thedailycaller--2020-11-01--How The Downtrodden Token Story Traps Minority Writers

As a minority writer from a working-class background , I had naively assumed that the supposedly progressive writing world would be receptive to my urban stories populated by people of color ( POC ) , but I quickly learned that only a specific brand of POC story was championed by literary elites : the downtrodden token story ( DTS ) .
A DTS is a story from a “ marginalized ” writer that traffics in the politically correct POC tropes enforced by the Barnard educated , New Yorker tote bag-wearing dolts who ’ ve taken over the publishing landscape like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and shrewd , the token writer understands that if he wants to publish , his characters first and foremost must be downtrodden victims , as victimization is the hallmark of the DTS .
Once a token writer internalizes this mindset , he is now ready to construct—we will not call this writing—paint-by-numbers victimization narratives in the DTS style .
The token writer knows that white editors who ’ ve only interacted with a handful of POC , yet deem themselves experts of their lived experience , disturbingly get off at the sight of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ toss a dash of melanated seasoning into the story—but nothing too spicy .
Too much spice , too much fun , and a token character risks losing his sheen of victimization .
Italicized words , the ultimate signifier that a character is a victim , are a must if a token writer is hoping for peak victimization .
A top level token writer knows that if his prose is bad , or if his story isn ’ t much of a story at all , italicization will save him—just type “ Papi ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ again and you will have a perfectly acceptable story .
As a practitioner of the DTS , a token writer will spend most of his time defanging and pruning a story of its most interesting—i.e .
problematic—elements , until what remains is a tale of downtrodden victimization ready for the consumption of the ravenous woke editors who must continually feed off token suffering .
If a token writer is struggling to figure out if they ’ ve constructed a proper DTS , all they need to do is ask a simple question : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sack ?
If the answer is no , simply introduce a brutal white villain into your story .
And what if you already have one ?
No matter !
Add another .
Hell , why not a battalion of whitey white whites basking in their whiteness ?
Your story , even if it ’ s about brown people , should be doused in malevolent whiteness .
Never forget , simple token writers : White bad !
Brown body good !
( RELATED : The Multicultural Male Coalition That Could Give Trump Four More @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the literary world demands the DTS , but what ’ s truly debilitating to the token writer who doesn ’ t want to write weepy victimization stories for a white audience is that only white characters are granted the agency to act badly—to be a villain .
Every reader of classic fiction knows that the great literary characters are often the villains—or the terminally flawed—because problem-starters are the engines of the drama and discord that drive a narrative forward .
In any fictional universe , it is typically the villain , and not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which explains the perpetual passivity of token characters in a DTS .
This phenomenon explains those multi-generational ethnic sagas in which not a single soul in a family ’ s lineage has apparently ever experienced happiness—utter despair and victimization for five hundred pages .
One only needs to peruse this year ’ s Booker Prize long-list to see that the generational suffering saga is as strong a staple as ever .
Take C Pam Zhang ’ s “ How Much of These Hills is Gold , ” a debut novel that , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ website , “ tells an untold story of the arrival of Chinese-American immigrants to the US during the Gold Rush .
It ’ s a novel about conflict between two siblings , carrying the body of their newly deceased father across a harsh landscape.
” Carrying their dead dad ’ s body across the frozen tundra—how downtrodden !
Woke orthodoxy , in which whites are not only the victimizers , but the only allowable villains , dictates that token characters , forever the victims of white supremacy , patriarchy , etc.
, can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fully exert their agency .
What ’ s insulting and borderline racist about this mindset is that woke editors are treating POC characters , and , in turn , POC writers , like noble savages .
If POC are constant victims of forces outside their control , their behavior is never their fault , and agency , once again , is stolen from the token character .
In their twisted way , by demanding adherence to the DTS model , editors are not shining the spotlight on token writers , but granting dreaded @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what a token story is about .
If all stories are centered around the specter of whiteness , a POC character can never claim center-stage status , and only whites are allowed the full dimensionality of character , while tokens are relegated to doddering idiocy and the unrealistic all-encompassing goodness of the noble savage .
As a Cuban-American writer from Miami , I got into the writing game because I wanted to write stories about the messed-up kids I grew up with who acted in messed-up ways , not because they were oppressed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they were messed-up kids , who , in the classic American sense , enjoyed messing stuff up .
These friends of mine I wanted to fictionalize were anything but victims , but the downtrodden token story model demanded that their behavior and agency be neutered in service of the woke narrative .
They were the main characters in their lives , but as whiteness—a concept they didn ’ t even know existed—rules the dying and decaying world of contemporary literary fiction , I had to transform them from brilliantly nuanced and hilarious human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ RELATED : Florida Man Is The Perfect Foil For The Elite Class ) For this reason , it is crucial that POC writers from non-elite backgrounds understand that when Brooklyn-dwelling editors say that they are looking for writers of color , what they are really saying is that they desire yet another good , little token-victim who knows their place and propagates woke tropes and intersectional orthodoxy .
The sick truth is that these editors publish marginalized writers and demand adherence to the DTS model , not because they care about unrepresented voices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ assuage their white guilt—in a sense , then , they are correct that whiteness is what marginalizes token writers ; it just so happens to be their own whiteness .
The insidiousness of this DTS mentality is such that most token writers unquestionably accept its validity and expect their work to be judged by petty superficialities such as race or immigrant status instead of the sole metric that should matter to a writer : whether they have a singular artistic vision .
If a token writer refuses to preach progressive pieties to an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his work will be swept aside .
The message is simple : debase yourself and dance the downtrodden token jig of performative suffering and victimization , or else .
This is the end state of woke ideology , in which activism , not artistry , is demanded of writers .
Alex Perez is a Cuban-American writer from Miami , whose work has appeared in Tablet Magazine and Arc Digital , among others .
Find him on Twitter @ Perez_Writes The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Daily Caller News Foundation .
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As a minority writer from a working-class background, I had naively assumed that the supposedly progressive writing world would be receptive to my urban stories populated by people of color (POC), but I quickly learned that only a specific brand of POC story was championed by literary elites: the downtrodden token story (DTS).
A DTS is a story from a “marginalized” writer that traffics in the politically correct POC tropes enforced by the Barnard educated, New Yorker tote bag-wearing dolts who’ve taken over the publishing landscape like woke weeds. If he is savvy and shrewd, the token writer understands that if he wants to publish, his characters first and foremost must be downtrodden victims, as victimization is the hallmark of the DTS.
Once a token writer internalizes this mindset, he is now ready to construct—we will not call this writing—paint-by-numbers victimization narratives in the DTS style. The token writer knows that white editors who’ve only interacted with a handful of POC, yet deem themselves experts of their lived experience, disturbingly get off at the sight of brown suffering, so he’ll toss a dash of melanated seasoning into the story—but nothing too spicy. Too much spice, too much fun, and a token character risks losing his sheen of victimization.
Italicized words, the ultimate signifier that a character is a victim, are a must if a token writer is hoping for peak victimization. A top level token writer knows that if his prose is bad, or if his story isn’t much of a story at all, italicization will save him—just type “Papi” or “Mami” over and over again and you will have a perfectly acceptable story. As a practitioner of the DTS, a token writer will spend most of his time defanging and pruning a story of its most interesting—i.e. problematic—elements, until what remains is a tale of downtrodden victimization ready for the consumption of the ravenous woke editors who must continually feed off token suffering.
If a token writer is struggling to figure out if they’ve constructed a proper DTS, all they need to do is ask a simple question: Is this character enough of a sad sack? If the answer is no, simply introduce a brutal white villain into your story. And what if you already have one? No matter! Add another. Hell, why not a battalion of whitey white whites basking in their whiteness? Your story, even if it’s about brown people, should be doused in malevolent whiteness. Never forget, simple token writers: White bad! Brown body good! (RELATED: The Multicultural Male Coalition That Could Give Trump Four More Years)
It’s disturbing that the literary world demands the DTS, but what’s truly debilitating to the token writer who doesn’t want to write weepy victimization stories for a white audience is that only white characters are granted the agency to act badly—to be a villain. Every reader of classic fiction knows that the great literary characters are often the villains—or the terminally flawed—because problem-starters are the engines of the drama and discord that drive a narrative forward. In any fictional universe, it is typically the villain, and not the victim, who is granted agency, which explains the perpetual passivity of token characters in a DTS. This phenomenon explains those multi-generational ethnic sagas in which not a single soul in a family’s lineage has apparently ever experienced happiness—utter despair and victimization for five hundred pages.
One only needs to peruse this year’s Booker Prize long-list to see that the generational suffering saga is as strong a staple as ever. Take C Pam Zhang’s “How Much of These Hills is Gold,” a debut novel that, according to the Booker Prize’s website, “tells an untold story of the arrival of Chinese-American immigrants to the US during the Gold Rush. It’s a novel about conflict between two siblings, carrying the body of their newly deceased father across a harsh landscape.”
Carrying their dead dad’s body across the frozen tundra—how downtrodden! Woke orthodoxy, in which whites are not only the victimizers, but the only allowable villains, dictates that token characters, forever the victims of white supremacy, patriarchy, etc., can never take control of a narrative and fully exert their agency.
What’s insulting and borderline racist about this mindset is that woke editors are treating POC characters, and, in turn, POC writers, like noble savages. If POC are constant victims of forces outside their control, their behavior is never their fault, and agency, once again, is stolen from the token character. In their twisted way, by demanding adherence to the DTS model, editors are not shining the spotlight on token writers, but granting dreaded “whiteness” protagonist status no matter what a token story is about. If all stories are centered around the specter of whiteness, a POC character can never claim center-stage status, and only whites are allowed the full dimensionality of character, while tokens are relegated to doddering idiocy and the unrealistic all-encompassing goodness of the noble savage.
As a Cuban-American writer from Miami, I got into the writing game because I wanted to write stories about the messed-up kids I grew up with who acted in messed-up ways, not because they were oppressed or “othered,” but because they were messed-up kids, who, in the classic American sense, enjoyed messing stuff up. These friends of mine I wanted to fictionalize were anything but victims, but the downtrodden token story model demanded that their behavior and agency be neutered in service of the woke narrative. They were the main characters in their lives, but as whiteness—a concept they didn’t even know existed—rules the dying and decaying world of contemporary literary fiction, I had to transform them from brilliantly nuanced and hilarious human savages into palatable noble savages. (RELATED: Florida Man Is The Perfect Foil For The Elite Class)
For this reason, it is crucial that POC writers from non-elite backgrounds understand that when Brooklyn-dwelling editors say that they are looking for writers of color, what they are really saying is that they desire yet another good, little token-victim who knows their place and propagates woke tropes and intersectional orthodoxy. The sick truth is that these editors publish marginalized writers and demand adherence to the DTS model, not because they care about unrepresented voices, but because they are trying to assuage their white guilt—in a sense, then, they are correct that whiteness is what marginalizes token writers; it just so happens to be their own whiteness.
The insidiousness of this DTS mentality is such that most token writers unquestionably accept its validity and expect their work to be judged by petty superficialities such as race or immigrant status instead of the sole metric that should matter to a writer: whether they have a singular artistic vision. If a token writer refuses to preach progressive pieties to an incredibly insular and hyper-politicized publishing machinery, his work will be swept aside. The message is simple: debase yourself and dance the downtrodden token jig of performative suffering and victimization, or else. This is the end state of woke ideology, in which activism, not artistry, is demanded of writers.
Alex Perez is a Cuban-American writer from Miami, whose work has appeared in Tablet Magazine and Arc Digital, among others. Find him on Twitter @Perez_Writes
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thedailycaller--2020-11-01--Late Ballots, Mismatched Signatures, Drop Boxes — Here’s How Hundreds Of Lawsuits Could Affect The E

