Former President Donald Trump is urging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to use the debt ceiling as leverage in order to obstruct the Biden administration’s $1.80 trillion-dollar Build Back Better bill. Trump says Mitch must be prepared.

“Old Crow Mitch McConnell, who is getting beaten on every front by the Radical Left Democrats since giving them a two-month delay which allowed them to ‘get their act together,’ must be fully prepared to use the DEBT CEILING in order to totally kill the Democrat’s new Social Spending (Wasting!) Bill, which will change our Country forever,” Trump said.

The former President also commented on the recent infrastructure bill.

“Mitch and the Republican Senators had them beaten, but didn’t know it, and we ended up with the Unfrastructure Bill, which is only 11% infrastructure. Worse, he allowed a splitting of the Bills (with 19 votes, including himself), which makes the Dems path for the even worse Bill a much easier one,” Trump said.

“Use the Debt Ceiling, Mitch, show strength and courage. Our Country is being destroyed,” he added.

It’s a bold move, Smollett. Let’s see if it pays off for you.

According to the Daily Wire, Jussie Smollett is claiming he was set up by the Osundairo brothers in the fake racist, homophobic attack staged back in January of 2019.

“Smollett, who is charged with felony disorderly conduct — because he allegedly payed the brothers to stage a fake racist and homophobic hate crime — and filing a false report, claimed that he was attacked on a cold night in Chicago by two of former President Donald Trump’s supporters who put a rope around his neck and informed him, ‘This is MAGA country!’” the Daily Wire reports.

Fox News’ Matt Finn is covering the trial and sharing the opening remarks on Twitter.

“Smollett trial: in opening, Smollett’s attorney is telling jury that Smollett is a victim. The Osundairo brothers are ‘sophisticated’ criminals that did not like Jussie,” Fox News national reported Matt Finn tweeted.

But the prosecution is hammering home that this was a ‘fake hate crime.’

“Smollett trial: prosecutor is repeatedly calling Smollett’s incident a ‘fake hate crime.’ Really using the word fake a lot in front of jury,” he tweeted.

Smollett is accused of 6 felonies that carry a maximum sentence of three years in state prison.

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) wants the best law enforcement officers in the country – and he’s willing to pay whatever it takes to get them. The popular Florida governor announced a proposal at the Florida Highway Patrol station in Orlando on Monday.

“While other states have turned their backs on law enforcement, even calling to ‘defund the police,’ in Florida we continue to support the men and women in law enforcement,” DeSantis said in a statement.

“I am proud to propose larger and longer-lasting measures to help our state recruit and retain the best law enforcement officers in the nation and to provide $1,000 bonuses for first responders and law enforcement officers for the second year in a row,” he added.

The proposal includes the following:

– 73 million to increase the minimum pay for entry level sworn state law enforcement officers by 20% AND to increase veteran officer salaries by 25%.

– $135 million to increase the base pay of Correctional Officers and Department of Juvenile Justice Officers.

– $1.4 million to increase the salaries of state Special Risk Firefighters by up to $2,500 each.

Former President Donald Trump released a statement through his Save America PAC, decrying the recent smash-and-grab crime sprees happening in major American cities.

“If Democrats don’t immediately stop smash-and-grab robberies, which are taking place in their cities, the National Guard must be called out,” Trump said. “There has never been such a thing that has happened in our Country. Large numbers of stores are leaving San Francisco and other cities. Some chains are closing most of their stores, it is all not even believable.”

Governor of California Gavin Newsom has also released a statement on the recent retail crime spike, saying it’s “unacceptable.”

“The level of organized retail theft we are seeing is simply unacceptable,” Newsom said. “Businesses and customers should feel safe while doing their holiday shopping. That’s why California is substantially increasing CHP’s presence, especially near retail areas, and will be investing even more to aggressively curb retail crime. As a small business owner myself, I am resolved to holding these criminals accountable and protecting our local businesses.”

CNN may finally have to cut ties with Cuomo Prime Time host Chris Cuomo. 

New text messages released Monday by Attorney General Letitia James reveal the extent to which the CNN host coached his brother, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo, during his sexual harassment scandal; 11 women came forward with claims against the governor.

