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GOP candidate flips out on Fox News for questioning her: 'Thought you were a little better than CNN'
June 30, 2022
Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who has said that drag queens are a danger to children, threw an on-air tantrum on Monday after being asked by Fox News host Brett Baier about her decades-long relationship with a drag queen.
The interview started with Baier casting doubt over Lake's widely-debunked claim that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election by dint of widespread voter fraud. Baier specifically asked the gubernatorial hopeful to respond to footage of a recent January 6 hearing in which the Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers affirmed that there was no fraud to speak of.
"He is a Republican," Baier said. "He is a Trump supporter. And that's what he said."
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"He is a RINO," Lake shot back, suggesting that Bowers was a Republican in name only. "And he hopefully will be defeated. He is an absolute RINO."
\u201cArizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has a tantrum on Fox News after Bret Baier won't validate her blatant lies about voter fraud.\u201d— Kat Abu (@Kat Abu) 1656370565
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"I understand what you are saying," Baier responded. "But there have been, as you know, more than 70 court cases where there was not evidence and there was not any state legislature or governor that failed to certify an election, including your own Republican [Governor] Doug Ducey."
Lake then proceeded to claim that the GOP has not had any legitimate evidence until now.
Later in the interview, Baier pivoted to the subject of Lake's relationship with Richard Stevens, also known as Barbra Seville, citing an article by The Washington Post, which reported that Lake attended Stevens' shows for more than a decade.
"I've performed for Kari's birthday, I've performed in her home (with children present,) and I've performed for her at some of the seediest bars in Phoenix," Stevens wrote on Facebook earlier this month, according to the Post, which also released two pictures of Lake with Stevens.
"I actually do care to address that," Lake responded, visibly enraged. "But I'm really shocked. I'm actually appalled that Fox News would take a defamatory story like that – and we are pursuing legal action against this drag queen – I'm appalled that you would bring that up when you have not talked about our stolen election."
Lake specifically claimed that she has served Stevens with "defamation papers." But according to MeidasTouch, the Republican has only sent the performer a cease-and-desist letter.
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Later in the interview, Lake claimed that she was "disappointed in Fox," the network that once Trumpeted the former president's election conspiracy theory but now appears to be backing away from it.
"I thought you were a little better than CNN," she added.
Lake, a former television journalist, has called for the imprisonment of Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobb as well as unspecified writers who, by her account, told lies about the 2020 election.
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The chief of Farmington Hills Police Department in Detroit is asking the public for forgiveness after a Boy Scout troop taking a tour of the department found paper targets of Black men at their shooting range, WXYZ reports.
“I’ll take this one on the chin,” Police Chief Jeff King said at a public meeting. “I apologize to each and every person in this room, this community, my department, my city council, my city manager. I can’t overlook this.”
Farmington Hills Mayor Vicki Barnett said all of the targets have been removed and the city will conduct a legal review.
"Silhouette would have been most appropriate; I don't see a good reason to use those targets, I don't really at all," said councilman Michael Bridges.
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Farmington Hills police officer Kevin Clark says they use various targets, which are colored black, white, and gray.
“I have never been trained to shoot at any particular race, gender, age, or anything of this nature," said Officer Clark, but a resident says pictures from a parent who was on the Boy Scouts tour shows differently.
"What I see here is these are actually Black men in hoodies and they are actually holding guns, and they are actually Black men, they are not black, gray or white," the resident said during the meeting.
Councilmember Ken Massey said that of the 2,300 images used in target practice, 185 are of Black men.
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So-called 'pro-life' Republican who told his mistress to get an abortion goes silent after Roe is overturned
June 30, 2022
Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), a physician, has been very quiet over the past week since the Supreme Court eliminated a woman's right to privacy over her healthcare.
As the Daily Beast recalls, DesJarlais is the Republican official whose ex-wife had two abortions and he demanded his mistress to have an abortion. Yet, he maintains he's 100 percent pro-life.
Politico awarded him in 2014 "the biggest hypocrite in Congress" award, pointing to his scandal-plagued life that should have ended any other political career.
In 2012, the rumors began about the affairs the congressman had with co-workers and patients that were well documented in his divorce. He ultimately fell under an ethics investigation after pressuring a patient to go to Georgia to abort the pregnancy he caused.
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"DesJarlais claims he was trying to get her to admit she wasn’t really pregnant," Politico reported. It turns out she was actually pregnant. "DesJarlais’ lawyers fought the file’s release, even though it was a public record. The day before the election, they and Democratic attorneys still were arguing in a Chattanooga courtroom over how fast the documents could be transcribed. DesJarlais lost the case, but the ruling came too late for the voters. Tennesseans didn’t learn the full extent of his behavior until after their ballots had been cast."
Since then, the voters in the state don't seem to care about his hypocrisy, his affairs, his ethics investigations or that he's been fined by the medical boards for misconduct.
Some officials simply don't post on social media that much. But DesJarlais has remained silent on Facebook and Twitter since the announcement. He also hasn't published any statements from his office or been quoted in any local or national news publications for the past week. It's as if the entire office pinned a "Gone Fishing" sign to the digital office door.
The Beast speculated, "it just might be that DesJarlais isn’t exactly the best messenger" when it comes to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
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