Is Nancy running for President?
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Nancy is in public office. She is no 3 in the gahmen. If she accuse others...she n all the democraczies should look at themselves too
So, bring it up when Nancy runs again for any political office.
At the moment all I see is Trump running for reelection.
N biden is not running? The Senate no erections?
I saw that exchange too Nancy Pelosi getting flack now from all sides. She'd better hurry as the Senate Republicans will take the 1.8 Trillion deal off the table and snap back into fiscal conservative mode after the election, if they lose. The deficit. So predictable. 2022 and no deal they will loose more members.
If the Bioterrorist in Chief Trump wants to reverse his poll slide all he has to do is get those stimulus checks out to the people. $1200 payments for everone means Instant poll surge and more voters. But no he is so stupid he does is fly around to loser locations he once won big in.
Shitshow continues
By the way, Joe Biden is fucked. Hint: Hunter Biden's 9.5 inch penis and sex tape.
More info will be revealed. Stay tuned!
Oh I am so happy someone here was stupid enough to bring this up. This was taken down so fast on twitter and FB the bigger story is censorship let alone the supposed Biden meeting. People don't care about Hunter's sex acts. Hunter's emails is a nothingburger. People are actually laughing at Giuliani. Apparently Trump's impeachment over the last Ukrainian-Giuliani fiasco is fresh in people's minds. What a joke no wonder no one is talking about this or gives a shit.
And wait it gets better, Giuliani caught making fun of chinese people. AH SO chinese. BOW to me Chinese. How insulting. The shitshow continues
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/n...identally-posts-video-of-himself-being-racist
Every member of congress is basically a millionaire. Speaker of house not releasing their taxes is not standard. Previous speaker Boehner did not release as well.
There is nothing there. Some Mac Repair Shop in Delaware reportedly got a laptop for repair and never picked up. There is a Beau Biden sticker on it. The owner of the shop is a Trump Idiot who think's Trump Impeachment was unfair. He does not know the owner of the laptop. When questioned, owner first said the FBI took the hard drive then changed story and now its in the hands of Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani spent time in Ukraine hunting for dirt on the Bidens but instead resulted in Trump getting impeached. Backfired. Now all of a sudden, lo and behold, Giuliani magically has sex tapes and illicit emails claiming VP Dad helped son Hunter and abused his position by having a meeting with the Ukranians, which cannot be confirmed. The icing on the cake is Steve Bannon is behind the whole thing.
So yesterday the Trump idiots got excited then very angry after FB and twitter took it down for being misleading, fake etc. The mainstream media refuses to even talk about it, which is making the shitshow even better because the Trump idiots are seething with rage and no one cares. Media now ignores Bannon and Giuliani
Instead people are saying Hunter Biden is not running for President and Trump is using the Presidency to help his children everyday so who cares, is the gist of it. Expect more pathetic attempts by the Trump Campaign to release more doctored emails in a sad attempt to repeat Hillary 2016. I cant wait for the next 3 pointless releases.
Backfired already
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So no point picking on trump
Biden n gang r really corrupt. No wonder yankeeland is going down the dumps
Hunter Biden New York Post story being blocked on Facebook and Twitters draws ire of Donald Trump
Posted 8 hours ago, updated8 hours ago
Donald Trump claims emails in a New York Post are a "smoking gun" against election rival Joe Biden.(ABC News: Jonathan Ernst)
US President Donald Trump and his supporters have hit out at Facebook and Twitter for limiting access to a news story damaging to Joe Biden on their platforms.
Key points:
Mr Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Republican senators have condemned the social media giants for stopping the sharing of the article, as they say the story proves Mr Biden and his son Hunter were engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.
"So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of "Smoking Gun" emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the @nypost," Mr Trump tweeted.
YOUTUBEChris Cuomo and Rudy Guiliani
Twitter has said the posts violated the platform's rules which prevent the sharing of personal information.
Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2014, around the time his father, then US vice-president, was involved in the Obama administration's foreign policy decisions.
Senate Republicans said the appointment may have posed a conflict of interest, but they did not present evidence that Hunter Biden's hiring at Burisma influenced US policies.
Mr Trump and his supporters have also advanced a widely discredited theory that Joe Biden pushed for the firing of Ukraine's top prosecutor to protect his son and Burisma from investigation.
Here's what we know about the report and the ensuing controversy.
What does the New York Post say?
