(Ken Silva, Headline USA) In the weeks following the Trump assassination attempt, Sen. Chuck Grassley released text messages from local law enforcement, which indicated that officers first spotted alleged Trump shooter Thomas Crooks at 4:26 p.m.—more than 100 minutes before his attack.
“Someone followed our lead and snuck in and parked by our cars just so you know. I’m just letting you know because you see me go out with my rifle and put it in my car so he knows you guys are up there he’s sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit,” a counter sniper told his two colleagues inside the AGR building, in a message that was thought to have referred to Crooks.
Sen. Grassley released these Butler ESU counter sniper texts about the Trump shooting, but he gave them to NYT and someone redacted their names and other info. In a high-profile case like this we absolutely need to know their names. NYT doesn't address this at all, unacceptable pic.twitter.com/dJBSPogTD9
However, a rallygoer released footage last month showing Crooks walking through the vendors section at 4:26 p.m.—on the opposite end of the site from the AGR building. That footage suggested that the local sniper was mistaken when he texted at 4:26 p.m. that Crooks was sitting on a picnic table.
Sure enough, the FBI corroborated the footage last week at a press conference, telling reporters that the initial Crooks sighting was a false alarm.
“Prior witness interviews indicated the subject was in the area of the AGR building at 4:26 p.m. Subsequent digital evidence review shows the subject was in fact near the farm show air strip, walking past a row of vendors outside the secure perimeter approximately a half mile away from the AGR grounds at 4:26 p.m.,” Kevin Rojek, the special agent in charge of the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office, said last week.
Blaze Media further corroborated on Tuesday that the 4:26 p.m. text message was not referring to Crooks. Grassley’s office told the media outlet that the local sniper saw someone with “similar visual appearance.”
“Additional findings and subsequent source interviews indicate this was an unknown individual who was considered suspicious by Beaver County law enforcement,” a Grassley spokeswoman reportedly told Blaze in an email.
Instead of 4:26 p.m., it now looks like Crooks was first spotted by law enforcement at 5:10 p.m., which was 61 minutes before his shooting. A sniper took pictures of Crooks four minutes later, and sent them to a group of other local law enforcement snipers at 5:38 p.m.
While the shift in the timeline doesn’t make law enforcement any less culpable for allowing Crooks to scale a rooftop and take eight shots at the crowd, it does raise the question: Who did law enforcement see at 4:26 p.m.?
Some have suggested the mystery sighting was of the mysterious alleged accomplice, Maxwell Yearick—there’s no evidence of that—while others have noted Crooks’s resemblance to an undercover officer spotted after the shooting.
Can there be any doubt as to why there was a @SecretService Counter Sniper Team deconfliction problem (read: DELAY in taking the shot!) when you have plainclothes officers on duty dressed almost identical to Crooks?
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Last Friday evening, while wrapping up my workday, I had something of an out-of-body experience.
I received a phone call from none other than Tucker Carlson.
It was in response to a rather mundane matter that I had earlier reached out to him about, but that made it all the more surreal and extraordinary.
Somehow, in between counseling former President Donald Trump on whom to pick as his vice president, conducting some of the most provocative interviews anywhere to be found, planning a nationwide tour for the month of September, and enjoying the spoils of fame and fortune with his family, he was willing to offer up his valuable time to a stranger over a matter from which he had nothing to gain.
It underscored, to me, that the Carlson whom millions of viewers see on television is not some affected persona but his authentic, true self.
Carlson has no delusions about the substantial role he plays in directing the thoughts of a large swath of the American populus, nor of the charmed existence that he was born and bred into as part of the nation’s “elite” ruling class. Yet, deep in his being, he feels the need to humble himself, to remind himself that he is one of many participating in the shared experiences of humanity, life and existence.
FINDING FAITH
During our conversation, Carlson casually brought up his faith—something only recently attained after an Episcopal upbringing that regards religion as more ceremonial than heartfelt.
I already knew about this epiphany of his, having been present at an April 2023 speech he delivered for the Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary—one that would take on added significance after he was, just days later, fired from his top-rated prime-time show at Fox News.
At any rate, Carlson’s speech at the Heritage Foundation was, undoubtedly, deeply jarring and unsettling to any who expected the typical pomp and puffery.
