The U.S. Intelligence Community has yet to corroborate reports of a Russian bounty killing scheme targeting American soldiers.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared before the House Armed Services Committee on Thursday to testify over the alleged Russian operation. The senior administration officials told lawmakers that the bounty scheme has not been confirmed or connected to the deaths of any US troops.
“All the defense intelligence agencies have been unable to corroborate that report,” Esper told the committee, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-pentagon-officials-russian-bounty-program-corroborated/story?id=71694167">ABC News</a>.
“As of today, right now, we don&#8217;t have cause and effect linkages to a Russian bounty program causing U.S. Military casualties,” Milley said. “However, we are still looking. We&#8217;re not done. We&#8217;re going to run this thing to ground.”
“If it is bounties, I am outraged, just like every one of us in uniform is,” Milley continued, promising retribution if such a program is found to exist. “If these bounties are directed by the government of Russia to kill American soldiers, that is a big deal. We don&#8217;t have that level of fidelity yet. We are still looking.”
The New York Times originally reported the alleged Russian bounty scheme in a June 26 article that claimed President Trump was briefed on the matter earlier in the year. In a subsequent report, the newspaper backed off that claim and reported that information on the alleged Russian bounty scheme was included in a written briefing to the president in February.
In a July 3 report, the NYT noted that the operation, if it exists, was likely not approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin, though lower-level officials may have pushed the operation forward without his knowing.
“There is no evidence to date that Mr. Putin signed off on any program to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan, and even independent experts say they strongly doubt he would have done so,” the NYT reported.
The White House, Department of Defense, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have all <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/multiple-government-agencies-dispute-new-york-times-report-on-russian-putting-bounties-on-u-s-troops">said</a> that the alleged bribery scheme is still being investigated.
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, who heads U.S. Central Command, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-commander-says-no-american-deaths-linked-to-russia-bounty-killing-scheme">said</a> Tuesday he had heard reports that Russian agents were offering members of the Afghan terror group the Taliban payment in exchange for the lives of troops from the U.S. and its allies.
“I found it very worrisome,” McKenzie said of the reports. “I didn’t find that there was a causative link there” between the alleged bounty program and the killings of any U.S. troops.
“We should always remember, the Russians are not our friends,” McKenzie continued, noting that Moscow has been a supplier of money and weapons to the Taliban in the past. “And they do not wish us well, and we just need to remember that at all times when we evaluate that intelligence.”
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) fired back at Tucker Carlson on Thursday after the Fox News host called her &#8220;a coward&#8221; earlier this week, and claimed neither Carlson nor President Donald Trump &#8220;know what patriotism is.&#8221;
In an op-ed for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/opinion/tammy-duckworth-tucker-carlson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The New York Times</a>, Duckworth explained her recent call for &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/duckworth-rips-mount-rushmore-wants-national-dialogue-about-removing-washington-statues-heres-what-she-said-running-for-senate-five-years-ago" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a national dialogue</a>&#8221; regarding whether statues of President George Washington should <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thomas-jefferson-descendant-calls-for-harriet-tubman-to-replace-flawed-founder-in-jefferson-memorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">come down</a>. In a Sunday interview with CNN host Dana Bash, Duckworth attacked Trump for his Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore, during which, she claimed, the president &#8220;spent all his time talking about dead traitors.&#8221; She went on to criticize Mount Rushmore itself for &#8220;standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans who had actually been given that land during a treaty.&#8221;
Her position drew <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tucker-carlson-unloads-on-moron-senator-tammy-duckworth-for-being-too-afraid-to-defend-her-own-statements" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">sharp criticism</a> from Carlson on Tuesday, who said, &#8220;Only someone who hates the country would suggest ripping down monuments to its founder.&#8221; Carlson claimed he had extended an invitation for Duckworth to appear on his program to defend her position, but that the senator&#8217;s office demanded he publicly apologize to her before she would oblige. &#8220;Duckworth is too afraid to defend her own statements on a cable TV show,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;What a coward.&#8221;
Duckworth wrote in her op-ed, &#8220;Mr. Carlson disingenuously claimed that because I expressed an openness to &#8216;a national dialogue&#8217; about our founders’ complex legacies, people like me &#8216;actually hate America.&#8217; One night later, he claimed that I called George Washington a traitor even though I had unambiguously answered no when asked whether anyone could justify saying that he was.&#8221;
&#8220;Setting aside the fact that the right wing’s right to lie about me is one of the rights I fought to defend,&#8221; Duckworth clarified, &#8220;let me be clear: I don’t want George Washington’s statue to be pulled down any more than I want the Purple Heart that he established to be ripped off my chest. I never said that I did.&#8221;
Duckworth went on to emphasize the importance of &#8220;every American’s freedom to have his or her own opinion about Washington’s flawed history,&#8221; adding, &#8220;What some on the other side don’t seem to understand is that we can honor our founders while acknowledging their serious faults, including the undeniable fact that many of them enslaved Black Americans.&#8221;
Duckworth then pivoted to allege that Carlson&#8217;s attacks on her political views, which she claimed were &#8220;egged on by President Trump,&#8221; were actually intended as racist distractions from what she described as the president&#8217;s failures. &#8220;Their goal isn’t to make — or keep — America great. It’s to keep Mr. Trump in power, whatever the cost,&#8221; she wrote, adding:
<blockquote>They should know, though, that attacks from self-serving, insecure men who can’t tell the difference between true patriotism and hateful nationalism will never diminish my love for this country — or my willingness to sacrifice for it so they don’t have to. These titanium legs don’t buckle.</blockquote>
Duckworth concluded her op-ed by stressing the importance of questioning those in power. &#8220;Anyone claiming to stand up for &#8216;patriotic&#8217; values should recognize that, because, without it, the country these impostor patriots claim to love so much would not exist,&#8221; she added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-marine-and-double-amputee-has-a-message-for-dem-senator-who-slammed-tucker-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Former Marine And Double Amputee Has A Message For Dem Senator Who Slammed Tucker Carlson</a>
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On Tuesday, The New York Times published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/opinion/biden-trump-debate.html">opinion piece</a> by veteran Times writer Thomas L. Friedman titled, “Biden Should Not Debate Trump Unless.” In the piece, Friedman stated that two conditions should be the prerequisite for any debate between President Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden: Trump releasing his tax returns for 2016 through 2018 and that a “real-time fact-checking team approved by both candidates be hired by the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates” should deliver a report 10 minutes before the debates end noting any “misleading statements, phony numbers or outright lies” either candidate had offered.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), appraising the situation, the fact that Biden has hardly ventured out in public for months, and the fact that sometimes Biden hasn’t looked particularly sharp when he has spoken impromptu, offered two alternative conditions: “Biden’s two conditions: (1) the debate must occur in his basement, and (2) it cannot be televised or broadcast to anyone in America.”
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Biden’s two conditions: (1) the debate must occur in his basement, and (2) it cannot be televised or broadcast to anyone in America. <a href="https://t.co/3lMA5zyv9R">https://t.co/3lMA5zyv9R</a>
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Friedman surmised the reason Biden has rarely been seen outside his home in recent months was the coronavirus, calling him a “responsible individual and role model” as he wrote, “Because of Covid-19, Biden has been sticking close to home, wearing a mask and social distancing. And with the coronavirus now spreading further, and Biden being a responsible individual and role model, it’s likely that he won’t be able to engage with any large groups of voters before Election Day. Therefore, the three scheduled televised debates, which will garner huge audiences, will carry more weight for him than ever.”
Friedman stated that Trump needed the debates far more than Biden: “Trump is badly trailing in the polls, and he needs these debates much more than Biden does to win over undecided voters. So Biden needs to make Trump pay for them in the currency of transparency and fact-checking — universal principles that will level the playing field for him and illuminate and enrich the debates for all citizens.”
He predicted the future: “Of course, Trump will stomp and protest and say, ‘No way.’ Fine. Let Trump cancel. Let Trump look American voters in the eye and say: ‘There will be no debate, because I should be able to continue hiding my tax returns from you all, even though I promised that I wouldn’t and even though Biden has shown you his. And there will be no debate, because I should be able to make any statement I want without any independent fact-checking.’”
Friedman conjectured that one of the reasons Trump hasn’t released his tax returns may be “Trump’s incomprehensible willingness to give Russian President Vladimir Putin the benefit of every doubt for the last three-plus years,” followed by, “The American people need to know if Trump is in debt in any way to Russian banks and financiers who might be close to Putin. Because if Trump is re-elected, and unconstrained from needing to run again, he will most likely act even more slavishly toward Putin, and that is a national security threat.”
He continued, “Trump literally lies as he breathes, and because he has absolutely no shame, there are no guardrails … Biden has been dogged by bone-headed issues of plagiarism in his career, but nothing compared to Trump’s daily fire hose of dishonesty, which has no rival in U.S. presidential history. That’s why it’s so important to insist that the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates hire independent fact-checkers who, after the two candidates give their closing arguments — but before the debate goes off the air — would present a rundown of any statements that were false or only partly true.”
Friedman concluded, “That kind of debate and only that kind of debate would be worthy of voters’ consideration and Biden’s participation. Otherwise, Joe, stay in your basement.”
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Thomas Friedman Of NYT Wants Two Conditions For Trump-Biden Debate. Ted Cruz Fires Back Two Other Ones.

