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Voters drowning in ads from 'obscene' amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race	1ggqy8v	https://apnews.com/article/montana-senate-sheehy-tester-trump-harris-ads-ca87d39e523dc162300b416a41178a86	2024-10-31T22:32:54	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	146	12	Voters drowning in ads from 'obscene' amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. 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Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, is seen at a campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 2 of 7 \| FILE- Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Read More 3 of 7 \| Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, speaks with a supporter during campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 4 of 7 \| Supporters of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, are seen during a campaign rally for the three-term incumbent lawmaker in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 5 of 7 \| Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 6 of 7 \| Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Democrat, speaks about the 2024 election during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the lawmaker seeks re-election to a fourth term, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 7 of 7 \| FILE - U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) Read More By MATTHEW BROWN Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that’s shattering campaign spending records.Montana voters, meanwhile, are getting worn out — deluged by negative ads on their TVs, radios, phones and in their mailboxes. Tester won by a narrow, 3,500-vote margin in 2006 and has held on for three terms despite a dramatic political re-alignment across the U.S. Northern Plains. He’s confronting what analysts say is his most serious challenge yet in Republican Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and wealthy aerospace executive aligned with former President Donald Trump.The two sides have dueling ad campaigns with similar goals: Tear down the opponent. A Sheehy ad talks about rampant corruption in Washington and calls Tester “one of the worst offenders.” A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm.At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worried that as Montana’s population expands, its electorate is becoming too partisan to back the grain farmer from the tiny town of Big Sandy who is counting on his cross-party appeal to give him another term. “A hundred percent I’m worried about it,” said Olsen. “There’s more partisan people coming here...If they’re coming here and they’re Republicans, they’re voting for Sheehy.”Tester, 68, entered office as one of a half dozen Democratic senators in a five-state region stretching from Nebraska to Canada. He’s the last one still in office, and Republicans have spent years trying to chip away at his support, particularly in rural areas. Montana is one of the least-densely populated states in the U.S., and only about a quarter of its residents live in cities of 50,000 or more.“Outside the cities of Montana, Republicans have made gains in most of the towns and rural counties,” said political analyst Jeremy Johnson at Carroll College. “That’s a challenge for Democrats.”‘Obscene’ amounts of moneyRepublicans have a two-seat deficit in the Senate. Democrats, desperate to retain their majority, are on track to outspend Republicans by almost $50 million in the Montana race, according to Federal Election Commission filings and data from the media tracking firm AdImpact. Total spending is expected to exceed $315 million, or about $487 for each of the state’s 648,000 active registered voters — a record for a congressional race on a per-voter basis, according to party officials.Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot called the flood of money into the sparsely populated state “absolutely obscene.” It comes more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down political spending restrictions on corporations and unions.“You can’t stand to even turn on TV,” Racicot said in an interview. “You’re just confronted constantly with this anger, grievance, sloganeering — everything that goes on in these campaigns — because there’s so much money involved. It’s an abomination.” If Sheehy wins, a Republican-majority Senate can hamstring Democrats’ agenda should Vice President Kamala Harris win the White House. Similarly, a Tester victory could help Democrats counter a Trump administration’s actions.Much of the money traces back to shadowy political committees with wealthy donors. The non-partisan Campaign Legal Center has sued over alleged financial transparency violations by a pro-Tester group, Last Best Place PAC, that has amplified some of the most incendiary claims against Sheehy. Another complaint from the advocacy group charges that a straw donor was used to conceal more than $2.5 million in contributions to political committees, including one supporting Sheehy. The allegations are unlikely to be resolved before the election. Trump on the ballotTrump won Montana overwhelmingly in 2016 and 2020. The 2024 election is the first where both Tester and Trump are on the ballot.Sheehy’s campaign themes largely mirror those of Trump and the national party. He rails against immigration, inflation and social issues such as transgender children in sports.Democrats hitched Tester’s campaign to abortion and women’s health care, hoping the backlash that surfaced even in Republican-leaning states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will continue. Tester has distanced himself from Harris and other Democratic leaders. That political isolation reflects the GOP’s gains over the past two decades with rural voters who once backed Democrats.Tester’s campaign has outraised Sheehy’s by more than three-to-one, propelled by a massive influx of small out-of-state donations after Democrats raised alarms over the race. “Jon Tester has more money but dollars don’t vote,” Sheehy’s campaign said in a statement. “Montanans just want common sense: a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good and criminals are bad, boys are boys and girls are girls.” Lies and lobbyistsSheehy, who arrived in Montana a decade ago and compares himself to early European settlers, has sought to turn Tester’s Senate tenure into a liability.Republicans allege a pattern of campaign donations flowing to the Democrat from industries that needed his vote. Tester previously faced scrutiny over donations from bank executives affected by a 2018 regulatory roll back and Lockheed Martin employees who benefited from a 2021 defense bill. There’s no indication of wrongdoing or that the contributions swayed Tester.He ranks as the number one recipient of lobbyist cash among members of Congress, with $500,000 in donations this election cycle, and has raised $88 million overall.Tester said in an interview following the Bozeman rally that he doesn’t know who donates to him or if any lobbyists were there that night. “I’ve got policies to write, people to get on board,” he said. “If it makes sense for Montana, I’ll support it.”Sheehy has money pouring in from national groups, too. He’s received $109,000 from lobbyists and previously lobbied government officials himself, seeking business for the aerial firefighting company he founded with his brother.Sheehy has no prior political experience and has avoided in-depth interviews. He’s faced blowback over derogatory remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans and questions about the bullet wound in his arm, which he has said came from a firefight in Afghanistan.Sheehy told a Glacier National Park ranger in 2015 that the wound was self-inflicted. Park Ranger Kim Peach, now retired, earlier this month publicly accused Sheehy of lying when he says it was from combat.Peach repeated the accusation in a subsequent advertisement from a pro-Tester PAC and acknowledged the ad was recorded before he went public, despite initially telling The Associated Press that he was unconnected to Democratic groups.Republicans said Peach wasn’t credible.“He’s shifting his story left and right because he is a liar and a Democrat partisan,” said Mike Berg with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.Tester said Sheehy should release his medical records to clear up the dispute, adding: “Stolen valor is a huge problem.” Most read A comprehensive look at DOGE’s firings and layoffs so far A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. 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Voters drowning in ads from 'obscene' amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race	1ggqy8v	https://apnews.com/article/montana-senate-sheehy-tester-trump-harris-ads-ca87d39e523dc162300b416a41178a86	2024-10-31T22:32:54	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	146	12	Voters drowning in ads from 'obscene' amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, is seen at a campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 2 of 7 \| FILE- Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Read More 3 of 7 \| Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, speaks with a supporter during campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 4 of 7 \| Supporters of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, are seen during a campaign rally for the three-term incumbent lawmaker in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 5 of 7 \| Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 6 of 7 \| Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Democrat, speaks about the 2024 election during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the lawmaker seeks re-election to a fourth term, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 7 of 7 \| FILE - U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) Read More By MATTHEW BROWN Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that’s shattering campaign spending records.Montana voters, meanwhile, are getting worn out — deluged by negative ads on their TVs, radios, phones and in their mailboxes. Tester won by a narrow, 3,500-vote margin in 2006 and has held on for three terms despite a dramatic political re-alignment across the U.S. Northern Plains. He’s confronting what analysts say is his most serious challenge yet in Republican Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and wealthy aerospace executive aligned with former President Donald Trump.The two sides have dueling ad campaigns with similar goals: Tear down the opponent. A Sheehy ad talks about rampant corruption in Washington and calls Tester “one of the worst offenders.” A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm.At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worried that as Montana’s population expands, its electorate is becoming too partisan to back the grain farmer from the tiny town of Big Sandy who is counting on his cross-party appeal to give him another term. “A hundred percent I’m worried about it,” said Olsen. “There’s more partisan people coming here...If they’re coming here and they’re Republicans, they’re voting for Sheehy.”Tester, 68, entered office as one of a half dozen Democratic senators in a five-state region stretching from Nebraska to Canada. He’s the last one still in office, and Republicans have spent years trying to chip away at his support, particularly in rural areas. Montana is one of the least-densely populated states in the U.S., and only about a quarter of its residents live in cities of 50,000 or more.“Outside the cities of Montana, Republicans have made gains in most of the towns and rural counties,” said political analyst Jeremy Johnson at Carroll College. “That’s a challenge for Democrats.”‘Obscene’ amounts of moneyRepublicans have a two-seat deficit in the Senate. Democrats, desperate to retain their majority, are on track to outspend Republicans by almost $50 million in the Montana race, according to Federal Election Commission filings and data from the media tracking firm AdImpact. Total spending is expected to exceed $315 million, or about $487 for each of the state’s 648,000 active registered voters — a record for a congressional race on a per-voter basis, according to party officials.Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot called the flood of money into the sparsely populated state “absolutely obscene.” It comes more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down political spending restrictions on corporations and unions.“You can’t stand to even turn on TV,” Racicot said in an interview. “You’re just confronted constantly with this anger, grievance, sloganeering — everything that goes on in these campaigns — because there’s so much money involved. It’s an abomination.” If Sheehy wins, a Republican-majority Senate can hamstring Democrats’ agenda should Vice President Kamala Harris win the White House. Similarly, a Tester victory could help Democrats counter a Trump administration’s actions.Much of the money traces back to shadowy political committees with wealthy donors. The non-partisan Campaign Legal Center has sued over alleged financial transparency violations by a pro-Tester group, Last Best Place PAC, that has amplified some of the most incendiary claims against Sheehy. Another complaint from the advocacy group charges that a straw donor was used to conceal more than $2.5 million in contributions to political committees, including one supporting Sheehy. The allegations are unlikely to be resolved before the election. Trump on the ballotTrump won Montana overwhelmingly in 2016 and 2020. The 2024 election is the first where both Tester and Trump are on the ballot.Sheehy’s campaign themes largely mirror those of Trump and the national party. He rails against immigration, inflation and social issues such as transgender children in sports.Democrats hitched Tester’s campaign to abortion and women’s health care, hoping the backlash that surfaced even in Republican-leaning states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will continue. Tester has distanced himself from Harris and other Democratic leaders. That political isolation reflects the GOP’s gains over the past two decades with rural voters who once backed Democrats.Tester’s campaign has outraised Sheehy’s by more than three-to-one, propelled by a massive influx of small out-of-state donations after Democrats raised alarms over the race. “Jon Tester has more money but dollars don’t vote,” Sheehy’s campaign said in a statement. “Montanans just want common sense: a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good and criminals are bad, boys are boys and girls are girls.” Lies and lobbyistsSheehy, who arrived in Montana a decade ago and compares himself to early European settlers, has sought to turn Tester’s Senate tenure into a liability.Republicans allege a pattern of campaign donations flowing to the Democrat from industries that needed his vote. Tester previously faced scrutiny over donations from bank executives affected by a 2018 regulatory roll back and Lockheed Martin employees who benefited from a 2021 defense bill. There’s no indication of wrongdoing or that the contributions swayed Tester.He ranks as the number one recipient of lobbyist cash among members of Congress, with $500,000 in donations this election cycle, and has raised $88 million overall.Tester said in an interview following the Bozeman rally that he doesn’t know who donates to him or if any lobbyists were there that night. “I’ve got policies to write, people to get on board,” he said. “If it makes sense for Montana, I’ll support it.”Sheehy has money pouring in from national groups, too. He’s received $109,000 from lobbyists and previously lobbied government officials himself, seeking business for the aerial firefighting company he founded with his brother.Sheehy has no prior political experience and has avoided in-depth interviews. He’s faced blowback over derogatory remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans and questions about the bullet wound in his arm, which he has said came from a firefight in Afghanistan.Sheehy told a Glacier National Park ranger in 2015 that the wound was self-inflicted. 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Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, is seen at a campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 2 of 7 \| FILE- Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Read More 3 of 7 \| Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, speaks with a supporter during campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 4 of 7 \| Supporters of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, are seen during a campaign rally for the three-term incumbent lawmaker in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 5 of 7 \| Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 6 of 7 \| Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Democrat, speaks about the 2024 election during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the lawmaker seeks re-election to a fourth term, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 7 of 7 \| FILE - U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) Read More By MATTHEW BROWN Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that’s shattering campaign spending records.Montana voters, meanwhile, are getting worn out — deluged by negative ads on their TVs, radios, phones and in their mailboxes. Tester won by a narrow, 3,500-vote margin in 2006 and has held on for three terms despite a dramatic political re-alignment across the U.S. Northern Plains. He’s confronting what analysts say is his most serious challenge yet in Republican Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and wealthy aerospace executive aligned with former President Donald Trump.The two sides have dueling ad campaigns with similar goals: Tear down the opponent. A Sheehy ad talks about rampant corruption in Washington and calls Tester “one of the worst offenders.” A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm.At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worried that as Montana’s population expands, its electorate is becoming too partisan to back the grain farmer from the tiny town of Big Sandy who is counting on his cross-party appeal to give him another term. “A hundred percent I’m worried about it,” said Olsen. “There’s more partisan people coming here...If they’re coming here and they’re Republicans, they’re voting for Sheehy.”Tester, 68, entered office as one of a half dozen Democratic senators in a five-state region stretching from Nebraska to Canada. He’s the last one still in office, and Republicans have spent years trying to chip away at his support, particularly in rural areas. Montana is one of the least-densely populated states in the U.S., and only about a quarter of its residents live in cities of 50,000 or more.“Outside the cities of Montana, Republicans have made gains in most of the towns and rural counties,” said political analyst Jeremy Johnson at Carroll College. “That’s a challenge for Democrats.”‘Obscene’ amounts of moneyRepublicans have a two-seat deficit in the Senate. Democrats, desperate to retain their majority, are on track to outspend Republicans by almost $50 million in the Montana race, according to Federal Election Commission filings and data from the media tracking firm AdImpact. Total spending is expected to exceed $315 million, or about $487 for each of the state’s 648,000 active registered voters — a record for a congressional race on a per-voter basis, according to party officials.Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot called the flood of money into the sparsely populated state “absolutely obscene.” It comes more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down political spending restrictions on corporations and unions.“You can’t stand to even turn on TV,” Racicot said in an interview. “You’re just confronted constantly with this anger, grievance, sloganeering — everything that goes on in these campaigns — because there’s so much money involved. It’s an abomination.” If Sheehy wins, a Republican-majority Senate can hamstring Democrats’ agenda should Vice President Kamala Harris win the White House. Similarly, a Tester victory could help Democrats counter a Trump administration’s actions.Much of the money traces back to shadowy political committees with wealthy donors. The non-partisan Campaign Legal Center has sued over alleged financial transparency violations by a pro-Tester group, Last Best Place PAC, that has amplified some of the most incendiary claims against Sheehy. Another complaint from the advocacy group charges that a straw donor was used to conceal more than $2.5 million in contributions to political committees, including one supporting Sheehy. The allegations are unlikely to be resolved before the election. Trump on the ballotTrump won Montana overwhelmingly in 2016 and 2020. The 2024 election is the first where both Tester and Trump are on the ballot.Sheehy’s campaign themes largely mirror those of Trump and the national party. He rails against immigration, inflation and social issues such as transgender children in sports.Democrats hitched Tester’s campaign to abortion and women’s health care, hoping the backlash that surfaced even in Republican-leaning states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will continue. Tester has distanced himself from Harris and other Democratic leaders. That political isolation reflects the GOP’s gains over the past two decades with rural voters who once backed Democrats.Tester’s campaign has outraised Sheehy’s by more than three-to-one, propelled by a massive influx of small out-of-state donations after Democrats raised alarms over the race. “Jon Tester has more money but dollars don’t vote,” Sheehy’s campaign said in a statement. “Montanans just want common sense: a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good and criminals are bad, boys are boys and girls are girls.” Lies and lobbyistsSheehy, who arrived in Montana a decade ago and compares himself to early European settlers, has sought to turn Tester’s Senate tenure into a liability.Republicans allege a pattern of campaign donations flowing to the Democrat from industries that needed his vote. Tester previously faced scrutiny over donations from bank executives affected by a 2018 regulatory roll back and Lockheed Martin employees who benefited from a 2021 defense bill. There’s no indication of wrongdoing or that the contributions swayed Tester.He ranks as the number one recipient of lobbyist cash among members of Congress, with $500,000 in donations this election cycle, and has raised $88 million overall.Tester said in an interview following the Bozeman rally that he doesn’t know who donates to him or if any lobbyists were there that night. “I’ve got policies to write, people to get on board,” he said. “If it makes sense for Montana, I’ll support it.”Sheehy has money pouring in from national groups, too. He’s received $109,000 from lobbyists and previously lobbied government officials himself, seeking business for the aerial firefighting company he founded with his brother.Sheehy has no prior political experience and has avoided in-depth interviews. He’s faced blowback over derogatory remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans and questions about the bullet wound in his arm, which he has said came from a firefight in Afghanistan.Sheehy told a Glacier National Park ranger in 2015 that the wound was self-inflicted. Park Ranger Kim Peach, now retired, earlier this month publicly accused Sheehy of lying when he says it was from combat.Peach repeated the accusation in a subsequent advertisement from a pro-Tester PAC and acknowledged the ad was recorded before he went public, despite initially telling The Associated Press that he was unconnected to Democratic groups.Republicans said Peach wasn’t credible.“He’s shifting his story left and right because he is a liar and a Democrat partisan,” said Mike Berg with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.Tester said Sheehy should release his medical records to clear up the dispute, adding: “Stolen valor is a huge problem.” Most read A comprehensive look at DOGE’s firings and layoffs so far A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. 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Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, is seen at a campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 2 of 7 \| FILE- Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Read More 3 of 7 \| Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, speaks with a supporter during campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 4 of 7 \| Supporters of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, are seen during a campaign rally for the three-term incumbent lawmaker in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 5 of 7 \| Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 6 of 7 \| Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Democrat, speaks about the 2024 election during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the lawmaker seeks re-election to a fourth term, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 7 of 7 \| FILE - U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) Read More By MATTHEW BROWN Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that’s shattering campaign spending records.Montana voters, meanwhile, are getting worn out — deluged by negative ads on their TVs, radios, phones and in their mailboxes. Tester won by a narrow, 3,500-vote margin in 2006 and has held on for three terms despite a dramatic political re-alignment across the U.S. Northern Plains. He’s confronting what analysts say is his most serious challenge yet in Republican Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and wealthy aerospace executive aligned with former President Donald Trump.The two sides have dueling ad campaigns with similar goals: Tear down the opponent. A Sheehy ad talks about rampant corruption in Washington and calls Tester “one of the worst offenders.” A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm.At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worried that as Montana’s population expands, its electorate is becoming too partisan to back the grain farmer from the tiny town of Big Sandy who is counting on his cross-party appeal to give him another term. “A hundred percent I’m worried about it,” said Olsen. “There’s more partisan people coming here...If they’re coming here and they’re Republicans, they’re voting for Sheehy.”Tester, 68, entered office as one of a half dozen Democratic senators in a five-state region stretching from Nebraska to Canada. He’s the last one still in office, and Republicans have spent years trying to chip away at his support, particularly in rural areas. Montana is one of the least-densely populated states in the U.S., and only about a quarter of its residents live in cities of 50,000 or more.“Outside the cities of Montana, Republicans have made gains in most of the towns and rural counties,” said political analyst Jeremy Johnson at Carroll College. “That’s a challenge for Democrats.”‘Obscene’ amounts of moneyRepublicans have a two-seat deficit in the Senate. Democrats, desperate to retain their majority, are on track to outspend Republicans by almost $50 million in the Montana race, according to Federal Election Commission filings and data from the media tracking firm AdImpact. Total spending is expected to exceed $315 million, or about $487 for each of the state’s 648,000 active registered voters — a record for a congressional race on a per-voter basis, according to party officials.Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot called the flood of money into the sparsely populated state “absolutely obscene.” It comes more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down political spending restrictions on corporations and unions.“You can’t stand to even turn on TV,” Racicot said in an interview. “You’re just confronted constantly with this anger, grievance, sloganeering — everything that goes on in these campaigns — because there’s so much money involved. It’s an abomination.” If Sheehy wins, a Republican-majority Senate can hamstring Democrats’ agenda should Vice President Kamala Harris win the White House. Similarly, a Tester victory could help Democrats counter a Trump administration’s actions.Much of the money traces back to shadowy political committees with wealthy donors. The non-partisan Campaign Legal Center has sued over alleged financial transparency violations by a pro-Tester group, Last Best Place PAC, that has amplified some of the most incendiary claims against Sheehy. Another complaint from the advocacy group charges that a straw donor was used to conceal more than $2.5 million in contributions to political committees, including one supporting Sheehy. The allegations are unlikely to be resolved before the election. Trump on the ballotTrump won Montana overwhelmingly in 2016 and 2020. The 2024 election is the first where both Tester and Trump are on the ballot.Sheehy’s campaign themes largely mirror those of Trump and the national party. He rails against immigration, inflation and social issues such as transgender children in sports.Democrats hitched Tester’s campaign to abortion and women’s health care, hoping the backlash that surfaced even in Republican-leaning states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will continue. Tester has distanced himself from Harris and other Democratic leaders. That political isolation reflects the GOP’s gains over the past two decades with rural voters who once backed Democrats.Tester’s campaign has outraised Sheehy’s by more than three-to-one, propelled by a massive influx of small out-of-state donations after Democrats raised alarms over the race. “Jon Tester has more money but dollars don’t vote,” Sheehy’s campaign said in a statement. “Montanans just want common sense: a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good and criminals are bad, boys are boys and girls are girls.” Lies and lobbyistsSheehy, who arrived in Montana a decade ago and compares himself to early European settlers, has sought to turn Tester’s Senate tenure into a liability.Republicans allege a pattern of campaign donations flowing to the Democrat from industries that needed his vote. Tester previously faced scrutiny over donations from bank executives affected by a 2018 regulatory roll back and Lockheed Martin employees who benefited from a 2021 defense bill. There’s no indication of wrongdoing or that the contributions swayed Tester.He ranks as the number one recipient of lobbyist cash among members of Congress, with $500,000 in donations this election cycle, and has raised $88 million overall.Tester said in an interview following the Bozeman rally that he doesn’t know who donates to him or if any lobbyists were there that night. “I’ve got policies to write, people to get on board,” he said. “If it makes sense for Montana, I’ll support it.”Sheehy has money pouring in from national groups, too. He’s received $109,000 from lobbyists and previously lobbied government officials himself, seeking business for the aerial firefighting company he founded with his brother.Sheehy has no prior political experience and has avoided in-depth interviews. He’s faced blowback over derogatory remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans and questions about the bullet wound in his arm, which he has said came from a firefight in Afghanistan.Sheehy told a Glacier National Park ranger in 2015 that the wound was self-inflicted. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? 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On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? 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On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? 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On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? 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On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? 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On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? 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On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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Banksy Painting at Sotheby's in London Drake Takes More Shots At Kendrick Lamar And Joe Budden On ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ You might also like Academy Museum Unveils Spring Programming Featuring Bong Joon Ho and Judd Apatow – Film News in Brief 23 hours ago Caleres to Acquire Tapestry’s Stuart Weitzman Brand for $105 Million 5 hours ago The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors 11 months ago Frederick Wiseman Spent His Career Making Films That ‘Reflect the Complexity’ of the World, Even as It Got Stranger and Stranger 2 weeks ago U.S.-Canada 4 Nations Final Promises to Punch Up Record NHL Ratings 31 mins ago Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies Culture Staff Contact Advertise Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices PMC Entertainment California Privacy Rights Your Privacy Choices EU Privacy Preferences Accessibility Policy on Anonymous Sources Follow Us Facebook Instagram TikTok X YouTube Newsletter Signup Enter Your Email Subscribe Got a Hot News Tip? 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric	1ggr3k1	https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/	2024-10-31T22:40:10	spherocytes	politics	4,693	115	LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? 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On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. 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A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway	1ggr60l	https://apnews.com/article/675a293112233c29a9c680f452f4b74b	2024-10-31T22:43:40	juansaaa	politics	588	38	A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. 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Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway	1ggr60l	https://apnews.com/article/675a293112233c29a9c680f452f4b74b	2024-10-31T22:43:40	juansaaa	politics	588	38	A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. 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This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account ... 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. twitter instagram facebook	luruped	PotentialAnt9670	t2_xguo8amge	0 days since DeSantis wasn't a douchebag	null	43
A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway	1ggr60l	https://apnews.com/article/675a293112233c29a9c680f452f4b74b	2024-10-31T22:43:40	juansaaa	politics	588	38	A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography AP Investigations Climate SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account ... World Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa Australia Middle East Global Elections U.S. Politics Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar Sports NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Auto Racing Soccer Entertainment Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews Business Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology Science Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus Health Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets Religion Español Quizzes Press Releases My Account Search Query Submit Search Show Search Submit Search World Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa Australia Middle East Global Elections SECTIONS Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa U.S. Politics Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar SECTIONS Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar Sports NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Auto Racing Soccer SECTIONS NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Entertainment Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews SECTIONS Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews Business Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology SECTIONS Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology Science Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine SECTIONS Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography SECTIONS 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. twitter instagram facebook	lurviaw	cmhbob	t2_qarbr	What the hell? Ruddy won her seat, but there was still an empty seat or something? Because [this article says](https://www.observerlocalnews.com/news/2024/oct/31/governor-appoints-derek-barrs-to-complete-sally-hunts-term-on-flagler-countys-school-board/) > Barrs, Ruddy and District 5 representative Lauren Ramirez will be installed as new School Board members at the Nov. 19 School Board business meeting. They join current board members Will Furry and Christy Chong.	null	18
