Outspoken left-wing celebrity Bette Midler has claimed that former President Donald Trump tortured the truth to the point of death during a CNN town hall earlier this week.
Trump appeared on the left-leaning cable channel on Wednesday night for the event. Midler has offered scathing critiques of his performance.
"Dear Donnie, Well, that was the most depressing, demented, dim-witted performance any of us have ever seen on CNN, and that's saying a lot. Thnx for reminding us yet again that you are a menace to society, & a sore loser in the grip of a dangerous fantasy that could kill us all," Midler tweeted on Friday. "Trump put #Truth in a chokehold on #CNN and squeezed for 75 minutes. Then he bludgeoned it, kicked it, slashed it, dismembered it, lynched it and left it for dead. CNN has a lot to answer for," she asserted.
\u201cTrump put #Truth in a chokehold on #CNN and squeezed for 75 minutes. Then he bludgeoned it, kicked it, slashed it, dismembered it, lynched it and left it for dead. CNN has a lot to answer for.\u201d— bettemidler (@bettemidler) 1683902500
Rob Reiner, another frequent Trump critic, has suggested that voting for Trump amounts to a vote for "White Christian Nationalism" and "Fascism." He has also claimed that the former president is "mentally ill."
"The choice could not be clearer. If you want White Christian Nationalism, if you want Fascism, vote for Trump. If you want Human Decency, if you want Democracy, vote for Biden. That's it, and that's all," Reiner tweeted on Friday. "There's no other way to say this: Donald Trump is a Liar, a Criminal, and is mentally ill," he tweeted on Thursday.
\u201cThe choice could not be clearer. If you want White Christian Nationalism, if you want Fascism, vote for Trump. If you want Human Decency, if you want Democracy, vote for Biden. That\u2019s it, and that\u2019s all.\u201d— Rob Reiner (@Rob Reiner) 1683907112
Reiner has previously claimed that Trump supporters are hateful, racist, misogynists.
"Donald Trumps Cult followers believe he was sent by God to make America a White Christian nation. They are blind, filled with hate, racism and misogyny. They live in a 6,000 year old world where women and minorities have no rights. They can't be reasoned with. Don't try. VOTE!!!" he tweeted last year.
\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s Cult followers believe he was sent by God to make America a White Christian nation. They are blind, filled with hate, racism and misogyny. They live in a 6,000 year old world where women and minorities have no rights. They can\u2019t be reasoned with. Don\u2019t try. VOTE!!!\u201d— Rob Reiner (@Rob Reiner) 1658695516
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk reinstated the official account of former President Donald Trump. The reinstatement of the former president of the United States caused liberals and celebrities to suffer a complete meltdown.
Musk ran a poll asking Twitter users if Trump should be reinstated on Twitter. The 24-hour Twitter poll resulted in 51.8% of users voting "Yes" to reinstate Trump, compared to 48.2% of users saying to permanently ban Trump. More than 15 million Twitter users voted in Musk's poll.
Musk tweeted, "The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated."
Liberals and celebrities seethed over the decision to reinstate Trump on the social media platform. Reactions on Twitter from leftists viciously attacked Trump as well as Musk.
David Leavitt: "How many Americans will die because @elonmusk brought @realDonaldTrump back onto Twitter? He's Back and every American who dies because of @realDonaldTrump being back on Twitter is @ElonMusk's fault."
Filmmaker Rob Reiner: "Elon Musk is letting a man who led a violent Insurrection to overthrow the United States Government back on this platform. Letting the Lies and Disinformation continue to poison the American bloodstream."
Leftist commentator Keith Olbermann: "After this week, Terrorist Trump's $8 would constitute half of Musk's income from Twitter."
Former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich: "Memo to Elon, freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom to incite an insurrection."
Blink 182 singer Tom DeLonge: "Elon is a trail blazer holding massive insecurities. His desire to be funny, and cool is loud. He is seemingly most moved by, literally, people just liking him? It now seems like a disease to me? But supporting this racist, treasonous f*** makes me want vomit and quit Twitter."
Liberal writer Julia Ioffe: "There it is. He paid $44 billion and destroyed Twitter to reinstate Trump."
NAACP president Derrick Johnson: "Any advertiser still funding Twitter should immediately pause all advertising now."
Actress Mia Farrow: "Get blood pressure pills."
Huffington Post writer S.V. Date: "Trump was banished from Twitter not because of cancel culture, but because he attempted a coup using Twitter as a tool and THEN CONTINUED RILING UP HIS MOB EVEN AFTER IT FAILED. 2) Getting back on Twitter will remind many people what a dangerous, unhinged president he was.”
