Hunter Biden to come out of hiding on last night of Democratic convention

For nearly a year-and-a-half, as Joe Biden and his allies have touted the former vice president's close relationship with his family on the campaign trail, one individual was notably missing: Hunter Biden. On Thursday night, toward the end of the four-day virtual Democratic National Convention, Hunter Biden will make some of his first public remarks about his father's third White House bid, ending speculation whether the long-troubled son would remain absent from public life entirely. The convention itself started with a number of the former vice president's grandchildren performing the Pledge of Allegiance. And the children of the husband of Biden's running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, appeared in a video praising her role in raising them. President Barack Obama spoke of Biden's dead son, the late Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, and his time serving in the military. Meanwhile, Jill Biden, in her Tuesday evening speech, recalled the December 1972 tragedy that left Joe Biden's first wife and daughter dead from a car accident, ultimately leaving her to raise two boys, Hunter and Beau.

But Hunter Biden had gone almost entirely unmentioned from the proceedings in which his father was nominated for president by the Democratic Party, the capstone of a 33-year quest for the prize over three White House bids. It's a peculiar but perhaps understandable circumstance, due to so much of his father's presidential campaign revolving around his dedication to family — and a series of unflattering headlines triggered by Hunter Biden. For years, Hunter Biden's personal life has been defined by addiction, shady business dealings, and love triangles with the wife of his dead brother. He first entered a rehab facility in 2003 and relapsed in 2010. Court records from the divorce proceedings from his first wife of 23 years, Kathleen, included accusations of Hunter Biden "spending extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations)." Both the president and GOP lawmakers have grown obsessed with Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine, where he served on the board of the Burisma gas company. There, despite zero experience in the industry, he earned upwards of $50,000 a month. President Trump's preoccupation with the peculiar arrangement ended up being a key fact in his ultimate impeachment. During his time at Burisma, Hunter Biden struggled with substance abuse. In 2014, he was discharged from the Naval Reserve after testing positive for cocaine. In 2016, police found a cocaine pipe in an Arizona rental car under his name.

Congressional Republicans are currently in the middle of conducting their own investigation into Burisma and its affiliates, subpoenaing thousands of documents from the companies in hopes of finding evidence of corruption between its executives and Hunter Biden. GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin alleged in March that Blue Star Strategies, a firm that represented the interests of Burisma in the United States, "sought to leverage Hunter Biden's role as a board member of Burisma to gain access to, and potentially influence matters at the State Department." Joe Biden has repeatedly denied any improper arrangement between him and his son and has attacked the GOP for the investigation in the wake of Beau Biden's death from brain cancer in 2015. But even as Democrats have dismissed the GOP's attacks on Hunter Biden as nothing more than a partisan conspiracy theory, the Biden campaign has gone through great lengths to keep him as far away as possible.

Hunter Biden and his new wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, were nowhere to be found in last year's Biden family Christmas card. No member of the Biden family attended their wedding, which was held in secret last year. In December of last year, a paternity lawsuit emerged between Hunter Biden and Lunden Roberts, a former Washington stripper who went by the name "Dallas." Hunter Biden initially denied fathering the child until a court-ordered paternity test revealed otherwise.

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Pelosi faces progressive backlash over Joe Kennedy endorsement

Liberal groups, led by freshman House Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, attacked Speaker Nancy Pelosi for endorsing Rep. Joe Kennedy III in the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race. Pelosi’s announcement first broke in the Boston Globe and appears to counter Democratic leadership opposition candidates who challenge their party incumbents. The California Democrat chose Kennedy, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, over incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, who is endorsed by Ocasio-Cortez. The two face off in the Bay State’s Sept. 1 primary. Both Kennedy and Markey are liberal, but Markey, 74, has a much longer career as a progressive legislator. Kennedy, 39, has campaigned as a candidate who can usher in a new generation of leadership. Pelosi picked Markey’s competitor despite a policy put in place by the party’s House fundraising arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, banning business with groups that back candidates challenging Democratic incumbents. “No one gets to complain about primary challenges again,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted at the Democratic leadership, noting the apparent hypocrisy. “When can we expect you to reverse your blacklist policy against primary orgs?”

Ocasio-Cortez accused Democratic leaders of “cherry picking activity” and pointed out that the DCCC has not opposed the primary opponent running against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Omar has clashed with leaders as part of the “Squad” led by Ocasio-Cortez and has been widely criticized for anti-Semitic tweets and comments. Officials at the Sunrise Movement, a far-left group that helped author the "Green New Deal" and backs progressive candidates, put out a statement that called Pelosi’s endorsement of Kennedy over Markey “an embarrassment.”

Markey was one of the few senators who stood alongside Ocasio-Cortez outside the U.S. Capitol when she announced her plan to introduce the "Green New Deal," an environmental agenda that would upend the economy by eliminating fossil fuels, among other drastic provisions. Markey introduced the bill in the Senate. Pelosi opposes it. “This endorsement is embarrassing because it plainly reveals a ridiculous double standard,” Sunrise Movement officials said in a statement. “This has never been about protecting incumbents; it’s been about protecting big Democratic donors profiting off the status quo.” Markey, who was a House member for 36 years, is leading in recent polls, thanks in part to his campaign's ability to harness progressive groups in the state to help phone-bank on his behalf. Markey won the endorsement of the Boston Globe in July. Markey on Thursday issued a statement about Pelosi’s endorsement, congratulating Kennedy. “Any candidate would be proud to have her endorsement," he said.

