https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/07/01/trump-falsely-asserts-biden-was-fed-questions/
Thursday, July 2, 2020
Fact Check: Trump Falsely Asserts Biden Was Fed Questions
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/ap-fact-check-trump-falsely-asserts-biden-was-fed-questions/2399301/
President Donald Trump has fabricated a complaint that Democratic
rival Joe Biden was fed questions at a news conference and read his
answers from a teleprompter. This didn't happen.
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Ed Henry fired from Fox News over sexual misconduct allegation
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/01/media/ed-henry-fired-fox-news/index.html
Fox News said Wednesday that Ed Henry, one of its top news anchors, had
been fired after the network received a complaint last week of sexual
harassment from years ago.
Months after Henry was sidelined, Ailes was forced out of Fox News
after numerous women came forward and accused him of sexual harassment
and assault. The scandal exposed deep-rooted cultural problems at Fox,
sparked numerous lawsuits and led the Murdochs to make sweeping changes.
Bill O'Reilly, once the network's top star, was forced out of the network less than a year later after facing allegations of sexual harassment, which he also denied.
Black Lives Matter Risks Premier League Support Loss Over Anti-Israel Views
https://www.newsweek.com/premier-league-football-black-lives-matter-racism-equality-1514700
The movement has been criticized over its comments on "defending the police" and criticism of Israel.
Curtailed by Coronavirus, What the Loss of Summer Camp Means for Kids
https://time.com/5862316/kids-miss-summer-camp-coronavirus/
It wasn’t just the leadership opportunities or seeing his best
friends or even escaping months stuck at home because of the coronavirus
pandemic that had Rory Sederoff thinking 2020 would be one of his best
summers ever.
This would have been the Toronto teenager’s 15th
year at Camp Walden, a sleepaway camp in upstate New York where he has
spent every summer since he was 3 months old. He had already started
rehearsing the speech he was going to give at the end-of-summer banquet,
and imagined the exact tree by the waterfront that he would pick to be
named in his honor.
Are Zionists and Evangelicals turning against each other in the Holy Land?
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/are-zionists-and-evangelicals-turning-against-each-other-in-the-holy-land-36224
But for Simpson, it shouldn’t come as a surprise as missionary work is a founding principle of his organisation.
“This
subject preaching about Jesus is a touchy one [in Israel]. We do
understand that. We have to be sensitive to it,” Simpson admitted.
“But
that’s what we do. That’s what we are. We are Christians that we are
called to go to all the world and preach the gospel. That’s what we’re
trained to do, and that’s what we’re doing,” Simpson asserted.
Evangelicals to the left, Iran to the right
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SkFIq00u78
Opinion: Trump thirst for more supporters both in conservative circles and voters has firmly brought the evangelical community into the halls of power and influence, but at what cost for him and for us?
One of the main differences between evangelicals and other strains of Christianity lies in their relationship with the Bible.
Conservative evangelicals believe that the Bible is the literal truth. For them, it is a sort of prophetic road map for modern life, with events described and prophesied within the scripture destined to come true.
For evangelicals, the most important prophecy is the second coming, the return of Jesus Christ to Earth. The Bible doesn't mention when this will happen, but it does mention where – the land of Israel.
Several senior evangelical pastors meet with Trump on a regular basis. These are the leaders of megachurches with tens of thousands of followers.
Many of these pastors follow the belief of Christian Zionism, the concept that the return of the Jewish people to Israel is just one of a series of events that will trigger the second coming of the Messiah.
According to this theology, God will reward those who help Israel and punish those who don't - a belief that leads directly to a clash with Iran.
Jews Welcome Evangelical Love, Money and Influence for Israel. But Call Our Christianity 'Poison'?
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-jews-welcome-evangelical-support-for-israel-but-call-our-preaching-poison-1.8851383
It seems
disingenuous that Jewish leaders now blast fervently pro-Israel
evangelicals’ faith as toxic, ugly and destructive – just because we
won’t, and can’t, stop preaching to Jews
'Trump would lose Evangelical support if he doesn't support sovereignty'
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/282851
Evangelical leader Mike Evans, the founder of the Friends of Zion
Museum in Jerusalem warned that the Trump Administration risks losing
the support of American Evangelicals if it does not recognize Israel's
sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.
In an interview with Israel Hayom, Evans praised the Trump
Administration for its close relationship with Israel. "Today we have a
dream team. The Secretary of State is Mike Pompeo, an Evangelical, and
he has changed the direction of the State Department, which has
traditionally sought to weaken Israel. Vice President Mike Pence is
Israel's biggest supporter in Washington as [Israeli] Ambassador Ron
Dermer has stated. And above all is President Trump, who is the biggest
supporter the Evangelical community has ever had and the most pro-Israel
president who has ever lived."
