On Monday, TIME magazine published an article called, “<a href="https://time.com/5857064/defunding-police-superheroes-onscreen/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_term=entertainment_movies&amp;linkId=92273219">We&#8217;re Re-examining How We Portray Cops Onscreen. Now It&#8217;s Time to Talk About Superheroes</a>,” in which the author, a staff writer for the magazine, rips into cops and superheroes simultaneously, stating, “What are superheroes except cops with capes who enact justice with their powers?”
Near the beginning of the piece, the author, Eliana Dockterman, argues that onscreen portrayals of police are too often positive, writing, “Legal procedurals and shoot-em-up action movies have long presented a skewed perception of the justice system in America, in which the police are almost always positioned as the good guys. These ‘good cop’ narratives are rarely balanced out with stories of systemic racism in the criminal justice system. The &#8216;bad guys&#8217; they pursue are often people of color, their characters undeveloped beyond their criminality.&#8221;
Dockterman then segues to linking those members of law enforcement with superheroes. “But as we engage in this long overdue conversation about law enforcement, it’s high time we also talk about the most popular characters in film, the ones who decide the parameters of justice and often enact them with violence: superheroes,&#8221; she writes.
She notes that superheroes have become &#8220;icons to more than just our children,&#8221; acknowledging that they are &#8220;beacons of inspiration,&#8221; including among protesters, who have &#8220;dressed as Spider-Man and Batman have turned up at recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations.&#8221;
While this inspiration appears to be positive, in Dockterman&#8217;s view it carries an insidious underlying message: figures there to promote justice, like law enforcement, are generally good.
&#8220;And yet what are superheroes except cops with capes who enact justice with their powers?&#8221; she asks.
Dockterman posits that most superheroes are white and “either function as an extension of a broken U.S. justice system or as vigilantes without any checks on their powers,” then continues, “In fact, real-life police officers sometimes adopt the symbolism of these rogue anti-heroes.”
She goes on to espouse the claim of “systemic racism” within the law enforcement community of the superhero universe, which she suggests has historically featured too many white men and which does not adequately &#8220;reckon with issues of systemic racism—let alone sexism, homophobia, transphobia and other forms of bigotry embedded in the justice system or the inherent biases these superheroes might carry with them as they patrol the streets, or the universe.&#8221;
Dockterman has expressed her feelings about roles being dominated by white men before. In July 2019, <a href="https://time.com/5626544/lashana-lynch-new-james-bond-movie/">writing</a> about the prospect of the new James Bond reportedly being played by a woman, actress Lashana Lynch, Dockterman opined, “Lynch’s ascension signals major progress for a franchise that has long felt trapped in the 20th century. Up until this point, the role of the world’s greatest secret agent has been played exclusively by white men. What’s more, James Bond’s sexism, racism and general recklessness have proven impossible to ignore in the year 2019.&#8221;
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A Time Magazine senior writer who covers sports has <a href="https://time.com/5770136/football-dangers-children/">written an op-ed</a> in which he decries the idea of parents letting their children watch football, declaring current knowledge of the possibility of brain damage suffered by players should preclude kids from watching the sport.
Sean Gregory writes of the 1980s and early 1990s, when he was growing up, “ … those were more innocent days. Back then, football fans were unaware of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the neurodegenerative disease associated with football brain trauma.”
Gregory has other, more political reasons he cites to buttress the position that his teenage son should not watch the sport, arguing:
<blockquote>But should I be O.K. with his watching the game? Don’t his eyeballs help support an enterprise that we know can damage its participants? This is on top of the laundry list of other reasons to tune out, like the stain of disturbing NFL domestic-violence incidents. Or the apparent blacklisting of a player, Colin Kaepernick, for a peaceful act of protest. Or a sudden dearth of African-American head coaches: three now, as opposed to seven in 2018. Around 60% of the NFL’s players are black. There are no African-American majority owners.</blockquote>
Metaphorically striking his forehead while issuing a mea culpa, he continues, “On Super Bowl Sunday, in what may be America’s foremost annual display of mass hypocrisy, around 100 million people will tune in. As a sportswriter who’s relished the opportunity to park myself in multiple Super Bowl press boxes, I’m even more compromised. Not only have I introduced my son to a problematic game, writing about it is part of my job.”
Gregory quotes Jim Taylor, a Bay Area psychologist, theorizing that in watching football, “you’re gaining enjoyment from other people’s suffering. There’s no doubt about that.”
Gregory also quotes Michael Bennett McNulty, a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, stating, “Without all the individuals supporting the sport, the harms wouldn’t happen. Saying one is complicit is right and justified.”
He quotes his fifth-grade son, who sounds like his father as he says of Colin Kaepernick, “Everyone is allowed to have political views. He might have different political views than the owners, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have a job. It would be different if he sucked. But he doesn’t suck. He carried a team to the Super Bowl.”
Gregory continues, “Though we could bond in other ways, Will’s deep love of football is now part of his personality. Abandoning the game would not just alter his fall Sunday routine but cause parental resentment my heart couldn’t bear. What I’ve realized, however, is that it’s also not O.K. to simply be spectators. As my son gets older, I have to be better about engaging him in age-appropriate conversations about the reality of the sport. Football may bring us joy, but it’s not unadulterated.”
Gregory contacted psychology professor Ira Hyman, a psychology professor who no longer watches the sport, and asked him if Gregory was a hypocrite. He writes that Hyman laughed, “I’m not going to call you a hypocrite,” prompting Gregory to conclude, “I suspect he’s just being nice.”
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Even though parents would rather protect their child&#8217;s innocence rather than talk about serious world issues, TIME offered up instructions on how they can best discuss the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani with their precious little tykes.
According to <a href="https://time.com/5760199/how-to-talk-kids-iran-soleimani/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_term=world_&amp;linkId=80220737">TIME</a>, President Trump&#8217;s drone strike against a known enemy of the United States – a man responsible for American deaths abroad and who increasingly threatened the region&#8217;s stability – has &#8220;fueled anxiety&#8221; among people, which may then lead children &#8220;to have lots of questions.&#8221;
&#8220;We realize this is a difficult topic to explain to kids,&#8221; says the magazine. &#8220;TIME for Kids is here to help. The guide below offers talking points for how to answer questions about this tough topic. It’s not intended to be used as a script. It’s meant to arm you with the information you need if you choose to bring up the topic or if kids ask questions about it.&#8221;
&#8220;Trust your instincts. You know your kids best,&#8221; it continues. &#8220;Use that knowledge to gauge the depth and breadth of your discussion. Sometimes, it’s best to let a child take the lead and only answer the questions that are asked. Often, brief and simple answers can satisfy a child’s curiosity.&#8221;
If the child were to inquire (and it&#8217;s doubtful any child would) about the identity of Qassem Soleimani, TIME instructed parents not to describe him as a terrorist bad guy (terms that children might understand and identify with) but rather a &#8220;top military leader in Iran, a country in the Middle East.&#8221; If asked by the little tyke on why the president took action against the Iranian, TIME essentially advises parents to blame it all on President Trump&#8217;s perception of Soleimani as a terrorist.
&#8220;President Donald Trump has called Soleimani a terrorist,&#8221; TIME says in its instruction. &#8220;Trump says Soleimani ordered attacks on American military and diplomats and was planning attacks against Americans in the Middle East. For this reason, Trump ordered the U.S. military to kill Soleimani. The drone attack took place at an airport in Baghdad, in Iraq. An Iraqi leader was also killed.&#8221;
After describing the spate of attacks that led to Soleimani&#8217;s death, including a Dec. 27 rocket strike killed one American civilian while wounding several U.S. service members, TIME tells parents to say that &#8220;Trump says Soleimani ordered these attacks.&#8221;
&#8220;U.S. military leaders gave Trump several choices for how to respond to Iran’s actions,&#8221; TIME continues. &#8220;Killing Soleimani was considered the most extreme. Some top U.S. military and government officials have expressed surprise and concern about Trump’s decision. But the President insists it was in America’s best interest.&#8221;
After covering several other topics, including fears about a potential war with Iran and the reinstatement of the draft, TIME then cites psychologist Paul Coleman to instruct parents on what they should do if their &#8220;child is feeling worried,&#8221; which would only be happening if parents are reckless enough to talk about the Iranian situation in the first place. Coleman, author of Finding Peace When Your Heart Is in Pieces, suggests following these SAFE steps:
<blockquote>Search for hidden questions or fears. Ask what else is on their mind about what happened, what their friends say about it, and what their biggest worry is right now.
Act. Keep routines going—homework, bedtime rituals, and so on—because they’re reassuring and distracting. “It is a good time to have them do kind things for others,” says Coleman.
Feel feelings. “Let them know their feelings make sense,” says Coleman. Let them talk it out and show that you understand.
Ease Minds. After you’re sure they’ve talked through their fears, you can assure them of their safety.</blockquote>

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TIME Teaches Parents How To Discuss Gen. Soleimani’s Death With Kids

