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Ric Grenell Hits Senator Mark Warner With Sunlight Hammer as He Exits Role as DNI….

Oh my, acting DNI Ric Grenell was/is buckets of brutally honest awesome.

In a departing letter to SSCI Vice-Chair Mark Warner, Grenell responds to a Warner inquiry demanding justification for his blitz of sunlight and naming of unmaskers.

Specifically pointing to the release of names that unmasked Trump administration officials Grenell notes “the decision to declassify the names of individuals who sough to unmask the identity of General Flynn poses absolutely no risk of compromise of either sources or methods.” Grenell also tells Warner, “cherry picking certain documents for release while attacking the release of others that don’t fit your political narrative is part of the problem the American people have with Washington DC politicians.”

Jindal: Dems 'Willing to Crush the American Economy' to Beat Trump

He also slammed Democrats for their push to use the pandemic to "transform" the United States with their agenda, bringing up the $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill that the House recently passed.

The bill, with its focus on spending, gives states incentives to keep their economies closed, Jindal added.

“What you’re seeing is states like California saying we’re going to give millions of dollars to illegal immigrants," Jindal said. "You’re seeing states like Illinois saying we want $10 billion to bail out our pensions, programs that had problems even before the coronavirus."

Meanwhile, states run by Democrats are reopening more slowly than states run by Republicans, Jindal said.

"[They] represent something like a third of the U.S. economy. This means a slower recovery for those states and the U.S." said Jindal. "It’s been nearly 10 weeks since the Democratic governors of California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois ordered all businesses in their states to shut down save those they deemed essential. Job losses in these states have been especially severe because of their strict lockdowns."

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Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact check for the first time

The action comes after years of criticism that social media companies have allowed the president
to push misinformation unchecked

Twitter on Tuesday slapped a fact-check label on President Trump’s tweets for the first time, a response
to long-standing criticism that the company is too hands-off when it comes to policing misinformation
and falsehoods from world leaders.

The move, which escalates tensions between Washington and Silicon Valley in an election year, was made
in response to two Trump tweets over the past 24 hours. The tweets falsely claimed that mail-in ballots
are fraudulent. Twitter’s label says, “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” and redirects users to news
articles about Trump’s unsubstantiated claim.




The tweets, said Twitter spokesperson Katie Rosborough, “contain potentially misleading information
about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots.”

Twitter’s actions come on a day when Twitter was facing a barrage of criticism over another set of
Trump tweets. Earlier on Tuesday the widower of a former staffer to Joe Scarborough asked Twitter
chief executive officer Jack Dorsey to delete tweets by President Trump furthering a baseless conspiracy
theory about the staffer’s wife’s death.

Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact check for the first time

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Politico, Dems warn: Trump will undermine election results in a loss, you know

Sometimes, there just are no words. It’s as if the entire Russia-collusion hoax simply vanished into thin air, at least at Politico. Is this simply the greatest case of projection ever — and not just from Democrats, but also the media?

Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for Trump’s reelection effort, called any discussion about the president’s unwillingness to leave office if defeated “baseless, ridiculous conspiracy talk and they should go see [Democrats] Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams because they actually have openly questioned their own election results.”

Abrams is the poster woman for delegitimizing election results, and Democrats want her for Joe Biden’s running mate. This, by the way, is the only mention Siders makes of Abrams in a lengthy screed about not accepting election results, even though that is literally her main claim to fame. It’s a journalistic absurdity, as is this entire piece and the attempt to inflate yet another conspiracy theory from the Left after the collapse of Russiagate and everything else.

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Twitter 'Un-Verifies' Journalist One Hour After He Tweets About Obama Spying On Journalists

August Takala @AugustTakala

I tweeted this column about the Obama administration spying on journalists at 5:47 Thursday.

Around an hour later, my verification badge magically disappeared.

Politico: Democrats are worried the economy is going to recover before the election

Earlier today Ed wrote about a concern that has spread among Democrats for several months that President Trump is gearing up to dispute the results of the 2020 election in the case that he loses. But Democrats have another fear that is worrying them according to a story published today at Politico. They worry that Trump might win the election thanks to a quick rebound of the economy.


The person stirring up that concern is Harvard professor Jason Furman who has been arguing since at least April that once the stay-at-home orders are lifted the economy will boom:

Former CBS News President Confirms Most Cable News Hates You, Trump Supporters

To many journalists, objectivity, balance and fairness—once the gold standard of reporting—are not mandatory in a divided political era and in a country they believe to be severely flawed. That assumption folds neatly into their assessment of the president. To the journalists, including more than a few Republicans, he is a blatant vulgarian, an incessant prevaricator, and a dangerous leader who should be ousted next January, if not sooner. Much of journalism has become the clarion voice of the “resistance,” dedicated to ousting the president, even though he was legally elected and, according to the polls, enjoys the support of about 44% of likely 2020 voters.