Journalists Sue DOJ Inspector General for Records from Probe of FBI's FISA Abuse

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‘It doesn’t vindicate anybody at the FBI who touched this, including the leadership…’

NeverTrump Sen. Sasse 'Embarrassed' by Report of FBI's FISA Abuses
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(Joshua Paladino, Liberty Headlines) A lawsuit filed by conservative journalists under the Freedom of Information Act could uncover the documents that informed Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz‘s December report about the FBI’s illicit spying on the Trump campaign.
The Daily Caller News Foundation and Citizens United sued the DOJ inspector general for the records on Tuesday, the Daily Caller reported.
The FOIA lawsuit seeks to obtain transcripts, summaries and notes from interviews with 27 individuals that the IG’s office conducted during the course of the investigation.
The inspector general interviewed witnesses such as Christopher Steele, author of the salacious Steele Dossier reports that formed the basis of the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” sting operation against the President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who led investigations into alleged collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia’s government, were also among the many high-up Obama administration officials interviewed.
Horowitz found that the FBI’s handling of the warrant applications to spy on Trump aide Carter Page under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was extremely problematic. His report noted 17 critical errors with the FISA application process, which allegedly included the illegal altering of evidence by a partisan FBI attorney.
FBI officials failed to inform FISA judges about exculpatory information on Page before applying to extend the spy warrants, and they ignored several red flags regarding the accuracy of the Steele Dossier.
“It doesn’t vindicate anybody at the FBI who touched this, including the leadership,” Horowitz said in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in December.
However, apart from recommending prosecution for low-level FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, Horowitz’s report stopped short of claiming that top FBI officials broke any laws.
“It finds that it was a properly predicated investigation based on the rules of the FBI,” Horowitz said in December.
That conclusion came under further scrutiny on Friday, after the DOJ declassified three footnotes from Horowitz’s report that said the Russian government provided Steele with false information.
According to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a member of the Judiciary Committee, the FBI’s decision to proceed despite having knowledge of the dossier’s credibility issues, which it failed to resolve before using it as the lone source of the warrant applications, shows that the entire investigation was improperly predicated.
The FOIA lawsuit seeks additional records from DOJ officials Loretta Lynch, Sally Yates, Rod Rosenstein, Bruce Ohr, Andrew Weissmann, Zainab Ahmad, Bruce Swartz, Stuart Evans, John Carlin, Mary McCord, George Toscas, and David Laufman.
The lawsuit seeks records from FBI officials James Baker, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bill Priestap, James Rybicki and Michael Kortan. 

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Calif. Mayor Resigns but Won’t Apologize for Posts Calling Trump Voters KKK, Nazis

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‘Am I perfect? No. We’re all a little flawed…’

Calif. Mayor Resigns But Refuses to Apologize For Comparing Trump Supporters to KKK, Nazis
William Kirby / IMAGE: Auburn Community Television

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A California mayor resigned on Monday after facing backlash for comments he made online comparing President Donald Trump’s supporters to the Ku Klux Klan and Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Auburn Mayor William Kirby posted a picture of a hooded KKK member on Facebook that stated, “Good news for Trump supporters is that most of them already have masks” (see below).

Kirby, whose Facebook account is no longer publicly visible, shared the apparent meme image with his own commentary saying, “True.”

Another post showed Kirby telling another social media user: “If Hitler and everyone who supported him was removed from the face of the earth in 1939, the world would be a much better place. The same is more true of Trump and his supporters today.”

Kirby also commented on a re-post of an Atlantic article and said, “That right-wing corona virus denier Borish Johnson just got hospitalized. Guess which 2 should be next!!!! And god bless all those evangelicals going to church in large groups….There is no cure for stupid….But they all vote for Trump anyways so it is ok….” he wrote, according to the Auburn Journal.

Kirby was also regularly involved in heated online exchanges, according to several screenshots. In one exchange, he tells another user, “F*** off you right-wing nut case,” and calls the user an “un-American Nazi clown.”

When confronted, Kirby admitted to the Auburn City Council that his comments were “over-the-top,” but he did not apologize.

