02/18/2020 05:08 CDT

OBAMA TAKES CREDIT FOR TRUMP ECONOMY THAT OTHER DEMOCRATS CLAIM IS WEAK; DERSHOWITZ SAYS OBAMA REQUESTED INVESTIGATION UPON SOROS’ REQUEST

TODAY’S TOP TEN

OBAMA: HE BLAMED BUSH, BUT TAKES CREDIT FOR TRUMP

OBAMA TAKES CREDIT FOR TRUMP’S STRONG ECONOMY and gets torched on Twitter. Daily Wire.

• Flashback: Worst president ever? Restoration PAC.

DERSHOWITZ SAYS HE HAS PROOF OBAMA REQUESTED investigation on behalf of George Soros. Joel Pollak.

NEW YORK TIMES TRIES TO DISGUISE BARR ATTACK letter as organic instead of from anti-Trump left-wing funder. Julie Kelly.

DEMOCRAT SENATOR HELD SECRET MEETING in Munich with Iranian foreign minister. Mollie Hemingway.

BLOOMBERG IMPLIES FARMERS, FACTORY WORKERS are stupid compared to tech workers. Daily Wire.

BUTTIGIEG VOWS TO OPEN UP OBAMACARE to illegal immigrants. Breitbart.

LIBERAL MEDIA FREAKS OUT AS TOM COTTON QUESTIONS Coronavirus origins. Big League Politics.

“TRANSGENDER” BIOLOGICALLY MALE RUNNER will compete in U.S. women’s Olympic trials. Daily Wire.

HOW A CROWDFUNDED CHRISTIAN TV SERIES could change the entertainment industry. The Federalist.

NEW 1776 PROJECT AIMS TO COUNTER NARRATIVE of anti-American 1619 Project. Free Beacon.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• Free speech is dying. Jonathan Turley.
• There’s zero chance Bloomberg would pick Hillary. John Fund.
• Cruel reality as one of media’s Never Trump waterways. Christopher Bedford.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Matt Gaetz: McCabe decision example of unequal justice. Breitbart.
• Brawl breaks out at Bernie Sanders rally in Colorado. CBS 4 Denver.
• Bloomberg in 2011 suggested denying cancer treatment to elderly. Breitbart.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• How Nazis tried to bomb New York. Ron Miller.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@ASimplePatriot) Bloomberg 2020 Campaign Slogans: ‘Blacks Are Criminals’ ‘Farmers Are Stupid’ ‘Elderly Deserve to Die’ Tweet.
• (@MZHemingway) Media present DOJ investigations of political allies of Trump as necessary, apolitical and beyond reproach and any DOJ action involving political opponents of GOP/Trump as a threat to rule of law. And they do it so brazenly that it's impossible to ignore. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• CONFIRMED: MUELLER PROSECUTORS RAMRODDED Stone recommendation through to judge. Kimberley Strassel.

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• VIRUS TAKES BITE OF APPLE; LOCUST PLAGUE REACHES CHINA Drudge.