The New York Post published alleged emails and photos from Hunter Biden's laptop, which was allegedly left at a computer repair shop.
The main email highlighted by the Post is a May 2015 message that it said was sent to Hunter Biden by Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to Burisma.
In it, he thanks the younger Biden "for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It's realty [sic] an honour and pleasure."
The wording makes it unclear if he actually met Joe Biden.
Watch
Duration: 8 minutes 21 seconds
8m
Hunter Biden's questionable past
The Biden campaign said in a statement that it had reviewed Mr Biden's schedules from the time and that no meeting as described by the newspaper took place.
The Post said it received a hard drive containing the messages on Sunday local time from Mr Giuliani, who has pushed the unfounded idea that Ukraine was trying to interfere with the 2016 election and that the younger Biden may have enriched himself by selling his access to his father.
The Post said the emails were part of a trove of data recovered from a laptop that was dropped off at a computer repair shop in Delaware in April 2019.
It said the customer, whom the computer shop owner could not definitively identify as Hunter Biden, never paid for the service or retrieved it, and said the owner made a copy of the hard drive that he provided to Mr Giuliani's lawyer.
The newspaper said the owner alerted the FBI to the computer and hard drive, and that agents took possession of them. That could not immediately be confirmed, and the FBI has declined to comment.
Authenticity of the new emails
The actual origins of the emails are unclear. Disinformation experts have said there are multiple red flags that raise doubts about their authenticity, including questions about whether the laptop actually belongs to Hunter Biden, said Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the nonpartisan Wilson Centre in Washington.
The Biden campaign has not addressed the issue and Hunter Biden's lawyer did not return response to comment.
Another potential alarm has been the involvement of another associate of Mr Trump, Steve Bannon, who the Post said first alerted it to the emails and who along with Mr Giuliani has been active in promoting an anti-Biden narrative on Ukraine.
Thomas Rid, a disinformation expert at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not clear to him yet whether the emails were hacked or forged but said they "could be either or both".
The suggestion that Joe Biden might have met with a Burisma representative is consequential, because he has repeatedly insisted that he never discussed his son's business with him.
But the emails provide no details on whether Mr Pozharskyi and Mr Biden actually met and, if so, what they discussed.
Facebook and Twitter response
Twitter responded to removing the post on a thread published on its own platform. It said: "The images contained in the articles included personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules."
It added: "As noted this morning, we also currently view materials included in the articles as violations of our Hacked Materials Policy."
With both social media giants already under pressure to police their platforms ahead of the election, both quickly flagged the article and moved to restrict its accessibility online.
Facebook spokesman Andy Stone announced on Twitter that the company was working to reduce the distribution of the article on its platform.
On Wednesday afternoon, Twitter began banning its users from sharing links to the article in tweets and direct messages because it violated the company's policy that prohibits hacked content.
Political impact
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With less than three weeks until Election Day and polls showing him trailing Mr Biden, Mr Trump appears to be returning to the subject of his opponent's family to energise his base.
Mr Trump called for a full accounting of Mr Biden's conversations with his son and with Mr Pozharskyi. He said in an interview with Newsmax that the Post had caught Mr Biden "cold" with "serious" allegations.
At a campaign rally in Iowa on Wednesday night, Mr Trump led with the Post story and called Mr Biden "a corrupt politician who shouldn't even be allowed to run for the presidency".
Mr Biden's campaign, meanwhile, pointed to the recent Republican-led Senate investigation that found no evidence of wrongdoing on Mr Biden's part with regard to Ukraine.
It also pointedly noted the involvement of Mr Giuliani, saying his "discredited conspiracy theories and alliance with figures connected to Russian intelligence have been widely reported".
AP/ABC
Hunter Biden New York Post story being blocked on Facebook and Twitters draws ire of Donald Trump
Posted 8 hours ago, updated8 hours ago
US President Donald Trump and his supporters have hit out at Facebook and Twitter for limiting access to a news story damaging to Joe Biden on their platforms.
Key points:
- Hunter Biden was a member of the board of a Ukrainian gas company when his father was US vice-president
- The New York Post has published an article revealing alleged photos and emails from a laptop allegedly left by Hunter Biden at a computer repair shop
- The authenticity of the emails is in doubt, but one email claims Hunter Biden helped arrange access to his father for an adviser to the gas company
Mr Trump, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Republican senators have condemned the social media giants for stopping the sharing of the article, as they say the story proves Mr Biden and his son Hunter were engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.
