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 | August 12, 2019
After an event in Iowa hosted by the Des Moines Register on Sunday, conflict erupted between reporters and the Sanders campaign, with reports that staffers began getting overly-physical with members of the local press. According to The Washington Examiner: The confrontation erupted after members of the campaign relentlessly pushed the local journalists to make room for Sanders as he made…
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Eric Schaffer | August 12, 2019
On Monday, the Trump administration announced plans to implement a policy which would give the federal government more power in denying green cards to immigrants it deems would likely rely on federal aid and welfare programs. “The principle driving it is an old American value, and that’s self-sufficiency,” USCIS Acting-Director Ken Cuccinelli said of the “public charge” rule in an interview…
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Eric Schaffer | August 9, 2019
In a story that seems to have flown under the radar aside from a viral tweet, Baker Mayfield, the Cleveland Browns’ new star quarterback, made the day of several U.S. Army veterans. In a tweet shared by local Cleveland reporter Hayden Grove that has since gone viral with over 41,000 likes and 6,800 shares, Grove writes that Mayfield "refused" to leave the autographing session when "called…
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Eric Schaffer | August 9, 2019
On Wednesday, Mississippi was witness to the largest single-state immigration raid in U.S. history, as federal authorities raided a series of processing plants which resulted in the arrest of 680 apparent illegal immigrants.  Of the 680 brought into ICE custody, the Department of Justice asserts that 300 have already been released. According to ABC 13 News, “They also said that all of the…
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Eric Schaffer | August 8, 2019
  Amidst a constant news cycle of negativity and visceral hatred, every once in a while, people need to be reminded of each other’s humanity. That we’re, regardless of our disagreements, are fellow countrymen who, for the most part, want to see each other thrive.  These aspects are personified in the story of Finn Daly. Daly, a child with Down Syndrome and Autism, loves the American flag so…
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Eric Schaffer | August 8, 2019
After Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), brother and campaign chairman of Julián Castro, revealed the names of 44 maximum Trump donors in the city of San Antonio on Monday, it soon came out that some of those donors had also donated to, you guessed it, Julián and Joaquin. Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump — the owner of ⁦@BillMillerBarBQ⁩, owner of the ⁦@…
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Eric Schaffer | August 7, 2019
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), brother and campaign chairman of 2020 Democratic hopeful Julián Castro, tweeted the names and employers of 44 San Antonio citizens who had donated the maximum amount of money to the Trump campaign on Monday in an incident some are calling doxxing. What makes this different from the usual campaign donation reveal, however, is that the individuals Castro brought…
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Eric Schaffer | August 7, 2019
  As more elements of the left and mainstream media continue to attribute the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton to President Trump, many elements of said political persuasion continue to show how evident their Trump Derangement Syndrome (or, TDS for short) truly is. This appeared to be on clear display by NBC contributor and former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence Frank…
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Eric Schaffer | August 6, 2019
A social media outrage mob descended on Mario Lopez for exclaiming the ever so controversial opinion that three-year old kids… shouldn’t be raised as trans because, you know, they’re three. Lopez, in response, gave into the mob and apologized. "The comments I made were ignorant and insensitive, and I now have a deeper understanding of how hurtful they were," Lopez said to CNN. "I have been…
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Eric Schaffer | August 6, 2019
In the wake of two tragic mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton which have left dozens dead and more injured, emotions in the United States are raw, with many outraged at the nation’s gun laws. This has led some to embrace the ugliest and worst elements of American politics. In the wake of this outrage, dozens of left-wing protestors gathered outside of Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) Kentucky home…