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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Personal Twitter Account Restored (Newsmax)

By Brian Pfail | Monday, 21 November 2022 02:18 PM EST

Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account was reinstated Monday.

Greene was banned in January over alleged "misinformation" regarding COVID-19 vaccines. Her congressional account was left untouched.

"I'm the only Member of Congress the unelected big tech oligarchs permanently banned," Greene wrote on her congressional account. "On January 2, 2022, they violated my freedom of speech and ability to campaign & fundraise crying 'covid misinformation.' My account is back. Go follow @mtgreenee for MTG unfiltered ;)"

Twitter justified the ban of Greene's account in a statement: "We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy; we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy."

Green responded via her Gettr account, saying, "When Maxine Waters can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter," which she did tell supporters to harass and aggravate Trump supporters and the-like lawmakers, telling them wherever they saw them "get in their face."

"Kamala and Ilhan can bail out rioters on Twitter," which they both did, announcing their contributions to bail funds to free rioters during the summer of 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.

"And chief spokesman for terrorist IRGC can tweet mourning Soleimani," which also happened, "but I can get suspended for tweeting VAERS statistics, Twitter is an enemy to America and can't handle the truth."

On Telegram, the congresswoman released an additional statement: "That's fine, I'll show America we don't need them, and it's time to defeat our enemies. They can't successfully complete a communist revolution when people tell the truth.

"Social media platforms can't stop the truth from being spread far and wide. Big Tech can't stop the truth. Communist Democrats can't stop the truth."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Personal Twitter Account Restored (Newsmax)

By Brian Pfail | Monday, 21 November 2022 02:18 PM EST

Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's personal account was reinstated Monday.

Greene was banned in January over alleged misinformation regarding COVID-19 vaccines. Her congressional account was left untouched.

"I'm the only Member of Congress the unelected big tech oligarchs permanently banned," Greene wrote on her congressional account. "On January 2, 2022, they violated my freedom of speech and ability to campaign & fundraise crying 'covid misinformation.' My account is back. Go follow @mtgreenee for MTG unfiltered ;)"

Twitter justified the ban of Greene's account in a statement: "We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy; we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy."

Green responded via her Gettr account, saying, "Maxine Waters can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter," which she did tell supporters to harass and aggravate Trump supporters and lawmakers, telling them wherever they saw them "get in their face."

"Kamala and Ilhan can bail out rioters on Twitter," which they both did, announcing their contributions to bail funds to free rioters during the summer of 2020 Black Lives Matter riots.

"And chief spokesman for terrorist IRGC can tweet mourning Soleimani," which also happened, "but I can get suspended for tweeting VAERS statistics, Twitter is an enemy to America and can't handle the truth."

On Telegram, the congresswoman released an additional statement: "That's fine, I'll show America we don't need them, and it's time to defeat our enemies. They can't successfully complete a communist revolution when people tell the truth.

"Social media platforms can't stop the truth from being spread far and wide. Big Tech can't stop the truth. Communist Democrats can't stop the truth."

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Ric Grenell to Newsmax: Gay People, Women Should Be Allowed to Carry Guns Ric Grenell (AP)

By Fran Beyer | Monday, 21 November 2022 01:59 PM EST

A bloody mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs that killed five people should serve as a persuasive reason to allow gay people and women to carry guns, former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell said Monday on Newsmax.

In an interview on Newsmax's "John Bachman Now," Grenell, a former acting director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, derided the near-automatic response he expects from anti-gun advocates.

"I see the left completely screaming about guns again," he said of the slaughter by gunman Anderson Lee Aldrich — whose violent past never triggered Colorado's "red flag" law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons and ammo from him.

But Grenell said the larger concern is that vulnerable targets to mass shooters — gay people and women — are not allowed to better protect themselves.

"I believe that women, gay people, people who are targets of crime should be allowed to carry guns," Grenell asserted.

"You should not take away their right to protect themselves. And when you start disarming women, when you start disarming gay people, you are making them an increased target."

According to Grenell — the first openly gay person to serve in a Cabinet position — "this is just a total problem of the left where they are making gay people and women greater targets."

Meanwhile, police in Colorado Springs are crediting one Club Q bar patron for helping contain the slaughter Saturday night by grabbing a handgun from the suspect, hitting him with it and pinning him down until police arrived.

"Had that individual not intervened this could have been exponentially more tragic," Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers told The Associated Press.

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Ric Grenell to Newsmax: Trump a 'Marketing Genius' Ric Grenell (Getty Images)

By Fran Beyer | Monday, 21 November 2022 01:37 PM EST

Ric Grenell, former U.S. ambassador to Germany, on Monday lauded former President Donald Trump as a "marketing genius" who doesn't need to depend on one social-media platform to exert his influence.

In an interview on Newsmax's "John Bachman Now," Grenell, who served as acting director of National Intelligence in the Trump administration, said of Trump: "Clearly he's back."

"President Trump is a marketing genius," Grenell said. "When he launched his bid for president just recently at Mar-a-Lago, I think you saw … him really talk about all of these new ideas for 2024."

