President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would be appointing Charles Kushner, Ivanka Trump's father-in-law, as the ambassador to France.
Trump confirmed the selection of Kushner in a post to Truth Social praising him as a “tremendous business leader,” who would “be a strong advocate representing” the U.S. and “its interests.”
Charles Kushner's son, Jared Kushner, is married to Ivanka Trump and previously worked for Donald Trump during his first term in the White House.
Jared Kushner stated before the election that he would not be returning to the White House prior to Trump winning the election and it appears that there are no plans to bring the younger Kushner back for Trump's 2nd term.
Kushner is supremely qualified as a business leader and Trump wants his ambassadors to build functional business relationships that will generate trade and value for the U.S.
Trump had high praise for Kushner writing in his Truth Social announcement that, "Charlie is the Founder & Chairman of Kushner Companies, one of the largest & most successful privately held Real Estate firms in the Nation."
Trump continued by stating, “He was recognized as New Jersey Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, appointed to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, & served as a Commissioner, & Chairman, of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, as well as on the Boards of our top institutions, including NYU.”
Another component of Kushner's selection to work in Trump's administration is his loyalty to Trump.
Kushner was pardoned by Trump back in 2020 for his 2005 conviction on charges of tax evasion, witness tampering, and illegal campaign donations which landed Kushner a two-year sentence in prison.
Trump's decision to pardon Kushner of his 2005 conviction has earned Trump the assurance of loyalty and loyalty is the most important thing to Trump going into his 2nd term.
Trump is staffing his administration with people he can trust, qualifications and records are secondary concerns.
Many of the most qualified and experienced individuals who Trump would have used in 2016 have shown themselves to be untrustworthy and tools of the deep state that Trump has set out to dismantle.
Trump ran on a platform to clean up Washington D.C. and to tear down the corrupt system that has grown like a cancer in America's institutions.
Americans turned out in record numbers and made Trump the first Republican to win the popular vote in decades in order to hit back at the corrupt status quo. Trump has a mandate from the American people to purge the deep state and he needs people who will be loyal to his agenda.
Kushner will likely not play a huge role in Trump's anti-corruption agenda, rather he will be key to pushing American interests abroad as Trump returns to an "America First" economic strategy.
Americans can expect many of Trump's ambassador selections to look similar to Kushner's as Trump is working to return America to economic dominance.
This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
James Dobson, an icon in teaching Christian standards and values, especially regarding families, has advised at least five presidential administrations on ethics and values.
The Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, he's suing.
It's because of the multiple anti-faith agenda items Biden and Harris are trying to force onto American citizens without the benefit of legislation or congressional action.
One of the plans would radically, and falsely, insist that denying children access to transgender body mutilations be considered child abuse, which then could be used against the parents' custody of their own children.
The case, filed in federal court in Texas, is targeting the Biden-Harris scheme of wanting to change something, and simply rewriting federal regulations to accommodation their own personal wishes.
Dobson is founder of the James Dobson Family Institute and the host of the "Family Talk" radio program.
The action cites the Biden-Harris ideology that employers and their insurance programs are required to cover abortion and gender-transition services through the changes to Department of Health and Human Services and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission rules.
Then there's a new EEOC rule that takes a congressional act, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, and insists that employers pay for abortions, and finally, the there are the Biden-Harris demands that workers "use false pronouns inconsistent with an individual's biological sex and grant access to single-sex spaces by members of the opposite sex."
The Biden-Harris rule changes all are in pursuit of the regime's two primary agenda points: promoting transgenderism including body mutilations on young children, and abortion for all.
The conflict has been developing since before Biden and Harris took office, when WND reported on Dobson's description of Biden's advocacy for transgenderism as "lunacy."
"Where is the outrage in response to this lunacy? Joe Biden appears to be under the very mistaken impression that teaching our children the truth about biological reality constitutes discrimination," he wrote on his website. "He couldn't be more wrong, and his distorted view is equally alarming. Indeed, world-renowned Swedish psychiatrist Dr. Christopher Gillberg has said that pediatric transition is 'possibly one of the greatest scandals in medical history.'"
He said leading children "down a path toward social and medical 'transition' is not compassionate – it's an act of cruelty! "
An announcement from Dobson's organization, through President Joe Waresak, confirmed the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute and an association of Christian employers filed a lawsuit challenging the Biden-Harris administration's new regulations that force employers to violate their religiously held convictions regarding the sanctity of human life and human sexuality."
