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Disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner roasts Kamala Harris for blowing up her campaign on ‘The View'
Despite going to prison for a sex scandal involving minors, disgraced former congressman and former New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said on Friday he can still do a better job than his Democratic colleagues did in the 2024 election. During an appearance on ABC's "The View," Weiner explained that he is attempting to get back into politics by running for New York City Council because he believes, despite his baggage, that he's a better politician than current Democratic figures. He also mocked former Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing her of ruining her 2024 presidential campaign while appearing on the same show. "By the way, was this where Kamala Harris was sitting when she blew up her campaign?" he asked as soon as he took his seat between the four co-hosts. Anthony Weiner Says Voters Don't Want What 'Democrats Are Selling,' Talks About Comeback As Fiery Centrist "Is this the spot?" Weiner asked, gesturing to his chair. "I hope I don't have the same fate." Read On The Fox News App Harris told "The View" last year that there "is not a thing that comes to mind" when asked what she would have done differently than then-President Biden. The moment was widely seen as a turning point that led to the downfall of her campaign. Later in the interview, Weiner hit Harris again. He responded to co-host Joy Behar's suggestion that even though men like Weiner and President Donald Trump have problematic pasts, a woman like the former vice president still can't make it to the highest office. Though the aspiring city council member admitted female politicians are often judged harshly, he maintained that Harris made an obvious blunder in response to "The View's" "softball" question last year. "The problem is, it's a little bit too easy an answer, though, because also there were things that Kamala Harris – I made a joking reference to the answer she gave on this show: 'Is there anything you would do different?' That is the softest of softball that – every politician dreams to have that question," Weiner replied. "You still have to be a good candidate." Harris did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. Tapper Admits Feeling 'Humility' About Past Biden Coverage As Liberals Disparage New Book Weiner left Congress in 2011 following a photo of the married then-congressman leaking on one of his social media accounts. Additional sex scandals mounted in the following years, culminating in an FBI investigation that led to Weiner serving 21 months in prison and registering as a sex offender after sending sexually explicit images to a minor. After his dig toward Harris at the top of the segment, Behar pressed Weiner on why he believes he can get back into politics considering his scandal-plagued background. The aspiring city councilman said it's because he believes he's a better politician than many current Democratic lawmakers. "I think what I said at the time was I couldn't imagine there would ever be a chance that either people would want me back or that I would want to get back into that again," he replied. "But when I woke up in November of '24 and saw the election results, but more than who won, I looked around New York City and saw how many fewer Democrats even turned out to vote. And I started to say to myself, 'Something is seriously wrong here.'" Weiner said too many Democratic candidates were running "frictionless" campaigns and playing it too safe. He told the co-hosts that he felt compelled to jump back into politics because his contemporaries were not answering the public's "cry that they wanted things to change." He added that his past was not a "good enough reason… not to get off the couch and try." Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture Co-host Ana Navarro pressed him on his specific scandals, asking, "Why should New Yorkers give you a chance at a political comeback?" He replied, "I'm doing the opposite of what a lot of politicians do in my position – ignore that problem, pretend it didn't happen, blame someone else. I am saying, yes, I did these things. I got into recovery. I tried to make my life better. And now, if I can be of service – and I'm a damn good politician. I come up with answers, I talk to people directly, I don't try to butter over things, I try to be direct." "Look, all I can ever be is who I am right now and that brought me to this space," Weiner article source: Disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner roasts Kamala Harris for blowing up her campaign on 'The View'
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View Co-Host: Disney has ever told us to go easier or harder on Trump
Alyssa Farah Griffin responds to reports that ABC executives met with the hosts of "The View" and told them to tone down their political rhetoric.
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View Co-Host: Disney has ever told us to go easier or harder on Trump
Alyssa Farah Griffin responds to reports that ABC executives met with the hosts of "The View" and told them to tone down their political rhetoric.
