Sanders let viewers in on an insider analysis/preview for the debate Tuesday, and why she thinks we aren't really hearing about Trump but pages and pages of stories on Harris' debate prep:
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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tells @JonKarl that “every day is debate prep for Donald Trump.”
“He'll go in game time ready just as he does for every interview, every rally that he does. This is not something that is a heavy lift for him.” https://trib.al/oEgjREO
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11:42 AM · Sep 8, 2024 //
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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on former Rep. Liz Cheney endorsing Kamala Harris: “I’m not trying to be rude, but you don't get to call yourself a conservative or a Republican when you support the most radical nominee that the Democrats have ever put up.” https://trib.al/eFffgiO
12:06 PM · Sep 8, 2024 //
That doesn’t make you a conservative, it certainly doesn’t make you a Republican. I think it makes you somebody who wants to protect the establishment.
But there is yet another dose of hypocrisy at play, from the very news outlets bleating about Trump’s alleged offensive use of the cemetery images. Look back over the past weeks of this outrage coverage, and you notice something curious: Nearly every report mewling about the disrespect these photos deliver includes those very images. Somehow, it is offensive for him to use the pics, but not the outlets displaying them.
And it gets worse. Many of these photos sport attribution from the news syndicates, meaning the pictures have been licensed – not only are the outlets receiving paid traffic while wailing about the dishonor, but the syndicates, like Getty Images, are charging for the use of their photos from Arlington.
If Trump using these photos is disrespecting the memory of the fallen, what is to be said of news providers who turn a profit from those same types of pictures? //
cupera1
7 hours ago
There are three big problems with the NPR Arlington National Cemetery story.
First: It is a story that had no named witnesses or named people that were harmed. In every reported story about ANC there is an un-named person that is reporting it and another un-named person that was pushed out of the way by the Trump campaign people. It is basic journalism. When a news story has the: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How, verified evidence, documentation or a named source to can be relied on to be a factual news story. When left wing news sources, like NPR is missing any of these important items it can be deduced that it is a fake story or a hoax.
Second: ALL seven gold-star families and all other people that were there the entire time stated that they had permission to take pictures and video. The Trump people did the same and were also given permission for both. Also, there was nobody from the cemetery that objected to them being there, so the story is a hoax.
Third: The Trump people stated that have video of the entire event. From the time that people got out of their cars to when they left the cemetery. When the people in charge of ANC heard this they abruptly dropped any and all charges, none were ever listed. It was a hoax story.
Sean Agnew @seanagnew
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She’s a bad candidate with no policy proposals but be prepared for the YAASS QUEEN moment
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VP Harris is preparing for a variety of potential unscripted — and perhaps history-making — moments, including the possibility that former President Trump makes derogatory comments about her, according to sources familiar with her preparations. https://nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/kamala-harris-prepares-volatile-moments-trump-debate-rcna170013
Brittany @bccover
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We know. That’s always been the plan. To have a comeback that goes viral, rather than be clear about policy which actually informs Americans. //
It shows how empty she is, if she's not concentrating on conveying her policies, but working more on "comebacks" and anticipating what he might do. It's wrongheaded, so quite frankly, keep it up for Tuesday.
Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy
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If Trump trounces Kamala at the debate, get ready for some very strange things to happen before November. They’ve already sued him, prosecuted him, tried to kick him off the ballot, and swapped out his opponent. All of it could be just a preview of what’s to come.
11:11 AM · Sep 7, 2024 //
He did not outline any of the "tricks" that he thinks might be pulled. But there is one obvious move they haven't played yet. If Kamala tanks badly, they may pull something big out, assuming they can. That's making Biden resign and giving her the Oval Office before November, so she can have the title going into the election. //
Bottom line, the folks in power don't want to release control and we need to be ready for anything. They've already thrown out a lot and failed. //
Hank Reardon
25 minutes ago
”Prepare for "strange things" to happen before November, he warns, if Harris "tanks."
The left will do whatever it takes.
Read that again and recall how the b. hussein obama regime weaponized the DOJ/FBI and intell agencies against candidate and then President Trump, beginning in 2016.
- The FBI’s fraudulent FISA warrants against Carter Page. (Peter Strzok, et. al.)
- The FBI’s illegal alteration of an email to frame Carter Page. (FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith.)
