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According to a new report, roughly one-third of funds spent since 2023 by the Lincoln Project, the PAC  founded in 2019 mostly by former Republicans to oppose the re-election of President Donald Trump, went to companies controlled by leaders of the PAC.
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More than $4 million of the $12.8 million spent since this election cycle was directed to companies owned by members of its leadership, the Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/25/anti-trump-pac-continues-to-shuffle-millions-of-donor-dollars-to-firms-owned-by-insiders/">reported.</a>
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Lever Communications, formerly known as Joe Trippi &amp; Associates, collected almost $1 million. Trippi acts as a senior advisor for the Lincoln Project. Intrepid Media, the firm owned by Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson, received $664,000 from the PAC, while the Lincoln Project paid Wilson’s son, Andrew, $105,750 for “corporate campaign management.”
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Summit Strategic Communications, owned by Lincoln co-founder Reed Galen, received $531,000 from the PAC;  Message Mountain Productions, owned by senior advisor Stuart Stevens, received $410,000. The Katz Watson Group, run by Lincoln Project finance director Fran Katz-Watson, received was paid $384,000,” and Veracity Reigns, owned by former senior advisor Tara Setmayer, received $372,000.
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“Viking Strategies, which is run by senior advisor Trygve Olson, and Two Rivers Public Affairs, a ‘political advocacy company’ where Lincoln Project senior advisor Jeff Timmer serves as a partner, both took in hundreds of thousands of dollars for consulting as well,” The Daily Caller reported.
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“Their whole schtick is ticking off Donald Trump, and that’s what they sell,” Capital Research Center Senior Investigative Researcher Ken Braun told The Daily Caller.“They’ve really come up with a unique way of weaponizing negative campaigning against their own donors, and that’s a lot easier of a thing to raise money [off of] than actually being effective. You can show your donors, ‘Look, we said this nasty thing about Donald Trump, don’t you like that? Here, give us more money!’ … I’ve got to hand it to them in a very cynical way, they’ve come up with a really effective way to raise money, without really being effective.”
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Of the eight founders of the Lincoln Project, six (George Conway, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver, Jennifer Horn, Mike Madrid, and Rod Steslow) have left the organization; only Wilson and Galen remain.
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Anti-Trump Lincoln Project Directed 1/3 Of Funds To Firms Controlled By Its Leaders: Report

Elections

Lincoln Project

Politics

Rick Wilson

The Daily Caller

GOP strategist-turned-prominent-anti-Trumper Rick Wilson suggested Tuesday morning that former First Lady Melania Trump is &#8220;months away&#8221; from doing online pornography.
After Mrs. Trump announced her &#8220;Head of State&#8221; auction, of which a portion of the proceeds go toward charity, Wilson mocked her as being &#8220;a few months from an OnlyFans&#8221; account.
OnlyFans is <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/25/1030949680/onlyfans-explicit-content-pornography-sex-workers-reverses-ban">best known</a> for selling pornographic and sexually explicit content.
&#8220;She&#8217;s a few months from an OnlyFans,&#8221; mocked Wilson.
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She&#39;s a few months from an OnlyFans. <a href="https://t.co/Iwrv7q1gGt">https://t.co/Iwrv7q1gGt</a>
&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1478370607360262147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The former Republican similarly mocked Melania back in March 2020, seemingly suggesting she &#8220;be infected&#8221; with COVID-19. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rick-wilson-to-melania-trump-be-infected-scolds-maga-fwits-after-backlash">The Daily Wire</a> reported at the time:
<blockquote>[P]rominent anti-Trump pundit and frequent CNN guest Rick Wilson posted a tweet directed at First Lady Melania Trump with the hashtag “Be Infected,” a riff on Mrs. Trump’s anti-bullying “Be Best” campaign.
Reacting to a CNN report on Mrs. Trump being set to appear in coronavirus-related public service announcements, Wilson wrote, “#BeInfected.”</blockquote>
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&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1240446928074260480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wilson was swiftly hit with backlash over the tweet:
<blockquote>“People are really angry. I get that. But to actually wish this virus on someone because of your hatred of them or who they’re related to is beyond the pale,” Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean reacted to Wilson’s post. “It’s not funny. It’s cruel and disgusting.”
“This is the most insidious &amp; hateful rhetoric of anyone who exists in political punditry,” The Hill’s Joe Concha wrote.
“Rick Wilson is wishing Coronavirus on Melania Trump,” the media reporter added. “It doesn’t matter if the wish is aimed at a First Lady, or a doctor, a teacher, a policewoman. It is despicable. He deserves no platform.”
Independent conservative Kimberly Ross addressed Wilson: “You should never wish that your political opponents get sick. This is obvious to most people. But others are so poisoned by hate…”
“Rick – did you write ‘be infected’ in regards to Melania?” asked producer and actress Jaime Primak. “No matter how much we don’t like them, we can’t wish this virus on people. We just can’t. Or at the very least we shouldn’t.”</blockquote>
Two hours after posting the “be infected” tweet, Wilson called anyone who believed he wished the virus on Mrs. Trump a “f***wit.”
“ANYONE who thought I was wishing COVID on Melania is f***wit,” Wilson wrote.
“You know full well it was a riff on ‘BeBest’ and it’s utter failure in the face of her husband’s continued role as Global Troll in Chief and National Bully,” the pundit continued.
“That said, fap to your fake-a** outrage all you like,” Wilson added. “Fap” is a vulgar slang term for masturbation.
Mrs. Trump has been generally quiet since leaving the White House, though she did unveil her <a href="https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/technology/melania-trump-announces-nft-venture/article_51d364a7-3ede-59fa-adcc-99781eb493b0.html">NFT</a>, last month.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-releases-tapes-of-melania-from-private-conversation-she-winds-up-looking-great">CNN Releases Tapes Of Melania From Private Conversation. She Winds Up Looking Great.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-press-secretary-writing-tell-all-anti-trump-book-admits-to-lying">Former Press Secretary, Writing Tell-All Anti-Trump Book, Admits To Lying</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rick-wilson-to-melania-trump-be-infected-scolds-maga-fwits-after-backlash">CNN Favorite Rick Wilson To Melania Trump: ‘Be Infected’</a>

