In the third episode of his groundbreaking series “The Case for Derek Chauvin,” Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro revealed how the politically-connected former Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, D.C., dramatically influenced the Hennepin County Medical Examiner to add &#8220;neck compression&#8221; to George Floyd&#8217;s autopsy report despite initial findings that showed &#8220;no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation.&#8221;
“The facts are straightforward: Baker’s initial <a href="https://www.hennepin.us/-/media/hennepinus/residents/public-safety/medical-examiner/floyd-autopsy-6-3-20.pdf">autopsy</a> was conducted on May 26th, 2020, and his subsequent draft autopsy report found ‘no physical evidence suggesting that Mr. Floyd died of asphyxiation’ and ‘no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation,’” Shapiro said.
“Then, Roger Mitchell enters the picture.”
Mitchell, a Democrat activist who also served as a D.C. deputy mayor, <a href="https://spectator.org/chauvin-did-not-murder-george-floyd/">called</a> Baker twice following the initial autopsy findings, according to <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12949-TT/Exhibit105122021.pdf">documents</a> filed in the case of Tou Thao, a former Minneapolis police officer and Chauvin&#8217;s colleague.
During these calls, Mitchell allegedly told Baker, &#8220;You don&#8217;t want to be the medical examiner who tells everyone they didn&#8217;t see what they saw. You don&#8217;t want to be the smartest person in the room and be wrong.&#8221;
The pressure campaign intensified when Mitchell threatened to publish an op-ed in The Washington Post critical of Baker&#8217;s findings.
&#8220;[Mitchell] said there was a way to articulate the cause and manner of death that ensures you are telling the truth about what you are observing on the body and via all of the investigation. Mitchell said neck compression has to be in the diagnosis,&#8221; the memorandum states.
By June 1, 2020, Baker had added &#8220;neck compression&#8221; to his official diagnosis, transforming the case against the officers. This revised finding enabled Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, assigned to the case by Governor Tim Walz just one day earlier, to bring an additional second-degree murder charge against Chauvin.
Dr. Baker&#8217;s private concerns about external pressure were revealed in former prosecutor Amy Sweasy&#8217;s sexual harassment <a href="https://mncourts.gov/mncourtsgov/media/High-Profile-Cases/27-CR-20-12949-TT/TT-SweasyDiscriminationCharge.pdf">lawsuit</a> deposition, where she detailed conversations with Baker in which he expressed anxiety about the case. According to Shapiro, this information further confirms the political nature of the prosecution.
As Shapiro notes, “Dr. Baker confided to Hennepin prosecutor Amy Sweasy, ‘What happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on? This is the kind of case that ends careers.’”
The appearance of blackmail aside, Shapiro continues, “Worse yet, the Hennepin County prosecutors met with Dr. Baker to review his draft autopsy report without detectives or special agents present, violating protocol.”
“After being assigned to Chauvin&#8217;s case by Governor Tim Walz one day prior, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison utilized the revised autopsy report to bring an additional second-degree murder charge against Chauvin,&#8221; Shapiro adds. &#8220;All of these revelations, despite qualifying as Brady material, were buried at trial and were never properly disclosed to Chauvin’s defense.”
In the episode, Shapiro explores how “the detailed autopsy findings provide significant reasons to determine that Derek Chauvin did not receive a fair trial, and his conviction for murder was not supported by the medical evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Watch the full episode <a href="https://youtu.be/4KrY4XR88Ws?si=eiI7O3suA_jFK5n7">here.</a>

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UCLA issued an interim suspension to two pro-Palestinian student organizations on Wednesday after masked protesters allegedly vandalized Regent Jay Sures’ Brentwood home last week and reportedly harassed his wife.
Chancellor Julio Frenk announced that the two groups could no longer hold on-campus meetings, apply for funding, or formally associate with UCLA while officials <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-12/ucla-suspends-students-for-justice-in-palestine-jay-sures-protest">investigate</a> their alleged misconduct, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Frenk described the alleged harassment in a campus <a href="https://chancellor.ucla.edu/messages/a-stand-against-violence-in-our-community">update</a> on Wednesday:
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“This is not about me. I’m the target but this is about protecting every member of our community from intimidation and hate,” Sures said.
The Los Angeles Police Department is reportedly examining potential criminal charges stemming from the incident, and the university’s conduct proceedings for both organizations have no set end date.
The interim ban follows a trend of other University of California campuses halting the activities of Students for Justice in Palestine. UC Santa Cruz placed the group under suspension until 2026, with UC Irvine enacting a restriction through 2029. At UC San Diego, the organization faced charges related to campus disruptions last spring and did not renew its official status for the current academic year.
Kira Stein, who leads the Jewish Faculty Resilience Group at UCLA, welcomed the move. “We have a long list of SJP violations of university rules and regulations that we have been sharing with the administration,” Stein said, asserting that the group’s actions amount to “intimidation, harassment, and inflammatory disinformation.”
Meanwhile, the union representing university law enforcement encouraged UCLA officials “to demand prosecution” for any illegal conduct and emphasized that administrative responses should deter incidents that cross legal boundaries.
“Universities cannot allow lawlessness under the guise of activism,” said Wade Stern, who serves as the president of the Federated University Police Officers&#8217; Association.
The two student activist groups swiftly responded to UCLA&#8217;s decision on social media, describing the action as “crazy” and encouraging supporters to closely watch for updates.
In prior statements online, the organizations accused the UC system of “militarizing” campuses to stifle demonstrations, and they repeated calls for the university to cut financial ties with certain funds, weapons manufacturers, and other holdings allegedly linked to Israel.
University leaders, however, have publicly affirmed they do not intend to pursue divestment.

