The world keeps on turning! And the chaos in Washington whirls right along, keeping time. And this week has been NO different.
We always want to keep you informed about the latest important issues of your day. No, we may not know about your personal issues where you live. But we DO know about the issues that impact your life and those of every other American. We keep them front and center for you so that you can stay informed and help you make decisions for yourself and your family. Our “Saturday Bullet Points” are the perfect way to do that.
Look at the few sentences that describe each bullet point. If you want more information about that story after you read those sentences, click on the blue arrow. You will immediately be transferred to the whole story, describing all its contents.
If you don’t need more info, move on to the next bullet point.
These are the top stories of the week. Using this each Saturday will, at least, keep you informed about the most important happenings in the U.S. and the rest of the World.
Let’s get started!
Bullet Points
- We all know we’re in a very tight and crucial presidential campaign. We’re just weeks away from deciding who will be the next occupier of the White House. Will it be former President Trump or Vice President Harris? Voters will decide on November 5. In campaigning, who gives how much money is a very important consideration. Each of these two candidates will raise about $1 Billion in campaign contributions! Americans typically pay close attention to who gives all those dollars and to which campaign. Lobbyists are known to be the largest of those contributors. Though candidates usually accept some of those lobbyist dollars, Democrat Party candidates usually get most of those dollars. The Vice President’s campaign has said it does NOT take Lobbyist money. But public records tell a different story. For complete details, click on this link:
- We all are watching the economy closer than we usually do. Why? Dollars are tight—tighter than they have been for many years. The monthly jobs reports are one statistic that gives us a picture of our economy. The Biden/Harris Administration’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported newly created job numbers almost every month during this administration, which looks nearly too good to be true. And it turns out, the numbers have NOT been true! In fact, the “newly created” job numbers have quietly been revised down in at least half of the months of this administration. That means approximately one million “new” jobs in the Biden/Harris Administration were inaccurate. For complete details, click on this link:
- President Biden’s son Hunter is back in the news — and it’s NOT good news. After being convicted of two federal gun charges, Hunter was charged with income tax evasion. His trial for those charges was to begin this week. The day of jury selection saw a bomb drop in the California court where this trial was to begin. Hunter’s lawyer notified the court that Hunter was changing his plea from “Not Guilty” to “Guilty!” None of the prosecution team had any inkling of such action even being considered. This move is extremely rare. When it’s used, there are strict stipulations that accompany its use. Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley says Hunter is likely headed to jail anyway! For complete details, click on this link:
- We all remember the amazing trial in New York City that resulted in former President Donald Trump being charged with a slew of felonies for illegally altering business records. The jury convicted him on all charges, and he awaits sentencing by Judge Juan Merchan. Not surprisingly to many, on Friday, the judge decided not to sentence Trump until after the November election! Sentencing was set to occur next week in Manhatten. What does this mean? For complete details, click on this link:
- As everyone knows, Donald Trump has been facing multiple lawsuits and criminal charges over the past two years. They’ve been instituted in several federal venues and New York City in a state court. In that trial, Trump was convicted on several sexual charges brought by E. Jean Carroll. He was forced to pay a massive fee to the court to be allowed to wait for his appeal to occur, which is pending. His attorney in that case, Alina Habba, went postal Friday in a press conference addressing the reality of all these lawsuits against the former President. She’s as angry as I’ve seen an attorney be when speaking to the media:
- The most serious of these cases, another Donald Trump trial, is to be held in Washington, D.C. It has been delayed several times, the latest of which was in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that presidents have “limited immunity” against litigation AFTER they leave office when their alleged wrongdoing occurs while performing their “official” duties as president. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who presides over this case, held her first hearing on the case on Thursday, after which she released her schedule for the timing for all parts of this trial. The schedule showed that the last motion deadline for all attorneys in the case was November 7, just two days after the presidential election. CNN’s Elie Honig called out the judge for “hypocrisy” after telling former President Trump’s team that the upcoming election was NOT considered when deciding a trial date. For complete details, click on this link:
- Who will ever forget the Biden Administration’s “Inflation Reduction Act? ” The bill’s price tag is $700 billion for taxpayers and includes $369 billion for “green energy initiatives,” which certainly could NOT reduce inflation as the bill was sold to the American people. In fact, this act is the number one cause of the Biden massive inflation that has cost every American thousands of dollars each year, and there’s no end in sight. (Kamala Harris, then Senator, cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate to send that monstrous bill to Biden’s desk to sign into law) In a speech in Wisconsin, Biden was touting his “Bidenomics” investments. He called the “Inflation Reduction Act” the most significant climate change law ever. He added this: “By the way, it is a $369 billion bill, it’s called the — we we we should’ve named it what it was.” It isn’t going to reduce inflation! For complete details, click on this link:
- It’s election season. In recent years, there has not been a federal election in which Democrats have not claimed claims of Russian interference in our election process. Specifically, in each of the three presidential elections in which Trump was a candidate, Democrats claimed the Russians were interfering to help Donald Trump! (Amid these Democrat claims, Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly stated he’s supporting Kamala Harris over Donald Trump!) And the Democrats are loudly, once again, making claims of collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia! For complete details, click on this link:
- Kamala Harris obviously looks to Hillary Clinton as her election campaign idol. Kamala is copying Hillary when speaking to different audiences about the same topics. When speaking to union members in Pennsylvania, she speaks with an accent one might think was from a person from Pennsylvania. Just hours later, in Detroit, Kamala gave the same speech but sounded like a black person who lives in Detroit! Our friend in Australia saw the same thing we saw and gave us a lesson listening to Kamala and Hillary for their conclusion:
- In the past year or so, prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz announced on Friday his decision to leave the Democratic Party. Dershowitz is a longtime Democratic supporter. However, his support of the Democratic Party has been challenged again and again by the foolish actions taken by Democratic Party leadership in many areas. The proverbial “final straw” for the longtime lawyer and law school professor was the shenanigans he saw at the DNC in Chicago. He announced his departure but did not say who he would support in the upcoming election or if he would consider switching parties to the RNC. For complete details, click on this link:
