The Patriot Post® · Friday Executive Summary

By Jordan Candler ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/74543-friday-executive-summary-2020-10-30

Top of the Fold

  • GOP wins one: Eighth Circuit says absentee ballots counted in Minnesota must be received by Election Night (The Daily Wire1)

  • Glenn Greenwald announces resignation from The Intercept, slams “repression” and “censorship” (Washington Examiner2)

Biden Crime Family

  • FBI conducting criminal investigation into Hunter and his associates (Washington Examiner3)

  • “Smoking gun” email 100% authentic, forensic analysis concludes (The Daily Caller4)

Leftmedia & Big Tech

  • Don Lemon mocks Trump supporters, compares them to addicts (Fox News5)

  • Email marketing firm Mailchimp warns it may censor content (The Daily Signal6)

Finding the Light

Elsewhere in Politics

  • Imagine that… Tucker Carlson says UPS can’t explain how flash drive with Biden documents got separated from package (Washington Examiner10)

  • Add Florida to list of swing states where early voting data favors a Trump victory (Washington Examiner11)

  • Elizabeth Warren will make case to be Biden’s Treasury secretary (Politico12) (So between Bernie Sanders being the Labor secretary13 and Warren heading up the Treasury, the economy would be in great socialist hands!)

Economy

  • The Sky Is Falling: Episode 532: Election and COVID anxiety spark new run on grocery stores (The Hill14)

  • Twitter shares plunge as user growth slows — and for good reason15 (Fox Business16)

  • Weekly jobless claims total 751,000 vs. 778,000 expected (CNBC17)

  • Exxon to cut 14,000 jobs as pandemic hits oil demand (Reuters18)

National Security

  • Wisconsin Republican Party says hackers stole $2.3 million (AP19)

  • But the narrative! Man behind Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot also wanted to kill Trump (The Post Millennial20)

  • Top U.S. officials briefed on an active retaliatory threat against Pentagon leaders (NBC News21)

  • Democrats look to slash defense budget in 2021 (Politico22)

  • U.S. to allow Americans born in Jerusalem to list Israel as birthplace (The Washington Free Beacon23)

Annals of the “Social Justice” Caliphate

  • Philadelphia Vietnamese Baptist Church is a “total loss” after thugs burned it Tuesday night (Disrn24)

  • California Trump supporters find “Racism Lives Here” signs planted on their properties (Disrn25)

Around the Nation

  • Daily COVID cases in the U.S. up by record 91,000 (Reuters26)

  • Walmart removes guns, ammunition from store displays ahead of election amid concerns of civil unrest (USA Today27)

  • Jerry Falwell Jr. disingenuously sues Liberty University over sex scandal-driven resignation (UPI28)

Around the World

  • Pakistani court sickeningly rules marriage of 13-year-old abducted Christian girl to 44-year-old Muslim man is legitimate (Disrn29)

  • Former Malaysia PM claims Muslims have a right to “kill millions of French people” (The Daily Wire30)

  • Bill before Canadian Parliament would prevent counselors from affirming patients who reject gender transition (Disrn31)

Stranger Than Fiction

  • State trooper dates Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daughter, gets transferred close to Canada (New York Post32)

  • Man falls 15 feet through New York City sidewalk sinkhole and into a rat infestation (Disrn33)

  • Ten-foot python found under hood of Ford Mustang in Florida (New York Post34)

Other Notables

  • Trump administration strips gray wolves of endangered species protection (Daily Mail35)

  • Trump rally attendee seated behind president tears up photos of Pelosi and Schumer (Washington Examiner36)

Closing Arguments

  • Policy: The results are in: Reopening fuels record economic expansion (The Daily Signal37)

  • Policy: Money supply vs. liquidity — what’s the difference? (Mises Institute38)

  • Humor: Ukraine treasury honors Joe Biden with a “zero cents” coin (Genesius Times39)

For more of today’s editors’ choice headlines, visit Headline Report40.

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