After comedian Jon Stewart <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1552688111347552256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1552688111347552256%7Ctwgr%5E9c21daeff6e7770e26ed9bcdbd7a65b8a62ddeb3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollingstone.com%2Fpolitics%2Fpolitics-news%2Fjon-stewart-blasts-gop-over-vote-against-vets-1389372%2F">ripped</a> Senate Republicans as “mother***ers” and singled out Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) as a “f***ing coward” for temporarily blocking a bill because Democrats wanted to sneak $400 billion in discretionary funding into the bill, Toomey responded on Sunday by pointedly targeting Stewart’s sense of self-importance.
Stewart had hysterically ranted against Toomey after he and other GOP senators temporarily blocked the passage of the PACT Act, which expands healthcare benefits for veterans and 9/11 first responders who had been exposed to such as toxins found in burn pits.
“First of all, this is the oldest trick in Washington,” Toomey told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “People take a sympathetic group of Americans — and it could be children with an illness; it could be victims of crime; it could be veterans who&#8217;ve been exposed to toxic chemicals — craft a bill to address their problems, and then sneak in something completely unrelated that they know could never pass on its own and dare Republicans to do anything about it, because they know they will unleash their allies in the media and maybe a pseudo-celebrity to make up false accusations to try to get us to just swallow what shouldn&#8217;t be there.”
Stewart had also attacked Toomey by railing, “God knows what pot of gold he’s stepping into to lobby this government to s*** on more people.” He noted that the bill had been passed on June 14, then continued ranting of Toomey, “he is a f***ing coward,” mocking him as “Patriot Pat Toomey.”
Regarding the charge that the bill had been passed in mid-June, Toomey told Tapper how the Democrats were manipulating the situation: “We were promised that we&#8217;d have an opportunity to offer an amendment to change this. And then, of course, that was reneged on, so people hadn&#8217;t had a chance to be socialized about this.”
“Let me be very clear,” Toomey continued. “Republicans are not opposed to any of the substance of the PACT Act. &#8230; My honest Democratic colleagues will fully acknowledge that my objection, and if I get my way, I get my change, it will not change by one penny any spending on any veterans program. What I&#8217;m trying to do is change a government accounting methodology that is designed to allow our Democratic colleagues to go on an unrelated $400 billion spending spree that has nothing to do with veterans and that won&#8217;t be in the veterans space.”
“We can resolve this with an amendment vote,” Toomey noted. “But some of the Democrats don&#8217;t even want to have an amendment vote. &#8230; There&#8217;s some Democrats that simply want to say, no, you don&#8217;t get to change anything. We don&#8217;t have any more debate. We don&#8217;t have amendments. We&#8217;re just going to jam this through. So that&#8217;s the source of the tension.”
“This is why they do this sort of thing, Jake, because it gets very deep in the weeds and very confusing for people very quickly,” Toomey pointed out. “It&#8217;s not really about veterans spending. It&#8217;s about what category of government bookkeeping they put the veterans spending in. &#8230; What I want to do is treat it for government accounting purposes the way we have always treated it for government accounting purposes, because, if we change it to the way that the Democrats want, it creates room in future budgets for $400 billion of totally unrelated extraneous spending on other matters.”

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Jon Stewart Calls GOP Sen. Pat Toomey ‘F***ing Coward.’ Toomey Mocks Him: ‘Pseudo-Celebrity’

