California Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom</a> appeared on late night television on Wednesday to bash Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after getting walloped by the Republican presidential candidate during a recent debate.
The Newsom-DeSantis debate, hosted by Fox News personality Sean Hannity, got so out of control that Newsom&#8217;s wife had to intervene to prevent it from going into overtime because Newsom was getting embarrassed, pundits <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-done-newsoms-wife-intervened-to-end-debate-against-desantis-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. Newsom&#8217;s team later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-done-newsoms-wife-intervened-to-end-debate-against-desantis-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the debate was &#8220;rigged.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m dead serious about this. I have developed a lot of animus towards him because of his animus towards all of you,&#8221; Newsom claimed. &#8220;You know, this guy&#8217;s out there scapegoating vulnerable communities. He&#8217;s attacking minorities, attacking women, and I don&#8217;t like it. And I wanted to push back against it. And I felt like the party was a little timid on all this. I mean, you know, he&#8217;s out there talking about anti-woke, and I mean this, for me, it&#8217;s not anti-woke. What he really means is anti-black.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s out there censoring historic facts, he&#8217;s rewriting history,&#8221; Newsom claimed. &#8220;He was out there, you know, he eliminated AP African American Studies. He said slavery was somehow some workforce development program. And he doubled down on that. So for me, it&#8217;s a very serious moment where I just felt it was important to blow back against that, against that narrative, and hold these guys accountable on a network where they don&#8217;t hear from guys like me ever.&#8221;
Newsom&#8217;s claims about DeSantis attacking women and minorities were not supported by any evidence and his claims about Florida’s African American history curriculum was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-black-academic-who-co-created-floridas-african-american-history-curriculum-shreds-democrat-lies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inaccurate</a> at best.
The DeSantis War Room responded to Newsom&#8217;s remarks by saying: &#8220;Americans know that DeSantis has succeeded where Newsom has failed. And when Democrats have nothing substantive to say, they default to accusations of &#8216;racism.'&#8221;
&#8220;No wonder why Newsom&#8217;s wife had to throw the towel in for him during the Hannity debate,&#8221; the statement added.
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Gavin Newsom says he’s developed a lot of animus toward Ron DeSantis. 
Newsom lists all his reasons, saying that when DeSantis says he’s “anti-woke,” what he really means is he’s anti-Black.<a href="https://t.co/ELOVdzKGJB">pic.twitter.com/ELOVdzKGJB</a>
&mdash; Christopher Cadelago (@ccadelago) <a href="https://twitter.com/ccadelago/status/1735123095269371982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> predicted on Tuesday that President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> will not be the Democratic Party&#8217;s presidential nominee in 2024.
During a Fox News town hall in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a>, host Sean Hannity said Biden is &#8220;struggling cognitively&#8221; and asked Trump if he believes Biden will be the candidate for the Democrats in the next election.
&#8220;I personally don&#8217;t think he makes it, OK? I haven&#8217;t said that. I&#8217;m saving it for this big town hall. I&#8217;ve never really said that. I personally don&#8217;t think he makes it,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1732229682823610561" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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President Trump doesn&#39;t think Joe Biden will make it to the Election as the Democrat nominee:
&quot;I don’t think he makes it physically.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Aie3hhGm2K">pic.twitter.com/Aie3hhGm2K</a>
&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1732230144884973681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I think he&#8217;s in bad shape physically,&#8221; Trump also said, adding later, &#8220;mentally I would say he is possibly equally as bad, and maybe even worse.&#8221;
Biden is 81 while Trump is 77. Biden&#8217;s tendency to lose his train of thought while speaking, along with moments caught on camera where he has tripped or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-falls-while-standing-partially-on-ground-after-stopping-bicycle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fallen over,</a> have spurred concerns — even among Democrats — about Biden&#8217;s ability to lead effectively. Still, Biden, like Trump, is running as his party&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/latest-presidential-polls-trump-continues-dominance-as-biden-struggles-against-republican-candidates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clear frontrunner</a>.