"Clearly he's back and going to be looking forward to bringing real new reforms back to Washington D.C. Part of that is communications and he has started this Truth Social and Truth Social is pretty active."

According to Grenell, Twitter "needed to have somebody like Elon Musk come in."

"I'm a little bit uncomfortable putting up a poll on whether or not someone should have their right to a voice," Grenell added, referring to Musk asking for a Twitter vote on whether Trump's ban on Twitter should be lifted.

"I don't think that we should be taking polls to say should somebody have the right to speak out on this platform, either," Grenell said. "Donald Trump deserves to be on Twitter and you should reinstate him. … I'm not sure that Twitter gets to raise the bar as being the moral arbiter."

Grenell added: "Donald Trump is going to do what Donald Trump does best, which is market himself on a variety of platforms."

Since his reinstatement on Twitter, Trump has yet to post and continues to use his Truth Social outlet.

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Biden Touts Vaccine, Election Integrity at Turkey Pardon Ceremony President Joe Biden pardons Chocolate, the national Thanksgiving turkey, as he is joined by the 2022 National Turkey Federation Chair Ronnie Parker on the South Lawn of the White House Monday in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

By Brian Pfail | Monday, 21 November 2022 01:31 PM EST

President Biden said there was no evidence of "fowl play" during the midterm elections while touting immunizations as he pardoned the Thanksgiving turkey at the White House.

"The votes are in. They've been counted and verified. There's no ballot stuffing," Biden said, digging into former President Trump's claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election — as he prepared to pardon the turkeys in the nation's tradition to pardon a turkey before Thanksgiving on Monday.

"The only red wave this season's gonna be if our German shepherd, Commander, knocks over the cranberry sauce on our table," Biden said of his dog, who once led him to slip barefooted out of the shower.

The president pardoned two turkeys this year — Chocolate and Chip.

Commander watched the ceremony from the Truman Balcony of the White House along with two of Biden's grandchildren.

"I was worried if he came down here with all of you, he'd just do nothing but kiss you and lick you. But he may go after the turkeys, so I kept them up there," Biden said of the dog.

Chocolate, the 46-pound pardoned turkey, and Chip, named as the backup, were raised at a North Carolina ranch. According to Biden, the pair will live out their lives at North Carolina State University following their pardon.

Biden also advised vaccinations for the flu and COVID-19.

"Think about the scientists and researchers, doctors and nurses, keeping us safe through the pandemic," Biden said.

"Two years ago, we couldn't even safely have Thanksgiving with large family gatherings. Now we can. That's progress, and let's keep going," the president added.

"We have new COVID vaccine updates to deal with, new variants or to protect you and your loved ones," he said as he urged immunization.

"This winter can be much happier than recent holiday seasons," he added, "but you have to do your part."

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Rep. Waltz to Newsmax: Biden Admin Not Addressing China's Reach Into US Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla. (AP)

By Fran Beyer | Monday, 21 November 2022 11:01 AM EST

Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., on Newsmax Monday warned of China's stealth influence in the United States — including a police station located in New York City's Chinatown that reports to Beijing.

In an interview on Newsmax's "National Report," Waltz said despite FBI concerns about China's U.S. reach, the Biden administration has yet to address the issue.

"We've heard nothing back from the administration, so I appreciate at least the FBI director [Christopher Wray] acknowledging their existence and is sharing his concern," Waltz said.

"But I still want to know what the hell [President Joe Biden] is going to do about it. Do they still exist? Are these stations still operating? How did they get here in the first place? And why did it take a human rights organization to expose these stations to us in Congress so that we begin asking the question.

Waltz said lawmakers want to know if the FBI and State Department were "asleep at the switch."

"Did they know about it and where they just turning a blind eye," he asked, adding, more importantly, "what are they doing to shut it down."

"Those are all questions we're going going to continue to demand in a Republican-led [House] majority," Waltz vowed.

The lawmaker also decried the Chinese Communist Party's "global influence operations, surveillance and pressure campaign."

"They have an organization called the United Front Work Department that seeks to influence organizations, everything from local city council men and women when they want to," he said.

"They even interfered with a congressional race when a former Tiananmen Square protester — who since became an American citizen, served in the military — tried to serve in Congress. They were digging up dirt to try to smear that individual because you know, God forbid, should anyone criticize [China president] dictator Xi [Jinping] and his regime."

Waltz said the United States has to "wake up" to the threat posed by Communist China.

"The Trump administration shut down the Chinese consulate in Houston because of the massive spying operation there on our oil and gas industry," he said.

"We've got to wake up to the fact that in our universities and Wall Street and Hollywood sports, you name it… even perhaps the President's son — they are seeking to influence, to coerce and to intimidate and to shut down any type of resistance to Xi's determination to become the global superpower and replace the United States. And they're trying to do it from within as much as they are from without."

