Kenosha Mayor: ‘Did Not Have Enough’ Law Enforcement to Put Down Riots

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Kenosha Mayor: ‘Did Not Have Enough’ Law Enforcement to Put Down Riots

The mayor of Kenosha, Wisc., admitted on Friday that he “did not have enough” of a law enforcement presence to put down the violent riots that resulted in the deaths of two demonstrators this week.

Mayor John Antaramian told CNN that his city’s officers were not prepared to stop the swarm of protesters that flooded the city after the death of Jacob Blake.

He said he made requests to the state for assistance, but Gov. Tony Evers was slow to send in aid, and even rejected federal assistance from President Donald Trump.

“The problem in the city at the time was we had made requests to the state, and the state did bring the National Guard in,” he said.

“However, a huge number of outside individuals came into the city, including, as you saw, the militia,” he continued. “These are not folks that are from Kenosha. They all came from other places. I shouldn’t say all, but a good percentage came from other places,” Antaramian said.

The city, on Lake Michigan, lies roughly halfway between Milwaukee and Chicago, where many of the radical activists are believed to have come from.

Because of this massive influx, law enforcement was overwhelmed even with additional help from state troopers and National Guard forces, Antaramian explained.

“We had all sorts of different groups that came into the community to help the police department,” he said.

“That’s police officers, sheriffs from all over the state came to help out—National Guard came,” he added. “However, we just, we did not have enough people in the first two nights,” he said.

When the violence in Kenosha first broke out, Trump pushed to send in National Guard troops immediately.

But Evers refused Trump’s aid, according to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

“The president was on the phone with the governor today … we have National Guard standing by, and if the general for the National Guard [in Kenosha] needs additional help, we’re there to do it, but today, that request was denied by the governor,” Meadows told Fox News.

Evers later reversed his decision and agreed to send in 500 National Guard servicemen.

But Meadows said a lot of the violence Kenosha experienced could have been prevented had Evers agreed to stand up to the rioters sooner.

He “clearly wants riots,” Meadows said of Evers. “It is out of control and it can’t be allowed to continue.”

CNN’s Stelter Lies About Tucker Carlson Comments to Sell FOX-Bashing Book

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CNN’s Stelter Lies About Tucker Carlson Comments to Sell FOX-Bashing Book

CNN’s chief media correspondent, Brian Stelter, called on a rival network to ‘cancel’ one of its top prime-time commentators for expressing a controversial opinion.

In an op-ed that also happened to promote his new FOX News-bashing book, Stelter complained that FOX host Tucker Carlson had dared to speak his mind with impunity in response to recent race-riots in Kenosha, Wisc.

After a 17-year-old boy shot and killed two of the rioters in what is believed to have been self-defense, Carlson asked, “Are we really surprised that looting and arson accelerated to murder?”

His point more broadly called to task the state’s Democrat governor, Tony Evers, who—much like the governors of Washington and Oregon—initially declined federal support to maintain order amid the escalating tensions.

But Stelter claimed, without evidence, that Carlson was seeking to “justify the killing” through his condemnation of the leftist authorities.

“[I]f history is any guide, there will be no internal fallout as a result of his latest shocking statement,” Stelter griped.

Stelter has increasingly heeded the call of his own network’s executives to promote an alternative, Trump-bashing reality.

But in addition to following top boss Jeff Zucker‘s marching orders to push his personal vendetta against President Donald Trump over the airwaves, Stelter’s robust appetites for fame and fortune are now leading him to sell out his fellow journalists.

Carlson first rose to national prominence in the early 2000s as a CNN commentator and co-host of its bipartisan “Crossfire” before going on to co-found the Daily Caller and gravitating to FOX.

Stelter’s book Hoax—bizarrely labeled by the leftist New York Times as nonfiction—advances his conspiracy theories that Trump is colluding with the right-leaning, rival network.

It is not the first time Stelter’s ironic lack of self-awareness has been on full-display.

In fact, he was called out in 2018 by broadcast legend Ted Koppel, who suggested that CNN’s fixation on Trump was largely a ratings gimmick, flustering the portly pundit.

Even so, Stelter echoed the same claims about Carlson’s mutual understanding with FOX.

He dismissed the possibility that FOX executives’ decision to stand by Carlson in the face of frequent pressure campaigns and boycott attempts from the Left might have something to do with the network’s support for free speech.

