You may have noticed that most of the headlines right now revolve around President Trump and the Republicans. It&#8217;s almost as though the Democrats don&#8217;t exist.
That’s because they don&#8217;t. They have almost lost the will to resist, as you have Bernie Sanders and AOC taking private jets to large venues.
Democrats are struggling for what their message ought to be, so they have unleashed a new term.
It is “Dark Woke,” which is going to go about as well as “Dark Brandon” did.
Just a few years ago, at a NASCAR race, people started chanting “F*** Joe Biden” and a woman who was covering that race then suggested the crowd was actually chanting, “Let&#8217;s go, Brandon!”
Republicans started using the slogan “Let&#8217;s go Brandon” to imply “F*** Joe Biden.” And then the Biden administration, trying to seize the language back, put out memes of old Joe Biden with laser eyes calling him “Dark Brandon.” Or they put up memes of him with his sunglasses, grinning, and they called it “dark.”
It didn&#8217;t go well because he then physically died in the middle of the race and dropped out. In fact, it went very poorly.
So now they&#8217;re trying “dark” again. They think that just by adding the word “dark” to things, that makes it cool.
Dumb.
They&#8217;re obviously trying to copy the Elon Musk memery of “Dark MAGA.” And so now they have “dark woke.”
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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/style/dark-woke-democrats-jasmine-crockett-trump.html">According</a> to The New York Times, “There was a time last summer when the Democratic Party was cool.”
That was a really, really short period of time. (There was a point in time when I was significantly closer to weighing 150 pounds. It was a moment, and then it went away.)
The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/style/dark-woke-democrats-jasmine-crockett-trump.html">continued</a>:
<blockquote>Kamala Harris had just stepped in as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president in the waning days of Brat summer. She went on the popular podcast “Call Her Daddy.” Tim Walz’s outdoorsy drip led to a Chappell Roan-inspired camo trucker hat. The mems were flowing, and the party’s mood was high.</blockquote>
You&#8217;ll recall that even by the end of Brat summer, it was pretty much over for Kamala Harris. The “Call Her Daddy” appearance was a giant failure and cost her a bunch of money.
Tim Walz was never a bro. Nobody ever saw Tim Walz as a bro, unless the bros were hanging out at a high school musical production using jazz hands.
But now, apparently, Democrats are in search of a new memery. The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/style/dark-woke-democrats-jasmine-crockett-trump.html">writes</a>:
<blockquote>As liberals try to get their groove back, some party insiders say Democratic politicians have been encouraged to embrace a new form of combative rhetoric aimed at winning back voters who have responded to President Trump’s no-holds-barred version of politics. It’s an attempt to step outside the bounds of the political correctness that Republicans have accused Democrats of establishing. And it requires being crass but discerning, rude but only to a point. Online, it has a name: “Dark woke.”
“Republicans have essentially put Democrats in a respectability prison,” said Bhavik Lathia, a communications consultant and former digital director for the Wisconsin Democratic Party. “There is an extreme imbalance in strategy that allows Republicans to say stuff that really grabs voters’ attention, where we’re stuck saying boring pablum. I see this as a strategic shift within Democratic messaging — I’m a big fan of ‘dark woke.’”</blockquote>
What exactly is “dark woke?”
The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/style/dark-woke-democrats-jasmine-crockett-trump.html">again</a>:
<blockquote>During a meeting of the House Oversight Committee last May, Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas, found herself in a spat with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, after Ms. Greene made a jibe about “fake eyelashes” that the chair, Representative James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, declined to prosecute under the committee’s rules on decorum.
“Mr. Chair, a point of order,” Ms. Crockett said. “I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde bad built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
Ms. Crockett’s moment became a meme. It was printed on T-shirts. It got her an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel. And now, Democratic strategists say, it has become a perfect example of “dark woke.”</blockquote>
Democrats are very much in love with this sort of stuff.
And it ain’t gonna get them out of their morass.

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On January 24, 2017, just four days after Donald Trump was inaugurated for his first term in office, the FBI sent two agents to the White House to interrogate Trump&#8217;s national security adviser, Michael Flynn. It wasn&#8217;t billed as an interrogation at the time; they convinced Flynn that it was just an opportunity for a friendly chat. But in retrospect, their goal could not have been any more clear: They wanted to manufacture a pretext to secure Flynn&#8217;s termination. Getting rid of Flynn would enable the FBI to continue to conduct a series of fraudulent investigations into the Trump administration. It would insulate the bureau from any kind of large-scale reform. And it would help the FBI spread the narrative that the Trump administration was secretly working for Russia in some way.
Therefore, the FBI asked Flynn a few questions in the White House. Then they convinced Mike Pence that Flynn had lied to them — even though to this day, no one can explain what exactly Flynn said, because the conversation wasn&#8217;t recorded. In any event, Pence took the FBI&#8217;s word for it. Michael Flynn was fired after less than a month. His tenure as national security advisor was the shortest in American history.
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1580-the-coordinated-hit-job-on-pete-hegseth-must-be-exposed-and-defeated-member-exclusive?elementPosition=0&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h3>
What happened to Michael Flynn is worth recalling this week because it was not a one-off. This wasn&#8217;t a random act of sabotage by some unelected, shadowy officials. It was, in fact, standard operating procedure. It is the default response of a bureaucracy that feels threatened. They will come up with a smear campaign, launder it through sympathetic media outlets, and ultimately pressure the decision-makers to get rid of their target. Eight years ago, this is precisely how they got rid of Michael Flynn. And right now, it&#8217;s how they&#8217;re trying to destroy Donald Trump&#8217;s defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.
From the moment Hegseth was nominated, there was a concerted effort to smear him as an alcoholic who was too inexperienced to do the job. It was almost like the Brett Kavanaugh hearings all over again. Anonymous accusations began surfacing every other day. We were even told, if you can believe it, that Pete Hegseth once celebrated St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, live on the air on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221; That was supposed to be profoundly scandalous. In reality, the point of that fake scandal was never to convince anyone of anything. Instead, the point was to send a message to the incoming Trump administration. The message was that the most powerful forces in Washington did not want Pete Hegseth to be confirmed. They wanted Donald Trump to pull his nomination and select someone more conventional — someone who would be more responsive to the needs of defense contractors, for example.