"So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of "Smoking Gun" emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the @nypost," Mr Trump tweeted.
Twitter has said the posts violated the platform's rules which prevent the sharing of personal information.
Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2014, around the time his father, then US vice-president, was involved in the Obama administration's foreign policy decisions.
Senate Republicans said the appointment may have posed a conflict of interest, but they did not present evidence that Hunter Biden's hiring at Burisma influenced US policies.
Mr Trump and his supporters have also advanced a widely discredited theory that Joe Biden pushed for the firing of Ukraine's top prosecutor to protect his son and Burisma from investigation.
Here's what we know about the report and the ensuing controversy.
What does the New York Post say?
The New York Post published alleged emails and photos from Hunter Biden's laptop, which was allegedly left at a computer repair shop.
The main email highlighted by the Post is a May 2015 message that it said was sent to Hunter Biden by Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to Burisma.
In it, he thanks the younger Biden "for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It's realty [sic] an honour and pleasure."
The wording makes it unclear if he actually met Joe Biden.
Watch
Duration: 8 minutes 21 seconds
8m
Hunter Biden's questionable past
The Biden campaign said in a statement that it had reviewed Mr Biden's schedules from the time and that no meeting as described by the newspaper took place.
The Post said it received a hard drive containing the messages on Sunday local time from Mr Giuliani, who has pushed the unfounded idea that Ukraine was trying to interfere with the 2016 election and that the younger Biden may have enriched himself by selling his access to his father.
The Post said the emails were part of a trove of data recovered from a laptop that was dropped off at a computer repair shop in Delaware in April 2019.
It said the customer, whom the computer shop owner could not definitively identify as Hunter Biden, never paid for the service or retrieved it, and said the owner made a copy of the hard drive that he provided to Mr Giuliani's lawyer.
The newspaper said the owner alerted the FBI to the computer and hard drive, and that agents took possession of them. That could not immediately be confirmed, and the FBI has declined to comment.
Authenticity of the new emails
The actual origins of the emails are unclear. Disinformation experts have said there are multiple red flags that raise doubts about their authenticity, including questions about whether the laptop actually belongs to Hunter Biden, said Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the nonpartisan Wilson Centre in Washington.
The Biden campaign has not addressed the issue and Hunter Biden's lawyer did not return response to comment.
Another potential alarm has been the involvement of another associate of Mr Trump, Steve Bannon, who the Post said first alerted it to the emails and who along with Mr Giuliani has been active in promoting an anti-Biden narrative on Ukraine.
Thomas Rid, a disinformation expert at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not clear to him yet whether the emails were hacked or forged but said they "could be either or both".
The suggestion that Joe Biden might have met with a Burisma representative is consequential, because he has repeatedly insisted that he never discussed his son's business with him.
But the emails provide no details on whether Mr Pozharskyi and Mr Biden actually met and, if so, what they discussed.
Facebook and Twitter response
Twitter responded to removing the post on a thread published on its own platform. It said: "The images contained in the articles included personal and private information — like email addresses and phone numbers — which violate our rules."
It added: "As noted this morning, we also currently view materials included in the articles as violations of our Hacked Materials Policy."
With both social media giants already under pressure to police their platforms ahead of the election, both quickly flagged the article and moved to restrict its accessibility online.
Facebook spokesman Andy Stone announced on Twitter that the company was working to reduce the distribution of the article on its platform.
On Wednesday afternoon, Twitter began banning its users from sharing links to the article in tweets and direct messages because it violated the company's policy that prohibits hacked content.
Political impact
With less than three weeks until Election Day and polls showing him trailing Mr Biden, Mr Trump appears to be returning to the subject of his opponent's family to energise his base.
Mr Trump called for a full accounting of Mr Biden's conversations with his son and with Mr Pozharskyi. He said in an interview with Newsmax that the Post had caught Mr Biden "cold" with "serious" allegations.
At a campaign rally in Iowa on Wednesday night, Mr Trump led with the Post story and called Mr Biden "a corrupt politician who shouldn't even be allowed to run for the presidency".
Mr Biden's campaign, meanwhile, pointed to the recent Republican-led Senate investigation that found no evidence of wrongdoing on Mr Biden's part with regard to Ukraine.
It also pointedly noted the involvement of Mr Giuliani, saying his "discredited conspiracy theories and alliance with figures connected to Russian intelligence have been widely reported".
