On Friday, on CNBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK-E_568DDQ&amp;feature=youtu.be">Squawk Box</a>,&#8221; co-host Andrew Sorkin taunted Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) about his criticism of the media and big tech for suppressing the Hunter Biden revelations, saying, &#8220;You wouldn’t want them to be reporting something that they couldn’t corroborate, no?&#8221;
Cotton, without missing a beat, fired back a matchless answer that left Sorkin speechless: &#8220;Do you mean like the Russian collusion hoax and the Steele dossier that you reported on for four years, Andrew?&#8221;
In the lead-up to that exchange, co-host Joe Kernen asked Cotton, &#8220;In the last couple of weeks, there have been a couple of issues that really could threaten to at least disrupt or hold back—and possibly even necessary moves — to try to &#8230; rein the companies in. What is, in your view, more important? This Google story, in terms of monopoly with the DOJ, or what we saw with Facebook and Twitter, in terms of deciding whether a news story should be circulated? I’m talking about Lapgate — the New York Post reporting on Vice President Biden and his son.&#8221;
After saying they were both important, Cotton pointed out that the New York Post was an “old and venerable newspaper” and has the “fourth largest circulation in the country.” He noted that Twitter had locked down the New York Post’s Twitter account, then stated, “I think a lot of conservatives and Republicans across the country have always felt that these companies are biased against their viewpoints, but now they feel it’s an open declaration of war.”
Cotton explained that “federal law since the mid-1990s has given” huge social media companies such as Twitter and Facebook “total immunity from any kind of lawsuit for what is published on their platforms. You don’t have that; newspapers don’t have that; radio stations don’t have that—and if these companies want to act as editors and curators and censors now, then they ought to face the same kind of liability rules that you all face. So Congress needs to act to amend or to repeal that immunity.”
&#8220;The New York Post reported on Hunter Biden’s alleged business dealings; it had many emails and other documents,&#8221; Cotton continued. &#8220;Now, maybe those are not authentic; maybe they are. I don’t know. I would note that Hunter Biden and the Biden campaign have not denied their authenticity. It’s kind of like the dog that didn’t bark, but you would think that most news organizations would be committed to breaking news, that they would want to dig into it deeper; they would want to explain exactly what they found, as opposed to doing what the big tech companies did, censor it, and most of the mainstream media trying to suppress it to the greatest extent they can until November 3.”
“And this is not gonna go away on November 3. Should Joe Biden win, there are still gonna be questions about whether or not Joe Biden and his family and administration is exposed to pressure from China, from the Chinese Communist Party oligarchs,” Cotton said. “It’s the exact same thing that Democrats have accused Donald Trump of facing for four years without any evidence. So we have to get to the bottom of these things, whatever the result of the election is. The media&#8217;s not doing the country any favors by essentially ignoring this story.&#8221;
Sorkin then went on the attack: &#8220;Senator, I wanted to make two points. One is that the media industry—at least the media industry that I know—has been trying to investigate this and has not been able to corroborate the story. I would also note The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by News Corporation, which also owns the New York Post, has not been able to corroborate the story and said so, quite directly, in The Wall Street Journal today, in the news pages of The Wall Street Journal. So just to clarify, it is not that the news organizations are not looking into this, it’s that they haven’t been able to corroborate the story, and a responsible news organization wouldn’t therefore report it. Now the next piece of this is, you’re talking about the tech companies censoring such &#8216;news.'&#8221;
&#8220;If, in fact, the tech companies had ‘liability’ like news operations do,&#8221; Sorkin stated, &#8220;you wouldn’t want them to be reporting something that they couldn’t corroborate, no?”
Cotton fired back, &#8220;Do you mean like the Russian collusion hoax and the Steele dossier that you reported on for four years, Andrew?&#8221;
Sorkin was speechless.
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Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) urged the Department of Justice on Tuesday to investigate the “alarming trend of apparent racial segregation in schools” across the country, pointing to recent college events that were advertised as being for members of certain racial groups.
While <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/files/documents/201022%20Letter%20to%20DoJ%20Civil%20Rights.pdf">the letter</a> spoke to a trend at universities across the country, the two GOP senators cited two recent incidents in particular, saying they appeared to be violations of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in federally funded programs.
The first incident, which involved the University of Michigan-Dearborn, was a virtual “cafe” for minority students and another for non-minority students. The university has since apologized for “the framing and presentation of the purpose and intended outcomes of these events,” saying they were “poorly conceived and executed.” They also said the “events were never intended to be exclusive or exclusionary” on account of race.
The Daily Wire reached out Thursday to ask the University of Michigan-Dearborn if it believed the events violated federal law, and received a comment Friday similar to the university&#8217;s previous public statements: &#8220;These virtual cafes were intended to provide members of our campus community with opportunities to reflect on their lived experiences. Although the framing and presentation of the purpose and intended outcomes of these events were poorly conceived and executed, the events were never intended to be exclusive or exclusionary for individuals of a certain race. Both events were open to all members of the UM-Dearborn campus community.&#8221;
The second incident involved the University of Kentucky’s resident advisor training sessions, the existence of which was reported by the <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/university-of-kentucky-forces-ras-into-segregated-trainings-white-accountability-space/">Young America’s Foundation</a>. Two documents obtained by YAF show that RA’s were asked to attend a joint bias training session that included separate breakout sessions: One for minorities, and another for white RAs.
The session for white RAs was billed as a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-kentucky-segregated-residential-assistance-training-by-race-sent-white-people-to-white-accountability-space">White accountability space</a>,” and included a document detailing over three dozens “common racist behaviors and attitudes of white people.” In a statement to YAF at the time, a university spokesperson said the training sessions were conducted on Zoom, the breakout sessions were “around particular topics of interest,” and some students had been asking for “resources that can be provided to help on issues related to racial reconciliation.”
A spokesperson for the University of Kentucky declined to comment on Thursday. 
The two GOP senators wrote: “College administrators often rationalize these forms of racial segregation, claiming they give members of certain racial groups, especially minority groups, spaces where they can discuss shared concerns and issues. Thus, these defenders attempt to portray racial segregation as a tool to further diversity. Some defenders of these practices further claim that segregated facilities and events protect racial minorities from racism that supposedly is endemic in our nation’s schools.”
“Whatever the rationale, the effect of racial segregation is to divide the student body on a college campus, creating racial or ethnic enclaves. This practice heightens racial consciousness while discouraging students from thinking of themselves as part of one nation that encompasses members of all races,” the duo continued in the letter.
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Sadly, racial segregation is a growing trend on campuses in residence halls, cultural centers, ‘safe spaces,’ &amp; even classes.
Segregation is abhorrent. It&#8217;s also illegal under federal law.
I&#8217;m urging AG Barr to investigate this harmful practice. <a href="https://t.co/Vlo4mkmUhE">https://t.co/Vlo4mkmUhE</a>
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1319333215652413445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include a comment from the University of Michigan-Dearborn made on Friday, and to note that the University of Kentucky declined to comment on Thursday. 
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued on Sunday that Republicans were fulfilling a mandate from voters by moving forward with replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg before the election.
&#8220;In 2014, the American people elected a Republican majority to the Senate to put the brakes on President Obama&#8217;s judicial nominations,&#8221; Cotton said during an interview on Fox News. &#8220;In 2018, we had a referendum on this question, just a month before the 2018 midterms. We had the vote on Justice Kavanaugh. There could not have been a clearer mandate because the American people didn&#8217;t just re-elect Republicans, they expanded our majority. They defeated four Democratic senators who voted against Justice Kavanaugh. They re-elected the one Democratic senator who did vote for Justice Kavanaugh.&#8221;
&#8220;So we have a clear mandate to perform our constitutional duty. That&#8217;s what the Senate majority will do now. That&#8217;s what we did back in 2016 as well,&#8221; Cotton continued. &#8220;The Senate majority is performing our constitutional duty and fulfilling the mandate that the voters gave us in 2016 and especially in 2018.&#8221;
Cotton later added that people should not &#8220;discount Democratic votes either&#8221; in the upcoming hearings after President Donald Trump announces who he is nominating to the nation&#8217;s highest court.
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<blockquote>CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY ANCHOR: And joining us now, Republican Senator Tom Cotton, who, as we mentioned, is on President Trump&#8217;s short-list of candidates for the court. Senate Majority Leader McConnell, as we noted, has said flatly that the president&#8217;s choice, new choice for a justice will get a vote on the Supreme Court.
Senator Cotton, are you talking about a vote on this justice before the election six weeks from Tuesday?
SEN. TOM COTTON (R), ARKANSAS: Good morning, Chris. At the outset, first, let me express my condolences to Justice Ginsburg&#8217;s family and my regard for her lifelong dedication to public service.
As for your question, the president said he&#8217;s going to it submit a nominee probably as early as this week and the Senate will exercise our constitutional duty. We will process that nomination. We will conduct hearings. We will be thorough and deliberate and careful, just as we were with nominations of Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh. We will move forward without delay.
WALLACE: Does that mean that there will be a vote to confirm before the election?
COTTON: Chris, there will be a vote. There have been some cases, like Justice Ginsburg herself, in which the nomination and confirmation process took less than 44 days. There have been other cases in which it took longer. So it&#8217;s too soon to say right now. But we will move forward without delay.
WALLACE: So, you&#8217;re suggesting that you might have the confirmation vote before the election, but the &#8212; the hearing, rather, before the election but the actual vote after. Let&#8217;s take a look, you raised it, at how long it has traditionally taken the Senate to confirm a new justice. Let&#8217;s put this up on the screen.
Since 1975, the average has been 40 days from when a president nominates of justice until the Senate holds its first hearing. And 70 days from nomination to Senate confirmation. We now have 44 days until the election and there has been no nomination by the president yet. Why the rush to judgment?
COTTON: Chris, we are not going to rush. We are not going to cut corners or steps. We are going to move forward without delay. And as I said, there have been some cases in which it has taken newer than 44 days, to include Justice Ginsburg&#8217;s confirmation process herself, some it has taken longer. We will move forward without delay and in deliberate fashion, we will process the president&#8217;s nominee. And I believe that we will confirm that nominee as well.
WALLACE: Back in 2016, after Justice Scalia died, President Obama named federal judge Merrick Garland as his new nominee to the court. And, as you well know, you were part of the Senate then, Senate Republicans blocked the choice of Garland. Here&#8217;s what you said at that time.
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COTTON: In a few short months, we will have a new president, and new senators, we can consider the next justice with the full faith of the American people. Why would we cut off the national debate about this next justice? Why would we squelch the voice of the people? Why would we deny the voters a chance to weigh in on the make-up of the Supreme Court?
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WALLACE: Now, Garland was nominated nine months before the election, and you were saying then nine months before the election it was wrong to deny voters a chance to weigh in. So if it was wrong then, nine months before the election, why is it OK now, six weeks before the election?
COTTON: So, Chris, in 2014, the American people elected a Republican majority to the Senate to put the brakes on President Obama&#8217;s judicial nominations. In 2018, we had a referendum on this question, just a month before the 2018 midterms. We had the vote on Justice Kavanaugh. There could not have been a clearer mandate because the American people didn&#8217;t just re-elect Republicans, they expanded our majority. They defeated four Democratic senators who voted against Justice Kavanaugh. There re-elected the one Democratic senator who did vote for Justice Kavanaugh.
So we have a clear mandate to perform our constitutional duty. That&#8217;s what the Senate majority will do now. That&#8217;s what we did back in 2016 as well.
