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The Democratic Socialists of America don’t like being called Communists, though many members might echo the sentiment of leftist influencer Hasan Piker when he says, “I don’t have an issue with an end goal of communism.”Yet however the group self-identifies, its agenda is openly revolutionary.Its plans call for, among other things, abolishing the United States Senate and making the executive branch and the Supreme Court subservient to the House of Representatives.Like many a revolutionary organ, the DSA acts as a party within a party, and it increasingly represents the youth wing of the Democrats.Elected officials aligned with the group, like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, look to be the future of the party.Yet DSA’s ideas are remarkably old-fashioned — so old, in fact, they were refuted by John Adams in 1787.That was the year he began publishing a multivolume work called “A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America.”It was so long ago Americans still spelled “defence” with a “c.”The book refers to “constitutions,” plural, because Adams hadn’t seen the new U.S. Constitution drawn up in Philadelphia that year.He was actually defending the state constitutions against French intellectuals who insisted they should be more radical.That was just two years before the outbreak of the French Revolution, with all the murder and mayhem it would bring.The old French versions of today’s DSA schemers condemned bicameral legislatures for the same reason Mamdani’s and AOC’s fans do now: their idea of “democracy” called for centralizing power in a single body.No checks, no balances, and certainly no federalism — the whole nation was to be personified in an omnipotent unitary legislature.Adams, who had been one of the first American revolutionary leaders to call for independence from Britain, was no enemy of popular self-government.But pure democracy would be as bad as any other kind of centralized despotism — so he defended the “mixed” constitutions of the states, almost all of which had separate upper and lower legislative chambers and divided legislative, executive and judicial power.The federal Constitution was drawn up on the same principles — and combined them with a division of powers between the states and national government. A glance at how the Constitution has performed for the last 239 years, compared to the chaos and bloodshed that engulfed revolutionary France once the proto-DSA types started getting their way there, shows who was right.But DSA, not content with dreaming of an end to capitalism, wants to end constitutionalism as well.Revolutionary parties, like Russia’s Bolsheviks, have often had such farfetched goals — the point isn’t to achieve them so much as it is to wreck whatever already exists.DSA’s first step is to radicalize the Democratic Party, making previously outrageous ideas like packing the Supreme Court seem mild by comparison to the Democratic Socialist program.Abolishing the Senate may be politically impossible, but de-legitimizing it is a way to de-legitimize obstacles to centralized power — not just the Senate itself, with its equal representation for all states, large or small, but the very principle of federalism.Why should North Dakota have a government of its own?What gives the people of Idaho a right to govern their own territory?California has the largest absolute number of Republicans in the country, but because they live in what operates as a massive one-party state, they not only lack adequate representation, but what representation they have can be snatched away by the Democratic majority — as is happening now thanks to the congressional gerrymandering championed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.DSA wants to make the whole country like California, only worse. That’s their idea of democracy — the socialist version. It’s the revolutionary French version as well, and it’s as un-American as anything can be. Yet it’s a magnet pulling the Democratic Party hard to the left.Notoriously, DSA has a disproportionate number of members who are highly educated but low-paid or unemployed.Like the Marxists of the last century or the French philosophes of the century before that, they’re sophisticated enough to seem like they know what they’re talking about, if you haven’t learned how disastrous their ideas have proved to be in practice.But American education doesn’t teach much about the horrors of Communism or France’s Reign of Terror.Radicals occupied the educational establishment early on, and now they’re reaping political rewards for the ignorance they’ve fostered in the public.According to recent Cato Institute polling, Generation Z — Americans between ages 14 and 29 — favors socialism over capitalism by 53% to 45%, though the “Democratic Socialist” label polls less well.Despite having “democratic” in their name, however, DSA doesn’t need majority support to bring about revolutionary change for the worse: a motivated minority is enough when the majority is unaware of its danger.Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. 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NEWTON, Mass.—Rep. Jake Auchincloss spent some of his time and energy Monday night trying to dispel concerns from voters about a takeover of his party by the Democratic Socialists of America.
“We’re talking about 1 percent of primaries. One percent,” he said to a standing-room-only crowd of many hundreds at a synagogue here, mentioning recent DSA wins in New York City and Colorado. “Let’s not overindex to a couple of primaries in the media capital of the world.”
