October 30, 2024
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Biden's October Suprise: President calls Trump supporters "garbage" . . . President Biden went viral Tuesday night for comments disparaging Trump supporters as his No. 2, Vice President Kamala Harris, made a major speech to voters calling for unity from the Ellipse right outside the White House. During a virtual Harris campaign call with Voto Latino, Biden took a swipe at former President Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden, which made headlines after insult comedian Tony Hinchiffe made jokes mocking different ethnic groups, with one joke referring to Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage." "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters," Biden said. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and it is un-American." Fox News
Biden just erased Hitler and Puerto Rico from the headlines and replaced them with Basket of Deplorables II. The Trump campaign owes him a debt of gratitude.
Housekeeping please! White House brings in the cleanup squad . . . White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said President Biden "referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as 'garbage.'" "The president was referencing a joke by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe in which he likened Puerto Rico to an island of floating 'garbage' in the middle of the ocean," he said. Fox News
JD Vance calls out Politico for sugarcoating Biden quote about Trump supporters being 'garbage' . . . Politico White House bureau chief Jonathan Lemire seemingly applied his own interpretation of what he believed Biden intended to say in his reporting of the remark. "Biden, in a Zoom call with the organization Vote Latino, said 'the only garbage' was the 'hatred' of Trump supporters who said such things about American citizens,'" Lemire wrote. Fox News
Politics
Meantime, Clinton alienates Jewish voters . . . Former President Bill Clinton claimed Tuesday that Israeli leaders "don't care anymore" about peace between the Jewish State and Palestinians and said Vice President Kamala Harris "can't have" a plan to end the war in the Middle East. Clinton, 78, was stumping for Harris in western Pennsylvania at the University of Pittsburg-Greensburg when a pro-Palestinian protester interrupted his remarks, demanding an answer from him on what the vice president would do to stop "the genocide" in Gaza and end US military support for Israel. New York Post
Harris campaign needs to put him back in storage.
Unity or else: Harris warns of chaos and division" if she loses . . . Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her campaign's closing argument Tuesday during a primetime address on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., within sight of the building she hopes to occupy in 2025. Despite reports suggesting the speech would be "optimistic and forward-looking," Harris was primarily focused on attacking her opponent, Donald Trump, whom she denounced as a "petty tyrant" who was "unstable, obsessed with revenge, consumed with grievance and out for unchecked power." Washington Free Beacon
So who's being divisive?
Harris claims without offering evidence Trump 'has an enemies list of people he intends to prosecute'
Stefanik slams FBI for 'election interference' to aid Democrats . . . New York Rep. Elise Stefanik claimed that the FBI is "covering up" Iranian election interference to "tip the scales" for Democrats. Stefanik, a Republican, told Fox News Digital the FBI has been stonewalling her "very basic, easy" questions about the bureau's knowledge of the Iran-linked hack of the Trump campaign in which data was then peddled to the Biden campaign and mainstream media news outlets. "I believe there was politicization from the Biden-Kamala Harris administration that they were notified prior to the Trump campaign to tip the scales," she claimed. "The FBI has functioned like an arm of the Democrat Party." Fox News
Whistleblower: James Comey had FBI 'honey pot' spies infiltrate Trump's 2016 campaign . . . The House Judiciary Committee is examining a whistleblower report that the FBI targeted Donald Trump soon after he announced his presidential campaign in June 2015, an off-the-books operation ordered by FBI Director James B. Comey that predated the Crossfire Hurricane operation. The whistleblower disclosure said two female FBI undercover agents infiltrated Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign at high levels and were directed to act as "honeypots" while traveling with Mr. Trump and his campaign staff on the trail. Washington Times
House Speaker Johnson vows "massive reform" to Obamacare . . . "Health-care reform's going to be a big part of the agenda," Johnson said, wearing a personalized jacket emblazoned with the Trump-Vance campaign logo. He added that a caucus of Republican physicians has shared proposals with him and that GOP leaders hope "to take a blowtorch to the regulatory state" and "fix things." "No Obamacare?" an attendee asked the speaker, invoking the term popularized by Republicans to describe the health law. "No Obamacare," Johnson responded. "The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work, and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that." Washington Post
New Univision CEO says Hispanics no longer a Democrat bloc . . . Just a month into his new job, Univision CEO Daniel Alegre has already watched his network host both major candidates for townhalls with undecided Hispanic voters and he tells Just the News he has made one unequivocal observation about America's fastest growing electoral bloc: "The world of 15 years ago, where Hispanics were essentially considered a vote for the Democratic Party, that's no longer the case." Just the News
