If you’re a white person in 2013, Nuzzo explained, your chances of being murdered by another white person are approximately 11 in a million, and your chances of being murdered by a black person are two in a million. Meanwhile, if you’re a black person in 2013, your chances of being murdered by another black person are 56 in a million, and your chances of being murdered by a white person are five in a million.
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Trump says Pentagon chiefs are accommodating weapons makers
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/07/trump-disparages-pentagon-chiefs-409528
President Donald Trump on Monday accused the United States’ military leadership of being beholden to arms manufacturers, in an attack on his own administration only days after reports that he had mocked fallen soldiers.
Speaking at a combative White House news conference, Trump said leaders at the Pentagon probably weren’t “in love with me” because “they want to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.”
Pelosi Salon Scandal: Stylist Says It Was A Set Up
KEY FACTS
Soleiman, APC, the firm representing stylist Jonathan DeNardo, said in a statement that e Salon SF owner Erica Kious authorized him to go forward with the appointment even though it violated local health rules prohibiting salons from operating indoors.
It’s unclear if DeNardo knew the appointment violated health orders
or if he was mistaken about the rules, as Pelosi’s office says they
were told by the salon they were “allowed by the city to have one
customer at a time in the business.” (Soleiman, APC did not immediately
respond to a request for comment from Forbes).
During a phone conversation when the appointment was approved, Kious “made several vitriolic and incendiary comments about Speaker Pelosi and her purported responsibility for temporarily suspending operations of Ms. Kious’ business,” according to the statement.
The law firm representing DeNardo says it has photographs, video footage and witness statements alleging that Kious has herself been violating health orders by operating her business indoors while not wearing a mask since April 2020, despite her admonishment of the visit in an interview with Fox News.
Hair salon owner thanks supporters after more than $300G raised
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hair-salon-owner-thanks-supporters
San Francisco hair salon owner Erica Kious thanked supporters for their “outpouring” of “empathy and generosity” amid her feud with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after a crowdfunding effort raised several hundred thousand dollars for her.
During an exclusive interview with Fox News on Monday, Kious said that a GoFundMe page that was created for her amid the controversy reached its goal, which was $300,000.
France protests Israel’s deportation of terrorist who planned to kill chief rabbi
France has registered an official protest against Israel’s planned deportation of French-Palestinian terrorist Salah Hamouri, who planned to assassinate former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef, along with other attacks.
Paris asked Israel
on Sunday to postpone the expulsion and allow Hamouri, who is a French
citizen, to be reunited with his family in Jerusalem.
Foreign Ministry deputy director-general for Europe Anna Azari told French Ambassador to Israel Eric Danon that Israel plans to revoke Hamouri’s residency in light of his continued, active membership in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Postmaster General DeJoy Reportedly Reimbursed Employees After Bundling Donations
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a GOP mega-donor whose operational changes at the U.S. Postal Service have led to allegations that he is intentionally sabotaging mail-in voting, reimbursed employees from whom he solicited political donations, according to a Washington Post report.
The Post report suggests his status as a bundler may have
been built on illegal fundraising practices, with former employees of
New Breed Logistics, DeJoy’s former business, alleging he “pressured”
them to make political contributions to GOP candidates which were later
“reimbursed” through bonuses.
The Post found a pattern of New Breed employees making uniform donations to candidates, often on the same day, with donations from employees dwindling after DeJoy’s departure in 2015 and one former employees telling the Post they “felt little choice” but to donate due to DeJoy’s “heavy-handed demeanor” and reputation for angering easily.
Large weddings blamed as virus rates spike in NYC Orthodox neighborhoods
Rising fears about a second wave of coronavirus cases in New York City’s Orthodox communities appear to be coming to pass, with the proportion of tests turning up cases of the disease more than four times the citywide rate in one heavily Orthodox neighborhood in newly released data from late August. Meanwhile, rising cases in New Jersey, Baltimore and other areas with large Orthodox populations represent a threat to in-person instruction at local Jewish schools, many of which reopened last week, as well as plans for in-person services for the High Holidays.
And even as many Orthodox leaders are exhorting community members to follow public health recommendations to wear masks and avoid large gatherings, others say they intend to flout rules designed to stop the spread of the disease.
Trump launches unprecedented attack on military leadership he appointed
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/07/politics/trump-attack-military-leadership/index.html
President Donald Trump launched an unprecedented public attack against the leadership of the US military on Monday, accusing them of waging wars to boost the profits of defense manufacturing companies.
