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• Op-Ed: Could 40 Million Non-Voting Christians Save America by Doing Their Civic Duty?

  28-10-2022 23:59
  Billy Graham defined the problem: “Bad politicians are elected by good people who don’t vote.”
  Sadly, about 40 million Christians don’t take the threat of the systemic Marxism infecting our society through today’s Democratic Party seriously enough to even vote (see this also). And 15 million of them are not even registered!
  Non-voting Christians were a huge percentage of the 77 million eligible non-voters in 2020. Imagine if just half had voted.
  It’s a scandal
  
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• Former Philadelphia sheriff's deputy accused of selling guns and meth to an FBI informant

  28-10-2022 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  A now-former Philadelphia sheriff's deputy is charged with selling guns illegally to an FBI informant while he was a deputy, including two that were traced back to the deadly Roxborough shooting, two weeks earlier, that left a 14-year-old dead and four juveniles wounded, according to court documents.
  
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• Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, community leader and longtime pastor in Harlem, dies at 73

  28-10-2022 23:48 via cnn.com
  
  The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, a prominent faith leader who led Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, died on Friday, the church said. He was 73.
  
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• US Moving Advanced Nuclear Weapons to NATO Bases; Reportedly Deploying Nukes Early

  28-10-2022 23:23
  With tensions escalating between Russia and NATO, the U.S has accelerated the process of updating its nuclear arsenal in the European theater.
  NATO allies were informed that the U.S would be delivering upgraded B61-12 air-dropped gravity bombs to their NATO facilities, replacing older weapons in the process.
  According to Politico, this switch-out was originally slated for this Spring but is now planned for this December as the U.S seeks to allay European fears of security.
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• Kari Lake Gives Musk Enticing Invitation After Twitter Takeover: 'DM Me and We'll Work It Out!'

  28-10-2022 23:00
  Elon Musk is now in control of Twitter.
  Kari Lake, who soon hopes to be in control of Arizona’s governorship, has invited Musk to move Twitter’s headquarters to Arizona.
  Musk, the billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, immediately made changes Friday after completing his purchase of the social media platform and taking it private.
  He fired CEO Parag Agrawal and Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal and pledged to make Twitter an open public forum rather than a left-wing echo chamber that s
  
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• U.S. Bank reveals data breach involving some credit card accounts

  28-10-2022 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
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• Elon Musk Announces Twitter Is Implementing the One Type of Diversity Radical Leftists Truly Fear

  28-10-2022 22:52
  “The condition of having or being composed of differing elements,” is the definition that Merriam-Webster gives for the term “diversity.”
  You’re excused if that definition is unfamiliar to you, given the way that leftists have hijacked the real meaning of that word. For you see, to a leftist, “diversity” really means “the condition of having or being composed of differing elements, as long as they all agree with me.”
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• Police Reveal Identity of Pelosi Attack Suspect, Say Paul Was Also Holding Hammer

  28-10-2022 22:11
  Police on Friday released the identity and other information about the man who allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at their San Francisco home early Friday morning.
  San Francisco police said during a briefing Friday that officers were dispatched to the Pelosis’ home at 2:27 a.m.
  When they entered, they found a man — identified as 42-year-old David DePape — in a struggle with Paul Pelosi that involved a hammer, police Chief Bill Scot
  
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• 'It's a Different Beast': Former NBA Champ Opens Up on Transgender Issue in Sports

  28-10-2022 21:47
  Former NBA star Matt Barnes said in no uncertain terms in an interview last week that he thinks transgender athletes should not play in whatever league they identify with. Anyone born a man should play men’s sports and anyone born a woman should play women’s sports, Barnes said.
  In an interview on Oct. 21 with VladTV, Barnes said that he does not care what people do in their personal lives, but when it comes to sports, everyone should be playing according to their actual sex.
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• McDonald's stock hits all time high

  28-10-2022 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  McDonald's stock hit an all time high Friday as Wall Street cheered the company's third quarter results.
  
