Category: Politics

Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera and former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino clashed in a heated debate as tensions over the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta spilled over.

Rivera and Bongino discussed the latest protests and attacks against police officers during a “Hannity” segment on Fox News, and they locked horns in vehement disagreement as they focused on the death of Brooks on Friday when an Atlanta police officer shot and killed him after he grabbed a taser and took off running.

Bongino came to the defense of law enforcement as he talked by phone with Fox News host Sean Hannity, bringing up the Las Vegas officer who was shot during a protest and is now paralyzed from the neck down.

“Where are the protests and rallies in support of him? Are we losing all of this? Did we forget where we were? Did we forget how many of these people have gone out — police officers died in the line of duty, have come home injured, paralyzed for life?” the former New York City police officer said.

He acknowledged that the death of Brooks was a “tragedy” but asked Hannity, “what would you do in this scenario?”

“You had a subject who was pulled over and stopped for allegedly driving drunk. Are you going to let him take off in the car and potentially hurt someone?” he said, calling out critics who assume the officer knew it was the taser being pointed at him as Brooks ran off.

“It wasn’t his taser that was stolen, it was the other guy’s taser,” Bongino continued. “When someone turns to you in a furtive motion and sticks what looks like a weapon in your face from three to four feet away, I mean, what reasonable person wouldn’t respond to defend their own life? It’s simple question.”

Hannity asked for comments from Rivera, whom he noted has “always been a supporter of the police.”

The Fox News correspondent-at-large began by taking aim at Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck during an arrest, calling him out as a murderer, “he has set back community-police relations a generation.”

He placed all of the blame for rioting, protests and chaos descending on the country at Chauvin’s feet, saying he is “beneath contempt,” before going on to address Bongino’s comments.

“I feel sorry for the cops involved, but I feel a lot sorrier for the family of Mr. Brooks. And obviously for him who’s now dead,” he said.

“You never shoot a guy in the back. Now, you can hear on the tape the cop say, ‘He got my taser.’ So you’re not going to argue that he had some other weapon. He’s a drunk driver. He’s running away with the taser. Where is he going to run? How far is he going to run?” Rivera asked.

“You don’t know what you’re talking about!” Bongino interjected. “You have no idea what you’re talking about! You’ve never been a cop.”

“Stop with the personal attacks, Dan!” Rivera shot back. “Don’t tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. I have eyes! I’m a citizen. I’ve been around.”

“You’ve never been engaged in a foot pursuit and your entire life. Don’t you dare be —,” Bongino argued as Rivera continued to speak.

“I have spent countless hours with cops,” Rivera insisted. “I know cops as well as you do.”

“You can no longer — when you get shot in the back, you get shot in the back. Where is he going to go, Dan?” he added as Bongino told him, “you’re full of crap and you know it!”

Bongino pointed out that Brooks “fled and pointed a stolen weapon in the face of a police officer” while Rivera countered that “you don’t get shot in the back for that.”

“By defending the indefensible, you make everything, all of your arguments., dull,” Rivera fired back, saying, “I love cops. I think they are distrusted, they feel dishonored, they feel disrespected. They feel over criticized, undervalued.”

“It was a legally, although tragic use of force,” Bongino argued.

“You have no idea what you’re talking about. And the only person to humiliate himself during this interview is you, pretending you have any idea what you’re talking about.”

“A jury will be called. A jury, a criminal court,” Rivera added as Hannity informed the men that he had to “break it up.”

The sheer arrogance and hypocrisy of Nancy Pelosi and the Dems pandering is many times worse than anything we have seen on the right.

It is just astounding. They were just terrified of Black Lives Matter during the 2016 election going so far as to brand them a radical organization. Now Nancy Pelosi embraces the movement for political opportunity. Which one is it?

Breitbart reported that a leaked internal Democrat Party memo from 2015 warned top House Democrats not to embrace the Black Lives Matter movement because it was described by the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) as a “radical movement.”

The memo, from then-DCCC official Troy Perry addressed to “DCCC Staff” on Thursday Nov. 19, 2015, noted that the Democrats’ 2016 presidential candidates “have struggled to respond to tactics of the Black Lives Matter movement.” Perry was at the time he wrote this the DCCC’s Director of Diversity and Public Engagement.

“While there has been little engagement with House candidates, candidates and campaign staff should be prepared,” Perry wrote.

