MAGA Teen Trolls Dishonest Media as WaPo, CNN ‘Fact Check’ RNC

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MAGA Teen Trolls Dishonest Media as WaPo, CNN ‘Fact Check’ RNC

Eighteen-year-old Nick Sandmann may have had plenty of reason to smirk Tuesday as he took a victory lap in his yearlong fight against the media that defamed him.

The fresh-faced recent graduate of Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School needed no introduction as he stood in front of the Lincoln Monument, not far from where his world changed, for better or worse, during the 2019 March for Life.

His ordeal made him, as he said, a “poster child” for the Trump movement—immediately vilified, defamed and falsely accused.

But determined to fight back, he now has become an inspirational symbol to many others who have been—or fear being—victimized by the radical left’s Orwellian suppression and censorship of conservative viewpoints.

As Sandmann stepped back willingly into the spotlight Tuesday, ironically he was the one waging the attack on former persecutors such as CNN and the Washington Post, with whom he recently settled some of his many defamation lawsuits.

Meanwhile, those same leftist outlets, some actively engaged in efforts to fact-check the Republican National Convention’s second night, received an uncomfortable reminder of their own willfully negligent and reckless disregard for the truth.

“I learned that what was happening to me had a name. It’s called being cancelled,” said Sandmann, now a freshman at Kentucky’s Transylvania University, according to his Twitter account, which boasts more than 150,000 followers.

Cancel culture is now “happening to people around this country, to people who refuse to be silenced by the Left—and often the media is a willing participant,” he said.

Sandmann said that the famous smirk he had during his uncomfortable encounter with activist Nathan Phillips was not what it seemed.

Instead, he had two thoughts: don’t do anything that might agitate his antagonizer, and don’t do anything that would embarrass his family, school or community.

Nonetheless, following the strange episode, “the full war machine of the mainstream media revved up into attack mode,” he said. “The truth was not important in advancing their anti-Christian, anti-conservative … narrative.”

Sandmann said nobody better understood the ordeal he experienced than President Donald Trump, who likewise has endured a constant barrage of hostile media attacks.

Unlike Sandmann, however, Trump does not stand to gain financially from being made the drive-by media’s No. 1 victim.

Sandmann called on the president’s supporters to continue to push back against the Fake News and reject its increasingly dishonest narrative.

“I look forward to the day that the media returns to providing balanced and responsible news coverage,” he said.

Until then, honest Americans must continue to “challenge the media,” he continued.

“This is worth fighting for, this is worth voting for, and this is what Donald Trump stands for,” he said, donning his iconic “Make America Great Again” cap.

Place Bets Now: Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron May Be GOP’s Obama (In a Good Way)

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Place Bets Now: Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron May Be GOP’s Obama (In a Good Way)

It was at Democrats’ 2004 convention, when John Kerry accepted the nomination for a largely forgettable campaign to challenge then-popular incumbent George W. Bush that the world first was introduced to an ambitious state senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.

Within four years, the apotheosis would be complete, with the then-US Sen. Obama, having barely reached the halfway mark of his freshman term in Congress, ascending the podium in Denver behind a backdrop of Greek columns to a massive audience seeking “hope” and “change.”

The circumstances may have been vastly different, but on Tuesday, Kentucky’s Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron, made his grand entrance on the national stage with a dynamic speech that held an equally uplifting message for conservatives and other forgotten Americans who may have been abandoned by the political establishment.

Already, in its first two days, the Republican National Convention has showcased several up-and-comers who—unlike the fossils in last week’s Democrat convention—offer a bright outlook for their party’s future.

In many cases, as with Cameron, those fresh faces also happen to be faces of color.

Appropriately, his participation stuck with one of the major threads of the RNC message: inclusivity, accessibility and unity for all Americans.

“This country’s many faces comprise a family,” he said.

