Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> reportedly shelled out major donations — totaling half a million dollars — to a non-profit connected to MSNBC’s Al Sharpton prior to her interview with him.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross reported on Tuesday that the Harris campaign shelled out two six-figure donations — $250,000 on September 5 and another $250,000 on October 1 — to Sharpton’s National Action Network. Just two days after the second donation went through, Sharpton aired a video of Harris wishing him a happy birthday — and on October 20, MSNBC aired a very friendly interview of Harris conducted by Sharpton.
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EXCLUSIVE <a href="https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FreeBeacon</a>: 
Kamala Harris campaign gave $500k to Al Sharpton&#39;s nonprofit just before a glowing interview with the MSNBC host. 
The remittance to Rev. Al part of $5.4 million that Harris gave to black and Latino groups. <a href="https://t.co/tZfhxfQKun">https://t.co/tZfhxfQKun</a>
&mdash; Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1856405851893899535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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According to Ross’ reporting, neither Harris nor Sharpton told MSNBC that the donations had been made.
Harris has faced scrutiny over finances since the campaign ended with her team over $20 million in debt even after raising well over $1 billion in just three months. Payments to celebrities for concerts and appearances at rallies have been questioned, including over $1 million paid to former talk show host Oprah Winfrey’s production team and a six-figure rebuild of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast set so that she could give the interview from Washington, D.C.
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Other major expenditures included hundreds of thousands for private air travel, along with six-figure donations to minority groups with whom she was struggling to make headway.
According to the Free Beacon’s report:
<blockquote>Team Harris donated to the National Urban League ($2 million), the Black Economic Alliance ($150,000), and Black Church PAC ($150,000). The campaign gave donations to lesser-known groups like the Haitian Ladies Fund ($30,000) and International Free and Accepted Modern Masons ($150,000), a black freemasons organization, according to <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?data_type=processed&amp;committee_id=C00703975&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024&amp;min_date=01%2F01%2F2023&amp;max_date=12%2F31%2F2024&amp;disbursement_description=contribution&amp;disbursement_description=donation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campaign finance disclosures</a>.  The Black Economic Alliance <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/01/black-business-leaders-make-a-final-push-for-harris-economic-plans-to-black-men-.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted</a> a video call for 5,000 attendees days before the election to urge black men to vote for Harris. Vote to Live Action Fund, which received $275,000 from the Harris campaign, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/harris-supporting-group-launches-4m-effort-mobilize-black-male-voters-rcna174414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a $4 million initiative in October to pressure black men to vote. Harris spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on an initiative to appeal to black church voters. Two of the organizations, Black Church PAC and the Institute of Church Administration and Management ($250,000), are linked to Frederick Haynes, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/elections/kamalas-criminal-justice-reform-comrade-accused-israel-and-america-of-apartheid-in-fiery-sermon-after-hamas-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an anti-Israel pastor</a> who has worked with Harris for years on liberal causes.</blockquote>
Despite the lingering questions surrounding the Harris campaign’s spending habits, the VP has reportedly suggested that she would be open to running again in 2028 — either for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination or for governor of her home state of California.

Al Sharpton

Kamala Paid Sharpton Group $500K Before Campaign Interview — Neither Told MSNBC

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Elections

Kamala Harris

Media

Politics

The liberal cohosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; struggled to keep it together after special prosecutor Jack Smith filed to drop his ongoing cases against President-elect Donald Trump — and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-chutkan-dismisses-federal-election-charges-against-trump">Judge Tanya Chutkan</a> signed off on one of his requests.
Cohost Joy Behar addressed the issue during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show, where she argued that the end of the lawfare proved that &#8220;karma&#8221; against Trump was non-existent.
&#8220;After all that time and money, are we gonna get a rebate?&#8221; cohost Whoopi Goldberg asked of the now-wasted efforts to go after Trump. &#8220;We&#8217;re not getting any money back on that? Okay, well, what do you think of that?&#8221;
&#8220;It kind of shows that there&#8217;s no such thing as karma, doesn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;It&#8217;s like the Easter Bunny and affordable housing, it doesn&#8217;t exist. I mean, I feel like — eventually, I think we will get him out. But it&#8217;s going to take a while and let&#8217;s hope there&#8217;s not too much damage that he does.&#8221;
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Behar did not elaborate on what she meant when she said someone would &#8220;get him out,&#8221; but instead went on to jab at the American people for not listening to Vice President Kamala Harris when she promised to help people afford houses.
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Behar demands Republicans &quot;step up&quot; to oppose Trump&#39;s agenda despite the public&#39;s mandate to him. Specifically, she hopes that Republicans step up to stop Trump from allowing dengue fever to sweep across the country. <a href="https://t.co/FSrIn729VK">pic.twitter.com/FSrIn729VK</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1861443468565844364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Behar then argued that it would be up to Republicans in Congress — many of whom won their seats on their promise to help Trump implement his agenda — to &#8220;step up&#8221; and help Democrats stop Trump from implementing his agenda.
&#8220;I also think even though everybody&#8217;s been talking about how awful these picks are for the Cabinet, I feel like some of the Republicans in Congress are going to have to step up,&#8221; Behar continued. &#8220;Especially when you have somebody like Robert Kennedy Jr. — you sent me a thing the other day that said that Dengue Fever is on the rise, ok? I don&#8217;t think these Republicans want to get Dengue Fever. I don&#8217;t think that they want to get COVID. I don&#8217;t think that they want their kids to not get the polio shot.&#8221;
&#8220;Maybe they will step up because it will affect them,&#8221; she said.
Kennedy Jr., whose platform as an independent presidential candidate was Make America Healthy Again, has long said that he does not oppose vaccines on principle — he simply opposes vaccines that have not been through thorough and rigorous testing and does not believe that they should be mandated.