WALLACE: You really don&#8217;t think there is any hypocrisy at all in saying we need to give voters &#8212; because, I mean, you can parse the 2014 election, the 2018 election any way you want, but you stated a pretty firm principle in 2016 about Merrick Garland. It&#8217;s wrong to deny voters a chance to weigh in. You don&#8217;t see any hypocrisy between that position then and this position now?
COTTON: Chris, the Senate majority is performing our constitutional duty and fulfilling the mandate that the voters gave us in 2016 and especially in 2018.
WALLACE: I just want to &#8212; I promise this is the last question on this particular subject. Let&#8217;s do a thought experiment. You&#8217;re a lawyer, you do hypotheticals, or you did when you were in law school. Let&#8217;s assume if President Trump were to lose in the election six weeks from now, if the Senate were to change hands so that it went from Republicans to Democrats, in a lame duck session with a president who had been defeated and a Republican majority that was about to be out of office, some would say the lamest of lame duck sessions, are you saying you still think it would be proper to vote to confirm President Trump&#8217;s nominee to the court?
COTTON: Chris, as I said, we are going to move forward without delay and there will be a vote on this nominee. But to the point, Donald Trump is going to win re-election and I believe the Senate Republicans will win our majority back because the American people know that Donald Trump is going to put nominees up for the federal courts who will apply the law, not make the law.
Joe Biden is not going to do that. Joe Biden still refuses to even identify who he might nominate. And Joe Biden and Senate candidates like Cal Cunningham in North Carolina and Theresa Greenfield in Iowa need to put their cards on the table. They need to say what they would do in this kind of nomination.
WALLACE: OK, let me ask you one other question about this. Republicans now have a 53 to 47 vote majority. So you can only afford to lose three Republican senators, assuming that all the Democrats oppose the president&#8217;s nominee, and still get &#8212; I guess it&#8217;s going to &#8212; we can say she, because the president says it will be a woman, confirmed with Mike Pence breaking the vote.
But let&#8217;s look at the tally of where Republican senators stand at this point. In recent days, senators Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have both expressed doubts about confirming a justice so close to an election. Chuck Grassley has as well. So the question is, how sure are you, Senator, that Republicans will actually have the 50 votes plus Vice President Pence to confirm a Trump nominee?
COTTON: Well, Chris, I will let all those senators speak for themselves and make their decisions on their timeline. As Mitch McConnell has said, there will be a vote. And I don&#8217;t think that we should discount Democratic votes either. As I mentioned, the one Democratic senator up for re-election in 2018 who voted for Justice Kavanaugh was re-elected.
Now I know the Democrats are saying radical things right now. Democrats are threatening to riot in the streets. Democrats are already rioting in the streets though. They are threatening to pack the court. They were already threatening to pack the court. Democratic senators can look at what happened in 2018 when four of their colleagues lost their re-election a month after voting for Justice Kavanaugh and the one who did vote for Justice Kavanaugh got re-elected.
So I wouldn&#8217;t discount Democratic votes at this point either.
WALLACE: I&#8217;ve got a couple of minutes left, I want to get to the actual issues at stake here because there are a lot of big issues at stake. You say &#8212; you&#8217;re on the record as saying that Roe v. Wade should go. Do you hope, and do you expect that if a Trump nominee has confirmed that she will vote to end a woman&#8217;s right to choose?
COTTON: Chris, I&#8217;m pro-life, and my views on this are well-known and there&#8217;s no need to restate them at length here. But what President Trump has done is assembled a highly capable pool of jurists on his lists who understand that their job is not to make the law, their job is to apply the law. Beyond that I can&#8217;t speculate about the outcomes of hypothetical cases years down the road.
WALLACE: But you do support the idea, and I assume you would support the idea of a justice voting to end Roe v. Wade?
COTTON: Again, Chris my views on Roe are well-known and they&#8217;re long-standing. I believe Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided because it took that question away from the American people acting through their state legislatures. But beyond that I can&#8217;t speculate about the hypothetical outcome of a case that hasn&#8217;t yet been started.
WALLACE: Well, let me talk about a case that has been started and that the court is going to hear this term. There&#8217;s a lawsuit to overturn Obamacare. Would you hope that a justice appointed by Donald Trump would vote to end to overturn the Affordable Care Act?
COTTON: Well, Chris, I think the Supreme Court got that case wrong eight years ago, especially on the so-called individual mandate which fined Americans for not being able to afford health insurance the federal government made unaffordable in the first place. That&#8217;s one reason I led the charge in Congress to repeal the individual mandate, which had fined more than 7 million Americans.
That case, however, is being decided &#8212; or argued, I should say, right after the election. It&#8217;s not clear to me yet whether we will have a new justice confirmed, so I can&#8217;t speculate on how the court is going to rule on that particular case or if this nominee will be seated in time to rule on that case.
WALLACE: So, finally, I was going to ask you since you are on the president&#8217;s short list, whether or not you would accept his nomination to the court, given that he now says it&#8217;s a woman, do you want to ask him to reconsider or are you OK with a woman on the court?
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COTTON: Yes, Chris, I guess we can break some news here, that I&#8217;m not under consideration since the president said he is going to nominate a woman. And I have already communicated with the White House that now is not the time to have me under consideration. I&#8217;m on the ballot in Arkansas, under Arkansas election law, we are long past the time to change the ballot.
So I&#8217;m looking forward to working with the president to confirm this nominee, to campaign for re-election myself, and to re-elect the president, because it&#8217;s about more than just this single nominee, it&#8217;s about nomination to the Supreme Court in the future as well.
WALLACE: Senator Cotton, thank you, thanks for your time, always good to talk with you, sir.
COTTON: Thanks, Chris.</blockquote>
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined other Republicans in Congress on Friday to urge the Department of Justice to investigate Netflix after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-many-mainstream-film-critics-have-come-out-in-defense-of-cuties-heres-why-their-arguments-are-wrong" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">backlash against &#8220;Cuties,&#8221;</a> a new movie that depicts young girls in sexually provocative ways.
Cruz tweeted a public letter he sent to Attorney General Bill Barr, writing on Saturday, &#8220;Following [Netflix]’s disturbing promotion of ‘Cuties,’ I sent a letter calling on [DOJ] to investigate whether Netflix, its executives, or the filmmakers violated any federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography.&#8221;
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Following <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a>’s disturbing promotion of “Cuties,” I sent a letter calling on <a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a> to investigate whether Netflix, its executives, or the filmmakers violated any federal laws against the production and distribution of child pornography. <a href="https://t.co/P7wLXixU6X">pic.twitter.com/P7wLXixU6X</a>
&mdash; Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1304754228477472768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cruz joined other lawmakers in his condemnation of Netflix, such as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who published an open letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Friday and tweeted, &#8220;[Netflix] should explain to the public why it is distributing a film, &#8216;Cuties,&#8217; that appears to sexually exploit children and endanger child welfare.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Netflix</a> should explain to the public why it is distributing a film, “Cuties,” that appears to sexually exploit children and endanger child welfare <a href="https://t.co/OZH4HCLy0Y">pic.twitter.com/OZH4HCLy0Y</a>
&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1304503913606000640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“There’s no excuse for the sexualization of children, and Netflix’s decision to promote the film ‘Cuties’ is disgusting at best and a serious crime at worst,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/11/gop-lawmakers-justice-department-netflix-cuties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Caller</a>. “I urge the Department of Justice to take action against Netflix for their role in pushing explicit depictions of children into American homes.”
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Like any parent, I find ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a>⁩ decision to peddle child pornography disgusting. And it’s criminal. ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheJusticeDept</a>⁩ should take swift action. <a href="https://t.co/ReEVk7F8t9">https://t.co/ReEVk7F8t9</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1304763865637548034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/indiana-congressman-introduces-bill-to-cut-off-federal-unemployment-funds-to-convicted-rioters" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rep. Jim Banks</a> (R-IN) also rebuked Netflix as a father, describing the show as &#8220;sickening&#8221; and calling on the DOJ to charge the company for distribution of child pornography. In a statement to The Daily Caller, Banks said:
<blockquote>As a father of young daughters, I find it sickening. Not only is this movie fodder for pedophiles, it encourages very young girls to defy their parents’ wishes and share pornographic images of themselves with strangers. Our culture has come a long way in recent years, recognizing the power of television, movies and magazines to affect young girls. The lessons taught in this film are not ones I want my daughters learning. The DOJ should be readying charges against Netflix for distribution of child pornography.</blockquote>
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As a father of three young daughters, I find “Cuties” sickening. Glad to join <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenTomCotton</a> in calling on the DOJ to bring charges against Netflix for distribution of child pornography. <a href="https://t.co/xmHO3b1yLN">https://t.co/xmHO3b1yLN</a>
&mdash; Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJimBanks/status/1304556525789351937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Republicans weren&#8217;t the only ones to blast Netflix. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-are-now-complicit-tulsi-gabbard-blasts-netflix-for-promoting-child-porn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard</a> (D-HI) also condemned them with a personal anecdote, writing, &#8220;[Netflix] child porn &#8216;Cuties&#8217; will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#8217;s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. #CancelNetflix.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@netflix</a> child porn &quot;Cuties&quot; will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles &amp; help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend&#39;s 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CancelNetflix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CancelNetflix</a> <a href="https://t.co/GI8KFH7LFq">pic.twitter.com/GI8KFH7LFq</a>
&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) <a href="https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1304587833584226305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Netflix defended “Cuties&#8221; in a statement to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/netflix-defends-cuties-outrage-girls-twerk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Caller News Foundation</a>, describing it as &#8220;a social commentary against the sexualization of young children. It’s an award winning film and a powerful story about the pressure young girls face on social media and from society more generally growing up – and we’d encourage anyone who cares about these important issues to watch the movie.&#8221;
Netflix has gotten in hot water before for releasing content many find offensive, such as a show that presented <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflixs-the-baby-sitters-club-reboot-features-a-transgender-9-year-old" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">transgender children</a> in a positive light, and another that depicted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-christmas-special-that-features-gay-jesus-weed-smoking-mary-sparks-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jesus as gay</a> and the Virgin Mary as a pothead. The hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1304062809198809094" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">#CancelNetflix</a> was trending at the top of Twitter on Thursday.
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When Bailey comes down with a fever, Mary Anne rushes her to the hospital, where two doctors misgender her. Mary Anne firmly corrects them. 
Misgendering is traumatic. This is one of the baseline ways cisgender people can show up for the trans people in their life <a href="https://t.co/EyrenC5QDK">pic.twitter.com/EyrenC5QDK</a>
&mdash; Netflix (@netflix) <a href="https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1286390878546694149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-slide-is-greased-pastor-john-macarthur-slams-netflix-cuties-controversy-as-next-small-step-for-nation-without-a-conscience" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">‘The Slide Is Greased’: Pastor John MacArthur Slams Netflix ‘Cuties’ Controversy As ‘Next Small Step’ For ‘Nation Without A Conscience’</a>
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Ted Cruz Joins Other GOP Lawmakers Calling On DOJ To Investigate Netflix For Distributing Child Porn

