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Trump Responds to Possible Trump-DeSantis 2024 Ticket as Only He Can

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The question is being asked on a regular basis, now. What about a Trump-DeSantis “dream team” ticket in 2024? Is it a possibility? Would Donald Trump make the offer, knowing how popular Ron DeSantis is?

Perhaps more importantly, would DeSantis accept it?

Various reports suggest that the popular Florida governor doesn’t want Trump’s 2022 re-endorsement in the gubernatorial election, nor does he want Trump to campaign for him. But while Trump has begun to dance around the 2024 question, DeSantis appears to want zero to do with answering it.

Also, during an interview with Newsmax TV on Thursday, Trump said he’s not ruling out DeSantis as a possible running mate. That is if Donald actually [winking emoji] runs. Trump told Newsmax he has a good relationship with DeSantis — right before going full-metal Trumpian, and attempting to take credit for DeSantis’s success and popularity in the Sunshine State, as transcribed by The Epoch Times:

Well, I get along with him. I was very responsible for his success because I endorsed him and he went up like a rocket ship.

Trump was referring to his 2018 endorsement of DeSantis in his gubernatorial run against Democrat Andrew Gillum. Speaking of Gillum, as my colleague Nick Arama reported on June 22, he was charged in a 21-count federal indictment with conspiracy, wire fraud, and making false statements to FBI agents.

Anyway, here’s Trump on DeSantis again, via Newsmax:

I was very responsible for him getting elected, as you know, but I have a very good relationship with him.

Either way, DeSantis remains a popular choice to dethrone Trump in 2024; if Trump is to be dethroned.

As I reported earlier in June, Trump played nice with the possibility of a DeSantis challenge for the 2024 nomination during an interview with The New Yorker. Trump told the magazine he wasn’t really worried about DeSantis in 2024, one way or the other. Why? As transcribed by The New Yorker:

I don’t know if Ron is running, and I don’t ask him. It’s his prerogative. I think I would win.

DeSantis’s “prerogative” aside, as I noted in the article, behind-the-scenes machinations would suggest that both camps are already plotting — or at the minimum, considering — strategies against the other.

Translation: popcorn. We’re going to need a lot of popcorn.

Longtime Republican campaign strategist Brooke Rollins told The Epoch Times on June 14, several weeks before a Ready for Ron PAC was created in support of a DeSantis run, that “The information I’ve gotten the last several weeks is Trump is definitely running,” which should come as zero surprise to zero people.

“We’re not working at all against Trump,” Rollins said, adding:

At that point in time, I didn’t know if he [Trump] was running or not. What I’ve said since has made it clear is that he [DeSantis] won’t run against Trump.

One wonders if Rollins — as well as Team Trump — is still so sure about that.

As RedState reported in late June, a New Hampshire poll conducted June 16-20 by the University of New Hampshire showed DeSantis leading Trump for the nomination, and beating Joe Biden in a general election matchup. Trump was shown losing by seven points to Biden in the same poll.

The bottom line:

Regardless of how 2024 plays out, as I suggested, above, we’re going to need a hell of a lot of popcorn. Trump would not go down easily — let alone “accept” other (“disloyal”) Republicans entering the race, and would likely resort to the same types of ad hominem attacks he hurled at “Little Marco,” “Lying Ted,” “Low-Energy Jeb,” and nearly every other candidate in the Republican primary race.

And if DeSantis does decide to challenge Trump, he will be formidable as hell, and he will give it all he has to give — just as we have seen him do time and time again against Florida Democrats, the Biden Administration, public education, and of course, his steely-eyed shellacking of Disney. And, like Trump, the Florida governor refuses to take crap from anyone who gets in his way. I’ll tell you this:

2024 is going to make 2016 and 2020 look like Sunday school picnics.

Hopefully, sans the Jan. 6 silliness, of course.

Greg Gutfeld Needs Just One Tweet to Slam the Media, Remind Other Late-Night Talk Show Hosts Who's Boss

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Not that late-night talk show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Trevor Noah aren’t already bitter enough, but how much must it gall these mostly bitter left-wingers that Fox News late-night host Greg Gutfeld continues to beat the snot out of them in the ratings?

Our festivities begin with a Wednesday op-ed in the Los Angeles Times titled ‘Trump tantrum’: Late-night hosts recap Cassidy Hutchinson’s ‘wild’ Jan. 6 testimony, during which she alleged that Trump attacked a Secret Service agent from the back seat of the presidential limousine when the agent refused to drive him to the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot.

