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Josh Hawley's CPAC speech burned to the ground by hometown paper in brutal editorial
February 27, 2021
On Saturday, The Kansas City Star editorial board scorched Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) for his far-right speech at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida — and in particular, his insinuation that historians, academics, and politicians who want to highlight the role of slavery and white supremacy in American history hate our country and culture.
"Part of pushing back against liberals, he told the crowd, 'is reclaiming our history and saying it is good and we are proud to be Americans. We're proud to have come to live in a country that started with nothing and became the greatest country on the face of the Earth. We're proud to live in a country that liberated slaves,'" wrote the board. "Seriously? This is the very first thing for which we need to stand up and take a bow? Because it seems to some of us that no one should ever have tried to own other human beings to begin with."
<p>"We didn't so much start with nothing as we stole what was here before we got here from Native Americans," wrote the board. "And when we did end slavery, after a war in which the Confederacy — whose heroes Hawley defends — fought to preserve it, we were awfully late coming around. And then did everything possible, through Jim Crow laws, to keep things as inequitable as they had been. This doesn't mean we hate America; it means we recognize reality, and see the need to learn from it."</p><p>The board took a swipe at Hawley for calling for "a new nationalism" under the guise of a "country boy" — even though he is the son of a wealthy banker whose <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article248436210.html" target="_blank">own hometown is split over him</a> — and highlighted the dark undertones of his concluding comment, "America now, America first, America forever!"</p><p>"As Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said recently, 'America First' does sound familiar, and not in a good way," wrote the board, drawing a parallel to the phrase's use by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/01/20/president-trumps-america-first-slogan-was-popularized-by-nazi-sympathizers/" target="_blank">Nazi sympathizers in the 1930s</a>. "'Segregation now, segregation forever,' Alabama Gov. George Wallace said in 1963. That, too, was winked at in Hawley's ugly address. Hawley, Stanford history major, is not ignorant of any of the above, shocked as he pretends to be that anyone else would acknowledge it."</p><p>"America is not hopelessly divided," concluded the board, "but that's no thanks to Hawley."</p><p>You can read more <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/editorials/article249560293.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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'A sign of weakness': Trump undercut by ex-advisor for running to CPAC so soon after losing to Biden
February 27, 2021
On Saturday, speaking to The New York Times, former Donald Trump 2016 campaign adviser Sam Nunberg argued that the ex-president's rush to speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando so soon after losing the 2020 presidential election signifies his failure, rather than any ongoing strength within the GOP.
"In 2013 and 2014, Mr. Trump wanted 'to be part of the action,'" said Nunberg, adding that Trump "has 'to be part of the action' to keep his precarious grip as the leading contender for the 2024 G.O.P. primary ... The reality is that speaking at CPAC so soon after becoming only the 10th president to lose re-election is a sign of weakness."
<p>Nunberg gained media attention in 2018 during a rant on CNN that he would never cooperate with former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation — an episode so bizarre it spurred allegations he was under the influence of alcohol on-air, which he <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/sam-nunberg-insists-media-blitz-wasnt-drunken-meltdown-trending-number-1-twitter-couch/" target="_blank">denied</a>. He ultimately backtracked and did cooperate.</p><p><span></span>"Few Republicans believe that Mr. Trump has the discipline to drop his desire for attention for long, if at all. Already, he has shown flashes of behaving like the political gadfly in search of attention he was in the years leading up to his run in 2016," wrote Maggie Haberman for the <em>Times</em>. "When Mr. Trump was considering a bid for president as early as 2011, he used his Twitter feed and his frequent Fox News appearances to inject himself into nearly every topic in the news cycle. Mr. Trump's advisers insist that he says he is happier without his Twitter feed."</p><p>Some GOP strategists fear Trump will use his CPAC speech on Sunday as a platform to <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-revenge-2650823392/" target="_blank">air his grievances</a> against fellow Republicans who have distanced themselves from his attacks on the election or accused him of inciting the Capitol riot in January.</p>
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Don Trump Jr. girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle being urged to run for office in California: report
February 27, 2021
According to a report from the Mercury News, Kimberly Guilfoyle -- once a Fox News personality before leaving under a cloud and then dating Don Trump Jr. -- is being urged to return to her native California and run for political office.
Should she make the move -- and possibly running against her former husband Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) who is facing a recall -- she would join a long list of people closely associated with Donald Trump making a run at public office in large part because of their ties to him.
<p>With <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-lara-trump-republican/" target="_self">Lara Trump</a>, wife of Eric Trump, reportedly considering a run for a U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Richard Burr (R) and <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/ivanka-florida/" target="_self">Ivanka Trump considering</a>, and then putting off a run against Sen. Marco Rubio (R) in Florida, Guilfoyle would be the latest person closely associated with the former one-term president to consider a dive into politics.</p><p>According to the report, "... there's talk that Guilfoyle could return to California to run for political office. But she'd find that many residents of her home state would have a darker view of her in 2021, after her fervent speeches for President Trump's re-election, her romance with his son, Donald Trump Jr., and her <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/08/kimberly-guilfoyle-ripped-for-call-to-fight-and-sexy-dance-in-video-before-capitol-attack/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">call for Trump supporters to 'fight</a>' before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol," with the Mercury News adding, "Politico reported Friday that 'some Republicans' are urging Guilfoyle, a top fundraiser for Trump's 2020 campaign, to move back to the Golden State to run for public office."</p><p>Aside from her connection to the Trump family in a state where President <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-elections/california-president-results" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joe Biden received 11,110,250 votes</a> to the ex-president's 6,006,429, her path to office in one of the country's most liberal states looks iffy, with the LA Times reporting that no Republican <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-07/skelton-kevin-faulconer-california-gavin-newsom-coronavirus-shutdown" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">has won statewide office since 2006</a>.</p><p>The report goes on to note, "Before Friday, Guilfoyle had kept a low profile in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection. That day, as congress prepared to finalize Joe Biden's victory, she appeared in a chilling backstage video, recorded before Trump's rally that preceded the deadly attack. In the video, recorded by Trump Jr., she did her favorite dance and urged Trump supporters to 'fight.'" </p><p>You can <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/27/california-may-get-kimberly-guilfoyle-back-running-for-public-office/" target="_blank">read more here</a>.</p>
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