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Int'l Business Times
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Int'l Business Times
Trump Official Failing to Reveal Why an Army Helicopter Caused Grounded Two Flights Stuns Fox News: 'How Do You Not Know?'
Fox News host Laura Ingraham was left stunned when Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy admitted he didn't know why a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter grounded two commercial flights at Reagan National Airport last week. During a Monday night interview on "The Ingraham Angle," Ingraham pressed Duffy for answers about the military helicopter, labeled a "priority air transport," that delayed two commercial flights. Duffy admitted that neither he nor the FAA had been informed who the "VIP" passenger was, despite the disruption. The transportation secretary deflected to the Department of Defense, requesting "radical transparency" from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News colleague. "Who do we ask?" Ingraham asked Duffy. "You're the transportation secretary, how do you not know?" Ingraham expressed disbelief that Duffy hadn't already gotten an answer from the Pentagon, sarcastically suggesting she could call Hegseth herself. The incident occurred alongside ongoing issues at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including a critical shortage of air traffic controllers, the Daily Beast reported. The FAA, overseen by the Department of Transportation, has come under scrutiny after a January crash involving a Black Hawk helicopter and a commercial plane at the same airport killed 67 people. Originally published on Latin Times
Yahoo
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lara Trump Hits A Sour Note With Critics Over Musical Fox News Moment
Fox News personality Lara Trump reviewed Democrats' singing abilities on Wednesday after host Laura Ingraham referred to her musical résumé, a widely-panned discography that's been the hit with autotune allegations. The president's daughter-in-law, who has moonlightedas a singer in recent years much to theamusement of late night hosts, was weighing in on a clip from a sit-in protest that top Democrats attended Sunday on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The protest against proposed GOP spending cuts saw Jason Kaufman — cantor of Beth El Hebrew Congregation in Virginia — leading demonstrators in a song about building a world 'from love,' a song that appears to stem from one penned by Rabbi Menachem Creditor following the 9/11 attacks. Ingraham, moments after Trump referred to the protest as a 'stunt' by Democrats, swiftly noted that the president's daughter-in-law is 'in music' before asking for her to rate the performance. ADVERTISEMENT 'I would say it was very special to witness that and that's a word that I think could go either way,' said Trump, a former co-chair of the Republican National Committee, as Ingraham chuckled. 'To a zero to 10, I'm going to give them about a .5.' Ingraham: You're in music. You heard them singing. What would you rate their singing? Any talent there? Lara Trump: 0.5 — Acyn (@Acyn) April 30, 2025 Social media users got a kick of the clip and mocked Trump, whose releases — including her 2023 cover of Tom Petty's 'I Wont' Back Down' — have often been hit with waves of online criticism. I sing in the shower. I guess I'm 'in music' too, huh? — The Political HQ (@ThePoliticalHQ) May 1, 2025 She's in music? She's in denial maybe — Dragonmom3☮️ (@jdavant2) April 30, 2025 Says the woman who sounds like screeching cats 😂 — GolfnGal (@cfeath87) April 30, 2025 I guess she hasn't heard her own nails on a chalkboard, nasally nightmare of a voice — 🪷coastal eddy (@coastal_eddyLB) April 30, 2025 She has NO BUSINESS commenting on anyone's singing ability. — Lisa Catara 💎 (@lisa_catara) May 1, 2025 'You're in music.' Yeah, kind of like her father-in-law is in politics: they're both AWFUL! — Alan! (@alan_k4u) April 30, 2025 Related...
