Larry David &#8220;could give a f***&#8221; if Trump supporters feel alienated from his hit HBO show &#8220;Curb Your Enthusiasm.&#8221;
In a recent episode of the show, Larry David&#8217;s fictionalized version of himself hilariously donned a &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; hat as the &#8220;perfect people repellent&#8221; to avoid meeting with people. Though the joke made no judgment either way about Trump or his supporters, David was asked in a recent interview if he worried that his use of the hat would alienate Trump supporters.
&#8220;There are people that wear the MAGA hat and like what the MAGA hat represents. Are you afraid about alienating them? They could be fans of the show?&#8221; Michael Kay asked Larry David in the interview shared by journalist Jimmy Traina.
&#8220;Alienate yourself. Go, go and alienate! You have my blessing. No, I could give a f***,&#8221; David replied, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/larry-david-alienating-trump-supporters-maga-hat-curb-your-enthusiasm-hbo">Fox News</a>.
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I love Larry David with all my heart and soul. <a href="https://t.co/OEDANgVLho">pic.twitter.com/OEDANgVLho</a>
&mdash; Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) <a href="https://twitter.com/JimmyTraina/status/1227051040954077184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Jimmy Traina shared the interview of Larry David in the wake of President Trump proudly sharing a clip from the show in which the comedian angers a leather-clad biker on the highway only to discover that the biker becomes friendly after David reveals his MAGA hat. &#8220;TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP!&#8221; the president tweeted.
&#8220;What the f*** are you doing?!?&#8221; the biker asks David in the clip. &#8220;You little f***er.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I didn&#8217;t see you,&#8221; David responds.
&#8220;I got to rip you out of that f***ing car. You little s***,&#8221; the biker angrily retorts.
David lowers his window and dons his MAGA hat, which softens the biker&#8217;s attitude.
&#8220;Just be more careful next time, OK?&#8221; the biker then nicely says.
&#8220;Will do, will do,&#8221; David responds.
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TOUGH GUYS FOR TRUMP! <a href="https://t.co/DbjZjGzLWU">pic.twitter.com/DbjZjGzLWU</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1227040292060180481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The president has since been taking flak for sharing the clip, with critics assuming he was unaware that Larry David meant it as an insult. But the episode itself equally skewered the Hollywood Left&#8217;s blind antipathy toward Trump supporters by showing Larry David&#8217;s friends react in disgust after seeing him wear a MAGA hat.
&#8220;This is basically free advertising for Larry David’s show &#8216;Curb Your Enthusiasm&#8217; where he demonstrates how the Trump MAGA hat is great for soothing angry racist douchebags and keeping people away. What a spectacular self-own,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1227072804853407744?s=20">tweeted</a> Dr. Eugene Gu.
&#8220;You do know that this video is making fun of you &amp; your cult, right?&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyLeeGrahn/status/1227277491896635393?s=20">tweeted</a> actress Nancy Lee Grahn.
&#8220;Imagine thinking the guy on the motorcycle is tough because he&#8217;s bullying an old man. But here we are,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelaBelcamino/status/1227041012121559041?s=20">tweeted</a> actress Angela Belcamino.
Comedian Larry David has been outspoken in his criticism of Trump and support for socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Speaking on Stephen Colbert recently, Larry David, who plays Sanders on &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; (SNL), said that Bernie would be &#8220;great for the country.&#8221;
&#8220;I would say, I would beg him to drop out so I don’t have to keep flying in from Los Angeles to do SNL,” <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/larry-david-tells-colbert-president-bernie-sanders-would-be-great-for-the-country-terrible-for-me">David said</a>. “I thought when he had the heart attack that would be it, I wouldn’t have to fly in from Los Angeles. But, you know, he’s indestructible. Nothing stops this man! If he wins, do you know what that’s going to do to my life? Do you have any idea? I mean, it will be great for the country — great for the country. Terrible for me.”

Today &#8211; Season 69

WATCH: Larry David Says ‘I Could Give A F***’ If Trump Supporters Are Alienated By MAGA Hat On ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’

Larry David

Saturday Night Live (SNL)

Trump Supporters

A South Bend, Indiana pastor&#8217;s song bashing President Donald Trump&#8217;s Christian base of supporters has gone viral.
Titled &#8220;A Hymn for the 81%,&#8221; in reference to the 81% of white evangelical Trump voters, the song by Daniel Deitrich wanted to buck the trend of contemporary Christian worship by focusing less on God&#8217;s love and Christ&#8217;s salvation and more on the Christian mission to transform the earth by &#8220;welcoming the stranger, caring for the poor, and loving our enemies,&#8221; according to <a href="https://religionnews.com/2020/01/21/hymn-for-the-81-a-conversation-with-daniel-deitrich/?fbclid=IwAR1cfKlV8MS4e7WMUHk0Qhd40r_DQISKOJf5i_j9WnvMVC-O0eOhMMYCH3g">Religion News Service</a> (RNS). Strangely, the song speaks of the Trump administration &#8220;ripping mothers from their babies,&#8221; but the Democratic Party&#8217;s pro-abortion stance gets no mention.
&#8220;A cocktail of prophetic fire and Christ-like grace, Daniel Deitrich&#8217;s hymn is both a love song to the church and a call to repentance, which castigates the Trump administration for &#8216;putting kids in cages, ripping mothers from their babies,&#8217; but blames the church for failing to rein them in,&#8221; RNS continued.
The song accuses the Christian church of being silent in the face of these social injustices while warning of the consequences for a &#8220;weaponized religion.&#8221;
&#8220;I looked to you to speak on their behalf/But all I heard was silence/Or worse you justify it,&#8221; he sings. &#8220;You weaponized religion and you wonder why I’m leaving to find Jesus on the wrong side of your walls … ”
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Speaking with the outlet, Deitrich said that he conceived &#8220;Hymn for the 81%&#8221; after seeing evangelical support for President Trump persist despite the many sins he has committed — both personally and politically.
&#8220;In 2016, 81% of white evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump after, among other things, hearing an audio recording of him bragging about sexually assaulting women,&#8221; said Deitrich. &#8220;Even after enacting deliberately cruel policies to rip families apart and put children in cages at the southern border, evangelical support is as fervent as ever.&#8221;
&#8220;I was raised in the evangelical world and was taught to take the words of Jesus seriously: Love God, love your neighbor, feed the hungry, fight against injustice,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I was taught that things like love, peace, kindness, gentleness and self-control matter. That&#8217;s why I have been so confused and deeply saddened by the unflinching loyalty to a man who so clearly embodies the opposite of these values. So this song is a lament and a rebuke, but I hope people hear that it comes from a deep well of love.&#8221;
Though Deitrich understands that the song will ruffle more than a few feathers, he ultimately hopes that people who sing or listen to the song may understand that he does not speak from a &#8220;high horse.&#8221;
&#8220;This song might ruffle some feathers, but maybe some feathers need to be ruffled. Maybe some tables need to be turned over. Hear me on this, though: It is because I was taught to take the words of Jesus and the prophets seriously that I cannot stay silent,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And look, I&#8217;m not perfect and have so much growing and learning to do. I&#8217;m not shouting down from my high horse, I&#8217;m attempting to repeat the words of Jesus and the prophets even though it might be uncomfortable to hear. Above all, my hope and prayer is the refrain of this song: May love overcome and justice roll down.&#8221;

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LISTEN: Pastor’s Song Bashing Trump’s Evangelical Supporters Goes Viral: ‘Ripping Mothers From Their Babies’

2020 Election

Christianity

Donald Trump

Religion

Trump Administration

The politically incorrect comedian Dave Chappelle has bucked the liberal trend once again by declaring that Trump supporters are not his enemy.
Speaking to reporters this week in Iowa about why he supports presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Chappelle says that he welcomes people as fans from both sides of the political aisle, while also admitting that he understands why people voted for Trump. Take a look:
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Dave Chappelle says why he is supporting <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewYang?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndrewYang</a>. 
“I don’t look at Trump supporters as my enemy at all. I understand why people voted for Trump I understand people are desperate. And I think that Andrew is right you run against the reasons that Trump got elected.” <a href="https://t.co/jcAb1cDfPQ">pic.twitter.com/jcAb1cDfPQ</a>
&mdash; Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García (@GarciaReports) <a href="https://twitter.com/GarciaReports/status/1222358155952381953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t look at Trump supporters as my enemy at all,&#8221; Chappelle told reporters. &#8220;I understand why people voted for Trump, I understand people are desperate. And I think that Andrew is right you run against the reasons that Trump got elected. I got friends on both sides of the political aisle, I got fans on both sides of the political aisle.&#8221;
As to why he supports Andrew Yang, Chappelle said the candidate has brought many &#8220;good ideas&#8221; to the table that nobody has previously addressed.
&#8220;A lot of people say professionally it&#8217;s not wise to support any candidate, but this idea is so good, that I think it should exist,&#8221; said Chappelle. &#8220;And I think the fountainhead of many of the good ideas on the table this year are coming from a single source — Andrew Yang. And for some reason, no one&#8217;s paying attention. This guy is the origin of a platform that really does address where I think the country needs to go.&#8221;
Chappelle announced his support for the &#8220;Yang Gang&#8221; earlier this month, when he pledged to perform several shows for his campaign.
“Thank you [Dave Chappelle] and welcome to the #yanggang,” Yang said in response to his endorsement. “You are the best. Let’s do this for our kids.”
While Dave Chappelle can in no way be classified as a conservative, he certainly has allied with conservatives in their fight against cancel culture. In October, while accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, he gave a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-video-released-of-dave-chappelles-fierce-hilarious-defense-of-first-amendment">fierce defense</a> of free speech.
“I like not knowin’ what’s going to happen. I like makin’ memories. Sometimes I do all this crazy s*** around my colleagues just so they can tell their friends I did it. Rather than talk about myself, just briefly, I want to just talk about my genre. Stand-up comedy is an incredibly American genre,” he said. “I don’t think any other country can produce this many comedians. Unbeknownst to many people in this audience, I don’t think there’s opinion that exists in this country that is not represented in a comedy club by somebody. Each and every one of you has a chance of bein’ in the room.”
“We watch you guys fight, but when we’re together, we talk it out. I know comics that are very racist, and I watch ‘em on stage, and everyone’s laughin’, I’m like, that motherf***** means it,” Chappelle continued. “Don’t get mad at ‘em, don’t hate ‘em, we go upstairs and have a beer and sometimes I even appreciate the artistry that they paint their racist opinions with.”
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“Man, it’s not that serious. The First Amendment is first for a reason. The Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn’t work out,” he added.
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WATCH: Dave Chappelle Says ‘I Don’t See Trump Supporters As My Enemy’