AP/ABC
Belief Joe Biden will win drives shift in US stock purchases | US markets
The Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, delivers a speech during a voter mobilisation event in Florida this week. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters
Investors move into renewables and other sectors that could benefit from ‘blue wave’ victory
Thu 15 Oct 2020 00.12 AEDT
Increasing expectations of a Democratic party victory in the race for the White House and on Capitol Hill appear to be driving investors towards stocks that could benefit from the policies that could accompany a Biden administration, including generous government stimulus spending.
While Wall Street famously failed to anticipate Donald’s Trump’s victory in 2016, there has been a shift in investment patterns over recent weeks from US government bonds and tech stocks to buying shares in smaller companies.
Investors have also marched into stocks in renewables – which could boosted by the Democrats’ commitment to greener energy initiatives.
Photovoltaic panels at a solar energy plant in California. Photograph: Bing Guan/Reuters
Both moves, analysts say, are based on signs in polling of voters’ intentions and predictive markets that suggest Joe Biden should win the presidency and his party wins control of both houses of Congress in a so-called “blue wave” victory on 3 November.
“The swing in odds has been accompanied by a rally in US equities and an uptick in US Treasury yields,” said Capital Economics in a research note to investors this week. “Investors are becoming more and more focused on how the election result will shape near-term fiscal policy.”
According to online bookmakers, the chances of a Biden victory have improved since the beginning of the year, and have increased from 65.8% to 69.2% two weeks on from the first presidential debate. Trump’s chances of winning have decreased from 34.8% to 32.3% over the same two-week period.
On Monday, Betfair said: “A huge shift in the US election betting on the exchange over the weekend means Joe Biden is now rated twice as likely as Donald Trump to win.”
As the odds of Biden victory have shortened, investors appear to have become less fearful of a Democrats-controlled government pushing through corporate tax increases and increased spending, and more focused on the likelihood of a generous, post-election fiscal stimulus package.
On Tuesday, prospects for a new round of stimulus spending before the election dimmed as talks between the Democratic and Republican leadership on the Trump administration’s $1.8tn (£1.38tn) proposal, up from $1.6tn, failed to produce an agreement.
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Friday.Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
The House Democrat speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who is pushing for $2.2tn, said the proposal fell “significantly short of what this pandemic and deep recession demand”.
Prospects that a Biden administration could push stimulus spending to $3tn in January has investors “thinking more about a broader-based economic recovery, and not just the narrow one focused on tech that we’ve seen recently”, said Oliver Jones, senior markets economist at Capital Economics.
That, in effect, is a reversal of pandemic trends in which growth stocks, largely pharmaceutical and technology, have wildly outperformed traditional value stocks in banking, industrial and energy sectors.
Instead, some of those smaller stocks have begun to outperform their bigger counterparts, with the benchmark S&P 500 index gaining 9% since late September.
“As there have been in jumps in the probability of the ‘blue wave’, we’ve seen value stocks doing a little better than growth stocks,” Jones said.
The shift in sentiment is in contrast to two recent investor preoccupations: that Trump may try to cling on to power in the event of defeat and that Democrats would be bad for stocks by seeking to impose extra regulation, taxes and healthcare spending.
“All else equal, a blue wave would likely prompt us to upgrade our [US economic growth] forecasts,” Jan Hatzius, the chief economist at Goldman Sachs, said this month.
The shift in sentiment has also led investors to move money into stocks in renewables, which could do well under Biden’s green-energy proposals.
Bank of America’s global research group said last week that a surge in solar exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reflected investors’ expectations for a “blue wave”.
The Invesco solar ETF has risen almost 150% so far this year. That is almost double the increase of the index that tracks tech stocks, which were behind the market bounceback after the coronavirus lockdowns in March and April.
Last week, the solar and wind energy company NextEra exceeded the market value of ExxonMobil and Chevron, the oil multinationals that have for decades been among some of the most-valuable energy companies.
“I have never seen the writing on the wall so clear: the recovery is going to be green and digital,” Geraldine Sundstrom, a fund manager at Pimco, told Reuters.
It is, however, always worth remembering that Wall Street has a patchy track record of predicting the outcome of elections and the economic path that a new administration will seek to establish.
In the aftermath of Trump’s 2016 election, markets anticipated that the incoming administration would embark on a massive round of infrastructure spending. Instead, there was a corporate tax cut and a trade war.
