President Donald Trump said that tech tycoon and once-close ally Elon Musk doesn’t have a choice but to align with Republicans against the political Left.
Trump made the prediction on &#8220;The Scott Jennings Show&#8221; in an interview aired on Wednesday. The president said that Musk made a mistake in attacking the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill,&#8221; but that he would be welcomed back when he “works out” some problems.
“I don&#8217;t think he has a choice. So, what&#8217;s he gonna do? He&#8217;s going to go with the radical Left lunatics? You know, they&#8217;re lunatics. I don&#8217;t think he has a choice,” said Trump.
“He&#8217;s a man of common sense. He&#8217;s a good man. He got off the reservation incorrectly, and that&#8217;s okay because, you know, it&#8217;s just one of those things. But he&#8217;s a good person,” the president continued. “He&#8217;s got, you know, 80% super genius, and then 20% he&#8217;s got some problems. And when he works out the 20%, he&#8217;ll be great.”
Trump said that Musk regrets his split from the White House and the center of the Republican Party.
“He&#8217;s got some difficulty, but I liked him. I always liked him. I like him now, but he went off the reservation, and he wished he didn&#8217;t do it,” said Trump.
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President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> reveals where things stand personally with <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>&#8230;
These are two brilliant men and great Americans. I, like millions of others, really would love to see them get the band back together soon 👇 <a href="https://t.co/pywib1gJo0">pic.twitter.com/pywib1gJo0</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1963347028198781416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
Musk broke with Trump over the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill,&#8221; criticizing the president’s landmark piece of legislation as a bloated bill with far too much spending. The tech tycoon then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-officially-announces-new-political-party-after-fallout-with-trump">pledged</a> to launch his own political party, the America Party.
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!” Musk said on X in July, referring to a poll he ran on his social media platform.
“When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste &amp; graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” he continued. “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
Musk has reportedly put his plans for a new party on hold. The billionaire is hesitant to move forward with a new political party due to the rifts it would create between him and top figures in the GOP. One of those figures is Vice President JD Vance, whom Musk is reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-hits-pause-on-new-party-launch-while-he-weighs-backing-vance-in-2028">considering</a> backing in 2028.
Last month, Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-hits-pause-on-new-party-launch-while-he-weighs-backing-vance-in-2028">offered</a> similar comments to Trump about Musk, stating that Musk was instrumental in the president&#8217;s 2024 election victory.
“He did help us a lot in the election. And the president even says, with all his frustration, Elon was a very, very critical part of the team last election, and so my hope is by the midterms things are kind of back to normal,” Vance said.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — “Everybody needs to be reading more history.” 
While not a typical applause line, it was a favorite of the crowd of twenty and thirty-somethings listening to Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti speak at the National Young Republican Convention. Skrmetti, fresh off a landmark victory at the Supreme Court, implored the crowd to take seriously their duty to know how America works and leave it better off for future generations. 
“You’re the ones who are coming into this, and you’ve got the future ahead of you, we run the country, and we need to do it wisely,” Skrmetti told the crowd of sharply-dressed attendees in the ballroom of the Sheraton Music City Hotel last weekend. “That means everybody needs to be reading more history. You’ve got to have the perspective of knowing how things have worked in the past.”
Skrmetti, who loves American history and has four young children, praised the Founding Fathers for their sacrifices to build the United States. 
“America is not just a short-term thing where we get what we can get and then run for the hills,” he said. “It is literally created to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity, and we have to have the multi-generational perspective and be looking not just to get short-term wins, but to strengthen our country.”
This year’s convention was attended by more than 1,000 Republicans between the ages of 18 and 40 from all 50 states. It was the largest convention in decades, and the second largest ever, according to organizers. 
Speakers and participants included a variety of Tennessee political staples, such as Governor Bill Lee and Reps. John Rose and Tim Burchett, in addition to sports commentator Clay Travis and conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings. 
From Thursday to Sunday, attendees milled about the convention space, which featured booths from diverse organizations such as Trump Mobile, PETA, and WinRed. Multiple attendees told The Daily Wire they were there to meet like-minded people. 
Kellie Lynch, a Republican from New York, said that she thought the most significant issues facing young people were the economy, the cost of living, and the rise of artificial intelligence. While much has been made of the gender divide in voting patterns, Lynch said that the GOP did a “great job” reaching out to women. She thought media bias played a major role in some women’s perception of Republicans. 
<div id="attachment_957525" style="width: 2570px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-957525" class="size-full wp-image-957525" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_6866-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1920" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_6866-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_6866-300x225.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_6866-768x576.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_6866-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/08/IMG_6866-2048x1536.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" />Booths at the Young Republican convention/ Photo: Catherine Maxwell.</div>
Another attendee, Kyle Mason, an investment property specialist from Texas, said he believed President Donald Trump’s embrace of masculinity was key to the reason many younger men were starting to vote Republican. In his spare time, Mason volunteers with Republican political efforts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. 
After his panel appearance, Skrmetti told The Daily Wire that he had a lot of older mentors who helped him be involved in civic action, and he now wants to play that role for others. Asked about some young people who see politics as hopelessly corrupt, Skrmetti pointed out that America was founded by men who were skeptical of the government. 
“Cynical people are a critical part of America, and we need them, but we need them not to sit on the sidelines and gripe. We need them to take their cynicism and put it to work on behalf of all the American people,” he said. 
He added that one way to expose corruption and push for change was on the internet, which he said really opened up the national conversation for input from anyone. 
Skrmetti’s sentiment was present in other speeches, including by Governor Lee, who noted that he would probably float into “political obscurity” once his term in office was over.
“You’re the future of America, you have an obligation and a responsibility to wake up every day and ask yourself those questions so you’ll be engaging in the things that matter and that change the lives of the people around you,” Lee said. 
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The National Young Republicans now have chapters in almost every state, with a Delaware chapter being chartered over the weekend, Chair Hayden Padgett told The Daily Wire. The last state needing a chapter is Wyoming. 
Padgett said that the purpose of the Young Republicans was twofold: to build community and to aid in political campaigns.
During the 2024 election cycle, which he described as “wild” in the “best way,” Padgett said a contingent of Young Republicans knocked on the doors of 3% of Montana voters in support of Tim Sheehy, who successfully defeated incumbent Democrat Senator Jon Tester. 
His pitch to young people was that Republican policies would help them achieve the American dream of starting a family, owning a business, and buying a home. Padgett was re-elected as chair of the Young Republicans after a contentious challenge from New York State Young Republicans Chair Peter Giunta.
“If you want to have a better life, if you want to have a family, if you want to have the ability to actually achieve the American dream, we are putting in the policies, and have been for 150 years, whatever it is, that actually make that possible,” Padgett said. “So come join that.”

