Republican nominee former President Donald Trump repeated on Sunday to Fox News's Howard Kurtz his contention that former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff (both D-CA) are "the enemy within" and may have confirmed that he could potentially use law enforcement or the military against them if elected.
“I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people. Radical left lunatics,” Trump said on October 13 to Maria Bartiromo, also on Fox News.
“I think it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can’t let that happen,” he added, referring to the possibility of Election Day violence.
Kurtz tried to clarify Trump's comments during an interview Sunday on "Mediabuzz."
“Are you prepared to say now that you will not use law enforcement to punish or prosecute your political opponents?” Kurtz asked the former president on Sunday on "Mediabuzz."
“Excuse me, that’s what they’re using on me,” Trump replied before alluding to the classified documents case in Florida.
“They have weaponized the government against me,” Trump said, adding, “I don’t want to do that, because that’s a bad thing for the country. I don’t want to do that. I don’t know who said — I haven’t said that I would, but they have done it.”
“These are bad people. We have a lot of bad people. But when you look at ‘Shifty Schiff’ and some of the others, yeah, they are, to me, the enemy from within,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News’ “MediaBuzz” that aired Sunday.
“He’s a political opponent of yours, but is he an enemy?” Kurtz asked.
“Of course he’s an enemy, he’s an enemy,” Trump said, adding that he tried to put Donald Trump Jr. in jail over the Russian collusion narrative, which turned out to be false.
“I think Nancy Pelosi is an enemy from within,” he went on. “She lied. She was supposed to protect the Capitol.”
Trump also said he offered Pelosi 10,000 National Guard troops, which she refused.
Some of Trump's Republican allies have defended his comments. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Trump was using hyperbole to "rev up his base" and that he didn't actually go after political opponents with law enforcement or the military when he was president.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Trump was talking about going after violent gangs on Election Day, not his political opponents. “Trump is talking about restoring law and order,” Johnson said. “That resonates with the American people.”
Judge Tanya Chutkan has unsealed significant portions of an evidence dump brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith against former President Donald Trump.
Smith's presentation of this evidence dump to Judge Chutkan is seen as his last act in the indictment against Trump. As the case has ground to a halt and Trump is likely to win the election, there is little chance Smith's indictment will go to trial.
The nearly 1,900 pages of documents collected by Smith’s team were filed under seal to help Judge Chutkan decide what allegations can proceed to trial following the Supreme Court's presidential immunity decision that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts.
This filing also served as political ammunition for Democrats who are desperate to talk about Trump's indictment in light of Vice President Kamala Harris's faltering presidential campaign.
The evidence that Smith presented against Trump has been either largely inconsequential or was already available to the public.
Some of the evidence in Smith's filing was comprised of screenshots of Trump's social media posts about the 2020 election.
Smith had also filed a transcript of the video statement Trump made on Jan. 6, 2021, telling protestors at the Capitol on Jan. 6th to go home, but added: “We love you” and “You’re very special.”
This evidence actually further exonerates Trump as it in no way indicates that Trump was encouraging or inciting an insurrection but rather was encouraging peaceful protest.
Aside from the redacted grand jury transcripts which will remain redacted due to secrecy rules, much of Smith's evidence is the same stuff that Democrats have been talking about for the past four years which indicates just how weak Smith's case really is.
Many people were expecting bombshell revelations that could significantly affect Trump's presidential campaign, or an "October Surprise" of sorts.
However, Smith's filing was anything but that and appears to be a last-gasp effort to hit Trump after a years-long investigation that Democrats would kill any chance of Trump making a political return after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
Trump's campaign is on a roll and his momentum has only continued to grow as Kamala Harris falters. After Harris replaced Biden on the Democrat presidential ticket, she received a surge of support but that has since faded.
A concerted media campaign designed to boost Harris could only carry her so far and Harris has wasted that momentum with disastrous public appearances.
Harris is having to campaign on the policies of her predecessor, President Joe Biden, while simultaneously trying to distance herself from those policies. This has created a chaotic and fractured campaign that is completely ineffectual.
Democrats were counting on Jack Smith to put together a criminal case that would sink Trump's campaign because without it he is likely to steamroll Harris in November.
Federal Judge Xavier Rodriguez has struck down a key election integrity bill just weeks ahead of the presidential election in November.
Judge Rodriguez issued an order on Friday enjoining state and county officials from investigating or prosecuting alleged violations of “voter assistance” as directed by Texas Senate Bill 1.