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Laura Ingraham's Angry Rants at Dem on Fox Reveal MAGA's Dark Endgame
Democrats have long intensely debated whether to appear on Fox News. Going on Fox risks providing a sheen of legitimacy to a propaganda outlet. But not going on risks leaving Republican news consumers—and even some GOP-leaning independents—even more out of reach in an undiluted, impenetrable information universe where contrary facts and complicating nuances are rarely permitted to penetrate. Fox News host Laura Ingraham's long segment with Democratic Representative Yassamin Ansari on Tuesday night makes a strong case for Democrats to go on Fox and mix it up with those bozos a good deal more. Critically, repeated descriptions of Trump's lawlessness and outright defiance of the Supreme Court managed to reach the eyes and ears of Fox viewers. How often does that happen on Fox News? Approximately never. A basic fact about this whole saga has gotten lost: President Donald Trump is already defying the Supreme Court. This is not some theoretical final showdown that may or may not happen later. It's upon us right now. It's happening the way experts say such lawlessness takes root: insidiously, almost imperceptibly but, over time, very consequentially. The high court has pronounced Kilmar Abrego Garcia's rendition to a Salvadoran prison 'illegal' and directed Trump to 'facilitate' his return. Trump refuses. During this segment, Ansari managed to tell Fox's audience that Trump is currently defying the Supreme Court around five times. Ingraham barely bothered to contest this claim. That's remarkable, but ominous. Indeed, the whole segment—which you can watch in this link—also shows how MAGA personalities will help soften the ground for Trump to engage in rampant lawlessness on an even larger scale. What angered Ingraham was Ansari's attempt to visit Abrego Garcia—an 'illegal alien gangbanger,' as Ingraham put it—in El Salvador this week with other House Democrats. Senator Chris Van Hollen already went there and found Abrego Garcia in decent shape. Why go again? 'It seems like a political stunt,' Ingraham seethed. In response, Ansari noted that what's at issue here is whether Abrego Garcia will get due process under U.S. law. 'If this could happen to someone without due process, tomorrow it could happen to a U.S. citizen,' Ansari said. 'We are turning into an authoritarian country.' How many times have Fox News viewers been told those things? Ingraham settled on what's become the go-to for Vice President JD Vance and others in defending the indefensible. 'I am very interested in Democrats caring about 'due process' for illegal aliens,' she said archly. 'What process do you think is still due an individual who two courts found had [reason] to believe he had an affiliation with MS-13?' 'That needs to happen in court,' Ansari replied. This is a sleazy trick from Ingraham (and Vance, who also pushes it). The claim involves the 2019 proceedings that granted the Salvadoran Abrego Garcia 'withholding of removal' to El Salvador (which Trump has now defied). Abrego Garcia was initially denied bail when a judge deemed claims of MS-13 affiliation moderately credible. That was upheld on appeal. Thus his gang ties have been litigated, and Trump has no obligation to return a confirmed public safety menace. The answer to this nonsense is straightforward. The denial of bail was based on the 'confidential source' of a Maryland cop. His evidence of MS-13 ties was laughably thin, and the cop was subsequently suspended and indicted for serious misconduct. The source and the cop were never cross-examined. It's an absurd basis for declaring MS-13 affiliation as fact. What's more, there is no mystery about what process is now due to Abrego Garcia. What triggers the need for due process now is that the government affirmatively acted—illegally—in defying the previous court's 'withholding of removal' directive. Trump should bring him back, and if he wants, he can recontest Abrego Garcia's 'withholding of removal' status or attempt to deport him to a third country. When Ansari told Ingraham that this can be returned to court, she's correct. Ingraham also offered an irritable riff on the idea that if Abrego Garcia were returned, he'd be deported again. She noted that Democrats like Ansari would oppose this outcome. Yes, it's true that Democrats don't think longtime nonviolent residents should be deported and should gain a qualified path to legalization instead. So what? Democrats can hold that position while also insisting that Trump should follow lawful processes, even if their end result doesn't prove to their liking. Ingraham's kill shot—or so she imagined—was to bring up the horrific case of a woman murdered in Maryland, allegedly by another migrant. 'Do your constituents care about those victims?' Ingraham asked angrily. 'I'm appalled by any violence that takes place in this country,' Ansari replied. 'That's why this case is so important. That's why I believe in the rule of law.' Here's the rub: We need due process for people like Abrego Garcia precisely because it will settle who is guilty of violent or murderous crimes like those and who is not guilty of them. Abrego Garcia was never even charged with any gang-related crime. He deserves due process again because the government's rendition of him to El Salvador is illegal. Reopening his case in the U.S. would allow for formal scrutiny of the government's claims against him. This is the very thing Trump doesn't want, which is exactly why Trump won't bring him back. Trump telegraphed the long game on Tuesday, declaring flatly that 'you can't have a trial for all of these people' and that he's 'entitled' to remove them without one: The endgame is to dispense with due process for migrants entirely. Ingraham's segment shows how MAGA will build this case: Migrants are 'illegal alien gangbangers' simply because Trump declares them so. That unlocks Trump's power to declare thousands or millions of migrants to be dangerous criminals by definition. Lawful processes will not remove the dangerous criminals fast enough; therefore let's dispense with those processes to the greatest extent possible. Where this circular argument leads is obvious: deportations of those with other types of lawful status—those awaiting asylum hearings, those with student visas, those with other temporary protections against removal—also with no due process. On the chopping block here is the very bedrock ideal that all people in the U.S. deserve due process regardless of status. This is Trump's true project. It's lawless to its marrow. As political theorist Kevin Elliott notes at Liberal Currents, the mass removals of undesirables has historically been key to the fascist goal of purifying the 'Volk' of contaminating elements to bring about 'national rebirth.' We're now seeing an effort to erect a new legal order in which migrants simply cannot contest their designated status as dangerous criminals in any sense, which in turn makes the leader's declaration of that status by fiat unalterable and supreme. To use Trump's language, he is 'entitled' to simply decree untold numbers of migrants to be contaminants sapping our national renewal—which is basically what 'MS-13' has come to mean—making them subject to expulsion outside of any legal constraints. Democrats need to get in there and disrupt these declarations-by-fiat, and expose the lawlessness at their core, wherever possible.
