Salongate Took Another Turn: Pelosi’s Stylist Just Chimed In; Pelosi Claims She Was ‘Set up’ for Violating COVID Orders

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By The Federalist. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demanded an apology from her “neighborhood salon” on Wednesday after claiming she was “set up” during a visit to get her hair done despite COVID-19 lockdown mandates ordering salons closed.

“I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I’ve been to…many times…It was a setup, and I take responsibility for falling for a setup,” Pelosi said.

“I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up,” she added.

A video released on Tuesday by Fox News shows Pelosi wandering back to her salon chair with wet hair without a mask. Despite San Francisco regulations that ban salons from reopening until Sept. 1, and even then only for outdoor appointments, Pelosi booked an indoor appointment.

Despite her claims on Wednesday that this was an intentional effort to embarrass her, Pelosi’s team argued earlier on Tuesday that the salon incident was instead a misunderstanding. (Read more from “Pelosi Claims She Was ‘Set up’ for Violating COVID Orders” HERE)

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Salongate Took Another Turn: Pelosi’s Stylist Just Chimed In

By Townhall. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hit the ultimate hypocrisy level when she walked into a salon on Monday to get a wash and blowout. She wasn’t wearing a mask and salons in San Francisco have been closed due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Instead of admitting that she’s a hypocrite and believes the rules are for everyone else but her, she claimed the whole thing was a “setup.”

The salon’s owner, Erica Kious, was upset with the speaker.

“It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,” Kious told Fox News.

Now, the stylist who did Pelosi’s hair – and rents a chair in Kious’ salon – is speaking out about the situation through his lawyer. The stylist, Jonathan DeNardo, claimed to have received prior permission from Kious before Pelosi’s appointment.

“Mr. DeNardo received advance approval from Ms. Kious the day prior to the appointment during a telephone discussion on August 29, 2020 at 9:26 pm, wherein Mr. DeNardo advised Ms. Kious that he would not proceed with Speaker Pelosi’s appointment without Ms. Kious’ authorization,” a letter from DeNardo’s attorney, Matthew Soleimanpour stated. (Read more from “Salongate Took Another Turn: Pelosi’s Stylist Just Chimed In” HERE)

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WATCH: “Kenosha Kid” Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lawyer Speaks Out, Reveals Details of Shooting

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“Kenosha Kid” Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyer joined Tucker Carlson on Fox News this week to explain his self-defense argument in the deadly protest shooting last week. Rittenhouse is charged as an adult with two counts of first-degree homicide, said his attorney John Pierce. He also shot a third person who was assaulting him with a handgun.

“The firearm never crossed state lines,” Pierce said, in reference to one of the main issues in the case. “That is a legal firearm in the state of Wisconsin. Wisconsin is an open carry state. That charge is incorrect as a matter of state law.”

“He was in imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death. This is 100% self-defense, Tucker — Kyle is a good kid.”

“They began screaming that Kyle needed to be killed and they were going to kill him. They started relentlessly hunting him as prey as he ran down the street attempting to retreat,” he explained. “As he ran out of room to retreat, shots were fired from behind him.” (Read more from “WATCH: “Kenosha Kid” Kyle Rittenhouse’s Lawyer Speaks Out, Reveals Details of Shooting” HERE)

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The Trump Administration Is Moving to Implement a 4-Month Eviction Moratorium for Tenants Earning Under 100k a Year

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The Trump administration is moving to implement an immediate four-month eviction moratorium that would expire at the end of December for tenants earning below $99,000 a year.

The White House is drawing on federal public health laws under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s purview in an attempt to keep people in their homes, arguing it’s necessary to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

“Today’s announcement from his administration means that people are struggling to pay rent and risk further spreading of exposure to the disease, due to economic hardship,” White House spokesman Brian Morgenstern said in a statement.

The policy applies to single tenants as well as couples earning under $198,000 each year, and doesn’t exclude people who received a stimulus check earlier this year.