Andrew Yang

Cancel culture

Dave Chappelle

Free Speech

Iowa

Political Correctness

A political argument in Florida turned deadly this week when a construction worker allegedly killed his pro-Donald Trump boss and then draped an American flag over his dead body.
&#8220;A construction worker in Florida has been accused of murdering his pro-Trump boss with a trowel after a political argument on the construction site where they both worked and then throwing an American flag on the man&#8217;s body,&#8221; reports <a href="https://abc7.com/man-allegedly-kills-pro-trump-boss-after-argument-throws-american-flag-on-his-body/5869642/">ABC News</a>.
The suspect, 28-year-old Mason Trever Toney, allegedly stabbed his boss, William Steven Knight, Monday morning at Florida Turnpike job site, according to an emergency phone call from Toney&#8217;s co-workers. Though the exact details of the conversation between Toney and his boss have not been disclosed, the argument was political in nature.
&#8220;The Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says that the murder appears related to a political dispute between the men,&#8221; continued ABC News. &#8220;Knight was a big supporter of President Donald Trump while Toney was anti-government. &#8230; When deputies arrived they found Knight&#8217;s body lying next to an excavator on the job site with a brand new American flag thrown onto the side of the victim&#8217;s body that didn&#8217;t belong to anybody on the site, according to the arrest affidavit.&#8221;
Toney&#8217;s arrest affidavit noted he was &#8220;very outspoken about his beliefs that the government is bad and out to get him.&#8221;
Toney allegedly fled the scene of the murder in a white pick-up truck before being taken into custody after crashing the vehicle amidst a police pursuit.
Since the election of President Trump, attacks on Trump supporters, primarily those in MAGA hats, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-men-allegedly-attack-trump-fan-wearing-maga-hank-berrien">occurred on several occasions</a>. Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/criminal-acts-trump-maga-hats-1357179">provided an account</a> of these incidences that have occurred since 2016:
<blockquote>Terry Price has told his children and his wife they are not allowed to wear their &#8220;Make America great again&#8221; hats in public without him by their side after a man held a gun to his head for wearing the red cap.
Price, from Bowling Green, Kentucky, previously told Newsweek that he and his wife were shopping at Sam&#8217;s Club in Bowling Green wearing the hats when James Phillips, 57, allegedly pointed a Glock .40 caliber gun at Price&#8217;s face. Phillips allegedly told Price &#8220;this is a good day for you to die.&#8221; He was arrested and charged with wanton endangerment.
Following the incident, Price said some of his friends changed their party affiliations from Democrats to Republicans because they could no longer &#8220;identify with a party that has so much hate.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s just gone too far,&#8221; Price recently told Newsweek. &#8220;Republicans, conservatives and Christians need to stand up and take action against this kind of hate.&#8221;</blockquote>
However, while such attacks indeed illustrate the intense hatred that some conservatives face, especially at protests, that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean walking down the street in MAGA hat will automatically be met with violence, despite the fact that some members of the media<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/01/22/alyssa-milano-maga-hat-trump-white-hood-tweet-twitter/2642564002/"> have likened them</a> to Klan hoods. In fact, writing for <a href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/maga-hat-joel-stein/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Update&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=72523253&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_MJ9nfic_Qp9FafyxcdgUyCwBRmZ9zuKRANbV1mkV7AfmAvSKzYtqW0KCxEe07sVhCuAKPTozCGCRT0wP1_XqHVAOn_Q&amp;_hsmi=72523253">Los Angeles Magazine</a>, Joel Stein wore a MAGA hat to one of the most left-wing restaurants in Los Angeles and was pleasantly surprised that nobody confronted him.

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Construction Worker Allegedly Kills Pro-Trump Boss After Arguing Politics, Puts American Flag Over His Body

Violence

The original &#8220;Wheel of Fortune&#8221; host, Chuck Woolery, claims that his open support for President Trump has destroyed his career.
Speaking on &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/shows/fox-and-friends" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox &amp; Friends</a>&#8221; Wednesday, Woolery said that he has been &#8220;shadow-banned&#8221; by Twitter and that his best moment on the social media platform came when he told his massive follower count last week about his professional woes due to his open conservatism.
&#8220;To answer your question. Yes I have pretty much destroyed my career by openly supporting Trump and letting all know, I am a conservative. Painful at times, but true. After all is said and done. It was my choice and I can live with it. I would do it all again,&#8221; he tweeted last week.
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To answer your question. Yes I have pretty much destroyed my career by openly supporting Trump and letting all know, I am a conservative. Painful at times, but true. After all is said and done. It was my choice and I can live with it. I would do it all again.
&mdash; Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) <a href="https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1192551844113002503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It was kind of a self-deprecating tweet I sent out because I know I&#8217;m shadow-banned. I&#8217;ve got about 650,000 or 700,000 followers,&#8221; Woolery told host Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday. &#8220;I know the half of them don&#8217;t get what I say. So I sent this thing out just as kind of a test — because it made me look [like] I was losing in life. And it just went crazy — it was the biggest tweet I ever had in my life. So as long as you&#8217;re a loser, they love you.&#8221;
In the same interview on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; Woolery slammed cancel culture, which he described as a small minority of people sitting in basements firing off tweets to make corporations think the masses care about what one person thinks.
&#8220;My career kind of phased into commercial life. So I have several companies I represent. And they are bombarded,&#8221; said Woolery. &#8220;These people sit in their basement, and they make it look like there are thousands of people complaining about Chuck Woolery or about the products and who he represents — and &#8216;how could you let this fascist, racist guy represent your company&#8217; — when none of it is true. And these are the same people by the way who get on Twitter, [saying] &#8216;I watched you when I was growing up. I loved you &#8230; what happened to you?'&#8221;
Woolery lamented how political discourse has devolved into a game of destroying lives over the disagreements of individuals.
&#8220;What you have wrong is &#8230; the companies who you represent are just inundated with all of this negative [stuff]. It&#8217;s not true,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They just make this stuff up and throw it out [there] because they want to destroy your life. They don&#8217;t just want to disagree with you. They are so vehement and so virulent. They just want to destroy you and that&#8217;s their purpose.&#8221;
Chuck Woolery&#8217;s reflection about the state of cancel culture comes on the same week that veteran sports commentator Don Cherry <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-don-cherry-fired-for-telling-immigrants-to-honor-fallen-vets-responds-to-backlash">was let go from his job</a> on Sportsnet for asking immigrants to celebrate Canadian veterans.
“You people love — you, that come here, whatever it is — you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey. At least you could pay a couple of bucks for poppies or something like that. These guys paid for your way of life, that you enjoy in Canada,&#8217;” Cherry said.

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Game Show Host Chuck Woolery: Supporting Trump Ruined My Career

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Leftism

An anti-Trump protester spat on a Trump supporter on Thursday afternoon outside of President Donald Trump&#8217;s rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
&#8220;Dave Carlson, a salesman in Minnesota, was sharing why he donates to President Trump’s campaign when a protestor openly spat in his face and kept walking by,&#8221; Vice News&#8217; Elizabeth Landers <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjw7gq/protester-spits-on-trump-supporter-during-interview-at-minneapolis-rally">reported</a>.
The most shocking part about the incident was not the alleged assault on Carlson, but the calm way in which Carlson responded to it.
Carlson did not lose his temper, yell, or take any action against the perpetrator; rather, he showed tremendous restraint and brushed off the alleged assault.
Landers later recounted the incident on Twitter, <a href="https://twitter.com/ElizLanders/status/1182718959705034754">writing</a>: &#8220;I interview a lot of the president’s supporters at rallies &amp; have never seen this before. (My reaction gives that away quickly.)&#8221;
WATCH:
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&#8220;Hundreds of protesters outside President Trump’s rally in Minneapolis Thursday night set fire to Make America Great Again hats and other memorabilia in an effort to show their defiance to the current administration before police broke up the crowd,&#8221; Fox News reported. &#8220;There were reports that multiple protesters were arrested. One report indicated that protesters threw urine.&#8221;
Jenna Johnson, a reporter for The Washington Post, posted a video to Twitter that appeared to show a Trump supporter being violently attacked by leftists.
&#8220;A man in a blue jacket seemed to be leaving the Trump rally by himself when he was spotted by a protester who yelled: &#8216;There’s a Nazi over here!'&#8221; Johnson tweeted. &#8220;A group of protesters then attacked the man, slapping and pushing him. He finally ran away.&#8221;
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A man in a blue jacket seemed to be leaving the Trump rally by himself when he was spotted by a protester who yelled: “There’s a Nazi over here!” A group of protesters then attacked the man, slapping and pushing him. He finally ran away. <a href="https://t.co/jzYaWgca9g">pic.twitter.com/jzYaWgca9g</a>
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) <a href="https://twitter.com/wpjenna/status/1182494672817741824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
Fox News reporter Matt Finn captured video outside of the Trump rally that showed left-wing activists burning &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; hats and screaming obscenities.
Finn tweeted: &#8220;Breaking: outside Minneapolis Trump rally. Protestors lighting Maga hats on fire. Rushing police. Calling them pigs, etc. Escalating scene.&#8221;
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Breaking: outside Minneapolis Trump rally. Protestors lighting Maga hats on fire. Rushing police. Calling them pigs, etc. Escalating scene. <a href="https://t.co/HxUFzs8OWF">pic.twitter.com/HxUFzs8OWF</a>
— Matt Finn (@MattFinnFNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattFinnFNC/status/1182481964508557313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
Elijah Schaffer, a reporter for TheBlaze, captured another violent moment from the rally, writing on Twitter: &#8220;My producer and I were bear maced in the face while reporting on the quickly dilapidating situation outside the Minnesota Trump rally Arrests have been made. Antifa is present. Violence is common place at this point. Typical end of the night anarchy.&#8221;
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My producer and I were bear maced in the face while reporting on the quickly dilapidating situation outside the Minnesota Trump rally
Arrests have been made. Antifa is present. Violence is common place at this point. Typical end of the night anarchy <a href="https://t.co/ujnDNQIVtf">pic.twitter.com/ujnDNQIVtf</a>
— Elijah Schaffer (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1182497376709292032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rep-meadows-reacts-to-the-trump-rally-protests-in-minneapolis">reacted</a> to the Left&#8217;s violence after the rally during an appearance on Fox News on &#8220;The Ingraham Angle&#8221; guest-hosted by former Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT).
&#8220;You know, inside the arena just a few minutes ago, was &#8230; lifting up and honoring the law enforcement and giving them the respect that they&#8217;re doing,&#8221; Meadows said. &#8220;And yet outside, a few minutes later, you have just, it appears to be just hostility towards law enforcement and really an unruly crowd.&#8221;
&#8220;Listen, this is all about making sure that they can try to intimidate future Trump rally supporters and goers. And that&#8217;s just not going to happen,&#8221; Meadows continued. &#8220;What we need to make sure of is we take that message of freedom and hope to all Americans from coast to coast, from Maine to Florida and from New York to California, and in between and then we show them the differential. The vast majority of America respects law enforcement, appreciates the rule of law, and does not endorse lawlessness.&#8221;

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Anti-Trump Thug Spits In Trump Supporter’s Face. Here’s How He Responded.

