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President Donald Trump recognized five law enforcement officials who responded to the congressional baseball shooting, awarding them the Medal of Valor for their acts of bravery during the attack.

NEW YORK CITY—The New York Times claimed Friday that its fake news smear of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, when it linked her to the 2011 Tucson shooting in a June 14 editorial, was an “honest mistake”—as the paper defends itself from a defamation lawsuit filed by the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee.

There he goes again. “Never Trump” establishment Republican consultant Rick Wilson believes President Donald Trump is not “pro-american.”

Without any evidence whatsoever, the Washington Post suggested on Saturday that a local “conservative” radio host incited James Hodgkinson, who supported Bernie Sanders and liked watching Rachel Maddow on television (both of whom are not even mentioned in the article), to shoot House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and three others last month.

The New York Times is reporting on “criticism, disbelief and dumbfoundedness” in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tweet on Sunday in which the president is depicted wrestling and punching a figure whose head has been replaced with the logo for CNN.

After a Bernie Sanders campaign volunteer attempted to assassinate Republican members of Congress in Virginia, many on the left began insisting that “both sides” need to moderate their violent political rhetoric. But history proves that leftists are guilty of most of the politically-motivated violence in the United States.

On Tuesday evening, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin hired Hulk Hogan’s lawyers and sued the New York Times for defamation for falsely accusing her in a June 14 editorial of inciting Jared Lee Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ).

Trump supporters gathered at the White House Sunday afternoon to protest political violence at a “Rally For Peace,” calling out establishment journalists for creating a climate of partisan hatred that has recently exploded with a shocking attack near the nation’s capital.

Marcella Arguello, a standup comedian and a writer for Bill Nye Saves The World on Netflix, tweeted in the wake of the Congressional baseball shooting that the deaths of “a few old ass conservative white men” were a worthwhile risk if it led to gun control.

A Nebraska Democratic official was fired Thursday after he was apparently recorded saying he wished Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was dead, that he was glad he was shot, and called him a “motherfucker.”

President Donald Trump hosted his first Congressional picnic at the White House on Thursday night with his wife Melania Trump, paying tribute to those wounded in the Congressional baseball practice shooting. Trump welcomed some of Scalise’s children to the picnic,

Dozens of protesters interrupted President Donald Trump at a rally in Iowa Wednesday night, during his tribute to Congressman Steve Scalise.

A professor at Trinity College wrote that the first responders to last week’s congressional shooting that nearly took Rep. Steve Scalise’s life should have let him and others die because they are white.

Irish rocker Bono took time during a recent concert performance to say a prayer for Rep. Steve Scalise (R-AL), who was shot last week during a practice for the annual bipartisan congressional baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told a Fresno, California, radio station on Monday that the shooting that wounded House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) and three others was “almost predictable” given the state of political rhetoric in the mainstream media and on the left.

Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) said the Alexandria attack reminded him that Americans must be armed for self-defense.

Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh argued that although leaders in the Democratic Party were not directly responsible for the shooting last week at a congressional GOP baseball practice in Alexandria, VA, they did write

Gun control proponent Mark Kelly pledged to fight national reciprocity legislation that would allow citizens to be armed for self-defense.

This week’s biggest political controversies exposed fault lines within the country’s major political factions, with the right fighting about civil disobedience while the left fought over the attempted murder of a Republican Congressman.

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told donors on Saturday that Orange County is one of the key battleground regions in the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.

GOP establishment consultant Rick Wilson, one of the most vile “Never Trumpers” who once said the donor class should “put a bullet in” Donald Trump, thinks supporters of President Trump saw the assassination attempt on House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) as a “blessing.”

During Saturday’s “AM Joy” on MSNBC, North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber asked following House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) shooting at baseball practice of Republican members of Congress if the GOP would work to change their policies

MSNBC “AM Joy” host Joy Reid reacted Saturday to House Majority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise’s (R-LA) shooting, calling it a “delicate” situation because she hopes he recovers but added she cannot ignore his history regarding race, same-sex marriage and gun

A New Jersey Democratic strategist is capitalizing on the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) by launching the hashtags #HuntRepublicans and #HuntRepublicanCongressmen, and he is showing no signs of backing down, claiming “the chickens are coming home to roost.”

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) spoke with Breitbart News’ Washington Political Editor Matt Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 on Saturday about the media bias that’s reached unprecedented levels since President Donald Trump was elected and poses a risk to the democracy it is tasked to protect.

CNN chief Jeff Zucker blamed President Donald Trump for endangering reporters in the legacy media.

A protest planned for Saturday at CNN headquarters in Atlanta is gaining steam as protesters rally around President Donald Trump and Republicans following a shooting on Wednesday aimed at GOP lawmakers and staff as they practiced for the annual Congressional baseball game at Nationals Park.

CNN Politics tweeted an image Thursday of both congressional baseball teams gathered on the field, kneeling in prayer. The caption of the image, though, said, “Members of the Democratic team,” as if those kneeling in prayer in the photo were only Democrats.

Thursday night’s Congressional Baseball Game took on added meaning and importance after the shooting at the Republican practice on Wednesday, which left Louisiana Representative Steve Scalise seriously wounded.

Thursday night’s Congressional Baseball Game was hailed as the ultimate sign of bipartisan unity, but dozens of Democrat staffers reportedly cursed, booed, and jeered when President Donald Trump appeared on the video screen at Nationals Park to deliver a message of unity.

CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta tweeted a false report that said President Donald Trump did not visit with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) in the hospital after Wednesday’s shooting, fueling fake news allegations.

In the aftermath of the shooting of Representative Steve Scalise during a practice for the annual congressional baseball game, some leftists took to social media to deflect any blame for the hateful rhetoric preached against President Donald Trump and Republicans since the November election.

After a politically-motivated shooting that left Republicans and Democrats disheartened about the state of politics, lawmakers and spectators in both parties came together to celebrate America’s favorite pastime at the 56th annual Congressional Baseball Game Thursday evening.

Special Agent Henry Cabrera, a third Capitol Police officer who helped stop the massacre of GOP congressmen and their staff during baseball practice in Alexandria, Va. on Wednesday, went mostly overlooked.

When asked about negative discourse playing a role in the shooting of Republicans practicing for a congressional charity baseball game, which critically injured House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Republicans began the current level of coarse political rhetoric attacking President Bill Clinton in the 1990s.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is considering suing the New York Times for libel after the Times published a Wednesday editorial falsely accusing her of inciting Jared Lee Loughner to shoot Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011 even though it has long been established that there has never been any evidence whatsoever linking Palin to the attempted assassination.