ABC’s “The View” – Season 25

‘The View’ Hosts Struggle To Cope As Anti-Trump Lawfare Efforts Evaporate

'The View' Hosts Struggle To Cope As Anti-Trump Lawfare Efforts Evaporate

Donald Trump

Jack Smith

Joy Behar

The View

Former CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge revealed just a taste of what her former network had on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter Biden</a> and his father, President Joe Biden, prior to the 2022 midterm elections — and she said that much of the information was either reported after an intentional delay or scrapped altogether.
Herridge, who left Fox News for CBS in 2019 and was subsequently let go by CBS in early 2024, had done some serious digging on the Bidens and specifically on the now-infamous laptop that Hunter left behind at a Delaware repair shop — but much of what she found she now says that CBS would not let her report.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Untold Story Of The Hunter Biden Reporting At CBS, “I wanted the cleanest copy of the laptop data, the same data that was provided to the FBI…”
The full +22 minute video goes in depth on the controversy surrounding my investigation starting in October 2020.… <a href="https://t.co/58stp0oNXi">pic.twitter.com/58stp0oNXi</a>
&mdash; Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) <a href="https://twitter.com/C__Herridge/status/1861440661930553503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Herridge explained in a brief video posted to X on Monday that her first goal had been to get as close to the primary source as humanly possible. &#8220;I wanted the cleanest copy of the laptop data, the same data that was provided to the FBI,&#8221; she said.
She went on to say that CBS had finally allowed a story verifying that the laptop was real and the data on it had not been manipulated — but that the network had not wanted to go ahead with the story prior to the 2022 midterm elections even though she had it ready to go.
&#8220;When we did the story, we did it after the midterms. I argued against that because it was ready before the midterms,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My training is that you should always do the story when it&#8217;s ready to go, you should not be dictated by the political cycle.&#8221;
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Herridge then detailed a few other items of interest she&#8217;d found while studying the laptop data — and said that CBS had been uninterested in pursuing the leads she presented.
&#8220;For example, in the text messages, there&#8217;s unfortunately the use of the &#8216;N-word,&#8217; the liberal use of the &#8216;N-word.&#8217; And I thought this was worth another story but I was told that it&#8217;s not something that interested CBS News,&#8221; she said.
Herridge also noted that during a forensic review of the laptop, she&#8217;d found &#8220;half a dozen emails that were likely used by Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;I thought that was a story,&#8221; she said, but CBS was unwilling to move on that without the contents of those emails — which could have taken years to get.
&#8220;There were a lot of reasons I was told not to do it, not to pursue it,&#8221; she concluded.

Joe Biden and Hunter Biden

Here’s A Taste Of What CBS News Had On The Bidens — And Delayed Or Didn’t Report At All

Here's A Taste Of What CBS News Had On The Bidens — And Delayed Or Didn't Report At All

