Speaking with Fox News Host Shannon Bream Thursday night, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro ripped leftists who have targeted Vice President Mike Pence for his Christian faith, saying, &#8220;There&#8217;s a baseline level of hatred for Christians, on the cultural Left.&#8221;
Bream began by citing an op-ed from late July in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/mike-pence-holy-terror.html">The New York Times</a> by Frank Bruni, who wrote, &#8220;There are problems with impeaching Donald Trump. A big one is the holy terror waiting in the wings. That would be Mike Pence, who mirrors the boss more than you realize. He&#8217;s also self-infatuated. Also a bigot. Also a liar. Also cruel.&#8221;
Bream prompted Shapiro by asking, &#8220;A holy terror?&#8221;
Shapiro responded:
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This is how you got Trump. I sort of get tired of using that phrase but this is legitimately how you got Trump. You say that Mitt Romney&#8217;s the worst guy in the world, and before that, John McCain was the worst guy in the world, and then Republicans are like, &#8220;Fine. How about if we just nominate this guy. Right? This guy who just punches everything. How about that?
And then, it turns out that no matter how bad the Republican supposedly is, the next Republican will inevitably be even worse. Mike Pence will certainly be worse; he&#8217;s a worse person, a scarier person than Donald Trump. You always think that there&#8217;s some limit to the lengths to which the Left will go to portray a Republican as bad, but no matter how much they hate Trump, the next guy they&#8217;ll hate just as much or more because he&#8217;s the next guy. That&#8217;s just how it works.
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Bream quoted former Trump aide Omarosa Manigault and Joy Behar from &#8220;The View&#8221; attacking Pence, then asked, &#8220;Why do you think it&#8217;s just okay to Christian-bash him so much?&#8221;
Shapiro answered:
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Because there&#8217;s a baseline level of hatred, really, for Christians, on the cultural Left; it&#8217;s most evident in New York and Los Angeles, places where I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time. There&#8217;s this belief that everybody who deeply believes their faith is actually, secretly a bigot, that the reason they are acting out their religion in public is not because they believe their religion, but because they are using the religion as a cover for bigotry. It&#8217;s the same sort of thing that they&#8217;ve used with regard to Jack Phillips over at Masterpiece Cakeshop; really, he hates gay people; it&#8217;s not that he&#8217;s a Christian who believes he has to abide by his religious standards; it&#8217;s that he secretly hates gay people and trans people and he&#8217;s just using religion as a cover. They say the same sort of thing about Mike Pence; truly there&#8217;s a tyrannical tendency among religious people, and then they just use Jesus or the Bible as an excuse.
Now, of course, none of that is true, but it does demonstrate the militant secularism of the Left and it also shows why putting people who believe that sort of thing in charge of government is a dangerous thing, because if they actually believe that religious folks are by nature bigots, and that they&#8217;re only using all of this religious talk to cover up their bigotry, it&#8217;s no wonder they&#8217;re always attempting to crack down on folks who have a religious bent, despite the fact that the Constitution was specifically designed to preserve the religious freedom of Americans.
</blockquote>
Bream quoted a new book that warned of a theocracy in the United States if Pence became president.
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I find it absolutely bewildering that the same folks who are claiming that Mike Pence is going to run a theocracy also want federal gun control to seize all the guns. It&#8217;s truly amazing. It&#8217;s also amazing that the folks who are saying that Mike Pence wants to run a theocracy ignore the fact that Mike Pence is a constitutional conservative who wants to limit the size and scope of government. The only theocrats, the only people who actually want to rule from above by instituting their moral preferences on society from the top down, are the folks on the Left, who actually want to invade rights on a regular basis and force people to do things that they don&#8217;t want to do. It&#8217;s a lot more common on the Left than it is on the Right, so they&#8217;re actually using their own theocratic tendencies toward government, which a lot of folks on the radical Left see as a quasi God-like figure; they&#8217;re using that own theocratic tendency and then projecting it onto people like Mike Pence. It&#8217;s really quite disgusting.
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WATCH: Shapiro Slams Critics Of Pence’s Christianity: ‘There’s A Baseline Level Of Hatred For Christians On The Cultural Left’