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Veterans

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) on Sunday said that moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) got &#8220;taken to the cleaners&#8221; by Senate Democrats by agreeing to their tax and spending package.
Appearing on CBS&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; Toomey said that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/manchin-stands-by-democrats-tax-and-spend-plan-nothing-inflammatory-in-that-piece-of-legislation">Manchin</a> was swindled by his Democratic colleagues into agreeing to the reconciliation plan. Toomey went on to claim that the Democrats&#8217; package uses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/build-back-better-critics-say-accounting-gimmicks-additional-irs-enforcement-hiding-real-cost-to-americans">accounting gimmicks</a> that they say will lower inflation, the same tricks Manchin previously opposed in &#8220;Build Back Better.&#8221; He also blasted Democrats for <a href="https://www.manchin.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/manchin-supports-inflation-reduction-act-of-2022">promising</a> Manchin a pro-energy infrastructure bill but not including provisions in the current package.
&#8220;I think he got taken to the cleaners,&#8221; Toomey said. &#8220;He’s agreeing to all this bad policy, and return for which he’s been promised there is going to be some kind of pro-energy infrastructure bill sometime in the future.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, first of all, I thought we did that in the infrastructure bill.&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Secondly, what is the text? But most importantly, why isn’t that in this bill and the answer is because Democrats don’t support it. So this is going to do a lot of harm, and there is not going to be a corresponding benefit.&#8221;
Toomey also refuted the idea that the bill reduces the federal deficit.
&#8220;[T]hey use the same gimmick that Senator Manchin said he was opposed to in the past. They claim the revenue over a ten-year window from their big tax increase, and their price controls, and then the expenditure that they acknowledged, they pretend is only going to be for three years,&#8221; said Toomey.
&#8220;That’s the Obamacare subsidies for wealthy Americans. That’s an obvious political payoff. The last time they had to do this, they said it would only be for two years,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It is about to expire, and they can’t have it expire before an election, so they&#8217;re extending it, but only for three years. They have no intention of ever ending the Obamacare subsidies over a ten-year window that wipes out the purported deficit reduction.&#8221;
&#8220;They are also counting huge amounts of additional tax revenue from giving more taxes – money to the IRS, which the [Congressional Budget Office] does not agree with, they’re also not taking into account how much our economy will slow down from this big corporate tax increase that will mostly hurt manufacturing and domestic investment. These numbers are very, very dubious.&#8221;
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Cynthia Lummis and Pat Toomey

Pat Toomey: Manchin ‘Got Taken To The Cleaners’ By Dems On Tax And Spend Plan

Pat Toomey: Manchin 'Got Taken To The Cleaners' By Democrats On Tax And Spend Plan

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Taxes

Sony Pictures announced that it would end “The Dr. Oz Show” as its host runs for Senate.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dr-oz-running-for-u-s-senate-as-a-republican-has-a-history-of-donating-to-democrats">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Dr. Mehmet Oz announced that he would make a bid for the seat of retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA). Though he is running as a Republican, Oz has formerly donated to Democratic politicians such as Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
His television show — presently in its thirteenth season — will end on January 14, 2022. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/dr-oz-show-ending-month-star-runs-senate-81728589">ABC News</a> reported:
<blockquote>Television stations in Philadelphia, New York City and Cleveland that are seen in Pennsylvania had already taken “Dr. Oz” off the air, for fear that the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s “equal time” rules would allow rival candidates to seek similar air time.
In many parts of the country, “Dr. Oz” will be replaced by “The Good Dish,” a combination talk-cooking show where hosts Daphne Oz, Gail Simmons and Jamika Pessoa will serve up a dish of the day. Producers boasted it would be “the most fun you can have in the kitchen without having to do the dishes.” The show is an outgrowth of a weekly segment on “Dr. Oz,” much like Oz&#8217;s television career got an early boost from Oprah Winfrey. Sony said it has commitments to air “The Good Dish” in stations representing 90% of the nation&#8217;s population.</blockquote>
“Audiences have been loving what Daphne, Gail and Jamika have been serving up during their weekly segments on ‘The Dr. Oz Show’ for years,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/12/13/sony-to-end-dr-oz-show-next-month-amid-hosts-senate-run/">said</a> Sony executive Zack Hernandez. “We have long believed ‘The Good Dish’ would make an excellent stand-alone series and are delighted to be able to deliver this fresh take on the cooking genre to our station partners and their viewers across the country.”
In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/why-im-running-to-be-a-senator-from-pennsylvania">The Washington Examiner</a>, Oz explained that his candidacy will be centered upon offering a response to COVID-19 that does not infringe upon civil liberties:
<blockquote>The reality of our challenges has crystallized during the pandemic. Over 750,000 in the United States have died from the virus, a devastating toll for families and communities. Many of those deaths were preventable. COVID-19 became an excuse for the government and elite thinkers who controlled the means of communication to suspend debate. Dissenting opinions from leading scholars were ridiculed and canceled so their ideas could not be disseminated.
Instead, the government mandated policies that caused unnecessary suffering. The public was patronized and misled instead of empowered. We were told to lock down quietly and let those in charge take care of the rest. When we tested positive for the virus, we were also told to wait at home until our lips turned blue and we got sick enough to warrant hospitalization. To be clear, this is not a typical medical protocol. Elites with yards told those without yards to stay inside, where the virus was more likely to spread. And the arrogant, closed-minded people in charge closed our parks, shuttered our schools, shut down our businesses, and took away our freedom.</blockquote>
Oz has also said that Oprah Winfrey encouraged him to launch the campaign.
“She told me to follow my heart,” Oz <a href="https://twitter.com/Jules31415/status/1467235306055344132">said</a> during an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier. “She’s been a wonderful mentor to me, fairest woman I’ve ever worked with, and a great, sage adviser of mine.”
“I don’t want her to get involved in any way,” he added. “I don’t want to hurt her … I don’t want people to have to take bullets when I should be taking them myself.”

