Posts on Tuesday, September 29, 2020
President Donald Trump attacked former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, during the first presidential debate on Tuesday.Biden began criticizing Trump on the issue of Russia and claimed that the president called slain American soldiers “suckers” and “losers,” reminding him that his son served in the military in Iraq.“Are you talking about Hunter?” Trump interjected.“I’m talking about my son Beau Biden,” Biden replied.Trump reminded Biden that his son Hunter got “thrown out” of the military for using cocaine and made a “fortune” in foreign countries like Russia and China,
President Donald Trump and Fox News debate moderator Chris Wallace sparred within the first ten minutes of the first presidential debate, prompting Trump to retort: “I guess I’m debating you, not him, but that’s OK, I’m not surprised.”Trump’s remark came after Wallace attacked Trump, picking up on his contender Joe Biden (D)’s accusation that the president was trying to eliminate Obamacare without having a replacement. (Tweets) Even before their exchange, Wallace repeatedly interrupted Trump to let Biden speak, with pleas of “Mr. President let him finish,” and “Please let him speak.” (Tweet) The interaction between Trump and Wallace was expected to be contentious, given Wallace’s history of criticizing the president.
Sorry for the scare title, I just want to get you ready for the headlines tomorrow.
(Snip) what will happen with Biden. Will he be jacked up on modafinil and B12 shots? Adderall? Cocaine? Ritalin? Jolt cola? Biden refused a drug test which is kind of a silly thing for a presidential debate but why not call Trump on his bluff? I think we know why, Joe is juiced. (Snip) Will he be cogent and articulate? Will Wallace push him? The bar is very low for Joe which is dangerous because as long as Biden doesn’t gaffe up or slobber on himself, the Cathedral will anoint him the
…I don’t know. Skeletor?
This is a hard one, folks. Time and again, this debate proved to me that this is a terrifying time to be alive. Two old men shouting at each other while a third old man tries to get them to stop shouting at each other? Watching this debate was a type of self-destructive behavior that I’ll be recovering from for a while, I think.
However, let’s briefly review who came out on top tonight. Winner: Trump (But Barely)
If we’re talking about a straight-up “did better than the other guy,” I think the winner is actually Trump. In terms of presentation, Trump didn’t stumble over his words near
Things may have been heated from the off between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden at the first 2020 presidential debate - but that didn't stop several eyes from turning to their incredibly chic wives, who both put on a very stylish display while supporting their spouses at the milestone event. Melania, 50, looked like she was ready to get down to business in a $3,340 figure-flattering pinstripe suit from one of her favorite designers, Dolce & Gabbana. Meanwhile Jill, 69, opted for a more classic look, donning a green silk dress that featured funky fringing detail on the front
‘I’m Not Going To Answer That Question’:
Biden Refuses To Say If He Will Pack
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Biden Refuses To Say If He Will Pack
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Joe Biden refused to say whether or not he would pack the Supreme Court when questioned during Tuesday night’s presidential debate. “Whatever the position I take, that will be the issue,” Biden said when asked if he will pack the court. “The issue is the American people should speak. You should go out and vote. You are voting now. Vote and let your senators know how strongly you feel. Vote now. Make sure you in fact let people know.”WATCH: (Video) “He’s not answering the question,” President Donald Trump responded. “I’m not going to answer that question because,” Biden said before Trump interjected, “Why wouldn’t you answer that question?”
Scott Reed, the Chamber’s longtime senior political strategist, has resigned, according to the New York Times‘ Maggie Haberman. “Scott Reed, who’s been the top political strategist at the US Chamber for years, tells me he has resigned, amid a perceived drift to the left at the Chamber on heels of nearly two dozen endorsements of House Dems,” Haberman posted online.
Sources familiar with the matter told Breitbart News that Reed’s decision to resign came after he was not allowed by executives to spend money helping vulnerable Senate Republicans in their races,
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson on Monday said the National Guard's presence in the city, where the first 2020 presidential debate is being held on Tuesday night, will help ensure the safety of its residents. Jackson introduced the Cleveland Police Department, the Secret Service, FBI and National Guard during a virtual hearing on Monday to take questions from residents about the city's plans to keep the peace.
