Former Washington Post and New York Times tech reporter Taylor Lorenz repeatedly refused to offer outright condemnation of vigilante violence like that allegedly perpetrated by Luigi Mangione against the late UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Lorenz, who faced backlash for her initial reaction to the broad-daylight execution of the insurance executive, joined Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday — and every time he pressed her on the issue, she tried to qualify Thompson&#8217;s murder by suggesting that insurance company policies provoked violence.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/taylor-lorenzs-horrible-take-on-suspected-murderer-luigi-mangione-just-got-ten-times-worse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lorenz</a> sparked outrage when, during an interview with CNN&#8217;s Donie O&#8217;Sullivan, she laughed off the idea that people were becoming &#8220;fans&#8221; of the alleged murderer, saying that he was seen as a &#8220;revolutionary, who&#8217;s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart. He’s a person who seems like he’s this morally good man, which is hard to find.&#8221;
She tried to explain her assessment in greater detail to Hannity.
&#8220;What I&#8217;m describing, and if you watch the full segment, not just the clip, you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;m just describing the mentality of these fangirls [who] show up outside Luigi&#8217;s court and show up outside his jail cell. Those girls are not me, OK? We have very separate belief systems. But I was describing how they believe,&#8221; she said.
But when Hannity pressed her, several times, to either condemn Mangione&#8217;s alleged actions or others&#8217; calls for assassinations, Lorenz deflected — and at one point, she joked, &#8220;Gosh, you&#8217;re gonna ask if I condemn Hamas next. This is insane!&#8221;
Hannity repeated his prompt several times, but Lorenz continued to pivot, complaining, &#8220;You want to talk about the assassination of innocent people? I believe that the tens of thousands of Americans [who] die each year because of the lack of health insurance. That is, to me, a violence in itself. That is assassination.&#8221;
Hannity tried once more, asking if those cheering on the death of another human being — a husband and a father — lacked &#8220;a soul, a conscience and a heart.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, what I will say, Sean, once again, is that I believe in free speech. I don&#8217;t believe in things like, you know, religious things like souls and all of these things.&#8221;

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Taylor Lorenz Refuses To Condemn Luigi Mangione: ‘Gosh, You’re Gonna Ask If I Condemn Hamas Next’

Taylor Lorenz Refuses To Condemn Luigi Mangione: 'Gosh, You're Gonna Ask If I Condemn Hamas Next'

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the media would not be successful in driving a wedge between him and his senior advisor, Elon Musk. 
Trump was asked about his relationship with Musk and the work of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project during an interview alongside Musk conducted by Fox News host Sean Hannity. Both men were effusive in their praise of each other and said that the media would not be able to break up their alliance. 
During the interview, Hannity said that the legacy media wanted a “divorce” between Trump and Musk, adding that “they want you two to start hating each other.” 
“Oh, I see it all the time,” Trump responded. “Actually, Elon called me, he said: ‘You know they&#8217;re trying to drive us apart?’ I said, absolutely.”
&#8220;It&#8217;s just so obvious,” he added. “They&#8217;re so bad at it. I used to think they were good at it, they&#8217;re actually bad at it, because if they were good at it, I&#8217;d never be president. Because I think nobody in history has ever got more bad publicity than me.”
“But you know what I have learned, Elon? The people are smart. They get it. They really see what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Trump added. 
The White House said this week that Musk, who has widely promoted the work of DOGE, is an “employee of the White House Office” and not the DOGE administrator. 
Musk said during the interview that one of the “biggest functions” of the DOGE team was to make “sure that the presidential executive orders are actually carried out.” 
“I just want to point this out, this is a very important thing, because the president is the elected representative of the people so he’s representing the will of the people. And if the bureaucracy is fighting the will of the people and preventing the president from implementing what the people want, then what we live in is a bureaucracy and not a democracy,” Musk said. 
Musk also praised Trump, saying he had not seen him do anything “cruel or wrong.” 
“I think President Trump is a good man,” Musk said. “The president&#8217;s been so unfairly attacked in the media, it&#8217;s really outrageous.”
When asked about their relationship, Trump praised Musk for his work with Starlink providing internet service to hurricane victims and projects at SpaceX. 
“I respect him, I’ve always respected him. I never knew that he was right about certain things,” Trump said. “I wanted somebody really smart to work with me in terms of the country.”

