Trump Support in the Face of Continuing Madness
Rasmussen’s Daily Tracking Poll shows that on Tuesday 49% of likely U.S. voters approve of President Trump’s job performance, while 49% of the people polled disapprove. The latest figures include 35% who strongly approve of the way Trump is performing and 41% who strongly disapprove.
In a Quinnipiac University Poll that was conducted from August 9 – 13, 2018, only 31% of American voters like President Donald Trump as a person, while 59% dislike him. When voters were separated by party, 66% of Republicans said they like Trump, while only 8% of Democratic voters said they liked Trump as a person.
Another question asks if the news media is an important part of democracy? 65% of American voters said yes, while 26% of voters say the media is the enemy of the people.
Quotes from Tim Malloy, Assistant Director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, show bias against President Trump. Malloy said, "Not the kind of numbers that gets you a date to the prom - or helps your party as the Midterm Elections approach. Only one in three Americans 'likes' President Donald Trump.”
He went on to say, "For President Trump, another Groundhog Day. His job approval gets another cool reception in midst of the sweltering summer. What does it mean? Simple: The base is hanging in and the rest aren't buying in."
Networks Deluge Viewers with Omarosa, Bury Coverage of Peter Strzok’s Firing
After deluging viewers with a seemingly unending amount of stories about fired ex-Donald Trump aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the networks on Monday night and Tuesday morning skimped on the news that anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok had been fired.
In total, ABC, CBS and NBC allowed just 9 minutes and 6 seconds of Strzok coverage. In contrast, the reporting on Omarosa garnered 31 minutes and 20 seconds of obsessive coverage.
CBS managed the least amount of coverage on Strzok, just 2 minutes and 5 seconds. NBC totaled 2 minutes and 36 seconds. ABC covered the Strzok story for 4 minutes and 25 seconds.
Elizabeth Warren Says Kavanaugh is ‘Not a Done Deal’: He Was Prescreened By ‘Right-Wing Extremist Groups’
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's Senate confirmation hearings will start on September 4 and is assumed to last between three and four days.
On “Late Night with Seth Meyers” Tuesday night, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) assured Seth Meyers that President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court isn’t a guarantee.
Meyers said it was “striking” that progressives “aren’t making the same push” to prevent Judge Brett Kavanaugh from becoming the next Supreme Court justice as there was to prevent the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. “I will say it’s just refreshing that anyone screens someone that Donald Trump picked,” Meyers joked. “Usually he just opens the door and like lets in like 15 people.”
Democrats led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) have hoped to stop Kavanaugh but have not swung any Republican votes against him. They need at least two, plus all 47 Democrats and two independents, to vote no to block him
Hundreds of Priests in Pennsylvania Sexually Abused More than a Thousand Children
Roughly 300 Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children since the 1940s, according to a grand jury report on Tuesday, in an alleged “cover-up” described as “sophisticated” by the state’s attorney general.
Over the course of a two-year investigation, launched by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro’s office, a grand jury heard several witness statements and pored over documents from six dioceses in the state. The report was released on Tuesday, August 14, and accused senior church officials, including a man who is now the archbishop of Washington D.C., of systematically covering up complaints.
The “real number” of abused children and abusive priests might be higher since some secret church records were lost and some victims never came forward, the grand jury said.
The grand jury heard from dozens of witnesses and reviewed more than a half-million pages of internal diocesan documents, including reports by bishops to Vatican officials disclosing the details of abusive priests that they had not made public or reported to law enforcement.
In nearly every case, prosecutors found that the statute of limitations has run out, meaning that criminal charges cannot be filed. More than 100 of the priests are dead. Many others are retired or have been dismissed from the priesthood or put on leave.
Authorities charged just two, including a priest who has since pleaded guilty. One senior American church official named in the grand jury report is Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who leads the Washington archdiocese, for allegedly helping to protect abusive priests when he was Pittsburgh's bishop. Wuerl, who was bishop of the Pittsburgh diocese from 1988 to 2006, disputed the allegations.
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