Late Ballots, Mismatched Signatures, Drop Boxes — Here’s How Hundreds Of Lawsuits Could Affect The Election’s Outcome

• More than 320 lawsuits have been filed since the primaries across 45 states , Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as of Friday , according to Election Law Blog .
• “ Almost all of them have been filed by the progressive left and their allies in the Democratic Party , ” Hans von Spakovsky , manager of Heritage Foundation ’ s Election Law Reform Initiative , told the Daily Caller News Foundation .
• A record 76 % of Americans have been able to vote by mail in the general election , according to The New York Times , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ day approaches .
The 2020 election season has seen an unprecedented number of lawsuits as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and changing voting laws , which could ultimately sway the election ’ s outcome , according to experts .
More than 325 lawsuits have been filed since the primaries across 45 states , Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as of Friday , according to Election Law Blog , which has tracked election litigation .
As coronavirus spread rapidly through the country in March amid the ongoing 2020 primaries , states were forced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ laws , The New York Times reported .
“ The amount of litigation is almost certainly going to be a record , ” a law professor at the University of California , Irvine School of Law who runs Election Law Blog , Rick Hasen , told the Daily Caller News Foundation .
“ We had a record in 2018 , and things are even more litigious this year , in large part thanks to COVID , ” Hasen said .
( RELATED : Election Experts Warn Voters To Stop Sending In Ballots , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Broadly , much of the litigation has concerned states who opted against altering certain laws , which voting rights groups and Democrats demanded , Hasen added .
Other lawsuits have come about as a result of states making changes that Republicans opposed .
“ Almost all of them have been filed by the progressive left and their allies in the Democratic Party , ” Hans von Spakovsky , manager of Heritage Foundation ’ s Election Law Reform Initiative , told the DCNF .
In September , Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ comprised of lawyers who are fighting cases nationwide , according to The Associated Press .
Marc Elias , who was general counsel to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ’ s 2016 presidential campaign , is leading the war room .
Elias and his team have been involved in more than 60 cases , 18 of which are active , according to Democracy Docket , a website Elias created to “ spotlight ” voter suppression .
“ They are trying to force states to push absentee or mail-in voting as much as possible @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The second big thing is they ’ re trying to void any and all of the security protocols that states have in place for absentee ballots.
” The litigation has shined a light on the process of counting and rejecting absentee ballots .
The most common causes of mailed ballots getting rejected are lateness , mismatching signatures and missing signature , all issues which have been central to ongoing lawsuits , according to FiveThirtyEight .
Many states have changed their voting policies for the Nov. 3 election , allowing more people to vote @ @ @ @ @ @ @ A record 76 % of Americans have been able to vote by mail in the general election , according to The Times , making the issue extremely contentious as the election quickly nears .
Further , a whopping 75.7 million Americans have already voted , according to The U.S .
Elections Project .
More than 50 million of those early voters have done so by mail .
Here are the important issues that could significantly affect the election outcome .
President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that the upcoming election will be a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ The greatest Election Fraud in our history is about to happen , ” Trump tweeted on Aug. 23 .
( RELATED : Military Mail-In Ballots Cast For Trump Discarded In Pennsylvania , Federal Investigation Finds ) On Sept. 2 , Trump tweeted that 2020 “ will be the most corrupt election in history ” and on Oct. 7 , he tweeted that there are “ Fake , Missing and Fraudulent Ballots all over the Country.
” Twitter flagged the Oct. 7 tweet .
The Heritage Foundation established the Election Fraud Database @ @ @ @ @ @ @ White House .
The database is a sampling , not a comprehensive list , of election fraud cases in which a conviction was secured or a state body determined fraud occurred , according to von Spakovsky .
The database has compiled nearly 1,300 proven instances of voter fraud in federal and local elections dating back to 1982 .
About 280 of the instances have occurred since 2015 and 14 have occurred since January .
The 2020 cases range from forged signatures and falsifying registration forms to voting more than once and bribing homeless @ @ @ @ @ @ @ However , an April report published by the Brennan Center for Justice said voter fraud is “ incredibly rare ” and less likely than getting struck by lightning .
It added that localities employ several tools including identity verification , bar codes and harsh sentencing guidelines for those caught committing fraud .
The Brennan Center for Justice has published a variety of studies , which it says show voter fraud isn ’ t rampant in the U.S. ( RELATED : ‘ Shocked And Panicked ’ : New Yorkers Receive Invalid Ballots With Wrong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ von Spakovsky said that this view , that fraud isn ’ t widespread , is misguided .
While voter fraud might be rare , it can still be impactful in certain races , he added .
“ Where fraud can make a difference is in a close election .
And we have close elections all the time in this country , ” von Spakovsky told the DCNF .
“ When people vote , they ’ re not just voting on the presidential race , ” he continued .
“ They ’ re voting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ voting for statewide offices .
They ’ re voting for their state legislatures .
They ’ re voting for county commission seats and town council seats.
” “ And in many of those races , they ’ re won by a small number of votes , ” von Spakovsky said .
The Public Interest Legal Foundation ( PILF ) , a right-leaning legal group , has focused on inaccurate voter rolls to show the existence of voter fraud .
PILF ’ s April report , which Trump cited , had made an error @ @ @ @ @ @ @ later corrected .
PILF ’ s September report showed that there were 349,773 apparently deceased registrants across 41 states ’ voter rolls .
The report also purported to show that tens of thousands of voters voted twice in 2016 and 2018 .
“ Every problem that you see with election mailings , you can root it back to the voter roll itself because the address was wrong , the name was spelled wrong , or it was listed in the wrong precinct , ” Logan Churchwell , PILF ’ s communications director , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Oct. 14 that 29,000 voters had received wrong ballots .
That incident came weeks after ballots in New York City , Atlanta and Washington , D.C. were reportedly sent to the wrong addresses .
“ These big counties that have hundreds of thousands , even millions of voters in them that are for the first time having to print ballots for everyone , ” Churchwell said .
“ You can ’ t just go buy an HP printer at Walmart and start printing ballots with it .
You have to engage with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ discovered through open records requests that ballot issues have occurred in many places across the country , including in battleground states in the Midwest , according to Churchwell .
Voters have reported receiving their ballot in the mail only to find card stock in the envelope , for example .
“ Sometimes those companies that get the contract don ’ t have a lot of experience with ballots , ” he added .
The Department of Justice ( DOJ ) outlined the wide-ranging approach it has implemented to investigate and prosecute voter fraud @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state that the DOJ will investigate all forms of election fraud including “ destruction of ballots , vote-buying , multiple voting , submission of fraudulent ballots or registrations , and alteration of votes.
” Attorney General William Barr said in a statement : “ Americans have the opportunity once again to help shape the future of this nation by exercising their right to vote.
” “ [ The DOJ ] will work tirelessly alongside other federal , state , and local agencies to protect that right as it is administered by state and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Barr said .
Late-arriving mail ballots has been the subject of multiple lawsuits , some of which have reached the Supreme Court .
( RELATED : ‘ Charges Of A Rigged Election Could Explode ’ : Wisconsin Can ’ t Count Late Ballots , Supreme Court Rules ) The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling on Monday in a 5-3 vote , prohibiting the State of Wisconsin from counting mail-in ballots that arrive days after the election .
Citing the pandemic , voting rights groups , state and national Democratic parties and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to extend ballot counting in Wisconsin , according to NBC News .
“ In a Presidential election , counting all the votes quickly can help the State promptly resolve any disputes , address any need for recounts , and begin the process of canvassing and certifying the election results in an expeditious manner , ” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in the court ’ s opinion .
The ruling means Wisconsin residents must get their ballot in by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3 , according to The AP .
Roughly 80,000 ballots were received @ @ @ @ @ @ @ primary .
On Wednesday , the Supreme Court contrasted its Wisconsin decision with opinions allowing the States of Pennsylvania and North Carolina to accept ballots after the day of the election , The Times reported .
First , the court refused to issue an order telling Pennsylvania elections officials whether to reject or accept late ballots .
The court had previously sided with a state court on Oct. 19 , which allowed ballots to be counted up to three days following the election even if they aren ’ t postmarked , CNBC reported @ @ @ @ @ @ @ court rulings , which allowed North Carolina elections officials to accept ballots nine days after the day of the election , according to the Times .
The state legislature only called for a three-day extension .
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Minnesota ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on election day to be counted , according to FOX-affiliate KMSP-TV .
Republicans have argued that counting late ballots violates federal law , which sets the day of the election .
The Constitution allows for Congress to pass legislation setting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Justice John Roberts sided with Republicans in the Wisconsin case , but not in the Pennsylvania and North Carolina cases because the former involved federal intrusion on state law .
( RELATED : Here Are All The States That Have Extended Their Mail-In Ballot Receipt Deadline ) “ While the Pennsylvania applications implicated the authority of state courts to apply their own constitutions to election regulations , this case involves federal intrusion on state lawmaking processes , ” Roberts wrote .
Mismatched and missing signatures on ballots is the second most common cause @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to FiveThirtyEight .
“ Instead of Florida 2000 , where you had two guys with the magnifying glasses very carefully looking at punched holes in ballots , now they ’ re going to be looking at signatures , ” Churchwell predicted .
Voting rights groups have argued that determining if a ballot ’ s signature matches the one on file can be subjective , according to FiveThirtyEight .
Lila Carpenter , an American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project paralegal , wrote in 2018 that a ballot signature requirement “ affects voters already @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Party ’ s lawyers ] are trying to void out signature comparison requirements , ” von Spakovsky said .
“ They don ’ t want that happening.
” The Brennan Center for Justice touted signatures as an important security measure to prevent voter fraud .
“ We actually compare every single signature of every single ballot that comes in and we compare it and make sure that it matches the one on their voter registration record , ” said Kim Wyman , Washington Secretary of State , CBS affiliate KEYE-TV .
On Monday @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rejected a lawsuit that argued that the State of Arkansas should allow voters with mismatched signatures to correct their ballots , according to The AP .
( RELATED : Three Trays Of Mail , Including Absentee Ballots , Found In Wisconsin Ditch ) However , U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel issued an order Tuesday halting South Carolina counties from rejecting absentee ballots due to missing or mismatching signatures , according to The State .
Gergel ruled that counties who mull a signature rule must seek approval from the courts and allow voters to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ county board of voter registration and elections … is employing or plans to employ a signature matching procedure , it must stop doing so immediately , ” South Carolina head of elections Marci Andino wrote in a directive to all local county boards , The State reported .
On Tuesday , the Texas Supreme Court upheld Republican Gov .
Greg Abbott ’ s order that limited counties to a single drop-off box , according to the Texas Tribune .
A federal appeals court had previously upheld Abbott ’ s order .
Plaintiffs argued @ @ @ @ @ @ @ drop-off violated voters ’ equal protection rights , according to the Texas Tribune .
However , the judges on the state ’ s high court said Abbott ’ s order “ does not disenfranchise anyone ” since it provided other ways to vote .
Prior to the court ’ s ruling , the law firm challenging Abbott , the Campaign Legal Center , said in a press release , “ if Abbott ’ s proclamation is allowed to stand , it will create voter confusion.
” A similar battle in Ohio over ballot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the League of Women Voters and Ohio NAACP dropped their lawsuit , The AP reported .
The groups had sued Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose over a directive he issued limiting counties to one ballot drop box .
“ Boards of elections are prohibited from installing a drop box at any other location other than the board of elections , ” the directive said .
Three separate courts ruling in the case ultimately favored LaRose , according to WBNS-10TV .
On Oct. 12 , the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ballot box directive was lawful .
The majority opinion ruled that the order was “ unlikely to harm anyone ” given the many other ways Ohio residents could vote , WBNS reported .
( RELATED : USPS Faces Financial , Logistical Hurdles In Run Up To Expected Election Mail-In Ballot Surge ) Curbside voting for disabled and sick people is widely available including in states like Michigan , Texas and North Carolina .
However , some state officials have prohibited such voting for security reasons .
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill opposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illegal activity , ” since it would break the chain of custody for ballots , according to AL.com .
On Oct. 21 , the Supreme Court sided with Merrill and his fellow Alabama Republicans and granted their request to prohibit curbside voting .
“ Post-election litigation , on the presidential level , will matter only if the election is so close in a state that is pivotal for an electoral college victory that it would make sense to bring suit , ” Hasen said .
Churchwell and Van Spakovsky agreed that post-election litigation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ If the race is close , both agreed that the litigation would revolve around the rejected ballots .
( RELATED : Trump Pans Supreme Court Decision To Allow Pennsylvania To Tally Mail-In Ballots For 3 Days After Election ) About 300,000 mail-in ballots were rejected in the 2016 election , according to an ABC News analysis .
More than 500,000 were rejected during the 2020 primaries , including 23,000 in Wisconsin .
Trump won the state by roughly 22,500 votes in 2016 , the Times reported .
“ There frankly may be some @ @ @ @ @ @ @ got rejected or litigation over ballots being counted , for example , after Election Day that we ’ re missing information required by state law , ” von Spakovsky said .
Further , following Justice Amy Coney Barrett ’ s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Monday , the court will not issue 4-4 decisions if it were to review post-election litigation , if she does not recuse herself .
Although Barrett has recused herself from election cases since joining the court , she declined to commit to recusing herself from all cases @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CNN .