“At one point — on March 7, just a week after Andrew Cuomo authorized James to commission an outside probe — [Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa] wrote [Chris Cuomo], ‘Rumor going around from politico 1-2 more ppl coming out tomorrow,’” the New York Post reports.

“Can u check your sources,” she added.

“On it,” Chris Cuomo responded.

Later that day, he texted her: “No resign. No resign. No resign.”

She responded, “No resign.”

“During a July 15 interview with investigators hired by James, Chris Cuomo described contacting ‘another journalist’ about a planned New Yorker magazine article about his brother by Ronan Farrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for helping expose sexual misconduct by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein,” the Post continues.

“And did you tell anyone at CNN that you were contacting journalists about whether the Ronan Farrow piece about your brother would be coming out?” lawyer Jennifer Kennedy Park asked.

“No, not specifically,” Chris Cuomo answered.

Kennedy Park then asked if it was “out of the ordinary” for him “to make calls on behalf of the executive chamber or behalf of your brother.”

“Well, I didn’t see it that way,” he said.

CNN has finally issued a statement on the matter, suggesting that this time, Cuomo’s job may actually be in jeopardy.

“The thousands of pages of additional transcripts and exhibits that were released today by the NY Attorney General deserve a thorough review and consideration,” a statement from CNN said. “We will be having conversations and seeking additional clarity about their significance as they relate to CNN over the next several days.”

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By Emily Barsh aka @EmilyTVProducer 

This is a series of dispatches from behind enemy lines, here in the failing, broken state of California. You already know how corrupt and how ‘communist’ the once-Golden State has become. But you may not realize that amid this bastion of woke ignorance and cultish allegiance to a neo-Marxist government, you will find the fiercest, most dedicated and diverse adherents to the U.S. Constitution and to our nation’s founding principles. 

In fact, our patriots are so inured to the hostility and never-ending assault on liberty, that when those who seek to destroy us double-down…we triple-down right back. 

Meet Roxanne Beckford Hoge, a California warrior who refuses to give up the fight. 

1. Name, rank, serial number…vitals; how long have you lived here?

I’m a mom of four who moved to LA in the late 80s to be an actor. Actually, I moved to become an actress but saying that now is against The New Rules. I’ve been a Screen Actors Guild member for 30 years and live in what once was the bucolic San Fernando Valley, where my husband and I own a business. In 2018, I saw that our state assemblyman was running opposed and became a candidate for office, which was quite the eye opener!

2. Tell us about your heritage/background.

My family fled the island of Jamaica because of their disastrous flirtation with socialism in the 70s, and I have no desire to pack up and run away from home ever again.

2. California has gone from great to ghastly, for all the reasons people know (progressive policies that have yielded crime, homelessness, unrest, scarcity, a culture war, energy and water shortages, etc.). Why do you stay and fight?

I love this state. I love the lack of humidity and bugs. I love my family and friends. I still love acting; there’s nothing more fun than getting paid to play dress-up while someone brings you a hot breakfast! My husband and I have built a life here with friends we love, and a plurality (though not a majority) of our extended family. To leave would require a wagon train and getting a group of several dozen people to agree on a destination.

3. What’s the most shocking/stark/drastic/radical thing you have seen change over the course of time?

The most shocking thing I’ve seen change was the eradication of the stench of human urine (on Hollywood and Vine, Third Street Promenade, and Downtown LA) right back to the welcoming of it and even worse smells, diseases, human detritus and despair. I didn’t know much about politics at the time, but I’d sure welcome a Mayor Riordan back with open arms.

4. What’s your line in the sand, when it comes to how far you’re willing to compromise with the radical Left?

My line in the sand was crossed a long time ago. When I get told by white liberals that multi-millonaire blacks are oppressed…and I don’t know what I’m talking about because the slavery my ancestors survived was somehow better than slavery in the American colonies. It doesn’t bother me much, because it’s all I can do to suppress my laughter. But when you come after my children, and all the little kids they know at school, and start divvying them up by melanin content and perceived privilege, I’m gonna get snippy. I talk about the damage the new race-obsessed ‘educators’ are doing in a few PragerU videos – which were deemed “simplistic propaganda” by some social justice overlords, so I must be doing something right. I am not an impatient woman; but I am judgemental, and when I can see people nodding along with policies and actions that are harmful to children, I can’t not speak up.