Renters must sign a document stating they can’t pay the full rent because of a job loss or medical expenses stemming from the pandemic and say they will pay what they can in the short-term. But it doesn’t waive any rent payments. (Read more from “The Trump Administration Is Moving to Implement a 4-Month Eviction Moratorium for Tenants Earning Under 100k a Year” HERE)

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New Strzok-Page Emails Show FBI Investigated President Trump’s Tweets Critical of Obama and FBI

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Judicial Watch announced today that it received 323 pages of emails between former FBI official Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page. The records include an email from Strzok to other FBI officials about Trump’s tweets regarding them spying on him, as well as their interaction with other media outlets including CNN.

The records were produced to Judicial Watch in a January 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the DOJ failed to respond to a December 2017 request for all communications between Strzok and Page (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00154)). The FBI is only processing the records at a rate of 500 pages per month and has refused to process text messages. At this rate, the production of these emails will not be completed until late 2021 at the earliest.

On March 18, 2017, Strzok emails his boss, then-Asst. Director for the Counterintelligence Division Bill Priestap, along with colleagues Jon Moffa and Page, about his research into President Trump’s tweets about being wiretapped:

Sending the tweets in question along with posting times. Doing some research, time stamping in Twitter can be glitchy … [T]he tweet times below were all -3 hours from east coast time, which I adjusted (ie, the first listed as 3:35am). I think I recall reporting at the time described the tweets as occurring around 630, not 330.

Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! – Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017 6:35 AM

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It Looks Like Biden Is Listening to Those Who Don’t Want Him to Debate Trump (VIDEO)

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Building on the groundwork laid by liberals like Nancy Pelosi and the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman – who implored Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to skip the upcoming presidential debates with President Trump, unless Trump agrees to be real-time fact-checked by a media that hates him – Joe Biden called for live fact-checkers on Wednesday. . .

“What I’d love to have is a crawler at the bottom of the screen, a fact-checker as we speak,” Biden continued. “If we really wanted to do something, I think that would make a great, great debate if everything both of us said was instantly fact-checked by an agreed-to group of people out there that we move forward, but that probably wouldn’t get very far in the debate.”

Biden did say that he was looking forward to debating the president, but Biden’s call for “fact-checkers” shows that Biden is clearly listening to voices on the Left who only see disaster ahead for Biden in the live televised debates.

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Barr: Advocates of Mail-In Voting Jeopardize Confidence in Election

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Attorney General William Barr warned that advocates of mass mail-in voting are preventing public confidence in the upcoming election.

During an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday, Barr said the reason why the United States has not seen examples of widespread voter fraud is because it has not tried mass vote-by-mail. Citing a bipartisan commission on federal election reform, chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker III, he said that the system could enable widespread fraud.

“He said if you expand mail-in voting, this is the president, it’s reckless,” Blitzer said to the attorney general, conveying the concerns of President Trump’s critics.

“Wolf, this is sort of cheap talk to get around the fundamental problem, which is the bipartisan commission, chaired by Jimmy Carter and James Baker, said back in 2009 that mail-in voting is fraught with the risk of fraud and coercion,” Barr responded.

“And since that time, there have been in the newspapers, in networks, academic studies saying it is open to fraud and coercion. The only time the narrative changed is after this administration came in. But elections that have been held with mail have found substantial fraud and coercion,” Barr continued. “For example, we indicted someone in Texas, 1,700 ballots collected from people who could vote. He made them out and voted for the person he wanted to. OK? That kind of thing happens with mail-in ballots.” (Read more from “Barr: Advocates of Mail-In Voting Jeopardize Confidence in Election” HERE)

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WATCH: New ‘Absolutely Shocking’ Evidence Presented in the George Floyd Case

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By Townhall. Attorneys for former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin are requesting the dismissal of murder and manslaughter charges against him for the death of George Floyd. They’re using the police training manual as justification.

According to the Minneapolis Police Department training manual, officers are shown how to subdue violent or resisting suspects by placing their knee on the neck.

Analysts and attorneys at Court TV explain. It’s worth a full watch:

“From coast-to-coast everyone, absolutely outraged, especially by that fact, the knee on the neck. Well, guess what folks, take a look at what you’re looking at right here. That is from the police training manual,” attorney and host Vinnie Politan said. “Where this all comes from is from a motion to dismiss. A motion to dismiss that was filed by Derek Chauvin’s attorneys saying that the knee on the neck is part of his training as a Minneapolis police officer. And there we see it in the manual on the left and on the right is what we all have seen in the video of Officer Chauvin. So, is this a game-changer?”

