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From 2017:Senior administration officials tell me they think Paul is playing them—that he gets all the perks of associating himself with the president without actually helping advance his agenda. "We've had this conversation recently," one senior official vented. "It's like, 'Wow, Rand really doesn't help us on anything.'Why Trump doesn't care: Paul has found the way to Trump's heart. Here's how he does it: -He spends a lot of time on the phone with him, listening patiently as Trump rattles on about his latest rounds of golf and, per one administration official, "all kinds of random stuff." -He never asks...

Standing there alone, the ship is waiting All systems are go, are you sure? Control is not convinced But the computer has the evidence No need to abort The countdown starts

President Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton calls portions of the 2020 Republican National Convention being held at the White House a "destruction of standards."

Now that it is confirmed Joseph Rosenbaum was one of the people shot and killed by alleged gunman Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, I filmed him earlier in the night taunting the armed civilians, saying, "Shoot me, n***a."

The CEO of Chinese video app TikTok has resigned after just months on the job following a recent threat by President Trump to ban the app in the U.S. Kevin Mayer informed employees of his decision Thursday, Fox Business has confirmed. His departure plans come amid trade posturing between the U.S. and China. Trump recently accused the app of being a potential threat to U.S. national security, saying his administration had “credible evidence,” The Financial Times reported. The president threatened a ban on TikTok unless its operator, ByteDance, sold its assets to a U.S.-based company within 90 days.

"Our society is backwards. Black culture needs to change. It's messed up. Our county has been divided. We've been turning things upside down out of pointing our finger at each other an d not at the people responsible. We're sensitive to everything. We are programmed to as all we have to do is see an image and we react. We are destroying our country. And, listening to false narratives. All this started because of what? George Floyd? George Floyd who was a man high as hell on fentanyl& whatever else, who resisted. Who put himself on the floor, kicked himself...

Half of the key speakers scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention have the last name of Trump, according to a Fox News graphic that aired Saturday. The event, which starts Monday and runs through Thursday, will feature appearances by President Donald Trump each night, according to NPR. His acceptance speech will come Thursday. But he won't be the only Trump in the spotlight. Other main speakers include first lady Melania Trump along with the president's children: Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, and Tiffany Trump.

A Navy sailor is being eyed in connection to the massive four-day fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard that investigators suspect may have been set intentionally. Navy investigators searched the unidentified sailor’s home to look for any links to the blaze that caused substantial damage to the ship, multiple sources told ABC 10News. Despite the development, Navy officials have kept mum on the status of their probe.

New polling shows Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts opening up a lead over Democratic challenger Rep. Joe Kennedy III with less than a week to go until their Senate primary showdown in an increasingly bitter contest that’s grabbed national headlines. According to a Suffolk University poll released on Wednesday, Markey leads Kennedy 51%-41% among likely Massachusetts Democratic primary voters. A survey released hours earlier by the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion also indicated the senator with a small double-digit advantage over his challenger, who is the grandson of the late senator and U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and...

Bill Cohen, a Republican who spent more than three decades representing Maine in Congress before becoming secretary of defense during former President Bill Clinton’s second term, has endorsed Democrat Joe Biden for president. “We have a choice in November,” Cohen said in a statement released by the Biden campaign Wednesday. “Whether to go back to our dark past or reach for who we aspire to be -- a country where it doesn't matter where you came from, how you worship or who you love, a country where everyone matters.” Cohen, 79, served in the House of Representatives from 1973 to...

A party that tolerates rioting has no future in a democracy. Video at link

MSNBC on Wednesday attempted to do a "reality check" on South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's remarks at the Republican National Convention about the ongoing violence in certain cities. Noem kicked off the evening of speakers and took aim at "Democrat-run cities" that have been hit with violence following the death of George Floyd. "From Seatle and Portland to Washington and New York, Democrat-run cities across this country are being overun by violent mobs," Noem said. "The violence is rampant. There's looting, chaos, destruction, and murder. People who can afford to flee have fled but the people that can't, good hard-working...

CNN was widely mocked late Wednesday after an on-air graphic that was broadcasted a day earlier went viral. CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez was reporting live in the early hours on Tuesday morning on the unrest that had taken place in Kenosha, Wis., following the police-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. Jimenez was standing in front of a raging fire and the chyron at the bottom of the screen read, "FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING."

"Safe Cities Matter!!!" This should be Trump's new Campaign Slogan. Until Donald Trump came along, the DemoRats had an absolute monopoly on the use of clever, but dishonest catch-phrases such as: --"Affirmative Action" - There's nothing "affirmative" about using the State as an agent of discrimination for-or-against anyone based on skin color! --And "Diversity" - which is a clever code word for "non-white." --And "Inclusion" - which is an insidious code word for including everyone except whites and males. Then Trump came along with his very effective use of hard-hitting catch-phrases for his opponents such as "Crooked Hillary," "Fake News,"...

I was just watching Fox News Night with Shannon Bream and they ran a report from a guy named Jonathan Hunt that was a video from of the first shots fired that appears to have come from a drone. It was from the opposite direction as Kyle is running toward the drone as he was being chased by the Antifa goon and people are scattering. This Jonathan Hunt says, and I quote: "You can see quite clearly the shooter chasing people across what appears to be a courtyard of some businesses firing at them that is the point that we...

Fox News host Tucker Carlson received immediate backlash on Twitter after saying Kyle Rittenhouse, who was arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide for the shootings of two protesters in Kenosha, Wis., “decided to maintain order when no one else would.” “Are we really surprised this looting and arson accelerated to murder? How shocked are we that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would? Everyone can see what was happening in Kenosha. It was getting crazier by the hour,” Carlson said on his show. Video from Carlson’s Wednesday night Fox News broadcast went...

On Tuesday night, during a montage of women who have served in both the Trump administration and campaigns, the anti-Trump phony conservative Lincoln Project tweeted that “Kayleigh McEnany is the first ghoul to serve as Press Secretary.” They deleted it only a minute later. This happened just the day after the group deleted another tweet claiming that an RNC audience member yelled “monkey” in reference to former President Barack Obama, which would’ve been an obvious racial slur. Even though the audio clearly said “spygate,” the phony “principled conservatives” still accused President Trump of enjoying the non-existent insult. While claiming to...

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Gen. Abdulhadi Dirah, the spokesman for the army's Sirte-Jufra Joint Operations Unit, said that carrying military ammunition, Ilyushin-type planes conducted five flights to Sirte and Jufra provinces on Saturday. Carrying Bashar al-Assad regime's soldiers, two more flights were made from Syria to Benghazi, the second biggest Libyan city, which is the center of the Haftar's forces, Dirah said. Libya has been torn by civil war since the ouster of late ruler Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The government was founded in 2015 under a UN-led agreement, but efforts for a long-term political settlement failed due to a...

I've been religiously watching Accuweather, NOAA, and Weather.com to see what is the latest with Hurricane Laura. I feel absolutely horrible at the predicted damage and loss of life. Hurricane Laura is going to be only a few mph less than a Cat 5 storm. They say it will have 20 ft storm surges near Lake Charles, LA---which will completely be over the roofs of houses. I hope no one stayed there, with all the warnings to get out, and I hope no pets/livestock were left behind.

by Joe Callen Here we go again, folks. Just like the riots that have torn apart Kenosha, Wisconsin based on a complete lie ("police shot an innocent, unarmed black man for no reason"), Minneapolis is being rocked at this hour by looting, vandalism and violence -- over a lie that quickly spread and led to total chaos. The lie? that police shot and killed another Black man on a main city street. Here is the video that started it all (Graphic): But another video from beforehand shows a very different cause -- an apparent suicide by a man holding...