“When the Treasury secretary stands up and says, ‘You know what you can do to help the economy? Get an abortion’—That’s like an Aztec principle basically … What you’re watching is not a political movement. It’s evil,” Carlson said in the speech.
“… If you’re telling me that abortion is a positive good, what are you saying?” he asked. “Well, you’re arguing for child sacrifice.”
MARTYRS FOR A CAUSE
Once again, days after my second firsthand encounter with him, it appears Carlson is back in the center of another publicity maelstrom for making people uncomfortable.
The latest controversy concerns his newly released interview with Darryl Cooper, a Substack blogger and host of the “Martyr Made” podcast, who first came into the spotlight after a viral tweet-thread explaining the cause/effect dynamic between the routine gaslighting, two-tiered justice and overt hostility that Democrats had undertaken throughout much of the 2020 election cycle, and the primal scream, in response, of the Jan. 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol.
I think I've had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of most of the people at the Capitol on 1/6, and probably even Trump himself. 1/x
Carlson—who had read Cooper’s epic thread on air shortly after it was posted—introduced him in an X post promoting the interview as “the best and most honest popular historian in the United States.”
The thrust of Cooper’s argument, which he also laid out in the form of an X thread, was that Winston Churchill—who, along with Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, would become one of the great heroes of World War II for having led the Allied forces to victory—was, in fact, the chief instigator of the war.
Time for a Churchill thread? Time for a Churchill thread. Let's do this.
Why I think Churchill was a chief villain of World War 2. /0
Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was, relatively speaking, a political neophyte who found himself out of his depth due to the globalist machinations that sought to turn him first into a warmonger, then a dictator and, finally, a genocidal maniac.
He entered Germany into “a war where they were completely unprepared to deal with the millions and millions of prisoners of war, of local political prisoners,” Cooper told Carson.
“They went in with no plan for that, and they just threw these people into camps,” he added. “And millions of people ended up dead there.”
Understandably, it drew backlash—including from a gaggle of NeverTrump RINO neocons such as former Rep. Liz Cheney.
“No serious or honorable person would support or endorse this type of garbage,” said the daughter of the architect of no less than two major U.S. wars, maybe more.
Actually, this is pro-Nazi propaganda, including, “Churchill was the chief villain of WW2” and Hitler “didn’t want to fight.” No serious or honorable person would support or endorse this type of garbage. https://t.co/1jkGxvCfBI
“Didn’t expect Tucker Carlson to become an outlet for Nazi apologetics, but here we are,” wrote radio host Erick Erickson, who went on to denounce Cooper as “a contrarian moral cretin.”
He's neither the best nor the most honest. He's a contrarian moral cretin who has turned his contrarianism into Nazi apologetics. https://t.co/7wds3bcZK0
In a show of solidarity that may have been just as unwelcome as the criticism, Candace Owens stepped into Carlson’s and Cooper’s corner, insisting that they were making a lot of salient and entirely rational points.
Of course, the result of the media attacks against Tucker Carlson will be that more people will watch his sit down with Daryl Cooper than would have watched before.
We are now at the point in our Orwellian nightmare where the Ministy of Truth is attempting to ban the learning…
With respect to the validity and accuracy of Cooper’s research, I plead agnostic.
My heart tells me there is no room for nuance in matters like the Holocaust. Yet, my head says there is a strong probability that, over the course of some 80 years, our views on the root causes of World War II have been so warped, programmed and conditioned into favoring an Allied narrative that we can no longer begin to grasp what we haven’t been told about it.
Those like the late Hoover Institution scholar Anthony Sutton who have dared to challenge the prevailing dogma about Western warmongering have been drowned out, discredited and neutralized because they lacked the level of influence and access to a large audience that Carlson now has.
My gut tells me that the same processes that began revising the story of Jan. 6 within hours after the events unfolded were likely at work then, as well, in a time when a more limited access to unfiltered media made wartime propaganda a far more effective tool.
Wanting to examine every possible facet of what happened, in order to develop a clear picture that approaches the “Truth,” is not to marginalize those who forfeited their lives due to the unthinkable atrocities of the Third Reich. Indeed, it is the only way to honor and respect their memory.
If Cooper is, in some ways, correct, if the so-called good guys bear the bulk of the responsibility for engineering the war—and, by extension, the Nazi genocide we now know as the Holocaust—then the odds of it happening again, with even more devastating results, seem greatly amplified.
