FLASHBACK: Thousands of USPS Mailboxes Removed During Obama-Biden Administration

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Former President Barack Obama accused President Donald Trump of purposely attempting to sabotage the U.S. Postal Service in an effort to alter the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“What we’ve seen in a way that is unique to modern political history is a president who is explicit in trying to discourage people from voting,” Obama said during an appearance on his former campaign adviser David Plouffe’s podcast on Friday. “What we’ve never seen before is a president say, ‘I’m going to try to actively kneecap the postal service to encourage voting and I will be explicit about the reason I’m doing it.'” . . .

USPS spokeswoman Kimberly Frum told The Hill that the removal of mailboxes is common. . .

In fact, between 2011 and 2016, there were roughly 14,000 USPS mailboxes removed, which was during the Obama-Biden administration.

A 2009 Washington Post article stated, “In the past 20 years, 200,000 mailboxes have vanished from city streets, rural routes and suburban neighborhoods – more than the 175,000 that remain.” (Read more from “FLASHBACK: Thousands of USPS Mailboxes Removed During Obama-Biden Administration” HERE)

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How Traitor John Kasich Managed to Infuriate Everyone With His DNC Antics; Top DNC Speaker Made Millions Lobbying for Russia; Republican Women Trash Trump

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By Townhall. . .You were already on the outs with the party, Mr. Kasich. And now, you’re not only endorsing Joe Biden for president—you’re speaking at their convention. I don’t know what is going through Kasich’s mind—I don’t. Does he think that somehow, after a Biden win, the GOP will go back to the days of old? Those days are gone. They’re over. Finished. All of those people who were uncomfortable with Trump have either retired or resigned. The Republican Party is now a right-wing populist party. And if you were paying attention, it’s a party that still mostly advocates close to 90 percent of what the old Reagan coalition has advocated for in the past 25 years. The delivery isn’t as polished sure—but who cares. Trump gets results. I’m a proud Trump Republican as is most of the base. Yes, there are some annoying folks who yearn for past days. They can still hop on the Trump train. Well, everyone can still do that, except John Kasich who is speaking tonight at the Democratic National Convention to break tribalism or something (via NYT):

Four years ago, John R. Kasich considered it unthinkable to vote for Donald J. Trump for president, yet he could not bring himself to cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton either — so he wrote in Senator John McCain of Arizona.

Not this time around. Mr. Kasich, a lifelong Republican who has spent decades in politics — as a state legislator, congressman, governor of Ohio and presidential aspirant — will become his party’s most prominent leader to cross the partisan divide and support former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., speaking at this week’s Democratic National Convention, and then voting for him this fall.

“I wasn’t going to vote for somebody else,” Mr. Kasich said in an interview before his speech on Monday night. “I just wasn’t going to do it this time. I did it the last time. You know, I had always been hopeful, even after the convention and after the election, that perhaps we would see a change in the president, but we just never have. I happen to think it’s the soul of our country that is being damaged, and that’s what I’m concerned about.”

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Republican Women Trash Trump at DNC

By Washington Examiner. A trio of once-prominent Republican women trashed President Trump on the opening night of the virtual Democratic National Convention to highlight a segment of the GOP that is backing Joe Biden for president.

“I’m a longtime Republican and a longtime CEO,” Meg Whitman, a former top executive and GOP candidate for California governor in 2010, said. “And let me tell you, Donald Trump has no clue how to run a business, let alone an economy. Joe Biden, on the other hand, has a plan.”

Whitman was followed by former New Jersey GOP Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, who is also backing Biden.

“This isn’t about a Republican or Democrat,” Whitman, who was governor from 1994 to 2001, said, explaining her appearance at the convention. “It’s about a person — a person decent enough, stable enough, and strong enough to get our economy back on track. A person who can work with everyone.” (Read more from “Republican Women Trash Trump at DNC” HERE)

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Top DNC Speaker Made Millions Lobbying for Russia

By The Federalist. The heavily promoted formerly Republican lawmaker endorsing Joe Biden for president tonight at the Democratic National Convention was a highly paid Russian lobbyist whose firm was paid millions of dollars for work on behalf of the Kremlin, federal records show.

According to federal documents filed pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), the lobbying firm run by former Rep. Susan Molinari and its business partner received nearly $2.5 million in just one six-month period in 2008 to “cover fees and expenses for providing services for the benefit of the Russian Federation.” During the final of the year, the Russian lobbying deal made the consortium another $2.8 million for its work on behalf of the Kremlin, records show.

