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Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano kept up his relentless criticism of President Trump this week — calling the president’s behavior as described in the Mueller Report “immoral,” “criminal,” “defenseless” and “condemnable.”

“Prosecutors prosecute people who interfere with government functions and that’s what the president did by obstruction, where is this going to end? I don’t know, but I am disappointed in the behavior of the president,” Napolitano said during a monologue of his Fox News digital show “Judge Napolitano’s Chambers.”

President Trump tweeted Saturday that Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano met with him and urged him to nominate Napolitano to the Supreme Court as well as grant a pardon to one of Napolitano's friends.

Napolitano, a former superior court judge in New Jersey, works as a legal analyst for Fox News. In a pair of tweets Saturday evening following his campaign rally in Green Bay, Wis., the president accused the commentator of becoming "very hostile" after Trump supposedly turned him down for the nation's highest court.

"Thank you to brilliant and highly respected attorney Alan Dershowitz for destroying the very dumb legal argument of 'Judge' Andrew Napolitano," Trump wrote.

"Ever since Andrew came to my office to ask that I appoint him to the U.S. Supreme Court, and I said NO, he has been very hostile! Also asked for pardon for his friend. A good 'pal' of low ratings Shepard Smith," the president added, referring to Fox's chief news anchor, who has often been critical of the White House.

Women in the United States are 16 times more likely to be killed with a gun than women in any other developed nation. This is just one of the grim statistics that foregrounds the ominous connection that’s often seen between horrific mass shooting incidents and the episodes of domestic violence that are often found in such shooters’ pasts.

Presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) may have had this data point from the gun safety advocacy group Everytown on her mind as she composed her master plan to curb gun violence in this country. Of the policy points she detailed, closing the boyfriend loophole — which would prevent all domestic partners with a history of domestic violence convictions from possessing a firearm, as opposed to just married partners — may be the most impactful.

As a guest links Trump's rhetoric with the rise in anti-Semitism, Fox News suddenly cuts to commercial

The National Rifle Association’s annual convention was consumed by infighting on Saturday, after its president, Oliver North, was ousted by its board and its longtime chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, a week after a joint investigation by The New Yorker and The Trace exposed hundreds of millions of dollars in questionable payments to N.R.A. executives, contractors, and venders. Adding to the scrutiny on the gun-rights group, the Times reported on Saturday that the New York attorney general, Letitia James, has opened a formal investigation into the group’s financial practices, including whether it should retain its nonprofit status.

When in doubt, ask yourself: what would Bernie Sanders do?

Would he try to defend neonazis, who long for an ideology that killed his entire family? Would he consider the good side of the neonazis? Or would he condemn them with rightful fury?

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I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.” @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews
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The demographic changes coming over the next few decades — the continuing rise of a more diverse electorate, with more liberal views than previous generations — won’t destroy the Republican Party or make it electorally insolvent. But it may make right-wing conservatism a rump ideology, backed primarily by a declining minority of older rural and exurban white voters. You can already see this taking shape. Among the youngest Republicans, 52 percent say the government should be “doing more” to solve problems, as opposed to 23 percent of Republican baby boomers.

In this environment, the only way to preserve right-wing conservatism in American government is to rig the system against this new electorate. You tilt the field in favor of constituencies that still back traditional Republican conservatism in order to build a foundation for durable minority rule by those groups. In just the last week, we’ve gotten a glimpse of what this rigging looks like in practice.

The good point to remember about the aging right wing demographics is sooner or later, they will be gone so they won't be able to rig the system. Doubt you or I will benefit but it leaves hope for tomorrow.

I don't see any of these democrat contenders beating Trump at his own game.

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I don't see any of these democrat contenders beating Trump at his own game.

Absolutely so. We just need to recall what happened in the GOP primaries when Cruz and Rubio tried. But aside from that, we wouldn't want to follow that path because 1) it is so destructive to democracy and 2) the left would lose an enormous advantage in party identity.

Well, most of what you are saying is beyond my grasp.

This is one reason why I’d favor Harris over Warren to take on Trump (they are my two current favorites). I think Warren would be too easily influenced to try to ‘bully’ him back.

The good point to remember about the aging right wing demographics is sooner or later, they will be gone so they won't be able to rig the system. Doubt you or I will benefit but it leaves hope for tomorrow.