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Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. 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(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway	1ggr60l	https://apnews.com/article/675a293112233c29a9c680f452f4b74b	2024-10-31T22:43:40	juansaaa	politics	588	38	A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. 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Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account ... 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The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography SECTIONS 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. twitter instagram facebook	lus2akp	RamonaQ-JunieB	t2_i2czpuny	Florida democracy at work folks! Translation: We don’t actually care about democracy or your votes, we have the power to do whatever we want, so we do!	null	9
Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings	lurt5v2	Eagle_Kebab	t2_4pv8d81d	Nazi shit. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings	lurtxxz	V-r1taS	t2_eegztrbjf	>“There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” If only there weren’t cameras to capture your threats and the hoaxes weren’t actual corruption, then none of us would be in this mess. But alas… here we are…	null	31
Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings	lurv75j	AdAgitated7673	t2_txf76836y	The "specific people" he is referring to are "women." This was putridly obvious from Jump St., but nevertheless, "journalism" persists on shoving its ineptitude into our tired faces... After mastering the obvious, perhaps Talking Points might want to delve into the dangerous world of nuance.	null	4
Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings	lurvdfs	tech57	t2_ln9js	Well, yeah. Which means he gets to call anyone he wants "The Enemy". Hence, the fucking problem. > “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence. > > “Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said. > > Trump was responding to comments from Vice President Pence that families and local law enforcement should have more tools to report potentially dangerous individuals with weapons. {mosads} > > “Allow due process so no one’s rights are trampled, but the ability to go to court, obtain an order and then collect not only the firearms but any weapons,” Pence said. > > “Or, Mike, take the firearms first, and then go to court,” Trump responded. Keep in mind people he also had to be told by multiple people, multiple times, over weeks, that he is not CEO of America and that he also can not print money. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/youre-gonna-have-a-fucking-war-mark-milleys-fight-to-stop-trump-from-striking-iran >A running concern for Milley was the prospect of Trump pushing the nation into a military conflict with Iran. He saw this as a real threat, in part because of a meeting with the President in the early months of 2020, at which one of Trump’s advisers raised the prospect of taking military action to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons if Trump were to lose the election. At another meeting, at which Trump was not present, some of the President’s foreign-policy advisers again pushed military action against Iran. Milley later said that, when he asked why they were so intent on attacking Iran, Vice-President Mike Pence replied, “Because they are evil.” https://theconversation.com/why-soldiers-might-disobey-the-presidents-orders-to-occupy-us-cities-140402 >Military members are not, however, absolved of moral responsibility simply because orders are within the limits of the law, for they also take an oath to “support and defend” and to “bear true faith and allegiance” to the Constitution. >On June 2, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the U.S. military – went so far as to issue a service-wide memo reminding troops of that oath, one that may well be at odds with what the president may order them to do if he were to send them back into U.S. cities. https://images.theconversation.com/files/341233/original/file-20200611-80789-118u55a.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip https://krdo.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2021/09/14/woodward-book-worried-trump-could-go-rogue-milley-took-top-secret-action-to-protect-nuclear-weapons/ > Milley worried that Trump could ‘go rogue,’ the authors write. > > “You never know what a president’s trigger point is,” Milley told his senior staff, according to the book. > > In response, Milley took extraordinary action, and called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. Speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon’s war room, Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved. > > “No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley told the officers, according to the book. He then went around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood. > > “Got it?” Milley asked, according to the book. > > “Yes, sir.” > > ‘Milley considered it an oath,’ the authors write >	null	31
Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings	lurvz9q	senorvato	t2_4isv5jp0	Enemy from within is just rephrasing drain the swamp. Like a failed business, when it doesn't work, rebrand it and try it again. And tRump knows about failed businesses.	null	4
Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings	lurwphj	DramaticWesley	t2_60jign19	“You misunderstand me. I’m just going to arrest all the most vocal voices, and the rest of you should fall in line.”	null	8
Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings	lurxj96	Madmandocv1	t2_eej4rhsb	Yeah, me. I have voted against that orange dipshit three times already, and I going to keep on doing it for as long as Americans are still allowed to vote.	null	3
Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings	lurxr4q	Raa03842	t2_c4kw2	To those of us who believe that Trump’s vitriol is directed at someone else and not us: First they came for the Communists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me. And there was no one left. To speak out for. Martin Niemöller - 1946 Think about it We’re not going back!	null	15
Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond \| February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond \| February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. 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Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People	1ggr7cv	https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people	2024-10-31T22:45:33	ReifiedNothingness	politics	480	58	Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond \| October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. 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House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond \| February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga \| February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says	1ggre35	https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c	2024-10-31T22:54:50	Otherwise_Usual9197	politics	137	61	RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says \| AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurvl6h	Big_Discipline_9666	t2_18j98i8sh6	Why is Joe Rogan interviewing the donut shop guy	null	150
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurvo1d	Mysterious-Belt-1510	t2_98mj2bku8	So he says people “fake being trans to get into college.” Sort of like how he faked admiring the man he once compared to Hitler to become VP?	null	132
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurvv12	mymomknowsyourmom	t2_abrz8	JD Vance has struggled with his sexuality since age 6 as he wrote in his book. He tried being transgender in college and we saw the evidence. He dressed up and took "seductive" photos for someone. And now suddenly he's on an anti gay crusade. This is 100% suspicious even to maga who trust him less than general female voters.	null	66
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurw04j	Mylaptopisburningme	t2_4bgv8	Did Joe ask him about his gender affirming eye liner?	null	7
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurw774	hillbillyspellingbee	t2_16r4lwqjbi	Yikes. This guy is like a white Candace Owens. To be this way knowing you have crossdressing photos circulating online… c’mon. Just be yourself and stop latching onto hate. It’s sad.	null	275
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurxcs8	Actual__Wizard	t2_c1svdpi	Did JD Vance wear his eyeliner as he bashed transgender people again? You know, it's kind of hard to take a republican male, who wear's women's make up seriously on this specific issue...	null	6
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurxi0p	pinetreesgreen	t2_mi348su1	Does JD know he's going right under the bus if Trump loses?	null	36
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurxtyz	Ananiujitha	t2_n22x5s	> Vance also argued that transgender children should not receive treatment because they are left with “changes that won’t go away” when they’re older and supposedly change their mind. I've got changes that won't go away because I couldn't get treatment. > Vance claimed to Rogan that there’s such a thing as “radical trans ideology.” He said it was that so-called ideology that drove a trans person to massacre children at the Covenant School in Nashville last year, despite authorities in Tennessee not confirming the shooter’s motivation to kill. Ah, the "radical trans ideology" of not wanting to be beaten any fucking more, or killed. There is one side which celebrates violence. They often call for war, they push conversion therapy, they attack efforts to oppose bullying or teach about consent, and they jack off to abusive porn. Sometimes abusive trans porn.	null	83
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurxu64	usedtodreddit	t2_qxzm0oyp	NPR sat down with Sofia Nelson, a graduate of Yale Law School and a former classmate and close friend of JD Vance before and after she transitioned, and even visited her at bedside following her gender transition-related surgery. Sofia came on for the interview and shared with NPR their long history of emails and texts from a JD Vance who stands in stark contrast to the completely different person he is today. It exposes him for what he really is, a lying hypocrite shill who will change his positions bowing to whatever extremes and whichever way the wind is blowing all in the name of power-seeking. Well worth a listen (or read the transcript). >JD Vance is unrecognizable to his former friend, who shared their emails and texts >[https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5057499/jd-vance-election-donald-trump-trans-friend-emails](https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5057499/jd-vance-election-donald-trump-trans-friend-emails)	null	182
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lury4lx	Helmidoric_of_York	t2_52hlhcnz	Dude sounds dumber than Eddie Bravo...	null	5
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurz5by	ThatEvanFowler	t2_6nu0c	This shit is just wall-to-wall rage-bait. It is fucking intolerable to listen to people who already agree with each other on these conspiracies. I've heard this conversation so many times. They talk about all of these things as though they were dominant national crises that are happening at such overwhelming rates that action must be taken, and yet... how many transgender athletes even actually are there again? You say that pharmaceutical companies are "getting rich" off of hormones for gender-swapping teens? Well, that would be a massive and dramatic amount of prescription, so surely it would be extremely easy to see the numbers for such rapid increases in hormone sales, right? How big of a population even is the transgender community to create this massive new wealth you reference? Because that would be an unbelievably large increase, too. All of this shit is based on them seeing so many panicky stories in right wing media that they assume that these things are happening literally everywhere and in literally the most dramatic and nonsensical ways possible. Go out in the world, it's pretty much exactly the same. Nobody is swapping genders to go to college. If you found one person doing that, congrats. You got them. That's the one. Vance definitely knows this. Rogan probably doesn't. To be clear, I'm not trying to diminish any of these issues. I'm just still kind of struck by how completely fabricated the scale of the things that they suggest really are. They're just able to convince each other of the most dramatic escalations pulled from either exaggerations or just thin fucking air. Sigh. I'm so goddamn tired.	null	52
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lus0aoq	OtakuTacos	t2_n7e06jr	I bet if they looked into Vance’s internet history and hard drive…it’s gonna be transgender porn.	null	16
JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down	1ggrjfz	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/	2024-10-31T23:02:00	mymomknowsyourmom	politics	587	157	JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lus3rjk	BabaBrody	t2_7gfbp	> Vance quoted the Parisian as saying: “‘Senator Vance, I’m embarrassed to tell you this, but when I was in New York City recently, I saw a grown man who was walking around in a miniskirt... Senator Vance, I could see his balls.‘” Is "Senator Vance" his bullshit tell like when Trump has stories where the imaginary people call him "Sir" at the start of every sentence?	null	19
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.	1ggrqao	https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/	2024-10-31T23:11:15	wenchette	politics	292	14	A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack	lurwybv	wenchette	t2_cuaz7	A free firewall workaround, if you need one: https://archive.is/VF57J	null	9
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.	1ggrqao	https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/	2024-10-31T23:11:15	wenchette	politics	292	14	A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack	lurxpmh	jeffinRTP	t2_8qqgl	bring any of them to a MAGA and watch them jump through hoops explaining what he meant. Better yet, change to said Harris said it and watched them bitch. then say you're sorry and say Trump actually said it.	null	13
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.	1ggrqao	https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/	2024-10-31T23:11:15	wenchette	politics	292	14	A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack	lurxv52	lala_b11	t2_21kkk27l	And yet maga throws a hissy fit over Biden’s garbage comment	null	2
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.	1ggrqao	https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/	2024-10-31T23:11:15	wenchette	politics	292	14	A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack	lury49i	moldivore	t2_1sxj60w7	>You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is! For all you free speech MAGA evangelists. The first amendment isn't just for racial slurs. It's to protect journalism from tyrants, and shed light on their deeds.	null	6
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.	1ggrqao	https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/	2024-10-31T23:11:15	wenchette	politics	292	14	A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack	lury965	sharingsilently	t2_3z5jj6vi	When people tell you who they are. Believe them!! Okay folks — made that one more donation? Taking a shift calling voters? Letters to the editor of your local paper endorsing Harris? Putting up signs? Driving friends and family to the polling places? All in, everyone! Let’s push back on fascism and save democracy (and literally the world.) We can do this!	null	4
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.	1ggrqao	https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/	2024-10-31T23:11:15	wenchette	politics	292	14	A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack	luryqui	tech57	t2_ln9js	They have this gem : “People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.” August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documents	null	3
A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.	1ggrqao	https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/	2024-10-31T23:11:15	wenchette	politics	292	14	A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack	luryuwg	DetailCharacter3806	t2_10jdtgx7hm	I hope fervently he loses big, and fades away, because I'm getting sick and tired of reading, hearing and seeing this lowlife.	null	9
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lury221	GonzoVeritas	t2_4lvkf	Interesting. One would think these could have been released. >Wolff alleged that they were in Epstein’s safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The massive haul of evidence taken by the feds has never been made public–and while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had “hundreds of photos of girls and young women,” they have never offered any more details of them.	null	184
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lury7qa	Last_Chants	t2_1862ci1lb5	It was reported that a bunch of digital media was scooped up by the FBI. 🦗	null	3
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	luryfll	nicklovin508	t2_3j0i571v	Seriously, why doesn’t the media or Democratic candidates call out his Epstein ties every hour??	null	44
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	luryhf9	notherefortheupvotes	t2_780t1vqn	The Trump campaign hit back at Wolff for the claims, calling him “disgraced.” A campaign spokesperson said in a statement to the Beast, “Michael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics. “He waited until days before the election to make outlandish false smears all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris. He’s a failed journalist that is resorting to lying for attention.”	null	1
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurynm8	tendrilsItIsAllFucke	t2_1aptl4nb63	I guess not young enough to warrant reporting it as evidence of a crime, but any remaining Epstein/Maxwell blackmail is only in intelligence services hands now.	null	-2
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurz90b	NormP	t2_9ajxt	They were too busy releasing Hillary's laptop that they mysteriously found, right after the Access Hollywood tape that hit the airwaves?	null	-1
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurzkd6	QanonQuinoa	t2_vg2y5d0m	Barr was head of the DOJ at the time. Those pictures have been burned and the ashes buried.	null	126
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lurznpq	jhuston44	t2_53oc59jn	I’m going to hazard a guess on this. Wealthy people of both parties are implicated and have made sure that the information does not become public. Just a guess, but it’s consistent with the game of having us peons fight over drag queen story hours to distract us from the real issue of income inequality.	null	33
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lus04hx	JubalHarshaw23	t2_ve0re4yr	I'm sure the first thing the FBI did was destroy any evidence that would implicate Trump or any of his friends.	null	9
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lus19r4	angrybirdseller	t2_pywux	Nothing new about Trump! Go vote for Harris/Walz 🗳!	null	2
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lus1xpl	Antique-Commercial-1	t2_4jd28q4z	A case of “I’ll believe it when I see it” so many people want Trump destroyed that anything incriminating would have been long released. No way these would have been kept for blackmail if they existed.	null	-10
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lus2d7k	WrongSubreddit	t2_36u22	“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine that year for a story headlined “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.” “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”	null	4
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. \| Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.	1ggruz8	https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/	2024-10-31T23:17:42	GonzoVeritas	politics	1,574	115	Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC	lus2wam	Highthere_90	t2_kqhiaxft7	If the fbi has these in their possession why arnt they doing anything with them and hold trump responsible..wtf	null	8
What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election	1ggrvp3	https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/politics/whats-at-stake.html	2024-10-31T23:18:44	Becauseyouarethebest	politics	22	6	What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election - The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site indexPoliticsToday’s Paper What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election A 14-day series highlighting our best coverage of the most important issues in this election. Limits of Power Maggie Haberman Senior Political Correspondent We’ve spent two years examining the implications of a second Donald Trump presidency. He wants to radically reshape the federal government and consolidate executive power. He tried to do much of this in his first term but was largely stymied. Now, he’s intent on hiring people less likely to say no. Read the story Donald Trump’s Plan for a Radical Reshaping of American Government Pace of Change Erica L. Green White House Correspondent Kamala Harris is not offering sweeping change, even as voters express dissatisfaction about the direction of the country. She’s an institutionalist who wants to preserve democratic ideals, and an incrementalist who believes progress takes time. That means her pragmatic approach could be frustrating to some supporters. Read the story A Harris Win Would Be Historic, but Her Changes Would Come ‘Step-by-Step’ Immigration Jonathan Swan Political Correspondent Donald Trump’s first-term crackdown on immigration looks mild compared with his new plan. He wants to mobilize law enforcement and the military for what he’s dubbed the largest deportation operation in U.S. history: He’d round up millions of undocumented people and hold them in camps to await expulsion. Read the story Sweeping Raids and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s Immigration Plans Rule of Law Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Donald Trump says he would use the power of the presidency to order F.B.I. investigations and criminal prosecutions of his political foes. He was largely thwarted in this in his first term. But the Supreme Court has made it easier for him to succeed if he gets a second chance. Read the story Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency Abortion Rights Kate Zernike Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump has boasted that he was able to kill Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion. He has said he would not sign a national ban if Congress passed one. But his allies in the anti-abortion movement have plans that would let him effectively impose such a ban without Congressional action. Read the story How a Trump Win Could Further Transform Abortion Law Kamala Harris’s Rise Astead Herndon Host of “The Run-Up” Harris’s ascent reflects a changing Democratic Party, one that has reorganized in the Trump era around reproductive rights, racial representation and protecting democracy. She’s kept a distance from the left wing, and united Democrats in a crisis — seeking to recreate the anti-Trump coalition that won victories in 2020 and 2022. Listen to the story The Daily: The Story of Kamala Harris Taxation Andrew Duehren Tax Policy Reporter Donald Trump wants to cut taxes in novel and potentially very expensive ways if he returns to the White House. He would instead impose broad tariffs on imports to fund the government. Taken together, his plans could remake the nation’s tax system, placing a greater burden on low-income Americans. Read the story Trump Promises New Tax Cuts. Other Republicans Are Wary. Deploying Troops on U.S. Soil Charlie Savage Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump says he’d deploy the U.S. military on domestic soil, including to suppress protests he deems riots, patrol Democratic-run cities he deems crime dens and hunt for undocumented immigrants. The strongman tactics would carry profound implications for individual rights and constraints on federal power. Read the story How Trump Would Use Soldiers Against Riots, Crime and Migrants Climate Lisa Friedman Climate Policy Reporter During his presidency, Donald Trump dissolved more than 100 environmental regulations. If elected again, he would kill any federal effort to study and fight climate change, encourage oil and gas companies to “Drill, Baby, Drill” and restrict the government agency that protects air and water. Read the story A Pivotal Choice: Trump vs. Harris on Climate Change Imagining a Harris Presidency Robert Draper Domestic Correspondent Kamala Harris is shattering precedents, but it is easier to see her as president in light of her story as a daughter of motivated immigrants and as a longtime prosecutor. She favors facts over ideology. Her guardedness, as an often prejudged woman of color, makes her aware of inequities in policy. Read the story Harris’s Run Comes After a Series of Career Risks Tariffs and Trade Ana Swanson Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump has proposed sweeping tariffs on imports that would raise trade barriers to a level unseen in generations. Those tariffs would protect some U.S. factories but raise costs for American households. They would also probably incite trade wars and shake the alliances the U.S. has worked to construct since World War II. Read the story Trump’s Tariffs Would Rock Global Businesses and Shake Alliances America’s Place in the World David E. Sanger White House and National Security Correspondent Donald Trump claimed his presidency marked an “America First” approach to the world. But to friends, foes and aides, it was chaotic: He tweeted out policy before it could be analyzed, and allies were often punished more harshly than adversaries. And in his current campaign, he has reversed positions he took as president. Read the story Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Was a Breakdown in American Policymaking. Trump’s Criminal Trials Alan Feuer Criminal Justice Reporter Donald Trump has a uniquely personal stake in the outcome of this election. If he wins, he may be able to wriggle out of many, if not all, of his four criminal cases. If he loses, he could end up in jail and lose his liberty, too. Read the story With Criminal Cases Looming, Trump Has a Personal Stake in the Election Still More Scandals Peter Baker Chief White House Correspondent Donald Trump has been enveloped in more scandals than any other president. A new term could bring more allegations and retribution. But now he’d have immunity granted by the Supreme Court, a firmer grip on the Justice Department and little fear of impeachment after two failed efforts to remove him. Read the story For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment Produced by Gray Beltran, Jenni Lee, Sam Manchester and Andrew RossbackShare full articleAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSite IndexSite Information Navigation© 2025 The New York Times CompanyNYTCoContact UsAccessibilityWork with usAdvertiseT Brand StudioYour Ad ChoicesPrivacy PolicyTerms of ServiceTerms of SaleSite MapCanadaInternationalHelpSubscriptionsManage Privacy Preferences	luryjcv	substandardrobot	t2_l5ff242m9	Maybe the NYT should have been more concerned with what is at stake with this election a year ago and not just trashing Biden and his administration at evert chance they got?	null	14
What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election	1ggrvp3	https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/politics/whats-at-stake.html	2024-10-31T23:18:44	Becauseyouarethebest	politics	22	6	What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election - The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site indexPoliticsToday’s Paper What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election A 14-day series highlighting our best coverage of the most important issues in this election. Limits of Power Maggie Haberman Senior Political Correspondent We’ve spent two years examining the implications of a second Donald Trump presidency. He wants to radically reshape the federal government and consolidate executive power. He tried to do much of this in his first term but was largely stymied. Now, he’s intent on hiring people less likely to say no. Read the story Donald Trump’s Plan for a Radical Reshaping of American Government Pace of Change Erica L. Green White House Correspondent Kamala Harris is not offering sweeping change, even as voters express dissatisfaction about the direction of the country. She’s an institutionalist who wants to preserve democratic ideals, and an incrementalist who believes progress takes time. That means her pragmatic approach could be frustrating to some supporters. Read the story A Harris Win Would Be Historic, but Her Changes Would Come ‘Step-by-Step’ Immigration Jonathan Swan Political Correspondent Donald Trump’s first-term crackdown on immigration looks mild compared with his new plan. He wants to mobilize law enforcement and the military for what he’s dubbed the largest deportation operation in U.S. history: He’d round up millions of undocumented people and hold them in camps to await expulsion. Read the story Sweeping Raids and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s Immigration Plans Rule of Law Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Donald Trump says he would use the power of the presidency to order F.B.I. investigations and criminal prosecutions of his political foes. He was largely thwarted in this in his first term. But the Supreme Court has made it easier for him to succeed if he gets a second chance. Read the story Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency Abortion Rights Kate Zernike Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump has boasted that he was able to kill Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion. He has said he would not sign a national ban if Congress passed one. But his allies in the anti-abortion movement have plans that would let him effectively impose such a ban without Congressional action. Read the story How a Trump Win Could Further Transform Abortion Law Kamala Harris’s Rise Astead Herndon Host of “The Run-Up” Harris’s ascent reflects a changing Democratic Party, one that has reorganized in the Trump era around reproductive rights, racial representation and protecting democracy. She’s kept a distance from the left wing, and united Democrats in a crisis — seeking to recreate the anti-Trump coalition that won victories in 2020 and 2022. Listen to the story The Daily: The Story of Kamala Harris Taxation Andrew Duehren Tax Policy Reporter Donald Trump wants to cut taxes in novel and potentially very expensive ways if he returns to the White House. He would instead impose broad tariffs on imports to fund the government. Taken together, his plans could remake the nation’s tax system, placing a greater burden on low-income Americans. Read the story Trump Promises New Tax Cuts. Other Republicans Are Wary. Deploying Troops on U.S. Soil Charlie Savage Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump says he’d deploy the U.S. military on domestic soil, including to suppress protests he deems riots, patrol Democratic-run cities he deems crime dens and hunt for undocumented immigrants. The strongman tactics would carry profound implications for individual rights and constraints on federal power. Read the story How Trump Would Use Soldiers Against Riots, Crime and Migrants Climate Lisa Friedman Climate Policy Reporter During his presidency, Donald Trump dissolved more than 100 environmental regulations. If elected again, he would kill any federal effort to study and fight climate change, encourage oil and gas companies to “Drill, Baby, Drill” and restrict the government agency that protects air and water. Read the story A Pivotal Choice: Trump vs. Harris on Climate Change Imagining a Harris Presidency Robert Draper Domestic Correspondent Kamala Harris is shattering precedents, but it is easier to see her as president in light of her story as a daughter of motivated immigrants and as a longtime prosecutor. She favors facts over ideology. Her guardedness, as an often prejudged woman of color, makes her aware of inequities in policy. Read the story Harris’s Run Comes After a Series of Career Risks Tariffs and Trade Ana Swanson Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump has proposed sweeping tariffs on imports that would raise trade barriers to a level unseen in generations. Those tariffs would protect some U.S. factories but raise costs for American households. They would also probably incite trade wars and shake the alliances the U.S. has worked to construct since World War II. Read the story Trump’s Tariffs Would Rock Global Businesses and Shake Alliances America’s Place in the World David E. Sanger White House and National Security Correspondent Donald Trump claimed his presidency marked an “America First” approach to the world. But to friends, foes and aides, it was chaotic: He tweeted out policy before it could be analyzed, and allies were often punished more harshly than adversaries. And in his current campaign, he has reversed positions he took as president. Read the story Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Was a Breakdown in American Policymaking. Trump’s Criminal Trials Alan Feuer Criminal Justice Reporter Donald Trump has a uniquely personal stake in the outcome of this election. If he wins, he may be able to wriggle out of many, if not all, of his four criminal cases. If he loses, he could end up in jail and lose his liberty, too. Read the story With Criminal Cases Looming, Trump Has a Personal Stake in the Election Still More Scandals Peter Baker Chief White House Correspondent Donald Trump has been enveloped in more scandals than any other president. A new term could bring more allegations and retribution. But now he’d have immunity granted by the Supreme Court, a firmer grip on the Justice Department and little fear of impeachment after two failed efforts to remove him. Read the story For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment Produced by Gray Beltran, Jenni Lee, Sam Manchester and Andrew RossbackShare full articleAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSite IndexSite Information Navigation© 2025 The New York Times CompanyNYTCoContact UsAccessibilityWork with usAdvertiseT Brand StudioYour Ad ChoicesPrivacy PolicyTerms of ServiceTerms of SaleSite MapCanadaInternationalHelpSubscriptionsManage Privacy Preferences	lurzqx0	Eatthehamsters69	t2_18oxgeafrg	Global trade war, mass deportation, destruction of the "regulatory state"(?) meaning less clean air, food and water I guess, anti-intellectualism being normalized and a sham democracy fully run by oligarchs.	null	1