Addressing the upcoming US presidential elections, Evens said that
"the question now is whether Trump wants to be president. The
Evangelical community gave Trump the presidency for two reasons: to be
pro-life (meaning against abortions) and to support Israel. We have not
forgotten who owns the land of Israel or the theological basis for it,
We believe that the land belongs to the Jewish people, because that was
G-d's decision in the Hebrew Bible and you cannot say that the bible is
illegal,"
Trump threatens veto of defense bill over amendment renaming bases that honor Confederates
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-veto-of-defense-bill-over-amendment-renaming-bases
President Trump late Tuesday night threatened to veto the must-pass bill to fund the military
for the 2021 fiscal year if it includes an amendment introduced by Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., aimed at renaming military assets named
after Confederate leaders and generals.
Warren added: "Those who complain that removing the names of traitors
from these bases ignores history ought to learn some history
themselves. These bases were not named in the years following the Civil
War. No. They were named decades and decades later, during the Jim Crow
era, to strengthen a movement that tried to glorify the Confederacy and
reinforce white supremacy."
Persecuted Messianic Believers in Israel Win Court Case After Years of Harassment
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2020/june/persecuted-messianic-believers-in-israel-win-court-case-after-years-of-harassment
A Messianic Jewish congregation in Ashdod has won a court case against the Israeli anti-evangelism organization Yad L’Achim.
The court issued a restraining order against members of Yad L’Achim
for harassing Jewish believers in Jesus and trying to prevent them from
attending worship services at Beit Hallel, home to about 350
worshippers.
“They harassed us for so long. We filed dozens of complaints with the
police and nothing happened so eventually we went to court,” Ludmila
Zakharchuk, the lawyer for Beit Hallel told Kehila News. “We won the
court case just a few days ago.”
Israeli congregation wins restraining order after 9 years of ‘harassment’ from anti-evangelism group
https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-congregation-pastor-restraining-order
An Israeli congregation announced it won a court case against a prominent anti-evangelism group after years of alleged harassment, including property damage.
Pastor Israel Pochtar of Congregation Beit Hallel, a Messianic Jewish congregation -- Jews who believe Jesus was the Messiah -- in the southern coastal city of Ashdod, announced a restraining
order preventing ultra-Orthodox, Jewish anti-missionary organization,
Yad L'Achim, from coming within 100 meters of the congregation's
property and personal homes.
Trump falsely accuses Biden of being fed reporters’ questions
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/01/trump-falsely-accuses-biden-346786
President Donald Trump on Wednesday
falsely asserted that former Vice President Joe Biden responded to
questions from reporters a day earlier with pre-written answers
displayed on a teleprompter — despite video footage of Biden’s
interactions with the media demonstrably proving otherwise.
Trump refuses to lead as pandemic worsens and allies desert him on masks
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/01/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus/index.html
Most Presidents would try to stop the United States from barreling toward disaster. But Donald Trump has nothing to say and no answers to mitigate a calamity unfolding on his watch that he seems resolved to ignore.
Most Presidents would try to stop the United States from barreling toward disaster. But Donald Trump has nothing to say and no answers to mitigate a calamity unfolding on his watch that he seems resolved to ignore.
On the day when the government's top infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci said he would not be surprised to see the US record 100,000 new coronavirus cases per day, Trump refused to break his deafening silence.
And the day after his White House described record-breaking new infections that are sweeping the nation as "embers that need to be put out," Trump's campaign claimed credit for the "phenomenal" success of his botched pandemic leadership.
Four reasons why Israeli annexation is not happening July 1
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/four-reasons-why-israels-annexation-plans-arent-happening-july-1-633389
Still, missing the July 1 date is symbolic of how fraught the process has become. Here are the reasons why it hasn’t come together the way that Netanyahu had hoped.
Sanders signs letter calling for halting of aid to Israel
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/282786
Vermont Senator adds his name to letter spearheaded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez against Israel's sovereignty plans.
Supreme Court opens door to state funding for religious schools
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/espinoza-montana-religious-schools-scholarship-supreme-court/index.html
In a ruling that will open the door to more public funding for religious education, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in favor of parents in Montana seeking to use a state scholarship program to send their children to religious schools.
The court said that a Montana tax credit program that directed money to private schools could not exclude religious schools.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Judge temporarily blocks publication of tell-all book by President Trump's niece
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/30/media/mary-trump-book/index.html
The ruling, issued by Judge
Hal B. Greenwald of the New York State Supreme Court, the state's trial
court, is the first legal win for Robert S. Trump, the younger brother
of the President. Robert Trump has sought to block the book
by Mary Trump, the President's niece, contending it violates a
confidentiality agreement related to the estate of the President's
father, Fred Trump.