EVIL, EVIL EVERYWHERE
But adding Carlson into the mix, with his newfound mysticism, is where things begin to get really profound.
His view of “evil” is not that it is some extrinsic, readily isolated entity that can be defeated through brute force, an iron will, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears.
Rather, it is an intrinsic quality that lies dormant within us, waiting to be nurtured by the proper conditions.
As the postwar allegory Lord of the Flies suggests, the thin veneer of moral codes, laws and social constructs that keep us “civilized” can quickly entropy into humankind’s natural, id-driven state without the proper guidance and sense of purpose.
💥 Tucker Carlson Suggests That Evil Resides Where There Is Weakness: 💥
"It's weak men and women who are instruments of evil. The weaker the leader, the more evil that leader will be. So it's, and unfortunately, we've reached a time in American history where every leader is… pic.twitter.com/zhqb7zsZVh
Thus, the evil that purportedly perished in 1945, inside a bunker beneath Berlin’s Gertrud-Kolmar-Straße, still latently resides all around us.
Consider all the daily atrocities that we have allowed ourselves to brush aside as collateral damage: Do the scope and context of one’s pain and suffering confer a greater or lesser degree of significance on it than the Holocaust? Not to the victim.
What made Anne Frank’s life more notable, or her death in the Bergen–Belsen concentration camp more tragic, than the rape and torture of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray at the hands of illegal immigrants? Or that an unnamed victim who dies quietly in obscurity, arguably making it all the more tragic?
It is imperative that we approach the evils that confront us with clear eyes, understanding that it is not an us versus them dichotomy that keeps evil at bay; it is us versus ourselves.
To do so, we must continue asking uncomfortable questions and challenging our own belief systems, as Carlson has consistently done, and be ready for where the inquiry may lead us.
While we cannot all carry the burden Carlson has to usher masses of people to the light, it is our shared obligation as fellow members of humanity to see to it that we, ourselves, and those around us are fully awoken, lest what happened before should happen again.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Mark Cuban appeared flabbergasted after conducting a poll among his 8.8 million followers on X, comparing Vice President Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump as potential role models for children.
Conducted on Friday, the public poll garnered over 800,000 votes, with one clear winner: Trump.
Specifically, 68.9% of respondents said they would want children to adopt Trump’s “persona and character.” In contrast, a mere 31.1% preferred children to grow up like Harris.
Who’s persona and character would you like to see young children grow up to have:
Reacting to the results, Cuban questioned the poll’s validity, noting that the engagement tally was 656,000—much lower than the 804,173 votes cast.
Cuban posted a screenshot of X’s AI chatbot, Grok, acknowledging that poll responses count as engagement in analytics.
“Engagement on X includes various interactions such as likes, retweets, comments, and, importantly, responses to polls,” Grok said.
Observers mocked Cuban for not acknowledging that the majority chose Trump as the preferred role model for children’s character.
“Mark Cuban is a threat to democracy. (Am I doing this right?)” commented Collin Rugg, the co-founder of the news site Trending Politics, poking fun at the leftist rhetoric directed at conservatives who question election results.
Similarly, social media personality Ashley St. Clair questioned, “Are you questioning the results of a free and fair election, Mark?”
An account named “Not Jerome Powell” mockingly wrote, “I can’t believe how a billionaire spends a lot of time and energy focusing on nonsense instead of a lot other things he can do to make things better for humanity.”
The tenacity of his stupidity is a marvel to behold 😂
Cuban, a vocal critic of Trump, had voted for former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in the 2024 GOP Primary. With Haley now endorsing Trump, Cuban has instead thrown his support behind the Democratic ticket.
In March, Cuban attended a Biden fundraiser, stating he wanted to show his support and meet the president.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Jimmy McCain, the youngest son of the late Sen. John McCain, made an unsolicited statement on Tuesday: He is a Democrat who will vote for Vice President Kamala Harris for president in 2024.
The reason for this endorsement? Trump’s participation in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, marking three years since the tragic killing of 13 American servicemen in Kabul.
Jimmy told CNN that the event, which the left has falsely labeled as a “campaign” event, was a “violation” of the memory of the Americans buried in the cemetery.
