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The perfect way to fully grasp President Donald Trump and his movement is through professional wrestling, a new book by David Shoemaker says.

The Bullwark* sifted through *Why Hulk Hogan Matters in which the writer uses a "literary theory" to explain wrestling.

"What I want to do today is take Shoemaker’s work one step further and extrapolate it out to politics," wrote Jonathan V. Last.

The long-time journalist and author used 1980's wrestler Hulk Hogan as the perfect comparison to Trump by using the term "kayfabe." It's the acting piece of professional wrestling, which uses fake rivalries and staged events to keep the franchise propped up.

Shoemaker calls it an example of "not a fraud but a folk art." Last thinks this is the perfect explanation for how politics fell victim to kayfabe.

"Kayfabe is, it turns out, the mode of the demagogue. The demagogue always pretends to speak for the imagined true people. The authentic Volk. This is true in all times and places: In Germany in the 1930s (the Völkisch movement). In Myanmar in the 1960s (Burmanization). In America today ('heritage Americans')," Last described.

Trump is no different, using kayfabe in his 2016 campaign with perceived beefs on both sides of the political aisle. Trump even brought pal and former wrestling promoter Vince McMahon into his campaign.

"Where American politicians had previously felt the need to pantomime earnestness and consistency, Trump was openly playacting. He would insult an opponent’s wife and call the man a liar one day, and then embrace him the next day after the man submitted," recalled Last. "And the audience accepted this because they accepted that Trump was working in kayfabe. Trump realized that voters could behave like wrestling fans. They could know that the show was scripted and still care."

Watching the ordeal, Last said, was like watching Marines fight Roman legionaries. Yes, the two are fighters, but they're playing by different rules. In Trump's case, politics wasn't about the business of governing and building a better society. It was a show and voters were the audience.

"[W]restling is about narrative authority—who gets to embody the story a culture wants to tell itself," Shoemaker explained in the book.

In another Shoemaker book Last cited, the author described the "historic" battle between Hogan and Andre the Giant. The descriptions of the men included outlandish height and weight for both men. If it sounds familiar, it's the same kind of embellishments that Trump uses to boast his height is 6'3" and weight is 238 pounds. Several athletes who have their height and weight measured by the team also claim 6'3" and standing beside Trump, they're remarkably taller.

"Trump has understood this imperative in ways that never occurred to another American politician. It’s why he lies about the size of his inauguration crowds. Why he exaggerates everything to world-historical scale. Why he never appears without being covered in makeup. Why he wears his hair the way he does. Why, when he announced his intention to run for president, he paid actors to show up and make it look like a crowd of supporters," Last explained.

Shoemaker's description of Hogan's embellishments could easily be swapped out with Trump's.

"Hogan didn’t just lie the way wrestlers lie—inside the ring, for the sake of a story. He liked the way people lie when they’ve spent so long playing a character that the character starts freelancing in real life. His lies weren’t usually malicious or strategic. They were expansive. Improvisational. They sprawled," the book said.

Last went on to compare some of the photos of Hogan and Trump from the start vs. more recently. The perfect example is looking at Trump's official photos. The first photo appears softer; Trump has a big smile, capturing his desperation to be loved. The second photo shows him staring down the lens; a determined frown and increased sharpness give the image a harshness.

These are just a few examples. Last goes further into the ways in which the audience is part of the scheme too. Without enablers those who live a fake existance in and out of "real life," there is no audience. It's why Last thinks that "Trumpism is forever," even once Trump disappears. Millions of Americans joined the MAGA world and dedicated their lives to embracing the clothing, attitudes, catch phrases and any other pieces of identity.

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Comedian and satirist Munya Chawawa’s documentary “Wrestling With Trump” punches President Donald Trump in ways he should have been punched at the very beginning of his political career, says Guardian writer Lucy Mangan.

“Trump is the ultimate showman. He’s a master of it, a billionaire Barnum, but with a greed so insatiable it moves him ever further from entertainment into malevolence,” Mangun said. “If the Democrats had realized this earlier and recognized the strength the man was playing to and the particular voting public weaknesses he was preying upon, instead of sneering with distaste, then maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess.”

Chawawa, however, takes the “underused idea” that Trump and his team’s campaigns and style of government “use the same playbook as that created by the U.S. pro-wrestling industry’s most famous promoters, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE),” said Mangan.

The connection is more than obvious, added Mangan. World Wrestling Entertainment was founded by Vince McMahon and his since-estranged wife, Linda. Vince quit the business 2024 in the wake of allegations of sex trafficking and sexual assault, but his wife Linda is now the U.S. secretary of education.

One of the most-recognized tropes of fake wrestling is its habit of dividing “heroes” (white Americans) and villains (non-American, non-white Americans) with “Babyfaces” (good guys who play by the rules) “Heels” (who aren’t and don’t).

It works in the ring and at political rallies, said Chawawa, who notices Trump’s use of trash talk and his alienation of brown people to “rouse the bloodlust” and “make [voters] commit” to a world leader “who promises to rid the world of all the people perceived to be the cause” of white voters’ frustrations.

And then there’s the wrestling industry’s use of “kayfabe,” and its blurring of the lines between truth and lies. Chawawa, in his documentary, “speaks to MAGA folk who can call Trump a “blue collar billionaire” without batting an eyelid. It’s a sign of the “astonishing power” Trump has “to warp the senses, collapse contradictions and reconstruct a reality that suits him better,” reports Mangun.

“Kayfabe, in wrestling, is the pretense that everything is real – that the invective is unscripted, that the Heels’ and heroes’ backstories are authentic, that the moves are unchoreographed, and that the body slams, hip checks and chokeholds are as dangerous and painful as they look. For as long as the fight lasts, you live the illusion. Nothing is true except what you are told you see.”

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Trump FBI director roasted for inviting UFC stars to train FBI agents - Alternet.org

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Profanity-laden anti-MAGA chant erupts at major pro-wrestling event

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French President Emmanuel Macron and other G7 partners are discussing the option of moving the June summit, Politico EU reports.

According to Politico, Macron didn't directly confirm that the members had to accommodate President Donald Trump's MMA cage fight on the White House lawn, but the event is set to take place during their scheduled meeting.

Typically, G7 meetings are picked a year in advance. And this one was slated for June 14, 2026, which will be Trump's 80th birthday bash. So, the presidents of the G7 agreed they could change the schedule.

Despite the schedule being agreed to last year, in October the White House announced it will be hosting an MMA match at the White House on June 14.

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana Whitethat everything is set for the event and they expect 5,000 guests for Trump's party on the South Lawn of the White House.

The G7 will take place June 15 to June 17, and the website has already changed the date, but has not uploaded documents related to the summit. The event will be the first for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who assumed office in October 2025.

Last year, Trump had a massive military parade for his birthday which also celebrated the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army. Britannica concluded, it "was estimated that the event cost between $25 million and $45 million

*Read the full report here.

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ICE Plans $100 Million “Wartime Recruitment” Campaign Targeting Military and Firearms Enthusiasts | Democracy Now!

Officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, are planning to spend $100 million over a one-year period to recruit gun rights supporters and military enthusiasts through online influencers and a geotargeted advertising campaign. That’s according to The Washington Post, which reports it’s part of what the agency called a “wartime recruitment” strategy aimed at hiring thousands of new deportation officers nationwide. The recruitment drive is targeted at people who have attended UFC fights, listened to far-right podcasts or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear. It uses the ad-industry technique known as “geofencing” to send ads to people who set foot near military bases, NASCAR races, college campuses or gun shows.

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• Angry White Men: Jake Shields Tells David Duke That The U.S. ‘Should Stay A Majority-White Country’

On his Rumble and YouTube show, Fight Back, MMA fighter-turned-antisemitic podcaster Jake Shields interviewed ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. During the show, Shields denied being a “white nationalist” while declaring that “we’re doing way too much immigration,” and that “we should stay a majority-white country.”

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• Kiera Butler @ Mother Jones: For Four Hours, Christians in Georgia Gathered to Worship Trump. I Was There.

Their flex today turned out to be a four-hour marathon of praise music, speakers, and a lengthy intermission before Trump arrived. The extensive speaker lineup included several superstars of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) a growing charismatic movement led by a loose network of apostles and prophets who believe Christians are called to take over the government.

• Hannah Allam @ The Washington Post: In a race they cast as good vs. evil, Christian hard-liners are fired up for Trump

Christian nationalist tours timed to the election showcase the power and ambition of a movement aimed at erasing the separation between church and state.

• Dan Ladden-Hall @ The Daily Beast: Steve Bannon Released From Prison Under Cover of Darkness

Steve Bannon was released from a federal prison in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning after completing his four-month sentence.

• Karim Zidan @ Sports Politika: In The Red Corner

A three-part audio series exploring the controversial alliance between Donald Trump and the UFC, and it's profound impact on America's socio-political landscape.

