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CNBC’s Mad Money host Jim Cramer may really be an inverted soothsayer, as yet another of his predictions went in the complete opposite direction. That’s probably what happens when your brain just happens to be screwed on backwards.

Cramer was blowing whatever gaskets he had left over President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs during the April 4 edition of his show, heralding stock market Armageddon of 1987-like proportions as early as April 7 if Trump didn’t reverse course. “The implosion of our markets continues,” cried Cramer, dubbing tumbling stocks on Friday a “man-made obliteration.”

He predicted three “modalities:” a “quick bear market” similar to the 2020 pandemic year, a “2000s-style bear market,” or “it might be the Big Kahuna” Black Monday bear market of 1987, “where the market went down hard for three days” before diving another 22 percent. But Cramer, true to form, put more stock in the outlandish doomsday scenario.

“If the president doesn’t try to reach out and reward these countries and companies that played by the rules, then the 1987 scenario — the one where we went down three days and then down 22 percent on Monday — has the most cogency,” pronounced Cramer. “We will not have to wait out too long, will we? We’ll know by Monday.” So what ended up happening? Well, not a “Black Monday,” as Cramer prophesied. Instead, stocks just wildly “whipsawed” on both sides of the flat line, according to Yahoo! Finance. In fact, by “Monday’s close, the S&P 500 and Dow Jones indexes closed down less than 1%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq actually closed in the green,” Axios reported.

Then came the kicker: the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,400 points, S&P 500 ticked up 3.4 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq spiked 4.2 percent on hopes of renewed trade negotiations the following day. 

But Cramer was sure to let all his viewers know that if Trump “stays intransigent and does nothing to ameliorate the damage that I saw these last few days, I’m not going to be constructive here.” Then he let his audience know that he was on the verge of getting his pants in a bunch. “I will contain my anger, but only because I lived through 1987 and in the end I came out okay. I was in cash-for-the-crash. I know what this feels like,” Cramer railed.

Cramer doubled down, asserting that he “will be furious” if Europe ended up moving against “our fabulous tech companies next week” as a result of Trump’s tariffs. “That I promise you, because it should not happen. None of this has to happen.” Only, European stocks ultimately moved back up “sharply” on gains led by tech and oil “alongside bullish Wall Street indicators,” according to Finimize. 

Must be tough living and thinking in reverse, eh Cramer? 

National Public Radio launched a “special” series Monday on its news program Morning Edition, “The State of the First Amendment: The Right from Which All Other Rights Flow.” In an 11-minute story, anchor Leila Fadel cast nasty aspersions against conservative free speech advocates. They’re….hate speech advocates?

It would have been nice to see the taxpayer-funded media actually support the First Amendment after several years in which it sided with social media outlets shutting down the free expression of conservative views. Unfortunately, that’s not what we get.

But first, some left-wing paranoia.

LEILA FADEL: We’ve been talking to Americans across the country who are worried –worried they may be losing a fundamental right. So many are so nervous talking about it that our conversations would start like this…

FADEL: Would you be comfortable with us using your full name?

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: I’d rather not.

This is a common shtick at NPR — “our leftist sources won’t use their names because Trump.” She rounded up a few purported horror stories from the new Trumpian anti-free speech era, but stuck two warning labels on a group that liked Trump’s free-speech moves, Moms for Liberty.

FADEL: A sixth-grade teacher forced to remove an Everyone is Welcome Here, sign.

UNIDENTIFIED TEACHER: I’ve lost quite a lot of sleep over this matter and have struggled with it deeply.

FADEL: A conservative parental rights group called Moms for Liberty that the Southern Poverty Law Center deems extremist.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #3: I think people in the administration really want to see changes that will open up the government more, and that’s good for all Americans. I have a lot of hope.

That would be the left-wing, intellectually discredited Southern Poverty Law Center, which purports to fight racism and hate in America but took the side of hateful radical Islam when it put Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who risked her life as a Muslim apostate, on a “hate list” as an “anti-Muslim extremist” for criticizing radical Islam’s brutal treatment of women. And SPLC is still trying to scare elderly liberals out of their money.

NPR not only dug up Joseph McCarthy, a reliable bogeyman for NPR’s lefty listeners, but running an archive audio clip of the man himself in the name of smearing Trump while piling on the paranoia.

FADEL: Will your views be next? Is President Trump a protector of the First Amendment, or is he the biggest threat to it since the McCarthy era in the 1940s and ’50s, when fear mongering around Soviet and Communist influence led to the political persecution of academics and leftists?

JOSEPH MCCARTHY: One communist on the faculty of one university is one communist too many.

For NPR, Trump’s executive orders against government censorship marked a turning point for the worse

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: I’ve stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. It’s back.

FADEL: In anticipation of this moment, social media companies were already backing away from fact-checking. And as Trump celebrated, certain voices re-entered the mainstream. And a warning — what you’re about to hear is hate speech.

What’s with the silly trigger warning about “hate speech,” as if she’s talking to a class of six-year-old children and not supposedly sophisticated NPR listeners?

NICK FUENTES: Around Blacks, never relax.

LAURA LOOMER: Yet, the invasion continues. Our country has been sold out to foreigners of the lowest form.

DAN NUNN: Let’s make sure to honor all of our transgender mass shooters, as the International Transgender Day of Visibility is upon us.

Well, a quote from white supremacist Fuentes is an easy call for being offensive. But the other two are, in the first case,– America being invaded by foreign criminals — a strong but defensible opinion, and in the second case, a clear reference to the under-covered story of Audrey Hale, the biological woman who shot dead six people at a school in Nashville, including three children. 

Fadel actually included a scholar who is not a knee-jerk anti-Trumper. Besides former Columbia University president Lee Bollinger she turned to Jonathan Turley, legal scholar on the First Amendment and frequent commentator on Fox News, although Fadel clearly had a bigger issue with Turley’s conservative-leaning comments than with Bollinger.

