Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> on Tuesday rolled out a sweeping proposal to protect children from what he called &#8220;left-wing gender insanity&#8221; by barring chemical and surgical procedures meant to change the sex of confused minors.
In declaring war on radical gender theory, Trump blasted the Biden administration&#8217;s &#8220;cruel policies&#8221; on so-called gender-affirming care, and vowed to stop federal agencies from promoting such policies. Conservatives broadly oppose chemical and surgical treatments for children suffering from gender dysphoria, and several red states have in recent months outlawed such procedures on minors
&#8220;Left-wing gender insanity being pushed on our children is an act of child abuse,&#8221; said Trump, who launched his third bid for the nation&#8217;s highest office last November and is so far the only major Republican to have declared his candidacy for 2024. &#8220;Very simple.&#8221;
The announcement comes as radical gender ideology has become a hot-button issue, with The Daily Wire at the forefront of the conversation. Much of the debate revolves around the distinction between biological sex and the social and cultural differences between the sexes — masculinity and femininity — with some on the Left insisting that gender is not tied to biological sex.
Biden&#8217;s Department of Justice issued a letter last year to state attorney generals &#8220;reminding them&#8221; that laws and policies that prevent individuals from receiving gender-affirming medical care may infringe on federal constitutional protections, which includes youth seeking so-called gender-affirming care.
“The Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that all children are able to live free from discrimination, abuse and harassment,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a news release. “Today’s letter reaffirms state and local officials’ obligation to ensure that their laws and policies do not undermine or harm the health and safety of children, regardless of a child’s gender identity.”
Trump pledged that if elected president again, his administration would revoke Biden&#8217;s policies, which include giving kids puberty blockers, altering their physical appearance, and in some cases performing surgery such as double mastectomies on young girls.
Through an executive order, Trump said he would instruct federal agencies to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age and ask Congress to permanently stop spending federal taxpayer dollars to promote or pay for such procedures.
Trump&#8217;s plan would also bar any hospital or health care provider participating in a minor&#8217;s chemical or physical mutilation from benefiting from Medicaid and Medicare programs. Other reforms Trump announced included creating a private right of action for victims to sue doctors who have performed such procedures on minors.
Trump said he would instruct the Department of Justice to investigate pharmaceutical companies and hospitals that have covered up long-term side effects of sex transitions &#8220;in order to get rich at the expense of vulnerable patients&#8221; and whether such companies have illegally marketed hormones and puberty blockers, which he said have not been licensed or approved for such use.
Trump&#8217;s Department of Education would further inform states and school districts that if any teacher or school official suggests to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body, they would face &#8220;severe consequences,&#8221; including potential civil rights violations for sex discrimination and the elimination of federal funding.
The 45th president said he would also ask Congress to pass a bill prohibiting what he termed child sexual mutilation in all 50 states and a bill establishing that the only genders recognized by the United States government are male and female, and they are assigned at birth, which would make Title IX clear prohibiting men from participating in women&#8217;s sports.
&#8220;We will protect the rights of parents from being forced to allow their minor child to assume a gender — which is new — and an identity without the parent&#8217;s consent,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The identity will not be new, and it will not be without parental consent.&#8221;
&#8220;No serious country should be telling its children that they were born with the wrong gender, a concept that was never heard of in all of human history,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s ever heard of this, what&#8217;s happening today.&#8221;
&#8220;It was all when the radical Left invented it just a few years ago,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Under my leadership, this madness will end.&#8221;
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Former U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) officially resigned from the Senate on Sunday after reports broke last year that the congressman would pursue higher education opportunities.
Sasse, who has served as senator for Nebraska since 2015, resigned after accepting a position to become president of the University of Florida, where he will <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/3804549-sasse-officially-leaves-senate/">reportedly</a> earn a salary of $1 million.
The Republican politician delivered his farewell address from the Senate floor last week, saying that he never planned on spending a lifetime in Washington after eight years of public service.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not what our founders envisioned for the people they would send to the federal city,&#8221; Sasse <a href="https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=1CC36A1D-A7C7-4FB8-A33C-390DECF8A0A1">said</a>. &#8220;They envisioned, rather, congressmen, senators, and presidents who thought of D.C. as a temporary stay.&#8221;
&#8220;Washington is a place to do a good bit of neighbor-loving work, but then to go back home to the more permanent work of life and flesh and blood whole communities,&#8221; he added.
Sasse voted with six other Republican senators to convict former President Donald Trump after the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Trump called the Nebraska senator &#8220;Little Ben Sasse&#8221; at a May rally in the congressman&#8217;s home state, adding Sasse became a &#8220;grandstanding, little-respected senator.&#8221;
During his farewell speech, Sasse acknowledged that his relationship with Nebraskans had some &#8220;marked ups and downs&#8221; over the last eight years, making him &#8220;the most censured public official in the history of Nebraska.&#8221;
&#8220;Many times, it felt like a noogie and a slap and a head butt and a hug all at once,&#8221; he said.
Shortly after news broke of Sasse&#8217;s forthcoming retirement, the senator revealed that he would become the next president at the University of Florida.
The university said in a statement that it had spent months carefully vetting hundreds of applicants for the role and that the school&#8217;s 15-member presidential search committee &#8220;unanimously recommended United States Senator Dr. Ben Sasse as the sole finalist.&#8221;
Former Nebraska Republican Governor Pete Ricketts announced last month he intends to seek his successor&#8217;s appointment to become the state&#8217;s next U.S. senator to replace Sasse.
&#8220;For me, it came down to a single question: How can I best serve the people of Nebraska and advance our conservative values?&#8221; Ricketts said in a statement via The Hill. &#8220;In Congress, we&#8217;re in a fight for the future of our nation, and it&#8217;s a fight we have to win. We must cut taxes, strengthen public safety and our national security, and protect our most sacred freedoms.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the last eight years, we&#8217;ve shown the world the real impact conservative leadership can have,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I want to continue delivering results for our state, fighting to reduce taxes, grow our economy, defend our liberties, and run government more like a business. I&#8217;ll never stop working to get the job done, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m asking for Governor-elect [Jim] Pillen&#8217;s consideration.&#8221;
Sasse, who won a second term in 2020, would have had to run for re-election again in 2026.