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• Prosecutors seek to introduce evidence Michigan school shooter's parents created a pathway to violence

  28-10-2022 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  Mass shooters have "a slow build towards violence over time and they give up a lot of warning signs," a forensic psychologist testified Friday at a pretrial hearing for the parents of Michigan school shooter suspect Ethan Crumbley.
  
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• Tech glitch botches federal prisons' rollout of update to Trump-era First Step Act

  28-10-2022 21:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  A new computer app created to automatically calculate inmates' time credits — used to determine their release date under the First Step Act — suffered a program glitch as it was launched this month.
  
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• Tea Party Patriots Action Recruits and Trains 1,000s of Poll Watchers, New Website Launched to Bring In More

  28-10-2022 21:38
  Tea Party Patriots Action announced Thursday it has recruited and helped train more than 8,000 poll watchers and workers in key swing states.
  The group is still recruiting more through the newly launched website HelpAtThePolls.com.
  A spokesman for Tea Party Patriots Action says over 1,000 new recruits have volunteered in the last 24 hours.
  “This year, TPPA conducted a multi-state election integrity tour recruiting and training poll watchers and poll workers in key battleground states, incl
  
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• Major Companies Are Threatening Elon Musk in an Attempt to Keep Trump Off of Twitter: Report

  28-10-2022 21:19
  Elon Musk now owns Twitter after officially closing the $44 billion deal on Thursday. But now that the social media giant is under new management, some advertisers and companies are concerned about how Musk will operate the platform.
  There have been concerns among some advertisers about Musk’s plans to reinstate those who were previously banned from Twitter, the Wall Street Journal reported.
  Particularly, some are hesitant about the possibility of former President Donald Trump being b
  
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• Trump Takes War with Dem 'Inspired' Lawsuits to Social Media, Blasts 'Vicious, Biased, and Mean' Judge

  28-10-2022 21:07
  Former President Donald Trump is lashing out at the judge handling the New York attorney general’s fraud lawsuit against him and his company, calling the judge “vicious, biased, and mean” in a social media post just days before the case’s first court hearing.
  Trump, who has been on the losing side of Judge Arthur Engoron’s rulings in the past, coupled Friday’s criticism with complaints that — as a politician — he shouldn’t be forced to deal w
  
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• Black blues women were the first to do what Madonna thinks she did

  28-10-2022 21:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Madonna's recent comments about artists like Cardi B ignores the influence of the early and mid-20th century Black blues women, who sang and gained popularity for their sexually evocative lyrics.
  
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• Barbara Walters Is a 'Shadow' of Her Former Self, Things Get Worse When the News Comes on TV: Report

  28-10-2022 20:57
  Former media star and TV news anchorwoman Barbara Walters is suffering from dementia and is “close to the end,” according to RadarOnline.com.
  Walters, 93, is a recluse in her New York City apartment who must use a wheelchair and has not been seen in public since 2016, the outlet reported Tuesday, citing unidentified sources.
  “Barbara is fading a little more every day,” one said. “She’s close to the end and her team is scrambling to manage affairs just the way
  
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• Solomon: Elon Musk Marks the Beginning of a New Era at Twitter

  28-10-2022 20:56
  We went to sleep peacefully on Thursday night. By the time we woke up, Elon Musk had completed his $44 billion deal to acquire the world’s most influential social media site.
  In a series of completely expected immediate firings, Musk terminated the contracts of CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal. Musk also fired Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s legal head, who was ultimately responsible for former President Donald Trump’s ouster from the site.
  While Musk told Twitter advertisers earlie
  
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• Stocks closing out week with a pop thanks to Apple and oil

  28-10-2022 20:42 via cnn.com
  
  Stocks rallied heading into the weekend, despite lousy results from Amazon. Solid earnings from Apple and oil giants Chevron and Exxon Mobil were enough to counter the weak outlook from the retail and cloud giant.
  
