Mark Kaplan

Forget @CNN’s fake Iowa “debate” on Jan 10 which will be the most boring in modern history. We’re doing a live-audience show that night in Des Moines with @Timcast instead. Won’t hold back. Here’s the backstory on CNN’s shenanigans:   - On Dec 13, CNN disgracefully cut short its own Iowa town hall with me after I correctly pointed out uncomfortable truths about Jan 6, which CNN instantly dismissed as "conspiracy theories.”   - On Dec 14, CNN then threatened my campaign on the phone with a cease-and-desist & had YouTube black out the town hall after it got 200k+ views on YouTube in a matter of hours. Yet Nikki Haley’s CNN town hall was still up after 6 months (68k total views, sad).   - Later on Dec 14, CNN notified my campaign that multiple qualifying polls, which the RNC used for each of the RNC Debates, mysteriously wouldn’t count for CNN’s fake “debate” in Iowa on January 10.   - CNN Senior Media “Reporter” Oliver Darcy wrote a newsletter that castigated his own network for "allowing [me] to infect the public with his conspiracy campaign. - CNN Commentator Van Jones said he was “literally shaking” when he heard me speak. And my rhetoric is "one step away from Nazi propaganda."   -CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper said I delivered a "soliloquy of conspiracy theories."   -CNN Anchor Pamela Brown and “Chief Investigative Correspondent” said Vivek has a "history of peddling disinformation."   -CNN Anchor Kaitlan Collins said I use a "reasonable tone" to sell sinister lies to people "who aren't paying close attention" and might think what he is saying "maybe is legitimate."   -CNN's token “conservative” Commentator Alyssa Farah Griffin said my rhetoric is "damaging to the country." – at Des Moines, IA

Harvard’s President Claudine Gay just resigned…better late than never. Back in 2006, I was one of 3 students appointed to the advisory board to select Harvard’s new President in 2007 after Larry Summers was forced to resign after his supposedly “misogynistic” comments (which were badly distorted). Back then, it was a foreordained conclusion that the next President would be a woman, no questions asked - shut up, sit down, do as you’re told. And it was a thinly veiled exercise in race & gender when they selected Claudine Gay. Here’s a radical idea for the future: select leadership based on *merit.* It’s a great approach, actually.

I pledge to withdraw from the Colorado GOP primary ballot until Trump is also allowed to be on the ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley do the same immediately - or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country.