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Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Shooting of Israeli embassy staffers is outgrowth of antisemitism on college campuses: Batya Ungar-Sargon
Journalist and author Batya Ungar-Sargon said that the murder suspect who gunned down two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday followed similar rhetoric as anti-Israel protesters on college campuses. "He is an outgrowth of the antisemitism on college campuses," Ungar-Sargon said Thursday of the alleged shooter while appearing on CNN. "And how are we not talking about that? That is the story. There is a culture of dehumanizing Jews that is rampant on the left. Nobody wants to talk about it. They're not going to listen to us. We need people on the left to say this is unacceptable." The Embassy of Israel to the U.S. identified the victims shot in DC as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, who were set to be engaged. A 31-year-old man identified as Elias Rodriguez, of Chicago, has been arrested and charged with the murders. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said that the gun used by him was recovered. Two Israeli Diplomats Shot, Killed During Event At Capital Jewish Museum In Washington, Dc "I think probably a lot of Jews watching this are feeling the way I'm feeling, which is that I can't believe we're talking about this," Ungar-Sargon continued, "rather than the fact that two people were murdered because the terrorist who killed them believed that they were Jews and was chanting the exact same thing that Jewish students have had to hear chanted at them for two years while he did that." The suspected killer chanted, "Free, free Palestine" as he was apprehended, a common refrain of anti-Israel protesters. Read On The Fox News App She described the alleged killer as someone "who wrote a manifesto that reads exactly like the kinds of op-eds that are written routinely on these college campuses, that the comments on that manifesto are all completely in support of him." Witness Recounts Chilling Moment Dc Jewish Museum Shooter Confessed 'I Did This For Gaza' Rodriguez, 31, has been charged with the murder of foreign officials, a federal capital offense, along with multiple firearm-related counts and two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted of either of the first two counts, he could face the death penalty. Under D.C. law, a conviction for first-degree murder carries a minimum sentence of 30 years in prison and a maximum sentence of life behind bars. Fox News' Elizabeth Pritchett contributed to this report. Original article source: Shooting of Israeli embassy staffers is outgrowth of antisemitism on college campuses: Batya Ungar-Sargon
Sky News AU
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Vast majority' of political violence comes from the left: Ungar-Sargon
Journalist Batya Ungar-Sargon says the 'vast majority' of political violence in the United States comes from the left wing of politics. The FBI botched its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting — downplaying the gunman's anti-Republican motives despite having handwritten evidence, according to a House report. 'This is a perfect example of that, to where the FBI itself was engaged in this alleged coverup of left-wing, anti-conservative political violence,' Ms Ungar-Sargon told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘MAGA leftist' blames Obama for 2008 bank bailout that was signed by George W. Bush
Self-described 'MAGA leftist' Batya Ungar-Sargon confidently declared on Thursday night that President Barack Obama's 'first act in office' was passing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program that bailed out financial institutions during the height of the 2008 financial crisis. Ungar-Sargon would double down on that claim the following morning, tweeting that 'in 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street' while defending Donald Trump's tariffs, insisting that 'in 2024' the current president 'screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street.' There is just one small problem with The Free Press columnist's analysis: TARP was signed into law by then-President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 — a full month before Obama was elected president and four months before he entered the White House. During an appearance on CNN Newsnight with Abby Philip, Ungar-Sargon — who has been making the media rounds to passionately defend Trump's chaotic tariffs that have sparked a global market meltdown — attempted to contrast the factors that led to the Great Recession to the current economic environment. 'I've been thinking a lot about the 10 million Americans who lost their homes in the 2008 financial crisis, and how President Obama's first act in office was to give $700 billion to the banks that caused it, including $30 billion in bonuses to the crooks who organized it,' she exclaimed. 'And I'm thinking about how those very Americans saw a president pick Wall Street over Main Street,' Ungar-Sargon added. 'And what they saw this whole week was a president willing to go out there and fight for the forgotten men and women of this heartland and take on the entire international global order for them.' A one-time Marxist academic who has since morphed into a Steve Bannon-style MAGA populist-nationalist, Ungar-Sargon has pounded the drum in recent days that Trump is 'waging war' for 'the forgotten people in the heartland of America' with his trade war, going so far as to argue that it could fix the 'crisis in masculinity.' Still, regardless of the merits of her arguments on behalf of Trump's tariffs, one thing is indisputable — TARP was not Obama's 'first act' after he was sworn in as president in 2009. In reality, the massive bailout came about during the fall of 2008 when the global economy was in freefall due to financial institutions and banks — many of which were deemed 'too big to fail' — going bankrupt due to the subprime mortgage crisis. With