Far-Left fact-checking outfits are in full-blown panic mode after Meta CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> announced on Tuesday that Facebook will drop its current fact-checking system, thereby cutting off funding for the partisan organizations.
The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), which includes signatories like PolitiFact and MediaWise, called an emergency meeting &#8220;specifically&#8221; over Zuckerberg&#8217;s announcement, a Business Insider report <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/metas-fact-checking-exit-prompts-urgent-ifcn-meeting-2025-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a>.
&#8220;This program has been a major part of the global fact-checking community&#8217;s work for years,&#8221; IFCN&#8217;s director Angie Holan said. &#8220;People are upset because they saw themselves as partners in good standing with Meta, doing important work to make the platform more accurate and reliable.&#8221;
One PolitiFact employee said they &#8220;found out this morning at the same time as everyone else&#8221; about Zuckerberg dropping the partnership.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/zuckerberg-says-meta-restoring-free-speech-will-get-rid-of-fact-checkers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zuckerberg said in a video</a> posted Tuesday that Meta will no longer work with third-party fact-checkers, will end restrictions on topics like gender and immigration, and scale back filters that censored people for innocuous posts. The CEO added that Meta would focus on ensuring free expression, saying that the recent election seemed like a “cultural tipping point.”
Zuckerberg started the controversial partnership with left-wing fact-checking sites back in 2016, following the election of President Donald Trump. Conservative news sites, including The Daily Wire, quickly saw the suppression of their content for supposedly posting &#8220;misinformation.&#8221; However, information that was merely contrary to the mainstream narrative was often rated false or misleading.
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The same with Daily Wire. We were literally the number one informational source on Facebook before the censorship regime decreased our reach by fully 90%. <a href="https://t.co/NMavyWtScT">https://t.co/NMavyWtScT</a>
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Even satire from Right-leaning sites, such as The Babylon Bee, was rated &#8220;false&#8221; by these supposedly independent fact-checking outfits.
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Fact checking almost killed The Babylon Bee. So many of our jokes were rated &#8220;false&#8221; that the media began to characterize us as &#8220;traffickers in misinformation under the guise of satire.&#8221; Ironically, that was misinformation.
Fact checking safeguards narratives, not truth.
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Holan, though, shifted blame to Facebook for the actual censorship of posts. &#8220;It was never about censorship but about adding context to prevent false claims from going viral,&#8221; she said. Notably, Facebook made the decision to censor posts based on the fact-checking ratings.
Now that Meta &#8212; a leading funding source for IFCN members &#8212; is no longer using these fact-checkers, these operations will have to size-down, Holan indicated.
&#8220;The IFCN was here before Meta&#8217;s program, and we&#8217;ll be here after it,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We may look different in size and scope, but we&#8217;ll continue promoting the highest standards in fact-checking and connecting organizations that want to collaborate worldwide.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re here to help them figure out the best way forward,&#8221; Holan added.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> is under fire as Navy veteran Zachary Young testifies in his $1 billion lawsuit against the network, telling judge and jury that a CNN report that aired November 11, 2021, had &#8220;destroyed his reputation and business.&#8221;
Young&#8217;s suit alleges that the segment — which aired on &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with anchor Jake Tapper and featured reporting by correspondent Alex Marquardt — incorrectly implied that he had profited illegally from his efforts to aid in the evacuation of &#8220;desperate Afghans&#8221; who were trying to flee the country in the wake of President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous military withdrawal from Afghanistan months earlier.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cia-trained-navy-veteran-details-very-devastating-impact-cnn-segment-had-his-life-labeled-criminal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by Fox News Digital, &#8220;14th Judicial Circuit Court Judge William S. Henry, who is presiding over the trial in Bay County, Florida, has already ruled that Young &#8216;did not act illegally or criminally&#8217; despite what the network reported on air. Judge Henry has also declared the court found Young &#8216;did not take money from Afghans.'&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s reporting painted a very different picture, however. Twice before the November 11 segment even aired, Tapper had teased a story about &#8220;desperate Afghans still trying to escape the country being preyed on by folks demanding that they pay up big time to get out.&#8221;
Tapper then introduced Marquardt&#8217;s report, saying, &#8220;Afghans trying to get out of the country face a black market full of promises, demands of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success.&#8221;
Marquardt&#8217;s report focused on Young, claiming that the Navy veteran had asked for &#8220;prices well beyond the reach of most Afghans&#8221; in exchange for his efforts to help them escape the Taliban-controlled country.
&#8220;In a text message, he told CNN that Afghans trying to leave are expected to have sponsors pay for them,&#8221; Marquardt explained, also noting that Young had attributed the &#8220;volatile&#8221; high costs attached to evacuation to &#8220;environmental realities.&#8221;
Marquardt went on to say that Young had declined to share a detailed explanation of the costs, adding, &#8220;In another message, that person offering those evacuations, Zachary Young, he wrote, ‘Availability is extremely limited, and demand is high’… he goes on to say, ‘That’s how economics works, unfortunately.'&#8221;
The segment concluded with interviews of two anonymous Afghans — with whom Young says he never had contact — who told CNN that they hoped to evacuate family members from the country, but were afraid they could not afford to do so.
<a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/01/07/facts-didnt-matter-testimony-cnn-defamation-trial-begins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Young&#8217;s defense</a> is set to focus on a number of text messages that his attorneys say make it clear that some at the network were aware prior to airing the story that it was &#8220;full of holes.&#8221;
Young&#8217;s attorney Kyle Roche, during Tuesday&#8217;s opening statements, claimed that the CNN report was &#8220;reckless&#8221; and that the network had &#8220;set out to destroy Zach’s reputation.&#8221;
&#8220;They didn’t care about the truth. They cared about theater and they cared about ratings,&#8221; he said, previewing internal messages from CNN editors who stated that Marquardt&#8217;s report was &#8220;full of holes like Swiss cheese&#8221; and &#8220;80 percent emotion and 20 percent obscured fact.&#8221;
During Young&#8217;s testimony, which began Tuesday and continued on Wednesday, a series of messages between Marquardt and Young were presented as evidence. The exchange showed that Marquardt had told Young he planned to go ahead with the story, but then only gave him a two-hour window in which to respond to multiple questions.
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That message came in the night, Vienna-time. Young responded 5-minutes later: &quot;I will need some time to review and provide comment.&quot; Marquardt told Young that the story was &quot;running this afternoon DC time.&quot; This would be in just a couple of hours. <a href="https://t.co/RoAnDsV99t">pic.twitter.com/RoAnDsV99t</a>
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Young replied, saying that the story&#8217;s claims were not accurate and the deadline was not reasonable — and threatened legal action against the network if they ran with it anyway.
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&quot;That&#39;s definitely not a realistic deadline. In any case, I can tell you for sure, some of your facts/assertions for not accurate, and it they are published, i will seek legal damages,&quot; Young warned CNN&#39;s Alex Marqardt. The warning was not heeded. <a href="https://t.co/fLwCNb3M9K">pic.twitter.com/fLwCNb3M9K</a>
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Following the report, Young said on the stand that he had been in therapy and placed on medication after suffering multiple panic attacks a day. He also said that he&#8217;d not been able to work since the report came out — and that when he&#8217;d tried to offer his assistance with evacuations in Sudan, his posts were &#8220;flooded&#8221; with &#8220;hate echoing what CNN said&#8221; in the reports about him.
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Young testified that he tried to offer evacuations during the crisis in Sudan, but people flooded his LinkedIn post with hate echoing what CNN said about him.
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When CNN attorney David Axelrod (no relation to the CNN commentator/former Obama staffer) got up to cross-examine Young, one of the first questions he asked referenced an old resume in which Young had cited his ability to &#8220;deal with stress.&#8221; Some speculated that line of questioning would later be used to attack his claims that the CNN report was damaging to his mental health.