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings responded to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk&#8217;s call for a new, independent political party — and he argued that Musk&#8217;s efforts were likely to do more harm than good.
Jennings made the point during a panel discussion on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; arguing that the kind of party Musk was proposing was likely to divide conservatives and Republicans, leaving the door open for Democrats to win — a possible outcome to which he was opposed.
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Scott Jennings&#8217; thoughts on Elon Musk forming a New America Party: &#8220;You may be dividing the forces of people who want to save Western civilization to the benefit of the people who don&#8217;t.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/5EcPn5Xt5T">pic.twitter.com/5EcPn5Xt5T</a>
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1941865230323314715?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s harder than it looks to start a political party,&#8221; Jennings began. &#8220;And, you know, we&#8217;ll see where they go with it. My humble advice to Elon, who I admire very much, actually, is that you may be dividing the forces of people who want to save Western civilization to the benefit of the people who don&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;And so to the extent that this effort would divide conservatives and Republicans against each other, that wouldn&#8217;t be helpful,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Because it would leave the country to people who want unfettered immigration, who don&#8217;t share your fiscal views, and so on and so forth — so we&#8217;ll see where it goes.&#8221;
Jennings concluded by touting the broad coalition that propelled President Donald Trump to victory in 2024, saying that he&#8217;d prefer to see those people stick together in the days ahead.
&#8220;I sort of hope everybody puts the band back together the way they had it in 2024 because when everybody was working together, things worked quite well,&#8221; Jennings concluded.
&#8220;I&#8217;m just curious, if they&#8217;re on the side of western civilization, what&#8217;s the other side of civilization that people want?&#8221; another panelist asked.
&#8220;Not western civilization,&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;Terrible. Not American values, not western civilization.&#8221;

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‘You May Be Dividing The Forces’: CNN Republican Questions Wisdom Of Musk Third Party

'You May Be Dividing The Forces': CNN Republican Questions Wisdom Of Musk Third Party

