Guilty by Reason of Insanity

by David Limbaugh

  42. Daniel Chaitin, “Carl Bernstein: Draft of Mueller’s Final Report Says Trump Helped Putin ‘Destablize’ the US,” Washington Examiner, January 13, 2019.

  43. Josh Feldman, “Jon Meacham on Stunning NYT Trump Report: ‘This is What the Founders Were Worried About,’ ” Mediaite, January 12, 2019, https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-meacham-on-stunning-nyt-trump-report-this-is-what-the-founders-were-worried-about/.

  44. David Harsayni, “The Media Have Done Irreparable Damage to the Country,” The Federalist, March 25, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/25/media-irreparable-damage-to-the-country/.

  45. Ashley Feinberg, “The New York Times Unites vs. Twitter,” Slate, August 15, 2019, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/new-york-times-meeting-transcript.html.

  46. Tom Rogan, “Whoever Convinced Most Democrats That Putin Hacked the Election Tallies Is Doing Putin’s Bidding,” Washington Examiner, November 19, 2019.

  47. Matthew Continetti, “The Liberal Media ‘Matrix,’ ” Washington Free Beacon, April 12, 2019, https://freebeacon.com/columns/the-liberal-media-matrix/.

  48. Kimberly Leonard, “Secret Group Wants Psychiatric Panel to Judge the Mental Health of Trump,” Washington Examiner, February 8, 2019.

  49. Josh Feldman, “Lawrence O’Donnell: Right to Wonder Today If There’s ‘Something Wrong’ with ‘The President’s Mind,’ ” Mediaite, April 2, 2019, https://www.mediaite.com/tv/lawrence-odonnell-you-had-the-right-to-wonder-today-if-theres-something-wrong-with-the-presidents-mind/.

  50. Ken Meyer, “Scarborough Calls for 25th Amendment: Trump’s Presser Shows He’s ‘Obviously’ Not Fit for Office,” Mediaite, January 3, 2019, https://www.mediaite.com/tv/scarborough-calls-for-25th-amendment-trumps-presser-shows-hes-obviously-not-fit-for-office/.

  51. “Top Chef Host: The Only Crisis in America Is We Have a Lunatic with a Lot of Power,” Grabien, https://grabien.com/story.php?id=226221.

  52. Matthew Vadum, “The Left’s Smirking MAGA Kid Hoax,” Canada Free Press, January 22, 2019, https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-lefts-smirking-maga-kid-hoax.

  53. Alex Griswold, “Kathy Griffin Falsely Accuses Covington Catholic Basketball Players of Throwing Up ‘Nazi Sign,’ ” Washington Free Beacon, January 22, 2019, https://freebeacon.com/politics/kathy-griffin-falsely-accuses-covington-catholic-basketball-players-nazi-sign/.

  54. Elie Mystal, “Dear Media, Please Cut the Sob Stories about Trump Voters Hurt by Trump Policies,” The Nation, January 8, 2019.

  55. Mystal, “Dear Media, Please Cut the Sob Stories about Trump Voters Hurt by Trump Policies.”

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  1. Damon Linker, “Liberals Have Lost Their Minds over Immigration,” The Week, January 30, 2018.

  2. Amber Athey, “Liberals Livid with New York Times For Pro-Stephen Miller Opinion Piece,” Daily Caller, January 29, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/29/liberals-livid-with-new-york-times-for-pro-stephen-miller-opinion-piece/.

  3. Jeremy Binckes, “To Ross Douthat, White Immigration Is the Only Good Immigration,” Salon, January 29, 2018, https://www.salon.com/2018/01/29/to-ross-douthat-white-immigration-is-the-only-good-immigration/.