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) joined other Republicans in Congress on Friday to urge the Department of Justice to investigate Netflix after the backlash against

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President Donald Trump released an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-list-of-20-potential-supreme-court-picks-if-re-elected-its-loaded-with-big-names">update to his list</a> of Supreme Court nominees on Wednesday afternoon to reflect the larger pool of candidates he would consider in order to fill a potential vacancy should he be re-elected for a second term.
The new list, which is an expansion to the existing list, features a mixture of judges, ambassadors, and other attorneys, including three U.S Senators — Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) — all of whom the president vowed “would be jurists in the mold of Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito.”
“Every one of these individuals will ensure equal justice, equal treatment, and equal rights for citizens of every race, color, religion, and creed,” said Trump. “Together, we will defend our righteous heritage and preserve our magnificent American way of life.”
In statements released after Trump’s remarks, the three sitting Republican senators expressed varying levels of enthusiasm about the position, with Hawley <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1303787915668074497">remarking</a> that he wanted to continue serving in the Senate.
“I appreciate the President’s confidence in listing me as a potential Supreme Court nominee. But as I told the President, Missourians elected me to fight for them in the Senate, and I have no interest in the high court. I look forward to confirming constitutional conservatives,” said Hawley in a statement.
Cruz praised the role of the Supreme Court in his <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1303787872026341377?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">statement</a> but didn’t indicate a significant level of interest in the position itself, although he didn’t outright reject it.
“I am grateful for the president’s confidence in me and for his leadership in nominating principled constitutionalists to the federal bench over the last four years. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’ve been proud to help confirm to the bench over 200 of President Trump’s judicial nominees, including two to the Supreme Court. It’s humbling and an immense honor to be considered for the Supreme Court. The High Court plays a unique role in defending our Constitution, and there is no greater responsibility in public service than to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. In the Senate, I have been blessed to lead the fight to preserve our constitutional liberties—every day, to defend the rights of 29 million Texans—and I look forward to continuing to do so for many years to come,” said Cruz in a statement.
Of the three senators, Cotton <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&amp;id=1418">indicated</a> the most interest in the position: “I’m honored that President Trump asked me to consider serving on the Supreme Court and I’m grateful for his confidence. I will always heed the call of service to our nation. The Supreme Court could use some more justices who understand the difference between applying the law and making the law, which the Court does when it invents a right to an abortion, infringes on religious freedom, and erodes the Second Amendment.”
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President Trump Delivers Remarks On Judicial Appointments

Cotton, Cruz, Hawley Respond After Trump Adds Them To List Of Potential Supreme Court Picks

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President Donald Trump released an update to his list of Supreme Court nominees on Wednesday afternoon to reflect the larger pool of candidates he would

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In an early-morning Twitter announcement Sunday, President Donald Trump said that the Department of Education was considering investigating whether schools are teaching The New York Times&#8217; controversial re-framing of the Revolutionary War and America&#8217;s founding, the &#8220;1619 Project.&#8221; He also suggested that schools using the curriculum could face a loss of federal funding.
The &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; which won a Pulitzer Prize last year, but which has also been <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/">widely criticized by prominent historians</a>, suggests that America&#8217;s founding did not occur in 1776, but rather in 1619, when the first slaves arrived in the new world. The project claims that &#8220;capitalism&#8221; was at the root of the Revolutionary War, and suggests that the Founding Fathers fought to preserve a slave economy from the British Empire, which, at the time, its author, Nikole Hannah-Jones claims, was on its way to abolishing the practice.
The project itself forces teachers and students to view the Revolutionary War through the lens of racial oppression and aims to put “the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative,&#8221; even if such reframing is, according to some scholars, historically questionable.
&#8220;The project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, was awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-schools-teaching-1">Fox News notes.</a> 
&#8220;However, multiple historians have criticized the series of articles for multiple inaccuracies, including the argument that the American Revolution was fought not to achieve independence from Britain, but to preserve the institution of slavery.&#8221;
In a letter to The New York Times itself, a number of prominent historians said that while they &#8220;applaud all efforts to address the foundational centrality of slavery and racism to our history,” the &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; twists “matters of verifiable fact” in ways that “cannot be described as interpretation or ‘framing’” and exhibits a complete “displacement of historical understanding by ideology.”
&#8220;These errors, which concern major events, cannot be described as interpretation or &#8216;framing,&#8217;” the historians wrote. &#8220;They are matters of verifiable fact, which are the foundation of both honest scholarship and honest journalism. They suggest a displacement of historical understanding by ideology. Dismissal of objections on racial grounds — that they are the objections of only &#8216;white historians&#8217; — has affirmed that displacement.&#8221;
A number of schools in California, New York, and Illinois, have already pledged to work the &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; into their history curriculum, spawning, according to the president, a Department of Education review of their history curriculum. Chicago&#8217;s and New York City&#8217;s school districts have both adjusted their history curriculum requirements to add aspects of the &#8220;1619 Project.&#8221;
&#8220;Department of Education is looking at this,&#8221; Trump tweeted in reference to the situation in California. &#8220;If so, they will not be funded!&#8221;
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is a step ahead of the president, announcing in July that he was drafting a bill that would prevent schools from using the &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; and his bill would also deny federal funding to those schools that choose to teach the curriculum, regardless. In a speech to the Senate earlier this summer, Cotton called the Project &#8220;a racially divisive, revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded.”
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Trump Threatens To Pull Federal Funding From Schools Teaching Controversial ‘1619 Project’

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In an early-morning Twitter announcement Sunday, President Donald Trump said that the Department of Education was considering investigating whether

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On Saturday, The New York Times attempted to correct the mistake made by its op-ed writer Maureen Dowd by writing that if former Vice President Joe Biden selected a woman as his running mate it would be the first Democratic male/female presidential ticket since Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, ignoring Hillary Clinton’s presidential run in 2016.
The Times started by tweeting, “It’s hard to fathom, but it has been 36 years since a man chose to put a woman on the Democratic ticket with him, writes @Maureen Dowd. To use Geraldine Ferraro’s favorite expression, ‘Gimme a break.’”
The Times followed by admitting, “Correction: An earlier version of this column incorrectly said it had been 36 years since a man and a woman ran on a Democratic Party ticket. It has been that long since a man chose a woman to run as V.P. on the Democratic ticket. We’ve deleted a tweet that repeated the error.”
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Correction: An earlier version of this column incorrectly said it had been 36 years since a man and a woman ran on a Democratic Party ticket. It has been that long since a man chose a woman to run as V.P. on the Democratic ticket. We’ve deleted a tweet that repeated the error.
&mdash; New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1292118400588808192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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It was noted that the initial “correction” of the Times still didn’t get the story right:
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Your earlier version didn’t say “Democratic Party,” it asserted a lack of women on ANY party ticket. Even your correction are full of historical revisionism.
&mdash; Mark Hughes (@markhughesfilms) <a href="https://twitter.com/markhughesfilms/status/1292133123212206083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), whose June op-ed in the Times calling for federal intervention in the riots around the nation triggered a maelstrom in which the Times editorial page editor resigned and the Times even issued an apology for printing the op-ed, reacted with a pointed notice on Twitter, writing, “It seems like a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet the New York Times&#8217;s standards.”
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It seems like a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet the New York Times&#39;s standards. <a href="https://t.co/h4JMlUgh3y">pic.twitter.com/h4JMlUgh3y</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1292192701954379779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cotton was mocking the Times&#8217; note appended to his op-ed after the column elicited blowback. The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">wrote</a>, “After publication, this essay met strong criticism from many readers (and many Times colleagues), prompting editors to review the piece and the editing process. Based on that review, we have concluded that the essay fell short of our standards and should not have been published.”
In that same note, the Times tried to explain their decision by stating, “For example, the published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of ‘cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa’; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned. Editors should have sought further corroboration of those assertions, or removed them from the piece.”
But in a piece published on Friday, titled “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/defund-police-seattle-protests.html">Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure</a>,” the Times actually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-ripped-cottons-op-ed-for-claiming-antifa-was-present-in-protests-the-times-just-admitted-he-was-right">acknowledged</a> that Antifa was indeed present in the city of Portland. The relevant paragraphs read like this:
<blockquote>Many of the business owners on Capitol Hill agreed: Much of the violence they saw and the intimidation of their patrons came from a group these business owners identified as antifa, which they distinguished from the Black Lives Matter movement. “The idea of taking up the Black movement and turning it into a white occupation, it’s white privilege in its finest definition,” Mr. Khan said. “And that’s what they did.”
Antifa, which stands for anti-fascist, is <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-antifa-trump.html">a radical, leaderless leftist political movement</a> that uses <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/154110/antifa-arming-trump-crackdown">armed, violent protest</a> as a method to create what supporters say is a more just and equitable country. They have <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/">a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest</a>, including the current protests in Portland.</blockquote>
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Senators Arrive To Senate Intelligence Closed Briefing

