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 Daily Wire: Fox News host Chris Wallace, a registered Democrat, faced intense backlash on Tuesday night for what was widely deemed as bias in the debate in the favor of Democrat Joe Biden and against Republican President Donald Trump. One of the issues that Wallace was called out for the most was how he appeared to let Biden interrupt Trump but would jump in to interrupt Trump when Trump would talk over Biden. Fox News host Brian Kilmeade even noted the discrepancy and called it out on social media, writing: “Why is @JoeBiden allowed to interrupt? @realDonaldTrump is not.” Fox News contributor Andy McCarthy wrote: “I love Chris Wallace, but he should get out of the way.” McCarthy added: “Biden doesn’t support the Green New Deal. Oh, Wallace got that out of him? No, Trump did. Oh, well, did Wallace clarify what’s parts of Green New Deal Biden is against? No, needed to move on …” McCarthy added: “Chris Wallace jumps in a second time when Biden having trouble with Trump’s questioning...

 Epoch Times: Sidney Powell, lawyer for former Trump national security adviser  Michael Flynn , told a federal judge during a hearing that she will move to disqualify the judge from the case. She then got into an exchange with him that became heated as each interrupted the other. The exchange happened during a Sept. 29 virtual hearing where District Judge Emmet Sullivan heard arguments on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) move to dismiss the criminal case against the retired three-star U.S. Army general. “I need to also move to disqualify the court and urge that it recuses itself immediately,” Powell said. “It’s absolutely unprecedented for proceedings against a defendant to be conducted by a person who actively litigated against him.” She was referring to the fact that Sullivan earlier this year successfully appealed a decision of a higher court that compelled him to immediately accept the case dismissal. The judge made himself akin to a party in the case, creating an appeara...

 The Lid: At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when a lot less was known about the virus and how to counter it, and while the nation was still ramping up production of testing and hospital resources, including ventilators needed, 25 million jobs were lost across the country,  according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data .  Since labor markets bottomed in April, 13.8 million jobs have been recovered, as states have begun steadily reopening in the months since. But it could have been much worse. Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning is crediting the foresight of the payroll protection plan from President Donald Trump and Congress, a bipartisan measure that was put in the original CARES Act, with leading the rapid recovery.   “One of the biggest reasons was because the Trump administration and Congress worked together on the CARES Act, that provided  $525 billion to 5.2 million small businesses , which may have saved as many as 50 million jobs,...

  Washington Examiner: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden defended his son Hunter after President Trump lobbed attacks about his controversial business dealings in foreign countries during the first debate on Tuesday. "Your son goes in, and he takes out millions of dollars. Takes out billions of dollars to manage, makes millions of dollars, and also, while we’re at it, just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son three and [a] half millions of dollars," Trump said. Trump was referring to a  recently released report  from a GOP-led Senate investigation into the younger Biden. The resulting report contains several allegations of problematic foreign transactions while his father was helping to lead the Obama administration's foreign policy. Democrats rejected the idea that there was any wrongdoing and argued that the claims of corruption are political smears and possibly steeped in Russian disinformation, which Republicans have denied. The report fr...

Biden is not an attractive candidate in this debate.  He is not willing to engage in the real world.  He has some left-wing talking points that he is hammering in a way that is not persuasive.  He is a man with no charm or charisma. The moderator is way too argumentive.  He is interrupting both candidates to push his agenda.  He should let both of them speak or argue their points whether they are on his topic or not. Trump is being Trump.  His supporters are probably happy with him and disgusted with Biden and Wallace.  Sometimes it looks like it is two against Trump and Trump is still winning. One mistake Biden made that will come back to bite him was his statement that "My son (Hunter) did nothing wrong."  That is an absurd statement.  He never explained what the $3.5 million from the Russian Mayor's wife was for at about the time Putin was invading Crimea.  We already know that the Ukraine and China deals were questionable at best...

CNN: President Trump is promising four more years of low taxes, light regulation and a laser-focus on the stock market. Yet professionals on Wall Street are shunning Trump and funneling staggering amounts of money to his opponent. The securities and investment industry donated just $10.5 million to Trump's presidential campaign and outside groups aligned with it, according to a new tally by OpenSecrets. It has sent nearly five times as much cash, $51.1 million, to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. That means Trump is losing the fundraising race among Wall Streeters by a slightly greater magnitude than in 2016. During that cycle, former New York Senator Hillary Clinton and groups aligned with her raised $88 million from the securities and investment industry, while Trump took in just $20.8 million. In some ways, Wall Street's preference for Democrats in the last two presidential cycles makes sense. After all, many people who work in the industry reside in deep b...