But Trump didn&#8217;t abandon Hegseth&#8217;s nomination. He decided, after what happened in his first term, to trust his own instincts and stand by his selection. The result has been predictable. Just a few months into Donald Trump&#8217;s term, Hegseth&#8217;s enemies have begun yet another smear campaign. And like the campaign to oust Michael Flynn, it&#8217;s not meant to withstand any kind of scrutiny. The point is to move quickly, create panic, and ultimately pressure the White House to fire Hegseth.
It&#8217;s not exactly a subtle operation. Yesterday morning, NPR came out with this story, which directly states the outcome they want to achieve: 
<blockquote>Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary.</blockquote>
According to NPR:
<blockquote>The White House has begun the process of looking for a new leader at the Pentagon to replace Pete Hegseth, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly. This comes as Hegseth is again mired in controversy over sharing military operational details in a group chat.</blockquote>
So here we have an unnamed source — just one person, who&#8217;s described only as a &#8220;U.S. official&#8221; — stating that the White House is planning to fire Pete Hegseth. And based on this one nameless official, who supposedly serves somewhere in the United States government, the narrative has been set. Pretty much every outlet picked up this story: They&#8217;re all trying to convey the perception that Hegseth&#8217;s removal is a foregone conclusion.
Meanwhile, there&#8217;s a steady drip of new information that&#8217;s supposedly even more damning than the last hit piece. Tune into CNN, and they&#8217;ll tell you that Hegseth needs to be removed because of a new Signal chat that&#8217;s suddenly been uncovered. Watch:
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Before we go into the specifics, I need to make it clear that I was a fan of the Hegseth pick when it was initially announced. But after seeing this unrelenting smear campaign that started before he was confirmed and hasn&#8217;t let up since, I am now an even bigger fan of the pick. It&#8217;s clear that the establishment sees this guy as a threat to their agenda. He&#8217;s in a position to do extraordinary damage to their interests. And it seems like he&#8217;s already doing a lot of damage — which is why he needs to stay in his position at all costs.
And as you saw, Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t need to be told that. He understands exactly what CNN and the rest of the corporate press are doing. The coverage is breathless and fast-moving because you&#8217;re not supposed to scrutinize it. If you think about it for five seconds, you&#8217;ll realize that — as was the case with Michael Flynn — the hysteria makes absolutely no sense.
To recap: The case against Pete Hegseth is that the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-national-security-story?author=Ben+Shapiro&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=The+National+Security+Story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mistakenly added</a> Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, to a classified group chat about a U.S. military strike. Even if this is true — even if we pretend for a moment that a rabidly anti-Trump journalist, with extensive ties to the deep state was somehow &#8220;accidentally&#8221; added to a highly sensitive group chat — it&#8217;s still not remotely clear why Pete Hegseth should be fired as a result. He&#8217;s not the one who made the mistake.
The next alleged scandal, as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/hegseth-signal-chat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The New York Times, concerns a Signal chat that involved Hegseth and a dozen other people, including his lawyer, his wife Jennifer and his brother Phil, who works at the Pentagon. The chat, which was called &#8220;Defense Team Huddle,&#8221; also reportedly included Dan Caldwell and Darin Selnick, two former Hegseth advisers who were just fired after a leak investigation. Supposedly, during this chat, Hegseth again discussed war plans involving Yemen, although no one&#8217;s sure exactly what was communicated.
Now, under the circumstances, it would be reasonable to wonder if Dan Caldwell or Darin Selnick might have had a role in placing this story in the New York Times. After all, they were just fired from the Pentagon for leaking. They were both members of this group chat. And now they&#8217;re publicly attacking Pete Hegseth&#8217;s Defense Department, and implying that the Pentagon wants to pursue a reckless war with Iran.
As it relates to unelected operatives in the Pentagon, that may be true. I&#8217;m not in a position to dispute that claim. But anyone who&#8217;s paying attention to what Pete Hegseth is doing, both in public and in private, knows that he&#8217;s going to do everything he can to prevent that outcome.
Here&#8217;s what <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QTwlqbkbos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hegseth told</a> Fox News earlier this month:
<blockquote>[Trump] is dead serious that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. &#8230; He&#8217;s said that for 20 years, he&#8217;s been consistent, that is clear. He&#8217;s dead serious that he wants it done at the negotiating table, he wants it done peacefully, and that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s going straight to these talks, he&#8217;s set that deadline. &#8230; But he&#8217;s also dead serious that if we can&#8217;t figure this out at the negotiating table then there are other options, to include my department to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear bomb.</blockquote>
In other words, his primary objective is not to attack Iran. It&#8217;s a peaceful, diplomatic resolution.
A couple of days later, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-israel-iran-nuclear.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> that, in private, Hegseth had personally helped avert a military strike on Iran that could&#8217;ve spiraled into World War III:
<blockquote>Israel had planned to strike Iranian nuclear sites as soon as next month but was waved off by President Trump in recent weeks in favor of negotiating a deal with Tehran to limit its nuclear program, according to administration officials and others briefed on the discussions. &#8230; Inside the Trump administration, some officials were becoming skeptical of the Israeli plan. In a meeting this month — one of several discussions about the Israeli plan — Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, presented a new intelligence assessment that said the buildup of American weaponry could potentially spark a wider conflict with Iran that the United States did not want. A range of officials echoed Ms. Gabbard’s concerns in the various meetings. Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth; and Vice President JD Vance all voiced doubts about the attack</blockquote>
That report was published on April 16. It states, very clearly, that Hegseth had helped stop a military attack on Iran, which could&#8217;ve easily devolved into all-out warfare.
Four days later, on April 20, the Times published <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html">a story</a> outlining Hegseth&#8217;s second Signal chat, which is supposedly grounds for his termination. In other words, we get a new scandal, right after Hegseth enrages the defense contractors that would&#8217;ve made many millions of dollars, if not more, from an all-out conflict with Iran. And then, hot on the heels of the new scandal, we get an unverified, barely-sourced report about how the White House is looking to replace Hegseth.
