On Monday, when the World Series champion Washington Nationals visited the White House, one member of the team decided to flout current political correctness and don a MAGA hat, raising his arms in triumph.
That athlete was Nationals’ catcher Kurt Suzuki, who told the crowd, &#8220;I love you all.&#8221;
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&quot;I love you all! Thank you!&quot; 
Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki walks up to a microphone outside the White House and whips out a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MAGA</a> hat.
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In 2012, Suzuki and his wife Renee founded the Kurt Suzuki Family Foundation; its <a href="http://www.kurtsuzukifamilyfoundation.org/">website</a> states, “With the many blessings bestowed on our family, we want to do our part to improves the lives of others. Offering service to others produces the highest rewards … The Kurt Suzuki Family Foundation is a non-profit agency that is dedicated to supporting the scientific research of chronic illnesses as well as encouraging healthy lifestyle choices.&#8221;
It has been all too common in recent years for professional athletes on championship winning teams to refuse to visit the Trump White House. Ss recently as last week Nationals’ pitcher Sean Doolittle stated he would not join the team when they visited the White House, telling <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/11/01/sean-doolittle-declining-white-house-invite-i-dont-want-hang-out-with-somebody-who-talks-like-that/">The Washington Post</a>, “There’s a lot of things, policies that I disagree with, but at the end of the day, it has more to do with the divisive rhetoric and the enabling of conspiracy theories and widening the divide in this country. My wife and I stand for inclusion and acceptance, and we’ve done work with refugees, people that come from, you know, the ‘s***hole countries.’ At the end of the day, as much as I wanted to be there with my teammates and share that experience with my teammates, I can’t do it. I just can’t do it.”
He added, “People say you should go because it’s about respecting the office of the president. And I think over the course of his time in office he’s done a lot of things that maybe don’t respect the office.”
Speaking of racism and white supremacy, Doolittle said, “The rhetoric, time and time again, has enabled those kind of behaviors. That never really went away, but it feels like now people with those beliefs, they maybe feel a little bit more empowered. They feel like they have a path, maybe. I don’t want to hang out with somebody who talks like that.”
Prior to that, in June 2018 the Trump White House announced the Philadelphia Eagles were officially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/31447/trump-disinvites-philadelphia-eagles-white-house-james-barrett">disinvited</a> from the White House after only a few committed to visit to celebrate their Super Bowl victory. That prompted then-Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James during the NBA Finals between the Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors to <a href="https://www.nba.com/article/2018/06/05/warriors-cavaliers-say-theyre-not-going-white-house">state</a>, &#8220;I know no matter who wins this series, no one wants the invite anyway. So it won&#8217;t be Golden State or Cleveland going.&#8221;
U.S. Women’s Soccer Team co-captain Megan Rapinoe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ouch-trump-blasts-megan-rapinoe-after-she-says-amanda-prestigiacomo">infamously stated</a>, “I’m not going to the f&#8212;&#8212; White House.” Rapinoe’s comment triggered <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1143892329582997505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1143892329582997505&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fouch-trump-blasts-megan-rapinoe-after-she-says-amanda-prestigi">Trump to tweet</a>, “Megan should never disrespect our Country, the White House, or our Flag, especially since so much has been done for her &amp; the team. Be proud of the Flag that you wear. The USA is doing GREAT!”

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A Halloween party at the White House last week invited children and their families to help &#8220;Build the Wall&#8221; by creating a paper mural with their own personalized bricks.
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&#8220;The party, which took place inside the office building used by White House staff, included the families of executive-branch employees and VIP guests inside and outside government,&#8221; reports <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-childre-build-the-wall-halloween_n_5dbdf8b3e4b0576b62a2e141">HuffPost</a>. Even though many of the attendees were members of President Trump’s administration, not everyone thought the Halloween game was a treat.&#8221;
Here is just one photo of the display:
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EXCLUSIVE: At a White House Halloween party, children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks <a href="https://t.co/ckofO1fIrY">https://t.co/ckofO1fIrY</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/janawinter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@janawinter</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hunterw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hunterw</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/CEDickson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CEDickson</a> <a href="https://t.co/X6QExgMNZ4">pic.twitter.com/X6QExgMNZ4</a>
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Children dressed in costumes were given brick-colored paper and asked to write their names down to form the display. Their &#8220;bricks&#8221; were taped to a wall on, forming a &#8220;Build the Wall&#8221; display on the first floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
The &#8220;Wall&#8221; was the work of an EEOB staffer, not the president&#8217;s or vice president&#8217;s office directly.
&#8220;Earlier in the week offices inside the EEOB had been instructed to put together kid-friendly displays for trick-or-treaters,&#8221; continued HuffPost. &#8220;The displays were supposed to be interactive and inspiring, and all were supposed to address the party’s theme: &#8216;When I grow up I want to be…'&#8221;
Though the vice president&#8217;s ceremonial office is located on the building&#8217;s second floor, a spokesperson for Mike Pence said his office had no hand in the display.
“Our ceremonial office had a plane display,” the spokesperson said. “We had kids build their own paper airplanes and fly them. That’s what the VP came to. He came to our ceremonial office.”
One person in attendance told Yahoo News on the condition of anonymity that they were horrified by the display. “Horrified. We were horrified,&#8221; the person said.
One anonymous official in the Trump administration felt people were making too big a deal out of the display. “Everyone loses their minds over everything, and nothing can be funny anymore,” the person said.
One Republican congressional staffer frankly said, &#8220;Who gives a s*** about EEOB having Halloween decorations.”
Ben Rohrbaugh, who worked on National Security Council on border security in the Obama administration, told Yahoo News that the wall is a &#8220;xenophobic symbol.&#8221;
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“To the extent the wall is just a xenophobic symbol, this is obviously a gross thing to have children do,” said Rohrbaugh. “To the extent it’s a representation of an actual wall on the southwest border, the kids have made nearly as much progress as the president has since 2017.”
Nate Snyder, who previously served in the Department of Homeland Security as a counterterrorism official, said the White House never created such political displays during the Obama administration.
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“We never did anything like this in the Obama administration,” said Snyder. “We hung up skeletons and ghosts.”
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Immigration activists were also disturbed by the display. Erika Andiola, the chief advocacy officer for pro-immigration non-profit RAICES, said a border wall should never have been part of a children&#8217;s Halloween party.
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“I don’t think they understand the amount of pain that people are going through at the border for them to make a joke out of it,” Andiola said. “We still are dealing with children in cages even if people are not calling it that, so it’s not a joke.”
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Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, said the display dehumanized brown people. “It screams to white grievance voters that ‘real Americans’ should fear, exclude and dehumanize brown people,” Sharry said. “Only in Trump’s White House would a holiday event centered on kids, costumes and candy become a propaganda opportunity for his racism and xenophobia.”
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Families Visiting White House Were Invited To Help ‘Build The Wall’ On Halloween

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), one of the key members of the progressive Congressional &#8220;squad,&#8221; reiterated a claim Sunday that Democrats are quietly considering jailing allies of President Donald Trump if they do not comply with the House&#8217;s impeachment inquiry.
Tlaib told local Detroit news program, Deadline Detroit, that Democrats, who have issued a number of subpoenas to Trump friends, family members, and administration officials, have discussed detaining those who don&#8217;t show up to testify, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/465551-tlaib-says-democrats-have-discussed-detaining-white-house-officials-who-dont">the Hill reports</a>.
&#8220;There have been actual serious conversations about what the logistics would look like &#8230; if we did have to force someone through a court order to come before the Congressional committee,&#8221; she said.
Congress typically negotiates with potential witnesses who receive subpoenas but have concerns about testifying. Jailing those who refuse to comply with a demand for testimony would be a novel approach, which Tlaib acknowledged: &#8220;This is pretty uncharted territory for many of us and even for Congress.&#8221;
This isn&#8217;t the first time Tlaib has talked about jailing ideological opponents, particularly those allied with the president, who could have information as to whether Trump discussed a deal with Ukrainian officials, returning cancelled foreign aid if Ukrainian prosecutors pursued Hunter Biden, son of former Vice President Joe Biden, and investigated an energy corporation that placed Hunter Biden on its board.
Tlaib gleefully announced Democrats&#8217; plans to jail impeachment inquiry witnesses at a town hall meeting in metropolitan Detroit last week.<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-rashida-tlaib-claims-democrats-are-quietly-talking-about-arresting-trump-officials"> The Daily Wire&#8217;s Molly Prince</a> reported on the incident last Tuesday.
&#8220;Let me tell you, this is pretty — and this is the last caucus conversation we had. Do you know this is really unprecedented? This is the worst time we&#8217;ve ever had a situation like this,&#8221; Tlaib said then. &#8220;So they&#8217;re trying to figure out — no joke — they&#8217;re trying to figure out, &#8216;Well, is it the D.C. police that goes and gets them?&#8217; No, no.&#8221;
&#8220;What are we hoping? I mean, I&#8217;m not in those kinds of conversations, but I&#8217;m asking, like, you know, what happens? And they&#8217;re like, &#8216;Well, Rashida, we&#8217;re trying to figure it out ourselves because this is uncharted territory,'&#8221; she continued. &#8220;No, I&#8217;m telling you that they&#8217;re trying to be like, &#8216;Well, where are we going to put them? Where are we going to hold them?&#8217; No, I mean those are the kinds of things they’re trying to tread carefully.&#8221;
Other Democrats, aside from Tlaib, have expressed interest in jailing non-compliant witnesses. Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) told CNN on Wednesday that he would like the House Sergent-at-Arms to &#8220;march&#8221; them to the &#8220;little jail&#8221; they have in the Capitol if they refuse to honor their subpoenas.
So far, at least two White House officials, Attorney General William Barr and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, have refused Congressional orders to testify and House Democrats have voted to hold both in contempt as a result. The House does have the option of jailing those who defy subpoenas but has historically avoided such a display. In this case, as in cases before, the visual of escorting administration officials to jail probably would not benefit the jailing party.
Luckily for Barr, Ross, and the rest of the White House staff &#8212; all of whom have been instructed not to respond to the impeachment inquiry &#8212; Tlaib isn&#8217;t among the legislators responsible for handling their testimony.

