thegatewaypundit--2020-09-04--Meet Karen Giorno, The Woman Behind Laura Loomer’s Stunning GOP Primary Upset

Laura Loomer , GOP candidate for Florida District 21 , and campaign manager Karen Giorno ** You can contribute to Laura Loomer ’ s campaign here .
The house was haunted .
That ’ s what everyone said .
There was no other explanation for the strange things that happened within its walls , which confounded rational explanation .
Joseph and Rosalie Giorno and their children had grown accustomed to things moving around the house , and to the noises , which had been easy to dismiss at first .
But , eventually , even the dog got spooked , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ basement , no matter the inducement .
It was in this house in South Brunswick , New Jersey , in the early 1970s , that a young , third-generation Italian girl , Karen , was raised by a veteran-turned-police officer father , taught to pay obeisance to authority and to history , molded and inducted into the occasionally cartoonish patriotism of what would become Reagan-revolution Republicanism .
Karen would grow into the small-statured but ferocious—and ferociously effective—political strategist who helped Trump lock in Florida and then the Presidency , and who has now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s most unlikely Republican primary winner , activist Laura Loomer .
I have been slightly in love with Karen Giorno since the day I met her .
I traveled to Florida to write a profile of my old friend Laura , but it is Giorno who has captured my imagination .
Today , the latter woman has shed the tumbling southern Mediterranean tresses of youth for a poised , diminutive gravity , accented by straight , black hair .
She looks a decade younger than her fifty-two years .
But it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ages .
And because she wears her scholarly inclinations lightly , sometimes you forget that she is so much smarter than all the other people who do her job .
More than once , I found myself warming to a theme—medieval Christianity , or some insight into the human condition—only to realize I was reading the alphabet to Milton .
A survey of Giorno ’ s early life reveals all the usual hallmarks of an over-achiever .
She was political early , president of the College Republicans at Mary Mount University , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the student body .
She scored a White House internship—her first job—before she ’ d even left undergraduate school .
Shortly thereafter , she passed up Notre Dame ’ s celebrated accelerated PhD program in American Studies , which admits four students a year , because she was called back to the White House to assist in the planning and delivery of George H.W .
Bush ’ s May 1990 state visit from Mikhail Gorbachev .
She was invited to meet both of them in the diplomatic reception room .
Anita McBride , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Laura Bush and an assistant to George W. Bush in a White House career that spanned two decades and three presidencies , remembers Giorno as “ a hard worker , steady and calm ” and recalls that she was “ appropriately humbled to have the honor of working in the White House.
” McBride says Giorno ’ s organizational skills were called on to manage advance trips , “ a complex task where the stakes are high and [ there is ] little room for mistakes.
” Before Giorno established her own consulting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ served her country in a series of senior roles , many of them from inside the most famous building in the world .
She was the senior advance representative for George H.W .
Bush , then Barbara Bush , and then later both George W. Bush and Laura Bush , as well as Second Lady Lynne Cheney .
She worked closely enough with three U.S. Presidents to be known by name to them .
A close personal friendship with George H.W .
Bush lasted twenty-seven years , until his death two years ago @ @ @ @ @ @ @ presidents during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort , responsible for co-ordinating with Bill Clinton ’ s team .
The only President Giorno has enjoyed no interaction with at all during her political life is Barack Obama .
We meet in a spacious mansion , the house furthest from the entrance to a gated community .
The interior is unselfconscious and homey , in sharp relief to Giorno ’ s slender , relentlessly glamorous public image .
She has lived here for three years .
Giorno can not settle down anywhere , and says @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it would keep her in one place for too long .
This saddens me , because it speaks to a restless dysfunction I have seen in others who spend too long in and around politics .
As an Englishman , I ’ m also dismayed to learn that she doesn ’ t drink alcohol .
Giorno , referred to by her younger staffers as “ the skinny legend in charge , ” lives with longtime companion Christina Minna , a retired recording artist .
Minna was the lead singer of an all-female techno @ @ @ @ @ @ @ heyday toured with Nine Inch Nails .
She grows butterflies in their kitchen , which is kept to an unseasonably warm temperature , even for south Florida , and festooned with webbing and oddly-shaped enclosures .
I ’ m struck by the contrasts in Giorno ’ s romantic history .
Previously , she declined a marriage offer from George H.W .
Bush ’ s White House physician , and she briefly dated an astronaut from Houston in the mid-2000s .
An entire room on the first floor of this house is given over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there is an impossibly-cramped office that feels like a sort of anti-TARDIS—somehow the ceilings are lower , but only in this room—with Lilliputian desks laid out for five or six assistants .
I think I remember it from a television production of Lord of the Rings ; else it was some uncannily similar rendering of Bilbo Baggins ’ s Bag End .
It ’ s quaint and charming , but what happens in here is anything but : This is where they plot the humiliation and ruin of her clients ’ enemies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ creature of both Republican Parties , with one foot in the Reagan era and another in the ascendant populist , nationalist strain of generation Trump .
I ask if she favors one over the other , and she says No .
But I wonder if this is really true , since Giorno has , for decades , been at the vanguard of transforming the former into the latter .
She has been a loyal attendant to Palin , toast of the Tea Party and harbinger of the MAGA era , who paved the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Oval Office , who in turn foreshadowed and cleared space for a new generation of candidates like Loomer .
Giorno was there for all of it , deploying her political bilingualism to assist the new in deconstructing and dethroning the old .
So I press her on the subject again .
Which iteration of the Republican Party commands her fealty ?
Where is her heart ?
“ My heart is in America , ” she responds , without much consideration .
This makes me groan and then pretend to gag .
But she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and I admit to greater understanding .
“ I am an American before everything else , ” she explains .
“ I really do believe in , and love , all the traditional , clichéd things about this country .
The Americana .
My father was a veteran , and both my paternal and maternal families were embroiled in World War Two .
There were casualties on both sides , and these are stories I grew up with .
I am a Reagan revolution conservative.
” Her allegiances haven ’ t shifted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
“ I ’ ve stayed in the same place I always was .
And I ’ ve lost work as a result of cleaving to what I call ‘ true north.
’ It all sounds very hokey , but it ’ s what I believe.
” Giorno ’ s “ true north ” is the conservatism of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson .
She can quote from both from memory , and at some length .
But the idea of America wasn ’ t something Giorno merely read in a book , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t relate to its founding story , are left to do .
“ I grew up around Princeton , New Jersey , part of the thirteen colonies , close to the sites of the battles of Trenton and Princeton .
George Washington really did sleep just down the road .
We were forty minutes from the Delaware River where he crossed in 1776.
” Over thirty years serving in the White House , and then managing clients and propelling them to high office , Giorno has developed a proprietary set of strategies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and persuade others into giving her what she wants , derived from the great statesmen and operators she has been surrounded by since the age of twenty .
She has a reputation for being a tough cookie and for being somewhat uncompromising about her clients ’ or boss ’ s needs , but although she can be stern , she insists that she is never mean-spirited .
“ I may be Italian , but I don ’ t harbor vengeful thoughts.
” Giorno is occasionally a victim of the integrity that has drawn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It ’ s an open secret that Giorno ’ s professional antagonists include Katie Walsh , former Chief of Staff for the Republican National Committee , whose relentless briefing against Giorno is said to be the reason the latter wasn ’ t offered a job in the White House after Trump won in 2016 , despite the fact that she was the most politically-seasoned person on Trump ’ s campaign .
Her critics are right to be intimidated .
There is really no equivalent to Karen Giorno elsewhere in politics .
Keith Nahigian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ worked in the first Bush White House and has known Giorno for thirty years , describes her as a “ real pro ” who knows “ how to strategize , organize , and energize a group of people to win.
” Kevin Moley , former Ambassador to the United Nations and a former Assistant Secretary of State for the Trump administration , is just as effusive .
“ I ’ ve known Karen since she was a college intern at the White House , ” he remembers .
“ Even then , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to take charge when others couldn ’ t or wouldn ’ t. ” Moley credits Giorno with pulling off a hero ’ s welcome at the White House for Bush after he lost the 1992 election , when many staffers were paralyzed with shock and sadness .
“ Despite being the youngest person there , she took charge , reached out to the Bush political appointees [ and ] lined the South Lawn driveway with his supporters to give 41 a rousing welcome back to the White House .
From that day to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I wanted to get something done , Karen was the person to call .
I ’ d be glad to work for her .
She ’ s the bomb.
” Moley is a Purple Heart recipient , so I take his comments about incendiary devices seriously .
The closest equivalent to Giorno in professional terms would be the Lincoln Project ’ s Steve Schmidt , although the two could not be more ideologically and temperamentally different .
She has no female peers at all , which may explain why she attracts devotees and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lot.
” This makes sense in an industry that runs on rumor ; the handful of people in the United States who possess the very specific set of skills Giorno does are dwarfed by the number of poseurs , imposters , opportunists and confidence men .
Giorno inspires deep devotion and high praise from colleagues and clients , which has spawned a micro-industry of jealous former co-workers .
Nothing has made mediocre Republican operatives dislike her more than Donald Trump christening her his “ killer.
” Yet spend a moment with her @ @ @ @ @ @ @ compassionate , kind and warm-hearted , if a little unyielding .
She is an executor , not an executioner .
Giorno , I have concluded , only attracts ire because she is a winner who coaches winners , and because she will do just about anything to get where she needs to go , and because she is a doer in a world of talkers .
She has developed a clear , though also unwritten , set of rules for managing candidates .
Over three decades in American politics , this cluster of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donald Trump .
“ For the most part , there ’ s a sort of cookie-cutter approach to my job .
You cater a little to the uniqueness , but there ’ s a playbook .
I tried to fit Donald Trump into this template , but it quickly became apparent that it just wasn ’ t working .
He was creating his own playbook for success , and so I had the honor of helping to design it , here in Florida and nationally on voter engagement.
” I tell her I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like one of the bores on C-SPAN .
She pivots , and she tells me something else about herself that she is reticent about sharing in print—a revelation : She is deeply , profoundly committed to her Christianity .
It is only at this moment that I remember , alongside the mawkish dog portraits and inspirational quote pillows—this is a house entirely without male influence—that every room in the Giorno house has a cross somewhere in it , which makes a feel-good bromide under the television , “ Inhale the future .