There are so many variables in play – healthcare squeezed by drug pricing, stocks in fossil fuel energy companies hit by new green initiatives, looming anti-trust actions against Facebook and Google, and a banking sector potentially facing tighter regulations under the Democrats – that the future, like the election, remains uncertain.
“I’m sure it will be the same this time around as it was in 2016,” Jones said. “The things we’re focused on now, like the size of a fiscal stimulus package, will be completely different in six months time.”
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Investors move into renewables and other sectors that could benefit from ‘blue wave’ victory
Thu 15 Oct 2020 00.12 AEDT
Increasing expectations of a Democratic party victory in the race for the White House and on Capitol Hill appear to be driving investors towards stocks that could benefit from the policies that could accompany a Biden administration, including generous government stimulus spending.
While Wall Street famously failed to anticipate Donald’s Trump’s victory in 2016, there has been a shift in investment patterns over recent weeks from US government bonds and tech stocks to buying shares in smaller companies.
Investors have also marched into stocks in renewables – which could boosted by the Democrats’ commitment to greener energy initiatives.
Both moves, analysts say, are based on signs in polling of voters’ intentions and predictive markets that suggest Joe Biden should win the presidency and his party wins control of both houses of Congress in a so-called “blue wave” victory on 3 November.
“The swing in odds has been accompanied by a rally in US equities and an uptick in US Treasury yields,” said Capital Economics in a research note to investors this week. “Investors are becoming more and more focused on how the election result will shape near-term fiscal policy.”
According to online bookmakers, the chances of a Biden victory have improved since the beginning of the year, and have increased from 65.8% to 69.2% two weeks on from the first presidential debate. Trump’s chances of winning have decreased from 34.8% to 32.3% over the same two-week period.
On Monday, Betfair said: “A huge shift in the US election betting on the exchange over the weekend means Joe Biden is now rated twice as likely as Donald Trump to win.”
As the odds of Biden victory have shortened, investors appear to have become less fearful of a Democrats-controlled government pushing through corporate tax increases and increased spending, and more focused on the likelihood of a generous, post-election fiscal stimulus package.
On Tuesday, prospects for a new round of stimulus spending before the election dimmed as talks between the Democratic and Republican leadership on the Trump administration’s $1.8tn (£1.38tn) proposal, up from $1.6tn, failed to produce an agreement.
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Friday.Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
The House Democrat speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who is pushing for $2.2tn, said the proposal fell “significantly short of what this pandemic and deep recession demand”.
Prospects that a Biden administration could push stimulus spending to $3tn in January has investors “thinking more about a broader-based economic recovery, and not just the narrow one focused on tech that we’ve seen recently”, said Oliver Jones, senior markets economist at Capital Economics.
That, in effect, is a reversal of pandemic trends in which growth stocks, largely pharmaceutical and technology, have wildly outperformed traditional value stocks in banking, industrial and energy sectors.
Instead, some of those smaller stocks have begun to outperform their bigger counterparts, with the benchmark S&P 500 index gaining 9% since late September.
“As there have been in jumps in the probability of the ‘blue wave’, we’ve seen value stocks doing a little better than growth stocks,” Jones said.
The shift in sentiment is in contrast to two recent investor preoccupations: that Trump may try to cling on to power in the event of defeat and that Democrats would be bad for stocks by seeking to impose extra regulation, taxes and healthcare spending.
“All else equal, a blue wave would likely prompt us to upgrade our [US economic growth] forecasts,” Jan Hatzius, the chief economist at Goldman Sachs, said this month.
The shift in sentiment has also led investors to move money into stocks in renewables, which could do well under Biden’s green-energy proposals.
Bank of America’s global research group said last week that a surge in solar exchange-traded funds (ETFs) reflected investors’ expectations for a “blue wave”.
The Invesco solar ETF has risen almost 150% so far this year. That is almost double the increase of the index that tracks tech stocks, which were behind the market bounceback after the coronavirus lockdowns in March and April.
Last week, the solar and wind energy company NextEra exceeded the market value of ExxonMobil and Chevron, the oil multinationals that have for decades been among some of the most-valuable energy companies.
“I have never seen the writing on the wall so clear: the recovery is going to be green and digital,” Geraldine Sundstrom, a fund manager at Pimco, told Reuters.
It is, however, always worth remembering that Wall Street has a patchy track record of predicting the outcome of elections and the economic path that a new administration will seek to establish.