At this point, I can only assume that&#8217;s another fake smear. It would be a disastrous mistake for Trump to cave to the pressure and offer up his Defense Secretary as a sacrifice. It&#8217;s the kind of mistake that could derail his entire presidency. And it would be a major victory for establishment Washington, which is becoming increasingly desperate by the day.
You can see the signs everywhere. Here&#8217;s one of them: On Monday, four more Democrat lawmakers made a <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/four-dems-denied-meeting-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia-after-flying-to-el-salvador#google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pilgrimage</a> to El Salvador to visit that MS-13 gangbanger, following the visit by Senator Chris Van Hollen that we discussed last week. The lawmakers were Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida, Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, and Maxine Dexter of Oregon. These politicians, like the rest of the Washington establishment, are pulling out all the stops to defend their open borders, globalist agenda. Making a martyr out of Abrego Garcia, and a scapegoat out of Hegseth, is all part of that plan.
To be clear, I see no indication that this is going to work. It doesn&#8217;t look like this MS-13 gangbanger is going to be returned to the United States, any more than it looks like Pete Hegseth is about to be replaced by another Raytheon board member. The idea that the White House is planning to cave to the demands of establishment Washington, at the moment, seems like yet another fabrication from the corporate press. For the sake of the world, which wouldn&#8217;t exactly benefit from nuclear armageddon, it should remain a fabrication and nothing more.

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Larry David can’t stand the fact that Bill Maher didn’t hate Donald Trump after they had dinner together.
The 77-year-old “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator wrote an opinion piece attacking Maher for being open-minded, repeating the tired trope throughout the piece that Trump is Hitler.
The satirical <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opinion/larry-david-hitler-dinner.html">essay</a> based on Maher’s remarks, titled “My Dinner With Adolf,” was published by The New York Times on Monday. 
“I had been a vocal critic of his on the radio from the beginning, pretty much predicting everything he was going to do on the road to dictatorship,” David wrote, pretending to tell the story from Maher’s perspective. “But eventually I concluded that hate gets us nowhere. I knew I couldn’t change his views, but we need to talk to the other side.”
David went on, “I joked that I was surprised to see him in a tan suit because if he wore that out, it would be perceived as un-Führer-like. That amused him to no end, and I realized I’d never seen him laugh before. Suddenly he seemed so human. Here I was, prepared to meet Hitler, the one I’d seen and heard — the public Hitler. But this private Hitler was a completely different animal. And oddly enough, this one seemed more authentic, like this was the real Hitler. The whole thing had my head spinning.”
“‘I must say, mein Führer, I’m so thankful I came. Although we disagree on many issues, it doesn’t mean that we have to hate each other.’ And with that, I gave him a Nazi salute and walked out into the night,” David’s essay says.
Maher, who has been openly critical of Trump, had a private dinner with the president earlier this month. He later admitted to enjoying himself and feeling better about the president on his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxlopbcfXpQ">show</a>, &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher.&#8221;
“And I know as I say that, millions of liberal sphincters just tightened. ‘Oh, my God, Bill, you gonna say something nice about him?’ What I’m gonna do is report exactly what happened. You decide what you think about it, and if that’s not enough pure Trump hate for you, I don’t give a f***,” Maher said of the meeting. 
“I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about, but it must have been something with the 2020 election because I know he used the word ‘lost,’ and I distinctly remember saying, ‘Wow, I never thought I’d hear you say that,’” Maher added. “He didn’t get mad. He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public.”
“Everything I’ve ever not liked about him was — I swear to God — absent, at least on this night with this guy,” the “Real Time” host said. “He mostly steered the conversation to, ‘What do you think about this?’ I know: your mind is blown. So is mine.”
“A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House,” he added. “A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is f***ed up. It’s just not as f***ed up as I thought it was.”

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Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) took a virtual beating on Saturday as The New York Times published a new photo of her in the Oval Office, literally trying to hide from cameras by holding a folder in front of her face.
Whitmer was at the White House to meet with President Donald Trump about relief funding for Michigan residents who had been devastated by recent ice storms and funding for a Detroit-area Air National Guard base — but instead of a private meeting with the president, she was ushered into an Oval Office full of reporters and cameras while the president was signing executive orders.
NYT photographer Eric Lee captured one shot of Whitmer as she literally hid her face from the cameras — and that photo top-lined a piece detailing the risks she runs as a Democratic governor who is seen daring to cooperate with President Trump.
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/us/politics/gretchen-whitmer-trump-democrats.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article&#8217;s headline</a> read, &#8220;Whitmer Shows How Democrats Are Playing With Fire in Cozying Up to Trump&#8221; — and the sub-headline doubled down: &#8220;The Michigan governor’s awkward Oval Office appearance reflected how several Democratic state leaders are cultivating cordial but politically risky relationships with the president.&#8221;
The article went on to note that Whitmer, despite her obvious differences with Trump, had sent him a letter just after his inauguration. In that letter, according to the NYT, Whitmer expressed her desire to work with the White House and thanked him for his support of the American auto industry.
But it was the photo of a clearly uncomfortable Whitmer, hiding behind her folder, that went viral.
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Gretchen Whitmer temporarily shielded herself from the cameras when she was in Trump’s Oval Office, per this photo from NYT’s <a href="https://twitter.com/erjlee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@erjlee</a><a href="https://t.co/TFDPPnci7Q">https://t.co/TFDPPnci7Q</a> <a href="https://t.co/hnLnvuQvlX">pic.twitter.com/hnLnvuQvlX</a>
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&#8220;This is so much worse than if she just let her photo be taken,&#8221; Abigail Jackson posted.
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This is so much worse than if she just let her photo be taken 🤣 <a href="https://t.co/RoWz6Bl2Xw">pic.twitter.com/RoWz6Bl2Xw</a>
&mdash; Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) <a href="https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1911139074619908268?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;If it’s true that Whitmer was expecting a private meeting and trying to hide that she was at the White House, and President Trump brought her out to the press, that is an absolutely EPIC troll,&#8221; she added later.
