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Harris Faulkner Gets a Bigger Spotlight at Fox News Channel By Brian Steinberg Variety July 17, 2020 Meghan McCain says one of the biggest lessons in her TV career came when she was working alongside Harris Faulkner in the run up to the 2016 election at Fox News Channel. A viewer had slipped into her direct messages on Twitter with an unpleasant remark, and McCain, who says she is prone to react to such things, learned a different strategy from Faulkner, with whom she appeared regularly on the Fox News early-afternoon program “Outnumbered.” The advice? “You’ve got to…
AG William Barr: China has launched ‘economic blitzkrieg’ to topple US New York Post July 17, 2020 Attorney General William Barr warned on Thursday that the Chinese Communist Party has launched an “economic blitzkrieg” to topple the US from its perch as the world’s superpower, laying out the threat as the most important issue of this century and calling for the free world to join together in a “whole of society approach” against it. “How the United States responds to this challenge will have historic implications and will determine whether the United States and its liberal democratic allies…
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By Frank Bruni New York Times July 16, 2020 As the start of his prison sentence approached, Roger Stone didn’t despair. “I had prayed fervently,” the felon told Mike Allen of Axios in a phone interview a few days ago, adding that he believed that “the whole matter was in God’s hands” and that “God would provide.” “And he did,” Stone said. No, Mr. Stone. President Trump provided. That’s who commuted your sentence and set you free, which you have no business being. And this conflation of human corruption and divine intervention, of “The Apprentice” and the Almighty, has…
By Kyle Cheney POLITICO July 16, 2020 Roger Stone on Wednesday accused two top House allies of President Donald Trump of privately advocating against Trump’s decision to keep him out of prison last week. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and New York Rep. Elise Stefanik were among those who advised Trump to avoid granting Stone clemency before the election, worrying it could be bad politics for Republicans, Stone said during an appearance on a podcast hosted by fellow Trump supporter Charlie Kirk. Continue Reading…..
By Morgan Phillips Fox News July 15, 2020 North Carolina’s Asheville City Council apologized for its role in slavery and racial discrimination, voting unanimously to provide reparations in the form of community investments to help Black residents. The council voted 7-0 on Tuesday night on the measure to mitigate racial disparities. The reparations will not provide direct cash payments, as some have suggested, but will provide investments in housing, health care and career growth in Black neighborhoods. Councilwoman Shaneika Smith, who is Black, said the council had gotten emails from those “asking, ‘Why should we pay for what happened…
Biden opens up a 15-point lead over Trump in new national poll By Grace Sparks CNN July 15, 2020 (CNN)Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a 15-point lead over President Donald Trump, according to a new Quinnipiac University national poll that also spells out bad news for the President on the economy, his most important selling point for reelection. A majority of registered voters (52%) report they’ll support Biden in the general election, with 37% going for Trump, a wider margin than in Quinnipiac’s June poll, when 49% backed Biden and 41% supported Trump. An NBC/WSJ…
Poll: Biden up 13 points on Trump in Pennsylvania By Max Cohen POLITICO July 15, 2020 Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 13-point lead over President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a new poll released Wednesday shows, revealing Biden’s strength in the battleground commonwealth that Trump carried four years ago. The Monmouth University poll shows Biden with 53 percent support among Pennsylvania registered voters polled compared to Trump’s 40 percent. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania by less than a percentage point in 2016 on his way to an Electoral College victory. Continue Reading…..
Ilhan Omar’s payments to husband’s firm hit $1 million in 2020 cycle Fox News July 15, 2020 Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., continues to dish out six-figure payments to her husband’s firm, which has now received more than $1 million from her campaign this cycle. Federal Election Commission records released Tuesday afternoon show that Omar’s campaign funneled $228,384.93 last quarter to the E Street Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm run by the congresswoman’s husband, Tim Mynett. The payments, predominantly for digital and fundraising services, bring the total that Omar’s campaign has sent to Mynett’s firm to just over $1…