Bill Clinton&#8217;s former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, 76, says he knows a few things about aging and declares that President Joe Biden should not run for office again in 2024.
&#8220;It’s not death that’s the worrying thing about a second Biden term,&#8221; Reich wrote in an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/17/as-a-76-year-old-let-me-say-joe-biden-is-too-old-to-run-again">op-ed</a> in The Guardian about the 79-year-old commander-in-chief. &#8220;It’s the dwindling capacities that go with aging.&#8221;
The op-ed was bluntly titled, &#8220;As a 76-year-old let me say: Joe Biden is too old to run again.&#8221;
Biden would be 82 years old to begin his second term if he runs and wins in 2024, and while Reich said Biden appears to be holding up, as we age, we lose energy and memory.
&#8220;I often can’t remember where I put my wallet and keys. Certain proper nouns have disappeared altogether. Even when rediscovered, they have a diabolical way of disappearing again,&#8221; the Democrat wrote.
&#8220;Biden’s secret service detail can worry about his wallet, and he’s got a teleprompter for wayward nouns, but I’m sure he’s experiencing some diminution in the memory department,&#8221; Reich wrote. &#8220;I’m also noticing less patience, perhaps because of an unconscious &#8216;use by&#8217; timer now clicking away. I’m less tolerant of long waiting lines, automated phone menus, and Republicans.&#8221;
&#8220;How the hell does Biden maintain tact or patience when he has to deal with Joe Manchin?&#8221; Reich joked about the West Virginia Democrat Biden has clashed with often.
Reich spread around some condemnation at the end of his piece, declaring members of his generation &#8212; &#8220;including Bill and Hillary, George [W.] Trump, Newt Gingrich, Clarence Thomas, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and Biden&#8221; had &#8220;f***ed it up royally. The world will probably be better without us.&#8221;
His final line was, &#8220;Joe, please don’t run.&#8221;
Others have questioned Biden&#8217;s cognitive ability, including a former White House doctor during the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations.
Rep. Ronny Jackson isn’t just a Republican member of Congress from Texas, he’s a doctor.
“I was a White House physician to three U.S. Presidents, and I can tell you something isn’t right with Joe Biden’s cognitive state,” Jackson said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RepRonnyJackson/posts/i-was-a-white-house-physician-to-three-us-presidents-and-i-can-tell-you-somethin/464395931859293/">Facebook post</a> in February. And back in June 2021, the doctor <a href="https://jackson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=173">referred</a> to “a clear decline of Biden’s cognitive ability.”
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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‘Dwindling Capacities’: Clinton’s Labor Secretary Says Biden Too Old To Run Again

