04/16/2020 05:10 CDT

FBI USED TAINTED SOURCES TO PRODUCE TAINTED EVIDENCE AGAINST TRUMP; WHAT ABOUT THOSE BOGUS VIRUS MODELS?; CHINA DECEIVED WORLD

TODAY’S TOP TEN

FBI KNEW STEELE WAS UNRELIABLE

FBI RECEIVED REPEATED WARNINGS ABOUT Christopher Steele as an informant dating to 2015. John Solomon.

SHOULD WE HAVE TRUSTED EXPERT epidemiological models? William M. Briggs.

NEW DOCUMENTS SHOW CHINA DELIBERATELY withheld critical coronavirus information. ZeroHedge.

PROMINENT DEMOCRATIC ACTIVIST FIRM RECEIVES $100,000 from tech firm with links to Chinese Communist government. Daily Wire.

HUNTER BIDEN STILL LISTED AS BOARD MEMBER of Chinese company he pledged to resign from in October, records show. Daily Caller.

STREAMING AWAY: AVERAGE AMERICANS STREAMS 8 hours of content a day during coronavirus outbreak. Study Finds.

IN 3 WEEKS, 10 INTERVIEWS AND 81 QUESTIONS, no one in liberal media has asked Joe Biden about the former staffer who claims he sexually assaulted her. Free Beacon.

AOC AGREES THAT TARA READE’S ACCUSATIONS against Biden is worthy of public discussion. Hot Air.

FOUR MICHIGAN SHERIFFS SAY THEY WON’T ENFORCE Michigan Governor Whitmer’s totalitarian orders. The Federalist.

HOW THE WHITE HOUSE OUTED “ANONYMOUS” and transferred her to Saudia Arabia. Real Clear Investigations.

NEW UNSEALED DOCUMENTS SHOW PLANNED PARENTHOOD profited from aborted body parts. The Federalist.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• New Papadopoulos documents show Obama team’s illegal spying was no mistake. Margot Cleveland.
• Leftist media can’t handle anyone who fights back against their lies. Jeffrey Lord.
• Trump right to stop funding to the World Health Organization. Gordon Chang.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Rush Limbaugh: I hope some governor opens their state on their own. Real Clear Politics.
• NBC tosses softballs to embattled Michigan governor Whitmer. Media Research Center.
• Protesters block traffic in Lansing, Michigan to express displeasure with Governor Whitmer. Real Clear Politics.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• Why copper is good at killing viruses. Smithsonian Magazine.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@benshapiro) I am constantly amused by the press spending all day tearing Trump to shreds, then whining that Trump responds in kind. Tweet.
• (@ThomasSowell) One of the reasons it has taken so long for some people to finally see through Barack Obama is that people do not like to admit, even to themselves, that they have been played for fools by a slick-talking politician. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• NEW YORK CITY INFLATES DEATH TOLL BY ADDING nearly 4,000 people who never tested positive for coronavirus. Daily Caller.

LIBERTY DAILY TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL 

• AP: CHI-COMS HELD PANDEMIC WARNINGS FOR SIX DAYS Liberty Daily.