Joy Behar strained the imagination with her latest comparison, claiming on “The View” that ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon was just like the late World War II General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Behar recalled Eisenhower’s efforts to document the atrocities of the concentration camps — and then claimed that when Lemon shadowed protesters as they stormed a church in Minneapolis, he was simply making a similar effort to preserve history. WATCH: Joy Behar equates Don Lemon going into that St. Paul church to Eisenhower bringing in journalists to witness concentration camps: JOY BEHAR: So, i mean, all I can say is its in the Constitution, the right to protest; and he wasn’t even there protesting. He was there as a… pic.twitter.com/ZMKoLS2980 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 3, 2026 “So, I mean, all I can say is it’s in the Constitution, the right to protest,” Behar began, making no mention of the rights of the churchgoers to practice their religion without fear of intimidation and threats. She then pivoted to argue that Lemon — who was captured on video discussing the protest plans with one of the organizers before entering the church — was not there to protest anyway. “And he wasn’t even there protesting. He was there as a journalist,” she insisted. “Correct,” cohost Sunny Hostin agreed. “And I think they want to use him as some kind of an example to intimidate other journalists,” Behar added, parroting the exact claim made by Lemon after he was arrested in connection with the protest. “But, you know, I was reading something the other day about World War II, when the Americans liberated Dachau, after World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower said take pictures of these concentration camps because years will go by and people will not believe this happened,” Behar continued. “So, this administration does not really like somebody like Don Lemon who has a camera, who has a position like we do in a way to speak to the people and tell them what really is going on.” But Behar did not explain how Lemon’s video of protesters disrupting a church service aligned with the photos taken of Jewish Holocaust victims at Eisenhower’s behest. “So, you know, God bless Dwight D. Eisenhower and Don Lemon,” she concluded. Critics were not impressed with Behar’s conclusion, however. “In one of the most tortured Holocaust metaphors in modern history, @ABC News’ employee Joy Behar suggests that Don Lemon breaking up a church service is like Eisenhower sending in journalists to witness concentration camps. In her metaphor, church attendees … are the Nazis,” Matt Whitlock observed. “The hottest take yet is that Cities Church in St. Paul is basically another Dachau,” Jerry Dunleavy added. And from Chuck Ross, “ABC’s Joy Behar literally comparing Nazi concentration camps to a church where an ICE employee serves as an associate pastor.” “What exactly does Joy Behar think was going on inside Cities Church?!” Jorge Bonilla said.

Bitcoin plunged on Thursday, its decline accelerating amid weakening risk sentiment driven in part by volatility in precious metals and a broad selloff in tech shares. The world’s largest cryptocurrency fell to a low of $66,675.12, its weakest since October 2024, a month before President Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, having signaled his intention to support crypto on the campaign trail. It was last down 6.5% at $67,817. All told, the global crypto market has lost $2 trillion in value since hitting a peak of $4.379 trillion in early October, CoinGecko data showed, with some $800 billion wiped out in the last month alone. Bitcoin has already fallen 11% for the week, taking its losses for the year so far to 23%. Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalization, was down more than 7% at $1,973 on Thursday. Ether has fallen nearly 14% this week, with losses of roughly 34% so far this year. Sentiment on crypto was affected by the latest selling in metals and stocks. Gold and silver, for instance, have become more volatile as a result of leveraged buying and speculative flows. Silver, for one, fell as much as 16.6% to a low of $73.41. In equities, the S&P 500 slid to near two-week lows, and the Nasdaq sank to its lowest level in more than two months on Thursday, as the AI theme came under renewed pressure. “It’s clear the crypto market is now in full capitulation mode,” said Nic Puckrin, investment analyst and co-founder of Coin Bureau. “If previous cycles are anything to go by, this is no longer a short-term correction, but rather a transition from distribution to reset – and these typically take months, not weeks.” The latest crypto tumble has knocked down shares of companies holding bitcoin and other digital assets, stoking worries that the market turmoil is spreading beyond token prices. Trump’s selection of Kevin Warsh as his pick to become the next Federal Reserve chair has also affected the price of cryptocurrencies, due to expectations that he could shrink