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With the acquittal of Daniel Penny in Manhattan, it&#8217;s clear that Democrats are going to have some difficulty rounding up political prisoners for the next few years. As that trial demonstrated, they can&#8217;t even sell a BLM narrative to a jury full of liberal women (and a guy wearing a COVID mask). People are more skeptical of race hysteria now, across party lines. They understand when they&#8217;re being manipulated. They care more about facts, instead of whatever the corporate press is saying. And that&#8217;s all very bad news for Democrat prosecutors who are looking to collect a scalp.
But this development is obviously small comfort to the many victims of these prosecutors who are still languishing away in prison, after being convicted in show trials to appease the mob. And of course, maybe the single most prominent of those victims is a man named Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was a police officer in Minneapolis who went to work in May of 2020 with the goal of protecting his community from violent felons — people like George Floyd. He&#8217;s been sentenced to more than two decades in prison because Floyd, who had a recent history of overdoses, died in his custody while high on fatal levels of fentanyl.
The issue of &#8220;causation&#8221; was the single most important issue of the trial — that is, the question of whether Chauvin actually killed Floyd. If Chauvin&#8217;s actions weren&#8217;t a &#8220;substantial factor&#8221; in Floyd&#8217;s death, then under Minnesota law, he&#8217;s innocent. That pretty much sums up the entire case.
But after the trial was over, the jury came out and publicly admitted that they didn&#8217;t really care about this issue at all. &#8220;Causation&#8221; just didn&#8217;t matter to them. They gave an interview with CNN where they explained that, in their view, Chauvin&#8217;s actions didn&#8217;t matter at all. Instead, they determined that Chauvin was guilty because of what he didn&#8217;t do. They didn&#8217;t convict him for murdering Floyd. They didn&#8217;t convict him because his actions caused Floyd&#8217;s death. Instead, they convicted him for failing to &#8220;care&#8221; for George Floyd in some unspecified way.
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It&#8217;s an incredible piece of footage. First of all, there&#8217;s no reason for a jury to be looking for a &#8220;light bulb moment&#8221; which allows them to rationalize a guilty verdict — unless they were looking for some pretext to convict Chauvin (which they obviously were). The jury shouldn&#8217;t be trying to find a way to get a conviction. They should be looking at whether the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. And if they find themselves doubting that the prosecution proved its case, they don&#8217;t get to rewrite the law to help the prosecution out.
But in this case, that&#8217;s exactly what the jury did. They ultimately decided to hold Chauvin accountable for things he didn&#8217;t do. He didn&#8217;t respond compassionately enough to George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, or live up to the police department&#8217;s motto, I guess — even though none of those things, even if they were true, would make Chauvin a murderer. The new rule, according to this jury, is that police officers have an obligation to perform CPR on violent suspects the moment they say they can&#8217;t breathe — even though Floyd was claiming that he couldn&#8217;t breathe just a few minutes earlier, when he was resisting arrest and struggling with the officers in the back of a patrol car. And if police officers don&#8217;t administer CPR, and someone dies, then we&#8217;ll just assume that the officer killed them. We&#8217;ll just make that leap of logic, because why not?
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But just because the jury didn&#8217;t consider the issue of causation to be relevant, that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not relevant. From a legal perspective, on appeal, it&#8217;s still very important. And that&#8217;s why a federal judge in Minnesota named Paul Magnuson, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, has just issued a ruling that could ultimately lead to a new trial in this case. This is a decision that&#8217;s worth dissecting at length, because it highlights what a farce the trial of Derek Chauvin really was. No matter how corrupt you think this trial was, it was actually a lot worse than that.
The decision came in response to a motion filed by Chauvin&#8217;s new lawyer in federal court. Chauvin&#8217;s legal team is seeking to have his conviction overturned, in part, because his previous lawyer was ineffective — to the point that he denied Chauvin his constitutional right to a fair trial. There are other objections too — including that many of the jurors said they felt threatened by the mob, so Chauvin couldn&#8217;t get a fair trial.  
But there are two central claims in the motion arguing that Chauvin received &#8220;ineffective assistance of counsel.&#8221; The first is that Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer, during the trial, failed to tell Chauvin that a doctor had determined that George Floyd died due to acute heart failure, resulting in pulmonary edema and death. There were indications that Floyd had a heart tumor that could&#8217;ve caused sudden cardiac death, and Chauvin was never told about it — nor was it brought up at trial. 
The second claim is that Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer should have listened to the doctor, and ordered tests on samples that were preserved from George Floyd&#8217;s body. Those tests could have determined whether Floyd died of a type of myocarditis, or some other heart ailment. And now, several years later, the federal judge has finally allowed Chauvin&#8217;s new legal team to conduct those tests. Depending on what they show, they could completely undermine the prosecution&#8217;s argument that Chauvin caused the death of George Floyd. And that, in turn, could lead to the conviction being thrown out — and potentially a new trial, if prosecutors decide to pursue it.
One of the reasons this is such an important ruling is that, in Chauvin&#8217;s trial, there was clear evidence that the prosecution lied about the concentration of fentanyl in George Floyd&#8217;s system when he died. And if this case is tried again, this is going to be a major issue. You might remember that, in the initial autopsy report, the medical examiner determined that Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his system. He said that there were no physical signs of strangulation, and that it looked like a textbook overdose. But shortly afterwards, his assessment changed.
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The threats and the political pressure, we&#8217;re supposed to conclude, didn&#8217;t influence the medical examiner. We&#8217;re supposed to pretend that he somehow wasn&#8217;t bothered by the mob that was threatening to destroy the entire city of Minneapolis when he changed his determination about the cause of George Floyd&#8217;s death.
We&#8217;re also supposed to think that Democrats in Minneapolis didn&#8217;t exert any political pressure at all. But as the reporter Liz Collin found, there was even more pressure on the medical examiner than many people realize. 
One <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVdBFkjXkAAb3TA?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal memo</a> from a prosecuting attorney in Minneapolis at the time says that on May 26, 2020, a team of six FBI agents met with medical examiner Andrew Baker to discuss his preliminary findings. And then after this meeting, he changed his conclusions. He decides that Floyd&#8217;s death was a homicide caused by neck compression — and that fentanyl wasn&#8217;t the cause.
