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Lindsey Boylan, a former aide in the New York governors office, detailed how Gov. Andrew Cuomo allegedly exploited their professional relationship as an opportunity to sexually harass her.

Im compelled to tell my story because no woman should feel forced to hide their experiences of workplace intimidation, harassment and humiliation not by the Governor or anyone else, Boylan wrote. I expect the Governor and his top aides will attempt to further disparage me, just as theyve done with Assemblymember Kim. Theyd lose their jobs if they didnt protect him. Thats how his administration works. I know because I was a part of it.

In Boylans account of the alleged sexual harassment, she was working as chief of staff at the state economic development agency in 2016 when Cuomo allegedly communicated to her boss that he had a crush on her. Months after that incident, the director of the governors office reportedly informed Boylan, who shared screenshots of an email exchange, that Cuomo suggested I look up images of Lisa Shields his rumored former girlfriend because we could be sisters; and I was the better-looking sister. Cuomo also reportedly called Boylan Lisa around his office, which she said was degrading.

I had complained to friends that the Governor would go out of his way to touch me on my lower back, arms and legs. His senior staff began keeping tabs on my whereabouts, Boylan wrote.

Other similarly uncomfortable and inappropriate situations, Boylan said, unfolded as the years went on, such as Cuomos request that the aides all play strip poker. At one point, the governor even allegedly isolated Boylan in his office, making a reference to former President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinskys affair while he talked with her alone. He also gifted her a rose on Valentines Day and put a signed photograph of himself on her closed-door office while I was out.

These were not-so-subtle reminders of the Governor exploiting the power dynamic with the women around him, Boylan wrote.

Due to Cuomos alleged behavior, Boylan expressed hesitancy to take a promotion to deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser to the governor, but she finally accepted when she was told she could keep her old office on a different floor from Cuomo. Boylan said she tried to dismiss his behavior as only words, but that things changed after a one-on-one briefing with the Governor to update him on economic and infrastructure projects. We were in his New York City office on Third Avenue. As I got up to leave and walk toward an open door, he stepped in front of me and kissed me on the lips. I was in shock, but I kept walking, Boylan said.

After she saw how Cuomos pervasive harassment extended beyond just me and the governors team dismissed her concerns after the alleged kissing incident, Boylan sent in her resignation in 2018.

It was all so normalized particularly by Melissa DeRosa and other top women around him that only now do I realize how insidious his abuse was, Boylan noted, referencing the top aide who recently confessed that the states top office purposefully hid the nursing home COVID-19 death toll out of fear of a federal investigation.

Boylan first shared her experience on Twitter in December, accusing the governor of inappropriate behavior targeting her for years under the watch of other people in his office.

I know I am not the only woman, Boylan said.

Shortly after her post went viral, Boylan said the governors loyalists attempted to smear her by spreading a supposed confidential personnel file which she had never seen and asking about her around town. Cuomos office denied the allegations made by Boylan in December, saying, There is simply no truth to these claims.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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PolitiFact botched a fact-check of a fact-check in a story exposing the groups absence of a fact-check.

On Friday, PolitiFact Editor-in-Chief Angie Holan twice demanded The Federalist issue a correction to a story published Wednesday on comments the group was not very interested in fact-checking Vice President Kamala Harris.

Weve always been more interested in fact-checking the president than the vice president, Holan wrote in an email Wednesday, when pushed on why the group had failed to fact-check demonstrably false comments from Harris. That was true for the past two administrations as well.

Harris claimed during an interview with Axios on HBO published this week that the Biden administration has been forced to start from scratch on coronavirus vaccine distribution.

Were starting from scratch, Harris said, only to be directly contradicted by National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci speaking to reporters a month earlier.

Were certainly not starting from scratch, Fauci said. In fact, the Trump administration put team Biden on track to reach its initial goal of 100 million vaccines in the first 100 days. Onthe day after Biden was inaugurated, 1.3 million Americans were inoculated,accordingto Bloomberg News.

PolitiFact told The Federalist the group had no plans to fact-check Harris for the reason stated above, and added the fact-checking organization already fact-checked a similar claim when it was made by White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain in January. The group rated Klains comments mostly false.