In the aftermath of Trump’s 2016 election, markets anticipated that the incoming administration would embark on a massive round of infrastructure spending. Instead, there was a corporate tax cut and a trade war.
There are so many variables in play – healthcare squeezed by drug pricing, stocks in fossil fuel energy companies hit by new green initiatives, looming anti-trust actions against Facebook and Google, and a banking sector potentially facing tighter regulations under the Democrats – that the future, like the election, remains uncertain.
“I’m sure it will be the same this time around as it was in 2016,” Jones said. “The things we’re focused on now, like the size of a fiscal stimulus package, will be completely different in six months time.”
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Its not SOP for other members of congress to release tax returns. Romney Refuse, Pelosi refuse etc no issue.
It is for President. Trump is the only president ever to not release and his excuse is under audit. So now exposed and very bad news for him.
Facebook and Twitter have been heavily criticised after they censored a NY Post article that reported emails showing Hunter Biden allegedly helped set up a meeting between his father and an adviser to a Ukrainian energy company. The social media giants have advised they are limiting the distribution of the story on their platforms until a third party contractor can "fact check" the article. Twitter has apologised for confusion surrounding its decision to lock White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. Twitter said it temporarily shut her account not because she shared the story, but because the screenshot contained an email address "Our communication around our actions on the New York Post article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable," Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said. The Biden campaign dismissed the allegations and said there was no record of a meeting between the former vice president and anyone from Burisma during the timeframe cited in the NY Post article. The tech giants decision to censor the story has prompted calls for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields online platforms from being held liable for what their users publish on their platforms. Section 230 also contains a provision that leaves it entirely in the hands of social media companies to take down content it deems to be offensive or deceptive. Mr Biden is in favour of Section 230 being amended, while President Trump said it should be scrapped since social media platforms use it as an excuse to censor conservatives content online.
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Kayleigh account locked because twitter say she violated terms by spreading hacked emails. FB same. Most news outlets refuse to even discuss it.
Biden has been vetted numerous times, but hey lets talk about sleepy Joe. Compared to Trump he's a little white angel petting rabbits in a meadow.
Instead today the news outlets want to talk about why Trump is saying Osama Bin Laden is still alive and that they killed a body double.
No wonder the news outlets have their work cut out for them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/...s-baseless-bin-laden-conspiracy-theory-429428
Famed Navy SEAL pushes back after Trump amplifies baseless bin Laden conspiracy theory
The response from the former Navy SEAL came after the president on Tuesday retweeted a QAnon-linked account that promoted a baseless conspiracy theory.
The former Navy SEAL known for his role in the operation that killed Osama bin Laden is pushing back after President Donald Trump amplified conspiracy theories that the terrorist leader's death was a hoax.
Robert O'Neill, who says he killed bin Laden in the 2011 raid, has rebuffed Trump and others in several tweets for promoting the conspiracy theory that bin Laden's body double was instead killed.
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"Very brave men said [goodbye] to their kids to go kill Osama bin Laden. We were given the order by President Obama. It was not a body double," O'Neill tweeted on Tuesday. "Thank you Mr. President. Happy birthday @USNavy."
The response from the former Navy SEAL came after the president on Tuesday retweeted a QAnon-linked account that promoted a baseless conspiracy theory alleging that bin Laden is still alive and his body double was instead killed. The account has since been suspended. Trump retweeted another video on Wednesday promoting conspiracy theories about bin Laden's death.
A White House spokesperson did not immediately comment.
O'Neill, a Trump supporter who was banned from all Delta flights in August after he published a photo of himself not wearing a mask in the cabin, pushed back against the conspiracy theory in several tweets.
"Shit. I just found out that I killed Osama bin Johnson. Drinks are on me, I guess..." O'Neill added Tuesday evening.
Bin Laden was killed in a 2011 raid by SEAL Team Six on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, ordered by then-President Barack Obama.
Trump, meanwhile, has attacked his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, over the bin Laden raid.
The president tweeted in September that Biden "opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden." He wrote in a follow-up tweet that, "If it were up to Joe, bin Laden and Soleimani would still be alive," referencing his decision to kill Iranian paramilitary commander Qassem Soleimani last year.
Biden was reported to be a skeptic of a possible raid, though the former vice president's account of his advice to Obama has evolved.