This seemingly hypocritical rationale raised many eyebrows on X, given McCain’s past scandal using the cemetery for political purposes.
In 1999, McCain, then a Republican presidential candidate, faced backlash for recording a campaign ad inside Arlington National Cemetery without permission. At the time, McCain sought the GOP nomination, which ultimately went to George W. Bush.
The Los Angeles Times, via an Associated Press report, noted that McCain acknowledged the violation. “McCain acknowledged that his campaign erred and sent a letter to the Army saying that the scenes would be cut,” the piece reported.
As first noted by conservative reporter Greg Price, video footage is still accessible on C-SPAN, showing McCain casually posing in front of the graves of fallen American servicemen.
In 1999, John McCain filmed part of an actual political ad at Arlington Cemetery and then had to remove it when the Army rebuked him because he apparently filmed it without permission. https://t.co/746sTpGQ7gpic.twitter.com/hIzxO8Yxhl
“Navy officer, congressman, senator—taking on the establishment, defying special interests and never forgetting the heroes he served with,” the voiceover in the biographical ad narrated, conveniently transitioning into McCain walking inside the cemetery.
Asked about his dad’s violation, Jimmy diverted by pointing out what he claimed was Trump’s past negative treatment of veterans. He provided no evidence to back this assertion up.
Unlike McCain’s past actions, Trump attended the ceremony at the request of Gold Star families of the 13 servicemen killed on Aug. 26, 2021—seven months after President Joe Biden took office.
Citing anonymous sources, the leftist and taxpayer-funded NPR dubiously claimed that staffers from the Trump campaign had a dispute with an Army staffer over the recording of the wreath-laying ceremony.
Contradicting NPR’s claims, five Gold Star families clarified that they approved Trump’s official videographer and photographer to attend the event.
They stated that this was done to ensure “these sacred moments or remembrances were respectfully captured and so we can cherish these memories forever.”
Trump shared a video of the ceremony on his TikTok page, where it garnered over 11 million views, spreading the story of the selfless sacrifice made by those killed in 2021 at the hands of a suicide bomber.
“I don’t think anybody should underestimate Donald Trump,” Pritzker told CNN’s Sara Sidner on Monday.
“He has a won a couple of debates that he did,” Pritzker continued. “Certainly, people would say that he won the debate against President Biden a couple of months ago.”
As Trump himself has pointed out, he won his debate against President Joe Biden in June so handily that Biden was forced to drop out of the 2024 race altogether just one month later.
Pritzker also cited Trump’s debate against failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016, reiterating, “He’s not to be underestimated.”
While Harris is a “tremendous person with great capability,” Pritzker claimed, that might not be enough to beat Trump.
“We shouldn’t be thinking that somehow Kamala Harris has a greater ability to win a debate than Donald Trump,” Pritzker said.
“They’re going to come in as significant rivals with very, very different points of view,” he continued. “I think getting those points of view across and making sure you’re not getting flummoxed, frankly, by Donald Trump, will be an important thing for Kamala Harris.”
Pritzker’s comments could be part of an attempt by Democrats to preemptively lower the bar for Harris ahead of the Sept. 10 debate.
After hyping the upopular vice president to unsustainable levels in the first astroturfed leg of her abbreviated campaign, DNC operatives now face a dilemma in trying to explain their flawed candidate’s failure to live up to those expectations.
Harris’s first attempt at laying out a specific policy platform bombed last month over her support for communist-style price caps on groceries. Other policies have been criticized for plagiarizing Trump himself.
In her first sit-down interview since becoming the de-facto nominee, Harris again dropped the ball, failing to provide direct answers to many questions and admitting that her core values had not changed since the 2019 primary debates, when she expressed support for fringe-leftist positions on many issues.
Harris’s own team has expressed concern over the debate by trying to change the rules last minute, insisting that the candidates’ microphones should be left on for the entirety of the debate rather than being muted during their opponent’s speaking time.
ABC, the network hosting the debate, rejected Harris’s request and made clear the mics would be muted when candidates were not recognized as having the floor.
As of last Thursday, Harris’s campaign still had not signed on to ABC’s rules for the debate.
“The memo sent by ABC is a draft set of rules that both campaigns need to sign off on and indicate agreement,” Harris spokesperson Brian Fallon wrote in an X post on Thursday.