“…Though we fuss and fight, we are not enemies, we are Americans, united by a fundamental faith in our Constitution and of laws,” he continued, likening the country to “an evergreen tree standing tall in a turbulent world.”

Cameron was one of several to invoke the spirit of Abraham Lincoln the first Republican president, in calling for compassion, self-reliance, freedom, equality and justice.

“For Republicans, our heroes are those who propelled an imperfect nation ever forward,” he said.

But even as rioters continued to loot, burn and vandalize American cities, Cameron and others extended an olive branch to those who may disagree with them and still seek common ground.

“We Republicans do recognize those who work in good faith,” he said. “… Republicans will never turn a blind eye to unjust acts, but neither will we accept an all-out assault” on American values.”

Unlike the hodgepodge of Democrats’ production, which hammered home talking points while never seeming to resonate thematically, Cameron’s speech tied in with and helped bind together several of the other memorable moments from the broadcast.

That included Trump’s pardoning of Jon Ponder, a reformed felon who had found Christian faith while serving time for bank robbery.

Ponder later went on to befriend Richard Beasley, the FBI agent who had arrested him but had shown him compassion and humanity afterward by buying him coffee and a doughnut.

After serving his time, being mercifully given a more lenient sentence than he expected, Ponder now works to assist other newly released inmates as they strive to regain their footing.

Recounting his youth working in his parents’ coffee shop, Cameron said he had gotten to know many types of people.

“No matter who you are, everyone wants a cup of coffee,” he observed.

While most of the convention’s first two nights focused on looking forward to a brighter future and outlining Trump’s policy achievements, some also tackled the ugly but necessary task of countering Democrats’ message.

Cameron called to task former Vice President Joe Biden for his many offensive statements that sought to diminish the agency and independent thinking of black voters.

“Mr. Vice President, look at me: I am black,” he said, addressing Obama’s former right-hand man. “…You can’t tell me how to vote because of the color of my skin.”

He criticized the Democrat nominee as “a backwards thinker in a world that is craving forward leadership.”

By contrast, he said Trump had risen to meet the challenges of his office in pursuit of the values of justice and equality for all.

“I believe Donald Trump can meet Lincloln’s mandate, even as Joe Biden is trapped by his own record and by the demands of his radical party,” Cameron said.

New York AG Wages New Lawsuit to Declare Mail Disruptions Unconstitutional

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New York AG Wages New Lawsuit to Declare Mail Disruptions Unconstitutional

(Headline USA) New York’s attorney general added Tuesday to the growing pile of lawsuits seeking to block President Donald Trump from using the power of his office to prevent vote fraud as Democrats push their mail-in voting scam.

Despite evidence to the contrary, the Left continues to claim that Trump has actively pursued disruptions to the U.S. Postal Service ahead of November’s presidential election.

Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, said the changes imposed by Trump’s administration amounted to voter suppression with the use of mail-in ballots expected to surge while people stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic.

“These changes are a thinly veiled attempt to advance the president’s own political agenda,” the showboating James claimed on a conference call announcing the lawsuit.

After campaigning in 2018 on an anti-Trump agenda, James has doggedly pursued politically motivated lawsuits, such as holding a press conference last month to declare she was seeking the dissolution of the pro-gun NRA.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced last week that he was suspending new operational changes to mail service amid complaints that they had led to delivery slowdowns, but that it wasn’t necessary to restore machinery and collection boxes already taken away.

Trump has sought the changes as a way to streamline and improving the failing institution, which can no longer sustain itself financially amid changing paradigms for parcel delivery and communications.

Despite having recently given millions of dollars to the USPS, Trump previously threatened to withhold emergency aid from the postal service to counter Democrats’ mail-in voting push, but later altered his position, saying he wanted to speed up the mail, not slow it down.

Since March, according to James’ lawsuit, the Republican president has publicly voiced opposition to mail-in voting on more than 30 occasions.