Exhale @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Talking about her faith , I see Giorno sheepish , hesitating for the first and perhaps the only time .
“ I am radically in love with Jesus , ” she finally confesses .
“ I have always felt as though God has a purpose for everyone in this life , and that what I do is a calling .
I wake up every morning motivated by that .
To make sure that America survives .
That the Republic stands.
” I ask why it took an audible intake of breath and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out .
“ Well , we live in an age where talking about your faith isn ’ t necessarily a positive.
” ven in the Republican Party ?
“ Yes !
It makes you sound like a loony.
” This does not stop her from elaborating on her faith .
“ Man has his plans , but God directs his steps .
I wake up every morning in communion with God , and I go to bed every night the same way.
” I ask whether some of Giorno ’ s life choices @ @ @ @ @ @ @ more complicated .
“ If you don ’ t have a complicated relationship with God , it ’ s not an authentic relationship .
But , through Christ , we are redeemed .
He makes all things new again.
” Giorno ’ s affirmation makes my heart sing .
She tells me that she has been born again since 2006 .
It starts to make sense why Trump , despite his own moral failings , has treated Christians so well in office : He has been surrounded for much of his political life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ As I ’ ve discovered of other Trump intimates , Giorno , who grew up Italian Catholic , perfectly embodies G.K. Chesterton ’ s “ glad and angry faith.
” Her—our—brand of Christianity makes space to hate the hateful .
Karen Giorno is a wise woman , and there ’ s something calming her—something reassuring in the deep domain expertise and unflappability .
There is , buried in Karen Giorno , the delicate serenity of Erik Satie ’ s Gymnopédies , or one of those long white bars of Xanax , the kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ often any more .
She ’ s also a minor fashion icon in her own right , always perfectly turned out in a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress and Gucci or Jimmy Choo heels .
“ Five feet on a good day , ” in her words , she is inexhaustibly proud of the fact that she shops in the “ petite ” section , because size zero clothes are too long for her .
There are other things buried in Karen Giorno , too—other identities that only surface if you know to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Whitman would have put it , she contains multitudes .
A prize-winning essayist .
A history professor .
The mother she could have been .
Pagan deities had aspects—incarnations of the gods that emphasized different qualities or responsibilities .
Today we might call these different shards of an individual ’ s personality .
Giorno the history professor is the most compelling of these aspects .
You would never discover the encyclopedia in Karen Giorno unless you stumbled upon the right subject in conversation .
You would never know , for instance , that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at the American Museum of Natural History , or that as a child her family outings were camping trips to the sites of revolutionary and civil war skirmishes .
Christina Minna interjects to tell me that Giorno took her on dates to battlefields , during which the latter would explain troop movements in minute detail while Minna smoked joints and marveled at her mind .
I try to picture this , and wonder how on earth they are still together .
“ It ’ s my father ’ s fault , ” Giorno @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up , our family vacations were to Gettysburg , not Disney World.
” The best way to understand Karen Giorno as a phenomenon is to examine the political organisms she has nurtured and attracted .
And it is here we find that she has , in fact , been a mother many times over .
What Giorno ’ s companion Minna does for monarch butterflies from their kitchen in Palm Beach , Giorno has done for Laura Loomer and a half-dozen other candidates , gently coaxing them out of their pupae and helping @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this task , she is as attentive as any polar bear and as alive to the dangerous of predation as any cheetah .
The analogy isn ’ t perfect : Loomer is not a butterfly , for instance , but rather something closer to a death ’ s-head moth , one of the three species of the genus Acherontia .
These hawkmoths are associated with the sinister and supernatural , rumored by some cultures to carry a deadly sting , but they in fact merely raid beehives for honey .
They get a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , maligned for things they can not change , regarded with suspicion and horror for the mere fact of their evolution—hence their appearance in both Bram Stoker ’ s Dracula and Keats ’ s “ Ode to Melancholy.
” English pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt ’ s The Hireling Shepherd , completed in 1851 , presents a shepherd ignoring his flock , cozying up to a young woman , showing her one of the moths .
The untethered wanderings of the sheep and the physical closeness of the young couple—he is , in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in her grill—together represent violations of the natural order and crossed boundaries .
The death ’ s-head moth is a shorthand for a range of subtle but threatening transgressions against pre-existing harmonies .
As a campaign strategist , Karen Giorno breeds such moths professionally : Sarah Palin ; Rick Scott ; Donald Trump ; Laura Loomer .
“ The significance of the moth is change , ” Hannibal Lecter explains in another of the death ’ s-head ’ s cultural cameos , The Silence of the Lambs .
“ Caterpillar into chrysalis … @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is into the death ’ s-head ’ s dark and mesmerizing beauty that the darkly beautiful Karen Giorno has guided her candidates .
In so doing , she has birthed creatures with dense stores of resilience .
In 1836 , Scottish zoologist James Duncan wrote of the moth : “ It is not easy to understand how a creature without offensive weapons , and unprotected by any hard covering , can either resist or survive the attacks of so many armed assailants.
” Is there a better metaphor for the likes of Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , we are interrupted constantly by two massively irritating residents of her home : a one-year-old toy Australian shepherd called Sydney Seraphina and a one-year-old “ Rat-cha , ” a rat terrier-chihuahua mix , called Gigi Giana .
The dogs , their names , their yapping and their handbag proportions disgust me , but I later realize that the only reason I truly dislike the dogs is that they have sensed evil in the house and want me out .
They do not stop carping until my Uber arrives , many hours later @ @ @ @ @ @ @ glasses coping with the din .
Her professional apotheosis may have been her many and varied contributions to Trump ’ s 2016 victory—everyone in Republican politics claims to have had a hand in that , but only a few people really did , and Giorno is one of them—but with Laura Loomer she is proving that even with difficult and unlikely source material , she can still churn out bestsellers .
She keeps trying to retire , or mature out of party politics , she says , but keeps getting thrust , or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of dark horse candidates .
Listen carefully to one of Laura Loomer ’ s barnstorming speeches and you can hear Giorno peering out from behind expressions of the principles they share .
“ I ’ m going to win because I understand something my opponents don ’ t about the soul of the American people , ” Loomer recently told a room of Republican activists .
“ We are a nation defined by willful determination , defined by our refusal to accept failure or defeat , and defined by a fighting spirit that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is pure Giorno , and , true to form , when I bring it up , she can ’ t help but pepper the conversation with historical examples .
“ Most of Edison ’ s inventions were failures , ” she observes .
“ But if he hadn ’ t carried on , imagine what we might have lost .
Even Lincoln failed more than he succeeded .
He didn ’ t get re-elected to Congress .
He failed to ever get elected to the Senate .
America is the story of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , only to get back up again and make extraordinary strides forward .
It ’ s those strides that we remember.
” As she describes this aspect of the national character , I can ’ t get the image of a stubborn , petulant child out of my mind , and it occurs to me that these are just the sorts of personalities Giorno loves to work with .
There are things that still confuse me about Karen Giorno .
She is a powerful and persuasive private interlocutor , but a surprisingly measured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ right until the cameras start rolling .
Is it nerves ?
There is an old White House expression : “ If you ’ re in the shot , you ’ re fired.
” It communicates the virtue of invisibility in support staff , the idea that presidential advance teams should not make themselves the focus of attention .
I wonder about this .
Perhaps working with this President taught her not to risk outshining her principal .
But events , and success , are overtaking her instinct to live unseen .
Giorno does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , journalistic consideration .
I am an unapologetic part of the problem .
As one of the celestial bodies trapped briefly in orbit around Donald J. Trump , her shadow was cast long over America in 2016 ; now , with her latest candidate ’ s improbably astonishing performance in Florida ’ s twenty-first district , she is again emerging as one of the most interesting people in politics .
Not a high bar—but one she clears with grace , and in blisteringly expensive shoes .
Karen Giorno , with her political dexterity @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for the America of 2020 , as the country struggles to break free from chaotic and diabolical forces .
“ We ’ re about to lose everything I love , ” she tells me .
“ That ’ s why I keep being pulled back into politics .
I have bled for Donald Trump .
I ’ ve bled for all my candidates .
But it ’ s because I believe in that the things we are fighting for .
They ’ re worth it.
” Giorno understands that heroes are called upon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sniping from embittered also-rans doesn ’ t faze her .
She also understands that America is at war with powerful subversive forces , manifesting as Black Lives Matter , Antifa and , yes , the Democrat Party itself .
“ Everything beautiful and life-sustaining in our universe was created in an act of unfathomable violence that we call the Big Bang , ” she says .
“ Violent episodes are sometimes necessary to get to where we need to go.
” She ’ s talking about figurative , electoral street-fighting , not political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ disavow in strong language .
But the steeliness behind her eyes leaves me momentarily unsure .
We linger on the solar system .
“ I ’ ve always thought of Donald Trump as Jupiter , ” she says , expecting me to know what she ’ s talking about .
I apologize for disappointing her again .
“ Well , Jupiter is a giant gas planet , and , owing to its massive size , it protects the Earth from a lot of the flying debris and detritus in space that might otherwise @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to keep us safe .
In 2016 , I was keenly aware of Donald Trump as the Jupiter who would save the Republic .
And I can ’ t retire until I am sure there is another Jupiter waiting in the wings.
” Is that why she came out of political retirement to mastermind Laura Loomer ’ s high-wire , high-risk bid for a seat in Congress ?
“ Yes .
She ’ s the future of the Republican Party .
This is someone I consider worthy of investment .
In five or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ devoted to philanthropy , I want to look back on my time in politics and see that I did everything in my power to defend our constitutional republic and safeguard its future.
” While I am in the Giorno household , I notice something that the political strategists ’ assistants tell me is entirely normal—or at least , that they ’ re entirely used to it .
Giorno breaks anything electrical that she comes into contact with .
Giorno herself dismisses it as stupid , but the people around her are convinced : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ juice out of coffee machines , watches , printers and phones .
I ’ m all of a sudden left with more questions than answers about that haunted house , about the preternatural gifts her candidates have and the supernatural faith that Giorno does , and I am then aware of the fact that there is something faintly magical , or more properly , I should say , blessed , about this woman , and her ability to guide the hand of Republican statesmen and defeat Democrats .
It suddenly makes sense to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as being anointed for a greater purpose .