"Even though a lot of your attention and your questions may be around the demonstration and the protests and security...this is a historical debate...and what our job is to do is to minimize all of those distractions that may occur that...would not allow
The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) declassified information indicating that former President Obama's administration knew of Russian allegations that former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was attempting to tie Trump to the Russia and distract from her email scandal before the 2016 presidential election. DNI John Ratcliffe informed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that the prior administration obtained the Russian intelligence in July of 2016, but cautioned that the intelligence community (IC) "does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication."
Ratcliffe's letter doesn't offer specifics on the intelligence but does reveal
ORLANDO, Fla. — Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida. Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involve part-time workers but they ranged from salaried employees to hourly workers, Disney officials said. Disney’s parks closed last spring as the pandemic started spreading in the U.S. The Florida parks reopened this summer, but the California parks have yet to reopen as the company awaits guidance from the state of California. In a letter
JPMorgan Chase will pay a record $920million to settle US civil and criminal charges over fake trades in precious metals and Treasury futures designed to manipulate the market, US agencies announced Tuesday. The settlement comes as the US banking giant reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department to resolve criminal fraud charges over the long-running schemes. In one of the schemes, JPMorgan traders in New York, London and Singapore between 2008 and 2016 commissioned tens of thousands of orders for gold, silver, platinum and palladium futures that were placed in order to be canceled to deceive other market participants, the Department
I’ve covered the recent interview of FBI Special Agent William Barnett and the contents of the “302” Memorandum of his interview filed by DOJ with the Court in the Flynn prosecution late on September 24, 2020.
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My third story involved whether or not what Barnett had to say caused the decision by AG Barr and US Attorney Durham to hold off on unveiling any indictments prior to the election.
I’m back now on a fourth topic (Snip) on the sense of needing to connect a few dots between the information he provides and information we already knew — namely the infamous text message between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page about the z
More Details on Biden’s Desperate Debate
Moves: Turns out It’s Even Worse Than
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Moves: Turns out It’s Even Worse Than
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As we reported, there’s currently a bit of a tussle underway over various details surrounding the debate.
The Biden team is asking for two breaks in the ninety-minute debate. But according to Fox’s Bret Baier, the Commission in charge of the debates has set it as ninety minutes without a break and the Trump team is refusing any change.
We reported that the Trump team wanted to check to make sure that there weren’t going to be any earpieces or electronic devices involved helping Joe Biden but that Biden was refusing the check. That was problematic enough.
Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler on Monday warned California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) that his plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 raises “significant questions of legality,” Breitbart reports.
In a letter sent to Newsom, Wheeler questioned how the state could add millions of electric vehicles despite having “a record of rolling blackouts.” He said it “begs the question of how you expect to run an electric car fleet that will come with significant increases in electricity demand, when you can’t even keep the lights on today.”
Newsom has yet to reply to the EPA.
A Biden Campaign operative in Texas is attempting to rig the 2020 election with the help of others in a massive ballot harvesting scheme, according to two private investigators who testified under oath that they have “video evidence, documentation and witnesses” to prove it. With the help of mass mail-in ballots, the illegal ballot harvesting operation could harvest 700,000 ballots, one Harris County Democrat operative allegedly bragged.
The investigators—a former FBI agent and former police officer—claim that Biden’s Texas Political Director Dallas Jones and his cohorts have been “hoarding mail-in and absentee ballots” and ordering operatives to them fill out for people in Harris County illegally, “including dead people, homeless people,
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo offered to send the national guard to help pick up the trash which has reportedly been piling up in New York City.“Garbage piling up, literally, people saying there is an odiferous environment because of the garbage piling up,” Cuomo said during a Tuesday press conference. “I don’t know what’s going on in New York City. If they can’t do it, I have offered to send in the National Guard to come help pick up the garbage.” (Tweet) Cuomo’s office has reportedly received an increasing number of complaints about garbage after $25 million was cut from the Sanitation Department in July due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Monday evening, Democratic Representative Tulsi Gabbard commented on the bombshell undercover video released by Project Veritas, which allegedly showed a ballot harvesting scheme in Minneapolis connected to Rep. Ilhan Omar.Gabbard said that this incident was “further evidence of the need to ban ballot harvesting” in elections to protect “our sacred right to vote.”“Congress needs to pass our bipartisan bill to ban ballot harvesting so no one can exploit our sacred right to vote,” Gabbard tweeted, later adding: “Project Veritas offers further evidence of the need to ban ballot harvesting. It’s not a partisan issue. It’s been abused to help both R & D candidates,
Rep. John Ratcliffe just declassified a bombshell letter. (Tweet/Letter in pdf)In it, he explains that Hillary Clinton was behind the Russia hoax to “stir up scandal” against Donald Trump to hurt him in the election in July 2016.
