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Inauguration Crowd-Size Debacle It took less than two days after his inauguration for Trump to hit his first speed bump. After photos revealed a drastically smaller crowd at Trumps inauguration than at Obamas first, Trump griped about the coverage during a speech at the C.I.A., and claimed that a million and a half people showed up. He later backed down from the remarks, but not before two things happened. First, the world was introduced to Trumps press secretary, Sean Spicer, whose first, apoplectic, rumpled press briefing became a flashpoint of its own. And second, Trump aide Kellyanne Conway introduced alternative facts into the lexicon.

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Ann Coulter Has No Time for Your Hamptons Book Party Rules - Vanity Fair

Ann Coulter sarcastically blasted the poor liberal foundlings of East Hampton to Page Six after being accused by attendees at the East Hampton Librarys Authors Night of pocketing money meant to go to the library by selling her own DVDs for cash.

The right-wing pundit had a booth at the benefit along with attendees such as Alec Baldwin and Jessica Seinfeld to promote her tome In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!

Authors sold their books with all proceeds going to the library. But a spy huffed that Coulter made a handwritten sign and sold her DVD for cash.

The source said the DVDs were going for $25 . . . When an organizer approached and removed the sign, [Coulter] threw a fit and said, It doesnt matter anyway, I just sold out of all of them.

A library rep said, If she was doing that, we werent aware. If someone saw this, we apologize . . . She might not have been aware of the standard operating procedure. When asked if the library received money from the DVD sales, event co-chair Sheila Rogers told us, No.

But Coulter initially told us: This is not true . . . You need better sources in the outpost of the resistance. Liberals are calling in nonsense.

When we mentioned wed seen a picture of her handwritten sign reading cash only although all other authors books were paid for by attendees at one library register Coulter said (referring to herself in the third person): The 80 books that were donated for the book fair were signed and sold, and all the proceeds donated . . . The idea that she pilfered from the poor liberal foundlings of East Hampton is absurd.

She added, Coulters books sold out one hour into the two-hour event long before any other author sold out. Instead of disappointing her fans who couldnt get into the sold-out dinner [afterward], she allowed fans to get signed DVDs at cost intended for the private dinner later. Your snotty liberal correspondent would be surprised at how many secret right-wingers there are in East Hampton. A source said authors do give out items at the dinner but proceeds still go to the library.

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Apparently, as long as violent leftists label their victims fascists, they are free to set fires, smash windows and beat civilians bloody. No police officer will stop them. They have carte blanche to physically assault anyone they disapprove of, including Charles Murray, Heather Mac Donald, Ben Shapiro, me and Milo Yiannopoulos, as well as anyone who wanted to hear us speak.

Even far-left liberals like Evergreen State professor Bret Weinstein will be stripped of police protection solely because the mob called him a racist.

If the liberal shock troops deem local Republicans Nazis because some of them support the duly elected Republican president Portland will cancel the annual Rose Festival parade rather than allow any Trump supporters to march.

Theyre all fascists! Ipso facto, the people cracking their skulls and smashing store windows are anti-fascists, or as they call themselves, antifa.

We have no way of knowing if the speakers at the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally last weekend were Nazis, white supremacists or passionate Civil War buffs, inasmuch as they werent allowed to speak. The Democratic governor shut the event down, despite a court order to let it proceed.

We have only visuals presented to us by the activist media, showing some participants with Nazi paraphernalia. But for all we know, the Nazi photos are as unrepresentative of the rally as that photo of the drowned Syrian child is of Europes migrant crisis. Was it 1 percent Nazi or 99 percent Nazi?

As the Unite the Right crowd was dispersing, they were forced by the police into the path of the peace-loving, rock-throwing, fire-spraying antifa. A far-left reporter for The New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, tweeted live from the event: The hard left seemed as hate-filled as alt-right. I saw club-wielding antifa beating white nationalists being led out of the park.

Thats when protestor James Fields sped his car into a crowd of the counter-protesters, then immediately hit reverse, injuring dozens of people, and killing one woman, Heather Heyer.

This has been universally labeled terrorism, but we still dont know whether Fields hit the gas accidentally, was in fear for his life or if he rammed the group intentionally and maliciously.

With any luck, well unravel Fields motives faster than it took the Obama administration to discern the motives of a Muslim shouting Allahu Akbar! while gunning down soldiers at Fort Hood. (Six years.)

