Female Trump staffer sounds off after top Harris surrogate’s ‘extremely insulting’ remarks
Trump 2024 national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told “Fox & Friends First” on Friday that billionaire Mark Cuban has “learned the hard way not to mess with strong and intelligent Republican women who support Donald Trump.
“There was an epic amount of backlash from so many amazing women who have worked with President Trump, who are voting for him, saying this is extremely insulting.”
“Just look at the women that President Trump surrounds himself with – first of all his beautiful wife Melania, which of the five languages that she speaks would Mark Cuban like to have a conversation about him with, on this?” Leavitt said. “Look at the woman who runs our campaign, Susie Wiles, the woman who is running the transition back to the White House, Linda McMahon, or the woman who President Trump tapped to run the RNC, Lara Trump.”
“This was a ridiculous insult not just to the women who work for President Trump but the tens of millions of them who are going to be voting for him,” she also said. “But this is what the Kamala Harris campaign has resulted in.”
Ohio congressional candidate
Derek Merrin told “Fox & Friends First” on Friday that he is “very confident” about flipping the 9th District seat held by Marcy Kaptur since 1983.
Merrin described the Democrat as “one of the most liberal, ineffective members of Congress in the last 40 years.”
“We have President Trump’s support and we are very confident we are going to flip this seat, help to expand the Republican majority in the U.S. house so we can deliver for the American people to lower the cost of living, to secure our borders and to take on the political class that has let down our country,” he added.
“If you look at the cost of groceries, energy, insurance, people want change,” Merrin also said.
Liberal media outlets have been accused of taking former President Trump out of context to claim he was calling for violence against former House Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., when he was actually mocking her as someone who pushes for war from the comforts of Washington, D.C.
Drudge Report’s frontpage headline on Friday morning declared in red font with all caps, “TRUMP CALLS FOR CHENEY’S EXECUTION,” and linked to a social media post from far-left commentator Aaron Rupar that showed a partial clip from the former president’s Glendale, Arizona event on Thursday.
“I don’t blame him for sticking with his daughter, but his daughter is a very dumb individual. Very dumb, she’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump is heard saying in the clip that set the tone for MSNBC and CNN’s Friday morning programming.
But many felt it was purposely cut off before Trump’s anti-war message and Fox News contributor Mollie Hemingway quickly responded to Rupar’s clip.
“Wow, I’m so shocked that propagandist Rupar cut it off before this line: ‘They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying ‘Oh gee, let’s send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies.’ She always wanted to go to war with people,’” Hemingway wrote.
Indeed, Trump’s comments following the brief clip shared by Rupar was cut off before the former president finished his thought.
“She’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. They’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh gee, well let’s send 10,000 troops into the mouths of the enemies,’ but she’s a stupid person and I used to have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people,” Trump said.
JD Vance declared Friday that “I am 100 percent sure we have the electorate we need to win” following the release of a series of polls
showing Vice President Kamala Harris taking a narrow lead over former President Donald Trump in the “blue wall” states.
Marist polls of battlegrounds Michigan and Pennsylvania released on Friday have the Democratic vice president ahead of her Republican rival by two points in each state, 50% to 48%. A third poll of Wisconsin voters shows Harris with a three percentage point lead, 51-48%.
“In 2022, Marist had my Ohio Senate race tied. I won by more than 6,” Vance wrote on X.
“Stop worrying about polls and go get people to the polls. I am 100 percent sure we have the electorate we need to win. What we need is to work hard over the next 4 days,” he added.
Fox News’ Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
U.S. job growth slowed down in October, coming in well short of economists’ expectations, while the unemployment rate was unchanged.
The Labor Department on Friday reported that employers added 12,000 jobs in October, well below the 113,000 gain that was predicted by LSEG economists.
The unemployment rate was 4.1%, in line with expectations.
The number of jobs added in the prior two months were both revised downward, with job creation in August revised down by 81,000 from a gain of 159,000 to 78,000, while September was revised down by 31,000 from a gain of 254,000 to 223,000.
The manufacturing sector saw employment decline by 46,000 jobs in October, which the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) noted was largely due to strike activity in the transportation equipment manufacturing sector. About 33,000 unionized machinists at Boeing have been on strike since early September.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp told “Fox & Friends” on Friday that “I believe the enthusiasm and energy is more on our side than theirs right now, at least in Georgia.”