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Elon Musk says in an interview scheduled to air in full on Tuesday night that his first encountering someone who has so-called &#8220;Trump Derangement Syndrome&#8221; was like meeting someone on methamphetamines and who had also been infected with rabies.
The interview was conducted with Fox News host Sean Hannity, with President Donald Trump sitting beside Musk.
Hannity noted that he was surprised by how leftists have turned on Musk even though he supports initiatives like electric cars.
&#8220;I used to be adored by the Left,&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;Not anymore. Less so these days.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s this whole sort of, like, you know, they call it &#8216;Trump Derangement Syndrome,'&#8221; Musk said. &#8220;You don&#8217;t realize how real this is until you can&#8217;t reason with people.&#8221;
&#8220;I was at a friend&#8217;s birthday party in L.A., just a birthday dinner and it was a nice, quiet dinner,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And everyone was behaving normally. And I happened to mention, this was before the election, like, a month or two before, I happened to mention the president&#8217;s name.&#8221;
&#8220;And it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained, like, methamphetamine and rabies. Okay? And they&#8217;re, like, wah!&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And I&#8217;m, like, what is wrong? Guys, like, you can&#8217;t have, like, a normal conversation? They&#8217;ve become completely irrational.&#8221;
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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> on Wednesday blasted FEMA’s handling of natural disasters during the Biden administration, saying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the agency</a> was “getting in the way of everything.&#8221; 
Trump made the comments during an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-fema-faces-reckoning-after-biden-admin-not-done-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News&#8217;s Sean Hannity, suggesting that states should take control of their own disaster response while the federal government could help out with funding. In the same interview, Trump said he plans to visit North Carolina on Friday before heading to California to see the ongoing fire destruction. 
&#8220;FEMA has not done their job for the last four years. You know, I had FEMA working really well. We had hurricanes in Florida. We had Alabama tornadoes,” Trump said. “But unless you have certain types of leadership, it&#8217;s really, it gets in the way. And FEMA is going to be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I&#8217;d rather see the states take care of their own problems.”
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: FEMA is getting in the way of everything and the Democrats actually used FEMA not to help North Carolina. On Friday, I&#8217;m stopping in North Carolina&#8230; because those people were treated very badly. We&#8217;re going to get that thing straightened out&#8230; and then I&#8217;m… <a href="https://t.co/TxTPNfGKI2">pic.twitter.com/TxTPNfGKI2</a>
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As an example, Trump said that Oklahoma should lead the recovery if they get hit by a tornado. 
&#8220;I love Oklahoma, but you know what? If they get hit with a tornado or something, let Oklahoma fix it,” he said. “And then the federal government can help them out with the money. FEMA is getting in the way of everything, and the Democrats actually use FEMA not to help North Carolina.”
FEMA has faced scrutiny over its response to devastating flood damage caused by Hurricane Helene in September, with some communities in rural North Carolina and Tennessee saying the agency slow-walked its relief efforts. One whistleblower told Republicans on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure that FEMA had skipped <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-inspector-general-confirms-fema-probe-says-aid-should-not-be-politically-based" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entire neighborhoods</a> in North Carolina if there were three or more signs showing support for Trump or other conservatives.
That complaint was made after The Daily Wire revealed that a FEMA supervisor in Florida ordered relief works to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” 
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&#8220;The Democrats don&#8217;t care about North Carolina. What they&#8217;ve done with FEMA is so bad. FEMA is a whole &#8216;nother discussion, because all it does is complicate everything,&#8221; Trump said. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-fema-director-steps-aside-as-trump-takes-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deanne Criswell</a>, President Joe Biden&#8217;s FEMA chief, resigned on Monday. Former Navy SEAL Cameron Hamilton is currently the agency&#8217;s acting administrator.
Trump said North Carolinians “were treated very badly by Democrats.”
“We&#8217;re going to get that thing straightened out because they&#8217;re still suffering from a hurricane from months ago,&#8221; he said. 
From North Carolina, Trump will travel to Los Angeles County, California, where more than two dozen people have died after fires fueled by torrential winds had the nation&#8217;s most populous county on edge. Trump has accused top California Democrats like Governor Gavin Newsom of mishandling the fires.