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Anti-Trumper Rick Wilson Suggests Melania Trump ‘Months’ Away From Doing Online Porn 

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MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Rick Wilson, a co-founder of the scandal-plagued Lincoln Project, took turns insulting Red State Americans on Monday night, calling any unvaccinated American “a dumb ass” and dreaming of putting Republicans under a glass dome to create “a dumb ass-tuary.”
Reid mused that Republicans hope to keep alive just enough conservative voters to “intimidate black voters and make sure they can’t vote.”
The name-calling session began as Wilson, co-founder of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-gop-needs-to-be-burned-down-to-the-ground-according-to-msnbcs-republican-commentator">anti-Republican</a> organization beset by allegations that <a href="https://therightswriter.com/2015/06/john-kasich-just-hired-a-strategist-who-has-waged-war-on-conservative-christians/">another of its co-founders</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/deplorable-and-predatory-behavior-the-lincoln-project-condemns-cofounder-after-nyt-reports-he-allegedly-sexually-harassed-14-year-old-boy">sexually harassed young males</a>, accused “Republican governors,” like Florida’s Ron DeSantis and Texas’ Greg Abbott , of playing “stupid games” by allowing Americans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/153-employees-at-houston-hospital-who-refused-covid-19-vaccine-have-been-fired-or-quit-report">fired</a> for refusing to obey their employers’ vaccine mandates to collect unemployment benefits.
He then broadened his attacks to Americans who, he said, “didn’t take the responsible adult human step to get vaccinated.”
“I missed that part when I was a young man reading <a href="https://therightswriter.com/2004/07/farewell-chairman-bill/">[William F.] Buckley [Jr.]</a>, and <a href="https://mises.org/library/road-serfdom-0">[Friedrich von] Hayek</a> and <a href="https://kirkcenter.org/">[Russell] Kirk</a> and all of the conservative greats — I missed the part about being a dumb ass when it comes to trying to save people’s lives,” Wilson said.
Reid laughed loudly at Wilson’s insult of Red State Americans.
Later in the show, Reid speculated about cordoning off Republicans’ stupidity from the rest of the nation in a macabre science experiment.
“It’s almost like if we had a dome over the United States, there’d be part of it that is like a dumb ass-tuary, right, where people are living in there, killing their own constituents, getting their own constituents sick, willing to let people die,” Reid said.
Wilson then burst out laughing.
“Is there any way to crack that little dumb ass-tuary and let some people out, or are they just going to stay in there, get sick, and maybe die?” she asked.
Wilson replied by calling Republican-led states like Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama — as well as Louisiana, which is governed by a <a href="https://www.democratsforlife.org/">pro-life Democrat</a> — “basically Darwin’s waiting room. These people are gonna either decide they’re going to get vaccinated, or they’re going to continue to watch their friends and neighbors and their family members die off.”
He added they had been misled by Fox News, which he claimed was “an outright propaganda network against vaccination for months and months and months,” although the network produced public service announcements encouraging its viewers to get vaccinated. “Pain is the only teacher in politics, so you’re going to see states where people die off,” Wilson said.
Reid concluded the segment by playing the race card. “It’s their own voters, but I guess they figure there will be enough of them left to, like, watch the polls and intimidate black voters and make sure they can’t vote, and they figure that’s all they need,” she said.