Georgia is one of several battleground states heading into Election Day. More than 3.6 million ballots have already been cast there.
“I’m going to work hard between now and Tuesday to get the vote out,” Kemp said. “We got to win, not only at the top of the ticket but all the way down. Our legislative majorities are at risk in the Georgia statehouse. We have got to help at-risk legislators, we got to have a big turnout.”
Energy advocates are knocking Vice President Kamala Harris for bringing on a top campaign adviser with ties to a controversial environmental group behind the effort to ban gas stoves.
O.H. Skinner, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Consumers, told Fox News Digital that “this is sadly par for the course.”
“For years the left has been focused on assaulting consumers and the things in their homes. That has included a litany of Biden-Harris regulations and mandates,” he said. “From ‘green’ regulations on dishwashers and washing machines to EV mandates and bans on gas stoves, a Harris-Walz administration will no doubt continue to eviscerate consumer choice and force Americans to pay more for everyday products and household appliances that do a worse job.”
However, conservatives are knocking her for hiring Camila Thorndike, who previously worked for the dark money climate activist group Rewiring America as the campaign’s “climate engagement director.” Before joining the campaign in September, Updike worked in multiple positions at Rewiring America between late 2022 and last month, according to her Legistorm profile.
Rewiring America is an environmental advocacy group that made headlines in 2022 for its push to ban gas stoves.
The group does not file federal tax forms since it is sponsored by the Windward Fund, a nonprofit that is part of the billion-dollar dark money network managed by the Washington, D.C.-based Arabella Advisors.
A new poll released Friday shows Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are tied in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
The USA Today/Suffolk poll indicates that both candidates have 49% support among likely voters in the Keystone State.
The survey of 500 likely voters was conducted between Oct. 27-30, with a margin of error of 4.4%.
Biden won Pennsylvania in 2020 by 1.17% of the vote.
Trump won the state by an even smaller margin against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
With just four days to go until Election Day, Republican lawmakers are demanding answers from the Pentagon after receiving complaints about inadequate resources to help military service members vote.
Active duty service members claim the Pentagon has not allocated enough resources to let them cast their ballot on time and that the stockpile of write-in absentee ballots on at least one military base is depleted and has not been replenished, according to three GOP congressmen.
Rep. Brian Mast, R-Mich., Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich. and Mike Walz, R-Fla., penned a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday, writing “with grave concern” about “deficiencies in the Defense Department’s protocols,” which also includes not making service members aware of their options on how to vote.
“Our nation’s brave men and women in uniform brought to our attention that there has been inadequate education at the administrative level on how to register to vote,
request an absentee ballot, and fill in a federal write-in absentee ballot if their state-issued ballot does not arrive in time,” the lawmakers write.
“Other service members also stated that when a request for a federal write-in absentee ballot was made, they were told the base’s stockpile of such ballots was depleted and had not been replenished.”
The lawmakers say it is imperative that the Pentagon does everything in its power so the nation’s “elite warriors” have every opportunity to vote and that the Department of Defense (DOD) “mobilize all the necessary resources over the next seven days” so that military personnel are given that opportunity.
Fox News’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
A slew of new polls show Vice President Kamala Harris taking a narrow lead over former President Trump in the “blue wall” states many forecasters say she needs to win to clinch the presidency.
Marist polls of battlegrounds Michigan and Pennsylvania released Friday have the Democratic vice president ahead of her Republican rival by two points in each state, 50 percent to 48 percent. A third poll of Wisconsin voters shows Harris with a three percentage point lead, 51-48 percent.
All these results are within the Marist polls’ margins of error, plus or minus 3.4 points for the Michigan and Pennsylvania polls and plus or minus 3.5 points for the Wisconsin survey. The surveys were conducted between Oct. 27-30.
The numbers point towards another historically close election next Tuesday following the 2020 cycle, when just 44,000 votes spread across key battleground states handed President Biden the Electoral College votes he needed to unseat Trump. Similarly, in 2016, Trump captured the White House by just under 78,000 votes in the three “blue wall” states.
A Florida Trump supporter says he is being fined daily by local authorities for placing giant banners of Donald Trump outside his home in Walton County.
