Representative Ilhan Omar made the comments at Columbia University, where her daughter was among the students arrested protesting against Israel’s actions in Gaza. The protests have drawn visits by leaders across the political spectrum.
Last month, Donald Trump took an axe to the Republican National Committee (RNC), at least indirectly.
Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump is co-chair, serving with N.C. attorney Michael Whatley, chair. Whatley was an active member of Trump’s army of lawyers who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
Irony alert: they hired Christina Bobb to serve as the RNC counsel for “election integrity.”
Bobb is one of the 18 indicted in Arizona for their participation in the 2020 “Big Lie” fake elector scheme. Bobb was involved in “elector recruitment” in the seven states that Joe Biden won and Trump targeted: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Yes, the RNC “election integrity” counsel has been indicted for violating election law. Makes you wonder about the RNC “election integrity” effort to “protect” ballots being counted.
Trump is an unindicted co-conspirator in Arizona, unlike in Georgia’s election interference case. The Arizona attorney general is leading this case; the Fulton County district attorney is leading the Georgia case. In Michigan, the Attorney General charged 16 involved in that state’s fake elector scheme. In Nevada, the Attorney General charged six fake electors. As in Michigan, those charged are state and local GOP members.
Bobb was a judge advocate in the Marine Corps and worked “as an executive secretary in the Department of Homeland Security while Trump was in office.”
[Bobb] launched a second act as a correspondent for the conservative network One America News. She volunteered to help Trump’s legal team after the 2020 election and became an advocate for false claims of election fraud. While working for OAN, she heavily focused on a widely discredited post-election review of more than 2 million ballots cast in Arizona’s most populous county. Bobb later wrote a book, “Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What It Means for 2024.”
Bobb has also been pulled into an unrelated federal probe of Trump’s allegedly illegal handling of classified documents after he left the White House. As a custodian of some of those records, Bobb signed a document swearing that she had been told that “a diligent search” was conducted of boxes of records shipped from the White House to Florida when Trump left office
Having an “election integrity” program organizing day-of-election actions could not have happened in 2016.
Until 2018, the RNC operated under a federal consent decree prohibiting the committee from participating in Election Day operations — the result of a 1982 lawsuit from Democrats charging the committee with trying to discourage Black voters from casting ballots through targeted mailings and positioning armed, off-duty officers at polls in minority neighborhoods.
She wasn’t the only attorney associated with Trump to be indicted. Boris Epshteyn, his “top legal strategist,” was also indicted.
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The hosts of ABC’s The View had strong reactions Monday to the pro-Palestinian protests flooding college campuses across the United States.
Sara Haines said, “Civil disobedience and free speech have made this country better in a lot of instances. My problem here is that there is a point it crosses over. Like, even Dr. King quotes about, you have to be civil and you have to accept your consequences for whatever that is.”
Sunny Hostin said, “I think these are anti-war protests, and I think it’s distressing that we’re framing these as ‘Pro-Palestinian protests.’ Or, ‘Pro-Israeli protests.’”
She added, “It has never been, in my life, in my career, the criticizing policies of government is equated with anti-Semitism, and that, I think, is a far-right — it comes from the far-right. It comes from the authoritarian leanings, where they don’t want students on these campuses to voice their opinions because they want to change the narrative going forward, and I think we have to be very, very careful.”
Whoopi Goldberg pointed the finger firmly at the media, which she accused of not telling the whole story.
“Since I haven’t said anything, I’m sorry. I do have to do this,” Goldberg said before pausing for eight seconds to gather her thoughts.
“It is one of the great rights as an American to stand up and say, ‘Something’s wrong.’ Regardless of what your color is, if you’re a woman, man — it doesn’t matter.” She continued:
And we must teach our people how to be on the lookout. Part of our problem is the media takes what is the best clickbait. So you see the same posters or you see the same people, but you don’t see the folks who are doing peaceful stuff and saying, “Here’s what we want to do.”
I would caution the media to be very careful about what they’re doing, and how they’re handling this. because what they seem to be doing is pushing a narrative that people are pushing against, which students are pushing against, which I’m thrilled to see because I like when students get mad and say, “We want a change made.”
Watch the clip above via ABC’s The View.
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South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) admission that she shot and killed her “less than worthless” puppy, Cricket, had the hosts of The View hopping mad Monday.
