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MSNBC Host Threatens to Sue Trump Aide Corey Lewandowski for Defamation — Then is Exposed by His Own Words in Shocking Video

MSNBC host Ari Melber threatened Trump aide Corey Lewandowski with legal action during a live broadcast of The Beat.

The exchange occurred after Lewandowski had the audacity to quote Melber’s own words back to him—words that exposed the media’s obsession with sensationalizing any aspect of President Donald Trump’s life, even following a failed assassination attempt.

Lewandowski, a seasoned campaign manager who played a pivotal role in Trump’s 2016 victory and who recently rejoined Trump’s campaign team as an adviser, didn’t back down in the face of Melber’s baseless threats.

Instead, he called out the MSNBC host for his hypocrisy, pointing out how Melber had described Trump’s appearance at the Republican National Convention last month.

In his broadcast, Melber had belittled Trump’s bandaged ear—an injury from the assassination attempt—as nothing more than “a prop, a spectacle from a candidate who’s obsessed with spectacles.”

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Abbey Gate Families Issue Statement on Trump Honoring the Fallen at Arlington Cemetery After Media Hit Job on Alleged “Physical Clash” With Cemetery Official Over Photographer

President Trump and several family members of the fallen from the August 26, 2021 Abbey Gate terror attack had a heartfelt, dignified morning at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday honoring their loved ones on the third anniversary of the attack. Trump participated with the family members along with several grievously wounded survivors in three wreath laying ceremonies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, followed by a visit to the graves of the fallen in Section 60.

The wreath laying ceremonies were covered by the media (somewhat), but press was not allowed by cemetery rules at Section 60. However, the Trump campaign said it had been granted permission by Arlington and the families to film at Section 60 that day.

A cemetery official on the scene tried to prevent the photographers with Trump and the families from accompanying them in Section 60, provoking an alleged incident that was reported by NPR Tuesday (excerpt):

Two members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff had a verbal and physical altercation Monday with an official at Arlington National Cemetery, where the former president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony, NPR has learned.

A source with knowledge of the incident said the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump staffers from filming and photographing in a section where recent U.S. casualties are buried. The source said Arlington officials had made clear that only cemetery staff members would be authorized to take photographs or film in the area, known as Section 60.

When the cemetery official tried to prevent Trump campaign staff from entering Section 60, campaign staff verbally abused and pushed the official aside, according to the source.

..In a statement to NPR, Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s spokesman, strongly rejected the notion of a physical altercation, adding: “We are prepared to release footage if such defamatory claims are made.

“The fact is that a private photographer was permitted on the premises and for whatever reason an unnamed individual, clearly suffering from a mental health episode, decided to physically block members of President Trump’s team during a very solemn ceremony,” Cheung said in the statement.

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Turns Out Trump DID Have The Rights To The Foo Fighters Song

The rock band Foo Fighters have gone quiet after it emerged that the Donald Trump campaign bought a license to play their song at a Rally on Friday.

Foo Fighters threatened to take “appropriate actions” after their song ‘My Hero’ was used at Trump’s rally Friday to introduce RFK Jr.

As we highlighted, the Dave Grohl fronted band issued a statement confirming they were not asked permission to use their hit and would not have granted it to Trump if they had been. They also vowed to give all proceeds from apparent pending legal action against Trump to Kamala Harris.

There’s just one small problem with that, the band sold  their rights to the song to BMI, which licenses it out via its Songview service.

The Trump campaign bought a license to play the song.

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Rutgers Prof Who Said She Hoped Trump Shooting Would “Inspire Others” Will Teach This Fall

The Rutgers University professor who was under an internal review after posts she made on Facebook following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, writing “Let’s hope today’s events inspire others” will teach this coming fall.

A source provided Campus Reform with screenshots of the Facebook posts, which were made by Rutgers University Writing Program Assistant Teaching Professor Tracy Budd in the hours after someone tried to assassinate Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

”Let’s hope today’s events inspire others,” Budd said in one post.

”They shot his wig. Sad,” Budd wrote in another.

Rutgers spokeswoman Megan Schumann told NJ.com that Budd is scheduled to teach in the upcoming fall semester.

Previously, a Rutgers spokesperson told the New York Post that Budd was the subject of an internal review.

“Rutgers University-New Brunswick condemns calls for violence in the strongest possible terms and remains committed to upholding the principles of civil discourse,” the university said.

“The university is reviewing this matter and assures that any appropriate actions will be taken based on our policies.”

“As students, faculty and staff return to campus next month, the university will be communicating the importance of civility in these challenging times,” the school added.

According to the New York Post, Budd makes over $72,000 at Rutgers.

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Foo Fighters Vow To Take “Appropriate Actions” Against Trump For Using ‘My Hero’ Song

The rock band Foo Fighters have stated that they will take “appropriate actions” against Donald Trump’s campaign after they used the song ‘My Hero’ to introduce Robert F. Kennedy Friday.

The epic moment took the internet by storm Friday night as RFK Jr officially endorsed Trump and joined him on stage, vowing to unite America.

Kennedy was greeted with a hero’s welcome at Trump’s rally in Glendale, Arizona.

However, Foo Fighters, fronted by Dave Grohl, issued a statement confirming they were not asked permission to use their hit and would not have granted it to Trump if they had been.

Billboard reports that a spokesman for the band said “Foo Fighters were not asked permission, and if they were, they would not have granted it.”