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Twitter restricts Trump’s campaign account from tweeting | Malay Mail
Twitter Inc today temporarily restricted US President Donald Trump’s election campaign account from tweeting. — AFP pic
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 15 — Twitter Inc today temporarily restricted US President Donald Trump’s election campaign account from tweeting, saying a video from the account about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son violated its rules.
The video posted by the @TeamTrump account referred to a New York Post story from Wednesday that contained alleged details of Hunter Biden’s business dealings with a Ukrainian energy company and said the former vice president had met with an adviser of the company.
“Joe Biden is a liar who has been ripping off our country for years,” the video was captioned.
Twitter said the video violated its rules against posting private information, adding the account may need to delete the post in order to continue tweeting.
“It’s going to all end up in a big lawsuit and there are things that can happen that are very severe that I’d rather not see happen, but it’s probably going to have to,” Trump said, when asked about the move by Twitter.
Twitter said yesterday the Post story violated its “hacked materials” policy, which bars the distribution of content obtained through hacking that contains private information or trade secrets, or puts people at risk of physical harm.
Facebook Inc and Twitter took proactive steps yesterday to restrict dissemination of the Post story in the hours after it was published.
Twitter had placed similar restrictions on the account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday, after she shared the Post story. — Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 15 — Twitter Inc today temporarily restricted US President Donald Trump’s election campaign account from tweeting, saying a video from the account about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son violated its rules.
The video posted by the @TeamTrump account referred to a New York Post story from Wednesday that contained alleged details of Hunter Biden’s business dealings with a Ukrainian energy company and said the former vice president had met with an adviser of the company.
“Joe Biden is a liar who has been ripping off our country for years,” the video was captioned.
Twitter said the video violated its rules against posting private information, adding the account may need to delete the post in order to continue tweeting.
“It’s going to all end up in a big lawsuit and there are things that can happen that are very severe that I’d rather not see happen, but it’s probably going to have to,” Trump said, when asked about the move by Twitter.
Twitter said yesterday the Post story violated its “hacked materials” policy, which bars the distribution of content obtained through hacking that contains private information or trade secrets, or puts people at risk of physical harm.
Facebook Inc and Twitter took proactive steps yesterday to restrict dissemination of the Post story in the hours after it was published.
Twitter had placed similar restrictions on the account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday, after she shared the Post story. — Reuters
Thanks for the this information.
Wow, looks like Nixon's Chuck Colson's dirty tricks plumbers squad Mark II.
Oh no...trump will loose
Trump and Biden to headline duelling town halls, as early voters swamp polls
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivers remarks at a voter mobilisation event campaign stop at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Oct 12, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Tom Brenner)
15 Oct 2020 04:28PM
(Updated: 16 Oct 2020 06:20AM)
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will hold duelling prime-time town halls instead of a second presidential debate on Thursday (Oct 15), as Americans continued to swamp polling places in states allowing early in-person voting.
With less than three weeks to go until Nov 3's Election Day, the Republican president is trying to change the dynamics of a race in which Biden has a double-digit advantage in some national polls.
North Carolina, a highly competitive state, began more than two weeks of in-person early voting on Thursday, following huge turnout in Georgia and Texas earlier in the week.
Video from local media showed large numbers of people waiting for the polls to open in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, and gathering in the pre-dawn hours to vote at two arenas in the state's largest city, Charlotte.
Gerry Cohen, a member of the election board in the county that includes most of the city of Raleigh, saw more than 400 people in line at a community centre before polls opened.
"I’ve never seen this many in line here," he said on Twitter.
Nearly 18 million Americans have cast ballots either in person or by mail so far, representing 12.9 per cent of the total votes counted in the 2016 general election, according to the US Elections Project at the University of Florida.
Voters are seeking to avoid in-person lines on Election Day to stay safe as coronavirus infections and hospitalisations continue to rise, but also to make sure their ballots will count. Many are concerned that Trump will challenge widely used mail-in ballots, after he claimed without evidence that they were fraudulent.
Trump's campaign is counting on a surge of last-minute votes. But Reuters/Ipsos polling conducted from Friday to Tuesday shows there are far fewer undecided likely voters this year - around 8 per cent - and they are just as likely to pick Biden as they are Trump.
Four years ago at this stage of the campaign, more than twice as many people were similarly wavering between Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The Reuters/Ipsos polling shows Biden holding a 10-percentage-point lead nationally, with a tighter margin in the battleground states that will help decide the election.
