Author: Freedom Watch

Trouble ahead for Duke basketball on recruiting front By Matt Giles Ball Durham July 15, 2020 It now looks as if a key Duke basketball target will likely head elsewhere. As of Tuesday, Tennessee has officially emerged as the Crystal Ball leader for Sunrise Christian (Kan.) rising senior Kennedy Chandler, a 6-foot-1, 165-pound five-star who ranks No. 11 overall on the 247Sports 2021 Composite and No. 1 among point guards. That’s not the only sign, though, pointing to the priority prospect for the Duke basketball coaches picking the Volunteers. Also on Tuesday, Corey Evans of Rivals ranked the…

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National Review July 15, 2020 Well, it wouldn’t be the Trump era — indeed, an election year in the Trump era — if a federal judge simply accepted a lawful presidential action that Trump critics found upsetting. So it is that, Monday morning, Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the federal district court in Washington, D.C., the Obama appointee who presided over Roger Stone’s trial and imposed the 40-month sentence that President Trump commuted Friday night, has demanded that the president clarify the extent of his clemency order. Specifically, Judge Jackson has ordered the Justice Department and Stone’s counsel to…

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By Priya Elan the Guardian July 14, 2020 The model Valentina Sampaio has made history by becoming the first openly transgender model to be featured in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue. The 23-year-old Brazilian has been selected as a model for the issue that will be released on 21 July. In 2017, Sampaio became the first openly trans model to appear on the cover of Vogue Paris and in 2019, she became the first openly trans model hired by Victoria’s Secret for its Pink line. It came a year after the company’s chief marketing officer Ed Razek told Vogue that…

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Julie Banderas | Investing Media Blog Investing Media Blog July 14, 2020 Julie Banderas is an anchor for Fox. She was born in Connecticut and attended Emerson College. She joined Fox in 2008 when she replaced Laurie Dhue as an anchor on Fox Report Weekend. She hosted the show until she decided she wanted to take a weekday anchor role. She works as a Monday through Friday fill-in anchor for various Fox News shows. She was succeeded on weekends by Jon Scott. In addition to being a news anchor, both she and her husband are on the board…

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Roger Stone speaks in Fox News interview after Trump commutation By Daniel Strauss the Guardian July 14, 2020 Donald Trump’s longtime confidant Roger Stone gushed over his political allies during an interview on Fox News on Monday, his first major television appearance since the president commuted Stone’s prison sentence on Friday. Stone had been convicted of seven felony counts — including obstruction of justice, lying to Congress and witness tampering in the congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — and was sentenced to more than three years in prison. The president, in defending his…

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(Washington, D.C., July 13, 2020). Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch, and a former U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor, issued this statement on the eve of Sean Hannity’s widely promoted Fox News’ “interview” of Roger Stone tonight: “Hannity, who simply runs interference for the president, who I also support, but whom I have had to be critical from time to time for his own benefit and that of the nation, will as usual not ask any real hard hitting questions of Roger Stone this evening. Examples of the questions Hannity should ask if…

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CNBC July 13, 2020 The order was revealed after the judge in Stone’s case asked whether Trump’s clemency only dealt with Stone’s prison term, or if it also applied to the 24 months of supervised release that was part of his sentence. Stone had been sentenced in February after being convicted last fall for lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering. Those charges were brought as part of then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The charges against Stone related to his efforts during that election to get information from WikiLeaks about emails…

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White House takes aim at Fauci as he disagrees with Trump on virus By Kristen Holmes and Kaitlan Collins CNN July 13, 2020 Washington (CNN)The White House is making a concerted effort to discredit Dr. Anthony Fauci as he becomes increasingly vocal about his concerns over reopening the country amid a national surge in coronavirus cases. The moves to undercut Fauci come just days after he gave an unvarnished look at his relationship with President Donald Trump, including that they have not spoken in weeks. The tension between the two men — who are no longer speaking, CNN…

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