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JD Vance and his family were confronted by angry pro-Ukraine protesters during their trip to Vermont. The family was then moved to an 'undisclosed location'. US Vice-President JD Vance and his family were met with intense protests during their weekend trip to Vermont. Angry pro-Ukraine protesters criticized Vance for being 'mean' to Volodymyr Zelensky during the Ukrainian President's visit to the White House on Friday. The protesters booed Vance and told him to 'go ski in Russia"...

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones said that the only reason he can find to dismiss Gen. CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is “this slander that he’s woke and DEI. Well, if you are the head of a military that is multiracial and multicultural and you want it to be cohesive, you need to have policies in place to help that happen.”

“You unleash somebody who’s doing theatrics and abandoning his own children and having some weird fantasy in front of everybody to be popular, just do whatever he wants to do with no oversight. That is anti-American, and it’s reckless, and it’s wrong.”

VIDEOIt is only two weeks into the Trump presidency and he has already done more in that time than most presidents accomplish in two terms in office. We have seen a mind boggling whirl of activity that is way beyond what we could have imagined. The purge of the FBI, exposing the corrupt USAID system in spectacular fashion, waging and WINNING a simultaneous trifecta of trade wars with Canada, Mexico, and China. Slamming shut the border by a factor of 93% along with ICE going into dramatic action to apprehend criminal illegals. Oh, and it appears that all of his...

CNN commentator and former Obama advisor Van Jones admitted during a recent podcast appearance that President Trump is “smarter” than “all of his critics” and that he made the entire Democrat party and Democrat media complex “look like idiots.” These remarks came during an interview posted to political commentator Chris Cillizza’s YouTube channel on Friday. Cillizza agreed with Jones’ assessment that “we look like idiots,” commenting, “You’re totally right.” Jones’ revelation is in response to Trump defying all attempts to steal the 2024 election with a sweeping victory on November 5, winning every swing state, 312 electoral votes, the national...

CNN contributor and former Obama adviser Van Jones said Wednesday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Fox News host Pete Hegseth as the next secretary of defense is “very alarming.” Jones said, “I think look, he looks great, but he sounds terrible, and I think if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. There’s the fiction that there’s something wrong with America’s military. What problem are you trying to solve? We have the most lethal, respected, the most feared military in the history of the world. There’s not even a number 2. So the idea that our military,...

Campaign seasons rarely provide opportunities to discuss issues, but the last week of the 2024 election has yielded a surprisingly enlightened discussion — on the left — about who is to blame for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The first comments came from Van Jones, the veteran left-wing community organizer who is a strident partisan on cable news panels but also one of the few people who will speak honestly about the Democrats’ weaknesses as well. Jones appeared on Jonah Platt’s new podcast, Being Jewish, to discuss the relationships between blacks and Jews. At one point, he made the rare but...

Former First Lady Melania Trump said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” that the Democrat’s rhetoric about her husband, former President Donald Trump, was “terrible.” Co-host Steve Doocy said, “Mrs. Trump, you said that this campaign cycle feels like 2016 in the excitement and enthusiasm and things like that I would imagine but something is different and that is two different people tried to kill your husband and you saw it live on television. This is all different.” Trump said, “It is different. It is much more dangerous and I’m very vigilant and very selective of where I...

During a CNN interview Wednesday, Luntz, also known as 'The Nostradamus of pollsters,' said the Democratic nominee was doing well in the polls until she 'froze' after focusing her attention on Donald Trump. 'She had the best 60 days of any presidential candidate in modern history,' Luntz said. And then the moment she turned anti-Trump and focused on him and said 'don't vote for me, vote against him.' That's when everything froze.' Luntz added that Trump is 'defined' as he is 'not gaining' and 'not losing' in the election, while his opponent is 'less well defined.' And if she continues...

Mayor Adams defended Donald Trump Saturday, slamming claims from Democrats that the Republican nominee is a “fascist” who could be compared to Adolf Hitler. “I have had those comments hurled at me by some political leaders in the city; my answer is ‘No,’ ” said an embattled Adams, when asked about the criticism of Trump. “I know what Hitler has done, and I know what a fascist regime looks like. I think, as I have called for over and over again, that the level of conversation, I think we can all dial down the temperature,” added Adams, a moderate Dem...

