Clinton judge blocked workforce cuts — yet Rubio just proved with USAID that where there's a will, there's a way



A Clinton judge barred the Trump administration last month from executing any large-scale reductions in force in order to "preserve the status quo."

Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered on Tuesday the termination of the U.S. Agency for International Development's remaining overseas staff, demonstrating that some obstacles created by meddlesome federal judges can easily be surmounted.

How it started

A gang of labor unions, leftist NGOs, and local governments sued the Trump administration in late April, hoping to block the government's reduction-in-force plans.

Their complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, suggested that the "president does not possess authority to reorganize, downsize, or otherwise transform the agencies of the federal government, unless and until Congress authorizes such action" and argued that President Donald Trump's Feb. 11 executive order aimed at "eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity" was unlawful.

'Every day that the preliminary injunction remains in effect, a government-wide program to implement agency RIFs is being halted and delayed.'

The plaintiffs demanded the court: declare that Trump had violated the Constitution; declare that the White House's Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Government Efficiency "exceeded statutory authority and acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner"; vacate Trump's executive order and relevant agency memoranda; and restrain the Trump administration from enforcing Trump's workforce executive order.

They found a sympathetic U.S. district court judge in Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee who came recommended by former Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.

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Illston granted the gang of change-averse plaintiffs a temporary restraining order on May 9, then hit the administration with an injunction on May 22, blocking Trump's executive order and barring 20 executive-branch entities and "any other individuals acting under their authority or the authority of the president" from executing any reductions in force.

Illston stated that "the president likely must request congressional cooperation to order the changes he seeks."

After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit refused to overturn the Clinton judge's order, the Trump administration asked for the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer noted in the government's request for a stay that "every day that the preliminary injunction remains in effect, a government-wide program to implement agency RIFs is being halted and delayed, maintaining a bloated and inefficient workforce while wasting countless taxpayer dollars."

"The inevitable consequence is to compel federal agencies to keep large numbers of employees on the payroll without necessity, at unrecoverable taxpayer expense, thereby frustrating the government’s efforts to impose budgetary discipline and build a more efficient workforce," wrote Sauer.

The solicitor general also suggested that the "district court's novel imposition of limits on the president’s ability to control executive agencies in exercising their power over personnel is the same type of important question of federal law that warrants this Court’s review."

The gang responded on Monday, asking the high court to keep Illston's order in place.

How it's going

On Tuesday, Rubio told American embassies around the world to get cracking on abolishing all USAID positions, noting in a cable obtained by the Guardian that the State Department "is streamlining procedures under National Security Decision Directive 38 to abolish all USAID overseas positions."

The national security directive cited by Rubio gives the highest-ranking diplomat assigned to a given country control of the size, composition, and mandate of overseas staffing for U.S. government agencies.

'It shouldn't surprise anyone.'

All USAID positions will reportedly be erased by Sept. 30. This will impact hundreds of staff, including contractors, locally employed workers, and foreign service officers.

The secretary noted further that the State Department would take over the agency's foreign assistance programs by next week.

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State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters Tuesday "that was not a surprise. It shouldn't surprise anyone."

"It’s nothing new, and it is exactly what we previewed in February and March of this year," said Bruce, adding that the aim of the change is to make sure that America's aid efforts around the world correspond with the "America First agenda."

Rubio made the order days after Bill Gates reportedly made a secret visit to the White House and begged him to reverse course on changes to the foreign aid regime.

It appears that Gates' last-ditch charm offensive, first reported by Tara Palmeri of the Red Letter, was no more effective than his USAID-themed smear campaign, where he characterized Elon Musk as a hard-hearted killer of millions.

The plaintiffs for whom Judge Illston blocked Trump's executive order claimed that Rubio's recent action appears to violate the federal court's injunction, reported the Associated Press.

However, Daniel Holler, Rubio's deputy chief of staff, clarified in a Monday court filing that the actions taken with regard to USAID staffers predate the blocked Trump order.