Rep. Liz Cheney: "With Trump back on Twitter, it’s a good time to watch this Jan 6 hearing. It covers each of Trump’s tweets that day, including those that have been deleted, and features multiple Trump WH staff describing his inexcusable conduct during the violence."
Actress Bette Midler: "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? This a**hole is going to give that lying sack of s**t another crack at the brass ring! Vote NO to reinstate him on TWITTER!"
TV producer Andrew Kimmel: "Elon Musk is a c***."
Democratic activist Scott Dworkin: "@realDonaldTrump belongs in prison not on Twitter. This is bulls**t."
Leftist activist Shannon Coulter: "Just emailed the head of safety at Apple and Google respectively to ask if their app stores will continue to carry the Twitter app now that Elon Musk has reinstated Donald Trump."
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt: "For @elonmusk to allow Donald Trump back on Twitter, ostensibly after a brief poll, shows he is not remotely serious about safeguarding the platform from hate, harassment and misinformation. As we've said before, Trump used Twitter to foment intolerance, issue threats and incite a violent attack against the US government. Moreover, he has shown no indication that he would do anything different if given the opportunity. When @ADL and other #StopHateforProfit leaders met with Elon Musk on 11/1, he committed to not replatform anyone, regardless of stature, until he installed a transparent, clear process that took into consideration the views of civil society. @elonmusk's decisions over the last month have been erratic and alarming, but this decision is dangerous and a threat to American democracy. We need to ask — is it time for Twitter to go?"
Rob Reiner has called upon "Non MAGA" GOP officials to look to Republican Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming as their "North Star."
"Non MAGA elected Republicans: You have the power to save our Democracy. Let Liz Cheney be your North Star. No job is worth destroying 246 years of Self Rule," Reiner tweeted on Friday.
\u201cNon MAGA elected Republicans: You have the power to save our Democracy. Let Liz Cheney be your North Star. No job is worth destroying 246 years of Self Rule.\u201d— Rob Reiner (@Rob Reiner) 1662131062
Cheney, an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump, is one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Trump last year in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. She was later ousted from her role as House Republican conference chair. Cheney is one of the two GOP lawmakers to serve on the House select committee created to investigate the Jan. 6 episode.
Last month, Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman trounced Cheney during the GOP primary for Wyoming's at-large congressional district.
Reiner, who describes himself on Twitter as a "Filmmaker, actor, producer, husband, and father," regularly airs his political views on the social media platform.
"The choice is clear. If you want a Government that cares about all Americans, vote Democratic. If you want a White Christian Nationalist Autocracy and are willing to kill fellow Americans to get it, vote Republican," he tweeted in August. "It's simple. If you want dedicated qualified people to run our Government, vote Democrat. If you want Autocrats who have no problem using deadly force to overthrow it, vote Republican," he wrote in another post last month.
"With the exception of Liz Cheney and a handful of outcasts, Republicans are completely comfortable with outright lying. Democrats are hamstrung by having to tell the truth. But if we don’t, we become them. So keep it up. Truth will prevail," he also tweeted last month. "So grateful to have a President who speaks the Truth. A President who deeply cares about the preservation of our 246 years of Democratic Self Rule. Thank you, President Biden," he tweeted on Sept. 1.
\u201cWith the exception of Liz Cheney and a handful of outcasts, Republicans are completely comfortable with outright lying. Democrats are hamstrung by having to tell the truth. But if we don\u2019t, we become them. So keep it up. Truth will prevail.\u201d— Rob Reiner (@Rob Reiner) 1661099761
Bill Maher exposed the political blind spot of Rob "Meathead" Reiner by stumping the actor with a question regarding the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story by legacy media.
During the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher," the liberal host discussed whether it was merited for mainstream media outlets and social media platforms to suppress and censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. The topic was in response to Sam Harris saying the cover-up of Hunter Biden's shady business dealings overseas was warranted because former President Donald Trump was an "existential threat to our democracy."
Maher asked, "Is it okay to have a conspiracy to get rid of Trump?"
"They were talking about Hunter Biden's laptop, which was a story, and now all the mainstream press has finally admitted it was a real story," Maher said. "It was a real laptop."
"Now look, let's not pussyfoot around this – he was selling the influence of his father, Joe Biden," Maher stated. "I mean, most political sons do, but let's not pretend at least that was going on… so Hunter Biden's laptop was buried by the press."