"I'm
not saying the military's in love with me -- the soldiers are, the top
people in the Pentagon probably aren't because they want to do nothing
but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the
bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy," Trump
told reporters at a White House news conference.
Monday, September 7, 2020
Marine Le Pen sparks outrage over Holocaust comments
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/10/europe/france-marine-le-pen-holocaust/index.html
Le Pen's latest remarks will do little
to disprove her rivals' belief that she has failed to the Front
National's image and move it away from the anti-Semitic rhetoric
employed by her father, the party's former leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Her attempt to persuade voters that her party had reformed its views was hit last month, when one of its counselors was suspended over allegations of Holocaust denial, after he was caught on camera playing down the systematic murder of six million Jews.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of the Front National, was expelled from the party in 2015 after describing the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, as a "detail of history."
Kevin McCarthy warns Trump's war on mail could screw GOP
https://www.axios.com/republicans-mail-in-voting-trump-a75b7b58-6405-4840-a48f-e26caf72b0fc.html
Between the lines: McCarthy says he agrees with Trump that there's a difference between absentee voting, in which voters request a ballot, and vote-by-mail programs, where jurisdictions automatically send ballots to registered voters.
- McCarthy sees vote by mail as particularly problematic in states that don't have the infrastructure to handle such ballots on a massive scale.
- But he said most Americans don't get the distinction.
Reality check: There's no evidence that voting by mail is plagued by fraud. Trump himself voted by mail in Florida last month.
גמזו "חזר בו" מדבריו על מרן הגר"ח קנייבסקי
https://www.kikar.co.il/373748.html
פרויקטור הקורונה פרופ' רוני גמזו אומר כי הוא חוזר בו מדבריו הבוטים כי הוראת הגר"ח קנייבסקי לא להיבדק בישיבות גדולות וסגורות מסוכנת, אך במקום להביע חרטה מתפתל וטוען שההוראה יוחסה לרב "בטעות"
Coronavirus czar apologizes for criticizing senior ultra-Orthodox rabbi
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1TFk6X4w
Prof. Ronni Gamzu says Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky did not, as reported by ultra-Orthodox publication, tell yeshiva students to avoid all coronavirus testing, after claiming Haredi leader was endangering public health
"I regret the misunderstanding as a result of the biased publication of the remarks of Rabbi Kanievsky, whom I respect and admire, and take back what I said," Gamzu said.
“I checked it and it seems Rabbi Kanievsky never gave an instruction not to get checked, but was rather a decision based on the opinion of several rabbis for specific cases of yeshiva students in closed capsules, who had already taken coronavirus tests, and in accordance with policies that were set in advance.”
Boris Johnson is battling to reach a Brexit deal. But hardliners already fear betrayal
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/07/uk/johnson-brexit-betrayal-intl-gbr/index.html
When Boris Johnson first took over as British Prime Minister, many in his Conservative Party couldn't believe their luck. After years of watching Theresa May's government rub out red line after red line on Brexit, the man who led the triumphant march to freedom in 2016 was in charge.
Barely
a year on, a decent chunk of that optimism has turned to frustration
and agitation. Despite the fact Johnson has taken the UK out of the
European Union and won a landslide election victory, there is fear the
Prime Minister's desire to end the Brexit story on a personal note of
triumph is clouding his thinking.
In recent weeks, talks on a future trade deal between London and Brussels have been uneasy.
Both sides are indicating that negotiations are going nowhere and that
the other is making unacceptable demands. Both have made clear that
unless things change the time to walk away could come soon, meaning a
no-deal crash out of the transition period on December 31.
Trump likely can't win without veteran support
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/07/politics/donald-trump-election-2020-veterans/index.html
President Donald Trump has been on the defensive since Thursday over an article in The Atlantic magazine that alleged, among other things, that he used derogatory language about fallen US soldiers.
While Trump has forcefully denied that reporting, CNN has largely confirmed it, as have Fox News, the Associated Press, the New York Times and the Washington Post in part.
We
obviously don't know what effect, if any, these stories will have on
the 2020 campaign and Trump's chances of winning a second term.
What
we do know is Trump relies on active military members and veterans as a
base of support, and any degradation of that backing is bad for him.
Further, Trump wants to put former Vice President Joe Biden on the defensive, and this story does the opposite of that.