The announcement confirmed, "At its most basic level, this is a spiritual battle of good versus evil. The Biden-Harris EEOC and HHS agencies are attempting to force ministries and businesses to bow down to their wicked and radicalized agenda of promoting the killing of unborn children and the perversion of God's design for human sexuality—created in His image as male and female. As a Christian organization, we cannot remain silent against such blatant attacks that target our sacred religious convictions."
The complaint is supported by a declaration from PublicSquare, a values-driven commerce ecosystem with over 5 million registered consumers.
The case in federal court in the Northern District of Texas, "seeks to protect religious freedoms and Christian business practices against government mandates recently imposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)."
The Institute "encourages and teaches biblically based principles for families while promoting the sanctity and dignity of all human life."
Dr. Owen Strachan, senior director at JDFI, said, "This radicalized immoral movement often speaks in the dulcet tones of tolerance and inclusivity concerning public morality; it often seeks to bind society to its vision and punish anyone who dares dissent with severe consequences.
"This is evident in HHS's regulation requiring employer health plan coverage of abortion and so-called gender-affirming care, as well as in the EEOC's regulation requiring employer accommodation of abortion and immoral infertility treatments, and its enforcement guidance requiring employers to grant access to bathrooms and other single-sex spaces to those of the opposite sex.
"Such rules crush the liberty that aligns with the order of creation as defined by God and reflected in nature."
The Democrat regime in Washington is attempting "to force JDFI, PublicSquare, and other Christian-based ministries and businesses to violate our religiously based biblical values and moral conscience."
The case calls out the leftists for their "regulation" under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act to demand abortion coverage.
Further, the administration's HHS agenda includes cover "termination of pregnancy" under the "sex" nondiscrimination requirements. That agency also is demanding "gender-affirming care" that includes mutilating surgeries on children that leave them sterile for life.
Studies have shown that while transgenderism often is promoted for children by the false claims that it reduces the incidence of suicide or attempts, the opposite actually is true.
Then there's the Biden-Harris demands that employers "affirm" workers who are pursuing the nonscientific ideology that males can become females. Actually, that cannot happen as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
The lawsuit charges the Biden-Harris scheme has deliberately foreclosed "any moral option in the marketplace for employers with traditional Christian values such as JDFI and other Christian-based ministries or businesses."
Dobson's radio ministry is heard on more than 1,300 radio outlets and his program has an audience of half a million weekly.
Dobson, who has advised a long list of presidents before the Biden-Harris administration, has authored more than 70 books on his area of expertise, and WND has reported when he previously suggested that Biden be informed on what Thanksgiving is.
Thank came not long ago when Biden issued a Thanksgiving address and completely ignored God.
"Sadly, someone apparently needs to teach this fact to President Joe Biden, too. He issued a Thanksgiving proclamation that didn't mention God at all. Instead, Biden suggested the day's purpose was to thank America for our blessings. This is not true. The purpose is for America to honor and thank God. This is not a minor distinction," the ministry statement said at the time.
"America, like all nations of the earth, will eventually end. But God will never 'end.' Interestingly, the only other administration to omit God from its Thanksgiving proclamations was the Obama/Biden administration," the comment said.
Dobson has been called by secular publications the nation's "most influential evangelical leader," and he also founded the prominent Family Research Council in the 1980s.
His books have sold millions of copies under titles including "Dare to Discipline," "The Strong-Willed Child," "Bringing Up Boys," "Bringing up Girls," "When God Doesn't Make Sense" and more.
Ironically, on that same holiday, it was President Donald Trump whose statement on the holiday thanked God.
He said Americans give thanks to "Almighty God" for "His many blessings including our families, our friends, our neighbors, and this extraordinary country that we all call home."
He said:
I want to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving today. As we gather with our loved ones, we give thanks to Almighty God for His many blessings including our families, our friends, our neighbors and this extraordinary country that we all call home.
We also send our deep gratitude to all of the patriots serving our nation in uniform this Thanksgiving including members of the U.S. armed forces. the heroes of Border Patrol and law enforcement and ICE and everybody that works so hard to preserve our system and our country and working to defend our southern border and our police and first responders in communities all across America.
This is a difficult time for our country, but do not lose heart or lose hope because by the time we celebrate next Thanksgiving our nation will be well on its way to being stronger, safer more prosperous, and greater than ever before.