the housing bubble bursting and defaults skyrocketing, the mortgage-backed securities that lenders and investment firms bought up in high volumes became worthless, resulting in these institutions losing all their money — and customers' deposits. TARP was eventually implemented to buy up these 'toxic' assets and keep the banks afloat amid concerns of a full-blown economic collapse. The bill was initially met with bipartisan resistance and even failed on its initial vote in the House, but Congress eventually passed it after some tweaks, and it was quickly signed into law by Bush. After Obama came into office, other changes were made to the program, including prohibiting firms receiving TARP funds from giving bonuses to their 25 highest-paid employees. The Treasury Department reported in 2023 that the total amount disbursed from TARP was $443.5 billion, with the government collecting $425.5 billion through repayments, sales and dividends. 'After considering the interest expense of $13.1 billion, the net cost of TARP programs was $31.1 billion,' the report stated. Sharing a clip of her CNN comments, Ungar-Sargon reiterated that Obama was responsible for TARP while simultaneously claiming Trump was president last year. 'In 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street,' she posted on X (formerly Twitter). 'In 2024, President Trump screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street. That's what a lot of Americans are going to remember about last week.' It didn't take long for a number of political commentators and journalists to take Ungar-Sargon to task for her revisionist history. 'Bush was President in 2008. Trump's tariffs are cratering the economy in 2025. I would recommend that @CNN and @abbydphillip stop inviting on pundits who don't seem to have a handle on the most basic facts about politics or economics,' Pod Save America host Tommy Vietor reacted. 'How many mistakes can you make in one tweet?' Charles W. Cooke, a senior writer for the conservative outlet National Review, wondered while Inside Elections deputy editor Jacob Rubashkin was even more succinct with his observation of Ungar-Sargon's remarks. ''Who was president in 2008?' and 'Who was president in 2020?' are two questions you should be required to answer before you opine about politics on TV,' he noted. 'It's one thing to go on TV and claim that Obama was president in 2008. TV is hectic and ppl make mistakes,' The Atlantic's Derek Thompson added. 'But it's another thing to log on in the morning and go: To be clear, Obama, who became POTUS in 2009, hates the common man so much he traveled back thru time to sign TARP.'
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The Independent
11-04-2025
- Business
- The Independent
‘MAGA leftist' blames Obama for 2008 bank bailout that was signed by George W. Bush
Self-described 'MAGA leftist' Batya Ungar-Sargon confidently declared on Thursday night that President Barack Obama's 'first act in office' was passing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program that bailed out financial institutions during the height of the 2008 financial crisis. Ungar-Sargon would double down on that claim the following morning, tweeting that 'in 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street' while defending Donald Trump's tariffs, insisting that 'in 2024' the current president 'screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street.' There is just one small problem with The Free Press columnist's analysis: TARP was signed into law by then-President George W. Bush on October 3, 2008 — a full month before Obama was elected president and four months before he entered the White House. During an appearance on CNN Newsnight with Abby Philip, Ungar-Sargon — who has been making the media rounds to passionately defend Trump's chaotic tariffs that have sparked a global market meltdown — attempted to contrast the factors that led to the Great Recession to the current economic environment. 'I've been thinking a lot about the 10 million Americans who lost their homes in the 2008 financial crisis, and how President Obama's first act in office was to give $700 billion to the banks that caused it, including $30 billion in bonuses to the crooks who organized it,' she exclaimed. 'And I'm thinking about how those very Americans saw a president pick Wall Street over Main Street,' Ungar-Sargon added. 'And what they saw this whole week was a president willing to go out there and fight for the forgotten men and women of this heartland and take on the entire international global order for them.' A one-time Marxist academic who has since morphed into a Steve Bannon-style MAGA populist-nationalist, Ungar-Sargon has pounded the drum in recent days that Trump is 'waging war' for 'the forgotten people in the heartland of America' with his trade war, going so far as to argue that it could fix the 'crisis in masculinity.' Still, regardless of the merits of her arguments on behalf of Trump's tariffs, one thing is indisputable — TARP was not Obama's 'first act' after he was sworn in as president in 2009. In reality, the massive bailout came about during the fall of 2008 when the global economy was in freefall due to financial institutions and banks — many of which were deemed 'too big to fail' — going bankrupt due to the subprime mortgage crisis. With the housing bubble bursting and defaults skyrocketing, the mortgage-backed securities that lenders and investment firms bought up in high volumes became worthless, resulting in these institutions losing all their money — and customers' deposits. TARP was eventually implemented to buy up these 'toxic' assets and keep the banks afloat amid concerns of a full-blown economic collapse. The bill was initially met with bipartisan resistance and even failed on its initial vote in the House, but Congress eventually passed it after some tweaks, and it was quickly signed into law by Bush. After Obama came into office, other changes were made to the program, including prohibiting firms receiving TARP funds from giving bonuses to their 25 highest-paid employees. The Treasury Department reported in 2023 that the total amount disbursed from TARP was $443.5 billion, with the government collecting $425.5 billion through repayments, sales and dividends. 