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The Main Event – February 2, 2018

February 2, 2018

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They Released the Memo! Here’s What’s In It

After two weeks of media demands to the House Intelligence Committee to “release the memo,” Congress did just that. The biggest revelation from the memo is that the phony “Trump dossier” written by ex-British spy Christopher Steele was used to substantiate the application for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant granting the FBI permission to spy on members of the Trump team (most notably, Trump campaign foreign policy advisor Carter Page, who members of the left have smeared considerably and even called a “Russian spy” with no verifiable proof).

The six-page memo also has plenty of “connect the dots” information that shows the Department of Justice, then-FBI Director James Comey and others knew the fake dossier was used to obtain the warrant, which Ed elaborates on this week – and, it shows that the entire thing was bankrolled by none other than the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, all of which was also known by the Department of Justice and the FBI. Incredible! Ed alert: “The collusion is obvious; it’s so blatant. All because no one wanted this non-establishment businessman to come in and upset their world.”

State of the Union Recap

President Trump’s first State of the Union was Tuesday night. Despite the Democrats in the room staging silent protests, the President hit a home run with uplifting and patriotic overture.

Here’s what we saw from the Dems during the State of the Union:

Nancy Pelosi refused to stand for any part of the speech (Ed alert: “…And it was disgusting!”)
The Congressional Black Caucus stared angrily at the President while wearing African kente cloth, and most of them didn’t even clap when he cited the lowest black unemployment rate ever recorded (Ed alert: “That’s how you know someone hates Trump more than they love America. They can’t even applaud something good.”)
Large groups of Dems didn’t stand or clap when Trump praised members of our military, the national anthem and even the American flag.
Several of them didn’t even stand to applaud Congressman Steve Scalise, their own colleague who was critically injured in the shooting at the Republican baseball practice last summer.

Regardless of their sour grapes, the show went on and the President had great things to say about the economy, energy and immigration. As always, there were inspiring guests in attendance at the President and First Lady’s invitation – from the North Korean defector who victoriously held up crutches, to the families of two Long Island girls tragically killed by MS-13 gang members, to the family of Otto Warmbier, to the law enforcement couple who adopted the baby of a heroin-addicted homeless woman – this was truly a parade of heroes. Don’t miss this week’s show!

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The Main Event – January 19, 2017

January 19, 2018

This Week in DACA

Last week, the President held meetings with key Democrats to arrive at a deal on preserving DACA (which is what Democrats say they want) while achieving his own immigration and border enforcement agenda. But this week, Democrats gave no indication they would reach a deal with the President by Friday, and we heard all week that the government might shut down because of it (as of Friday morning, it actually might).

On Friday morning, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney reminded us that the previous administration was “quite cruel” about its own government shutdown threats from 2008 to 2016, and no one batted an eye at them. Ed alert: “Obama gave 10 trillion dollars away. You want to be popular? Give 10 trillion dollars away.” On Monday, the President said that if a deal on DACA dies, it’s the Democrats’ fault because they don’t actually want to negotiate. “They don’t want security at the border, they don’t want to stop drugs,” Trump said.

“S-Hole Gate” Continues

What do they want? They want to keep the “s-hole gate” scandal alive, despite people who were in the closed-door meeting come forward to say they never heard the President say that word. Remember, it was Democrat Senator Dick Durbin who came out of the meeting claiming he heard Trump say it and then the media piled on – and Republicans like Senator Tom Cotton say Durbin is lying. But don’t tell that to Senator Cory Booker, who was clearly auditioning for a 2020 presidential run when he made a grandstanding demonstration of outrage about the whole thing this week at DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s expense. Ed alert: “Simmer down, Cory Booker. We know you’re auditioning to be the next Barack Obama, but maybe you should actually go to Haiti and let us know what you would call it.”