“We have not done so because we think both candidates have expressed a clear desire to have hot mics,” he added. “Not clear why Trump staff is overruling their principal, who should be capable of making up his own mind.”
Update: Our latest understanding is that even though Trump said Monday he would be fine with an unmuted mic, his handlers don’t trust him to spar live with VP Harris and are asking ABC to ignore Trump’s comments and keep the mics muted or else they will back out of the debate for…
Law enforcement sources who spoke anonymously with the New York Post said that illegals and other foreigners living in shelters are overwhelming the city’s criminal justice system, with these illegals being arrested for robbery, assault, domestic violence and other crimes across the Big Apple.
“I would say about 75% of the arrests in Midtown Manhattan are migrants, mostly for robberies, assaults, domestic incidents and selling counterfeit items,” one of the Post’s sources said, adding that the number is an estimate because “you can’t be 100% sure [they’re migrants] unless you arrest them in a shelter or they’re dumb enough to give you a shelter address.”
On Sept. 3, 2024, a law enforcement spokesperson confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation that police officers are prohibited from asking about the immigration status of crime victims, witnesses or suspects. The source also said that the New York Police Department doesn’t track immigration status data.
Another law enforcement officer told the Post that the rate of local arrests in Manhattan involving migrants could “easily” be 75% when you exclude petty larcenies at drugstores because they prefer more high-end merchandise.
“They can’t be bothered with lower-end stores. They like Lululemon and Sunglass Hut,” the source said, adding that illegals are involved in most pickpocketing, chain and phone snatching cases with the New York Police Department.
Jim Quinn, a veteran former prosecutor at the Queens District Attorney’s Office, also blamed the New York City government for what is happening inside the city.
“New York City eliminated a tool to get rid of violent criminals. What a mess. The sanctuary city law is pathetic. It’s disgusting. It’s crazy,” he said.
(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Yale University’s Divinity School showed once again that there’s little “divine” left there when it coerced students to read from a “spell” written by a “witch” as part of its Before the Fall Orientation.
The College Fix reported that the three-day orientation, which took place between Aug. 21, 2024, and Aug. 23, 2024, included a series of talks and activities interspersed with small group discussions, preparing incoming students for the year ahead.
“Participating as an incoming student in one of these circles, I saw how the discussion opened with a set of ‘Restorative Circle Rules.’ These rules boiled down to a warning to be open-minded: all viewpoints were expected to be heard, and you only had to take what you wanted from the circle and participate as wanted—at least nominally,” the article’s author wrote.
Meeting of Minds has described Brown as a “mixed-race Black queer American writer, community organizer, facilitator, witch and — may I say — goddess.”
Brown uses witchcraft, describing herself on her website as someone who “grows healing ideas in public” through “her writing, which includes short- and long-form fiction, nonfiction, spells, tarot” and “her music, which includes songwriting, singing and immersive musical rituals.”
Students were not informed about this context of Brown, her work and her pagan beliefs before participating in the reading.
“As such, the group reading of the spell took on an undeniable coven-like feeling, with students unable to fully consent to the pseudo-ritual knowingly despite the Circle Rules,” the author wrote.
An anonymous second-year student told the Fix about one’s deep concern over this act by the orientation staff. The student called the spell “bizarre” and “gross” because the students were not previously informed about what would happen during the orientation.
Other recent Yale College graduates and members of the university’s Catholic community also said that “the very campus of the Divinity School needed prayer.”
Two American officials told CNN that multiple federal agencies took the airplane dubbed Venezuela’s Air Force One into custody after stating that its purchase violated sanctions.
The aircraft, believed to be worth $13 million, was seized in the Dominican Republic and brought to the country on Sept.2, 2024, amid growing tensions between the Biden administration and the South American government.
“This sends a message all the way up to the top,” one of the officials told CNN.
Other CNN sources agreed by saying that “seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters” and adding that they are “sending a clear message here that no one is above the law, no one is above the reach of US sanctions.”
The news source reported that Maduro’s plane has been pictured during his state visits worldwide.
It was unclear why it was taken, but the American officials stated that the aircraft’s presence in the Dominican Republic in recent months presented the opportunity for seizure.
Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Justice and Commerce agents within the Bureau of Industry and Security were among the agencies involved in seizing the plane.
One of the American officials told CNN that the Dominican Republic notified Venezuela of the seizures.