Critics are saying that &#8220;The Last Jedi&#8221; director Rian Johnson&#8217;s latest film, &#8220;Knives Out,&#8221; makes its goal of taking &#8220;direct aim&#8221; at Trump supporters front and center.
According to <a href="https://society-reviews.com/2019/09/09/rian-johnsons-knives-out-receives-universal-praise-for-attacking-trump-voters/">Society Reviews</a>, after debuting at Toronto International Film Festival, Rian Johnson&#8217;s latest outing has garnered a certified fresh <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/knives_out">100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes</a>, with critics all over social media heaping praise upon it for having the not-so-courageous audacity to mock Trump supporters and &#8220;white entitlement&#8221; in a town packed with hardcore members of the anti-Trump #resistance.
&#8220;KNIVES OUT is a fun &#8216;f*** you&#8217; to rich white Trump voters, wrapped in a crafty Agatha Christie package. VERY pro-immigration. And none of this is subtle. Enjoy it in a crowd,&#8221; said film critic Tomris Laffly.
&#8220;Congrats to [Rian Johnson] for writing the most telenovela of films. KNIVES OUT is a total blast and a total takedown of privilege, gringos, and perceptions through a genre that&#8217;s very missed,&#8221; said film critic Yolanda Machado.
&#8220;KNIVES OUT is a ton of fun: a slippery, stylised murder mystery, littered with zingers, that also operates as a satire of Trump&#8217;s America. I also enjoyed the Baby Driver reference,&#8221; said Nick de Semlyen of Empire Magazine.
&#8220;KNIVES OUT is a total delight from start to finish. It&#8217;s also a scathing indictment of American greed in the Trump era. I&#8217;ll have more on that when the movie opens in November,&#8221; said Matt Goldberg of Collider.
&#8220;One of many things I love about Knives Out — it takes DIRECT aim at the MAGA crowd,&#8221; said Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com.
&#8220;Knives Out&#8221; is a whodunnit story of the Agatha Christie-style in which several members of a rich white family seek to uncover the mystery behind their patriarch&#8217;s death. The film also stars vocal anti-Trump actors Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Michael Shannon among others. David Ehrlich of <a href="https://www.indiewire.com/2019/09/knives-out-review-rian-johnson-1202171812/">IndieWire</a> referred to it as a &#8220;sharp takedown of white entitlement&#8221; and even described one of the characters as a &#8220;mini Ben Shapiro.&#8221;
<blockquote>Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis) built her own business from the ground up — she only needed a $1,000,000 loan from her daddy to do it. Joni (Toni Collette) is basically a glorified Instagram influencer, and that’s probably working out great. Linda’s husband Richard (Don Johnson) is cheating on her. Even worse: He’s a Trump supporter. Walt’s teenage son Jacob (Jaeden Martell) may be the only other self-identified Republican in the family, but he’s basically a mini Ben Shapiro. And it’s not like the rest of the family are doing all that much to separate themselves from MAGA politics. They tell Marta that she’s &#8216;part of the family,&#8217; but when it comes to splitting up Harlan’s will, well, things are going to get complicated. Let’s just say that the &#8216;I would have voted for Obama for a third term&#8217; energy is strong with this crowd, every single member of which feels like they deserve what’s coming to them. And do they — they just don’t know what that is yet.</blockquote>
&#8220;Knives Out&#8221; will be released nationwide on November 27.

‘Last Jedi’ Director Rian Johnson’s Latest Film Is A ‘F*** You’ To Trump Voters; Critics Love It

Spending <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50152/hammer-fiscal-conservatism-dead-republicans-killed-josh-hammer">aside</a>, there is much that conservatives <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45450/hammer-here-are-three-reasons-why-i-plan-vote-josh-hammer">ought to substantively like</a> about the way that President Donald Trump has thus far governed. The president has delivered on (mildly) cutting taxes and <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2018/10/23/trump-exceeds-one-in-two-out-goals-on-cutting-regulations-but-it-may-be-getting-tougher/#705385b63d40">curtailing excessive regulation</a>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/two-years-in-trumps-appeals-court-confirmations-at-a-historic-high-point/2019/02/03/574226e6-1a90-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html">stacking the lower federal courts</a> with principled jurists, prioritizing <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/02/635047680/new-religious-liberty-task-force-highlights-sessions-doj-priorities">religious liberty</a> concerns, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-announces-new-measures-fight-transnational-organized-crime">toughening</a> the nation&#8217;s posture against the murderous Mexican criminal cartels, enforcing <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/dhs-illegal-immigration-regulation-immigrants-flores">sovereignty</a> at the southern border against the backdrop of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46601/hammer-why-did-dhs-abort-its-re-writing-infamous-josh-hammer">erroneous</a> Flores consent decree, boldly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trump-administration-wont-defend-aca-in-cases-brought-by-gop-states/2018/06/07/92f56e86-6a9c-11e8-9e38-24e693b38637_story.html">challenging Obamacare</a> in the courts, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/08/trump-administration-ups-russia-sanctions-977650">toughening</a> American resolve against Putin&#8217;s Russia, taking a jackhammer to the Chinese Communist Party authoritarians in Beijing, exiting the harrowing Iran nuclear deal, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/30592/rejoice-jerusalem-be-glad-her-all-you-who-love-ben-shapiro">standing up more strongly</a> for the Jewish state of Israel than has any president in the history of the republic.
Yet Trump&#8217;s most remarkable accomplishment, to-date, defies the realm of political/policy/legal substance in its entirety. More so than any particular policy or administrative fiat or legal decree, what Trump has accomplished more boldly and triumphantly than he has anything else is his exposure of the various vessels of the mainstream media — that most supercilious and intellectually sheltered of institutions — for being the barely veiled partisan hacks that they so manifestly are.
Consider the <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/282448/system-fail">Russiagate hoax</a> — the much-ballyhooed &#8220;collusion&#8221; narrative that folded like a cheap suit with former special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s unveiling of his dud of a 2016 election interference report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46272/hammer-mueller-report-amounts-democratic-oppo-josh-hammer">Democratic Party impeachment research document</a>. The media&#8217;s gross complicity in the Russiagate caper amounted to a bi-coastal ruling class attempted silent coup. The attempted coup was built on a bed of deceit and false innuendo and is something that simply must not be forgotten anytime soon by a citizenry that hopes to remain virtuous and self-governing. As I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45264/hammer-stop-pretending-media-and-information-josh-hammer">wrote</a> back in March:
<blockquote>Leading media bastions at CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and The New York Times willfully allowed themselves to be transmogrified into information warfare mouthpieces for the Democratic Party&#8217;s scurrilous agenda. An agenda, that is, that sought nothing more than to gaslight Americans into questioning the integrity of their electoral system and all the leading institutions of their body politic. &#8230;
In a well-functioning republic, We the People would hold our irredeemably corrupt media to account for their central role in the attempted subversion of the American system of governance. Trump may not have &#8220;colluded&#8221; with Russia, but it was instead our mainstream media and other fellow travelers of the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704471504574451703003340362">Democrat-Media Complex</a> that intentionally carried out the Kremlin&#8217;s will: To undermine Americans&#8217; confidence and faith in the over-arching institutions that support and secure the United States of America.</blockquote>
The most recent Trumpian scandal du jour — the president&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50867/trump-responds-backlash-over-disloyalty-comment-james-barrett">comments</a> about Jewish Democrats evincing a &#8220;great disloyalty&#8221; — is further clarifying. The president&#8217;s remarks were gauche and ham-fisted, to be sure: It is <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/22/the-perils-of-supporting-israel/">best not to invoke themes of &#8220;loyalty&#8221;</a> when discussing Diaspora Jewry. Yet insofar as Trump merely meant that Jews are &#8220;disloyal&#8221; to Jewish self-interest when those Jews vote for a political party increasingly brazen in its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/44424/hammer-stark-choice-facing-jewish-democrats-josh-hammer">promotion of overt Jew-hatred</a>, he is on very <a href="https://coalitionforjewishvalues.org/2019/08/president-trumps-expression-of-concern-commendable-rabbis-say/">solid ground</a>.
Against the backdrop of Trump&#8217;s standing as the most emphatically pro-Israel president ever and the most genuinely philo-Semitic president in well over a century, there is simply no comparing his slipshod quip with the vile anti-Semitism routinely espoused by the likes of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) — they of &#8220;Jews serve a dual loyalty to Israel&#8221; and &#8220;thinking about the Holocaust gives me a calming feeling&#8221; fame, respectively. There is a profound distinction between the president (however sloppily) accusing some Jews of &#8220;disloyalty&#8221; for failing to sufficiently support the most pro-Jewish administration in the history of the republic, on the one hand, and Jew-hating BDS supporters invoking millennia-old &#8220;dual loyalty&#8221; canards, on the other hand.
Yet large swaths of our media clerisy have purposefully conflated the two, oftentimes clutching their pearls and feigning intensive outrage toward Trump. These would, of course, oftentimes be the same disingenuous jackals who have been so manifestly content to tut-tut the increasingly bald-faced anti-Semitism that is mollycoddled and nourished by the Democratic Party politburo.
Throughout the Trump presidency, our media overlords have continually carried water for revanchist leftism. They have been aiders and abettors of many of the great gaslighting misinformation campaigns of the decade. And the exposure of them as precisely that has been, to-date, Donald Trump&#8217;s single most under-appreciated accomplishment as president of the United States. Truly, this president excels at nothing more than he excels at making purportedly reasonable people lose their damn minds.