• Matthew Sheffield @ Flux: CNN’s Ryan Girdusky fiasco is part of a much bigger problem in mainstream media

By obsessively trying to have ‘balanced’ discussions, mainstream television news keeps platforming extremists.

• Matt Gertz @ Media Matters: Donald Trump’s authoritarian playbook to crush the free press in a second term

If Donald Trump returns to the White House, the fate of the U.S. press may rest on whether corporate executives who control mammoth multimedia conglomerates are willing to prioritize the journalistic credibility of the news outlets they oversee over their own business interests.

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UFC figures have found a home for their bigotry and conspiracy theories in right-wing media

WRITTEN BY NOAH DOWE

PUBLISHED 06/13/24

Right-wing media have amplified conspiracy theories and bigotry from Ultimate Fighting Championship figures including UFC President Dana White and a number of high-profile fighters.

In doing so, these media platforms have mirrored former President Donald Trump's efforts to use the prizefighting league to boost his 2024 campaign. They’ve also provided a megaphone for White and his current and former fighters — some of whom have expressed support for QAnon and claimed the U.S. government orchestrates mass shootings — to espouse racism, anti-LGBTQ bigotry, false claims of election fraud, and a claim that Pfizer-sponsored athletes are “taking handouts from the devil.”

Select a UFC figure

• ## UFC fighters have delved into right-wing politics and fringe conspiracy theories like QAnon, finding allies in conservative media

• • An MMA journalist noted that a number of UFC fighters have repeatedly used their public platforms to court conservative fans and endorse extreme right-wing conspiracy theories, including QAnon. MMA journalist Karim Zidan has reported that dozens of MMA figures have embraced fringe beliefs like QAnon, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, mass shooting denialism, and even 9/11 trutherism. He has written: “MMA's embrace of outsider sports fans and right-wing politicians has helped create a wave of athletes activating around extremist causes and conspiracies.” Bloody Elbow, [9/15/20; Global Sport Matters, 10/20/22]

• • Former President Donald Trump employed endorsements from UFC fighters in the 2020 election and now sees the organization as a major component of his 2024 campaign, as his team hopes to target “young male audiences with little interest in politics.”During the 2020 election cycle, a number of fighters endorsed Trump and joined campaign events like the Trump Jr.-led “Fighters Against Socialism” bus tour; the former president’s 2024 campaign is now doubling down on this strategy, which Trump aides say “puts him in front of potential voters who may not closely follow politics or engage with traditional news sources.” Politico, [10/29/20; The Guardian, 8/5/23; The Associated Press, 12/15/23]

• • Right-wing media have previously defended bigoted commentary from UFC fighters, even backing middleweight Sean Strickland after he described being transgender as “a mental fucking illness” and suggested he would have “failed as a man” if he reared a gay son. A number of right-wing figures, including podcaster Steve Bannon and white nationalist Nick Fuentes, also championed UFC star Conor McGregor after his anti-immigrant commentary came under investigation by Irish authorities last year; Fuentes notably told McGregor to “rise up” because “it’s either going to be the Irish or it’s going to be the blacks. Only one side is going to come out of this alive.” Media Matters, [11/30/23, 1/31/24; Sports Politika, 11/30/23]

• • Outside of direct interviews with these fighters and figures, some right-wing media have attempted to harness what Bannon’s War Room called “one of the last patriotic sports left” for political gain. Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, for example, has advocated for the Republican Party to embrace “the alpha male culture of Joe Rogan, Dana White, and the UFC” in order to “win over millions of other voters,” even suggesting he would contact White in an effort to “get voter registration and ballot chasing at every one of these UFC fights.” Bloody Elbow, [4/14/21; Real America’s Voice, The Charlie Kirk Show, 7/10/23, 6/3/24]

• Here are some examples of how right-wing media have platformed UFC figures, elevating their bigotry and conspiracy theories:

• ## Dana White

• • UFC President Dana White is a Trump ally and donor who has repeatedly used the organization to benefit the former president’s political ambitions. Besides directly endorsing Trump at the 2020 Republican National Convention, Karim Zidan reported in September 2020 that “White, along with a select group of UFC fighter[s],” had “spent the last few months advocating for the incumbent president in an attempt to ensure his re-election. From campaign rallies and bus tours, to TV appearances and ad spots, the UFC went to great lengths to campaign for Trump.” The Guardian, [8/23/20; Bloody Elbow, 11/11/20; The New York Times, 5/12/20]

• • In coordination with Rumble, the right-wing streaming site which exclusively hosts White’s “Power Slap” show, the UFC has connected right-wing content creators with Trump at its events. These include Andrew Tate acolytes Sneako and Adin Ross, as well as Rumble creators JiDion and DJ Akademiks. Media Matters, [4/11/23, 4/12/23, 4/20/23]

• • Some right-wing media figures praised White for “keeping the UFC apolitical” after he refused to punish fighters for public displays of bigotry. Former Daily Wire host Candace Owens called White’s defense of fighter Colby Covington, who had called his Black opponent advocating for the Black Lives Matter movement “a communist, a Marxist, [someone] standing up for lifelong criminals,” a “breath of fresh air.” White also declined to reprimand Sean Strickland after his anti-LGBTQ rant, arguing the fighter was “baited,” leading OutKick founder Clay Travis to say that he wished “every CEO in America adopted the position Dana White took there.” The Daily Wire, *Candace*, [4/25/21; ESPN, 9/24/20; Media Matters, 1/31/24]

• • On an episode of Gutfeld!, White used a six-year-old story about the U.S. women’s national soccer team losing a friendly scrimmage to a boys soccer team as evidence that “biological males need to be as far away from women’s sports as possible.” Sports Illustrated, [11/10/23; Fox News, Gutfeld!, 11/10/23]

• ## Colby Covington

• • UFC fighter and Trump ally Colby Covington has used racist rhetoric on multiple occasions. Covington, an outspoken supporter of Trump who “routinely wears a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat,” attributed his rise in the organization to a 2017 post-fight speech in which he referred to the Brazilian crowd as “filthy animals” and described the country as “a dump.” Besides his racist “smoke signals” comment aimed at a Nigerian opponent, Covington also called Black Lives Matter protesters “complete terrorists” and “criminals,” and that same night, “received a congratulatory call” from Trump on his victory. Politico, [11/2/20; MMAJunkie, 12/9/19; The Washington Post, 9/24/20]

• • Covington claimed Democrats “made a fake pandemic so they could commit fraud” during the 2020 election. Speaking on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime, Covington also alleged that Democrats “opened up our borders, wide open, so illegal immigrants can come in and they can use those to vote for Biden.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [12/20/23]

• • Covington told former Fox host Tucker Carlson that NFL player Travis Kelce was “paid and bought for by Satan himself” and “sold his soul to the devil” to sponsor Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Covington made similar comments on Newsmax, accusing Pfizer-sponsored athletes of “taking handouts from the devil. Literally, like the devil.” Twitter/X, *Tucker on X*, [12/27/23; Newsmax, Eric Bolling: The Balance, 12/26/23]

• • On The Ingraham Angle, Covington attacked USA Boxing for its trans-inclusive policies, saying that “biological men shouldn’t be allowed to compete in women’s sports” because “when they dig up their bones in 200 years, their bones won't leave pronouns.” Covington has also appeared on Ingraham’s show for an interview on a potential fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the latter of whom he said brings “beta soy-boy energy.” Fox News, *The Ingraham Angle*, [1/3/24, 6/22/23]

• • In an interview with Trump ally and right-wing radio host Roger Stone, Covington called Trump’s hush money trial “election interference” and spread a baseless conspiracy theory that “42 out of 50 states are allowing illegal aliens to vote in our election.” Covington said: “We need to get Trump back in office. I know the deck’s stacked against us, you know, all these different, you know, indictments, you know, to slow his campaign, all these illegals flowing through our border that, you know, Trump kept so secure before. … We all know now they’re passing that vote that 42 out of the 50 states are allowing, you know, illegal aliens to vote in our election.” Rumble, *The Stone Zone*, [4/16/24; Media Matters, 3/4/24]

• ## Tito Ortiz

• • Retired UFC champion Tito Ortiz pushed violence in a video seemingly discussing QAnon, calling to “hang all these motherfuckers” and “line them all up just and execute all of them.” In a recording of an apparent livestream in which he seemed to be discussing QAnon, Ortiz said, “Let’s hang all these motherfuckers. That’s what I’m talking about. I think we should line them up and just execute all of them. That or we should torture them.” Ortiz continued, “2021, all this shit’s gonna be exposed. So … all those scumbags, they’re all gonna hang. I can’t wait.” YouTube, [7/27/23]

