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In the wake of last week's assassination of Charlie Kirk, a U.S. senator says "there must be consequences" for those who are celebrating the murder of the Christian champion and conservative giant.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Sen. Katie Britt, R- Ala., who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, blasted the vicious hate and celebrations of Kirk's killing, saying: "It is absolutely disgusting. The rhetoric that led us to this moment, calling President Trump a fascist, calling him Hitler.
"You have news organizations in mainstream media celebrating that, allowing those things to take place and be said on their networks. That is dangerous."
Britt continued: "Now people that are celebrating Charlie's murder, celebrating a political assassination, that should never happen in the United States of America."
"We must do more. We must stand firm and there must be consequences with regards to people spewing that type of hate and celebration in the face of this, and I believe that there will be. And I certainly plan to hold them accountable.
"So if you are out there and you are celebrating the political assassination of a man who was exercising his free speech, a very foundational element, a cornerstone of who we are as the United States of America, you should be held accountable, you should fired. And that is the beginning and the end of it. Full stop."
As WorldNetDaily reported, some Americans have already been fired for their hateful comments about Kirk, including MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd, high-school social studies teacher Wynne Boliek of Greenville, South Carolina, transgender-identifying author Gretchen Felker-Martin, and an unidentified assistant dean at Middle Tennessee State University.
The U.S. Army also suspended and is investigating Maj. Bryan Bintliff, a reserve officer who goes by "Bryan Harlow" on social media and as an actor, and who cheered on Kirk's killing.
When asked by Bartiromo what could elected officials do about the problem, Britt responded: "We take what President Trump has already done. His leadership has been tremendous on this.
"You saw the Biden administration do absolutely nothing when it came to what was happening on college campuses, to our Jewish brothers and sisters. President Trump said that will not happened under my watch. You see him and the Department of Education with Secretary [Linda] McMahon saying we're gonna hold you accountable for these things.
"That's exactly what we have to do. In appropriations hearings we've got to ask those questions. We've got to make sure free speech is held and this hate speech is gone."
Britt explained: "We're gonna continue to push forward this vision that Charlie had for America of young people coming together, standing up, using their voice and having the courage to make things better, we'll make sure that continues."
"When they are celebrating his death online, not only is that sick and twisted and dehumanizing, but what they're also saying is, particularly on these college campuses to all of these students is … 'Silence your voice.'
"They are essentially saying, Maria, that if you don't think like me, that I believe that we can take your life and that should be celebrated, and that is sick and twisted. And we must stand up in a unifying way as Americans and say we will not tolerate that."
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A prominent voice in American media is calling for an "end of the America left" after this week's extreme violence, the assassination of conservative free speech advocate Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA, and the subsequent online chatter praising the murder.
A suspect was arrested early Friday, Tyler Robinson, 22, of Utah, who has been described as hating Kirk and objecting to his presence at a Utah school where he was shot.
The left was condemned in a commentary by John Daniel Davidson, a senior editor at the Federalist, whose writings widely have been used in multiple publications.
"Their cause is revolutionary and inherently violent, and if we don't stamp it out completely it will consume and eventually destroy this country. We can be a constitutional republic of free citizens or we can be ruled by a leftist revolutionary regime. We cannot be both, which means we can no longer tolerate the violent leftist radicals among us," he warned.
"So how should the right respond? On the formal institutional level, The Trump administration should dismantle the entire ecosystem of left-wing political activism in America. Antifa and BLM groups need to have their assets seized and donor lists scrutinized. The left-wing billionaires who fund these organizations need to be criminally investigated and charged if possible. Groups tied to transgenderism, Palestine/Hamas, socialism and other radical leftist causes should be targeted using every tool available to the Justice Department and federal law enforcement agencies. The law should be applied maximally to these groups and the individuals who lead them and fund them," he suggested.
He noted Kirk himself had written months ago about "how assassination culture is spreading on the left."
Those comments included surveys that 48% of liberals think it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk, and 55% said the same of President Trump.
"The left is being whipped into a violent frenzy. Any setback, whether losing an election or losing a court case, justifies a maximally violent response," Kirk said at the time. "This is the natural outgrowth of left-wing protest culture tolerating violence and mayhem for years on end. The cowardice of local prosecutors and school officials have turned the left into a ticking time bomb."
The suspect accused in Kirk's murder "reportedly engraved transgender and antifascist slogans on the bullets in the rifle he used to kill Kirk, confirming what everyone already knew, that Kirk's assassination was motivated by radical leftist ideology."