The Tuesday ruling comes after a judge for the Queens County Surrogate Court in New York last week dismissed a similar attempt to block the book, citing a lack of jurisdiction.
Berlin authorities placed children with pedophiles for 30 years
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-authorities-placed-children-with-pedophiles-for-30-years/a-53814208
The 'Kentler Project' in West Berlin routinely placed
homeless children with pedophile men, assuming they'd make ideal foster
parents. A study has found the practice went on for decades.
Starting in the 1970s psychology professor Helmut Kentler conducted
his "experiment." Homeless children in West Berlin were intentionally
placed with pedophile men. These men would make especially loving foster
parents, Kentler argued.
A study conducted by the University of
Hildesheim has found that authorities in Berlin condoned this practice
for almost 30 years. The pedophile foster fathers even received a
regular care allowance.
Helmut Kentler (1928-2008) was in a
leading position at Berlin's center for educational research. He was
convinced that sexual contact between adults and children was harmless.
765 new infections recorded over last 24 hours, as virus curve bulges
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-june-30-2020/
Number of seriously ill patients jumps to 52, up from 46 Tuesday morning; single day case tally matches second highest since start of pandemic
The Health Ministry releases new coronavirus data showing 765 new infections over the last 24 hours, as the pandemic continues to trend upward.Twitch suspends Trump's account for hate speech
https://www.jpost.com/international/twitch-suspends-trumps-account-for-hateful-speech-633315
US President Donald Trump's Twitch account was suspended on Monday for violating the site's rules regarding hateful content, gaming news outlet Gamespot reported.
“Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch. In line with our
policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary
suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending
content has been removed,” a Twitch spokesman said in a statement,
according to Gamespot.
The
statement gave examples of hate speech used in some of Trump's
livestreams, citing both a 2016 rally that was recently rebroadcast, and
the recent campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Both examples could be
perceived as racist and hateful against Mexicans.
The
example from the 2016 rally was the now-infamous quote regarding
Mexican immigrants. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending
their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re
sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those
problems to us,” Trump said at the time. “They’re
bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I
assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us
what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense – it only makes
common sense. They’re sending us not the right people.”
New revelations stir old questions about Trump and Russia
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/30/politics/donald-trump-russia-taliban-phone-calls/index.html
Reports that a Russian military intelligence agency put a bounty on the heads of US troops
in Afghanistan launched the President's team into a new cycle of
confusion, apparent half-truths and contradictions as a fresh storm
raged over Trump's mysterious deference to Moscow and its strongman
leader, President Vladimir Putin.
Conflicting messages from the
President and his press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, only deepened the
intrigue about what is really going on.
None of what they are saying clears up an episode that comes as new reporting for CNN from veteran Washington reporter Carl Bernstein
lifts the lid on Trump's desperate flattery of Putin, his ignorance of
basic world events, the way he was manipulated by smarter world leaders
and his "near-sadistic" -- according to one source -- behavior toward
female world leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
'Blood is on their hands': Rep. Banks says NYT revealed sensitive details on Russia bounty intel
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-times-russia-bounty-story-rep-banks
"Having served in Afghanistan during the time the alleged bounties
were placed, no one is angrier about this than me," Banks wrote. "Now
it’s impossible to finish the investigation. All b/c the @nytimes will
do anything to damage @realdonaldtrump , even if it means compromising
nat'l security."
The White House said Monday that Trump wasn't
briefed on U.S. intelligence assessments concerning the bounties because
the information had not been verified.
Press Secretary Kayleigh
McEnany told reporters Monday that Trump — even now — had not been
briefed on the allegations because the intelligence “would not be
elevated to the president until it was verified."
The result was an odd situation in which eight Republican lawmakers
attended a briefing at the White House on Monday about explosive
allegations that the president himself was said to have not been fully
read in on.
GOP Lawmakers Urge Action After Russia-Afghanistan 'Bounties' Briefing
https://time.com/5861497/gop-russia-afghanistan-briefing-bounties/
The White House seemed to be setting an unusually high bar for
bringing the information to Trump, since it is rare for intelligence to
be confirmed without a shadow of doubt before it is presented to senior
government decision-makers. McEnany declined to say why a different
standard of confidence in the intelligence applied to briefing lawmakers
than bringing the information to the president.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Texas Rep. Mac Thornberry, the top
Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, said, “After today’s
briefing with senior White House officials, we remain concerned about
Russian activity in Afghanistan, including reports that they have
targeted U.S. forces.”
