The Patriot Post® · Monday News Executive Summary

By Jordan Candler ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/71584-monday-news-executive-summary-2020-06-22

Above the Fold

  • “President Trump says he will refile his executive attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program ‘soon,’” The Daily Caller reports. “Trump reportedly made the statement in an interview with Fox News prior to his speech in Tulsa, Okla. on Saturday night.” When nullifying Trump’s original executive order last week, Chief Justice John Roberts stated in the majority opinion: “The dispute before the Court is not whether DHS may rescind DACA. All parties agree that it may. The dispute is instead primarily about the procedure the agency followed in doing so.” However, “Trump has not clarified how he would adjust his strategy to avoid another loss in the Supreme Court,” the Caller adds.

  • National Review’s Andrew C. McCarthy writes: “There is tumult in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where I proudly spent nearly 20 years as a prosecutor. In a nutshell, after the two men met in Manhattan on Friday, Attorney General Bill Barr announced that evening that SDNY U.S. Attorney Geoff Berman was stepping down. Later during the night, Berman issued a statement essentially saying, ‘Like hell I am!’ Inevitably, President Trump fired Berman on Saturday afternoon, as announced by Barr. … Congress is already demanding answers to the questions raised by Geoff Berman’s removal as U.S. Attorney for the SDNY. None of the people involved in this escapade is a shrinking violet. Soon enough, we’ll know why this happened.”

Government & Politics

  • Joe Biden thought Juneteenth was about a massacre in Tulsa, and the media yawned (The Resurgent)

  • Juneteenth coverage on MSNBC and CNN up 1,200% in 2020 after years of near silence (The Washington Free Beacon)

  • The nefarious UN Humans Rights Council will “prepare a report on systemic racism, violations of international human rights law against Africans and people of African descent by law enforcement agencies” (Power Line)

  • Judge declines to block release of John Bolton’s book (The Washington Post)

  • Here’s how everyone is spinning Trump rally’s lower-than-expected turnout (The Daily Caller)

Culture & Heartland

  • Shootings, violence jump in Seattle, Minneapolis, New York City, and Chicago — cities where mayors have restrained the police (The Federalist)

  • “We do not want that history erased”: Family of black woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima opposes move to change brand (KLTV)

  • Dreyer’s to drop “derogatory” Eskimo Pie name after 99 years (CBS News)

  • In Portland, an American flag was used to set a George Washington statue ablaze (Power Line)

  • Ulysses S. Grant and Francis Scott Key Statues pulled down in San Francisco (The Daily Caller)

  • Vandals pull down and burn Washington, DC’s sole statue of a Confederate general (AP)

  • Theodore Roosevelt statue to be removed from Museum of Natural History (The New York Times)

  • Tennessee legislature passes fetal heartbeat bill; Planned Parenthood, ACLU file lawsuit (The Tennessean)

The Latest on COVID-19

  • Six Trump campaign staffers test positive at Tulsa rally (The Daily Caller)

  • Hundreds test positive at Tyson Foods plant in Arkansas, most asymptomatic (National Review)

  • South Korea is fighting a second wave of infections, which it attributes to a holiday weekend in May (National Review)

  • Coronavirus is weakening and may disappear on its own, Italian infectious disease doctor says (Fox News)

World

  • Is the world ignoring a Christian genocide in Nigeria? (Providence)

  • Libyan refugee murders three and wounds several others in UK knifing rampage (The Telegraph)

  • International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran is engaged in secret nuclear work (The Washington Free Beacon)

Other Notables

  • Nineteen black Americans explain why they’re conservative (The Daily Signal)

  • “The results of the investigation justified the relief”: Navy upholds firing of former USS Theodore Roosevelt Captain Brett Crozier, who warned of coronavirus outbreak on ship (National Review)

  • Rising coronavirus cases cut into business optimism (Washington Examiner)

  • According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, which is tracking more than 860 institutions’ plans, two-thirds of colleges are planning to welcome back students in person, while only 7% are planning to hold classes only online (USA Today)

  • This will fix it! Meghan Markle tells friends her instinct to leave the UK “all makes sense” now because she was “destined” to help fight systemic racism in U.S. — and she hasn’t ruled out a career in politics (UK Daily Mail)

Closing Arguments

  • Policy: Amid the pandemic and anti-racism protests, school choice can be so much more (Washington Examiner)

  • Policy: Americans want to own their retirement, not expand Social Security (American Enterprise Institute)

  • Satire: “I told you so,” whispers ghostly image of George Orwell hovering over nation (The Babylon Bee)

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