Dr. Oz Visits “Outnumbered Overtime With Harris Faulkner”

Sony Ends ‘The Dr. Oz Show’ As Host Makes Bid For Senate

Dr. Oz

Pennsylvania

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) told CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; on Sunday that Republicans will not be voting for Democrats&#8217; $3.5 trillion social spending bill and that Democrats do not need Republicans to be able to pass the bill.
&#8220;I will certainly be voting no if the Democrats insist on combining the debt ceiling increase or suspension with the continuing operations of the government,&#8221; Toomey said. &#8220;And there is no calamity that&#8217;s going to happen, Jake. If that were even a serious risk, don&#8217;t you think the equity markets from last week, rather than fully recovering after the scare that came out of Evergrande in China, rather than fully recovering, as they did, maybe they would have traded off? I think that&#8217;s because the millions of investors across America know that no such calamity is going to occur.&#8221;
&#8220;Why?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;What&#8217;s going to happen is, after Republicans vote no, Chuck Schumer is going to do what he could have done months ago, what he could have done weeks ago, what he could do tomorrow, and that is, he will amend the budget resolution so that Democrats can pass the debt ceiling all by themselves,&#8221; Toomey said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what should happen. And here&#8217;s why, Jake. They are in the midst of an absolutely unprecedented, very damaging spending spree on a scale that we have never seen. And they want us to come along and authorize the borrowing to help pay for it, when we are totally opposed to what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
&#8220;They don&#8217;t need a single Republican vote. Republicans can&#8217;t stop it,&#8221; Toomey continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s not subject to a filibuster. And if they want to do this, they can go ahead and bring the attention of the American people to the increase in debt that we&#8217;re going to need to pay for this spending spree.&#8221;
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<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: So, the Senate is going to vote tomorrow to fund the government and to suspend the U.S.&#8217; borrowing limit. To be clear, are you committed to voting no, even if that means risking a government shutdown and the U.S. defaulting on its debts in the middle of a tough economic time already?
SEN. PAT TOOMEY (R-PA): So, I will certainly be voting no if the Democrats insist on combining the debt ceiling increase or suspension with the continuing operations of the government.
And there is no calamity that&#8217;s going to happen, Jake. If that were even a serious risk, don&#8217;t you think the equity markets from last week, rather than fully recovering after the scare that came out of Evergrande in China, rather than fully recovering, as they did, maybe they would have traded off?
I think that&#8217;s because the millions of investors across America know that no such calamity is going to occur.
TAPPER: Why?
TOOMEY: What&#8217;s going to happen is, after Republicans vote no, Chuck Schumer is going to do what he could have done months ago, what he could have done weeks ago, what he could do tomorrow, and that is, he will amend the budget resolution so that Democrats can pass the debt ceiling all by themselves.
And that&#8217;s what should happen. And here&#8217;s why, Jake. They are in the midst of an absolutely unprecedented, very damaging spending spree on a scale that we have never seen. And they want us to come along and authorize the borrowing to help pay for it, when we are totally opposed to what they&#8217;re doing.
They don&#8217;t need a single Republican vote. Republicans can&#8217;t stop it. It&#8217;s not subject to a filibuster. And if they want to do this, they can go ahead and bring the attention of the American people to the increase in debt that we&#8217;re going to need to pay for this spending spree.
TAPPER: Right. So&#8230;
TOOMEY: That&#8217;s the reality. That&#8217;s the way it&#8217;s going to happen.
TAPPER: So, you know as well as I do, probably better than I do, that the debt limit, raising the debt ceiling, does not apply to the future expenses you&#8217;re talking about. It&#8217;s about paying for spending&#8230;
TOOMEY: Jake, can I cut you &#8212; Jake, no, I&#8217;m going to cut you off right &#8212; that is totally factually false.
TAPPER: It&#8217;s false?