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During Wednesday’s lengthy debate over the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Representative Al Green (D-TX), who has been at the forefront of calls for impeachment since Trump&#8217;s inauguration in 2017, made yet another case for impeaching the president before the House floor — albeit this time, with the blessing of congressional Democrats.  
But while presenting his case, Green stood in front of a notoriously misleading prop: A large version of the child-separation photo that went viral last summer, featuring a lonely two-year-old Honduran girl crying next to U.S. Border Patrol agents. 
“We cannot allow any person to be beyond justice in this country. In the name of democracy, on behalf of the republic, and for the sake of the many who are suffering,” declared Green, while gesturing to the photo, which is adorned with the words “IMPEACH NOW” in bright-red capital letters. “I will vote to impeach and I encourage my colleagues to do so as well.”
As The Daily Wire<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-says-girl-never-separated-border-mom-paid-ryan-saavedra"> reported</a> last year, the little girl in the photo quite literally became the poster child for the Trump administration’s “family separation policy” — a policy that actually had been enacted years before Trump assumed office. 
However, after Time Magazine put the girl on its front cover alongside the caption “Welcome To America,” the Border Patrol agents involved in the photo went to CBS News and revealed that the child was never actually separated from her mother. 
&#8220;They&#8217;re using it to symbolize a policy and that was not the case in this picture,&#8221; Border Patrol agent Carlos Ruiz told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-patrol-agent-involved-dramatic-photo-girl-crying-at-border-speaks-out/">CBS News</a>. &#8220;It took less than two minutes. As soon as the search was finished, she immediately picked the girl up, and the girl immediately stopped crying.&#8221;  
The news agency confirmed that the mother and daughter had not been separated, and the Border Patrol agents emphasized that the agency treats people “as humanely and as best as we possibly can.” 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/18/i-wanted-to-stop-her-crying-the-image-of-a-migrant-child-that-broke-a-photographers-heart/">The Washington Post</a>, which had published the photo under a headline that referenced how the little girl “broke” the “photographer’s heart,” issued a correction to the piece several days later after speaking with the girl’s father and correctly noted that she was never separated from her mother.
Time Magazine itself was forced to issue a correction over an article about the photo, saying “the original version of this story misstated what happened,” and that “the girl was not carried away screaming by U.S. Border Patrol agents,” the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/22/the-crying-honduran-girl-on-the-cover-of-time-was-not-separated-from-her-mother-father-says/">Post</a> reports, in a different article explaining the matter. Nonetheless, Time Magazine maintained that placing the little girl on the cover of the magazine was appropriate. 
“The June 12 photograph of the two-year-old Honduran girl became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for a reason,” reads Time Magazine’s statement justifying the cover. “Under the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this week, those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in turn resulted in the separation of children and parents. Our coverage and our reporting captures the stakes of this moment.”

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Who will be the TIME Person of the Year for 2019? Will it be climate change activist Greta Thunberg? The Whistleblower? Nancy Pelosi? The choice is yours to make.
On Monday, the magazine unveiled its short list of finalists on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today,&#8221; which included more than a few of President Trump&#8217;s friends and foes — including Greta Thunberg, soccer star Megan Rapinoe, and the infamous whistleblower who helped prompt the ongoing House impeachment proceedings.
&#8220;The teen activist has become a prominent face in the fight to save the environment in the face of climate change,&#8221; the outlet said of Thunberg. &#8220;The 16-year-old from Sweden was the catalyst in a host of student-led strikes involving more than a million students across the world in the last two years when she began spending her school days protesting outside the Swedish parliament.&#8221;
When speaking of &#8220;The Whistleblower,&#8221; &#8220;Today&#8221; described the mysterious fellow as an &#8220;anonymous CIA officer shook up the U.S. government by triggering the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.&#8221;
If the whistleblower were selected, it would be the second time since 2002 that the magazine selected whistleblowers for the top slot.
&#8220;A group of whistleblowers were previously selected for the honor by TIME in 2002 for bringing to light the massive accounting scandals at Enron and Worldcom as well as the FBI&#8217;s mishandling of information from the 9/11 attacks,&#8221; reported the outlet.
Also included on the list is none other than LGBT icon soccer player Megan Rapinoe, who became the most notoriously left-wing athlete since Colin Kaepernick after helping lead the U.S. to victory in the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup.
&#8220;Rapinoe also sparred with President Donald Trump during the World Cup run after saying she would never visit the White House if the team won the tournament,&#8221; the outlet said of Rapinoe. &#8220;She also has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights since publicly coming out as gay in 2012 and has joined with her teammates on the U.S. women&#8217;s national team to fight to receive equal pay with the U.S. men&#8217;s national team.&#8221;
Of those listed by TIME, the most unifying pick that all Americans would perhaps rally behind is the Hong Kong protesters:
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Waves of demonstrations have swept across the special administrative region of China in response to proposed amendments to Hong Kong&#8217;s extradition law. The change would allow the Hong Kong government to extradite people to mainland China, where human rights groups have said citizens are often arbitrarily imprisoned for speaking out against the government. Critics of the bill have viewed it as the Chinese government in Beijing trying to exert more control over Hong Kong.
The protests began in earnest in June, when more than a million people protested against the bill in front of Hong Kong&#8217;s legislature, with police firing rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd. The bill has been indefinitely suspended, but pro-democracy protests have continued for months, including a transportation strike and demonstrators taking over the Hong Kong airport. They also have demanded that the nearly 5,000 protesters who have been arrested be released as well as universal suffrage for Hong Kong citizens.
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Should TIME select the Hong Kong protesters, it would be a bold move and signify the magazine&#8217;s willingness to buck the current cultural trend of catering to the Chinese government.
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump, President Xi Jinping, and Mark Zuckerberg were also among the finalists.

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This week&#8217;s cover of TIME will feature an orange cartoon version of President Trump cornered in fright as orange paint on the adjacent walls boxes him in. See it yourself:
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Trump, cornered, on this week&#39;s cover of <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TIME</a> <a href="https://t.co/KIKul5R4Ev">pic.twitter.com/KIKul5R4Ev</a>
&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1177242836690972673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Obviously, the cover comes in response to the Democratic Party&#8217;s attempt to launch an impeachment inquiry based on a flimsy whistleblower report in which an unnamed intelligence official effectively attempts to smear President Trump as pressuring the country of Ukraine to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden based entirely on third-party hearsay. Of course, TIME has engaged in this sort of bias against the president on more than one occasion — such as its cover from June of last year that featured a smug Trump standing over a crying illegal immigrant child:
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TIME’s new cover: ‘Welcome to America’ <a href="https://t.co/AioggFYKUj">pic.twitter.com/AioggFYKUj</a>
&mdash; Antonio Arellano (@AntonioArellano) <a href="https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/1009916882554703872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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And just like the implication of the &#8220;orange man bad&#8221; cover provided by TIME this week, the illegal immigrant child cover turned out to be misleading: The featured girl was not separated from her parents at the border (as was implied), but was taken from her family in Honduras by her mother and was only crying due to hunger and dehydration. As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/time-magazines-shocking-cover-total-lie-no-wonder-ben-shapiro">explained at the time</a>:
<blockquote>The cover is total bull. It’s not just total bull because Trump hasn’t implemented a newly-developed policy of separating children from parents — that’s an operation of law under the Flores settlement as modified by a 2016 Ninth Circuit court ruling. It’s bull because this particular child wasn’t separated from her mother, her mother wasn’t fleeing persecution but did falsely claim asylum, her mother did put the child in danger, and Trump was targeted by the media for treating this mother and child exactly the same way the Obama administration would have.
Here’s the real story.
The little girl is from Honduras. She wasn’t separated from her mother; she was crying because her mother was crossing illegally into the United States and the little girl was “tired and thirsty,” according to Border Patrol.</blockquote>
After being caught in a blatant lie, TIME attempted to play the &#8220;factually accurate but morally true&#8221; card by saying the cover accurately reflected the essence of the Trump administration&#8217;s policy at the southern border.
&#8220;The June 12 photograph of the 2-year-old Honduran girl became the most visible symbol of the ongoing immigration debate in America for a reason: Under the policy enforced by the administration, prior to its reversal this week, those who crossed the border illegally were criminally prosecuted, which in turn resulted in the separation of children and parents. Our cover and our reporting capture the stakes of this moment,&#8221; TIME said in a statement.
As to whether or not Trump is actually frightened and cornered in the wake of this &#8220;whistleblower&#8221; report, the president has made his opinion clear that this is yet another political witch hunt and that he will fight back, accordingly.
&#8220;A whistleblower with second hand information? Another Fake News Story! See what was said on the very nice, no pressure, call. Another Witch Hunt!&#8221; Trump tweeted on Thursday

President Trump Holds News Conference In New York As World Leaders Gather In NYC For United Nations General Assembly

