Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said during an online discussion she hosted on Monday that "false accusations of antisemitism are wielded against people of color."

The "Squad" member hosted an online livestream titled "Antisemitism and the Fight for Democracy" on X, admitting that the rise in antisemitism and attacks against Jews since Hamas' Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel – where about 1,200 people were killed and approximately 250 others were taken as hostages into Gaza – "undermined" the progressive movement.

"Antisemitism, hate and violence against Jews because of their identity is real, and it is dangerous. It is also important to say here in this moment and during that conversation that criticism of the Israeli government is not inherently antisemitic and criticism of Zionism is not automatically antisemitic," Ocasio-Cortez said.   

"That being true does not mean that we should not recognize that criticism and when that criticism crosses a line into real harm against our Jewish community," she continued. "Antisemitism is an assault on our values as Americans and especially as progressives. Antisemitism is also a threat to a community that is a vital partner in our struggles against injustice. So, when the Jewish community is threatened, the progressive movement is undermined. That is why we reject it as fiercely as we reject and look for misogyny, Islamophobia or any form of bigotry or discrimination in any space that we occupy. Right now, antisemitism is on the rise in America and across the world. Acknowledging that fact does not take away from fights for liberation, it actually advances them."

"At the same time, it is also true that accusations and false accusations of antisemitism are wielded against people of color and women of color by bad-faith political actors," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And weaponizing antisemitism is used to divide us and create a false choice between the fight for Jewish safety and the calls for Palestinian self-determination. Defending and standing for the rights of Palestinians is not antisemitic, and we must be able to identify when bad-faith political actors make accusations simply to divide us. People can disagree bitterly about Israel and Gaza, but it has felt that we’ve been at a point where even coming together to acknowledge and discuss any antisemitism at all can feel impossible."

People who have represented both sides of the political spectrum slammed Ocasio-Cortez for saying that there are false claims of antisemitism aimed at people of color.

 New Border Patrol memo pulls back the curtain on how Biden is really handling border crisis

An internal Border Patrol memo, obtained by Fox News, instructs agents in the San Diego sector to release single adults from all but six countries in the Eastern Hemisphere and classify them as "hard" or "very hard" to remove.

The memo was sent out after President Biden's executive order banning asylum for most illegal immigrants took effect last week.

Biden announced the order on Tuesday and said he was "moving past Republican obstruction and using executive authorities available to me as president to do what I can on my own to address the border."  Details in the memo, first reported by the Washington Examiner's Anna Giaritelli, instructs agents that all single adults from the Eastern Hemisphere are to be processed via "NTA/OR," which means Notice to Appear/released on Own Recognizance, except for migrants from Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan – which are "mandatory referral" countries.  

Governor says Trump could become the first GOP presidential candidate to win his state in 20 years

It's been two decades since a Republican carried Virginia in the race for the White House. 

You have to go back to then-President George W. Bush, who won the Commonwealth in his 2004 re-election victory.

Democrats have carried the state in four straight presidential elections, including President Biden's 10-point victory over Donald Trump four years ago as he won the White House. But GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin thinks the former president has a very good shot of ending the Republican losing streak in Virginia as Trump faces off this autumn with Biden in a 2024 election rematch. 

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President Biden was criticized by conservatives Friday over a speech at France's Pointe du Hoc marking the anniversary of D-Day that they said closely resembled a speech former President Reagan delivered there 40 years ago.

"Unreal," Young Americans for Liberty posted on X on Friday. "It appears that Biden's D-Day speech is just a paraphrase of Reagan's D-Day speech."

"Joe Biden essentially plagiarized Ronald Reagan’s famous 1984 speech at Pointe du Hoc today in Normandy," OutKick Founder Clay Travis posted on X. "Watch these clips side by side. Wow."

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The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.

“My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted Thank you folks for all your hard work!!!!” read the comment.

It is not clear if there is any validity to the post. No evidence was provided to support the claim, and the jurors’ identities remain anonymous. A search of the poster’s Facebook page showed the poster described themself as “a professional sh*t poster,” among other things.

CNN has attempted to contact the poster.

Judge Juan Merchan said in a letter that the court had been made aware on Friday of the roughly week-old post, and that it was posted in response to a routine court system notice on May 29 about an unrelated matter. He did not ask the parties to take further action. The post is no longer visible on the court’s Facebook.

“As appropriate, the Court informed the parties once it learned of this online content,” Al Baker, a spokesperson for the court, said.

While Merchan informed the legal teams out of caution, the judge’s notice has no immediate effect on the case, according to CNN senior legal analyst and former state and federal prosecutor Elie Honig.

“The judge is being extra careful here to let the parties know any information that might give them the basis for a motion – there’s a long way though between this and any impact on the case,” Honig said. “First the judge would have to ascertain whether this is even true, and then if it is, whether there is any necessary legal remedy.”

If it were found to be true, it would not automatically be grounds for a mistrial, according to Honig.

The 12-person New York jury began its deliberations on May 29. The jurors sent two questions to the judge at the end of that court day: one asking to be read back portions of testimony from two key witnesses, David Pecker and Michael Cohen, and another requesting to rehear a portion of the judge’s instruction to the jury.

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Democratic analysts don’t seem to understand why the all-out legal assault on former President Trump isn’t working. It’s because they keep talking among themselves and not with the American people.  

The American people don’t live and work in the New York-Washington political-media-government bubble. If reporters and analysts listened to Americans, as we do at America's New Majority Project, they would learn how decisive the choice between President Joe Biden or former President Trump is. They would also see how difficult, if not impossible, it will be for Biden to get easily re-elected. 