While Bollinger saw Trump as a danger to free speech, Turley said “he thinks this president could be an unexpected advocate.”

FADEL: His alarm actually grew under President Biden over what he says was collusion between the government, social media companies and academia to shut down conservative speech around polarizing issues like elections, public health and beyond.

TURLEY: You had a level of cooperation, coordination between the government and these other entities, that the effect was that thousands were censored.

Fadel tried to dismiss his concerns.

FADEL: It’s a charge often made by Republicans and Trump allies. Last year, the Supreme Court rejected the claim that social media companies were pressured to take down posts about COVID-19 and the 2020 election.

Speaking of online censorship, Fadel skipped her own outlet’s arrogant dismissal of the actual news story of Hunter Biden’s damning laptop, a story censored by social media just three weeks before the 2020 elections.

Actor and far-left pundit Bradley Whitford appeared Tuesday on NBC’s Today to promote the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale — beloved by the left in a sadistic sense for its anti-Christian, far-right authoritarian rule over women — and told co-host Craig Melvin the show has often been too real with the world no longer being “more exclusive” and America having fallen victim to the “Christian faith” being “weaponized in the service of fascism.”

An open and professed Christian, Melvin gushed over the show that mocks his faith as “a fascinating concept” and “a commentary that one could argue is a bit applicable to a lot of things that are happening in — in modern society.”

 

 

Melvin then briefly explained to the unaware (of which there are many) that Whitford’s character is nuanced: “But your character, Captain Lawrence, a bit morely [sic] ambiguous. Is that fair?”

After Whitford replied his character “has a big brain that obliterated his humanity,” Melvin again cued the longtime liberal up with another softball: “Let’s — let’s talk out what the show represents to you. What does — what does the show represent? What do you want folks to take away from this — this final season?”

Whitford claimed he read the book by the same name upon its release in 1985 and declared it’s “terribly relevant” and “applicable” because, while he “grew up in a time where democracy was inevitable, a more inclusive world appeared to be inevitable,” author Margaret Atwood reminded readers of “a terrifying truth…that none of those things are inevitable.”

The former West Wing star then uncorked the allusion of Christians who align with the GOP as being fascists and claiming pro-life support has meant “women’s health has been politicized” and there are people who want rape victims without health care:

They never were, and they never will be and we have to remain protective of — of those things in our society. During the time of this show, things — women’s health has been politicized in a way that I never could have imagined ten years ago. There are 64,000 pregnant rape victims in the country now without access to health care. We’ve seen, you know, Christian faith sort of weaponized in the service of fascism, so it’s terribly relevant.

Melvin moved onto Whitford’s new role on Netflix’s The Diplomat with fellow West Wing pal Allison Janney, but not before dropping a “yeah” after Whitford’s mini-screed.

Whitford’s known for the hyperbole in his TV appearances. In 2021, he told CBS’s Stephen Colbert the Democrat-controlled Congress had better pass its far-left voting boondoogle or “see you in the internment camp.”

And, during the last presidential election, he claimed he’s “never felt…this kind of enthusiasm ever” when describing what turned out to be entirely empty and fake momentum for Kamala Harris.

To see the relevant NBC transcript from April 8, click “expand.”

NBC’s Today
April 8, 2025
8:37 a.m. Eastern

[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Bradley Whitford on Today]

CRAIG MELVIN: So, Handmaid’s Tale — it’s — it’s — for folks who aren’t familiar with it, it really is — it’s a fascinating concept.

BRADLEY WHITFORD: Yes.

MELVIN: And it is a — it’s a commentary that one could argue is a bit applicable to a lot of things that are happening in — in modern society.

WHITFORD: One could.

MELVIN: Not to give away too much.

WHITFORD: No, no, no.

MELVIN: But your character, Captain Lawrence, a bit morely [sic] ambiguous. Is that fair?

WHITFORD: Yeah. I think he has a big brain that obliterated his humanity. And maybe his humanity we’re hoping is going to peek out a little bit.

MELVIN: Let’s — let’s talk out what the show represents to you. What does — what does the show represent? What do you want folks to take away from this — this final season?

WHITFORD: I read this — the book in 1985 when I was here going to smacting [sic] school. [MELVIN LAUGHS] And the thing about Margaret Atwood that I think is applicable today — I think — I grew up in a time where democracy was inevitable, a more inclusive world appeared to be inevitable and her book and the show tells a terrifying truth, I think, which is that none of those things are inevitable. They never were, and they never will be and we have to remain protective of — of those things in our society. During the time of this show, things — women’s health has been politicized in a way that I never could have imagined ten years ago. There are 64,000 pregnant rape victims in the country now without access to health care. We’ve seen, you know, Christian faith sort of weaponized in the service of fascism, so it’s terribly relevant.

MELVIN: Yeah.

Sen. Cory Booker continued his tour of adoring media on Monday as he joined CBS and The Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a three-segment interview to look back at his 25-hour talk session and ahead to what comes next. Booker has been eager to compare himself to the Civil Rights Movement, and Colbert was more than willing to assist him in those efforts.

Colbert declared, “So, one of the nice aspects of it, now, you are up there, you weren’t talking about you. You were talking about our nation, the challenges it faces, not just these challenges, but the challenges we always face and the need to face them in some realistic and collaborative way. But along the way of talking about that, you managed to wipe out Strom Thurmond’s 1957 record. Which was shameful. Can you remind everybody what the previous record was held and trying to stop?