“Carlson is the right-wing equivalent of must-see-TV,” Stelter insisted. “As a result, he has the backing of Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch and a huge amount of autonomy.”

FOX executives offered him a straightforward response that directly refuted such claims during his book research.

But Stelter, in true sensationalist form, pretended that he had been privy to some secret acknowledgment of a shameful, ulterior motive: “‘We don’t hang talent out to dry,’ an executive told me in a moment of candor, ‘because once you cave to these lunatics, you won’t have any shows left.'”

Despite the executive’s statement, FOX has caved to several of the Left’s past boycott campaigns, forcing out—among others—former top executive Roger Ailes and former top host Bill O’Reilly, both of whom faced allegations of sexual harassment.

The network also has fired some of its lesser-known talent for making controversial comments. Recently, for instance, it released correspondent Trish Regan for saying that the coronavirus response had been over-hyped due to political motivations.

“We’ve reached a tipping point,” Regan said. “The chorus of hate being leveled at the president is nearing a crescendo as Democrats blame him, and only him, for a virus that originated halfway around the world. This is yet another attempt to impeach the president.”

Carlson also held one of his own top writers accountable last month for posting offensive comments under a pseudonym after he was outed by a CNN ‘investigation.’

NOT JUST RAND PAUL: Mobs Harass Others Leaving Trump Speech at White House

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NOT JUST RAND PAUL: Mobs Harass Others Leaving Trump Speech at White House

(Headline USA) Following President Trump‘s rousing speech that capped the Republican National Convention on the South Lawn at the White House, Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was harassed by a leftist mob as he departed, needing protection from the D.C. police.

Above, Rep. Brian Mast of Florida is accosted on the streets of the nation’s capitol.

Others leaving the event were similarly harassed, as was captured by observers who posted on social media:

 

 

 

Biden Says He Will Debate Trump; Vows to Fact-Check

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Biden Says He Will Debate Trump; Vows to Fact-Check

(Associated Press) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he won’t skip debates with President Donald Trump this fall, vowing he’ll use the opportunity to confront his rival and be a “fact checker on the floor.”

Biden said Thursday there’s no question the debates will take place, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters earlier in the day that she didn’t think Biden should debate the president at all. Pelosi said she knows she disagrees with Biden on this, but she doesn’t think he should “legitimize a conversation” with Trump.

The Democratic nominee has repeatedly said he is eager to take on the president.

“Here’s the deal with bullies, I understand how they work,” Biden said on CNN. “And I’m going to play by the rules of the debate commission and we’re going to have a debate.”

In a separate interview on MSNBC, Biden said he’s going to be a “fact checker on the floor” during the debates and he thinks the media will fact-check Trump as well.

Biden said later Tuesday that he would be hitting the campaign trail — in person — after Labor Day.

He said during a fundraiser that he’ll start doing in-person events “a way that is totally consistent with being responsible.” Biden named Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Arizona as some of the states that are under consideration by his campaign for in-person events.

Biden said he’ll “meet people where it matters — not at irresponsible rallies, or staged for TV to boost egos — but real people’s communities, in real local businesses, in their lives.” He said he’ll hold events “consistent with the state rules” about crowd sizes and other regulations.

Biden has largely campaigned virtually from his Wilmington, Delaware, home, only venturing out for small, socially-distanced campaign events in Delaware or Pennsylvania counties just a few hours away.

While Biden and his aides say he’s trying to comply with recommendations from public health experts in dealing with the coronavirus, Trump and his allies have ridiculed Biden for “campaigning from his basement.”

Biden knocked Trump for delivering his own remarks to the Republican National Convention later Thursday night on the South Lawn of the White House, calling him “totally irresponsible” for arranging an in-person audience for the event.

Regarding the debates, Pelosi said she believes Trump will “probably act in a way that is beneath the dignity of the presidency” and “belittle what the debates are supposed to be about.”

She said a 2016 debate between Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton was “disgraceful” as Trump stood close behind Clinton as she spoke, moving into her camera angle. Pelosi says Trump was “stalking” Clinton and should have been told to move away.

Instead, Pelosi suggests the two candidates have individual events where they take questions.

“Let that be a conversation with the American people,” she said. “Not an exercise in skullduggery.”

The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates recently rejected a request from the Trump campaign either to add a fourth debate or move up the three already scheduled.

Trump’s campaign said 16 states will have started voting by the time of the first debate on Sept. 29.

Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination Thursday night.

