By: Serach Nissim

On Sunday, another two large illegal gatherings were shut down in New York City. Sheriff’s deputies kicked out hundreds of partygoers and busted the organizers at clubs in Tribeca, Manhattan and in Corona, Queens.

As reported by the NY Post, the first raid of the evening occurred in Tribeca after 2 a.m. Deputies showed up in response to a complaint, and found over 200 people packed into a rented space on Harrison Street. Revelers were drinking, smoking and dancing without facial masks and without social distancing, in violations of COVID-19 regulations. The police threw out the revelers and gave citations to three men. Two men—Artani Arben of East Elmhurst, Queens, and Shkelzen Dreshaj of Yorktown Heights in Westchester County — were cited for failure to protect health and safety and violating city and state lockdown orders, an offense which can carry a fine of up to $15,000 for each offender. As per the sheriff’s office, David Howard of Manhattan, who was identified as the party organizer, was cited for violating lockdown orders during the pandemic, and also for unlicensed sale of alcohol and the unauthorized warehousing of alcohol.

Just two hours later, deputy sheriffs busied themselves shutting down another illegal club, while responding to another complaint. The sheriff’s deputies discovered over 150 people at a second-floor party on 104th Street in Corona, Queens. As per the Post, the place was packed with partygoers, also drinking, smoking hookahs, not wearing masks and not practicing social distancing. Deputies said two men from East Elmhurst, Jairo Lopez and Richard Rodriguez, were the club’s promoters. Both Lopez and Rodriguez were given citations for state liquor-law violations and for failure to protect health and safety and violating the lockdown restrictions.

Three other people were cited for health, safety, and lockdown violations at the joint, including Enrique Perra of Long Island, Raymond Rivera of Brooklyn and JanCarlos Rodriguez of Kissimmee, Fla. Perra was also cited for working as an unlicensed security guard, the sheriff told The Post.

For the past several months, the city sheriff’s department has been busy cracking down on illegal parties, which can endanger communities by fueling the spread of the life-threatening Coronavirus. In February, the deputies conducted similar raids on other clubs in Brooklyn and Queens. Those raids included: a members-only club at 283 Liberty Ave. in Brownsville, Brooklyn; a house party at 1764 Pitkin Ave, Brooklyn; and an unlicensed bar at 50-00 Grand Ave. in Maspeth, Queens.

By Hellen Zaboulani

On Monday, Federal prosecutors revealed intent to utilize data from Metrocard swipes against a former employee suspected of cheating the system.

As reported by the NY Post, roughly 50 gigabytes of data has been tapped in the case against former subway maintenance supervisor Michael Gundersen, said Assistant US Attorney Paul Monteleoni at the court hearing. Gundersen, 42 of Manalapan Township, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to an indictment returned against him in the hearing on Monday. Gundersen is accused of raking in big bucks for overtime work, when he was actually not even anywhere near his worksite. The case, in Manhattan federal court, which is being brought in collaboration with the FBI and the MTA Inspector General’s Office will aim to show based on evidence from his subway swipes that though Gundersen claimed to be on the clock, he was elsewhere at the time. “Cell site information … e-mails, mainly from his work e-mail account, building swipe records and MetroCard swipe records,” Monteleoni said describing the data feds would use.

Gundersen had made an astounding $385,000 in 2018, including $283,000 from 3,914 of overtime hours, as per prosecutors. For those figures to be accurate, it would mean that he would have had to work an average of over 10 hours of OT per day for all 365 days of the year. Gundersen was arrested in December on allegations that he billed the MTA for fraudulent work hours. Gundersen had resigned following his arrest. Gundersen, who was released on $100,000 bail, faces 10 years in prison if convicted. Feds say that during certain hours when he was clocked in at work, he was actually enjoying a concert in Atlantic City with hotel reservations and tickets, on a family trip to New York’s Hudson Valley and Williamsburg, Virginia, and even running a 5K race.

As per the Post, at the same time that Gundersen was arrested, four other MTA high-rollers were also cuffed for raking in annual OT payments of $240,000 or more. The other four men are all current or former employees of the Long Island Rail Road, who allegedly conspired together to cheat the agency out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in OT which they didn’t earn. Gundersen, John Nugent, 50, and Joseph Balestra, 51, were all still on the MTA’s payroll at the time of their arrests. The two other former employees, who were each charged separately were: Thomas Caputo, known as the MTA “overtime king”, who made a total of $461,000; and Dominick “Skinny Dom” Pizzonia, who raked in $305,477.