Molinari, who ran for and won the same congressional seat vacated by her father in 1989, left Congress in 1997 to embark on a lucrative career promoting the interests of foreign governments in Russia, Bangladesh, and Panama. Molinari’s former firm The Washington Group was part of a consortium of high-powered marketing and lobbying operations that raked in more than $60 million from the Russian Federation to improve the country’s image in the United States.

In 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched a sprawling investigation of the Trump campaign after Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak was spotted meeting with Republican lawmakers at the G.O.P’s nominating convention. Former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was targeted, illegally leaked against, and eventually prosecuted over his conversations with Kislyak during the presidential transition in 2016 and 2017. Federal records show, however, that Molinari’s lobbying partner worked directly for Kislyak to burnish his image to American voters. (Read more from “Top DNC Speaker Made Millions Lobbying for Russia” HERE)

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DNC Showcases Woman Who Lost Her Dad to COVID-19: “He Died Because He Trusted Trump” (VIDEO)

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The Democratic National Convention featured a woman who lost her dad to COVID-19 and who places the blame for his death on President Trump during the first day of the virtual convention on Monday. She said because of what happened to her dad, she will ve voting for presumptive nominee Joe Biden.

Kristin Urquiza, of San Fransico, Calif., said her dad, Mark Anthony Urquiza, “had faith in Donald Trump. He voted for him, listened to him, believed him, and his mouthpieces when they said that coronavirus was under control and going to disappear.”

Urquiza said her father went to a karaoke bar in Arizona after the lockdowns had been lifted in the state and had contracted the virus.

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‘Anonymous’ Trump Official Calls for President to Be Voted Out

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The anonymous individual who claims to be a former senior member of the Trump administration is urging voters not to reelect the president in November.

The apparent official, who has not yet been identified, drew considerable attention and curiosity after a 2018 op-ed titled “ I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” The person followed that up with the bestselling 2019 book A Warning. On Monday, Politico revealed that the author has written a preface for a “2020 election edition” of the book that cautions about reelecting President Trump.

The author said that the president’s reelection would result in “a continued downward slide into social acrimony, with the United States fading into the background of a world stage it once commanded, to say nothing of the damage to our democratic institutions.”

Tim Murtaugh, the Trump campaign’s communications director, accused the author of being part of the so-called “Deep State” and of using anonymity to turn a profit.

“It’s a D.C. insider trying to sell books to other D.C. insiders,” Murtaugh said in a statement. “Just more cowardly nonsense from someone from the Deep State not brave enough to put their name on their own words.” (Read more from “‘Anonymous’ Trump Official Calls for President to Be Voted Out” HERE)

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Death Valley Reaches One of the Highest Temperatures Ever Recorded on Earth

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Death Valley, California, may have recorded one of the planet’s hottest air temperatures Sunday.

Sunday’s high topped out at 130 degrees near the Furnace Creek Visitor Center in Death Valley National Park, about 100 miles west-northwest of Las Vegas.

If that extreme temperature is verified, it would be only the fourth time on record they’ve reached at least 130 degrees, and the first time since the record heat wave of July 1913.

Given the rarity and extremity of this reading, a committee of meteorologists and climatologists will conduct a formal review of the data and automated observation system to see if this temperature record will be accepted, according to a National Weather Service statement issued Sunday evening.

Named by prospectors trying to cross the desolate valley during the California Gold Rush in the mid-19th century, Death Valley holds the world record for hottest recorded temperature, 134 degrees, set July 10, 1913. (Read more from “Death Valley Reaches One of the Highest Temperatures Ever Recorded on Earth” HERE)

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Jeffrey Epstein Had 150 Cameras in His New York Mansion to Watch Guests

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More details are coming out on the property of Jeffrey Epstein — specifically his New York mansion, where he invited guests to have sex with girls he would traffic.

The 70-year-old Gypsy Gita, who worked with Epstein between 2001 to 2005, described the property worth $71 million as “creepy.” He said that the mansion felt like walking into a “world” that was “weird” and “warped.”

Gita described Maxwell’s mansion to The Mail on Sunday, saying, “There was this huge wall of prosthetic eyeballs.” He also added there must have been at least 150 of those “eyeballs.”

“Jeffrey would say, ‘Don’t forget you are being watched at all times,’” Gita added. . .

It has often been claimed that Epstein would keep the pictures of all his influential friendsOpens in a new Window. and other people who would visit his different homes — including his New York mansion and his Palm Beach property. (Read more from “Jeffrey Epstein Had 150 Cameras in His New York Mansion to Watch Guests” HERE)

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Amid Food Shortages, North Koreans Ordered to Hand Over Pet Dogs

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North Korean dictator Kim Kong-un has ordered citizens to hand over their pet dogs — so they can be killed for food.

