‘Corruption!’ GOP lawmaker met with fury at latest boo-filled town hall
Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) was relentlessly booed at a town hall over her support for President Donald Trump.
The first jeers came just moments into her event on Wednesday.
"Families in Iowa have told me for the last four years that we want to make sure we have safe streets, we have affordable groceries and gas, and that kids have the opportunity to be able to live out the American dream," Hinson said. "And that is what President Trump is delivering for us. And the president is, I believe, fighting for you and fighting for me."
The congressman's words were met with immediate boos and heckling.
"And I think God saved President Trump's life in Butler," she insisted. "I think he saved his life in Butler, Pennsylvania for a reason."
Voter Steve Peterson said he was "really concerned about is the corruption in Washington."
"And I think that it undermines our faith in our government, and I think it undermines our faith in representatives," he said. "In particular, I'm thinking about the $400 million jet that was given to Mr. Trump."
"I'm thinking about the meme coins and the dinner at the White House, I'm thinking about the Liberty Fund and the Ponzi scheme and the billions of dollars that are coming into there," he continued. "So there's lots of reasons why somebody like you might be silent. You might be scared to say something. You might actually like to see the corruption. I know there are some that are making a lot of money from it."
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"I think it's really unfair to imply that I like to see corruption in Washington, D.C.," Hinson complained. "I reject that premise wholeheartedly. I am here answering your questions in public because I care about transparency."
"I was actually just named to the House Ethics Committee because I do things the right way," she added to laughs. "I'm answering your question."
Hinson later said she did not support an impeachment inquiry into Trump. Her words were again met with boos.
‘I’m calling ICE’: Woman hurls racist slurs at US citizen selling Mexican food
A woman yelling profanity and racist slurs went viral after she threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on a U.S. citizen selling Mexican food.
Oscar Lopez told NBC 4's Tracey Leong that he shared the video on social media after the woman repeatedly drove past his food stand in Palmdale, California.
"It's illegal to have a Mexican flag and not an American one!" the woman could be heard shouting. "I'm calling ICE!"
"She started screaming all these things. It was very racial, especially against Mexicans, and also that she was going to call ICE," Lopez recalled. "It was very, I don't know, very scary at the moment."
"She mentioned the flag not being with an American flag on the side," he said. "And the reason of the Mexican flag is the food that we sell. It's nothing else trying to do anything else with it."
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Lopez was born in the United States. His wife is from El Salvador. The couple's food truck specializes in serving Mexican cuisine.
"I think as a Hispanic and the culture that we live in, we should appreciate each and every good food from every country," Lopez said. "I would like everybody to be aware of [what's] going on."
Watch the video below from NBC 4.
‘No one voted to deport moms’: Pro-Trump town regrets its choice
A Missouri town that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in the 2024 election has come to regret its choice after a beloved neighbor was detained by ICE, according to The New York Times.
In the farming town of Kennett, MO, population 10,000, Times reporter Jack Healy met with residents who "supported in theory" Trump's tough talk on immigration. Now they're rallying around a Hong Kong immigrant named Ming Li Hui, who went by "Carol" in her adopted hometown.
"In the 20 years since she arrived from Hong Kong, she had built a life and family in Kennett, working two waitressing jobs and cleaning houses on the side," Healy wrote. He quoted a Kennett city councilwoman who said, “Everyone knows Carol."
But Hui has since been arrested and detained by the Department of Homeland Security as she awaits deportation back to her birth country.
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“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” one woman told Healy. “But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.”
According to Hui's attorney, she hoped to gain permanent resident status in the U.S. after paying "an American citizen $2,000 to enter into a sham marriage."
"Ms. Hui was never criminally charged for the fake marriage, which ended in divorce in 2009," Healy wrote. "Court papers indicate that she has no criminal record." In the meantime, Hui stayed on in the U.S. even as her tourist visa expired.
One resident told Healy, "She’s exactly the sort of person you’d want to come to the country. I don’t know how this fits into the deportation problem with Trump.” Another declared, "I can’t believe they’re doing this to her."
Some of Hui's neighbors "said they had implored state and national Republican lawmakers representing the area to intervene to stop Ms. Hui’s deportation, but had gotten mostly cursory responses," Healy wrote.
Read The New York Times article here.
Rachel Maddow sounds the alarm as Trump faces an attack he doesn’t grasp: ‘Not a drill!’
President Donald Trump has made America less safe by punching a hole in the nation's ability to defend against a certain kind of attack from Iran, MS NOW's Rachel Maddow warned on Monday, and they're already taking advantage.
Maddow opened by mentioning the devastating wildfires in Spokane, Washington, and a surprising way that Trump allowed Iran to sabotage efforts to fight them.
"We're watching those fires and those evacuations tonight after what has been a terrible day in Eastern Washington State," said Maddow. Worse still, "in seven different states today, local water systems now know they have been hacked into, in a mass cyberattack that is being attributed to Iran."
"You may recall that the Trump administration dismantled or radically scaled back cybersecurity capabilities within the federal government, including inexplicably firing the head of Cyber Command in the U.S. military," said Maddow. "Well, now, local water supplies again in seven states have been hacked into by what appears to have been a foreign adversary."
"This is not a drill!" said Maddow. "This is something that is happening right now and in real life."
Trump originally blamed the attack on Minnesota's Democratic governor, Maddow noted, but at this point "it is at least seven states. And so definitely, by definition, it is not Minnesota's fault."
The upshot, Maddow said, is that Trump has a "strange inability to process this kind of information, to even seemingly understand this kind of attack," and there's no way to know whether America "is even capable of mounting a defense and a response to this kind of attack, because of the way Trump deliberately degraded our cyber capabilities."
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