Additionally that she had apprised Barack Obama and other senior officials about the plan.
There was also a referral to the FBI to distract from her server issue.(Snip)
It has been known for a long time that Clinton and the DNC were behind the paying Fusion GPS for Christopher Steele’s work/the dossier. But this (Snip) actually links it as a formal plan referred to the Obama administration and then to the FBI.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, gave 1.5% of their income to charity in 2019, records show.
The Bidens released several years of their tax returns ahead of the first presidential debate on Tuesday, on the heels of a New York Times story on Sunday that claimed Trump had paid no net taxes in some recent years due to business losses. (The Times noted that Trump had paid millions to the U.S. Treasury but rolled that forward to future tax years. It also found no evidence of any links to Russia, as Democrats had long claimed, nor any links to other media-fueled conspiracy theories.)
Late-night host Stephen Colbert sees the writing on the wall: “Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett” is a future that the Democrats must come to terms with. Speaking on his show Monday night, the comedian who has turned his platform into a political forum, with jokes largely torching President Donald Trump, admitted Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the last Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat “is inevitable, like death.”“We’ve had some fun with Donald Trump over the years, we’ve laughed, we’ve cried. We mostly cried. But every once in a while, you get a troubling reminder that he is the president,” Colbert began.
Former Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice said on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump had “refused to understand the world that we live in, the nature of the threats we face.”She cited the coronavirus pandemic.
Rice said, “I think American voters who are focussed on our international standing have to be extraordinarily dismayed. Poll after poll shows that our allies don’t trust us, that our confidence and approval of the people is in the gutter. And, yet, more importantly, we are not seeing out of the president the leadership that we need to keep us safe. National security is about keeping the American people safe,
Okay, I know we should be expecting a somewhat functioning Joe Biden for tonight’s debate, but does this man have the stamina? It’s a 90-minute debate, and his team requested two breaks, one every 30 minutes, tonight. Why? Joe Biden has called a lid before 10 AM close to a dozen times in the past two weeks. You can’t run a country like this, Joe. And we all know this wasn’t over debate preparation; you admitted you hadn’t even started on September 23. No matter what happens, barring a stroke on the debate stage, Biden will be declared the winner, and for now, we should expect him
Joe Biden was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday by a British anti-Brexit campaigner and Labour MP who claimed the Democrat is a “calming influence” in U.S. politics.(Snip)UK newspaper the Evening Standard said the move appeared to be “timed to influence American public opinion ahead of the first presidential debate”. Bryant has a persistent track record on matters like Brexit and President Trump — indeed, in 2017 he said if the U.S. president ever set foot on British territory, he should be immediately arrested and charged with “inciting religious hatred”.
New affidavits filed in the Texas Supreme Court allege a massive illegal mail-ballot harvesting scheme is underway in Texas’ most populous county, and “elite” Democrat officials are leading the effort. Harris County has received attention over the past several weeks for its proposed plan to send mail-in ballot applications to all 2.37 million voters in the county regardless of eligibility, thereby inviting fraud and abuse into the process. New testimony suggests that may only be the tip of the iceberg. As part of a new lawsuit filed in the Texas Supreme Court against Harris County Democrat County Clerk Chris Hollins by the Harris County Republican Party,
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, joining President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin in names put forward. British lawmaker Chris Bryant, a Labour Party member of the U.K. Parliament, told the Evening Standard he put forward the Democrat on Monday. “When others have resorted to violent solutions, he has argued that the best force is the force of argument," he told the newspaper.
A member of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker’s staff has tested positive for COVID-19. The governor’s office released a statement Tuesday and said the staff member was tested last week during the office’s weekly tested and was negative.