Ben Shapiro

Christianity

Joy Behar

Mike Pence

Omarosa Manigault

A White House correspondent who often says outrageous things on CNN, where she moonlights as a contributor, says Press Secretary Sarah Sanders should for pay her bodyguard for &#8220;stirring it up.&#8221;
April Ryan, the Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, is often combative in the daily White House briefings, interrupting Sanders and demanding answers (along with posing questions about whether President Trump is a racist). That commitment to true journalism (ha) has led to problems, she claims.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve had some people wait for me outside the White House,&#8221; Ryan told <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/threats-violence-white-house-reporter-april-ryan-fights-press-1135955">The Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;There is a concern now. I mean, I&#8217;ve had death threats, I&#8217;ve had craziness, so I have a real concern.&#8221;
&#8220;Do I have a bodyguard?&#8221; Ryan said. &#8220;Yes, I do. Am I paying for it? Yes, I am. And, I think [Sanders] should have to pay for it, especially if she&#8217;s stirring it up with her boss.&#8221;
&#8220;I did not sign up for this. I was just doing a job,&#8221; Ryan added.
Ryan said she began receiving death threats after she asked Sanders if President Trump was considering resigning.
She has cashed in as part of the &#8220;fake news&#8221; anti-Trumpers. She has a new book coming out in September, &#8220;Under Fire: Reporting From the Front Lines of the Trump White House,&#8221; which she&#8217;ll hype in coming appearances on &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; &#8220;This Week&#8221; with George Stephanopoulos&#8206; and, of course, on CNN, THR reported.
&#8220;If I don&#8217;t tell the story, you won&#8217;t get it. So, I&#8217;m putting it out there, because people see one side of it. I&#8217;m giving you the whole thing,&#8221; Ryan said. &#8220;The way they&#8217;ve treated me for asking questions that are fair and logical.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re still very angry at me for asking the question, &#8216;Mr. President, are you a racist?&#8217; And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m on a list,&#8221; Ryan said, claiming there&#8217;s a &#8220;White House blacklist&#8221; of &#8220;people they don&#8217;t like.&#8221;
Ryan plays every card in the book when asked about Sanders. &#8220;She should be ashamed of herself for going out there, saying some of the things that she&#8217;s said. She tries to insult my intelligence. And not just my intelligence, the world&#8217;s intelligence. &#8230; They always have to go back and press-splain, man-splain the president after he says something,&#8221; she said.
Ryan also floated this conspiracy theory: Omarosa Manigault Newman pushed the rumor that Trump used the N-word in an attempt to take attention away from Aretha Franklin&#8217;s failing health.
&#8220;She did it because Aretha Franklin didn&#8217;t want her at her birthday party,&#8221; Ryan said. &#8220;That&#8217;s how vindictive Omarosa is.&#8221;
Oy.

White House Reporter: Sarah Sanders Should Pay For My Bodyguard Since She’s ‘Stirring’ Up Threats