It results from "the deliberate cultivation of violence by the institutional left as a political strategy. That's what Kirk was getting at in his X post. Those in positions of authority — in public schools and universities, in the media, in the Democratic Party, in Hollywood and Silicon Valley — have for many years encouraged and themselves engaged in violent political rhetoric, and at times openly endorsed political violence. Why? Because violence is at the center of the left's political project," Davidson explained.
He warned of "disingenuous" comments coming from the likes of Barack Obama, who had a "close association with violent, unrepentant left-wing terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of The Weather Underground," yet still associated with "mainstream Democratic politics."
"There is no place in this country for Obama-style political leftism that pretends to abhor violence while tacitly and rhetorically embracing it. It's not an overstatement to say that the politics of Ayers and Obama and the mainstream political left in America created the shooter who killed Kirk."
The 1970s violence included nearly "five bombs a day" in American cities, ignited by "left-wing terrorists."
"Eventually, this rash of left-wing terrorism came to an end — not because the leftist radicals were beaten, or because they mellowed out, but because they won. They infiltrated and took over our institutions, the universities and the media and corporate America, and eventually put one of their disciples, Obama, in the White House," Davidson explained.
That makes violence "foundational to the left's entire revolutionary political project going back more than a half-century in this country."
That's why, he said, so many left-wingers are "justifying" Kirk's murder.
"These are the same people who cheered when Trump supporters or vaccine skeptics died of Covid, or celebrated when Hamas slaughtered Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023. Some of these leftists are members of the U.S. House of Representatives, who loudly protested a moment of prayer on Kirk's behalf as he was dying."
He warned, "For the left, politics is a religion — not like Christianity but more like Islam. If you submit, you'll be permitted to live. If you don't, you must be destroyed."
If Democrats are "implicated, so be it."
"It might be that the DNC and the Democratic Party itself need to be destroyed, root and branch. In the near term, Democrat politicians like Rep. Ilhan Omar, who mocked Kirk after he was killed, should be expelled from Congress by the Republican majority," he said.
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In the face of the Democrats' persistent and recalcitrant opposition to any and all nominees presented by the administration of President Donald Trump for approval by the U.S. Senate, the Republican majority there is taking drastic action.
They've changed rules, taking the so-called "nuclear option" to facilitate the Senate endorsement of the workers Trump needs to carry out his work to repair and restore America following years of damage by the Joe Biden regime.
A recent attempt at a bipartisan agreement failed, so they adopted a rules change with a simple majority vote to break through the Democrats' blockade, demanded by Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Approval of nominees now will take just 51 votes instead of 60.
Lawmakers were frustrated that, through the first eight months of Trump's presidency, not a single nominee had moved through fast-track unanimous consent or voice votes. Democrats had launched opposition to each and every person.
It was in a report at Cowboy State Daily in Wyoming that Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., called out Schumer, a New York Democrat, for his unprecedented stalling.
More than 1,000 presidential appointments remain in limbo because of the Democrats.
"Typically, the minority party allows obscure, noncontroversial nominees to be approved in large batches, known as 'en banc.' This usually happens through unanimous consent or a voice vote, both of which are quick procedures. But this Congress, Senate Democrats have not allowed a single nominee of this nature to be confirmed by such expedited measures. Instead, Democrats have insisted on two hours of debate for each nominee, followed by separate, time-consuming roll call votes on each one."
The report explained it's a lost cause for Democrats, and they actually have rarely debated the nominees. "But their tactics have slowed Senate business — including legislation — to a crawl."
"Senate Democrats have shamefully blocked President Trump's qualified nominees at an unprecedented rate this year, preventing critical Senate-confirmed personnel from effectively running federal agencies and hampering our ability to conduct other essential business for the American people," U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyoming, told Cowboy State Daily.
Barrasso explained the Democrat agenda: "Senate Democrats would filibuster the White House janitor if they had the opportunity."
In fact, the report noted Democrats have been demanding Republicans fund their pet leftist projects in order for them to cooperate on the nominees.
Barrasso accused Schumer of holding nominees "for ransom."
Fox reported it's only the fourth time in Senate history it has gone "nuclear."
The change now will allow the Senate to vote on Trump nominees in batches.
Exempted from the change are nominations for judicial nominees.
Schumer claimed, without providing evidence, that the Senate would now be voting on "unqualified" nominees.
Thune said enough was enough.
"It's time to move. Time to quit stalling. Time to vote. It's time to fix this place."
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A political analyst for the leftist MSNBC has been fired for his hate-filled comments about Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated at a Turning Points USA event in Utah on Wednesday.
