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NRA Will Furlough More Workers Due to Virus

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NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre told staffers in a Thursday email that a new wave of furloughs will commence on Friday. Those workers will continue to receive health benefits during their absence, but will no longer be paid beginning on Monday. He said the cuts were necessary to “ensure our ‘house’—the bedrock of protecting our nation’s freedom—remains viable for the long term.”

Liberal Groups Spend More Than $20 Million Attacking Trump and GOP on Coronavirus

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Democrats have used the outbreak in recent weeks to campaign in battleground states that could determine the presidential election, including PA, MI, and WI. Liberal advocacy groups and super PACs are airing ads slamming the president as slow in responding to the pandemic. The multimillion-dollar efforts are fueled by groups bankrolled by some of the party’s top donors, including billionaires Donald Sussman and George Soros.

Former Bernie Surrogate Lashes Out at Campaign for Being Treated Like Slave

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Former Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate Ja’Mal Green attacked the campaign’s leadership Monday, alleging widespread mistreatment of black surrogates. The 24-year-old Black Lives Matter activist claimed that campaign officials Heather Gautney and Shasti Conrad “ran the surrogate team into the ground & treated us black surrogates like they [sic] were slaves.”

U.S. Does Not Have More Coronavirus Deaths Than China, Senator Says

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The United States does not currently have more coronavirus-related deaths than China, despite media claims, according to a senator on the Select Committee on Intelligence. Sen. Ben Sasse (R., Neb.), who sits on the committee that deals with classified intelligence, said the Chinese Communist Party continues to lie about the actual death toll from coronavirus in its own country.

Trump Is a Man of Intellectual Dexterity

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Contrary to the impression one forms…over the past four years, we are quite certain President Trump is not accorded sufficient credit where he is generally found most wanting, particularly by his media critics: on matters of reason and judgment. The coronavirus crisis that now consumes his administration has shown the president to be a man of some courage and intellectual dexterity. 

Rich Socialist Restaurateur Lays Off Hundreds Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

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A socialism-themed restaurant chain in Washington, D.C., run by a multimillionaire former mayoral candidate laid off hundreds of staffers this week due to the city’s coronavirus restrictions, according to reports. Andy Shallal said he was forced to let go hundreds of waiters and other employees at Busboys and Poets, his chain of six restaurants and bookstores across the city.

Media, Dems Ran with False Claim That Trump “Disbanded” Pandemic Office

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The official who once ran the White House pandemic program dismissed a false Democratic talking point that Trump eliminated the pandemic-response team and criticized reporters for parroting the claim in news stories. “No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there,” wrote former National Security Council adviser Tim Morrison for the Washington Post on Monday.