Man Abused at Age 9 by His Priest Uncle Says Catholic Church Harbors a ‘Pedophile Mafia’

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By Life Site News. A man who says his uncle, a longtime priest in the Diocese of Buffalo, sexually assaulted him when he was just nine years old has gone public with his story, displaying for the world the anguish and turmoil the incident has inflicted upon him for more than two decades.

Ryan Cooley, now age 33, made it clear in a televised interview that he never wants to see his uncle again, and that from his perspective, the Church harbors within the priesthood a “pedophile mafia.” . . .

Cooley kept the abuse he suffered at the hands of his uncle to himself for two decades before finally sharing his secret with another member of his family two years ago.

His uncle “needs something worse than prison,” asserted Cooley. He’s “a creeper,” who has “no moral compass at all. I honestly believed that he preyed on that fact that I didn’t have a father in my life.”

Siobhan O’Connor, Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone’s former assistant who famously tore back the curtain of diocesan deceit protecting its predator priests last fall, responded to Ryan Cooley’s testimony by saying, “The Fr. Art Smith case always bothered me to my core even when I didn’t know the half of it.” (Read more from “Man Abused at Age 9 by His Priest Uncle Says Church Harbors a ‘Pedophile Mafia'” HERE)

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Four in Five Vatican Priests Are Gay, Book Claims

By The Guardian. Some of the most senior clerics in the Roman Catholic church who have vociferously attacked homosexuality are themselves gay, according to a book to be published next week.

Eighty per cent of priests working at the Vatican are gay, although not necessarily sexually active, it is claimed in the book, In the Closet of the Vatican.

The 570-page book, which the French journalist and author Frédéric Martel spent four years researching, is a “startling account of corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of the Vatican”, according to its British publisher Bloomsbury.

It is being published in eight languages across 20 countries next Wednesday, coinciding with the opening day of a conference at the Vatican on sexual abuse, to which bishops from all over the world have been summoned.

Martel, a former adviser to the French government, conducted 1,500 interviews while researching the book, including with 41 cardinals, 52 bishops and monsignors, 45 papal ambassadors or diplomatic officials, 11 Swiss guards and more than 200 priests and seminarians, according to a report on the Catholic website the Tablet. (Read more from “Four in Five Vatican Priests Are Gay, Book Claims” HERE)

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Cory Booker Says the Earth ‘Can’t Sustain’ People Eating Meat. Liz Cheney Fires off Meat-Eaters’ Response in One Tweet.

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On Tuesday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) had a pointed response to Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), who is a vegetarian and was quoted saying that the earth “can’t sustain” people eating meat. Cheney tweeted, “Hey @CoryBooker I support PETA – People Eating Tasty Animals. @BeefUSA#WyomingBeefCountry.”

As The Daily Wire reported, Booker had spoken to VegNews about his belief that ”industrially produced animal agriculture” was having a deleterious environmental impact on the earth. VegNews reported:

While claiming he does not want to lecture Americans on their diets, Booker says Americans need to be nudged into fake cheese because the planet cannot sustain the “environmental impact” of the food industry. “You see the planet earth moving towards what is the Standard American Diet,” Booker said. “We’ve seen this massive increase in consumption of meat produced by the industrial animal agriculture industry.”

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Booker co-introduced the Green New Deal, which had its own problems with cows. He stated:

Climate change is a pressing and serious environmental and economic crisis that threatens the way of life for our kids and grandkids. This challenge must be met with a commitment from the federal government that is commensurate with the level of commitment we saw in this country during the original New Deal. And that’s exactly the type of determination this proposal brings. Communities of color, low income communities, indigenous communities and our family farmers are on the front lines of climate change, and I’m particularly encouraged that this blueprint addresses climate change in a way that promotes both economic and environmental justice.”

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Survey: 66% of ‘Pro-Abortion’ Americans Oppose Third-Trimester Abortions

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According to a YouGov/Americans United for Life joint survey conducted last week, even 66% of those who consider themselves “pro-choice” oppose third-trimester abortions. YouGov is a popular non-partisan polling firm, and Americans United for Life describes itself as America’s first pro-life organization. YouGov and Americans United for Life surveyed 1,145 American adults, overall. . .

The survey provides ammunition for those who have criticized the recent spate of late-term abortion legislation across numerous state legislatures as extreme and out of touch with most Americans — including even most self-described “pro-choice”-ers.