By Ilana Siyance

A new lawsuit alleges that the New York City Department of Corrections put its workers at risk for COVID-19 by “purposefully” misdiagnosing staff and inmates. The suit filed on Saturday, in Manhattan Supreme Court by several jail guards, claims that the correction facilities even use inaccurate thermometers that give impossibly low readings.

As reported by the NY Post, NYC Correction Officers Marchele Franklin and Christopher Kinloch allege that due to the agency’s careless handling of the pandemic, they both contracted Covid-19 at work, suffering severe symptoms. They said in the suit, that they were required to work without proper PPE including masks and hand sanitizer “and in some instances [were] prohibited from wearing masks.”

Two other plaintiffs in the case are correction officer Michael Nelson, and Jasmine Jonas, “who was pregnant,” but likewise allegedly forced to work in the Manhattan Detention Center without any PPE, as per court papers.

The suit also alleges that while the DOC screens staff, in compliance with COVID-19 protocols, by taking their temperatures when they entered the facilities, it is just a face because they use “defective temperature thermometers that read staff as having temperatures so low that they would be dead if the thermometers were correct,” as per the filing. Regardless, even those temperature readings were not recorded anywhere, the suit alleges. “The defendants act of misdiagnosing and purposefully failing to diagnose infected persons and track and trace inmates and staff breached the defendants’ duty of care,” the suit says.

The DOC’s “reckless and intentional conduct” has “caused plaintiffs distress as to their wellbeing, but also that of their loved ones,” the court documents charge. The case also claims that because of the shoddy handing of COVID-19 at city jails, some guards “isolated themselves from going [home] to their loved ones in an effort to mitigate their exposure”.

The officers are suing for unspecified damages. As per the Post, these four jail guards were also plaintiffs in another lawsuit filed in April by some 23 city jail workers. That suit alleged that the DOC did not enforce social distancing guidelines for inmates and officers, intentionally hoping that it would lead to “absenteeism”, and reach a long term goal of reducing the staff. That case was settled between the parties in June.

The DOC didn’t comment but deferred comment to the city Law Department. A city Law Department spokesman said, “DOC follows the relevant guidance from its public health partners to ensure the health and safety of everyone in its facilities.” Adding, “We’ll review the case.”

The incident took place on Flight 2878 traveling from Miami to New York on Sunday night.

By: David Isaac

Frontier Airlines kicked a religious Jewish family off a flight from Florida to New York on Sunday and later cancelled the flight, The New York Post reports on Monday.

Frontier claimed a “large group” of passengers refused to wear masks, but a video shows the religious Jewish family in question wearing masks. The family involved claims they were ejected because of a maskless baby.

The baby was 18 months old. Airlines are only requiring masks on children over the age of two.

A passenger, Hershey Greenbaum, confirmed to the Post that the child appeared to be the cause of the family’s ejection from the plane.

“We were all on the plane when they [flight attendants] came on and saw the 18-month-old baby without a mask,” Greenbaum told the Post.

The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council tweeted a video of the incident, stating, “staff told a Hasidic couple to get off because their 18 month old had no mask. Applause is heard as the couple started leaving. Travels say on camera that the applause came from staff who also cheered that ‘we did it.’”

Frontier denies that the issue was one baby: “To be clear, the issue did not stem from a child under the age of two.”

“Multiple people, including several adults, were asked repeatedly to wear their masks and refused to do so,” the airline said.

“Based on the continued refusal to comply with the federal mask mandate, refusal to disembark the aircraft and aggression towards the flight crew, local law enforcement was engaged,” the airline said in its statement.

Greenbaum says about 15 police officers were involved. He said that most of the plane’s passengers sided with the family. “Most of the people were against it, Jewish or not Jewish, why are you picking on an 18-month-old kid?”

Other Orthodox Jews on the flight were not ejected. One Orthodox woman could be heard saying in the video, “What are you accomplishing?”

Another Orthodox man then said, “You’re going to pay the consequences.”

The incident took place on Flight 2878 traveling from Miami to New York “until the disagreement forced all passengers to deplane and reschedule a flight for the next morning,” the Post reports.

