THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former First Lady Melania Trump criticized the media’s rhetoric on Thursday for allegedly fueling the would-be assassins’ motives to commit violence against former President Donald Trump. The former first lady said during a “Fox & Friends” interview that it is expected that two would-be assassins would threaten her husband’s life since members of the left-wing media repeatedly call him a “threat to democracy.” She further accused the media of becoming silent about the two assassination attempts not long after they occurred, leading her to ask more questions about the incidents. “It’s interesting how quiet everything became all over the mainstream media. There were a few days they were reporting about July 13 event, and everything then became quiet. So I had a lot of questions, what’s going on? This is not normal,” Melania said. “And, is it really shocking that all this egregious violence goes against my husband, especially that we hear the leaders from the opposition party and mainstream media branding him as a threat to democracy, calling him vile names. They’re only fueling a toxic atmosphere and giving power to all of these people that want to do harm to him. This needs to stop.” Melania said she rushed to the television when she first learned of the first assassination attempt on her husband during a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. She initially received no answer from either her husband or the Secret Service when she tried calling them, but then received notice that Trump was safe. Her son, Barron Trump, came rushing in when he received the news about the first attempt and had a “very, very difficult” discussion with his mother, she said. The former first lady said she was in New York City during the second assassination attempt on Sept. 15, prompting her to call the Secret Service to make sure her husband was safe. She said the former president’s survival during the attempts are “miracles” and that a divine power saved his life so he could serve the U.S. “I think both of the events, they were really miracles,” Melania said. “If you really think about it, July 13 was a miracle. Like that much and he could not be with us … I think something was watching over him. I think, it’s almost like the country really needs him.” Thomas Matthew Crooks, the first would-be assassin, climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research (AGR) building located 130 feet away from the rally and shot eight rounds into the crowd. The shooting injured the upper portion of Trump’s ear and killed 50-year-old Corey Comperatore. The second assassination attempt occurred on Sept. 15 when 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh was spotted with an AK-47-style rifle at the former president at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach, Florida. Originally published by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Melania Trump Says Media Is ‘Fueling A Toxic Atmosphere’ Against Her Husband Following Assassination Attempts appeared first on The Daily Signal.

How the mighty have fallen! Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a coveted Emmy Award in 2020 in recognition of his daily televised briefings on COVID-19. Cuomo’s allegedly successful response to the deadly pandemic made him a Democratic national hero, and, of course, a darling of the liberal media. Cuomo’s media glory ended one year later, however, amid charges of sexual harassment and impeachment threats, and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences withdrew his Emmy. Today, thanks to a recent hearing conducted by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, Americans have learned more about Cuomo’s “Emmy-winning” response to New York’s COVID-19 crisis. Notwithstanding the previous media adulation for his televised briefings as governor, the record shows that Cuomo’s pandemic response increased New Yorkers’ mortality rates, particularly among nursing home residents.   Responding to Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., during the House subcommittee’s tense Sept. 10 inquiry, Cuomo urged the panel to “forget about the politics [and] look at the facts” and insisted that “New Yorkers follow the science.” Well. Let’s look at those facts. Nursing homes. Cuomo issued a directive March 25, 2020, mandating that his state’s nursing homes accept patients recovering from COVID-19. The directive’s language was unequivocal: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the nursing home solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. Nursing homes are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident, who is deemed medically stable, to be tested for COVID-19 before admission or readmission.” Cuomo claimed his policy was grounded in scientific evidence and adhered to federal public health guidelines. In fact, however, the language directly contradicted recommended practices at the time, which included testing all patients before admission to a nursing home to prevent potential outbreaks of COVID-19. Rep. Richard McCormick, R-Ga., an emergency physician, highlighted this contradiction and challenged Cuomo’s directive. “If you prohibit the testing of a patient, you don’t know what you’re dealing with,” McCormick said, “so it’s a dishonest argument to begin with.” In his congressional testimony, Cuomo argued that the “law” took precedence over the “advisory,” claiming that guidelines from both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services held legal authority, not his directive. The former governor testified that his nursing home policy was merely advisory, not mandatory.  The problem, however, was that Cuomo’s directive used clear, authoritative language, including terms such as “shall” and “prohibited,” plainly declaring itself to be mandatory. As Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, chairman of the subcommittee, pointed out to Cuomo, his statewide advisory “referred to itself as a directive in the very first paragraph, with your name at the top.”   