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CNN&#8217;s Bakari Sellers attempted to draw down on Republican commentator Scott Jennings during a Monday evening panel discussion, bristling when Jennings assessed New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani in the same way that President Donald Trump had: &#8220;a communist.&#8221;
Both Sellers and Jennings addressed the issue on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;NewsNight&#8221; with host Abby Phillip, discussing a recent video that showed Mamdani throwing around Marxist terms such as &#8220;seizing the means of production&#8221; and using government funds to buy up housing developments that would eventually be community-owned.
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🔥<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a> battles Bakari Sellers who is riled up over the idea that Mamdani is being called a &#8220;communist.&#8221;
Sellers: He’s a socialist.
Jennings: He’s using the language of the Bolsheviks, is he not?
Sellers: No, he’s not. He’s a socialist.
Jennings: Seizing the means… <a href="https://t.co/EtDWGUpiMv">pic.twitter.com/EtDWGUpiMv</a>
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1940372469996745060?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Calling him a communist is not far off base, when he talks about seizing the means of production,&#8221; former White House spokesman (under former President George W. Bush) Pete Seat said. &#8220;That is a Communist Party plank. He is talking about doing that. So I don&#8217;t have any problems with calling him what he is.&#8221;
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&#8220;And I don&#8217;t have any problem calling Donald Trump a felon,&#8221; Sellers replied. &#8220;Or charged with rape. Or the fact that he doesn&#8217;t pay his vendors. Or the fact that he&#8217;s racist because he got — he illegally [unintelligible] &#8230; and you&#8217;re right, you may have a Democratic socialist elected as mayor of New York City.&#8221;
&#8220;So you agree with Pete that he&#8217;s a communist?&#8221; Jennings asked.
&#8220;He&#8217;s not a communist,&#8221; one of the other panelists said off-camera.
&#8220;He&#8217;s a socialist,&#8221; Bakari said.
&#8220;He said &#8216;seize the means of production,'&#8221; Jennings said.
His voice rising a few pitches, Sellers repeated, &#8220;He&#8217;s a socialist! I&#8217;m not a socialist, but he calls himself —&#8221;
&#8220;He literally uses — he&#8217;s using the language of the Bolsheviks, is he not?&#8221; Jennings asked.
&#8220;No, he&#8217;s not,&#8221; Sellers tried again. &#8220;He&#8217;s a socialist, not a communist.&#8221;
&#8220;Seizing the means of production?&#8221; Jennings raised an eyebrow.
&#8220;That&#8217;s called socialism,&#8221; Sellers said. &#8220;Not communism.&#8221;
Phillip cut in then, bringing the debate to a close.
All evidence to the contrary, Mamdani has repeatedly stated that he is not a communist, but rather a &#8220;democratic socialist.&#8221;

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‘Language Of The Bolsheviks’: CNN Panel Is All Fun And Games Until Someone Calls Mamdani ‘Communist’

'Language Of The Bolsheviks': CNN Panel Is All Fun And Games Until Someone Calls Mamdani 'Communist'

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings took a swing at Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, pointing out how quickly she&#8217;d changed her tune on the topic of nationwide injunctions when the party in power had changed.
Jennings raised the point during a panel discussion on &#8220;CNN Newsnight&#8221; with host Abby Phillip, captioning a video of the exchange, &#8220;Does anyone remember Justice Kagan being against nationwide injunctions when we had a DEMOCRAT President? Pepperidge Farms remembers.&#8221;
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Does anyone remember Justice Kagan being against nationwide injunctions when we had a DEMOCRAT President?
Pepperidge Farms remembers. <a href="https://t.co/s31HUKrkNo">pic.twitter.com/s31HUKrkNo</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1938988002598101383?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Phillip began the conversation by noting that both Democrats and Republicans had opposed the idea of nationwide injunctions — a tool used by lower courts to extend what would otherwise be limited rulings to apply across the entire country — mostly when they were being used by the opposition party to restrain an executive with whom they agreed.
&#8220;The nationwide injunction is officially dead and the court taking an opportunity here to do something that a lot of conservatives, perhaps, have wanted for a while. But, as we’ve discussed plenty of times, the nationwide injunction has been sort of the bane of the existence of Democrat and Republican presidents. It’s just that now this court has actually done it,&#8221; Phillip said.
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Jennings, who has said on a number of occasions that the real &#8220;constitutional crisis&#8221; in play at present was a runaway judiciary bent on restraining President Donald Trump by any means necessary. &#8220;Yeah, they’ve finally done something about it. Friday was a great day for Donald Trump. The market ended at all-time highs. He’s breaking peace agreements in the Oval Office on a Friday afternoon. And then the court really clears the way for him to enact the agenda on which he ran.&#8221;
&#8220;I was trying to sort out my feelings on this matter, and I came up with a quote from a very smart lawyer, and I just want to quote it, because I think she was right when she said it. &#8216;It just can’t be right that one District Judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks,'&#8221; Jennings continued, pivoting to reveal his source: &#8220;Justice Elena Kagan in 2022 said that. Of course, when we had a democratic president. Now she voted against the decision on Friday. Just goes to show you that some of these folks really are hacks.&#8221;
&#8220;But as you correctly said, this has been the bane of existence of presidents and I’m glad they went ahead and fixed it because it’s not right that one of these individual district court judges can act like a king or a monarch and stop the elected president from acting,&#8221; Jennings concluded.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Speaks At George Washington University

