You won’t believe a leading candidate for president said this — or did that — but former Veep Joe Biden tells a weird tale about his days as a lifeguard, and he bite’s his wife’s finger…on the campaign stump. Did Biden’s speech writer pen the story about how kids loved to rub Joe’s hairy legs? […]
In September, President Trump told states by executive order that they can ban refugees, but as of now, not one state has taken him up on the offer. Trump capped refugee arrivals at 18,000 — down from an Obama administration high of 110,000.
Major business leader, Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment TV (BET), tells CNBC that the 2020 presidential election is Donald Trump’s to lose. No one can dominate the news cycle like Trump, and the Democratic presidential candidates have moved to far from the center to appeal to the super-majority of Black voters the Democrats require in order to win the White House, Johnson says.
On a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) the senior administration official who wrote last year’s New York Times “resistance” op-ed and 2019’s book, “A Warning”, said he won’t remain Anonymous forever. He also claims other Trump critics will speak out about the chaotic and dangerous president.
Stephen Green’s Lightning Round brings hot headlines to Bill Whittle and Scott Ott in a fast-paced week in review. As AOC gets solar plant workers fired, President Trump goes bigly after Black voters, and Democrats tear their party apart over billionaire Bloomberg trying to buy an election, while Elizabeth Warren attempts the same with other people’s money.
As Elizabeth Warren appears to fade, Bernie Sanders inches up, and Joe Biden startles everyone by continuing to draw breath, Pete Buttigieg and Tulsi Gabbard gain strength. Iowa looms around the bend, and Democrats still can’t decide if they prefer a socialist geezer, a moderate man-child, or some other intersectional mashup.
Douglas McKinnon writing at TheHill.com says the Democratic ticket that scares President Trump the most is Mayor Pete Buttigieg with Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. Two young, telegenic, military veterans, who can think on their feet and connect through the camera with apparent authenticity, even Bill Whittle thinks they’re the best pairing in the current field.
Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer gets fired. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says Spencer is out for attempting a dishonest back-channel deal with President Trump that bucked the chain of command.
Who will defend Donald Trump in his Senate trial if the House passes articles of impeachment, and how? That’s the question posed by former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal, who says Trump will face “charges almost everyone will believe are true.”
Eric Felten at RealClearInvestigations.com notes that the media protects Joe and Hunter Biden by repeatedly saying that there’s “no evidence” of corruption or influence peddling in their connections with Ukraine. What if journalists treated Donald Trump using “the Biden standard”?
President Trump said he’d “strongly consider” accepting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to testify in his own defense before Congress and “speak all the truth that he wants.”
Why do the impeachment hearings fail to convince anyone? A new NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist poll shows that the vast majority of Americans can’t imagine anything in the hearings will change their minds about President Trump’s guilt or innocence.
Amped up trouble with China, North Korea, Hong Kong and the Middle East, compete for President Trump’s attention even as he’s besieged daily with the impeachment inquiry that divides his friends and excites his enemies.
Some 40 percent of farm income now comes from a combination of trade aid (due to the China trade war), disaster assistance, farm subsidies and insurance claims, according to Axios.com. Is American food production, and thus national security, in jeopardy when so many farms derive so much income from sources other than selling food?
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, breaks shocking news about how President Trump treats a woman who works for him. In her new tell-all book, “With All Due Respect”, Haley gives an insider’s perspective on the administration, and her personal dealings with the man who’s branded as disrespectful to women…and worse.