The decision to call half of the electorate ignorant seemed like a flashback to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sorry-mr-president-10-reasons-don-lemon-is-not-one-of-the-most-informed-journalists-in-the-country">last January</a>, when Wilson and New York Times author Wajahat Ali joined CNN host Don Lemon to say that Trump voters are backwoods imbeciles who don’t know anything about “yer geography, and yer spellin’, and yer math, and yer readin’.” As Wilson and Ali poured on the insults, Lemon laughed until he cried, dabbing tears from his eyes. The Republican National Committee found the episode so condescending and elitist that they turned the segment into a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-watch-gop-launches-campaign-ad-fundraiser-off-cnns-don-lemon-mocking-trump-supporters">campaign ad</a>.
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The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.
If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. <a href="https://t.co/8kQ6zN9AZV">pic.twitter.com/8kQ6zN9AZV</a>
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The Left’s decision to insult much of the country’s electorate harkens back to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 faux pas of revealing that she considered “half” of future President Donald Trump’s supporters “deplorables” and “irredeemable.”
Another moment of déjà vu came when Reid asked Dr. Anthony Fauci whether the Omicron variant or a successor mutation might become too impossible for vaccines to restrain — and had Dr. Fauci publicly rebuff her a second time.
“My team is sick of me saying this, but I’ve been likening the pandemic, this virus to like the alien in [the movie] &#8216;Aliens.&#8217; Its whole goal is to jump into different people and mutate into different kinds of aliens,” she said. “At some point, isn’t it true this thing is going to mutate to a kind of virus that we can’t stop with any vaccine or any treatment?&#8221;
“No,” replied Dr. Fauci flatly. “That would be really highly unlikely, Joy.”
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Reid previously asked Dr. Fauci the same question, nearly word-for-word, on the September 7 episode of “The ReidOut.” As this author <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-msnbc-interview-fauci-neither-asks-about-damning-covid-19-documents">reported</a> at The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>Dr. Fauci did rebut one of Reid’s frequent fearmongering assertions: that the COVID-19 vaccination may not be able to protect against the virus’ variants.
“I have been likening it to like the movie ‘Aliens,’” Reid said. “Are you worried that we’re going to have a nightmare this winter, as these variants continue to evolve? Are we getting close to one that can beat all of our vaccines?”
“Well, I’m not saying we’re close to that, Joy. I think that would be a stretch to say that,” Dr. Fauci replied. “But I do say that there’s always the danger that that could happen.”
Interestingly, the MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-reidout-9-7-21-n1278673">transcript</a> of the episode has Fauci say, “I think that wouldn’t be a stretch to say that.” Video of the segment is below:
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On Monday&#8217;s show, Reid also implied that President Donald Trump had been a “client” of Jeffrey Epstein.
“Jeffrey Epstein had a lot of information … including a lot of high-profile alleged clients’ names. Here’s one of them. Here’s Donald Trump.”
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Epstein, who died in prison despite strict guarding procedures, had a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/there-sexual-picture-bill-clinton-jeffrey-epsteins-ryan-saavedra">painting</a> of former President Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress. Clinton flew on Epstein’s private jet, the Lolita Express, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/flight-logs-show-bill-clinton-flew-on-sex-offenders-jet-much-more-than-previously-known">at least 26 times</a>, according to an analysis of flight logs.
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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Joy Reid, Rick Wilson Laugh At ‘Dumb Ass’ Red State Americans