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More than 320 lawsuits have been filed since the primaries across 45 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as of Friday, according to Election Law Blog.
“Almost all of them have been filed by the progressive left and their allies in the Democratic Party,” Hans von Spakovsky, manager of Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
A record 76% of Americans have been able to vote by mail in the general election, according to The New York Times, making the issue particularly contentious as election day approaches.
The 2020 election season has seen an unprecedented number of lawsuits as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and changing voting laws, which could ultimately sway the election’s outcome, according to experts.
More than 325 lawsuits have been filed since the primaries across 45 states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico as of Friday, according to Election Law Blog, which has tracked election litigation. As coronavirus spread rapidly through the country in March amid the ongoing 2020 primaries, states were forced to delay primaries and reevaluate existing voting laws, The New York Times reported.
“The amount of litigation is almost certainly going to be a record,” a law professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law who runs Election Law Blog, Rick Hasen, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“We had a record in 2018, and things are even more litigious this year, in large part thanks to COVID,” Hasen said. (RELATED: Election Experts Warn Voters To Stop Sending In Ballots, Vote In Person Amidst USPS Delays)
Broadly, much of the litigation has concerned states who opted against altering certain laws, which voting rights groups and Democrats demanded, Hasen added. Other lawsuits have come about as a result of states making changes that Republicans opposed.
“Almost all of them have been filed by the progressive left and their allies in the Democratic Party,” Hans von Spakovsky, manager of Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative, told the DCNF.
In September, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign formally assembled a legal war room comprised of lawyers who are fighting cases nationwide, according to The Associated Press. Marc Elias, who was general counsel to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, is leading the war room.
Elias and his team have been involved in more than 60 cases, 18 of which are active, according to Democracy Docket, a website Elias created to “spotlight” voter suppression.
“They are trying to force states to push absentee or mail-in voting as much as possible,” von Spakovsky continued. “The second big thing is they’re trying to void any and all of the security protocols that states have in place for absentee ballots.”
The litigation has shined a light on the process of counting and rejecting absentee ballots. The most common causes of mailed ballots getting rejected are lateness, mismatching signatures and missing signature, all issues which have been central to ongoing lawsuits, according to FiveThirtyEight.
Many states have changed their voting policies for the Nov. 3 election, allowing more people to vote by mail, according to Vote.org. A record 76% of Americans have been able to vote by mail in the general election, according to The Times, making the issue extremely contentious as the election quickly nears.
Further, a whopping 75.7 million Americans have already voted, according to The U.S. Elections Project. More than 50 million of those early voters have done so by mail.
Here are the important issues that could significantly affect the election outcome.
Voter Fraud
President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that the upcoming election will be a “scam” and rife with fraud.
“The greatest Election Fraud in our history is about to happen,” Trump tweeted on Aug. 23. (RELATED: Military Mail-In Ballots Cast For Trump Discarded In Pennsylvania, Federal Investigation Finds)
On Sept. 2, Trump tweeted that 2020 “will be the most corrupt election in history” and on Oct. 7, he tweeted that there are “Fake, Missing and Fraudulent Ballots all over the Country.” Twitter flagged the Oct. 7 tweet.
MAIL-IN VOTING WILL LEAD TO MASSIVE FRAUD AND ABUSE. IT WILL ALSO LEAD TO THE END OF OUR GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY. WE CAN NEVER LET THIS TRAGEDY BEFALL OUR NATION. BIG MAIL-IN VICTORY IN TEXAS COURT TODAY. CONGRATS!!! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 29, 2020
The Heritage Foundation established the Election Fraud Database, which has been cited by the White House. The database is a sampling, not a comprehensive list, of election fraud cases in which a conviction was secured or a state body determined fraud occurred, according to von Spakovsky.
The database has compiled nearly 1,300 proven instances of voter fraud in federal and local elections dating back to 1982. About 280 of the instances have occurred since 2015 and 14 have occurred since January.
The 2020 cases range from forged signatures and falsifying registration forms to voting more than once and bribing homeless people to vote a certain way.
However, an April report published by the Brennan Center for Justice said voter fraud is “incredibly rare” and less likely than getting struck by lightning. It added that localities employ several tools including identity verification, bar codes and harsh sentencing guidelines for those caught committing fraud.
The Brennan Center for Justice has published a variety of studies, which it says show voter fraud isn’t rampant in the U.S. (RELATED: ‘Shocked And Panicked’: New Yorkers Receive Invalid Ballots With Wrong Names, Addresses Sparking Confusion)
But von Spakovsky said that this view, that fraud isn’t widespread, is misguided. While voter fraud might be rare, it can still be impactful in certain races, he added.
“Where fraud can make a difference is in a close election. And we have close elections all the time in this country,” von Spakovsky told the DCNF.
“When people vote, they’re not just voting on the presidential race,” he continued. “They’re voting for congressional offices. They’re voting for statewide offices. They’re voting for their state legislatures. They’re voting for county commission seats and town council seats.”
“And in many of those races, they’re won by a small number of votes,” von Spakovsky said.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a right-leaning legal group, has focused on inaccurate voter rolls to show the existence of voter fraud. PILF’s April report, which Trump cited, had made an error, according to ProPublica, and was later corrected.
PILF’s September report showed that there were 349,773 apparently deceased registrants across 41 states’ voter rolls. The report also purported to show that tens of thousands of voters voted twice in 2016 and 2018.
“Every problem that you see with election mailings, you can root it back to the voter roll itself because the address was wrong, the name was spelled wrong, or it was listed in the wrong precinct,” Logan Churchwell, PILF’s communications director, told the DCNF.
Pennsylvania officials announced on Oct. 14 that 29,000 voters had received wrong ballots. That incident came weeks after ballots in New York City, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. were reportedly sent to the wrong addresses.
“These big counties that have hundreds of thousands, even millions of voters in them that are for the first time having to print ballots for everyone,” Churchwell said. “You can’t just go buy an HP printer at Walmart and start printing ballots with it. You have to engage with companies that have the printers.”
PILF discovered through open records requests that ballot issues have occurred in many places across the country, including in battleground states in the Midwest, according to Churchwell. Voters have reported receiving their ballot in the mail only to find card stock in the envelope, for example.
“Sometimes those companies that get the contract don’t have a lot of experience with ballots,” he added.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) outlined the wide-ranging approach it has implemented to investigate and prosecute voter fraud in a Thursday press release. It states that the DOJ will investigate all forms of election fraud including “destruction of ballots, vote-buying, multiple voting, submission of fraudulent ballots or registrations, and alteration of votes.”
Attorney General William Barr said in a statement: “Americans have the opportunity once again to help shape the future of this nation by exercising their right to vote.”
“[The DOJ] will work tirelessly alongside other federal, state, and local agencies to protect that right as it is administered by state and local jurisdictions across the nation,” Barr said.
Late Ballots
Late-arriving mail ballots have been the subject of multiple lawsuits, some of which have reached the Supreme Court. (RELATED: ‘Charges Of A Rigged Election Could Explode’: Wisconsin Can’t Count Late Ballots, Supreme Court Rules)
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling on Monday in a 5-3 vote, prohibiting the State of Wisconsin from counting mail-in ballots that arrive days after the election. Citing the pandemic, voting rights groups, state and national Democratic parties and the League of Women voters had sought to extend ballot counting in Wisconsin, according to NBC News.
“In a Presidential election, counting all the votes quickly can help the State promptly resolve any disputes, address any need for recounts, and begin the process of canvassing and certifying the election results in an expeditious manner,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in the court’s opinion.
The ruling means Wisconsin residents must get their ballot in by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3, according to The AP. Roughly 80,000 ballots were received late during the state’s April primary.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court contrasted its Wisconsin decision with opinions allowing the States of Pennsylvania and North Carolina to accept ballots after the day of the election, The Times reported.
First, the court refused to issue an order telling Pennsylvania elections officials whether to reject or accept late ballots. The court had previously sided with a state court on Oct. 19, which allowed ballots to be counted up to three days following the election even if they aren’t postmarked, CNBC reported.
Second, the court upheld lower court rulings, which allowed North Carolina elections officials to accept ballots nine days after the day of the election, according to the Times. The state legislature only called for a three-day extension.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Minnesota ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on election day to be counted, according to FOX-affiliate KMSP-TV.
Republicans have argued that counting late ballots violates federal law, which sets the day of the election. The Constitution allows for Congress to pass legislation setting the date of the election.
Chief Justice John Roberts sided with Republicans in the Wisconsin case, but not in the Pennsylvania and North Carolina cases because the former involved federal intrusion on state law. (RELATED: Here Are All The States That Have Extended Their Mail-In Ballot Receipt Deadline)
“While the Pennsylvania applications implicated the authority of state courts to apply their own constitutions to election regulations, this case involves federal intrusion on state lawmaking processes,” Roberts wrote.
Mismatched Signatures
Mismatched and missing signatures on ballots is the second most common cause for rejected ballots behind lateness, according to FiveThirtyEight.
“Instead of Florida 2000, where you had two guys with the magnifying glasses very carefully looking at punched holes in ballots, now they’re going to be looking at signatures,” Churchwell predicted.
Voting rights groups have argued that determining if a ballot’s signature matches the one on file can be subjective, according to FiveThirtyEight. Lila Carpenter, an American Civil Liberties Union Voting Rights Project paralegal, wrote in 2018 that a ballot signature requirement “affects voters already at the margins.”
“[Democratic Party’s lawyers] are trying to void out signature comparison requirements,” von Spakovsky said. “They don’t want that happening.”
The Brennan Center for Justice touted signatures as an important security measure to prevent voter fraud.
“We actually compare every single signature of every single ballot that comes in and we compare it and make sure that it matches the one on their voter registration record,” said Kim Wyman, Washington Secretary of State, CBS affiliate KEYE-TV.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes rejected a lawsuit that argued that the State of Arkansas should allow voters with mismatched signatures to correct their ballots, according to The AP. (RELATED: Three Trays Of Mail, Including Absentee Ballots, Found In Wisconsin Ditch)
However, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel issued an order Tuesday halting South Carolina counties from rejecting absentee ballots due to missing or mismatching signatures, according to The State. Gergel ruled that counties who mull a signature rule must seek approval from the courts and allow voters to correct their signature.
“If any county board of voter registration and elections … is employing or plans to employ a signature matching procedure, it must stop doing so immediately,” South Carolina head of elections Marci Andino wrote in a directive to all local county boards, The State reported.
Drop Boxes And Curbside Voting
On Tuesday, the Texas Supreme Court upheld Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that limited counties to a single drop-off box, according to the Texas Tribune. A federal appeals court had previously upheld Abbott’s order.
Plaintiffs argued that limiting each county to just one drop-off violated voters’ equal protection rights, according to the Texas Tribune. However, the judges on the state’s high court said Abbott’s order “does not disenfranchise anyone” since it provided other ways to vote.
Prior to the court’s ruling, the law firm challenging Abbott, the Campaign Legal Center, said in a press release, “if Abbott’s proclamation is allowed to stand, it will create voter confusion.”
A similar battle in Ohio over ballot drop boxes ended on Oct. 23 after the League of Women Voters and Ohio NAACP dropped their lawsuit, The AP reported. The groups had sued Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose over a directive he issued limiting counties to one ballot drop box.
“Boards of elections are prohibited from installing a drop box at any other location other than the board of elections,” the directive said.
Three separate courts ruling in the case ultimately favored LaRose, according to WBNS-10TV. On Oct. 12, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that LaRose’s ballot box directive was lawful.
The majority opinion ruled that the order was “unlikely to harm anyone” given the many other ways Ohio residents could vote, WBNS reported. (RELATED: USPS Faces Financial, Logistical Hurdles In Run Up To Expected Election Mail-In Ballot Surge)
Curbside voting for disabled and sick people is widely available including in states like Michigan, Texas and North Carolina. However, some state officials have prohibited such voting for security reasons.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill opposed curbside voting, which he labeled “illegal activity,” since it would break the chain of custody for ballots, according to AL.com.
On Oct. 21, the Supreme Court sided with Merrill and his fellow Alabama Republicans and granted their request to prohibit curbside voting.
Post-Election Litigation
“Post-election litigation, on the presidential level, will matter only if the election is so close in a state that is pivotal for an electoral college victory that it would make sense to bring suit,” Hasen said.
Churchwell and Van Spakovsky agreed that post-election litigation will depend on the election results. If the race is close, both agreed that the litigation would revolve around the rejected ballots. (RELATED: Trump Pans Supreme Court Decision To Allow Pennsylvania To Tally Mail-In Ballots For 3 Days After Election)
About 300,000 mail-in ballots were rejected in the 2016 election, according to an ABC News analysis. More than 500,000 were rejected during the 2020 primaries, including 23,000 in Wisconsin. Trump won the state by roughly 22,500 votes in 2016, the Times reported.
“There frankly may be some pretty fierce litigation over those ballots that got rejected or litigation over ballots being counted, for example, after Election Day that we’re missing information required by state law,” von Spakovsky said.
Further, following Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court on Monday, the court will not issue 4-4 decisions if it were to review post-election litigation, if she does not recuse herself. Although Barrett has recused herself from election cases since joining the court, she declined to commit to recusing herself from all cases during her confirmation hearings, according to CNN.
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thedailycaller--2020-11-01--‘Every City Is Preparing For It’: Here’s What Police Are Doing Ahead Of Possible Election Unrest