Senate Bill 1 is a comprehensive election integrity measure passed by the Texas Legislature in 2021 in response to questions of election fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
Judge Rodriguez claimed that Section 208 of the Voting Rights Act supersedes Senate Bill 1's requirements and as such officials are prevented from investigating "voter assistance" incidents.
Attorneys representing the state argued that Senate Bill 1's provisions are intended to deter political operatives from forcing unwanted assistance onto voters and already contained language protecting non-partisan voter assistance groups that assist disabled voters.
Judge Rodriguez's decision leaves the door open for bad actors to commit election fraud and this decision comes just weeks before a pivotal election.
This isn't the first time Judge Rodgriguez undermined election integrity measures. Earlier this month he issued an order halting enforcement of Texas's paid vote harvesting ban, which was also part of Senate Bill 1.
He seems to be determined to knock down Texas Republican's efforts to secure the election against voter fraud and other shenanigans that could damage Americans' trust in the election.
Any possibility that Judge Rodriguez was anything but a partisan actor was eliminated when he prevented Texas election officials from rejecting mail-in ballots with wrong or missing identification numbers.
There is no legal basis or argument justifying the decision to force officials to accept mail-in ballots that have been tampered with or inaccurate.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appealed that order to the U.S. Fifth Circuit and won a temporary administrative stay but this fight is ongoing and the question is which side will win by November's election.
If Judge Rodgriguez's decision is overturned by a higher court it won't matter if his order prevents election-day investigations that could prevent fraud or other unethical behavior.
These decisions in individual states by activist judges could swing the outcome of the election. While Texas isn't in play as a swing state, a decision like this in Pennsylvania could have massive consequences for the outcome of the election.
The RNC should pay close attention to these decisions that could have big impacts on what will no doubt be a tight election.
Sherry Coben, best known for creating the award-winning 1980s sitcom "Kate & Allie," died Wednesday of cancer at the age of 71 in Milford, New Jersey.
She grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and attended Swarthmore College and Cornell University.
Coben started out as a set designer and animator in Philadelphia before moving to New York City and becoming a writer on the children's television show "Hot Hero Sandwich," for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award.
She moved on to writing for the soap opera Ryan's Hope as the 1980s began, but transitioned to "Kate & Allie" in 1984.
The sitcom ran for the rest of the 1980s and was a top hit for CBS.
It featured Jane Curtin and Susan St. James as divorced mothers raising their children together, and it won several Emmys during its six-season, 122-episode run.
It was rare at the time to have a television show that focused mainly or solely on women's lives. According to Cohen, it's still rare.
In 2017, Cohen said about the show,
Three decades have passed, and it’s still rare for network execs to see there’s a huge audience hungry for shows about women expressly for women. You can count on two hands the number of female-driven shows since. I’d hoped to set more of a trend.
According to Deadline, Cohen also mentored other writers and artists. Her husband, Patrick McMahon is also a film producer of mostly reality shows, and the couple has two daughters.
Cohen worked on other projects, too.
She wrote a screenplay in 1985, “Love, Long Distance,” about a couple navigating a commuter marriage.
This work was based on her own marriage to McMahon. It was made into a TV movie in 1985.
She also created and wrote the web series, “Little Women, Big Cars.”
Her contribution to the entertainment world will not soon be forgotten.
During the nearly thirty-minute conversation that took place on Fox News' "Special Report," Baier asked Harris if there was anything that she would do differently from Biden if she were elected. This was in response to her statement in a previous interview that nothing "comes to mind."
Vice President Kamala Harris was confronted with questions about her knowledge of President Biden's mental decline: "You told many interviewers that Joe Biden was on his game, that ran around circles on his staff. When did you first notice that President Biden's mental faculties appeared diminished?" Baier asked.
Harris continued to praise Biden's capabilities in office following a brief pause to the previous question, saying "Joe Biden, I have watched from the Oval Office to the Situation Room, and he has the judgment and the experience to do exactly what he has done in making very important decisions on behalf of the American people," Harris said.
When pressed further, she said, "Bret, Joe Biden is not on the ballot… and Donald Trump is," Harris responded.
Harris responded by telling Baier that she has not spent the majority of her career in Washington, DC, and that she would seek ideas from Republicans and business leaders.
Later, Baier questioned Harris if she had detected a loss in Biden's mental acuity. In response, Harris praised Biden's record but added, "Joe Biden is not on the ballot... and Donald Trump is."