Breitbart: Project Veritas Releases Another Ilhan Omar Video Showing Cash for Votes Harvesting Scheme ... There is more at the link above.  What I find remarkable is that much of the mainstream media appears to be ignoring this scam.

PJ Media: On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe briefed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on documents revealing an alleged Hillary Clinton plot to launch a scandal campaign attempting to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian’s hacking of the Democratic National Committee. The Intelligence Community had discovered a Russian analysis about the plot and even briefed President Barack Obama about it. CIA Director John Brennan forwarded a referral to FBI Director James Comey and a certain deputy assistant director of counterintelligence named Peter Strzok. Graham suggested the newly uncovered documents suggest a double standard at the FBI. “This latest information provided by DNI Ratcliffe shows there may have been a double standard by the FBI regarding allegations against the Clinton campaign and Russia,” Graham said in a statement. “Whether these allegations are accurate is not the question. The question is did the FBI...

Betsy McCauley: Democrats’ big lies about Amy Coney Barrett, the Supreme Court and ObamaCare While ObamaCare is a terrible law, a conservative Supreme Court is unlikely to take a sledgehammer to the bad law. ... There’s little chance of that. Barrett is a true conservative who believes judges are called to apply the law, not legislate from the bench. “The harm inflicted by the Supreme Court’s erroneous interference in the democratic process,” she wrote in 2017, “is harder to remedy than the harm inflicted by an ill-advised statute.” That was in an article that expressly dealt with ObamaCare. ... The Democrats have been unrestrained in the lies they are willing to tell to stop a conservative from being appointed to the Supreme Court.  Congress is likely to be the best place to change this bad law.

Al Jazeera: The United States has made preparations to withdraw diplomats from Iraq after warning Baghdad it could shut its embassy, two Iraqi officials and two Western diplomats say, a step Iraqis fear could turn their country into a battle zone. Any move by the US to scale down its diplomatic presence in a country where it has up to 5,000 troops would be widely seen in the region as an escalation of its confrontation with Iran, which Washington blames for missile-and-bomb attacks. That, in turn, would open the possibility of military action, with just weeks to go before an election in which US President Donald Trump has campaigned on a hard line towards Tehran and its proxies. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened to close the embassy in a phone call a week ago to President Barham Salih, two Iraqi government sources said. The conversation was initially reported by an Iraqi news website. By Sunday, Washington had begun preparations to withdraw diplomatic staff if such a ...

Monica Showalter: Mail-in voting, which is banned in most countries based on its huge potential for fraud (some of which came from bitter experience), has been promoted by Democrats and in the press as risk-free. President Trump's effort to sound the alarm about the potential for mail-in fraud is always editorialized with the phrase with additives such as "without evidence," or "pushing the false claim," as ABC News broadcast  here . "Of the 136 million voters in the last election, fewer than a dozen were alleged to have voted twice," the report claimed, helpfully citing a rare Trump voter who pleaded guilty to such a deed.  The idea was to claim that only a Trump-supporter would commit ballot fraud, something you'd think they'd be worried about, given their voting choices, but this isn't about Trump voter fraud.  The gaslighting that ballot fraud doesn't exist is a Democrat bid to allow them to rig the election.  And th...

WND: The Irish-born filmmaking couple Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinny are known for their film  "Gosnell,"  which exposed the seamy underside of the abortion industry by turning transcripts and evidence from the trial of the Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell into a cinematic drama. Now, in yet another effort to counter a conventional narrative with first-hand evidence, they're about to release  "Obamagate: The Movie,"  showing how the Obama administration tried to take down Donald Trump.They turned gripping testimony from the 2014 Michael Brown case into a play, called  "Ferguson."   And lately they did the same with the infamous texts of FBI agent Peter Strzok and bureau lawyer Lisa Page in  "FBI Lovebirds: Undercovers,"  starring Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson. "We would be unemployed if the media did its job," McAleer told WND in an interview. "They're not reporting spin anymore," he said of the establ...

Red States: Ric Grenell Tears Into CNN’s Jake Tapper for Allowing Jill Biden to Shut Down Question on Biden’s Gaffes Rush Limbaugh thinks this episode was a tell on how Biden will debate.  Rather than respond to valid questions, he will throw insults at the President the whole night.  It seems to be the Democrats modus operandi for the campaign.