  4. Damon Linker, “Liberals Have Lost Their Minds over Immigration.”

  5. Niv Elis, “Ocasio-Cortez Sends Christmas Greeting to ‘Refugee Babies in Mangers,’ ” The Hill, December 25, 2018.

  6. Part of this paragraph was borrowed from an earlier column I wrote: David Limbaugh, “How Compassionate Is the Democrats’ Open-Borders Policy?” Creators Syndicate, December 28, 2018, https://www.creators.com/read/david-limbaugh/12/18/how-compassionate-is-the-democrats-open-borders-policy.

  7. Madeline Osburn, “O’Rourke: I’d Destroy the Entire Border Wall If I Could,” The Federalist, February 15, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/15/orourke-id-destroy-entire-border-wall/.

  8. Chip Roy, “Lawless Borders Are a Humanitarian Crisis,” The Federalist, January 9, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/09/lawless-borders-humanitarian-crisis-past-time-finally-solve/.

  9. “Heroin Overdose Data,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December 19, 2018, https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/heroin.html.

  10. “2018 National Drug Threat Assessment,” U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration, October 2018, https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-11/DIR-032-18%202018%20NDTA%20%5Bfinal%5D%20low%20resolution11-20.pdf.

  11. Beth Bailey, “By Weaponing Border Policy, Democrats Play Games with Lives,” The Federalist, February 15, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/15/weaponizing-border-policy-democrats-play-political-games-peoples-lives/.

  12. Congresswoman Vicki Hartzler, “Why We Need to Take Action on Border Security,” Townhall, February 21, 2019, https://townhall.com/capitol-voices/congresswomanvickyhartzler/2019/02/21/why-i-stand-by-president-trumps-emergency-declaration-to-build-a-border-wall-n2542026.

  13. Walter E. Williams, “History Lesson Explains Shifting Political Stances on Illegal Immigration,” Daily Signal, January 16, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/16/a-history-lesson-on-the-shifting-political-stances-on-illegal-immigration/.

  14. Charles Hurt, “Pelosi, Schumer Have a Border-Security Problem with the American People,” Washington Times, January 8, 2019.

  15. Brandon Morse, “Wow! The Washington Post Just Gave Trump a Huge Helping Hand on the Border Crisis in Time for His Address,” RedState, January 8, 2019, https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/01/08/wow-washington-post-just-gave-trump-huge-helping-hand-border-crisis-time-address/.

  16. Matt Vespa, “No Border Crisis? Even This WaPo Reporter Said February’s Illegal Alien Apprehension Numbers Were ‘Bonkers,’ ” Townhall, March 6, 2019, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/03/06/no-border-crisis-even-this-wapo-reporter-said-februarys-illegal-alien-apprehension-numbers-were-bonkers-n2542667.

  17. Jennifer Agiesta, “CNN Poll: Three-Quarters of Americans Say There’s a Crisis at the Border,” CNN, July 2, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/politics/cnn-poll-immigration-border-crisis/index.html.

  18. Stephen Dinan, “87% of Illegal Immigrant Families Are No-Shows for Deportation: ICE,” Washington Times, May 9, 2019.

  19. Jack Crowe, “DHS Secretary: 90 Percent of Recent Asylum-Seekers Skipped Their Hearings,” National Review, June 11, 2019.

  20. Julia Ainsley, “February Had Highest Total of Undocumented Immigrants Crossing U.S. Border in 12 Years,” NBC News, March 5, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/highest-february-total-undocumented-immigrants-crossing-u-s-border-12-n979546.

  21. Thomas Lifson, “Watch the Long Faces as Jeh Johnson, Obama’s DHS Secretary, Tells MSNBC That the Border is ‘Truly in Crisis,’ ” American Thinker, March 30, 2019, https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/03/watch_the_long_faces_as_jeh_johnson_obamas_dhs_secretary_tells_msnbc_that_the_border_truly_in_a_crisis.html.

  22. Byron York, “How Bad Does Border Have to Be for Democrats to Admit It’s an Emergency?” Townhall, April 2, 2019, https://townhall.com/columnists/byronyork/2019/04/02/how-bad-does-border-have-to-be-for-democrats-to-admit-its-an-emergency-n2544171.