The propaganda media is trying to focus the election on what it sees as Trump’s flaws. The Democrats, including the Biden campaign, are trying to focus the election on what they see as the threat Trump represents.   

But the 2024 election is ultimately going to come down to a simple question: Can the American people afford four more years of Biden’s policies and principles?  

Trump’s problems all involve his own alleged behavior and activities. Even the totally phony legal attacks remain locked into a Trump-centered issue. No American is hurt by the things Trump has supposedly done. Indeed, few Americans pay any attention to the outlandish, manipulated legal attacks on Trump. 

Most Americans see the case against Trump as political lawfare. If anything, they are offended by the left’s assault on the rule of law and the Constitution. This is why the conviction in the so-called hush money trial led to an enormous surge of contributions to Trump’s campaign. 

Far from running away from Trump, the American people found themselves running to defend him. They saw him as a champion being persecuted unfairly and took the conviction as a direct warning of what could happen to them. 

By contrast, Biden’s problems all impact everyday Americans. Bidenflation continues to drive already high prices higher. Childcare costs increased 4.1% in the last year. Young parents are having to take on third and fourth jobs just to break even on costs.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott insists that President Biden's executive order to combat the border crisis is making illegal crossings "worse."

The White House announced executive action last week to crack down on crossings once they reach a certain limit, with the move coming just months ahead of the November election.

The order will temporarily suspend the entry of non-citizens once the number of average border encounters exceeds 2,500 a day over seven days, Fox News Digital previously reported. That order will stay in effect until 14 days after there has been a seven-day average of fewer than 1,500 encounters along the border.   

"As long as the Biden administration refuses to provide any type of enforcement, any type of blockage of people crossing illegally, all that this new Biden policy is going to do is to actually attract and invite even more people to cross the border illegally," he told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo.

"There's no slowing down of people crossing the border. In fact, it's just accelerating. This is gaslighting our fellow Americans. When Biden gets up and says, ‘This is going to stop people from coming across the border,’ when he says, 'It's going to secure the border,' in fact, it is making illegal border crossings worse," he continued.

An Ohio sheriff said he supported the renewal of the death penalty for certain crimes as the state is ravaged by nefarious activity stemming from the porous southern border in an interview with Fox News Digital. 

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones, drew a connection between President Biden's border policies and an uptick in mayhem from illegal immigrants, which he said cost his taxpayers $4 million to incarcerate them. 

"I am angry," Jones said, adding he could go "on and on" about the destruction caused by illegal immigrants. "People are fed up, and we want something done. And I don't know that we can stand President Biden being here. And this is just a sample of what he's done. Lord, help us all." 

Over the last three years, Jones said 1,000 illegal immigrants were thrown in his jail for committing 2,000 crimes, many violent in nature.   

"We had one guy that was deported eight times. He was in my jail under eight different names, and that's what we know of," Jones told Fox News Digital. "He's here. He's committed murder while he's here. And we believe that this isn't the first time he's committed murder. And we've had people that have been hit with vehicles killed. We've had people that have been stabbed. So the crime is increasing." 

The sheriff recounted a few incidents that haunted him. One incident was when an illegal immigrant took a 9-year-old off her bicycle and molested her. Another is about a paraplegic who was hit by an illegal immigrant, who fled the scene. 

As for those who say that homegrown citizens also commit crimes, Jones responded, "I don't need any extra crime coming from other countries where they empty their prisons out." 

The sheriff said he is currently teaching his county how to use guns to protect themselves from crime. 

The Trump agenda is not inflationary. The New York Times in a long piece has now officially decided that the real inflation threat is Donald Trump and his policies. They are wrong. So, let’s review the bidding for a moment. Over Trump's four-year term, the level of consumer prices rose by a scant 7.7% for his whole term, which comes to 1.9% annually. 

Meanwhile, during Joe Biden's nearly completed term so far, the level of consumer prices rose 20% – or 6.1% annually. President Trump is pledging to essentially reprise his successful first-term economic policies of "drill, baby, drill," tax cuts, deregulation, and punishing unfair trade policies. So, ask yourself: if those same policies didn't generate high inflation in his first term, why would they in a second? Of course, the New York Times takes the Biden view that inflation was transitory, caused by COVID and Vladimir Putin. 

So, how about this thought? Mr. Biden is running $2 trillion budget deficits as far as the eye can see, with near-record peacetime spending as a share of GDP, all this with a relatively low 4% unemployment rate, and a still stubbornly high inflation rate.   

Even John Maynard Keynes would turn over in his grave at massive deficit spending with high inflation and low unemployment. Oops. The Times forgets to mention that. 

The article does mention that the U.S. is producing oil at roughly 13 million barrels per day, but that’s where we were under Trump five years ago and we should be running at 15 or 16 million barrels per day, but for the fact that Biden has put the clamps on federal drilling and exploration in Alaska, New Mexico and offshore. 

Were we energy dominant today, instead of relying on our enemies like Russia and Iran, oil prices would be closer to $40 than $80 and oil costs impact hundreds of everyday consumer goods and health care services, which would have a profoundly disinflationary impact on the economy, bringing down interest rates and personal borrowing costs along the way. 

The Times does concede that Trump deregulation lowers business costs. Good for them, I suppose, but their biggest mistake was on the Trump tax cuts. The fact remains: lower marginal tax rates on individuals and businesses increase the production of goods, raise real wages and enhance productivity (output per hour). Now, those are all counter-inflationary effects.