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July 16, 2024
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Republican National Convention
Trump surprises convention with bandaged cameo, exhilarating supporters . . . Former President Donald Trump gave the people what they wanted at the Republican National Convention: more Donald Trump. Mr. Trump sent the crowd into a frenzy after he walked into the arena with a bandage over his right ear two days after he survived an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. The mere image of Mr. Trump on the arena's jumbotron triggered a massive round of applause from the thousands of delegates gathered here for the first day of the party's national convention. The backstage video captured Mr. Trump smiling and shaking his head in appreciative disbelief. Mr. Trump pumped his fist to the crowd as Lee Greenwood sang "God Bless the USA" before joining Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, his newly picked vice presidential nominee. Washington Times
Teamsters president speaks at GOP convention . . . Teamsters President Sean M. O'Brien delivered a historic address to the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Monday evening after being invited by former President Donald Trump. "It's an honor to be the first Teamster in our 121-year history to address the Republican National Convention," O'Brien told the RNC crowd. "I want to thank President Donald Trump for opening the RNC's doors to the Teamsters Union and inviting me to speak," O'Brien said, noting that "heads exploded" on the Right and Left when he was invited to speak at the convention. Breitbart
The Teamsters backed Reagan in 1984, helping bring the hard hat vote to his landslide that year.
Byron Donalds makes the case for school choice. . . Rep. Byron Donalds made a case for school choice in a speech Monday on the opening night of the Republican National Convention. The Florida Republican talked about his own story of growing up poor, while his mother pushed to ensure he had a good education. But he said too many children today are trapped in failing schools. "Don't those kids who grew up like I grew up deserve the same chance that I had?" Donalds said. Daily Signal
Donald Trump Jr. tells MSNBC reporter to scram at GOP convention: 'You clowns' . . . Donald Trump Jr. sparred with an MSNBC reporter during a heated interview at the Republican National Convention, blasting the liberal network as "clowns" and telling the journalist to "just get out of here." Donald Trump's oldest son got into a tense exchange with reporter Jacob Soboroff on Monday, the first day of the convention in which the former president was formally nominated as the party's presidential pick. Trump Jr. first took exception when Soboroff asked him what a second term under Trump, 78, would look like and suggested he was a "divisive figure" in his first term in the Oval Office. New York Post
JD Vance
In J.D. Vance, Trump is going all in on populism — and elevating an heir apparent . . . Trump placed a bet on both the appeal of their shared populism and the promise of generational change — elevating a 39-year-old freshman senator from Ohio as the MAGA movement's heir apparent. The selection will draw a contrast not only with the 81-year-old Biden, whose age has become a major point of weakness in his campaign, but also Vice President Kamala Harris, who — while young in Washington terms — is a full decade older than Vance. Vance brings Trump a lot: His youth, his TV savvy and his ability to tap into a Silicon Valley donor base that has, until recently, been wary of the Republican Party. But most important, Republicans say, are the connections they believe he can make with blue-collar voters in some of the most coveted swing states. Politico
Who is JD Vance? . . . Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, will run alongside former President Donald Trump in 2024 after being chosen as his vice presidential running mate on the Republican ticket. Vance, 39, was first elected to the Ohio Senate in the 2022 midterms, defeating Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan for the seat. Before entering the political scene, Vance joined the Marine Corps and served in the Iraq War. Shortly after, he graduated from Ohio State University and Yale Law School. Vance rose to prominence after publishing a bestselling memoir-turned Netflix film, titled "Hillbilly Elegy," a book about American values and his Appalachian upbringing. Fox News
How Vance won Trump over . . . J.D. Vance walked into Donald J. Trump's office at Mar-a-Lago on a warm winter afternoon in February 2021. Mr. Trump, using an expletive, bluntly told Mr. Vance: You said some nasty stuff about me. Mr. Vance's decided to immediately apologize. He told Mr. Trump that he had bought into what he described as media lies and that he was sorry he got it wrong. Of all people, Mr. Vance told Mr. Trump, Mr. Vance himself should have understood. Mr. Trump agreed, telling Mr. Vance that he should have understood because Mr. Vance had written the "Hillbilly Elegy" book. Mr. Vance should have supported him because Mr. Trump's own base of non-college-educated voters angry about globalization, immigration and foreign wars were exactly the people Mr. Vance purported to represent. New York Times
Trump eventually supported Vance in a crowded GOP Senate primary and the two became closer in the time that followed.