the Fed’s balance sheet. Cryptocurrencies have widely been regarded as beneficiaries of a large balance sheet, having tended to rally while the Fed greased money markets with liquidity — a support for speculative assets. “The market fears a hawk with him,” said Manuel Villegas Franceschi from the next generation research team at Julius Baer. “A smaller balance sheet is not going to provide any tailwinds for crypto.” To be sure, cryptocurrencies have struggled for months since a record crash last October sent bitcoin tumbling from a peak as leveraged positions got washed out. That has left investors less keen on digital assets, and sentiment toward the industry fragile. “We believe this broader decline is mainly driven by massive withdrawals from institutional ETFs (exchange-traded funds). These funds have seen billions of dollars flow out each month since the October 2025 downturn,” Deutsche Bank analysts said in a note to clients. They added that U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs witnessed outflows of more than $3 billion in January, following outflows of about $2 billion and $7 billion in December and November, respectively. “This steady selling in our view signals that traditional investors are losing interest, and overall pessimism about crypto is growing,” the analysts said. Bitcoin’s fortunes have been tied to the broader tech sector for some time. The price tended to rise, particularly on the back of investor enthusiasm over artificial intelligence. This week’s rout in global software stocks has accelerated the slide in the value of bitcoin, ether, and other tokens. Market watchers are starting to question if this decline marks the start of a steeper correction. “Concerns are being raised around the crypto miners and whether we could be looking at forced liquidations if prices continue to fall, which could lead to a vicious cycle,” Jefferies strategist Mohit Kumar said in a note. “Our view on crypto has always been that it should be never more than a very small portion of the overall portfolio. However, it is also an asset class that is heavily owned, particularly by retail investors, and hence adds to the overall market risk,” Kumar said. (Reporting by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss in New York, Rae Wee in Singapore, and Amanda Cooper in London; Additional reporting by Lucy Raitano in London; Editing by Edwina Gibbs, Joe Bavier, Will Dunham, and Jan Harvey)

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took a swing at liberal media network MS NOW — referring to it by its previous name, MSNBC — prompting laughs from Chairman Tim Scott (R-SC) along with several others in Thursday’s Senate Banking Committee hearing. Bessent was taking questions from the committee on the economy during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, and he made the argument that public sentiment — and consumer confidence — could easily be influenced by dishonest media narratives. WATCH: .@SenatorRicketts: “What more could we be doing in the Senate…to be able to help out with confidence…of consumers”@SecScottBessent: “Other than telling consumers to turn off MSNBC…it is a survey problem, where Democrats vote very low and Republicans are more realistic.” pic.twitter.com/HgwM2YULv5 — CSPAN (@cspan) February 5, 2026 Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) noted that consumer confidence did not appear to match the numbers coming from recent economic reports — and asked Bessent to identify where the disconnect might be and explain what could be done to bring people around. “Despite all this progress, we’re seeing consumer confidence is not really rebounding the way that the economy seems to be,” Ricketts said. “In your opinion, what more can we in the Senate be doing with regard to consumer confidence and, you know, obviously, we had 40-year high inflation under the Biden administration. What more could we be doing in the Senate … to be able to help out with confidence … of consumers?” “Other than telling consumers to turn off MSNBC,” Bessent began, prompting several loud laughs. “A large part of it is a survey problem, where Democrats vote very low and Republicans are more realistic, and then we end up — what we are seeing —” Scott interrupted them to explain that the time had expired for Senator Ricketts and it was time to move on with the hearing. “I appreciate your comments, believe me,” Scott said to Bessent with a chuckle. Bessent also sparred with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who asked him during Thursday’s hearing whether he agreed with President Donald Trump about the “affordability crisis” being a “hoax.” Bessent carefully explained — more than once — that the Trump administration’s position was not that the affordability crisis was a hoax. He argued instead that the “hoax” was a reference to Democrat efforts to spin a real crisis of their own making — during former President Joe Biden’s administration — as something brand new that was wholly created and owned by President Trump.

