Monthly Archives: September 2020

Giuliani: There’s No Doubt Biden Has Dementia [VIDEO]

Law & Crime reports: President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani went on Fox & Friends on Tuesday, a matter of hours ahead of the first presidential debate, and declared that there is “no doubt” Joe Biden has “dementia.” Giuliani also amplified the president’s calls for Biden to take a drug test. “The man has dementia. There’s no doubt about,” …

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Eric Trump: I’m Part Of The LGBT Community [VIDEO]

Raw Story reports: Eric Trump awkwardly described himself as a member of the LGBT community on Fox News, setting off some puzzled reactions. Media Matters researcher Bobby Lewis, who monitors “Fox & Friends” daily, flagged the exchange, which was prompted by a New York Times column about a lesbian woman who supports President Donald Trump. “The LGBT community, they are …

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France To Ban Wild Animals In Circuses, Marine Parks

The Associated Press reports: France’s environment minister has announced a gradual ban on using wild animals in traveling circuses, on keeping dolphins and killer whales in captivity in marine parks and on raising mink on fur farms. Barbara Pompili, France’s minister of ecological transition, said in a news conference Tuesday that bears, tigers, lions, elephants and other wild animals won’t …

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The Atlantic: Trump Privately Ridicules Evangelicals

McKay Coppins reports at The Atlantic: Former aides told me they’ve heard Trump ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss various faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride certain rites and doctrines held sacred by many of the Americans who constitute his base. “His view was ‘I’ve been talking to these people for years; I’ve let them stay at my hotels—they’re gonna …

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Hannity Trots Out Former WH Doc Ronny Jackson To Accuse Joe Biden Of Taking Memory Enhancing Drugs

The Daily Beast reports: Dr. Ronny Jackson, the former White House physician now running for Congress as a Trump-boosting Republican, showed up on Fox News on Monday night for the sole purpose of backing President Donald Trump’s baseless accusation that Biden is taking secret memory-enhancing drugs to assist his debate performance. After asserting that Biden is being provided “scripted questions” …

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Trump Denies “Sick” Report He Wanted Ivanka As VP

The New York Post reports: President Trump is calling reports claiming he wanted his daughter Ivanka Trump to be his 2016 running mate “ridiculous.” CNN reported about the vice president story based on earlier reporting by Bloomberg News and the Washington Post. Both publications cited information contained in a new book, “Wicked Game,” being released on Oct. 13 by Trump’s …

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Cuomo Warns Of New Lockdown As Spikes Continue

NBC New York reports: Alarmed by soaring infection rates in nearly a dozen New York ZIP codes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo felt compelled to hold a second conference call in two hours Monday to discuss the clusters and warned drastic measures may come next. Of 1,769 ZIP codes in the state, Cuomo said 10 are averaging an infection rate of about …

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DOJ Funnels Campaign Talking Points To Trump

Politico reports: The prosecution of Michael Flynn. A Senate investigation into the provenance of the Steele Dossier. The nascent federal probe of discarded absentee ballots in Pennsylvania. In recent days, the Justice Department has declassified or disclosed sensitive materials related to each of these proceedings that, on the surface, have little to do with each other. Yet within hours, President …

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Florida Police Break Up 1000-Student Party Near FSU

The Washington Post reports: A party near Florida State University’s campus drew more than 1,000 people before it was broken up by police, authorities said Monday. The party was one of several large gatherings that prompted calls to the Tallahassee Police Department over the weekend, the department said in a statement. About 700 cars were reportedly surrounding an off-campus apartment …

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Biden Camp Demands Facebook Remove Trump’s Lies

Axios reports: On the eve of the first presidential debate, the Biden campaign is pressing Facebook to remove posts by President Trump — and slamming the social media company as “the nation’s foremost propagator of disinformation about the voting process.” Why it matters: By publicly escalating the conflict, the campaign is pressing Facebook to enforce its policies against misinformation more …

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Global Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses One Million

The Associated Press reports: The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 1 million on Tuesday, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live, learn and work. The bleak milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population …

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WH Pressured CDC To Downplay Risk To Students

The New York Times reports: Top White House officials pressured the CDC this summer to play down the risk of sending children back to school, a strikingly political intervention in one of the most sensitive public health debates of the pandemic, according to documents and interviews with current and former government officials. As part of their behind-the-scenes effort, White House …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The Smoking Gun reports: The Ohio woman who recently called 911 to claim that “my pussy’s on fire” and, as a result, needed someone from the fire department to “put it out with their hose,” pleaded guilty today for her misuse of the emergency dispatch system. In a plea deal with prosecutors, Katrina Morgan, 50, copped to disorderly conduct with …

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POLL: 66% Don’t Expect Result On Election Night

Politico reports: Most voters believe they’ll have to wait past election night to find out whether President Donald Trump or Joe Biden has won the 2020 race, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. The poll found that just 20 percent of voters said that they believed the winner of the presidential election will be called on election night, while …

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Wilbur Ross To Defy Court On Ending US Census

Raw Story reports: On Monday, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross “has announced a target date of October 5, 2020 to conclude 2020 Census self-response and field data collection operations.” This comes despite an order by a federal judge on Friday directing the census to continue through October 31. The initial decision of the bureau to …

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Biden +9 Over Trump In NYT/Siena Pennsylvania Poll

The Hill reports: Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads President Trump by nine percentage points in the state of Pennsylvania, according to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Monday. Biden receives 49 percent support among likely voters in Pennsylvania while Trump receives 40 percent, roughly five weeks before the November presidential election. The survey, conducted between Friday and Sunday …

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NYC Man Charged In Machete Killing Of Grindr Date

The New York Daily News reports: A Bronx man is accused of hacking to death with a machete a man he met on a dating hook up app — and his roommate walked in on the bloody aftermath, police sources said Monday. Juan Alonso, 50, was charged Monday with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. Cops are still …

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British MP Nominates Biden For Nobel Peace Prize

Sky News reports: Joe Biden has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Labour MP Chris Bryant, Sky News can reveal. The Democratic presidential candidate now joins President Donald Trump on the list of nominees as the race for the White House enters its final stages. Mr Bryant, a member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and …

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Cohen: Trump’s “Biggest Fear” Is Tax Fraud Charges

Yahoo News reports: Michael Cohen, President Trump’s longtime former personal attorney, has a theory. He believes the president is terrified of receiving a large bill from the Internal Revenue Service. “His biggest fear is … he will end up with a massive tax bill, fraud penalties, fines, and possibly even tax fraud,” Cohen said in an interview with Yahoo News …

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Michele Bachmann Warns: Pre-Printed Ballots Could Be Smuggled In From China, Stored In Minnesota Barns

“So could you have a more perfectly framed scenario for fraud? So in this kind of scenario, it’s entirely possible that you could have ballots already filled out. In fact they could be printed in China. They could be routed through various countries so you can’t detect them. Make their way into Minnesota, be in a barn somewhere. Until after …

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