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‘We Will FEAR NOT’: Trump Releases New Statement, Says ‘God Alone’ Saved Him
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‘We Will FEAR NOT’: Trump Releases New Statement, Says ‘God Alone’ Saved Him

Former President Donald Trump released a statement on Sunday morning in the wake of an assassination attempt on his life stating that God saved his life and calling on Americans to “stand united” and fight against evil. “Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers yesterday, as it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” Trump wrote. “We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness.” “Our love goes out to the other victims and their families,” the former president added. At least one Trump supporter has been confirmed dead and two others have been injured. “We pray for the recovery of those who were wounded, and hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed.” “In this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand United, and show our True Character as Americans, remaining Strong and Determined, and not allowing Evil to Win,” Trump added. “I truly love our Country, and love you all, and look forward to speaking to our Great Nation this week from Wisconsin,” he added, referring to the upcoming Republican National Convention. Trump said Saturday night that he heard a bullet zip by his right ear, which was pierced by a bullet. After Secret Service rushed in to surround Trump, the former president brushed them off, threw his fist in the air, and repeatedly shouted, “fight!” His supporters broke out in a “U-S-A” chant. “I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania,” Trump said in a statement released Saturday night. “Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country.” “Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead,” Trump continued. “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.” “GOD BLESS AMERICA!” he closed the post. Related: No Biden Statement One Hour After Trump Assassination Attempt
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CBS News, CNN Attack Trump For What He Said Immediately After He Got Shot
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CBS News, CNN Attack Trump For What He Said Immediately After He Got Shot

Employees at CBS News and CNN immediately attacked former President Donald Trump just moments after a man who donated to far-left from shooting former President Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania in what federal law enforcement officials have officially labeled an assassination attempt. The suspect — identified by the FBI as 20-year old Thomas Matthew Crooks — was shot and killed after he fired multiple rounds at Trump, one of which was literally an inch from being a potentially fatal hit. At least one Trump supporter in the crowd was killed and two more were seriously injured during the attack, the U.S. Secret Service said in a statement. As shots rang out, Trump grabbed his ear — a journalist captured a photograph of the bullet after it hit Trump and traveled past his head — and Secret Service shouted “Get down! Get down! Get down!” Trump dropped to the ground as he was tackled by Secret Service until Matthew was neutralized by law enforcement. Before they moved him off the stage, Trump yelled at the agents: “Wait! Wait! Wait!” Then looking at the thousands of supporters who showed up, he raised his fist and shouted: “Fight! Fight! Fight!” Immediately following Trump’s inspiring remarks to the crowd, CNN’s Jamie Gangel said: “I do want to say there was one thing that when I watched the tape, I found odd, because of all of the heated rhetoric.” “And that is that after he was hit, former President Trump got up and said, ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’,” she complained. “I think what we’re hearing people is that’s not the message that we want to be sending right now. We want to tamp it down.” WATCH: CNN’s Jamie Gangel attacks Trump for saying “Fight! Fight! Fight!” after someone tried to murder him. Literally, she complains about what he did 5 seconds after he was shot “That’s not the message that we want to being sending right now. We want to tamp it down” pic.twitter.com/GHhU2lLI2Z — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 14, 2024 CBS News’ Margaret Brennan, a highly partisan news host, fumed on television that Trump did not tell people to calm down in a statement he released a little while after the incident. “He is recovering from these injuries now, this was a traumatic event no doubt for him,” she said. “But I did notice there was no call for lowering the temperature, condemning all political violence, and really trying to signal to his supporters as well not to retaliate or to have any kind of escalation.” Trump's just been shot, and CBS anchor Margaret Brennan disparages him for not telling his followers to lower the temperature. Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/97R2FG97gG — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 14, 2024 CBS News analyst Samantha Vinograd, who is a highly partisan former Obama administration official, claimed that “the biggest that officials are telling me tonight is in the form of retaliatory violence.” Brennan jumped in and condemned Republicans for daring to be mad that the leader of the party was nearly assassinated. On CBS, Margaret Brennan and Samantha Vinograd talk up "retaliatory violence" from right-wingers, and then we hear of January 6. Knew this line was coming…. pic.twitter.com/JO9572UlXn — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 14, 2024 On ABC, the news anchors listed off reasons why Trump and his supports “contributed to this violent rhetoric. Unreal. It took less than 24 hours for ABC to start blaming Trump for last night. “President Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric…” “And let’s remember January 6th…” pic.twitter.com/I0M7g7byUX — Cabot Phillips (@cabot_phillips) July 14, 2024