Yet on the vote he was there to defend—a July 15 vote for the Massie amendment to withhold $3.3 billion in foreign military financing for Israel—Auchincloss himself had joined about half of the House Democrats in taking the same position as the most extreme far-left members—Summer Lee, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Maxine Waters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The amendment was sponsored by a Republican from Kentucky, Thomas Massie, who was defeated in a primary after repeatedly crossing President Trump and who Auchincloss himself acknowledged ran “a re-election campaign that featured antisemitic tropes.”
President Trump marvels regularly at how the Senate Democratic leader, Charles Schumer of New York, who used to be pro-Israel, has become “like a Palestinian.” Auchincloss is lower profile than Schumer and much younger (Schumer graduated Harvard College in 1971 and Auchincloss in 2010), but on the basis of Auchincloss’s performance Monday night, it’s pretty much the same pathetic story. The press will try to spin it as how Netanyahu lost America, but one can just as easily see it as the tale of how the Democrats ditched the Jews.
Auchincloss, a Marine veteran who was raised Jewish and whose mother, Dr. Laurie Glimcher, was CEO of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, had amassed a reputation as something of a pro-Israel moderate since winning election in 2020 to a seat that had been held by Joe Kennedy III and before that by Barney Frank. The district includes Newton, Brookline, and Sharon Massachusetts, which are dense with Jewish schools, congregations, bakeries, old age-homes and butcher shops.
The appearance at Temple Emanuel, a large and prosperous congregation that is part of the religiously centrist Conservative movement of Judaism, featured Auchincloss blaming Israel for what he called an illegal war against Iran in which 18 Americans have been killed.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump, they did cook up this catastrophic war together,” Auchincloss said, ignoring that Iran has been at war against America for 47 years. “Netanyahu zoomed into the situation room and made a direct pitch to the president.”
He said the Iran war featured some of the same problems he saw in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars—”groupthink,” “sunk cost bias.” In other statements and appearances, he’s added the Vietnam War to the list. “I see all of the same mistakes being made,” he said.
Auchincloss acknowledged that support for Israel among Democrats is “getting shaky,” but insisted that he himself still supports a qualitative military edge for Israel and American diplomatic backing for the Jewish state. He said he supports the Abraham Accords. He tried to downplay the significance of his vote on the grounds that even Prime Minister Netanyahu has said he wants to eliminate U.S. military aid to Israel when the ten-year memorandum of understanding reached with President Obama expires. He said he doesn’t favor an embargo on U.S. arms sales to Israel, but in the context of the war, he wanted to say, “we’re not paying for it, the American taxpayer.”
The flaws in the logic came out in the question and answer session. Auchincloss told Michael Segal, a member of the congregation, that he supported continued aid to Jordan.
One audience member announced “We feel abandoned. What do you say to the liberal Jews who are feeling lost?” Auchincloss told them to get involved in state and local politics, not just federal contests.
To a Newton-born U.S.-Israel dual citizen who said Auchincloss’s vote made her less safe, the congressman bristled: “I’m a United States member of Congress,” implying that she was somehow suggesting he should put Israel first. “I want our ally Israel to be able to defend itself. Defend itself.”
One audience member asked how Auchincloss proposed instead to deal with Iran and its nuclear threat. He did not answer. No one at all mentioned the pro-democracy protesters—30,000? 50,000?—murdered by the Iranian regime. No one asked what message the rest of the world, from Tehran to Taiwan, might draw from the suggestion that America would abandon Jerusalem.
One of the most telling moments in the evening came when the former vice chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, Tom Mountain, rose after Auchincloss’s initial remarks and attempted to offer a Republican response. He was ejected by a trio of security guards.
Not that long ago, if a Massachusetts Democratic member of Congress in a heavily Jewish district threw Israel under the bus, he might expect a public rebuke from a Republican politician such as Governor Mitt Romney or Governor Charlie Baker or Senator Scott Brown. Yet Massachusetts has become functionally a one-party state.