“I spent 40 years dedicating my life to serving the community of Auburn as a physician and through my volunteer efforts. Am I perfect? No. We’re all a little flawed,” Kirby said, according to KDVR-TV.

Kirby then tried to blame his comments on Trump: “The president has put us all at risk,” he said. “I believe history will judge those who stood up against damaging policies and ideologies and those that did not.”

But after the other city council members and dozens of Auburn citizens demanded Kirby’s resignation, Kirby agreed to step down at the next city council meeting on April 27. He has continued to defend his comments, arguing that they were unrelated to his mayoral duties.

“[Facebook] is not a city site. It’s a personal site. This has nothing to do with my job. I re-posted it. I think [Trump] is a racist, absolutely,” he told the Auburn Journal.


Georgia Dem. Condemned by Party for Endorsing Trump Reelection

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‘He’s doing something that’s never been done before…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A Democratic state representative in Georgia broke with his party and endorsed President Donald Trump’s reelection bid, praising the president’s handling of the economy and his support for the African–American community.

State Rep. Vernon Jones told the Atlanta Journal–Constitution that he isn’t switching to the GOP, but that doesn’t mean he can’t support the president.

“It’s very simple to me,” Jones said. “President Trump’s handling of the economy, his support for historically black colleges and his criminal justice initiatives drew me to endorse his campaign.”

Jones said that he isn’t the only one in the African–American community who sees and appreciates how Trump’s policies have benefited the U.S.

“When you look at the unemployment rates among black Americans before the pandemic, they were at historic lows,” Jones explained. “He’s doing something that’s never been done before.”

Jones has represented a deep-blue district since the 1990s, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Georgia Democrat Endorses Trump for Reelection, Draws Condemnation From Party Colleagues
Vernon Jones / CBS46 Atlanta

However, he has repeatedly bumped heads and created controversy among his Democratic colleagues because he considers himself “an independent thinker and a conservative Democrat who supports faith-based initiatives, tough immigration laws, and fiscal responsibility,” Jones told the AJC.

Nikema Williams, the chairwoman of Georgia’s Democratic Party, slammed Jones as an “embarrassment” to the party who clearly “does not stand for our values,” while also suggesting that Jones had betrayed the black community.

“Never has that been clearer than this moment, when he chose to stand with the racist president who has made an all-out assault on Black Americans, who has tried to rip away American health care, and who has failed our country in its greatest time of need during the most important election in our lifetimes,” Williams said in a statement.

She called on Georgia’s Democratic voters to oust both Jones and Trump.

“Vernon Jones doesn’t speak for Georgians, and neither does Donald Trump—which is why Georgians will send him home in November 2020,” she said.

AOC: Biden’s Rape Accuser is Credible, ‘Legitimate to Talk About’

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‘If we again want to have integrity, you can’t say, you know—both believe women, support all of this, until it inconveniences you…’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Facing Serious Allegations of $1M Campaign Slush Fund
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-N.Y., said it is “legitimate to talk about” the sexual-assault allegation made against presidential candidate Joe Biden, especially since Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Tara Reade, a former congressional staffer who worked in congressional office accused the then-Delaware senator of sexually assaulting her in 1993.

At least two of Reade’s friends have confirmed she told them about the incident at the time it happened, but very few Democrats have been willing to acknowledge the serious allegation.

When asked if it was something the Democratic Party should address, Ocasio–Cortez agreed that it was necessary, even if inconvenient.

“I think it’s legitimate to talk about these things,” Ocasio–Cortez said during an online forum hosted by The Wing, a leftist women’s network.

“And if we want, if we again want to have integrity, you can’t say, you know—both believe women, support all of this, until it inconveniences you, until it inconveniences us.”

An investigative journalist who covered entertainment mogul Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault case also investigated Reade’s accusation against Biden, and found it to be much more substantive than other accusations the media has covered.

The two friends Reade allegedly spoke to after the incident were “incredibly credible people,” said journalist Rich McHugh.

“These were not short conversations. I drilled down on the details of the story and they matched up with her story,” McHugh told The Hill.

