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Hillary Clinton sees a parallel between herself and British statesman Winston Churchill, according to comments in a recent interview in which she also slammed President Donald Trump while discussing the potential rise of fascism. Clinton, who is on tour in Britain, spoke with reporter Decca Aitkenhead of The Guardian. In the interview, which mostly consisted of Clinton criticizing President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, Aitkenhead raised the question of whether Clinton, as a “polarizing figure,” should promote unity by withdrawing from the public arena. “I’m sure they said that about Churchill between the wars, didn’t they?” Clinton said, in a comment Aitkenhead said came “a fraction too quickly for the line to sound spontaneous.” Clinton then elaborated on her comments about Churchill, who as noted by Fox News, was an opponent of the appeasement policy Britain pursued in the 1930s. “I mean, I’m not comparing myself, but I’m just saying people said that, but he was right abou...

During a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fundraiser this week, DNC Chairman Tom Perez introduced former President Barack Obama, who was scheduled to speak at the event, as the “real president of the United States.” “Let’s give it up for the real president of the United States,” Perez said as he called the former president up onto the stage to give his remarks. The event was intended to boost support and finances for a DNC that is struggling ahead of the 2020 presidential election. It also highlighted the tension between those who wish to see Obama as a leader of the party and those who are ready to move on, according to Politico. Perez apparently later attempted to backtrack by downplaying people he referred to as “political venture capitalists — they want to find the next Barack Obama” — who aren’t concerned with building and strengthening the Democratic Party itself. During the same fundraiser, Obama revealed that he had attempted to persuade then-President-elect Donald Trump...

As demonstrators across the nation prepared to protest the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy this week, the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had some advice for those seeking to blame his agency for the results. More than 700 protests were planned for Saturday after weeks of mounting backlash over a policy that resulted in family separations and reports of children being temporarily housed in what critics have described as cages. In recent days, ICE has been the target of increasing opposition by demonstrators and even some elected officials. As a protest movement to “Abolish ICE” has gained some traction in recent days, two prominent New York politicians, both Democrats, have endorsed the effort. U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said in an interview on Thursday that she believed the agency “has become a deportation force,” adding that “you should get rid of it, start over, reimagine it and build something that actually works.” New York Cit...

Donald Trump is Hitler, conservatives are Nazis, and temporary housing centers on America’s southern border are modern concentration camps. That’s the extremist rhetoric being spread by the left over the last several weeks at least. It used to be that anyone who compared a president to the infamous Austrian dictator was ignored or laughed out of town. Today, that appalling comparison is being thrown around with reckless abandon … but a Polish-American Holocaust survivor has had enough of the dangerous discourse. “Listen to me. I went through it. Please,” Polish-born David Tuck looked into the camera during a sobering interview with The Daily Caller. “This is not a concentration camp,” he stated bluntly about the HHS and ICE refugee centers that have drawn so much uninformed ire from the left-leaning media.   Holocaust Survivor's Message For Those Saying Border Detention Centers Are 'Concentration Camps' Will Shake You To Your Core Many on the left have described ...

Bernie Sanders is so 2016. The left has found a new socialist darling: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The Latina from New York, who pulled off an upset victory in the Democrat primary against incumbent Joe Crowley, has a lot of things going for her … at least if you don’t mind backing disastrous economic policies. She looks good on television. She checks several “diversity” boxes at once. And, not unlike a once-obscure candidate named Barack H. Obama, she’s working overtime to sell the public on an underdog story about growing up in low-class America. Obama expertly swept his time studying overseas and living in idyllic Hawaii under the rug, and instead presented himself as a product of inner city Chicago. It wasn’t all a lie, but neither was it entirely the truth. It seems Ocasio-Cortez is taking a page from the same playbook, with the Bronx replacing Obama’s Chicago. She’s trying hard to tout her scrappy upbringing and “woman of the people” image, with one glaring problem: She didn’t ...

Those who serve in the military deserve all of the thanks in the world for everything they do for their country. It could be something as simple as saying, “Thank you” to someone in uniform or something as selfless as what one Greendale, Indiana, man did. Mike Kestermann was recently caught on camera for showing his gratitude to a convoy of soldiers who stopped in a local gas station. When he pulled up to the gas station and saw that the store was full of soldiers who were on their way home from two weeks of training, he didn’t even think twice about what happened next. He told each and every soldier that their snacks were going to be paid for. Darlene Davis, one of the clerks at the counter, picked up her smartphone and began recording the amazing “pay it forward” moment. She wanted to show people that kind people still exist in the world. The video shows him greeting each individual soldier as they brought their items up to the counter. He even told one soldier, “It’s all about...

