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GEORGIA IN THE HOT SEAT
Former Fulton County Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade left Capitol Hill on Tuesday after a marathon four-and-a-half hour grilling by House Judiciary Committee investigators.
Wade, whose legal team included former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, said little to reporters before, after and during his closed-door deposition. No lawmakers were seen entering or leaving the room.
“This is all I’m going to say – we gave our testimony, we cooperated and we are through,” Barnes told reporters after the session…Read more
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MICROMANAGER-IN-CHIEF?: Netanyahu states that his regime, not the US, will decide how to retaliate against Iran…Read more
CHECK THE TAPE: Speaker Johnson accuses CBS of ‘selectively editing’ interview on heels of VP Harris ’60 Minutes’ controversy…Read more
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Tales from the Trail
WHO’S MORE ACCESSIBLE?: Trump-Vance ticket has done combined 78 interviews since August compared to 42 for Harris-Walz…Read more
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‘PARTY OF COMMON SENSE’: Trump says GOP is ‘party of common sense’ during contentious Bloomberg interview…Read more
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EV TROUBLES: Harris support for EVs could tank campaign in critical swing state, expert says…Read more
‘AT LEAST AFFORD GROCERIES’: ‘I was much better off’: These voters back Trump in top battleground county…Read more
CHARGED UP: ‘Ruining our car industry’: Biden-Harris EV regs prove flashpoint in Michigan Senate debate…Read more
CUT SHORT: Trump cuts Pennsylvania town hall short over medical emergencies in crowd…Read more
SPARKS FLY: CNN anchor and Rep. Waltz clash over Harris ‘socialist’ label, networks likening Trump to Hitler…Read more
Across America
‘THIS IS THE PRICE OF LAWFARE’: Classified docs case dismissal means ‘greatest’ legal ‘threat’ to Trump is ‘gone’…Read more
MORE THAN A ‘HANDFUL?’: New report warns bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang’s footprint will remain in US ‘for decades’…Read more
JUDGE RULES: Georgia judge rules election officials must certify vote counts, even if they suspect fraud…Read more
‘COLLECTIVE FAILURE’: Outlet deletes review of Oct. 7 doc after backlash for complaining that film depicts Hamas too negatively…Read more
ANTISEMITISM ON CAMPUS: Hamilton College student admits to posting ‘antisemitic remarks’ on campus, New York State Police say…Read more
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Video: Trump Plays Music After Medical Emergencies Derail Town Hall
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Trump Plays Music After Medical Emergencies Derail Town Hall
Donald J. Trump cut questions short and started playing music after two medical emergencies in the crowd at his town-hall event in suburban Philadelphia.
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Energy costs. Hold it. A doctor, please. Doctor – Thank you very much. We love that man. We love that man. The No. 1 issue this country has — They’re both OK. Yes, they’re both, they’re both in good shape. That’s wonderful. Would anybody else like to faint? Please raise your hand. Let’s do it now. Please raise your hand. You know what we could do, though. If my guys can do it. How about, we’ll do a little music. Let’s make this a musical fest. Put on Pavarotti singing “Ave Maria.” Nice and loud. Turn it up louder, we want a little action here. Turn it up louder. [“Ave Maria” plays] Play “Y.M.C.A.” Go ahead. Let’s go. Nice and loud. Here we go, everybody. [“Y.M.C.A.” plays] Nobody’s leaving. What’s going on? There’s nobody leaving. Keep going? Keep going? Should we keep going? All right, turn that music up. [“November Rain” plays]
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Granderson: Trump 'loves' Black men? He has a history of calling for their executions
Kwame Kilpatrick committed so many crimes during his time as mayor of Detroit that his administration was blamed for accelerating the city’s fall into bankruptcy.
Why should you care?
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LZ Granderson
LZ Granderson writes about culture, politics, sports and navigating life in America.
Because now he’s a leader of a group called Black Men for Trump.
In 2013, as the city was entering Chapter 9, Kilpatrick was sent to prison for 28 years for 24 federal felonies, including fraud and racketeering. However, in 2021, Donald Trump commuted his sentence. Now Kilpatrick is paying him back by doing what he does best — gaslighting voters.
“Black Americans are not a monolith, and we don’t owe our votes to any candidate just because they look like us,” the group said in a statement recently. “It’s demeaning to suggest that we can’t evaluate a candidate’s track record.”
Let’s look at Kilpatrick’s record: He accepted nearly $10 million in kickbacks from city contracts he awarded to a close friend. The disgraced former mayor also took money he raised for charity to buy golf clubs, spa treatments and luxury vacations. There’s also the 27-year-old woman who in a deposition said she stripped at a drug-fueled party at the mayor’s mansion for $1,000 — a witness who, by the way, turned up dead before she could testify in court.
Trump went to Detroit last week and trash-talked the city while being advised by Kilpatrick, who actually trashed the city during his nearly seven years as mayor. One of the other voices who has his ear, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), has repeatedly said Black people had it better under Jim Crow. When I interviewed campaign surrogate Bruce LeVell back in 2016, he was in charge of Trump’s National Diversity Coalition. However, now that “diversity” is a four-letter word in conservative circles, he’s part of this sad group of Black men helping Trump to mislead their community.
At a recent stop in Nevada, Trump boldly told the crowd that he loves Black men.
Really?
Apparently he doesn’t consider Haitian immigrants to be Black, because he isn’t showing love for them in this campaign season. Nor has he ever shown contrition over calling for the execution of five Black and brown children who were falsely accused of a horrific crime in Central Park in 1989; the Black men of the Exonerated 5 aren’t feeling the love from Trump.
After Randal Pinkett, a Black man, won Season 4 of “The Apprentice,” he wrote in his book: “I was not aware until I joined the Trump Organization that there were absolutely no ethnic minorities in any executive capacity for any of his companies.” Where was the love for Black men as Trump built his businesses and staffed the C-suites?
Sure, he enjoys being around Black athletes and entertainers, but what evidence is there that Trump sees the humanity of the migrants at the border as being equal to himself? President Lincoln was against the institution of slavery but did not see Black people as equal. Frederick Douglass said “he was preeminently the white man’s president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men.”
When Trump targets cities like Detroit for criticism, he’s not interested in policy that can uplift, only rhetoric to get him elected. That’s why he doesn’t mind offending Black folks with his racist tropes while campaigning.
However, we tend to forget Trump was president and that his words are secondary to his actions.
Of the 226 federal judges picked by Trump, 189 are white. Only nine are Black, the fewest since Reagan’s seven. Trump was also the first president since Richard Nixon to not even nominate a Black person as an appeals court judge. One Latino made the cut in Trump’s only term. (For comparison, President Biden has selected more nonwhite judges than any other president, including Barack Obama. Biden also has the most diverse Cabinet in history, while Trump had the least diverse in 30 years.)
From being sued by the Justice Department in the 1970s for refusing to rent apartments to Black people, to selecting a reality TV show villain to be the face of diversity efforts during his time in the White House, Trump has shown little interest in improving Black folks’ lives.
If the Black men advising Trump believe any of this is acceptable, then we know the kind of Black men Trump loves to have around.
@LZGranderson
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