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Nancy Pelosi endorses Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts Senate fight, breaking with Chuck Schumer

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>>10361293

Kek, ancient Chinese secret, they will never tell!

Republican senator tests positive for COVID-19

Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Thursday that he had tested positive for COVID-19. "I am strictly following the direction of our medical experts and strongly encourage others to do the same," said the Louisiana Republican. Cassidy's office said that he was following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, which say to inform other people with whom he's had contact and to quarantine for two weeks. The senator was tested Thursday after he had been notified the previous evening that he had come into contact with an individual with the coronavirus.

Cassidy is running for reelection in Louisiana. He was first elected to the Senate in 2014, defeating incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2015. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, was the first member of the Senate to test positive for the virus in late March. Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania have also tested positive. However, they both were tested months after experiencing COVID-19 symptoms.

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Portland rioters target ICE facility and reignite feud with federal police

Protesters in Portland faced off against federal law enforcement officers outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility overnight Wednesday, the first altercation between the parties in weeks since national police were pulled from the streets in late July. Demonstrators marched to ICE’s Office of the Principal Legal Advisor on Southwest Third Avenue, several miles from where people gathered outside federal and county courthouses downtown for months. The group’s members vandalized the outside of the building and beamed green laser lights into the windows where federal police were watching while others smashed windows. People chanted, “No ICE! No Prisons! Total Abolition,” according to a witness account on Twitter.

Portland police declared the gathering an “unlawful assembly” around midnight, which permits the use of tear gas and other stronger response measures. Department of Homeland Security personnel inside the ICE facility then exited to guard the front of the building. Some of the estimated 200 demonstrators hurled glass bottles and rocks the size of softballs at the federal and local police, local news station KGW reported. Portland police warned over a loudspeaker that if the crowd did not disperse, they would take stronger actions to push them away. Local police pushed the crowd away from the building, and federal police used fire pepper balls and smoke devices. Demonstrators then torched large items in the street, including a mattress and picnic table. Portland police arrested two people on charges of “interfering with a peace officer and disorderly conduct.” Several officers were injured in the commotion.

On Tuesday night, protesters started a fire at the county government building with the use of lighter fluid. One officer was injured, and two people were arrested. The Oregon city has been ground zero in a fight between the Trump administration and local Democratic leaders, who say the White House overstepped its bounds by allowing federal law enforcement to come into the city and guard a federal courthouse in June. Federal agents were eventually pulled from the building but have remained in Portland as backup until state police can prove they have control of the area. Last week, state police pulled out on the basis that the agitators they were arresting for attacking the building and officers were not being indicted by the district attorney. Multnomah County Chairwoman Deborah Kafoury said on Wednesday that the county’s Justice Center and central courthouse have sustained $1.3 million in damage as a result of attacks by rioters since May.

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GOP senator zings Trump for not rejecting QAnon conspiracy

Sen. Ben Sasse snapped at President Trump for expressing support for voters who believe in the QAnon conspiracy theory, warning that if Democrats win the White House and take the Senate, it will be partly because of “garbage like this.” “QAnon is nuts, and real leaders call conspiracy theories conspiracy theories,” the Nebraska Republican said in a statement issued Thursday morning. “If Democrats take the Senate, blow up the filibuster, and pack the Supreme Court, garbage like this will be a big part of why they won.” Trump trails Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in most public opinion polls, with Democrats also threatening in more than a half-dozen Republican-held Senate seats. Democrats need only a net gain of three or four to flip the chamber. Although Sasse did not mention Trump by name, it is clear from the timing of his statement that he was referring to the president’s comments from a Wednesday evening news conference at the White House.

Under questioning from a reporter, Trump said he did not “know much” about QAnon, a conspiracy theory that claims the United States government is controlled by a shadowy network of international figures who are trying to depose the president and posits that liberal elitists are behind the sex-trafficking of children. But Trump praised QAnon followers, explaining that they support him, love the country, and are disturbed by the ongoing civil unrest in some cities. “They like me very much, which I appreciate,” Trump said. “I have heard that [QAnon] is gaining in popularity … These are people that don’t like seeing what’s going on in places like Portland.”

Sasse, who is expected to coast to reelection this fall and is mentioned as a possible 2024 Republican presidential candidate, has a rocky relationship with Trump. The senator praises the president on issues in which they agree but is one of the few Republicans who offers blistering criticism when he thinks Trump is wrong. Trump has slammed Sasse on Twitter as a double-dealer. "RINO Ben Sasse, who needed my support and endorsement in order to get the Republican nomination for Senate from the GREAT State of Nebraska, has, now that he’s got it (Thank you President T), gone rogue, again," Trump tweeted. "This foolishness plays right into the hands of the Radical Left Dems!" Sasse’s supporters disagree, saying the senator has always been candid with the president regarding where he stands.

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>>10361262

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>>10361870

Explains quite a bit at the moment..kek.. POTUS Trolling!