Holler noted that:

  • Rubio got the ball rolling on developing "a plan to reorganize the Department to be more streamlined and to advance the administration's core America First diplomatic priorities" in late January;
  • Rubio informed Congress of his intention to explore "a potential reorganization of USAID and/or its potential absorption by the Department of State" in a Feb. 3 letter;
  • subsequent reorganization efforts were "undertaken solely at the direction and discretion of Secretary Rubio" and predate Trump's February order;
  • the reorganization is intended to address foreign policy needs, an assertion that appears to hint at the limits of Illston's jurisdiction.

When asked about the significance of these firings and the broader cleanup at USAID, a State Department spokesperson told Blaze News, "Under President Trump's leadership, Secretary Rubio is taking a historic step in realigning how the United States delivers foreign aid and implements its America First Foreign Policy to ensure foreign assistance advances U.S. national interests."

"In connection with the Department assuming responsibility for limited former USAID programming, the Secretary approved the hiring of certain positions for both American (U.S. direct hire) and locally employed staff," added the spokesperson.

In terms of next steps, the spokesperson indicated that the U.S. will continue to provide lifesaving humanitarian assistance but noted "the United States cannot feed the world alone. We ask capable nations to increase their share of the burden for life-saving foreign aid."

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Former Clinton operative lashes out at CNN host for saying Democrats seen as 'slow' and slug-like: 'That is ridiculous'



A longtime ally of Hillary Clinton refused to address flailing support for the Democratic Party and told a CNN host he was being "ridiculous" for bringing up the results of a recent focus group.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), co-chair for Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, was interviewed by CNN's John Berman, who told the congresswoman that a liberal focus group compared Dems to "tortoises, slugs, or sloths." These labels were coupled with descriptors like "slow, plodding, [and] passive," while Republicans were seen as "apex predators" like lions or sharks.

'I'm focused on the humans I represent, not, you know, animal comparisons.'

Wasserman Schultz refused to accept the reality that Democrats are being labeled as weak by voters and blamed the source of the information instead: an article from the New York Times.

"John, I'm not focused on the animals that some New York Times reporter compares the political parties to. My constituents are human beings. And the human beings that I represent are facing devastating health care cuts."

As Berman stared blankly, Wasserman Schultz continued sidestepping the accusations and seemingly ignored the point.

"I'm focused on the humans I represent, not, you know, animal comparisons."

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Berman persisted, telling the congresswoman that it was "the voters who were making the comparison with animals," not the journalist.

Wasserman Schultz was not having it, though, and stayed on message.

"John, you said they were asked to compare the parties. So they were prompted to compare the parties to animals. That is ridiculous. I've watched a lot of focus groups, and I know that the people that I represent want me fighting for the humans, the families that I represent."

After praising Democrat policy and criticizing Republicans, the 58-year-old started directly attacking the president as a "dictator" who has employed racists.

"[Voters] don't want a lawless dictator of a president who hires anti-Semites and who then acts like he's trying to fight to protect the Jewish community," Wasserman Schultz cried.

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U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) speaks at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 21, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Wasserman Schultz has bounced around as a House member from Florida over the last 20 years. She served in the 20th district from 2005 to 2013, the 23rd district from 2013 to 2023, and the 25th district from 2023 to the present.

After serving on Clinton's 2008 campaign, she was elected chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2011. She resigned in 2016, however, after the infamous John Podesta email leaks showed the DNC heavily favored Clinton over Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic primaries.

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Courthouse footage spells trouble for Wisconsin judge accused of helping illegal alien evade ICE



Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was indicted by a federal grand jury last week on charges of concealing a person from arrest and obstruction of the law.

Dugan, relieved of her duties as a judge last month by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, could land up to six years in prison if convicted for allegedly helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal alien from Mexico charged with three misdemeanor counts of battery, get away from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Judging from the courthouse footage recently obtained from Milwaukee County by WISN-TV through an open records request, her defense has its work cut out.