Too many of us are scared, and rightly so, because the Left has shown themselves willing to harm your ability to live and work, while committing the crime of thinking differently. But we must be just a little brave and be willing to smile and say, no thanks to madness. Say no thanks to putting your pronouns in your bio. (Unless your name is Taylor or Hunter or Pat. In that case, declare away!). Say no thanks to forcing kids to segregate at school into race-based groups. Say no thanks to wearing a useless paper muzzle. (It declares its ineffectiveness right on the package). Say no thanks when someone asks you to share your private medical status in order to eat indoors.

5. If a patriot from a red state were to challenge the premise that we patriots behind enemy lines are more patriotic than they are, what would your come back be?

Just like the defense of free speech means the most when it’s speech we disagree with, staying and fighting from #BehindTheBlueCurtain is some of the most vital work we can do if we want our children to grow up in a free and fair America. I can’t begrudge people who have to flee California, and who are able to do so. But anyone thinking we should all turn tail and leave has no idea of the out-sized influence the one-party-run enclave in Sacramento has over the entire USA. When they pass mandated ethnic studies requirements for high school graduation, you may laugh all you want from the relative safety of Utah or Alabama. But textbook publishers will print just one set of history books, and they’ll be California-compliant so they don’t lose out on our enormous market. The next thing you know, your kids in Texas will refuse to celebrate Thanksgiving because of its problematic overtones.

If the US military abandons an area to be overrun by the enemy, that creates a haven, a base of operations. Don’t abandon California. Support America’s freedom fighters.

President Biden’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers hit another snag this week when US District Judge Matthew Schelp issued a preliminary injunction. Schelp called the mandate “politically and economically vast, federalism-altering, and boundary-pushing.”

“Schelp, a Donald Trump appointee, said in his ruling that the states who sued the administration were ‘likely to succeed’ in the argument that Congress hadn’t given the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services the authority to create the mandate,” the New York Post reports. “He also said the mandate could put facilities in a bind, without adequate staff to provide services – particularly in rural areas.”

“CMS seeks to overtake an area of traditional state authority by imposing an unprecedented demand to federally dictate the private medical decisions of millions of Americans,” Schelp wrote. “Such action challenges traditional notions of federalism.”

The ruling affects more than 17 million healthcare workers. The states behind the lawsuit include Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. 

The Biden administration issued the emergency regulation earlier this month.

“The Biden-Harris Administration is requiring COVID-19 vaccination of eligible staff at health care facilities that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs,” a press release read. “Facilities covered by this regulation must establish a policy ensuring all eligible staff have received the first dose of a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine or a one-dose COVID-19 vaccine prior to providing any care, treatment, or other services by December 6, 2021.”

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) didn’t mince words while speaking with Sean Hannity on Monday night; Cruz continued his all-out attack on Dr. Anthony Fauci, a man Cruz calls “the most dangerous bureaucrat in the history of the country.”

“Dr. Fauci is the most dangerous bureaucrat in the history of the country,” Cruz told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “You know he talks about hurting science. I don’t think anyone has hurt science, has hurt the credibility of the CDC, has hurt the credibility of doctors more than Dr. Fauci because throughout this pandemic, he’s been dishonest. He’s been political. He’s been partisan. And the American people know it.”

“This weekend he did this long interview, where he gave the answer he said, ‘I represent science. I am science.’ I gotta admit…I was laughing. It’s like Louis the 14th, the Sun King in France, saying …, ‘I am the state,’” Cruz continued. “It is this delusion of grandeur that you cannot criticize him. And it was very striking, you know, in the course of that interview, he was asked about, I asked the Attorney General Merrick Garland, if he’s going to investigate and prosecute Dr. Fauci for lying to Congress, and Margaret Brennan asked him about that. And what did Fauci do? He didn’t discuss any of the substance. Instead, he just attacked and engage in ad hominem attacks. He basically did the Beavis and Butt-Head defense. He just screamed liars at everything. But, you know, facts are stubborn things.”