This was a repeating theme throughout the discussion, as Harris frequently attempted to focus the debate toward Trump.
At the beginning of the interview, Harris and Baier engaged in a contentious discussion about immigration, which is a difficult issue for Harris.
Harris, for the most part, avoided criticizing policies that were implemented during the Biden administration and instead attempted to steer the conversation toward former President Donald Trump and his efforts to kill a bipartisan border budget bill.
According to Harris's statement to Baier, she is against decriminalizing border crossings. This contradicts her 2019 statement on "The View" where she stated that she was "in favor of saying that we're not going to treat people who are undocumented [and] cross the borders as criminals."
Harris reiterated an accusation she has leveled on Trump previously, claiming that the ex-president had utilized the law to further his political career and that he had a preference for “run on a problem instead of fixing a problem.”
Additionally, Harris reaffirmed her remarks from earlier in the week, in which she criticized Trump as "unfit to serve," referred to him as "increasingly unstable," and sidestepped Baier's query regarding her presidential aspirations.
During the interview, Baier and Harris had heated exchanges, with Harris claiming she was "in the middle of responding to" an argument Baier had made before she realized she had talked over him.
During her appearance on Fox News, Harris addressed criticism from Republicans who felt the vice president should have agreed to more interviews before the election and taken them with more supportive outlets, such as "The Howard Stern Show," "The View," and "The Breakfast Club."
A recent appearance by Harris on "60 Minutes" is particularly noteworthy, partially because of how heavially edited in Harris' favor the final product was. Her first official interview with the conservative news organization was on Wednesday.
According to Ian Sams, Harris's spokesman, the interview would be beneficial for the vice president because to Fox News's high ratings (consistently surpassing CNN and MSNBC) and the proportion of viewers who are still unsure about their vote.
The interview was also presented by Sams as a chance for Harris to address the audience that he claimed gets "fed a bunch of crap" by Fox News' opinion hosts, who are known to criticize Harris on a regular basis.
The hypocrisy of former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney has been exposed by damaging texts showing that she secretly spoke with a witness on January 6th, without informing her attorney.
The texts demonstrating Cheney's communication with Cassidy Hutchinson via Signal were obtained by a congressional committee, as Breitbart News reported.
Hutchinson communicated with the ex-representative both directly and via her political strategist, Alyssa Farrah Griffin.
During Hutchinson's brief fame, Cheney allegedly assisted her in hiring new attorneys who would have been more receptive to the viewpoint of the House January 6th Select Committee.
According to the New York Post, Cheney (R-WY) contacted former Donald Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson through ex-Trump strategic communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin and later directly to compel further testimony and have Hutchinson appear for a primetime televised hearing about the 45th president's role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
“Though she worked behind the scenes to obtain Hutchinson's juiciest allegations in 2022, some of which were later found to be false, Cheney never mentioned the backchannel talks with Hutchinson or Griffin in her book ‘Oath and Honor’ about the riot,” the media outlet said.
The actions and communications of Cheney are being characterized as ethical violations. In an ironic turn of events, Cheney requested criminal referrals for "anybody who attempted to influence witness testimony" during the January 6th committee meeting.
In the past, she also accused former President Trump of attempting to contact a J6 witness and reported the incident to the Department of Justice. Once more, projection appears to be at play, as Cheney appears to have performed the actions she falsely alleged Trump did.
Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who is the chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, is furious about the texts' discovery and claims that Cheney "apparently defied her ethical responsibilities" as vice chair of the Jan. 6 select committee, which he described as acting more like an inquisition panel than a body seeking truth.
“Hutchinson began texting with Griffin in April 2022, two months before the made-for-TV hearings aired, claiming she had additional evidence that might be relevant to the select committee’s investigation. The two met at Griffin’s Georgetown home and reportedly discussed that Trump had ‘agreed’ with the Capitol mob’s chants of ‘Hang Mike Pence’ during the melee that temporarily halted the certification of the 2020 electoral count,” the Post wrote.
Griffin wrote on Signal on April 28, 2022, that Cheney's coordination of further testimony for May 17, 2022, without her then-lawyer Stefan Passantino was unethical.
“Her one concern was so long ad [sic] you have counsel, she can’t really ethically talk to you without him,” Griffin told Hutchinson at the time. Hutchinson would go on to testify for a third sitting the following month, providing “unverified” stories.