Trump also responded to Biden telling donors earlier on Tuesday that he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-hes-not-sure-hed-be-running-for-re-election-if-trump-wasnt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;not sure&#8221;</a> he would be running for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2024-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">re-election in 2024</a> if Trump was not also seeking a second term.
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&#8220;Well, I think somebody gave him a talking point. They thought that would sound good,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-moments-trumps-hannity-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Some of the buzz that emerged from the town hall focused on Trump saying he would be a &#8220;dictator&#8221; on &#8220;day one&#8221; of his second term to crack down on border security and ramp up drilling for fossil fuels. &#8220;After that, I&#8217;m not a dictator,&#8221; Trump added.
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Trump: &quot;He says &#39;you&#39;re not going to be a dictator are you?&#39; I said no no no, other than Day 1. We&#39;re closing the border, and we&#39;re drilling drilling drilling. After that, I&#39;m not a dictator.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SZU6KiYd2l">pic.twitter.com/SZU6KiYd2l</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1732226813185720358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden&#8217;s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, issued a statement that <a href="https://twitter.com/ammarmufasa/status/1732234838281723965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “Donald Trump has been telling us exactly what he will do if he’s reelected and tonight he said he will be a dictator on day one. Americans should believe him.”
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Throughout the rest of the town hall, Trump offered up some policy ideas such as <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-06/trump-pledges-to-expand-drilling-to-pay-for-senior-benefits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expanding drilling to pay for senior benefits</a> and predicted he would win the Iowa caucuses next month. He trained much of his fire at Biden, who has warned voters <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/11/28/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-reception-denver-co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;democracy is at stake&#8221;</a> because of Trump and &#8220;extreme MAGA&#8221; Republicans.
&#8220;You know, I see Biden talking about, &#8216;Oh, MAGA! MAGA!&#8217; MAGA means Make America Great Again. That&#8217;s what it means. And that&#8217;s what people want,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-moments-trumps-hannity-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump said</a>, adding, &#8220;They want to see our country be great again. Right now we&#8217;re not a great country. We&#8217;re a country in decline. We are a declining country.&#8221;

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California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s wife reportedly ended the Fox News debate on Thursday night between Newsom and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
After the first 90 minutes of the debate were finished, moderator Sean Hannity said that he had more time to extend the debate. Both candidates agreed to stay and Newsom said that he would be &#8220;happy to do it.&#8221;
&#8220;We will take a break. They have agreed to stay,&#8221; Hannity said. &#8220;Well, that’s I guess the debate on the fly. We’ll continue on the other side and later have live post-debate coverage.&#8221;
Behind the scenes, however, the Newsom team was reportedly furious over the outcome of the debate, with Newsom adviser Sean Clegg claiming: &#8220;The debate was rigged.&#8221;
Much of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epic-contrast-between-freedom-vs-statism-commentators-weigh-in-on-desantis-newsom-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reaction on social media</a> to the debate was positive for DeSantis and negative for Newsom.
During the break before the extended portion of the debate, Newsom&#8217;s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, entered the room and intervened to end the debate, NBC News reported, citing multiple sources with the DeSantis campaign and another source that was unaffiliated with either side.
&#8220;We&#8217;re done,&#8221; she reportedly said.
POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/01/newsom-desanitis-debate-cheating-00129555" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that two sources, including a DeSantis campaign aide, said the Newsom&#8217;s wife had put a stop to the debate extension.
&#8220;Gavin Newsom got beat so badly last night his wife literally had to throw in the towel for him,&#8221; said DeSantis spokesperson Andrew Romeo.
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Newsom&#8217;s team claimed that both sides wanted to end the debate. DeSantis team strongly pushed back on those claims, saying that DeSantis was prepared to potentially go as long as three hours.
A spokesperson for Newsom claimed without evidence that there was a teleprompter set up that allowed DeSantis to see what was going to be asked. A Fox News spokesperson said this claim was not true.
