Unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann faces bipartisan scorn after demanding that Jake Tapper resign over admission Durham report is 'devastating to the FBI'



The Durham report, which revealed this week that the FBI investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign was baseless, has served to further discredit the already scandal-plagued bureau.

Even CNN's Jake Tapper felt compelled to admit on his show Monday that the report is "devastating to the FBI, and to a degree it does exonerate Donald Trump."

While Tapper attempted to pin some blame on former President Donald Trump, the CNN host nevertheless managed to draw the ire of Keith Olbermann, a YouTube personality unswayed by facts and ever committed to the debunked Russian-collusion narrative.

Olbermann demanded on Twitter that Tapper resign for noting the FBI's self-inflicted reputational wounds, which even the FBI has acknowledged in softened language to have been "missteps."

In response to Tapper's suggestion that the report is "devastating to the FBI," Olbermann tweeted, "It isn't. Not even close. No charges, just partisan 'conclusions.' And Tapper of the new non-journalist Chris Licht CNN is propagandizing," adding, "Jake Tapper needs to resign."

\u201cCNN's new scandal:\n\n@jaketapper says the Durham Report is "devastating to the FBI"\n\nIt isn't. Not even close. No charges, just partisan "conclusions." And Tapper of the new non-journalistic Chris Licht CNN is propagandizing\n\nJake Tapper needs to resign\u201d
— Keith Olbermann\u2199\ufe0f (@Keith Olbermann\u2199\ufe0f) 1684187251

In a rare show of unity and bipartisanship, Twitter users of various backgrounds and political persuasions blasted Olbermann over his viral tweet, which has over 570,000 views.

Investigative reporter Matt Taibbi wrote, "Keith, @JakeTapper is right. And the report isn't just devastating to the FBI, it's devastating to media figures who ran bogus stories that were either leaked by the Bureau, or laundered through it."

Taibbi then cited various instances where Olbermann previously peddled baseless agitprop on his now-defunct GQ show "The Resistance with Keith Olbermann."

Several of the show's episode titles allude to Olbermann's confident assertions of what have been demonstrated to be falsehoods: "Case Closed. Collusion Has Been Proven"; "A Timeline of Treason"; "Trump Will Not Be Cleared"; "Trump is Aiding the Enemy"; and "Trump is Lying About Russia."

Here is one of Olbermann's false reports from 2017:

Case Closed. Collusion Has Been Proven | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann | GQ youtu.be

In a subsequent tweet, Taibbi asked, "Which parts do you think are incorrect, Keith?"

Liberal journalist Eli Lake, who serves as contributing editor at Commentary, wrote, "This is the first resistance in the history of resistance to align itself with a federal police force," referencing Olbermann's former show "The Resistance," whereon he advanced falsehoods discredited in the Durham report and elsewhere.

Lake added, "To call Keith a buffoon is an insult to buffoonery."

One Twitter user wrote to Olbermann, "Your tears of denial are delicious."

Another commentator cut to the bone, writing, "It’s clear… you’re entire identity is tied to your Trump views these last 5 years."

The Durham report, which Olbermann does not consider to be "devastating," stressed that the Department of Justice and the FBI "failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law" when launching the probe into the Trump campaign.

Durham said the FBI utilized “raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence" to open the investigation into the Trump campaign but did not follow the same standard when approaching alleged election interference in relation to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Durham also found that the FBI “did not and could not corroborate any of the substantive allegations” made in the infamous Steele dossier of lurid accusations against then-candidate Donald Trump, and "neither U.S. nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation."

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Trump critic John Bolton concedes Manhattan DA Bragg's case against Trump is weak, compares the Democratic prosecutor to Stalin's henchman



There is no love lost between former national security adviser John Bolton and former President Donald Trump, yet Bolton still cannot bring himself to pretend that Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has a strong case on his hands.

Bolton went on CNN Tuesday to discuss the indictment within hours of fellow Trump critic and U.S. Senator for Utah Mitt Romney stating, "The New York prosecutor has stretched to reach felony criminal charges in order to fit a political agenda."

