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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 …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump arrived at a rally in Michigan yesterday to the sound of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” – a protest song railing against inherited wealth, inequality in military service, and violent hypocrisy on the part of elected leaders. The content of “Fortunate Son” chimes awkwardly with Mr Trump’s biography, railing as it does against inherited wealth, …

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 …

CNN reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got her hair styled Monday inside a San Francisco hair salon, her office said in a statement Tuesday, an apparent violation of the city’s Covid-19 safety regulations that enraged the salon’s owner. The acknowledgment came after Fox News reported that the owner of the salon, Erica Kious, was angry that Pelosi had broken the …

Via press release from the Trump campaign: President Trump’s re-election campaign today issued the following statement regarding former Clinton White House Press Secretary Joe Lockhart’s ludicrous and reckless speculation that President Trump had a stroke: CNN should fire Joe Lockhart, a lifetime failure who thought it was a great idea for fellow loser Michael Dukakis to put on that stupid …

Religion News Service reports: Jerry Falwell Jr. the embattled president of Liberty University and one of the biggest champions of President Donald Trump, has resigned, Religion News Service has learned. His resignation came within hours of the publication of a news story that alleged he and his wife Becki had a years-long sexual relationship with a business associate. Falwell had …

Franklin Graham posts to his Facebook page: In watching some of the Democratic National Convention on television this week, it has been interesting to see the absence of God. I don’t believe America’s finest hours will be in front of us if we take God out of government and public life. It is God who set the standards we are …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump did not hide that he was closely following the third night of the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, firing off tweets in real time as former President Barack Obama and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris delivered withering criticisms of his presidency. The first of Trump’s all-caps broadsides came less than 10 minutes into his …

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 …

CNN reports: Given the crisis facing the United States Postal Service before a presidential election, the last thing John Herter expected to receive in the mail Saturday was an absentee ballot request form with President Donald Trump’s face on it. “Is this a joke?” Herter said his wife told him as she opened up the mailer to reveal a photo …

Religion News Service reports: Now, some of the images Falwell has “liked” on Instagram are raising eyebrows. Religion News Service has verified that Falwell has liked a handful of images posted on the social media platform that show young women in swimsuits in the past month. One is a photo of model Stefanie Gurzanski, who has appeared on the covers …

USA Today reports: For the second time as a Palm Beach County voter, President Donald Trump has requested a vote-by-mail ballot ahead of Florida’s primary election on Tuesday. And the president who has just spent the past few weeks excoriating mail-in voting has less than a week to cast it. The request for himself and first lady Melania Trump came …

Time Magazine reports: Rudy Giuliani insisted the U.S. would “become a banana republic” if a Joe Biden administration pursued a criminal investigation of the current president. His comments, made to former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee during a Fox News interview on Wednesday night, came despite Giuliani’s previous advocacy of a federal corruption probe into the presumptive Democratic nominee. “How unprecedented …

Politico reports: Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. said on Wednesday that he had apologized for posting a photo of him in unzipped pants and arm around a woman — but also defended the incident as a vacation “costume party” that was “just in good fun.” “I’ve apologized to everybody,” Falwell said in an interview on the Morningline show on …

Relevant Magazine reports: Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. posted — and then apparently deleted — a bizarre Instagram post in which he appeared with his shirt hiked up and his pants unzipped, standing next to a woman identified as a “friend.” The post was captured by a Houston Chronicle reporter before it was deleted. The caption says that “Lots …

Christian Post columnist John Reid writes: If you’re a Christ-follower who’s wrestling with whether to vote for Trump in 2020, I get it. I understood your plight in 2016 and I understand it now, though less-so now. I’ll admit that in 2016 I abhorred the man’s behavior and I certainly wasn’t confident that Donald Trump would be the conservative policy-pusher …

The Hill reports: President Trump’s reelection campaign is leaning into the recent controversy over Goya Foods with a slate of Spanish-language television and radio advertisements as he seeks to cut Joe Biden’s margin with Hispanic voters. The Trump campaign announced Wednesday that a television ad highlighting “Democrats’ shameful smear campaign against Goya Foods, a beloved Hispanic-owned family business” and two …

The Christian Post reports: Never Trump Republican groups are spending millions this year in a bid to sway conservative and faith-based voters in battleground states away from voting for Donald Trump in November, with one group running commercial advertisements telling Christians that Trump is “using” them. Republican Voters Against Trump, a political initiative affiliated with anti-Trump conservatives like Bill Kristol …