Whoopi Goldberg began the segment calmly by claiming this issue has successfully united even the staunchest political rivals, “Both sides of the aisle do not agree on much right now, but they have been united in outrage over South Dakota’s governor, Kristi Noem’s, confession that she shot her 14-month-old puppy dog dead because she couldn’t train it.”
Goldberg then exploded, “Give it back, bitch! Give it back! Why you gonna kill it? She said it killed the neighbor’s chickens. She defended herself though. She claimed that it was tough decisions like this that happen on farms all the time, and that she followed the law, and she was being a responsible parent, dog owner, and neighbor.”
Sara Haines asked, “Which part was the parenting part?”
“I’m keeping this to myself. I’m going to let y’all talk about it,” Goldberg said.
Alyssa Farrah Griffin said, “If your dog is acting wrongly, it’s because you’re incompetent at training that dog. And I grew up — we had big dogs, and we had chickens, and the dog did once get a chicken. Whose fault was it? Mine, for not having the dog somewhere where he couldn’t get the chickens. But then what do you do? You train them!
“By the way, if you have really challenging dog, there are countless organizations to rehome them to somebody who loves the dog enough. I want justice for Cricket. It’s terrible.”
Sunny Hostin added, “You know, a sign of a sociopath is someone who kills animals. I’m not a clinician, but she killed her animal.”
Some pundits claimed that Noem’s admission in her new book may have taken her out of the running to be Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate.
Watch the clip above via The View.
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Two juveniles and an adult were charged with breaking into cars early Friday morning after Naperville police found them inside a vehicle.
Officers responded to a call about 5:55 a.m. about a suspicious person pulling on car door handles in the 1500 block of Westminster Drive, a Naperville Police Department news release said.
After finding the three suspects and having them exit the vehicle in which they were seated, two of the suspects tried to flee but were subsequently taken into custody, the release said.
The adult was identified as John J. Bailey, 19, of the 7300 block of Winchester Avenue in Chicago. He and the two juveniles were charged with one count of felony burglary and multiple misdemeanor offenses, the release said.
“This was excellent work by the responding patrol officers who were able to apprehend these subjects and by the detectives who conducted a thorough follow up,” Police Chief Jason Arres said.
“I would also like to thank the members of the public who received the Naper Notify message we sent out and called us when they saw subjects fitting the description in the neighborhood.”
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will review a legal battle brought by veterans, who say they deserve the benefit of the doubt over the government when their disability claims are considered a close call.
Lawyers for Hunter Biden have threatened to sue Fox News for defamation if they don’t correct their bogus bribery allegation.
CNN’s Dana Bash reported:
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Former Rep. George Santos says he’s bringing Kitara “out of the closet,” offering Cameo videos with his apparent drag queen persona for money.
The New York Republican — who is facing federal indictment on 23 counts of wire fraud, identity theft and other campaign finance charges and was expelled by the House last year — teased the return of the alter ego on Monday.
“Ya’ll weren’t ready for this drop?” Santos wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“I’ve decided to bring Kitara out of the closet after 18 years!” the 35-year-old ousted congressman said.
Santos included a link to book a personalized video with him on Cameo for $350. The ex-lawmaker, who last week announced he was suspending an independent House bid, first began selling videos on the site in December, just days after he was booted from Congress.
While still in office in January 2023, Santos had responded to photos snapped years earlier that appeared to show him in drag.
“No, I was not a drag queen in Brazil, guys,” Santos told reporters at the time.
“I was young, and I had fun at a festival. Sue me for having a life,” he said.
Santos had initially denied a Reuters report that he participated in drag queen contests with the name Kitara and cross-dressed in gay pride events in Brazil more than a decade ago.
In his plug for the Cameo videos with Kitara, Santos claimed that a portion of the proceeds would be donated to a pair of charitable organizations.
If gender politics is your jam, The New York Times absolutely nailed this headline last week: “Trump respects women, most men say.”
The story cited Siena polling for The New York Times showing that while a 54% majority of men say Trump respects women, either “a lot” or “some”—just 31% of women—hold the same view.
In the survey, President Joe Biden is winning women’s votes, but not by as much as one might hope given the lopsided result of the “respect” question.
Biden had a 16-point lead among women, with 53% to 37%, but the advantage was more than offset by Donald Trump’s 20-point lead among men, 57% to 37%.
Biden’s support among women is good, but it’s not yet where it needs to be, according to veteran Democratic pollster Celinda Lake.