Decline In Daily Newspaper Circulation Accelerates To 10.6 Percent In Q3

HAMMER: Trump’s Most Under-Appreciated Accomplishment Is Exposing The Media For The Partisan Hacks They Are

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Academy Award winner Spike Lee says that President Trump&#8217;s white supremacy is &#8220;not even a question anymore&#8221; while also denouncing Trump supporters as greedy.
Speaking on CNN with Anderson Cooper to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first slaves arriving on North American soil, Lee expressed puzzlement over the fact that people still do not consider President Trump a white supremacist.
&#8220;Why are we still asking, &#8216;Is this guy a white supremacist?'&#8221; Lee asked on Tuesday. &#8220;It&#8217;s not even a question anymore. I mean, the Muslim ban, all Mexicans are rapists, murderers, and drug dealers &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Do you think he&#8217;s going to be re-elected?&#8221; Cooper asked.
&#8220;Can I get on my knees now and pray?&#8221; Lee responded.
Lee then directed his attention toward Trump supporters — who he said do not know what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong and lamented, would be found &#8220;on the wrong side of history.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that people out there really look in their heart and I truly believe people know what&#8217;s right and what&#8217;s wrong. You know that.&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;And a lot of these people getting behind this guy &#8230; they&#8217;re gonna be on the wrong side of history with him &#8230; For money? What are you doing it for? I mean &#8230; you kneel down before the altar of the almighty dollar, then I guess all bets are off.&#8221;
As for Spike Lee himself, he has previously admitted to staring &#8220;<a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a20809/spike-lee-1092/">daggers</a>&#8221; at interracial couples on the street. Spike Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48155/spike-lee-calls-georgia-boycott-compares-it-civil-paul-bois">openly endorsed</a> the boycotts against the states of Georgia and Alabama for enacting strict anti-abortion laws.
&#8220;They got to shut it down, you know?&#8221; Spike Lee said of the boycotts. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry — I&#8217;m not sorry — but I know it&#8217;s going to affect people&#8217;s livelihood, but that&#8217;s how things change.&#8221;
&#8220;There were black bus drivers in Montgomery and they were affected by the boycott but so be it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be on the right side of history, and the state of Georgia and those other states, they&#8217;re wrong.&#8221;
Lee&#8217;s endorsement of the boycott came shortly after he acted like a sore loser when his film &#8220;BlacKkKlansman&#8221; lost the Best Picture Oscar to &#8220;Green Book.&#8221;
&#8220;After presenter Julia Roberts announced &#8216;Green Book&#8217; as Best Picture, AP reporter Andrew Dalton was one of several journalists who noticed Lee wave his arms in anger before storming out of the theater,&#8221; reported Variety at the time. &#8220;However, before he could leave, he was stopped at the doors and was forced to return to his seat once the speeches had stopped.&#8221;
Speaking with reporters backstage, the director said he felt &#8220;snakebit&#8221; by the loss.
&#8220;I&#8217;m snakebit. Every time someone&#8217;s driving somebody, I lose,&#8221; Spike Lee told reporters. &#8220;I thought I was courtside at the Garden and the refs made a bad call.&#8221;
Spike Lee was referencing the Best Picture win of &#8220;Driving Miss Daisy&#8221; in 1990, a year which many Hollywood insiders believe Lee was snubbed of a Best Director award for &#8220;Do The Right Thing.&#8221;

Spike Lee

Spike Lee: Trump A ‘White Supremacist,’ Supporters ‘On The Wrong Side Of History’

MSNBC host Chris Hayes supported a call for protests at the private residence of a billionaire Trump donor after a guest urged demonstrators to show up at his home with “pitchforks and torches.”
“People of color are already targets under this administration,” Elie Mystal, the executive editor for the “Above The Law” legal blog, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-contributor-calls-for-pitchforks-and-torches-outside-of-trump-supporting-billionaires-house/">told Hayes</a> on Thursday. “I have no problem with shining the light back on the donors who fund this kind of racialized hate. I go farther, I want pitchforks and torches outside this man’s house in the Hamptons.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">MSNBC Contributor Calls For ‘Pitchforks And Torches’ Outside of Trump Supporting Billionaire’s House<a href="https://t.co/M7sc4CFc9a">https://t.co/M7sc4CFc9a</a> <a href="https://t.co/gTjcd7CTB0">pic.twitter.com/gTjcd7CTB0</a>
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“I’ve been to the Hamptons, it’s very nice, but there’s no reason why it has to be,” he continued. “There’s no reason why he should be having his nice, little party. There’s no reason why people shouldn’t be able to be outside of his house and making their voices peacefully understood that they reject this stuff.”
Mystal’s remarks were in reference to billionaire Stephen Ross, who recently held a fundraiser for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. Ross is the chairman and majority owner of The Related Companies, which owns Equinox and SoulCycle fitness centers.
“Totally,” Hayes responded. “There have been peaceful protests outside [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s house and I imagine there will be peaceful protests outside [Ross’s house]. Again, it’s all speech.”
Accordingly, a crowd gathered at the Kentucky senator’s home earlier in the week as he was recovering from a broken shoulder. McConnell’s campaign posted a video of the “angry left-wing mob” that appeared outside his house during the night. On the recording, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50274/far-left-protesters-mcconnells-home-just-stab-ryan-saavedra">protesters can be heard</a> wishing harm upon the senator, such as saying they hope somebody would “just stab the motherf***er in the heart” and calling for him to “break his neck.”
“Trump is a bigoted demagogue and we all kind of know that. These people should be ashamed of supporting him. Right? Like, at this point you should basically only be able to contribute to the Trump campaign with bitcoin,” Mystal said. “But Equinox man is holding an ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ party and he’s surprised the people are getting up in his grill.”
“We know that there is no constitutional way to put pressure on these people’s exercise of their money as speech, but there’s darn sure social pressure that we have barely tried,” he continued. “It’s time for us to start trying at least.”
Hayes noted that conservatives are sounding the alarm on the “slippery slope” that could result in the widespread politicization of consumer decisions and subsequent boycotts based on mainstream political beliefs.
“They don’t want free speech, they want consequence-less speech, and that is what we cannot continue to allow them to have,” Mystal responded. “The way you avoid the slippery slope is don’t support people who cage children. Don’t support people who are racist bigots.”
“What we’re asking for is not actually all that much,” he added. “So, I don’t really worry about the slippery slope because I feel like if we have collective action, collective social pressure on our friends, and families, and uncles, and whatever, to stop supporting this ridiculousness, that we will actually get somewhere.”

Chris Hayes

WATCH: MSNBC Contributor Calls For People To Target Trump Donor With ‘Pitchforks And Torches.’ Host Chris Hayes Agrees.

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UPDATE: The post was not written by Tommy Lee himself, but ripped from a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/8z4tpe/you_trumpsters_better_pray_that_liberals_never/">post</a> that went viral last year on sites like reddit. 
On Wednesday, Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee posted a lengthy social media diatribe attacking conservatives. Lee smeared Christians as anti-LGBT “bigoted f***s” and promised a rainbow painted White House, Planned Parenthood abortion clinics on every street, and “a gargantuan metal mountain emblazoned with the face of Hillary Clinton” made from conservatives’ confiscated guns, among other niceties.
&#8220;You &#8216;Trumpsters&#8217; better pray that liberals never gain control of the [White House] again because we are going to pay you back so f***ing hard for all this s***,&#8221; the musician posted on an Instagram story.
&#8220;Planned Parenthoods on every damn corner. We&#8217;re going to repaint Air Force One p**** hat pink and fly it over your beloved Bible Belt 6 days a week, tossing birth control pills, condoms &amp; atheist literature from the cockpit,&#8221; he spewed.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to tax your mega churches so bad that Joel [Osteen] will need to get a job at [Chick-fil-A] to pay his light bill. Speaking of [Chick-fil-A], we&#8217;re buying all those and giving them to any LGBTQ person your sick cult leaders tortured with conversion therapy.&#8221;
Lee then targeted Vice President Mike Pence: &#8220;Try the McPence. It&#8217;s a boiled unseasoned chicken breast that you have to eat in the closet with your mother.&#8221;
Guns were never on the agenda: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to gather up ALL your guns, melt them down and turn them into a gargantuan metal mountain emblazoned with the face of Hillary Clinton.&#8221;
&#8220;ALL parks will be renamed Rosa Parks asap. We&#8217;re replacing Confederate statues with [Black Lives Matter] Leaders &amp; Mexican immigrants. Every single public school will be renamed after a child that was kidnapped by this regime. And after we fumigate the [White House], we&#8217;re repainting the whole thing rainbow.&#8221;
&#8220;Fox News will be taken over and turned into a family refugee shelter,&#8221; the drummer continued. &#8220;We&#8217;re turning [Fox News host Sean] Hannity&#8217;s office into a giant unisex bathroom with changing tables &amp; free tampons.”
Lee ended the post: &#8220;And every single time a &#8216;Trumpster&#8217; complains about any of the changes, we&#8217;re adding an openly gay character to a Disney movie.&#8221;
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On Monday, Lee responded to social media users telling him to &#8220;stick to drumming.&#8221; &#8220;The next person who tells me to stick to drumming and stay out of politics, I&#8217;m gonna come to ur house and shove my drumsticks up ur a** until you sneeze,&#8221; he wrote, adding a middle finger emoji.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The next person who tells me to stick to drumming and stay out of politics, I’m gonna come to ur house and shove my drumsticks up ur ass until you sneeze
— Tmmy L33 (@MrTommyLand) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrTommyLand/status/1158519930939043840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Ummm excuse me I have to go take a trump!!!&#8221; he posted on Thursday:
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— Tmmy L33 (@MrTommyLand) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrTommyLand/status/1159555583780876288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Tommy Lee

Tommy Lee’s Nasty Diatribe Against Conservatives: ‘You Trumpsters Better Pray Liberals Never Gain Control Of The White House Again’

