FLAKE: Republican Party ‘Doomed Long-Term’ if Trump is Re-Elected

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‘I would like to vote for a responsible Democrat…’

Jeff Flake: Sending Troops to Guard the Border Was Nothing More Than a 'Stunt'
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Rejected by Republicans in his own state, former Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona said in an interview this week projecting doom and gloom if President Donald Trump is re-elected.

Trump’s rise to power, he told Deseret News, signified the “spasms of a dying party.”

The centrist NeverTrumper—who hails from the desert town of Snowflake, Ariz.—continues to relive his Capitol Hill glory days, including the watershed moment when he was able to leverage his swing vote status to force an FBI investigation of then Supreme Court-nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid salacious, uncorroborated allegations of a decades-old sexual assault.

But even before that, from the outset of Trump’s candidacy, when the future president clashed with fellow Arizona Sen. John McCain and cast aspersions on his military record, Flake was already drawing battle lines.

Now, the ex-congressman says he is actively exploring Democratic options as a last resort.

“I’m more conservative than any of the Democrats running for office,” he said. “What I would like is for the Republican Party to nominate someone else. That doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen. … So, I would like to vote for a responsible Democrat.”

Flake said he was currently leaning toward Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet or Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar. However, he also saw redeeming bipartisan qualities in New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker or former Vice President Joe Biden, the current front-runner.

Meanwhile, in his post-Senate career, Flake has been capitalizing on the lucrative Trump-bashing speaker circuit, including regular college-campus gigs and a contributor contract with CBS News. He’s also been invited to serve a 10-week stint as a visiting lecturer at Harvard University in September.

When offering his analysis of the future of the Republican Party, he cited California as a model for how pushing back against the unrelenting wave of left-wing extremism “spells doom long-term.”

Flake said California’s Republican Gov. Pete Wilson in the 1990s was able to rally the conservative base by supporting strong anti-immigration policies, but ultimately the backlash from Latino voters helped solidify the state’s far-left dominance.

“[Y]ou may win a battle, but you lose the war,” Flake told Deseret News. “You can drill down on the base, and it may work in an election here or there, but at some point you run out of angry people.”

Seeing immigration as a losing fight, Flake has long embraced amnesty and more open-border oriented solutions.

He said creating more barriers to illegal immigration at the Mexican border had, paradoxically, shifted the demand from workers who would cross it to work and return home to families seeking to stay.

Flake neglected, however, to mention the many efforts by globalist progressives to encourage illegal immigration by recruiting caravans of migrants to flee Third-World countries and declare themselves as refugees.

Those without family units of their own are often counseled to obtain children who will help expedite their release if caught.

Blue-leaning “sanctuary” states then incentivize the illegals to remain in the U.S. by providing taxpayer-subsidized entitlement benefits, while the increases in non-citizen populations afford their jurisdictions more federal funding and voting power.

It was, in fact, the refusal of the Obama administration to enforce deportations—and the subsequent re-interpretation of immigration law by activist liberal judges—that catalyzed the current influx of families, knowing they could exploit loopholes in the asylum policy.

But in addition to the demographic trend that favors low-income Latino voters, Flake said millennials and suburban, female “soccer moms” were also turning away from the Republican Party.

As the Left drives the debate toward socialist policies like free college tuition and pushes farther to the fringes on wedge issues like abortion, the effort by ‘Trumpist’ conservatives to push back in equal measure ultimately alienates voters who are allured by the siren song of identity politics.

“[T]hey look at the president and say that’s not my party and usually become independent,” he said.

As for himself, Flake claimed that, despite his disparagement of conservative principles, he was keeping the door open before declaring his full-time conversion to Democrat, but he also hadn’t ruled it out.

“At some point, you always make the calculation if we see something irredeemable. I don’t think it is,” he said. “I do think that we can become ourselves again.”

Even so, he said a second Trump term would hinder rather than help the process.

“It’s going to be a lot easier to do after one term than two,” he said.

Flake continues to toe the line on matters such as whether Trump is a racist—saying he, himself, would never use the rhetoric but stopping short of repudiating those who did.

“[T]here are times when the president goes so far that you have to speak out,” he said. “… And if Republicans don’t, then it just becomes normalized.”

Continuing to ignore the Left’s extremism and hate-mongering rhetoric, Flake dismissed the notion that the Kavanaugh protests he was famously confronted by during his waning months were the product of a calculated and orchestrated effort by paid activists.