‘Some Of These Folks Really Are Hacks’: CNN Republican Hits Kagan For Flip On Nationwide Injunctions

'Some Of These Folks Really Are Hacks': CNN Republican Hits Kagan For Flip On Nationwide Injunctions

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President Donald Trump&#8217;s on such a winning streak that not even CNN can ignore it.
From the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cia-reveals-intelligence-showing-u-s-destroyed-key-iranian-nuclear-facilities">destruction</a> of Iran&#8217;s key nuclear facilities to brokering a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-holds-ceasefire-after-israel-refrains-from-major-retaliation-for-irans-strike-on-civilians">ceasefire</a> between Iran and Israel, the president&#8217;s slew of victories has gotten long enough that  CNN host Michael Smerconish spent more than six minutes on air diving into Trump&#8217;s accomplishments over the past 12 days. The chyron on the screen simply said, &#8220;Trump On A Roll.&#8221;
&#8220;The mission was carried out with stealth and precision,&#8221; Smerconish said of American attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. &#8220;There were no American casualties.&#8221;
Smerconish then noted of Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-triumphs-nato-bows-to-u-s-pressure-with-5-defense-pledge">maneuvering an impressive win at NATO</a>, getting United States allies to more than double their contribution to the alliance. The president reached a trade deal with China, and expects a deal with India soon, Smerconish said, adding that the stock market has &#8220;rebounded and grown,&#8221; hitting record highs.
Additionally, the CNN host highlighted how inflation has cooled under Trump.
&#8220;The rate is now reported at 2.4%, down from a high of 7% just four years ago,&#8221; Smerconish told viewers. &#8220;Meanwhile, blue-collar workers have seen real wage growth of 1.7% in Trump&#8217;s first five months: this is the largest such increase in three generations.&#8221;
Trump has also incentivized major companies to invest in American manufacturing, the host noted. As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ge-appliances-moving-production-from-china-to-republican-state">The Daily Wire</a>, GE Appliances announced this week that it’s moving even more of its production from China to Kentucky, investing nearly half-a-billion dollars and creating at least 800 full-time jobs.
Smerconish also noted that we&#8217;ve hit the lowest border encounters since the 1960s, while Trump is continuing to gain support with latino Americans.
The CNN host recalled Trump&#8217;s major wins at the Supreme Court, specifically on immigration. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/birthright-citizenship-lgbt-books-porn-law-ben-shapiro-reacts-to-trumps-trifecta-of-wins-at-scotus">The Daily Wire</a> reported that the SCOTUS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-limits-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-fight?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Supreme+Court+Sides+With+Trump%2C+Limits+Nationwide+Injunctions+In+Birthright+Citizenship+Fight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cracked down</a> on lower courts trying to hamstring Trump’s agenda, ruling that Trump may end birthright citizenship in some parts of the country while legal challenges against his order proceed in others.
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🚨 WOW! President Trump stacked up so many wins this week CNN was FORCED into admitting it
“TRUMP ON A ROLL”
It gets to a point where you can’t keep ignoring the truth any longer!
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/1939004785556103332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
CNN contributor Scott Jennings, a Republican, also recalled Trump&#8217;s recent wins while on the network.  
&#8220;This was the BEST week of the Trump presidency (maybe any presidency!),&#8221; Jennings said on X, captioning footage of his appearance on CNN. &#8220;SCOTUS win on activist judges. Stock market at record-high. Israel-Iran ceasefire. Unprecedented Rowanda-Congo peace deal. Gas prices at 4-year-low.&#8221; 
&#8220;Not tired of winning,&#8221; he added. 
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This was the BEST week of the Trump presidency (maybe any presidency!) 👇
✅SCOTUS win on activist judges 
✅Stock market at record-high 
✅Israel-Iran ceasefire 
✅Unprecedented Rowanda-Congo peace deal 
✅gas prices at 4-year-low
Not tired of winning. <a href="https://t.co/dUcr4ttozZ">pic.twitter.com/dUcr4ttozZ</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1938815084135891185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-is-hot-again-a-week-of-wins-for-the-trump-white-house?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=‘America+Is+Hot+Again’%3A+A+Week+Of+Wins+For+The+Trump+White+House">‘America Is Hot Again’: A Week Of Wins For The Trump White House</a>