Donald Trump

Disgruntled former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman released a video she recorded during the 2016 presidential campaign &#8212; it was a big nothingburger.
Appearing on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Hardball&#8221; with host Chris Mattews, Newman released the video from September 16, 2016, that shows President Donald Trump&#8217;s former attorney Michael Cohen boarding Trump&#8217;s private plane.
&#8220;You&#8217;re on my video just so you know,&#8221; Newman told Cohen during the video.
The video was approximately 30 seconds long and did not show anything else happening.
Newman, who has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34439/anti-trump-figures-destroy-omarosa-shes-evil-liar-ryan-saavedra">widely dismissed</a> for having poor character, then claimed following the news today about Cohen that &#8220;this is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump &#8230; because he knows that the person who knows everything about him, about his relationship with these women and other people may not know about what will come to light.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Last week it was reported that <a href="https://twitter.com/OMAROSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@omarosa</a> has an extensive stash of video, emails and other forms of documentation. Here&#8217;s a video of Michael Cohen boarding Trump&#8217;s plane during the 2016 campaign. <a href="https://t.co/1TJBgbidAe">pic.twitter.com/1TJBgbidAe</a>
&#8212; Hardball (@hardball) <a href="https://twitter.com/hardball/status/1032042737552580610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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The response to Newman&#8217;s latest stunt was widespread mockery, including by those who are left-of-center:
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The video was of Michael Cohen, the president&#8217;s longtime personal attorney, boarding his plane in September 2016. Not an unusual or strange thing. Omarosa said it was to show he wasn&#8217;t a coffee boy etc. I don&#8217;t think even Trump would try to say that.
A big nothing. <a href="https://t.co/YYueTPygHt">https://t.co/YYueTPygHt</a>
&#8212; Yashar Ali (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1032042882947903489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I too am releasing EXCLUSIVE video of Michael Cohen. Must credit <a href="https://twitter.com/crookedmedia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@crookedmedia</a> <a href="https://t.co/l8WTJoV5df">pic.twitter.com/l8WTJoV5df</a>
&#8212; Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1032043637964718086?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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So yeah, isn&#8217;t there an Omarosa tape that&#8217;s about to be released or something?
&#8212; Nathan McDermott (@natemcdermott) <a href="https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/1032040742921953280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Please tell me i didnt stay up for this.. is this it???
&#8212; Ayo Milaje (@ayusfagbo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ayusfagbo/status/1032043121339785217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Well that video sums up nothing
&#8212; Scott (@jamestiz123) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamestiz123/status/1032043165606465536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Oh my gosh!!! Cohen boarded Trump&#8217;s plane?!? This has Russia written all over it!!!
&#8212; Jack Uribe (@jackmuribe) <a href="https://twitter.com/jackmuribe/status/1032046512493092864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Omarosa Releases Video She Recorded. Twitter Slams Her.

Chris Matthews

MSNBC

When the Stormy Daniels &#8220;scandal&#8221; broke, CNN just couldn&#8217;t get enough of her and her lawyer.
In just 10 weeks, the liberal network interviewed Michael Avenatti 74 times &#8212; 74!
But something surprising has happened with Omarosa Manigault Newman. The former White House aide and longtime &#8220;friend&#8221; of President Trump hasn&#8217;t gotten the same treatment.
Newman has penned a tell-all book, &#8220;Unhinged,&#8221; that says Trump is off his rocker and a bit of a racist. The book&#8217;s gotten huge play across the mainstream media, especially MSNBC. But she hasn&#8217;t been able to book an appearance on CNN.
&#8220;Don Lemon was offered one of the first cable interviews and passed,&#8221; an insider told the <a href="https://pagesix.com/2018/08/20/cnn-gives-omarosa-the-cold-shoulder/">New York Post</a>.
<blockquote>
We&#8217;re told Manigault Newman was also scheduled to appear on Jake Tapper&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; on Sunday, but CNN canceled the appearance.
Another source said CNN was initially only interested in booking commentators who would trash-talk the reality-show vixen. &#8220;They only wanted to book guests with nothing positive to say about her. They were specifically looking for people who would provide a more negative slant when discussing Omarosa,&#8221; the source said.
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Now that makes more sense. CNN really just wanted to bash Trump and all those around him. Because Newman was a longtime supporter, the network isn&#8217;t excited about putting her on the air.