Newsom&#8217;s team was also angered that DeSantis used printed images during the debate to show <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-desantis-shows-smut-featured-in-woke-childrens-books-in-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graphic material</a> taught in California schools and a map of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-desantis-shows-san-francisco-poop-map-during-newsom-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fecal matter</a> on the streets of San Francisco.
The Fox News spokesperson said that candidates were never told that they could not use props during the debate.

Second Republican Primary Debate Held At Ronald Reagan Presidential Library

‘We’re Done’: Newsom’s Wife Intervened To End Debate Against DeSantis, Report Says

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Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed Republican presidential candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> during an interview this week over remarks that he made during an interview with Tucker Carlson where Hannity said that Ramaswamy had suggested that certain politicians only had &#8220;selective moral outrage&#8221; caring about Israel because of &#8220;financial and corrupting influences that lead them exactly to speak the way they do.&#8221;
Ramaswamy denied Hannity&#8217;s framing of his remarks, saying that it was a &#8220;shameful mischaracterization.&#8221;
&#8220;Vivek, wait a minute, stop right now. You do this in every single interview,&#8221; Hannity responded. &#8220;You say stuff and then you deny it. You deny your own words. So, you know, why don&#8217;t you just always say and stand by it and stop playing these games?&#8221;
Ramaswamy said that he was owning his words and that he was talking about Azerbaijan and Armenia when he made the remarks. During his <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1711496189323952185" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conversation</a> with Carlson, Ramaswamy referenced &#8220;selective moral outrage&#8221; while saying that the conflict with Azerbaijan and the Armenia was not getting much attention because Azerbaijan had a powerful lobby in Washington, D.C.
&#8220;You&#8217;re not answering my question,&#8221; Hannity said. &#8220;Answer the question!&#8221;
A few minutes later, the interview grew more contentious after Ramaswamy suggested that some Republicans should be disqualified from being president during wartime because of defense sector-related jobs they have previously held.
&#8220;A lot of people don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re qualified because you weren&#8217;t even a Republican or voting Republican till what? 2020?&#8221; Hannity replied. &#8220;When did you first vote Republican?&#8221;
&#8220;Here&#8217;s your problem — you go on these shows, people quote your exact words, and you deny your own words,&#8221; Hannity later added.
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Amid cross-talk, Hannity yelled, &#8220;I am quoting your exact words!&#8221;
After Ramaswamy said that Hannity did directly quote his words — again saying that he was speaking of Azerbaijan and Armenia — Hannity said, &#8220;Thank you. Goodbye.&#8221;
The feed was cut just a few moments later.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s asinine to think somebody that worked in the defense industry should not be qualified to be president,&#8221; Hannity added after Ramawamy was cut. &#8220;I think people that never held public office, like you, maybe they&#8217;re not qualified to be president.&#8221;
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This is embarrassing and he should drop out. <a href="https://t.co/uGBB7lBYTR">pic.twitter.com/uGBB7lBYTR</a>
&mdash; Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1712665632263823727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As was made evident after the GOP&#8217;s second 2024 primary debate, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) relishes the spotlight even in hostile territory. He&#8217;s a slimy politician who rarely makes verbal errors. Sure, he lies through his teeth, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped his political success.
That made his reaction to Sean Hannity&#8217;s comment about President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental ability, or lack thereof, all the more interesting Wednesday night.
From the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Hannity tried goading Newsom into admitting that he wants to run for higher office in 2024. The two yukked it up, smiling and laughing as Hannity laid out the scene, positing that the pomp and circumstance might appeal to Newsom&#8217;s presidential ambitions.
&#8220;I know the truth, in your heart, in your mind, you want this,&#8221; Hannity said as Newsom grinned and shifted in his seat. &#8220;But you have basically gone on a media tour sucking up to Joe Biden, and you know he&#8217;s a cognitive mess.&#8221;
Newsom looked him dead in the eye, and said, &#8220;I also know he’s got an extraordinary record to run on,&#8221; before getting into a back-and-forth. (emphasis added)
It was easy to miss, but Newsom acknowledged that  Biden is a &#8220;cognitive mess.&#8221;
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Hannity: “You basically have gone on a media tour sucking up to Joe Biden, and you know he’s a cognitive mess.”