Having previously claimed that Trump "does not represent the Republican cause that I want to back," Bolton indicated he was vexed by the toothlessness of the indictment.

"Speaking as someone who very strongly does not want Donald Trump to get the Republican presidential nomination, I'm extraordinarily distressed by this document," Bolton told CNN host Jake Tapper. "I think this is even weaker than I feared it would be. And I think it's easily subject to being dismissed or a quick acquittal for Trump."

Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 34 counts of falsifying business records after noting online that the judge in the then-upcoming arraignment was "highly partisan" and hailed from a family of "Trump haters."

"Going back to the days when I represented Jim Buckley and [Eugene] McCarthy and the constitutional challenge to the underlying federal statute here, passed in 1974, I can say there is no basis in the statutory language to say that Trump's behavior forms either a contribution or an expenditure under federal law: the two key definitions at issue here," said Bolton.

Bolton was referencing his work on the lawsuit Buckley v. Valeo in the 1970s, which resulted in a 1976 Supreme Court decision that struck down limits on campaign finance expenditures and self-funding by affluent candidates, reported the Intercept.

In his memoir, "Surrender Is Not an Option," Bolton wrote, "Everyone knew the decision in Buckley v. Valeo could determine the election in 1976, not to mention the future shape of American politics."

It is that shape he reckons Bragg is now trying to redefine.
"If it did," Bolton told Tapper, "it would mean that every single expenditure a candidate made could be taken to have something to do with his campaign."

Accordingly, something as innocuous as a candidate's purchase of a comb could be treated as problematic.

"If you can construe the statute to cover this behavior, then I think it violates the First Amendment because you're deeply in the territory that makes this ... federal statute too vague for enforcement," Bolton added.

As for suggestions that New York election law may be at issue, Bolton said it doesn't matter: "The Federal Election Campaign Act absolutely pre-empts any state or local law to the contrary."

Bolton suggested that compounding Bragg's difficulty of securing a conviction is the fact that Trump's defense need only show "reasonable doubt that the intent was to affect federal election. And I can come up with a very plausible reason why a person would have the intent of paying these hush-money payments: He doesn't want his wife to find out about it."

While Bolton did not appear to see a real crime among all the charges, he noted that the prosecutor pressing the case first campaigned "to get Donald Trump."

Upon learning of Bragg's expressed intention of pursuing a political persecution of Trump long before allegedly finding evidence of guilt, Bolton said, "My first thought was Lavrenty Beria, the former head of the NKVD in Soviet times, who once said to Joe Stalin, 'You show me the man, I'll show you the crime.'"

Beria served as director of the Soviet secret police force that evolved to become the KGB. Historian Nikita Petrov told the Daily Beast that "Beria should be remembered for his crimes, for ordering mass deportations of peoples from the Northern Caucasus, executions of Polish prisoners. He was a mini-Stalin in the Caucasus, gave orders to beat people before executions."

Reiterating that he opposes Trump's ambition to resume power, Bolton stressed that Bragg's effort feeds into the former president's narrative to such an extent that the prosecutor may ultimately be remembered as "Donald Trump's greatest political supporter."

\u201c\u201cI\u2019m extraordinarily distressed by this document," former Trump official John Bolton weighs in on former President Trump's indictment with CNN's @jaketapper.\u00a0Watch:\u201d
— CNN (@CNN) 1680649671

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Liberals lash out at Jake Tapper over comment about Trump and the death of Queen Elizabeth II



CNN anchor Jake Tapper angered many on the left when he opined that President Joe Biden should invite former President Donald Trump to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.

Tapper reported that Buckingham Palace was allowing each country to decide what politicians to invite to the queen's funeral, and added that it would be "clever" if Biden invited Trump.

"I think the clever move is to invite him and see if he goes," said Tapper.

"I don't think former President Trump would want to be subordinate on Air Force One, and I think probably prefers his own plane anyway," he added.