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• Tesla Staff Brought in to Assess the Mess After Twitter Engineers Are Locked Out: The Bird is Freed

  28-10-2022 20:31
  To make sure that nothing about the Twitter’s product changes prior to the final closing of Elon Musk’s deal to purchase Twitter, the company’s software engineers cannot make changes to Twitter’s proprietary code as of noon in San Francisco yesterday.
  Bloomberg reported that several people, none of whom were named in the report, had spoken about the code freeze. Twitter enacted the same lock-out in April when the sale was first announced, Bloomberg said.
  Musk yesterday br
  
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• After brands dump Kanye West, many people ask: What took so long?

  28-10-2022 20:28 via cnn.com
  
  Earlier this week Adidas ended its partnership with rapper and fashion designer Ye (who previously went by Kanye West). Its decision came around the same time that a flurry of other companies also cut ties with the artist — but weeks after Ye began making offensive remarks.
  
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• If Looks Could Kill: See the Look Twitter's Censorship Head Gave Musk Just Hours Before He Fired Her

  28-10-2022 20:20
  It didn’t take Elon Musk very long in his Twitter takeover to produce a litany of viral moments.
  There was the moment Musk carried a sink into Twitter headquarters, just to make a lovely dad joke:Entering Twitter HQ – let that sink in! pic.twitter.com/D68z4K2wq7
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2022There was a simple four-word tweet that literally went viral (currently sitting at over 1.8 million likes):the bird is freed
  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022But perh
  
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• Mehmet Oz: John Fetterman's policies on drugs and crime are illogical

  28-10-2022 20:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Dr. Oz: Don't let Pennsylvania Senate seat go to John Fetterman and his soft-on-crime and drugs policies. Republicans need to control Congress.
  
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• Many employers will soon have to advertise salary thanks to two new laws

  28-10-2022 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  Next week, job seekers will start to get a much better grasp on what many employers are willing to pay -- and so will a company's existing employees.
  
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• Kari Lake Fumes as Arizona TV Station Posts Midterm 'Results' 12 Days Before Election

  28-10-2022 19:45
  In an incident that will likely not help the fractured and contentious relationship between Americans and the establishment media, a local Fox affiliate in Phoenix appeared to have called a gubernatorial race… a whopping 12 days before the election.
  KSAZ-TV, the local Fox affiliate in the Valley of the Sun, raised quite a few eyebrows when a widget displayed during the Thursday broadcast showed Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs soundly beating Republican candidate Kari Lake.H
  
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• Six children killed in apparent murder-suicide at Oklahoma home

  28-10-2022 19:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  A murder-suicide investigation is underway after an Oklahoma house fire left eight people dead, including six young children, police said Friday.
  
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• The electric Pininfarina Battista costs a whopping $2 million. Here's what that gets you

  28-10-2022 19:26 via cnn.com
  
  The Pininfarina Battista is an astonishing car. Its base price, $2.2 million, is shocking, but so are its capabilities. With a maximum output of 1,900 horsepower from four electric motors, Automobili Pininfarina claims it can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in under two seconds. It probably took you longer just to read that sentence.
  
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• Nevada orders shutdown of controversial ballot hand count in rural county

  28-10-2022 19:21 via cnn.com
  
  The Nevada secretary of state's office has ordered the hand counting of mail-in ballots in Nye County, Nevada to stop, after the state Supreme Court said the method violates state law.
  
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• Just 0.3 Inches of Rain Can Trigger Deadly Surprises Left by California Wildfire - And the State Is Full of Them

  28-10-2022 19:18
  Last month, a woman died in a mudslide in Southern California. Her body was found only after “several days of methodical searching.”
  If that sounds like a horrible tragedy to you, you’re not wrong. Doris Jagiello, 62, was found buried beneath “several feet of mud, rocks and debris,” the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Deptartment told ABC News at the time. When I imagine what the last moments of her life must have been like, I wince. I can only hope they passed quick
  
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• Climate Activists Try Their Stunt in Front of Crowd Viewing 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and It Doesn't End Well

