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Fox News host Jeanine Pirro sparks outrage by comparing shutdown of Parler to a Kristallnacht when Jewish-owned businesses and synagogues were destroyed by Nazis
Jeanine Pirro went on Fox & Friends on Monday and weighed it on Parler s removal from web-hosting services, which she likened to Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom perpetrated by Nazis against Jews in 1938
Pirro later clarified in a tweet she had been referring to the burning of Jewish books that took place during Kristallnacht
Former Republican Congressman Steve King drew a similar comparison, tweeting: last night was Kristallnacht 2.0
Prominent Jewish figures on the left and right slammed Pirro and King for their comments
The scene in Washington D.C. last week has left many comparing the riots to Kristallnacht, the so-called “Night of Broken Glass,” the Nazi pogrom which served as a prelude to the Holocaust.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California, made the connection in a powerful video message, speaking about his father’s alcoholism and the abuse he and other Austrian children experienced growing up under the generation of men who lived with the shame of supporting the Nazi regime.
“Wednesday was the ‘Day of Broken Glass’ right here in the United States,” Schwarzenegger said. “The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol.”
December 31, 2020
Northwest Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King says he plans to stay active in the country’s political debates once his ninth term in the U.S. House ends at noon on Sunday and the 71-year-old is not ruling out another run for public office.
(As above) “”After 24-years of public service in the middle of the heart of all of these important issues, there’s a lot of these accumulated experiences that I just can’t let go to waste,” King says. “I want to make sure that they’re available and that I can help people.”
King served six years in the Iowa legislature before winning his first race for the U.S. House in 2002. He narrowly won re-election in 2018, then was defeated by fellow Republican Randy Feenstra in the GOP Primary this past June. Feenstra will take King’s seat in congress on Sunday.
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Axne, Finkenauer, Loebsack cast votes on veto override, $2,000 stimulus checks
Rep. Cindy Axne. (file photo)
The three Democrats representing Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives have voted to override President Trump’s veto of a major military spending bill, but they’ve also on record now in support of Trump’s call to send $2000 stimulus checks to most Americans.
The U.S. House took votes late Monday on the both issues. Democratic Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer of Cedar Rapids tweeted that she was happy to vote for the addition stimulus spending Trump supports, while also voting to override his veto “costing military service members their pay.”