While Tapper made a fairly innocuous point, video of his comments was posted to social media and outraged many on the left.

"What the ACTUAL F is wrong with Jake Tapper? Is he trying to remind us all how stupid & s****y he and CNN are? If so, mission accomplished," responded a liberal activist with a vomiting emoji.

"Hey @jaketapper. Not sure you’re aware of this but the last “president” tried to overthrow our government and is being investigated for espionage for stealing national security secrets to his retirement home. What’d be “clever” is if you just left journalism to real journalists," read another popular response with more than 3k likes.

"It would also be clever for CNN to stop pushing Republican talking points," read another response.

"Jake Tapper must be loving being allowed to be his true Republican self," read another tweet.

"Jake Tapper is the stupidest fucking person on the planet," said another detractor.

Liberals similarly excoriated Tapper in March when he interviewed Bill Barr, the former U.S. attorney general. They were incensed that he would give the former Trump official a platform on a cable news network.

Buckingham Palace announced Thursday that Queen Elizabeth II had passed away at the age of 96 years.

Here's the video of Tapper's comments:

\u201cCNN is currently doing a panel discussion about if Biden should invite Trump to the Queen's funeral. Jake Tapper says it would be "clever" for Biden to do it.\u201d
— Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar) 1662759621

CNN anchor confronts Biden official for abdicating responsibility on inflation crisis: 'You don't use these tools'



CNN anchor Jake Tapper grilled a top Biden official Wednesday over dismal inflation numbers that show the U.S. economy is continuing its downward spiral.

The consumer price index showed that year-over-year inflation spiked 9.1% in June, a worrying figure that outpaced every expert prediction. The Biden administration downplayed the seriousness of the figure, repeatedly claiming it is "backward-looking" and does not reflect present-day reality.

What happened on CNN?

Tapper directly confronted Cecilia Rouse, chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, over why the Biden administration is only talking the talk, but not walking the walk.

"I just feel like every month, one of you nice people from the White House comes on the show to talk about inflation, and you talk about these tools in the president's tool kit and you don't use them. You don't use these tools," Tapper confronted. "Meanwhile, prices are still going up."

In response, Rouse deflected responsibility from the Biden administration. She explained that Biden is doing everything in his power to help the economy and said it is time for Congress "to act."

"[Biden is] the Democratic president and the Congress is controlled by Democrats," Tapper shot back. "So, it's not as though you guys don't have each other's phone numbers."

\u201cAs inflation surges to its highest level in more than 40 years, CNN's @jaketapper\u00a0speaks to Council of Economic Advisors Chairwoman Cecilia Rouse about what the Biden White House is doing to combat rising prices across the country.\u201d
— CNN (@CNN) 1657750115

Tapper even confronted Rouse over the Biden administration's repeated insistence that inflation has hit its peak, reminding Rouse that last December Biden told reporters inflation would go no higher.

"It just seems clear that the Biden administration has misjudged how bad inflation was going to get — for months and months and months," Tapper noted.

Instead of assuming some responsibility for the inflation crisis or admitting the administration was wrong about the trajectory of inflation (the administration claimed for months that it was only transitory), Rouse recycled the administration's overused talking points: The war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic are to blame for inflation.

Rouse ended the interview by saying Americans are fighting economic woes from a "position of relative strength," words that ring hollow to most Americans, especially when coming from a high-paid government official.

CNN tries to get Boris Johnson to bash the US — but he refuses to take the bait: 'A shining city on a hill'



British Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to bash the United States on Sunday when asked if he is "worried" about a decline of democracy in America.

What happened?

Speaking with CNN anchor Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," Tapper claimed his international friends are voicing concern that American democracy is eroding. Johnson promptly dismissed such concerns.

"When I talk to friends in Canada, the U.K., Australia, and elsewhere, people express concern about the United States— in terms of our ability and our institutions to thrive and continue after what happened with the election of 2020," Tapper began. "They’re worried that democracy is on life support in the United States."

"Are you worried at all?" Tapper asked.

"No!" Johnson immediately responded.