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The media are falling over themselves trying to combat &#8220;fake news,&#8221; and in doing so, show how out of touch they are.
On Friday, President Donald Trump tweeted out a short video based on an October Time Magazine cover that showed Trump campaign signs with election dates well past 2020. In the video shared by the president, an extra campaign sign appears in the upper corner of the magazine and Trump stands above it. The dates continue to go up until the calculator error sign &#8220;EEEEEE&#8221; appears and is replaced by &#8220;TRUMP 4EVA.&#8221; You can see the video for yourself below.
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It was a silly video and yet, anti-Trump journalists&#8217; heads exploded, claiming the president made it clear in the dumb video that he intended to be a dictator and refuse to give up the presidency when his term is over, whether in January 2021 or in 2025. For example, New York Times reporter Kenneth Vogel tweeted:
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FUNNY? The President of the United States just tweeted a video that envisions him remaining in the office for eternity in defiance of both human mortality &amp; the 22nd amendment to the United States Constitution.
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FUNNY? The President of the United States just tweeted a video that envisions him remaining in the office for eternity in defiance of both human mortality &amp; the 22nd amendment to the United States Constitution. <a href="https://t.co/wsvbDENhMw">https://t.co/wsvbDENhMw</a>
&#8212; Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) <a href="https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1142160952785285120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Several hours after Trump tweeted his video, TIME, apparently thinking Twitter users are too stupid to realize Trump&#8217;s video was a joke, responded to his tweet saying, &#8220;The animation you shared is a manipulated version of the Oct. 22, 2018, cover of TIME,&#8221; before offering &#8220;the real one.&#8221;
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The animation you shared is a manipulated version of the Oct. 22, 2018, cover of TIME. Here&#8217;s the real one <a href="https://t.co/P0WF2nSeNH">pic.twitter.com/P0WF2nSeNH</a>
&#8212; TIME (@TIME) <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1142178303656288256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The media have not been able to come to grips with the fact that Trump and his followers are good at trolling. They are so interested in throwing the &#8220;fake news&#8221; claim back against Trump (a term they first started using, by the way) that they have begun fact checking silly videos.
This isn&#8217;t the first time media has overreacted to a video, though at least, so far, they haven&#8217;t doxed the person who made this animation for Trump.
Earlier this month, after a slowed-down video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) that made her look drunk made the social media rounds, The Daily Beast took it upon themselves to not only name the private citizen who made the video, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47953/walsh-facebook-just-doxxed-one-its-own-users-matt-walsh">but point out his criminal history</a>.
Not only did the Beast out this person, but Facebook willingly and immediately gave up his private user information.
And we can&#8217;t forget the time CNN outed the random Reddit user who made a gif that depicted Trump punching the CNN logo. After airing the random user&#8217;s dirty laundry and threatening to name him if he ever made another gif CNN didn&#8217;t like, it turned out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/18286/breaking-cnn-may-have-targeted-wrong-reddit-meme-ben-shapiro">he wasn&#8217;t even the one</a> who made the gif that Trump tweeted.

TIME Magazine Wants Everyone To Know Trump Shared A ‘Manipulated Version’ Of Their Cover

The source of a quote attributed to Donald Trump about &#8220;Sleepy Joe Biden&#8221; and Kim Jong Un that was widely promoted by media figures and Trump critics has acknowledged online that he fabricated the &#8220;objectively ludicrous quote.&#8221; Trump has since responded by pointing to the incident as another example of &#8220;what&#8217;s going on in the age of Fake News.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump in Tokyo: &#8216;Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden,'&#8221; Time Magazine foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large Ian Bremmer tweeted Sunday.
As the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ian-bremmer-defends-and-then-deletes-false-trump-statement-about-north-korea">Washington Examiner </a>and <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/26/ian-bremmer-fake-trump-quote/">The Daily Caller</a> noted, the quote was left up for several hours, while various critics of Trump promoted it, among them Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu, Media Matters&#8217; Andrew Lawrence, and CNN contributor Ana Navarro &#8212; the latter urging people not to &#8220;shrug&#8221; the quote off and declaring Trump&#8217;s supposed comment &#8220;praising a cruel dictator who violates human rights, threatens nuclear attacks, oppresses his people, and kills political opponents&#8221; as &#8220;NOT FREAKING NORMAL.&#8221;
As documented by the Examiner&#8217;s Jerry Dunleavy, after the tweet went viral, Bremmer initially posted a defense of his fake quote, describing it as &#8220;plausible&#8221; and saying it was a comment on &#8220;the state of the media and the twitterverse today.&#8221; But amid mounting pressure, Bremmer ultimately chose to delete the &#8220;objectively ludicrous quote.&#8221;
&#8220;If this alleged quote from Trump is accurate, it&#8217;s a huge propaganda win for the disgusting murderous tyrant that is King Jong Un,&#8221; Dunleavy initially posted. &#8220;But if this quote is fabricated, it&#8217;s a truly deceitful piece of Fake News. And I&#8217;d like more than just Ian Bremmer&#8217;s say-so before I decide which.&#8221; Dunleavy added in an update that Bremmer &#8220;has now admitted that he fabricated this viral Trump quote. And yet it is being shared by journalists and congressmen as if it is real.&#8221;
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&#8212; Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1132716704927297536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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President Trump has since responded to the &#8220;MADE UP&#8221; quote, framing the sequence of events as another example of how things operate in &#8220;the age of Fake News.&#8221;
&#8220;[Ian Bremmer] now admits that he MADE UP &#8216;a completely ludicrous quote,&#8217; attributing it to me,&#8221; Trump tweeted early Monday. &#8220;This is what&#8217;s going on in the age of Fake News. People think they can say anything and get away with it. Really, the libel laws should be changed to hold Fake News Media accountable!&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/ianbremmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ianbremmer</a> now admits that he MADE UP &#8220;a completely ludicrous quote,&#8221; attributing it to me. This is what&#8217;s going on in the age of Fake News. People think they can say anything and get away with it. Really, the libel laws should be changed to hold Fake News Media accountable!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132933851133534210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Though Trump did not say that Kim Jong Un would make a better president than Biden, he did tweet over the weekend that he &#8220;smiled&#8221; when the dictator described Biden as &#8220;a low IQ individual,&#8221; as Trump has repeatedly.
&#8220;The North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me,&#8221; Trump tweeted Sunday. &#8220;I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, &amp; also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, &amp; worse. Perhaps that&#8217;s sending me a signal?&#8221;
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North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, &amp; also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, &amp; worse. Perhaps that&#8217;s sending me a signal?
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132459370816708608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Asked by NBC News&#8217; Chuck Todd about the president&#8217;s tweet on Sunday, Sanders stressed that Trump&#8217;s &#8220;not siding&#8221; with the North Korean dictator over the former Vice President of the United States; rather, the two simply &#8220;agree in their assessment of former Vice President Joe Biden,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/sarah-sanders-meet-the-press.html">The New York Times</a> reports. &#8220;[T]he president&#8217;s focus in this process is the relationship he has and making sure we continue on the path towards denuclearization,&#8221; she added. &#8220;That&#8217;s what he wants to see and that&#8217;s certainly what the people in this region want to see.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47701/ex-cnn-contributors-network-openly-despises-james-barrett">Ex-CNN Contributors: Network &#8216;Openly Despises Conservatives,&#8217; Has Become The &#8216;Hate Trump&#8217; Network</a>

Time Columnist Posts Quote From Trump That Goes Viral, Then Admits It Was Fake; Trump Responds