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If <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/saudi-arabia-torches-biden-for-trying-to-pressure-opec-into-not-cutting-oil-production-before-midterms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saudi Arabia</a>’s claim that President Joe Biden sought to delay oil production cuts to boost Democrats’ chances in the upcoming midterms is true, his new pledge to punish the Kingdom sounds like the kind of quid pro quo that got former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-trump-reveals-the-lesson-that-he-learned-from-being-impeached/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Trump impeached</a>, Ben Shapiro said.
<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/candace/subscribe-v3?utm_campaign=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;cid=dailywire&amp;mid=b&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_term=daily%20wire&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_cam=359300990&amp;hsa_grp=1327111204906573&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=o&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-82944571146337:loc-190&amp;hsa_kw=daily%20wire&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;msclkid=920062d0f2f616d214950198e694bfab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> co-founder and podcast and radio host made the point on Twitter, likening Biden’s actions and alleged motive to when Trump was impeached for, according to Democrats, condition aid to Ukraine to the country’s government investigating Hunter Biden’s dealings there. Trump was impeached over the matter, although the Senate acquitted him.
“So, Joe Biden refuses to say whether he would support cutting off arms supplies to Saudi Arabia after the Saudis rejected his request to increase oil supply in a slowing economy &#8212; a request made for a specified period of time, until right after the election,” <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1580453568422629377?s=20&amp;t=K041Q-WvLXphW28YiUl8NA">Shapiro tweeted Thursday</a>. “This looks an awful lot like the president of the United States threatening to remove weaponry from a purported ally unless that ally performs actions that help that president politically in advance of an election. Wasn&#8217;t Trump impeached for that?”
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So Joe Biden refuses to say whether he would support cutting off arms supplies to Saudi Arabia after the Saudis rejected his request to increase oil supply in a slowing economy &#8212; a request made for a specified period of time, until right after the election.
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The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives impeached Trump after a whistleblower claimed he threatened to withhold $400 million in military aid from Ukraine in a July 25, 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump wanted Zelensky to order prosecutors to investigate Hunter Biden, who had scored a lucrative no-show job with Ukrainian energy company while his then-vice president father handled the White House’s Ukraine portfolio for the Obama administration.
Oil-rich Saudi Arabia, the most powerful member of OPEC, said it will cut daily oil production by two million barrels just as much of the world grapples with rising fuel costs. In a statement, the Kingdom said Thursday it had refused the Biden administration’s request to delay the action for a month, which would put it just beyond the November 8 midterms.
“… the Government of the Kingdom clarified through its continuous consultation with the U.S. Administration that all economic analyses indicate that postponing the OPEC+ decision for a month, according to what has been suggested, would have had negative economic consequences,” the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in the statement.
Biden has not said exactly what he would do to punish the Saudis after being rebuffed, but the U.S. supplies the Kingdom with hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid.
&#8220;There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done with Russia,&#8221; Biden said of Saudi Arabia in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper that aired earlier this week. “I’m not going to get into what I’d consider and what I have in mind. But there will be — there will be consequences.”
The White House sought to paint the Saudis’ decision as aligning with Russia to undermine Western support of Ukraine and said it would “reassess” the U.S relationship with Saudi Arabia in light of the Kingdom’s refusal to delay production cuts by a month.
Shapiro was not the only one to invoke the Latin phrase meaning “this for that.”
“Quid Pro Quo?” <a href="https://twitter.com/lawyer4laws/status/1580339030373171200?s=20&amp;t=Ds4Ib9fdlwsmtCoAEefpxg">tweeted Lawyers for Laws</a>. “Joe Biden Pressured Saudi&#8217;s to Not cut oil production until after Midterms.  Saudis defied. Now Joe threatens to retaliate-cancel Military Aid.”

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Michael Gerson, former George W. Bush speechwriter and angry Never Trumper, penned a viral <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/01/michael-gerson-evangelical-christian-maga-democracy/">op-ed for the Washington Post</a> wrongly labeling white evangelical Christian supporters of Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda as anti-Christian.
The essay was the most popular piece on the Post&#8217;s website for days, setting hearts aflutter of leftists who believe Christianity is a mere sociological construct and the Bible a mythology. But Gerson’s dishonest piece is really nothing new, simply a regurgitation of the same Beltway screeds and talking points we’ve witnessed since Trump’s 2015 escalator moment. Gerson’s 4,300 words are snarky, judgmental, and myopic.
His main thesis boils down to MAGA as “a serious, unfolding threat to liberal democracy.” He ignores that Trump was democratically elected in 2016, and that violence around the Jan. 6 Capitol riots by a group of violent people was universally condemned by tens of millions of MAGA supporters. Gerson is silent about how if Democrats actually believed MAGA was a true democratic threat, they wouldn’t pump tens of millions of dollars to support MAGA primary candidates and pray for big general election wins.
While listing a series of easily-debunked, straw-man claims, Gerson asserts “Conservative evangelicalism has, in many ways, become the kind of religious tradition against which followers of Jesus were initially called to rebel.”
In truth, Gerson ironically misses that just like Jesus of backwater, rural Nazareth (e.g. not from a wealthy or religiously elite, urban Jerusalem family) the America First Movement did not arise from elite Beltway think tanks and university temples. It arose from We The People, including those from rural, working class backwaters. Just like the early Christians scattered throughout the dominant Roman empire, today’s conservative evangelical base is counterculture in a liberal Hollywood, media and academia-led culture that embraces abortion-on-demand, destruction of poor families through an expansive welfare state, and rogue (semi-facist?) executive powers like President Biden’s various regulatory overreaches.