Once again, Happy Thanksgiving and God bless you all.
More recently, Dobson issued a statement warning Americans of Biden's plan to destroy the nation's sovereignty.
His warning is that the U.N.'s World Health Organization "wants complete control of your mind and body," and Biden is willing to help.
"I am writing you today to warn of an imminent and real threat to the sovereignty of our nation. Two of our founding fathers, President George Washington and President Thomas Jefferson, counseled America against forming misaligned alliances with foreign entities—especially those who do not share our allegiance to the principles that formed our republic," he said.
"Yet, the Biden administration is on the verge of doing just that by turning our keys of self-governance over to the World Health Organization. And, mark my word, if America gives up its sovereign rule as a nation, we could well lose our sweet land of liberty and effectively forsake every generation that has fought and died for it. God help us if we let this happen on our watch."
The case seeks a court ruling that the regulations and "interpretations" actually are in violation of the law and Constitution.
A high school cheerleader was found dead just weeks after she appeared on America's Got Talent.
Emily Gold, 17, committed suicide by jumping from an overpass in her home state of California. The teen was a senior and varsity dance captain at Los Osos High School in Rancho Cucamonga.
California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Rodrigo Jimenez said Gold had been struck by at least one vehicle after jumping from an overpass onto the freeway below.
Police received a call about "a pedestrian down in lanes on eastbound SR-210, east of Haven Avenue.”
"When the officers arrived, they located a female, 17 year old, who was struck by at least one other vehicle in the carpool lane on eastbound 210," Jimenez said. "The female did succumb to her injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene."
The San Bernardino Coroner’s Office ruled the death a suicide. There was no suicide note found.
Gold appeared with her cheerleading team on NBC's America's Got Talent, impressing judge Simon Cowell before their elimination in the quarterfinals last month. Cowell called their performance "absolutely brilliant."
"What I loved about this was first of all the energy. I think what I just saw is everything a great school should be doing, which is encouraging talent and friendship," he said.
Gold's bereaved family shared a heartbreaking message over Instagram on her death.
“Dear friends. With sadness beyond measure we must tell you all that we lost our beautiful Emily on September 13th,” her parents Steven and Brandy Gold wrote on Instagram.
“Our hearts have a hole the size of the universe right now,” they continued. “The outpouring of love and support we are receiving shows us how many lives that angel touched and lifted up, and it is what will help us through the most difficult time of our lives.”
Her dance team also shared a moving note on the loss of their "beautiful angel."
“Emily has always embodied every aspect of our core team values through her strength, commitment, kindness, compassion, and the most humble heart,” the team wrote. “She will be remembered as a leader, role model, friend and sister to her teammates.”
“Our sweet sweet Emily — We love you endlessly and miss you more than words can ever express,” they said. “Everything we do is for you, our beautiful angel.”
Top pollster Frank Luntz sees signs that the "honeymoon period is officially over" for Vice President Kamala Harris, the UK Daily Mail reported. The influential GOP pollster believes the boost Democrats received after Harris was named the Democratic nominee has all but dried up as the candidates head into their first debate.
A nonpartisan online poll showed Harris hitting her peak in voter enthusiasm after the Democratic National Convention. Now, a YouGov poll has her and former President Donald Trump locked in a statistical tie at around 60% of voters who reported being "very enthusiastic" or "extremely enthusiastic."
As Luntz pointed out, "Quite a sharp drop in Democratic voter enthusiasm in this month’s YouGov poll. (It was 70% last month.) The honeymoon period is officially over," Luntz posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.
Quite a sharp drop in Democratic voter enthusiasm in this month’s YouGov poll. (It was 70% last month.)
The honeymoon period is officially over. https://t.co/fVXiQgdfXv
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) September 4, 2024
Democrats were in a slump among their voters when President Joe Biden sought reelection. Since he stepped aside and left Harris as the presumptive nominee, her star has steadily risen, giving Democrats hope.
However, the height of enthusiasm seems to have come and gone following the DNC. Now, CNN reported, Harris has settled into a statistical tie with Trump in six key battleground states.
The closest race is in Pennsylvania, where Harris and Trump are locked in a dead heat at 47% among likely voters. In Georgia and Nevada, Harris and Trump received 47% and 48% support, respectively.
Wisconsin is polling 50% for Harris and 44% for Trump while Arizona is at 44% for Harris and 49% for Trump. Finally, likely voters in Michigan are 48% for Harris and 43% for Trump.
