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Trump Issues Unhinged Ultimatum To Fox News After They Interview Democratic Senator About Healthcare
The shutdown has now entered its sixth day and Doocy had Kelly on to discuss the shutdown's impacts, which Kelly illustrated through the reality of one of his constituents.
Kelly said:
"Nobody wants to see the government shut down. We know what happens when people don't get their paychecks. We get that. Let me tell you a story about a woman in Arizona, in Prescott. Her name's Robin. I spoke to her last week."
"She's on a fixed income, she's 60 years old, she's a fifth-generation American. She says to me, 'Why are they making this about immigrants? This isn't about immigrants, this is about me."
"She pays $250 a month on the exchange for her healthcare but she gets about $9,000 in those premium tax credits. She is expecting us to not act on this and for that to go away and she will not be able to afford healthcare anymore."
"So this, Peter, this is about real people who are going to see the price of healthcare skyrocket."
You can hear Kelly's remarks below.
A furious Trump later lashed out at Fox for airing the interview, handing down an ultimatum for a network that typically presents fawning and deferential coverage about the Trump administration:
“Why is Fox News and Peter Doocy putting on Democrat Senator Mark Kelly to talk about, totally unabated or challenged, healthcare? The FAKE SPIN is so bad for Republicans that it is hard to believe that we WIN. It will be very unfair, in the future, when they don't have "Trump" to fight for them."
"Therefore, we should fix it, NOW! I'm watching this Interview. It just doesn't end. Fox should either get on board, or get off board, NOW, but at this point, it just doesn't make any difference to me. They suck up the ratings because of us, and then spin them in the Democrats' direction."
"They refuse to put up polls that correctly show me at 65% in popularity, a Republican RECORD, but if I have fake bad "poll," many of which are done by Fox (one of the worst "Pollsters" out there is the FoxNews Poll), they put them up immediately and with gusto."
“Republicans are so tired of this fight with Fox always trying to be so "politically correct!" Thank you for your attention to this matter."
You can see Trump's post below.
@realDonaldTrump/Truth Social
Many have called out Trump for making clear he wants Fox to be an arm of the federal government with coverage explicitly designed to back his policy goals.
When asked by reporters in the Oval Office, Trump claimed "we’re talking to Democrats" and that "I’m a Republican, but I want to see healthcare much more so than the Democrats."
Sure doesn't seem like it.
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Conservative CNN Pundit Shocks Panel With Heartless Justification For Brutal Immigration Raid In Chicago
The raid perpetrated there by ICE, under direction from Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security, drew widespread criticism.
But, as usual, Jennings had a ready excuse for the inexcusable.
Following the script set by the White House, Jennings claimed Tren de Aragua Venezuelan gang members were both the targets and the detainees. However, even the official statement from DHS refuted his justification for the violence and traumatized children.
You can see Jennings' remarks here:
An ICE raid took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Children were zip-tied and separated from their parents as people were forced out of the apartment building, some with no clothes on.
A neighbor reported the majority of people he saw handcuffed outside the apartment building for hours were Black Americans, not Venezuelans, with some were detained for hours. Residents returning to their apartments found them ransacked with doors wide open after agents broke them down during the surprise attack.
But Jennings falsely claimed 37 Tren de Aragua gang members were arrested.
DHS reported finding only 37 people eligible for detainment—non-citizens—with only two suspected of having some gang affiliation. Four children who are citizens, but whose parents are not, were also taken away by ICE, with the agency claiming it was to verify they weren't being trafficked.
People found Jennings latest defense of the Trump administration's racist policies disgusting.
In response to Jennings' justification, Phillip said:
"Listen Scott, people’s constitutional rights are their constitutional rights."
"When you are sleeping in your bed and you happen to live somewhere, you have a right to not be detained just for not even being in the same apartment, but being in the building."
But Jennings dismissed the basic rights of non-White American citizens, saying:
"I think you’re overblowing it. They are not arrested, no Americans were arrested."
Phillip told the conservatives at the table that they'd find the same treatment unacceptable, saying they wouldn't "want to be detained for any amount of time for not doing anything wrong."
Phillip added:
"It’s a question of empathy. Would you want it to happen to you?"
Jennings responded as expected, sniping:
"Do you have any empathy for the victims of Tren de Aragua? I do."
Journalist and podcaster Van Lathan Jr. replied:
"[I have] empathy for the Black people in that community that I saw on video talk about how frightened they were, how scared they were, and the trauma that was inflicted on them with something that they have nothing to do with."
After overusing the MS13 excuse while producing no proof or results, the Trump administration has shifted to blaming all of their extrajudicial attacks against boats in international waters and ICE overreach on Tren de Aragua.
As with their disproven or exaggerated MS13 claims, Trump, Noem, DHS, and ICE are producing little to no proof to back their claims.