"You're not?" Tapper followed up.

"I want to say this to the people of the United States: I'm not," Johnson confirmed.

"I guess get back to what I have been trying to say to you throughout this interview, I think that reports of the death of democracy in the United States are grossly, grossly exaggerated. America is a shining city on a hill," Johnson explained. "And it will continue to be so."

\u201c"I think that reports of the death of democracy in the United States are grossly, grossly exaggerated." \n\nBritish Prime Minister @BorisJohnson tells CNN's @jaketapper why he is not concerned about the state of US democracy. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU\u201d
— CNN (@CNN) 1656253671

When Tapper pressed Johnson further about the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Johnson admitted it was "pretty weird" but refused to criticize America.

"Looking from the outside, it was pretty weird," Johnson said. "But I don't believe that American democracy is under serious threat, far from it. I continue to believe that America is the greatest global guarantor of democracy and freedom."

Anything else?

Earlier in the interview, however, Johnson reaffirmed his declaration that America took a "big step backwards" when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

Johnson described the high court ruling as "important psychologically for people around the world," but he denied that it diminishes the U.S. as the global symbol of freedom.

"The United States for me, it remains a shining city on the hill," Johnson said. "And it's an incredible guarantor of values, democracy, freedom around the world."

Liberals lash out angrily at Jake Tapper over interview with Bill Barr:  'Disgusting and disheartening'



Jake Tapper interviewed Bill Barr, the former U.S. attorney general, and many liberals lashed out angrily at CNN for giving the former Trump official a platform.

Tapper challenged Barr to explain why he worked under former President Donald Trump despite some of the criticisms he offered in his book about his time as attorney general.

Barr said he had supported Trump's policies despite what he said was a poor personal temperament. He also said that Trump went "off the rails" after he lost the 2020 presidential election. Barr added that the country would be better served with a presidential candidate other than Trump in 2024.

Many on the left were angered that CNN would even invite Barr on their network.

"Dear Jake Tapper, Please don't ever invite the traitorous criminal, Bill Barr, onto your show ever again. He's a professional liar. And he belongs in prison for obstruction of justice. Stop amplifying his voice & helping him sell his book. How desperate for ratings can you be???" read one popular tweet with 1k likes.

"Jake Tapper should have never allowed this horrible person on his show to promote his book. Huge failure. Turn Off Tapper!!" read another tweet.

"WHY is @jaketapper giving FREE AIRTIME to Bill Barr so he can offer his REVISION of HISTORY to Sell His Book?" asked another detractor.

"Just turned off @CNN@jaketapper . It's disgusting and disheartening to have BillBarr on hawking his book!" read another tweet.

Others were upset that Tapper didn't push back on Barr accusing the far left of having a totalitarian temperament.

"Hey @jaketapper why no pushback when the very person who aided & abetted trump’s every totalitarian impulse (up until an actual PowerPoint coup) gaslights your viewers by accusing the progressives of having a 'totalitarian temperament'? No pushback at all? None? Really?" said one user.

"I just saw William Barr refer to the totalitarian left, while being interviewed by Jake Tapper. No push back. Mr. Tapper, why give him a platform? Why no push back?" read another tweet.

Barr also blamed Rudy Giuliani in the CNN interview for what he called a "silly stunt" of trying to force the Ukrainians to investigate allegations of corruption by the Biden family.

"I thought it had no upside, only downside, and it was stupid," said Barr.

Here's the full interview with Barr:

\u201cHe's not my idea of a\u00a0president and I felt he was going to\u00a0lose the election because he was\u00a0not controlling himself.\u201d \n\nFormer Attorney General Bill Barr joins @jaketapper to discuss his memoir highlighting his role in helping confront former President Trump.pic.twitter.com/6vPrRRNCai
— CNN (@CNN) 1647035889

CNN anchor torches Biden for rejecting military reports critical of Afghanistan exit: 'Difficult to overstate how insulting'



CNN anchor Jake Tapper criticzed President Joe Biden on Sunday over his dismissive attitude toward military reports detailing the Biden administration's failures that contributed to the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Biden was confronted about the reports in an interview with NBC News anchor Lester Holt, and Biden said he was "rejecting" the conclusions and accounts shared in those reports.