Newsom: “I also know he’s got an extraordinary record to run on…”
Did Newsom just admit Biden is a cognitive mess? <a href="https://t.co/WbOSjSteYr">https://t.co/WbOSjSteYr</a>
— Tim Meads (@TimMeadsUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimMeadsUSA/status/1707379661959811327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Given his political prominence and apparent lust for power, it stands to reason that Newsom knew what he was doing with that answer.
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By praising Biden, he gave himself cover and avoided overtly criticizing the president. Yet by gently admitting Biden&#8217;s obvious mental handicaps — and they are obvious— he opened the door for Democrats to consider another possibility.
Today, Newsom finds himself holding a great deal of power in choosing the late Sen. Diane Feinstein&#8217;s replacement pick.  Will he use that to his advantage to try and position himself in 2024 or beyond? Only time will tell.
For now, it seems evident that Biden is going to be the 2024 Democratic nominee. But should his health get in the way and actually force him off the ballot, Newsom has primed himself as the heir apparent.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) let President Joe Biden&#8217;s family have it during a recent appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Hannity,&#8221; saying that Americans being lectured about &#8220;privilege&#8221; by Biden was &#8220;like being lectured about gun safety by Alec Baldwin.&#8221;
Kennedy argued that the case surrounding President Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden was primarily rooted in the intersection of &#8220;privilege and sleaze,&#8221; and went on to lay out how he believed Hunter was the prime example of &#8220;privilege.&#8221;
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This may be Senator Kennedy&#39;s most SAVAGE takedown of the Biden Crime Family yet— You&#39;ll be in TEARS:
&quot;Huntergate is about two things: privilege and sleaze&#8230; President Biden and many members of the media lecture us incisively about the injustice of privilege. But to me, that&#39;s… <a href="https://t.co/YZwfBOfdEy">pic.twitter.com/YZwfBOfdEy</a>
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&#8220;Huntergate is about two things: privilege and sleaze,&#8221; Kennedy began. &#8220;First, the privilege. President Biden and many members of the media lecture us incessantly about the injustice of privilege, especially so-called &#8216;white privilege.&#8217; But to me, that&#8217;s like being lectured about gun safety by Alec Baldwin.&#8221;
Kennedy went on to point out that while the president and other members of his party routinely lecture Americans about privilege, &#8220;they never mention Hunter Biden, who is the epitome of privilege.&#8221;
&#8220;How did Hunter Biden earn those millions of dollars?&#8221; Kennedy asked then, referencing money the younger Biden had raked in through foreign business deals and time spent on the board of Burisma Holding. He then asked how smart Hunter could have been if he surrendered the now infamous laptop to a stranger despite the sensitive – and incriminating information — he&#8217;d stored on it.
&#8220;How smart is it to try to deduct your hookers on your federal income tax?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;The next time we are lectured about privilege, I want people to remember that.&#8221;
Kennedy then pivoted to his second point, saying that he knew the White House&#8217;s position was that Joe Biden had called Hunter and talked to his business partners &#8220;about the weather&#8221; because he was such a devoted father.
&#8220;If you believe that, you will never own your own home,&#8221; Kennedy said. &#8220;At a minimum. At a minimum, the evidence brought forth by the House and by Senator Grassley, by the way, in the Senate, is clarion clear that President Biden was well aware of what his son was doing, and he aggressively enabled it.&#8221;

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John Kennedy Savages Biden Family On Privilege: ‘Like Being Lectured About Gun Safety By Alec Baldwin’

John Kennedy Savages Biden Family On Privilege: 'Like Being Lectured About Gun Safety By Alec Baldwin'

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> announced on Wednesday evening that he has accepted California Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gavin-newsom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Newsom&#8217;s</a> debate challenge.
DeSantis accepted the challenge during an interview on Fox News with host Sean Hannity, who will host the debate.
