1/ Around 837,000 people filed for first-time jobless benefits last week with continuing claims totaling 11.8 million – well above pre-pandemic levels. (NBC News / Bloomberg / New York Times)
At White House’s urging, Republicans launch anti-tech blitz ahead of election
Senate Democrats urge inspector general to probe interference at HHS
Judge says government’s suit over Bolton book can proceed [1]
Amy Coney Barrett Signed Letter Urging End of ‘Barbaric’ Roe v. Wade [2]
Religious group scrubs all references to Amy Coney Barrett from its website
Trump’s call for poll-watching volunteers sparks fear of chaos and violence on Election Day [3]
Trump falsely claims ‘poll watchers’ blocked from observing early voting sites in Philadelphia
G.O.P. Alarmed by Trump’s Comments on Extremist Group, Fearing a Drag on the Party
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As President Donald Trump heads into the 2020 elections, he faces a daunting gender gap: according to a recent Washington Post /ABC News poll, he trailsJoe Biden by thirty percentage points among female voters. As part of his campaign, Trump has been doing all he can to showcase female stars in the Republican Party, from nominating Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court to naming Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former Fox News host and legal analyst, his campaign’s finance chair. Guilfoyle, however, may not be an ideal emissary. In November, 2018, a young woman who had been one of Guilfoyle’s assistants at Fox News sent company executives a confidential, forty-two-page draft complaint that accused Guilfoyle of repeated sexual harassment, and demanded monetary relief. The document, which resulted in a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement, raises serious questions about Guilfoyle’s fitness as a character witness for Trump, let alone as a top campaign official.
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The woman was hired in 2015, just out of college, to work as an assistant for Guilfoyle and another former Fox host, Eric Bolling. According to a dozen well-informed sources familiar with her complaints, the assistant alleged that Guilfoyle, her direct supervisor, subjected her frequently to degrading, abusive, and sexually inappropriate behavior; among other things, she said that she was frequently required to work at Guilfoyle’s New York apartment while the Fox host displayed herself naked, and was shown photographs of the genitalia of men with whom Guilfoyle had had sexual relations. The draft complaint also alleged that Guilfoyle spoke incessantly and luridly about her sex life, and on one occasion demanded a massage of her bare thighs; other times, she said, Guilfoyle told her to submit to a Fox employee’s demands for sexual favors, encouraged her to sleep with wealthy and powerful men, asked her to critique her naked body, demanded that she share a room with her on business trips, required her to sleep over at her apartment, and exposed herself to her, making her feel deeply uncomfortable.
What is wrong with these people?
Hope Hicks, one of President Donald Trump’s closest aides, has tested positive for coronavirus infection, according to people familiar with the matter.
There was no indication that the president has contracted the virus, the people said. Hicks traveled with Trump aboard Air Force One to and from the presidential debate on Tuesday.
How to leadership:
Trump answers the call 48 hours and two news cycles later:
Hit after hit tonight:
Secretly recorded tapes show Melania Trump’s frustration at criticism for family separation policy and her bashing of Christmas decorations
Anyone surprised, she’s not a real First Lady she just plays one on TV.
The President of the United State of America is going into quarantine
Trump says he will begin quarantine process after aide Hicks tests positive for virus
The war on Christmas is coming from inside the White House.
I wonder if he’ll still be “in quarantine” for the October 15th debate.
14 days from today is… Oct 15. Curious timing since he should’ve begun quarantining yesterday when Hicks tested positive
A note on this; this is precisely how he responded when Katie Miller was diagnosed with it; he tried to distance himself, but also acted like it was inconceivable she could get it, because she’s “good” in his book.
Omg
Apparently they can get those results far more rapidly than most Americans, and hydroxychloroquine did not inoculate him to it.
NYT