COVID-19 Vaccine

Joy Reid

MSNBC

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>
&mdash; Tristan Justice (@JusticeTristan) <a href="https://twitter.com/JusticeTristan/status/1298292888590118912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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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>
&mdash; Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1298833929160593409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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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">pic.twitter.com/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>
&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1313288201423986688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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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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America, this is what CNN thinks of you&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/puuVjRLlw1">pic.twitter.com/puuVjRLlw1</a>
&mdash; Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1221999373829144578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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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.
But here’s a video Nancy Pelosi’s team put out of her showcasing a (very fancy) freezer full of ice cream and a house full of chocolate. <a href="https://t.co/265mKC7q9v">pic.twitter.com/265mKC7q9v</a>
&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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Some of President Donald Trump&#8217;s top critics tried to &#8220;cancel&#8221; pizza chain Dominos over a 2012 tweet thanking now- White House Press Secretary (then-cable news commentator), Kayleigh McEnany, for a compliment, but the effort didn&#8217;t quite go as planned. Not only did Trump&#8217;s supporters push back, but the pizza chain itself got involved, striking a body blow on self-described &#8220;Never-Trumper&#8221; Rick Wilson.
Late Monday, Wilson somehow dug up a 2012 tweet from Dominos thanking McEnany for a high compliment &#8212; a response after McEnany told Dominos she preferred their pizza to New York City pizza.
Wilson implied that Dominos had &#8220;killed their brand&#8221; by responding favorably to a Trump aide, adding the hashtag #ETTD, &#8220;Everything Trump Touches Dies,&#8221; a reference to Wilson&#8217;s best-selling book.
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You just killed your brand. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ETTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ETTD</a> <a href="https://t.co/NdGee87xvH">https://t.co/NdGee87xvH</a>
&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1272704009330180096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Social media users &#8212; and particularly Trump supporters &#8212; were quick to point out that the tweet was from 2012, nearly a decade ago, when McEnany was fresh out of college and still a budding conservative commentator. In 2012, Donald Trump, who now employs McEnany as the head of his media relations department, had only briefly entertained a presidential run. He wouldn&#8217;t pursue his White House ambitions in any meaningful way until 2015.
Yet, somehow, the tweet was supposed to reveal Dominos&#8217; biases and result in major damage to the pizza chain&#8217;s brand.
&#8220;My God. What kind of loser searches the tweets of a PIZZA PLACE looking for something &#8216;problematic,&#8217; finds a polite tweet thanking Trump&#8217;s current spox for a compliment she made EIGHT YEARS AGO, and thinks that&#8217;s worth siccing an online hate mob against them?&#8221; one writer tweeted.
&#8220;They killed it 8 years ago? Dude, c’mon,&#8221; added commentator Dana Loesch.
&#8220;Guys, that&#8217;s from 2012,&#8221; another Twitter user pointed out.
&#8220;There is nothing that has more 2020 energy than Dominoes getting dragged for this innocent 8-year-old reply to Kayleigh McEnany,&#8221; added Greg Price.
Although a handful of Trump critics joined in the &#8220;canceling,&#8221; more than a few so-called Never Trumpers were skeptical of the need to attack a pizza chain over a nearly ten-year-old compliment.
&#8220;Rick, much respect for you, but holding  <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/dominos" data-focusable="true">@Dominos </a>to account for saying Thank You 8 years ago to a hyperbolic compliment is a bit much, don&#8217;t you think?&#8221; one pointed out.
The real pain, though, was reserved for Tuesday, when the brand itself responded, striking a body blow.
&#8220;Welp. It&#8217;s unfortunate that thanking a customer for a compliment back in 2012 would be viewed as political. Guess that&#8217;s 2020 for you,&#8221; Dominos quipped.
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Welp. It&#39;s unfortunate that thanking a customer for a compliment back in 2012 would be viewed as political. Guess that&#39;s 2020 for ya.
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Although that is likely the last word on the pizza cancelation controversy, Trump supporters and other conservative commentators have doubled down on Wilson, dredging up some of his tweets from earlier years before he became a top voice in the Never Trump movement. Among them, criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
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Anti-Trumpers Try To Cancel Dominos Over 2012 Tweet To Kayleigh McEnany, Get CRUSHED