Instead of Republican-Democratic political competition, the main political action now consists of liberals versus progressives, the descendants of the Michael Dukakis-Ted Kennedy-Paul Tsongas Democratic Party against the radical teachers union communist-Hamasniks-Zohran Mamdani types. The moderates see a primary threat from the left as a much bigger danger than a challenge from a Republican. Everyone remembers Ayanna Pressley defeating Rep. Michael Capuano in a 2018 Democratic primary. Some of it is race- and gender-driven but a lot of it is ideological.
It took years after Vietnam for the Democrats to embrace the use of military force in Bosnia and Kosovo. Even then, during the Clinton years, the action against Al Qaeda was perfunctory enough that it was insufficient to avert the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
Auchincloss offered up the analysis that the Iranian revolution “rests on the idea of martyrdom … They want to die.” Better them than us. Observing the approach of congressional Democrats toward U.S. national security policy, you can see why Ayatollah Auchincloss is so perceptive about at least that particular dynamic.
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Amid the notoriety and rise of Democratic Socialist candidates in primaries ahead of the midterm elections and growing Democrat establishment panic, Tuesday’s Money, Power, Politics with MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle tried to join the discussion with a minimization of Republican communism. The segment was accompanied by a chyron that read “GOP Ramps Up ‘Communism’ Attacks Ahead of Midterms.”Ruhle started and highlighted a post from Republican Speaker Mike Johnson that proclaimed, “a battle between common sense and communism.”She then decided to give a history lesson, with an accusation of authoritarianism: “And I would point out that we’ve made a lot of moves that you could liken to an authoritarian regime, and that is how you end up with communism. But alas, history and the truth don’t matter.” On Tuesday, MS NOW host Stephanie Ruhle tried to minimize Republican claims about the rise of communism with the DSAShe read a post from Speaker Johnson on communism, but blamed the alleged rise on Trump and “moves that you could liken to an authoritarian regime.” pic.twitter.com/KB4fBaqZ9v— Nick (@nspin310) July 28, 2026 Ruhle asked, “What do you make of this argument Republicans are making?” as she stated the communism claims were “one thing that their diehard supporters are hanging on to.”Former Obama campaign manager Jim Messina responded to Ruhle’s authoritarian claims with praise and agreement, “Well, this is why you’re the best in journalism, because, as you pointed out, they’re actually doing the authoritarian stuff, but they don’t have anything to talk about. “Messina did have some pushback for some of the radical DSA policies, as showcased by a DSA figure’s recent appearance on FOX News Sunday. He said some DSA policies were “way out of touch”: “And, you know, some of this stuff, let’s be very clear, Stephanie, is way out of touch. We shouldn’t abolish the United States Senate. We shouldn’t rewrite the Constitution. “But Messina also said voters “don’t care about that stuff” and instead wanted to know who’s going to make their prices go lower. He warned, “Democrats can’t get pulled into a fight on communism and have to stay where they are right now, which is cost of living.” Ruhle continued, “Republicans are going to hang on to this idea of abolishing the police and open borders, and so on and so forth,” and said Dems cannot denounce the DSA because their candidates and “a lot of these ideas” on issues like affordability “do appeal to people.” pic.twitter.com/pbwQQrqdX1— Nick (@nspin310) July 28, 2026 Ruhle asked, “How specifically do Democrats combat it?” as she seemed to complain that “Republicans are going to hang on to this idea of abolishing the police and open borders, and so on and so forth.”Somewhat surprisingly, she defended DSA economic policies and said Democrats “certainly don’t want to say ‘We’re denouncing DSA,’” and continued: “DSA and a lot of those candidates and a lot of these ideas, which are about affordability and busting down a system that does not work for millions of Americans, does appeal to people.”Messina’s response turned to cost of living and said the issue “unites both sides of the Democratic Party. And that is where we win.”Ruhle now seemed to realize, despite her minimization, the new notoriety of the DSA, a group which she previously called just a “small group of people” when she mocked frequent MS NOW guest Donny Deutsch earlier this month for his fears over the group’s possible antisemitism.The transcript is below. Click “expand”:MS NOW’s Money, Power, PoliticsJuly 28, 202609:44:55 AM Eastern(…)STEPHANIE RUHLE: Republicans have been attacking the Democratic Socialist movement. It’s their number one target. Speaker Mike Johnson called it a battle between