But so far, all we know is that Fields said he was upset about black people and wanted to kill as many as possible. On his Facebook page, he displayed a White Power poster and liked three organizations deemed white separatist hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. A subsequent search of his home turned up bomb-making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition and a personal journal of combat tactics.

Actually, none of that is true. The paragraph above describes, down to the letter, what was known about Micah Xavier Johnson, the black man who murdered five Dallas cops a year ago during a Black Lives Matter demonstration. My sole alteration to the facts is reversing the words black and white.

President Obama held a news conference the next day to say its very hard to untangle the motives. The New York Times editorialized agnostically that many possible motives will be ticked off for the killer. (One motive kind of sticks out like a sore thumb to me.)

In certain cases, the media are quite willing to jump to conclusions. In others, they seem to need an inordinate amount of time to detect motives.

The media think they already know all there is to know about James Fields, but they also thought they knew all about the Duke lacrosse players, gentle giant Michael Brown and those alleged gang-rapists at the University of Virginia.

Waiting for facts is now the Nazi position.

Liberals have Republicans over a barrel because they used the word racist. The word is kryptonite, capable of turning the entire GOP and 99 percent of the conservative media into a panicky mass of cowardice.

This week, Mitt Romney and Sen. Marco Rubio among others instructed us that masked liberals hitting people with baseball bats are pure of heart provided they first label the likes of Charles Murray or some housewife in a MAGA hat fascists.

Luckily, the week before opening fire on Republicans, critically injuring House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, Bernie Sanders-supporter James Hodgkinson had used the vital talisman, calling the GOP fascist. So you see, he wasnt trying to commit mass murder! He was just fighting Nazis. Rubio and Romney will be expert witnesses.

And lets recall the response of Hillary Clinton to the horrifying murder of five Dallas cops last year. The woman who ran against Trump displayed all the moral blindness currently being slanderously imputed to him.

In an interview on CNN about the slaughter that had taken place roughly 12 hours earlier, Hillary barely paused to acknowledge the five dead officers much less condemn the shooting before criticizing police for their implicit bias six times in about as many minutes.

What she really wanted to talk about were the two recent police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and Minneapolis, refusing to contradict Minnesota Gov. Mark Daytons claim that the Minneapolis shooting was based on racism.

Officers in both cases were later found innocent of any wrongdoing. Either the left has had a really bad streak of luck on their police brutality cases, or bad cops are a lot rarer than they think.

Some people would not consider the mass murder of five white policemen by an anti-cop nut in the middle of a BLM protest a good jumping-off point for airing BLMs delusional complaints about the police. It would be like responding to John Hinckley Jr.s attempted murder of President Reagan by denouncing Jodie Foster for not dating him.

Or, to bring it back to Charlottesville, it would be as if Trump had responded by expounding on the kookiest positions of Unite the Right just as Hillarys response echoed the paranoid obsessions of the cop-killer. Trump would have quickly skipped over the dead girl and railed against black people, Jews and so on.

That is the precise analogy to what Hillary did as the bodies of five Dallas cops lay in the morgue.

Thank God Donald J. Trump is our president, and not Mitt Romney, not Marco Rubio and not that nasty woman.

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Ann Coulter: When liberals club people, it's with love in their hearts - Elko Daily Free Press

Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin and Trump defender Ann Coulter were as far apart as possible as they signed their books at the East Hampton Library fund-raiser on Saturday but it had nothing to with their antithetical politics.

We try to break up the well-known people who will create bottlenecks, said a spokeswoman for the event. It worked out well for everyone. I dont think their paths crossed at all.

It was a glorious day in the center of the plebeian resistance, and I emerged unscathed! Coulter, who was signing In Trump We Trust under the watch of her bodyguard, told me.

Holly Peterson took a break from signing copies of her novel It Happens in the Hamptons to meet Coulter.

I shook her hand and asked her who she was just to annoy her, Peterson said. She handled it mildly well. But Coulter may have been less cordial when two others played the same trick.

Peterson said the gambit is a good elegance monitor especially good when you are seated next to a megalomaniac at a dinner party.

The most striking of the 100 authors in the steamy tent was interior decorator Peter Marino in his trademark black-leather ensemble, complete with biker cap. The dark fetish outfit stood out in the sea of light pastels.