Also this week, the Emergency Management department in Hawaii accidentally pushed the nuclear missile warning button, leaving Hawaiians to believe they were going to die for 38 minutes. There’s news footage of people crying in the street, trying to put their children in storm drains for protection, and calling family members to say goodbye – and the media stopped reporting about it 24 hours later. They reported on “s-hole gate” for a full six days.

The President’s Physical: This Week’s Media Obsession

Last week, the media was obsessed with President Trump’s mental fitness; this week, they’re concerned with his physical fitness despite the White House doctor saying he’s in excellent health. White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson performed Trump’s first presidential exam on January 12 and announced the results on Tuesday during the daily press briefing: He weighs 239 pounds, he doesn’t exercise much but he’s in excellent health. Case closed, right? Wrong. Reporters

When the doctor was finished, the reporters in the press room inundated him with questions like this:

“Did you address drug addiction?”
“Will he be sedated for his next colonoscopy?”
“Did you test him for Hep C?”
“Does he wear dentures?”
“Are you concerned about his use of Twitter?”
“Is he limited to one scoop of ice cream now?”

Meanwhile, CNN’s Sanjay Gupta wants to diagnose the President (whom he has never examined) with heart disease.

Ed alert: “Little people, little brains.”

Vegas News (That isn’t Fake)

This week, newly unsealed search warrants reveal how involved Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend may have been in the Las Vegas massacre on October 1^st. According to the documents, Marilou Danley told investigators they would likely find her fingerprints on some of Paddock’s bullets because she “sometimes helped him load his magazines.”

The New York Times reported that in the days after the massacre, the FBI examined her email and social media accounts. She has not been charged with a crime and denies knowing about Paddock’s plan, but investigators discovered that Danley deleted her Facebook account just hours after the attack. Just a little more than two hours after the attack, Danley made her Facebook account private. Two hours later, she permanently deleted her account. Paddock’s identity as the shooter wasn’t revealed until many, many hours later.

Ed alert: “Every time I talk about this, someone calls me saying ‘leave the conspiracy theories to Alex Jones.’ But I say something is wrong here. Something doesn’t add up.”

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It’s Getting Harder for the Left

December 16, 2016

By Ed Hoffman

If you’ve listened to Clinton’s water boy Stephanopoulos on ABC, journalistic disgrace Chuck Todd on NBC or literally anyone on CNN this week, then you’ve probably heard that we’re all supposed to be frightened out of our wits that Donald Trump chose a Secretary of State with economic interests in Russia, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. I was hoping for Rudy Giuliani myself, but so be it; Trump is making choices that are aligned with his “America first” mantra, and that’s the bottom line.

How does choosing someone like Tillerson reflect the promise of putting America first? First of all, it ensures that we have the respect of Russia and that is not such a bad thing. Putin clearly didn’t respect Barack Obama and John Kerry – but Donald Trump and Rex Tillerson, he holds in high esteem. If you ask Democrats, that’s a travesty; however, something tells me they would be fine with Putin respecting a President Hillary Clinton. Why do they worry about us being “hated around the world” only when a Republican is in power? When they’re in power, they seem to have no problem with other countries respecting us. Remember when Obama told Dmitry Medvedev that he would have “more flexibility” after the 2012 election and Medvedev replied, “I will transmit this to Vladimir”? The media refused to criticize that; they said it was Obama exercising good diplomacy with Russia. And as you know, that’s not what they’re saying about Trump this week.

Speaking of double standards, another issue that Democrats and the media all of a sudden care about is cybersecurity. This is something they laughed off during the election when it only concerned Hillary’s role in the hacking of her emails – but now that they can find the slightest hint of a connection to Trump behind it, it’s a huge deal. With the CIA providing intelligence that Russia may have been responsible for hacking and leaking DNC/Hillary staff emails to Wikileaks, the left wants us to believe that Russia interfering with our election was the only reason Hillary Clinton lost. They don’t seem to care about the actual content of the emails or who sent them, or why they were not secure.