Mike Pence

On Wednesday, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) was called out by MSNBC host Willie Geist for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50324/rep-joaquin-castro-doxes-trump-supporters-his-amanda-prestigiacomo">doxxing</a> Trump supporters in his district following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas that left 22 dead and injured dozens more. Castro, who is the brother of former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro and the campaign chairman of his brother&#8217;s 2020 presidential campaign, shifted blame for the doxxing, weakly telling Geist he &#8220;didn&#8217;t make the graphic&#8221; that exposed the names and employers of 44 individual San Antonio Trump donors. The donor list that Castro doxxed included retirees and homemakers.
&#8220;What do you say to those people this morning who said, I made a campaign donation and now I&#8217;m gonna be harassed; I’m gonna have people protesting outside my business or perhaps even my home?&#8221; Geist asked Castro. &#8220;Do you want them to repent for their support for Donald Trump or, what do you want from them?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, the first thing is, I don&#8217;t want anybody harassed or targeted —&#8221;
&#8220;But they will be,&#8221; Geist interrupted, &#8220;because you put their names in public.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, that was not my intention,&#8221; Castro answered.
&#8220;But that&#8217;s what will happen,&#8221; the MSNBC host stated flatly.
&#8220;These things are public,&#8221; argued the Texas congressman. &#8220;No, what I would like for them to do is think twice about supporting a guy who is fueling hate in this country.&#8221;
&#8220;Congressman, do you agree that in this culture — and believe me, I make no equivalency to what Donald Trump&#8217;s doing; we&#8217;re on the record on this show three hours a morning about the ads that they&#8217;re putting about, about the rhetoric that he uses — but if you agree that rhetoric can lead to incitement, even if it just triggers one person to do something terrible, does it give you any pause about putting these people&#8217;s names out in public?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, Willie, they&#8217;re already public, they&#8217;re already out there,&#8221; deflected Castro.
But Geist pressed again, &#8220;There are 11 retirees and one homemaker who are not public.&#8221;
Castro — a powerful member of Congress with a Twitter platform with over 200,000 followers (the Democrat quote-tweeted the graphic on his personal account, too) — shifted blame for the doxxing. &#8220;And this was already circulating, I shared it, so I didn&#8217;t create the graphic.&#8221;
It&#8217;s notable that Castro not only doxxed the Trump donors when he did, but he dangerously tied them to the bloody El Paso massacre. &#8220;Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump — the owner of [redacted], owner of the [redacted], realtor [redacted], etc.,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as &#8216;invaders.'&#8221;
Castro’s irresponsible tweet is still up on Twitter and he has only doubled down further since the initial backlash. For example, when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pressed the congressman about the tweet, Castro responded: &#8220;No one was targeted or harassed in my post. You know that. All that info is routinely published. You’re trying to distract from the racism that has overtaken the GOP and the fact that President Trump spends donor money on thousands of ads about Hispanics &#8216;invading&#8217; America.&#8221; He added, &#8220;Donald Trump has put a target on the back of millions. And you’re too cowardly or agreeable to say anything about it. How about I stop mentioning Trump&#8217;s public campaign donors and he stops using their money for ads that fuel hate?&#8221;
WATCH:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This exchange is *chef kiss*
Rep. Castro: “Look I don’t want anyone to be harassed or —“
Willie Geist: “Well they will be because you put their names out there.”
Rep. Castro: “That was not my intention —“
Willie Geist: “But that’s what will happen.” 
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— Calli Norton (@CalliNorton) <a href="https://twitter.com/CalliNorton/status/1159107279087722498?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50324/rep-joaquin-castro-doxes-trump-supporters-his-amanda-prestigiacomo">Rep. Joaquin Castro Doxes Trump Supporters In His District Following Mass Shooting; Tlaib Backs Him</a>

Joaquin Castro

WATCH: Joaquin Castro Squirms When MSNBC Host Calls Him Out For Doxxing Trump Supporters

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El Paso Shooting

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On Monday, a group of Trump supporters led by conservative activist Scott Presler went to West Baltimore for a massive clean-up operation following tweets sent by President Donald Trump highlighting the dire conditions in the area.
While the residents were thankful for the overhaul — well over 100 volunteers came together to remove 12 tons of trash, according to Presler — the liberal media were, uh, irritated. The media attacked the activist as an &#8220;extremist,&#8221; questioned his motives, and scolded him for &#8220;reinforc[ing] the tired image that the poor people in this city can’t take care of their own neighborhoods.&#8221;
Here are some of the photos and videos from the clean-up effort:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">We&#8217;re here in West Baltimore to pick up trash.
This isn&#8217;t a Trump rally, nor an anti-Representative Cummings event.
This is simply <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericansHelpingAmericans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericansHelpingAmericans</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Kxl6nVClxy">pic.twitter.com/Kxl6nVClxy</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158338978011078656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">This is one of the proudest moments of my life. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericansHelpingAmericans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericansHelpingAmericans</a> <a href="https://t.co/TxLY2Ippra">pic.twitter.com/TxLY2Ippra</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158427368781950976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Everyone is coming together to help Baltimore.
This is what makes America great. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericansHelpingAmericans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericansHelpingAmericans</a> <a href="https://t.co/LFEkRw8JW8">pic.twitter.com/LFEkRw8JW8</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158452902731689984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Imagine if we picked up trash in every city across America. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericansHelpingAmericans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericansHelpingAmericans</a> <a href="https://t.co/9Ucyvgew6Y">pic.twitter.com/9Ucyvgew6Y</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158532600346095618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">West Baltimore local says, &#8220;I&#8217;m really happy. I want to cry.
I truly appreciate it.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericansHelpingAmericans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericansHelpingAmericans</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Baltimore?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Baltimore</a> <a href="https://t.co/KCXZUXH36x">pic.twitter.com/KCXZUXH36x</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158502786612572160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Baltimore locals from Representative Cummings&#8217; District 7 thank President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for bringing attention to Baltimore. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericansHelpingAmericans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericansHelpingAmericans</a> <a href="https://t.co/RxQtliHPc2">pic.twitter.com/RxQtliHPc2</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158440422328479746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Before &amp; After: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericansHelpingAmericans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericansHelpingAmericans</a> <a href="https://t.co/EcOvNC5fDa">pic.twitter.com/EcOvNC5fDa</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158458652057120768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Thank you to the over 170+ volunteers who helped pick up trash in Baltimore.
We were out from 8 a.m. &#8211; 8 p.m. &amp; picked up over 12 tons of trash. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AmericansHelpingAmericans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AmericansHelpingAmericans</a> <a href="https://t.co/t0JqOouKxF">pic.twitter.com/t0JqOouKxF</a>
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158526924160978945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We assume it was pure motives that led a Trump supporter to launch a cleanup in Cummings&#8217; district, right?,&#8221; a headline from The Baltimore Sun&#8217;s editorial board <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0808-conservatives-clean-west-baltimore-20190806-hmc2gndnhfhodch4yxromipgnq-story.html">snarked</a>.
&#8220;It made for good photos, compelling videos and catchy Twitter hashtags,&#8221; the editorial opened. &#8220;A group of conservatives rolled their pickup trucks into one of West Baltimore’s most impoverished neighborhoods Monday for a cleanup day. Loaded down with trash bags and shovels, they cleared alleyways of old tires, food containers, paper and other debris. They pulled up weeds and cut away overgrown grass. The group posted before and after pictures on social media showing their progress.&#8221;
Presler said the &#8220;visit wasn’t about showing support or animosity for either man,&#8221; the paper continued. &#8220;Call us skeptical.&#8221;
&#8220;Whatever he says his motives were, Scott Presler’s presence in Baltimore reinforces the tired image that the poor people in this city can’t take care of their own neighborhoods,&#8221; the Sun complained.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">.<a href="https://twitter.com/baltsunopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@baltsunopinion</a>: Whatever he says his motives were, Scott Presler’s presence in Baltimore reinforces the tired image that the poor people in this city can’t take care of their own neighborhoods. <a href="https://t.co/EleeVh4ZPm">https://t.co/EleeVh4ZPm</a>
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) <a href="https://twitter.com/baltimoresun/status/1158882948235448321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Real News Network <a href="https://therealnews.com/stories/right-wing-extremist-scott-presler-organizes-trash-clean-up-in-west-baltimore">labeled</a> Mr. Presler as a &#8220;right-wing extremist.&#8221;
&#8220;[R]ight-wing extremist Scott Presler organizes a &#8216;Clean Up&#8217; event in West Baltimore, but is this altruism or a political ploy for Trump?&#8221; the outlet asked.
Presler, however, remains undeterred in helping other Americans in need. &#8220;I&#8217;m getting messages from people all over the country wanting to start cleanups in their local cities,&#8221; he said in a tweet posted Tuesday. &#8220;We did something very special in Baltimore yesterday — it&#8217;s having a nationwide effect.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I&#8217;m getting messages from people all over the country wanting to start cleanups in their local cities.
We did something very special in Baltimore yesterday &#8212; it&#8217;s having a nationwide effect.
— #ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1158723311335071745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In late July, President Trump highlighted the issues in West Baltimore — specifically, the district of Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD). Trump ridiculed Cummings for neglecting the American people he represents to focus on the southern border — &#8220;bully[ing], shouting, and screaming&#8221; at Border Patrol, according to the president.
&#8220;Rep. Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men &amp; women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the Worst in the USA,&#8221; Trump said in a series of tweets. &#8220;As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient &amp; well run, just very crowded. Cumming[s&#8217;] District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous &amp; filthy place.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">&#8230;.As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient &amp; well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous &amp; filthy place
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155073965880172544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Though the media were quick to paint Trump as a racist for calling out the conditions, Mr. Cummings has similarly used such language to describe the area.
&#8220;This morning I left my community of Baltimore, a drug infested area&#8221; where people were &#8220;walking around like zombies,” Cummings said during a 1999 congressional hearing, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50103/watch-video-emerges-elijah-cummings-calling-ryan-saavedra">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50033/baltimore-sun-trump-rat-amanda-prestigiacomo">‘Baltimore Sun’ Editorial Board Unloads On Trump, Calls Him A Rat. Here’s The Problem.</a>