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The New York Times’ massive campaign to pressure social media giants into restricting freedom of information — particularly dissemination from sources other than mainstream outlets — has now kicked into high gear. Tech columnist Kevin Roose warned the Times readership earlier this year that they should “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/technology/facebook-election.html">buckle up for another Facebook election</a>,” in which the platform will supposedly be “overrun with hyperpartisan misinformation” like the kind that “proved to be a decisive force in 2016.” Roose isn’t the only voice at the Times promoting the notion that Facebook’s role in allowing free flow of information results in election corruption. Contributing opinion writer Kara Swisher has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/30/opinion/facebook-zuckerberg-labeling.html">devoted outsized attention</a> to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/facebook-trump-free-speech.html">supposed problem</a> of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/facebook-independent-oversight-board.html">Facebook’s unwillingness to crack down</a> on those she deems insufficiently woke. The goal here is obvious: force Facebook to restrict content, thus re-establishing the monopoly on information the mainstream media lost with the rise of the internet.
But while the Times has been one of the most significant drivers of this pressure campaign to force Facebook to censor more content — particularly paid advertising — the Times has taken advantage of rules crafted to its benefit and has dumped tens of millions of dollars into marketing its most radical content via Facebook. As it turns out, the Times isn’t worried about money and politics on Facebook. They’re simply trying to dominate the system themselves, barring all others.
The Times Establishes A Money Monopoly
The Times’ opinion page has routinely and repeatedly criticized Facebook for the supposed sin of utilizing openness toward speech as a guise for profit-making. This, of course, ignores the fact that Facebook makes a tiny fraction of its income from political ads. But facts have never stopped the Times. In January, propaganda-donor George Soros <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/soros-facebook-zuckerberg.html">wrote an editorial</a> for the Times in which he accused Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg of colluding with Donald Trump toward Trump’s re-election, because the two “realize that their interests are aligned — the president’s in winning elections, Mr. Zuckerberg’s in making money.”
Yet when it comes to utilizing Facebook as a marketing tool for its own propaganda, the Times is more than willing to pour in money. According to estimates from marketing intelligence platform Pathmatics, the Times spent around $65 million over the course of the last twelve months in Facebook advertising for all of its various promotional campaigns. A review of just three ads promoting the 1619 Project over the course of about two months in Fall 2019 estimates a spend of around $3 million. For three ads. Is it any wonder that the 1619 Project became one of the most talked-about pieces of pseudo-history in American history?
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The Times has every right to advertise on Facebook. Indeed, The Daily Wire advertises on the platform, as do most publishers. But the Times&#8217; crusade to shut down dissenting opinions on Facebook, to avoid scrutiny for its own ad spending, and to overwhelm the system with its own marketing money demonstrates nothing so much as perverse self-interest.
How The Times Rigged The Rules
But the Times&#8216; manipulation of the system doesn’t stop with mere spending. The Times takes full advantage of rules written specifically to its advantage, while other outlets are left out in the cold.
In response to blowback from progressive politicians and establishment media outlets following Trump’s stunning upset victory in 2016, Facebook launched a new effort to promote transparency on its site regarding “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/policies/ads/restricted_content/political">ads about social issues, elections or politics</a>.” The program requires any ads addressing political or social issues to be included in the platform’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ads/archive/report/">political ads archive</a>, which allows users to see important information about them, including demographical information about the ad’s audience, geographical regions to which it was promoted, and ranges of spend. Ads labeled non-political avoid such accountability and transparency.
Non-profits and universities are often required to list even seemingly non-political ads, like ads promoting free history courses by Hillsdale College, as promoting political and social messages, and thus include them in Facebook’s archive. But the Times is able to have its cake and eat it too, hiding behind a policy meant to protect their journalistic efforts while engaging in activism more akin to a partisan think tank.
As <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-exempts-news-from-political-ad-archive-1543500310">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported in November 2018, many in the news media were unhappy with Facebook’s new transparency effort because they were “seeing their journalism classified as if it were paid partisan advocacy.” Facebook agreed, with the director of product management, Rob Leathern, acknowledging that classifying ads promoting news pieces as “political ads” was “problematic for a number of news organizations.”
In response, Facebook announced that ads promoting news articles would be <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/29/facebook-news-ads-transparency/">exempt</a> from being listed in its political ads archive, thus also <a href="https://www.facebook.com/journalismproject/indexing-facebook-news-pages-ad-archive">exempting</a> news publishers from the transparency required of other advertisers addressing “social issues, elections, or politics.”
The Times promptly used its exemption to press forward the most openly propagandistic project in its history, all without facing any scrutiny or accountability in its marketing practices. In August 2019, the Times launched its most ambitious, transformative project to date: the 1619 Project. Its goal: to “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html">reframe the country’s history</a>” in a way that indelibly ties its founding and its enduring identity to the darkest, most shameful aspect of its past — slavery. Among its “reframing” assertions was the foundational (and ultimately “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the-1619-project.html">clarified</a>”) claim by its lead author that “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.”
Since its launch, the Times has directed massive resources to the project, given the project <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/19/magazine/history-slavery-smithsonian.html">its own section</a> in the paper, created <a href="https://pulitzercenter.org/projects/1619-project-pulitzer-center-education-programming">curriculum materials</a> so teachers can promote its “reframing” of American history in the classroom, and produced a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html">podcast</a>, a <a href="https://www.nytco.com/press/random-house-to-publish-multi-book-series-based-on-the-new-york-timess-the-1619-project/">book series</a> and <a href="https://timesevents.nytimes.com/1619NYC">live events</a> based around the project.
The 1619 Project was never news. It was always advocacy — an attempt to undermine Trump’s winning message — Make America Great Again — by rewriting our history in a way that suggests America was founded on the evil of slavery and not the aspiration of the Declaration of Independence, and was therefore never great. Yet, because of the Times’ exemption for its status as a news entity, not a single ad for the 1619 Project — into which it appears to have poured millions in advertising dollars in an election year — is included in Facebook’s political ads archive. As a result, the public does not know precisely how much the Times spent, to whom the project was marketed, or in what states it was promoted — for example, electoral swing states.
That the ads clearly promote “social issues, elections, or politics” is undeniable. Here’s the text of an initial <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/posts/10151989174079999">ad</a> promoting the project posted Aug. 15 that ran for weeks which seeks to undermine the very claim that the country was founded on the transcendent 1776 assertion that “all men are created equal”:
<blockquote>The New York Times is launching the #1619Project, a collection of essays, criticism and art about how the America we know today didn’t start in 1776 — it started in August 1619, when a ship carrying enslaved Africans landed in Virginia.</blockquote>
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The New York Times is launching the #1619Project, a collection of essays, criticism and art about how the America we&#8230;
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Another <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nytimes/posts/10151990234839999">ad</a> promoted in fall 2019 targets one of the essential aspects of America that has made it “great,” capitalism:
<blockquote>In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation, writes Matthew Desmond for the #1619Project. “Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.”</blockquote>
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In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation, writes Matthew Desmond&#8230;
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Despite the overtly political nature of the ads, the Times has not been required to list them like so many other outlets under Facebook’s “social issues, elections or politics” designation. The result is the Times gets to enjoy exemption from public accountability in the disclosure of significant details about the ad campaign — all while promoting a “hyperpartisan” activist message that could very well prove to be “a decisive force” in 2020.
In the end, the Times is a business. As a business, they’re perfectly willing to press forward an anti-speech agenda that harms their competitors while taking advantage of their monetary power to own the narrative. The notion that the Times stands either for free speech or for removing money from politics is the most obvious brand of fake news.
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The New York Times Dropped Millions On Facebook To Advertise The 1619 Project…While Trying To Bully Facebook Into Censoring Others

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Correction: This post has been updated to reflect that an open letter excusing social justice protests during the pandemic garnered 1,288 signatories, not over 1,300. The signatories also included a number of medical students, activists, and others, not just epidemiologists and other health professionals.
Health experts are struggling to justify their widespread endorsement of social justice protests after repeatedly warning people against holding demonstrations against coronavirus lockdown orders.
Shortly after states began locking down in March to slow the spread of the coronavirus, business owners as well as furloughed and unemployed workers began marching in cities from New York to Los Angeles against the heavy-handed restrictions. Health officials and government officials condemned the anti-lockdown protests, and warned that the demonstrations could necessitate that the lockdown orders stay in place longer.
“I certainly condemned the anti-lockdown protests at the time, and I’m not condemning the protests now, and I struggle with that,” University of Texas epidemiologist Catherine Troisi told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/us/Epidemiologists-coronavirus-protests-quarantine.html">The New York Times</a>. “I have a hard time articulating why that is OK.”
After the death of George Floyd on May 25, the anti-lockdown protesters were largely forgotten as thousands of social justice activists packed streets in cities across the United States to protest police behavior and make allegations of systemic racism. Many of the lawmakers and experts who criticized anti-lockdown protests flouted social distancing rules to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter (BLM).
Nearly 1,300 epidemiologists, health experts, and others signed an <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jyfn4Wd2i6bRi12ePghMHtX3ys1b7K1A/view">open letter</a> endorsing the protests, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dozens-of-public-health-experts-sign-letter-approving-protests-amid-pandemic-white-supremacy-predates-and-contributes-to-covid-19">stating</a> that “white supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who chided anti-lockdown protesters for weeks, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whitmer-spokeswoman-my-boss-didnt-violate-social-distancing-guidelines-when-she-marched-here-are-some-pictures">flouted</a> her own social distancing rules to join a BLM protest on June 4. Her spokeswoman later denied that she violated the rules, even as photos of the event show the governor kneeling with and touching activists.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-mayor-protesting-and-going-to-church-not-the-same">said</a> that the BLM protesters were fighting an “extraordinary crisis” that outweighed the threat of the coronavirus and is more important than reopening struggling businesses or allowing devout individuals to return to houses of worship.
“When you see a nation, an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seeded in 400 years of American racism,” de Blasio said June 2. “I’m sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services.”
Health experts interviewed by the NYT admitted that condemning one protest and supporting another based on the grievance of the protesters at least appears hypocritical, if not evidence of a blatant double-standard.
“Instinctively, many of us in public health feel a strong desire to act against accumulated generations of racial injustice,” Brown University Epidemiology Professor Mark Lurie said. “But we have to be honest: A few weeks before, we were criticizing protesters for arguing to open up the economy and saying that was dangerous behavior … I am still grappling with that.”
Nicholas A. Christakis, professor of social and natural science at Yale, warned against officials and health experts making moral distinctions between the anti-lockdown and BLM protests. He pointed to other activities that health experts forbid during the pandemic, such as visiting loved ones in the hospital, which caused significant emotional stress.
“We allowed thousands of people to die alone,” Christakis said. “We buried people by Zoom. Now all of a sudden we are saying, never mind?”
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Health Experts ‘Grappling’ With Double-Standard Between Anti-Lockdown And BLM Protests