James’ lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington D.C., names Trump, DeJoy and the U.S. Postal Service as defendants. DeJoy, a former supply-chain CEO and major donor to Trump and the GOP, faced grilling questions from Congress in recent days over the changes.

The lawsuit, which seeks a court order to cancel the changes, is the third filed by state attorneys general over alterations to the postal service’s operations.

Last week, Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, both Democrats, filed lawsuits in collaboration with other states. James said those cases differed from hers, leading her to file a separate lawsuit. James’ lawsuit also includes Hawaii and New Jersey as plaintiffs, as well as the cities of New York and San Francisco.

“We have sought immediately to declare his actions as unconstitutional and to suspend all of those actions immediately, so that we can move forward in our effort to make sure that voting ballots are returned to respective board of elections in a timely fashion,” James said.

Three communities near Buffalo, which together receive about 80,000 pieces of mail each day, did not get a single mail delivery on July 11, according to the lawsuit.

Some New York communities saw mail delivery skipped on at least three days in July and August; boxes of mail slated for delivery on Aug. 7 were still sitting in a Bronx postal facility a week later; and 173 Express Mail packages sent to the Buffalo area went undelivered from Aug. 10-12, the lawsuit said.

Beyond the potential impact on the election, James and members of the state’s Congressional delegation who joined her conference call expressed concerns about the mail slowdown harming everyday lives by hampering deliveries of vital medications, perishable goods and payments.

“People need to be able to vote. Veterans need to be able to get their medication. Seniors and Americans deserve to get payments that they are waiting for by their mail,” said Rep. Grace Meng, a Queens Democrat.

DeJoy told lawmakers on Monday that election mail is his “No. 1 priority.” He said he will authorize expanded overtime, extra truck trips and other measures in the weeks before the election to ensure on-time delivery of ballots.

“I am not engaged in sabotaging the election,” DeJoy said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Falwell Resigns from Liberty University Amid Sex-Scandal Allegations

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(Headline USA) Jerry Falwell Jr. announced his resignation Tuesday as the head of Liberty University after a provocative photo and revelations of his wife’s extramarital affair roiled the evangelical school founded by his father.

Falwell’s exit marks a precipitous fall from power for one of the country’s most visible conservative Christian leaders and ardent supporters of President Donald Trump.

He confirmed his decision to resign in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press.

According to the school, he initially offered to resign Monday, hours after a news outlet published an interview with a man who said that he had a yearslong sexual relationship with Becki Falwell and that Jerry Falwell participated in some of the liaisons as a voyeur.

Falwell, who denied any participation, later reversed course on his resignation and began telling news outlets he had no intention of leaving. Then he changed direction again.

“That’s the only reason I resigned: because I don’t want something my wife did to harm the school I’ve spent my whole life building,” he said in a phone interview.

“I never broke a single rule that applies to staff members at Liberty, which I was,” he continued. “So I want everybody to know that.”

The university confirmed in a statement that its board had accepted Falwell’s resignation as president, chancellor and board member. All were effective immediately, the statement said.

Becki Falwell also spoke with the AP on Tuesday, saying she and her husband are “more in love than ever”—a sentiment echoed by an audibly tearful Jerry Falwell.

“We have the strongest relationship, and Jerry is the most forgiving person I’ve ever met,” she said. “It’s a shame that Christians can’t give us the same forgiveness that Christ gave us.”

Falwell had already been on leave since earlier this month after alumni and others recoiled at a photo he posted on social media.

The image showed him with his pants unzipped, stomach exposed and arm high around the waist of his wife’s pregnant assistant.

He also held a glass of dark liquid that he described in a caption as “black water.”

Falwell has said the photo was taken at a costume party during a family vacation.

The board “put me on leave for showing my belly in a picture and my contract doesn’t allow that,” he said Tuesday.

He later added, “I’m 58 years old, and I think there’s something else in the cards for me. And so the board was gracious in accepting my resignation … and it’s time to move on.”

The latest controversy began to unfold late Sunday, when the Washington Examiner published a lengthy statement from Falwell disclosing that his wife had an extramarital affair.

The statement, later shared with the AP, said the man involved had been threatening to reveal the relationship “to deliberately embarrass my wife, family, and Liberty University unless we agreed to pay him substantial monies.”

Falwell said he was seeking mental health counseling after dealing with fallout from the affair, which he said he had no role in.

He said he has no “alcohol problem,” addressing questions raised by the social media photo depicting apparent alcohol in his glass.

“Over the course of the last few months … we have decided the only way to stop this predatory behavior is to go public,” the statement said.

But on Monday, Reuters published Giancarlo Granda’s account of the relationship, one that has become known as the “pool boy” story.

Granda and the Falwells met while he worked as a pool attendant in Miami. Falwell did not address Granda’s version of events during Tuesday’s interview, but has previously said they were false.

Granda’s professional and personal relationship with the Falwells later sparked legal jostling that involved Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer.

Falwell described Cohen as a good friend who tried to help him resolve a dispute with Granda.

He added that his eventual endorsement of Trump in 2016 — a key win for then-candidate Trump during his outreach to the evangelical community — had nothing to do with Cohen.

Rather, Falwell said, his endorsement stemmed from a prediction by Mark DeMoss, a former Liberty board member, that Trump would win the 2016 election.

DeMoss “hates Trump as much as he hates me,” Falwell said, which prompted him to back the president.

Granda did not return a phone call from AP on Tuesday. DeMoss declined comment.

Falwell, who declined comment on whether he anticipates pursuing legal action against Granda, began his leave Aug. 7 amid intense criticism of the vacation photo.

Critics of the image said it was evidence of hypocritical behavior from the leader of a university where students must follow a strict code of conduct.

The photo prompted new pushback against Falwell from school alumni and supporters that intensified after the reports about Granda.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr. had aspired to make Liberty University an academic and athletic leader for evangelicals in the vein of the University of Notre Dame.

The younger Falwell’s success in shoring up the school’s finances after he took over in 2007 following his father’s death bolstered his standing among the school’s board members.

But as his propensity toward divisive public behavior grew — and particularly following his endorsement of Trump in 2016 — a number of alumni and faculty became dissatisfied with the university’s direction under Falwell.

This summer, 35 Black Liberty University alumni publicly rebuked Falwell after he responded to a coronavirus mask mandate by Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, with a tweet invoking the blackface scandal that nearly forced Northam from office.

Four years after his endorsement, Falwell is taking a lower profile in Trump’s reelection bid.

But he declared unwavering support for Trump, whom he described as “the most pro-evangelical Christian president we’ve ever had — not in his lifestyle, but in his actions, and that is what matters.”

This fall, Falwell predicted, Trump “will win and he will win big.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Jewish GOP Rep. Never Experienced Anti-Semitism Until Ilhan Omar’s Election

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Jewish GOP Rep. Never Experienced Anti-Semitism Until Ilhan Omar’s Election

Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY, said he had not experienced any prejudice against Jews in his personal life or in politics until Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was elected to Congress, Jewish Insider reported.

“I spent four years in the New York State Senate, and through my first four years in the U.S. House of Representatives, I didn’t experience it inside the actual chamber until the beginning of 2019,” he said. “That became an issue within the House Democratic Caucus in the first half of 2019.”

Radical anti-American politicians—including Democratic Reps. Alexandria Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, and Omar—were elected in the 2018 congressional midterms.

Omar said in February 2019 that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee pays members of congress to support Israel, Jewish Insider reported.

“It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” she said.

When asked to clarify her comments, she asked who “is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel?”

“AIPAC!,” Omar.

Zeldin said the response from Congress was not as severe because of Omar’s affiliation with the Democratic Party.

“I guarantee you that we would have passed a resolution that singularly, emphatically and forcefully condemned antisemitism,” he said.

“There would have been no moral equivalencies—that member would have been removed from her committee assignments, and it would have been basically a unanimous effort in doing so.”

Zeldin’s comments came after he was asked questions during a conference call with the American Jewish Committee about anti-Semitism within the Republican Party.

One of two Jewish Republicans in Congress, Zeldin said he has been called a Nazi or Nazi supporter “several thousand” times.

“I’m not aware of any of it coming from within the Republican Party,” he said.

Zeldin said there has been lackluster support for President Donald Trump from Jews because Israel is “not popping at the top of their list” of policy priorities.

“I’ll talk to a Jewish voter, and it’s possible that if I ask them for their top 15 issues, they might just not mention Israel,” he said.

Texas School Under Fire for Assignment Comparing Cops to KKK, Slave Owners

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Texas School Under Fire for Assignment Comparing Cops to KKK, Slave Owners

A Texas school district has come under fire from government officials after parents discovered that their students had been given a class assignment that likened police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux Klan members.

The class assignment included a five-panel cartoon that showed a slave ship officer with his knee on a black man’s neck. The next slide showed a similar image in a different decade that depicted a KKK member with his knee on a black man’s neck. And another image showed what appeared to be a sheriff’s deputy with his knee on a black man’s neck, standing in front of a “white only” sign. The last image showed a cop with his knee on a black man’s neck while the man says, “I can’t breathe.”

The assignment was given in a Cooper Junior High social studies class, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where students were learning about the Bill of Rights.

Wylie Independent School District, of which Cooper Junior High is a part, said the assignment was not authorized by any of the district’s officials, meaning it was not part of the official curriculum.

Wylie resident Amber Jennings told the Star-Telegram that the class assignment was disturbing, especially since its recipients are 13- and 14-year-old students.

“Don’t indoctrinate our children to think this way,” Jennings said.

It’s unclear who the teacher was that handed out this assignment, but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called on the school district to fire the person in question immediately.

Black Man Arrested for Shooting at Trump Supporters Near RNC

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Black Man Arrested for Shooting at Trump Supporters Near RNC

Police in Fort Mill, South Carolina — a suburb of Charlotte, NC, where the Republican National Convention was being held — arrested a black man, 23-year-old Marquise Damarius Asomani, on Tuesday for shooting at a group of President Donald Trump‘s supporters, WSOC-TV reported.

Witnesses said a car with three men drove past the supporters a few times while cussing at them.

Then the vehicle turned onto I-77, headed north in the direction of Charlotte, and the driver leaned out the window, yelled, and fired bullets at the crowd.

No one was shot or injured.

“We had all the windows down because we had all the flags out the windows, and it was very loud and it was four or five shots,” said Angie Freeman, who was at the parade.

A South Carolina state trooper was on the bridge when the shots were fired.

Police officers pursued the vehicle, and then found it at Gold Hill Road and Deerfield Drive with no one in it.

They saw Asomani, who fit the description that witnesses gave to officers, with two other men in a different car.

Officers stopped the car, questioned the men, and arrested Asomani.

“Officers spoke with several people that stated they were present at a political gathering, in that area of Sutton Road, when three male subjects drove by more than once, making derogatory remarks and yelling obscenities at them, from their vehicle,” said Fort Mill Police Dept. Major Bryan Zachary to the Charlotte Observer.

“The victims also stated that, as the vehicle turned from Sutton Road onto the ramp to northbound I-77, the driver of the vehicle continued yelling and then extended his arm through the window, while holding what appeared to be a handgun. The victims further stated that, at that moment, they heard several shots fired, and the vehicle then proceeded northbound on the Interstate.”

The other two men were set free and were not charged.

Police charged Asomani with “six counts of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, one count of unlawful carrying of a pistol, one count of pointing and presenting firearms at a person and possession of a firearm during a violent crime,” WSOC-TV reported.

Sore-Loser Hillary Clinton Tells Biden Not to Concede ‘Under Any Circumstances’

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Sore-Loser Hillary Clinton Tells Biden Not to Concede ‘Under Any Circumstances’

While one former First Lady—Michelle Obama—is fond of encouraging her fellow Democrats to take the high road when political opponents are perceived to “go low,” another—Hillary Clinton—is telling Democrats to stoop even lower.

In a dramatic about-face from her own race against President Donald Trump, the failed 2016 presidential candidate suggested that current Democrat nominee Joe Biden should refuse to accept the results of the upcoming November election.

“Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances,” Clinton said in a remote interview with her former campaign stooge Jennifer Palmieri for a site called The Recount.

Clinton recklessly and dangerously declared that Trump’s victory would be invalid due to suspicions that he might cheat to win.

But she said that by being sore-losers the Left could ultimately prevail in a drawn-out war of attrition—albeit one that, inevitably, would further erode the foundations of democracy and increase partisan acrimony.

“I think this is gonna drag out,” Clinton said, “and eventually I do believe he [Biden] will win if we don’t give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is.”

Clinton—known for her efforts in the last race to commission false reports alleging Trump conspired with the Russians, as well as having tried to take down former primary rival Barack Obama by suggesting he was born in Kenya—tested out some new conspiracy theories in the short clip posted on Twitter.

She promoted, without evidence, a claim that Trump would try to interfere with absentee balloting. The misleading narrative already has circulated widely within the leftist media echo-chamber, and it figured prominently into claims during the Democratic National Convention last week that the president was trying to eliminate the post office.

Democrats, themselves seeking to undermine election integrity, have pressed for a series of legal changes to elections, claiming that the circumstances of the coronavirus prevent many citizens from voting in person.

As a result, several blue-led states insist they must send ballots to every person listed on their drastically out-of-date voter rolls (while fighting efforts to clean them up), legalize ballot harvesting, eliminate requirements for witness signatures and do away with deadlines that cut off the counting of late ballots after Election Day.

“We’ve gotta have a massive legal operation, and I know the Biden campaign is working on that,” Clinton said.

Clinton and other leftist operatives have repeatedly attempted to muddy the issue by conflating legitimate absentee ballot practices—which are widely supported and involve thorough vetting—with their radical attempts at sowing Election Day chaos.

But for those who do insist on voting in person, despite the apparent dangers that Left insists the virus will pose, Clinton said radical activists should be ready to gather outside of polling places and engage in voter-intimidation efforts, which she suggested would only be in response to similar efforts on the Right.

“We have to have our own people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places,” she said.

No evidence exists that the Right is planning any such efforts.

Businesses Flee Downtown Portland Amid Ongoing Riots

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Businesses Flee Downtown Portland Amid Ongoing Riots

A leading developer in Portland warned that the city’s ongoing race riots will likely do permanent damage even if Democrat officials in charge are able to contain them eventually.

In a letter to Mayor Ted Wheeler and Portland City Council, Greg Goodman, the co-president of the Downtown Development Group, said that businesses that once formed the life-blood of Portland’s central district are now fleeing in droves, KOIN reported.

“The number is like nothing I have seen in 42 years of doing business in downtown,” Goodman warned.

Among the companies fleeing were a number of high-end economic drivers, including: Daimler Chrysler (the parent company of Mercedes–Benz, AirB&B, Banana Republic, Microsoft and Google.

“The list goes on and on. If you know a retail or office broker, give them a call and ask them how many clients they have are trying to leave,” Goodman wrote.

He urged the civic leaders to stop hiding in their ivory towers and instead bear witness to the aftermath of the nightly rampages.

“I would encourage each of you to walk around downtown Portland in the morning. Name the time and I will give you a tour,” Goodman wrote.

“You aren’t sweeping the streets, needles are all over the place, garbage cans are broken and left open, glass from car windows that have been broken out is all over the streets, parks are strewn with litter (their fountains turned off) weeds are taller than the plants in the planter boxes, graffiti is on sculptures, etc,” he continued. “You are willfully neglecting your duties as elected officials to keep our city safe and clean.”

Conservatives have noted the radical Marxist agenda of the Black Lives Matter movement, saying the group that has taken a lead role in organizing the protests might not be as committed to pursuing social justice as to fomenting chaos.

But Goodman was careful not to point fingers that would allow him to become another victim of the race-baiting cancel culture of those who criticize the movement.

He told the far-left city leaders that the exodus had nothing to do with the BLM cause, “but does have most everything to do with the lawlessness you are endorsing downtown.”

Federal officials with the Department of Homeland Security have confirmed in previous congressional testimony that violent anarchists, some affiliated with the domestic terrorism network Antifa, had embedded themselves in the groups of otherwise nonviolent protesters, effectively waging a sort of urban guerilla warfare.

That has led even some of the so-called peaceful protesters to declare their frustration with the destruction.

“I understand and I see the frustration because I’m just like, it’s like, burning a mattress for me or a Dumpster, doesn’t necessarily help my community,” said protester Linneas Boland-Godbey. “And that’s why I’m out here being, like, can we do a different form of protest besides burning down something?”

Wheeler, however, who has reveled in the national attention, went the opposite route by deflecting blame and promoting a conspiracy theory that it was right-wing extremists who were responsible for the unrest.

“I vehemently oppose what the Proud Boys and those associated with them stand for, and I will not tolerate hate speech and the damage it does in our city,” he said in a statement to KOIN.

“White nationalists, particularly those coming to our city armed, threaten the safety of Portlanders, and are not welcome here,” he continued.

But Wheeler complained that the culture he helped foster by sending ambiguous messaging about his support for the riots—even participating in them himself—had now undermined the authority of law enforcement to the point that even they could not effectively contain the chaos.

“We are at a critical place where police officers are needed to intervene in protests where police officers themselves are the flashpoint,” he said.

Several other cities have been facing similar problems as a result of the protests.

In the wake of George Floyd’s death on Memorial Day while in police custody, violence, looting, arson and vandalism there were reported to have driven out many longtime businesses.

Some of the staples of Chicago’s downtown Magnificent Mile have threatened to leave following a recent mob gathering there.

And New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is begging Manhattan elites to return to the city after many fled, even promising to “cook” for them if they help foot the city’s massive tax bill.

WATCH: Pelosi Calls Republicans ‘Enemies of the State’

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WATCH: Pelosi Calls Republicans ‘Enemies of the State’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Republicans should be considered “enemies of the state” because they are helping President Trump interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

During an interview with MSNBC on Monday, Pelosi once again pushed the debunked conspiracy theory that Trump worked with Russia to win the election in 2016, and accused the GOP of helping him do the same thing once again.

“The Russians were there and they are there now 24-7, trying to interfere in our election. But they’re not the only ones. We take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic, and sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring our Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies in the Congress of the United States,” Pelosi said.

Pelosi’s accusation even earned a gasp from MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin, who replied, “Wow!”

The California Democrat then floated another conspiracy theory that alleged Trump is working with the U.S. Postal Service to suppress Democratic voters.

“They’re doing everything they can, suppress the vote with your actions, scare people, intimidate by saying law enforcement will be there, uh, diminish the role of the postal system and all of this, it’s really actually shameful,” she claimed.

“Enemies of the state,” Pelosi repeated.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pointed out the similarity between Pelosi’s comments and Hillary Clinton’s infamous “deplorables” insult.

And Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., who was shot by a deranged leftist in 2017, reminded voters that this kind of “disgusting” rhetoric can lead to actual violence.

“Enemies of the state and all of this — that’s the hyper-charged language that led a gunman trying to kill every Republican on the ball field,” Scalise told Fox News. “Why don’t we talk about issues? They don’t want to talk about issues.”

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