Gerson is a modern-day Pharisee casting stones at unsophisticated Trump supporters, ignoring the plank in his own eye while screeching about MAGA’s mote. Take one of his ridiculous and non-enlightening phrases: “It is difficult for me to understand why so many believers have turned down a wedding feast to graze in political dumpsters.” Labeling a significant political movement of his fellow Americans, headed by a former leader of the Free World, a “dumpster” is unserious, childish, and unpersuasive.
Even Gerson’s framing headline, “Trump should fill Christians with rage,” is anti-Christian. <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%204%3A31&amp;version=NIV">Ephesians</a> says the polar opposite: “Get rid of all bitterness, rage, and anger.” The Bible says a fruit of the spirit is “<a href="https://www.gcu.edu/blog/spiritual-life/weekly-devotional-fruit-spirit-self-control">self-control</a>,”&#8211; the opposite of rage.
Jesus repeatedly said His kingdom is not on earth, so we Christians need caution around mixing political and religious fervor. Urging Christian rage against Trump is a toxic cocktail of church and state. Trump doesn’t claim to be a spiritual leader. American voters choose a commander-in-chief, not a pastor-in-chief.
In his falsehoods about Trump voters backing “white authoritarian populism,” Gerson ignores Trump fared better than various GOP predecessors (including Gerson’s former boss, Bush, who Gerson wouldn’t dare label a “white nationalist”) among non-white voters and Trump <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54972389">grew his margins</a> with black, Latino and Asian voters in 2020 over 2016. In 2020, for example, Trump gained 6% among black men, 5% among Hispanic women, and 4% among <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/asian-americans-voted-biden-63-31-reality-more-complex-n1247171">Asian-Americans</a>.
Gerson also ignores white working-class, two-time Barack Obama voters who voted for Trump. Not racially aggrieved, they&#8217;re philosophically aggrieved with Obama’s fruit: dividing the country, enacting a far-left agenda. They&#8217;d be thrilled to vote for Ben Carson as second African-American POTUS.
Just like Carson was revered as Black Royalty (portrayed in hagiographic book and film for his groundbreaking surgeon career) before becoming an outspoken conservative, Trump was embraced by African-American leaders like Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Al Sharpton. Immediately after both became Republican leaders, they were transparently attacked by liberal “journalists.” That’s why it’s hard to believe media lies about MAGA and race thrown around by people like Gerson.
Gerson says of Jesus: “Defying most historical practice and precedent, He sought to reform human affairs in ways that privilege the poor, the prisoner, the blind, the oppressed. He wanted to put the joy, freedom and healing of outcasts at the center of a new era.”
In many ways, that’s what Trump did, reorienting the GOP toward the working class and embracing social outcasts – the forgotten man and woman. Before COVID, women, African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans made record income gains and saw historic <a href="https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/trump-touts-record-low-poverty-rate-all-us-households-including-african-american-and">low poverty</a> under Trump.
Trump first employed a female manager of a successful presidential campaign, first working mother as White House spokeswoman, and first openly gay Director of National Intelligence and cabinet member (Ric Grennell). Worldwide, Trump’s administration fought to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/23/opinions/trump-admin-lgbti-opinion-sheffield">decriminalize</a> LGBTI people.
Trump signed into law a significant prison reform law, The Next Step Act, giving prisoners mercy. By appointing pro-life judges, Trump protected the oppressed unborn. Defying China, Trump designated Muslim Uyghurs oppression as genocide. Though Gerson falsely claims MAGA supports anti-Semitism, Trump stood strongly with the oppressed Jewish people of Israel and against the far left, Democrat-led, anti-Semitic <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/25/state-treasurers-take-on-anti-israel-financial-ratings-firm-catering-to-activists/">BDS movement</a>. He did it while ushering in historic peace with Arab nations, and (breaking from presidential tradition) symbolically made his first overseas state visit to a Muslim nation, Saudi Arabia.
It’s laughable for Gerson to claim progressives embrace “boundless tolerance” when some <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/evidence-conservative-students-really-do-self-censor/606559/">92% of conservatives</a> would befriend a liberal and just 3% would not. Among liberals, nearly a quarter refuse to befriend a conservative. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2021/12/08/poll-political-polarization-students">Axios found</a> just 5 percent of GOP college students wouldn’t befriend someone from the opposing party — vs. 37 percent of Democrats. <a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050092&amp;mod=article_inline">Research</a> led by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt illustrates that conservatives better comprehend liberal beliefs than the reverse.
Our universities, media and popular culture are run by hard leftists who want to destroy Western civilization, deeming America hopelessly &#8220;irredeemable.” Notable example: ahistorical, anti-American 1619 Project wins vaunted Pulitzer Prize and is used as school curriculum nationwide. It’s a travesty against truth, history and intellectual honesty. Contrastingly, Trump empowers Americans to be proud of the values that built this wonderful country instead of cowering in shame.
I admire Gerson’s lyrical conclusion praising the purpose and meaning Christ brings to our lives. It’s sad Gerson’s not committed to Truth.
<a href="https://carriesheffield.com/">Carrie Sheffield</a> is a senior policy analyst at Independent Women’s Voice, a Fellow at The State Financial Officers Foundation and a contributor to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire">Morning Wire</a> at The Daily Wire. She earned a master’s in public policy from Harvard University.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Daily Wire.

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About half of registered voters support the Department of Justice unleashing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> agents to storm former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida on Monday morning.
An exclusive snap <a href="https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2022/08/11120813/2208053_crosstabs_POLITICO_TRUMP_RAID_RVs_v1_CC.pdf">poll</a> from Politico and global market research firm Morning Consult garnered early reaction Wednesday from a sample of 2,004 registered voters that asked a series of questions surrounding federal law enforcement acting on a search warrant to reportedly retrieve documents related to the National Archives.