In a story for Business Insider, McHugh said he spoke with another former Biden intern who was not told about the alleged assault, but who did remember Reade being abruptly removed from her post in April 1993, which is when Reade said the assault occurred.

There were several other corroborating accounts, McHugh explained to The Hill, which gave him “a bedrock of information from which to proceed comfortably.”

Despite this corroborative evidence, many mainstream outlets have refused to report Reade’s accusation against Biden.

Even though they gladly ran with Christine Blasey Ford’s unconfirmed story during Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing and have accepted without scrutiny several baseless accusations against President Donald Trump, outlets like the New York Times claimed Reade’s account did not rise to the same level.

Times executive editor Dean Baquet, an unapologetic Trump-basher, defended the paper’s two-week delay in reporting on Reade’s accusation by claiming, paradoxically, that Ford’s claim against Kavanaugh was much more public—and thus more newsworthy.

By contrast, Baquet said few in his circle of Manhattan elites had shown interest enough to elevate Reade into the national zeitgeist, assuming they had even heard about her alleged rape by the presidential hopeful.

“If you ask the average person in America, they didn’t know about the Tara Reade case,” Baquet said after the Times faced heavy criticism for making stealth-edits and omissions in their reporting at the behest of the Biden campaign.

“Kavanaugh was in a very different situation,” Baquet insisted. “It was a live, ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in the country.”

Blasey Ford’s hazy allegations of a drunken high-school assault would have occurred roughly eight years before Reade’s alleged assault.

Kavanaugh’s accuser, a California psychology professor and left-wing pro-abortion activist, also claimed to have suppressed the memory of it, only revisiting it two decades later, after the conservative federal judge’s name was circulated as a possible Supreme Court pick.

Ocasio–Cortez admitted the double-standard was unfair. Despite having put forward the “most diverse field that we’ve ever seen” during the primaries, Democrats were once again “kind of replaying old movies in a way,” she complained.

“I think a lot of us are just in this moment where it’s like, how did we get here?” she asked. “You know, it almost felt like we started this cycle where we had kind of moved on from, you know, from all of this. And now it feels like we’re kind of back in it.”

Trump-Derangement-Afflicted Pelosi Warns Americans to ‘Ignore the Lies’

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‘The truth is a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility…’

Nancy Pelosi rips her copy of President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union Address. / IMAGE: MSNBC via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi relentlessly pursued her obsession with impeaching President Donald Trump in January and early February, she distracted not only Congress but the entire nation from the growing threat of the coronavirus.

On Tuesday, Pelosi—who also tried to derail crucial relief funding to U.S. citizens by holding it hostage with a wish-list of Democrat demands—continued to indulge the same irrational vindictiveness against Trump that prompted her to rip up his State of the Union address.

Even though pandemic experts Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx have acknowledged that Trump embraced every recommendation they made from the very start, Pelosi claimed in a “Dear Colleague” missive to House Democrats that the president had “ignored those warnings, took insufficient action and caused unnecessary death and disaster.”

Pelosi’s letter, which she also released publicly as a press release on her taxpayer-funded Speaker.gov website and shared via Twitter, appeared to have the tone of a fundraising email.

“We will overcome this moment, but success requires one fundamental from which all actions will follow: we need the truth,” she wrote. “To succeed in this crisis, we must insist on the truth, and we must act upon it!”

She offered six bullet points attacking Trump for his “incompetent reaction” and falsely claiming that he dismantled infrastructure left over from the Obama administration—contrary to the proven reports that Trump’s White House predecessor had depleted and failed to replenish crucial medical supplies in the national stockpile.

Conveniently, after more than three years of insisting the legislative chamber was co-equal to the executive branch and demanding disruptive oversight of the latter, Pelosi sought to deflect any responsibility away from Congress, which—like Trump—was briefed on the coronavirus in January.

“The truth is a weak person, a poor leader, takes no responsibility,” she wrote, ostensibly referencing Trump.

“A weak person blames others,” she continued. “From this moment on, Americans must ignore lies and start to listen to scientists and other respected professionals in order to protect ourselves and our loved ones.”

