Leland Vittert’s War Notes: Is Anybody Surprised? 😱

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Is Anybody Surprised? 😱

Editor's Note 📝: Forgive the brevity of today and this coming week's "War Notes" – it's book launch week.

Reality 💭: Churchill is often quoted as saying politics is the second-oldest business that closely resembles the first. I would add, book selling is the third oldest, and it closely resembles the first two.

On that note 🗓️: We didn't plan the launch of "Born Lucky" around President Trump's and RFK Jr.'s autism announcement, but thank God someone is now talking about the need to find answers.

🧬The rise of autism cases is the scientific question of our time.
- Disgusting 💊: Now pregnant doctors are downing Tylenol to "own Trump."
  - 🎥One doctor who does fertility medicine in New York posted a video saying, "Twenty-eight weeks pregnant. You know what, I'm gonna take… some Tylenol with acetaminophen. It's going to work like a charm. And my baby won't have autism."
    - ⁉️What is wrong with you?
    - ⚠️Do you hate Trump more than you love your unborn child – even if there's a 0.01% chance of harm? Are TikTok likes more important?
    - 👀P.S. We are trying to book the doctor for the show – if you read "War Notes," join us.

Keeping score☝🏼: In 2017, Tylenol tweeted out that pregnant women shouldn't take it.

💭"We actually don't recommend using any of our products while pregnant. Thank you for taking the time to voice your concerns today," tweeted Tylenol in 2017.

⁉️Does Tylenol cause autism – I have no clue, but maybe, just maybe, it is worth a little more "science" and investigation.

🤔Don't you think so?

It's offensive👎🏼: Why is everyone shaming the search for answers?

🧑‍🧑‍🧒There are millions of kids out there being born with autism.
- 💥There's more interest in scoring political points and demonizing RFK Jr. than in figuring out why there's an explosion in autism cases.
🎤This is what Hillary Clinton said this morning with MSNBC's "Morning Joe": "One of the biggest concerns is what we are doing in our own country to put our own people's health at risk: dismantling public health, listening to literally crackpot ideas about what's happening. … When I hear people like, you know, Kennedy and others talking about getting back to a time when we weren't vaccinating, we're drinking raw milk – yeah! And people didn't live. I mean, this is so crazy, it's so wrongheaded, it's so shortsighted, and it's going to cause deaths. We just saw two children die from whooping cough. We saw the deaths from measles."

Watch tonight 📺 – Democrats love to criticize President Trump for searching for a cause, but they have a dismal track record.

❓How many times did President Biden or President Obama or President Clinton have press conferences about autism?

Predicted/Predictable 👀

📝We are still gathering details, but once again, someone etched talking points of the Left on bullets and tried to kill those demonized by the Left – coincidence, I think not.

👍🏻Two things can be true at once.
- 🚨If you are going to carry out a shooting like the ICE shooting in Dallas or Charlie Kirk's assassination, there is something wrong with you.
- 🗣️At the same time, call ICE "the Gestapo," and it inspires crazy people – it's pretty simple.

🎤Last night, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said people need to push back on ICE agents because these agents are a result of an authoritarian government.

💭"If some guy jumped out of an unmarked car and tried to grab me. By definition, you are going to push back. These are not just authoritarian tendencies; these are authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government," said Governor Newsom.

📺Watch tonight: Kat Abughazaleh, who protested against ICE.

‼️Plus James Gagliano and Tracy Walder.

The Left's alternative universe 🌍

📺Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air last night and did exactly what we said he was going to do.

👀He played the victim.
- 👎🏼Kimmel never said sorry for making fun of someone who was shot.
  - 🤷🏼‍♂️You would think it's pretty simple to just say sorry.
    - 💸So why couldn't Kimmel, who makes roughly $15 million a year, just apologize?
      - Instead, he was the one crying on camera for being suspended for six days.
⁉️The question here is, do the Democrats really think this is a winning message?
- 🤦🏼That Kimmel is the winning message.

Watch tonight📺 – Chris Cillizza on the Chuck Schumer effect.

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