A new trial would offer Chauvin&#8217;s new defense team an opportunity to pick this claim apart. This is an opportunity that Chauvin&#8217;s first legal team missed completely, during the first trial. Outside of a few accounts on social media — people like &#8220;Data Hazard&#8221; for example — no one has talked about this. But it&#8217;s an incredible oversight by the defense team, and a remarkable act of corruption by the prosecution. And if anything completely blows apart the case against Derek Chauvin, it&#8217;s this.
Here&#8217;s the moment in the trial that I&#8217;m talking about. This is maybe the single most important testimony in the whole case. The prosecution is questioning a forensic toxicologist about the levels of fentanyl in Floyd&#8217;s blood.
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It&#8217;s a lot to process, with the graphs and the numbers flying around. But the basic idea is that the expert is telling the jury that they collected post-mortem blood samples from George Floyd, meaning the samples were taken after Floyd died. And they compared these samples to other overdose victims, and DUI suspects, after their deaths. And Floyd&#8217;s levels of fentanyl were well below both of those groups, at the post-mortem stage. The conclusion was that Floyd didn&#8217;t overdose on fentanyl.
The fundamental problem here is that Floyd&#8217;s samples, according to the medical examiner&#8217;s records, were not actually conducted post-mortem, or &#8220;after death.&#8221; They&#8217;re comparing Floyd&#8217;s pre-death samples with other people&#8217;s post-death samples.
To restate: There were samples of blood collected from George Floyd before he died in the hospital, according to the government&#8217;s own documents. He wasn&#8217;t actually pronounced dead until an hour after this incident with Derek Chauvin, when he was in the hospital. And while he was in the hospital, his blood was drawn. As the judge put it in his ruling this week, quote, &#8220;the autopsy report shows that ante-mortem blood was collected.&#8221;  And the prosecutors&#8217; own statements from 2020 confirm that. Another <a href="https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298403284416249856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal memo</a> shows what they said at the time. 
 &#8220;Dr. Andrew Baker &#8230; said he had the final toxicology results from Mr. George Floyd&#8217;s samples &#8230; Those samples are from Mr. Floyd&#8217;s hospital admission and were not acquired at autopsy. [Baker] said that these samples are better for determining actual blood toxicity than samples taken at autopsy,&#8221; the memo said. &#8220;Samples taken at autopsy may have undergone &#8216;post mortem distribution.'&#8221; 
So here we have &#8220;ante-mortem&#8221; samples, or pre-death samples of Floyd&#8217;s blood. That means they were taken before the effects of Floyd&#8217;s death could impact the samples.
And the <a href="https://x.com/fentasyl/status/1825656873019650417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">autopsy report</a> also confirms that Floyd&#8217;s samples are &#8220;ante-mortem.&#8221; 
It reads, &#8220;testing performed on antemortem blood specimens collected 5/25/20 at 9:00 p.m. &#8230; Fentanyl 11 nanograms per milliliter.&#8221; This couldn&#8217;t be any more clear. These are pre-mortem samples, according to the prosecution&#8217;s own records.
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Now, you might be asking what&#8217;s the big deal — who cares if Floyd&#8217;s blood was collected before his death, or after it? As it turns out, the distinction is extremely significant. After death, fentanyl concentrations in the bodies of overdose victims are dramatically higher than they are before death. It&#8217;s a difference of up to 900% within eight hours of death. That&#8217;s because when you die, blood stops pumping, so blood concentrations change.
So what the prosecution did, in effect, was compare Floyd&#8217;s fentanyl levels before this massive spike with the fentanyl levels of overdose victims after this massive spike. Of course, Floyd&#8217;s levels were lower. And based on this apples-to-oranges comparison, the prosecutors convinced the jury that Floyd&#8217;s death had nothing to do with fentanyl. 
In other words, when he arrived at the hospital Floyd had a level of fentanyl in his blood that was consistent with an overdose victim, when his pre-mortem blood was tested. In fact, Floyd&#8217;s levels of fentanyl were more than two times the average lethal level that you see in fentanyl overdoses. But the prosecution hid this fact from the jury, by presenting these blood samples as &#8220;post-mortem.&#8221; They compared Floyd&#8217;s numbers with other people who had been dead for several hours. 
It&#8217;s impossible to overstate the significance of this deception. This was the crux of the prosecution&#8217;s entire argument. They hit it again and again, including during closing arguments. 
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Again, he&#8217;s showing the chart with the false information, presenting the numbers as post-mortem. And then at the end of that clip, the prosecutor claims that Floyd had built up a &#8220;tolerance&#8221; to fentanyl — implying that because he had overdosed before, his body could handle a high concentration of the drug.
But that was never proven at trial, either. We know that George Floyd had used fentanyl several times before. He even overdosed just months before his death, resulting in his hospitalization. But that&#8217;s very different from saying that Floyd was somehow immune to the fatal effects of a fentanyl overdose, which was never demonstrated at trial because it&#8217;s impossible. 
The other major problem here is that the prosecution&#8217;s witness testified that Floyd died on the street, which seems incompatible with the idea that pre-death blood samples were later collected in the hospital
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This whole trial was full of incidents like this. There was the fact that Floyd&#8217;s suspected drug dealer wasn&#8217;t prosecuted, which allowed him to take the Fifth and avoid testifying about the drugs in Floyd&#8217;s possession. There was the prosecuting attorney who was allegedly <a href="https://alphanews.org/appeals-court-revises-lawsuit-of-prosecutor-who-objected-to-charging-decisions-in-george-floyd-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> with professional consequences for refusing to add charges against Chauvin. There was testimony from Andrew Baker, who admitted under cross-examination that Chauvin&#8217;s knee did not cut off Floyd&#8217;s airway. There was that <a href="https://x.com/gregg_re/status/1715582463915733334" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the judge in the case, saying every case is about &#8220;racial justice.&#8221; There was the fact that the prosecution tried to hide the tape of George Floyd saying &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; when he was still in the squad car — and Chauvin&#8217;s knee was nowhere near his neck.
In 2024, there would be a chance that a jury would see through all of this corruption, and vote to acquit Derek Chauvin. But in 2021, Chauvin was never going to receive a fair trial. The threat of violence by BLM was too real. Propaganda from corporate media was still believable to millions of Americans, in part because all social media was censored. And Democrats had far too much political power. 
None of that&#8217;s true anymore. That&#8217;s why Daniel Penny was just acquitted. And it&#8217;s why, if he&#8217;s granted the new trial he clearly deserves, Derek Chauvin will be acquitted too.