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World Leaders Express Shock, Stand With Trump Following Assassination Attempt
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World Leaders Express Shock, Stand With Trump Following Assassination Attempt

Leaders from around the world expressed shock and showed an outpouring of support for former President Donald Trump after a man shot him in the ear during what federal law enforcement officials have officially labeled an assassination attempt. The suspect — identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks — was shot and killed after he fired multiple rounds at Trump, one of which was an inch from being a potentially fatal hit. At least one Trump supporter in the crowd was killed and two more were seriously injured during the attack, the U.S. Secret Service said in a statement. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted on X: “Sara and I were shocked by the apparent attack on President Trump. We pray for his safety and speedy recovery.” Argentinian President Javier Milei said that Trump has all of his “support and solidarity” after he survived “a COWARDLY assassination attempt that put his life and that of hundreds of people at risk.” “The desperation of the international left is not surprising, as today it sees its harmful ideology expire, and is willing to destabilize democracies and promote violence to screw itself into power,” he added. “In fear of losing at the polls, they resort to terrorism to impose their retrograde and authoritarian agenda. I hope for the speedy recovery of President Trump and that the elections in the United States are held fairly, peacefully and democratically.” Todo mi apoyo y solidaridad al Presidente y candidato Donald Trump, víctima de un COBARDE intento de asesinato que puso en riesgo su vida y la de cientos de personas. No sorprende la desesperación de la izquierda internacional que hoy ve cómo su ideología nefasta expira, y está… pic.twitter.com/iWN9Q7YFXX — Javier Milei (@JMilei) July 14, 2024 “I’m sickened by the shooting at former President Trump,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “It cannot be overstated — political violence is never acceptable. My thoughts are with former President Trump, those at the event, and all Americans.” New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was “appalled by the shocking scenes at President Trump’s rally and we send him and his family our best wishes.” “Political violence in any form has no place in our societies and my thoughts are with all the victims of this attack,” he added. French President Emanuel Macron posted on X: “My thoughts to President Donald Trump, victim of an assassination attempt, to whom I wish a speedy recovery. One activist died, several were injured. It is a tragedy for our democracies. France shares the shock and indignation of the American people.” “The attack on US presidential candidate Donald Trump is despicable,” said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “I wish him a speedy recovery. My thoughts are also with those who were affected by the attack. Such acts of violence threaten democracy.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was “appalled” by the shooting and that “such violence has no justification and no place anywhere in the world.” “Never should violence prevail. I am relieved to learn that Donald Trump is now safe and wish him a speedy recovery,” he said. “My condolences go out to the close ones of this attack’s victim, a rally attendee. I extend my wishes for strength to everyone who is horrified by this event. I wish America emerges stronger from this.” Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese posted on X: “The incident at former President Trump’s campaign event in Pennsylvania today is concerning and confronting. There is no place for violence in the democratic process. I am relieved to hear reports that former President Trump is now safe.” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida posted on X: “We must stand firm against any form of violence that challenges democracy. I pray for former President Trump’s speedy recovery.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was “deeply concerned by the attack on my friend, former President Donald Trump.” “Strongly condemn the incident,” he said. “Violence has no place in politics and democracies. Wish him speedy recovery. Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the deceased, those injured and the American people.” Taiwan President Lai Ching-te posted on X: “My thoughts and prayers are with former US President Trump and I wish him a swift recovery. Political violence of any form is never acceptable in our democracies. I offer my sincere condolences to the victims affected by the attack.” “I am appalled by the hideous act of political violence,” added South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. “I wish former President Trump a speedy recovery. The people of Korea stand in solidarity with the people of America.”