Joe Biden

North Korea

Along with James Woods and Pat Sajak, actress Patricia Heaton is one of the great gifts to conservatives on social media. When she&#8217;s not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19766/iceland-exterminates-down-syndrome-babies-patricia-paul-bois">advocating for the unborn</a> (or for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/35371/actress-patricia-heaton-slams-journalist-over-pope-frank-camp">integrity of the Catholic Church</a>), she&#8217;s tearing off the mainstream media&#8217;s veneer of objectivity to expose the biased agenda underneath. Her latest target: the TIME &#8220;Person of the Year&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39227/heres-who-time-magazine-should-have-nominated-2018-joseph-curl">nominee list</a>, which offered a line of candidates leaning heavily left.
Among those listed in the top 10 for the coveted TIME prize on Monday were the likes of Christine Blasey Ford, the &#8220;Separated Families&#8221; at the border, and the March for Our Lives Activists. Robert Mueller also got a plug as well as President Trump, the latter for derision, the former for praise. But Patricia Heaton has another suggestion: actor Gary Sinise, whose charitable foundation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39237/look-amazing-gift-one-hollywood-star-spearheaded-hank-berrien">treated 2,000 children of Gold Star families</a> to Disney World just two weeks before Christmas.
On Twitter, Heaton wondered aloud, &#8220;Hey <a data-focusable="true" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/TIME">@TIME</a>, why isn&#8217;t <a data-focusable="true" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/GarySinise">@GarySinise</a> ever on the Person of the Year list? Hey <a data-focusable="true" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/TheAcademy">@TheAcademy</a>, why isn&#8217;t he ever picked for the <a data-focusable="true" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/jeanhersholt?src=hashtag_click">#jeanhersholt</a> humanitarian award? He raises $30M a year to build homes for wounded vets along with his <a data-focusable="true" href="https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/goldstarfamily?src=hashtag_click">#goldstarfamily</a> support. Retweet!&#8221;
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TIME</a> , why isn&#8217;t <a href="https://twitter.com/GarySinise?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GarySinise</a> ever on the Person of the Year list? Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAcademy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheAcademy</a> , why isn&#8217;t he ever picked for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/jeanhersholt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#jeanhersholt</a> humanitarian award? He raises $30M a year to build homes for wounded vets along with his <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/goldstarfamily?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#goldstarfamily</a> support. Retweet! <a href="https://t.co/pj7BGEN7Ds">https://t.co/pj7BGEN7Ds</a>
&#8212; Patricia Heaton (@PatriciaHeaton) <a href="https://twitter.com/PatriciaHeaton/status/1072254090648809472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Gary Sinise treated the Gold Star children to Disney World via his Snowball Express program, which, according to the organization&#8217;s<a href="https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/snowball-express/"> website</a>, serves &#8220;the children of fallen military heroes.&#8221;
&#8220;In 2017, Snowball Express became an official Gary Sinise Foundation program,&#8221; the organization says of itself. &#8220;We are committed to maintaining the wonderful traditions while finding new and exciting ways to serve our families of the fallen.&#8221;
Children get to enjoy a five-day event of fun and inspiration this December, thanks to the work of Snowball Express. This year, the kids got Disney World. Sinise joined in the fun alongside the kids a few days after their departure.
&#8220;The holidays can be especially challenging for grieving families,&#8221; explains the Snowball Express site. &#8220;Each December, we host a five-day experience for 1,750+ children of the fallen and their surviving parent or guardian. As a therapeutic retreat with a blend of fun and inspiring programs, these families can lean on their peers for support.&#8221;
To Patricia Heaton&#8217;s point, why isn&#8217;t Gary Sinise among the nominees for TIME&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year,&#8221; or any one of the other perfectly qualified nominees listed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39227/heres-who-time-magazine-should-have-nominated-2018-joseph-curl">here</a> by The Daily Wire&#8217;s Joe Curl? Could it be that in 2018, the media organization is more concerned with pushing a political and social agenda than it is about promoting deserving people or movements that bring positive social change? Past winners, such as 2014&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-ebola-fighters-choice/">Ebola Fighters</a>&#8221; and, yes, 2016&#8217;s Donald Trump, indicate that making an objective choice free of ideological trend-setting is perfectly within the realm of possibility for TIME&#8217;s editorial staff; no reason why 2018 should be any different.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/39227/heres-who-time-magazine-should-have-nominated-2018-joseph-curl">Here&#8217;s Who Time Magazine SHOULD HAVE Nominated for 2018 &#8216;Person Of The Year&#8217;</a>

Patricia Heaton Has The Perfect TIME ‘Person Of The Year’ Suggestion In Light Of Recent Events

Time magazine on Monday revealed its Top 10 list of nominees for 2018&#8217;s &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221; And it was everything you&#8217;d expect.
Of course there were &#8220;Separated Families,&#8221; and Christine Blasey Ford, and the March For Our Lives Activists, and Robert Mueller, and Baba Yaga Vladimir Putin, and Meghan Markle. And the liberal mag even nominated President Trump, mainly so it could say he spent his second year in office &#8220;navigating crises involving both himself and his staff, attacking an encircling investigation implicating people close to him, and enacting several controversial policies, ranging from separations at the border to an international trade war with China.&#8221;
But we&#8217;re here to drop our own list of who should have been nominated for &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221;
The California Firefighters
The &#8220;Camp Fire&#8221; in northern California was the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in the state&#8217;s history, responsible for at least 85 civilian fatalities and the destruction of more than 18,000 structures and 153,000 acres. Firefighters battled the blaze for more than two weeks; five were injured. Meanwhile, the &#8220;Woolsey Fire&#8221; raged through Los Angeles and Ventura counties, killing three and destroying more than 1,600 homes and nearly 100,000 acres. That fire was fully contained in eight days. The loss of life and the destruction of property would have been far greater had it not been for the brave firefighters who worked round the clock.
The U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Troops
To the delight of liberals &#8212; some of whom reportedly bankrolled the operation &#8212; thousands of Central Americans marched to the U.S.-Mexico border in September and October. To counter the danger, Trump dispatched thousands of U.S. troops to the border, in case things went badly. And they did. On November 25, hundreds of refugees stormed the border, forcing the U.S. Border Patrol and Army troops to fire tear case and rubber bullets into the mob. The situation was volatile, but quickly defused by the display of power. Again, had the U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. troops not been there, things could have been a lot worse.
Brett Kavanaugh
The newest Supreme Court Justice, Brett Kavanaugh, has devoted his life to public service. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in his early 30s, worked with federal prosecutors for a decade and joined the George W. Bush White House as associate counsel. Bush nominated him to the U.S. District Court of Appeals, where he worked for another 12 years.
In a last-minute bid to derail his nomination to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats trotted out allegations from 36 years ago to impeach his character. The allegations were never corroborated &#8212; not even by people the accuser said were witnesses. But the Democrats had gotten their wish, just like with Justice Clarence Thomas: They&#8217;d impugned a good man&#8217;s character, all in the name of politics. Still, Kavanaugh never caved, and he sits on the High Court today.
J.J. Watt 
While other NFL payers were busy taking a knee to diss America, the Houston Texans defensive lineman decided to take as different tack.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sitting here watching the news and checking the Internet and seeing everything that&#8217;s going on with Hurricane Harvey and the damage it&#8217;s causing back home,&#8221; Watt said in a video he posted to Instagram on August 27, 2017. &#8220;It&#8217;s very difficult. That&#8217;s our city. It&#8217;s very tough to watch your city get hit by such a bad storm and not be there to help. Not be there to help with the recovery. Not be there to help with the process. It&#8217;s very tough.&#8221;
He made a simple request: &#8220;Please donate to help these people out.&#8221; And the money flowed in &#8212; more than $41 million to be exact. Now that&#8217;s making a difference.
Trenton Lewis
Never heard of Trenton Lewis? Most people hadn&#8217;t until a story appeared that told of his daily struggles. Lewis, 21, is raising a child on his own, 14-month old Karmen. &#8220;My pride is strong,&#8221; he told CNN. &#8220;Whatever she needs, I&#8217;m the person who is supposed to provide it for her.&#8221;
So every day, he walked 11 miles to get to his job for his 4 a.m. shift. He did that for seven months, never telling anyone. But his co-workers at a UPS facility in Little Rock, Arkansas, found out and they set out to make things better for Lewis. They raised $2,000 and got him a car. Then they called him into a meeting to surprise him with the keys to a 2006 Saturn Ion.
It was a small act, but the story exploded on the internet. Seems people like a bit of good news, too.
Aaron Feis
Aaron Feis was an assistant coach on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School football team in Parkland, Fla. When a former student began a shooting spree at the high school, Feis reportedly ran toward the gunfire and used his body to shield three students from the shooter. He suffered a gunshot wound and died after he was rushed into surgery, one of 17 to perish that day.
&#8220;He died the same way he lived &#8212; he put himself second,&#8221; said the school&#8217;s football program spokesman Denise Lehtio. &#8220;He was a very kind soul, a very nice man. He died a hero.&#8221;
Yes, Feis didn&#8217;t marry a prince or accuse a Supreme Court nominee of sexual impropriety, but he changed the lives of all those around him, making him an ideal &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221;
Operation Homefront
Operation Homefront&#8217;s mission is &#8220;to build strong, stable, and secure military families so they can thrive &#8212; not simply struggle to get by &#8212; in the communities they have worked so hard to protect.&#8221;
&#8220;Occasionally, military families struggle and need help with rent or mortgage payments, major repairs, utility bills, or groceries. Operation Homefront has fulfilled over 38,000 requests from military families across the U.S., providing more than $22.5 million in relief through our Critical Financial Assistance program. At Operation Homefront, 92 percent of expenditures go toward delivering our programs and services,&#8221; says the group.
The group also sponsors a &#8220;Military Child of the Year&#8221; award that goes to a child &#8220;who has designed a bold and creative solution to address a local, regional or global challenge.&#8221; Seems that winner&#8217;s work will be a bit more valuable than Bob Mueller&#8217;s.
Kevin Hart
Comedian and actor Kevin Hart&#8217;s worth a cool $150 million. He doesn&#8217;t need the headache of being the host of the 2018 Academy Awards, but he took on the job just the same (even though critics almost always roast the host). Within 48 hours, he was booted. Why? Because Hart said the words &#8220;gay&#8221; and &#8220;fag&#8221; on his Twitter feed years ago.
Hart did the right thing: &#8220;I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past,&#8221; he wrote on Twitter. But when the mob demanded another pound (or 80) of flesh, Hart said nuh uh.
&#8220;I swear, our world is becoming beyond crazy, and I&#8217;m not gonna let the craziness frustrate me or anger me, especially when I&#8217;ve worked hard to get to the mental space that I&#8217;m at now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m almost 40 years old. If you don&#8217;t believe that people change, grow, evolve as they get older, I don&#8217;t know what to tell you.&#8221; Exactly right.

