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Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) claimed Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump’s pardons have excused political violence, and that has created a “really dangerous precedent.” Co-host Sara Haines said, “Governor in your memoir, True Gretch you write about being the target of a far-right militia kidnapping plot. We talked about that a lot during the height of the pandemic.” She asked, “Did Trump’s pardoning of roughly 1,500 January 6th rioters bring back your own experience with political violence and what message do you think that sends?” Whitmer said, “I think it does send a bad message, right, that...

Here’s the thing: I’m not particularly interested in what politicians do in their private lives. But if you make a public commitment to your wife and then ask people to keep out of your “private life” you’re sending mixed-messages. So when John Humphreys, the founder of the Australian Libertarian Society defended America’s sleazy Democrat, Anthony Weiner, in Defending the indefensible, my response was clear: I don’t care if he posed for Playgirl – that’s not the issue. If you cheat on your wife, the likelihood of cheating on people you don’t know is very high indeed, according to my reading...