The staff member then began experiencing symptoms and tested Monday. That test was positive. “The staffer attended events with the governor on Wednesday in Chicago, Thursday in Marion and Sunday in Marseilles. Both the governor and the staffer were wearing masks during the entirety of their interactions,” according to the statement. (Snip)This is the second time a member of Pritzker’s staff has tested positive. In May, a senior staff member tested positive
Minnesota schools, reopening amid a pandemic and a national reckoning over systemic racism, are sharpening their focus on the state’s decadeslong problems with achievement gaps and educational disparities.
Around the state, schools are adding new staff to focus on equity in classroom instruction and hiring, and approving policies that define—and disavow—racism.(Snip) Minnesota’s educational gaps are stark; the most recent statewide test scores showed that 63% of white students met proficiency standards in math, compared with 26% of Black and American Indian students. Graduation rates have ticked up in recent years, but white students are still more likely to earn a diploma than students of color.
SEATTLE — KOMO News has learned a teenager arrested for one of the fires set during recent riots on Capitol Hill is suspected of additional serious crimes.
This comes amid growing concern and frustration that people accused of serious crimes during protests aren't being held accountable.
19-year-old Jacob Greenburg faced a judge Monday after Seattle Police said he lit dumpsters on fire during the ‘Every Night Direct Demonstration’ last weekend.
Now, according to court documents, Greenburg is a, “strong suspect for another arson attack on the East Precinct,” where several people threw Molotov cocktails Sept. 1
The Trump campaign said Democrat Joseph R. Biden refused their request to have a third party inspect his ears for electronic devices prior to Tuesday night’s first presidential debate. “Joe Biden’s handlers several days ago agreed to a pre-debate inspection for electronic earpieces but today abruptly reversed themselves and declined,” said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh. He also said Mr. Biden’s handlers asked for “multiple breaks during the debate, which Mr. Trump doesn’t need. “We have rejected that request,” Mr. Murtaugh said. He accused Mr. Biden of looking for help in the highly anticipated debate, which starts in Cleveland, Ohio
The Real Cost of Wind and Solar
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The main problem with either wind or solar is that they generate electricity erratically, depending on the wind or sunshine. In contrast, a fossil-fuel plant can generate electricity predictably upon request. Blackouts are very expensive for society, so grid operators and designers go to a lot of trouble to make sure that blackouts are rare. The electrical grid should have spare capacity sufficient to meet the largest demand peaks even when some plants are out of commission. Plants in spinning reserve status stand by ready to take over if a plant trips (breaks down).
Yesterday, Joe Biden once again called a “lid” before most people in the country clock in for work. That’s become a pattern over the last month, with him taking off nearly half the days that a candidate would normally be campaigning their tail off. (Snip) Is Biden having good and bad days, as is common with those who suffer from dementia? (Snip)
But another odd aspect of all this has also emerged. Jill Biden, Joe’s wife, has essentially become the candidate. She’s doing interviews and rallies while Biden continues to hide in his basement. Is she immune from the virus or something?
President Trump on Tuesday night will confront the leader of the party currently plotting to rig the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and make sure their candidate enters the White House next year, no matter what.
Joe Biden not only is the ultimate victor in the dry run of the post-election civil war Democratic Party leaders and donors plan to launch after November 3, the former vice president is an old hand at thwarting the so-called “peaceful transfer of power” they now insist the president will frustrate.
(Snip)the fact is that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have done more to tarnish the historical precedent of ensuring the smooth transition from
“Two weeks to flatten curve.”
Remember that? It was several months ago now.
The deal elected officials struck with the American people was to trade lockdowns for hospital capacity. The fear in the early days of the COVID pandemic was that hospital capacity would be overwhelmed if we didn’t lock down, curb activity, and so forth. So we got “two weeks to flatten the curve.” New York City built a hospital into its Javits Convention Center. President Trump sent a Navy hospital ship to handle the expected caseload.
None of that capacity was needed. Way back in June, CNN declared that New York had “flattened the curve.”
The White House is set to declassify a major trove of documents that include evidence showing Russian President Vladimir Putin was actually working against then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, not ‘colluding’ with him as Democrats have long charged, a report said Tuesday.