• Police departments are likely to collect intelligence on social media , cancel days off and prepare tactical response teams ahead of possible Election Day unrest .
• A New York-based police union official likened the city ’ s level of preparedness to the days following 9/11 and said “ This is not something to take lightly right now.
” • Two union officials told the Daily Caller News Foundation that officers should apprehend instigators quickly in the event that riots break out as the election nears .
Police departments are set to cancel days off , prepare tactical response @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unrest as Nov. 3 quickly approaches , according to two police union officials .
The New York City Police Department ( NYPD ) on Oct. 24 told businesses within the boroughs to prepare for possible political violence , The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 24 .
The department has reportedly been preparing for weeks to keep the city secure in the event of election-induced calamity .
Miami , Portland , Seattle , Minneapolis , Orlando , Chicago and other major cities have also reported prepping for possible violence , according to Fox News @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York-based Sergeants Benevolent Association , Vincent Vallelong , told the Daily Caller News Foundation that he hadn ’ t seen such disaster preparation in his city since the 9/11 terrorist attacks .
“ Stuff like this was done during 9/11 when everybody went to 12-hour tours , but they basically put the whole job on alert right now , ” Vallelong said during a phone interview .
“ I ’ d be lying to you if I said I wouldn ’ t be worried , ” he continued .
“ We ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York the last time this broke out .
This is something not to take lightly right now.
” And the vice president emeritus of the International Union of Police Associations , Dennis Slocumb , said : “ Every city is preparing for it , it ’ s not just New York and Minneapolis .
I would think that any police chief in any metropolitan area has probably been preparing for this for a while.
” “ What they ’ re probably doing is cancelling days off and going on their form of tactical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’ s Office , added .
“ They ’ re probably preparing response teams , and they ’ re going to get those rosters all squared away and make sure they ’ ve got the equipment they ’ re going to need.
” “ I ’ m sure every agency is monitoring social media and they probably have undercover officers involved in both social media and some of these groups , ” he said .
Slocumb also indicated that law enforcement agencies can establish arrangements with surrounding @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to establish contingency plans if more officers are needed to supplement a certain city ’ s police force .
Those same authorities are likely to begin talks with local trauma centers and their respective fire departments , he said .
Vallelong , who works closely with the NYPD , said police “ should have the horses out , they should have everybody out in [ riot ] masks , and they should allow our judges to make decisions.
” He noted that instigators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bail reform , which frees detainees that aren ’ t considered violent felons , “ should be suspended.
” “ Keep these people in the system until it gets under control , ” Vallelong told the DCNF .
He said police department heads are in close contact with cities that were plagued by riots after the May death of George Floyd , like Portland and Seattle , in order to learn from past instances of unrest .
He also added that the NYPD is most likely gathering intelligence ahead of Nov. 3 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the department ’ s response is contingent on the “ marching orders ” given by Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio ’ s administration .
Vallelong said previous decisions by de Blasio during earlier racial justice riots proved to be ineffective .
“ I know what should be done , but it ’ s gon na be a matter of what are the marching orders that are going to be given from city hall when all of this happens , ” he said .
“ We know from the past @ @ @ @ @ @ @ let everybody run loose and pretty much destroy everything in the city.
” Vallelong also said the NYPD is struggling with a lack of officers , as the department experienced a 75 % surge in retirements compared to 2019 , according to Newsday .
( RELATED : NYPD Officers Reportedly Preparing To Deploy For Election Unrest In Coming Weeks ) Additionally , Yonkers , Westchester , and other New York agencies pledged to refuse to enter the city following a police reform bill that banned chokeholds and other methods of restraints , NBC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gets that bad and the NYPD can ’ t handle it , I don ’ t know of a bigger police department out there that could come and save them , ” Vallelong said .
“ At that point you ’ re talking about the National Guard.
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Police departments are likely to collect intelligence on social media, cancel days off and prepare tactical response teams ahead of possible Election Day unrest.
A New York-based police union official likened the city’s level of preparedness to the days following 9/11 and said “This is not something to take lightly right now.”
Two union officials told the Daily Caller News Foundation that officers should apprehend instigators quickly in the event that riots break out as the election nears.
Police departments are set to cancel days off, prepare tactical response teams and gather intelligence about possible election unrest as Nov. 3 quickly approaches, according to two police union officials.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) on Oct. 24 told businesses within the boroughs to prepare for possible political violence, The Wall Street Journal reported Oct. 24. The department has reportedly been preparing for weeks to keep the city secure in the event of election-induced calamity.
Miami, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Orlando, Chicago and other major cities have also reported prepping for possible violence, according to Fox News.
The vice president of the New York-based Sergeants Benevolent Association, Vincent Vallelong, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that he hadn’t seen such disaster preparation in his city since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
“Stuff like this was done during 9/11 when everybody went to 12-hour tours, but they basically put the whole job on alert right now,” Vallelong said during a phone interview.
“I’d be lying to you if I said I wouldn’t be worried,” he continued. “We’ve already seen cops get assaulted in New York the last time this broke out. This is something not to take lightly right now.”
And the vice president emeritus of the International Union of Police Associations, Dennis Slocumb, said: “Every city is preparing for it, it’s not just New York and Minneapolis. I would think that any police chief in any metropolitan area has probably been preparing for this for a while.”
“What they’re probably doing is cancelling days off and going on their form of tactical alert,” Slocumb, a veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office, added. “They’re probably preparing response teams, and they’re going to get those rosters all squared away and make sure they’ve got the equipment they’re going to need.”
“I’m sure every agency is monitoring social media and they probably have undercover officers involved in both social media and some of these groups,” he said.
Slocumb also indicated that law enforcement agencies can establish arrangements with surrounding departments, known as mutual aid, to establish contingency plans if more officers are needed to supplement a certain city’s police force. Those same authorities are likely to begin talks with local trauma centers and their respective fire departments, he said.
Vallelong, who’s an active sergeant with the NYPD, said police “should have the horses out, they should have everybody out in [riot] masks, and they should allow our judges to make decisions.”
He noted that instigators should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and that New York’s bail reform, which frees detainees that aren’t considered violent felons, “should be suspended.”
“Keep these people in the system until it gets under control,” Vallelong told the DCNF.
He said police department heads are in close contact with cities that were plagued by riots after the May death of George Floyd, like Portland and Seattle, in order to learn from past instances of unrest. He also added that the NYPD is most likely gathering intelligence ahead of Nov. 3.
The union official, however, insisted that the department’s response is contingent on the “marching orders” given by Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. Vallelong said previous decisions by de Blasio during earlier racial justice riots proved to be ineffective.
“I know what should be done, but it’s gonna be a matter of what are the marching orders that are going to be given from city hall when all of this happens,” he said. “We know from the past with watching what we saw — they let everybody run loose and pretty much destroy everything in the city.”
Vallelong also said the NYPD is struggling with a lack of officers, as the department experienced a 75% surge in retirements compared to 2019, according to Newsday. (RELATED: NYPD Officers Reportedly Preparing To Deploy For Election Unrest In Coming Weeks)
Additionally, Yonkers, Westchester, and other New York agencies pledged to refuse to enter the city following a police reform bill that banned chokeholds and other methods of restraints, NBC New York reported.
“If it gets that bad and the NYPD can’t handle it, I don’t know of a bigger police department out there that could come and save them,” Vallelong said. “At that point you’re talking about the National Guard.”
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thedailycaller--2020-10-31--FACT CHECK: Were Nancy Pelosi’s Son And Mitt Romney’s Son Members Of Burisma’s Board With Hunter Bid