When asked whether or not voters approved of &#8220;the FBI&#8217;s decision to conduct a search warrant on former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida,&#8221; 49% strongly or somewhat said yes.
The breakdown divided voters into several demographics — but overall, the poll revealed that 84% of Democrats, 47% of Independents, and 15% of Republicans support the FBI scouring Trump&#8217;s residence.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice present during the raid reportedly informed Trump&#8217;s representatives that the search warrant gave them &#8220;full access to everything&#8221; on site. However, reports have claimed authorities blocked the former president&#8217;s lawyers from observation during the raid.
Federal agents executed the search warrant because they reportedly believed that Trump held back turning over all the classified information, which included documents marked as &#8220;top secret,&#8221; that were supposed to be sent back earlier this year.
Federal agents removed more than ten boxes of material, which are being sorted at a local FBI field office, from the property during the raid.
Pollsters sampled that three in four voters had seen, read, or heard about the FBI&#8217;s unannounced visit Monday morning, with 54% of the sampled believing Trump mishandled classified information. Others assume the raid either was about January 6 or &#8220;something else.&#8221;
Nearly 70% of Republicans sampled agree with President Trump, who called the raid political persecution and a &#8220;Witch Hunt&#8221; on Truth Social.
&#8220;These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,&#8221; Trump said in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108798155317268165">statement</a>. &#8220;After working and cooperating with the relevant Government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.&#8221;
&#8220;They even broke into my safe!&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;It is political targeting at the highest level!&#8221;
Still, 49% of voters, driven by Democrats and Independents, leaned more toward believing that authorities were looking for evidence of a crime that Trump allegedly committed.
And while 63% of Republicans believe the raid was an abuse of power that should be investigated, 62% of Democrats said otherwise.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday afternoon that he &#8220;personally&#8221; approved the FBI search warrant on the home of former President Donald Trump this week, and that the Department has moved to unseal the search warrant.
Garland said the federal court authorized the warrant, which requires finding probable cause to execute.
&#8220;Faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the Justice Department and of our democracy,&#8221; Garland <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-garland-delivers-remarks">said</a>. &#8220;Upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor.&#8221;
&#8220;Under my watch, that is precisely what the Justice Department is doing,&#8221; he added.
Prosecutors told ABC News that Trump should have an opportunity to respond and lodge objections to the motion, which includes &#8220;regards to any &#8216;legitimate privacy interests&#8217; or the potential for other &#8216;injury&#8217; if these materials are made public.&#8221;
Trump, who has yet to announce a 2024 presidential run, said Thursday that his team has fully cooperated with the Justice Department&#8217;s investigation into the alleged mishandling of classified information.
&#8220;The government could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/108805982000044809">said</a>.
Trump&#8217;s 2024 standing among his voter base after the FBI raid jumped to the highest record since his 2020 loss, according to the survey.
58% of Republicans surveyed support Trump in the 2024 presidential election, showing a 5% increase from two months ago.
Ryan Saavedra contributed to this report.

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Rap star Kodak Black, who then-<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">President Donald Trump</a> sprang from prison in one of his last acts in the White House, could be facing hard time after being arrested in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a> on drug charges Friday.
The 25-year-old rapper, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was pulled over in Fort Lauderdale for having allegedly illegally tinted windows and expired plates, according to the <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article263534038.html?taid=62d2b5a01dfd7b00012ac0c9&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">Miami Herald</a>. Police smelled pot, and searched the rapper&#8217;s tricked-out, bulletproof Dodge Durango and found 31 Oxycodone pills and nearly $75,000 in cash, the report said.
Kapri was on probation after being handed a 10-year suspended sentence for assaulting a teen in a South Carolina hotel room, and the arrest could mean the sentence will now be imposed.
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Kapri was charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and trafficking oxycodone. He was taken to Broward County Jail overnight, then freed after posting $75,000 bail, according to his attorney.
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Trump pardoned the rapper for his conviction for lying on a federal form about his criminal past in order to buy a gun, allowing him to leave a federal prison after half of a three-year prison sentence. His latest arrest comes ahead of his scheduled performance at Rolling Loud, a hip-hop festival scheduled for next week at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
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Black pleaded guilty in April 2021 to first-degree assault and battery in connection with a 2016 attack on a teenage girl in Florence, South Carolina. He had originally been charged with rape in the case and received a suspended 10-year sentence and 18 months of probation after the plea. It was not yet clear if the latest arrest could trigger the full sentence in the South Carolina case.
The girl said the rapper attacked her in his hotel room after a show, biting her on the neck and breast even after she begged him to stop, authorities said. The girl came forward after a school nurse saw her injuries.
“I apologize this happened, and I’m hopeful we can all move forward,” Kapri told the victim at his sentencing.
Kapri was also <a class="link " href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/fl-ne-kodak-black-arrest-new-years-day-20220101-phuq6vnj7rhgdey5rkbwcnkylu-story.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" data-ylk="slk:arrested on New Year’s Day" data-rapid_p="23" data-v9y="1">arrested</a> for trespassing in Pompano Beach on January 1.

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Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitt-romney">Mitt Romney</a> praised ‘genunely good man&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">President Joe Biden</a> &#8212; who once accused him of plotting to put black people &#8216;back in chains&#8217; &#8212; in an Independence Day column for the far-left online magazine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-atlantic">The Atlantic</a>.
The failed 2012 presidential candidate and Utah Republican&#8217;s &#8220;pox on both their houses&#8221; approach blasted Democrats for blowing out the national debt and opening the border and ripped Republicans for downplaying the January 6 Capitol riots and climate change. The nation needs a true leader, Romney wrote in the magazine owned by late Apple founder Steve Jobs&#8217; widow, billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs.
