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CNN’s Abby Phillip Gets Schooled by Rep. Lawler as He Shuts Down Her Claim That Deporting Illegals Is ‘Too Expensive’

CNN host Abby Phillip seemed more concerned with the cost of deporting illegal immigrants than the devastating financial and social toll their unchecked influx is already imposing on American taxpayers.

During an exchange with Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Phillip’s attempt to question the feasibility of deportation efforts was met with a brutal dose of reality.

Phillip smugly suggested that deporting illegal immigrants might be too expensive, quipping that Homan “doesn’t seem to have a sense of the scope—what it’s going to take, what it’s going to cost.”

But Lawler, armed with cold, hard facts, quickly set the record straight, exposing the absurdity of Phillip’s argument.

Lawler brought up the tragic human cost of sanctuary policies, recounting a horrifying incident where a criminal alien—previously deported by the Trump administration but allowed back into the country by the Biden regime—committed an unthinkable act of violence by burning a woman alive on a subway.

He slammed sanctuary states and cities like New York for enabling such heinous crimes by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration law.

And it’s not just public safety that’s at stake—it’s the livelihoods of hardworking Americans. Lawler pointed out the hypocrisy of New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who burdens her state’s citizens with a $2,500 congestion pricing fee while simultaneously funneling taxpayer dollars into free services for illegal immigrants.

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Trump spokesperson rips Dems for wanting to ‘steal the election’ after op-ed argues Congress can block him from White House

Donald Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung blasted the premise that Congress could block the incoming president from assuming power — calling it a “threat to Democracy” on Thursday.

The Hill published an op-ed with the headline, “Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now,” pushing that those who engaged in an insurrection against the Constitution should be banned from assuming power.

“Oh, look. Democrats want to steal the election and invalidate the will of the American people,” Cheung wrote on X in response to the op-ed.

“Threat to Democracy.”

“Here are two idiots inciting an insurrection …Remember the names: Congress has the power to block Trump from taking office, but lawmakers must act now,” Chris LaCivita, a former 2024 campaign Trump adviser, also wrote.

“You people are sick,” Trump’s middle son, Eric, chimed in.

“Such a crazy thing for them to say. Legacy media is just the propaganda arm of the radical left,” Trump ally Elon Musk wrote in response to the scion’s tweet.

The Hill article notes that the 14th Amendment in the Constitution states, “No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” 

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MSM Quietly Acquits Itself with Hushed Admissions of Major White House Coverup

Another one of those bombshell MSM pieces slipped past this week, not far in gravity from the seminal Time exposé about the ‘shadow campaign’ that stole the 2020 election.

This time it dealt with the revelation surrounding Biden’s “diminished” mental capacity, long known to all those around him, and how he was essentially ventriloquized, shielded, and stage managed into an acceptable simulacrum of a ‘president’. Of course, as usual the admissions are made long after the fact, with the damage long done and the MSM shills feeling they can now provocatively milk the revelation when the chance for any accountability has been dissipated and America’s attention redirected elsewhere.

More significantly the article indirectly sheds light on the structure and contours of the deep state and just how the powers that be work behind the scenes to control policy by taking advantage of crises to foment ideal circumstances that can be used to steer events and people in power.

In this case, the article makes direct mention of how Biden’s staff ‘took advantage’ of the Covid era protocols which insulated the president from excessive meetings and contact, stretching the new normal out indefinitely to the present in a way that evoked few real protests yet kept Biden under the thumb of a small claque of inner staff.

And that word—insulated—is an operative one: it’s used in various forms nearly ten separate times in the article, including as title of a subheading, with the very theme consequently being Biden’s total insulation from the outside world, which included members of Congress and Cabinet.

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Former ‘GMA Producer’ Accused of Taking Thousands from Florida Lobbying Firm for ‘Hit Job’ Interviews Sues NPR, Floodlight, and High-Profile Players

Freelance television producer Kristen Hentschel has filed a high-profile lawsuit against a web of powerful individuals and organizations, alleging that a conspiracy led to the destruction of her once-flourishing career.

The ‘Emmy-nominated producer’ accuses Jeffrey Pitts, a former CEO of the controversial consulting firm Matrix LLC, along with public relations powerhouse McNicholas & Associates, and prominent news outlets NPR and Floodlight, of orchestrating a campaign of defamation, false light, and invasion of privacy.

