thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--2-Year-Old Girl’s Recovery After Being Blasted by a Screaming Line Drive at Yankee Stadium is ‘Nothi

2-Year-Old Girl’s Recovery After Being Blasted by a Screaming Line Drive at Yankee Stadium is ‘Nothing Short of a Miracle’

The father of a 2-year-old girl blasted in the face by a screaming line drive at Yankee Stadium three years ago told The Post his daughter ’ s recuperation is “ nothing short of a miracle.
” “ An inch up or down , left or right and things could be completely different , ” a grateful Geoffrey Jacobson told The Post in a series of e-mails .
“ At this point she gets to live like a normal 4-year-old .
There are no more eye patches , no more restrictions .
Just periodic doctor appointment checkups.
” In the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have surgery on her orbital socket or nose and still goes to the eye doctor and neurologist every six months , but “ her short term injuries are healed , ” Jacobson said .
The 42-year-old New Jersey lawyer agreed to speak on the condition that his daughter ’ s name and other personal information be withheld .
The transformation is extraordinary following the shocking events of Sept. 20 , 2017 , when his little girl was struck by a 105-mph foul ball off the bat of then Yankees third baseman Todd Frazier @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Twins .
The baseball hit the middle of the girl ’ s forehead and the bridge of her nose , leaving blood everywhere .
The game was delayed for nearly four minutes as the toddler was carried from the stands and taken to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital .
Frazier immediately put his hand to his mouth and went to one knee , and other players were visibly shaken by the injury .
The little girl was placed in a neck brace and suffered skull fractures and bleeding on the brain .
Both her eyes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the stitching of the baseball cut into her forehead .
Jacobson has said his daughter ’ s six days in the ICU hooked up to machines “ were the longest days of our lives.
” The stunning episode generated national headlines and in February 2018 , MLB announced that all 30 teams would have protective netting extended to at least the far ends of both dugouts .
Jacobson said it wasn ’ t enough , that “ every team should extend to the foul poles .
MLB has enough data to know how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ’ s seen replays of his daughter getting injured a few times and it ’ s incredibly difficult to watch .
“ In reality , as a baseball fan , I ’ ve seen it a hundred times .
You ’ re watching a game , a screamer goes into the stands , the announcers say ‘ look out ’ and then wish the injured party the best .
Then they go back to the 2-2 count .
Unfortunately , the veil has been lifted and I know while everyone else goes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are changed forever.
” In 2018 , Jacobson gathered the courage to sit in the Legends seats at Yankee Stadium where his daughter was injured .
“ They are protected by nets now .
My perspective on baseball is different now , I spend more time looking at foul balls than ones in the field of play .
It ’ s much more nerve-racking , ” he confessed .
Jacobson , who has not filed a lawsuit in connection with the incident , said “ it will be a long while before I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Eventually the time will be right and we will make sure we are behind protective netting.
” Most recently , Jacobson was among a group of who went to Washington , DC , and met with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin to discuss fan safety .
As for how the family marks each September 20 ?
“ We ’ ve gone about our day for the most part , but my wife and I probably hug our children a little bit longer , a little bit tighter.
” Jacobson said his recovering daughter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but “ eventually , she will have an adult ’ s perspective on everything that happened .
One day she may write a college essay about it.
” These days , the 4-year-old takes ballet , tap and swim lessons and “ sings ‘ Frozen II ’ songs almost non-stop , ” Jacobson said , adding , “ Much to our dismay she is completely fearless and will spend hours riding her scooter too fast , playing on swing sets and jumping off our couches like she is Evel Knievel.
” Jacobson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ support : “ It was a terrible time for our family but all the prayers and kind words we received made all the difference .
”

Her recovery is a home run!
The father of a 2-year-old girl blasted in the face by a screaming line drive at Yankee Stadium three years ago told The Post his daughter’s recuperation is “nothing short of a miracle.”
“An inch up or down, left or right and things could be completely different,” a grateful Geoffrey Jacobson told The Post in a series of e-mails. “At this point she gets to live like a normal 4-year-old. There are no more eye patches, no more restrictions. Just periodic doctor appointment checkups.”
In the future, the girl might have to have surgery on her orbital socket or nose and still goes to the eye doctor and neurologist every six months, but “her short term injuries are healed,” Jacobson said.
The 42-year-old New Jersey lawyer agreed to speak on the condition that his daughter’s name and other personal information be withheld.
The transformation is extraordinary following the shocking events of Sept. 20, 2017, when his little girl was struck by a 105-mph foul ball off the bat of then Yankees third baseman Todd Frazier during an afternoon game against the Minnesota Twins.
The baseball hit the middle of the girl’s forehead and the bridge of her nose, leaving blood everywhere. The game was delayed for nearly four minutes as the toddler was carried from the stands and taken to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital.
Frazier immediately put his hand to his mouth and went to one knee, and other players were visibly shaken by the injury.
The little girl was placed in a neck brace and suffered skull fractures and bleeding on the brain. Both her eyes were severely swollen shut and she had the stitching of the baseball cut into her forehead. Jacobson has said his daughter’s six days in the ICU hooked up to machines “were the longest days of our lives.”
The stunning episode generated national headlines and in February 2018, MLB announced that all 30 teams would have protective netting extended to at least the far ends of both dugouts.
Jacobson said it wasn’t enough, that “every team should extend to the foul poles. MLB has enough data to know how dangerous foul balls are.”
He said he’s seen replays of his daughter getting injured a few times and it’s incredibly difficult to watch.
“In reality, as a baseball fan, I’ve seen it a hundred times. You’re watching a game, a screamer goes into the stands, the announcers say ‘look out’ and then wish the injured party the best. Then they go back to the 2-2 count. Unfortunately, the veil has been lifted and I know while everyone else goes back to watching the game, lives are changed forever.”
In 2018, Jacobson gathered the courage to sit in the Legends seats at Yankee Stadium where his daughter was injured.
“They are protected by nets now. My perspective on baseball is different now, I spend more time looking at foul balls than ones in the field of play. It’s much more nerve-racking,” he confessed.
Jacobson, who has not filed a lawsuit in connection with the incident, said “it will be a long while before I take my children to a baseball game. Eventually the time will be right and we will make sure we are behind protective netting.”
Most recently, Jacobson was among a group of who went to Washington, DC, and met with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin to discuss fan safety.
As for how the family marks each September 20?
“We’ve gone about our day for the most part, but my wife and I probably hug our children a little bit longer, a little bit tighter.”
Jacobson said his recovering daughter “rarely” speaks about the incident, but “eventually, she will have an adult’s perspective on everything that happened. One day she may write a college essay about it.”
These days, the 4-year-old takes ballet, tap and swim lessons and “sings ‘Frozen II’ songs almost non-stop,” Jacobson said, adding, “Much to our dismay she is completely fearless and will spend hours riding her scooter too fast, playing on swing sets and jumping off our couches like she is Evel Knievel.”
Jacobson made sure to thank everyone for their support: “It was a terrible time for our family but all the prayers and kind words we received made all the difference.”


thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--Two More Deaths in Seattle Area on Saturday Brings Total Coronavirus Deaths in Washington State to 1

Two More Deaths in Seattle Area on Saturday Brings Total Coronavirus Deaths in Washington State to 17

Washington coronavirus deaths hit 19 among 136 total cases
The Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash. where some residents have died from COVID-19 and others remain infected. (KOMO Photo)


thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--The Democrats’ Anti-Life Movement Is Now Engaging in Full-Blown Worshiping Child-Sacrifice

That used to be the mantra for the pro-choice movement .
Long gone , however , are the days when @ @ @ @ @ of human life inside the womb was actually a bad thing .
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TV personality Busy Philipps recently went on an angry tirade at @ @ @ @ @ own abortion at the age of 15 .
This rant is one of the many @ @ @ @ @ moved away from a tone of reluctance and into full-blown cheerleading of abortion .
Multiple @ @ @ @ @ people cheered it , clearing demonstrating a zeal for having abortions rather than it being @ @ @ @ @ that they once described it as .
I explained just how depraved the pro-choice movement @ @ @ @ @ on Faithwire ’ s YouTube page , which you can subscribe to for FREE by @ @ @ @ @ to watch the video .

Safe. Legal. Rare.
That used to be the mantra for the pro-choice movement. Long gone, however, are the days when abortion supporters conceded the ending of human life inside the womb was actually a bad thing.
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TV personality Busy Philipps recently went on an angry tirade at a pro-abortion rally defending her own abortion at the age of 15.
This rant is one of the many examples revealing abortion advocacy has moved away from a tone of reluctance and into full-blown cheerleading of abortion.
Multiple speakers shouted their abortion and people cheered it, clearing demonstrating a zeal for having abortions rather than it being a “difficult choice” that they once described it as.
I explained just how depraved the pro-choice movement is becoming in a video on Faithwire’s YouTube page, which you can subscribe to for FREE by clicking HERE.
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thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--The Church of Capitulation: Marxist Pope Francis Normalizes the LGBT Ethos