• • Ortiz was elected to the city council in Huntington Beach, California — and even served as mayor pro tempore — as an avowed supporter of the QAnon and great reset conspiracy theories. Ortiz publicly promoted QAnon and adjacent conspiracy theories as a candidate for office, including warning of “a ‘globalist’ conspiracy to diminish American freedoms” and calling COVID-19 a form of “population control,” and even “used his platform to sell apparel marked with QAnon slogans such as WWG1WGA (Where we go one we go all).” Sports Illustrated, [3/4/22; The Guardian, 12/17/20; Right Wing Watch, 10/26/20]

• • In an appearance on Fox Business, Ortiz repeated a common anti-migrant claim that there is an “invasion coming over” the southern border. Ortiz warned that “it’s no longer just the immigrants coming over. We have a full-blown invasion coming over,” arguing that migrants are largely “in a military-age group,” calling them “fighting men that are coming across the border, and we don’t know who they are.” Fox Business, *Mornings with Maria Bartiromo*, [3/27/24]

• • On Newsmax, Ortiz advertised Freedom Fight Night, a conservative-themed MMA event which served as a fundraiser for Republican Kari Lake’s failed 2022 gubernatorial campaign. According to Freedom Fight Night’s website, the event was intended to counter “America’s freedom’s being challenged and slipping away.” Newsmax, *National Report*, [9/23/22; Freedom Fight Night, accessed 5/20/24]

• • Ortiz later returned to Newsmax to endorse a measure banning flying the LGBTQ pride flag on Huntington Beach city property, claiming the “normalcy” of pride was “weakening the country.” Ortiz stated: “They’re indoctrinating my kids in the school and putting stuff like this of the LGBTQ, the rainbow flag, in the schools and making it OK, making a normalcy for that. And when you do that, you’re weakening a country.” Newsmax, *National Report*, [3/7/24]

• ## Bryce Mitchell

• • UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell is a flat-earther who has claimed that the U.S. government stages mass shootings as a ploy to seize guns. Mitchell, who argues that “the Earth is flat” and “gravity ain’t real,” once alleged that the government “set up mass shootings and then blame the AR-15s,” adding, “I would die before I hand these guns over to my government.” Bloody Elbow, [10/19/22; Instagram, 2/20/24; Media Matters, 2/21/22]

• • Mitchell claimed COVID-19 “was made by the government” in a plot to “try and take our guns,” alleging “they infected the people on purpose to cause some type of chaos.” MMAJunkie, [3/25/20]

• • Mitchell has said that “we’re going to have to home-school all our kids or they’re all going to end up turning gay.” In a video posted to Instagram, Mitchell encouraged his followers not to vaccinate their children “because I think it’s bad for their health. It could potentially kill them, give them some type of — make them autistic.” He said he would home-school his son because “I don’t want him to be a communist. I don’t want him to worship Satan. I don’t want him to be gay.” NBC News, [5/23/24]

• • In 2022, former Fox host Tucker Carlson interviewed Mitchell and praised him for his “honest” political commentary about Ukraine, failing to mention that he has spread a conspiracy theory about mass shootings. The Washington Post, [3/9/22; Fox News, Tucker Carlson Tonight, 3/8/22]

• • Right-wing commentator Glenn Greenwald also praised Mitchell, commenting that it's often “amazing what you hear when you listen to people who don't pay constant attention to politics for a living and therefore don't have their basic values corrupted and perceptions warped by constant propaganda.” Twitter/X, [3/5/22]

• • The Daily Caller’s Andrew Powell praised Mitchell for going “on an epic tirade about how evolution is ‘bullsh*t,’ because it is.” Mitchell had called the theory of evolution by natural selection “a lie of Satan,” leading Powell to say that “Bryce Mitchell gets it, man. … Evolution is dumb.” The Daily Caller, [9/22/23, 12/16/23]

• ## Tim Kennedy
• • Retired UFC fighter Tim Kennedy, who frequently appears on Fox News, was an “associate” of imprisoned Proud Boys organizer Joe Biggs. According to Reuters, “Kennedy’s Twitter account shows that he has been an associate of Joe Biggs, a leading organizer of the right-wing Proud Boys group who is being prosecuted for his role in the U.S. Capitol riots. … In Twitter posts, Kennedy discussed going on motorcycle rides with Biggs; named Biggs as his Interior Secretary in an imaginary presidential cabinet; and posted screenshots of their text-message conversation about an anticipated rally by antifa, the loosely organized left-wing anti-fascism movement.” Fox News, accessed [6/10/24; Reuters, 5/6/22]

• • Kennedy partnered with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to sell supplements and espoused extreme Islamophobia on Jones' Infowars show, saying that Muslims “will kill you, they will kill your kids, they’ll behead you … because you are against what they stand for. That’s Islam.” Kennedy made this claim while discussing the 2015 San Bernardino shooting on The Alex Jones Show. Jones said the “weirdo leftists want to control all culture and they’re allied with it. This is mental illness. I mean, this is crazy town. Kennedy replied: “It’s lethal. … They’re actually seemingly enabling these people to kill us. It’s past crazy. It’s intentional” Infowars, *The Alex Jones Show*, [6/15/16, 6/15/16]

• • In another Infowars appearance, Kennedy said of Islam, “we can’t call it a religion anymore,” claiming Muslims want to “change, at a fundamental level, a way of life and destroy any form of liberty.” Kennedy continued: “The idea of tolerance, that we can just be more accepting … that is completely moronic and idiotic.” Infowars, *The Alex Jones Show*, [3/23/16]

• • On a 2022 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Kennedy “appeared to link police inaction during the Uvalde shootings with the ‘defund the police’ campaign, calling it a ‘byproduct of what society’s forced the police to become.’” Kennedy told Rogan that “we’ve been emasculating the law enforcement for a while” and speculated that “Uvalde is a great example of not being properly trained, with broken systems, that are not ready to do the right thing.” The Independent, [6/21/22]

• • Kennedy repeated this sentiment on Fox & Friends, claiming that “we have been emasculating our police officers” and describing anti-chokehold laws as “taking away all the protection” that police have. Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [7/28/22]

• • On another episode of Fox & Friends, Kennedy advertised a mentorship program he founded as an alternative to modern public education, suggesting that children in schools are “brainwashed” like the Hitler Youth were. Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [3/26/23]

• ## Jorge Masvidal

• • Retired UFC fighter and Trump ally Jorge Masvidal reportedly has a history of pushing conspiracy theories, including about QAnon. According to Global Sport Matters, Masvidal “posted a screenshot of a fake Kurt Cobain quote claiming to predict Trump’s ascendancy and captioning it with the hashtag #qanon. While he later claimed not to be affiliated with the conspiracy movement, he continued to share other unfounded (and QAnon-supported) conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and the 2020 presidential election.” Global Sports Matters, [10/20/22]

• • After Trump was indicted in his Manhattan criminal hush money trial, Masvidal released a statement calling the case “a play right out of the Communist playbook.”The former welterweight fighter also proclaimed that “we can’t let the left take over.” Twitter/X, [3/30/23]

• • On Jesse Watters Primetime, Masvidal attacked then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) warning to Olympic athletes visiting China: “They said this leads to what Cuba is now, what Venezuela is now, it leads to communism, you know, and we have to stop it as soon as we get a chance.” After Pelosi told athletes not to “risk incurring the anger of the Chinese government because they are ruthless,” Masvidal suggested the United States should not send athletes at all and said that the decision “leads to communism.” Masvidal also described America as a “twilight zone” because of “pandemic mandates,” saying, “You can be out on the street, but you have to be robbing and stealing.” Fox News, *Jesse Watters Primetime*, [2/4/22]

• • Outside of interviews, Masvidal’s involvement in culture wars and politics has repeatedly been covered by right-wing media. Masvidal has drawn right-wing media attention over the years as he attacked the “woke mob,” called former NFL player Colin Kaepernick a “coward,” and — with Trump as witness — led a crowd in a “Let’s Go Brandon” chant after losing his final UFC fight. Fox News, [7/11/20; The Daily Caller, 7/18/21; New York Post, 4/9/23; OutKick, 4/9/23]

• ## Frank Mir

• • Retired UFC champion Frank Mir has been outspoken in opposition to trans women participating in women’s sports. In an op-ed for USA Today, Mir and co-author Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project claimed the 2021 Equality Act, which seeks to prohibit “discrimination based on sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal funding, employment, housing, credit, and the jury system,” would leave “the entirety of women’s athletics … deeply imperiled.” USA Today, [2/25/21; Congress.gov, accessed 6/6/24]

• • Mir appeared on Newsmax to suggest that those who “dare speak out against transgender or any of the groups” are attacked by “cancel culture.”Mir also praised Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for having “taken a leadership role in this.” Newsmax, *American Agenda*, [6/3/21]

• • On Lara Trump’s The Right View, Mir lamented that we are “allowing transgender athletes, former males, to compete about — with women.”Mir continued, “There is no way that you guys can think that you want to be that open-minded that a person who’s not a woman gets to now compete against women.” Right Side Broadcasting Network, *The Right View*, [1/20/22]

• • In an interview with former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker broadcast live from the Conservative Political Action Conference, Mir claimed trans athletes are part of an “agenda” pushed by the left. Mir said, “I don’t think I should have to worry about my daughter wrestling against a male that now feels like they’re a female,” warning that this alleged “agenda by the left … is extremely dangerous and it corrupts and breaks down all kinds of areas that I think that leads to a very negative outcome.” Rumble, *Liberty & Justice with Matt Whitaker*, [3/4/22]

• • Mir was involved with Freedom Fight Night alongside Ortiz and advertised it on Fox & Friends, saying conservatives need to “win this culture war” among American youth. Mir warned that “the left has done a good job of owning Hollywood, entertainment, all the big sports, higher learning. And so our youth, that’s who is capturing their minds and imagination.” Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [3/18/22]

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Trump chats with Mel Gibson, Roger Stone, Joe Rogan at UFC fight

Trump made the appearance during a weekend of campaign stops in Las Vegas and Iowa.