Cleanup

Trump Supporters Clean Up West Baltimore And The Liberal Media Are Irritated

Baltimore

Elijah Cummings

According to comedian D.L. Hughley, worshippers of Satan are better people than those Trump supporters who merely want to &#8220;Make America Great Again.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dl-hughley-trump-satan">Fox News</a>, the comedian issued his denunciation of Trump supporters on TV One&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/terry-crews-blasts-dl-hughley-for-mocking-his-sexual-assault-allegation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The D.L. Hughley Show</a>.&#8221; The comedian said he could never be friends with a Trump supporter.
&#8220;You could worship the devil and be a better human being than if you worshiped Donald Trump,&#8221; said Hughley. &#8220;Look up the tenets of the Church of Satan &#8230; and then go to a Trump rally and you’ll feel safer around Beelzebub than this dude.&#8221;
Co-host Jasmine Sanders agreed with Hughley&#8217;s assessment that nobody who supports the president can be considered a &#8220;good&#8221; person. &#8220;I don’t think you can do that. That’s like saying ‘I’m going to eat a burnt piece of toast but scrape the burnt off.’ It still tastes burnt,&#8221; Sanders said.
&#8220;You can’t be a little Trump supporter,&#8221; added Hughley. &#8220;It’s not because of his vocal supporters that he’s in power. It’s because of his benign ones.&#8221;
Hughley also blasted Trump supporters for allegedly being anti-Semitic in response to the president&#8217;s charges that the &#8220;Squad&#8221; hate Israel.
&#8220;[Trump&#8217;s] supporters are anti-Semitic,&#8221; Hughley said. “He’s calling them racist, he’s racist &#8230; when people committed acts of violence in your name and you don’t denounce them and you still support him, you are a vacant human being.&#8221;
Hughley called Trump supporters worse than devil worshippers and anti-Semites, but Hughley seems to support a political party that advocates as part of its platform giving half a billion dollars annually to a pro-abortion organization, Planned Parenthood, that was <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/high-school/planned-parenthood-and-racism/">founded by a racist who supported eugenics</a>. Here&#8217;s what left-leaning PolitiFact <a href="https://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2015/nov/25/cynthia-meyer/cynthia-meyer-says-more-black-babies-are-aborted-n/">had to say</a> about a viral story on how more black babies are aborted in New York City than are born:
<blockquote>Figuring out the answer to this question proved rather simple. The first place we went was that 2013 report, the most recent data available, which provides exhaustive breakdowns of birth statistics in New York City. The agency lists pregnancy outcomes by race and ethnicity, as well as by borough, type of birth (live birth, C-section, premature) and health of the mother.
According to the report, in 2013 black women accounted for 29,007 terminated pregnancies, representing almost 42 percent of all abortions in the city. That same year, black women in the city gave birth to 24,108 babies. With abortions surpassing live births by nearly 5,000, African American women in the city clearly terminated pregnancies more often than they carried babies to term. Black women terminated pregnancies at a rate of 67.3 per 1,000 women ages 15 to 49, a rate far higher than any other racial or ethnic group.</blockquote>
Of course, D.L. Hughley&#8217;s mean-spirited smear of Trump supporters has become commonplace in today&#8217;s political discourse. For example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47463/watch-jeff-daniels-compares-trump-supporters-kkk-amanda-prestigiacomo">Jeff Daniels once compared</a> &#8220;MAGA&#8221; people to the KKK — seemingly unaware of the historical fact that it was actually Democrats who originally founded the KKK.
But knowledge of basic facts is hardly a prerequisite for participation in political discourse in the year 2019.

Comedian D.L. Hughley: Trump Supporters Worse Than Devil Worshippers

PolitiFact

Twenty-year-old conservative activist and prominent Trump supporter Kathy Zhu was reportedly stripped of her Miss Michigan crown from the Miss World America Organization over past “insensitive” social media posts and her refusal to try on a hijab at a college event in 2018.
Zhu is a Chinese immigrant who moved to the United States at age five; she became popular in conservative circles for both her support for Donald Trump during the 2016 election and for fighting off students attempting to get her expelled from the University of Central Florida for refusing to try on a hijab — an event that allegedly helped get the conservative stripped of her beauty pageant accomplishments.
<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/who-kathy-zhu-trump-supporting-model-stripped-miss-michigan-title-over-racist-islamophobic-1450118">According</a> to Newsweek, Zhu was named as an Indiana and Michigan 2019 national finalist earlier this week in a bid to move on to the Miss Teen World America preliminary and finals set for October.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">They asked you to delete these photos. <a href="https://t.co/8SGVWKvMld">pic.twitter.com/8SGVWKvMld</a>
— Chuck (@poochy_chuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/poochy_chuck/status/1152164944433025025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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However, the student was soon informed by the organization via email that she would have to turn in her sash and crown and disassociate with the group over past “offensive, insensitive, and inappropriate” social media posts.
“Miss World America&#8217;s State/National/Chief Director accused me of being racist, Islamaphobic, and insensitive,” Zhu wrote in a post via Twitter, captioning screenshots of an email exchange between her and Miss World America. “They stripped me of my Miss Michigan title due to my refusal to try on a hijab in 2018, my tweet about black on black gun violence, and ‘insensitive’ statistical tweets.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Miss World America&#8217;s State/National/Chief Director accused me of being racist, Islamaphobic, and insensitive.
They stripped me of my Miss Michigan title due to my refusal to try on a hijab in 2018, my tweet about black on black gun violence, and &#8220;insensitive&#8221; statistical tweets. <a href="https://t.co/K1Btho0Pgq">pic.twitter.com/K1Btho0Pgq</a>
— Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticalKathy/status/1152044590645616640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Zhu also posted screenshots of text message exchanges between her and Miss World America Michigan State Director Laurie DeJack immediately preceding her dismissal from the organization. DeJack singled out a tweet from Zhu concerning black-on-black crime.
“Did you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within your own community first before blaming others,” the tweet reads.
Responding to DeJack, Zhu wrote via text, “How is that racist? It’s statistics. Didn’t know statistics were racist.”
DeJack then suggested the tweet was posted by Zhu’s boyfriend.
“I will stop by your house to give you back the crown/sash,” answered Zhu. “This is ridiculous and to work with someone that thinks statistics is racist is the last thing I want to do. &#8230; You’re supposed to stand up for me, not guilt trip me and then make snarky remarks about my boyfriend.”
“I’m completely hurt over this but I hope you find a better candidate that will advocate for brainless ideals like ‘world peace,’” she added.
“It’s not a statistic,” DeJack said of the tweet in question. “It’s a comment with no statistics to back it up.”
“Maybe you should read [an] educational journal on the statistics of blacks killing other blacks,” Zhu wrote. “I go to school for this.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none">These are the text message exchanges between the state director and me. <a href="https://t.co/HtHS1gns6X">pic.twitter.com/HtHS1gns6X</a>
— Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticalKathy/status/1152044900407549952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Zhu also responded via email to the organization over her ouster, pushing back on Miss World America’s apparent opposition to the conservative’s refusal to wear a hijab. “[W]hat is ‘insensitive’ is that women in the Middle East are getting STONED TO DEATH for refusing to obey their husband’s orders to wear hijabs,” she wrote. “A Muslim woman tried to FORCIBLY put a hijab on my head without my permission. I tweeted about it on my social media, and it got the attention of the media. Almost everyone was supportive of me refusing to be put in that situation.”
On Friday morning, Zhu thanked her supporters and announced that she will not be taking legal action against the organization because they have “suffered enough negative publicity.”
“I woke up this morning with an overwhelming amount of support; I can&#8217;t thank you all enough. I am glad this story came to light because this is more than just some beauty pageant, this is about the prejudice views against people with ‘different opinions,’” she said.
“I will not be taking any legal action against the organization, I think they have suffered enough negative publicity — especially because they wanted to decrown me due to not wanting bad publicity in the first place.”
“When they go low, we go high,” she added.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I will not be taking any legal action against the organization, I think they have suffered enough negative publicity &#8211; especially because they wanted to decrown me due to not wanting bad publicity in the first place.
When they go low, we go high.
— Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticalKathy/status/1152231236473184256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH:
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">The Miss World America Organization strips conservative activist Kathy Zhu of her Miss Michigan title for refusing to Wear Hijab and “insensitive” social media posts. <a href="https://t.co/mxNRH5MeVu">pic.twitter.com/mxNRH5MeVu</a>
— Fox &amp; Friends First (@FoxFriendsFirst) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxFriendsFirst/status/1152209977819488256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Miss World America Strips Trump Supporter Of Title For Refusing To Wear Hijab, ‘Insensitive’ Posts

