Former President Barack Obama set off a minor online conflagration after opining about what would happen if women were in control of all governments.

The 60-year-old made the comments during an interview Monday with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin at Salem State University.

'They'd be better. I'm confident about that. I really do!'

"Even when I was president I sometimes fantasized about if you put women in charge of every government for like two years and then just kind of saw, all right, how are things going?" said Obama to some laughter in the audience.

"I have a strong belief that things would — they wouldn't be perfect," he added.

"But they'd be better!" interrupted Kearns, a woman.

"But they'd be better. I'm confident about that. I really do!" Obama added.

Footage of the comments was posted to social media, where they went viral after many ridiculed his sentiment.

"Ignore both the traditional teachings of [virtually] every religion, as well as all of the lessons from thousands of years of human experience," responded Jeremy Carl, a fellow at the Claremont Institute.

"He took away the Presidential nomination from a woman," said one detractor.

"Brother, do you not remember knocking Hillary Clinton out of the primary & thus lay-up Presidential Run of 2008? You prevented America having the first female President. It's the only thing you & Trump have in common," read another reply.

"It’s like he was in a cave for the entire [Lindsay] Clancy trial," responded Republican Lisa Cusack.

Elsewhere in the interview, Obama encouraged the attendees that the country was divided but could come together.

"Today, we are rife with divisions, and our democracy seems broken in so many ways — and the tenor and tone of the times feel mean-spirited," he said.

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"We’ve gone through times like this before. I believe we can get out of them. And when I travel around the country today, or I work with the young people I work with," he added, "what you discover is we aren’t as divided as we seem at the ground level."

He also said the progress on women's rights, LGBTQ rights, and civil rights has not been reversed and most people support them.

"We’re not as divided as our politics or our media would indicate," he concluded.

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Tens of thousands attend beatification of anti-communist TV star priest Fulton Sheen

A popular radio and television priest was beatified in a Mass Thursday in St. Louis, Missouri, that was attended by tens of thousands of Catholic believers.

Fulton Sheen was a Roman Catholic priest who grew to massive popularity on radio and television as a promulgator of Catholic doctrine in the 1950s and '60s.

'Archbishop Sheen was a beacon of faith, hope, and love who shone through radio and television for decades.'

He is considered the first television evangelist and is credited with helping pave the way for the election of John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president of the United States.

Organizers at the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Foundation and the diocese said that about 48,000 tickets had been distributed for the ceremony at the Dome at America's Center. The ceremony had been delayed for years after organizers found there was not a venue large enough in Sheen's home diocese of Peoria, Illinois, to accommodate those wishing to attend.

Beatification is the last step before sainthood. His official title is now Blessed Fulton Sheen.

Sheen had gained popularity as a radio priest and went on to gain even more prominence with his television show, "Life Is Worth Living." Standing at a chalkboard while addressing moral and religious issues of the day, Sheen inspired millions, including the man who would later become Pope Leo XIV.

"Archbishop Sheen was a beacon of faith, hope, and love who shone through radio and television for decades," said Pope Leo in a speech in June. "I myself witnessed his evangelization efforts as I was growing up."

Sheen graced the cover of Time, met with popes, and traveled the world on behalf of Catholic missions.

He died at the age of 84 in 1979.

In most cases, in order to be considered for beatification and sainthood, the Catholic Church requires documentation of a miracle made by the candidate's intercession. In 2010, the family of an infant born without a pulse prayed to Sheen for healing, and the baby was resuscitated.

"I remember sitting on my bedroom floor and watching them do CPR and in my head repeating over and over and over again, 'Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen, Fulton Sheen,'" recalled Bonnie Engstrom, the baby's mother.

That family was present at the beatification Mass along with the child, who is now a teenager named James Fulton Engstrom. They presented relics of the priest.

The beatification was delayed for a time so that the Diocese of Rochester could investigate allegations that Sheen had any complicity in clerical sex abuse, but the church confirmed he was innocent.

Pope Leo XIV approved Sheen's beatification earlier in the year.