The DCCC is the official arm of the Democrat Party charged with electing Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives. When this 2015 memo was drafted, Democrats were in the minority in the U.S. House—seeking a return to the majority that they did not achieve in the 2016 elections as now President Donald Trump won the White House and the GOP held its House majority riding the president’s coattails. Later, though, Democrats would win the House majority back in the 2018 midterm elections.

Perry warned recipients of his memo in the next line that it was top secret and confidential—not to be shared with anyone. “This document should not be emailed or handed to anyone outside of the building,” he wrote. “Please only give campaign staff these best practices in meetings or over the phone.”

But the document ended up leaking through hacker Guccifer 2.0 in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election late in the summer of 2016, just after Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton had secured the nomination and the general election kicked off.

In the memo, the then-DCCC official Perry described Black Lives Matter as a “radical movement” intent on ending “anti-black racism.”

“Though police abuses are a central component, the founders view the movement more broadly,” the Democrat memo reads.

It continues by noting that Black Lives Matter also seeks “Criminal Justice Reform,” particularly “sentencing reform, ending prison industrial complex, police reform: referring to hiring, training, and unfair policing tactics.”

The movement also, according to the Democrat memo, seeks an “end to police brutality” and stopping of “killings of unarmed African Americans.”

It notes that the Black Lives Matter movement has it roots in the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Hispanic man who killed Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, during Barack Obama’s presidency. To achieve these goals, the Democrat memo continues, Black Lives Matter pushes to “collect data on police shootings” and for a “demilitarization of the police.”

Stacey Abrams appeared on cable news networks stoking racial tension in America following the fatal shooting of an Atlanta man named Rayshard Brooks, who went berserk as cops tried to arrest him.

As reports said, Brooks ran away from the officers, then he turned and fired a taser weapon. Abrams claims he “presented no danger” and “was murdered because he was a black man asleep in a drive-through.” Well, that’s when Candace Owens torched her.

Stacey Abrams has admitted she is actively seeking to be named Joe Biden’s running mate. That’s why despite having been involved in a massive voter fraud case in Georgia and having no leadership experience, Abrams has to play the race card.

Abrams appeared on ABC’s This Week and told host George Stephanopolous that Rashard Brooks was murdered because he was asleep in a drive-through. Making matters worse, the mainstream media are claiming Brooks was “unarmed.”

Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year old black man, apparently fell asleep at the wheel in a Wendy’s drive-thru lane. After a citizen’s complaint call, two Atlanta Police Department officers were dispatched and encountered Brooks, who was now parked in the lot. A field sobriety test raised reasonable suspicion of Brooks being under the influence of alcohol or narcotics.

“The cops then performed their sworn duty to enforce the law and attempted to take Brooks into custody. A violent, sustained struggle ensues. Brooks then grabs an officer’s Taser and attempts to flee on foot. Both officers give chase,” Washington Examiner reports.

Abrams then took her race-baiting message to CNN’s New Day. The vice-president hopeful claimed Brooks’ death is akin to George Floyd’s in Minneapolis, saying the decision to shoot him in the back was not justified. She added that “it was murder” by the Atlanta police.

That’s when Candace Ownes torched Black Lives Matter supporters like Stacey Abrams.

“Rayshard Brooks ran away from cops with a stolen taser which he attempted to fire at cops. He was JUSTIFIABLY fired on. Black Lives Matter doesn’t care about facts though so let’s burn down Atlanta (a black city) and throw Brooks SIX state funerals! You are all clowns,” Owens tweeted.

Owens was also angered by the arrest of one of the police officers involved and how Atlanta’s police chief was made to resign following this shooting. Meanwhile, the usual suspects started a riot and someone burned down the Wendy’s restaurant where the shooting took place.

“Any person demanding justice for #RayshardBrooks is representative of the absolute vermin of American society. There should be protests DEMANDING that the police chief be reinstated and that mayor @KeishaBottoms RESIGN for placating CRIMINALS. I’VE HAD ENOUGH. #BackTheBlue,” Owens added.

“There are millions of black people who wake up every day and do the right thing,” Owens said. “We do not riot. We do not loot. We do not do drugs. We do not disrespect law enforcement. We are tired of having our image tainted by the radical leftist anarchist black lives matter movement.”

“We are tired of being told we ‘ain’t black’ because we don’t have the time or the desire to defend your criminal ass brother, cousin, or son— just because he has the same complexion as us,” she added.