These states are vital for Harris to have a path to victory, and they are ones that President Joe Biden won in 2020. Notably, 15% of likely voters reported not having committed to either candidate, perhaps pointing to the importance of the upcoming debate in winning over voters.
On Sept. 10, the two candidates will face off in Philadelphia for the first time, and the pollster is certain this will convince or turn away voters depending on how the candidates do. According to The Hill, Luntz warned that next week's debate "is everything" to the candidates.
"When the voter sees side by side the two candidates and they listen to what they say, not just the answers, it’s the body language. Is there contempt? Does someone fold their arms? Do they look at the individual when they’re speaking? Do they seem presidential in their approach?" Luntz said Monday on CNN.
He noted that there are different criteria for each candidate. "For Trump, can he keep quiet? Can he actually listen to a response, or does he have to respond to everything," Luntz added.
"For Harris, does she seem open-minded? Does she seem willing to take in information not just project? Each of them has different goals for that debate, but each one, in the end, has to prove that they’re ready, not just for that moment, but voters are thinking ‘who do I want to represent me two years from now, three or four years from now?" Luntz said.
Voters often pay more attention in the weeks leading up to Election Day. As that's beginning to happen, Harris is losing more support which could spell major trouble for her come November.
Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan died Thursday at age 34, Breitbart reported. There is no cause of death listed for the rapper, whose girlfriend found him unresponsive and "foamed at the mouth" in his Fulton County home.
Born Dequantes Lamar, Quan debuted in 2013 with his hit single "Type Of Way." Other major hits included "Ride Out," Flex," "Walk Thru," "Lifestyle," and "Power." He also made a name for himself by teaming up with Young Thug for "Rich Gang" in 2013.
Most recently, Quan's name was bizarrely mentioned during the trial of rapper Lil Woody which wrapped up Wednesday. After verifying with the judge that what he said on the stand couldn't be used against him, Lil Woody admitted that he "shot up Rich Homie Quan daddy barbershop on Bankhead."
Once that was off his chest, Lil Woody added, "I don’t what know what happened with Threat and Rich Homie Quan, but I’ma ride with my brother and they was beefin’ and yeah, we pulled up and did that." The trial did not involve Quan, and it's unclear whether it had anything to do with Quan's death which is still a mystery.
It's still unknown what led to Quan's death. The rapper was found unresponsive by his girlfriend Amber Williams in his home on Thursday morning, Page Six reported using audio from a 911 call she placed.
He had fallen asleep on the couch the night before and hadn't moved when Williams checked on him the next morning. Thinking Quan was simply still asleep, she put a blanket over him and left to take her son to school.
When she got back to the house, Williams realized that something was wrong with Quan. Williams told 911 dispatchers it was then she realized she "didn't feel a heartbeat" and saw that Quan was not breathing.
"When I turned him over, he kind of foamed at the mouth," Williams told the emergency workers. She was instructed to place Quan flat on his back while waiting for paramedics.
When emergency workers got to his home, they pronounced Quan dead at the scene. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office said it would conduct an autopsy Friday to determine the cause of death, but no updates have been released since.
Family and fans alike were upset about the sudden loss of a beloved rap star. Fellow rap legend Lil' Kim posted a tribute to Quan on X, formerly Twitter, including photos and videos of the two of them performing together.
"This is the part of life that I’ll never get used to, I’m so heartbroken," Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Denise Jones, posted Friday.
"No one ever understood the dope ass friendship u and I had. u always pulled up for me no matter what," the rapper wrote. "I’ve learned in life love those who love you. Rest in Heaven my angel," Lil' Kim said.
This is the part of life that I’ll never get used to, I’m so heartbroken 💔 No one ever understood the dope ass friendship u and I had. u always pulled up for me no matter what. I’ve learned in life love those who love you. Rest in Heaven my angel @RichHomieQuan 🕊️ pic.twitter.com/u9RdDSiu1k
— Lil' Kim (@LilKim) September 6, 2024
Quan's death seems sudden and certainly untimely for such a young man. There are many questions still unanswered about what happened to him, but the loss will have a ripple effect throughout the rap world regardless of how and why it happened.
A judge denied former President Trump's request to move his New York hush money case to a federal court Tuesday, The Hill reported. Trump immediately filed an appeal Wednesday in the hopes of delaying his upcoming sentencing hearing.
Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in Justice Juan Merchan's Manhattan courtroom in May. With his sentencing hearing scheduled for Sept. 18, the GOP presidential nominee could find himself behind bars weeks before the general election if Merchan imposes jail time.
Trump is again asking U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein to move his case to federal court. "The national public has an interest in free and fair elections, unburdened by the potential for the unlawful incarceration of President Trump by local officials in a single county," attorneys Emil Bove and Todd Blanche said in Wednesday's court filing on behalf of Trump.
"The public would therefore benefit from a stay that could allow Justice Merchan to avoid the ‘rat’s nest of comity and federalism issues’ attendant to the Presidential immunity defense and President Trump’s potential sentencing in the weeks before the election while the Second Circuit determines whether the appropriate forum is in this District," they wrote. It's unclear whether that will happen, however.
Hellerstein has twice turned down Trump's request for removal. The first time was before the trial began in Manhattan, and Trump's attorneys abandoned an appeal the first time around.
However, the Supreme Court's decision to broadly define Trump's presidential immunity in another case has opened the door to a fresh challenge. His attorneys argue that the issue now puts the case back into the federal courts.
The judge disagreed with this rationale in his most recent rejection. Hellerstein ruled that "nothing in the Supreme Court’s opinion affects my previous conclusion" when turning down his second attempt.
Trump's attorneys were undeterred by this flat refusal in their new motion. "President Trump respectfully disagrees with the Court’s view," they wrote as they took another crack at the move.
The motion also noted that Trump is petitioning the Second Circuit to delay the ruling while the appeal is considered. This is one of many tactics attorneys are using to delay sentencing until after the election.
Trump's sentencing could bring the American election process into uncharted waters. Meanwhile, the New York Times was working overtime Wednesday to shore up support for Merchan as he mulls the most divisive sentence in modern political memory.
Painting him as a righteous judge of impeccable character, the Times acknowledged that throwing a candidate behind bars could irreparably harm trust in the judicial system. "The judge is in an impossible situation, and one that doesn’t lend itself to easy comparisons," Indiana University Bloomington law professor Charles Geyh said.
He added that Merchan's ultimate decision would have "historical implications" but noted that he was up to the task. "Within some quarters of the judiciary, there is the possibility of a judge running screaming from the room, and sort of seeking the least difficult way out," Geyh said.
"But I don’t think that this guy is showing signs of that," he added of Merchan. Nevertheless, it's undeniable that this use of lawfare against Trump will have repercussions directly proportional to Merchan's commitment to jail Trump in this witch hunt.
Trump has faced many attacks from his adversaries along the way, but the threat of jail is the most severe yet. A lesser man would have buckled already, but Trump has remained strong and steadfast throughout this ordeal, even as his future freedom hangs in the balance.
Whistleblowers told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that security personnel were "woefully unprepared" on the day former President Donald Trump was shot at a Pennsylvania rally, the UK Daily Mail reported. Hawley said that Homeland Security Investigations agents were assigned to Trump's detail without proper Secret Service training.
Trump was shot on July 13 during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and sustained an injury to his ear. It could have been much worse as gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was able to get near the former president and take his shot despite the Secret Service's presence.
Hawley and other members of Congress have begun asking how this could have happened. The answers they're getting are disturbing, especially considering that these whistleblowers report that things have not improved.
These individuals charged with protecting Trump were given a two-hour webinar training with prerecorded content to prepare for the rally and little else. "'This is a nightmare; the only reason we know about this stuff is because of whistleblowers," Hawley said Tuesday on Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime.
Protecting Trump, a former president and current GOP presidential candidate, is a job that requires precision and knowledge of proper procedure. Instead, Hawley shared that the whistleblowers were inadequately briefed using glitchy technology.
"Imagine 1,000 people logging onto Microsoft Teams at the same time after being informed at the last minute that everyone needed to login individually. Once it got rolling, the Secret Service instructor couldn’t figure out how to get the audio working on the prerecorded videos," Hawley shared from a letter from the whistleblower to USSS Acting Director Ronald Rowe Jr.
"All told, they restarted the videos approximately six times …. The content was not helpful," Hawley added.
To make matters worse, the whistleblowers said that the Secret Service has not learned from these mistakes, Fox News reported. "Nothing new, nothing improved since the assassination attempt on former President Trump," Hawley recounted from one of the whistleblowers.
