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Republican Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte told The National Desk (TND) Monday state officials acted within their legal limitations by removing a child from parents who objected to their transitioning gender identity. Montana Child and Family Services (CFS) officials took custody of the 14-year-old from parents Krista and Todd Kolstad this month, according to Reduxx. The teenager is reportedly a biological female and recently began to express suicidal thoughts. While being treated at a hospital in August, doctors began using the child's preferred name and pronouns, which do not correspond with the child's biological sex, according to Reduxx. The parents reportedly...

I know very little about Gianforte. Rino or what is his problem?

MISSOULA, Mont. — President Trump praised a Republican candidate’s assault last year on a reporter and fumed over his Democratic opponents here on Thursday night in a freewheeling rally meant to mobilize his base’s support in the coming midterm elections. In urging the crowd to vote for Representative Greg Gianforte, who is running for re-election and who was sentenced to anger management classes and community service for assaulting a reporter last spring, Mr. Trump jokingly warned the crowd to “never wrestle him.” “I had heard he body-slammed a reporter,” Mr. Trump said, noting that he was initially concerned that Mr....

Kicking off a three state western campaign swing on Thursday night, President Donald Trump used a stop in Missoula, Montana to praise a GOP Congressman who assaulted a reporter during a 2017 special election campaign, as the President drew cheers at a campaign rally by calling Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-MT) “my guy.” “Any guy that can do a body slam, he’s my guy,” Mr. Trump said at an airport rally, using his arms to mimic someone throwing another person to the ground. The President recounted how he been in Rome when he heard that Gianforte had body slammed a reporter...

Reporter deserved to be put in his place This is just a note to say I'm thankful that the Republican candidate, Greg Gianforte, won. His actions with the reporter were extreme, but reporters are obnoxious and, while they are trying to get their "scoop," they fail to recognize the boundaries of anyone they consider newsworthy.

I know it’s theoretically wrong for a Republican candidate to smack around an annoying liberal journalist, but that still doesn’t mean that I care. Our ability to care is a finite resource, and, in the vast scheme of things, millions of us have chosen to devote exactly none of it toward caring enough to engage in fussy self-flagellation because of what happened to Slappy La Brokenshades.Sorry, not sorry.And that’s not a good thing, not by any measure, but it is a real thing. Liberals have chosen to coarsen our culture. Their validation and encouragement of raw hate, their flouting of...

Last week was consequential for Greg Gianforte. Awfully. On the bright side, the Republican businessman won the special election for Montana’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. But Gianforte also body-slammed a reporter, apparently. He now faces misdemeanor assault charges. For which he apologized publicly . . . as he was declaring victory. National Democrats declared victory as well. As the Washington Post reported before the votes were counted, “Democrats prepared to claim victory no matter the outcome.” I guess they can relish having Gianforte in Congress to provide Republicans yet more embarrassment. Still, let’s body-slam the silly...

When I wrote about Fightin’ Greg Gianforte’s assault (as it seems to me) on a reporter, I believed that Al Franken had a history of physical aggression against folks who annoyed him. However, the only incident I recalled (and only vaguely) involved a much lower level of violence than Gianforte’s — pushing someone, perhaps someone in conservative media, out of his way in a Capitol corridor. Thus, I passed on claiming a Franken precedent. However, Dave Begley (our man in Omaha and Council Bluffs) sent me a link to the story of Franken body-slamming a demonstrator. This is from the...

There is nothing like watching your worst enemies go down for the count … again and again. And again. Gianforte’s gigantic victory was heart-warming and invigorating. But honestly, I was worried about the Big Sky State’s special election for the at-large seat, since the Democratic-Republican rumblings in this state are more diverse than most people realize. Since 2006, Two Democratic US Senators represented this rural, conservative-leaning state. Who can forget Max Baucus, who had unwisely announced that Obamacare was turning into a “trainwreck” heading right toward the American people? Baucus played the right cards throughout his overextended tenure, but with...

Soopermexican at The Right Scoop caught an amazing admission in the midnight hour on Friday morning, as CNN was beginning to mourn another Democratic loss in a special election for the House of Representatives. Media reporter Dylan Byers lamented that voters in Montana weren't even really paying attention to their incessant coverage of GOP candidate Greg Gianforte's violent treatment of Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the leftist British newspaper The Guardian, on the night before the election. {..snip..}

