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Former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said former President Trump saying he is the “law and order” candidate would be like her saying she plays in the NBA. “So, first of all, for former President Trump to run as a so-called law and order candidate, it would be like me saying I play in the NBA. I mean, it just… just doesn’t hold true,” she said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki.”

HALEY: With Donald Trump. Republicans have lost almost every competitive election. We lost the Senate. We lost the House. We lost the White House. We lost in 2018. We lost in 2020, and we lost in 2022. The worst-kept secret in politics is how badly the Democrats want to run against Donald Trump. CROWD: Trump’s a loser! He’s a loser! HALEY: They know Trump is the only Republican in the country who Joe Biden can defeat. You can’t fix the mess if you don’t win an election. A Trump nomination is a Biden win and a Kamala Harris presidency. I...

In what I called in an X post the "laugh line o' the day," Nicolle Wallace opened her Thursday MSNBC show on a solemn note. She even managed to keep a straight face while saying: "On this program, we try our hardest not to ever amplify [Trump's] most dangerous comments." Wallace then promptly proceeded to give the lie to her claim, by resorting to the liberal media's most tired cliché: Trump = Hitler.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

An Australian minister called Donald Trump Jr. a “big baby” after he postponed his tour to the country on Wednesday, according to the tour’s promoter. Australian Home Minister Clare O’Neil called the former president’s son a “big baby” in now-deleted tweets after Turning Point Australia announced his three-day tour was being postponed. In a series of posts reported Thursday by Reuters, she blasted Trump Jr. by saying he had been granted a visa. “Geez, Donald Trump Jr is a bit of sore loser,” she said in the tweets. “Donald Trump Jr has been given a visa to come to Australia....

Quite the takedown. https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1637931810519941121?s=20

Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming called "large portions" of the Republican Party "very sick" in an interview recapping her failed bid to stay in office. Cheney, asked by ABC News what she thought her loss said about the Republican Party, said it signified former President Donald Trump's stranglehold on the party. "It says that clearly [Trump's] hold is very strong among some portions of the Republican Party. My state of Wyoming is not necessarily a representative sample of the party," Cheney said. Wyoming is one of the reddest states in the union. Cheney continued, "I think it says a couple...

Liz Cheney was roundly defeated at the polls on Tuesday evening, a welcome retribution for her active participation in the kangaroo court known as the January 6th Committee hearings. During her concession speech, she metaphorically wrapped herself in the American Flag, proudly proclaiming that she stands on the side of Democracy. But, as Mark points out, she's always been a never-Trumper. And her claims of standing for Democracy are nothing but lies.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Thursday she is “ashamed” that Republicans are questioning the FBI’s credibility after it raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. “I have been ashamed to hear members of my party attacking the integrity of the FBI agents involved with the recent Mar-a-Lago search,” she claimed. “These are sickening comments that put the lives of patriotic public servants at risk.”

Three-time rape survivor Ashley Judd has revealed that she sat down with one of the men who raped her to have a 'restorative-justice conversation', detailing how she tracked down her attacker and ended up 'sitting in rocking chairs by a creek' with him. Several years after she was raped and assaulted in 1999, the actress, 54, said that she 'tried to find' her attacker, explaining that he 'surfaced very easily', allowing her to arrange a meeting with him. Speaking on the Healing with David Kessler podcast, Ashley said: 'To make a long story short, we ended up in rocking chairs...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Wednesday that “drag queens make everything better”. And there should be “a drag queen for every school” during an event in Lansing, Fox News reports. Nothing against drag queens for adults, but someone needs to explain how exhibitionists dressing in women’s clothing and sexualizing their performances would make things better for impressionable children. SHE WAS JOKING? Nessel, who was the first openly gay person elected to statewide office in Michigan, made the comments during a civil rights event. “Drag queens make everything better. Drag queens are fun,” Nessel said, according to Craig Mauger who...