Marvin Peavy tells Fox News “they are going to stay up because I am fighting [for] my First Amendment right.”
“Walton County has tried to come in and say their rights are better than my First Amendment right and they cannot supersede my First Amendment right,” he added. “I’ve hung probably ten to twelve different signs.”
“It’s been an expensive fight, but I keep fighting and I’ve had people offering to pay but I tell them ‘I’ve got it,” Peavy also said.
If there’s one image that captures the craziness of this campaign, it’s got to be Donald Trump driving around in a garbage truck.
He put on the orange vest and talked to reporters after a Joe Biden blunder put Kamala Harris on the defensive.
And this was after a Trump rally filled with profane insults, including a comic who mocked Puerto Rico as an island of floating garbage.
In this supercharged environment, every mistake counts.
Trump, speaking about criminals who cross the border illegally, said “I told women I will be their protector. They [his advisers] said, ‘Sir, please don’t say that.’ Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not.”
That has an unfortunate ring to it, and Harris said yesterday it is “very offensive to women,” including on controlling “their own bodies.”
All of which brings us back to the last few days. When every hour counts, every distraction is costly. If you’re explaining, you’re losing. If you’re playing defense, you can’t put points on the board.
President Biden returns to the campaign trail this weekend with stops in the biggest of the battleground states, his native Pennsylvania.
The White House confirmed the president will campaign on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris and down-ballot Democrats when he makes stops Friday in Philadelphia and Saturday in Scranton, where the 81-year-old Biden was born and spent his early childhood years.
But Harris, who with four days until Election Day remains locked in a tight showdown with former President Trump in the race to succeed Biden in the White House, won’t be joining her boss on the campaign trail.
The vice president has kept her distance from Biden, who, according to polls, remains deeply unpopular with Americans, and her campaign quietly views him as a liability. And that was before the president made two glaring remarks the past two weeks that quickly went viral.
While Harris has noted the policy successes of the Biden/Harris administration the past four years while campaigning, she’s emphasized that she’ll be an agent of change in the White House.
Giving her closing address Tuesday night at the Ellipse, just yards from the White House, where the president was huddled, Harris emphasized, “I have been honored to serve as Joe Biden’s vice president, but I will bring my own experiences and ideas to the Oval Office.”
It’s been nearly two months since the one-time running mates teamed up on the campaign trail. You have to go back to Labor Day, when they joined forces at a union event in Pittsburgh.
Former President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally later this afternoon in Warren, Mich. — a city outside of Detroit.
He then will head to Wisconsin to host a second event in Milwaukee.
Vice President Kamala Harris will also be in Wisconsin Friday holding a rally at a high school in Little Chute, which is located near the city of Appleton.
With less than a week until Election Day, the final Fox News Poll of Michigan likely voters found Harris up 2 points over Trump on the expanded ballot.
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll
released Monday found Trump and Harris neck and neck in Wisconsin, 48% to 47%, respectively, from a statewide poll of 500 likely voters.
Fox News’ Victoria Balara and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
Billionaire Mark Cuban apologized on X early Friday morning if female Trump supporters felt “slighted or upset” when he claimed “you never see [Trump] around strong, intelligent women, ever” during an appearance on “The View.”
“When I said this during the interview, I didn’t get it out exactly the way I thought I did. So I apologize to anyone who felt slighted or upset by my response. As I said, it wasn’t about Trump voters, supporters or employees. Current or former,” Cuban wrote.
He said he set himself up “for the 6 sec soundbite,” offered “no excuses” and said his “skin is thick enough.”
Hours before issuing the flat-out apology, Cuban tried to “clarify” his comment that was seen widely as an insult to women who support and/or work with Trump.
“This is what I said during a conversation about why Nikki Haley was not active in his campaign. I know many strong, intelligent women voting for Trump, including in my extended family. I’m certainly not saying female voters are not smart, strong and intelligent. I know he has worked with strong, intelligent women, like Elaine Chao, Kelly Anne, Ivanka and many others,” Cuban added. “I stand by my opinion that he does not like being challenged publicly.”