common sense and communism. And I would point out that we’ve made a lot of moves that you could liken to an authoritarian regime, and that is how you end up with communism. But alas, history and the truth don’t matter. What do you make of this argument Republicans are making? Because it’s one thing that their diehard supporters are hanging on to.JIM MESSINA: Well, this is why you’re the best in journalism, because, as you pointed out, they’re actually doing the authoritarian stuff, but they don’t have anything to talk about. They can’t talk about gas prices. They can’t talk about utility prices. They have complete control of Washington, D.C. All three levers of power. And so, of course, they’re going to move to communism. And, you know, some of this DSA stuff, let’s be very clear, Stephanie, is way out of touch. We shouldn’t abolish the United States Senate. We shouldn’t rewrite the Constitution. However, voters don’t care about that stuff. They want to know who’s going to make their prices go lower. They want to know who understands that 66 percent of voters are living paycheck to paycheck. That’s who they’re going to vote for. And Democrats can’t get pulled into a fight on communism and got to stay where they are right now, which is cost of living. This weekend, the future Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, laid out his plan of what he wants to do in the first 100 days if he takes over, and it was all costs and accountability. That’s where they have to fight.RUHLE: So, how specifically do Democrats combat it, as Republicans are going to hang on to this idea of abolishing the police and open borders, and so on and so forth? How do they stay in the zone? Because they certainly don’t want to say “We’re denouncing DSA.” DSA and a lot of those candidates and a lot of these ideas, which are about affordability and busting down a system that does not work for millions of Americans, does appeal to people.MESSINA: I think it’s very clear you stay focused on cost of living. And, you know, Mayor Mamdani ran on that. Moderates like Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger won governorships on that. That’s what unites the party right now. The party is united on making things cheaper, getting the gas prices down, figuring out how to get things down in the grocery stores, and freezing utility rates. That unites both sides of the Democratic Party. And that is where we win.(…)

Left-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who is running as a crusader for the working class, owns a rental property in Dubai, according to his latest financial disclosure. While the property’s exact location is unknown, the disclosure provides a clue, listing an outstanding debt of as much as $100,000 to the luxury developer behind a “resort-style” community located in “the heart of New Dubai,” complete with a “stunning lagoon and white sandy beaches.”
El-Sayed released the disclosure on Monday afternoon, shortly before the final debate against his primary opponent, congresswoman Haley Stevens, who had criticized El-Sayed for requesting an extension allowing him to delay the disclosure until after the Aug. 4 election. El-Sayed said he did so because his “wife and her family own property abroad,” making the disclosure “complicated” to complete.
Indeed, the disclosure lists “Rental Property 3,” a “Single Family Home” in “Dubai, U.A.E.,” adding to El-Sayed’s rental properties in Ann Arbor, Mich. and Bangalore, India, which he disclosed in 2025. It also lists a liability of between $50,000 and $100,000 to a Dubai-based company, Majid Al Futtaim Tilal Al Ghaf Phase A LLC.
A subsidiary of the Emirati real estate conglomerate Majid Al Futtaim Holdings, the company was registered in 2018 to launch Tilal Al Ghaf, a gated community “nestled in the heart of new Dubai, with a stunning lagoon and white sandy beaches” that offers “luxury resort-style living with a fresh urban feeling,” according to its promotional page. The community is separated into distinct “neighbourhoods” that include different types of homes, from “duplex townhouses” and “top-tier twin villas” to “bespoke mansions,” including some that sit on a man-made island that provide private access to a lagoon the size of 18 football fields that runs throughout the community.

Majid Al Futtaim is not without controversy. In 2024, the company was accused of exploiting migrant workers in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International, which alleged in a 2024 report that Majid Al Futtaim may have “directly caused human rights abuses – including treatment which could amount to forced labour – by managers reportedly coercing contracted staff to work unpaid overtime hours, and denying them rest days, under threat of being ‘fired.'”
While there are hurdles to foreigners owning property in the United Arab Emirates, they can purchase homes in government-designated areas, known as freehold areas, and Tilal Al Ghaf falls within one of those zones.