Vaccination bling is sweeping the Internet in a trend that even NY Governor Kathy Hochul is taking part in after she was seen wearing a gold nameplate that read 'vaxed' at multiple events last week. Amazon has already begun selling iterations of the pro-vaccine jewelry for other vaccinated people to get the governor's look at an affordable price, such as a $39 sterling silver necklace that spells out the word 'vaccinated' in cursive similar to the one the governor donned.

In honor of the 20-year marker of the 9/11 attacks, I thought I'd run excerpts from a few of my post-9/11 columns. One point I politely refrained from making 20 years ago: Why was the president of the United States reading "The Pet Goat" to a class of second-graders at the moment our nation was attacked? I think the "Attack France" column (Dec. 20, 2001) holds up well, mostly because I'd rather be bringing in hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen right now than hundreds of thousands of Afghans. (Who knew the golden ticket to U.S. citizenship was being the country...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece is under fire for presuming the gunman in Monday’s Colorado mass shooting was white — because he was taken into custody alive. “The Atlanta shooting was not even a week ago,” Meena Harris wrote in a since-deleted tweet, Fox News reported Tuesday. “VIolent white men are the greatest terrorist threat to our country,” she wrote.

Actress, author and humanitarian Ashley Judd is recuperating at a South African trauma unit after almost losing a leg in a “catastrophic” fall in a Congo rainforest. In an Instagram Live chat with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof – watch it below – Judd, speaking from her ICU bed, says she was walking in a Congo rainforest when she tripped over a fallen tree, shattering her leg. Judd, a frequent visitor to Congo, was doing work to track the Bonobos, an endangered great apes species. Describing “an incredibly harrowing 55 hours” during which she was transported, in part by...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) told a voter that she “already has a dog” when the 2020 White House hopeful was asked about her choice to replace Vice President Mike Pence. The voter asked Warren at a Town Hall in Lebanon, N.H. on Sunday if she ever whispers to her dog Bailey, “Who is going to be my Mike Pence?” “I already have a dog,” Warren responded. The crowd cheered in response to the senator's deadpan joke.

American politics has become so nasty and so partisan, that some people, at least judging by their rhetoric, wanted Baghdad to be "Trump's Benghazi." One of those critics was MSNBC host Joy Reid. She was surprised that the White House had released a new statement about the transcripts related to his impeachment inquiry while the president's own Benghazi was occurring. Ted Cruz ✔ @tedcruz What’s wrong with you? Is partisan hatred really that deep? We root for American soldiers, not against them. https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1212088051037614081 …

Trump Derangement Syndrome reached its apotheosis on today's Morning Joe, as MSNBC "Republican" Elise Jordan literally called for a Trump adviser to be sent off to die. Commenting on Rudy Giuliani's conversation of yesterday with Chris Cuomo on CNN regarding possible contacts between the Trump administration and Ukraine, Jordan said: "It's simply astounding to watch Drunk Grandpa last night, who just needs to be pulled off to hospice, if not . . . " Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) launched a profane attack on President Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Monday evening, denouncing the idea of defending Saudi Arabia: “We are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, is ratcheting up her attacks against President Trump, referring to him on Wednesday as a "predator" during a campaign event in Iowa. "I took on successfully, and I prosecuted the big banks, when they preyed on homeowners," Harris said, touting her record as attorney general of California. "I've prosecuted the pharmaceutical companies when they preyed on seniors. I have prosecuted transactional criminal organizations when they preyed on women and children. “I know predators, and we have one living in the White House."

Kamala Harris’ first significant political role was an appointment by her powerful then-boyfriend Willie Brown, three decades her senior, to a California medical board that has been criticized as a landing spot for patronage jobs and kickbacks. Then 30, Harris was dating 60-year-old Willie Brown, at the time the Democratic speaker of the California State Assembly, when he placed her on the California Medical Assistance Commission in 1994. The position paid over $70,000 per year, $120,700 in current money, and Harris served on the board until 1998. The medical commission met twice a month, and Harris, a United States senator...