He validated the premise that the #MeToo movement was an earnest, grassroots initiative and not a cynical, Hollywood-engineered ploy to weaponize allegations of rape for political leverage.

“These allegations (of sexual assault) struck a chord with a lot of women in particular, and rightly so,” Flake said, “because I think we all recognize one thing this #MeToo era has done is to make us all realize that we haven’t taken allegations like this seriously enough.”

De Blasio Open to Hiring Son as W.H. Adviser if Elected

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‘I don’t think there could be two more different people than the current president’s daughter and my son Dante…’

Dante de Blasio / IMAGE: NYForDeBlasio via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) While many on the Left sought to criticize President Donald Trump’s inclusion of his own daughter and son-in-law as official White House advisers, casting aspersions on their security-clearance eligibility and other procedural matters, one potential Democratic challenger didn’t see the big deal.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he would not rule out hiring his own son, Dante, as an adviser in the longshot event that he were elected a year from November, the New York Daily News reported.

But he was quick to draw a contrast with Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner.

“I don’t think there could be two more different people than the current president’s daughter and my son Dante,” de Blasio said Thursday.

Dante, a 21-year-old Yale University graduate, joined the campaign last month as a paid policy analyst, for which he’s helping draft an official platform and working with his dad on debate prep—assuming the elder de Blasio meets the threshold for the September round.

Candidates must garner at least 2 percent in four national or early state polls, as well as receiving donations from at least 130,000 unique contributors, with 400 being spread amongst no less than 20 states, said the Daily News.

The mayor, who has a storied history of blurring personal affairs with official business during his stint in City Hall, has struggled to gain traction in the crowded field of competitors.

De Blasio has garnered some of the most negative polling numbers of the more than two-dozen candidates, which now has been culled to 23 with the recent exit of former Gov. John Hickenlooper and Rep. Eric Swallwell.

“We’ve been working and fighting to get into September, it’s not there, I can be honest about that,” he said. “We’re going to keep working until the final hour because you never know what happens, a bunch of polls still could come in, and all sorts of things could happen online.”

De Blasio was reported to have been asking donors for $1 donations to meet the fundraising benchmark.

However, he wouldn’t say if and when he might consider dropping out, instead noting that if he didn’t make the September debate stage there was always October.

“I think this is a wide open situation … debates are a part of the picture, a lot of other things too,” he said.

NFL ‘Social Justice’ Deal w/ Jay-Z Offends Both Sides of Anthem-Kneeling Debate

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‘It looks like your goal was to make millions and millions of dollars by assisting the NFL in burying Colin’s career…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) After overtures to quell partisan grandstanding last year helped sagging NFL ratings to rebound somewhat from a sustained, multi-year decline, this year’s football season seems poised to get more political than ever.

The league announced Tuesday that it planned to partner with rapper Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to produce the Super Bowl halftime show—and that likely means a bombardment of “entertainment choices … heavily driven by ‘woke’ motivations,” according to Breitbart.

Even so, the NFL’s new “social justice” partnership was not enough to placate anthem-kneeling protestors like Carolina Panther’s safety Eric Reid, who denounced it as “disingenuous.”

The deal comes after Jay-Z last year refused to perform at the Super Bowl in protest of the league’s alleged mistreatment of former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, whose controversial anthem-kneeling had resulted in viewer boycotts.

Jay-Z’s wife, Beyonce, also generated controversy in her 2016 halftime performance, which included an anti-police song. New York police subsequently demanded an apology, reported Breitbart.

Many critiqued the dullness of last season’s final game (featuring a low-scoring, methodical win by perennial contenders the New England Patriots) as well as the halftime act (a tame, restrained effort by pop-stars Maroon 5).

Although the Super Bowl ratings were low, the season ratings, on a whole, trended upward with the league making a concerted effort to neutralize the kneeling controversy.

That left fans scratching their heads this week when NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell dove headfirst into the political rift by announcing the Jay-Z partnership while describing the hip-hop promoter as “globally influential” and “impactful” in a statement Wednesday.

“The NFL and Roc Nation share a vision of inspiring meaningful social change across our country,” Goodell said. “We are thrilled to partner with Roc Nation and look forward to making a difference in our communities together.”

