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John Bolton Says Reelection Is 'Only Thing That Mattered' To Trump | HuffPost

Putin hasn't changed out his batteries lately. No big deal.

Fox News publishes digitally altered and misleading images of Seattle demonstrations - CNN

Among the photos that Fox News published on its homepage was one that showed a protester running past a burning vehicle and building with the headline "CRAZY TOWN" blaring across the website. The image, which accompanied a story about the situation in Seattle, was in fact taken from the unrest last month in Minnesota.
In other photos that showed the scene in Seattle, Fox News digitally added an image of a man armed with an assault rifle.

As you assemble to graduate and receive your commissions as U.S. Army officers, consider this day an opportunity to reflect on what you have learned about leadership at West Point and what it means to be a leader of character. While you must stay above partisan politics, take a moment and use the critical thinking skills you have developed to assess whether the conduct, rhetoric and values of your graduation speaker, President Donald J. Trump, live up to the Academy’s motto of “Duty, Honor, Country” and the Army’s high expectations for leaders of American soldiers.

The Naval Academy and virtually every college and university in America reluctantly decided to cancel their spring in-person commencements in light of the Covid-19 risks. The president short-circuited the Military Academy’s assessment of whether an in-person graduation was advisable. Despite the health risks to you, your families, the West Point community, and the traveling public, the president declared he would indeed be your speaker — so he could see you in a “nice, tight formation” — unwilling to pass up the opportunity to link himself with a military he avoided serving in.

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Armed group protects Confederate statue in Kentucky: ‘This is our battle line’

I'm from Louisville not ky. Armed white men can 'protest' in the capital and almost anywhere else in the state without any local or state police interference. They were allowed to walk inside the capital building and GO AROUND THE METAL DETECTORS. I believe that too many of the people who 'want' to become police and are eventually hired, are white supremist who are thrilled to get the chance to kill minorities and disrupt lives whenever possible. And the police chases. Always innocent people getting killed. 3 years ago a lovely UL fan who was a policeman; whose father is; whose brother also is; was killed sitting in his police car when his fellow policemen chased a suspect who crashed into Nick's car. There could be as many as 90% decent people who become police. Don't know. But what we do know is that there are too many who do what they want with their guns (and now their bodies) AND unfortunately their police union allows them to escape punishment, keep their jobs, and get their pensions. One of the policemen who was involved in killing Breonna Taylor (shot 8 times while asleep in her bed) has also been charged with sexual assaults, AND running over another policeman with his car. Ellen
p.s. I love Southern food. Southern beaches. Southern architecture. But the racism. That drive through Alabama through that small town with the confederate monument and flags everywhere. And to see blacks having to live near it...….

Graham heaps praise on Biden and destroys Trump

Who said it?

“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”

Now he’s talking to himself?

Kente Cloth Worn By Democrats Was ‘Historically Worn’ By African Empire Involved In Slave Trade, Fact Checker Says

When a second vote on the 13th amendment was taken on January 31, 1865, the outcome was still far from certain. Rumors of a Confederate peace overture made backers concerned that Democrats might not want to derail potential talks by passing an inflammatory measure. The chamber grew silent as House of Representatives Speaker Schuyler Colfax declared the results with a quiver in his voice: “On the passage of the joint resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States, the ayes have 119, the noes 56.” The measure passed by the narrowest of margins, with eight members abstaining. Sixteen Democrats, all but two lame ducks, joined the full slate of Republicans in approving the measure.

Seattle police chief says no part of city is 'cop-free' after business owner's complaint

If you can’t call the police department, you can’t call the fire department to respond, what do you have?” He said
This should end well!

Here are 7 stunning details from a new report about John Bolton’s explosive book

1. Bolton confirms that Trump’s infamous Ukraine quid pro quo was explicit

The book confirms House testimony that Mr. Bolton was wary all along of the president’s actions with regard to Ukraine and that Mr. Trump explicitly linked the security aid to investigations involving Mr. Biden and Hillary Clinton. On Aug. 20, Mr. Bolton writes, Mr. Trump “said he wasn’t in favor of sending them anything until all the Russia-investigation materials related to Clinton and Biden had been turned over.” Mr. Bolton writes that he, Mr. Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper tried eight to 10 times to get Mr. Trump to release the aid.


2. Bolton says that similar incidents occurred with Turkey and China

“The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn’t accept,” Bolton wrote.
He blames the Democrats for impeaching Trump on grounds that were far too narrow and solely focused on Ukraine, but this complaint is deeply ironic given Bolton’s refusal to testify.

3. Trump tried to get China to help him win re-election, the book claims Bolton wrote that “the president overtly linked policy to his own political fortunes as he asked [Chinese President] Xi to buy a lot of American agricultural products to help him win farm states in this year’s election. Mr. Trump, he writes, was ‘pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome.’”

4. Trump reportedly did not know Britain is a nuclear power

This is a basic fact about world politics, and yet the president seems to have no clue what’s going on.


5. Trump reportedly asked if Finland is a part of Russia

The report doesn’t say who Trump asked. Hopefully, it wasn’t the Finns. Or the Russians.

6. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly dismissed Trump’s overtures to North Korea as useless.

During Mr. Trump’s 2018 meeting with North Korea’s leader, according to the book, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slipped Mr. Bolton a note disparaging the president, saying, “He is so full of s**t.”

A month later, Mr. Bolton writes, Mr. Pompeo dismissed the president’s North Korea diplomacy, declaring that there was “zero probability of success.”

7. Bolton says he reported cases of Trump’s potential abuses of power to Attorney General Bill Barr.

It’s not clear if anything ever came of these reports.