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A sixth-generation descendant of President Thomas Jefferson advocated for the statue of the founding father in the Jefferson Memorial to be replaced with the likeness of Harriet Tubman.
Author and journalist Lucian K. Truscott IV condemned his ancestor in a Monday op-ed for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/06/opinion/thomas-jefferson-memorial-truscott.html?action=click&amp;amp;module=Opinion&amp;amp;pgtype=Homepage">The New York Times</a>, writing that Jefferson&#8217;s memorial in Washington, D.C., should be &#8220;taken down and replaced&#8221; because it is &#8220;a shrine to a man who famously wrote that &#8216;all men are created equal&#8217; in the Declaration of Independence that founded this nation — and yet never did much to make those words come true.&#8221;
Describing his childhood playing at Monticello, Truscott characterized Jefferson&#8217;s famous estate in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a sufficient memorial to the third president because it offers exhibits on slavery and Sally Hemings, the slave with whom Jefferson reportedly fathered children. Truscott went on to denounce Jefferson for owning 600 slaves but freeing only those in the Hemings family upon his death.
&#8220;Monticello is an almost perfect memorial, because it reveals him with his moral failings in full, an imperfect man, a flawed founder,&#8221; Truscott wrote.
Truscott concluded that Jefferson &#8220;should not be honored with a bronze statue 19 feet tall, surrounded by a colonnade of white marble. The time to honor the slave-owning founders of our imperfect union is past.&#8221;
In Jefferson&#8217;s place, Truscott recommended a depiction of Harriet Tubman. &#8220;To see a 19-foot-tall bronze statue of a Black woman, who was a slave and also a patriot, in place of a white man who enslaved hundreds of men and women is not erasing history. It’s telling the real history of America.&#8221;
Truscott&#8217;s op-ed echoes the sentiments of Shannon LaNier, a ninth-generation descendant of Jefferson and Hemings, who recently told <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/descendants-weight-debate-confederate-symbols/story?id=71642026">ABC News</a> that despite once overlooking his faults because of his other accomplishments, he is rethinking Jefferson&#8217;s legacy. &#8220;You really do have to look at the whole person and what else he did,&#8221; LaNier said.
&#8220;Thomas Jefferson wrote that &#8216;All men are created equal.&#8217; When he wrote those words, they did not include black people, they didn&#8217;t include women, they didn&#8217;t include people who didn&#8217;t own land,&#8221; LaNier added. He suggested leaving statue plinths empty as &#8220;a monument to what might be, what could be, what could be possible if we actually listen to the voices of the people.&#8221;
Modeled after the Pantheon in Rome, the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/wash/dc73.htm">Thomas Jefferson Memorial</a> was built on Washington, D.C.&#8217;s Tidal Basin between 1939 and 1943 at the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The bronze statue of Jefferson beneath the dome is surrounded by some of his most memorable quotes, including one from &#8220;Notes on the State of Virginia&#8221; that reads in part, &#8220;Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever. Commerce between master and slave is despotism.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/history-professor-says-thomas-jefferson-didnt-design-uva-walls-to-hide-slaves-as-activists-claim">History Professor Says Thomas Jefferson Didn’t Design UVA Walls To Hide Slaves, As Activists Claim</a>
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Thomas Jefferson Descendant Calls For Harriet Tubman To Replace ‘Flawed Founder’ In Jefferson Memorial

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Thomas Jefferson

Washington D.C.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) unloaded on The New York Times on the Fourth of July for characterizing President Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore — where he unapologetically defended American principles, described the history of the four presidents depicted on the monument, and encouraged the country to live up to its ideals — as “dark and divisive” in nature.
President Donald Trump gave “a majestic speech before Mt. Rushmore, celebrating America &amp; recounting the magnificent champions for Liberty Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln &amp; Teddy Roosevelt,&#8221; said Cruz.
“He vows to defend America,” continued the Texas senator, who then pointed out that The New York Times characterized the speech as “dark &amp; divisive.” Cruz added: “We are living in parallel universes.”
“Only in the mind of deranged Leftists is defending Mt. Rushmore, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, &amp; Teddy Roosevelt ‘leaning in to the culture wars.’ The culture warriors are the mobs burning our cities, defacing American heroes,” concluded Cruz.
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2/x Only in the mind of deranged Leftists is defending Mt. Rushmore, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln &amp; Teddy Roosevelt “leaning in to the culture wars.”
The culture warriors are the mobs burning our cities, defacing American heroes.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1279539232231632897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-outlets-describe-trumps-rushmore-speech-as-dark-and-divisive">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, other mainstream media outlets have run stories about the president’s speech, framing it through the lens of division and not as an embrace of American principles and ideals and the founding of the country.
As Trump said during the speech:
<blockquote>We gather tonight to herald the most important day in the history of nations: July 4th, 1776. At those words, every American heart should swell with pride, every American family should cheer with delight, and every American patriot should be filled with joy, because each of you lives in the most magnificent country in the history of the world, and it will soon be greater than ever before.
Our Founders launched not only a revolution in government, but a revolution in the pursuit of justice, equality, liberty, and prosperity. No nation has done more to advance the human condition than the United States of America. And no people have done more to promote human progress than the citizens of our great nation.
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And yet, as we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for, struggled, they bled to secure.
Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.</blockquote>
The Los Angeles Times accused Trump of using the “Fourth of July celebration to stoke a culture war.”
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At Mt. Rushmore, Trump uses Fourth of July celebration to stoke a culture war <a href="https://t.co/NpL0aHq5Nz">https://t.co/NpL0aHq5Nz</a>
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1279277510778331141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
ABC News accused Trump of pushing for “racial division,” despite Trump explicitly saying during the speech that Americans “embrace tolerance, not prejudice” and that “we believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.”
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Pres. Donald Trump pushes racial division, flouts virus rules at the foot of Mount Rushmore. <a href="https://t.co/xMXv7fLaXN">https://t.co/xMXv7fLaXN</a>
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Senate Impeachment Trial Of President Trump

‘We Are Living In Parallel Universes’: Ted Cruz Unloads On NYT Over Rushmore Speech Coverage

