The week in whoppers: McIver's ICE blame, Abrams' egotistical fantasy and more
Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This assertion:
'ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor Baraka.' — Rep. LaMonica McIver, Monday
We say: BZZZZZ. Wrong: ICE agents did their jobs.
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It was Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Rep. McIver who created 'an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation' when they tried to storm the Delaney Hall detention center with a horde of protesters, leaving federal law-enforcement officers with no choice but to detain them.
And then McIver shoved and elbowed agents, which is why she's now facing felony charges for assaulting, resisting, and impeding federal officers. She has no one to blame but herself.
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'[Republicans] are mad at me for proving that democracy can deliver.' — Stacey Abrams, Saturday
We say: Deliver what, exactly? Abrams' pathetic political career has included two failed runs for Georgia's governorship and . . . not much else.
She parlayed her baseless claims that the 2018 election was stolen from her into quasi-celeb status on the left; 'Star Trek: Discovery' eye-rollingly cast her as the far-future 'president of Earth.'
Greenie nonprofit Power Forward Communities apparently used its ties to her to win a $2 billion grant from the Biden administration.
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That Abrams has done zilch worth bragging about doesn't stop her from jumping in front of the camera to play up her empty record every chance she gets.
This statement:
'Our city was attacked by the governor of Texas.' — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Friday
We say: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott didn't force Chicago to become a sanctuary city.
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That decision was made by Chi-town's Democratic leaders, who only started acknowledging the border crisis once it came to their own backyard.
If anyone 'attacked' Mayor Johnson's city, it was President Biden, who allowed millions of illegal immigrants to overwhelm blue cities across the country, then ignored local pols' pleas for help.
Border states were drowning long before Abbott started shipping migrants elsewhere.
Johnson is just angry he had to experience some of the pain from his own party's toxic policies.
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'If Donald Trump doesn't want Andrew Cuomo as mayor, you do.' — Andrew Cuomo campaign ad, Wednesday
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We say: The spin of the century! The Justice Department launched an investigation into the former governor for allegedly lying to Congress about nursing-home deaths during COVID, and Cuo is trying to use it as campaign fodder.
He might as well say: Yes, my decisions killed a few grandmas, but have you thought about the fact that Trump doesn't like me? It's beyond ghoulish.
Cuomo's record — the toxic climate law, crime-exploding bail reform and horrific mismanagement of the pandemic — is so bad he's resorted to the most popular (and lazy) Democratic fallback: being the 'anti-Trump' candidate.
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