04/13/2020 05:12 CDT

OBAMA SPY TEAM KNEW DOSSIER WAS RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION BUT USED IT ANYWAY; NUNES EXPECTS MORE CRIMINAL REFERRALS; DEMS WANT TO DUMP BIDEN

TODAY’S TOP TEN

OBAMA’S PEOPLE KNEW DOSSIER WAS RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION

FOOTNOTES IN WATCHDOG REPORT INDICATE FBI knew smear dossier consisted of Russian disinformation. Catherine Herridge.

DEVIN NUNES EXPECTS MORE CRIMINAL REFERRALS stemming for latest FISA revelations. Chuck Ross.

NEW YORK TIMES PROTECTS BIDEN FROM SEXUAL ASSAULT charge and revises article after ridicule. Daily Wire.

NEW LIBERAL MEDIA STRATEGY IS TO TRY to persuade Trump to stop appearing at virus press briefings. Mollie Hemingway.

AFTER OUTCRY, WISCONSIN GOVERNOR REVERSES ban on outdoor church services. The Federalist.

CHICAGO HOSPITAL REPORTS 30 PERCENT of those tested have coronavirus antibody. Chicago City Wire.

NEW POLL SHOWS MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATS want to dump Joe Biden in favor of Andrew Cuomo. Club For Growth.

7 THINGS JOE BIDEN CALLED FOR THAT TRUMP has already done to combat coronavirus. Daily Wire.

WHEN OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT, NYT SAID VOTE-BY-MAIL was ripe for vote fraud. NewsBusters.

GUN-RIGHTS GROUPS SUE MASSACHUSETTS over gun store shutdowns. Free Beacon.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• Liberal media or not, Durham’s on his way. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr..
• Now is a good time to scrap the renewable fuel standard. Ned Ryun.
• The Surgeon General meets the language police. John McWhorter.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Gov. Noem: The truth is all the facts. I would appreciate it if our media would remember that. Media Research Center.
• Biden stands up for China. Donald J. Trump for President.
• NJ grocery store worker says shoppers are frustrated and a “little defiant.” Real Clear Politics.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• Is America drinking its way through the crisis? The Conversation.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@LionelMedia) America has been reduced now to a state of learned helplessness. Quivering scaredy-cat mask wearing paranoid mysophobics hunkered down playing board games and begging for the all clear. Meanwhile MSM grind out morbid and funereal news items with a sadistic glee. Ratings! Tweet.
• (@seanonolennon) Amazing Dems spend so much energy on so many things but were ultimately unable to come up with a candidate who can speak a single complete and coherent sentence. I have nothing against this man, he seems very nice, but he is clearly firing on few or possibly no cylinders. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM FRIDAY

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

DRUDGE LEAD AT TIME OF EMAIL 

• FAUCI DOWNLOADS ON TRUMP: LIVES COULD HAVE BEEN SAVED IF SHUT EARLIER; BATTLE TO RE-OPEN Drudge.