4th of July

Media Bias

Mount Rushmore

The New York Times published an article and a promotional tweet on Wednesday laying out the case against one of America&#8217;s most iconic monuments, Mount Rushmore, a move that came within a couple of days of a quickly deleted tweet by the Democratic Party expressing a similar sentiment.
In a since-deleted tweet Monday night, the Democratic Party  <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrat-party-begins-demonizing-mount-rushmore-refers-to-july-4-celebration-as-glorifying-white-supremacy">described</a> President Trump&#8217;s upcoming Independence Day celebrations at the famous monument as &#8220;glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore — a region once sacred to tribal communities.&#8221;
“Trump has disrespected Native communities time and again,” the party tweeted. “He’s attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Now he’s holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore — a region once sacred to tribal communities.”
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The Democrats think Mt Rushmore is a display of white supremacy. 
There’s no saving this country if Biden gets elected. 
(They deleted their tweet.) <a href="https://t.co/hm6r11IjRR">pic.twitter.com/hm6r11IjRR</a>
&mdash; (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1277798547069386752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Wednesday, The New York Times published a piece effectively expanding on the Democrats&#8217; swipe at Mount Rushmore.
In a tweet summarizing some of the article&#8217;s key points, the Times wrote: &#8220;Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.&#8221;
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Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.<a href="https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb">https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb</a>
&mdash; The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1278387954440904704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The article, titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/mount-rushmore.html">How Mount Rushmore Became Mount Rushmore</a>,&#8221; details how &#8220;the South Dakota landmark has drawn criticism over the land it occupies, the main sculptor behind it and the legacies of the men it memorializes.&#8221;
A few excerpts on the Times&#8217; report on the &#8220;big, big piece of Americana&#8221; [formatting adjusted]:
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Before he was recruited to create Mount Rushmore, Mr. [Gutzom] Borglum had been involved with another project: an enormous bas-relief at <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/us/stone-mountain-confederate-removal.html">Stone Mountain</a> in Georgia that memorialized Confederate leaders. It was eventually completed without him, but Mr. Borglum formed strong bonds with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and participated in their meetings, in part to secure funding for the Stone Mountain project. He also espoused white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideas, according to excerpts from his letters included in “<a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/john-taliaferro/great-white-fathers/9781586482053/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Great White Fathers</a>,” a book by the writer John Taliaferro about the history of Mount Rushmore. &#8230;
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Mount Rushmore is built on land that had belonged to the Lakota tribe. “Wherever you go to connect to God, that’s what the Black Hills are to the Lakota,” said <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://ndncollective.org/people/nick-tilsen-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nick Tilsen</a>, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe and the president of NDN Collective, an Indigenous activist group. Prospectors seized the land during a gold rush in the 1870s, violating the <a class="css-1g7m0tk" title="" href="https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/sioux-treaty#:~:text=In%20the%20spring%20of%201868,reservation%20in%20the%20Dakota%20Territory." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fort Laramie treaty of 1868</a>, which recognized the Black Hills as belonging to Native Americans, Mr. Tilsen said in an interview.
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Like the Democratic Party&#8217;s rapidly pulled tweet, the Times&#8217; post promoting its Mount Rushmore piece was met with intense criticism online.
Below are just a few examples of the flood of overwhelmingly negative responses to the Times&#8217; apparent push to &#8220;cancel&#8221; the beloved monument, including many pointing out that the Times has its own &#8220;problematic&#8221; past:
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In 1851, <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> founding editor Henry Jarvis Raymond published an editorial in which he supported a slaveowner’s legal right to recover his escaped slaves. 
Will you guys also be canceling yourselves? <a href="https://t.co/kaK6NtVZPz">https://t.co/kaK6NtVZPz</a>
&mdash; PragerU (@prageru) <a href="https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1278425645173874689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>, a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/formernewspaper?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#formernewspaper</a>, was built on land that belonged to the Canarsee tribe and covered up both the Holocaust and the Communist starvation of millions. <a href="https://t.co/pF94XtK8xj">https://t.co/pF94XtK8xj</a>
&mdash; Andrew Klavan (@andrewklavan) <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1278467461721948161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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And the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> headquarters is built on Lenape land which was stolen. 
Until the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> gives up their building to their descendants, anyone working for them is clearly involved in white supremacy. <a href="https://t.co/faOnHGx6y0">https://t.co/faOnHGx6y0</a> <a href="https://t.co/DA8lOdSoQl">https://t.co/DA8lOdSoQl</a>
&mdash; Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) <a href="https://twitter.com/Neoavatara/status/1278392342077214721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This building is built on land basically stolen for $24 from the Delaware Indians. You implode this temple of America-hating assholes I’ll give you the mountain. <a href="https://t.co/5tib3GLrJx">pic.twitter.com/5tib3GLrJx</a>
&mdash; Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/NewsPolitics/status/1278399795787374592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The NY Times coverage of another person who had strong bonds with the KKK <a href="https://t.co/NFVznSPDx9">https://t.co/NFVznSPDx9</a> <a href="https://t.co/oQJFEKdSfY">pic.twitter.com/oQJFEKdSfY</a>
&mdash; Cox (@HOLYSMKES) <a href="https://twitter.com/HOLYSMKES/status/1278399811746533376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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From the “newspaper” that brought us the thoroughly discredited 1619 project… 
This just in. 
I can only imagine with the public trust numbers are going to look like by the end of 2020. <a href="https://t.co/CDfXKICZHI">pic.twitter.com/CDfXKICZHI</a>
&mdash; Howard Beale&#39;s hate child (@BealesHateChild) <a href="https://twitter.com/BealesHateChild/status/1278396671282601986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NYT Lays Out Case Against Mount Rushmore; Critics Remind Paper Of Its Own Problematic Past

American History

Democratic Party

The newest Russia-themed firestorm has intensified, with The New York Times and the Trump administration doubling down on their clashing claims. In response to a Times report citing unnamed officials claiming the president was briefed on a suspected Russian bounty plot to kill Americans, President Trump blasted the &#8220;phony Times hit job&#8221; Sunday and said &#8220;nobody briefed or told&#8221; him about the alleged plot. Now the paper has published the date of the alleged briefing, citing two unnamed officials.
&#8220;American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html">The New York Times</a> reported Friday. The intelligence finding &#8220;was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March,&#8221; the Times reported, citing the sources.
After multiple White House officials denied the claim, Trump responded in a pair of posts early Sunday. &#8220;Nobody briefed or told me, [Vice President Mike Pence], or Chief of Staff [Mark Meadows] about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an ‘anonymous source’ by the Fake News [New York Times],&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1277202162070753280">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Everybody is denying it [and] there have not been many attacks on us. Nobody’s been tougher on Russia than the Trump Administration. With Corrupt Joe Biden [and] Obama, Russia had a field day, taking over important parts of Ukraine — Where’s Hunter? Probably just another phony Times hit job, just like their failed Russia Hoax. Who is their ‘source’?&#8221;
On Monday, the Times added more specifics to their initial report.
&#8220;American officials provided a written briefing in late February to President Trump laying out their conclusion that a Russian military intelligence unit offered and paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan,&#8221; the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/politics/russian-bounty-trump.html">reported</a> Monday, citing &#8220;two officials familiar with the matter.&#8221;
While the White House &#8220;tried on Monday to play down the intelligence assessment that Russia sought to encourage and reward killings — including reiterating a claim that Mr. Trump was never briefed about the matter and portraying the conclusion as disputed and dubious,&#8221; the Times reports, according to two officials, &#8220;the intelligence was included months ago in Mr. Trump’s President’s Daily Brief document.&#8221;
&#8220;One of the officials said the item appeared in Mr. Trump’s brief in late February; the other cited Feb. 27, specifically,&#8221; the report states. &#8220;Moreover, a description of the intelligence assessment that the Russian unit had carried out the bounties plot was also seen as serious and solid enough to disseminate more broadly across the intelligence community in a May 4 article in the C.I.A.’s World Intelligence Review, a classified compendium commonly referred to as The Wire, two officials said.&#8221;
Along with Trump&#8217;s forceful denial that he was ever briefed on the matter, other White House officials and federal departments have pushed back on the claims in the Times&#8217; report.
Asked by reporters about Trump being informed through his written briefing, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/politics/russian-bounty-trump.html">said</a>, &#8220;He was not personally briefed on the matter.&#8221; She also told the press that there was &#8220;not a consensus among the intelligence community&#8221; about the alleged plot. Citing &#8220;dissenting opinions within the intelligence community,&#8221; McEnany said the report &#8220;would not be elevated to the president until it was verified.&#8221;
National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien said in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/multiple-government-agencies-dispute-new-york-times-report-on-russian-putting-bounties-on-u-s-troops">statement</a>: supporting Trump&#8217;s claim he &#8220;had not been briefed&#8221; on the suspected plot: &#8220;Over the past several days, the New York Times and other news outlets have reported on allegations regarding our troops in Afghanistan. While we do not normally discuss such matters, we constantly evaluate intelligence reports and brief the President as necessary. Because the allegations in recent press articles have not been verified or substantiated by the Intelligence Community, President Trump had not been briefed on the items. Nevertheless, the Administration, including the National Security Council staff, have been preparing should the situation warrant action.&#8221;
The Department of Defense (DOD) also addressed the issue, stating it currently has &#8220;no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports&#8221;: &#8220;The Department of Defense continues to evaluate intelligence that Russian GRU operatives were engaged in malign activity against United States and coalition forces in Afghanistan. To date, DOD has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports. Regardless, we always take the safety and security of our forces in Afghanistan — and around the world — most seriously and therefore continuously adopt measures to prevent harm from potential threats.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-russians-paid-militants-to-attack-americans-and-trump-knew-about-it-biden-betrayal-trump-i-was-never-briefed">NYT: Russians Paid Militants To Attack Americans And Trump Knew About It; Biden: ‘Betrayal’; Trump: Nobody Briefed Me</a>
This article has been expanded to include quotes from McEnany.
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Trump Says ‘Nobody Briefed’ Him On Russian Militant Plot; NYT Gives Specific Date Of Alleged Briefing

Kayleigh McEnany

Multiple top government agencies released statements on Monday pushing back against the credibility of a recent New York Times report that claimed that President Donald Trump was briefed about a secret Russian military group that had allegedly offered bounties to militant fighters in Afghanistan for killing U.S. soldiers.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/425e43fa0ffdd6e126c5171653ec47d1">reported</a> on Monday evening that the Trump administration allegedly knew about the alleged bounty on U.S. soldiers in 2019, a full year before the date that The New York Times reported.
&#8220;Over the past several days, the New York Times and other news outlets have reported on allegations regarding our troops in Afghanistan. While we do not normally discuss such matters, we constantly evaluate intelligence reports and brief the President as necessary,&#8221; National Security Advisor Robert C. O&#8217;Brien said in a statement. &#8220;Because the allegations in recent press articles have not been verified or substantiated by the Intelligence Community, President Trump had not been briefed on the items. Nevertheless, the Administration, including the National Security Council staff, have been preparing should the situation warrant action.&#8221;
&#8220;To those government officials who betray the trust of the people of the United States by leaking classified information, your actions endanger our national security. No matter the motivation, there is never a justification for such conduct,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien concluded. &#8220;Let me be clear that there is nothing more important to President Trump than America&#8217;s security and the safety of our men and women in uniform. He has demonstrated this commitment time and again.&#8221;
The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) also put out statements on the matter, with the DOD saying that it has &#8220;no corroborating evidence to validate&#8221; the allegations in The New York Times&#8217; report and ODNI saying that the leaks are criminal.
&#8220;The Department of Defense continues to evaluate intelligence that Russian GRU operatives were engaged in malign activity against United States and coalition forces in Afghanistan,&#8221; the DOD said in a statement. &#8220;To date, DOD has no corroborating evidence to validate the recent allegations found in open-source reports. Regardless, we always take the safety and security of our forces in Afghanistan — and around the world — most seriously and therefore continuously adopt measures to prevent harm from potential threats.&#8221;
ODNI said that the selective leaking of any classified information &#8220;disrupts the vital interagency work to collect, assess, and mitigate threats and places our forces at risk. It is also, simply put, a crime.&#8221;
&#8220;We are still investigating the alleged intelligence referenced in recent media reporting and we will brief the President and Congressional leaders at the appropriate time,&#8221; ODNI continued. &#8220;This is the analytic process working the way it should. Unfortunately, unauthorized disclosures now jeopardize our ability to ever find out the full story with respect to these allegations.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyt-russians-paid-militants-to-attack-americans-and-trump-knew-about-it-biden-betrayal-trump-i-was-never-briefed">NYT: Russians Paid Militants To Attack Americans And Trump Knew About It; Biden: ‘Betrayal’; Trump: Nobody Briefed Me</a>
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Multiple Government Agencies Dispute NYT Report On Russian Putting Bounties On U.S. Troops