TOOMEY: It&#8217;s factually false. There &#8212; absolutely. There&#8217;s all kinds of spending that is yet to be approved, including the huge $5 trillion bill that you were discussing with several guests earlier on the show.
TAPPER: Yes, of course.
TOOMEY: The annual appropriation bill every year.
TAPPER: But raising the debt ceiling&#8230;
TOOMEY: None of that has happened yet.
TAPPER: But it&#8217;s about the spending the Congress has already approved. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re hitting the ceiling, because that spending is happening.
(CROSSTALK)
TOOMEY: No, Jake, I have just walked you through spending that has not yet occurred, but our Democrat colleagues want to engage in. They are going to dramatically increase the amount of money that will need to be borrowed because they want to engage in all this borrowing. And they want the authority to borrow it now.
TAPPER: So, but, senator, even if the&#8230;
TOOMEY: I don&#8217;t agree with that spending.
TAPPER: Okay. Even if the $3.5 trillion spending package that&#8217;s being discussed, the budget reconciliation and the infrastructure, the bipartisan infrastructure bill, even if those were tabled in perpetuity, would Congress have to raise the debt ceiling or not?
TOOMEY: At some point, we would.
TAPPER: Okay. And that&#8217;s my point.
TOOMEY: And by a smaller amount.
TAPPER: But&#8230;
TOOMEY: So, that matters. The timing of this is coming much more quickly. And the scale is much greater than it would otherwise be.
TAPPER: Right. Next month, it would happen, instead of next week. But that&#8217;s my point, is that this is already about spending that already occurred, including $8 trillion of debt under the Trump administration.
TOOMEY: No. No, the way I think about is, it is certainly not. The spending that&#8217;s already occurred, the money was raised for it, either through taxes or through debt. This is about future spending, some of which we have already committed to in the form of the big entitlement programs that are in &#8212; on autopilot, much of which has not been committed to, such as the new entitlement programs that our Democratic colleagues want to launch.
But it is indisputable that this spending spree &#8212; if you spend more, you will have to borrow more. And the Democrats want to spend vastly more. So they are driving up the need for&#8230;
TAPPER: Right.
TOOMEY: &#8230; still more debt in the future to cover all of the spending they want to engage in.
TAPPER: Sure, I get that. But, for instance, the $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation act, Build Back Better, the Democrats &#8212; and I know you oppose this, but the Democrats are proposing tax increases to pay for it.
TOOMEY: Right.
TAPPER: When it came to, for example, the Trump tax cuts, that was about $6 trillion. Most of it was paid for one way or another, but not $2 trillion of it. That was not paid for in any way. You supported that. And that created the debt as well.
TOOMEY: Well, yes, Jake, it also created the strongest economy of my lifetime. That&#8217;s just an indisputable fact. Strong economic growth in 2019, record low unemployment rates in 2019, all-time record low for many subsets of Americans, including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and wage growth that was accelerating fastest for low-income workers, without &#8212; just happening organically because of the strong economic growth. That kind of economic growth generates more tax revenue. We were seeing the complete success of the tax reform. It&#8217;s indisputable that we had the best economy of my lifetime. And now the Democrats want to undo the very tax regime that helped enable that tremendous economic growth, a very bad idea.
TAPPER: Let me just ask you. Technically, a government shutdown could have a severe impact on the efforts to combat the pandemic. Parts of the CDC, parts of the NIH could be forced to close temporarily if that funding were to expire.
If Democrats were to bring up a clean government funding bill, separate from the debt ceiling debate, because you said you objected to the idea that they were being pushed together, would you vote for that government funding bill?
TOOMEY: I might very well. In fact, I think Republicans will offer a clean continuing resolution that funds the government.
I have discovered in this place what is described as a clean bill seldom is actually a clean bill. But the gist of your argument, the gist of your question about whether Republicans would support a clean continuation of funding, the answer is, there would be a lot of Republican votes for that.</blockquote>