What did Tapper say?

Toward the end of CNN's "State of the Union," Tapper sharply criticized Biden for his sweeping dismissal of accounts critical of his administration's Afghanistan exit.

"It's difficult to overstate how insulting Biden's sweeping rejection is to so many service members and veterans, given the full content of the 2,000 pages of documents in this U.S. Army investigation, which CNN has also obtained," Tapper said.

"Many accounts are from troops who were on the ground at the gates near the canal around the airport, noncommissioned officers, junior officers, Joes, people with little political motivation to lie, and heavy legal and moral obligation to tell the truth in sworn statements," he continued.

CNN's @JakeTapper on Biden dismissing a US Army report on the failures of the Afghanistan pullout: "I don't doubt President Biden cares, but I do not understand why he would not manifest that care into taking this investigation more seriously." #CNNSOTUpic.twitter.com/52CUlqXUu0
— State of the Union (@State of the Union) 1644766734

Tapper later added that he does not "doubt that President Biden cares" about the lives lost during the evacuation, but questioned Biden's cavalier attitude toward the military reports.

"I do not understand why he would not manifest that care into taking this investigation more seriously, absorbing the tragic details, contemplating the obvious failures of his administration, failures that cost lives," Tapper said.

"Now, Biden always bristles at this because he feels confident that ending the war in Afghanistan was the right decision. But that's not the question at hand," he explained. "It's not whether, but how the war ended and what that means to the people who were there when it did finally end."

Tapper also condemned Biden for dismissing the validity of military testimony about the chaotic exit on the basis of "that's not what I was told."

"If [the truth] was not what you were told, then what was? And don't you have an obligation, sir, to be told?" Tapper questioned, adding that Biden must demonstrate he actually cares. "Otherwise, isn't it just words?"

What is the background?

The Washington Post obtained after-action military reports last week that lay bare the Biden administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The reports include testimony from top U.S. military commanders who alleged the Biden administration failed to grasp the seriousness of the Taliban's swift takeover of Afghanistan, thereby placing U.S. personnel and Afghan allies in great danger.

Navy Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan during the withdrawal operation, told Army investigators that military personnel would have been "much better prepared to conduct a more orderly" evacuation "if policymakers had paid attention to the indicators of what was happening on the ground."

Among the more egregious accusations, one military officer told Army investigators that as military personnel worked to evacuate the U.S. embassy in Kabul, State Department employees and other diplomatic personnel were “intoxicated and cowering in rooms" while others were "operating like it was day-to-day operations with absolutely no sense of urgency or recognition of the situation."

Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, chief of U.S. Central Command, admitted in an interview with the Post that military commanders "would have preferred" other evacuations plans than the one Biden approved, "but when the president makes a decision, it’s time for us to execute the president’s decision."

Regarding the abandonment of Bagram Airfield, McKenzie also told the Post, "Everyone clearly saw some of the advantage of holding Bagram, but you cannot hold Bagram with the force level that was decided."

Jake Tapper says he went on a 'G-rated date' with Monica Lewinski in 1997



When CNN's Jake Tapper interviewed Monica Lewinski on Tuesday night's episode of "The Lead" he noted that they had gone on a date more than two decades ago.

Tapper said that their date is included in the FX series, "Impeachment: American Crime Story."

He noted that "I have to disclose, full disclosure, in tonight's episode, our G-rated date from December 1997."

"Our one date," Lewinski, who is a producer on the series, chimed in.

"Our one date from 1997 is portrayed, I should note by an actor way better looking than me now or then," Tapper continued.

The episode of the show that included their date aired hours later, according to Fox News.

Speaking with Monica Lewinsky about the HBO series she produced about Bill Clinton's impeachment, CNN's Jake Tapper… https://t.co/YkZ4oKpzbe

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) 1633471611.0

Tapper had long ago discussed the date in a lengthy 1998 piece for the Washington City Paper.