             (World Israel News)

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By: Don Driggers

With scandals piling up and members of his own party calling for investigations there is a quite a possibility the Governor Cuomo may indeed have to step down, leaving the Lieutenant Governor to take the helm.

This would not be the first time in NY state in recent memory the governor might step down. The 54th Governor of NY, Elliot Spitzer, was forced to resign after a sex scandal. On March 10, 2008, The New York Times reported that Spitzer had patronized a high-priced escort service called Emperors Club VIP and met for two hours with a $1,000-an-hour call girl. This information originally came to the attention of authorities from a federal wiretap. During a six-month span, Spitzer had at least seven or eight liaisons with women from the agency and paid more than $15,000. Within days of the scandal, Spitzer resigned, and LT Governor David Patterson took the helm.

If Cuomo is forced to resign, Lt. Governor Kathleen Courtney Hochul would become the Governor of NY. She began her political career in May 2003, when Erie County Clerk David Swarts appointed Hochul as his deputy, When Swarts left office in 2007, Governor Eliot Spitzer appointed Hochul to fill the post.

Hochul ran in the four-way special election race of May 24, 2011 to fill the seat in New York’s 26th congressional district left vacant by the resignation of Republican Chris Lee, she won a four way race, but was defeated in the 2012 election, after Hochul’s district was renumbered as the 27th district.

She became the Lieutenant governor when Robert Duffy announced in 2014 that he would not be a candidate for reelection as lieutenant governor.

Hochul is considered quite conservative for a Democrat and actually received an NRA endorsement in 2012.

NY Post reported:

Under state law, Hochul, 62, would succeed Cuomo as governor should he resign or be impeached.

“Kathy is absolutely ready,” Erie County Democratic Party chairman Jeremy Zellner told The Post on Sunday.

“There’s one word that describes our lieutenant governor: tenacious,” continued Zellner, pointing to Hochul’s ability to appeal to rural and urban Democrats alike. “She’s been a bulldog from day one. She knows what needs to get done for the people of New York.”

The Post went on:

Now in her second term, Hochul has remained relatively anonymous in the often-thankless job, not even earning a mention in Cuomo’s memoir on the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

As calls mounted, however, for an independent probe into the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo, Hochul spoke out to echo her fellow lawmakers in the sentiment.

“Everyone deserves to have their voice heard and taken seriously,” said Hochul.

By: JNS.org

“The town is committed to the fight against intolerance and hate, and we stand together with the community to send this powerful message,” said North Hempstead supervisor Judi Bosworth.

The Town of North Hempstead on Long Island, N.Y., unanimously passed a resolution calling for the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism at a board meeting on Feb. 24.

The IHRA definition is now part of the town’s policy and in line with North Hempstead’s “Not in Our Town” initiative aimed at combating hate and intolerance. The American Jewish Committee’s Long Island branch provided help in drafting the resolution.

“By adopting this anti-Semitism definition, we have further emphasized that North Hempstead is a place of unity and inclusiveness for all,” said North Hempstead supervisor Judi Bosworth. “The town is committed to the fight against intolerance and hate, and we stand together with the community to send this powerful message.”

Eric Post, regional director for AJC Long Island, said “defining anti-Semitism is the first step to combating it, and we are most appreciative that the Town of North Hempstead has taken this proactive step. The working definition can serve as an educational tool in schools and be used for training town staff and officials.”

Northeast regional director for StandWithUs Avi Posnick also thanked the town council for adopting the IHRA definition.

“With anti-Semitism on the rise, the more that municipalities, law enforcement, social-service agencies and educational establishments are educated about what anti-Semitism is, the greater our chances of good people to stand against it,” he said. “There’s a lot of misinformation about anti-Semitism. The board has taken the bold step of lighting a candle in the darkness of ignorance.”

North Hempstead joins other Long Island municipalities such as Hempstead, Oyster Bay and Glen Cove in adopting the definition of anti-Semitism.

             (JNS.org)

By Ellen Cans

Two properties belonging to former billionaire hedge-fund manager Phil Falcone are now being listed in an advertisement for an upcoming sale, or may be foreclosed.