- The FBI’s ”insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. (Sexmates Strzok, Lisa Page and then FBI Dep. Dir. Andy McCabe.)
- The framing of Trump Natl. Security Advisor Micheal Flynn. (Strzok. Again.)
- The FBI’s assistance in creating and hyping Marc Elias’s DNC ‘dossier’, through Fusion GPS staffer Nellie Ohr, and her husband, FBI deputy assistant director Bruce Ohr.
- James Clapper’s ‘Russia Collusion’ October surprises in both 2016 and again 2020.
- Nanzi Pelosi’s faux articles of impeachment; numbers I and II.
- The democrat’s willful leveraging of the Chinese WuFlu in 2020 to destroy Trump’s economic gains.
They will do whatever it takes to hold power and protect themselves from We The People. What ever it takes. //
Desertball
an hour ago
October surprise is the 25th amendment and President Harris emphatically stating that the government will not be turned over to a felon awaiting a Supreme Court emergency ruling on whether or not the DC judge can order Pres Trump gagged. Or something
David K
6 hours ago edited
RFK Jr understands the basics of the Reagan 80/20 rule: i.e., "The person who agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor." Never Trumpers have the Reagan Rule backwards and support Democratic candidates that have less than 20% agreement with their so-called "True Conservative" values and they hate Trump and MAGA supporters even thought they arguably have more than 80% policy agreement with them. Unlike these Never Trumpers, RFK Jr isn't taking his ball and going home in a hissy fit, but following the Reagan 80/20 Rule. Similarly, Trump understands that 100% political alignment with the majority of voters is an impossible dream. He also understands that he and RFK Jr don't need to be in complete agreement for each of them to get their best possible outcome in the 2024 election. Like life, politics is not a strict zero-sum, all-or-nothing game.
etba_ss David K
2 hours ago
These people endorsing Harris to "save conservatism/democracy/the republic" are lying. They don't really believe that. They just hate Trump. Just like the left didn't believe Dick Cheney was "literally Hitler". As soon as he turns a trick for them, they like him again. The left thinks like Voldomort, both being pure evil, that there is no good or evil, only power. Only evil claims that.
Let's also acknowledge people like Dick Cheney hate us. They tolerated us when we knew our place, sat down, shut up and let them run the country. Since that gig is up, they expose themselves. They don't agree with us 80% of the time. That's why they hate us. They agree with Harris closer to 80% of the time than they do with us. They just want to funnel favors to a different set of friends. They are all for power, forever war, globalism and elitism. If they just hated Trump, they wouldn't also be campaigning against Ted Cruz. They wouldn't hate Ron DeSantis too.
These are the people who hated Reagan. Then when he got power and was so popular, they pretended they were like him. Reagan also spent a lot of money on defense, which lined their pockets. Reagan was winning the Cold War. This isn't 1980 anymore. There is no USSR. China is a real threat, but we are doing next to nothing about them. We are too busy meddling in everything else in the world to get serious about the real threat.
But now, to be on the safe side and avoid the possibility of confusion, Kennedy has altered his strategy and is now urging all of his supporters to simply vote for Trump. Kennedy explained the rationale for changing up the strategy in an appearance on NewsNation Thursday afternoon, sharing the clip to his X timeline on Friday. //
anon-oh34
9 hours ago
I'm sure this was hard for Mr. Kennedy to do, but I give the man credit for standing up for what he believes. He knows he'll be vilified if Trump wins, and anytime Trump does something he doesn't like he'll feel get burned, but that's better than allowing the deeply unprincipled, frankly scary Democrat party to retain power. //
Temujin
9 hours ago edited
In Reagan's time, the number one priority was defeating the Soviet Empire, and he accomplished that. Today, the greatest threat is the totalitarian domestic Marxist Left with its weaponization of govt. agencies. It looks as if we are seeing an alliance form against that.
etba_ss Temujin
2 hours ago edited
What Reagan fought in the USSR, and defeated, is now manifest within one of America's major political parties. The Democrats are wholly given over to communism, regardless of what lipstick they put on the pig.
I made me sad when I watched the Reagan movie to think how hard he and that generation fought communism, only for half of America to openly embrace it a generation or two later.
anon-m6q6
8 hours ago
Post this on all MSN, CNBC, Huff Post and other leftist on-line articles. It drives the libs crazy.