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On Wednesday, prominent anti-Trump pundit and frequent CNN guest Rick Wilson posted a tweet directed at First Lady Melania Trump with the hashtag &#8220;Be Infected,&#8221; a riff on Mrs. Trump&#8217;s anti-bullying &#8220;Be Best&#8221; campaign.
Reacting to a CNN report on Mrs. Trump being set to appear in coronavirus-related public service announcements, Wilson wrote, &#8220;#BeInfected.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeInfected?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeInfected</a> <a href="https://t.co/TZD35uaEvq">https://t.co/TZD35uaEvq</a>
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Wilson&#8217;s apparent wish to have Mrs. Trump infected with the China-originated virus received quick backlash online, from folks across the political spectrum.
&#8220;People are really angry. I get that. But to actually wish this virus on someone because of your hatred of them or who they’re related to is beyond the pale,&#8221; Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean reacted to Wilson&#8217;s post. &#8220;It’s not funny. It’s cruel and disgusting.&#8221;
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People are really angry. I get that. But to actually wish this virus on someone because of your hatred of them or who they’re related to is beyond the pale. It’s not funny. It’s cruel and disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/ESrJVtmtSE">https://t.co/ESrJVtmtSE</a>
&mdash; Janice Dean (@JaniceDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaniceDean/status/1240618305934802945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is the most insidious &amp; hateful rhetoric of anyone who exists in political punditry,&#8221; The Hill&#8217;s Joe Concha wrote.
&#8220;Rick Wilson is wishing Coronavirus on Melania Trump,&#8221; the media reporter added. &#8220;It doesn’t matter if the wish is aimed at a First Lady, or a doctor, a teacher, a policewoman. It is despicable. He deserves no platform.&#8221;
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This is the most insidious &amp; hateful rhetoric of anyone who exists in political punditry. Rick Wilson is wishing Coronavirus on Melania Trump. It doesn’t matter if the wish is aimed at a First Lady, or a doctor, a teacher, a policewoman. It is despicable. He deserves no platform. <a href="https://t.co/uTr5RVZSTX">https://t.co/uTr5RVZSTX</a>
&mdash; Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1240468560239112192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wilson angrily responded, &#8220;Fox still isn&#8217;t going to hire you.&#8221;
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Fox still isn&#39;t going to hire you. <a href="https://t.co/aXdL5xS9S6">https://t.co/aXdL5xS9S6</a>
&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1240619350861766656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Independent conservative Kimberly Ross addressed Wilson: &#8220;You should never wish that your political opponents get sick. This is obvious to most people. But others are so poisoned by hate&#8230;&#8221;
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You should never wish that your political opponents get sick. This is obvious to most people. But others are so poisoned by hate&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/4xJ8vuym7v">https://t.co/4xJ8vuym7v</a>
&mdash; Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) <a href="https://twitter.com/SouthernKeeks/status/1240464972372680704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Never Trump pundit claimed his &#8220;be infected&#8221; remark did not actually mean he wished Mrs. Trump &#8220;be infected.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, since the POINT was to mock her absurd <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeBest?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#BeBest</a> failure, I didn&#8217;t but you do you,&#8221; Wilson told Ross.
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Well, since the POINT was to mock her absurd <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeBest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeBest</a> failure, I didn&#39;t but you do you. <a href="https://t.co/hVtjG4YyNH">https://t.co/hVtjG4YyNH</a>
&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1240466991594561538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Rick &#8211; did you write &#8216;be infected&#8217; in regards to Melania?&#8221; asked producer and actress Jaime Primak. &#8220;No matter how much we don’t like them, we can’t wish this virus on people. We just can’t. Or at the very least we shouldn’t.&#8221;
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Rick &#8211; did you write “be infected” in regards to Melania? No matter how much we don’t like them, we can’t wish this virus on people. We just can’t. Or at the very least we shouldn’t.
&mdash; Jaime Primak (@JaimePrimak) <a href="https://twitter.com/JaimePrimak/status/1240620778661580804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Wilson again seemed to suggest he did not wish such thing: &#8220;As noted several times, it was a play off her failed <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeBest?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#BeBest</a> campaign, but the Trump outrage machine needs feeding,&#8221; he wrote. 
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As noted several times, it was a play off her failed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeBest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BeBest</a> campaign, but the Trump outrage machine needs feeding. <a href="https://t.co/hzrvnQlfQR">https://t.co/hzrvnQlfQR</a>
&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1240622709295415297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Two hours after Wilson posted the &#8220;be infected&#8221; tweet, Wilson called anyone who believes he wished the virus on Mrs. Trump a &#8220;f***wit.&#8221;
&#8220;ANYONE who thought I was wishing COVID on Melania is f***wit,&#8221; Wilson wrote.
&#8220;You know full well it was a riff on &#8216;BeBest&#8217; and it&#8217;s utter failure in the face of her husband&#8217;s continued role as Global Troll in Chief and National Bully,&#8221; continued the pundit.
&#8220;That said, fap to your fake-a** outrage all you like,&#8221; Wilson added. &#8220;Fap&#8221; is a vulgar slang term for masturbation.
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ANYONE who thought I was wishing COVID on Melania is fuckwit. 
You know full well it was a riff on &quot;BeBest&quot; and it&#39;s utter failure in the face of her husband&#39;s continued role as Global Troll in Chief and National Bully. 
That said, fap to your fake-ass outrage all you like.
&mdash; Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1240474497062445057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has infected <a href="https://www.bing.com/covid?ref=share">229,472</a> people globally as of Thursday afternoon, and killed 9,344. In the United States, there are 10,781 confirmed cases, with that number expected to rise dramatically in coming days as the testing becomes more readily available. There have been 160 fatalities from the virus in the U.S. to date.
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/17/coronavirus-layoffs-america-unemployment-134819">Politico</a> on Tuesday, precautions surrounding the virus have created massive economic strain, overwhelming unemployment offices throughout the nation.
&#8220;Employers are slashing jobs at a furious pace across the nation due to mass shutdowns over the coronavirus, slamming state unemployment offices with a crush of filers facing sudden crises,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Long before official government data is expected to reveal the depths of the economic shock inflicted by the coronavirus, reports from state officials and businesses around the country indicate the gathering of a massive wave of unemployment on a scale unseen since the Great Recession.&#8221;