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Elon Musk, Bill Ackman Endorse Trump After Left-Wing Donor Attempts Assassination
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Elon Musk, Bill Ackman Endorse Trump After Left-Wing Donor Attempts Assassination

Former President Donald Trump secured major endorsements Saturday afternoon after a man who donated to far-left causes shot Trump in the ear during what federal law enforcement officials have officially labeled an assassination attempt. The suspect — identified by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks — was shot and killed after he fired multiple rounds at Trump, one of which was literally an inch from being a potentially fatal hit. At least one Trump supporter in the crowd was killed and two more were seriously injured during the attack, the U.S. Secret Service said in a statement. As shots rang out, Trump grabbed his ear — a journalist captured a photograph of the bullet after it hit Trump and traveled past his head — and Secret Service shouted “Get down! Get down! Get down!” Trump dropped to the ground as he was tackled by Secret Service until Matthew was neutralized by law enforcement. Before they moved him off the stage, Trump yelled at the agents: “Wait! Wait! Wait!” Then looking at the thousands of supporters who showed up, he raised his fist and shouted: “Fight! Fight! Fight!” X owner Elon Musk posted a video of Trump’s remarks to the crowd: “I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery.” I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery pic.twitter.com/ZdxkF63EqF — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2024 Musk’s endorsement comes after Bloomberg News reported last week that Musk has donated a “sizable amount” of money to a super PAC backing Trump. The amount will not be known until later this week. Musk also called for “the head of the Secret Service and the leader of this security detail” to resign immediately after they failed to stop the attack. “Extreme incompetence or it was deliberate,” he added. “Either way, the SS leadership must resign.” Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who is friends with Musk, posted on X: “I am going to formally endorse @realDonaldTrump . I came to this decision some time ago as many @X followers have already understood from my supportive posts of Trump and my criticisms of @POTUS Biden.” He said that he would explain his decision in a lengthy post but he hasn’t had time to put together everything that he wants to write. “I believe the upcoming presidential election is one of the most consequential elections in my lifetime so I am taking the proper time to articulate observations that I will share widely and for which I assume an important responsibility,” he said, adding that people’s perceptions of him have been wildly skewed by a dishonest media. I am going to formally endorse @realDonaldTrump. I came to this decision some time ago as many @X followers have already understood from my supportive posts of Trump and my criticisms of @POTUS Biden. The reason why I have not yet formally done so is that I want to explain my… — Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) July 14, 2024
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Princess Kate Gets Emotional Standing Ovation At Wimbledon & Princess Charlotte’s Reaction Is Everything, Watch
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Princess Kate Gets Emotional Standing Ovation At Wimbledon & Princess Charlotte’s Reaction Is Everything, Watch

Princess Kate attended Wimbledon on July 14th—marking her second apperance since her cancer diagnosis—and the crowd welcomed her with an emotional standing ovation. Kate walked into the stadium on Sunday morning to watch the men’s singles finals with her daughter, Princess Charlotte, and sister, Pippa, by her side. As she made her way to the Royal Box, the entire crowd rose to applaud and cheer, which was visibly touching to Kate. come annunciato, Kate Middleton assiste alla finale di Wimbledon. Con lei la figlia Charlotte e la sorella Pippa.#Wimbledon2024 pic.twitter.com/T08IxGcIe2— Francesco Canino (@fraversion) July 14, 2024 Princess Charlotte Beams As Crowd Applauds Kate Middleton However, Princess Kate wasn’t the only person moved by the sentiment. Charlotte, 9, beamed as the Wimbledon fans gave her mother a warm welcome. She took her seat while Kate waved and thanked the crowd and watched with pride. Princess Charlotte looking so proud of her Mum!! pic.twitter.com/1sxDVu1j9t— Royal News Network (@RNN_RoyalNews) July 14, 2024 Wimbledon was Princess Kate’s second official public outing since doctors discovered cancer during an unrelated abdominal surgery earlier this year. She stepped out for the first time to celebrate King Charles during the Trooping the Colour parade on June 15th. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Princess Kate Gets Emotional Standing Ovation At Wimbledon & Princess Charlotte’s Reaction Is Everything, Watch appeared first on InspireMore.