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Former President Donald Trump described more details about the second attempt on his life on Tuesday night, praising the Secret Service agent who possibly prevented shots from being fired at the Republican nominee on Sunday.
Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-reveals-weakness-efforts-keep-him-safe-says-his-team-has-long-requested-more-manpower" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Sean Hannity that the apparent assassination attempt at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, is a &#8220;very different story&#8221; from when a shooter fired upon him in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. The former president praised the &#8220;very sharp agent&#8221; who saw the barrel of an AK-47-style rifle sticking out of a fence around 400 yards from where Trump was playing golf.
&#8220;In this particular case, you had a very sharp agent, as good as you could find, and did a fantastic job, but somebody could have missed the barrel of that rifle,” Trump said. “Somebody of lesser talents or somebody that was distracted could have missed or could have been shot, I mean, frankly, could have also been shot.”
&#8220;But in this case, it worked out very well,&#8221; he continued, adding, &#8220;Butler is a very different story. Somebody should have been on that building, and that&#8217;s a different story.&#8221;
Trump was shot in the right ear in Butler on July 13 after gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks gained access to a rooftop point just 130 yards away from the Republican nominee. Crooks fired eight shots and killed one rallygoer, Corey Comperatore, and wounded two other attendees.
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hawley-drops-report-on-trump-rally-security-failures-after-2nd-assassination-attempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> earlier this week on the security failures at Trump&#8217;s Butler rally. The report stated that the incident was the “most stunning breakdown in presidential security since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.”
Asked by Hannity if the Department of Homeland Security, which is over the Secret Service, has rejected any requests from the Trump campaign for more resources, Trump replied, &#8220;We have long requested more people.&#8221; He added that &#8220;if there&#8217;s a weakness&#8221; with his Secret Service protection, it&#8217;s that his detail needs more &#8220;manpower.&#8221;
&#8220;We have tremendous rallies and crowds, and that&#8217;s a good thing, but you need more protection,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I will say, in Butler, we wanted more protection &#8230; and we never seemed to get that.&#8221;
After the second assassination attempt on Trump, President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-secret-service-needs-more-help-after-2nd-attempt-on-trumps-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the Secret Service &#8220;needs more help,&#8221; and top lawmakers pushed for the agency to provide Trump with more protection.
“President Trump needs the most coverage of anyone. He’s the most attacked. He’s the most threatened, even probably more than when he was in the Oval Office,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawmakers-call-for-increased-secret-service-protection-for-trump-heres-what-former-agents-say-that-could-entail-185406861.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> earlier this week.
Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut also said Trump&#8217;s detail needs to be beefed up, saying the second assassination attempt &#8220;is deeply alarming and appalling.&#8221;

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Former President Donald Trump drew laughs and applause with an impromptu remark comparing mosquitos to &#8220;bad politicians that hate our country&#8221; during a town hall with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
Trump was in the middle of a sentence about President Joe Biden — and how quickly he had lost support in the polls after his disastrous debate performance in late June — when he paused to swat at what was apparently a mosquito.
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President Trump: &#8220;I hate mosquitos&#8230; we want nothing to do with them — and we want nothing to do with bad politicians that hate our country, too.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/pFmHhYegem">pic.twitter.com/pFmHhYegem</a>
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&#8220;He was down like 18 or 19 points after the debate,&#8221; Trump began waving his hand as if to swat something away. His expression changed then, and he smiled as he added, &#8220;I hate mosquitos, I&#8217;m surprised, I didn&#8217;t think we had — we don&#8217;t like those mosquitos running around. We want nothing to do with them.&#8221;
The crowd laughed and cheered, and Trump kept going: &#8220;And we want nothing to do with bad politicians that hate our country, too, if you want to know the truth.&#8221;
Trump also joked with Hannity about the fact that Fox News had offered to host a presidential debate on Wednesday — moderated by anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum — but that because Harris had refused to participate, they had opted for a town hall with Hannity instead.
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&#8220;Tonight — Fox offered a debate opportunity between you and Kamala Harris,&#8221; Hannity explained. &#8220;And I was not going to be here, but it was going to be Bret and Martha.&#8221;
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&#8220;This was supposed to be a debate,&#8221; Trump agreed. &#8220;I would have preferred — I think [Hannity] is a nice guy but I would have preferred a debate.&#8221;
&#8220;Thanks a lot,&#8221; Hannity joked.
&#8220;But this is the best we could do, Sean,&#8221; Trump replied.