Voters drowning in ads from 'obscene' amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race

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More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics Voters drowning in ads from ‘obscene’ amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race Voters drowning in ads from ‘obscene’ amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race 1 of 7 | U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, is seen at a campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 2 of 7 | FILE- Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Read More 3 of 7 | Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, speaks with a supporter during campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 4 of 7 | Supporters of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, are seen during a campaign rally for the three-term incumbent lawmaker in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 5 of 7 | Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 6 of 7 | Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Democrat, speaks about the 2024 election during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the lawmaker seeks re-election to a fourth term, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 7 of 7 | FILE - U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) Read More By MATTHEW BROWN Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that’s shattering campaign spending records.Montana voters, meanwhile, are getting worn out — deluged by negative ads on their TVs, radios, phones and in their mailboxes. Tester won by a narrow, 3,500-vote margin in 2006 and has held on for three terms despite a dramatic political re-alignment across the U.S. Northern Plains. He’s confronting what analysts say is his most serious challenge yet in Republican Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and wealthy aerospace executive aligned with former President Donald Trump.The two sides have dueling ad campaigns with similar goals: Tear down the opponent. A Sheehy ad talks about rampant corruption in Washington and calls Tester “one of the worst offenders.” A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm.At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worried that as Montana’s population expands, its electorate is becoming too partisan to back the grain farmer from the tiny town of Big Sandy who is counting on his cross-party appeal to give him another term. “A hundred percent I’m worried about it,” said Olsen. “There’s more partisan people coming here...If they’re coming here and they’re Republicans, they’re voting for Sheehy.”Tester, 68, entered office as one of a half dozen Democratic senators in a five-state region stretching from Nebraska to Canada. He’s the last one still in office, and Republicans have spent years trying to chip away at his support, particularly in rural areas. Montana is one of the least-densely populated states in the U.S., and only about a quarter of its residents live in cities of 50,000 or more.“Outside the cities of Montana, Republicans have made gains in most of the towns and rural counties,” said political analyst Jeremy Johnson at Carroll College. “That’s a challenge for Democrats.”‘Obscene’ amounts of moneyRepublicans have a two-seat deficit in the Senate. Democrats, desperate to retain their majority, are on track to outspend Republicans by almost $50 million in the Montana race, according to Federal Election Commission filings and data from the media tracking firm AdImpact. Total spending is expected to exceed $315 million, or about $487 for each of the state’s 648,000 active registered voters — a record for a congressional race on a per-voter basis, according to party officials.Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot called the flood of money into the sparsely populated state “absolutely obscene.” It comes more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down political spending restrictions on corporations and unions.“You can’t stand to even turn on TV,” Racicot said in an interview. “You’re just confronted constantly with this anger, grievance, sloganeering — everything that goes on in these campaigns — because there’s so much money involved. It’s an abomination.” If Sheehy wins, a Republican-majority Senate can hamstring Democrats’ agenda should Vice President Kamala Harris win the White House. Similarly, a Tester victory could help Democrats counter a Trump administration’s actions.Much of the money traces back to shadowy political committees with wealthy donors. The non-partisan Campaign Legal Center has sued over alleged financial transparency violations by a pro-Tester group, Last Best Place PAC, that has amplified some of the most incendiary claims against Sheehy. Another complaint from the advocacy group charges that a straw donor was used to conceal more than $2.5 million in contributions to political committees, including one supporting Sheehy. The allegations are unlikely to be resolved before the election. Trump on the ballotTrump won Montana overwhelmingly in 2016 and 2020. The 2024 election is the first where both Tester and Trump are on the ballot.Sheehy’s campaign themes largely mirror those of Trump and the national party. He rails against immigration, inflation and social issues such as transgender children in sports.Democrats hitched Tester’s campaign to abortion and women’s health care, hoping the backlash that surfaced even in Republican-leaning states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will continue. Tester has distanced himself from Harris and other Democratic leaders. That political isolation reflects the GOP’s gains over the past two decades with rural voters who once backed Democrats.Tester’s campaign has outraised Sheehy’s by more than three-to-one, propelled by a massive influx of small out-of-state donations after Democrats raised alarms over the race. “Jon Tester has more money but dollars don’t vote,” Sheehy’s campaign said in a statement. “Montanans just want common sense: a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good and criminals are bad, boys are boys and girls are girls.” Lies and lobbyistsSheehy, who arrived in Montana a decade ago and compares himself to early European settlers, has sought to turn Tester’s Senate tenure into a liability.Republicans allege a pattern of campaign donations flowing to the Democrat from industries that needed his vote. Tester previously faced scrutiny over donations from bank executives affected by a 2018 regulatory roll back and Lockheed Martin employees who benefited from a 2021 defense bill. There’s no indication of wrongdoing or that the contributions swayed Tester.He ranks as the number one recipient of lobbyist cash among members of Congress, with $500,000 in donations this election cycle, and has raised $88 million overall.Tester said in an interview following the Bozeman rally that he doesn’t know who donates to him or if any lobbyists were there that night. “I’ve got policies to write, people to get on board,” he said. “If it makes sense for Montana, I’ll support it.”Sheehy has money pouring in from national groups, too. He’s received $109,000 from lobbyists and previously lobbied government officials himself, seeking business for the aerial firefighting company he founded with his brother.Sheehy has no prior political experience and has avoided in-depth interviews. He’s faced blowback over derogatory remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans and questions about the bullet wound in his arm, which he has said came from a firefight in Afghanistan.Sheehy told a Glacier National Park ranger in 2015 that the wound was self-inflicted. Park Ranger Kim Peach, now retired, earlier this month publicly accused Sheehy of lying when he says it was from combat.Peach repeated the accusation in a subsequent advertisement from a pro-Tester PAC and acknowledged the ad was recorded before he went public, despite initially telling The Associated Press that he was unconnected to Democratic groups.Republicans said Peach wasn’t credible.“He’s shifting his story left and right because he is a liar and a Democrat partisan,” said Mike Berg with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.Tester said Sheehy should release his medical records to clear up the dispute, adding: “Stolen valor is a huge problem.” Most read A comprehensive look at DOGE’s firings and layoffs so far A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. 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Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, is seen at a campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 2 of 7 | FILE- Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Read More 3 of 7 | Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, speaks with a supporter during campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 4 of 7 | Supporters of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, are seen during a campaign rally for the three-term incumbent lawmaker in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 5 of 7 | Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 6 of 7 | Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Democrat, speaks about the 2024 election during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the lawmaker seeks re-election to a fourth term, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 7 of 7 | FILE - U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) Read More By MATTHEW BROWN Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that’s shattering campaign spending records.Montana voters, meanwhile, are getting worn out — deluged by negative ads on their TVs, radios, phones and in their mailboxes. Tester won by a narrow, 3,500-vote margin in 2006 and has held on for three terms despite a dramatic political re-alignment across the U.S. Northern Plains. He’s confronting what analysts say is his most serious challenge yet in Republican Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and wealthy aerospace executive aligned with former President Donald Trump.The two sides have dueling ad campaigns with similar goals: Tear down the opponent. A Sheehy ad talks about rampant corruption in Washington and calls Tester “one of the worst offenders.” A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm.At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worried that as Montana’s population expands, its electorate is becoming too partisan to back the grain farmer from the tiny town of Big Sandy who is counting on his cross-party appeal to give him another term. “A hundred percent I’m worried about it,” said Olsen. “There’s more partisan people coming here...If they’re coming here and they’re Republicans, they’re voting for Sheehy.”Tester, 68, entered office as one of a half dozen Democratic senators in a five-state region stretching from Nebraska to Canada. He’s the last one still in office, and Republicans have spent years trying to chip away at his support, particularly in rural areas. Montana is one of the least-densely populated states in the U.S., and only about a quarter of its residents live in cities of 50,000 or more.“Outside the cities of Montana, Republicans have made gains in most of the towns and rural counties,” said political analyst Jeremy Johnson at Carroll College. “That’s a challenge for Democrats.”‘Obscene’ amounts of moneyRepublicans have a two-seat deficit in the Senate. Democrats, desperate to retain their majority, are on track to outspend Republicans by almost $50 million in the Montana race, according to Federal Election Commission filings and data from the media tracking firm AdImpact. Total spending is expected to exceed $315 million, or about $487 for each of the state’s 648,000 active registered voters — a record for a congressional race on a per-voter basis, according to party officials.Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot called the flood of money into the sparsely populated state “absolutely obscene.” It comes more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down political spending restrictions on corporations and unions.“You can’t stand to even turn on TV,” Racicot said in an interview. “You’re just confronted constantly with this anger, grievance, sloganeering — everything that goes on in these campaigns — because there’s so much money involved. It’s an abomination.” If Sheehy wins, a Republican-majority Senate can hamstring Democrats’ agenda should Vice President Kamala Harris win the White House. Similarly, a Tester victory could help Democrats counter a Trump administration’s actions.Much of the money traces back to shadowy political committees with wealthy donors. The non-partisan Campaign Legal Center has sued over alleged financial transparency violations by a pro-Tester group, Last Best Place PAC, that has amplified some of the most incendiary claims against Sheehy. Another complaint from the advocacy group charges that a straw donor was used to conceal more than $2.5 million in contributions to political committees, including one supporting Sheehy. The allegations are unlikely to be resolved before the election. Trump on the ballotTrump won Montana overwhelmingly in 2016 and 2020. The 2024 election is the first where both Tester and Trump are on the ballot.Sheehy’s campaign themes largely mirror those of Trump and the national party. He rails against immigration, inflation and social issues such as transgender children in sports.Democrats hitched Tester’s campaign to abortion and women’s health care, hoping the backlash that surfaced even in Republican-leaning states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will continue. Tester has distanced himself from Harris and other Democratic leaders. That political isolation reflects the GOP’s gains over the past two decades with rural voters who once backed Democrats.Tester’s campaign has outraised Sheehy’s by more than three-to-one, propelled by a massive influx of small out-of-state donations after Democrats raised alarms over the race. “Jon Tester has more money but dollars don’t vote,” Sheehy’s campaign said in a statement. “Montanans just want common sense: a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good and criminals are bad, boys are boys and girls are girls.” Lies and lobbyistsSheehy, who arrived in Montana a decade ago and compares himself to early European settlers, has sought to turn Tester’s Senate tenure into a liability.Republicans allege a pattern of campaign donations flowing to the Democrat from industries that needed his vote. Tester previously faced scrutiny over donations from bank executives affected by a 2018 regulatory roll back and Lockheed Martin employees who benefited from a 2021 defense bill. There’s no indication of wrongdoing or that the contributions swayed Tester.He ranks as the number one recipient of lobbyist cash among members of Congress, with $500,000 in donations this election cycle, and has raised $88 million overall.Tester said in an interview following the Bozeman rally that he doesn’t know who donates to him or if any lobbyists were there that night. “I’ve got policies to write, people to get on board,” he said. “If it makes sense for Montana, I’ll support it.”Sheehy has money pouring in from national groups, too. He’s received $109,000 from lobbyists and previously lobbied government officials himself, seeking business for the aerial firefighting company he founded with his brother.Sheehy has no prior political experience and has avoided in-depth interviews. He’s faced blowback over derogatory remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans and questions about the bullet wound in his arm, which he has said came from a firefight in Afghanistan.Sheehy told a Glacier National Park ranger in 2015 that the wound was self-inflicted. Park Ranger Kim Peach, now retired, earlier this month publicly accused Sheehy of lying when he says it was from combat.Peach repeated the accusation in a subsequent advertisement from a pro-Tester PAC and acknowledged the ad was recorded before he went public, despite initially telling The Associated Press that he was unconnected to Democratic groups.Republicans said Peach wasn’t credible.“He’s shifting his story left and right because he is a liar and a Democrat partisan,” said Mike Berg with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.Tester said Sheehy should release his medical records to clear up the dispute, adding: “Stolen valor is a huge problem.” Most read A comprehensive look at DOGE’s firings and layoffs so far A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. 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https://apnews.com/article/montana-senate-sheehy-tester-trump-harris-ads-ca87d39e523dc162300b416a41178a86