While the virus has ravaged countless nations around the world, with a global average mortality rate of around 6.5 percent, Trump’s leadership, in coordination with the bipartisan experts on his Coronavirus Task Force, has kept the U.S. rate below average at around 4.3 percent.

Much of the outbreak was contained to major urban areas—in particular, New York, which accounts for an estimated 4o percent of all U.S. deaths.

Nonetheless, leftists have extolled the leadership of New York’s Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who—like Trump—initially downplayed the spread and encouraged citizens to conduct business as usual on March 3, when the state had six reported cases.

“The bottom line realization that 80 percent of the people will self-cure, self-resolve the virus and the target problem,” Cuomo said at the time. “The 1.2% mortality is senior citizens and people who have compromised immune systems.”

The Left has disingenuously sought to capitalize on the virus in other ways—not only by asserting oppressive authoritarianism over citizens and curtailing their basic constitutional rights, but also by promoting a ploy to force the November election to be conducted via mail-in ballots. That would open the door to unparalleled vote fraud and ballot mishandling.

With the virus threat appearing to wane even in the most heavily hit areas and fewer new cases admitted to intensive-care units, Trump is pushing for the nation and its once booming economy to get back to business sooner than later.

But Pelosi’s letter suggested that she intended to milk the crisis for as long as possible, appealing not only to her party’s basest fearmongering instincts, but also to the notion that they were victims of a vast, right-wing conspiracy being orchestrated by Trump.

“There are important decisions ahead,” Pelosi wrote. “But if we are not working from the truth, more lives will be lost, economic hardship and suffering will be extended unnecessarily.”

Can Gov’t Put Spy Cameras on Your Property Without a Warrant?

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‘If the state can put cameras on my farm whenever they want, that really destroys the notion that this land is private…’

Lawsuit Challenges Tennessee Officials for Putting Cameras on Private Land
Terry Rainwaters / PHOTO: Nathan Morgan via Institute for Justice

(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) The Fourth Amendment forbids warrantless searches, but Tennessee wildlife officials think it’s perfectly fine to accomplish the same thing by trespassing onto private land and setting up cameras.

A new lawsuit is attempting to stop the practice.

“In America, private land is not open to public officers,” said Joshua Windham, an attorney for the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that advocates for private property rights.

If successful, the case would apply to all Tennesseans, but it centers on two rural property-owners, Terry Rainwaters and Hunter Hollingsworth.

Both live, farm and hunts on large tracts along the Big Sandy River in Camden, Tenn. Like many farms and rural properties,  they post “no trespassing” signs to discourage unwelcome visitors, including poachers.

But agents from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ignored the signs and intruded on the properties to conceal and retrieve cameras in an effort to find hunting violations.

According to the lawsuit, Rainwaters and Hollingsworth discovered the cameras had been installed in late 2017 after previously witnessing officials from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency who appeared to be spying on them without probable cause.

“It’s deeply disturbing that I never know whether a state game officer is walking around my land or watching my private activities,” Rainwaters said in an IJ statement. “If the state can put cameras on my farm whenever they want, that really destroys the notion that this land is private.”

The agency claimed to be exploiting a loophole in property laws that allows for warrantless searches of “open fields.”

Ironically, the Tennessee Constitution provides greater protections than the U.S. Supreme Court in this area, and the state’s Supreme Court has rejected the “open fields” doctrine several times.

But it’s taking another lawsuit to make those protections stick.

“Nobody thinks it’s OK for government agents to set up a tent on your property and watch you day and night,” said IJ attorney Jaba Tsitsuashvili. “How is installing a camera on your property to do the same thing any different?”

DOJ Sides w/ Church Against Mayor Who Banned Drive-In Services

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‘The City appears to have thereby singled churches out as the only essential service … that may not operate…’

Mississippi Mayor Defends Drive-In Church Services Ban, Says Residents Won't Have To Pay $500 Fines
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) The Justice Department has weighed in regarding a Mississippi church’s lawsuit against a local mayor who banned drive-in church services.