SHOCKER: CNN Snubs Omarosa

New York Post

On Sunday, Omarosa Manigault Newman appeared on MSNBC&#8217; &#8220;Politics Nation&#8221; and told host Al Sharpton that she believes President Trump wants to &#8220;start a race war.&#8221;
Manigault Newman has been making the rounds to promote her new book, &#8220;Unhinged: An Insider&#8217;s Account of the Trump White House,&#8221; in which she makes numerous claims about what went on at the White House during her tenure as Office of the Public Liaison director of communications.
Here&#8217;s her exchange with Sharpton:
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SHARPTON: Let me ask this. In terms of diversity in the White House, I&#8217;ve been in this as you know a long time, [in] civil rights, I can&#8217;t think of a president, even [a] Republican, from Nixon on that didn&#8217;t have a black in the West Wing in at least the discussions, in the senior administrative leadership until now. You were the most public face there, and even there, they didn&#8217;t want you in a lot of the meetings that you insisted to be in as I read the book.
MANIGAULT NEWMAN: That&#8217;s right.
SHARPTON: He&#8217;s the first president that has outright excluded &#8211; he can call me and other activists racist all he wants &#8212; he&#8217;s the only one with a lily white inner circle. Am I right?
MANIGAULT NEWMAN: You&#8217;re absolutely correct &#8212; and it&#8217;s much much worse than people even realize. There&#8217;s 30 assistants to the president right now. There are none representing the African-American community. There are SESs as well as Schedule Cs that make up the bulk of the appointments to each of the agencies, and the diversity in the agency is very sparse, and, in fact, when we submitted candidates, they were rejected over and over again. And I will tell you that they haven&#8217;t even made an attempt to replace anyone in OPL to do the African-American outreach; they just kind of detailed a guy over for just three months, I think to do a little window dressing, but there is really no real commitment to diversity in the White House.
And he&#8217;s unapologetic about it because he&#8217;s completely contradicted the commitment he made when he did that campaign of &#8220;what do you have to lose?&#8221; Well, clearly we have to lose a voice, an advocate, someone who understands the issues and knows how to reach out to [the] community. We have a lot to lose, and in fact, we&#8217;re losing right now because Donald Trump is disingenuous about his engagement and his outreach, and in fact, I believe he wants to start a race war in this country.
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WATCH: Omarosa Tells Sharpton She Thinks Trump Wants To ‘Start A Race War In This Country’

Trump Administration

Who do you believe when everyone is a proven liar?
That&#8217;s exactly the prospect facing Americans asked to choose between Donald Trump, Omarosa Manigault, and members of the mainstream media. Trump, of course, fibs routinely, on matters both great and small. Omarosa has been wildly reviled as a liar&#8212;she was fired twice from the Clinton White House, three times on The Apprentice, and once more from the Trump White House. And the members of the media, who purport to tell us the truth in objective fashion, are now dutifully parroting every allegation from Omarosa&#8212;a woman who, just a few months ago, was directing her diatribes at the members of Celebrity Big Brother (which could now be graced with the presence of another stellar moral exemplar, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/stormy-daniels-celebrity-big-brother-2018-cast-1073140">Stormy Daniels</a>).
At that point, she suddenly benefited from that oft-invoked Strange New Respect&#8482;&#8212;the phenomenon that occurs the minute that any purported Republican turns on his or her former colleagues. We&#8217;ve already seen such Strange New Respect&#8482; accrue to characters ranging from Michael Cohen to Jeff Flake.
Omarosa is no exception. This week, the same members of the media who called her a pathological liar suddenly decided that she was Patient Zero in the Trump racism outbreak. MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough, who spent much of the Republican primary season pumping Trump up with free airtime, now suggests that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-vs-omarosa-why-woman-who-does-something-disagreeable-dismissed-crazy-1073813">Trump terming Omarosa a &#8220;dog&#8221;</a>&#8212;a term Trump has used routinely for years, on figures including Hosni Mubarak and Kristen Stewart&#8212;could bring about &#8220;genocide&#8221; (yes, seriously). Democrats far and wide declared Trump&#8217;s use of the &#8220;dog&#8221; terminology racist, even though Trump has dropped it on white people with alacrity.
<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-omarosa-manigault-or-media-which-liar-should-you-believe-opinion-1076306">Read the rest by clicking here</a>.

Shapiro At ‘Newsweek’: Which Liar Should You Believe?