The federal indictment alleges that Dugan committed multiple "affirmative acts" to assist Flores-Ruiz evade arrest following his pre-trial April 18 appearance in her courtroom, including:

  • confronting members of an ICE task force and "falsely telling them they needed a judicial warrant to effectuate the arrest of E.F.R.";
  • directing all members of the task force to leave the public hallway outside her courtroom and to go to the chief judge's office;
  • addressing the illegal alien's criminal case off the record while ICE agents were waiting in the chief judge's office;
  • "directing E.F.R. and his counsel to exit Courtroom 615 through a non-public jury door"; and
  • advising Flores-Ruiz's lawyer that the illegal alien could appear by Zoom for his next court date.

The original FBI charging document goes into far more detail, drawing on witness testimony and other inputs.

The footage appears to corroborate a number of the allegations made in both documents.

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In the footage, Dugan can be seen confronting federal agents in the hallway outside her courtroom, then directing them away to speak to the chief judge.

The FBI charging document notes that after learning of the presence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Dugan and another judge approached members of the arrest team in the public hallway.

The document notes further that Dugan, who was "visibly upset and had a confrontational, angry demeanor," told the deportation officer to leave the courthouse. After the officer indicated he had an administrative warrant, Dugan allegedly suggested that he instead needed a judicial warrant.

The judge then allegedly ordered the deportation officer and other federal agents to report to the chief judge's office.

'Hannah Dugan should be barred from ever serving as a judge again.'

Seizing upon the distraction, the Mexican national and his attorney can be seen in the video sneaking out of Dugan's courtroom through a jury door not open to the public.

Additional footage obtained by WISN shows Flores-Ruiz take off running upon exiting the building while federal agents gave chase.

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Despite Dugan's alleged efforts, law enforcement was ultimately able to capture Flores-Ruiz. The illegal alien reportedly remains in federal custody.

The Department of Homeland Security previously told Blaze News, "Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected ICE agents away from this criminal illegal alien to obstruct the arrest and try to help him evade arrest. Thankfully, our FBI partners chased down this illegal alien, arrested him and removed him from American communities."

Dugan pleaded not guilty during her arraignment in federal court on May 15.

After seeing the footage, Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany (Wisc.) stated, "Hannah Dugan should be barred from ever serving as a judge again. A judge who puts criminal illegal aliens above victims has no place in our courts."

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Last week, Dugan's attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the indictment, claiming that "the government cannot prosecute Judge Dugan because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her official acts. Immunity is not a defense to the prosecution to be determined later by a jury or court; it is an absolute bar to the prosecution at the outset."

'These plainly were judicial acts for which she has absolute immunity.'

Her attorneys cited the Supreme Court's July 1, 2024, ruling in Trump v. United States, where a 6-3 majority determined that the president "may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, and he is entitled, at a minimum, to a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts."

Dugan's attorneys noted that even if "Judge Dugan took the actions the complaint alleges, these plainly were judicial acts for which she has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution."

While she had no luck with her motion to dismiss, Dugan landed an anti-Trump judge with an apparent ax to grind.

Blaze News previously reported that Lynn Adelman, the Clinton-appointed U.S. district judge presiding over Dugan's case, is a former Democratic state senator with a history of attacking President Donald Trump, claiming, for instance, that the president makes no effort "to enact policies beneficial to the general public" and behaves like an "autocrat."

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Democratic group has moment of clarity, identifies key reasons the working class hates the party



Democrats lost the White House and both chambers of the U.S. Congress in the November election. President Donald Trump, who won the popular vote and, more importantly, beat his opponent by 86 Electoral College votes, continues to enjoy relatively strong approval ratings.

Third Way, a liberal think tank founded by former Clinton administration staffers that is hostile to populism on both sides of the political spectrum, organized a retreat for Democratic operatives in Loudoun County, Virginia, last month so they could "begin to chart the Democratic comeback."

Third Way produced a summary of the Democratic attendees' thoughts on why their party is loathsome to working-class Americans.