PolitiFact took issue with The Federalist story published Feb. 17, however, over the publication highlighting the groups last fact-check of President Joe Biden dated for Feb. 10, one week earlier.

Your report is wrong in multiple ways, Holan wrote in a Friday email. For one, we published three fact-checks on Feb. 16, so our last check on Biden was the day before your report was published. The link you use in the story shows that. Please issue a correction ASAP.

Holan followed up two hours later, demanding an update.

The link embedded in the initial post to Bidens fact-checks on the PolitiFact website, however, which remains unchanged, shows PolitiFact published three fact-checks after the story was published in The Federalist, of statements made on Feb. 16, including Bidens remarks on vaccines. Contrary to Holans assertion, these fact-checks were published on Feb. 17 and 18, following the Federalist article.

PolitiFact has still not published a fact-check of Harriss erroneous assertion the Biden White House has been forced to start from scratch with vaccine distribution.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Staff Editor Madeline Osburn and Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky break down how President Joe Bidens nominees, executive orders, and other political actions are anything but moderate and how the corrupt corporate media are enabling them.

In a sense, yes, Washington is kind of back to normal. Im sure its comforting to some people to see the media machine and the political machine functioning in a way that feels familiar. We are back to congressional hearings. There are no impulsive and unorthodox, to say the least, tweets being fired off by the commander in chief every [day], Jashinsky said. The whole media misses that but is it really normal?

Despite the corporate medias sudden lack of excitement and Trump tweets, Osburn said many outlets are still creating narratives to mask Bidens progressive agenda.

I think what weve watched this week in the nomination process is just the dichotomy between those two things of a Biden administration that you have these very bland people that the media is just twiddling their thumbs watching, pretending that they are totally moderate and totally normal, and then the other side of that coin is that its the effects of what the administration wants to do is, like you said, the most radical legislation of our lifetime, Osburn explained.

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Global Christian ministry Focus on the Family remains locked out of its Twitter account after the organization tweeted a link to an article by writer Zachary Mettler on its affiliated-platform, the Daily Citizen.

The tweet recited basic biology, and Twitter was not happy. In todays censorious bully culture, speaking truth will land you in the digital gulag.

On Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden announced that he had chosen Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of HHS. Dr. Levine is a transgender woman, that is, a man who believes he is a woman, the Daily Citizen account tweeted.

The article by Mettler discusses the controversy concerning the calls in Pennsylvania for Levines resignation following her relocating her mother from a nursing home while moving COVID-19 infected patients into facilities about the same time.

Twitter contacted the Daily Citizen and notified the media outlet that it had suspended the organizations account for violating [its] rules against hateful conduct, and promoted violence, threatened, or harassed Levine. The publication was told it had to delete the tweet if it wanted to be reinstated.

After the Daily Citizen appealed its suspension and was denied, it reached back out to Twitter for clarity. Twitter then deleted the tweet. In emails, obtained by The Federalist, the Daily Citizen contacted Twitter on separate occasions to try to resolve the matter and get back into its account.

The tech giant has yet to respond.

Paul Batura, vice president of communications at Focus on the Family, reached back out after being stonewalled for several weeks by Twitter, with the Daily Citizens account in limbo.

This is not the first time Focus on the Family has been censored by the tyrannical powers that be. During the Georgia Senate run-offs, the Daily Citizen posted an interview with former MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on YouTube, which the tech giant subsequently took down.

Were a non-partisan organization, Batura said. We just want to report on facts and let people make up their minds. And yet [censorship] is happening across the board. I know we are not the only organization that theyre pulling content down from.

Ryan T. Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center think tank, had his book When Harry Became Sally removed from Amazon over the weekend because of its rejection of the modern lefts anti-scientific transgender theory. The former senior research fellow in American principles and public policy at the Heritage Foundation has yet to receive a formal response from Amazon.

Make no mistake, Anderson told The Federalist, both Big Government and Big Tech can undermine human dignity and liberty, human flourishing and the common good. I discovered the book had vanished from Amazon including Kindle and Audible and used booksellers when someone looking to buy it alerted me. No one from Amazon notified me or my publisher. My publisher has reached out, but still no response.

Hate speech is a dangerous game instituted by Big Tech and other corporations but has emerged as the perverse norm in 2021. After the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, thousands of conservative accounts were purged from all Big Tech platforms without due reason. On Jan. 8, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced in a leaked call by Project Veritas that his company would be ramping up censorship.