Federal assistance. Next is the issue of Cuomo’s response to federal assistance on COVID-19. Then-President Donald Trump deployed the USNS Comfort, a state-of-the-art hospital ship, with a capacity of approximately 1,000 beds and several operating rooms. Trump sent the ship to New York to alleviate the expected pressure on the state’s health care system to cope with an expected explosion of COVID-19 cases. Less than a month later, Cuomo decided not to take advantage of the ship and its ample resources. He acknowledged the Trump administration’s logistical support but deemed it unnecessary, stating at the time: “It did give us comfort, but we don’t need it anymore.” By April 21, 2020, despite crowded New York City hospitals, the USNS Comfort had received only 178 patients. Meanwhile, throughout 2020, the Trump administration focused heavily and successfully on the rapid and unprecedented development of COVID-19 vaccines through the initiative dubbed Operation Warp Speed. However, a key weakness in the federal response was the Trump administration’s failure to pursue a similar effort for rapid development and distribution of therapeutics for treating the novel coronavirus that caused COVID-19, including the use of preexisting antivirals. Therapeutics dispute. During the Sept. 10 subcommittee hearing, the issue resurfaced when Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., claimed that the use of hydroxychloroquine as well as ivermectin—a medication available well before the pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc.’s development of its Paxlovid brand—had been scientifically debunked. Growing evidence now supports chloroquine, a drug similar to hydroxychloroquine (also called HCQ) in structure and effects, as effective against COVID-19 if properly prescribed. Dr. David Gortler, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation and former Federal Drug Administration official, has noted that HCQ is safe when used correctly—a fact the FDA itself has confirmed. Despite the CDC’s acknowledgment in 2017 that hydroxychloroquine is relatively well-tolerated, the drug became controversial during the politically charged atmosphere of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. The House subcommittee’s inquiry, like previous hearings on the federal government’s COVID-19 response, provided important insights. Although Congress has examined the role of federal agencies, it also should assess how other state governments, which received significant federal aid, managed the pandemic. The New York case is a prime example. Cuomo’s notorious nursing home directive of March 25, 2020, continues to be widely scrutinized. It contributed to a preventable tragedy and had devastating consequences for at least 4,000 families. Members of the House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic have already have amassed an impressive record of vital information, including sworn testimony from top federal officials on major issues related to government’s responses to the pandemic. That body of work can be of enormous benefit to the next presidential administration in reforming and improving the performance of America’s major public health agencies. Their work, however, is far from finished. The post Responding to COVID-19: Andrew Cuomo’s Dismal Performance Before Congress appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Unprecedented numbers of violent gang members, drug cartel operatives, and aliens on the terror watchlist are among the estimated 11.6 million illegal aliens expected to have entered the United States during the Biden-Harris administration, a report released Wednesday by the House Committee on Homeland Security states. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ open border policy and their exploitation of U.S. asylum laws allowed millions of unvetted and unlawful aliens to bypass American immigration laws, risking the lives of many Americans, according to the jaw-dropping data in “Crisis by Design: A Comprehensive Look at the Biden-Harris Administration’s Unprecedented Border Crisis.” The committee reported that U.S. Border Patrol arrested 52,755 illegal aliens with criminal records since the start of fiscal year 2021. Although three months remain until the end of the Biden-Harris term, the data reflects approximately 30,000 more individuals with criminal backgrounds were arrested by Border Patrol in comparison to fiscal years 2017-2021. Americans have fallen victim to the rising number of violent offenses committed by criminal aliens since the start of fiscal year 2021. Convicted criminal alien encounters have skyrocketed over the course of the Biden-Harris administration, as seen in the data visualization graph below published by The Heritage Foundation from U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports. (The Heritage Foundation from U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.) For example, CBP’s illegal drug possession and trafficking statistics total 7,846 recorded encounters from 2021-2024. Reports of crimes committed by illegal aliens, including rape, murder, and narcotics smuggling, are detailed in “Crisis by Design.” Josephine Dunn lost her daughter to fentanyl poisoning in 2021 and told the committee, “In my humble opinion, Mr. Mayorkas’ border policy is partially responsible for my daughter’s death,” referring to the secretary of homeland security. Biden’s border has facilitated the drug trafficking trade and resulted in roughly 200,000  Americans reported dead since 2021 because of fentanyl poisoning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Additionally, 1,339 documented illegal alien convictions for sexual offenses and 178 illegal alien convictions for murder and manslaughter have been reported since the start of fiscal year 2021, according to CBP.  