The Patriot Post® · Wednesday Executive News Summary
Top of the Fold
- President Trump delivers farewell address: “We did what we came here to do” (RealClearPolitics)
Government & Politics
Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Lil Wayne, dozens of others while also commuting sentences (Fox News)
Trump declassifies binder of Crossfire Hurricane documents on eve of Joe Biden inauguration (Examiner)
Trump revokes his own executive order curtailing lobbying (Examiner)
Chuck Schumer looking for “power-sharing” agreement with GOP; filibuster is a sticking point (Fox News)
CIA Director Gina Haspel announces resignation (Forbes)
Biden taps “transgender” health official with horrifying COVID nursing home record (PJ Media)
Biden defense nominee blames leaders for failing to root out white supremacy (Examiner)
For the record: Biden has promised to undo these pro-life policies (Daily Caller)
Liz Cheney, who voted to impeach Trump, censured by 45-0 vote back home in Wyoming (Daily Wire)
Court gifts Biden admin a running start by dumping Trump EPA’s “Affordable Clean Energy” plan (Roll Call)
National Security
Mike Pompeo forces Biden into a corner, says China’s policies on Muslims amount to genocide (AP)
Twelve National Guardsmen removed from inaugural duty “out of an abundance of caution” (UPI)
Trump grants Venezuelans 18-month protection from deportation (UPI)
Boston-based political scientist charged with being unregistered agent of Iran (Examiner)
Army soldier, a supporter of ISIS, arrested in plot to blow up 9/11 Memorial (AP)
The Latest on COVID-19
Study shows extremely low rate of coronavirus transmission in school — 0% from child to adult (Examiner)
German quarantine breakers to be held in refugee camps and detention centers (NY Post)
Odds and Ends
Cancel culture: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says Bed Bath & Beyond and Kohl’s dropping his products (WCCO)
Joe Biden hasn’t been sworn in yet, but the press is already fluffing his successor (Free Beacon)
Canada scrambles to salvage Keystone XL as Biden prepares to kill project (Reuters)
We’re Shocked — Shocked!
- Wuhan medics were told to cover up human transmission and death from COVID (Daily Wire)
Stranger Than Fiction
- Dude secretly lived in O'Hare Airport for three months because he was afraid of COVID (Not the Bee)
Closing Arguments
Policy: How the U.S. should respond to genocide in Xinjiang (Daily Signal)
Policy: How Iran could get nuclear weapons on Biden’s watch (19fortyfive.com)
Satire: Biden to be sworn in on a copy of the Communist Manifesto (Babylon Bee)
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