Daily Mail
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Fox News host rips into Democrat Arizona congresswoman for bizarre claim about why she traveled to El Salvador
Fox News host Laura Ingraham ripped into a Democrat lawmaker for the explanation she gave for her recent trip to El Salvador to see a suspected migrant gang member. Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., was one of four Democratic lawmakers that traveled to El Salvador this week hoping to meet with deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The Salvadoran migrant was deported from the U.S. because of his suspected ties to the MS-13 cartel, though during the process the Trump administration admitted they made an 'administrative error,' prompting the Supreme Court to demand his return. 'What was this? What was your point in traveling to El Salvador, Senator Van Hollen had just been there?' Ingraham asked, referencing the visit last week by another Democrat lawmaker. 'To me, there is nothing more American than due process and the rule of law,' Ansari responded. 'The fact that Donald Trump is defying 9 - 0 supreme court order that has said very clearly that the United States government must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is extremely, extremely important.' Ansari claimed the push to return Abrego Garcia is bipartisan, as evidenced by the conservative-leanings Supreme Court's ruling, 'and also Joe Rogan, who has said that due process is one of the foundations of our freedom.' The explanation stunned the conservative TV host. 'So I understand your position, but you went to El Salvador because of Joe Rogan?' Ingraham asked. 'And you think that your trip to El Salvador would somehow deliver due process?' she continued, adding 'It seems like a political stunt.' Then the two women began talking so adamantly that their cross-talk made their conversation inaudible, with Ingraham noting it was 'annoying for the viewers.' 'So I want to make sure that the President abides by the law and actually follows the law,' Ansari said. 'The Supreme Court says return him, and in court we can have a discussion about what action should be taken,' she explained. But the Fox host fought back. 'I don't think he matters to you,' Ingraham stunningly claimed. 'I think the political story matters to you.' 'What you care about is an illegal immigrant's right to be here,' the host said before ending the interview. Why do elected Democrats prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens? In our exchange, did Rep. @YassaminAnsari clear things up? — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 23, 2025 Ansari visited the country this week with a congressional delegation including Democratic Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Maxine Dexter of Oregon. The lawmakers petitioned the government of El Salvador to allow them to see Abrego Garcia, though their request was denied. The Democrats maintain that their visit was in the name of 'due process,' and that what happened to the Salvadoran man could happen to anyone. However, the administration maintains that if Abrego Garcia does return to the U.S. he will be immediately deported soon after.
Yahoo
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Laura Ingraham Lashes Out at Dem Rep in Fiery Fox News Interview
Laura Ingraham couldn't seem to stop herself from fuming at a Democratic lawmaker who called for the return of the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. The Fox News host came out guns blazing on Tuesday night as she interviewed Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari, who went to El Salvador on Monday to visit the deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia. 'You think that your trip to El Salvador would somehow deliver what you think is due process for Mr. Abrego Garcia?' Ingraham said. 'I believe that the president needs to follow the law in this case,' Ansari began to say, referring to the unanimous Supreme Court decision ordering the Trump administration to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. after the government admitted it made a mistake in deporting him. But Ingraham immediately cut her off, saying: 'It seems like a political stunt.' The two women continued to speak over each other until an exasperated Ingraham told her guest that the crosstalk is 'annoying for the viewers.' Over the next few minutes, Ansari stressed that Abrego Garcia's case was a bipartisan issue concerning the rule of law while Ingraham rolled her eyes and doubled down on the Trump administration's talking points about the deportee's alleged gang affiliation and history of domestic violence. Toward the end of the fiery conversation, Ingraham brought up an unrelated case of an immigrant who was charged with the murder of his Maryland girlfriend. 'You are changing the subject,' Ansari fired back, triggering another round of crosstalk. 'Today, we are here to talk about the lack of due process for an individual who was illegally deported from this country… Any violence against anyone in this country is appalling.' At one point, the congresswoman was talking about the Constitution and the Supreme Court when Ingraham cut her off again. 'Just wait, take a breath,' the Fox anchor said, raising a finger at Ansari. 'If he's undeported [sic], he will be deported from the United States. That will make you miserable, correct?' Ansari began to respond but Ingraham bid her goodbye as she moved on to the next guest: 'We got it, we got, we got it. You will never support the deportation of this individual; that is the truth.'