“This one is absolutely shocking. I mean, this is what the whole story is about. This is what outraged millions and millions of people, this is what caused the protests. It was the knee on the neck…and now the defense is saying dismiss the charges because the knee on the neck is right there in the police training manual,” he continued. (Read more from “New ‘Absolutely Shocking’ Evidence Presented in the George Floyd Case” HERE)

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Judge Declines to Consider Dismissing Charges Against Chattanooga’s George Floyd Protesters

By Chattanooga Free Times Press. A Hamilton County General Sessions judge during a scheduling hearing Tuesday declined to entertain the prospect of dismissing charges against a group of local George Floyd protesters before he’s had a chance to hear the evidence against them.

Members of the small group of protesters, led by Marie Mott and Cameron “C-Grimey” Williams, face multiple charges stemming from two separate July incidents: the burning of a Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office flag and the blocking of an emergency vehicle.

On Tuesday afternoon, Judge Gary Starnes ordered the preliminary hearing to be moved to Oct. 8 so that all of the cases could be handled on one day. (Read more from “Judge Declines to Consider Dismissing Charges Against Chattanooga’s George Floyd Protesters” HERE)

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Why Is NFL Player Drew Brees Wearing the Name of an Alleged Rapist on His Helmet?

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Last Friday, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and his team broke with the pack to hold practice as nine other NFL teams canceled theirs in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. They put Blake’s name in big black letters across the front of their helmets in what Sporstcasting.com writer Stephen Sheehan called “a powerful visual signal.” . . .

If Blake were an innocent family man who just happened to twitch during a tense encounter with police, this would all seem perfectly appropriate. There’s just one problem: not only was Blake aggressively resisting arrest in the incident that’s left him paralyzed, but he also had a warrant out for his arrest due to a charge of sexual assault.

According to research by The New York Post, Blake was forbidden from being at the Kenosha home where he was shot because of an incident at the same residence on May 3, for which there was an open warrant for his arrest. Based on police records, The New York Post describes the alleged assault:

The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said ‘I want my sh-t,’ the record states.

She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, ‘Smells like you’ve been with other men,’ the criminal complaint alleges.

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Antifa ‘Commander’ With Flamethrower Burst Into Tears During Arrest

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An Antifa leader known as Commander Red was busted carrying a flamethrower to a Wisconsin Black Lives Matter rally — and “dropped into the fetal position and began crying” when stopped by cops, officials said.

Matthew Banta, 23, is “known to be a violent Antifa member who incites violence in otherwise relatively peaceful protests,” a criminal complaint in his Green Bay arrest record insisted, according to WBAY.

He was carrying stickers and a flag for the controversial group — the name of which is short for “anti-fascist” — along with “military-grade 5-minute” smoke grenades, fireworks rockets, and a flamethrower, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette.

Banta was stopped after being spotted with “a whole bunch of white people with sticks, baseball bats and helmets” heading toward a BLM event in Green Bay, police said in the criminal complaint.

The others fled when a cop blocked them with his squad car, but Banta was stopped and “dropped into the fetal position and began crying,” the police report said. He complained that the officer got on top of him, which police denied, WBAY said. (Read more from “Antifa ‘Commander’ With Flamethrower Burst Into Tears During Arrest” HERE)

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Here’s Trump’s New Nickname for Biden (VIDEO)

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President Trump taunted his Democratic opponent with a new nickname: “Joe Hiden’.”

“Can you believe what’s happening!?” Trump tweeted Wednesday, with a link to a Breitbart article. “They give Joe Hiden’ the questions, and he reads them an answer!”

In the story, the Trump campaign accuses Joe Biden of accidentally reading an instructional note from a teleprompter as he answered questions in an interview.

In an interview set to air Sunday with NBC 6 anchor Jackie Nespral, Biden discussed Latin American diplomacy, bashing Trump’s policy in Venezuela, before reading the “topline message.”

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