Afghanistan

A new Russia-involved scandal has erupted over a New York Times report claiming that the U.S. concluded &#8220;months ago&#8221; that a Russian spy unit linked to past assassination attempts covertly offered rewards to Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan last year to kill Americans — and President Trump knew about it. &#8220;The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March,&#8221; the Times reported, citing unnamed officials.
The report prompted an &#8220;outraged&#8221; rebuke from Joe Biden, who called the administration&#8217;s response a &#8220;betrayal&#8221; to the country, but President Trump and other White House officials say that he was never briefed on the matter, suggesting either false claims by sources or members of the intelligence committee withholding information from the president.
&#8220;The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html">The New York Times</a> reported Friday. &#8220;Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money, the officials said.&#8221;
Citing officials speaking on condition of anonymity, the Times specifically states that Trump and his National Security Council were allegedly briefed on the matter, but the White House has yet to authorize any action:
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The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said. &#8230;
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the delicate intelligence and internal deliberations. They said the intelligence had been treated as a closely held secret, but the administration expanded briefings about it this week — including sharing information about it with the British government, whose forces are among those said to have been targeted.
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The report sparked massive media buzz and quick backlash from Trump&#8217;s political opponent, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
“The truly shocking revelation that if the Times report is true, and I emphasize that again, is that President Trump, the commander in chief of American troops serving in a dangerous theater of war, has known about this for months, according to the Times, and done worse than nothing,” Biden said during a virtual townhall event Saturday, as reported by The <a href="https://apnews.com/bab311cb84a8e7efea42736d9b81c13b">Associated Press</a>.
&#8220;Not only has he failed to sanction and impose any kind of consequences on Russia for this egregious violation of international law, Donald Trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin,” said Biden. Trump&#8217;s actions after allegedly being briefed, said Biden, is a &#8220;betrayal of the most sacred duty we bear as a nation — to protect and equip our troops when we send them into harm’s way.&#8221;
But Trump and other White House officials say the Times&#8217; report is at least partly false.
&#8220;I never heard this,&#8221; tweeted former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell in response to a question about the report from Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu (CA) on Saturday. &#8220;And it’s disgusting how you continue to politicize intelligence. You clearly don’t understand how raw intel gets verified. Leaks of partial information to reporters from anonymous sources is dangerous because people like you manipulate it for political gain.&#8221;
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany also addressed the report. “This does not speak to the merit of the alleged intelligence but to the inaccuracy of the New York Times story erroneously suggesting that President Trump was briefed on this matter,&#8221; she said in a statement Saturday.
Trump responded early Sunday. &#8220;Nobody briefed or told me, [Vice President Mike Pence], or Chief of Staff [Mark Meadows] about the so-called attacks on our troops in Afghanistan by Russians, as reported through an &#8216;anonymous source&#8217; by the Fake News [New York Times],&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1277202162070753280">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Everybody is denying it [and] there have not been many attacks on us. Nobody’s been tougher on Russia than the Trump Administration. With Corrupt Joe Biden &amp; Obama, Russia had a field day, taking over important parts of Ukraine — Where’s Hunter? Probably just another phony Times hit job, just like their failed Russia Hoax. Who is their &#8216;source&#8217;?&#8221;
In a follow-up post Sunday, Trump said that intelligence officials just informed him that they did not report the information to him because they did not find it credible. &#8220;Intel just reported to me that they did not find this info credible, and therefore did not report it to me or [Vice President Pence]. Possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax, maybe by the Fake News [NYT], wanting to make Republicans look bad!!!&#8221; Trump <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1277431695248183298">wrote</a>. 
Since publishing its report Friday, the Times has updated it with more details but has not retracted the claim that Trump was briefed. On Monday, The <a href="https://apnews.com/02975c59e71e65327e2f582cd1a91f43">Associated Press</a> published a new report citing intelligence sources speaking on condition of anonymity claiming &#8220;that Trump was briefed on the bounty matter earlier this year.&#8221;
This article and its titles has been revised for clarity.
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NYT: Russians Paid Militants To Attack Americans And Trump Knew About It; Biden: ‘Betrayal’; Trump: Nobody Briefed Me

2020 Election

Richard Grenell

The New York Times is urging readers to overlook a woman’s crime because of her contribution to feminism: A manifesto that argued for the extermination of men.
Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol in his studio in 1968. He nearly died. Yet Solanas is now getting <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/valerie-solanas-overlooked.html?smid=tw-nytbooks&amp;smtyp=cur">a positive writeup</a> in the Times’ new series called Overlooked, which is “a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.” Solanas gets an article because of her contributions to feminism.
“She made daring arguments in ‘SCUM Manifesto,’ her case for a world without men. But her legacy as a writer and thinker was overshadowed by a violent act,” reads the sub-headline for the article.
The Times explains that Solanas’ writing “is still read in some women and gender studies courses today.” The outlet describes her as “a radical feminist (though she would say she loathed most feminists), a pioneering queer theorist and the author of ‘<a href="http://kunsthallezurich.ch/sites/default/files/scum_manifesto.pdf">SCUM Manifesto</a>,’ in which she argued for the wholesale extermination of men.” The Times also claims her manifesto “reads as satire” even though Solanas “defended it as serious.” The Times explains that she was starting a coalition called the Society for Cutting Up Men.
Solanas managed to work her way to “the fringes” of Warhol’s social circle and she tried to get him to produce her play, “Up Your Ass,” about a homeless prostitute. Warhol didn’t like the play but cast Solanas in one of his erotic films. Solanas eventually met French publisher Maurice Girodias, who wouldn’t publish her book. Solanas then convinced herself that “Warhol and Girodias were conspiring to suppress, censor or steal her voice,” the Times wrote.
Solanas was eventually diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and continued to harass Warhol and Girodias “with threatening messages,” the Times reported.
A book about Solanas included an exchange where she said she didn’t “want to kill all men” but thought “males should be neutered or castrated so they can’t mess up any more women’s lives.”
The Times includes all of these details of her life yet couches them with words like “daring” and several reminders that her work is read in women’s studies classes without a hint of disdain.
This coverage of an attempted murderer who wanted to eliminate men from society stands in contrast to the Times coverage of the current race riots, where protesters across the country are pulling down statues of anyone who ever did anything that could be deemed racist. For example, two years ago the Times published an article asking readers to vote on which statues in America should be torn down. The second option on the list was former President Ulysses S. Grant, who led the Union in victory against slavery in the Civil War. The Times, however, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/29/upshot/statues-quiz.html">described</a> Grant like this: “Led the Union Army in the Civil War. He has been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/29/upshot/%E2%80%98http:/newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/22/new-york-city-statue-removal'">accused of anti-Semitism</a> over a Civil War-era order, for which he later repented, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/29/upshot/%E2%80%98http:/www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2012/03/ulysses_s_grant_and_general_orders_no_11_how_the_infamous_order_changed_the_lives_of_jews_in_america_.single.html'">expelling &#8216;Jews and other unprincipled traders’</a> from parts of the South.”
When a Grant statue was toppled during the current move to eliminate statues, the Times described Grant as “the former president who led the Union army to victory and who also <a href="https://www.nps.gov/people/william-jones.htm">owned a slave</a> whom he later freed.”
The Times’ acceptance of removing statues of people who, while remembered for the good things they did in life, may have also held wrong beliefs or did bad things is contradictory for its insistence that we forget Solanas’ attempted murder of Warhol because of her contributions to feminism – which were themselves objectionable.
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Valerie Solanas

She Shot Andy Warhol. New York Times Books Wants To Overlook This Because Of Her ‘Contributions To The Feminist Movement.’