July 9, 2023,

By Jake Traylor and Vaughn Hillyard

LAS VEGAS — Former President Donald Trump drew a raucous reaction from the audience at UFC 290 on Saturday evening when he showed up for the mixed martial arts event amid a weekend of campaign stops in Las Vegas and Iowa.

While at T-Mobile Arena, Trump chatted with notable political allies and celebrities, including actors Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg and celebrity chef Guy Fieri. Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime friend, former political adviser and weekend travel companion, tweeted a photo of himself, Trump and Hollywood star Gibson in conversation during the event.

Stone, a longtime political provocateur, traveled with the campaign in Trump’s personal aircraft over the weekend and has a long history with the former president. Stone drew scrutiny from the now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee for his actions in the lead-up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, and invoked the 5th amendment when subpoenaed by the committee later that year. Stone was also at the heart of probes into Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 election, and was convicted on charges stemming from then-special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's election meddling, for which Trump later pardoned him.

Trump was seen chatting inside the arena with Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator and podcast host Joe Rogan and briefly shaking hands with actor Mark Wahlberg. The former president, who’s seeking re-election in 2024, high-fived supporters while walking along the Octagon before taking a seat in the first row.

South African UFC fighter Dricus Du Plessis abruptly jumped the fighting cage to quickly shake hands and talk with Trump after a second-round technical knockout of his opponent.

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Also spotted with Trump at his campaign stop at a church in Vegas on Saturday afternoon was Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald, a close political ally of the former president who appeared last month before the special counsel grand jury investigating Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. McDonald was also one of the so-called “fake electors” involved in the effort to override those results.

Trump entered the T-Mobile Arena from a ground-level tunnel alongside UFC President Dana White, a staunch supporter of his. White spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention and donated $1 million dollars to pro-Trump super PAC America First Action.

Trump is no stranger to UFC events, attending UFC 244 while president in 2019 alongside then-House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and then-Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., Trump’s future White House chief of staff. The former president most recently attended a UFC event in April alongside musician Kid Rock.

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rww

brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to let Joe Rogan—the podcast host and former mixed martial artist currently embroiled in a scandal for spreading COVID-19 misinformation on Spotify—know that he has his back.

“I’m not sure what@joerogan thinks about me or about my government, but it doesn’t matter. If freedom of speech means anything, it means that people should be free to say what they think, no matter if they agree or disagree with us. Stand your ground! Hugs from Brazil,” the far-right president tweeted Tuesday night. [twt

why in the world is the president of Brazil taking time to weigh in on Rogan and his critics?

Andre Pagliarini, an assistant professor of history at Hampden Sydney College who often writes on U.S.-Brazil relations, says the show of support was yet another example of the “Bolsonaro clan dragging U.S.-style culture wars into the very different world of Brazilian politics and media landscape.” Whether Bolsonaro’s social media slam on the moderation of misinformation in the name of fighting “Big Tech censorship” works in his favor will become more apparent when Brazil holds national elections in October.

Bolsonaro has himself spread misinformation about COVID-19. The so-called“Trump of the Tropics” has also suggested that the only way he could lose the upcoming presidential election is if the vote is rigged, and he has aligned himself closely with the police and military—all while signaling a need for a “quite probable and necessary countercoup” should he lose. Trump hasendorsed Bolsonaro’s reelection bid.

Bolsonaro became an ally to the Trump administration as soon as he assumed office in 2019. His son, Brazilian congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, frequently traveled to the U.S. to engage with members of Donald Trump’s inner circle. The younger Bolsonaro even traveled to Washington, D.C., ahead of the Jan. 6 insurrection to meet with figures like Mike Lindell and Jared Kushner, asdetailed in a recent report by the nonprofit research organization Advance Democracy, Inc.

There are other parallels between the politics of Trump and Bolsonaro. Like Trump, Bolsonaro had thesupport of MAGA strategist Steve Bannon and U.S.Christian right leaders during his 2018 campaign and hispresidency.

And like their conservative counterparts in the U.S., right-wing politicians in Brazil have made “tech censorship” a campaign issue.

During Brazil’s 2018 presidential campaign, disinformation flooded WhatsApp—used by about120 million Brazilians at the time—with the vast majority of false informationfavoring Bolsonaro. (If it sounds a bit like Facebook’s role in the 2016 U.S. election, may we remind you that WhatsApp’s parent company is, you guessed it, Facebook.) In October, Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court, which had conducted an inquiry into accusations that the 2018 Bolsonaro campaign coordinated disinformation on WhatsApp, acquitted Bolsonaro for lack of evidence.

But a member of the country’s Federal Supreme Courtreiterated its message that “if there is a repetition of what was done in 2018, [politicians’] registrations will be revoked, and those who do so will go to jail for attacking Brazil’s elections and democracy.” Meanwhile, the country’s Supreme Electoral Court isconsidering banning Telegram, another source of disinformation, ahead of the October 2022 election.

Such measures to prevent the spread of misinformation in Brazil does not bode well for Bolsonaro. That may explain why in September, the far-right president moved to temporarilyban social media companies from taking down certain posts, including claims that the only way Bolsonaro will lose in October is by voter fraud. Here’s where the Rogan controversy comes into play.

“Making an issue of the Rogan thing can be seen as a preemptive move to invoke tech censorship throughout Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign,” Pagliarini told Right Wing Watch.

For years, Rogan—who is also a UFC commentator—has invited MMA fighters, fringe health experts, far-right figures, and conspiracy theorists likeAlex Jones onto his Spotify-exclusive podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” with an estimated 11 million listeners per episode. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, his podcast has spread misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, prompting270 health experts to call on Spotify in January to moderate misinformation. The calls for moderation have grown. Last week, musicians Neil Young and Joni Mitchell asked Spotifyto pull their music from the platform as long as Rogan’s podcast remained.

by inserting himself into the conversation, Bolsonaro can also highlight his popularity among MMA celebrities—another thing he happens to have in common with Trump—and encourage them to further spread his message of tech censorship.

MMA is thesecond orthird most popular sport in the Brazil, and Jair Bolsonaro has basked in the endorsements of MMA fighters like Darren Till who, as my former colleague Karim Zidanreported for Bloody Elbow, used his speech after a UFC fight in 2017 to tell viewers, “Lula in jail and Bolsonaro 2018!” (Lula is a reference to former leftist Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.) Zidan highlighted the dozens of fighters who have offered their support to Bolsonaro—many of whom arefriendly with Rogan—including BraziliansWanderlei Silva,Anderson Silva,Royce Gracie, andRenzo Gracie, who have between hundreds of thousands of followers to millions of followers each on social media.

Even with disinformation, the religious right, and MMA celebrities on Bolsonaro’s side, the Brazilian president appears to face an uphill battle to reelection. Bolsonaro’s handling of the pandemic, which has led to 629,000 deaths and counting, and its effects on the economy don’t bode well in the race against the popular former leftist Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Polls show if the election were held today, Lula could win by as many as 11 percentage points.

Tags: Eduardo Bolsonaro Jair Bolsonaro Joe Rogan Brazil Coronavirus COVID-19 Disinformation Misinformation Voter Fraud

WWF ritual re-enactment of good triumph over evil [tho we like rooting for outlaw/underdog ubermensch who does not play by the rules, rebels]; thus we don't care its fake any more than broadway play or mass?

populist trump promised to restore prosperity, drain the swamp corruption by which the elite continue to win the rigged game/system

aha alt right event [scientology? "back to parents basements"] was about manifesting indiv grievance // 1/6?  reality TV taken to next level/step?

cdv alludes to amuse self death; reality TV prepared us for post truth world?  ruthless darwinian winners and losers?

