Eric Trump: I want someone to start fighting for my dad (Hannity Video)

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He's got the gift of gab

Eric Trump, President Trump's younger son, said said he wants someone to start fighting for his father.

“I want somebody to start fighting for him,” Trump told Fox News’s “Hannity,” on Monday night.
“How much weight does he have to carry by himself?”

Trump’s comments come several days after the Senate failed to pass legislation to repeal and replace ObamaCare, a key campaign promise of both President Trump and congressional Republicans.

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Katie Couric Is Out Due to Gun Rights Activists Deceptively Edited Interview?

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Katie Couric and Yahoo News parted ways on Friday after four years of Couric serving as the organization's global news anchor.

Couric's headlining interview show for Yahoo News has been canceled. Her $10 million contract ended in March 2017 and was renewed through June. Couric will continue working with Yahoo News and its corporate parent Oath on a project-by-project basis.

"Over the last four years, Katie has created a vast portfolio of work that has been equal parts inspiring, thought-provoking and fun to watch," an Oath spokesperson told Recode. "We're proud of everything she has accomplished and look forward to exploring ways to work together in the future."

Couric's four-year tenure was marred by criticism she received in the wake of revelations she and her fellow filmmakers deceptively edited an interview with gun rights activists in their 2016 Under the Gun film. In that film, a group of activists with the Virginia Citizens Defense League are shown sitting in silence for nine seconds following a question from Couric about terrorism and background checks. However, raw audio obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows several of the activists immediately responded to Couric's question.

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Freedom Pop +AT&T: 100% Free Cell Phone with Service for One-Time $29.99 Activation Fee

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Law Enforcement Wrongfully Confiscates New York Veteran’s Guns

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Don Hall was sitting in his living room watching TV with his girlfriend about 9:30 p.m. earlier this year when he was startled by flashing police car lights in his driveway.

Hall met the Oneida County sheriff’s deputies in the driveway, worried that they were bringing bad news about a family member.

Instead, the deputies produced an official document demanding that Hall, a 70-year-old Vietnam veteran who is a retired pipefitter, turn over his guns to them on the spot. On the document Hall said he was described as “mentally defective.”

When Hall told police he’d never had any mental issues, Hall said, deputies told him he must have done something that triggered the order under the New York state’s SAFE Act.

The deputies left that night with six guns – two handguns and four long guns.

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‘Sick sick sick’ racist Procter & Gamble ad crosses every line! If you are white, brace yourself before watching

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This might be the most racist commercial any company has ever produced.

A more than two-minute video produced by Procter & Gamble, the company that manufactures Cascade, Febreze, Mr. Clean, Tide, Swiffer, Downy and a plethora of products, shows various scenes of black parents talking with their children about racism.

The ad, titled “The Talk,” shows scenes of black parents, spanning generations, telling their kids about how the system is stacked against them, how racist white people are and teaching them to fear the police.

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Trump studying executive action on healthcare, senator Rand Paul say & Suggests Trump will take action on trade groups, insurance

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Reuters 

U.S. Senator Rand Paul said he spoke to President Donald Trump by phone about healthcare reform on Monday and told the president he thought Trump had the authority to create associations that would allow organizations to offer group health insurance plans.

Paul, a Republican, told reporters that Trump was considering taking some form of executive action to address problems with the healthcare system after the Senate failed last week to pass a measure to reform the system. 

Allowing groups like AARP, which represents retirees, to form health associations could enable individuals and small businesses to form larger groups to negotiate with health insurance companies for lower rates. 

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Paul suggests Trump will take action on trade groups, insurance

“Can you imagine the leverage you would get for drug prices and insurance prices if you were negotiating for 5 million people?” Paul said.

“If you could legalize that, not only could it fix some of the problems that we are encountering in the individual market, there's 28 million people without insurance because it's too expensive. What if we forced the price down enough.”

Kelly: Convinced Trump not to build a physical wall?

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On Monday afternoon, John Kelly, the new White House chief of staff, made his first major staffing decision, forcing out the White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, after less than two weeks on the job. The move was unexpected. President Trump had issued no public statements criticizing Scaramucci for a series of obscenity-laced statements he made to me last Wednesday night, which accused the former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus of leaking to reporters and, without offering any evidence, committing a felony.

