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What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry
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What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry
Most aren’t convinced President Biden is implicated in his son’s wrongdoing.
By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux
Sep. 14, 2023, at 3:41 PM
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Carville Warns Law Firms Caving to Trump Will Be Remembered As Nazi ‘Collaborators’: ‘These People Are a Disgrace’
James Carville compared law firms and companies working with President Donald Trump to Nazi collaborators in World War II.
Multiple major law firms have recently agreed to hundreds of millions of dollars of pro bono work for the administration. The agreements follow the president’s use of executive orders to target law firms involved in investigations against him.
Milbank became the latest law firm to agree to a deal with Trump. The president announced through Truth Social that the firm is providing $100 million in free legal services to causes supported by the company and the administration.
In a Fridaay video for Politicon, Carville accused law firms and companies of “sucking up” to the president and predicted that the collaboration would not be looked on too kindly by history. The longtime Democratic strategist even compared these firms in a post-Trump world to Nazi collaborators in France following the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Carville said:
Maybe you need to go in history and see what happened in August of 1944, after Paris was liberated. They didn’t take very kindly to the collaborators. No, it was not a very pretty sight in the streets of Paris. I’m not saying that these people should be placed in pajamas and have their heads shaved, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue, and spit on. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that that did happen. And I’m saying that these people betrayed the French nation in the same way that I think that these law firms and these giant corporate conglomerates are betraying the United States.
The once-advisor to former President Bill Clinton made clear that he is not calling for or in approval of any sort of violence as retaliation.
“What their comeuppance is, I can only guess,” he said.
Carville went on to call lawyers at these “collaborating” law firms a “disgrace” and some of the “greatest traitors” in the nation’s history.
“These people are a disgrace to the law firms they represent, to the companies that they represent and are supposed to be in self-interest, and they’re a disgrace to the United States and etch their names in the tablet of history for being some The greatest traitors, appeasers that we’ve seen in the history of our great country,” he said.
Carville called for an “intellectual reckoning” once Trump is out of the White House.
“When this is over, there has to be, at a minimum, an intellectual reckoning with this class of appeasers that are here,” he said.
Watch above via Politicon .
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Fed Chair Warns Trump Tariffs Will Lead to ‘Higher Inflation’ And Slow Economic Growth
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Friday that he believes President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs and resulting trade wars risk “both higher unemployment and higher inflation.
Speaking at an event just outside Washington, DC, Powell told the crowd, “While tariffs are highly likely to generate at least a temporary rise in inflation, it is also possible that the effects could be more persistent.”
CNN’s Vanessa Yurkevich reported on Powell’s remarks during Inside Politics on Friday midday. Anchor Dana Bash began the segment by playing a quick clip of Powell, saying:
Looking ahead, higher tariffs will be working their way through our economy and are likely to raise inflation in coming quarters. While uncertainty remains elevated, it is now becoming clear that tariff increases will be significantly larger than expected. And the same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth. The size and duration of these effects remains uncertain.
Yurkevich reported, “Now, reporters in the room also asked Jerome Powell whether he believes that the economy is headed for a recession. He would not answer that. But we know JP Morgan revised their recession outlook up from 40 percent before President Trump announced these tariffs on April 2nd to 60 percent.”
“And you can see just what the stock market has done over time since President Trump took office in January. Just a steep decline at the Nasdaq, the S&P, and on the Dow. Just a precipitous decline, especially in this last week, as investors are craving some sort of uncertainty [sic]. Dana, does it look like they’re getting that right now,” she concluded.
Notably, Powell, who was appointed by Trump in his first term, told reporters in November that he would not step down if Trump asked him to or tried to fire him.
Watch the clip above via CNN.
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Hannity Trashes MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace As Phony Liberals Faking It For a ‘Nice Big Check’
Fox News host Sean Hannity questioned the legitimacy of Joe Scarborough and Nicolle Wallace’s “liberal” views, suggesting they might be playing roles just for a “nice big check” from MSNBC.
Hannity joined Kyle Forgeard on the Full Send podcast this week, and he took a few shots at his fellow cable news commentators while discussing his nearly 30 years with Fox News.
“How do you think Fox differs from other networks?” Forgeard asked after Hannity talked about his “great relationship” with Fox.
Hannity claimed Scarborough went from a Republican congressman from Florida to “big liberal Joe” on Morning Joe .
“I mean, am I really supposed to believe that Joe Scarborough, who used to represent the most conservative district in Florida, all of a sudden became a liberal? It seems kind of expedient to me that he wanted to be on television, get paid a nice big check. And so he goes on MSNBC, and now he’s a big liberal Joe,” he said.
