Democrats celebrate the Texas flood

George Stephanopoulos Gets Caught Smearing President Trump With a Massive Lie Regarding the Deadly Texas Floods – Trump White House Responds   . . ."However, Stephanopoulos seized on this tragedy during his Sunday ABC show and saw an opportunity to blame the Trump Administration for deaths from the flooding, alleging they cut funding to the National Weather Service (NWS).

“ 'We’re also learning there were significant staffing shortfalls to the National Weather Services offices in the region,” Stephanopoulos stated.

"This would be disturbing news if true. But unsurprisingly, it turns out Stephanopoulos was spreading an easily-debunked lie so that he could make Trump look like a villain again.

"Not only was there no staffing shortfall, but there were EXTRA staffers on duty for the storms. What a whopper of a lie." . . .

Twitchy   "No matter how many times this editor writes about the Left using some horrific tragedy to play politics and score cheap points, it still shocks and bothers us every time we see it, especially when the tragedy involves children. We suppose after all this time, we shouldn't be surprised when the Left is more than willing to dance on the graves of children if that means they can somehow blame Trump for whatever the latest tragedy may have been."...

White House Deputy Secretary Abigail Jackson responded to Stephanopoulos’s tall tale by sharing a story from Wired, which also confirms the National Weather Service and Trump did nothing wrong.“This is absolute fake news and even Wired knows it,” she wrote.

Imagine finding out the doctor you've been taking your children to for care is ok with certain children drowning because of the way their parents vote.

This is the sort of pediatric clinician employed at @BlueFishMD  in Houston. The ethics, humanity and empathy illustrated here is unfathomable.

What HACK Dana Bash Just Blamed Texas Flooding On Proves There's NO LOW Too Low for Her or CNN

"Seek help using the death of kids to push a political narrative is psychotic. Get off social media find a good psychiatrist."  

Dana Bash's serving up raw meat to this Democrat I find corrupt. TD

Some Politicians Are Truly Gross

Let’s be honest, all politicians have the capacity to be really gross people. There is seemingly nothing they will not exploit to advance their own careers. For many, human decency was either sold out or never existed in them to begin with. Can’t we do better than people who exploit tragedy to get ahead?" . . . (more behind a paywall)

Former NFL Star Jason Kelce Celebrates July 4th, Finds Out the Hard Way That Leftists Hate America

RedState  "Jason Kelce is eviscerated by the left after a July 4th post."

"Man I love the 4th! One of the great days we all can set aside our differences in this country, and enjoy the one thing we all share in common. That we are American! Cheers to you oh beautiful America," he posted.

"It would seem like a patriotic, inoffensive July 4 post celebrating America on her 249th birthday and lauding the commonality we all share.

"Recently retired Philadelphia Eagles great Jason Kelce took to social media Friday to declare his “love for the 4th!” Nothing wrong with that, right?

"Man I love the 4th! One of the great days we all can set aside our differences in this country, and enjoy the one thing we all share in common. That we are American!

Cheers to you oh beautiful America.

"But nooooo, leftists didn’t like that. How dare you praise the country that is oh so evil, that wants to imprison everyone, that is worse than Iran, that is now a Donald Trump autocracy? 

"Poor Kelce—the craziness came hard, and it came quick:

Almost immediately, he was ripped in the comments.

Kelce's post came hours after President Donald Trump signed the "big, beautiful bill," which seemed to be the catalyst for the backlash in the former NFL player's comment section. 

"Set aside differences? One party wants to feed children. The other wants to feed brown people to alligators," one person wrote.

"Unfortunately Jason this is not real life for many. They signed the worst bill for so many Americans today just to rub it in our faces. I know it’s hard to understand, but so many will suffer," another added.

Another user called his post "tone deaf."

. . . "This isn’t an endorsement of Jason Kelce—his wild antics are not for everyone, and as the brother of Kansas City Chiefs star Travis, or Taylor Swift’s boyfriend, as some know him—he’s bound to take some incoming. But is it really fair to smash him over saying he loves July 4th, fireworks, and putting our differences aside for one day?"

Zohran Mamdani's Independence Day Post Is Everything Wrong With His Candidacy

  . . ."Keep in mind, Mamdani has only been an American citizen for six years. Yet he pretends to be an authority on what America is and how it should be. It's an unseemly amount of arrogance from a man who has never even held a real job unless you count his failed rap career (no, I'm not joking). That he also falsely claimed to be black in a bid to get into Columbia University doesn't exactly speak well of his character either. 

"Mamdani is a dishonest, antisemitic grifter who is so deranged that he defended members of Al Qaeda. He has no expertise. He has no abilities. He does not speak for America. He would be a disaster for New York City and the country, given the economic influence at play, and his Fourth of July post is yet more evidence of everything wrong with his candidacy." . . . 

2016 Report on Russian Election Interference Was ‘Deliberately Corrupted’ by Top-Ranking Obama Officials

 Legal Insurrection   

"In an interview with Devine, Ratcliffe said, “This was Obama, Comey, Clapper, and Brennan deciding ‘We’re going to screw Trump'.'”

NY Post

"In May, CIA Director John Ratcliffe commissioned members of the agency’s Directorate of Analysis to conduct a “lessons-learned” review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian interference in the presidential election. The review focused on the ICA’s most controversial judgment: that Russia had interfered in the U.S. presidential election to benefit then-candidate Donald Trump. This was precisely the impression the ICA’s authors intended to convey.

:The New York Post’s Miranda Devine, the first journalist to obtain the review, summed up its findings as follows:

The review found that the ICA was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.  ”Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment.

"Brennan’s determination to include the Steele dossier in the ICA was especially significant given that he knew in July 2016 that it was nothing more than a collection of bogus stories commissioned by the DNC and the Hillary Clinton campaign and conjured up by former British spy Christopher Steele and his sub-sources. And so did then-President Barack Obama.

We know that because in October 2020, Fox News reported that Brennan briefed Obama and others present during a July 28, 2016, Oval Office meeting on “Hillary Clinton’s purported ‘plan’ to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as ‘a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server’ ahead of the 2016 presidential election.” . . .  MORE

Elizabeth Stauffer writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.

Obama’s Trump-Russia collusion report was corrupt from start: CIA review

"A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration’s spy agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were “excessively involved” in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a “chaotic,” “atypical” and “markedly unconventional” process that raised questions of a “potential political motive.” 

"Further, Brennan’s decision to include the discredited Steele dossier, over the objections of the CIA’s most senior Russia experts, “undermined the credibility” of the assessment.

"The “Tradecraft Review of the 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment [ICA] on Russian Election Interference” was conducted by career professionals at the CIA’s Directorate of Analysis and was commissioned by CIA Director John Ratcliffe in May." . . .