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Voters drowning in ads from 'obscene' amounts of cash flooding Montana U.S. Senate race | AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography AP Investigations Climate SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. 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Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, is seen at a campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 2 of 7 | FILE- Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Read More 3 of 7 | Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, speaks with a supporter during campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 4 of 7 | Supporters of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, are seen during a campaign rally for the three-term incumbent lawmaker in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 5 of 7 | Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 6 of 7 | Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Democrat, speaks about the 2024 election during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the lawmaker seeks re-election to a fourth term, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 7 of 7 | FILE - U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) Read More By MATTHEW BROWN Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that’s shattering campaign spending records.Montana voters, meanwhile, are getting worn out — deluged by negative ads on their TVs, radios, phones and in their mailboxes. Tester won by a narrow, 3,500-vote margin in 2006 and has held on for three terms despite a dramatic political re-alignment across the U.S. Northern Plains. He’s confronting what analysts say is his most serious challenge yet in Republican Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and wealthy aerospace executive aligned with former President Donald Trump.The two sides have dueling ad campaigns with similar goals: Tear down the opponent. A Sheehy ad talks about rampant corruption in Washington and calls Tester “one of the worst offenders.” A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm.At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worried that as Montana’s population expands, its electorate is becoming too partisan to back the grain farmer from the tiny town of Big Sandy who is counting on his cross-party appeal to give him another term. “A hundred percent I’m worried about it,” said Olsen. “There’s more partisan people coming here...If they’re coming here and they’re Republicans, they’re voting for Sheehy.”Tester, 68, entered office as one of a half dozen Democratic senators in a five-state region stretching from Nebraska to Canada. He’s the last one still in office, and Republicans have spent years trying to chip away at his support, particularly in rural areas. Montana is one of the least-densely populated states in the U.S., and only about a quarter of its residents live in cities of 50,000 or more.“Outside the cities of Montana, Republicans have made gains in most of the towns and rural counties,” said political analyst Jeremy Johnson at Carroll College. “That’s a challenge for Democrats.”‘Obscene’ amounts of moneyRepublicans have a two-seat deficit in the Senate. Democrats, desperate to retain their majority, are on track to outspend Republicans by almost $50 million in the Montana race, according to Federal Election Commission filings and data from the media tracking firm AdImpact. Total spending is expected to exceed $315 million, or about $487 for each of the state’s 648,000 active registered voters — a record for a congressional race on a per-voter basis, according to party officials.Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot called the flood of money into the sparsely populated state “absolutely obscene.” It comes more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down political spending restrictions on corporations and unions.“You can’t stand to even turn on TV,” Racicot said in an interview. “You’re just confronted constantly with this anger, grievance, sloganeering — everything that goes on in these campaigns — because there’s so much money involved. It’s an abomination.” If Sheehy wins, a Republican-majority Senate can hamstring Democrats’ agenda should Vice President Kamala Harris win the White House. Similarly, a Tester victory could help Democrats counter a Trump administration’s actions.Much of the money traces back to shadowy political committees with wealthy donors. The non-partisan Campaign Legal Center has sued over alleged financial transparency violations by a pro-Tester group, Last Best Place PAC, that has amplified some of the most incendiary claims against Sheehy. Another complaint from the advocacy group charges that a straw donor was used to conceal more than $2.5 million in contributions to political committees, including one supporting Sheehy. The allegations are unlikely to be resolved before the election. Trump on the ballotTrump won Montana overwhelmingly in 2016 and 2020. The 2024 election is the first where both Tester and Trump are on the ballot.Sheehy’s campaign themes largely mirror those of Trump and the national party. He rails against immigration, inflation and social issues such as transgender children in sports.Democrats hitched Tester’s campaign to abortion and women’s health care, hoping the backlash that surfaced even in Republican-leaning states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will continue. Tester has distanced himself from Harris and other Democratic leaders. That political isolation reflects the GOP’s gains over the past two decades with rural voters who once backed Democrats.Tester’s campaign has outraised Sheehy’s by more than three-to-one, propelled by a massive influx of small out-of-state donations after Democrats raised alarms over the race. “Jon Tester has more money but dollars don’t vote,” Sheehy’s campaign said in a statement. “Montanans just want common sense: a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good and criminals are bad, boys are boys and girls are girls.” Lies and lobbyistsSheehy, who arrived in Montana a decade ago and compares himself to early European settlers, has sought to turn Tester’s Senate tenure into a liability.Republicans allege a pattern of campaign donations flowing to the Democrat from industries that needed his vote. Tester previously faced scrutiny over donations from bank executives affected by a 2018 regulatory roll back and Lockheed Martin employees who benefited from a 2021 defense bill. There’s no indication of wrongdoing or that the contributions swayed Tester.He ranks as the number one recipient of lobbyist cash among members of Congress, with $500,000 in donations this election cycle, and has raised $88 million overall.Tester said in an interview following the Bozeman rally that he doesn’t know who donates to him or if any lobbyists were there that night. “I’ve got policies to write, people to get on board,” he said. “If it makes sense for Montana, I’ll support it.”Sheehy has money pouring in from national groups, too. He’s received $109,000 from lobbyists and previously lobbied government officials himself, seeking business for the aerial firefighting company he founded with his brother.Sheehy has no prior political experience and has avoided in-depth interviews. He’s faced blowback over derogatory remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans and questions about the bullet wound in his arm, which he has said came from a firefight in Afghanistan.Sheehy told a Glacier National Park ranger in 2015 that the wound was self-inflicted. Park Ranger Kim Peach, now retired, earlier this month publicly accused Sheehy of lying when he says it was from combat.Peach repeated the accusation in a subsequent advertisement from a pro-Tester PAC and acknowledged the ad was recorded before he went public, despite initially telling The Associated Press that he was unconnected to Democratic groups.Republicans said Peach wasn’t credible.“He’s shifting his story left and right because he is a liar and a Democrat partisan,” said Mike Berg with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.Tester said Sheehy should release his medical records to clear up the dispute, adding: “Stolen valor is a huge problem.” Most read A comprehensive look at DOGE’s firings and layoffs so far A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. 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Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, is seen at a campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 2 of 7 | FILE- Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump shakes hands with Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy at a campaign rally in Bozeman, Mont., Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) Read More 3 of 7 | Sen. Jon Tester, a Democrat from Montana seeking re-election to a fourth term, speaks with a supporter during campaign rally in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 4 of 7 | Supporters of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, are seen during a campaign rally for the three-term incumbent lawmaker in a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 5 of 7 | Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at a hotel ballroom, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 6 of 7 | Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Democrat, speaks about the 2024 election during a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. Jon Tester as the lawmaker seeks re-election to a fourth term, Oct. 25, 2024, in Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) Read More 7 of 7 | FILE - U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy talks about his campaign, Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, in Helena, Mont. Sheehy is seeking the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in the November election. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File) Read More By MATTHEW BROWN Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that’s shattering campaign spending records.Montana voters, meanwhile, are getting worn out — deluged by negative ads on their TVs, radios, phones and in their mailboxes. Tester won by a narrow, 3,500-vote margin in 2006 and has held on for three terms despite a dramatic political re-alignment across the U.S. Northern Plains. He’s confronting what analysts say is his most serious challenge yet in Republican Tim Sheehy, a former U.S. Navy SEAL and wealthy aerospace executive aligned with former President Donald Trump.The two sides have dueling ad campaigns with similar goals: Tear down the opponent. A Sheehy ad talks about rampant corruption in Washington and calls Tester “one of the worst offenders.” A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm.At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with Trump that drew thousands of people — the crowd for the incumbent lawmaker numbered in the dozens. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Josh Olsen, an outdoor guide and Tester voter, worried that as Montana’s population expands, its electorate is becoming too partisan to back the grain farmer from the tiny town of Big Sandy who is counting on his cross-party appeal to give him another term. “A hundred percent I’m worried about it,” said Olsen. “There’s more partisan people coming here...If they’re coming here and they’re Republicans, they’re voting for Sheehy.”Tester, 68, entered office as one of a half dozen Democratic senators in a five-state region stretching from Nebraska to Canada. He’s the last one still in office, and Republicans have spent years trying to chip away at his support, particularly in rural areas. Montana is one of the least-densely populated states in the U.S., and only about a quarter of its residents live in cities of 50,000 or more.“Outside the cities of Montana, Republicans have made gains in most of the towns and rural counties,” said political analyst Jeremy Johnson at Carroll College. “That’s a challenge for Democrats.”‘Obscene’ amounts of moneyRepublicans have a two-seat deficit in the Senate. Democrats, desperate to retain their majority, are on track to outspend Republicans by almost $50 million in the Montana race, according to Federal Election Commission filings and data from the media tracking firm AdImpact. Total spending is expected to exceed $315 million, or about $487 for each of the state’s 648,000 active registered voters — a record for a congressional race on a per-voter basis, according to party officials.Former Montana Gov. Marc Racicot called the flood of money into the sparsely populated state “absolutely obscene.” It comes more than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down political spending restrictions on corporations and unions.“You can’t stand to even turn on TV,” Racicot said in an interview. “You’re just confronted constantly with this anger, grievance, sloganeering — everything that goes on in these campaigns — because there’s so much money involved. It’s an abomination.” If Sheehy wins, a Republican-majority Senate can hamstring Democrats’ agenda should Vice President Kamala Harris win the White House. Similarly, a Tester victory could help Democrats counter a Trump administration’s actions.Much of the money traces back to shadowy political committees with wealthy donors. The non-partisan Campaign Legal Center has sued over alleged financial transparency violations by a pro-Tester group, Last Best Place PAC, that has amplified some of the most incendiary claims against Sheehy. Another complaint from the advocacy group charges that a straw donor was used to conceal more than $2.5 million in contributions to political committees, including one supporting Sheehy. The allegations are unlikely to be resolved before the election. Trump on the ballotTrump won Montana overwhelmingly in 2016 and 2020. The 2024 election is the first where both Tester and Trump are on the ballot.Sheehy’s campaign themes largely mirror those of Trump and the national party. He rails against immigration, inflation and social issues such as transgender children in sports.Democrats hitched Tester’s campaign to abortion and women’s health care, hoping the backlash that surfaced even in Republican-leaning states after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will continue. Tester has distanced himself from Harris and other Democratic leaders. That political isolation reflects the GOP’s gains over the past two decades with rural voters who once backed Democrats.Tester’s campaign has outraised Sheehy’s by more than three-to-one, propelled by a massive influx of small out-of-state donations after Democrats raised alarms over the race. “Jon Tester has more money but dollars don’t vote,” Sheehy’s campaign said in a statement. “Montanans just want common sense: a secure border, safe streets, cheap gas, cops are good and criminals are bad, boys are boys and girls are girls.” Lies and lobbyistsSheehy, who arrived in Montana a decade ago and compares himself to early European settlers, has sought to turn Tester’s Senate tenure into a liability.Republicans allege a pattern of campaign donations flowing to the Democrat from industries that needed his vote. Tester previously faced scrutiny over donations from bank executives affected by a 2018 regulatory roll back and Lockheed Martin employees who benefited from a 2021 defense bill. There’s no indication of wrongdoing or that the contributions swayed Tester.He ranks as the number one recipient of lobbyist cash among members of Congress, with $500,000 in donations this election cycle, and has raised $88 million overall.Tester said in an interview following the Bozeman rally that he doesn’t know who donates to him or if any lobbyists were there that night. “I’ve got policies to write, people to get on board,” he said. “If it makes sense for Montana, I’ll support it.”Sheehy has money pouring in from national groups, too. He’s received $109,000 from lobbyists and previously lobbied government officials himself, seeking business for the aerial firefighting company he founded with his brother.Sheehy has no prior political experience and has avoided in-depth interviews. He’s faced blowback over derogatory remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans and questions about the bullet wound in his arm, which he has said came from a firefight in Afghanistan.Sheehy told a Glacier National Park ranger in 2015 that the wound was self-inflicted. Park Ranger Kim Peach, now retired, earlier this month publicly accused Sheehy of lying when he says it was from combat.Peach repeated the accusation in a subsequent advertisement from a pro-Tester PAC and acknowledged the ad was recorded before he went public, despite initially telling The Associated Press that he was unconnected to Democratic groups.Republicans said Peach wasn’t credible.“He’s shifting his story left and right because he is a liar and a Democrat partisan,” said Mike Berg with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.Tester said Sheehy should release his medical records to clear up the dispute, adding: “Stolen valor is a huge problem.” Most read A comprehensive look at DOGE’s firings and layoffs so far A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial Brazil’s former President Bolsonaro charged over alleged coup that included a plan to poison Lula The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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Banksy Painting at Sotheby's in London Drake Takes More Shots At Kendrick Lamar And Joe Budden On ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ You might also like Academy Museum Unveils Spring Programming Featuring Bong Joon Ho and Judd Apatow – Film News in Brief 23 hours ago Caleres to Acquire Tapestry’s Stuart Weitzman Brand for $105 Million 5 hours ago The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors 11 months ago Frederick Wiseman Spent His Career Making Films That ‘Reflect the Complexity’ of the World, Even as It Got Stranger and Stranger 2 weeks ago U.S.-Canada 4 Nations Final Promises to Punch Up Record NHL Ratings 31 mins ago Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies Culture Staff Contact Advertise Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices PMC Entertainment California Privacy Rights Your Privacy Choices EU Privacy Preferences Accessibility Policy on Anonymous Sources Follow Us Facebook Instagram TikTok X YouTube Newsletter Signup Enter Your Email Subscribe Got a Hot News Tip? 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Now the MAGA zombies will stop watching basketball games