Hollywood star Ron Perlman, the actor who played Hellboy, started a feud with President Trump, Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and Ted Cruz yesterday that ended with Ron challenging Ted Cruz to a wrestling duel.

Ron started off attacking Matt Gaetz and President Trump.

“The US Soccer team called and you guessed it… said they couldn’t give any less of a fuck about what you two dipshits think. @realDonaldTrump @mattgaetz.”

Matt hit back reminding Ron he played a bad guy on Sons of Anarchy: “This racial justice warrior had no problem in Hollywood portraying the White Supremacist leader of a motorcycle gang. #SOA.”

Ron hit back: “Yessir, so true! So rewarding playing assholes on tv. Tell me sir, how is it actually being one?”

“And while we’re at it f*ckboi, what is this shit about playing your crowd with dog whistles like “Hollywood“, making them think culture is the thing that’s keeping them down? When it’s really you and your greed.”

Matt hit back: “Honestly? The fact that Hollywood thinks I’m an asshole is a badge of honor 🙂 You wouldn’t be tweeting about me if my message weren’t true & effective. Threatens your wokeness.How triggered will you be when @realDonaldTrump is re-elected? More or less than when crooked lost?

Ron took a cheap shot: “Ya know what, you’re right. A guy who wins a totally gerrymandered district with daddy’s money deserves our deepest admiration. You’re right..I only PLAY scumbags and grifters. You’re the real deal! @mattgaetz”

So did Matt: “Dude I represent a district of 700k that elected me w about two-thirds of the vote the last 3x I’ve been on a ballot. Blue check marks don’t scare me anymore than your fictional white supremacy motorcycle gang. Leave the tough guy comments for those of us who face the voters.”

Then Ron called Jim Jordan ugly and Ted Cruz let him have it.

New York City’s First Lady Chirlane McCray recently described a world in which police didn’t patrol the city streets as “a nirvana,” but said it’s probably not likely to happen any time soon.

McCray, who was with her husband Mayor de Blasio when she was speaking, made the remarks to Time magazine just days after Minnesota lawmakers vowed to dismantle the Minneapolis police department, which has come under harsh criticism for the police custody death of George Floyd.

“That would be like nirvana, a utopia that we are nowhere close to getting to,” McCray told Time, referring to the possibility of a police-free metropolis.

But McCray, who’s looking at a run for Brooklyn Borough President, noted that implementing such a drastic change in the Big Apple would be much more challenging than doing it in Minneapolis.

“They’re a small city,” she said. “They can do things that would not be possible in a large city like New York.”

Her words came as her husband contemplates how to make significant cuts to the NYPD amid a fiscal crisis and demands that the city defund the department over its handling of protesters who flooded streets after Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis cop, who held a knee against his neck for more than eight minutes.

De Blasio also held out hope for a future without cops, but agreed it’s unrealistic.

“Could the human race evolve to a point where no guardians, no structures are needed? I guess in theory, but I don’t see that in the future we’re going to live the next few generations,” he said. “You’re going to have police in New York City because it is needed for safety, but that doesn’t mean you can’t change policing.”

Judge Jeanine Pirro ripped Rep. Ilhan Omar and others over their growing calls to dismantle police departments across the United States.

The Fox News Host said: “Law and order is essential. It’s real simple — without law and order, there is no freedom. Without law and order, freedom ends. Without law and order, there is anarchy. What’s happened in Seattle this week is but a small example of how far the left will go to satisfy the progressive extremists and surrender our cities to them, of what it will be like without law and order. And we cannot have it.

“Now permit me to have a politically incorrect question,” Jeanine Pirro began.

How many families in this country whose loved ones were victims of homicide were allowed to pillage and plunder the property of others to blow off steam because the system didn’t work the way it was supposed to.

When the rights of law-abiding citizens are subjugated and destroyed by those seeking change by committing crimes we must demand they be stopped.

When anarchists want to end a civilized society by defunding the police, the throw us back to the wild west where vigilante justice reigned.

Taking large chunks of police budgets to give to mental health and community groups and limiting police response on calls for domestic violence which by the way is one of the most dangerous calls police respond to.

I fear for battered women. Should we now start negotiating violent crimes against women?

Is that even a negotiable issue? Or do we wait until the first social worker or mental health worker is killed and then demand the cops be brought back?”

