This is so sad. Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase are both playing their best seasons in the NFL and most likely won’t even make the playoffs. Bengals front office owes the fans an apology for one of the worst defenses in the league. You can’t win like this.
Today, I ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in memory and respect of Corey Comperatore, who tragically lost his life shielding his family. Virginia stands in solidarity with all Pennsylvanians and we continue to pray for his family and those who remain in critical condition.
Thank you to President Biden for granting me Secret Service protection. And I am so grateful to Gavin deBecker & Associates for keeping me safe for the last 15 months of my Presidential campaign.
Beautiful words from Melania Trump. Let all Americans remember that their opponents are full, precious human beings.
"A monster who recognized my husband as an inhuman political machine attempted to ring out Donald's passion—his laughter, ingenuity, love of music, and inspiration. The core facets of my husband's life—his human side—were buried below the political machine. Donald, the generous and caring man who I have been with through the best of times and the worst of times.
Let us not forget that differing opinions, policy, and political games are inferior to love. Our personal, structural, and life commitment - until death - is at serious risk. Political concepts are simple when compared to us, human beings…
This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family is first, and love transcends. We can realize this world again. Each of us must demand to get it back. We must insist that respect fills the cornerstone of our relationships, again."
My deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who was tragically killed at yesterday's Trump rally in Pennsylvania. This morning, his daughter Allyson shared a deeply moving tribute to her father on Facebook, describing how he died shielding Allyson and her mother from the bullets that came at them. "We lost a selfless, loving, husband, father, brother, uncle, son, and friend...the best dad a girl could ever ask for,” she wrote. "He died a real-life superhero."
The impact of the rampant vitriol and divisiveness in today's political and media landscape – and, increasingly, political violence – isn’t isolated to presidential candidates or political parties. As this tragedy shows, it also takes an unimaginable toll on our country's citizens: American families with hearts and hopes, like the Comperatore family.
America has fallen off the precipice, but we can still climb back up. As a nation, we can overcome this. But we need to learn how to better understand and empathize with one another, converse with respectful dialogue, and regard differing viewpoints with dignity and respect.
A GoFundMe has been set up to support Allyson and her family: https://t.co/v9dzrnmLBA
My thoughts and prayers are with the Comperatore family.
Dear @Bengals I have waited months for a size 10.5 men’s to be back in stock of this shoe. Today I had to do something drastic and just order a pair of them from the @Saints instead. @Nike will these #ZoomPegasus40 shoes ever be back in stock?
Now is the time for every American who loves our country to step back from the division, renounce all violence, and unite in prayer for President Trump and his family.
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They want to ban TikTok because it’s “owned by China”
Not true.
60% of the company is owned by US and international investors.
20% is owned by the company founders.
20% is owned by company employees, including over 7,000 Americans.
The CEO of TikTok is from Singapore, not China.
So ask yourself why they keep repeating this lie to scare you?
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Reactionaries who want to ban TikTok claim the data can’t be secured because the “algorithm” is in China.
Not true.
The truth is the Algorithm runs in the U.S. in oracle cloud with their review of the code. (NOT in China).
Maybe we should examine the facts before committing violations of the 1st and 5th amendments.
🚨📰 My statement on the House TikTok Ban 📰🚨
The passage of the House TikTok ban is not just a misguided overreach; it's a draconian measure that stifles free expression, tramples constitutional rights, and disrupts the economic pursuits of millions of Americans.
With an iron fist, Congress dictated an unrealistic and narrow path for divestment, effectively banning TikTok and ignoring its substantial investments in data security.
This act is not securing our nation—it's a disturbing gift of unprecedented authority to President Biden and the Surveillance State that threatens the very core of American digital innovation and free expression.
This TikTok bill language is so broad and poorly drafted that it will absolutely be used to shut down media the U.S. government doesn’t like, just like the Patriot Act was used to spy on innocent Americans who hadn’t done anything wrong.
Remember how the entire U.S. intelligence community moved to have the New York Post banned for reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop under the guise that it was all Russian disinformation? The U.S. intel community knew the laptop was legit and authentic, but they lied about it anyway and used their lies as a pretext to ban media outlets they didn’t like.
Remember how the same corrupt intel community similarly fabricated and spread the Russian collusion hoax, and how its minions accused anyone who accurately reported on the hoax of being Russian stooges? The language of this TikTok bill would give those same crooks and liars the authority to shut down and criminally prosecute and penalize media outlets by merely accusing them of being “subject to the direction” of an adversary. What does that even mean?
How do you think a government which accuses anyone who criticizes its corruption or garbage foreign policy of being a traitor will use that language? Having lived through the Iraq WMD hoax, and the Russiagate hoax, and the COVID natural origins hoax, and J6, and the myriad Ukraine hoaxes, do you think your government will judiciously use that language as narrowly as possible, or do you think it will use that language to persecute its domestic political opponents?
At this very moment, @FDRLST, @DailyWire, and @KenPaxtonTX are having to sue the U.S. State Department for illegally using its authority to combat foreign propaganda against its domestic political opponents. Our own government is already abusing laws and programs that exist only to target foreign media to instead target American media outlets for critically reporting on misdeeds by the U.S. government.
This isn’t a theoretical or academic discussion. For decades, our government has given itself massive new police power, ostensibly targeted at foreign enemies, only to immediately weaponize those new powers against the American people.
What on earth makes you think these same people will magically stop abusing the new powers they keep giving themselves? https://t.co/JNJc9vty5r
The House TikTok Ban is not securing our nation—it's a disturbing gift of unprecedented authority to President Biden and the Surveillance State that threatens the very core of American digital innovation and free expression.