When asked by Hannity what his answer was to Newsom&#8217;s offer, DeSantis responded: &#8220;Absolutely, I&#8217;m game.&#8221;
&#8220;Let&#8217;s get it done. Just tell me when and where we&#8217;ll do it,&#8221; DeSantis said as the audience cheered. &#8220;In one respect, the debate between California and Florida has already been had, as you suggest, people have been voting on that, they&#8217;ve been voting on it with their feet, they have fled California in record numbers.&#8221;
&#8220;Florida has been the number one state for net in-migration,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;We have the number one ranked economy, number one now in education, crime rate at a 50-year-low. But in another sense, this is the debate for the future of our country because you have people like Joe Biden, they would love to see the Californication of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden may not even be the nominee,&#8221; DeSantis added. &#8220;You could have Gavin Newsom, you could have Kamala Harris. And I think if we go down that direction, that&#8217;s going to accelerate American decline. We can&#8217;t see America decline anymore. We need to reverse.&#8221;
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The debate between California and Florida is already over. People have been voting with their feet for years.
But the debate about the future of our country is one we need to have.
I&#39;m game to talk about my plans to reverse the decline in this country anytime, anywhere, because… <a href="https://t.co/BbUKix8s5E">pic.twitter.com/BbUKix8s5E</a>
&mdash; Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis/status/1686916546826768384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The news comes as DeSantis is trailing only former President Donald Trump in the Republican Party presidential primary, according to The New York Times/Siena poll, which is rated by FiveThirtyEight as the <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1691080818444000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0fQaORxrTt51EoCGoMszCa">top poll</a> in the nation.
The poll found that no other candidates even come close to breaking into double digit territory with former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley all sitting at 3%. The remaining candidates all sit at 2% or less.
While Trump appears to be dominant at the moment with just over half of the vote in The New York Times/Siena poll, the poll <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/31/us/elections/times-siena-poll-republican-primary-toplines.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> that nearly half of the respondents who chose Trump in the poll — 46% — say that they are “considering other candidates.”
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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Ron DeSantis And Gavin Newsom Agree To Debate

BREAKING: Ron DeSantis And Gavin Newsom Agree To Debate

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-target-letter-outlines-3-federal-statutes-he-potentially-violated-in-alleged-efforts-to-overturn-election-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Former President Donald Trump</a> marveled at how <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-preparing-for-war-xi-jinping-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chinese President Xi Jinping</a> rules his country during a Fox News town hall Tuesday, calling the ruthless despot the &#8220;perfect&#8221; man to run the world&#8217;s biggest communist dictatorship.
Trump made the remarks Tuesday night in Iowa with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
“Think of President Xi. Central casting, brilliant guy. You know, when I say he’s brilliant, everyone says, ‘Oh that’s terrible,&#8217;” Trump said. “Well, he runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect. There’s nobody in Hollywood like this guy. I got them to pay us $28 billion because they screwed our farmers for years.”
Mediaite noted that Trump praised Xi during an interview in April on Fox News, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-praises-smart-brilliant-everything-perfect-xi-jinping-runs-1-4-billion-people-with-an-iron-fist/">saying</a>: “President Xi is a brilliant man. If you went all over Hollywood to look for somebody to play the role of President Xi, you couldn’t find, there’s nobody like that. The look, the brain, the whole thing. We had a great relationship.”
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Donald Trump on Chinese President Xi Jinping: &quot;Smart, brilliant, everything, perfect.&quot;
Why does this almost sound like an endorsement of Communist China? 
We should be ATTACKING President Xi for the evil man he is, not praising him!<a href="https://t.co/TVbuNvzRSh">pic.twitter.com/TVbuNvzRSh</a>
&mdash; Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProudElephantUS/status/1681508902045642752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Tuesday night town hall happened just hours after the former president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-expects-to-be-arrested-indicted-by-special-counsel-jack-smith-in-2020-election-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on social media that he had been notified that he was the target of special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s federal criminal investigation. The letter, which contained an offer for him to testify at trial, is a strong sign that he is likely to be indicted in the coming days.
“Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment,” Trump wrote on social media.
Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November to investigate both Trump’s handling of sensitive documents and his alleged efforts to overturn the election. The Washington grand jury is believed to be looking into Trump’s conduct in the time between the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021.

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Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom admitted during an interview this week that his state has not made any progress in fixing its homelessness crisis, despite throwing billions of dollars at the problem.
A recent <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-homeless-population-oakland-wood-street-encampment-78d42cc3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Wall Street Journal said that California &#8220;accounts for 12% of the U.S. population, has about half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless, an estimated 115,000 people, according to federal and state data last year.&#8221;
Newsom was asked about the crisis during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Monday night.
At one point Hannity tried showing Newsom charts of the problem, to which Newsom responded that he didn&#8217;t want to look at them.
&#8220;This state has not made progress in the last two decades as it relates to homelessness,&#8221; he admitted. &#8220;Because housing costs are too high, our regulatory thickets are too problematic, localism has been too impactful, meaning people locally are pushing back against new housing starts and construction.&#8221;
Newsom blamed former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who left office in 2011, for the state&#8217;s homelessness problem. The Wall Street Journal noted that California&#8217;s homeless population &#8220;grew about 50% between 2014 and 2022.&#8221;
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&#8220;I’ve been there four years. I can&#8217;t make up for the fact in 2005, we had a historic number of homeless under a Republican administration,&#8221; he claimed.
&#8220;Right now, there&#8217;s 171,000 estimated,&#8221; Hannity fired back.
Newsom admitted that it was &#8220;disgraceful,&#8221; saying, &#8220;I’m not here defending it.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t like what&#8217;s happening in streets and sidewalks,&#8221; he later added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like the bashing of my old city of San Francisco.&#8221;
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Newsom admits California has &#39;not made progress&#39; on homeless crisis when pressed by Hannity: &#39;We own this&#39; A third of the U.S.&#39;s entire homeless population and half of all unsheltered homeless people live in California&#8230;
&quot;This state has not made progress in the last two decades… <a href="https://t.co/fqXF0zkqBE">pic.twitter.com/fqXF0zkqBE</a>
&mdash; AɯƙɯαɾԃMαɱα™® (@Aspiemama_107) <a href="https://twitter.com/Aspiemama_107/status/1668397262412578816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Fox News host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sean-hannity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sean Hannity</a> laid out a timeline on his show this week outlining the sequence of events behind the current debt ceiling crisis, showing that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was calling for negotiations back at the start of year.
The segment, which aired on Monday night, comes as the Biden administration has largely refused to work with House Republicans on the debt ceiling.
McCarthy made the following series of statements:
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<li>January 24: &#8220;We have to negotiate over the debt. Our whole government is designed to have compromise. Republicans control the House. Democrats have a small majority in the Senate and he&#8217;s the president. He is playing with the financial markets of America by saying he wouldn&#8217;t negotiate.&#8221;</li>
<li>March 6: &#8220;That&#8217;s why I said to the president, let&#8217;s be rational, let&#8217;s be reasonable. And let&#8217;s sit down and negotiate.&#8221;</li>
<li>March 28: &#8220;When we were together at the prayer breakfast, he says we&#8217;re going to sit down the next day, told the entire Congress that we&#8217;re going to meet. At the Democratic retreat, he told the Democrats that they, that we were planning meetings, he&#8217;s never had one meeting. It&#8217;s been more than two months. Time is ticking.&#8221;</li>
<li>April 23: &#8220;He needs to show leadership and come to the negotiating table instead of put[ting] us in default.&#8221;</li>
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Hannity then laid out the responses from the White House about the debt ceiling over the same period of time:
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<li>Karine Jean-Pierre on January 13: &#8220;We will not be doing any negotiation over the debt ceiling.&#8221;</li>
<li>White House official on May 4: &#8220;Look, the president’s position is simple. Congress needs to take action to prevent default without hostage taking.&#8221;</li>
<li>President Joe Biden on May 9: &#8220;In the meantime, we need to take the threat of default off the table.&#8221;</li>
<li>Jean-Pierre on May 12: &#8220;We are not going to negotiate over the debt limit.&#8221;</li>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/seanhannity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SeanHannity</a> profiles <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerMcCarthy</a>&#39;s persistent demand that Biden negotiate with House R&#39;s on the debt limit.