 

 

Booker replied, “Yeah, Strom Thurmond, when he was actually about my age, was trying to stop civil rights and try to stop the civil rights legislation while legends were out there fighting for it in the streets. He was trying to block the legislation, and I want to say that he held that record for 68 years, but in many ways, he planted a seed to just really demonstrate that he was not successful, and a black guy came around and broke that record, so—”

After Colbert called that “a poetic denouement,” Booker rolled on, “Yeah, but look, the reality is he was not successful. I mean, I may have broke the speaking record, but he wasn’t successful in stopping civil rights from happening because black people and white people and Asian people, Christian, Jewish, Muslim all joined together in this rainbow coalition that overcame what he was doing, and that’s the secret: change has never come from Washington.”

Wrapping himself in the legacy of that era of history, Booker added, “It often comes despite Washington, and it comes to Washington by American people who are saying, ‘I am not satisfied with what’s going on, and I’m going to join a larger movement because it’s a moral moment.’ They said that in the civil rights movement, in the labor movement, in the LGBTQ movement. People who were from varied backgrounds said, ‘This is a moral moment I’m not going to be a spectator to American history. I’m going to join the cause of making American history.’” 

Later, Colbert recalled his previous interview with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and mourned, “Let’s talk about action and inaction, and one of the things that made some people mad at the Democratic leadership is voting for the CR which is not a clean CR, that had a lot of cuts in it, that seemed like the only place where the Democrats could exercise any leverage over what was going on, the slash and burn going on in Washington, D.C. I had Senator Schumer on last week to talk about this, and I have great respect for Senator Schumer, but I found his answers less than nutritious. I’ve been wondering why you voted against it.”

 

 

If $13 billion in non-defense spending is “slash and burn,” then this country will never get its spending under control. As it was, Booker tried to wax poetic, “Look, for me, that was a catalytic point, and I thought that if we took a stand there, then we would not stand alone. I think faith is one of these things there when you step out to scary dark things, faith is one of two things is going to happen. You’re going to find solid ground underneath you, or the universe will send you people that will teach you how to fly, that will soar with you.”

The last time Booker did something like this was his infamous Spartacus shtick, only to face planted in the Democratic primary, a result that will likely repeat itself because ultimately this was a “Hey, look at me” moment, not a profound 2025 version of the Civil Rights Movement.

Here is a transcript for the April 7-taped show:

CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

4/8/2025

12:40 AM ET

STEPHEN COLBERT: So, one of the nice aspects of it, now, you are up there, you weren’t talking about you. You were talking about our nation, the challenges it faces, not just these challenges, but the challenges we always face and the need to face them in some realistic and collaborative way. But along the way of talking about that, you managed to wipe out Strom Thurmond’s 1957 record. Which was shameful. Can you remind everybody what the previous record was held and trying to stop?

CORY BOOKER: Yeah, Strom Thurmond, when he was actually about my age, was trying to stop civil rights and try to stop the civil rights legislation while legends were out there fighting for it in the streets. He was trying to block the legislation and I want to say that he held that record for 68 years, but in many ways, he planted a seed to just really demonstrate that he was not successful, and a black guy came around and broke that record, so—

COLBERT: That’s a poetic denouement to that moment.

BOOKER: Yeah, but look, the reality is he was not successful. I mean, I may have broke the speaking record, but he wasn’t successful in stopping civil rights from happening because black people and white people and Asian people, Christian, Jewish, Muslim all joined together in this rainbow coalition that overcame what he was doing, and that’s the secret: change has never come from Washington. It often comes despite Washington, and it comes to Washington by American people who are saying, “I am not satisfied with what’s going on, and I’m going to join a larger movement because it’s a moral moment.” 

They said that in the civil rights movement, in the labor movement, in the LGBTQ movement. People who were from varied backgrounds said, “This is a moral moment I’m not going to be a spectator to American history. I’m going to join the cause of making American history.” 

…

COLBERT: Let’s talk about action and inaction, and one of the things that made some people mad at the Democratic leadership is voting for the CR—

BOOKER: Right.

COLBERT: — which is not a clean CR, that had a lot of cuts in it, that seemed like the only place where the Democrats could exercise any leverage over what was going on, the slash and burn going on in Washington, D.C. I had Senator Schumer on last week to talk about this, and I have great respect for Senator Schumer, but I found his answers less than nutritious. I’ve been wondering why you voted against it.

BOOKER: Look, for me, that was a catalytic point, and I thought that if we took a stand there, then we would not stand alone. I think faith is one of these things there when you step out to scary dark things, faith is one of two things is going to happen. You’re going to find solid ground underneath you, or the universe will send you people that will teach you how to fly, that will soar with you. 

When we started that 25-hour journey we had no idea how people were going to react, but we knew we needed to do something different and take a risk. I thought the American people, if we took that stand, and the Republicans shut down the government, I thought they would be with our side and it would be a galvanizing moment. But we disagreed. What we can’t do now, years and years, a very good portion of my life was defined by playing football, and I used no when we were going to score on the other team. And how did I know we were going to score on the other team? Is when I started hearing people in that huddle argue amongst themselves, demean or degrade them for missing a tackle or making a bad play.

This is one of those moments where we are going to have differences, but I’m telling you: if everybody in your coalition agrees with everything you believe in, your coalition is not big enough. We can have some room for mistakes, we can have some room for divisions, but when it comes to unifying in the cause of our country when millions of Americans are literally on the verge of losing their health care, when seniors who have been saving for retirements have seen their 401(k)s lose so much money that they now realize they may have to extend retirement for years, when we have veterans, perhaps the people that deserve our deepest respect and appreciation, losing their jobs, being fired more than any president has fired veterans and losing the services that they deserve, this is a time to say “Okay, I may disagree with you. I may disagree with what you did but right now they’re going to unify in this fight because we’ve got bigger challenges before us.” 