The analyst, Matthew Dowd, had accused the conservative activist of "hate speech" and claimed that was the reason for the violence.
A report at Fox News said Dowd was on video suggesting "hateful" rhetoric from Charlie Kirk "led to his own assassination."
The report cited "two sources" familiar with the matter.
The network already had denounced Dowd's claims.
"During our breaking news coverage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk, Matthew Dowd made comments that were inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable," MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler said in a statement. "We apologize for his statements, as has he. There is no place for violence in America, political or otherwise."
Dowd had been at ABC for years, then joined MSNBC in 2022.
After the shooting first was reported, Dowd told MSNBC's Katy Tur, "We don't know any of the full details of this yet. We don't know if this was a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration."
Then he said Kirk was "one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this, who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions."
Dowd charged ahead with, "I think that's the environment we're in, that the people just — you can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awful words, and not expect awful actions to take place. And that's the unfortunate environment we're in."
Dowd shortly later went to social media to try to soften his own rhetoric.
"In an earlier appearance on MSNBC I was asked a question on the environment we are in. I apologize for my tone and words. Let me be clear, I in no way intended for my comments to blame Kirk for this horrendous attack. Let us all come together and condemn violence of any kind," Dowd wrote.
The report confirmed, "Dowd, a Democrat who was formerly a Republican strategist and an independent, is one of the most rabidly anti-GOP voices on cable news. He made a failed bid for the Democratic nomination for Texas lieutenant governor in 2021."
Fox News' Jesse Watters was among those responding: "Dowd should be fired immediately; I expect him to be terminated within 24 hours. You can't say Charlie deserved to die. You just can't say that, and I hope he loses his job."
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FBI Director Kash Patel says a person of interest arrested in Wednesday's assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, has now been released.
"The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement," Patel said on X.
"Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency."
Radio traffic from Utah County Public Safety earlier in the day had a dispatcher saying: "Description on the male: All in black, long pants, black bag, aviator-style sunglasses with a long gun."
It is believed the shooter fired a weapon from a long distance, striking the founder of Turning Point USA who was speaking while seated under a tent.
"Our nation is broken," said Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox at an afternoon news conference. "Nothing I say can unite us as a country. … Nothing I say can bring back Charlie Kirk."
"I don't care what his politics are. I care that he's an American," he continued. "We just need every single person in this country to think about where we are and where we want to be."
"I pray that those who hate what Charlie Kirk stood for will put down their social media and pen and pray for his family and that all of us will try to find a way to stop hating our fellow Americans."
"I just want to remind people we still have the death penalty in the state of Utah."
As the manhunt was under way, Jesse Watters of Fox News expressed some doubt the assailant being captured.
"If you look at the geography around the area, you can just walk down from that building, get in your vehicle and you can be in the mountains in ten minutes," Watters said on "The Five."
"You could be at the airport in Provo in five minutes. I'm a little worried that this manhunt is gonna go on for a long time because if they don't have this guy now, there is no telling where he or she or they could be."
Dana Perino on the same program noted: "It's very scary to think that this person may have gotten away."
Kennedy, host of "Kennedy Saves the World," said the shooting was intended to send a message.
"It's absolutely a message. This is a message meant to silence people," she said.
"This is an assassination. This is an act of terrorism because although Charlie Kirk was not a politician, he was political and he was powerful and his power came from joy and igniting a movement and being really, really convincing."
"That person intended for this assassination to silence everyone who agrees with him, and to silence everyone who wants to go out on a limb and make their case and refute so much of what especially younger people are being fed."
Fox News anchor Greg Gutfeld said of the message: "It's like, you could be next. … It feels professional."
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In a stunning development out of the leftist-run state of Michigan, a judge there has abruptly dismissed the state's lawfare charges against those individuals who offered themselves as alternate electors, for President Donald Trump, during the disputed 2020 presidential election.
Democrat officials in the state had claimed that they were guilty of offenses like forgery, conspiracy and such because they believed there were problems with the election and they wanted to protect the rights of Trump voters to be represented should their suspicions be documented.
In effect, they were "exercising their constitutional right to seek redress," according to the judge in the case, Kristin Simmons.
The verdict in the case:
Alternate slates of electors have been used by both major political parties in America over the years. The 2020 race generated charges of election fraud because not only was there documented fraud, but there were two undue influences that undoubtedly skewed the election.
One was that Mark Zuckerberg handed out $400 million plus to local elections officials who mostly used it to recruit voters from Democrat districts.