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Foster “Fail” Shares The Moment Her Kids Found Out Their Pup Was Staying
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Foster “Fail” Shares The Moment Her Kids Found Out Their Pup Was Staying

Some might call this a “foster fail,” but we’re pretty sure both this family and their new dog feel like winners! If you’re not familiar with the term, DogTime has a great explanation. A foster fail is when someone ends up adopting the cat, dog, or other pet they agreed to foster. You might be wondering, “In what universe is this considered a fail?” In the end, it just means that a pet’s foster parent couldn’t bring themself to say good-bye! One family on social media shared the sweetest video about how they ended up keeping their foster dog, Bentley. However, the parents decided to play a prank on their kids before making the official announcement. Instead of admitting to their foster fail, Mom and Dad told their two daughters that their sweet dog had been adopted by a family. As soon as her parents broke the “news,” the younger of the two girls started sobbing. Clearly, it was time to reveal the truth! Unfortunately, it took a while for the little girl to calm down enough for her parents to explain. @jacquelynnann8 We adopted our first foster. We dont do anything simple because that wouldnt be memorable. My little was begging for a week to keep Bentley because he fit into our home so perfect. Were all over the moon to have him in hos forever home #adopted #fosterfail #dog #dogsoftiktok #drama #dogmom #dogfamily ♬ original sound – jacquelynnann8 Mom thought that it would be sweet to show her daughter the adoption paperwork, which of course had their family’s name on it. However, the child was far too upset to even look at the documents. Eventually, her older sister stepped in and read the text out loud. When the weeping little girl realized that Bentley wasn’t going anywhere, she started crying with joy instead! “We adopted our first foster,” Mom wrote in her caption on social media. “We don’t do anything simple because that wouldn’t be memorable. My little was begging for a week to keep Bentley because he fit into our home so perfect. We’re all over the moon to have him in his forever home.” Screengrab from TikTok Commenters loved seeing this family’s “foster fail” video revealing that they were going to adopt their dog. Many users could relate to the little girl’s reaction when she thought Bentley was leaving! “I’m 28 and she handled that way better than me,” wrote one user. “Congratulations!” Another added, “I don’t foster because I’d act like her as an adult.” Phew, what an emotional roller coaster! We’re so glad this family failed at fostering and decided to keep this sweet dog. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Foster “Fail” Shares The Moment Her Kids Found Out Their Pup Was Staying appeared first on InspireMore.
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‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Actress Shannen Doherty Dead At 53
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‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Actress Shannen Doherty Dead At 53

Her very public struggle with cancer has come to a close
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Dan Bongino, Former Secret Service Agent, Says Trump Shooting ‘Catastrophic Failure’
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Dan Bongino, Former Secret Service Agent, Says Trump Shooting ‘Catastrophic Failure’

Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, says Saturday night’s shooting at President Donald Trump’s rally, is a “catastrophic failure” of the Secret Service. “This is an obviously catastrophic failure and NO excuses should be made, or even attempted,” Bongino posted on X. “The failures are profound and questions must be answered about ground surveillance, air surveillance, post-stander support, and counter-sniper advance work and response. We have ONE job, and we came within inches of a deadly failure today. An uneventful failure is NOT a success.” Bongino also said he was in touch with other former Secret Service colleagues. Actively communicating with a number of former colleagues from the Secret Service about the assassination attempt. This is an obviously catastrophic failure and NO excuses should be made, or even attempted. The failures are profound and questions must be answered about ground…— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) July 14, 2024 Bongino also called on Kimberly Cheatle, director of the Secret Service, to resign. I want to repeat, and can absolutely confirm, the USSS Director Kim Cheatle has repeatedly turned down requests for a larger security footprint around President Trump. Despite knowing the threat level is catastrophic. Resign tonight. https://t.co/v3UQyTt1dK— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) July 14, 2024 House Speaker Mike Johnson posted on X Saturday night that the House would launch a “FULL INVESTIGATION” of the Trump shooting. He added that Cheatle and other officials would appear for committee hearings “ASAP.” THE HOUSE WILL CONDUCT A FULL INVESTIGATION OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS TODAY. The American people deserve to know the truth. We will have Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other appropriate officials from DHS and the FBI appear for a hearing before our committees ASAP.— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) July 14, 2024 House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., announced Saturday evening: “I have already contacted the Secret Service for a briefing and am also calling on Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to appear for a hearing.” Elon Musk also posted on X that Secret Service leadership should resign. Extreme incompetence or it was deliberate. Either way, the SS leadership must resign. https://t.co/0vYGrj6yuH— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2024 Cheatle was appointed by President Joe Biden to be director of the Secret Service in 2022. Her 25-year career included a stint serving on Biden’s security detail when he was vice president. Rob Bluey contributed to this report. The post Dan Bongino, Former Secret Service Agent, Says Trump Shooting ‘Catastrophic Failure’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.
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Melania Trump Calls Trump Shooter ‘Monster’
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Melania Trump Calls Trump Shooter ‘Monster’

Melania Trump reacted to the shooting of her husband, former President Donald Trump, in a statement Sunday morning, calling the shooter a “monster.” “A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald’s passion – his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration,” the former first lady wrote. “The core facets of my husband’s life – his human side – were buried below the political machine.” “When I watched that violent bullet strike my husband, Donald, I realized my life, and Barron’s life, were on the brink of devastating change. I am grateful to the brave Secret Service agents and law enforcement officials who risked their own lives to protect my husband,” she added. pic.twitter.com/IGIWzL6SMJ— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) July 14, 2024 This is a breaking news story and may be updated. The post Melania Trump Calls Trump Shooter ‘Monster’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.