Crime

A prominent tech and political blogger says he was contacted recently by The New York Times as part of a story they planned to write about his blog. The reporter, however, told the blogger the outlet would use his real full name in an article that seemed to be fairly positive about the blog. Because the Times planned to out the blogger, he says he was forced to delete his blog to protect his job and his family.
Scott Alexander (whose real last name has been kept a secret) ran the blog Slate Star Codex until this week. In <a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deleting-the-blog/">a lengthy final post</a>, he explained why he was shutting down the blog:
<blockquote>I have a lot of reasons for staying pseudonymous. First, I’m a psychiatrist, and psychiatrists are kind of obsessive about preventing their patients from knowing anything about who they are outside of work. You can read more about this <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rcPcxd0-nqQJ:https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/why-psychiatrists-don-t-share-personal-information-with-patients/">in this Scientific American article</a> – and remember that <a href="https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/">the last psychiatrist</a> blogger to get doxxed <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnDiesattheEn/status/1067072479192068096">abandoned his blog</a> too. I am not one of the big sticklers on this, but I’m more of a stickler than “let the New York Times tell my patients where they can find my personal blog”. I think it’s plausible that if I became a national news figure under my real name, my patients – who run the gamut from far-left anarchists to far-right gun nuts – wouldn’t be able to engage with me in a normal therapeutic way. I also worry that my clinic would decide I am more of a liability than an asset and let me go, which would leave hundreds of patients in a dangerous situation as we tried to transition their care.
The second reason is more prosaic: some people want to kill me or ruin my life, and I would prefer not to make it too easy. I’ve received various death threats. I had someone on an anti-psychiatry subreddit put out a bounty for any information that could take me down (the mods deleted the post quickly, which I am grateful for). I’ve had dissatisfied blog readers call my work pretending to be dissatisfied patients in order to get me fired. And I recently learned that someone on SSC <a href="https://slatestarcodex.com/re-swatting/">got SWATted</a> in a way that they link to using their real name on the blog. I live with ten housemates including a three-year-old and an infant, and I would prefer this not happen to me or to them. Although I realize I accept some risk of this just by writing a blog with imperfect anonymity, getting doxxed on national news would take it to another level.</blockquote>
Scott said he discussed these fears with the Times reporter, who said it was policy to use real names. In contrast, the Times has written numerous articles about street artist Banksy that included details suggesting the outlet probably knows his real name, yet has never revealed it.
Scott added that he doesn’t “believe I’m above news coverage, or that people shouldn’t be allowed to express their opinion of my blog.”
“By all indications, this was just going to be a nice piece saying I got some things about coronavirus right early on. Getting punished for my crimes would at least be predictable, but I am not willing to be punished for my virtues,” he wrote.
He wrote that he backed up his blog and if the Times “promises not to use my real name in the article and promises to rethink their strategy of doxxing random bloggers for clicks,” he’ll restore it.
“Otherwise, I’m going to lie low for a while and see what happens. Maybe all my fears are totally overblown and nothing happens and I feel dumb. Maybe I get fired and keeping my job stops mattering. I’m not sure. I’d feel stupid if I caused the amount of ruckus this will probably cause and then caved and reopened immediately. But I would also be surprised if I never came back. We’ll see,” Scott wrote.
The Times’ technology editor did not respond to a Daily Wire inquiry prior to press time.
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New York Times Says It Will Out Blogger, Causing Him To Shutter His Website

After her Twitter account was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lead-writer-of-1619-project-briefly-deactivates-twitter-account-after-pushing-conspiracy-theory-that-the-government-forces-participating-in-coordinated-attack-against-black-and-b">temporarily deactivated</a> over the weekend following a series of controversial posts — including one about Native Americans bringing &#8220;enslaved black people they owned on the Trail of Tears&#8221; — the creator of The New York Times&#8217; &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; issued an apology for promoting a conspiratorial thread alleging that &#8220;government forces&#8221; were using fireworks in an attempt to &#8220;destabilize&#8221; the Black Lives Matter movement.
Nikole Hannah-Jones was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pulitzer-prize-awarded-to-creator-of-widely-derided-1619-project-from-the-new-york-times">awarded a Pulitzer Prize</a> this year for her lead-in essay to the &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; despite the paper having to issue a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-backlash-from-historians-nyt-forced-to-issue-significant-correction-to-1619-project">significant correction</a> on it&#8217;s most pivotal claim: that “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.” During the course of the protests and riots sparked by the tragic police-involved death of George Floyd, Hannah-Jones, who <a href="https://twitter.com/nhannahjones?lang=en">describes herself</a> as &#8220;The Beyoncé of Journalism&#8221; and &#8220;smart and thuggish,&#8221; has been quite active online, promoting the protests, at times appearing to defend rioters, and generally promoting the Black Lives Matter cause.
In one since-deleted tweet on Sunday, Hannah-Jones encouraged her 360,000 followers to read a conspiratorial thread by a Brooklyn author about an alleged governmental attempt to sabotage the Black Lives Matter movement.
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As detailed by <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/1619-project-author-apologizes-for-fanning-conspiracy-theory-that-government-agents-using-fireworks-to-destabilize-blm-movement/">National Review</a>, the thread, posted by Robert Jones Jr., claimed that increasingly frequent firework displays in Brooklyn and Queens were part of &#8220;a coordinated attack on Black and Brown communities by government forces&#8221; that may be &#8220;the first wave before whatever the next stage of the attack is.&#8221;
&#8220;There is NO WAY IN THE WORLD that young Black and Brown people would otherwise have access to these PROFESSIONAL fireworks,&#8221; her wrote. &#8220;These are Macy’s July 4th/New Year’s-level displays and sonic booms reserved generally for the wealthiest people and institutions.&#8221;
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He also suggested that the alleged fireworks scheme &#8220;could also be the police attempting to retaliate against our calls to defund/abolish the police by creating the circumstances for a continuous public nuisance and then purposely failing to respond to it.&#8221;
In an emailed statement to National Review on Monday, Hannah-Jones expressed regret for promoting the conspiratorial thread and explained her rationale for instructing her followers to &#8220;read this.&#8221;
&#8220;I should not have retweeted that tweet thread. I was curious about what other people thought of it as I have seen lots of comments on the unusual nature of fireworks this year, but I did not make that clear,” said Hannah-Jones. “That was an irresponsible use of my platform and beneath my own standards, which is why I deleted my Tweet.”
Along with the conspiratorial post, the Pulitzer-winner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/creator-of-1619-project-an-honor-if-riots-were-called-1619-riots-deletes-post-on-native-americans-bringing-slaves-on-trail-of-tears">tweeted</a> over the weekend, “Did you know Native people brought the enslaved black people they owned on the Trail of Tears?” Like the conspiratorial post, Hannah-Jones later chose to delete that tweet amid backlash.
Additionally, Hannah-Jones declared Sunday that it would be &#8220;an honor” if the riots and anti-historical monument movement in the country were renamed the &#8220;1619 Riots,&#8221; an idea floated by The New York Post after &#8220;1619&#8221; was spray painted on a toppled statue of President Ulysses S. Grant. As the toppling of the Grant monument, Hannah-Jones wrote: “I think maybe Grant’s is not a statue worth toppling. But I also understand after decades of shrugs when people spoke of the hurt of having been demeaned by public tributes, of entering buildings, of walking past art that celebrated white supremacists, how overzealousness occurs.”
The “1619 Project” has been strongly criticized by several prominent historians, among them James McPherson, one of the foremost historians on the Civil War, who called it a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-backlash-from-historians-nyt-forced-to-issue-significant-correction-to-1619-project">very unbalanced, one-sided account</a>, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery.” After bing “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-backlash-from-historians-nyt-forced-to-issue-significant-correction-to-1619-project">vigorously disputed</a>,” the project&#8217;s claim that “one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery” has been walked back. Despite other problematic claims in the project, some educational programs intend to incorporate it into their materials.
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Black Lives Matter Rally

‘1619 Project’ Creator Apologizes For Promoting Conspiracy On BLM And ‘Government Forces’

Law Enforcement

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of The New York Times&#8217; much-scrutinized &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; who <a href="https://twitter.com/nhannahjones?lang=en">describes herself</a> as &#8220;The Beyoncé of Journalism&#8221; and &#8220;smart and thuggish,&#8221; caused a stir online over the weekend over a series of controversial tweets, including one she ultimately chose to delete about Native Americans, and another declaring it would be an &#8220;honor&#8221; if the riots that swept the nation and left historical monuments toppled were named the &#8220;1619 Riots.&#8221;
&#8220;The [1619 Project] published online today and it is my profound hope that we will reframe for our readers the way we understand our nation, the legacy of slavery, and most importantly, the unparalleled role black people have played in this democracy,&#8221; Hannah-Jones&#8217; penned tweet posted on August 14, 2019 reads. 
Seven months later, the &#8220;1619 Project,&#8221; which has been promoted massively by The New York Times and which may be incorporated into some educational programs, was forced to issue a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-backlash-from-historians-nyt-forced-to-issue-significant-correction-to-1619-project">significant correction</a> to one of its most foundational claims after multiple prominent historians dismantled it: Hannah-Jones&#8217; false assertion that &#8220;one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery.&#8221;
Though the &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; has been described by James McPherson, one of the foremost historians on the Civil War, as a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-backlash-from-historians-nyt-forced-to-issue-significant-correction-to-1619-project">very unbalanced, one-sided account</a>, which lacked context and perspective on the complexity of slavery,&#8221; Hannah-Jones was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pulitzer-prize-awarded-to-creator-of-widely-derided-1619-project-from-the-new-york-times">awarded a Pulitzer</a> in May for her lead-in essay, the very essay that included the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-backlash-from-historians-nyt-forced-to-issue-significant-correction-to-1619-project">vigorously disputed</a>&#8221; foundational claim.
Since the riots first began, Hannah-Jones has been actively defending the actions of left-wing &#8220;protesters,&#8221; even giving a partial defense of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rioters-in-california-tear-down-statue-of-ulysses-s-grant-he-defeated-the-confederacy-devastated-kkk">the toppling</a> of a statue of President Ulysses S. Grant, whose military leadership was crucial in finally ending slavery and who aggressively went after the Ku Klux Klan as president.
In response to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/call-them-the-1619-riots/">New York Post op-ed</a> by Charles Kesler suggesting that the riots be called the &#8220;1619 Riots,&#8221; Hannah-Jones tweeted Saturday, &#8220;It would be an honor. Thank you.&#8221;
&#8220;America is burning,&#8221; Kesler&#8217;s op-ed begins. &#8220;Rioters set fire to police stations and restaurants. Looters <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/looters-stole-150k-in-items-from-soho-store-naked-famous/">have ravaged shops</a> from coast to coast. And now they’re coming for the statues — not just of Confederate generals, but the republic’s Founders, including George Washington, whose statue was <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/19/george-washington-statue-in-portland-toppled-set-on-fire/">torn down in Portland, Ore</a>. Call them the 1619 riots.&#8221; Arguing that a &#8220;considered answer is rarely given&#8221; by activists about the details of the &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; being violently protested, Kesler points to anger being directed at &#8220;one particular set of privileged, white males: the American Founders.&#8221; Helping to inflame that ire, he suggests, is Hannah-Jones&#8217; &#8220;1619 Project.&#8221;
In a follow-up to her &#8220;honor&#8221; tweet, Hannah-Jones added: &#8220;Also, America isn’t burning.&#8221;
Another Saturday post that turned some heads by the Pulitzer-winner read: &#8220;Did you know Native people brought the enslaved black people they owned on the Trail of Tears?&#8221;
The post, as Twitchy notes, has <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/06/21/the-1619-project-creator-appears-to-have-briefly-nuked-her-entire-account-after-a-weekend-of-controversial-comments/">since been deleted</a>.
In response to the toppling of a statue of President Grant, Northern hero of the Civil War and strong promoter of the civil rights of freed slaves, Hannah-Jones wrote: &#8220;I think maybe Grant’s is not a statue worth toppling. But I also understand after decades of shrugs when people spoke of the hurt of having been demeaned by public tributes, of entering buildings, of walking past art that celebrated white supremacists, how overzealousness occurs.&#8221;
Hannah-Jones&#8217;s posts below:
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/1619Project?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#1619Project</a> published online today and it is my profound hope that we will reframe for our readers the way we understand our nation, the legacy of slavery, and most importantly, the unparalleled role black people have played in this democracy. <a href="https://t.co/yXKwnJhAf5">https://t.co/yXKwnJhAf5</a>
&mdash; Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) <a href="https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1161655165767884801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Also, America isn’t burning.
&mdash; Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) <a href="https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1274352542017781760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/Roseamund?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Roseamund</a> Did you know Native people brought the enslaved black people they owned on the Trail of Tears?&quot; -nhannahjones <a href="https://t.co/XvLziTi5C3">pic.twitter.com/XvLziTi5C3</a>
&mdash; For the blocked and For the record (@FTBandFTR) <a href="https://twitter.com/FTBandFTR/status/1274698553781297153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I think maybe Grant’s is not a statue worth toppling. But I also understand after decades of shrugs when people spoke of the hurt of having been demeaned by public tributes, of entering buildings, of walking past art that celebrated white supremacists, how overzealousness occurs. <a href="https://t.co/lTKuuYcTfJ">https://t.co/lTKuuYcTfJ</a>
&mdash; Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) <a href="https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1274468357773950976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-backlash-from-historians-nyt-forced-to-issue-significant-correction-to-1619-project">After Backlash From Historians, NYT Forced To Issue Significant Correction To 1619 Project</a>
This article has been revised for clarity.
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Rioters

