The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Executive Summary
Top of the Fold
DOJ and FBI confirm Hunter Biden laptop is not part of “Russian disinformation campaign” (The Daily Wire)
Rudy Guiliani turns over Hunter Biden’s hard drive to police over alleged photos of underage girls and illicit texts (The Post Millennial)
Spending Like There’s No Tomorrow
Nancy Pelosi abandons deadline amid “hope” of deal on COVID aid package (Washington Examiner)
Mitch McConnell signals Senate Republicans don’t want bigger relief bill before the election (NBC News)
Elsewhere in Politics
Indeed it is: 2020 election is about choice between “American dream” and “socialist hellhole,” says Trump (Dirsn)
Biden campaign faces backlash for TV ad depicting Michigan tech CEO as struggling bar owner (Fox News)
Gretchen Whitmer admits it: No release from lockdown without a vote for Joe Biden (American Thinker)
The Democrat game plan: More than 67,000 Florida felons registered to vote in key swing state (Washington Examiner)
Leftist newspaper USA Today supports leftist Joe Biden in first-ever presidential endorsement (Disrn)
For the record: Pollster who predicted 2016 election says Donald Trump is on track to win again (Daily Mail)
Big Media
Twitter is nuking retweets until after the election (The Federalist)
Facebook demonetizes satire site The Babylon Bee, claims monty python spoof “incites violence” (The Federalist)
Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate
NFL announcers Joe Buck and Troy Aikman seemingly mock military flyover (The Daily Wire)
Breonna Taylor grand juror speaks out, says prosecutors steered them away from homicide charges (Yahoo! News)
Breonna Taylor shooting “had nothing to do with race,” officer says (Louisville Courier Journal)
CHOP zone businesses pursue lawsuit against riot-friendly Seattle (The Daily Signal)
Health
More states see rising COVID-19 hospitalizations (Washington Examiner)
Major health toll from collapse in cancer screenings in pandemic (Washington Examiner)
Researchers find cold water may help ward off dementia (Disrn)
“Education”
Critical race theory permeates new student survey in Fairfax Public Schools (The Federalist)
San Francisco aims to strip the names of Founders, Abraham Lincoln, and an abolitionist from public schools (The Daily Signal)
Like schools everywhere, the “nation’s report card” is dumbing down to hide racial disparities (The Federalist)
Liberal totalitarianism is dominating college campuses (The Daily Signal)
Business & Economy
Single-family homebuilding surges to more than 13-year high (Reuters)
Biden tax rates to hit 62% in New York and California (FrontPage Magazine)
National Security
What border crisis? Largest domestic meth bust in DEA history made — worth $18.5 million (Law Enforcement Today)
“No free riders”: Pentagon chief says Trump’s push on NATO defense spending has worked (The Washington Times)
Russia appears set to extend last remaining nuclear pact (AP)
Education Department warns about national security risks posed by Chinese funding on campus (Washington Examiner)
Other Notables
Trump’s greatest accomplishments are what he hasn’t done (The Federalist)
Faith in humanity restored: Robert Downey Jr. defends Chris Pratt after woke warriors attacked him for his conservative politics and Christian faith (Daily Mail)
Closing Arguments
Policy: How to put a stop to Twitter’s game-playing on censorship (National Review)
Policy: The United States needs to get serious about defending Taiwan (Foreign Policy)
Humor: Texas passes law banning Californians from voting after they move there (The Babylon Bee)
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