Rather than resume the Democratic practice of blaming imagined racism and sexism for the party's disconnect with voters, the summary obtained by Politico revealed that attendees actually engaged in some soul-searching.

Regarding the party's cultural disconnect, attendees noted that Democrats have alienated working-class voters with their overemphasis on identity politics; progressive elitism; prioritization of imagined issues over voters' real economic woes; intolerance of dissenting voices and political correctness; simultaneous defense of "elite institutions" and criticism of "institutions working-class people value" like churches or small businesses; ideological capture by radical leftists; and negative messaging about America's national identity.

Attendees noted further that the Democratic Party has lost the trust of the working class due not only to its general hostility toward success and Americans' entrepreneurial spirit but to its support for both government overreach and climate alarmism as well as its proponents' inability to own their mistakes.

'Their future is not bright.'

Democratic attendees of the 1.5-day retreat determined that the way for their party to reconnect with voters would effectively be to plagiarize from the Republican Party's playbook — to ditch identity politics; "embrace patriotism"; avoid "condescending messaging"; "allow candidates to express personal faith and values without fear of backlash"; minimize the influence of radical leftists; invade the "real communities" progressive elitists have long thumbed their noses at; and embrace "rugged individualism."

The attendees at the Democratic retreat also acknowledged that their party, whose presidential candidate scraped together only 43% of the male vote in November, needs to "be more accepting of masculinity and male voters who feel alienated from the party."

Doing so would mean breaking from the elements of the liberal media and leftists like Jillana Enteen, a professor of instruction in "gender and sexuality studies" at Northwestern University. Enteen characterized as "harmful" Vice President JD Vance's Feb. 20 suggestion that young men should embrace their masculinity rather than fall into the camp of "androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the same."

Many of the suggestions noted in Third Way's summary were previously raised by Democratic strategist James Carville and evidently unheeded months ahead of the election.

Carville told the New York Times' Maureen Dowd, "A suspicion of mine is that there are too many preachy females" dominating the culture of the Democratic Party.

"'Don't drink beer. Don't watch football. Don't eat hamburgers. This is not good for you,'" said Carville. "The message is too feminine: 'Everything you're doing is destroying the planet. You've got to eat your peas.'"

"If you listen to Democratic elites — NPR is my go-to place for that — the whole talk is about how women, and women of color, are going to decide this election," added Carville. "I'm like: 'Well, 48% of the people that vote are males. Do you mind if they have some consideration?'"

Carville also hammered the party's elitism and leftist bent, suggesting that between the "feminine" browbeating, the "faculty lounge" attitudes, and "woke stuff," the party was headed for trouble.

Third Way noted in a report last month, "If Democrats cannot build a broader cross-class alliance, one that includes a larger share of non-college voters, their future is not bright."

In addition to rebuilding a relationship with the American working class, the liberal think tank recommended stemming the "alarming erosion of their margin in blue states" and generating an appeal in swing states.

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Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doubles down on 'deplorables' smear



The Washington Post recently published an excerpt from former first lady Hillary Clinton's new book wherein she doubled down on the claim that helped her lose the 2016 election.

At a September 2016 event in New York City, Clinton said, "You could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables."

"The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it," continued Clinton. "And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. ... Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America."

Then-candidate Donald Trump tweeted, "Wow, Hillary Clinton was SO INSULTING to my supporters, millions of amazing, hard working people. I think it will cost her at the Polls!"

Sure enough, nearly 63 million Americans — over 31 million of whom were apparently "deplorable" — voted for Trump, giving him an electoral college landslide and the White House.

She aspires to the kind of 'radical empathy' she observed in a former white supremacist.

Clinton noted in the excerpt published Wednesday that in the time since her "deplorables" speech, the "masks have come off, and if anything, 'deplorable' is too kind a word for the hate and violent extremism we've seen from some Trump supporters," accusing many in the other half of having "unresolved trauma in their lives."