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Why Derek Chauvin Deserves A New Trial (And Will Win It)

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Conservative media group PragerU released an <a href="https://x.com/prageru/status/1848922785172586969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already-viral</a> short documentary on Wednesday digging into the repercussions of policies and attitudes promoted by far-Left activist group Black Lives Matter.
Notably, the film, &#8220;<a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/their-lives-mattered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Their Lives Mattered: The Forgotten Victims of Crime in America</a>,&#8221; is presented by a former BLM activist, Xaviaer DuRousseau.
In &#8220;Their Lives Mattered,&#8221; DuRousseau speaks to the families of innocent children who were slain in inner cities, crime experts, and activists to understand the heartbreaking cost of BLM-supported policies.
&#8220;I was a Black Lives Matter activist,&#8221; DuRousseau says in the opening of the film, as shown in the teaser clip, below. &#8220;I was initially drawn to BLM because the media convinced me that thousands of black people were being shot and killed by racist white police officers.&#8221;
&#8220;The &#8216;fiery but mostly peaceful&#8217; protests made me rethink my perspective,&#8221; DuRousseau continues, referring to a CNN description of a destructive BLM protest. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t make sense to me why black rioters would loot and destroy their own communities in the name of racial justice, and why the media only cared about the loss of black life when the perpetrator was white.&#8221;
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Happy Gregg, a woman who lost her four-year-old son MJ to apparent gang violence in Chicago, told DuRousseau that not a single person has been prosecuted for the killing.
&#8220;When my son was murdered, I thought there would be outrage, and that justice was going to be swift,&#8221; Gregg said. &#8220;But I realized, there&#8217;s no outrage; I&#8217;m gonna have to be that outrage, I&#8217;m gonna have to be that voice for my baby.&#8221;
&#8220;No one even knows that a four-year-old was murdered, because there&#8217;s a lot of people murdered. Like, &#8216;get in line&#8217; is almost the tone of it, here,&#8221; the mother said. &#8220;Through that, I realized that a lot of children had been murdered. And I had no idea.&#8221;
The same weekend MJ was killed, seven other children were also killed in Chicago. There was no city-wide, let alone nationwide, protest, like the media helped drum up for the death of George Floyd.
DuRousseau also spoke to a man named Nathan Wallace, who lost his seven-year-old daughter Natalia to gang violence in Chicago. One man speaking alongside Wallace following the crime, posed, &#8220;If black lives don&#8217;t matter to us, how the hell is it supposed to matter to anybody else?&#8221;
Others in the documentary, including Manhattan Institute senior fellow Rafael Mangual and STAND founder Bishop E.W. Jackson, help to shed light on crime statistics often ignored in the media and the policies and activism behind increased crime.
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Ex-BLM activist <a href="https://twitter.com/XAVIAERD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@XAVIAERD</a> exposes how innocent kids become victims of violent crime, de-policing, and lenient district attorneys.
Do our leaders care that inner-city children are being killed?
Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheirLivesMattered?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheirLivesMattered</a> NOW on PragerU: <a href="https://t.co/qhVfrxvyo9">https://t.co/qhVfrxvyo9</a>
— PragerU (@prageru) <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1848922785172586969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/their-lives-mattered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">You can view the full mini-doc, here.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-analysis-corporate-america-has-donated-82-billion-to-blm-related-causes-so-far" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Analysis: Corporate America Has Donated $82 Billion To BLM-Related Causes So Far</a>

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Former President Donald Trump told Fox News host Greg Gutfeld that he’s only ever personally spoken with Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) — the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate — one time.
Trump explained during a Wednesday night appearance on “Gutfeld!” that Walz had called him during the George Floyd riots in 2020, asking for help when he found his home surrounded by protesters.
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President Trump says that the only time he has ever spoken to Timothy Walz was when he became scared when a group of protesters with American flags surrounded the Minnesota Governor&#39;s mansion and asked President Trump to save him.😂 <a href="https://t.co/cWHHVgDbBe">pic.twitter.com/cWHHVgDbBe</a>
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“Walz is a strange dude,” Gutfeld remarked, and when Trump agreed, Gutfeld continued, “Him and I are the same age. How does he look so much younger?”
“He’s a strange guy,” Trump repeated. “You know, he called up years ago, I was in the White House, and he said, ‘My house is being surrounded by people with American flags.’ I said, ‘Is that a good thing or a bad thing?’”
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”He said, ‘I think they’re going to attack me,’” Trump continued. “This was during the riots and everything else. They were MAGA people, you know, they like the American flag, all right. And they also like Trump — I said, ‘How do you know?’ … he said, ‘Could you put out a word, like that I&#8217;m your friend?’”
”I don’t even know him,” Trump said then, admitting that he had posted something nice about Walz then anyway just because he didn’t want to see anything bad happen to him.
“And if you look back long ago …” Trump said he had tweeted something about Walz being a good guy. “‘He’s a good man, the governor, he’s on our side,’ I don’t know him but I didn’t want him to get hurt. And everybody put down their flags and they left, and he said it was a miracle. I didn’t want him to get hurt.”
“Scared by the American flag,” Gutfeld joked.
Trump added that he had told Walz they weren’t going to be violent if they were carrying the American flag but that the governor had been nervous anyway.