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Rashida Tlaib: We&#8217;re Considering Jailing The President&#8217;s Allies If They Don&#8217;t Comply With Impeachment Inquiry

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What would your “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” essay look like? More to the point, what would Congress’ look like? While the House and the Senate adjourned for all of August (and had little to show for June and July), the White House was hard at work addressing the crisis at the border.
With three initiatives — the Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP), the asylum cooperation agreement with Guatemala, and the interim final rule for migrants requesting asylum at the southern border — the Trump administration has sought to enforce existing law consistently and fairly and to regain control of our borders.
Additionally, the administration has successfully pressed Mexico to step up enforcement of its own laws, a move which <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-border-crossings-continue-to-fall-as-mexico-disrupts-migrant-flow-11567646550">cut illegal border crossings into the U.S. by 30%</a> from July to August.
The MPP, sometimes referred to as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, directly addresses the immigration magnet at the root of our border crisis — the promise of asylum, a way to get to the front of the line for legal immigration.
Our asylum system is designed to help those who are truly fleeing danger — those with a “credible fear” of persecution by their government. It’s not designed for those simply seeking a better job or even a better life. Under the old rules, asylum seekers would be released into the U.S. as they await their court dates (and many would simply not appear for court). By sending asylum claimants back to Mexico — still thousands of miles from the danger they say they’re fleeing — the administration is removing that temptation.
The Trump administration is also working to address asylum claims through its new asylum cooperation agreement with Guatemala — requiring migrants to seek asylum in Guatemala rather than in the U.S. Again, the point of the U.S. asylum system is to protect those who are truly in danger. Once migrants enter into a safe third country, they’re out of danger (though now, many of them undertake the long and dangerous trek to the U.S. southern border, often at the mercy of human traffickers). The agreement with Guatemala will help our migration crisis by discouraging false claims made by those who, when pressed, <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2019/08/09/migrants-seeking-asylum-america-pushed-farther-south-mexico/">admit</a> they’re only coming to the U.S. for a better job.
It will also help curb human trafficking. It will, as President Trump <a href="https://www.apnews.com/23f6b9a087e841188c5484cd5cf04f3d">said</a>, help “put the coyotes and smugglers out of business.”
The administration’s interim final rule — which would declare migrants ineligible for asylum if they passed through Mexico without applying for asylum there — would also help discourage fake claims.
But a federal judge has blocked that rule from going into effect with a temporary injunction, and he’s now indicating <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-05/judge-leans-toward-blocking-trump-asylum-restriction-nationwide">he could make that permanent</a>. That would be a disservice — both to the U.S. immigration system and to genuine asylum seekers themselves.
The judge’s reasoning is that the new rule “<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-24/trump-s-asylum-seeker-restriction-blocked-by-judge">is inconsistent with the existing asylum laws</a>.” It’s not. It’s entirely consistent with the goal of ensuring safety — and fairness — to the persecuted. The current influx of asylum seekers, on the other hand, has completely overwhelmed a system that should be deliberate, thoughtful, and comprehensive.
The Trump administration will fight that ruling — as it should — all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Finally, the administration has convinced Mexico to enforce its own laws and its own borders, and the result has been a decrease in the flow of migrants from Central America. Immigration officials put the decrease at about <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-border-crossings-continue-to-fall-as-mexico-disrupts-migrant-flow-11567646550">30%</a> — at a time of the year when border crossings normally increase, not decrease.
Mexico is simply guarding its border — as all sovereign nations have a right to do — instead of allowing Central Americans to pass through and place a greater strain on the U.S. border. And it’s deporting those who enter Mexico illegally.
Critics of the administration say these measures are heartless — that we are a nation of immigrants, and migrants are only coming for the freedom and opportunities we enjoy.
But these criticisms conflate two things — legal immigration and illegal immigration. If we just stop enforcing our immigration laws because they’re difficult, or unpopular, then we’re setting aside the rule of law — the very thing that makes the United States different from the Central American countries many are fleeing.
Critics also conflate asylum seekers with economic refugees. They’re different, as are the ways that U.S. immigration laws deal with them. The bar for asylum seekers is high; the line for migrants looking for a better life is long. Confusing the two only muddles the debate.
Ultimately, Congress must do its job by implementing immigration reform that’s in the best interest of the United States and its citizens. Until then, the Trump administration is doing what it can, and making a difference.
Summer is over for both the House and the Senate. They’ll return to find that the White House hasn’t been idle.
The Honorable John N. Hostettler is the Vice President for Federal Affairs for States Trust at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. He served in the U.S. House from 1995 to 2007 representing Indiana’s Eighth District.

HOSTETTLER: Congress Has Been On Recess, But The Trump Administration Has Been Busy

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President Donald Trump&#8217;s personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout resigned from her job after the White House learned that she had revealed personal information about Trump and his family to reporters in an &#8220;off-the-record&#8221; conversation. How the White House learned about the conversation has sparked speculation, with one Republican insider alleging that a Washington Post journalist &#8220;burned&#8221; Westerhout.
According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-personal-assistant-madeleine-westerhout-abruptly-resigns-n1048166">NBC News</a>, Westerhout resigned from her position late Thursday when the White House learned she had shared personal information about the president and his family during an off-the-record conversation with reporters earlier this month while they were covering his vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Though the details she allegedly shared remain unknown, a source close to the situation told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/politics/trump-madeleine-westerhout.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">The New York Times</a> Westerhout&#8217;s resignation was swift and abrupt.
Westerhout had been serving under President Trump since the 2016 transition.
Since her resignation, GOP political strategist Arthur Schwartz has alleged that two reporters and White House insiders have fingered Philip Rucker of the Washington Post as the journalist who &#8220;burned&#8221; Westerhout for the off-the-record conversation in what would be a violation of journalistic standards.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve heard from two reporters that [Philip Rucker] is the one that burned Madeleine Westerhout. A couple of people in the WH told me the same,&#8221; Schwartz tweeted on Friday.
&#8220;Where the hell is the <a href="https://twitter.com/whca" data-focusable="true">@whca</a> on the Amazon Washington Post / <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker" data-focusable="true">@PhilipRucker</a> scandal? They&#8217;re busy defending a Playboy columnist&#8217;s right to behave like a buffoon at the WH instead of addressing an unprecedented credibility crisis facing their entire profession. Shameful,&#8221; Schwartz continued.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">I’ve heard from two reporters that <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PhilipRucker</a> is the one that burned Madeleine Westerhout. A couple of people in the WH told me the same.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Where the hell is the <a href="https://twitter.com/whca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@whca</a> on the Amazon Washington Post / <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PhilipRucker</a> scandal? They’re busy defending a Playboy columnist’s right to behave like a buffoon at the WH instead of addressing an unprecedented credibility crisis facing their entire profession. Shameful.
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In a later post, Schwartz shared Washington Post&#8217;s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/ask-the-post/wp/2016/01/01/policies-and-standards/">policies and standards</a> regarding reporters, which clearly states that &#8220;off-the-record&#8221; subjects should not be &#8220;for publication or in further reporting&#8221; and that the journalist must ensure that the person being interviewed has a full understanding of the term &#8220;off-the-record.&#8221;
<blockquote>This is the trickiest of all, because so many people misuse the term. By the traditional definition, off-the-record information cannot be used for publication or in further reporting. But many sources, including some sophisticated officials, use the term when they really mean &#8220;not for attribution to me.&#8221; We must be very careful when dealing with sources who say they want to be &#8220;off the record.&#8221; If they mean &#8220;not for attribution to me,&#8221; we need to explain the difference, and discuss what the attribution will actually be. If they really mean off the record as the term is traditionally defined, then in most circumstances, we should avoid listening to such information at all. We do not want to be hamstrung by a source who tells us something that becomes unusable because it is provided on an off-the-record basis.</blockquote>
Madeleine Westerhout previously served as a Republican National Committee aide prior to working for Mitt Romney&#8217;s 2012 presidential campaign. The New York Times reports that she &#8220;cried on election night because she was upset over Mr. Trump&#8217;s victory&#8221; and that &#8220;the president at first viewed her warily, as a late convert to his cause who could not be trusted.&#8221;
&#8220;Some of Mr. Trump&#8217;s top officials — like John F. Kelly, who has since left as chief of staff — tried to turn Ms. Westerhout into an ally who could help them manage Oval Office traffic,&#8221; reports the Times. &#8220;They hoped that she could block individuals from reaching the president on the phone or in person, and that she would report back on the calls and meetings that made it through.&#8221;
UPDATE: Shortly after the publication of this article, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/30/trumps-personal-assistant-fired-ivanka-tiffany-1479226">Politico reported</a> that Madeleine Westerhout allegedly told the journalists present that &#8220;she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, and that the president did not like being in pictures with Tiffany because he perceived her as overweight.&#8221;
&#8220;Westerhout also jokingly told the journalists that Trump couldn&#8217;t pick Tiffany out of a crowd, said one of the people,&#8221; reported Politico. &#8220;&#8216;She had a couple drinks and in an uncharacteristically unguarded moment, she opened up to the reporters,&#8217; the person said.&#8221;

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Trump’s Personal Assistant Resigns Over ‘Off-The-Record’ Conversation With Reporters