'After considering the interest expense of $13.1 billion, the net cost of TARP programs was $31.1 billion,' the report stated. Sharing a clip of her CNN comments, Ungar-Sargon reiterated that Obama was responsible for TARP while simultaneously claiming Trump was president last year. 'In 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street,' she posted on X (formerly Twitter). 'In 2024, President Trump screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street. That's what a lot of Americans are going to remember about last week.' It didn't take long for a number of political commentators and journalists to take Ungar-Sargon to task for her revisionist history. 'Bush was President in 2008. Trump's tariffs are cratering the economy in 2025. I would recommend that @CNN and @abbydphillip stop inviting on pundits who don't seem to have a handle on the most basic facts about politics or economics,' Pod Save America host Tommy Vietor reacted. 'How many mistakes can you make in one tweet?' Charles W. Cooke, a senior writer for the conservative outlet National Review, wondered while Inside Elections deputy editor Jacob Rubashkin was even more succinct with his observation of Ungar-Sargon's remarks. ''Who was president in 2008?' and 'Who was president in 2020?' are two questions you should be required to answer before you opine about politics on TV,' he noted. 'It's one thing to go on TV and claim that Obama was president in 2008. TV is hectic and ppl make mistakes,' The Atlantic's Derek Thompson added. 'But it's another thing to log on in the morning and go: To be clear, Obama, who became POTUS in 2009, hates the common man so much he traveled back thru time to sign TARP.'
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fox News pundit believes Trump tariffs will reverse ‘crisis in masculinity'
A self-identified 'MAGA leftist' believes that President Donald Trump's market-shattering tariffs will reverse the 'masculinity crisis' permeating the nation. Batya Ungar-Sargon, a noted columnist, told Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy Sunday that the 'crisis in masculinity' stemmed from the decision to outsource manual labor jobs overseas — a move that has deprived millions of American men of a purpose. 'Donald Trump is actually saying 'no more' to this and to the crisis in masculinity — which is of course why young men feel so attracted to what he's offering,' Ungar-Sargon said. In her appearance, Ungar-Sargon said that the reason Trump won the presidency in 2024 was because of the Democratic Party's refusal to support young men. Campos-Duffy agreed with the pundit and told viewers that young women were also subject to the repercussions felt by young men: 'When young men are not doing well, it's not good for young women either.' Ungar-Sargon praised Trump's commitment to working-class Americans last month while speaking with Bill Maher on his Real Time show, calling the president's agenda 'socially moderate, anti-war, and anti-free-trade protectionist.' She also doubled down on branding Trump's string of executive orders as being in line with a 'leftist agenda.' Maher quipped that her declaration 'makes no sense.' Asked about Trump's shockwave tariffs, which ravaged the markets and sparked global volatility last week, Ungar-Sargon insisted that Trump's economic policy was vital to sustaining the ethos of the 'American Dream' and slated Wall Street for 'shorting' Trump. 'But the rage that you see on Wall Street — what they are trying to do here is they are shorting the president's agenda,' Ungar-Sargon said. 'Wall Street thinks, after 60 years of being utterly catered to, that they control this country and that they should control the president and all of our elected officials,' she added. The columnist went on to suggest that a 'spiritual dissemination' alongside an economic plunder of the working class had unfolded under former administrations. At the core of her argument, she blamed immigration, particularly in reference to manual labor jobs. 'We shipped jobs that gave men who work with their hands for a living and rely on brawn and physicality off to other countries to build up their middle class,' she went on. Ungar-Sargon went on to attack previous administrations for hiring 'millions of illegals' to work in construction, manufacturing, landscaping, and janitorial services – sectors 'that used to give men access to the American Dream.' Political commentator and democratic strategist Paul Begala said on Saturday that Trump's bloodthirsty trade war was damaging the voters who elected him in the first place, during an appearance on CNN. Yet, Begala explained to Wolf Blitzer that this could be a potential opportunity for Democrats as key MAGA supporters fold amid the economic slump. His comments came in response to MAGA-backer Joe Rogan slating President Trump for hiking up tariffs against Canada and sending innocent people to the mega high-security prison in El Salvador. 'Why are we upset at Canada? This is stupid, this over tariffs [...] We got to become friends with Canada again, this is so ridiculous. I can't believe there is anti-American, anti-Canadian sentiment going on. It's the dumbest ****— feud,' Rogan told fellow comedian Michael Kosta during an episode of his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. In the early throngs of the Biden administration, Ungar-Sargon published her first book, Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, which slated mainstream news outlets for promoting 'woke' and progressive liberal ideas. She then followed up with her 2024 release of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women, which spoke on the fragility and degradation of the long-sought-after 'American Dream', ahead of the U.S. election.
