President Joe Biden joked with cohost Whoopi Goldberg about squashing former President Donald Trump “like a bug” during Wednesday’s broadcast of “The View” on ABC. Goldberg was complaining, as she often does while hosting the midday talk show, about Trump – and she compared him to an annoying insect that no one had been able to successfully shoo away. WATCH: Democrats are the party of violence. pic.twitter.com/OHmSOVNs0P — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 25, 2024 “Then he just wouldn’t go — he was like a bug, he just kept being there, like a — like a bug, right there, buzzzzzzzbzzzzzzbzzzz,” Goldberg said, waving her hands around her face while she was talking to mimic an insect flying around her. “So you felt —” President Biden interrupted Goldberg by slapping the table then, as if he were swatting the imaginary insect, and laughter erupted around the table and throughout the audience. Their joke comes just over a week after a second assassination attempt on Trump — at his golf course in Palm Beach, Florida — was foiled by Secret Service agents, and just over two months after the former president was shot in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Two other rally-goers were gravely injured at the July 13th rally, and firefighter Corey Comperatore was shot and killed while using his body to protect his family. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! In the weeks since, with the aid of whistleblowers, Congress has been investigating the United States Secret Service over security failures ahead of and during both the Pennsylvania rally and Trump’s golf outing in Palm Beach. Despite calls to tone down the rhetoric — especially since a second attempt was made on Trump’s life — Democrats and their media surrogates have continued to claim that Trump is an “existential threat” to democracy. In addition, they have repeatedly claimed that Trump is the only one using violent and extreme rhetoric. After the second assassination attempt, however, the Trump campaign released a list of more than 50 instances of Democrats using extreme rhetoric and directing it specifically at him.

President Joe Biden did not deny this week that Democrats, led by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), forced him out of the presidential race over the summer. Biden was asked the question by Alyssa Farah Griffin during a fawning interview Wednesday morning on ABC News’ “The View” after Democrats and the media launched an intense campaign to pressure Biden out of the race following his disastrous debate performance in late June against former President Donald Trump. “Did you feel that your hand was forced?” Griffin asked. “And what is your relationship with Speaker Pelosi now?” “My relationship is fine. Look, I, I never fully believed the assertions that somehow there was this overwhelming reluctance of my running again,” Biden claimed. “I didn’t sense that. And although the polling, they said, ‘Biden’s polling was different,’ the fact of the matter is, my polling was about, you know, we’re always within range of beating this guy.” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! “And, uh, but, uh, I, what I did was, I think there were, it makes sense, there are some folks who would like to see me step aside so they have a chance to move on,” he said. “I get that. That’s just human nature. But that wasn’t the reason that I stepped down. I stepped down because I started thinking about it. You know, it’s hard to think, I know you’re only 30, but it’s hard to think of, it’s hard for me to even say how old I am. No, I’m serious. I give my word, it’s like holy God, that can’t be right. This can’t be right.” When asked if he thought that he could have beaten Trump, Biden answered: “Yes, I, I, I was confident, I, I, would beat Trump. He’s a loser.” WATCH: Well then….. On ABC, Biden doesn’t deny that Democrats forced him out of the presidential race AND claims that he would have beat “loser” Trump despite being way, way behind in the polls pic.twitter.com/2UgBhS93K0 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 25, 2024

The Justice Department is seeking prison time for two pro-life Christians convicted of violating federal law for their roles in a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility. Pro-life activists Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, and Eva Edl are all set to be sentenced this week for their participation in a sit-in protest at a Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, abortion facility in March 2021. The Justice Department has asked for federal judges to impose a prison sentence on both Gallagher and Idoni, while asking for Edl to be given probation.  Gallagher and Idoni were convicted in January in Nashville of engaging in a conspiracy against rights and violating the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that makes it a federal crime to physically block access to an abortion facility. Edl, an 89-year-old communist concentration camp survivor, was convicted of violating the FACE Act in April.  In pre-sentencing filings, the Biden DOJ has asked Judge Aleta Trauger to sentence Gallagher, 75, to 20 months in prison and three years of probation, and to sentence Idoni to eight months in prison and three years of supervised release. The Justice Department will allow Idoni to concurrently serve sentences for conspiracy and FACE Act charges, but only after she completes her two-year sentence for a similar conviction out of Washington, D.C.  Trauger and Idoni are set to be sentenced on Thursday and Friday, respectively. The Justice Department has asked for 3 years of probation for Edl, who will be sentenced Thursday morning by Judge Chip Frensley. Edl was convicted in August of a conspiracy charge for a pro-life protest in Detroit and, could face prison upon sentencing.  The conspiracy charge, a Reconstruction-era law designed to counter the Ku Klux Klan, carries stiff penalties of over 10 years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. Pro-life activists around the country have already received over five years in prison for the charge, which was first applied to pro-lifers by the Biden-Harris administration.  During the protest over which they were charged, the pro-lifers sang hymns, prayed, urged women not to get abortions, and sat in front of doors in a hallway outside the Carafem Health Center Clinic.  Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! The Biden-Harris administration’s prosecutions of peaceful activists are being challenged by the Thomas More Society, which is working to appeal the Nashville and D.C. FACE Act and conspiracy convictions, and convince a federal judge to dismiss the Detroit convictions.  In a video briefing Thursday night attended by The Daily Wire, Thomas More Society attorney Steve Crampton was optimistic about stopping the targeted prosecution of pro-lifers under the FACE Act.  “We’re going after FACE, we hope to knock it completely out of the water on these appeals. And we’re also going after this conspiracy against rights statute and we think we’re going get that thing knocked out of the park as well,” Crampton said.  He said that data shows 97% of all prosecutions have been against pro-lifers, even though the law was supposed to protect churches and pregnancy centers when it was passed in the 1990s. “Instead the Biden-Harris administration has brought a grand total of 25% percent of all the FACE cases ever brought since its inception in 1994 in the last two years and targeted pro-lifers,” he said.  Crampton said that he believed they would win on appeal, but that he was ready to go to the Supreme Court, which has never heard a FACE Act case before, if necessary.  Because of the selective prosecution and overturning of Roe v. Wade, Crampton argued that the law is unconstitutional.  “FACE always was about protecting one thing and that was abortion,” Crampton said. “Since the Dobbs decision and the overturn of Roe, abortion is no longer recognized as a federally protected right. So FACE is an act without really a purpose.” He also argued that the Supreme Court’s decision in Fischer, which limited the Justice Department’s ability to prosecute January 6 protesters, could be applied in the pro-life cases. In both cases, the Justice Department resurrected an old law to pursue harsh penalties against protesters in a different context than that with which the law originally dealt.