Clinton's Labor Secretary Robert Reich Says Biden Too Old To Run Again

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On Thursday, after GOP senators lined up to shake the hand of Arizona Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who joined West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin to vote against the Democrats’ attempt to nuke the Senate filibuster so they could implement the extreme voting alterations of the Freedom to Vote Act, former Democratic Labor Secretary Robert Reich seemingly called for violence against Sinema, writing in a later-deleted tweet, “Tonight, Republican senators lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema&#8217;s hand. Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands.”
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Senators gather to shake Sinema’s hand <a href="https://t.co/IG68kurQiA">pic.twitter.com/IG68kurQiA</a>
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“Just last year, <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1372978329226076167">Reich scolded</a> Republicans as ‘actively opposed to ending the epidemic of violence against women in America.’ In 2020, he shared remarks from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., after she accused a House Republican of verbally accosting her. Reich urged ‘all men’ to let her message sink in about not accepting ‘violent language against women,’” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ex-labor-secretary-reich-sinema-filibuster">Fox News</a> noted.
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&quot;This issue is [about] a culture of accepting violence and violent language against women, and an entire structure of power that supports it.&quot; — <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> 
I implore all men to let this sink in, and ask yourself how you&#39;re going to upend that power structure. <a href="https://t.co/B4iUvKP35A">pic.twitter.com/B4iUvKP35A</a>
&mdash; Robert Reich (@RBReich) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1286456642461224960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Social media eviscerated Reich for his comments regarding Sinema. Some examples:
Actor James Woods, succinctly: “Big man.”
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1484232393359691776
National Review&#8217;s Charles Cooke: “‘Kyrsten Sinema is the sort of inspiring LGBT woman who must be slapped around by her party if she fails to follow the demands of a white man,’ writes @RBReich.”
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Glenn Greenwald: “What are Democrats supposed to do to Sen. Sinema with ‘the backs of their hands,’ @RBReich?”
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What are Democrats supposed to do to Sen. Sinema with &quot;the backs of their hands,&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RBReich</a>? <a href="https://t.co/XFJyU0d1Sc">pic.twitter.com/XFJyU0d1Sc</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1484177082930253838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Radio host Larry O&#8217;Connor: “No big deal. Just Democrat/Socialist icon [Robert Reich] encouraging violence against a female senator who didn&#8217;t vote the way he wanted.”
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No big deal&#8230; just Democrat/Socialist icon <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RBReich</a> encouraging violence against a female senator who didn&#39;t vote the way he wanted. <a href="https://t.co/uCbmiaRYPx">https://t.co/uCbmiaRYPx</a>
&mdash; L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1484140814473351172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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O’Connor added, “Hey little lady&#8230; if you don&#8217;t vote my way we&#8217;re just gonna have to smack you around a bit until you fall in line and do what you&#8217;re told.&#8221; &#8211;  @RBReich &#8216;s inner thoughts?”
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Hey little lady&#8230; if you don&#39;t vote my way we&#39;re just gonna have to smack you around a bit until you fall in line and do what you&#39;re told.&quot; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RBReich</a>&#39;s inner thoughts?
&mdash; L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1484141640726061059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Radio host Jason Rantz: “This is @RBReich saying Democrats should assault a female senator because the democrat party is the… champion of women. Uh huh.”
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This is <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RBReich</a> saying Democrats should assault a female senator because the democrat party is the… champion of women. Uh huh. <a href="https://t.co/glADJoRvYp">pic.twitter.com/glADJoRvYp</a>
&mdash; Jason Rantz on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1484159143447445505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Media Research Center’s Nick Fondacaro: “Hey @TwitterSupport, @RBReich is encouraging violence against a woman on your platform. Going to do anything about it?”
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Hey @TwitterSupport, <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RBReich</a> is encouraging violence against a woman on your platform. Going to do anything about it? <a href="https://t.co/9O9GtdNVTD">pic.twitter.com/9O9GtdNVTD</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1484170960282468361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Woods concluded with a tribute to Sinema:
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1484232722767699971
“The Freedom to Vote Act looks to override a number of election rules put in place by some Republican-led states and includes language to allow for same-day voter registration and no-excuse mail voting, prevent states from requiring a photo ID to vote, allow felons to vote in all states and would require super PACs and so-called “dark money groups” to disclose all donors who contribute more than $10,000,” <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/19/voting-bill-blocked-by-gop-filibuster/">The New York Post</a> noted.
“Manchin, D-W.Va., and Sinema, D-Ariz., joined all Senate Republicans in opposing the attempt to alter the Senate filibuster on party lines, resulting in a 48-52 final tally,” Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schumer-manchin-sinema-biden-senate-filibuster-democrats-voting-rights-elections">reported</a>. “That vote followed a failed attempt by Democrats to advance the election bills over the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold. All Republicans opposed it.”
Manchin said on the Senate floor Wednesday, “For the last year, my Democratic colleagues have taken to the Senate floor, cable news airwaves, pages of newspapers across the country to argue that repealing the filibuster is actually restoring the Senate to the vision the Founding Fathers intended for this deliberative body. My friends, that is simply not true. It’s just not true. The United States Senate has never, in 233 years, been able to end debate on legislation with a simple majority vote.”

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Former Dem Labor Sec Calls For Violence Against Sinema. James Woods, Others Fire Back

