#Jesse Watters Primetime

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Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

Republicans are making menacing threats against a trio of Democratic lawmakers who visited an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to conduct routine oversight, saying the three could face censure, expulsion from Congress, and even be arrested, in the latest sign that Republicans are descending into fascism in President Donald Trump’s second term. On Tuesday night, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the three Democratic lawmakers—New Jersey Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Robert Menendez Jr.—of committing "felonies" at the ICE facility in New Jersey, when in fact it was the ICE agents who provoked the scene by arresting Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. “We had members of Congress assaulting law enforcement officers. They were cooperating with criminals to create criminal acts, and then they’re saying that they were providing oversight. This wasn't oversight. This was committing felonies,” Noem said in an appearance on Fox News.  A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson also said last week that arresting the three Democrats was “on the table.” Meanwhile, Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia introduced legislation to kick the three lawmakers off of their committees. His legislation is likely an effort to boost his Trumpian bona fides as he runs for the GOP Senate nomination in Georgia, to take on Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff next November. And House Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday that House Republicans could go further by possibly expelling the three lawmakers from Congress because they visited the ICE facility. [...] Of course, the Democratic lawmakers were legally allowed to enter the ICE facility for oversight, but they were being blocked by the ICE officers at the facility. The situation escalated when ICE then arrested Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, leading to the chaotic confrontation. Eventually, the lawmakers were allowed to enter for their oversight tour. 

Republicans are calling for the fascistic removals and/or arrests of the three Democratic New Jersey members of Congress (Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver, and Robert Menendez Jr.) who visited an ICE facility last week.

From the 05.13.2025 edition of FNC's Jesse Watters Primetime:

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Johns Hopkins University announced staff layoffs as a result of massive funding cuts to federal aid programs – where Watters’s sister works

Fox News host Jesse Watters again bemoaned the DOGE cuts impacting him personally after the anchor had promoted the cuts.

On Thursday evening’s episode of Jesse Watters Primetime, the host, once again, praised President Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk and the newly-formed Department of Government Efficiency for making massive cuts to federal programs to curtail what they believe is “waste, fraud and abuse.”

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A bombshell report from journalist Michael Shellenberger reveals that Trump’s impeachment wasn’t just a Democrat-led political hit job—it was an intelligence operation.

Shellenberger blew the lid off the scandal on Jesse Watters Primetime, exposing how the deep state worked behind the scenes to take down Trump.

Back in 2019, Democrats rushed to impeach Trump over a whistleblower complaint claiming he pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden. But there was one huge problem: the so-called whistleblower wasn’t even a direct witness.

“Many people may not remember that it was a CIA analyst who was left over from the Obama White House who wrote the memo that led to the impeachment,” Shellenberger explained. “It was all based on hearsay. The person had not actually been in the room with Trump.”

And it gets worse. That memo relied on a report from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)—a group that pretends to be independent but is actually funded by USAID and controlled by the U.S. government.

“Tens of millions of dollars had gone into this group called OCCRP,” Shellenberger said. “But it was basically created as an extension of the State Department and then of USAID.”

In other words, the same agencies that topple foreign governments were using their playbook against a sitting U.S. president. “So USAID was involved with regime change abroad and here at home,” Jesse Watters concluded.

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From Fox News - Tom Homan: Things will be better in New York City very quickly if this happens

Tom Homan: Things will be better in New York City very quickly if this happens

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Watching Fox News these days is like being at open-mic night at a marginal comedy club.

Rightwing pundits, like a lineup of amateur comics, are trying out their new material and hoping it kills. So far, not so much.

Take Jesse Watters (please). The primetime successor to Tucker Carlson was grasping at straws – yes, literal straws – the other day as he looked for a way to put down Tim Walz. How best to mock the popular Minnesota governor who is Kamala Harris’s running mate?

“Women love masculinity and women do not like Tim Walz, so that should just tell you about how masculine Tim Walz is,” Watters said on the roundtable talk show he co-hosts, The Five.

With that setup, he tried to prove his point.

“The other day you saw him with a vanilla ice-cream shake. Had a straw in it. Again, that tells you everything.”

The joke, or whatever it was, didn’t really land. Most people know that Walz is the opposite of a wimp. He’s a famously regular guy – America’s dad – who will use his newfound power to demand that all Americans own jumper cables and know how to use them.

The straw-grasping is getting a little desperate these days as Harris and Walz spread their forward-looking message, and as their rivals – the felon and adjudicated sex offender Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance – prove themselves less appealing by the day.

“Fox is really feeling the loss of Tucker Carlson right now,” theorized Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters, the progressive media-watchdog non-profit, who watches a lot of rightwing cable news as part of his job.

“He was very effective at lifting something from the rightwing fever swamp and making it into a coherent message” that could spread through the conservative ecosystem.

Failing Tucker’s contributions to the commonweal, Fox and its pundits are floundering. They keep trying new approaches to replace their well-honed attacks on Biden – his family’s supposed corruption (“Biden crime family”) and his age (“senile”).

Over the past week, Fox tried to gin up controversy over Harris’s “code-switching” – the use of a different accent or speaking style when speaking to Black audiences. Fox’s White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed the question at an official press briefing.

“Since when does the vice-president have what sounds like a southern accent?” Doocy demanded. The press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, dismissed him and moved on after posing a query of her own: “Do you think Americans seriously think this is an important question?”

Maria Bartiromo focused on this “southern accent” scandal on her Fox Business show, using a clip of Harris speaking to an audience in Detroit about how unions have helped win benefits for all Americans, like paid sick leave and a five-day work week, by repeating the phrase: “You’d better thank a union member.”