‘Trump On A Roll’: The President’s Winning So Much, Even CNN Admits It

‘Trump On A Roll’: Trump’s Latest Wins So Big, Even CNN’s Gushing Over Them

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A CNN panel discussion got heated when the guests squared off over the conflict between Israel and Iran – and the United States&#8217; involvement in that conflict — specifically with regard to which of the parties involved, if any, had the &#8220;moral authority&#8221; to act.
Former independent presidential candidate Cornel West sparred with Republican commentator Scott Jennings and former Bush White House spokesman Pete Seat on the topic, and West claimed that neither the United States — after President Donald Trump authorized the strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities — nor Israel had the &#8220;moral authority&#8221; to take action against Iran.
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Let’s be clear: there’s no moral equivalence between the US and Israel vs. Iran. Anyone arguing otherwise is off their rocker. <a href="https://t.co/ldLbXaDO6r">pic.twitter.com/ldLbXaDO6r</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1937493489459109983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Seat defended Trump&#8217;s actions, arguing that the Iranian regime did not speak the language of diplomacy in the same way that other nations might.
&#8220;The Iranians do not speak the language of diplomacy unless force is used, and that is what President Trump and the United States used this past weekend in a precision, perfection way,&#8221; he explained.
West complained, &#8220;It’s illegal, unconstitutional.&#8221;
&#8220;It is not illegal in any way, shape, or form!&#8221; Seat pushed back.
West, who&#8217;d initially said it was unconstitutional, quickly moved the goalposts: &#8220;Of course, it is a violation of international law. You can’t violate national sovereignty of a country.&#8221;
&#8220;Why? We do it all the time,&#8221; Jennings weighed in then.
&#8220;I know because America violates international law all the time,&#8221; West claimed.
&#8220;Who’s gonna stop us?&#8221; Jennings asked. &#8220;Who&#8217;s gonna stop us?&#8221;
&#8220;You would think morality ought to play some role,&#8221; West commented.
&#8220;You think it’s immoral to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon? Who’s the moral actor here, Iran or the United States?&#8221; Jennings turned the question back on West.
&#8220;I think that any condition under which — in terms of ensuring that we don&#8217;t have nuclear bombs anywhere?&#8221; West asked.
&#8220;No, in terms of ensuring these butchers don&#8217;t have nuclear bombs that they have fully said that they will use on Israel and the United States,&#8221; Jennings said, clearly referencing Iran. &#8220;There&#8217;s no equivocation.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve got the United States, Israel, what they&#8217;ve done in Gaza gives neither one of them moral authority,&#8221; West claimed. &#8220;That&#8217;s a genocide, that&#8217;s ethnic cleansing, Israel has no moral authority, United States has no moral authority.&#8221;
West then turned to Jennings and demanded his &#8220;Christian formulation&#8221; on how the United States or Israel were justified in their actions: &#8220;Where does the cross play a role, my brother? Where is the love? Where is the love for you, for Iranians, and for Palestinians and others?&#8221;
&#8220;We don&#8217;t live in a theocracy, but they do,&#8221; Jennings shot back. &#8220;And their theology is to get a nuclear weapon, destroy Israel, and destroy the Great Satan, which is the United States. Our government is based on one thing: national defense. And what&#8217;s in the best interest for our national defense is for these fanatics not to have a nuclear weapon where they can wipe us off the map.&#8221;

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CNN Panel Goes Haywire Over ‘Moral Authority’ Question In Israel-Iran Conflict