Here’s Who Time Magazine SHOULD HAVE Nominated for 2018 ‘Person Of The Year’

California

Fire

Robert Mueller

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

<a href="http://time.com/5475133/time-person-of-the-year-2018-shortlist/">Time magazine</a> named Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin the Man of the Year in back to back years in the 1930s.
So without further ado, here&#8217;s their list of nominees for 2018, this time for Person of the Year (the title changed in 1999).
The 10 finalists are:
Separated Families
&#8220;More than 2,000 families were separated at the U.S. border this year under a Trump Administration policy aimed at deterring illegal immigration. Prompting backlash, the &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; policy was announced in April and formally ended in June, and resulted in thousands of children being held in federal government facilities while their parents were sent to jail,&#8221; <a href="http://time.com/5475133/time-person-of-the-year-2018-shortlist/">Time writes</a>.
Christine Blasey Ford
The loopy California psychology professor blasted onto the scene when she alleged that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh groped her 36 years ago. She quickly became a cause celeb &#8212; even though none of her allegations were ever corroborated by anyone, including those she said attended a drunken high school party where the groping allegedly happened. A GoFundMe page collected more than $700,000 for her and she&#8217;s reportedly being courted to write a book.
March For Our Lives Activists
&#8220;After 17 people were killed on Valentine&#8217;s Day in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., students from the school organized the #NeverAgain movement and the March for Our Lives demonstrations across America, campaigning for gun-control reforms to prevent similar tragedies,&#8221; Time writes.
Jamal Khashoggi
&#8220;A prolific commentator and critic of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, journalist Jamal Khashoggi was last seen entering the country&#8217;s consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Believed to have been murdered on the orders of the Crown Prince, his death prompted international outcry and scrutiny of the Saudi regime,&#8221; Time says.
Robert Mueller
The former FBI director has been conducting an investigation for nearly 18 months into allegations that President Trump and Russians colluded to influence the 2016 presidential election. So far the probe has turned up nothing to indicate Trump was involved, but since special counsel Mueller is still at it &#8212; and because he was runner-up for Time&#8217;s 2017 Person of the Year &#8212; he makes the list again.
Vladimir Putin
See above. If the mainstream media is going to keep hyping the alleged Russia-Trump collusion, then they need a boogeyman. And Putin, the president of Russia, is the Baba Yaga of boogeymen.
Moon Jae-in
South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made news by meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in three historic summits and brokered the meeting between Kim and Trump. Moon has kept the pressure on North Korea, saying in October that &#8220;if it breaks the agreement, it will not be able to afford the retribution from the U.S. and the international community.&#8221;
Ryan Coogler
&#8220;Director Ryan Coogler, 32, created this year&#8217;s phenomenally successful Marvel film Black Panther. The superhero movie, set in the fictional African country of Wakanda, featured a largely black cast and had the third-highest grossing U.S. release of all time,&#8221; Time writes.
Meghan Markle
She married a prince. &#8216;Nuff said.
President Trump
&#8220;The 45th president of the U.S., and TIME&#8217;s 2016 Person of the Year, marked his second year in office through navigating crises involving both himself and his staff, attacking an encircling investigation implicating people close to him, and enacting several controversial policies, ranging from separations at the border to an international trade war with China,&#8221; Time writes.
But you might know him as the guy who infused confidence in the U.S. markets, pumped the economy to record highs and the unemployment rate to record lows, who stood fast in the face of pressure to join the globalizers and who is battling to secure America&#8217;s borders. Maybe Time just forgot to mention all that.
&#8220;Since 1927, TIME has identified the Person of the Year, recognizing the person or group of people who most influenced the news and the world &#8212; for better or for worse &#8212; during the past year,&#8221; Time writes.
The 2018 Person of the Year will be unveiled on &#8220;The Today Show&#8221; on Tuesday in the 7 a.m. EST hour.

Time Magazine Announces Top 10 Nominees For ‘2018 Person Of The Year,’ And The List Is Even Dumber Than You’d Expect

Christine Blasey Ford

Illegal Immigration

Vladimir Putin

Embattled &#8220;porn lawyer&#8221; Michael Avenatti appears to be rapidly losing his status as the great Trump killer of the Left, as recent problematic reports by left-leaning outlets have revealed increasingly ugly details about the once-media darling lawyer.
On Thursday, NBC News revealed &#8212; three weeks after the fact, and long after the vote to confirm Kavanaugh &#8212; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37630/witness-avenatti-twisted-my-words-about-kavanaugh-james-barrett">evidence</a> that Avenatti may have manipulated the testimony of a woman he presented as a corroborating witness to Julie Swetnick&#8217;s salacious accusations against now-Justice Brettt Kavanaugh.
The same day, <a href="http://time.com/5434317/michael-avenatti/">Time</a> magazine published a profile on Avenatti portraying him as one of the Democratic frontrunners that included a racially charged quote by the bombastic lawyer. The 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, he suggested, needs to be a white man.
&#8220;When you have a white male making the arguments, they carry more weight,&#8221; Avenatti, who happens to be a white man, told Time. &#8220;Should they carry more weight? Absolutely not. But do they? Yes.&#8221;
After backlash, Avenatti accused Time of lying about what he said.
&#8220;I never said that, that&#8217;s complete bullsh**,&#8221; Avenatti told <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/25/michael-avenatti-time-white-man/">The Daily Caller</a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s my comment, complete bullsh**.&#8221;
Before hanging up, Avenatti tripled down, &#8220;No, that&#8217;s not what I said.&#8221;
The Daily Caller notes that he at first &#8220;expressed confusion about the existence of such a profile altogether,&#8221; but clearly he has no &#8220;confusion&#8221; about what he said, or at least what he wants people to believe he said.
The magazine has since responded by saying the same thing back to Avenatti in less colorful language. &#8220;Time magazine tells The Daily Caller News Foundation that it stands &#8216;by our reporting,&#8217;&#8221; TheDC reports.
The Time report comes amid a series of troubling headlines for Avenatti, most notably the Senate Judiciary Committee announcing on Thursday that it had referred Avenatti and Swetnick for investigation by the Justice Department for making false statements and obstructing federal investigations in leveling unsubstantiated allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Soon after the committee&#8217;s announcement, NBC published a damning report detailing evidence that Avenatti may have presented false testimony in a sworn affidavit to the committee from a woman he presented as a corroborating witness to Swetnick&#8217;s claims. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/new-questions-raised-about-avenatti-claims-regarding-kavanaugh-n924596">NBC</a> reports:
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In the second [sworn affidavit], the unidentified woman said she witnessed Kavanaugh &#8220;spike&#8221; the punch at high school parties in order to sexually take advantage of girls. But less than 48 hours before Avenatti released her sworn statement on Twitter, the same woman told NBC News a different story.
Referring to Kavanaugh spiking the punch, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t ever think it was Brett,&#8221; the woman said to reporters in a phone interview arranged by Avenatti on Sept. 30 after repeated requests to speak with other witnesses who might corroborate Swetnick&#8217;s claims. As soon as the call began, the woman said she never met Swetnick in high school and never saw her at parties and had only become friends with her when they were both in their 30s.
When asked in the phone interview if she ever witnessed Kavanaugh act inappropriately towards girls, the woman replied, &#8220;no.&#8221; She did describe a culture of heavy drinking in high school that she took part in, and said Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge were part of that group.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/37630/witness-avenatti-twisted-my-words-about-kavanaugh-james-barrett">Witness: Avenatti &#8216;Twisted My Words&#8217; About Kavanaugh</a>

Avenatti: Time’s Report On My Racially Charged Comments ‘Bullsh**.’ Time: He’s Full Of It.