We know we are focused on one account right now, referring to the banning of then-President Donald Trump, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and its going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, the next few weeks, going on beyond inauguration, Dorsey said. We have to expect that. We have to be ready for that.

For Twitter, its hateful conduct now to correctly state that a transgender woman, who biologically is a man, is a man, Mettler, the author of the Daily Citizen article told The Federalist. If you state biological truth on Twitter, thats enough for them to censor you. Twitter is at war with biology here.

Family Policy Alliance, a Christian lobbying group that works hand-in-hand with Focus on the Family, announced a #AreWeNext petition campaign subsequent to the suspension of the Daily Citizens Twitter profile. As of Monday, the Family Policy Alliance petition has about 30,000 signatures and has been endorsed by several prominent conservative organizations, as well as dozens of members of Congress.

As you know, Family Policy Alliance was born from Focus on the Family, and we remain their close ally and public policy partner. We could not sit by when Twitters censorship machine decided that Focus would be their next victim, the organization said in a statement. Its important that Twitter hears from us theyve crossed a line. If they want to censor the spread of pornography and child trafficking, we will stand with them. If they want to censor biological fact, free speech, and the open debate of ideas, we wont.

The curious thing is that weve been trying to receive clarification from Twitter and even some direction on how theyd want us to communicate on this issue and have been met with silence, Focus on the Family said. Undoubtedly, silence is what Twitter and all the rest want. Its what they crave. Big Tech is leveraging its unprecedented power to muzzle conservative voices.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a media request from The Federalist.

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Corporations are using their power to enforce radical cultural standardsimported into their boardrooms from academiaon the rest of the country. Look no further than the last few days at Disney for evidence. The effect, however, is to empower a new infrastructure that will challenge the dominance of legacy cultural institutions.

Ahead of Valentines Day, Disney-owned ABC aired a sympathetic report about OnlyFans, endorsing pornography as empowerment without any pushback whatsoever. Then Disneys Lucasfilms dropped Gina Carano from The Mandalorian over a clumsy anti-woke meme she had already deleted, which was likely just the companys excuse to expel a center-right celebrity from its ranks anyway.

Days later, Chris Harrison stepped aside from hosting The Bachelor after leftist complaints about his call for grace towards a contestant accused of racial insensitivity.

The second two case studies share a common threat to the leftthey involve high-profile arguments against cancel culture dogma. The effect of punishingor cancelingthe people behind those arguments is to cancel the debate on cancel culture. If I didnt think the cancelers were too shortsighted to plan that out, it would be genius.

What happened to Carano and Harrison is deeply unjust, but theyre wealthy celebrities with money and clout who will ultimately be fine. The real victims are everyday people. You can draw a direct line from Carano and Harrison to the girl who lost her cheerleading scholarship over an old Snapchat video, or the crazy critical race and gender curricula popping up all over the country.

Corporations play a powerful role in shaping our cultural standards and precedents. They help draw the lines. Now that theyre run by college-educated millennials drunk on Robin DiAngelo, whove either replaced their elders or used their progressive-or-bigot binary to intimidate them into submission, major corporations are shaping society to resemble campuses.

If Harrison cant debate cancel culture with nuance and compassion, why should a parent open his mouth at a school board meeting to protest I Am Jazz? Why should any company risk media backlash and a public relations headache by keeping an employee who posted a clumsy meme?

There are real consequences to cancel culture outside celebrity circles. The chilling of speech is not merely an abstract conversation, grievance politics for the pundit class. Its wreaking havoc on the country and scaring real people.

So theres now increasing demand for entertainment uncorrupted by leftist politicsor politics at all, in some cases. In the wake of Caranos firing, Bari Weiss resurfaced her call for heterodox thinkers to immediately build their own platforms:

Build original, interesting and generative things right now. This minute. Every day I hear from those with means with children at private schools who are being brainwashed; people who run companies where they are scared of their own employees; people who donate to their alma mater even though it betrays their principles. Enough. You have the ability to build new things. If you dont have the financial capital, you have the social or political capital. Or the ability to sweat.

