Producer prices increasedby more than expected in August, a reminder that inflation pressures continue to linger in the economy.
Why it matters: Producer prices reflect what businesses pay for the materials that go into the goods they eventually sell to their customers. While businesses will make an effort to absorb some of those higher costs, they’ll pass some of the costs on through consumer price hikes.
By the numbers: The Producer Price Index climbed by 0.7% in August month over month.
While this was a deceleration from July’s 1.0% jump, it was nevertheless higher than the 0.6% rate economists were expecting.
On a year-over-year basis, the index was up 8.3% in August, which was higher than last month’s 7.8% print.
This is the highest reading since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking this metric in 2009.
What they’re saying: Many economists are putting the blame on supply chain issues that are arguably transitory in nature.
“The smaller month-over-month increase and recent evidence indicating supply chain bottlenecks are no longer intensifying suggest a peak in producer inflation may be near,” Marc Zabicki, director of research for LPL Financial, says.
Yes, but: “There is more risk from supply chains if they continue to be disrupted by virus outbreaks,” Rubeela Farooqi, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, warns.
The big picture: High inflation readings will continue to put pressure on the Federal Reserve to dial back its stimulative monetary policy soon.
“If the Federal Reserve is not careful, its continuous dismissal of inflation as transitory could end up constituting a material policy mistake that would risk undermining economic growth, derailing the Biden Administration’s economic reform program, and fueling unsettling financial instability down the road,” Allianz chief economic adviser Mohamed El-Erian tells Axios.
What to watch: The August consumer price report, released at 8:30 am ET on Tuesday, will show the degree to which higher producer prices leading to higher consumer prices.
Events this weekend showcased the intense bifurcation of America into two separate realities. As our country observed the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, former presidents gathered, sans Donald Trump, in New York for a solemn ceremony — wearing masks even though they are fully vaccinated and were outside.
In Shanksville, Pa., George W. Bush leveraged the occasion to take a not-very-veiled shot at the MAGA movement, comparing its most fervent adherents to the 9/11 terrorists.
Meanwhile, at stadiums across America, massive crowds of rowdy, unmasked college football fans tailgated, packed into stadiums, and also recalled the grim events of 2001, but in far more boisterous displays of patriotism.
This same-day divergence highlights the sharply divided nation of 2021. That chasm will now only widen as Joe Biden targets many of those same people, the ones unwilling to live under the thumb of onerous government virus mitigation restrictions.
These ineffective mandates may nominally emanate from science, but they moreover stem from a preference for coercion and control by Democrat politicians, all with the assistance of powerful business interests, including Big Tech and Big Pharma.
For a glimpse into just how starkly Biden purposefully divides America with his unprecedented vaccine policy, it’s important first to lay out two unmistakable truths of the current situation regarding the coronavirus:
The vaccines prove quite effective at mollifying the effects of the disease upon the vulnerable, but were massively oversold as “all-clear,” silver bullet elixirs.
Given that vaccinated people can still spread the virus, there is no moral obligation for anyone to be pressured into the jab. Especially for those of us who place a premium on personal freedom, it is quite literally no one else’s business.
Once these realities are acknowledged, a clear-eyed analysis of the Biden mandate reveals that his monarchical command flows not from a concern over public health, but rather to compel pain and compliance from targeted populations of Americans.
In fact, even former Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who has been consistently pro-vaccine and very friendly to the virus policies of Anthony Fauci and Biden, observed that the president’s mandate speech was “delivered to leave you feeling angry if vaccinated, and ashamed if unvaccinated. It was a war speech, but the enemy wasn’t the virus — it was your neighbor.”
Consider that many American workers now face termination if they make their own medical decision to pass on the vaccine. But the millions of unemployed Americans on government assistance? They face no such imperative. How is such a dichotomy equal treatment under law?
Why should the employed be penalized? Outside of the glaring ethical imbalance of this scenario, it also makes zero economic sense, as it will surely persuade a substantial number of reluctant laborers to drop out, worsening an already troubling trend of sagging workforce participation.
But even outside of this dynamic, consider some of the other groups of people prioritized by Joe Biden, groups not subject to his tyrannical edicts. Let’s start with Afghan migrants.
As I have documented previously, inviting a mass migration from a country where 39% of the population believes that suicide bombing is justifiable (per Pew Research) represents a terrible idea. But in addition to security concerns and cultural compatibility issues, these migrants are subject to no vaccine requirements at all.