  23. Jack Crowe, “Border Patrol Union President: ‘This Is the Worst Crisis’ in Agency’s History,” National Review, April 2, 2019.

  24. “Southwest Border Migration FY 2019,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection, May 8, 2019, https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration.

  25. York, “How Bad Does Border Have to Be for Democrats to Admit It’s an Emergency?”

  26. Editorial, “Yes, There Is a Crisis at the Border – The Numbers Show It,” Investor’s Business Daily, January 10, 2019.

  27. “Illegal Immigration Around the World: 13 Countries Compared to the United States,” ProCon.org, March 12, 2013, https://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=005235.

  28. John Wagner, “Trump Touted Obama’s 2005 Remarks on Immigration. Here’s What Obama Actually Said,” Washington Post, October 24, 2018; Editorial, �
�Yes, There Is a Crisis at the Border – The Numbers Show It.”

  29. Jarrett Stepman, “Fact-Checking 5 of Trump’s Claims in Border Speech,” Daily Signal, January 9, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/09/fact-checking-5-of-trumps-claims-in-border-speech/.

  30. Sumantra Maitra, “Don’t Let Ocasio-Cortez Dance around the Facts of Immigration,” The Federalist, January 9, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/09/dont-let-ocasio-cortez-party-dance-around-facts-immigration/.

  31. Paul Bedard, “Census Confirms: 63 Percent of ‘Non-Citizens’ on Welfare, 4.6 Million Households,” Washington Examiner, December 3, 2018.

  32. Ian Schwartz, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Illegal Immigrants Act More American Than Citizens Trying to Keep Them Out,” RealClearPolitics, January 8, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/08/alexandria_ocasio-cortez_illegal_immigrants_act_more_american_than_citizens_trying_to_keep_them_out.html.

  33. Bedard, “Census Confirms: 63 Percent of ‘Non-Citizens’ on Welfare, 4.6 Million Households.”

  34. Doug P., “This Will Be in a Trump Ad: Guess How Many Dems Raised Their Hands after Being Asked If Illegals Would Be Covered Under Their Health Plans,” Twitchy, June 27, 2019, https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/06/27/this-will-be-in-a-trump-ad-guess-how-many-dems-raised-their-hands-after-being-asked-if-illegals-would-be-covered-under-their-health-plans/.

  35. Ben Weingarten, “Why Don’t Democrats Want Noncitizens Recorded on the Census?” The Federalist, February 21, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/02/21/dont-democrats-want-census-find-many-noncitizens-live-united-states/.

  36. Roy, “Lawless Borders Are A Humanitarian Crisis.”

  37. Adam Isacson and Maureen Meyer, “WOLA Report: Lessons from San Diego’s Border Wall,” WOLA, December 14, 2017, https://www.wola.org/analysis/wola-report-lessons-san-diegos-border-wall/.

  38. Matt Gaetz, “Rep. Gaetz: Border Walls Work, and Democrats Know It,” USA Today, February 4, 2019.

  39. Frank Camp, “The Daily Wire Speaks with Author and Former Israeli Mayor David Rubin about the Effectiveness of Border Walls,” Daily Wire, December 21, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/39603/daily-wire-speaks-author-and-former-israeli-mayor-frank-camp.

  40. Miriam Valverde, “Border Fence in Israel Cut Illegal Immigration by 99 Percent, GOP Senator Says,” PolitiFact, February 13, 2017, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/13/ron-johnson/border-fence-israel-cut-illegal-immigration-99-per/.

  41. President Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), “There are now 77 major or significant walls built around the world, with 45 countries planning or building walls. Over 800 miles of walls have been built in Europe since only 2015. They have all been recognized as close to 100% successful. Stop the crime at our Southern Border!” Twitter, January 16, 2019, 4:33 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1085515276228153345?lang=en.

