Trump officials are fleeing their homes in the face of left-wing threats, but The Atlantic says the problem is actually Trump’s rhetoric.

The Center Square reported Friday that “in the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, thousands of social media posts appear to list politically conservative targets for assassination by the political left.” Some of the principal names that keep recurring on the left’s death wish lists are some of the most prominent critics of the transgender madness: Joe Rogan, JK Rowling, Ben Shapiro, and Matt Walsh, as well as President Donald Trump, Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik, Elon Musk, and Andy Ngo.

JK Rowling pointed out what this bloodlust revealed about the left: “If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.”

Indeed. And that is exactly what the left is today. “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out,” quipped the late, great David Horowitz, and by now, it’s abundantly clear that they’re out. Totalitarians don’t care to debate their opponents, and in particular on the transgender issue, leftists likely know that they would lose, and lose resoundingly, any such debate. And so they want those whom they fear and hate to be silenced, and silenced for good. In a group that hates God and His creation and wants to reshape it to their own liking, moral considerations simply don’t enter into the equation.

If, however, the leftists who posted these hit lists thought they would terrorize their targets into silence, they were in for a disappointment. Like Rowling, Shapiro was defiant, saying: “We will never stop debating and discussing. We will never stop standing up for what America is and what she should be. And we will never let Charlie’s voice die.” //

Indeed, they cannot and must not, but they are counting on patriots to have a collective failure of courage, and to give up their resistance and submit to their evil agenda rather than put their lives on the line. In fact, in the struggle for human freedom, it was ever thus. That’s why Tom Paine wrote back in 1776 that “these are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

That is also why the signers of the Declaration of Independence concluded that document with this: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Even then, like today, terror was the only tool that the forces of darkness had. In order for good to triumph over evil, men had to be willing to stand up to that terror and face it down.

And that is exactly what they did, because they knew that if they did not do so, the flame of liberty would be extinguished, and men would be condemned to slavery to tyranny, possibly for generations, until another generation arose that was willing to pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to preserve their freedom.

That was what at stake then, and that is what is at stake now.

Democrats demonstrated their inability to connect with middle America when the DNC elected their slate of officers. It started with this tossed salad of words:

“Our rules specify that when we have a non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six offices must be gender balanced with the results of the previous four elections.”

Sure, the words are simple, but the meaning? It’s nonsense. //

In a recent interview Jake Tapper noted that the Democratic party isn’t connecting with his 15-year-old son – noting that his son plays linebacker on his high school football team. Tapper’s son isn’t an outlier. He’s likely what “middle-America” would call a “dude”. The DNC would refer to him as a cis-gendered privileged patriarchal white male. //

The 1982 movie “The Verdict” didn’t cause or motivate me to become a lawyer, but 10 seconds of dialogue stayed with me when I started litigating. The takeaway was: speak English. Plain English. //

The doctor is asked to explain what happened to the woman:

Ed Concannon: Why wasn't she getting oxygen?

Dr. Towler: Well, many reasons, really...

Ed Concannon: Tell me one.

Dr. Towler: She'd aspirated vomitus into her mask.

Ed Concannon: She threw up in her mask. Now cut the bullshit, please. Just say it: She threw up in her mask. //

Of course there is the caveat that assumes Republicans won’t step on rakes but as long as Democrats continue to aspirate lexiconic vomitus into and at middle America, Democrats will continue to lose elections. //

GBenton
11 hours ago
yeah, it's more than "out of touch" - that's a symptom. They can't "just stop".

The left hates America, especially middle America. They want to transform the country into a socialist paradise where they RULE.

They can't stop because having control over us and being scolds and cancel culture and Woke conformity codes is their reason for being in politics - not "service".

They just forgot how to hide it. //

GBenton
10 hours ago
If America is like the human body and the people are the cells then the left is cancer.

If cancer asks, "how can we spread more, be more widely accepted and grow?" the answer is - you can't. You'll kill the body.