The declassification and its potential to flip the narrative — set for this week according to multiple sources who spoke to Just The News — would come four years after the Obama-era FBI launched a counterintelligence probe over claims that people within the Trump campaign were working with Moscow to manipulate the outcome in the GOP contender’s favor.
ACB vs. ‘Know-Nothing’ Democrats
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The Democrats have essentially given up on blocking the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. This does not imply, however, that they will fail to turn her hearings into a nasty farce of smears of the nominee as an adherent to a voodoo-like religious devotion, and a passionate seeker of an America with no assisted healthcare and back-alley abortions.
The strategy mirrors the malicious fiction then-Senators Joe Biden and Teddy Kennedy threw at Robert Bork in 1987. Barrett, like Bork, is obviously a person of outstanding character and intelligence (Snip) It will not be easy for Democrats to portray such an accomplished and attractive person
Tonight's first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden takes place at 9 PM ET in Cleveland, Ohio, and you can watch our complete coverage tonight right here at Townhall.com. I'll be hosting the event along with running commentary from Kurt Schlichter and the entire Townhall Media political team.This debate is expected to be the most-watched political event in American history. Between broadcast and cable TV, radio broadcast and live streaming, over 100 million people should be tuning in to this historic event.The stakes couldn't be higher, and at the risk of piling on all the advice the president is surely getting right now,
The establishment media is all aflutter Monday after a New York Times story over the weekend about incumbent GOP President Donald Trump’s tax records, but it turns out Democrat candidate former Vice President Joe Biden used a series of tax code loopholes to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes over the years.Back in August, the Wall Street Journal’s Chris Jacobs exposed how the Biden family structured what is called an “S-Corp” to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.“How the Bidens Dodged the Payroll Tax,” was Jacobs’ headline on Aug. 10.
We need better medical elites.(Photo) Earlier on Monday CDC Director Dr. Redfield attacked Dr. Scott Atlas on a flight from Atlanta to Washington DC. Redfield was overheard by an employee of NBC News saying, “Everything he says is false.”Then on Monday afternoon quack NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci attacked Dr. Scott Atlas on CNN pushing inaccurate information.Both doctors have a record of crazy, twisted and ridiculous statements.
As more details come to light regarding the undercover operation by Project Veritas, assisted by a Somali Community “whistleblower” in Minneapolis — Omar Jamal, a community activist — the entire country is given an up-close look at how a sophisticated operation can literally create thousands of fraudulent ballots in an unsecured and unregulated “vote-by-mail” free for all.(Snip) the “security” of such a process is inherently compromised long before the ballots enter the mailing system on the return trip to election officials. Strip away the first world aspects of what is happening in the Somali community in Minneapolis, and what you see left is a third-world vote buying process that
Hackers have launched a sprawling, multifaceted cyber-attack against the state of Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The attack infested many of the state’s agencies with sophisticated malware, including one type known as Trickbot, according to the two people, who requested anonymity because they aren’t authorized to talk to the media. (snip) The cyber-attack didn’t impact the state’s election systems. Nonetheless, coming nearly a month ahead of November’s presidential election, it highlights the potential vulnerability of state computer networks, which include election systems.
Tara Lee and Mike Faulk, both of whom are spokespersons for Governor Jay Inslee, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
How's this for hypocrisy?
Democrats galore are using the story of President Trump's illegally leaked tax records as a vehicle for whipping up hate over what he paid in taxes. Trump, they claimed, unfairly paid too little while the rest of poor us paid too much.
Here they are, in full coordinated narrative:
(Snip for tweets) Which is disgusting stuff, given that Trump cut our taxes, while they're plotting to make us pay more in taxes. Hey, suckers! Look over there at Trump's taxes, so that you don't notice what we've got planned for you.
"The first thing I'd do is eliminate [President Trump's] tax cut," Biden yelled
The city of Madison collected 10,813 absentee ballots from local residents at this weekend’s Democracy in the Park event, which state Republicans tried to halt.
Despite a threat of legal action from the state GOP if the event were to take place, the Madison City Clerk’s Office forged ahead, arguing Republicans had no legal support for allegations the event constituted an “illegal collection of ballots” that “falls outside lawful categories.”