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If it’s true that Whitmer was expecting a private meeting and trying to hide that she was at the White House, and President Trump brought her out to the press, that is an absolutely EPIC troll 🤣🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/Kcxz6fs8yz">pic.twitter.com/Kcxz6fs8yz</a>
&mdash; Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) <a href="https://twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1911152925918757134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Gary Hart’s monkey business[,] Dukakis in a tank[,] The Dean scream[.] All scandals/embarrassing flubs that likely ended the careers of presidential hopefuls. And now… there’s this,&#8221; another posted, suggesting that the inopportune photo had effectively ended any chance Whitmer had at mounting a presidential campaign in 2028.
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Gary Hart’s monkey business Dukakis in a tank The Dean scream 
All scandals/embarrassing flubs that likely ended the careers of presidential hopefuls.
And now… there’s this: <a href="https://t.co/gH9eM0hgzk">pic.twitter.com/gH9eM0hgzk</a>
&mdash; Politics &amp; Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) <a href="https://twitter.com/PollTracker2024/status/1911155634420039952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t personally care that Whitmer was at the White House. Sometimes that&#8217;s just the job,&#8221; Democratic strategist Max Burns <a href="https://x.com/themaxburns/status/1911093951173435578" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. &#8220;What I don&#8217;t respect is trying to hide from cameras in a room with no corners. Have the courage to be uncomfortable.&#8221;
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Actual photo of Whitmer in the Oval Office ⬇️🤣🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/9GOToFhvkU">https://t.co/9GOToFhvkU</a> <a href="https://t.co/QzPnes86OS">pic.twitter.com/QzPnes86OS</a>
&mdash; Sweet Home Michigan (@sweethomemich) <a href="https://twitter.com/sweethomemich/status/1911079236401598742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump blasted The New York Times on Thursday, refuting a story published by the newspaper that claimed Trump&#8217;s adviser Elon Musk will receive a Pentagon briefing on U.S. military plans should a war break out with China.
In a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/musk-pentagon-briefing-china-war-plan.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published on Thursday, the Times — citing &#8220;two U.S. officials&#8221; — wrote that Musk would be briefed on the U.S. military&#8217;s top-secret strategy in preparation for a potential war with China. The paper cited two additional anonymous sources who said the briefing would be &#8220;China focused&#8221; and held at the Pentagon on Friday, but the sources did not provide any more details.
In a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114198186465713235" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Thursday night, Trump said the report is &#8220;completely untrue,&#8221; adding that &#8220;China will not even be mentioned or discussed.&#8221; On Friday morning, Trump again addressed the Times&#8217; report, <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114200175082806882" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> that Musk &#8220;is NOT BEING BRIEFED ON ANYTHING CHINA BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR!!!&#8221;
&#8220;Their FAKE concept for this story is that because Elon does some business in China, that he is very conflicted and would immediately go to top Chinese officials and &#8216;spill the beans,'&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;RATINGS CHALLENGED FAKE NEWS CNN immediately picked up on this absolutely ridiculous and false story, which is probably libelous, and went heavy with it. Fortunately, nobody was watching!&#8221;
Musk, who has been Trump&#8217;s right-hand-man throughout the first two months of his second term, also slammed The New York Times on his social media platform, X, and said that those at the Pentagon &#8220;leaking maliciously false information to NYT &#8230; will be found.&#8221;
&#8220;The New York Times is pure propaganda. Also, I look forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information to NYT,&#8221; Musk wrote.
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The New York Times is pure propaganda.
Also, I look forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information to NYT. 
They will be found. <a href="https://t.co/xANvLMOH5j">pic.twitter.com/xANvLMOH5j</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1902977556329931052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In its report, the Times raised concerns that Musk, through his company Tesla, &#8220;has extensive financial interests in China.&#8221; Over the years, the CEO has developed business relationships with Chinese government officials as China <a href="https://insideevs.com/news/715427/tesla-ev-production-shanghai-vs-global/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">manufactures</a> hundreds of thousands of Teslas each year. China has also become a growing market for Tesla as the electric vehicle company&#8217;s sales in China hit an all-time high in 2024, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/teslas-china-sales-rise-record-high-83000-december-2025-01-03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>.
The Wall Street Journal also published a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/musk-to-receive-top-secret-briefing-on-u-s-war-plans-for-china-922eafdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on Thursday night citing U.S. government sources who said, &#8220;Musk is expected to be briefed on how U.S. forces would fight in a potential China war, including maritime tactics and targeting plans.&#8221;
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth <a href="https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/1902911311102820635" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> that Musk would be at the Pentagon on Friday but said the meeting &#8220;is NOT a meeting about &#8216;top secret China war plans.'&#8221; Rather, Musk will be meeting with Defense officials to discuss &#8220;innovation, efficiencies &amp; smarter production,&#8221; according to Hegseth — areas Musk has focused on improving in numerous government departments. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell added that the Times&#8217; report is &#8220;brazenly &amp; maliciously wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;Elon Musk is a patriot,&#8221; Parnell said. &#8220;We are proud to have him at the Pentagon.&#8221;

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A list with over 350 names <a href="https://x.com/JFREJNYC/status/1890038409420567017" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared in</a> the New York Times this week to protest the proposed plan by President Donald Trump to bring peace and stability to the Palestinian people in Gaza. The ad&#8217;s brief text reads: “Trump has called for the removal of all Palestinians from Gaza. Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing!” The undersigned are a list of actors, leftist pulpit rabbis and cantors, and others who happily signed their names to what essentially amounts to a suicide note for the Jewish people. 
The plan that they are protesting is the proposal to relocate Palestinian refugees out of a war zone and the rubble that will take a decade to rebuild. This will allow these people to rebuild their lives, a luxury afforded to nearly every other refugee from every other conflict. The signers of this ad are against this plan because it hurts their cause, not the Palestinian one.