The other day I received a call from someone asking me if I knew that the press spokesman for the Paulist Fathers is in a gay marriage .
I checked it out and sure enough the caller was right .
Paul Snatchko has served as director of marketing and communications for the Paulist Fathers for over four years .
In 2013 , Snatchko entered into a gay marriage .
He spoke to the press about it , telling the Observer-Reporter that the “ way same-sex marriage is happening is very healthy .
It ’ s happening state-by-state .
People are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their families.
” ( Snatchko did not return my call . )
That the Paulist Fathers hired as their spokesman someone in a gay marriage would have once been a major scandal .
But in the Church of Pope Francis , it barely elicits a shrug .
In ways big and small , FrancisChurch has been normalizing the LGBT ethos .
Not a week passes without some churchman mouthing PC pieties to it .
In early February , Jesuit Father James Martin , the leading proponent of LGBT causes in the Church , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Colleges and Universities to speak to Catholic educators about incorporating LGBT causes into their schools .
Martin , according to the Washington Post , urged the Catholic presidents to promote “ inclusion , such as allowing students to pick their pronouns and holding up openly gay staff as role models.
” Almost all of the bishops around Pope Francis subscribe to this agenda .
Many of them have invited Martin into their dioceses to spread his propaganda .
This ecclesiastical climate has empowered heretics within the Church to demand the reshaping of Catholic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Seattle , where its archbishop , Paul Etienne , put a high school principal on leave of absence after he fired two teachers for entering into gay marriages .
Etienne wrote a mollifying letter about the controversy .
“ It is abundantly clear to me that our Catholic schools are serving a much broader community than in the past , ” he wrote timidly .
He has told pro-LGBT parents that he will study how to apply “ universal church teaching locally.
” In FrancisChurch , churchmen rise in proportion to their openness @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Catholic Church recently made the president of its conference an open supporter of gay relationships , Bishop George Batzing , reports LifeSiteNews : In America , LGBT-friendly bishops have been appointed left and right .
Pope Francis recently elevated Michael Saporito to auxiliary bishop of Newark .
Saporito is responsible for starting up an LGBT group called Open Arms Ministry .
He will serve under Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin , who is a notorious supporter of LGBT subversion within the Church .
Tobin has openly called for a change in Church teaching , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mystery of human sexuality.
” Pope Francis set the tone for this LGBT-friendly shift in the Church with the phrase , “ Who am I to judge ?
” — a comment he made in the context of elevating an openly scandalous homosexual , Monsignor Battista Ricca , to a top position within the Vatican bank .
Pope Francis has surrounded himself with homosexual prelates , some of whom , such as his protégé Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta , are in legal trouble .
It was Pope Francis who rehabilitated the most notorious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ McCarrick .
One would have thought such scandals might have sobered Pope Francis up .
But they haven ’ t .
He remains loyal to the Gay Mafia that elected him .
“ I want to have an audience with you , ” Pope Francis said to Fr .
James Martin last year .
Martin bragged after his one-on-one meeting with the pope that it had given him new currency in the Church .
Having received that papal pat on the head makes it very difficult for orthodox bishops to block his ministry @ @ @ @ @ @ @ group called “ Out at St. Paul.
” The group meets at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle on the Upper West Side of New York City .
It is run by the Paulist Fathers .
Were St. Paul alive today , he would condemn all of this as a celebration of sin .
But the Paulist Fathers have left St. Paul in the dust , employing a gay-married press spokesman who tells Catholics that LGBT ministry is simply a matter of “ inclusion .
”

The other day I received a call from someone asking me if I knew that the press spokesman for the Paulist Fathers is in a gay marriage. I checked it out and sure enough the caller was right. Paul Snatchko has served as director of marketing and communications for the Paulist Fathers for over four years. In 2013, Snatchko entered into a gay marriage. He spoke to the press about it, telling the Observer-Reporter that the “way same-sex marriage is happening is very healthy. It’s happening state-by-state. People are having conversations in their communities and with their families.” (Snatchko did not return my call.)
That the Paulist Fathers hired as their spokesman someone in a gay marriage would have once been a major scandal. But in the Church of Pope Francis, it barely elicits a shrug. In ways big and small, FrancisChurch has been normalizing the LGBT ethos. Not a week passes without some churchman mouthing PC pieties to it.
In early February, Jesuit Fr. James Martin, the leading proponent of LGBT causes in the Church, was asked by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities to speak to Catholic educators about incorporating LGBT causes into their schools. Martin, according to the Washington Post, urged the Catholic presidents to promote “inclusion, such as allowing students to pick their pronouns and holding up openly gay staff as role models.”
Almost all of the bishops around Pope Francis subscribe to this agenda. Many of them have invited Martin into their dioceses to spread his propaganda.
This ecclesiastical climate has empowered heretics within the Church to demand the reshaping of Catholic institutions. Take the recent controversy in Seattle, where its archbishop, Paul Etienne, put a high school principal on leave of absence after he fired two teachers for entering into gay marriages. Etienne wrote a mollifying letter about the controversy. “It is abundantly clear to me that our Catholic schools are serving a much broader community than in the past,” he wrote timidly. He has told pro-LGBT parents that he will study how to apply “universal church teaching locally.”
In FrancisChurch, churchmen rise in proportion to their openness to all things LGBT. The German Catholic Church recently made the president of its conference an open supporter of gay relationships, Bishop George Batzing, reports LifeSiteNews:
Last year, Bätzing had asked Catholics to discuss the question of blessing homosexual unions. A diocesan official wrote in a letter, “Bishop Georg Bätzing asks that this important question [of a blessing for couples who cannot marry in the Catholic Church] be discussed in the diocese of Limburg in an open and uncontroversial manner. He has established a process group in order to accompany and structure this discourse.”
In America, LGBT-friendly bishops have been appointed left and right. Pope Francis recently elevated Michael Saporito to auxiliary bishop of Newark. Saporito is responsible for starting up an LGBT group called Open Arms Ministry. He will serve under Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin, who is a notorious supporter of LGBT subversion within the Church. Tobin has openly called for a change in Church teaching, what he calls a “rethinking of the mystery of human sexuality.”
Pope Francis set the tone for this LGBT-friendly shift in the Church with the phrase, “Who am I to judge?” — a comment he made in the context of elevating an openly scandalous homosexual, Monsignor Battista Ricca, to a top position within the Vatican bank.
Pope Francis has surrounded himself with homosexual prelates, some of whom, such as his protégé Gustavo Óscar Zanchetta, are in legal trouble. It was Pope Francis who rehabilitated the most notorious homosexual predator in Church history, Theodore McCarrick. One would have thought such scandals might have sobered Pope Francis up. But they haven’t. He remains loyal to the Gay Mafia that elected him.
“I want to have an audience with you,” Pope Francis said to Fr. James Martin last year. Martin bragged after his one-on-one meeting with the pope that it had given him new currency in the Church. Having received that papal pat on the head makes it very difficult for orthodox bishops to block his ministry, Martin said last year to a group called “Out at St. Paul.” The group meets at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle on the Upper West Side of New York City. It is run by the Paulist Fathers.
Were St. Paul alive today, he would condemn all of this as a celebration of sin. But the Paulist Fathers have left St. Paul in the dust, employing a gay-married press spokesman who tells Catholics that LGBT ministry is simply a matter of “inclusion.”


thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--Rod Blagojevich Explains Why He Is a ‘Trumpocrat’: Democrats Have ‘Abandoned’ American Workers, Blac

Rod Blagojevich Explains Why He Is a ‘Trumpocrat’: Democrats Have ‘Abandoned’ American Workers, Black Voters