DOJ to Investigate Nursing Home Deaths in Four Democrat-Run States

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DOJ to Investigate Nursing Home Deaths in Four Democrat-Run States

The Department of Justice launched an investigation into Democratic-run states that experienced disproportionately high rates of deaths from COVID-19 within nursing homes, The Epoch Times reported.

“Protecting the rights of some of society’s most vulnerable members, including elderly nursing home residents, is one of our country’s most important obligations,” said Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division in a statement on Thursday.

DOJ officials sent letters to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. They asked for the states’ COVID-19 data.

Deaths from these four states—32,000 in New York, 15,000 in New Jersey, 7,600 in Pennsylvania, and 6,600 in Michigan—make up more than one third of the total deaths from COVID-19 in the United States.

Texas, which has a population about 50 percent larger than New York’s, has a death rate of 380 people per million, while New York has a death rate of 1,680 people per million. Florida has a death rate of 480 people per million.

These states all adopted similar policies that mandated the admission of elderly people, who were infected with COVID-19, into nursing homes.

Cuomo’s executive order shows the policy:

“No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to [a nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. [Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”

Cuomo, Murphy and Wolf issued their orders in March, while Whitmer waited until April 15.

The Justice Department said these orders may have “resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents.”

The Civil Rights Division could file charges pursuant to the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, a law that gives certain protections to people living in nursing homes.

BLM Protesters Throw Flour, Silly String & Glitter at Man Saying ‘Jesus Saves’

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BLM Protesters Throw Flour, Silly String & Glitter at Man Saying ‘Jesus Saves’

Black Lives Matter protesters threw flour, glitter, silly string, soda and juice at a Charlotte man who spreads the Gospel during downtown demonstrations, WSOCTV reported.

“[It’s got] flour, it’s got soda, it’s got juice. As you can see, they flour-bombed me,” Bethea said, while showing the stained clothes that he wore on Monday. “Throwing glitter in your eyes. I just thank God that it didn’t get in my eyes.”

Sam Bethea, who went to prison 29 times before becoming a Christian, was spreading the Gospel on Monday night as social justice warriors protested the Republican National Convention.

“Jesus saves. Jesus loves you, you guys,” Bethea said to protesters.

“I do it because God called me to the streets,” he said.

Bethea has been riding his bicycle downtown for six years, whenever protesters show up.

BLM protesters complained that Bethea’s message distracted from the group’s social-justice message.

“You’re taking away from the message,” a protester said on Bethea’s livestream.

Uptown businesses clashed with Bethea in 2017 because of the disturbance that he caused in the streets. Almost 20 people filed complaints with the Charlotte–Mecklenburg Police Department.

Bethea said he will wash his clothes and return to the streets to share the Gospel, which said he believes he has been called to do.

“They have a right to say what they want to say, within the bounds of the law, just as I do,” he said.

Those who support Bethea are financially supporting him so that he can keep spreading the message that “Jesus saves.”

MLB Star: Athletes Who Won’t Boycott Games Are ‘Cowards’

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MLB Star: Athletes Who Won’t Boycott Games Are ‘Cowards’

Los Angeles Dodgers Pitcher David Price, who is not playing this season because he fears COVID-19, said he’s “not an activist,” but the MLB players who won’t boycott games are cowards, Radio.com reported.

Price tweeted about his disdain for questions that he heard from fellow baseball players on Wednesday.

Price praised NBA players for their decision to boycott the playoffs. The Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic boycotted Game 5 on Wednesday, CNBC reported.

MLB players from six teams decided to boycott and postpone three games on Wednesday, ESPN reported.

The Cincinnati Reds and the Milwaukee Brewers, the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants all postponed their games.

“The players from the Brewers and Reds have decided to not play tonight’s baseball game. With our community and our nation in such pain, we wanted to draw as much attention to the issues that really matter, especially racial injustice and systemic oppression,” Milwaukee and Cincinnati players said in a joint statement at Miller Park.

Price thanked Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich for fighting for “someone other than yourself.”

The MLB will not punish the players.

Instead, the MLB said it will join players as an ally “in the fight to end racism and injustice.”

WATCH: Mob Menaces Rand Paul, Wife as They Leave Trump Speech at White House

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WATCH: Mob Menaces Rand Paul, Wife as They Leave Trump Speech at White House

(Headline USA) Hundreds of demonstrators gathered around the White House for a “noise demonstration and dance party” in an attempt to drown out President Donald Trump‘s speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination.