Same with leftism.

the extent of the cover-up in the Biden-Harris White House and even how far back Biden family cover-ups of health issues goes, which is much further than previously known.

For instance, after Biden's son, Beau, was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in the summer of 2013, the Biden family decided to keep it a secret, with the then-vice president "instructing his team to mislead the media about [Beau's] whereabouts." This included when Beau Biden, who was in his second term as Delaware Attorney General, would fly to other states to get treatments while using a different name. Physicians at the time also reportedly issued fraudulent "clean bill of health" reports about Beau Biden to the public. //

My biggest concern with all of this has to do with the state of the media in America today. And let me explain what I mean by that. I watched bits and pieces of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner this year, and I listened to speaker after speaker, all Washington reporters, all defend "freedom of the press." And I kept thinking, they wouldn't have to defend it if they didn't work so hard to undermine it every day.

The American people saw what I saw, what you saw, for years with respect to President Biden. And I'm sorry President Biden is sick, but we all saw the same thing for years. We saw a president who couldn't finish a sentence without taking a nap. We saw a president - an elderly man - who talked like he was from outer space. He walked like he was underwater; you could bake a Thanksgiving turkey in the time it took him to walk across the stage.

90 percent of the American media not only never reported that, but when [some] Democrats and many Republicans raised the issue, they pushed back. And this is just one more example of so many members of our media squandering the trust of the American people. There are other examples - the Steele Dossier, the Hunter Biden laptop. I mean, I could go on and on and on. But that, to me, is what makes me want to stick my head in an oven.

Today, the media's happy after Mr. Tapper's book's coming out, the media's happy to report it. But none of them have taken responsibility for not reporting what was so obvious to the American people. Hypocrisy never takes a vacation around here, I can tell you. //

Now, many in people in the media now are reporting on Mr. Tapper's book. But I haven't heard a single - other than Mr. Thompson - a single member of the Washington press corps stand up and say "boy, we blew that."

And that's what I mean by squandering the American people's trust. Why did they do that? I don't think they were in love with President Biden. I think they thought that anything that hurt President Biden would help the Republicans and would help President Trump, and it's this persistence in practicing advocacy journalism that is destroying freedom of the press and the First Amendment in America today.

There's either no self-awareness among many members of the media, or they're lying. Because it's so obvious. I'm not asking them to take my side on everything, I'm just asking them to be curious, to report what they see.

This isn't about acceptance, starting conversations, or expressions of diversity. None of these in-your-face "art projects" ever are, particularly when they come in statue form.

This isn't a conversation piece, it's a declaration of power. This isn't a celebration of inclusivity; it's a conqueror's flag planted in a place where they know it will get attention. If this statue had popped up in the middle of a museum or some small park somewhere, the attention it got would be minimal. Putting it in the middle of Times Square is a statement.

But this isn't a statement about how fat black women are taking over. That identity is just a mask.

The statue is representational of leftism through the thing it considers more important than anything else, and that's identity. The statue is female, obese, and black, representing three identity markers that leftists consider "protected." Fat black women are generally considered at the top of the identity food chain according to leftists, and putting a statue of one in such a prominent place isn't some passing statement. It's a declaration of ideological superiority.

Think of it this way. If the city weren't so entrenched in leftism, do you think Thomas Jefferson would have been removed? Do you think this statue would have gone up? I don't see them appearing in any official capacity in right-leaning areas. This is a reminder and overt statement that this area — this city — is occupied. //

Retired Professor
7 hours ago edited
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The guardian of the gate:
"To every man upon this earth,
Death cometh, soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods?"

A new "temple" has just gone up. On the ashes of our fathers.

Jerimiah's Johnson Retired Professor
5 hours ago edited
Thomas Babington Macaulay. Horatius. //

Jokey401
6 hours ago
I look at this Statue I’ve seen that stance before. It’s right before she starts throwing anything she can find at the fast food restaurant she is in at the worker across the counter because they ran out of bbq or ranch dressing.