So she didn’t lose because she was a terrible candidate who people find totally unrelatable? She didn’t lose because she showed no regard for the seriousness of her office when she used a private email address to conduct government business? She didn’t lose because she demonstrated gross negligence in the disastrous handling of Benghazi, where four Americans died on her watch? How about her using the Secretary of State position to get massive donations to her fake charity – that’s not the reason? According to the left, no; she lost because Russia wanted Donald Trump to win. Sure, that makes perfect sense.

As former FBI official James Kallstrom said this week, maybe it wasn’t the hacking that did Hillary in; maybe it was that Americans didn’t like what they found out about her when the hacked emails were released. Period.

They’re blaming Hillary’s loss on anything they can: first, they blamed the FBI for continuing to investigate her up to election day; next, they blamed it on racism (a myth Trump has debunked once again this week by meeting with prominent black entertainers); and finally, they blamed it on voter error (hence the failed recounts they demanded in states where it turned out Trump won by even more votes than previously thought). So now, all they can do is throw up flares designed to scare Americans into organizing against the incoming President Trump. Last week they focused on the call from Taiwan; this week, it was Russia. Trust me: When that doesn’t work, it will be something else.

As I’ve said on my show many times this month, people don’t realize how much happier they’re going to be when they’re getting a hand up, rather than the handout they’re used to under a Democratic administration. Once they see the prosperity of a Trump presidency for themselves, people will tune out the left’s insanity. When the proof of his success is right in front of them, it’s going to get harder and harder for anyone to convince them otherwise.

Ed Hoffman is host of The Main Event, which is broadcast on select talk radio stations in Southern California and is available on-demand via podcast. Follow him on Twitter @EdHoffman, and like him on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman.

What Does the Media Expect?

November 23, 2016

By Ed Hoffman

After the tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and the media over the last year, are any of us really surprised that the media is continuing to spew hate his way? They know they’re going to look desperate if they go down the road of covering all the flaws of the electoral college (which they want to abolish so that 1. votes outside of California, Florida and New York won’t count anymore, 2. Hillary can be President and 3. Democrats will win until the end of time). In fact, I’m willing to bet that Hillary and the DNC asked their media buddies to stop covering the electoral college to protect all their reputations. So what can they do instead? Scrutinize every single person Trump appoints to his cabinet, of course – and find opportunities to cry racism about as many of them as possible.

Over the past week, we’ve heard allegations of racism directed at the following Trump cabinet picks:

Breitbart publisher Chief Strategist Steven Bannon, because someone at the Communist News Network (yes, that’s CNN) started a rumor that he’s in bed with the “alt-right” and no one has bothered to do their research to confirm if that’s even true. I don’t know much about Steve Bannon at all, but I do know two things: 1.) Trump would not make a white supremacist one of his top advisors, and 2.) The Democrats try to inject race into just about everything. And that’s everything I need to know.[spacer height=”20px”]
General and incoming National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, because he said that in the global climate of terror we live in, “Fear of Muslims is rational.” (Gasp!)[spacer height=”20px”]
Congressman and incoming CIA Director Mike Pompeo, because he called CIA interrogators “patriots” for waterboarding terrorists after 9/11. Doesn’t Pompeo know patriotism is racist now?[spacer height=”20px”]
Senator and incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who fellow Senator Chuck Schumer has promised to drag through the mud during his Senate confirmation hearing because someone claimed he called an African-American attorney “boy” 30 years ago. Never mind that Sessions led the effort to award the Congressional Medal of Honor to the civil rights leaders who marched on Selma. The media only covers what it wants us to believe, and it wants us to believe that Jeff Sessions is pro-KKK a racist – so that’s what we’re going to hear.[spacer height=”20px”]

It’s being leaked today that members of the media are “furious” over the way Trump treated them in a closed-door meeting at Trump Tower this week. Really? They malign him and everyone he has chosen to surround himself with as he prepares to assume the highest office in the land – portraying every bump in the road as a permanent setback, every cabinet appointee as a dangerous risk, and every decision regarding his businesses as a corruption of the presidency. How do they expect him to react?