Back in the 1980s, President Reagan used to dodge questions from the press as he walked toward his presidential helicopter, Marine One, on the lawn of the White House. With ABC News reporter Sam Donaldson in his terrible toupee yelling &#8220;Sir! Sir!&#8221; at him, Reagan would cup a hand around his ear, shrug his shoulders as if he couldn&#8217;t hear, then walk off, all without missing a stride.
The press complained loudly back then.
But President Trump does it a bit differently. As he strolls toward his chopper, he stops and takes questions — sometimes a whole bunch of questions. And wouldn&#8217;t you know it, the press don&#8217;t like THAT either.
One reporter told <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/22/trump-marine-one-press-briefings-1471629">Politico</a> that if Trump were at a podium, &#8220;we would be correcting him.&#8221;
&#8220;If he was at a podium, we would be pressing him after he answers the question, we would be correcting him, we would be pointing out discrepancies in previous answers, and we&#8217;re not able to do that in the chaotic setting of a departure,&#8221; CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang said. &#8220;Many times I&#8217;ve tried to ask a follow-up question, but he&#8217;s already pointed to somebody else.&#8221;
Aw, that&#8217;s horrible. Doesn&#8217;t the president of the United States realize that the NBC reporter is running the press conference? What a travesty!
Jiang also said the loud engines on the chopper give Trump an advantage. &#8220;He&#8217;ll just hear a word that catches his attention like &#8216;racism&#8217; or &#8216;the Squad&#8217; or whatever the topic is, and he&#8217;ll just deliver what he&#8217;s probably already been tweeting about and what he already firmly believes so that can be difficult,&#8221; she said.
But Trump&#8217;s on-the-move press conferences give reporters far more access than his predecessor gave, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-chopper-talks-reporters-criticize-accesible-accountable-marine-one-helicopter-press-secretary-grisham">Fox News</a> reports.
&#8220;According to CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, who keeps detailed records of the presidency, Trump has stopped to answer reporter questions — both departing or arriving to the White House on Marine One and on the tarmac before or after riding Air Force One — more than 80 times. He said he found only three instances when former President Barack Obama similarly spoke to reporters in transit and, during such times, he used a podium,&#8221; Fox wrote.
Reporters have had far more access to Trump — and not just on the White House lawn. &#8220;The frequent &#8216;chopper talk&#8217; is one of the reasons Trump has surpassed his five predecessors — Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan — in fielding questions from reporters during their first 30 months in office, according to the White House Transition Project. Those five presidents took questions at approximately one third of their public speaking events, while Trump does so at more than half of his,&#8221; Politico reported.
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said last week that Trump is &#8220;so accessible&#8221; she can&#8217;t fathom why &#8220;what any of the press could complain about.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump communicates directly with the American people more than any President in history,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The fact that the White House press corps can no longer grandstand on TV is of no concern to us.&#8221;
But veteran reporter Peter Baker of the New York Times also complained about the way Trump takes questions.
&#8220;There&#8217;s no question that it works to his advantage that we look unruly and disorderly,&#8221; Baker told Politico. &#8220;It&#8217;s not like standing at a podium in the East Room or the briefing room, where you can have a civilized calling on people who raise their hands.&#8221;
Baker also said reporters are forced to ask straight-forward questions. &#8220;You can&#8217;t ask a question that has a predicate or a kind of complex construction because you&#8217;re shouting with all the other reporters like &#8216;Mr. President, what about Iran?’&#8217;or &#8216;Mr. President, they say you&#8217;re a racist,'&#8221; Baker said.​
Aww, the poor White House press corps.

President Donald Trump Departs White House For Kentucky

Trump Infuriates White House Press Corps By Taking A Bunch Of Questions So Often

Politico

During the White House&#8217;s Social Media Summit in the Rose Garden on Thursday, CNN contributor Brian Karem and radio host Sebastian Gorka got involved in a tense verbal exchange that included a challenge from Karem to &#8220;go outside&#8221; and Gorka calling Karem a &#8220;punk.&#8221; But in CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta&#8217;s incomplete summary of events, the blow-up — started by Karem, as video evidence shows — was an example of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;social media allies&#8221; &#8220;verbally abus[ing] reporters who were trying to do their jobs.&#8221;
Acosta began his curtailed coverage of the event by taking a selfie and describing the group of social media figures as &#8220;Trump’s social media allies,&#8221; who, Acosta makes sure to note, are &#8220;in the front rows&#8221; while all the White House press are &#8220;in the back.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">The scene in the WH Rose Garden. All WH press in the back. Trump’s social media allies in the front rows. <a href="https://t.co/wi8m4yW53N">pic.twitter.com/wi8m4yW53N</a>
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1149431908293578753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The moment from the event that generated the most buzz online was Karem and Gorka&#8217;s heated exchange. Acosta, who has consistently portrayed himself as unfairly targeted by the White House, framed the incident as Trump&#8217;s &#8220;allies&#8221; attacking a journalist just there to do his job while White House officials stood by in tacit approval.
&#8220;WH officials invited Trump&#8217;s social media allies to sit in the Rose Garden. But after the event was over, West Wing aides did nothing when those social media figures began to verbally abuse reporters who were trying to do their jobs. A good snapshot of how press is treated by WH,&#8221; Acosta tweeted.
He linked to a video that only shows Gorka calling Karem a &#8220;punk&#8221; and social media figures cheering Gorka — one predicting Gorka could kick Karem&#8217;s &#8220;punk a**&#8221; — while some of Karem&#8217;s fellow &#8220;real journalists&#8221; complain.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">WH officials invited Trump&#8217;s social media allies to sit in the Rose Garden. But after the event was over, West Wing aides did nothing when those social media figures began to verbally abuse reporters who were trying to do their jobs. A good snapshot of how press is treated by WH. <a href="https://t.co/j0Ys542dok">https://t.co/j0Ys542dok</a>
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1149450457414340613?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">&#8230; in the rose garden of the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@whitehouse</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/SebGorka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sebgorka</a> just screamed at journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianKarem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@briankarem</a> calling him a &#8220;punk.&#8221; then someone remarked that gorka could &#8220;kick your punk ass.&#8221;
again, this happened&#8230; in the rose garden. 
vid from <a href="https://twitter.com/katierogers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@katierogers</a> <a href="https://t.co/F88NX4lWk7">pic.twitter.com/F88NX4lWk7</a>
— fake nick ramsey (@nick_ramsey) <a href="https://twitter.com/nick_ramsey/status/1149438819248365571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
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But, as people quickly pointed out to Acosta, his account of the confrontation and the video he linked conveniently left out how the whole thing got started (h/t <a href="https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/07/11/shocker-jim-acostas-account-of-what-went-down-at-the-wh-between-a-journo-and-seb-gorka-is-missing-something-video/">Twitchy</a>).
&#8220;As expected: Starting the clip with Gorka comment without the context of Karem earlier challenging him to a fight. Which is punk. And dishonest on @Acosta &#8216;s part,&#8221; wrote one follower.
Breitbart&#8217;s Kyle Morris responded by providing another angle of the incident: &#8220;Sounds as if Brian Karem was only in attendance to berate Trump supporters,&#8221; wrote Morris.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">Here’s a better angle. Sounds as if Brian Karem was only in attendance to berate Trump supporters. <a href="https://t.co/gMhlcL3VDE">pic.twitter.com/gMhlcL3VDE</a>
— Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKyleMorris/status/1149474934655090697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As Morris&#8217; video shows, Karem prompted Gorka&#8217;s actions by taunting the social media figures. &#8220;This is a group of people that are eager for demonic possession,&#8221; said Karem.
In response, Gorka yelled back, &#8220;And you&#8217;re a journalist, right?&#8221;
&#8220;Hey, come on over here and talk with me, brother, we can go outside and have a long conversation,&#8221; said Karem, gesturing for Gorka to come over.
Gorka complied, walking over rapidly. &#8220;You&#8217;re threatening me now, at the White House? In the Rose Garden? You&#8217;re threatening me, in the Rose Garden!&#8221; said Gorka. &#8220;You are a punk! You&#8217;re not a journalist! You&#8217;re a punk!&#8221; Gorka yelled in Karem&#8217;s face.
&#8220;Go home,&#8221; said Karem. &#8220;Hey Gorka, get a job!&#8221;
The exchange inspired the &#8220;Gorka!&#8221; cheers from social media personalities.
A couple of other responses to Acosta&#8217;s &#8220;fake news&#8221; post: &#8220;Nope[.] But a solid #FakeNews take@BrianKarem started it by saying of the invited guests[.] &#8216;This is a group that is eager for demonic possession.&#8217; Then @SebGorka responded to that insult,&#8221; wrote Jim Hanson. &#8220;The king of #FakeNews @Acosta will never admit he’s a liar Jim,&#8221; added ret. Col. Rob Maness.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">Nope 
But a solid <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FakeNews</a> take<a href="https://twitter.com/BrianKarem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BrianKarem</a> started it by saying of the invited guests 
&#8220;This is a group that is eager for demonic possession&#8221; 
Then <a href="https://twitter.com/SebGorka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SebGorka</a> responded to that insult
I assume you&#8217;ll correct the record<a href="https://t.co/v5SU1agUeU">https://t.co/v5SU1agUeU</a>
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) <a href="https://twitter.com/Uncle_Jimbo/status/1149479991173713920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en">The king of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FakeNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FakeNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a> will never admit he’s a liar Jim.
— Col. Rob Maness ret. (@RobManess) <a href="https://twitter.com/RobManess/status/1149659077301035011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47313/cnns-acosta-lies-about-what-trump-said-speech-gets-ryan-saavedra">CNN&#8217;s Acosta Lies About What Trump Said At Speech, Gets Slammed Online</a>

Acosta Says Trump’s ‘Social Media Allies’ Verbally Abused Reporters, Then Video Comes Out