Trump endorsed by Puerto Rico shadow senator . . . Former President Donald Trump received a full-throated endorsement from Puerto Rico's Republican shadow senator on Tuesday as he distanced himself from the comedian who made a controversial joke about the island during his weekend event at Madison Square Garden. "I strongly and fully support and endorse Donald J. Trump to be our 47th president — to make America great again and, of course, to make Puerto Rico shine again," Zoraida Buxó informed the former president's supporters during a rally in Pennsylvania. New York Post
Democrat network pretends to back RFK Jr. to take votes from Trump . . . A series of campaign ads that popped up in Michigan this month had an unusual message, especially since the candidate they supported, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had dropped out of the presidential race two months prior. The YouTube ads urged votes for Kennedy, and highlighted his exodus from the Democratic Party—the "party of war" and "censorship." But the ads come from a super PAC at the center of a shadowy network of Democratic operatives, donors, and campaign lawyers that is boosting Kennedy and two active third-party candidates. Washington Free Beacon
National Security
Tren wreck: Migrant gang Tren de Aragua and 'associates' racked up 517 NYC busts this year . . . Members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang, its associates and suspected co-conspirators have been arrested 517 times citywide this year – with a whopping 295 busts coming near Midtown Manhattan's popular tourist spots. The NYPD has identified 41 migrant gangbangers in the Venezuelan crew — not including an affiliated youth crew and other associates — who alone amassed 143 arrests, with almost half the bookings in Midtown's busiest retail neighborhoods since January, according to the data. New York Post
International
Floods in Spain kill at least 62 people in Valencia region . . . At least 62 people have been killed in the deadliest flooding to hit Spain for three decades after torrential rain battered the eastern region of Valencia on Tuesday, leaving roads and towns under water, local authorities said on Wednesday. Rescuers using dinghies worked in the dark to scour the floodwaters, rescuing several people, television pictures from the town of Utiel showed, and emergency services were still working to reach the worst-hit areas. Reuters
Money
Trump Treasury candidate pledges to work with Musk to slash spending . . . Billionaire investor John Paulson says he would work with Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk to enact massive federal spending cuts if Paulson were to become Treasury secretary in a second Trump administration. Paulson, an ally of the former president, said in an interview that his priority would be extending Donald Trump's expiring 2017 tax cuts, followed by "working with Musk to reduce federal spending," particularly by getting rid of the subsidies for green energy in the Inflation Reduction Act, which he referred to as the Green New Deal. Wall Street Journal
Ford continues posting huge losses on its electric lines as automakers reverse course on EVs . . . The Biden-Harris administration received more bad news this week regarding its goal of getting most drivers in the U.S. to switch to electric vehicles. Ford Motor Company on Monday posted a loss of $1.224 billion on its electric vehicle lines. That brings the company's loss on EVs in the first nine months of this year to $3.7 billion. Energy watchdog Robert Bryce points out on his Substack that the company's losses on Model E this year are equal to its gross profit on its internal combustion engine business, Ford Blue. Just the News
You should also know
Biden-Harris panel wants to make you a vegetarian . . . Members of the 20-person Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee voiced support for both downgrading meat, poultry, and eggs and moving beans, peas, and lentils into the protein category. The preliminary directive came during a more than five-hour meeting hosted by the National Institutes of Health last week. The committee is expected to submit its recommendations, which would be in effect through 2030, to the Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services in early December, after the presidential election taking place in one week. Washington Free Beacon
Paul Pelosi attacker gets life in prison without parole . . . The man who broke into the home of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attacked her husband with a hammer has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on state charges in California. In the state trial, a San Francisco jury found DePape guilty of kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of an elder. The attack left Paul Pelosi, now 84, in hospital for six days with a fractured skull and other injuries. BBC
The sentence is fine, but is it the same as would be delivered if the victim was someone else?
Guilty Pleasures
Florida accidentally bans banks from doing business in the state . . . The law sought to make it easier for startups and other companies to fundraise while ensuring that bad actors with a criminal record couldn't take advantage of Floridians. But it wasn't written as the Florida Legislature had intended. The law appeared to ban any bank that had been punished by the Securities and Exchange Commission or other authorities from selling a range of securities to investors, according to people familiar with the matter. The problem is that nearly all of the country's big banks—from JPMorgan Chase to Goldman Sachs—have been in trouble with the law at some point. Wall Street Journal
Sales of mattresses have soared in the state.
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