Witnesses to some of the horrific consequences of our open borders testified before a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing Wednesday. Among them were a mother who lost her child to violent rape and murder at the hands of an illegal alien and border town leaders left struggling to handle a crisis that overwhelms their local communities. These are the voices that Biden and Harris ignore. Patty Morin stated in her testimony that the administration never once reached out to offer condolences for the loss of her daughter, Rachel Morin, who was tragically raped and murdered by an alien who illegally entered this country under Biden-Harris policies. The administration also ignored the expert advice given to the Biden transition team in 2020-2021, according to transcribed interview excerpts within the committee report. Instead, the Biden transition team focused on “dismantling” President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Biden repealed the effective anti-asylum fraud tool, the “Remain in Mexico” program, and instead implemented the “catch and release” policy that allowed inadmissible aliens into the U.S. without detaining them. The Left’s opposition to Trump defined Biden’s agenda as he, along with Harris and Mayorkas, opened our borders to millions of inadmissible aliens. The White House acted in an unprecedented manner to “diminish the security along our southern border,” according to former Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott’s interview published in the committee report. Scott also concurred with other expert witnesses that the current state of our border was avoidable and was “a crisis by design.”  Former Department of Homeland Security officials also testified to the committee that the Biden-Harris administration restricted federal agencies from enforcing immigration laws—hauntingly described by the committee as the “gutting of interior enforcement.” The White House’s engineered crisis left law enforcement officers feeling unsupported, resulting in 4,000 Border Patrol personnel choosing early retirement, according to the committee report. This number doubles the retirement rates during the Trump and Barack Obama presidencies. The House Committee on Homeland Security’s report highlights the devastating consequences of Biden and Harris’ open border policies. American communities are left struggling with increased crime and drugs, overcrowded schools and emergency rooms, housing shortages, higher taxes, and a severe distrust in the current administration’s willingness to protect Americans. According to the committee, the “willful decimation of border security” will be how the Biden-Harris administration will be remembered throughout history. The post Biden-Harris Admin’s Border Crisis Was by Design, House Report  Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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If 9/11 occurred in our current climate, how many young Americans would be celebrating it as an annual holiday? Twenty three years ago, you’d seem crazy to imagine college students would cosplay as the terrorists who crashed commuter jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon.  Today, it appears nobody would bat an eye. Nearly a year has passed since Israel and the world’s Jewish diaspora experienced their own 9/11. October 7, 2023 was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. Islamic fundamentalists slaughtered at least 1,200 people in “cold blood,” as the Daily Wire accurately describes, burning their victims alive and sexually assaulting and butchering women.  Hamas terrorists and their “civilian” supporters chopped up babies in their cribs, murdered parents in front of their children and vice versa, and threw grenades into the homes of young families who were unaware of their fate that morning. Another 251 people were taken hostage, including 8 Americans. Most are either confirmed dead or are still missing. But before the bodies even cooled, many young Americans grabbed their keffiyehs and took to the streets to cheer on the enemy.  Now the terror-backed organization, Students for Justice in Palestine is planning a “Day of Rage” on college campuses across the nation, next Monday, to honor the one-year anniversary of Oct 7.            View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by National SJP (@nationalsjp) “Students across the country and the world will rise together for a week of rage on October 7-11 to mark” what they blame Israel for “a year of genocide in Gaza.” In reality, they’re marking a year of peddling antisemitic blood libels, terrorizing Jewish students and turning their campuses into Jihadi boot camps.  Related: UPenn Suspends JEWISH Professor for 'Hate Speech' After Coddling Antisemitic Faculty “During these 11 months, we, the students, have confronted the Zionist and imperialist forces in our OWN universities—fighting to end the financial, academic, and ideological ties that our institutions have to this ongoing genocide and colonial project,” the group’s add continues.  By these activities they mean setting up illegal autonomous zones on campuses and blocking Jews from getting to classes while chanting ‘Itbah El Yahud‘ (‘slaughter the Jews’ in Arabic).   Their other antics include stabbing Jewish students in the eye with flag poles, pummeling them to the ground, firebombing university buildings and taking underpaid janitors hostage.  “We will rise to end our universities’ complicity in this genocide, to fight for the end of the colonization of Palestine, and to fight for the complete liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea,” SJP promises.  It’s reasonable to assume university administrators will continue to ignore the problem until someone gets seriously injured… or worse. Follow MRCTV on X! A school in New Hampshire called the police on parents for wearing bracelets that had "XX" on them. Read more: https://t.co/Uad7ZwZKQj pic.twitter.com/Cgnmg1iN4A — MRCTV (@mrctv) September 26, 2024

