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Trump condemns ‘white supremacy,’ calls for mental health and gun reforms after double mass shootings By Brooke Singman Fox News August 5, 2019 President Trump to address nation on weekend’s deadly shootings; Griff Jenkins reports from Washington. President Trump called Monday for reforms at the intersection of mental health and gun laws — including so-called “red flag laws” to take guns from those deemed a public risk — in the wake of back-to-back mass shootings over the weekend that left at least 30 people dead. “Our nation is overcome with shock, horror and sorrow,” Trump said, in solemn…
Rashida Tlaib Slams Ivanka Trump Over Shootings Solidarity Message: ‘Try Checking Your Dad On His Tweets’ – news – att.net Newsweek August 5, 2019 President Donald Trump’s daughter and adviser, Ivanka Trump, is facing backlash after calling on Americans to raise their voices against “cowardly acts of hate, terror and violence” following the weekend’s deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. “As our nation mourns the senseless loss of life in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio and prays for the victims and their loved ones, we must also raise our voices in rejection of…
Confusion: Biden offers sympathy for the ‘tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan’ Fox News August 5, 2019 Former Vice President Joe Biden misstated the locations of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, while speaking to donors at a high-dollar fundraiser in San Diego on Sunday night. Biden, 76, mistakenly referred to the shootings as “the tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before,” but later corrected himself, according to a pool report. Biden seemingly confused Houston for El Paso and Michigan for Ohio when speaking to donors about…
Harvard Law prof accuses Trump of ‘terrorism,’ calls for impeachment after shootings By Ronn Blitzer Fox News August 5, 2019 Reaction from Lindsey Boylan, Democratic challenger to Rep. Jerry Nadler, and Brad Blakeman, former deputy assistant to President George W. Bush. Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe has a history of passionate opposition to President Trump and calling for his impeachment, and he continued the trend Sunday by blaming Trump for a pair of shootings that took place over the weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. Tribe first promoted discussion of impeaching Trump for inciting violent acts,…
Fox News anchor confronts Trump official over false claims that China tariffs don’t raise costs for Americans Newsweek August 5, 2019 “Look at this chart from the Trump Labor Department,” the anchor said. “The yellow line shows that the consumer price of tariffed goods has risen dramatically since the president started imposing them.” Wallace pointed out to Navarro that the Trump administration’s own reporting showed that “on a macro and a micro level that tariffs cause consumer prices to rise.” Trump has repeatedly claimed inaccurately that his tariffs on Chinese goods are being paid by businesses and exporters…
Beto O’Rourke Blames Trump for Recent Mass Murders By Eric Mack Newsmax August 5, 2019 After a spate of mass shootings this weekend, Democratic presidential primary candidate Beto O’Rourke, who is from El Paso, Texas, is pointing the finger directly at President Donald Trump. “We have to acknowledge the hatred, the open racism that we’re seeing,” O’Rourke told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “There is an environment of it in the United States. We see it on Fox News; we see it on the Internet; and we see it from our commander-in-chief. He is encouraging this. “He doesn’t…
Jihad Watch August 4, 2019 Freshman Minnesota Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar, in an apparent bid to keep a Twitter feud alive with President Trump, tweeted a photo of herself posing with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at the “Door of No Return” on the coast of Ghana. Part of a 15-member Congressional Black Caucus junket ( funded presumably by US tax dollars), they have been in Ghana to “mark ‘The Year of Return’ and the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown Virginia,” according to Pelosi. The Door of No Return, a part…
Rashida Tlaib silent on constituent targeted by BDS threats and vandalism Washington Examiner August 4, 2019 On July 23, the House voted 398-17 in favor of bipartisan House Resolution 246, condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel and noting that BDS “seeks to exclude the State of Israel and the Israeli people from the economic, cultural, and academic life of the rest of the world.” H.R. 246’s sponsor, Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Illinois, warned that those who support BDS “[understand] what they believe the movement does without fully understanding the impact of it.” Continue Reading…..
Opinion | AOC’s Criticism Of Israel And Fight For Refugees Proves She’s The Leader Young Jews Waited For By Abe Silberstein The Forward August 3, 2019 AOC can serve the same function for the American Jewish left, an eloquent non-Jewish standard-bearer for its ideas who straddles the divides. Only time will tell if this is something she seeks, but she has already unified a rather disparate group of American Jews behind her desire to challenge the strictures of discourse. The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of…
By Larry Klayman WND August 2, 2019 With the exit of former Attorney General Jeff Beauregard Sessions and the “anointment” of new Attorney General William “Bill” Barr, many conservative talk-show hosts and pundits — and one public-interest watchdog in particular, which seeks and boasts of the documents it receives from the government — were quick to promise that justice was just around the corner for the likes of former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI General Counsel James Baker, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, former FBI special agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, aka “The Lovebirds,” former deputy…