Lee asks how one does such a thing unintentionally, and while I'm not a psychologist, there are studies that show conscious intention does take a back seat, but it only makes the person look worse, not better. Definitely not any more innocent.

In 2014, a study was done to see if leftists actually allow their emotions to guide their decision-making more than right-leaning people, and sure enough, every test was found to be true. Moreover, it didn't even matter the subject or population. If the person was left-leaning, their reactions were more emotionally driven.

"Across different conflicts, emotions, conflict-related contexts, and even populations, leftists' policy support changed in accordance with emotional reactions more than rightists' policy support," reads the report.

Keep that in the back your mind, because there's more science to be considered here, and this research was conducted back in 1980 by a German psychologist and published in the Schriftenreihe der Polizei-Fuehrungsakademie. https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/psychological-analysis-vandalism

The German researcher found that vandalism in Europe and the United States, where it seems to happen very often, is often the result of psychological feelings of oppression and anger toward something, with vehicles actually being one of the most popular targets: //

So we have a perfect storm here. Leftists are easily manipulated because emotions are easy to manipulate. As they embrace their anger, empathy, or prejudices far more readily than others, causing them to think in terms of catastrophic outcomes — especially when their side is losing cultural or political battles — they're far more likely to act out before thinking. //

It's only when confronted directly with consequences does the emotionally driven person seem to truly get the hint that they goofed, just like the man did in the video above. When he says he didn't intend to scratch a swastika into the man's car... he's partly telling the truth. He wasn't thinking at all. He was letting his emotions guide him, and he ended up doing something stupid he could've avoided if he just allowed himself a moment of common sense.

MSNBC is set to write a large check after the network chose to settle a $30 million defamation lawsuit. Multiple hosts were caught up in the scandal, including Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, and Nicolle Wallace, all of which repeated the lie that a doctor was performing "mass hysterectomies" at an ICE facility under the Trump administration.

But if you were hoping to listen to it, and you were watching MSNBC as the swearing-in happened, you would have been out of luck. Here's host Katy Tur saying they're going to be listening to the event and what Trump has to say, and then cut to an "expert" for commentary about the event. But then, suddenly, she shifts and essentially says, "Oops, we're not going to be listening. Sorry, folks! We're just going to 'watch'" — without letting the people hear the ceremony or any of the important things they might have to say.

Fashion and the arts have long sought to be transgressive, but the institutional capture of the arts by sartorial Marxists has turned offending the senses into a, well, art form. Things that normies think are weird — like Ella Emhoff’s attempt to turn armpit hair into a fashion accessory — are celebrated by the editors at fashion magazines precisely because they offend all of those normal people of small minds and small towns who voted for Trump.

See also: A freak with chest hair in a skirt and 2-inch nails got invited to the Biden White House to be a “Gen Z intern” for a day, and landed a spot in Vogue for it.

Then, on Monday, Melania Trump dared to show up looking not just not weird, but belligerently not so. With its intense lines and visor-like millinery, her no-nonsense costume would have fit well into the military-inspired trends of the 1940s. It reminded me of the impeccably dressed Nazi chick who fought Indiana Jones for the Holy Grail — a comparison which The New York Times would probably hold against Melania personally if they noticed it.

It’s true that most inaugural outfits tend on the conservative side, if for no other reason than the frigid January temperatures provide an incentive to cover up. (This year, Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sánchez took advantage of the ceremony’s indoor nature to unburden herself of that limitation.) Like Melania, the other women in the presidential party were dressed in muted monochrome and simple, flattering silhouettes. The Trump women and Mrs. Vance — whose coat The Washington Post described as “1960s-ish” — all donned such classic looks that the Post declared they had put “the fashion in old-fashioned.”

The New York Times faulted Mrs. Trump for daring to look too regal, describing her look as “less elevated accessibility than British royal walkabout.” The Post had a similar critique of Ivanka, saying she “looked more like she was heading to a British royal’s wedding in the 1990s than a 2025 celebration of democracy.” How fascist and undemocratic of them!