US$1.5 BILLION
Democratic fundraising organisation ActBlue said on Thursday it collected US$1.5 billion online from July to September, the most it had ever raised in one quarter. By comparison, major Republican fundraising platform WinRed said on Monday that it collected US$623.5 million in the same period.
"We've raised more money than I ever thought we could," Biden told donors at an event.
Both candidates have been visiting battleground states this week, with Trump holding rallies in Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa and Biden travelling to Ohio and Florida.
Speaking to a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Thursday, Trump promised an economic recovery if he was re-elected. "We're going to have a red wave," he said.
The US economy tanked in the second quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic, and at least 25 million remained on jobless benefits at the end of September, Labor Department figures showed on Thursday.
Trump pulled out of Thursday's scheduled debate when the commission in charge of organizing the event said it would be held virtually after he contracted the coronavirus. A final debate is still scheduled for Oct 22 in Nashville, Tennessee.
The town halls, in which each candidate will field questions from voters, will take place at 8pm, with Trump on NBC from Miami and Biden on ABC from Philadelphia.
Trump and Biden to headline duelling town halls, as early voters swamp polls
US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden delivers remarks at a voter mobilisation event campaign stop at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Oct 12, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Tom Brenner)
15 Oct 2020 04:28PM
(Updated: 16 Oct 2020 06:20AM)
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden will hold duelling prime-time town halls instead of a second presidential debate on Thursday (Oct 15), as Americans continued to swamp polling places in states allowing early in-person voting.
With less than three weeks to go until Nov 3's Election Day, the Republican president is trying to change the dynamics of a race in which Biden has a double-digit advantage in some national polls.
North Carolina, a highly competitive state, began more than two weeks of in-person early voting on Thursday, following huge turnout in Georgia and Texas earlier in the week.
Video from local media showed large numbers of people waiting for the polls to open in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, and gathering in the pre-dawn hours to vote at two arenas in the state's largest city, Charlotte.
Gerry Cohen, a member of the election board in the county that includes most of the city of Raleigh, saw more than 400 people in line at a community centre before polls opened.
"I’ve never seen this many in line here," he said on Twitter.
Nearly 18 million Americans have cast ballots either in person or by mail so far, representing 12.9 per cent of the total votes counted in the 2016 general election, according to the US Elections Project at the University of Florida.
Voters are seeking to avoid in-person lines on Election Day to stay safe as coronavirus infections and hospitalisations continue to rise, but also to make sure their ballots will count. Many are concerned that Trump will challenge widely used mail-in ballots, after he claimed without evidence that they were fraudulent.
Trump's campaign is counting on a surge of last-minute votes. But Reuters/Ipsos polling conducted from Friday to Tuesday shows there are far fewer undecided likely voters this year - around 8 per cent - and they are just as likely to pick Biden as they are Trump.
Four years ago at this stage of the campaign, more than twice as many people were similarly wavering between Trump and his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
The Reuters/Ipsos polling shows Biden holding a 10-percentage-point lead nationally, with a tighter margin in the battleground states that will help decide the election.
US$1.5 BILLION
Democratic fundraising organisation ActBlue said on Thursday it collected US$1.5 billion online from July to September, the most it had ever raised in one quarter. By comparison, major Republican fundraising platform WinRed said on Monday that it collected US$623.5 million in the same period.
"We've raised more money than I ever thought we could," Biden told donors at an event.
Both candidates have been visiting battleground states this week, with Trump holding rallies in Florida, Pennsylvania and Iowa and Biden travelling to Ohio and Florida.
Speaking to a rally in Greenville, North Carolina, on Thursday, Trump promised an economic recovery if he was re-elected. "We're going to have a red wave," he said.
The US economy tanked in the second quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic, and at least 25 million remained on jobless benefits at the end of September, Labor Department figures showed on Thursday.
Trump pulled out of Thursday's scheduled debate when the commission in charge of organizing the event said it would be held virtually after he contracted the coronavirus. A final debate is still scheduled for Oct 22 in Nashville, Tennessee.
The town halls, in which each candidate will field questions from voters, will take place at 8pm, with Trump on NBC from Miami and Biden on ABC from Philadelphia.
On the contrary Trump is running for WH reelection. Presidency is totally different from the rest of the politicos because it is the highest office in the land.
Moreover, all previous Presidents in the last few decades have revealed all their tax records.
Why should Trump be any different?
McEnany is another Trump puppet liar who was totally demolished by CNN's Brianna Keilar recently.
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