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Commentary: Amy Coney Barrett Exposes Society’s Double Standard on Family Size

October 12, 2020October 11, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has seven children. Unless you have been living under a rock, you already knew that. All the media coverage of her nomination, which was announced on September 26, devoted extensive attention to this fact.

If a poll were to be taken, no doubt more Americans would be able to identify the birth country of Barrett’s two adopted children (Haiti), than the Federal Court Circuit on which she currently serves as a judge (the Seventh).

Pelosi Unveils 25th Amendment Proposal to ‘Create a Process for Future Presidents’

October 12, 2020October 11, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday unveiled legislation that would allow Congress to oust a president from office using the 25th Amendment, stressing that “this is not about President Trump,” but about creating “a process for future presidents,” meaning potentially Joe Biden.

The bill would set up a commission to assess the president’s ability to lead the country and ensure a continuity of government. It comes one year after Pelosi’s House launched impeachment proceedings against Trump. If passed by a 2/3 vote in both houses, the 25th Amendment would allow for the vice president to become acting president after it was determined that the president was “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

TRUMPDATE: Latest From the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for October 12

October 12, 2020October 12, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

Welcome to the Monday edition of our daily Virginia Trump campaign update! We will provide our readers with daily updates on the Trump Virginia campaign from today to November 3 (and after…if need be!).

It’s officially 22 days until the election on November 3 – and 19 days until early voting in Virginia closes. The deadline to register to vote in time for the 2020 election is TOMORROW, October 13.

Commentary: Biden’s Threat to Pack the Supreme Court Matters

October 10, 2020October 9, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

After Joe Biden and Kamala Harris dodged debate questions about “packing the courts,” Biden, when pressed further finally said, “You’ll know my opinion on court packing when the election is over.”

Biden is playing games with the American people on what could be the most consequential issue of the election and here is why this matters.

Space Abounds in Security Threats, Technological Promise, NASA Chief Says

October 10, 2020October 9, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

In a wide-ranging interview on “Just the News AM,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine touted his agency’s innovations in 3D-organ printing, immunization, and fiber optics made possible through microgravity in space.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Thursday applauded the United States’ recent ending of nine years of reliance on Russia to transport American astronauts to the International Space Station, while also warning of the growing threat of Chinese and Russian anti-satellite technologies.

Former Trump Deputy National Security K. T. McFarland Details Her Experience with the Swamp and Trump’s Decision to Deny a Virtual Debate

October 9, 2020October 8, 2020 Julie Carr

Thursday morning on the John Fredericks Radio Show, host Fredericks talked to former Deputy National Security Advisor to the Trump administration K.T. McFarland about the vice presidential debate and the deep state in Washington D.C.

TRUMPDATE: Latest From the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for October 8

October 8, 2020October 7, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

Welcome to the Thursday edition of our daily Virginia Trump campaign update! We will provide our readers with daily updates on the Trump Virginia campaign from today to November 3 (and after…if need be!).

It’s officially 26 days until the election on November 3 – and 23 days until early voting in Virginia closes. The deadline to register to vote in time for the 2020 election is October 13, six days from today.

State Dept. Officials Told They Broke Law by Monitoring Americans During Ukraine Scandal

October 7, 2020October 6, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

State Department officials were explicitly ordered in spring 2019 to stop tracking 13 prominent Americans’ social media accounts for information about the Joe Biden-Ukraine scandal because the monitoring violated federal law, according to emails that were originally redacted to hide the concerns from the American public.

“We are barred by law from actively monitoring the accounts of American citizens in aggregate — and particularly from identifying and monitoring individual, selected accounts,” a State Department official wrote in an April 1, 2019 email to officials in Washington and the U.S. embassy in Kiev.

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for October 7

October 7, 2020October 7, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

Welcome to the Wednesday edition of our daily Virginia Trump campaign update! We will provide our readers with daily updates on the Trump Virginia campaign from today to November 3 (and after…if need be!).