Watch the full clip below.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tore into the corporate media at a recent press conference, taking them to task on their coverage of the tragedy in Waukesha, Wisconsin where a career criminal drove a car into a Christmas parade, killing several people, including children.

“This is just wrong. And these lies have got to stop.”

“These national corporate media outlets…swoop into a community, they will create a false narrative, and then they kind of just leave and they never correct the record when what they’re saying is obviously false,” Desantis said.

“We’re seeing that right now in real time with Waukesha, Wisconsin…You will look at some of these corporate outlets and they will say that ‘an SUV drove into a parade of Christmas folks’, and you’re thinking like, ‘really is that how it works, the SUVs, they just drive by themselves?’ … And they say, ‘oh, this was a big accident.’”

“You never…hear the discussion about who committed this. What was the motivation? This guy was a career criminal let out on, didn’t really have any bail basically, should not have even been on the street, had clear, anti-white animus. And this was an intentional act,” Desantis continued.

“[The Corporte Press is] more apt to characterize a parent who goes to a school board meeting to protest bad policies as a domestic terrorist than somebody who intentionally rams an SUV into a crowd of innocent people.”

Read the full transcript and watch the clip below.

DeSANTIS: One of the things I think that’s been most frustrating to witness in terms of law enforcement, is how anti-law enforcement narratives are consistently spun by these national corporate media outlets. They will swoop into a community, they will create a false narrative, and then they kind of just leave and they never correct the record when what they’re saying is obviously false. And we’re seeing that right now in real time with Waukesha, Wisconsin, in terms of what happened there. You will look at some of these corporate outlets and they will say that ‘an SUV drove into a parade of Christmas folks’, and you’re thinking like, ‘really is that how it works, the SUVs, they just drive by themselves?’ … And they say, ‘oh, this was a big accident.’ You never actually hear the discussion about who committed this. What was the motivation? This guy was a career criminal let out on, didn’t really have any bail basically, should not have even been on the street, had clear, anti-white animus. And this was an intentional act. And it seems like, you know, for corporate press, they’re more apt to characterize a parent who goes to a school board meeting to protest bad policies as a domestic terrorist than somebody who intentionally rams an SUV into a crowd of innocent people. 

So, you have at least six have died. You have many more that have been injured. I know many people are in the hospital. And so let’s just be clear, this was not a car just driving in. This was an attack by a felon who did that, who should not have been on the street and we’ll see what the actual motivation was. It very well may have been in response to what happened with Kyle Rittenhouse. And you have to wonder if that’s the case, almost surely, this guy’s view of Rittenhouse was was colored by all these media lies. He brought a rifle across state lines, that’s a lie. They said that the initial altercation with Jacob Blake, that Blake was unarmed, that’s a lie. They covered up Blake’s criminal history. And then they said that Rittenhouse shot, and first of all, when you’re self defense, it doesn’t matter, you know, kind of what race, but they would say that he shot, most people didn’t know that he shot three white people. So, that’s what the media has been doing. And they tend to point a target on law enforcement’s back. But this is just wrong. And these lies have got to stop. And if it doesn’t fit your narrative, sweeping the facts under the rug is not doing the service that people deserve. It is what we expect, unfortunately, from a lot of these places, but it’s wrong. And I think the way they’ve treated law enforcement across the board over the last two years has been an absolute disgrace. So let’s just be clear, they are not wanting to cover this Wisconsin thing for what it is, they are not wanting the facts to come out the way they are because the facts do not support their narrative. And it’s all about pursuing partisan narratives.

From BillOReilly.com

Covid hysteria is back just in time for Christmas.  The South African “variant” is causing fear and loathing even though nobody quite knows what the variant is other than yet another strain of the virus.

New York City authorities immediately brought back the “you better wear that mask all the time indoors” thing. Do they really think masking will prevent Covid?  

The vaccine lessens the effects of the virus and, at this point, that’s all society can hope for – a less intense illness.

Soon, another super-vax will emerge that may even wipe out the virus from China. Big money for the company that develops the super-vax so you know it will happen.

We’ll have more on Covid politics this evening on the No Spin News. See you beginning at six eastern.

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