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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.

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

'Concerned Graduates of West Point' Pen Letter Calling out 'Woke Sentiments' of the Famed Academy

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Nothing here is going to surprise you. But it needs to be written. Why? It’s not only important to continue to expose the left’s insidious efforts to destroy the U.S. military as we know it; it’s also important to understand how deeply those efforts run. And when “concerned graduates of West Point” speak out, I listen.

Several retired U.S. military officers penned a letter, titled Declaration of Betrayal of West Point And the Long Gray Line, signed by “Concerned Graduates of West Point and The Long Gray Line,” as reported by Just the News, which objects to mandatory COVID vaccinations, so-called [Marxist-derived] “critical race theory” indoctrination, “progressivism,”  and other “woke” sentiments of the famed military academy.

Incidentally, “Concerned Members of the Long Gray Line” is a coalition of over 1,000 West Point alumni from six decades of graduating classes, who collectively served across 10 presidential administrations. The above referenced letter reads, in part:

The Long Gray Line is the assembly of graduates of the United States Military Academy. It serves as a fount of American battle-tested experience, the institutional memory of the Military Academy, and the watchdog of the United States Corps of Cadets.

As such, it is the sacred duty of the Long Gray Line to challenge dysfunctional conduct or rogue behavior, such as that which has come to dominate West Point.

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These changes threaten the mission of the Academy. It appears that the Honor Code is no longer enforced as it has been historically and has been allowed to fall into disarray. […]

As the signators noted, civilian faculty members also play a role in the political indoctrination of cadets.

Civilian faculty members have introduced political indoctrination into academic instruction to include socialist ideology that runs counter to the noble principles of the Constitution. The corruption of cadet instruction with socialist doctrine is further demonstrated by a pronounced bias in the selection of guest speakers, who have been almost exclusively liberal. We could not identify any conservative speakers in recent years.

Very troubling have been instances of the Academy Staff requiring cadets to violate their religious beliefs contrary to the religious freedom long observed by the Academy. Cadets have been coerced into complying with illegal orders – mandates – to submit to vaccinations with experimental drugs never approved by the FDA.

Such mandates to involuntarily submit to vaccination with experimental drugs in violation of religious customs and beliefs is a violation of the UCMJ. It violates the precedent set by the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal that established the involuntary use of experimental drugs as a crime against humanity. Such conduct by the Staff is a gross violation of international law and the impartial administration of military justice by the Academy.

And so-called Critical Race Theory? Of course.

Instruction in Critical Race Theory (CRT) at the Academy. Such instruction severs the ties of every cadet to the defense of the Constitution, thereby nullifying the oath cadets have sworn to uphold. Critical Race Theory now replaces Duty, Honor, and Country.

The cumulative impact of these changes has so altered the Military Academy that USMA betrays the purpose for which it was founded in 1802 – defense of our Constitution, and maintenance of individual freedom. This transformation betrays the purpose of the founders and the sacred principles of the Declaration of Independence.

As I transcribed the above, I thought about what it must feel like for a proud West Point graduate “of the past” to see what has become of the iconic academy he or she so loves; much like I’ve thought about what my dad — a proud U.S. Marine who at age 23 drove a tank onto the black volcanic-sand beach of Iwo Jima on day one of the bloodiest battles of WW II — would think about today’s “woke” military, not to mention the state of the country he fought for — and many of his friends died for.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told the Epoch Times the retired military leaders “wanted to challenge the leadership of the Academy and the Defense Dept on their WOKE actions, CRT, Diversity training and the other discrepancies in the Academy,” adding:

We found it pervasive at the Naval and Air Force Academies so we knew it was directed from the highest levels of our Military Leadership. We all want the Military to get back on track to training and leading our Armed Forces to secure America and its Citizens.

As is often the case with organizations, including corporations, charitable foundations, and political parties, the wokified rot in the Armed Forces of the United States starts at the top. One need look no further than Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley for ample proof. Consider the following RedState articles:

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Pledges to Provide ‘Seamless Access to Reproductive Health Care’ After Roe is Overturned

As Threats From Russia and China Mount, US Military Report Talks ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’

SecDef Austin and JCS Chairman Milley Show They Are Completely Devoted to Critical Race Theory at the Expense of Combat Effectiveness

The bottom line:

As is the case with the rabid left and its death grip on Joe Biden and the Democrat Party, we are witnessing the purposeful degradation of the Armed Forces of the United States as a hardened, battle-ready fighting force, engineered by the likes of Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley, left-wing educators indoctrinators embedded in our U.S. Military Academies, and various other “woke” forces.