​Americans United for Life President and CEO Catherine Glenn Foster issued this statement, in response to the survey:

“This survey vividly reveals both the American people’s common-sense appreciation for the sanctity of life and the widespread horror, even among self-identified pro-choice Americans, of new laws like New York’s that effectively allow abortion up until the moment of delivery. Planned Parenthood and elected officials like Governor [Andrew] Cuomo who support abortions up to the point of birth are out of step with not only their supposed core constituents, but also our country’s essential tenets of life, liberty, and the opportunity to pursue happiness. It is our hope that the critical information brought to light here will advance the democratic process by inspiring more Americans to hold their representatives and public institutions to account.”

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Senate Has Uncovered NOTHING Linking Trump Campaign and Russia

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By NBC News. After two years and 200 interviews, the Senate Intelligence Committee is approaching the end of its investigation into the 2016 election, having uncovered no direct evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia, according to both Democrats and Republicans on the committee.

But investigators disagree along party lines when it comes to the implications of a pattern of contacts they have documented between Trump associates and Russians — contacts that occurred before, during and after Russian intelligence operatives were seeking to help Donald Trump by leaking hacked Democratic emails and attacking his opponent, Hillary Clinton, on social media.

“If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don’t have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia,” said Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in an interview with CBS News last week. . .

Sen. Mark Warner, D.-Va., ranking member of the committee, told reporters in the Capitol Tuesday that he disagrees with the way Burr characterized the evidence about collusion, but he declined to offer his own assessment.

“I’m not going to get into any conclusions I have,” he said, before adding that “there’s never been a campaign in American history … that people affiliated with the campaign had as many ties with Russia as the Trump campaign did.” (Read more from “Senate Has Uncovered NOTHING Linking Trump Campaign and Russia” HERE)

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Mueller Probe ‘Going to Get to Russian Conspiracy’

By Newsweek. Special counsel Robert Mueller will “get to Russian conspiracy” in the ongoing investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign conspired with Moscow, former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said.

Trump campaign officials “could collude, they were colluding, and all of this is so nefarious,” Kirschner said in a Tuesday interview with MSNBC’s Deadline: White House news program. “It’s not reckless, it’s not happenstance, it’s not careless,” he said.

Kirshner discussed comments made by prosecutor Andrew Weissman, which were reported by The New York Times from a hearing for Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. In a redacted transcript of the hearing, Weissmann suggested that Manafort was supposed to be the spokesperson for an allegedly Kremlin-linked plan to split Ukraine, a move that would work in Russia’s favor. Weissmann was arguing before the judge that a plea deal with Manafort should be thrown out because he had violated its terms, as he allegedly continued to have contacts with an associate linked to Russian intelligence, and had lied to investigators.

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The Democratic Party Is Being Engulfed by Anti-Semites, Alleged Rapists, and Racists

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. . .Moving on from the happenings on the Hill, we jumped across the river into Virginia, where Richmond is still a dumpster fire. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and state Attorney General Mark Herring are all engulfed in scandal. Northam and Herring wore blackface and Fairfax has been slapped with two allegations of sexual assault. No one can resign because that would mean the Republicans would take over. Fairfax has called on the FBI to investigate the claims and for due process, which is odd given that Democrats didn’t afford any of that to then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Left’s rules have been turned against them.

The Green New Deal is a total disaster, as its creators had to take down the FAQ page because it was so ridiculous, and it would cost trillions. It’s a socialist wrecking ball. Everyone knows it, and yet, virtually the entire 2020 Democratic field thus far has signed onto it. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) described it as a noble venture akin to fighting Nazism and landing on the moon.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) are both at it again. Omar has faced immense backlash after she went on another anti-Semitic rampage. This time about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The entire Democratic leadership condemned her, forcing Omar to issue a non-apology apology. And while the Left dealt with its anti-Semitism issue, President Trump and Bob O’Rourke held dueling rallies in El Paso, Texas. The president’s event was obviously the better-attended rally. (Read more from “The Democratic Party Is Being Engulfed by Anti-Semites, Alleged Rapists, and Racists” HERE)

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So-Called Protector of the First Amendment Gets a T-Shirt Banned Because It’s ‘Offensive’ to Journalists

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. . .[T]he leftist “defenders of Democracy,” who parade under the guise of journalists, seem to only want First Amendment protections for themselves. After all, to them conservative media doesn’t count and they believe anything critical of journalists who let their leftist bias get in the way of the facts should be condemned. . .

But the t-shirt is no longer being available at the retail giant. Why? A journalist demanded it be taken off the shelves.

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Bezos’ Trump-Saudi Collusion Conspiracy Theory Goes Down in Flames

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Amazon founder and Washington Post publisher Jeff Bezos has put forward a horde of what now appear to be provably false accusations and full-blown conspiracy theories surrounding President Trump and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s alleged involvement in publicizing his extramarital activities.