So, U.S. citizen-laborers must accept a shot they may not want or need so that they can then toil to pay taxes to transport these migrants from across the world, and to house them in our country, where the newcomers face no medical mandates at all.
A similar allowance for personal choice extends to the vast numbers of illegal migrants crossing our southern border since Biden assumed office. We are on track for a staggering 2 million uninvited entries this year at current pace and, per Axios, 30% of the illegal migrants in custody have refused the vaccine.
In what rational world does that distinction make any sense?
So, the lesson here is clear. When Joe Biden scolded Americans, declaring that “our patience is wearing thin,” he was emphatically not speaking to prioritized groups. He was not sermonizing to the jobless, to those on public assistance, to the airlifted Afghans, or to the millions of illegal aliens he incentivizes to enter our homeland.
But Biden was speaking, harshly and directly, to the millions of hard-working everyday Americans who have made a rational personal decision to forgo a brand-new vaccine.
For many of the vaccine-hesitant, previous infection smartly informs them that natural immunity should prevail. For others, relative youth and fitness convince them the disease presents low risks. But whatever their reasons, compulsion to inject a medicine, at the point of an employment gun, represents a drastic new tactic to divide an already polarized country.
In addition, there is little doubt about the politics here as this Biden command directly targets the millions of working-class Americans who are already reluctant to accept the prescriptions of ruling-class “experts.”
In other words, Biden has imposed a medical apartheid that places a bulls-eye on the backs of the “deplorables” while exempting key groups he deems more worthy.
Pile enough mandates upon Americans and they will do as they are told, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, spoke to CNN’s Jen Christensen on Sunday.
The White House’s chief medical adviser said the spread of the delta variant of COVID-19 is the fault of those who do not listen to experts such as himself.
Fauci said part of the solution to reducing the virus’ spread is for Americans to rely on what he called “trusted public messengers who put aside political ideologies and convince people to get vaccinated.”
The alternative is for them to be forced to do as they are told, he said.
“The other way to do it is to have many, many more mandates,” Fauci said.
“I know that rankles a lot of people,” he told Christensen, “but you’re going to see situations locally — I don’t think you’re going to see centrally derived mandates — but there are going to be mandates where colleges, universities, places of business, large corporations, they’re going to say, ‘If you want to come work for us, you’ve got to be vaccinated.’
“I believe that’s going to turn this around, because I don’t think people are going to want to not go to work or not go to college or not go to a university. They’re going to do it.
“You’d like to have them do it on a totally voluntary basis, but if that doesn’t work, you’ve got to go to the alternatives,” he said.
Last week, President Joe Biden said he would use his rule-making powers to force businesses with more than 100 workers to institute vaccine mandates. Fauci said the administration had to act because of one group.
“We have a really unfortunate situation that we have a pretty hardcore group of people that we’re trying to persuade them — or mandate them, if they’re not persuaded — to get vaccinated,” Fauci said.
He estimated that about 75 million Americans are eligible for vaccinations but have not yet gotten the shots.
“That’s the key to ending this. I mean, that would be the key,” Fauci said, calling those who have decided against the vaccine a “recalcitrant group.”
“We have the tools to end this and yet we’re not doing it,” he said.
Fauci, who has been criticized for hiding the full story of whether funds he controlled were steered to a Wuhan lab that could be the source of the coronavirus outbreak, said the reasons for the rejection of the vaccine were “inexplicable.”
“People because of their political bent feel that they don’t want to be told to mask up and they don’t want to be told to get vaccinated,” he said.
Fauci said it was “inexplicable … to have people, because of the divisiveness in society, not wanting to contribute to the solution and by doing that they become part of the problem. But that is, again, the way it is, unfortunately.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday fought back against Joe Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandates.
DeSantis announced cities and counties that force employees to get vaccinated will be fined $5,000 per infraction.
“We are here today to make it very clear that we are going to stand for the men and women who are serving. We are going to protect Florida jobs,” DeSantis said during the news conference. “We are not gonna let people be fired because of a vaccine mandate.”
Government agencies mandating vaccines violates Florida law DeSantis said.
DeSantis also spoke about natural immunity and how it offers more protection against Covid variants, citing the study out of Israel.