Biden ignored McCarthy for months &amp; demanded a clean debt limit &amp; more spending &#8211; but now McCarthy backed Biden &amp; Democrats into a corner where they must negotiate. <a href="https://t.co/k1Uv1YljhS">pic.twitter.com/k1Uv1YljhS</a>
&mdash; Mark Bednar (@MarkBednar) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkBednar/status/1660826205019357187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Fox News is reportedly set to replace its entire primetime lineup with three of the network&#8217;s biggest hosts, according to a new report.
The Drudge Report reported Wednesday morning that Fox News host Sean Hannity will take over Tucker Carlson&#8217;s 8 p.m. time slot, while Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters will each get their own shows during primetime.
&#8220;Fox News is preparing to announce an ambitious new schedule,&#8221; the report said, &#8220;a schedule where every hour of primetime will change.”
&#8220;It&#8217;s our boldest and most fearless line-up ever,&#8221; a source told the site.
A Fox News spokesperson responded to the report in a statement saying that the network has not made any final decisions.
“No decision has been made on a new primetime line-up and there are multiple scenarios under consideration,” the statement said.
Watters, who had been rumored as a top candidate to replace Carlson, is currently a co-host on the network&#8217;s current highest-rated show, &#8220;The Five&#8221; at 5 p.m. Gutfeld is also a co-host on the show in addition to his own highly-rated late-night comedy show on the network at 11 p.m., &#8220;Gutfeld!&#8221;
The move comes after the network took its top-rated host Tucker Carlson off the air late last month in a move that sent shockwaves throughout the media landscape.
This report has been updated to include additional information.

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The two Nigerian brothers responsible for helping disgraced actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jussie-smollett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jussie Smollett</a> carry out his fake hate crime attack in 2019 apologized for the stunt during an interview this week.
Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, nicknamed Bola and Ola, made the apology during a Thursday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity.
Smollett, who formerly starred in “Empire,” paid $3,500 to the two brothers to carry out the orchestrated attack. Smollett was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jussie-smollett-found-guilty-on-multiple-counts-in-hate-crime-hoax-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted</a> in 2021 on five counts stemming from lies that he told law enforcement officials about the incident. In March 2022, he was sentenced to 150 days in county jail, but only ended up spending six days behind bars after an appeal.
&#8220;I just first want to apologize to everyone in the audience, the country, and anyone who might have been affected by this directly. When we were asked to partake in this, we really didn&#8217;t foresee the ramifications of what something like this could do to the country,&#8221; Ola Osundairo said. &#8220;We allowed our ambition to cloud our judgment.&#8221;
Smollett claimed that the men who attacked him were white and that they shouted racist and homophobic slurs at him and claimed that Chicago was &#8220;MAGA country.&#8221;
In a Fox News special about the incident, Abimbola told the network: “The police did ask us what Jussie’s motive was, but Jussie did not really tell me a motive.”
“[But] from what he was speaking about, or talking about, I would say what he wanted to accomplish was to increase his star level,” he continued.
“I thought he was a good actor, but I also thought this guy was a fraud,” Abimbola said, referencing Smollett’s attitude in interviews after the incident. “This guy is really just sitting here, lying to these people. Lying through his teeth, and not caring. … I did feel betrayed by Jussie and what he had done. I didn’t know what to do — I wasn’t ready to say anything. Like, I was mute. And I didn’t want to say anything.”
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“Insane. That’s when I really saw a different side of Jussie,” he said. “Like, dude, really? This is when I knew that this dude was like a supervillain.”
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