After once again painting Tucker Carlson's previous reports about the rapid replacement of native-born Americans in the workforce with foreign nationals as racist — despite recent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports all but confirming the thesis — Clinton suggested that in 2022, unnamed editors at "a major American newspaper" "brought up my 'deplorables' comment and 'how prescient' I had been."

The supposed soothsayer noted that "as a Christian," she aspires to the kind of "radical empathy" she observed in a former white supremacist who now rehabilitates people leaving identitarian groups.

Nevertheless, Clinton stressed that part of her would still agree that some Trump supporters are "irredeemable."

It's unclear, particularly in light of her later reference to her supposed Christian faith, whether Clinton figures some of those who refused to vote for her are damned souls.

It is clear, however, that Clinton was short on empathy for Trump and his family after the second attempted assassination attempt on Sept. 15, demanding further his demonization by the media via a "consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is."

When plugging her book days after the thwarted assassination attempt, she also criticized Trump for suggesting that incendiary Democratic rhetoric may have set the stage for such attempts on his life.

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Hillary Clinton’s latest LIE about YOU



Hillary Clinton is continuing her honorable fight against free speech and, of course, former President Donald Trump.

The twice-failed presidential candidate is now calling for criminal charges against speech she deems “misinformation.”

“I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda, and whether they should be civil or even in some cases criminally charged, is something that would be a better deterrent,” Clinton said in a recent appearance on MSNBC.

Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” is horrified, and rightfully so.

“Let’s be very clear. It is your First Amendment right to say whatever the heck you want. You can say smart things, you can say dumb things, you can say offensive things, you can even say false things. You can try to convince people that the Earth is flat, or that birds aren’t real, or that the moon landing was fake,” Wheeler says.

However, Wheeler notes that by Clinton’s own standards, she would be in trouble as well.

“Maybe we should accept Hillary’s premise for just one second, as long as the first person it applies to is her. Want to criminalize people for spreading foreign propaganda? OK, first in line to be locked up in the federal penitentiary: Hillary Clinton herself,” Wheeler says.

“Who invented the Russia, Russia, Russia, hoax? Hillary Clinton. Who commissioned Christopher Steele, a foreign spy, to write a totally false, infamous, Steele dossier used to target Donald Trump? Oh, yeah, Hillary Clinton did,” she continues, citing even more crimes by Clinton’s own standards.

“If we want to entertain Hillary Clinton’s premise for just one minute, and criminalize Americans who collude with foreign powers and spread Russian propaganda, Hillary Clinton should be thrown in jail,” she adds.


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Clinton calls for continued demonization of Trump and jailing of Americans over 'propaganda'



Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" Monday, encouraging fellow travelers to continue with the anti-Trump rhetoric that set the stage for two assassination attempts and recommending the prosecution of American citizens over so-called undesirable speech.

After Maddow concern-mongered without interruption for over a minute, Clinton suggested that the mainstream media's failure to "cover Trump the way that they should" has "threatened the physical safety of so many people."

Clinton was not referring to President Donald Trump, who was targeted for assassination the previous day, but rather the illegal aliens he has criticized.

'I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative.'

Clinton intimated that dissenting views are the problem — that the press should adopt a single narrative moving forward.

"I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is," said Clinton, a proponent of the Russian collusion hoax and an advocate for punishing standout journalists who faithfully fulfilled their duty.

It's unclear how much more conformity it would take to satisfy Clinton. After all, the mainstream media has consistently attacked Trump and portrayed him in a negative light over the past eight years.

Blaze News previously reported that Pew Research showed 20% of stories in the press about Obama in his first 60 days in office were negative and 42% were positive. In Biden's first 60 days, 19% of the stories were negative; 27% were positive. In Trump's first 60 days, 62% of the stories about his presidency were negative and only 5% were positive.

A Harvard University study found that 80% of the press coverage of Trump during his first 100 days was negative.