And later, a crowd enveloped U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and his wife Kelley as they left the convention, with D.C. police surrounding them and holding the mob back.

They yelled for him to say the name of police shooting victim Breonna Taylor, who was killed in a police shooting incident his state.

“I hope you hear us, Trump,” the leader of the popular local band TOB shouted near the site of Trump’s speech.

The band blared Go-Go music, a distinctive D.C. variant on funk, as it moved in the direction of the White House, where Trump delivered his acceptance speech to a crowd of more 1,500 people on the South Lawn.

One protester held up a sign, “Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue” — the street where the White House is located.

There was no indication that Trump heard the protesters, but there were a few points when a mix of sirens, music and blowhorns could be heard in the background and spectators in the back turned to see where the sounds were coming from.

“Make some noise if you want to drown out Trump,” protest organizer Justin Johnson said.

After the convention concluded, there were skirmishes as protesters yelled and threw water bottles at police at the historic St. John’s Church near Black Lives Matter Plaza. There were some arrests.

Video posted online showed dozens of people confronting Paul and his wife, who were flanked by police officers, on a street after midnight. Protesters shouted “No Justice, No Peace” and “Say Her Name” before one appears to briefly clash with an officer, pushing him and his bike backward, sending the officer into Paul’s shoulder.

The senator and his wife kept walking and did not appear to have been touched by any of the protesters or to have suffered any injuries.

Videos posted on social media showed other attendees also being confronted by protesters after leaving Trump’s event:

There was a robust police presence, but there was a moment of levity at the end.

“You guys gotta get some rhythm,” a protester told Secret Service officers.

“Would you have rhythm if you were wearing 30 pounds of gear,” one responded.

The demonstration was significantly smaller than the protests that rocked the nation’s capital this past spring after George Floyd died while in police custody in Minneapolis.

Floyd’s family and the families of other black Americans who were victims of police violence were expected to participate Friday in a commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington that is being led by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III.

Before Trump spoke, there was a brief standoff between police and demonstrators, who shouted anti-police slogans.

“Free the people, fight the power,” they chanted.

Nearby protesters set up a small guillotine, with the District of Columbia flag as the blade.

Lafayette Park, a traditional site of demonstrations across from the White House, was sealed off and there were some street closures.

The groups ShutdownDC and Long-Live Go-Go had put out word in advance about the planned “noise demonstration and dance party” to coincide with Trump’s speech.

“We’ll be at the White House on Thursday to drown out (Trump’s) racist rhetoric with another vision for the future of our country,” the groups said in a statement.

A longtime D.C. signature sound, Go-Go music emerged last year as a battle anthem for activists fighting fast-moving gentrification in the nation’s capital.

The music has been a regular presence in recent protests against racial injustice and rolling Go-Go trucks with live bands have appeared frequently at the epicenter of the protests, which was renamed by the city as Black Lives Matter Plaza.

Adapted from reporting by Associated Press.

Bush, McCain & Romney Staffers Endorse Biden; Disregard Radical Agenda

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Bush, McCain & Romney Staffers Endorse Biden; Disregard Radical Agenda

Former staffers for President George W. Bush and failed Republican presidential candidates Sens. John McCain and Mitt Romney begged for positions in Joe Biden‘s administration by endorsing him for president on Thursday, CBS News reported.

More than 100 McCain staffers wrote on Medium that they are supporting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden because they say he follows the same motto as the late senator: “Country First.”

They wrote that President Donald Trump has failed to exhibit “competent leadership,” has aggravated political “divisions,” has not upheld “American values.”

The one-time GOP-establishment insiders also promised that Biden would “defend American interests and values from all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

“Many of us disagree with the positions espoused by the Democratic ticket, but we are heartened by Joe Biden’s history of bipartisanship,” they wrote.

Under the name of “43 Alumni for Biden,” 230 former Bush bureaucrats signed onto a letter in support of Biden.

They referred to Bush’s tenure as “the last Republican presidency.”

And they likewise framed their disagreements with Biden’s platform—which is among the most radical in American history—as mere “differences of opinion on specific policy matters.”

Suzy DeFranci, former assistant secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, said Biden would let public health bureaucrats run the federal government.

“Donald Trump has failed to keep Americans safe during this pandemic, but Joe Biden will listen to our scientists and doctors when making life or death decisions,” DeFranci wrote.

More than 30 of Romney’s staffers staked out perhaps the most anti-Trump position of all the groups.