Former Illinois Gov .
Rod Blagojevich ripped into his former political party , the Democrats , and laid out why he considers himself now a “ Trumpocrat ” in a broad , nearly 30-minute-long exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Saturday morning .
Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel , Blagojevich—whose sentence President Donald Trump commuted last month , releasing him from federal prison—laid out how his old political party has “ abandoned ” American workers and black voters .
Blagojevich said a number of policies his former party ’ s leaders , from former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ former Vice President Joe Biden to even his home-state Sen. Dick Durbin ( D-IL ) , have put forward have hurt African Americans and working class Americans economically and socially—and now that he is out of prison , and clear of the Democrat Party machine , he is speaking out against it all .
What ’ s more , Blagojevich says the great irony of American politics is that Trump—a Republican—has done more to rectify these problems that Democrats created for black and working class Americans than any of America ’ s other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump has ditched the “ traditional ” GOP playbook to pursue a more solutions-oriented agenda .
Upon his release from prison , Blagojevich announced he is a “ Trumpocrat ” –making him the highest profile such Democrat who has left the Democratic Party to join President Trump–and here he explains his views in the most in-depth interview yet since his release .
“ When I say I ’ m a Trumpocrat—and hopefully a lot of others are as well , and I believe they are—it ’ s largely because the Democratic Party has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s abandoned traditional Democratic constituencies like working people , factory workers like my father an immigrant who came to America and spent all of his time here as a working man working in a steel factory , ” Blagojevich said .
“ And also , the Democratic Party has for far too long taken the African American community for granted .
They ’ ve not only abandoned them , they ’ ve sold them out when they passed the crime bill in 1994 that President Clinton and Vice President Biden , then-Senator Biden @ @ @ @ @ @ @ here , Sen. Durbin , voted for it .
It ’ s a bill that led to the mass incarceration of a whole new generation of African American men for nonviolent first-time drug offenses , over-sentencing them and then putting them in a position where they can have no opportunity whatsoever to begin a new life after correcting the mistakes that they made and paying their debts to society , frankly , for the crimes that they committed .
President Trump , interestingly enough , is speaking to those constituencies in ways that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that whether it ’ s through his economic policies or his criminal justice reform policies or other norm-challenging fights , Trump has upended the normal political battle lines in a way that is “ revolutionizing American politics ” and “ re-aligning ” what would be considered “ traditional ” political coalitions by zoning in on and successfully “ drawing from ” what were considered “ Democratic constituency groups.
” “ And I think he ’ s not only been successful politically because he ’ s done it , I think he ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ He ’ s re-aligning politics in America by drawing from those traditional Democratic constituency groups , the factory worker that used to work in a factory that ’ s gone because of the 1994 NAFTA bill that President Clinton signed sending all those jobs away .
President Trump is bringing them back in places like western Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and southern Illinois—the rust belt states .
One of the many frustrations I had as governor was when I would leave the Chicagoland area where I ’ m from—I ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ places like the Quad Cities or Marion , Illinois , or Franklin County , Illinois , where they used to have coal mines and people were working and that was the economic anchor of the community or you ’ d go to a place like Galesburg , Illinois , where the Maytag factory once was but has left because of NAFTA and President Clinton and the policies of the Democratic Party that ’ s supposed to be the party that protected those people and looked out for their interests .
It ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those communities that there was hope , that there was a possibility that we might be able to bring some of those economic engines back to the state .
Now , at last , we have a president who not only promised to do it but he ’ s doing it .
I think President Trump is making real strides in succeeding in that but more importantly he ’ s actually addressing the needs of the American worker .
And with the First Step Act , he ’ s actually done something for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like me .
We easily get 90 percent or better of the African American vote when we run against Republicans .
Yet , the Democratic Party I would say cynically has taken the African American community for granted .
It ’ s almost immoral , their treatment of the African American community by sort of just keeping them dependent and in a certain place where they have to look to government for all the answers when at the same it ’ s actually government through over-sentencing and targeting African Americans that are causing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in these very communities.
” Blagojevich served almost eight years of a 14-year sentence handed down after multiple trials finally resulted in partial convictions , some of which were later vacated on appeal .
The first time they came at Blagojevich , he was convicted on only one of 24 charges—the charge was lying to the FBI , something the agency has similarly used to target Trump allies in the various scandals he ’ s been entangled in—but then prosecutors retried him on 20 counts and he was convicted on 17 of them @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the other two no verdict was rendered .
Later , on appeal , five of the counts were vacated and Blagojevich ’ s lawyers continued fighting for years to try to get the Supreme Court to hear them .
But eventually , it was Trump in early 2020 who commuted his sentence—and let him out after eight years behind bars .
Blagojevich to this day insists he did nothing wrong , and that what he was put away for was politics as usual .
In fact the core allegation that he tried to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ when Obama was president-elect and Blagojevich was to appoint Obama ’ s successor , was one of the conviction charges vacated—or overturned—on appeal .
But the broader point Blagojevich tells with this story is that there is a serious problem in America ’ s criminal justice system , and what happened to him could happen to anyone .
“ On this subject , sadly and unfortunately it took this long—I had this experience I had to endure and I will tell your listeners they put me in prison for things that are routine @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any lines , ” Blagojevich said .
“ We were doing routine political things .
The sale of the Senate seat was never a crime .
That was reversed by the appellate court .
I was there for some fundraising requests and they convicted me by moving the line and telling the jury you can be convicted for seeking a campaign contribution without any evidence of a promise or a threat because there was none .
But anyway , having said all of that , this long unhappy experience has given me a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ am an expert witness on this .
I have street cred having done eight years in prison and I spent the first 32 months in prison as probably the only governor in American history to be in a high security prison behind what the inmates call ‘ the razor wire , ’ where I spent nearly three years with over 900 inmates coming and going where some would leave and new ones would come in .
They were largely drug dealers , gang-bangers , cartel members , there were bank robbers here , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , only two percent were so-called ‘ white collar.
’ So , I really got a firsthand lesson on real life and yes of course I met a lot of my fellow inmates—particularly drug dealers—who experienced over sentencing .
Here ’ s a classic example , Jonair Moore , my friend who I just left behind is in his 11th year or actually just starting his 12th year of prison as part of a 26-year sentence as a first-time non-violent drug offender , a young African American man .
Consider the fact that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more than four years , and here ’ s Jonair—he ’ s not unusual , he ’ s actually the rule not the exception , sent to prison for a quarter of a century for a one-time mistake when no one was hurt .
The system is broken and it disproportionately discriminates against African Americans .
It ’ s what the author Michelle Alexander has called ‘ The New Jim Crow in America.
’ ” Trump , Blagojevich said , has done more to reform this broken system than any Democrat has—including the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was Democrats who created the problem to begin with when Biden and Clinton and Durbin teamed up to push the 1994 crime bill that Obama did nothing to alleviate .
“ I ’ ll say this , this is one of the great ironies in modern history : On this issue , it ’ s actually Donald Trump who ’ s trumping the first African American president—Obama—and actually doing something to solve this problem and undo the racist injustice caused by that 1994 crime bill , which has led to the current @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Blagojevich said .
“ This was a bill Joe Biden not only voted for , but Joe Biden was a vocal advocate for and so were most of the leading Democrats including my senator here in Illinois Dick Durbin and of course President Clinton was the who signed it.
” Asked if these actions by Trump on this front , and what Trump has done with the economy and school choice among other efforts are winning the president support in the black community , Blagojevich said that “ my instincts tell me that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dramatic improvement among President Trump ’ s performance in the African American community among voters.
” Democrats have usually won around 90 percent or more of the black vote in most elections .
Trump won about eight percent in 2016 , which , while better than failed 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney ’ s six percent that year , is still a very small percentage .
“ I ’ ve only been home a little over two weeks so I haven ’ t been as plugged into the community as I was in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have made an appearance on an African American radio station here in Chicago maybe the second or third day I was home and I got the sense there was a growing sense President Trump was someone who was actually addressing the problems in the African American community that they have gotten all too often almost accepting that they ’ re going to receive from the politicians they elected is just lip service , ” Blagojevich said .
“ I think there ’ s a real sense among people , and it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and I think there ’ s going to be more and more people in the African American community who see that this president , President Trump , is a very different kind of leader than a traditional politician .
This is a guy who solves problems as opposed to making honestly—very too often , politicians make promises they have no intention of following through on to begin with .
I think that when it comes to criminal justice reform , this is a case where this is a president who ’ s actually @ @ @ @ @ @ @ leading to the end of over-sentencing of many African Americans in the system .
I saw a few guys go home before I went home because of the First Step Act .
In terms of the guys I went to prison with , are they seeing what President Trump is doing ?
The answer is : yes , they are .
And I also think a lot of these guys like the fact that this is a president with a badass style and a guy that actually fights .
I think they like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ waking up a lot of people .
They ’ re sick and tired of the BS.
” Blagojevich , who was the home state governor of Obama ’ s Illinois in 2008 , when the former president was first elected to the White House , and was the first governor in America to endorse him that year , also told Breitbart News he now considers it a mistake to have endorsed Obama .