The DOJ sided with Temple Baptist Church in Greenville, Mississippi, in a filing on Tuesday.

Attorney General William Barr said in a statement that Mayor Errick Simmons’s executive order “strongly suggests that the city’s actions target religious conduct” after drive-in service attendees were fined $500 each on Easter Sundays.

“The City of Greenville fined congregants $500 per person for attending these parking lot services, while permitting citizens to attend nearby drive-in restaurants, even with their windows open,” Barr said.

These drive-ins services do not violate the federal government’s social distancing orders, the Justice Department noted, pointing out that congregants remained in their cars while the pastor preached over the car radios.

Yet Simmons continues to insist that these services must end until the state’s shelter-in-place order is lifted.

“The City appears to have thereby singled churches out as the only essential service (as designated by the state of Mississippi) that may not operate despite following all CDC and state recommendations regarding social distancing,” Barr continued.

Simmons clarified on Monday that the fined residents will not need to pay the $500 tickets, but said the drive-in service ban will stay in place.

Temple Baptist Church’s case against Simmons and the city “raises issues of national public importance regarding the interplay between the government’s compelling interest in protecting public health and safety from COVID-19 and citizens’ fundamental right to free exercise of religion,” the DOJ’s filing states.

The church’s allegations against Greenville might very well be a violation of the free exercise of religion, the DOJ said, which is why the federal government has taken an active interest in its case.

“Even in times of emergency, when reasonable and temporary restrictions are placed on rights, the First Amendment and federal statutory law prohibit discrimination against religious institutions and religious believers,” Barr concluded.

Liberal State AGs Ask SCOTUS to Let Immigrants Access Welfare Because of COVID-19

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Increasing numbers of immigrants have begun forbearing from Medicaid coverage … based on concerns that using such benefits will render them a “public charge”…’

Incoming New York Attorney General Plans to Launch Extensive Investigations Into Trump
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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) The liberal attorneys general of New York, Connecticut and Vermont are asking the Supreme Court to put a temporary stay on the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule, claiming the coronavirus should prompt SCOTUS to reconsider the immigration policy’s value.

The Trump administration’s “public charge” rule allows immigration authorities to see whether immigrant applicants use public benefits, such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers, before they award green cards and/or visas.

The Supreme Court upheld this rule in a 5-4 decision earlier in its term, but the states are still trying to fight it.

New York Attorney general Letitia James argued in the states’ petition that immigrants are “highly vulnerable” to the coronavirus because many work in essential industries, such as food and retail delivery.

Because of this, many have been exposed to the virus and have had to depend on public-health benefits, such as Medicaid.

The Trump administration’s “public charge” rule, however, discourages immigrants from applying for these benefits.

“Since the Public Charge Rule came into effect, increasing numbers of immigrants have begun forbearing from Medicaid coverage and other publicly funded healthcare benefits based on concerns that using such benefits will render them a ‘public charge’ and thus jeopardize their ability to obtain legal permanent resident status and, eventually, citizenship,” the petition states, according to CNN.

James also claimed that the immigration policy could actually accelerate the spread of the coronavirus by discouraging immigrants from seeking medical attention.

“Every person who doesn’t get the health coverage they need today risks infecting another person with the coronavirus tomorrow,” James said in a statement, adding that the “public charge” actively undermines “efforts to slow the continued spread of the virus happening nationwide.”

Justin Amash Floats Third-Party Presidential Bid as Reelection Chances Fade

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‘Amash is now his own island…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Justin Amash, I-Mich., teased that he’s looking into a third-party presidential bid against President Donald Trump this November.

Amash, who left the Republican Party last year, tweeted on Monday that he’s looking “closely” at his options.

He made this comment after blasting Trump’s claim of “total authority” over the states’ ability to reopen the country in the wake of the coronavirus, declaring that Trump is “flat-out wrong.”

“Americans who believe in limited government deserve another option,” Amash tweeted.

After one Twitter user encouraged him to become that “other option,” Amash suggested he’s considering it.