Media Bias

On Thursday, former White House employee Omarosa Managault leapt into the headlines once more, this time by spilling yet another tape of a Trump intimate. This tape featured Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump, speaking with Omarosa about the possibility of joining the Trump re-election campaign, with a salary of $15,000 per month.
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The tape features Lara explaining, &#8220;It sounds a little like, obviously, that there are some things you&#8217;ve got in the back pocket to pull out. Clearly, if you come on board the campaign, like, we can&#8217;t have&#8230;&#8221; At this point Omarosa interjects, &#8220;Oh, God no,&#8221; and Lara continues, &#8220;Everything, positive, right?&#8221;
Lara Trump fired back in a statement:
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From the beginning of my father-in-law&#8217;s campaign, Omarosa was welcomed into our family as a trusted friend and confidant. On the Women for Trump tour, including Omarosa, we formed a sisterhood bond that is unlike any I have experienced in my life. We toured together, laughed together, and worked really hard towards a common goal. We never would have imagined that one of our own was secretly recording all of our private conversations.
When Omarosa was fired by the White House Chief of Staff in December of 2017, my entire family was concerned for her because we had no idea about the basis of her dismissal. We still wanted her on our team because we cared so much about her personally. That&#8217;s why I reached out to offer her a position with the 2020 Trump Campaign before we knew anything about the gross violations of ethics and integrity during her White House tenure. Another one of Omarosa&#8217;s &#8216;bombshell&#8217; tapes is a fraud. The discussions about a position with the campaign took place in numerous phone calls over the course of several weeks.
Woman to woman, I shared a connection with Omarosa as a friend and a campaign sister, and I am absolutely shocked and saddened by her betrayal and violation on a deeply personal level.
I hope it&#8217;s all worth it for you, Omarosa, because some things you just can&#8217;t put a price on.
</blockquote>
Omarosa says that she&#8217;s only releasing the tapes to demonstrate the credibility of her new book.

WATCH: Omarosa Reveals New Trump Tape. Of Lara Trump. Then Lara Fires Back.

The Republican Party released a video trolling disgruntled former White House employee Omarosa Manigault Newman on Wednesday and President Donald Trump wasted no time jumping in and throwing a jab at her.
Newman, who has been trying to promote her new book about her time in the White House by making wild accusations about the Trump administration, has been widely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34439/anti-trump-figures-destroy-omarosa-shes-evil-liar-ryan-saavedra">criticized</a> by anti-Trump figures who have called her &#8220;evil,&#8221; &#8220;a liar,&#8221; and &#8220;not credible.&#8221;
In response to Omarosa&#8217;s claims, the Republican Party compiled multiple television clips of Omarosa expressing very different sentiments toward the Trump administration before she was fired earlier this year.
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Guess she forgot about these tapes&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/fkG5zPHRfG">pic.twitter.com/fkG5zPHRfG</a>
&#8212; GOP (@GOP) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP/status/1030141769307054081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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President Trump, who has publicly blasted Omarosa in recent days, wasted no time responding to the video.
&#8220;Thank you for the kind words Omarosa!&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter.
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Thank you for the kind words Omarosa! <a href="https://t.co/PMmNG6iIsi">https://t.co/PMmNG6iIsi</a>
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1030166194723205122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: GOP Releases Video Trolling Omarosa. Trump Finishes Her Off.

The media has been unnecessarily focused on whether President Donald Trump is a sexist or a racist for calling former White House aide Omarosa Manigault &#8220;a dog,&#8221; in a tweet after she claimed to have tapes where he used the n-word.
But what if they&#8217;re asking the wrong question? Trump uses the word &#8220;dog&#8221; as an insult <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34466/no-trump-calling-omarosa-dog-doesnt-make-him-ben-shapiro">quite frequently</a>, as noted by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro. He&#8217;s used it against Mitt Romney, David Gregory, Bill Maher, Erick Erickson, George Will, David Axelrod, Glenn Beck, Chuck Todd, Brent Bozell, Ted Cruz&#8230; to name a few. His most common use of the word is to claim someone was &#8220;fired like a dog.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure how many working dogs he knows, but I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re fired in any particularly special way.
The bigger question seems to be why Trump thinks &#8220;dog&#8221; is such an insult? Does he hate dogs? Was he bitten by one as a child? Is he allergic? Is it because he hates germs? Has he ever even met a dog? These are the questions intrepid journalists should be asking, instead of focusing on things like national security.
Oh? Someone has been looking into this, you say? Who? Brian Williams? Yeah, that makes sense.
On <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2018/08/15/msnbcs-brian-williams-reports-trump-hates-dogs-also-he-nazi">a segment</a> during his MSNBC program, Williams asked Washington Post reporter Philip Rucker: &#8220;Does this president really, physically, not like dogs?&#8221;
Rucker responded by pointing out that Trump is &#8220;the first president in more than 100 years who has not had a dog as a pet in the White House,&#8221; and noted that the president&#8217;s first wife, Ivana, had a dog who didn&#8217;t seem to like Trump. Then Williams got into the real journalism:
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&#8220;We launched an extensive web search that took us at least a few minutes and could only find one photo in all the land of Donald Trump with a dog.&#8221;
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Williams speculated that, maybe, this was all due to the fact that Trump is a &#8220;germaphobe.&#8221;
Rucker, for his part, praised dogs and compared Trump to Nazis during the Holocaust.
Williams managed to further embarrass himself when it was discovered, probably from even more minutes of web searching, that there are more photos of Trump with dogs in &#8220;the land,&#8221; as noted by The Reagan Battalion on Twitter.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/BWilliams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BWilliams</a> needs new staff ASAP!
Williams: We launched an &#8216;extensive&#8217; web search &amp; could only find &#8216;one&#8217; photo of <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> with a dog.&#8221;
Watch below what we found!
Are you a Google wizard? Try it yourself. Google images &#8211; type 
In &#8211; &#8220;Trump with a dog&#8221;
HT. <a href="https://twitter.com/JSwiftTWS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JSwiftTWS</a> <a href="https://t.co/i5iN429UoU">pic.twitter.com/i5iN429UoU</a>
&#8212; The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1029588017089011712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Note: I&#8217;m totally not serious about wondering if Trump likes dogs or not, but Williams seemed to be. Also, in case you&#8217;re wondering, Trump has never called someone a &#8220;cat&#8221; as an insult. So there&#8217;s that.