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Joe Biden makes first public appearance since cancer diagnosis — but Jill keeps low profile
Joe Biden made his first public appearance since being diagnosed with prostate cancer but his wife, Jill kept a low profile. The former president appeared in good spirits, although he coughed several times throughout the speech at a Memorial Day service in Delaware. Mrs Biden, who has been under intense scrutiny following the publication of a book which claimed her husband's declining mental state was covered up during his time in the White House, stayed under the radar. The book, Original Sin, by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, painted a picture of Mrs Biden silencing critics and rising to become 'one of the most powerful first ladies in history,' managing the White House behind the scenes. The couple have in recent months presented a united front, posing for a selfie together with their cat Willow, following the announcement of Mr Biden's cancer, and joining the hosts of The View for a joint interview. The controversial View interview ruffled some feathers, with Mrs Biden accused of speaking over her husband, finishing his sentences, and secretly communicating with him to stop speaking. Although the couple were pictured arriving at Veterans Memorial Park, Newcastle, on Friday, Mrs Biden was nowhere to be seen as her husband stepped behind the podium. She also did not appear to be sitting in the front few rows when he stepped away to sit back down. In other similar public appearances Mrs Biden has stood or sat nearby her husband, often greeting him once off-stage. Giving an impassioned speech, Mr Biden paid tribute to his late son Beau, who died of brain cancer 10 years ago. 'This day is the 10th anniversary of the loss of my son Beau, who spent a year in Iraq. And to be honest, it's a hard day,' he said. 'Being with all of you, quite frankly, makes things a little bit easier, it really does. So, thank you for allowing me to grieve with you,' he said. Mr Biden also applauded the US armed forces, and those who died in action. 'Folks, every year we come together to remember, to remember, to remember the brave women and men who gave their all for this nation, or as Lincoln called it, the last full measure of devotion. 'That's what it was, the last full measure of devotion. They laid down their lives so we could live our lives in peace,' he said. 'Only around one per cent of all Americans defend 99 per cent of us,' he added. 'Just one per cent of Americans risk the ultimate sacrifice. We owe them so much more than we can ever repay them.' Despite his diagnosis of late-stage prostate cancer, the 82-year-old former president appeared more forceful and vigorous than he had been in a while, particularly more-so than when he was the Democratic candidate, before being replaced by Kamala Harris. Claims that it was Mrs Biden who orchestrated the alleged cover-up of her husband's mental and physical decline show no sign of evaporating. The White House stepped into the fray with Karoline Leavitt, Mr Trump's press secretary, launching a personal attack on Mrs Biden. 'Frankly, the former first lady should certainly speak up about what we saw in regard to her husband and when she saw it and what she knew,' Ms Leavitt said. 'Because I think anybody looking, again, at the videos and photo evidence of Joe Biden with your own eyes and a bit of common sense can see this is a clear cover-up and Jill Biden was definitely complacent in that cover-up.' She added: 'They were just on The View last week. She was saying everything is fine. She's still lying to the American people. She still thinks the American public are so stupid ... And frankly, it's insulting and she needs to answer for it.'