Furthermore, “appropriate actions are being taken” against the campaign, the spokesperson continued, adding that any royalties received as a result of this usage will be donated to the Harris/Walz campaign.

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PBS’ Judy Woodruff apologizes for falsely telling live audience Trump tried to talk Israel out of cease-fire deal

A PBS senior correspondent apologized Wednesday after falsely telling her audience that former President Donald Trump tried to talk Israel out of a cease-fire amid its ongoing war in Gaza.

Judy Woodruff passed off blame for the blunder by “clarifying” that she based the flimsy scoop on outside reporting she had read before broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago on Monday.

“The reporting is that former President Trump is on the phone with the prime minister of Israel, urging him not to cut a deal right now, because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign,” Woodruff told a PBS roundtable.

“Who knows whether that will come about or not, but I have to think that the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to do what presidents do, which is work on that one.”

Woodruff caught plenty of flak online for the comment — overwhelmingly from those who pointed out that the rumors she was citing were proved false days before she regurgitated them live on air.

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Secretary of Commerce Says She ‘Doesn’t Believe’ Fact That 818,000 Jobs Have Disappeared Under Biden/Harris White House

When Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo was asked if the 818,000 jobs supposedly created by the Biden/Harris White House which later turned out to not exist was a “liability” for Kamala’s campaign, she said she ‘didn’t believe’ the numbers.

Yes, really.

In a shock announcement yesterday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the nonfarm payroll figure had been revised down by 818,000, meaning the U.S. economy created that number of fewer jobs than originally reported in the 12-month period through March 2024.

The actual job growth was therefore “nearly 30% less than the initially reported 2.9 million from April 2023 through March of this year,” reported CNBC, the largest downward revision in 15 years.

Despite the number being a manifestly provable fact announced by the government itself, Raimondo claimed it was all a lie invented by Donald Trump.

“When you hear that do you think these new numbers could potentially be a liability for this campaign?” she was asked by an ABC News reporter.

“No, when I hear that, first of all, I don’t believe it, because I’ve never heard Donald Trump say anything truthful,” responded Raimondo.

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Fact Check: Kamala Harris Claims Trump ‘Tried to Cut Medicare Every Year He Was President’

CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris claimed during a speech on Friday that former President Donald Trump has tried to cut Medicare “every year.”

VERDICT: False. Trump did not try to cut Medicare during his time in office; the Biden-Harris administration has cut Medicare Advantage, which a majority of Medicare beneficiaries use over traditional Medicare.

Harris said during an address on her proposed economic policy, “He [Trump] tried to cut Medicare every year he was president. Threatening a program that tens of millions of seniors count on.”

However, despite Harris’s claim, this is not true. An NBC News fact check found that Trump’s White House budget proposals did not call for benefit cuts to Medicare.

NBC News wrote:

His fiscal 2020 blueprint called for Medicare changes to lower payments to providers and suppliers through new incentives and a lower inflation benchmark. Biden and Democrats embraced the same types of “cuts” under Obamacare, which extended the solvency of Medicare by lowering payments to hospitals and insurers, in exchange for more customers.

Sahil Kapur, a senior political reporter for NBC News, wrote, “Democrats have been using this line for years. It’s false. Trump’s budgets didn’t cut Medicare benefits; they targeted providers & suppliers—the same “cuts” Dems enacted in the ACA.”

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Trump Supporter Prevented from Entering Mets Stadium with MAGA Hat: ‘Political Discrimination’

A Trump supporter claims that she was prevented from entering the New York Mets stadium while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, and labeled it “political discrimination.”

Aura Moody explained to the New York Post that she, and her friend Taisha had been wearing MAGA hats and had gotten past the security checkpoint when they were informed they could not enter the Mets stadium, known as Citi Field. The ladies were informed by an employee that the hats were “too political.”

Moody and her friend were instructed to put the hats back in their car after the stadium worker informed them they were not allowed to place them in their bags.

“The United States of America is no longer the vehicle of freedom and tolerance,” Moody told the outlet. “I am living under a communist regime where our freedoms are trampled upon….that was the first thought that came to my mind.”

Moody and her friend, who serve on the board of the Queens Village Republican Club, had arrived at the game separately from other people from the Republican club, according to the outlet.

The New York Republican pointed out that if she had been wearing a hat supporting President Joe Biden or Black Lives Matter, staffers at the stadium “would have let” her inside without an issue.

“We are conservative people, we believe in tolerance,” Moody told the outlet. “If I was wearing a BLM, Biden, Harris hat, they would have let me go through.”

Moody added that after they had placed the MAGA hats back in the car, they discovered that “at least eight” people in their group were wearing MAGA hats.

“When I got into the venue, I did see at least eight MAGA hats,” Moody told the outlet.

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Democrat Group Files FEC Complaint Claiming Elon Musk’s X Interview with Trump ‘Amounted to a Virtual Campaign Event’

President Donald Trump has once again become the target of lawfare following his interview with X boss Elon Musk.

Democrat political action committee End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) over the interview.

The unprecedented live-streamed conversation received over one billion views around the world.

Musk has also offered the same opportunity to Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris, but the offer was ignored.

The FEC complaint alleges their broadcast “amounted to a virtual campaign event” for Trump, Newsweek reported.

The 45th president sat down with Musk on his X platform for a two-hour interview.

The pair spoke about a wide range of issues, including criticism of Trump’s agenda and Harris, his Democrat opponent.

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