Why Does Donald Trump Hate Dogs So Much?

Dogs

The news is wall-to-wall with the allegations from former &#8220;Apprentice&#8221; contestant Omarosa Manigault Newman accusing President Trump of using the &#8220;N&#8221; word once.
But blacks aren&#8217;t buying it, the <a href="https://apnews.com/8f6c754ff73443c5b539adf76c4cf25d/Black-Americans-aren't-buying-Omarosa's-turn-against-Trump">Associated Press</a> reports.
The liberal news service says the fact that Newman stood at Trump&#8217;s side for more than a decade makes her &#8220;deeply unpopular with African-Americans who see her as a sellout for aligning herself with a president who has hurled one insult after another at black people.&#8221;
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Her falling out with Trump and her decision to call him a racist as she sells her new book &#8212; and in turn, his calling her a &#8220;dog&#8221; &#8212; have not been enough for many African-Americans to invite her back to the family picnic.
Too little, too late, many said.
&#8220;Her tell-all mea culpa won&#8217;t win her any brownie points with most blacks,&#8221; said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of the book &#8220;Why Black Lives Do Matter.&#8221; &#8243;Their loathing of Omarosa is virtually frozen in stone. She&#8217;s still roundly lambasted as a two-bit opportunist, a racial sellout and an ego driven hustler.&#8221;
Few in the black community immediately rushed to defend Manigault Newman after she wrote a book entitled &#8220;Unhinged&#8221; about her time in the White House. It paints a damning picture of Trump, claiming without evidence that tapes exist of him using the N-word as he filmed &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221; reality series, on which she co-starred.
She has since stepped up her attacks on Trump as she promotes her book, telling The Associated Press on Tuesday that the president is &#8220;a racist, a misogynist, a bigot.&#8221;
&#8220;I want to see this nation united as opposed to divided,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to see a race war, as Donald Trump does.&#8221;
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The wire report comes as the <a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/opinion/op_ed/2018/08/ambrose_donald_trump_doing_plenty_for_black_americans">Boston Herald</a> writes that Trump is &#8220;making life better for black Americans everywhere you look while his predecessor fumbled.&#8221;
&#8220;The loudest Trump triumph of the moment has been dips to the lowest black unemployment in history, and get this: Jobs confer purpose, they provide pride, they build community, they set one up to help others, they enable social mobility, they lift the spirit. Welfare limps, jobs jog and you don&#8217;t get them through semi-socialist policies. You get them through deregulation and tax reform of the Trump kind, encouraging businesses to expand, lowering expenses and inspiring entrepreneurship,&#8221; writes author Jay Ambrose.
Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_aug15">Rasmussen Reports</a> finds in a new survey that black support for Trump has risen to 31%. That&#8217;s up 13 percentage points since this time last year.
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Today&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> approval ratings among black voters: 31% This day last year: 18% <a href="https://t.co/mazBCWoIMy">https://t.co/mazBCWoIMy</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://t.co/qQEDamXmSB">pic.twitter.com/qQEDamXmSB</a>
&#8212; Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) <a href="https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1029380217767387137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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So, apparently, the allegations from Newman are so far having little effect.

