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brooklynite's JournalTucker Carlson calls Trump 'full-blown BS artist' in segment defending him from media coverage
Source: The Hill
“One of the reasons progressives say they hate Donald Trump is because he lies a lot,” Carlson said at the start of the segment. “Trump, they’ll tell you, is a committed liar.”
“As the Post points out, the lying began at the inauguration. Perhaps you remember this claim, which, at the time, deeply offended official Washington,” Carlson said before going on to play a clip of Trump claiming that his inauguration drew the largest audience “ever.”
“We’re not going to lie to you,” Carlson said. “That was untrue. The crowd at the 2017 inauguration was not the largest ever measured on the National Mall. Sorry, it wasn’t.”
“Why did the president claim it was? Well, because that’s who he is,” the Fox News host continued. “Donald Trump is a salesman. He’s a talker. He’s a boaster, a booster, a compulsive self-promoter. At times, he’s a full-blown BS artist. If Trump hadn’t gotten rich in real estate, he could have made a fortune selling cars.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/media/472378-tucker-carlson-calls-trump-full-blown-bs-artist-but-defends-him-from-media
Gordon Sondland denies allegations of sexual misconduct
Source: Politico
Gordon Sondland, ambassador to the European Union and a major impeachment witness, was accused of sexual misconduct in a report published by ProPublica and Portland Monthly on Wednesday. Sondland and his lawyer deny the allegations.
The report recounts allegations from three women — all named — who said Sondland acted in sexually inappropriate ways and retaliated against them professionally after they rejected his advances. One of the women is 27 years younger than Sondland.
Friends and colleagues told ProPublica and Portland Monthly that they remembered the women telling them about the alleged encounters around when the women say they occurred.
The women all had professional ties with Sondland, from negotiating potential investments to being offered career advice. They say Sondland backed out of business dealings or otherwise retaliated professionally after they spurned his advances. They accuse Sondland of trying to forcibly kiss them, exposing himself or touching them in unwanted ways.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/27/gordon-sondland-sexual-misconduct-denies-074266
Nathan Larson is a pedophile and a white supremacist. And he's running for Congress
USA TodayThe 37-year-old accountant from Charlottesville, Va., is running as an independent in Virginia's 10th congressional district. Larson identifies himself as a "quasi-neoreactionary libertarian." His platform includes drug legalization, the elimination of all regulations regarding firearms and "putting an end to U.S. involvement in foreign wars arising from our country's alliance with Israel."
Larson's unorthodox candidacy further complicates an already wild race in Virginia's 10th. Six Democrats, including one who said President Trump poses as much of a threat to democracy as Osama bin Laden, are vying for the nomination to take on Republican incumbent Rep. Barbara Comstock. Comstock, considered one of the more vulnerable Republicans in this year's midterms, is facing a primary challenge from the right by financial planner Shak Hill.
In 2008, Larson sent a letter to the Secret Service in which he threatened to kill either George W. Bush or Barack Obama, according to The Washington Post. The following year, he pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a president and served 16 months in federal prison.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries welcomes Bloomberg to 'more the merrier' Democratic presidential race
[link:https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-hakeem-jeffries-interview-daily-news-20191126-qhmjecxfznhufaacg7634sgugu-story.html|
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries once led the fight against Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s signature “stop and frisk” policing policy.
But the Democratic rising star from Brooklyn says he’s now willing to give the billionaire a second chance as a presidential hopeful.
“The more the merrier,” Jeffries told the Daily News Editorial Board on Tuesday. “His entry into the race, from my standpoint, is a welcome development, because he’s got a track record to run on.”
Jeffries said Bloomberg would have to show he can “walk the walk” when it comes to moving past his apology for stop-and-frisk and other problematic policies he championed during his GOP-friendly tenure in Gracie Mansion.
Quinnipiac: "Which candidate do you think is most intelligent?"
https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1199895605709029376Pro-Booker super PAC shuts down
The HillSteve Phillips — a Democratic donor and activist who has raised money for prominent black candidates such as former President Obama and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams — founded Dream United nearly a year ago, according to Politico. Phillips is also a former college classmate of Booker.
The super PAC has struggled to raise money, according to a Wednesday news release, the AP reported. It raised just more than $1.1 million during the first six months of the year, falling short of Phillips’s stated $10 million goal.
