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The balance of power in the Virginia State Senate comes down to a campaign this November where a member of his own party is waging a war against the Republican Party's candidate.
Matt Strickland lost the June primary race by 14 points, but that doesn't count him out. He wants to run a write-in campaign for November," explained Virginia Scope.
"The seat is competitive and has big implications for control of the state Senate and whether or not Gov. Glenn Youngkin can fully implement his agenda," the report said.
Strickland argues that the GOP establishment has been fighting him for far too long and he is refusing to be quiet about it anymore.
“Folks have started a write-in campaign for me for state senate and delegate. I can’t take credit for the idea, but I support it,” he tweeted Monday. “The Republican Establishment accepts millions of dollars in donations from corrupt corporations just as my opponent Tara Durant did. Pfizer and Dominion Energy just to name a couple.”
The small Facebook group "The Write Matt In Initiative" appeared over the summer. It has fewer than 150 people in it, but it's a movement that could ultimately help the Democrat in the race win by splitting the GOP into establishment vs. MAGA. The group is no longer available online, the report explained.
Strickland said that the "establishment Republicans" told him after he lost he must support the GOP nominee.
“We always blindly support the Republican nominee, and they always screw us over,” Strickland said. “I will no longer blindly vote Republican. I’ll never vote for a Democrat, but I will most definitely write in a true candidate for The People [from] now on.”
Strickland isn't a fan of Gov. Glenn Youngkin either, calling the far-right lawmaker a RINO, or Republican In Name Only. It's a commonly used insult used by former President Donald Trump.
“I’m fighting the war on two different fronts: fighting Democrats and fighting these establishment Republicans in Name Only,” he said to conservative talk radio host John Fredericks in May.
Strickland isn't just the MAGA candidate, he said on Tuesday that he firmly believes that the 2020 election was "rigged. If we had free & fair elections Trump would be President right now.”
Democratic opponent Joel Griffin thinks it could be beneficial to have Strickland in the race.
State Delegate Tara “Durant barely broke 50% in Spotsylvania in her primary and a Strickland write-in campaign will be more than enough to doom her in a Biden +5, Spanberger +2 seat,” Griffin campaign manager Jeremy Levinson, told Virginia Scoop. “Joel Griffin looks forward to defending a woman’s right to choose once elected as the next state senator from the 27th state Senate district.”
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Trump brags about his 2020 'mental acuity test' he previously called 'hard'
September 10, 2023
UPDATE: About 20 minutes after the publication of the story, Trump posted a sequel saying, "I will name the place and the test, and it will be a tough one. Nobody will come even close to me! We can also throw some physical activity into it."
Donald Trump is still bragging about the so-called "mental acuity test" that he was given by now-Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson (TX).
In a social media post Sunday, the former president bragged that he "aced" his 2020 dementia test, known as "The Montreal Cognitive Assessment" test.
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The attack came for a recent Wall Street Journal poll, conducted in part with one of Trump's own pollsters. Among the questions was about the mental acuity, age, and fitness of candidates Joe Biden and Trump. He's miffed that they asked about him.
"Where did that come from?" he demanded to know. "A few years ago I was the only one to agree to a mental acuity test, & ACED IT. Now that the Globalists at Fox & the WSJ have failed to push their 3rd tier candidate to success, they do this. Well, I hereby challenge Rupert Murdoch & Sons, Biden, WSJ heads, to acuity tests!"
The test didn't actually examine his mental acuity but rather it was something given to monitor cognitive decline over time. In the Fox interview where he discussed it, Trump confessed the memory questions were the most difficult for him.
"The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult," the ex-president said in the July 22, 2020 interview.
Trump told the network it was the final question where he really struggled the most, ones to do with memory.
"Like a memory question, it would go, like you'll go 'person, woman, man, camera, TV," he continued, noting that if he got it in order he got "extra points."
The test went on, he said, and 10 or 15 minutes later they would ask the first question again and ask him to repeat it.
"They said if you get it in order you get extra points. They said, no one gets it in order. It's actually not that easy, but for me it was easy."
The test is a 30-question, short-answer "test" that is supposed to detect any change in memory. Giving it once doesn't generally give the broad spectrum of how one's cognitive function has changed over time. It's a test designed to be given multiple times and charted how the results might change.
A test for dementia or Alzheimer's is significantly longer, and more detailed, and can also include brain imaging to show whether or not there has been any deterioration, The Alzheimer's Association explained.
Two years later, in April 2022, Trump was still discussing the test, explaining, "I don't like being called stupid." A month later, he was still bragging about passing the test.
It has now been three years, and he continues to discuss it. Experts said at the time that Jackson's test was hardly representative of mental acuity. Instead, they explained the test wasn't definitive, much less diagnostic.
"To test memory, for example, the examiner reads five words at a rate of one per second and asks the subject to repeat them immediately and then again after some time has passed," the report described. "To assess attention and concentration, subjects are read a list of five digits and asked to repeat them in the order they were provided and then in reverse order. The subjects also are asked to count backward from 100 in increments of 7."
The doctor who developed the cognitive test Trump told the public in 2020 that the questions were "supposed to be easy," because it was testing the change over time.
Dr. Ziad Nasreddine crafted the test in 1996, which is designed to screen for early signs of Alzheimer’s or dementia. During the interview with Trump, Chris Wallace reminded the president that the exam was “not the hardest test” and cited some of the questions. Still, Trump disagreed, insisting that parts of the test were challenging and urged Biden to “take a test right now.”
In the second post, Trump bragged, "I just won the Senior Club Championship at a big golf club, with many very good players."