FACT CHECK: Were Nancy Pelosi’s Son And Mitt Romney’s Son Members Of Burisma’s Board With Hunter Biden?

A post shared on Facebook claims House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ’ s son Paul Pelosi Jr. and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney ’ s son served on the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings ’ board of directors with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ’ s son Hunter Biden .
There is no evidence Paul Pelosi Jr. or Mitt Romney ’ s sons served on Burisma ’ s board with Hunter Biden .
Hunter Biden served on Burisma ’ s board from April 2014 until early 2019 , a move some perceived as a conflict of interest due to his father ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Washington Post .
The Facebook post attempts to link other prominent politicians ’ sons to Burisma , claiming , “ Paul Pelosi Jr. , Nancy ’ s son & Mitt Romney ’ s son were on the Ukrainian gas company Burisma ’ s board along with Hunter Biden.
” Pelosi has one son , Paul Pelosi Jr. , while Romney has five sons – Tagg , Matt , Josh , Ben and Craig , per Business Insider .
There is , however , no evidence that any of them served as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Hunter Biden .
No one by those names is currently listed as a member of Burisma ’ s board of directors on the company ’ s website .
Burisma has been the subject of considerable media attention in the past .
Had Paul Pelosi Jr. or any of Mitt Romney ’ s sons held positions on the board , major media outlets likely would have reported on it , yet Check Your Fact didn ’ t find any .
( RELATED : Did Clint Eastwood Say Joe Biden Is ‘ Trying To @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Paul Pelosi Jr. did serve on the board of a hydrocarbon production technology company called Viscoil , which dissolved in 2010 before being folded into a Singapore-based company , according to PolitiFact .
Nancy Pelosi ’ s spokesperson Drew Hammill , however , told the outlet that Viscoil didn ’ t have any dealings in Ukraine while Paul Pelosi Jr. worked for it .
Tagg Romney is the co-founder of the investment firm Solamere Capital .
Matt Romney is listed as the managing director of capital markets at Sundance Bay , where Craig @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of asset management .
Josh Romney is the founder and president of the real estate company The Romney Group , while Ben Romney works as a radiologist in Utah .

