*This article of mine is published on CNN.” Sen. David Perdue, a Georgia Republican who is facing a tight reelection battle, intentionally mispronounced Sen. Kamala Harris’ name at a Friday rally in Macon, Georgia, where he took the stage before introducing President Donald Trump. The GOP Senator called the vice presidential candidate, and his Senate Budget Committee colleague whom he […]
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*This article of mine is published on Medium.* Back during her CNN commentator days, I was once on the air with White House press secretary and Trump defender in chief Kayleigh McEnany. It was 2016, and we were both invited to be on a special CNN segment about women and politics. Although I had seen
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*This article of mine is published on CNN.* President Donald Trump has often shown his deeply anti-Muslim bigotry and Islamophobia. But just when you think he couldn’t make already vulnerable Muslim-Americans — especially our fellow Iranian-Americans — any more vulnerable than we already are, Trump one-ups himself. On Monday, the President retweeted a blatantly doctored, fake image
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This week was so special because the stars aligned and not only did I have a front page story on CNN.com, but I also got to go on-air and talk about it with my favorite CNN anchor, Brooke Baldwin. Thanks, Omarosa! Things I thought I would never say… Watch below!
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*This article of mine is published on CNN.* President Donald Trump on Tuesday referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman as a “dog.” “When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly
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*This article is published on CNN.* Roseanne Barr went too far. And after a ferocious wave of Twitter censure against Barr for a racist tweet — and writer Wanda Sykes’ announcement that she was quitting the show — ABC finally stepped up to do the obvious right thing: cancel its money-making sitcom. Perhaps Barr could
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My beautiful college town of Charlottesville, Virginia was lit on fire by white supremacists over the weekend, and before I could even absorb the news, I was on the news. While it is unbelievable to be that some Trump surrogates are still hitting the airwaves and justifying Trump’s actions, or lack thereof, in the aftermath
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*This article of mine is published on CNN.* I will forever remember the summer of 2017 as the summer I watched my sleepy, beautiful college town of Charlottesville burn across the world’s television screens as neo-Nazi groups descended, clashing with counter-protesters, leaving one dead and many injured. As I watched on television and online, part
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*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post.* In the aftermath of the Charleston Shootings, which killed nine churchgoers in South Carolina, there has been so much discussion around whether the incident can be labeled an act of terrorism to whether the Confederate flag should still fly. Much of America remains wrapped up in this
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