The CBS “news” show Sunday Morning has been an assembly line of promotional profiles for Democrats — and socialist “independents” who caucus with the Democrats. On Sunday, CBS reporter Robert Costa kissed ass. Nowhere in the story was Sanders described as a leftist, a progressive, a socialist — just “populist.”

It began with Jane Pauley’s introduction in the show’s first minute:  Bernie Sanders, senator from Vermont, former presidential candidate and populist firebrand, is once again drawing big crowds at rallies around the country. He`s still talking about familiar issues like income inequality, affordable housing and Medicare for All, but he’s also channeling much of his fury directly at the current administration. This morning, Robert Costa will fill us in on why so many continue to feel the Bern.”

“So many continue to feel The Bern.” Robert @CostaReports champions @SenSanders on @CBSSunday: “At 83, Bernie Sanders is back, holding big rallies to take on President Trump and the wealthy.” Sanders: “When we talk about America is a democracy, I think we should rephrase it, call… pic.twitter.com/CBjY1gyGvJ
— Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) April 6, 2025
Sanders drew big crowds as a presidential candidate, too — but he never won the Democrat nomination for president, so maybe big crowds don’t really represent the majority, or the “people,” as the populist label suggests. CBS is never going to tout Trump having big crowds at his rallies. But they want to pitch Bernie as the mainstream:

JANE PAULEY: He`s, perhaps, the best known voice for dissent in Washington these days. And in recent weeks, no one`s been drawing crowds everywhere he goes like Sen. Bernie Sanders. On this weekend of protests across the country –from Maine to California to Washington, D.C., the Vermont Independent is talking with our Robert Costa.

BERNIE SANDERS: What this country today faces an unprecedented level of danger, something that I`ve never seen in my lifetime. We are a nation that is moving rapidly toward oligarchy, which means that we have a government run by the billionaire class, for the billionaire class.

ROBERT COSTA: You`ve had this consistent message for a long time; is there more urgency now in this moment?

All of Costa’s questions were tee-balls: “What do you see when you`re up on stage at these rallies?” And then: “Some Republicans chuckle when they see President Trump talk about pursuing a third term. Are you laughing when you hear it?”

Sanders started yammering about the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, and billionaires ruining politics. Costa could push back, and wonder if Sanders thinks it’s not a real democracy because he didn’t win. Is this a form of election denial? 

SANDERS: I think when we talk about America as a democracy, I think we should rephrase it, call it a pseudo-democracy. And it’s not just Musk and the Republicans; it’s billionaires in the Democratic Party as well.

COSTA: That`s a serious thing to say as a U.S. senator, pseudo-democracy —

SANDERS: Yeah. Well, look —

COSTA: — not a full democracy?

SANDERS: Look, you get one vote, and Elon Musk can spend $270 million to help elect Trump. Does that sound like a democracy to you?

So many billions in campaign finance go to purchase television ads — so do television networks ruin democracy? Don’t expect CBS to ponder it. 

Costa really turned ridiculous when he said Trump is pressuring big law firms “whose clients are seen as hostile to Trump.” These are law firms that pushed Russiagate and lawfare to put Trump in jail, but Costa uses the term “seen as hostile,” as in nothing Trump says could possibly be based in reality. It’s like claiming Bernie Sanders is “seen as male.”

Sanders called the law firms greedy cowards, and then another Costa coddle:

COSTA: What’s the cost to the country when that sort of thing happens?

SANDERS: It is indescribable.

It’s indescribable how far CBS is landing from a place of objectivity or nonpartisanship. 

ABC News made a big deal of their extensive, months-long search for someone to fill their “conservative” seat, so one would think presenting a diversity of opinion on The View would be a priority. But a new NewsBusters study showed that it’s more than just a name. “The View” also represented the fact that only one view, the liberal view was permitted; they were exposed by the fact that in the first three months of 2025, they had ZERO right-leaning guests on the program to talk politics.

Since coming back after their winter break on January 6, through April 4 (the Friday before the 6th), The View had 63 guests on to discuss politics and they all expressed left-leaning view points. During that same period, there were ZERO guests that expressed right-leaning politics.

Of those 63 left-leaning guests, 9 were Democratic politicians: Sen. Tammy Duckworth (IL), Sen. John Fetterman (PA), Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (MI), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (TX), Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN), Gov. JB Pritzker (IL), Sen. Elissa Slotkin (MI), and Sen. Chuck Schumer (NY).

(This doesn’t count Sen. Cory Booker on Monday.)

Four of them were former staffers of Democratic presidential administrations: the Obama-era hosts of Pod Save America (Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor), and Karine Jean-Pierre, President Biden’s press secretary.

The rest were a medley figures from Hollywood (e.g. John Leguizamo, Michelle Yeoh, and Ellen Pompeo), comedy (e.g. Roy Wood Jr., Chelsea Handler, and Bill Burr), tech (e.g. Bill Gates and Kara Swisher), T.V. (e.g. the cast of Queer Eye), and influencers (e.g. Elie Mystal, Dylan Mulvaney, and Stephen A. Smith).

January 6 marked the beginning of the second half of The View’s 28th season; a season that was kicked off with guests such as liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).

According to The View’s ticket request page, upcoming guests with overtly political stances included journalist Ezra Klein, NYU Stern Professor Scott Galloway, and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA). Not a single Republican politician nor celebrity with right-leaning politics was on the list. And to kick off the week just outside the study’s date parameters (April 7), The View invited Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).

The beginning of the second Trump administration was obviously triggering to the cast when examining their guest appearances. Prior to the inauguration on January 20, they only had 5 people on to discuss liberal politics. Post-inauguration, there was a deluge of liberal guests (54) between January 21 and March 24, after which there were only 4 overtly liberal political discussions through April 4.

Recent comments from the show’s primary moderator, Whoopi Goldberg made it clear that the show was meant to be a vector to get Democratic talking points to the public.