The Media Research Center revealed last month that on CBS, NBC, and ABC, Kamala Harris was painted in a favorable light in 84% of the networks' coverage, whereas Trump was depicted negatively in 89% of their coverage, reported the New York Sun.

The coverage has not only been consistently negative but hyperbolic. The mainstream media has dutifully worked in concert with Democrats to characterize Trump as a would-be dictator or a reincarnation of Hitler.

Having apparently not learned anything from the actions of Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Routh — or perhaps just enough — Clinton stressed that Americans should be "outraged by what [Trump] represents," adding that he is a "very dangerous man."

After recycling Democrats' well-worn Project 2025 falsehood and joining Maddow in once again resurrecting fears about Russian election interference, Clinton suggested that Americans engaged in what she believes constitutes foreign-sponsored "propaganda" should be "civilly or even in some cases criminally charged."

'Something makes me feel like she might be talking about some friends of mine.'

According to Clinton, clamping down on the constitutionally protected speech of Americans accused of advancing Russian talking points would "be a better deterrence because the Russians are unlikely, except in a very few cases, to ever stand trial in the United States."

Responding to Clinton's comments, Blaze Media co-founder and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck said Tuesday, "Something makes me feel like she might be talking about some friends of mine. I don't know. But that seems like dangerous talk and a slippery slope."

Clinton alluded to the suggestion by some Republicans in Congress that their colleagues had parroted Russian propaganda on the House floor. She appears to be referring to Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner's assertion to CNN earlier this year that "there are members of Congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between Russia and Ukraine is over NATO, which of course it is not."

Turner, who was reportedly advancing an accusation made earlier by Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), added, "To the extent that this propaganda takes hold, it makes it more difficult for us to really see this as an authoritarian versus democracy battle, which is what it is."

Americans who would dare exercise their constitutional rights to suggest that NATO expansionism was a motivating factor behind Russia's invasion would apparently be ripe for prosecution if Clinton got her way.

Clinton has been pushing for a clampdown on speech she finds undesirable for a while.

In 2021, Clinton told the Guardian, "The technology platforms are so much more powerful than any organ of the so-called mainstream press, and I do think that there has to be not just an American reckoning but a global reckoning with the disinformation, with the monopolistic power and control, with the lack of accountability that the platforms currently enjoy."

"In particular Facebook, which has the worst track record for enabling mistruths, misinformation, extremism, conspiracy, for goodness' sake, even genocide in Myanmar against the Rohingya," continued Clinton. "So governments are going to have to decide right now that the platforms have to be held to some kind of standard, and it's tricky."

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Pro-Hamas students protest 'war criminal' Hillary Clinton outside her Columbia University class



Pro-Hamas and anti-Israel students organized a sit-in demonstration outside of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's Columbia University course on Wednesday.

Videos of the protest, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, showed dozens of students waving Palestinian flags and chanting, "From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever." Protesters also held up signs reading, "Resist until victory," "Resistance is justified when people are occupied," "The Palestinian resistance is alive, not dead," and "Fa[s]cist bootlicker we know [yo]u," the Free Beacon reported.

'Clinton is touting her legacy of war crimes.'

The former secretary of state teaches a fall semester class called "Inside the Situation Room" at the university's Institute of Global Politics in the School of International and Public Affairs.

The sit-in was organized by the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs Palestine Working Group, which posted a notice about the scheduled protest on social media. The post featured an image of Clinton with crossed-out eyes and covered in red, blood-like splatters.

"Welcome to IGP: Israel Global Propagandists," it read, using the acronym to rename the school.

The advertisement also read, "Invade Iraq," "Arm Israel," and "Bomb Syria."

"We will not stand for genocide propaganda and the militarization of our campus. We call on all students to walk out of Hillary's sham class!" the organizers wrote.

The sit-in was also promoted by Columbia University Apartheid Divest and the school's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter.

On Tuesday, the two groups were accused of preventing students from entering campus, the Free Beacon reported. A statue at the university was reportedly vandalized. They called the disruptive protests "just the beginning."

