Media and Democrat lies that reelecting former President Donald Trump would bring about the end of the world are inciting violent, disturbed people to try to kill him, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says. “Without question I blame CNN, MSNBC and all the other left-wing outlets,” Sen. Paul told Fox News this week after the latest attempt on the life of former President Trump. Sunday’s failed assassination is the second such attempt to kill the Republican presidential candidate in the last two months. The false, apocalyptic warnings of the Left have successfully ginned up “every crazy person in the world,” Sen. Paul said: "Without question I blame CNN, MSNBC and all the other left-wing outlets for promoting this idea that Donald Trump is going to end elections, that democracy is being threatened, that it's going to be the end of the world – that made it so dire and that so misinformed the public about Donald Trump’s positions that every crazy person in the country now is ginned up.” Leftist media and the Democrats need to tone down their fear-mongering, because they’re responsible for inspiring unstable people to try to assassinate Republican Candidate Trump, Sen. Paul said: “So, CNN, MSNBC, the Democrats in general need to tone it down, because they are inciting this anger that is coming forth through disturbed people or violent people or otherwise, that they need to tone down their rhetoric, without question.”

Tuesday’s White House press briefing provided the clearest indications yet the liberal media and their allies won’t tone down their rhetoric and continue to refer to Donald Trump and his supporters as dangerous and a “threat to democracy” despite the second assassination attempt on Trump in as many months.  Thanks to a slew of softballs from liberal media outlets such as ABC and CBS, they teamed with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to make the case that it’s Trump, running mate JD Vance, and Republicans who must turn down the temperature. And, when challenged on this by Fox’s Peter Doocy, Jean-Pierre told him it’s who he’s being “dangerous”.     Doocy listened until he was the second to last reporter called on and made it count by standing up for sanity: It's been only two days since somebody allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump again and you're here at the podium in the White House Briefing Room calling him a threat. How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the President and the Vice President and you pick a different word to describe Trump other than threat? This led to a sigh from Jean-Pierre before arguing not only did she “completely disagree with the premise of your question,” but argued he was being “incredibly dangerous” for wondering whether the Biden-Harris regime should choose its words more careful. By doing so, she insinuated, Doocy would inspire a disturbed person to put Biden or Harris’s life in danger seeing as how “American people are watching” him.  She also retreated to talking points about January 6 and Paul Pelosi as reasons “the temperature” (by Republicans) must be “lower[ed]”, adding it’s only factual to call attention to the danger the MAGA movement poses (click “expand”): JEAN-PIERRE: What I have said about the President – the former President – about January 6 is facts. That's you all have reported. It is fact. When you have a former President who basically says that the election wasn't the – the – the results of the election were not the results of the election – when dozens – dozens of – more than 60 Republican judges said that it was a free and fair election. Six – more than 60 – said it was indeed a free and fair election. You had more than 2,000 people who were told to go to the Capitol. It was one of the darkest days of our democracy. One of the darkest days. There are people who law enforcement officers who died because of what happened at the Capitol and they were there because the former President told them to go there. I mean, I don't know if that's not a – if that's not a threat in our democracy when it was one of the darkest days of our democracy – January 6 – one of the darkest days. DOOCY: To your point – JEAN-PIERRE: And so, we – we have been very clear from here. Now, we can have a disagreement on policies. We can on issues. That is what we should do. It is important to have those disagreements. It is welcome to have those disagreements on the economy, on healthcare, on foreign policy, but when you start bringing political rhetoric – political rhetoric, that is not okay, and that's what you've heard from us too. You've heard of differences on policies. Doocy finally got another question in: There are people watching at home who might miss the part where you say, let's lower the temperature, and they're just – there are mentally unstable people who are attempting to kill political candidates, attempting to kill Donald Trump and they are still hearing this White House refer to him as a threat. Is there no concern that people are taking that literally? Jean-Pierre grossly stuck to her talking points by screaming about January 6 four times in less than 30 seconds as proof of violence on the right and further demanded Doocy “be careful on how you're asking me these questions” and “people” could react violently to the White House, who are only here to “fight for our democracy” and “freedom”. The softballs began thanks to ABC’s Selina Wang: ABC’s Selina Wang: “Donald Trump blamed President Biden and Vice President Harris for the latest assassination attempt against him. He claimed, without evidence that their rhetoric is causing them to be ‘shot at.’ How is the White House responding to those comments?” KJP: “Well,… pic.twitter.com/ver1gXw7EJ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2024 Jean-Pierre wouldn’t expand on her thoughts despite this second Wang softball: “So, do the President and Vice President believe that the kind of language that Trump used in those comments I just said are contributing to the tension and divisiveness you just talked about?”     However, this third one got her going and argued in part that “Biden has been clear-eyed about the threat that the former President represents to our democracy” and thus it’s incumbent upon Biden and Harris “to continue to strongly call out” Trump as a danger to preserve “our democracy”. Reuters’s Jeff Mason threw a softball about Vance that got Jean-Pierre to argue in essence that he’s putting Harris’s life in danger: Watch this answer from KJP, arguing without evidence that @JDVance is trying to get Kamala Harris killed... Reuters’s Jeff Mason: “On the issue of political rhetoric, do you have any reaction to Senator Vance's comments in which he noted that the difference between – in his… pic.twitter.com/2JqdUvb9u5 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2024 CBS’s Nancy Cordes actually offered some pushback: KJP says Biden, Harris, the WH *will* continue to talk Donald Trump a “threat to democracy” b/c it's necessary for America to be “clear-eyed” like Biden about the threat he poses to America.... pic.twitter.com/pL8ktsA907 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2024 CORDES: I want to follow up on that because Senator Vance appeared to call out specifically one of the phrases that you used earlier, which was threat to democracy. He said, “We cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist, and if he's elected, that it's going to be the end of American democracy.” Now, I recognize that Donald Trump has also used those phrases threat to democracy, danger to democracy, but in light of what has happened and in light of the fact that there are going to be disturbed people who take words like threat or danger literally, is the President and is the Vice President considering avoiding those specific terms, threat to democracy or danger to democracy? JEAN-PIERRE: I mean, look, and I answered this question. The President has always been very clear-eyed about this, about the threat of the former President represents to our democracy. Just think about January 6th. January 6th – we have to be honest with the American people when we see those types of threats when we that type of rhetoric that led to 2,000 people going to the Capitol. We have to call that out. Uh – and – uh – look, let me step back for a second even further. You all, as news organizations have the obligation – right – you are all obligated to cover events like January 6th, as I mentioned before, some of your colleagues were there, some of you were there on January 6th, and you had to report that the way you saw it, the obligation to do that. We appreciate it because I know those were dangerous times. That was a dangerous day to be there and you know, we have to call out any type of refusal of an outcome of an election. Any type of violent rhetoric – and this administration has the responsibility to be honest to the American people. So, look, we are, we can as a country – right – we can have disagreements on issues, on policy issues. It is okay to have that conversation. We had a debate, as I mentioned recently. It is – it is – uh – that is what's beautiful about what we do – right – uh – to go back and forth about our democracy, but once you talk – once there's violent rhetoric, we got to condemn that. And you know, the President is going to encourage all leaders from both parties to do so – all leaders from both parties to do so. Uh – it's not just on one, all leaders on both parties have to make sure that we do not – um – we do not use that type of violent political rhetoric because look what happened January 6th, Paul Pelosi, Butler, over the weekend. We got to be mindful. Of course, April Ryan wanted to throw gasoline on the fire: .@AprilDRyan: “I'm going back to one of your – to an answer that you gave to someone about lowering the temperature when it comes to this divisive rhetoric. It's not just about presidential – uh – division. It's also about lowering the temperature, do you think, when it comes to… pic.twitter.com/55vw0Ordjt — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 17, 2024 Anita Powell of taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) had a softball questioning whether the toxicity in our politics might have the world asking “is democracy dangerous” and hardens the resolve of “American adversaries.” To see the relevant transcript from the September 17 briefing (including Fox Business’s Edward Lawrence asking whether the Biden-Harris administration thinks Americans are better off than they were four years ago), click here.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) expressed his frustrations with the Department of Homeland Security and its unwillingness to hand over information Congress has been requesting regarding the first assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.