05/18/2020 05:11 CDT

TRUMP’S GALLUP APPROVAL TOPS GWB AND OBAMA AT SIMILAR TIMELINE; WAS FLYNN UNMASKED OR WAS HE SURVEILLED SOME OTHER WAY? NUNES PREVAILS AGAIN

TODAY’S TOP TEN

TRUMP’S POPULARITY DEFIES LIBERAL ATTACKS

PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS HIGHER GALLUP RATING that Obama, George W. Bush, at same point in presidency. Washington Examiner.

THE UNMASKING RECORDS STILL DON’T FULLY EXPLAIN how Obama’s spy team captured the Flynn-Kislyak phone call. Andrew McCarthy.

CHRIS CHRISTIE: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION POLITICIZED and weaponized DOJ. Real Clear Politics.

LIBERAL MEDIA WERE CRUCIAL ACCOMPLICES in scheme to frame General Flynn. Undercover Huber.

RICK GRENELL STRIPS FBI OF ELECTION SECURITY candidate intel briefings. Big League Politics.

ONCE AGAIN, MEDIA PUNCHING BAG DEVIN NUNES proved right about Obamagate. Washington Examiner.

SCIENTISTS, ECONOMISTS URGE TRUMP TO BRING on statistician to avoid getting duped by bad health models. Daily Caller.

YOUTUBE CENSORS EPIDEMIOLOGIST KNUT WITTKOWSKI for opposing lockdown. New York Post.

ANOTHER MICHIGAN HAIRDRESSER BREAKS LOCKDOWN as barber bashes “police state” that shut him down. Daily Wire.

STUDY FINDS HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AGE students turning to prayer, spiritual questions during pandemic. Just the News.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• Obamagate is not a conspiracy theory. David Harsanyi.
• Democrats have abandoned civil rights. Matt Taibbi.
• Why can’t everyone else go free while you remain in quarantine? John Nolte.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Obama aide on MSNBC discussing Flynn unmasking: “Absolutely nothing here!” Media Research Center.
• Brennan says he welcomes John Durham’s probe. Real Clear Politics.
• The masks are off. Laura Ingraham.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• Bats are not our enemies. Scientific American.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@thebradfordfile) Raise your hand if you plan to get a haircut, eat at a restaurant, or shop without a mask this week--and tell the fearmongers to go to hell! Tweet.
• (@ArthurSchwartz) The leak to WaPo was one of the most malicious and damaging leaks in American political history. Each and every one of these 39 officials that showed an interest in General Flynn — including Biden — should be interrogated by DOJ. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM FRIDAY

• FLYNN’S LAWYER SIDNEY POWELL EXCORIATES Barack Obama in open letter. ZeroHedge.

LIBERTY DAILY TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL

• CORRUPT WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION W.H.O CONTINUE TO BOW TO COMMUNIST CHINA, AGAIN REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE TAIWAN Liberty Daily.