&#8220;President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust,&#8221; Romney wrote. &#8220;A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable.&#8221;
Romney&#8217;s basic premise was that Americans on both sides of the aisle are in denial an ill-prepared to confront the challenges that confront us. But while his over-the-top praise for Biden might surprise some, his scathing attack on Trump shouldn&#8217;t.
Romney has never made a secret of his dislike for Trump. During the 2016 presidential race, he called Trump a &#8220;phony&#8221; and a &#8220;fraud.&#8221; After he was elected to the Senate in 2018, Romney twice voted to impeach Trump, first for allegedly withholding aid from Ukraine in order to pressure Kyiv into investigating the Biden family&#8217;s deals there and then over Trump&#8217;s alleged role in the January 6 riots.
Twitter users noted that Biden is not likely to return Romney&#8217;s kind words. In 2012, then-Vice President Biden accused Romney of wanting to enslave black Americans.
&#8220;Romney wants to let the—he said in the first 100 days, he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules –unchain Wall Street,&#8221; Biden told a mostly minority crowd in Danville, Virginia. &#8220;They’re going to put y’all back in chains!&#8221;
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&#8220;This is why most Republicans can&#8217;t stand Mitt Romney,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1543984575336046593?s=20&amp;t=4Bs0R7Phbf0eATzUXwb4Zg">tweeted BonchieRedState</a>. &#8220;Forget the predictable hysteria about Donald Trump for a moment. Presenting Biden as some kind of innocent bystander who just hasn&#8217;t been able to &#8220;break through&#8221; is nuts. Absolutely nuts.&#8221;
Romney described the kind of president he hopes wins the White House in 2024, but didn&#8217;t name names.
&#8220;I hope for a president who can rise above the din to unite us behind the truth,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Several contenders with experience and smarts stand in the wings; we intently watch to see if they also possess the requisite character and ability to bring the nation together in confronting our common reality.&#8221;

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Terry McAuliffe, the former head of the Democratic National Committee (2001-05), co-chair of Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign, chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, stated that criticism of critical race theory amounted to a “right-wing conspiracy” that was “totally made up” by former President Trump and current GOP Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin.
Audio obtained by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/mcauliffe-critical-race-theory-right-wing-conspiracy">Fox News</a> revealed a woman asking McAuliffe, &#8220;I was just wondering – with all of the Republicans talking about critical race theory, and they&#8217;re making this huge deal about it, and it&#8217;s all of the conversation with the news in Virginia. What are you going to say to all of those people making education about that?&#8221;
McAuliffe responded, &#8220;That&#8217;s another right-wing conspiracy. This is totally made up by Donald Trump and Glenn Youngkin. This is who they are. It&#8217;s a conspiracy theory.&#8221;
Asra Nomani, who leads the anti-CRT group Coalition for TJ and stated that she’s a registered Democrat, told Fox News, &#8220;Mr. McAuliffe insults parents by dismissing their sincere concerns as &#8216;another right-wing conspiracy.&#8217; It&#8217;s arrogant and out-of-touch with reality. Across Virginia, Mr. McAuliffe needs to understand students are being divided as &#8216;oppressors&#8217; and &#8216;oppressed,&#8217; shamed for having &#8216;white privilege&#8217; and belittled for achieving merit. Asian students are being told they aren&#8217;t the right kind of minority. … Democrats in Virginia risk losing the votes of many parents if they continue to try to gaslight us. We are educated about the divisive ideology of critical race theory, and we don&#8217;t want it in our schools. Teachers need to educate, not indoctrinate.&#8221;
In May, Youngkin told Fox News, “It just seems that Terry McAuliffe and the left, liberal Democrats here want to take our education policy from having everybody in the fast lane to putting everybody in the broken down lane.&#8221;
Youngkin’s spokesperson Macaulay Porter added, &#8220;Critical race theory is not a political game or talking point to Virginians. Terry should tell that to the parents, teachers, and students in Loudoun County, Fairfax, and across the Commonwealth who are up in arms about the Lefts’ political agenda being forced into classrooms.&#8221;
Critical race theory critic Christopher Rufo targeted McAuliffe’s claims about Trump and Youngkin, tweeting, “First it was ‘conservatives don&#8217;t understand critical race theory.’ Then it was ‘that&#8217;s not real critical race theory.’ Now it&#8217;s ‘critical race theory doesn&#8217;t even exist.’ And it&#8217;s only Monday.”
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First it was &quot;conservatives don&#39;t understand critical race theory.&quot;
Then it was &quot;that&#39;s not real critical race theory.&quot;
Now it&#39;s &quot;critical race theory doesn&#39;t even exist.&quot;
And it&#39;s only Monday.<a href="https://t.co/dLI4NVgV53">https://t.co/dLI4NVgV53</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1404536090136961026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 14, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/558261-wapost-fact-checker-gives-mcauliffe-four-pinocchios-over-claim-tying-budget">reported</a> on Monday that a Washington Post fact-check gave McAuliffe &#8220;four Pinocchios&#8221; for pushing a false claim at least three times that Republicans in Virginia were responsible for the budget deficit he inherited in his first term as Virginia’s governor. The Hill wrote:
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“I inherited the largest budget deficit in the history of the state from the Republicans,&#8221; McAuliffe tweeted on June 10.  &#8220;Biggest debt became the biggest surplus,” he said again during an interview on a local radio station, before repeating the claim during an appearance on MSNBC: “I inherited the largest deficit from the Republicans.”
