July 12, 2024
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Biden survives 'big boy' press conference but ends high-stakes day bruised . . . President Joe Biden managed to ease some concerns about his political future, though he also committed crucial gaffes, during a choreographed press conference Thursday night. For weeks, Democrats have been calling for the president to drop out of the presidential race. Two weeks after taking the debate stage against former President Donald Trump, Biden took questions at a high-stakes press conference while his political future remained in limbo. Despite a few gaffes that made the rounds on social media, the president managed a strong enough showing through the rest of the press conference to potentially delay calls for him to step down. Daily Caller
Three more House Dems called for him to get out, but he avoided a stampede. Democrats spent months, years even, refusing to see what was obvious, and now they are stuck with him.
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Politics
Pelosi moving behind the scenes to get Biden to reconsider presidential run . . . Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is working furiously behind the scenes to put pressure on President Biden to reconsider his place at the top of the 2024 ticket, according to a number of Democratic lawmakers familiar with her efforts. The Speaker emerita is talking to a broad swath of House Democrats — from front-liners in tough districts to hardened veterans with institutional clout — to pump the brakes on the notion that Biden should definitively be the party's nominee heading into November, these lawmakers said. The Hill
Biden struggled through fundraisers for months before the Clooney debacle . . . Nearly every fundraiser Biden held from December 2023 through July of this year features multiple verbal slips. At times, the reporter in attendance was unable to transcribe his words, such as during a May fundraiser in Seattle where the official transcript says "inaudible" seven times. At other times, Biden's words were audible but the sentences incomplete or illogical. At a Washington, D.C., fundraiser in May, Biden said he was "honored to see that heritage across most of the diversem [sic]—and I—let me say it another way. I told you, when I get elected, I was going to have an administration that looked like America." Washington Free Beacon
Psaki says Harris is best alternative to Biden but worries America too 'sexist and racist' . . . MSNBC host Jen Psaki declared Vice President Kamala Harris is the best candidate to replace President Biden as the Democratic nominee if he withdraws, while mourning the "sexist" and "racist" country that might reject her. The former Biden flack made the point during a Wednesday interview on the "Pod Save America" podcast, singing Harris' praises as a campaigner and communicator. She also defended the vice president from criticism that she's too unpopular a candidate for the top of the ticket. Fox News
Is she forgetting that her boss was a Black man elected twice by this "racist" country?
Schumer seeks to classify Trump's election actions as 'unofficial' to skirt immunity ruling . . . Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer vowed Thursday to work on legislation that would target former President Donald Trump's actions surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, and his contest of the 2020 election results. In a post on X, the New York Democrat said "MAGA Justices" on the Supreme Court can't crown Mr. Trump as king and allow him to escape criminal liability. the Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that presidents have immunity from prosecution for core presidential functions and presumed immunity for other official acts. But the justices, in the 6-3 ruling, said a president does not have immunity for nonofficial acts. Washington Times
Culture
Senate panel rejects Biden nominee who had allowed male serial rapist in a female prison . . . President Joe Biden nominated Sarah Netburn to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, but the nomination was blocked by the Senate Judiciary Committee in a 10-11 vote. In August 2022, Netburn recommended the transfer of male inmate William McClain, who goes by July Justine Shelby, into a female prison despite his record of sex crimes. Daily Caller
International
U.S., Germany foiled Russian plot to assassinate CEO of arms manufacturer . . . U.S. intelligence officials warned the German authorities earlier this year that Russia was plotting to assassinate the head of Europe's biggest weapons producer, according to two Western officials, amid an escalating sabotage campaign by Moscow to raise the cost of Western support for Ukraine. The Western officials said the alleged plot to kill Armin Papperger, the head of Rheinmetall, a major German arms manufacturer that has been a key supplier of artillery shells and tanks for Ukraine, was part of the Kremlin's spiraling hybrid war against the West. Washington Post
Hungary's Viktor Orbán leaves DC NATO meeting to see Trump in Mar-a-Lago
Money
Kroger, Albertsons identify nearly 600 locations they will sell to get merger approved . . . Kroger and Albertsons, who are looking to merge, have identified the 579 locations across the country that they intend to offload from their combined grocery store count. The planned divestiture of the stores is linked to the grocery giants' efforts to assuage concerns voiced by regulators related to their proposed deal for Kroger to acquire Albertsons. Fox Business
You should also know
Catherine Herridge became a target at CBS when she started to report about Biden . . . Award-winning investigative journalist Catherine Herridge, who was fired from CBS News, unloaded all of her thoughts to Tucker Carlson in a lengthy interview released Thursday. Herridge previously accused her former employer CBS of "journalistic rape" after the network allegedly seized all of her computers, records and files and locked Herridge out of her email upon informing her of her termination. Herridge admitted "there was tension" at the network when she "sort of turned [her] lens" on President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Daily Caller
Biden campaign pressured radio station into editing Biden interview . . . A Milwaukee radio station agreed to edit a radio interview with President Joe Biden after he used the term "blacks," according to a statement from Civic Media, a Wisconsin-based left-wing talk show network. The station removed two short segments from the interview Biden did with host Earl Ingram that aired on July 4 at the request of the president's campaign, according to Civic Media's statement. Daily Caller
Guilty Pleasures
Upper East Side vegan faces $50K suit for refusing to stop feeding pigeons . . . A provocative Upper East Side vegan — who once called humans "the shame of the earth" — is being sued by her landlord for causing a literal s–tstorm as she refuses to stop feeding pigeons outside her building. Sharon Amram's flighty actions have resulted in massive amounts of guano covering the fire escape and a ground-floor commercial tenant's roof at the East 78th Street's building, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Wednesday. "It's bulls–t," Amram, 46, told The Post on Thursday from her second-floor apartment that she's rented since 2011. New York Post
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