"May the example and the intercession of this holy bishop, known for his evangelizing work through the media, inspire many others likewise to find new ways of spreading the gospel message with joyful enthusiasm," said Pope Leo on Wednesday ahead of the ceremony.

Sheen was also known for his philosophical and theological arguments against the tenets of communism and materialism during the Cold War.

Sheen won an Emmy for his television show, and during his acceptance speech he thanked his four writers — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

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Sen. Tuberville gets mocked for warning about pilots with 'deranged fetish' — then he brings the receipts

A Republican senator is getting mocked for decrying pilots possibly practicing a "deranged fetish," but he fired back with disturbing evidence of his claim.

Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama railed against the transgender agenda in a fiery screed on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, but only one brief clip from his speech against the "woke mind virus" went viral.

'Ask yourself ... would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?'

Tuberville called for a national debate on the mental health crisis that is causing widespread "gender confusion."

Then he cited furries in the airline industry.

"Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and aircraft traffic controllers are part of the furry community. Lord help us," he said. "It's terrifying when you think about this. When you walk onto a commercial flight, it's possible that the pilot flying your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal. You can't make this up."

That short clip from the 18-minute speech was posted to social media, where many on the left mocked and ridiculed Tuberville.

The vast majority of the criticism completely ignored the cogent argument and Tuberville's list of numerous examples of deranged people with fetishes who eventually became violent.

"Gender-confused people have one of the HIGHEST suicide rates among people struggling with mental illness. Unfortunately, these gender-confused individuals aren’t just harming themselves — they’re also hurting other people," he wrote on X Thursday. "GENDER CONFUSION IS A MENTAL ILLNESS."

To demonstrate his point about violence and "gender confusion," Tuberville mentioned Charlie Kirk, who argued in good faith against the transgender agenda, and was brutally murdered. The suspect, Tyler Robinson, has been linked to gender confusion and the online furry community.

Tuberville also responded to the ridicule with more evidence for his claims.

"I know the deranged Democrats don’t like the fact that I called out the insane FURRY CULTURE this week," Tuberville wrote in a post on social media.

"But the truth is, there is an ALARMING number of these DERANGED people working in our airline industry," he added. "Don’t believe me? Just a few months ago, PILOTS were MEOWING and BARKING at each other over the radio at DCA."

He posted a news video that included a recording of pilots meowing and barking while on the job. One voice scolds them to be more professional.

"Just a few weeks ago at the 'Furry Migration' convention in Minneapolis, there was an 'Aviation Furs Meet-up,'" he added in a second post.

"Ask yourself ... would you be comfortable with a MENTALLY ILL FURRY being your pilot?" he added.

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'Free Luigi!' Bill Burr thinks a murdered father of two should have done some self-examination

Comedian Bill Burr made a habit in years past of poking fun of both the left and the right. However, he has increasingly been leaning left in his commentary.

In a Rolling Stone interview published on Tuesday, Burr complained about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, claiming whites are "not nearly upset as we need to be because we don't see ourselves going into the van."

'It's like, you're not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business.'

Burr — who is pro-abortion and previously criticized Florida's anti-mask mandates — also insinuated that the slaying of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which Luigi Mangione admitted to, was Thompson's fault. Burr then criticized the defensive actions taken by other major corporate executives.

"The response to the Luigi thing was not to be like, 'Well, hey, maybe we need to look at what we're doing if what we're doing makes some crazy person do this.' [Executives'] response was to take their faces off of the internet and get security."

"It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine? You know what I mean?" continued Burr. "It's like, you're not the president. You’re just the CEO of a business. Why do you need this level of security? Like, what is it that you're doing?'"

Health care executives and other Americans in the radical left's crosshairs might want more security because polling shows a troubling number of liberals support their demise.

According to a CloudResearch poll conducted in the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Thompson in December 2024, 25% of self-identified liberals were "supportive or very supportive" of the murder, and 68% said they felt at least some sympathy toward Mangione.

A recent Emerson poll found that 12.4% of Democrats said that "the actions of the killer of the United Healthcare CEO" are "completely acceptable," and 7.5% of Democrats said they were "somewhat acceptable."