As reported by the NY Post, Falcone may be close to losing his townhouse on East 67th Street as well as his Hamptons estate. Dustin Stolly and Jordan Roeschlaub, co-heads of debt and structured finance at Newmark, have posted an advertisement for an upcoming sale of the properties on behalf of the lender, Melody Business Finance, citing an outstanding loan balance of $74.2 million. The ad doesn’t name Falcone as the owner of the distressed entities but he and his wife, Lisa Marie Falcone, purchased the East 67th Street house in their names prior to transferring it to the LLC, named Croxton 2 LLC and Three-Hundreth Street LLC. The husband and wife are listed on the Melody mortgage documents as guarantors, as per the Post. The ad says that interested bidders can attempt to collect the remaining $74,251,646 on the loan or just foreclose on the two homes. The sale will take place on April 13, as per the marketing publication. The brokers declined comment on the foreclosure sale.

Falcone had made his fortune and name during the 2008 financial crash when he assisted his hedge fund, Harbinger, to make billions in bets against housing. By 2012, things started turning sour for him however, when he got into trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was doled an $18 million fine, and a multiyear ban but didn’t have to make admission of any wrongdoing. As per public records he currently owes $1.8 million in back taxes to New York City. In other evidence of financial difficulty, last September he told a court that he couldn’t pay an almost $14 million legal tab, in correlation with a lawsuit filed against him in Manhattan Supreme Court. Lender Melody has also sued Falcone and his wife, in the same court, claiming they owed millions, as per court papers. In an email response, Falcone said the foreclosure sale was in response to his legal battle with Melody, “which could eliminate” their loan to him.

As per the Post, the two properties featured in the foreclosure auction include a seven-bedroom townhouse at 22 E. 67 Street and a Sagaponack estate at 142 Crestview Drive. The Manhattan home, listed for sale for $27.5 million through The Modlin Group, spans 13,300 square feet across six stories. The Hamptons estate boasts 14,000 square feet with eight bedrooms, an oversized roof deck, gym and outdoor pool.

By: Serach Nissim

Lobbying in New York City may be among the few industries not negatively impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2020, every nonessential industry in the Big Apple was in lock down due to the pandemic. Even City Hall, with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration and the City Council, were forced to hold all meetings virtually. Somehow though, well-connected lobbyists still found a way to rake in an abundance of funds from their well-heeled clients, for wooing City Hall and the Council.

The NY Post reported that a new a new report from the City Clerk’s Office has divulged that lobbyists collected $106.34 million in 2020. That is only modestly lower than $113.2 million, their compensation in 2019, before the pandemic hit. The leading firm, for the fourth consecutive year, was Suri Kasirer’s lobbying firm. It managed to rake up about $14.164 million, almost matching the $14.3 million earned in 2019.

Kasirer’s firm pushed the mayor’s office and the council to cough up COVID-19 relief to the hard-hit restaurant and hotel industries. Her clients included ‘Relief for the Restaurant Industry’ and the Hotel Association of NYC, which has been trying to get the city to defer property taxes for hotels during the pandemic and painful closures. Kasirer’s firm also represented other well-heeled companies last year including: Northwell Health, Columbia Presbyterian, Target Corp, T-Mobile USA, IF Cornerstone, Comcast Cable, Google, Related Company, SL Green Realty and Silverstein Properties, to name a few.

“We are pleased to continue to be the leading advocate in New York City, and are proud to support our clients as they work to reinvest in and rebuild New York as we emerge from the pandemic,” Kasirer said in a reply. “This was a very tough year. This was a year from hell. My clients were struggling to deal with COVID.” She also lauded her lesser-known clients who helped the needy and victims of abuse during the pandemic, including the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, AARP and SAFE Horizons.

The second highest compensated Lobbyist was James Capalino’s firm with $9.9 million, down from $11.9 million in 2019. Also on the list of top five lobbying firms were: Bolton-St. Johns, which made $6.7 million; Constantinople & Vallone $5.66 Million; and Pitta Bishop & Del Giorno $4.82 million.

“The seasoned, hot-wired lobbyists still get their phone calls returned. From a client’s perspective lobbyists are more important than ever,” said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group. “The top, connected lobbyists can still wield their influence and charge clients the big bucks,” added Horner.

Edited by: TJVNews.com

Angered that the Hyatt Hotel in Orlando, Florida hosted the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last weekend, critics of CPAC have threatened to boycott the hotel chain as a firestorm of criticism continues to be hurled at them.