Fake News

Jim Acosta

According to sources who spoke to The Daily Wire from both inside and outside the administration, the Trump administration will not implement any policy that allows countries to import Iranian oil — thus apparently closing the door on a <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/03/trump-china-iran-oil-1396052">proposal being circulated among State Department hands</a> that would have allowed China to use an obscure legal loophole to avoid U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil imports.
Last Wednesday, Eliana Johnson of Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/03/trump-china-iran-oil-1396052">reported a very interesting scoop</a>: &#8220;The State Department is seriously considering using an Obama-era loophole to allow China to import oil from Iran,&#8221; which would &#8220;violat[e] the Trump administration’s pledge to bring Iranian oil exports to zero.&#8221; Specifically, Johnson cited &#8220;three U.S. officials&#8221; who claimed that the U.S. is considering &#8220;granting China a waiver to a 2012 law [the Iran Freedom and Counterproliferation Act] intended to kneecap the Iranian oil industry.&#8221; The proposal would have effectively allowed China to avoid paying directly for Iranian oil while nonetheless still acquiring it.
For close observers of the Trump administration&#8217;s foreign policy and national security apparatus, this might have seemed more than a little strange. Why would this administration, which famously removed the U.S. from the harrowing capitulation to fundamentalist jihadist evil that was President Barack Obama&#8217;s Iran nuclear deal and has infamous Iran hawk John Bolton as its national security advisor, undercut the thrust of its own <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2019/04/29/trump-ends-waiver-grace-period-for-irans-oil-customers/">hardline Iran oil waivers policy</a> by granting an obscure legal loophole to the U.S.&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47057/hammer-china-americas-greatest-21st-century-threat-josh-hammer">number one 21st century geopolitical threat</a>?
To be sure, Politico almost assuredly did not get the story wrong. Rather, leakers in the famously Arabist/anti-Israel State Department bureaucracy were likely candid about internal deliberations in Foggy Bottom.
But reading Johnson&#8217;s scoop, one is forced to ponder the distinct possibility that the State Department could be wildly out of line with administration officials in and around the White House national security apparatus. Sure enough, a senior Trump administration official contacted by The Daily Wire categorically ruled out implementation of any proposal that would grant the Chinese such a waiver for Iranian oil imports.
&#8220;There will be no waivers issued to any country for the import of Iranian oil, in accordance with the President’s direction,&#8221; the senior administration official stated. &#8220;Importing Iranian oil is a sanctionable activity under U.S. law. U.S. secondary sanctions will be fully enforced.&#8221;
Well.
This is what a brutal inter-agency fight looks like. Hawkish Iran hardliners in the administration are battling — quite publicly now, as of this writing&#8217;s publication — with dovish State Department mandarins.
Contacted by The Daily Wire, a U.S. official familiar with the inter-agency Trump administration battle over Iranian oil waivers put it bluntly: &#8220;The president is under enormous pressure to give Iran a face-saving off-ramp and look the other way at sanctions busting. The Europeans and their friends inside the administration are selling him the delusion that the ayatollah is ready to make a deal, if only he&#8217;ll bribe Iran with a few hundred million dollars. It hasn&#8217;t worked yet. They&#8217;re still trying.&#8221;
This will be a fascinating inter-agency fight to watch unfold. Iran hawks have a very clear rooting interest — and it is surely not with the State Department. Suffice it to say there is no world whatsoever in which China ought to be granted any waivers at all for importing Iranian oil.

HAMMER: INTER-AGENCY FIGHT: White House Closes Door On Plan To Give China ‘Get-Out-Of-Jail’ Free Card For Iran Oil

Barack Obama

Iran

John Bolton

Mike Pompeo

National Security

Nuclear Weapons

State Department

In her upcoming book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Do-We-Need-Men/dp/1250215439">What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal</a>,&#8221; famous Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses Donald Trump of forcefully raping her in the mid-1990s, an allegation she says she chose not to make public earlier because she did not want to deal with the potential blowback. In a statement to <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html#_ga=2.263806606.363324053.1561140850-961065709.1561140850">New York Magazine</a>, which published the passage from the book containing the accusation, the White House dismissed her account as &#8220;a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly taking place.&#8221;
In the excerpt of the book&#8212; which includes multiple sexual assault allegations, including against former CBS CEO Les Moonves &#8212; Carroll says that in the mid-1990s, when she was 52, she ran into Trump in the luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman in midtown Manhattan. Recognizing her, Trump asked if she could help him pick out lingerie for another woman. When Trump asked her to model a lace bodysuit, she jokingly suggested that he should try it on instead, she says.
&#8220;As we head to the dressing rooms, I&#8217;m laughing aloud and saying in my mind: I&#8217;m gonna make him put this thing on over his pants!&#8221; she writes. Then, she says, things quickly turned from jovial to violent:
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The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips. I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again. He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.
I am astonished by what I&#8217;m about to write: I keep laughing. The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway &#8212; or completely, I&#8217;m not certain &#8212; inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle. I am wearing a pair of sturdy black patent-leather four-inch Barneys high heels, which puts my height around six-one, and I try to stomp his foot. I try to push him off with my one free hand &#8212; for some reason, I keep holding my purse with the other &#8212; and I finally get a knee up high enough to push him out and off and I turn, open the door, and run out of the dressing room.
The whole episode lasts no more than three minutes. I do not believe he ejaculates. I don&#8217;t remember if any person or attendant is now in the lingerie department. I don&#8217;t remember if I run for the elevator or if I take the slow ride down on the escalator. As soon as I land on the main floor, I run through the store and out the door &#8212; I don&#8217;t recall which door &#8212; and find myself outside on Fifth Avenue.
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Carroll, now 75, says that while she did not tell police, she did tell two friends about the incident. One &#8212; whom she describes as &#8220;a journalist, magazine writer, correspondent on the TV morning shows, author of many books, etc.&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;begged&#8221; her to go to the police, she says, while the second &#8212; also a journalist and New York anchorwoman &#8212; advised her to, &#8220;Tell no one. Forget it! He has 200 lawyers. He&#8217;ll bury you.&#8221;
In explanation of why she hasn&#8217;t come forward about the incident before, Carroll writes: &#8220;Receiving death threats, being driven from my home, being dismissed, being dragged through the mud, and joining the 15 women who&#8217;ve come forward with credible stories about how the man grabbed, badgered, belittled, mauled, molested, and assaulted them, only to see the man turn it around, deny, threaten, and attack them, never sounded like much fun. Also, I am a coward.&#8221;
<a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/president-donald-trump-faces-new-rape-accusation.html?utm_medium=s1&amp;utm_source=tw&amp;utm_campaign=nym&amp;__twitter_impression=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true&amp;__twitter_impression=true">New York Magazine</a> reports that it &#8220;has verified that Carroll did disclose the attack to these friends at the time, and has confirmed that Bergdorf Goodman kept no security footage that would prove or disprove Carroll&#8217;s story.&#8221;
When the magazine reached out to Trump for comment, a senior White House official dismissed the allegations, saying in a statement, &#8220;This is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly taking place and was created simply to make the President look bad.&#8221;
A representative for Moonves also responded to a request for comment, saying he &#8220;emphatically denies&#8221; Carroll&#8217;s claim that he once tried to force himself on her in an elevator.
UPDATE: Trump responded to Carroll&#8217;s allegations in a <a href="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/president-donald-trump-faces-new-rape-accusation.html">statement</a> released to the White House Press Pool on Friday:
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Regarding the &#8220;story&#8221; by E. Jean Carroll, claiming she once encountered me at Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago. I&#8217;ve never met this person in my life. She is trying to sell a new book &#8212; that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.
Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda &#8212; like Julie Swetnick who falsely accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It&#8217;s just as bad for people to believe it, particularly when there is zero evidence. Worse still for a dying publication to try to prop itself up by peddling fake news &#8211; it&#8217;s an epidemic.
Ms. Carroll &amp; New York Magazine: No pictures? No surveillance? No video? No reports? No sales attendants around?? I would like to thank Bergdorf Goodman for confirming they have no video footage of any such incident, because it never happened.
False accusations diminish the severity of real assault. All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms.
If anyone has information that the Democratic Party is working with Ms. Carroll or New York Magazine, please notify us as soon as possible. The world should know what&#8217;s really going on. It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations.
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Advice Columnist: Trump Raped Me In Mid-&#8217;90s; UPDATE: Trump Responds

E. Jean Carroll

Rape

Sexual Assault

Last Thursday, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan and Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney held a phone briefing with members of the media. The full transcript is <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/news/2019/05/30/background-press-call-senior-administration-officials-crisis-our-southern-border">publicly available</a>, courtesy of the Department of Homeland Security. On the call, McAleenan referred to the present overwhelming influx of migrant aliens as placing U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in a situation that is &#8220;beyond sustainable capacity.&#8221;
The Center for Immigration Studies has a <a href="https://cis.org/Arthur/McAleenan-Details-Scope-Disaster-Border">helpful summary</a> of the staggering &#8212; and truly tragic, from a humanitarian perspective &#8212; key takeaways of the McAleenan/Mulvaney phone call:
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<ul>
<li>Over the past 21 days, an average of over 4,500 people have crossed our border illegally or arrived at ports of entry without documents. In May of 2017, that number was less than 700 a day. The month of May is on pace to be the highest month in crossings in over 12 years and will significantly surpass the record 109,000 in April.</li>
<li>U.S. immigration authorities now have over 80,000 people in custody, a record level that is beyond sustainable capacity with current resources. Over 7,500 single adults are in custody at the border and Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding over 50,000.</li>
<li>Over 2,350 unaccompanied children &#8211; the highest level ever &#8211; are currently in custody waiting for days for placements in border stations that cannot provide appropriate conditions for them because Health and Human Services is out of bed space and Congress has failed to act on the administration&#8217;s emergency supplemental request for more than four weeks.</li>
<li>A five- and a ten-month old drowned in a river transiting Mexico to the United States in the last few days.</li>
<li>More than 75,000 families have already transited through Mexico to the Southwest border this month alone.</li>
<li>More than 4,000 foreign nationals appeared at the border this year with children that they fraudulently claimed were their own, a number that is increasing.</li>
<li>At any given moment, up to 100,000 migrants are transiting Mexico on their way to the U.S. border.</li>
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CBP has often used extraordinarily blunt language, of late, in describing the present <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46643/poll-even-many-more-democrats-now-describe-our-josh-hammer">crisis</a> at our southern border. In a <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/over-2200-apprehensions-el-paso-sector-border-patrol-memorial-day">press release</a> from last week <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47792/cbp-reports-staggering-number-memorial-day-josh-hammer">announcing</a> a staggering number of Memorial Day apprehensions for the CBP-designated El Paso Sector, for example, CBP referred to the &#8220;influx of illegal aliens entering our country [who have] no respect for our immigration laws.&#8221; As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46992/crisis-cbps-april-border-numbers-further-reveal-josh-hammer">reported</a>, furthermore, CBP responded to the publication earlier last month of its monthly apprehension numbers for the month of April by tweeting about the &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; and &#8220;unsustainable&#8221; influx: &#8220;#CBP is experiencing an unprecedented and unsustainable situation at the Southwest border. In April, CBP apprehended or deemed inadmissible 109,144 individuals along the SWB.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CBP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CBP</a> is experiencing an unprecedented and unsustainable situation at the Southwest border. In April, CBP apprehended or deemed inadmissible 109,144 individuals along the SWB. Details here: <a href="https://t.co/ru9AsalgPb">https://t.co/ru9AsalgPb</a> <a href="https://t.co/kzfTpfPNP8">pic.twitter.com/kzfTpfPNP8</a>
&#8212; CBP (@CBP) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBP/status/1126214086839214083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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A month prior, CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert E. Perez <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-march-statistics-southwest-border-migration">referred</a> to the migrant alien onslaught as presenting a &#8220;system-wide emergency.&#8221; &#8220;We are currently experiencing a system-wide emergency in our processing and holding facilities,&#8221; Perez stated at the time of the release of CBP&#8217;s apprehension data for the month of March.
Congressional Democrats have <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/04/the-democrats-are-humanitarian-frauds-on-the-border/">consistently rejected attempts</a> to help mollify the humanitarian crisis presently afflicting our <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46207/day-our-beleaguered-border-human-smugglers-arizona-josh-hammer">beleaguered</a> border.