Trump's Support Among Military Voters Is Tanking
https://time.com/5886241/trumps-support-among-military-voters-is-tanking/
At this point four years ago, then-candidate Donald Trump held a massive lead of 20 points over Hillary Clinton among military voters. This time around, he’s struggling to keep up. A new Military Times poll revealed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads Trump by about four percentage points among active-duty troops.
And that was before today’s bombshell report published in the Atlantic. The article outlines a number of instances when President Donald Trump derided U.S. service members, even describing the country’s war dead as “losers” and “suckers.”
Trump’s popularity slips in latest Military Times poll — and more troops say they’ll vote for Biden
The latest Military Times poll shows a continued decline in active-duty service members’ views of President Donald Trump and a slight but significant preference for former Vice President Joe Biden in the upcoming November election among troops surveyed.
Trump Losing The Military Vote, A Traditional Republican Bloc
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-military-poll_n_5f52b8b4c5b6578026cdea89
President Donald Trump’s numerous lies on military issues, from claims of delivering historic pay raises to providing brand new ships and planes, do not appear to be working with service members, with polling suggesting he could lose this traditional Republican voting bloc this November.
Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads Trump, 41% to 37%, in a survey of more than 1,000 subscribers to the Military Times. Trump held a 20-percentage-point lead over Hillary Clinton in the same poll before the 2016 election.
“I’ve done more, I think, than almost anybody to help our military, to get the budgets of our military, to get the pay raises for our military,” Trump said again late Thursday night on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrew after returning from a rally near Pittsburgh.
In fact, each one of his claims is at best an exaggeration and at worst a lie. While his total military budgets are larger than those in predecessor Barack Obama’s second term when House Republicans insisted on cutting spending, they are smaller than those in Obama’s first term, after adjusting for inflation. Similarly, the pay raises he brags about are the cost-of-living increases that have been standard for years.
The racist myth of France’s ‘descent into savagery’
https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-racist-myth-france-descent-into-savagery/
To be sure, the recent attacks should not be dismissed or played down. Nor should the long-standing problem of violent and criminal behavior from gangs of mostly young men in the inner suburbs of French cities. Many of them — though not all — are of North African or African origin, though most are second-, third- or even fourth-generation. In other words, whatever Le Pen may say, they are not migrants; they are French.
But the claim that France is descending into some apocalyptic twilight world of migrant-driven violence is nonsense. Or rather, it is a lie calculated to stir racial prejudice and hatred. The use of the word “savage” is not accidental.
What Le Pen is not so subtly suggesting is that the presence of large numbers of brown and Black people on French soil, whether they are recent migrants or not, is undesirable. Brown and Black people, she implies, are culturally alien to France and prone to violence.
There is, in fact, no evidence that France is becoming more violent. Rather the opposite.
In the last 25 years, the French murder rate has fallen by almost half and is five times lower than in the United States, when you account for population. Violent robbery and acts of personal violence are stable — even falling, if you exclude sexual assaults which, thankfully, are now reported more systematically to the police.
Trump faces new character tests as campaign enters final stretch
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/07/politics/donald-trump-election-2020-character-test/index.html
Maybe the biggest surprise about allegations President Donald Trump uttered rude dismissals of American war dead was how unsurprising it really was.
The remarks, reported first in The Atlantic
magazine and corroborated by several outlets, including CNN, seemed so
in character with Trump's public persona that even an onslaught of denials from current and former officials did little to negate the impression that Trump is a man who sometimes says terrible things.
When excerpts soon followed of his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen's book
portraying Trump as a cheat, liar, fraud, bully, racist, predator and
con man, the surprise again failed to materialize -- even though Cohen
had worked intimately with Trump for years.
Now, as the presidential campaign begins
its post-Labor Day finale, the question has become less about what
Americans know of Trump's character but whether they care.
Trump
appears to be betting they don't. He's continued his attacks on war
heroes and generals, even as he tries to claim utmost respect for the
military. And he's dismissing efforts to reckon with the country's
racist past, even as he works to convince suburban White voters he's not
racist himself.
In Final Stretch, Biden Defends Lead Against Trump’s Onslaught
Private polls conducted for both parties
during and after their August conventions found the race largely stable
but tightening slightly in some states, with Mr. Trump recovering some
support from conservative-leaning rural voters who had drifted away over
the summer amid the worsening pandemic. Yet Mr. Biden continues to
enjoy advantages with nearly every other group, especially in populous
areas where the virus remains at the forefront for voters, according to
people briefed on the data.
