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October 22, 2024, edition of Newsmax's Rob Schmitt Tonight
ROB SCHMITT: (HOST): I want to just read to you what may indeed be one of the October surprises in this election, which is a piece from The Atlantic that has just come out -- just come out today and is really just starting to explode on X as we speak. The title of this piece is, "I need the kind of generals that Hitler had." They're claiming that as a quote from Donald Trump.
And in it, at a time when Trump is up 11 points with Hispanic voters, something that I think threatens Kamala Harris in every single swing state and could decimate her chances at the White House, comes the absolutely perfect story from The Atlantic to try and — to cut that back, which is a claim from this article that after a Hispanic soldier was killed in action, Trump had promised to pay for the funeral and got a bill for something like $60,000. And this article claims that Trump said — he said it doesn't cost $60,000 to bury a f-ing Mexican. So this is from the Atlantic. And this is, I mean, we've heard how they've claimed that he talks about, you know, troops in action and our fallen heroes. I want to get your reaction to this one.
REP. CARLOS GIMENEZ (GUEST): Look, it's — now they're pulling out all the stops, right? So they know they're losing, so they're going to throw everything up on the wall. Doesn't matter if it's a lie. And I'm sure that these are all just bald-faced lies. And so anything to try to gin up some kind of controversy, anything to gin up that somehow he hates Hispanics. And I can tell you, you know, I've known Donald Trump for over eight years, close to ten years, and, you know, there's not a racist bone in his body. He loves America. He loves Americans. And Americans means all Americans, including Hispanics. So again, it's a bunch of hooey and again, more made up stuff. And again, just to hurt his chances.
SCHMITT: Yeah. And just — and I just saw a tweet from one of the sources that was used in the article was, it was somebody from, from the staff who said he was asked by the Atlantic if he heard the comment, and his response to the Atlantic was Trump did not say that. And in the article they quoted him as saying, I didn't hear Trump say that. So right there, you just — you see that they lie, they know how to lie. And this — you could not have created a better stony at a time when he's crushing it with the Hispanic community. How do we make that go away? Oh, here's the perfect story. And who knew they'd figure it out on October 22nd, of all the times?
GIMENEZ: Well, look, there's going to be other stories coming out, I'm sure some more outrageous stuff, and they're just going to keep getting more and more outrageous as they get more and more desperate because they're going to lose. And, you know, what's happening with the problem with them now is that, you know, we don't believe any of the stuff that comes out because, you know, who the sources are. We know they've been lying to us for years and years about Donald Trump.
SCHMITT: Yeah.
GIMENEZ: And so we're not going to believe — it's not going to help them. Actually, it may actually help Donald Trump.
SCHMITT: Right.
GIMENEZ: In a way because he said, oh, more lies about him. Yeah. We're going to show you and we're going to elect Donald Trump.
SCHMITT: We all remember the suckers and losers and how ridiculous that one was. And it just — it didn't make any sense. It just doesn't make any sense. Why would somebody say that in front of — nobody would ever say that. Somebody that had paid for so many funerals for soldiers over the years. So yeah, I got —
GIMENEZ: What did he say say? That I need Nazi generals? They lost the war.
SCHMITT: Yeah, exactly. Congressman —
GIMENEZ: Why would I want them?
SCHMITT: Exactly. So it doesn't make any sense at all.
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- Jankowicz, Mia. "A group of incoming GOP House members, calling themselves the 'Freedom Force,' are trying to counter Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Squad:{':(style="padding-right:0.2em"):}:". Business Insider.
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GOP Representative-elect Nicole Malliotakis, a member of the "Freedom Force."
A group of incoming Republican House members are banding together in a bid to recreate the buzz around the "Squad," the Democratic Party's cohort of progressive representatives elected in 2018.
The newly-elected Republicans are calling themselves the "Freedom Force."
The group says it opposes socialism, and some members have claimed the Democratic left "hates" its values of love of country, support for business, and respect for God.