As RedState reported, Hutchinson’s hearsay testimony has all but been destroyed. As my colleague Nick Arama also reported, CNN political commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin, who previously worked in Donald Trump’s White House, coordinated with the Jan. 6 Committee on Hutchinson’s testimony. In a word, the former aide to Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, turned into a giant cluster.

Anyway, the LA Times writer’s entire op-ed consisted only of “jokes” about Trump’s alleged “attack” on the Secret Service agent by the aforementioned left-wing comedians, other than Jimmy Kimmel, for whom Chelsea Handler has filled in, this week.

The author noted that the aforementioned hosts all spent much of their monologues “recapping” Hutchinson’s remarks on former President Trump’s behavior — yet made no mention of Gutfeld or his top-rated show. “Why would they do that?” Gutfeld asked.

In case you’re skeptical of a media that happily works from the same playbook…in covering the unison response of the late night chorus, they leave out one show that’s beating all of them. Why would they do that?

Gutfeld’s question was rhetorical, of course.

The multiple answers to Gutfeld’s question are obvious to anyone with an even close to objective mind who pays even a modicum of attention to so-called “mainstream” media outlets. A quick look at the below RedState headlines tells the tale of the tape.

‘This Is Not About Freedom’: Greg Gutfeld Demolishes the Biden Administration’s Spin on the Energy Crisis

Gutfeld Decimates ‘Virtue-Signaling’ CNN and Brian Stelter’s Silly COVID Selfie Stunt

Gutfeld Stomps All Over Critical Race Theory, Warns of Threat to Schools and Military

Toss in the aforementioned late-night talk show lapdogs, and there you have it: the entire sock-puppet clown car; the official media outlet and “entertainment” center of the Democrat Party.

So what about those late-night ratings?

As my colleague, Becca Lower first reported in November 2021, “Gutfeld!” surged to the top of the leader board, dominating the “big three” — “The Tonight Show,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” and “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” with NBC’s caustic, ever-bitter “Late Night” host, Seth Meyer, and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” trailing even further behind.

The bottom-line:

I’ve watched Gutfeld since his first Fox News show, “Red Eye,” which he hosted from 2007 until 2015. The program aired Tuesday through Friday at 3:00 a.m., ET. Following a 2007 family loss, I couldn’t sleep for quite a while. To suggest that Gutfeld kept me sane would be an overstatement, but still, his bottom-line sanity and lack of fear in calling out anyone who deserved to be called out combined for a breath of fresh air to me when I most needed it. It still does.

While I don’t watch “Gutfeld!” as regularly as I once did — nor any television, including news outlets — when I do flip on the TV, “Gutfeld!” is usually the reason.

Biden's Big Immigration Win May Actually Be a Big Loss

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The Biden administration is celebrating a win at the Supreme Court in Biden v. Texas, which will allow him to proceed with getting rid of the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy.

The policy allowed officials at the U.S. border to make immigrants wait in Mexico rather than cross into the United States by citing a public health crisis – COVID-19 – as the reason they cannot allow more people in. The rule was decried as racist by Democrats, and upon entering office, Biden worked to undo it. He was initially blocked by a judge in Texas, but took it all the way to the Supreme Court, securing a win.

Biden and the Democrats celebrated the ruling as a big win, but they have also guaranteed that voters, particularly those who are worried about the immigration crisis at the border, will be told in nonstop ads that Biden fought all the way up to the Supreme Court for the crisis.

Rescinding this policy opens the already-thrown floodgates even wider, allowing for greater numbers to flood the border with very little in the way to stop them from overwhelming border patrol. The Biden administration has thus far been reluctant to give federal agents any support, detention facilities, or funding to maintain control at the border. The result has been a flood of immigrants and a crisis that remains unchecked.

Illegal Immigration
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The death of 51 migrants in a truck trailer, a tragedy of human life we hadn’t yet seen in this crisis, was a clear sign that we are failing not just to protect our border, but to protect human life.

By winning at the Supreme Court, Biden and his administration are taking ownership of the crisis. They are saying they want all of these people coming in from South and Central America, flooding our border and causing chaos among law enforcement in the region. They are laying claim to the resulting human and drug trafficking that happens in the region. They are saying this is all part of the plan.