In Seattle, the Capitol Hill autonomous known as Chaz announces its area is outside the United States.

The police department is now the people’s department.

The height of hypocrisy. A 6 to 7-block area occupied by the ones who hate borders and guns and I.D. Checks. They now have a border and some have reportedly seen people armed.

But Seattle Mayor Durkan thinks she is at Woodstock.

Mayor, how many of your new CHAZ squatters work in Seattle, pay taxes in Seattle or even vote there?

Now that they’ve used you, they want you gone.”

“How did we even get here? How does it end? When does it end?

When will police officers killed during these so-called peaceful protests and the 700 injured and some hospitalized be honored?

How long do we live in fear that there will be no response when we call police for help?

How long before other crime-ridden cities run by these Democrats yield to these anarchists?” Judge Jeanine Pirro asked.

Rep. Ilhan Omar said on CNN today: “A new way forward can’t be put in place if we have a department that is having a crisis of credibility, if we have a department that’s led by a chief who’s suited for racism, if we have a department that hasn’t solved homicide — half of the homicides in Minneapolis police department go unsolved.”

She continued: “There have been cases where they’ve destroyed rape kits. And so you can’t really reform a department that is rotten to the root. What you can do is rebuild.”

“And so this is our opportunity, as a city, to come together, have the conversation of what public safety looks like, who enforces the most dangerous crimes that take place in our community, and just like San Francisco did — right now, they’re moving towards a process where there is a separation of the kind of crimes that solicit the help of, you know, officers, and the kind of crimes that we should have someone else respond to.”

It may seem as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a darling of the far-left, but her chances at re-election aren’t as solid as she thinks.

AOC’s two years in Congress haven’t been stellar. She even cost New York a big deal with Amazon.

Now it seems like her own progressives might be turning on her. Because a judge just removed her from a ballot.

Fox News reported that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was booted from the progressive union-backed Working Families Party (WFP) ballot line by a Queens judge…

The freshman lawmaker was removed from the primary ballot after receiving only 13 signatures from members of the progressive group.

AOC is running against a hot new Democratic rival. Every vote counts. If her name appeared more than once on the ballot (both under Democrat and WFP) she could count all those votes.

But she couldn’t even get 15 progressives to sign her petition. This is a party that backs unions. This tells a lot.

Now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez faces a popular, moderate rival who just might take her nomination. Wouldn’t that be something?

One priority California’s Legislative Black Caucus passed Wednesday was a proposal to repeal California’s affirmative action ban.

Voters will get the opportunity to decide on the full measure in November if the Senate approves the bill by the end of June.

But now the call is to provide reparations to African-Americans, and considering the hysteria of the moment, one cannot be surprised if they pass something and have no idea how to actually implement it and in that way add to the chaos.

The plan passed its first hurdle yesterday when an African American reparation proposal passed the California Assembly.

CBS reported that a proposal to establish a task force to study and prepare recommendations for how to give reparations to African Americans passed the California Assembly on Thursday.

The bill advanced with a 56-5 vote as protests nationwide over police brutality re-energized the movement for racial justice and activists pressed for sweeping reforms. It is a top priority for California’s Legislative Black Caucus.

If the bill passes the Senate and is signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom, 8 people with backgrounds in racial justice reforms would lead a study into who would be eligible for compensation and how it should be awarded.

Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, a Democrat from San Diego who wrote the bill, said the study would reiterate California’s history of abetting slavery, even as it joined the union as a “free state” in 1850.

“The discriminatory practices of the past echo into the everyday lives of today’s Californians,” said Weber, who leads the Legislative Black Caucus.

The panel would start meeting no later than June 2021

Last June, Congress held the first hearing on reparations in over 10 years about a bill to study providing compensation to atone for the country’s history of slavery. But the legislation didn’t make it to a vote.

The federal government has given reparations before. After 120,000 Japanese Americans were held at internment camps during World War II, the U.S. government apologized and in 1988 paid $20,000 to each surviving victim.

“We seem to recognize that justice requires that those who have been treated unjustly need the means to make themselves whole again,” Weber said.

The Dems are using President Trump’s first political rally in months against him, charging that what the Trump campaign touts as a glorious moment for the president actually endangers his own supporters.

With the coronavirus pandemic takeing hold, President Trump stopped his signature rallies on March 20. He will hold his first rally since then in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 20.

