Newsmax turns to Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancée to speak for 'Black women'

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Newsmax turns to Donald Trump Jr.'s fiancée to speak for 'Black women'
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She looks like Steven Tyler having an allergic reaction to shellfish.

Lol. They buried the lede:

Guilfoyle discussed unverified Newsmax's reporting that Biden would step aside without endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris as the nominee.

"Unverified"? Is that a polite word for "made up"? If Biden did step aside he would be Kamala's biggest cheerleader.

Fucking vote

I think it'd be hilarious in a dystopian way if he bowed out, endorsed her, and she nominated him as VP

The rumor I'm hearing is that he doesn't want to be accused of "kingmaking" and instead will call for a brokered convention rather than picking her directly.

Note, this is only a rumor.

The illusion of choice is going to be necessary because she won't get the support otherwise.

Yeah, there's a lot of reporting right now that tries to force others to do what they say. Like yesterday there was an article saying that Pelosi plans to publicly push Biden to step down. How would they know this?

To my knowledge it's only unverified because the people saying it are doing so on the condition of anonymity. The idea seems to be that they want to go into an open convention with Biden at most saying something like "I have the utmost faith in the delegates to pick the best candidate to be our nominee," because if he's too involved in the choice whoever ends up being the nominee will have that looming specter of the narrative of Biden's cognitive decline haunting them. "How could he pick a good replacement when he doesn't even know where he is?" and all that.

The last half of your comment feels like a really big stretch.

It seems like a bit of a stretch to me as well. But that seems to me to be the thought process of the people who are advocating for an open convention rather than Biden just endorsing Harris and letting her pick a new VP.

IMO, this is being pushed by media, but as soon it happens it is almost guaranteed that they will immediately switch to build rhetoric that democrat voters were cheated and the party just picked up their candidate.

I think I agree with that. The media, especially the more right leaning media will always find something to attack Democrats over.

Unverified to you means "verified by a source that prefers to remain anonymous"?

Be skeptical of unverified and unverifiable sources. Sure the sources could be anonymous democrats; but they could also be Republican political operatives telling friendly journalists something that wouldn't be credible if it had their name on it.

Fully on board with that. It's why in journalism you see an indicator of closeness make it a more relevant source description. Like "democratic senator", "someone close to the president" etc. Moreover you have to question the publishers alignment and dedication to truthfullness.

But if people lack the critical reading skill to already mistake "unverified" with "anonymous source [of function/closeness to the subject] according to [insert news agency]", that is just trying to find truth in a statement ment to give you doubt.

Edit: On alignment of the publisher: "Newsmax TV holds a conservative political stance, broadcasting many programs hosted by conservative media personalities. CEO Christopher Ruddy has compared the network to Fox News."

Fox News itself said not to consider it actual news reporting.

Why would a reliable source close enough to the president to know the truth about campaign aspirations go to a Fox News clone?

Maybe I worded something poorly there and caused some miscommunication. I was responding to someone equating unverified with made up. What I was trying to say is that it's unverified right now because the only statements on it were from what seems to be the same primary source(s) that wish to remain anonymous. That doesn't necessarily mean the reporting is false, only that there hasn't been a separate source saying the same thing. I wasn't trying to say "it's true actually, they just have to say it's unverified because no one wants to put their name on saying it"

I then separately wanted to explain what seems to be the thought process behind people saying that Biden wouldn't endorse Kamala going into the convention if he dropped out.

Eeerrrrrgggghhhhhheeeerrrraaaaahhhhgggg

DON’T

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Don't dead open inside. Don't mind if I do!

Pity the poor Rawstory intern that had to slo-mo through that footage just to grab the worst screencap.

Buddy, her standing face is just that screencap.

“As a person of bronzer, I certainly have the lived experience to speak for my fellow people of color.”

I'm so confused. I just read the article looking for this quote to see if it is satire. Why am I only just now hearing about Biden stepping aside, and why is it from the RNC???

Because you haven't seen the 500 other posts in All about it?

I have not, and honestly a search didn't help a whole lot, but I'm going to manage

People have been spreading rumors that there is pressure for Biden to step down ever since his underwhelming debate performance. There is nothing remotely official about him actually planning to step down.

Thank you for your answer. I tried to say rumor as much as possible in my other post

Man she is fn gross.

Even more hilarious? This is the group that pretended to get outraged over Biden saying "you ain't Black".

Also: "Here is some white lady that's banging the former guy's son to speak for the Blahs...."

You need to warn people before posting her picture. I child could have seen that.

Man, she keeps doubling down on plastic surgery. She looks so weird these days.

Holy shit.

I'm instantly reminded of Nietzsche's "when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

Does the black hole where her soul should be count as “being black”?

I'm betting most of y'all don't know that she was Gavin Newsom's gal back when he was the mayor of San Francisco. What a strange, strange world.

Half of her was. The other half was added by an apparently below-average plastic surgeon.

What she’s done to herself is gruesome. Gavin Newsom really dodged one there. 🤮

She used to be fairly attractive (on the outside)

Kimberly Guilfoyle looks like she cleans her eyeballs with her tongue.

Oh, look. It's the freak who was super frightening four years ago.

She looks a bit like my cat after I spray him with the water bottle. Not that it matters. What she says is more important than the way she looks, and she only speaks in fascist screed.

Newsmax host Rob Schmidt asked Trump campaign surrogate Kimberly Guilfoyle to speak on behalf of Black women after the network reported that Joe Biden would not seek the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Wait? Did I miss something???

Yeah, I thought I must have stumbled across satire. What is going on?

only thing I can think of... is that they mean... like... back before 2020?

Maybe. I was too tired to look, but now I have to. I'll edit this post with what I find.

Edit: Seems to just be rumors based on what people 'close to Biden' have said. All it really boils down to is that he is not 100% set on staying in the race anymore. Again, all rumor. I believe more Democrats have stepped up in asking him to leave the race, and it looks like they postponed his nomination until August. I'm fucking exhausted, so sorry if I mixed some shit up.

don't put too much effort into it. It's fucking newsmax. I just assumed they were full of shit.

August was always the planned date of the Democratic convention when a nomination becomes official, it hasn’t been postponed.

Thank you again for the corrections and information. I'm dealing with a really rough family emergency and am running on fumes. I am by no means trying to spread misinformation, just relaying what I found.

I really hate when people wear their Halloween costume all year long. Oh wait... Oh shit! That's actually her face!