This is hardly the first time that Burr has expressed sympathy with Mangione, not Thompson, who was a father of two.

Just days after Thompson was assassinated, Burr expressed satisfaction on his podcast that "f**king CEOs are f**king afraid right now," stressing they "should be."

Just weeks later, in early 2025, the middle-aged comic used his time on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to call for the release of Mangione, stating, "Free Luigi!" Kimmel laughed in response, though whether Burr meant the line as a joke is unclear.

In 2023, Burr's liberal wife made a lewd gesture to President Donald Trump at UFC 295.

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Tragic update about shooting survivor of Butler assassination attempt

James Copenhaver became a prominent critic of the security failures at the July 2024 rally where he was shot twice during the attack on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

More than two years after suffering permanent injuries in the failed assassination attempt, the 76-year-old has passed away.

'Jim endured unimaginable hardship with strength and perseverance.'

Copenhaver was shot twice in Butler, once through his triceps and also in his abdomen. He was rushed to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh for treatment.

He underwent several surgeries and still had bullet fragments in his body when he died.

Copenhaver's death was reported Thursday by journalist Ken Silva.

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jim Copenhaver, who was gravely wounded in the horrific shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania," read a statement on social media from U.S. House Republicans. "Jim endured unimaginable hardship with strength and perseverance. We join his family and loved ones in mourning his loss and praying for them during this difficult time. May he rest in peace."

Copenhaver publicly criticized the U.S. Secret Service as well as other agencies for security lapses in Butler.

He wrote a foreword for Silva's book on the assassination attempt in Butler.

"After raising a family and working for over 30 years — playing in a band on the side — I started to wonder: How will I be remembered?" he wrote. "Well, I got my answer to that question on July 13, 2024, though taking a bullet meant for the President wasn’t exactly what I had in mind."

A 50-year-old retired fire chief named Corey Comperatore died from his injuries at the rally, and a third man named David Dutch survived being shot.

The president was grazed in the ear during the attack.

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Retiree radicalism: Behind the scenes with Maine's anti-ICE activists

This story was reported in collaboration with the Maine Wire's Jon Fetherston.

SCARBOROUGH, MAINE — Geriatric anti-ICE activists gathered at Town Hall on Sept. 14 to discuss doxxing, roadblocks, and Saul Alinsky. Attendees demanded radical action.

A week later, vandals laid spike strips in front of Scarborough's ICE facility. They were placed near splashes of blood-red paint that activists used to deface the parking lot back in July after an agent-involved fatal shooting in nearby Biddeford.

'Are we prioritizing our immigrant neighbors and people of color?'

A sign displayed on town property referred to the incident as a "murder." Maine Democrat Attorney General Aaron Frey is reviewing the incident, according to the state's deadly force statutes.

Clad in red-and-white “STOP ICE” shirts and touting a video endorsement from Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), the Indivisible Team of Southern Maine at the Town Hall set about building "working groups," which were, in practice, a Byzantine bureaucracy of Baby Boomers.

At every new idea presented, one of the organizers promptly suggested another working group or committee be formed. This went on until the committee count rivaled the number of actual participants.

Town Councilor Jonathan Anderson (D) and state Rep. Sophia Warren (D) both delivered remarks. Anderson conjured up various hypothetical technicalities by which the ICE facility could be kicked out of town, and Warren praised the crowd for their daily protests. Both eventually ended up stumping for Troy Jackson's U.S. Senate campaign, despite a vocal minority of the gathered protest-hobbyists slamming electoral politics throughout the night.

“Are we prioritizing our immigrant neighbors and people of color?" Warren asked the crowd to approving murmurs.

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After the speeches, a masked organizer donning an "86 47" hat — a message that some have interpreted as a call to violence against President Donald Trump — addressed the room. Introducing himself as Rich Nowak, he launched into an impassioned appeal for volunteers to gather information on individual agents.

"We get pictures of who's working down there, we get license plate pictures, we get pictures of the people themselves," said Nowak. "We want to know all that information."