Sunday, September 6, 2020
Facing Haredi rebellion, ministers approve local curfews instead of lockdowns
Ministers on Sunday evening approved nightly curfews in some 40 cities with high infection numbers, instead of the previously planned full lockdown on a smaller number of towns — a plan that had sparked a threat of rebellion from some ultra-Orthodox mayors and a major political crisis with the ultra-Orthodox parties.
The curfews will be in effect every day between 7 p.m. and 5
a.m. Non-essential businesses will be closed during the curfew. Schools
will be closed at all times.
The Latest Polls, the Great Non-Tightening: This Week in the 2020 Race
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/05/us/politics/trump-biden-polls-election.html
A wave of data this week suggested that the race was largely holding steady after the parties’ conventions. Will the uproar over President Trump’s reported remarks on the military shake things up?
A batch of national polls released in the wake of the Democratic and Republican conventions showed Joe Biden leading President Trump by anywhere from seven to 10 percentage points.
Biden leads Trump by 10 points in new national poll
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/515308-biden-leads-trump-by-10-points-in-new-national-poll
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is leading President Trump by 10 points nationally, according to a new poll.
More
than half of likely voters, 52 percent, said they would cast their
ballots for Biden, and 42 percent said they would support Trump,
according to a CBS News-YouGov poll released Sunday. The poll found 3 percent said they are “not sure” who they would vote for, and 3 percent said they would vote for someone else.
Biden, allied military vets slam Trump over Atlantic report, call comments 'disgusting'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/military-vets-slam-trump-over-atlantic-report-call-him-a-coward
The president, the White House and Trump’s reelection campaign have all vigorously denied the allegations. These cover claims from four unnamed sources that the president disparaged fallen soldiers buried at the Aisne-Marne American cemetery near Paris as "suckers" and said the land was "filled with losers" back in 2018, in addition to trashing Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, following the death of the war hero and 2008 GOP presidential nominee.
But the president, speaking with reporters on Thursday night, called the report “a total lie. It's fake news.” And taking aim at the anonymous sources, he argued that "if they really exist, if people really exist that would have said that, they’re low lifes and they’re liars.”
On Friday morning he once again charged the report was "a fake story." Other sources have backed up the White House account of the 2018 trip, challenging the report in question.
But Rep. Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania, who served as an officer in the U.S. Marines, said on the Biden campaign call that despite the denials, “the facts reported in this article have not only been confirmed by multiple news outlets but they are consistent with what we have all heard the president say publicly multiple times, and with the actions he has taken and not taken on behalf of our veterans.”
Trump calls on Fox News to fire reporter who confirmed some parts of Atlantic story
https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7309929059139673041/7478768499517845676
For years, Fox News has worked to undermine and discredit the work of other news organizations that have reported damning details about President Trump and his administration. But on Friday, something unusual happened: The network turned a skeptical eye toward reporting from its own correspondent.
After
spending much of the day bashing The Atlantic for Jeffrey Goldberg's
jarring report which said Trump had disparaged military members who died
in service to the country, Fox News itself confirmed key aspects of it.
In a lengthy Twitter thread,
correspondent Jennifer Griffin said she had confirmed Trump disparaged
veterans; didn't want to honor the dead at the Aisne-Marne Cemetery; and
did not want to lower flags after the death of John McCain.
An actual news organization
would aggressively tout that it had matched much of the reporting at the
center of the biggest news story of the day — especially given that Fox
rarely delivers on original reporting of its own. And it would have
mattered because Fox viewers are so often shielded from the truth. But
Fox didn't proudly hold up Griffin's reporting. Instead, it acted as if
it were ashamed and inconvenienced by it.
VoteVets Director of Govt. Relations, Will Goodwin, Discusses Atlantic Article - MSNBC
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Fox News Denies Own Reporter Confirmed Trump Used ‘Suckers and Losers’ After Airing Interview of Her Confirming It
On Saturday morning, following a late Friday night tweet from the president calling on Fox News to fire her, the network’s national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin told host Neil Cavuto that Trump did indeed use the sort of language The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg said the president had.
After being asked about The Atlantic’s framing of Trump’s comments, Griffin told Cavuto that she double-checked with her sources this morning and they reconfirmed both Goldberg’s reporting and her own.
On Friday during Fox News’ The Five, the hosts, with a total disregard for their own network’s reporting, called the story a “hoax” and a “scam.” And later, Fox News’ chief political news anchor Bret Baier reported on the story with a chyron that read: “Fake News.”