Last month, Bezos unexpectedly broke the news via Twitter that he and his wife of 25 years were getting divorced. Later that day, it became clear that he was pre-empting an embarrassing saga that involved the National Enquirer tabloid acquiring racy texts and photos that the billionaire executive had been sending to his mistress.

Instead of recognizing that he had conducted himself inappropriately and taking responsibility for his actions, Bezos wrote a Medium post accusing various entities of conducting an “extortion and blackmail” campaign against him.

The Amazon founder implied in his post that it was possible the National Enquirer was on a mission to destroy him due to the Washington Post’s coverage of Saudi Arabia and President Trump.

“Here’s a piece of context: My ownership of the Washington Post is a complexifier for me. It’s unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience Washington Post news coverage will wrongly conclude I am their enemy,” Bezos wrote. “President Trump is one of those people, obvious by his many tweets. Also, The Post’s essential and unrelenting coverage of the murder of its columnist Jamal Khashoggi is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles.”

The Washington Post has taken to extreme measures in publishing unrelentingly negative stories against Saudi Arabia. Following Khashoggi’s death, The Post became weaponized into an open forum for foreign governments and radical Islamist and jihadi groups opposed to Saudi Arabia’s role in the Middle East. The Post routinely falsely categorized its deceased Islamist columnist Khashoggi as a democracy advocate, a journalist, and a voice for reform, none of which is even remotely true.

“For reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve,” Bezos said in promoting the evidence-free conspiracy theory that Saudi Arabia was involved in his personal affairs.

With each day that passed, Bezos appeared to become more and more convinced that the publicizing of his extramarital affair was the result of a Trump-Saudi-National Enquirer collusion conspiracy. They were all out to get him, for a variety of reasons, he concluded.

As recently as this past weekend, a private investigator hired by Mr. Bezos was telling reporters (including individuals who work for Bezos’ Washington Post) that it was possible the Trump administration itself had “hacked” his text messages.

All three parties alleged in the Bezos conspiracy theory immediately and unequivocally rejected the idea that they were involved at all. Nonetheless, the government “hacking” and Trump-Saudi conspiracy theory set off a firestorm in the media, with unrelenting coverage on CNN and MSNBC, along with countless legacy media reporters and NeverTrump commentators parroting the completely unproven claims trotted out by the Bezos machine. Some commentators, such as CNN’s Don Lemon, even celebrated the conspiratorial allegations as a “boss move.”

But the simple truth is much less compelling.

This week, we found out that the Bezos investigation has concluded, only to report that it was his mistress’s brother who apparently leaked the text messages to the Enquirer. The AP reported Monday:

“Private investigators working for Jeff Bezos have concluded that the brother of the Amazon CEO’s mistress leaked the couple’s intimate text messages to the National Enquirer.”

And just like that, the Trump-Saudi Arabia-National Enquirer collusion conspiracy theory — akin to the evidence-free Trump-Russia conspiracy theories that have saturated the media for the past three years — has disappeared. In an attempt to redirect his embarrassing misdeeds, Jeff Bezos smeared President Trump and the government of Saudi Arabia and falsely accused them of wrongdoing.

Given how his prized pet project, the Washington Post, has covered President Trump and Saudi Arabia over the past couple of years, they certainly should not expect an apology from Bezos any time soon. (For more from the author of “Bezos’ Trump-Saudi Collusion Conspiracy Theory Goes Down in Flames” please click HERE)

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Conservatives Balk at GOP Border Deal ‘Cave’ to Keep Government Open

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After Republicans and Democrats reached an agreement in principle on border security, details of the bipartisan budget deal to keep the government open Friday have begun to surface, and conservatives are calling it a “cave.”

“We’ve had a good evening. We’ve reached an agreement in principle between us on the Homeland Security and the other six bills,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told reporters Monday night. According to The Hill, the budget deal will include $1.375 billion for physical barriers and 55 new miles of fencing, but specifically prohibits the construction of concrete wall. Democrats reportedly gave up on their demand to cap the number of ICE detention beds in the interior of the country to limit the number of illegal immigrants the Trump administration could detain and force law enforcement to focus on the worst violent criminals. But the overall cap on detention beds will drop, according to Washington Post reporter Erica Werner.

These are the tentative details, the AP reports. The deal will be officially released Tuesday after congressional aides finish writing the legislation behind closed doors. But the compromise is already meeting opposition from influential conservatives.