Filmaker Michael Moore suggested in order to prevent Senate Republicans from calling for a vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s upcoming Supreme Court nominee, he will surround the U.S. Capitol building with a million other people. Speaking with Bill Maher on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the host asked about Moore’s “Hail Mary” solution to prevent a Trump nominee from being confirmed. “Well I don’t think we should give up. Listen, the Senate is 51-49. Sadly, McCain will not be able to vote so it’s a 50-49 vote. Come on ” he explained. “We’ve got to push it off ’til after November.” When Maher said the vote is going to take place before the midterms, Moore said they then have to come up with other ways to prevent the vote. Watch the video below: “Find ways? What does that mean,” Maher asked. “Well, I’ll join a million other people surrounding the United States Capitol. I will stand there,” Moore replied. “This judge goes through, for the rest of all of our lives it’s a ...

Fox News host Harris Faulkner gave an epic response to a question from “The View” cohost Sunny Hostin about being the only African-American woman to host her own daily show on the network during an episode this week. “You’re currently the only woman of color with her own daily show on Fox,” Hostin began. “When I turn on Fox — and I do sometimes — and I see you, I feel like I’m looking at a unicorn…It’s fascinating to me.” Watch: Hostin then highlighted Fox News’ coverage of racial issues, including criticism of NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality towards minorities, and even addressed Faulkner’s contributions to that coverage. “You yourself have come out against Colin Kaepernick,” she said. “Do you get flak from the black community on your positions and for being the only black woman on Fox News?” “You have been in that environment so you know, and you have been in broadcast for a long time, and you and I have talked at other points. I get...

In response to comedian Chelsea Handler calling President Donald Trump a “domestic enemy” leading America, Eli Crane, a Navy SEAL veteran and the CEO of Bottle Breacher, pointed to how Trump’s actions prove that’s not true. Handler made her comments after businessman Brian Krassenstein accused Trump of being Russian President Vladimir Putin’s puppet. Putin is giving trump talking points and actions to take to help undermine the very country he is from. We have a domestic enemy running our country pissing on about allies who shows fealty only to Putin. This is not America. This is Russia. https://t.co/kyBwTMwiHd — Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) June 11, 2018 Crane, who deployed to Iraq three times, told IJR that Handler essentially shouting that the president is a “domestic enemy” into the void of the internet is foolish: Chelsea, please stop. Your comments about the president being a domestic enemy while he was negotiating a nuclear peace deal with the North Koreans are not ...

A Massachusetts-based reporter was fired after he sent out a tweet falsely claiming the Maryland shooter, who shot and killed five Capital Gazette employees this week, had dropped a “Make America Great Again” hat before he carried out his attack. The tweet Conor Berry sent was false and deleted shortly after he posted it, but he had sent it shortly after the shooting occurred when many questions had so far been left unanswered: It only took one day before The Republican announced Berry had resigned from his job as a reporter there. “We need to be more vigilant than ever to be fair and accurate in a climate in which we are scrutinized and criticized,” Wayne Phaneuf, executive editor, said. “The Republican newspaper and our partners at MassLive.com are committed to report the news with the truth paramount.” Berry also later apologized for the tweet on his Twitter account: Folks, My 21-year career as a "journalist," a fancy term that makes my skin crawl, frankly, came to ...

After footage of him screaming questions at President Donald Trump on Friday went viral, a former CNN producer is calling out White House correspondent Jim Acosta for his “self-serving antics.” Sharing a story about Acosta’s behavior on Twitter, former senior digital producer for the network, Steve Krakauer, called his performance an “embarrassment.” “Truly an embarrassment, on multiple levels,” he wrote. “Jim Acosta’s self-serving antics give all good journalists a bad name.” Truly an embarrassment, on multiple levels. Jim Acosta’s self-serving antics give all good journalists a bad name. https://t.co/TarlLVZ3RZ — Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) June 29, 2018 Krakauer continued laying into Acosta in a second tweet: “On a day journalists could honor the memory of fellow reporters tragically killed due to a deranged person with a vendetta going back years, Acosta tries to shift the blame to Trump, thus validating many Americans’ feelings about the Acela Media (that existed long bef...