DHS: Number Of Aliens In Custody At Border ‘Beyond Sustainable Capacity’

Department of Homeland Security

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Mexico

Mick Mulvaney

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

In a horrifying moment caught on video, a man set himself on fire near the White House on Wednesday, walking around fully engulfed in flames for several seconds before Secret Service and police arrived to extinguish the flames and attempt to save his life. The man died from the wounds Wednesday evening, authorities say. More details about the man, who has since been identified, have emerged.
The man, who U.S. Park Police identified early Thursday as Arnav Gupta, 33, of Bethesda, Maryland, died of his wounds Wednesday evening, Washington D.C.&#8217;s <a href="https://wtop.com/dc/2019/05/man-sets-himself-on-fire-near-white-house-secret-service-says/">WTOP</a> reported Thursday. Gupta had been reported missing earlier Wednesday, family members citing concerns about his &#8220;physical and emotional welfare.&#8221;
On Wednesday, the Montgomery County Police Department issued the following <a href="http://www.mymcpnews.com/2019/05/29/concern-for-missing-bethesda-area-man-2/">press release</a> announcing &#8220;Concern for Missing Bethesda Area Man&#8221;:
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Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police &#8211; 2nd District Investigative Section are asking for the public&#8217;s assistance in locating a missing Bethesda area man.
Arnav Gupta, age 33, was last seen by family when he left his Cindy Lane home at approximately 9:20 this morning (Wednesday, May 29).
Gupta is described as an Indian male who is 5&#8217; 9&#8221; tall and weighs 200 pounds. He has black hair, brown eyes, a mustache, and wears glasses.
Police are concerned for Gupta&#8217;s physical and emotional welfare.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Arnav Gupta is asked to call the Montgomery County Police non-emergency number at 301-279-8000 (available 24 hours). Callers may remain anonymous.
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&#8220;At approximately 12:20 p.m. a man lit himself on fire on the Ellipse near 15th and Constitution Ave., Secret Service personnel are on scene assisting @NatlParkService and @usparkpolicepio in rendering first aid,&#8221; the Secret Service tweeted Wednesday.

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At approximately 12:20 p.m. a man lit himself on fire on the Ellipse near 15th and Constitution Ave., Secret Service personnel are on scene assisting <a href="https://twitter.com/NatlParkService?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NatlParkService</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/usparkpolicepio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@usparkpolicepio</a> in rendering first aid.
&#8212; U.S. Secret Service (@SecretService) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecretService/status/1133780123675746305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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After authorities put out the flames, Gupta was rushed to a nearby hospital.
&#8220;Sgt. Eduardo Delgado, a spokesman for the U.S. Park Police, said the man was in critical condition. Park police assumed jurisdiction because the Ellipse is a national park,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/man-sets-himself-on-fire-on-white-house-ellipse-secret-service-says/2019/05/29/bf72fc9e-8233-11e9-95a9-e2c830afe24f_story.html">reported</a> Wednesday. &#8220;Delgado said authorities are trying to identify the accelerant that was used and determine whether the man has a car parked in the area. He said police do not yet know the man&#8217;s identity and don&#8217;t know a motive.&#8221;
The case has since been turned over to the Washington D.C. police department.
Video of the incident quickly made its way onto social media (warning: disturbing content):
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<a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> Video of the person that was literally engulfed in flames on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteHouse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhiteHouse</a> lawn. Unbelievable <a href="https://t.co/4IS37Rndme">pic.twitter.com/4IS37Rndme</a>
&#8212; Krisjan Berzins (@KrisjanBerzins) <a href="https://twitter.com/KrisjanBerzins/status/1133776514175197185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Jesus Christ. This guy set himself on fire outside the White House. <a href="https://t.co/IIXAoGS6ia">pic.twitter.com/IIXAoGS6ia</a>
&#8212; Mariaaaa (@bedolla_maria) <a href="https://twitter.com/bedolla_maria/status/1133797975094960130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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UPDATES: Man Who Set Himself On Fire Near White House Dies; Identity Revealed

Washington D.C.

Presidential son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner, who was <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/senators-working-with-jared-kushner-to-set-criminals-free/">generally understood</a> to be one of the leading proponents of the Trump administration&#8217;s misbegotten, <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/these-are-the-violent-criminals-slated-for-early-release-under-the-jailbreak-bill/">illegal alien drug trafficker-freeing</a> jailbreak <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Step_Act">law</a>, is at it again. And while there is certainly <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-mideast-deal-of-the-century-may-be-a-raw-one-for-israel-11548288038">reason to be skeptical</a> about Kushner&#8217;s much-ballyhooed and still-unveiled Middle East &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-deal-of-the-century-for-arab-israeli-peace-is-doomed-by-delusions/2019/05/07/451d82b2-70d5-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html">deal of the century</a>,&#8221; given the rudimentary nature of genocidal Palestinian-Arab intransigence and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46830/hammer-israels-election-over-time-now-operation-josh-hammer">retrograde Islamism</a>, there is even more reason to be skeptical about Kushner&#8217;s incipient <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/07/jared-kushner-immigration-plan-1309708">grand immigration plan</a>.
Just yesterday, Kushner met with senators on Capitol Hill to sell his immigration plan. Politico, citing &#8220;administration officials and lawmakers,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/07/jared-kushner-immigration-plan-1309708">reported</a> that the plan is &#8220;meant to boost border security and set up a new merit-based system that would keep the number of legal immigrants coming into the U.S. at current levels.&#8221; In the White House&#8217;s defense, Politico quotes pro-border security Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) approvingly: &#8220;The principal focus [of the Kushner meeting] was border security, closing the loopholes that right now are mandating catch-and-release and helping cause the crisis we have at the border and also reforming legal immigration&#8221;
While an overall shift in legal immigration toward a more merit-based regime &#8212; and ideally, a full gutting of such lamentable policies as the diversity lottery visa &#8212; is laudable, there is reason to be skeptical of the final details of the plan. For example, concurrent with Kushner&#8217;s Capitol Hill trip, the White House <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/06/tom-cotton-foreign-workers-1306065">also unveiled</a> that it is nearly doubling the visas available under its H-2B foreign guest worker program &#8212; a betrayal that immigration hawk Mark Krikorian <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/just-as-the-labor-shortage-is-starting-to-work-the-white-house-is-undermining-it">deems</a> rather unusual given that the visa category &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t exist at all.&#8221;
But the higher-level issue is that, bluntly stated, there is simply <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/jared-kushner-undermining-president-trumps-campaign-promises/">no reason to think</a> that Kushner&#8217;s instincts on immigration align with those of conservatives. And, with the recent hiring of the pro-jailbreak, libertarian-leaning Brooke Rollins as a senior policy advisor, there is now even less reason to think that Kushner&#8217;s immigration agenda will be sound. The White House <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/7/jared-kushner-stephen-miller-trump-immigration-pla/">claims</a> that prominent immigration hardliner Stephen Miller has been involved and that the White House is therefore &#8220;pretty united&#8221; on the plan, but, as is so often the case with legislative pushes on immigration, conservatives ought to temper any and all enthusiasm until the full plan is released.
In January, Axios had a <a href="https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-immigration-plans-government-shutdown-f5e144d4-5342-4509-a56e-627eb1a8a9c1.html">stunning revelation</a> that spoke to the depths of Kushner&#8217;s policy naiveté and completely ill-suited nature as a nominal Republican spokesperson on this issue:
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&#8220;Right now [Kushner is] just trying to understand the Republican position [on immigration] so that we can take all those views to the president and he can make an informed decision.&#8221;
That is a very revealing quote. <a href="https://t.co/iLQhW6njoX">https://t.co/iLQhW6njoX</a>
&#8212; Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) <a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1090410755940323329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As Daniel Horowitz <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/jared-kushner-undermining-president-trumps-campaign-promises/">argued</a> in January, this has it completely backwards, from a conservative perspective: &#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t the top policy guy in the White House be someone who A) understands the issue and B) is taking the president&#8217;s view to the wayward Republicans, not vice versa?&#8221;
The current situation at our southern border is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46951/astounding-dhs-says-1-population-guatemala-and-josh-hammer">past the point</a> of crisis level. We are <a href="https://twitter.com/NickMiroff/status/1126208888376893440">inundated daily</a> with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46457/amidst-unprecedented-border-crisis-united-nations-josh-hammer">largely-bogus</a> asylum claims that are perversely goaded by the pernicious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45997/whole-world-knows-quotation-perfect-snapshot-our-josh-hammer">dissemination of inaccurate information</a> throughout Central America&#8217;s &#8220;Northern Triangle.&#8221; Policymakers ought to be focused like a laser beam upon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42539/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">ramping up interior enforcement</a>, amending the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46601/hammer-why-did-dhs-abort-its-re-writing-infamous-josh-hammer">deeply flawed</a> Flores consent decree with respect to illegal alien detention policy, and, at least for now, fully <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45394/hammer-trump-would-be-right-fully-shut-down-us-josh-hammer">shutting off our southern border</a> until we regain <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42306/conservative-favorite-rep-chip-roys-maiden-floor-josh-hammer">operational control</a> of it and become a sovereign and secure nation once again. To the extent the White House feels the need to touch legal immigration at all and dangle possible legislative compromises for open-borders Democrats and infamously wobbly Republicans, it ought to initially focus on cutting overall numbers and resuscitating the moribund <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/354">RAISE Act</a>.
I hope I am wrong, and that the pro-jailbreak, pro-amnesty instincts of the Koch brothers-inspired voices operating within this White House do not translate into erstwhile lifelong Democrat Jared Kushner&#8217;s new immigration push. But conservatives ought to be extremely skeptical.