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Hunter Biden

Joe Biden

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A CNN panel went sideways in a hurry when Republican commentator Scott Jennings pushed back on suggestions from a fellow panelist that X — now owned by entrepreneur Elon Musk — should be more strictly &#8220;regulated.&#8221;
The dustup began with complaints about the fact that Musk owns the social media platform and also has developed a close working relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, something that some on the panel found concerning.
&#8220;No one’s regulating the n-word, no one’s regulating the criticism, no one is regulating how people are treated,&#8221; former ESPN host  Cari Champion said, arguing in favor of increased regulation of the platform.
&#8220;How much government regulation of the First Amendment are you for?&#8221; Jennings shot back.
Champion pushed back, arguing, &#8220;Let me tell you something, if I came on here and I just started calling you all kinds of names, do you think the bosses would continue to let me do that?&#8221;
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&#8220;I mean, it happens to me occasionally, I don’t know if you’ve watched,&#8221; Jennings dead-panned.
&#8220;But it doesn’t happen for me and I know that I wouldn’t be able to do that. There’s a level of professionalism in what we do here because we are journalists and we adhere to something, at least morally, and there is no moral compass on this thing called X,&#8221; Champion insisted.
The conversation got even testier when Jennings noted that he&#8217;d recently read a survey indicating that X was actually the most &#8220;ideologically balanced&#8221; social media platform.
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When I said on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cnn</a> last night that <a href="https://twitter.com/X?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@X</a> is the most ideologically balanced platform, folks weren’t happy. Survey says… <a href="https://t.co/VXVEbvwd38">pic.twitter.com/VXVEbvwd38</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1861445812175147353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There was a former member of the Hungarian Parliament who was writing in POLITICO, who kind of talked about this effort by that government and how specific it was in terms of purchasing media specifically for propaganda,&#8221; guest host Audie Cornish prompted. &#8220;Do you hear why they’re making that connection?&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, is the concern that certain media outlets would become propaganda arms of political ideologies? Don’t we already have that in this country at a large scale?&#8221; Jennings asked. &#8220;Also I hear what you’re saying about X, I saw a survey this week, it’s now the most ideologically balanced user platform.&#8221;
&#8220;Scott, Scott, stop, it’s too early. I just sat down. I’ve only been here for two minutes, you cannot say that. Who’s the source?!&#8221; Champion protested.
&#8220;We’ve reported on this network,&#8221; Jennings fired back, referencing a report from CNN data whiz Harry Enten that showed regular X users were evenly split between Republicans and Democrats.
&#8220;It’s not accurate and you know it,&#8221; Champion insisted.
&#8220;Okay. I’ll let you make your statement, but my point is —&#8221; Jennings tried again.
&#8220;Let me frame it a different way. The site changed radically, right? So whether you think the voices are somehow more balanced now, that’s fine,&#8221; Cornish interrupted. &#8220;But no doubt Musk’s influence is profound and that you open it up and now you’re there with his opinion and he is now part of this administration.&#8221;

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CNN Guest Insists That Nobody Believes X Is More Balanced Since Elon Took Over

Scott Jennings

Social Media

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck announced on Monday that retail giant Walmart was the next major business to abandon woke policies and practices under pressure and the threat of wider public exposure.
Starbuck, who has been systematically exposing major businesses that have implemented such practices, took to X and shared a video and a series of points he said he&#8217;d discussed with Walmart executives.
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MASSIVE news: Walmart is ending their woke policies. I can now exclusively tell you what’s changing and how it happened.
Last week I told execs at <a href="https://twitter.com/Walmart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Walmart</a> that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead we had productive conversations to find solutions.
Below are the… <a href="https://t.co/BD02xJQ0X2">pic.twitter.com/BD02xJQ0X2</a>
&mdash; Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1861183474667004141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;MASSIVE news: Walmart is ending their woke policies,&#8221; Starbuck announced. &#8220;I can now exclusively tell you what’s changing and how it happened. Last week I told execs at @Walmart that I was doing a story on wokeness there. Instead we had productive conversations to find solutions.&#8221;
&#8220;I have to give their executives major credit because this will send shockwaves throughout corporate America,&#8221; Starbuck continued, adding, &#8220;This is the biggest win yet for our movement to end wokeness in corporate America.&#8221;
He went on to say that the massive retailer had actually committed to implementing a number of changes that would root out wokeness that had permeated the company culture.
Among the changes he said Walmart had committed to were:
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<li>Surveys: Walmart will no longer participate in the HRC’s woke Corporate Equality Index.</li>
<li>Products: Monitor the Walmart marketplace to identify and remove inappropriate sexual and / or transgender products marketed to children.</li>
<li>Funding of Grants: Review all funding of Pride, and other events, to avoid funding inappropriate sexualized content targeting kids.</li>
<li>Equity: We will not extend the Racial Equity Center which was established in 2020 as a special five-year initiative.</li>
<li>Supplier Diversity: We will evaluate supplier diversity programs and ensure they do not provide preferential treatment and benefits to suppliers based on diversity. We don&#8217;t have quotas and won’t going forward. Financing eligibility will no longer be predicated on providing certain demographic data.</li>
<li>LatinX: Walmart will no longer use the term in official communications.</li>
<li>Trainings: Walmart will discontinue racial equity training through the Racial Equity Institute.</li>
<li>DEI: Walmart will discontinue the use of DEI as a term while ensuring a respectful and supportive environment. Our focus is on Belonging for ALL associates and customers.</li>
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&#8220;Remember, Walmart is the #1 employer in America with over 1.6 Million employees and they have a market cap of nearly $800B,&#8221; Starbuck concluded. &#8220;This won’t just have a massive effect for their employees who will have a neutral workplace without feeling that divisive issues are being injected but it will also extend to their many suppliers.&#8221;
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Starbuck noted that the effort to excise woke policies and practices had impacted companies worth more than $2 Trillion in total — and that having done so before Christmas opened the door for Americans to shop for the holidays without worrying about their money funding more woke policies.
&#8220;Companies like Amazon and Target should be very nervous that their top competitor dropped woke policies first,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think Target specifically will suffer serious sales problems as a result and Walmart will benefit.&#8221;

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Walmart Caves: Massive Retailer The Next Woke Domino To Fall Under Pressure From Robby Starbuck