Richard Overton, the nation’s oldest living World War II veteran, and his family discovered on Friday that his personal bank account had been drained. “Someone set up a bogus account, got his Social Security number and accessed his personal checking account,” Volma Overton, his third cousin, told Dallas News. “This is going to be a setback for Richard. It was a significant amount of money.” Overton’s account had been drained after someone had gotten his Social Security number and bank information, which they then used to purchase bonds. The bank told family members money had been withdrawn four times. “He’s going to be upset,” Martin Wilford, a close family friend, told KomoNews. “We are trying to keep him in his home through all types of fundraisers, and someone could just take from him? You’re going to do that to him? Shame on you.” Fortunately, Overton’s compromised account was not connected to the GoFundMe campaign that was setup to help pay for 24/7 care in his home. Ongoin...

Faced with the prospect of yet another seat on the Supreme Court being nominated and approved by Republicans, some on the far-left are invoking the specter of ‘court packing’ as a way to ensure that progressive policies aren’t sabotaged in the high court. Last used as a strategy by President Franklin Roosevelt, packing is a strategy where the president proposes added seats on the bench to bolster the number of favorable votes their party or administration might receive on any decision. The last time it was proposed, it would have added six seats to the highest court in the country. There’s just one problem for the socialists who are advocating this oft-maligned approach: President Trump and Congressional Republicans hold all the cards, and there is no sign of that changing anytime soon. Yet the avowed socialist publication Jacobin still advocates that “it’s time” this stratagem be employed. Referring to circumstances in which the progressive presidential icon threatened the Supreme...

CNN reporter Jim Acosta is already under fire for being rude and unprofessional in front of the president … but he just doubled down on his bizarre behavior by acting like an unhinged zealot. Just days ago, the journalist was scolded by the public for his rudeness and warned that his increasingly edgy rhetoric could spark violence among anti-Trump extremists. “You need to tone it down a bit. The language, everything, it’s got to stop. Be decent,” a female Trump supporter said on camera to the CNN talking head. “I believe I am decent,” Acosta shot back. His version of being “decent” apparently includes screaming at the president in a crowd like a teenage girl. During a packed media event, Acosta was caught on video cupping his hands together and loudly heckling President Trump. Acosta: Will you stop calling the press the enemy of the people "Mr. President, will you stop calling the press the enemy of the people," CNN Journalist Jim Acosta shouted at the end of Trump...

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, co-host of “Outnumbered” and host of “Outnumbered: Overtime,” recently appeared on ABC’s “The View,” and the liberal co-hosts of that program couldn’t help but try to race-bait the popular black Fox News star. “The View” co-host Sonny Hostin attempted to take a shot at Fox News Channel’s supposed lack of diversity and noted that Faulkner was the “only woman of color with her own daily show” on the network. Unfortunately for the race-obsessed co-hosts of “The View,” Faulkner was more than prepared for the race-baiting questions and in the end actually flipped them back on the co-hosts to reveal their hypocritical focus on the racial lineup at Fox to the exclusion of the other cable news channels. “When I turn on Fox — and I do sometimes — and I see you, I feel like I’m looking at a unicorn,” Hostin said on Thursday’s program. She noted that Fox News and Faulkner had received criticism for how they’ve handled racial topics, such as the NFL’s kneeling ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is drafting stricter regulations to tighten asylum policies to stop migrants from abusing the immigration system. The Department of Justice is currently evaluating the proposals, according to a Friday Vox report. Several of the proposals aim to make it difficult to enter and stay in the U.S. illegally. Currently, under Trump’s zero-tolerance policy, people who cross the border illegally are arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, yet the migrants can still seek asylum. However, the new regulations would not consider asylum grants to those who enter or re-enter the country illegally. The sweeping changes also clarify that there are no exceptions to seeking asylum, even to those escaping violence or abuse. Attorney General Jeff Session acknowledged that people can face violence in foreign countries for several reasons relating to social, economical and personal reasons, in an opinion written on June 11. “Yet the asylum statute doe...

On Thursday, CNN’s Chris Cuomo had to fact-check Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) after she claimed zero Democrats voted to confirm U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. “[Gorsuch] didn’t get a vote from one Democrat,” she declared. Gillibrand also railed against Gorsuch for undermining women’s rights, union rights, and “basic civil rights” in the United States. “I don’t think people are going to trust that President Trump isn’t going to do what he said he’s going to do,” she added. Visibly confused, Cuomo said he, correctly, thought Gorsuch was confirmed with three Senate Democrats voting in favor. Senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), and Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) were the only three Democrats to vote yes. “Are you right that he didn’t get one vote? Didn’t he get three,” Cuomo asked. “He got no Democratic votes,” Gillibrand replied. “They stood strong and they passed it with Republican votes.” After looking off-camera, Gillibrand then said Chris “might be rig...