Trump’s return to his signature events has his supporters “literally testing his Fifth Avenue theory,” said T.J. Rooney, a Democratic lobbyist and former chairman of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, recalling Trump’s 2016 comments about the loyalty of his supporters. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” President Trump said at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa.

Holding an arena rally, Rooney said, “just furthers the notion that Donald Trump is out of touch with the vast majority of the American people, including on getting together in large gatherings when you are told explicitly not to.”

Rooney also said that President Trump’s rallies tend to skew older. “So it’s like walking into a ring of fire to prove fealty. It’s a mind-bender for a lot of people.”

Trump “downplayed the virus, refused to prepare, and failed to get help to communities that needed it most,” DNC spokesperson and Deputy Director of Battleground State Communications John Weber said in an email. “Now he’s putting his own supporters in harm’s way to throw himself a rally.”

Rally-goers will be “suitably safe,” Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 communications director, told Fox News. “There will be safety precautions,” he added.

The Trump campaign did not comment on what precautions these might be.

The sign-up page for tickets to the rally includes a disclaimer: Attendees “voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19” and agree not to hold the Trump campaign or venue liable should they get sick.

“I honestly think this is going to be the new norm,” a Republican aide said. “It’s basically what the NFL has said their plan is, and I’ve got to think that any big event that sells tickets will include this language from now on.”

Attending a rally or any large group event remains “a danger” and “risky,” said Anthony Fauci in an interview with ABC News on Friday. Fauci, an adviser to the president, said on Tuesday the pandemic was far from over: “Oh my goodness, where is it going to end? We’re still at the beginning of it.”

“My one recommendation is not to go to large spaces,” Tulsa Health Department Executive Director Dr. Bruce Dart said in a local radio interview on Friday. “In the past week, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in case trends.” Tulsa began the latest phase of reopening on June 1.

Aides told the Washington Post that Trump is “not at all concerned” about the coronavirus safety implications of the rally.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office “was not involved in the selection of the date of the event,” a spokesperson told the Tulsa World.

Trump’s signature rallies are known to draw large crowds, even including some Democrats.

A boisterous Jan. 20, 2016, rally at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa featured Sarah Palin. “People are sick and tired and fed up, and yes, we’re angry,” Trump told the 9,000-strong crowd. Trump won the county by 36 points that November.

“If players are playing for our national team, they should stand for the anthem, they should respect our flag,” Rep. Matt Gaetz stated announcing his move to mandate standing for the national anthem for US Soccer.

US Soccer caved under pressure from Megan Rapinoe and the other malcontents and stated that taking a knee during the national anthem was fine.

Matt’s staff issued a press release announcing the move: “Congressman Gaetz revealed on his podcast “Hot Takes with Matt Gaetz” today that he is drafting legislation compelling US Soccer to reverse the decision they made repealing Policy 604-1, which requires players to stand for the national anthem.”

“Today the news has me triggered,” Gaetz says, “The US Soccer Board of Directors voted yesterday to repeal Policy 604-1, which required our players to stand during the national anthem.”

He was just shocked. “I just could not believe this when I saw it. This is the US National Soccer Team, making the decision that the soccer players who play underneath our flag, do not have to stand for it, as it is being presented.”

“I don’t like soccer enough, for the US to even have a soccer team, if that soccer team is going to disrespect our anthem and our flag,” Gaetz declares. “It is not like some essential thing that we have to have, if latched to the US Soccer Team is this sense of such extreme wokeness that we cannot be proud of the United States while wearing the uniform of the United States.”

Gaetz differentiates this controversy from the NFL allowing players to kneel during games. “I think this is very distinct from the NFL player kneeling thing, because as much as I oppose that and don’t like it . . . At least those are private people, working for a private company . . . who absolutely have the first amendment right, to do whatever the heck they want to do, so long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.”

“I certainly think that we have the right to compel that our national team stand for the national anthem,” Gaetz continues. “While our anthem is playing, while you serve on the team, I think there is an obligation to respect our country.”

“In the coming days, I will be introducing legislation to compel US Soccer to reverse the decision they made, to repeal Policy 604-1. If players are playing for our national team, they should respect the honor that that bestows, they should stand for the anthem, they should respect our flag,” Gaetz revealed. “If we love America, we would expect and deserve and demand, no less.”

Matt Gaetz is expected to announce details of the legislation on Judge Jeanine’s television show, “Justice with Judge Jeanine” Saturday, June 13th.