"Why do I wear a mask all the time?" Nowak asked rhetorically. "They knew my name, and they knew where I lived. So I thought it best that I at least keep my face covered."

Another attendee interjected to suggest blockading ICE vehicles in the road in order to forcibly search them. The organizers nodded solemnly but offered neither condemnation nor approval.

Nowak later told Blaze News and the Maine Wire that there was no contradiction between doxxing ICE agents and protecting his own identity. He told attendees the full name and contact information of the ICE facility's landlord shortly before the meeting ended.

At a protest just days later, Nowak's masked companion assiduously and seemingly illegally taped over his front and rear license plates before pulling into traffic with both still covered.

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Nowak isn't just some lone loon. He is part of the Indivisible Team of Southern Maine, itself a branch of the national nonprofit Indivisible. Maine is home to 29 chapters, including Indivisible Scarborough, which organizes the daily "Quiet Resistance" watch outside the ICE facility alongside ITSME.

Indivisible uses ICE-leased buildings as pressure points, inundating them with doxxing efforts, loudspeaker harassment, and veiled threats.

Unfortunately for ITSME, the federal government has already signed a 15-year lease with the property owner. The township may amend zoning laws to prevent lease renewal, but many activists are calling for spot zoning — whereby the law applies selectively to certain parcels of land and not others — which may be illegal.

Anderson previously told the Portland Press Herald that the municipality had "no mechanism" by which it could evict a federal tenant.

All activists can do is make themselves "enough of a pain in the neck that they [ICE] move somewhere else," according to one protester.

It's not just the agency that ITSME regulars want to run out of town, but the agents themselves. Many believe ICE agents live in the facility.

Blaze News was invited to enter the building and speak with ICE agents to investigate this rumor.

An agent greeted Blaze News at the door on Friday in a "No Kings, No Tyrants, No Fascists, No Nazis" hat.

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The agent explained that he wore it to bother the protesters across the street. He later threw on a "Hope Not Hate" hoodie to return the lawn chairs that ICE previously allowed protesters to store at the building.

That arrangement came to an end the day of Blaze News' visit. Spike strips had been laid around the property that morning, jeopardizing the safety of agents and detainees alike, according to both ICE and the protesters.

Some protesters had also tried their luck at the blockade-and-search operation previously floated at the town hall meeting.

Activists continued photographing agents' and contractors' license plates while speaking to Blaze News. Eventually, the younger among them said they did not support deportation under any circumstances, including for migrants involved in violent crimes and "child rape," because they would hurt people in their countries of origin.

A woman in a "Retired: The ability to do what I want, when I want" shirt looked on.

Another group was camped out in front of a local donut shop. Nowak and his masked companion were leading this crew.

Jon Fetherston of the Maine Wire stepped away from his car to interview rally-goers, some of whom promptly cursed at him. He returned to find his rear tire slashed. A local Firestone auto store confirmed that the tire was sliced by a knife or comparable implement.

The vandalism was nothing new for the Maine Wire's senior reporter.

While covering the same anti-ICE groups after the Biddeford shooting, Fetherston was struck in the head with a skateboard by a rally-goer. Another protester punctured all four of his tires with a screwdriver.

Scarborough's anti-ICE movement is aged. It's beset by the distinctly leftist tendency to bureaucratization. But despite its comic exterior, it does have teeth.

Self-described "children of the '60s" are willing to assault journalists, destroy property, and menace law enforcement officers to get their way. Picturesque New England towns may not last long if they do.

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Democrat accused of wishing 'botched abortion' on woman, roughing up staffer, using 'fa**ot' as campaign spirals

Former tribal court judge Mary Peltola was voted out of Congress in 2024. Now, in an attempt to revive her political career, she is trying to unseat incumbent Sen. Daniel Sullivan (R) to represent Alaska in the U.S. Senate.

Although Peltola has long enjoyed an edge over Sullivan in the polls, her campaign now appears to be spiraling.

'Mary Peltola’s closest aides describe a routine history of physical violence, explosive anger, and utter disdain for Alaskans.'