Ben Domenech and I have documented many such efforts in our series on the New Contras, a term for the growing army of anti-woke thinkers using new platforms to capitalize on the mounting demand for authentic voices in media. Until recently, however, that list didnt really include any filmmakers.

The Daily Wires new foray into film production and distribution, which kicked off with Run Hide Fight, is a very big deal. It got bigger this week, thanks to Disney. Shortly after Lucasfilms ditched her, The Daily Wire announced Carano would be producing and starring in a new film as part of their partnership with Bonfire Legend.

Carano brings with her to the project a largely nonpolitical fanbase of Mandalorian viewers, some of whom are exasperated with cancel culture and some of whom just love her as an artist and want to see more. The audience for productions created outside the traditional infrastructures of our cultural institutions is growing beyond mere Republicans. That means these projects will have the budgets and talent to compete with the quality of those legacy institutions, whether theyre in Hollywood, news media, podcasting, or even music.

I shot Bonfire Legend founder Dallas Sonnier an email to ask about the response to the Carano announcement, and whether theres enough demand to fund big projects like this one.

Since we announced the partnership between Gina Carano, The Daily Wire, and Bonfire Legend, the story hit a fever pitch over the weekend with press coverage from Vanity Fair to CBS, even TMZ! There were over 1700 comments on the Deadline announcements, whereas a typical article on that site garners 0-10 comments. And social media has expectedly divided in half over their support vs condemnation of the news, Sonnier wrote back. This is all indicative of where we are a society right now, but also proof that the demand is through the roof. Now we just have to meet that demand by making great movies that delight mainstream audiences and melt the faces of our most vocal critics.

Advancements in self-publishing and crowdfunding tools like Substack and Patreon are propelling this movement powerfully. So too are the cancelations. Projects like The Daily Wire-Bonfire Legend collaboration or, say, Glenn Greenwalds Substack, demonstrate to high-profile celebrities that there are places for them to land, which legitimizes and empowers these new alternatives, supported by the imprimatur of big names, and frees up everyone to create art and journalism with fewer inhibitions.

Corporations are convinced social media mobs present legitimate challenges to their bottom lines, which is why they offload people like Carano. Not only is that unjust, its obviously wrong, even in the case of The New York Times and Weiss. The majority of people unbothered by most allegations of political incorrectness, which typically range from flimsy to laughable, will consume the work of the canceled. They will do it eagerly, in many cases.

The future is more niches and a more splintered media landscape. While the power of these legacy institutions wont dissolve overnight, their corruption is rapidly creating demand for alternatives, and those alternatives are rapidly creating powerful infrastructures of their own.

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President Joe Bidens pick for secretary of the interior, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland, faced Senate lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday and did little to shake fears about her progressive radicalism.

Haaland was nominated in December after completing just one term in the House. She came to Congress in the 2018 midterms as a climate activist who had previously joined protesters against the South Dakota Access Pipeline Project. In the House, Haalands environmental activism earned her praise from New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who called her a Green New Deal champion, and the New Mexico congresswoman was an original co-sponsor of the progressive legislation, which sought to mandate the rapid decarbonization of the American economy under a socialist agenda.

On fossil fuels, Haaland has said she remains wholeheartedly against fracking and drilling on public lands, while being opposed to any and all oil and gas exploration on public property. Revenues from such energy exploration, however, provide the lifeblood of her home states economy. Forty percent of New Mexicos budget depends on oil and gas production.

In 2018, Haaland tried to claim revenues could be offset by legalizing cannabis. That is another industry that would be an economic boon for our state and this district, Haaland said.

As secretary of the interior, Haaland would oversee 500 million acres of public lands with a pivotal role in crafting the environmental agenda of the Biden White House. Haaland tried to ease lawmaker concerns surrounding her opposition to fossil fuels by reiterating their importance in her opening statement.

Theres no question that fossil energy does and will continue to play a major role in America for years to come. I know how important oil and gas revenues are to fund critical services, Haaland said, in empty rhetoric Americans have heard before.

Last year, then-candidate Joe Biden routinely wavered back and forth over his opposition to fossil fuels depending on the audience. Throughout the primary, Biden was clear that under his administration, fracking would be banned.

We would work it out. We would make sure its eliminated, Biden once said during a CNN debate.