Vance hailed as "one of the best" on immigration . . . Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), the national populist chosen to be former President Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate, is known as "one of the best" lawmakers on Capitol Hill on the issue of immigration — defending working-class American communities against the party's old-guard donors. Vance, in particular, has been at the forefront of how mass immigration to the United States drains the nation's working- and lower-middle-class. Breitbart
GOP praises 'folk hero' Vance as Democrats warn of Trump 'clone' . . . Republicans are leaning into Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH) rise-from-poverty backstory as Democrats attempt to reduce the senator to a carbon copy of former President Donald Trump. In the hours after Trump chose Vance as his running mate at the GOP's nominating convention in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden retorted that he saw no difference between the two men, at least regarding policy. "He's a clone of Trump on the issues. A clone of Trump," Biden said on Monday shortly before boarding Air Force One. Washington Examiner
Bearded Vance overcomes century-old "fur ceiling with VP nod . . . J.D. Vance, the beard-faced Republican U.S. senator from Ohio, made history on Monday. Donald Trump's running mate will be the first major party vice presidential candidate with extensive facial hair since Charles W. Fairbanks in 1916. Fairbanks had a full beard earlier in life, which he appears to have trimmed down to a formidable goatee as Charles Evans Hughes's running mate against the virulent liberal nerd Woodrow Wilson and his mustachioed VP pick, Thomas R. Marshall. Washington Free Beacon
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Politics
Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trump . . . A federal judge in Florida dismissed the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump on Monday, saying the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon said Mr. Smith was a private citizen when Attorney General Merrick Garland designated him to pursue cases against Mr. Trump. That violates the Constitution's appointments clause, the judge ruled. Washington Times
Elon Musk to contribute $45M a month to pro-Trump Super PAC . . . Elon Musk has said he plans to commit around $45 million a month to a new super political action committee backing former President Donald Trump's presidential run, according to people familiar with the matter. Other backers of the group, called America PAC, include Palantir Technologies co-founder Joe Lonsdale, the Winklevoss twins, former U.S. ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft and her husband, Joe Craft, who is chief executive of coal producer Alliance Resource Partners. Wall Street Journal
Democrats to rush Biden to the nomination next week . . . Leaders of the Democratic National Committee are moving swiftly to confirm President Biden as his party's presidential nominee by the end of July, according to four people briefed on the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss the sensitive deliberations. The move would formalize Mr. Biden as the nominee at a moment when Democrats are torn over whether he should run again after his poor debate performance. New York Times
Biden says it was a 'mistake' to say he wanted to put a 'bull's-eye' on Trump . . . President Joe Biden told NBC News in an interview Monday that it was a "mistake" to say he wanted to put a "bull's-eye" on Republican nominee Donald Trump, but argued that the rhetoric from his opponent was more incendiary while warning that Trump remained a threat to democratic institutions. Associated Press
Tucker Carlson says stigma around backing Trump 'disappearing fast' . . .Former television host Tucker Carlson said the social stigma around backing former President Donald Trump in polite society is "disappearing fast" following his reaction to Saturday's assassination attempt. "The big change in the last week is that the social sanction levied against people for supporting Trump is disappearing fast," Carlson said at a Heritage Foundation event outside the Republican National Convention. Washington Examiner
Black voters tell NYTs they're sick of Dem pandering . . . The New York Times held a focus group with 11 black men who told the paper they were sick of Democratic Party "pandering" and all expressed the likelihood they'd vote for Trump in November. One man, who the Times identified as Jeremy, a 34-year-old microbiologist from Georgia, told the paper the Democrats believed "that every Black male youth is an automatic victim due to either systemic racism or factors outside of their control." Rashad, a 40-year-old graphic designer from Pennsylvania, echoed those sentiments to the outlet. "We don't want excuses as much as they think we want excuses. We want people to get out and work and do certain things." Daily Caller
Biden orders Secret Service to protect RFK Jr. after attempt on Trump's life . . . President Joe Biden has directed the U.S. Secret Service to protect independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, the Homeland Security secretary said Monday. His campaign has been urging the president to provide him with Secret Service protection for months, and has sent multiple requests after various incidents. Associated Press
The Secret Service is lucky nothing happened while they refused to do this obvious thing.
Trump assassination attempt
Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle won't resign even though "buck stops with me" . . . As the head of the agency, Cheatle said it's her responsibility to investigate what went wrong and make sure nothing like it can happen again. "The buck stops with me," she said. "I am the director of the Secret Service, and I need to make sure that we are performing a review and that we are giving resources to our personnel as necessary." Cheatle responded to reports that the suspect was seen and identified as potentially suspicious before he opened fire, saying that "a very short period of time" passed between then and the shooting. ABC News
Police were warned of Trump rally shooter at least 86 seconds before gunfire . . . Almost immediately after the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump at his campaign rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday, some in the crowd told reporters that they had tried to alert law enforcement that a suspicious man was on a nearby roof. Now, a newly surfaced video backs up those accounts of warnings, showing a chaotic scene in which bystanders started calling out to police nearly a minute and a half before the shots rang out. The footage, posted to social media late Sunday, shows several witnesses yelling and directing at least one police officer toward the roof of a neighboring business. Washington Post
Local counter-sniper team was inside building where Trump shooter climbed on the roof . . . A local police counter-sniper team was stationed inside the building where attempted assassin Thomas Crooks climbed on the roof and fired on Donald Trump, law enforcement sources told The Post. The building was being used by local police as a "watch post" for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage only 130 yards away, according to sources. Cops were inside, but not on the roof during the shooting, sources said. Crooks was able to scale the building unchallenged before firing off eight shots with an AR-style assault rifle. New York Post
Firefighter Corey Comperatore's widow refused Biden call after Trump rally shooting . . . The heartbroken widow of Corey Comperatore, the hero firefighter shot dead by a sniper at a Donald Trump rally, wanted nothing to do with President Biden when he called after the tragedy, she told The Post. "I didn't talk to Biden," Helen Comperatore said from her Pennsylvania home Monday. "I didn't want to talk to him. My husband was a devout Republican and he would not have wanted me to talk to him." New York Post
Guilty Pleasures
Washington Post highlights murderous Taliban regime's climate change initiatives . . . The once-respected paper published a front-page story touting the Taliban's efforts to fight so-called climate change in Afghanistan: "For now, the Afghan government is largely confronting the impacts of global warming on its own and putting the blame for floods and sluggish governmental aid on foreigners. Some former Taliban commanders view global carbon emissions as a new invisible enemy. 'Just like they invaded our country, they've invaded our climate,' said Lutfullah Khairkhwa, the Taliban's deputy higher education minister. Washington Free Beacon
This is almost as absurd as John Kerry worrying that the Ukraine War would adversely affect global warming.
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