I spent my youth rushing home from school to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer , which is a very silly television program about very serious things .
Like Sarah Michelle Geller ’ s iconic , and similarly undersized , heroine , Karen Giorno is not always likable .
But she was meant for something virtuous , something transcendent—and she is fulfilling that destiny , leaving behind a path littered with the bruised and beaten bodies of America ’ s demons .
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Laura Loomer, GOP candidate for Florida District 21, and campaign manager Karen Giorno
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The house was haunted. That’s what everyone said. There was no other explanation for the strange things that happened within its walls, which confounded rational explanation. Joseph and Rosalie Giorno and their children had grown accustomed to things moving around the house, and to the noises, which had been easy to dismiss at first. But, eventually, even the dog got spooked, and wouldn’t go into the basement, no matter the inducement.
It was in this house in South Brunswick, New Jersey, in the early 1970s, that a young, third-generation Italian girl, Karen, was raised by a veteran-turned-police officer father, taught to pay obeisance to authority and to history, molded and inducted into the occasionally cartoonish patriotism of what would become Reagan-revolution Republicanism. Karen would grow into the small-statured but ferocious—and ferociously effective—political strategist who helped Trump lock in Florida and then the Presidency, and who has now resurfaced as the éminence grise behind 2020’s most unlikely Republican primary winner, activist Laura Loomer.
I have been slightly in love with Karen Giorno since the day I met her. I traveled to Florida to write a profile of my old friend Laura, but it is Giorno who has captured my imagination. Today, the latter woman has shed the tumbling southern Mediterranean tresses of youth for a poised, diminutive gravity, accented by straight, black hair. She looks a decade younger than her fifty-two years. But it is as though she carries the wisdom for the ages. And because she wears her scholarly inclinations lightly, sometimes you forget that she is so much smarter than all the other people who do her job. More than once, I found myself warming to a theme—medieval Christianity, or some insight into the human condition—only to realize I was reading the alphabet to Milton.
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A survey of Giorno’s early life reveals all the usual hallmarks of an over-achiever. She was political early, president of the College Republicans at Mary Mount University, and a student leader, president of the student body. She scored a White House internship—her first job—before she’d even left undergraduate school. Shortly thereafter, she passed up Notre Dame’s celebrated accelerated PhD program in American Studies, which admits four students a year, because she was called back to the White House to assist in the planning and delivery of George H.W. Bush’s May 1990 state visit from Mikhail Gorbachev. She was invited to meet both of them in the diplomatic reception room.
Anita McBride, who served as chief of staff to Laura Bush and an assistant to George W. Bush in a White House career that spanned two decades and three presidencies, remembers Giorno as “a hard worker, steady and calm” and recalls that she was “appropriately humbled to have the honor of working in the White House.” McBride says Giorno’s organizational skills were called on to manage advance trips, “a complex task where the stakes are high and [there is] little room for mistakes.”
Before Giorno established her own consulting firm, Kingston Public Affairs, she served her country in a series of senior roles, many of them from inside the most famous building in the world. She was the senior advance representative for George H.W. Bush, then Barbara Bush, and then later both George W. Bush and Laura Bush, as well as Second Lady Lynne Cheney. She worked closely enough with three U.S. Presidents to be known by name to them. A close personal friendship with George H.W. Bush lasted twenty-seven years, until his death two years ago. She was the head liaison between presidents during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, responsible for co-ordinating with Bill Clinton’s team. The only President Giorno has enjoyed no interaction with at all during her political life is Barack Obama.
We meet in a spacious mansion, the house furthest from the entrance to a gated community. The interior is unselfconscious and homey, in sharp relief to Giorno’s slender, relentlessly glamorous public image. She has lived here for three years. Giorno cannot settle down anywhere, and says she may never own property, because it would keep her in one place for too long. This saddens me, because it speaks to a restless dysfunction I have seen in others who spend too long in and around politics. As an Englishman, I’m also dismayed to learn that she doesn’t drink alcohol.
Giorno, referred to by her younger staffers as “the skinny legend in charge,” lives with longtime companion Christina Minna, a retired recording artist. Minna was the lead singer of an all-female techno group in the 1990s which in its heyday toured with Nine Inch Nails. She grows butterflies in their kitchen, which is kept to an unseasonably warm temperature, even for south Florida, and festooned with webbing and oddly-shaped enclosures. I’m struck by the contrasts in Giorno’s romantic history. Previously, she declined a marriage offer from George H.W. Bush’s White House physician, and she briefly dated an astronaut from Houston in the mid-2000s.
An entire room on the first floor of this house is given over to Loomer for Congress paraphernalia. Upstairs, there is an impossibly-cramped office that feels like a sort of anti-TARDIS—somehow the ceilings are lower, but only in this room—with Lilliputian desks laid out for five or six assistants. I think I remember it from a television production of Lord of the Rings; else it was some uncannily similar rendering of Bilbo Baggins’s Bag End. It’s quaint and charming, but what happens in here is anything but: This is where they plot the humiliation and ruin of her clients’ enemies.
Karen Giorno describes herself as a creature of both Republican Parties, with one foot in the Reagan era and another in the ascendant populist, nationalist strain of generation Trump. I ask if she favors one over the other, and she says No. But I wonder if this is really true, since Giorno has, for decades, been at the vanguard of transforming the former into the latter. She has been a loyal attendant to Palin, toast of the Tea Party and harbinger of the MAGA era, who paved the way for the current incumbent of the Oval Office, who in turn foreshadowed and cleared space for a new generation of candidates like Loomer.
Giorno was there for all of it, deploying her political bilingualism to assist the new in deconstructing and dethroning the old. So I press her on the subject again. Which iteration of the Republican Party commands her fealty? Where is her heart? “My heart is in America,” she responds, without much consideration. This makes me groan and then pretend to gag. But she goes on to explain what she means, and I admit to greater understanding.
“I am an American before everything else,” she explains. “I really do believe in, and love, all the traditional, clichéd things about this country. The Americana. My father was a veteran, and both my paternal and maternal families were embroiled in World War Two. There were casualties on both sides, and these are stories I grew up with. I am a Reagan revolution conservative.”
Her allegiances haven’t shifted since her political genesis, she insists. “I’ve stayed in the same place I always was. And I’ve lost work as a result of cleaving to what I call ‘true north.’ It all sounds very hokey, but it’s what I believe.” Giorno’s “true north” is the conservatism of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. She can quote from both from memory, and at some length. But the idea of America wasn’t something Giorno merely read in a book, as so many Californians, who can’t relate to its founding story, are left to do. “I grew up around Princeton, New Jersey, part of the thirteen colonies, close to the sites of the battles of Trenton and Princeton. George Washington really did sleep just down the road. We were forty minutes from the Delaware River where he crossed in 1776.”
Over thirty years serving in the White House, and then managing clients and propelling them to high office, Giorno has developed a proprietary set of strategies designed to cajole, flatter, flirt and persuade others into giving her what she wants, derived from the great statesmen and operators she has been surrounded by since the age of twenty. She has a reputation for being a tough cookie and for being somewhat uncompromising about her clients’ or boss’s needs, but although she can be stern, she insists that she is never mean-spirited. “I may be Italian, but I don’t harbor vengeful thoughts.”
Giorno is occasionally a victim of the integrity that has drawn her toward populist, nationalist candidates. It’s an open secret that Giorno’s professional antagonists include Katie Walsh, former Chief of Staff for the Republican National Committee, whose relentless briefing against Giorno is said to be the reason the latter wasn’t offered a job in the White House after Trump won in 2016, despite the fact that she was the most politically-seasoned person on Trump’s campaign.
Her critics are right to be intimidated. There is really no equivalent to Karen Giorno elsewhere in politics. Keith Nahigian, a Washington, D.C. attorney who worked in the first Bush White House and has known Giorno for thirty years, describes her as a “real pro” who knows “how to strategize, organize, and energize a group of people to win.” Kevin Moley, former Ambassador to the United Nations and a former Assistant Secretary of State for the Trump administration, is just as effusive. “I’ve known Karen since she was a college intern at the White House,” he remembers. “Even then, she impressed with her energy and her ability to take charge when others couldn’t or wouldn’t.”
Moley credits Giorno with pulling off a hero’s welcome at the White House for Bush after he lost the 1992 election, when many staffers were paralyzed with shock and sadness. “Despite being the youngest person there, she took charge, reached out to the Bush political appointees [and] lined the South Lawn driveway with his supporters to give 41 a rousing welcome back to the White House. From that day to this, I’ve known if I wanted to get something done, Karen was the person to call. I’d be glad to work for her. She’s the bomb.” Moley is a Purple Heart recipient, so I take his comments about incendiary devices seriously.
The closest equivalent to Giorno in professional terms would be the Lincoln Project’s Steve Schmidt, although the two could not be more ideologically and temperamentally different. She has no female peers at all, which may explain why she attracts devotees and detractors in equal measure—that measure being “a lot.” This makes sense in an industry that runs on rumor; the handful of people in the United States who possess the very specific set of skills Giorno does are dwarfed by the number of poseurs, imposters, opportunists and confidence men.
Giorno inspires deep devotion and high praise from colleagues and clients, which has spawned a micro-industry of jealous former co-workers. Nothing has made mediocre Republican operatives dislike her more than Donald Trump christening her his “killer.” Yet spend a moment with her and it’s clear she is compassionate, kind and warm-hearted, if a little unyielding. She is an executor, not an executioner. Giorno, I have concluded, only attracts ire because she is a winner who coaches winners, and because she will do just about anything to get where she needs to go, and because she is a doer in a world of talkers.
She has developed a clear, though also unwritten, set of rules for managing candidates. Over three decades in American politics, this cluster of strategies rarely failed her… until she met Donald Trump. “For the most part, there’s a sort of cookie-cutter approach to my job. You cater a little to the uniqueness, but there’s a playbook. I tried to fit Donald Trump into this template, but it quickly became apparent that it just wasn’t working. He was creating his own playbook for success, and so I had the honor of helping to design it, here in Florida and nationally on voter engagement.” I tell her I am nodding off, because she sounds like one of the bores on C-SPAN.
She pivots, and she tells me something else about herself that she is reticent about sharing in print—a revelation: She is deeply, profoundly committed to her Christianity. It is only at this moment that I remember, alongside the mawkish dog portraits and inspirational quote pillows—this is a house entirely without male influence—that every room in the Giorno house has a cross somewhere in it, which makes a feel-good bromide under the television, “Inhale the future. Exhale the past,” even less forgivable.