NY Times Attempts To Correct Their Own Op-Ed. Tom Cotton Gets Even, Mocks Their ‘Rushed Editorial Process’

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On Saturday, The New York Times attempted to correct the mistake made by its op-ed writer Maureen Dowd by writing that if former Vice President Joe Biden

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In early June, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) published a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">now-famous op-ed</a> in The New York Times that called for “an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain, and ultimately deter lawbreakers.”
Cotton noted:
<blockquote>The pace of looting and disorder may fluctuate from night to night, but it’s past time to support local law enforcement with federal authority. Some governors have mobilized the National Guard, yet others refuse, and in some cases the rioters still outnumber the police and Guard combined. In these circumstances, the Insurrection Act authorizes the president to employ the military “or any other means” in “cases of insurrection, or obstruction to the laws.”</blockquote>
Cotton added, “But the rioting has nothing to do with George Floyd, whose bereaved relatives have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/06/01/us/ap-us-america-protests-george-floyds-brother.html">condemned</a> violence. On the contrary, nihilist criminals are simply out for loot and the thrill of destruction, with cadres of left-wing radicals like <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-william-p-barrs-statement-riots-and-domestic-terrorism">antifa</a> infiltrating protest marches to exploit Floyd’s death for their own anarchic purposes.”
After leftists erupted in fury that Cotton actually suggested that federal law enforcement should intervene in the chaos and violence plaguing cities like Seattle and Portland, the Times hastily added a long note apologizing, within which they claimed that “the essay fell short of our standards and should not have been published,” adding, “For example, the published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of ‘cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa’; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned. Editors should have sought further corroboration of those assertions, or removed them from the piece.”
How times change: in a piece published on Friday, titled “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/defund-police-seattle-protests.html">Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure</a>,” the Times actually acknowledged that Antifa was indeed present in the city of Portland. The relevant paragraphs read like this:
<blockquote>Many of the business owners on Capitol Hill agreed: Much of the violence they saw and the intimidation of their patrons came from a group these business owners identified as antifa, which they distinguished from the Black Lives Matter movement. “The idea of taking up the Black movement and turning it into a white occupation, it’s white privilege in its finest definition,” Mr. Khan said. “And that’s what they did.”
Antifa, which stands for anti-fascist, is <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-antifa-trump.html">a radical, leaderless leftist political movement</a> that uses <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/154110/antifa-arming-trump-crackdown">armed, violent protest</a> as a method to create what supporters say is a more just and equitable country. They have <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/the-rise-of-the-violent-left/534192/">a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest</a>, including the current protests in Portland.</blockquote>
The brouhaha that ensued from Cotton&#8217;s article precipitated the resignation of editorial page editor James Bennet. The Times&#8217; reaction to Cotton&#8217;s op-ed prompted Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) to tweet an obituary for the paper, writing, &#8220;The NYT literally fired their editorial page editor because he dared publish an op-ed that Leftists disagreed with.&#8221;
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The NYT literally fired their editorial page editor because he dared publish an op-ed that Leftists disagreed with. 
The totalitarian Left will brook no dissent. To hell with Free Speech—we are Pravda. 
New York Times: founded as an actual newspaper 9/18/1851.
Died: 6/7/2020. <a href="https://t.co/YIzBihdhtO">https://t.co/YIzBihdhtO</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1269857708863299584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Senate Republican Oppositions After House Backs Washington D.C. Statehood

NYT Ripped Cotton’s Op-Ed For Claiming Antifa Was Present In Protests. The Times Just Admitted He Was Right.

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In early June, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) published a now-famous op-ed in The New York Times that called for “an overwhelming show of force to disperse,

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Fox Business Network&#8217;s &#8220;Mornings with Maria&#8221; on Wednesday that the United States needs to fight back harder against the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s intellectual property theft, and their attempts to influence things in the United States, by criminalizing taking money from China.
“The Chinese Communist Party continues its campaign of intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer,” Cotton said. “It is past time for us to insist this stop. The Trump administration and the president have been doing that in various ways. I’ve got legislation that would take more steps, as well. So, for instance, criminalizing the payment of money to American professors and academics who are on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party or their state-owned enterprises.”
“Right now, you can only prosecute those cases for things like wire fraud or lying on federal documents,” Cotton continued. “It’s the act of accepting the Chinese money itself that should be criminalized. There are other steps we can take, as well, to stand up for American companies that shouldn’t have to transfer their intellectual property to Chinese partners simply as a condition of doing business with Chinese consumers.”
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Cotton&#8217;s remarks come after he called for changing the law last week in response to news that a former University of Arkansas professor with ties to China was indicted on fraud charges.
&#8220;Federal law enforcement deserves great credit for putting together a strong case against alleged Chinese agent Simon Saw-Teong Ang,&#8221; Cotton <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&amp;id=1403">said</a>. &#8220;But Chinese spies aren’t ordinary fraudsters – they’re working for a foreign adversary. We ought to change the law so foreign agents in the future are held accountable not only for wire fraud, but for taking money from the Chinese Communist Party in the first place, the real crime in these cases.&#8221;
Cotton also proposed an amendment this week to block Chinese companies from receiving any coronavirus loan money.
The amendment comes after The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/us/politics/virus-china-ppp-small-business-loans.html">reported</a> this week:
<blockquote>According to a review of publicly available loan data by the strategy consulting firm Horizon Advisory, $192 million to $419 million has gone to more than 125 companies that Chinese entities own or invest in. Many of the loans were quite sizable; at least 32 Chinese companies received loans worth more than $1 million, with those totaling as much as $180 million.
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The report acknowledges that the participation of these companies in the lending program most likely saved an unspecified number of jobs based in the United States, but it also suggests that many of the businesses probably had access to other forms of capital from public or private markets to support their American operations. The Treasury Department has estimated that the overall program has kept 50 million workers employed in the United States.</blockquote>
Cotton&#8217;s office released a <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&amp;id=1404">statement</a> saying that the senator &#8220;introduced an amendment to the HEALS Act that would prohibit any funds in the HEALS Act-or residual CARES Act funds-from supporting any entity that is under Chinese ownership, control, or influence.&#8221;
&#8220;The legislation also mandates that the Secretary of the Treasury claw back CARES Act funds provided to Chinese firms,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;The amendment comes in response to reports that Chinese-owned companies received PPP funding from the CARES Act passed earlier this year.&#8221;
&#8220;China unleashed this plague on the world and they must be held accountable-not given a cash bonus by the American government,&#8221; Cotton said. &#8220;My amendment would ensure all coronavirus relief funds stay right here in the United States where they&#8217;re needed the most.&#8221;
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D.C. Statehood Presser

Cotton Ramps Up Efforts To Combat Communist China: Accepting Money From China ‘Should Be Criminalized’

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Fox Business Network&#039;s &quot;Mornings with Maria&quot; on Wednesday that the United States needs to fight back harder against the