No private funding like that amount ever had appeared in a U.S. election.
Then, too, there was the FBI's decision to interfere in the election. Despite knowing it was true, the bureau warned media corporations to suppress accurate information about Biden family scandals documented in a laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a repair shop.
A subsequent polling revealed that had those details been reported ordinarily, enough voters would have withheld their support for Joe Biden to cause him to lose the election.
The judge found that the Constitution provides protections for peaceably assembling and petitioning the government, and that's what Michigan's alternates did during the 2020 race.
The Gateway Pundit listed the charges the leftist authorities in Michigan had created against the defendants, including multiple counts of forgery and conspiracy.
The publication even cited a video of leftist Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, the radical activist behind many of the election issues in the state, including the case against the alternates.
In that video Nessel confirmed that the alternates truly believed what they were doing was right, meaning she knew there was no intent to commit a fraud or a deception.
The judge founds, "I believe they were exercising their constitutional rights to seek redress, and that's based on the statements of all of the people's witnesses. And for those reasons, these cases will not be bound over to the circuit court and this case will be dismissed."
The Gateway Pundit called the ruling "a major gut-punch" to Nessel, a "Democrat activist."
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A week ago President Donald Trump canceled the extended Secret Service protection plan Joe Biden had created for his vice president, Kamala Harris.
California police from Los Angeles then were detailed to provide security for the millionaire politician at her luxury Brentwood home.
Now, amid raging protests from taxpayers, that's been canceled, too.
A report at Legal Insurrection explained the Los Angeles Police Department dropped its special security detail for Harris, and that ended "days of controversy over pulling officers from crime suppression duties to guard her Brentwood home."
Ordinarily, her Secret Service protection would have ended in July, but Biden created a special accommodation for her, extending it.
Trump, however, canceled that carve-out from the law for her.
Then LAPD officers were sent to protect her, triggering outrage among California taxpayers on the hook for her privileges.
The report said, "The move came after mounting criticism from within the ranks. The Los Angeles Police Protective League, which represents rank-and-file officers, blasted the use of city resources."
Its statement said, "Pulling police officers from protecting everyday Angelenos to protect a failed presidential candidate who also happens to be a multi-millionaire … and who can easily afford to pay for her own security, is nuts."
The statement continued, "Mayor Karen Bass should tell Governor Newsom that if he wants to curry favor with Ms. Harris and her donor base, then he should open up his own wallet because LA taxpayers should not be footing the bill for this ridiculousness."
WND had reported that Harris is just about to launch a self- and book-promoting tour.
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President Donald Trump on Sunday issued a "last warning" to the Islamic terror group Hamas which is continuing to hold hostages nearly two years after its onslaught against Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
In a post on Truth Social, the president indicated: "Everyone wants the Hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end!
"The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well. I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting.
"This is my last warning, there will not be another one! Thank you for your attention to this matter. DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA."
Trump's warning comes two days after the terrorists released a propaganda video of two of the Israeli hostages.
NBC News reported:
Hamas released a video on Friday of two Israeli hostages seized from a music festival in Israel in October 2023, and one said he was being held in Gaza City, where the Israeli military has launched a major offensive to wipe out the militant group.
Guy Gilboa-Dalal and Alon Ohel are two of 48 people still being held by Hamas in Gaza, with 20 thought to be still alive.
Palestinian militants took 251 hostages into the enclave after its cross-border attack on southern Israeli communities in 2023 that killed about 1,200 people, triggering the war. More than 64,000 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, local health authorities say, with much of the enclave laid in ruins and its residents facing a humanitarian crisis.
The video was edited and featured an exhausted-looking Gilboa-Dalal speaking for around three-and-a-half minutes. He is seen in a car for some of the video dated August 28. Reuters could not independently determine when the video was recorded.
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The European Commission has issued a long list of complaints against Google over its advertising procedures, announcing a roughly $3.2 billion fine to punish the American company.
And President Donald Trump has reacted with a warning, and a threat.
In fact, he's suggesting that he could invoke Section 301 of America's Trade Act, which gives the government "a range" of authorities "to investigate and take action (e.g. impose a tariff) to enforce U.S. rights under trade agreements and respond to certain foreign trade practices."
A report at Courthousenews explains the European attack, the "hefty penalty" being the "tech giant's fourth EU antitrust fine."
The report explained, "The European Commission accused the California-based company of distorting competition in online advertising by systematically favoring its own services over rivals, harming competitors, advertisers and publishers across the bloc."