  28-10-2022 19:17
  Climate activists once again targeted precious artwork on Thursday, and this time it was Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in the Netherlands.
  At the Mauritshuis, a museum in The Hague that houses many of the Dutch masters, two men wearing “Just Stop Oil” T-shirts approached the priceless painting.
  In video shared on social media, one of the protesters seemingly tried to glue his head to the artwork while the other poured something red on hi
  
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• Man who assaulted Pelosi's husband with hammer was looking for House speaker, source says

  28-10-2022 19:09 via cnn.com
  
  • Police briefing on attack on Paul Pelosi soon
  • St. Louis school shooter was flagged in FBI background check but was still able to legally purchase a gun, police say
  
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• 'Where Is Nancy?': Paul Pelosi Might Not Have Been His Attacker's Main Target

  28-10-2022 18:56
  A home intruder was trying to find House Speaker Nancy Pelosi when he assaulted her husband, Paul Pelosi, early Friday morning, a source told CNN.
  The attacker reportedly broke into the couple’s San Francisco residence while the speaker was in Washington with her security detail.
  The source told CNN the intruder yelled, “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” when he confronted her husband.The assailant who attacked Paul Pelosi was in search for the Speaker of the House, a source tel
  
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• Jerry Lee Lewis, 'Great Balls of Fire' Singer and Rock 'n' Roll Star, Dies at 87

  28-10-2022 18:52
  Jerry Lee Lewis, the untamable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose outrageous talent and energy collided on such definitive records as “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” died Friday morning at 87.
  The last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, Lewis died at home in Memphis, Tennessee, representative Zach Farnum said in a release. The news came two days after
  
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• Buttigieg remains coy about WH aspirations as talk swirls of post-Biden future

  28-10-2022 18:43 via cnn.com
  
  Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is declining to rule out a future presidential bid, offering only that he doesn't "know what's going to happen in the future" when asked about a potential White House run.
  
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• Bodycam Shows 'Aggressive' Pit Bull Advancing on Police Before Shots Go Off; Owners Fighting Charges

  28-10-2022 18:33
  A New Jersey police confrontation with a pit bull led to a shooting of the animal, and both the cops and the dog’s owners are facing legal scrutiny.
  The Keyport, New Jersey, Police Department published bodycam footage Tuesday of a 911 response regarding a dangerous dog.
  Authorities had been told that the “aggressive” dog cornered a woman walking her own pet in the neighborhood Oct. 22, according to News 12 New Jersey.
  As officers arrived in a nearby parking lot, the sound of th
  
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• Hours After Tom Brady's NFL Career Sinks to a New Low, His Divorce Is Announced

  28-10-2022 18:10
  A day after Tom Brady hit some startling career lows, the 45-year-old quarterback announced a shocking personal development.
  In a post to his Instagram on Friday morning, Brady announced he was divorcing his wife of 13 years, supermodel Gisele Bündchen.
  NFL reporter Adam Schefter shared the Instagram post on Twitter:Tom Brady announced that he and Gisele Bündchen divorced: pic.twitter.com/QHXdHT9Baw
  — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) October 28, 2022“In recent days, my wife an
  
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• Biden falsely claims the most common gas price was over $5 when he took office

  28-10-2022 18:09 via cnn.com
  
  President Joe Biden has made another false claim about gas prices.
  
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• Elon Musk will have to pay three fired Twitter executives nearly $200 million

  28-10-2022 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  The three top Twitter executives whom Elon Musk fired Thursday will walk out the door with about $187 million of Musk's money.
  
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• Elon Musk has to pay three fired Twitter executives nearly $200 million

  28-10-2022 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  The three top Twitter executives whom Elon Musk fired Thursday will walk out the door with about $187 million of Musk's money.
  
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• 'LA is a Mess': Leftist Commentator Whines About Deteriorating City, Gets Reminded He Supported the Policies That Led to it

  28-10-2022 17:37
  Leftist political commentator Cenk Uygur, host of “The Young Turks,” made some news recently by actually making some common-sense observations.
  Unfortunately, the conventional wisdom Uygur discovered did not seem to extend into a new sense of self-awareness.
  The no-longer-young-Turk Uygur, 52, did not admit his current complaints contradicted the same kind of leftist positions and leadership he recently advocated. Commenters on Twitter stepped in to remind him.
  Uygur was commenting o
  
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• Here's what happens to Twitter's stock now that it's a private company

  28-10-2022 17:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  Now that Elon Musk has closed on his acquisition of the social media platform Twitter, what happens to Twitter's stock?
  
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• Liz Cheney's PAC airs ad urging Arizona voters to reject GOP candidates Kari Lake and Mark Finchem

  28-10-2022 17:34 via cnn.com
  
  Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is putting money behind her vow to do everything she can to prevent election deniers from winning in November, as her political action committee announced Friday that it is spending $500,000 on an ad urging Arizona voters to reject GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake and Republican Secretary of State nominee Mark Finchem.
  
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• What took Adidas, Gap and other businesses so long to dump Kanye West?

  28-10-2022 17:29 via cnn.com
  
  Earlier this week Adidas ended its partnership with rapper and fashion designer Ye (who previously went by Kanye West). Its decision came around the same time that a flurry of other companies also cut ties with the artist — but weeks after Ye began making offensive remarks.
  
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• TGIF! Stocks closing out week with a pop thanks to Apple and oil

  28-10-2022 17:27 via cnn.com
  
  Stocks rallied heading into the weekend, despite lousy results from Amazon. Solid earnings from Apple and oil giants Chevron and Exxon Mobil were enough to counter the weak outlook from the retail and cloud giant.
  
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• The next job listing you apply for might actually include the salary

  28-10-2022 17:18 via cnn.com
  
  Next week, job seekers will start to get a much better grasp on what many employers are willing to pay -- and so will a company's existing employees.
  
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• Woke Late-Night on Notice: 'Gutfeld!' Earns Second Biggest Viewership in Show's History

  28-10-2022 17:16
  This Fox host is putting his competition to shame.
  Greg Gutfeld is not only dominating his late-night peers, he’s continuing to increase the size of his audience.
  A whopping 2.494 million viewers tuned in to Gutfeld! on Tuesday night, according to Forbes.
  That’s the second-biggest audience for an episode of Gutfeld in the show’s history, according to Forbes.
  Gutfeld is also the top dog with the demographic of viewers between the ages of 25 to 54. There were 396,000 viewers who
  
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• US Sanctions Group That Put Bounty on Salman Rushdie's Life

  28-10-2022 17:12
  The United States is imposing financial penalties on an Iranian-based organization that raised money to target British-American author Salman Rushdie, who was violently attacked in August at a literary event.
  The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned the 15 Khordad Foundation, which issued a multimillion-dollar bounty for the killing of Rushdie.
  He wrote the novel “The Satanic Verses,” which some Muslims consider blasphemous. The book was published in 1988
  
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• Satanic Panic is more than just a 'Stranger Things' plot — it's real life

  28-10-2022 17:03 via nbcnews.com
  A dangerous conspiracy theory is making an alarming comeback (and a high-profile cameo on 'Stranger Things'). It imagines a secret network of pedophiles and satanic cults… and some on the hyper-right are fueling its resurgence. NBC News' extremism reporter Brandy Zadrozny walks us through the alarming phenomenon of ‘satanic panic.’
  
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• Goodnight Everybody

  28-10-2022 16:54
  For more A.F. Branco cartoons, go to WesternJournal.com/cartoons.
  The post Goodnight Everybody appeared first on The Western Journal.
  
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• Trump Rips Opening Tee Shot While Playing with Golf Star Brooks Koepka, Adds a Shot at Biden for Good Measure

  28-10-2022 16:50
  First, former President Donald Trump took a resounding whack at his teed-up golf ball Thursday on the first hole of the LIV Golf pro-am at the Trump National Doral course in Miami.
  As the ball sailed down the middle of the fairway, Trump took an only slightly gentler shot at President Joe Biden.
  “Do you think Biden could do that? I don’t think so,” he said, adding, “I don’t think so,” as he strolled toward his playing partners.Former President Trump teeing off
  
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