The propaganda outlet reported that after the aircraft landed in the U.S., the Venezuelan government had a chance to pursue forfeiture and petition for the plane.
The seizure comes after Maduro allegedly stole the election on July 28, 2024.
The U.S. pressured the Central American country to “immediately” release election data over concerns about the credibility of Maduro’s victory. Ironically, the current Biden-Harris regime refused to provide proof that the 2020 election was not stolen.
After Maduro was “reelected” last month, Venezuela suspended commercial flights to and from the Dominican Republic.
The news source reported that the U.S. had already restarted sanctions against the country’s oil and gas sector for the Maduro regime, blocking “an inclusive and competitive election.”
(Headline USA) President Joe Biden bizarrely remarked over the weekend that his family was “disappointed” that his great-grandfather was not part of a violent mob that killed mine foremen, the Daily Mail reported.
During a campaign rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Pittsburgh on Monday, during which both Biden and Harris emphasized Democrats’ support for labor unions, Biden regailed the audience with a rambling tale about the Molly Maguires—a secret society, similar to the Ku Klux Klan, that terrorized protestants in the hills of Pennsylvania.
He expressed regret that his own ancestor, Edward Francis Blewitt, allegedly did not participate in the 19th-century crime syndicate, suggesting it was an early prototype for today’s organized labor.
“I remember when my great-grandfather was only the second Catholic elected statewide in the state Senate here in Pennsylvania,” Biden told attendees. “And I remember they talked about—when they’d run against him in 1906—they said, ‘Guess what? He’s a Molly Maguire.’”
The 81-year-old went on to explain that the violent group rose in response to anti-Catholic bigotry in the mines following a wave of immigration from Ireland in the mid-1800s.
“If they found out the foreman was taking advantage of an individual, they would literally kill him. Not a joke,” Biden said.
“And they would bring his body up and put him on the doorstep of his family,” Biden added. “Kind of crude, but I gotta admit—they accused my great-grandfather of being a Molly Maguire. He wasn’t, but we were so damn disappointed.”
After realizing the crowd was visibly confused, Biden added, “That was a joke. That was a joke.”
Later in his speech, Biden claimed former President Donald Trump doesn’t care about labor union workers—despite his having invited Teamsters boss Sean O’Brien to speak at the Republican National Convention.
“Do you think this guy gives a damn about your pensions,” Biden yelled. “I’m serious. Do you think he loses even in an instant asleep over it? Or thinks he cares about all the work you do every day?”
It’s unclear whether Biden himself lost sleep over labor union jobs during his extended vacation last week in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where the president has spent nearly 40% of his presidency.
Before his stay in Rehoboth Beach, the lame-duck leader had a separate six-day getaway at Democratic Party donor Joe Kiani’s California estate.
(Headline USA) Colorado Gov. Jared Polis defended Vice President Kamala Harris for flipping on nearly every single policy position she’s held over the past several years, claiming it’s the “sign of a good leader” to change one’s views.
Polis made the comment during an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who pressed the Democrat on why Harris has endorsed several of former President Donald Trump’s policies when, just months ago, she opposed them.
For example, Harris has renounced her previous support for decriminalizing illegal immigration and her past opposition to finishing the construction of Trump’s southern border wall.
At first, Polis tried to deny that Harris had changed her position at all.
“This is another issue that as it gets to the public discourse is very misleading,” he claimed. “Democrats in general—Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama—have always been supportive of building barriers and walls for certain parts of the border as part of a comprehensive border security strategy.”
When Karl pointed out that Harris had dismissed Trump’s border wall as a “medieval vanity project” and a “stupid waste of money,” Polis pivoted to justifying Harris’s sudden about-face.
“Barriers and walls are a part of the overall comprehensive strategy that Kamala Harris will deliver on to secure the southern border,” Polis claimed.
He went on to argue that Harris’s pre-election pragmatism was “a sign of a good leader that they learn and evolve overtime. Whether it’s a move to the middle, the left, the right, it’s really about what works.”
In a separate interview with Fox News, Polis also defended Harris’s refusal to answer direct questions from the press about those policy flip-flops.
“She’s already taking questions at a number of different venues as she’s moving in and out,” he said, adding that he’s sure she will conduct “a lot more interviews in the future.”
