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Stunning new Idaho murder detail shows killer appeared to want to ‘get out of dodge’

January 6, 2023 Published by

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An expert criminal profiler explained to Fox News why he believes a roommate of the four Idaho college students slain was reportedly spared after spotting the killer, a detail gleaned from a newly released court filing.

The killer likely wanted to “get out of dodge” after slaying four other people, criminal profiler John Kelly told “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday after the affidavit claimed a surviving roommate heard crying and saw a “figure clad in black clothing and a mask… walking toward her.”

The female, only identified as “D.M.,” stood in “frozen shock” before locking herself in her room, the affidavit stated.

Host Laura Ingraham asked Kelly why a murderer would want to leave a surviving witness to such a grisly crime.

IDAHO MURDERS: KOHBERGER CHANGED LICENSE PLATE FIVE DAYS AFTER STUDENT SLAYINGS

“I think he was in a rush to get out of the house,” Kelly said. “Usually with these types of killers, at a certain point — don’t forget, he’s tired. He’s killed a number of people already. At this point in time, maybe something’s getting to him and he just wants to put himself between him and the bodies as quick as possible. He just wants to get out of dodge as fast as he can.”

The expert said the murderer likely believed staying in the home to kill a fifth victim would have been riskier than escaping more quickly, given that he was reportedly clad in all black and had a mask obscuring at least part of his face.

“I think he just had his fill for the night and wanted out of there,” Kelly said.

IDAHO MURDERS: SUSPECT BRYAN KOHBERGER’S AFFIDAVIT

Police arrested a suspect in the case, Bryan Kohberger, who was a Ph.D. student at nearby Washington State University.

Kohberger was taken into custody at his parents’ house in the Poconos after driving cross-country for the holidays. He was extradited to Idaho from a Stroudsburg, Pa., jail.

In regard to Kohberger specifically, Ingraham cited a Newsweek story in which a forensic psychiatrist told the outlet the suspect’s “obsessive-compulsive eating habits” indicated he’d be afraid he’d be addicted to meat if he ate it.

“And it represented his struggle against his cannibalistic urges,” the host read on, calling the report “freakshow central.”

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Kelly agreed, saying the situation does sound freakish.

“You’re absolutely right. I mean, I don’t know what I’m going to hear next,” he said, adding serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer had cannibalistic tendencies in terms of eating meat.

“Bottom line is when you look at this obsessive-compulsive behavior, if you look at every serial killer — and we’ve done research on this — you will find that they have some type of obsessive-compulsive behavior.”

“And like Dahmer, cannibalism is up for grabs. You know, it can happen,” he said.

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McCarthy Destroys His Speakership In Order to Save It

January 6, 2023 Published by Politico

The mystery is why other Republicans — his own allies in particular — would go along with this.

Even before the latest round of overnight negotiating, McCarthy was at risk of violating principles of power that are at work in any arena where people jostle for influence and recognition — from school playgrounds to world capitals. McCarthy has served notice that there is more advantage to be gained by being his enemy than his ally.

The reports on the latest maneuvering put that in a vivid light. POLITICO’s story described the bargaining as a “glimmer of hope” for McCarthy. The details, however, are hopeful in the same way that a person dying of thirst might find a pitcher of saltwater hopeful.

McCarthy is ready to drink.

Previously, he had agreed to House rules that would allow five members to push a “motion to vacate” forcing a vote on whether to oust the speaker. Going any lower than that was supposedly a “red line.” Now, a new deal would allow just one person to force a new showdown and McCarthy advocates say there is not really a practical difference between one and five.

Red line? What we meant to say was actually, you know, not so much red as kind of magenta. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), a McCarthy supporter, said as he left the would-be speaker’s office Thursday morning that the latest moves should not be thought of as “concessions” but rather “clarifications.” He said he’s confident his fellow GOP partisans won’t “misuse” the motion to vacate.

Members of the Freedom Caucus, with which McCarthy opponents closely align, would also get a guaranteed two spots on the powerful House Rules Committee — amid signs that McCarthy might surrender the speaker’s historical power to decide which individuals get the seats.

Opponents are also using their leverage to extract major changes in the appropriations process. There would be standalone votes on each 12 annual appropriations bills — a major priority for fiscal conservatives who deplore big “omnibus” spending packages — considered under an “open rule” that allows any lawmaker to offer floor amendments.

Notably, according to Bade’s reporting in POLITICO Playbook, “McCarthy’s camp also expects that he may eventually have to endorse [his opponent’s preferred choices] for committee gavels, such as Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.), who’s pushing to lead the Health and Human Services subcommittee on Appropriations, or Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), who’s gunning to lead the Committee on Homeland Security.”

