicans who want President Joe Biden out of office.
A new poll found that 64% of Democratic voters want someone else to run in the 2024 presidential campaign. Biden’s approval rating is down to a third of all Americans, <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://dnyuz.com/2022/07/11/most-democrats-dont-want-biden-in-2024-new-poll-shows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Times/Siena College poll. Just 26% of Democratic voters said the party should renominate Biden.
The Times wrote that public concern about the economy and inflation “helped turn the national mood decidedly dark” both on Biden and the direction of the nation. The findings showed that the nation’s growing pessimism “spans every corner of the country, every age range and racial group, cities, suburbs and rural areas, as well as both political parties,” the Times wrote.
The poll also found that just 13% of those surveyed think the nation was on the right track. That’s the lowest point in Times’ polling since the financial crisis of 2008.
In addition to Democrats, independents have also soured on Biden. More than two-thirds (69%) of independents disapprove of Biden’s job performance — with nearly half (48%) disapproving “strongly.”
The bad-news poll followed another <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2022/07/09/nyt-biden-had-to-rest-with-wh-concerns-about-his-age-and-incoherence-n591987" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> in the Times that scrutinized Biden’s age and lucidity in a way the liberal news outlet has hitherto avoided.
The piece pointed out that Biden, at 79 years old, is already older than Ronald Reagan was when he left office. And the paper said Biden would be 86 at the end of his tenure,” ‘testing the outer boundaries of age and the presidency.’”
The paper tried to run some cover for the beleaguered president, who often misspeaks in speeches and looks frail. The piece cited sources saying he” ‘remained intellectually engaged, asking smart questions at meetings, grilling aides on points of dispute, [and] calling them late at night.’”
Yet there was one very uncharacteristic paragraph. “‘But they acknowledged Mr. Biden looks older than just a few years ago, a political liability that cannot be solved by traditional White House stratagems like staff shake-ups or new communications plans. His energy level, while impressive for a man of his age, is not what it was, and some aides quietly watch out for him. He often shuffles when he walks, and aides worry he will trip on a wire. He stumbles over words during public events, and they hold their breath to see if he makes it to the end without a gaffe,’” the article said.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as a White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Most Democrats Don’t Want Biden To Run In 2024, New York Times Poll Shows

Most Democrats Don’t Want President Joe Biden In 2024, New York Times Poll Shows

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