Congressional Allies Launch Sound Money Caucus on Capitol Hill

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Congressional Allies Launch Sound Money Caucus on Capitol Hill

(Jp Cortez, Money Metals News Service) As the political and central banking establishment in Washington continues to bail out the economy and markets by creating trillions of unbacked pieces of paper and electronic digits, a handful of Congressmen hope to shine a new spotlight on the devastating effects of this runaway financial profligacy.

Congressman Warren Davidson (R-OH) recently announced the creation of the Congressional Sound Money Caucus.

According to Congressman Davidson’s office, the caucus exists to promote sound fiscal and monetary policy in the United States with the goal of preserving the purchasing power of the U.S. Federal Reserve Note.

Monetary policy, especially since the 2008 financial crisis, coupled with the recent federal fiscal response to coronavirus has re-inflated nominal asset prices and contributed to the wealth gap, while weakening the Federal Reserve Note in relation to the world’s other fiat currencies.

Reps. Alex Mooney (R-WV), Andy Barr (R-KY), Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ted Budd (R-NC), and Lee Zeldin (R-NY) also joined the caucus.

For several years, Congressman Mooney has been a leader on the sound money issue, hammering away at manipulation in the gold market and counterfeiting — and Mooney has introduced several pending bills to audit America’s gold reserves, remove income tax on the monetary metals, and resume some form of gold backing to our currency.

Congressman Davidson introduced the Sound Money Caucus on the floor of the House by saying:

“We already have a great core group of members who are leaders in this area, who understand how important it is for the U.S. dollar to be an enduring store of value and an efficient means of exchange. I look forward to hashing out policy solutions to address the economic distortions of monetary inflation, so that monetary and fiscal policy can help rebuild the middle class, restart the American economy, and get us on a path for sustainable growth.”

In an era where even so-called “conservatives” are adding trillions to the federal deficit, sound money is more important than ever.

Sound money is the linchpin of a prosperous society because it protects capital and creates stability.

Individuals and civilizations thrive under a sound money regime because uncertainty is reduced, and savings are respected and preserved.

People can plan, save, and invest for the future without the fear of their money being manipulated and weaponized for political purposes.

Further, sound money acts as a bulwark against Big Government and runaway levels of debt.

Unfortunately, the United States government has proven that they can’t be trusted with an unchecked monetary monopoly.

It’s no surprise that severing the tie between the U.S. Dollar and gold has resulted in frivolous, debt-funded spending by the political left and the right, depleting the value and general confidence in the U.S. Federal Reserve Note.

After being driven out of the public conciousness over the past century, sound money is an idea whose time has come (again).

Americans and even Fed-bugs are grappling with the immutable truth that governments can’t print society into prosperity…Original Source…

Jp Cortez is a graduate of Auburn University and a resident of Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the Policy Director of the Sound Money Defense League, an organization working to bring back gold and silver as America’s constitutional money. Follow him on Twitter @JpCortez27

Twitter Asks Users for Their Ethnicity after Warning Them to ‘Rethink’ Tweets

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Twitter Asks Users for Their Ethnicity after Warning Them to ‘Rethink’ Tweets

Twitter is implementing a feature that will prompt users to “rethink” their tweet before they send it, and then asking them to reveal their ethnicity, Reclaim the Net reported.

“When things get heated, you may say things you don’t mean. To let you rethink a reply, we’re running a limited experiment on iOS with a prompt that gives you the option to revise your reply before it’s published if it uses language that could be harmful,” said the Twitter support team when they announced testing for the feature in May.

After Twitter users type a tweet and hit send, an automated system could respond with a warning. These warnings will be based on the words and phrases that the company and users have deemed “harmful.”

If any allegedly harmful words or phrases are in the tweet, then the “rethink” message will appear, and users will have to amend, confirm, or renege their decision to send the tweet.

If that isn’t dystopian enough, Twitter will ask users for their ethnicity after they try to send a tweet that contains badThink.

It’s not yet clear whether the “rethink” feature would be biased against American, Christian, and conservative beliefs and ideas, as most social media platforms are in regard to other features and standards.