While the TV version makes it appear that they met and immediately sat down for a dinner date on the same evening, Tapper's account indicates that they met, and eventually went out to dinner together at a later date.

Both the TV show and Tapper's piece indicate that Tapper paid for the entire meal.

"She even offered to pay for her share, a fairly rare offer I rejected but appreciated," Tapper wrote in his account.

"She struck me as cheerful, open, a bit too much a resident of Planet Hap-Hap-Happy in my acerbic view. A little bizarre in her almost childlike sweetness—it was tough to juxtapose her almost giddy warmth with the gravity of the places she had visited, like Bosnia—but she was from both L.A. and money, so her unusualness had a context," Tapper wrote.

The @MonicaLewinsky-@JakeTapper date as portrayed on Tuesday night’s episode of @ACSFX Impeachment: American Crime… https://t.co/S5izq3R7mt

— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) 1633540598.0

Progressives attack 'Democrats on vacation' for failed eviction moratorium vote; activists stage protest at Nancy Pelosi's house to serve 'eviction notice'



A nationwide eviction moratorium expired on Saturday after Congress failed to pass new legislation before the House of Representatives adjourned for its seven-week summer vacation on Friday. Progressive activists and lawmakers lashed out at Democratic leadership, including the Biden administration and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, for not extending the moratorium and protecting the millions of Americans at risk of eviction.

Progressive Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) allegedly spent the night on the steps of the Capitol Friday as a form of protest against the eviction moratorium not being extended by Congress.

"We could have extended it yesterday, but some Democrats went on vacation instead," Bush tweeted on Saturday. "We slept at the Capitol last night to ask them to come back and do their jobs."

Good morning. The eviction moratorium expires tonight at midnight. We could have extended it yesterday, but some… https://t.co/4U8d1P1wNr

— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) 1627728915.0

Fellow lawmakers did not return, and instead left town for a seven-week recess without holding a vote or extending the federal eviction moratorium.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blamed Democratic leadership for allowing the nation's eviction moratorium to expire. Ocasio-Cortez bashed President Joe Biden's administration for not being "forthright" about engaging Congress to act until it was already too late.

Ocasio-Cortez noted that the blame should be laid at the feet of Democrats, who control the House.

"There was frankly a handful of conservative Democrats in the House that threatened to get on planes rather than hold this vote," Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union."

"We have to really just call a spade a spade," Ocasio-Cortez told CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday. "We cannot in good faith blame House Republicans when Democrats have the majority."

Ocasio-Cortez also slammed the Biden administration for dragging their feet on encouraging Congress to extend the moratorium. The Biden administration finally called on Congress to extend the moratorium "without delay" last Thursday, which was a full month after the Supreme Court ruled that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could not continue the policy beyond July 31 without congressional action.

"We asked the Biden administration for their stance and they were not being really forthright about that advocacy and that request until the day before the House adjourned," Ocasio-Cortez said. "The House was put into a needlessly difficult situation."

CNN's @jaketapper: "Who's to blame" for the failure to extend the eviction moratorium? Rep. @AOC gives a very hon… https://t.co/poDrHBf9pZ

— The Recount (@therecount) 1627825473.0

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) attempted to explain why the vote fizzled, "We only learned of this yesterday — not enough time to socialize it within our caucus as well as to build the consensus, especially in a time of COVID."

NBC News reports of a rift between Pelosi and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) regarding the vote to continue the eviction ban, "House Speaker Nancy Nancy Pelosi and the sponsor of a measure to extend the ban, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., were at odds Friday over whether to hold a vote and force members to make their positions publicly known. Waters wanted a vote, which would have allowed progressive activists to blame specific Democratic lawmakers for its failure, while Pelosi didn't want to expose some of her caucus members to the wrath of the base, according to the second aide."

Progressive activists were furious that Pelosi was not able to extend the moratorium before the long recess and held a protest at the House speaker's home in San Francisco.