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DeSantis: Florida a Model for Republican Success (Newsmax)

By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 21 November 2022 09:34 AM EST

Gov. Ron DeSantis said the country should look to Florida to learn "a way out of this morass and this mess" created by Democrat leadership and the Biden administration.

DeSantis sounded like someone emerging as a national leader as he spoke Saturday night at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas.

"Florida really is showing a way out of this morass and this mess, but you got to be willing to do it and you got to be successful in implementing it and in times like these, there is no substitute for victory," DeSantis told the crowd, Politico reported.

DeSantis, fresh off winning reelection by defeating former Gov. Charlie Crist by nearly 20 percentage points, said Florida should be a model for those seeking to move on from the progressive policies implemented and sought under President Joe Biden.

"When you stand up for what's right, when you show people you're willing to fight for them, they will walk over broken glass barefoot to come vote for you,” DeSantis said, drawing a standing ovation, Bloomberg reported. "We've got a lot more to do, and I have only begun to fight."

DeSantis said that he and his team have been "about exercising leadership and delivering results for people that we represent."

"I did not take any polls when I became governor all the way through this entire term," he said, Florida Politics reported. "The job of a leader is not to stick your finger in the wind and try to contort yourself to wherever public opinion may be trending on one given moment.

"No, the job of a leader is to set out a vision, to execute that vision, to show people that it's the right vision and to deliver concrete results."

DeSantis, should he run for the Republican 2024 presidential nomination, widely is considered to be the top opponent for former President Donald Trump, who officially announced his candidacy last week.

Trump, via satellite, also addressed the Republican Jewish Coalition conference.

DeSantis said that his landslide reelection victory partly was the result of Jewish support.

"We won the highest share of the Jewish vote for any Republican candidate in Florida history," DeSantis said, The Times of Israel reported. "There's a lot of reasons for that. It's not just Jewish issues if you look at everything we've done, but I will say if you look at our record on issues related to Israel and supporting the Jewish community, it is second to none."

DeSantis also discussed foreign policy issues in Israel, referencing an official trip he took to Israel in his first year as governor.

"We were the first statewide elected officials to do public events in Judea and Samaria," said DeSantis, using the biblical names for the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported. "We understand history. We know those are thousands of years of connection to the Jewish people.

"I don't care what the State Department says. They are not occupied territory, it is disputed territory. You gotta know the history."

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Texas State Rep. Harrison to Newsmax: Urgency Rising on Immigration State Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Texas (Newsmax)

By Fran Beyer | Monday, 21 November 2022 09:46 AM EST

Texas Republican state lawmakers have to be laser-focused on border security, an issue of increasing importance as the end of Title 42 looms, GOP Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison said Monday on Newsmax.

In an interview on Newsmax's "Wake Up America," the former chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services said "we've got to not voluntarily give… any power back to Democrats that they didn't earn from the voters."

Harrison said the political pushback is particularly important as the Biden administration seeks an end to the public health order that expels migrants to Mexico.

Title 42 "was the regulation that allows for immediate deportations" and secured the southern border ever since its imposition early in the coronavirus pandemic, Harrison noted.

"I was a member of the Trump administration, the chief of staff at HHS. We were the agency that issued the now famous Title 42 order, which is about to go away," Harrison said. "All [President] Joe Biden had to do was nothing when he took office."

But Biden instead "went out of his way" and took "every action possible to make the border as unsecure as possible," Harrison said.

According to Harrison, the state of Texas has already had to take $3 billion to $4 billion for border security efforts "on our own."

"We have to do more with the court striking down Title 42," he said, referring to a federal judge's Nov. 16 decision giving the Biden administration until Dec. 21 to wind down its use of Title 42 to expel migrants.

"We need a Texas style Title 42 law that allows for us to immediately be able to begin — or I should say resume — deportations immediately on the southern border," Harrison said. "Because if we don't do this, the Biden administration [by] their own numbers… are saying [there are] 18,000 illegal border crossings a day."

Harrison added that Texas was once an "entirely Democrat state."

"But that was an entirely different, completely different Democratic Party than the party of today, the party of Joe Biden, the party of socialism and open borders and inflation and stripping parents of their rights," he said.

"This is not a party that is to be negotiated with right now," he added, vowing to force a vote to change some state rules "and hopefully, we'll be successful here in January."

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McCarthy Still Has Work to Do to Become Speaker (Newsmax)

By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 21 November 2022 01:18 PM EST

Uncertainty remains about whether House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., will become the chamber's next speaker.

Although McCarthy won the House Republicans' vote 188-31, he must be approved by the entire chamber – and he cannot afford 31 GOP members to be against him in the Jan. 3 vote.

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That is because Newsmax projects the GOP has won 219 seats (with five races still uncalled), a very slim majority in the next Congress. Besides that, several lawmakers within the Republican conference have vowed not to back McCarthy.

"Look, we have our work cut out for us. We've got to have a small majority. We've got to listen to everybody in our conference," McCarthy said in a press conference last week after the GOP leadership vote.

Words, however, might not be enough to sway come McCarthy critics.