HAMMER: Be Very Skeptical Of Jared Kushner’s New Immigration Plan

Jared Kushner

Speakers at Saturday night&#8217;s White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner struck a somber tone amid signs that the once ultra-trendy, star-studded &#8220;nerd prom&#8221; just isn&#8217;t the event it once was.
President Donald Trump announced several weeks ago that he would not appear at the annual event &#8212; which technically raises money for journalism scholarships and awards achievements in covering White House-specific events &#8212; for the third year in a row. For the first time, however, the president said all senior members of the White House staff will &#8220;boycott&#8221; the event.
White House officials, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, instead appeared alongside the president at a rally Saturday night.
That decision came after Huckabee Sanders endured cruel taunts at the hands of last year&#8217;s featured speaker, comedian Michelle Wolf. Fearing no Trump administration associate could show up at the WHCA dinner without being personally attacked, despite a longstanding tradition of good-natured ribbing between the press and the president through dueling speeches, the White House simply stopped RSVPing to the event.
The White House Correspondents&#8217; Association responded by making swift changes to the event&#8217;s lineup, substituting historian Ron Chernow for the expected comedy act, but it did not tempt the White House back to the dinner.
Last night&#8217;s event, instead, then took on a funerary tone. President of the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association, Olivier Knox, first delivered <a href="https://news.grabien.com/story-lieu-comedy-whcd-opens-dark-sermon-trump-endangering-journal">what Grabien News termed a &#8220;dark sermon</a>&#8221; on the state of the First Amendment and the all-encompassing fear journalists who cover the president are now feeling.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to dwell on the president,&#8221; Knox said. &#8220;This is not his dinner. It&#8217;s ours, and it should stay ours. But I do want to say this. In nearly 23 years as a reporter, I&#8217;ve been physically assaulted by Republicans and Democrats, spat on, shoved, had crap thrown at me. I&#8217;ve been told I will never work in Washington again by both major parties.&#8221;
&#8220;And yet I still separate my career to before February 2017 and what came after,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And February 2017 is when the president called us the enemy of the people. A few days later my son asked me, &#8216;Is Donald Trump going to put you in prison?&#8217; At the end of a family trip to Mexico he mused if the president tried to keep me out of the country, at least Uncle Josh is a good lawyer and will get you home.&#8221;
It is worth noting that the White House has not, in fact, locked up any reporters, nor prosecuted even President Trump&#8217;s harshest critics. Reporters who appear openly hostile to the president and the White House, like CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta, have, at worst, suffered a temporary revocation of credentials &#8212; and even that was a decision swiftly reversed.
Historian Ron Chernow, perhaps best known for his biography of Alexander Hamilton which inspired the hit musical, also delivered a dark and ominous speech, comparing Trump&#8217;s relationship with the press to that of past presidents.
&#8220;George Washington felt maligned and misunderstood by the press, but he never generalized that into a vendetta against the institution,&#8221; Chernow told the audience.
Chernow then cautioned the audience to continue to report on the White House&#8217;s factual errors, lest the White House be allowed to whip the people into a frenzy for political gain &#8212; as though the press, which just spent the last 22 months pursuing an ultimately non-existent Trump-Russia election conspiracy, was blameless.
&#8220;H.L. Mencken once warned of a political system that would &#8216;keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.&#8217; We simply cannot allow the press to become an imaginary hobgoblin exploited for political gain.&#8221;
President Donald Trump spent Saturday evening at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

SAD: White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner Replaces Comedy With &#8216;Dark Sermons&#8217;

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Media Bias

President Donald Trump and the Trump Corporation filed suit Monday against House Democrats, led by House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD), to prevent the committee from issuing subpoenas seeking the president&#8217;s financial records, both from his companies and from an accounting firm hired to handle Trump finances.
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/22/trump-sues-to-block-subpoena-from-house-democrats-seeking-information-on-his-finances.html">NBC News reports</a> the filings accuse Democrats of having &#8220;declared all-out political war&#8221; on the president, and that Democrats&#8217; subpoenas are less a legal device and more a &#8220;weapon of choice&#8221; for members of the House Oversight Committee and the House Ethics Committee.
Democrats pledged, immediately upon taking over the House in January, that they would begin a number of investigations into the president, including probes into the Trump campaign, whether Trump&#8217;s continued &#8212; yet hands off &#8212; ownership of the Trump Corporation violated government financial regulations, and whether Trump is profiting off his position in violation of the Constitution&#8217;s Emoluments Clause.
After the Mueller report was released last week, showing no signs of collusion between the Trump 2016 presidential campaign and Russian officials looking to sway the results of the 2016 presidential election, Democrats have also pledged to investigate the investigators. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and others have said they will call Special Counsel Robert Mueller and members of his team to testify in front of various House committees to explain how they found no evidence of collusion despite a nearly two year-long investigation.
Last week, Cummings issued several subpoenas to various arms of the Trump organization, including a company called Mazars, which NBC News describes as &#8220;an accounting firm that Trump had used to prepare several years of financial statements.&#8221;
&#8220;The subpoena requested a slew of financial documents and related materials from Trump, his trust, the Trump Organization, the Trump Corporation, Trump&#8217;s holdings company, the Trump Foundation and the Trump International Hotel in Washington,&#8221; the outlet says.
Mazars informed Cummings that they would not give over the documents willingly, and that a subpoena would probably be required to obtain all the information Cummings and his committee want.
Democrats say the information is vitally necessary to piecing together how Trump plans to make money from his various enterprises while he&#8217;s in office, and in a statement, Cummings claimed that their subpoenas are legitimate and that the White House is merely &#8220;stonewalling on all fronts,&#8221; having &#8220;refused to produce a single document or witness to the Oversight Committee during this entire year.&#8221;
Trump and his lawyers see it differently, calling the flurry of subpoenas &#8220;presidential harassment&#8221; and a useless effort to &#8220;obtain years&#8217; worth of confidential information from their accountants.&#8221; The Democrats plan, Trump&#8217;s lawyers added, &#8220;lacks any legitimate legislative purpose, is an abuse of power, and is just another example of overreach by the president&#8217;s political opponents.&#8221;
Axios also reports that Trump&#8217;s lawyers referenced the Mueller report and the Mueller investigation specifically, claiming that House Democrats are looking to assume &#8220;the powers of the Department of Justice, investigating (dubious and partisan) allegations of illegal conduct by private individuals outside of government.&#8221;
This is likely the first of dozens of legal battles between Trump, his companies, and House Democrats. So far, the Dems have <a href="https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-elections-house-democrats-investigations-6bcfabb1-f1b2-49ce-8014-3e9b0c30db6c.html">at least 85 separate investigation targets</a> listed on their agenda, and that doesn&#8217;t count their adjacent investigations into various Trump administration endeavors or &#8220;potential Trump investigations&#8221; that might result from future appointments and policy decisions.

President Trump SUES House Democrats To Halt Demands For His Financial Records

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Elijah Cummings

Lawfare

Members of the press were left reeling Thursday after the United States Marine Corps band played the song &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; from the &#8220;Sound of Music&#8221; as reporters were being led into the White House for a presidential briefing on the Mueller report.
The band, which plays at the White House for special events was, apparently, running through a classic movie themes medley, and played &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; as part of a retrospective that included &#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; &#8212; the theme song from the musical &#8212; &#8220;Over the Rainbow&#8221; from &#8220;The Wizard of Oz,&#8221; and &#8220;When You Wish Upon A Star&#8221; from Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Cinderella.&#8221;
But it was &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; that got attention.
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&#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; was being played as we walked into the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a>
&#8212; Nikki Schwab (@NikkiSchwab) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiSchwab/status/1118884604071555072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
Schwab, who is a Washington, D.C., reporter for the New York Post, pointed out that the song was being played as part of a repertoire, and that it&#8217;s not clear the White House has any control over what the Marine Corps Band plays as background music.
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I&#8217;m not sure how much the administration dictates what the (Marine Corp?) band plays. &#8220;The Sound of Music&#8221; was also played, which is part of the same musical as &#8220;Edelweiss.&#8221;
&#8212; Nikki Schwab (@NikkiSchwab) <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiSchwab/status/1118887226589483009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
But Maggie Haberman, the White House reporter for The New York Times, apparently saw an ulterior motive. &#8220;Does&#8230;anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song?&#8221; she tweeted.
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Does&#8230;anyone at that White House understand the significance of that song? <a href="https://t.co/IK9h8fOwNj">https://t.co/IK9h8fOwNj</a>
&#8212; Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1118886051962134528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
It appears that Haberman is convinced the White House is subtly suggesting that the White House is simply overrun with Nazis, and that &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; is somehow identified with Nazi Germany. What a connection!
There&#8217;s just one problem: the song doesn&#8217;t have much significance at all &#8212; and certainly not to the Nazi party. It was written by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein III, exclusively for the 1959 musical, &#8220;The Sound of Music,&#8221; and it was composed specifically to showcase the talents of Theodore Bikel, who played the show&#8217;s male lead, Captain Georg von Trapp.
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And Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote it specifically for Theodore Bikel, who originated the role of Captain von Trapp on stage. Bikel was an Austrian Jew whose family fled Austria in 1938.
&#8212; Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1118896414476709889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
In the stage version, &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; is played only once by Captain von Trapp as a &#8220;resistance&#8221; type song about how he will miss the beauty of his homeland when it is annexed by the Nazis ahead of World War II. In the movie version of the musical, the song is played twice &#8212; once as a folk song by Captain von Trapp, and a second time by the full cast, led by Captain von Trapp, as a protest against Nazi officials.
A version of the song, again sung as a resistance anthem, is used as the theme for the Amazon series, &#8220;The Man in the High Castle,&#8221; a science fiction show where the characters move through alternate history timelines, including a main timeline where the Nazis won World War II and control much of the United States. In that show, too, it&#8217;s used as a resistance anthem, and the woman singing the theme is clearly in terror.
Haberman&#8217;s followers were divided between being utterly convinced that &#8220;Edelweiss&#8221; is a Nazi song, and being amazed that she&#8217;d never seen &#8220;The Sound of Music.&#8221;
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Do tell, Maggie <a href="https://t.co/IZqneXpwl6">pic.twitter.com/IZqneXpwl6</a>
&#8212; Eddie Zipperer (@EddieZipperer) <a href="https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1118949920353017859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
Haberman did not let on exactly what she believed the &#8220;significance&#8221; of the song was, but seemed to defend her classification in a conversation with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief, Ben Shapiro.
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I&#8217;m sure Trump hand picked it so everyone would quickly make the Nazi connection. Nefarious! <a href="https://t.co/f88fJbwFIw">https://t.co/f88fJbwFIw</a>
&#8212; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1118889318162952193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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So you&#8217;re going with no, then. <a href="https://t.co/Zxi2V4bxDg">https://t.co/Zxi2V4bxDg</a>
&#8212; Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1118889445502214146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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What are you going with?
&#8212; Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveKrak/status/1118890038501281792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Reporting.
&#8212; Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1118890147762851840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
Sure, sure.