“We’re trying to encourage people to rethink their behavior and rethink their language before posting because they often are in the heat of the moment and they might say something they regret,” said Sunita Saligram, Twitter’s global head of site policy for trust and safety, Reclaim the Net reported.

Then the prompt will give users five “agree or disagree” statements about Twitter’s function that flagged the tweet as harmful.

Users are asked to agree or disagree with the following statements:

  1. I was speaking out against hate speech.
  2. It’s important for me to use this type of language to defend myself or others.
  3. The language in my Tweet is not offensive or disrespectful.
  4. The person I’m replying to would not consider this Tweet offensive.
  5. Twitter is unfairly targeting me for the type of language that I use.

The feature comes as Twitter has been on a mission to crack down on hate speech, which the company has defined according to its radical leftist interpretation of the world.

As part of this effort, Twitter punished more than 584,000 accounts for “hate” messages and another 396,000 for “abusive” messages during the first six months of 2019, Twitter revealed in its transparency report.

Instagram is pursuing a similar method to impose technological and social controls on the way humans interact with each other online.

As part of its effort to stop “harassment before it even starts,” Instagram will notify users that they are “about to leave a negative comment,” Reclaim the Net reported.

Trump Hires Anti-Lockdown, Pro-Herd Immunity Doctor for COVID Task Force

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Trump Hires Anti-Lockdown, Pro-Herd Immunity Doctor for COVID Task Force

(Headline USA) Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time there’s no daylight between them.

Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser.

Atlas is the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford’s conservative Hoover Institution.

But he has long been a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and has said that kids should return to the classroom and that students should return to college sports.

“Scott is a very famous man who’s also very highly respected,” Trump told reporters as he introduced the addition. “He has many great ideas and he thinks what we’ve done is really good.”

Atlas’ hiring comes amid ongoing tensions between the president and Drs. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, and Deborah Birx, the task force’s coordinator.

Atlas, the sole doctor to share the stage at Trump’s pandemic briefings this past week, has long questioned polices that have been embraced by public health experts both in the U.S. and abroad.

He has called it a “good thing” for younger, healthy people to be exposed to the virus, while saying children are at near “zero risk.”

In an April op-ed in The Hill newspaper, Atlas wrote that lockdowns may have prevented the development of “natural herd immunity.”

“In the absence of immunization, society needs circulation of the virus, assuming high-risk people can be isolated,” he wrote.

In television appearances, Atlas has called on the nation to “get a grip” and argued that “there’s nothing wrong” with having low-risk people get infected, as long as the vulnerable are protected.

“It doesn’t matter if younger, healthier people get infected. I don’t know how often that has to be said. They have nearly zero risk of a problem from this,” he said in one appearance.

“When younger, healthier people get infected, that’s a good thing,” he went on to say, “because that’s exactly the way that population immunity develops.”

White House spokesman Judd Deere, in a statement, praised Atlas as “a world renowned physician and scholar.”

“We are all in this fight together, and only the media would distort and diminish Dr. Atlas’ highly acclaimed career simply because he has come to serve the President,” he said.

Paul E. Peterson, director of the program on education policy and governance at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Hoover with Atlas, praised Atlas as “a really brilliant guy” with “a tremendous knowledge base” about the virus.

Peterson said Atlas is someone who conducts “the most rigorous and careful research before he comes to a conclusion.”

“If you get a variety of people from one perspective or one kind of training out there, that’s not desirable,” he said. “It’s extremely important to have diversity on the advisory board.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Biden & Harris Criticize Uber & Lyft for Denying ‘Basic Rights,’ But Have Taken 1,450+ Rides

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Biden & Harris Criticize Uber & Lyft for Denying ‘Basic Rights,’ But Have Taken 1,450+ Rides

Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, have both criticized the ridesharing services Uber and Lyft for their business models, yet their campaigns have paid more than $80,000 for their services.

Reports obtained from the Federal Election Commission by Americans for Tax Reform show that the Harris and Biden campaigns have used Uber and Lyft for ridesharing services at least 1,456 times.

