Top John Kelly Aide Denies The Atlantic Report Leak

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Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Zach Fuentes denied to Breitbart News The Atlantic’s account of President Donald Trump’s comments about troops in Europe.

Fuentes unequivocally denied The Atlantic’s report last week, a huge blow to the establishment media narrative. Fuentes personally briefed President Trump on the weather situation that led to the trip being canceled. He is also a close personal confidante of former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

“You can put me on record denying that I spoke with The Atlantic,” Fuentes told Breitbart News on Monday. “I don’t know who the sources are. I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him about the weather. Honestly, do you think General Kelly would have stood by and let ANYONE call fallen Marines losers?”

He specifically also stated that he believes The Atlantic’s sources “are unlikely first hand accounts.”

“They are conflating those people from something the day after,” Fuentes said. (Read more from “Top John Kelly Aide Denies The Atlantic Report Leak” HERE)

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Michael Cohen Says He Considered Suicide Before Congressional Testimony

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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen wrote he considered taking his own life before testifying to Congress.

In a new memoir, titled Disloyal, Cohen acknowledges he was “more than willing to lie, cheat, and bully,” but said he did so to advance the president’s ambitions. Leading up to his testimony before the House Oversight Committee in 2019, he said he considered suicide to escape publicly speaking out against his former boss.

Cohen wrote he considered suicide “as a way to escape the unrelenting insanity.” He asserts that he became a victim of “gangster tactics” by President Trump and his allies.

Cohen, who was sentenced to three years in federal prison in December 2018, is serving the rest of his three-year sentence in home confinement after he was briefly sent back to prison in July following his original release in May due to concerns related to the coronavirus. Cohen pleaded guilty to several criminal charges in 2018, including lying to Congress as well as bank fraud, tax fraud, and campaign finance violations related to facilitating hush money payments to two women who alleged romantic affairs with Trump. The president has vehemently denied those relationships. (Read more from “Michael Cohen Says He Considered Suicide Before Congressional Testimony” HERE)

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Steve Stockman’s Many ‘Friends’ Appeal to Supreme Court

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. . .Following an unnecessarily snarky and, in my opinion, legally flawed decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upholding his conviction, [Steve] Stockman has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal, docketed as case 20-103.

The chances of the Supreme Court taking any case are slim. Arguing the important constitutional and policy issues at stake, however, four different amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs have been filed in support of Stockman’s petition. . .

Other briefs urging the Court to take the case were filed by noted constitutional law professor John Eastman on behalf of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence; Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund; and the fourth filed by Joe Miller on behalf of Public Advocate of the United States, The Constitution Party National Committee, Restoring Liberty, and other amici.

Some years back, you may recall, Tea Party–backed Miller narrowly lost a challenge in Alaska against RINO Senator Lisa Murkowski, but only after a controversial recount overturned his initial win. Joe understands the perils of taking on the GOP establishment, and his brief is especially important.

Miller’s brief, which itself reads like an indictment of the Obama Justice Department, notes how “the troubling political context of Stockman’s prosecution was completely ignored by the Fifth Circuit” Court of Appeals. Stockman was targeted “[b]eginning in 2013 [when] it took Obama’s DOJ multiple grand juries, with at least three refusing to return a true bill [of indictment] against” him.

Stockman, after all, was “one of the first congressmen to call for President Obama’s impeachment,” writes Miller, noting that Stockman “also called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s impeachment, and led the fight to publicize Lois Lerner’s abuse of power as the head of the exempt organizations division of the Internal Revenue Service.”

While Stockman’s petition and the other three amicus briefs focused on why the conviction was wrong as a matter of law, Joe uses nearly twelve pages of his brief to brilliantly lay out the Obama administration’s lawlessness and lawbreaking, which was “the troubling political context” of how Stockman was targeted to be put away and silenced, as political prisoners are. (Read more from “Steve Stockman’s Many ‘Friends’ Appeal to Supreme Court” HERE)

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48 of America’s 50 Largest Cities Hit by Black Lives Matter Riots

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New data from Princeton University show that riots associated with the Black Lives Matter movement took place in 48 out of the 50 largest cities in the United States.

The study found:

In more than 93% of all demonstrations connected to the movement, demonstrators have not engaged in violence or destructive activity. Peaceful protests are reported in over 2,400 distinct locations around the country. Violent demonstrations, meanwhile, have been limited to fewer than 220 locations ​— under 10% of the areas that experienced peaceful protests.