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Trump Saw A Disturbing Video, Then He Shut Down The CIA's Covert Syria Program

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While we've carefully documented the dynamics in play behind Trump's decision to end the CIA's covert Syria program, as well as the corresponding fury this immediately unleashed among the usual hawkish DC policy wonks, new information on what specifically impacted the president's thinking has emerged.

Thomas Joscelyn, a Middle East analyst for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explains in the August edition of The Weekly Standard:

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump was shown a disturbing video of Syrian rebels beheading a child near the city of Aleppo. It had caused a minor stir in the press as the fighters belonged to the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, a group that had been supported by the CIA as part of its rebel aid program.

The footage is haunting. Five bearded men smirk as they surround a boy in the back of a pickup truck. One of them holds the boy’s head with a tight grip on his hair while another mockingly slaps his face. Then, one of them uses a knife to saw the child’s head off and holds it up in the air like a trophy. It is a scene reminiscent of the Islamic State’s snuff videos, except this wasn’t the work of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s men. The murderers were supposed to be the good guys: our allies.

Trump pressed his most senior intelligence advisers, asking the basic question of how the CIA could have a relationship with a group that beheads a child and then uploads the video to the internet. He wasn't satisfied with any of the responses:

Trump wanted to know why the United States had backed Zenki if its members are extremists. The issue was discussed at length with senior intelligence officials, and no good answers were forthcoming, according to people familiar with the conversations. After learning more worrisome details about the CIA’s ghost war in Syria—including that U.S.-backed rebels had often fought alongside extremists, among them al Qaeda’s arm in the country—the president decided to end the program altogether.

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Imran Awan Had Access to Every member of Congress -- SOLD SECRETS to Foreign Agents!

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McConnell wages war down South

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The Senate leader is being pilloried in an Alabama special election as the hated symbol of the establishment — and he's responding in force.

Mitch McConnell is unleashing the full force of his political machine in an all-out push to stop two far-right conservatives who threaten to make his life miserable in the Senate.

The Republican leader is aiming to thwart Rep. Mo Brooks and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in a special election in Alabama next month. Both men are campaigning against McConnell as a despised symbol of the establishment — and both would exacerbate his already stiff challenge wrangling his GOP Conference.

McConnell is responding in kind. His super PAC is set to spend as much as $8 million to boost his favored candidate, recently appointed Republican Sen. Luther Strange. McConnell has activated his sprawling donor network and pressed the White House for more resources. And the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate GOP campaign arm McConnell controls, has warned consultants they'll be cut off from future work if they assist Strange’s opponents.

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Trump didn't cause our constitutional crisis — he's the reaction against it

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Trump haters come in all shapes and sizes but one belief they all seem to hold in common is that the temerity of the American people in electing Donald Trump will lead, as night follows day, to a constitutional crisis.

What they missed is that the crisis is already here and it’s been brewing for years. It’s just not the one they’re looking for and, contrary to what Left wing commentators would say, Trump isn’t the cause of the crisis, he is the response to it.   

The swaggering outsider who promises to break-up the ruling cartel wasn’t supposed to win. How could he? But he did and that’s just not fair so they want to invoke the heckler’s veto that would overturn the last election — feel free to vote all you want, but if you elect someone unacceptable to the ruling class they will unite to destroy him and the people around him. Refusal to abide by election results is what creates a constitutional crisis.

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A .50 BMG for Everyone: Serbu’s Lightweight, Single-Shot RN-50: MSRP: $1,199 — Full Review

 

This week, I drew the assignment of shooting a light weight .50 BMG. For those who aren’t familiar with this powerhouse cartridge — the .50 BMG and light do not belong in the same sentence — certainly if you also include single-shot or bolt-action.

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Middle Class Trusts GOP over Democrats by 35 Point Margin to Run the US Economy

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After decades of destroying jobs, manufacturing, religion, culture, tradition and livelihood the Democrat Party was stunned in 2016 to discover Americans weren’t buying their lies about supporting the Middle Class in America.