However, it wasn't just the training that day that was the problem. As Hawley noted in a separate interview, the lead agent at the site was also the wrong person for such an important job.
"The site agent, the lead agent, was known to the Trump campaign to be inexperienced, to be ineffectual, to be, frankly, incompetent at their job. I'm also told by whistleblowers that on that day, she was not enforcing the normal security protocols," Hawley said at the time.
"She was not checking people's IDs. She did not use Secret Service agents," Hawley continued.
"Most of the agents there that day were not Secret Service agents. They were Homeland Security agents," Hawley noted.
Trump survived this attempt on his life by the grace of God. Unfortunately, it appears the Secret Service relied too heavily on that as well rather than properly training the people charged with protecting Trump's life.
A recent poll shows former President Donald Trump has overtaken Vice President Kamala Harris in Michigan, Breitbart reported. Although the lead is small, it represents a crack in the so-called "blue wall" vital for Harris to win.
The WDIV/Detroit News poll revealed that 43.5% of likely voters supported Harris over 44.7% of likely voters who said they'd vote for Trump. The survey was taken between August 26 and 29, just days after the Democratic National Convention.
Moreover, 4.7% of voters said they supported Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who the Associated Press noted dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump on Aug. 23, just days before the survey began. Another 4.8% were undecided, while 2.3% supported an unnamed third-party candidate.
📊 MICHIGAN poll by Glengariff Group for WDIV/Detroit News
🟥 Trump: 45%
🟦 Harris: 44%
🟨 RFK Jr: 5%
🟪 Other: 2%July 24 poll - 🔵 Harris +1
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— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) September 3, 2024
The survey results came after Harris spent Labor Day weekend in key states trying to build the "blue wall" of Democratic support, CNN reported. Harris popped up in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan to begin the final push that she hopes will propel her to Election Day victory.
These were the states that Biden clinched to win the 2020 presidial election, and Harris is attempting to repeat his strategy. She pulled out all of the usual Democratic pandering to labor unions, including steelworkers in Pennsylvania.
Harris railed against the Japanese-owned Nippon Steel's acquisition of US Steel. "The president mentioned it: US Steel is a historic American company, and it is vital for our nation to maintain strong American steel companies," Harris told the crowd.
"And I couldn’t agree more with President Biden; US Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated," Harris said in Pittsburgh. This was similar to her remarks in Detroit, where she touted the "dignity of work" while promising to side with unions against employers.
"We celebrate unions because unions helped build America, and unions helped build America’s middle class," Harris claimed. However, it wasn't what Harris said that made news over the weekend, but how she said it.
Harris was dragged on social media for her decision to use an accent while speaking in Michigan on Monday. "You better thank a union member for the five-day workweek," Harris said with a drawl.
"You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time," she went on.
BREAKING: Kamala Harris brings out her accent again, this time in Detroit, Michigan.
The California and Canada-raised politician has brought out her new accent multiple times in the past month.
"You betta thank a union memba for sick leave. You betta thank a union memba for… pic.twitter.com/Nm10hVw0eb
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 2, 2024
Trump adviser Stephen Miller expertly mocked Harris, Fox News reported. "This is her seventh new accent in four weeks. She has literally never used this accent before. She grew up in Canada. Phoniest politician in all of politics," Miller posted to X, formerly Twitter.
The polls show that Harris is having difficulty convincing voters in the states where she needs to win. This is not a good spot for Harris, who is effectively an incumbent, and she should be very, very worried.
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump and special counsel Jack Smith jointly filed for a status update in light of presidential immunity in the election subversion case, ABC News reported. Smith filed a superseding indictment last week that narrowed and adjusted charges to avoid the new ruling's pitfalls.
Smith attempted to salvage his case against Trump by making necessary changes to his indictment that would circumvent presidential immunity. Meanwhile, Trump's legal team has humiliated Smith by asking that the charges be dismissed entirely.
The conflict arose following a Supreme Court decision that granted presidential immunity to much of Trump's conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. How the court will proceed is still unknown, but Trump and Smith filed Friday to clarify that.
Trump's attorneys have requested that any further legal proceedings happen after the November election. Smith did not mention timing except to concede that the court's "decisions on how to manage its docket are firmly within its discretion."
Both sides disagree on the future of the case. Trump's team argued that the case be completely dismissed as their client has already submitted a plea of not guilty and that most of his conduct falls under his duties as president.