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"The hard thing for Kevin, realistically, is there are a fair number of people who have said very publicly they're 'Never Kevin.' Like, there's nothing that Kevin can do to get their vote," said Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, who declined to express his thoughts on McCarthy, The Hill reported.

Reps. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., and Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., former House Freedom Caucus chair and someone who challenged McCarthy for the speaker nomination last week, have pledged not to vote for the minority leader on the House floor.

The House Freedom Caucus during the summer released a list of rule change demands for both the conference and the entire House that seek to reduce the power of leadership and distribute more of it to individual members.

"I refuse to elect the same people utilizing the same rules that keep us from – members like me from participating," Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., said on Stephen Bannon's "War Room" show.

McCarthy supporters note that some GOP lawmakers who voted against the leader via secret ballot in the conference will not want to be on the record publicly opposing him in a floor vote.

Still, opponents continue to put pressure on McCarthy.

"The Leader does not have 218 votes," said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., current chair of the Freedom Caucus, The Hill reported. "It is becoming increasingly perilous as we move forward."

During the GOP press conference last week, McCarthy pointed to former Speakers Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., becoming speaker despite experiencing major pushback within their conferences. However, Ryan (2015) and Pelosi (2019) had more substantial majorities.

With Republicans holding such a narrow majority, it's worth noting that McCarthy does not necessarily need 218 floor votes to win the speakership.

A candidate needs a majority of votes cast to become speaker. Thus, such things as unforeseen illness and bad weather could affect a vote.

Also, The Hill reported that a Congressional Research Service report noted "present" votes also lower the final number needed to win, with current House practice dictating that the speaker needs to win a majority "voting by surname."

Some House Republicans could opt to vote "present" rather than for either McCarthy or an alternative candidate without jeopardizing the leader's bid.

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Trump: Biden's 'Corrupt,' Elections Are 'Rigged'

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By Jack Gournell | Sunday, 20 November 2022 07:43 PM EST

Former President Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to share his opinion on midterm elections and President Joe Biden.

"Our Country has never seen a Weaponized 'Justice' Department, and FBI, like they are witnessing right now," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"They are doing everything they can, much of it unlawful, to protect an incompetent and corrupt President, and his drug addicted criminal son. The system is Tainted and Rigged, just like our Elections are Tainted and Rigged, and just like our Border is for sale to the highest bidder, OPEN, and a disgrace to humanity. In the meantime, our Country is failing at a level never seen before!!!"

Trump did not copy the message to his old Twitter account.

Trump has seemingly rejected returning to Twitter, but as he embarks on a new presidential campaign, will he be able to resist? All eyes were on his account Sunday for any activity, after it was reinstated by the platform's new owner Elon Musk.

Twitter had issued a "permanent" ban on Trump in the wake of the January 6, 2021 attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol, as he sought to overturn his election loss to Biden.

But Musk, who describes himself as a "free speech absolutist," posted a Twitter poll Saturday that saw a majority support the former president's reinstatement, and the platform's new owner wasted no time in acting on it.

As of 11:30 a.m. EST Sunday, the revived account of the "45th President of the United States of America," with its blue "verified" checkmark, had not posted any new messages.

The last message dates from January 8, 2021, when the billionaire said he would not attend Biden's inauguration ceremony.

On the same day, Twitter banned the account, which was being followed by some 88.8 million people, citing the risk of further incitement to violence.

Trump's followers numbered 86.6 million as of Sunday — though it was unclear how many of those were real and how many were bots — while the number of accounts followed by him went from zero to 49.

The account also linked to a campaign website seeking donations for Trump's 2024 presidential run.

It was not clear who linked the website to the account or what any changes in the number of followers means — mass layoffs in recent weeks under Musk have seen Twitter's communications team decimated.

Trump reveled in using Twitter as a mouthpiece during his presidency, posting policy announcements, attacking political rivals and communicating with supporters.

More than 15 million votes were cast in Musk's poll — Twitter has 237 million daily users — with 51.8 percent in favor of reinstating Trump's controversial profile and 48.2 percent against.

Musk asked for a simple "yes" or "no" response to the statement, "Reinstate former President Trump."

On Saturday, while the poll was still underway, Trump posted a link to it on Truth Social, the Twitter alternative he founded, urging his 4.6 million followers there to vote for him.

But he also wrote: "don't worry, we aren't going anywhere. Truth Social is special!"

And, appearing via video at a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Trump said he welcomed the poll and was a fan of Musk, but appeared to reject any return to the platform.

"I don't see it, because I don't see any reason for it," he said.

AFP contributed to this report.

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Trump: Biden's 'Corrupt,' Elections Are 'Rigged' (Newsmax/"Prime News")

By Jack Gournell | Sunday, 20 November 2022 07:43 PM EST

Former President Donald Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to share his opinion on midterm elections and President Joe Biden.