And then there were the Inaugural Ball gowns. The six women onstage — Melania, Ivanka, Lara, Tiffany, and Kai Trump, and Usha Vance — painted a patriotic color palette with one in red, one in blue, and the rest in varying shades of champagne and white. //

Ivanka’s Givenchy reproduction of Audrey Hepburn’s famous gown in Sabrina was a literal throwback, but all the gowns, as the Times observed, “called to mind eras gone by” and nodded to the American “golden age” that Trump heralded in his speech earlier the same day. //

The Post’s fashion critic, who called Monday’s looks “largely devoid of glamour” and “stodgy,” compared the aesthetics of Trump’s second inauguration to those of Reagan’s second, which was also held indoors. Evidently forgetting that Reagan’s winning message that year was “Morning in America,” she wrote these two lines:

“The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump said in his inaugural speech.

Yet on the stages at inauguration events and on the streets of Washington, things looked less like a new future and a lot like the 1980s.

Clearly she has never met someone who grew up in the 80s, because they will all tell you it was America’s golden age. After more than eight years of hearing Trump’s famous slogan, these people are still missing what everyone else loves about it. The slogan’s fourth word exists because the people who say it believe America has already produced greatness, and they want to protect it from those who would give, explain, or deny it away.

“Style, for this second administration, is looking back,” she complained.

On that point, she’s kind of right. The coats, gowns, and hats on parade Monday brought back a refreshing dose of old-fashioned glamour and Americana. It’s a shame we can’t agree that’s a good thing.

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The Arizona Republic @azcentral is calling the Bible that Congressman Hamadeh @AbrahamHamadeh sworn in on an "unconventional documents".

Unreal, the Bible is now considered an "unconventional documents" by the writers at the Arizona Republic.
11:36 AM · Jan 4, 2025

The "unconventional documents" were, in fact, the family Bible of the loved ones of Kayla Mueller, an Arizona humanitarian worker who was murdered by ISIS in 2015--something the Republic apparently is quick to wave away as unmentionable subject matter. //

A humanitarian worker from Arizona, Mueller was abducted by terrorists while leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria, in 2013. She was held hostage for 18 months, when she was believed to be repeatedly tortured and raped by ISIS militants, including then-ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Mueller was killed in February 2015. //

As I take the oath of office, I am profoundly honored to fulfill my promise to the Muellers and the American people by being sworn into Congress using Kayla’s family Bible. It serves as a testament to her unwavering belief in light over darkness and freedom over oppression.

The liberal-left reaps what it sows. It was not merely Trump that was chosen. It was the not-Democrat, the option that wasn’t in power. A vote is a middle finger aimed to the sky. In the heat of all this, the liberal-left will have to recalibrate or dissolve. Radical chic is fading. The Hitler analogies are played out. So are the speech wars. They will have to, somehow, consider material conditions. This is never easy if you’ve never lived anything close to a precarious life. Harder, still, if you’ve allowed condescension and indignation to become the pillars of a worldview. The smug never inherit the Earth. If only the Bible printed this, or someone took it to cable television in time. Much grief could have been saved.

The smug never inherit the Earth.

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SUPERCUT!

The 10 Most Mortifying Media Moments of 2024

Read our wrap-up:https://news.grabien.com/story-supercut-2024-s-most-mortifying-media-moments

10:56 AM · Dec 27, 2024

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Rocuall
9 hours ago
The sad part is they don't care one bit and will double or triple down now.. No lesson learned here. they keep getting away with it. Unless the lawsuits start and that is what I have been saying for years.. freedom of speech does not mean you can SLANDER a person You have the right to SLANDER but we also have the right to take you to court. It erks me how much slandering takes place in our congress and they use the excuse... Thats Politics.. I say BS..pay up loser

As reported by The Federalist's Elle Purnell, there's a movement arising of individuals all over the country who are choosing to forego gathering with loved ones around the Holiday season and choosing, instead, to focus on themselves by giving them a self-care day: //

To be clear, there was no explicit socio-political reason given. It was just the stress of doing things that focus on arranging, scheduling, and being with others. The thing is, modernity and all the ideals and trends that come with it are primarily leftist, as modernity is driven by corporate tastemakers and slacktivists.