During an appearance on the show by sports commentator Stephen A. Smith (noted above), Goldberg argued with Smith about the Democratic Party’s efforts in messaging themselves to voters in 2024 and defended The View’s role in that effort:

SMITH: [Y]ou’re talking about what he’s doing. But before you brought that up you brought up the message that the Democratic Party was disseminating. I’m challenging you on that. That is not what they were doing.

GOLDBERG: Oh, yes, it was. I was here. We did it.

When teeing up a Hot Topics discussion about the future of the Democratic Party’s leadership and responding to comments by Gov. Tim Walz (MN), Goldberg said: “I don’t know if you can wait for somebody to step up and lead the party. [Tim Walz] is not wrong when he says the party is us and what are we going — what are we prepared to do?”

 

 

The last-time The View spoke with a Republican politician that didn’t hate President Trump was former Gov. John Sununu (NH) on August 1, 2024; and before that it was Rep. Nancy Mace on October 2, 2023. Both in the show’s 27th season.

As detailed in a December 2023 exclusive from NewsBusters, The View rejected requests from Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz to come on the show and promote his book at the time. It may have had something to do with his previous appearance in 2022, when he pulled out literal receipts about the Democratic Party’s election denialism of the 2016 presidential election results and their weaponization of the Justice Department.

The View’s rhetoric against Republicans didn’t make it an appealing place to want to visit even if they were invited.

In 2024, Goldberg had attacked Trump’s grandkids for humanizing him; she told viewers “don’t fall for that,” possibly suggesting Trump wasn’t a human being. They defended their continued use of incendiary rhetoric against Trump, even after the attempts on his life. And they recently defended “comedian” Amber Ruffin who suggested Trump and his supporters were not human beings; even inviting the “comedian” on the show.

Against Republicans in general, they’ve denounced the GOP’s “very dark vision” for America and “ominous” traditional values. Going beyond just disagreeing on policy, the show’s Friday moderator, Joy Behar had claimed Republicans make “a lot of money off children’s deaths” via mass shootings. They’ve also claimed the only way the right wins elections was by “cheating.” And they’ve called leading Republicans figures literal “terrorist[s].”

The View has also hosted far-left extremists who were welcomed to use the show to fantasize about murdering people on the right, like pro-lifers and conservative Supreme Court justices.

The cast’s liberal politics were also further afield than some of their side’s politicians. Co-host Sunny Hostin demanded Democrats be willing to “fight and die” for their rights like older generations. And they lashed out at Schumer, during his appearance, for choosing to not shut down the government.

Tonight, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the Trump administration’s venue-based challenge of a U.S. District Court ruling barring deportations of illegal aliens suspected to be Tren de Aragua, pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Except for Univision, the story received a total blackout among “legacy media” evening newscasts.

Here’s how Unvision reported the Court’s ruling:

NOTICIERO UNIVISION

4/7/25

6:59 PM

TIFANI ROBERTS: And in breaking news, the United States Supreme Court lifted federal Judge Boasberg’s injunction blocking deportee flights, alleged members of Tren de Aragua, under the Alien Enemies Act. So flights can continue for now. Ilia, back to you. 

That briefest of briefs was more coverage of the ruling than was granted on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Telemundo. This report was tacked on the back of a report on a deportee that got sent back from El Salvador’s CECOT super max due to his being from Nicaragua. The ruling broke with time to spare before the end of the newscasts, and the networks could have made time for a critical update to a story they covered rather hysterically. But perhaps that would’ve bumped their coverage of the return of dire wolves.

The ruling itself turned out to be a mixed bag. Per The New York Post:

In a 5-4 decision, the high court ruled that the Trump administration was “likely to succeed on the merits” in a lawsuit filed in a Washington, DC district court challenging the removal of five Venezuelan men under the centuries-old law. 

“The detainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,” read the conservative majority opinion.

The court also determined that anyone the Trump administration is seeking to deport under the Alien Enemies Act must be afforded notice “within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek [a court hearing] in the proper venue before such removal occurs.” 

On the one hand, the Court smacked down the constant forum-shopping that ensured the lion’s share of anti-Trump cases ended up before Democrat-appointed judges in the D.C. District Court. On the other, the detainees are found to be entitled to a hearing prior to deportation.

Our Trump-deranged media can’t even bring themselves to report on things that have the appearance of a win for Donald Trump, which is how a critical ruling ends up missing the network nightly news.

Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned interview as aired on Noticiero Univision on Monday, April 7th, 2025:

ILIA CALDERON: A Nicaraguan immigrant was deported along with Venezuelans and Salvadorans. Their destination was the CECOT mega prison in El Salvador. However, they did not receive him because he was Nicaraguan, and he was returned to the United States. In an exclusive, Elvin Picado tells Tifani Roberts what has happened in the detention centers, and everything he saw and heard on the deportee flights.

TIFANI ROBERTS: For Elvin Picado, the first sign that something was not right was when he saw that he was the only Nicaraguan on the plane.

ELVIN PICADO: Well, everyone was happy because they said: “they are going to their country,” all the officers. “They’re going to their country, they’re going to their country.” When I asked the ICE people the question: “Hey, but if I’m the only Nicaraguan, are you going to land in Nicaragua, just to leave me?”

ROBERTS: The 26-year-old says he spent several days in a detention center in Texas, along with other immigrants who arrived with the same promise that they would be deported to their country of origin.

PICADO: People with TPS, people with, with con- uh, with asylum in process. In other words, many people were never told that they belonged to Tren de Aragua and today they are stuck over there in El Salvador without knowing why.

ROBERTS: Picado says that when they landed in El Salvador they did not suspect anything.