It’s officially 27 days until the election on November 3 – and 24 days until early voting in Virginia closes. The deadline to register to vote in time for the 2020 election is October 13, six days from today.

Gov. Northam Criticizes President Trump’s ‘Don’t Live in Fear’ Message, Suggests Exercising to Help Fight COVID

October 7, 2020October 6, 2020 Corinne Murdock

Governor Ralph Northam criticized President Donald Trump’s statement preceding his release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
“I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”

Commentary: In 2020, Wallace Learned ‘Never Go Full Crowley’

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

In the second presidential election debate between President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on October 16, 2012, CNN moderator Candy Crowley sensed that Obama, coming off a dismal initial September 26 debate, was again floundering.

Romney was driving home the valid point that the Obama Administration had inadequately prepared the American mission in Benghazi for likely terrorist attacks. And such laxity resulted in a horrific attack and the deaths of four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.

TRUMPDATE: Latest From the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for October 6

October 6, 2020October 5, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

Welcome to the Tuesday edition of our daily Virginia Trump campaign update! We will provide our readers with daily updates on the Trump Virginia campaign from today to November 3 (and after…if need be!).

It’s officially 28 days until the election on November 3 – and 25 days until early voting in Virginia closes. The deadline to register to vote in time for the 2020 election is October 13, one week from today.

Former FBI Official Proposes ‘Bipartisan Commission’ to Vet Presidential Candidates Like Trump

October 3, 2020October 2, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

A former top FBI official on Thursday proposed that a “bipartisan commission” be created to vet presidential candidates so people like President Trump can never be elected again.

“We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again,” said Frank Figliuzzi, who was briefly the assistant director of the FBI under President Obama.

TRUMPDATE: Latest From the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for October 3

October 3, 2020October 3, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

Welcome to the Saturday edition of our daily Virginia Trump campaign update! We will provide our readers with daily updates on the Trump Virginia campaign from today to November 3 (and after…if need be!).

It’s officially 31 days until the election on November 3 – and 28 days until early voting in Virginia closes. The deadline to register to vote in time for the 2020 election is October 13.

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for October 1

October 1, 2020September 30, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

It’s officially 33 days until the election on November 3 – and 30 days until early voting in Virginia closes. The deadline to register to vote in time for the 2020 election is October 13.

Commentary: Pelosi Holds Millions of Small Businesses Hostage While Working Families Struggle

September 30, 2020September 29, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when a lot less was known about the virus and how to counter it, and while the nation was still ramping up production of testing and hospital resources including ventilators needed, 25 million jobs were lost across the country, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Since labor markets bottomed in April, 13.8 million jobs have been recovered, as states have begun steadily reopening in the months since.

TRUMPDATE: Latest From the Trump Team Virginia Campaign for September 30

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

It’s officially 34 days until the election on November 3 – and 31 days until early voting in Virginia closes. The deadline to register to vote in time for the 2020 election is October 13.

President of Preserve America Chris LaCivita Talks About His Super PAC and Defining Joe Biden

September 30, 2020September 29, 2020 Julie Carr

Tuesday morning on The John Fredericks Show, host Fredericks welcomed political consultant Chris LaCivita to the show to discuss his super PAC Preserve America and their focus on moving the needle for President Trump in the upcoming election.

Federal Judge Blocks TikTok Ban, Giving Chinese App an Opening to Settle Deal with Oracle

September 29, 2020September 28, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to block TikTok Sunday, giving the Chinese social media platform an opportunity to forge a deal with Oracle.

The decision gives TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, more time to approve a deal with Oracle and Walmart, media reports show. Judge Carl Nichols’s decision came hours before President Donald Trump’s ban of the video-streaming app was expected to take place.

Former Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore on Barrett: Confirm Now!

September 29, 2020September 28, 2020 Corinne Murdock

In an interview with The Virginia Star, Kilgore shared that Barrett’s nomination was a long time coming.

