Emma Vigeland

Emma Vigeland

Role at the time: Co-host of The Majority Report

Statement summary

On The Majority Report, Emma Vigeland says Ilhan Omar is being persecuted by the Trump administration, faults Chuck Schumer's silence and describes the case as ICE and DHS using a national security justification to terrorize citizens and now elected officials.

“Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, has not said a damn thing about Ilhan Omar being persecuted by the Trump administration. This entirely like ICE and DHS operating outside of the traditional legal system and bringing in a national security justification to terrorize citizens and now elected officials.”

Emma Vigeland

Role at the time: Co-host of The Majority Report, on her X account

Statement summary

Emma Vigeland supports the Mamdani and Menin deal to end New York City's horse-carriage industry, saying the carriages are cruel and abolition is past due, while calling for a soft landing for drivers.

“I know Mamdani is bucking the union here, and there should be efforts to give these drivers a soft landing, but these carriages are unfathomably cruel (many horses have died!) and its abolition is past due.”

Emma Vigeland

Role at the time: Co-host of The Majority Report, on her X account

Statement summary

Emma Vigeland says the action against Rep. Ilhan Omar is not an investigation but a racist, lawless vendetta, and that Democrats who legitimize it are complicit in an effort to denaturalize her.

“Any Democrat using language that legitimizes Trump's persecution of Rep. Omar is complicit in his effort to denaturalize an elected official and silence her criticisms of him. It's not an "investigation." It's a racist, lawless vendetta against a Black, Muslim, immigrant woman.”

Emma Vigeland

Role at the time: Co-host of The Majority Report, on her X account

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Emma Vigeland says Darializa Avila Chevalier was shoved to the ground by Jessica Tisch's NYPD while protesting and calls it infuriating and unacceptable.

“Future Congresswoman Darializa Avila Chevalier was just shoved to the ground by Jessica Tisch's NYPD while fighting for New Yorkers. Infuriating and unacceptable. The ICE activity in her district doesn't feel like a coincidence, either. She is in the fascists' crosshairs.”

Emma Vigeland

Role at the time: Co-host of The Majority Report

Statement summary

On The Majority Report, Emma Vigeland says Angie Nixon is not getting the support she should from national Democrats and accuses establishment Democrats of abandoning left-wing candidates or subverting their campaigns to appeal to donors.

“Angie Nixon is not getting the requisite support from the National Democrats that she should. And so, like, even in the general elections, these freaks, these like loser Democrats are either abandoning candidates that are on the left or trying to subvert the most effective parts of their campaign in order to appeal to a donor base.”

Emma Vigeland

Role at the time: Co-host of The Majority Report, a guest on The Bitchuation Room

Statement summary

Asked by host Francesca Fiorentini for her thoughts on the MS NOW interview of Hasan Piker, Emma Vigeland said MS NOW host Symone Sanders “didn’t listen to anything that he said,” responded to something “completely disconnected from the point he was making,” and that she was “shocked at how poor of an interviewer she is.” Vigeland said the “AIPAC-aligned, wealthy, billionaire-aligned Democrats” have “hours and hours of footage” of him “sometimes saying edgy or inflammatory things by their own conservative standards,” and “feel like this is a figure that we can define.” When they ask why he campaigns for candidates “if you’re so politically toxic,” she said, they ignore that “this coordinated campaign against him” is what could make him toxic.

“I mean, she didn’t listen to anything that he said. What she responded to was completely disconnected from the point he was making. I’m shocked at how poor of an interviewer she is and listener, if she was listening at all.” … “They feel like they have hours and hours of footage of [Hasan] sometimes saying edgy or inflammatory things by their own conservative standards, and they feel like this is a figure that we can define. And so when they act like, why are you going out there to campaign for candidates if you’re so politically toxic, as if this coordinated campaign against him wasn’t what would potentially make him politically toxic.”

Emma Vigeland

Role at the time: Co-host of The Majority Report, on her X account

Statement summary

Emma Vigeland recounts that Rudy Giuliani said he would be offended if Mamdani attended the 9/11 ceremony, notes the records Mamdani released, and calls his handshake with Giuliani at the ceremony masterful.

“To recap: 1) Giuliani went on a racist rant about Muslims and said he'd be "offended" if Mamdani attended the 9/11 ceremony 2) Mamdani released thousands of documents on 9/11 air quality that implicate Giuliani 3) Mamdani shakes his hand with a smile at the ceremony Masterful.”

Emma Vigeland

Role at the time: Co-host of The Majority Report, on her X account

Statement summary

Emma Vigeland says Netanyahu stalled 2023 talks with Hamas, that Sinwar then cut off the talks, and that Netanyahu brushed off what she says was a United Arab Emirates warning of an imminent Hamas attack.

“In 2023, Hamas and Israel were discussing lifting the Gaza blockade and prisoner exchanges, but as they neared a deal, Netanyahu changed the terms and stalled. Sinwar cut off talks in September. Weeks later, the UAE warned of an imminent Hamas attack. Netanyahu brushed it off.”