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On Thursday, Senator Tom Cotton, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-tore-apart-cottons-op-ed-now-cotton-gets-the-last-laugh">came under fire</a> for his op-ed in The New York Times that called for the U.S. military to help restore cities to normalcy from the rioting there, introduced a bill in the Senate that would “prohibit Federal funds from being made available to teach the 1619 Project curriculum in elementary schools and secondary schools.”
The 1619 Project is the brainchild of The New York Times and an attempt to rewrite American history by claiming the nation’s true founding occurred in 1619, when slaves were first brought to the American continent, rather than 1776, when the American colonies united to declare themselves the United States of America.
From its outset, the bill, titled the “<a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/files/documents/200723%20Saving%20American%20History%20Act.pdf">Saving American History Act of 2020</a>,”  counters the 1619 project’s ahistorical position that the true founding of the United states of America occurred in 1619. The bill states: “The true date of America’s founding is July 4, 1776, the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. The self-evident truths set forth by that Declaration are the fundamental principles upon which America was founded.”
Then the bill segues to the attempt by leftists to destroy the traditional (and factual, considering the fact that the term “United States” was adopted in 1776, not 1619) position that the United States was founded in 1776. The bill writes:
<blockquote>An activist movement is now gaining momentum to deny or obfuscate this history by claiming that America was not founded on the ideals of the Declaration but rather on slavery and oppression. This distortion of American history is being taught to children in public school classrooms via the New York Times’ ‘‘1619 Project’’, which claims that ‘‘nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional’’ grew ‘‘out of slavery.” The 1619 Project is a racially divisive and revisionist account of history that threatens the integrity of the Union by denying the true principles on which it was founded.</blockquote>
Cotton, who served his country as a lieutenant in the armed services in Iraq, points out the necessity of educating children about the American ideal: “The Federal Government has a strong interest in promoting an accurate account of the Nation’s history through public schools and forming  young people into knowledgeable and patriotic citizens.”
Then, down to brass tacks. The bill throws down the gauntlet thus:
<blockquote>Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds shall be used by any elementary school or secondary school to teach the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times in such school; or local educational agency to support the teaching of the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times in the public schools served by such agency.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an elementary school or secondary school that teaches the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times in such school or a local educational agency that supports the teaching of the 1619 Project initiative of the New York Times in the public schools served by such agency shall not receive any Federal funding for professional development.</blockquote>
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) urged the Trump administration not to tolerate protesters destroying federal property in Portland, Oregon, and likened their behavior to the Confederates who fired on Fort Sumter in 1861 and started the Civil War.
“The federal government cannot allow anarchists and insurrectionists [to] destroy federal courthouses, federal buildings, or other federal property,&#8221; Cotton <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/tom-cotton-portland-new-york-times-op-ed" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said Tuesday</a> on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221; &#8220;These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland are little different from the insurrectionists who seceded from the Union in 1861 in South Carolina and tried to take over Fort Sumter.&#8221;
&#8220;And just like President Lincoln wouldn’t stand for that,&#8221; Cotton continued, &#8220;the federal government today cannot stand for the vandalism, the firebombing, or any attacks on federal property. It is right to send federal law enforcement in to defend federal property and federal facilities.&#8221;
&#8220;The radical left-wing mayor, who is basically in league with the ‘defund the police’ anarchists on the street, [has] seen over 50 days of rioting and looting and anarchy in their streets,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But, if you see something similar in other cities, where anarchists, insurrectionists are attacking courthouses, attacking federal buildings, attacking federal land and property, then of course the federal government has a responsibility to defend its installations and its property.&#8221;
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On Fox &amp; Friends, Sen. Tom Cotton compares protesters to the Confederacy: &quot;These insurrectionists in the streets of Portland are little different from the insurrectionists who seceded from the union in 1861 in South Carolina, and tried to take over Fort Sumter.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/7ylYh3N1dB">pic.twitter.com/7ylYh3N1dB</a>
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Portland has been at the center of national attention recently after federal troops from Customs and Border Protection’s Border Patrol Tactical Unit, as well as the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group, began allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-begins-feds-in-camo-nab-suspects-in-portland-drive-off-in-unmarked-cars" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">whisking suspected rioters away</a> in unmarked vans. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) likened such tactics to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beginning-of-the-ending-of-this-democracy-jim-clyburn-accuses-trump-and-barr-of-imposing-gestapo-activities" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nazi Gestapo</a>, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) even described the federal troops as Trump&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1284294427654197248" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stormtroopers.</a>&#8221;
Cotton sparked backlash when he published an op-ed in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The New York Times</a> last month calling for the federal government to &#8220;send in the troops&#8221; in response to violent protests that erupted nationwide in the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s death.
&#8220;One thing above all else will restore order to our streets: an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers,&#8221; Cotton wrote. &#8220;But local law enforcement in some cities desperately needs backup, while delusional politicians in other cities refuse to do what’s necessary to uphold the rule of law.&#8221;
The NYT later backtracked on publishing Cotton&#8217;s piece, appending an extensive statement to the op-ed that said in part, &#8220;We have concluded that the essay fell short of our standards and should not have been published.
Speaking with &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; Cotton derided The New York Times as &#8220;a national laughingstock,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Ever since they apologized for running my op-ed last month without citing a single factual inaccuracy in it, ever since they fired their own editor for running that op-ed, it reads like a syllabus from a social justice seminar. So, I give little credit to what I see in the pages of The New York Times.&#8221;
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters, &#8220;By any objective standard, the violence, chaos, and anarchy in Portland is unacceptable. Yet Democrats continue to put politics above peace while this president seeks to restore law and order.&#8221;
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Tom Cotton Compares ‘Anarchists And Insurrectionists’ In Portland To Confederacy