Harris allies trash her big week with ‘garbage’ insults and attacks on pro-Trump women
Forget goblins, ghosts or ghouls: if you’re working for the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, the most frightening sight in the lead-up to Halloween has been her highest profile surrogates taking the microphone. As precious seconds tick off the clock, the last week of campaigning has been marred by mistakes, missteps and meltdowns – all from people supposed to be helping the Democratic effort.
Here are three examples.
First, as Harris delivered her closing pitch focused on unity, President Biden was describing half the country as garbage. You can’t make it up. Holed up in the White House, just steps from Harris’ highly choreographed speech on the Ellipse, Biden was – inexplicably – on a public Zoom call when he uttered the remark that took over the political debate: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump] supporters.”
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Why an 81-year-old man who had been removed from the race because of widespread concerns about his age and ability was speaking at the same time as the person vowing to replace him remains a mystery. By the end of the week, the White House had altered the official transcript to quell the firestorm, but the damage was done.
The incident occurred days after an Axios report headlined “Harris stiff-arms Biden” detailing Biden’s unsuccessful attempts to campaign for his second-in-command. The response from the Harris campaign has been “we’ll get back to you,” according to the reporting. Representing one half of an administration with its approval rating in the 30s, it’s not hard to see why.
Biden’s presence undermines Harris’ slogan of a “new way forward,” a message that was further muddled later in the week by the second surrogate fail: former President Bill Clinton telling rallygoers in Michigan the economy was better under Trump.
It’s said that a “gaffe” is when a politician tells the truth, and to be fair, Clinton’s argument is supported by polling data. Seven in ten voters view the economy negatively, according to a Fox News poll. It’s also far and away the most important issue, and one where Trump has a clear eight-point lead over Harris. Still, it’s not a helpful comment for a candidate trying to connect on core bread and butter issues.
MARK CUBAN TRIES TO ‘CLARIFY’ AFTER COMMENT ON ‘THE VIEW’ WIDELY SEEN AS INSULT TOWARD PRO-TRUMP WOMEN
It wasn’t the first slip-up from the 42nd president. Earlier this month, he appeared to criticize the lack of security at the southern border, causing another viral moment and political headache for the Harris campaign. A once-in-a-generation political talent in his prime, the 78-year-old Clinton is a shell of his former self. Eight years ago, while campaigning for his wife, it was clear he had lost a few MPH off his fastball. These days, he can hardly get the ball across the plate.
Finally, and not to be outdone, was Mark Cuban, the billionaire Harris backer who accused Trump of failing to surround himself with “strong, intelligent women.” The backlash was swift and severe, and Cuban was forced to apologize in an early Friday morning social media post.
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Like Clinton, it wasn’t the first time Cuban got crossways with the campaign messaging. He had (correctly) described a proposed Biden-Harris tax scheme on unrealized capital gains as “an economy killer,” saying he went “ballistic” when he learned of it.
Cuban’s presence on the trail is meant to reassure voters that Harris is not the wild-eyed California liberal her opponents are portraying her as. Why would one of America’s most recognizable and successful entrepreneurs sign up for a campaign pushing socialist-style redistribution policies demonizing success? Instead, Cuban became the story, burning precious time as the race entered its final weekend.
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When she became her party’s nominee, Kamala Harris faced the unenviable task of introducing herself to voters, presenting herself as a change agent, separating from an unpopular incumbent and going toe-to-toe with one of the most dynamic political figures of modern times – and doing it all in a three-month time window. It was never going to be easy, even if everything went right.
If Harris comes up short next week, there will be no shortage of finger-pointing and blame to go around. The slip-ups from her “supporters” will be high on that list.
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Illegal immigrant murder suspect makes request that could sway trial outcome
Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan illegal immigrant charged in Laken Riley’s February murder, is scheduled to appear in court Friday for a hearing to argue that certain evidence, including cellphone data and DNA, should not be allowed in his trial.
Ibarra’s defense previously filed motions to suppress evidence from cellphones, which his attorneys say was obtained illegally by law enforcement, and testimony from a witness who performed DNA testing during Riley’s autopsy, alleging that the results “did not exclude Defendant, but also did not exclude another known individual associated with the case.”
The hearing will take place about two weeks before Ibarra’s trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 18 in Athens-Clarke County, Georgia.