Trump posted on social media, "Europe today 'hit' another great American company, Google, with a $3.5 Billion Dollar fine, effectively taking money that would otherwise go to American investments and Jobs. This is on top of the many other Fines and Taxes that have been issued against Google and other American Tech companies, in particular."
He called it "Very unfair" and warned, "The American Taxpayer will not stand for it!"
If this continues, "I will be forced to start a Section 301 proceeding to nullify the unfair penalties being charged to these Taxpaying American Companies," he said.
The European tech experts complained that Google's control over multiple layers of the digital advertising ecosystem creates fundamental conflicts of interest.
The company, in fact, has a long list of various software programs in the ad industry, including operations that service advertisers seeking to place ads as well as publishers looking to sell ad space.
Terea Ribera, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, threatened publicly, "Google must now come forward with a serious remedy to address its conflicts of interest, and if it fails to do so, we will not hesitate to impose strong remedies."
Google said it would appeal.
"The European Commission's decision about our ad tech services is wrong and we will appeal. It imposes an unjustified fine and requires changes that will hurt thousands of European businesses by making it harder for them to make money," said Lee-Anne Mulholland, a Google vice president.
The next step in the fight probably will be response from Google, due in November to the commission, which included in its statement a threat to try to force Google to sell parts of its business.
Courthousenews said, "The fine represents the latest escalation in Europe's regulatory crackdown on major American technology companies. The EU executive previously issued preliminary charges against Google in 2023, suggesting that forcing the company to divest portions of its advertising technology operations might be necessary to restore fair competition."
Internally, the EU has had conflicts.
In fact, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič days ago blocked a planned Google penalty over concerns it would hurt EU-U.S. trade negotiations.
Google, in fact, also faces cases raising concerns about its advertising operations inside the U.S.
"In April, a federal judge ruled that Google illegally monopolized parts of the advertising market, with a remedies hearing scheduled to begin Sept. 22. Separately, in a case focused on Google's search monopoly, a federal judge ruled this week that the company must end exclusive search deals but will not be forced to sell Chrome or Android," Courthousenews said.
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A task force under President Donald Trump is tracking – and working to eliminate – the anti-Christian bias installed in the federal government under Joe Biden.
Biden, in fact, "weaponized the full weight of the federal government against Christians," according to a new report from task force members.
A report from Fox News said it obtained a copy of a report from the "Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias," headed by Attorney General Pam Bondi.
It was assigned to make certain "any unlawful and improper conduct, policies, or practices that target Christians are identified, terminated, and rectified."
Its initial assessments covers "the damage that can be done when religious liberty is not protected and preserved for all Americans," and it promised, "The federal government will never again be permitted to turn its power against people of faith."
The report affirms that "the rule of law will be enforced with vigor, and every religion will be treated with equality in both policy and action."
In a nation where protections for religious liberties are written into the Constitution, it stunningly noted, "The days of anti-Christian bias in the federal government are over. Faith is not a liability in America—it is a liberty."
So far, its initial review of federal agencies and actions have found "numerous instances of anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration."
White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers, in fact, told Fox News Digital that the Biden agenda targeted Christians and "trampled on their fundamental First Amendment rights."
"Unlike Joe Biden, President Trump is protecting Christians, not punishing them."
Fox reported offenses were found in the Department of Defense, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Department of Labor, where officials "deprioritized, mishandled, or denied requests for religious exemptions to the Biden administration's COVID-19 mandate."
The Biden administration also used the Department of Education to try to impose record-setting fines on Christian universities like Liberty University and Grand Canyon University.
And, Fox reported, the Department of Homeland Security under Biden set up "accommodations" for followers of Islam, Rastafarianism and sects of Judaism, but ignored Christian perspectives.
And Biden's Department of Justice "pursued novel theories" to prosecute those speaking their Christian faith, and utterly failed to "address and prosecute violations of the law where anti-Christian bias was demonstrated by the persecutors."
That involved persecuting and imprisoning dozens of people under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, used by Biden to protect abortion businesses. They were jailed for praying outside abortion industry outlets.
"Yet, the same DOJ refused to apply the FACE Act to protect places of worship and crisis pregnancy centers," the report charged.
The FBI worked under the biased agenda that "radical-traditionalist" Catholics were domestic "terror threats" and the Treasury Department allowed Christian organizations to be "de-banked."
The State Department's anti-Christian bias was evident in that non-Christian workers were allowed leave for holidays, while Christians were not.
Further, Biden's pro-LGBT bias was installed throughout the government, the report said.
The investigation, and corrective actions, are just getting under way, officials confirmed in the Fox report.