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The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/14/fact-checked-three-times-before-mcauliffe-doubles-down-false-budget-claim/">Post</a> noted:
<blockquote>There’s a big problem with this claim: It has been fact-checked as false not once but three times by our colleagues at PolitiFact. In <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/nov/16/terry-mcauliffe/mcauliffe-says-he-inherited-large-defict-and-turne/">2015</a> and <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jun/25/terry-mcauliffe/mcauliffe-falsely-claims-he-inherited-24-billion-d/">2019</a>, PolitiFact dinged McAuliffe for saying he inherited a budget deficit from the Republicans. In <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/dec/21/terry-mcauliffe/mcauliffes-misspoken-claim-about-facing-record-def/">2015</a>, PolitiFact also faulted him for saying it was the biggest budget deficit ever — a statement that his spokesman at the time explained as an inadvertent flub.</blockquote>

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With the post-inauguration dust settling, and President Joe Biden entering his third month in office, Americans now have the opportunity to reflect on the legacy of President Trump. 
Before his 2016 victory, the media had convinced the American people that if Donald Trump became president, the world would devolve into World War III, with global chaos sure to ensue. On the contrary, after four years in the White House, President Trump’s successful foreign policy efforts stand out among his achievements while in office. 
Here are four of his most notable foreign policy accomplishments. 
Moving the Israeli Embassy to Jerusalem
During the 2016 Presidential election, one of President Trump’s most notable campaign promises was moving The United States embassy in Israel to the country’s true capital of Jerusalem. While Presidents Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama had made similar proclamations, none had succeeded. 
Unlike those that came before him, Trump acted on his promise. On December 6th, 2017 in a public statement, he proclaimed, “Today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s Capitol. This is nothing more, or less, than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do. It’s something that has to be done. That is why, consistent with the Jerusalem Embassy Act, I am also directing the State Department to begin preparation to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This will immediately begin the process of hiring architects, engineers, and planners, so that a new embassy, when completed, will be a magnificent tribute to peace”. 
This act was of utmost importance to the people of Israel, our strongest ally in the Middle East, and recognized the important historical and religious connection Jewish people have to the city. 
No New Long-Lasting Military conflict
Unlike his predecessors, President Trump was able to steer the United States clear of any new long-lasting military conflicts. According to U.S intelligence, when President Trump first took office and inherited Barack Obama’s Commander in Chief responsibilities, the United States faced more threats in more places than at any time since the Cold War. 
During the Obama, Bush, and Clinton administrations, the Middle East was a hotbed for American military activity with no clear end in sight. Bill Clinton was involved in airstrikes against Serbia and Iraq, George Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq during the infamous War on Terror, and Barack Obama launched airstrikes and military raids in at least seven different countries around the world; Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq. 
The Trump Administration took a different approach to the never-ending conflict in Afghanistan by attempting peace negotiations with the Taliban and Afghan governments. To keep good on his campaign promise of bringing troops home, he also initiated a plan estimated to go into effect sometime in 2021, that would cut forces in Afghanistan in half, and significantly cut the number of troops in Iraq and Somalia.
Israel-UAE peace negotiations
Since its founding in 1948, there has always been tension between Israel and nearly all of the majority-Arab countries in the Middle East. Everything from trade, treaties, formal agreements and even communication have been scarce between Israel and her Arab neighbors due to this long-lasting tension. The last diplomatic agreement between Israel and a majority-Arab country came 27 years ago, with the Israel-Jordan peace treaty in 1994.
The Trump Administration made reducing tension between Israel and others in the Middle East a top priority, and helped broker the historic <a href="https://www.state.gov/the-abraham-accords/">Abraham Accords Peace agreement</a>, which normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The groundbreaking agreement got its name from the Biblical character Abraham, whom Jewish people and Arabs share as a common ancestor. However, Trump’s historic deal did not end there, as it set the course for Sudan and Bahrain taking the leap into diplomatic normalization with Israel as well. Trump’s actions in the Middle East have helped provide an optimistic outlook for peace in the region, something few presidents have been able to do before.
North Korean Negotiations and Regulations
After increasingly frequent nuclear missile tests sparked tension between the oppressive North Korean regime and the United States, President Trump worked to diffuse the situation. While initially trading barbs on social media with Kim Jong-Un, President Trump eventually met with the reclusive leader in person in June of 2018 to discuss denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. 
The meeting was groundbreaking, as no sitting president had ever met with a North Korean official before. Eighteen days later on June 30th, Trump made history again by being the first United States President to set foot inside North Korea’s borders.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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2020 has been a year unlike any other in living memory. Wildfires consumed Australia and the United States’ west coast, government reaction to a global pandemic dragged the world economy to its knees, the presidential election made everything — whether you liked it or not — political, and we mourned the tragic deaths of notable figures such as Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, and Alex Trebek.
While history will no doubt focus on the bigger and more obvious stories — such as the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump’s impeachment, George Floyd’s terrible death, and Joe Biden’s electoral victory — here is a list of subtle but impactful moments which we cannot forget if we ever hope to explain or understand the dumpster fire of a year that was 2020.
Fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
After the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, waves of protests gripped the streets of American cities. For months, crowds assembled to protest alleged widespread “police brutality” and “systemic racism.” Democrats rushed to profit politically, and the legacy media rallied to enable their strategy.
Unfortunately for the Left, one major thorn in the side of this plan was the fact that many protests were far from peaceful. Due to groups like Antifa and militant wings of Black Lives Matter, violent riots exploded across the country. Stores were looted, businesses destroyed, people were hurt or even killed. Admitting this reality, however, could damage the momentum Democrats hoped to ride to the election, and so the legacy media engaged in a shocking and unprecedented act of gas-lighting. What riots happening outside your door? They simply don’t exist!
Two moments best exemplify this appalling strategy. First, after parts of Kenosha, Wisconsin lay in ashes after violent riots, CNN amended their reporting in real-time, removing the problematic word “violent” from the screen.
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CNN airs chyron reading &quot;violent protests&quot; for 15 seconds before changing to remove &quot;violent&quot; when reporting on Kenosha <a href="https://t.co/GpDA0NmQVh">pic.twitter.com/GpDA0NmQVh</a>
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Second, another CNN cyron read “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting,” as the flames rose from burning buildings and cars in the background. Mostly peaceful flames, of course.
