- Linsey Davis - Bianca De la Garza - Alan Dershowitz - Lou Dobbs - Liam Donovan - Peter Doocy - Ross G Douthat - Maureen Dowd - Leonard Downie Jr - Kilmeny Duchardt -

==linsey david=====

Donald Trump

"And during the debate, I mentioned that and David Muir, a real lightweight. I had one against three, but I think we did great. But David Muir of ABC, fake news, when I said that crime is way up in our country, he corrected me, he corrected me and so much and it was right what I said. He didn't correct [Kamala Harris] one time, and what she said was wrong, absolutely wrong. So many different— Charlottesville, she was wrong, all of the different things, almost everything she said, and she was never corrected. But he corrected me on crime. He said, ‘No, no, crime has not gone up.' I said crime has gone up massively. He said, 'I'd like to state for the record that crime has not gone up."Now you don't know this, but we had a deal with ABC that there will be no corrections of any kind, and they violated the deal. Why? Because they're bad people, and they're fake news. So he did it many times to me during the debate. He violated the deal. That's the deal, because you can take anything and try and make up stories with it. We had a deal where that wouldn't happen. You could do whatever you wanted as soon as the debate was over, but he did it in total violation of what our agreement was. And a lot of people standing right over there [as he looked toward his staff] will tell you exactly what it was, will show you what it was. David Muir has lost all credibility.......(On Linsey David)....I never heard of her. I never want to hear of her. She was terrible. I don't know how she ever got her job in the first place. But we have a country to save, and we can't have fake news like that. And his ratings deserve to go down."  --Donald Trump, speaking from Trump Tower in New York City 9/26/24

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ABC News’ ‘World News Tonight’ Audience Rises On Monday As Network Refutes Post-Debate Claims From The Right
ABC News said that the audience for Monday night’s World News Tonight with David Muir grew by 9% versus the same period a year ago. The network pointed out the ratings amid claims on the right that the World News Tonight audience has taken a hit following last week’s presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, an event that was co-moderated by Muir and Linsey Davis, anchor for ABC News Now. According to the latest numbers, World News Tonight had 7.6 million viewers, the highest Monday night in five weeks. NBC Nightly News drew 6.15 million viewers, and CBS Evening News drew 4.6 million.
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​==Bianca De la Garza======

​Bianca de la Garza is an American journalist, television personality, and founder of BDG Beauty. She has worked for WCVB, ABC, and Fox, among other television outlets.In 2021, de la Garza appeared as a guest host on Newsmax, and in January 2022, she announced she would co-anchor the midday show John Bachman Now. She has since become the host of Newsline.

'Your case is not Eric Adams' case': Right wing host frustrated as Giuliani goes off-topic
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani seemed to frustrate Newsmax host Bianca de la Garza after he used the indictment of Mayor Eric Adams to complain about his own case. After charges against Adams were 
announced Thursday, the Newsmax host spoke to Giuliani for analysis. "So how does the case against Eric Adams play out?" she asked. (Raw Story 9/26/24) READ MORE>>>>>>

==Alan Dershowitz======

Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst. Dershowitz has taken on high-profile and often unpopular causes and clients. As of 2009, he had won 13 of the 15 murder and attempted murder cases he handled as a criminal appellate lawyer. Dershowitz has represented such celebrity clients as Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Julian Assange, and Jim Bakker. Major legal victories have included two successful appeals that overturned convictions, first for Harry Reems in 1976, then in 1984 for Claus von Bülow, who had been convicted of the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny. In 1995, Dershowitz served as the appellate adviser on the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, part of the legal "Dream Team", alongside Johnnie Cochran and F. Lee Bailey. He was a member of Harvey Weinstein's defense team in 2018 and of President Donald Trump's defense team in his first impeachment trial in 2020. He was a member of Jeffrey Epstein's defense team and helped to negotiate a 2006 non-prosecution agreement on Epstein's behalf. Dershowitz is the author of several books about politics and the law, including Reversal of Fortune: Inside the von Bülow Case (1985), the basis of the 1990 film; 
Chutzpah (1991); Reasonable Doubts: The Criminal Justice System and the O. J. Simpson Case (1996); The Case for Israel (2003); and The Case for Peace (2005). His two most recent works are The Case Against Impeaching Trump (2018) and Guilt by Accusation: The Challenge of Proving Innocence in the Age of #MeToo (2019).An ardent Zionist and supporter of Israel, he has written several books on the Arab–Israeli conflict.