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ferguson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ferguson</a> police officer suffered a serious brain injury and is still fighting for his life after protests on Friday, marking the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown&#8217;s death, devolved into a violent riot.
Travis Brown, a 36-year-old father of two, was knocked to the ground by a protester later identified as Elijah Gantt, 28. Brown was unconscious at the scene, and Gantt was still on top of him when other officers pulled him off and attempted to aid the fallen officer.
According to a Wednesday <a href="https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/injured-ferguson-police-officer-travis-brown-family-statement-recovery/63-3ff96079-ade7-416a-b141-da6126a89b01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from local NBC News affiliate KSDK, Brown&#8217;s family has released a statement on his current condition, which read in part:
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On the early morning of Saturday, August 10, 2024, our beloved, Officer Travis Brown, suffered a serious physical injury while performing his tour of duty. He is currently in critical condition, surrounded by his loved ones, as he bravely fights for his life. We are holding onto hope and trusting in the power of faith to see him through this difficult time. 
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Travis is more than a police officer; he is a devoted father, son, brother, uncle, godfather, and friend. A man of strong faith, his heart is as big as his smile, and his positive energy is truly contagious. TJ is also an athlete, an adventurer, a lover of movies, and so much more. We know he is determined to continue living life to the fullest once he has recovered. 
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They concluded the statement by asking for continued prayers as they wait to see whether Brown is able to recover from the injury.
Former St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch, who hired Brown in 2012 and worked with him for two years, <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/14/us-news/injured-ferguson-cop-travis-brown-is-a-father-of-two-with-an-infectious-smile/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wished Brown well</a> and spoke very highly of him.
&#8220;I remember well when I was commissioning him and having given his oath of office, he had a family member pin his badge on. I just remember the big smile on his face, and I thought, ‘Boy, this guy’s got one of those contagious kind of smiles,'&#8221; Fitch said. &#8220;There’s a lot of raw emotion about whether or not he’s going to be able to beat this and survive. And if he does, is he going to ever be able to come back to work? He was very ambitious. It didn’t take him long to get into a specialized unit. He was in a couple.&#8221;
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Fitch shared the family&#8217;s official fundraising page as well, asking family and friends to donate what they could in an effort to aid Brown&#8217;s recovery.
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It&#8217;s my birthday &amp; I&#8217;d love it if we can celebrate by helping TJ! It was my pleasure to hire him in 2012.
Officer Travis (TJ) Brown is in critical condition after a tragic injury. Please help lessen his family&#8217;s financial burden by donating and sharing. <a href="https://t.co/alzWhCN8ck">https://t.co/alzWhCN8ck</a>
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The community has also rallied around Brown, gathering to pray for him and his family after he was hurt.
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Huge crowd turns out to pray for injured Ferguson police officer Travis Brown <a href="https://t.co/0PSFInrmZl">https://t.co/0PSFInrmZl</a>
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A brief trip back to my native Britain the other week was a depressing experience.
There has been widespread rioting in cities across England following the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-a-dozen-people-mostly-children-stabbed-by-17-year-old-male-in-u-k-multiple-fatalities-reported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder</a> of three young girls in Southport at a Taylor Swift dance class.
A large number of Brits, I think it is fair to say, are extremely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/people-have-finally-had-enough-of-the-illegal-immigration-takeover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agitated</a> about uncontrolled (often illegal) immigration. Tens of thousands of migrants have been allowed to flood into the country on small dinghies from France. 1 in 27 people now living in Britain arrived in the past two years. 4 in 10 foreign-born people in Britain have arrived in the past decade. 
There is a palpable sense that nothing in Britain runs the way it should, least of all the criminal justice system.
The number of <a href="https://rapecrisis.org.uk/get-informed/statistics-sexual-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded rapes</a> in England and Wales in 2023-24 was three times higher than in 2013-14. A recent investigation discovered that across much of the country, the police had not identified a single suspect for neighborhood crimes over the previous three years. Only a few weeks before the unrest erupted, the authorities announced that even violent offenders would be released from prison after serving a mere 40 percent of their sentences.
Then came the riots, and the authorities suddenly discovered that it is possible to arrest and prosecute criminals after all. Prosecutions that would normally take months to come to court were undertaken within a few days. That, plus the return of British rain, seems to have dampened the spirits of the troublemakers.
Instead of clamping down on immigration, or addressing some of the underlying concerns about Muslim integration (or lack thereof), the authorities seem to find it easier to clamp down on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-uks-orwellian-crackdown-on-free-speech-could-be-headed-our-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free speech</a>, prosecuting people for obnoxious opinions about either immigrants or Muslims expressed online.
The most senior official in charge of public prosecutions in Britain declared that he has a team of “dedicated police officers scouring social media” to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uk-police-chief-suggests-he-would-arrest-americans-for-highlighting-british-riots-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrest people</a> for posting things that are “insulting” or “abusive”. He even threatened to extradite people to the UK for sharing such material online.
All of this has helped contribute to the now widely held idea that Britain has a “two tier” criminal justice system.
Having cheerfully announced that they would be letting violent criminals out of prison after completing less than half their sentences a few weeks before, the authorities now threaten people with jail time for expressing idiotic views. In Cheshire, the police boasted of arresting a woman for what they called “an inaccurate social media post”.
In order to fully understand why Britain is in such a sorry state it is essential to appreciate what has gone wrong with the country’s judiciary.
Mass immigration has become an explosive issue in Britain because judges have routinely thwarted attempts by successive governments to control it. In 2010, 2015, 2017 and 2019, Brits voted repeatedly to end mass immigration. It has not happened because judges have systematically prevented elected governments from controlling the country’s borders.
British judges only ever seem to rule in favor of those who enter the country illegally being able to remain, ruling on the basis of what they think the law should be, not the laws Parliament has passed. 
  
Britain, a once orderly, high-trust society has become increasingly lawless because judges have routinely failed to apply sentences that ordinary Brits would regard as just. It is so commonplace for violent robbers and rapists to be given community sentences, rather than go to prison, it is seldom even reported anymore.
Why are British judges so awful? Because they are unaccountable to the public.
In Britain, judges are appointed, not elected. Until 2006, at least the appointments were made by an elected minister, meaning there was a degree of democratic oversight. 
  