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The hosts of left-wing political podcast &#8220;Pod Save America&#8221; — all of whom are veterans of former President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration — complained during a recent episode that President Joe Biden had given an award to former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) rather than their old boss.
The three — Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor — agreed unanimously on one of the awards Biden chose to give: the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation&#8217;s highest civilian honor, to billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-to-award-hillary-clinton-george-soros-with-presidential-medal-of-freedom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Soros</a>.
&#8220;Well-earned Medal of Freedom, if I do say so!&#8221; Lovett said.
Favreau, after noting that Soros was an investor, added, &#8220;There&#8217;s a good one.&#8221;
&#8220;He got one right,&#8221; Vietor agreed before pivoting to complain about the selection process: &#8220;It doesn’t make any sense. You can give it to living people, you can give it to dead people, you can give it to foreign nationals, Colin Powell got it twice for some reason, you can add a ‘with distinction’ flag with no real explanation for what that means.&#8221;
All three then grumbled about the fact that Biden chose to award Cheney — although she received a lesser award, the Presidential Citizens Medal — rather than returning the honor Obama showed Biden when he awarded him the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbcs-lauer-wept-when-obama-honored-biden-hank-berrien" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medal of Freedom</a>.
&#8220;Liz Cheney didn’t get the Medal of Freedom, she got the one just below it, which by the way, pissed off some resistance folks on Twitter. I bet Liz Cheney could use a pardon more than the f***ing medal!&#8221; Favreau cracked, referring to rumors that the White House had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-aides-discussing-preemptive-pardons-for-fauci-schiff-cheney-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considered &#8220;pre-emptive&#8221; pardons</a> for those against whom Trump might seek retribution.
Lovett wondered, &#8220;Why is there a silver in this? What are we doing?&#8221;
&#8220;Obama gave [a Medal of Freedom] to Biden, and Biden did not return the favor,&#8221; Favreau complained.
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Lovett aimed a jab at the behind-the-scenes efforts to oust Biden from the 2024 presidential race — an effort that many believe was driven at least in part by Obama — adding, &#8220;I guess they’re not really on speaking terms, I suppose, after all that’s happened!&#8221;
The solution, all three agreed, was to have a more &#8220;objective&#8221; process in selecting those who might be honored for such awards: &#8220;If you want to make it special and a revered honor, you kinda got to have some kind of independent body that is just, like, &#8216;hey, president, here’s where we go.'&#8221;
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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings sparked reactions from the others around the table during a panel discussion on President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s more recent &#8220;expansionist&#8221; rhetoric.
Referencing Trump&#8217;s assertions regarding the United States potentially taking control of the Panama Canal and Greenland — despite objections from those who currently control those two areas — host Abby Phillip said that Trump was marking a clear departure from an America that promoted peace over expansion.
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“What Donald Trump is saying to the world is we are not a shrinking violet anymore.&quot;
&quot;We are the United States of America. We&#39;re the preeminent superpower. And reporters keep… <a href="https://t.co/8rVsJf6pCF">pic.twitter.com/8rVsJf6pCF</a>
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&#8220;We helped create a world order in which we said, you cannot just decide you want that country and then take your military and go into that country and take it,&#8221; Phillip began. &#8220;Okay, so that is the era of not being in an expansionist military era for the United States. And you&#8217;re saying that&#8217;s not true. Why is it not true?&#8221;
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&#8220;Well, you can think small if you want to, but I think Trump&#8217;s thinking big, and he&#8217;s thinking about U.S. interests,&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;There are U.S. interests in Greenland, they have rare earth minerals, we already have some kind of space facility there, and it would help fortify us against the Russians. The Panama Canal is of course of interest when you consider the Chinese incursions and influence in this hemisphere.&#8221;
&#8220;What Donald Trump is saying to the world is we are not a shrinking violet anymore,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;We are the United States of America. We are the preeminent superpower. And reporters keep asking him to rule things out and take things off the table, and it would be the height of stupidity to do so now or do anything else before he takes office. Why would he tell the rest of the world what he may or may not do?&#8221;
Trump has also repeatedly ribbed Canadian officials — particularly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced his resignation earlier this week — about the possibility that the United States&#8217; neighbor to the north could become the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-trudeau-governor-of-the-great-state-of-canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51st state</a>.

