The Patriot Post® · Wednesday News Executive Summary
Above the Fold
“Seven days before the scheduled June 23 release of a tell-all account of John Bolton’s tenure as President Trump’s national security adviser, the Justice Department late Tuesday mounted a last-ditch effort to block its publication,” NPR reports. “A 27-page civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against Bolton with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleges that publication of his 592-page book, The Room Where It Happened, would be a violation of nondisclosure agreements he signed and compromise national security.”
According to The Daily Wire, “In a letter posted Monday, the National Executive Committee for the Boy Scouts of America announced a new badge related to ‘diversity and inclusion’ in conjunction with the far-left, anti-cop Black Lives Matter movement. The new badge will be a prerequisite to becoming an Eagle Scout, according to the committee. Though Black Lives Matter is clearly political, calling for the national defunding of police departments and the disruption of the nuclear family, the Scouts claim the move is apolitical and about mere anti-racism.” That’s akin to saying the BSA’s surrendering to the Rainbow Mafia was about protecting children.
Government & Politics
“This legislation encompasses [the American] spirit”: Senate Republicans, spearheaded by Tim Scott, unveil police reform legislation dubbed the Justice Act (Fox News)
“Chokeholds will be banned except if an officer’s life is at risk”: Trump signs police reform executive order in Rose Garden ceremony (Fox News)
House GOP report finds the WHO “complicit” in Beijing’s COVID cover-up, calls for director’s ouster (National Review)
“No evidence”: Senate Ethics Committee dismisses insider-trading inquiry into Senator Kelly Loeffler (The Washington Post)
NBC News under fire for pushing Google to remove conservative sites from ad platform (Fox News)
“If you’re in the news business, you obey Google”: Tucker Carlson blasts tech giant’s power over media (Washington Examiner)
National Security
Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties (Science)
Republicans prepare for energy “cold war” with China (Washington Examiner)
The Latest on COVID-19
Record spike in new coronavirus cases reported in six U.S. states as reopening accelerates (Reuters)
Beijing residents are rounded up and put in quarantine as the city goes back into lockdown (UK Daily Mail)
Common drug — a steroid called dexamethasone — reduces coronavirus deaths, scientists report (The New York Times)
Well crap… Flushing toilets can spread coronavirus (New York Daily News)
Culture & Heartland
The racism panacea! Aunt Jemima brand to change name, remove image that Quaker says is “based on a racial stereotype” (NBC News)
Race hustler Al Sharpton to headline Tulsa Juneteenth event after Trump rally pushed back a day (Washington Examiner)
Black brute who shoved white elderly NYC woman has been arrested over 100 times (New York Post)
Richmond, Virginia, police chief forced out as protests continue (Washington Examiner)
Christopher Columbus statue to be removed from California Capitol at direction of top Democrats (The Modesto Bee)
Minnesota Freedom Fund spent just $200,000 on bail despite $30 million in donations (New York Post)
World
Twenty Indian soldiers killed in first deadly clashes with Chinese troops in 45 years. Fun fact: Both nations have nukes. (The Washington Post)
North Korea sending soldiers to joint border sites (AP)
African nations demand UN investigation into American police brutality. No, really. (PJ Media)
French President Emmanuel Macron says France won’t remove statues, erase history (Reuters)
China is collecting DNA from tens of millions of men and boys for the purpose of building a genetic map (The New York Times)
Other Notables
Joe Biden once used “fine people” in 1993 to describe supporters of confederate statues (The Daily Wire)
Thank God: New Facebook and Instagram options let users turn off political ads (MacRumors)
Voters oppose “defund the police” but back major reforms (Politico)
Oil demand projected to spike in 2021 by 5.7 million barrels daily as oil companies slash production (The Daily Caller)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Trump’s executive order on improving policing brings welcome news in troubled times (The Heritage Foundation)
Policy: Why can’t big-city Democrats reform the police? (City Journal)
Humor: Antifa destroy their own autonomous zone after discovering they are fascists (Genesius Times)
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