With summer 2020 finally in the rearview mirror, and after seven months of “two weeks to flatten the curve,” I’m getting a little sick of “the science.” Not science, mind you, but theee science, the thing that leftists keep assuring us exists—a singular, canonical truth we all must obey. Mind you, it sure seems like there’s not a great deal of agreement about “the science” regarding COVID: You don’t need masks/You do need masks. Hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work/Hydroxychloroquine totally works. Sunlight doesn’t help/Sunlight helps. COVID doesn’t linger in the air/COVID totally lingers in the air/COVID doesn’t linger after all.
The Nation, a storied left-wing magazine, pondered the possibility of secession in an interview published Tuesday morning.The idea has been circulating on the left over the past few weeks, as Democrats ponder the possibility of President Donald Trump being re-elected. Though many mainstream media polls show former Vice President Joe Biden with a lead, the polls have been wrong before — and Trump is running a confident, energetic campaign, while Biden is barely leaving his house. The interview, “Should the United States Stay United?“, conducted by Jessica Suriano with Richard Kreitner,
Reporters for CBS News and other outlets were sent scrambling Monday morning after an aggressive raccoon began attacking news crews outside the White House. CBS News’ Paula Reid was the first to break the news of the attack, which targeted one photographer and one correspondent. “Strong Pawnee vibes at White House this morning as a raccoon attacked multiple news crews on North Lawn,” Reid noted, referencing the fictional Indiana town central to the comedy series, “Parks & Recreation. “🦝 allegedly grabbed pant leg of a photographer & then a corespondent (sic) before being fended off.”
One of Eastern Europe’s longest frozen conflicts has exploded into a hot war in recent days, with clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh killing dozens of people and threatening to drag nearby Turkey and Russia into a direct military confrontation. While Moscow has long backed Christian Armenia and Ankara has openly supported the largely Muslim Azerbaijan, regional analysts say the situation has grown more complex and dangerous recently amid escalating Turkey-Russia tension on other fronts — from Syria to Libya and the wider Eastern Mediterranean. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has also become increasingly tied to Moscow-Ankara
The city of Cleveland set up barriers and called in the National Guard in anticipation of protests and riots ahead of the first presidential debate Tuesday evening. Donald Trump and Joe Biden are preparing to square off in Ohio, just five weeks before the election. The 90-minute debate will into six segments, selected by Fox News' Chris Wallace, who is moderating. Pictures show preparations underway in the city Monday after the mayor, Frank Jackson, urged protesters to remain peaceful. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine sent 300 members from the Ohio National Guard to the city.
The New York City Board of Elections is blaming a vendor for an egregious error on absentee ballots mailed to voters in Brooklyn that could cause their votes to be thrown out–even if they follow the rules to the letter. The reason is that the absentee ballots were sent out with return envelopes that were mismatched and bear the names and addresses of other voters so that if the person signs the envelope with their own name it won’t be counted as the signature would not match the name on the mistakenly sent return envelope.
A police investigation has been launched into the alleged ballot harvesting plot helping progressive “squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar. “ALLEGATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD BEING EVALUATED,” the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) announced on Twitter Monday, hours after President Trump called for an investigation into the “misdeeds.” “The MPD is aware of the allegations of vote harvesting. We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements,” the department said. The force added that “no further information is available at this time,” including whether the Democratic congresswoman would be involved in the initial investigation.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris mistakenly referred to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the “Notorious B.I.G.” during a Monday speech. “She was part of our culture,” Harris said. “Yes, we wear those Notorious B.I.G. t-shirts with a lot of pride, but since she passed, there are parents reminding their children that she helped their lives.” (Tweet) The California senator and running mate to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was likely attempting to refer to Ginsburg’s pop culture nickname, “The Notorious RBG,” given to her as a testament to the late justice’s tenacity and grit. Ginsburg’s daughter-in-law
The Times claims that it has obtained Trump’s individual and business tax documents going back over twenty years, a “trove” containing mountains of data. Trump denied the charges, but the left ignored him. However, an astute Twitter user noted something that others missed: While the Times wrote the report to imply that Trump paid only $750 in taxes for several years, a careful reading reveals that Trump did pay millions in taxes, plus an additional $750.