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump slammed Vice President Kamala Harris during a town hall event on Wednesday for the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump made the remarks during the event with Fox News&#8217;s Sean Hannity in Pennsylvania.
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&#8220;They want open borders,&#8221; Trump said of the Democratic Party. &#8220;She wants open borders. Now she&#8217;s all of a sudden said, &#8216;Oh, I think we&#8217;ll close the borders.&#8217; She was the border czar, whether you like it or not, but, even if you don&#8217;t want to use that term, she was in charge of the border.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s the worst border in the history of the world, not just here,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s never been a country that allowed 21 million people to come in over a three-year period. There&#8217;s never been. And 21 million people, many of whom are from prisons, many of whom are murderers, and drug dealers, and child traffickers.&#8221;
Trump highlighted how many of the victims of Harris&#8217; open borders policies are women who are trafficked.
&#8220;They&#8217;re coming in now and they&#8217;re putting them in our Social Security accounts, and they&#8217;re putting them in Medicare,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And just one thing, if you take a look, take a look. Over the last week, I said this was going to happen. And it&#8217;s happening because these people are tougher than our criminals are, our criminals are nice people by comparison.&#8221;
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;[Kamala] wants open borders&#8230; She was the border czar, whether you like it or not&#8230; It&#8217;s the worst border in the history of the world. There&#8217;s never been a country that allowed 21 Million people to come in over a three year period.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/F6BzkTLBvg">pic.twitter.com/F6BzkTLBvg</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1831502384478208235?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Monday night that he believes President Joe Biden will stay in the race despite questions surrounding his health and mental capability following the debate.
Trump joined Fox News host Sean Hannity for a phone interview on Monday and was asked about Biden&#8217;s apparent mental decline. The former president told Hannity that Biden&#8217;s answers during the CNN debate on June 27 &#8220;didn&#8217;t make a lot of sense,&#8221; adding that some of his answers &#8220;were just words put together that had no meaning or sense.&#8221;
Despite Biden&#8217;s struggles during the debate, which resulted in calls for him to step aside from his re-election campaign, Trump said it&#8217;s likely that the president would stay in the race.
&#8220;It looks to me that he may very well stay in,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;He&#8217;s got an ego, and he doesn&#8217;t want to quit. He doesn&#8217;t want to do that.&#8221;
&#8220;Jill would like to see him stay. She&#8217;s having a good time,&#8221; Trump added, referring to the first lady. &#8220;And I&#8217;m hearing that Hunter is calling the shots, so this isn&#8217;t necessarily a positive thing for our country.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s comments came hours after Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-tells-congressional-dems-he-is-firmly-committed-to-staying-in-this-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent a letter</a> to congressional Democrats, doubling down on his intentions to stay in the race, writing that &#8220;despite all the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump.&#8221;
“The voters of the Democratic Party have voted. They have chosen me to be the nominee of the party,” Biden added in the letter. “Do we now just say this process didn’t matter? That the voters don’t have a say?”
Later in his interview with Hannity, Trump predicted that if the president were to drop out of the race, Democrats would tap Vice President Kamala Harris to be their nominee.
&#8220;It would seem to me from a political standpoint, that&#8217;s who they&#8217;re going with,&#8221; Trump told the Fox News host. &#8220;They&#8217;re not even talking about alternatives, and it seems if [Biden] gets out for whatever reason &#8230; it will be her.&#8221;
Trump called Harris &#8220;an ineffective person,&#8221; adding, &#8220;She was in charge of the border; she&#8217;s never been there. She didn&#8217;t do a good job.&#8221;
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Trump leads both Biden and Harris in polling on hypothetical 2024 matchups, and his lead against the president has grown in recent days, including in battleground states. Biden and <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/kamala-harris/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harris</a> also face approval ratings below 40% as the election approaches. Biden&#8217;s 38.8% approval rating is lower than each of his past three predecessors&#8217; ratings for this point of a presidential term, according to <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/approval-rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RealClearPolitics</a>.

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Trump Says Biden Will Likely Stay In The Race: ‘He’s Got An Ego, And He Doesn’t Want To Quit’

Trump Says Biden Will Likely Stay In The Race: 'He's Got An Ego, And He Doesn't Want To Quit'

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;

Trump Predicts Biden Won’t Be Dems’ 2024 Nominee

Trump Predicts Biden Won't Be Dems' 2024 Nominee

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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 like the 300th time Vivek has said something inflammatory, been presented with his own words verbatim, and feigned moral outrage that he was being somehow mischaracterized. 
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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Editor&#8217;s Note: This article has been expanded to include more context about Ramaswamy&#8217;s initial remarks.

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