El-Sayed’s Dubai property is a reflection of the wealth the Democrat has accumulated since his unsuccessful gubernatorial run in 2018.
The tax returns he released during that campaign showed $237,000 in gross income. That’s nearly $450,000 less than the $686,000 in total income he brought in last year, according to his 2025 tax return, a portion of which El-Sayed released on July 15. That places him in the top 1 percent of Michigan earners, though El-Sayed has billed himself as a crusader against the oligarchy and a champion of the working class.
Some of the money stems from rental income El-Sayed and his wife, psychiatrist Sarah Jukaku, generated from their three rental properties. El-Sayed’s latest disclosure lists up to $50,000 in rental income from the Ann Arbor property, up to $15,000 in rental income from the India property, and up to $15,000 in rental income from the Dubai property.
El-Sayed’s campaign did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
The exact details of El-Sayed’s Dubai property—including its address, purchase price, and purchase date—are unclear, and El-Sayed is not required to disclose that information. The city of Dubai does not release real estate records containing buyers’ names to the public.
The liability listed on El-Sayed’s disclosure, however, is classified as a “Developer Credit Balance,” which could refer to a payment plan Majid Al Futtaim has advertised for its Tilal Al Ghaf properties in which the buyer of a new development pays 40 percent of the purchase price over a two-year period after the property is complete. The plans are interest-free, and El-Sayed’s disclosure lists an interest rate of 0 percent.

The disclosure also states that El-Sayed took on the debt in 2025. Majid Al Futtaim began selling Tilal Al Ghaf properties to the public in 2020, and the first 900 units in the community were completed in 2023, corporate records show. At least 913 units in the community have been rented, according to the Dubai real estate database PropertyIndex, which aggregates data from Dubai’s land department.
If the property listed on El-Sayed’s disclosure is indeed within Tilal Al Ghaf, he is likely not the only owner. The disclosure indicates that the asset is worth between $100,000 and $250,000. Smaller units within Tilal Al Ghaf’s least expensive townhouse neighborhood, “Elan,” typically sold for between $300,000 and $400,000 when they launched in 2020 and now sell for roughly double what they did then, according to PropertyIndex.
All Tilal Al Ghaf residents, regardless of neighborhood, have access to the community’s swanky amenities. They include “Lagoon Al Ghaf,” the “recreational lagoon” where residents can lounge on “spectacular white sandy beaches” and “indulge in swimming in crystal clear waters”; a park complete with “beautifully crafted green spaces and crystal-clear lakes”; and walking and cycling trails “winding throughout the entire Tilal Al Ghaf community.” The Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai, an elite British day school, is also located within the community, as is a Montessori nursery and the Majid Al Futtaim Mosque. Tilal Al Ghaf’s Distrikt shopping mall includes a gourmet restaurant, a grocery store, a hair and beauty salon, and a pharmacy.

El-Sayed has lashed out at critics of his foreign properties, saying after Monday’s debate, “I wonder why they’re so focused on ‘foreign’ properties for somebody with a name like mine. Do you think it might fit with a well-worn trope?” He also said his wife’s family “inherited” the properties “and then put in their and all their kids’ names, and then sold,” though El-Sayed reported rental income from all three properties in his disclosure, which covered 2025 through July 2026, indicating that he and his wife still own the properties.
Chuck Ross contributed to this report.
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Confidence in television news and newspapers remains rock bottom, results of the latest survey of U.S. adult citizens by The Economist/YouGov released Tuesday show.According to the national survey conducted July 25-27, just 5%, or one in twenty, Americans have “a great deal” of confidence in newspapers – while eight times as many (40%) have “very little.”Adult Democrats are the most likely to trust what they read in newspapers. Still, only 10% have a great deal of confidence, while 18% have very little. Among both Independents and Republicans, the percent voicing “great trust” is in single digits, while about half say they have “very little” confidence.When comes to television news, the level of confidence is even lower. Only 5% say they have a great deal of trust in what they’re being told, but nearly half (47%) say they have very little confidence.Once again, Democrats are more positive than Independents and Republicans, but they’re still more skeptical than trusting, with 7% expressing great confidence and 25% very little confidence. In contrast, fully 56% of both Independents and Republicans have very little faith in television news.Adult Americans’ distrust in both newspapers and television news appears to jump once they hit 30. Among 18-29 year-olds, 24% have very little confidence in newspapers, but that jumps to between 41-45% for older groups.Regarding television news, 33% of 18-29 year-olds have very little confidence in what’s reported, compared to 53% of those 30-44, 48% of those 45-64 and 51% of those 65 and older.The dour results released Tuesday are consistent with the findings of previous surveys by The Economist/YouGov and Gallup, as neither industry has succeeded in reducing its trust deficit with the nation’s news consumers.