  42. Palko Karasz, “Fact Check: Trump’s Tweet on Border Walls in Europe,” New York Times, January 17, 2019.

  43. Evie Fordham, “Trump Touts Other Border Walls around the Globe as ‘Close to 100 Percent Successful,’ ” Daily Caller, January 16, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/16/trump-border-wall-world/.

  44. Michael Rubin, “Trump’s Border Wall Is Standard Practice in Other Parts of the World,” Washington Examiner, January 23, 2018.

  45. Rubin, “Trump’s Border Wall Is Standard Practice in Other Parts of the World.”

  46. Daniel Horowitz, “3 Reasons Why the Media’s ‘Walls Won’t Work to Stop Drugs’ Argument Is Wrong,” Conservative Review, January 14, 2019, https://www.conservativereview.com/news/3-reasons-why-the-medias-walls-wont-work-to-stop-drugs-argument-is-wrong/.

  47. James Barrett, “WATCH: Body Cam Footage of Cops’ Shootout with Illegal Alien Protected from ICE by CA’s Sanctuary Laws Just Two Days Earlier,” Daily Wire, December 21, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/39584/watch-body-cam-footage-cops-shootout-illegal-alien-james-barrett.

  48. Mark Finkelstein, “Jim VandeHei on MSNBC: Dem ‘Enthusiasm’ to Protect Illegals, Not Borders,” NewsBusters, January 2, 2019, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2019/01/02/axios-vandehei-dem-enthusiasm%E2%80%94protect-illegal-immigrants-not.

  49. Jason Hopkins, “New York Democrats Pass Bill to Fund College for Illegal Immigrants,” Daily Signal, January 28, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/28/new-york-democrats-pass-bill-to-fund-college-for-illegal-immigrants/.

  50. Karen Matthews, “Mayor Says NYC Will Expand Health Coverage to 600,000 People,” AP News, January 8, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/f7217b88cb5f415788ea45b591ee1ee6

  51. Kimberly Leonard, “California Democrats Plan to Extend Medicaid to Illegal Immigrants,” Washington Examiner, December 3, 2018.

  52. Henry Rodgers, “Democrats and Republicans Reach ‘Agreement in Principle’ on Border Security,” Daily Caller, February 11, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/11/democrats-republicans-agreement-border-wall/.

  53. Henry Rodgers, “Democrats Remain Defiant, Double Down on Ice Bed Cap as Border Negotiations Close,” Daily Caller, February 12, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/12/dems-ice-bed-cap-border-deal/.

  54. Paul Bedard, “Sheriffs Storm Capitol Hill to Demand Border Wall, ICE Funding,” Washington Examiner, February 11, 2019.

  55. Farhad Manjoo, “There’s Nothing Wrong with Open Borders,” New York Times, January 16, 2019.

  56. Frank Camp, “CAMP: How Is the Democratic Border Security Solution Morally Different from Trump’s Wall?” Daily Wire, December 21, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/39607/camp-how-democratic-border-security-solution-frank-camp.

  57. Katie Pavlich, “Democrats (Again) Side with Criminal Illegal Aliens in Amnesty Bill,” Townhall, June 5, 2019, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/06/05/the-democrats-daca-bill-is-full-of-loopholes-for-criminals-n2547479.

  58. Thomas Lifson, “One Eve of Tonight’s Dem Debate, Elizabeth Warren Calls for Decriminalizing Border Violations,” American Thinker, June 26, 2019, https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/on_eve_of_tonights_dem_debate_elizabeth_warren_calls_for_decriminalizing_border_violations.html.

  59. Mollie Hemingway (@MZHemingway), Twitter, February 21, 2019.

  60. Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX), “The extreme rhetoric surrounding the border security debate has turned radical ideas into aggressive actions. Vandalizing buildings & targeting our border agents is a fast way to discredit your argument. Incredible that enforcing our laws is somehow see as morally corrupt,” Twitter, February 20, 2019 9:46 a.m., https://twitter.com/dancrenshawtx/status/1098277792347799554?lang=en.

