{"id":1704027,"date":"2022-10-20T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704027"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:50:39","slug":"barnes-praises-khamenei-hopes-to-be-dennis-rodman-of-the-assad-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barnes-praises-khamenei-hopes-to-be-dennis-rodman-of-the-assad-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes Praises Khamenei, Hopes to Be \u2018Dennis Rodman\u2019 of the Assad Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarnes-praises-khamenei-hopes-to-be-dennis-rodman-of-the-assad-regime%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704027&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Wisconsin Dem took to social media to celebrate world&#8217;s most notorious dictators<\/p>\n<p>    Mandela Barnes   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 October 19, 2022 11:45 am  <\/p>\n<p>Mandela Barnes, the Democratic Senate candidate in Wisconsin, praised Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei for supporting Black Lives Matter, said he wanted to be the &#8220;Dennis Rodman&#8221; of the Assad regime, and used his Twitter account to defend some of the world\u2019s most notorious dictators and repressive regimes.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 1, 2015, Barnes applauded a Twitter post by Khamenei that slammed the U.S. government over slavery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issue of US govt oppression against blacks is a 100s year-old issue,&#8221; wrote Khamenei, adding the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes &#8220;liked&#8221; Khamenei\u2019s post on Twitter and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/550588804935864321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">responded<\/a> to the Iranian leader: &#8220;The first tweet of 2015 from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/khamenei_ir\">@khamenei_ir<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlackLivesMatter?src=hashtag_click\">#BlackLivesMatter<\/a>. Let that sink in. May This be a most wonderful year for you and yours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes\u2019s social media posts could raise questions about the candidate\u2019s willingness to align himself with anti-American and undemocratic leaders. The news comes as Barnes, the Wisconsin lieutenant governor and former state legislator, has faced <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/mandela-barnes-joins-russian-state-tv-alongside-white-nationalist-richard-spencer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticism<\/a> over his repeated appearances on RT, a Russian state-run news network that the U.S. State Department has described as &#8220;propaganda support for the Kremlin&#8217;s foreign policy objectives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes also wrote several posts opposing any U.S. effort to oust Syrian president\u00a0Bashar al-Assad in 2013, while the embattled dictator was massacring his own people and using chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to pull a Rodman next. I should have hopped that fence to Syria when I had the chance,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/321814310156398592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Barnes on April 9, 2013, a few weeks after Assad\u2019s regime carried out a deadly Sarin gas attack against its opposition.<\/p>\n<p>He also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/345886314190749696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposed<\/a> efforts by the United States to aid the Syrian opposition after Assad\u2019s use of chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seeing school administrators plead for more state aid, but seeing that our country is able to send weapons to Syria makes me more anti war,&#8221; wrote Barnes in June 2013.<\/p>\n<p>After the Obama administration opened up diplomatic relations with Cuba in 2014, Barnes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/545268607543148545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> that he wanted to work at the &#8220;embassy in Cuba&#8221; and asked &#8220;where would one apply for such an opportunity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Barnes also appeared to criticize the removal of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOtherMandela\/status\/688928700847525888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writing<\/a> in 2016 that &#8220;when you drop cookies, you get crumbs everywhere. Then you gotta get a vacuum, and that&#8217;s what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandela Barnes, the Democratic Senate candidate in Wisconsin, praised Iran\u2019s supreme leader Ali Khamenei for supporting Black Lives Matter, said he wanted to be the &#8220;Dennis Rodman&#8221; of the Assad regime, and used his Twitter account to defend some of the world\u2019s most notorious dictators and repressive governments.<br \/>\nThe post Barnes Praises Khamenei, Hopes to Be \u2018Dennis Rodman\u2019 of the Assad Regime appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1704031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}