"Our Country has never seen a Weaponized 'Justice' Department, and FBI, like they are witnessing right now," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

"They are doing everything they can, much of it unlawful, to protect an incompetent and corrupt President, and his drug addicted criminal son. The system is Tainted and Rigged, just like our Elections are Tainted and Rigged, and just like our Border is for sale to the highest bidder, OPEN, and a disgrace to humanity. In the meantime, our Country is failing at a level never seen before!!!"

Trump did not copy the message to his old Twitter account.

Trump has seemingly rejected returning to Twitter, but as he embarks on a new presidential campaign, will he be able to resist? All eyes were on his account Sunday for any activity, after it was reinstated by the platform's new owner Elon Musk.

Twitter had issued a "permanent" ban on Trump in the wake of the January 6, 2021 attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol, as he sought to overturn his election loss to Biden.

But Musk, who describes himself as a "free speech absolutist," posted a Twitter poll Saturday that saw a majority support the former president's reinstatement, and the platform's new owner wasted no time in acting on it.

As of 11:30 a.m. ET Sunday, the revived account of the "45th President of the United States of America," with its blue "verified" checkmark, had not posted any new messages.

The last message dates from January 8, 2021, when the billionaire said he would not attend Biden's inauguration ceremony.

On the same day, Twitter banned the account, which was being followed by some 88.8 million people, citing the risk of further incitement to violence.

Trump's followers numbered 86.6 million as of Sunday — though it was unclear how many of those were real and how many were bots — while the number of accounts followed by him went from zero to 49.

The account also linked to a campaign website seeking donations for Trump's 2024 presidential run.

It was not clear who linked the website to the account or what any changes in the number of followers means — mass layoffs in recent weeks under Musk have seen Twitter's communications team decimated.

Trump reveled in using Twitter as a mouthpiece during his presidency, posting policy announcements, attacking political rivals and communicating with supporters.

More than 15 million votes were cast in Musk's poll — Twitter has 237 million daily users — with 51.8 percent in favor of reinstating Trump's controversial profile and 48.2 percent against.

Musk asked for a simple "yes" or "no" response to the statement, "Reinstate former President Trump."

On Saturday, while the poll was still underway, Trump posted a link to it on Truth Social, the Twitter alternative he founded, urging his 4.6 million followers there to vote for him.

But he also wrote: "don't worry, we aren't going anywhere. Truth Social is special!"

And, appearing via video at a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Trump said he welcomed the poll and was a fan of Musk, but appeared to reject any return to the platform.

"I don't see it, because I don't see any reason for it," he said.

AFP contributed to this report.

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Sen. Mark Warner: TikTok an 'Enormous Threat'

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By Brian Pfail | Sunday, 20 November 2022 07:06 PM EST

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the social media platform TikTok is an "enormous threat" and that parents should be "very concerned" about their children using the app.

"TikTok is an enormous threat. It's a threat on two levels. One, it is a massive collector of information, oftentimes of our children. They can visualize even down to your keystrokes. So if you're a parent and you got a kid on TikTok, I would be very, very concerned," Warner told host Shannon Bream on "FOX News Sunday."

"All of that data that your child is inputting and receiving is being stored somewhere in Beijing," Warner added, and it's difficult to "separate out TikTok from the fact that the actual engineers [are] writing the code in Beijing."

TikTok is owned by Chinese-based company ByteDance, which has spurred some concern among lawmakers about user data and the company's ties to the Chinese government.

The second threat level "is that TikTok, in a sense, is a broadcasting network" for the Chinese Communist Party, said Warner.

"The China law states that if they suddenly want to dial up the fact that we are going to decrease content that criticizes Chinese leadership but increase the content that your kids may be seeing saying, 'Hey, you know, Taiwan really is part of China.' That is a distribution model that would make RT or Sputnik or some of the Russian propaganda models pale in comparison," Warner said.

The Trump administration warned about TikTok and its influence, attempting to ban the social media platform in 2020. The Biden administration, in a move praised by China, replaced former President Donald Trump's executive orders last year.

"I think Donald Trump was right," Warner said Sunday.

Earlier this year, Warner joined Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to urge the Federal Trade Commission to investigate TikTok's "apparent deception" over data practices.

"This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago," Warner told Australia's Sydney Morning Herald last month.

Sen. Mark Warner: TikTok an 'Enormous Threat'

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By Brian Pfail | Sunday, 20 November 2022 07:06 PM EST

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the social media platform TikTok is an "enormous threat" and that parents should be "very concerned" about their children using the app.

"TikTok is an enormous threat. It's a threat on two levels. One, it is a massive collector of information, oftentimes of our children. They can visualize even down to your keystrokes. So if you're a parent and you got a kid on TikTok, I would be very, very concerned," Warner told host Shannon Bream on "FOX News Sunday."

"All of that data that your child is inputting and receiving is being stored somewhere in Beijing," Warner added, and it's difficult to "separate out TikTok from the fact that the actual engineers [are] writing the code in Beijing."

TikTok is owned by Chinese-based company ByteDance, which has spurred some concern among lawmakers about user data and the company's ties to the Chinese government.

The second threat level "is that TikTok, in a sense, is a broadcasting network" for the Chinese Communist Party, said Warner.

"The China law states that if they suddenly want to dial up the fact that we are going to decrease content that criticizes Chinese leadership but increase the content that your kids may be seeing saying, 'Hey, you know, Taiwan really is part of China.' That is a distribution model that would make RT or Sputnik or some of the Russian propaganda models pale in comparison," Warner said.

The Trump administration warned about TikTok and its influence, attempting to ban the social media platform in 2020. The Biden administration, in a move praised by China, replaced former President Donald Trump's executive orders last year.

"I think Donald Trump was right," Warner said Sunday.

Earlier this year, Warner joined Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., to urge the Federal Trade Commission to investigate TikTok's "apparent deception" over data practices.

"This is not something you would normally hear me say, but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago," Warner told Australia's Sydney Morning Herald last month.

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Poll: 71 Percent of Democrats Say Biden to Win Reelection

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By Brian Pfail | Sunday, 20 November 2022 06:21 PM EST

Seventy-one percent of Democrats say President Joe Biden could win if he were to run for another term, according to a new USA Today-Ipsos Poll.

The share of Democrats jumped 11 points since August when 60% expressed confidence in the president.

Half of the Democratic voters believe Biden "should be the nominee and deserves reelection," which is up by six points from August.

The poll released Sunday indicates Democrats are starting to feel better about Biden after surprising wins in critical races across the nation, such as in Pennsylvania, Nevada and Arizona, where candidates backed by former President Donald Trump were favored to win.

A sitting president's party typically loses big in an off-year election. Still, Democrats retained control of the Senate, while Republicans took control of the House by smaller margins than anticipated.

The USA Today-Ipsos poll found voters' perceptions, notably among women, jumped by tremendous margins. Fifty-five percent of women in August favored Biden, compared to 71% favoring him in November. Among voters ages 18 to 34, Biden saw an increase of 16 percentage points.

The poll was conducted from Nov. 15 through Nov. 16, surveying 843 Democratic voters with a credibility interval of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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Haley Tests Waters of '24 Presidential Run: 'I've Never Lost'

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By Nick Koutsobinas | Sunday, 20 November 2022 05:02 PM EST

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tested the waters on a 2024 presidential run, The Hill reported.

Speaking Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Haley said she's "never lost" an election.

"A lot of people have asked if I'm going to run for president. Now that the midterms are over, I'll look at it in a serious way and I'll have more to say soon."

"For now, I'll say this," she continued. "I've won tough primaries and tough general elections. I've been the underdog every single time. When people underestimate me, it's always fun. But I've never lost an election. And I'm not going to start now."

The former South Carolina governor has long been a rumored 2024 candidate and has skirted questions on whether former President Donald Trump should run for reelection.

Last week, Trump announced his 2024 White House run. His announcement followed a number of disappointing midterm results for Republicans.

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Trump: US Jews 'Don't Appreciate Israel the Way They Should' (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 20 November 2022 01:22 PM EST

Former President Donald Trump once again hailed his work to support Israel, also lamenting once again that Jewish people in America do not do enough to do the same.

"I just grew up with a great fondness and a great feeling for Jewish people and for Israel, and I hope people in the United States share that, because some people in the United States — Jewish people — don't appreciate Israel the way they should," Trump said, repeating a remark that his critics and political enemies used to claim anti-Semitism of a man who has Jewish children and grandchildren.

"And I'll tell you who does appreciate Israel very much are the evangelicals, because evangelicals are on your side. The Evangelical Christians, they really are on your side."

Trump remarks came during a virtual appearance at the Republican Jewish Coalition convention in Las Vegas on Saturday.

Trump called himself "the greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House."

"But I appreciate Israel, and it's an honor to have, I think, done far more for Israel than any other president," Trump told the hosts. "I don't think any other president comes close. And it's a great honor for me."

Trump did not hold back on President Joe Biden, as he is wont to do, on myriad topics, but specifically denounced Biden having ruined the U.S.-Israel ties, which are "not even strong by a little bit" now, claiming Biden has "betrayed Israel and the Jewish community."

Trump also hailed Truth Social as a platform strong on supporting Jewish voices in America.

"It's taking care of voices that really want to be taken care of and really smart voices, brilliant voices, voices that in many cases are both sides, but I can tell you there's a lot of voice for Israel and power for Israel," Trump added, The Times of Israel reported.

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Ohio's Electorate Shift Makes Sen. Sherrod Brown 'Ripe for the Picking' in '24 (Newsmax)

By Brian Pfail | Sunday, 20 November 2022 12:34 PM EST

Both Senator-elect John Fetterman, D-Pa., and former Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, sought Senate seats during the 2022 midterms appealing to the working class.

Ryan lost in a close race with Senator-elect J.D. Vance, but both races showed a divergence of both paths. Pennsylvania is a battleground that usually falls towards Democrats, while Ohio has been dropped from that competitive list of states.

Democrats will have to make do with a highly unfavorable Senate map while narrowly holding control. In 2024, Democrats will defend Senate seats in red states, including Montana, West Virginia and Ohio.