On Thursday, a viral photo of vocal anti-Trump actor John Cusack sitting down during a military salute at Wrigley Field sparked criticism online.
&#8220;Here&#8217;s [John Cusack] staying firmly seated during tonight&#8217;s military salute at Wrigley Field,&#8221; read a tweet featuring a photo of the actor surrounded by standing folks at a Cubs game on Wednesday.
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Here&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@johncusack</a>, staying firmly seated during tonight&#8217;s military salute at Wrigley Field. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ThatsCub?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ThatsCub</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EverybodyIn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EverybodyIn</a> <a href="https://t.co/z34LiXnhch">pic.twitter.com/z34LiXnhch</a>
&#8212; CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) <a href="https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1131381630126440450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Cusack gave a slew of angry responses in reaction to the photo. He claimed that he was merely slow to stand up for the salute, while also belittling patriotism and suggesting the military salute at Wrigley Field was just promoting the military industrial complex.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t stand up for Boeing military salute &#8212; fast enough for some maga f*** &#8211; see?&#8221; the actor wrote in a tweet, referencing a supporter of President Donald Trump.
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I didn&#8217;t stand up for Boeing military salute &#8211; fast enough for some maga fuck &#8211; see? 
don&#8217;t even have taste not to brand weapons company all over score board
RT <a href="https://twitter.com/QsSupervisor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@QsSupervisor</a>: What in the actual fuck does &#8220;tonight&#8217;s military salute&#8221; even mean ?
&#8212; John Cusack (@johncusack) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1131408977940680704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I stood up&#8212; just not on que &#8212; like an Obedient pet,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I made a film called war inc &#8212; watch that.&#8221;
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I stood up- just not on que &#8211; like an Obedient pet 
I made a film called war inc &#8211; watch that 
&#8211; RT <a href="https://twitter.com/FrasSmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FrasSmith</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@johncusack</a> Well done for taking a stand&#8230; er, seat.
&#8212; John Cusack (@johncusack) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1131408464641708033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Cusack again noted that his actions were a &#8220;non protest&#8221;: &#8220;They worship a draft dodger who insults POWs, but freak out if someone silently protests at a sports event. The irony is&#8230;next level.&#8221;
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A non protest / actually RT <a href="https://twitter.com/eligit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@eligit</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@johncusack</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/QsSupervisor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@QsSupervisor</a> They worship a draft dodger who insults POWs, but freak out if someone silently protests at a sports event. 
The irony is&#8230;next level.
&#8212; John Cusack (@johncusack) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1131415592299315201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In other tweets and retweets posted by Cusack, the actor continued criticizing views on patriotism and questioning the president&#8217;s patriotism:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@johncusack</a> <a href="https://t.co/jcAKuDPsKY">pic.twitter.com/jcAKuDPsKY</a>
&#8212; Jill (@zentients) <a href="https://twitter.com/zentients/status/1131433444179927040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8212; John Cusack (@johncusack) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1131424919017984000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Who owns it ? The gop ? Boeing ? Not in my world &#8230; RT <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaNappyJappy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LisaNappyJappy</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@johncusack</a> How dare he. 
The American flag I have that represents Patriotism &amp; love of country is the flag that draped my father&#8217;s casket.
&#8212; John Cusack (@johncusack) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1131423926985330689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Flag sucking halfwits &#8211; maga deathkkkult freaks 
Being anti war &#8211; is pro troops &#8211; pro human &#8211; 
RT <a href="https://twitter.com/QsSupervisor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@QsSupervisor</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@johncusack</a> By the way, trying to conflate appreciation for a private company that makes military hardware with &#8220;Love is Country&#8221; is SUPREMELY fucked up
&#8212; John Cusack (@johncusack) <a href="https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1131415157354242050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Cusack has been a vocal critic of the president, calling for a coup against &#8220;ill, deranged and dangerous&#8221; Trump in June.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s go to streets &#8212; Who owns the streets? Civil disobedience,&#8221; he wrote in a tweet, which is no longer viewable on Twitter. &#8220;Require the government to leave if you are not satisfied with it. We need to kick Trump out of the office now He&#8217;s ill, deranged and dangerous. He&#8217;s putting children in cages &#8212; f*** the Nazis &#8212; shut them down.&#8221;
&#8220;Cusack continued to call for Trump&#8217;s removal and accused the current administration of placing illegal immigrant children in cages at the South border,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31530/actor-john-cusack-calls-coup-against-trump-amanda-prestigiacomo">reported</a> at the time. &#8220;Cusack was likely referencing photos taken during the Obama Administration that were wrongly credited to Trump by the media, last week. As noted by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, it is Democrats and leftist judges who have said that children cannot be detained, meaning kids are being ripped from their parents when the government enforces the law concerning illegal border crossings.&#8221;
In that same month, Hollywood player and sister of Jane Fonda, Peter Fonda, went off the rails with his Trump-hatred. &#8220;Fonda, 78, &#8230; called White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen &#8216;g***es,&#8217; which he noted is &#8220;much worse than c***.&#8217; Sanders should have her children ripped from her and given &#8216;to Stephen Goebbels Miller for safe keeping.&#8217; He called for the stripping and whipping of Nielsen, too. Additionally, Fonda suggested ICE agents be doxxed and anti-Trumpers find out where their children go to school and harass them,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/32073/peter-fonda-put-barron-trump-cage-pedophiles-amanda-prestigiacomo">reported</a>.
&#8220;WE SHOULD RIP BARRON TRUMP FROM HIS MOTHER&#8217;S ARMS AND PUT HIM IN A CAGE WITH PEDOPHILES AND SEE IF MOTHER WILL WILL STAND UP AGAINST THE GIANT A**HOLE SHE IS MARRIED TO. 90 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE STREETS ON THE SAME WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY. F***,&#8221; Fonda posted in a tweet.
In another tweet, Fonda wrote: &#8220;Kristjen Nielsen is a lying g*** that should be put in a cage and poked at by passersby. The gash should be pilloried in Lafayette Square naked and whipped by passersby while being filmed for posterity.&#8221;
Regarding Sanders, Fonda said: &#8220;SS (Sarah Sanders) is a lying g***, too. And &#8220;g***&#8221; is much worse than c***. Maybe we should take her children away and deport her to Arkansas, and giving her children to Stephen Goebbels Miller for safe keeping.&#8221;

Photo Shows John Cusack Sitting During Military Salute At Cubs Game. The Actor Hits ‘MAGA F***’ When Defending Himself.

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At a time where White House employees are sometimes chased out of restaurants, a new Yelp-inspired smartphone app designed specifically for Trump supporters is highlighting which establishments are on board with the MAGA agenda.
According to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-diehards-create-their-own-green-book-for-maga-friendly-restaurants?ref=scroll">The Daily Beast</a>, the app &#8220;63red Safe&#8221; provides people a list of Trump-friendly restaurants in the area where they can hang their MAGA hats without fear of being <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/dsa-says-theyre-coming-after-more-trump-officials-after-ruining-kirstjen-nielsens-dinner">chased out</a> or being <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/06/23/why-a-small-town-restaurant-owner-asked-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-leave-and-would-do-it-again/">asked to leave</a>. The app also grades restaurants on the owners&#8217; social media posts and whether or not the establishment allows people to bring guns inside.
&#8220;63red Safe works like a conservative Yelp,&#8221; reports The Daily Beast. &#8220;Instead of reviewing the lighting and ambiance, though, the site&#8217;s users rate restaurants and other businesses on a series of four questions, including whether the restaurant&#8217;s owners make political social-media posts and whether they allow customers to carry weapons.&#8221;
&#8220;63red Safe has garnered 5,000 reviews since launching earlier this month &#8212; a solid start, but hardly enough to cover every hungry Trump supporter&#8217;s restaurant needs.&#8221;
Scott Wallace, founder of &#8220;63red,&#8221; told The Daily Beast that the app is meant to give people an easy-to-use guide on where they can safely eat, likening it to a political &#8220;fire inspector.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to position it as an everyday &#8216;where can I go eat safely&#8217; app,&#8221; said Wallace. &#8220;Does this business serve persons of every political belief? Will this business protect its customers if they are attacked for political reasons?&#8221;
Wallace predicted that &#8220;63red&#8221; will become more popular come 2020. &#8220;I believe that, between now and 2020, we&#8217;re going to see the rise of the socialist goon squad,&#8221; Wallace told the outlet. &#8220;I think Antifa was nothing compared [to] what&#8217;s coming in 2020. And I&#8217;m deeply concerned.&#8221;
&#8220;If they&#8217;re not political, they&#8217;re safe,&#8221; he added.
Some of the restaurants included on the &#8220;unsafe&#8221; list are obvious choices, such as the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, where White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/27/red-hen-owner-resigns-main-street-lexington-post-sarah-sanders-fallout/737294002/">was asked by the owner to leave</a>. At the time, Sanders&#8217;s father, Mike Huckabee, said the media ignored the part of the story where the Red Hen owner organized a protest when Sanders went to a neighboring establishment.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a part of that story that has not been told,&#8221; Mike Huckabee <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/mike-huckabee-red-hen-owner-followed-sarah-sanders-family-across-street-heckled">told</a> Laura Ingraham at the time. &#8220;Once Sarah and her family left &#8212; of course Sarah was asked to please vacate &#8212; Sarah and her husband just went home, they&#8217;d had enough. But, the rest of her family went across the street to a different restaurant. The owner of the Red Hen &#8212; nobody&#8217;s told this &#8212; then followed them across the street, called people and organized a protest, yelling and screaming at them from outside the other restaurant and creating this scene.&#8221;
Following that event, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called upon anti-Trump activists to harass the president&#8217;s supporters in public. &#8220;Let&#8217;s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they&#8217;re not welcome anymore, anywhere,&#8221; she said.
Wallace says that the app will not become a marginalized joke.
&#8220;We&#8217;re committed. This is not yet another a Trump dating site,&#8221; Wallace said. &#8220;This is not yet another social network.&#8221;