Senator Toomey: Democrats ‘Don’t Need A Single Republican Vote’ To Pass Their $3.5 Trillion Bill

Democratic Party

President Donald Trump has claimed that voter fraud is stealing the 2020 presidential election from him, but one Republican senator says there is no evidence to support his claim.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), whose state is a key battleground and where Democratic nominee Joe Biden took the lead Friday morning, according to The Associated Press, called the president&#8217;s claims &#8220;vey disturbing.&#8221;
“There’s simply no evidence anyone has shown me of any widespread corruption or fraud,” Toomey said.
During a press briefing at the White House on Thursday evening, Trump said, &#8220;In Pennsylvania, Democrats have gone to the State Supreme Court to try and ban our election observers, and very strongly.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, we won the case, but they&#8217;re going forward. They don&#8217;t want anybody in there. They don&#8217;t want anybody watching them as they count the ballots, and I can&#8217;t imagine why. There&#8217;s absolutely no legitimate reason why they would not want to have people watching this process, because if it&#8217;s straight, they would be, they should be proud of it. Instead, they&#8217;re trying, obviously, to commit fraud. There&#8217;s no question about that,&#8221; the president said.
Toomey blasted the claim.
“I saw the president’s speech last and it was very hard to watch. The president’s allegations of large-scale fraud and theft of the election are just not substantiated,” Toomey, who has announced he will retire from Congress at the end of 2022, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/getting-insane-republicans-push-back-against-trump-s-false-election-n1246700">said</a> on NBC’s “Today.”
“I’m not aware of any significant wrongdoing here. Look, there are irregularities in every election. They tend to typically be very small and involve just a handful of ballots,” he added.
Trump made other allegations in his Thursday statement.
&#8220;Democrat officials never believed they could win this election honestly. I really believe that. That&#8217;s why they did the mail-in ballots, where there&#8217;s tremendous corruption and fraud going on,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s why they mailed out tens of millions of unsolicited ballots without any verification measures whatsoever. And I’ve told everybody that these things would happen, because I&#8217;ve seen it happen. I watched a lot of different elections before they decided to go with this big, massive election with tens of millions of ballots going out to everybody &#8212; in many cases, totally unsolicited,&#8221; he said.
Other Republicans ripped unsubstantiated claims of fraud.
&#8220;We want every vote counted, yes every legal vote (of course). But, if you have legit concerns about fraud present EVIDENCE and take it to court. STOP Spreading debunked misinformation&#8230; This is getting insane,&#8221; Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1324503564891414528">wrote</a> Thursday on Twitter.
Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, also ripped Trump, saying: “There is no defense for the President’s comments tonight undermining our Democratic process. America is counting the votes, and we must respect the results as we always have before.”
“No election or person is more important than our Democracy,” Hogan <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryHogan/status/1324507449286676484">said</a> on Twitter.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-has-no-plans-to-concede-report">Trump Has No Plans To Concede: Report</a>

