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Wednesday, August 14, 2024 BY CROOKED MEDIA

*- President Biden speaking to a group of influencers.*

Donald Trump’s allies are grumbling about his campaign. As Harris gains the polls, their gripes are getting louder.

Disgraced former President Donald Trump’s top backers appear to be growing increasingly anxious about the way he’s handling this race. “It should be easy,” an unnamed source close to Trump told CNN. “Talk about the economy and talk about immigration.” Instead, the convicted felon lurches from one strange spectacle to another. In recent days, he insisted Vice President Kamala Harris’ big crowds were digital fakes; he questioned her racial identity; he pushed a baffling nickname no one understands, “Kambala;” he yucked it up with fellow billionaire and misinformation enthusiast, Elon Musk, over how funny it would be to fire striking workers, enraging organized labor leaders; he spread the baseless idea that President Biden might try to get back into the race. Oh yeah, and his Vice Presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), is a historically unpopular dud of a candidate, most notable at this point for all the jokes about his supposed romantic interest in furniture.

Trump allies are sounding the alarm. The famously conservative Wall Street Journal Opinion page wrote: “Trump Is Looking Like a Loser Again.” The article’s opening line sounds like an intervention: “We need to talk about Donald.” Vivek Ramaswamy, who ran in the GOP primary, is also calling for a campaign reset. Ramaswamy urged Trump to disregard pettiness and dial into the big issues facing American voters — which is, frankly, hilarious, given what we all know about Trump after almost a decade of enduring his presence in public life. “Focus on policy,” Ramaswamy said in an interview with NPR. Somehow he managed to avoid bursting out laughing at the ridiculousness of his own idea.

Trump and Republicans need to “quit whining” about the fact that President Biden is out of the race, Trump's former U.N. ambassador and erstwhile rival, Nikki Haley, said in a Fox News interview. Instead of “complaining,” Haley urged Trump to start attacking Harris on her policy positions and record.

Trump has a longstanding tendency to deconstruct reality when faced with defeat, and climb up into the safety of his preferred fantasy land.

“This is his pattern going back years and years and years,” the reporter Peter Baker noted on CNN. “He’s never lost a contest that he acknowledged that he lost. He constantly comes up with conspiracy theories and made-up versions of reality, and what he’s doing here clearly is laying the groundwork.”

Trump-backers shouldn’t hold their breath for him to suddenly get serious. But, as the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot showed, even Trump’s delusions can still have damaging real-world consequences.

French police plan to investigate a cyber harassment complaint filed by Algerian gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif, after she faced lies and baseless attacks over her gender during the Olympic Games.

Khelif’s complaint names X owner Elon Musk and notorious anti-trans children’s author (what a distinction!) J.K. Rowling, Khelif’s lawyer, Nabil Boudi, told Variety on Tuesday. But those famous names are unlikely to face prosecution, because French penal law doesn’t apply to acts committed outside of France committed by non-French nationals, according to a French legal expert cited by the BBC. Prosecutors could, however, press charges against people who sent harassing messages from inside France.

Rowling has a long history of attacking trans women, and using her enormous platform to direct internet hate their way. In this instance, she repeatedly, baselessly claimed that Khelif is a “man,” despite the International Olympic Committee’s confirmation that Khelif was born female. Musk also referred to Khelif as a man. Both questioned her eligibility to be in the Olympics.

Rowling suggested just last year that she would “happily” go to jail for intentionally misgendering someone. Okay girl let’s see if you meant it!

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Negotiators hoping to end Israel’s war in Gaza will meet in Doha on Thursday, including officials from the U.S., Israel, Qatar and Egypt. Hamas has said it won’t participate over what the group called bad faith from Israel’s leadership, but the extremist group also told mediators that it does plan to huddle with them afterwards if the talks yield significant developments, the Washington Post reported.

Deeply weird guy and loud third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to meet with Kamala Harris to discuss a deal to support her White House bid if — and it’s a big if — he could nab a spot in her administration if she wins in November, the Washington Post reported. You will be shocked to learn that the Vice President declined this tempting offer.

The Biden administration approved plans to sell about $20 billion worth of weapons to Israel over a span of several years starting in 2026, despite continued calls to halt such weapons transfers from dozens of Congressional Democrats including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). The sale includes F-15 fighter jets, 120mm tank shells and mortars.

Ukrainian forces mounted their largest drone strike ever inside Russia overnight, targeting four Russian airfields well beyond the two countries’ shared border. The attack marked the latest move by Ukraine to take the fight into Russian territory, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) won her primary fight for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District on Tuesday, finally halting the trend of the so-called “Squad” members losing their seats in thorny primary contests heavily influenced and funded by pro-Israel special interest groups like AIPAC. Congrats Rep. Omar on that double-digit win!

Google said alleged Iranian hacking of top political figures is still underway and more widespread than is publicly known. Hackers are targeting the email accounts of current U.S. officials, and people around president Biden, Vice President Harris and former President Trump.

Newly released records reveal Hunter Biden sought assistance in 2016 from at least one State Department official, the U.S. ambassador to Italy, for an introduction to an Italian official to boost the business of Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where the president’s son served as a board member. The request seems to have gone nowhere, however, and so far there’s no sign President Biden was involved.

The World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency. New forms of the virus are emerging as the disease, which is also known as monkeypox, spreads in more than a dozen countries including Congo.

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Inflation dipped in the month of July relative to a year ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday. The drop from 3% to 2.9% further sets the stages of the Federal Reserve to cut rates in September. A new poll shows Kamala Harris almost quadrupling Joe Biden’s lead over Donald Trump among Latinos in swing states, jumping to a 19-point lead from a 5-point lead.

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