The crisis at the border will only get worse now that the Biden administration has cleared the way for more immigrants to be allowed in. This is their crisis now. And you have politicians all along the border and in several states where immigration is a top issue who will cut every ad imaginable linking Biden’s win to the worsening crisis.

Biden and his people denied that his election and rhetoric were an open invitation to those seeking to enter the country. There are multiple new stories that show differently. There are interviews with immigrants who say they are accepting Biden’s invitation and heading this way. That’s his legacy, and the win in Biden v. Texas is just more proof of that.

I suspect that the Biden administration didn’t actually want a win here. They wanted a 6-3 majority to say that they couldn’t do this. They wanted to tell their activist based “We tried!” and then move on. But they can’t now. The Supreme Court, with Kavanaugh and Roberts joining the liberal justices, has put the immigration crisis squarely on Joe Biden.

The Supreme Court Returns Legislative Power to the Legislative Branch

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To cap off its term, the Supreme Court handed down a much-awaited decision in West Virginia v. the Environmental Protection Agency. The decision, which severely limits the EPA’s presumed authority over carbon emissions, is being celebrated as a big win for those wishing to see regulatory power curbed.

In its decision, the Court — via Chief Justice Roberts — determined that “Congress did not grant EPA in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act the authority to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan,” and that on the question of “whether the ‘best system of emission reduction’ identified by EPA in the Clean Power Plan was within the authority granted to the Agency in Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act,” the answer is a resounding “No.”

The Court’s decision is more than just a win for the energy industry, however. Based on the Court’s ruling, we are looking at a future where the legislative branch of the government actually has to legislate.

In today’s ruling, the Supreme Court has decided the legislative branch, not the executive, is actually in charge of rule-making. A federal bureaucracy has only the power it is specifically granted by Congress. The decision reaffirms what is specifically stated in the Constitution as far as the powers of each branch go.

Article I of the Constitution specifically states that “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States,” while Article II tasks the executive branch with taking care that “laws be faithfully executed.” There is a clear separation of powers between the two branches, and there is Supreme Court precedent that Congress isn’t allowed to “abdicate or to transfer to others the essential legislative functions with which it is thus vested,” as determined in A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States.

This gets to the heart of the problem that led us to today’s decision. For decades now, Congress has been doing just that. They have passed laws just vague enough for federal agencies to interpret however they like, essentially allowing agencies that are part of the executive branch to create new laws and rules from seemingly nothing. The lines between the branches blur, and the checks and balances in place in the Constitution are weakened as the executive branch bypasses the legislative branch to do what it wants.

Coal Plant, Supreme Court AP/Reuters Feed Library

For years now, conservatives have been telling Republicans in the House to use the power of the purse to curtail executive branch excesses. They have not. They’ve been tasked by their voters to stop runaway regulatory regimes. They’ve abdicated on that front. One can only assume that Congressional Republicans are just too lazy to actually have those fights anymore, and because of that, the country suffers.

The EPA tried very hard to expand its regulatory power well beyond what the Clean Air Act of the 1970s allowed. They would likely not have been emboldened to do so had Congress actually fought to keep its power rather than delegate it away. Thus, the question as to whether the agency can or cannot do this comes before the Supreme Court, which, at this point, is so exhausted from questions that should really be covered by Congress’s power that they are now openly saying “Go to Congress to get what you want — like you’re supposed to.” It’s not a matter of overturning the poorly-decided Chevron case or anything like that. It’s just a straight-up demand that Congress do its job and for federal agencies to stop overreaching.

This, whether the left likes it or not (and they really, really don’t) is what democracy is actually supposed to look like. It’s not up to the federal bureaucracy to save the planet, and it’s not up to the executive branch to decide how to go about it. It’s up to the voters to elect the people they want to pass the policies they want to see put in place. And if enough people who care about the environment can get the right politicians elected, then something can be done about it. If you can’t win those elections, then revise your campaign strategy and try again.

That’s how it’s supposed to be. That’s how you’ll actually get the change you want. You certainly won’t get it by circumventing the Constitution to over-regulate the rest of the country.

Ilhan Omar Tells 5 Whoppers About SCOTUS, Which Guy Benson Promptly Dissects

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This one was over before it started. Over in the sense that Fox News contributor Guy Benson is way too smart to pass on the opportunity to respond to politically-expedient lies about conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. By Mensa member Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar (Minn.), no less.