Trump’s propaganda network seems to be fighting with itself on this one, and the viewers, as the president might say, are the big losers.
GOP lawmaker defends Fox reporter after Trump calls for her firing
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) on Saturday defended Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin after President Trump targeted the journalist on Twitter and called for her to be fired.
Trump went after Griffin, a national security correspondent, after she reported that former officials had backed up some details of an explosive report about Trump published this week by The Atlantic.
“She’s one of my favorite reporters. Fair and unafraid,” Kinzinger wrote in response to Trump calling for Griffin to be fired.
Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin: ‘My Sources Are Unimpeachable’
Fox News Channel journalists have rushed to defend their colleague, correspondent Jennifer Griffin, after President Donald Trump suggested on Twitter that Griffin “should be fired” after she confirmed reporting by The Atlantic that detailed President Trump repeatedly disparaging members of the military, the nation’s war dead, and wounded veterans.
On Friday, Griffin—citing two former senior Trump Administration officials—confirmed key elements of The Atlantic’s story, including Trump’s decision not to drive to the Aisle-Marne Cemetery outside Paris to honor fallen American soldiers. “The President drives a lot,” one of Griffin’s sources said, “the other world leaders drove to the cemeteries. He just didn't want to go.”
That angered the president, who called for Griffin’s dismissal and added “Fox News is gone!” But Fox News journalists were quick to join reporters from other outlets in defending Griffin. Bryan Llenas, a Fox News national correspondent, said “Jennifer Griffin is the kind of reporter we all strive to be like. She’s courageous, smart, ethical, fair and a class act.”
Trump fumes over troops report, amplifies memo against anti-racism training at OMB
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/05/trump-military-the-atlantic-omb-report-409312
President Donald Trump on Saturday continued to rail against a report that alleged he denigrated U.S. military veterans and their service, further criticizing the late Sen. John McCain and labeling the reporter a "slimeball" after calling for the firing of a Fox News journalist who confirmed parts of the report.
Trump’s ongoing public effort to contain the fallout from the bombshell report entered its third day after the president on Friday attempted to repudiate the allegations in two press conferences and on social media, including having current and former administration officials speak out as character witnesses.
Judge rules DeVos plan to give more coronavirus relief to private schools is illegal
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/devos-plan-coronavirus-relief-private-schools-illegal
A Washington federal judge Friday tossed out Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' policy that would have funneled millions in coronavirus relief to private schools in a ruling that has nationwide impact.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a President Trump appointee, vacated the plan DeVos unveiled this summer to divert more of the $16 billion Congress passed in emergency K-12 education funding away from public schools to private schools. The judge found the rule was unlawful and DeVos' action to better help private schools contrary to Congress' intent for the money under the CARES Act legislation.
Saturday, September 5, 2020
Donald Trump attacks 'slimeball' reporter in war dead row
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54042237
He likened the Atlantic magazine report to unproven accusations made against him of colluding with Russia to win the presidential election of 2016.
The damning quotes were corroborated independently by The Associated Press.
Veterans' groups are among those condemning Mr Trump, less than two months from the 2020 election.
Ignoring warnings from election officials, Trump again suggests supporters should try to vote twice
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/05/politics/trump-vote-twice-north-carolina/index.html
President Donald Trump suggested to his supporters on Friday night that if they vote by mail they should also attempt to vote in person as a way to check that their vote is counted, which risks causing chaos at the polls and undermining confidence in the election.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on McCain; Biden’s stretch on virus
https://apnews.com/6f4fd0361a6b337c9d07ddd6ee0bce20
TRUMP: “Also, I never called John a loser and swear on whatever, or whoever, I was asked to swear on, that I never called our great fallen soldiers anything other than HEROES.” — tweet Thursday.
THE FACTS: He called McCain a loser.
In addition, The Associated Press has confirmed many of the comments Trump was reported by The Atlantic to have made disparaging fallen or captured U.S. service members, such as his description of the American dead in a military graveyard as “losers.”
Trump disparaged US war dead as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’
https://apnews.com/b823f2c285641a4a09a96a0b195636ed
A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018 as “losers” and “suckers.”
Trump said Thursday that the story is “totally false.”
The allegations were first reported in The Atlantic. A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump’s comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments.
The defense officials said Trump made the comments as he begged off visiting the cemetery outside Paris during a meeting following his presidential daily briefing on the morning of Nov. 10, 2018.
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