AP: Black Americans Aren’t Buying Omarosa’s Turn Against Trump

Boston

Racism

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Tuesday said the media is far more divisive in America today than President Trump.
During her daily press briefing, Sanders was asked a barrage of question about whether Trump is racist. One reporter went on a soliloquy, asking: &#8220;What do you say to people who look at the pattern of comments that the president has made, specifically about African-Americans, and feel like he is singling those folks out because of their race? Are they missing something? Are they deluding themselves? What do you say to them? Because there are lots of people out there who look at the pattern and say, &#8216;Yes, he says negative things about a lot of people but there seems to be a particular pattern of singling out African-Americans and commenting in particular about their intelligence, or lack thereof, and their looks.'&#8221;
Sanders had had enough.
&#8220;Frankly, if we want to look at who&#8217;s creating divisions in the country, I think the media has done more to divide this country, certainly far more than this president ever has, by elevating people like the author of this book, by focusing on a sparsely attended rally instead of all of the policies that this administration and that this president are enacting that helping people &#8212; not just on the economy but on school choice, on prison reform that&#8217;s disproportionately affected African-Americans and Hispanics,&#8221; Sanders said.
&#8220;This is a president who is governing to help all Americans. And I think we&#8217;d all be better off if the media gave that just a little bit more attention.&#8221;
Reporters asked more than a dozen questions about Omarosa Manigault Newman, who was fired by the White House and has since penned a tell-all book and accused Trump of saying the &#8220;N&#8221; word.
Sanders was asked why Trump is &#8220;continuing to respond to the charges in this book? Why doesn&#8217;t he just ignore it?&#8221;
Said Sanders:
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Look, I think he&#8217;s made, again, the frustrations &#8212; I think all &#8212; not only those of us here in the White House, but frankly, I think most of America would be happy to ignore. Unfortunately, the individuals in this room continue to create a large platform for somebody they know not to have a lot of credibility, for someone they, frankly, refused to give a platform to when they worked here at the White House.
It wasn&#8217;t until this individual started to negatively attack this president and this administration, and try to tear this entire place down, that she received the type of platform and rollout that she&#8217;s getting.
I think it would be great if every single person in this room, and every single person in the administration, never had to talk about this again, and we actually got to focus on the real policies and the real things that not matter just to people in this building but certainly all Americans &#8212; African-Americans, Hispanics, and everybody in between. I think that would be the best thing that we could certainly do for our country.
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On the same topic, Sanders said: &#8220;I think if the media continues to give it wall-to-wall coverage, the administration, in some cases, will be forced to respond. But I think it would be better off for all of us to walk away and focus on some things that matter.&#8221;
And she added that that&#8217;s just Trump being Trump. &#8220;Look, the president is somebody who&#8217;s always going to fight fire with fire. This is something that isn&#8217;t new. And it&#8217;s something the American people knew when they voted for him, and they overwhelmingly elected him to be the president of the United States.&#8221;