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Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk apparently struck a raw nerve, triggering MSNBC&#8217;s Joe Scarborough and Axios&#8217; Jim VandeHei, when he issued a blanket announcement to everyone on his social media platform, X: &#8220;You are the media now.&#8221;
VandeHei and Axios co-founder Mike Allen were honored at the National Press Club&#8217;s 2024 Fourth Estate Award Gala, and VandeHei lashed out at Musk directly during his remarks to Gala attendees.
&#8220;Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day — or X today — saying like, &#8216;We are the media,&#8217; &#8216;You are the media.&#8217; My message to Elon Musk is: Bull****. You are not the media,&#8221; VandeHei complained. &#8220;You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter. &#8230; You don’t do that by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.&#8221;
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NEW Axios CEO melts down over <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> telling 𝕏 users “You are the media now” — mounts passionate defense of dying legacy media:
&quot;My message to Elon Musk is b*llshit. You&#39;re not the media!&quot;
The MSNBC panel applauds:
“Social media people lying every day, every hour, every… <a href="https://t.co/SBwgI9hFfC">pic.twitter.com/SBwgI9hFfC</a>
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After playing a clip of VandeHei&#8217;s comments, &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Joe Scarborough seconded every word, leading his response with a slow clap.
&#8220;First of all, I&#8217;ve got to say, extraordinary content, it needed to be said, it continues to need to be said,&#8221; Scarborough said as cohost Mika Brzezinski agreed. &#8220;With all of the garbage that&#8217;s flying around on social media — lying about reporters, lying about the hard work they do, lying about the hard work editors do, lying about everything up and down about not only their alternative set of facts but their alternative set of facts about what people like you do.&#8221;
Scarborough kept going in that vein for several minutes, but when Musk got wind of it, he was not convinced.
&#8220;Yeah, whatever lmao. You are the media now. And legacy media know it,&#8221; Musk said.
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Yeah, whatever lmao. 
You are the media now. 
And legacy media know it. <a href="https://t.co/TWemmwMoqd">https://t.co/TWemmwMoqd</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1861063141326573907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The exchange comes as MSNBC — and a number of the network&#8217;s employees — waits to see what the future looks like once NBCUniversal spins off the far-left cable news network.
&#8220;What I find absolutely astounding about this is not his anger at Musk,&#8221; one person noted. &#8220;I can understand and even respect that to some degree. What absolutely baffles me is the total lack of introspection or self reflection as to why the media is so distrusted. Just go back over the past 5-10 years. It&#8217;s not hard to figure out. Maybe you should start going about gaining readers trust and turning out a quality product first.&#8221;
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What I find absolutely astounding about this is not his anger at Musk. I can understand and even respect that to some degree. What absolutely baffles me is the total lack of introspection or self reflection as to why the media is so distrusted. Just go back over the past 5-10… <a href="https://t.co/YI2wSu3z5V">https://t.co/YI2wSu3z5V</a>
&mdash; Blume Industries CEO Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) <a href="https://twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/status/1861068793910296707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What the Axios CEO doesn’t seem to understand or accept is that X is the media now because of all the lying. If the corporate press hadn’t spent decades lying and misleading the public in really obvious, craven, and destructive ways, we wouldn’t be here. But they did so we are,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s John Daniel Davidson added.
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What the Axios CEO doesn’t seem to understand or accept is that X is the media now because of all the lying. If the corporate press hadn’t spent decades lying and misleading the public in really obvious, craven, and destructive ways, we wouldn’t be here. But they did so we are. <a href="https://t.co/j3mrxNbUll">https://t.co/j3mrxNbUll</a>
&mdash; John Daniel Davidson (@johnddavidson) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnddavidson/status/1861088323235930234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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MSNBC And Axios In Joint Death Spiral Over Elon Musk Claim That Citizens ‘Are The Media Now’

MSNBC And Axios In Joint Death Spiral Over Elon Musk Claim That Citizens 'Are The Media Now'