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Emmanuel &#8220;Manny&#8221; Hostin, husband of ABC News personality Sunny Hostin, is one of 200 defendants who were named in a massive RICO case filed in New York City just before Christmas.
According to an <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14243993/The-View-Sunny-Hostin-surgeon-husband-Emmanuel-insurance-fraud-claim.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exclusive report</a> published by The Daily Mail, Hostin and many others have been accused of taking &#8220;kickbacks&#8221; and submitting fraudulent bills to an insurance company that typically insures Uber and Lyft drivers and cab companies.
The lawsuit, filed December 17, alleges that &#8220;Hostin knowingly provided fraudulent medical and other healthcare services including arthroscopic surgeries,&#8221; and then reportedly billed American Transit insurance &#8220;in exchange for kickbacks and/or other compensation which were disguised as dividends or other cash distributions.&#8221;
Daniel Thwaites, an attorney representing Hostin, gave a statement to The Daily Mail, saying that his client &#8220;denies each and every allegation&#8221; and referring to the suit as a &#8220;blanket, scattershot, meritless lawsuit by a near-bankrupt insurance carrier.&#8221;
Thwaites further alleged that the insurance company was intentionally &#8220;abusing the legal system&#8221; in an effort to &#8220;restrict health care benefits to its insureds and their passengers, and write off its proper obligations.&#8221;
&#8220;It is meant to intimidate and harass doctors from collecting for care given to American Transit insureds and their passengers,&#8221; Thwaites added. &#8220;American Transit has rushed into the lawsuit without ever conducting an examination of Dr. Hostin or expressing any concerns to his lawyers.&#8221;
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Sunny Hostin, who regularly cohosts ABC&#8217;s midday talk show &#8220;The View,&#8221; also serves as a senior legal correspondent and analyst for the network. She is an attorney who previously worked as a federal prosecutor.
The Media Research Center&#8217;s Nick Fondacaro <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1876745897989550477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1876745897989550477%7Ctwgr%5E5450f4be7f8ffab684d534e044296dd199741a9b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D854899action%3Dedit">posted a clip</a> from &#8220;The View&#8221; in which Hostin references her husband&#8217;s work, including his alleged attempts to recover payment from health insurance companies by suing them. &#8220;[He] operates on someone even though they don&#8217;t have insurance and then has to sue health insurance companies to get paid for the work that he&#8217;s been trained his whole life to do,&#8221; says Hostin.