In a post on X, Columbia's Students for Justice in Palestine chapter wrote, "We're making it clear: War criminals are not welcome on campus. Hillary Clinton has actively engaged in war crimes against the peoples of Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Palestine."

"Hillary Clinton has used her power & influence to cause devastation across the globe. As secretary of state, Clinton backed arm deals to bomb Yemen, interfered in Haitian elections, & lied about 'mass rape in Libya' to support a regime change," the group continued. "In a class at Columbia University, 'In the Situation Room', Hillary Clinton is touting her legacy of war crimes as 'valuable learning experiences'. We're not buying it. The more they try to silence us, the louder we will be."

The group also issued a statement on Telegram praising Hamas' founder and current chairman, the Free Beacon reported.

"Sheikh Yassin was assassinated by the Zionists in 2004, but even in death, his legacy of unrelenting resistance in the face of oppression lives on," the group stated. "He lives on in his students, which includes the current head of Hamas, Yahya Sinwar—the man who fooled the Zionist entity—and all the Palestinian fighters who embody the steadfastness that Yassin taught."

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Every 2024 election CONSPIRACY theory with the Drinkin’ Bros



One week after former president Donald Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt, President Joe Biden announced the end of his campaign for the 2024 election. And understandably, the conspiracy theories are now swirling.

While there’s speculation that it was strange that JD Vance, Trump’s pick for vice presidential nominee, had anti-Harris adverts ready to go, Dan Hollaway of the "Drinkin’ Bros Podcast" points out that Harris’ adverts should be drawing more criticism.

“That makes sense, because there were going to be two VP candidates and what probably would have happened is he would have run those right after he debated her, right? To capitalize on the marketing,” Hollaway tells Sara Gonzales.

“The fact that she had ones for president ready to go, is quite a bit more suspicious,” he adds.

Not only was the timing of Harris’ adverts strange, but her televised phone call with Biden was even stranger.

At one point, Harris appeared to mix up her words and started to say “rec” when she was supposed to say “call.”

“Joe, I know you’re still on the re—, on the call,” Harris said, correcting herself. Ross Patterson, Hollaway, and Gonzales believe she almost said “recording” — because the televised call seemed more like she was speaking to a recording than a human being.

“She also made sure to say ‘I’ve been talking to him everyday,’” Gonzales notes, adding, “No, you weren’t. Also, why would you feel the need to say that if you were.”

The idea that it might have been a recording has only been reinforced by the way Biden chose to drop out of the race — via a social media post.

“He broke up with us by text,” Gonzales says. “Plus, in the letter he did not endorse Kamala, but his X account shortly afterwards endorsed Kamala.”

“His campaign aides and staff say they never heard from the Bidens at all. They all found out 15 minutes prior, before it went out,” she continues, adding, “What are they not telling us?”


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Obama and Clinton reportedly set to back Biden at March fundraiser



President Joe Biden will have former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton support him at a fundraising event next month, NBC News reported, citing four individuals.

"Folks – I'll be in NYC on March 28th to support @JoeBiden. Who's coming with me? Chip in for your chance to join," Obama tweeted, sharing a link to a page seeking donations for the Biden Victory Fund.

"Count me in. Who else is going to be there?" a post on Clinton's account stated in response to Obama's tweet while also linking to the donation page.

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"You guys know you can just call me next time, right?" Biden's account responded.

People who want to meet the three Democrats can also enter to win the chance to do so without donating.

"So Biden is really running?" Richard Grenell wrote in response to Obama's tweet.

Biden, 81, is the oldest president in U.S. history and would be 86 by the end of a second term in office if he were to win re-election in 2024. He has long struggled with poor job approval polling.

Bill Clinton, whose White House tenure was more than two decades ago, is currently younger than Biden at just 77.

It appears likely that, as in 2020, Biden and Trump will be their respective parties' presidential nominees in 2024. Trump is currently 77 years old.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who initially mounted a presidential bid as a Democrat but later switched to an independent run, is also currently running for president.

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