If you are someone other than Harris or Green and had been hoping someday to wield that gavel, and have been a steadfast McCarthy supporter, how do you feel about that preceding sentence? As a practical matter, McCarthy is asking his own supporters to be as supine toward him as he is being to his opponents.

McCarthy may feel he has no choice, but what’s striking about the modern House is that there are many others who also feel that their range of options is so narrow. An earlier generation of lawmakers would have had multiple other powerful actors — veteran committee chairs and appropriators and the like — with independent bases of power. There is scant prospect that they would have been fine with letting a weakened figure take the speakership or simply leave it to McCarthy to decide for himself how long he wants to let this week’s drama drag on.

There were some signs of a backlash. The Dispatch reported that Rep. Robert Alderholt, a veteran GOP appropriator from Alabama and McCarthy backer, is bridling at the latest reports. Adding some people to committees, is one thing, but “as far as skipping over people’s seniority … I think we’ve gone too far.”

Also notable is the nature of McCarthy’s defense. Just as he chose not to have Republicans campaign last fall on an idea platform — such as Newt Gingrich’s “Contract for America” in 1994 — he has not really waged battle with his opponents on the ideas front. He has urged them to get in line for the sake of party unity, and on grounds that Republicans should be firing at President Joe Biden rather than each other.

But he so far hasn’t ventured a substantive argument like: My values and judgment about governing are better, and more in line with the country’s mood and the mainstream of the GOP, than those of my grandstanding opponents like Matt Gaetz or Lauren Boebert.

He might reasonably ask: How on earth would that help anything? One answer is that it would at least claim a higher ground for his candidacy than what he has tried so far — transactional maneuvering, now turning to rank appeasement. That’s especially true since the latter approach hasn’t worked so far, and — with multiple opponents saying they are hard no’s no matter what McCarthy puts forward — there is only the slightest reason to suppose it will start working.

For now, McCarthy has maneuvered himself into a situation where he might face something worse than losing the speakership: Winning it under conditions like these.

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GOP agreement could clinch McCarthy the top job, former NFL star in critical condition and more top headlines

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SPEAKER STALEMATE – Late-night GOP deal emerges that could give McCarthy path to the speakership. Continue reading …

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NO APOLOGIES – Biden to visit border despite false accusations made against agents. Continue reading …

ROUGH WATERS – Democrat shouts, causes a stir during House speaker standoff. Continue reading …

‘IT’S HARD TO WATCH’ – South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem weighs in on Republican meltdown over House Speaker vote. Continue reading …

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Opinion: With Russia's fading power in Ukraine, a second catastrophe looms

January 6, 2023 Published by CNN

Editor’s Note: Lara Setrakian is a journalist and the president of the Applied Policy Research Institute based in Yerevan, Armenia. Follow her on Twitter at @Lara. The views expressed here are her own. Read more opinion on CNN.

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After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its devastating humanitarian fallout, it would be a leap to cast Moscow in the role of a peacemaker. But in one corner of the world that’s exactly what has happened.

In the wake of a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan in 2020, Russia was left to broker a ceasefire and keep the two sides in check. The United States and the European Union, which had once played a balancing role in the South Caucasus, effectively pulled back from active diplomacy and let Russia act as the sole mediator. Moscow deployed peacekeepers on the ground to calm and monitor the situation.

But outsourcing peacebuilding to Russia was a bad idea. Now, in the shadow of the Ukraine war, that policy is enabling another humanitarian catastrophe and compromising Western interests in the region.

A Russian peacekeeper guards the Lachin Corridor, which has been blocked by Azerbaijani protesters since December 12, 2022 -- cutting off ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh from the outside world.

With Russia weakened in Ukraine, there is no effective arbiter between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, using its significant oil and gas wealth, has been pushing for maximum advantage on the ground. At the moment, protesters with the support of the Azeri government, experts say, are blocking the Lachin Corridor, the main road linking about 120,000 ethnic Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh to the outside world. Azeri political analysts say that protests are illegal in Azerbaijan unless they have government approval.

Incoming supplies have been severely limited since December 12, 2022, when the blockade began. Grocery stores are rationing food, with little by way of fresh fruits or vegetables, and there is a dire shortage of medical supplies, residents said in late December. Azerbaijan has said the blockade is in response to mining activities in Armenian-held areas. But rather than taking the issue to international mediation it has decided to block incoming transit until its conditions are met – a violation of international and humanitarian law.