​“They were so taken up by kind of legal technicalities that they didn’t see the big issues,” Dershowitz said. “It’s shocking to me that these lawyers, both of whom are relatively experienced, just didn’t get it.”

Alan Dershowitz Blasts Lawyers In Trump Ballot Case
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz panned the performance of the attorneys arguing before the Supreme Court Thursday, saying they gave “B-minus performances.” Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and Colorado gave oral arguments in an appeal of a Dec. 19 ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court disqualifying him from that state’s presidential primary ballot, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Dershowitz accused Trump’s lawyer of “dropping the ball.” (Tampa Free Press 1/8/24) READ MORE>>>>>

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Alan Dershowitz: The Age of Consent Must Be Lowered to 14, ‘Statutory Rape Is Outdated’
According to Dershowitz, who was identified in newly released court documents as a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, there should be “Romeo and Juliet exceptions” to statutory rape law.The age of consent should be lowered to 14 because “voluntary sex is so common in their age group“, claims Dershowitz, who published a revealing op-ed titled “Statutory Rape Is An Outdated Concept” in the late 90s. (Baxter Dmitry/The Paradise 1/5/24)
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"I have nothing to hide": Alan Dershowitz comes to his own defense regarding Epstein documents
Over the past two days, the release of hundreds of pages of sealed documents in the now-settled litigation between Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell have prompted certain figures named within to ready statements in their own defense, but Alan Dershowitz, the former lawyer for the now-deceased Epstein — mentioned in the files as having sex with a minor girl, named in court documents as Jane Doe 3, on several occasions — says he "has nothing to hide." In an interview with Newsmax, Dershowitz says, "I'm the only person who was ever accused who wants all the information out for good reason." In the interview, he states that since the day he met Epstein until the day he died, he's only had sex with one woman, his "wonderful wife."
 (Kelly McClure/Salon 1/4/24)
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​Churcher added ... "We all suspect Alan is a pedo and tho no proof on that, you probably met him when he was hanging out with JE."

Jeffrey Epstein Victim Told to Name-Drop Alan Dershowitz to Sell Book, New Emails Reveal
​Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was told to paint famed attorney Alan Dershowitz as a pedophile to make a book about her sex abuse claims more appealing to publishers ... according to newly unsealed court documents. The docs, obtained by TMZ, include email correspondence between Giuffre and U.K. journalist Sharon Churcher from May 2011 ... Giuffre is telling Churcher she found a ghostwriter to pen her story, and says, "I wanted to put the names of these a**holes, oops I meant to say, pedo's, that J.E. sent me to."
​ (TMZ 1/4/23)
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Dershowitz joins Miami Herald effort to get full list of Epstein ‘John Does’ unsealed
MIAMI — Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz has asked the judge in a previously settled and sealed libel suit involving Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime girlfriend, to unseal a full list of “J. Does” — associates of the sex-trafficking multimillionaire who were named in the course of the litigation. The judge this week unsealed the file — and released the first 1,000 pages of documents — but did not provide a who’s-who index of those who had come up as witnesses, victims or colleagues of the notorious couple. Dershowitz, who was a friend of and lawyer for the late financier, is piggybacking on a motion made by The Miami Herald, which spent years in court trying to get the full, unredacted file unsealed, finally succeeding this week.  (Julie K Brown/ The Herald Palladium 1/4/23)
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==lou dobbs======

Louis Carl Dobbs (born September 24, 1945  Died: July 18, 2024)
was an American conservative political commentator, author and former television host who presented Lou Dobbs Tonight from 2003 to 2009 and 2011 to 2021. Since 2021, he hosted The Great America Show on iHeart Radio and loudobbs.com. Dobbs started working with CNN at its inception in 1980, serving as a reporter and network vice president. On the air, he served as host and managing editor of the network's business program, Moneyline, which premiered in 1980. The show was renamed Lou Dobbs Tonight in 2003. Dobbs resigned from CNN in 1999 but rejoined the network in 2001. He resigned once again in November 2009. He is the former talk radio host of Lou Dobbs Radio. From 2011, he hosted Lou Dobbs Tonight on the Fox Business Network until its cancellation in February 2021. Dobbs was among the hosts named in the Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News Network defamation lawsuit for broadcasting false statements about the plaintiff company's voting machines that Fox News settled for $787.5 million and required Fox News to acknowledge that the broadcast statements were false

