Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said he wouldn't comment on the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei because some of the residents in his state are "sad" over the dictator's demise. New York Post Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions This remark: “There are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad.” — Mich. Dem. US Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, in a recording that emerged Monday
We say: After an airstrike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, El-Sayed told campaign staffers he wouldn’t comment on it out of respect for his voters’ “sadness” over the death.
Memo to El-Sayed: If you can’t get your base to cheer the death of a horrific tyrant and terrorist like Khamenei, maybe you should look for a different line of work.
“If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am subject to Japanese laws . . . . in a sense, it’s allegiance.” — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Wednesday
We say: Getting arrested for a crime is a funny way to show your “allegiance” to a foreign country, but that’s how Supreme Court Justice KBJ argued the case for birthright citizenship.
How on Earth did she make it to the Supreme Court?
“Stay out, ICE. We do not need you here!” — Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, March 26
We say: ICE enforces American immigration law; Toronto is in Canada.
Or is she just jealous of her ICE-deranged counterparts to the south who’ve made political hay out of their preposterous stance against enforcing immigration law?
“The People Trump Pardoned Are on a Crime Spree” — The New York Times editorial board, Sunday
We say: The Times says Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by President Trump have gone nuts breaking the law.
They cite “at least 12” of the 1,500 pardoned people as having been subsequently arrested for serious crimes.
But this rate of recidivism, less than 1%, is nothing compared to national rates: More than 25% of released offenders are sent back to prison within three years.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