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Senate Republicans plan hearing on Biden's perceived cognitive decline
Senate Republicans have announced plans to launch their own probe into former President Joe Biden over his cognitive abilities while in office, claiming they want to investigate who was running the country during what they call Biden's decline. Republican Sens. Eric Schmitt and John Cornyn will co-chair a first-of-its-kind Senate Judiciary Committee hearing next month on the subject, which they say was covered up by members of the media. The focus echoes President Donald Trump's oft-repeated claims about Biden's mental fitness while president and criticism of Biden's use of autopen, a mechanical device to automatically add a signature to a document that's been utilized by several past presidents, including Trump in his first term. "We need to get past the failures of the media, which were legend as you pointed out, or the political issue of 'were you for Biden or against Biden?' This is about a constitutional crisis, where we basically have a mentally incompetent president who's not in charge," Cornyn said Thursday on Fox News' "The Will Cain Show." MORE: Biden, on 'The View,' takes blame for Trump's win and rejects reports of cognitive decline "The question is: Who is in charge? Whose finger is on the nuclear button or has the nuclear codes? Who can declare war? How do we defend the nation when we have basically an absent president? And those are constitutional issues we need to address and correct," Cornyn said. On Friday, after delivering his first public remarks since his office announced he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, Biden responded to reporters who asked him about Democrats who say he shouldn't have run again. "Why didn't they run against me then? Because I'd have beaten them," Biden said, adding that he has no regrets. Biden denied any accusations of mental decline, saying that he's proud of his record as president. News of the upcoming hearing comes after Cornyn penned a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi last week, urging the Justice Department to investigate whether the Biden administration was being lawful in how they presented his cognitive condition to the country. He asked that the Justice Department open a probe into "any potential violations of federal law surrounding the representations made to the American people about the health and wellbeing" of Biden. "Congress' responsibility is actually bigger than just that. It is to provide oversight and to make sure that there's more transparency for future presidents so we understand how this happened and how can we prevent it from happening again," Cornyn said on Fox News. Cornyn, in his letter, cited the May 18 report from Biden's representatives that announced he had been diagnosed with late-stage aggressive prostate cancer. MORE: Why Biden may not have known about his 'aggressive' prostate cancer until recently Other Republicans have also been calling for answers about Biden's health during the course of his presidency. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Thursday that former first lady Jill Biden should testify in front of Congress over the alleged "cover-up" of Biden's health. "I think, frankly, the former first lady should certainly speak up about what she saw in regards to her husband and when she saw it and what she knew," Leavitt said. "I think anybody looking at the videos and photo evidence of Joe Biden with your own eyes and a little bit of common sense can see, this was a clear coverup, and Jill Biden was certainly complicit in that cover-up. There's documentation and video evidence of her clearly trying to shield her husband away from the cameras," she claimed. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, a Republican, recently called for a number of high-ranking Biden White House staffers to do transcribed interviews surrounding the topic of Biden's alleged decline. Comer, speaking to Fox News' Sean Hannity on Wednesday, also suggested he might subpoena both Joe and Jill Biden, as well as former White House chief of staff Ron Klain, during the House's investigation of the former president's health and examination of his use of an autopen to sign legislation and executive orders. Comer also recently requested that Biden's White House physician, Kevin O'Connor, appear for a transcribed interview as part of the investigation. The calls for the probes into Biden come after the release of "Original Sin" by CNN host Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which made claims about "the Bidens' capacity for denial and the lengths they would go to avoid transparency about health issues." In response to the book's release, a Biden spokesman said "there is nothing in this book that shows Joe Biden failed to do his job, as the authors have alleged, nor did they prove their allegation that there was a cover up or conspiracy." "Nowhere do they show that our national security was threatened or where the President wasn't otherwise engaged in the important matters of the Presidency," the spokesperson said in a statement to ABC News. "In fact, Joe Biden was an effective President who led our country with empathy and skill." Top Democrats have largely avoided defending Biden as new details surrounding the former president's health and alleged cover-up have emerged in recent weeks. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, when asked by CNN host Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday whether Democrats can be trusted as new details are emerging, circumvented commenting directly on the former president's condition. "What I can say is that we're not looking back, we're gonna continue to look forward because at this moment, we've got real problems that need to be addressed on behalf of the American people, including the Republican effort to snatch away health care, to snatch away food assistance and hurt veterans," Jeffries said. During a recent press conference, Jeffries also accused Republicans of "peddling conspiracy theories" intended to make the country look "backward at a time when they are actually taking health care away from the American people." "No, as House Democrats, we are going to look forward," Jeffries added. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has also dodged any questions about Biden's health, responding to CNN's Kasie Hunt earlier this month by saying, "Kasie, we're looking forward." But other Democrats, such as Rep. Ro Khanna -- who defended Biden's mental and physical fitness during the 2024 campaign -- admitted he was wrong, but said there wasn't a cover-up of ahead of the election. "I don't think it was a cover-up ... but I do think that the advisers and people close to Joe Biden owe an explanation … What I don't think the Democratic Party can do is just say, 'Let's talk about the future. Let's move past this,'" Khanna told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl last Sunday. Senate Republicans plan hearing on Biden's perceived cognitive decline originally appeared on