With the great victory over Ohio, Republicans will prepare to take on Sen. Sherrod Brown, whose long-term credibility with blue-collar voters was essentially the template for Ryan’s run.

Sen. Brown said last week he planned to seek a fourth term in 2024.

“The state dynamics have changed,” Bob Paduchik, the chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, said before the state Chamber of Commerce. “The Ohio Republican Party is a working-class conservative party. Sherrod has portrayed himself as a working-class Democrat, and there just aren’t many of those left around in Ohio.”

Brown’s top political adviser, Justin Barasky, who also worked on Ryan’s campaign, acknowledged “the national Democratic Party brand has suffered significantly with working-class voters,” including prospective Black and Hispanic voters.

“Ohio is not going the way of Missouri and Iowa, that’s why we have a Democratic senator, and they don’t,” he said. “But we’re not Pennsylvania anymore, and we’re not Wisconsin, and we’re not Michigan.”

“Yes, Tim lost, and the governor’s race was a blowout, so it’s very simple to say, ‘Oh, man, Sherrod is in big trouble,’” he added. The result “leads you to believe Sherrod is in a relatively strong position,” he said, citing Ryan’s higher share of votes in counties that President Joe Biden once won in 2020.

Ohio previously voted twice for former President Barack Obama before swinging to former President Donald Trump, who appealed to cultural and economic issues of white voters without college degrees.

Ryan, a grandson of a steelworker, ran on an anti-China and pro-union platform, telling voters if they want a culture war, “I’m not your guy.”

Northeast Ohio, which Ryan represented in Congress for 20 years, was once a Democrat stronghold built upon organized labor and heavy industry. But this region moved more to the right than any part of Ohio. Mahoning County, which includes his district, gave Vance a larger share of the vote than what the county had for Trump in 2020; that was the first time in nearly 50 years a Republican presidential candidate won Mahoning County.

“Youngstown should be the heart and soul of the Democratic brand – it’s not,” said Irene Lin, a Democratic strategist in Ohio. “Can Sherrod survive? I’m not sure.”

Democratic strategists argue besides the demographics, Ryan had outperformed expectations this year, improving by two points on President Biden’s 2020 loss of Ohio. They also predicted Brown would run a more competitive race in 2024, citing defeats of leading state Republicans in Senate races of DeWine in 2006 and Mandel in 2012.

“The theory of our case was that he was a fraud, was pretending to be something he wasn’t,” said Chabria, Vance’s chief strategist.

“Sherrod Brown is ripe for the picking,” he added. “I think that there’s a huge opportunity.”

Ohio Republicans are exploring options like Frank LaRose, the newly re-elected secretary of state; Mark Kvamme, a venture capitalist; and Matt Dolan, a co-owner of the Cleveland Guardians MLB team.

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Pence Defends Trump, Warns About AG Garland, Partisan DOJ (Newsmax)

By Eric Mack | Sunday, 20 November 2022 12:18 PM EST

After years of breaking from former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence offered a limited defense of Trump, questioning whether Trump broke any laws, while denouncing Attorney General Merrick Garland and a politicized Justice Department.

"I don't know if it is criminal to listen to bad advice from lawyers," Pence told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday about the continued pursuit of Trump for the Jan. 6 Capitol protest, calling efforts to investigate, if not jail, the former president as projecting the image of a "third-world country."

Additionally, Pence rebuked the Justice Department which circumvented normal procedures to secure presidential records for the National Archives. Both the records and Jan. 6 led Garland to appoint another DOJ special counsel to look for criminality of Trump.

"I've not hesitated to criticize the president when I think he was wrong – and clearly, possessing classified documents in an unprotected area is not proper," Pence told NBC host Chuck Todd. "But I have to tell you, I was on the Judiciary Committee for 10 years in the House of Representatives. I know how the Justice Department works. And there had to be many other ways to resolve those issues and collect those classified documents.

"They didn't try everything. And I have to tell you, going to the last resort of executing a search warrant against a former president of the United States I think sent the wrong message. It was a divisive message in this country."

Pence said he once considered the U.S. the "gold standard" of justice in the world, but seeking to find wrongdoing against Trump, including raiding his private residence at Mar-a-Lago in August is something a "third-world" nation does.

"I put the blame for the decision to execute a search warrant at the personal residence of the former president of the United States on the leadership of the Justice Department," Pence said. "It's inconceivable to me that that wasn't a decision that was made at the very highest levels, and approved at the highest levels.

"It was a divisive message in this country. But I think worse still, it was the wrong message to the wider world that looks to America as the gold standard.

"I want to see the credibility of the Justice Department restored after years of politicization during the Trump-Pence administration.

Pence added, "America should never be associated with that image at all," and while he admits "no one is above the law," Pence said assigning yet another special counsel to look for crimes has him skeptical of Garland.

"I have great difficulty with the decision that he made," Pence said. "I have great concerns about his judgment and his leadership at the Justice Department."

