| No Images? Click here  Friday, October 19TRUMP PRAISES GOP REP WHO ASSAULTED REPORTER President Donald Trump praised Republican lawmaker Greg Gianforte, who last year assaulted a Guardian reporter. “Any guy that can do a body slam, he’s my kind of guy,” Trump said at a rally in Montana, as supporters cheered him on. The blowback on social media was swift. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]TRUMP: KHASHOGGI LIKELY DEAD Trump said that he presumes journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and that the U.S. response to Saudi Arabia will likely be “very severe” — but he still wants to get to the bottom of what exactly happened. [Reuters]PUTIN: U.S. MONOPOLY ‘ALMOST DONE’ Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted the end of United States’ world dominance due to growing “mistakes.” He said: “A country can get the sense from impunity that you can do anything. This is the result of the monopoly from a unipolar world ... Luckily this monopoly is disappearing. It’s almost done.” [HuffPost]CARTER: KAVANAUGH ‘UNFIT’ Former President Jimmy Carter called Brett Kavanaugh “unfit” to serve as a Supreme Court justice. “Whether or not [Kavanaugh] attempted to rape a woman ... I thought he was temperamentally unfit to serve on the Supreme Court because of his outburst during the hearing,” Carter told students at Emory University. [HuffPost]LARA TRUMP: KAVANAUGH TREATMENT WILL INSPIRE WOMEN TO VOTE Lara Trump predicted women will be “inspired” to vote for Republicans in the midterm elections because of the “Kavanaugh effect.” Trump, wife of Eric Trump, told Fox News: “I’ve found women coming up to me telling me how frustrated they were with [with the confirmation process], how much it makes them want to go out and vote for Republicans. [HuffPost]MNUCHIN BAILS ON SAUDI CONFERENCE Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced he was pulling out of a high-profile investment conference in Saudi Arabia amid suspicions about Saudi government involvement in the disappearance of Khashoggi. One company that’s sticking with the event is The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., which will host the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh next week. [HuffPost] GOP ATTACK AD SAYS DEMS WILL BRING BACK LYNCHINGS A right-wing political action committee supporting Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.) released radio advertisements so vile that even Hill has had to denounce them. In the ads, which aired in predominantly black areas, several people speak about the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh before concluding that a victory for Hill’s Democratic rival will lead to “race verdicts, life sentences and lynchings.” [HuffPost]TRUMP THREATENS TO CLOSE SOUTHERN BORDER Trump threatened to deploy the military and close the southern U.S. border if Mexico does not halt a caravan of Central America migrants heading north. [HuffPost]KELLY AND BOLTON THROW DOWN White House chief of staff John Kelly and national security adviser John Bolton got into a heated argument in the West Wing over a recent surge in border crossings. [CNN]QUEBEC: NO RELIGIOUS CLOTHING FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES Muslims and other religious groups in Quebec are concerned about the new right-wing ruling party’s plans to bar some public employees — teachers, police officers, judges — from wearing religious clothing on the job, including hijabs and kippahs. [HuffPost]TRUMP INTERVENED IN FBI MOVE Trump personally intervened to stop the FBI from moving its headquarters in Washington to the Maryland or Virginia suburbs, emails made public reveal. The decision helps Trump’s bottom line by protecting his flagship hotel across the street from the FBI building from competition. [HuffPost]‘CATHOLIC’ PHARMACIST REFUSES TO WRITE PRESCRIPTION A Michigan woman grieving the loss of her unborn baby says a pharmacist refused to fill in a prescription to help her miscarry the fetus. The pharmacist reportedly told Rachel Peterson it was against his religion as “a good Catholic male.” [HuffPost]
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