“The formula for any Democrat in a close race is to win women by more than they lose men, and frankly, right now we’re behind,” said Lake, who worked for Biden’s 2020 campaign. “Having women become as intensely anti-Trump as men are pro-Trump is really, really important.”
To that end, the Biden campaign has seized on abortion, hammering Trump’s culpability in overturning Roe v. Wade and the resulting patchwork of extreme abortion bans blanketing the country. “Trump did this” has become the Biden campaign’s mantra for pinning every horrific development arising from women’s loss of bodily autonomy in GOP-led states.
Centering abortion as a means to bringing more women into the fold makes sense, and it cuts across varying demographics of women. A Wall Street Journal poll of seven battleground states earlier this month found abortion to be the singularly most motivating issue among suburban women, with 39% viewing it as a make-or-break issue for their vote. Nearly three-quarters of suburban women in these states say abortion should be legal all or most of the time.
In 2020, Biden beat Trump among suburban women by 19 points, according to the AP VoteCast survey, on par with Biden’s 17-point advantage in the Journal’s poll.
A Harvard poll earlier this month found that 18- to -29-year-old Democratic voters view “women’s reproductive rights” as their No. 1 issue. Biden won young voters in 2020 by 24 points, but the Harvard poll showed him falling short of that mark by a handful of points among likely youth voters and roughly 10 points short among registered voters.
So yes, absolutely, the Biden campaign should keep hammering abortion. It also needs women in blue states to view a national abortion ban as a legitimate threat.
But if Biden can dial up women’s rejection of Trump’s policies to a more generalized repulsion of Trump’s treatment of women, that could help Biden lock in a few more women voters.
Take registered Republican Riley Glissendorf, a 21-year-old who told the Times that she would be voting for Biden partially due to Trump’s role in overturning Roe. But it was more than that for Glissendorf, who also cited Trump’s “disrespectful, demeaning, unkind” posture toward women.
“First and foremost, I’m a woman. I couldn’t bring myself to vote for anyone who not only doesn’t respect me politically, but doesn’t respect me as a person,” she said.
In other words, Glissendorf’s aversion to Trump wasn’t just a matter of policy, but a fundamental character flaw that makes him a deal breaker from the get-go.
What Biden wants and needs to win this election is for voters to ask: Who will fight for me? For example, the Biden campaign is working to plant that question among working and middle class voters with his Scranton vs. Mar-a-Lago framing.
And with its emphasis on abortion, the campaign is working to get women asking the same question. But if Biden could get women to more holistically view him as fighting for them, that would be more powerful than the single issue of abortion.
And part of getting women to view Biden in that frame starts with making Trump a lowly being who doesn’t have an ounce of respect for women—because you simply cannot advocate for someone you don’t respect.
So when a meager 31% of women say Trump has either “a lot” or “some” respect for women, that suggests that there’s an opening to tip those voters from “Trump’s bad on abortion” to “Trump’s just bad for me.”
As the Times noted, there’s plenty of fodder for the Biden campaign to work with, including Trump being found liable of sexual assaulting E Jean Carroll, his infamous “grab ’em by the pussy” remarks, his current trial for covering up hush-money payments to an adult film star, and even his endless bragging about terminating Roe v. Wade.
Indeed, given all of Trump’s blathering on about abortion, the right framing of that dynamic itself could be too much for women—even those who aren’t super excited about voting for Biden.
Such as, for example, when Trump says the GOP’s life-threatening abortion bans are “really working out well for people” and that “they’re very very happy.”
After all, there’s nothing better than having a clueless man tell you how you feel.
“The Daily Show” is coming to Chicago, as well as Milwaukee, for on-location tapings during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
The show will have full weeks of broadcasts from the RNC in Milwaukee (July 15-18) and the DNC in Chicago (Aug. 19-22), respectively, airing 10 p.m. weeknights on Comedy Central.
Beyond that, details of the on-the-road coverage plans, titled “Indecision 2024,” were few. Jon Stewart recently re-joined “The Daily Show” as Monday host but his appearances during the conventions were not confirmed. Venue and audience ticket information will be supplied at a later date.
The announcement Monday followed recent news that Stephen Colbert will bring his “Late Show” on CBS to Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre during the DNC (and will also broadcast live from New York during the RNC). Audience tickets for those shows are also still to come; more at auditoriumtheatre.org.