The DNC recently published a survey of Middle Class voters after months of blaming Russia for their stunning loss in November.

It’s worse than they thought.

By a staggering 35 point margin Middle Class voters now understand they have a better chance with Republicans on the economy and creating jobs.

That’s got to hurt.

Via the RNC:

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Trump removes Anthony Scaramucci as communications director 10 days after hire

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President Donald Trump has decided to fire Anthony Scaramucci from his role as communications director just 10 days after he stepped into the position, The New York Times reported Monday.

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Bill O’Reilly: A media lynch mob is trying to take down Trump

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Reince Priebus learned a hard lesson over the past six months and Americans should pay attention to it.  After leaving his job as White House chief of staff last week, Priebus told Sean Hannity that the national press is flat-out "dishonest."

"What I find to be amazing is how narratives are set and a lot of it is not true. ... The most breathtaking thing for me has been the difference between what the truth is and what often gets reported."

Priebus was referring to story lines that have taken deep root in the anti-Trump media.

The most prominent one is that Russia and the Trump campaign worked together to sabotage Hillary Clinton's presidential run. Hundreds of stories have run bolstering that theory; many of them driven by rank speculation and the use of anonymous sources that are clearly opposed to Trump.

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Trump on healthcare: 'Why should Congress not be paying what public pays?' & Ron DeSantis: Congress will kill Obamacare if Trump kills lawmakers' subsidies

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President Trump on Monday blasted ObamaCare, saying the healthcare legislation is "hurting people" and questioning why Congress shouldn't be paying the same as the public.

"If ObamaCare is hurting people, & it is, why shouldn't it hurt the insurance companies & why should Congress not be paying what public pays?" Trump tweeted Monday.

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 Ron DeSantis: Congress will kill Obamacare if Trump kills lawmakers' subsidies

Vietnam vet will get first Medal of Honor awarded by Trump

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President Trump will present his first Medal of Honor as commander-in-chief Monday – to a 71-year-old Vietnam vet who was injured while saving his comrades as an Army medic.

James McCloughan entered the “kill zone” during the Battle of Hui Yon Hill in 1969 to rescue his fellow soldiers and was struck by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade.

In its announcement last month, the White House said McCloughan “voluntarily risked his life on nine separate occasions to rescue wounded and disoriented comrades.

He suffered wounds from shrapnel and small arms fire on three separate occasions, but refused medical evacuation to stay with his unit, and continued to brave enemy fire to rescue, treat, and defend wounded Americans.”

Now 71 and living in South Haven, Michigan, McCloughan last month said the battle was “the worst two days of my life.”

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‘We Should Just Leave:’ Trump Takes A Look At Pulling Troops Out Of Afghanistan

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Leave, it is.

The Trump administration is considering the ramifications of paring back the U.S. presence in Afghanistan as part of its ongoing strategy review in America’s longest war, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Trump’s national security cabinet is bitterly divided on the future U.S. role in Afghanistan. Senior national security officials like Secretary of Defense James Mattis and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster are reportedly pushing Trump to allow a surge of approximately 4,000 troops into Afghanistan, while White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has lobbied against the effort.

“It doesn’t work unless we are there for a long time, and if we don’t have the appetite to be there a long time, we should just leave. It’s an unanswered question,” a senior administration official told WSJ of any plan to increase U.S. troops. “It is becoming clearer and clearer to people that those are the options: go forward with something like the strategy we have developed, or withdraw.”

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Matt Drudge Goes After McCain: “Corruption Has So Many Faces”

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Pier Weekly July30, 2017

Lifeguard Christine.

Grace wanted to do selfies in the middle of my walk. Amazing girl who at 17 ( last year) was diagnosed with liver cancer.  She never looked back or thought for a moment she wouldn't overcome it.  Given an experimental drug, she was cancer free at the end of the treatment and  free again on her six month checkup.  Grace received her name from her parents after conceiving her five years after the doctors told her parents that there was no hope of them every having a baby. The Lord works in mysterious ways, as my Mother would say.