Blagojevich said that Obama promised all sorts of changes and hope for the country— “ hope and change ” were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ campaign slogan—but Blagojevich says now upon reflection that Obama failed in every respect to bring either to the country , and that they were empty rhetorical catchphrases with no substance behind them .
He said Trump , on the other hand , has actually delivered whereObama failed .
“ President Obama was elected in 2008 .
Here ’ s something I ’ ll plead guilty to : I was the first governor to endorse him , ” Blagojevich said .
“ That I did , and it was wrong—but at the time I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s election if you really think about it was based very little on detail .
It was based on his themes ‘ hope and change.
’ People were sick and tired of the usual baloney in politics and fake solutions dressed up as solutions but they ’ re not real .
‘ These guys are saying they did something for us somehow , but I ’ m not feeling it .
Things continued to stay the same and the lobbyists and the insiders are all getting rich in Washington or in my case @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come my tax bill is going up ?
’ Obama was elected because the American people felt they wanted change and this was a new candidate who was talking about hope and change .
It wasn ’ t a lot of substance under it , but they were so hungry for change they took a leap of faith on President Obama and did something historic electing our first African American president in the history of our country—which is a very good thing for our country .
It turns out however Obama was just @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just a slogan .
He didn ’ t do it .
So I think that eight years later , when President Trump came down that escalator—I was watching that in prison on one of those televisions in prison—I felt the same way you did .
He started to talk and then he didn ’ t back down .
He was losing big because of some of the tough positions he was taking , but I was convinced at that time he was going to win .
Now , you have a guy who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s going to bring change—he ’ s bringing real hope that he ’ s going to stand up for something and take the hit and lose something for what he was going to get .
It ’ s not real change unless you ruffle some feathers and make a few enemies .
That I think is what President Trump is doing .
I think some of the guys I was in prison with , African American guys who are seeing this new president as a very different kind of leader than Obama and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Trump leading up to his election.
” Asked about the unique populist space that Trump has found in American politics , Blagojevich said he believes it is the future—whether it ’ s on trade deals like the USMCA , which got more than 380 votes in the House and 89 votes in the Senate , or on forthcoming major policy packages like infrastructure .
He noted , too , that while he disagrees with the socialist solutions offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders ( I-VT ) , he thinks that Sanders is zoning @ @ @ @ @ @ @ facing the country—and the culprits in Washington and on Wall Street behind such problems .
“ President Trump has filled that vacuum , ” Blagojevich said .
“ That ’ s absolutely right .
That ’ s what ’ s going on .
You see it , frankly , even with Bernie Sanders and his supporters .
He ’ s taken positions and views and he ’ s offered solutions to the problems that I think frankly are unworkable .
History proves that socialism never works , and actually is counter-productive .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ about identifying some of the problems that are facing our country .
Now , President Trump on the other hand is not only addressing those issues but he ’ s now the president and he ’ s actually achieving things and providing real , meaningful solutions that are leading to an economy that is booming because of the very things he has done whether it ’ s the tax cuts , reducing the regulations , and these trade deals—all are absolutely long overdue .
Here again is an example of a different philosophy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people and I think he ’ s speaking to a whole bunch of different people who frankly tuned out of the process long ago because they understand how full of baloney the political system has become for a long , long time .
They ’ re now coming back into the political system.
” Blagojevich added that Trump ’ s success is in large part marked by how many “ enemies ” he ’ s amassed in Washington trying to take him down and stop his progress .
“ You got a lot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ called by pollsters because they haven ’ t voted for several elections , but now because President Trump is actually bringing real change and actually keeping promises that he ’ s making and solving those problems and among the evidence that he ’ s doing it is that he ’ s got so many enemies that want to destroy him , ” Blagojevich said .
“ One of the Roosevelt presidents , I think it was Franklin but it could have been Teddy , he said ‘ ah , you have enemies .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ something.
’ The fact that President Trump is getting so much pushback and the opposition is so determined to destroy him—and that raise a whole bunch of other issues , and I ’ m also an expert witness on this and how when you go down and try to shake things up and change things the political establishment comes after you and destroys you personally , this is a real serious problem for another discussion—but the fact that President Trump is getting that kind of response and that the Democrats decided to abuse @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a political weapon frankly is a badge of honor for President Trump .
It ’ s more evidence he ’ s doing what he said he was going to do and he ’ s changing things and they know it in that establishment in Washington and they don ’ t like it .
So the more he keeps fighting and achieves things and changes things , like USMCA as you say in spite of all this opposition to be able to do the necessary things to get the bipartisan support to pass those @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been able to use Twitter and the ability to communicate directly to the people , he ’ s been able to force those people like the operatives and congressmen in Washington to respond to his leadership and support some of his stuff because even though they don ’ t want to give him a political win they got to support this stuff to get re-elected .
So yeah , I think there ’ s a tremendous space—a lot of room in that area—of those non-voters who tuned out a long time ago and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ see President Trump being very successful in November and I think you ’ re going to see the number of votes that he gets will far exceed what he got the first time and a lot of those will be voters who haven ’ t been voting for a long time .
A lot of them came out in 2016 , but my prediction is a lot more of them will come out in 2020 since President Trump has proven to be different from the usual politicians .
This is a guy who @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Blagojevich said that the same Democrat machine that targeted him—and Trump—is also trying to take down Sanders .
That is because , he said , the Democrat Party is now “ the party of Wall Street , ” he said .
“ Absolutely , and it seems so transparent to me .
This is the new Democratic Party , the Chuck Schumer-Nancy Pelosi Democratic Party , ” Blagojevich said .
“ It ’ s the party—ready for this—of Wall Street .
They ’ ve become the party of Wall Street .
That ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worker with NAFTA .
They went to Wall Street because it ’ s loaded with campaign contributions .
Now , the Democratic Party today because of the growth of the internet and online communications , now the Democratic Party is also the party of Silicon Valley—again , at the expense of the working person and family and the African American community because of some of the other things that they do .
They cynically have abandoned the African American community and made a determination to keep that part of our nation dependent upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have no other place to go but to vote for Democrats and the simple way for Democrats to keep them voting for them is call anybody who offers some kind of solution like school choice or other reforms like criminal justice reform , to call them racists .
It ’ s a real cynical ugly kind of politics that the modern Democratic Party is engaged in .
Of course they ’ re going to do anything they can to keep Bernie Sanders from winning and they ’ re going to be successful in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on him .
Bernie , again , is wrong on the solutions but at least he has the courage to raise the issues .
I remember here ’ s where he was so right and I was so wrong .
I remember when I was a brand new congressman back after 9/11 , me and everybody else we all voted for the Patriot Act .
Then there was Bernie Sanders , that crazy guy from Vermont—Bernie voted against the Patriot Act .
I remember thinking how crazy he was .
He was right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Patriot Act has led to the undermining of civil liberties , giving unchecked power of prosecutors who have weaponized their power and now criminalized routine practices motivated not by the desire to serve the interests of justice but instead to go after political enemies or people they want to bring down who are ruffling the feathers of the establishment .
Frankly , what they did at the AAA level to a Democratic governor , to me—a lot of the same people , Comey , Fitzgerald , and Mueller , the same ones have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major league level to a Republican president in President Trump .
We have a lot of challenges ahead of us and the Democratic establishment abandoned these traditional voting groups and Bernie Sanders is going to pay a price because he ’ s got the chutzpah enough to challenge and raise questions that frankly question the establishment.
” For Blagojevich , for now , he is unclear about the future—he says he wants to write a book or two , and find a way to help champion the issues he cares about–especially criminal justice @ @ @ @ @ @ @ certain of : He is “ everlastingly grateful ” to Trump for having the “ testicular virility ” that he says Obama did not ever have to right the wrong he considers was done to him by the criminal justice system .
“ I ’ m not sure , it ’ s all very new , I ’ ve never come out of prison before so after eight years it ’ s a new experience , ” Blagojevich said .
“ I hope to write a book or two—I ’ d like to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what I ’ ve learned along the way .
I think I can offer a unique perspective .
I ’ d also like to write a book about helping people through their struggles and adversity because I share with them how I found the inspiration and the strength and purpose that worked through the long dark wilderness that I was in .
I ’ d like maybe to be able to do something like that that could be helpful to people .
I ’ d like to fight for criminal justice reform and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I can say about that from both sides , as a former governor where we did certain things but could have done so much more but also what I went through and have come out of .
Right now , I ’ m doing this thing called Cameo where you do shout-outs to people and it ’ s a way to earn a living and it ’ s actually kind of nice because I ’ ll get a request from a daughter and she wants to celebrate her mother ’ s birthday so @ @ @ @ @ @ @ can you say to my mother you ’ re a great mother and thank you for raising us children and loving us as you have ?
’ So you bring a little smile on the faces of people who make these requests , so that ’ s been nice .
But in terms of what I ’ m going to do in the way of something lasting , it ’ s unclear right now .
It ’ s all very new .
But let me say this—whatever it is , it ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There ’ s nothing like being home and being with your family and I ’ m blessed to be with my daughters and with my wife Patti who are the purpose and inspiration for me to come out and find a way back home .
I ’ m grateful , everlastingly grateful , to President Trump again for having the testicular virility to trump Obama and do the right thing.
” LISTEN TO FORMER ILLINOIS GOV .
ROD BLAGOJEVICH ON BREITBART NEWS SATURDAY :

Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich ripped into his former political party, the Democrats, and laid out why he considers himself now a “Trumpocrat” in a broad, nearly 30-minute-long exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Saturday morning.
Appearing on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, Blagojevich—whose sentence President Donald Trump commuted last month, releasing him from federal prison—laid out how his old political party has “abandoned” American workers and black voters.
Blagojevich said a number of policies his former party’s leaders, from former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to former Vice President Joe Biden to even his home-state Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), have put forward have hurt African Americans and working class Americans economically and socially—and now that he is out of prison, and clear of the Democrat Party machine, he is speaking out against it all.
What’s more, Blagojevich says the great irony of American politics is that Trump—a Republican—has done more to rectify these problems that Democrats created for black and working class Americans than any of America’s other recent presidents, in large part because Trump has ditched the “traditional” GOP playbook to pursue a more solutions-oriented agenda. Upon his release from prison, Blagojevich announced he is a “Trumpocrat”–making him the highest profile such Democrat who has left the Democratic Party to join President Trump–and here he explains his views in the most in-depth interview yet since his release.
“When I say I’m a Trumpocrat—and hopefully a lot of others are as well, and I believe they are—it’s largely because the Democratic Party has not only left us but it’s abandoned traditional Democratic constituencies like working people, factory workers like my father an immigrant who came to America and spent all of his time here as a working man working in a steel factory,” Blagojevich said. “And also, the Democratic Party has for far too long taken the African American community for granted. They’ve not only abandoned them, they’ve sold them out when they passed the crime bill in 1994 that President Clinton and Vice President Biden, then-Senator Biden backed and voted for. Our senator here, Sen. Durbin, voted for it. It’s a bill that led to the mass incarceration of a whole new generation of African American men for nonviolent first-time drug offenses, over-sentencing them and then putting them in a position where they can have no opportunity whatsoever to begin a new life after correcting the mistakes that they made and paying their debts to society, frankly, for the crimes that they committed. President Trump, interestingly enough, is speaking to those constituencies in ways that traditional Republicans never did.”
Blagojevich said that whether it’s through his economic policies or his criminal justice reform policies or other norm-challenging fights, Trump has upended the normal political battle lines in a way that is “revolutionizing American politics” and “re-aligning” what would be considered “traditional” political coalitions by zoning in on and successfully “drawing from” what were considered “Democratic constituency groups.”
“And I think he’s not only been successful politically because he’s done it, I think he’s revolutionizing American politics,” Blagojevich said. “He’s re-aligning politics in America by drawing from those traditional Democratic constituency groups, the factory worker that used to work in a factory that’s gone because of the 1994 NAFTA bill that President Clinton signed sending all those jobs away. President Trump is bringing them back in places like western Pennsylvania and Michigan and Wisconsin and southern Illinois—the rust belt states. One of the many frustrations I had as governor was when I would leave the Chicagoland area where I’m from—I’m from Chicago—and I’d visit places like the Quad Cities or Marion, Illinois, or Franklin County, Illinois, where they used to have coal mines and people were working and that was the economic anchor of the community or you’d go to a place like Galesburg, Illinois, where the Maytag factory once was but has left because of NAFTA and President Clinton and the policies of the Democratic Party that’s supposed to be the party that protected those people and looked out for their interests. It’s hard to be able to explain to those communities that there was hope, that there was a possibility that we might be able to bring some of those economic engines back to the state. Now, at last, we have a president who not only promised to do it but he’s doing it. I think President Trump is making real strides in succeeding in that but more importantly he’s actually addressing the needs of the American worker. And with the First Step Act, he’s actually done something for a community that overwhelming votes for Democrats like me. We easily get 90 percent or better of the African American vote when we run against Republicans. Yet, the Democratic Party I would say cynically has taken the African American community for granted. It’s almost immoral, their treatment of the African American community by sort of just keeping them dependent and in a certain place where they have to look to government for all the answers when at the same it’s actually government through over-sentencing and targeting African Americans that are causing a lot of the problems and conditions in these very communities.”
Blagojevich served almost eight years of a 14-year sentence handed down after multiple trials finally resulted in partial convictions, some of which were later vacated on appeal. The first time they came at Blagojevich, he was convicted on only one of 24 charges—the charge was lying to the FBI, something the agency has similarly used to target Trump allies in the various scandals he’s been entangled in—but then prosecutors retried him on 20 counts and he was convicted on 17 of them, acquitted on one, and on the other two no verdict was rendered. Later, on appeal, five of the counts were vacated and Blagojevich’s lawyers continued fighting for years to try to get the Supreme Court to hear them.
But eventually, it was Trump in early 2020 who commuted his sentence—and let him out after eight years behind bars. Blagojevich to this day insists he did nothing wrong, and that what he was put away for was politics as usual. In fact the core allegation that he tried to sell Obama’s U.S. Senate seat when Obama was president-elect and Blagojevich was to appoint Obama’s successor, was one of the conviction charges vacated—or overturned—on appeal. But the broader point Blagojevich tells with this story is that there is a serious problem in America’s criminal justice system, and what happened to him could happen to anyone.
“On this subject, sadly and unfortunately it took this long—I had this experience I had to endure and I will tell your listeners they put me in prison for things that are routine politics. I didn’t cross any lines,” Blagojevich said. “We were doing routine political things. The sale of the Senate seat was never a crime. That was reversed by the appellate court. I was there for some fundraising requests and they convicted me by moving the line and telling the jury you can be convicted for seeking a campaign contribution without any evidence of a promise or a threat because there was none. But anyway, having said all of that, this long unhappy experience has given me a unique perspective. I truly believe I am an expert witness on this. I have street cred having done eight years in prison and I spent the first 32 months in prison as probably the only governor in American history to be in a high security prison behind what the inmates call ‘the razor wire,’ where I spent nearly three years with over 900 inmates coming and going where some would leave and new ones would come in. They were largely drug dealers, gang-bangers, cartel members, there were bank robbers here, there men there who had committed murder, only two percent were so-called ‘white collar.’ So, I really got a firsthand lesson on real life and yes of course I met a lot of my fellow inmates—particularly drug dealers—who experienced over sentencing. Here’s a classic example, Jonair Moore, my friend who I just left behind is in his 11th year or actually just starting his 12th year of prison as part of a 26-year sentence as a first-time non-violent drug offender, a young African American man. Consider the fact that the average rapist in America serves no more than four years, and here’s Jonair—he’s not unusual, he’s actually the rule not the exception, sent to prison for a quarter of a century for a one-time mistake when no one was hurt. The system is broken and it disproportionately discriminates against African Americans. It’s what the author Michelle Alexander has called ‘The New Jim Crow in America.’”
Trump, Blagojevich said, has done more to reform this broken system than any Democrat has—including the first black president, Obama—and he said it was Democrats who created the problem to begin with when Biden and Clinton and Durbin teamed up to push the 1994 crime bill that Obama did nothing to alleviate.
“I’ll say this, this is one of the great ironies in modern history: On this issue, it’s actually Donald Trump who’s trumping the first African American president—Obama—and actually doing something to solve this problem and undo the racist injustice caused by that 1994 crime bill, which has led to the current conditions we’re facing,” Blagojevich said. “This was a bill Joe Biden not only voted for, but Joe Biden was a vocal advocate for and so were most of the leading Democrats including my senator here in Illinois Dick Durbin and of course President Clinton was the who signed it.”
Asked if these actions by Trump on this front, and what Trump has done with the economy and school choice among other efforts are winning the president support in the black community, Blagojevich said that “my instincts tell me that it will and it will be a dramatic improvement among President Trump’s performance in the African American community among voters.” Democrats have usually won around 90 percent or more of the black vote in most elections. Trump won about eight percent in 2016, which, while better than failed 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s six percent that year, is still a very small percentage.
“I’ve only been home a little over two weeks so I haven’t been as plugged into the community as I was in the good old days, but I have made an appearance on an African American radio station here in Chicago maybe the second or third day I was home and I got the sense there was a growing sense President Trump was someone who was actually addressing the problems in the African American community that they have gotten all too often almost accepting that they’re going to receive from the politicians they elected is just lip service,” Blagojevich said. “I think there’s a real sense among people, and it’s growing as the truth gets out, and I think there’s going to be more and more people in the African American community who see that this president, President Trump, is a very different kind of leader than a traditional politician. This is a guy who solves problems as opposed to making honestly—very too often, politicians make promises they have no intention of following through on to begin with. I think that when it comes to criminal justice reform, this is a case where this is a president who’s actually doing real meaningful things that’s leading to the end of over-sentencing of many African Americans in the system. I saw a few guys go home before I went home because of the First Step Act. In terms of the guys I went to prison with, are they seeing what President Trump is doing? The answer is: yes, they are. And I also think a lot of these guys like the fact that this is a president with a badass style and a guy that actually fights. I think they like that too, and that’s waking up a lot of people. They’re sick and tired of the BS.”
Blagojevich, who was the home state governor of Obama’s Illinois in 2008, when the former president was first elected to the White House, and was the first governor in America to endorse him that year, also told Breitbart News he now considers it a mistake to have endorsed Obama. Blagojevich said that Obama promised all sorts of changes and hope for the country—“hope and change” were the now former president’s infamous campaign slogan—but Blagojevich says now upon reflection that Obama failed in every respect to bring either to the country, and that they were empty rhetorical catchphrases with no substance behind them. He said Trump, on the other hand, has actually delivered whereObama failed.
“President Obama was elected in 2008. Here’s something I’ll plead guilty to: I was the first governor to endorse him,” Blagojevich said. “That I did, and it was wrong—but at the time I thought it was right. Obama’s election if you really think about it was based very little on detail. It was based on his themes ‘hope and change.’ People were sick and tired of the usual baloney in politics and fake solutions dressed up as solutions but they’re not real. ‘These guys are saying they did something for us somehow, but I’m not feeling it. Things continued to stay the same and the lobbyists and the insiders are all getting rich in Washington or in my case in Illinois in Springfield, but how come my tax bill is going up?’ Obama was elected because the American people felt they wanted change and this was a new candidate who was talking about hope and change. It wasn’t a lot of substance under it, but they were so hungry for change they took a leap of faith on President Obama and did something historic electing our first African American president in the history of our country—which is a very good thing for our country. It turns out however Obama was just that, all rhetoric. It was just a slogan. He didn’t do it. So I think that eight years later, when President Trump came down that escalator—I was watching that in prison on one of those televisions in prison—I felt the same way you did. He started to talk and then he didn’t back down. He was losing big because of some of the tough positions he was taking, but I was convinced at that time he was going to win. Now, you have a guy who’s not just saying he’s going to bring change—he’s bringing real hope that he’s going to stand up for something and take the hit and lose something for what he was going to get. It’s not real change unless you ruffle some feathers and make a few enemies. That I think is what President Trump is doing. I think some of the guys I was in prison with, African American guys who are seeing this new president as a very different kind of leader than Obama and frankly all the other ones that preceded President Trump leading up to his election.”
Asked about the unique populist space that Trump has found in American politics, Blagojevich said he believes it is the future—whether it’s on trade deals like the USMCA, which got more than 380 votes in the House and 89 votes in the Senate, or on forthcoming major policy packages like infrastructure. He noted, too, that while he disagrees with the socialist solutions offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), he thinks that Sanders is zoning in on some of the core problems facing the country—and the culprits in Washington and on Wall Street behind such problems.
“President Trump has filled that vacuum,” Blagojevich said. “That’s absolutely right. That’s what’s going on. You see it, frankly, even with Bernie Sanders and his supporters. He’s taken positions and views and he’s offered solutions to the problems that I think frankly are unworkable. History proves that socialism never works, and actually is counter-productive. But at least Bernie Sanders is actually talking about identifying some of the problems that are facing our country. Now, President Trump on the other hand is not only addressing those issues but he’s now the president and he’s actually achieving things and providing real, meaningful solutions that are leading to an economy that is booming because of the very things he has done whether it’s the tax cuts, reducing the regulations, and these trade deals—all are absolutely long overdue. Here again is an example of a different philosophy that Trump is offering to the American people and I think he’s speaking to a whole bunch of different people who frankly tuned out of the process long ago because they understand how full of baloney the political system has become for a long, long time. They’re now coming back into the political system.”
Blagojevich added that Trump’s success is in large part marked by how many “enemies” he’s amassed in Washington trying to take him down and stop his progress.
“You got a lot of voters who are not even being called by pollsters because they haven’t voted for several elections, but now because President Trump is actually bringing real change and actually keeping promises that he’s making and solving those problems and among the evidence that he’s doing it is that he’s got so many enemies that want to destroy him,” Blagojevich said. “One of the Roosevelt presidents, I think it was Franklin but it could have been Teddy, he said ‘ah, you have enemies. Good. That means you stand for something.’ The fact that President Trump is getting so much pushback and the opposition is so determined to destroy him—and that raise a whole bunch of other issues, and I’m also an expert witness on this and how when you go down and try to shake things up and change things the political establishment comes after you and destroys you personally, this is a real serious problem for another discussion—but the fact that President Trump is getting that kind of response and that the Democrats decided to abuse the impeachment process and use it as a political weapon frankly is a badge of honor for President Trump. It’s more evidence he’s doing what he said he was going to do and he’s changing things and they know it in that establishment in Washington and they don’t like it. So the more he keeps fighting and achieves things and changes things, like USMCA as you say in spite of all this opposition to be able to do the necessary things to get the bipartisan support to pass those trade deals, because he’s been able to use Twitter and the ability to communicate directly to the people, he’s been able to force those people like the operatives and congressmen in Washington to respond to his leadership and support some of his stuff because even though they don’t want to give him a political win they got to support this stuff to get re-elected. So yeah, I think there’s a tremendous space—a lot of room in that area—of those non-voters who tuned out a long time ago and I think you’re going to see President Trump being very successful in November and I think you’re going to see the number of votes that he gets will far exceed what he got the first time and a lot of those will be voters who haven’t been voting for a long time. A lot of them came out in 2016, but my prediction is a lot more of them will come out in 2020 since President Trump has proven to be different from the usual politicians. This is a guy who actually fights to get things done.”
Blagojevich said that the same Democrat machine that targeted him—and Trump—is also trying to take down Sanders. That is because, he said, the Democrat Party is now “the party of Wall Street,” he said.
“Absolutely, and it seems so transparent to me. This is the new Democratic Party, the Chuck Schumer-Nancy Pelosi Democratic Party,” Blagojevich said. “It’s the party—ready for this—of Wall Street. They’ve become the party of Wall Street. That’s why they sold out the American worker with NAFTA. They went to Wall Street because it’s loaded with campaign contributions. Now, the Democratic Party today because of the growth of the internet and online communications, now the Democratic Party is also the party of Silicon Valley—again, at the expense of the working person and family and the African American community because of some of the other things that they do. They cynically have abandoned the African American community and made a determination to keep that part of our nation dependent upon government in a way so that they have no other place to go but to vote for Democrats and the simple way for Democrats to keep them voting for them is call anybody who offers some kind of solution like school choice or other reforms like criminal justice reform, to call them racists. It’s a real cynical ugly kind of politics that the modern Democratic Party is engaged in. Of course they’re going to do anything they can to keep Bernie Sanders from winning and they’re going to be successful in doing it with the establishment ganging up on him. Bernie, again, is wrong on the solutions but at least he has the courage to raise the issues. I remember here’s where he was so right and I was so wrong. I remember when I was a brand new congressman back after 9/11, me and everybody else we all voted for the Patriot Act. Then there was Bernie Sanders, that crazy guy from Vermont—Bernie voted against the Patriot Act. I remember thinking how crazy he was. He was right, and we were wrong. That Patriot Act has led to the undermining of civil liberties, giving unchecked power of prosecutors who have weaponized their power and now criminalized routine practices motivated not by the desire to serve the interests of justice but instead to go after political enemies or people they want to bring down who are ruffling the feathers of the establishment. Frankly, what they did at the AAA level to a Democratic governor, to me—a lot of the same people, Comey, Fitzgerald, and Mueller, the same ones have been trying to do it at the major league level to a Republican president in President Trump. We have a lot of challenges ahead of us and the Democratic establishment abandoned these traditional voting groups and Bernie Sanders is going to pay a price because he’s got the chutzpah enough to challenge and raise questions that frankly question the establishment.”
For Blagojevich, for now, he is unclear about the future—he says he wants to write a book or two, and find a way to help champion the issues he cares about–especially criminal justice reform. But one thing he is certain of: He is “everlastingly grateful” to Trump for having the “testicular virility” that he says Obama did not ever have to right the wrong he considers was done to him by the criminal justice system.
“I’m not sure, it’s all very new, I’ve never come out of prison before so after eight years it’s a new experience,” Blagojevich said. “I hope to write a book or two—I’d like to write a book about my experience and what I’ve learned along the way. I think I can offer a unique perspective. I’d also like to write a book about helping people through their struggles and adversity because I share with them how I found the inspiration and the strength and purpose that worked through the long dark wilderness that I was in. I’d like maybe to be able to do something like that that could be helpful to people. I’d like to fight for criminal justice reform and I do believe I have a lot I can say about that from both sides, as a former governor where we did certain things but could have done so much more but also what I went through and have come out of. Right now, I’m doing this thing called Cameo where you do shout-outs to people and it’s a way to earn a living and it’s actually kind of nice because I’ll get a request from a daughter and she wants to celebrate her mother’s birthday so she’ll ask ‘hey governor can you say to my mother you’re a great mother and thank you for raising us children and loving us as you have?’ So you bring a little smile on the faces of people who make these requests, so that’s been nice. But in terms of what I’m going to do in the way of something lasting, it’s unclear right now. It’s all very new. But let me say this—whatever it is, it’s way better than what it was. There’s nothing like being home and being with your family and I’m blessed to be with my daughters and with my wife Patti who are the purpose and inspiration for me to come out and find a way back home. I’m grateful, everlastingly grateful, to President Trump again for having the testicular virility to trump Obama and do the right thing.”
LISTEN TO FORMER ILLINOIS GOV. ROD BLAGOJEVICH ON BREITBART NEWS SATURDAY:


thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--Judge Jeanine Slams Media’s Coronavirus Coverage: It’s ‘Doomsday Reporting’

Judge Jeanine Pirro slammed the media Saturday night for stoking the flames of the coronavirus panic .
`` If you listen to the mainstream media , it 's time to buy the family burial plot , visit the cemetery where the dirt is definitely cleaner than your kitchen counter or your bathroom handles , '' Pirro said on `` Justice with Judge Jeanine . ''
Pirro called out the media for their coverage , saying all they do is impact America negatively .
`` So what 's the downside of their doomsday reporting ?
The downside is predictable .
When @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it 's just a question of time before they start dropping like flies , they go into survival mode , '' Pirro said .
`` They do n't spend money .
The economy suffers .
They do n't invest .
The market suffers .
They talk about taking their children out of school .
Education suffers .
They talk about canceling March Madness , Coachella and local businesses suffer . ''
The host took issue in particular with the coverage of the stock market , asking where the media 's coverage was when @ @ @ @ @ @ @ soaring .
`` You want to focus on the Dow now ?
Where were you when the Dow , the S & P 500 and Nasdaq all repeatedly reached record highs under President Trump ?
You were n't interested then , were you ? ''
Pirro said .
`` Where were you when the Dow closed at a record high more than 100 times since Donald Trump 's election ?
Where were you when animal spirits were driving this country to new economic heights ? ''
`` For your information , our economy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are at record highs , '' Pirro added .
Pirro downplayed the manufactured panic , saying , `` As the weather warms , fewer and fewer people will get sick with the virus .
Some of the meds need to be left for people who may need them . ''
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Finally , Pirro made the most basic suggestion to those afraid of contracting the virus -- but likely the most helpful .
`` And wash your damn hands , wash them and then wash them @ @ @ @ @ @

Judge Jeanine Pirro slammed the media Saturday night for stoking the flames of the coronavirus panic.
"If you listen to the mainstream media, it's time to buy the family burial plot, visit the cemetery where the dirt is definitely cleaner than your kitchen counter or your bathroom handles," Pirro said on "Justice with Judge Jeanine."
MAJOR UNIVERSITIES CLOSE CLASSROOMS AMID CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK
Pirro called out the media for their coverage, saying all they do is impact America negatively.
"So what's the downside of their doomsday reporting? The downside is predictable. When people are scared, when people think it's just a question of time before they start dropping like flies, they go into survival mode," Pirro said. "They don't spend money. The economy suffers. They don't invest. The market suffers. They talk about taking their children out of school. Education suffers. They talk about canceling March Madness, Coachella and local businesses suffer."
The host took issue in particular with the coverage of the stock market, asking where the media's coverage was when it was when Wall Street numbers were soaring.
"You want to focus on the Dow now? Where were you when the Dow, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq all repeatedly reached record highs under President Trump? You weren't interested then, were you?" Pirro said. "Where were you when the Dow closed at a record high more than 100 times since Donald Trump's election? Where were you when animal spirits were driving this country to new economic heights?"
"For your information, our economy can sustain a 3,000-point drop because we are at record highs," Pirro added.
Pirro downplayed the manufactured panic, saying, "As the weather warms, fewer and fewer people will get sick with the virus. Some of the meds need to be left for people who may need them."
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Finally, Pirro made the most basic suggestion to those afraid of contracting the virus -- but likely the most helpful.
"And wash your damn hands, wash them and then wash them again," Pirro said.