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On his talk radio program Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh addressed the &#8220;tremendous amount of fallout&#8221; from a Don Lemon-hosted CNN panel discussion over the weekend that devolved into the guests mocking Trump supporters as illiterate, uneducated &#8220;rubes,&#8221; while the host laughed hysterically.
Along with resulting in enough pressure that Lemon felt compelled to defend himself, insisting he doesn&#8217;t believe in &#8220;belittling people&#8221; — a response that has earned yet <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-lemon-gives-disastrous-statement-in-response-to-outrage-over-segment-mocking-republicans-critics-fire-back">more blowback</a> — the segment inspired a poignant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-watch-gop-launches-campaign-ad-fundraiser-off-cnns-don-lemon-mocking-trump-supporters">campaign ad</a> by the Republican National Committee (RNC). The moment has gone viral, in part, Limbaugh suggests, because it shows the public that the left-wing media elite is actually what they repeatedly portray Donald Trump to be.
&#8220;These are the people that tell us Trump is unqualified ’cause he’s got bad manners, because he talks in ways that are unacceptable, and these people go out and actually say far more insulting, mocking things than Trump does,&#8221; <a href="https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2020/01/29/fallout-from-cnn-mocking-trump-voters/">said</a> Limbaugh. &#8220;It really is stunning. They say (impression), &#8216;Trump is offense to basic civility. Trump is an offense to basic manners,&#8217; and then you look at all of these people that hate him, from the intellectual Never Trumpers to the intellectual erudite media and so forth, and they’re just the epitome of what they criticize — and it was on full display Saturday night on CNN.&#8221;
The Trump supporter-mocking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-of-cnn-mocking-trump-supporters-goes-viral-trump-responds-by-swatting-don-lemon">segment</a> began when Republican consultant Rick Wilson turned his insult of Trump into a mean-spirited takedown of the president&#8217;s supporters, with fellow guest New York Times reporter Wajahat Ali joining in. Providing a literally hysterical backdrop to the discussion was Lemon, bent over laughing to the point of crying as the insults flew, and eventually thanking Wilson, saying, he &#8220;needed that.&#8221;
Speaking of Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, Wilson said that he “knows deep in his heart that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.” The line started Lemon laughing, which he would continue to do more forcefully as the discussion went on. &#8220;He knows that this is, you know, an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so that’s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, credulous boomer rube demo that back Donald Trump, that wants to think that Donald Trump’s a smart one, and y’all — y’all elitists are dumb,” said Wilson, adopting a southern accent.
“You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling…” Ali joined in. “Your math, your reading,” added Wilson. “Yes, your reading, you know,” said Ali. “Your geography knowing other countries. Sipping your latte.”
When the ridiculing rant lost its steam, Lemon said, “Rick, that was a good one. I needed that.”
Amid massive backlash and with the RNC rapidly turning the moment into a campaign ad, Lemon addressed the segment at the end of his show Tuesday night by insisting that he was only laughing at the &#8220;Ukraine&#8221; joke, not at Trump&#8217;s supporters, because he does not believe in &#8220;belittling people.&#8221;
&#8220;And one final note that I have for you, because this is personally important to me to address this, OK?&#8221; Lemon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-lemon-gives-disastrous-statement-in-response-to-outrage-over-segment-mocking-republicans-critics-fire-back">said</a> at the end of his show Tuesday night. &#8220;Anyone, ask anyone who knows me, they’ll tell you, I don’t believe in belittling people, belittling anyone for who they are, what they believe, or where they are from. During an interview on Saturday night, one of my guests said something that made me laugh and while in the moment, I found that joke humorous. And I didn’t catch everything that was said. Just to make this perfectly clear, I was laughing at the joke and not at any group of people.&#8221;
Like many others on the right, Rush wasn&#8217;t buying it. &#8220;Don, admit it. You were laughing at the characterization of Trump voters ’cause that’s what got you off, Don,&#8221; said Limbaugh. &#8220;That’s what you loved!&#8221;
Limbuagh then read a tweet from Ivanka Trump reacting to the viral video: &#8220;You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided. The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s &#8216;Real Elites&#8217; is disgusting.&#8221;
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You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided. 
The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting. <a href="https://t.co/p3RQzymx4s">https://t.co/p3RQzymx4s</a>
&mdash; Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/1222126462347681793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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After playing Lemon&#8217;s non-apology, and subjecting it to his own mockery, Limbaugh said, &#8220;I’ll tell you something else. Don Lemon does belittle people. He calls Trump voters neo-Nazis. He calls them racists. He belittles people. All of CNN does. There isn’t anybody on CNN that does not engage in this kind of behavior. I mean, it’s what CNN has become known for.&#8221;
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Limbaugh: CNN Just Proved They Are What They Accuse Trump Of Being

