Author name: Jason Walsh

ABC’s The View was forced yet again to issue another legal note regarding the panel’s recent comments about President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth.

On Monday, co-host Sunny Hostin issued a statement after co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin commented on a private email sent by Hegseth’s mother.

The email detailed a family dispute in which Hegseth’s mother accused him of mistreating his ex-wife.

However, Hegseth’s mom has since apologized for the statement, stating she made the comments while in an emotional state.

“It is not true. It has never been true,” she said

“I know my son. He is a good father, husband.”

She also slammed the left-wing outlet for releasing the private email, calling it “disgusting.”

While discussing the Trump cabinet picks, Hostin began with by saying, “I have a very quick statement.”

“It’s not gonna be that quick,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg interjected.

“Pete Hegseth has denied any wrongdoing, his lawyers said he paid the woman in 2023 to head off the threat of a baseless lawsuit,” host Hostin said with a stone cold expression on her face.

“No charges were ever brought.”

The legal notes came just a week after the show issued another “legal note” on Matt Gaetz regarding allegations against him.

During a discussion of the Cabinet picks, Hostin said:

“Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations, calling the claims ‘invented’, and saying in a statement to ABC News that this false smear, following a three-year criminal investigation, should be viewed with great skepticism.”

“The DOJ investigation was closed with no charges being brought.”

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Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent from CNN, appeared to slip up after the news broke that Joe Biden had granted his embattled son, Hunter Biden, a pardon for any criminal acts he partook in from 2014 to 2024.

These criminals acts included trading influence for cash, trafficking prostitutes, and being his father’s bagman.

“We were told that this came to a head this weekend, and this is why President Biden decided now to do this. But as Isaac was just saying, that really is a sense of the conversation that has been going on really inside the family,” Jeff Zeleny said.

“I’m told this has been very much a family discussion and something that has been not widely shared or discussed as a policy matter inside the West Wing.”

“But there was a worry of future prosecutions or future the potential of what the incoming Trump Justice Department could do.”

“So that, of course, is fretted in all of this as well.”

“But for now, this moment, this certainly is a decision that President Biden, I’m guessing, did not come too easily,” he added.

“But as you played that statement before, so much has changed since June when he told David Muir of ABC News that he would not do that,” Zeleny continued.

“Of course, his station in life has changed. Did not complete his campaign.”

“So that is why, leading up to this, that’s why I’m told a decision was reached finally this weekend after spending time together in Nantucket.

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A seasoned reporter for Axios and previous founder of Politico went on a bizarre tirade attacking Elon Musk for purchasing X and “ruining” journalistic integrity by allowing people to say what they want on his platform X.

Jim VandeHei, who was in Washington D.C. to receive a journalism award from the National Press Club, used the podium to rip Musk’s declaration to X users that “you are the media now.”

“My message to Elon Musk is bulls***. You’re not the media!” VandeHei yelled.

“Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day, or X today. saying like, ‘We are the media. You are the media’…”

“You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter any more than me looking at your head, and seeing that you have a brain and telling you have an awesome set of tools makes me a damn neurosurgeon, right?”

VandeHei then encourages his fellow leftists to pat themselves on the back for being bulwarks against Donald Trump‘s looming administration.

“Being a reporter is hard. Really hard. You have to care. You have to do the hard work,” he said.

“You have to get up every single day and say, ‘I want to get to the closest approximation of the truth without any fear, without any favoritism,’” VandeHei added.

“You don’t do that by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work,” VandeHei said.

VandeHei’s remarks were mentioned on “Morning Joe,” where host Joe Scarborough praised the Musk bashing to combat “all of the garbage flying around on social media,” including “lying about what reporters do.”

However, Scarborough failed to mention the fact that he recently visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago to “restart communications” with the president-elect

He then continued mocking Musk.

“Oh! You get your news from a website run by Chinese conspiracy theorists in a Chinese religious cult?” Scarborough said.

“That’s where you get your – no! Social media, people lying every day, every hour, every minute about the news. What you do matters!”

Musk has indeed ruffled many feathers since buying X, mainly because he is exposing the media for what it actually is: a propaganda mouthpiece for the liberal elite.

Among Musk’s many battles was the recent threat by British MPs to “summon” him to their parliament to address allegations he is spreading ‘disinformation.’

In true Musk fashion, he fired back that British MPs “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens.’”

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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has warned that Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s open defiance of President Donald Trump‘s deportation plans could result in his removal from office.

During an appearance on Face the Nation, Paul expressed support for Trump’s plans to deport murderers and rapists back to their home country, despite warnings against the optics of using the military to do so.