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CNN reporter reports in front of a burning building in Kenosha with a chyron that reads “Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Protests After Police Shooting”
No, really <a href="https://t.co/VMUB3AdB3V">pic.twitter.com/VMUB3AdB3V</a>
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For Chris Cuomo, joking about Gov. Cuomo’s nostrils was more important than New York care home deaths.
One of the central players in the legacy media’s propaganda service for the Democratic party was CNN. Chris Cuomo, a supposedly objective anchor on the network, played a leading role in achieving this objective, particularly with his vapid and dishonest protection of his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
By all available metrics, under the leadership of Gov. Cuomo, New York has buckled under COVID-19, with New York reporting <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/">more deaths</a> than any other state. You’d think, given this public information, that the media would question Gov. Cuomo’s performance?
Well, you’d be wrong. Despite enforcing policies which resulted in the deaths of thousands of care home residents — <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-understanding-the-outbreak-new-york-andrew-cuomo-health-212ccd87924b6906053703a00514647f">with</a> “New York’s true nursing home death toll cloaked in secrecy” — the legacy media presented Cuomo as a hero. He even had time to write a book, titled “American Crisis. Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
This brings us back to CNN’s Chris Cuomo. The moment that perhaps best describes the legacy media’s complete disinterest in reality is when Chris Cuomo, instead of asking his brother why New York was descending into madness under his rule, preferred to joke about how large Gov. Cuomo’s nostrils were.
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&quot;Is it true that when you were having the test administered, you inhaled and the doctor’s finger went all the way up your nose and got stuck?&quot;
CNN&#39;s Chris Cuomo pulls out massive cotton swab to tease brother Gov. Andrew Cuomo after live test <a href="https://t.co/BravZj8anz">https://t.co/BravZj8anz</a> <a href="https://t.co/kKbuJjiyOQ">pic.twitter.com/kKbuJjiyOQ</a>
&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1263486034987417600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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‘You ain’t black.’ Joe Biden says the quiet part out loud.
We have known for decades that the Democrats take the so-called “black vote” for granted. Until Joe Biden, however, such assumptions were limited to quiet whispers. Instead of stating that black identity was inescapably tied to the Democratic party, politicians running for office would instead subtly pander for votes. They would dine with Al Sharpton. They would visit inner cities. They would blame Democrat failures on Republicans, white people, or the legacy of slavery.
After the anti-police Left, in delightfully ironic fashion, selected the author of the 1994 Crime Bill and a former Attorney General who kept people in jail beyond their sentences, Joe Biden instead began to say the quiet part out loud when it came to racial issues. The moment which stands out his multiple racist gaffes — and the moment which best shows the Democrats’ true colors — was brought to us when Biden proclaimed that voters “ain’t black” if they hadn’t already decided to vote for him.
Make no mistake. This isn’t the clumsy — and racist — words of a confused politician. It’s a statement of a  fundamental assumption made by the modern Democratic party.
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Don’t worry. This isn’t racist, because he’s a Democrat. <a href="https://t.co/xtgT8ySPFh">https://t.co/xtgT8ySPFh</a>
&mdash; Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth/status/1263867736800628737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In the Year of the Mask, Trump removes his in defiance.
The political reaction to COVID-19 has remained shockingly partisan throughout the year. The validity of positions regarding matters such as lockdowns, mask-wearing, vaccinations, social distancing, and experimental treatments were determined not by underlying evidence or logic, but by political party. The Democrats were the “party of science,” and the Republicans were the “deniers of science.”
Central to much of this theater of division was the most recognizable image of the era of COVID-19: the mask. Rather than a medical tool viewed — if used properly in certain situations — as an effective and simple way of reducing the risk of spread, it became a sign of loyalty to one of two absurd ideologies. Either you “believe in science,” and wear your mask at all times as a sign of both your intellect and patriotism, or you refuse to bow to the demands of authoritarianism or become a sheep to the demands of the intellectual elite. All rational arguments which exist in the middle, of course, were ignored.
One of the biggest stories relating to COVID-19 was when Trump tested positive and required brief medical treatment. Perhaps the most memorable moment was when he left the Walter Reed National Medical National Military Medical Center, returned to the White House and, while standing outside in front of the media, removed his mask. Regardless of what you thought of this decision, it was a defining moment in the “Year of the Mask.”
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CLOSE-UP: President Trump takes off his mask upon his return to the White House as he posed for photos from the balcony above the South Lawn. <a href="https://t.co/5GmHZxDHu1">https://t.co/5GmHZxDHu1</a> <a href="https://t.co/EYa8wvVejY">pic.twitter.com/EYa8wvVejY</a>
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Y’all elitists are dumb!
One of the strongest messages from the Trump administration was that the legacy media is far from the objective bastions of truth they claim to be. His battles with “journalists” went viral on an almost daily basis, with the media congratulating themselves as activist heroes standing up to &#8216;big bad orange man.&#8217;
However, the brutal truth is that President Trump is right. The legacy media are a collection of biased coastal elitists who feel personally endowed with the power to twist reality in pursuit of any narrative they see fit.
No moment in 2020 demonstrated this more clearly than Don Lemon — again, an objective journalist for CNN — crumbling into childish fits of giggles when the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson brought his comedy routine to the news network.
Wilson referred to Trump’s base as “the credulous boomer rube demo,” who believe “Donald Trump is the smart one and y’all elitists are dumb.” In response, Lemon collapsed with laughter on his desk. Lemon and Wilson were joined by Wajahat Ali who was somehow the least amusing of the three, adding “You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling.”
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Let the poor eat ice cream while I get a haircut.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of the most vocal Democrats on the subject of COVID-19, whether it was encouraging people to “come down to Chinatown” in San Francisco early in 2019 in a bid to characterize Trump’s caution as xenophobic, or endorsing widespread lockdowns in California when it was then decided that Trump had failed to be cautious enough.
