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Former CNN ‘Journalist’ Makes a Stunning Admission About Fauci

Throughout Chris Cillizza’s long career as a “journalist” and “political commentator,” he has shown himself repeatedly to be a dutiful propagandist for the left, never daring to get even close to an independent thought and instead faithfully reflecting whatever the political and media elites wanted him to think. And that is still largely the case, but these are unusual times, and even Cillizza has demonstrated a shocking level of independence for a leftist journo, even daring to say that Donald Trump, the veritable focus of evil in the modern world, may have been right about something. Et tu, Cillizza? Yes: for the left, it has come even to this.

Cillizza wrote on X Monday: “I screwed up. Back in May 2020, I wrote how Anthony Fauci had ‘crushed’ Donald Trump’s lab-leak theory for how Covid-19 originated The CIA said over the weekend that they now believed the virus leaked from a lab.” 

To get an idea of how big this admission is, consider that Cillizza’s Substack bears a heading that boasts about Trump’s disdain for him: “So What: Donald Trump once called me ‘one of the dumber and least respected of the political pundits.’ So I got that going for me. I write about politics — mostly — with humor, transparency, and authenticity. 2-3 posts a day.” Well, he writes about politics, anyway, and actually approached some transparency and authenticity in his Monday thread on X.

Cillizza noted a recent assessment from the CIA — and they wouldn’t lie to us, now, would they? “Here’s a CIA spokesperson: ‘CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based on the available body of reporting.’” Since this so sharply differs from what the CIA and the entire political and media establishment were telling us at the time, it is worth crediting, even though it does come from the CIA. And Cillizza was man enough to recognize its implications for his previous “reporting.”

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LOL: CNN Lady Can’t Cope With Trump’s Popularity Skyrocketing

CNN analyst Harry Enten detailed how President Trump’s popularity among Americans is skyrocketing as he continues to get things done and bring America back from the brink, but his CNN colleague couldn’t cope with it.

Enten pointed to a Reuters Ipsos poll that found Trump has a higher approval rating than ever.

“This is a very different Donald Trump,” Enten noted, adding “He’s leading a very different administration in the way he’s attacking things, and the American public is very much more in line with him than they were at any point during his entire first term.”

Anchor Kate Bolduan refused to accept the reality, whinging “One, I would say correction, this is not a very different Donald Trump,” she blathered.

Looking visibly angered, she whined in a high pitched shriek “I have a really hard time believing this,” as Enten explained that Trump is the only President in history to have a higher approval rating in his second term than in his first.

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Damning statistics reveal how ABC, CBS and NBC obsessed over January 6 but ignored Biden’s family pardons

The mainstream media spent an average of 46 minutes covering Donald Trump‘s January 6 pardons but just three minutes covering Biden’s pardoning of his own family, new analysis has found. 

Between January 20 and January 22, ABC, NBC and CBS devoted 15 times as much airtime to Trump’s pardons than they did Biden’s, the analysis by The Media Research Center found. 

The anchors who led the coverage included ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell. 

Biden issued a series of preemptive pardons for family members James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden in the final hours of his administration.

He also pardoned younger brother James’ wife, Sara; his sister, Valerie; her husband, John; and his younger brother, Francis Biden, for ‘nonviolent’ actions dating back 10 years. In December, Biden pardoned son Hunter, despite vowing not to.

But newscasters barely covered it. Instead, they obsessed over the controversy surrounding Trump, the MRC found. 

The study comes days as CNN and NBC recover from sweeping layoffs.  

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Race-Baiter Elie Mystal Has EPIC Meltdown Against White People — Blames Them for High Egg Prices Just 5 Days into Trump’s Presidency

In a recent appearance on MSNBC, race baiter Elie Mystal erupted in a fiery tirade against White Americans, blaming them for sustaining what he calls a “disgusting version of America,” all within the first week of President Donald Trump’s term.

This outburst followed Trump’s controversial decision to pardon over a thousand participants of the January 6 Capitol riots.

Mystal had an epic meltdown during a discussion about the broader implications of Trump’s pardons, which he referred to as predictable to those who’ve been paying attention.

“We tried to tell you all,” said Mystal. “Ali, I wrote specifically about this issue, what he was going to do to the Department of Justice multiple times during the election cycle Because as you pointed out in your open, this was all written down.

“I don’t like the shock and awe version of this, because if you had been paying attention, they wrote it down. They told you exactly what they were going to do and exactly how you were going to do it. A majority of White people voted for this. This is the disgusting version of America that people want,” he added.

Mystal then ridiculously blamed White people for the recent spike in egg prices—a mere five days into Donald Trump’s second term as President.

“And, by the way, eggs are still more expensive so you didn’t even get that, great job, white folks!”

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“Closer To Disinformation”: Ex-Politico Reporters Reveal How “Cowardly Editors” Helped Biden Win 2020 Election

Two former Politico reporters revealed how “cowardly editors” at their former publication carried water for Joe Biden in the 2020 election by actively working to suppress stories that were unflattering to Biden.

“Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, or bore the hallmarks of disinformation,” said Marc Caputo, now the senior politics editor at Axios. “Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true.”

The other ex-Politico reporter, Tara Palmeri – who interviewed Caputo on her “Somebody’s Gotta Win” podcast, recalled how social media giants colluded to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, while Caputo noted that (pre-Musk) Twitter “punished” the New York Post for its accurate reporting – locking the outlet out of its account following a pressure campaign from the Biden DOJ.

“I was covering Biden at the time,” Caputo told Palmeri, adding: “And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop.”

Caputo added that he was working on a story about Hunter Biden’s shady dealings with Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma, which Politico editors “killed” during the 2020 Democrat primaries.

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THE POOR DEARS: Media Elites Complain They’re Exhausted After Just Four Days of Trump Presidency

Trump has been president for less than a week and some elites in the liberal media are already complaining that they’re exhausted. Won’t someone please think of the poor journalists?

After taking four years off to not fairly cover the Joe Biden presidency, they’re not used to having to actually do their jobs.

It’s not really a surprise that they’re tired. The man they’re trying to keep up with has more energy than most people.

Breitbart News reports:

Media Elites Whine They Are ‘Exhausted’ Just 5 Days into Trump’s Presidency

Establishment media personalities say they are already worn out from covering President Donald Trump and his resurgent drive to deliver the “Golden Age of America.”

Media elites did not have to work very hard during the previous administration.

President Joe Biden rarely gave interviews and appeared to hide from the public due to his health. Interviews conducted by the Wall Street Journal revealed Biden’s aides protected the “diminished” president from cabinet members, donors, pollsters, the media, and top Democrat lawmakers…

Day four “feels like month four,” Puck’s Tara Palmeri whined Thursday, noting she was hesitant to report the news for fear of “piling on to the deluge of Trump news.”

“Exhausted yet?” Susan Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker, asked readers in a report with a list of Trump’s immediate actions since taking office…

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New York Times Complains Labeling Mexican Cartels Terrorist Organizations Will ‘Hurt The U.S. Economy’

As Donald Trump gets to work on his agenda, left-wing media organizations like The New York Times are already making fools of themselves.

On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terror organizations.

His order stated:

The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs.

The Cartels functionally control, through a campaign of assassination, terror, rape, and brute force nearly all illegal traffic across the southern border of the United States.

In certain portions of Mexico, they function as quasi-governmental entities, controlling nearly all aspects of society.

The Cartels’ activities threaten the safety of the American people, the security of the United States, and the stability of the international order in the Western Hemisphere.

Their activities, proximity to, and incursions into the physical territory of the United States pose an unacceptable national security risk to the United States.

However, The New York Times is now arguing that this move will damage the U.S. economy because of the risk of businesses in both countries violating sanctions against terrorist groups.

Their article states.

The foreign terrorist designation could lead to severe penalties — including substantial fines, asset seizures and criminal charges — on companies and individuals found to be paying ransom or extortion payments.

U.S. companies could also be ensnared by standard payments made to Mexican companies that a cartel controls without the American companies’ knowledge.

As a result, companies in the risk-averse American financial sector may simply refuse to wire money to a Mexican factory, for example, to facilitate cross-border production and trade, or to wire money between personal accounts.

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If money transfer companies like Western Union also stop transactions to Mexico over worries about properly vetting Mexican clients, it could affect the remittances the country relies on.

That would be devastating for the Mexican economy, which received $63.3 billion in remittances in 2023, nearly 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

The Mexican peso has suffered as a result of the designation, as well as the looming threat of tariffs and trade barriers.