Both Biden and Harris said they support California Assembly Bill 5, which prevents Uber and Lyft from hiring workers as independents contracts instead of as employees.

Harris’s campaign spent $2,260.14 on Uber in a single night, July 26, 2019.

Biden’s campaign spent far less overall than Harris’s–about $11,700 compared to nearly $68,900.

As Biden and Harris promote a left-wing war on ridesharing, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said his company will suspend its services in California if the state forces it to abandon independent contractors.

By hiring independent contractors to drive for Uber and Lyft, the ridesharing companies are able to keep costs low and maintain their business model.

Companies do not have to provide independent contractors with the same benefits and protections as employees.

Yet, Uber and Lyft still draw many workers because their business models provide completely flexible work schedules to drivers.

Uber and Lyft’s employees know that their jobs depend upon their independent contractor status, and 72 percent of contractors support maintaining that status, according to the CA App-Based Driver Survey.

The general public also knows that Uber and Lyft require independent contractors to remain in business, and a Pew Research poll found that “66% of ride-hailing users think of the drivers who work for these services as independent contractors, while 23% view them as employees of the app or service.”

Pelosi to Call House Back Into Session to Vote on Postal Service Bill

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Pelosi to Call House Back Into Session to Vote on Postal Service Bill

(Headline USA) Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday she is calling the House back into session over the crisis at the U.S. Postal Service.

Pelosi is cutting short lawmakers’ summer recess with a vote expected the Saturday after the Democratic National Convention on legislation that would prohibit changes at the agency.

President Donald Trump’s new postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, has sparked left-wing outcry over delays, new prices and cutbacks just as millions of Americans will be trying to vote by mail to avoid polling places during the coronavirus outbreak.

“In a time of a pandemic, the Postal Service is Election Central,” Pelosi wrote Sunday in a letter to colleagues, who had been expected to be out of session until September. “Lives, livelihoods and the life of our American Democracy are under threat from the president.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent senators home for a summer recess.

Earlier Sunday, Democratic lawmakers demanded that leaders of the Postal Service testify at an emergency oversight hearing Aug. 24 on mail delays.

The House Oversight and Reform Committee said it wants to hear from DeJoy and from the chair of the Postal Service board of governors, Robert “Mike” Duncan.

With heightened scrutiny of its operations, the Postal Service is now requesting a temporary preelection rate increase, from mid-October through Christmas, although not for first-class letters.

The agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment about whether the two men would appear before the House committee.

But it said Sunday it would stop removing its distinctive blue mailboxes through mid-November following complaints from customers and members of Congress that the collection boxes were being taken away.

“Given the recent customer concerns the Postal Service will postpone removing boxes for a period of 90 days while we evaluate our customers’ concerns,” Postal Service spokeswoman Kimberly Frum said.

House Democrats are expected to discuss the lawmakers’ schedule details on a conference call on Monday and were likely to be in session next Saturday, a senior Democratic aide said on condition of anonymity because the plans were private.

The legislation being prepared for the vote, the “Delivering for America Act,” would prohibits the Postal Service from implementing any changes to operations or level of service it had in place on Jan. 1.

DeJoy, a major Republican donor and ally of the president who took control of the agency in June, has pledged to modernize the money-losing agency to make it more efficient, and has eliminated most overtime for postal workers, imposed restrictions on transportation and reduced of the quantity and use of mail-processing equipment.

Trump said last week that he was blocking a $25 billion emergency injection sought by the Postal Service, as well as a Democratic proposal to provide $3.6 billion in additional election money to the states.

The money for the post office is intended to help with processing an expected surge of mail-in ballots. Both funding requests have been tied up in congressional negotiations over a new coronavirus relief package.

On Saturday, Trump said he supports increasing money for the Postal Service.

He said he was refusing to capitulate to Democrats on other parts of the relief package, including funding for states weighed down by debt accumulated before the pandemic.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Robert Trump, the President’s Younger Brother, Dead at 71

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Robert Trump, the President’s Younger Brother, Dead at 71

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel, died Saturday night after being hospitalized in New York, the president said in a statement. He was 71.