Even Lou Dobbs seems tired of the Hunter Biden investigation
The Republican Party’s evidence-less investigation of Hunter Biden’s business affairs continues to reveal … nothing new or criminal on the part of President Joe Biden. Rep. Andy Biggs is on the Republican Hunter Biden fishing expedition committee, which is chaired by Rep. James Comer. Biggs went on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss all of the nothing he has been able to find on Joe and Hunter Biden. Biggs tells Dobbs that while they think Hunter Biden is guilty of something, they clearly do not have enough evidence to do anything legal about it. Dobbs, whose painting of Howdy Doody in the attic must look ancient by now, seems pretty fed up with it all.
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The Fox Business Network has canceled Lou Dobbs Tonight, The Los Angeles Times reports. I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did, but, then again, Fox has been very patient with conspiracy theorists. 5, 4 , 3, 2 , 1...and the cry of Dobbs being a victim of "cancel culture" from the Domestic Trump Terrorist Maga wing of the GOP begins... Without Lou Dobbs, Trump loses one of his most trusted disinformation sources.      --Zorek Richards 2/5/21

Smartmatic lawsuit, filed in New York state court, accused Fox News, Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and hosts Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro of intentionally lying about Smartmatic in an effort to mislead the public into the false belief that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump.  --Zorek Richards 2/5/21

==liam donovan======

Right-wing US influencers say they were victims of alleged Russian plot
Conservative US influencers say if the allegations are proven, they were deceived by Russian media executives following the release of an indictment charging Moscow with interfering in the 2024 US election. The indictment accuses state broadcaster RT, formerly Russia Today, of paying a Tennessee firm $10m (£7.6m) to "create and distribute content to US audiences with hidden Russian government messaging". US media outlets identified the firm as Tenet Media, which describes itself as "network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues". Tenet Media, which was was not directly named in the indictment, was founded in 2022 by conservative Canadian YouTuber Lauren Chen and her husband Liam Donovan. Tenet has not commented publicly on the allegations and did not respond to a request for comment.
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==peter doocy=====

Hugh Hewitt Calls to Ban Every Reporter in the WH Briefing Room Except for Fox’s Doocy: They’re ‘Obviously of No Use to the Country’
Conservative host Hugh Hewitt blasted the White House press corps as “no use to the country” and said he’d “ban everyone” from briefings with the exception of the Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy. Hewitt made the remarks during a conversation with guest Bethany Mandel on his own show, slamming the press corps as complicit in refusing to address the idea that President Joe Biden was “not competent” to lead. Pressure on Biden over his ability to lead ultimately resulted in his decision to step out of the presidential race after his disastrous debate with Republican candidate Donald Trump, who went on to win the election against Vice President Kamala Harris.
(MediaIte 12/23/24) READ MORE>>>>>

==ross douthat======

Ross Douthat, Bill Kristol Talk Harris’ Campaign Failures at Harvard Event
Conservative political commentators Bill Kristol ’73 and Ross G. Douthat ’02 said Vice President Kamala Harris failed to articulate a cohesive argument against Donald Trump during a post-election debrief panel hosted by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies on Thursday. The panel also featured Brookings Institute Senior Fellow William A. Galston and was moderated by Harvey C. Mansfield’ 53, a prominent conservative professor of Government who retired from Harvard in 2023. During the panel, Douthat — an opinion columnist for the New York Times and former Crimson Editorial editor — said that there is a “pretty simple story” to tell about the 2024 election results: President Joe Biden’s failure to follow through on his “central promise was to restore normalcy.” 
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November 7, 2024: Douthat at a debrief panel hosted by the Harvard Center for American Political Studies​: “It turns out that all you have to do is tell the Democratic base that they ought to like someone and they’ll just start liking her. But for some unaccountable reason among the general public, ‘Kamala: you already like her’ was not the brilliant pitch it seemed to be,” 

==maureen dowd=====

Maureen Brigid Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is an American columnist for The New York Times and an author.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, Dowd worked for The Washington Star and Time, writing news, sports and feature articles. She joined The New York Times in 1983 as a metropolitan reporter, and became an op-ed writer in 1995. Dowd became a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine in 2014. In 1999, Dowd received a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal. Dowd's columns often explore politics, Hollywood, and gender-related topics. Her writing style has been compared to political cartoons in its exaggerated satire of politics and culture. Some have criticized her writings on female public figures, particularly Monica Lewinsky and Hillary Clinton, as sexist.

