The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive Summary

By Jordan Candler ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/73759-monday-executive-summary-2020-09-28


Above the Fold


  • Trump makes a $500 billion economic appeal to black Americans while pledging to make Juneteenth a federal holiday (Business Insider1)

  • Video emerges of Joe Biden calling troops “stupid bastards” during 2016 speech (The Daily Wire2)


Supreme Court


  • Inside the White House’s plan to deploy “knife fighters” to defend Amy Coney Barrett (Fox News3)

  • Confirmation hearings to start October 12 (New York Post4)

  • There is simply no good reason to not immediately confirm Barrett (The Federalist5)


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 Pulse6)

  • Obama administration gave Trump a $73 million tax refund (National Review7)


Elsewhere in Politics


  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi doubles down, says Biden shouldn’t debate Trump tomorrow (The Daily Wire8)

  • Economist Casey Mulligan projects Biden tax plan would kill three million jobs (Washington Examiner9)

  • Delaware State University denies Biden was a student after he claimed he “got started” at the historically black college (Daily Mail10)

  • 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 Beacon11)

  • Senator Dianne Feinstein’s husband named in university admissions scandal (WCVB12)


Voter Fraud


  • Voter fraud in Representative Ilhan Omar’s district (National Review13)

  • Virginia counties see multiple absentee ballots sent to more than 1,000 voters (Fox News14)

  • As states prepared mail-in ballots, Postal Service failed to update at least 1.8 million addresses (Time15)


Around the Nation


  • Governor Ron DeSantis lifts statewide COVID restrictions in bid to completely open Florida economy (National Review16)

  • Woman who tried to drive her car into a group of Trump supporters charged with attempted murder (PJ Media17)


National Security


  • Court rules Congress can sue over Trump’s border wall funding switch, though construction can continue for now (The Washington Times18)

  • Duo allegedly planned terror attacks targeting Trump Tower, other sites (New York Post19)

  • Judge blocks Trump administration’s ban on new TikTok downloads from U.S. app stores (CNBC20)


Closing Arguments


  • Policy: Two steps Trump could take now to secure missile defense improvements (Hudson Institute21)

  • Policy: Foster care still needs time limits: Don’t use COVID-19 as an excuse to make needy children wait for resolution (City Journal22)

  • Humor: Amy Coney Barrett holds press conference in Handmaid’s Tale costume just to mess with leftists (The Babylon Bee23)

  • Related satire: Democrats charge Barrett with racism for only having two black children (Genesius Times24)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit In Our Sights25.

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