The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive Summary
Above the Fold
Trump makes a $500 billion economic appeal to black Americans while pledging to make Juneteenth a federal holiday (Business Insider)
Video emerges of Joe Biden calling troops “stupid bastards” during 2016 speech (The Daily Wire)
Supreme Court
Inside the White House’s plan to deploy “knife fighters” to defend Amy Coney Barrett (Fox News)
Confirmation hearings to start October 12 (New York Post)
There is simply no good reason to not immediately confirm Barrett (The Federalist)
Witch-Hunt Misfire
New York Times’s 10,000-word Donald Trump tax “exposé” reveals no Russian links, no illegality, and admits the Left will be “unfulfilled” by the report (The National Pulse)
Obama administration gave Trump a $73 million tax refund (National Review)
Elsewhere in Politics
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doubles down, says Biden shouldn’t debate Trump tomorrow (The Daily Wire)
Economist Casey Mulligan projects Biden tax plan would kill three million jobs (Washington Examiner)
Delaware State University denies Biden was a student after he claimed he “got started” at the historically black college (Daily Mail)
For Arizona’s Democrat Senate candidate Mark Kelly, attending a forum hosted by CCP was the beginning of lucrative relationship with China (The Washington Free Beacon)
Senator Dianne Feinstein’s husband named in university admissions scandal (WCVB)
Voter Fraud
Voter fraud in Representative Ilhan Omar’s district (National Review)
Virginia counties see multiple absentee ballots sent to more than 1,000 voters (Fox News)
As states prepared mail-in ballots, Postal Service failed to update at least 1.8 million addresses (Time)
Around the Nation
Governor Ron DeSantis lifts statewide COVID restrictions in bid to completely open Florida economy (National Review)
Woman who tried to drive her car into a group of Trump supporters charged with attempted murder (PJ Media)
National Security
Court rules Congress can sue over Trump’s border wall funding switch, though construction can continue for now (The Washington Times)
Duo allegedly planned terror attacks targeting Trump Tower, other sites (New York Post)
Judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on new TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores (CNBC)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Two steps Trump could take now to secure missile defense improvements (Hudson Institute)
Policy: Foster care still needs time limits: Don’t use COVID-19 as an excuse to make needy children wait for resolution (City Journal)
Humor: Amy Coney Barrett holds press conference in Handmaid’s Tale costume just to mess with leftists (The Babylon Bee)
Related satire: Democrats charge Barrett with racism for only having two black children (Genesius Times)
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