Ken Martin’s chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee has failed to inspire confidence. After a year and a half with Martin at the helm, the DNC is mired in debt and increasingly reliant on accounting gimmicks to stay afloat, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
That’s a typical outcome for institutions run exclusively by Democrats, but Martin’s incompetence is still impressive. On his watch, the Republican National Committee has amassed a $130 million cash advantage in a midterm year that should favor the opposition party. Martin picked one of his closest advisers to conduct an autopsy of the 2024 election, then declined to release it for months. Upon its eventual release due to public pressure, the autopsy was widely regarded as one of the sloppiest political documents ever produced.
Even for a Democrat who has worked his entire life in politics, Martin appears ill-suited to handle the stress of leading a large organization. Earlier this month, he reportedly “threw his phone at the desk of a junior aide” during a tantrum that ultimately involved the human resources department. He is described as increasingly isolated and paranoid about getting fired. Much has changed since the DNC leadership forum in 2025, which opened with a land acknowledgment and ended with every candidate agreeing that Kamala Harris lost because of “racism and misogyny.”
None of this should come as a surprise given that Martin is from Minnesota. Born and raised in Minneapolis, he served 14 years as chair of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party before getting called up to the big leagues. He did an OK job of getting Democrats elected in a state that hasn’t voted Republican in a presidential election since 1972. Martin’s only noteworthy accomplishment is recruiting former Rep. Dean Phillips (D., Minn.) to run for Congress in 2018.
Phillips was the only Democrat with the balls to run against Joe Biden in 2024 on the grounds that the president should have a working brain. His entire party denounced him for being right. Alas, Phillips is a rare exception. Generally speaking, the Democrats coming out of Minnesota in recent years are the absolute worst.
Tim Walz
Remember him? The disgraced Minnesota governor got the VP nomination for being a non-Jewish white man who wouldn’t make Kamala Harris look dumb by comparison. A former high school football coach who didn’t know anything about football, Walz was far more comfortable prancing on stage than he was pretending to know how to load a shotgun. He lied repeatedly about serving in Afghanistan and living in China during the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
As governor, Walz presided over a historic surge in welfare fraud and recently pardoned a Laotian man convicted of sexually abusing a 10-year-old child, in part out of concern that the criminal would be deported.
Ilhan Omar 
Best known for marrying her brother and sleeping with her political consultant, Omar was a raging antisemite before it was cool. Her hobbies include screaming profanities at reporters, being obnoxious at the State of the Union, and ranting about Jews on social media. Since marrying the political consultant in 2020, Omar’s financial situation has become so shady that the Biden administration was compelled to investigate.
Keith Ellison
He presided over the same scandals as Walz while serving as Minnesota attorney general—he even met with some of the welfare fraudsters several weeks before the FBI moved in to make arrests. A former congressman with ties to Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam, Ellison was at the forefront of the Democratic Party’s embrace of virulent antisemitism.
Jake Sullivan
The former national security adviser developed a passion for curling while growing up in Minneapolis, where his father worked as a journalist and professor of journalism. Boasting degrees from Yale and Oxford, the alleged wunderkind advised Hillary Clinton during her first failed presidential campaign in 2008 and failed upward when she became secretary of state. Sullivan helped the Obama administration orchestrate a series of foreign policy disasters in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine before kick-starting the nuclear negotiations with Iran. Less than a year after joining the Biden administration, Sullivan presided over the calamitous military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Amy Klobuchar 
She seems nice enough, but the senator’s dark side came out during her failed White House run in 2020. Former Klobuchar staffers recalled being traumatized by her “explosive rage” and “dehumanizing” behavior. She occasionally pelted them with binders and once ate an airport salad with a comb and ordered a staffer to clean it after berating him for forgetting to bring her a fork. She’s also bragged about murdering an innocent duck.