The president visited his brother at a New York City hospital on Friday after White House officials said he had become seriously ill. Officials did not immediately release a cause of death.

“It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” Donald Trump said in a statement. “He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”

The youngest of the Trump siblings had remained close to the 74-year-old president and, as recently as June, filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Trump family that unsuccessfully sought to stop publication of a book by the president’s niece, Mary.

Robert Trump had reportedly been hospitalized in the intensive care unit for several days that same month.

Both longtime businessmen, Robert and Donald had strikingly different personalities.

Donald Trump once described his younger brother as “much quieter and easygoing than I am,” and “the only guy in my life whom I ever call ‘honey.'”

Robert Trump began his career on Wall Street working in corporate finance but later joined the family business, managing real estate holdings as a top executive in the Trump Organization.

“When he worked in the Trump Organization, he was known as the nice Trump,” Gwenda Blair, a Trump family biographer, told The Associated Press. “Robert was the one people would try to get to intervene if there was a problem.”

Robert Stewart Trump was born in 1948, the youngest of New York City real estate developer Fred Trump’s five children.

The president, more than two years older than Robert, admittedly bullied his brother in their younger years, even as he praised his loyalty and laid-back demeanor.

“I think it must be hard to have me for a brother but he’s never said anything about it and we’re very close,” Donald Trump wrote in his 1987 bestseller “The Art of the Deal.”

“Robert gets along with almost everyone,” he added, “which is great for me since I sometimes have to be the bad guy.”

A Boston University graduate, Robert Trump later managed the Brooklyn portion of father Fred Trump’s real estate empire, which was eventually sold.

Once a regular boldface name in Manhattan’s social pages, Robert Trump had kept a lower profile in recent years. “He was not a newsmaker,” Blair said.

Before divorcing his first wife, Blaine Trump, more than a decade ago, Robert Trump had been active on Manhattan’s Upper East Side charity circuit.

He avoided the limelight during his elder brother’s presidency, having retired to the Hudson Valley. But he described himself as a big supporter of the White House run in a 2016 interview with the New York Post.

“I support Donald one thousand percent,” Robert Trump said.

In early March of 2020, he married his longtime girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan.

The president’s surviving siblings include Elizabeth Trump Grau and Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals judge.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

CBP Sends Extra Agents to Border in Effort to Catch COVID-Infected Illegal Aliens

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CBP Sends Extra Agents to Border in Effort to Catch COVID-Infected Illegal Aliens

Customs and Border Protection deployed additional agents to the southern border on Thursday in an effort to keep sick illegal aliens from spreading the coronavirus, according to a Center for Immigration Studies report.

These 400 to 1,000 additional agents will assist Border Patrol officers in arresting and deporting “got-aways,” the illegal aliens who slip into the American interior.

The coronavirus has given immigration agencies greater incentive to ensure that sick illegal aliens do not spread COVID-19 among citizens and illegal aliens who live in border states.

An anonymous CBP official told CIS that the surge in immigration officers is to “mitigate public health impacts on the American public amid the ongoing global pandemic” and to stop “the Covid-19 public health risk posed if these illegal entry attempts continue unabated.”

Acting CBP Commissioner Mark Morgan said illegal aliens, who are coming in higher numbers during the summer, are entering the United States “for their own economic endeavors,” without any concern about spreading the virus.

“They’re running. They’re fighting. They’re doing everything that they can to avoid apprehension,” Morgan said Aug. 6 at a press conference.

“Even though some of the illegal aliens know, or highly suspect, that they have Covid . . . they’re still coming,” he said. “They’re exposing everyone they come in contact with during their journey, as they illegally try to enter this country.”

The agents will serve on 30-day deployments to two areas in Texas, the Laredo and Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sectors.

Morgan said CBP agents are at risk when they apprehend infected illegal aliens. Ten agents have died from the coronavirus.

Hospitals in the south-Texas area have had a high number of patients with life-threatening cases, to such an extent that their services are being overwhelmed.

These hospitals have had add to expend additional resources in sending critically ill patients to hospitals in Amarillo, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and other cities.