Fox News: Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris faced renewed scrutiny for her lack of press availability on Monday after she abruptly exited the stage after a speech in North Carolina in which she criticized President Trump’s bid to fill a Supreme Court seat before the election. Harris did not take any questions from the media after her speech at Shaw University, one of North Carolina’s historically black colleges and universities. The event was closed to the general public and attended only by news reporters, according to the Fayetteville Observer. Aside from her role as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s running mate, Harris is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and will have a chance to directly question Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's pick to fill the high court vacancy, in any confirmation hearing that takes place prior to Nov. 3. In her speech, which was criticized by the research wing of the Republican National Comm...

Washington Post: Kentucky attorney general will share Breonna Taylor grand jury recording   The attorney general’s announcement came hours after a member of the grand jury asked a court to release details on the proceedings. It looks like some are still trying to push the false narrative about Tayor and the events that led to her death.  The Grand Jury found that the police did not run a no-knock raid and that their shooting was in response to being shot at by Taylor's boy fired who was allegedly a drug dealer.

NY Times: For Conservative Christian Women, Amy Coney Barrett’s Success Is Personal Judge Barrett is a new kind of icon for some, one they have not seen before in American cultural and political life. Meanwhile, liberals are livid that Biden is not attacking her nomination.  It is probably a rare smart move by Biden to avoid alienating women voters.

NY Times: Trump Deflects Questions About Taxes, but First Debate Has a New Issue While the president’s Republican allies generally kept their silence, Democrats pounced and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the party’s presidential candidate, posted a video noting that the president paid less in income taxes than everyday Americans. Nor do they touch on how many laws were broken by those responsible for giving them his taxes.  What the Times is trying to do is give those predisposed to vote against Trump another reason to do so.  Trump supporters will not be moved by these stories.  In fact, they are already pointing out that there is no evidence of any deals with Russia.  Meanwhile, the Times has avoided asking the Bidens about the $3.5 million sent to Hunter by a Russian billionaire close to Putin at about the time of the Russian invasion of Crimea. Congressman Kevin Brady of Texas has asked for a criminal investigation of those responsible for...

Epoch Times: President Donald Trump  on Sept. 28 called for the U.S. Attorney of  Minnesota  to investigate claims of ballot harvesting that were unearthed by a watchdog group. “This is totally illegal. Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review??? If not, why not???” Trump wrote on  Twitter . Trump is referring to an investigation by Project Veritas, a watchdog group that shared video footage of a man they identified as Liban Mohamed bragging about collecting hundreds of ballots for his brother, then-City Council candidate Jamal Osman. “Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these, my car is full. All these are for Jamal Osman,” the man said in one video recorded in July. The man said in the videos that he was collecting the ballots to help his brother win the special election for the City Council seat r...

Washington Examiner: Accountants support reelecting President Trump by a wide margin, according to a survey conducted by Arizent, the  publisher  of  Accounting Today. The poll found that 55% of respondents back Trump, while 38% support former vice president Joe Biden. Not only is the gap between support for Trump and Biden wide, but the anonymous comments from respondents also show that the division is quite polarized. “I believe a Biden-Harris win would destroy the country,” said one respondent who supports Trump. Another said, "I will close my business and retire if Harris/Biden is elected." Biden supporters were equally firm in their position. ... I agree with the majority of accountants surveyed.  Biden's goofy tax and spend program is a proven loser. Judd Greg, writing at The Hill says of the Biden budget : ... The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania a number of years ago developed a comprehensive and substantive platform for...

Epoch Times: Mueller Team Members Joked About Wiping Phones, FBI Agent Says ... SCO records released earlier in September show that at least 22 phones belonging to members of the Mueller team were wiped prior to being reviewed for records. The employees provided dubious excuses for wiping their phones, such as doing so “accidentally” or because they forgot their passwords. Two employees claimed their phones wiped themselves. In addition to the 22 devices that were wiped, 44 phones contained zero records when reviewed by a records officer assigned to the Mueller team. Five other SCO phones contained only one record each, and four had fewer than 10 records per device, according to the log kept by the records officer over the course of more than 20 months. The dearth of records on the cellphones is extraordinary considering the enormous scope of the investigation. The SCO interviewed approximately 500 witnesses, issued 2,800 subpoenas, and obtained 500 search warrants. ... I su...