Talking about her faith, I see Giorno sheepish, hesitating for the first and perhaps the only time. “I am radically in love with Jesus,” she finally confesses. “I have always felt as though God has a purpose for everyone in this life, and that what I do is a calling. I wake up every morning motivated by that. To make sure that America survives. That the Republic stands.” I ask why it took an audible intake of breath and two seconds between clauses to get that out. “Well, we live in an age where talking about your faith isn’t necessarily a positive.”
Even in the Republican Party? “Yes! It makes you sound like a loony.” This does not stop her from elaborating on her faith. “Man has his plans, but God directs his steps. I wake up every morning in communion with God, and I go to bed every night the same way.” I ask whether some of Giorno’s life choices make her relationship with the Almighty any more complicated. “If you don’t have a complicated relationship with God, it’s not an authentic relationship. But, through Christ, we are redeemed. He makes all things new again.”
Giorno’s affirmation makes my heart sing. She tells me that she has been born again since 2006. It starts to make sense why Trump, despite his own moral failings, has treated Christians so well in office: He has been surrounded for much of his political life by the faithful and the patriotic. As I’ve discovered of other Trump intimates, Giorno, who grew up Italian Catholic, perfectly embodies G.K. Chesterton’s “glad and angry faith.” Her—our—brand of Christianity makes space to hate the hateful.
Karen Giorno is a wise woman, and there’s something calming her—something reassuring in the deep domain expertise and unflappability. There is, buried in Karen Giorno, the delicate serenity of Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies, or one of those long white bars of Xanax, the kind they don’t give out too often any more. She’s also a minor fashion icon in her own right, always perfectly turned out in a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress and Gucci or Jimmy Choo heels. “Five feet on a good day,” in her words, she is inexhaustibly proud of the fact that she shops in the “petite” section, because size zero clothes are too long for her.
There are other things buried in Karen Giorno, too—other identities that only surface if you know to ask the right questions. As Walt Whitman would have put it, she contains multitudes. A prize-winning essayist. A history professor. The mother she could have been. Pagan deities had aspects—incarnations of the gods that emphasized different qualities or responsibilities. Today we might call these different shards of an individual’s personality. Giorno the history professor is the most compelling of these aspects. You would never discover the encyclopedia in Karen Giorno unless you stumbled upon the right subject in conversation.
You would never know, for instance, that she had spent over a decade working at the American Museum of Natural History, or that as a child her family outings were camping trips to the sites of revolutionary and civil war skirmishes. Christina Minna interjects to tell me that Giorno took her on dates to battlefields, during which the latter would explain troop movements in minute detail while Minna smoked joints and marveled at her mind. I try to picture this, and wonder how on earth they are still together. Who’d stick around someone whose idea of a romantic date was a visit to a battlefield? “It’s my father’s fault,” Giorno explains. “When I was growing up, our family vacations were to Gettysburg, not Disney World.”
The best way to understand Karen Giorno as a phenomenon is to examine the political organisms she has nurtured and attracted. And it is here we find that she has, in fact, been a mother many times over. What Giorno’s companion Minna does for monarch butterflies from their kitchen in Palm Beach, Giorno has done for Laura Loomer and a half-dozen other candidates, gently coaxing them out of their pupae and helping them to spread their wings. In this task, she is as attentive as any polar bear and as alive to the dangerous of predation as any cheetah. The analogy isn’t perfect: Loomer is not a butterfly, for instance, but rather something closer to a death’s-head moth, one of the three species of the genus Acherontia.
These hawkmoths are associated with the sinister and supernatural, rumored by some cultures to carry a deadly sting, but they in fact merely raid beehives for honey. They get a bad rap for being what they are, maligned for things they cannot change, regarded with suspicion and horror for the mere fact of their evolution—hence their appearance in both Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Keats’s “Ode to Melancholy.”
English pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt’s The Hireling Shepherd, completed in 1851, presents a shepherd ignoring his flock, cozying up to a young woman, showing her one of the moths. The untethered wanderings of the sheep and the physical closeness of the young couple—he is, in today’s parlance, all up in her grill—together represent violations of the natural order and crossed boundaries. The death’s-head moth is a shorthand for a range of subtle but threatening transgressions against pre-existing harmonies.
As a campaign strategist, Karen Giorno breeds such moths professionally: Sarah Palin; Rick Scott; Donald Trump; Laura Loomer. “The significance of the moth is change,” Hannibal Lecter explains in another of the death’s-head’s cultural cameos, The Silence of the Lambs. “Caterpillar into chrysalis … and from thence into beauty.” It is into the death’s-head’s dark and mesmerizing beauty that the darkly beautiful Karen Giorno has guided her candidates. In so doing, she has birthed creatures with dense stores of resilience. In 1836, Scottish zoologist James Duncan wrote of the moth: “It is not easy to understand how a creature without offensive weapons, and unprotected by any hard covering, can either resist or survive the attacks of so many armed assailants.” Is there a better metaphor for the likes of Trump and Loomer?
During our time together, we are interrupted constantly by two massively irritating residents of her home: a one-year-old toy Australian shepherd called Sydney Seraphina and a one-year-old “Rat-cha,” a rat terrier-chihuahua mix, called Gigi Gianna. The dogs, their names, their yapping and their handbag proportions disgust me, but I later realize that the only reason I truly dislike the dogs is that they have sensed evil in the house and want me out. They do not stop carping until my Uber arrives, many hours later and after I have broken two wine glasses coping with the din.
Her professional apotheosis may have been her many and varied contributions to Trump’s 2016 victory—everyone in Republican politics claims to have had a hand in that, but only a few people really did, and Giorno is one of them—but with Laura Loomer she is proving that even with difficult and unlikely source material, she can still churn out bestsellers. She keeps trying to retire, or mature out of party politics, she says, but keeps getting thrust, or seduced, back in by the challenge of dark horse candidates.
Listen carefully to one of Laura Loomer’s barnstorming speeches and you can hear Giorno peering out from behind expressions of the principles they share. “I’m going to win because I understand something my opponents don’t about the soul of the American people,” Loomer recently told a room of Republican activists. “We are a nation defined by willful determination, defined by our refusal to accept failure or defeat, and defined by a fighting spirit that I have embraced all my life.” This is pure Giorno, and, true to form, when I bring it up, she can’t help but pepper the conversation with historical examples.
“Most of Edison’s inventions were failures,” she observes. “But if he hadn’t carried on, imagine what we might have lost. Even Lincoln failed more than he succeeded. He didn’t get re-elected to Congress. He failed to ever get elected to the Senate. America is the story of men and women who stumbled and failed, only to get back up again and make extraordinary strides forward. It’s those strides that we remember.” As she describes this aspect of the national character, I can’t get the image of a stubborn, petulant child out of my mind, and it occurs to me that these are just the sorts of personalities Giorno loves to work with.
There are things that still confuse me about Karen Giorno. She is a powerful and persuasive private interlocutor, but a surprisingly measured public speaker. She commands a room right until the cameras start rolling. Is it nerves? There is an old White House expression: “If you’re in the shot, you’re fired.” It communicates the virtue of invisibility in support staff, the idea that presidential advance teams should not make themselves the focus of attention. I wonder about this. Perhaps working with this President taught her not to risk outshining her principal.
But events, and success, are overtaking her instinct to live unseen. Giorno does not seek, but is nonetheless garnering, journalistic consideration. I am an unapologetic part of the problem. As one of the celestial bodies trapped briefly in orbit around Donald J. Trump, her shadow was cast long over America in 2016; now, with her latest candidate’s improbably astonishing performance in Florida’s twenty-first district, she is again emerging as one of the most interesting people in politics. Not a high bar—but one she clears with grace, and in blisteringly expensive shoes.
Karen Giorno, with her political dexterity and nerves of steel, was created for the America of 2020, as the country struggles to break free from chaotic and diabolical forces. “We’re about to lose everything I love,” she tells me. “That’s why I keep being pulled back into politics. I have bled for Donald Trump. I’ve bled for all my candidates. But it’s because I believe in that the things we are fighting for. They’re worth it.” Giorno understands that heroes are called upon to sacrifice themselves, which is why sniping from embittered also-rans doesn’t faze her.
She also understands that America is at war with powerful subversive forces, manifesting as Black Lives Matter, Antifa and, yes, the Democrat Party itself. “Everything beautiful and life-sustaining in our universe was created in an act of unfathomable violence that we call the Big Bang,” she says. “Violent episodes are sometimes necessary to get to where we need to go.” She’s talking about figurative, electoral street-fighting, not political violence, which she is quick to disavow in strong language. But the steeliness behind her eyes leaves me momentarily unsure.
We linger on the solar system. “I’ve always thought of Donald Trump as Jupiter,” she says, expecting me to know what she’s talking about. I apologize for disappointing her again. “Well, Jupiter is a giant gas planet, and, owing to its massive size, it protects the Earth from a lot of the flying debris and detritus in space that might otherwise hit us. Jupiter absorbs the blows to keep us safe. In 2016, I was keenly aware of Donald Trump as the Jupiter who would save the Republic. And I can’t retire until I am sure there is another Jupiter waiting in the wings.”
Is that why she came out of political retirement to mastermind Laura Loomer’s high-wire, high-risk bid for a seat in Congress? “Yes. She’s the future of the Republican Party. This is someone I consider worthy of investment. In five or ten years, when my life is devoted to philanthropy, I want to look back on my time in politics and see that I did everything in my power to defend our constitutional republic and safeguard its future.”
While I am in the Giorno household, I notice something that the political strategists’ assistants tell me is entirely normal—or at least, that they’re entirely used to it. Giorno breaks anything electrical that she comes into contact with. Giorno herself dismisses it as stupid, but the people around her are convinced: It is as if she sucks the juice out of coffee machines, watches, printers and phones. I’m all of a sudden left with more questions than answers about that haunted house, about the preternatural gifts her candidates have and the supernatural faith that Giorno does, and I am then aware of the fact that there is something faintly magical, or more properly, I should say, blessed, about this woman, and her ability to guide the hand of Republican statesmen and defeat Democrats.
It suddenly makes sense to me why she has talked about herself as being anointed for a greater purpose. I spent my youth rushing home from school to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which is a very silly television program about very serious things. Like Sarah Michelle Geller’s iconic, and similarly undersized, heroine, Karen Giorno is not always likable. But she was meant for something virtuous, something transcendent—and she is fulfilling that destiny, leaving behind a path littered with the bruised and beaten bodies of America’s demons.
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thegatewaypundit--2020-09-04--FIRST PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Antifa Killer Michael Reinoehl Shot Dead in Washington State — US Marshals A