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Now that the 2024 presidential election is in the rearview mirror — not to mention the fact that President-elect Donald Trump has a decisive mandate to govern along with a solid majority in the incoming Senate — media appears content to pass the time leading up to the holidays and the now inevitable Trump transition by casting doubt on every nomination and appointment he makes.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; host Jonathan Karl kicked off the show by attempting to cast doubt on the process, suggesting that Trump was rushing — and perhaps being less than thorough — to fill out his White House and his cabinet, and fretting about the lack of FBI background checks thus far.
&#8220;Donald Trump has chosen nearly all of his Cabinet nominees and senior White House staff, making his picks at a record pace and bypassing the typical vetting process — no FBI background checks yet for any of them,&#8221; Karl said.
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&#8220;Donald Trump has chosen nearly all of his Cabinet nominees and senior White House staff, making his picks at a record pace and bypassing the typical vetting process — no FBI background checks yet for any of them,” <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> reports. <a href="https://t.co/2oJUrLxdzs">https://t.co/2oJUrLxdzs</a> <a href="https://t.co/YW5gcJ5utk">pic.twitter.com/YW5gcJ5utk</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1860687045066207330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As for Trump&#8217;s efforts to get the incoming Republican Senate majority to back his nominees, Karl said that he&#8217;d been told that &#8220;Senate Republicans would have no choice but to get in line – or see their political careers go down.&#8221;
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&#8220;A top Trump lieutenant told me Senate Republicans would have no choice but to get in line – or see their political careers go down.” <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> has the latest on President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s transition and Cabinet nominations: <a href="https://t.co/MN4JyASUOz">https://t.co/MN4JyASUOz</a> <a href="https://t.co/H3yFRDsFqD">pic.twitter.com/H3yFRDsFqD</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1860690915565723865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) joined Karl to discuss the situation, and he noted that Trump expected to &#8220;hit the ground running,&#8221; which was why he was attempting to have all of his nominees ready for hearings and confirmation votes as soon as he was sworn in. He also argued that Trump&#8217;s cabinet would face the kind of accountability that President Joe Biden&#8217;s never had.
&#8220;Massive failures on his watch, massive failures by his Cabinet members,&#8221; Hagerty said. &#8220;President Trump will fire people that don’t do their job well.&#8221;
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GOP Sen. Bill Hagerty says there have been “zero consequences in President Biden’s Cabinet.”
“Massive failures on his watch, massive failures by his Cabinet members … President Trump will fire people that don’t do their job well.” <a href="https://t.co/KdNiJx0rfz">https://t.co/KdNiJx0rfz</a> <a href="https://t.co/3nlOWQGjNF">pic.twitter.com/3nlOWQGjNF</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1860699833041867212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Karl also brought in Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who complained that without background checks, she did not feel that she could do her job in the confirmation process properly: &#8220;I want to make a decision on each one of them on the merits, as I&#8217;ve done in the past, and I can&#8217;t do that without the background checks.&#8221;
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar emphasizes the importance of FBI background checks for Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees.
“I want to make a decision on each one of them on the merits, as I&#8217;ve done in the past, and I can&#8217;t do that without the background checks.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/WKLUEDPARu">https://t.co/WKLUEDPARu</a> <a href="https://t.co/qGlDtGy9C2">pic.twitter.com/qGlDtGy9C2</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1860710701284696466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; host Margaret Brennan spoke with Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth — and she attacked his position on women serving in combat roles.
&#8220;Our military could not go to war without the women who wear this uniform,&#8221; Duckworth said, appearing to conflate Hegseth&#8217;s position — that women should not serve in direct combat — with an opposition to women in the military altogether. &#8220;And frankly, America&#8217;s daughters are just as capable of defending liberty and freedom as her sons &#8230; [It] shows his lack of understanding of where our military is.&#8221;
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&#8220;He&#8217;s just flat-out wrong,&#8221; Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a veteran who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, says about defense secretary pick Pete Hegseth&#8217;s belief that women should not serve in combat roles.
&#8220;Our military could not go to war without the women who wear… <a href="https://t.co/BcXQHfgQ9D">pic.twitter.com/BcXQHfgQ9D</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1860716659570246020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Duckworth also made an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where she told anchor Dana Bash that she believed former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — chosen by Trump to be his Director of National Intelligence — was &#8220;compromised&#8221; and &#8220;someone who is wholly backing and supportive of Putin.&#8221;
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&#8220;I think she&#8217;s compromised.&#8221;
.<a href="https://twitter.com/TammyDuckworth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TammyDuckworth</a> slams Director of National Intelligence pick Tulsi Gabbard in an interview with <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a>. <a href="https://t.co/HTNBz9TMWx">pic.twitter.com/HTNBz9TMWx</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1860710539233542569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) pushed back on Duckworth&#8217;s attacks on Gabbard, saying, &#8220;For her to say ridiculous and outright dangerous words like that is wrong.&#8221;
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“For her to say ridiculous and outright dangerous words like that is wrong.”<a href="https://twitter.com/SenMullin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenMullin</a> reacts to Sen. Duckworth calling Trump&#8217;s nominee for intel chief Tulsi Gabbard “compromised” and “someone who is wholly backing and supportive of Putin.” <a href="https://t.co/2eXscKwASr">pic.twitter.com/2eXscKwASr</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1860721047722487868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) also defended Gabbard during an appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; He told host Kristen Welker that calling her a Russian asset, as Duckworth essentially had, amounted to a &#8220;slur.&#8221;
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‘It’s a slur’ to call DNI pick Tulsi Gabbard a foreign asset, says GOP Sen. Schmitt <a href="https://t.co/kaRpjFJXrC">https://t.co/kaRpjFJXrC</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1860694119099592813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Spin Cycle: The Hand-Wringing Continues Over Trump Cabinet Picks

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MSNBC was apparently shamed into editing a Thursday headline on a piece covering the trial of illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra, who was convicted earlier this week for the brutal murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.
The piece was written by legal analyst Danny Cevallos and was initially headlined &#8220;Laken Riley&#8217;s Killer Never Stood a Chance.&#8221; It explored whether or not the conclusion of Ibarra&#8217;s trial — conviction on all counts followed by a sentence of life without parole — had been inevitable from the start.
While the overall analysis — from the reasons that the defense chose a bench trial over a jury trial to the ultimate outcome of the trial and sentencing — was straightforward, the headline quickly raised eyebrows across X.
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&#8220;An actual headline from MSNBC: &#8216;Laken Riley&#8217;s killer never stood a chance,'&#8221; conservative communications strategist Steve Guest posted. &#8220;Ask yourself: Why is MSNBC writing sympathetic headlines for an illegal alien monster and killer? Why is MSNBC’s &#8216;legal analyst&#8217; Danny Cevallos ok with this headline?&#8221;
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An actual headline from MSNBC: “Laken Riley&#39;s killer never stood a chance”
Ask yourself: Why is MSNBC writing sympathetic headlines for an illegal alien monster and killer?
Why is MSNBC’s “legal analyst” Danny Cevallos ok with this headline? <a href="https://t.co/hSfaMIUxqW">https://t.co/hSfaMIUxqW</a> <a href="https://t.co/8YLarS5ba5">pic.twitter.com/8YLarS5ba5</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1859920019683230033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You know who never stood a chance? Laken Riley. The actual victim,&#8221; AG Hamilton added.
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You know who never stood a chance?
Laken Riley. The actual victim. <a href="https://t.co/XzRfu5THS5">pic.twitter.com/XzRfu5THS5</a>
&mdash; AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1859830834922127762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Look at how @MSNBC framed the conviction and sentencing of Laken Riley&#8217;s killer. Jose Ibarra never stood a chance? No. Laken Riley never stood a chance against this monster. Absolutely sickening,&#8221; Adam Johnston said.
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Look at how <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> framed the conviction and sentencing of Laken Riley&#39;s killer.
Jose Ibarra never stood a chance?
No. Laken Riley never stood a chance against this monster.
Absolutely sickening. <a href="https://t.co/KAjlfNMgM3">pic.twitter.com/KAjlfNMgM3</a>
&mdash; Adam Johnston (@ConquestTheory) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConquestTheory/status/1859788957858529725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You literally can’t make up this level of depravity. These people are sick. The guy is a murderer. He’s an illegal alien that killed an innocent young woman but MSNBC would rather go to bat for him. However, much you hate MSNBC it’s not enough!&#8221; Donald Trump Jr. weighed in on the issue as well.
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You literally can’t make up this level of depravity. These people are sick. The guy is a murderer. He’s an illegal alien that killed an innocent young woman but MSNBC would rather go to bat for him. However, much you hate MSNBC it’s not enough! <a href="https://t.co/3YSVmbbVBD">pic.twitter.com/3YSVmbbVBD</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1859929625113288783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;What the f*** is this s***?&#8221; podcaster Joe Rogan asked.
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What the fuck is this shit <a href="https://t.co/sUcH8Wsuru">pic.twitter.com/sUcH8Wsuru</a>
&mdash; Joe Rogan (@joerogan) <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1859978463748514056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There’s a reason NBC wants to sell MSNBC … It’s the same reason nobody wants to buy it,&#8221; Twitchy&#8217;s PolitiBunny added.
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There’s a reason NBC wants to sell MSNBC … It’s the same reason nobody wants to buy it. <a href="https://t.co/aKhO6eQStu">pic.twitter.com/aKhO6eQStu</a>
&mdash; The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) <a href="https://twitter.com/PolitiBunny/status/1859928226510082108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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By Friday morning, the headline had been updated to read, &#8220;The guilt of Laken Riley&#8217;s killer was never in doubt.&#8221;

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MSNBC Shamed Into Editing Trash Headline: ‘Laken Riley’s Killer Never Stood A Chance’

MSNBC Shamed Into Editing Trash Headline: 'Laken Riley's Killer Never Stood A Chance'

Illegal Immigration

Laken Riley

Violent Crime

The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; took aim at podcast giant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan</a>, claiming that his podcast was an unreliable source of information because Rogan &#8220;believes in dragons.&#8221; They went on to suggest that because their network, ABC News, occasionally sent them fact checks or legal notes, their program was a more legitimate news source.
The topic came up after cohost Sunny Hostin was forced to read her second legal note in the space of a week after she and the others repeatedly trashed President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s cabinet picks — and Behar was also obviously less than thrilled: &#8220;Just call the show &#8216;Legal Note&#8217; from now on.&#8221;
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Joy Behar falsely claims The View gets fact-checked by ABC News, and points to the legal notes as an example. But on their podcast last year executive producer Brian Teta claimed the notes are &quot;not a correction.&quot; LINK: <a href="https://t.co/QwzUsKn0r6">https://t.co/QwzUsKn0r6</a> <a href="https://t.co/ATcReWpifm">pic.twitter.com/ATcReWpifm</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1859638029498871980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Sara Haines suggested people should be wary of the potential for social media, especially to spread misinformation, adding that they should &#8220;triple check&#8221; things before simply accepting them as true.
&#8220;That’s why people like our show because they know we are checked by ABC News,&#8221; Behar claimed.
&#8220;Checked by everybody,&#8221; Whoopi Goldberg agreed.
&#8220;And if we’re wrong, we have the legal note here,&#8221; Behar said, indicating former federal prosecutor and cohost Sunny Hostin. &#8220;We went from Walter Cronkite basically to this guy Joe Rogan who believes in dragons! I checked it!&#8221;
&#8220;He believes in dragons?&#8221; Hostin asked.
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Behar was adamant: &#8220;He believes in dragons!&#8221;
&#8220;Did you triple source that?&#8221; Haines wanted to know.
&#8220;Yes, I did and he also thinks that dragons — I guess like dinosaur-type animals — would roam the Earth when people did. So this is the type of really, really bad information that’s going out there,&#8221; Behar complained.
What Rogan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4WDBuS1-eE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">actually said</a> was that he was &#8220;fascinated&#8221; by the things that did not exist but still appeared across cultures — like dragons. He then explained that he believed people had seen something real, like a large lizard, which inspired exaggerations and stories that led to the legends. On the notion of fire-breathing dragons that hoarded treasure, Rogan&#8217;s assessment was simple: &#8220;Bulls***.&#8221;
Despite that, when video of Behar&#8217;s wild claim began circulating on X — and someone pointed out that &#8220;The View&#8221; had labeled him a &#8220;dragon believer,&#8221; Rogan announced: &#8220;That’s my new official X description.&#8221;
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That’s my new official X description. <a href="https://t.co/rJ4Fozzmcd">https://t.co/rJ4Fozzmcd</a>
&mdash; Joe Rogan (@joerogan) <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1859656754671575457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The hosts of &#8220;The View,&#8221; who were not fact-checked despite a number of whoppers on Thursday&#8217;s show alone, are responsible for spreading such blatant misinformation on a regular basis that Goldberg was even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-effective-immediately-abc-suspends-whoopi-goldberg-over-wrong-and-hurtful-holocaust-comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> for a time for claiming that the Holocaust was &#8220;not about race.&#8221;

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‘The View’ Tries To Discredit ‘Dragon Believer’ Joe Rogan, And He Hits Right Back

'The View' Tries To Discredit 'Dragon Believer' Joe Rogan, And He Hits Right Back

Fact Check

The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; had to deliver another on-air legal note during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast after they bashed President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s cabinet picks so far by suggesting that a history of sexual assault allegations was a prerequisite for a post in the incoming administration.
The co-hosts took aim specifically at former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) — who ultimately withdrew his name from consideration for Attorney General a short time after the show aired — and Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, but had to clarify afterward that although both have been investigated, both have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and neither has ever been charged.
&#8220;Sexual misconduct allegations seem not to matter anymore,&#8221; Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the conversation, adding, &#8220;Seems like unless you have a sexual misconduct allegation, you can&#8217;t be in the cabinet. That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s looking like, because I mean, was it 11 people and maybe one of the 11 doesn&#8217;t have something going on?&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s like, oh, let&#8217;s see, who&#8217;s accused of sexual assault? Put them in the cabinet!&#8221; co-host Joy Behar quipped, adding, &#8220;And they&#8217;re like, &#8216;Pick me! Pick me!'&#8221;
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Sara Haines claims Trump&#8217;s national agenda is for going easy on sexual assault and sex offenders: 
&#8220;I would encourage them to separate sexual assault and sexual offenders from their MAGA agenda or you&#8217;re telling me this is part of your agenda.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/eNYolcSpwB">pic.twitter.com/eNYolcSpwB</a>
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Co-host Sara Haines argued that keeping people who had faced such accusations in his orbit would result in an agenda that included &#8220;going easy&#8221; on people accused of sexual misconduct.
&#8220;I would encourage them to separate sexual assault and sexual offenders from their MAGA agenda or you&#8217;re telling me this is part of your agenda,&#8221; she said.
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Behar and co-host Sunny Hostin then pivoted to complain about the fact that, after multiple background checks turned up nothing and the complaining witness failed to offer any credible evidence, the FBI had stopped investigating the accusations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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Dressed in an oversized sparkly silver suit, Sunny Hostin was forced to read ANOTHER legal note about the allegations against Matt Gaetz and a second legal note about Pete Hegseth. 
&#8220;Just call the show &#8216;Legal Note&#8217; from now on,&#8221; Joy Behar huffed. <a href="https://t.co/GyP2QesXMw">pic.twitter.com/GyP2QesXMw</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1859635334067167248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2024</a></blockquote>
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That&#8217;s when Hostin was forced to go live with another legal note, reading in monotone statements from Gaetz and attorneys for Hegseth, stating that both had denied wrongdoing and had never been charged.
&#8220;Just call the show &#8216;Legal Note,'&#8221; from now on, Behar joked as they ended the segment.

‘The View’ Forced To Clarify After Bashing Trump Picks: ‘Just Call The Show Legal Note From Now On’

'The View' Forced Into Another On-Air Fact-Check: 'Just Call The Show Legal Note From Now On'

Sunny Hostin

&#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski made another stop on the apology tour as she and her husband and cohost Joe Scarborough attempt to do damage control and appease their left-leaning audience after they dared to take a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump.
Brzezinski and Scarborough announced during Monday morning&#8217;s broadcast that they had met with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago in an effort to reopen the lines of communication after not speaking for a number of years. The move prompted critics on the left to say that they shouldn&#8217;t have offered Trump that kind of legitimacy — and critics on the right to wonder why, after they had compared him to Adolf Hitler, Trump would give them the time of day.
In the days since the pair have offered several explanations for their decision to meet with Trump — and they have repeatedly assured their audience that they still don&#8217;t agree with him on many things — and Wednesday was no exception.
&#8220;People are really scared,&#8221; Brzezinski told The Daily Beast editor-in-chief Joanna Coles and her <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mika-defends-mar-a-lago-visit-musk-trump-road-trip/id1767675909?i=1000677726300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> cohost Samantha Bee.
&#8220;I’ve been surprised at the backlash,&#8221; she said of their meeting. &#8220;And the way I look at it is, people are really scared. And it’s one of the reasons we went in there is people are really scared about Donald Trump’s comments that, you know, political adversaries, a lot of people are scared because of what has happened with abortion. These are all issues that are important to me and in some ways personal to me, but definitely personal to the people I really care about.&#8221;
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Brzezinski went on to say that she believed it was part of her job to talk to people who might disagree or even attack her personally and that she felt she had made a mistake in not speaking with Trump over the last several years.
&#8220;Well, I mean, it’s my job to interview and talk to people I disagree with, feel threatened by or who have hurt my feelings in some way. So here’s how I do it. I do my job. I mean, do I really not go in there because he tweeted about me bleeding badly from the facelift at Mar-a-Lago, I don’t know, eight, nine years ago?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;I mean, we haven’t talked in seven years. And I will say that’s a problem, too. So I’m worried about myself and how I conduct myself in this media universe that we’re in, taking stock of everything that has happened. I don’t regret anything I’ve said during the campaign, and I stand by it. But I’m also looking at how to do things differently. And I would never turn down an opportunity to gain insider information. Never. So how I handle mean tweets or the personal stuff is that that’s just not something I’m supposed to worry about. That’s my job.&#8221;

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The Apology Tour Continues: ‘Morning Joe’ Host Is Still Doing Damage Control Over Trump Meeting

The Apology Tour Continues: 'Morning Joe' Host Is Still Doing Damage Control Over Trump Meeting

Joe Scarborough

Mika Brzezinski

The illegal immigrant who killed Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was convicted and sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, but it wasn&#8217;t long before an ABC News reporter was in front of a camera claiming that President-elect Donald Trump was the real problem.
ABC&#8217;s Ike Ejiochi reported on the conviction of Jose Ibarra, who came into the United States illegally in 2022 and was paroled into the country under President Joe Biden&#8217;s lax immigration policies. Referring to the violent murder as a &#8220;political lightning rod,&#8221; he immediately pivoted to accuse Trump of using Riley&#8217;s death for his own personal political gain.
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Minutes after the illegal scum who killed Laken Riley was sentenced, Fake News hack <a href="https://twitter.com/IkeEjiochi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IkeEjiochi</a> was on ABC blaming President Trump.
This isn&#39;t a &quot;political lightning rod&quot; — it&#39;s a TRAGEDY that ONLY happened because Biden-Harris LET this animal roam our country. <a href="https://t.co/y0Tp3qpZqg">pic.twitter.com/y0Tp3qpZqg</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1859324657171824807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This death of Laken Riley and the subsequent trial has essentially been a massive political lightning rod here in this country,&#8221; he began, adding, &#8220;The president-elect campaigning on the death of Laken Riley and pointing to the current administration, saying that their laws and what they&#8217;re calling &#8216;failed policies&#8217; contributed to Laken Riley&#8217;s death.&#8221;
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Ejiochi went on to lay out the facts — namely that he entered the U.S. illegally in 2022 and was paroled, after which he was arrested in New York in 2023 and released — but instead of drawing a connection to the Biden border policies that allowed his parole or the fact that New York is a sanctuary city, he pivoted back to Trump yet again.
&#8220;It&#8217;s important to note that although there is very little evidence indicating a connection between immigration and violent crime, this is still something the — uh — President-elect Trump, several Republicans on the Hill, wanted to essentially plant their flag on and point that to the current Biden administration,&#8221; he continued, going on to criticize Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for calling Biden out directly during his last State of the Union address. At the time, Biden responded by mispronouncing Riley&#8217;s name while attempting to acknowledge her tragic murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant — and later apologized for using the term &#8220;illegal.&#8221;
Ejiochi concluded by claiming that Trump had been instrumental in helping to &#8220;essentially tank&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-wrecks-abc-news-reporter-for-promoting-fake-alternate-reality-about-failed-border-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan border bill</a> — which, despite some claims to the contrary, would not have secured the border.

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Virginia Kruta