“Any Republican that supports this garbage compromise, you will have to explain,” Fox News host Sean Hannity said Monday on his evening program.

Other prominent conservative personalities have called the details a “cave.”

And the leaders of the conservative House Freedom Caucus are critical of the deal as well.

So what will President Trump do with this deal as he’s briefed on it today? If his Monday night rally is any indication, he may intend to go ahead to build the wall with or without Congress.

“As I was walking up to this stage, I was told, ‘Progress is being made with this committee.’ Just so you know, we’re building the wall anyway,” Trump said in El Paso, Texas.

That could mean Trump intends to use the National Emergencies Act to requisition the funding for the wall from the Defense Department. Or, as White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is pushing, the president can use an executive order to redirect funds from different government accounts toward a border wall. Both actions are likely to be challenged in court. (For more from the author of “Conservatives Balk at GOP Border Deal ‘Cave’ to Keep Government Open” please click HERE)

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‘Huge and Sophisticated’ Operation: Mexican Cartel Meth Lab Busted in Atlanta Suburb

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When you observe illegal aliens pouring over our border, guess who is coming among them? The biggest experts in trafficking, producing, and cooking the deadliest drugs for the most dangerous Mexican cartels. That is the gist of the conversation I had with Robert Murphy, special agent in charge of Atlanta’s DEA office, after his successful bust of what he called a “huge and sophisticated” meth lab run by agents of the Cartel New Generation Jalisco (CNGJ) in an affluent suburb of the Atlanta metro area.

About 72,000 people died in America in 2017 from drugs, mainly illicit drugs brought in by the Mexican cartels. But now, with meth growing in popularity among all the cartels, they are cooking it on our soil, using networks of illegal aliens brought in for that purpose. In this case, the DEA busted up a highly sophisticated meth lab run exclusively by Mexican nationals in six locations in and around the Atlanta metro area. All but one of those arrested were in the country illegally, according to Agent Murphy.

“This has been a long-term investigation,” said Murphy, who has spent 28 years in law enforcement and now runs all DEA operations in the southeast. “We knew they were in the process of making a major cook and it was going to hit the streets. We had no idea we were going to find the size and sophistication of what we found. They were taking the liquid meth that had crossed over the border in Texas and converting it back into solid meth.”

Who was doing the production and distribution?

Only one person was in the country on some sort of legal status, and they were all working for CNGJ. Mexican nationals absolutely control the entire methamphetamine smuggling process, and it’s all coming from the border – from the smuggling and the processing and the initial distribution all the way through the mid-level of trafficking. There’s a nonstop flow of illegals willing to make the trip over for the amount of money they are going to earn from the cartels.

Murphy noted that the direct shipments are controlled by CNGJ, but other indirect shipments coming from the western states often come from Sinaloa or other cartels. The entirety of the problem they are experiencing with drugs in the southeastern states is coming from across the border and being trafficked, and now even cooked, by illegal alien networks working for the cartels.

Thus, once again, we see that the drug problem is not an internal problem with health care and pain medication; it’s being driven by the open border and fueled by criminal alien networks working for the cartels because we don’t fully enforce our laws internally.

While Murphy noted that much of the marijuana and cocaine are backpacked over the border between points of entry, the meth is now coming over in liquid form, which is easier to transport in vehicles at the points of entry. The cartels then have their networks “convert the product back to a solid with the use of diesel and acetone,” as in the operation they discovered in Milton, Ga.

This was an unbelievable size lab, the screening processes, the chemicals we found, 400 pounds of finished product was seized in total. We’ve never seen anything this size and sophistication. This wasn’t a couple of guys reading about drugs on the internet; these were people who came from Mexico educated on how to do it. The cartels don’t trust some low-level people with that amount of product. They got the training in Mexico and did the same thing here and were brought here for that purpose.

These are the type of people the cartels bring into our country while the Central Americans are tying down the border agents. When I asked Murphey about the suggestion that the liquid form of drugs could not be stopped between points of entry because they come in through vehicles at the checkpoints, he laughed at the notion that this somehow takes the onus of the drug crisis away from illegal immigration.

The people coming across the border to make and distribute the drugs are coming here illegally. You can drive all the liquid meth you want here, but you still have to have the people to do it, and they are not coming across at checkpoints; they are sneaking across the border. The people who are here operating the networks are all illegal immigrants.

This is the central point missed by the media, according to Murphy. If we had border security and interior enforcement and made it so that illegals couldn’t come here or remain in the country and thrive undetected by law enforcement, the cartels would have no network to work with. Drugs can’t distribute themselves.

