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A New York Republican said she was denied entry to Citi Field while wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat and was told she couldn't have it on her person, either.Aura Moody and her friend Taisha were both wearing MAGA hats when they arrived at Citi Field, the home of New York Mets in Queens, New York. After passing a security checkpoint, the duo were told by a City Field staff member they were not allowed inside the stadium with their Trump hats on. The staffer also reportedly refused to allow the patrons to keep their hats in their bags, forcing Moody, 64, to call the friend they carpooled with to put the hats back in their vehicle.Moody told the New York Post that she only agreed to take her hat off because she was worried about inconveniencing her group of friends, who are all part of the Queens Village Republican Club."The United States of America is no longer the vehicle of freedom and tolerance. I am living under a communist regime where our freedoms are trampled upon ... that was the first thought that came to my mind," Moody remarked.Moody said that she made attempts to invoke First Amendment rights at the stadium but was told that her hat was "too political."'If I was wearing a BLM, Biden, Harris hat, they would have let me go through.'The Mets organization has since said that the employee had misinterpreted the venue's policy on attire."A Mets employee was mistaken about our attire policy," the team said in a statement to the Post. "We are reaching out to Aura Moody to apologize and invite her back to the ballpark."Moody was not shy about expressing how she felt about the incident:"We are conservative people, we believe in tolerance. If I was wearing a BLM, Biden, Harris hat, they would have let me go through," she claimed.The New Yorker also claimed that she saw "at least eight" other fans wearing pro-Donald Trump hats once she entered the stadium.Moody alleged that after the game she attempted to file complaints with multiple staff members but was instead pointed toward an online complaint form.She has accused the venue of "political discrimination.""We are on the verge of communism, a system that confiscates private property, a system that is against meritocracy, a system that indoctrinates people," Moody added. "I support President Donald Trump because he's the people's president. He is the only one who can save the United States of America from destruction from within by the Democrats and the radical left."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The far-left Democrat governor of Michigan insulted residents of a city she represents seemingly in hopes of branding former President Donald Trump as a racist.On Tuesday, Trump paid a visit to Howell, Michigan, a charming city of more than 10,000 residents about 65 miles northwest of Detroit.'Did the media write this same story when Joe Biden visited Howell in 2021, or when Kamala Harris visits cities where racist protests and marches have occurred in the past?'In anticipation of his visit, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer implied that Howell is irredeemably racist because of a few bad actors in the past and an allegedly astroturf demonstration last month."Well, you know, anyone who’s doing a little bit of research might have said, 'That’s really a bad idea, look at the optics. You’re showing up where the KKK was just at the same time you’re in Michigan,'" Whitmer told ABC News anchor Linsey Davis at the DNC on Monday night.In July, a dozen individuals marched around Howell wearing masks, carrying signs saying that "white lives matter," and chanting in praise of Trump and Adolf Hitler. At the time, Trump was nearly two hours away in Grand Rapids, Michigan.The Harris campaign also smeared Howell — located in the heart of a crucial swing state — over the incident as part of a larger criticism of Trump. "The racists and white supremacists who marched in Trump’s name last month in Howell have all watched him praise Hitler, defend neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and tell far-right extremists to 'stand back and stand by,'" said a statement from Alyssa Bradley, Michigan spokesperson for the Harris campaign."Trump’s actions have encouraged them, and Michiganders can expect more of the same when he comes to town."However, as Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt noted, Joe Biden visited Howell just a few years ago, and Democrats — including Harris — regularly stop in cities with an unsavory past."Did the media write this same story when Joe Biden visited Howell in 2021, or when Kamala Harris visits cities where racist protests and marches have occurred in the past? No, of course not," Leavitt said."You should ask the Harris team why she believes all residents of Howell, Michigan, are racists and if that also applies to the cities she has visited with their own divisive histories," added Victoria LaCivita, Michigan spokesperson for the Trump campaign.LaCivita pointed to racially charged incidents in Eau Claire, Wis., Pittsfield, Mass., Philadelphia, and Atlanta that did not deter Harris from visiting.Livingston County Sheriff Mike Murphy likewise dismissed the demonstration in Howell last month as an orchestrated event featuring "a couple of dirtbags" and designed to "stir" up trouble. "Within the last month, there's been a couple of folks that have come here to cause a little bit of a stir, spew some hate speech, white supremacy crap," Murphy said in a video posted to his agency's official Facebook account. "Those folks are from out of town; those are not Livingston County people."At least one of the individuals participating in the event drove away in a car with a Pennsylvania license plate, Michigan Advance reported.Sheriff Murphy also expressed frustration that Howell is so routinely and unfairly tarnished because of its past, calling it "100% bulls***.""Frankly, I get a little bit fired up when people bring that up," Murphy told the New York Post. "We did have the Grand Dragon that lived here in Livingston County. But we somehow as a result of that got labeled with 'racist, unwelcoming community,' which truly couldn’t be further from the truth."Robert Miles, who became the Michigan grand dragon of the KKK in the 1970s, did live in Howell, but he died more than 30 years ago.Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who is running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan and who appeared with Trump in Howell on Tuesday, likewise slammed the mischaracterization of the city: "Some notion that that’s tied to racism is absolute absurdity. A few racists that gather in any town in America shouldn’t taint that town."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While many on the left praised socialist Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York for her speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, many anti-Israel activists were incensed at what they said was gaslighting on the ceasefire effort. 'Odious and morally bankrupt opportunism.' Ocasio-Cortez claimed in her speech that Vice President Kamala Harris had worked "tirelessly" for a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, but anti-Israel activists disagreed. Many lambasted Ocasio-Cortez on the X social media platform. "After grassroots pressure, AOC said in March that the Biden admin is complicit in an 'unfolding genocide' in Gaza. Now given a primetime appearance at the DNC, AOC forgets the whole genocide thing and falsely claims that Kamala Harris 'is working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza,''' responded Canadian reporter Aaron Maté. "What an insult to Palestinians and everyone else actually working tirelessly to pressure the genocide-complicit, ceasefire-blocking admin that AOC is whitewashing," he added. "Nauseating! Palestinian's blood is on her hands. She has and continues to be such a disappointment. Why her followers have fallen for her hypocrisy shows how hypocritical and nauseating they are as well," replied another detractor. "It takes a profoundly evil level of duplicity to get on national tv and lie like this to the entire planet," commented an account identifying as communist. "There can hardly be a better example of AOC's odious and morally bankrupt opportunism than her embracing, just months apart, these two directly opposed positions," read another angry post. Critics of the ceasefire effort accuse the activists of siding with Hamas terrorists who sparked the conflagration by orchestrating a horrific attack on civilians in Israel on Oct. 7. Pro-Palestinian activists have also been accused of ignoring innocent Jewish victims of Hamas terror while exclusively focusing on indirect victims of Israel’s war on Hamas.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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