And if there's one thing leftism promotes, it's isolation.

Ideological isolation is one of leftism's biggest demands. You cannot think thoughts outside the body politic, you can't ask questions that would challenge approved ideals, and if anyone breaks from the approved boundaries they must be ejected. You must close off your mind to anything outside the boundaries. //

The "do what feels good" approach to life has contributed to an inordinate amount of people obsessed with their mental health, as anything that doesn't feel good becomes a stressor, and stress is a sin in the modern world. Stress-reduction is a billion-dollar industry, and I'm not just talking about the pharmaceuticals that promise to reduce it. Therapies of all varieties have sprung up, all of which promise to reduce your stress.

All of this has created a culture of "me," and people are willing to abandon loved ones and go into isolation in the false hope that it will relieve their stress and improve their "mental health."

If you peel it all back, you'll see the self-care industry is just that — an industry. Corporations love for you to spend time and money buying things to help you focus on yourself. As I said, it's a billion-dollar industry, but ultimately, this is harmful to the mind and soul. Isolation is not healthy. //

People who are lonely are also more susceptible to illness. Researchers found that a lonely person's immune system responds differently to fighting viruses, making them more likely to develop an illness.

Selfishness is literally unhealthy, both mentally and physically.

Family matters, friends are a lifeline, and isolation due to it being a kind of stressful to travel or deal with relatives is not doing yourself any favors.

Trump campaign lawyer Jim Troupis, who helped guide the alternate electors plan, spoke publicly for the first time as AG files more charges.

The day before the contentious 2020 election, Jim Troupis ranked among the most respected attorneys in Wisconsin. Two years after he represented President Donald Trump in his Badger State election challenges, Troupis says he couldn’t find a lawyer to write his estate plan. A lot of the friends he worked with over his distinguished legal career disappeared faster than a lawsuit against a prosecutor.

“Nothing had changed, I had simply represented Donald Trump,” Troupis told conservative talk show host Vicki McKenna Tuesday afternoon. “This has been unbelievably painful for me and my family.”

The pain got worse Tuesday as Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a highly partisan Democrat with higher political ambitions, announced more criminal charges against Troupis, fellow Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, and Trump campaign official Michael Roman. The three men are caught up in Kaul’s politically driven electors prosecution, a last-ditch effort to try to lock up allies of President-elect Trump and send a message that the left’s scorched earth lawfare campaign is far from over.

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Newsweek reports woman are getting sterilized and men are getting vasectomies in response to Trump winning.

The people who oppose putting America first are having less babies and less abortions.

The winning just keeps on winning.

11:46 PM · Nov 30, 2024. //

These five women are a testament to the power of propaganda. They firmly believe that Trump will take away their access to abortion. How will they feel in four years when they realize they’ve been lied to all along?

Ironically, one lesson from this election is the danger of both the press and pundits in becoming increasingly out of touch with most of the country. The shock expressed by many is due to a lack of exposure to opposing views — not the need for further ideological isolation.

That cathartic effort is evident in many subscribers who are now boycotting the Washington Post and MSNBC. MSNBC contributor and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin appears to support such efforts. Rubin is an avowed Marxist. Groucho Marxist, that is. Marx famously said, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” -- Jonathan Turley //

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.@ScottJenningsKY: But isn't the issue that the left has gotten so used to controlling almost all institutional information distribution arms in this country that when one little piece of it, whether it's @X or MSNBC or anything else gets taken away, the panic is so outrageous?