“Plaintiff Kristen Hentschel (“Plaintiff” or “Hentschel”) brings this action against Defendant Jeffrey Pitts (“Pitts”) for tortious interference with business relationships, defamation, false light, and invasion of privacy, against Defendant McNicholas & Associates, Inc. (“McNicholas”) for invasion of privacy and false light, and against Defendants National Public Radio, Inc. (“NPR”) and Floodlight, Inc. (“Floodlight”) for defamation and false light,” according to the court filing obtained by The Gateway Pundit.

Hentschel, who previously worked behind the scenes at ABC News, claims her professional and personal life became collateral damage in a power struggle between Pitts and Matrix’s owner, Joe Perkins.

The allegations center on Pitts, who allegedly “groomed” Hentschel to serve his interests before sacrificing her career to protect high-profile clients, including Florida Power & Light and Florida Crystals.

Hentschel contends that Pitts provided false information to media outlets, resulting in NPR and Floodlight publishing defamatory articles that irreparably damaged her reputation.

The stories, published in late 2022, accused Hentschel of unethical journalism practices, including leveraging her ABC credentials for corporate espionage—a claim she vehemently denies.

The Journalist’s Resource reported that the operations of Matrix LLC, a political consulting firm, and its alleged payments to local news outlets to shape coverage in favor of powerful clients, might have remained undisclosed if not for an anonymous whistleblower who leaked hundreds of internal documents in 2022.

The leaked trove included emails, financial ledgers, and other records that laid bare the firm’s covert tactics.

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Unearthed Trump Era Video From 2018 Shows Homeland Actress Claire Danes Telling Stephen Colbert the Intelligence Community Allied With Journalists

A video clip resurfaced Tuesday of Homeland actress Claire Danes telling CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert in February 2018 that the “intelligence community was…allying itself with journalists” during its battles with the Trump administration. Homeland ran on Showtime, starting during the Obama administration in 2011 and ending in 2020 during Trump’s first term.

Danes told Colbert that each year during the show’s run the cast, writers and producers would spend a week in Washington, D.C. for a “spy camp” with “real spooks”, meeting at a Georgetown club with people from the intelligence community, the State Department and the media.

Danes said the relationship between the Trump administration and the intelligence community soured at the start of 2017 (“there wasn’t great faith in the very beginning”) and that the spooks started allying with journalists. (Note: The alliance started earlier with the 2016 Russia hoax Steele Dossier and the early January 2017 intel-fed Washington Post hit that helped to take out Trump’s first national security advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn.)

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60 Minutes Gets Dragged on Twitter/X Over Story Praising Gun Control Policies in Mexico

Over the weekend, 60 Minutes did a story about gun control in Mexico, pointing out that the country has only one gun store and that it’s located on a military base.

Twitter/X users were quick to point out that Mexico is basically run by violent, murderous drug cartels which are armed to the teeth.

60 Minutes went out of their way to push a narrative about illegal guns in Mexico coming from the U.S., as if the violence south of the border is somehow America’s fault. Have they heard of a program called Fast and Furious that happened under Obama?

From CBS News:

Like the U.S., Mexico’s constitution grants citizens the right to bear arms…. but unlike the U.S., that right comes with a long list of restrictions.

There’s only one gun store in Mexico…in the middle of a heavily guarded military base in Mexico City…we were allowed in.

But before customers can enter, they have to show proof they’ve passed psychological tests, drug screens and extensive background checks.

The store sells about a thousand guns a month. Mostly, shotguns, small caliber rifles, and handguns… what civilians can’t buy here are the weapons the cartel favors. Those are not legally sold anywhere in Mexico.

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Sen. John Fetterman Expertly Shuts Down ABC Hack Suggesting Donald Trump May Be a Fascist 

Sen. John Fetterman is pushing back against hysteric left-wing claims that Donald Trump is a fascist.

In an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl, the Pennsylvania Senator started by reflecting on the political talent that Trump showed following the first assassination attempt against him.

“After you survived an assassination, you literally were shot in your head and had the presence of mind to respond, you know, fight, fight, fight. I mean, that’s a political talent.”

