Former Breitbart editor and style diva Milo Yiannopoulos promised to shake things up in Berkeley -- and hopefully inspire Antifa & friends to confirm every comment Trump has made about them -- with four straight days of conservative thought and luminaries. Billing the event Milo Yiannopoulos's Free Speech Week in Berkeley, all the major press reported that Steve Bannon would be joining Ann Coulter in raising hell on one of America's most liberal campuses.

UC Berkeley said as late as Friday afternoon that they are prepared to spend more than $1 million for security at the events, bringing in hundreds of police officers from around the Bay Area. Other student leaders say the event is 'off'.

Uncertainty among the Berkeley Patriot student group working with Yiannopoulos over whether to proceed with the event came a day after campus police opened a hate crime investigation into the discovery Thursday of posters around campus that named students and faculty as “terrorist supporters,” and of chalk grafitti targeting immigrants, gays and feminists. The posters were distributed by an organization run by David Horowitz, one of the Berkeley Patriot’s featured speakers. The Horowitz group says its mission is to “combat efforts of the radical left and its Islamist allies to destroy American values.”

Free Speech Week is scheduled for Sproul Plaza from Sunday through Wednesday. UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ told The San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday that the law enforcement presence would exceed the number mustered for an appearance Sept. 14 by conservative commentator Ben Shapiro.

Attorneys for the Berkeley Patriot said the group had filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming not only that the campus “has become downright physically dangerous this past year for conservative students,” and that the UC Berkeley administration has failed to protect the First Amendment rights of those students.

UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said the “exact opposite” is true. “Never in anyone’s recent memory has so much time, and money been spent to support the First Amendment rights of a student organization. Any reasonable person can see that.”

Gateway Pundit's Lucian Wintrich, founder of 'Twinks for Trump' has withdrawn from the event, saying:

"Currently – I am engaged in a long-running investigative report that is certain to disrupt the MSM propaganda wing and Globalist agenda that has been rampant in Washington, I have a forthcoming book covering the culture wars in America and how the Right can win, along with prep-work for a series of impending campus speeches for a set of college tours. The deadlines and work that needs to be completed on these projects are my current priority."

Charles Murray, who had been listed as a speaker, told the Chronicle of Higher Education that he would never agree to appear anywhere with Yiannopoulos "because he is a despicable asshole," reports Pacific Standard.

Related: Milo's Big Wing-Nut Shindig in Berkeley Turns Out to Be a Sham New York Magazine

Democratic Congressional candidate Amy McGrath, who burst into AOC's pages with a stellar opening statement about her career and Kentucky District candidacy called 'Told Me' has sent a second political volley in her campaign to unseat Republican Andy Barr, a strong supporter of President Trump.

Amy McGrath Was in an F-18 on 9/11

The gripping ad grabbed me by the throat because I watched the WTC fall in New York on 9/11. Three of the terrorists were my neighbors, living three blocks away from my Jersey City loft. I regularly walked by their small mosque, and I stood with them on the waterfront on Sept. 11, watching the burning towers fall.

Standing on a runway, Amy McGrath's 9/11 drama begins: "It was September 11th, 2001" she recalls, "the second tower of the World Trade Center had been hit. And all of us stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar were ordered to immediately report to the base." Even though she was "just out of fighter attack training" McGrath was the only one to get to her military base before the gates were closed. Amy sat in her cockpit for four long hours, ready for takeoff in an F-18 fighter jet capable of shooting down a commercial airliner.

Depending on just how many planes were high-jacked and where they were headed, Amy McGrath could have been commanded to end the flight. An order from President Bush demanding that she bring down her own fellow-Americans by bombing a commercial airliner could not be refused. American Airlnes Flight 77, had already struck the western side of the Pentagon, just outside Washington, DC.

The fourth hijacked plane, United Airlines Flight 93, was off course, headed also for DC -- very probably the White House, the Washington Monument or Congress. Very probably Flight 93 would have been Amy's target, had the passengers and crew not rushed the Al-Qaeda hijackers bringing the plane down themselves, crashing it into a field in rural Pennsylvania.

"All I could think of was, this is not what I signed up for,'" she says about her four-hour wait, but "the military answers to a chain of command." Pausing, she continues, "the power of the commander-in-chief is absolute. There are no safeguards in situations like that, or a nuclear standoff. And with this president, that is concerning."

McGrath points to congressional Republicans, each of whom, in her words, "has to make a choice. Standing up to the president may not be what they signed up for, but when the president is in solidarity with white supremacists and Nazis, those members of Congress have to stand up and tell him he's wrong."

Her opponent has failed that test, saying that Rep. Andy Barr has failed his test. "He has yet to condemn the president on anything ... It reminds of a book I've read to my kids, someone needs to be willing to say the emperor has no clothes."

"That's why I'm running for Congress against Andy Barr in Kentucky," she says.

A Risky Move?

Some in Kentucky have said that McGrath is making a risky move here, playing to a national audience with her criticism of Trump. But her second ad debut coincided with Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker's scathing criticism of President Trump.

Referring to Trump's response to the violence that came after white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., Corker said, "The President has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. He also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation. He has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great and what it is today."

Corker also warned that without that, "our nation is going to go through great peril" as he called for "radical change" at the White House.

Corker is a respected GOP voice on Capitol Hill, serving as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was said to be on the shortlist of possible running mates for Trump in 2016, before Trump chose then Indiana governor Mike Pence.

The Tennessee Republican leader also said that the president needs to reflect on his role in the country and "move beyond himself, move way beyond himself, and move to a place where daily he's waking up thinking about what's best for our nation."

The word 'authentic' was totally overused to compliment Trump and criticize Hillary in the 2016 presidential campaign. Still, Amy McGrath comes off like the real deal in both of her campaign videos. And she makes me cry, so what does that tell you!! ~ Anne

Related: She's Got Grit: Living her own courage from the F/A-18 to a bid for Congress by Shannon H. Polson