“You know, I’m 100% supportive of going after the 15,000 murderers, the 13,000 sexual assault perpetrators, rapists—let’s send them on their way to prison or back home to another prison,” Paul asserted.

“We’ve had a long-standing distrust of putting the Army into our streets,” Paul explained.

“The police understand the Fourth Amendment. They go to judges, get warrants, and ensure specificity. So, I’m for removing these people, but through the normal process of domestic policing.”

Paul described the Mayor’s actions as a “form of insurrection,” which could have legal consequences.

“The mayor of Denver, if he’s going to resist federal law, which is a long-standing history of the supremacy of federal law, if he’s going to resist that, it will go all the way to the Supreme Court,” said Paul.

“I would suspect that he would be removed from office. I don’t know whether or not there’d be a criminal prosecution for someone resisting federal law, but he will lose. People need to realize that what he is offering is a form of insurrection where the states resist the federal government.”

“Most people objected to that and rejected that long ago. So think the Mayor of Denver is on the wrong side of history, and really, I think, will face legal ramifications if he doesn’t obey the federal law,” he added.

Johnston recently vowed to transform Denver into a so-called “fortress of resistance,” declaring his city a sanctuary for illegal immigrants, including those with criminal records.

Johnston’s strategy involves mobilizing Denver police officers to obstruct federal authorities from carrying out Trump’s deportations.

However, Johnston later walked back the remark following severe backlash.

9NEWS Reporter Marc Sallinger asked Johnston about his willingness to participate in civil disobedience against the deportation.

“If I believe that our residents are having their rights violated, if I think things are happening that are illegal or immoral or un-American in our city, I would certainly protest it, and I would expect other residents would do the same,” Johnston said.

The Denver Mayor was also asked about Trump’s border Czar’s recent warning that those obstructing the deportation efforts could face jail time.

“Yeah, I’m not afraid of that. I’m also not seeking that,” Johnston responded.

“I think the goal is we want to be able to negotiate with reasonable people on how to solve hard problems. Republican and Democratic presidents in the past have all tried to find solutions to these problems.’

“President Reagan helped people get access to work so they could stay and support themselves. Biden and Harris worked on restricting entry at the border to close it down. There are a lot of ways to approach this problem. We don’t think it has to come to this.

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken has been receiving a major pummeling online after reports emerged that he held therapy cry sessions for White House employees following President-elect Donald Trump‘s election victory.

The therapy sessions the State Department held for employees dealing with election fallout.

An internal State Department email titled “Managing stress during change” encourages employees to attend a one-hour session to discuss their feelings about the election results.

In other words, White House staff experiencing a major flare ups of TDS symptoms can come and have a group cry together at the expense of the American taxpayer.

“Change is a constant in our lives, but it can often bring about stress and uncertainty,” the email said.

“Join us for an insightful webinar where we delve into effective stress management techniques to help you navigate these challenging times.”

“This session will provide tips and practical strategies for managing stress and maintaining your well being.”

Rep. Darell Issa (R-CA), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, mocked the sessions, calling them “unacceptable” for the State Department to tolerate this.

“It is disturbing that ostensibly nonpartisan government officials would suffer a personal meltdown over the results of a free and fair election, something the United States champions around the world,” Issa wrote in a letter to Blinken.

“It is unacceptable that the Department accommodates this behavior and subsidizes it with taxpayer dollars.”

“The mental health of our foreign service personnel is important, but the Department has no obligation to indulge and promote the leftist political predilections of its employees and soothe their frayed nerves because of the good-faith votes of—and at the personal expense of—the American taxpayers,” he continued.

Issa took it further: “The mere fact that the Department is hosting these sessions raises significant questions about the willingness of its personnel to implement the lawful policy priorities that the American people elected President Trump to pursue and implement,” the letter said.

“The Trump Administration has a mandate for wholesale change in the foreign policy arena, and if foreign service officers cannot follow through on the American people’s preferences, they should resign and seek a political appointment in the next Democrat administration.”

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Just when the liberals over at MSNBC thought they could breathe a sigh of relief following Matt Gaetz’s sudden withdrawal as U.S. attorney general, the news of President-elect Donald Trump‘s new AG pick has them up in arms once again.

During an episode of “The Ari Melber Show” on Thursday, Jason Johnson, an associate professor of politics and journalism at Morgan State University, warned that Trump’s new pick, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, is both “effective” and “dangerous.”

“Pam Bondi is exactly what I was saying in the last segment that we should all fear because she’s competent,” Johnson said.

“We may not agree with her ideologically, but she actually knows how to do this job. So if anyone on the Democratic side or anyone who cared about liberty or justice was thinking, well, maybe Matt Gaetz will screw this up and that’ll give us some time.”