“A lot of us were looking to the President, hoping he would nominate her last time instead of Kavanaugh [in 2018]. She carried herself so well during her 2017 hearing for the 7th Circuit Court, and she was a former clerk for Justice Scalia. She is a favorite justice for many conservatives throughout the nation.”

Pence Stumps Virginia: ‘It’s a Battleground State’

September 28, 2020September 27, 2020 Corinne Murdock

Donald Trump’s Senior Campaign Advisor John Pence, nephew to Vice President Mike Pence, visited Virginia last Saturday for two events encouraging citizens to vote.
The “Get Out and Vote” trail made stops in Amelia County and Fluvanna County, following President Trump’s Friday night rally in Newport News.

Commentary: While Trump Surges, Biden Hides

September 28, 2020September 27, 2020 Admin

Former Vice President Joe Biden must believe he is safely in the lead against President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, as his campaign took the day off on Sept. 24 with no appearances by either Biden or his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) — the ninth such break this month alone.

Does Biden think he can win without aggressively campaigning?

Commentary: Barrett Will Sail Through Confirmation

September 28, 2020September 27, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

As I write, President Trump has just confirmed what the rumor mill has been disgorging with increasing confidence over the last few days: Judge Amy Coney Barrett is his pick to replace the feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died at 87 a little over a week ago, as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Commentary: Breaking the Administrative State Key to a Successful Second Term

September 28, 2020September 27, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

President Trump, the great red pill for American society, has finally brought to the surface what has been simmering beneath for over a century.

Lost in the shuffle of this week’s breaking news is something Attorney General Bill Barr said last week in a speech calling out the dangers of the bureaucracy, even within his own department.

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Trump Virginia Campaign for September 28

September 28, 2020September 27, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

It’s officially 36 days until the election on November 3 – and one day until President Trump and Joe Biden square off in the first presidential debate. Chris Wallace of Fox News will be moderating.

Senator Mark Warner and Republican Challenger Daniel Gade to Debate at Norfolk State University

September 27, 2020September 26, 2020 Corinne Murdock

Senator Mark Warner and his Republican challenger Daniel Gade will convene for a second debate at Norfolk State University (NSU) on Saturday.
According to NSU’s press release, the candidates will debate on “racial disparities and inequities in education, healthcare, economic mobility and the criminal justice system.” NSU is the state’s largest “Historically Black College and University” (HBCU).

Trump Says His Order Covers Preexisting Conditions, Surprise Medical Billings

September 26, 2020September 25, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at protecting Americans with preexisting health conditions, after delivering remarks on his administration’s health care vision in Charlotte, North Carolina.

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for September 26

September 26, 2020September 26, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

It’s officially 38 days until the election on November 3 – and three days until President Trump and Joe Biden square off in the first presidential debate.

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for September 25

September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

It’s officially 39 days until the election on November 3 – and four days until President Trump and Joe Biden square off in the first presidential debate.

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for September 24

September 24, 2020September 24, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

It’s officially 40 days until the election on November 3 – and five days until President Trump and Joe Biden square off in the first presidential debate.

Trump Intends to Visit Virginia After Denouncing Gov. Northam and Endorsing Bob Good

September 23, 2020September 22, 2020 Corinne Murdock

President Donald Trump announced his intentions to visit Virginia after denouncing Governor Ralph Northam and endorsing congressional candidate Bob Good.

Trump tweeted his remarks on the first day of Virginia’s early voting and submission of absentee ballots, September 18.

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for September 23

September 23, 2020September 22, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

Welcome to a new Wednesday edition of our daily Virginia Trump campaign update! We will provide our readers with daily updates on the Trump Virginia campaign from today to November 3 (and after…if need be!).

It’s officially 41 days until the election on November 3 – and six days until President Trump and Joe Biden square off in the first presidential debate.