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It was a split decision on Tuesday morning as NBC ended its blackout on the release of the so-called Biden tapes with a full story on Today, and CBS doubled down on its coverage from Monday night with a longer report for CBS Mornings. However, CBS Mornings neglected to continue the network’s coverage of the bombshell Fauci diary and relegated it to their streaming platform, CBS News 24/7.On both counts, ABC’s Good Morning America remained in the dark, thus doing nothing to assuage concerns being raised to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Chairman Brendan Carr about their network’s struggles to serve the public interest. GMA had other priorities, including 73 seconds in the first half hour on twin lottery jackpots of over $1 billion.Thus far, CBS News 24/7 has spent 12 minutes and 29 seconds on Fauci. More than half of that (7:41) came on Monday’s The Takeout with host Major Garrett giving the floor for Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) to preview Wednesday’s Homeland Security Committee hearing with Fauci:

CBS News 24/7 — CBS’s free streaming platform — has spent 12 minutes and 29 seconds on the Fauci diaries through mid-Tuesday afternoon.Over half of it came early Monday night with this @MajorCBS Garrett interview of @SenRonJohnson previewing Wednesday’s hearing with Fauci. pic.twitter.com/TFeLJ4A6dw— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 28, 2026

Before bringing in Johnson, Garrett took particular notice of one entry: “In one entry, Dr. Fauci wrote, ‘Apparently, the WH is very upset that I am being profiled, and it looks like I am putting down the POTUS being the president of the United States and becoming a star that outshines him. The press is playing into this as is the tweet storm. Very stressful!!’”By Tuesday, Garrett’s interview was used as the basis for three extended news briefs, including this one in the 9:00 a.m. Eastern hour from co-host Kelly O’Grady, who also said Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) “released more than a thousand pages of journal entries” and “accus[ed] Fauci of being dishonest with the public about how the pandemic started.”

By Tuesday, Garrett’s interview was used as the basis for three extended news briefs on CBS News 24/7, including this one in the 9am Eastern hour from co-host @TheKellyOGrady, who also said @SenRandPaul “released more than a thousand pages of journal entries” and “accus[ed] Fauci… pic.twitter.com/iuUNCZfJih— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 28, 2026

Pivoting to the Biden tapes, CBS senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang declared in a two-minute-and-42-second piece on CBS Mornings that “CBS News was first to obtain about two and a half hours of the roughly 70 hours of recording conversations between Biden and his ghostwriter” that “[f]or years, Biden fought to keep them private, but the Justice Department has now released them after a long legal battle.”

🧵 After Monday’s @CBSEveningNews covered the Fauci diary, Tuesday’s @CBSMornings refused to cover it, burying the story on their streaming channel, CBS News 24/7@CBSMornings did, however, have a lengthy segment (more than last night) about the Biden tapes from Weijia Jiang. pic.twitter.com/HhVcP1UDyT— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 28, 2026

Unlike her Monday’s Evening News report, Jiang included a few soundbites (click “expand”): BIDEN [on 02/16/17]: Some of this may be classified, so be careful.JIANG: The newly released audio recordings reveal that, in 2016 and 2017 as then-former Vice President Biden was writing a memoir, he told his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer on several occasions, he had classified documents in his possession. Biden said this in reference to volumes of notes he kept in his home.BIDEN [on 02/16/17]: I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.JIANG: Biden would later publicly criticize President Trump for his handling of classified material after classified documents were discovered at Mar-a-Lago.BIDEN [from 09/18/22]: How that could possibly happen, how anyone could be that irresponsible?She noted we arrived at this point because the tapes between Biden and ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer “were first referenced by Special Counsel Robert Hur in a 2024 report that summarized Hur’s investigation of Biden’s handling of classified materials after classified documents were found in Biden’s home and private office” with Hur having “described Biden in these older audio recordings as exhibiting ‘diminished faculties.’” Shifting to NBC, fill-in co-host Sheinelle Jones said Biden was “back in the spotlight with recordings that he fought to keep secret now made public.” Longtime correspondent