White House: Media Dividing America More Than Donald Trump

Media

CNN has already produced over <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1029418986365247489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1029418986365247489&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt-3136%2F2018%2F08%2F14%2Fcnns-chyron-doesnt-quite-match-up-with-what-sarah-huckabee-sanders-said-about-the-n-word%2F">30 stories</a> on Omarosa Manigualt-Newman&#8217;s click-baity accusations against her former boss Donald Trump for obvious reasons, and the network doesn&#8217;t show any signs of letting up anytime soon. Along with getting called out for its new-found obsession with Omarosa, Trump&#8217;s favorite network to hate on is getting pushback for its coverage of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders&#8217; response to a gotcha question on the alleged &#8220;N-word&#8221; tape.
When Sanders was asked if she could &#8220;guarantee&#8221; that the American people will &#8220;never hear Donald Trump utter the N-word on a recording in any context,&#8221; Sanders said the only reasonable thing a reasonable person could say: &#8220;I can&#8217;t guarantee anything,&#8221; then went on to point to the fact that Trump already denied the claims by Omarosa. Here&#8217;s the moment (starts at the 22 second-mark):
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve never heard him use that term or anything similar&#8221; but &#8220;I can&#8217;t guarantee&#8221; that President Trump hasn&#8217;t used the n-word, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders says <a href="https://t.co/nyBWLCeCgj">pic.twitter.com/nyBWLCeCgj</a>
&#8212; CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1029449302152638464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Notice CNN&#8217;s chyron after Sanders&#8217; response: &#8220;WH: &#8216;CANNOT GUARANTEE&#8217; TAPE WON&#8217;T REVEAL TRUMP USING N-WORD.&#8221; 
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CNN chyron right now: &#8220;WH: &#8216;CANNOT GUARANTEE&#8217; TAPE WON&#8217;T REVEAL TRUMP USING N-WORD&#8221;
&#8212; Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1029448749133770752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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While Trump critics loved CNN&#8217;s coverage, others wouldn&#8217;t let the misleading partial quote stand (h/t <a href="https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/08/14/cnns-chyron-doesnt-quite-match-up-with-what-sarah-huckabee-sanders-said-about-the-n-word/">Twitchy</a>):
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No <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@oliverdarcy</a>, that&#8217;s not what was said.
Sanders was asked if she could guarantee that Trump would &#8220;never&#8221; do something, even in the future. She said, correctly, that she couldn&#8217;t guarantee anything. No one can guarantee another&#8217;s actions.
Nice spin though. <a href="https://t.co/0uwILHtULs">https://t.co/0uwILHtULs</a>
&#8212; John Cardillo (@johncardillo) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1029458248720699392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I&#8217;m starting to think that CNN pays its employees (not calling you journalists) based on how far you can stretch a story. I watched&#8230;.not what she said or meant. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fakenews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#fakenews</a>
&#8212; Pat Mann (@PatMann1) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatMann1/status/1029509409213493250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Others, even some who seem sympathetic to CNN, noted that asking anyone to &#8220;guarantee&#8221; something like this is absurd on its face:
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I get that the press want to use definitive terms like &#8220;guarantee&#8221; but they make it too easy to deflect. I can&#8217;t guarantee my wife hasn&#8217;t said it. I&#8217;m not with her 24/7. I&#8217;d hope she wouldn&#8217;t and don&#8217;t think she has, but guarantee is too strong.
&#8212; Tom (@sw208ll) <a href="https://twitter.com/sw208ll/status/1029468330745257984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Darcy noted that CNN wasn&#8217;t alone in presenting Sanders&#8217; words in a misleading way; MSNBC and even Fox News did something similar:
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Fox and MSNBC had versions of this chyron as well. Unison across the cable news networks after that WH presser. <a href="https://t.co/LmLwZWtEM2">pic.twitter.com/LmLwZWtEM2</a>
&#8212; Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1029450380495577088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2018</a></blockquote>
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As the Daily Wire&#8217;s Ryan Saavedra <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34498/watch-press-goes-after-sarah-sanders-over-omarosa-ryan-saavedra">reported</a> Tuesday, Sanders responded to the press&#8217;s flood of questions on Omarosa in her usual unflinching mode.
Asked why Trump wouldn&#8217;t just &#8220;ignore&#8221; Omarosa&#8217;s claims, Sanders replied, &#8220;Frankly I think most of America would be happy to ignore it but unfortunately the individuals in this room continue to create a large platform for somebody they know not to have a lot of credibility, for someone they frankly refused to give a platform to when they worked here at the White House. It wasn&#8217;t until this individual started to negatively attack this president and this administration and tried to tear this entire place down that she received the type of platform and roll out that she&#8217;s getting.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34498/watch-press-goes-after-sarah-sanders-over-omarosa-ryan-saavedra">WATCH: Press Goes After Sarah Sanders Over Omarosa. She Drags Them.</a>

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