Political opponents of CPAC on the left have falsely accused the hotel chain of allowing the conference organizer to design a stage that resembled Nazi symbolism. They erroneously claim that the stage looked exactly like a Nordic othala rune, which the Nazis reportedly adopted as a symbol of their belief in a superior Aryan race.

Hyatt issued a statement on the boycott threats, saying that the chain defended its decision to host the conference and also said it raised concerns about the stage design to organizers, but to no avail.

“When we learned that CPAC 2021 stage design had been compared to a symbol of hate, we promptly raised this concern with meeting organizers who strongly denied any connection to such symbols,” it added of the stage. “Unfortunately, this became clear to us only after the event kicked off.”

“We believe in the right of individuals and organizations to peacefully express their views, independent of the degree to which the perspectives of those hosting meetings and events at our hotels align with ours,” the hotel said of its decision to host the conference.

CPAC organizer Matt Schlapp has denied that the conference modeled the stage after Nazi symbolism, calling the allegations “outrageous and slanderous” in a post on Twitter. He also said that: “We have a long standing commitment to the Jewish community. Cancel culture extremists must address anti-Semitism within their own ranks. CPAC proudly stands with our Jewish allies, including those speaking from this stage.”

According to a report in the New York Post, actress Rosanna Arquette tweeted, “Hey Hyatt hotels …hosting a fascist Nazi convention is the antithesis of inclusiveness. You have made a grave error in judgment. The imminent Boycotts you are going to feel for years to come.” Actress Debra Messing from the hit TV series “Will & Grace” said, “Not an accident.”

In a separate development, the NYP also reported that the founder and CEO of the MyPillow company was cut off during an interview at CPAC on Sunday after he put forth theories about COVID-19 and the vaccines for the virus that are considered by some to be of a controversial nature.

By: Sandy Fitzgerald

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, even with a high rating in a straw poll taken among people attending the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend, said Monday she will “absolutely run for reelection” as her state’s governor.

“I’m up in 2022, so I’m hoping the people of South Dakota will support me again and give me the opportunity to continue to serve them,” the Republican governor said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”

In one part of the poll, which excluded former President Donald Trump as a potential 2024 nominee, Noem came in behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, netting 11% of the vote to DeSantis’ 43%.

Noem also discussed the effects of the Biden administration’s shutdown of the Keystone XL pipeline on her state, saying that overnight, jobs started to disappear.

“We had families that had expanded their businesses, restaurants, hotels, gas stations preparing for the build that was going to happen on the pipeline,” said Noem. “It’s just the wrong policy. It’s the wrong policy on energy; it’s the wrong policy on safety for people in the environment. It’s unfortunate that President (Joe) Biden did this just based on politics.”

The current administration knows “they are walking a thin line when it comes keeping this democratic base together,” she added. “They are just appeasing the far left of it right now hoping the moderates stick around, I guess.”

Meanwhile, it is obvious following CPAC that Trump was with people who love him and believe in what he has done, and the overall straw poll that included him and put him in front with 55% of the respondents showed that, said Noem.

“The man followed through on everything that he campaigned on, and that’s what they want in leaders today,” she said. “They don’t want leaders who stand up and talk and make promises. They want people of action, so I thought that straw poll was incredibly accurate placing him at the top, and I think he will continue to be a force in politics and policy here in the United States.”

On Tuesday, Politico reported that Noem will hold a fundraiser on March 5 for her reelection campaign at former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach resort.

Newsmax reported that the event will be hosted by Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle. The fundraiser comes as leading Republicans debate how closely to tie the GOP to the former president.

            (www.Newsmax.com)

By: Eric Mack

Heralding the “pro-Trump America First wing of the conservative movement,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., fired barbs at big tech, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, special interest groups, cancel culture, and even never-Trump Republicans.

“We’re not really a wing, we’re the whole body; we’re the main attraction in the greatest show on earth,” Gaetz said during an impassioned speech Friday night at CPAC in Orlando, Florida.

“It’s our ideas that fill the stadiums with cheering fans, and while the establishment owns the think tanks, we’re the ones doing all the thinking.”

Gaetz called for a changing of the old Republican guard, sharing a common refrain from former President Donald Trump: Deliver the power back to the people outside of Washington, D.C.

“If Liz Cheney were on this stage today, she’d get booed off of it,” Gaetz said of his Republican colleague from Wyoming who he has called on to step down from her GOP leadership post.