The Armenians I’ve met from Nagorno-Karabakh are hearty people with a profound cultural identity and deep Christian faith. Even in their grim days of crisis, some tried to give their families a semblance of a Christmas holiday. But the most vulnerable are manifesting the strain of the blockade: Dr. Biayna Sukhudyan, who is stuck in Nagorno-Karabakh, told us in late December that children are showing signs of chronic stress, including nervous breakdowns. UNICEF has warned that children are lacking basic food items and essential services, some of them separated from their parents or legal guardians on the other side of the blocked road.

“People’s big concern is keeping their children warm and fed,” Sukhudyan said in a phone interview. She described how people are surviving by helping each other out. “If there are two mothers and only one has baby formula, she will share the formula with the other woman and breastfeed a little more.”

The US, the EU, the UN Secretary-General and more than a dozen countries – including Canada and

Mexico – have called for Azerbaijan to unblock the road to Nagorno-Karabakh, but those calls have gone unheeded. Armenians see it as a strategy by Azerbaijan of starving or squeezing them out of the disputed enclave.

Russia has been unable to make any significant move to defuse the problem. But it has also been reluctant to let Western countries step in to solve the standoff. It prefers to be the main power on the ground, using the resulting leverage to advance its regional interests.

A web of economic and strategic factors have tied Moscow to Turkey and its ally, Azerbaijan. With Russia sanctioned by the West and strained in its relations with many economic partners, Moscow has grown increasingly dependent on Turkey for trade and sanctions evasion. Turkey has become a major facilitator for the export of Russian oil and gas and the import of strategic technologies, many of which are banned from the West.

As Russian-Turkish ties have grown closer, Russia has been more reluctant to push back on Azerbaijan’s behavior. That has left the situation in freefall, moving toward more serious and potentially deadly outcomes. Like in the early days of the Srebrenica massacre, international peacekeepers are failing to act before thousands of people could lose their lives. It also sets a dangerous precedent for future conflicts, with one side choking off a rival community by cutting off its supplies, either forcing an evacuation or the acceptance of its negotiating terms.

Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, who watches the region closely, told me he worries about the risk of ethnic cleansing if the situation is left unchecked and unattended to by world powers.

“Question number one is how do we get diplomatic or military observers into Nagorno-Karabakh,” Rubin said. “Genocide happens in the dark. If we are able to shine a light in the region then oftentimes we can proactively prevent the worst outcomes.”

The US is not powerless in this situation. It can push for a humanitarian airlift to deliver supplies to the communities of Nagorno-Karabakh or seek further action from the UN Security Council, which met on December 20 to discuss the situation. America also has direct leverage over Turkey and Azerbaijan that can stabilize the situation, using a trove of diplomatic and economic tools.

“When the Trump administration imposed just a few steel sanctions on Turkey for the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson, it created tremendous pressure on [Turkish President] Erdogan,” said Rubin. “Why should we oppose doing that over Nagorno-Karabakh?”

Russia and Turkey have aimed to dominate the South Caucasus at the expense of their smaller neighbors. But that model has proven unsuitable to protect human life and a peaceful rules-based order. At a time when the West is competing with Russia over Ukraine – cast as a fight for democracy against autocracy – this is a vital arena to make the same point and prove that the West has real influence in the post-Soviet region.

The longer Russia and Turkey dominate the situation the harder it will be for Western powers to bring things back into balance. In other words, stabilizing the South Caucasus will become more costly with time. The US and EU unwisely left it to Russia to keep the peace in the South Caucasus. Western powers now must step in with full diplomatic weight to correct the error.

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January 5, 2023 GOP deadlocked over House speaker vote

January 6, 2023 Published by CNN

Rep. Kevin McCarthy steered hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash to members of the GOP caucus now threatening his bid for Speaker of the House, FEC records show.

Since 2008, McCarthy’s leadership PAC, Majority Committee PAC, has given $316,000 to 17 of the Republican members now opposing him.

One of the largest beneficiaries is also one of McCarthy’s most vocal opponents, Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry, who has received more than $50,000 from McCarthy’s PAC since 2012.

McCarthy has also given at least $25,000 to Reps. Michael Cloud, Andrew Clyde, Andy Harris and Ralph Norman over the years.

McCarthy’s contributions to the rebellious members were made through his leadership PAC, Majority Committee. Leadership PACs are fundraising vehicles that exist in addition to a candidate’s primary campaign committee. Prominent members, leveraging their profile, use them to raise and dispense extra cash to their allies.

