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EXPLOSIVE: Mollie Hemingway Calls New Russiagate Information an '11/10' in Importance
EXPLOSIVE: Mollie Hemingway Calls New Russiagate Information an '11/10' in Importance

Fox News

time5 days ago

  • Politics
  • Fox News

EXPLOSIVE: Mollie Hemingway Calls New Russiagate Information an '11/10' in Importance

Mollie Hemingway, Editor-in-Chief at The Federalist , Fox News Contributor, and co-author of Justice on Trial , joined The Guy Benson Show today to discuss the explosive new documents released in the RussiaGate scandal, as many say that the new revelations directly implicate the Obama administration in a coordinated attempt to smear Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. Hemingway argued that the new information could carry serious legal and political ramifications for key figures in the former administration. Hemingway and Benson also briefly weighed in on the Epstein controversy, and Hemingway criticized the Trump DOJ's handling of the case. Listen to the full interview below! Listen to the full interview from today's podcast below:

The Trump-Epstein circular firing squad is just like an episode of ‘Seinfeld'
The Trump-Epstein circular firing squad is just like an episode of ‘Seinfeld'

Miami Herald

time20-07-2025

  • Politics
  • Miami Herald

The Trump-Epstein circular firing squad is just like an episode of ‘Seinfeld'

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal that has engulfed the Trump administration and MAGA world is like an episode of 'Seinfeld.' Somebody does something stupid and the remainder of the show is about the reactions of a cast of soulless characters who are so without redeeming qualities, you can't root for any of them. Donald Trump's decision not to release whatever is in the Epstein files has paralyzed the most MAGA of conservative media outlets. When I checked earlier today, The Federalist, The Daily Caller and Breitbart were all doing their best to ignore the story dividing Trumpists like never before. It is like the digital outlets are waiting for orders from on high, but the leading voices are a confused cacophony, not the usual Trumpy chorus. Fox News and the Wall Street Journal opinion page are both promoting an op-ed by former Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz that is as confused as this Seinfeldian story about nothing. You see, Dershowitz says there's nothing to see here, Epstein committed suicide and was not murdered, but the jail staff may have helped him. Oh, also there's nothing incriminating about Trump. Suicide is a fraught subject that must be handled delicately in all instances, but I am not so clear on how there can be help from the people who are supposed to be guarding you. I didn't know it was OK for the guards to deliver 'assisted' suicide services normally provided by medical personnel. Wouldn't that be a scandal? Dershowitz blames the fact that you can't see the Justice Department files on court-ordered secrecy, as if suddenly the Trump administration has gotten all Emily Post about following judges' orders. Meanwhile the formerly conservative Drudge Report, enemy of all things Emily Post and still frequented by many on the right who want a dose of the day's tabloid fare, is promoting rumors that a big Trump-Epstein story is about to appear in the pages of either The Washington Post, The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal. Just as I am writing this, The Wall Street Journal breathlessly published a story marked 'exclusive' that, along with dozens of other people, Trump wrote a bawdy letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday. In this letter, Trump allegedly drew a naughty picture with breasts and pubic hair. Oh, my. The only thing worth being on the front page is that Trump called the Journal's top editor to try to stop the story with a lawsuit threat. So it is no wonder the White House and Trump himself are livid at all this attention with the press secretary blasting people like me who keep covering this 'like it's the biggest story that the American people care about.' For once, Karoline Leavitt appears to be sticking to the facts. Conservative talk radio hosts who I listen to, such as Erick Erickson, report that while their 'very online' listeners are mad as hell, their ideological cousins who have touched grass more recently couldn't care less. If it is not clear already, I am watching the whole kerfuffle and enjoying every minute. If a political movement born of nothing but Trump's grudges, conspiracy theories and self-interest deserves anything, it is to suffer a circular firing squad about Trump holding a grudge against his supporters who still believe a conspiracy theory that is suddenly no longer in Trump's self-interest. This won't be the last time that Trump's imaginary hobgoblins will come back to haunt him. Wait until his handpicked Attorney General Pam Bondi fails to come up with anyone to indict for stealing the 2020 election, as all Trump's supporters have been promised. We'll think back on this week's Epstein blowup as a little family disagreement. If we were watching a 'Seinfeld' episode, this is where Jerry would be told, 'No soup for you,' and we'd all have a good laugh. It isn't so funny when the job prospects of our top law enforcement officers depend on the outcome of a scandal about nothing and the president seems more engaged with the fate of a dead sex trafficker than the real lives of the people he is supposed to govern.