Ibarra, 26, is accused of attacking and killing Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student at Augusta University, while she was out for a run along dirt trails on the University of Georgia’s campus in Athens on the morning of Feb. 22.
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In May, a Georgia grand jury indicted Ibarra on counts of malice murder, two counts of kidnapping with bodily injury, two counts of aggravated assault with intent to rape, two counts of aggravated battery, obstructing or hindering a person from making a 911 call, tampering with evidence and being a “peeping Tom.”
The peeping Tom charge stems from another Feb. 22 incident during which the suspect allegedly went to a residence on UGA’s campus, where he “peeped through” a window and “spied upon” a university staff member, the indictment alleges.
SUSPECT IN LAKEN RILEY’S MURDER IS INDICTED
Ibarra tried to have the “peeping Tom” charge removed from his case, but prosecutors argue that the two incidents are “inextricably intertwined.”
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“Count 10 allegedly occurred the same morning as Ms. Riley was murdered, and the alleged crimes occurred within 300 yards of each other. … Defendant’s alleged crimes are inextricably intertwined, as he allegedly went to one apartment complex, failed to enter the woman’s apartment, and then went to a nearby wooded area where students are often found jogging or exercising,” prosecutors wrote in a court document filed Oct. 28.
LAKEN RILEY MURDER SUSPECT JOSE IBARRA PLEADS NOT GUILTY, MOTHER SOBS IN COURT
The court ultimately ordered the peeping Tom charge not be severed from his case.
LAKEN RILEY’S FATHER SAYS SUSPECT ‘MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN HERE’ IF BORDER WAS SECURE
Ibarra and his brothers, also in the United States illegally from Venezuela, lived in an apartment building that sits on the edge of the on-campus park where Riley was running. Ibarra allegedly murdered the aspiring nurse in what UGA Police Chief Jeffrey Clark described as a “crime of opportunity.”
The quiet, wooded loop Riley ran that morning is easily accessible from behind Ibarra’s apartment complex. It is a five-minute walk from Ibarra’s door to the approximate location where Riley was found dead.
The 26-year-old suspect illegally crossed into the United States through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released into the U.S. via parole, ICE and DHS sources previously told Fox News.
His older brother, Diego Ibarra, is charged with green card fraud and had ties to a known Venezuelan gang in the U.S. called Tren de Aragua, according to federal court documents.
Riley’s death has frequently been mentioned throughout the 2024 presidential election as Republicans and Democrats debate the implications of illegal immigration over the last four years.
Rachel Morin of Maryland, Jocelyn Nungaray of Texas, Lizbeth Medina of Texas, Ruby Garcia of Michigan and Maria Gonzalez of Texas are females allegedly killed by illegal immigrants over the past two years.
Former President Clinton recently brought up Riley’s murder during a campaign visit to Georgia on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn.
“[Harris is] the only candidate who has actually endorsed a bill that would hold down immigration any given year to a certain point and then made sure we gave people a decent place to live, didn’t divide people from their children. And we did total vetting before people got in. Now, Trump killed the bill,” Clinton said during the campaign stop.
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“You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you? They made an ad about it. A young woman who had been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted that probably wouldn’t have happened,” the former president said.
Republicans have argued that Democratic immigration policies under the Biden-Harris administration led a record 7.2 million illegal immigrants arriving in the country over four years, a number greater than the population of 36 states.
Liberal network anchor live fact-checks Harris’ claims about Trump during rally
CNN’s Jake Tapper gave a live fact-check of Vice President Kamala Harris after she claimed former President Trump said he would “do what he wants” whether “the women like it or not.”
At a rally in Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday, Harris asserted Trump will do what he wants regarding abortion restrictions and policing women’s bodies.
“Now in America, one in three women lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions, even for rape and incest, which is immoral. And Donald Trump’s not done. Did everyone hear what he just said yesterday? That he will do what he wants, quote, and here‘s where I‘m going to quote ‘whether the women like it or not,’” Harris said.
She continued, “We must vote because this is the thing. You know, there‘s a saying that you got to listen to people when they tell you who you are, and this is not the first time he has told us who he is. He does not believe women should have the agency and authority to make decisions about their own bodies.”
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Trump’s comments were about how he would “protect women” from illegal immigrants let in by Harris’ border policies.
“Kamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions all over the world from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals who assault, rape, and murder our women and girls. Anyone who would let monsters kidnap and kill our children does not belong anywhere near the Oval Office,” Trump said at a rally.
Trump added, “I’m gonna do it whether the women like it or not. I’m gonna protect them.”
After playing the clip from Harris’ rally, Tapper corrected the vice president, adding she left out context.
“When Trump said he was going to do something for women, whether they like it or not, whether the women like it or not, he was talking about protecting women, protecting women whether they like it or not. Certainly, you can take issue with the language, but he wasn‘t saying he was just going to do whatever he wanted, regardless,” Tapper said.
After his panel on “The Lead” snickered at his fact-check, Tapper followed, “I mean, but you take my point. He’s saying I‘m gonna protect them, whether that women want me to protect them.”
Democratic strategist Karen Finney remarked, “Some would say that’s misogynistic—”
“It‘s not as she presented it,” Tapper said.
“Look, ultimately, I think we have to be careful in these last days. We did this in 2016,” Finney said. “He’s going to say something horrible, ridiculous—”
“So just quote it accurately.” Tapper interrupted.
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“That‘s not my point,” Finney continued. “I just don‘t think we need to say every update because the point is what she where she wanted to, which is we know who this guy is. This is not someone who respects women. That being said, sorry, I think the Puerto Rico ad or General Kelly‘s comments are in a different category.”
Harris made the same inaccurate interpretation of Trump’s statements in a post on X.
“Donald Trump thinks he should get to make decisions about what you do with your body. Whether you like it or not,” Harris wrote while sharing a clip of Trump’s speech.
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Biden-Harris’ policies slammed as illegal immigrant charged in attack on 5-year-old
An illegal immigrant, who crossed into the country back in 2014 was arrested by Border Patrol, released and skipped his immigration hearings, has been arrested in New York in connection with the rape of a 5-year-old girl.
Wilson Castillo Diaz, 26, arrived in Texas through the Rio Grande Valley as a teen and later made his way to New York. He is originally from Honduras.
“Democrats say there’s nothing wrong with letting kids in, [but] this defendant came in as a teenager,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a Republican, told Fox News Digital. “He was 16 years old when he came in, illegally, to America, and now he’s been hiding from the authorities for quite some time and commits this heinous act against a young girl. It’s out of control.”
Nassau County Police said in a statement that the girl was hospitalized after the attack, which took place on Oct. 16.
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“He came in in 2014, under the Obama administration, and he was released,” Blakeman said. “He never showed up for any of his hearings. He’s been loose in the United States. Who knows what else he’s done?”
Police arrested Diaz on Oct. 22 and made the announcement Thursday after confirming his immigration status and notifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Blakeman went on to blast sanctuary policies that have allowed people like Diaz to remain in the U.S. for so long without fear of deportation. He added the Biden-Harris administration has shown a “total lack of respect” for both the U.S. border and the law enforcement agents whose job is to secure it.
“We’ve got to get tough in securing our borders, and we’ve got to deport the people who came in illegally and send them back home,” he said.
Diaz is being held on $200,000 bail on charges of first-degree rape, first-degree attempted rape and endangering the welfare of a child.
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Diaz was living in Westbury, New York, about 30 miles east of New York City.
Authorities planned to hold a news briefing Friday morning to deliver additional information.
Migrant crime has become a hot button issue ahead of next week’s presidential election, with former President Donald Trump’s campaign pointing to some of the most egregious cases of violence this year alone.
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Congressional hearings have hosted the mothers of murder victims to testify on Capitol Hill after their daughters were killed at the hands of illegal immigrants.
During one hearing, Democratic New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler was accused of dozing off after dismissing the proceedings as “one more partisan hearing designed to divide us and to score political points before an election.”
That was a month before the attack on the 5-year-old in his home state.
CEO reacts to ‘worst’ jobs report he’s ever seen, makes gloomy prediction for 2025
A massive jobs miss doesn’t paint a positive picture for the backbone of America’s economy, according to the CEO of the top “non-woke” job board.
“Is that wrong?” RedBalloon’s Andrew Crapuchettes said in reaction to the Labor Department’s October jobs report which revealed only 12,000 positions were added to the economy, well under economists’ expectations of 113,000.