Apparently unable to come up with any alleged high school hijinks or embarrassing yearbook captions, Democrats have decided to make Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination all about Obamacare. Good luck with that.
It didn’t take long for Democrats to settle on their messaging plan for Barrett’s confirmation. If confirmed by the Senate, she will cast the deciding vote to overturn Obamacare, they say.
“It’s no mystery about what’s happening here. President Trump was trying to throw out the Affordable Care Act,” Joe “Big F-ing Deal” Biden said over the weekend. “The Republican Party has been trying to eliminate it for
Now’s her chance. When Kamala Harris was chosen as Joe Biden’s running mate back in August, she was portrayed as a younger pioneering partner who would bring new energy and followers to the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket. [Snip] given Biden’s unusually low-key political effort this time, Harris has been largely invisible. Token visits here and there. Now comes her largest opportunity — and biggest, most dangerous challenge. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Harris will be the prominent opponent of President Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee,
Bankrupt gunmaker Remington Outdoor will split up its business and sell the pieces to seven different buyers following a bankruptcy auction, court records show.
The biggest sale will go to Minnesota-based Vista Outdoor, which said it will pay $81.4 million for Remington’s brand and trademarks along with parts of its ammo and accessories business including an Arkansas ammunition factory.
Other buyers include outdoor-gear retailer Sportsman’s Warehouse, which will acquire the Tapco brand of gun parts and accessories, and Nevada-based gunmaker Franklin Armory, which is snapping up Remington’s Bushmaster rifle brand, records show
A great deal of confusion and uncertainty’:
Trump coronavirus adviser infighting
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White House Coronavirus Task Force advisers are openly disagreeing with each other, sending mixed messages about the pandemic.
Both Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, and Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in recent days, have criticized Dr. Scott Atlas, a conservative neuroradiologist from Stanford who has become the top adviser to President Trump on the coronavirus.
"Everything he says is false," Redfield said about Atlas during a phone call made in public on a commercial flight and overheard by NBC News.
For Mark Kelly, Attending Forum Hosted
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The Chinese government invited then-astronaut Mark Kelly, now an Arizona Democratic Senate candidate, to an all-expenses-paid retreat at a countryside resort in 2003. He left China five days later not only with a future spouse, former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D., Ariz.), but also with lucrative regime business contacts. Kelly attended the annual Young Leaders Forum, a five-day junket cohosted by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, which is "under the leadership of the Communist Party of China." The conference allowed Kelly an opportunity to mingle with high-profile Communist Party officials and rising stars in Chinese society. Attendees included Cui Tiankai, now Chinese ambassador to the United States; Correction*
More than a month into the new school year, it is already evident that in-person school instruction is not causing mass outbreaks of the coronavirus.
Researchers at Brown University have found extremely low levels of infection among students and teachers. To be specific, the rate of suspected and confirmed student infections is just 0.21%. (The rate of confirmed infections is one third of that.) Among teachers and staff, the infection rate is 0.51%. It appears that, thanks in part to schools’ precautions -- social distancing guidelines, improved ventilation systems, mask mandates, etc. -- one has significantly less risk of contracting COVID-19
In the greatest showdown in the history of American politics, it’s Spartacus vs. the Colonialist!
It will be a cage fight to the death. Only one gladiator will exit the ring. There will be just one survivor on the island in a sea of blood!
Finally, some good news for American popcorn farmers. Best of all: everyone watching already knows who is going to win.
SPOILER ALERT: It’s not Spartacus.
The true victor will surely be the Notorious ACB — Amy Coney Barrett, in the black robe, wearing colonial garb.
The 15-day lockdown that Americans agreed to in March to prepare hospitals for a possible influx of Wuhan virus patients has lasted for over half a year in some places. (snip) On Monday, though, a game-changer hit the scene when President Trump announced an affordable rapid test for the Wuhan virus. The new test can be self-administered and will produce a result in around 15 minutes. (snip) workplaces can open again. So can restaurants, which have been devastated by the lockdowns. With a 15 minute test, both employees and customers can quickly have their health status determined.