Since 2006, Britain’s judges have been appointed by the Judicial Appointments Commission, a body obsessed about diversity, equity and inclusion, rather than justice. Thanks to Human Rights law, judges are not merely unaccountable. They regard judicial activism as part of their job.
Liberty and order in Britain are collapsing as a consequence.
At some point, we must all hope a new Margaret Thatcher emerges in Britain, someone with the vision and principle to save the country from decline. On its current trajectory, Britain is drifting towards the abyss of a sectarian society.
In 2001, there were one and a half million Muslims in Britain. Today there are 4 million. If even a small percentage of British Muslims adhere to the Islamist teachings of Sayyid Qutb, the Egyptian father of modern violent jihad, the country has a massive problem. Far from addressing the problem, right now Britain is a country that cannot even talk about the fact that it might have a problem.
Any new Thatcher must, as she did, address an underlying British economic malaise. Thanks to net zero energy policies, extraordinary restrictive regulations, high taxes and excessive public spending, the UK has had remarkably little per capita growth over the past decade.
But far more important than fixing the economy, Britain needs a state machinery capable of addressing issues of culture and cohesion. Old assumptions, and long established precedents governing citizenship, will need to change.
For that to happen, the next Thatcher needs to recognize that much of the machinery of the British state is dysfunctional. Reform is overdue.
Judges need to come under some sort of democratic oversight. Senior civil servants must no longer be afforded the luxury of deciding whether to implement policies that clash with their preferences. Those elected to Parliament, not unelected officials, need to be able to decide if the country can afford to cut taxes.
Britain can only be pulled back from the brink by a leader that recognizes that it is time to treat the judiciary and the administrative state as Thatcher once treated the trade unions.
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Douglas Carswell is the President and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy. He was previously a Member of Parliament for 12 years and never lost an election.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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The following is a transcript excerpt from Dr. Jordan Peterson’s interview, alongside his wife Tammy, with British activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/dw-tommy-robinson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tommy Robinson</a>. In this segment, Robinson explains his unlikely beginning as an activist and shares his firsthand, eyewitness account of atrocities committed against innocent civilians that the media refused to cover. For more from Dr. Peterson, see his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/jordan-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extensive catalog</a> available on DailyWire+.
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Tommy Robinson: In all honesty, I didn&#8217;t want to do this. I didn&#8217;t want to be the person. I wanted to take a stand, but I didn&#8217;t want to. I wanted to be successful in business. I wanted to make money. My passion was making money. I was good at it. We were doing well as a family. But I wanted someone to speak about it.
Jordan B. Peterson: Do you know the parable of the rich man?
Robinson: No. What&#8217;s that?
Peterson: Well, it is a Gospel story. I&#8217;m going to tell it because I see the problem that you are in. There is a scene in the Gospels where Christ is traveling in a cart, and a rich prince jumps in to accompany him, and he tells Christ that he&#8217;s done everything he should do in his life to be a moral person. He has followed the commandments, he honors his parents, and so on. But he is still dissatisfied deep in his soul, and Christ asks him about his situation. He tells Christ he&#8217;s rich, that he has all these concerns going, and Jesus says to him, I&#8217;m afraid you&#8217;re going to have to sell everything you own and follow me. And the disciples are shorted right out by this, and they say, if that is the cost of salvation, who is going to pay that?
I was thinking about that and the story of Jonah at the same time when you were talking because Jonah is called upon by God to speak the truth, and he just heads in the other direction. He thinks exactly like you thought: I don&#8217;t think so. Who would do that? Who wants to do that?
But that still does not quite answer the question; you said that you are caught, right? You are pulled because, on the one hand, you want to have your life and you want to be successful; on the other hand, you want to tell the truth. So the name was a compromise between that.
Robinson: I wore a mask for a year. Almost no one knew who I was for a year.
Peterson: So looking back on that now, do you think that was a mistake that you made to protect your life and your enterprise? I am not saying that was not justifiable because there is a price, obviously, for anonymity. There is a price for not being public. It breeds suspicion, for example. What do you think about that?
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Robinson: So I think the best thing that ever happened was when I got unmasked — the best. It was. Not for me. I was terrified. So there was a Times newspaper reporter called Stephen Bird, and I&#8217;d been hiding for a year. I&#8217;m talking about all these issues secretly on radios, and I&#8217;m giving the name Tommy Robinson, and I&#8217;m turning up to demonstrations with a mask on my face. No one saw my face, so no one knew who I was. So there was lots of confusion. Who is this guy? No one knew. 
And then a Times newspaper journalist turned up at my mum&#8217;s house and said, “Where’s Stephen?” And my mum rang me and said, “There&#8217;s a journalist here looking for you.” And I knew then, ok, this is it. And I went to meet the journalist and he said, “You&#8217;re on the front page of the Times newspaper tomorrow, Stephen. Your life changes tomorrow.” And I was terrified, if I&#8217;m honest. Absolutely terrified. Because then I was nationally known at this point. 
So, we set up United People of Luton, and then after our second protest where we got to the War Memorial, we put the video online. And this Islamic group of jihadists, they held an Islamic roadshow in Birmingham. And they had a big banner that said, “Jesus was a Muslim,” and there&#8217;s hundreds of them. They stop a young 11-year-old white Christian boy called Sean in the shopping center who&#8217;s with his friend, and they get him up on stage and they convert him to Islam. As they convert him to Islam, they&#8217;re all cheering “Allahu Akbar.” And I watched it then from Luton and said, “No, they can&#8217;t do this. That cannot be allowed to happen in a city center for a child.” So I said, “All right lads,” to the lads from Luton, “we&#8217;re going to Birmingham. We&#8217;re going to move this from Luton. This isn&#8217;t a Luton issue. This is a national issue.”
We went to Birmingham, and we formed the English Defence League. And that&#8217;s where the name English Defence League come from. Now, when we went to Birmingham, we went as a group of 50 — 50 men from Luton. We got violently battered. This is where my first awakening to the media come. So, there&#8217;s a picture up. (This boy wasn’t with us.) There’s a young English boy at a bus stop with a green top on and gangs of Muslims just come from everywhere. They battered everyone. And there&#8217;s a picture in the national newspaper, and they&#8217;re jumping on this boy&#8217;s head. And underneath the picture, it says, “A fascist is attacked by anti-fascists.” 
I&#8217;m looking at it, and I remember I had an awakening to everything because I went from working on a building site to six months later leading the biggest protest movement in Europe’s scene. And when we went to Birmingham as a group of 50, we had English Defence League tops on, and it said, “Luton Division,” the name of our town. And these images went everywhere, of English men getting chased and beaten. So this was Birmingham, and our first banner said, “Victims of Jihad in Nigeria. We stand with you,” because obviously, I was down the rabbit hole.
I was seeing on Christmas Day, five [Nigerian] Christian churches were blown to pieces. Didn’t make the BBC news. I was following all these stories around the world of Christians facing persecution at the hands of jihad. No one cared. So we went to Birmingham before, [saying,] “Let’s highlight a lot of issues here. Let&#8217;s make this a point.” And we had banners. We had placards, but we got violently —  The police had to lock us in a building for two hours because they couldn&#8217;t control the streets. Then they got buses and put us on the buses to get us out of there, and all the windows were coming in. There was riots going on. 
So from this, we then went back to Luton, and then we saw a Christian church in Manchester that had been taken over by Muslims, which there’s been another video go viral just weeks ago. Similar situation. It was in the area of Longsight, and they were bulldozing over a Christian graveyard, graves and headstones. So, I was watching it going, they can&#8217;t do this. How come no one&#8217;s talking about this in the town? Where&#8217;s the local political voice? Where&#8217;s the politicians?
Now, we went from a group of 50 men in Birmingham being violently beaten, to going on all the messaging boards of English football clubs, then turned up in Manchester, and when we got there, there was thousands of young Englishmen had come from everywhere. And from the start, because of the violence in Birmingham, the men had come with an attitude of, “No, we&#8217;re not backing down.” So that was sort of the start and the birth of the English Defence League, which every city you went to, there was a justified reason for going there, but no one ever spoke about that. 
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And then I realized very quickly that everything I&#8217;d seen in Luton, everything I talked about in Luton, was happening in every town and city. So then I started meeting families; their daughters were missing for weeks, and then I started hearing all these stories. And it&#8217;s one thing to read about grooming, and that&#8217;s why I made a five-part series — the one you talked about that you watched — because you don&#8217;t get to feel the pain. I&#8217;m sitting with a mother, a father, and a brother who&#8217;s 13-year-old daughter has been missing for five days, and the police are doing nothing. 
I remember going on big chat shows in 2009. Jeremy Paxman was the most feared BBC presenter, and he had a show called Newsnight. And when I went on, everyone was all our opposition at the time, and I was terrified again. And it was the first time my mum— So my family had been crying since the time I started my activism because my mum was threatened of her job. There was violence, police raids, terrorist plots. So my family were begging me and begging me to stop. And I went on this Jeremy Paxman show. And I said to him, “I don&#8217;t expect you to understand, but I expect you to listen. Our daughters are being taken. They&#8217;re being groomed; they&#8217;re being raped. They&#8217;re being prostituted in every town and city.” And he said, “You expect us to believe…” And it hasn&#8217;t aged well for him at all. Because in the early days, we were condemned as fabricating stories and making this up. So you understand the level where I&#8217;m at.
With the father from Blackpool, the gang took his daughter. The father and the son would ring the phone, and he&#8217;d have to listen while they were raping his daughter. So, we go across the country — and I&#8217;ve done a presentation called “The Rape of Britain,” as well as documentaries — and I go back to us marching through Telford. And now, the arrest rates for these crimes, if you do a graph, there&#8217;s none. The English Defence League forms in 2009. By 2010 and 2011, the arrests are going through the roof. We didn&#8217;t expect any credit for it or any recognition for it, but the government were then faced with something they knew was going on.
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The views expressed in this interview are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Wire.