"But I would hope the Justice Department would give careful consideration before they take any additional steps in this matter," he concluded.

In another interview with CBS's "Face the Nation," Pence blasted the partisan nature of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee to host Margaret Brennan.

"I served for 12 years in the Congress: It's inconceivable to me that one party would appoint every member of a committee in Congress," Pence said. "That's antithetical to the whole idea of the committee system. That being said, I never stood in the way of senior members of my team cooperating with the committee and testifying. But Congress has no right to my testimony. We have a separation of powers under the Constitution of the United States.

"And I believe it would establish a terrible precedent for the Congress to summon a vice president of the United States to speak about deliberations that took place at the White House.

"I am closing the door on that."

That same argument is used by Trump in his claims of executive privilege, which was quashed by the Justice Department and President Joe Biden in their continued pursuit of their chief political rival.

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Sen.-elect Mullin to Newsmax: Title 42 Keeps Dangerous Migrants Out of U.S. (Newsmax/"Wake Up America Weekend")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:52 AM EST

The use of Title 42 restrictions put in place at the border during the Trump administration has kept dangerous migrants from entering the United States and should remain in place, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, who was elected this month to the U.S. Senate, said on Newsmax Sunday.

"A lot of people don't even understand what Title 42 did," the Oklahoma Republican told Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "It allows us to ship people back either to Mexico or back to the country that they came from because of COVID if they were a single male traveling alone."

Last month, immigration officials caught nine men traveling alone and determined they were on the terrorist watch list, Mullin pointed out.

"We were up 334% on crosses just last month alone since Trump was in office, but you just think about the dangers that we have," he said. "Because of Title 42, we were able to apprehend and hold onto those nine people for three days until we could figure out where they came from, and that's when they got a hit."

But without Title 42, the men would have been released within 24 hours, meaning that there would have been a "huge national security issue," said Mullin.

"You have the administration trying to tell us that the border is secure," he added. "What a joke. What are they trying to do here to the American people, mislead us? Well, that's what they've been doing since they've been in office."

Meanwhile, there are calls to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and while Mullin is leaving the House for the Senate, he warned that it is a "high threshold" to reach when considering impeachment.

"I do not want Republicans to misuse it," he said. "It's got to be treason or a high crime or misdemeanor committed. The question is, is President [Joe] Biden actually the one calling the shots here, or is it somebody else? I think all of us believe that Biden is a puppet president, to begin with and that somebody else is calling the shots. Unless it's directly related to him, then it's not impeachable. He would have to get the direct order for that to take place."

However, Mullin said he does think there are many people "downstream" who should be removed from office, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the incoming speaker, has said there will be investigations.

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Mark Morgan to Newsmax: Mayorkas 'Most Dangerous' in Administration (Newsmax/"Wake Up America")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Sunday, 20 November 2022 10:37 AM EST

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is the "most dangerous man" in the Biden administration and "he's got to go" Mark Morgan, the acting Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner under former President Donald Trump, said on Newsmax Sunday.

"I hope that the Republican party shows the strength and courage and the political will to do the right thing," Morgan said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America" Sunday while referring to calls to impeach Mayorkas. "We have to hold people accountable and what's going on on our southwest border is killing people every single day…he's got to and the American people need to see it live and in color."

Mayorkas, he added, is responsible for the nation's homeland security but he is the "chief architect for open borders. That's impacting every aspect of our nation's public health, public safety, and necessary security, but he's lying to the people about it."

Morgan said he thinks the reason the border issues did not become a "kitchen table" issue in the election was that the Biden administration was "lying to them, telling them that there's nothing to see here. That's important."

Meanwhile, a federal judge last week gave the administration until Dec. 21 to wind down its use of Title 42 to expel migrants. Morgan said that when the regulation, set in place under the Trump administration in March 2020 to control migrants' entries under U.S. and international law on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19 expires, it will have a "domino effect" on the border.

"First of all, this is going to be used by the cartels," said Morgan. "This provides another message to the entire world that now is the time to come, to continue to break into our country illegally because this government has just now made it easier for them to do so."

Secondly, the incentive to remove migrants will be gone, after millions were removed under Title 42, said Morgan.

"The majority of those now are going to be allowed to illegally enter, and then they will be released into the interior United States," said Morgan.

Also on Sunday, Morgan rejected arguments from Ken Cuccinelli, a Department of Homeland Security acting deputy secretary under Trump, who said last week that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's declaration that the situation at the border is lip service without deportations.

"Gov. Abbott has done more than any other governor in the state of our country to try to fill the void left by this administration and the catastrophic crisis they created with their open border policies, said Morgan.

Abbott's "Operation Lone Star" has also been effective in not just stopping illegal migrants, but tens of thousands of pounds of drugs, including fentanyl, from coming into the country, he said.

"The one thing, though, is he can't enforce immigration law, but that's the one thing that he needs to do," said Morgan. "He needs to be able to detain and remove illegal aliens for this crisis to start to have some relief. That's the one thing he's not doing so under the limitation clause."

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