Someone recently asked me why I like Trump. My answer was that I don't really like a lot of things about Trump.
But this election is not about choosing the most likeable person.
Trump represents the future and has proven that he can deliver. He is a patriot to the core and even served his country for 4 years without pay.
That moment when someone says,
"I can't believe you're voting for Trump". I simply reply, “I'm NOT voting for Trump.”
I'm voting for the First Amendment and freedom of speech. I'm voting for the right to speak my opinion and not be censored.
I’m voting for secure borders and LEGAL immigration. I am voting for election integrity to include mandatory voter ID. (Why would anyone vote against this?)
I'm voting for the Second Amendment and my right to defend my life and my family.
I'm voting for the police to be respected once again.
I am voting for law & order and an end to allowing protesters to trespass and burn our cities, destroying innocent small business. (Tim Walz)
I am voting for personal responsibility and the end of the revolving door where criminals are being put back on the street. (Kamala Harris)
I'm voting for the next Supreme Court Justice(s) to protect the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
I am voting for doing away with all of the freebies given to all of the illegals and not looking after the needs of the American citizens and homeless veterans.
I'm not voting for Trump. I'm voting for America.
Trump Lawyers Will Scharf and Alina Habba took to the podium at Donald Trump's press conference in New York City following appeal arguments in the E. Jean Carroll Sexual Assault Case.
The federal judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Washington, D.C., scoffed at the Supreme Court’s decision this summer that recognized presidential immunity for official acts in office.
On Thursday, attorneys representing the ex-president objected to continued proceedings they argued run afoul of the high court’s ruling in July. In that decision a concurring opinion from Justice Clarence Thomas questioned the legitimacy of Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel. //
The New York Times reported that Chutkan “chuckle[d]” and slightly rolled her eyes in the courtroom Thursday when Trump’s attorneys argued the Supreme Court was “crystal clear” in rulings on immunity.
The Biden donor judge overseeing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal prosecution and a New York jury’s coached conviction of former President Donald Trump this week delayed Trump’s sentencing hearing until after the 2024 election.
Judge Juan Merchan, the acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court, announced Friday that he will postpone his decision on how long Trump should be jailed until November 26, exactly three weeks after Election Day 2024. Trump faces up to 136 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of 34 counts of bookkeeping fraud.
Bragg initially indicted Trump on claims that he violated the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) when his former attorney Michael Cohen paid pornographic actress Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged affair.
Nondisclosure deals like Trump’s are perfectly legal and don’t meet the threshold for criminal charges beyond a misdemeanor. Bragg, who campaigned on vengeance against the Republican, however, ignored the FEC and Department of Justice’s decision not to charge Trump over the payment and pursued a felony prosecution. //
Merchan, whose “rabid pro-Democrat bias” plagued how he presided over the Trump case, claims he indulged Trump lawyers’ requests to push back the sentencing because “the Court is a fair, impartial and apolitical institution.”
“The imposition of sentence will be adjourned to avoid any appearance – however unwarranted – that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the approaching Presidential election in which the Defendant is a candidate,” the judge wrote.
The electoral and financial momentum Trump found through his various convictions and his survived assassination attempt in July, however, could have been the motivation the hyperpartisan judge needed to do everything he could to further keep Trump from becoming a political martyr.
The DOJ announced these actions 62 days out from the presidential election, a number which should not go unnoticed since the department has a longstanding policy to avoid announcing any investigative steps within 60 days of an election.
The first question that arises is: How bad are Kamala Harris’s internal polling numbers that they have to dust off the Russia boogeyman to try and sway an election? //
Disinformation from China and Iran is apparently okay. Russia? Not so much.
The DOJ wants voters to believe Russia is spreading disinformation, and Russia wants Trump to win. And, as a good red-blooded American, you must vote for Harris instead.
Putin, however, has said he’d prefer to see Biden defeat Trump. And that likely extends to Harris now as well, considering she would represent a de facto second term for him. //
ThatGuy81
a day ago
I'm more concerned with Democratic interference in the election than Russia, but that's just me.
Chutkan made clear that the case would not be tried prior to Election Day in November. //
From a practical standpoint, this schedule should not affect Trump's campaigning ahead of the election. What it will do, however, is inject into the the media coverage all manner of negative assertions (and innuendos) regarding Trump, the 2020 election, and January 6 — which, for the Dems, is likely the next best thing to actually having the trial take place ahead of the election. Buckle up.