Approximately 40 protesters showed up at Pelosi's home on Saturday to serve an "eviction notice" to the speaker.

"The reason that we're at her house is that she has a beautiful mansion in Pacific Heights in San Francisco, and it shows how out of touch she is with the people that are facing a situation [of eviction]," Christin Evans, one of the activists outside of Pelosi's home, told Fox News. "We wanted to essentially send her a message that we want her to reconvene Congress to take a vote [to extend] the eviction moratorium."

Progressive activists taped a fake eviction notice on Pelosi's front door.

Delivering an “eviction notice” to @SpeakerPelosi at her San Francisco mansion to ask she reconvene Congress to ext… https://t.co/2Px5uYpfvL

— Jackie Fielder (@JackieFielder_) 1627760071.0

The notice reportedly read:

Dear Speaker Pelosi, you are hereby given immediate notice that millions of Americans will face eviction tonight when the eviction moratorium expires. We call upon you to immediately call Congress to session to vote to extend the eviction moratorium and keep people in their homes. We're in the midst of the second-worst COVID surge to date and this is not the time to allow evictions to begin. Housing is a human right #evictionmorotorium #eviction crisis.

In solidarity with all people behind on rent and @CoriBush, we’re out at @SpeakerPelosi ‘s mansion delivering an “e… https://t.co/hsHkvUz5HT

— Jackie Fielder (@JackieFielder_) 1627759827.0

On Friday, Pelosi said, "We're not going away from this issue, whether it's now or shortly thereafter."

A new study published on Wednesday by the Aspen Institute claims that more than 15 million people living in the U.S. are behind on their rental payments and could face eviction when the moratorium lapses.

Ilhan Omar accuses Jewish Democrats of not being 'partners in justice' and says she doesn't regret comparing the US to terrorists



Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was pressed by CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday about her recent controversial statements and she doubled down in response.

Omar was asked if she regretted comparing the United States and Israel to Hamas terrorists and she said she did not regret saying it, despite having walked back the comments after being criticized by others in her party.

"Do you regret these comments?" asked Tapper.

"I don't," she responded. "I think it's really important to think back to the point that I was trying to make. Obviously, I was addressing Secretary of State Blinken."

Representative Ilhan Omar says that she does not regret her comments comparing the United States and Israel to Hama… https://t.co/xVyHfjKvyi
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) 1625005237.0

"The cases are put together in front of the [International Criminal Court]. ICC has been investigating, I know that, you know, some of my colleagues don't lend legitimacy to the ICC, but I tend to think that people around the world who have experience with injustice, need to be able to have a place where they can go," she continued.

"And as a country that helped found the ICC and supported it," she added, "I think it is really important for us to continue to find ways in which people can find justice around the world."

Omar was also pressed during the interview about comments she made about Jews that many called anti-Semitic, and she blamed Jewish Democrats for not being aligned to her political agenda.

"Do you understand why some of your fellow House Democrats especially the Jews find that language anti-Semitic?" asked Tapper after listing examples of Omar's controversial speech.

Wow -- Rep @IlhanMN tells @jaketapper that Jewish Democrats have not been "partners in justice" or sufficiently com… https://t.co/rx1AYTWajg
— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) 1625011177.0

"I have welcomed any time, you know, my colleagues have asked to have a conversation, to learn from them, for them to learn from me," Omar responded.

"I think it's really important for these members to realize that they haven't been partners in justice, they haven't been, you know, equally engaging in seeking justice around the world. And I think I will continue to do that. It is important for me as someone who knows what it feels like to experience injustice in ways that my colleagues don't to be a voice in finding accountability," she added.

Omar's comments garnered renewed ire from groups opposing anti-Semitism.

"Shocking - Ilhan Omar refusing to take ANY accountability for her obscene antisemitism," tweeted Stop Antisemitism.

"Instead she has the audacity to blame Jewish members of Congress. When will this vile bigot finally be censured and properly reprimanded by her party? Enough is enough!" they added.