In addition to the Super Bowl halftime production, the deal authorizes Jay-Z to oversee “the creation and distribution of music content across multiple music and streaming services, as well as consult and collaborate on the production, promotion, and marketing of live music events.”

Those leery of the social-justice virtue-signaling were not the only ones unhappy about the move.

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Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick / IMAGE: NFL Network via Youtube

On the other side, fans who cheered Jay-Z for taking a principled stance earlier found it odd that he had a change of heart even as Kaepernick remained unsigned.

The rapper suggested in a statement that it was about much more than money—but rather, the advancement of a cause.

“With its global reach, the National Football League has the platform and opportunity to inspire change across the country,” Jay-Z said.

“Roc Nation has shown that entertainment and enacting change are not mutually exclusive ideas—instead, we unify them,” he continued. “This partnership is an opportunity to strengthen the fabric of communities across America.”

But Reid was having none of it, saying in a public exchange, which took place largely over Twitter, that Jay-Z was throwing Kaepernick under the bus, according to Sports Illustrated.

Other outspoken left-wing activists, like fired ESPN anchor Jemele Hill, also jumped into the fray, saying any deal needed to address the Kaepernick issue.

However, it is unclear what the league could do to pressure team owners to hire the quarterback even if they wanted to.

After media pressed President Donald Trump to weigh in on the Kaepernick question last week, he surprised many by saying Kaepernick should be hired if he proved he was “good enough” athletically to meet the needs of a team, but not as a political stunt.

Some even suggested that Reid could show his solidarity by refusing to play—which he soundly dismissed.

USA Basketball Coach Claims Kaepernick the TRUE Patriot for His ‘Sacrifice’

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‘The show of patriotism I think is a bit inappropriate and that is not something that I think we want to emulate…’

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Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick / IMAGE: NFL Network via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) When former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick prominently claimed in a Nike ad last year that he was “sacrificing everything” to protest the national anthem, some may have had good reason to be skeptical.

But as Kaepernick’s third season of unemployment approaches, his spin machine is working overtime to cast him as a victim of oppression, echoing a common leftist trope.

The latest figure in professional sports to rally behind him was USA Basketball coach Gregg Popovich, who not only repeated the falsehood about the erstwhile signal-caller’s so-called sacrifice but ratcheted up the rhetoric by claiming Kaepernick was the true patriot.

“That was a very patriotic thing he did,” Popovich said in an interview with ESPN published Thursday. “He cared about his country enough to fix some things that were obvious, that everybody knows about but does nothing about.”

Kaepernick, who was benched for performance reasons in the 2016 season by the San Francisco 49ers, opted not to renew his contract with the team expecting a better deal as a free agent.

When that failed, he and fellow anthem-kneeler Eric Reid, now a starting safety for the Carolina Panthers, sued the NFL claiming they were being discriminated against and settled for an undisclosed amount.

On top of it all, Kaepernick cashed in on his iconoclastic status with an extremely lucrative Nike marketing contract while raking in awards from virtue-signaling leftist outlets, all without ever having to lift a finger—or even stand upright.

His latest flurry of controversy came after he posted an Instagram workout video saying he was still ready to play.

After being pressed by media, President Donald Trump weighed in, saying Kaepernick should play if he was “good enough” but not as a public-relations gimmick.

Now, others, like Popovich, are using Kaepernick’s stunt to spout their own unsolicited opinions on the matter, claiming the flag-bashing race-baiter is the truest patriot of them all.

“Patriotism means a lot of things to different people,” Popovich told ESPN. “There’s people who are truly committed in that sense and people who are fake.”

He went on to suggest that he objected to seeing overt displays of pride in America when there was so much about it to criticize.

“The show of patriotism I think is a bit inappropriate, and that is not something that, I think, we want to emulate,” Popovich said.

“Because someone hugs a flag doesn’t mean they’re patriotic,” he continued. “Being a patriot is somebody that respects their country and understands that the best thing about our country is that we have the ability to fix things that have not come to fruition for a lot of people so far.”

Other NFL players, including top running-back Saquon Barkley and Miami Dolphins receiver Kenny Stills have been vocal in their support of Kaepernick as well, insisting that team owners conspired—albeit ineffectively—to silence him.

Meanwhile, Reid said he plans to continue the controversial anthem-kneeling protest in the upcoming football season and indefinitely until he deems that the racial divisions in America have been healed to his satisfaction.