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings let all the air out of the balloon being floated by his fellow panelists on Monday, saying that Vice President Kamala Harris did not deserve any special recognition for presiding over the certification of her own election loss.
Jennings noted that Harris, as the sitting vice president and, therefore, the President of the Senate, had only the role of a figurehead with regard to the certification of the Electoral College&#8217;s votes from the November 5 presidential election.
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NEW: Scott Jennings reins in CNN panel that got a little too excited about Kamala Harris. Van Jones&#39; reaction is priceless.
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&#8220;Before we canonize Saint Kamala here on the high holy day of January 6th, let&#8217;s remember: the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022 makes it perfectly clear that the vice president has nothing but purely ministerial duties on this day,&#8221; Jennings began. &#8220;She didn&#8217;t actually certify the results — that was done by the voters and people of the states.&#8221;
&#8220;It was clear as day four years ago,&#8221; fellow panelist Van Jones interjected, aiming a jab at President-elect Donald Trump and those who had expected then Vice President Mike Pence to step in and stop the certification of President Joe Biden&#8217;s victory in 2020.
&#8220;Nobody&#8217;s trying to canonize her &#8230;&#8221; host Abby Phillip protested, repeating Jones&#8217; statement. &#8220;The same thing was true four years ago.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, they&#8217;re not? She put out a video trying to canonize herself,&#8221; Jennings pushed back, obviously unconvinced.
The video Jennings referenced was posted Monday by the vice president, and in it, she claimed that she was doing her &#8220;sacred&#8221; duty to the U.S. Constitution, and that she was driven only by her &#8220;love of country, loyalty to our Constitution, and unwavering faith in the American people.&#8221;
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Jennings also sparked reactions from the rest of the panel when he argued that Democrats — who have objected to the certification of every Republican presidential victory in more than three decades — had done more to overturn elections than Republicans had.
&#8220;I want to actually congratulate the Democrats today. This is the first election since 19—&#8221; Jennings began.
&#8220;He’s doing it again,&#8221; Jones complained.
&#8220;He’s doing this again!&#8221; former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) echoed.
&#8220;This is the first election since 1988–&#8221; Jennings tried again.
&#8220;Scott, Scott, Scott!  Scott–&#8221; Phillip tried to stop him.
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&#8220;–that a Republican won and Democrats did not try to overturn the results on the floor of the Congress. So, congratulations, Democrats,&#8221; Jennings finished his thought.
&#8220;I’m only interrupting you because we’ve heard this before,&#8221; Phillip claimed.
&#8220;But we’ve heard the truth before, but I thought it was worth repeating!&#8221; Jennings replied.
&#8220;Here’s the thing. You know, parliamentary disputes,&#8221; Phillip attempted to excuse the Democrats.
&#8220;There were not parliamentary disputes,&#8221; Jennings shot back.
&#8220;Mr. Speaker, a point of order,&#8221; Phillip said.
Jennings pushed back: &#8220;No, that’s not what happened. They tried to stop the counting of the votes.&#8221;

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Scott Jennings Torches Kamala Over Election Cert: ‘She Put Out A Video Trying To Canonize Herself’

Scott Jennings Torches Kamala Over Election Cert: 'She Put Out A Video Trying To Canonize Herself'

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Meta CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-zuckerberg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Zuckerberg</a> announced Tuesday that his company was implementing major changes to its censorship and fact-checking policies across all platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. 
In a video posted on Facebook, Zuckerberg said that Meta would no longer work with independent fact-checkers, end restrictions on topics like gender and immigration, and scale back filters that censored people for innocuous posts. Zuckerberg said that Meta would focus on ensuring free expression, saying that the recent election seemed like a “cultural tipping point.&#8221; 
&#8220;We’re going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms,&#8221; Zuckerberg said. &#8220;We’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with Community Notes similar to X, starting in the U.S.&#8221; 
He added that fact-checkers had become politically biased and untrustworthy. 
“After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy,” he said. “We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. But the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they created, especially in the U.S.”
Zuckerberg said restrictions on discussions on topics like immigration and gender were “out of touch with mainstream discourse.”
“What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas,” he said. 
Zuckerberg said that Meta would dial back its content filters to focus on illegal content and severe violations. He said this was a “trade off” that would lead to objectionable content being caught less often, but fewer people would be censored. 
He said Meta’s Trust and Safe and Content moderation teams would move from California to Texas. 
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Zuckerberg said Meta would allow more political content to be shared and spread across its platforms after implementing policies that filtered political content from social media feeds. He noted that the Biden administration pushed Meta to censor content. 
“By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further,” he said. 
Zuckerberg said Meta would work with the incoming Trump administration to repel censorship abroad. 
“We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more,” he said. “The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.”
Shortly after the presidential election, Trump met with Zuckerberg at Mar-a-Lago. Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-zuckerberg-have-dinner-together-at-mar-a-lago" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the meeting that Zuckerberg “has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of, and a participant in, this change we’re seeing all around America and the world, with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.”
Trump campaign advisor Alex Bruesewitz <a href="https://x.com/alexbruesewitz/status/1876612074379325458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday that he met with Joe Kaplan, head of public policy at Meta, on Monday to discuss the changes.
&#8220;We covered these topics as well as the need to reinstate MAGA supporters who were previously wrongly removed from their platforms under questionable circumstances,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am hopeful that the measures will be implemented to reinstate these accounts.&#8221;