If these 350 names were to be polled, nearly all would claim that the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a “two-state solution.” This policy is both outdated and completely false, a relic of a bygone diplomatic era that is antithetical to the realities of a post-October 7 world.
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350 rabbis took out this full-page ad in <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> today opposing Trump’s plans for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.
➡️ Add your voice to theirs, go to <a href="https://t.co/oMAz1jaMnZ">https://t.co/oMAz1jaMnZ</a> ➡️ Go to <a href="https://t.co/v6qeZNhPQi">https://t.co/v6qeZNhPQi</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayNoToEthnicCleansing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SayNoToEthnicCleansing</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GazaIsNotForSale?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GazaIsNotForSale</a> <a href="https://t.co/HwRG7jWz0r">pic.twitter.com/HwRG7jWz0r</a>
&mdash; Jews for Racial &amp; Economic Justice (@JFREJNYC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JFREJNYC/status/1890038409420567017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The “two-state solution” is spoken today only by the malicious and the ignorant. Those who speak of it either want to see Israel destroyed or they know so little about the history of the region that they are repeating what they’ve been told by those who want to see Israel destroyed.
There can be no “two-state solution” when there is already a state called Israel. You are not creating “two-states,” you are granting enough concessions and legitimacy to a group of people that have spent over 60 years conducting terrorist operations so they can themselves declare a state. They will never do so because there are not enough concessions that can be given to that terrorist entity if the state of Israel exists at all. Concessions were offered, and rejected, many times in the 1990s and 2000s.
The proof is clearly there within Gaza, as the Palestinians living there were given a de facto state in 2005. Over 10,000 Jews were forcibly removed from Gaza, from land they bought and cultivated, to make room for that state. American Jewish businessmen raised money to buy agricultural equipment from those Jews to give to the Palestinian people so they can be self-sufficient in that state. Those people destroyed that equipment, elected Hamas to govern them, and launched an 18 year terror campaign against Israel.
Now, 16 months after they launched their most successful attack, Gaza is destroyed, their leadership dead, and the people there turned from fake “refugees” into actual refugees. The Palestinians in Gaza manage to break every definition of refugee that exists. First, they were the only refugees that had their own United Nations agency dedicated to them (UNRWA). They were also the only refugees that lived in cities for four generations. Now, they are the only refugees that cannot seek refuge anywhere.
After World War Two, Jewish refugees were placed in Displaced Persons (DP) camps while they resettled. Few returned back to their homes in Eastern Europe, they either fled West to America or East to help found Israel. During the Syrian Civil War, millions of refugees went to neighboring countries. Same with Ukrainians after Russia attacked. Population movement to neighboring countries is common for war refugees, and has never been called “ethnic cleansing.” It is far more cruel to make people live in rubble for decades.
Yet the cruelty is the point, because to the “pro-Palestinian” side of the conflict, what is best for the Palestinian people has never been the priority. Palestinians have always and forever been used as weapons against Jews. That is why there is no “pro-Palestinian” movement, there is only an anti-Israel movement. To keep these people where they are is openly stating that it is preferable to maintain that weapon than it is to ensure peaceful lives for them.
Signing a letter against allowing refugees to leave a warzone in pursuit of a better life in order to keep them as a weapon against fellow Jews in akin to signing a suicide note. The rise of attacks on Jews in the West has increased exponentially since October 7, meaning that should Gaza be allowed to re-arm and attack Israel again, this cycle will restart itself. Therefore, even when anti-semitism reverts to “normal” levels, it is only a matter of time before it rises again in solidarity with the next attack on Israel.
So why do these so-called Jewish activists sign a letter like this? Why would they openly advocate for a plan that has failed for decades? It is a simple calculation for them. They buy into the leftist philosophy of “stolen land” so deeply that they are willing to allow for murder as reparations for past sins. It doesn’t matter that the narrative is false (as the land was purchased for above market prices and developed), what matters more is the liberal guilt. They will appease that guilt with the blood of every Israeli and every Palestinian, because it allows them to look in the mirror and say they are the righteous ones.
So while they are the heroes of their own story, the fact is that these activists are truly the villains. They fight for war. They fight for destruction. All because they fight against reality. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to display their idiocy and bloodlust on the pages of the New York Times. To them, it was worth every penny.
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Moshe Hill is a political analyst who has written for The Daily Wire, The Queens Jewish Link, and The Jewish Link of New Jersey. He is regularly featured on The Josh M Show podcast. Twitter @TheMoHill.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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New <a href="https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/f548560f100205ef/e656ddda-full.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling</a> from the New York Times shows that Americans, regardless of political party, agree with Republican positions on numerous transgender issues, including gender transitions for minors and sports inclusion.
The New York Times/Ipsos Survey, which was conducted earlier this month, found that a stunning 79% of Americans believe males should not be permitted to participate in female sports, even if the athlete identifies as transgender.
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&#8220;Thinking about transgender female athletes — meaning athletes who were male at birth but who currently identify as female &#8212; do you think they should or should not be allowed to compete in women&#8217;s sports?&#8221; the survey posed.
Overall, 79% of those surveyed answered no, including 67% of Democrats. In total, only 18% of Americans believe trans athletes should be allowed in female sports.
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NYT POLL: “79% of Americans — including 67% of Democrats — think transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in women&#8217;s sports” <a href="https://t.co/w63pPLz04x">pic.twitter.com/w63pPLz04x</a>
— Karoline Leavitt (@karolineleavitt) <a href="https://twitter.com/karolineleavitt/status/1880637623896559783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Another survey question asked about transgender medications for minors: &#8220;Thinking about medications used for transgender care, do you think doctors should be able to prescribe puberty-blocking drugs or hormone therapy to minors between the ages of 10 and 18?&#8221;
Overall, 71% of Americans answered &#8220;No,&#8221; including 54% of Democrats. Only 10% of respondents said minors should have access to the drugs, with another 16% saying minors ages 15-18 should have access.