“Hutchinson sent Signal messages directly to Cheney requesting ‘a private conversation’ on June 6, 2022, three days before the first televised committee hearing. Around the same time, Hutchinson rejected Passantino as her counsel, and lawyers from Alston and Bird, Jody Hunt, and Bill Jordan, began representing the former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows pro bono,” the Post recounted.
The media site reported that Loudermilk's panel noted a "dramatic change in testimony and eventual claims against President Trump using second- and third-hand accounts."
Hutchinson testified three more times before the Jan. 6 committee, saying spectacularly that the 45th president had rushed for the wheel of his Secret Service limousine, called ‘the Beast,’ to join his Capitol mob disputing the 2020 election count.
Is anyone surprised to learn that a renowned plagiarism expert says Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris plagiarized major sections of her 2009 book "Smart on Crime"?
Harris wrote the book with a co-author, Joan O’C Hamilton, as she began her campaign for California Attorney General.
It was intended to “outline her vision of how the criminal justice system should function.“
Dr. Stefan Weber contended in a report that Harris "copied virtually an entire Wikipedia article into her book without providing attribution to Wikipedia.”
He also said she "fabricated a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number."
Journalist and author Christopher Rufo cited many of the examples on X in great detail.
Weber says Harris used verbatim language from an AP/NBC News report, a John Jay College press release, and other primary sources.
He is known for taking down several German politicians for plagiarism, but the American media will likely try to ignore Harris's plagiarism just like it glossed over Biden's when it came time to elect him.
The Trump campaign has jumped right on the report. Vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance posted on X, "Hi, I'm JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia."
Hi, I'm JD Vance. I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia. https://t.co/tkZvK8LrI3
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 14, 2024
The real question isn't whether Harris plagiarized her book--that seems pretty clear from Weber's report.
The real question is how she was able to rise through the ranks and be running for president without anyone finding out about it.
Either the media failed to even try to vet her or they found out about the plagiarism and hid it.
Neither one of those says anything good about them and their fairness or objectivity--but then we already knew that.
Democrat vice presidential nominee Minnesota Governor Tim Walz was caught on video struggling to load a shotgun despite repeatedly telling audiences on the campaign trail that he is a "hunter."
The video was posted on X by the National Rifle Association (NRA) with the caption: "Reminder: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are no friends of hunters and gun owners. The Harris-Walz ticket is an existential threat to our Second Amendment freedoms."
Reminder: Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are no friends of hunters and gun owners.
The Harris-Walz ticket is an existential threat to our Second Amendment freedoms. pic.twitter.com/HJRQvHN96w
— NRA (@NRA) October 12, 2024
The video showed him awkwardly trying to load the gun and saying, "It never fits quite right."
Reporters asked him what kind of gun it was and he said it was a Beretta A400, which is a semiautomatic firearm.
While there are a lot of gun owners who probably look awkward loading their guns even though they are familiar with them, the video represents a kind of flub for Walz.
That's because Walz has tried to position himself as a "hunter" and gun owner who wants to ban so-called "assault weapons."
While the Beretta A400 is not considered an assault weapon, it is a semi-automatic like the AR-15, which has been banned previously.
Walz also served in the military for years, so he should be familiar with different kinds of weapons including military ones that are considered assault weapons.
His struggle with the Beretta shotgun could make voters wonder about his supposed proficiency as a hunter and gun enthusiast.
It doesn't really seem like Walz benefits much from his convoluted stance on guns.
A lot of Democrats hate guns and would be turned off by Walz's video and statements that he is a hunter.
Pro-Second Amendment Republicans won't consider him legitimate as a hunter/gun owner if he wants to ban some guns, so who is left to support this iteration of his positioning?
So many Democrat positions are unsupportable anymore and just end up making the majority of people angry for one reason or another.
Former President Donald Trump is surging in the key swing state of Michigan thanks to an unexpected level of support from Arab Americans, who typically vote for Democrat candidates.
Former Trump administration official Michelle Moons wrote in an article for Breitbart News that she and other conservative entities are working to tap into an unrecognized group of conservative Arab Americans who are reportedly eager to support Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris and the Democrat Party are losing the support of many Arab American voters due to the Biden administration's handling of the war between Israel and Hamas and the general chaos in the Middle East that has broken out over the past few years.
Under Trump, there was peace and warming of relations between Israel and their Arab neighbors but under Biden, things have the other way, and Arab American voters are demanding a president who has the answers for the chaos and war that has broken out.
Arab American voters are either running to Trump or planning to stay home in November especially after Kamala Harris insulted pro-Palestinian protestors at a rally in Michigan.