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged he “messed up” by letting his companies Facebook and Meta get too involved in politics. Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, and Whats App. Zuckerberg spoke at a podcast event in San Francisco earlier this month at which he bemoaned the fact the his companies and their employees had weighed in too much about political matters. “The political environment, I think I didn’t have much sophistication around, and I think I just fundamentally misdiagnosed the problem,” Zuckerberg said, according to The New York Times. “I think it’s going to take another 10 years or so for us to fully work through that cycle before our brand is back to the place that it could have been, if I hadn’t messed up in the first place.” Attempting to establish a positive relationship with former President Trump, Zuckerberg has spoken with him twice in the last few months. According to the Times, at a conference this summer, Zuckerberg said he “regretted hiring employees at his philanthropy who tried to push him further to the left on some causes” Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! In an August 26 letter to Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Zuckerberg wrote: In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of thus pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. Zuckerberg has hired Republican strategist Brian Baker to ameliorate his position with right-wing media and Republican officials, the Times noted. After Meta removed images of the assassination attempt on former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Zuckerberg called Trump to apologize.

Jennifer Aniston became a victim of a Los Angeles Police Department swatting incident after someone called in a fake wellness check on the “Friends” star in the late hours of the evening last Friday. Authorities are investigating the swatting incident after the LAPD responded to the 55-year-old actress’ home in Los Angeles following a call that compelled them to perform a wellness check, TMZ reported. Police told the outlet they got a call from someone claiming that their friend was “not doing well” and reportedly alluded to depression or worse. Authorities then responded after midnight to the home, not knowing it was Aniston’s. Once they arrived and were met by the actress’ security, the LAPD realized what had happened. They also spoke to Aniston, who was able to reassure them she was fine. Jennifer Aniston’s home was swatted in an incident now being investigated by L.A. police.https://t.co/dTBFIhHXto — New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) September 25, 2024 The act of calling in a fake wellness check or active crime and getting police to respond is known as swatting, a growing trend targeting many in Hollywood, the outlet noted. It is considered a criminal harassment act, Parade magazine noted. Aniston’s address has since been noted in the system, prompting police to call her security before they will send out officers. It is not the first swatting incident that the LAPD has been dealing with. Officers have gotten similar fake wellness check calls for such stars as Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and Tom Cruise, just to name a few, Parade noted. Am I Racist? Is In Theaters NOW — Get Your Tickets Here! A previous Daily Wire report noted that amid a massive rise in crime in places like Los Angeles, more celebrities were hiring at-home bodyguards and personal protection due to laws that security experts say have “emboldened the criminals.” “The Citywide property crimes statistics showed a 3.5% increase in 2023. Motor vehicle thefts increased by 2% as compared to 2022,” according to 2023 LAPD end-of-year crime statistics report. President and CEO of the L.A.-based World Protection Group Kent Moyer previously told The Daily Wire, it’s not just a bump in business, but an “explosion” as more celebrities seek protection amid skyrocketing crime rates. “It’s an explosion of business,” Moyer told The Daily Wire, noting things like “home invasion robberies” being up and saying “people are afraid.” Moyer said California laws such as “Prop. 47 and no cash bail” have “emboldened the criminals.” The CEO also explained that things like “Defund the Police” have forced members of law enforcement into early retirement. Related: Jennifer Aniston Says She’s Done With ‘Cancel Culture’

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