In the Jan. Senior Club Championship, he bragged he also won, despite not playing the whole first round, Golf Weekly reported.
The championship he "just" won was about three weeks prior and he claimed to shoot 67 under par. To put that in context, "The best score for one round of golf in a PGA Tour tournament is 58. That score has been posted only once so far, and it was by Jim Furyk. Furyk's all-time record round of 58 happened in the final round of the 2016 Travelers Championship at TPC River Highlands in Connecticut," Live About reported.
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Secret Service agent behind JFK speaks out for the first time — revealing he found the 'magic bullet'
September 10, 2023
Former Secret Service agent Paul Landis was feet from President John F. Kennedy when he heard the shots fired. First the first time in history, he's finally speaking out, and he has a lot to say to dispute some previous claims.
Writing in his new memoir, Landis explained that for years, he fought to forget. The sounds of the gunshots and what he saw next. The nightmares have finally subsided and he has been able to read about it, think about it, and publish his memoir The Final Witness.
"And he realized that what he read was not quite right, not as he remembered it. As it turns out, if his recollections are correct, the much-discussed 'magic bullet' may not have been so magic after all," Peter Baker wrote for the Times.
The Warren Commission did interviews, collected photos and videos, and explored theories about what happened and how. The so-called "magic bullet theory," argues that one of the bullets hit Kennedy as well as Texas Gov. John Connally, turned, and then hit the governor again.
Landis was riding on the right running board of the car behind Kennedy's on the passenger's side. He was behind the president. Photos and videos of the immediate second after Kennedy was hit show Landis looking behind him toward the sound of the gunshot.
It has been 60 years and even his details have prompted doubts from his former Secret Service partner, Baker explained in his report. Some of the information flies in the face of the official report and even with the statement he immediately filed. "Some of the implications of his version cannot be easily reconciled to the existing record," said Baker.
Still, he was there as a witness, and he's not spinning conspiracy theories. He explained that he wants people only to hear his comments and think for themselves.
“There’s no goal at this point,” he said in an August interview. “I just think it had been long enough that I needed to tell my story.”
The Warren Commission said that the bullet fired on that day hit the president from behind, went through his throat, then through the car seat, through his back and chest, and then hit his wrist and thigh.
Oliver Stone's movie 1991 "JFK" shows the film of the assassination, with a kill shot coming from the front. District Attorney Jim Garrison, depicted by Kevin Costner, is seen in the movie slowing down the video frame by frame. It shows the late president's head flying backward and to the left. Over and over, Garrison repeats, "Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left."
The film goes on to suggest that there were six shots, not three, and another gunman was involved in shooting from the front. It's "totally inconsistent with the shot from the book depository," the film version of Garrison argues.
Landis doesn't believe the second gunman conspiracy and he firmly believes that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin.
The Warren Commission came to the conclusion of the "magic bullet" because they had the bullet on the stretcher that carried the governor into the hospital. They thought it was removed from his body. Landis said that's not what happened. He should know, he's the one who found the bullet, and it wasn't on the stretcher, it was in the limousine in the back of the seat behind Kennedy's body.
"When he spotted the bullet after the motorcade arrived at the hospital, he said he grabbed it to thwart souvenir hunters," the report says. "Then, for reasons that still seem fuzzy even to him, he said he entered the hospital and placed it next to Kennedy on the president’s stretcher, assuming it could somehow help doctors figure out what happened. At some point, he now guesses, the stretchers must have been pushed together and the bullet was shaken from one to another."
“There was nobody there to secure the scene, and that was a big, big bother to me,” Landis recalled. “All the agents that were there were focused on the president.” A crowd was gathering. “This was all going on so quickly. And I was just afraid that — it was a piece of evidence, that I realized right away. Very important. And I didn’t want it to disappear or get lost. So it was, ‘Paul, you’ve got to make a decision,’ and I grabbed it.’”
For a long time, he believed that the bullet hit Kennedy in the back, but didn't go deep enough, popping back into the seat.
“At this point, I’m beginning to doubt myself,” he said. “Now I begin to wonder.”
That said, he won't speculate further.
“If what he says is true, which I tend to believe, it is likely to reopen the question of a second shooter, if not even more,” said James Robenalt, a historian who has long researched the assassination. He helped Landis in collecting his memories for the book. “If the bullet we know as the magic or pristine bullet stopped in President Kennedy’s back, it means that the central thesis of the Warren Report, the single-bullet theory, is wrong.”
If the bullet was lodged in the back of the limo behind Kennedy, Robenalt explained it means Connally could have been hit by a second bullet. That then means there could have been a second shooter after all.
“I don’t know if that story’s true or not, but I do know that the agents that were there that day, they were tormented for years by what happened,” he explained to the Times.
Landis' book will be released Oct. 10.
The documents involved in the case were set to become public in the spring of 2018. Then President Donald Trump refused to release them, saying he was convinced by the intelligence community not to do it. It's the same intelligence community Trump spent the year before trashing for investigating the Steele Dossier.
In Oct. 2017, Trump pledged he would release all of the classified documents. He made the same promise again in July.
"When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination related documents," he said on this Truth Social platform. "It’s been 60 years, time for the American people to know the TRUTH!"
President Joe Biden released a trove of documents on the assassination plot, revealing, among other things, a secret CIA operation with mafia members building casinos in Cuba. They were coordinating on a plot to kill dictator Fidel Castro. The documents were scheduled to be disclosed in Oct. 2021 but were put on pause due to national security issues.
There are still documents that are being held back.
Read the full report from The New York Times here.
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