Press Left Terrified After White House Band Plays &#8216;Edelweiss&#8217; Ahead Of Press Conference

Nazis

Theater

On Friday, officials announced that assistant to the President and White House communications director, Bill Shine, resigned from his position in order to join the President&#8217;s re-election campaign as a senior advisor. 
&#8220;Serving President Trump and this country has been the most rewarding experience of my entire life,&#8221; Shine said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/JDiamond1/status/1104061651488264193">statement</a>. &#8220;To be a small part of all this President has done for the American people has truly been an honor. I&#8217;m looking forward to working on President Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign and spending more time with my family.&#8221;
Trump reportedly accepted his resignation on Thursday night.
&#8220;We will miss him in the White House, but look forward to working together on the 2020 presidential campaign, where he will be totally involved,&#8221; Trump said in a statement.
&#8220;Bill has been an asset of invaluable importance to this West Wing,&#8221; Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said in a statement. &#8220;I have enjoyed working with him and witnessing first hand his unmatched talent, expertise, and skills. I am grateful that he will continue to be an important member of team Trump. I look forward to all of his future contributions.&#8221;
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said that Shine would be missed. 
&#8220;Bill Shine has been a great leader on our team and someone we have all loved working with every day,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;He has brought a tremendous amount of talent and expertise to this Administration. Bill has become a real friend and his generosity and his passion for our country will be sorely missed. It is a big loss for the White House, but a huge gain for the President&#8217;s re-election campaign.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said that Shine&#8217;s addition to the re-election campaign will make the campaign &#8220;stronger.&#8221;
&#8220;Bill Shine is an incredible professional and will bring insight and talent as we build a world-class campaign,&#8221; Parscale said in a statement. &#8220;He is a gifted communicator, strategic thinker, and brings a wealth of experience from cable news and the White House. The President&#8217;s re-election effort just got stronger.&#8221;
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NEW from Trump campaign: &#8220;Bill Shine is an incredible professional and will bring insight and talent as we build a world-class campaign. He is a gifted communicator, strategic thinker and brings a wealth of experience from cable news and the White House.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/9HhjqHdsv5">pic.twitter.com/9HhjqHdsv5</a>
&#8212; Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) <a href="https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1104070145981509633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Shine had been serving as the fifth White House communications director since Trump initially took office. Others include Sean Spicer, Mike Dubke, Anthony Scaramucci, and Hope Hicks. 
Shine joined the White House in June after being pushed out of Fox News, where he had been serving as a top executive. The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/15939/breaking-fox-news-head-programming-behind-oreilly-daily-wire">reported</a> that Shine was under scrutiny after sexual harassment allegations surfaced against Bill O&#8217;Reilly and Roger Ailes, with some accusing Shine of not doing enough to stop the harassment. Shine had been with Ailes since the initial launch of Fox News, and filled his shoes after Ailes was ousted.
Shine&#8217;s wife was in controversy last month over criticizing CNN for discussing a measles outbreak, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43544/wife-white-house-comms-director-comes-out-against-frank-camp">reported</a>.
&#8220;Here we go LOL #measlesoutbreak on #CNN #Fake #Hysteria,&#8221; Shine&#8217;s wife, Darla tweeted. &#8220;The entire Baby Boom population alive today had the #Measles as kids. Bring back our #ChildhoodDiseases they keep you healthy &amp; fight cancer.&#8221;
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Here we go LOL <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/measlesoutbreak?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#measlesoutbreak</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Fake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Fake</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hysteria?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Hysteria</a>
The entire Baby Boom population alive today had the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Measles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Measles</a> as kids 
Bring back our <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChildhoodDiseases?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChildhoodDiseases</a> they keep you healthy &amp; fight cancer
&#8212; Darla Shine (@DarlaShine) <a href="https://twitter.com/DarlaShine/status/1095679791154581506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Honestly, the whole story is a big &#8220;who cares,&#8221; but leave it to the left-wing media to produce a headline and social media post that makes things seem more sinister than they are.
Wednesday afternoon, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-installed-a-room-sized-golf-simulator-at-white-house/2019/02/13/ed3f6d5c-2e45-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html">wrote an article</a> titled &#8220;President Trump installed a room-sized golf simulator at White House.&#8221;
Whoa, what? How dare he change the White House and install a game to ignore doing presidential things (even though so many at the Post and others hate when he does those presidential things).
Except, this wasn&#8217;t much of a story at all. Trump&#8217;s room-sized &#8220;golf simulator&#8221; simply replaced a cheaper model installed by President Barack Obama. And the system &#8212; which cost $50,000 &#8212; was paid for personally by Trump. Oh, and he hasn&#8217;t even used it since it was installed.
Nevertheless, the Post spent the rest of the article talking about Trump playing golf. This is definitely okay, since Trump and Republicans constantly complained about Obama playing golf after Democrats mocked President George W. Bush for playing golf. Bush gave up the game shortly into his presidency, which obviously meant nothing to the Left.
Trump also appears to play more physical golf than Obama did, averaging 70 games a year to Obama&#8217;s 38, <a href="https://www.golfdigest.com/story/weve-crunched-the-numbers-and-its-official-president-obama-played-a-lot-of-golf-while-in-office">according to Golf Digest</a>. The Post, however, could not find data on how much virtual golf Obama played.
The White House has a long history of renovations, including recreational activities installed by presidents.
President Theodore Roosevelt had the White House renovated to update the lighting from gas to electric. He also installed a new elevator and a tennis court, rebuilt the East Terrace and removed a staircase from the State Dining Room, <a href="https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/has-the-white-house-ever-been-renovated-or-changed">according to the White House Historical Association</a>.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had an indoor swimming pool installed. President Gerald Ford had an outdoor swimming pool installed. President Richard Nixon built a single-lane bowling alley.
Obama modified the tennis court to also allow for basketball.
Trump did stop playing golf for 69 days before and during the government shutdown (how nice of him), but he apparently complained to friends that he missed playing golf in Florida at his Mar-a-Lago resort, according to the Post.

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After taking down the Los Angeles Rams on Super Bowl Sunday, multiple players on the New England Patriots have already said that they have no interest in a White House visit.
Caught up with by a reporter from TMZ following the Sunday win, New England safety Duron Harmon said he won&#8217;t visit President Donald Trump in the White House because he&#8217;s supposedly not wanted there.
&#8220;Nah, man,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/02/04/duron-harmon-patriote-white-house-trump/">told</a> TMZ, when asked about a visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. &#8220;They don&#8217;t want me in the White House.&#8221;
However, Harmon did say that he&#8217;d love to meet Trump&#8217;s predecessor, Barack Obama.
&#8220;That would be dope,&#8221; the safety said. &#8220;Hey, Obama, come holler at me, man. We love you over here.&#8221;
The McCourty brothers, too, are uninterested in a White House visit.
Devin McCourty, a defensive back, and his twin brother Jason McCourty, a cornerback, told the Associated Press on Monday that they won&#8217;t be making the trip to Washington. &#8220;A day after the Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams for their sixth NFL title, Devin McCourty said flatly that he would not join the team for a White House visit,&#8221; <a href="https://pro32.ap.org/article/mccourty-twins-nix-white-house-visit-mum-retirement">reported</a> AP.
Jason was a bit more diplomatic about the decline. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t thought about it, but I highly doubt it,&#8221; he said. However, the report added that &#8220;Devin playfully accused him of lying and Jason agreed there was virtually zero chance he would go.&#8221;
When the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2017, at least two dozen players were no-shows to the White House celebration, including quarterback Tom Brady, who caught heat for having an iconic &#8220;Make America Great Again Hat&#8221; in his locker. Brady said he could not attend because of family matters.
As <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/sports/-new-england-patriots-visit-white-house-donald-trump.html">noted</a> by The New York Times, Patriots spokesman Stacey James pointed out that &#8220;34 players had attended, similar to the turnout when President George W. Bush hosted them in 2004 and 2005. He said that more than 45 players attended the ceremonies in 2002, after the franchise&#8217;s first Super Bowl, and that in 2015, when Barack Obama was president, the number of players approached 50.&#8221;
Last year, the Philadelphia Eagles were disinvited to the White House by President Trump after their Super Bowl win.
&#8220;President Trump has disinvited the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles from their planned visit Tuesday to the White House. The invitation was canceled over what Trump says is a disagreement on standing during the national anthem,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eagles-white-house-visit-canceled-tuesday-trump-disinvites-philadelphia-eagles-super-bowl-champions-over-national-anthem-dispute/">reported</a> CBS News.
&#8220;The Philadelphia Eagles Football Team was invited to the White House. Unfortunately, only a small number of players decided to come, and we canceled the event. Staying in the Locker Room for the playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling. Sorry!&#8221; Trump wrote in a tweet.
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The Philadelphia Eagles Football Team was invited to the White House. Unfortunately, only a small number of players decided to come, and we canceled the event. Staying in the Locker Room for the playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling. Sorry!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1003832766511894528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2018</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;They disagree with their president because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country,&#8221; a statement from the president said.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said rescinding the invitation &#8220;only proves that our president is not a true patriot, but a fragile egomaniac.&#8221;