Trump battles NY Times on Afghanistan story, deletes inflammatory video
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-battles-ny-times-on-afghanistan-story-deletes-inflammatory-video
The president’s first instinct, as always, was to blame the press.
When
a damaging story emerged, Donald Trump said he hadn’t been told about
it, and besides, it was another “phony hit job” by the New York Times,
and the paper should name its unnamed sources which, he said, were
probably made up.
Trump went further yesterday, calling the report
“possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News New
York Times, wanting to make Republicans look bad!!!”
Much remains
murky about what the president was or wasn’t told about Russia and
Afghanistan. But unnamed administration officials have since confirmed
the guts of the story to the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, NBC,
CNN and the AP, among others.
Kayleigh McEnany kept the focus on the Times yesterday, telling “Fox
& Friends” that “it is truly egregious when you have anonymous
sources spewing out this information on the pages of the New York Times
anonymously, giving them false information.” I understand the
frustration about leaks, which have plagued Trump from the beginning,
but it’s hard to simultaneously argue that the information is both
classified and false.
Some Republicans, led by Liz Cheney, have
joined Democrats in demanding to know why the president wasn’t briefed,
if that’s the case.
Pentagon says ‘no corroborating’ evidence to stand up NYT report on Russian bounties
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-says-no-corroborating-evidence-to-stand-up-nyt-report-on-russian-bounties
The Defense Department said late Monday that there
is “no corroborating evidence” to support the explosive New York Times
report last week that said the Russian military offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Robert O’Brien, the national security adviser, said in a statement
that since the allegations in the report were not verified by the
intelligence community, Trump has not been briefed on the matter.
A White House official told Fox News on Monday that Trump has now
been briefed on the issue. It’s unclear exactly when this briefing took
place, but the official says it took place sometime “after the NY Times
reported on unverified intelligence.”
The statement is at odds with the White House, which insisted that Trump has still not been briefed.
St. Louis couple pulls firearms on protesters cutting through their private street
"The peaceful protesters were not the
subject of scorn or disdain by the McCloskeys," their attorney, Albert
S. Watkins, said in a statement to CNN. "To the contrary, they were
expecting and supportive of the message of the protesters. The actions
of violence, destruction of property and acts of threatening aggression
by a few individuals commingling with the peaceful protesters, gave rise
to trepidation and fear of imminent and grave."
Watkins
says his clients acted, "lawfully on their property," and that "their
actions were borne solely of fear and apprehension, the genesis of which
was not race related. In fact, the agitators responsible for the
trepidation were white."
Golden State Killer pleads guilty to 13 murders
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53226327
Joseph DeAngelo, the man known as
the Golden State Killer, has admitted to 13 murders in a deal with US
prosecutors meant to spare him the death penalty.
Trump is facing the thing he dreads most
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/29/opinions/trump-facing-thing-dreads-most-dantonio/index.html
Declaring in 2016 that "I alone can fix it," Donald Trump made the country's fate all about him. He promised
so much "winning" we'd get sick of it, and asked "What have you got to
lose?" As President he made everything into a fight between Team Trump
(good) and everyone else (bad). He bullied those he couldn't persuade
and even survived an impeachment trial. But now, confronted with a
pandemic, an economic crisis, and a moment of reckoning over racism, the
limit of the president's method is obvious, and he seems on the brink
of becoming the thing he most dreads: A loser.
With his limited mind, deficient heart
and empty soul on full display, Trump is discovering that a man who
declares "I alone can fix it" runs the risk of being blamed when
everything breaks down. This is why his 2016 campaign aide Sam Nunberg says Trump
is risking one of the worst defeats in history and political TV host
Joe Scarborough is speculating about Trump quitting. Trump is "acting
like he doesn't want to get re-elected," says Scarborough. "He's acting like he really wants to lose badly and take the Republican Party down with him."
Exposed by his own actions, the man who
makes everything into a referendum on himself has given Americans
another clear choice. He has demonstrated that what we've got to lose
are our lives and that the choice really is between him, or us. Now
we'll have to decide whether we will all join Team America and deliver
to the bully his just deserts.
White House Was Reportedly Aware of Intel on Russian Bounties for U.S. Troops in 2019
https://time.com/5861541/white-house-russia-bounties-2019/
Top officials in the
White House were aware in early 2019 of classified intelligence
indicating Russia was secretly offering bounties to the Taliban for the
deaths of Americans, a full year earlier than has been previously
reported, according to U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the
intelligence.
The assessment was included in at least one of
President Donald Trump’s written daily intelligence briefings at the
time, according to the officials. Then-national security adviser John
Bolton also told colleagues he briefed Trump on the intelligence
assessment in March 2019.
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