For reasons that only it can explain, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 decided to do a research project on what 10 and 11-year olds think about Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and their supporters. On Wednesday, they reported that kids who are more supportive of Trump are more tolerant than those who are more supporative of Harris, but desperately tried to explain this away by claiming that could simply be due to them not knowing as much about her. In a voiceover, Cooper reported, “Overall, the biggest finding the children in the study were polarized with what researchers called more extreme responses from the blue state kids than the red state kids.”     A trio of kids were then shown bashing Trump. One claimed, “Donald Trump, he did bad things. He's like Hitler.” A second added, “He only wanted to be president, so that he can just control everybody.” Meanwhile, the third claimed, “Trump is supporting January 6. Now, I remember that January 6 was a bunch of Republicans believing Trump, I feel like they thought Trump was a god. People got arrested. I think one officer died after -- afterwards. That was a big day.” Cooper then added, “The study found that these Democrat-leaning kids were about nine times more likely to express negative emotions about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning kids were about Kamala Harris. Why might that be? Psychologist Asheley Landrum has some ideas.” Landrum then explained, “So, Donald Trump is a very polarizing figure and it's very possible that the kids are reacting to their parents reacting to Donald Trump being a very different kind of political figure than what we've seen before. So, do the red state kids hold as strong of attitudes? Well, not when we are talking about Kamala Harris, in part that could be because they don't know that much about her.” Landrum is not wrong to state the kids are probably just repeating what they hear from their parents. However, she is wrong about the second bit. Study after study after study has shown conservatives being far more politically tolerant than liberals regardless of what office Harris held or was seeking at the time of the survey. Back in the report, Landrum affirmed the results, “The study found that Republican-leaning kids were more open into visiting a Democrat-supporting household. The Democrat-leaning kids were about five times more likely to say, they would not want to go to a pro-Trump house.” She asked a kid from New Jersey, “Would they be okay with you going over to somebody's house who is really supportive of President Trump?” The boy said, “No,” and when asked to elaborate, added, “Because we know that he's not -- he's not -- he does not like black people, so you will not -- they will not be happy to see me.” Landrum then asked the kid who talked about Hitler the same question, and he likewise said, “No… Because, like, my mom and dad don't like Donald Trump at all, not a single bit.” She then asked the Harris equivalent question to a Texas kid, who replied, “I think it'd be fine. It is just about the personality of the people. There’s been lots of talk recently about rhetoric, and after this report, maybe CNN should choose to focus on how 10 and 11-year olds have come to call people Hitler and whole groups of people racists instead of trying to explain inconvenient narratives away. Here is a transcript for the September 25 show: CNN Anderson Cooper 360 9/25/2025 8:56 PM ET ANDERSON COOPER (voice-over): Overall, the biggest finding the children in the study were polarized with what researchers called more extreme responses from the blue state kids than the red state kids. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY): Donald Trump, he did bad things. He's like Hitler. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (NEW JERSEY): He only wanted to be president, so that he can just control everybody. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 2): Trump is supporting January 6. Now, I remember that January 6 was a bunch of Republicans believing Trump, I feel like they thought Trump was a god. People got arrested. I think one officer died after -- afterwards. That was a big day. COOPER (voice-over): The study found that these Democrat-leaning kids were about nine times more likely to express negative emotions about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning kids were about Kamala Harris. Why might that be? Psychologist Asheley Landrum has some ideas. ASHELEY LANDRUM: So, Donald Trump is a very polarizing figure and it's very possible that the kids are reacting to their parents reacting to Donald Trump being a very different kind of political figure than what we've seen before. So, do the red state kids hold as strong of attitudes? Well, not when we are talking about Kamala Harris, in part that could be because they don't know that much about her. COOPER (voice-over): Landrum was also curious about how kids saw their peers and the political divide. LANDRUM: So, do you think that the kids that live in those two houses would be friends with each other? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 3): They can. LANDRUM: They can? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 3): There's no law breaking that. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (ARIZONA 2): It doesn't matter if you are different by skin color or it doesn't matter if you're different by people, you can still be friends. COOPER (voice-over): The study found that Republican-leaning kids were more open into visiting a Democrat-supporting household. The Democrat-leaning kids were about five times more likely to say, they would not want to go to a pro-Trump house. LANDRUM: Would they be okay with you going over to somebody's house who is really supportive of President Trump? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 4): No. LANDRUM: No? And why not? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY 4): Because we know that he's not -- he's not -- he does not like black people, so you will not -- they will not be happy to see me. LANDRUM: Would you family let you go over to somebody's house who is really supportive of Donald Trump? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY): No. LANDRUM: No, they wouldn't? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY): No. LANDRUM: And why not? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (NEW JERSEY): Because, like, my mom and dad don't like Donald Trump at all, not a single bit. LANDRUM: Would you be okay going over to somebody's house whose family really likes Kamala Harris? UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TEXAS): I think it'd be fine. It is just about the personality of the people. LANDRUM: Would your family be okay if you went over to somebody's house who really liked Donald Trump? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (TEXAS 2) If I want to be real over here, he'll -- if I just went over there, (inaudible) I imagine be a good-old argument or a fight, maybe like a food fight or something.