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Respondents were also asked if we&#8217;ve gone too far as a society accommodating trans-identifying individuals. &#8220;Which statement comes closest to your feelings about the way our society deals with transgender people — that is, someone who does not identify with their sex at birth, like a person born male who now identifies as female,&#8221; the survey asked.
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New NYT poll:
Society has gone too far or far enough accommodating trans people:
Total: 77% 
GOP: 93% 
Dem: 62%
Trans women should NOT be allowed in women’s sports:
Total: 79% 
GOP: 94% 
Dem: 67%
Minors should NOT be able to get puberty blockers:
Total: 71% 
GOP: 90% 
Dem: 54% <a href="https://t.co/ovXY5qKEEv">pic.twitter.com/ovXY5qKEEv</a>
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) <a href="https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1880631804308426769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NYT Polling Shows Americans Overwhelmingly Support GOP Position On Numerous Trans Issues

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The New York Times executed a 180-degree turn on its own reporting — which just six months earlier had assured readers that President Joe Biden was in top form — and declared in a Tuesday headline, &#8220;A Weary Biden Heads For The Exit.&#8221;
Just three paragraphs in, the message is clear: the same people who were actively helping prop up an obviously diminished Biden — even in the final weeks before he was unceremoniously ushered off the stage and out of the 2024 presidential race — clearly understand that he would not have been able to withstand the stress of the rest of the campaign, much less another term in the White House.
From Tuesday&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/us/politics/biden-final-days-in-office.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a>:
<blockquote>Time is catching up with Mr. Biden. He looks a little older and a little slower with each passing day. Aides say he remains plenty sharp in the Situation Room, calling world leaders to broker a cease-fire in Lebanon or deal with the chaos of Syria’s rebellion. But it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years.</blockquote>
Just six months prior, the narrative was obvious: Biden is fine, and people should ignore those pesky viral videos that show him looking lost because they are creating unnecessary problems.
The article, published on June 21, was titled, &#8220;How Misleading Videos Are Trailing Biden As He Battles Age Doubts&#8221; and argued that the videos — most of which were even more damning when viewed uncut — were &#8220;edited or lacking context.&#8221;
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The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/us/politics/biden-age-videos.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> asserted that Biden was none the worse for wear and then blamed conservative media for manipulating videos to convince the American people otherwise.
<blockquote>In the last two weeks, conservative news outlets, the Republican National Committee and the Trump team have circulated videos of Mr. Biden that lacked important context and twisted mundane moments to paint him in an unflattering light.</blockquote>
Critics pointed out the quick turn, showcasing the articles side by side and noting just how quickly the proverbial worm had turned.
&#8220;What a difference 179 days make for The New York Times. From: &#8216;videos of Mr. Biden circulating during this year’s campaign are clearly manipulated to make him look old and confused.&#8217; To: &#8216;it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful job for another four years,'&#8221; conservative communications strategist Steve Guest said via X.
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What a difference 179 days make for The New York Times. 
From: “videos of Mr. Biden circulating during this year’s campaign are clearly manipulated to make him look old and confused.”
To: “it is hard to imagine that he seriously thought he could do the world’s most stressful… <a href="https://t.co/2k7gZETQr4">pic.twitter.com/2k7gZETQr4</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1869389727314436192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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RedState&#8217;s Bonchie added, &#8220;The Times four months ago: &#8216;Those videos of Joe Biden falling asleep and slurring his words are cheap fakes. Of course he can serve another four years.&#8217; The Times now: &#8216;How could anyone have imagined Joe Biden could ever serve another four years?'&#8221;
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The Times four months ago: “Those videos of Joe Biden falling asleep and slurring his words are cheap fakes. Of course he can serve another four years.”
The Times now: “How could anyone have imagined Joe Biden could ever serve another four years?”
Conservatives: <a href="https://t.co/WEsA3zBkkW">pic.twitter.com/WEsA3zBkkW</a>
&mdash; Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1869373600278389091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Economist Paul Krugman has retired as a columnist for the New York Times, a former newspaper. Krugman published his final column Monday, and headlined it, “I will not be retiring from the New York Times,” in order to continue his unbroken record of being wrong about every single thing. Krugman began his column in January 2000 and won the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics for his discovery that money doesn’t really talk, that’s just a metaphor. He says he’s now going to cash in his investments in Kodak and Pets.com so he can afford to devote all his time to his tinfoil farm, where he grows the hats that help him communicate with the invisible spirits who see the economic future before it happens. In his final offering, Krugman reminisced about his most important columns, including his famous 2008 masterpiece, “Why the Good Times will Never End,” along with some older columns like “The Government Can Borrow as Much as It Wants As Long as the Moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter Aligns with Mars,” and some recent ones, like “Don’t Blink or You’ll Miss the Transitory Inflation,” and “What’s Everyone Complaining About? My Intel Stock is Poised to Go Through the Roof.”
After Krugman announced his retirement from the opinion page — which is sometimes fondly called by nicknames like Knucklehead Row or Fathead City or what a bunch of stupid a-holes — the Big Brains of the page honored Krugman with a retirement party. A wild time was had by all as Charles Blow showed off his intellectual prowess by buttoning his shirt correctly while David Brooks and Thomas Friedman competed to see which of them would be first to figure out how to turn his Super Mario hat so that the brim faced forward. As the bubbly flowed and the anti-depressants were passed around, the gang grew nostalgic talking about their own famous columns, like that insightful Charles Blow favorite, “White People Are Meanies,” and David Brooks’ book on the importance of character, called, “How to Dump Your Wife for a Younger Woman,” not to mention Thomas Friedman’s thoughtful essay for last month’s Sunday Magazine, “Basheer al-Assad, a Leader with Staying Power.” Meanwhile, Ross Douthat threatened to ruin the festivities by continually grabbing the arms of passersby and screaming, “Look at me! I’m a sane, rational man! I am not supposed to be here! Please send help!”