Rep. Ilhan Omar, who is part of the Squad, said of the new group: "I mean it sounds ridiculous to me. I think they think they're in high school. We're in Congress."
- ^ Parke, Caleb (December 1, 2020). "GOP Congresswoman-elect on forming 'Freedom Force': Left is 'totally out of line' with mainstream". Fox News.
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GOP Congresswoman-elect on forming ‘Freedom Force’: Left is ‘totally out of line’ with mainstream
'When AOC offers you free stuff, you're paying for it with your freedom,' a Freedom Force member argues
Caleb Parke By Caleb Parke | Fox News
Congresswomen-elect start 'Freedom Force' as counterweight to Dems' 'Squad'
Congresswoman-elect Michelle Steel, R-Calif., joined Congresswoman-elect Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., who told ‘Outnumbered Overtime’ the ‘Freedom Force’ will ‘stand up and fight back against socialism.’
Several new Republican members said they are forming the "Freedom Force" to "stand up and fight back against socialism."
Congresswoman-elect Michelle Steel, R-Calif., joined Congresswoman-elect Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., who both flipped House seats red in November, on "Outnumbered Overtime" Tuesday.
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"I think the left is totally out of line from mainstream America," Steel said, pointing out she is a first-generation immigration with an accent.
REP.-ELECT BURGESS OWENS, RETIRED NFLER, TOUTS GOP'S 'FREEDOM FORCE' TO OPPOSE AOC'S 'SQUAD'
"I am grateful to America and I want to show them that I stick to the issues that lower taxes, smaller government, and less regulations, and stop defunding the police," she added.
Malliotakis said the conservative group is "bonded by a love of this nation and opposes the radical agenda of The Squad -- which includes progressive Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York City; Ayanna Pressley of Boston; Ilhan Omar of Minneapolis; and Rashida Tlaib of Detroit.
GOP ‘Freedom Force’ takes on progressive ‘Squad’Video
"Right now it's under attack by those members of the socialist squad," she said, "who are looking to chip away our freedoms and really dismantle our economy and really our country and we need to fight back and we're really passionate about that."
Malliotakis warned: "When AOC offers you free stuff, you're paying for it with your freedom."
In addition to Steel and Malliotakis, some of the new Freedom Force members include Republican Reps.-elect Carlos Gimenez, Maria Elvira Salazar and Byron Donalds of Florida; Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma; Burgess Owens of Utah; and Victoria Spartz of Indiana.
Both of the new representatives say 2022 will be a win for Republicans in the House.
One of the newer members of the Democratic squad, Congressman-elect Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., suggested Republicans misunderstood socialism.
“I believe that some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, when they think of socialism, they think of communism and think of the government controlling everything and people being disempowered within democracy, and I think that's an incorrect definition, that's not how I define it," he argued.
- ^ "The 'Freedom Force': Republican group takes on the Squad and 'evil' socialism". the Guardian. November 30, 2020.
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a Republican congressman is at the center of controversy for his latest remarks suggesting he was aware of planning for the events at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
During an appearance on CNN, Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.) explained why he did not vote in favor of former President Donald Trump's impeachment following the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. But as he offered his explanation, he also said something else that caught the attention of viewers and flagged by Vox reporter Aaron Rupar.
Gimenez admitted that he did not believe Trump incited the insurrection saying, "I didn't think [Trump] incited the events that happened."
However, he also revealed people inside his hotel room were discussing plans to "do something" at the federal building which suggests he may been aware of what was to come. He added, "I know for a fact that I saw people in my hotel room that were saying they were gonna do something at 2 o'clock, and that happened at 9 o'clock in the morning."
Host Erin Burnett seemed to just let this bizarre remark go by.
But the comment led to tons of questions from Twitter users in response to the video. Many wondered if Gimenez alerted authorities prior to the insurrection since he was in the presence of people discussing plans for later that day. One user wrote, "So, did Carlos Gimenez report these insurrectionists to the Capitol Police or other authorities that morning?"...