Month: October 2020

The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday filed a complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) claiming that Twitter’s censorship of a New York Post story amounted to an “illegal corporate in-kind contribution” to the Joe Biden presidential campaign.

Facebook and Twitter decided to censor a New York Post article saying that, contrary to Biden’s claims, Biden allegedly met with an executive at Burisma when he was vice president. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, reportedly arranged the meeting while he was working as a lobbyist for the company.

Fox News obtained the FEC complaint in which the RNC wrote that “Twitter has violated FECA and the Commission’s Regulations by making corporate in-kind contributions to Biden for President.”

The RNC charged that Twitter “is a partisan actor, run by partisan Democrats” and is “using its corporate resources to provide active support for Joe Biden’s campaign in violation of federal law.” The GOP group demanded that the FEC conduct an investigation into Twitter’s “illegal in-kind contributions to the Biden campaign” and “impose the maximum penalty allowed under the law.”

The RNC’s complaint follows as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) urged the FEC Acting General Counsel Lisa Stevenson to investigate Twitter’s impression of the New York Post story. Hawley and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) moved to subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey through the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The Biden campaign claimed on Thursday that the New York Post story is “false” because Twitter censored it.

Jamal Brown, the national press secretary for the Biden campaign, said, “Twitter’s response to the actual article itself makes clear that these purported allegations are false and are not true.”

Dorsey admitted on Friday that blocking links to the New York Post story was “wrong.”

“Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix. Our goal is to attempt to add context, and now we have capabilities to do that,” he said.

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A U.S. Postal Service employee is out of a job amid an investigation into over 100 absentee ballots discarded in a dumpster in Louisville, Kentucky.

A contractor found the unopened 112 ballots while renovating a home in Jefferson County on Thursday. Additionally, two political flyers were discovered by special agents with the Postal Service Office of the Inspector General.

“When the investigation is concluded, the case will be presented for federal prosecution to the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Special Agent Scott Balfour said in a statement.

The case has been turned over to the U.S. attorney’s office, Balfour said.

Such incidents are “exceedingly rare,” Balfour said.

Voters who don’t receive an absentee ballot by Oct. 28 can go to any polling site, sign an affidavit saying they did not receive the ballot, and vote in person, said Nore Ghibaudy, spokesman for the Jefferson County clerk’s office.

The AP contributed to this report. 

The cities of Portland, Oregon, and Oakland, California, filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday claiming that the Trump administration’s effort to maintain law and order in U.S. cities and to protect federal property was unconstitutional. 

The lawsuit said that the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security unconstitutionally took over police duties in those cities, where, in the case of Portland, police have faced almost nightly violent riots that have resulted in property damage, injuries, and even deaths.

The genesis of the lawsuit comes from President Donald Trump signing an executive order in June to fulfill the federal government’s responsibility to protect the American people and federal property.

The local ABC affiliate in Portland reported on the lawsuit:

The cities sued the departments’ leaders, Attorney General William Barr and Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, in their official capacities as well and asked the judge to forbid the federal agencies of sending officers to the cities. The 48-page lawsuit was filed in federal court in California.

Among the allegations, the cities said the federal government’s policies to send in officers to protect federal property instead “reveal a distinct and meaningful policy shift to use federal law enforcement to unilaterally step in or replace local law enforcement departments that do not subscribe to the President’s view of domestic “law and order.””

Portland and Oakland city attorneys asked a federal judge to rule the practice of sending in federal officers unconstitutional and pointed to the recent federal deputation of Portland police officers as an example of the federal government “commandeering” local law enforcement, despite requests from local leaders to de-deputize the officers. 

The request to deputize came ahead of an expected clash between Antifa and the right-wing group Proud Boys in Portland on a recent weekend, although no altercation between the groups transpired.

“The U.S. Attorney for Oregon and the Marshals Service have refused to cancel the deputization, which officially expires on Dec. 31,” KATU reported, and also noted that Oakland joined the lawsuit because of concerns the Trump administration might send U.S. agents to Oakland or deputize police officers in that city. 

The lawsuit also alleges the federal government illegally erected a fence around the Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, which is federal property.

DHS reacted to the lawsuit.