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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Banksy Painting at Sotheby's in London Drake Takes More Shots At Kendrick Lamar And Joe Budden On ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ You might also like Academy Museum Unveils Spring Programming Featuring Bong Joon Ho and Judd Apatow – Film News in Brief 23 hours ago Caleres to Acquire Tapestry’s Stuart Weitzman Brand for $105 Million 5 hours ago The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors 11 months ago Frederick Wiseman Spent His Career Making Films That ‘Reflect the Complexity’ of the World, Even as It Got Stranger and Stranger 2 weeks ago U.S.-Canada 4 Nations Final Promises to Punch Up Record NHL Ratings 31 mins ago Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies Culture Staff Contact Advertise Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices PMC Entertainment California Privacy Rights Your Privacy Choices EU Privacy Preferences Accessibility Policy on Anonymous Sources Follow Us Facebook Instagram TikTok X YouTube Newsletter Signup Enter Your Email Subscribe Got a Hot News Tip? 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. Go to PMC.com Most Popular The 100 Greatest TV Performances of the 21st Century Bath & Body Works' Early Presidents' Day Deals Include Luxury Fragrance Dupes for Jo Malone, PHLUR & YSL for Just $6 Blink-182 Cofounder Mark Hoppus to Sell $5 M. Banksy Painting at Sotheby's in London Drake Takes More Shots At Kendrick Lamar And Joe Budden On ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ You might also like Academy Museum Unveils Spring Programming Featuring Bong Joon Ho and Judd Apatow – Film News in Brief 23 hours ago Caleres to Acquire Tapestry’s Stuart Weitzman Brand for $105 Million 5 hours ago The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors 11 months ago Frederick Wiseman Spent His Career Making Films That ‘Reflect the Complexity’ of the World, Even as It Got Stranger and Stranger 2 weeks ago U.S.-Canada 4 Nations Final Promises to Punch Up Record NHL Ratings 31 mins ago Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies Culture Staff Contact Advertise Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices PMC Entertainment California Privacy Rights Your Privacy Choices EU Privacy Preferences Accessibility Policy on Anonymous Sources Follow Us Facebook Instagram TikTok X YouTube Newsletter Signup Enter Your Email Subscribe Got a Hot News Tip? 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Wow - a very powerful video endorsing Harris. Amazing to watch https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBzYYQEp7jh/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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Banksy Painting at Sotheby's in London Drake Takes More Shots At Kendrick Lamar And Joe Budden On ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ You might also like Academy Museum Unveils Spring Programming Featuring Bong Joon Ho and Judd Apatow – Film News in Brief 23 hours ago Caleres to Acquire Tapestry’s Stuart Weitzman Brand for $105 Million 5 hours ago The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors 11 months ago Frederick Wiseman Spent His Career Making Films That ‘Reflect the Complexity’ of the World, Even as It Got Stranger and Stranger 2 weeks ago U.S.-Canada 4 Nations Final Promises to Punch Up Record NHL Ratings 31 mins ago Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies Culture Staff Contact Advertise Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices PMC Entertainment California Privacy Rights Your Privacy Choices EU Privacy Preferences Accessibility Policy on Anonymous Sources Follow Us Facebook Instagram TikTok X YouTube Newsletter Signup Enter Your Email Subscribe Got a Hot News Tip? 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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Banksy Painting at Sotheby's in London Drake Takes More Shots At Kendrick Lamar And Joe Budden On ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ You might also like Academy Museum Unveils Spring Programming Featuring Bong Joon Ho and Judd Apatow – Film News in Brief 23 hours ago Caleres to Acquire Tapestry’s Stuart Weitzman Brand for $105 Million 5 hours ago The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors 11 months ago Frederick Wiseman Spent His Career Making Films That ‘Reflect the Complexity’ of the World, Even as It Got Stranger and Stranger 2 weeks ago U.S.-Canada 4 Nations Final Promises to Punch Up Record NHL Ratings 31 mins ago Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies Culture Staff Contact Advertise Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices PMC Entertainment California Privacy Rights Your Privacy Choices EU Privacy Preferences Accessibility Policy on Anonymous Sources Follow Us Facebook Instagram TikTok X YouTube Newsletter Signup Enter Your Email Subscribe Got a Hot News Tip? 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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Banksy Painting at Sotheby's in London Drake Takes More Shots At Kendrick Lamar And Joe Budden On ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ You might also like Academy Museum Unveils Spring Programming Featuring Bong Joon Ho and Judd Apatow – Film News in Brief 23 hours ago Caleres to Acquire Tapestry’s Stuart Weitzman Brand for $105 Million 5 hours ago The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors 11 months ago Frederick Wiseman Spent His Career Making Films That ‘Reflect the Complexity’ of the World, Even as It Got Stranger and Stranger 2 weeks ago U.S.-Canada 4 Nations Final Promises to Punch Up Record NHL Ratings 31 mins ago Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies Culture Staff Contact Advertise Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices PMC Entertainment California Privacy Rights Your Privacy Choices EU Privacy Preferences Accessibility Policy on Anonymous Sources Follow Us Facebook Instagram TikTok X YouTube Newsletter Signup Enter Your Email Subscribe Got a Hot News Tip? 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Another smart wealthy guy placing country over any Trump scam money tax evading schemes he could benefit from. Thank you LeBron

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Backed by a Baller LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me," James wrote By Tomás Mier Tomás Mier Contact Tomás Mier on X Tate McRae Says She Was ‘Devastated’ When Her Album Leaked: ‘Nothing I Can Do’ Bassnectar Settles Lawsuit With Three Women Who Accused Him of Sex Abuse Sutton Foster Will Play Loretta Lynn in Broadway Musical, ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter’ View all posts by Tomás Mier October 31, 2024 LeBron James attends the Starting 5 premiere on Sept. 23, 2024, in Los Angeles. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix For LeBron James, “the choice is clear” about who to vote for president. On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. She showed all of us — and showed the world — that she was ready to be President, how smart she is, and her plan for the country in that debate.” In this article: 2024 Election, Kamala Harris, LeBron James Culture (Sub)Culture News More News 'We're All Paying for It': Kash Patel Called Out Elon Musk for Getting Rich Off Taxpayers Friends Like These By Miles Klee Seven 'Theft Group' Members Charged in Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce Home Burglaries Criminal Charges By Larisha Paul 'Elden Ring Nightreign' Is Like 'Fortnite' in Hell — And It Rocks RS Gaming By Josh Broadwell New York State Investigators Say Trans Man's Death Was Not a Hate Crime Crime By CT Jones Pope Francis Hospitalized With Pneumonia Health Concerns By Jon Blistein Read more How to Buy ‘Rolling Stone Presents: Amplified, the Immersive Rock Experience’ Tickets Online Play It Loud Feb 18, 2025 9:00 am McKinley Dixon Previews New Album 'Magic, Alive' With Latest Single 'Sugar Water' Sprinkle of Magic 16 mins ago Trump on Himself: ‘LONG LIVE THE KING!’ Nah 37 mins ago Ellen Pompeo Stars in Natalia Grace-Inspired ‘Good American Family’ Trailer Welcome home 1 hour ago Top stories newsletter A Cultural Force That Transcends Generations Enter your Email By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. 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Banksy Painting at Sotheby's in London Drake Takes More Shots At Kendrick Lamar And Joe Budden On ‘$ome $exy $ongs 4 U’ You might also like Academy Museum Unveils Spring Programming Featuring Bong Joon Ho and Judd Apatow – Film News in Brief 23 hours ago Caleres to Acquire Tapestry’s Stuart Weitzman Brand for $105 Million 5 hours ago The Best Yoga Mats for Any Practice, According to Instructors 11 months ago Frederick Wiseman Spent His Career Making Films That ‘Reflect the Complexity’ of the World, Even as It Got Stranger and Stranger 2 weeks ago U.S.-Canada 4 Nations Final Promises to Punch Up Record NHL Ratings 31 mins ago Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies Culture Staff Contact Advertise Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use AdChoices PMC Entertainment California Privacy Rights Your Privacy Choices EU Privacy Preferences Accessibility Policy on Anonymous Sources Follow Us Facebook Instagram TikTok X YouTube Newsletter Signup Enter Your Email Subscribe Got a Hot News Tip? 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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric

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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lebron-james-endorses-kamala-harris-1235149465/

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LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Trump's Racist Rhetoric × Skip to main content Rollingstone Logo Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Music Politics TV & Movies Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Account Welcome Manage Account Manage Print Account Sign Out Log In Click to expand the Mega Menu Click to Expand Search Input Rollingstone Logo Culture LeBron James Endorses Kamala Harris, Slams Donald Trump’s Racist Rhetoric Facebook X email Got A Tip? 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On Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers player officially endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as he shared a video compilation of the hate and racism spread by former President Donald Trump and his campaign. “What are we even talking about here?” James captioned alongside the clip, which included headlines of David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, supporting Trump, along with the former president’s racist rhetoric toward migrants and the Black community. “When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me,” wrote James, who ended the post with: “VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!” View this post on Instagram A post shared by 👑 (@kingjames) The video — shared to James’ 159 million Instagram followers and 53 million X followers — included clips of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s racist speech at Madison Square Garden about a Black friend “carving watermelons together.” James has consistently endorsed Democratic presidential candidates dating back to Barack Obama’s presidential runs in 2008 and 2012. He also endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, writing, “We need EVERYTHING to change,” at the time. The basketball star joins other NBA icons, including Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr and guard Stephen Curry, who have endorsed Harris for president. Both Curry and Kerr spoke at the Democratic National Convention over the summer. The dedicated Athletes for Harris cohort has several big names, among them Mel Blount, Marv Levy, Willie Roaf, Magic Johnson, Billie Jean King, Ali Krieger, Candace Parker, Thomas Booker, and Chris Paul. “I have known Vice President Harris for over 25 years, and you can count on her to deliver on what she says she is going to do,” Magic Johnson wrote in a statement following her debate against Trump. “She’ll be a President for all people, no matter the race, language, sexual orientation, or party line. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway | AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography AP Investigations Climate SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account ... World Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa Australia Middle East Global Elections U.S. Politics Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar Sports NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Auto Racing Soccer Entertainment Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews Business Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology Science Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus Health Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets Religion Español Quizzes Press Releases My Account Search Query Submit Search Show Search Submit Search World Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa Australia Middle East Global Elections SECTIONS Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa U.S. Politics Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar SECTIONS Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar Sports NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Auto Racing Soccer SECTIONS NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Entertainment Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews SECTIONS Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews Business Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology SECTIONS Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology Science Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine SECTIONS Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography SECTIONS 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. twitter instagram facebook

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You think that's bad, wait until next weeks headline: *"Florida voters overwhelmingly approve marijuana and abortion amendments. DeSantis vows to fight. Says freedom must win."*

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A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway | AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography AP Investigations Climate SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway | AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography AP Investigations Climate SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account ... 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The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography SECTIONS 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. twitter instagram facebook

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What the hell? Ruddy won her seat, but there was still an empty seat or something? Because [this article says](https://www.observerlocalnews.com/news/2024/oct/31/governor-appoints-derek-barrs-to-complete-sally-hunts-term-on-flagler-countys-school-board/) > Barrs, Ruddy and District 5 representative Lauren Ramirez will be installed as new School Board members at the Nov. 19 School Board business meeting. They join current board members Will Furry and Christy Chong.