"Even the head of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, said that was a mistake," Maher continued. "So Sam Harris says it was appropriate for Twitter, and the heads of big tech, and the heads of journalistic organizations to feel that they were in the presence of something that is a once-in-a-lifetime moral emergency, meaning Trump. So he's saying it's okay to have a conspiracy, to get rid of somebody as bad as Trump."
Maher then asked, "It's a little bit of a thorny question because once you go down this road – this is sort of where we are in this country, the other side is so evil, anything is justified in preventing them from taking office. Is it?"
Reiner – a staunch Democrat activist – deflected from Maher's question with a whataboutism defense of harping on the Jan. 6 riot.
"You know what's not justified? Using armed violence to try to kill people in the Capitol. That's not justified," Reiner replied.
Maher attempted to get back to his original question; and asked if it was "appropriate to bury the Hunter Biden" story?
Maher noted, "They buried the Hunter Biden story before the election because they were, like, ‘We can’t risk having the election thrown to Trump. We’ll tell them after the election.'"
The "All in the Family" actor quizically asked, "And we know for a fact that that’s what they did?"
Maher exclaimed, "Of course! You don’t follow this?"
Reiner conceded, "I don’t know that they did."
Maher then zinged Reiner, "I know because you only watch MSNBC."
Reiner – who continues to have an obsession with Trump after his presidency – claimed that he watches Fox News. He was also totally befuddled at the thought that the press would suppress a story that would hurt Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election against Trump.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) ran cover for Reiner, and said, "I don’t know that they all said this. You have to make sure you are treating people fairly."
Earlier this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that his social media network suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story during an appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast.
The New York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020. Legacy media seemingly buried the story without attempting to verify the authenticity of the notorious laptop. Many outlets dismissed the story as "Russian misinformation." NPR vowed not to cover the story because it was a "waste" of time.
Twitter censored the story and locked the official account of the New York Post.
A poll released this week revealed that nearly 80% of people believe that Trump could have won the 2020 presidential election if the Hunter Biden laptop and email story was not buried.
It wasn't until March of this year when the New York Times and the Washington Post, and other media outlets admitted that Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop was indeed real – 17 months after the story first broke.
\u201c.@billmaher on @RealTimers asks the panel whether it was OK for the press to bury the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the election, and the response was surprise(!) I agree w/Bill that you probably need to reduce @MSNBC in your diet.\n\nWith @robreiner & @amyklobuchar.\u201d— Clint Olsen (@Clint Olsen) 1661578864
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Steven Spielberg, Rob Reiner to co-host Hollywood fundraiser for President Biden at up to $500,000 per ticket
A group of Hollywood elites will host Joe Biden's first star-studded, Tinseltown fundraiser since the president announced his bid for re-election.
While the event is formally hosted by former United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra James Costos and designer Michael Smith, it will be co-hosted by many others, including iconic filmmaker Steven Spielberg.
Tickets start at $1,000 per person, Deadline reported, but rise to $500,000 for those who wish to be listed as co-chairs of the event.
A ticket for $25,000 or more will provide access to the photo line, which could possibly include first lady Jill Biden, who will reportedly attend the event. Proceeds go to the Biden Victory Fund, a fundraising committee for the Democratic National Committee and Biden's campaign.
Despite Spielberg's obvious interest in politics, supporters of Israel have questioned the director about his lack of comments on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Spielberg was asked by the president of Holocaust Survivors Foundation USA to speak out against the war, Los Angeles Magazine reported:
"I, along with countless other Survivors, are so heartbroken that, since October 7, 2023, you have not spoken out and publicly taken a stand against terrorism, against Hamas and the millions who celebrate the shedding of Jewish blood," wrote David Schaecter, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor.
As Hollywood in Toto reported, Spielberg's silence is especially peculiar considering the fact that following his 1993 film "Schindler's List," Spielberg created the USC Shoah Foundation, a group dedicated to telling stories about the Holocaust.
Another co-host of the Biden event is the virulently anti-Trump Rob Reiner.
Reiner recently reaffirmed his disdain for former President Trump when he told MSNBC's Ari Melber on "The Beat" that Trump would likely govern as an "authoritarian," while Biden actually "believes in the Constitution."
"I’m trying to impress upon people as best I can that every time we have a presidential election, they always say, this is the most important election of our lifetime. They’re tired of it. This one actually is," Reiner began.
"You have one candidate in Trump who actually tells you he’s going to govern like an authoritarian. He says it. It’s not a mystery," he claimed. "You have another guy who has been there, knows how to run the government, believes in the Constitution, believes in democracy, the rule of law, and you’ve got to make a choice."
"You have to make a choice. Do we want fascism, or do we want to continue the 248 years of self-rule?" Reiner asked.
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