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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) warned in a Senate speech on Monday about the alarming increase in people disregarding the rule of law across the country and announced that he has requested that Attorney General William Barr bring criminal charges against violent mobs that are destroying property.
&#8220;In recent weeks, violent mobs have roamed our streets, defacing and tearing down statues and monuments, in most cases with neither resistance from the police nor legal consequences,&#8221; Cotton said. &#8220;On Friday, a mob tore down another statue just a few blocks from here. The police stood idly by and watched as rioters toppled it and set it on fire. One can only assume they were ordered not to intervene by Washington’s left-wing mayor.&#8221;
Cotton repeatedly cited throughout his speech warnings from President Abraham Lincoln about the danger of mobs, specifically that the “lawless in spirit” will become “lawless in practice” because of mob violence, seeing no consequences for crimes.
&#8220;The mob doesn’t stop at statues. Rioters have already torched police precincts and low-income housing in Minneapolis. Churches and synagogues have been vandalized,&#8221; Cotton continued. &#8220;Next, perhaps, the mob will target the homes of police officers. And soon enough, the mob may come for you, and your home, and your family.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&amp;id=1386">letter</a> to Barr, Cotton mocked the rioters, writing that &#8220;they aren&#8217;t exactly criminal masterminds, typically filming their crimes and posting the videos on social media.&#8221;
&#8220;Federal laws such as the Anti-Riot Act and the Veterans Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act should cover some crimes. Other federal laws may also apply,&#8221; Cotton added. &#8220;I commend your efforts against rioting and looting earlier this month. Regrettably, there&#8217;s more work yet to quell the mob. The country is fortunate to have an Attorney General up to the task.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=blog&amp;id=1385">TRANSCRIPT</a>:
<blockquote>I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of courts; and the worse than savage mobs, for the executive ministers of justice. This disposition is awfully fearful in any community; and that it now exists in ours, though grating to our feelings to admit, it would be a violation of truth, and an insult to our intelligence, to deny. Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the everyday news of the times.”
Now those aren’t my words. Those are the words of a young Abraham Lincoln. But sadly, they ring with truth today. In recent weeks, violent mobs have roamed our streets, defacing and tearing down statues and monuments, in most cases with neither resistance from the police nor legal consequences.
On Friday, a mob tore down another statue just a few blocks from here. The police stood idly by and watched as rioters toppled it and set it on fire. One can only assume they were ordered not to intervene by Washington’s left-wing mayor. But here’s the thing: steps were already underway to move that statue lawfully; Washington’s delegate in Congress had legislation to that effect. But mobs don’t care to negotiate, only to destroy.
The delegate said, “I have no doubt I could have gotten that bill through, but the people got here before due process.” It’s hard to imagine a more chilling summation of mob rule.
As Lincoln knew, the mob threatens not just old statues, but the lives and livelihoods of us all. Indeed, the mob threatens civilization itself in many ways.
Most simply, Lincoln knew that mobs inevitably make mistakes and commit injustices. Some may celebrate the destruction of disfavored statues and monuments.
But what of the vandals in Boston who defaced a monument to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment—the first African-American regiment to fight for the Union? Whose bravery and skill were immortalized in the movie Glory. And what of the outlaws in Philadelphia who defaced a statue of Matthias Baldwin, a devout, passionate abolitionist? Mobs don’t discriminate between “legitimate” and “illegitimate” targets of their destruction. That’s because they are mobs.
Lincoln also warned that the “lawless in spirit” will become “lawless in practice” because of mob violence, seeing no consequences for crimes.
The mob doesn’t stop at statues. Rioters have already torched police precincts and low-income housing in Minneapolis. Churches and synagogues have been vandalized. Next, perhaps, the mob will target the homes of police officers. And soon enough, the mob may come for you, and your home, and your family.
And as the mob expands its power, Lincoln cautioned that good citizens, “seeing their property destroyed; their families insulted, and their lives endangered; their persons injured; and seeing nothing in prospect that forebodes a change for the better; become tired of, and disgusted with, a Government that offers them no protection.” Mob rule can only serve to demoralize our people and shake their faith in our government and our way of life. As the mob rises, civilization recedes.
Finally, Lincoln observed that “by operation of this mobocractic spirit, which all must admit, is now abroad in the land, the strongest bulwark of any Government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed—I mean the attachment of the People.” The final victim of mob rule is the very spirit of civic-minded patriotism that’s necessary to preserve our republic.
And for all these reasons, Lincoln said, “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.” We cannot tolerate mob rule and we cannot allow it to go unpunished.
While local authorities would usually take the lead in prosecuting these crimes, unfortunately many of them seem unwilling to stand up to the mob and uphold the rule of the law. Therefore, I call upon the Department of Justice to bring charges against these mob vigilantes, prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law.
The Anti-Riot Act and the Veterans Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act can provide legal grounds in some cases. Still other federal statutes may govern in other cases. But there must be consequences for mob violence. Because if you give the mob an inch, it’ll take a mile.
Witness the events of just this past weekend, where mobs tore down statues of George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant. When you tear down statues of Washington and Grant, it’s not about the Civil War—it’s because you hate America.
And indeed, these rioters hate America. In Portland, where they tore down the statue of Washington, they also spray-painted on him the date “1619”—a reference to the New York Times’s revisionist anti-American history project. Perhaps we should call them the “1619 Riots.” After all, the architect of that execrable project said, “it would be an honor.”
This hatred for America was nowhere on greater display than San Francisco, where the mob tore down the statue of Grant. That would be U.S. Grant, commander of the Union Army whose very initials embodied his tenacious, unrelenting approach to war: “unconditional surrender.”
That would also be President Grant, the political heir of Abraham Lincoln, a statesman who smashed the first Ku Klux Klan, signed the first major civil-rights legislation, and presided over passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. In one famous instance, President Grant sent in the troops to disperse a white mob in New Orleans that was terrorizing the city’s black and Republican residents, and had deposed the state’s lawful governor.
Grant had zero tolerance for mob rule. He said “neither Ku Klux Klans, White Leagues, nor any other association using arms and violence to execute their unlawful purposes can be permitted in that way to govern any part of this country.”
This was a man whom the great Frederick Douglass eulogized as “too broad for prejudice, too humane to despise the humblest, too great to be small at any point.” Yet the mob still came for Grant.
Some people have been asking, where is the line? I say, this is the line—the line between mob rule and the rule of law. And since I began by quoting Lincoln, I’ll conclude by borrowing from Grant, who wrote during the Battle of Spotsylvania: “I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.”
And I’ll fight it out on this line if it takes a lot longer than that.</blockquote>
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Justice Roberts has reaped a whirlwind of criticism this week after siding with the Supreme Court&#8217;s liberal wing this week on two major decisions: the rescinding of DACA and workplace protections for LGBT individuals on the basis of sex under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has gone as far to call on Justice Roberts to resign for showing himself to be a political actor rather than an impartial jurist.
&#8220;It cannot be the law that what Barack Obama has unlawfully done, no president may undo,” Cotton said in a statement, as reported by <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/06/18/cotton-if-john-roberts-wants-to-write-laws-he-should-resign-and-run-for-office/">The Federalist</a>. &#8220;John Roberts again postures as a Solomon who will save our institutions from political controversy and accountability. If the Chief Justice believes his political judgment is so exquisite, I invite him to resign, travel to Iowa, and get elected. I suspect voters will find his strange views no more compelling than do the principled justices on the Court.&#8221;
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was equally vocal in his criticism of the Supreme Court.
“Judging is not a game. It’s not supposed to be a game but sadly over recent years more and more, Chief Justice Roberts has been playing games with the court to achieve the policy outcomes he desires,” Cruz said.
In the 5-4 decision on Wednesday, Roberts wrote the majority opinion in which he said that President Trump could not rescind the Obama administration’s Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Act with an executive order, alleging that the president did not reverse the program in their preferred way.
“We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies. ‘The wisdom’ of those decisions ‘is none of our concern,&#8217;” Roberts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-rules-against-trump-admin-on-daca-roberts-strikes-casts-swing-vote">wrote in the opinion</a>. “We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.”
The Roberts opinion further alleged that the Trump administration &#8220;failed to consider the conspicuous issues of whether to retain forbearance,” demanding that the Department of Homeland Security take up the issue if DACA were to come to an end.
“That dual failure raises doubts about whether the agency appreciated the scope of its discretion or exercised that discretion in a reasonable manner,” Roberts wrote. “The appropriate recourse is, therefore, to remand to DHS so that it may consider the problem anew.”
Trump, who took a beating in the Supreme Court this week, blasted the justices for their jurisprudence on Twitter while demanding we get new justices on the court.
“The recent Supreme Court decisions, not only on DACA, Sanctuary Cities, Census, and others, tell you only one thing, we need NEW JUSTICES of the Supreme Court. If the Radical Left Democrats assume power, your Second Amendment, Right to Life, Secure Borders, and &#8230; Religious Liberty, among many other things, are OVER and GONE!”  he tweeted.
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During his Wednesday radio program, conservative host Rush Limbaugh said Senators Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) were positioning themselves for presidential runs in 2024, specifically capturing President Donald Trump&#8217;s populist movement, leaving behind so-called &#8220;old&#8221; conservatism.
Limbaugh started the segment by noting that Sen. Hawley &#8220;proclaimed that this now is the end of the conservative judicial movement, that there isn’t one&#8221; on Monday, following the shocking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-rules-lgbt-individuals-protected-from-job-discrimination-under-title-vii">Supreme Court</a> decision that Title VII can be interpreted to include discrimination based on sexual orientation, extending the protections of federal employment law to gay and transgender individuals.
&#8220;Meaning, if the best and the brightest conservative judges can side with the liberals on the Supreme Court on something nobody ever thought any sensible conservative would do, then what is the point of having a conservative judicial movement?&#8221; Limbaugh explained.
&#8220;It’s the Left that has a liberal judicial movement. It is the Left that finds judges that never waver, that never do anything but what they are to do: They are to rule in favor of liberalism in every case,&#8221; the host added. &#8220;They are to rule in favor of liberal people in every case, liberal policy. They are there to write law from the bench. That’s their mission; that’s what they do.&#8221;
&#8220;We do not,&#8221; Limbaugh said of conservatives, &#8220;and yet we’re the ones demonized!&#8221;
&#8220;Hawley also said what that proves is legislation doesn’t happen in the Senate anymore, and it doesn’t happen in the House,&#8221; the 69-year-old said, noting that Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) won a &#8220;twofer&#8221; via the Supreme Court decision: &#8220;They (Democrats) get transgenderism in the Civil Rights Act plus they get conservative judges betraying the conservative movement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That’s a win-win for her or any of the other Democrats out there that look at matters this way, count wins and losses this way.&#8221;
Limbaugh argued that Hawley is setting himself up a presidential run in 2024, adding Cotton to the mix, as well.
Assuming that Trump takes the 2020 election, the host said, &#8220;I think you’ve got two Republicans right now &#8230; Josh Hawley is making a move on it, and so is Tom Cotton, and they are positioning themselves as heirs of the Trump movement, heirs of a populist movement.&#8221;
&#8220;They are not selling some return to conservative, small government — you know, whatever the old conservative arguments were: Smaller, less spending, smaller government,&#8221; he argued.
&#8220;They’re setting themselves up to inherit the Trump agenda, which is populism, Make America Great Again,&#8221; added Limbaugh. &#8220;That’s okay. I mean, I’m fine with that. I think it’s cool for them to already be thinking about this. I like both of their reactions to what is going on.&#8221;
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On Sunday, Fox News’ Howard Kurtz and Chris Wallace engaged in a discussion about journalistic integrity.
“Is journalism becoming more intolerant?” Kurtz asked. “I mean, ten or twenty years ago, would we have seen the publisher of The New York Times completely flipping and criticizing a conservative op-ed that he had defended because a bunch of newsroom staffers didn&#8217;t like it?”
Wallace replied:
<blockquote>It feels like the inmates are running the asylum. You know, I&#8217;ve been critical sometimes of the Times, and I think that their liberal tendency tends to bleed out onto their news coverage – some people have accused Fox of the same thing in terms of our tendencies – but I thought that what happened in the last week at the Times was just extraordinary.</blockquote>
Wallace then explained that Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) had written an op-ed in which he advocated using the military to end the riots that erupted following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
After the op-ed was published in The New York Times, the paper received major backlash from their own staffers, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger defended it before backing down. The editor for the NYT editorial page, James Bennet, later reportedly apologized and resigned.
“It was a profile in a lack of courage,” Wallace stated.
Kurtz continued, asking Wallace: “Given the long history of racism and police brutality in this country, crystallized by the killing of George Floyd, does it now seem to you that there are many people in newsrooms – this goes far beyond The New York Times – who just don&#8217;t believe that dissenting views, let&#8217;s say sending in the military to control riots, should be aired at all, that it&#8217;s just too offensive to them?”
Wallace replied in the affirmative, noting that while there aren’t “two sides to every issue,” it isn’t “over the line to even discuss the issue of how you put down violent protests,” which is what Cotton advocated in his op-ed.
“I&#8217;m not sure I agree with him about it, and it certainly would have been an extraordinary step, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to me that it&#8217;s so far over the line that there aren&#8217;t two sides to that argument,” Wallace said, later adding, “but to suggest that it was improper for that – and this is a U.S. Senator – to suggest it was improper for him to even express that opinion, boy, that&#8217;s not good.”
“It’s called debate; it&#8217;s called free expression,” Kurtz stated.
The host went on to explain that he believes the “new woke standard” began “in part” when President Trump was a candidate, and that there were journalists that discarded the rules of journalism because they “deemed Donald Trump to be such a threat to the country.”
Kurtz noted that he believes this is still going on.
“Now they want to see him defeated in November,” the host said. “Do you agree with me, and do you think that&#8217;s a slippery slope?”
Wallace agreed, but he added that this standard appears to have begun before Trump. The Fox News anchor claimed that people will compliment him on his “fairness,” which he said he finds “fairly depressing” as fairness is the most basic standard of journalism.
“Today, I think that it&#8217;s gotten so polarized, whether it&#8217;s on cable news, whether it&#8217;s in newspapers, that fairness is kind of unusual, and that is a terribly sad reflection on our business,” Wallace suggested.
Kurtz pivoted, asking Wallace about his criticisms of Trump referring to the press as “the enemy of the people,” but also the Fox News anchor’s indictments of the media.
Wallace replied in part:
<blockquote>You see some reporters now who have become advocates. I see it in the press briefings now. You know, I was pretty tough in the press briefings with Ronald Reagan and his press secretaries in the 80s, but we were basically trying to get information. Some of the press briefings now &#8230; it&#8217;s more playing gotcha or more just trying to get in arguments and advance their point of view. That’s not what we&#8217;re supposed to be doing, and that&#8217;s what I see too often among my colleagues in the media&#8230;</blockquote>
Kurtz then brought up the idea that younger journalists might see objectivity as an outmoded method of reporting, and Wallace rebutted that by saying that the “truth” is what matters. He cited the coverage of the civil rights movement and the “the brutality of southern sheriffs” as evidence of the importance of journalists simply “shining a light on reality.”
“When reporters start taking sides, I think that&#8217;s very dangerous,” Wallace concluded.
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On Sunday, Fox News’ Howard Kurtz and Chris Wallace engaged in a discussion about journalistic integrity. “Is journalism becoming more intolerant?” Kurtz

