04/10/2020 05:12 CDT

BARR SAYS TRUMP RIGHT TO FIRE INTEL IG AND SAYS OBAMA SPY PROBE ON TRUMP WAS A TRAVESTY; TRUMP RIGHT, CUOMO WRONG ON VENTILATORS

TODAY’S TOP TEN

BARR HINTS THAT DURHAM COULD INDICT SPYGATE FIGURES

BARR SAYS TRUMP WAS RIGHT TO FIRE INTEL watchdog, calls Russia probe “one of the greatest travesties.” Fox News.

RUSSIA CASE FOOTNOTES TO BE DECLASSIFIED, exposing FBI concerns over the bogus smear dossier. Just the News.

TRUMP WAS RIGHT, CUOMO WAS WRONG about ventilator needs. The Federalist.

MAJORITY OF AMERICANS AGREE WITH TRUMP calling the virus the “Chinese Virus.” Daily Caller.

JOE BIDEN: CORONAVIRUS CAMPAIGN HAS “HELPED” my presidential campaign. TheBlaze.

DID GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS MAKE THE RIGHT call in Florida? Real Clear Politics.

NEARLY 80 PERCENT OF HOTEL ROOMS IN THE U.S. are empty because of crisis. CNN.

DEMOCRATIC SENATORS CALL FOR FUNDING for local media in future stimulus package. The Hill.

MEET THE FORMER NYT REPORTER WHO IS CHALLENGING the coronavirus narrative. Fox News.

CRIME DATA SHOWS CORONAVIRUS NOT SLOWING violence across Chicago. CBS 2 Chicago.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• A lamentation for churches closed at Easter. John Kass.
• If only hydroxychloroquine could cure Trump Derangement Syndrome. Liz Peek.
• Chuck Todd is wrong again: There are huge downsides to media alarmism. Mollie Hemingway.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• The dumbest questions asked during WH coronavirus briefings. Free Beacon.
• AG Barr: Media on a jihad to discredit Trump and hydroxychloroquine. Real Clear Politics.
• Unsung heroes of the pandemic. John Stossel.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• Former police officer arrested in Colorado park for playing catch with 6-year-old daughter. ABC News.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@KatiePavlich) And of course the media is now defending WHO. They have to because they've been using the same bogus numbers. The WHO was told on December 29 Wuhan coronavirus was human-to-human transmissible. Nearly three weeks later, they tweeted it was not. China said the same. Tweet.
• (@SaintRPh) I am a southerner. I have lived in towns of less than 20k population my entire life. There is no walking from point a to point b. There is no grocery store less than two miles from your house. Northern hatred of Southerners. If you hate us so much stop retiring here! Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• The grand farce of social distancing. Michelle Malkin.

DRUDGE LEAD AT TIME OF EMAIL 

• EASTER CRACKDOWN; ARCHBISHOP CALLS FOR MASS EXORCISM; PEAK DEATH SUNDAY? Drudge.