During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones stated that American adversaries like Iran, Russia, and China are “jumping on” “reductionist ideas on the left” to drive a wedge between black people and Jewish people on the left. In response to a question among Jewish people and black people on the left, Jones stated, “There is a deliberate effort on the part of Iran and Russia and China to drive a wedge and to make sure that every African American under the age of 30 –.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” CNN Political Commentator and former Obama Adviser Van Jones stated that while there isn’t any excuse for some of the recent actions and irresponsible statements of CEO Elon Musk, “if progressives have a politics that says, all white people are racist, all men are toxic, and all billionaires are evil, it’s kind of hard to keep them on your side. And so, we might want to think about, if you’re chasing people out of the party, you can’t be mad when they leave.” Jones said, “It’s sad that we lost Elon Musk, and...

As we enter the final stretch of election season, every day seems to bring another Trump/Vance victory in spite of a hostile media, and another embarrassing loss by the Harris/Walz campaign. Recently, for example, Trump endeared himself to regular Americans by putting on an apron and working the McDonald’s drive-thru; conversely, McDonald’s dealt a fatal blow to Kamala’s claim she had worked for them as a teenager by releasing a statement declaring they could find no evidence of that. She is looking more and more like the most hapless, brainless, inauthentic, unqualified presidential nominee in modern history, if not ever....

CNN’s Anderson Cooper has built his reputation on being a trusted news anchor — not a pundit, which he explained during his show on Thursday. During a frank conversation on how the news — and CNN — has covered the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, Cooper defended his network to The Breakfast Club‘s Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Rye. He also defended himself from criticism that he got from Harris supporters after Wednesday’s town hall with the VP. After the animated conversation turned to how Harris was questioned about her policy and the...

The joy ride is over. Despite her campaign’s best efforts to keep her afloat by avoiding the media and not discussing policy, Kamala Harris has come crashing down to Earth. The momentum she gained because her name wasn’t ‘Joe Biden’ has faded. Donald J. Trump has retaken the momentum in the final weeks of the 2024 election, which must be giving Democrats heartburn. It takes a special kind of sucky candidate to amass a $1 billion war chest and be incapable of mounting a significant lead over Trump. Kamala is underwater with most core voter groups she needs to win....

VIDEOI enjoy watching Mark Halperin's channel, 2Way, which features both his analysis of current events as well as the people on ZOOM of various political persuasions weighing in on the state of the political world. However, Halperin blew off a great chance to get to the bottom of something he was talking about namely who was the source of the leak of the Doug Emhoff scandal story in which he knocked up his children's nanny. Who better to answer such a question than the person who broke the story as Halperin himself acknowledged. However, when Laura Loomer, unmuted herself on...

“It doesn’t mean Trump’s going to win, but where we are right now is there are increasing problems for the Democratic Party,” journalist Mark Halperin said Thursday on The Morning Meeting. Halperin’s analysis comes one day after Harris participated in a CNN town hall. Political experts, even CNN commentators, such as David Axelrod, Van Jones, and Dana Bash, were very critical of her performance following the event. Harris called former President Donald Trump a “fascist,” without evidence, demanded the elimination of the filibuster, and did not admit to making a mistake on any specific policy. She also simultaneously argued she...

Journalist Mark Halperin said Thursday that Vice President Kamala Harris’ “performance” during her Wednesday CNN town hall left many Democrats feeling resigned about her candidacy. We’re not going to go overboard here and say, ‘It’s over, [former President Donald] Trump’s going to win.’ But a lot of what we’re going to talk about today is not great for Kamala Harris. Again, it doesn’t mean Trump’s a great guy in the eyes of all of America,” Halperin said. “It doesn’t mean Trump’s going to win, but where we are right now is there are increasing problems for the Democratic Party. You...

I wrote about the latest HarrisX/Forbes poll on Wednesday, which was bad for Vice President Kamala Harris, and how that's started to bring even the popular vote within potential reach of former President Donald Trump. But the new Wall Street Journal poll is even more devastating for her and great for Trump. That poll now has Trump up by three, head-to-head, 49 to 46 percent. It's moved four points toward Trump over the past month. In the full field, that's 47 to 45 percent. That's in line with HarrisX (+2 for Trump) and Rasmussen (+3 for Trump), and that's not...