In the fall, however, Biden pretended to back off his earlier promises, even with an original Senate co-sponsor of the Green New Deal running with him on his ticket. Bidens own website touted support for the Green New Deal, a note highlighted in a fact-check by The Federalist after the Democratic nominee tried to claim thats not my plan, in the September debate.

I do not propose banning fracking, Biden said during an October ABC town hall. It has to be managed very, very well. Ban or no ban, however, it wont matter if the Biden administration, featuring Haaland, would just regulate the industry to death.

Bidens apparent change of heart was merely empty political rhetoric so as not to lose votes in key tipping-point states such as Pennsylvania where Trump aired footage at rallies of Bidens earlier comments railing against fossil fuels. Were going to phase out fossil fuels, Biden says in the video.

Within his first month in office, Biden signed executive orders to do just that, yanking the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, and placed moratoriums on new mining, oil, and gas leases on public lands with an order for the Department of the Interior to review existing permits.

The new policies are poised to wreck states dependent on energy production, and Haaland stands to be their champion at the helm of Interior. Haaland dodged questions about her personal opinions on Tuesday and instead pivoted to reaffirming her commitment to Bidens agenda, an already progressive platform crafted under the framework of the Green New Deal.

Do you support a ban on fracking and no new pipelines? pressed Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines.

President Biden does not support a ban on fracking is my understanding, she said. When asked again, Haaland gave a re-worded version of the first answer.

If I am confirmed as secretary, I would be serving at the pleasure of the president, and it would be his agenda that I would move forward, Haaland said, without backing away from earlier statements that she was wholeheartedly against fracking. Adequate regulation passed by the Biden administration could effectively serve the same purpose as outright banning fracking.

When Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy pressed her on her position over Bidens order on the Keystone Pipeline, Haaland said again that it remains the presidents decision.

Of course, no Cabinet nominee would openly contradict the platform of the president prior to confirmation, let alone during a confirmation hearing. Her nomination and record of environmental radicalism, however, combined with the presidents aggressive early climate policies, expose the Trojan Horse of progressivism that Republicans warned of all last year on the campaign trail.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Founder and Executive Director of Power The Future Daniel Turner joins Senior Editor Chris Bedford to discuss how failures in the government-induced wind sector of the Texas energy grid contributed to the states unfurling power crisis.

Everyone wants to be able to say, Its because of you that this all happened, and thats just not possible. There are multiple factors that added up together to cause what happened and is happening right now in Texas, Turner explained. The biggest underlying delta of what happened in the past as opposed to what happenednow is this mandate, this on-high, government knows better, We are going to tell you, this is what percentage of the electric grid has come from. Why does thegovernment feel they have to do this to us?

When it works, Turner said, green energy can be useful. The problem, he said, is that wind power and other energy alternatives are wielded by progressives and Democrats as a political weapon and do not always provide the solutions Americans need.

There is this growing green movement, and you see this is the power of the left. Its the same as the anti-race movement. Its the same as a cancel culture. Its the same as the transgender movement, There is a strong leftist movement to say we have to shove green energy down Americas throats and people are buying it. Republicans are buying into it. Yes, we should have a big percentage of our electric grid come from wind when it works great, but what happens if it doesnt work?

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When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. took to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963 to deliver his famous I Have a Dream speech, he offered Americans, of all races, a compelling vision of a society no longer prejudiced by race. He envisioned a country where citizens are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

But to listen to todays most prominent antiracists, Kings dream is what stands in the way of racial justice in 21st-century America. The result is the return of legal racial discrimination.

In Madison, Wisconsin, the famously leftist city government recently established a Police Civilian Oversight Board in response to activists concerned with police relations. The boards mission is rather vague: provide input, engage in community outreach, and make policy-level recommendations. What the board is not vague about is who is allowed to participate.

Six of the boards 11 members must be black. No Asians, American Indian, Hispanics or Latinos, or Whites can sit in those six seats: Blacks Only, to use the terminology of the Citys Alder Workgroup, which explicitly mandated 50 percent Black members.

Furthermore, one board seat is reserved for an Asian; one board seat is reserved for an American Indian; one board seat is reserved for someone identifying as Latinx. Finally, one board seat is reserved for a member of the LGBTQ community, although the city presumably would allow someone to be both a minority and LGBTQ at the same time.