President Trump Departs White House For Weekend At Camp David

No Evidence To Support Trump’s Claims Of Voter Fraud, GOP Senator Says

2020 Election

Donald Trump

After Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) spoke out against President Donald Trump for commuting the sentence of Roger Stone, Trump hit back in a tweet calling them Republicans In Name Only who were unconcerned about the “illegal spying on my campaign.”
“Do RINO’S Pat Toomey &amp; Mitt Romney have any problem with the fact that we caught Obama, Biden, &amp; Company illegally spying on my campaign,” tweeted Trump late Saturday evening. “Do they care if Comey, McCabe, Page &amp; her lover, Peter S, the whole group, ran rampant, wild &amp; unchecked – lying &amp; leaking all the way? NO!”
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Do RINO’S Pat Toomey &amp; Mitt Romney have any problem with the fact that we caught Obama, Biden, &amp; Company illegally spying on my campaign? Do they care if Comey, McCabe, Page &amp; her lover, Peter S, the whole group, ran rampant, wild &amp; unchecked &#8211; lying &amp; leaking all the way? NO!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1282155171909435393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
Stone, who had his 40-month sentence commuted late Friday evening, was convicted of witness tampering, lying to Congress, and obstructing a congressional investigation, charges stemming from his alleged conduct during the Mueller investigation, as the former special counsel pointed out in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/?arc404=true">Washington Post</a> op-ed, published on Saturday, defending the case against Stone.
In a statement on Friday evening, the Trump administration defended the president’s decision to grant Stone clemency, arguing that he was a casualty in the collusion hoax “that was perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency.”
The White House also noted that Stone has maintained his innocence, was seeking a new trial, and was at risk of health complications should he be sent to prison. (Stone was scheduled to begin his sentence later this month.)
While Democrats have decried Trump&#8217;s decision to grant Stone clemency, Toomey and Romney are the only GOP senators who have made statements against it as of publication.
“While I understand the frustration with the badly flawed Russia-collusion investigation, in my view, commuting Roger Stone’s sentence is a mistake,” said Toomey, reports <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1282048610167934976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1282050457196810240%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fmueller-defends-case-against-roger-stone-in-op-ed-after-trump-commutes-stones-sentence">CNN</a> correspondent Manu Raju.
“He was duly convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional investigation conducted by a Republican-led committee,” he said, later adding, “Any objections to Mr. Stone’s conviction and trial should be resolved through the appeals process.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unprecedented-historic-corruption-romney-hammers-trump-over-roger-stone-decision">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Romney took to Twitter and called the commutation “unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.”
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Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1281937795616067586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>

President Trump Departs The White House En Route To Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Trump Responds After Two GOP Senators Speak Out Against Roger Stone Commutation