FIRST PHOTOS AND VIDEO: Antifa Killer Michael Reinoehl Shot Dead in Washington State — US Marshals Attempt to Revive Him

On Thursday night Michael Reinoehl , the Antifa militant who murdered Patriot Prayer member Aaron “ Jay ” Danielson Saturday @ @ @ @ @ and killed by law enforcement in Washington state .
US Marshals went to arrest Reinoehl @ @ @ @ @ Lacey , Washington .
A federal fugitive task force located him outside of Olympia , @ @ @ @ @ they moved in to arrest him .
Michael Reinoehl was a frequent attendee at the @ @ @ @ @ The first photos from the scene in Lacey were posted on social media following the @ @ @ @ @ is video from the scene of US Marshals working on Michael Reinoehl after he was @ @

On Thursday night Michael Reinoehl, the Antifa militant who murdered Patriot Prayer member Aaron “Jay” Danielson Saturday night in Portland was shot and killed by law enforcement in Washington state.
US Marshals went to arrest Reinoehl. He was killed in Lacey, Washington. A federal fugitive task force located him outside of Olympia, where he was killed as they moved in to arrest him.
Michael Reinoehl was a frequent attendee at the Portland riots this summer.
Accused Portland shooter Michael Reinoehl appeared in the August 17th video of Black Lives Matter and Antifa militants beating two motorists and a transgender pedestrian. pic.twitter.com/wCLJALSdWy — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 1, 2020
The first photos from the scene in Lacey were posted on social media following the shooting on Thursday.
Here is video from the scene of US Marshals working on Michael Reinoehl after he was shot.
Video by Jashon Spencer.
Warning on Graphic Content:
BREAKING
Police Scene of
Michael Reinoehl Shot Dead by Law Enforcement in Washington State .
Police Trying to revive Suspect. pic.twitter.com/7WkuI4uLjJ — 🇺🇸⭐Space Cowboy⭐🇺🇸 (@X14Eagle) September 4, 2020
They got him sir. Michael Forest Reinoehl is no longer a threat to society. pic.twitter.com/g3suineLck — Tara LaRosa (@TaraLaRosa) September 4, 2020
Here’s longer video from the shooting scene.


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-04--The Atlantic Posts Ridiculous Hit Piece on President Trump and His Treatment of Veterans — President

The Atlantic Posts Ridiculous Hit Piece on President Trump and His Treatment of Veterans — President Trump Responds to Junk Report (VIDEO)

Far left journalist Jeffrey Goldberg posted a ridiculous hit piece on President Trump on Thursday in The Atlantic .
The @ @ @ @ @ President Trump continues to surge in the polls following the RNC convention and continued leftist @ @ @ @ @ In the garbage report Goldberg uses anonymous sources to accuse President Trump of disparaging US @ @ @ @ @ This was an ugly piece .
One attack on President Trump for not attending a @ @ @ @ @ France was debunked years ago by the White House but Goldberg decided to run the @ @ @ @ @ addressed the smears on Thursday night when returning from another massive campaign event in Pennsylvania @ @ @ @ @ ridiculous reports saying the report was “ unthinkable.
” Mike Cernovich posted several tweets on @ @ @ @ @ is one of many hit pieces and lies from the left on our president .
@ @ @ @ @ news story on Trump .

Far left journalist Jeffrey Goldberg posted a ridiculous hit piece on President Trump on Thursday in The Atlantic.
The BS hit piece comes as President Trump continues to surge in the polls following the RNC convention and continued leftist riots across the country.
In the garbage report Goldberg uses anonymous sources to accuse President Trump of disparaging US veterans and war heroes.
This was an ugly piece. One attack on President Trump for not attending a World War I cemetery in France was debunked years ago by the White House but Goldberg decided to run the smear anyway.
President Trump addressed the smears on Thursday night when returning from another massive campaign event in Pennsylvania.
President Trump denied the ridiculous reports saying the report was “unthinkable.”
Mike Cernovich posted several tweets on this outrageous report.
This is one of many hit pieces and lies from the left on our president.
How to spot a fake news story on Trump.
The Atlantic story on Trump and his comments about veterans is fake – here’s how to know https://t.co/Rb2GD2BYO0 — Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 4, 2020
Obama’s generals declared information warfare on @realDonaldTrump. This latest hoax from The Atlantic will be the first of many until the election!https://t.co/pcqyNSsmQ5 — Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 4, 2020
The Atlantic’s “sources” won’t go on the record, because they are hoaxers. Any DOD official confirming that story publicly would be bullet-proof from reprisal and a hero of all of DC. They’d get VIP protection from Congress for promotions, 7 figure book deal. Get real. — Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 4, 2020
More from General Spalding.


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-04--LAUGHABLE: MSNBC Host Blames Trump Supporters For The Violence In Portland (VIDEO)

The radical left has been rioting in the city of Portland , Oregon for over 90 straight days .
Every single night , for three months , black-clad leftists have waged war with the police , tried to burn down the federal courthouse , and fired commercial-grade fireworks at the authorities .
Yet in the fantasy-land of MSNBC , host Nicolle Wallace has blamed Trump supporters for this .
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday blamed supporters of President Donald Trump for instigating violence on the streets of Portland .
“ He ’ s playing to harden his faction of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mad , more afraid , more frothed up than they were four years ago , if you can fathom what that might look like , ” Wallace said .
“ I think we ’ re seeing it on the streets of Portland and other places.
” Portland has experienced nearly 100 consecutive days of violent riots led by left-wing activists in the wake of George Floyd ’ s death .
Last week anti-police activists broke into City Hall , set fire to a police association building , and assaulted officers in what the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ video below : This is ridiculous .
Nicolle Wallace is simply not operating in reality .
For months , people like Nicolle Wallace insisted on ignoring the violence in places like Portland .
Now that they are worried about how it is affecting polls for Democrats , they are trying to shift the blame to Trump supporters .
It ’ s a pathetic attempt to gaslight the public and it won ’ t work .

The radical left has been rioting in the city of Portland, Oregon for over 90 straight days.
Every single night, for three months, black-clad leftists have waged war with the police, tried to burn down the federal courthouse, and fired commercial-grade fireworks at the authorities.
Yet in the fantasy-land of MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace has blamed Trump supporters for this.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
MSNBC Anchor Blames Trump Supporters for Portland Violence MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday blamed supporters of President Donald Trump for instigating violence on the streets of Portland. “He’s playing to harden his faction of the electorate, to make them more mad, more afraid, more frothed up than they were four years ago, if you can fathom what that might look like,” Wallace said. “I think we’re seeing it on the streets of Portland and other places.” Portland has experienced nearly 100 consecutive days of violent riots led by left-wing activists in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Last week anti-police activists broke into City Hall, set fire to a police association building, and assaulted officers in what the police declared a riot.
See the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puT5erbID4k
This is ridiculous. Nicolle Wallace is simply not operating in reality.
Wallace is clearly suffering from an advanced case of TDS!https://t.co/30EFFFtgQP — Scott M. Feigelstein (@SMFeigelstein) September 3, 2020
MSNBC Anchor Blames Trump Supporters for Portland Violence https://t.co/gDAm6W52Q8 She is incredibly stupid! — Robert Baxter (@Rbax3) September 3, 2020
For months, people like Nicolle Wallace insisted on ignoring the violence in places like Portland.
Now that they are worried about how it is affecting polls for Democrats, they are trying to shift the blame to Trump supporters.
It’s a pathetic attempt to gaslight the public and it won’t work.
Cross posted from American Lookout.


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-04--BREAKING: Alleged Antifa Murderer Michael Reinoehl Shot Dead by Law Enforcement in Washington State

Michael Reinoehl , the Antifa militant who murdered Patriot Prayer member Aaron “ Jay ” Danielson Saturday night in Portland was shot and killed by law enforcement in Washington state Thursday night .
Andy Ngo is reporting that US Marshals went to arrest Reinoehl .
He was killed in Lacey , Washington .
39-year-old Danielson was gunned down by far left Antifa militant Michael Reinoehl in Portland in cold blood .
Aaron Danielson was walking down the street at night when he was shot in the chest by Reinoehl .
Conservatives were outraged that five days after Reinoehl murdered Danielson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ even gave an interview to Vice News .
Reinoehl seemingly admitted to killing Danielson in his interview with Vice .
“ I had no choice .
I mean…I had a choice .
I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color .
But I wasn ’ t going to do that , ” Reinoehl told Vice News .
“ You know , lots of lawyers suggest that I shouldn ’ t even be saying anything , but I feel it ’ s important that the world at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s really going on , ” he said .
Shortly before it was reported that Reinoehl was killed by law enforcement , President Trump lashed out at Portland police for letting the killer roam the streets .