Notable among the 2,000 guests were shoe designer Steve Madden, actress Tovah Feldshuh, Gov. George Pataki, architect Peter Cook, candy mogul Dylan Lauren and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

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Alec Baldwin and Ann Coulter kept apart at Hamptons event | Page Six - Page Six

The current issue of Newsweek (yes, its still in business!) has a picture of President Trump sitting in a recliner, with snacks and an iPad in his lap, pointing his TV remote at the viewer, blazoned with the headline, Lazy Boy.

Liberals only wish.

Last week, the president joined Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) to announce legislation that would make seminal changes to our immigration laws for the first time in more than half a century, profoundly affecting the entire country.

The media have chosen not to cover the RAISE Act (Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment). This bill is their worst nightmare.

Instead of admitting immigrants on the basis of often specious family ties, the bill would finally allow us to choose the immigrants we want, based on merit, with points granted for skills, English proficiency, advanced degrees, actual job offers and so on.

Most Americans have no idea that we have zero say about the vast majority of immigrants pouring into our country. Two-thirds of all legal immigrants get in not because we want them or even because Mark Zuckerberg wants them but under idiotic family reunification laws.

The most important provision of the RAISE Act would define family the way most Americans think of it: your spouse and minor children.

Unfortunately, thats not how the Third World thinks of family. In tribal societies, family means the whole extended clan adult siblings, elderly parents and brothers-in-law, plus all their adult siblings and elderly parents, and so on, ad infinitum.

Entire tribes of immigrants are able to bully their way in and, as legal immigrants, are immediately eligible for a whole panoply of government benefits. Suddenly, theres no money left in the Social Security Trust Fund, and Speaker Paul Ryan is telling Americans theyre going to have to cut back.

At some point, American businesses are going to have to be told they cant keep bringing in cheap foreign labor, changing the country and offloading the costs onto the taxpayer. But thats not this discussion. Business owners want cheap workers not the disabled parents of cheap workers.

In a sane world, merely introducing such an important bill with the imprimatur of a president elected on his immigration stance would force the media to finally discuss the subject they have been deliberately hiding from the public.

Has Trump personally endorsed any other legislation like this? He harangued congressional Republicans on Twitter to pass some Obamacare replacement, but he never endorsed a specific bill.

But, you see, theres a reason the media dont want to talk about immigration.

With a full public airing, Americans would finally understand why recent immigrants seem so different from earlier waves, why income inequality is approaching czarist Russia levels, why the suicide rate has skyrocketed among the working class, and why all our government benefits programs are headed toward bankruptcy.

As Stephen Miller, the presidents inestimable speechwriter, said, some legislative proposals can only succeed in the dark of night and some can only succeed in the light of day. This is a light-of-day bill.

So, naturally, the media refuse to mention it, except to accuse Miller of being a white nationalist for knowing hate-facts about the Emma Lazarus poem not being part of the original Statue of Liberty. (Its the Statue of Liberty, not Statute of Liberty, media.)

They ignore this bill so they can get on to the important business of Trumps tweets, whos up and whos down in the White House, and Russia, Russia, Russia.

According to my review of Nexis archives, there was only a single question about the RAISE Act on any of the Sunday morning shows: Chris Wallaces last question to his very important Republican guest. Unfortunately, his very important Republican guest was amnesty-supporting nitwit Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who sniped about Trump employing foreign guest workers at Mar-a-Lago.

However that may be, guest workers have absolutely nothing to do with the RAISE Act, which, as Miller heroically tried to explain to clueless reporters, concerns only green-card holders, i.e., lawful permanent residents not guest workers, not illegal aliens and not a poem Scotch-taped onto Lady Liberty in 1903.

At least the media arent deluded about the popularity of their position. Discussing immigration is a total loser for them. They know what they want is not supported by anyone.

Low-wage workers dont want hundreds of thousands of low-skilled immigrants being dumped on the country every year. Employers dont want the deadbeat cousins of their cheap workers. Americans on public assistance dont want foreigners competing with them for benefits. Boneheaded Scandinavian communities that welcomed refugees dont want to turn their entire town budgets over to various foreign tribes.

In a recent Numbers USA poll of voters in 10 swing states with vulnerable Democratic senators up for re-election next year, only 22 percent of respondents thought immigrants should be allowed by right to bring in family other than spouses and minor children.

Make the senators vote, Mr. President!

Donald Trump was elected president, beating the smartest, most qualified woman in the world, by proposing to put Americans first on immigration. This bill makes good on that promise.

Theres a reason the media wont discuss it. If Trump were smart, hed talk about nothing else.

Ann Coulter is an American conservative social and

political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist and lawyer.

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