Michael Avenatti

For the first time ever, the gift that keeps on giving, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, has been given her own cover on <a href="http://time.com/5388347/nancy-pelosi-democrats-feminism/">Time Magazine</a>.
&#8220;The persistence of Nancy Pelosi,&#8221; reads the red and white caption emblazoned over a self-assured Nancy Pelosi as she expresses a look that says &#8220;I&#8217;m a survivor.&#8221; Witness the magic:
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Remarkable&#8230;. today Nancy Pelosi, with her decade-plus in leadership, has scored her first ever Time cover <a href="https://t.co/2Aivyqr4Vf">pic.twitter.com/2Aivyqr4Vf</a>
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Despite having served as the first woman House Speaker from 2007 to 2011, Pelosi has not enjoyed her own cover at either <a data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-rapid_p="3" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/06/ms-magazine-pelosi-cover-time-newsweek_n_805315.html">Time or Newsweek</a>, according to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nancy-pelosi-time-front-cover-reaction_us_5b923f2ee4b0511db3e11316">HuffPo</a>. For some reason, leftists are furious with that, even though Nancy Pelosi has alienated more swing voters from the Democratic Party than Hillary Clinton&#8217;s cackle. For up-and-coming revolutionaries <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34774/hogg-old-pelosi-move-fck-offand-let-us-take-ryan-saavedra">like David Hogg</a>, she&#8217;s an &#8220;old&#8221; establishment crony who &#8220;just won&#8217;t move the f*** off the plate and let us take control.&#8221; For conservatives, she&#8217;s the embodiment of everything that&#8217;s wrong in the Democratic Party.
When <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1028030912095838208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">even President Trump</a> wants Pelosi to stay on board, Democrats should know they need to find a new leader. Fortunately, they haven&#8217;t, and now she has a profile in Time magazine, which begins in the most Nancy Pelosi of ways as she comments on why she prefers ice cream on a cold winter&#8217;s morning.
&#8220;Nancy Pelosi stopped caring about what people think of her a long time ago, so she has no qualms about eating ice cream for breakfast with a stranger,&#8221; reads the first sentence. &#8220;Dark chocolate, two scoops, waffle cone.&#8221;
It was a freezing January morning in New York.
&#8220;You know what&#8217;s good about ice cream in this weather?&#8221; Pelosi reportedly said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t melt down your arm while you&#8217;re eating it.&#8221;
We love you, Pelosi. Please stay in the House for as long as you can muster. Run for president some day. Break that glass ceiling. Let the history books show that YOU were the trailblazer.
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Believe it or not, this marks the first time <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NancyPelosi</a> has ever made the cover of a major national newsmagazine. Never happened when she was the first woman speaker. <a href="https://t.co/jisG3uBv9T">pic.twitter.com/jisG3uBv9T</a>
&#8212; Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) <a href="https://twitter.com/ktumulty/status/1037660580889481216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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That it has taken this long for Nancy Pelosi to be put on the cover of Time Magazine says something about the resistance that women in politics still face in having their achievements recognized, writes <a href="https://twitter.com/ktumulty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ktumulty</a>: <a href="https://t.co/h5BibYEYyK">https://t.co/h5BibYEYyK</a>
&#8212; Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) <a href="https://twitter.com/feliciasonmez/status/1037696065959600128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Pelosi got the cover of time magazine for the first time. This is something she&#8217;s brought up before. Here&#8217;s one instance in 2014 <a href="https://t.co/XiVOwpo1kH">https://t.co/XiVOwpo1kH</a> <a href="https://t.co/k7bbneuejI">pic.twitter.com/k7bbneuejI</a>
&#8212; Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) <a href="https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1037676578824708096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Well, she was only Speaker for 4 years, so you can&#8217;t really expect to be on the cover of Time&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/RO6kSe9aKm">pic.twitter.com/RO6kSe9aKm</a>
&#8212; Seth Masket (@smotus) <a href="https://twitter.com/smotus/status/1037891200299069442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Time Magazine Debuts First Ever Nancy Pelosi Cover. It’s Very Nancy Pelosi.

TIME magazine, which once was regarded as a publication that simply reported the news but eventually metamorphosed into just another leftist media bastion, has a new cover featuring President Trump staring down at a small immigrant child who is crying.
The caption for the cover? Welcome to America.
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Trump stares down crying migrant child on cover of Time magazine: &#8220;Welcome to America&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/RXq9r1kOZe">https://t.co/RXq9r1kOZe</a> <a href="https://t.co/1toCkFrzyf">pic.twitter.com/1toCkFrzyf</a>
&#8212; The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1009790824660553730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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It was on June 12 when this two-year-old Honduran asylum-seeker was photographed by <a href="https://twitter.com/jbmoorephoto?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jbmoorephoto</a>, crying as her mother was detained near the U.S.-Mexico border. Nine days later&#8212;her image having helped force a president&#8217;s hand&#8212;she&#8217;s on the cover of TIME. <a href="https://t.co/DAtIpMoUUK">https://t.co/DAtIpMoUUK</a> <a href="https://t.co/k3FRvqWpUw">pic.twitter.com/k3FRvqWpUw</a>
&#8212; Andrew Katz (@katz) <a href="https://twitter.com/katz/status/1009767144593264640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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A recent cover for TIME had this:
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&#8220;King Me. Visions of absolute power,&#8221; latest TIME magazine cover says, picturing Trump before a mirror. <a href="https://t.co/EzX3Mqfkg1">https://t.co/EzX3Mqfkg1</a> <a href="https://t.co/C5FRa0ORqa">pic.twitter.com/C5FRa0ORqa</a>
&#8212; Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1004681914589032450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<a href="http://time.com/4528468/donald-trump-time-cover-2/">Other </a><a href="http://time.com/4528468/donald-trump-time-cover-2/">covers</a> of Trump have included one showing an abstract face with a wide-open mouth as yellow hair on the figure&#8217;s head looks like an explosive fire, captioned, &#8220;Year one&#8221;; a giant Trump standing next to a crumbling Washington Monument, captioned, &#8220;Trump&#8217;s war on Washington&#8221;; Trump sitting at his desk while documents and his hair are violently blown around, captioned, &#8220;Nothing to see here,&#8221; and one after he was elected depicting him and captioned, &#8220;Donald Trump: President of the Divided States of America.&#8221; Plus two other covers showing an abstract orange face with yellow hair melting away; one cover read &#8220;Meltdown&#8221; while the other read &#8220;Total meltdown.&#8221;

TIME Magazine Cover Insults Trump AGAIN

After announcing its list of finalists on Monday — which included President Trump (last year&#8217;s winner), football player-turned-social justice activist Colin Kaepernick, and murderous dictator Kim Jung-un — TIME revealed on Wednesday its 2017 Person of the Year, and it&#8217;s not a singular person or even exactly a group of specific people. The real winner is arguably a movement: #MeToo.
TIME&#8217;s editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal announced the selection on &#8220;TODAY&#8221; on Wednesday and unveiled the new cover, which features both famous and not-so-famous women the magazine describes as &#8220;<a href="http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/?xid=homepage">The Silence Breakers</a>,&#8221; including actress Ashley Judd, singer Taylor Swift, former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, lobbyist Adama Iwu, and Isabel Pascual. The cover also features a woman whose face cannot be seen:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">.<a href="https://twitter.com/TIME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TIME</a>’s 2017 Person of the Year: The Silence Breakers <a href="https://t.co/7cYyxgpU5U">https://t.co/7cYyxgpU5U</a> <a href="https://t.co/lL1PH4STcS">pic.twitter.com/lL1PH4STcS</a>
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These &#8220;silence breakers,&#8221; as <a href="http://www.today.com/news/silence-breakers-are-time-s-2017-person-year-t119689">TODAY</a> puts it, &#8220;set off a national reckoning over the prevalence of sexual harassment.&#8221;
&#8220;The galvanizing actions of the women on our cover … along with those of hundreds of others, and of many men as well, have unleashed one of the highest-velocity shifts in our culture since the 1960s,&#8221; said Felsenthal in a <a href="http://www.today.com/news/silence-breakers-are-time-s-2017-person-year-t119689">statement</a>.
&#8220;The idea that influential, inspirational individuals shape the world could not be more apt this year. For giving voice to open secrets, for moving whisper networks onto social networks, for pushing us all to stop accepting the unacceptable, The Silence Breakers are the 2017 Person of the Year,&#8221; said Felsenthal.
The editor-in-chief specifically highlighted the importance of the #MeToo movement, which he described as a &#8220;powerful accelerant&#8221; to the cultural change initiated by the silence breakers.
The #MeToo movement gained momentum amid a series of allegations against <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/tags/harvey-weinstein">Harvey Weinstein</a>. The Hollywood-shaking revelations about Weinstein and his decades-long behavior set off a flood of allegations not only against the megaproducer, but against other public figures, including Kevin Spacey, Al Franken, Roy Moore, Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer.
In its <a href="http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers/?xid=homepage">Person of the Year article</a>, TIME describes the rise of the movement as &#8220;decades, centuries&#8221; in the making:
<blockquote>Like the &#8220;problem that has no name,&#8221; the disquieting malaise of frustration and repression among postwar wives and homemakers identified by Betty Friedan more than 50 years ago, this moment is borne of a very real and potent sense of unrest. Yet it doesn&#8217;t have a leader, or a single, unifying tenet. The hashtag #MeToo (swiftly adapted into #BalanceTonPorc, #YoTambien, #Ana_kaman and many others), which to date has provided an umbrella of solidarity for millions of people to come forward with their stories, is part of the picture, but not all of it.
This reckoning appears to have sprung up overnight. But it has actually been simmering for years, decades, centuries. Women have had it with bosses and co-workers who not only cross boundaries but don&#8217;t even seem to know that boundaries exist. They&#8217;ve had it with the fear of retaliation, of being blackballed, of being fired from a job they can&#8217;t afford to lose. They&#8217;ve had it with the code of going along to get along. They&#8217;ve had it with men who use their power to take what they want from women. These silence breakers have started a revolution of refusal, gathering strength by the day, and in the past two months alone, their collective anger has spurred immediate and shocking results: nearly every day, CEOs have been fired, moguls toppled, icons disgraced. In some cases, criminal charges have been brought.</blockquote>
TODAY notes that the official founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke, responded to its recognition on Twitter, writing, &#8220;Thank you EVERYONE!! Especially all of you who rang the alarm when you thought I wasn’t being acknowledged. I couldn’t say anything!! I’m sorry. But I felt every bit of the love. Now the work REALLY begins.&#8221;