Creator Of 1619 Project: ‘Honor’ If Riots Called ‘1619 Riots’; Deletes Post On Native Americans Owning Slaves

Former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson scolded The New Yorker this weekend for pushing more COVID-19 &#8220;panic porn&#8221; with hospitalization numbers the magazine later acknowledged were inaccurate.
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/alex-berenson-ny-times-new-yorker-coronavirus-hospitalizations">Fox News</a>, John Cassidy of The New Yorker published a piece last Friday arguing that parts of &#8220;Red America&#8221; were headed toward a COVID-19 disaster based on hospitalizations in states that relaxed lockdown measures.
&#8220;[In Florida], 12,673 people were hospitalized, compared to the 8,553 a month ago, according to the COVID Tracking Project,&#8221; reported Cassidy.
Berenson called out Cassidy on Twitter for misrepresenting the numbers because those total hospitalizations go all the way back to March and did not shoot up a full 4,000 in a month.
&#8220;It should come as no surprise that the most crucial and scariest fact in this New Yorker piece of panic porn is wrong: [Cassidy] reports that 12,673 people &#8216;are hospitalized&#8217; in Florida with [coronavirus], up 4,000 in a month. Nope&#8230;&#8221; Berenson said. &#8220;12,673 HAVE BEEN hospitalized in Florida since hospitalizations began in March. The vast majority of those patients are home now. Florida has never had over ~2,000 people hospitalized with [COVID-19], 3.5% of its total hospital beds. Which presents a slightly different picture.&#8221;
&#8220;Saddest part is that [Cassidy] is generally a good reporter. And ~13,000 hospitalizations would be a big number — almost as many as NY at the peak. But the media is so in love with the disaster narrative, so ready to believe the worst, that that figure raises no eyebrows,&#8221; he continued.
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2/ 12,673 HAVE BEEN hospitalized in Florida since hospitalizations began in March. The vast majority of those patients are home now. Florida has never had over ~2,000 people hospitalized with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Covid?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Covid</a>, 3.5% of its total hospital beds. Which presents a slightly different picture. <a href="https://t.co/POpoAIV9AP">pic.twitter.com/POpoAIV9AP</a>
&mdash; Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1274560932954472448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Sunday, thanks to pressure from Berenson, The New Yorker edited the piece to say, &#8220;In Florida, 12,673 people have been hospitalized, compared with a cumulative total of 8,553 a month ago, according to the COVID Tracking Project.&#8221;
A note at the bottom of the article now reads: &#8220;A previous version of this piece incorrectly described Florida’s hospitalization count.&#8221;
Berenson scolded the New Yorker for putting the correction at the bottom, &#8220;where no one will see it.&#8221;
&#8220;Journalism in 2020 (there is a correction note at the bottom, where no one will see it)&#8230;&#8221; Berenson tweeted. &#8220;Sad part is I’m half-surprised they fixed it at all. Guess they had no choice.&#8221;
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Sad part is I’m half-surprised they fixed it at all. Guess they had no choice.
&mdash; Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1274738312725618690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Alex Berenson has been at the forefront of the battle against the COVID-19 misinformation fear campaign since the lockdowns gripped the nation.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/coronavirus-lockdown-strategy-alex-berenson">Fox Nation</a> in May, Berenson said that the evidence increasingly shows that the COVID-19 projections were based on questionable science that has been proven false.
“The virus appears to be less dangerous than we thought it was a month ago,” he told Fox Nation. “The economic devastation and the societal devastation of the lockdowns appear to be greater than even the worst projections were a month ago.”
Berenson then argued that politicians and public health officials put themselves in a difficult situation by implementing such harsh measures without having the evidence to back it up.
“What I think is that people took a very, very aggressive action a month ago without necessarily thinking through what the economic or societal consequences were going to be,” said Berenson. “Now more and more evidence is coming out that we responded too harshly, that maybe we should have taken smaller steps and seen what happened before we went to the place we went. And it seems to me very, very hard, both for politicians and for the public health establishment, to acknowledge this and to walk us back in a reasonable way.”
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The following is satirical.
Americans all across this great land from Third Avenue in Manhattan all the way to Seventh Avenue are outraged by the comments of conservative pastors who say the nation’s recent problems are a punishment for sin.
In the New York Times, a former newspaper, Editor-in-Chief Blithering Prevarication the Third published a tirade on the op-ed page, or as it’s sometimes called Knucklehead Row.
Mr. Third wrote: “It is absolutely disgusting that conservative preachers with laughably thin necks and narrow faces are blaming sinfulness for everything from the Absolutely Not Chinese Virus to the recent mostly peaceful riots to the fact that the moon has turned to blood to the frogs raining down on my Park Avenue Townhouse and the swarm of locusts that descended on our garden devouring over $75,000 worth of transplanted saffron crocuses which Buffy, my fourth wife, and I had been hoping to use to dye our sailing outfits a fetching shade of yellow before heading out to the Hamptons for the summer. The primitive notion that these could be anything other than natural occurrences becomes all the more offensive once you realize that I don’t even allow any wrong opinions to appear in my newspaper anymore so what sin could there possibly be?”
LGBTQMNOPXYZ Activist Herman Aphrodite, a spokesman for the Society in Favor of Screwing Anything that Moves, declared the pastors’ comments homophobic in a wildly shrieking voice as he was being carried off by a gigantic bat with a human face.
Planned Parenthood Spokeswoman Carmine Slaughter also denounced the pastors, saying, “It is long past time this sort of backward religiosity was cleared away so we can get down to work sucking out the brains of babies and selling their body parts for cash.”
Ms. Slaughter said she found the pastors’ remarks ugly and absurd and something else that was impossible to make out after she was dragged beneath the earth by a small army of flaming skeletons.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was unavailable for comment.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/totally-reliable-experts-predict-virus-curtailed-by-mass-protests-will-start-to-spread-again-if-trump-holds-rallies">Totally Reliable Experts Predict Virus Curtailed By Mass Protests Will Start To Spread Again If Trump Holds Rallies</a>

