The Patriot Post® · Monday Executive Summary

By Jordan Candler ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/74414-monday-executive-summary-2020-10-26

Top of the Fold

  • Senate votes to advance Amy Coney Barrett nomination to Supreme Court, setting up final vote today (Washington Examiner) | Relentless Trump names judge to replace Barrett’s vacant seat on the Seventh Circuit (The Daily Wire)

  • The deep state: General Services Administration (GSA) secretly offered FBI documents on Trump officials (The Daily Caller)

Government & Politics

  • Republicans begin to close early voting gap as voting outpaces 2016 (Disrn)

  • The big Trump rallies you don’t see (Washington Examiner)

  • Facebook and Twitter CEOs to voluntarily testify before Senate on censorship (Fox News)

  • FBI asks Hunter Biden’s ex-business associate Tony Bobulinski for an interview (The Post Millennial)

Demo-gogues

  • Biden: “This is the most consequential election” due to possibility of “four more years of George” (The Daily Wire)

  • Kamala Harris: “Yes, I do” think Trump is racist (Washington Examiner)

  • Harris bursts out laughing when asked if she has socialist perspective (Fox News)

  • “Spineless enablers”: Hillary Clinton, who thought flyover country wanted her in office, claims most Republicans secretly want Trump out of office (Washington Examiner)

The Latest on COVID-19

  • U.S. sets coronavirus case record (85,000+) amid new surge (The New York Times)

  • Italy orders bars to close early, shuts gyms as cases balloon (Reuters)

  • Spain imposes national night-time curfew to curb infections (BBC)

National Security

  • China to impose sanctions on U.S. arms suppliers to Taiwan (Fox Business)

  • Afghan forces reportedly kill al-Qaeda second-in-command (Disrn)

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

  • “Confusion and error”: Cardinals and Bishops come out against papal comments on same-sex civil unions (The Daily Wire)

  • Music publicist fired by email for attending a Trump rally (The Federalist)

  • Netflix cancellations soar 800% after “Cuties” debacle (The Daily Wire)

Stranger Than Fiction

  • Conservatives push to discredit Facebook, Twitter, and Google just days before the election, claims fake news network CNN

  • “We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t,” admonishes fake news network The Washington Post

  • Chelsea Handler tells a black man what to do: “I had to remind” 50 Cent he was black, so “he can’t vote for Trump” (Disrn)

  • California middle-schooler threatened with jail time for missing 90 minutes of Zoom class (The Daily Wire)

  • Trump condemns “coyotes” on southern border; dimwitted leftists take him literally (The Daily Wire)

  • Cat learns new “trick” — turning on the sink — and ends up flooding owners’ home (Fox News)

On a Happier Note…

  • Suicide rate fell last year after a decade of steady rise (Fox News)

  • Poland bans abortions of babies with genetic disorders (Disrn)

  • Nest of “murder hornets” annihilated in Washington state to protect honeybees (USA Today)

  • Texas 14-year-old wins $25,000 for developing potential COVID-19 treatment (ABC 7)

  • Boys find and return purse stolen three years ago: “Restores my faith in humanity” (Fox News)

  • Trump grants clemency to man sentenced to 30 years for non-violent drug crime (Disrn)

  • Sudan becomes third Arab state in weeks to announce ties with Israel (The Jerusalem Post)

Closing Arguments

  • Policy: Promises made, promises kept means four more years (GOP)

  • Policy: A $15 minimum wage would wreck the economic recovery (American Enterprise Institute)

  • Humor: Celebrities launch Adopt-a-Coyote program after Trump’s mean attacks (Genesius Times)

  • Related humor: Democrats propose stopping coyotes by distracting them with decoy roadrunners (The Babylon Bee)

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