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After Four Years of Covering Up Biden’s Dementia, President Trump Shocks Media by Taking Questions From Reporters in Oval Office While Signing Executive Orders and J6 Pardons

President Trump shocked the media by engaging reporters in an extended Q & A in the Oval Office Monday night while signing executive orders and pardons and commutations for supporters prosecuted over the January 6 riot. The signing event went on for about 45 minutes as Trump took questions from reporters while he signed the orders and pardons. It was a stark contrast from the four years of the media covering up Joe Biden’s dementia.

Will Scharf, who was one of Trump’s personal attorneys in his court battles last year and was appointed by Trump to be White House staff secretary, handed Trump the binders with executive orders and pardons, explaining to Trump and the reporters about each one.

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MSNBC anchors Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid triggered by Trump inauguration: ‘How is this happening in America?’

Left-wing cable news channel MSNBC is back to foaming at the mouth about Donald Trump.

Anchors Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid went off the deep end while covering Inauguration Day, both aghast at the prospect of a democratically elected president making good on his policy promises that decisively swept him into office.

“How is this happening in America?” Maddow asked incredulously at the sight of Department of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem seated beside Apple CEO Tim Cook at the inauguration ceremony, Mediaite reported.

“How is this happening? Why are people with tons of money up on the dais with cabinet nominees and family members?” she asked, apparently forgetting that billionaires supported former Vice President Kamala Harris over Trump by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.

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Biden’s Biggest Lies In MSNBC Oval Office Exit Interview

President Joe Biden sat down with MSNBC propagandist Lawrence O’Donnell for an Oval Office exit interview, where he persistently lied about major initiatives of his presidency and the state of politics during his term.

Along the way, Biden was aided by the dangerously uncurious bootlicking of O’Donnell who never once pushed back on anything Biden said, and at times praised him and made emotional appeals to his decades of failed public service.

‘An Oligarchy Is Taking Shape’

In the interview, O’Donnell referenced a portion of Biden’s farewell address where he warned of an “oligarchy” taking shape.

“You issued the warning about the power of the tech-industrial complex, an echo of President Eisenhower in this very room in his farewell address, warning about the military-industrial complex,” O’Donnell said. “And you said that an oligarchy is taking shape that threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. How does this oligarchy affect people out there who’ve never used the word ‘oligarchy’?”

“If the decision is made that the multi-billionaires — the super, super wealthy, the wealthiest people in the world — begin to control all the apparatuses from the media to the economy, then who do I get to fight back for me?” Biden replied.

But Biden’s response displays a clear misunderstanding of whose political allies are run by oligarchs — even though Biden himself was on the receiving end of their wrath.

In 2024, Democrat oligarchs decided to usurp the will of their own voters and oust Biden from running for a second term as president, coronating Vice President Kamala Harris, for whom no one voted, instead.

This did not come as a surprise to anyone who paid even minimal attention to the 2016 primary, where Democrat oligarchs united to destroy the presidential prospects of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., flexing their “super delegates” to coronate Hillary Clinton.

Democrat oligarchy does not stop at the party, either.

On Jan. 4, Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to both Clinton and far-left billionaire George Soros, who is infamous for funding the elections of feckless district attorneys to make communities less safe, buying local news outlets to stop the flow of information to the American public, hijacking local elections offices, and supporting a vast network of activists who push things like transgender interventions and abortion.

The list of Soros’ investments to alter the fabric of American society is too long to review here, but he also funded Black Lives Matter, defund-the-police movements, open borders, legalization of all drugs in Oregon, and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

Leftists boast quite a list of billionaire oligarchs, including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Pierre Omidyar, Reid Hoffman, Hansjörg Wyss, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, and John Arnold.

Some of those oligarchs, like Zuckerberg, facilitated the suppression of true information on Facebook and other platforms at the direction of the Biden administration itself. He helped the Democrats censor information about the coronavirus and the vaccine, as well as questions about the legitimacy of the 2020 election. Zuckerberg actually spent hundreds of millions of dollars to change election rules in 2020.

While it is unclear exactly who Biden was referencing with his “oligarchs” comment, it is easy to assume it is Elon Musk, the person who bought Twitter in order to make it an open platform for sharing information without censorship, specifically because Democrat oligarchs exercised so much control over the American people.

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