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The task of finding a replacement for Krugman now falls to the Times editorial board, which includes such journalistic powerhouses as the Mango Tango crayon from the jumbo size Crayola Box, a wax replica of the miraculously preserved corpse of Vladimir Lenin and that guy who walks up and down 47th Street screaming at his mother in her home in the sky. The question before them is: how to create a column that can match the level of Paul Krugman’s wit and wisdom without it becoming a series of meaningless characters that only resemble words until you look at them closely. 
One idea is to brighten up the opinion page with a typical Times Relationship column that will give readers helpful advice on where to find the best porn, how to arrange a throuple with your soon-to-be-former friends, and how you can spice up your marriage by refusing to sleep with your spouse. Another idea is a column called “Poor Little Dirtbag,” in which every week a Times writer explains why we should feel compassion for a different terrorist, pervert, murderer or Times editorialist while forgetting all about the suffering of his victim or subscriber. And finally, the board discussed a possible column by Times Editor-in-Chief Blithering Prevarication the Third called, “Why I Hate Donald Trump So So Much,” in which every single day Mr. Third gives yet another reason why he hates Donald Trump so, so much. But that idea was rejected after the editors decided it would be indistinguishable from the current opinion page.
In a statement to Times readers, the editorial board wrote, “We hope all our devoted subscribers will take a moment off from playing Wordle, and say a fond farewell to Mr. Krugman. His departure will leave a dark empty hole where his column used to be, so probably you won’t notice any difference.”
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One of the astonishing things about the news industry is that many stories with an outsized national impact turn out to have been completely falsified upon further review. One of its incentive structures is often “firstist with the mostist”; in other words, get to the story fast and report it incredibly quickly. But then, the reporting ends up being false. In retrospect, this does significant damage. This is true in regard to reporting about COVID or Black Lives Matter.
One of the signal examples of this is now being exposed for all the world to see.
18 years ago, in 2006, the Duke lacrosse rape case incited a wide variety of movements that would come into full flower over the course of the subsequent 10 years, particularly during the Obama era. The Duke lacrosse case was an inciting incident for Black Lives Matter and for the #MeToo movement.
In this case, a stripper accused a series of rich white lacrosse players at Duke University of having sexually assaulted her. It became one of the biggest cases in American criminal justice history, specifically because of its ripple effects.
Crystal Mangum, the stripper at the center of that case, has admitted she lied back in 2006. Until now, she has never publicly admitted she fabricated the rape allegation.
Three men, David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann, were arrested and put on trial before the case was dismissed. Mangum’s original allegation was that she had been performing at a team party off campus in March of 2006, had been sexually assaulted, and raped by a series of white Duke lacrosse players.
She was, indeed, at this party, but, apparently, she engaged in none of her &#8220;career activity,&#8221; shall we say, because she was high on drugs or intoxicated with alcohol. She ended up leaving early, and then these accusations were filed.
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There were many holes in her story. First, there is no DNA on her. Second, she could not identify any of the Duke lacrosse players, except for one, who ended up not having even been there.
Yet, the problems with her allegations did not stop everyone — including the elite media and those on university campuses — from jumping to conclusions.
Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqt9OX-oAtU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2006, “I am not going to allow Durham’s view in the mind of the world to be a bunch of lacrosse players from Duke raping a black girl in Durham.”
Nifong obviously had other political motivations, possibly to run for a higher office at some point. In a March 2006 interview with CBS News, he <a href="https://www.ncbar.gov/orders/06dhc35.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “The circumstances of the rape indicated a deep racial motivation for some of the things that were done. It makes a crime that is by its nature one of the most offensive and invasive even more so.” According to Nifong, this wasn&#8217;t just a rape. It was, in fact, a racist rape.
The former Duke University president, Richard Brodhead, took immediate action against the team following only the allegations. He accepted the resignation of the men&#8217;s lacrosse coach, canceled the remainder of their season, and suspended the accused three players from school after they were indicted for rape, according to <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/12/us-news/former-stripper-murder-convict-crystal-mangum-confesses-to-lying-about-being-raped-by-duke-lacrosse-players-in-2006/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>. This was “despite having asked the public not to prejudge the criminal case.”
David Evans, one of the players, stridently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLROfcOfBc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied the allegations</a>, saying, “I am absolutely innocent of all the charges that have been brought against me today, that Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty are innocent of all the charges that were brought against them. These allegations are lies.” Eventually, the case was dismissed.
<div id="attachment_844111" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-844111" class="wp-image-844111 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/GettyImages-57618732.jpg" alt="DURHAM, NC - MAY 15: Duke lacrosse player David Evans (C), 23-years-old, proclaims his innocence as he addresses the media outside the Durham County Detention Center after being indicted on sexual assault charges on May 15, 2006 in Durham, North Carolina. Evans is the third player to be indicted for sexual assault of a woman hired as a private dancer to a party attended by lacrosse team members March 13. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)" width="1024" height="557" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/GettyImages-57618732.jpg 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/GettyImages-57618732-300x163.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/12/GettyImages-57618732-768x418.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />DURHAM, NC &#8211; MAY 15, 2006: Duke lacrosse player David Evans (C), 23-years-old, proclaims his innocence. (Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images)</div>
Yet that did not stop The New York Times from running around 100 pieces about the Duke lacrosse allegations. A tremendous number of Duke faculty actually paid for an ad that was put in the Duke Chronicle devoted to this particular case. Numerous departments and professors at the university signed onto this paid advertisement. What did <a href="https://today.duke.edu/showcase/mmedia/pdf/socialdisasterad.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the statement</a> say?
<blockquote>We are listening to our students. We’re also listening to the Durham community, to Duke staff, and to each other. Regardless of the results of the police investigation, what is apparent everyday now is the anger and fear of many students who know themselves to be objects of racism and sexism; who see illuminated in this moment’s extraordinary spotlight what they live with everyday. They know that it isn’t just Duke, it isn’t everybody, and it isn’t just individuals making this disaster. But it is a disaster nonetheless. These students are shouting and whispering about what happened to this young woman and to themselves.</blockquote>
The ad then provided anonymous student statements about the issue. The seedbed for the Black Lives Matter movement here is obvious. And it turns out all of this was based on lies. It was all lies — beginning to end.