CNN Panel Goes Haywire Over 'Moral Authority' Question In Israel-Iran Conflict

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Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa claimed on Sunday that she&#8217;d seen no evidence thus far that Iran posed a direct and present threat to the United States — and CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings fired back immediately.
During a panel discussion on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Jennings pointed to decades of Iranian threats against Americans, American interests, and allies, saying that they amounted to a nearly-constant threat.
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🚨NEW: <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a> FIRES BACK at ex-DNC spox who suggests it wasn&#8217;t apparent Iran posed direct threat to U.S.🇺🇸
&#8220;You&#8217;re arguing that after 46 years of the Iranian regime killing Americans, threatening Americans, saying over and over and over again, &#8216;Death to America,&#8217; that… <a href="https://t.co/1qzHuBYnap">pic.twitter.com/1qzHuBYnap</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1936795872030785861?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hinojosa raised the question of President Donald Trump&#8217;s authority to act in striking Iranian nuclear targets on Saturday, arguing that without a clear and present threat to the United States, he had no authority to take such and action without first going through Congress.
&#8220;Normally you would need Congressional approval for something like this,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I know that my friend here is laughing a little bit, but —&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, I am laughing,&#8221; Jennings interjected.
&#8220;In order for the president to take action without congressional approval, he needed to show a real true threat to the United States and that the strike would not cause escalation,&#8221; Hinojosa continued, going on to claim that Trump had failed to present any kind of legal justification for the strike.
&#8220;So what will be critical in the weeks to come is Congress must see the underlying intelligence about how they were in direct threat and how the U.S. needed to respond without Congressional approval, but as of right now, I have not seen that,&#8221; she declared.
&#8220;You&#8217;re arguing that after 46 years of the Iranian regime killing Americans, threatening Americans, saying over and over and over again, &#8216;Death to America,&#8217; that maybe they just didn’t mean it?&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;That they’re fiery but mostly peaceful Iranian butchers? I mean, I don&#8217;t understand! This is a righteous strike!&#8221;

Scott Jennings Torches Ex-DNC Flack Over Iran Strikes: ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Iranian Butchers?’

Scott Jennings Torches Ex-DNC Flack Over Iran Strikes: 'Fiery But Mostly Peaceful Iranian Butchers?'

After two horrific attacks in under two weeks — both perpetrated by anti-Israel terrorists who either claimed they&#8217;d acted on behalf of Gaza or shouted &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; as they carried out their violent acts — conservative pundits are drawing a hard line directly through the &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; movement to the increasingly violent attacks on American Jews.
Fox News contributor Guy Benson made the case during a Monday appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; where he explained that the disturbingly violent acts — such as Mohamed Sabry Soliman fire-bombing adults and children at a pro-Israel demonstration or Elias Rodriguez gunning down two young Israeli Embassy staffers without provocation — were not outliers. Instead, he said they were the manifestation of loud calls across American college campuses to &#8220;globalize the intifada&#8221; and to stop Israel &#8220;by any means necessary.&#8221;
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🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@guypbenson</a> speaks the PLAIN, HONEST TRUTH:
&#8220;Hamas supporters aren&#8217;t just burning American flags in our streets. They&#8217;re now burning Americans in our streets!&#8221;
&#8220;The pro-Palestine movement is a VIOLENT movement!&#8221;
&#8220;Two students at Harvard in 2023 physically assaulted a Jewish… <a href="https://t.co/16hjxyvnrG">pic.twitter.com/16hjxyvnrG</a>
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&#8220;I saw an observer yesterday note, &#8216;Hamas supporters aren&#8217;t just burning American flags in our streets. They&#8217;re now burning Americans in our streets!'&#8221; Benson began. &#8220;When we hear these chants of &#8216;Globalize the Intifada,&#8217; &#8216;by any means necessary,&#8217; ringing out in our cities, on our campuses at these hate rallies, this is what it actually looks like in practice.&#8221;
&#8220;It looks like a governor&#8217;s mansion, torched in the middle of the night with a Jewish leader sleeping upstairs with his family,&#8221; Benson continued, referencing the arson attack against Governor Josh Shapiro during Passover. &#8220;It looks like two employees of the Israeli Embassy in this city, our capital city, murdered in cold blood at a Jewish museum. And it looks like these elderly Jewish Americans fire-bombed at a peaceful rally on behalf of releasing hostages in Colorado.&#8221;
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&#8220;The pro-Palestine movement is a VIOLENT movement!&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Their rhetoric is violent, they justify violence, they celebrate violence, and increasingly, they are engaging in violence not just over there, here in the United States. It&#8217;s a disgrace, and it has to stop.&#8221;
Benson also called out the media coverage of the attacks, adding, &#8220;If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats &amp; firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of &#8216;national conversation&#8217; would we be having?&#8221;
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If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats &amp; firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of “national conversation” would we be having?
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1929386771168538786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN Republican pundit Scott Jennings took things a step further, saying during an appearance on &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with Jake Tapper that the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States was effectively a domestic terror organization.
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What more do we need to see before we acknowledge this &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?
We are in a FIGHT for the future of Western civilization and we need to come to grips with it — and fast. <a href="https://t.co/cHgHTL2lM4">pic.twitter.com/cHgHTL2lM4</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1929671777229459851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is horrific,&#8221; he said of the fire-bombing attack in Boulder. &#8220;What more do we need to see, Jake, before we realize this &#8216;free Palestine&#8217; movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?&#8221;
&#8220;The rise of antisemitism in America, the rise of the number of people who have come to America who hold anti-American views, anti-Western views, and antisemitic views — and are now willing to act on it – it is absolutely outrageous,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;And I think as a society, we need to understand. We are dealing with domestic terrorism, it&#8217;s growing more violent by the day, and if we don&#8217;t deal with it, these kinds of things are going to keep happening in cities all over the place. It&#8217;s awful, and we need to come to grips with the fight that we&#8217;re in right now in America, a fight for the future of our country and the future of western civilization.&#8221;