Heralded as a serious effort at equity and inclusion, Madisons Police Civilian Oversight Board intentionally discriminates based on racial categoriesa practice with an ugly and pernicious past. This is also the vision of Americas most prominent antiracists. For example, in his 2019 book, How to be an Antiracist, best-selling author Ibram X. Kendi is explicit that, The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.

Unfortunately, Madison is not alone in this kind of legal racism. California now imposes racial quotas on private companies boards. NASDAQ is following suit. Many private companies, such as Delta Airlines and Wells Fargo, are promising to impose quotas.

Regardless of the intent or the current zeitgeist on racial justice, intentional race discrimination remains illegal, unconstitutional, and contrary to basic American values. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has written that racial paternalism and its unintended consequences can be as poisonous and pernicious as any other form of discrimination.

Our Constitutions aim of a colorblind society, embodied in the Equal Protection Clause, was [p]urchased at the price of immeasurable suffering, and any racial classifications, whether for good intentions are not, have a destructive impact on the individual and society and demean[ ] us all, according to Justice Thomas, who is black.

Since 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down racial quotas every time they have reared their ugly head. Given the energy and momentum to establish new racial quotas, however, the courts can expect to be tested in new ways on their commitment to justice and equal protection.

In Madison, seven residents, represented by attorneys from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, have challenged the unconstitutional racial quotas. If the city does not withdraw its ordinance and re-constitute the board with legal criteria, the city can expect a lawsuit. If the current cultural climate remains, it wont be the last.

This all adds up to a treacherous moment for Kings dream. While slavery and Jim Crows legacy have not been undone easily, America has made important progress, although halting and stumbling at times, since the 1960s.

But resurrecting legal racial discrimination in the name of progress is no progress at all. It may be the preferred strategy of the antiracists who have rocketed to fame and credibility among many in elite American institutions, but it represents a dead-end for a diverse country still committed to equality before the law and the proposition that all men are created equal.

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Cheney has defamed tens of millions of Republicans as white supremacists. I want to see her evidence.

Rep. Liz Cheney seems to think the Republican Party is the party of white supremacy. She is so convinced of this that she feels the GOP needs to make clear this is not the case. CNN and other progressive outlets could barely contain their joy. Here is how the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party down in Atlanta covered Cheneys remarks: In a speech on Tuesday in Washington, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said something remarkable.

Its very important, especially for us as Republicans, to make clear that we arent the party of white supremacy, she said at an event at the Reagan Institute. Of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Cheney added: You certainly saw antisemitism. You saw the symbols of Holocaust denial. You saw a Confederate flag being carried through the rotunda. We, as Republicans in particular, have a duty and an obligation to stand against that, to stand against insurrection.

It is important to understand that the mere fact that Cheney is spewing this nonsense is an obvious invitation to the left to conclude that the GOP is racist. Just the fact that she is raising the question, they say, is evidence that something deeply wrong is afoot. But in fact, Cheneys claims are utterly baseless, and quite frankly, if she really believes the GOP is a racist party, the moral thing to do is to quit the party immediately.

But shes not doing that because, of course, she does not really believe what she is saying. Were there racists who rioted at the Capitol in January? Yes. Was the riot immediately, roundly, and completely denounced by nearly every Republican in America within minutes? Also yes. Nobody is defending the racists at the Capitol riots. None are even so much as giving excuses as the left regularly does for antisemites like Louis Farrakhan.

If Cheney really believes that huge swaths of Republicans are white supremacists, she should provide evidence today. Right now in fact. Does she think the record number of Hispanic voters who pulled the lever for Trump are so stupid as to vote for white supremacy? It would seem so. How remarkably condescending.

Cheneys words are the very definition of useful idiocy. She knows very well exactly how her comments will be used. She knows they will be used to smear her colleagues and any American who dares to speak out against the excesses of the left. She doesnt care because she foolishly thinks it will help her politically. It wont.

CNN and other left-wing outlets are happy to use her, they are happy to chew ponderously on the grave accusations she makes against Republican voters, and they will be happy to spit her out when they are done with her. Ive got to be honest, I wont have much sympathy. She is defaming tens of millions of Republican voters in America for her own cynical purposes. This is not the leadership Republican voters need.