1 22 cdv

...Consider the fascinating and, at times, undeniably entertaining characters of TrumpWorld. Donald Trump himself is a reality TV star and pro wrestling "heel" who somehow became president. He has surrounded himself with other characters straight from central casting, including corrupt consigliere Roger Stone and "America's mayor" Rudy Giuliani, now a grossly incompetent go-between and a legal adviser of dubious skill and wisdom.

It's easy to laugh, but we cannot overlook those smart and very dangerous foes of democracy such as Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Stephen Miller, John Eastman, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and numerous others. There are also the lesser-known true believers and ideologues who lurk in the shadows of think tanks, interest groups, academia, business and finance, the news media, right-wing evangelical churches, paramilitaries and "tactical culture," military and veterans groups, and elsewhere in the private sector and the world of public policy and consulting.

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ufc-pioneer-turned-qanon-adherent-tito-ortiz-resigns-as-huntington-beach-mayor-pro-tem-citing-media-attacks/

https://www.alternet.org/2020/05/top-us-companies-lay-off-thousands-of-workers-while-rewarding-shareholders/

Some of the largest companies in the U.S. have rewarded their shareholders amid the coronavirus pandemic after firing thousands of employees.

Companies like heavy machinery manufacturer Caterpillar, denim-maker Levi Strauss, toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker, furniture manufacturer Steelcase and World Wrestling Entertainment have doled out more than $700 million to shareholders in cash dividends while slashing jobs and shuttering facilities, The Washington Post reported. Many other companies have likewise rewarded shareholders while laying off workers.

Caterpillar, for example, announced a $500 million distribution to shareholders in early April, according to the report, about two weeks after it announced that it was “temporarily suspending operations at certain facilities.” The company did not say how many workers would be impacted.

“We are taking a variety of actions globally, but we aren’t going to discuss the number of impacted people,” a spokesperson told the outlet. “We are taking a variety of actions at our global facilities to reduce production due to weaker customer demand, potential supply constraints and the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and related government actions. These actions include temporary facility shutdowns, indefinite or temporary layoffs."

Levi Strauss announced that it would distribute $32 million to shareholders on April 7, the same day that the company said it would furlough retail workers. About 4,000 workers have been affected, according to The Post.

“As this human and economic tragedy unfolds globally over the coming months, we are taking swift and decisive action that will ensure we remain a winner in our industry,” Levi CEO Chip Bergh said at the time, after reporting big earnings in Q1.

Stanley Black & Decker announced in early April that it would furlough and lay off “non-essential” workers. It distributed $106 million in dividends to shareholders just two weeks later, The Post reported.

“Throughout our company’s 177-year history, Stanley Black & Decker has weathered a series of exogenous shocks and thrived,” CEO James Loree said in the statement last month. “We are in a strong position as we face today’s challenges and are taking the necessary actions now to protect our employees and the business while positioning the company to thrive into the future.”

Steelcase announced in March that it would cut operations in four states, issuing a statement saying it took “these actions in an effort to avoid permanent headcount reductions so the company and its employees can come through this crisis together.”

It announced the same day that it would issue a dividend of roughly $8 million to shareholders. Earlier that month, the company bought back $38 million in stock from shareholders.

The WWE, a company whose longtime former CEO Linda McMahon served in Trump’s Cabinet and now works on his re-election campaign, cut 10% of its workers and fired about 20 wrestlers a day before it announced $9 million in dividends for shareholders.

These five companies are far from the only corporations rewarding shareholders while cutting workers, but many other companies took steps to end dividends and buybacks in response to the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus.

The Gap, American Eagle and Darden Restaurants — which owns Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse — announced that they would pause dividends and stop buybacks, according to The Post. Williams Sonoma said it would continue to pay full-time employees after shuttering its stores.

Chris Lu, who served as the Deputy Secretary of Labor under President Obama, called out the Trump administration for pushing to protect companies from being sued by workers who contract COVID-19 while ignoring businesses that reward shareholders at the expense of workers.

“In Trump’s economy, these companies won’t get punished,” he said. “Instead, he wants to give them liability protection.”

“In a downturn like this the first thing a company should do is give up any distributions to shareholders,” William Lazonick, an economist at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, told The Post. “But in a crisis, companies will differ. Some will care . . . and some will rob the workers, who should expect that their continued employment will be the company’s first concern.”

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4/15/20 wwf  declared essential services ~ covid?! DN

quid pro quo florida desantis essential jammed up against contract for live TV; wrestler test pos

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beware forbes mag 420

Here Are The Billionaires Backing Donald Trump’s Campaign

Michela TinderaForbes Staff

Money & Politics

The richest president in American history has gotten financial support from nearly one in 10 U.S. billionaires.

Nearly five years ago Donald Trump descended an escalator inside Trump Tower and announced a long-shot bid to become president of the United States. Standing on a stage in the building’s lobby, in front of eight American flags, he spoke to a gaggle of cameras. “I’m using my own money,” Trump said, indicating that he would self-fund his campaign. “I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich.”

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How times have changed. Now in the midst of his reelection campaign, President Trump has accepted donations from 80 billionaires and their spouses, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings. Fifty-one moguls donated in their own names. Seven others are married to people who did. In other words, 9% of America’s billionaires, who together are worth a combined $210 billion—either directly or through their spouse—have pitched in to cover the costs of Trump’s 2020 campaign.

Tracking Billionaire Donations Over Time

Forbes mined more than 2.5 million entries in the Federal Election Commission database to identify Trump’s richest donors. We searched for contributions made to the president’s campaign committee, Donald J. Trump For President. Our analysis begins on inauguration day, 2017, when Trump officially filed papers for his reelection effort, and ends on February 29, 2020, the latest date for which the campaign has submitted federal filings. (By contrast, Barack Obama didn’t begin seeking contributions to his election campaign until the third year of his presidency.)

Most of the donors, some 56%, live in just three states: Florida, New York and Texas. More than three-quarters are self-made. The rest inherited small fortunes and grew them into bigger ones. They come from all sorts of industries—real estate, energy, sports and so on. But one-fifth of the donors got rich in finance & investments. That group includes titans like Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, hedge funder John Paulson and retired Franklin Templeton chief Charles B. Johnson. About 10% of the donors made their money in real estate, including Trump’s fellow New York City billionaire, Richard LeFrak. Shopping mall magnate Edward DeBartolo pitched in $3,000 with his wife Cynthia; Trump later pardoned him, in February.

Texas banker Andy Beal, who Forbes estimates is worth $8.1 billion, has given more money to the Trump Victory joint fundraising committee than any other individual billionaire, according to federal filings. Since 2017 Beal, whose bank was once a senior lender to Trump Entertainment Resorts, has donated more than $1 million over many months. That’s nearly twice as much as he gave during the 2016 campaign. (And just $12,200 less than the combined sum TD Ameritrade AMTD’s Joe Ricketts and his wife Marlene gave.) Brothers and casino magnates Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta, along with their wives, meanwhile, gave $1.4 million to Trump Victory in one single day last October.

How Donald Trump's Donors Got Rich

Some donors made one large contribution early in the Trump presidency, like Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman, who gave $125,000 to Trump Victory in September 2017. Others have contributed multiple times over the last three years. Fifty-one percent of Trump’s billionaire donors did not give to the president’s 2016 campaign. U-Haul billionaire E. Joe Shoen made his first-ever contribution to Trump Victory, $35,500, in February 2020. “President Trump has done an outstanding job and certainly merits my vote,” Shoen says. (Forbes reached out to all of Trump’s donors, nearly all of whom declined to comment on the record.)

Nearly all the money coming from billionaires traveled through something called a joint fundraising committee.By law, no individual can donate more than $5,600 to an official presidential campaign. But anyone can give bigger sums to joint fundraising committees, which gather funds for specific campaigns and political parties. President Trump has two major joint fundraising committees, Trump Victory and Trump Make America Great Again Committee, which collect money for his campaign, the Republican National Committee and other state-level RNC groups. Forty-five billionaire donors have pitched in more than $100,000 each to Trump’s joint fundraising committees.

Some of the donors who supported Trump during his initial run received roles that gave them access to the president. WWE cofounder Linda McMahon, who contributed $152,700 to Trump Victory in 2016, was appointed by Trump to head the Small Business Administration.She stepped down from her position last year to run a pro-Trump super PAC called America First Action. She has since given more than $2.7 million to that PAC, money that’s not included in this tally because super PACs are technically independent of campaigns.

Not all of Trump’s 2016 billionaire supporters are still giving—at least not yet. Private equity titan Stephen Feinberg gave $339,400 to Trump Victory last election,and Carl Icahn chipped in $200,000.Neither has donated to Trump since his inauguration. Jennifer Pritzker, heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, contributed $250,000 to Trump Victory in 2016. A transgender woman, Pritzker spoke out against Trump’s transgender military ban, and last year, she donated $1,000 to the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg. 

Amid all this support, however, one billionaire stands out for having donated no money to his reelection campaign. That billionaire is Donald Trump.

