The Patriot Post® · Friday Executive Summary
Top of the Fold
Donald Trump joins list of world leaders — including British PM Boris Johnson and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — who’ve tested positive for COVID-19 (NPR)
Amid failed talks with White House, House Democrats pass their own $2.2 trillion
relief billblue-city piñata before hitting campaign trail (Washington Examiner)
Politics
Senate Democrats formally (and inevitably) ask for delay in Amy Coney Barrett confirmation (Fox News)
Conflict of interest: Steve Scully, moderator for the upcoming Trump-Biden debate, worked as an intern for Joe Biden and a staff assistant for Ted Kennedy (The Daily Wire)
Trump won’t agree to debate-rule changes (The Washington Times)
Trump condemns white supremacists and Proud Boys in Fox interview (New York Post)
Joe Biden says Trump has never condemned white supremacy. Here are 20 times he did just that. (Not the Bee)
Leftmedia
“No context”: White House hits back after CNN airs surreptitiously recorded Melania Trump tapes on child immigrants and the media (Washington Examiner)
New York Times, Rolling Stone, ABC, and CBS all denied motions to dismiss lawsuit brought by Covington teen Nick Sandmann (The Post Millennial)
CNN (sort of) cracks down on Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home debacle after giving anchor’s brother softball treatment (Fox News)
New York Times op-ed was written by the Chinese Communist Party’s Hong Kong “enforcer” (Washington Examiner)
Daily Caller editor: Google won’t let you see our article even if you search for it by name (The Federalist)
Senate panel votes to subpoena conservative-suppressing Big Tech CEOs (Axios)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
Air ball: NBA Finals featuring social justice mega-warrior LeBron James notches record-low viewership (Not the Bee)
AP Stylebook discourages use of “riot” and expands definition of “protest” to include “violence” (National Review)
Around the Nation
Texas governor forces counties to designate just one mail ballot drop-off site (Houston Chronicle)
Los Angeles ordered to pay NRA after losing First Amendment case; city will pay gun-rights group about $150,000 for lawsuit over unconstitutional ordinance (The Washington Free Beacon)
Business & Economy
Payroll growth slows in September to 661,000; unemployment rate falls to 7.9% (CNBC)
Weekly jobless claims edge lower to 837,000 (CNBC)
The COVID-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history (The Washington Post)
Half of New York City’s restaurants and bars could permanently close, putting 150,000 jobs in limbo (National Review)
National Security
Donald Trump says he will overturn “ridiculous order” removing the words “brotherhood” and “man” from Navy SEAL ethos (Daily Mail)
Déjà vu: Thousands of U.S.-bound migrants cross into Guatemala without authorization (Reuters)
Judge blocks Trump’s ban on hundreds of thousands of foreign workers (The New York Times)
Other Notables
Chicago mayor’s Corona Destroyer outfit is “the cringiest thing I’ve ever seen” (Twitchy)
Heartwarming: A five-year-old sent a toy Baby Yoda to firefighters as a thank you gift and now they take it with them while they fight fires (Not the Bee)
Closing Arguments
Policy: How to trim the defense budget without harming U.S. security (Foreign Policy)
Policy: Restricting global economic activity will lead to stagnation (InsideSources)
Humor: “You have to elect me to find out what my policy positions are,” says Joe Biden (The Babylon Bee)
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