Harris has no way to win with Arab American voters thanks to the United States' obligations to Israel which is one of our only reliable allies in the Middle East.
Despite entertaining many elements of the Democrat Party that want to see aid to Israel ended, Harris has been unable to satisfy the radical demands of her party at risk of alienating pro-Israel Jewish elements of the Democrat Party.
This is particularly relevant in Michigan as there is a large contingent of Arab American voters in Michigan that can swing the outcome of the state. Should Arab American voters abandon Harris for Trump or not show up at all, Trump can easily win Michigan.
Moons wrote, "My husband and I started the Conservative American Middle Eastern PAC – or CAM PAC – in October 2024 after a Trump supporting friend told us how much he was hurting financially but that he still wasn’t registered to vote. Seeing this gap in Republican outreach to register Middle Eastern Americans, we couldn’t wait for someone else to solve the problem. Since launching in Michigan, we have seen people willing to wait in line just to get registered and vote for Trump."
The GOP has done a horrific job of reaching out to culturally conservative groups and for too long has just resigned those votes to the Democrat Party.
Now thanks to a combination of Kamala Harris's incompetence and Trump's reforms to the GOP, a new day has dawned and Republicans are hard at work getting those votes that have been neglected for years.
While Trump is also a pro-Israel candidate, he wants a swift and effective resolution to the conflicts plaguing the Middle East and that could draw many of those angry Arab American voters to join MAGA's growing coalition.
Conservatives like Michelle Moons are hard at work doing the dirty work of reaching out to new voter segments and it could pay dividends. Should Trump win Michigan, there are a few scenarios in which Trump could lose the election.
Both Georgia and Pennsylvania are leaning toward Trump significantly and North Carolina was just battered by a nasty hurricane to which Kamala Harris has failed to properly respond to.
Michigan was the key swing-state where Harris is seen as having the edge but with this changing dynamic involving Arab Americans, all that could change and hand Trump a 2nd term in the White House.
Former President Donald Trump announced "Operation Aurora," which is a plan to deport members of an illegal immigrant Venezuelan gang.
Trump announced on Friday that he intended to target illegal immigrant gangs in the wake of the shocking discovery that a Venezuelan gang had occupied an apartment complex in Aroura Colorado.
The building was under the gang's control and the gang was using automatic weapons to threaten and intimidate tenets while extracting rents from them.
A senior Trump campaign official told Just the News, "Today, in Aurora, Colorado, President Trump will be announcing 'OPERATION AURORA' at the federal level to remove illegal migrant members of the very dangerous transnational Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, or 'TDA.'"
Under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, dangerous criminal gangs are setting up shop in the United States and there is little being done to stop them. Under Trump, all of that will change quickly.
Trump's announcement of Operation Aurora is a warning shot to illegal immigrant gangs that have come into the United States.
Trump is giving them an opportunity to get out now or face the consequences should he win the election. At this point in the race, Trump is favored to win multiple swing states and likely the election thanks to his stance on immigration.
Trump is promising a total reversal of the Biden-Harris administration's border and immigration policy and he will be enacting mass deportations as soon as possible should he win a 2nd term in the White House.
The official from Trump's campaign further explained, "This gang member removal program will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle every illegal migrant criminal network operating on American soil. Last month men armed with rifles and handguns were caught on camera as they forced their way into an apartment in Aurora, CO, and threatened the tenant at gunpoint."
The fact that armed men who are not citizens are able to walk freely in the United States without facing consequences is absolutely unacceptable and the Biden-Harris administration must be held accountable.
The official continued by saying, "10 minutes later, they opened fire on a 25-year-old man outside the building, fatally shooting him. Of the three identified barbaric thugs, ALL THREE are illegal aliens who were in Border Patrol custody but RELEASED into the U.S. by Kamala Harris."
Americans are becoming increasingly aware of how bad the open border is for the nation and no amount of leftist media propaganda can cover things up.
The video of armed gang members taking over apartment complexes unopposed by police shocked thousands of Americans and that will have an impact on the election next month. Voters are most concerned about immigration and the economy and Harris is behind on both of those issues.
Trump is surging thanks to his strong stances on immigration and the economy and many Democrat insiders are already beginning to worry that Harris's failings could drag the whole party down.
While Trump is handily leading the presidential race, Democrats are still playing for control of the House and the Senate. Should Harris continue to flounder and drag Democrats down, it could hand the GOP control of Congress alongside the White House.