Jerry Falwell Jr. appears to now be gone from Liberty University, and the nature of his relationship with a Miami pool attendant-turned-business partner has been exposed. But there is still far more that we don’t know.
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All the cable news pundits have been talking about it as if its some surprising new theme, a novel take on a night laced with apocalyptic doom and sweaty aggression.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday defended President Trump’s emergency authorization of convalescent plasma therapy as treatment for COVID-19, even after Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn conceded that he had overhyped its effectiveness. Continue reading “Navarro Dismisses Criticism Of Plasma Treatment For COVID-19 As ‘Crazy Talking Point’”
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the nomination of Chad Wolf to be the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a nod of approval two weeks after a congressional watchdog determined that Wolf had not been legally appointed as acting DHS secretary.
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Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who came to Congress perhaps best known as an author of Bigfoot erotica, is sending a message condemning a less recreational conspiracy theory on his way out.
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Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.
First lady Melania Trump’s chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, said that the first lady’s speech, which is scheduled to headline the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night, would “definitely” be “very uplifting and positive.”
“We want everything to be positive and uplifting,” Grisham told MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson in an interview Tuesday. “The first lady is not known for being ominous.”
Grisham’s comments come after the Republican Party kicked off its convention Monday with an evening that was replete with ominous characterizations of President Donald Trump’s opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, as both a “socialist” and a “radical” who would sidle up to criminals while defunding the police, welcome illegal immigrants with open arms and destroy the American economy.
Campaign officials and Republican lawmakers have insisted that the RNC this week aims to portray the country in a more positive light — criticizing what some have called a “dismal” outlook and “depressing” vision of America conveyed by Democrats at their convention last week.
“I think she makes a really good case to the American people why it’s so important her husband continue on as president for the next four years,” Grisham said Tuesday.
Aside from its significance as a headliner for the evening, the first lady’s speech has drawn attention since she was previously embroiled in accusations of having plagiarized her predecessor, former first lady Michelle Obama’s words during her 2016 convention address.
Grisham assured that “every word” of Melania Trump’s speech would be “from her” and “very authentic.”
In a glaringly racist appeal to white voters, President Donald Trump has been painting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as a ruthless leader in the Democratic Party’s war on the white picket-fenced utopia of American suburbs.
And Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the wealthy couple from St. Louis who have been slapped with criminal charges for brandishing their guns at mostly Black nonviolent protesters in their neighborhood in June, were more than happy to boost Trump’s fear-mongering in their speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday night.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Tuesday morning said that he believes the country’s expanded mail-in ballots process will “prove to work out just fine.”
“I have a lot of confidence in our electoral process,” Scott told TODAY Show anchor Savannah Guthrie hours after he headlined the opening night of the Republican Party’s convention on Monday. “I’m very confident that we will have fair elections throughout this country.”
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KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The father of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his son was left paralyzed from the waist down.
Blake’s father told the Chicago Sun-Times that he was told his son was shot eight times during the Sunday evening confrontation with police, which was captured on cellphone video and led to two nights of unrest in the city between Milwaukee and Chicago.
Hours before the Republican National Convention kicked off on Monday night, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer tweeted that he had “a message” for his former boss. It appears he was referring to a series of anti-Trump ads that are set to be released as salvo as the Republican National Convention unwinds this week.
In the first video, produced by the Democratic super PAC, American Bridge 21st Century, and released Monday night, Cohen depicted Trump as a liar and a fraud, warning that as the party’s convention kicked off Trump would “stand up and blatantly lie to you.”
The people who know Donald Trump best are sounding the alarm: our country cannot survive four more years of a Trump presidency.
In our latest ad, a former member of his inner circle & "fixer" — @MichaelCohen212 — has a dire warning for us all. #RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/suPUODOdwz
— American Bridge 21st Century (@American_Bridge) August 24, 2020
In the clip, Cohen uses sharp personal testimony as fuel — saying of the President, “I’m here to tell you he can’t be trusted — and you shouldn’t believe a word he utters.”
Cohen was previously among Trump’s most loyal and trusted confidants before he was sentenced in December 2018 following conviction for federal crimes related to his work in service of Trump.
In the ad Cohen suggests the President would likely spew “talk about law and order” throughout the convention — a tactic Cohen decries as “laughable.”
“Virtually everyone who worked for his campaign has been convicted of a crime or is under indictment. Myself included,” Cohen said in the video.
Cohen is serving a three-year sentence in home confinement following his conviction for federal crimes, that included making hush payments to women who alleged having affairs with Trump. As Cohen noted in the video, he joins a growing list of former friends and allies to the President who have been charged with crimes. Most recently, former chief strategist to the Trump campaign, Steve Bannon was arrested last week on fraud charges for allegedly dipping into donations for a privately funded initiative to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“When the President gets in front of the cameras this week, remember that he thinks we are all gullible, a bunch of fools,” Cohen said, adding that in his view Trump certainly does not care about working-class Americans and families.
American Bridge 21st Century has said it will continue to push out digital and TV ads alongside the RNC this week.
