Monthly Archives: August 2019

LIVE VIDEO: Trump Visits El Paso To “Honor Victims”

The Dayton Daily News reports: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited victims today from Sunday’s mass shooting in the Oregon District. “You had God watching. I want you to know we’re with you all the way,” Trump said to one of the victims, according to Press Secretary Stephanie Graham. Media was not allowed to be with the …

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REPORT: WH Drafts Exec Order On Social Media Bias

Politico reports: The White House is circulating drafts of a proposed executive order that would address allegations of anti-conservative bias by social media companies, according to a White House official and two other people familiar with the matter — a month after President Donald Trump pledged to explore “all regulatory and legislative solutions” on the issue. None of the three …

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Corporations Advise Investors On Mass Shooting Risks

CBS News reports: When publicly listed companies disclose risks for shareholders in their filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, they typically cite business factors such as potential economic downturns, labor costs and currency fluctuations. But a new threat is starting to appear in annual earnings reports: The danger of getting shot. The Cheesecake Factory and Dave & Buster’s Entertainment …

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Trump Attacks Joe Biden On Way To Console El Paso

The Hill reports: President Trump on Wednesday bashed media coverage of a speech from former Vice President Joe Biden as he flew from Dayton, Ohio to El Paso, Texas, between meetings with first responders and survivors of the weekend’s mass shootings. Trump’s tweet came as all three major cable networks carried Biden’s speech in which the presidential candidate decried the …

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VIRAL VIDEO: Man Gains Fame As #GreenShirtGuy After Laughing Hysterically At Screaming Trump Cultists

The Hill reports: A man went viral as #GreenShirtGuy on Wednesday after a video showed him hysterically laughing at a pair of Trump supporters circulated widely online. The video has been shared thousands of times, with hundreds of users sharing the hashtag #GreenShirtGuy. The incident — and the man’s viral fame — began with a protest of an Arizona city’s …

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Student Guilty Of Attempting To Hack Trump’s Taxes

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: A Haverford College student who used a campus computer to attempt to hack into an IRS database to obtain Donald Trump’s tax returns days before the 2016 presidential election pleaded guilty Tuesday to two misdemeanor crimes in federal court. Justin Hiemstra, 22, who finished his studies in May but will not get his degree until he …

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Michael Savage: I’m Very Disappointed That Trump Attacked White Supremacy, Will Cost Him Many Votes

“I was very disappointed in the president attacking white supremacy. He is now saying everyone who is concerned about the illegal alien invasion is a white supremacist? He suddenly has joined who? He’s like Jake Tapper now, and the rest on CNN. That was a mistake, Mr. President. I am sorry. That is going to cost you thousands, if not …

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USA Today HQ Evacuated After Report Of Gunman

USA Today reports: USA TODAY’s headquarters in McLean, Virginia was being evacuated Wednesday amid a heavy police presence after police reported a man with a weapon at the suburban Washington building. Alarms sounded at the building as police squad cars converged on the scene. Law enforcement officers with rifles and body armor were patrolling the area and a helicopter hovered …

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White Nationalist Organizer Unmasked At State Dept

Just in from the Southern Poverty Law Center: A U.S. State Department official oversaw the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online, Hatewatch has determined. The official, Matthew Q. Gebert, works as a foreign affairs officer assigned to the Bureau of Energy Resources, a State Department spokesperson …

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WH To Host Roundtable On Violent Online Extremism

The Washington Post reports: The White House will host top tech companies to discuss the rise of violent online extremism on Friday, marking the Trump administration’s first major engagement on the issue days after a mass shooting in Texas left 22 people dead. The gathering will include “include senior administration officials along with representatives of a range of companies,” said …

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LIVE VIDEO: Trump Visits Dayton To “Honor Victims”

The New York Times reports: President Trump began a day set aside for healing by delivering a series of political grievances against liberals and the media, once again using Twitter on Wednesday to exhibit the divisive language that has prompted some in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, to protest his visits after horrific shootings in those cities. The White House …

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NEW JERSEY: Mayor Launches Campaign To Stop LGBT School Curriculum As “An Affront To Almighty God”

The Asbury Park Press reports: Barnegat Mayor Alfonso Cirulli launched a campaign Tuesday to fight a New Jersey law that brings an LGBT curriculum into schools and urged residents to join his fight. During the Tuesday morning meeting of the Township Committee, Cirulli, a 60-year-old former assistant principal, said it was his duty to protect residents and called the LGBT …

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Joe Biden: Trump Fans The Flames Of White Supremacy

NBC News reports: As President Donald Trump travels Wednesday to El Paso, Texas, former Vice President Joe Biden will draw a direct link between his inflammatory rhetoric on immigration and Saturday’s mass shooting in the border city, saying the president has “aligned himself with the darkest forces in the nation.” “How far is it from Trump’s saying this ‘is an …

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MONTANA: Man Fractures 13 Year-Old Boy’s Skull For Keeping His Hat On During National Anthem [VIDEO]

The Missoulian reports: A 39-year-old Superior man was jailed this weekend for allegedly assaulting a 13-year-old boy he believed, according to one witness, had disrespected the national anthem. Curt James Brockway was arrested by Mineral County Sheriff’s deputies around 11 p.m. Saturday. Montana Department of Justice records show he is registered as a violent offender. Brockway made his initial appearance …

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Minimum Fine For Man Who Burned LGBT Library Books

Iowa Public Radio reports: A northwest Iowa man who burned four LGBTQ-themed children’s library books last year was found guilty of 5th degree criminal mischief Tuesday in Sioux County District Court. Paul Dorr, 63, of Ocheyedan, who runs the Christian group “Rescue The Perishing,” was fined $65 plus a 35 percent criminal penalty surcharge and court costs during his sentencing. …

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Trump Links Dayton Shooter To Sanders And Warren

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump insinuated a direct connection between the Dayton shooter and Democratic Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday. As Trump bashed the New York Times during a new Twitter diatribe about “fake news,” he eventually moved to highlight the news that the Dayton killer’s social media profile shows he supported liberal politicians and organizations like …

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Mourning And Angry, El Paso Braces For Trump Visit

The El Paso Times reports: President Donald Trump was expected to be greeted with denunciations from some El Paso leaders when he visits Wednesday. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, along with the Border Network for Human Rights and Women’s March El Paso, plan a gathering at 12:30 p.m. in Washington Park. That’s down the street from University Medical Center, where Trump …

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Laura Ingraham: Democrats Are “Feeding Racist Hate”

“Forget persuasion. Democrats have decided to demonize and just altogether write off a huge swath of the population as just a bunch of yahoos and racists. This is a campaign of intimidation and I’m telling you it’s going to end up getting more people hurt. Now, let me show you where all this leads. Once mainstream Democrats start branding all …

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NRA Planned To Buy $6M Mansion For Wayne LaPierre

The Week reports: The National Rifle Association planned to buy a roughly $6 million mansion in the Dallas area last year for use by CEO Wayne LaPierre, with help from the NRA’s former longtime advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen, multiple people tell The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The NRA and Ackerman McQueen, locked in a bitter legal fight, …

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Tucker Carlson: White Supremacy Isn’t Real, It’s A Hoax

The Washington Post reports: On Monday, President Trump condemned white supremacy after a gunman allegedly motivated by anti-immigrant hatred killed 22 and wounded dozens more in El Paso. Trump’s statements came after many Democrats and some Republicans repudiated him for his own intolerant language used against lawmakers and immigrants. But to Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Trump’s sentiment was wholly …

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