Yelp For Trump Supporters Highlights MAGA-Friendly Restaurants

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It&#8217;s possible &#8220;Empire&#8221; actor Jussie Smollett didn&#8217;t fully think through the alleged hate crime hoax he is accused of orchestrating on January 29.
According to Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson, Smollett used a (very traceable) check to pay the two brothers he allegedly hired to stage the &#8220;hate crime.&#8221;
After Smollett was arrested on Thursday morning, Johnson spoke to the press about the highly-publicized case. Mr. Johnson alleged that the actor&#8217;s wounds were &#8220;self-inflicted,&#8221; Smollett was motivated to pull off the fake crime to &#8220;promote his career,&#8221; he sent a threateningly letter predating the staged attack to himself, and he paid two men $3,500 to help him pull it off in the form of a check, <a href="https://twitter.com/anblanx/status/1098607470145126400">reports</a> NBC&#8217;s Andrew Blankstein.
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SMOLLETT CASE 
Per Chicago PD Commission Johnson, 
-Injuries to Smollett were self-inflicted scratches. 
-Smollett wrote a $3,500 check to the brothers to stage the attack. 
-Attack was done to promote his career. 
-Smollett sent the threat letter. 
-Smollett &#8220;orchestrated this&#8221;
&#8212; Andrew Blankstein (@anblanx) <a href="https://twitter.com/anblanx/status/1098607470145126400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;To be quite honest, it&#8217;s shameful. It painted this city that we all love and work hard in in a negative connotation. To insinuate and to stage a hate crime of that nature &#8212; when he knew, as a celebrity, it would get a lot of attention &#8212; it&#8217;s despicable,&#8221; Johnson told reporters of Smollett at the presser.
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Chicago Police Chief Eddie Johnson on Jussie Smollett&#8217;s TV interview: &#8220;To be quite honest, it&#8217;s shameful. It painted this city that we all love and work hard in in a negative connotation.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/MfyQuQi1uf">https://t.co/MfyQuQi1uf</a> <a href="https://t.co/OaYajjTwZd">pic.twitter.com/OaYajjTwZd</a>
&#8212; CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1098612514563244034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Smollett surrendered himself to police at 5 a.m. on Thursday morning. The actor was officially charged with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly filing a false police report by the Cook County state attorney&#8217;s office on Wednesday evening, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43757/jussie-smollett-surrenders-police-james-barrett">reported</a>. &#8220;The charge is a Class 4 felony in Illinois and carries a potential of one to three years in prison.&#8221;
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NEW: Color booking photo of Jussie Smollett.
Facing disorderly conduct stemming from filing a false police report. <a href="https://twitter.com/cbschicago?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cbschicago</a> <a href="https://t.co/lpbZW6Sc5c">pic.twitter.com/lpbZW6Sc5c</a>
&#8212; Charlie De Mar (@CharlieDeMar) <a href="https://twitter.com/CharlieDeMar/status/1098598534146871296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The actor claimed he was targeted in the streets of downtown Chicago by two white Trump supporters for being gay and black on January 29. According to Smollett, the two men physically assaulted him and called him a &#8220;n*****&#8221; and a &#8220;f*****.&#8221; He also claimed they tied a noose around his neck, poured bleach on him, and told him he was in &#8220;MAGA country&#8221; &#8212; a reference to Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign slogan &#8220;Make America Great Again.&#8221;
During a softball &#8220;Good Morning America&#8221; interview with Robin Roberts, Smollett said he had received a threatening letter containing suspicious white powder later identified as crushed Tylenol about two weeks before the alleged attack. The letter, which Police Chief Johnson said was mailed by Smollett to himself, had the acronym &#8220;MAGA&#8221; written in the return address space and contained a drawing of a curly-haired stick-figure being hanged with a noose by another stick-figure. The letter also said, &#8220;You will die black f***,&#8221; in cutout letters from magazines.
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Latest in <a href="https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JussieSmollett</a> story:
&#8226; Threat letter called &#8220;enormous mistake&#8221; that is &#8220;certain&#8221; to bring federal charges
&#8226; Purported hate crime attack site determined &#8212; and it&#8217;s not where everyone thought
&#8226; More here: <a href="https://t.co/jSbad1cSbl">https://t.co/jSbad1cSbl</a> <a href="https://t.co/f7BPlZjcQD">pic.twitter.com/f7BPlZjcQD</a>
&#8212; CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) <a href="https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1097838213454950401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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According to <a href="https://theblast.com/jussie-smollett-letter-federal-charges/">sources</a> at The Blast, the charge behind the mailed letter would qualify as &#8220;mailing threatening communication.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the language for such a violation (18 U.S. Code § 876. Mailing threatening communications), <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/876">per</a> Cornell Law School (emphasis added):
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Whoever knowingly so deposits or causes to be delivered as aforesaid, any communication with or without a name or designating mark subscribed thereto, addressed to any other person and containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of the addressee or of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Police Say Jussie Smollett Wrote A CHECK To Brothers He Allegedly Paid To Stage Attack

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The investigation into the alleged MAGA-backed hate crime against &#8220;Empire&#8221; star Jussie Smollett has taken some wild turns over the past few days. Mr. Smollett is no longer considered a &#8220;victim&#8221; by the Chicago Police Department: <a href="https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/18/jussie-smollet-motive-staged-attack/">reports</a> suggest the actor paid two Nigerian brothers to carry out the apparently staged attack on him in downtown Chicago on January 29 after a threatening letter, notably with a &#8220;MAGA&#8221; reference, he received in the mail did not get enough attention.
In addition to charges Smollett might face for possibly reporting a fake hate crime attack, whoever sent that threatening letter to Smollett could reportedly face five years behind bars.
According to <a href="http://theblast.com/jussie-smollett-letter-federal-charges/">The Blast</a>&#8216;s sources, the charge behind the mailed letter would qualify as &#8220;mailing threatening communication.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the language for such a violation (18 U.S. Code § 876. Mailing threatening communications), <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/876">per</a> Cornell Law School (emphasis added):
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Whoever knowingly so deposits or causes to be delivered as aforesaid, any communication with or without a name or designating mark subscribed thereto, addressed to any other person and containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of the addressee or of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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According to <a href="http://www.cwbchicago.com/2019/02/smollett-threat-letter-called-enormous.html">CWB Chicago</a>, the threatening letter addressed to Smollett was dropped in a mailbox in Chicago&#8217;s southwest suburbs on January 18; the letter reached the actor four days later.
&#8220;The envelope was addressed in childlike scrawl to Empire TV star Jussie Smollett at Cinespace Studios, a West Side production facility that the Fox program calls home. &#8216;MAGA&#8217; &#8212; the acronym for Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign slogan &#8216;Make America Great Again&#8217; &#8212; was sloppily written in the return address space,&#8221; reports CWB Chicago, adding: &#8220;Something about the envelope must have raised concerns. Smollett would later tell police that he and Empire&#8217;s executive producer donned gloves before they opened it and exposed themselves to a threat letter covered in white powder. Police logged the time as 2:30 p.m.&#8221;
There was white powder inside the letter &#8212; later identified as crushed Tylenol &#8212; and a drawing of a curly-haired stick-figure being hanged with a noose by another stick-figure. The letter also said, &#8220;You will die black f**,&#8221; in cutout letters from magazines.
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Latest in <a href="https://twitter.com/JussieSmollett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JussieSmollett</a> story:
&#8226; Threat letter called &#8220;enormous mistake&#8221; that is &#8220;certain&#8221; to bring federal charges
&#8226; Purported hate crime attack site determined &#8212; and it&#8217;s not where everyone thought
&#8226; More here: <a href="https://t.co/jSbad1cSbl">https://t.co/jSbad1cSbl</a> <a href="https://t.co/f7BPlZjcQD">pic.twitter.com/f7BPlZjcQD</a>
&#8212; CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) <a href="https://twitter.com/CWBChicago/status/1097838213454950401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
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On January 29, Smollett claimed he was attacked by two white Trump supporters yelling about &#8220;MAGA country&#8221; and calling him a &#8220;n*****&#8221; and a &#8220;f*****.&#8221; The actor claimed he was also kicked in the ribs by his attackers and, notably, they put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him.
&#8220;Headed by the FBI&#8217;s Chicago Field Office, the terroristic threat investigation is being assisted by one of America&#8217;s oldest and most underestimated law enforcement agencies: The United States Postal Inspection Service,&#8221; CWB reported. &#8220;Whoever sent the letter to Smollett may have considered the mail to be an untraceable way to deliver a message. They&#8217;d be mistaken.&#8221;
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6713267/Chicago-police-believe-Jussie-Smollett-PAID-two-Nigerian-brothers-ATTACK-street.html">reports</a> that filing a false police report in Illinois is a Class 4 felony: &#8220;That means that anyone found guilty could face between one and three years in prison.&#8221;
&#8220;By law, the crime of disorderly conduct is committed in Illinois by anyone who &#8216;transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner to any peace officer, public officer or public employee a report to the effect that an offense will be committed, is being committed, or has been committed, knowing at the time of the transmission that there is no reasonable ground for believing that the offense will be committed, is being committed, or has been committed,&#8217;&#8221; the outlet notes.

Whoever Sent Threatening ‘MAGA’ Letter In Jussie Smollett Case Could Face Five Years In Prison

LGBT

Race

Over the weekend, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43622/walsh-media-claims-it-didnt-mislead-smollett-story-matt-walsh">breathlessly and uncritically reported</a> alleged hate crime supposedly committed by two Trump supporters against &#8220;Empire&#8221; actor Jussie Smollett crumbled under the weight of new evidence.
Smollett claims he was verbally and physically assaulted on January 29 by two white men yelling about so-called &#8220;MAGA country&#8221; in downtown Chicago for being gay and black. However, recent reports reveal the actor likely hired two Nigerian men to stage the highly-publicized attack on him.
&#8220;Sources say at least one of the brothers bought the rope used in the incident at Smollett&#8217;s request. The sources also say the &#8216;Empire&#8217; actor paid for the rope, which was purchased at the Crafty Beaver Hardware Store the weekend of Jan. 25. The brothers were paid $3,500 before leaving for Nigeria and were promised an additional $500 upon their return,&#8221; CBS News Chicago <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43569/breaking-new-evidence-suggests-jussie-smollett-ryan-saavedra">reports</a>.
Apparently, Mr. Smollett was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43625/breaking-investigators-know-what-led-jussie-ryan-saavedra">not pleased</a> when a racist, MAGA-inspired threatening letter allegedly sent to him did not generate enough media attention. Thus, the plot to carry out the attack was born, new reports suggest.
Reacting to the case&#8217;s developments, civil rights leaders have been distancing themselves from Smollett, and on Sunday, one such activist, Los Angeles&#8217; Najee Ali, slammed the actor for nearly sparking a &#8220;race war&#8221; and demanded Smollett be &#8220;arrested and prosecuted&#8221; for the apparent &#8220;hoax.&#8221;
Ali, director of Project Islamic HOPE, said what Smollett reportedly did was a &#8220;slap in the face&#8221; to real victims.
&#8220;Today, Project Islamic HOPE is calling upon the arrest and criminal prosecution of &#8216;Empire&#8217; star and actor Jussie Smollett. We believe Mr. Smollett lied about being the victim of a hate crime and being assaulted, and for us, it&#8217;s a slap in the face.&#8221;
&#8220;Mr. Smollett put people&#8217;s lives at risk and could have created a situation that was much more damaging for those who are African American and for those who do identify with the LGBT community. We have many members of the black community and the LGBT community who have been the victims of racism and hate crimes, so for Smollett to say that he was a victim of racism and hate crime &#8212; and we believe that is a lie &#8212; certainly is an injustice to those true victims of racism and hate crimes.&#8221;
&#8220;Jussie Smollett must be brought to justice for lying,&#8221; Ali said, adding, &#8220;We gave him the benefit of the doubt&#8221; until Smollett&#8217;s &#8220;campaign of lies&#8221; unraveled his story.
Ali continued: &#8220;Also, Smollett could have created a race war! There were many African American and many members of the LGBT community who were very upset and outraged by Smollett claiming he was attacked and victimized. So there were some in those communities whose thoughts are a little more extreme, they wanted to retaliate.&#8221;
&#8220;If Jussie Smollett really wants to do what&#8217;s right, he&#8217;ll stop lying,&#8221; said the activist, noting that the actor needs to offer an apology.
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