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A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway | AP News Menu Menu World U.S. Politics Sports Entertainment Business Science Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography AP Investigations Climate SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account ... World Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa Australia Middle East Global Elections U.S. Politics Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar Sports NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Auto Racing Soccer Entertainment Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews Business Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology Science Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus Health Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets Religion Español Quizzes Press Releases My Account Search Query Submit Search Show Search Submit Search World Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa Australia Middle East Global Elections SECTIONS Mideast Wars Russia-Ukraine War Español China Asia Pacific Latin America Europe Africa U.S. Politics Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar SECTIONS Trump cabinet confirmation tracker White House Congress U.S. Supreme Court Trump’s presidential promises 2025 Election Calendar Sports NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Auto Racing Soccer SECTIONS NBA NHL Men’s College Basketball Men’s Top 25 Women’s College Basketball Women’s Top 25 MLB NFL Entertainment Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews SECTIONS Movie Reviews What to Stream Television Book Reviews Music Celebrity Interviews Business Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology SECTIONS Inflation Financial Markets Financial Wellness Technology Science Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine SECTIONS Space Animals The Ancient World Climate Medicine Fact Check Oddities Be Well Newsletters Newsletters AP News Alerts Keep your pulse on the news with breaking news alerts from The AP. The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography SECTIONS 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Polar vortex makes much of US colder than Greenland, but warmth is coming. Then more cold Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES What's going on with the Kennedy Center under Trump? Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member. twitter mailto Most read A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump signs order to study how to expand IVF and calls for ‘radical transparency’ from government The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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Trump busca mayor control de reguladores independientes con su nuevo decreto ejecutivo Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. U.S. News A Florida school board candidate lost his race. DeSantis appointed him to the board anyway FILE - Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a campaign event on May 31, 2023, in Salix, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) By KATE PAYNE Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board candidate who lost his race in a county south of Jacksonville will get a seat on the board anyway, after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped him to fill a vacancy.Derek Barrs will take an open seat on the Flagler County School Board in northeast Florida, succeeding a member who resigned in September, allowing DeSantis to appoint a replacement rather than the seat going on the ballot for voters to decide.Barrs is a consultant with infrastructure design firm HNTB and a retired chief of the Florida Highway Patrol who campaigned with a focus on school safety and student achievement. He won DeSantis’ endorsement in his bid for the board but lost his Aug. 20 race by 290 votes to Janie Ruddy, a former teacher in the district.DeSantis has done more to influence local education policies and politics than any Florida governor in recent memory. In the name of “parental rights”, DeSantis has banned instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity and limited what Florida schools can teach about racism and U.S. history, and he’s both endorsed a slate of his preferred candidates and targeted incumbent members he wants voted out. “Derek is a candidate who is committed to fighting for schools to get back to the fundamentals,” DeSantis said in his endorsement of Barrs. “Derek has pledged to serve on the school board with a focus on student success, parental rights, and curriculum transparency.” RELATED COVERAGE Historic ocean liner departs Philadelphia on voyage to become the world’s largest artificial reef Urban Klavzar steps up for No. 2 Florida, going from unremarkable to indispensable Seven Chilean men are charged with burglarizing the homes of Mahomes, Burrow and other star athletes In an interview with The Associated Press, Barrs pushed back on the assertion that he might owe DeSantis his political allegiance on the board, saying he’s focused on building relationships across the community and improving outcomes for all students. “I don’t owe anybody anything,” Barrs said, “other than working for our students every day and making sure that they have the best quality education possible in our school district.” Under state law, the governor can appoint someone to fill a vacant state or county seat if there’s less than 28 months left in the term for that office.It’s not the first time a DeSantis-endorsed school board candidate has lost their race and been elevated into office anyway.In August, the governor tapped Daniel Foganholi for a slot on the State Board of Education after he lost his bid to keep his seat on the Broward County School Board by more than 30%. DeSantis had appointed Foganholi to the Fort Lauderdale-area school board two times, though Foganholi never won an election to the body.___Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues. KATE PAYNE Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. 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Florida democracy at work folks! Translation: We don’t actually care about democracy or your votes, we have the power to do whatever we want, so we do!

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? 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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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Eatthehamsters69

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Yes, his "opponents" or everyone he just dislikes

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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moldivore

t2_1sxj60w7

*sigh* another day another threat.

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

2024-10-31T22:45:33

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.” - Adolf Hitler. (Actual quote)

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

2024-10-31T22:45:33

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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Wonderful-Variation

t2_5h46h5rn

"You realize how that makes it worse, right?"

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

2024-10-31T22:45:33

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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>“There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” If only there weren’t cameras to capture your threats and the hoaxes weren’t actual corruption, then none of us would be in this mess. But alas… here we are…

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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The "specific people" he is referring to are "women." This was putridly obvious from Jump St., but nevertheless, "journalism" persists on shoving its ineptitude into our tired faces... After mastering the obvious, perhaps Talking Points might want to delve into the dangerous world of nuance.

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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Well, yeah. Which means he gets to call anyone he wants "The Enemy". Hence, the fucking problem. > “I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence. > > “Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said. > > Trump was responding to comments from Vice President Pence that families and local law enforcement should have more tools to report potentially dangerous individuals with weapons. {mosads} > > “Allow due process so no one’s rights are trampled, but the ability to go to court, obtain an order and then collect not only the firearms but any weapons,” Pence said. > > “Or, Mike, take the firearms first, and then go to court,” Trump responded. Keep in mind people he also had to be told by multiple people, multiple times, over weeks, that he is not CEO of America and that he also can not print money. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/youre-gonna-have-a-fucking-war-mark-milleys-fight-to-stop-trump-from-striking-iran >A running concern for Milley was the prospect of Trump pushing the nation into a military conflict with Iran. He saw this as a real threat, in part because of a meeting with the President in the early months of 2020, at which one of Trump’s advisers raised the prospect of taking military action to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons if Trump were to lose the election. At another meeting, at which Trump was not present, some of the President’s foreign-policy advisers again pushed military action against Iran. Milley later said that, when he asked why they were so intent on attacking Iran, Vice-President Mike Pence replied, “Because they are evil.” https://theconversation.com/why-soldiers-might-disobey-the-presidents-orders-to-occupy-us-cities-140402 >Military members are not, however, absolved of moral responsibility simply because orders are within the limits of the law, for they also take an oath to “support and defend” and to “bear true faith and allegiance” to the Constitution. >On June 2, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the U.S. military – went so far as to issue a service-wide memo reminding troops of that oath, one that may well be at odds with what the president may order them to do if he were to send them back into U.S. cities. https://images.theconversation.com/files/341233/original/file-20200611-80789-118u55a.jpeg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip https://krdo.com/politics/cnn-us-politics/2021/09/14/woodward-book-worried-trump-could-go-rogue-milley-took-top-secret-action-to-protect-nuclear-weapons/ > Milley worried that Trump could ‘go rogue,’ the authors write. > > “You never know what a president’s trigger point is,” Milley told his senior staff, according to the book. > > In response, Milley took extraordinary action, and called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. Speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon’s war room, Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved. > > “No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley told the officers, according to the book. He then went around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood. > > “Got it?” Milley asked, according to the book. > > “Yes, sir.” > > ‘Milley considered it an oath,’ the authors write >

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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Is that supposed to make us feel better? It's just more creepy.

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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Enemy from within is just rephrasing drain the swamp. Like a failed business, when it doesn't work, rebrand it and try it again. And tRump knows about failed businesses.

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

lurwphj

DramaticWesley

t2_60jign19

“You misunderstand me. I’m just going to arrest all the most vocal voices, and the rest of you should fall in line.”

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

2024-10-31T22:45:33

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

lurxj96

Madmandocv1

t2_eej4rhsb

Yeah, me. I have voted against that orange dipshit three times already, and I going to keep on doing it for as long as Americans are still allowed to vote.

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

lurxr4q

Raa03842

t2_c4kw2

To those of us who believe that Trump’s vitriol is directed at someone else and not us: First they came for the Communists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Socialists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews. And I did not speak out. Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me. And there was no one left. To speak out for. Martin Niemöller - 1946 *Think about it* We’re not going back!

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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SierraVictoriaCharli

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The funny thing about 'specific individuals' is that they can be changed as necessary to meet 'specific circumstances.'

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? God bless America. “Put it on and my people can move on.” What a F’in doofus. Unfit for President, Unfit even for a hooman being… Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com 114 more replies Participants Continue Discussion Masthead Masthead Founder & Editor-in-Chief: Josh Marshall Executive Editor: David Kurtz Managing Editor: John Light Deputy Editor: Nicole Lafond Investigations Desk: Josh Kovensky Hunter Walker Reporters: Kate Riga Emine Yücel Khaya Himmelman Editor at Large: John B. Judis General Counsel: Millet Israeli Publisher: Joe Ragazzo Head of Product: Derick Dirmaier Director of Technology: Matt Wozniak Associate Publisher & Digital Producer: Jackie Wilhelm Senior Developer: Jacob Harris Senior Designer: Christine Frapech Follow TPM About Memberships Careers Advertise Site Status Privacy Policy FAQ Newsletters Pitch Us Contact Terms of Use CCPA Notice © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Change Privacy Settings

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From the Onion News Network, just today: [New Trump Ad Shows Montage Of People He’ll Kill If Elected](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWnJI5-fFJs)

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trump-again-reiterates-that-when-he-says-enemy-from-within-he-means-specific-people

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Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People Editors' Blog / Analysis & Opinion News Live Blog Morning Memo Cafe / outside voices & analysis Muckraker / scandal & investigations Prime / Member Exclusives Podcast Features Memberships View Options Newsletters Subscribe Get TPM Merch Shop Now Follow TPM Send Comments and Tips about contact careers FAQ terms of use site status © 2025 TPM MEDIA LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. About Send Tips CONTRIBUTE Latest 7 mins ago President Trump Says He Offered Michael Flynn ‘About Ten Jobs’ In The New Administration 3 hours ago Project Veritas Video At Heart Of Latest Trump Admin Improper Interference At DOJ 1 day ago Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference 2 days ago GOP Sens Worried About Trump’s NIH Cuts Turn To Limp Public Negotiations With RFK, Trump Trump Again Reiterates That When He Says ‘Enemy From Within’ He Means Specific People This is your TPM evening briefing. ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until El... ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at The PPL Center on October 29, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS By Nicole Lafond | October 31, 2024 5:55 p.m. 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter I’ve written a few times in recent weeks about the pretzels into which Donald Trump’s Republican allies are twisting his words as they try to defend and explain away his sinister remarks about deploying the military domestically to go after his “enemy.” The rhetoric has been a throughline of Trump’s campaign, as he and alumni of his first administration threaten to use the military as a goon squad to crack down on Americans if elected. His Republican allies have defended the remarks in all sorts of creative and interesting ways, with many offering alternative ideas for who he might be talking about instead of his political rivals. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin got imaginative recently when he suggested that Trump is actually talking about undocumented immigrants when he says “enemy from within.” “What I want to just make very clear is that it’s my belief that what former President Trump is talking about are the people that are coming over the border, that in fact are committing crimes, that are bringing drugs, that are trafficking humans, and that are turning every state into a border state,” Youngkin said. But in recent weeks Trump has doubled down on his remarks, and has made it clear repeatedly that he does, in fact, actually mean his political rivals: Democratic politicians. Specifically, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff. During his rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico this afternoon, he reiterated that he’s talking about Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the person he blames for his impeachments. Today, he called him “total scum.” “There’s no tougher job than being president and we get hit from the enemy inside, you know that right? We get hit by the Adam Schiffs of the world,” he said. “He’s scum, total scum. They made up Russia Russia Russia hoax, they made up all the impeachment hoaxes, they make it up. They’re bad people.” Can’t be more explicit than that. The Best Of TPM Today Battleground State Election Officials Are Preemptively Shutting Down Rogue Clerks Police Say Suspect Behind The Ballot Drop Box Fires May Be Planning More Attacks Judge Extends Block On DeSantis Admin Anti-Abortion Pressure Campaign As State GOPers Turn On Gov Yesterday’s Most Read Story You Know What’s Really Garbage? Tired, Old Political Reporting Tropes What We Are Reading Dems see signs for optimism in gender gap in early vote Jeff Bezos Doesn’t Understand That He Is the Problem Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ 120 Start your day with TPM. Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s deputy editor, based in New York. She has also worked as the special projects editor and as a senior newswriter for TPM. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously covered education in central Illinois. Have a tip? Send it Here! includes: 2024 electionAdam SchiffDonald Trumpfeaturedmilitary Latest Where Things Stand Trump’s First-Term Inside Man At The DOJ Has Scored A Top Post At The CFPB By Nicole Lafond | February 18, 2025 6:36 p.m. Remember Jeffrey Clark, the former acting assistant attorney general in the Trump DOJ’s environmental division? He became infamous in the… Fed Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Targeting Gender Affirming Care For Trans Youth By Nicole Lafond | February 13, 2025 6:27 p.m. A federal district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday afternoon blocking the enforcement of Donald Trump’s sweeping Jan…. House GOP Makes Official Its Plan For Devastating Cuts To Medicaid By Nicole Lafond | February 12, 2025 6:30 p.m. In announcing their intentions to move forward with a mammoth one bill budget plan that will supposedly sweep up key… Trump & Co Decide Individual Federal Judges Do Have Too Much Power After All By Kate Riga | February 11, 2025 6:18 p.m. It’s no surprise that an expanding group of federal district judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, are systematically blocking… 120 Show Comments Make a Comment See Full Discussion Top Discussions Notable Replies mondfledermaus says: October 31, 2024 Hate to break it to you Jesse, but she married you for the money, she probably already had several affairs. Jesse Watters Warns Wife That Secretly ‘Pulling The Lever’ For Kamala Harris Would Be Like ‘Having An Affair’: ‘D-Day!’ drriddle says: October 31, 2024 If Trump wins, there’s a very good chance he will have his DoJ arrest Democratic politicians and throw them in jail based on nothing. Schiff and Pelosi might go first, but they won’t be the last. If he loses, Republicans and MAGA supporters will continue to go after the same people, threatening or committing violent acts. We’re going to be stuck with them for a while unfortunately, the awfulness with be Trump’s legacy. robert_e says: October 31, 2024 Every Accusation Is A Confession daveminnj says: October 31, 2024 Geez, who is doing the makeup for Yam-tits? Hatmama says: October 31, 2024 Uh, oh. TCF is failing in ABQ, NM today – He had to call a break in his rally, for medics to attend to a medical crisis. Here’s how he handled it – Let’s call for a dance party! Trump continued: “How about we play a song? 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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The conspiracy theories will be flying with this fool. Personally I think RFK is bad for the Trump team but this is perfectly fine with me.

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https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c

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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c

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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Learn a few laundry secrets from the baseball pros — the clubhouse staffers who wash MLB uniforms Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia. Trump provoca caos en el proyecto de ley presupuestaria del Senado El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? 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The Morning Wire Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. Ground Game Exclusive insights and key stories from the world of politics. Beyond the Story Executive Editor Julie Pace brings you behind the scenes of the AP newsroom. AP Entertainment Wire Get AP's first personalized newsletter delivering you entertainment news twice a week. AP Top 25 Women's Basketball Poll Alerts Women's college basketball poll alerts and updates. See All Newsletters Photography 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography SECTIONS 2024 YEAR END PHOTOS Photo Essays Photography AP Investigations Climate Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus SECTIONS Indigenous peoples and climate Climate Questions Climate Migration India Focus TOP STORIES Many Senegalese seek to tap the power of animals by wearing them. Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech Artificial Intelligence Social Media SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Learn a few laundry secrets from the baseball pros — the clubhouse staffers who wash MLB uniforms Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia. Trump provoca caos en el proyecto de ley presupuestaria del Senado El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c

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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Learn a few laundry secrets from the baseball pros — the clubhouse staffers who wash MLB uniforms Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia. Trump provoca caos en el proyecto de ley presupuestaria del Senado El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. 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This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Learn a few laundry secrets from the baseball pros — the clubhouse staffers who wash MLB uniforms Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia. Trump provoca caos en el proyecto de ley presupuestaria del Senado El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Isn't most of this data already available? In fact, they usually point to some poorly misunderstood data that just logs all medical events within a few weeks of a vaccination to claim vaccines are killing people.

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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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Who on earth wants to elect Trump President so that he puts an anti-vaccine quack in charge of Healthcare? This literally will kill people who vote for Trump.

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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Learn a few laundry secrets from the baseball pros — the clubhouse staffers who wash MLB uniforms Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia. Trump provoca caos en el proyecto de ley presupuestaria del Senado El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c

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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says

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https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c

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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Almost all federal health data is publicly available, as long as it doesn’t provide personal information. Since it is paid by taxes, it has to be easily accessible information. This is just another part of the conspiracy theory that the big bad government is lying to you. Also, there is plenty of evidence out there that the only communities that have caught measles, mumps, or other commonly vaccinated against diseases are anti-vax communities. This proves that vaccines work.

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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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COVID was the first virus to kill Republicans at a higher rate than Democrats. RFK Jr. hates this inconvenient truth. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/25/1189939229/covid-deaths-democrats-republicans-gap-study

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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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He'll have a science denier in charge of science-based policy. An opponent of quality public education in charge of the nation's schools. A land developer heading up the department of the Interior. A host of people hostile to the social safety net in charge of Health and Human Services. It's like watching somebody strap explosives to every support beam in the foundation of the nation.

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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. This year's fitness buzzword is 'recovery' Learn a few laundry secrets from the baseball pros — the clubhouse staffers who wash MLB uniforms Religion TOP STORIES Middle East latest: Netanyahu appoints an adviser with Trump ties to lead ceasefire talks Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he's in good spirits as tests show slight improvement Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants Newsletters World of Faithtest Comprehensive global coverage of how religion shapes our world. See All Newsletters Español TOP STORIES Administración de Trump califica de organizaciones terroristas a ocho cárteles latinoamericanos Trump advierte a Zelenskyy que debe negociar rápidamente el fin de la guerra con Rusia Asesor de Zelenskyy dice que EEUU renunció a papel en la guerra, fortaleciendo a Rusia. Trump provoca caos en el proyecto de ley presupuestaria del Senado El papa Francisco tiene neumonía en ambos pulmones. ¿Qué tan preocupante es? 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Sure. The billions of people vaccinated against preventable diseases that used to be deadly isn’t enough proof. Total fucking morons.