“I am reaching the point of total outrage because the response from the Department of Homeland Security has been totally lacking. In fact, I think it’s tantamount to stonewalling in many respects. ... If necessary, I’ll certainly support a subpoena," Blumenthal told reporters on Tuesday.Blumenthal previously said the nation will be "shocked and appalled by our findings as to the lapses and failures on that day,” referring to when Trump was shot while speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Congress' report on the Butler incident is expected to come out shortly.It has been difficult to ascertain the reasoning behind the Butler shooter's attack on Trump since Secret Service agents shot and killed him. While he had been registered as a Republican in Pennsylvania, he also donated $15 through Democrat fundraising site ActBlue. 'I directed state agencies to move expeditiously and provide full transparency to the public.' The lack of answers from the DHS, which oversees the U.S. Secret Service, has been especially concerning in the aftermath of another assassination attempt against Trump while he was on his golf course in West Palm Beach on Sunday.Unlike the Butler shooter, the social media accounts belonging to the alleged would-be shooter in West Palm Beach, Ryan Routh, show he was against Trump and parroted Democrats' talking points about the upcoming presidential election."You should visit the victims in the hospital of the trump rally victims and attend the funeral of the fireman that died; Trump certainly never would. SHOW THE WORLD WHAT REAL LEADERS DO," Routh told Biden on X after the first attempted assassination in July.Due to the lack of answers from the federal government about the first assassination attempt, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) announced the state will be conducting its own investigation into the second attempt on Trump's life, saying the state has jurisdiction over attempted murder since Trump is not a federal official."The suspect ... is believed to have committed state law violations across multiple judicial circuits in this state, Palm Beach judicial circuit, judicial circuits including Martin County, as well as, perhaps, the judicial circuit represented by Broward County. I directed state agencies to move expeditiously and provide full transparency to the public," DeSantis explained. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

At a recent rally in Nevada, Donald Trump brought up an interesting subject: Hollywood. “If I pull this off with the help of your governor, a lot of Hollywood will be moving from California because right now you don't have the land … it's owned by the federal government. We're going to open up that land to you; you'll be able to build studios and everything else,” he told a cheering crowd. Dave Rubin loves Trump’s idea to take a crumbling Hollywood and move it somewhere else where it can be prosperous. And apparently, Mark Wahlberg agrees. Dave plays a clip of the actor “talking about his mission to bring film studios to Nevada.” “I’m hoping to premiere my next film here and hoping to make lots of films here and move lots of studios and streamers and everybody here to create new jobs, new industry. I think [Nevada’s] got everything to offer. Wahlberg articulated his goal to “bring something to the table when coming to Las Vegas because Las Vegas obviously has so much to offer.” “I think when people hear Las Vegas, they think of the Strip and casinos, which is fine, but 20 minutes away, it's one of the most amazing communities that I've ever been a part of. It's all about faith and family, and it’s thriving,” he explained. “I wanted to come with something to offer myself, whether it be hopefully bringing the film industry here, bringing, you know, a factory here to make shoes and apparel and creating other opportunity and jobs. I want to enrich the community and be a part of something,” he continued, emphasizing his intentions to “be connected to people,” “find great partnerships,” “work hard with people,” “create opportunity,” and “inspire other people.” Dave admires someone who’s willing to leave his home behind for the sake of building a better community. “He saw what was happening there and said, ‘Oh, there are places where I can do this better and I can be part of something that is building and thriving,” he says. “That really is the message right now for America,” he continues. “Which way do we want to go? Do we want to be more like California, or do we want to be more like … a Nevada that is thriving or a Florida that is thriving or a Texas that is thriving?” Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) refused on Tuesday to allow CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins to block him from telling the truth about an IVF-related bill.Earlier in the day, the Senate failed to pass a bill that would provide federal protections for IVF. It was the second time the bill failed after nearly every Republican senator voted against it. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) were the only Republicans who voted for it.'No, Kaitlan, you're not going to stop me there.'The Democratic narrative quickly became that Republicans are once again trying to restrict rights and block fertility care. Collins herself parroted that narrative. Before introducing Cotton onto her show, she said:Senate Republicans today blocked a bill that would guarantee access to the very thing that a lot of them say they support. It's also the very thing that we have heard Donald Trump say that he supports. Democrats tried and failed, again, to pass that measure, which would guarantee access to IVF nationwide. And tonight, they are using this vote to hammer Republicans who said, "No."When it was finally Cotton's turn to speak, he told Collins that he needed to "correct almost everything you said in the lede in there.""First off, there's no risk to IVF in this country. All 49 Republican senators, along with President Trump, support IVF. No state restricts or bans IVF," Cotton explained. "Second, this bill was about a lot more than just IVF."Despite having laid out only those two basic facts, Collins immediately became defensive. Cotton, however, clarified the facts about what the bill actually includes."You said that it had to guarantee access. Access is guaranteed in all 50 states right now," he explained. "You also said that it was about IVF. It's about a lot more than IVF. This bill would mandate coverage for experimental controversial procedures, like cloning or gene editing or providing fertility treatments to men who think they're women, whatever that means."And when Cotton tried to explain how the bill "would also imperil religious liberties" — by allegedly compelling Christians to operate against their conscience — Collins tried to interrupt the senator."Let's stop you there," she said."No, Kaitlan, you're not going to stop me there," Cotton fired back. "Because you're misrepresenting what the bill is about. The bill is about infringing upon religious liberty."As the interview went on, Collins repeatedly defended the bill, claiming "it would have guaranteed access to IVF." But Cotton was forced time and again to remind her that IVF access is prima facie guaranteed already because not a single state restricts it. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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There has always been a bittersweet sentiment among iPhone users that Apple should unlock more possibilities with new software updates. One side would say people just know how to use an iPhone because it's very straightforward. Others would say you should be able to do more with it. I was between those two types of users. Now, iOS 18 unlocks more possibilities than ever. You can customize your iPhone Home Screen in iOS 18 like never before. However, Apple just overcomplicated one of the simplest features available for almost the entire lifespan of the iPhone: Adding new wallpapers. Since iOS 15, Apple has improved the experience of adding new wallpapers thanks to Focus Mode. By setting different modes, you can have unique iPhone wallpapers throughout the day, depending on whether you're working, chilling, practicing some exercises, or just don't want to be interrupted. While iOS 17 already made changing your iPhone wallpaper trickier, iOS 18 made this task harder—at least if you're trying to do the same as me. Previously, I would switch the iPhone wallpaper from the Home Screen by long-pressing an empty space and adding a new wallpaper. Well, not anymore. If you do that, you can only Add Widgets, Customize your apps' look, and Edit Pages. After tapping Edit Pages, you can tap Options to go to your different Focus Modes. From there, you need to remove your current screen customizations and add a new one. Phew, that's annoying. Here's how you could do it better. Best ways to switch your iPhone wallpaper in iOS 18 Image source: José Adorno for BGR There are two easy ways to switch your iPhone wallpaper in iOS 18. Through the Lock Screen: With your iPhone unlocked, long-press the wallpaper on the Lock Screen. You can customize your current wallpaper or add a new one at the end of your existing choices. Through Settings: On your Settings app, find the Wallpaper option, and then customize it or add a new option. Not that hard, right? Still, why does it feel so exhausting to add a new wallpaper? Image source: José Adorno for BGR If you don't change your wallpaper as you used to, it's actually very simple: Apple gives you too many options. Not only can you choose your own photos, but you can also use Apple's suggestions, iOS wallpapers, emojis, unique collections, and more. Even after choosing your preferred wallpaper, you can also change the following: The top widget Font & Color Add widgets Switch the Lock Screen bottom widgets Add or remove the depth effect Choose between several filters Choose the Appearance It's just overwhelming. Wrap up If you find that adding a new wallpaper seems harder than it used to, you're probably right. Apple added so many options that we usually feel like we shouldn't change what we created previously. The same is worth it for me with Focus Modes. I once tried to help a family member set a Focus Mode for them, and it was so hard, with so few details, that we gave up on that. However, I do love how Focus Mode works for me. At the end of the day, it's all about how much you want to customize your iPhone experience. Still, I wish Apple could help users not get lost along the way. Don't Miss: iOS 18: Features, release date, beta, download, Apple Intelligence The post iOS 18 ruined one of the simplest things about the iPhone experience appeared first on BGR. Today's Top Deals Best Apple Watch deals for September 2024 Best deals: Tech, laptops, TVs, and more sales Today’s deals: $129 AirPods 3, Nintendo Switch game sale, $30 Fire TV Stick 4K, $16 TOZO earbuds, more Today’s deals: $129 Apple Watch Cellular, $750 Hisense 75-inch TV, $29 humidifier, $140 standing desk, more