Trump’s billionaire backers, ordered by amount given:[graf?]

Contributions made by nearly all donors were made to two joint fundraising committees, Trump Make America Great Again Committee or Trump Victory and then transferred in part to the Donald J. Trump For President Committee.

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In 2002, Buttafuoco participated in Celebrity Boxing, originally slated to oppose John Wayne Bobbitt, who dropped out after being arrested for domestic abuse. Bobbitt was replaced by female pro wrestler Joanie "Chyna" Laurer.^[16] Buttafuoco, despite being booed, won the fight in a majority decision (29–28, 29–27, 28–28).^[17]=

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt

After the incident, John attempted to generate money from his renown by forming a band, The Severed Parts, to pay his mounting medical and legal bills, although the band was unsuccessful and failed to generate enough money.^[12] In September 1994, he appeared in the adult film John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut, in another attempt to make money.^[13] In 1996, he appeared in another adult film, Frankenpenis (also known as John Wayne Bobbitt's Frankenpenis).^[14]

In 1994, he was charged with striking Kristina Elliott, a 21-year-old former exotic dancer he met while in Las Vegas on a publicity tour. On August 31, 1994, he was convicted of battery and sentenced to 15 days in jail (75% of the original 60-day sentence was suspended). "I firmly believe you have an attitude problem," Justice of the Peace William Jansen told Bobbitt. "Your attitude problem is caused by your drinking."^[15]

On August 10, 1998,^[16] he appeared on the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night Raw television program, where he was featured with Val Venis.^[17][18] Not long after, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where he worked as a bartender, limo driver, mover, pizza delivery driver, and tow-truck operator. He also had a stint serving at a wedding chapel as a minister of a Universal Life Church there.^[1][19]

In 1999, Bobbitt received probation for his role in a theft at a store in Nevada. In 2003, he was sentenced to prison for violating his probation for the 1999 theft, after he was arrested on battery charges involving his then-wife, Joanna Ferrell. He was again twice arrested on charges of battery against Ferrell in 2004, and that same year, he filed for divorce under the name John W. Ferrell, which he had been using during his marriage with Ferrell.^[20]

In 2014, he was severely injured when he broke his neck in a vehicular accident in Buffalo, New York.^[21]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/sports/-new-england-patriots-visit-white-house-donald-trump.html

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The Kraft Group part of team that bought UFC for $4 billion

New England Patriots Chairman and CEO,

Robert Kraft talks with others on the field as the team warms up before an NFL football game against the Dallas Cowboys, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015, in Arlington, Texas. As chairman of The Kraft Group, Robert Kraft owns the Patriots and Revolution. –Roger Steinman/AP

By Eric Levenson  July 11, 2016

The Kraft Group is part of a team of investors that purchased the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on Monday, according to New England Patriots spokesperson Stacey James.

The mixed martial arts league was purchased by Hollywood agency WME-IMG for $4 billion, The New York Times reported late Sunday night. UFC and WME-IMG confirmed the deal in a release on Monday morning.

WME-IMG had previously asked “well-heeled investors” to chip in funds to finance a deal to purchase UFC, and one of those investors was the Kraft Group, ESPN reported last month.

The Kraft Group, founded by Robert Kraft, already owns the New England Patriots and the New England Revolution.

UFC, which promotes mixed martial arts fights, has turned into a global sports behemoth 23 years into its existence. The fighting league recently held its UFC 200 event to an arena full of fans in Las Vegas, and has found marketable stars in fighters Ronda Rousey and Conor McGregor.

UFC President Dana White has previously been seen with Kraft on the sidelines of games.

Indeed, UFC 200 brought out a who’s who of stars, including one of the most well-known players in the Kraft Group’s repertoire: A star quarterback by the name of Tom Brady.

see Linda McMahon gop sen cand 2x

RAW = WAR = authentic

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http://www.salon.com/2016/04/24/its_all_just_wrestling_to_donald_trump_everything_the_gop_front_runner_knows_about_politics_he_learned_from_the_wwf/

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Competition with a (more or less) predetermined outcome. The skill of the wrestlers, and the entertainment value of the “sport,” was, at least for me, no less diminished by that fact.

Professional wrestlers use various means to make themselves bleed during a match. Some will cut themselves with a carefully hidden razor blade. Others will allow a more experienced competitor to hit them hard enough to break the skin above the eye or on the scalp. Of course, a person can be busted open “the hard way” when they accidentally hit the turnbuckle, a pole, the stairs, a table, or some other hard object. In some situations, a wrestler would fill up a condom with his own blood, place it in a bucket of warm water, and then later put it in his mouth. Once the condom was bitten into, it would produce copious amounts of blood from the mouth and nose.

The blood in a professional wrestling match is an integral part of the drama that takes place inside the ring. It excites the audience; the blood can earn a wrestler either sympathy or disdain from the crowd. Ultimately, the blood of a wrestler is almost a ritualistic offering from the competitors to the crowd.

Donald Trump is a political performance artist whose repertoire is inspired by professional wrestling.

He has not (yet) cut his forehead open with a razor to elicit awe, wonder, and sympathy from his followers. But given the violence at his rallies, who knows what the future holds?

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Trump has been involved with professional wrestling for several decades. He is friends with Vince McMahon, the owner of the World Wrestling Federation. Trump’s hotels and casinos have hosted the annual Wrestlemania event—the Super Bowl of pro wrestling. Trump has even appeared at Wrestlemania, where in a “hair versus hair” match, he shaved the head of Vince McMahon. World Wrestling Entertainment acknowledged Trump’s many years of association by inducting him into their hall of fame in 2013.

And now Trump has taken the lessons he learned from those experiences and deftly applied them to his presidential primary campaign.

Professional wrestling is a type of classic storytelling that revolves around heroes and villains. In the language of professional wrestling, the hero is the “face” and the villain is the “heel.” While the boundaries of these archetypes have changed over time, there are certain norms that have remained relatively constant. The “face” wants the sympathy and respect of the audience. He or she has a code of honor. They also, for the most part, do not cheat to win. The “heel” has no such limitations. The heel will lie, cheat, dissemble, and do anything to win a match. The heel also insults and condescends both to the wrestling audience and his rivals. Ultimately, he only cares about obtaining the object of his personal desire—this could be money, power, sex, glory, fame, the championship, or in some cases, just playing the role of a chaotic spoiler who lives to humiliate and brutalize the “good guys.”

A great heel also plays the victim:he or she was not really “pinned” in the ring; there is a conspiracy; “winning” was never the point anyway as there is a greater goal to be achieved.

There are different versions of the “heel” persona. Vince McMahon plays the cruel and manipulative corporate CEO and robber baron who cares about nothing but maintaining and expanding his power. During the 1980s and 1990s, the (then) World Wrestling Federation’s “Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase would humiliate the fans, mocking them as poor and working-class “slobs.” Nick Bockwinkel and Ric Flair were playboy millionaire villains who dressed better than their rivals, had more money and success than anyone else, and the charisma and confidence to get anything they wanted out of life. In today’s World Wrestling Entertainment, Kevin Owens is a heel who plays the role of a schoolyard bully.

Trump borrows from all those “heel” personas. He insults women by calling them “ugly” and implying that their menstrual cycles make them irrational. Trump has questioned the masculinity and character of his Republican rivals. Marco Rubio is “Little Rubio.” Ted Cruz is “Lyin’ Ted.” Trump boasts about the size of his penis and the beauty of his wife Melania. In true “heel” form, Trump is “great” and “amazing.” His rivals are not “real men.” They are “low energy” “losers.”

He also wins over the support of his fans by decrying “political correctness” and urging them to beat up and otherwise abuse anyone who disagrees with his agenda. Trump is also a professional victim, who claims that both he and his supporters are being treated “unfairly” by the news media, protesters, the Republican Party, and any other group that has earned his ire.

Trump’s speech and cadence borrow from professional wrestling. And as Jim Ross, one of the most respected and accomplished announcers in the history of professional wrestling recently observed, Trump’s stage presence is heavily influenced by his affiliation with the sport:

The manner in which The Donald works—works up?—his audiences while stumping is vintage WWE. Watch the mannerisms. Walk to the mic, and the crowd quiets. Walk away, and the decibel level rises. Step back to the podium, step away, all the while pumping up a throng that is ready to hang on every word and thought. Everything plays out the way it would if the event were happening from a wrestling ring on Monday Night Raw. And with good reason: Trump was enmeshed on WWE TV in one of the most successful storylines in company history.

Trump also uses emotional appeals communicated in extemporaneous speeches that are delivered at a fourth-grade level, which are designed to manipulate the most base passions of his public. For example, Trump uses slogans and tag lines about America’s “greatness” and how “big” and “wonderful” his ideas are. As a heel, Trump is also duplicitous and contradictory: he makes claims and promises that he then denies or evades when they are no longer of use.