Here’s a look at contributions:

Scott Perry: $52,500
Andy Harris: $26,000
Michael Cloud: $25,000
Andrew Clyde: $25,000
Ralph Norman: $25,000
Andy Biggs: $20,000
Matt Gaetz: $20,000
Dan Bishop: $20,000
Matt Rosendale: $20,000
Byron Donalds: $20,000
Paul Gosar: $17,500
Anna Paulina Luna: $10,000
Bob Good: $10,000
Mary Miller: $10,000
Chip Roy: $5,000
Eli Crane: $5,000
Keith Self: $5,000

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[Sport] Gregg Berhalter: US coach wants to stay in role amid investigation into kicking his wife

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Gregg Berhalter won over 40 caps for the United States as a player

Gregg Berhalter wants to continue as US men’s head coach but feels “saddened” by the emergence of revelations he kicked his wife during an argument in 1991 when they were teenagers.

The 49-year-old is under investigation by US soccer after admitting his role in the incident.

The mother of US midfielder Giovanni Reyna said she reported Berhalter over the incident on 11 December, 2022.

“Our entire family is saddened by these events,” said Berhalter.

Speaking to the Harvard Business Review,external-link he added: “I think the worst part of it for me is my heart aches for my wife, because it was her story to tell, if she chose to or not. It just really, really saddens me.

“But it’s moving forward and that’s the way we have to look at it together as a family. The family’s been amazing and has taken it one day at a time and moving forward.”

Berhalter, whose contract expired at the end of December. took the US to the last-16 at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar where they were beaten by the Netherlands.

The US will co-host the next Word Cup with Mexico and Canada in 2026.

Current assistant coach Anthony Hudson is taking charge of the US’ January camp while a “technical review” of the men’s national team program is conducted.

Berhalter added: “When we started in 2018, we wanted to change the way the world views American soccer. I think when you ask around the world now about our team, the world sees us in a completely different light.

“But now it’s about being able to take that next step and that next step is doing something that no US team has ever done, and that’s get to the semi-finals and see what happens from there. There’s a lot of great challenges involved, and of course I’d like to continue in my role.”

How has the controversy unravelled?

Berhalter released a statement with wife Rosalind on Wednesday, 4 January, sharing details of the incident after an allegation was made against him.

He said he had been contacted during the World Cup by someone saying they were going to ‘take him down’.

In a statement on Wednesday, Danielle Reyna, wife of former US captain Claudio, says she reported the incident to US Soccer. She said it was “unfair” that “people were trashing” her son, 20, when Berhalter had done something “much worse” at a similar age.

Borussia Dortmund player Reyna did not start a match for the US during last year’s World Cup.

During a speech at a leadership summit in early December, Berhalter said an unnamed player was nearly sent home from Qatar for “not meeting expectations on and off the field”.

Berhalter believed his comments would remain private but after they were erroneously permitted to be published, Reyna posted on Instagram that he was told by the coach that his role at the tournament would be “very limited” and that he let it affect his “training and behaviour”.

He added that he had apologised to his team-mates and Berhalter.

Danielle, who won six caps for the US women’s national team and was the room-mate of Rosalind, said she “did not make any threats” when reporting the incident to US Soccer sporting director Earnie Stewart.

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Kim Kardashian, daughter North dance to Taylor Swift song amid decade-long feud

January 6, 2023 Published by Fox News

Kim Kardashian seemed ready to shake off her bad blood with Taylor Swift after she posted a TikTok video Thursday night of a mother-daughter dance session to one of Swift’s songs.

In the video, Kardashian, 42, and daughter North, 9, did a silly dance to Swift’s “Shake it Off” hit while wearing matching white zip-up hoodies with the Skims founder wearing black yoga pants and a black sports bra underneath.

The pair also lip-synced to the camera in the 55-second clip.

The storied feud between Kardashian and the “Bad Blood” singer, 33, was connected to Kardashian’s ex Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.

Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift’s feud started after Kardashian’s then-husband Kanye West grabbed the microphone from the “Shake it Off” singer while she was accepting an award at the VMAs, claiming Beyoncé deserved it.
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In 2009, the rapper took the stage while Taylor Swift was accepting the award for video of the year at the Video Music Awards to state that Beyoncé deserved it. He and Kardashian were dating at the time.

Fast-forward to 2016, Kardashian claimed on Snapchat that Swift had lied when she said she was shocked by Ye’s use of the word “b—-” in the lyric, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b—- famous” in his song “Famous.”

Kim Kardashian’s and Taylor Swift’s feud centered around the “Bad Blood” singer’s beefs with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. Kardashian filed for divorce in 2021.
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Kardashian called Swift a “snake” over her claim in a 2016 tweet.

The three continued to disagree for years over what was said in a phone call, in which Ye and Swift discussed using her name in the song.

In 2019, Swift told Vogue the backlash felt like a “mass public shaming, with millions of people saying you are quote-unquote canceled, is a very isolating experience. I don’t think there are that many people who can actually understand what it’s like to have millions of people hate you very loudly.”