“She knows what she’s doing about immigration. Remember, Florida is one of those states that’s been very aggressive about migrants and deportation and moving people to different states and everything else like that,” Johnson said.

Johnson recalled how Bondi fiercely supported Gov. Ron DeSantis’s effort to purge state-funded schools of “woke” curriculum, warning that her stance could be an omen of what’s to come.

“Florida has enacted all sorts of rules and laws to curtail students and what they can do on campuses and finding legal justifications for manipulating education money,’ Johnson added.

“She is a dangerous and effective pick, and that’s, frankly, worse than what we would have got with Matt Gaetz, even with the deplorable moral background that he has,” Johnson said.

President-elect Trump praised Bondi as an effective prosecutor who will “refocus” the Justice Department away from the weaponization of political opponents.

Trump also noted Bondi’s immaculate track record:

I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the Great State of Florida, Pam Bondi, as our next Attorney General of the United States.

Pam was a prosecutor for nearly 20 years, where she was very tough on Violent Criminals, and made the streets safe for Florida Families.

Then, as Florida’s first female Attorney General, she worked to stop the trafficking of deadly drugs, and reduce the tragedy of Fentanyl Overdose Deaths, which have destroyed many families across our Country.

She did such an incredible job, that I asked her to serve on our Opioid and Drug Abuse Commission during my first Term — We saved many lives!

For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans – Not anymore.

Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again. I have known Pam for many years — She is smart and tough, and is an AMERICA FIRST Fighter, who will do a terrific job as Attorney General!”

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X owner Elon Musk responded to British MPs declaring they will “summon” him to their parliament to address allegations he is spreading “‘”disinformation.”

An inquiry in the House of Commons is set to investigate the rise of “harmful” AI content, calling for a probe into the “spread of content that can mislead and harm.”

Labour’s select committee chairwoman, MP Chi Onwurah specially called on Musk to explain the “promotion of pure disinformation” on his platform.

Musk was not fazed by the British politician’s remarks, firing back that British MPs “will be summoned to the United States of America to explain their censorship and threats to American citizens.’”

Musk, a staunch critic of the leftwing British government, recently called them out for arresting and even imprisoning citizens for sharing posts and memes following the unrest in the wake of the Southport massacre.

“I don’t think anyone should go to the UK when they’re releasing convicted pedophiles in order to imprison people for social media posts!” Musk said in a recent post.

Musk accused the UK of going “full Stalin” with regards to slapping farmers with fresh taxes that they already cannot afford.

British Prime Minister Kier Starmer was asked to comment on Musk’s tweets but avoided the question.

However, what’s more interesting is that Musk is now more popular with the British public than Starmer, according to a new poll.

The Daily Mail reported: The JL Partners poll, which surveyed 2,024 adults on November 13 and November 14, revealed that Sir Keir is less liked than all the other major political party leaders, including Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey – who are both on -1 – and Nigel Farage on -10.

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ABC’s “The View,” co-host and ABC News Senior Legal Correspondent and Analyst Sunny Hostin issued a “legal note” after Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz issued a statement to the network regarding allegations against him.

During a discussion of the Cabinet picks, Hostin said: “Matt Gaetz has long denied all allegations, calling the claims ‘invented’, and saying in a statement to ABC News that this false smear, following a three-year criminal investigation, should be viewed with great skepticism.”

“The DOJ investigation was closed with no charges being brought.”

We don’t know what was better, the statement or the expression on Hostin’s face.

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Regardless of what anyone thinks about Gaetz, he is entitled to the presumption of innocence.

It’s worth noting that the FBI and DOJ spent years investigating the allegations against Gatez but never found anything.

Gaetz has long asserted there was a conspiracy against him, and that was proven correct.

In 2021, Stephen Alford was indicted for attempting to extort Gaetz’s father in a scheme related to the sex-trafficking allegations.

“A Florida developer and fraud convict was arrested Tuesday on a charge that he tried to extort $25 million from the father of Rep. Matt Gaetz in exchange for a presidential pardon that would shut down a high-profile, criminal sex-trafficking investigation into the Republican congressman.

Stephen Alford, 62, of Fort Walton Beach, was indicted on charges of wire fraud and destruction of property subject to a seizure warrant.”

The DOJ investigation has now ended, meaning any pointed claims that Gaetz did what Hostin said could be defamatory.

The “The View” legal team obviously realized their mistake and wrote a correction to be read on-air, citing a statement provided by Gaetz.

The best thing about this was that Hostin was visibly upset by having to read it.

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