Hannity then turned his attention to Wallace, making similar accusations and citing her work with former President George W. Bush — she was a White House communications director in his administration — and the late John McCain — Wallace was a senior advisor to his 2008 presidential campaign. Hannity claimed she’s “radical” and “hardcore left-wing” in part because of her vocal opposition to President Donald Trump.
“Or Nicolle Wallace, she ran John McCain and Sarah Palin’s campaign. She worked for George W. Bush. And now, she’s like radical, hardcore left-wing, Trump hating,” Hannity said.
The Fox host questioned whether Wallace had a “change of heart” while praising himself as a consistent Republican.
“Could she have had a change of heart? I don’t know. But I’ve kind of stayed consistent throughout my career. I’m a Reagan, Make America Great Again, Trump conservative. That’s how I describe myself,” he said.
Watch above via Full Send podcast .
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GOP Senator Tells Fox News He Can’t ‘Bubble Wrap’ Trump’s Stock Market Selloff: ‘What’s Happening Is Not Good’
Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner spoke to Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on Friday and tried her best to put a positive face on President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which China just hit back at with a 34% tariff of their own on U.S. goods. Kennedy, however, sounded the alarm on Americans losing money in the stock market and warned of contracting GDP as a result of consumers spending less in a heavily tariffed economic environment.
“Mr. John Kennedy of Louisiana, member of the Finance, Banking, Judiciary, and Appropriations Committees, is with me now. Great to see you. Look, there are a lot of people in this country who have worked their whole lives, put money into the stock market through their job 401(K)s,” Faulkner began, asking:
There are people who are getting ready to retire and maybe looking to that money. What the president is asking people to do is give him a little bit of time. What’s your take on the message now to the American public? Because we have hit a place now where, as the president says, China’s reacting.
“Well, I didn’t know what China would do. I didn’t know and still don’t know what other countries will do. I’ve said consistently, since the president made his tariffs announcement, that we’re in uncharted waters. We’re in the economic unknown,” Kennedy replied, before offering his take:
The president’s long-term goal is laudable. I support it. It’s not complicated. America is rich. We buy a lot of stuff. Every business in the world wants to sell to us. The president is saying to those businesses in other countries, if you want to sell us and take our money, then you need to move your business to America and hire our people.
Now, who can be against that? Again, though, I’ve also been careful to say we’re in uncharted waters. The stock market matters. And before I talk about it, let me say the economy is fundamentally sound. We just got a good jobs report. I wouldn’t trade places with any other country in terms of our economy.
But the stock market does matter. About 62% of Americans have money in the market. The wealth effect is real– there’s reliable data that shows that for every one dollar that the stock market, holdings in the stock market go down, people spend twenty-five cents less. Well, we’re a consumer-driven economy and if people are spending less, that’s gonna affect your GDP.
And so I’m not going to bubble wrap it. What’s happening is not good . Now will it continue? Will we find the bottom and then it will start to go back up? I hope so. That’s what I’m pulling for. But if it doesn’t, we’ll have to recalibrate.
Faulkner struck a conciliatory tone and replied, “You know, the power of the words you just spoke and where you started with, we’re in uncharted territory. So is the rest of the world. The rest of the world’s never seen anybody do what we’re doing right now. But they do know Trump.”
“And if some of them have ever had any dealings with him, and many people around the world have, before he was president, they knew who he was. Art of the deal. They know that the reason you go into that uncharted territory is because you have a plan to get on the other side. So it’s interesting. There have been some countries that have early on said, ‘OK, we hear you.’ China came back with 34. We’ll see what it does with that 34%. But you and I, and I hear it from your voice, we’re counting on America. And the rest of the world is also in uncharted territories,” she concluded before moving on.
Kennedy, known for his colorful commentary on issues, has broken with Trump on tariffs, despite being a reliable booster of the president’s agenda. The Louisiana Republican shared a Fox News hit he did earlier in the week on Thursday to X and captioned it, “Tariffs are like whiskey: A little whiskey, under the right circumstances, can be refreshing—but too much whiskey, under the wrong circumstances, can make you drunk as a goat.”
Watch the clip above via Fox News.
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Ninten-doh! Steep Tariffs Force Gaming Giant to Delay Launch of Anticipated New Console
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Nintendo has delayed pre-orders for its hotly anticipated new Switch 2 console as the gaming giant grapples with President Donald Trump’s tariffs imposed on China and other nations around the world.
The company had originally set pre-orders for April 9 in the U.S.
“Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions,” Nintendo said in a statement to Mediaite. “Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.”
Retaliatory 34 percent tariffs imposed by China will take effect on April 10, and include — but won’t be limited to — electronics, sporting goods and clothing.
The Switch 2 has been the subject of gamer outrage over its high cost, with a console going for $449.99. The Mario Kart World Bundle edition that includes the newest Super Mario adventure will sell for $499.99.
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