Trump is a perfect presidential candidate for our “post truth” era. During the 1960 presidential election, Richard Nixon was defeated by John F. Kennedy because, in part, he had not mastered the optics of television. But Trump is a reality TV show character turned GOP frontrunner. He is winning because his outlandish behavior has given him billions of dollars in free publicity from a corporate news media that is desperate for ratings. Moreover, Trump’s professional wrestling persona allows him to effectively communicate with his aggrieved, angry, racist, and alienated white “working class” and low-information public in a way that establishment Republican candidates cannot.Trump literally and figuratively speaks the language of the Republican base and is a hero (while simultaneously being a villain for the rest of the American public) who they can live through by proxy.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_WWE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_J._McMahon fr fdr

son:

Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon (born August 24, 1945)^[3] is an American professional wrestling promoter, announcer, commentator, film producer, actor and occasional professional wrestler. McMahon is the Chairman, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Stamford, Connecticut-based professional wrestling promotion World Wrestling Entertainment (branded as WWE). Upon acquiring World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), McMahon's WWE became the sole remaining major American professional wrestling promotion (until the national expansion of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Ring of Honor).

McMahon plays a character known by the ring name Mr. McMahon, based on his real life persona. In the world of WWE, he is a two-time world champion, having won the WWF Championship and ECW World Championship. He was also the winner of the 1999 Royal Rumble. Vince is the husband of Linda McMahon, with whom he ran WWE from its establishment in 1980, until she resigned as the CEO in September 2009.^[4]

Linda Marie McMahon (née Edwards; born October 4, 1948) is an American professional wrestling magnate and a perennial candidate for the Republican Party.^[1] She is notable for her career developing WWE with her husband Vince McMahon. McMahon was active with WWE, renamed from the original WWF in 2002, from 1980 to 2009. During this time, the company grew from a small regional business in New York to a large multinational. McMahon and her husband became wealthy through the WWE's success, and the McMahon family name is now synonymous with the wrestling industry.^[2] As President and later CEO of the company, she negotiated business deals, launched wrestling merchandise, signed wrestler contracts, and managed and wrote for WWE publications.^[3] She also started the company's civic programs, Get REAL and Smackdown Your Vote. McMahon has occasionally performed in the ring, most notably in a wrestling feud with her husband which climaxed at WrestleMania X-Seven.

She left WWE in 2009 to run unsuccessfully for a seat in the United States Senate from Connecticut, losing to Democratic Party nominee Richard Blumenthal in the general election.^[4][5] McMahon was the 2012 Republican nominee for Connecticut's other Senate seat to replace retiring Senator Joe Lieberman in the general election in November 2012, but lost again to Democratic Representative Chris Murphy.^[6]

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Campaign scrutiny

The McMahon campaign was criticized for providing only limited direct access to the candidate. McMahon was accompanied by political staff at all public events. She limited her press availability to scheduled one-on-one interviews, avoiding traditional press conferences and impromptu questions. Staff highly controlled her photo opportunities, Twitter postings, and public events, often not notifying the press of events in advance.^{[166][167][168][169][170}]

McMahon did not discuss the topic of federal programs such as Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare in the weeks before the Republican primary, leading to accusations she was avoiding controversial issues.^[171] "She claims she wants to cut federal spending, yet refuses to discuss her position on Medicare and Social Security, two of the most costly entitlement programs."^[146]

McMahon family campaign presence

Vince McMahon did not appear on the campaign trail with Linda for much of her campaign.

McMahon's husband, Vince McMahon, did not actively campaign for his spouse, causing some to wonder if Linda was purposely distancing herself from him.^[172] In February 2010, Linda said Vince was too busy "running the company" as both chairman and CEO to campaign, but said he may be involved “down the road”.^[173] Several speculators predicted that if he campaigned with her, his direct association with controversial wrestling skits would be a “major liability”.^[174]

McMahon's son-in-law, WWE wrestler Triple H, gave an interview^[175] to the Wall Street Journal on March 12, 2010, where he said he had purposely kept an "arms length away from Linda" during her campaign to avoid giving her bad publicity. On March 14, 2010, a news story in the Stamford Advocate revealed that her husband, Vince McMahon, owned a 47-foot sports yacht called "the Sexy Bitch".^{[176][177][178}] Linda's absence from the wrestling industry was also noted on April 20, when an article by the Greenwich Times reported that she was courting voters in Westport, Connecticut while her husband was running a live wrestling event at the Mohegan Sun Arena.^[179]

Vince McMahon appeared together with Linda for the first time on April 21, 2010, at a charity function at Sacred Heart University. At one point during the event, he reportedly grabbed a microphone and said to Richard Blumenthal:

My name is Vince McMahon and my wife is the one who's going to beat you this fall.^[180][181]

Vince McMahon's activities

Through October and November 2010, Vince McMahon took increasing action to support fans and the company image which he believed was being damaged by Linda's campaign. On several occasions, Connecticut Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz stated that poll workers had the right to bar voters wearing WWE merchandise to the polls, claiming they were "political items". WWE filed a federal lawsuit against Bysiewicz to prevent this.^[182] He also launched a "Stand up for WWE" campaign on the Internet and gave away company T-shirts and merchandise.

On October 30, 2010, WWE held a "Fan Appreciation Day" in Hartford, Connecticut. Vince acknowledged that the event was held to counter the negative publicity from the Senate race.^[183] During the wrestling show, McMahon distanced himself from his wife's political campaign, saying, "Some people may think I was going to talk about politics today. Nothing could be further from the truth. I do encourage you to vote this Tuesday, and while you're voting, feel free to wear a WWE T-shirt. I came out here to simply say thank you. That's what this day is all about. It's about fan appreciation. No one appreciates the fans more than World Wrestling Entertainment."^[184][185] The Connecticut Democrat Party filed an FEC complaint against Linda McMahon's campaign in October, claiming the WWE's "Fan Appreciation Day" was an "illegal campaign contribution". The complaint also cited the taping of "Smackdown in Bridgeport Harbor Yard" on Election Day, claiming it intended to suppress voter turnout in a Democrat-leaning community.^[186]

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The "Tea Party" Wrestler Glenn Beck Hates Echoes The Anti-Immigrant Message Conservative Media Built

Blog››› February 27, 2013 3:28 PM EST ››› OLIVER WILLIS

Zeb Colter, an anti-immigrant character from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) that has recently drawn the ire of right-wing pundits like Glenn Beck, would be right at home in the conservative media.   Many of Colter's bigoted and flawed arguments have been the right's stock-in-trade for years. 

Beck targeted the Colter character on his radio show, arguing that Colter is "demonizing the Tea Party." Beck also accused the WWE of "mocking me for standing up for the Constitution." Beck's co-host Stu Burguiere complained: "It seems that the villain, the guy you're supposed to hate, is this stereotype of a conservative that I've never met."

Colter currently appears on WWE programming alongside wrestler Jack Swagger, spouting a lot of heated anti-immigrant rhetoric in the middle of a scripted feud with Mexican-born wrestler Alberto Del Rio. According to WWE, Colter's rhetoric is intended to "to build the Mexican American character Del Rio into a hero given WWE's large Latino base."

WWE explains that in order "to create compelling and relevant content for our audience, it is important to incorporate current events into our storylines."

In a series of videos, Colter's character (along with Swagger) expanded on his divisive philosophy, using language that would be right at home on Fox News or on conservative talk radio.

WWE's Zeb Colter: "They want to reform the system, so how are they going to reform the system? They want to grant amnesty to those 11 million undocumented workers and put them on the path to citizenship." USA Network, *WWE Raw*, [2/25/13]

Conservative media figures have a long history attempting to demonize various immigration reform efforts as offering "amnesty":  

Glenn Beck: Immigration reform bill was an "amnesty bill." [CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck, 6/28/07 via Nexis]

Glenn Beck: Obama "is giving amnesty to about 800,000 illegal immigrants." [ABC News, World News With Diane Sawyer, 6/15/12 via Nexis]

Glenn Beck: DREAM Act is a "controversial back door amnesty bill." [CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck, 9/26/07 via Nexis]

Glenn Beck: Immigration reform "is all about amnesty. Its what Mexico wants. Its what the president wants. Its what Congress wants. Its what big business wants, but it is not what the American people want." CNN Headline News, *Glenn Beck*, [4/9/07]

Rush Limbaugh: "Amnesty is the single largest voter drive in the history of the United States." Premiere Radio Networks, *The Rush Limbaugh Show*, [5/28/10]

Michelle Malkin: DREAM Act is "illegal alien amnesty." Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [12/2/10]

Rush Limbaugh: 1986 immigration reform was "amnesty." Premiere Radio Networks, *The Rush Limbaugh Show*, [7/9/10]

Megyn Kelly: Immigration reform bill is "amnesty for illegals." Fox News, *America Live*, [3/19/10]