“What does that say? The leadership of our party is not in Washington, D.C. You are the energy, we are America.”

And, if you are looking for energy and strength in the new conservative movement, it is centralized in Florida, Gaetz said.

“Now, Trump may not have drained the swamp all the way, yet, so if you want to finish the job, maybe hire a Florida man,” he added, perhaps a reference to the growing populism of Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, or perhaps the former president himself.

“We’ve drained swamps before. We’ve faced down the alligators and the pythons, and the lizards and the mosquitoes as big as grapefruit.”

Gaetz hearkened back to his 2020 CPAC speech, where he told a mostly silent donor-class crowd about his no-PAC political goal of avoiding donations from corporations or special interest groups.

“Turns out populism is popular, and everyone can see who the fakes and the phonies are, and where we could find the real deal,” Gaetz said.

“Now, I can’t say I started a movement. Not a single other Republican joined me. But it turns out, I was ahead of the curve, because the woke corporations turned around and canceled us.

“Unlike the left and even some Republicans, the ‘America First’ movement will never sell out to foreign interests abroad or special interests here at home. Our citizens come first — sorry, not sorry.”

Big tech and Gov. Cuomo also drew Gaetz’s ire.

“Now the fake news media and their allies in Silicon Valley made Gov. Cuomo out to be some iconic cross between King David and Tom Brady,” he said. “What a big lie that turned out to be.

“According to former aides, Gov. Cuomo was offering to replace staff meetings with strip poker. Meanwhile, they were stripping granny out of the COVID ward at the hospital and tossing her in the nursing home just enough time to infect everybody and then go back to the hospital so that deaths could be recategorized for politics.”

Gaetz added a rebuke of big tech globalism, saying the “Chinamerica dream is ultimately a nightmare for our people.”

“The greatest threat to our liberty is big government, and the second greatest threat to our liberty is big business, and there is no bigger business than big tech,” he said. “The flow of digital information impacts every aspect of our lives. If we win the debate but lose the Internet, ours will be the last generation of American greatness.

“Elon Musk calls Silicon Valley ‘Sanctimonious Valley’ for a reason. The terms of service on Twitter can never be more important than the values that undergird our Constitution. We need more than a legalistic definition of the First Amendment. We need a culture of free speech in America.”

(www.Newsmax.com)

By: Eric Mack & Theodore Bunker

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is willing to bet his house on the Republican Party regaining control in the 2022 midterm elections.

“Not [just] a chance, we’re going to get the majority back,” Rep. McCarthy told American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp during a CPAC panel discussion Saturday, per The Hill. “We’re five seats away.”

“I would bet my house” on it, he added. “My personal house. Don’t tell my wife, but I would bet it.”

McCarthy pointed to the 2020 House GOP gains that polls unanimously claimed would never come, praising former President Donald Trump’s tireless work campaigning.

“All the polls said we would lose, but on election day the voters said, ‘no, there’s a new path,'” McCarthy said.

“They said we were going to lose 20 seats that night. No one said we would win seats. My dearest friend who is a hard-core Republican said the best we could do is lose 10.”

McCarthy added, this past election was the first time since 1994 no Republican incumbent lost and hailed Republicans dealing Democrats the slimmest majority they have held in 100 years.

“We beat 15 Democrats and you know who those Democrats lost to? Conservative women and conservative minorities, each and every one of them,” McCarthy said.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said in her address to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference that “nobody has been hit” by online censorship “like President Donald Trump.”

The senator said in her speech that if she “asked for a show of hands, how many of you have lived with being blocked, or shadow-banned, or throttled, or censored? I say a lot of hands going up.”

She added that “nobody has been hit by this like President Donald Trump.

Blackburn continued. “Then they were going to block him — send a message … then they were going to permanently ban him … The leader of the free world.”

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2021 that former President Donald Trump “ain’t going anywhere,” even though that’s what Democrats want.

“There are a whole lot of voices in Washington that want to just erase the last four years,” Cruz said during his speech, — titled “Bill of Rights, Liberty, and Cancel Culture” — which drew a standing ovation.

He added, “They look at Donald J. Trump and they look at the millions and millions of people inspired, who went to battle fighting alongside President Trump and they’re terrified and they want him to go away. Let me tell you this right now: Donald J. Trump ain’t going anywhere.”

  (www.Newsmax.com)