PICADO: They go down to the Salvadorans first. Normal, they called them by name and everything. When they begin to drop the Venezuelans off was when they said: “No, but how are we going to drop him off in a country that is not ours?

ROBERTS: The young man says that upon seeing the military deployment and the chains that awaited them, the immigrants were scared and the officers responded with force.

PICADO: Many of them were not criminals, many of them. That prison, and how they were treating them, neither Chapo Guzmán nor those criminal people they brought from Mexico.

ROBERTS: When Picado got off the plane, he remembered exactly the words of the Salvadoran officers.

PICADO: They made me, like, give my fingerprint, uh, they reviewed my history and they told me no, the officials of El Salvador told them, “we can’t receive this one because he is Central American.”

ROBERTS: All this was happening while his mother anxiously waited for news. It had been five days since ICE authorities had told him where Elvin was.

MOTHER OF PICADO: There and I was attentive, calling Nicaragua to see if he had arrived. But when they told me the news about the- about the plane, about the plane that arrived with the people deported from El Salvador, hey, I- a lot of things came into my head, but I said they will never send my son because my son is not a criminal. 

ROBERTS: And in breaking news, the United States Supreme Court lifted federal Judge Boasberg’s injunction blocking deportee flights, alleged members of Tren de Aragua, under the Alien Enemies Act. So flights can continue for now. Ilia, back to you. Thanks for your report, Tifani, and for the update. Good evening.

 

CNN anchorman Jake Tapper, in 2025, proclaimed on his show that he is NOT on the Left. 

Asked to defend Trump’s “tariff chaos,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Tapper “Everyone, especially on your side, on the left, is freaking out.” Tapper quickly replied “I’m not on the left.” Where is he, then? 

We know what Tapper is trying to do here – his colleague Brian Stelter has tried to do this, too – “I am not taking a side.” But in the first Trump term, CNN boss Jeff Zucker made them ALL take a side. They had to uncork grand speeches. “We call them homilies,” said Tapper in 2020. CNN is not a church.

Jake Tapper can question Democrats sternly, and he had a couple for Tim Walz on Sunday, citing the criticism that the “Democrats were gaslighting the country, saying that inflation was not a big deal….pretending there wasn’t a problem at the border?”

The only problem with that question is this: How did CNN perform during that “gaslighting”? Last summer, when she was granted access by Harris and Walz, Dana Bash’s worst question was the open-ended one about President Biden’s mental decline: “Right after the debate, you insisted that President Biden is extraordinarily strong. Given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the American people?” Harris was able to say she had no regrets and then tout Biden and his record. We called her Dana No-Bash on that one.

Bill D’Agostino reports over the past week, these two networks have referred to an illegal immigrant named Kilmar Abrego-Garcia as a “Maryland man” or “Maryland father” a whopping 120 times in 72 stories, while identifying him as an illegal alien only seven times. Meanwhile, MSNBC alone aired thirteen objectively false assertions that Garcia was actually a legal resident.

What we have here is NOT using gauzy language like he’s “undocumented.” Calling him a “Maryland man” implies he’s not a migrant at all. Like they deported a native-born Marylander, which would be quite a snafu.

Saturday’s leftist “Hands Off” protests against President Trump and Elon Musk were eagerly promoted on the network news programs – although they didn’t want to tag them as leftist. It’s quite a contrast to how these same networks barely acknowledged or skipped the annual “March for Life” protest on January 24. NBC and NPR stood out, since they aired precisely zero seconds on the pro-life march, but pumped this anti-Trump dump.

Finally, Los Angeles Times TV critic Robert Lloyd ridiculously claimed PBS is fair and balanced, and conservatives “reflect a misinformed, incurious reading of how public broadcasting works, what it does and whom it serves.” He added “I doubt [Marjorie Taylor] Greene or her like-minded colleagues have spent much, or any time, watching PBS or listening to NPR, beyond the minimum needed to fuel their outrage.” To say conservatives don’t watch or listen! How insulting! 

Enjoy the podcast below, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

 

ABC’s The View hosted Senator Cory Booker (D- NJ) Monday morning, following his record-breaking 25-hour yap-fest on the Senate floor the previous week. The panel had very little specific to ask Booker, though, and spent most of their time praising him to the sky, and applauding as he trotted out a few stock Democratic talking points.

Whoopi Goldberg welcomed Booker with this hard hitting question, “It’s so nice to see you sitting. Did you get any rest?”

Rather than going into anything Booker had actually said in those 25 hours, Goldberg then turned to the mass protest of the previous weekend, asking him “How happy were you to see all the folks that came out around the country?” as if he played a role.  

She then smiled and nodded along as he rambled:

Um, its- It was- for me, food for the soul. And- it- you didn’t see partisan band-waving, you saw Americans standing up for Americans- Because we really are at a moral moment- as we’ve been- generations past- in the suffrage movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, the LGBTQ movement, so many movements- we’ve seen Americans join arms- a rainbow coalition- standing up for what’s right. 

“Yeah,” Goldberg gushed, “And this ain’t a one-time thing, this is going to stay- this is going to stay with Americans, every day until this stuff is fixed.”

Ana Navarro then got in on the vacuous fawning, and while she too made no attempt to nail Booker down on anything substantial, she gloated: “the question we all want to know is, how did it feel for you to break the record of Strom Thurmond, that racist who set the record filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957? I hope he’s turning over in his grave.”

 

 

Booker was again allowed to continue laying it on ever thicker, saying:

[W]hat I loved about the civil rights movement- leaders that I love- is they never let Bull Connor pull them so low as to hate Bull Connor. They never let Strom Thurmond pull them so low as to hate him, and so- And sometimes God uses people in ways that they don’t even know. He planted a seed that, a generation later, somebody would get a chance to show that the hateful words that he was espousing won’t win the day, and so, I’m grateful for that. 