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A GOP strategist who has vocally opposed President Trump has accused the president of abusing prescription drugs.
During a CNN panel on Wednesday night, political commentator Rick Wilson said Trump spends his mornings &#8220;hoovering up rails of Adderall.&#8221;
His comments came as the panel debated the partial government shutdown. Senate Democrats refused to compromise on a House-passed bill that would set aside $5.6 billion for construction of a barrier at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump has warned that the shutdown, which began December 22, could last a &#8220;long time,&#8221; while new House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) vows her party will not waver.
&#8220;Wilson seemed to take Pelosi&#8217;s word that House Democrats will not cave in and introduce a bill that includes funding for the wall and that, if anything, it would be Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, who would cave in, though he clarified that Schumer is currently &#8216;standing strong,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/gop-strategist-rick-wilson-tells-cnn-that-donald-trump-spends-his-mornings-hoovering-up-adderall">Fox News</a> reported.
Then Wilson said: &#8220;No matter how many times Donald Trump tweets, no matter how much he spends his morning &#8216;executive time&#8217; hoovering up rails of Adderall and rage tweeting, it&#8217;s not going to change where Pelosi is,&#8221; Wilson said to CNN anchor Don Lemon. &#8220;So as long as she holds the line, this thing is gonna go on until Trump feels the pain level rise.&#8221;
Adderall is a prescription medication that is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It works by changing the amounts of certain natural substances in the brain and contains amphetamine and dextroamphetamine, both stimulants. The drug is addictive and is often abused.
Earlier in the CNN show, Wilson said the &#8220;only criteria&#8221; for GOP primary candidates is &#8220;who&#8217;s willing to be the biggest bootlicker for Donald Trump&#8221; and that &#8220;white dudes over 55&#8221; who worship Trump are the core of the GOP.
&#8220;Who&#8217;s got a Donald Trump tramp stamp &#8212; those are the people that, you know, are being put forward now,&#8221; said Wilson, author of &#8220;Everything Trump Touches Dies.&#8221;
&#8220;So the male and pale contingent got even maler and paler.&#8221;
Last January, Wilson threatened physical violence against a pro-Trump talk show host who defended Trump. Wilson berated talk show host John Fredericks for arguing that Trump&#8217;s alleged comments about &#8220;sh*thole nations&#8221; in Africa were about economics, not race, telling him to not &#8220;bother calling yourself a conservative&#8221; because he wouldn&#8217;t agree with Wilson and Lemon that Trump&#8217;s statement was &#8220;racist.&#8221;
&#8220;John, I will gut you like a fish on this show if you want to keep this up,&#8221; Wilson threatened.

Anti-Trump GOP Strategist Claims Trump ‘Hoovering Up Adderall’

Drugs

On Friday, CNN&#8217;s Brooke Baldwin let Rick Wilson talk about President Donald Trump &#8220;screwing porn stars&#8221; for several minutes after she previously kicked Clay Travis off her show for saying that he liked &#8220;b-double-o-b-s.&#8221;
Wilson, who previously threatened to &#8220;gut&#8221; a Trump supporter &#8220;like a fish&#8221; on CNN, wasted no time attacking the president and his base of supporters during the segment.
Wilson repeatedly mentioned Trump was &#8220;screwing porn stars&#8221; as he attacked conservative CNN guest Paris Dennard&#8217;s views. Baldwin sat back and grinned.
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CNN&#8217;s Brooke Baldwin lets Rick Wilson talk about Trump &#8220;screwing porn stars&#8221; for several minutes.
Baldwin kicked Clay Travis off her show when he said he liked &#8220;b-double-o-b-s&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/yPSNaMEUdq">https://t.co/yPSNaMEUdq</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/974735978567958528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In September, Baldwin became visibly outraged at sports analyst Clay Travis and kicked him off her show when he said that he believed in &#8220;boobs.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m a first amendment absolutist. I believe in only two things completely, the First Amendment and boobs,&#8221; Travis said, which instantly angered Baldwin.
&#8220;Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on,&#8221; Baldwin responded. &#8220;I just want to make to make sure I heard you correctly as a woman anchoring this show. What did you just say? You said you believe in the first amendment and b-double-o-bs?&#8221;
&#8220;Boobs!&#8221; Travis responded. &#8220;Two things that have only never let me down in this entire country&#8217;s history. The First Amendment and boobs. So those are the only two things I believe in absolutely in the country.&#8221;
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WATCH: CNN’s Baldwin Lets Guest Rant About Porn Star Sex, Kicked Clay Travis Off Show For Saying ‘Boobs’

Trump Administration

On CNN Thursday night, notoriously vile Republican strategist and diehard #NeverTrumper Rick Wilson threatened physical violence against a pro-Trump talk show host who defended the president&#8217;s &#8220;s***hole&#8221; comments.
Wilson berated talk show host John Fredericks for arguing that Trump&#8217;s comments were about economics, not race, telling him to not &#8220;bother calling yourself a conservative&#8221; because he wouldn&#8217;t agree with Wilson and host Don Lemon that Trump&#8217;s statement was &#8220;racist.&#8221;
Wilson told Fredericks that he should &#8220;go on Amazon, order yourself a pointy white hat, head down to Home Depot and get the wood to build a burning cross.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s about economics, Rick. You can throw all the insults you want, and I appreciate it,&#8221; Fredericks replied, &#8220;but look, at the end of the day-&#8220;
&#8220;No, John. You don&#8217;t appreciate it,&#8221; Wilson said as he resorted to personal attacks. &#8220;You&#8217;re a weak, impotent person who can&#8217;t handle the fact that there are people who don&#8217;t look like you, who want to come to this country because our system is awesome. You hate that, you hate it so much, because you&#8217;re so weak inside.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s your substantive argument to me, Rick Wilson, who backed every losing candidate,&#8221; Fredericks fired back.
&#8220;John, I will gut you like a fish on this show if you want to keep this up,&#8221; Wilson threatened.
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&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/951701902382673920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Related: Daily Wire editor-in-chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25767/was-trumps-shole-commentary-racist-ben-shapiro">Ben Shapiro&#8217;s response to Trump&#8217;s &#8220;s***hole&#8221; comments</a>.

WATCH: Rick Wilson Threatens To ‘Gut’ Trump Defender ‘Like A Fish’ On Live TV

According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/everyone-tunes-in-inside-trumps-obsession-with-cable-tv/2017/04/23/3c52bd6c-25e3-11e7-a1b3-faff0034e2de_story.html">The Washington Post</a> (WaPo), President Donald Trump praised White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer&#8217;s &#8220;ratings&#8221; during a lunch meeting last month when asked about his spokesperson&#8217;s job security.

&#8220;I&#8217;m not firing Sean Spicer,&#8221; said Trump, according to a WaPo source. &#8220;That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in.&#8221; 

In an article published Sunday, WaPo&#8217;s Ashley Parker and Robert Costa sought to examine the president&#8217;s television news media consumption and its impact on shaping the Trump administration&#8217;s politics.

Both Parker and Costa describe Trump&#8217;s consumption of television news media as an &#8220;obsession.&#8221; At no point in the article do they acknowledge the centrality of television news media in shaping national political discourse.

A heavy presidential on political communications strategies &#8211; including such details as one&#8217;s dress and body language &#8211; is not new or unusual; WaPo describes Trump&#8217;s media focus as &#8220;[upending] the traditional rhythms of the White House.

WaPo&#8217;s Parker and Costa make a peripheral acknowledgment of television&#8217;s ubiquitousness, at least with respect to senior Americans: 

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Trump&#8217;s quotidian viewing is unremarkable, based on his profile. Fox News&#8217;s average prime-time viewer last year, for instance, was 68 years old and mostly white, and the average American watches more than four hours per day, according to Nielsen data.
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As a source of criticism of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;television obsession,&#8221; WaPo consults left-wing MSNBC pundit Rick Wilson, who they describe as a &#8220;veteran Republican consultant.&#8221; 

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Relaying conversations he claims to have had with a &#8220;number of Republicans in Congress and in establishment party circles,&#8221; Wilson casts Trump&#8217;s politics as superficially shaped by his television-watching:
&#8220;There are many conversations where it ends: &#8216;But of course, God knows, he could watch Fox News tomorrow and change his whole position.&#8217; [Republicans] don&#8217;t get him, because he&#8217;s a creature of television and they&#8217;re creatures of politics. They care about the details, he cares about what&#8217;s on TV. [Trump] is a TV character to them, and they have to navigate around it.&#8221;
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Parker and Costa present themselves as politically objective and non-partisan news media figures. WaPo similarly presents itself as a politically objective and non-partisan news media outlet; describing itself as a safeguard of America&#8217;s democratic institutions with its motto, &#8220;Democracy Dies in Darkness:&#8221;

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H/T Ken Meyer at <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-isnt-firing-sean-spicer-that-guy-gets-great-ratings-everyone-tunes-in/">Mediaite</a>

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