What makes Nancy Pelosi a frustrating and oddly fascinating character is that she is under growing pressure from the radical members of her own party who see her obvious elitism as antithetical to the new “progressive” direction of the Democratic party.
Not only is Pelosi’s status as a multi-millionaire San Francisco elite unhelpful when radical winds are blowing, it hardly helps when, while thousands of Americans are struggling to survive under government imposed lockdowns, Pelosi appeared on late night television to show off her $24,000 freezers and gourmet ice cream, priced at $14 per pint.
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After today, Small Business workers and employees aren’t going to get a paycheck to feed their families because of the Democrats.
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&mdash; Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1250515297947332617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Then, when businesses across the city were closed by government force, a maskless Nancy Pelosi was caught attending a hair salon. When criticized, she blamed the salon.
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2020 has been dominated by elitist Democrats flouting their own rules. These two moments from the multi-millionaire Pelosi perfectly encapsulate this hypocritical disconnect.
It Was a Debate! Hahahahaha.
In just a few years, history will show that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris united smoothly in their shared quest for “historic justice,” or some such nonsense. Let’s not forget that during the Democratic primaries, before Harris’ campaign imploded like a dying star, the California Senator implied that Joe Biden was racist and that he was guilty of sexual assault. When Joe Biden inexplicably selected Harris as his running mate — again, someone who had accused him of being a racist rapist — the legacy media were happy to paper over these recent events.
One of the few media figures to even come close to asking Kamala Harris about her decision to endorse a man she had labeled as a racist rapist was Stephen Colbert. Her response — via her signature crackle — of “it was a debate!” earns a spot in this list because of her shameless embrace of open lies in pursuit of power.
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1) If <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StephenAtHome</a> is the only one willing to ask these questions, the media is failing. 2) If you think “it was a debate” is a valid excuse to flip on fundamental principles like racism, you have no principles. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KamalaHarris?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KamalaHarris</a> <a href="https://t.co/6nPmm7dGyh">pic.twitter.com/6nPmm7dGyh</a>
&mdash; Ian Haworth (@ighaworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth/status/1294654242561564678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ian Haworth is host of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPxdVsNp7k&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuTQRVv1IOVMnA735vEYO0f5">The Ian Haworth Show</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05t2L69Sks&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuRHu5r0IV5qr4h2rBAV9oBd">The Truth in 60 Seconds</a>. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Earlier this week, Fox News released a poll which showed that a shocking 42% of Americans rank Donald Trump as one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States. 
Regardless of whether you are a Trump supporter or critic, when we consider some of his predecessors, anyone rooted in reality can see that President Trump is far from the worst among them.
Here is a countdown of some of the real worst presidents in the history of the United States.
5) Woodrow Wilson (1913 &#8211; 1921)
After first pushing for neutrality in World War I — and celebrating his ability to keep the United States out of the war — President Wilson then manipulated his own policies and dragged the country into the war. This led to an economic recession, the suppression of civil liberties under his attorney general, and the nationalization of multiple private industries. Race riots <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-woodrow-wilson-americas-worst-president-ever-22692">also</a> “erupted in numerous cities that claimed nearly 150 lives in two years.” His administration also downplayed the Spanish Flu pandemic.
4) Andrew Jackson (1829 &#8211; 1837)
President Jackson supported the removal of Native Americans before he even became president, and achieving such a goal was among his highest priorities in office. Following the Indian Removal Act of 1830, despite the fact that it did not give the president power to force tribes to move without a mutual treaty, Jackson repeatedly ignored both the legislative and the judicial branches. This resulted in a series of voluntary and involuntary relocations known as the Trail of Tears, with tens of thousands of Native Americans and their black slaves moving west. Thousands of people died in the process.
3) Franklin Pierce (1853 &#8211; 1857)
President Pierce helped set the stage for the Civil War, attempting to block abolitionists and assuage advocates for slavery. He also backed the Kansas-Nebraska Act — which permitted residents in those areas to choose whether or not they would allow slavery — and the Fugitive Slave Act — part of the Compromise of 1850 which required that slaves be returned to their owners even if they were now in a free state. The act also made the federal government <a href="https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/fugitive-slave-act#:~:text=Passed%20on%20September%2018%2C%201850,returning%2C%20and%20trying%20escaped%20slaves.">responsible</a> for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.
2) Andrew Johnson (1865 &#8211; 1869)
After the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and the end of the Civil War, President Johnson clashed with Congress over Reconstruction, <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction">and</a> “new southern state legislatures passed restrictive ‘black codes’ to control the labor and behavior of former enslaved people and other African Americans.” Johnson also vetoed what became the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which would grant citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” including freed slaves.
1) James Buchanan (1857 &#8211; 1861)
As tensions rose between the North and the South over slavery, Buchanan evaded the issue and refused to address or challenge the spread of slavery. He made little to no effort to unite the country, or to prevent southern states from seceding. The country eventually spiraled into civil war as he left office, with the Union breaking apart under his watch, and the Panic of 1857 having dragged the United States into a deep recession. It is also <a href="https://www.history.com/news/why-is-james-buchanan-considered-one-of-americas-worst-presidents">alleged</a> that Buchanan influenced the infamous Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court case, with the Court reaching the appalling decision that African descendants were not US citizens, and therefore had no claim to freedom or the right to sue for freedom.
Read more: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/if-you-think-trump-is-the-worst-president-ever-youre-either-ignorant-or-have-fallen-for-media-propaganda">If You Think Trump Is The Worst President Ever, You’re Either Ignorant Or Have Fallen For Media Propaganda</a>
Ian Haworth is host of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkPxdVsNp7k&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuTQRVv1IOVMnA735vEYO0f5">The Ian Haworth Show</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E05t2L69Sks&amp;list=PLhi-aq-5DfuRHu5r0IV5qr4h2rBAV9oBd">The Truth in 60 Seconds</a>. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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