Attorneys have submitted a dismissal request for the immunity issue and another separate Supreme Court decision that ruled Smith's appointment was unconstitutional. Smith disagreed as both sides requested further consideration from the court on how to proceed.
"The parties recognize the types of motions and briefing anticipated in pre-trial proceedings but have differing views on how the Court should schedule these matters and the manner in which they are to be conducted," the filing noted. Normally, an evidentiary hearing would clear up legal matters before the trial.
This would mean a "mini-trial," requiring in-person hearings before Election Day to decide on these matters before the case proceeds in earnest. Smith seems reluctant to allow that and requested that the court admit briefs in writing that "distinguish [aTrump's] private electioneering activity from official action."
He wants any other legal issues that arise to be considered in writing simultaneously and expressed an eagerness to move things along. "The Government is prepared to file its opening immunity brief promptly at any time the Court deems appropriate," the filing noted.
Trump's good fortune at the Supreme Court will likely mean he will appeal if U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rules against him in Smith's case. The defense team has a third rationale for dismissal by considering Trump's conversations with then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was under presidential immunity.
Trump had spoken to him about holding off on certifying the votes in the 2020 election, but both were acting in an official capacity. "If the Court determines, as it should, that the Special Counsel cannot rebut the presumption that these acts are immune, binding law requires that the entire indictment be dismissed because the grand jury considered immunized evidence," the filing said.
Meanwhile, Trump faces other legal complications, with a sentencing date looming in his New York hush-money case. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records earlier this year.
His legal team filed Thursday to move the sentencing to federal court since it would impact the 2024 election. "At that potential sentencing, President Trump faces the prospect of immediate and unlawful incarceration under New York law, which could prevent him from continuing to pursue his leading campaign for the Presidency," Trump's attorneys asserted.
Trump has been battling these politically motivated charges for months. The best he can hope for is that Smith's case proceeds quickly and justly, though that might be unrealistic, considering the point has always been about derailing his presidential run.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) slammed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for ignoring a request from Gold Star families to visit with them at Arlington National Cemetery, the New York Post reported. The families were commemorating the third anniversary of their loved ones' deaths after Biden's disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.
Cotton, a decorated Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday. Host Kristen Welker asked Cotton about former President Donald Trump's decision to visit the cemetery for a wreath-laying ceremony and allegedly using it as a campaign photo op.
"He didn't take campaign photos there," the Arkansas Republican shot back, rejecting her premise. "These families — Gold Star families — whose children died because of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ incompetence invited him to the cemetery, and they asked him to take those photos," Cotton said before laying into Biden and Harris for not showing up.
Cotton turned the tables on the president and vice president for their decision to ignore the grieving families. "You know who the families also invited? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris," Cotton pointed out.
"Where were they? Joe Biden was sitting at a beach," Cotton said, referring to Biden's Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, residence, where he has spent more than a week and counting.
"Kamala Harris was sitting at her mansion in Washington, D.C. She was 4 miles away — 10 minutes," Cotton said of Harris, who lives at the Naval Conservatory as the vice president. "She could’ve gone to the cemetery and honored the sacrifice of those young men and women, but she hasn’t," the senator said of Harris.
"She never has spoken to them or taken a meeting with them,” he continued. Cotton believes Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan abruptly in August 2021 led to the deaths of 13 service members at the Kabul airport.
"It is because of her and Joe Biden’s incompetence that those 13 Americans were killed in Afghanistan," Cotton added. The families of the fallen heroes seem to believe that as well.
The media has attempted to portray Trump's actions as an affront to those whose family members were killed. Harris had claimed that Trump's visit "disrespected sacred ground, all for the sake of a political stunt," Fox News reported.
In response, the Gold Star families released a joint statement supporting Trump. "We, the families of the brave service members who were tragically killed in the Abbey Gate bombing, are appalled by Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent attempts to politicize President Trump’s visit to Arlington National Cemetery," the families said.
"President Trump was invited by us, the Gold Star families, to attend the solemn ceremonies commemorating the three-year anniversary of our children’s deaths. He was there to honor their sacrifice, yet Vice President Harris has disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into a political ploy," the families added.
Harris should tread lightly on this issue. She has admitted to being the "last person in the room" when Biden made the fateful decision to abandon the conflict, and now she shares the blame.
Biden and Harris don't have the decency to show their faces to the grieving families. This is why the Gold Star families support Trump's willingness to show up for them and even take videos and photos, and Cotton is correct to point that out.