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Zuckerberg Says Meta ‘Restoring Free Speech,’ Will ‘Get Rid Of Fact-Checkers’

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ABC News personality Sunny Hostin sparked a wave of backlash on Monday when she claimed that January 6th was among the worst moments in American history — and proceeded to compare it to &#8220;World War II, the Holocaust, and chattel slavery.&#8221;
Hostin claimed on &#8220;The View&#8221; that &#8220;you don&#8217;t move on&#8221; from the riot that took place on Capitol Hill on January 6th, 2021: &#8220;You don’t move on because January 6th was an atrocity. It was one of the worst moments in American history. And when you think about the worst moments in American history like World War II, things that happened like the Holocaust, chattel slavery.&#8221;
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The View&#39;s Sunny Hostin is melting down: &quot;You don&#39;t move on because January 6th was one of the worst moments in American history, like World War Two, the Holocaust, slavery.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zO6krRRgDB">pic.twitter.com/zO6krRRgDB</a>
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Critics called her out for making the comparison, noting that a three-hour riot during which one person was killed was hardly comparable to a global war, slavery, or the systematic slaughter of more than six million Jews.
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&#8220;Left-wingers are so mentally deranged that they think a three-hour riot where no one was killed except by police is comparable to &#8230; the Holocaust. The. Holocaust,&#8221; Red State&#8217;s Bonchie posted.
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Left-wingers are so mentally deranged that they think a three-hour riot where no one was killed except by police is comparable to&#8230;the Holocaust. 
The. Holocaust. <a href="https://t.co/pZtRG6i4Tk">https://t.co/pZtRG6i4Tk</a>
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&#8220;The dumbest person on daily TV, Sunny Hostin, compares January 6th, 2021 to the Holocaust, says it was similarly bad,&#8221; OutKick founder Clay Travis added.
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The dumbest person on daily TV, Sunny Hostin, compares January 6th, 2021 to the Holocaust, says it was similarly bad. <a href="https://t.co/ykLYSpYpQi">pic.twitter.com/ykLYSpYpQi</a>
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&#8220;What an insult to every Jewish person on the planet, past and present. Breathtaking minimizing of one of the worst things to happen in human history. ABC will have to apologize, I bet,&#8221; CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings.
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and for that matter, an insult to the memory of every slave who was ever held or veteran who died defeating the forces of tyranny in WW2. Geez. This statement doesn&#39;t get any lower.
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1876323355412099181?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8230; and for that matter, an insult to the memory of every slave who was ever held or veteran who died defeating the forces of tyranny in WW2. Geez. This statement doesn&#8217;t get any lower,&#8221; Jennings concluded.
&#8220;Look how stupid everything has become,&#8221; Omri Ceren posted.
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Look how stupid everything has become. <a href="https://t.co/3rDhth2CbI">https://t.co/3rDhth2CbI</a>
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Others pointed out that beyond the United States&#8217; role in helping bring about its end, the Holocaust was not an American historical event — and that her other two comparisons had been global rather than solely American.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know about you, maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think America did pretty damn good winning World War II,&#8221; Ben Domenech posted.
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I don&#39;t know about you, maybe an unpopular opinion, but I think America did pretty damn good winning World War II. <a href="https://t.co/sTy0mhrN0m">https://t.co/sTy0mhrN0m</a>
&mdash; Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1876347334457516083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The View’s “Behind The Table” Podcast

‘This Statement Doesn’t Get Any Lower’: Sunny Hostin Blasted For January 6/Holocaust Remarks

'This Statement Doesn't Get Any Lower': Sunny Hostin Blasted For January 6/Holocaust Remarks

