In a report on a gathering of conservative national security experts at a gathering at a private Reagan Institute retreat in Beaver Creek, Colorado, the Washington Post reports that many of those attending who might provide counsel to Donald Trump are being iced out for the crime of opposing his election in 2016. Read the rest of the story at Raw Story.
Couple receives backlash for hosting MAGA-themed wedding
A Michigan couple is facing a mix of praise and pushback on social media for hosting a wedding themed after Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan ‘Make American Great Again.’ Read the rest of the story at Fox 5, New York.
‘This wasn’t just a briefing’: Pompeo grilled CIA analysts on Russia findings
Attorney General Bill Barr has ordered an investigation into whether the CIA was correct to determine that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to boost Donald Trump during the 2016 election. But that question has already been asked and answered at the CIA’s highest levels — by Mike Pompeo, a Trump loyalist, according to three people familiar with the matter. Read the rest of the story at Politico.
Fox’s Todd Starnes Tells Rep. Ilhan Omar to Take A ‘One-Way Plane Ticket Back to Whatever Third World Hellhole You Came From’
Fox News’ Todd Starnes told Rep. Ilhan Omar and other immigrants who find America “just doesn’t meet their standards of living” to take a “one-way plane ticket back to whatever third world hellhole you came from.” Read the rest of the story at Mediaite.
Boehner Reportedly Offered Roger Ailes Secret Benghazi Info to Stop Fox News Booking Fringe Republicans
Politico’s Tim Alberta has a book coming out titled American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, and it’s already making waves in Washington (details about Paul Ryan and the behind-the-scenes account of the Trump campaign when the Access Hollywood tape dropped). Read the rest of the story at Mediaite.
Dairy Queen Employee Fired After ‘Marijuana’ Cake Mix-Up Goes Viral
On July 2, Kensli Taylor Davis shared a Facebook post with a picture of a 25th birthday cake that her mother had ordered from a Georgia Dairy Queen. The green-and-white confection featured a marijuana leaf and a stoned “My Little Pony” smoking a joint with bloodshot eyes. It was, however, supposed to be a “Moana” cake, a movie Davis loves. Read the rest of the story at HuffPost.
Border Chief Was Member Of Facebook Group That Joked About Migrant Deaths
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost early this month criticized comments by agents who were members of a secretive Facebook group that derided immigrants and posted sexist memes. Now The Intercept is reporting that Provost was also a member of the group. Read the rest of the story at HuffPost.
Prosecutors Accuse Jeffrey Epstein Of Witness Tampering
Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein attempted to pay $350,000 last fall to two potential witnesses, federal prosecutors alleged in court on Friday. Read the rest of the story at HuffPost.
Rep. Duncan Hunter Renews Islamophobic Attacks Against Rival Ammar Campa-Najjar
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is reportedly mailing letters filled with Islamophobic rhetoric about his Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, and two Muslim congresswomen to voters in his Southern California district. Read the rest of the story at HuffPost.
Nearly 400 Migrant Men Crammed Into Cages Amid ‘Horrendous’ Stench On Mike Pence Tour
Almost 400 migrant men were so severely packed into detention cages at a Texas border facility Friday that they could not lie down on the concrete floor at the same time to sleep, according to a report from a pool of reporters traveling with Vice President Mike Pence. There were no cots, mats or pillows for them to sleep on, and several men said that they had been in the cages, largely unwashed, for 40 days. Read the rest of the story at HuffPost.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Honors KKK Grand Wizard With Proclamation
Despite public outcry, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) re-signed a proclamation Thursday declaring July 13 as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in the state, honoring the Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and former Confederate general. To read the rest of the story, visit HuffPost!
Ocasio-Cortez: Detained migrants being told to ‘drink out of toilets’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday described the abysmal conditions she and other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and other House Democrats saw after visiting two immigration detention facilities in Texas, and said she’d learned that Customs and Border Patrol officers told detained women to “drink out of the toilets.” Read the story at NBC News.
Trump says there will be military tanks at his July 4th celebration
President Donald Trump said Monday that this year’s Fourth of July celebration in the nation’s capital would feature military tanks. Read the story at NBC News.
CNN Poll: Harris and Warren rise and Biden slides after first Democratic debates
Sens. Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren have made steep gains after the first Democratic presidential debate, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. shows, with former Vice President Joe Biden’s lead over the field shrinking to a narrow 5 points. Read the story at CNN.
Trump And Other Gaslighters/Narcissists Create Crises And Then Act Like They Solved Them
Gaslighters/narcissists create an enemy and crisis, then “solve” that same crisis. They then demand accolades after that crisis (that they created) has been resolved. Why do they do this? It creates support within their base. And with 2020 elections right around the corner, Trump knows the importance of manufacturing an enemy and then portraying himself as the only person who could “conquer” this manufactured enemy. Read the story at Forbes.
GOP Lawmaker: Russia Report Only ‘Reinforced the Anal Opening That I Believe Mueller to Be’
Months after the public release of the Mueller Report, former special counsel Robert Mueller finally agreed to testify before the House Judiciary and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on July 17. Although Mueller’s testimony before Congress has been routinely called for by Democrats, President Donald Trump’s Republican allies in the House appear just as eager for Mueller’s testimony as it will provide them with an opportunity to discredit the former FBI director in front of the American public. Read the story at Law & Crime.
Trump Lashes Out at New York AG’s Probe Into His Businesses: My Kids Are ‘Spending a Fortune on Lawyers’
President Donald Trump is fuming that his various business organizations are still under scrutiny. Read the story at Mediaite.
White House Slams Ivanka ‘Haters’ Who Criticized Her Appearance at G20: ‘Absolutely Pathetic’
A video encounter between Ivanka Trump and world leaders that went viral over the weekend has liberals and conservatives up in arms. Read the story at Mediaite.
Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren Clobbered Everyone at Debates By A LOT According to New Poll
California Senator Kamala Harris and Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren outclassed the competition at last week’s Democratic presidential debates by several country miles, according to a pair of new HuffPost/YouGov polls. Read the story at Mediaite.
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is fighting to LOWER your drug prices!
BIG news with the Cohen hearings this week, but like the Dems in the Cohen hearing said, we can do many things at once! Sen. Debbie Stabenow is also fighting to LOWER your prescription drug prices. Here’s what she said in a hearing about that yesterday:
“If Humira were its own company, the drug would be among the fortune 500 companies all by itself. This was a little factoid lobbed by Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. (And appears to be from this Axios story, which reports that, because of the $38,000 drug’s $18.4 billion revenue, “if Humira were a standalone company, it would be larger than many Fortune 500 conglomerates, such as General Mills, Halliburton, or Xerox.”)”
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