Mitt Romney

Roger Stone

A truly creepy and awkward moment occurred during a town hall in Bethlehem, PA when a left-wing activist asked Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) if his daughter had been kidnapped.
Toomey was a holding a town hall on August 31 when a man identified as Simon Radecki suddenly <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2017/09/06/town-hall-questioner-says-sen-toomeys-daughter-kidnapped/">asked</a> Toomey a rather disturbing question.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been here for a while,&#8221; Radecki said. &#8220;You probably haven&#8217;t seen the news. Can you confirm whether or not your daughter Bridget has been kidnapped?&#8221;
There was an eerie, frightening silence that ensued with Toomey simply responding with an &#8220;uhhhhh&#8221; for about four seconds, before Radecki said, &#8220;The reason I ask is because that&#8217;s the reality of families that suffer deportation&#8230;&#8221;
A visibly irked Toomey then promptly dismissed the question as &#8220;ridiculous&#8221;; Radecki was escorted out of the town hall and is now likely to face charges of disorderly conduct.
Radecki later said his &#8220;only regret right now honestly is that the focus has been on me and the question I asked. And the substance of the conversation has taken a sort of back seat.&#8221; Radecki, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/06/liberal-activist-appears-to-threaten-sen-toomeys-daughter-video/">who has worked for an array of left-wing organizations and on Sen. Al Franken&#8217;s (D-MN) re-election campaign</a>, is apparently so ideologically driven that it is of no concern to him how frightening his question was: (<a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2017/09/06/pat-toomey-town-hall-pa-simon-radecki-question-charges-bethlehem-pbs39-vic-walczak-aclu/stories/201709050183">H/T:</a> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
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&#8220;If you were in the room, it was one of the scariest things that I have ever been a part of,&#8221; said PBS39 CEO Tim Fallon. Even after Mr. Radecki attempted to explain his query, Mr. Fallon said, &#8220;All I was processing was &#8216;Oh, my God, what has happened?&#8217; &#8230; It was perceived as a threat by myself [and] folks I have had interactions with.&#8221;
&#8220;Asking questions that are based upon kidnapping a child is not only reprehensible, but it is inherently threatening,&#8221; said Steve Kelly, a spokesman for Mr. Toomey.
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The Bethlehem police are the ones who appear ready to level charges against Radecki, although it seems unlikely that they would hold up in court.
The uncomfortable clip can be seen below. PBS39 was able to cut out the audio of Radecki asking the question before it was broadcast:
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In the critical Senate race in Pennsylvania, where staunch pro-life GOP candidate Pat Toomey and pro-abortion Democrat Katie McGinty are running neck and neck, Planned Parenthood just spent <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/15/1560380/-Planned-Parenthood-reminds-Pennsylvania-voters-that-Pat-Toomey-wants-to-jail-abortion-doctors">$1.3 million</a> on an ad attacking Toomey&#8217;s pro-life comments in 2009.
Interviewed by MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews, Toomey had said, &#8220;I would support legislation in Pennsylvania that would ban abortion. And I would suggest that we have penalties for doctors who perform them.&#8221; As <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/16/planned-parenthood-spends-1-3-million-to-attack-pro-life-pennsylvania-senator-pat-toomey/">LifeNews</a> reports, &#8220;When Matthews pressed him on the issue, Toomey said the penalties for abortionists could include jail. The ad claims that Toomey wants to &#8216;throw doctors in jail,&#8217; which would be &#8216;dangerous&#8217; for Pennsylvania women and families.&#8221;
Planned Parenthood&#8217;s $1.3 million buy is comprised of $1.1 million for running the ad on television and $200,000 in web ads. Planned Parenthood Votes executive director Deirdre Schifeling has said, &#8220;Pat Toomey is like a termite &#8211;&#8211; you don&#8217;t realize that he&#8217;s busy eroding all your rights until your entire house falls down.&#8221;
Toomey has a 100-percent pro-life voting record. His campaign pointed out, &#8220;Pat Toomey&#8217;s record on abortion is the same as a majority of elected Pennsylvanians in Congress and the state legislature, while Katie McGinty&#8217;s view is so extreme that she would have taxpayers paying for any abortion for any reason during any time of pregnancy.&#8221; Maria Gallagher, Legislative/PAC Director for the Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation, echoed to LifeNews that Toomey is &#8220;securely in the mainstream&#8221; of Pennsylvanians, adding, &#8220;Senator Toomey has been a strong and eloquent voice in the U.S. Senate. Katie McGinty would be a mouthpiece for the abortion industry if elected this year.&#8221;
McGinty champions dismemberment abortion, in which an unborn baby is ripped limb by limb from the mother&#8217;s womb. She <a href="http://www.phillyvoice.com/katie-mcginty-we-must-fight-efforts-pa-restrict-womens-access-health-care/">opposed</a> H.B. 1948, which would have <a href="http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billInfo/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2015&amp;sInd=0&amp;body=H&amp;type=B&amp;bn=1948">banned</a> the infamous practice, saying, &#8220;We need allies who will stand up against attempts to interfere with women&#8217;s access to health care, and guarantee that we have a full court that will recognize the constitutional rights affirmed in Roe v. Wade.&#8221;
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McGinty champions dismemberment abortion, in which an unborn baby is ripped limb by limb from the mother&#8217;s womb.

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According to the <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2016/08/16/planned-parenthood-spends-1-3-million-to-attack-pro-life-pennsylvania-senator-pat-toomey/">Center for Responsive Politics</a>, the pro-abortion group Emily&#8217;s List has donated over $3 million through its affiliated Women Vote! Super PAC to support McGinty, and Planned Parenthood has spent another $300,000 attacking Toomey.

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