Democrats just lost another election, this time in Montana. Unless they are willing to do some down-on-your-knees, cry-out-to-Jesus soul searching, the only way they’ll win another election is if they collude with the Russians to steal one the way Donald Trump didn’t. It’s going to take much more than an Olivia Pope-style scandal “fixer” to fix what’s wrong with the Democratic Party. Putting a cowboy suit on an anti-gun, big government liberal like Rob Quist who regularly does gigs at a nudist resort in Idaho, was about as effective as putting lipstick on a pig. It was also a naked...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — The ending was shocking, but the result was no surprise. Despite a bizarre election eve altercation with a reporter that led to a citation for misdemeanor assault, Republican Greg Gianforte kept a red-state House seat in Republican hands in Thursday’s Montana special election. Yet his closer-than-expected victory against Democrat Rob Quist for the at-large congressional seat proved revealing, exposing GOP weaknesses that could threaten the party’s House majority in 2018 but reminding Democrats of the uphill climb ahead against President Donald Trump. Here are POLITICO’s five takeaways after the messy two-month brawl and wild final 24 hours:...

The Trump resistance couldn't take a GOP seat in Montana last night, even after the Republican candidate was charged with assaulting a journalist. A day after he was charged with misdemeanor assault for body-slamming a reporter, Republican candidate Greg Gianforte won the special election on Thursday for Montana’s at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. According to early returns, Gianforte, a millionaire businessman, defeated Democratic folk singer Rob Quist for the House seat formerly held by Ryan Zinke, who left Congress to serve as President Donald Trump’s interior secretary. Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both recorded robo-calls on...

RUSH: Let’s go to the election in Montana, because this last night, I didn’t see this on TV. I’m following the results, and I’m checking various things. And I see that Nate Silver sent a tweet out that said that if Gianforte, if the Republicans don’t win Montana by at least eight points, then it’s good news for the Democrats. So the Democrats losing by four points, five points, six points, seven point, great, great news; the Democrats need to celebrate it. It’s great news. The Democrats have yet to win a special election this year. They thought that they...

A Montana Republican businessman won the state’s U.S. House seat after being charged with assaulting a reporter on the eve of the election, a victory that may temper Democrats’ hopes for a massive anti-Trump wave next year. […] The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Rep. Steve Stivers, issued a statement hailing Gianforte’s win, as well as his apology. “Now he needs to resolve his legal issue so that he can start off on the right foot serving his constituents,” Stivers said. […] The assault allegation didn’t seem to faze voters. Shaun Scott, a computer science professor at Carroll...

Here is the initial report filed by Gallatin County Sheriff Department deputies, immediately after they responded to the Ben Jacob/Greg Gianforte incident. From gallatinmedia.org:  At 5:08 pm this evening our Deputies responded to Discovery Drive for a reported assault. The text of the initial report to the 911 center follows: -111.068258 +45.653654 21 CALLBK=PH 2 21 M RP STATES HE WAS JUST ASSAULTED BY GREG GIANFORTE STATES THAT GREG BODY SLAMMED HIM AND KNOCKED HIS ARM Recommend Unit Command opened on event S1705240107 RP HAS A RECORDING OF THE INCIDENT ON HIS PHONE STATES IT HAPPENED AT THE CAMPAIGN...

Former senior adviser to the Trump campaign and Congressman Jack Kingston went on CNN as GOP candidate Greg Gianforte slammed down another victory for Republicans in the Montana special election. Bernie-supporting Democrat Rob Quist didn’t have a fighting chance in this race. The far left CNN panel, led by Don Lemon, erupted after Kingston defended Greg Gianforte after he body slammed far left reporter Ben Jacobs. It’s been another rough – and painful – week for the liberal media.

The significant victory last evening garnered by Gianforte in Montana is the omen of things to come. The Republicans are now two for two in solid victories (Kansas & Montana). The POTUS, Trump base remains, strong and powerful!!! They will soon (June 20th - Georgia & South Carolina) be either four for four or, three for four in victories. I believe they, the Republicans, will be victors across the board!!! The Democrats, unless they change their game immediately, will suffer devastating, if not fatal, political defeats in the Mid-Term elections upcoming in 2016!! The handwriting is on the wall....your comments,...

In a rare moment on his trip abroad, President Trump went off script to praise Greg Gianforte’s victory in Montana’s special election, calling it a “great win.” Donald Trump is in Italy today attending G7 summit, and he gave reporters an unsolicited comment about the Montana election. “Great win in Montana,” Trump said. Republican Greg Gianforte won the special election for a House seat even after assaulting a reporter who asked him a question about the CBO’s scoring of the latest House healthcare bill. Trump’s decision to comment on the win is especially surprising because a number of media journalists...

<p>BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Republican multimillionaire Greg Gianforte won Montana's only U.S. House seat on Thursday despite being charged a day earlier with assault after witnesses said he grabbed a reporter by the neck and threw him to the ground.</p>