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Joe Biden continues to make a mockery of the American presidency and the U.S. justice system by cavalierly handing out presidential pardons and commutations to heinous criminals on his way out. Two weeks ago, Biden commuted the sentence disgraced Pennsylvania judge Michael T. Conahan, who was convicted in 2008 of...

Lindy Li wasn’t alone in her disillusionment toward the Democratic Party during the recent election cycle, but as an influential fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee, she had a lot more to lose by walking away from the party. She has opened up about her decision in multiple recent interviews, including a Fox News Channel segment in which she detailed the many attacks and indignities she has endured from those aligned with her former party. As Fox News reported, she compared the experience to “leaving a cult,” adding: Li became the target of the left’s attacks earlier this month when she expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth. But it was the party’s vitriolic response to a subsequent appearance on Fox News that pushed her rightward, she said on “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” “This past week has been harrowing for me,” Li told Piers Morgan in Wednesday’s episode. “This Saturday, I went on ‘Fox & Friends’ and I said ‘Democrats have a stench of loser hanging over them.’ As soon as I said that, there were boycott campaigns against me. Unblock, unfollow campaigns.” Li told “Fox & Friends” that she felt Harris was “indulging in delusions” of making a political comeback amid party buzz of the vice president staging a 2026 gubernatorial or 2028 presidential run and that the Democratic Party was plagued by the “stench of loser” after November’s defeat. The comment cost her forty thousand followers in four days and prompted an onslaught of slanderous attacks from Democrats, the same people she spent her whole career defending, she told Morgan. “People have called me a whore, the ‘C-word.’ They asked for me to be deported…,” she revealed. Li said she was also accused of working as a “communist spy.” The accusation was particularly offensive to her, she said, considering her family history. “They’re calling me a spy for the regime that killed my great-grandfather and these are the people who call themselves the social justice warriors,” she told Morgan. “They’re going headfirst into racism anytime someone dares to disagree with them. I want to be a part of the team that says men are men and women are women and men shouldn’t play in women’s sports.” She is just one in a long line of one-time Democrats who have distanced themselves from the party or severed ties completely: Democrats are walking away from their party. pic.twitter.com/uTFVt9j6kP — Sassafrass84 (@Sassafrass_84) January 14, 2024 One former Democrat fundraiser says she is walking away from the party.@evanwch says after attending the DNC she had enough. Listen to her story: pic.twitter.com/rFcjyx8oa5 — The Breanna Morello Show (@BreannaMShow) October 23, 2024 Alan Dershowitz just left the Democratic Party… That’s another potential child predator for the Republicans. Good job, guys. pic.twitter.com/6PwN777Lk1 — Manda Skeptically (@ShutUpAmanda) September 7, 2024 During a previous interview, Li offered a scathing postmortem of the Democratic Party’s dismal election performance, as Yahoo reported: “This is not what America wants. November 5th was a decisive defeat for the Democratic Party. She lost every single swing state. It wasn’t a squeaker like it was in 2016. This was a resounding defeat and, right now, Kamala Harris is indulging in delusions of running for governor of California, possibly in 2026 or even president again in 2028. America has said, ‘We don’t want to be coconut-pilled. We do not want Kamala Harris. We don’t want failed border policies,’ and I feel like I’m liberated, and I can finally tell the truth that the Democrats completely failed on the border,” Li said on “America’s Newsroom.” Li’s rebuke comes after DNC Executive Board member Yvette Lewis said Wednesday she would be “on board 100 percent” with whatever Harris decides to do in the future, calling her a “phenomenal candidate” despite her crushing Electoral College loss to President-elect Trump. Here’s a clip of the former DNC fundraiser during one recent interview:

New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan is preparing to deliver midnight Mass on Christmas, but first he sat down for a wide-ranging interview about, among other things, the Christmas season and President Donald Trump’s faith in God. He appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo and discussed how Trump’s relationship with God seems to have grown much closer recently. As Fox News reported: “There seems to be a newfound appreciation for the role of faith, especially in our country,” he told the “Sunday Morning Futures” host. “I think President Trump tapped into that. I’ve had talks with him before in the past. He was pretty blunt [that] he can’t say that he was raised as a very zealous Christian, but he takes his Christian faith seriously. He has a lot of memories about Norman Vincent Peale, the famous preacher here in New York, down… on Fifth Avenue, and I think he means it.” He continued, “I think the assassination attempts kind of renewed in him, ‘There’s something beyond me that I think is watching over me, and it’s got a task for me.’ And what he expresses personally seems to be expressed more and more throughout the world. And that’s part of America.” Perhaps there is something bigger watching over the world, he suggested, pointing to former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, two figures whose contributions helped define the latter part of the 20th century. They both survived assassination attempts very close to one another, each going on to help make the world what it is today. Trump himself has been outspoken about the role of faith in his life and in the future of our nation: I had a wonderful opportunity to sit with President Donald Trump, who I have known for decades, and talk with him about his faith, the recent assassination attampts, and much, much more. Grateful to all of the faith leaders that came out to the Faith Summit with the National… pic.twitter.com/qr1w7Yhlfl — Paula White-Cain (@Paula_White) October 30, 2024 WATCH: Trump reveals how the assassination attempt impacted his faith. “My faith took on new meaning on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania where I was knocked to the ground by what seemed like a supernatural hand — I would like to think that God saved me for a purpose and… pic.twitter.com/WUmLhQLlLk — Noah Griffith (@Noah_Griffith_) October 21, 2024 “Never, have I ever seen a man in this position, talk about Jesus Christ this way” Trump humbly gives glory to Christ and reminds people that our hope is not in politicians or the government, but in GOD. pic.twitter.com/X8UJEJKjbN — CatholicVote (@CatholicVote) September 20, 2024 Dolan also discussed the significance of Wednesday’s holiday during a recent Newsmax interview: “So Christmas is his hope to recreate, to call us back. That’s for the invitation of Christmas.” He noted that people ask why it can’t be Christmas every day. “Well it can,” said Dolan. “If you put God first, if you’ve got that crib scene in your living room where everybody’s focused on the revelation of God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, whose birthday we’re celebrating, you’ve got things in order … you’ll be renewed like Notre Dame was in Paris.” Dolan also on Saturday discussed the recent election. President Joe Biden and now-President-elect Donald Trump split the Catholic vote four years ago, but Trump won it this year by 18 points. “I do think it was two things. I think some Catholics liked some of the policies, some of the proposals, some of the promises that Donald Trump had had were, was making,” said Dolan. “I [also] think a good number of Catholics were bristled a little and were a bit chagrined at some of the policies that his opponent, Kamala Harris, was proposing.” Here’s a clip from his recent Fox News appearance:

The White House announced on Monday that Joe Biden will commute the sentences for nearly all federal inmates on death row. Currently, there are 40 federal inmates on death row, and Biden will commute the sentences for 37 of them. Not included are “Robert Bowers, who is responsible for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, which left 11 people dead; Dylann Roof, a White supremacist who killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who worked with his now-dead brother to perpetuate the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds.” The 37 men on death row will have their sentences commuted to life in prison, taking the death penalty off the table. Biden commutes death sentences of child killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas https://t.co/NX7Fg292oD pic.twitter.com/HWqe9QK0U6 — New York Post (@nypost) December 23, 2024 BREAKING: Biden commutes the sentences of 37 out of 40 inmates on federal death row pic.twitter.com/dLr9HkThcz — BNO News (@BNONews) December 23, 2024 Check out what Fox News reported: President Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly all the inmates on federal death row, a move that comes not even two weeks after he went through with the “largest single-day grant of clemency” in American history, the White House announced Monday. Of the 40 inmates on federal death row, according to DeathPenaltyInfo.org, Biden is commuting 37 men sentenced to death, reclassifying their sentences to life without the possibility of parole. The three inmates not included are: Robert Bowers, who is responsible for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, which left 11 people dead; Dylann Roof, a White supremacist who killed nine Black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who worked with his now-dead brother to perpetuate the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds. The men being resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole are convicted of various murderous acts against one person or multiple. Among the victims of the 37 men are law enforcement officers, children and other inmates. A handful of the men on death row were also set to be executed with their co-defendants. Biden, who only supports the death penalty at the federal level for “terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder,” said this move will prevent President-elect Donald Trump’s administration from “carrying out the execution sentences that would not be handed down under current policy and practice,” according to the White House statement. BREAKING: President Joe Biden announced he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment mere weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. https://t.co/6aoz0MJtsw — The Associated Press (@AP) December 23, 2024 Per AP: President Joe Biden announced on Monday that he is commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting their punishments to life imprisonment just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump, an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment, takes office. The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals, as well as the killings of guards or prisoners in federal facilities. It means just three federal inmates are still facing execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history.

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