A CNN segment reported Wednesday on how Vice President Kamala Harris is using imagery of former President Trump’s border wall after condemning it for years as "useless" and un-American.
During CNN’s "Erin Burnett OutFront," host Erin Burnett spoke to CNN’s KFile senior editor Andrew Kaczynski about how Harris' past comments about Trump's border wall are coming back to "haunt" her.
Kaczynski found 50 instances of Harris slamming Trump's border wall, but now her campaign is featuring the border wall in ads. //
An incredulous Burnett asked about her newest ads, "She’s using his wall that he built to say, ‘Look at what I did’?"
Mike Ford
8 hours ago edited
I'm tired of hearing outright or by implication/assumption, that Putin prefers Trump to be POTUS. That is flat out BS
Anyone who believes that to be true, is either stupid, ill-informed and/or flat out lying.
Putin is a cold warrior. the one thing the former USSR (now Russia) craves in a U.S. President...is predictability.
With Trump, they are terrified because they do not know which way he will jump....That's why they referred to Ronaldo's Magnus as a "cowboy" during his election.
They would much rather have to face the unintelligent, weak willed Harris across the negotiating table than Trump
I would remind all and sundry...that of the last 4 presidents...only Trump did not cede ground to Putin.
Southwest Asi was not on fire and the Chinese were not impeding freedom of navigation.
Every bit of the shameless coverage of this is based on accepting the premise that Trump and the Gold Star families broke the rules. What's the actual evidence for that, though? Because while we keep hearing about the cemetery employee who tried to intervene, that person (or the U.S. Army) has yet to provide any details that would show the above-cited rule was broken.
How did the employee know the picture with the Gold Star families was "campaign-related?" Did that person just assume that? Contrary to a lot of the framing, it is not against the rules to take a picture in Arlington National Cemetery. How do I know that? Because Democrats, including Joe Biden and Barack Obama, have done so numerous times without any pushback. //
Gutfeld also pointed out how the press is obsessed with Trump's bitter relatives and other irrelevant figures, but when the Gold Star families actually involved want airtime to tell their stories, suddenly they aren't newsworthy. //
Press bias is not just affecting Republican politicians anymore. It's now painting Gold Star families as villains so Kamala Harris can preen about respecting the very people her incompetence got killed. Think about how perverse that is. //
BJW#IStandWithTX
7 hours ago edited
Harris using her X account to POLITICALIZE what she said Trump did, was POLITICALIZING the Arlington private ceremony attended by Trump and gold star families.
As usual the left DOES EXACTLY WHAT THEY ACCUSE others of doing. The only person using this visit for political points WAS THE HARRIS WALZ GANG!
Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri appeared on Fox News’ "Jesse Watters Primetime" and delivered some bombshell news: whistleblowers have told him that the Secret Service is “woefully unprepared” to protect candidates, and they’re taught by 2hr webinar on “Microsoft Teams”—and most of the law enforcement personnel at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally in July where Donald Trump narrowly escaped death from a sniper’s bullet weren’t even Secret Service. They were DHS officers: //
"The site agent, the lead agent, was known to the Trump campaign to be inexperienced, to be ineffectual, to be, frankly, incompetent at their job," Hawley previously said in an interview on "Jesse Watters Primetime." "I'm also told by whistleblowers that on that day, she was not enforcing the normal security protocols."
"She was not checking people's IDs. She did not use Secret Service agents," Hawley added. "Most of the agents there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland Security agents."
The judge who oversaw Trump's initial attempt to remove the case to the Southern District of New York in 2023, Senior Judge Alvin Kenneth Hellerstein, issued a four-page order denying Trump's latest request. In the order, which may be viewed in its entirety below, Hellerstein states that he has no jurisdiction to determine the propriety of the Manhattan trial — that determination is for the New York appellate courts to make. //
My holding followed an evidentiary hearing where The People showed conclusively that Mr. Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for advancing the hush money payments, including two checks signed in the White House by Mr. Trump. I held that Mr. Trump had not satisfied the burden of proof required to show the basis of removal. My holding of a hush money reimbursement remains true regardless of who has the burden, whether The People or Mr. Trump. Nothing in the Supreme Court‘s opinion affects my previous conclusion that the hush money payments were private, unofficial acts, outside the bounds of executive authority. //
anon-zxna Billy Wallace
11 minutes ago
All of this completely ignores the fact that "hush money paid to an adult film star" is not in any way a crime.....