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On Monday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) mocked former Treasury Secretary Robert Reich, who served in the Clinton administration, after Reich proclaimed of President Biden, “It is nice to see an American president on the world stage who speaks in complete sentences.”
Crenshaw fired back, “You know who the President is right?”
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Wait. You’re saying this seriously? You know who the President is right? <a href="https://t.co/6LM1zFup0Y">https://t.co/6LM1zFup0Y</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1455260396420571139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Biden’s struggles with speaking have been noticed since at least as far back as September 2019, when the leftwing outlet <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/joe-biden-debate-answer.html">Slate</a> mocked Biden for his incoherent answer to a question at a Democratic primary debate. Biden was asked what responsibility Americans needed to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country. He replied:
<blockquote>Well, they have to deal with the … Look, there is institutional segregation in this country. And from the time I got involved, I started dealing with that. Redlining, banks, making sure that we are in a position where—
Look, we talk about education. I propose that what we take is those very poor schools, the Title 1 schools, triple the amount of money we spend from $15 to $45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise to the equal of … A raise of getting out of the $60,000 level.
No. 2, make sure that we bring in to the help with the stud—the teachers deal with the problems that come from home. The problems that come from home, we need… We have one school psychologist for every 1,500 kids in America today. It’s crazy. The teachers are required—I’m married to a teacher. My deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them.
Make sure that every single child does, in fact, have three, four, and five-year-olds go to school. School! Not day care, school. We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t want to help. They don’t know what— They don’t know what quite what to do. Play the radio. Make sure the television—excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night. The phone—make sure the kids hear words. A kid coming from a very poor school—er, a very poor background will hear 4 million words fewer spoken by the time they get there.
No, I’m going to go like the rest of them do, twice over, OK? Because here’s the deal. The deal is that we’ve got this a little backwards. And by the way, in Venezuela, we should be allowing people to come here from Venezuela. I know Maduro. I’ve confronted Maduro. No. 2, you talk about the need to do something in Latin America. I’m the guy that came up with $740 million to see to it those three countries, in fact, change their system so people don’t have to chance to leave. You’re all acting like we just discovered this yesterday! Thank you very much.</blockquote>
Slate commented: “This has been Joe Biden Answers a Question. Thank you for joining us.”
In August 2019, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/joe-biden-tells-media-words-matter-as-his-gaffes-continue-to-pile-up/#x">CBS News</a> reported, “Former Vice President Joe Biden is accusing reporters of not understanding his words on the campaign trail. It comes after the former vice-president’s latest gaffe.”
On July 4, 2021, welcoming 21 new American citizens, Biden had <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1411041203823521797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1411041203823521797%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.westernjournal.com%2Fwatch-biden-gives-completely-unintelligible-speech-newly-sworn-us-citizens%2F">this moment</a>: &#8220;Appreciate it for joining us in this service. Look, today — uh, um — today&#8217;s special guest, uh, to all of you it&#8217;s my honor to congratulate the 21 of you who for have earned the title of that our democracy in every — is equal to being president. It&#8217;s of the same consequence.”

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Clinton Treasury Sec Lauds Biden: Nice To See President Who ‘Speaks In Complete Sentences.’ Crenshaw Fires, ‘You Know Who The President Is Right?’

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Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich on Saturday called for the creation of a truth and reconciliation commission to &#8220;erase Trump&#8217;s lies&#8221; and expose those who &#8220;enabled&#8221; them.
&#8220;When this nightmare is over, we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission,&#8221; Reich tweeted. &#8220;It would erase Trump’s lies, comfort those who have been harmed by his hatefulness, and name every official, politician, executive, and media mogul whose greed and cowardice enabled this catastrophe.&#8221;
After <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1317614803704115200/retweets/with_comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he took flak</a> from those accusing him of promoting totalitarianism, Reich appended a link to an article from <a href="https://theconversation.com/do-truth-and-reconciliation-commissions-heal-divided-nations-109925" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Conversation</a> explaining the history of truth and reconciliation commissions and how they are supposedly intended to rectify historical injustices and heal the wounds of division.
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I love the people responding to this tweet as if it&#39;s a radical, undemocratic idea. <a href="https://t.co/39Bef6JMIy">https://t.co/39Bef6JMIy</a>
&mdash; Robert Reich (@RBReich) <a href="https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1317854244586901504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The article said in part, &#8220;The goal of a truth commission — in some forms also called a truth and reconciliation commission, as it is in Canada — is to hold public hearings to establish the scale and impact of a past injustice, typically involving wide-scale human rights abuses, and make it part of the permanent, unassailable public record. Truth commissions also officially recognize victims and perpetrators in an effort to move beyond the painful past.&#8221;
Going on to list examples in more than 40 countries where truth and reconciliation commissions were used, the article said, &#8220;The hope has been that restorative justice would provide greater healing than the retributive justice modelled most memorably by the Nuremberg Trials after the Second World War.&#8221; It concluded by claiming the United States needs a truth and reconciliation commission because of its &#8220;centuries of enslavement, state-sponsored racism, denial of civil rights and ongoing economic and social disparity.&#8221;
Reich&#8217;s idea echoed that of MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who earlier this month also called for a truth and reconciliation commission to &#8220;deal with&#8221; those who question COVID-19 protocols.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-hayes-floats-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-to-deal-with-those-who-question-covid-19-protocols" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>:
<blockquote>MSNBC host Chris Hayes raised eyebrows when he floated the idea of a “truth and reconciliation commission” as “the most humane and reasonable way to deal” with those who seemingly question the received wisdom regarding how best to protect against COVID-19.
Hayes’ comment came in response to a tweet from American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, who was himself responding to a tweet from NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss, who said, “Why is a sick President riding in an SUV waving to supporters outside Walter Reed, jeopardizing the Secret Service agents inside the car with him?”
Beschloss was referring to President Donald Trump’s brief drive on Sunday past supporters who had assembled outside Walter Reed Medical Center during his convalescence there. Some criticized the move as “reckless,” and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/04/trump-hospital-drive-criticism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post</a> reported that “current and former Secret Service agents and medical professionals were aghast” the president would lock himself inside a hermetically sealed car with others while having the coronavirus. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congressman-requests-briefing-on-trumps-joyride-outside-walter-reed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">demanded that the Secret Service brief Congress</a> on the incident.
Referencing the fact that Trump was masked and his Secret Service agents decked out in necessary PPE, Schlapp tweeted in response, “So masks don’t work? I’m confused.”
Quote-tweeting Schlapp, Hayes wrote, “The most humane and reasonable way to deal with all these people, if we survive this, is some kind of truth and reconciliation commission.”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-hayes-floats-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-to-deal-with-those-who-question-covid-19-protocols" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chris Hayes Floats ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Deal With’ Those Who Question COVID-19 Protocols</a>

