The Patriot Post® · Friday Executive Summary
Top of the Fold
Hurricane Delta tracking toward the Louisiana coast; landfall later today (TWC1)
Plans to kidnap Gov. Whitmer, overthrow government thwarted (Detroit News2)
Leftmedia
Media blames Trump for inciting militia’s kidnapping plot against Whitmer (Fox3)
Deadline runs preempted story that Pence has COVID (Post Millennial4)
Elsewhere in Politics
Biden tweets Charlottesville hoax to blame Trump for Michigan (Breitbart5)
Biden will announce position on Court packing “when the election is over” (NR6)
Pelosi: “We’re going to be talking about the 25th Amendment” (Fox7)
Pelosi says no stand-alone aid for airlines without bigger stimulus bill (CNBC8)
Debate commission declines request to hold in-person debate (Examiner9)
Biden announces town hall event in place of second debate (Disrn10)
China censored Pence when he criticized it (Just the News11)
Kamala Harris’s top five lies from the VP debate (Bongino.com12)
Trump will guest host “The Rush Limbaugh Show” today (Daily Caller13)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
Portland DA rejects over 540 riot-related cases (Post Millennial14)
BLM mob smashes windows on Wisconsin residential street (Disrn15)
Around the Nation
Enrollment is dropping in public schools around the country (NPR16)
Texas Democrat House candidate hasn’t lived in TX for years (WFB17)
Religious groups sue New York over new COVID restrictions on worship (NR18)
Police documents shine light into Breonna Taylor investigation (Fox19)
The Latest on COVID-19
Wisconsin becomes America’s new hotspot (Daily Mail20)
CDC: Being overweight, not just obese, makes you more susceptible (Daily Mail21)
New study confirms remdesivir’s effectiveness as a treatment (Time22)
Business & Economy
U.S. to collect tariffs on $1.96 billion worth of aluminum sheet goods (Fox23)
Nearly eight times more women than men left workforce in September (Disrn24)
DOJ sues Yale University for discriminating in admissions (Power Line25)
National Security
Trump: Troops will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas (Military Times26)
Election politics aren’t slowing down border security efforts (Daily Signal27)
Stranger Than Fiction
Colin Kaepernick’s new project imagines a utopia without police or prison (Disrn28)
Amazon faces pregnancy discrimination suit from “transgender” worker (Disrn29)
44% of “Christians” believe the Bible’s “ambiguous” on abortion (Disrn30)
Closing Arguments
Policy: How Trump restored welfare reform (Daily Signal31)
Policy: What’s wrong with a wealth tax (Manhattan Institute32)
Humor: Harris’s ratings plummet as people realize they’d have to listen to her voice for next four years (Babylon Bee33)
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Links
- https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-10-09-hurricane-delta-forecast-louisiana-gulf-coast-landfall
- https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/08/feds-thwart-militia-plot-kidnap-michigan-gov-gretchen-whitmer/5922301002/
- https://www.foxnews.com/media/media-blames-trump-for-inciting-militia-groups-kidnapping-plot-against-gretchen-whitmer
- https://thepostmillennial.com/deadline-runs-story-that-vice-president-pence-has-coronavirus-then-deletes-it
- https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/08/joe-biden-tweets-debunked-very-fine-people-charlottesville-hoax-to-blame-trump-for-michigan/
- https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biden-says-he-will-announce-position-on-court-packing-when-the-election-is-over/
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-trump-talking-25th-amendment
- https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/pelosi-says-there-will-be-no-standalone-aid-for-airlines-without-bigger-stimulus-bill.html
- https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/commission-on-presidential-debates-declines-trump-campaigns-request-to-hold-in-person-debate
- https://disrn.com/news/biden-announces-abc-townhall-event-in-place-of-2nd-presidential-debate/
- https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/china-censored-pence-during-debate-when-he-criticized-chinas-covid-19
- https://bongino.com/kamala-harris-top-five-lies-from-last-nights-debate
- https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/08/trump-guest-host-rush-limbaugh-virtual-rally-friday/
- https://thepostmillennial.com/portland-d-a-rejects-over-540-riot-related-cases-in-interest-of-justice
- https://disrn.com/news/wisconsin-residential-street-is-the-newest-victim-of-blm-mobs/
- https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/920316481/enrollment-is-dropping-in-public-schools-around-the-country
- https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/texas-dem-house-candidate-hasnt-lived-in-texas-for-years/
- https://www.nationalreview.com/news/religious-groups-sue-new-york-state-over-new-covid-restrictions-on-worship/
- https://www.foxnews.com/us/breonna-taylor-louisville-police-release-investigation
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8819183/Wisconsin-new-COVID-19-hotspot-cases-surge.html
- https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8822211/CDC-rules-overweight-not-just-obese-makes-susceptible-COVID.html
- https://time.com/5898201/remdesivir-coronavirus-study/
- https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/us-to-impose-tariffs-on-196b-worth-of-aluminum-sheet-goods-affecting-18-countries
- https://disrn.com/news/eight-times-more-women-than-men-left-us-workforce-in-september/
- https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/10/trump-barr-justice-department-sues-yale-for-discriminating-in-admissions.php
- https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2020/10/07/trump-us-will-be-out-of-afghanistan-by-christmas/
- https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/06/election-politics-arent-slowing-down-border-security-efforts/
- https://disrn.com/news/colin-kaepernicks-new-project-imagines-a-utopia-without-police-or-prison/
- https://disrn.com/news/amazon-faces-pregnancy-discrimination-suit-from-a-transgender-man/
- https://disrn.com/news/study-44-of-self-identified-christians-in-the-us-believe-the-bible-is-ambiguous-on-abortion/
- https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/08/how-trump-restored-the-principles-of-welfare-reform-and-lifted-americans-out-of-poverty/
- https://www.manhattan-institute.org/whats-wrong-with-a-wealth-tax
- https://babylonbee.com/news/kamala-harriss-ratings-plummet-as-people-realize-theyd-have-to-listen-to-her-voice-for-next-4-years
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