Eventually, the North Carolina attorney general, Roy Cooper, announced that the charges had, in fact, been dropped. (Cooper would go on to become the governor of North Carolina.) He <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHtDbZ5i-w8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a>:
<blockquote>Our attorneys and SBI agents have interviewed numerous people who were at the party, DNA and other experts, the Durham County district attorney, Durham police officers, defense attorneys, and the accusing witness on several occasions. We have reviewed statements given over the year, photographs, records, and other evidence. The result of our review and investigation shows clearly that there is insufficient evidence to proceed on any of the charges. Today, we are filing notices of dismissal for all charges against Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans. The result is that these cases are over, and no more criminal proceedings will occur.</blockquote>
Nifong ended up being disbarred for making false statements and hiding evidence from the defense. The president of Duke University later came out and offered <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkgddRymFA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an apology</a>.
But here&#8217;s the issue: What was the fallout from this case? Was the fallout a lesson learned about people making false allegations? Of course not. Was the fallout about the rush to judgment by the media deeply desperate for a race case that they could magnify? Of course not; there have been dozens since.
The actual fallout in terms of policy was that in 2011, the Obama administration changed Title IX regulations so that you basically could not defend yourself against sexual harassment or sexual assault allegation on campus.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/betsy-devos-education-department-title-ix/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that the administration,
<blockquote>&#8230;outlined guidelines for schools on how to handle sexual assault allegations in a memo referred to as a ‘dear colleague’ letter. The letter reminded schools of their legal obligation to address sexual violence amid concerns that schools were not taking the issue seriously enough, and called on schools to step up investigations of reports. It also provided guidelines for investigations and hearings.</blockquote>
And it gave the accused no due process. It made it so that a person did not actually have a right to face down someone who was accusing them. That was the actual legal implication drawn from the false allegations of the Duke lacrosse case.
This repeated itself later with similar allegations that were made about the University of Virginia frat members in 2014 accused by Rolling Stone of engaging in a gang rape, which turned out to be completely false as well. But that didn&#8217;t stop the momentum of the #MeToo movement.
False allegations are, unfortunately, the lifeblood of movements that require gas when there is no gas in the tank.
Yesterday, Mangum, the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case — who is serving time for murder right now — finally admitted (nearly 20 years later) that her accusations were all made up. She said in <a href="https://www.letstalkwithkat.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a>: 
<blockquote>I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn&#8217;t. And that was wrong. And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn&#8217;t true because I wanted validation from people and not from God. And that was wrong. And I hope that they can forgive me.</blockquote>
It was false, and everyone knew it was false at the time. Yet it led to another string of these sorts of cases ranging from: the University of Virginia false rape allegations; the false allegations regarding Michael Brown&#8217;s death in Ferguson, Missouri, which led to riots in 2014; the case of George Floyd, which is in fact a false case; and the Daniel Penny case.
It stretches forward because the media need these opportunities. They spin up these opportunities. They rely on these opportunities in order to “have the discussion.” They&#8217;re constantly looking for a news hook to have discussions on the issues that they find most interesting regardless of whether the underlying data is there or not.
The media are perfectly willing to jump into certain conversations. However, there are other conversations that the media are absolutely not willing to broach.
Was there a widespread investigation into false rape allegations, which was the actual story with regard to the Duke lacrosse case? Absolutely not. Was there a full-scale media blitz on the question of rape hoaxes, which is what happened in Duke lacrosse? Absolutely not. The way the mainstream media work, their way of deciding whether something is a national story or not, is not based on the truth or falsity of the statements or the good or bad action of the people in question.
They have a preset narrative, and then they look for a hook for that narrative. That is how spinning up a movement out of nothing becomes possible. And it is how polarizing the American body politic occurs.
For four decades, the national media have pursued a preset narrative agenda. Then, they look for a news hook for that agenda that allows them to spin it up into a national story.
That is why Americans are sick and tired of the national legacy media.
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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> presided over the largest surge in immigration, the majority of it illegal, in the history of the United States.
The New York Times arrived at the conclusion based on an analysis of government data.
The report said that from 2021 to 2023, the total net migration into the U.S. was 2.4 million, meaning the total number of people minus the people who left.
It is estimated that more than eight million people entered the country over the course of Biden&#8217;s presidency, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/briefing/us-immigration-surge.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> said, a number greater than the populations of at least 38 states.
The real number is likely much higher, potentially by about <a href="https://homeland.house.gov/2024/05/22/startling-stats-factsheet-biden-administration-on-track-to-reach-10-million-encounters-nationwide-before-end-of-fiscal-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two million</a>, as illegal aliens who evade capture by border officials — known as &#8220;gotaways&#8221;— were not included in the numbers.
The surge in illegal immigration has &#8220;caused the share of the U.S. population born in another country to reach a new high, 15.2 percent in 2023, up from 13.6 percent in 2020,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;The previous high was 14.8 percent, in 1890.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s open border policies &#8220;appears to have been the biggest factor,&#8221; the report said.
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The report noted that the surge in illegal immigration means &#8220;wage growth for Americans who did not attend college will be lower than it otherwise would have been for the next few years.&#8221;
A poll from last month found that Americans are strongly supportive of President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to enact a mass deportation program upon taking office.
The poll of 2,232 adults, conducted by YouGov on behalf of CBS News following the presidential election, found that 45 percent of respondents said that Trump’s effort to “deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally” should be “high priority.” Another 28 percent said that it should be “medium priority,” while just 27 percent said it should not be a priority.
A majority of respondents said that they would approve of Donald Trump “starting a national program to find and deport all immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.” A full 57 percent said that they would approve of such a plan.
Trump made mass deportations one of his key campaign promises, pledging to “launch the largest deportation program in American history.” Trump has since announced that former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Tom Homan will serve as his border czar and be in charge of the deportation agenda.
A full 74 percent of white respondents said that deportations should be a high or medium priority of the Trump administration, while 70 percent of black respondents and 69 percent of Hispanic respondents agreed, displaying broad support for the initiative.
Spencer Lindquist contributed to this report.

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