Robert Reich Calls For ‘Truth And Reconciliation Commission’ To ‘Erase Trump’s Lies,’ Expose Enablers

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&#8220;Maybe you guys think you are smarter than the Founding Fathers. But they did not put an asterisk on the First Amendment,&#8221; said Ann Coulter to Robert Reich and ABC&#8217;s Jonathan Karl on Sunday&#8217;s This Week.

A moment earlier, Karl suggested that Coulter had provoked left-wing and Democrat-aligned rioters and agitators to shut down her speaking events at college and university campuses given what he implied was Coulter&#8217;s history of controversial commentary.

Coulter noted a double standard between analyses of varying racial and ethnic demographic groups among news media figures such as Karl, with discussions of the &#8220;Hispanic vote&#8221; and voting habits of &#8220;African Americans&#8221; being encouraged while simultaneously suppressing discussions of the voting behaviors of other demographic cohorts.

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KARL: &#8220;But, Ann &#8212; the reaction of students at a place like Berkeley can&#8217;t surprise you given some of the things you have said.&#8221;
COULTER: &#8220;Oh, please.&#8221;
KARL: &#8220;Well, let&#8217;s take a look. You have said that getting rid of women&#8217;s right to vote is a personal fantasy. You said of one group of 9/11 widows and I quote, &#8216;I&#8217;ve never seen people enjoying their husbands&#8217; deaths so much.&#8217;
And then there was the tweet that you put out just the day before the election, saying, &#8216;If only people with at least four grandparents born in America were voting, Trump would win in a 50-state landslide.&#8217;
I mean, on that one, by the way, neither Donald Trump or Mike Pence would be able to vote.&#8221;
COULTER: &#8220;I &#8212; OK. Let&#8217;s just take that one. We can go through all the greatest hits of much of my commentary. I watch roughly 24 hours a day, the Hispanic vote, the Hispanic vote, the Hispanic vote, how the &#8212; how the, you know, the browning of America and how are African Americans voting. How are women voting.
I describe one demographic and say how it would come out.
And that&#8217;s hate speech?
Why isn&#8217;t it hate speech to keep telling me how Hispanics are going to vote?
What you&#8217;re talking about are rhetorical flourishes. And I don&#8217;t know, maybe you guys think you are smarter than the Founding Fathers. But they did not put an asterisk on the First Amendment.&#8221;
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At the segment ended, Karl described Saturday&#8217;s White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner as a celebration of the First Amendment.
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Coulter Mocks ABC’s Karl: No ‘Asterisk On The First Amendment’