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https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c

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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. She is based in Providence, Rhode Island. instagram mailto Most read White House says Elon Musk is not in charge at DOGE, but is advising the president Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money A deeper look at the talks between US and Russian officials as Trump suggests Ukraine is to blame Russia and US agree to work toward ending Ukraine war in a remarkable diplomatic shift A$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna’s arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trial The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. 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lol. What’s he going to do when the data doesn’t show that.

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https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-trump-vaccines-779495533a80ba142086a9621d75a59c

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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Lions pay a heavy price Brazil to join OPEC+, group of major oil-exporting nations How better water systems can help a city survive the next firestorm Health TOP STORIES Vatican authorities say the pope now has pneumonia in both lungs. How worrying is that? Trump has signed an executive order on IVF. Here's what you should know about the procedure Layoffs hit many at CDC lab program that was started to address previous failures More adults are wondering if they have autism. Here are tips to seek a diagnosis This Valentine's Day, consider what all types of love bring to your life How to deal with fresh health insurance deductibles in the new year Tech SECTIONS Artificial Intelligence Social Media TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone Google agrees to pay Italy $340 million to settle a tax evasion investigation Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection Lifestyle SECTIONS Food & Recipes Gardening Homes Travel Fashion Pets TOP STORIES Apple unveils a souped-up and more expensive version of its lowest priced iPhone No pain, no gain? Hardly. 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Quizzes Press Releases My Account The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day. twitter instagram facebook The Associated Press ap.org Careers Advertise with us Contact Us Accessibility Statement Terms of Use Privacy Policy Cookie Settings Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information CA Notice of Collection More From AP News About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook SECTIONS About AP News Values and Principles AP’s Role in Elections AP Leads AP Definitive Source Blog AP Images Spotlight Blog AP Stylebook Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Politics RFK Jr. wants federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe, Trump transition co-chair says Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) By MICHELLE R. SMITH Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A co-chair of Donald Trump’s transition team said Trump supporter Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants access to federal health data so he can show vaccines are unsafe and lead to them being pulled from the market in a second Trump administration.Howard Lutnick echoed a number of Kennedy’s debunked anti-vaccine talking points in a CNN interview Wednesday, including falsehoods about the vaccine schedule and the disproven theory that vaccines cause autism. Trump has talked often about how Kennedy, who suspended his own presidential bid and endorsed him in August, will have a big role to play if the former president returns to the White House.While Lutnick said Kennedy would not be chosen as secretary of health and human services, he was not specific about what Kennedy’s role might be. Lutnick made the comments the same day that Kennedy told NewsNation that Trump asked him to “reorganize” agencies including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and some agencies under the Department of Agriculture. The comments by Lutnick raised immediate concerns among public health experts that giving influence to one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists in the world could lead to what one said would be “severe health consequences” for Americans, especially children. They come just days before the Nov. 5 election and as Trump, a Republican, and Democrat Kamala Harris are vying to sway late-deciding voters to their side. More election coverage Arizona’s Democratic governor faces uphill battle as Republicans control Legislature Biden says he’s leaving Trump with a ‘strong hand to play’ in world conflicts West Virginia’s conservative shift could sharpen under its new governor Lutnick, the CEO of the financial services company Cantor Fitzgerald, told CNN that Kennedy wants access to data “so he can say these things are unsafe” and that will stop the sales. “He says, if you give me the data, all I want is the data and I’ll take on the data and show that it’s not safe. And then if you pull the product liability, the companies will yank these vaccines right off of the market. So that’s his point,” Lutnick said. It was unclear what data Lutnick was referring to since extensive data and research on vaccine safety is publicly available.The World Health Organization has estimated that global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives in the past 50 years. In recent days, Trump has said he would let Kennedy “go wild” on health, food and medicines. Kennedy has said repeatedly that he plans to exercise his influence over a wide range of policies if Trump wins and said Trump had promised him control over health agencies and told him he wanted him to reorganize them.Asked about Kennedy’s comments and his role in a Trump administration, Jason Miller, a senior adviser for the campaign said the only thing Trump and his campaign are focused on is winning on Nov. 5.“Everything after that is after that, and President Trump has made clear that Bobby Kennedy will play an important role,” Miller wrote.It would be “extremely dangerous” to put Kennedy in a position of power where he could make decisions or have the ability to change regulatory policy, said Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Removing vaccines from the market would lead to severe health consequences for America,” said Sharfstein, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “We go about our daily lives in the United States not worrying about a lot of preventable diseases like measles because of the protection that the vaccines provide. But if there were to be a systematic effort to use the tools of the federal government to undermine vaccination, children won’t be safe. Full stop.”Even if Kennedy is given a lesser role where he provides input and comments but doesn’t have control over policy, it could still be damaging, according to people who have served in public health roles in government.“Advisers like Scott Atlas have demonstrated the significant influence they can wield without congressional oversight, raising fears of misinformation and harm,” Trump’s own surgeon general, Dr. Jerome Adams, wrote in an email, referring to Trump’s former COVID-19 pandemic advisor, a radiologist with no background in infectious disease, who advocated for the widely discredited herd immunity strategy. Adams said he believed it was unlikely that Kennedy could be appointed to lead a major health agency because he has no medical expertise, it would likely be difficult for him to pass a background check for a top secret clearance and he’d likely lack support in Congress — though Trump circumvented the background check system during his first administration and stocked his Cabinet with acting officials who had not received congressional approval.Kennedy’s anti-vaccine organization has a lawsuit pending against news organizations including The Associated Press, accusing them of violating antitrust laws by taking action to identify misinformation, including about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines. Kennedy is on leave from the group but is listed as one of its attorneys in the lawsuit. Republican lawmakers have long enjoyed – and reciprocated – support from pharmaceutical companies, even vowing to dismantle a law signed by Democratic President Joe Biden that allows the government to negotiate the price of prescription drugs for Medicare enrollees. Republicans have argued the law will hurt the businesses and stifle innovation in the industry. But vaccine skepticism, growing across the country, has become deeper among conservatives.In addition to people’s health and well-being, the possibility that Kennedy’s influence would result in debunked ideas like a vaccine link to autism being again dredged up and wasting time, energy and money disheartened public health advocates. “Trump helped bring the vaccine to market, and he took the vaccine. ... I don’t know why he’s giving this person this mouthpiece,” said Amy Pisani, CEO of Vaccinate Your Family, noting Trump’s Operation Warp Speed helped bring the COVID-19 vaccine to market, though Kennedy has relentlessly attacked it.Vaccinate Your Family is a nonpartisan group co-founded by former first lady Rosalynn Carter and former Arkansas first lady Betty Bumpers that has worked on vaccine programs with both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations for the past 30 years.“I don’t want to go back 30 years to fighting the anti-vaccine movement again,” Pisani said. “To go back in time and waste millions and millions of taxpayer dollars on this witch hunt again is just untenable.”___Associated Press writer Amanda Seitz in Washington contributed to this report. MICHELLE R. SMITH Smith reports for AP’s global investigations team. 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Vaccines were invented about 500 years ago and we're still dealing with these anti-science morons. Countless lives have been saved by vaccines. These conspiracy weirdos are literally killing people...

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Why is Joe Rogan interviewing the donut shop guy

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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So he says people “fake being trans to get into college.” Sort of like how he faked admiring the man he once compared to Hitler to become VP?

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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JD Vance has struggled with his sexuality since age 6 as he wrote in his book. He tried being transgender in college and we saw the evidence. He dressed up and took "seductive" photos for someone. And now suddenly he's on an anti gay crusade. This is 100% suspicious even to maga who trust him less than general female voters.

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Did Joe ask him about his gender affirming eye liner?

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Yikes. This guy is like a white Candace Owens. To be this way knowing you have crossdressing photos circulating online… c’mon. Just be yourself and stop latching onto hate. It’s sad.

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Did JD Vance wear his eyeliner as he bashed transgender people *again?* You know, it's kind of hard to take a republican male, who wear's women's make up seriously on this specific issue...

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Does JD know he's going right under the bus if Trump loses?

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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> Vance also argued that transgender children should not receive treatment because they are left with “changes that won’t go away” when they’re older and supposedly change their mind. I've got changes that won't go away because I couldn't get treatment. > Vance claimed to Rogan that there’s such a thing as “radical trans ideology.” He said it was that so-called ideology that drove a trans person to massacre children at the Covenant School in Nashville last year, despite authorities in Tennessee not confirming the shooter’s motivation to kill. Ah, the "radical trans ideology" of not wanting to be beaten any fucking more, or killed. There is one side which celebrates violence. They often call for war, they push conversion therapy, they attack efforts to oppose bullying or teach about consent, and they jack off to abusive porn. Sometimes abusive trans porn.

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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NPR sat down with Sofia Nelson, a graduate of Yale Law School and a former classmate and close friend of JD Vance before and after she transitioned, and even visited her at bedside following her gender transition-related surgery. Sofia came on for the interview and shared with NPR their long history of emails and texts from a JD Vance who stands in stark contrast to the completely different person he is today. It exposes him for what he really is, a lying hypocrite shill who will change his positions bowing to whatever extremes and whichever way the wind is blowing all in the name of power-seeking. Well worth a listen (or read the transcript). >**JD Vance is unrecognizable to his former friend, who shared their emails and texts** >[https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5057499/jd-vance-election-donald-trump-trans-friend-emails](https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5057499/jd-vance-election-donald-trump-trans-friend-emails)

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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This shit is just wall-to-wall rage-bait. It is fucking intolerable to listen to people who already agree with each other on these conspiracies. I've heard this conversation so many times. They talk about all of these things as though they were dominant national crises that are happening at such overwhelming rates that action must be taken, and yet... how many transgender athletes even actually are there again? You say that pharmaceutical companies are "getting rich" off of hormones for gender-swapping teens? Well, that would be a massive and dramatic amount of prescription, so surely it would be extremely easy to see the numbers for such rapid increases in hormone sales, right? How big of a population even is the transgender community to create this massive new wealth you reference? Because that would be an unbelievably large increase, too. All of this shit is based on them seeing so many panicky stories in right wing media that they assume that these things are happening literally everywhere and in literally the most dramatic and nonsensical ways possible. Go out in the world, it's pretty much exactly the same. Nobody is swapping genders to go to college. If you found one person doing that, congrats. You got them. That's the one. Vance definitely knows this. Rogan probably doesn't. To be clear, I'm not trying to diminish any of these issues. I'm just still kind of struck by how completely fabricated the scale of the things that they suggest really are. They're just able to convince each other of the most dramatic escalations pulled from either exaggerations or just thin fucking air. Sigh. I'm so goddamn tired.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jd-vance-saved-his-most-outrageous-takes-on-trans-issues-for-rogan-sit-down/

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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JD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-Down Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEElectionsJD Vance Saved His Most Outrageous Takes on Trans Issues for Rogan Sit-DownTHE VANCE EXPERIENCEThe vice presidential hopeful claimed his daughter will one day have to fear for her life while playing sports because of trans women and girls.Josh Fiallo Breaking News ReporterUpdated Oct. 31 2024 6:51PM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 3:40PM EDT The Joe Rogan Experience Josh FialloBreaking News [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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> Vance quoted the Parisian as saying: “‘Senator Vance, I’m embarrassed to tell you this, but when I was in New York City recently, I saw a grown man who was walking around in a miniskirt... Senator Vance, I could see his balls.‘” Is "Senator Vance" his bullshit tell like when Trump has stories where the imaginary people call him "Sir" at the start of every sentence?

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack

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And yet maga throws a hissy fit over Biden’s garbage comment

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack

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>You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is! For all you free speech MAGA evangelists. The first amendment isn't just for racial slurs. It's to protect journalism from tyrants, and shed light on their deeds.

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/

2024-10-31T23:11:15

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack

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They have this gem : “People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.” August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documents

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks — Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/

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A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks - The AtlanticSkip to contentSite NavigationThe AtlanticPopularLatestNewslettersSectionsPoliticsIdeasFictionTechnologySciencePhotoEconomyCulturePlanetGlobalBooksAudioHealthEducationProjectsFeaturesFamilyEventsWashington WeekProgressNewslettersExplore The Atlantic ArchivePlay The Atlantic crosswordListen to Podcasts and ArticlesThe Print EditionLatest IssuePast IssuesGive a GiftSearch The AtlanticQuick LinksAudioCrossword PuzzleMagazine ArchiveYour SubscriptionPopularLatestNewslettersSign InSubscribeTimeline2015201620172018201920202021202220232024Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nicholas Kamm / AFP; Mandel Ngan / AFP; Brendan Smialowski / AFP; Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.PoliticsA Brief History of Trump’s Violent RemarksHere are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.By Isabel Fattal and Stephanie BaiOctober 31, 2024 ShareSave Updated on November 1 at 9:41 a.m. ETAfter the second attempt on his life, Donald Trump accused his political opponents of inspiring the attacks against him with their rhetoric. The reality, however, is that Trump himself has a long record—singular among American presidents of the modern era—of inciting and threatening violence against his fellow citizens, journalists, and anyone he deems his opposition. At a campaign event on October 31, Trump said of former U.S. Representative Liz Cheney, “She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it ... when the guns are trained on her face.”Below is a partial list of his violent comments, from the 2016 presidential campaign until today.November 2015Play Quote“Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing.”November 22, 2015, in response to a Fox News host asking about a heckler at Trump’s rally in Alabama the day beforeFebruary 2016Play Quote“If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise.”February 1, 2016, at a rally in IowaPlay Quote“I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.”February 6, 2016, at a Republican-primary debateEthan Miller / GettyPlay Quote“I’d like to punch him in the face.”February 22, 2016, about a protester who disrupted a Las Vegas rally“They said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said, ‘I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough.’ It’s true, it’s true—right? We don’t go far enough. We don’t go far enough.”February 22, 2016, at a rally in Las VegasMarch 2016Play Quote“I think you’d have riots.”March 16, 2016, on what would happen if he wasn’t nominated at the upcoming Republican National ConventionAugust 2017ReutersPlay Quote“You also had people that were very fine people on both sides.”August 15, 2017, speaking at a press conference about the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VirginiaOctober 2018“Any guy that can do a body slam, he is my guy!”October 18, 2018, referring to then-Representative Greg Gianforte, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for physically assaulting a reporterMarch 2019“I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump—I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad.”March 12, 2019, in an interview with Breitbart NewsMay 2020Reuters“When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”May 29, 2020, posted on Twitter during the protests and riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd was murderedJune 2020“Can’t you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?”June 2020, according to former Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s memoir, which described Trump having said this about protesters outside the White House (Trump has denied saying this)September 2020“And I’ll tell you something—that’s the way it has to be. There has to be retribution when you have crime like this.”September, 12, 2020, in a Fox News interview, praising police for killing the antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl, who was accused of killing a right-wing protesterFootage by Rise Images / GettyPlay Quote“Stand back and stand by.”September 29, 2020, addressing the Proud Boys during a presidential debateJanuary 2021“I don’t fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me.”January 6, 2021, just minutes before addressing the crowd at the Ellipse, Trump shouted this to his advance team, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson (who served as assistant to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Trump administration)“Get smart Republicans. FIGHT!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet before the election certification took placeMandel Ngan /AFP via Getty“You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”January 6, 2021, in claiming that the election was stolen and urging supporters to march to the Capitol“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!”January 6, 2021, in a tweet, while rioters at the Capitol were chanting “Hang Mike Pence”Reuters“We love you. You’re very special. You’ve seen what happens. You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so evil. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in peace.”January 6, 2021, in a video message to the insurrectionists at the CapitolAugust 2022“People are so angry at what is taking place. Whatever we can do to help, because the temperature has to be brought down in the country. If it isn’t, terrible things are going to happen.”August 15, 2022, in a Fox News interview about the FBI’s search of his Mar-a-Lago residence, which uncovered boxes containing classified documentsOctober 2022“You take the writer and/or the publisher of the paper … and you say, ‘Who is the leaker? National security.’ And they say, ‘We’re not gonna tell you.’ They say, ‘That’s okay, you’re going to jail.’ And when this person realizes that he is going to be the bride of another prisoner very shortly, he will say, ‘I’d very much like to tell you exactly who that leaker is!’”October 22, 2022, during a Texas rallyNovember 2022“You tell the reporter, ‘Who is it?’ And the reporter will either tell you or not. And if the reporter doesn’t want to tell you, it’s bye-bye, the reporter goes to jail. And when the reporter learns that he’s going to be married in two days to a certain prisoner that’s extremely strong, tough and mean, he will say, ‘You know’ … I think I’m going to give you the information.’”November 7, 2022, during a rally in OhioMarch 2023Play Quote“I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”March 4, 2023, at the Conservative Political Action Committee summit“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former President of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting President in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a Crime, when it is known by all that NO Crime has been committed, & also known that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country?”March 24, 2023, in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth SocialJabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty“2024 is the final battle. It’s going to be the big one. You put me back in the White House, their reign will be over and America will be a free nation once again.”March 25, 2023, during a rally in Waco, TexasApril 2023“Our enemies are desperate to stop us, because they know we are the only ones who can stop them.”April 27, 2023, during a rally in New HampshireAugust 2023“IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!”August 4, 2023, in a Truth Social post that U.S. prosecutors flagged as an indication that Trump might try to intimidate witnesses in the federal election-subversion case against himSeptember 2023“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH.”September 22, 2023, on Truth Social, suggesting that General Mark Milley, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, should be executedPlay Quote“Very simply, if you rob a store, you can fully expect to be shot as you are leaving that store. Shot.”September 29, 2023, speaking at the California Republican Party conventionNovember 2023Play Quote“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections … The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.”November 11, 2023, during a Veterans Day speechDecember 2023Play Quote“Except for day one … After that, I’m not a dictator.”December 5, 2023, during a town hall in Iowa, in response to the Fox News host Sean Hannity asking Trump if he could promise not to abuse power or seek retribution if he winsPlay Quote“They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”December 16, 2023, referring to illegal immigrants during a New Hampshire rallyJanuary 2024“It’ll be bedlam in the country. It’s a very bad thing. It’s a very bad precedent. As we said, it’s the opening of a Pandora’s box.”January 9, 2024, to a group of reporters after a court hearing in which his team argued that presidential immunity should protect him from criminal prosecution for attempting to subvert the 2020 electionMarch 2024“Free the January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned!”March 11, 2024, in a Truth Social post promising that he would pardon the January 6 insurrectionists if electedPlay Quote“If I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”March 16, 2024, during a speech about the U.S. auto-manufacturing industry in Ohio (Trump’s campaign later said that he was referencing a “bloodbath” for the automaker industry)June 2024Play Quote“Well, revenge does take time. I will say that. And sometimes revenge can be justified, Phil, I have to be honest.”June 6, 2024, in an interview with Phil McGraw, host of Dr. PhilSeptember 2024“In Colorado, they’re so brazen, they’re taking over sections of the state. And you know, getting them out will be a bloody story. They should have never been allowed to come into our country. Nobody checked them.”September 7, 2024, at a rally in Wisconsin, referring to his mass-deportation plansC-SPANPlay Quote“If you had one really violent day … one rough hour—and I mean real rough—the word will get out, and it will end immediately.”September 29, 2024, proposing a violent crackdown by police to deal with crime, during a rally in PennsylvaniaOctober 2024“I always say, we have two enemies … We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia, and all these countries … We have some very bad people; we have some sick people, radical-left lunatics. And it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by the National Guard—or, if really necessary, by the military.”October 13, 2024, in a Fox News interview“It is the enemy from within. And they’re very dangerous—they’re Marxists and Communists and fascists … They’re dangerous for our country. We have China, we have Russia, we have all these countries. If you have a smart president, they can all be handled. The more difficult are, you know, the Pelosis, these people, they’re so sick; they’re so evil.”October 15, 2024, during a Fox News town hall“That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions—it’s like, hundreds of thousands—it could’ve been the largest group I’ve ever spoken before.”October 16, 2024, referring to the January 6 insurrection during a Univision town hallAbout the AuthorsIsabel FattalFollowStephanie BaiFollowExplore More Topics2020 United States presidential election, Donald Trump, Fox News, January 6 United States Capitol attack

