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‘Ungrateful’: Fox host Tucker Carlson claims Ilhan Omar is ‘attacking country that took her in’

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson lashed out at Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar for being “ungrateful” and accused her of “spending her life attacking this country” in light of an old tweet by the congresswoman about US action in Somalia.

Carlson’s outburst was in reference to a resurfaced tweet of Omar’s from 2017 in which she noted the high number of Somalis killed by US forces during the 1993 battle in Mogadishu.

Eighteen US soldiers and hundreds of Somalis were killed in the botched US-led, but UN-backed, operation to capture allies of a Somali military commander. Two US helicopters were shot down and footage of dead American soldiers being dragged through the streets resulted in a huge public backlash against US involvement, and saw US troops withdrawn from Somalia months later.

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Omar fled Somalia as a child and spent four years in a Kenyan refugee camp before gaining entry to the US in 1992.

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Carlson accused the congresswoman – who by the time of the disastrous operation in Mogadishu had already fled her home country – of being ungrateful to the US troops who he claimed saved 100,000 Somalis.

“Here’s someone who was brought to the United States at public expense simply because we’re a kind country that accepts a lot of refugees,” Carlson said.

“And rather than being grateful for that, she’s spent the rest of her life attacking this country. Why?,” Carlson asked Kyle Lame, a retired sergeant major who fought in the Mogadishu battle.

“As they would say down here in Tennessee, ‘Bless her heart’,” responded Lame. “We want her to understand she’s living large now because of her family being able to escape the atrocities of Mogadishu.”

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Omar, one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress, has been a divisive figure since her election. US President Donald Trump recently accused the congresswoman of being “out of control” after her comments about the stigma towards American Muslims since 9/11.

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MCCAIN FAMILY TO BACK BIDEN’S 2020 BID TO DEFEAT TRUMP

McCain Family to Back Biden's 2020 Bid to Defeat Trump

Imagine my shock

 | Infowars.com – APRIL 24, 2019

Update: Cindy McCain has put out a statement saying her family won’t get involved in the 2020 presidential race.

“Joe Biden is a wonderful man and dear friend of the McCain Family. However, I have no intention of getting involved in presidential politics,” she tweeted.

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The family of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a rabid nemesis of President Trump, has announced their intention to support former Vice President Joe Biden for the 2020 presidential race.

The McCain family is preparing to break from the Republican Party in an extraordinary snub to the president, and will formally back Biden’s candidacy at some point in the election race in hopes of removing Trump, a source close to both the Bidens and McCains reportedly said.

“They talk regularly and have been supportive of his run,” the source told Washington Examiner. “The question is going to be timing and coordinating with the Biden campaign. There are a lot of moving parts there and [Biden’s campaign is] not necessarily organized. I wouldn’t expect a formal family endorsement because some of McCain’s family is still in the military, but I do expect Cindy to speak out at some point.”

But one senior McCain aide worried if the family’s endorsement would even help Biden as the Democrat field lurches far-left.

“I’m just not sure how much that helps in a primary where the party is constantly moving towards the left. If you’re a two-term former vice president and basically tied with Bernie Sanders, that’s not a good sign,” the aide said.

The animus between the Trump and McCain family stretches back decades, which became even more bitter during the 2016 presidential race and culminated with McCain barring Trump from his funeral.

Additionally, Biden’s affection for McCain is well known, and he referred to the late senator as his “brother” during the eulogy.

“My name’s Joe Biden. I’m a Democrat. And I loved John McCain,” he had said. “The way I look at it, the way I thought about it, was that I always thought of John as a brother. We had a hell of a lot of family fights. We go a long way.”

Biden is expected to launch his 2020 campaign on Thursday, according to reports.

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RUSH LIMBAUGH: HILLARY CLINTON ‘NEEDS TO BE INDICTED AND SHE NEEDS TO BE IN JAIL’

Rush Limbaugh: Hillary Clinton 'Needs To Be Indicted and She Needs To Be In Jail’

‘Unelected people came close to pulling off what is a coup,’ he says

Infowars.com – APRIL 24, 2019

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh tore into Democrat presidential loser Hillary Clinton, saying she is the person who colluded with Russia, not President Trump.

“Hillary Clinton is who tried to rig a presidential election…Hillary Clinton and her pals in the Obama Department of Justice and the FBI, they are the ones who colluded with the Russians. They colluded to produce this entirely bogus Steele Dossier,” Limbaugh said Monday on Fox News.

“Talk about irony,” he continued. “For Hillary Clinton to be talking about impeaching Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton needs to be investigated, she needs to be indicted and she needs to be in jail [with] many of her co-conspirators in this whole sordid affair.”

Limbaugh went on to say that Clinton’s attempts to overthrow Trump using the debunked Steele Dossier compiled with Russian intelligence amounted to the real collusion.

“Unelected people came close to pulling off what is a coup,” said the Republican host.

“Who’s working with Russians? Steele, Hillary’s guy! They are working with the Russians…the dossier traces right back to Hillary and her campaign in the DNC.”

Limbaugh’s comments come after Clinton said that Trump would have been indicted for collusion if he wasn’t the president.

“I think there is enough there that any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted,” Clinton said Monday during the Time 100 conference.

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Bernie Sanders Plan Would Allow 183K Murderers, 164K Rapists to Vote from Prison

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By John Binder

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) recent endorsement of giving voting rights to all American citizens who are currently in prison for local, state, and federal crimes would allow some 183,000 convicted murderers and 164,000 convicted rapists to vote from their jail cells.

In a CNN town hall this week, Sanders endorsed allowing all convicted U.S. citizens — regardless of their crime — to vote from prison.

“So, I believe people who commit crimes, they pay the price and they get out of jail, they certainly should have the right to vote,” Sanders said. “But, I believe even if they are in jail, they’re paying the price to society, but that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), also running for the Democrat nomination for president, hinted that she would be open to such a plan, saying “I think we should have that conversation” when asked about allowing convicted criminals to vote from their cells.

The latest data compiled by the Prison Policy Initiative concludes that there are more than 1.6 million convicted criminals in local, state, and federal prisons across the country. This includes about 183,000 convicted murderers and 164,000 convicted rapists.

Not all 1.6 million convicted criminals in local, state, and federal custody are American citizens, though. State and local prisons have yet to collect data deciphering between the citizen versus noncitizen populations of their prison populations.

Federal data concludes that noncitizens make up about 25 percent of the federal prison population.

Should this be true of local and state prisons, as well, this would mean that about 1.2 million convicted criminals in prison today could be eligible to vote from their cells under Sanders’ plan — including anywhere between 137,000 and 183,000 convicted murderers and potentially between 123,000 to 164,000 convicted rapists.

Similarly, the Sanders plan would potentially allow anywhere between 14,250 and 19,000 citizens convicted of manslaughter to vote from their cells, as well as up to 154,000 convicted assailants.

Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, as Breitbart News has reported, organizations funded by billionaire George Soros are working to restore the voting rights of about 1.4 million felons in Florida after the state approved the measure last year.

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