Eric Shaffer
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Eric Shaffer is the host of The Lone Conservative podcast at Lone Conservative and an intern at MRCTV. He is a Finance major at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and plans to attend law school after he graduates for criminal law.

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Eric Schaffer | July 17, 2019
On Tuesday, Jake Tapper’s "The Lead" did something which just about no one was expecting. In an effort to equate President Trump’s tweets on "The Squad" to the level of bigotry displayed by white nationalists such as Richard Spencer, Tapper’s show aired a segment which partially featured… Richard Spencer. The segment displayed a clip from an interview Sara Sidner conducted in which Spencer…
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Eric Schaffer | July 17, 2019
Twenty-two members of the notorious MS-13 gang are being brought up on charges by the Justice Department of either first-degree murder or racketeering in connection with seven murders in the Los Angeles area, according to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday. According to The Daily Caller: The indictment, which was unsealed Monday, focused on members of a Los Angeles-area subset of MS-13 known as…
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Eric Schaffer | July 17, 2019
Leana Wen, the former President of Planned Parenthood, was abruptly and surprisingly terminated by the abortion provider. “I just learned that the @PPFA Board ended my employment at a secret meeting,” Wen tweeted on Tuesday. “We were engaged in good faith negotiations about my departure based on philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood. My statement to…
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Eric Schaffer | July 16, 2019
Last month, a Minnesota city council in the state’s 5th Congressional District voted to 5-0 to stop saying the Pledge of Allegiance before council meetings in order to “create a more welcoming environment." This move was, expectedly, met with disdain. A slew of citizens were outraged, and Minnesota Republicans made sure to seize on the opportunity, using the Minnesota Senate Republicans’…
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Eric Schaffer | July 16, 2019
President Trump came under fire after tweeting on Sunday that progressive Democratic congresswomen Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib (with reference to "The Squad") should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” if they didn’t like the way the U.S. functioned, despite three of four members of "The Squad" …
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Eric Schaffer | July 15, 2019
While Joe Biden was campaigning in New Hampshire this weekend, the embattled 2020 Democratic candidate quickly found that he would not be able to escape the radical wing of his party very easily. A group of protestors approached the former Vice President at his event, demanding he “apologize for the 3 million immigrants that were deported and separated from their families under the Obama era…
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Eric Schaffer | July 15, 2019
On Friday, former ICE Director Tom Homan testified before the House Oversight Committee to discuss the crisis at the border and the alleged inhumane treatment of migrants detained in American border facilities. Of course, the hearing wasn’t without its fair share of spectacles. In moves that some are describing as political theater, various House Democrats attempted to catch Homan in…
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Eric Schaffer | July 12, 2019
Department of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, who has come under intense scrutiny in regards to a plea deal he brokered with Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 while serving as a US Attorney in Florida, resigned on Friday. "Over the last week I've seen a lot of coverage of the Department of Labor. And what I have not seen is the incredible job creation that we've seen in this economy... I do not think…
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Eric Schaffer | July 12, 2019
The Washington Post published an article this week which has received virtually no attention from the mainstream media, and there’s a clear reason why that is: It would expose the true intentions of their recent darling, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).  Saikat Chakrabarti, AOC’s chief of staff, seemingly admitted in a WaPo article published Wednesday that the freshman representative’s…