Mainstream media seized on the data last week to argue that the “Trump narrative” of violent demonstrations was false. The study itself speculated that public perceptions of riots were skewed by “political orientation and biased media framing” and “disproportionate coverage of violent demonstrations.” . . .

The Princeton data set shows that nearly every major city in the United States experienced riots from late May to the end of August — even under the narrow definition that the study used to classify riots (as separate from events described as police violence against protesters). (Read more from “48 of America’s 50 Largest Cities Hit by Black Lives Matter Riots” HERE)

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Trump Vows to Defund Schools Pushing 1619 Project

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President Donald Trump said Sunday that the Department of Education (DOE) is investigating California public schools including the 1619 Project — a radical revisionist history plan promoted by the New York Times which claims the United States was founded in 1619 when the first slaves arrived in Virginia — in their curricula.

“Department of Education is looking at this. If so, they will not be funded!” Trump tweeted.

Sen. Tom Cotton, (R-AR), introduced a bill in July that would have addressed schools’ use of the 1619 project in a similar manner to that Trump proposed, Fox News reported. “That bill proposed denying funds to any school that uses the 1619 Project in its curriculum.”

In a statement, Cotton called the 1619 project “a racially divisive, revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded.”

Ironically, the project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, received the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary and not the award for history. (Read more from “Trump Vows to Defund Schools Pushing 1619 Project” HERE)

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Trump Administration Bans “White Privilege” Seminars at Federal Agencies

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The Trump administration announced it would prohibit federal agencies from subjecting government employees to “critical race theory” or “white privilege” seminars moving forward, opening up a new front in the 21st-century culture wars erupting in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in May.

“It has come to the President’s attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date ‘training’ government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda,” read a Friday memo from the Office of Budget and Management Director Russ Vought. “These types of ‘trainings’ not only run counter to the fundamental beliefs for which our Nation has stood since its inception, but they also engender division and resentment within the Federal workforce … The President has directed me to ensure that Federal agencies cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund these divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions.”

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AG Barr Destroys Premise of Black Lives Matter; Whole Movement Based on a Lie (VIDEO)

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Black Lives Matter is based on a simple premise: Racist white police officers are killing black people because they are black. But actual numbers show that a majority of those killed by police are white and that only 32% are black.

So, if racist white police officers are hunting down innocent blacks, then why are they killing more whites than blacks? Why, by two to one, are you safer with a police officer if you’re black than if you’re another race? . . .

“I think the narrative that the police are on some epidemic of shooting unarmed black men is simply a false narrative,” Barr said Wednesday on CNN. “The fact is that it’s very rare for an unarmed African American to be shot by a white police officer.”

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Rep. Massie: Kyle Rittenhouse ‘Exhibited Incredible Restraint’; Kyle Rittenhouse’s Attorney Resigns From Legal Fundraiser

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By OANN. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) has said he would not vote to convict Kyle Rittenhouse, who has been accused of killing two people in Kenosha. On Friday, he defended the 17-year-old’s actions.

Based on the footage, Massie claimed it was clearly self-defense. After seeing the evidence and social media footage, the lawmaker believes Rittenhouse was not acting out of malicious intent, but was fearful of his safety. . .

“He also exhibited incredible restraint and presence, a situational awareness. He didn’t empty a magazine into a crowd. There were people around him who could have caused him harm, but as soon as they showed any sign of retreat or non-aggression, he did not shoot them.” – Thomas Massie, U.S. Representative

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Kyle Rittenhouse’s Attorney Resigns From Legal Fundraiser After Dodgy Financial Past Revealed

By USA Today. The lead attorney representing accused Kenosha, Wisconsin, gunman Kyle Rittenhouse said he resigned his position with a defense fund expected to benefit his 17-year-old client out of concern for the lawyer’s troubled financial history.

Attorney John Pierce said Friday that he made the move earlier this week to avoid any “appearance of conflict” related to a series of legal disputes in which Pierce and his firm have been accused of defaulting on millions of dollars in obligations to the firm’s financiers, according to court documents.

Pierce, who has repeatedly promoted the #FightBack Foundation fund on Twitter, has vowed to assemble a “Seal Team” of former prosecutors and defenders to assist his client, accused in last week’s shooting that left two dead and another wounded during a night of demonstrations following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. . .