TIME Announces Its 2017 Person Of The Year

Harvey Weinstein

It&#8217;s not as though TIME Magazine has to burnish its leftist credentials any further, but the magazine sure appears as if it wants to: on Monday, TIME released the names of their nominees for Person of the Year. With the exception of President Trump, there was not a single person on the list who could be construed as any kind of a conservative, but there was a hashtag, a monster, and an athlete who hates American police.
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&#8212; Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) <a href="https://twitter.com/Morning_Joe/status/937681412848840705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The hashtag #MeToo, a reference to the women around the country and the world who claim they have been sexually harassed or assaulted, is not offensive in itself, but it&#8217;s hard to claim that a hashtag is the equivalent of a person.
But then things get nastier: Colin Kapernick has become the emblem of people who feel that there is something fundamentally wrong with America, after he initiated the protests of the national anthem. This is the same guy who wore socks with <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-colin-kaepernicks-practice-socks-appear-to-disrespect-the-police/">police depicted as pigs</a> on them.
A further plunge into the abyss: the selection of Kim Jong-un, a real-life monster who has subjugated the North Korean people to one of the most brutal repressions of the last 100 years, and is consistently threatening to throw the World into a nuclear conflagration with his missile launches.
As Jonah Goldberg wrote in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/454317/time-person-year-shortlist-trump-reaction">National Review</a>:
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But what I find interesting about the just-released shortlist is that picking anyone else on the list &#8212; including Xi Jinping and #MeToo &#8212; would amount, to one extent or another, to a troll operation of the president. &#8230; The most obvious example is Robert Mueller. To date, there is no reason to give him the title, other than for fan service to Trump-hating liberals and others emotionally invested in the Mueller probe. It&#8217;s conceivable that next year Mueller would deserve it. But not yet. &#8230; The Dreamers, likewise, would be a political shot. Unlike the #MeTooers, the Dreamers themselves haven&#8217;t really done anything special in 2017. They are simply a politically loaded prop for a larger argument. Jeff Bezos has done some newsworthy things in the last year, but his real relevance is that Trump hates him and that many of his supporters are determined to make him the next George Soros.
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TIME’s Person Of The Year Nominees: Monsters And Anti-Police Spokesmen

Colin Kaepernick

Kim Jong Un

TIME Magazine grossly mischaracterized factual information Monday in an attempt to propagate the Left&#8217;s gun control narrative that inevitably follows a mass shooting in the United States. The headline says it all: &#8220;<a href="http://time.com/5011519/texas-church-shooting-mental-health-donald-trump/">President Trump Blamed The Texas Shooting On &#8216;Mental Health&#8217; But He Made It Easier For Mentally Ill People To Buy Guns</a>&#8221;.
And just like that, the Left reads the headline and goes berserk without ever digging deeper into the bill that supposedly &#8220;made it easier&#8221; for insane people to acquire deadly weapons. Before you fall for the misleading headline, let&#8217;s talk facts.
The actual purpose of the bill referred to by TIME was to undo a last-minute Obama regulation approved by the Social Security Administration after Trump was elected. In 2013, following the Sandy Hook school shooting, then-President Obama first suggested the original regulation, which required the automatic reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) of Social Security recipients whose benefit payments are sent to a designated &#8220;representative payee&#8221; because the recipients are considered incapable of maintaining their own financial affairs. Inclusion in the NICS effectively prohibits a person from purchasing a firearm. This is an obvious restriction of Second Amendment rights, as well as Social Security recipients&#8217; rights to due process, and was a <a href="https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-vote-recommendation-social-security-ncis-rule-fair-pay-and-safe-workplaces-eo-senate">bill reversing the regulation supported by the ACLU</a>.
In its statement supporting repeal of the regulation, the ACLU said it supports lawful firearm regulations, but &#8220;[at] the same time, regulation of firearms and individual gun ownership or use must be consistent with civil liberties principles, such as due process, equal protection, freedom from unlawful searches, and privacy. All individuals have the right to be judged on the basis of their individual capabilities, not the characteristics and capabilities that are sometimes attributed (often mistakenly) to any group or class to which they belong. A disability should not constitute grounds for the automatic per se denial of any right or privilege, including gun ownership.&#8221;
This is yet another gun-control measure that addresses a problem that&#8217;s never existed. There has never been a mass shooting by a Social Security recipient whose checks were sent to a representative payee. The legislation passed in February, 2017, that repealed Obama&#8217;s unconstitutional regulation, would not have stopped Devin Kelley, Stephen Paddock, Dylann Roof, Omar Saddiqui Mateen, or Adam Lanza. Congress and the President merely stopped an unconstitutional last-minute Obama rule that violated the rights of vulnerable American citizens.
It&#8217;s worth noting that the legislation signed by Trump was not passed exclusively along party lines, either. In the House, six Democrats voted for the repeal. In the Senate, the bill passed 57 to 43, and while all 52 Republican Senators voted in favor of the repeal bill, so did four Democrats and one independent. And of course, it was Congress which passed the measure with solid majorities in both houses in the first place; all Trump did to enact the bill was to sign it.
So no, TIME, you&#8217;ve got it wrong. Trump didn&#8217;t &#8220;make it easier&#8221; for the mentally ill to buy guns. He merely did his part protecting our nation&#8217;s constitutional right to due process. Trump signed a bill that prevented the Obama administration from passing a last-minute regulation specifically designed to advance a gun-control agenda by unfairly stripping rights away from American citizens. That&#8217;s how the headline should read, but I suppose framing legislation honestly wouldn&#8217;t further the Democrats&#8217; narrative and agenda.

FAKE NEWS From TIME Magazine: Claims Trump ‘Made It Easier For Mentally Ill People To Buy Guns’

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American whites are pathologized with anti-black racism, argues Princeton professor Eddie Glaude in a <a href="http://time.com/4917486/james-baldwin-america-racism/?xid=homepage">Sunday-published op-ed</a> at TIME entitled &#8220;James Baldwin and the Ugly Moral Problem in America&#8217;s Heart&#8221;:
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As it has always been, much more is required of us than easy condemnations or the traditional theater of American racial politics. James Baldwin was right 54 years ago today: The American white republic must answer, once and for all, the question that haunts it: why do you need &#8220;niggers&#8221; in the first place?
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During the Civil Rights Movement, America refused to &#8220;solve the ugly moral problem that sits at the heart of [the] Republic,&#8221; asserts Gaude, &#8220;the country has consistently refused to do so.&#8221;
President Donald Trump&#8217;s proposed ban of transgender persons in the military is a modern iteration of Jim Crow&#8217;s codified racial discrimination and segregation, writes Gaude.
Trump&#8217;s proposed immigration restrictions related to seven Muslim-majority states are &#8220;draconian&#8221; and &#8220;suggest a corrosion of the [nation&#8217;s] soul.&#8221;
The Trump administration is a &#8220;presidency of hate,&#8221; concludes Gaude.
Gaude chairs the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, a professor of religion and African American studies, and is a regular fixture of MSNBC. 

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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is featured on TIME magazine&#8217;s latest cover; &#8220;GENERAL JOHN KELLY &#8211; TRUMP&#8217;S LAST BEST HOPE.&#8221; Kelly recently replaced Reince Priebus for the position.
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TIME&#8217;s Michael Duffy, the magazine&#8217;s deputy editor, joins five other writers in composing a roughly 3000-word article ostensibly examining the White House&#8217;s switch from Reince Priebus to John Kelly.
Duffy hypes &#8220;daily chaos&#8221; in the White House, forwarding a narrative pushed by news media outlets such as <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/12/politics/trump-white-house-mood/index.html">CNN</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/opinion/chaotic-weeks-at-the-white-house.html">The New York Times</a>, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/31/kelly-scaramucci-trump-chaos-241183">Politico</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/three-months-chaos-grips-donald-trumps-white-house">MSNBC</a>; he frames left-wing and Democrat-aligned news media consensus as reflective of reality.
Unnamed sources allegedly describe the &#8220;mood&#8221; in the White House as &#8220;at rock bottom.&#8221;
Kelly was selected by Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster to move to the White House to save the nation from President Donald Trump, suggests Duffy:
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The deep bonds and know-how of that team may have already done the nation a great service. This summer, as the threats from North Korea increased while confusion dominated in the White House, the generals quietly launched a mission of their own. Mattis, McMaster and Dunford (as well as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson) were concerned enough about the conduct of foreign policy to work together to convince a skeptical Kelly to become chief of staff. Their argument: unless someone else takes over, this White House cannot handle a real crisis. Which means that when Trump asked Kelly for the third time to be his chief of staff, it wasn&#8217;t just a job offer. It was a call of duty.
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Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;influence&#8221; may be damaged by Trump&#8217;s praise of him, alleges Duffy, framing presidential praise as somehow politically toxic.
Duffy frames Democrats as necessary to avoid a global financial crisis with respect to increasing the debt ceiling:
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The extended but failed Republican campaign to repeal Obamacare left the GOP with only 12 legislative days to manage the ritual of raising the debt ceiling by Sept. 29 and passing a budget by Sept. 30. The betting is against them: many GOP lawmakers will likely oppose both measures, which means House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate leader Mitch McConnell will have to rely on the mercy of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to keep the troops paid, the Social Security checks coming and the Treasury borrowing. Failure to do so could plunge the U.S. and global economies into a tailspin.
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Duffy makes many claims about internal White House operations without evidence, presenting himself as connected to internal White House goings on.
H/T <a href="https://www.axios.com/john-kelly-is-the-last-best-hope-for-trump-2471319782.html">Axios</a>.