Michael Reinoehl, the Antifa militant who murdered Patriot Prayer member Aaron “Jay” Danielson Saturday night in Portland was shot and killed by law enforcement in Washington state Thursday night.
Andy Ngo is reporting that US Marshals went to arrest Reinoehl. He was killed in Lacey, Washington.
Michael Forest Reinoehl, who killed Portland Trump supporter Aaron Danielson, died in Lacey, Wash. My sources are telling me U.S. Marshalls went to arrest him. — Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) September 4, 2020
Reinoehl fled Oregon and crossed state lines to Washington.
MORE: Reinoehl had fled the state of Oregon and crossed state lines to Washington. A federal fugitive task force located him outside of Olympia, where he was killed as they moved in to arrest him. Portland police issued a warrant for his arrest earlier today. — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) September 4, 2020
39-year-old Danielson was gunned down by far left Antifa militant Michael Reinoehl in Portland in cold blood.
Aaron Danielson was walking down the street at night when he was shot in the chest by Reinoehl.
Conservatives were outraged that five days after Reinoehl murdered Danielson he was still freely walking around and even gave an interview to Vice News.
Reinoehl seemingly admitted to killing Danielson in his interview with Vice.
“I had no choice. I mean…I had a choice. I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn’t going to do that,” Reinoehl told Vice News.
“You know, lots of lawyers suggest that I shouldn’t even be saying anything, but I feel it’s important that the world at least gets a little bit of what’s really going on,” he said.
Shortly before it was reported that Reinoehl was killed by law enforcement, President Trump lashed out at Portland police for letting the killer roam the streets.
Why aren’t the Portland Police ARRESTING the cold blooded killer of Aaron “Jay” Danielson. Do your job, and do it fast. Everybody knows who this thug is. No wonder Portland is going to hell! @TheJusticeDept @FBI — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2020
Now he’s dead.


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-04--With No Enthusiasm, Tiny Events and a Horrible Candidate, Democrats Appear to be Going for the Steal

Like in 2016 , the current polls in the 2020 election are completely unreliable and bogus .
They tried this before , they ’ ll try it again .
Democrats are again using their bogus polls to manipulate and discourage their opponents in the upcoming election .
Many believe that the only way Democrats can win is to steal the election and they soften up the electorate by using fake polls showing their candidates way ahead so when the steal occurs , it ’ s not so noticeable .
Rasmussen Reports quoted Sundance from the Conservative Tree House in a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Rasmussen continued to quote Sundance that the difference between Pravda [ the Soviet News Agency ] and the U.S. Media is that the former citizens of Soviet Russia knew they were being lied to : This past week national polls from the upcoming election after the conventions were hidden completely because the results clearly favored President Trump : “ It takes longer to generate manipulated polls ; that ’ s why there was a delay , and the results now being broadcast are simply following a very predictable pattern.
” President Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we saw in 2016 : Lines of people trying to go to a Trump rally : Overflow crowds of people at Trump rallies in the thousands are much bigger than Biden ’ s whatevertheyare : Hiden ’ Biden has no crowd and no enthusiasm : There is no way Joe Biden is leading President Trump .
Don ’ t believe it for a second .
The polls attempt to depress the Trump vote , but we know what happened in 2016 .
Any poll at this stage that shows Biden ahead is probably @ @ @ @ @ @ @ which we had in 2016 as well , and the obvious desperate actions of the Biden campaign .
They got him out of the basement way ahead of Labor Day , seeing their own polls .
The only way the Democrats can win at this stage is through the steal .
The media are working overtime to lie for Biden .

Like in 2016, the current polls in the 2020 election are completely unreliable and bogus.
They tried this before, they’ll try it again.
Democrats are again using their bogus polls to manipulate and discourage their opponents in the upcoming election. Many believe that the only way Democrats can win is to steal the election and they soften up the electorate by using fake polls showing their candidates way ahead so when the steal occurs, it’s not so noticeable.
Rasmussen Reports quoted Sundance from the Conservative Tree House in a series of tweets a few hours ago:
Sundance: “A week before the 2016 election we broke away from spending energy on deconstructing polls; the reason was simple – the data was nothing more than manipulation intended to sway the American electorate.” 1/4 — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) September 3, 2020
Rasmussen continued to quote Sundance that the difference between Pravda [the Soviet News Agency] and the U.S. Media is that the former citizens of Soviet Russia knew they were being lied to:
“The difference between Pravda and the U.S. Media is that former citizens of the Soviet-era knew they were being lied to, many Americans do not. This time in 2020 the media effort will intensify.” 2/4 — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) September 3, 2020
This past week national polls from the upcoming election after the conventions were hidden completely because the results clearly favored President Trump:
“A clear example of that has showcased in the past week as national post-convention polling was hidden completely because it did not support the psychological message of the control agents.” 3/4 — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) September 3, 2020
“It takes longer to generate manipulated polls; that’s why there was a delay, and the results now being broadcast are simply following a very predictable pattern.”
“It takes longer to generate manipulated polls; that’s why there was a delay, and the results now being broadcast are simply following a very predictable pattern.” 4/4https://t.co/Vf3CMlPqY9 — Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) September 3, 2020
President Trump opined on the situation – same thing we saw in 2016:
.@FoxNews Polls are, as in the past, Fake News. They have been from the beginning, way off in 2016. Get a new pollster. I believe we are leading BIG! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2020
Lines of people trying to go to a Trump rally:
Supporters of President Trump are lined up to take shuttles into Arnold Palmer airport for the president’s arrival tonight at 7pm in Latrobe @TribLIVE pic.twitter.com/yNQxZO92Ow — Shane Dunlap (@shanedunlap) September 3, 2020
Overflow crowds of people at Trump rallies in the thousands are much bigger than Biden’s whatevertheyare:
Hiden’ Biden has no crowd and no enthusiasm:
Joe Hiden’ gets off his airplane, grabs and shakes a rather stunned man’s hand (like in the old days), then touches his (Joe’s) face and mask with the same hand. No crowd, no enthusiasm for Joe today. Law & Order! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2020
There is no way Joe Biden is leading President Trump. Don’t believe it for a second. The polls attempt to depress the Trump vote, but we know what happened in 2016.
Any poll at this stage that shows Biden ahead is probably incorrect, based on visual evidence, which we had in 2016 as well, and the obvious desperate actions of the Biden campaign. They got him out of the basement way ahead of Labor Day, seeing their own polls.
The only way the Democrats can win at this stage is through the steal. The media are working overtime to lie for Biden.


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-04--Portland Rioter Arrested for Double Murder One Week After City Officials Let Him Off for Interfering

Portland Rioter Arrested for Double Murder One Week After City Officials Let Him Off for Interfering with Police at Downtown Protest

Portland rioter Phillip Lawrence Nelson was arrested for a double murder just one week after Portland officials let him out of jail for interfering with a peace officer .
The rioting charges were dismissed and he was out on the street the next day .
One week later he committed a double murder .
Cassy Leaton , 22 , and Najaf “ Nate ” Hobbs , 39 were killed in June .
Nelson was insane and told the couple he was the owner of a building he was squatting in .
According to KOIN : The murder may have stemmed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and the suspect .
Leaton and Hobbs ’ roommate told police that they were originally renting the unit in a fourplex from Nelson , who claimed to be the owner of the building , according to court records .
When the three roommates found out Nelson was actually just squatting there , they changed the locks to their unit , angering Nelson , records state .
On the afternoon they were murdered , surveillance video captured Hobbs and Leaton going into the basement of the building , where the water control is located @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pair came back upstairs , but then went back just a minute later .
Shortly after that , surveillance video captured Leaton running out of the basement , stumbling and shouting for help before falling down .
Bystanders rushed to her aid , but she did not survive .
Both Leaton and Hobbs had been stabbed numerous times , according to the medical examiner .
Portland rioter Phillip Lawrence Nelson is now a suspect in a double-stabbing murder that occurred just one week after he was caught and let go by local law @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of interfering with a peace officer were dropped the day after his first arrest in early June , and he was released .
Cassy Leaton and Najaf “ Nate ” Hobbs were found stabbed to death in Portland on June 16 after an apparent dispute over the building Nelson had been squatting in .
Nelson faces two murder charges and is being held without bail .
Nelson is hardly the first — or last — left-wing rioter to be freed under an unofficial “ catch-and-release ” program by district attorneys in some of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Portland rioter and alleged killer Phillip Lawrence Nelson
Portland rioter Phillip Lawrence Nelson was arrested for a double murder just one week after Portland officials let him out of jail for interfering with a peace officer. The rioting charges were dismissed and he was out on the street the next day. One week later he committed a double murder.
Cassy Leaton, 22, and Najaf “Nate” Hobbs, 39 were killed in June.
Nelson was insane and told the couple he was the owner of a building he was squatting in.
According to KOIN:
The murder may have stemmed from an ongoing dispute between the victims and the suspect. Leaton and Hobbs’ roommate told police that they were originally renting the unit in a fourplex from Nelson, who claimed to be the owner of the building, according to court records. When the three roommates found out Nelson was actually just squatting there, they changed the locks to their unit, angering Nelson, records state. On the afternoon they were murdered, surveillance video captured Hobbs and Leaton going into the basement of the building, where the water control is located, according to court records. The pair came back upstairs, but then went back just a minute later. Shortly after that, surveillance video captured Leaton running out of the basement, stumbling and shouting for help before falling down. Bystanders rushed to her aid, but she did not survive. Both Leaton and Hobbs had been stabbed numerous times, according to the medical examiner.
Records: Suspect arrested (and released) at BLM protest one week before deadly stabbings: Phillip Lawrence Nelson now faces two murder charges!
https://t.co/GPAD5LDk4F https://t.co/eQsfWAyTSM — TheCyberChick (@warriors_mom) September 2, 2020
PJ Media has more:
Portland rioter Phillip Lawrence Nelson is now a suspect in a double-stabbing murder that occurred just one week after he was caught and let go by local law enforcement. The original charges against Nelson of interfering with a peace officer were dropped the day after his first arrest in early June, and he was released. Cassy Leaton and Najaf “Nate” Hobbs were found stabbed to death in Portland on June 16 after an apparent dispute over the building Nelson had been squatting in. Nelson faces two murder charges and is being held without bail. Nelson is hardly the first — or last — left-wing rioter to be freed under an unofficial “catch-and-release” program by district attorneys in some of America’s most violent Democrat-run cities.
Read the rest here.


