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‘Know they’re lying’: Morning Joe doesn’t hold back over ‘lunacy’ of deadly Trump attack

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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough bashed President Donald Trump’s administration for carrying out a series of military strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats near Venezuela. The U. S. military has killed at least 60 people in the strikes over the past two months as Trump pressures Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who the administration claims is illegitimate and the leader of a drug-trafficking organization, and the “Morning Joe” host accused them of “lying” about the situation.”It’s bizarre,” Scarborough said. “I mean, you look at where the drugs are coming in from Central and South America, the vast number of them are not coming from Venezuela. The suggestion that you’re going to stop fentanyl trafficking and the trafficking of cocaine and other drugs by blowing up boats off the coast of Venezuela is just complete lunacy and everybody knows it. Democrats and Republicans alike know they’re lying,” he added. “This isn’t about a drug war.”Washington Post columnist David Ignatius compared the administration’s posture to the 1823 foreign policy doctrine established by President James Monroe declaring that North and South America should be free from European influence.”This is about flexing your muscles in your own hemisphere,” Ignatius said. “The Wall Street Journal cleverly described this as the ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ playing off the Monroe Doctrine, which asserted that the this hemisphere, North and South America is our space and nobody’s allowed to to infringe on it, and Trump, as in so many other ways, seems to be moving back to the 19th century, and those definitions of American foreign policy at a time when U. S. interests are so clearly threatened in Europe by a very aggressive advancing Russia, and in Asia by by a growing Chinese threat. All this focus on Central, Latin America is just hard to understand.”.

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Anti-Israel Agitator Mahmoud Khalil Says His Appeal Process Is Moving Too Fast Tim O’Brian

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You haven’t heard much from anti-Israel campus agitator Mahmoud Khalil lately, and there may be a reason for that. He wants to stay in the U. S., and this time around a tad less visibility helps him. Not that he’s become a wallflower. He’s just more selective in where he shows up right now. Given all that happens and is forgotten from one news cycle to the next, here’s a little refresher on the ungrateful non-American who made his name last year preaching hate on the campus of Columbia University. On March 8 of this year, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Khalil at his New York City apartment, and then took him to a detention center in Louisiana as part of the formal deportation process. Kahlil is not an American citizen. He was born in the mid-1990s at a refugee camp in Syria. His parents are described as Palestinian and Algerian, so he has citizenship in Algeria. Before coming to America, he had earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science at Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon, and then applied for admission into Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. In December of 2024, he received his master of public administration degree. According to all reports, he is a green-card holder and thus a legal resident of the United States who also happens to be married to a U. S. citizen. So far, he’s been careful to check all of the boxes, right? In the spring of 2024, a few months before he graduated from Columbia, those inorganic “pro-Palestine protests” started to erupt almost simultaneously on campuses across the country. Columbia became the site of some of the most contentious activity, and Kahlil was at the heart of it all. In April of that year, the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” set itself up on the East Butler Lawn and refused to budge. On April 29, an intimidating group of students, and possibly some non-students, occupied Hamilton Hall on campus. They stayed there for 24 hours until New York City police cleared them out.

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