Booker has disavowed funding from super PACS, which legally do not have to publicly disclose donors.
"We remain firm in our belief that Sen. Cory Booker is uniquely qualified to unite and heal Americans across this country at this critical point in our history," the super PAC stated on its website. "Respecting the Senator’s publicly-stated sentiments about SuperPACs, Dream United will cease operations effective immediately. On November 27, 2019, Dream United initiated the steps to formally close down."
A Woman Claimed Andrew Yang Discriminated Against Her At His Tutoring Company
[link: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyhensleyclancy/a-woman-claimed-andrew-yang-discriminated-against-her-at|The Hill]
A woman alleged in 2011 that Andrew Yang, then the CEO of a tutoring company, paid her substantially less money than two similar male employees and abruptly fired her after she pressed him over the disparity, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The woman was paid a termination settlement by the education services company Kaplan, which had acquired Yang’s company, after she said in a letter to Kaplan’s human resources department that he had “acted in a discriminatory manner” and breached a contract by firing her.
“Andrew always spoke positively of my work and my value to the company. This changed only when I approached him about the disparity of my salary compared to male colleagues in similar roles,” the woman, whose name is being withheld at her request because of fear of online harassment, told BuzzFeed News in a statement.
She added, “I believe Andrew fired me as retaliation for asking to be paid a salary that was still significantly less than what he was paying my male counterparts.”
Kamala Harris aide bolts to Bloomberg campaign
PoliticoKelly Mehlenbacher, who worked on operations for Kamala Harris’ presidential bid and recently informed colleagues of her plans to resign over frustrations with the organization, has accepted a job with Michael Bloomberg, sources said Wednesday.
Mehlenbacher, who served as the treasury manager for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, will become deputy chief operating officer for Bloomberg, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the move.
Harris’ campaign has experienced significant turbulence as she fell far behind in polls. That includes layoffs and redeployments to Iowa, where she’s banking on a come-from-behind, top-three finish to jumpstart her spiraling chances in South Carolina.
Mehlenbacher was among a group of staffers who tendered their resignations amid the latest round of layoffs, which hit the operations team hard. The staff reductions and subsequent shifts have focused renewed attention on deep and long-standing dysfunction among the campaign’s top leaders.
How Buttigieg got knocked off the Obama track
PoliticoIn fundraising pitches, campaign messaging and his own speeches, Pete Buttigieg likes to point out the parallels between his own upstart campaign and that of another Democrat whose presidential bid was once seen as a longshot — Barack Obama.
But that framing is coming under serious question — and might be rendered entirely useless — as the South Bend, Indiana, mayor’s efforts to win over black voters continue to fall flat.
“Pete can win Iowa and New Hampshire and he won't win South Carolina or do well with black voters here or do well on Super Tuesday,” said Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina legislator who is backing Sen. Kamala Harris. “If someone wants to tell you that Pete Buttigieg is Barack Obama they are being blatantly ignorant of facts. Pete's biggest problem is he has no connection, no relationship with the African American community.”
Buttigieg and his campaign have argued that his rocket ride to the top of the Democratic primary field in Iowa bears an uncanny resemblance to Obama’s trajectory in 2007. Back then, Obama surged in the final months in Iowa to win the caucuses — a victory that helped convince black voters in South Carolina of his campaign’s viability.
EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns
The HillDemocratic White House hopeful Andrew Yang released eight years of his tax returns Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Yang released the returns for 2011 to 2018, the period after he created Venture for America, which offers two-year fellowships to help recent college graduates work at startups. The returns don’t include the period when he worked at a series of startups. Yang filed the tax returns jointly with his wife, Evelyn, whom he married in 2011.
The Yang campaign told The Hill that it decided to release Yang’s tax returns starting in 2011 because the founding of Venture for America was “a good milestone in his timeline.”
Yang’s 2018 federal tax return reported adjusted gross income of $121,418 and total taxes of $16,581, for an effective tax rate of 13.7 percent. Much of his income came from his writing and speaking, capital gains, and income from rental real estate and royalties.
Yang claimed the standard deduction at the federal level for 2018 but itemized his deductions on his New York state tax return. The state tax return reported charitable contributions of $4,186.
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