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The 2024 GOP Convention Is Still Happening. Here’s What to Expect
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The 2024 GOP Convention Is Still Happening. Here’s What to Expect

Thirty-two years ago, when the GOP was re-nominating mainstream conservative President George H. W. Bush, NBC’s Katie Couric suggested Republicans had become “too exclusionary, too intolerant.” Four years later, MSNBC host Bill Moyers fretted about the “theological imperatives being imposed” on the Republican platform. In 2000, CBS’s Bryant Gumbel suggested “blacks have a right to be suspicious” of many Republican leaders, while ABC’s Charles Gibson doubted whether the pro-life GOP was “really an open, compassionate, tolerant party.” Viewers heard the same thing in 2012, when CBS’s Scott Pelley claimed that because of its stance against abortion, women might “question whether Republicans have women’s best interests at heart.” In 2016, MSNBC’s Joy Reid decried the “really angry rhetoric” she heard directed against illegal immigrants,” while her colleague Chris Matthews was shocked by the “festival of hating Hillary” Clinton. And in 2020, NBC’s Peter Alexander fretted the Republicans’ “grim....apocalyptic portrait of America if Joe Biden wins the election.” This spin is reaches back to the 1980s and 1990s, and thus has nothing to do with the today’s GOP personalities. Below, you’ll see some of the choicest quotes from the MRC’s archives; next month, we’ll look at the media’s very different coverage of past Democratic conventions. ■ “Is there any concern on your part that this ticket might just be a little too conservative? It’s to the right of most Americans in the country right now.”— CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl interviewing ex-Delaware Governor Pete DuPont during live convention coverage, August 18, 1988. ■ “Do you think the Republican Party has grown, or become, too exclusionary, too intolerant, and that this kind of rhetoric is divisive and counterproductive?”— Co-host Katie Couric to Vice President Dan Quayle on NBC’s Today, August 19, 1992. ■ “You gave the impression that if you’re not a white, heterosexual, Christian, anti-abortion, anti-environment, you’re somehow not welcome in the Republican Party.”— NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, August 18, 1992, asking Pat Buchanan about his convention speech delivered the previous night. ■ “Are you really comfortable in a party where there are a lot of theological imperatives being imposed upon a political platform?”— Host Bill Moyers to Steve Forbes on MSNBC’s InterNight, July 19, 1996. ■ “George W. is one thing, but as long as the Republican Party — you noted some of them — is populated by the Pat Buchanans, the Jesse Helmses, the Jerry Falwells, the Bob Barrs, don’t blacks have a right to be suspicious?”— CBS’s Bryant Gumbel to a panel of black men on the August 2, 2000 Early Show. ■ “The platform is, again, very strongly pro-life and rejects abortion rights, and the platform specifically comes out against gay unions, and against legal protections based on sexual preferences. So is this really an open, compassionate, tolerant party?”— Co-host Charles Gibson to Lynne Cheney, on ABC’s Good Morning America, August 2, 2000. ■ “The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party’s, quote, ‘moderate side.’ Will voters buy it?”— Dan Rather opening the August 30, 2004 CBS Evening News. ■ “The President’s team knows that it can’t get back to the White House by taking only hard right turns, so it has, as three of its featured speakers, Republicans who have been successful by navigating the middle of the road as well the right-hand side....Streetwise New Yorkers may call that the political equivalent of a popular con game in this tough town — three-card monte. But then, that’s a game in which the dealer almost always wins.”— Tom Brokaw ending the August 29, 2004 NBC Nightly News. ■ “The abortion platform here is pretty hard right when it comes to the abortion question — with which you have some disagreement, I think, with the party still.”— NBC’s David Gregory to ex-New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman, MSNBC convention coverage, September 2, 2008. ■ “If [Bobby] Jindal had been governor of Louisiana in 2005 [during Hurricane Katrina], everything would have been different, and he would be John McCain’s running mate instead of this wacko right-winger.”— Co-host Mort Kondracke talking about Sarah Palin on FNC’s The Beltway Boys, September 6, 2008. ■ “There’s a phrase I wonder about, ‘community organizers.’...Is this the new ‘welfare queen?’ Is this a new symbol, that we’re talking about here?...I think what they’re getting is urban, downtown, trouble, tough neighborhoods. ‘Community organizer’ is not a winning phrase for a place like Scranton....It seems to me that the use of the word, ‘community organizer,’ is almost like a bullwhip.... Are they saying that, that Barack Obama is Al Sharpton? Is that what they’re saying?”