If Cheney has evidence that Republicans or Trump supporters are white supremacists, she needs to share it. She claims to think so given that she is demanding some kind of assurance that it is not the case. It is a baseless charge, however, rooted in nothing but her own cynical political ambitions. But she is the one who brought it up.

So lets have it, Liz. Lets have your lecture on our racism. Lead us with your light out the darkness of our white supremacy. I want to see what youve got. So put up or shut up. And if, in fact, you have nothing, I want an apology. You called me a white supremacist. You called tens of millions of Trump voters white supremacists. Your lies about us will not go unchallenged, and neither will your political ambitions.

David Marcus is the Federalist's New York Correspondent. Follow him on Twitter, @BlueBoxDave.

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Tuesday's testimony made perfectly clear that Donald Trump did not incite the Capitol riot.

The Senate held its first hearing on Tuesday that looked into the January Capitol riot. The biggest takeaway from the testimony was a miscommunication among Capitol Hill police that left an intelligence report suggesting violence was being planned against the seat of government ignored. But we learned something else as well. We learned it is absurd to claim, as Democrats and some Republicans have, that Donald Trump incited the riot.

The key testimony came from former House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, who described in some detail what the authorities expected from the rally and march on Jan. 6. The intelligence was not that there would be a coordinated assault on the Capitol, nor was that contemplated in any of the inter-agency discussions that I attended in the days before the attack, Irving said.

This runs completely counter to the Democratic House Impeachment Managers claims that Trump should have somehow known the attack was coming and is therefore guilty of inciting it. In fact, nobody saw it coming. Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund testified that he and other officials anticipated that Jan. 6 would resemble the MAGA rallies in November and December. That is to say, they thought scuffling between extreme groups on both sides could occur, but they did not anticipate anything remotely like the riot that took place.

In January, then-President Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives in mere hours no witnesses, no testimony, no evidence. It was a needless knee-jerk reaction meant mainly to embarrass and punish the outgoing president. Likewise, the trial in the Senate, which took less than a week, offered no substantial evidence tying Trump to the actions of the rioters. By that time, Trump was already out of office, so why was the trial rushed? Why did it lack any real substance? We found out why on Tuesday.

The answer, of course, is that Trump did not in any way, shape, or form incite the riot. The reason the Democrats offered no evidence that he did is that there is no evidence that he did. After Tuesdays hearing, that fact could not be clearer. If the law enforcement officials tasked with protecting the Capitol did not anticipate the riot, how on earth could Trump have anticipated it? And if Trump could not anticipate it, how could he possibly have incited it?

The clear and obvious point is that Trump did not incite the riot. The impeachment, it turns out, was nothing more than a malicious political hit job. Perhaps this should have been expected from Democrats in Congress, but as we learn more about the events of Jan. 6, the mendacious attacks on Trump from Republicans come into sharper focus.

Republicans like Rep. Liz Cheney who voted to impeach in the House and those like Sen. Mitt Romney who voted to convict in the Senate simply have no leg to stand on. Neither does Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who, though he voted to acquit, took the opportunity to slam Trumps actions on the Senate floor. He even hinted at possible criminal exposure for Trump. Tuesdays testimony plainly showed that any such effort would be laughable.

The bottom line is that in the impeachment and trial of Trump, facts took a backseat. Democrats and their erstwhile allies in the GOP caucus did nothing more than take a cynical shot at Trump for purely political reasons. No fair-minded person could watch the Senate hearing this week and possibly believe that Trump had incited the riot.

This is why the impeachment and trial should have had testimony, witnesses, evidence anything beyond the days of emotional blustering that the country was put through. We now know that the reason the impeachment was rushed was that there was no basis for it beyond craven politics. McConnell and the rest of the rebellious GOP members owe Trump an apology and not just Trump, also his voters.

If there is a bright side to all of this it is that Republican voters are not stupid. They saw through it, despite the lies and tears. They still overwhelmingly support Trump and they know he did not incite anything. And they will not forget the Republicans who played the Democrats game for their own political gain. Whether they eventually forgive them? Well, that remains to be seen.

David Marcus is the Federalist's New York Correspondent. Follow him on Twitter, @BlueBoxDave.

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