A post shared on Facebook claims House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Pelosi Jr. and Utah Sen. Mitt Romney’s son served on the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings’ board of directors with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Verdict: False
There is no evidence Paul Pelosi Jr. or Mitt Romney’s sons served on Burisma’s board with Hunter Biden.
Fact Check:
Hunter Biden served on Burisma’s board from April 2014 until early 2019, a move some perceived as a conflict of interest due to his father’s position as vice president, according to the Washington Post. The Facebook post attempts to link other prominent politicians’ sons to Burisma, claiming, “Paul Pelosi Jr., Nancy’s son & Mitt Romney’s son were on the Ukrainian gas company Burisma’s board along with Hunter Biden.”
Pelosi has one son, Paul Pelosi Jr., while Romney has five sons – Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben and Craig, per Business Insider. There is, however, no evidence that any of them served as members of the Burisma’s board with Hunter Biden. No one by those names is currently listed as a member of Burisma’s board of directors on the company’s website.
Burisma has been the subject of considerable media attention in the past. Had Paul Pelosi Jr. or any of Mitt Romney’s sons held positions on the board, major media outlets likely would have reported on it, yet Check Your Fact didn’t find any. (RELATED: Did Clint Eastwood Say Joe Biden Is ‘Trying To Destroy Our Wonderful Country’?)
Paul Pelosi Jr. did serve on the board of a hydrocarbon production technology company called Viscoil, which dissolved in 2010 before being folded into a Singapore-based company, according to PolitiFact. Nancy Pelosi’s spokesperson Drew Hammill, however, told the outlet that Viscoil didn’t have any dealings in Ukraine while Paul Pelosi Jr. worked for it.
Tagg Romney is the co-founder of the investment firm Solamere Capital. Matt Romney is listed as the managing director of capital markets at Sundance Bay, where Craig Romney is also listed as a director of asset management. Josh Romney is the founder and president of the real estate company The Romney Group, while Ben Romney works as a radiologist in Utah.


thedailycaller--2020-10-31--Boris Johnson Orders UK Into Month-Long COVID-19 Lockdown

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the United Kingdom would be entering a full month of lockdown after coronavirus cases topped one million , the Associated Press reported Saturday .
The lockdown measures will severely restrict business operation and daily life for U.K. citizens and will last from November 5 to December 2 , the AP reported .
Restaurants , gyms , hair salons , and all non-essential businesses will be forced to close , though schools and playgrounds will remain open , Johnson said .
The U.K. has so far suffered more than 46,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a daily basis .
“ Unless we act , we could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day , ” Johnson said in a statement .
“ We know the cost of these restrictions.
” Johnson himself was one of the first world leaders to contract the coronavirus , coming down with a serious case of the disease in March which left him spending several days in a hospital intensive care unit .
( RELATED : ‘ Precautionary Step ’ : UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Hospitalized After Testing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that in certain areas in Europe the virus is spreading even faster than “ the reasonable worst-case scenarios ” put forward by experts .
He said a lack of action could result in hospitals being overrun with patients across the country , forcing doctors to ration health care .
“ The virus is doubling faster than we can conceivable increase [ hospital ] capacity , ” Johnson said .
Johnson said people can only leave their homes for schooling , for work if they can not work from home , for exercise with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ household , for medical appointments , and to shop for essential goods .
“ I ’ m under no illusions about how difficult this will be for businesses which have already had to endure such hardship this year , and I am truly , truly sorry for that , ” Johnson said , adding that the nation ’ s government would be extending its furlough protection program .

Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that the United Kingdom would be entering a full month of lockdown after coronavirus cases topped one million, the Associated Press reported Saturday.
The lockdown measures will severely restrict business operation and daily life for U.K. citizens and will last from November 5 to December 2, the AP reported. Restaurants, gyms, hair salons, and all non-essential businesses will be forced to close, though schools and playgrounds will remain open, Johnson said.
The U.K. has so far suffered more than 46,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19, with more than 300 new deaths on a daily basis.
“Unless we act, we could see deaths in this country running at several thousand a day,” Johnson said in a statement. “We know the cost of these restrictions.”
WATCH LIVE: An update on coronavirus (31 October 2020) https://t.co/IRsPKZ5kIR — Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) October 31, 2020
Johnson himself was one of the first world leaders to contract the coronavirus, coming down with a serious case of the disease in March which left him spending several days in a hospital intensive care unit. (RELATED: ‘Precautionary Step’: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Hospitalized After Testing Positive For Coronavirus)
Johnson said Saturday that in certain areas in Europe the virus is spreading even faster than “the reasonable worst-case scenarios” put forward by experts. He said a lack of action could result in hospitals being overrun with patients across the country, forcing doctors to ration health care.
“The virus is doubling faster than we can conceivable increase [hospital] capacity,” Johnson said.
Johnson said people can only leave their homes for schooling, for work if they cannot work from home, for exercise with a maximum of one person outside your household, for medical appointments, and to shop for essential goods.
“I’m under no illusions about how difficult this will be for businesses which have already had to endure such hardship this year, and I am truly, truly sorry for that,” Johnson said, adding that the nation’s government would be extending its furlough protection program.


thedailycaller--2020-10-31--Democrats Reportedly Cancel Texas Campaign Rallies After Trump Supporters Swarm Biden-Harris Bus

Democrats reportedly canceled some campaign rallies in Texas after a group of Trump supporters in vehicles swarmed a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris themed bus .
The bus carrying Democrat congressional candidates Wendy Davis , Roland Gutierrez and Rep. Lloyd Doggett on Friday was surrounded by vehicles displaying support for the president on the I-35 Texas highway .
( RELATED : ‘ Very Politically Correct !
’ : Trump Calls Out Laura Ingraham ’ s Mask During Michigan Rally ) My Canyon Lake , a local news outlet , reported the following : A Biden Bus carrying several prominent Texas Democratic candidates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was forced to cancel a campaign stop in San Marcos and at other events , including a rally in Austin , after dozens of vehicles flying Trump flags swarmed around it on I-35 , sparking safety concerns The Biden campaign responded claiming the Trump supporters put “ staff , surrogates , supporters , and others in harm ’ s way , ” according to CNN host Jake Tapper .
( RELATED : SEAL Team 6 Rescues American Hostage In ‘ Daring ’ West Africa Raid ) According to a Real Clear Politics polling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ over Biden with 2.3 % in the historically red state .
Nationally , Biden leads Trump by 7.8 % with less than a week before the election .

Democrats reportedly canceled some campaign rallies in Texas after a group of Trump supporters in vehicles swarmed a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris themed bus.
The bus carrying Democrat congressional candidates Wendy Davis, Roland Gutierrez and Rep. Lloyd Doggett on Friday was surrounded by vehicles displaying support for the president on the I-35 Texas highway. (RELATED: ‘Very Politically Correct!’: Trump Calls Out Laura Ingraham’s Mask During Michigan Rally)
WATCH:
These tactics have no place in Texas, my home state, and no place in America. Please vote. Please volunteer this weekend. The future of our democracy is at stake. pic.twitter.com/G0O4yg2vnJ — Dr. Eric Cervini (@ericcervini) October 31, 2020
I flew down to Texas to help with the Biden/Harris bus tour, intended to drum up enthusiasm at polling locations. Instead, I ended up spending the afternoon calling 911. 1/ pic.twitter.com/gKAjv7gv85 — Dr. Eric Cervini (@ericcervini) October 31, 2020
My Canyon Lake, a local news outlet, reported the following:
A Biden Bus carrying several prominent Texas Democratic candidates from San Antonio to Austin on Friday was forced to cancel a campaign stop in San Marcos and at other events, including a rally in Austin, after dozens of vehicles flying Trump flags swarmed around it on I-35, sparking safety concerns
The Biden campaign responded claiming the Trump supporters put “staff, surrogates, supporters, and others in harm’s way,” according to CNN host Jake Tapper. (RELATED: SEAL Team 6 Rescues American Hostage In ‘Daring’ West Africa Raid)
The Biden campaign says Trump supporters in Texas put their “staff, surrogates, supporters, and others in harm’s way.“ Here’s more from a local news source about an incident on the highwayhttps://t.co/g66rnAjPG2 — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 31, 2020
According to a Real Clear Politics polling average, Trump has a slim lead over Biden with 2.3% in the historically red state. Nationally, Biden leads Trump by 7.8% with less than a week before the election.


thedailycaller--2020-10-31--Greek Orthodox Priest Fighting For Life After Being Shot In France Amid Heightened Terror Alert