In spite—or perhaps because—of his act of disrespect, Reid told Sports Illustrated recently that racial progress in the country currently seems to be receding.

“It feels like we’re going backwards,” Reid said. “You’d like to think we’re past certain things, the way we treat people. I thought we were at a time where you love your neighbor as yourself. But as I’ve studied history—it hasn’t repeated itself necessarily, but it’s dressed a little different and is acting the same.”

Judicial Watch Documents Reveal Ohrs’ Involvement in Russia Hoax

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‘Clinton campaign operative Nellie Ohr may as well as have had a desk at the Justice Department…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Judicial Watch released a trove of documents that shed further light on the conspiracy linking the Obama Justice Department with the anti-Trump smear operation, funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign, that produced the now-debunked Steele Dossier.

The transparency watchdog said it had obtained 330 pages of Justice Department records through its public records requests outlining the efforts of Bruce Ohr, then an associate deputy attorney general, whose wife, Nellie, was a researcher with the firm that created the dossier, Fusion GPS.

The documents revealed that attempts to link Trump with Russia began months before the November 2016 election and continued even after the election, when Ohr emailed himself files from his wife in December 2016 that suggested ties between Trump and his former campaign director, Paul Manafort, with the Russian organized crime underworld.

“These documents show a crazed DOJ–FBI effort to use the Clinton spy ring at Fusion GPS, namely Nellie Ohr, to smear President Trump—even before he was sworn in as president,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a statement.

“Clinton campaign operative Nellie Ohr may as well as have had a desk at the Justice Department.”

Although the thinly sourced claims in the Steele Dossier were swiftly debunked after it leaked to mainstream media outlets, partisan operatives within the FBI continued to coordinate their efforts to undermine and spy on the president-elect months into Trump’s presidency.

Those efforts culminated in the firing of FBI Director James Comey, which in turn helped to trigger the two-year-long Mueller investigation into Russian collusion.

A Republican-led House of Representatives, prior to the 2018 midterm election, held hearings during which both Ohrs were called to testify about their role in the Russia-gate hoax.

However, in May 2019, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-NC—a close confidante of the president and leader of the Freedom Caucus—sent a criminal referral to Attorney General William Barr saying Nellie Ohr lied in her testimony by indicating that she had “no role” in the DOJ investigation.

Judicial Watch said the latest document release supported Meadows’s conclusion, including a May 2016 exchange between Bruce Ohr and DOJ prosecutors who said she could be a “great resource” in their investigation.

“I’m sure Nellie would be delighted to speak with them,” Ohr replied. “I’m pretty sure there is no conflict of interest since they aren’t paying her or anything like that.”

Ohr later testified that he did not raise the matter of his role in the case with his supervisor, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, even as he was working directly with top-level FBI officials to convey the information provided by his wife.

Yates herself was later fired by Trump for insubordination in refusing to help enforce a travel ban on countries that harbored Islamic terrorists.

One of the shocking revelations of the Mueller Report was the degree to which the FBI and Justice Department in their investigations of Trump relied on media complicity.

The agency was revealed to have engaged in widespread leaking, and then to have used the reports in the media—which they themselves helped engineer—in order to bolster and justify their own agenda.

Such was the case in an email exchange from February 2017 revealed in the Judicial Watch release, in which a State Department official forwarded to Bruce Ohr a Huffington Post article that claimed one of the allegations in the Steele Dossier was grounds for impeachment.

Ohr then forwarded the article to the FBI’s Washington field office.

Currently, at least two investigations within the Justice Department—led by Inspector General Michael Horowitz and special prosecutor John Durham—are seeking to unravel the web of innuendo and deception surrounding the origins of the Russia hoax.

Squad Congresswoman Will Only Identify Trump as ‘Occupant’

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‘He does not honor the integrity or the responsibility or the empathy or the compassion, and so, for that reason I call him “The Occupant”…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Of the four members of “The Squad”—the radical freshman congresswomen backed by the Justice Democrats PAC—Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., may be considered the “Fredo.”

Her vaunted seat in a Boston district once held by current Sen. Ed Markey, with a background that included working for Rep. Joseph Kennedy II (RFK’s son) and Sen. John Kerry, puts Pressley firmly within the ranks of the establishment, in contrast to the populist outsider appeal of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-NY; Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.

