Hypocrisy

CNN reports: Jenna Ellis has been one of President Donald Trump’s most ardent defenders since joining his campaign as a legal adviser and surrogate a year ago, but in early 2016 she was one of his toughest critics and deeply opposed his candidacy, according to a CNN KFile review of statements she made on her official Facebook page and in …

The Daily Beast reports: Prominent Trumpsters, after claiming for days that election results were fraudulent and media outlets were in no place to announce winners, celebrated a call by media outlets on Wednesday that Trump and Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan had won Alaska. The Trump campaign and GOP have made unproven accusations of ballot fraud and irregular counting in several …

Mediaite reports: Thermonuclear hypocrisy — that’s the takeaway about Fox News after Comedy Central’s The Daily Show released a brutal supercut video from 2018 that shows those high-profile hosts from that networks slamming Democrats for not conceding quickly enough. The video rewinds footage from the midterm elections two years ago and plays old remarks made by leading primetime Fox News …

ABC News reports: In her first solo campaign event of 2020, first lady Melania Trump delivered her most political speech to date in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, blasting Democrats for attempting to divide the country, she said, and defending the administration for choosing to move forward — “not backward”– in its pandemic response. She went on to slam Democrats …

The Hill reports: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who has seen a tsunami of Democratic small-dollar donations flood the South Carolina Senate race, says the sources of the massive amounts of money flowing through ActBlue and other groups need to be reviewed by policymakers. Graham says that Congress has little idea who’s behind the huge inflows of money …

The New York Times reports: The antibody cocktail for Covid-19 that President Trump touted on Wednesday afternoon was developed with cells originally derived from fetal tissue, a practice that the president had repeatedly condemned. In June 2019, the Trump administration suspended federal funding for most new scientific research involving fetal tissue derived from abortions. “Promoting the dignity of human life …

The Des Moines Register reports: U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said Monday that he will not oppose holding hearings or taking a vote on President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nomination if the proceedings move forward. “Over the years, and as recently as July, I’ve consistently said that taking up and evaluating a nominee in 2020 would be a decision for the …

Via press release from Sen. Lindsey Graham: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today sent a letter to committee Democrats regarding the recent Supreme Court vacancy. Graham wrote, “When the American people elected a Republican Senate majority in 2014, Americans did so because we committed to checking and balancing the end of President Obama’s lame duck presidency. We …

Sen. Ted Cruz writes for Fox News: Twenty years ago, I was part of the legal team that litigated Bush v. Gore and went to the Supreme Court. For thirty-six days, the country did not know who the president was going to be, and if we had had a four-four court it could have dragged on for weeks and months. …

The Hill reports: Fox News’s Chris Wallace pressed Sen. Tom Cotton on Sunday on whether there is “any hypocrisy” between the Arkansas Republican’s 2016 comments to avoid a Supreme Court justice confirmation ahead of an election and his current view to “move forward without delay.” Cotton told “Fox News Sunday” that the GOP-led Senate has a “mandate to perform our …

Sen. Lindsey Graham this afternoon tweeted out a link to a statement he made earlier this year: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said the Senate would work to confirm a Supreme Court nominee this year if a vacancy arises, saying the circumstances are different from 2016, when Republicans blocked then-President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland. Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary …

“This is the last year of a lame-duck, and if Ted Cruz or Donald Trump get to be president, they’ve all asked us not to confirm or take up a selection by president Obama. So if a vacancy occurs in their last year, of their first term, guess what, you will use their words against them. You will use their …

CNN reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed on Friday that whomever President Donald Trump nominates to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get a vote on the Senate floor, signaling a historic fight in Congress over one of the most polarizing issues in American politics. “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the …

Axios reports: Former House Foreign Affairs Committee chair Ed Royce, a Republican from California, has registered as a lobbyist for Chinese tech giant Tencent, which helps implement the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship and surveillance regime. The catch: While in office, Royce was an outspoken critic of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s human rights abuses and backed several bills targeting China. The …

Last month Glorious Leader falsely claimed Democrats had omitted “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance during the Democratic National Convention. He doubled and tripled down on those claims even after multiple outlets provided video from each night of the convention. Which brings us to today’s 9/11 commemoration event, where Trump made a halfhearted attempt to mumble along to the …

The New York Daily News reports: But HER emails. Melania Trump reportedly used a private email account to discuss official government business including hiring aides and security-sensitive schedules of visiting foreign heads of state. The first lady’s ousted former top aide made the claim as she rolls out her tell-all memoir about President Trump’s wife and her time in the …

The Independent reports: Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi lashed out at Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden in her Republican National Committee address, criticising them for nepotism moments before two of Donald Trump’s children spoke at his re-election convention. Ms Bondi was first linked to the president in 2016, when, as the Sunshine State’s top lawyer, she dropped …

Rep. Jim Jordan writes for the Cleveland Plain Dealer: You don’t have free speech when only one side is allowed to talk. You don’t have freedom when one side can be “canceled” for disagreeing with the other. In today’s world, opposing views aren’t challenged or debated, they’re censored by the left – the left that controls Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, …

The Palm Beast Post reports: The vote-by-mail ballots requested by President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were received by the Palm Beach County elections office on Monday. The ballots were dropped off in person, not sent back to Palm Beach County by mail, elections chief Wendy Sartory Link said. The ballots would be counted Tuesday, Link said. The …

The Hill reports: President Trump’s reelection campaign in a new ad is attacking presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s mental acuity, a frequent target of the president’s. The ad, timed to coincide with the virtual Democratic National Convention, contrasts footage of Biden speaking in 2015 and 2016 with clips of him seemingly losing his train of thought in 2020. “Did …