Those Sexist Democrats

Elizabeth Warren finally quit the race for president this week , about 2 weeks later than she should have .
Better late than never , I guess .
In the wake of her withdrawal , the usual suspects in the media started doing what they always do when something impacts the left – they started trying to find something external to blame for their own actions .
MSNBC and CNN panels were devoted to “ what went wrong ” with Warren ’ s promising campaign and searching for a reason she couldn ’ t regain the momentum she ’ d @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , they looked externally , quickly settling into their “ safe space ” of blaming society as a whole for something completely of their own doing .
Sexism was the culprit , they declared .
The country has never had a female president , and so many knuckle-dragging Americans simply can ’ t accept the idea of one now , or possibly ever .
There are a lot of problems with this theory , not the least of which is the only people who ’ ve had the chance to vote for Elizabeth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so it ’ s not the country who rejected her ( or didn ’ t have the chance to ) , it was them .
Among these problems is the fact that the left-wing media stopped paying attention to her .
They built her up , showering her with glowing coverage , fawning panel discussions , and more magazine covers than your average supermodel .
That was early on in the race , then it was gone .
Distracted by shiny new candidates like Michael Bloomberg or others who ’ d over-performed their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ faded .
Like a new toy a kid plays with non-stop for a week after Christmas , then never touches again , the shine was gone .
Warren went from exciting to boring .
The Simpsons made a lot of money off merchandise with “ Don ’ t have a cow , man ” emblazoned on it , but you don ’ t see it anymore because it got played out .
Warren ’ s “ I have a plan for that ” made her the Clara Peller of 2020 – white-hot for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ quickly .
Running for president requires media coverage , and Warren got it .
After a while , it started to hurt her .
Even dedicated leftists couldn ’ t help but notice Warren ’ s 6-week dodge on the question of whether or not her health care plan would raise taxes on the middle class .
She wouldn ’ t answer , and the longer she wouldn ’ t answer the worse she looked .
Bernie Sanders came right out and said his would , Warren tried to dance around the question @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t a good look .
Another problem for Warren is she ’ s a liar .
Joe Biden is too , but Warren ’ s went to the very heart of who she is .
Biden tells a story of being arrested in South Africa trying to visit Nelson Mandela , then “ clarifies ” that he was ( allegedly ) ushered through a different door at customs by security .
His story was a lie , but insignificant from a policy perspective and relatively minor from a guy in the middle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ charter school activist that her kids went to public school when her son went to private school .
There ’ s no grey area there .
She said she was fired from a teaching job for being pregnant when all the evidence indicates she quit , including an interview she ’ d given in the past where she said exactly that .
Then there ’ s her past flipping foreclosed houses and her current attacks on foreclosures , her lack of understanding as to why a father who ’ d saved for his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a fan of implicitly being called a sucker for not wanting to pay off the student loan debts of people who ’ d irresponsibly borrowed fortunes for unmarketable degrees .
Worst for Warren , and the thing she could never shake ( even though she was never asked about it in 10 debates ) was her pretending to be Native American to get jobs .
Elizabeth Warren , who is so white that her camouflage in a snow storm is nudity , was touted as the “ first woman of color ” hired @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no way she didn ’ t know this at the time , having declared herself as such on her Texas Bar Association card and contributed plagiarized French recipes to a Native American cookbook called “ Pow Wow Chow , ” which listed her as a Cherokee .
And that ’ s just the tip of the iceberg .
None of that happened by accident .
She didn ’ t have a good answer for it because there is no good answer for it .
She started lying about it back when there was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she lied about it in places and in ways no one was likely to bother checking it .
Had she not entered politics , it ’ s unlikely anyone would ’ ve noticed and she would ’ ve retired having gotten away with it .
But she did enter politics .
And in politics , your opponents don ’ t care what gender you are , they want to beat you .
In that sense , when her history of fraud and hypocrisy was dragged out , Elizabeth Warren was treated like every @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what the feminist movement wanted ?
Of course , being treated like anyone else is not what feminists want .
They want the good stuff , not the bad stuff .
But you can ’ t get special treatment in the name of equal treatment .
In the end , Elizabeth Warren lost because Elizabeth Warren was an awful , dishonest candidate who ran as Bernie-lite .
Why vote for Bernie-lite when you can just vote for Bernie ?
While all the liberal journalists and pundits try to punch the feminist box on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Warren ’ s demise as proof this country is a horrible , sexist wasteland , it ’ s important to remember how Amy Klobuchar got such send off when she ended her much more successful campaign .
And as Democrats pledge to “ do better ” in the future ( mostly in an attempt to retain the votes of women who only want to vote for a woman because she ’ s a woman ) , notice the relative silence over the Democratic National Committee changing the rules to exclude Tulsi Gabbard , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the next debate .
Elizabeth Warren was a failure for the same reasons so many progressive Democrats are failures – they are lying , unlikeable hypocrites willing to do or say anything to quench their thirst for power .
While she claimed Bloomberg ’ s scalp along the way , the smoke signals were on the wall the whole time .
To the extent sexism played any role in her demise , if any , it was from Democrats .
They denied the rest of the country the chance to reject her for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ she ’ s spent a lifetime giving us .
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast ( subscribe ! )
, host of a daily radio show on WCBM in Maryland , and author of the book , Outrage , INC. , which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses .
Follow him on Twitter at @ DerekAHunter

Elizabeth Warren finally quit the race for president this week, about 2 weeks later than she should have. Better late than never, I guess.
In the wake of her withdrawal, the usual suspects in the media started doing what they always do when something impacts the left – they started trying to find something external to blame for their own actions. MSNBC and CNN panels were devoted to “what went wrong” with Warren’s promising campaign and searching for a reason she couldn’t regain the momentum she’d had earlier.
In typical liberal fashion, they looked externally, quickly settling into their “safe space” of blaming society as a whole for something completely of their own doing.
Sexism was the culprit, they declared. The country has never had a female president, and so many knuckle-dragging Americans simply can’t accept the idea of one now, or possibly ever.
There are a lot of problems with this theory, not the least of which is the only people who’ve had the chance to vote for Elizabeth Warren are Democratic Party primary voters, so it’s not the country who rejected her (or didn’t have the chance to), it was them.
Among these problems is the fact that the left-wing media stopped paying attention to her. They built her up, showering her with glowing coverage, fawning panel discussions, and more magazine covers than your average supermodel. That was early on in the race, then it was gone.
Distracted by shiny new candidates like Michael Bloomberg or others who’d over-performed their expectations like Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren faded. Like a new toy a kid plays with non-stop for a week after Christmas, then never touches again, the shine was gone.
Warren went from exciting to boring. The Simpsons made a lot of money off merchandise with “Don’t have a cow, man” emblazoned on it, but you don’t see it anymore because it got played out. Warren’s “I have a plan for that” made her the Clara Peller of 2020 – white-hot for a minute, only to burn out quickly.
Running for president requires media coverage, and Warren got it. After a while, it started to hurt her.
Even dedicated leftists couldn’t help but notice Warren’s 6-week dodge on the question of whether or not her health care plan would raise taxes on the middle class. She wouldn’t answer, and the longer she wouldn’t answer the worse she looked. Bernie Sanders came right out and said his would, Warren tried to dance around the question. Even for liberals, that wasn’t a good look.
Another problem for Warren is she’s a liar. Joe Biden is too, but Warren’s went to the very heart of who she is. Biden tells a story of being arrested in South Africa trying to visit Nelson Mandela, then “clarifies” that he was (allegedly) ushered through a different door at customs by security. His story was a lie, but insignificant from a policy perspective and relatively minor from a guy in the middle stages of dementia.
Warren told a charter school activist that her kids went to public school when her son went to private school. There’s no grey area there. She said she was fired from a teaching job for being pregnant when all the evidence indicates she quit, including an interview she’d given in the past where she said exactly that.
Then there’s her past flipping foreclosed houses and her current attacks on foreclosures, her lack of understanding as to why a father who’d saved for his child’s college might not be a fan of implicitly being called a sucker for not wanting to pay off the student loan debts of people who’d irresponsibly borrowed fortunes for unmarketable degrees.
Worst for Warren, and the thing she could never shake (even though she was never asked about it in 10 debates) was her pretending to be Native American to get jobs. Elizabeth Warren, who is so white that her camouflage in a snow storm is nudity, was touted as the “first woman of color” hired by Harvard Law School. There is no way she didn’t know this at the time, having declared herself as such on her Texas Bar Association card and contributed plagiarized French recipes to a Native American cookbook called “Pow Wow Chow,” which listed her as a Cherokee. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
None of that happened by accident. She didn’t have a good answer for it because there is no good answer for it. She started lying about it back when there was no way to disprove it, and she lied about it in places and in ways no one was likely to bother checking it. Had she not entered politics, it’s unlikely anyone would’ve noticed and she would’ve retired having gotten away with it.
But she did enter politics. And in politics, your opponents don’t care what gender you are, they want to beat you. In that sense, when her history of fraud and hypocrisy was dragged out, Elizabeth Warren was treated like every other candidate. I thought that was what the feminist movement wanted?
Of course, being treated like anyone else is not what feminists want. They want the good stuff, not the bad stuff. But you can’t get special treatment in the name of equal treatment.
In the end, Elizabeth Warren lost because Elizabeth Warren was an awful, dishonest candidate who ran as Bernie-lite. Why vote for Bernie-lite when you can just vote for Bernie?
While all the liberal journalists and pundits try to punch the feminist box on their “woke” cards by lamenting Warren’s demise as proof this country is a horrible, sexist wasteland, it’s important to remember how Amy Klobuchar got such send off when she ended her much more successful campaign. And as Democrats pledge to “do better” in the future (mostly in an attempt to retain the votes of women who only want to vote for a woman because she’s a woman), notice the relative silence over the Democratic National Committee changing the rules to exclude Tulsi Gabbard, an actual woman of color, from the next debate.
Elizabeth Warren was a failure for the same reasons so many progressive Democrats are failures – they are lying, unlikeable hypocrites willing to do or say anything to quench their thirst for power. While she claimed Bloomberg’s scalp along the way, the smoke signals were on the wall the whole time. To the extent sexism played any role in her demise, if any, it was from Democrats. They denied the rest of the country the chance to reject her for any of the other number of reasons she’s spent a lifetime giving us.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!), host of a daily radio show on WCBM in Maryland, and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter


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thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--Joe Rogan On Bumbling Biden: ‘This Should Get You Into A Mental Hospital,’ ‘Not A Joke’