Ed Hoffman is host of The Main Event, which is broadcast on select talk radio stations in Southern California and is available on-demand via podcast. Follow him on Twitter @EdHoffman, and like him on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/TheMainEventEdHoffman.

Time to Celebrate

November 21, 2016

By Ed Hoffman

Like many of you, I’ve felt a little more alive over the past two weeks. No exaggeration here: I don’t think I realized how much the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton’s disastrous candidacy and the lack of hope in this country had affected my health. I think a lot of you can relate.

But as we celebrate, there are people who are literally in mourning this week. I’m not gloating in front of them, and I hope you aren’t either. They don’t know what they don’t know, and that deserves our pity. For a variety of reasons – whether it’s the naivety of youth, their lack of information, or just plain gullibility – they don’t understand why more than 60 million Americans voted for Donald Trump. And since they don’t understand it, they’re calling it something they can understand: racism. It’s ridiculous to those of us who understand racism had nothing to do with Trump’s victory, but for them, it’s all they know.

The college kids setting our country’s flag on fire in LA, the unemployed New York millennials marching in front of Trump Tower, and the protesting class who have spent the past five days inciting violence in Portland and Seattle…they all have one thing in common: They grew up with Barack Obama as President. In other words, they’ve been hearing the President of the United States and his allies in the media call Republicans racist for the past eight years. So naturally, they believe with all their hearts that Donald Trump is racist (and by association, everyone who voted for him must be too).

“But if he just hadn’t said ‘rapists and murderers’ that very first week of the campaign, they wouldn’t have been able to call him racist…” I’ve heard that argument too, and I think it’s wrong. These people would have called him racist no matter what, because it’s what the Democrats and their loyal media allies do every four years to the Republican nominee, no matter who it is – and unfortunately, the uninformed public buys into it.

They did it to Mitt Romney, they did it to John McCain, and the election after he united our post-9/11 nation, they did it to George W. Bush. They will do it to every Republican nominee for the remainder of our lifetimes, because it’s all they have. And because their President for the past eight years has been obsessed with race, it will be worse than ever. That’s what we’re experiencing now – and no matter how much he pretends to be conciliatory, he is the reason these protests have escalated. If he hadn’t gone around the world apologizing for America for the past eight years (he’s doing it in Greece this week, by the way), sympathizing with the violent demonstrations after police-involved shootings, and lecturing Christians after every Islamic terror attack, maybe the younger generation wouldn’t be so weak.

They’ve been raised to believe that’s how we should be – because after all, that’s what their President is. Then, along comes this strong presidential candidate; even if they knew who he was in pop culture or business, they didn’t know him in this capacity. He didn’t talk like the current President. He said America is supposed to be a great country. He said we have to secure our borders. They’ve never heard a President talk like this before – and so, he must be a racist. But Barack Obama doesn’t get all the blame for this; to a lesser extent, some blame falls in Hillary Clinton’s lap too. After all, she had no problem playing the sexism card for the duration of her campaign.

These people don’t know how happy they’re going to be two years from now, when everyone has a job and they’re paying lower taxes because the number of people getting a paycheck from the government is drastically reduced. These people don’t know how much better their lives will be because of the new Republican majority, and it could be years before they realize it because of how powerfully they’ve been conditioned for the past eight years.

If you voted for the candidate who held six rallies in six different states on November 7 before getting up at 4 AM on November 8 and staying up a full 24 hours until the race was called in his favor, then you have reason to celebrate; clearly, you care about having a President with energy, focus and stamina. If you decided not to vote for the creature who had nothing in her favor but the woman card, and instead voted for the candidate who fought like politicians don’t normally fight, you are earning your reward this week. You realized that we were on the edge of a cliff, and you slammed on the brakes. Because of people like you, me and President-Elect Donald Trump, we’re on our way to making America great again.

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The Main Event – February 2, 2018

The Main Event – January 19, 2017

It’s Getting Harder for the Left

What Does the Media Expect?

Time to Celebrate