‘I’m the ‘Ratings Machine!”: Donald Trump fires back at critics, denies calling Fox News after Harris’s Convention speech
The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd stated in an opinion piece that the former president called Fox News and “followed up the posts with a scream-of-consciousness call, filibustering Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum for ten minutes until Baier abruptly cut him off to throw to the Greg Gutfeld comedy show,” reported The Hill. In a response to Dowd’s opinion piece, Trump, in a post on Truth Social wrote “I didn’t call other media outlets that asked me to go on, they called me. The Fake News, like often ‘jilted’ Maureen Dowd of the failing New York Times, wrote incorrectly that I was making the calls.” (Public TV 8/26/24) READ MORE>>>>>

Trump Denies Rambling Post-DNC in Rambling Truth Social Post
Incredibly, Trump’s Truth Social post didn’t just fail to accurately summarize why people were mocking his post-DNC rant. His tirade also included some new and confusing accusations. He called out “The Fake News,” and specifically Maureen Dowd, for writing “incorrectly that I was making the calls. WRONG!!!” The line in Dowd’s latest New York Times column reads:
He followed up the posts with a scream-of-consciousness call to Fox News, filibustering Bret Baier and Martha McCallum for 10 minutes until Baier abruptly cut him off to throw to the Greg Gutfeld comedy show. The point of Dowd’s column — titled “Daffy Donald, Turning Pea Green With Envy” — is that Trump is so jealous of Harris that he’s “unraveling.” But his main gripe is that she described his interview as a “call to Fox News” rather than a “call with Fox News”? Trump also referred to the columnist as “often ‘gilted’ Maureen Dowd.” Was he trying to say Dowd is guilty? Gifted? Jilted? Covered in gold? No one knows! (New York Magazine 8/26/24) READ MORE>>>>>

==leonard downie jr======

Leonard "Len" Downie Jr. is an American journalist who was executive editor of The Washington Post from 1991 to 2008. He worked in the Post newsroom for 44 years. His roles at the newspaper included executive editor, managing editor, national editor, London correspondent, assistant managing editor for metropolitan news, deputy metropolitan editor, and investigative and local reporter. Downie became executive editor upon the retirement of Ben Bradlee. During Downie's tenure as executive editor, the Washington Post won 25 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper had won during the term of a single executive editor. Downie currently serves as vice president at large at the Washington Post, as Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, and as a member of several advisory boards associated with journalism and public affairs.

Fired News Anchors Who Wouldn't Just Go Away
In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, editor Leonard Downie Jr. — who worked on The Post's history-making story about the Watergate cover-up — suggested that the way forward for the journalistic profession is to move beyond outdated ideas of "objectivity." Instead of seeing nonpartisanship as a virtue, Downie wrote, newsrooms should focus on building trust with readers. Joseph Kahn, executive editor of The New York Times, told Downie, "When the evidence is there, we should be clear and direct with our audience that we don't think there are multiple sides to this question, this is a falsehood. And the person repeating this falsehood over and over is guilty of lying."  (The List 6/1/24)READ MORE>>>>>

​==Kilmeny Duchardt======

Rep. Waltz to Newsmax: Secret Service Action 'Overdue'
Multiple Secret Service agents were put on leave after the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, which is "welcome news" and "overdue," said Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., a retired Green Beret appointed to the 13-member House bipartisan task force investigating the incident. "News to us, although it's welcome, welcome news," Waltz told Newsmax congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt. "I think it's a bit overdue. Every law enforcement agency I've worked with when there's been a major incident like this that involved them or some type of failure, they were immediately put on leave, paid, but put on leave and kind of sidelined pending the outcome of the investigation. "The fact that now for what over a month, the same agents that were involved in this major failure were still out there approving security plans and providing security was alarming to many of us."   
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Rep. Waltz to Newsmax: Secret Service Action 'Overdue'
Multiple Secret Service agents were put on leave after the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, which is "welcome news" and "overdue," said Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., a retired Green Beret appointed to the 13-member House bipartisan task force investigating the incident. "News to us, although it's welcome, welcome news," Waltz told Newsmax congressional correspondent Kilmeny Duchardt. "I think it's a bit overdue. Every law enforcement agency I've worked with when there's been a major incident like this that involved them or some type of failure, they were immediately put on leave, paid, but put on leave and kind of sidelined pending the outcome of the investigation. "The fact that now for what over a month, the same agents that were involved in this major failure were still out there approving security plans and providing security was alarming to many of us."   
​(Newsmax 8/23/24)READ MORE>>>>>

Dec 13, 2021:  Newsmax
 announced veteran journalist Kilmeny Duchardt has been named congressional correspondent for the network. Kilmeny will join Newsmax's growing roster of top journalists leading its news coverage. Last week Newsmax announced James Rosen will serve as the network's chief White House correspondent. Kilmeny brings to the job more than 15 years of media experience with The Associated Press, Reuters, and most recently with Turkish TV's "TRT World," as an anchor.