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In a rare show of solidarity, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) put out two similar statements on Sunday night condemning the anti-Semitism in a Florida GOP House primary.

“The hateful campaign being run by Daniel Bilzerian in Florida is blatantly antisemitic and shocks the conscience,” Jeffries wrote about the far-right provocateur running against Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL).

“People of goodwill regardless of political affiliation must reject his vile attacks on the Jewish community. This cannot and will not stand,” added the top House Democrat.

A little over an hour earlier, Johnson released a similar statement: “The vile attack ads against Congressman Randy Fine in Florida’s 6th District are disgusting and should be condemned by all political leaders on the Right and Left. Antisemitism and outward hatred of Jewish communities have no place in our politics or in America, and we will continue to call them out wherever they arise.”

“On Tuesday, voters will reject the revolting rhetoric, and I am proud to endorse @VoteRandyFine as he works to continue delivering results for every family in #FL06,” Johnson concluded.

Bilzerian, a hard-right influencer known for his extravagant lifestyle and hard partying, has campaigned using explicitly anti-Semitic tropes and running on vehement opposition to Israel. He recently released an AI-generated campaign ad referring to Fine as a “fat Jew” who serves Israel’s interests over the U.S.

The ad, which likely led to the condemnation from Johnson and Jeffries, also called Fine a “satanic whore,” a “Shylock,” and asked, while showing footage of Adolf Hitler, “Should we revisit that Austrian painter’s opinions?”

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Kentucky’s Governor Andy Beshear said Sunday that Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) “absolutely refuses” to make a two-minute proof-of-life video to reassure his constituents he is healthy and able to serve.

While speaking to CBS News’ White House political correspondent Ed O’Keefe on Face the Nation, Beshear explained:

I’ve heard absolutely nothing back from Mitch McConnell. And while I do hope that he is getting better, I’ve known him my entire life. I wish him no harm, I actually wish him good health. His boss are the people of Kentucky, and this is why the Senate, the Republican-controlled Senate, feels so broken. They feel like they’re not accountable to anyone. All he needs to do is call into this show for two minutes, or Fox News for two minutes, or do a video for two minutes to the people he’s supposed to serve. But you know what? He absolutely refuses to do it. And then John Thune, as the leader of the Senate, you’ve got a duty to make sure all of your senators have the capacity to serve. And what is he saying? Not my job. That’s not surprising. None of them will do their job right now and stand up to a president that is running over the Constitution at every turn.

McConnell returned home on August 6 after a weeks-long stay in a D.C. area hospital.

A statement he issued that day read, “Earlier today, I was discharged from the rehabilitation center to continue my recovery at home. Elaine and I are grateful for the many well wishes and support from friends, colleagues, and Kentuckians, and for the attentive care I’ve received from excellent doctors, nurses, therapists, and hospital staff.”

The statement continued, “On the advice of my doctors, I’ll maintain an intensive regimen of physical therapy from home during the state work period, and I’ll continue to engage with my staff and colleagues on important Senate business.”

Watch the above via CBS News.

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President Donald Trump is getting a lot of attention Sunday, but for reasons that may mystify.

Video from a Trump event in New York on Friday Aug. 14 prompted plenty of speculation about what exactly might be going on with the president’s backside — which, according to many left-leaning observers, purported to show Trump harboring a mysterious bulge, or box-shaped item. The president spoke to a group of supporters on Long Island highlighting his administration’s efforts to fight crime, but the focus from the progressive pundits was on his posterior.

“Seriously, what is going on with Trump’s rear end here? It looks like he has some sort of contraption back there,” wrote progressive influencer Aaron Rupar — who shared a video that was taken by outgoing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.

“It depends,” George Conway answered — an apparent reference to the line of adult incontinence products.

Czech-American tennis legend Martina Navratilova also noted, “That’s a big diaper, I think:).”

Other left-wing social media notables also commented on the video, which has quickly gained traction on X:

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MS NOW anchor Eugene Daniels bluntly asked Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin why people were leaking accusations of paranoia inside the organization.

Martin appeared on MS NOW’s The Weekend Saturday, where he painted a rosy picture inside the organization weeks after reports claimed he threw a phone in frustration.
He denied the claims, calling them inaccurate:

JACQUELINE ALEMANY: Chairman Martin, I wanted to give you an opportunity to respond to some allegations made by some of your staffers, current and former.

The Times reported at the end of last month that you threw a phone at a junior staffer’s desk, that it prompted an HR complaint.

Multiple sources also described a growing sense of paranoia inside DNC headquarters under your leadership and that the staff had become afraid of leaks and decisions that you were making in isolation.

I’m wondering if this reporting is accurate, if you recognize this description of yourself and whether you have changed at all the way that you manage your staff.

MARTIN: Well, the reporting is not accurate, but what I would say is every day when I go into the DNC, what I see is a staff that works extremely hard. They’re working overtime. I’m usually the first one in, the last one to leave.