8:59 AM · Nov 26, 2024

Technology evolves and with it society evolves. It's been a tale as old as time, from the discovery of fire to the telegraph, humanity has changed alongside its discoveries and inventions. X opened up a completely new path for humanity that changed things radically and quickly. Many people are still catching up to these changes, as the shift hasn't been fully realized.

But a shift did happen, and the Democrats are behind on it, and because they're behind on it, you're now seeing an emperor with no clothes. They're nakedly lying in an attempt to manipulate you. You can now see their abuse of you in real time. They're exposed as the frauds they are, with no media protection available.

The new media is you. It's the citizenry. It's the people that don't run in elite circles. It's you and me.

And this is a fantastic development. Information should never be controlled by one overarching entity, as that will always lead to corruption. You can see just how corrupt things were right now as Democrats like AOC continue to operate in the old way.

But this is the new era. //

Cliff-Hanger
an hour ago
AOC is one of the youngest members in congress, yet she still operates by the old ways of Democrat propagandizing.
Democrats (progressives, Marxists, communists, whichever) are not known for new ideas, only for the theft of new ideas and attempting to repackage old crap with a new label.

The report Jennings referred to was one last week. CNN admitted that X represents voters in the U.S. "far better" than ever before.

"The party ID among those who regularly use X/Twitter for news — back in 2022, 65% of those who regularly used Twitter/X for news were Democrats," said the CNN reporter. "Just 31% were Republicans.""Look at where we are today. Just a completely different picture. Now it's basically split between Democrats at 48%, Republicans at 47%."

"Now, this new overall makeup, matches the overall electorate FAR better," he continued. //

Musicman
4 hours ago
Here is the problem with Dems in a nutshell. It would be OK for Bill Gates to own a big media platform because he's "sane." While I am glad that Musk saved free speech from the Left's censorship regime, I am very skeptical of ANY billionaire having that kind of influence. Lord Acton said it best: power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The difference between Dems and us is that they don't understand human nature. We know--correctly--that humans regardless of their politics are frail, weak and often succumb to temptation. That's why we believe in limiting government as much as possible. //

Blue State Deplorable
3 hours ago
Liberals loved Twitter before Musk bought it because it served as their own little echo chamber. Now that it isn’t and they’re encountering pushback from conservative viewpoints, they’re fleeing it for other media and apps. That tells you a lot about liberals and the intellectual heft of their ideas.

mopani Blue State Deplorable
a minute ago
Leftists who lose the argument in the public square don't try to make a better argument or be more convincing, they just go behind the scenes and try to open trapdoors under their opponents. Illuminating about how much they actually believe in their own arguments.

Conservatives try better arguments.

REPORTER: I noticed that when you urge people to action, you often include the word 'peacefully.'

PRESLER: Peacefully

REPORTER: Is that to avoid another Jan 6 type incident?

PRESLER: With all due respect, it's to avoid people like you guys saying that I'm anything but. My motto is to just be super cute, have my data and facts, treat everyone with love and respect, and as you can see, an army of people will follow.

The bias was displayed before the reporter even got the question out of her mouth. Notice that the chyron refers to Presler as a "controversial activist." I'm struggling to determine what is controversial about legally registering people to vote. Is it the reaching out to the Amish part? Or just the fact that it helped Trump win Pennsylvania, which no doubt, CNN finds very controversial? //

I remember when Stacey Abrams, who refused to concede her 2022 election loss to Brian Kemp, was pushing disinformation on voting machines. Her get-out-the-vote organization was also caught up in a scandal, eventually being shut down. Has CNN ever described her as "controversial" in her many appearances on the network? Of course, not.

But they apparently weren't done yet. They hit the trifecta on Friday when they had to, for the third time in a week, read legal notes, and this time, they had to do it four times in a single show. //

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“And now a word from our attorneys” has become my favorite daily segment on The View.
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Sunny Hostin sighs as she's forced to, for the third time this week, read a legal note about The View's claims against Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth.
Joy Behar then baselessly accuses Hegseth of witness tampering. No legal note was provided for that false claim.
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