Eduardo Xol — a star of ABC’s reality show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” — has died at age 58. Authorities said a stabbing was the cause of death.According to the Riverside County Sheriff, Xol died Friday at the Desert Regional Medical Center after an incident that occurred 10 days earlier — at 5:41 a.m. Sept. 10 — in Palm Springs, California. 'We are heartbroken at the tragic loss of our beloved Eduardo Xol.'The Palm Springs Police Department said in a press release that officers responded to a 911 call from a man at the identical address and time that the Riverside County Sheriff noted."Upon arriving at the scene, officers heard a male voice inside the residence in apparent distress," the Palm Springs police said. "After making entry, officers discovered a man suffering from significant injuries consistent with an assault."The news release stated that "the victim informed officers that he had been stabbed, though he did not identify the assailant." The stabbing victim was rushed to a local hospital, where he was listed in serious but stable condition at the time. Police said they received a phone call hours after the stabbing from a man claiming to have been assaulted the night before. However, "through further investigation," officers determined that the man who made the call was the suspect in the stabbing earlier that day. Palm Springs officers arrested Richard Joseph Gonzales, 34, of Cathedral City. He initially was charged with attempted murder and was booked at the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio. Updated inmate records show Gonzales has been charged with murder.No bail was set, and he is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 18.Xol’s family issued the following statement to the Hollywood Reporter:We are heartbroken at the tragic loss of our beloved Eduardo Xol. We know that his kindness has touched the lives of so many. We ask for that kindness returned now allowing our privacy to be respected as we process our grief. In lieu of flowers, we ask that donations be made in Eduardo’s name to the Lupus Foundation of America as he spent so much of his life in the service of others.Xol was a personality and designer on "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" for more than seven seasons.As an actor, he appeared in the 1998 film “Bravo” and tele-novelas such as “La Jaula de Oro,” “Sentimientos de Oro,” and “Acapulco, Cuerpo y Alma.”Xol also was an author as well as a correspondent for People en Español and AOL Latino.Like Blaze News? Circumvent the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Bounty hunting is a career that I’m sure is far more exciting in videogames than it is in real life. Most games turn it into a head-hunting affair of blasting foes until you get the one you want, whereas in reality it’s probably more to do with parole violations. Nevertheless, the dream of bounty hunting in gaming is still strong, and games like Last Helion show there’s a lot of life left in that career path, especially when it’s happening in space. What’s more, it has a free demo you can play right now. Continue reading Bounty hunting extraction shooter Last Helion gets free Steam demo MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best action-adventure games, Best survival games, Best FPS games

There are few games that have come out this year and attracted quite as much attention as Manor Lords. The debut from lone developer Slavic Magic, Manor Lords may still be in Early Access, but it's already one of the most extensive medieval life simulators to date, even unfinished. With settlement building systems like those found in Frostpunk 2 or Cities: Skylines 2, army management in the style of a less involved Total War: Medieval, and battles reminiscent of Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord, the game is an ambitiously and already successfully realized vision. And now's the perfect time to play it for yourself as it's just received a substantial discount that lowers it to its cheapest price on Steam yet. Continue reading Manor Lords just got discounted to its cheapest Steam price yet MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Manor Lords early access review, Best strategy games, Manor Lords system requirements