HERE WE GO: These Patriots Players Already Refusing White House Visit After Super Bowl Win

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On Tuesday night, The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s editorial board instigated a firestorm within conservative media when it <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-bad-judges-deal-11548807717">reported</a> that President Trump&#8217;s new White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone, was negotiating with leftist California Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris on a new slate of judicial nominees for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Journal opined that the White House seemed to hope that such a concilitatory capitulatory gesture might &#8220;somehow produce less resistance to Mr. Trump&#8217;s nominees.&#8221; Erick Erickson quickly <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/01/29/mr-president-your-white-house-counsel-is-caving-to-democrats-on-judges/">sounded the alarm</a> at The Resurgent, excoriating the brewing cave as a &#8220;terrible, terrible deal.&#8221;
Notably, the Journal also reported that the specific target of the California senators&#8217; ire is Patrick Bumatay, an assistant U.S. attorney with a highly acclaimed conservative reputation &#8212; who also happens to be 40 years old, openly gay, and Filipino-American.
On Wednesday, less than a day after the Journal&#8217;s viral editorial, the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-intent-nominate-judicial-nominees-2/">announced</a> its new slate of judicial nominees. Three of the nominees are for the Ninth Circuit &#8212; and Bumatay is not one of them. Instead, Bumatay &#8212; likely the most ideologically solid and most committed of all the California nominees under consideration to the original public meaning of the U.S. Constitution &#8212; was tapped for a district court judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Somewhere in Washington, D.C., <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/04/estrada.withdraws/">Miguel Estrada</a> is surely shaking his head.
This ought to be unacceptable &#8212; and I respectfully disagree with <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/01/31/president-trump-stands-firm-on-judges/">Erickson</a> and <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/outstanding-ninth-circuit-nominations/">Ed Whelan</a> that this newly comprised judicial slate is all fine and dandy.
To be clear, I have nothing personally against the White House&#8217;s three announced nominees for the Ninth Circuit: Daniel Bress, Daniel Collins, and Kenneth Lee. But there is something here that really does not sit right. Collins clerked for infamously leftist Jimmy Carter judicial nominee Dorothy Nelson on the Ninth Circuit before he clerked on the Suprme Court for the late Justice Antonin Scalia &#8212; who, despite his deserved reputation as a conservative jurisprudential icon, was known to occasionally (perhaps frequently) hire an annual left-leaning clerk to serve as his chambers&#8217; &#8220;counter-clerk.&#8221; Collins also graduated from Harvard College in <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1981/10/7/85-assembly-reps-upset-after-meeting/">1985</a>, which makes him approximately 15-16 years older than Bumatay. Bress and Lee are younger, but neither nominee&#8217;s resume exactly jumps off the page with a commitment to furthering the conservative legal cause in the public arena.
In short, I think Whelan is misguided to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/outstanding-ninth-circuit-nominations/">suggest</a> that &#8220;there is zero reason to view [this judicial slate] as some sort of concession to Senator Feinstein or Senator Harris.&#8221; No one outside the White House Counsel&#8217;s Office and perhaps the two California senators&#8217; offices can claim to know for sure, but surely there is some reason to view Bumatay&#8217;s exclusion from the Ninth Circuit slate as a weak-kneed caving to the California senators&#8217; threat of a &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/02/21/are-senate-republicans-killing-blue-slip-for-court-nominees/">blue slip</a>&#8221; veto.
And yet, ironically, The Sacramento Bee reports that new Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham has <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article225349515.html">indicated</a> his stance that, &#8220;he [will] continue to honor the so-called &#8216;blue slip&#8217; tradition when it comes to lower, district court judges, but would not apply that rule to circuit court judges.&#8221; Put another way, the White House&#8217;s new compromise slate of Ninth Circuit nominees makes up-and-coming conservative star Bumatay uniquely vulnerable to a unilateral veto from either Dianne Feinstein or Kamala Harris.
Let us then say what we really should not need to say: Under no circumstances whatsoever should this White House &#8212; which has better mastered the art of judicial nominations than any Republican White House in the Federalist Society era, arguably has not done anything as consistently well as it has handled judicial nominations, and which stands little chance of leading the passage of any notable legislation with a newly Democratic-controlled House of Representatives &#8212; be negotiating, especially in a post-Brett Kavanaugh fiasco world, with hostile Democratic senators. And this is doubly true when the senator with whom Pat Cipollone&#8217;s office is negotiating, behind closed doors, is perhaps the <a href="https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination">leading contender</a> for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
Again, conservatives across the country ought to be able to hear <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/it-didnt-start-with-merrick-garland-trump-should-now-nominate-miguel-estrada-to-the-dc-circuit-court-of-appeals">Miguel Estrada</a> howling in agony. Unless Lindsey Graham further alters prevailing Senate Judiciary Committee practice with respect to &#8220;blue slips,&#8221; Pat Cipollone and the White House Counsel&#8217;s Office have just given Kamala Harris a golden opportunity to single-handedly nuke the aspiring judicial career of a 40-year-old, openly gay, Filipino-American &#8212; who happens to be, by all accounts, a rock-ribbed jurisprudential originalist.
In what world is this a good play for conservatives? In what world is this what the White House ought to be doing?
With Democrats controlling the House but Republicans retaining control of the Senate, now is the worst possible time for the White House to make capitulatory overtures on judicial nominations. One can be as staunchly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42341/hammer-it-past-time-trump-openly-defy-court-order-josh-hammer">opposed to judicial supremacy</a> &#8212; and as generally opposed to judicial power run amok &#8212; as I am while still firmly believing that a commitment to selecting solid, young conservative judges is still an absolutely necessary item for the White House to prioritze. Indeed, this is even truer in our Orwellian judicial supremacist status quo, wherein the idiosyncratic diktats of judges are unfortunately treated by the political and legal clerisy as promulgating broader political principles for the body politic. I would know &#8212; I recently clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and I saw first-hand how much jurisprudentially and ideologically solid judges can affect three-judge panel and en banc votes alike.
Whether we operate in a system of judicial supremacy or the true tripartite separation of powers system the Framers devised, then, the quality of judicial nominations matters &#8212; a lot. Conservatives ought to settle for nothing less than consistently stellar judicial nominees from this White House. And given what has just happened to Patrick Bumatay, we ought to be vigilant and on guard.

HAMMER: Now Is Not The Time For The White House To Go Wobbly On Judicial Nominations

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White House aides are said to be preparing a shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees in the event that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies or retires.
Ginsburg, 85, missed oral arguments this week for the first time since she was first appointed to the high court 25 years ago by President Bill Clinton. After missing arguments on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday (for the record, she is reading transcripts of the sessions while she recovers from cancer surgery), the Trump White House began &#8220;reaching out to political allies and conservative activist groups to prepare for an ailing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s possible death or departure from the Supreme Court &#8212; an event that would trigger the second bitter confirmation battle of President Donald Trump&#8217;s tenure,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/10/trump-white-house-urging-allies-to-prepare-for-possible-rbg-departure-1096102">according to Politico</a>.
This would actually be the third bitter confirmation battle of Trump&#8217;s tenure, unless Politico thinks Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) going nuclear to get Neil Gorsuch confirmed doesn&#8217;t constitute a &#8220;bitter confirmation battle.&#8221;
Politico spoke to &#8220;a source familiar with those conversations&#8221; within the White House, who said the administration &#8220;is taking the temperature on possible short-list candidates, reaching out to key stakeholders, and just making sure that people are informed on the process.&#8221; This source emphasized that the White House is &#8220;doing it very quietly, of course, because the idea is not to be opportunistic, but just to be prepared so we aren&#8217;t caught flat-footed.&#8221;
Back in November 2017, the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-supreme-court-list/">updated a list</a> of potential Supreme Court nominees in the event that President Trump would need to replace another justice. The list contained 25 names, including Brett Kavanaugh, who would eventually be confirmed to the court after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced he would retire in 2018. Other names on the list have since been appointed elsewhere, such as Don Willett, who now sits on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Still, some of the names on this list could come up again on a shortlist to replace Ginsburg, should the need arise. Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals was on the shortlist for the seat that eventually went to Kavanaugh. Since Ginsburg is a woman, replacing her with another woman could alleviate some of the attacks sure to be lodged against a potential future nominee.
Of course, Democrats and their media supporters will demand Trump replace Ginsburg with another liberal judge to keep the current makeup of the court&#8217;s ideology &#8212; a demand that was not put to President Barack Obama when he nominated Judge Merrick Garland (a center-left judge) to replace Justice Antonin Scalia (a reliably conservative judge). Garland never made it to the Supreme Court.
In the past, Ginsburg has said she would retire only when she &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42036/justice-ginsburg-edging-retirement-past-comments-paul-bois">can&#8217;t do the job full steam</a>,&#8221; however, previous justices <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/ruth-bader-ginsburg-can-stay-on-the-supreme-court-and-vote-no-matter-how-sick-or-disabled-she-becomes">have continued to work</a> on the Supreme Court from home after their health deteriorated. Since it&#8217;s a lifetime appointment, Ginsburg is under no obligation to retire.
And we must remember she&#8217;s recovering from serious surgery. She may very well return to the bench soon. TMZ reported <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2019/01/09/ruth-bader-ginsburg-video-lung-cancer-frail-supreme-court-rbg/">seeing her leaving her Washington, D.C. apartment</a> on Wednesday, so she may be feeling better. Right now this is all just speculation, but Ginsburg has proved resilient in the past.
We wish her well.

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