“It’s undeniable. And also, I never believed that it was about fascism. And for me, that made it difficult.”

Karl then interjected by pointing out that Kamala Harris had described Trump as a “fascist” during her ill-fated presidential campaign.

“Yeah, well, it’s like that’s her prerogative,” he responded. “I mean, but it’s not a word that I would use because you put a lot of Democrats, especially in my state, that I know and I happen to love people that are going to vote for Trump. And they are not fascists.

“Fascist, that’s not a word that regular people use,” Fetterman continued. “I think people are going to decide who is the candidate that’s going to protect and project, you know, my version of the American way of life. And that’s what happened.”

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Stephen A. Smith Says He Regrets Voting For Kamala Harris: ‘I Don’t Like What I’m Seeing’

The ESPN sports commentator Stephen A. Smith has said he regrets voting for Kamala Harris.

In an interview with Fox News host Mark Levin, Smith said that he had grown disillusioned with the Democratic Party.

“I voted Democrat, and I got to tell you something right now: I don’t like the fact that I did. I don’t like what I’m seeing,” Smith said.

However, Smith said that while he has never voted for a Republican candidate before, he had now become “open-minded” to the idea.

He explained:

I’m down for it. I’m open-minded enough to make sure that they entertain that from a policy perspective. That’s what I want for the American people. That’s what I want for this nation.

What concerned me about Donald Trump, and the reason I voted against him and voted for Kamala Harris, was because I felt that he would be divisive. That he would create chaos because he demands such a level of loyalty and fealty to him. And that would take priority over governing our nation. That was my concern.

It can’t be just about fealty to him and loyalty to him. It has to be about getting the job done on behalf of what’s in the best interests of the American people as opposed to yourself, and not engaging in the kind of juvenile tendencies, tweeting all the time, and going after people who are really…irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

You do things like that, and you show that you’re the adult in the room; I don’t think anybody could dismiss Donald Trump at this particular moment in time.

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Politico Oped Urges Federal Workers to Resist Trump from Inside Administration

Politico published an opinion piece Sunday from a former attorney of Bill Clinton and Brett Kavanaugh accuser, “pleading” with government employees to keep their jobs to fight the incoming Trump administration.

Max Stier, the president and CEO of civil service-focused nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, put up the piece, titled “Dear Federal Workers: Don’t Quit,” on the site.

“Over the next few weeks, U.S. civil servants will spend the holidays wrestling with a tough choice: Stay in your jobs and work for a president who openly disdains you and might try to fire you — or quit,” wrote Stier, a lawyer who previously represented former President Clinton during the Whitewater investigation. “I have already heard from many of you who would rather try your luck on the job market than wait for President-elect Donald Trump’s promised purge.”

“I am asking you — pleading with you: stay. Your decision isn’t just about your career, or a single president. It’s part of a larger war, one waged throughout American history, over what the federal government can and should be.”

Going on to lament how Trump will not “make it easy” for government bureaucrats to do their jobs by “slashing” their “vital roles,” the op-ed argued that they must “weather the storm.”

“If you head for the exits now, every American will suffer,” Stier wrote, before concluding that unelected federal workers are “the lifeblood of our democracy.”

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Saudi Suspect Plows Car Into German Christmas Market; U.S. Media Blames [Checks Notes] the Car

An attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, has left at least two people dead and 60-80 injured. According to Die Welt:

A driver drove into a group of people at the Christmas market in Magdeburg. Government spokesman Matthias Schuppe confirmed to WELT that it was an attack. City spokesman Michael Reif also said that the initial report was an “attack on the Christmas market”. The suspected perpetrator is in police custody. WELT learned from security sources that he is a man from Saudi Arabia who was born in 1974.

The Saudi national, who had reportedly been in Germany illegally since 2006, allegedly rented a car and headed to the market two hours west of Berlin, which was teeming with visitors enjoying the Christmas festivities. A suitcase was found on the passenger seat of the vehicle, according to Die Welt, and authorities are currently trying to ascertain whether it contains an explosive device. The terrorist was taken into custody, and it’s not known whether he acted alone. 

A police spokesman said the suspect drove “at least 400 meters across the Christmas market.” A witness said the attack occurred in the market’s fairy tale section. 

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