But in an appearance Tuesday on the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Pressley sought to rehab her reputation as the forgotten and neglected member of the sorority.

Refusing to acknowledge President Donald Trump by name, instead calling him “The Occupant,” Pressley proved during her appearance that she can be just as bombastic as her socialism-spouting colleagues.

“He is just occupying space,” she told Colbert. ” … I mean, we went from a president who sang ‘Amazing Grace’ to one who displays zero of it.”

But she insisted she wasn’t being petty since the president was entirely to blame for incurring Democrats’ wrath.

“He does not honor the integrity or the responsibility or the empathy or the compassion,” Pressley said, “and so, for that reason I call him ‘The Occupant’—not because I dishonor the office but because he does.”

Despite her best efforts, Pressley seemed to lack the passion, charm and charisma that her Squad colleagues rely on to convey their radical messaging, instead rattling off the same outlandish claims and rhetoric as if reciting from a script.

Much of it relied on race-baiting, with Pressley invoking her “privileged” status as a woman of color, according to her own acknowledgement.

She claimed solidarity with her constituents—40 percent of whom she said were immigrants—because she also felt marginalized by American culture and society.

“As a black woman, I know what it is to show up in the world and to be criminalized simply for how you show up in the world,” Pressley said.

Falling back on a tired trope about a child separation policy that the Trump administration implemented for roughly a week in June 2018 to address loopholes in the asylum laws, Pressley said the enforcement of immigration laws called to mind the past wrongs of slavery and the exploitation of American Indians.

“Right now, the system is doing what it was designed to do—and that is to separate families and to decimate communities,” she said.

“And we’ve been here before,” she continued. “We were here at the auction blocks during slavery, we were here with indigenous people on reservations—we know that it is a very effective tool of oppression to separate families, and in particular to take a child from the arms of a mother.”

Pressley did show a small measure of charisma when Colbert asked if she were among the House Democrats who supported impeaching the president.

“Absolutely,” she replied chipperly—before falling back on a more serious tone.

“I didn’t go to Congress to impeach a president,” she continued. “This is something that you enter into with, uh, great—I mean, really sober about.”

To date, no evidence has been presented against Trump that would fit the standard outlined in the Constitution for impeachment.

While many in Democratic leadership fear the political repercussions of moving forward without a solid case—which would invariably fail to result in Trump’s removal—more than half of House Democrats still support the partisan maneuver.

“This is bigger than Donald Trump,” Pressley said. “I know that, you know, they like to say that this is a partisan witch hunt, but this is bigger than him—this is about the office of the presidency.”

Pressley appeared to suggest that the lack of solid evidence was the very reason why haste was so important for her and her constituents, who regarded impeachment as a condemnation of his policies more than anything.

“For anyone who says we can wait, they’re not experiencing the real fear and fragility that people are living with every day,” she said.

Montage of Trump ‘Unity’ Calls DESTROYS Fake News’s Racism Claims

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‘The Left-wing media are the unindicted conspirators of America’s anti-Semites, white nationalists, and other odious racists…’

VIDEO: Montage of Trump 'Unity' Calls DESTROYS Fake News's 'White Supremacy' Claims
At a “United Against Racism and Facism” march in New York, socialist party members carrying signs that promote the true agenda of the protest / IMAGE: News2Share

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) With the arrival of the quadrennial campaign season, as sure as Leap Years and Olympic fever, Americans can count on the Left to revert back to its shrill and specious race-baiting attacks.

This has been Democrats’ modus operandi for decades—and yet, with each election cycle, they hope a new generation of naive 20somethings will bite after conveying to the populous a sense of panic and urgency to oust the status quo.

In doing so, one must cast aside rational common sense and elect radicals whose cynical proposals pander to voters’ basest instincts and to the lowest common denominators of society: open borders, court-packing, slavery reparations, socialist wealth distribution and an all-encompassing nanny state to protect people against themselves.

President Donald Trump has only fueled the Left’s fervor by refusing to capitulate to the forces of political correctness, breaking with the stuffy decorum of past conservative thought-leaders by pushing back in equal measure to the extreme rhetoric.

The frenzied effort by The New York Times last week to revise an objectively written headline—after leftists objected to it—on Trump’s response to recent mass shootings pulled back, for a brief moment, the veneer behind which their entire house of cards is built.