The panel completely ignored such realities as that Thurmond and Bull Connor were long since dead and gone, their opposition to the civil rights movement back in 1957 was in no way relevant to anything Cory Booker had said or done in 2025. Booker’s suggestion that God had used Thurmond for his own glory decades later, was more grandiose than his “I am Spartacus” moment.

On top of that, Navarro completely overlooked the inconvenient fact that, like most opponents of desegregation, Thurmond was a Democrat at the time of his filibuster.

Booker continued to monologue for his obsequious audience of “interviewers”:

I’m grateful for the love and attention towards me, but we need to center those people who are working full-time jobs, catching that extra shift, and still, in America, they’re not making ends meet because we have a nation that has tremendous wealth, what [sic.] we have not found a way to be there for folks (…)

After smiling and nodding along with this generic regurgitation of the Democratic Party line, as though Booker were making a profound point, Sunny Hostin fawningly asked, “there have been mounting calls for fresh Senate leadership, myself among them. So why not you?”

Booker was then allowed to continue spouting liberal cliches, to which the panel reacted:

GOLDBERG: Yes.

NAVARRO: Right

HAINES: I love that.

[APPLAUSE]

GOLDBERG: Wow. That’s right. That’s right.

The panel barely even pretended the “interview” was anything but an excuse to shower him with compliments.

To view the full transcript, click “expand” to read:

ABC’s The View
04/07/2025
11:16 AM

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: So-

SEN. CORY BOOKER (D- NJ): Y’all have some Jersey up in here.

[LAUGHTER]

GOLDBERG: Oh, yes. So, it’s nice to see you sitting.

BOOKER: Yes.

[LAUGHTER]

GOLDBERG: Did you get any rest?

BOOKER: I- I have, but as you know, it’s been go, go, go, and-

GOLDBERG: Yeah.

BOOKER: -And I wanted to be one in the number of millions of people that were standing in rain, standing across the country coast-to-coast, and speaking up, so I’ve- I’ve been pushing it still.

GOLDBERG: How happy were you to see all the folks that came out around the country?

BOOKER: Um, its- It was for me, food for the soul.

GOLDBERG: Yeah.

BOOKER: And- it- you didn’t see partisan band-waving, you saw Americans standing up for Americans- 

GOLDBERG: Yeah.

BOOKER: -Because we really are at a moral moment- as we’ve been- generations past- in the suffrage movement, the civil rights movement, the labor movement, the LGBTQ movement, so many movements, we’ve seen Americans join arms, a rainbow coalition- standing up for what’s right.

GOLDBERG: Yeah. And this ain’t a one-time thing, this is going to stay- this is going to stay with Americans, every day until this stuff is fixed. 

[APPLAUSE]

BOOKER: Yeah. Yeah.

ANA NAVARRO: And- America, as you said- America was watching, but your mom was also watching. She’s no stranger to good trouble, and she was watching when you did this. 

When did you realize, you actually had enough in- left in the tank, to be able to go the distance? And the question we all want to know is how did it feel for you to break the record of Strom Thurmond, that racist who set the record filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957? 

I hope he’s turning over in his grave.

[APPLAUSE]

BOOKER: Well- so first of all- I- about that- what I loved about the civil rights movement- leaders that I love- is they never let Bull Connor pull them so low as to hate Bull Connor. 

GOLDBERG: Yeah.

BOOKER: They never let Strom Thurmond pull them so low as to hate him, and so- 

-And sometimes God uses people in ways that they don’t even know. He planted a seed that, a generation later, somebody would get a chance to show that the hateful words that he was espousing won’t win the day, and so, I’m grateful for that. 

But, you know, you ask me physically, we all know that the body has limits but the spirit has none-

NAVARRO: Uh-huh.

BOOKER: -if you have a big enough “why.” 

And, what I know- from my work in Newark as I was coming up as mayor, and now in New Jersey, is that there are a lot of people who’ve worked two eight-hour shifts, and then pick up the third.

GOLDBERG: Yep.

BOOKER: You know- There’s a woman I name – we- they called her “Mama Tasha”- at- the- an IHOP in Bergen Street that pick up another shift and keep going past her physical restraints-

NAVARRO: Yeah.

BOOKER: -Because she had a big enough “why.” For her it was her three kids. There are medical professionals and- nurse’s assistants, that, you know, pick up that third shift-

GOLDBERG: That’s right.

BOOKER: -work a full around the clock, so- 

I’m grateful for the love and attention towards me, but we need to center those people who are working full-time jobs, catching that extra shift, and still, in America, they’re not making ends meet because we have a nation that has tremendous wealth, what [sic.] we have not found a way to be there for folks, and put stresses on folks, in this country, that- are not on other countries. Our competitors have paid family leave.

GOLDBERG: Yeah.

NAVARRO: They do.

BOOKER: Our competitors have the ability to stay out more than two weeks after you’ve had a baby. 

There are so many things that aren’t right in this country and we all need to let that motivate us not to sit complacently and just accept this as the way it is.

GOLDBERG: Yes.

BOOKER: We need to stand up, and start showing that we can form an America- we can redeem the dream of America for more people, through our activism.

NAVARRO: Uh-huh.

SARA HAINES: That’s right. That’s right.

[APPLAUSE]

SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, Senator, people have been looking to the Democratic Party for a fighter, for a resistance leader, for an opposition party, and you gave them that. So thank you. 

[APPLAUSE]

HOSTIN: You call this a moral moment- and on the floor you invoke John Lewis, saying “If it is to be, it is up to me.” So, there have been mounting calls for fresh Senate leadership, myself among them. So why not you?

BOOKER: Well, you know, Ella Baker said it so famously, “We are the leaders that we have been looking for.” And, Americans, we don’t need a title to lead, you don’t need a position to lead. We all have the capacity to lead.