Amash’s presidential bid makes sense given his waning chances of reelection in Michigan. The Cook Political Report, which has accurately called Michigan’s 3rd Congressional District race for the past five elections, is now predicting that Amash will not win as an independent.

“Amash is now his own island,” election forecaster David Wasserman said in a statement back in December.

“It’s doubtful there’s a sufficient market for a pro-life/pro-impeachment independent in the district to allow him a path to a sixth term,” Wasserman said. “He had $273,000 in the bank at the end of September—far less than the GOP nominee is likely to be able to spend—and won’t be able to lean on financial support from either party.”

Amash made it clear in the past that he wouldn’t rule out a presidential bid, but noted he would only do so if he thought he had a chance.

“I’ll continue to weigh where I think I can make the most impact, but I also think it’s important to be successful when you run for office,” he told Rolling Stone late last year.

“If I were to run for president, that’s not something I would do unless I felt very confident I could win it,” he continued. “And so if you were to see me get into the race it means that I’m confident I can win the race.”

Anchor Chris Cuomo Trashes CNN During Epic Radio Rant

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‘I want to be able to tell you to go to hell, to shut your mouth … I don’t get that doing what I do for a living…’

CNN's Chris Cuomo Interrputs, Abruptly Ends Interview with Trump Campaign Spokesperson
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(Michael Barnes, Liberty Headlines) CNN anchor Chris Cuomo briefly broke from delivering the fake news on Monday for an honest moment of candor.

But after suggesting that he’d had enough of the far-left network, he quickly backpedaled, saying he “never meant it.”

The host of the cable news network’s Cuomo Prime Time went on an epic rant yesterday on his SiriusXM radio show and said that recovering from the dreaded Wuhan coronavirus had helped him put his life in proper perspective.

“I don’t like what I do professionally,” he said. “I don’t think it’s worth my time.”

Cuomo relayed his frustrations about trafficking in content he finds “ridiculous” and said he no longer wants to spend his time doing things that aren’t valuable to him.

“I don’t think it’s worth it to me because I don’t think I mean enough, I don’t think I matter enough, I don’t think I can really change anything, so then what am I really doing?” Cuomo lamented.

“I’m basically being perceived as successful in a system that I don’t value,” he added.

Cuomo, who is the younger brother of Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also said that making millions of dollars as a cable news personality is no longer worth being a public punching bag.

Beyond public insults and social media taunts of “Fredo,” a reference to the incompetent brother of Michael Corleone in the Godfather movies, Cuomo recounted an incident on Easter Sunday when a motorcyclist verbally accosted him outside of his posh home in Southampton, New York.

“I don’t want some jackass, loser, fat tire biker being able to pull over and get in my space and talk bulls–t to me, I don’t want to hear it,” Cuomo said.

“I want to be able to tell you to go to hell, to shut your mouth … I don’t get that doing what I do for a living,” he continued.

Cuomo has expressed similar sentiments in the past, defending himself after his “Fredo” meltdown by insisting that the word was an ethnic pejorative akin to the “n-word.”

However, he was chided by African–American leaders for comparing the two.

True to form, Cuomo’s meltdown included a potshot at President Donald Trump. He said he regrets incessantly covering the president and said Trump was “full of s–t.”

But he clarified some of those attacks on Tuesday, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Cuomo dismissed the unhinged diatribe as a fever-dream, indicating that he had signed a long-term contract extension with CNN recently.

“I love where I am, I love the position that I’ve been given, and I love who I’m doing it with,” he said.

“Those are all matters of fact for me,” he continued. “No place has ever been better to me. No place has ever given me the opportunities that [CNN president] Jeff Zucker has.”

Nonetheless, the dynastic political scion doubled-down on his derisive criticism of the viewing public for failing to be on the same enlightened, nonpartisan wavelength as him.

“It is frustrating to do this job in an environment where people are not interested and open,” he complained.

“It is hard to practice journalism when people are so intent on believing what they want to believe for political advantage,” continued Cuomo, who frequently interviews his own brother despite the clear conflict of interest and violation of journalism ethics. “It makes you question: Is it worth the effort?”

Liberty Headlines’ Ben Sellers contributed to this report.

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