Kelly O’Donnell said the disclosures were of “decade-old tapes,” and Biden “expect[ed] them to be private and to remain private,” but were now “exposed” because of “the conservative group — the Heritage Foundation — su[ing]” for their release following the Hur report. Laments aside, she aired more clips than CBS, including some showing Biden’s animosity toward former President Obama (click “expand”):BIDEN [on 02/16/17]: I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.O’DONNELL: The decade-old tapes capture Mr. Biden’s candid conversations with a ghostwriter for a book. He’s heard warning the author that material from his files might be top secret.BIDEN [on 04/24/17]: Some of this may be classified, so be careful.ZWONITZER [on 04/24/17]: Okay.BIDEN [on 04/24/17]: I’m not sure. It is not marked classified, but —O’DONNELL: But the recordings were made in 2016 and 2017 after he left office as Vice President —BIDEN [on 10/20/16]: This is my — they didn’t even know I had this.O’DONNELL: — and years later became part of a classified documents investigation.(….)O’DONNELL: The recordings also shed light on private comments Biden made about his onetime boss, former President Barack Obama, and their occasional tensions. BIDEN [on 04/24/17]: I mean, he used to get really pissed at me. And I try — I stopped — ZWONIZER [on 04/24/17]: He, Barack used to get pissed at you? BIDEN [on 04/24/17]: — oh yeah. Really. O’DONNELL: In another clip, Biden criticized Obama’s decision-making process. BIDEN [on 04/24/17]: Barack was always got to the right spot. But a day late and a dollar short. She offered a lament on the way out: Overall, there were about 70 hours of these tapes, just two and a half hours of public. DOJ released just the portion that had been part of that special counsel investigation related to classified documents. Biden’s office said he had provided that audio to the special counsel on the condition they remain private, but the legal challenges resulted in this disclosure Instead of also covering the Fauci diary, Today had a news story near the top of the second hour on summer shark sightings.To see the relevant Biden tapes coverage from July 28, click here (for CBS) and here (for NBC). To see the relevant CBS News 24/7 transcripts from July 27 and 28, click here (for The Takeout), here (for CBS News 24/7 Primetime), and here (for CBS News 24/7 Mornings).

As Judgment Day for Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 behavior approaches, the public demands answers as to why he misled Congress and the American people. Fauci will testify before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs on Wednesday morning, where he will address his statements and leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic, as revealed in his recently released diary. David Bozell, President of the Media Research Center, joined Alex Swoyer on The Chris Plante Show Tuesday morning to react to these new documents. Bozell exposed the hidden villain in this story: the leftist media’s failure to challenge Fauci throughout the pandemic. Bozell noted: “There has been one brief 20-second mention on the CBS Evening News, and Telemundo had a brief mention. But in terms of the morning shows yesterday, the morning shows this morning, most evening broadcast shows, and most of cable—CNN and MSNBC—you basically heard Abby declare they were not going to talk about it. It has been a total blackout.””It has been a total blackout.”The Fauci Diaries reveal everything he recommended was BS and the media don’t think that’s a story.@DavidBozell rips apart the elitist media for ignoring the Fauci Diaries with @ASwoyer on @ChrisPlanteShow pic.twitter.com/nPYqzTwRDx— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 28, 2026Bozell condemned this blackout, noting that the elitist media didn’t just “overlook” Fauci’s fabrications—they were as thick as thieves with the bureaucrat, playing chummy at dinners and trading text messages. “That’s why Jake Tapper and Fauci have dinners together. That’s why Dana Bash and Fauci text back and forth. They don’t mind that Fauci supplies a network with questions to take down a member of the administration. It’s all because of this elitist attitude that they alone should be making public policy determinations.The media believe that they — and only they — should be telling the American public what to think.Fauci had the exact same mindset. That’s why they got along so well.@DavidBozell torches Fauci and the media for their cozy relationship and narcissistic behavior. pic.twitter.com/yI0Lb3oH4L— Media Research Center (@theMRC) July 28, 2026The media’s refusal to cover the recent bombshell news in Fauci’s diaries continues their pattern of prioritizing the demonization of President Trump over all else. Watch the entire segment here: