Donald Trump walks into the lion's den
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We’ve heard for years that “the walls are closing in” on Donald Trump. Well, some walls are closing in on a presidential family, but it’s not Trump’s.
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=2F7E1526-E0A4-47AD-BA48-B08E719CF805
And while the unbiased media openly celebrate the civil trial verdict against Trump, they might want to think about how that could backfire. Their own leader is facing a far more plausible accusation of sexual assault, and this case only highlights how they’ve tried so hard to ignore his alleged victim. But she’s tired of being ignored, and she has a dark message for anyone hoping she’ll just “go away.”
https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=7DBD4A77-8DEA-4073-88DC-799725FADE33
Today is the last day of Title 42
Today is the final day of Title 42 protection of our Southern border, and there are already thousands of people ready to rush in illegally. It expires tonight at midnight. If you’re not clear on what Title 42 is, this is a good primer:
Kat Timpf on Fox News made an excellent point about this: she believes that Title 42 should be allowed to expire because the pandemic “emergency” is long over and we shouldn’t allow the government to exercise any illegitimate power, even if we like the results. In this case, it’s been kept in place solely as a last resort because the President has actively worked to undermine immigration laws and reverse policies that were already in place to keep our borders secure.
In short, if we had a President who did his job, we wouldn’t need Title 42.
But maybe we won’t need it because Biden is trying a last-minute “Hail Mary” pass by resurrecting one of the Trump-era policies he reversed, one that bars applicants for asylum if they didn’t first apply in their home countries or one of the nations they crossed on the way here. What a racist xenophobe Biden must be.
As Mike Miller writes at the link, the effectiveness of this rule hinges on whether it’s actually enforced, and I wouldn’t bet the farm on that. But it’s always interesting to see the point at which Democrats become so desperate to stave off the consequences of the disasters their policies create that they finally cave in to reality and admit that they need the other Party’s policies to fix what they broke. However, it would be nice if they had the brains God gave a pigeon and could realize that, say, defunding the police, opening the border or letting males compete in women’s sports are all insane ideas on the face of them, so the rest of us wouldn't have to suffer through their long learning curve.
And speaking of people who never learn, DHS head Alejandro Mayorkas knows who’s responsible for millions of illegal border crossers under his watch: Congress!
Donald Trump walks into the lion's den
Last night, Donald Trump walked into the lion’s den on a CNN Townhall, but the results were probably not what CNN or many viewers expected. I admit that I was surprised to find that what CNN billed as a “Republican townhall” actually seemed to have an audience of genuine Republicans, and not Bernie Sanders fan club members who claim to have voted for a Republican once, back when disco was king. I expected the usual hostile mob of Trump haters, but you could almost sense the shock and horror from moderator Kaitlan Collins when the audience laughed at Trump’s “insensitive” jokes and applauded when he said things Republicans agree with that give your typical CNN anchor the vapors.
It was noted that this show was scheduled to run anywhere from 75 to 90 minutes, but CNN ended it after 70 minutes. I don’t think that’s because Trump was tired of talking. That was more likely CNN crying “Uncle” and running away.
https://thelibertydaily.com/cnn-shut-down-the-town-hall-early-mercy-rule/
At the beginning, I assumed it would go as feared: Collins immediately launched in on January 6th and how Trump incited insurrection. When he tried to answer her with records showing he tweeted messages discouraging violence and urging the protesters to leave peacefully, she just kept talking over him and hectoring him with CNN/DNC talking points until it started to feel like Norman Bates was back in a dress and stabbing my eardrums with an ice pick.
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-pulls-evidence-blazer-cnn-tries-lie-jan-6/
But she and her bosses had failed to reckon with the force of nature they were dealing with. They’re used to Republicans wilting before their barrage of bull, but Trump fights back. He immediately “went there,” responding to her description of January 6th as a “deadly” day by pointing out that the only person killed was Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed patriotic American shot at point blank range by a Capitol cop, described by Trump as a “thug” who later bragged about it on TV. Collins tried to argue with that, and her media colleagues later tried to paint the term “thug” as racist because the cop happens to be black, which I seriously doubt that Trump or any of Babbitt’s next-of-kin care about in the slightest. But they’re playing the race card because it’s all they’re got. We all know that if a cop had shot an unarmed BLM protester to death, he’d be doing hard prison time by now.
From that point on, all of Collins’ attempts to destroy Trump were like the Army men firing tiny pistols at Godzilla. Liberal commentators were melting down afterwards, not only over Trump’s comments, such as saying that he would pardon most of the J6 convicts because they were persecuted while violent Antifa and BLM rioters were released (that probably was news to regular CNN viewers) and quickly end the Russia-Ukraine war, which never would have happened if he’d been President (true that); but also over the fact that the audience applauded Trump’s statements and laughed at his jokes about E. Jean Carroll.
“What’s WRONG with you people?! You’re supposed to be filled with visceral hatred at the very sight of Donald Trump for unexplained reasons, like us!!”
They’re furious at CNN for airing a “Trump infomercial,” which I can’t imagine is how CNN anticipated this going.
The media coverage is also filled with accusations that Trump told so many “lies,” if you use the current “inclusive” definition of “lie” as being anything a Democrat disagrees with, doesn’t want to hear, doesn’t want YOU to hear, or can’t answer. As for specifics, they were few and far between. They just want you to believe it was all “lies, I tell you, LIES!” and shut down his right to speak so they don’t have to tell you why what he’s saying isn’t true. It’s especially rich hearing this demand for honesty coming from people who spent years telling us that Trump-Russian collusion was real but Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.
If CNN was hoping for a ratings boost, they likely got that. But if they thought they were going to obliterate Trump’s 2024 president ambitions, that backfired worse than Alvin Bragg and his paper mâché indictments. All they did was expose their bubble-dwelling audience to the Trump they never see: not the fake racist nutjob image they created but the funny, blunt, energetic, take-no-garbage leader who draws huge crowds to political rallies.
Trump being Trump, there were some impolitic and off-putting moments (I don’t think it was necessary to call Collins a “nasty woman” to her face), but at least with Trump, you know exactly what he thinks because he always tells you. Many viewers might find that refreshing, especially after two+ years of being subjected to real lies, like that Biden’s policies are a smashing success that saved the economy and reduced illegal immigration by 90%. They might also be amazed at seeing a President who can speak coherently without a prompter, even though it’s after 4 p.m.
Here are some good links for more. Paula Bolyard at PJ Media offers nine key moments from the broadcast…
Nick Arama at Redstate.com points out that CNN’s post-show focus group didn’t go the way they expected either. The first question for them was a leading one, asking if they wished Trump would stop talking about the 2020 election and concentrate on 2024. One of the focus group members pointed out to the CNN reporter that the very first question they asked Trump was about the 2020 election.
As long as so many media outlets are “fact-checking” Trump’s “lies,” let’s try that with CNN’s moderator…
Trump wasn’t the only Republican who helped himself last night. Rep. Byron Donalds also deserves a standing O for how he dealt with the fuming CNN panel
I’ll give the final word to our current President. After the Trump CNN townhall, President Biden (or whoever actually writes his Twitter tweets) tweeted, “Do you want four more years of that?” Choose your response:
1. YES!!!
2. That’s exactly the same thing I think every time Joe Biden appears in public.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/05/10/joe-biden-trump-town-hall-you-want-four-more-years/