So far, donors have poured more than $700,000 into the fund, founded prior to the shooting with a broader mission to “bring lawsuits to stop the left’s lies.” Pierce and Lin Wood — an attorney who first won notoriety representing Richard Jewell, falsely accused in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing — are founding members of the foundation. #FightBack Foundation Inc. was incorporated in Texas effective Aug. 12, according to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. (Read more from “Kyle Rittenhouse’s Attorney Resigns From Legal Fundraiser After Dodgy Financial Past Revealed” HERE)

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Nearly 700 U.S. Veterans Issue Open Letter in Support of President Trump; Trump Speculates On Source Of Story Claiming He Nixed Visit to Military Cemetery Over Disdain for Slain Veterans

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By Breitbart. Nearly 700 American veterans have issued an open letter affirming their support of President Trump against establishment media attacks weeks before the 2020 presidential election. . .

In an open letter obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, about 674 veterans wrote that their support for Trump, against attacks by the establishment media, remains unwavering because of his record of supporting the United States military and ending foreign wars.

“Recent baseless media attacks against President Trump from anonymous sources are just another example of the depths to which the President’s opponents are willing to descend to divide the nation and meddle in this election,” the veterans write.

“Anyone who knows President Trump has seen his love and reverence for our military and veterans. That is why we, veterans from every generation, are writing today to reaffirm our support for President Trump,” they continue:

We heard these same attacks in 2018 immediately following the President’s trip to Paris, and they are just as fake now as they were then. The false allegations center on the President’s canceled trip to a military cemetery, which has been proven to be a “bad weather call” made for safety and security reasons. This has been proven by internal White House emails from the time, as well as by documents from the U.S. Navy, which clearly described weather as the reason for the cancellation. While the media relied on four anonymous individuals to manufacture the story, many more current and former White House officials have stepped forward and, on the record, refuted these baseless allegations. These on-the-record voices include the Secret Service agent in charge of the President’s detail and John Bolton – a vocal critic of the President – who described the “bad weather call” in his book and now says he did not hear the President say the things being attributed to him. No one should take this story seriously.

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Donald Trump Speculates That John Kelly May Have Been Source Of Stunning Story In The Atlantic

By Deadline. The Atlantic’s bombshell story that Donald Trump made disparaging comments about American soldiers triggered a day-long guessing game and debate over the piece’s anonymous sources.

Trump himself joined in, telling reporters that “it could have been a guy like” his former chief of staff, John Kelly, even as the White House spent much of the day attacking The Atlantic and insisting that its story was false. As if to forestall the damage should someone like Kelly go public, Trump took the opportunity to also disparage his former employee, a retired four star general. “He was unable to handle the pressure of this job,” Trump said. (Read more from “Donald Trump Speculates That John Kelly May Have Been Source Of Stunning Story In The Atlantic” HERE)

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Sources Dispute Claim Trump Nixed Visit to Military Cemetery Over Disdain for Slain Veterans, but Back up Parts of Atlantic Report

By Fox News. President Trump canceled a planned 2018 trip to a cemetery for American war dead in France because of the weather and not because of disdain for the slain soldiers who are buried there or concern about how the weather would affect his hair, two sources told Fox News, despite a report from The Atlantic making that claim.

Still, the details from that trip and other events described in the explosive piece remain a subject of dispute.

Two sources who were on the trip in question with Trump refuted the main thesis of The Atlantic’s reporting — that Trump canceled a trip to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, which is at the site of Belleau Wood, an important World War I battle, because he believed the dead soldiers to be “losers.”

The White House had said at the time the decision was made because of poor weather for flying Marine One and the fact that the cemetery was too far a distance for a motorcade to drive.

One of the sources who refuted the Atlantic’s reporting is not a fan of Trump. Both sources said that Trump was upset about not being able to go to Aisne-Marne and said they had never heard Trump refer to war dead at Aisne-Marne or in the battle of Bellau Wood as “losers” or “suckers.”

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Fort Hood Soldier’s Death Marks 28th at Military Base This Year

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A 25-year-old soldier who collapsed during physical training two days ago at Fort Hood Army base in Texas has died.

Officials announced Friday that Pvt. Corlton Chee was taken to the hospital and died with his family at his bedside.

“Every loss affects every single person in this battalion because we are a family of warriors, but this is exceptionally heartbreaking,” the battalion’s commander, Lt. Col. Ron Sprang, said.

Chee joined the Army in February and was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division’s 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team.

KWTX-TV reported that more than two dozen Fort Hood soldiers have died this year with deaths attributed to accidents, homicide, illness and suicide. The station tallied 26 Fort Hood deaths in 2020, as of Aug. 13. (Read more from “Fort Hood Soldier’s Death Marks 28th at Military Base This Year” HERE)

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