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron agreed under mild protest Monday night to release recordings from the grand jury proceedings into the police shooting of Breonna Taylor in Louisville and allow the grand jurors to speak about his office's presentation. Despite concerns about tainting an ongoing federal investigation or possible jury pool, Cameron said in a statement, "we will comply with the judge's order to release the recording on Wednesday. The release of the recording will also address the legal complaint filed by an anonymous grand juror."
The juror had made the rare move to request the grand jury records be unsealed earlier Monday, suggesting Cameron had not been truthful
Battle of the Preppers
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Donald Trump and Joe Biden will take center stage for the presidential debates that begin on Tuesday, but the real work will be done by a small but influential group of experts and consultants who specialize in preparing them to enter the arena. For 43 months out of every 48, these individuals live their lives as lawyers, academics, politicians, and consultants. But for five crucial months, from June through October of a presidential election year, they shift gears and become the researchers, writers, trainers, and coaches for the American gladiatorial spectacle.
In the earliest days of the presidential debates,
In light of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Democrats have gone all-in on vote-by-mail schemes, ostensibly to protect people from the virus. Yet this shift empowers nefarious criminals who subvert elections by buying and selling ballots and engaging in other forms of voter fraud. Thomas Spencer, a lawyer in the Bush v. Gore (2000) case and vice president of the Lawyers Democracy Fund, warned about the existence of a criminal “underworld” that perpetrates voter fraud.
“There’s an underworld out there that trades on ballots and forgeries,” Spencer told PJ Media in an interview Monday. “They prey on old folks or people in very poor communities.
More On Trump’s Taxes
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Steve beat me to this, I see, but here are a few additional comments on the New York Times’s felony du jour. Well, to be fair, they just aided and abetted the felony. Maybe someday that will be illegal.
First, I doubt whether anyone cares. Donald Trump has been president for four years, and if you think he has done a good job (as I do), you are hardly going to be deterred from voting for him by the fact that he hires good accountants. The people who are excited about the Times felony/scoop weren’t going to vote for him anyway.
Second, on its face the Times “expose” falls flat.
A Christian crowdfunding site has raised more than $520,000 to help cover legal fees for Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse.
The GiveSendGo site, created shortly after Rittenhouse shot three Black Lives Matter protesters in the Wisconsin city on Aug. 25, killing two, is sponsored by a group called “Friends of the Rittenhouse family,” which is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
The group set an initial goal of $500,00 but had surpassed that by Monday, with nearly $523,000 in contributions.
Chris Wallace, the moderator of the first presidential debate Tuesday night, insists he will try to remain “as invisible as possible.” That would certainly be a welcome change from his performance in the final 2016 debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. A lot of Democrats no doubt assume Wallace will go too easy on the president simply because he hosts a talking-heads show for the “conservative” Fox News network. But Wallace is not an admirer of Trump. Nor is he above gotcha questions and phony “fact checks.” It was Wallace, you will probably recall, who pompously lectured Trump as follows during that last 2016 debate:
Joseph R. Biden Jr. was frustrated as he tried last year to prepare for an unwieldy debate season that stuffed as many as 11 other Democratic rivals onto a single stage. At some mock sessions, he was flanked by “Elizabeth Warren,” played by Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, and “Bernie Sanders,” portrayed by Bob Bauer, the former White House counsel, as they peppered him with progressive lines of attack.
Mr. Biden lamented privately to advisers — and occasionally in public — that it was nearly impossible to debate with such a crowd. “If you had a debate with five other people,
A lawyer for former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok on Monday alleged that some of the notes made public in a case involving former U.S. National Security Adviser Michael Flynn may have been changed.
Strzok’s lawyer wrote a note to U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan on Monday that some of the notes made public by Flynn’s defense team include “hand-written additions” – inserted dates – that were allegedly not written by the former FBI agent, according to a Politco reporter.
In one instance, a date was said to be incorrect and would have indicated that a White House meeting occurred before it actually did.
Fires in Northern California killed three people, destroyed homes, and prompted thousands to evacuate in a state already impacted by wildfires in recent months.
Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini said three people died as a result of the Zogg Fire, which spread over 23 square miles by Monday and saw more than 1,200 people evacuated in Shasta County. The fast-moving Glass Fire in Napa County also erupted on Sunday, with the cause for both fires under investigation.
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