Podcast host Joe Rogan raised concerns during a recent episode over Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden , saying that the former vice president ’ s alleged struggles were not a joke and should be taken seriously .
Rogan , a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders ( I-VT ) , highlighted a clip from last week where Biden forgot the Declaration of Independence .
Biden said , “ We hold these truths to be self-evident , all men and women created by , go , you know the , you know the thing.
” “ Stop .
Pause .
He can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ responded .
“ Stop .
Pause .
Pause .
Listen , we can ’ t play any games here , folks .
This is a really old man who can ’ t talk .
This is not a joke .
Like that right now , ‘ you know the thing , ’ play that again .
This should get you into a mental hospital .
They should be like , ‘ Hey , um , Joe are you alright ?
’ ” Donald Trump Jr. highlighted the clip on Twitter , writing , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ thinking but no one in the media is willing to say because they hate Trump .
Imagine someone sent him the other 1000 clips just as bad as this one from the last few weeks ?
” During the Democratic presidential debates , Biden ’ s rivals have brought up his apparent struggles .
After one of the debates , then-candidate Sen. Cory Booker ( D-NJ ) criticized Biden over concerns that he couldn ’ t “ carry the ball , ” telling CNN , “ I think we are at a tough @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden ’ s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling .
And I think that Castro had really legitimate concerns about can he be someone in a long , grueling campaign … and has every right to call out.
” “ I think there were a lot of moments where a number of us were looking on the stage when he tends to go on sometimes , ” Booker continued .
“ At one point , he was talking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ players .
I don ’ t remember the last time I saw a record player … But there are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder … ” JOE BIDEN : “ We hold these truths to be self-evident , all men and women created by , go , you know the , you know the thing.
” JOE ROGAN : “ Stop .
Pause .
He can ’ t be president .
Stop .
Pause .
Pause .
Listen , we can ’ t play any games @ @ @ @ @ @ @ really old man who can ’ t talk .
This is not a joke .
Like that right now , ‘ you know the thing , ’ play that again .
This should get you into a mental hospital .
They should be like , ‘ Hey , um , Joe are you alright ?
’ ” BIDEN : “ We hold these truths to be self-evident , all men and women created by , go , you know the , you know the thing.
” ROGAN : “ He had three strokes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ first one , what was that word ?
Self-evident ?
Is that what he said ?
” MALE 1 : “ We hold these truths to be self-evident ” ROGAN : “ But it didn ’ t even sound right .
Here it again , listen to it.
” BIDEN : “ We hold these truths to be self-evident , all men and women created– ” ROGAN : “ He is drunk .
That dude is either drunk or he can ’ t talk .
… He shouldn ’ t be doing this @ @ @

Podcast host Joe Rogan raised concerns during a recent episode over Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, saying that the former vice president’s alleged struggles were not a joke and should be taken seriously.
Rogan, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), highlighted a clip from last week where Biden forgot the Declaration of Independence.
Biden said, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women created by, go, you know the, you know the thing.”
“Stop. Pause. He can’t be president,” Rogan responded. “Stop. Pause. Pause. Listen, we can’t play any games here, folks. This is a really old man who can’t talk. This is not a joke. Like that right now, ‘you know the thing,’ play that again. This should get you into a mental hospital. They should be like, ‘Hey, um, Joe are you alright?’”
Donald Trump Jr. highlighted the clip on Twitter, writing, “@joerogan says what everyone is thinking but no one in the media is willing to say because they hate Trump. Imagine someone sent him the other 1000 clips just as bad as this one from the last few weeks?”
WATCH:
.@joerogan says what everyone is thinking but no one in the media is willing to say because they hate Trump. Imagine someone sent him the other 1000 clips just as bad as this one from the last few weeks? pic.twitter.com/8Jmn4LbZ0F — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 8, 2020
During the Democratic presidential debates, Biden’s rivals have brought up his apparent struggles.
After one of the debates, then-candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) criticized Biden over concerns that he couldn’t “carry the ball,” telling CNN, “I think we are at a tough point right now because there’s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling. And I think that Castro had really legitimate concerns about can he be someone in a long, grueling campaign … and has every right to call out.”
“I think there were a lot of moments where a number of us were looking on the stage when he tends to go on sometimes,” Booker continued. “At one point, he was talking about communities like mine listening to record players. I don’t remember the last time I saw a record player … But there are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder …”
Sen. Cory Booker on Julián Castro's jab at former VP Joe Biden's memory: "Castro has some really legitimate concerns about, can he be someone in a long grueling campaign that can get the ball over the line? And he has every right to call that out." #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/rRxWIV0FmL — CNN (@CNN) September 13, 2019
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thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--15 of 19 Coronavirus Deaths in US Were at Life Care Senior Center in Washington State – Center Goes

15 of 19 Coronavirus Deaths in US Were at Life Care Senior Center in Washington State – Center Goes from 120 to 63 Residents in Recent Weeks

** The number of coronavirus deaths in the US climbed to at least 21 on Sunday .
** 18 coronavirus deaths were in Washington state .
** 15 of those deaths of at the Life Care senior Center in Seattle .
** 70 of its 180 employees have shown COVID-19 symptoms ** The number of residents went from 120 to 63 in recent weeks One-third of their staff members tested sick with the coronavirus this week .
The two most recent deaths occurred on Friday , health officials said .
One was a woman in her 70s , the other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were residents of Life Care Center of Kirkland , the nursing home that has been the epicenter of the outbreak and connected to 14 of the deaths .
The nursing home held its first media briefing Saturday , announcing that since Feb. 19 , 26 residents have died .
It is an acute care facility where about three to seven residents die in a typical month , it said in a written statement .
Most of the patients died at hospitals , where they were tested : 13 of 15 who died at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 11 died at the nursing home , and Life Care said it had no information about post-mortem tests to see whether any of them had the disease .
A team of 30 medical professionals from the U.S. Public Health Service began arriving at Life Care over the weekend to relieve exhausted — and ill — staff .
In its statement Saturday , Life Care said 70 of its 180 employees have shown COVID-19 symptoms and are no longer working .
The facility said that it has 63 residents remaining — down from 120 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of them have symptoms .

** The number of coronavirus deaths in the US climbed to at least 19 21 on Sunday.
** 18 coronavirus deaths were in Washington state.
** 15 of those deaths of at the Life Care senior Center in Seattle.
** 70 of its 180 employees have shown COVID-19 symptoms
** The number of residents went from 120 to 63 in recent weeks
One-third of their staff members tested sick with the coronavirus this week.
USNews.com reported:
The two most recent deaths occurred on Friday, health officials said. One was a woman in her 70s, the other a woman in her 80s. Both were residents of Life Care Center of Kirkland, the nursing home that has been the epicenter of the outbreak and connected to 14 of the deaths.
The nursing home held its first media briefing Saturday, announcing that since Feb. 19, 26 residents have died. It is an acute care facility where about three to seven residents die in a typical month, it said in a written statement.
Most of the patients died at hospitals, where they were tested: 13 of 15 who died at hospitals had the new coronavirus. But 11 died at the nursing home, and Life Care said it had no information about post-mortem tests to see whether any of them had the disease.
A team of 30 medical professionals from the U.S. Public Health Service began arriving at Life Care over the weekend to relieve exhausted — and ill — staff.
In its statement Saturday, Life Care said 70 of its 180 employees have shown COVID-19 symptoms and are no longer working. The facility said that it has 63 residents remaining — down from 120 before the outbreak — and that six of them have symptoms.


thelibertydaily--2020-03-08--Crooked Hillary: Biden ‘Building The Kind of Coalition That I Had’

Hillary Clinton gave an all but implicit endorsement of Joe Biden when speaking to CNN ’ s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday , remarking that the former Vice President was “ building that kind of coalition ” that she had in her failed 2016 Presidential campaign .
It ’ s unclear why the former Secretary of State views such as coalition as a campaign advantage , considering that she lost the 2016 election .
Hillary performed strongly in coastal liberal states , but lost midwestern states such as Pennsylvania , Ohio and Wisconsin that Democrats had won for decades .
Some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Clinton lauding Biden for recreating her political coalition , despite losing the 2016 election .
take our poll - story continues below Clinton also fired off a few more snipes at Bernie Sanders in the interview , continuing a pattern of animosity she ’ s shown towards the democratic socialist since winning the rigged the 2016 Democratic Primary against the Vermont Senator .
She doubted that she ’ d campaign for him in a general election , although she qualified that she would endorse him should he become the Democratic nominee .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ he ’ d ask me to campaign for him , Fareed , because I have no idea what he is thinking about for a general election campaign .
As I ’ ve said many times , I do not think he ’ s the strongest nominee against Donald Trump.
” Biden ’ s campaign handlers have sought to dismiss growing concern in the past few days about Biden ’ s mental acuity , likening questions about Biden ’ s apparent cognitive decline to ageism and discrimination .
Hillary is set to appear in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ political dynasty , in which her husband Bill will speak in previously unheard terms about his adulterous affair with Monica Lewinsky .
Hillary , seemingly as bitter as ever , will continue her vendetta against Sanders in the four-part series .
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Hillary Clinton: Biden “Building The Kind of Coalition That I Had”
Hillary Clinton gave an all but implicit endorsement of Joe Biden when speaking to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria on Sunday, remarking that the former Vice President was “building that kind of coalition” that she had in her failed 2016 Presidential campaign.
It’s unclear why the former Secretary of State views such as coalition as a campaign advantage, considering that she lost the 2016 election. Hillary performed strongly in coastal liberal states, but lost midwestern states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin that Democrats had won for decades.
Some Democrats didn’t miss the irony of Clinton lauding Biden for recreating her political coalition, despite losing the 2016 election.
Clinton also fired off a few more snipes at Bernie Sanders in the interview, continuing a pattern of animosity she’s shown towards the democratic socialist since winning the rigged the 2016 Democratic Primary against the Vermont Senator. She doubted that she’d campaign for him in a general election, although she qualified that she would endorse him should he become the Democratic nominee.
“I don’t know if he’d ask me to campaign for him, Fareed, because I have no idea what he is thinking about for a general election campaign. As I’ve said many times, I do not think he’s the strongest nominee against Donald Trump.”
Biden’s campaign handlers have sought to dismiss growing concern in the past few days about Biden’s mental acuity, likening questions about Biden’s apparent cognitive decline to ageism and discrimination.
Hillary is set to appear in an upcoming Hulu documentary on the Clinton political dynasty, in which her husband Bill will speak in previously unheard terms about his adulterous affair with Monica Lewinsky. Hillary, seemingly as bitter as ever, will continue her vendetta against Sanders in the four-part series.