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On Wednesday, Senator Tom Cotton got the last laugh on The New York Times, which had precipitated a brouhaha last week when its staff revolted because a Cotton op-ed had been published in the paper, causing the editorial page editor to resign and the paper officially stating it &#8220;should not have been published.&#8221;
Cotton&#8217;s affiliated political action committee, using funds that were raised   from those who supported Cotton after the Times attacked him, ran an ad attacking former Vice President and current prospective Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden — on the Times&#8217; website.
A top advisor to Cotton paid mock homage to the Times, telling <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/tom-cotton-places-anti-biden-ads-in-new-york-times/">The Washington Free Beacon</a>, &#8220;While we were concerned that the woke mob would stifle debate, it&#8217;s admirable that The New York Times will run these ads from Senator Cotton&#8217;s PAC.” The Beacon added, “Cotton&#8217;s team said the drama caused a substantial boost to his fundraising that helped him purchase the ads placed in the Times … Cotton&#8217;s campaign said he has raised nearly $200,000 since his op-ed was published.”
In an editor&#8217;s note that was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-new-york-times-releases-new-statement-on-senator-tom-cottons-op-ed">featured</a> at the top of Cotton&#8217;s op-ed last week, The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>After publication, this essay met strong criticism from many readers (and many Times colleagues), prompting editors to review the piece and the editing process. Based on that review, we have concluded that the essay fell short of our standards and should not have been published.
The basic arguments advanced by Senator Cotton — however objectionable people may find them — represent a newsworthy part of the current debate. But given the life-and-death importance of the topic, the senator’s influential position and the gravity of the steps he advocates, the essay should have undergone the highest level of scrutiny. Instead, the editing process was rushed and flawed, and senior editors were not sufficiently involved.
While Senator Cotton and his staff cooperated fully in our editing process, the Op-Ed should have been subject to further substantial revisions — as is frequently the case with such essays — or rejected &#8230; Beyond those factual questions, the tone of the essay in places is needlessly harsh and falls short of the thoughtful approach that advances useful debate.</blockquote>
On Wednesday, Cotton tweaked the nose of the Times by noting it had no problem with an earlier op-ed he had written:
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Happy that today <a href="https://twitter.com/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StateDept</a> is reopening its consulate in Nuuk, Greenland. PHASE ONE COMPLETE.
Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/nytopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytopinion</a> for publishing my op-ed on this important issue!<a href="https://t.co/TzR1Jqz2dH">https://t.co/TzR1Jqz2dH</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1270731367995899907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Biden ad on the Times&#8217; website featured a voiceover stating, “China’s lies spread the China virus across the world, putting the health and jobs of the American people at risk. We need strong, decisive leadership to get through this crisis. Joe Biden fails the test. Biden doesn’t know what day it is. He doesn’t even know what office he’s running for.”
After showing clips of Biden unsure of which day it was and saying he was running for the U.S. Senate, the video continues, “So clueless. Biden called the China travel ban &#8216;xenophobic&#8217; and he wants to exploit this crisis to pass the ‘Green New Deal,’ putting more  American jobs at risk.”
Biden is shown saying, “We’re going to have an opportunity, I believe, in the next round here, to use my green economy, my green deal …”
The video concludes, “Joe Biden. Weak on China. Too confused to lead.”
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New York Times Tore Apart Cotton’s Op-Ed. Now Cotton Gets The Last Laugh.