Right across the border, Mexican hospitals in Matamoros, Reynosa, and Nuevo Laredo have not been able to keep up with the number of infected and dying patients, Mexico News Daily reported.

Another report from the Center for Immigration Studies found that high numbers of COVID-19 cases in border states may have been caused by illegal immigration.

On-the-ground hospital workers have reported that they are treating Mexican patients who either legally or illegally immigrated into the United States for the purpose of seeking treatment.

“According to my patients, they are coming over from Mexico because they’re not getting treated in Mexico,” said Megan Hill, a nurse in Riverside County, California. “They are flying helicopters every hour — bam, bam, bam — constantly flying them. It’s definitely happening.”

Hill also said that case numbers are high because health officials are double-counting illegal aliens.

“Our county is counting these people as [new positives in] Riverside County. They are not. They have tested positive already in the county of San Diego,” she said. “They’re flying them over to the county of Riverside, so if they’re going to do that why is Riverside taking those counts?”

Trump Earns Endorsement of NYC Police Union; Warns of ‘Left-Wing War on Cops’

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Trump Earns Endorsement of NYC Police Union; Warns of ‘Left-Wing War on Cops’

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Friday told hundreds of New York Police Department officers that “no one will be safe in Biden’s America” if the former Democratic vice president defeats him in November.”

“This guy has been taking your dignity away and your respect,” Trump said of former Vice President Joe Biden. “And I’m telling you on Nov. 3 you’re going to be getting it back.”

Trump spoke to members of the City of New York Police Benevolent Association, the union representing some 24,000 rank-and-file officers.

The president’s campaign is looking to raise doubts about the Biden-Harris ticket’s ability to keep the peace in the nation’s biggest metropolises. Trump was formally endorsed by the union during the event at his New Jersey golf course.

At a moment when the nation has been jarred by sometimes violent anarchists, leftists, and racists, Trump has repeatedly blamed big city mayors in Democratic-strongholds – including New York, Portland, Seattle, Chicago – for undermining police officers.

“In New York, you have New York’s finest, but they’ve totally taken away their incentive,” Trump said earlier this week. “They’ve taken away their lives, in a sense, because they don’t allow them to do their job.”

In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly asserted that Biden supports defunding the police.

His campaign has aired advertising in battleground states showing a woman calling police for help as an intruder breaks into her home and getting a voice recording informing her that, because the police have been defunded, no one is available to take her call.

Trump has also tweeted warnings to “Suburban Housewives” that Biden will shatter their communities by requiring communities to build lower income housing as part of new development.

Trump recently revoked an Obama-era housing regulation designed to micromanage the residents who live in suburbs.

The president, in his speech, also took sharp aim at Harris, a former California attorney general, as being hostile to police, and suggested that she and Biden were at the center of “a left-wing war on cops”

“Probably she’s a step worse, Kamala,” Trump said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

Trump Orders Chinese Owner of TikTok to Sell US Assets

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Trump Orders Chinese Owner of TikTok to Sell US Assets

(Associated Press) President Donald Trump on Friday gave the Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular TikTok app in the United States.

Trump’s executive order said there is “credible evidence that leads me to believe that ByteDance … might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States.”

Trump last week ordered sweeping bans on dealings with the Chinese owners of TikTok and the messaging app WeChat, saying they are a threat to U.S. national security, foreign policy and the economy.

It remains unclear what the TikTok orders mean for the app’s 100 million U.S. users, many of them teenagers or young adults who use it to post and watch short-form videos.

Trump on Friday also ordered ByteDance to divest itself of “any data obtained or derived” from TikTok users in the U.S.

Microsoft is in talks to buy parts of TikTok.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended Trump’s earlier TikTok and WeChat orders Thursday, telling reporters he was exercising his emergency authority under a 1977 law enabling the president to regulate international commerce to address unusual threats.

“The administration is committed to protecting the American people from all cyber threats and these apps collect significant amounts of private data on users,” said McEnany, adding that the Chinese government can access and use such data.

TikTok said it spent nearly a year trying to engage in “good faith” with the U.S. government to address these concerns.

