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A donor who gave money to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) campaign as recently as last month not only has been accused of having financial ties to the terrorist group Hamas but also has posted links to an Islamist preacher who has said he wants Muslims to be responsible for the next Holocaust, The Washington Free Beacon reports. Salah Sarsour donated $1,000 to Tlaib’s reelection campaign on Dec. 12, according to the Federal Election Commission’s website. Cameron Cawthorne of the Beacon notes that Sarsour “posted on his Facebook page in support of radical Egyptian preacher Yusuf al-Qaradawi.” Cawthorne points out that in 2016 Sarsour posted a clip on his own Facebook page of al-Qaradawi, who has been banned from the U.S., speaking. He also noted that Sarsour lauded al-Qaradawi for getting his audiences “closer to Allah with love and knowledge” and enthused that he had “kissed” al-Qaradawi’s hand. Cawthorne noted, “During a 2009 speech that aired on Al Jazeera, al-Qaradawi said he wants M...

The politically incorrect comedian Dave Chappelle has bucked the liberal trend once again by declaring that Trump supporters are not his enemy. Speaking to reporters this week in Iowa about why he supports presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Chappelle says that he welcomes people as fans from both sides of the political aisle, while also admitting that he understands why people voted for Trump. Take a look: Dave Chappelle says why he is supporting @AndrewYang . “I don’t look at Trump supporters as my enemy at all. I understand why people voted for Trump I understand people are desperate. And I think that Andrew is right you run against the reasons that Trump got elected.” pic.twitter.com/jcAb1cDfPQ — Armando Tonatiuh Torres-García (@GarciaReports) January 29, 2020 “I don’t look at Trump supporters as my enemy at all,” Chappelle told reporters. “I understand why people voted for Trump, I understand people are desperate. And I think that Andrew is right you run against the reaso...

A convicted sex offender is being let out of prison in Iowa because they identify as a woman and the Iowa Attorney General’s Office says that the transgender criminal is no longer a threat because they have different hormones. The Storm Lake Times reported that Joseph Matthew Smith, a 23-year-old convicted of molesting a fellow MCS student in 2014, also molested up to 15 kids, according to a report prepared by the state. “A preliminary report prepared by the state’s expert, Dr. Jeffrey Davis, says Smith molested as many as 15 victims, ranging from ages 1 to 13, before being sentenced to prison in December 2015,” The Storm Lake Times reported. “The report found the likelihood of re-offending within five years of release exceeded 20% because victims were of both genders, and because Smith was under age 25 and never had a long-term relationship.” “Mr. Smith has not had an intimate relationship,” the government report stated. “His sexual encounters appear to have primarily involved mole...

CNN contributor and former Clinton administration official Joe Lockhart compared remarks that Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz made in defense of President Donald Trump on Wednesday to something that would be said by dictators Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. CNN played a short clip of Dershowitz’s remarks from the Senate floor on Wednesday: “Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest and mostly you’re right. Your election is in the public interest and if a president does something that he believes will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.” Lockhart responded, “What I thought when I was watching it was: this is un-American. This is what you hear from Stalin. This is what you hear from Mussolini, what you hear from authoritarians, from Hitler, from all the authoritarian people who rationalized, in some cases genocide, based what was in the public interest.” CNN’s host ...

Vanessa Bryant has yet to release a statement or speak publicly about the tragic death of her husband, NBA legend Kobe Bryant, and their daughter, 13-year-old Gianna. However, on Wednesday, Vanessa changed her Instagram photo to a 2016 picture of her late husband embracing Gianna at a basketball game in Toronto. Bryant is smiling and looking down at his daughter in the photo. Vanessa Bryant hasn’t released a statement or spoken publicly about the tragic death of her husband and daughter, but she did change her Instagram photo to a 2016 pic of Kobe embracing Gianna pic.twitter.com/FRuiB1jeSG — Amanda (@AmandaPresto) January 29, 2020 According to NBC News, Vanessa also changed her Instagram account from private to public the same day. Bryant, Gianna, and seven others, including two of Gianna’s basketball teammates, died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. The group was heading to Bryant’s Mamba Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks for a basketball tournament. The 41-year-old father of...

On Sunday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) bashed Christian schools she deemed to have “anti-LGBTQ+ policies.” According to CNS News, Warren tweeted out an article from HuffPost that highlighted a U.S. Supreme Court case out of Montana where a law has been challenged that grants tax credits to donations to private and religious schools — many of which the Left would deem anti-LGBT for having such policies as bathrooms corresponding to students’ biological sex and faculty who live according to biblical sexual morality. “States should focus on funding public schools, not private ones—especially not ones that maintain anti-LGBTQ+ policies,” Warren said in her tweet. “We must ensure every kid—especially LGBTQ+ kids—can get a high-quality public education.” States should focus on funding public schools, not private ones—especially not ones that maintain anti-LGBTQ+ policies. We must ensure every kid—especially LGBTQ+ kids—can get a high-quality public education. https://t.co/hxKap5Ofjm — ...

If last year’s Super Bowl made history for featuring the first female referee, this year’s Super Bowl Sunday plans to top that by featuring the first woman to ever coach in the big game: 49ers offensive assistant Katie Sowers. “Sunday evening, Sowers will become the first woman to coach in the Super Bowl,” reports the Boston Globe. “One of three women who have full-time NFL coaching jobs (the Tampa Bay Buccaneers employ the other two), she is an offensive assistant on 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan’s staff.” “Her job consists mostly of grunt work,” the report continues. “She helps organize practices. She spends late nights drawing plays on cards for the scout team and early mornings prepping drills. She is living her dream.” Sowers’ influence on the team has reportedly been so profound that wide receiver Kendrick Bourne credits her for helping to overcome a difficult task during his first NFL training camp that secured him a spot on the team. He had dropped two passes in the first p...