The pro-Trump cable network didn’t help its own cause with that one. “The funny thing about Fox News being mad at Harris for code-switching,” one observer noted on X, “is they had to play the clip of her talking about how great unions are over and over again.” You can’t buy that kind of media exposure.

The well-circulated photograph of Tim Walz’s family members wearing pro-Trump T-shirts fizzled, too, though it got a good ride on Fox for a day or two. Soon enough, it became clear that these were mostly distant cousins, a Nebraska branch of the family. Walz’s sister told the Associated Press she didn’t even recognize them. Walz does have an older brother who favors Trump, but most Americans are familiar with family disputes over politics.

Gertz told me that Fox pundits were sent reeling by Harris’s ascension and are “very shook by the ‘weird’ narrative” that Tim Walz has popularized. That’s the idea that Trump, Vance and their ilk are deeply strange people – way out of the mainstream with their nasty putdowns of “childless cat ladies” and their outlandish conspiracy theories. It applies all too well to the Fox personalities as well as the politicians they promote.

There’s time, of course, for Fox to come up with an effective message. Until something hits, we’re going to see a lot of painful tryouts.

The alternative, of course, is obvious: just don’t turn it on.

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Anna Kutz at NewsNation:

(NewsNation) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has accused Fox News of defamation in a $787 million lawsuit, he announced Thursday. The lawsuit centers on claims made by Fox News host Jesse Watters, who said Newsom lied about his phone calls with President Donald Trump during Los Angeles immigration protests earlier this month, Politico first reported. The lawsuit accuses Watters’ program of selectively editing a video of Trump to support a false narrative that Newsom lied about the date of their phone call regarding the deployment of troops to LA.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) sues right-wing misinformation peddling outlet Fox “News” for $787M over coverage of the Los Angeles ICE protests.

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Former Obama fundraiser Allison Huynh announced that she is pulling her support (and money) from the Democratic Party and investing it into former President Donald Trump’s campaign. 

The co-creator of Willow Garage, a company that created robotics and AI systems, said she was “divorcing” the Democratic Party, citing several reasons that have added to her final decision to vote for Trump this November. 

“Like any divorce, there’s not just one thing, there’s a series of things that led up to it," Huynh said on "Jesse Watters Primetime.”

Since Biden took office four years ago, the U.S. has seen unprecedented levels of crime, inflation, and illegal immigrants crossing the southern border, resulting in Americans— even Democrats— abandoning the president. 

Huynh lives with her family in San Francisco, where crime and looting have been a significant problem for years in the city. She said that Democrats police the wrong things and instead should focus on policing violent criminals. 

“The things that we need to police are violent criminals that are scattered throughout the streets of San Francisco, people defecating, shooting up heroin in front of me and my kids, and allowing criminals to go in and steal from our grocery stores, shutting down grocery stores," she said. “He’s asleep at the wheel,” Huynh said of Biden. 

On the contrary, Huynh spoke highly of Trump when she met him for the first time at a fundraising event at Mar-a-Lago.

“He was light and funny and intelligent,” she said. “The people there were down-to-earth. I was happy with how knowledgeable Trump is about what is going on with the country and the economy. He had the information. He is all there with the things that matter: education — his kids are well-educated -— fighting crime, immigration, and business.” 

She also spoke highly of Trump’s 2016 Jobs Act, saying it was a good policy that “encourages investment, which helps to sustain this country.”

If DT isn't elected expect the American Republic Experiment to devolve into total chaos.

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Most Americans don’t know that for much of U.S. history there was no federal income tax and there was no central bank.  But now everyone assumes that we must have a federal income tax and a central bank in order to have a functioning society.  Today, there are just a handful of nations that do not have an income tax, and more than 99 percent of the entire population of the globe lives in a country that has a central bank.  Of course the two work hand in hand.  A central bank creates a spiral of borrowing that is meant to be unbreakable, and an income tax is necessary to service payments on that debt spiral.  It is not a coincidence that a federal income tax and the Federal Reserve were both established in 1913.  Since that time, we have piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the world, and that is precisely the outcome that the system was designed to produce.

(Article by Michael Snyder republished from TheMostImportantNews.com)

So what is the solution to this colossal mess?

The answer to 1913 is 2025.

This year, we are seeing things get proposed in Washington D.C. that once would have been unthinkable.

For example, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick just told Fox News that President Trump wants to “abolish the Internal Revenue Service”…

More details have emerged from the Trump administration about alleged plans to get rid of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and utilize tariffs so the “whole economy explodes.” “His goal is to abolish the Internal Revenue Service and let all the outsiders pay,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Wednesday on “Jesse Watters Primetime.” “As the president said, reciprocal tariffs, either you bring yours down or we’re going to bring ours up. If we go to their level, it will earn us $700 billion a year to be equal to everybody else,” he expanded Thursday on “America’s Newsroom.”

And it appears that the Trump administration is already taking concrete steps toward that goal.

In fact, it is being reported that “approximately 7,000 probationary workers” at the IRS are about to be hitting the bricks…

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is planning to slash approximately 7,000 probationary workers in Washington, D.C., and across the U.S. starting Thursday, according to reports. The layoffs will affect probationary workers who have been employed for one year or less and have not been able to secure full civil service protection, The Associated Press reported, citing a person familiar with the plans.

Wow.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is also being targeted by the new administration.

In fact, Elon Musk has suggested that the Federal Reserve could soon get visited by the Department of Government Efficiency…