A Greek Orthodox priest was shot in France on Saturday amid a nationwide terror alert that was raised to the “ emergency ” level earlier in the week after a series of attacks , several sources reported .
The priest , a Greek citizen in his 40s , was shot twice in the abdomen in Lyon and is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries , according to CBS News .
French police arrested a suspect in a kebab shop in the city roughly three hours after the incident , but there was no immediate information about his identity , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was described as a “ man of Mediterranean appearance , ” Ludovic Cassier of the police union Unité SGP Police told French radio , according to the Guardian .
The priest was conscious when he was taken from the church to the ambulance and was able to tell witnesses that he did not know the man who attacked him .
The attack comes days after a Tunisian migrant was suspected of killing three people in a church in Nice .
Brahim Aouissaoui , 21 , had arrived in Europe a month prior to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Koran , two telephones , and a 12-inch knife at the time of the attack , the BBC reported .
He was shot by police .
France ’ s President Emmanuel Macron announced that the country deployed 7,000 soldiers following the attack to protect public places like churches and schools , and has raised the nation ’ s national security alert to the highest level .
( RELATED : France Terror Suspect Had Arrived In Europe From Tunisia On Migrant Boat 1 Month Prior To Killings , Official Says ) The killings in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s anti-terror prosecutors and come two weeks after teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded after showing students the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad , published by the Charlie Hebdo satire magazine in 2015 , during a lesson on freedom of speech .
The suspected attacker , 18-year-old Chechen refugee Abdoullakh Aboutezidovitch , allegedly said he wanted to punish Paty for showing students the cartoons , according to Reuters .
Multiple attacks took place within hours of the attack in Nice , or were foiled by police .
Police killed a man who was threatening @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city , Montfavet , while yelling “ Allahu akbar , ” Europe 1 reported , according to Reuters .
An Afghan national armed with a long knife was arrested in Lyon while trying to board a tram .
The individual was already flagged to intelligence services , according to i24 News .
In Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , a Saudi man was arrested after attacking a guard at the French consulate with a knife .
The French Embassy said the guard was hospitalized and his life is not in danger from the injuries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ France and Saudi Arabia come as Muslim-majority countries have protested President Emmanuel Macron ’ s defense of freedom of speech , specifically the freedom to publish cartoons that depict the Prophet Muhammad .
Widespread protests have taken place across the Muslim world in response to the French government ’ s actions since the beheading .
France has warned its people to be cautious when travelling in Muslim-majority countries and to avoid large gatherings or protests due to heightened safety concerns .

A Greek Orthodox priest was shot in France on Saturday amid a nationwide terror alert that was raised to the “emergency” level earlier in the week after a series of attacks, several sources reported.
The priest, a Greek citizen in his 40s, was shot twice in the abdomen in Lyon and is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries, according to CBS News.
French police arrested a suspect in a kebab shop in the city roughly three hours after the incident, but there was no immediate information about his identity, according to the Guardian. The suspect was described as a “man of Mediterranean appearance,” Ludovic Cassier of the police union Unité SGP Police told French radio, according to the Guardian.
The priest was conscious when he was taken from the church to the ambulance and was able to tell witnesses that he did not know the man who attacked him.
The attack comes days after a Tunisian migrant was suspected of killing three people in a church in Nice. Brahim Aouissaoui, 21, had arrived in Europe a month prior to the attack and was reportedly carrying a Koran, two telephones, and a 12-inch knife at the time of the attack, the BBC reported. He was shot by police.
France’s President Emmanuel Macron announced that the country deployed 7,000 soldiers following the attack to protect public places like churches and schools, and has raised the nation’s national security alert to the highest level. (RELATED: France Terror Suspect Had Arrived In Europe From Tunisia On Migrant Boat 1 Month Prior To Killings, Official Says)
The killings in Nice are being investigated by France’s anti-terror prosecutors and come two weeks after teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded after showing students the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, published by the Charlie Hebdo satire magazine in 2015, during a lesson on freedom of speech.
The suspected attacker, 18-year-old Chechen refugee Abdoullakh Aboutezidovitch, allegedly said he wanted to punish Paty for showing students the cartoons, according to Reuters.
Multiple attacks took place within hours of the attack in Nice, or were foiled by police. Police killed a man who was threatening passerby with a gun in another French city, Montfavet, while yelling “Allahu akbar,” Europe 1 reported, according to Reuters.
An Afghan national armed with a long knife was arrested in Lyon while trying to board a tram. The individual was already flagged to intelligence services, according to i24 News.
In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a Saudi man was arrested after attacking a guard at the French consulate with a knife. The French Embassy said the guard was hospitalized and his life is not in danger from the injuries, Reuters reported.
The incidents in France and Saudi Arabia come as Muslim-majority countries have protested President Emmanuel Macron’s defense of freedom of speech, specifically the freedom to publish cartoons that depict the Prophet Muhammad.
Widespread protests have taken place across the Muslim world in response to the French government’s actions since the beheading.
France has warned its people to be cautious when travelling in Muslim-majority countries and to avoid large gatherings or protests due to heightened safety concerns.


thedailycaller--2020-10-31--Melania Turns Heads In Gorgeous Black Dress And High Heel Boots During Wisconsin Rally

Melania Trump definitely turned heads Saturday when she stepped out in a gorgeous dress and high heel boots combo during a trip to Wisconsin .
The first lady looked just as striking as ever in the long-sleeve , button-up black number that went down to her knees during her arrival at Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee for a “ Make America Great Again ” rally for President Donald Trump ’ s reelection efforts .
( RELATED : Melania Stuns In Pale-Pink Dress At Reception During UN General Assembly [ PHOTOS ] ) She completed the jaw-dropping look with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ black high heel boots .
( RELATED : Celebrate Ivanka Trump ’ s Birthday With Her Greatest Looks [ SLIDESHOW ] ) To say she looked perfect would be a serious understatement .
At one point during the event , the crowd started chanting “ four more years , four more years , ” as FLOTUS talked about what she said were the president ’ s accomplishments .
In response , Melania replied , “ I agree , four more years.
” The first lady ’ s fashion sense is always on point @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Check out some of her other unforgettable looks throughout the years here .

Melania Trump definitely turned heads Saturday when she stepped out in a gorgeous dress and high heel boots combo during a trip to Wisconsin.
The first lady looked just as striking as ever in the long-sleeve, button-up black number that went down to her knees during her arrival at Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee for a “Make America Great Again” rally for President Donald Trump’s reelection efforts. (RELATED: Melania Stuns In Pale-Pink Dress At Reception During UN General Assembly [PHOTOS])
She completed the jaw-dropping look with loose hair, a black turtleneck and black high heel boots. (RELATED: Celebrate Ivanka Trump’s Birthday With Her Greatest Looks [SLIDESHOW])
To say she looked perfect would be a serious understatement.
At one point during the event, the crowd started chanting “four more years, four more years,” as FLOTUS talked about what she said were the president’s accomplishments.
In response, Melania replied, “I agree, four more years.”
WATCH (18:14 mark):
LIVE: First Lady Melania Trump in West Bend, WI #WestBend #Wisconsin #FLOTUS Text VOTE to 88022 https://t.co/WNPHFKDJVp — Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) October 31, 2020
The first lady’s fashion sense is always on point as has been noted numerous times before. Check out some of her other unforgettable looks throughout the years here.


thedailycaller--2020-10-31--‘Spare Us The Moral Preening’: Trump Campaign Criticizes Biden After Calling President’s Supporters

‘Spare Us The Moral Preening’: Trump Campaign Criticizes Biden After Calling President’s Supporters ‘Ugly Folks’

The Trump campaign criticized Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden after he called the Donald Trump ’ s supporters “ ugly folks ” during a rally .
“ Dr .
Fauci , called for a mask mandate last week , ” Biden said during a Friday campaign speech in Minnesota , the New York Post reported .
“ This isn ’ t a political statement like those ugly folks over there beeping the horns .
This is a patriotic duty for God ’ s sake !
” Trump supporters outside the event were honking car horns through Biden ’ s speech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 10 Rallies In The Final Two Days Before The Election ) “ Joe Biden ’ s staffer who tweets for him tweets about ‘ decency ’ all the time , ” the GOP ’ s rapid response director , Steve Guest , tweeted .
“ Yet when Biden speaks , he regularly insults Trump supporters.
” “ Last week , Biden called Trump supporters ‘ chumps , ’ now , he calls us ‘ ugly folks , ’ Guest continued .
“ Spare us the moral preening , Joe !
” “ I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than an anti-vaxxer , ” Erin Perrine , the Trump campaign ’ s director of press communications , tweeted .
“ These guys are not very polite , but they ’ re like Trump , ” Biden said at the start of his speech , the New York Post reported .
“ But look , they ’ re going to be OK. We ’ re going to take care of them as well .
We need to come together .
We need to fight for all these folks , ” Biden continued , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump campaign and the Biden campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation ’ s requests for comment .
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The Trump campaign criticized Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden after he called the Donald Trump’s supporters “ugly folks” during a rally.
“Dr. Fauci, called for a mask mandate last week,” Biden said during a Friday campaign speech in Minnesota, the New York Post reported. “This isn’t a political statement like those ugly folks over there beeping the horns. This is a patriotic duty for God’s sake!”
MOMENTS AGO: Joe Biden calls out hecklers beeping horns during his speech: “This isn’t a political statement like those ugly folks over there beeping their horns!” pic.twitter.com/UPHbK446n9 — The Hill (@thehill) October 30, 2020
Trump supporters outside the event were honking car horns through Biden’s speech. (RELATED: Trump To Hold 10 Rallies In The Final Two Days Before The Election)
“Joe Biden’s staffer who tweets for him tweets about ‘decency’ all the time,” the GOP’s rapid response director, Steve Guest, tweeted. “Yet when Biden speaks, he regularly insults Trump supporters.”
“Last week, Biden called Trump supporters ‘chumps,’ now, he calls us ‘ugly folks,’ Guest continued. “Spare us the moral preening, Joe!”
Joe Biden’s staffer who tweets for him tweets about “decency” all the time. Yet when Biden speaks, he regularly insults Trump supporters. Last week, Biden called Trump supporters “chumps,” now, he calls us “ugly folks.” Spare us the moral preening, Joe!pic.twitter.com/CFIJigRJ8g — Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 30, 2020
“I’d rather be Team Ugly Folks than an anti-vaxxer,” Erin Perrine, the Trump campaign’s director of press communications, tweeted.
I’d rather be Team Ugly Folks than an anti-vaxxer ????????♀pic.twitter.com/ei3SJMGDMi — Erin Perrine (@ErinMPerrine) October 30, 2020
“These guys are not very polite, but they’re like Trump,” Biden said at the start of his speech, the New York Post reported.
“But look, they’re going to be OK. We’re going to take care of them as well. We need to come together. We need to fight for all these folks,” Biden continued, The New York Post reported.
The Trump campaign and the Biden campaign did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.
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thedailycaller--2020-10-31--Man Turns Himself In For Killing Father Of New England Patriots Running Back