While speaking at a Democratic fundraiser on Thursday, President Barack Obama shared his one regret from his time in office. Obama didn’t say he regretted saying people could keep their doctors if they wanted to, the Internal Revenue Service scandal, or the attack in Benghazi, Libya. Instead, according to Politico, he thought people focused too much on him rather than other politicians after his party lost the House of Representatives in 2010: “I’ll be honest with you, if I have a regret during my presidency, it is that people were so focused on me and the battles we were having, particularly after we lost the House, that folks stopped paying attention up and down the ballot.” Some on Twitter saw those comments as narcissistic: Obama's excuse for the demise of the democrat's power base during his presidency is that he was so important that no one cared about anyone else but him politically. Wow. Narcissistic much? I think that voters didn't like the direction the US w...

Former President Barack Obama told donors during the question and answer segment of a Thursday fundraiser that he tried to convince then-President elect Donald Trump to rename and take credit for Obamacare instead of repealing it. “I said to the incoming president, ‘Just change the name and claim that you made these wonderful changes and I would be like, ‘You go,”” he said, according to CNN. “Because I didn’t have pride of authorship, I just wanted people to have health care.” President Trump chose not the take his predecessor’s advice and attempted to persuade Republicans in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act last year, but they failed to garner enough votes in the Senate to do so. At the fundraiser, former President Obama said they “couldn’t do it despite controlling all branches of government in Washington. They couldn’t do it because we had actually thought it through and it’s a hard thing to do.” While the GOP was unable to fully repeal Obamacare, they did dismantle p...

Up until the surprise retirement announcement from Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy sucked all the oxygen out of the liberal media, they had been intensely focused on negatively reporting the situation at the southern border. That focus was on the temporary separation of illegal immigrant families after being detained for illegal entry into the country, a byproduct of President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” border enforcement policy that saw all illegal entrants charged and prosecuted for their crime. The media coverage painted Trump as some sort of heartless and racist authoritarian dictator who hated brown children and even smeared government officials and immigration enforcement agents as Nazi leaders and stormtroopers carrying out the despicable orders of a tyrant. But according to The Hill, that over-the-top hyperbole and rhetoric on the immigration either backfired or had no tangible effect on the electorate as Trump’s approval numbers actually rose in one particular po...

The political world was in shock and many liberals lost their tenuous grip on reality when it was announced that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy — known for his often-deciding vote that would swing between conservatives and liberals — would be retiring. President Donald Trump immediately announced that he would pick a replacement from his prepared list of jurists to fill that vacancy shortly and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear that the nominee would swiftly receive hearings and a confirmation vote ahead of the midterm elections. Democrats responded by crying foul and suggesting the vacancy should be held open until after the midterm elections in order to let the voters have a say in the matter, and cited McConnell’s 2016 refusal to confirm Obama appointee Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia … a seat ultimately filled by Trump with Justice Neil Gorsuch. But McConnell dismissed the outraged cries and demands for a dela...

Actress and anti-Trump activist Susan Sarandon was among those arrested on Capitol Hill on Thursday during a “Women Disobey” march against President Donald Trump and his immigration policies. Susan Sarandon showing up at the #WomenDisobey event is like an arsonist hanging around to watch the building they set fire to burn pic.twitter.com/V0b5tEW8yY — TBogg – more or less (@tbogg) June 29, 2018 “Arrested. Stay Strong. Keep fighting. #WomenDisobey,” Sarandon tweeted Thursday afternoon. Arrested. Stay strong. Keep fighting. #WomenDisobey — Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) June 28, 2018 Only a few hours after revealing she’d been arrested, Sarandon was on Twitter again. “Powerful, beautiful action with hundreds of women saying we demand the reunification of families separated by immoral ICE policy,” she wrote. “This is what Democracy looks like. #WomenDisobey.” Powerful, beautiful action with hundreds of women saying we demand the reunification of families separated by immor...

The growing scandals within the FBI and the Department of Justice took a dramatic turn on Thursday, as Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Chris Wray faced a barrage of pointed questions from Congress. In the crosshairs were Rosenstein’s reputation and future prospects within the government. Months ago, the slick-haired bureaucrat assured lawmakers, including conservative firebrand Trey Gowdy, that there was nothing to worry about regarding political bias within the DOJ. Since then, piles of evidence have emerged showing not just bias, but deeply personal hatred of President Donald Trump and his supporters from FBI officials who were supposed to be neutral. Rosenstein’s apparent attempts to railroad Congress’ inquiries brought the ire of Rep. Jim Jordan, a Republican lawmaker who has had enough of the DOJ’s excuses. Pointing out that the deputy attorney general has dragged his feet on providing key documents requested by Congress, Jordan tore into the bureaucrat...