And, you know, during the Affordable Care Act fight in 2017, when- in that case, it was 20 million Americans that could have lost health care- now with Medicaid, it could be 80-90 million Americans who’ll lose health care. But in those days, I would like to say, it was Senate Democratic leadership, through our devastatingly articulate eloquence, that persuaded John McCain, but that’s just not true. 

HOSTIN: Yeah. Yeah.

BOOKER: It’s just not true. He famously put his thumb down because Americans- I saw kids dis- with disabilities, in wheelchairs, rolling up to senators and speaking truth to power. 

GOLDBERG: Yeah.

BOOKER: And so if there’s anything that real leaders do- real leaders- and this is what I aspire to be held to this measure or those that don’t say “follow me.” They’re the ones that inspire other people to realize that they are leaders and their voice is needed.

HOSTIN: Yeah. So important.

HAINES: Senator, it seems like there’s a natural- kind of- groundswell of energy. Democrats clocked a big win in- last week in Wisconsin, over the weekend protesters in over a thousand cities, in all 50 states, rallied against the president’s policies. 

So, what happens now? And what should Democrats do to capitalize on this momentum?

BOOKER: Well, again, I know we are living in a really tribal moment, where we talk about terms in that binary way, but, what I’m hearing from is Republicans that are afraid that if they lose their Medicaid-funded transportation program, for their disabled child, their whole economy falls apart. I’m hearing from these bold and noble Republican veterans, that are saying, ‘you are cutting 80,000 jobs. And now I, as a female veteran, will have to wait for some- basic ontological care for months and months and months.’ 

And so I keep saying this, if- If we center this as a (sic.) right versus left, then we’re wrong. 

HAINES: That’s right.

BOOKER: It’s- it’s really not. It’s not about right or left, it’s about right or wrong and we need to stand up and call this a moral moment. 

And so, for my hope for my party is, that we’re less concerned about our party than we are about the people that we want to serve.

GOLDBERG: Yes.

NAVARRO: Right

HAINES: I love that.

[APPLAUSE]

GOLDBERG: Wow. That’s right. That’s right. We have more with Senator Cory Booker when we come back.

The National Institute of Health is cleaning house after MRC Free Speech America exposed the agency for pushing censorship under the Biden administration. 

MRC released a study on March 13 exposing 57 Biden administration censorship initiatives. The NIH and the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases worked alongside Big Tech and the Biden White House to enforce censorship on those questioning the federal government’s official positions on COVID-19. 

Last week, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya hit the ground running as several high-level bureaucrats who played significant roles in the censorship detailed in MRC’s report have been pushed out. Dr. Clifford Lane, a former deputy director for clinical research and special projects at NIAID, was among the ousted individuals. Lane is a close ally of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the embattled former NIAID director. This comes nearly a couple of months after the principal deputy director of the NIH, Larry Tabak, resigned.

MRC’s study noted that under Tabak, Fauci and Lane’s leadership, the NIH and NIAID began encouraging censorship by Big Tech to ensure that online information aligned with the White House’s agenda.

The report—as detailed in Initiative #20—specifically warned:

Beginning in 2020 and stretching into the Biden administration, the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) began pressing Big Tech platforms to censor content critical of COVID-19 lockdowns or supportive of using hydroxychloroquine (HCQ). Separately, NIAID also pushed the publication of “research” specifically to incentivize the “take down” of the accounts for its COVID-19 critics.

Indeed, the NIH and NIAID even coordinated directly with the World Health Organization and Meta to censor those who suggested that COVID-19 originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (which Fauci reportedly helped fund):

In one instance, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci asked WHO Chief Tedros Ghebreyseus to convene with him directly so they could “get ahead of …the narrative” on COVID-19’s origins. Acting on the recommendation of the WHO and Dr. Fauci, Big Tech platforms censored speech suggesting that the COVID-19 virus originated in the CCP’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Tabak, who in December 2021 became the Acting NIH Director, similarly oversaw outsourced censorship of speech related to the COVID-19 pandemic and associated vaccines.

[I]n 2022 alone, the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID):

Paid data analytics group Melax Technologies (now part of IMO Health) $300,000 to use artificial intelligence (AI) to surveil and censor online speech regarding the COVID-19 vaccine.
Paid the tech firm Innov8AI $300,000 to use AI to flag American speech for online censorship. The campaign was conducted to control the “online narratives” on medical issues “in real-time.”
Paid consulting group Gryphon Scientific (now part of Deloitte) $299,964 to develop strategies and targets for “elimination of misinformation online.”

The Atlantic reported, “On February 11, HHS also attempted to unceremoniously reassign Tabak, the deputy director, to an essentially meaningless senior advisory position to the acting HHS secretary, with an office in another city, far from the laboratory he ran at the agency—a demotion that several NIH officials described to me as an insult Tabak chose instead to retire that same day.” 

Dr. Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, was also effectively fired. Lane and NIAID Director Jeanne Marrazzo, who succeeded Fauci, were similarly offered reassignments “in states like Alaska,” Politico reported. Several others at the FDA and CDC were offered the same post.

These oustings come just after Trump neutered some of the censorship powers of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), each of which MRC called out in its study.

The Biden-led SEC issued a compelled speech rule requiring companies to suppress employees’ speech that countered leftist fearmongering about climate change (Initiative #45). Biden’s Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a grant to the University of Washington to create virtual “escape rooms” to push censorship (Initiative #17).

On March 14, Trump signed an executive order cutting the IMLS workforce, and on March 28, Trump’s SEC voted to stop defending the Biden-era climate change disclosure rule.

Free speech is under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech and government be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris, MRC Senior Counsel for Investigations Tim Kilcullen and Contributing Writer Catherine Salgado contributed to this report.