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President Joe Biden received some backlash on Sunday after video circulated of him lashing out and cursing at reporters, claiming that he&#8217;d met more powerful world leaders than any of them had.
&#8220;I might be the oldest president, but I know more world leaders than any one of you have ever met in your whole g**d**n life,&#8221; Biden snapped.
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Biden scolds reporters at the White House: &quot;I might be the oldest president, but I know more world leaders than any one of you have ever met in your whole goddamn life!&quot;
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Biden has made similar remarks in the past, once calling a female college student a &#8220;lying dog-faced pony soldier&#8221; at a campaign event and calling Fox News White House Correspondent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-snaps-at-reporter-peter-doocy-for-asking-about-inflation-what-a-stupid-son-of-a-b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peter Doocy</a> a &#8220;son of a b***h&#8221; for daring to ask a question about inflation.
Critics pointed to the moment, saying that it was really nothing new for Biden to lash out in anger at reporters or people with whom he was frustrated.
&#8220;Biden has been an arrogant jerk his entire political career. None of this is new. His severe dementia just makes it harder for him to mask what an awful person he actually is,&#8221; The Federalist&#8217;s Sean Davis posted in response.
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Biden has been an arrogant jerk his entire political career. None of this is new. His severe dementia just makes it harder for him to mask what an awful person he actually is. <a href="https://t.co/890kDFnqAu">https://t.co/890kDFnqAu</a>
&mdash; Sean Davis (@seanmdav) <a href="https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1876334019660681706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is the real Biden they’ve tried to hide from you for years. Short tempered, vindictive, petty. He’s not really this sweet grandpa. Though that’s the image the White House pushes outwardly,&#8221; one former adviser to Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. remarked.
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This is the real Biden they’ve tried to hide from you for years. Short tempered, vindictive, petty. He’s not really this sweet grandpa. Though that’s the image the White House pushes outwardly. <a href="https://t.co/s2SAXLB2U8">https://t.co/s2SAXLB2U8</a>
&mdash; Link Lauren (@itslinklauren) <a href="https://twitter.com/itslinklauren/status/1876058103768297833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The most civil, decent, and devoutly Catholic president we’ve ever had,&#8221; CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings added.
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The most civil, decent, and devoutly Catholic president we’ve ever had. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/O9cK0WuLH9">https://t.co/O9cK0WuLH9</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1876053902132695420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;It’s about the character of the President…&#8217; — Joe Biden,&#8221; Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo posted.
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“It’s about the character of the President…” -Joe Biden <a href="https://t.co/bb4GioN2j3">https://t.co/bb4GioN2j3</a>
&mdash; Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) <a href="https://twitter.com/RaymondArroyo/status/1876083482713375199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Can you imagine another 4 years?&#8221; former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer asked.
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can you imagine another 4 years? <a href="https://t.co/5zoPNWoflr">https://t.co/5zoPNWoflr</a>
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&#8220;It was just a few short months ago that the entire media was saying that questions about Biden’s age and mental fitness were &#8216;conspiracy theories&#8217; and &#8216;cheap fakes.&#8217; It’s so wonderful and positive that the media is so dedicated to helping their political party,&#8221; journalist Ian Miller said.
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It was just a few short months ago that the entire media was saying that questions about Biden’s age and mental fitness were “conspiracy theories” and “cheap fakes”
It’s so wonderful and positive that the media is so dedicated to helping their political party <a href="https://t.co/VyM8ULpjRC">https://t.co/VyM8ULpjRC</a>
&mdash; Ian Miller (@ianmSC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1876092814657998873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Bitter, impaired man exiting gracelessly,&#8221; Fox News host Guy Benson posted.
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Bitter, impaired man exiting gracelessly <a href="https://t.co/2y5lgsRqqX">https://t.co/2y5lgsRqqX</a>
&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1876048870813368765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;There’s this instinct among Democratic leaders to point to stats rather than results on foreign policy. Hillary bragged of the number of miles she traveled as Secretary of State. Biden brags of the number of hours he spent with Xi or whatever. Um ok, who cares? You did a bad job!&#8221; author Jerry Dunleavy added.
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There’s this instinct among Democratic leaders to point to stats rather than results on foreign policy. Hillary bragged of the number of miles she traveled as Secretary of State. Biden brags of the number of hours he spent with Xi or whatever. Um ok, who cares? You did a bad job! <a href="https://t.co/uahc42krGA">https://t.co/uahc42krGA</a>
&mdash; Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1876042164842762343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘Civil, Decent, And Devoutly Catholic’: Biden Scorched For Lashing Out, Cursing At Reporters

'Civil, Decent, And Devoutly Catholic': Biden Scorched For Lashing Out, Cursing At Reporters

CNN Anchor John Berman and data guru Harry Enten laid out the polling that proved, despite the repeated insistence of many Democrats and media talking heads, the American people just weren&#8217;t all that concerned with blaming President-elect Donald Trump for the Capitol riot.
The two hashed out the details during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;CNN News Central,&#8221; where Enten laid out the polling data from immediately after January 6th, 2021 — and then compared it to the polling data from 2023 and 2024, going into the 2024 presidential election.
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CNN Data Shows Voters No Longer Buy January 6 ‘Insurrection’ Hype&#8230;
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten revealed Monday that American voters’ focus on the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot significantly waned during the 2024 presidential election cycle.
The shift in public… <a href="https://t.co/dqsIOeVWsl">pic.twitter.com/dqsIOeVWsl</a>
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Enten began with the percentage of voters who believed that Trump was primarily responsible for the riot that took place on Capitol Hill that day — and that he should be either removed from office or barred from re-election because of it.
&#8220;If you go back, you know, four years ago, right? Trump’s role on January 6, 2021, should make him ineligible to be president, the clear majority of voters said yes, 56%,&#8221; Enten said, noting that they had also said he should be removed from office at that time.
&#8220;But of course, Donald Trump won the presidency, and part of the reason why was because views on Trump completely shifted, including Trump’s role on January 6,&#8221; he continued, noting that after three years had passed, the number of people who believed Trump should be ineligible for the presidency because of January 6th had fallen to 47%.
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&#8220;So we saw this drop of about 9 points, and that of course makes all the difference in the world. And that, of course, is all the difference in the world, going from a majority to short of a majority,&#8221; Enten added. &#8220;And of course, Donald Trump won the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of the other 53% who did not believe that his role on January 6th would make him ineligible for the post.&#8221;
Berman questioned the reason behind that shift, and Enten noted that over that same time period, the number of voters who primarily blamed Trump for the riot had also dropped from 48% to 37% by the time the election picked up.
&#8220;Look at that again, a clear shift down to 37%. This is an 11-point drop, very much mirroring that drop that we saw that the folks at that, of course, would make him ineligible for the presidency. So that is part of the reason why,&#8221; Enten explained. &#8220;Folks, fewer folks thought he was responsible, greatly responsible for what happened on January 6th.&#8221;
But the kicker, Enten said, was that fact that people just weren&#8217;t as focused on the riot as a major event: &#8220;It’s not just that. It’s that people, simply put, didn’t care as much about the attack on the Capitol.&#8221;
When asked whether January 6th was their &#8220;biggest memory of Trump&#8217;s first term in office,&#8221; only five percent said that it was in 2024. Among Republicans, that number was just two percent, according to Enten.
&#8220;So the bottom line is fewer Americans fault Donald Trump or thought he was greatly responsible for the January 6th attack. And more than that, as it went into the rearview mirror, far fewer folks thought that it was their number one memory,&#8221; Enten concluded.
&#8220;And this is an extraordinary number given that President Biden, when he was still in the election, was really putting this as his main issue,&#8221; Berman observed. &#8220;That never really was registering.&#8221;

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CNN Realizes Two Months Too Late That Americans Don’t Care About January 6th Anymore

CNN Realizes Two Months Too Late That Americans Don't Care About January 6th Anymore

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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.
Sunday&#8217;s narrative focused primarily on the terrorist attack that took place last week in New Orleans — along with a concerted effort to drive conversation away from the terror risk posed by the open southern border and toward the threat of homegrown terrorism.
As soon as it was clear that the truck attack in New Orleans had been motivated by radical Islamist ideology — coupled with conflicting reports about the truck that was used and whether it had recently crossed the border — a number, President-elect Donald Trump among them, pointed to the porous border and questioned whether more such attacks might be possible or even imminent.
But Democrats and legacy media were quick to put distance on the topic of the border and the crisis that has unfolded there under the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s lax policies — and they emphasized the fact that at least in this particular case, the perpetrator was an American citizen who had been radicalized.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Chief Justice correspondent Pierre Thomas raised the question of how exactly the New Orleans terror suspect had been radicalized — specifically, whether ISIS had recruited him or he had come to them.
&#8220;The main focus of the investigation right now: trying to figure out if the suspect was radicalized on his own or if someone from ISIS directed him in anyway,&#8221; Thomas told anchor George Stephanopoulos.
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“The main focus of the investigation right now: trying to figure out if the suspect was radicalized on his own or if someone from ISIS directed him in anyway.” <a href="https://t.co/8o1oMWvGZN">https://t.co/8o1oMWvGZN</a> <a href="https://t.co/dhsDNS4kDu">pic.twitter.com/dhsDNS4kDu</a>
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas doubled down on that narrative, saying outright that the border was not part of the problem, at least in this current case.
&#8220;The assailant who perpetrated the terrorist attack in New Orleans was born in the United States, raised in the United States and served in our armed forces. It is not an issue of the border,&#8221; he said.
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“The assailant who perpetrated the terrorist attack in New Orleans was born in the United States, raised in the United States and served in our armed forces. It is not an issue of the border,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says. <a href="https://t.co/rRMUv9vl3M">https://t.co/rRMUv9vl3M</a> <a href="https://t.co/CdxBxDH9S1">pic.twitter.com/CdxBxDH9S1</a>
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He went on to add that officials had noted a &#8220;significant increase&#8221; in &#8220;homegrown violent extremism&#8221; in recent years, specifically over the last decade.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a very difficult threat landscape,&#8221; he said.
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Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas tells George Stephanopoulos that officials have seen a “significant increase” over the last 10 years in “homegrown violent extremism.”
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also addressed the idea of violent extremism coming from domestic sources, claiming that it was a deterrent for women who might otherwise run for office.
&#8220;Women are known to be more, shall we say, ethical, than men,&#8221; Pelosi claimed, giving no evidence to support her theory. &#8220;And so, when they go after women candidates, they go after their ethics. And they&#8217;ll say this, that and the other thing. And then the child comes home from school crying because somebody said a bad thing about mom on TV. And nobody wants that.&#8221;
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The threat of domestic violent extremism is discouraging women from running for public office, says <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a>, telling <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> that women candidates are attacked particularly for their ethics.
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Pelosi then pivoted to January 6th, as Congress prepares to certify the results of the 2024 presidential election, claiming that the American people had only voted for President-elect Trump a second time because they were more worried about their bank accounts than the threat of violence.
&#8220;They just had a different view as to what was in their interest, economically and the rest,&#8221; she told his Margaret Brennan.
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On &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; CNN anchor Jake Tapper pressed Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) on the issue — asking specifically whether Trump had jumped the gun when he linked terror threats in the United States to the porous border and the lax immigration policies under Biden and Harris.
&#8220;Wasn&#8217;t that premature given that this was an American citizen?&#8221; Tapper asked.
Banks pushed back, noting that former President Barack Obama had referred to ISIS as &#8220;the JV team of terrorism, and obviously they&#8217;re not.&#8221; He went on to note that Trump had essentially cut ISIS off at the knees during his first term and was prepared to do the same again.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> presses GOP <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorBanks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorBanks</a> on his and Trump&#39;s comments connecting the New Orleans terror attack to Biden&#39;s border policies: &quot;Wasn&#39;t that premature?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/MhN6BNWdKe">pic.twitter.com/MhN6BNWdKe</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1875938781854884319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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NBC News took a different tack and a different direction, with the focus primarily on the end of Biden&#8217;s presidency and the imminent certification of Trump&#8217;s victory.
On &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; after addressing the New Orleans attack, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ran defense for Biden — and his surrogates in the Democratic Party and legacy media — claiming that no one had misled the American people with regard to the president&#8217;s obvious mental decline.
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Schumer says ‘we didn’t’ mislead Americans on Biden’s mental acuity: Full interview <a href="https://t.co/IfpizHdPFR">https://t.co/IfpizHdPFR</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1875917176646799800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC&#8217;s soon to be spun off affiliate MSNBC, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was laser-focused on her favorite target: Trump. Her guests joined her to discuss the upcoming sentencing in his Manhattan hush-money trial and how that was likely to impact the beginning of the presidency.
&#8220;The final thing that&#8217;s important to note is by sentencing Donald Trump this Friday, [Judge Merchan] will trigger Donald Trump&#8217;s appellate rights …&#8221; guest Andrew Weissmann noted. &#8220;It gives finality to the trial court&#8217;s ruling here, and it sends a message about this case to the public.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AWeissmann_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AWeissmann_</a>: “The final thing that&#39;s important to note is by sentencing Donald Trump this Friday, [Judge Merchan] will trigger Donald Trump&#39;s appellate rights… It gives finality to the trial court&#39;s ruling here, and it sends a message about this case to the public.”… <a href="https://t.co/a9SsufKIDz">pic.twitter.com/a9SsufKIDz</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1875985476621947244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Spin Cycle: New Orleans Terror Attack Was Not About The Border, Stop Talking About The Border

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President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, said during an interview over the weekend that the administration will be deporting illegal aliens from Venezuela regardless of whether or not Venezuela takes them back.
Homan made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan, when asked about countries like Venezuela that are not accepting deportations back from the U.S.
&#8220;Well, first of all, we got President Trump coming to the Oval Office, and he&#8217;s proven during his first administration, his leadership on illegal immigration was a game changer, because, for instance, El Salvador wouldn&#8217;t take back MS-13 members when I was the ICE Director,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It took President Trump 48 hours to get El Salvador to take back their criminal aliens into their prisons.&#8221;
&#8220;And Mexico didn&#8217;t want to do the Remain in Mexico program,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But President Trump was able to get Remain in Mexico established in Mexico. He was able to get Mexico put military on the southern and northern border.&#8221;
Homan noted that President Joe Biden was so weak that countries simply refused to take their criminal illegal aliens back and the administration never &#8220;forced these countries to take them back.&#8221;
&#8220;If for instance, Venezuela don&#8217;t take their people back, there&#8217;s other ways we can do it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There&#8217;s other countries be willing to accept them. We&#8217;re hoping that President Trump will work with Venezuela and like he did with Mexico and El Salvador, and get these countries take them back. If they don&#8217;t, they&#8217;re still gonna be deported. They&#8217;re just gonna be deported to a different country.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re not gonna be held up on removing public safety trust in this country,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We gotta put the safety of the American people first. We&#8217;ve had too many young women murdered and raped and burned alive by members of Venezuelan gangs. They need to be a priority under this administration. They&#8217;re gonna be a priority starting day one, and they will be deported.&#8221;
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Incoming &#8220;border czar&#8221; Tom Homan says he hopes President-elect Donald Trump will work with Venezuela on an agreement to take back citizens who are being deported from the U.S., as Trump previously did for El Salvador and Mexico.
If Venezuela doesn&#8217;t cooperate, Homan says their… <a href="https://t.co/mWGUXmDhvE">pic.twitter.com/mWGUXmDhvE</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1875950610316476571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2025</a></blockquote>

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