Monthly Archives: October 2019

Kanye: I Got A $68M Tax Refund Because I Love Jesus

“As humbly as I can put it, He’s using me to show off. Last year, I made $115 million and still ended up $35 million in debt. This year, I looked up, and I just got $68 million returned to me on my tax returns. And people say, ‘Oh, don’t talk about these numbers.’ No, people need to hear someone …

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Dems Float Perjury Charges For Gordon Sondland

Politico reports: Some Democrats have begun to raise the specter that Gordon Sondland, a Republican donor who is Trump’s representative to the European Union, perjured himself during his closed-door testimony to impeachment investigators earlier this month. Sondland was careful to say in his opening statement that he did not “recall” certain incidents, rather than stating categorically that they never happened. …

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Latest Trump 2020 Swag Rips Off Disney Movie Poster

Newsweek reports: The Trump 2020 campaign is hawking a “Stop the Witch-Hunt” poster parodying the 1993 film Hocus Pocus just before Halloween. The Trump Make America Great Again Committee, the fundraising wing of his reelection campaign, is offering a t-shirt and “fine art, limited edition” poster commemorating the “Greatest Witch Hunt” in United States history this week. Just ahead of …

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Tony Perkins: Send Me Money To Stop Drag Queens

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: As a parent, I will do anything to protect my children. Won’t you? That’s why this email is so important. There is a coordinated movement to not only oppose the biblical worldview but also groom younger generations to accept dangerous ideas about gender and sexual identity. Have you seen the headlines? Public …

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Trump Attacks WH Security Official As “Never Trumper”

Politico reports: President Donald Trump launched a sustained online offensive Tuesday morning after details emerged of damaging congressional testimony by a senior White House official — retweeting numerous messages by Republican lawmakers attacking the latest developments in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. The flurry of activity on the president’s social media feed came hours before Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National …

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Predatory Payday Lenders Donate For Access To Trump

The Washington Post reports: Billing himself as one of President Trump’s top fundraisers, Michael Hodges told fellow payday lenders recently that industry contributions to the president’s reelection campaign could be leveraged to gain access to the Trump administration. “Every dollar amount, no matter how small or large it is” is important, Hodges, founder of Advance Financial, one of the country’s …

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GOP Rep Flips Out At Impeachment Question [VIDEO]

CNN reports: In contentious interviews with CNN’s Manu Raju, two House Republicans struggled to defend President Trump when pressed about whether it was okay for him to ask a foreign country to investigate the Bidens. Rep. Mark Amodei, who at first publicly supported impeachment before walking the announcement back, repeatedly refused to answer questions about the substance of Trump’s now-infamous …

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REPORT: Republicans Fear “Total Wipeout” In 2020

Mike Allen writes for Axios: A growing number of Republicans are privately warning of increasing fears of a total wipeout in 2020: House, Senate, and White House. All of this is unfolding while the economy still looks strong, and before public impeachment proceedings have officially begun. House Republicans in swing districts are retiring at a very fast pace, especially in …

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Chicago Mayor Blasts Trump’s “Ignorant Buffoonery”

The Hill reports: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) on Monday slammed President Trump’s visit to the city as “insulting, ignorant buffoonery.” Trump’s visit on Monday was his first to Chicago as president. He spoke at the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In the wide-ranging speech, he slammed the city’s crime rate and policies protecting undocumented immigrants. “Here’s a man …

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Federal Judge Revives Student Suit Against WaPo

The Washington Post reports: A federal judge reinstated part of a lawsuit against The Washington Post filed by the family of a Kentucky teenager that alleged the newspaper libeled the teen in its coverage of his encounter with a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial earlier this year. Judge William O. Bertelsman, who rejected the suit in July on …

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Cultists Suggest WH Security Official Is Spy For Ukraine

Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends reacted to the incoming congressional testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman by making a show of talking about his Ukrainian heritage. As Fox & Friends covered this, Brian Kilmeade noted that Vindman has a purple heart, but then he also noted that he’s “from the Soviet Union. He immigrated here and has an affinity to …

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Nation’s Largest Private Coal Producer Goes Bankrupt

The Columbus Dispatch reports: Murray Energy Corp., the U.S. coal giant that had pressed the Trump administration for help, has filed for bankruptcy. The largest closely held coal miner in America failed to make multiple payments to lenders this month, prompting a deal with creditors that will see them make a “stalking horse” bid under Chapter 11 bankruptcy to exchange …

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BRITAIN: Labour Backs December General Election

The Guardian reports: Jeremy Corbyn has announced that Labour is ready to back a general election now that the EU has granted a three-month Brexit delay, making a pre-Christmas poll all but certain. With the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National party preparing to support a one-line bill tabled by Boris Johnson’s government later on Tuesday, triggering an early poll, …

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Axios: Bannon Funded By Fugitive Chinese Billionaire

Axios reports: The mystery of who’s funding Steve Bannon’s work has been at least partly solved: Guo Media, a company linked to a controversial Chinese billionaire, has contracted Bannon for at least $1 million for “strategic consulting services,” according to contracts obtained by Axios. The billionaire fugitive — a man named Guo Wengui, also known as Miles Kwok — is …

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Nationals Team Owners Didn’t Want To Sit With Trump

Washington’s CBS News affiliate reports: A representative of the Lerner family, the principal owners of the Nationals, had a special request of the MLB last week: that they had no desire to be put in a position of turning down a request from the White House for President Trump to sit with Theodore Lerner, 94, the family patriarch, or any …

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Giuliani: We Congratulated Obama On “Ben Laden”

Newsweek reports: Rudy Giuliani—who was mayor of New York during the September 11 attacks—has drawn the ire and vexation of Twitter after misspelling the name of Osama Bin Laden. The 75-year-old, who is now President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, attempted to condemn Democrats over the criticism they have directed at the president and his handling of the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi …

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Security Official To Testify Trump Extorted Ukraine

The New York Times reports: A White House national security official who is a decorated Iraq war veteran plans to tell House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he heard President Trump appeal to Ukraine’s president to investigate one of his leading political rivals, a request the aide considered so damaging to American interests that he reported it to a superior. …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Playbill reports: The international hit musical Wicked plays its 6,681st Broadway performance October 28 at 7 PM at the Gershwin Theatre, surpassing Les Misérables to become the fifth longest-running production in Broadway history. This milestone takes place two nights before the musical celebrates its 16th anniversary on Broadway. The Broadway cast is currently headed by Hannah Corneau as Elphaba, Ginna …

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Collins Won’t Sponsor Anti-Impeachment Resolution

Talking Points Memo reports: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said on Monday that she won’t co-sponsor the Senate’s resolution condemning the House impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. “I have been critical of the House not holding a vote to authorize the inquiry but the House determines its own procedures,” Collins said. The Maine Republican said she hasn’t decided what her …

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Junior To Cultists: Trigger Libs By Buying Them My Book

The Hill reports: Donald Trump Jr. has launched a new website where fans can go to send a copy of his new book, “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us,” to Democratic leaders and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) in an effort to drum up interest while “having some fun and doing some trolling.” In a …

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