“Yet again, dangerous politicians and fringe special interest groups have ginned up a meritless lawsuit,” a spokesperson from DHS said. “They aim to harm President Trump and distract from his law and order agenda.”

“Department of Homeland Security have acted entirely lawfully,” the spokesperson said. “Instead of condemning the violence we are seeing across the country, these politicians focus on scoring cheap political points to the detriment of the American people.”

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Entertainment giant Disney has added expanded trigger warnings over “racist content” to many of its classic films, including Peter Pan, Dumbo, Fantasia, and Lady and the Tramp, on its streaming service Disney Plus.

“This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures,” read the warnings, which appear on audience screens for ten seconds after the films are selected for viewing, according to Variety. “These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it, and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe.”

The new verbiage replaces previous warnings on films such as Dumbo that simply read, “This program is presented as originally created. It may contain outdated cultural depictions.”

The warnings also contain a link to Disney.com/StoriesMatter, featuring a short video pushing the concept of “diverse storytelling,” which maintains that only “diverse” writer rooms, characters, and stories are worthy for depiction.

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The latest warning screens are part of the company’s continuing effort to slap warning notes on its past content. Disney had already labeled Dumbo, Jungle Book, Lady and the Tramp, and others as “offensive.” The latest warnings are an expansion of the campaign to marginalize its own past works.

Other TV networks have also slapped warning labels on movies. On HBO Max, the classic Civil War era love story, Gone With The Wind, was temporarily deleted after activists attacked the film. The service later brought the film back but festooned with warning labels. And in June, cable giant Comcast added a warning to Disney’s 1992 and 2019 versions of Aladdin claiming the films featured “outdated attitudes” that may “cause offense today.”

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Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight posted a video message Friday in which called Joe Biden “evil” as he urged Americans to vote for President Donald Trump in November.

“Biden is evil. Trump must win. He’s real. He will bring back the people’s trust,” Voight said. “These leftists are not for the American people. It’s the biggest cover-up ever. Biden is an extension of the policies of Obama that weakened America and we cannot let that happen again. The left are deceitful and have lied to the American people. They have stripped down her mighty power for their own ego of power to rule the nation’s economy.”

Voight’s message comes after the New York Post ran multiple stories this week revealing how Hunter Biden leveraged his father’s vice presidential office in the Burisma scandal and separately sought to enrich the Biden family with deals involving China’s largest private energy company.

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Breitbart News reported Friday on previously unknown emails showing how Hunter Biden associates worked to secure White House meetings with Communist Party-aligned Chinese elites.

“Let us ask God to rid this horror,” Voight said in the video. “And let us hold a candle on this land of the free and bring her back to the place she once stood proud. She is God’s liberty, she is God’s love. She is freedom, diginity. And God will cast his healing breath across this land. He will vanquish deceit. And I assure you that Jesus, Moses will stand their ground and ask all to vote for truths. Our land of the free will break her chains, and this will be. ”

Voight continued: “My children of God, your only hope is to see this greatness and you must vote for this man in office, the president of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, for he is a man of integrity fighting for you and this country’s welfare. He loves this country as you do. Don’t allow deceit to manipulate you. For only truths will prevail.”

The Coming Home actor concluded: “Donald Trump has been great for the American people these last four years, and he wants to continue to fight for her glory and freedom. The left will bring you down with their lies and destroy America. Let us all pray and may God give us strength that we may shine in the name of Jesus and Moses, and saints of all religions. May we hold God’s torch of truths and pray for world peace, for the U.S. to bring her nation’s flag to wave with pride, with President Donald Trump in 2020. God bless.”

Jon Voight is one of Hollywood’s most vocal Trump supporters. The Midnight Cowboy star narrated a video about American exceptionalism at this year’s Republican National Convention. He also narrated a RNC video about President Trump’s successful efforts to free American hostages held captive in foreign lands.

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Via Fox News:

‘Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, which is now essentially an arm of the Democratic Party, is now going to legislate and extend mail-in-voting count by three days,’ says Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman.

The Honest Elections Project is warning that recent events unfolding in states throughout the country have confirmed their fears that November’s election will be mired in controversy because states changed their voting procedures without adequate time to develop a workable system.

The group had warned in a July report that large-scale voting by mail would waste resources, create a risk of complications, such as fraud.

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