By failing to filter or “contextualize” the president’s remarks through the prism of progressivist spin, the rare moment of candor—reporting on what was said rather than what was interpreted by the opposition—portrayed a leader who had the potential to unify and heal in the wake of senseless violence.

But as conservative columnist Deroy Murdock noted in a column last week, such has been the case all along.

“[W]hen journalists almost unanimously bury President Trump’s repeated pleas to undermine racists and unite the country, fear and loathing thrive,” noted Murdock, who is black.

“Thus, the Left-wing media are the unindicted conspirators of America’s anti-Semites, white nationalists, and other odious racists,” he said.

Accompanying Murdock’s column, Grabien included the following montage of moments when Trump’s words have run counter to the Left’s fraudulent “white supremacist” narrative.

Trump Continues to Mock Chris Cuomo Meltdown

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‘When a Conservative does even a fraction of what Chris Cuomo did with his lunatic ranting, raving, & cursing, they get destroyed by the Fake News…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to savagely roast CNN anchor Chris Cuomo for a profanity-laced tirade that threatened violence against a stranger who called him “Fredo.”

Cuomo claimed that the jeer was an anti-Italian slur that was as offensive as the “n-word” would be to African Americans. He threatened to push the heckler down a flight of stairs before his handlers intervened.

Both on his personal account and his “Team Trump” campaign account, in a series of posts throughout the day Trump encouraged followers to use the #FredoCuomo hashtag.

One post included a scene from “The Godfather” with Cuomo’s head superimposed over that of Fredo Corleone, the neglected middle brother of the Mafia dynasty.

Cuomo’s older brother, Andrew, the governor of New York, has routinely been a thorn in Trump’s side.

Although as a CNN host Cuomo typically comes off as a voice of rationality when juxtaposed with the likes of Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, Brian Stelter and other extremists on the network, the potential to rile the elder Cuomo brother by ruffling his sibling likely seemed an enticing prospect.

It wasn’t the first time Trump had tweeted a video to lightly rib the adversarial, left-leaning network, which he frequently characterizes as “fake news.”

In July 2017, Trump scandalized the mainstream media by tweeting an old video of him closelining WWE chairman Vince McMahon during a Wrestlemania event with the CNN logo superimposed on McMahon’s head.

Many in the press huffed that Trump’s humorous .gif meme was encouraging violence against journalists.

Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale was also quick to capitalize on the Fredo affair, promoting a T-shirt of the agitated Cuomo.

CNN stood behind Cuomo following the episode, claiming his reaction was one of self-defense.

Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, often a close ally of Trump’s, also offered words of encouragement and solidarity on Twitter.

Hannity, himself, has previously been subject to similar public harassment by leftist radicals.

However, Trump voiced his frustration at the perceived double-standard.

Radical Dems Threaten SCOTUS: ‘Heal’ Itself or Face Restructuring

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‘The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it…’

Liberal Sens. Hirono and Gillibrand Give Platform to Kavanaugh Accusers After Saying Men Should 'Shut Up'
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Some of the most extremist Democrats in the Senate penned a menacing missive to the Supreme Court on Monday demanding that the judiciary take measures to fix itself while voicing disdain for its slight conservative majority.

The attack on the court came in the form of a brief filed on behalf of a case involving a New York City gun law, reported Fox News.

“The Supreme Court is not well. And the people know it,” the brief claimed without evidence. “Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be ‘restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.'”

Left-wing radicals such as former Attorney General Eric Holder, already have floated the possibility of packing the court with liberal justices should they ever regain power.

At least five of the current Democratic primary candidates have expressed support for the proposal, while at least two others support rotating the justices, who currently have lifetime appointments as outlined in the Constitution.

The current nine-justice configuration has been in place for 150 years.

Although Democrats feared that the addition of two Trump appointees—despite their replacing fellow conservative justices—may upset the court’s tenuous balance, justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh by many accounts proved to be surprisingly centrist.

Gorsuch, known to be more libertarian, sided with the court’s liberal arm on some crucial decisions related to criminal justice.

Kavanaugh, who faced immense opposition from far-left activists over unproven accusations of a high-school sexual assault, took pains to assuage their anger, voting with the liberals to turn down a potentially landmark abortion case.

Kavanaugh also drew plaudits from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for hiring an all-female staff of law clerks.

Ginsburg, a progressive icon, said she opposed the idea of court-packing in a July interview with NPR. “Nine seems to be a good number,” she said.