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The wife of Democrat VP-pick Tim Walz said during an interview in 2020 that she kept her windows open for as long as she could so she could smell the burning of tires rioters set on fire during the Minneapolis-area riots in response to the death of George Floyd.
During the 2020 riots, cities like Minneapolis burned, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">costing</a> hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. Gov. Walz has been criticized for his slow response to the destruction and violence by the left-wing protesters.
&#8220;We had more sleepless nights during the riots,&#8221; Gwen Walz <a href="https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/minnesota-first-lady-gwen-walz-opens-up-about-covid-19-decisions-aftermath-of-george-floyds-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> an ABC News affiliate back in July 2020. &#8220;I could smell the burning tires, and that was a very real thing. I kept the windows open as long as I could because I felt like that was such a touchstone of what was happening.&#8221;
The clip of Gwen&#8217;s comments has gone viral in the wake of VP Kamala Harris choosing Walz as her running mate.
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1820889705510240286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> on the clip, writing, &#8220;Everything you need to know about leftist elites can be found in this short clip. Tim Walz’s wife sat by the window enjoying the smell of poor neighborhoods burning during the Floyd riots. She did everything but pull out a fiddle.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Everything you need to know about leftist elites can be found in this short clip. Tim Walz’s wife sat by the window enjoying the smell of poor neighborhoods burning during the Floyd riots. She did everything but pull out a fiddle.
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— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1820889705510240286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
Notably, Walz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walz-shifted-blame-to-city-leaders-for-abject-failure-in-response-to-2020-minneapolis-riots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> in the spring of 2020 that there was an “abject failure” in the response to the rioters who burned businesses and a police precinct.
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“Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire,&#8221; Walz <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walz-shifted-blame-to-city-leaders-for-abject-failure-in-response-to-2020-minneapolis-riots">said</a> during a press conference. &#8220;The fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard.&#8221;
He added that he received a call from a state senator who told him that her district was “on fire, no police, no firefighters, no social control, constituents locked in houses wondering what they were going to do.”
“That is an abject failure that cannot happen,” Walz said
Zach Jewell contributed to this report 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-did-it-he-dropped-out-vance-blasts-walz-for-ducking-combat-in-iraq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘I Did It … He Dropped Out’: Vance Blasts Walz For Ducking Combat In Iraq</a>

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz with his wife Gwen Walz

WATCH: Walz’s Wife Said She Kept Windows Open To Smell ‘Burning Tires’ During George Floyd Riots

WATCH: Walz’s Wife, Gwen Walz, Said She Kept Windows Open To Smell ‘Burning Tires’ During George Floyd Riots 