We are arguing about the wrong thing here. It’s not the product that matters. The product doesn’t sell itself or produce itself. It’s the people who make the cartel run, collect the cash, do the distribution, engage in violence, and run operations for the cartel. Those are what’s essential. The product is an after-fact. Without the people, the cartels have no success.

What would happen if we actually deterred illegal immigration at the border and in the interior? Murphy tells me the cartels would essentially be out of business, because “it would drive up their costs.”

What we see here in Atlanta and we know pretty much the same in the whole southeast, 100 percent of the meth trafficking is controlled by the cartels – every point, from the production in Mexico, the crossing into the U.S., the conversion for crystal meth sale here, the high level of distribution, and then the actual collection of proceeds, and then back into Mexico. Predominantly, what we arrest here is illegal aliens. Sure, you might find some Americans who would be willing to go to Mexico and work for the cartels, but it won’t be the level that they need to have the control of the U.S. market like they do now with the illegals and Mexican nationals.

Think about that: When it comes to drug arrests, the DEA is now arresting almost exclusively illegal aliens (or foreign nationals working with them) working for the Mexican cartels. Yet Congress passed almost unanimously a bill creating multiple leniencies for drug traffickers, where those leniencies will go to people like those running this meth lab for Jalisco cartel!

Thus we see that the entire drug crisis is a border and illegal immigration problem, and as such, much of what is driving the incarceration rate that the liberals complain about is also illegal immigration. Yet we treat drug trafficking as a domestic crime issue rather than chemical warfare by cartels through illegal immigration.

And that is when we even treat the drug crisis as a criminal issue at all. As I’ve noted in my year-long series on the misdiagnosis of the drug crisis, the political class has focused entirely on prescriptions as the culprit, when really it’s not pain patients who are overdosing on prescriptions at all, but kids who are getting hooked on illicit drugs peddled by the cartels. Now, if your teenager makes one mistake, he is dead without any second chance.

Murphy confirmed to me that even among illicit drugs, the two fastest-growing problems are meth and cocaine, which do the opposite of opioids and painkillers. “Our biggest threat here in the southeast by far is methamphetamine; it’s not even close. However, the other thing the media isn’t talking about [that] the DEA is seeing across the country is the unbelievable amount of cocaine seizures. The Mexicans control the distribution of cocaine as well and no longer rely completely on the Colombians for all the stages of the cocaine trafficking, which is why it’s being brought over the land border as well.”

In previous eras, cocaine was mainly trafficked by Colombian cartels by water, not over the land border. Now, everything is coming in though the Mexican cartels.

Who would have thought they’d have a diesel drug plant with hazmat chemicals right in a neighborhood full of million-dollar homes in Milton, Georgia? Sadly, it’s not just at the border, but in our neighborhoods. With the cartels in our communities, every neighborhood is a border town. “You talk about destruction of the environment? In this case they rented six really nice houses in a really expensive neighborhood and destroyed these houses and contaminated a rural neighborhood.”

“They were essentially poisoning the American people with diesel fuel and acetone,” said Murphy.

The question is, how many more people need to die before we speak the truth about the source and nature of the drug crisis? (For more from the author of “‘Huge and Sophisticated’ Operation: Mexican Cartel Meth Lab Busted in Atlanta Suburb” please click HERE)

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Photo of ‘the View’ Co-Host Joy Behar Dressed as a ‘Beautiful African Woman’ Resurfaces

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A long forgotten video clip from ABC’s “The View” resurfaced on Wednesday that showed co-host Joy Behar trying to explain a Halloween costume from when she was younger.

The clip was shared by The Wrap media editor Jon Levine. Behar was seen discussing a New York Times op-ed about the resurgence of curly hair during the show in 2016. Behar showed her colleagues and the audience a picture of herself with curly hair when she was 29 years old.

The co-hosts appeared surprised by her drastically different look. Raven-Symoné, a former co-host, asked, “Joy, are you black?”

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Behar explained that the picture was taken at a Halloween party where she dressed up as a “beautiful African woman” and stressed that it was her actual hair. . .

The video resurfaced as Democrats in Virginia face intense scrutiny over their use of blackface decades ago. On Friday, Governor Ralph Northam offered an apology after a photograph emerged on his medical school yearbook page that featured a man in blackface and another in a KKK robe. He reversed course the next day, claiming he wasn’t in that photo but did admit to wearing blackface when dressing up as Michael Jackson for a costume contest. (Read more from “Photo of ‘the View’ Co-Host Joy Behar Dressed as a ‘Beautiful African Woman’ Resurfaces” HERE)

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