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Trump isn't ruling out replacing Bill Barr in a second term: 'I'm not happy, considering all the evidence I have'

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© Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump • US AG Bill Barr
President Donald Trump didn't rule out replacing Attorney General Bill Barr if he gets a second term during a Wednesday interview with Newsmax. Trump told Newsmax host Greg Kelly:
"I have no comment. Can't comment on that. It's too early. I'm not happy with all of the evidence I have, I can tell you that. I'm not happy."
The president has criticized Barr and U.S. attorney John Durham in recent days after reports surfaced that Durham's probe into the investigation will not be completed prior to the 2020 general election in November, a development he called a "disgrace" while guest hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show Friday.

"This is the problem with Republicans," he continued. "They don't play the hard game."

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One-on-one exclusive with Rudy Giuliani: What haven't we seen from the Hunter Biden hard drive; why won't he release it in full?

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Direct evidence implicating former Vice President Joe Biden in a pay-for-play corruption scandal will be released to the public 10 days prior to the 2020 election, Rudy Giuliani told Daily Caller's senior White House correspondent Christian Datoc in an exclusive interview.

The former New York City mayor spoke Thursday evening with Datoc about all of the new allegations raised by emails and text messages alleged to have been pulled from a hard drive previously owned by Hunter Biden. Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, did not deny that this is a political hit job. He said the reason he is releasing it slowly is to catch Biden in "lies" as his campaign denies the allegations.


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The New Hunter Biden emails from Tucker Carlson tie everything all together

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© AP/Richard DrewTucker Carlson, host of “Tucker Carlson Tonight”
As my colleague Bonchie reported last night, Tucker Carlson teased new alleged Hunter Biden emails.

Carlson said they believed the emails came from the laptop but that they verified the emails were from Hunter Biden's email address at the time, which would indicate they were real. The emails further explain what Burisma wanted from their relationship with Hunter Biden. From Fox News:
On Nov. 2, 2015, at 4:36 p.m., a Burisma executive called Vadym Pozharskyi emailed Hunter Biden and his business partner, Devon Archer. The purpose of the email, Pozharskyi explains, is to "be on the same page re our final goals ... including, but not limited to: a concrete course of actions."

So what did Burisma want, exactly? Well, good PR, for starters. Pozharskyi wanted "high-ranking US [sic] officials" to express their "positive opinion" of Burisma, and then he wanted the administration to act on Burisma's behalf.

"The scope of work should also include organization of a visit of a number of widely recognized and influential current and/or former US [sic] policy-makers to Ukraine in November, aiming to conduct meetings with and bring positive signal/message and support" to Burisma.
What was the goal of all this? According to Pozharskyi to "close down for [sic] any cases/pursuits" against the head of Burisma in Ukraine.

Comment: Here's Carlson's breakdown:
Two corrections to Carlson's description: First, Kent said while he was concerned about the potential for conflict, he did not know himself of any wrongdoing. Second, Rudy Giuliani described the note from Hunter Biden to his daughter as a text, not an email.



TV

Flashback Study shows MSM puts out 150 times more negative reporting on Trump than Biden

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As the pandemic grinds on, the Big Three broadcast evening newscasts are among the highest rated programs on television today — and that means millions of viewers are witnessing the most biased presidential campaign coverage in modern media history.

I've been studying the news media and elections for more than 35 years. Trust me — there's never been anything like it.

A new MRC analysis of all evening news coverage of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in June and July found these networks chose to aim most of their attention and nearly all of their negative coverage on Trump, so Biden escaped any scrutiny of his left-wing policy positions, past job performance or character.

Mr. Potato

As if it would have helped: Chris Christie says he 'regrets' not wearing a mask at White House prior to contracting COVID-19

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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImageFormer Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey at the White Rose Garden for the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie expressed remorse for not taking additional precautions to prevent himself from contracting COVID-19 during his time at the White House.

The former Republican presidential candidate said he was wrong not to wear a mask while he was at the White House and said that he didn't do so because he felt like he was in "a safe zone," according to the New York Times. These remarks came days after he was released from the hospital, where he checked himself in after he was one of many people in the president's circle to contract the coronavirus.

He was at the White House to assist President Trump in preparation for the first presidential debate and was there for the ceremony in which Judge Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the Supreme Court.

Comment: Yet another recovery from the nothingburger Covid-19 virus (with co-morbidities no less!)


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Parental shakedown? Giuliani quotes unconfirmed text by Hunter Biden complaining he pays half his 'salary' to his father

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© Andy Wong/AFP via Getty ImagesVice President Joe Biden, center, tours a Hutong alley with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden, right, and son Hunter Biden, left, in Beijing, China on Dec. 5, 2013.
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani alleged that Hunter Biden admitted in an unverified text that he gave half his salary to his father, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Giuliani, who is President Donald Trump's personal attorney, made the accusation during an exclusive interview with Daily Caller White House correspondent Christian Datoc. Hunter Biden's comments allegedly came during an unconfirmed text exchange with his daughter that hasn't been reported or published and was obtained by Giuliani.

"All during the time that I've been disrespected, I've been the one who has supported this family for 30 years, and unlike pop I'm not going to require you to give half of your salary to me," Giuliani said, quoting the unconfirmed text from Hunter Biden.

Comment: Giuliani claims the shop owner gave extra copies of the data to friends in case he's 'killed'. Given the proclivity of those who cross the Democrat machine to turn up dead, it's not an unreasonable thought
"He gave two to friends of his in case he was killed," Giuliani, who shared information from the drive with the New York Post this week, claimed.