Sean Hannity: DREAM Act is "amnesty." Fox News, *Hannity*, [11/8/10]

Eric Bolling: Obama "usurped" the Constitution to push "backdoor amnesty." Fox News, *The Five*, [9/28/11]

Chris Wallace on NYC mayor Bloomberg 's support of a path to citizenship: "Isn't that an amnesty?" Fox Broadcasting Co., *Fox News Sunday*, [4/24/11]

Fox Nation: "Obama Moves To Grant Amnesty to Haitian Illegal Aliens." Fox Nation, [1/15/10]

Fox Nation: "House Dems Introduce Illegal Alien Amnesty Bill." Fox Nation, [12/16/09]

Fox Nation: DREAM Act bill is "shamnesty." Fox Nation, [12/1/10]

CNSNews.com: "Obama Renews Call for Amnesty for Illegal Aliens." CNSNews.com, [9/14/11]

Chris Plante: DREAM Act is "an incremental step by the Democrats toward total amnesty." Fox News, *America Live*, [12/2/10]

WWE's Zeb Colter: "Every day there's fewer and fewer people that look like us." YouTube,[]

John Gibson: "Make more babies" because in "twenty-five years ... the majority of the population is Hispanic." Fox News, *The Big Story*, [5/11/06]

Pat Buchanan: "Twelve million people in the country is more than all the Irish, Jewish, and English folks who ever came. And more than that, every 20 months, we add a new Mexico in the Third World. You're going to add 30 new Mexicos by 2050, and they all know the door is open. If you grant amnesty -- and there's nothing in this bill that stops the invasion -- I think you lose the American Southwest." MSNBC, *Tucker*, [6/25/07]

WWE's Zeb Colter: "I'm sick of people apologizing for America." YouTube,[]

Conservative media figures have repeatedly accused President Obama of supposedly "apologizing for America." The phrase "apologizing for America" returns more than 80 Fox News transcripts in the Nexis database.  

Glenn Beck: "Obama is apologizing to the Frenchy French for our arrogance." Fox News, *Glenn Beck*, [4/9/09]

Sean Hannity: "The President's been making waves with his apology tour overseas." Fox News, *Hannity*, [4/8/09]

Sean Hannity: "No country is perfect. No people are perfect. But this apology tour that [Obama's] on is getting obnoxious." Fox News, *Hannity*, [4/7/09]

Sean Hannity: "So why did the president use every chance he could on this trip to make excuses for America? He apologized for our so-called arrogance." Fox News, *Hannity*, [4/6/09]

WWE's Zeb Colter: "We have allowed these people to come into our country and bastardize our language ... You ever picked up a phone and the first thing you hear is 'for English press one, para Espanol, oprimir dos'?" 00:46 YouTube,[]

Glenn Beck suggested immigrants that can't speak English live in a "prison." Fox News, *Glenn Beck*, [10/22/10]

Breitbart.com columnist: "Thanks to multiculturalism and unsecured borders, there are far too many people in this country who don't speak a word of English and will never bother to do so." Breitbart.com, [2/12/10]

Fox News graphic: Pelosi waging a "war on English." Fox News, *Big Story*, [11/19/07]

Bill O'Reilly on immigration reform debate: "Here's the fear: press one for English. That's the fear."[Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 6/13/07 via Nexis]

Michelle Malkin: "I think that we suffer from 'press one for English' syndrome. I mean, there's all these visceral reminders that everybody else's language is being pandered to, except for English." [Fox News, The Big Story, 11/17/06 via Nexis]

Fox Nation promoted "Press One for English" music video Fox Nation, [5/21/09]

Lou Dobbs: "I think if we got rid of 'press one' for English and if we conducted our business in English, if we conduct ourselves and our schools, if we teach in English and we expect English as part of the assimilation, I think we'd be removing an immense concern if not outright rejection of changing immigration law" [Fox Business, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 6/17/11 via Nexis]

WWE's Zeb Colter: "They're forcing our kids to learn Spanish in school" YouTube,[]

Washington Times columnist: American students learning Spanish "is treasonous" and "national self-hatred." *Washington Times*, [10/20/11]

WWE's Jack Swagger: "This diversity thing happening is not progress" YouTube,[]

Rush Limbaugh: "Multiculturalism is ripping this country's heart out." Premiere Radio Networks, *The Rush Limbaugh Show*, [10/20/10]

Rush Limbaugh: America is "so multicultured and fractured" that it "may be two or three different countries." Premiere Radio Networks, *The Rush Limbaugh Show*, [11/11/09]

Bill O'Reilly: "Lefty zealots" believe "the white Christians who hold power must be swept out by a new multicultural tide." Fox News, *The O'Reilly Factor*, [5/17/06]

Michael Savage on Ft. Hood shooting: "Multiculturalism is at work again." Talk Radio Network, *The Savage Nation*, [11/6/09]

Ted Nugent: "The left's version of diversity is social, cultural, economic, and ethnic rot." *The Washington Times*, [1/10/12]

Charles Krauthammer: "With the multicultural vogue, you get bilingual education, separatism." Fox News, *Special Report*, [5/17/12]

WWE's Zeb Colter: "Real Americans refuse to use politically correct language" YouTube,[]

Glenn Beck: "When you try to walk this PC line, you don't talk about what is really happening. And we are never going to solve a damn thing on this planet if we can't be honest with each other." CNN Headline News, *Glenn Beck*, [11/28/07]

Glenn Beck: "I don't know if you actually can win [a war] anymore with the P.C. bullcrap that we've got going on." CNN Headline News, *Glenn Beck*, [6/21/07]

Laura Ingraham suggested Obama wants a "PC speech code" applied to Americans "so we can't really speak without being called racist." Fox News, *The O'Reilly Factor*, [9/16/09]

Glenn Beck: "African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term." Premiere Radio Networks, *The Glenn Beck Program*, [1/7/10]

Fox & Friends showcased a "PC police roundup" with "Shocking Examples Of PC Run Amok." Fox News, *Fox & Friends*, [5/25/12]

WWE's Zeb Colter: "We have 11 million undocumented workers in this country. And I call them 'undocumented' because the politically correct crowd refuse to call them exactly what they are: Illegals." USA Network, *WWE Raw*, [2/25/13]

Fox News prime-time hosts and guests used the terms "illegals," "illegal aliens" and "anchor babies" 99 times in the three months after the 2012 election. Media Matters, [2/19/13]

Fox anchor Chris Wallace repeatedly used the slur "illegals" while moderating a GOP presidential debate. *Media Matters*, [9/23/11]

WWE's Zeb Colter: "We have allowed people to sneak into the country under the cloak of darkness because they will work for little to no money" YouTube,[]

Neil Cavuto: Undocumented immigrants are part of an "illegal invasion" of America. Fox News, *Your World*, [2/20/13]

Michael Savage: "America is being overrun by an invasion force from Mexico." Talk Radio Network, *The Savage Nation*, [8/14/08]

Pat Buchanan: "There is an invasion of the United States of America. And until you put a security fence now along 2,000 miles of border, you are not going to stop this invasion." MSNBC, *Hardball*, [5/15/06]

WND columnist: "Americans view the mass invasion of their country by Mexicans and others about as favorably as the citizens of Czechoslovakia, Holland and France viewed the mass immigration of Germans into their countries during the 1940s." World Net Daily, [11/25/11]

WWE's Zeb Colter: Immigrants are "coming across" the border and "stealing our jobs" YouTube,[]

Fox News' Todd Starnes: Undocumented immigrants are similar to "locusts" that "devour the fields." WSAU, *Feedback*, [8/7/12]

Starnes urged former GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney to "defend American soil from the Mexican invaders." Fox News Radio, *Fox News and Commentary*, [6/26/12]

WWE's Zeb Colter: "We have allowed a bunch of greedy, selfish, criminal delinquents to cross our borders and rob this great country of all its wealth" YouTube,[]

Glenn Beck: Undocumented immigrants "come[] across the border in the middle of the night" for one of three reasons: "One, they're terrorists; two, they're escaping the law; or three, they're hungry. They can't make a living in their own dirtbag country." Premiere Radio Networks, *The Glenn Beck Program*, [4/28/06]

Bill O'Reilly: Immigration reform means more people "on the welfare entitlement train." Fox News, *The O'Reilly Factor*, [**1/28/13**]

Glenn Beck: Mexico "has been overtaken by lawbreakers from the bottom to the top. And now, what you're protesting for is to have lawbreakers come here." Premiere Radio Networks, *The Glenn Beck Program*, [3/27/06]

Rush Limbaugh: The "Cuban exile model" of "hard work" has shifted to the "Mexican immigrant model." Premiere Radio Networks, *The Rush Limbaugh Show*, [1/30/13]

Michael Graham: Immigration policies are inviting "bums to live off our system." Fox News, *America's Newsroom*, [11/20/12]

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