Steve Bannon on The John Fredericks Show: How Democrats Plan to Steal the Election

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Corinne Murdock

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon appeared on The John Fredericks Show (JFRS) to share how Democrats are undermining the election. The exchange is part of Bannon’s newest national tour, “Plot to Steal 2020.”
Bannon unveiled the tour in his first interview since his arrest. The War Room – Pandemic host claimed that the fraud charges against him are part of a bigger plan targeting Trump’s associates ahead of the election.

Trump Approves TikTok Deal with Oracle and Walmart, Wants the App to Support Pro-US Education Program

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he approved a transaction between Oracle and TikTok that allows the Chinese application to stay in the United States.

Part of the arrangement requires the newly U.S.-based TikTok company to direct $5 billion toward teaching American children “the real history of our country,” Trump told reporters at the White House, Bloomberg reported Saturday. The president later told rally attendees in North Carolina Saturday that he is establishing a “large fund for the education of American youth.”

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for September 22

September 22, 2020September 22, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

Welcome to a new Tuesday edition of our daily Virginia Trump campaign update! We will provide our readers with daily updates on the Trump Virginia campaign from today to November 3 (and after…if need be!).

It’s officially 42 days until the election on November 3 – and one week until President Trump and Joe Biden square off in the first presidential debate.

Democrats Say They Will Pack the Court if Republicans Vote to Replace Ginsburg in 2020

September 21, 2020September 20, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

Prominent Democrats are threatening to expand the size of the Supreme Court to cancel out President Donald Trump’s court picks if Republicans vote on late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement this year.

Left-wing activists have been pushing Democratic politicians to endorse court-packing since Justice Anthony Kennedy’s 2018 retirement cleared the way for Justice Brett Kavanaugh to join the high court. Some congressional Democrats embraced the idea following Ginsburg’s death Friday night.

Judge Blocks Trump’s WeChat Ban, Says the Move ‘Targets the Chinese American Community’

September 21, 2020September 20, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

A judge blocked the Department of Commerce’s ban on Chinese social messaging app WeChat over First Amendment concerns early Sunday morning before it could go into effect.

Judge Laurel Beeler of San Francisco issued the decision more than a month after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning both WeChat and social media app TikTok over national security concerns, The Associated Press reported. The executive order signed on Aug. 6 was set to go into effect Sunday.

Census Data Boosts Trump, Showing Record Income Gains and Historic Low Poverty

September 21, 2020September 20, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

As he heads into the final stretch of the election, President Trump is getting a boost from new census data showing historic, broad-based economic gains for U.S. households in 2019.

The U.S. Census Bureau on Monday released data showing median household income surging to a record high of more than $68,700 last year. The increase of 6.8% in household income was the largest one-year increase on record.

Trump Reaches 53 Percent Approval Rating in Latest Rasmussen Poll, Highest All Year

September 19, 2020September 18, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows President Trump peaking in popularity just weeks before the November 3 election.

The president’s approval rating on Friday reached 53 percent, his highest approval rating in a year, outperforming former president Obama, who had a 49 percent approval rating at this point in his presidency. Trump’s approval rating has been at or above 51 percent for five days in a row in Rasmussen’s polls.

TRUMPDATE: Latest from the Team Trump Virginia Campaign for September 19

September 19, 2020September 22, 2020 Jordan Bondurant

It’s officially 45 days until the election on November 3 – and 10 days until President Trump and Joe Biden square off in the first presidential debate.

Sr. Advisor to Trump-Pence 2020 Campaign Mercedes Schlapp Weighs in the Democrats Deceptive Games

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Julie Carr

Monday Morning on The John Fredericks Show, host John Fredericks welcomed Trump-Pence Campaign 2020’s White House Director of Strategic Communications to discuss Joe Biden’s Democratic campaign and the increased violence it encourages.

Trump Victory Campaign Secures Two Million Voter Contacts in Virginia

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Jacob Taylor

The Trump Victory campaign announced Friday it has passed two million voter contacts in Virginia ahead of the quickly-approaching November election.

The milestone brings with it plenty of confidence and optimism from those working on the campaign.

Commentary: Trump Has Had a Historically Great First Term

September 14, 2020September 13, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

You would never guess any of this from the Trump-hating media in full campaign for Joe Biden, but the voters will have reason to reflect on it before the electoral die is cast.

As the latest Democratic assassination effort—the bunk about President Trump disparaging American war dead on the centenary of the end of World War I—fades into ignominy with its propagator, the egregious Jeffrey Goldberg, acknowledging that anonymous denunciators are insufficiently convincing, we may dare to hope that in the last seven weeks of this tumultuous campaign, some serious, legitimate questions will be addressed. One of them is that, like all incumbents, President Trump is seeking reelection on the basis of his record in office.

Steve Bannon Tells Trump: Stay On Message and You Win

September 11, 2020September 10, 2020 Julie Carr

Thursday morning on The John Fredericks Show, host John Fredericks welcomed Steve Bannon to the show to discuss the Bob Woodward interview and Trump’s record in response to the coronavirus and Bob Woodward interview.

Trump Releases List of 20 New Possible Supreme Court Picks

September 10, 2020September 9, 2020 The Associated Press

Hoping to replicate a strategy that has long been seen as key to his appeal among conservative voters, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he is adding 20 names to a list of Supreme Court candidates that he’s pledged to choose from if he has future vacancies to fill.

Trump, Biden Spar Over Economy, Workers in Labor Day Blitz

September 8, 2020September 7, 2020 The Associated Press

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Donald Trump spent Monday diminishing each other’s credentials on the economy and understanding of the American worker as the presidential campaign entered its final, post-Labor Day stretch.

While workers live by an “American code,” Biden said Trump “lives by a code of lies, greed and selfishness” as he met with labor leaders in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a key swing state. Trump, meanwhile, tried to put the halting economic recovery under the best light in a White House press conference where he said Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, would “destroy this country and would destroy this economy.”

Commentary: Trump Takes on the Real Pandemic of ‘Critical Race Theory’

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

At long last, the president tackles the “critical race theory” infecting the federal workforce.
To be a freedom-loving individual in the year 2020, and to have a proper understanding of modern history and current events, is to be terrifyingly aware of just how much the liberty, prosperity, and stability of America and the free world depend on one thing and one thing alone—namely, the continued physical and intellectual health of a certain preternaturally brave, brilliant, and energetic 74-year-old named Donald Trump.

Commentary: Desperately Derailing Donald

September 8, 2020September 7, 2020 Virginia Star Staff

The effort to stop President Trump is growing comical.

One always expects the media surprise leak of a purported hidden scandal as a presidential campaign winds down. Remember the last-minute “discovery” of George W. Bush’s undisclosed 24-year-old DUI arrest in 2000? Or the October 7, 2016 effort of the Washington Post to publish the hoarded 11-year-old “Access Hollywood” tape, just two days before Donald Trump’s second debate with Hillary Clinton?

Pam Bondi: Changing Polls Reveal Democrats Fear That President Trump Is Going to Continue to Save Our Country

September 5, 2020September 4, 2020 Julie Carr

Friday morning on The John Fredericks Show, host John Fredericks welcomed former special advisor to President Trump’s administration Pam Bondi to weigh in on changing polls moving towards Trump and Democrat desperation.

Erin Perrine Weighs in on Joe Biden’s Shrinking Poll Numbers and President Trump’s Leadership for America

September 3, 2020September 2, 2020 Julie Carr

Wednesday morning on The John Fredericks show, host John Fredericks welcomed the Director of Press Communications for the Trump-Pence 2020 Campaign, Erin Perrine to discuss Joe Biden’s shrinking poll numbers and President Trump’s continued leadership for Americans.