  61. Kristine Marsh, “Outrageous! Chris Cuomo: Republicans Want Illegals to Kill Americans Because It’s ‘Convenient’,” NewsBusters, February 8, 2019, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2019/02/08/outrageous-chris-cuomo-republicans-want-illegals-kill-americans.

  62. George Neumayr, “The Immorality of the Open Borders Party,” American Spectator, January 18, 2019.

  63. Fred Lucas, “Answers to 4 Big Questions About Sending Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities,” Daily Signal, April 16, 2019, https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/04/16/answers-to-4-big-questions-about-trumps-interest-in-sending-illegal-immigrants-to-sanctuary-cities/.

  64. Julio Rosas, “Cher Asks How Can Los Angeles Take More Immigrants: ‘MY CITY… ISNT TAKING CARE OF ITS OWN,’ ” Mediaite, April 15, 2019, https://www.mediaite.com/online/cher-asks-how-can-los-angeles-take-more-immigrants-my-city-isnt-taking-care-of-its-own/.

  65. Sharyl Attkisson, “One in Five US Prison Inmates Is a ‘Criminal Alien,’ ” The Hill, September 19, 2018.

  66. Terence P. Jeffrey, “5 Federal Courts on Mexican Border Lead Nation in Criminal Convictions,” CNS News, April 3, 2019, https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/5-federal-courts-mexican-border-lead-nation-criminal-convictions.

  67. Attkisson, “One in Five US Prison Inmates Is a ‘Criminal Alien.’ ”

  68. “Fiscal Year 2018 ICE Enforcem
ent and Removal Operations Report,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 2018, https://www.ice.gov/doclib/about/offices/ero/pdf/eroFY2018Report.pdf.

  69. Daniel Greenfield, “Democrats Fighting to Protect 2,500 Illegal Aliens Locked Up For Molesting Kids In Texas,” Sons of Liberty Media, January 13, 2019, https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/democrats-fighting-to-protect-2500-illegal-aliens-locked-up-for-molesting-kids-in-texas/.

  70. Emily Ekins, “Americans Used to Support a Border Wall. What Changed Their Minds?” The Federalist, January 14, 2019, https://thefederalist.com/2019/01/14/americans-used-support-border-wall-changed-minds/.

  71. Paul Crookston, “Stacey Abrams ‘Wouldn’t Oppose’ Non-Citizens, Minors Voting in Local Elections,” Washington Free Beacon, January 11, 2019, https://freebeacon.com/politics/stacey-abrams-wouldnt-oppose-non-citizens-minors-voting-in-local-elections/.

  72. Fred Lucas, “How Illegal Immigration Harms Black Americans, According to Civil Rights Commissioner,” Daily Signal, February 19, 2017, https://www.dailysignal.com/2017/02/19/how-illegal-immigration-harms-black-americans-according-to-civil-rights-commissioner/.

  73. Stephen Dinan, “ ‘Violent Mob’ Repelled in Attempt to Storm U.S. Border in San Diego,” Washington Times, January 1, 2019.

  74. “Report: Forced to Flee Central America’s Northern Triangle,” Doctors Without Borders, May 11, 2017, https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/research/report-forced-flee-central-americas-northern-triangle.

  75. Jazz Shaw, “Oakland Mayor Has ‘No Regrets’ over Tipping Off Illegal Aliens,” Hot Air, December 29, 2018, https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2018/12/29/oakland-mayor-no-regrets-tipping-off-illegal-aliens/.

  76. Dan Cancian, “ ‘I Did the Right Thing’: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Defends Tipping Off Immigrants Ahead of Ice Raid,” Newsweek, December 28, 2018.

  77. Mike Brest, “Ocasio-Cortez: Trump Needs to Explain Why ICE Should Still Be Funded,” Daily Caller, January 9, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/09/ocasio-cortez-trump-needs-to-explain-why-ice-should-still-be-funded/.