“This is shockingly low,” he continued. “There’s a lot of destruction that happened from both hurricanes and there will be a lot of construction jobs that are going to come out of that. That’s not an economic boom, and we shouldn’t see it that way, but it will cause some kind of disruption in the labor market. But, wow, I don’t know what to say. This is a horrible job report. The worst one that I think that I’ve ever seen and I think will have ripple effects throughout the economy.”
Crapuchettes noted that October is usually the busiest time for the retail industry hires ahead of the bulk of holiday shopping.
US ECONOMY ADDED 12,000 JOBS IN OCTOBER, WELL BELOW ECONOMISTS’ EXPECTATIONS
Although economists expected an underwhelming report due to hurricane disruptions and ongoing labor strikes, the RedBalloon CEO argued this is a “red flag” for businesses ahead of Election Day and going into 2025.
“I also think that there is kind of this wait-and-see, this hold effect that has been happening with this election coming up. I think this is an election that people are following more closely than usual. And a lot of the employers I’m talking to have just been like, ‘You know what? I’m just going to hold on any hiring. I’m going to hold on any investment. I’m going to hold on anything, until I find out how the election goes, because it’s not only taking a lot of my attention, but I don’t know how it’s going to go for the economy,’” Crapuchettes explained.
“So everyone’s kind of tightening their belt, kind of looking around, trying to figure out what’s going on,” he continued. “And the small businesses have been frozen watching this election. So I see those as the factors that are driving this. This is still a shocking number. And again, probably the worst job report I’ve ever seen. In October, right in front of the Christmas season, to only have 12,000 jobs just blows my mind.”
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The number of jobs added in the prior two months were both revised downward, with job creation in August revised down by 81,000 from a gain of 159,000 to 78,000, while September was revised down by 31,000 from a gain of 254,000 to 223,000.
It would not surprise Crapuchettes if October’s report was also eventually revised.
“If my accountant came to me with the number of revisions we’re seeing on this job report, I’d fire that accountant,” he said, “because to have this kind of miss consistently every single month is devastating. And it makes people nervous about this number.”
“With revisions, it could go negative. Which would be the first time in a long time since COVID, really, that we would see that kind of activity. So I think everyone should strap in. I do think that we’re going to see some Fed rate cuts because… this job number feels a lot like not a soft landing, but a very hard landing for our economy in a very tumultuous political time,” the CEO added.
US ECONOMY CREATED 818,000 FEWER JOBS THAN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED
What’s required to move the needle on job creation, according to the hiring expert, is deregulation on corporations and small businesses.
“Employers need optimism. They need to know that the economy, the government is on their side, not against them. And I think we need deregulation badly in this country,” Crapuchettes started.
“We are at a debt-to-GDP ratio of 127%. We don’t see any signs of slowing down the government spending. That needs to stop and that needs to slow down… when you hear things like taxes on unrealized capital gains, which will never happen, but the fact that it’s even being said out loud, that makes everyone just freeze… ‘I need to not take risk. I need to not push my business. I need to just try and hold onto as many of my assets as possible,’ and that destroys money, velocity and the economy.”
US ECONOMY GREW 2.8% IN THE THIRD QUARTER, SLOWER THAN EXPECTED
RedBalloon’s latest Freedom Economy Index survey, produced also with Public Square, found 87% of respondents would close their business if the Harris-Walz ticket wins. On the other hand, 83% said they would expand hiring if Trump is re-elected.
“When you’re in a place in America where the only way to survive as a business is to be a large business, who has a lobbying organization that’s helping you get benefits for your business, and that’s the only way to survive in America, that is going to kill the American dream,” Crapuchettes said.
“When I see a job report like this, there’s two reactions,” the CEO expanded. “The first reaction is you can be, ‘I’m just going to take care of myself on my own,’ or, ‘Hey, there are people that are hurting in the economy.’”
“You talk about thousands or hundreds of thousands of jobs, it feels very impersonal. But those are people right now that are struggling to pay the bills… Use this as an opportunity to see how are you going to bless somebody else? How are you going to help someone else who’s in need? Maybe they need a job and you can’t give them a job, but you can give them encouragement… we need to be an encouragement to each other right now because this is a pretty devastating report for a lot of families in America.”
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