The hermit state says pet dogs are now considered a “decadent” luxury and “a ‘tainted’ trend by bourgeois ideology,” and must be surrendered, according to a report by South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo media outlet. . .

According to the Daily Mail, a recent report by the UN said up to 60 percent of North Koreans face “widespread food shortages.” In recent weeks, heavy rain and flooding have sparked concern about crop damage and food supplies in the isolated country.

North Korea’s national Red Cross Society is the only organization with access to all nine provinces, and more than 43,000 volunteers have been working alongside health teams on COVID-19 prevention efforts as well as helping flood-related work, said Antony Balmain of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

“Hundreds of homes have been damaged and large areas of rice fields have been submerged due to heavy rain and some flash flooding,” Balmain said, according to Reuters. (Read more from “Amid Food Shortages, North Koreans Ordered to Hand Over Pet Dogs” HERE)

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New York Times Manipulates FBI Lawyer’s Guilty Plea to Hide Real Spygate News

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A New York Times reporter who won a Pulitzer Prize for his role perpetrating the Russia collusion hoax was tasked with framing the news that a former top FBI lawyer was to plead guilty to deliberately fabricating evidence against a Donald Trump campaign affiliate targeted in the Russia probe. The resulting article is a case study in how to write propaganda.

Adam Goldman broke, and cushioned, the news that former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith was to plead guilty to fabricating evidence in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application to spy on Trump campaign affiliate Carter Page.

His job was to present the news as something other than an indictment of the FBI’s handling of the Russia collusion hoax, to signal to other media that they should move on from the story as quickly as possible, and to hide his own newspaper’s multi-year participation in the Russia collusion hoax. One intelligence source described it as an “insult” to his intelligence and “beyond Pravda,” a reference to the official newspaper of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. Here’s how Goldman did it. . .

The New York Times used to put every Russia collusion story it had on the front page. Then, when the narrative fell apart, the Times moved on to a new narrative of redefining America as irredeemably racist.

Even though Clinesmith’s guilty plea is directly relevant to the false story the Times peddled for years, and even though it broke the news of his guilty plea, the publication hid the story deep in the paper and put a boring headline on it. “Ex-F.B.I. Lawyer Expected to Plead Guilty in Durham Investigation,” as if begging readers to move on. If they didn’t, the subhead told them that the news really wasn’t such a big deal. “Prosecutors are not expected to reveal any evidence of a broad anti-Trump conspiracy among law enforcement officials,” it claimed, without, well, evidence. (Read more from “New York Times Manipulates FBI Lawyer’s Guilty Plea to Hide Real Spygate News” HERE)

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WATCH: Man Films Video of Assault in Portland, Says City Is Like a ‘Third World Country’

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A man who recorded the moment an person was viciously assaulted by protesters Sunday night near a federal courthouse in Portland, Ore., said the city now feels like a “third world country.”

Drew Hernandez told Fox News the man was possibly defending a transgender woman being beaten and robbed by Black Lives Matter protesters when the mob turned their attention to him and his female companion. He got into the truck and drove away as he and the woman were being attacked, Hernandez said.

“I think he just felt extremely threatened,” Hernandez told Fox News’ Dan Springer. “They chased him… until he finally crashed. When they finally caught up to him, they went nuts.

“This was violent, extremely violent,” he said. “Sometimes I forget I’m walking the streets of an American city in the Northwest. Sometimes it feels like you’re walking in a Third World county.”

A video posted online, which has since gone viral, shows a man sitting dazed on the ground moments before another man runs up from behind and kicks him flush in the face, knocking him out. The victim appeared to be knocked unconscious as bystanders came to his aid.

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Michelle Obama Attacks President Trump in DNC Speech

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Former first lady Michelle Obama, in a measured but searing address Monday to close out Democrats’ opening convention night, accused President Trump’s White House of operating in “chaos” and without “empathy” as she urged voters to cast their ballots for Joe Biden like their lives depend on it.

In prerecorded remarks, Obama stressed the “awesome power of the presidency,” while saying the job “requires clear-headed judgment, a mastery of complex and competing issues, a moral compass and an ability to listen.”

She added: “Whenever we look to this White House for some leadership or consultation or any semblance of steadiness, what we get instead is chaos, division and a total and utter lack of empathy.” . . .

Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that they presented a “dystopian” picture of the country. And the unusual format, at the first-ever virtual political convention, also raised eyebrows as videos of musical performances and news-style segments hosted by Eva Longoria were interspersed with remarks from lawmakers.

But Michelle Obama, in an impassioned address, sought to tie the strings together, concluding Trump is “the wrong president for our country.” (Read more from “Michelle Obama Attacks President Trump in DNC Speech” HERE)

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