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GOP is force-feeding Americans 'zombie food': NYT reporter

Officials in President Donald Trump's administration are facing criticism from his supporters after failing to fulfill their promises.

Dan Bongino, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi created their own trap, the New York Times reported. By promoting conspiracy theories and promising to fix them, they've backed themselves into a corner that they can't "fix" something that doesn't exist.

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'Manufactured crisis': CA takes Trump to court after 'outrageous overreach'

California is suing President Donald Trump's administration for violating the Constitution by sending in the National Guard to Los Angeles to stop protests against immigration raids, the state's Democratic Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday.

β€œPresident Trump’s order calling federalized National Guard troops into Los Angeles – over the objections of the Governor and local law enforcement – is unnecessary and counterproductive. It’s also deeply unfair to the members of the National Guard who are hard at work every day protecting our state, preparing for and responding to emergencies, and training so that, if called, they can fight our nation’s wars,” said Bonta.

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'Don't lecture me!' Former Trump Homeland Security head snaps at CNN anchor

Former acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli got defensive with CNN anchor Brianna Keilar, asking her β€œnot to lecture him” on the differences between President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles over the weekend and when National Guard troops were called to the city in back in 1992 by President George H.W. Bush.

β€œThere are four reasons under the Insurrection Act that the president can deploy military,” Cuccinelli said. β€œUnder that act, insurrection is only one of the four. That's the name of the act. But that's only one of the four bases.”

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'As in the Bible': Charlie Kirk rant links protests to 'replacement' of whites

Right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk linked anti-ICE protests in California to a theory that white people are being "replaced" in the United States.

"They all hate Christendom," Kirk said of protesters on his Monday podcast. "They hate Western civilization. They hate what we have built. This is a global movement of freaks."

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'I would': Trump says he'd arrest California Gov Gavin Newsom

President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday afternoon that, if he were Tom Homan, he’d arrest California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D).

Homan is the White House Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), which Trump refers to as the border czar.

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Roseanne Barr blames voting machines and China in unhingedΒ  LA protests rant

Right-wing actress Roseanne Barr suggested that voting machines and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led to recent protests against ICE in California.

During an interview on Monday, MAGA host Steve Bannon asked Barr to explain the weekend's demonstrations near Los Angeles.

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'Pandemonium': LA mayor comes out swinging at Trump

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) put the blame for the unrest in her city firmly on the Trump administration during an interview with CNN on Monday.

"If you dial back time and go to Friday, if immigration raids had not happened here, we would not have the disorder that went on last night," Bass said. "I will tell you that it is peaceful now, but we do not know where and when the next raids will be. That is the concern because people in this city have a rapid response network; if they see ICE, they go out and they protest. And so it's just a recipe for pandemonium that is completely unnecessary."

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'Third World War!' Steve Bannon provokes MAGA over LA protests

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon insisted that anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles were part of the "Third World War."

After a weekend of demonstrations, Bannon argued that all undocumented immigrants should be deported.

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'I'm not biting': Trump's border czar backs down from Gavin Newsom's dare

President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan backed down from California Gov. Gavin Newsom's challenge to arrest him

Homan announced Saturday that he was prepared to apprehend "anyone" who interfered with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents rounding up suspected undocumented migrants, but he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday that a reporter who asked Newsom about that threat had taken his comments out of context.

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'Begging for a fight': CNN's data guru claims LA protests have Trump soaring

CNN’s data guru Harry Enten claims President Donald Trump is β€œbegging for a fight” over immigration β€” and Democrats β€œdon’t have a clue” on how to handle it.

His comments come in light of multiple new polls which show the majority of Americans trust the GOP to handle immigration issues.

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'Are they trained?' Expert shares massive red flags as troops go into LA

President Donald Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to widespread protests against immigration raids, but a national security correspondent said the government hasn't provided answers to some basic questions about how they'll be deployed.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass both have objected to the deployment, saying troops would needlessly escalate the situation. NBC News correspondent Courtney Kube told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that federal law limits their role in significant ways.

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'Don't shoot!' Maxine Waters begs National Guard not to use guns at protest

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) pleaded with National Guard troops not to use their weapons against protesters.

The California lawmaker showed up at an anti-ICE demonstration near Los Angeles on Sunday after President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to be deployed.

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'No, no, no, no, no': GOP lawmaker shut down over LA protest violence blame

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) got a lesson on how the government works on CNN on Sunday when a former DOJ official explained to her that the escalation of violence in Los Angeles can solely be linked back to Donald Trump's firing spree since taking office.

During the panel segment on CNN's "State of the Union," the New York Republican claimed that the president had no choice but to send the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell the protests of ICE immigrant sweeps despite Califonia lawmakers saying there is no need.


With the pro-immigrant, anti-ICE protests growing, Malliotakis asserted, , "You see an ICE agents attacked, you've seen their cars put on fire, stones thrown at them –– this is unacceptable and you're also talking about enforcement of our immigration laws."

As she stated people who have been taken into custody have been, "... gang members, these were drug traffickers, human smugglers, people who committed robbery, child abuse, sex, offense, the worst of the worst," she was interrupted with, "Are you sure that they were?" to which she responded, "Well that's what the reporting says."

After adding, "The fact that, look, we would not have this situation in Los Angeles if it were not that they had this sanctuary status that refuses cooperation with ICE agents. It makes it more dangerous for everyone, the agents and the community when the ICE agents have to go in there and find these criminals instead of the city and state turning them over," former DOJ Public Affairs Director Xochitl Hinojosa took exception.

"Well, it was also children and mothers, and there's video of violence against these ––are mothers and small children and the videos are terrible," she told the GOP lawmaker. "What I'll say is it is a president's responsibility to de-escalate a situation anytime there is violence in our country. Then they should work with local law enforcement to do that."

"What happened here is sending in the National Guard only escalates it," she continued. "Hegseth saying that he wants to send in the Marines that are equipped for war only escalates it. You know, arresting the president of SEIU and going in and conducting raids only escalates. The interesting part about this is the Department of Justice would normally go in through the Community Relations Service; they did this with George Floyd. They've done this with a whole bunch of other instances where they go in and they work with state and local law enforcement to de-escalate what is happening."

"The problem here is that Trump essentially fired everyone in the Community Relations Service, he did, I worked there" she continued as the GOP lawmaker objected. No, no, no, no, no! The federal government's role is to help state and. local law enforcement, to deescalate. He essentially got rid of all of those employees because he does not believe in civil rights, and instead he's escalating it by sending in the National Guard."

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