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-04--Republicans Call on AG Barr to Determine Whether Pelosi Broke Federal Law When She Ripped Up Trump’s

Republicans Call on AG Barr to Determine Whether Pelosi Broke Federal Law When She Ripped Up Trump’s SOTU Speech

Two House Republicans have officially called on US Attorney General Bill Barr to determine whether Speaker Pelosi broke federal law when she ripped up President Trump ’ s SOTU speech earlier this year .
Nancy “ Antoinette ” Pelosi ripped President Trump ’ s State of the Union speech shortly after he concluded his address to the nation in February .
Video evidence and photos showed Pelosi pre-ripped the speech while President Trump was speaking .
When asked by reporters about her stunt , Pelosi said she did it “ because it was the courteous thing to do considering the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I was trying to find one page with truth on it .
I couldn ’ t , ” she said .
Conservatives immediately took to Twitter that night and accused Pelosi of breaking federal law when she destroyed government records .
Two GOP lawmakers are now asking Bill Barr to determine whether Pelosi violated 18 U.S.C .
§ 2071 which deals with the mutilation of official federal records and sets a criminal penalty of up to three years in prison .
Pelosi ’ s spox Drew Hammill argued the Speaker was in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s speech and therefore it isn ’ t an official record .
Two House GOP leaders have officially called on Attorney General William Barr to determine whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broke federal law when she ripped up President Trump ’ s State of the Union speech earlier this year .
Republican Policy Committee Chairman Gary Palmer , R-Ala. , and Republican Study Committee Chairman Mike Johnson , R-La.
, wrote a letter to Barr on Tuesday asking he deliver a definitive answer on whether “ Pelosi committed a criminal act by destroying @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Union speech delivered to her ” by Trump .
“ Nancy Pelosi ’ s famous tantrum on the House floor was more than disgraceful ; she violated her responsibility to preserve official documents delivered to the House of Representatives , ” Palmer said in a statement .
“ We ask the Attorney General to review this scandalous outburst , not simply because it offended every American , but because it set a precedent for radical politicians to hijack state events for partisan performance art and possibly break the law with , thus @ @ @ @ @ @

Two House Republicans have officially called on US Attorney General Bill Barr to determine whether Speaker Pelosi broke federal law when she ripped up President Trump’s SOTU speech earlier this year.
Nancy “Antoinette” Pelosi ripped President Trump’s State of the Union speech shortly after he concluded his address to the nation in February.
Video evidence and photos showed Pelosi pre-ripped the speech while President Trump was speaking.
When asked by reporters about her stunt, Pelosi said she did it “because it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives.”
“I tore it up. I was trying to find one page with truth on it. I couldn’t,” she said.
Conservatives immediately took to Twitter that night and accused Pelosi of breaking federal law when she destroyed government records.
US Code prohibits the destruction of government records Nancy Pelosi may have just committed a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2071, Section 2071 (a) when she ripped up President Trump’s State of the Union address This violation is punishable by up to three years in prison 🤔 — Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) February 5, 2020
Two GOP lawmakers are now asking Bill Barr to determine whether Pelosi violated 18 U.S.C. § 2071 which deals with the mutilation of official federal records and sets a criminal penalty of up to three years in prison.
Pelosi’s spox Drew Hammill argued the Speaker was in possession of a printout of Trump’s speech and therefore it isn’t an official record.
Fox News reported:


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-05--Insane FED Chief Jerome Powell Now Claims to Be a COVID Expert – Lectures on Wearing Masks to Ensure

Insane FED Chief Jerome Powell Now Claims to Be a COVID Expert – Lectures on Wearing Masks to Ensure an Economic Recovery

Jerome Powell , the Head of the FED , spoke again today and showed his innate ability to put markets into a tailspin .
Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell said Friday that Americans should wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines to ensure an economic recovery .
“ There ’ s actually enormous economic gains to be had nationwide from people wearing masks and keeping their distance , ” Powell told NPR .
Powell added that short of a vaccine , such measures enable people to “ go back to work and not get sick.
” TRENDING : GOING VIRAL @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Matter Militant Out of Vehicle For Illegally Blocking Traffic on Highway ( VIDEO ) Powell also spoke about the August jobs report , describing the addition of 1.371 million payrolls in August as “ a good one.
” The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the new numbers on Friday morning , which also showed the unemployment rate falling to 8.4 % — below the street ’ s expectations .
Powell somehow believes that he is now an expert in the China coronavirus .
Although there is literally no empirical evidence that supports wearing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Powell claims that wearing masks will ensure an economic recovery .
Of course , getting people back to work in Democrat cities and states , stopping riots and burning down businesses in Democrat-led cities , and opening up small businesses in these Democrat cities and states may have some bearing on the economy , but masks , they hold the answer to the economic recovery !
Powell went on to state : We shouldn ’ t let those people lose everything they have and have to move out or be evicted and move @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also not going to be good for containing the COVID spread , ” he said .
What an elitist piece of work .
Powell continues to be paid while many Americans suffer under insane , unsupported and authoritarian policies of elite politicians .
Economist Steve Moore , who worked with President Trump , said Powell ’ s comments today basically were a confirmation that the President ’ s and Moore ’ s policies were right , when Powell spoke about things other than masks : At the beginning of this year and pre-pandemic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the best pace of this new century .
But we could have even had a higher tide of growth in real GDP and wages if the Fed had been following his ( and our ) advice .
He ’ s instinctively rejected the wrong-headed limits to a growth model that pervades modern economics—as do we .
Growth has been in short supply so far this century in part because of this growth phobia at Central banks around the world… .
…In February 2018 , the Fed foolishly squashed a robust , full-employment/rising-wages recovery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s wrong-headed “ Phillips Curve ” thinking , which posits that growth and wage increases incite inflation .
Trump fumed correctly that the Fed was fighting a phantom inflation .
Meanwhile , the stock market tanked and growth stalled out .
Had the Fed not taken Trump ’ s advice and reversed course in early 2019 , the economy would have capsized .
But now this same man says masks will help the economy recover .
This isn ’ t the first time Powell put his foot in his mouth .
Often during @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crash .
Today was just another day and another opportunity for Powell to fail .

Jerome Powell, the Head of the FED, spoke again today and showed his innate ability to put markets into a tailspin.
Yahoo News reports:
Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell said Friday that Americans should wear masks and follow social distancing guidelines to ensure an economic recovery. “There’s actually enormous economic gains to be had nationwide from people wearing masks and keeping their distance,” Powell told NPR. Powell added that short of a vaccine, such measures enable people to “go back to work and not get sick.” Powell also spoke about the August jobs report, describing the addition of 1.371 million payrolls in August as “a good one.” The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the new numbers on Friday morning, which also showed the unemployment rate falling to 8.4% — below the street’s expectations.
Powell somehow believes that he is now an expert in the China coronavirus. Although there is literally no empirical evidence that supports wearing masks related to the China coronavirus, Powell claims that wearing masks will ensure an economic recovery.
Of course, getting people back to work in Democrat cities and states, stopping riots and burning down businesses in Democrat-led cities, and opening up small businesses in these Democrat cities and states may have some bearing on the economy, but masks, they hold the answer to the economic recovery!
Powell went on to state:
We shouldn’t let those people lose everything they have and have to move out or be evicted and move in with family. That’s also not going to be good for containing the COVID spread,” he said.
What an elitist piece of work. Powell continues to be paid while many Americans suffer under insane, unsupported and authoritarian policies of elite politicians.
Economist Steve Moore, who worked with President Trump, said Powell’s comments today basically were a confirmation that the President’s and Moore’s policies were right, when Powell spoke about things other than masks:
At the beginning of this year and pre-pandemic, the economy was steaming forward at the best pace of this new century. But we could have even had a higher tide of growth in real GDP and wages if the Fed had been following his (and our) advice. He’s instinctively rejected the wrong-headed limits to a growth model that pervades modern economics—as do we. Growth has been in short supply so far this century in part because of this growth phobia at Central banks around the world…. …In February 2018, the Fed foolishly squashed a robust, full-employment/rising-wages recovery because he bought into the Fed’s wrong-headed “Phillips Curve” thinking, which posits that growth and wage increases incite inflation. Trump fumed correctly that the Fed was fighting a phantom inflation. Meanwhile, the stock market tanked and growth stalled out. Had the Fed not taken Trump’s advice and reversed course in early 2019, the economy would have capsized.
But now this same man says masks will help the economy recover.
This isn’t the first time Powell put his foot in his mouth. Often during or after Powell speaks, the markets crash. Today was just another day and another opportunity for Powell to fail.


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-05--UPDATE: Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg’s Hit Piece On President Trump Is Garbage – FOIA Documents and E

UPDATE: Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg’s Hit Piece On President Trump Is Garbage – FOIA Documents and Even John Bolton Debunk Junk Report

Far left journalist Jeffrey Goldberg posted a ridiculous hit piece on President Trump on Thursday in The Atlantic .
The BS hit piece comes as President Trump continues to surge in the polls following the RNC convention and continued leftist riots across the country .
In the garbage report Goldberg uses anonymous sources to accuse President Trump of disparaging US veterans and war heroes .
This was an ugly piece .
One attack on President Trump for not attending a World War I cemetery in France was debunked years ago by the White House but Goldberg decided to run the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Washington State Patrol Rips Black Lives Matter Militant Out of Vehicle For Illegally Blocking Traffic on Highway ( VIDEO ) President Trump addressed the smears on Thursday night when returning from another massive campaign event in Pennsylvania .
President Trump denied the ridiculous reports saying the report was “ unthinkable.
” Of course CNN had to have Goldberg on to claim his piece was supported by anonymous sources – they couldn ’ t pass this up – what are the odds this was planned weeks ago ?
This is not the first @ @ @ @ @ @ @ such garbage and everyone with a sense of reality knows it : Back in 2002 the Atlantic published an article about Saddam Hussein ’ s ties with Al Qaeda written by Jeffrey Goldberg and in 2010 he claimed his piece started the war : Of course Goldberg was also involved in the Russia collusion scam : One of the largest stakeholders in the Atlantic gave $ 600,000 to Biden ’ s campaign in June : Of course , those in the know know Goldberg is a piece of work : Unfortunately for Goldberg @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that the reason President Trump didn ’ t visit a cemetery in Europe was not due to Goldberg ’ s claim that Trump hates the military , it was due to the Navy cancelling Trump ’ s flight due to rain : In addition , John Bolton , in his book undercuts the validity of the Goldberg piece : It ’ s so sad and disgusting that the media in the US today is so far left and dishonest today that real news is considered lies and fake new hit pieces on President @ @ @ @ @ @