“What unites us now is a deep conviction that four more years of a Trump presidency will morally bankrupt this country, irreparably damage our democracy, and permanently transform the Republican Party into a toxic personality cult,” they wrote on Romney4Biden.com.

They also downplayed Biden’s radical agenda.

“Of course, we don’t agree with Joe Biden on every policy. That’s OK. The differences in our political perspectives come from places of honest disagreement and genuine concern. That’s the beauty of America,” they wrote.

All of the groups, especially Romney’s staffers, emphasized Trump’s alleged failure to handle the coronavirus pandemic and Biden’s “firm grasp on this deadly virus.”

SELLERS: Trump Delivers the Mother of All Rallies w/ RNC Acceptance Speech

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SELLERS: Trump Delivers the Mother of All Rallies w/ RNC Acceptance Speech

The biggest loser on Thursday’s fourth and final day of the Republican National Convention was Democrat nominee Joe Biden, who was on the receiving end of an all-out rhetorical assault.

The second biggest may have been North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and the Charlotte City Council members who sought, under the auspices of the state’s coronavirus restrictions, to derail President Donald Trump from delivering what was always sure to be an epic acceptance speech for his re-election campaign.

Like the Mother of All Bombs, the massive munitions charge that Trump’s administration used to quell ISIS’s hopes of gaining any ground in the new presidency, Trump’s speech—running more than an hour long—capped off the Mother of All Rallies, and it was equally designed to strike shock and awe into the hearts of Democratic opponents.

The president chafed COVID fearmongers who expected him to submit to social-distancing decrees, gathering friends and family, trusted advisers, victims of recent race-riots and even workers from the Tennessee Valley Authority in what would prove to be a more stunning backdrop than any prior rally or convention speech could have permitted under the best of circumstances.

Of course, the venue in front of the White House also sent his opponents into a tizzy on Thursday.

But as Trump’s daughter Ivanka and many others noted during the convention, it was a brilliant solution befitting of the Trump presidency, unafraid to shake up the normal order of the Swamp while pragmatically staying within the confines of the law and achieving results that well exceeded expectation.

“Washington has not changed Donald Trump,” said Ivanka in her introduction. “Donald Trump has changed Washington.”

Like another of his historic speeches, January’s State of the Union Address, Trump had plenty else on his mind. The former, he delivered flawlessly while staring down the prospect of impeachment.

His speech on Thursday came only two weeks since the death of his brother and best friend, Robert Trump for undisclosed circumstances believed to be related to intracerebral hemorrhaging.

But Trump acknowledged that he, like so many others, had also felt the personal toll of the deadly coronavirus in his life on a day when the pandemic surpassed the 180,000 death mark.

Even so, Trump waged a strong defense of his administration’s actions in fighting the virus and drew a sharp contrast with his adversaries, who had mocked his early efforts to slow its spread from China and Europe.

“The opposition show themselves capable of nothing but a partisan ability to criticize,” Trump said, but a Biden administration would have cost thousands more lives, not only to the virus, but also the aftermath of suicides, overdoses and other forgotten tolls wrought by the shutdowns that followed.

Biden’s plan, he said, is “not a solution to the virus but rather it’s a surrender to the virus.”

Trump’s highly quippable and Twitter-friendly criticisms of his political rival were bound to be one of the take-homes of the speech.

Already, his GOP allies were posting the more memorable lines in viral-ready graphics.

Despite the broadsides on Biden—some of which mocked the former vice president’s own vision of a bleak future in his acceptance speech a week ago—Trump’s speech largely exuded hope, optimism and promise.

He pledged to continue breaking new and pioneering barriers, such as putting a woman on the moon and being the first nation to plant its “beautiful flag” on Mars.

The spirit not only cast aside the defeatism that seemed to emanate from the very marrow of the DNC convention, but it openly flouted it.

Indeed, Trump’s speech felt as though it could have been written before the coronavirus and race-riots consumed the news cycle, back when he still presided over the greatest economy in American history.

But far from looking back, Trump continued to look forward toward the challenges that lay ahead.

And he pledged to continue taking on the political establishment whose betrayals had prompted him to enter politics four fateful years ago.

“From the moment I left my former life behind—and it was a good life—I have done nothing but fight for you,” Trump said.

“…We have ended the rule of the failed political class, and they are desperate to get their power back by any means necessary,” he continued. “They are angry at me because instead of putting them first, I put America first.”

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