Conservative Pundits Blast Violent ‘Free Palestine’ Movement For What It Is: ‘A Domestic Terror Org’

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings left Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) sputtering her objections during a panel discussion after he laid out several of the more unpopular cultural issues behind which her party has thrown its support.
Dingell began by expressing a sentiment that a number of Democrats have in recent weeks, saying that it clearly was not enough of a strategy to simply oppose President Donald Trump or oppose Republicans — and that in order to win elections going forward, the Democratic Party needed to paint a clearer picture of what it stood for.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepDebDingell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDebDingell</a> says the Democrats need to stand for something — but they already do!
I&#8217;ll defend the Democrats. They have taken an unyielding stand for:
✅Illegal aliens 
✅boys in girls sports 
✅higher taxes <a href="https://t.co/cjE1j8UJeC">pic.twitter.com/cjE1j8UJeC</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1929183016737280028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Democrats have to stop being &#8216;against Donald Trump&#8217; and start being &#8216;for&#8217; something,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll defend the Democrats,&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;They are for things. Illegal aliens. You&#8217;re for boys in girls&#8217; sports. I mean, you are for things. And that&#8217;s why you have such struggles right now in your party, because you&#8217;re not for anything that&#8217;s on the right side of any of the 80-20 issues that are driving this cultural divide in America.&#8221;
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Jennings then pivoted to address the Democratic Party&#8217;s bench going into the next presidential election cycle, and he conceded that he saw some talent in Governor Wes Moore (D-MD).
&#8220;The other person who spoke in South Carolina, Tim Walz, is a special mixture of extreme buffoonery and a mean spirit, which is a toxic brew,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;He is not the future of the Democratic Party. Moore is interesting. Moore is interesting, probably more interesting than some of the radicals you have out there, Crockett, AOC, I mean those are the true leaders of your party right now —&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s not true — I&#8217;m not gonna even let you —&#8221; Dingell attempted to push back.

CNN Panel Gets Heated As Republican Reveals What Dems Really ‘Stand For’

CNN Panel Gets Heated As Republican Reveals What Dems Really 'Stand For'