“What we encountered instead was that the Administration paid no attention to facts, dictated terms of an agreement without going through standard legal processes, and tried to insert itself into negotiations between private businesses,” the company’s statement said.

Radical Teen Democrat Leading in Kansas Race Admits to Blackmail, Revenge Porn

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Radical Teen Democrat Leading in Kansas Race Admits to Blackmail, Revenge Porn

(Headline USA) Democrats are scrambling to deal with the strong possibility that a 19-year-old candidate for a Kansas House seat in Kansas City will unseat a veteran lawmaker.

They are concerned because the candidate, Aaron Coleman, made incendiary comments on social media and acknowleded abusive behavior online toward girls in middle school.

Aaron Coleman, a dishwasher and community college student, holds a five-vote lead over seven-term state Rep. Stan Frownfelter, a 69-year-old small business owner.

Officials in their home of Wyandotte County are scheduled to meet Monday to review provisional ballots and decide whether to count them, potentially altering Coleman’s 807-802 lead in voting.

Coleman is running a liberal platform that includes universal health coverage, eliminating college tuition, defunding the police and legalizing marijuana.

But he received more attention for a social media post suggesting he would “laugh and giggle” if a former GOP state lawmaker died of COVID-19, another post endorsing abortion up to the moment of birth and a third acknowledging that allegations that he engaged in online bullying, blackmail and revenge porn were true.

He apologized for the comments and said his past behavior targeting several middle-school girls was that of “a sick and troubled” 14-year-old.

Some Democrats are struggling with the possibility that with no Republican on the ballot in the 37th District this fall, Coleman could sit in the House come January.

Frownfelter argues that Coleman’s nomination could hurt Democrats’ efforts to pick up seats in the GOP-controlled Legislature.

“He is not fit to serve in the Legislature,” said Lauren Fitzgerald, a spokeswoman for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.

Coleman also ran as an independent write-in candidate for governor in 2018. He attributed the results of the House primary to his door-to-door campaigning and said in an email to The Associated Press that he was “absolutely shocked” by the results.

“I ran to talk about how to make Kansas better for working people,” Coleman said. “I never expected I would win.”

Frownfelter won the Kansas City, Kansas, seat in 2006 and hadn’t previously faced a contested primary. He also faced no opponent at all in five of his seven previous elections.

Frownfelter said in an interview that he believes that had turnout been higher, he would have won and suggested that young voters came out to back Coleman while older constituents did not vote.

“Everybody I talked to said, “Oh, you don’t have to worry. You’re going to win,'” Frownfelter said. He added that that many voters didn’t know of Coleman’s social media posts or past behavior.

Coleman’s social media posts about coronavirus and abortion have been taken down, and in an Aug. 1 post on Facebook, he apologized that he had “crossed a boundary.”

“I’m new at politics and so sometimes I speak a little too directly,” he said in his email Friday to AP. “But these issues are life and death.”

The Kansas City Star detailed the allegations about Coleman’s behavior in middle school in a recent editorial decrying the possibility that he could serve in the House. He did not dispute the newspaper’s account.

The Star said Coleman obtained a nude photo of a girl, threatened distribute it unless she sent him more nude photos and followed through with the threat when she didn’t provide more photos.

Asked about the accuracy of those details, Coleman said in his email to the AP, “They’re accurate.”

Coleman said Friday that he was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder at age 15.

In a June 17 Facebook post, he attributed his problems partly to spending “the vast majority” of his elementary school education “in a closet” instead of getting proper help at school. He said he was home-schooled in middle school.

“I’ve grown a great deal since then,” he said in his Friday email.

Doug Powers, assistant superintendent of the Kansas City-area Turner school district where Coleman went to elementary school, said it does not “put kids in closets.”

State Democratic Party officials are not commenting at least until the vote-counting is done.

Jacques Barber, Wyandotte County’s Democratic chairman, said the party shouldn’t try to overturn the result if Coleman is declared the nominee but “try to counsel him and give him as much guidance as we can.”

“He has been elected by the people, and the people have been exposed to what he’s said and done, and apparently, that’s their choice,” Barber said.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press.

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