Far left journalist Jeffrey Goldberg posted a ridiculous hit piece on President Trump on Thursday in The Atlantic. The BS hit piece comes as President Trump continues to surge in the polls following the RNC convention and continued leftist riots across the country.
In the garbage report Goldberg uses anonymous sources to accuse President Trump of disparaging US veterans and war heroes.
This was an ugly piece. One attack on President Trump for not attending a World War I cemetery in France was debunked years ago by the White House but Goldberg decided to run the smear anyway.
President Trump addressed the smears on Thursday night when returning from another massive campaign event in Pennsylvania.
President Trump denied the ridiculous reports saying the report was “unthinkable.”
Of course CNN had to have Goldberg on to claim his piece was supported by anonymous sources – they couldn’t pass this up – what are the odds this was planned weeks ago?
Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg explains why he used unnamed sources in report about Trump insulting dead soldiers: “They don’t want to be inundated with angry tweets and all the rest…”https://t.co/s2ESFCOMi0 — from @MikeBrestDC at @dcexaminer pic.twitter.com/IAANsJuIgH — Daniel Chaitin (@danielchaitin7) September 4, 2020
This is not the first time Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic created such garbage and everyone with a sense of reality knows it:
The Atlantic piece was a false political attack. Instead of Joe Biden trying to win support from our military & police, the fake news media attacks President Trump to try to diminish his obvious love & support for our American heroes. Don’t be fooled. https://t.co/IelA5UF6Po — Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) September 4, 2020
Back in 2002 the Atlantic published an article about Saddam Hussein’s ties with Al Qaeda written by Jeffrey Goldberg and in 2010 he claimed his piece started the war:
Of course Goldberg was also involved in the Russia collusion scam:
‘Garbage’ like The Atlantic, ALWAYS remains garbage. 👇👇 https://t.co/G9BjOgII5s — Murph 👌 (@murphtoday) September 4, 2020
One of the largest stakeholders in the Atlantic gave $600,000 to Biden’s campaign in June:
Just your friendly reminder that @TheAtlantic majority-stake owner @laurenepowell has given $610,600 to the @JoeBiden
Victory Fund in June and the maximum-allowed $2,800 to his personal campaign. She has an invested interest in seeing @realDonaldTrump
lose in November. 🤔 — Joey Vazquez (@JV3MRC) September 4, 2020
Of course, those in the know know Goldberg is a piece of work:
Goebbels would be proud…to go back to 2018 and put together a propaganda piece like this…@TheAtlantic and @JeffreyGoldberg are actually channeling Orwell as well…
It’s all lies…Goldberg and the Atlantic know it…but they have become devoted to lies as a business model https://t.co/PkWQ1nzzRv — Tony Shaffer (@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y) September 4, 2020
Unfortunately for Goldberg, FOIA documents on the subject show that the reason President Trump didn’t visit a cemetery in Europe was not due to Goldberg’s claim that Trump hates the military, it was due to the Navy cancelling Trump’s flight due to rain:
Regarding the lede of this story: I obtained documents from the Navy via #FOIA about Trump’s 2018 trip to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris and the documents say his transport was canceled by the Navy due to rain. https://t.co/oNWsvAPy1z pic.twitter.com/keFtW7QC8b — Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) September 4, 2020
In addition, John Bolton, in his book undercuts the validity of the Goldberg piece:
John Bolton was a witness at the scene, where President Trump allegedly said these things. If Trump had said them, Bolton would certainly have included them in his tell-all book. But Bolton didn’t.https://t.co/Dbk64o7urP — AM 870 The Answer (@am870theanswer) September 4, 2020
It’s so sad and disgusting that the media in the US today is so far left and dishonest today that real news is considered lies and fake new hit pieces on President Trump are considered the news.


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-05--SCIENCE: Fake News WaPo Reports 90-Something Percent of Black Lives Matter Rioters Were Peaceful – T

SCIENCE: Fake News WaPo Reports 90-Something Percent of Black Lives Matter Rioters Were Peaceful – The Other 10% Burned Down Half the Country

Don ’ t believe your lying eyes .
Believe the fake news “ journalists ” at the Washington Post .
This is the the crap salad the far left WaPo is serving today .
Now you know why no one trusts the mainstream media .
About 93 percent of the racial-justice protests that swept the United States this summer remained peaceful and nondestructive , according to a report released Thursday , with the violence and property damage that has dominated political discourse constituting only a minute portion of the thousands of demonstrations that followed the killing of George Floyd in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Washington State Patrol Rips Black Lives Matter Militant Out of Vehicle For Illegally Blocking Traffic on Highway ( VIDEO ) The report , produced by the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project , also concluded that an escalation in the government response to protests and a sharp uptick in extremist activity means the United States faces a growing risk of “ political violence and instability ” ahead of the 2020 election .
ACLED , which monitors war zones and political upheaval around the world , launched the US Crisis Monitor report @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Initiative .
Using media accounts and other public information , the report identified 7,750 protests from May 26 through Aug. 22 that were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement .
The protests took place in 2,400 locations across all 50 states and the District .
The group identified about 220 locations where the protests became “ violent , ” which authors of the report defined as demonstrators clashing with police or counterprotesters or causing property damage .
Even in those cases , however , the upheaval was “ largely confined to specific @ @ @ @ @ @ @ city , ” the report states .
U.S. political divide becomes increasingly violent , rattling activists and police Still , the researchers warned of “ violent political polarization ” in the United States that they fear could spill over into the November election .
“ In this hyper-polarized environment , state forces are taking a more heavy-handed approach to dissent , non-state actors are becoming more active and assertive , and counter-demonstrators are looking to resolve their political disputes in the street , ” the authors wrote .
“ Without significant mitigation efforts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the lead-up to the vote , threatening to boil over in November if election results are delayed , inconclusive , or rejected as fraudulent .
”

Minneapolis burns after a mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter protest.
Don’t believe your lying eyes.
Believe the fake news “journalists” at the Washington Post.
This is the the crap salad the far left WaPo is serving today.
Now you know why no one trusts the mainstream media.
About 93 percent of the racial-justice protests that swept the United States this summer remained peaceful and nondestructive, according to a report released Thursday, with the violence and property damage that has dominated political discourse constituting only a minute portion of the thousands of demonstrations that followed the killing of George Floyd in May.
The report, produced by the nonprofit Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, also concluded that an escalation in the government response to protests and a sharp uptick in extremist activity means the United States faces a growing risk of “political violence and instability” ahead of the 2020 election.
ACLED, which monitors war zones and political upheaval around the world, launched the US Crisis Monitor report with Princeton University’s Bridging Divides Initiative. Using media accounts and other public information, the report identified 7,750 protests from May 26 through Aug. 22 that were linked to the Black Lives Matter movement. The protests took place in 2,400 locations across all 50 states and the District.
The group identified about 220 locations where the protests became “violent,” which authors of the report defined as demonstrators clashing with police or counterprotesters or causing property damage.
Even in those cases, however, the upheaval was “largely confined to specific blocks, rather than dispersed throughout the city,” the report states.
U.S. political divide becomes increasingly violent, rattling activists and police
Still, the researchers warned of “violent political polarization” in the United States that they fear could spill over into the November election.
“In this hyper-polarized environment, state forces are taking a more heavy-handed approach to dissent, non-state actors are becoming more active and assertive, and counter-demonstrators are looking to resolve their political disputes in the street,” the authors wrote. “Without significant mitigation efforts, these risks will continue to intensify in the lead-up to the vote, threatening to boil over in November if election results are delayed, inconclusive, or rejected as fraudulent.”


thegatewaypundit--2020-09-05--Tennessee Woman Who Died in February Gets Letter Saying She Tested Positive For Covid-19 From a Test

Tennessee Woman Who Died in February Gets Letter Saying She Tested Positive For Covid-19 From a Test Taken in June

A Tennessee man received a letter in mail claiming his mother , who passed away in February of this year from COPD , tested positive for Covid-19 from a test taken in June .
“ I ’ m just having a hard time understanding how they can say someone has COVID-19 when they are not even alive , ” Troy Whittington told WKYC .
Mr. Wittington said the letter arrived from Shelby County Health Department demanding his mother isolate because she had just tested positive for Covid-19 .
TRENDING : GOING VIRAL : Washington State Patrol Rips Black Lives Matter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Traffic on Highway ( VIDEO ) “ It ’ s been 6 months , almost 7 , since she passed away .
There was no testing that was done at that time .
On her death certificate it was stated she died , what the cause of death was , and it was not COVID-19 .
It was COPD , ” said Whittington .
Whittington said when he called the health department , he was told she took a COVID-19 test June 20th , which was clearly impossible .
She was cremated .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be tested on June 20 , who passed away on February 16th , ” said Whittington .
“ I tried to call the health department this morning , ask them why this was going on .
She said she would have to get a supervisor .
She was sorry for the mistake or she couldn ’ t tell me any information till she got a supervisor , and I haven ’ t heard back from them.
” Whittington said this situation makes him question not only the Shelby County Health Department ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ across the country .
“ I would just like for the health department to be more accurate.
” He added , “ They have a record of her death there .
That is where I got the death certificate from and it ’ s in the same building they ’ re sending out saying she is positive , which is not possible .
”

A Tennessee man received a letter in mail claiming his mother, who passed away in February of this year from COPD, tested positive for Covid-19 from a test taken in June.
“I’m just having a hard time understanding how they can say someone has COVID-19 when they are not even alive,” Troy Whittington told WKYC.
Mr. Wittington said the letter arrived from Shelby County Health Department demanding his mother isolate because she had just tested positive for Covid-19.
WKYC reported:
“It’s been 6 months, almost 7, since she passed away. There was no testing that was done at that time. On her death certificate it was stated she died, what the cause of death was, and it was not COVID-19. It was COPD,” said Whittington. Whittington said when he called the health department, he was told she took a COVID-19 test June 20th, which was clearly impossible. She was cremated. “It’s impossible for someone to be tested on June 20, who passed away on February 16th,” said Whittington. “I tried to call the health department this morning, ask them why this was going on. She said she would have to get a supervisor. She was sorry for the mistake or she couldn’t tell me any information till she got a supervisor, and I haven’t heard back from them.” Whittington said this situation makes him question not only the Shelby County Health Department’s COVID 19 statistics, but statistics across the country. “I would just like for the health department to be more accurate.” He added, “They have a record of her death there. That is where I got the death certificate from and it’s in the same building they’re sending out saying she is positive, which is not possible.”