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Kamala Harris&#8217;s pick as her vice-presidential candidate is Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
I am delighted.
There are many reasons I am pleased about this, the biggest being that the mask is off.
Harris has been attempting to present herself as a moderate. She keeps switching all of her positions. She sends out her surrogates to pretend she doesn&#8217;t hold the positions now that she held four years ago.
But now, we can openly see that is false. All she wants is to please her radical base. She is absolutely ignoring the moderate votes she needs to win in order to please a base of people who are radical. She has opened herself up wide to every attack on her radicalism by picking Walz.
There was another pick that was available, someone everyone expected she would pick: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
Pennsylvania has 18 electoral votes. Shapiro has a 61% approval rating in Pennsylvania. It would have been a very easy pick — a super, super, simple pick — for Kamala Harris.
We know why she didn&#8217;t pick Shapiro: because he&#8217;s a Jew.
It&#8217;s that simple. Everyone knows this. Democrats know this. Republicans know this.
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Before we even get to the insanity of picking Tim Walz, understanding the insanity of not picking Shapiro is critical. I’m delighted today because Shapiro is a very talented politician; he has portrayed himself successfully in Pennsylvania, a purple state, as a moderate, getting the approval of six in 10 voters in a swing state.
But Harris overlooked him because she didn&#8217;t want to anger her pro-Hamas base. It is that simple. She has too many radicals in her base who don&#8217;t want the Jew. Shapiro is a semi-observant Jew who had expressed his Zionist bona fides, and this was very bad. This could not be accepted.
In fact, in expectation of possibly being picked by Harris, Shapiro had already started to moderate his positions on Israel in an attempt to please the Democrats’ pro-Hamas base. Back when he was 20, he wrote a piece that said something perfectly obvious: There would be no Palestinian state because the Palestinians are far too radicalized and want the destruction of the state of Israel.
But over the course of the last three days, he tried to walk that back. He basically tried to say, “Well, I don&#8217;t believe that anymore. I believe in a two-state solution.”
Even some Democrats admitted Harris didn’t pick Shapiro because he is a Jew. Jared Moskowitz from Florida <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4812605-jewish-democrats-josh-shapiro/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CJosh's%20position%20on%20Israel%20is,D%2DFla.)%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “Josh&#8217;s position on Israel is almost identical to everybody else, but he&#8217;s being held to a different standard. So you have to ask yourself why.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4813622-speaker-johnson-shapiro-overlooked-harris/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIt%20has%20been%20very%20noticeable,before%20Harris's%20pick%20became%20public." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “It has been very noticeable that of all of the people that she is carefully considering, that the only Jewish candidate is getting excruciating, very specific scrutiny, particularly around his positions on Israel.”
House Democrat Jake Auchincloss from Massachusetts <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4811297-shapiro-vp-criticism-undercurrent-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it was pretty obvious that Democrats were attacking Shapiro based on the fact he is a Jew.
This is great. And the reason it&#8217;s great is because clarity is a good thing. I&#8217;m very pleased by the fact the Democratic Party has been so clear on this: They can have somebody who is at least titularly pro-Israel in Tim Walz — so long as he’s not a Jew.
It&#8217;s the Jew from the swing state — who Harris needs to win and is currently running in a dead heat with Trump — who could not be picked for one simple reason.
Much is unveiled by the Tim Walz pick. Number one, the Democrats can&#8217;t have a Jew. Number two, Harris is a full-scale radical.
Remember, Walz is Bernie Sanders from Minnesota. He&#8217;s Bernie Sanders with the Fargo accent. A radical leftist.
The pick is mind-bogglingly stupid; that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m so excited about it. The first rule of a vice presidential pick is do-no-harm — to yourself. Harris also could have picked a governor from a popular swing state, such as Governor Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan.
Kamala Harris is always Kamala Harris. Obnoxious, arrogant, radical, stupid. This is a stupid campaign move, a full-scale, full-stop, stupid campaign move by Kamala Harris.
Ask me if anti-Semitism is bad, and the answer is yes. But you know what is worse?
Lies. 
And it is a lie that the Democratic Party is not full-scale comfortable with anti-Semitism. It is a lie that Kamala Harris is a moderate.
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Here’s the Democratic ticket: a woman who favored bailing out Black Lives Matter rioters and a governor who let those Black Lives Matter rioters completely wreck Minneapolis.
Walz acknowledged the “abject failure” of his response to the violent protests that burned down the city of Minneapolis. The city looked like a war zone because Walz, among other Democratic politicians in the state of Minnesota, decided it was absolutely necessary to allow rioters to burn down streets, loot stores, shoot people in the name of racial justice, take over police stations, and tear apart the city.
He <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walz-shifted-blame-to-city-leaders-for-abject-failure-in-response-to-2020-minneapolis-riots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “Minneapolis and St. Paul are on fire. The fire is still smoldering in our streets. The ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of pain, of anguish unheard.”
Poetic language about people burning down the biggest city in his state. Well done, Tim Walz.
He <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/watch-live-minnesota-gov-tim-walz-holds-presser-amid-protests-over-george-floyd-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intoned</a>, “These are things that have been brewing in this country for 400 years.” He reluctantly said, “We can&#8217;t have the looting and the recklessness,” but he didn’t send the National Guard until the city had basically been taken over and destroyed.
Walz wants driver&#8217;s licenses for illegal immigrants in the state of Minnesota. He wants restoration of voting rights for felons.
You cannot find a person who is more radical than Tim Walz.
One week ago, on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/simping-for-kamala" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Dudes for Harris</a> Zoom call, Walz <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/08/06/gov_tim_walz_on_white_dudes_for_kamala_harris_call_one_persons_socialism_is_another_persons_neighborliness.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “One person’s socialism is another person&#8217;s neighborliness.”
That would come as a shock to anyone who used to live in Cuba, where socialism was another word for “your neighbor comes and shoots you in the face.” 
The fact that Harris picked Walz is such a gift to Trump.
He should run ads with Harris and Walz’s records all day long.
They are the most radical ticket in American history — by far.

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Three little girls, aged six to nine, were stabbed to death while attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance party in a small seaside town in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a> on July 29.
The suspect, Axel Rudakubana, who is just shy of his 18th birthday, is accused of entering a pregnancy center in Southport, England, and stabbing nearly a dozen children and two adults. Bebe King, 6; Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7; and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, died as a result of their injuries, Sky News <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/boy-17-charged-after-three-girls-killed-in-southport-stabbing-attack-13188115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Five more children were critically injured, local news outlet Echo <a href="https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/what-know-southport-stabbing-suspect-29639493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, along with two adults who had stepped in to protect the children.
In the wake of the stabbing, the suspect was falsely accused of being a Muslim asylum seeker, even though he was born in Cardiff, Wales, and moved to Lancashire, England. The belief that an asylum seeker committed the vicious attack led to riots against the influx of immigrants across Britain.
The response to the original murders has outweighed coverage of the crime itself, with media and politicians in the U.K. calling the rioters “far right,” “<a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/watch-rioting-southport-thug-bricks-33362943" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thugs</a>,” and “<a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/counter-protests-planned-this-weekend-following-surge-of-far-right-riots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hooligans</a>.” There are, indeed, extremists amongst the rioters targeting mosques and Muslims. It is also true that a distrust of illegal immigration has been simmering amongst the British people for some time, and has finally erupted.
In Rotherham, for example, rioters smashed the windows of a hotel being used to house asylum seekers and attacked police, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna165116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
There have also been Muslim counter-protests, The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/04/far-right-and-muslims-clash-fresh-riots-bolton/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, which have resulted in additional violence. Footage <a href="https://twitter.com/darrengrimes_/status/1819765192009433375" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on social media</a> has shown groups of Muslims carrying weapons, and the Telegraph reported groups in Bolton shouted “Allahu Akbar” as they fought anti-immigration rioters.
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has been in office for barely a month, has condemned the immigration riots and threatened to &#8220;do whatever it takes to bring these thugs to justice,&#8221; CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-condemns-far-right-violence-stabbing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
&#8220;I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder, whether directly or those whipping up this action online and then running away themselves,&#8221; he added, according to the outlet. &#8220;This is not a protest, it is organized, violent thuggery and it has no place on our streets or online.&#8221;
This is in stark contrast to what Starmer said several years ago, following the death of Minneapolis, Minnesota, resident George Floyd by a police officer, when Starmer said: “Like you I was shocked and angered at the killing of George Floyd and the response of President Trump and the U.S. authorities to the peaceful protest.” Starmer also posted <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/black-lives-matter-keir-starmer-labour-take-knee-george-floyd-funeral-a9557166.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a photo</a> of himself taking a knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, which resulted in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billions of dollars of damage</a> and the deaths of numerous people, including retired police Captain David Dorn, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/retired-police-captain-was-murdered-while-protecting-his-friends-pawn-shop-during-riots-widow-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who was murdered</a> while protecting his friend’s pawn shop from looters and rioters.

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