When judges get lawless, pushing Jews to quit and other commentary
When judges get lawless, pushing Jews to quit and other commentary

New York Post

time02-07-2025

  • Politics
  • New York Post

When judges get lawless, pushing Jews to quit and other commentary

Courts watch: When Judges Get Lawless Despite repeated Supreme Court warnings against nationwide injunctions, obstinate district-court judges kept insisting upon their right to 'micro-manage' the executive branch, fumes The Federalist's Margo Cleveland. That created a 'consequence-free environment' where 'incorrigible' judges could serve 'ideology' rather than real justice. Judges are doubling down on their unconstitutional demands, with one just last week entering 'an order at odds with a Supreme Court decision only hours old.' At this point, 'one must wonder what would happen if Trump decided he's done following the lawless orders of the district courts.' Will these judges realize in time that 'their own lawlessness is destroying the reputation of the courts'? Hate beat: Pushing Jews To Quit 'When institutions make life uncomfortable for Jews, there is usually a simple reason for it: Those with influence within the institution want fewer Jews hanging around,' argues Commentary's Seth Mandel. 'The British Medical Association's descent into an unhealthy fixation' on Palestinians and no 'other oppressed minority' sure looks intended to drive out Jewish members. And 'North Carolina's Democratic Party executive committee' just 'passed a resolution accusing Israel of 'genocide' and calling for the US to institute a defense embargo against the Jewish state,' culminating a prolonged push to make the party 'even more hostile to Jewish members.' As 'these 'symbolic' tactics proliferate,' realize they're 'not actually focused on Israel' but on finding 'ways to make Jews feel uncomfortable.' Foreign desk: Euro's Green Debacle 'Europe's latest meltdown over environmental policy' is 'entertaining,' quips The Wall Street Journal's editorial board. A new EU 'rule would force companies to hire consultants to vet claims about environmental friendliness that firms slap on their packaging and marketing.' 'An uproar kicked off last month' when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's spokesman 'suggested she might drop the proposal.' Left-wingers in the European Parliament 'are furious that she might abandon a green policy they like.' Her U-turn 'could open the door to a no-confidence motion against her.' 'Many European voters and most businesses probably would cheer, or at worst shrug, if Ms. von der Leyen dropped the green rule.' 'Yet climate piety is so deeply ingrained in Europe's political class that many struggle to read the electoral winds,' proving 'this episode is European dysfunction in a nutshell.' Democrat: Good Riddance to Randi Weingarten Now that American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten has resigned from the Democratic National Committee, party leaders should 'lock the door behind her as she makes her way out,' snarks Ben Austin at The Hill. 'Weingarten was a key architect of the disastrous Biden-Harris pandemic school closures,' which erased 'two decades of learning progress' for school children and also eliminated 'Democrats' massive electoral advantage' on the education issue. On school choice, she 'gaslit' Democrats into opposing GOP initiatives as she tried 'to make sure there is no choice of any kind.' 'The party that invented public charter schools under Bill Clinton, then scaled them under Barack Obama, can't even say 'charter school.' ' Democrats were once 'the party of public education because they had the courage to fight for it.' 'That courage is needed again.' Economists: Things Are Great Populists right and left have united in 'doomsaying' over a 'zero-sum grievance' culture, grumble Clifford S. Asness & Michael R. Strain at The Free Press. Both sides fret that 'the game is rigged, the system is broken, everything is awful, and life was better decades ago.' In fact, 'there has never been a better time to be alive than the present day.' Consider 'the undeniable reality of today's extreme broad-based prosperity and human flourishing' worldwide. 'Wages for typical American workers have never been higher,' the rate of violent crime 'has been cut in half' and 'personal consumption is at a record level.' Beware: 'The news business relies on outraging you.' While our country isn't problem-free, we have it 'pretty, pretty good.' — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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