Tragedy occurred in the Bezos universe yesterday when 16,000 people were cut from Amazon. The first round of cuts in October led to roughly 14,000 white-collar employees receiving pink slips. People in the world of journalism were deeply affected. They were really upset that tens of thousands of people were about to lose their jobs at Amazon, one of the most successful companies in America and in the world. Just kidding. They didn’t care. They barely covered that; it lasted in the news cycle for about five seconds. What they are really, really upset about in the Bezos universe is that The Washington Post is going to lay off one-third of its staff. The Washington Post is cutting — wait for it — 300+ jobs. I’m just going to point out where the sympathies lie. 30,000 people lose their jobs at Amazon because Amazon is cost-cutting and reevaluating thanks to AI, and journalists respond, “You know, those are people who work in Amazon. Those might be factory workers, those might be middle management. They’re not us.” But at The Washington Post, they laid off the third-string journalist in Gaza, who may or may not be a contractor for Hamas; they laid off the race and ethnicity reporter, and it’s “My God, the American promise has been sullied and violated! No, this cannot be!” The Wall Street Journal reported: The Washington Post is cutting one-third of its staff, slashing hundreds of jobs across the newsroom and other departments in an effort to trim costs and reshape coverage. The layoffs will affect journalists in nearly all news departments, including the sports, foreign, technology and breaking-news teams, as well as business and technology staff.  “If we are to thrive, not just endure, we must reinvent our journalism and our business model with renewed ambition,” Executive Editor Matt Murray wrote in a note to newsroom staff Wednesday…. The Post is closing its sports department in its current form but will retain some roles in that coverage area. It is shrinking its international coverage, and will focus on national news and features, investigations and advice on health and wellness topics. Murray said the Post will continue to have correspondents in about a dozen international locations, and will focus on issues related to national security. “That’s what our readers seem to respond to the most,” he said. … The Post lost $77 million in 2023 and $100 million in 2024, The Wall Street Journal previously reported, as it contended with traffic declines from sources including Google and Facebook. … In recent weeks, Post journalists—including foreign correspondents, local-news reporters and members of the White House team—made public pleas asking the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, to maintain their jobs. The Washington Post, like the Daily Wire, is not a nonprofit. If journalists wish to start their own nonprofit and get a bunch of left-wing funders to put millions of dollars behind their jobs, they are free to do that. There are organizations that operate as charitable organizations that do active journalism on occasion. But the idea that Jeff Bezos owes it to the employees of The Washington Post to maintain their jobs when the paper is losing money is crazy and stupid. Nonetheless, the response from the media ecosystem is absolute shock and horror. Emmanuel Felton, the race and ethnicity reporter at The Washington Post — the race and ethnicity reporter? Is there breaking news in the race and ethnicity area? Is evolution suddenly occurring that you need l a reporter on race and ethnicity? How is that a coverage area? If on the Right there was a race and ethnicity reporter, we would recognize just how racist that is — put out a statement: I’m among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn’t a financial decision, it was an ideological one. The other reporter on my team covering race was also laid off as well as the editor in charge of race coverage across national. The team covering America beyond DC is now 90% white. Oh, no. You mean that people covering issues are going to do so without regard to the race of the reporter? We can’t have that. “Racism,” says the guy who gets paid to talk about racism all day long. Brianna Tucker, national politics breaking news reporter and the National Association of Black Journalists political task force chair, put out a statement saying, “I’m affected by layoffs at the Washington Post today. There aren’t enough words to describe the immense privilege and profound responsibility I’ve felt since hired at 25 as an editor. As a Black woman covering politics, (a dwindling cohort) today, that feeling is magnified.” If your first take about being fired by a paper that is bleeding money is that you were fired because of your race, perhaps that betrays the style of coverage that you were doing, which might be one of the reasons the paper was suffering. If you see everything through a racial lens and the paper for which you are reporting keeps losing money, and then you get fired, and in your firing statement, you talk about your specific race, perhaps you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Peter Baker, the New York Times’ chief White House correspondent, put out a tweet listing Bezos’ wealth over the years: Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million Amazon investment in “Melania”: $75 million Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5 The premise of this tweet is that The Post is a charity, and that Bezos bought it as a charity operation. The only number that matters in the tweet is this: “Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million.” Perhaps one of the reasons Jeff Bezos is worth $250 billion is that he does not hold on to declining assets. He does not run his businesses like charities. Maybe that would be the reason. Maybe that’s why he is extraordinarily wealthy, and most of the reporters working for him are not, because they think they’re in the charity business. As someone who’s the co-founder of a major media organization in the same business as the Washington Post, let me just say this: When you lose money, and you can see where you’re losing money, you have to lay people off. That is how business works. And Jeff Bezos is not doing anything wrong by laying people off. The idea that journalists are somehow owed their position because the person who hires them is rich is extraordinary, especially when many of these same journalists are asking that the federal government step in and make the owners of their own businesses not rich anymore. They think that the people who hire them are simply supposed to absorb the losses. Bernie Sanders, a complete leech on the ass of American society for the last eight decades, a useless human being in the extreme, put out a statement saying, “If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie and $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don’t tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.” What is this, “He doesn’t need to?” It is not about what people need to do in America; it is about what they want to do and what they have the freedom to do. That’s why this country kicks ass. And that’s why his version of the country sucks. If Bernie Sanders wants to get together a bunch of his left-wing friends to put together a 501c3 and rehire all the race reporters in the Washington Post, he is free to do that. He could sell his lake house, and he could hire several of these journalists, and they could work for him, and they could gallivant into the utopian socialist sunset together and enjoy their time. But he’s not going to do any of that, the man who spent over $550,000 in 2025 campaign funds on private jets.  How many Washington Post salaries could that pay?

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