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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…
Freedom Watch TV July 15, 2020
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…
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…
Freedom Watch TV July 14, 2020
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…