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Trump aide urges Taiwan to 'fortify' against Chinese attack AFP News AFP News16 October 2020 Trump aide urges Taiwan to 'fortify' against Chinese attack Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in front of a domestically-produced F-CK-1 fighter jet during a visit to Penghu Air Force Base on September 22, 2020 More A top White House official on Friday urged Taiwan to build up its military capabilities to protect against a possible invasion by China, saying Beijing would have that ability in 10 to 15 years. President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien told the Aspen Security Forum that a missile attack...

Joe Biden has triggered a huge diplomatic row with NATO members Hungary and Poland after appearing to lump them in with Belarus as “totalitarian regimes”, with the Hungarian government demanding answers on his family’s alleged corruption in Ukraine. “You see what’s happening in everything from Belarus to Poland to Hungary and the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world, and, as well as, this President embraces all the thugs of the world,” said the 77-year-old presidential hopeful at a recent town hall event. Biden’s seeming comparison of Poland and Hungary, both European Union democracies and parties to the NATO defence...

BAIER: “We have new information tonight concerning the emails allegedly coming from a computer belonging to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Fox News has secured more of those email messages and the dollar numbers involved are staggering.”

A video shot at a protest in San Francisco shows a woman wearing a t-shirt with a U.S. flag and George Washington silkscreen being harassed, assaulted, and robbed. After stealing her property, the mob continued to taunt her as she tried to walk away. The video shows a woman attempting to walk through the crowd that targets her, apparently for the shirt she wore. As she walked through the crowd yelled at her and blasted a siren in her face.

At least 1,400 voters who applied for absentee ballots received two ballots. Over 400 voters in central Virginia – 300 in Richmond and 100 in Henrico – received two ballots. And in Fairfax County, where over 300,000 voters have already applied for absentee ballots, we already know of 1,000 voters who received two ballots.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday confirmed that she has not spoken to President Trump for more than a year -- but said working with intermediaries has brought results, and talks don't have to be "person-to-person." Pelosi was asked by MSNBC host Nicole Wallace if, a year after she walked out of a contentious Oct. 16 meeting at the White House and stopped speaking with Trump, if she would be open if Trump ever reached out to “open that channel of conversation.” "Well, it would depend on what the purpose is," Pelosi said.

Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff announced Saturday that his campaign raised $1 million after Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., appeared to mock the name of democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris at a rally Friday. "Kamala? Or Kamala? Kamal-mala-mala. I don't know. Whatever," Perdue repeated as he changed the intonation of her name at President Trump's rally in Macon, Ga. Perdue's campaign brushed off the mispronunciation as an accident.

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The U.S. Attorney for Nevada has named his office's watchdog for the upcoming general election. Nicholas Trutanich's office says Assistant U.S. Attorney Jamie Mickelson will serve as District Election Officer for the state. Mickelson will be tasked with overseeing federal prosecutors' handling of complaints regarding election fraud and voting rights concerns, according to the U.S. Attorney's office. "Every citizen must be able to vote without interference or discrimination and to have that vote counted without it being stolen because of fraud," Trutanich said in a press release. "The Department of Justice will always act appropriately to...

Twitter has refused to unlock the New York Post's account since Wednesday unless the outlet deletes six tweets about its reporting on 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, the Post reported. Both the San Francisco-based social media platform and Facebook came under fire this week after the two blocked users from sharing a Post article showing purported communication between 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, and an adviser to a Ukrainian energy company. The younger Biden's work in the country while his father was vice president was at the heart of President Trump's impeachment trial earlier...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer vetoed bills that would have made it a felony to knowingly try to apply for multiple absentee ballots or to fill out an application for others without their consent. The Democratic governor said voter fraud — such as trying to vote more than once — already is a crime, and the Republican-sponsored legislation would “muddy the waters” and “likely confuse voters” about what conduct is criminal. In a letter to lawmakers Friday, she said it is impossible to get a second ballot without spoiling the first one and cautioned that people might submit...

Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones literally rode a red wave on Friday, jubilantly crowd-surfing while maskless among legions of other maskless President Donald Trump supporters at a campaign rally. Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, such close interactions are against government-issued social distancing guidelines, but Jones, a longtime Democratic lawmaker and top Black surrogate for Trump, appeared to relish the opportunity to show his support for the president at the Middle Georgia Regional Airport in Macon

(h/t FReeper oldngray) RIDING THE DRAGON: The Bidens' Chinese Secrets (Full Documentary)    

Government Affairs Committee Chairman Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Saturday sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding answers on Hunter Biden’s laptop. The New York Post on Wednesday dropped an October surprise on Joe Biden when they began releasing damning emails found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop hard drive.

“Joe Biden can no longer ignore this massive and growing scandal and the news media can no longer avoid asking him about it. This is verification that Hunter Biden’s emails are authentic and that Hunter was cashing in by selling Chinese businessmen access to his father. This also confirms that payment for Joe Biden himself was discussed as part of compensation being arranged through a Chinese energy company. Joe Biden, a candidate for President of the United States, appears to be compromised by the Chinese.” - Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 communications director

Lets take Florida to start with.There are likely hundreds of major apartment,condo,retail centers,resorts that may have started going up in 2018/2019. Maybe 1/2 way there. And the same for the at least the booming states. Odds are that right now, we may have a few thousand construction projects that are either 30/40/50% built. And we see them. Now can you imagine what will happen if Biden wins? Right! half ass built condo buildings,shells of retail centers.Major resorts that had to stop construction because either banks or investors stopped funding the projects.Take a look at what is going on in Port...

Ballots stolen from mailboxes, discarded on roadsides in Sammamish, WA (near Seattle). Some incomplete mail ballots were placed in outgoing mail bins.

On Saturday, October 17, 2020, the President signed into law: S. 743, the “Merrill’s Marauders Congressional Gold Medal Act,” which provides for the award of a Congressional gold medal to the soldiers of the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), commonly known as “Merrill’s Marauders”, in recognition of their bravery and outstanding service in the jungles of Burma during World War II; S. 785, the “Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act of 2019,” which amends a number of VA authorities related to helping veterans transition from military to civilian life; suicide prevention; mental health care research and oversight;...

A rally in support of President Donald Trump in downtown Ithaca descended into chaos on Friday afternoon, as multiple fights broke out between Trump supporters and counter-protesters who assembled to rebuke the rally.  No arrests appear to have been made during or after the event, despite a litany of physical altercations involving people from both sides. At least two people were injured during the several scuffles that broke out in the 90 minutes the two sides squared off.  The scene was tense from the beginning. A small group of Trump supporters gathered outside the Tompkins County Republicans office starting at...

Russian disinformation! Ah! That old fallback excuse for liberals to explain away unpleasant news for them. Donald Trump wins the presidency in 2016. And of course, the left has made it perfectly clear they believe he's an illegitimate officeholder due to Russian disinformation. And now we have a bombshell report in the New York Post revealing inconvenient emails suggesting corruption on the part of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Again, Russian disinformation is brought up again to explain it away in Politico. Although Politico did not definitively blame Russian disinformation (mainly due to lack of proof) as the reason...

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