NBC News reports: First lady Melania Trump appeared to express astonishment over Vogue magazine’s decision to feature Beyoncé on the cover of its September 2018 issue and to give her editorial input, according to a secretly recorded phone conversation shared with NBC News. “Anna gave the September issue of Vogue cover — complete, complete, complete, everything — to Beyoncé,” Trump, …
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CBS News reports: Pressed on whether he accepts that Kamala Harris is a qualified candidate, Jared Kushner said, “I personally have no reason to believe she’s not.” “She was born in Oakland, California,” said “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason. “Yeah,” Kushner replied. “Makes her a qualified candidate. Why didn’t the president take the opportunity to debunk that theory?” Mason …
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From the editors of Newsweek: This op-ed is being used by some as a tool to perpetuate racism and xenophobia. We apologize. The essay, by John Eastman, was intended to explore a minority legal argument about the definition of who is a “natural-born citizen” in the United States. But to many readers, the essay inevitably conveyed the ugly message that …
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From the editorial board of the New York Daily News: Kamala Harris is a California-born American citizen. There is no question about this fact, just as there is no question that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. That didn’t stop Trump from becoming the nation’s leading racist birther. Andrew Jackson, a president Trump reveres despite his strong support for slavery …
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The Hill reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) broke with President Trump on Friday by saying there is no debate over whether Sen. Kamala Harris is a U.S. citizen, remarks that came after the president encouraged a conspiracy theory that the California Democrat may not be eligible to serve as vice president because her parents are immigrants. In a pair of …
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Twitter exploded overnight after Newsweek published a birtherism attack on Sen. Kamala Harris by John Eastman, chairman of the anti-LGBTQ hate group NOM. Eastman ran unsuccessfully against Harris to be California Attorney General, losing the 2010 Republican primary. An excerpt: The fact that Senator Kamala Harris has just been named the vice presidential running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee …
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The Associated Press reports: YouTube is making clear there will be no “birtherism” on its platform during this year’s U.S. presidential election. Also banned: Election-related “deepfake” videos and anything that aims to mislead viewers about voting procedures and how to participate in the 2020 census. The Google-owned video service clarified its rules ahead of the Iowa caucuses Monday. The company …
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The Washington Post reports: Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff from Arizona who was pardoned by President Trump for criminal contempt of court and subsequently fell short in a Republican bid for a U.S. Senate seat, announced Sunday that he is seeking reelection to his old job. “On this day, August 25, 2019, after consultation and approval from my wife of …
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The Washington Post reports: In the 426-page book, Obama lays out her complicated relationship with the political world that made her famous. But her memoir is not a Washington read full of gossip and political score-settling — though she does lay bare her deep, quaking disdain for Trump, who she believes put her family’s safety at risk with his vehement …
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ABC News reports: Self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi returned to Washington, D.C., again this week for more closed-door meetings with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators, and on Friday is scheduled to make a second appearance before the federal grand jury probing Russia interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, ABC News has learned. Corsi, who until recently served as the …
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CNN reports: Controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Wednesday called former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate a “phony document” in an interview on CNN. “No doubt about it, we have the evidence, I’m not going to go into all the details, yeah, it’s a phony document,” Arpaio said on “Cuomo Primetime.” Arpaio announced Tuesday that he is running for the …
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Flake’s approval rating currently stands at 18% and he’s been backpedaling from the far-right all week. The Hill reports: Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) in an interview broadcast Sunday said he wished the Republican Party had stood up to bitherism. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd discussed Flake’s new book about conservatism and asked the Arizona senator if the …
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Via Mediaite: During last night’s broadcast of Watters’ World, the Fox News personality brought on veteran rocker Todd Rundgren to discuss Rundgren telling Trump supporters not to come to his shows because they “won’t have a good time.” Towards the end of the segment, Rundgren was pressed about his recent song ‘Tin Foil Hat’ and why Trump was wearing a …
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This morning Hair Furor is at Liberty University where he will deliver the commencement address. (Live video below.) Liberty head Jerry Falwell Jr. thought he’d promote the speech by praising Trump’s racism birtherism. The Chronicle Of Higher Education reports: Throughout their relationship, Mr. Falwell has praised Donald Trump for speaking fearlessly, even when others would say he was speaking falsely. …
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And definitely NOT to promote birtherism. Via Politico: Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said the Manhattan billionaire invited President Barack Obama’s half-brother, a Trump supporter, to the third presidential debate because the Trump campaign is “very inclusive.” “He wanted to come and we’re happy to give him a ticket,” Conway said of Malik Obama on MSNBC Wednesday hours before …
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