In an increasingly dangerous world, this is organized madness.

But you already knew that.

MSNBC's Joy Reid Makes Ridiculous Claim About GOP Ownership of Women as Roe Meltdown Continues

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Joy Reid, principally “renowned” as the Race-Hustler Extraordinaire™ of MSNBC, is also quite adept at turning a histrionic, lie-filled phrase on anything else related to radical-left causes.

Reid’s “talent” was on full display on Monday’s episode of “The ReidOut,” as the fearmongering host ridiculously warned that, as a result of the overturn of Roe, the Republican Party has now taken ownership of half the women in America. Who knew? Other than Joy Reid and her radical-left colleagues, I mean?

Let’s remember before we continue: The Roe v. Wade overturn did not “outlaw abortion”; it correctly returned the abortion issue to the states and their elected officials. In other words, five associate justices righted a wrong: the 1973 adoption [no pun intended] of Roe.

So, as reported and transcribed by NewsBusters, here’s how Reid’s latest silly temper tantrum went down:

After a panel debate over how much Roe might hurt Republican candidates in the November midterms — they all agreed the overturn will do great damage to the GOP, of course — Reid launched into an “unhinged and dangerous” tirade, as described by NewsBusters.

[T]he difference between voters on the right and voters on the left [is] voters on the right never give up. They don’t get tired. Decade after decade they lost and lost and lost until they won.

And in the process, … took over state houses, State Senates. And Governorships so they are positioned to now take ownership of about half the women in this country. 48 percent of the women now live in red states.

Memo to Joy Reid: You just described exactly how democratic elections are supposed to work. Voters vote for candidates and/or political parties based on their — voters — beliefs. There are multiple reasons voters vote Republican — or Democrat — none of which we will waste time or space discussing, here. Bottom line: Get over the democratic process. Oh, and continue to play stupid games, like supporting on-demand abortion until birth? You’re going to continue to win stupid prizes — and lose elections.

As is usually the case, Reid grew crazier the longer she blathered. Emphasis, mine:

So you’re talking about the fact that those [Republican] state legislatures, at least according to the Supreme Court, the women in those states are their property and they can do whatever they want.

And so now it’s about trying to convince voters you’re going to need to switch those people out and vote in prosecutors who won’t prosecute you and State Reps and Senators who won’t destroy you and Governors who won’t veto your rights.

And there it is, America, the Republican Party has taken ownership — “property,” as Joyless Joy stupidly said — of half the women in America. And to think: Joy Reid isn’t even a biologist. Speaking of which, ain’t that something? Pending-SCOTUS Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was completely incapable of defining “woman” during her Senate confirmation hearings, yet now, every left-winger in America knows damn well what a woman is, thank you very much. The hypocrisy runs deep in these people, RedStaters.

Reid of course is far from the Lone Ranger of Post-Roe Histrionics, as left-wing pro-abortionists across the fruited plain continue to trot out hysterical comment after hysterical comment. Why it’s “almost” like the pro-abortion crowd tries to top the last vile and/or histrionic comment they hear or read.

Here are a few of my faves:

“I would get pregnant just to kill it.”

I am fairly passionate about my political positions and more than ready to debate them, with facts, as strongly as necessary. But this? How can this be described as anything but immoral and purposely vile?

The “ripping out my uterus” nonsense, with this one being among the “best”:

stabbing and ripping out my own uterus outside of the supreme court to traumatize them and change the course of their life indefinitely.

Again, I simply cannot imagine being consumed by so much rage and bitterness.

And how about this “parent of the year,” standing next to her own young children and saying the following?

“DON’T FORCE THIS ON ANYONE.”

The looks on the faces of her kids say it all.

As I have said, more times than I can remember and will undoubtedly say many more times to come, the hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds. Toss in the vile, unhinged bitterness over the Supreme Court of the United States correctly playing the role of arbitrer of the U.S. Constitution, and there you have it:

Today’s very radical — and very dangerous — left.

Related on RedState:

Nancy Pelosi Calls Supreme Court ‘Extremist’ for Scrapping Roe Decision in Scathing Letter to Colleagues

Joy Reid Says World Only Cares About Ukraine Because It’s ‘White and Largely Christian’

Celebrities Deliver Nasty, Uninformed Hot Takes on Roe Reversal