A man was taken into custody on Thursday after confessing to killing Tyrone White , father of New England Patriots running back James White .
Daniel Chamblin , 32 , was arrested for the death of Tyrone White .
Chamblin faces vehicular homicide and reckless driving charges , NBC News Boston reported .
Tyrone White , 59 , was killed in an alleged vehicular homicide back in September in Broward County , Fla. that Chamblin confessed to on Thursday .
White , who was in the passenger seat of a Volkswagen Passat , was driving with his wife , Lisa @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Chamblin crashed directly into their vehicle around the streets of Griffin Road and Southwest 118th Avenue , according to NBC News Boston .
( RELATED : Fatal Bus Crash In New Mexico Leaves At Least Seven Dead ) In the fatal crash , Chamblin sent the Volkswagen that was being driven by Tyrone and Lisa White sideways .
The impact from the Subaru caused the Whites to strike a curb , and roll until resting upside-down on the side of the road .
Witnesses of the incident assisted Chamblin in escaping his car @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Daniel was safely rescued from his vehicle , Chamblin was rushed to the hospital along with the driver of the Volkswagen Lisa White , 58 .
Tyrone White was announced dead at the scene of the crime .

A man was taken into custody on Thursday after confessing to killing Tyrone White, father of New England Patriots running back James White.
Daniel Chamblin, 32, was arrested for the death of Tyrone White. Chamblin faces vehicular homicide and reckless driving charges, NBC News Boston reported.
Tyrone White, 59, was killed in an alleged vehicular homicide back in September in Broward County, Fla. that Chamblin confessed to on Thursday.
White, who was in the passenger seat of a Volkswagen Passat, was driving with his wife, Lisa, when the Subaru WRX belonging to Chamblin crashed directly into their vehicle around the streets of Griffin Road and Southwest 118th Avenue, according to NBC News Boston. (RELATED: Fatal Bus Crash In New Mexico Leaves At Least Seven Dead)
In the fatal crash, Chamblin sent the Volkswagen that was being driven by Tyrone and Lisa White sideways. The impact from the Subaru caused the Whites to strike a curb, and roll until resting upside-down on the side of the road.
Witnesses of the incident assisted Chamblin in escaping his car that was catching on fire. Once Daniel was safely rescued from his vehicle, Chamblin was rushed to the hospital along with the driver of the Volkswagen Lisa White, 58.
Tyrone White was announced dead at the scene of the crime.


thedailycaller--2020-10-31--‘Brave Warriors’: Trump Hails SEAL Team 6 For Successful Hostage Rescue

President Donald Trump hailed SEAL Team 6 for its successful rescue of an American citizen taken hostage in Nigeria on Saturday , saying the kidnappers “ wished they ’ d never done it.
” The U.S. military announced the successful operation Saturday , saying the American citizen , Philip Walton , had been taken hostage for less than a week before the U.S. special forces unit rescued them , killing six of seven kidnappers .
Trump made the comments during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania , hours after first praising the special forces unit on Twitter .
“ Last night @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rescued an American hostage in Nigeria , ” he tweeted .
“ Our Nation salutes the courageous soldiers behind the daring nighttime rescue operation and celebrates the safe return of yet another American citizen !
” ( RELATED : Islamic Militants Slaughter At Least 81 Men , Women , Children In Nigerian Village Attack ) Neither the U.S. service members nor Walton were injured in the operation , according to the Pentagon .
Officials said local gang members kidnapped the Walton , who the military described as a farmer , from his backyard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for ransom .
U.S. officials also said they feared the gang would sell Walton to terrorist groups operating in the region , according to CBS News .
“ U.S .
forces conducted a hostage rescue operation during the early hours of 31 October in Northern Nigeria to recover an American citizen held hostage by a group of armed men , ” Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement Saturday .
“ This American citizen is safe and is now in the care of the U.S. Department of State .
”

President Donald Trump hailed SEAL Team 6 for its successful rescue of an American citizen taken hostage in Nigeria on Saturday, saying the kidnappers “wished they’d never done it.”
The U.S. military announced the successful operation Saturday, saying the American citizen, Philip Walton, had been taken hostage for less than a week before the U.S. special forces unit rescued them, killing six of seven kidnappers.
Trump made the comments during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, hours after first praising the special forces unit on Twitter.
“Last night, our Country’s brave warriors rescued an American hostage in Nigeria,” he tweeted. “Our Nation salutes the courageous soldiers behind the daring nighttime rescue operation and celebrates the safe return of yet another American citizen!” (RELATED: Islamic Militants Slaughter At Least 81 Men, Women, Children In Nigerian Village Attack)
Last night, our Country’s brave warriors rescued an American hostage in Nigeria. Our Nation salutes the courageous soldiers behind the daring nighttime rescue operation and celebrates the safe return of yet another American citizen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2020
Neither the U.S. service members nor Walton were injured in the operation, according to the Pentagon.
Officials said local gang members kidnapped the Walton, who the military described as a farmer, from his backyard in Niger and planned to hold him for ransom. U.S. officials also said they feared the gang would sell Walton to terrorist groups operating in the region, according to CBS News.
“U.S. forces conducted a hostage rescue operation during the early hours of 31 October in Northern Nigeria to recover an American citizen held hostage by a group of armed men,” Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement Saturday. “This American citizen is safe and is now in the care of the U.S. Department of State.”


thedailycaller--2020-10-31--SEAL Team 6 Rescues American Hostage In ‘Daring’ West Africa Raid

SEAL Team 6 rescued an American citizen taken hostage in northern Nigeria , killing several of his captors , Pentagon officials announced Saturday morning .
Philip Walton , 27 , was kidnapped from his home in Southern Niger on Tuesday , according to two unnamed sources in a report from The Guardian .
Six men armed with assault rifles arrived at Walton ’ s home on Tuesday via motorcycles , kidnapping him while leaving his family behind .
The assailants then demanded money for his return .
( RELATED : US Marshals Find 27 Missing Children In 5 Days In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ reportedly hurt during the “ daring ” rescue operation that reportedly took place early Saturday .
Walton is being held at the U.S. ambassador ’ s residence in Niamey , according to The Guardian .
( RELATED : ‘ Very Politically Correct !
’ : Trump Calls Out Laura Ingraham ’ s Mask During Michigan Rally ) “ The United States is committed to the safe return of all US citizens taken captive , ” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement .
“ We delivered on that commitment late last @ @ @ @ @ @ @ our bravest and most skilled warriors rescued a U.S. citizen after a group of armed men took him hostage across the border in Niger.
” “ Thanks to the extraordinary courage and capabilities of our military , the support of our intelligence professionals , and our diplomatic efforts , the hostage will be reunited with his family , ” he added .
“ We will never abandon any American taken hostage.
” President Donald Trump also touted the achievement in a Saturday morning tweet proclaiming , “ Our Nation salutes the courageous soldiers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ celebrates the safe return of yet another American citizen !
” SEAL Team 6 killed six assailants and captured one , ABC reported .
Ransom kidnappings have become more frequent in West Africa , with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State carry them out to gain millions .
The United States government has criticized other countries for paying these ransoms , according to The Guardian .

SEAL Team 6 rescued an American citizen taken hostage in northern Nigeria, killing several of his captors, Pentagon officials announced Saturday morning.
Philip Walton, 27, was kidnapped from his home in southern Niger on Tuesday, according to two unnamed sources in a report from The Guardian.
Six men armed with assault rifles arrived at Walton’s home on Tuesday via motorcycles, kidnapping him while leaving his family behind. The assailants then demanded money for his return. (RELATED: US Marshals Find 27 Missing Children In 5 Days In Virginia)
No U.S. military personnel were reportedly hurt during the “daring” rescue operation that reportedly took place early Saturday.
Walton is being held at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Niamey, according to The Guardian. (RELATED: ‘Very Politically Correct!’: Trump Calls Out Laura Ingraham’s Mask During Michigan Rally)
“The United States is committed to the safe return of all US citizens taken captive,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. “We delivered on that commitment late last night in Nigeria, where some of our bravest and most skilled warriors rescued a U.S. citizen after a group of armed men took him hostage across the border in Niger.”
“Thanks to the extraordinary courage and capabilities of our military, the support of our intelligence professionals, and our diplomatic efforts, the hostage will be reunited with his family,” he added. “We will never abandon any American taken hostage.”
President Donald Trump also touted the achievement in a Saturday morning tweet proclaiming, “Our Nation salutes the courageous soldiers behind the daring nighttime rescue operation and celebrates the safe return of yet another American citizen!”
Last night, our Country’s brave warriors rescued an American hostage in Nigeria. Our Nation salutes the courageous soldiers behind the daring nighttime rescue operation and celebrates the safe return of yet another American citizen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2020
SEAL Team 6 killed six assailants and captured one, ABC reported.
Ransom kidnappings have become more frequent in West Africa, with groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State carry them out to gain millions.
The United States government has criticized other countries for paying these ransoms, according to The Guardian.