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Despite the fact the he hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 2004, retired General Colin Powell, who served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, made headlines in the mainstream media when he stated on <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2006/07/sotu.01.html">CNN’s “State of the Union”</a> Sunday that he would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, in November.
Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton quickly fired back, stating, “I respect Colin Powell’s service and he’s entitled to his opinion, like every other American. But he hasn’t voted Republican for sixteen years. Apparently John McCain and Mitt Romney were ‘too extreme’ for Secretary Powell.”
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I respect Colin Powell’s service and he’s entitled to his opinion, like every other American. But he hasn’t voted Republican for sixteen years. Apparently John McCain and Mitt Romney were “too extreme” for Secretary Powell. <a href="https://t.co/hf2Q14pwqN">https://t.co/hf2Q14pwqN</a>
&mdash; Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1269648154728828931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ironically, as Cotton has been pilloried for suggesting in a New York Times op-ed that President Trump use military force as a backup if police are overwhelmed to stop rioters, not peaceful protesters, there was this exchange between Powell and Tapper:
<blockquote>Tapper: During the Rodney King riots in 1992, you counseled then President George H.W. Bush on a speech he was about to give. You wrote about this very movingly in your book.
You wrote — quote — &#8220;I read it with dismay.&#8221; This is the first copy of the speech. &#8220;I thought the tone was all wrong. Yes, the rioting was criminal, and law and order had to be restored, but the violence had not incubated in isolation. It had deep social roots. The speech, as it stood, recognized only the former and ignored the latter.&#8221;
&#8220;Do the law and order bit,&#8221; you said, &#8220;but there is language here that is only going to fan the flames. Turn down the heat, I suggested. Get some reconciliation into the president&#8217;s message.&#8221; And President George H.W. Bush did take your advice back in 1992. He talked about how he was disappointed that the cops who beat Rodney King had been acquitted, and on and on.
President Trump has been emphasizing law and order. Do you think that he is talking enough about reconciliation and empathy and what the people in the streets are calling for in his message in any way?
Powell: No, he&#8217;s not in any way that I recognize. He always is shooting toward his base. I remember the Bush conversation very, very vividly, because, at the same time, we had to bring law and order back into the streets. And we worked with the state of California, where it happened in Los Angeles, the riots.
And the president called me and said: &#8220;We may have to do something.&#8221;
I said: &#8220;Mr. President, go to the governor. The governor has the National Guard. And if the National Guard can&#8217;t do it, then you come back to me with a decision, and we will send in federal troops.&#8221;</blockquote>
During the Tapper interview, Powell ripped Trump, saying: &#8220;And the one word I have to use with respect to what he&#8217;s been doing for the last several years is a word I would never have used before, I never would have used with any of the four presidents I have worked for: He lies. He lies about things. And he gets away with it, because people will not hold him accountable.&#8221;
“Why is it so important to you that President Trump not be reelected?” Tapper asked.
Powell responded, “Because I think he has been not an effective president. He lies all the time. He began lying the day of inauguration, when we got into an argument about the size of the crowd that was there. People are writing books about his favorite thing of lying. And I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s in our interest. I didn&#8217;t vote for him in 2006 (sic). The situation for 2020, in my mind, in my life, has gotten worse.”
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Sen Tom Cotton (R-AR) called out the different standards that were set during the coronavirus pandemic versus the standards that the media and some state and local-level officials have accepted during the protests that have morphed into riots across the nation over the past couple of weeks.
&#8220;Just a couple of weeks ago, we had mayors and governors upset by the lockdown, upset by the shutdown,&#8221; Fox News host Maria Bartiromo said on Sunday. &#8220;And now we have got all of these people on the ground protesting, many of whom are peaceful. But is there a worry that they&#8217;re going to get COVID, being so close to each other?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I hope that&#8217;s not the case,&#8221; Cotton responded. &#8220;We won&#8217;t know for a week or two, given the incubation period of the virus.&#8221;
&#8220;But I think we can say that the lockdowns and the most extreme form are going to have to be finished, whether de facto or not,&#8221; Cotton continued. &#8220;You just can&#8217;t expect people to continue to voluntarily comply with what some of these mayors and governors are saying.&#8221;
&#8220;It cannot be the case that thousands of Americans can exercise their First Amendment rights on the street, while dozens of Americans cannot exercise their First Amendment rights in churches,&#8221; Cotton continued. &#8220;It cannot be the case that you can be arrested for opening a business, but not for looting one.&#8221;
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<blockquote>MARIA BARTIROMO, SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES ANCHOR: Controversy over Senator Tom Cotton&#8217;s New York Times op-ed this past week, which was on violence in protests across the country.
His piece Wednesday titled &#8220;Send in the Troops&#8221; called for an overwhelming show of force and sparked an online revolt at The New York Times.
The Times issued a statement after it published it, saying this: &#8220;We have examined the piece and the process leading up to the Republican &#8212; the publication. This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an op-ed that did not meet our standards.&#8221;
Here to react right now is the senator himself, Senator Tom Cotton of the Armed Services, Intelligence and Banking, and Economic committees.
Good to see you, sir. Thank you so much for joining me, Senator.
What happened with The Times&#8217; op-ed? Was it rushed?
(LAUGHTER)
SEN. TOM COTTON (R-AR): Hardly, Maria.
I will say, my op-ed didn&#8217;t meet the Times&#8217; standards. It far exceeded their standards, which is usually sophomoric, left-wing drivel.
But here&#8217;s what happened behind the scenes. Last weekend, we saw rioting, rooting, really anarchy and insurrection on our streets. In Washington, D.C., seven days ago, a famous church was torched, memorials were desecrated, stores were looted.
And I said simply last Monday that, if the local police are overwhelmed by the numbers of these insurrectionists, if they need support from the National Guard, or, if necessary, as a last resort, federal troops, under the Insurrection Act, then that&#8217;s exactly what has to happen.
Now, fortunately, that&#8217;s what happened in most places over the course of the last week. So, what we saw yesterday was people exercising their First Amendment rights to demonstrate and to protest.
But, in the meantime, we published that exact argument in The New York Times. The New York Times editorial page editor and owner defended it in public statements. But then they totally surrendered to a woke child mob from their own newsroom that apparently gets triggered if they&#8217;re presented with any opinion contrary to their own, as opposed to telling&#8230;
BARTIROMO: Yes. It&#8217;s&#8230;
COTTON: &#8230; the woke children in their newsroom, this is the workplace, not a social justice seminar on campus.
BARTIROMO: Well, it&#8217;s unbelievable, because I know that it went back and forth three or four times in terms of edits and reedits. So, obviously, they have had a process with which to go.
I like what Howie Kurtz said. Howie Kurtz said, look, this is such a window into how biased The New York Times is, when &#8212; they have just totally exposed themselves. The opinion page is just that, an opinion page.
COTTON: Yes, that&#8217;s exactly right, Maria.
We have published op-eds in The New York Times before. It was the exact same process. And, again, the senior leaders of The New York Times publicly defended the decision to publish the op-ed after this woke mob began to rise up.
It was only after another day of infighting that they finally backpedaled. They still haven&#8217;t identified any facts that are wrong in the op-ed. They haven&#8217;t identified what was so rushed about this process.
They have only prostrated themselves in front of their young children who are acting like children&#8230;
BARTIROMO: Yes.
COTTON: &#8230; who are acting like kids in a social justice seminar, as exposed &#8212; as opposed to acting like grownups in the workplace.
BARTIROMO: Well, I want to get on to China.
But, first, let me get a word on the situation taking place right now. Just a couple of weeks ago, we had mayors and governors upset by the lockdown, upset by the shutdown. And now we have got all of these people on the ground protesting, many of whom are peaceful
But is there a worry that they&#8217;re going to get COVID, being so close to each other?
COTTON: Well, I hope that&#8217;s not the case. We won&#8217;t know for a week or two, given the incubation period of the virus.
But I think we can say that the lockdowns and the most extreme form are going to have to be finished, whether de facto or not. You just can&#8217;t expect people to continue to voluntarily comply with what some of these mayors and governors are saying.
It cannot be the case that thousands of Americans can exercise their First Amendment rights on the street, while dozens of Americans cannot exercise their First Amendment rights in churches. It cannot be the case that you can be arrested for opening a business, but not for looting one.
BARTIROMO: Unbelievable.
Real quick, before we go onto China, I wanted to mention that the number of people who have written op-eds for The New York Times, we have got one from the Taliban. I don&#8217;t think there was any controversy around this, the headline here, &#8220;What We, the Taliban, Want.&#8221;
That was an op-ed in The Times. There was also one from Putin. There was one years back from Hitler.
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COTTON: Yes, I don&#8217;t remember all the woke staffers at The New York Times rising up in arms whenever they published the Taliban op-ed just a few months ago.
It just goes to show you the moral rot inside some of our media and academic institutions, that they don&#8217;t get outraged about the Taliban, but they do get outraged about conservative opinion.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
All right, let me move onto China, because we had more information and new information this week. China is now &#8212; forces, Communist Party forces, are on the border facing off against forces in India.
Did they invade India? They have militarized the South China Sea. And, of course, they are overreaching on Hong Kong.
Your reaction to the new developments coming out of the CCP this past week in terms of their military?
COTTON: Sure, Maria.
There&#8217;s been many aggressive steps out of the Chinese Communist Party over the last few weeks. They have been attacking fishing boats from other nations in the South China Sea. We all saw that they passed a law that cracked down on Hong Kong, in violation of their basic international commitments.
And, yes, in effect, they did invade Indian territory. Now, the border between China and India has always been murky in many places. But Chinese forces, no doubt, have taken territory that otherwise is claimed by India, significantly heightening tensions there.
Now, I commend the president for taking bold action, for example, about Hong Kong, withdrawing Hong Kong&#8217;s favored trade status, and refusing to allow Chinese students who are affiliated with the People&#8217;s Liberation Army to continue studying in our most advanced laboratories.
There&#8217;s a lot more, though, that we can continue to do to China&#8217;s ambitions and to prevent further Chinese aggression.
BARTIROMO: There is also news on Huawei, a real pushback.
You know, a week ago, we saw the English-speaking allies get together and write a memo, a press release, denouncing what China has done to Hong Kong. That includes Canada, U.K., Australia.
I&#8217;m wondering where Europe is. The European nations, like Germany, France, Italy, are they still using Huawei Telecom? And tell us what happened this past week in terms of Huawei and how it&#8217;s spying on people across the world that have infrastructure in place that&#8217;s Huawei.
COTTON: Yes.
So, one very big step the Trump administration has taken is to say that American can&#8217;t &#8212; technology can&#8217;t be used in foreign-manufactured semiconductor chips that then are bound for mainland China. This closed the loophole from a Trump administration decision last year to prevent American-made chips from going to China.
And that decision alone to cut off American technology to foreign semiconductor manufacturers could reverse a lot of the Huawei decisions you have seen in our allies. Germany has said they may no longer be able to use Huawei technology. I know the United Kingdom is reconsidering it as well. That&#8217;s a very good thing.
BARTIROMO: And I know that you have got legislation right now proposing $43 billion to beef up the U.S. military in the Pacific, partly for this reason.
Senator, I would love to hear more about that when you come back.
Great to have you this morning, sir. Thank you, sir.
COTTON: Thanks, Maria.
BARTIROMO: We will see you soon, Senator Tom Cotton.</blockquote>
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On Sunday, The New York Times announced that their editorial page editor has resigned after blowback erupted because the paper published an op-ed by Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton arguing that the government should &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">send in the troops</a>&#8221; as a last resort in response to the wave of riots and looting that swept the country.
The Times had already issued a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/business/new-york-times-op-ed-cotton.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">statement on Thursday</a> saying that they should have never published Cotton’s op-ed. &#8220;We’ve examined the piece and the process leading up to its publication,&#8221; a spokesperson said. &#8220;This review made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards. As a result, we’re planning to examine both short-term and long-term changes, to include expanding our fact-checking operation and reducing the number of Op-Eds we publish.&#8221;
The resignation of the editorial page editor triggered Texas GOP senator Ted Cruz to issue a scathing obituary for the paper, writing:
<blockquote>The NYT literally fired their editorial page editor because he dared publish an op-ed that Leftists disagreed with. 
The totalitarian Left will brook no dissent. To hell with Free Speech—we are Pravda. 
New York Times: founded as an actual newspaper 9/18/1851. 
Died: 6/7/2020.</blockquote>
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The NYT literally fired their editorial page editor because he dared publish an op-ed that Leftists disagreed with. 
The totalitarian Left will brook no dissent. To hell with Free Speech—we are Pravda. 
New York Times: founded as an actual newspaper 9/18/1851.
Died: 6/7/2020. <a href="https://t.co/YIzBihdhtO">https://t.co/YIzBihdhtO</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1269857708863299584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The publisher for the Times, A.G. Sulzberger, wrote a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/07/james-bennet-resigns-editorial-page-editor-new-york-times/">memo</a> to the the paper’s staff arguing that the Times’ &#8220;essential role&#8221; requires &#8220;fearless engagement with ideas from across the political spectrum, particularly those we disagree with.&#8221;
Sulzberger also stated, “There are also fundamental questions to address about the changing role of opinion journalism in a digital world, and we will begin work to reinvent the op-ed format so that readers understand why we choose to elevate each argument and where it fits in the national debate. None of these changes mark a retreat from The Times’s responsibility to help people understand a range of voices across the breadth of public debate. That role is as important as it’s ever been.&#8221;
&#8220;We believe deeply in principles of fairness, equality and human rights,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Those values animate both our news report and our opinion report. Thank you for your dedication to helping us to live up to our highest ideals.&#8221;
After the Times issued the statement on Thursday saying Cotton’s op-ed should never have been published, Cotton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-tom-cotton-rips-the-new-york-times-to-pieces-for-caving-to-leftists-over-op-ed-that-featured-opinion-shared-by-majority-of-americans">fired back</a>:
<blockquote>I can tell you my op-ed doesn&#8217;t meet The New York Times&#8217; standards, it far exceeds their standards, which are normally full of left-wing sophomoric dribble. And I find it amazing that in the last 24 hours, the editor of “The New York Times” and the publisher of “The New York Times” have both defended the decision to publish the op-ed, but in the face of the woke mob of woke kids that are in their news room, they tucked tail and they ran, they confessed and said they were gonna go into reeducation camp and they were gonna cut the number of op-eds they run, and for that I will say to the world, you’re welcome for getting “The New York Times” to run less of the garbage that you normally see in their pages.</blockquote>
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The New York Times released a new statement in the form of an editor&#8217;s note in response to an op-ed written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) that was published in the newspaper this week. The op-ed argued that the military should be deployed to stop the violent riots and looting that is ravaging inner cities across America.
The editor&#8217;s note came after leftist activists at The New York Times and throughout the media—along with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-explodes-over-tom-cotton-op-ed-that-featured-ideas-supported-by-majority-of-americans">far-left lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)</a>—exploded in anger over Cotton&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">op-ed</a>, claiming without evidence that it put black lives at risk. Cotton made no reference to any racial demographic and instead argued that impoverished communities were the ones most likely to suffer from the lawlessness.
The New York Times initially defended its decision to publish the op-ed, but later caved after getting pounded by the online outrage mob.
In an editor&#8217;s note that was featured at the top of Cotton&#8217;s op-ed, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>After publication, this essay met strong criticism from many readers (and many Times colleagues), prompting editors to review the piece and the editing process. Based on that review, we have concluded that the essay fell short of our standards and should not have been published.
The basic arguments advanced by Senator Cotton — however objectionable people may find them — represent a newsworthy part of the current debate. But given the life-and-death importance of the topic, the senator’s influential position and the gravity of the steps he advocates, the essay should have undergone the highest level of scrutiny. Instead, the editing process was rushed and flawed, and senior editors were not sufficiently involved. While Senator Cotton and his staff cooperated fully in our editing process, the Op-Ed should have been subject to further substantial revisions — as is frequently the case with such essays — or rejected.
For example, the published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of “cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa”; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned. Editors should have sought further corroboration of those assertions, or removed them from the piece. The assertion that police officers “bore the brunt” of the violence is an overstatement that should have been challenged. The essay also includes a reference to a “constitutional duty” that was intended as a paraphrase; it should not have been rendered as a quotation.
Beyond those factual questions, the tone of the essay in places is needlessly harsh and falls short of the thoughtful approach that advances useful debate. Editors should have offered suggestions to address those problems. The headline — which was written by The Times, not Senator Cotton — was incendiary and should not have been used.
Finally, we failed to offer appropriate additional context — either in the text or the presentation — that could have helped readers place Senator Cotton’s views within a larger framework of debate.</blockquote>
The one legitimate criticism that The New York Times had was that the standard editorial process was <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/new-york-times-staff-still-red-hot-over-tom-cotton-op-ed/">not followed</a> as the top opinion editor reportedly did not read it.
Aside from that, The New York Times&#8217; editor&#8217;s note is weak as it fails to even note that <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/06/02/58-of-voters-support-using-military-to-help-police-control-protests-poll-finds/#57c74fd22417">58% of Americans</a> support deploying the military to stop the riots and <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/americans-agree-policing-reform">71% of Americans</a> support deploying the National Guard to stop the riots.
This portion of The New York Times&#8217; editor&#8217;s note is incorrect:
<blockquote>For example, the published piece presents as facts assertions about the role of “cadres of left-wing radicals like antifa”; in fact, those allegations have not been substantiated and have been widely questioned.</blockquote>
<a href="https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1267562571399344128">Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-we-have-evidence-that-antifa-has-been-involved-in-instigating-violence-during-riots?itm_source=parsely-api?utm_source=cnemail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=060520-news&amp;utm_campaign=position6">Attorney General William Barr</a>, and <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/william-barr-chris-wray-doj-press-conference-transcript-on-george-floyd-death">FBI Director Christopher Wray</a> have all stated that Antifa is involved in the rioting.
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The New York Times Releases New Statement On Senator Tom Cotton’s Op-Ed

The New York Times released a new statement in the form of an editor&#039;s note in response to an op-ed written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) that was published

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