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On Tuesday, Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich, in a crazy accusation, tweeted that President Trump’s remarks on Friday in Florida triggered the Muslim riots in Sweden that followed over the weekend.
Trump had <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/europe/last-night-in-sweden-trumps-remark-baffles-a-nation.html?_r=0">stated</a>: “Here’s the bottom line. We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening. We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany. You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this. Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
Then on Sunday, Muslim riots broke out in Stockholm:
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Reich, never one to miss an opportunity to rip Trump, tweeted:
<img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.dailywire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/reich.jpg" alt="" width="780" height="501" />In December, Reich <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/20/robert_reich_like_a_tyrant_trump">stated</a> that Trump used seven techniques commonly used by tyrants. During that discussion, he stated:
<blockquote>Donald Trump also does not have any understanding of a democracy. And if anything, his leanings are toward tyranny . . . Donald Trump has, almost from the beginning of his campaign, and certainly in the—and he’s continued it—in the post-election period, to denigrate and berate the media. He holds rallies, and he talks about the dishonest media. He uses adjectives like &#8220;scum&#8221; and &#8220;scoundrel&#8221; to describe the media. He picks out individual members of the press who have criticized him, and talks about them in very critical terms or mocks them. This is not the habit of a democratic—democratically elected president . . . We have a president-elect of the United States who comes up with ulterior motives for why a major news outlet, like The Washington Post, might be critical of him . . . This finding of ulterior motives, of assigning particular strange and irrelevant reasons why an outpost of the press might actually be criticizing Donald Trump is an effort, it seems to me, to undermine the credibility of the press, to cause the public to doubt what they are reading. And Donald Trump, remember, lives in a fact-free universe . . . I do know that people who have criticized Donald Trump in various ways, and then Donald Trump has tweeted against them, have, in turn, received threats, including death threats, from some of Trump’s followers. We don’t want to have in this country that kind of chilling effect on free speech or on satire or any form of free speech.</blockquote>

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IDIOT: Former Clinton Labor Secretary Blames Trump For Swedish Muslim Riots

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Robert Reich has doubled down on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMZdlOiyiSA">his suggestion</a> that Milo Yiannopoulos and Breitbart News had conducted a false flag operation to shut down a speaking event at a California university in order to portray the left as criminally violent.

On Wednesday evening, left-wing rioters <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/13072/tolerance-yiannopoulos-speech-cancelled-after-robert-kraychik">shut down</a> a Yiannopoulos-hosted event with threats, criminal violence and vandalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

On Thursday evening, Reich claimed with certainty that the left-wing rioters (many of whom were masked) were not UC Berkeley students. As a professor at the university, he insinuated personal familiarity with the majority of the school&#8217;s nearly forty thousand students.

In an <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/robert-reich-who-sent-thugs-berkeley-552577">article published in Newsweek</a> &#8211; a left-wing and Democrat-aligned news and opinion outlet that presents itself as objective and nonpartisan &#8211; on Saturday, Reich restated his suspicions while claiming not to &#8220;want to add to the conspiratorial musings of so many about this very conspiratorial administration:&#8221;

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Hmmm. Connect these dots:

(1) Yiannopoulos writes for Breitbart News, which Steve Bannon &#8211; Trump&#8217;s strategy director &#8211; ran before joining Trump.

(2) Before Yiannopoulos speaks at Berkeley, Breitbart publishes an article saying that Yiannopoulos will call for the withdrawal of federal grants and the prosecution of university officials who endanger their students with their policies.

(3) Berkeley opens its doors to Yiannopoulos, but campus police have to cancel the event because of masked agitators.

(4) Hours later, Trump issues a misleading tweet, accusing the university of not allowing free speech and promoting violence against innocent people with different views and threatening to withhold federal funds.

(5) The next night, Yiannopoulos on Fox News says the incident proves that universities like Berkeley don&#8217;t deserve federal grants by cracking down on free speech.

(6) That same night, on CNN, I raise the possibility that Yiannopoulos and Breitbart could have been collaborating with the agitators &#8211; saying &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t bet against it.&#8221; This generates a belligerent column in Breitbart with a misleading headline calling me a liar for claiming that Breitbart News organized the riots.
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Reich formerly served as secretary of labor during the Clinton administration.

Newsweek published an op-ed on Saturday, in which Kurt Eichenwald &#8211; who <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/21/kurt-eichenwald-further-explains-his-claim-that-trump-was-institutionalized/">claimed to have proof</a> of President Donald Trump having been &#8220;institutionalized in a mental hospital in 1990 &#8211; argues that the president may be incapable of &#8220;[discerning] between reality and what he wishes was true.&#8221;

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