As with other Democratic efforts to undermine established rules of order, any attempt by the Left to pack the courts could set a dangerous precedent and eventually backfire against them.

But even so, the Senate Democrats Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island cited a May survey from left-skewed Quinnipiac University that claimed 51 percent of respondents were in favor of court-packing.

MR. SULU: Illegal Aliens Subjected to ‘Intentional Cruelty’

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‘What we have on the southern borders now is a grotesque, new low…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Best known for playing the chief navigation officer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, “Star Trek” actor George Takei was all over the map Monday during an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” displaying his less-than-stellar understanding of the issues surrounding real-life aliens.

Takei’s iconic turn as Mr. Sulu lasted only a handful of seasons before the sci-fi show was canceled 50 years ago, but after a half-century of milking the role, the actor recently has enjoyed a resurgence on Twitter for his far-left political commentary.

Surprisingly, Takei had harsh words for the policies of Democrats past and present who were responsible both for the World War II-era Japanese internment camps in the U.S., and the current overcrowding of detention centers in the ongoing illegal immigration crisis.

Spinning off the outlandish rhetoric of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio–Cortez, D-NY, and other far-left Democrats, Takei referred to the detainment of Japanese–Americans during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration as American “concentration camps.”

In the current border crisis, Ocasio–Cortez has drawn criticism for implying that the conditions in detention facilities are comparable to the Nazi death centers—where brutal treatment, cruel scientific experiments, starvation and rampant disease were as apt to kill the imprisoned Jews and other victims as were the notorious gas chambers.

Takei—who, at the age of 5, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, was himself taken to one of the U.S. internment camps with his family—admitted in the interview that he generally had fond memories of it.

After being on the set of a new series that dramatized the experience of those within the camps, Takei said he felt a certain sentimentality.

“It was, to me, a kind of nostalgic return because of my childhood experience,” he said. “But as a teenager, I learned a lot more about the reality—the harrowing experience that it was for my parents.”

Takei dialed up the rhetoric even farther by saying that the current detention of illegal immigrants at the Mexican border was worse than the wartime measures taken during the 1940s.

He repeated several statements about the detention centers that are widely disputed by U.S. immigration authorities, including unsourced claims about the conditions and a long-expired leftist talking point about the short-lived child-separation policy.

“What we have on the southern borders now is a grotesque, new low,” Takei said. “Children being torn away from their parents. Infants torn away, put in filthy, disgusting cages with human waste… And to really underscore the evil in this, some of them are scattered to the far reaches of the United States from the southern border… intentional cruelty.”

The overcrowding of the centers, lack of resources and the need to move some of the illegal immigrants farther inland are, of course, the direct result of Congressional Democrats’ refusal to cooperate in addressing the issue.

The Left long denied any sort of crisis, and only came around to acknowledging it after the centers already had reached critical mass.

Ocasio–Cortez, despite claiming Holocaust-like conditions in the facilities, has refused even to vote for emergency funding to alleviate the immigrants’ situation.

Yet, left-wing activists continue to encourage migrants from Central-American, African and Middle-Eastern countries to cross the border illegally and then claim asylum to avert deportation proceedings.

For those able to game the system, “sanctuary states” like New York and California have promised incentives such as free (taxpayer-subsidized) healthcare and college tuition.

Activist liberal judges, meanwhile, have sought to block many of the Trump administration’s efforts to address the border crisis through executive action, such as a policy requiring asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico during the legal process.

Ignoring the Left’s culpability, Takei also invoked the brief 2018 child-separation policy, implemented by the Trump administration as a solution to longstanding “catch-and-release” loopholes that allow “families” of illegals to be let go after no more than 20 days of detention.

The result is believed to have been an uptick in child-trafficking and kidnapping as childless adults attempting to gain access to the U.S. falsely claim to be the underage victims’ parents.

Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy, which the White House said predated the current administration, lasted roughly a week in June of last year before a judge ordered the families reunited.

Last month, a government-commissioned study found that 95 percent of the 1619 separated children had been reunited with their guardians, and an additional 4 percent had been released after aging out of the system or choosing to return home to their native country.

But it seemed Takei didn’t get the memo.

“When the courts ordered them to bring the children and the parents together, they are so incompetent that they can’t find the right child or the parents to put them together,” he ranted to Meyers. “… It is an American tragedy and an American disgrace.”

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