Republicans and Trump voters alike are looking forward to watching Donald Trump rip apart the world's top word salad chef, Kamala Harris, but let's take a lesson from Crassus of the Triumvirate, and not let our superior strength convince us to ignore sound tactics.
Yeah, that's that deep knowledge you subscribe to these VIP articles for.
Yes, Trump has the experience, the accomplishments, and the ability to say complete sentences that make sense, but what Harris has is the media and rabid activists ready to make the debate less about the facts and the country and more about scoring socio-political points.
In other words, Harris doesn't have to win on facts. All she has to do is create two or three "girl boss" clips that the press can latch onto and push those moments over and over again until the entire debate became about these short moments that show her as a no-nonsense go-getter.
How do I know this is going to happen. A few things. //
However, this won't mean that he won't fall into the trap the Harris team and the media set for him. They will work to make it happen. They need that moment. If and when it does happen, Trump should call it out for what it is. Make it clear that this is the media's sad attempt to paint Harris as something she's not, a strong and capable person, and that they have to fall back on this kind of cheap nonsense in order to sell her.
He should remind the American people if this is the kind of thing she and the media focus on, then they fundamentally don't understand the trouble America is in, and that trouble is something that Harris a direct hand in causing. She wants to make this about presenting herself as presidential, when she's had four years to do that already. Trump already did that, and he wants to get America back on track and away from the failures that Harris represents. //
Charlie the Deplorable
2 hours ago
At the first opportunity when she interjects to goad him into interrupting, he should simply say “I’m speaking,” smile slowly, and continue. Take what is theirs and make it yours.
Just like she’s taken no tax on tips, fracking, and I’ll build the wall (not that I believe her on any of that).
They’ll claim he’s rude to a woman but they plan to do that anyway. //
anon-x2cb
an hour ago
The Ronald Reagan moment: There you go again!
It's also just not that relevant and ignores the bigger issue at play. Harris couldn't even be bothered to show up for the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base despite taking credit for the withdrawal that got the service members in question killed. She was never going to show up for this wreath-laying ceremony and everyone knows it. It's also been established that she won't return the calls of the families anyway so Harris not receiving a formal invite isn't surprising. You'd need to pick up the phone for that.
I have no idea why Harris continues to lean into this. The right move from the beginning was to shut up about the issue and just let it fade. By attacking Trump (and by proxy, the Gold Star families who wanted the pictures taken), the vice president has pumped new life into a story that does not play in her favor. Going after Gold Star families is never a good look, and using the biased press to do it via anonymous sources (in this case, an aide) looks even worse.
Harris has had the opportunity to do the right thing for years. She hasn't done so. She has no moral authority to criticize others over respecting America's war dead when she clearly doesn't do so herself. //
Outerlimitsfan
2 hours ago
Trump is a good guy. Apparently he has been in contact with the families for years, and even hosted them before at a private event. He is actually friends with them now. Which is exactly why they invited him to this.
He didn't just show up to Arlington for 10 minutes either, but was with them for over 4 hours.
Yeah, I'm shocked the Gold Star families support the guy who actually cares about them and the fact their children needlessly died. //
anon-608f Bluepillprofessor
an hour ago
You beat me to it. This is intentional. She and her staff despise, they HATE, these families because they put the lie to the Afghan "success" story...and have been quite vocal about it.
It's just that simple. These families never targeted her for any attacks or lies, and they didn't need to. All they needed to do was tell the truth, show some grief, and Heelz Up let that hatred flow!
The claim that Trump made "campaign content" at Arlington National Cemetery is simply false. None of the pictures with the family have been used in ads or placed in a political context by the Trump campaign. He was there at the behest of the Gold Star families. Given their children died defending this country, I think they have a right to snap a few pictures if they'd like.
This game has long been played left and the federal bureaucracy. When John McCain took some video of him walking among the gravestones, the press attacked him for it. When Barack Obama and Joe Biden did the same thing (including Biden being pictured in Section 60), no one said a word. No ANC official came running out telling them to put the cameras away while accusing them of breaking the rules. Let a Republican show up to honor the fallen though, and suddenly it's a scandal. The entire thing is so transparent.