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President Trump’s only niece has written a tell-all book on the president set to be published in late July.
Simon &amp; Schuster plan to publish “Too Much And Never Enough” by Mary Trump, the 55-year-old daughter of Fred Trump, Jr., on July 28. The book went live for preordering on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Nonfiction-ED-Mary-Compson-ebook/dp/B0881YDNDD/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;amp;keywords=Too+Much+And+Never+Enough%3A+How+My+Family+Created+the+World%E2%80%99s+Most+Dangerous+Man&amp;amp;qid=1592296051&amp;amp;sr=8-1">Amazon</a> on Monday night.
“In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric,” the book’s description reads.
The book will reveal that Mary Trump was the primary source for a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-tax-schemes-fred-trump.html">New York Times</a> investigation into the president’s taxes. The investigation revealed that President Trump had inherited just over $400 million from his father. Mary Trump was source for the private tax documents obtained by the Times, according to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mary-trump-donald-trumps-niece-is-writing-a-tell-all-book-that-details-how-she-leaked-tax-papers-to-nyt/">The Daily Beast</a>.
The book will also include portions of damning conversations Mary Trump has had with the president’s sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry. Longtime divisions within the Trump family have been masked by a series of non-disclosure agreements and other members of the family keeping a low public profile. The book is expected to give an insider perspective into the inter-family lawsuit of 2000.
“They might be polite, but Donald’s personality is one of dominance, and that includes his family,” Jack O’Donnell, a former Trump casino executive, told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-says-his-family-is-unified-a-nieces-book-could-explode-that-image/2020/06/15/2b1ab2a2-af1a-11ea-a567-6172530208bd_story.html">The Washington Post</a>. “That is no fun for anyone.”
Mary and her brother Fred III sued members of their extended family – President Trump, Maryanne Trump, and others – and their grandfather’s estate in 2000 after the death of the family patriarch, Fred Trump.
Fred Jr. had died in 1981 from alcoholism at the age of 42, and Mary and Fred III had expected to inherit their father’s share of Fred Trump’s fortune. They ended up in an ugly legal battle, suing other members of the Trump family and alleging that the president and others had convinced Fred Trump to alter his will before he died, leaving most of the fortune with his surviving children.
During the legal battle, the president along with his siblings cut off medical payments from the family business to Fred III’s son, William, who had cerebral palsy. The president told the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/trumps-bitter-battle-nephew-ailing-baby-caught-middle-article-1.888562">New York Daily News</a> at the time, “when [Fred III] sued us, we said, ‘Why should we give him medical coverage?”
“You have to be tough in this family. I guess I have what my father didn&#8217;t have. I will stick to my guns. I just think it was wrong,” Fred Trump told the NYDN after the payments for his son were stopped. “These are not warm and fuzzy people. They never even came to see William in the hospital. Our family puts the &#8216;fun&#8217; in dysfunctional.”
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On Sunday, Fox News’ Howard Kurtz and Chris Wallace engaged in a discussion about journalistic integrity.
“Is journalism becoming more intolerant?” Kurtz asked. “I mean, ten or twenty years ago, would we have seen the publisher of The New York Times completely flipping and criticizing a conservative op-ed that he had defended because a bunch of newsroom staffers didn&#8217;t like it?”
Wallace replied:
<blockquote>It feels like the inmates are running the asylum. You know, I&#8217;ve been critical sometimes of the Times, and I think that their liberal tendency tends to bleed out onto their news coverage – some people have accused Fox of the same thing in terms of our tendencies – but I thought that what happened in the last week at the Times was just extraordinary.</blockquote>
Wallace then explained that Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) had written an op-ed in which he advocated using the military to end the riots that erupted following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
After the op-ed was published in The New York Times, the paper received major backlash from their own staffers, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger defended it before backing down. The editor for the NYT editorial page, James Bennet, later reportedly apologized and resigned.
“It was a profile in a lack of courage,” Wallace stated.
Kurtz continued, asking Wallace: “Given the long history of racism and police brutality in this country, crystallized by the killing of George Floyd, does it now seem to you that there are many people in newsrooms – this goes far beyond The New York Times – who just don&#8217;t believe that dissenting views, let&#8217;s say sending in the military to control riots, should be aired at all, that it&#8217;s just too offensive to them?”
Wallace replied in the affirmative, noting that while there aren’t “two sides to every issue,” it isn’t “over the line to even discuss the issue of how you put down violent protests,” which is what Cotton advocated in his op-ed.
“I&#8217;m not sure I agree with him about it, and it certainly would have been an extraordinary step, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to me that it&#8217;s so far over the line that there aren&#8217;t two sides to that argument,” Wallace said, later adding, “but to suggest that it was improper for that – and this is a U.S. Senator – to suggest it was improper for him to even express that opinion, boy, that&#8217;s not good.”
“It’s called debate; it&#8217;s called free expression,” Kurtz stated.
The host went on to explain that he believes the “new woke standard” began “in part” when President Trump was a candidate, and that there were journalists that discarded the rules of journalism because they “deemed Donald Trump to be such a threat to the country.”
Kurtz noted that he believes this is still going on.
“Now they want to see him defeated in November,” the host said. “Do you agree with me, and do you think that&#8217;s a slippery slope?”
Wallace agreed, but he added that this standard appears to have begun before Trump. The Fox News anchor claimed that people will compliment him on his “fairness,” which he said he finds “fairly depressing” as fairness is the most basic standard of journalism.
“Today, I think that it&#8217;s gotten so polarized, whether it&#8217;s on cable news, whether it&#8217;s in newspapers, that fairness is kind of unusual, and that is a terribly sad reflection on our business,” Wallace suggested.
Kurtz pivoted, asking Wallace about his criticisms of Trump referring to the press as “the enemy of the people,” but also the Fox News anchor’s indictments of the media.
Wallace replied in part:
<blockquote>You see some reporters now who have become advocates. I see it in the press briefings now. You know, I was pretty tough in the press briefings with Ronald Reagan and his press secretaries in the 80s, but we were basically trying to get information. Some of the press briefings now &#8230; it&#8217;s more playing gotcha or more just trying to get in arguments and advance their point of view. That’s not what we&#8217;re supposed to be doing, and that&#8217;s what I see too often among my colleagues in the media&#8230;</blockquote>
Kurtz then brought up the idea that younger journalists might see objectivity as an outmoded method of reporting, and Wallace rebutted that by saying that the “truth” is what matters. He cited the coverage of the civil rights movement and the “the brutality of southern sheriffs” as evidence of the importance of journalists simply “shining a light on reality.”
“When reporters start taking sides, I think that&#8217;s very dangerous,” Wallace concluded.
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Wallace BLASTS New York Times Over Cotton Op-Ed Scuffle: ‘A Profile In A Lack Of Courage’

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The New York Times has published an op-ed from a far-left activist that was a <a href="https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/soros-justice-fellowships?fellow=mariame-kaba">fellow</a> at George Soros&#8217; Open Society Foundation and who is an apparent terrorist supporter, which comes just a week after the newspaper said that it should not have published an op-ed from Republican Senator Tom Cotton (AR) that espoused a political view that the majority of Americans support.
The op-ed was written by Mariame Kaba, who, according to a <a href="http://mariamekaba.com/projects/">website</a> that is in her name and a <a href="http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/?s=Assata">blog</a> that she purportedly runs, is an apparent <a href="http://archive.is/xYPzX">supporter</a> of Assata Shakur – who is on the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/wanted_terrorists/joanne-deborah-chesimard/@@download.pdf">FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted Terrorist</a> list.
Investigative reporter Jordan Schachtel tweeted: “Fun fact: the lady who wrote this op-ed in The New York Times is both a terrorist supporter and a radical leftist. Good thing her name isn&#8217;t Senator Tom Cotton!”
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Fun fact: the lady who wrote this op-ed in The New York Times is both a terrorist supporter and a radical leftist. Good thing her name isn&#39;t Senator Tom Cotton! <a href="https://t.co/RDIN01CXlB">pic.twitter.com/RDIN01CXlB</a>
&mdash; Jordan Schachtel (@JordanSchachtel) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1271592932924108800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Highlights from the radical op-ed, which espouses views that the overwhelming majority of Americans <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/64-americans-oppose-defund-police-movement-key-goals/story?id=71202300">reject</a>, include:
<blockquote>We can’t reform the police. The only way to diminish police violence is to reduce contact between the public and the police.
&#8230;when you see a police officer pressing his knee into a black man’s neck until he dies, that’s the logical result of policing in America. When a police officer brutalizes a black person, he is doing what he sees as his job. &#8230;
I’ve been advocating the abolition of the police for years. Regardless of your view on police power — whether you want to get rid of the police or simply to make them less violent — here’s an immediate demand we can all make: Cut the number of police in half and cut their budget in half. Fewer police officers equals fewer opportunities for them to brutalize and kill people. &#8230;
But don’t get me wrong. We are not abandoning our communities to violence. We don’t want to just close police departments. We want to make them unnecessary. &#8230;
People like me who want to abolish prisons and police, however, have a vision of a different society, built on cooperation instead of individualism, on mutual aid instead of self-preservation. What would the country look like if it had billions of extra dollars to spend on housing, food and education for all? This change in society wouldn’t happen immediately, but the protests show that many people are ready to embrace a different vision of safety and justice.</blockquote>
The fringe op-ed comes after leftist reporters at The New York Times and at other left-wing publications claimed that an op-ed from Sen. Cotton last week put the lives of black people at risk because he advocated for the military to be called in to stop the violent riots from destroying inner cities, a view that is <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2020/06/02/58-of-voters-support-using-military-to-help-police-control-protests-poll-finds/#1380abb62417">supported</a> by 58% of Americans.
Cotton trolled The New York Times on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Running this column puts lives in danger.&#8221;
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Running this column puts lives in danger. <a href="https://t.co/SkESdnYpX2">pic.twitter.com/SkESdnYpX2</a>
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Top Pentagon Officials: We Are Yet ‘Unable To Corroborate’ Report On Russian Bounty Scheme

‘Impostor Patriots’: Tammy Duckworth Slams Tucker Carlson And Trump As ‘Self-Serving, Insecure Men’

Thomas Friedman Of NYT Wants Two Conditions For Trump-Biden Debate. Ted Cruz Fires Back Two Other Ones.

The New York Times Dropped Millions On Facebook To Advertise The 1619 Project…While Trying To Bully Facebook Into Censoring Others

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Thomas Jefferson Descendant Calls For Harriet Tubman To Replace ‘Flawed Founder’ In Jefferson Memorial

‘We Are Living In Parallel Universes’: Ted Cruz Unloads On NYT Over Rushmore Speech Coverage

NYT Lays Out Case Against Mount Rushmore; Critics Remind Paper Of Its Own Problematic Past

Trump Says ‘Nobody Briefed’ Him On Russian Militant Plot; NYT Gives Specific Date Of Alleged Briefing

Multiple Government Agencies Dispute NYT Report On Russian Putting Bounties On U.S. Troops

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