For anyone thinking such words may be a bit extreme, Giuliani insisted it was a real concern, because of "very dangerous" people trying to protect the Bidens.

"Don't laugh," he told the interviewer. "The presidency is at stake and we have some very dangerous people involved. I've been in law enforcement long enough to know you don't laugh at that. The reality is, he kept four copies and gave two to friends in case he was killed."

Joe Biden has denied the legitimacy of Giuliani's claims and called the Post report on his son a "smear campaign."
Trump's supporters are calling it a death blow to Biden's campaign, while Steve Bannon told interviewers Hunter's lawyers were desperate to recover the laptop.
Despite questions over the authenticity of damaging content from a hard drive allegedly belonging to Joe Biden's son, Hunter, Donald Trump has said the data is a "proven fact," with Steve Bannon promising there is more to come.


Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, who was brought in to help with the release of the Hunter Biden data, has also promised that much more is to come, including emails he claims are from Hunter Biden's attorney requesting the hard drive back.

"Hunter Biden's lawyer has come to us both with phone calls and with emails saying, 'Hey, I've got to get the hard drive back,'" Bannon told Sky News on Sunday.

"They admit it's their hard drive," he added, promising that if the emails need to be released, "we will release them."


In a separate interview with the Revolver over the weekend, Bannon promised that "We already have set in motion the various apparatuses that will release everything," and said "The Bidens are about to be hit with multiple stories from multiple media sources based off evidence beyond the hard drive."
Not looking good for Creepy Joe . . . .


Stop

The coronavirus experts were wrong, now they need scapegoats

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The problem isn't just the China Virus. It's that we adopted the China Model to fight it.

Public health experts adopted China's draconian lockdowns without knowing how well they really worked and in a country that, fortunately, lacks the power to truly enforce them.

China's deceptiveness and lack of transparency meant that we did not know how well anything that the Communist dictatorship did to battle the virus that it spawned actually worked. Despite that, our public health experts, and those of most free countries, adopted the China Model.

We don't know how well the China Model worked for the People's Republic of China, but it failed in every free country that tried it. Lockdowns eventually gave way to reopenings and new waves of infection. This was always going to happen because not even the more socialist European countries have the police state or the compliant populations of a Communist dictatorship.

Desperate, the public health experts adopted China's compulsive mask wearing, a cultural practice that predates the virus, as if wearing a few flimsy scraps of fiber would fix everything.

It hadn't and it didn't.

Sheriff

Flashback Hunting for Hunter: Evidence reveals Biden, Burisma Ukraine bond scandal all tied to US firm Franklin Templeton

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"Are we going to be sending massive amounts of money to a country and they're corrupt and they steal the money and it goes into everybody's bank account?"

This was the infamous rhetorical question posed by President Donald Trump which set off a hurricane of criticism from his political opponents on Capitol Hill. Immediately, the President was accused of "exaggerating" Ukrainian corruption, which, let's remind ourselves, has triggered the Democrat-led House impeachment proceedings against Trump. According to Democrats, Trump is alleged to have pressured the newly elected President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in order to urge Kiev authorities to start an investigation into American Hunter Biden's involvement in corruption schemes - in exchange for prompt military and financial aid. This wouldn't normally have garnered so much attention, if not for the fact that Hunter Biden is the son of the ex-US Vice President and 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden. Hence, Trump is being accused of soliciting a 'Quid Pro Quo' from a foreign government in order undermine his supposed political rival in the upcoming 2020 election. But it's only part of the story.

Rocket

Iran says UN arms embargo on Tehran has been lifted

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A file photo taken on February 2, 2019, shows Iranians visiting a weaponry and military equipment exhibition in the capital Tehran
Iran said a longstanding UN embargo on arms sales to and from the Islamic republic expired Sunday in line with a 2015 landmark nuclear deal with world powers from which Washington has withdrawn.

As Tehran celebrated, however, Washington argued that arms sales to Iran would still violate UN resolutions and threatened sanctions on anyone making such sales.

Iran has hailed the expiry as a diplomatic victory over its arch enemy the US, leaving the way open to purchase weapons from Russia, China and elsewhere.

"As of today, all restrictions on the transfer of arms, related activities and financial services to and from the Islamic Republic of Iran... are all automatically terminated," Iran's foreign ministry said in a statement.

Comment: We wonder if Gantz's statement will translate into more overt and covert aggression towards Iran just to send the message that "Israel isn't pleased".


Bad Guys

US seeks to prolong terrorism in Syria, not defeat it

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Recent attacks on Syrian positions from terrorists of the self-proclaimed "Islamic State" (ISIS) and the release of thousands of prisoners in US-occupied eastern Syria illustrate how Washington is demonstrably prolonging instability in Syria as part of its promise to transform the nation into a "quagmire" for Russia and Iran.

Newsweek itself, in an article titled, "US Syria Representative Says His Job Is to Make the War a 'Quagmire' for Russia," had admitted earlier this year that:
The US special representative for Syria has urged continued American deployment to the war torn country in order to keep pressure on US enemies and make the conflict a "quagmire" for Russia.
The article further elaborated:
Assad — who now controls the majority of the country — is backed by Russia and Iran, both of which the US is trying to undermine. Jeffrey said Tuesday that the US strategy will both weaken America's enemies while avoiding costly mission creep.

"This isn't Afghanistan, this isn't Vietnam," he explained. "This isn't a quagmire. My job is to make it a quagmire for the Russians."