And I can tell you that the team at the DNC is doing exceedingly great work to prepare for these upcoming elections. And what we’re focused on is that in the next 80 days, right? We have to take this vote on the calendar and, of course, we have to look ahead a little bit.

But where the staff at the DNC that I’m so proud to work with every single day is focused is actually on winning this November. And we’ve been winning, by the way, 90% of the elections over the last 18 months we’ve been winning and I’m proud of that record.

I’m proud of the money that we’ve raised, I’m what we’ve able to do to make the investments to help us win up and down the ballot both in our candidate campaigns, both in the infrastructure, both in state parties. And that is a testament to the work at the DNC and the great colleagues that I get to work.

And I will just say this, our motto at the DNC is pretty simple, all gas, no brakes. At this point, we’re drowning out the noise and we’re focused on actually winning.

And so while other folks want to focus on, you know, everything, all the noise on the outside, what the DNC staff is, as they put their heads down, they’re focused on the work ahead.

EUGENE DANIELS: But to be fair, Mr. Chairman, some of this noise is coming from the inside, right?

And I guess we’re trying to, and I think Democrats, I know you guys at the DNC think Democrats don’t want to talk about this and they just want to focus on the calendar and moving forward and the winning.

But there is a question to some of these specific allegations.

And I guess why do you think these leaks are happening, even when you ask folks to keep the leaks inside, the leak, that’s so sure for our way to make sure the leaks come out when you guys are having private conversations, but if none of the reporting is true, why are people saying it about you?

MARTIN: You know I don’t know but as I travel across the country Eugene what I hear from American people, they’re not focused on any of that.

They’re focused on the fact that they can afford their lives that they’re paying $4 more in gas that they can’t put groceries on the table that they were worried about their job they’re worried about their family actually being able to get ahead and not just get by.

Watch above via MS NOW.

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CNN’s Pamela Brown defended Karoline Leavitt’s reasons for leaving her White House role as “pretty legit” on Saturday’s The Arena.

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Leavitt was leaving her role as press secretary. She will remain an advisor to the administration as she focuses more on family after having given birth to her second child in May. At 27, she became the youngest person to serve as White House press secretary.

On The Arena, Dana Bash argued it’s good to have more women like Leavitt in top roles because it brings motherhood and the difficulty of work/life balance into the conversation more.

“I have one. You have three babies,” she told Brown. “It is hard, but there’s — and we all have demanding jobs. People out there have more than one job that they have to do in order to make ends meet — but this is one of the, frankly, one of the benefits of having these discussions of having more women in public life in the workforce,” she said.

Leavitt’s departure from the White House sent shockwaves through Washington, D.C. Brown and others on her panel were stumped when trying to name a worthy replacement as an effective communicator for the president.

Brown said she sees only personal reasons in Leavitt’s decision and joked that most who cite family as the reason for leaving a job are usually viewed as just spewing hot air:

By the way, someone made a joke, I forgot who it was, just like in Washington, so often when people leave a job, you know, they say, I want to spend more time with my family, and everyone kind of brushes it off.

I think in this case, it seems pretty legit. You can’t, you can’t blame her for wanting that. And she’ll still be a top outside advisor. But it’s a loss for President Trump. I mean, she has been one of his key messengers.

Watch above via CNN.

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The family of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson called Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea “an important step toward justice,” as the now-confessed killer’s sentencing date was officially set.

In their first public statements since the father of two was brutally gunned down on a Manhattan street, the Thompson family noted more potential prosecutions ahead for Mangione following Friday’s emergency hearing in Manhattan Federal Court.

“Today’s guilty plea marks an important step toward justice for Brian and for our family. While nothing will ease the pain of losing him, we are grateful that the federal justice system has held the person responsible for this heinous act accountable,” the family said in a statement.

“Now we look to the court to ensure that sentencing reflects the severity of this crime. We remain mindful that additional proceedings in New York and Pennsylvania are still to come, and we will continue to seek the justice Brian deserves.”

Thompson, 50, shared two teenage sons with wife Paulette Thompson, who attended the emergency hearing in which Mangione, 28, coldly described his early morning assassination of the healthcare executive.

Mangione, whose sentencing on federal stalking charges has been set for Dec. 18, said in court that he had endured “years of pain” from a broken back when he learned UnitedHealthcare would hold its annual investors conference on Dec. 4, 2024, getting the specific location in New York City after some online research.

He admitted emailing the company posing as an investor before shooting Thompson outside the New York Hilton Midtown. The executive was alone, without security, as he headed to the conference.

“Before traveling to New York, I used a 3D printer to make a gun. I traveled to New York with the intent to shoot Brian Thompson. On the morning of Dec. 4 2024 I shot Mr. Thompson,” Mangione said, according to Fox News.

“I knew what I was doing,” he added.

Mangione was arrested at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s after a five day manhunt. He also faces state murder charges in New York, but could escape that case because arguments his attorneys are expected to make regarding the Fifth Amendment’s prohibition on double jeopardy.

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