Weeks after senior campaign staffer Anton McParland abruptly left Peltola's team, the New York Times shed an unflattering light on some of the skeletons in the Democrat candidate's closet.

According to allegations from multiple former aides and text messages viewed by the Times, Peltola was allegedly a fan of using the words "faggot" and "retarded" in communications with her staff. In a text message earlier this year, she allegedly said of a commercial fisheries executive who posted a selfie with her, "F**k that retard."

While the Democrat's campaign denied that she used the word "faggot," it acknowledged that Peltola used the word "retarded" and said that she regretted doing so.

Given that both terms have re-entered the popular vernacular — even on the left — Peltola's alleged word choice is the least scandalous revelation in the report.

Former aides have characterized Peltola as something of an ill-tempered tyrant, accusing the Democrat candidate — who had the second-highest staff turnover rate in the U.S. House during her final year in office — of "angry and profane outbursts"; a tendency to jump up and down and stomp her feet when dissatisfied; allegedly shoving an aide; and supposedly cultivating a workplace so toxic that some staffers found themselves losing weight or in therapy.

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Far more damning than the accounts of Peltola having her staffers feed her daughter's pet chameleon is the 2024 text message viewed by the Times in which the Democrat apparently said of a woman on the board of a Planned Parenthood chapter, "I hope she dies of a botched abortion."

Although Peltola is a pro-abortion Democrat, the 53-year-old was reportedly critical of Planned Parenthood in her final year in Congress in light of strategy differences regarding a defense bill that included pro-life policies.

The Peltola campaign has gone into damage control after the New York Times' report, painting her as a victim and insinuating that her allegedly abusive behavior was the result of grief.

Alaskans for Mary campaign spokesperson Harry Child said in a statement, "Mary suddenly and tragically lost both her mother and her husband in the span of a few months in 2023. At the time of their passing, Mary was parenting kids through their own grief, serving full-time in the U.S. House of Representatives thousands of miles from home, and running a competitive re-election campaign — all while shouldering the enormous burden of grief."

"Like any person who has gone through multiple personal tragedies in the span of a few months, Mary sometimes struggled to deal with her grief," continued Child. "But she treats her staff with respect and care, and she maintains close positive relationships with her staff spanning her nearly 30 years in public service. Exaggerating and outright lying about moments from the hardest period of her life, and falsely presenting them as a pattern of behavior, is wrong."

Peltola's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

Alex Latcham, the executive director of the GOP-aligned Senate Leadership Fund, said in a statement obtained by Blaze News, "Mary Peltola’s closest aides describe a routine history of physical violence, explosive anger, and utter disdain for Alaskans, which makes her entirely unfit for the U.S. Senate."

"Peltola’s deeply offensive and disturbing comments do not represent the Alaska way, and she must publicly apologize to her staff and the people of Alaska."

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Exclusive: ‘We all got in by lying’: Hidden camera shows Talarico’s pastor rejecting Christ’s virgin birth, other foundational Christian beliefs

James Talarico, the Democrat nominee hoping to succeed Republican John Cornyn in the U.S. Senate, is a part-time Presbyterian seminarian who has emphasized, “My politics grows out of my faith.”

That faith was apparently greatly shaped by Jim Rigby, the pastor of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. Talarico previously cited Rigby as one of “the biggest influences on [him] as a Christian, as a human being.”

'It’s mixed with myth.'

Hidden-camera footage exclusively obtained by Blaze News appears to show Talarico’s pastor rejecting one of the fundamental precepts of Christianity: the virgin birth.

In the video, Rigby is asked by a person off-camera, “Do you really believe, like, a virgin had a child?”

“I don’t,” the pastor responds, according to the video.

“The virgin birth stuff, you see it like in Hinduism ... and it’s more like, it’s more like all human beings were born out of the transcendent,” Rigby claims in the video.

“There’s a cosmic process, there’s animals and stuff, so when the Christmas story is told, all of that’s in there.”