As the left’s histrionic meltdown continues over SCOTUS finally handing down the 5-4 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, our “peacefully-protesting” left-wing friends’ dangerously aggressive anger against the conservative justices remains at a level previously unseen against the U.S. Judiciary. While Omar might not have directly threatened specific justices by name — Chuck Schumer style — she continues to lie her ass off about both the impact of the Roe decision and the justices themselves. Here are five of those lies:

5 justices confirmed by a POTUS who lost the popular vote.
4 lied under oath.
2 credibly accused of sexual assault.
1’s seat literally stolen.
1’s spouse implicated in a coup attempt.

Yeah, not even close. Don’t you just love how Democrats shamelessly concoct lies out of whole cloth, spew those lies without hesitation, and then demand that their targets refute the made-up allegations? Me, neither — but I do find it somewhat amusing.

Someone else who didn’t love Omar’s latest lie-fest was Townhall political editor and Fox News contributor Guy Benson, who promptly went about destroying her blatant, politically-expedient nonsense — without so much as breaking a conservative sweat. Systematically, Benson destroyed Omar’s lies, one by one.

Falsehoods galore from this liar.

1) The popular vote is not how we elect presidents, but she’s wrong. Roberts & Alito [were] appointed by W [George W. Bush] after he won the popular vote. Same w/ Thomas & GHWB [George H.W. Bush] (btw Trump won a higher % of the popular vote than Bill Clinton, who picked RBG & Breyer)…

Any questions, so far, Ilhan?

Let us continue:

2) They did not lie under oath, but if Ilhan thinks they did, she should lead the charge to impeach Kagan & Sotomayor for the same non-offense.

Benson then linked to his recent column, Flashback: Did Justice Sotomayor ‘Lie’ to Senators About Gun Rights?.

It gets even better. Benson also torched Omar’s false allusion that Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh were “credibly accused” of sexual assault by Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford, respectfully.

3) None of the justices are “credibly accused” of sexual assault.

Oh, this is getting embarrassing, Ilhan. So, do you think it might be a good idea next time to check the facts before you launch into a silly, baseless attack? In this case, against Supreme Court justices, simply because you don’t agree with their opinions?

Aaand… lie #4. One. More. Time, Democrats:

4) No seat was “stolen” (she can take it up with Biden & Schumer), and I thought false claims that undermine faith in our system were supposed to be bad.

Omar’s accusation was based on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to hold confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland during the 2016 lame-duck session of Congress, and holding confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett in October 2020, also an election year.

Finally, lie #5 — Omar’s ill-advised reference to Clarence Thomas’s wife. Benson was more than ready to point out the congresswoman’s laughable hypocrisy.

5) I’m not sure this particular Congresswoman wants to get into a political fights# over guilt-by-association, or…ahem…spouses.

Yeah, not a smart move at all, Ilhan. Omar reportedly paid the “firm” of her second (as far as we know) husband in excess of $1 million during the 2020 campaign cycle — in what appeared to be a violation of campaign finance rules.

Speaking of Omar’s husbands, she filed for divorce from her “first” husband — Ahmed Hirsi — in 2019.  Unproven rumors swirled that Hirsi was actually Omar’s brother, whom she had “married,” with the dynamic duo also committing immigration fraud. Again, the rumors were not substantiated. [rolling-eyes emoji]

The bottom line:

I know I repeat this on a regular basis, but justifiably so. The hypocrisy — and blatant lying — of the left knows no bounds.

The ugly truth is that Democrats (see: Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, et al.) know they’re lying when they lie. From Nancy Pelosi to irrelevant radical-leftist noisemakers like Ilhan Omar, Democrats continue their decades-long practice of lying to low-information Democrat voters.

Speaking of Pelosi and Omar, remember that time Madam Speaker gave the America-hating Omar a pass for comparing the United States and Israel Hamas and the Taliban? We do.

Finally, for your reading “pleasure,” here are a few of Ilhan Omar’s greatest hits:

Quisha King Slams Rep. Ilhan Omar for Lying about Critical Race Theory

Ilhan Omar Gets Torched for Remarks About Christians on Airplane

Pelosi Dodges, Ducks, Dips, Dives, and Dodges Question About Ilhan Omar’s Anti-Semitic Statements