| No Images? Click here  Wednesday, October 24TRUMP: KHASHOGGI KILLING ‘WORST COVER-UP’ Trump called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi “the worst cover-up ever.” He told journalists: “They had a very bad original concept. It was carried out poorly and the cover-up was one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups. Very simple. Bad deal, should have never been thought of. Somebody really messed up.” [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]GOP CANDIDATE: VOTER SUPPRESSION CLAIMS ‘A FARCE’ Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) defended his controversial record on voting rights during a gubernatorial debate with Stacey Abrams (D), claiming he was not purging voter rolls of people of color. “This farce about voter suppression and people being held up from being on the rolls … is absolutely not true,” Kemp said. [HuffPost]TRUMP EX-LAWYER: MUELLER A ‘HERO’ Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said he doesn’t buy Trump’s claim that the ongoing special counsel investigation is a “witch hunt.” Cobb told CNN’s Citizen Conference in New York, “Bob Mueller is an American hero in my view.” [HuffPost]‘NO CHINESE ELECTION MEDDLING’ Facebook and Twitter say they’ve detected no Chinese meddling in the 2018 elections, casting doubt on claims by Trump that the Asian nation is trying to interfere. [Bloomberg]BOLTON: U.S. WILL QUIT TREATY The White House will quit a landmark nuclear treaty despite objections from Russia, national security adviser John Bolton said. “There’s a new strategic reality out there,” he told a news conference after a meeting with Vladimir Putin. [Reuters]BLACK FLORIDA CANDIDATE MOCKED BY MINSTREL ROBOCALL A white supremacist website in Idaho sent out a racist robocall against Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum. Speaking in an exaggerated minstrel dialect, an actor pretends to be Gillum, saying: “Well hello there. I is the negro Andrew Gillum, and I be asking you to make me governor of this here state of Florida.” [HuffPost] MEGYN KELLY NOW REALIZES BLACKFACE IS WRONG Megyn Kelly apologized for defending Halloween costumes involving blackface during her morning segment on NBC. “I realize now that such behavior is indeed wrong, and I am sorry,” she said, adding: “The history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent; the wounds too deep.” [HuffPost]FOX REPORTER TRIES TO ‘FOIL’ MIGRANT CROSSING A bizarre segment on “Fox & Friends” featured a reporter at the U.S. border in McAllen, Texas, lying in the bushes “in wait” for a migrant family attempting to cross. [HuffPost]AMAZON PITCHED CONTROVERSIAL SOFTWARE TO ICE Amazon pitched its controversial facial recognition technology to officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to emails obtained by a government watchdog. [HuffPost]WHY TRUMP’S ‘NATIONALISM’ CLAIM IS BAD In a jarring moment during Trump’s Texas campaign rally, the president declared himself a nationalist — a loaded term associated with Nazis. Faced with blowback, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson tried to bail the president out, arguing that Lincoln and Gandhi were “nationalists.” too. [HuffPost]TRUMP BACKTRACKS ON ‘MIDDLE EASTERNERS’ LIE Trump admitted he had “no proof” that “unknown Middle Easterners” were attempting to enter the U.S. as part of a migrant caravan, but suggested the lack of evidence was immaterial because “they very well could be.” [HuffPost]WILLA WINDS EASE Hurricane Willa’s fierce winds eased as the powerful storm barreled inland over Mexico, leaving power outages and toppled trees but no reported deaths. [Reuters]
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