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A CNN panel discussion went off the rails on Monday as Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky refused to address a question about former President Joe Biden&#8217;s obvious cognitive and physical decline — and the lengths to which his White House went to cover that up — without pivoting to complain about current President Donald Trump.
As the panel discussed Biden&#8217;s term in the White House — in the context of &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; the book written by CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson — Roginsky repeatedly interrupted to shoehorn in her issues with President Trump, demanding several times that he should be made to submit to a cognitive test in spite of the fact that he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-got-every-answer-right-trump-swipes-at-biden-after-annual-physical" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already has</a>.
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ME: The Biden cover-up is pretty bad.
DEM: bUt TrUmP!
ME: Ok but the story is the Biden cover up, right?
DEM: tRuMp cOgNiTiVe TeSt!
ME: &lt;Ron Burgundy voice&gt; We are laughing! <a href="https://t.co/XPhQluYek5">pic.twitter.com/XPhQluYek5</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1924812929427218848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Republican commentator Scott Jennings sparked a reaction from her when he asked whether she was defending Biden&#8217;s time in the White House and saying that he was &#8220;fine&#8221; during that time.
&#8220;Are you arguing the Joe Biden was fine during his term?&#8221; Jennings asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not arguing that he was fine, I&#8217;m arguing that Donald Trump —&#8221; Roginsky said.
&#8220;You keep pivoting back to Trump, who&#8217;s clearly fine,&#8221; Jennings pushed back. &#8220;I&#8217;m just asking you if you&#8217;re arguing that something was not wrong with Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;But let me ask you — let me ask you a question,&#8221; Roginsky continued. &#8220;Scott, I&#8217;m so glad you asked that question. Because Joe Biden&#8217;s no longer the president.&#8221;
&#8220;But he was, and that&#8217;s the story tonight,&#8221; Jennings pointed out.
&#8220;Donald Trump — Donald Trump —&#8221; Roginsky protested. &#8220;Well, no, actually, stop. Stop! Stop! Let me finish, let me finish what I&#8217;m saying. Let me finish something. Donald Trump is the President of the United States. I would dearly love to see a cognitive test from him, because as somebody who&#8217;s lived in the New York media market for the last forty years, I can tell you, that the Donald Trump that I knew in the 80s is not the Donald Trump that I hear today.&#8221;
&#8220;So your answer to the cover-up is &#8216;Trump,'&#8221; Jennings prompted.
&#8220;My answer is —&#8221; Roginsky began.
From Jennings: &#8220;No, your answer to every question is &#8216;Trump.&#8217; The cover-up is the story tonight.&#8221;
&#8220;My answer is the president — yes, the cover-up is also the President of the United States, who happens to be Donald J. Trump today, is not – yeah, you could laugh all you want — you know why you&#8217;re laughing? Because you don&#8217;t —&#8221;
At that point, Jennings spliced in a clip of actor Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy for effect: &#8220;We are laughing!&#8221;
&#8220;No, no, no, we&#8217;re not laughing. You don&#8217;t want to answer the question, Scott,&#8221; she complained.

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CNN Panel Explodes Over Biden Cover-Up When Dem Strategist Just Can’t Quit Trump

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings defended President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration for moving forward with charges against one of the House Democrats involved in a physical scuffle with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents outside a New Jersey detention facility — but CNN host Abby Phillip tried her level best to make the conversation about President Donald Trump instead.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-charge-new-jersey-democrat-over-clash-with-agents-at-ice-facility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charges against Rep. LaMonica McIver</a> (D-NJ) stemmed from a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newark-mayor-arrested-after-dem-reps-storm-new-jersey-ice-facility-charge-past-security-officers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dust-up</a> outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, where she was allegedly caught on body-cam video getting physical with federal agents during a protest that also involved two other House Democrats — New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson-Coleman and Rob Menendez — and Democratic Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. Jennings argued during a Monday panel discussion that Trump&#8217;s Justice Department was well within its rights to level charges against McIver for her actions — but Phillip jumped in to run interference.
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Feds well within rights to charge Rep. McIver for assaulting law enforcement at ICE facility in Newark.
The video doesn’t lie &#8211; it ain’t no cheap fake! Amazing how much energy Dems put into illegal aliens. Week after week. They’d never fight that hard for the American people. <a href="https://t.co/yjP0GiJSdr">pic.twitter.com/yjP0GiJSdr</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1924675029792354769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Mayor Baraka began the discussion by claiming that he believed the videos would ultimately clear McIver of any wrongdoing, but Jennings was not buying it.
&#8220;I mean, the videos are pretty clear, are they not?&#8221; Jennings asked. &#8220;I mean, she&#8217;s shoving — elbows — pushing, I mean, this is violent activity against law enforcement, is it not?&#8221;
Barak attempted to downplay the scene, saying simply, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of pushing and shoving. I don&#8217;t know if —&#8221;
&#8220;Would a regular person, if they came and did that to a federal officer, get away with it?&#8221; Jennings pressed.
&#8220;A regular person —?&#8221; Baraka asked.
&#8220;Just a regular person, a non-politician,&#8221; Jennings clarified.
&#8220;They might get pardoned,&#8221; Phillip interjected, clearly referencing the people Trump pardoned for their involvement in the riots on January 6th, 2021.
&#8220;If they showed up at a federal facility —&#8221; Jennings continued.
&#8220;They might get pardoned,&#8221; Phillip repeated. &#8220;By this president.&#8221;
&#8220;But were they charged?&#8221; Jennings pressed. &#8220;Were they charged? Were they convicted in court? Would a regular person get away with it?&#8221;
Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky then tried to convince Jennings that the video of McIver was not clear, and that he&#8217;d be able to see that if he took off his &#8220;MAGA goggle glasses.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not a &#8216;cheap fake,&#8217; I can tell you that,&#8221; Jennings said of the body cam footage.

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