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I hope fervently he loses big, and fades away, because I'm getting sick and tired of reading, hearing and seeing this lowlife.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/

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Interesting. One would think these could have been released. >Wolff alleged that they were in Epstein’s safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The massive haul of evidence taken by the feds has never been made public–and while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had “hundreds of photos of girls and young women,” they have never offered any more details of them.

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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It was reported that a bunch of digital media was scooped up by the FBI. 🦗

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Seriously, why doesn’t the media or Democratic candidates call out his Epstein ties every hour??

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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The Trump campaign hit back at Wolff for the claims, calling him “disgraced.” A campaign spokesperson said in a statement to the Beast, “Michael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics. “He waited until days before the election to make outlandish false smears all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris. He’s a failed journalist that is resorting to lying for attention.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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I guess not young enough to warrant reporting it as evidence of a crime, but any remaining Epstein/Maxwell blackmail is only in intelligence services hands now.

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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They were too busy releasing Hillary's laptop that they mysteriously found, right after the Access Hollywood tape that hit the airwaves?

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Barr was head of the DOJ at the time. Those pictures have been burned and the ashes buried.

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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I’m going to hazard a guess on this. Wealthy people of both parties are implicated and have made sure that the information does not become public. Just a guess, but it’s consistent with the game of having us peons fight over drag queen story hours to distract us from the real issue of income inequality.

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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I'm sure the first thing the FBI did was destroy any evidence that would implicate Trump or any of his friends.

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Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. | Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.

1ggruz8

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/

2024-10-31T23:17:42

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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angrybirdseller

t2_pywux

Nothing new about Trump! Go vote for Harris/Walz 🗳!

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Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. | Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.

1ggruz8

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/

2024-10-31T23:17:42

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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Antique-Commercial-1

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A case of “I’ll believe it when I see it” so many people want Trump destroyed that anything incriminating would have been long released. No way these would have been kept for blackmail if they existed.

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Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. | Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.

1ggruz8

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York Magazine that year for a story headlined “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.” “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

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Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. | Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe–which the FBI later seized.

1ggruz8

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-showed-pics-of-donald-trump-with-topless-young-women-claims-author-michael-wolff/

2024-10-31T23:17:42

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Jeffrey Epstein Showed Pics of Donald Trump with Topless Young Women, Claims Author Michael Wolff Skip to Main ContentNewslettersCrosswordSUBSCRIBEALLCSCHEAT SHEETNEWSLETTERSLOG INCheat SheetMediaObsessedRoyalsPoliticsOpinionInnovationU.S. NewsScoutedMy AccountManage NewslettersSubscription OffersNeed Help?LogOutHOMEPAGEMediaEpstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims AuthorOCTOBER SURPRISE?Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized.Hugh Dougherty Executive EditorUpdated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT / Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/NBC Hugh DoughertyExecutive [email protected] a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here.Trending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal PattersonTrending NowPoliticsTrump Signs New Order to Vastly Expand His Presidential PowersYasmeen HamadehMediaCNN Host Asks Hysterical Stephen Miller to ‘Calm Down’ in Live InterviewYasmeen HamadehPoliticsDOGE’s Shocking $8 Billion Dollar Mistake Called OutJosh FialloMediaAnti-Trump Podcast Dethrones Joe Rogan at Top of the ChartsJulia OrnedoU.S. NewsJFK’s Grandson Freaks Out After Trump Order Closes Kennedy LibraryKenneal Patterson ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTBACK TO TOP ↑Cheat SheetPoliticsObsessedMediaWorldCultureU.S. NewsScoutedInnovationTravelSUBSCRIPTIONCROSSWORDNEWSLETTERSPODCASTSGET THE APPFOLLOW USAboutContactTipsJobsAdvertiseHelpPrivacyCode of Ethics & StandardsDiversityTerms & conditionsCopyright & TrademarkCookie Settings© 2024 The Daily Beast Company LLC

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If the fbi has these in their possession why arnt they doing anything with them and hold trump responsible..wtf

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What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/politics/whats-at-stake.html

2024-10-31T23:18:44

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What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election - The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site indexPoliticsToday’s Paper What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election A 14-day series highlighting our best coverage of the most important issues in this election. Limits of Power Maggie Haberman Senior Political Correspondent We’ve spent two years examining the implications of a second Donald Trump presidency. He wants to radically reshape the federal government and consolidate executive power. He tried to do much of this in his first term but was largely stymied. Now, he’s intent on hiring people less likely to say no. Read the story Donald Trump’s Plan for a Radical Reshaping of American Government Pace of Change Erica L. Green White House Correspondent Kamala Harris is not offering sweeping change, even as voters express dissatisfaction about the direction of the country. She’s an institutionalist who wants to preserve democratic ideals, and an incrementalist who believes progress takes time. That means her pragmatic approach could be frustrating to some supporters. Read the story A Harris Win Would Be Historic, but Her Changes Would Come ‘Step-by-Step’ Immigration Jonathan Swan Political Correspondent Donald Trump’s first-term crackdown on immigration looks mild compared with his new plan. He wants to mobilize law enforcement and the military for what he’s dubbed the largest deportation operation in U.S. history: He’d round up millions of undocumented people and hold them in camps to await expulsion. Read the story Sweeping Raids and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s Immigration Plans Rule of Law Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Donald Trump says he would use the power of the presidency to order F.B.I. investigations and criminal prosecutions of his political foes. He was largely thwarted in this in his first term. But the Supreme Court has made it easier for him to succeed if he gets a second chance. Read the story Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency Abortion Rights Kate Zernike Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump has boasted that he was able to kill Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion. He has said he would not sign a national ban if Congress passed one. But his allies in the anti-abortion movement have plans that would let him effectively impose such a ban without Congressional action. Read the story How a Trump Win Could Further Transform Abortion Law Kamala Harris’s Rise Astead Herndon Host of “The Run-Up” Harris’s ascent reflects a changing Democratic Party, one that has reorganized in the Trump era around reproductive rights, racial representation and protecting democracy. She’s kept a distance from the left wing, and united Democrats in a crisis — seeking to recreate the anti-Trump coalition that won victories in 2020 and 2022. Listen to the story The Daily: The Story of Kamala Harris Taxation Andrew Duehren Tax Policy Reporter Donald Trump wants to cut taxes in novel and potentially very expensive ways if he returns to the White House. He would instead impose broad tariffs on imports to fund the government. Taken together, his plans could remake the nation’s tax system, placing a greater burden on low-income Americans. Read the story Trump Promises New Tax Cuts. Other Republicans Are Wary. Deploying Troops on U.S. Soil Charlie Savage Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump says he’d deploy the U.S. military on domestic soil, including to suppress protests he deems riots, patrol Democratic-run cities he deems crime dens and hunt for undocumented immigrants. The strongman tactics would carry profound implications for individual rights and constraints on federal power. Read the story How Trump Would Use Soldiers Against Riots, Crime and Migrants Climate Lisa Friedman Climate Policy Reporter During his presidency, Donald Trump dissolved more than 100 environmental regulations. If elected again, he would kill any federal effort to study and fight climate change, encourage oil and gas companies to “Drill, Baby, Drill” and restrict the government agency that protects air and water. Read the story A Pivotal Choice: Trump vs. Harris on Climate Change Imagining a Harris Presidency Robert Draper Domestic Correspondent Kamala Harris is shattering precedents, but it is easier to see her as president in light of her story as a daughter of motivated immigrants and as a longtime prosecutor. She favors facts over ideology. Her guardedness, as an often prejudged woman of color, makes her aware of inequities in policy. Read the story Harris’s Run Comes After a Series of Career Risks Tariffs and Trade Ana Swanson Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump has proposed sweeping tariffs on imports that would raise trade barriers to a level unseen in generations. Those tariffs would protect some U.S. factories but raise costs for American households. They would also probably incite trade wars and shake the alliances the U.S. has worked to construct since World War II. Read the story Trump’s Tariffs Would Rock Global Businesses and Shake Alliances America’s Place in the World David E. Sanger White House and National Security Correspondent Donald Trump claimed his presidency marked an “America First” approach to the world. But to friends, foes and aides, it was chaotic: He tweeted out policy before it could be analyzed, and allies were often punished more harshly than adversaries. And in his current campaign, he has reversed positions he took as president. Read the story Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Was a Breakdown in American Policymaking. Trump’s Criminal Trials Alan Feuer Criminal Justice Reporter Donald Trump has a uniquely personal stake in the outcome of this election. If he wins, he may be able to wriggle out of many, if not all, of his four criminal cases. If he loses, he could end up in jail and lose his liberty, too. Read the story With Criminal Cases Looming, Trump Has a Personal Stake in the Election Still More Scandals Peter Baker Chief White House Correspondent Donald Trump has been enveloped in more scandals than any other president. A new term could bring more allegations and retribution. But now he’d have immunity granted by the Supreme Court, a firmer grip on the Justice Department and little fear of impeachment after two failed efforts to remove him. Read the story For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment Produced by Gray Beltran, Jenni Lee, Sam Manchester and Andrew RossbackShare full articleAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSite IndexSite Information Navigation© 2025 The New York Times CompanyNYTCoContact UsAccessibilityWork with usAdvertiseT Brand StudioYour Ad ChoicesPrivacy PolicyTerms of ServiceTerms of SaleSite MapCanadaInternationalHelpSubscriptionsManage Privacy Preferences

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substandardrobot

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Maybe the NYT should have been more concerned with what is at stake with this election a year ago and not just trashing Biden and his administration at evert chance they got?

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What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/politics/whats-at-stake.html

2024-10-31T23:18:44

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What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election - The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site indexPoliticsToday’s Paper What’s at Stake in the 2024 Election A 14-day series highlighting our best coverage of the most important issues in this election. Limits of Power Maggie Haberman Senior Political Correspondent We’ve spent two years examining the implications of a second Donald Trump presidency. He wants to radically reshape the federal government and consolidate executive power. He tried to do much of this in his first term but was largely stymied. Now, he’s intent on hiring people less likely to say no. Read the story Donald Trump’s Plan for a Radical Reshaping of American Government Pace of Change Erica L. Green White House Correspondent Kamala Harris is not offering sweeping change, even as voters express dissatisfaction about the direction of the country. She’s an institutionalist who wants to preserve democratic ideals, and an incrementalist who believes progress takes time. That means her pragmatic approach could be frustrating to some supporters. Read the story A Harris Win Would Be Historic, but Her Changes Would Come ‘Step-by-Step’ Immigration Jonathan Swan Political Correspondent Donald Trump’s first-term crackdown on immigration looks mild compared with his new plan. He wants to mobilize law enforcement and the military for what he’s dubbed the largest deportation operation in U.S. history: He’d round up millions of undocumented people and hold them in camps to await expulsion. Read the story Sweeping Raids and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s Immigration Plans Rule of Law Emily Bazelon New York Times Magazine Donald Trump says he would use the power of the presidency to order F.B.I. investigations and criminal prosecutions of his political foes. He was largely thwarted in this in his first term. But the Supreme Court has made it easier for him to succeed if he gets a second chance. Read the story Why Legal Experts Are Worried About a Second Trump Presidency Abortion Rights Kate Zernike Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump has boasted that he was able to kill Roe v. Wade, allowing states to ban abortion. He has said he would not sign a national ban if Congress passed one. But his allies in the anti-abortion movement have plans that would let him effectively impose such a ban without Congressional action. Read the story How a Trump Win Could Further Transform Abortion Law Kamala Harris’s Rise Astead Herndon Host of “The Run-Up” Harris’s ascent reflects a changing Democratic Party, one that has reorganized in the Trump era around reproductive rights, racial representation and protecting democracy. She’s kept a distance from the left wing, and united Democrats in a crisis — seeking to recreate the anti-Trump coalition that won victories in 2020 and 2022. Listen to the story The Daily: The Story of Kamala Harris Taxation Andrew Duehren Tax Policy Reporter Donald Trump wants to cut taxes in novel and potentially very expensive ways if he returns to the White House. He would instead impose broad tariffs on imports to fund the government. Taken together, his plans could remake the nation’s tax system, placing a greater burden on low-income Americans. Read the story Trump Promises New Tax Cuts. Other Republicans Are Wary. Deploying Troops on U.S. Soil Charlie Savage Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump says he’d deploy the U.S. military on domestic soil, including to suppress protests he deems riots, patrol Democratic-run cities he deems crime dens and hunt for undocumented immigrants. The strongman tactics would carry profound implications for individual rights and constraints on federal power. Read the story How Trump Would Use Soldiers Against Riots, Crime and Migrants Climate Lisa Friedman Climate Policy Reporter During his presidency, Donald Trump dissolved more than 100 environmental regulations. If elected again, he would kill any federal effort to study and fight climate change, encourage oil and gas companies to “Drill, Baby, Drill” and restrict the government agency that protects air and water. Read the story A Pivotal Choice: Trump vs. Harris on Climate Change Imagining a Harris Presidency Robert Draper Domestic Correspondent Kamala Harris is shattering precedents, but it is easier to see her as president in light of her story as a daughter of motivated immigrants and as a longtime prosecutor. She favors facts over ideology. Her guardedness, as an often prejudged woman of color, makes her aware of inequities in policy. Read the story Harris’s Run Comes After a Series of Career Risks Tariffs and Trade Ana Swanson Domestic Correspondent Donald Trump has proposed sweeping tariffs on imports that would raise trade barriers to a level unseen in generations. Those tariffs would protect some U.S. factories but raise costs for American households. They would also probably incite trade wars and shake the alliances the U.S. has worked to construct since World War II. Read the story Trump’s Tariffs Would Rock Global Businesses and Shake Alliances America’s Place in the World David E. Sanger White House and National Security Correspondent Donald Trump claimed his presidency marked an “America First” approach to the world. But to friends, foes and aides, it was chaotic: He tweeted out policy before it could be analyzed, and allies were often punished more harshly than adversaries. And in his current campaign, he has reversed positions he took as president. Read the story Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Was a Breakdown in American Policymaking. Trump’s Criminal Trials Alan Feuer Criminal Justice Reporter Donald Trump has a uniquely personal stake in the outcome of this election. If he wins, he may be able to wriggle out of many, if not all, of his four criminal cases. If he loses, he could end up in jail and lose his liberty, too. Read the story With Criminal Cases Looming, Trump Has a Personal Stake in the Election Still More Scandals Peter Baker Chief White House Correspondent Donald Trump has been enveloped in more scandals than any other president. A new term could bring more allegations and retribution. But now he’d have immunity granted by the Supreme Court, a firmer grip on the Justice Department and little fear of impeachment after two failed efforts to remove him. Read the story For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment Produced by Gray Beltran, Jenni Lee, Sam Manchester and Andrew RossbackShare full articleAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSite IndexSite Information Navigation© 2025 The New York Times CompanyNYTCoContact UsAccessibilityWork with usAdvertiseT Brand StudioYour Ad ChoicesPrivacy PolicyTerms of ServiceTerms of SaleSite MapCanadaInternationalHelpSubscriptionsManage Privacy Preferences

lurzqx0

Eatthehamsters69

t2_18oxgeafrg

Global trade war, mass deportation, destruction of the "regulatory state"(?) meaning less clean air, food and water I guess, anti-intellectualism being normalized and a sham democracy fully run by oligarchs.

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