“I think the virgin birth came off of Plato,” Rigby continues, according to the video. “‘Only begotten one’ and kind of stuff like that — that’s in the writings of Plato. It’s about humanity and the cosmos.”

After the person off-camera poses the question of whether Jesus is reducible to an “allegory,” Rigby appears to state, “I think there probably was a Jesus, but I don’t think we can get back to that. I mean, I don’t think there’s — ‘cause the stuff is so legendary, and it’s mixed with myth and stuff.”

Rigby both claimed that “there’s no way you can know what happened with Jesus or any of the people from a long time ago” and appeared to suggest that Christ or Christianity was simply trying to convey that "you're a child of the stars," according to the video.

In a separate undercover video obtained and published by Blaze Media, Rigby was asked whether a newcomer to St. Andrew’s has to profess belief “that God became a baby and that a virgin had a baby.” Rigby responds, according to the video, “We all got in by lying.”

Blaze News did not receive responses from the Talarico campaign or Rigby.

In addition to rejecting the virgin birth, Rigby has expressed disbelief in Christ’s Resurrection. He also has expressed contempt for belief in the supernatural and belittled evangelical Christians.

Rigby previously expressed hope that Talarico would one day succeed him as pastor, and Talarico has delivered various woke sermons at St. Andrew's church.

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Trump judge delivers 'FAKE NEWS' temporary win in battle with president

A federal judge has delivered a trio of liberal media outlets a win in their battle with the president over access to the White House grounds.

While the networks and their lawyer appear excited over the outcome, President Donald Trump has made clear this is but a battle in a war he means to win.

'Plaintiffs have engaged in a number of reporting incidents that have threatened national security.'

How it started

Trump announced Friday that he was barring CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House "as a result of their constant 'reporting' FAKE NEWS," stressing that "Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America."

Following the president's proclamation, White House television pool members — including Fox News — circled the wagons and agreed to end pooled coverage in protest.

Meanwhile, the three banned networks sued Trump, two of Trump's staffers, and U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran, claiming that "this ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles."

Alleging that the ban violated the First Amendment and the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment, the media networks asked for the restoration of their White House hard passes and access as well as for a declaration that the ban was unconstitutional.

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The White House argued that:

the government has a "compelling interest in awarding hard passes to journalists satisfying minimum standards" and that the three networks did not meet those standards;
the "Plaintiffs have engaged in a number of reporting incidents that have threatened national security"; and
the networks are mistaken in their conclusion "that there is a special property or legal interest in access to the White House."

How it's going

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly did not buy what the White House was selling.

Early on Thursday, the Trump-appointed judge granted the liberal networks a 14-day restraining order and ordered the White House to reinstate White House hard pass press credentials to employees of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico.

Kelly said in his order that the plaintiffs had "shown a likelihood of success, at least on their Fifth Amendment procedural due process claim."

The judge noted further that "none of Defendants' arguments convince the Court that Plaintiffs are not likely to succeed on their due process claim."

Kelly rejected the White House's argument that the ban was motivated by national security concerns, writing, "Certainly, that is not what President Trump said when he announced that he was 'banning' Plaintiffs from the White House — instead, he focused on the alleged lack of truthfulness and negativity of Plaintiffs' reporting."

"Defendants offer no declarations or other support — classified or unclassified — explaining how any of the reporting they identified in their letters to Plaintiffs damaged the national security."

Trump, apparently anticipating this turn of events, noted on Monday, "As usual, we’ll go for appeal because Fake News people and publications that only write negatively, and who violate our National Security by writing false and defamatory stories with unknown 'sources,' shouldn’t be allowed access to the most important Office anywhere in the World."

Ted Boutrous, the lawyer representing the liberal outlets, said in a statement, "This is a strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process, and the rule of law. We greatly appreciate the court’s swift action."

The White House did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

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Tragic update about shooting survivor of Butler assassination attempt

Retiree radicalism: Behind the scenes with Maine's anti-ICE activists

Democrat accused of wishing 'botched abortion' on woman, roughing up staffer, using 'fa**ot' as campaign spirals

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