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Trump’s New Chief Of Staff Makes The Cover Of TIME

John Kelly

Reince Priebus

The mainstream media has suffered a serious bout of amnesia &#8212; a Russian concussion, if you will.
Of course, the MSM is ignoring the clear evidence that Hillary Clinton is guilty (very guilty) of altering the course of the Democratic primary to defeat Sen. Bernie Sanders (just skim through those Democratic National Committee emails and you&#8217;ll see). But the media is also pretending (or is simply unaware, not sure which is worse) that nations don&#8217;t try to alter the outcome of elections in other nations.
Take 1996. Boris Yeltsin, the president of Russia, was up for re-election in the summer and the United States felt that he was easier to deal with than his opposition, Communist rival Gennadi Zyuganov. But Yeltsin, the hard-partying and affable leader, had health problems and his approval rating was dismal &#8212; single digits. His chances did not look good.
Enter the United States, which, in a clandestine operation successfully helped Yeltsin pulled out a win.
&#8220;For four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin&#8217;s campaign, &#8221; <a href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,136204,00.html">Time magazine</a> wrote in a cover story titled &#8220;Yanks To The Rescue &#8212; The Secret Story Of How American Advisers Helped Yeltsin Win.&#8221; Here is the inside story of how these advisers helped Yeltsin achieve the victory that will keep reform in Russia alive.&#8221;
The 6,000-word story tells a tale of how Felix Braynin, a close friend of some of Yeltsin&#8217;s top aides, thought Yeltsin would need help to win.
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Most of Yeltsin&#8217;s confidants believed the President would be magically re-elected despite the Duma catastrophe, but Braynin thought otherwise. The President, he reasoned, could lose without the same kind of professional assistance U.S. office seekers employ as a matter of course. Braynin began a series of confidential discussions with Yeltsin&#8217;s aides, including one with First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, who at the time was in charge of the President&#8217;s nascent re-election effort. Finally, in early February, Braynin was instructed to &#8220;find some Americans&#8221; but to proceed discreetly. &#8220;Secrecy was paramount,&#8221; says Braynin. &#8220;Everyone realized that if the Communists knew about this before the election, they would attack Yeltsin as an American tool. We badly needed the team, but having them was a big risk.&#8221;
To &#8220;find some Americans,&#8221; Braynin worked through Fred Lowell, a San Francisco lawyer with close ties to California&#8217;s Republican Party. On Feb. 14, Lowell called Joe Shumate, a G.O.P. expert in political data analysis who had served as deputy chief of staff to California Governor Pete Wilson. Since Wilson&#8217;s drive for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination had ended almost before it began, Lowell thought Shumate and George Gorton, Wilson&#8217;s longtime top strategist, might be available to help Yeltsin. They were&#8211;and they immediately enlisted Richard Dresner, a New York-based consultant who had worked with them on many of Wilson&#8217;s campaigns.
Dresner had another connection that would prove useful later on. In the late 1970s and early &#8217;80s, he had joined with Dick Morris to help Bill Clinton get elected Governor of Arkansas. As Clinton&#8217;s current political guru, Morris became the middleman on those few occasions when the Americans sought the Administration&#8217;s help in Yeltsin&#8217;s re-election drive. So while Clinton was uninvolved with Yeltsin&#8217;s recruitment of the American advisers, the Administration knew of their existence&#8211;and although Dresner denies dealing with Morris, three other sources have told Time that on at least two occasions the team&#8217;s contacts with Morris were &#8220;helpful.&#8221;
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Then President Bill Clinton knew all about the effort. &#8220;So while Clinton was uninvolved with Yeltsin&#8217;s recruitment of the American advisers, the Administration knew of their existence &#8212; and although Dresner denies dealing with Morris, three other sources have told Time that on at least two occasions the team&#8217;s contacts with Morris were &#8216;helpful.&#8217; &#8220;
The team did plenty of nefarious things to keep their identities secret.
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The American team hired two young men, Braynin&#8217;s son Alan and Steven Moore, a public relations specialist from Washington, to assist them, and promptly established its office in a two-room suite at the President Hotel. The Americans lived elsewhere in the hotel and were provided with a car, a former KGB agent as a driver, and two bodyguards. They were told they should assume that their phones and rooms were bugged, that they should leave the hotel only infrequently, and that they should avoid the campaign&#8217;s other staff members.
The Americans managed to hide their identity for many months. In interviewing various polling and focus-group companies before hiring three, they described themselves as representing Americans eager to sell thin-screen televisions in Russia. &#8220;That story held for far longer than it ever should have,&#8221; says Shumate. The Americans carried multiple-entry visas identifying them as working for the &#8220;Administration of the President of the Russian Federation,&#8221; a bit of obviousness that constantly threatened to undermine all the supposed secrecy surrounding their real work.
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And Clinton was involved.
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Communicating in code &#8212; Clinton was called the Governor of California, Yeltsin the Governor of Texas &#8212; the Americans sought Morris&#8217; help. They had earlier worked together to script Clinton&#8217;s summit meeting with Yeltsin in mid-April. The main goal then was to have Clinton swallow hard and say nothing as Yeltsin lectured him about Russia&#8217;s great-power prerogatives. &#8220;The idea was to have Yeltsin stand up to the West, just like the Communists insisted they would do if Zyuganov won,&#8221; says a Clinton Administration official. &#8220;By having Yeltsin posture during that summit without Clinton&#8217;s getting bent out of shape, Yeltsin portrayed himself as a leader to be reckoned with. That helped Yeltsin in Russia, and we were for Yeltsin.&#8221;
The American team wanted Clinton to call Yeltsin to urge that he appear in his ads. The request reached Clinton &#8212; that much is known &#8212; but no one will say whether the call was made. 
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And, it worked.
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A bit of relief came when a CNN correspondent reported that &#8220;the only thing voters we&#8217;ve spoken with like less than Yeltsin is the prospect of upheaval.&#8221; Dresner howled. &#8220;It worked,&#8221; he shouted. &#8220;The whole strategy worked. They&#8217;re scared to death!&#8221; After months being cooped up in the President Hotel wearing blue jeans, sneakers and PETE WILSON FOR PRESIDENT T shirts, the Americans headed for the building where Russia&#8217;s central election commission would be announcing the results as they came in. &#8220;The hell with security,&#8221; Dresner said. &#8220;I want to see this.&#8221; And there they sat near the back of the auditorium, six guys in suits with computer projections in their hands and a lap-top computer. The place was overrun with reporters, but Yeltsin&#8217;s secret American advisers were never recognized.
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So maybe the U.S. press corps, with all its feigned indignation over the supposed collusion between Russia and President Trump, need to brush up on their history. It&#8217;s not the first time a nation has sought to influence another nation&#8217;s election &#8212; and it won&#8217;t be the last.

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Time Magazine Debuts First Ever Nancy Pelosi Cover. It’s Very Nancy Pelosi.

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Trump’s New Chief Of Staff Makes The Cover Of TIME

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TIME Magazine Says Superheroes Are Like Cops And Should Be Reexamined

TIME Sportswriter Agonizes Before Super Bowl: Maybe We Shouldn’t Let Our Kids Watch Football

TIME Teaches Parents How To Discuss Gen. Soleimani’s Death With Kids

Al Green Brings Notoriously Misleading Child-Separation Photo To Make Case For Impeachment

TIME Person Of The Year Winds Down To These Finalists

SEE IT: Time Magazine Cover Shows ‘Orange Man Bad’ Cornered In Fright

TIME Magazine Wants Everyone To Know Trump Shared A ‘Manipulated Version’ Of Their Cover

Time Columnist Posts Quote From Trump That Goes Viral, Then Admits It Was Fake; Trump Responds

Patricia Heaton Has The Perfect TIME ‘Person Of The Year’ Suggestion In Light Of Recent Events

Here’s Who Time Magazine SHOULD HAVE Nominated for 2018 ‘Person Of The Year’

Time Magazine Announces Top 10 Nominees For ‘2018 Person Of The Year,’ And The List Is Even Dumber Than You’d Expect

Avenatti: Time’s Report On My Racially Charged Comments ‘Bullsh**.’ Time: He’s Full Of It.

Time Magazine Debuts First Ever Nancy Pelosi Cover. It’s Very Nancy Pelosi.

TIME Magazine Cover Insults Trump AGAIN

TIME Announces Its 2017 Person Of The Year

TIME’s Person Of The Year Nominees: Monsters And Anti-Police Spokesmen

FAKE NEWS From TIME Magazine: Claims Trump ‘Made It Easier For Mentally Ill People To Buy Guns’

Princeton Prof: ‘American White Republic Must Answer… Why Do You Need N*****s?’

Trump’s New Chief Of Staff Makes The Cover Of TIME

FLASHBACK: TIME Magazine In 1996 Bragged About How U.S. Interfered In Russian Election

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