— MSNBC’s Chris Matthews to various guests on Hardball, September 8, 2008. ■ “A lot of women look at the Republican platform on abortion, contraception, a number of issues, and ask the question whether Republicans have women’s best interests at heart?”— CBS anchor Scott Pelley in an interview with Ann Romney shown on the August 28, 2012 Evening News. ■ “Could you ask the Secretary — her speech was so overpowering, and positive, but was it kind of a rejoinder to all the birtherism and the narrowness that she’s heard in her party?”— Chris Matthews interrupting Andrea Mitchell’s interview of Condoleezza Rice during MSNBC’s live coverage, August 29, 2012. ■ “They [Republicans] knocked themselves out producing a convention that was a colossal hoax....[In Paul Ryan’s] speech Wednesday night, the altar boy altered reality, conjuring up a world so compassionate, so full of love-thy-neighbor kindness and small-town goodness, that you had to pinch yourself to remember it was a shimmering mirage, a beckoning pool of big, juicy lies.... Ryan’s lies and Romney’s shape-shifting are so easy to refute that they must have decided a Hail Mary pass of artifice was better than their authentic ruthless worldview.”— New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, September 2, 2012. ■ “I don’t care how many children Pat Smith lost I would like to beat her to death.”— GQ basketball writer Nathaniel Friedman (aka Bethlehem Shoals) in a July 18, 2016 tweet following a GOP convention speech from the mother of Benghazi victim Sean Smith. ■ “Melania Trump’s speech was the first of the night that didn’t have this subtext that....brown people are dangerous which was the kinda subtext of the rest of the night. There was a lot of really angry rhetoric, a lot of talk about murder and death and tying it all back to immigrants, tying it all back an illegal migration and there was a really hard-edged theme...If you’re a person of color, this is a weird place to be.”— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s The Place for Politics 2016, July 19, 2016.     ■ “It’s this festival of hating Hillary tonight, this brewing up of almost a witch-like ritual tonight...[Chris] Christie was up there with that very rough justice, I might put it, of Hillary Clinton....and I get the feeling, he wanted — if they had said, ‘kill her now,’ it was almost that bloodthirsty....And the audience always as requested, responded always with the verdict of ‘guilty,’ and they said it in a blood curdling way every time.”— Hardball host Chris Matthews during MSNBC’s live GOP convention coverage, July 19, 2016. ■ “Heading into this convention, the President and his allies promised four days of hope and optimism. But many of those speakers on night one painted a grim picture of the country if Donald Trump loses and warned that Joe Biden is, in effect, an existential threat….Many delivering an apocalyptic portrait of America if Joe Biden wins the election.”— Correspondent Peter Alexander on NBC’s Today, August 25, 2020.   ■ “A lot of people saw a very dark picture painted last night about the Democrats, that there were going to be vengeful mobs storming the suburbs. That doesn’t sound very optimistic.”— Co-host Anthony Mason to first night speaker and former UN ambassador Nikki Haley as aired on CBS This Morning, August 25, 2020.   ■ “It’s a total disconnect…We heard nothing about racial justice and the reckoning with — with 400 years of systemic racism that a majority of Americans, according to polls, are ready to undertake, are ready to talk about and grapple with. This convention is not ready to grapple with any of that. This convention is ready to frighten voters.”— Washington Post columnist and NBC News political analyst Eugene Robinson on NBC News’s live coverage of the Republican National Convention, August 26, 2020.   ■ “As I’m watching this [Donald Trump’s acceptance speech], I’m thinking Fidel Castro, Julius Caesar, Mobutu Sese Seko. That was not an American President giving an acceptance speech. That was a monarch....It was very much like what Castro used to do….He made the White House into the Trump palace. If democracy in America ever falls and we become a complete autocracy with a decrepit leader and his corrupt family moving their trunks into the White House and never leaving….tonight is what it will look like. This is what it will look like to have a decrepit, corrupt monarch. This was a crime. Every cabinet member that was sitting there was violating the Hatch Act….This would be the end of America.”— Host Joy Reid on MSNBC’s Decision 2020: Republican National Convention, August 27, 2020. For more examples from our flashback series, which we call the NewsBusters Time Machine, go here.                          
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