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Kardashian and Ye finalized their divorce last year.

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Top McCarthy supporter says GOP holdouts ‘beginning to extort the American people’

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A Michigan Republican congressman-elect who nominated Rep.-elect Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for Speaker of the House before one of the several marathon votes Thursday said that the behavior of the no-Kevin holdouts borders on extortion.

Rep.-elect John James – a Congressional freshman who previously ran for Senate in 2020 against Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich – said while he remains eager to work with the 20 Republicans who refused thus far to support the erstwhile minority leader, they are preventing the House from working for the American people and blunting the Biden agenda.

James called it ironic that reported concessions to some members are being made behind closed doors between vote rounds, while the same lawmakers preach transparency and good government.

He added that McCarthy has burnished the conservative bona fides these 20 members vociferously support themselves.

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“We know that Kevin McCarthy has taken massive strides toward lowering the debt. He’s taking massive strides toward changing the [House] rules… And as I said today, he actually has since becoming minority leader in 2019 to right now won the majority back faster than Nancy Pelosi.”

James said the new Republican majority is poised to effect positive change in Washington but cannot because the 20 holdouts are refusing to “take a win.”

“I’m excited to work with everyone to include the 20 holdouts, to work forward toward a conservative America to try to fix this. But it’s not going to happen unless my colleagues come to their senses,” he said.

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McCarthy was seen late Thursday making rounds on the House floor engaging with members, including a short clip captured by a C-SPAN camera that appeared to show the speaker candidate in an intense discussion with one of the 20 holdouts, Rep.-elect Andy Ogles IV of Tennessee.

Alternative speaker candidates nominated by McCarthy’s critics included Rep.-elect Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Rep.-elect Byron Donalds of Florida, and former President Trump. The Speaker of the House does not have to be a sitting lawmaker.

“There’s a thin line between discourse and discord,” James said on Fox News. “We passed it back on Monday out of conference – Right now, we’re beginning to cross that line between negotiation and extortion. These 20 are beginning to extort the American people.”

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“We’re wasting – in this Biden agenda – over $4 billion per day in our national debt. Right now, since Tuesday, we’ve lost 600 people to the opioid crisis. Right now, our borders are open, China has nuclear warheads pointed toward us, and they’re taking a billion and a half dollars per day in our intellectual property.

“And we’re talking about things that the American people frankly don’t care about.”

James further declared the 20 members who have refused to support McCarthy “Nancy Pelosi’s best friends,” claiming they have effectively aligned procedurally with Democrats in “stymieing the America First agenda.”

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He urged constituents of the 20 holdouts to call their offices and demand they unite with the rest of the caucus to allow the House to function in regular order.

“There’s not any time to waste. Democrats are winning because of our own colleagues who refuse to take a victory,” he said.

In each of the vote rounds, Democrats have uniformly supported Rep.-elect Hakeem S. Jeffries of New York.

Republican voters accused of being racist by New York Times editorial board member: ‘It’s terrifying’

January 6, 2023 Published by

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Mara Gay, a member of the New York Times editorial board, slammed Americans who voted for the 21 Republican Congress members-elect who are opposing Rep.-elect Kevin McCarthy’s bid to become speaker of the House as racist. Her comments came during a segment on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House” Thursday.

“What must the voters who sent these individuals to Washington think of our government if this is who they sent?” Gay asked.

“When you talk to some of these individuals, you get a sense that, you know, well politicians are all crooks anyway and the government is a joke anyway. Or, you know what, let’s burn it to the ground,” she continued.

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“And really, that’s what these people were sent to do. Or to make a mockery of it,” Gay said.

Gay went on to accuse many of the 21 Republicans of being elected due to racism.

“The other element here, you touched upon a couple of minutes ago, which is just that some of these individuals were people who were really only elected based on a litmus test to stop the tide of diversity in the country, the browning of America, the fears that surround that, and so they were not elected to go do the work of government. And you’re seeing that now,” Gay said.

“It’s terrifying. It would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that we have real problems in this country that demand problem solvers. And of course, these are not public servants, but they are meant to act as our public servants.”

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“What happens when the next crisis comes? It’s disturbing,” Gay said.

Gay previously said it was “disturbing” to see many American flags being displayed in Long Island and promoted an article attacking Hasidic schools. She also accused conservative talk show host Dave Rubin of hosting white supremacists on his podcast.

McCarthy failed in 11 votes in his bid to become speaker over the last three days. Republican holdouts argue he is a member of the D.C. establishment and has failed to deliver results for conservatives, while supporters of McCarthy contend he is the best choice and that there are no viable alternatives.