Facebook has a secret internal system that exempts high-profile celebrities, athletes, politicians, and journalists from its content moderation standards, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
The program is called “cross check” or “XCheck,” and it was initially developed as “a quality-control measure for actions taken against high-profile accounts,” the Journal reported. It is intended to prevent “PR fires,” or the bad press that comes from an erroneous enforcement action taken against people considered VIPs.
The effect of this program is that there are “invisible elite tiers” within Facebook that determine who must follow the rules and who gets a special exemption that allows them to break the rules without fear of consequences. Approximately 5.8 million high-profile Facebook users were protected from enforcement action as of 2020, and only 10% of the posts protected by XCheck are actually reviewed, according to documents obtained by the Journal.
I’ve been on a Facebook project for months, and it’s nowhere near done. But this is the first story: https://t.co/aHEE8XaOCM
TL:DR: Facebook, which talks a lot about democratizing voice, secretly exempted “VIP” users from its rules in “not publicly defensible” ways.
“At times, the documents show, XCheck has protected public figures whose posts contain harassment or incitement to violence, violations that would typically lead to sanctions for regular users,” the Journal reported. “In 2019, it allowed international soccer star Neymar to show nude photos of a woman, who had accused him of rape, to tens of millions of his fans before the content was removed by Facebook. Whitelisted accounts shared inflammatory claims that Facebook’s fact checkers deemed false, including that vaccines are deadly, that Hillary Clinton had covered up “pedophile rings,” and that then-President Donald Trump had called all refugees seeking asylum ‘animals.'”
“We are not actually doing what we say we do publicly,” an internal company review obtained by the paper said. The review said the program is “a breach of trust” and reinforced the point that “unlike the rest of our community, these people can violate our standards without any consequences.”
A spokesman for Facebook told the Journal that criticism of XCheck is fair, but that the system “was designed for an important reason: to create an additional step so we can accurately enforce policies on content that could require more understanding.”
He said that Facebook is reviewing its policies to address criticisms that the company lacks the will or ability to enforce its content moderation standards fairly.
“A lot of this internal material is outdated information stitched together to create a narrative that glosses over the most important point: Facebook itself identified the issues with cross check and has been working to address them,” the spokesman said.
But according to the Journal, when it comes to the XCheck program, Facebook has misled the reviewers it put in place for oversight and accountability.
After the independent Oversight Board Facebook established to review its content moderation decisions upheld the suspension of former President Donald Trump, the board requested that Facebook “report on the relative error rates and thematic consistency of determinations made through the cross check process compared with ordinary enforcement procedures.”
Facebook declined to do so, telling the board “it’s not feasible to track this information” and referring the board to a 2018 blog post that stated, “We remove content from Facebook, no matter who posts it, when it breaks our standards.”
But the XCheck documents reported by the Journal indicate that claim is not true.
The Oversight Board told the Journal in a statement that it “has expressed on multiple occasions its concern about the lack of transparency in Facebook’s content moderation processes, especially relating to the company’s inconsistent management of high-profile accounts.”
On Sunday afternoon, actress Rose McGowan will meet with Republican California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder to speak to the media. The event comes only two days before the state’s recall election, in which Elder is attempting to defeat incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, contacted McGowan six months before she came out with sexual assault accusations against Harvey Weinstein, according to McGowan. Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, said she had received a letter from Weinstein’s attorney, David Boies.
“So this woman, I don’t know, some blonde lady name with the last name of the Newsom, cold-calls me, and was like, David Boies wants to know what it would take to make you happy,” McGowan explained to Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report YouTube show.
"It's a double standard."@larryelder brings up allegations made by @rosemcgowan against Jennifer Newsom.
"I don't know if it's true…but if that allegation was made about my significant other…it would be all over the place….the mainstream media doesn't give a damn." pic.twitter.com/Nu7jfV5qf5
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, according to financial disclosures, Newsom has accepted expensive bottles of wine from Boies, including one in 2017, roughly six weeks after the publication of a New Yorker report alleging that Boies attempted to dig up dirt on Weinstein accusers, among them McGowan.
Fox News reached out to Newsom’s office for comment on the accusations but did not get a response right away.
Beginning at 1 p.m. local time, Elder and McGowan will make an appearance at the Luxe Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Elder told Fox LA that McGowan “has produced emails that were sent to her from Gavin Newsom’s wife.” and that he does not know whether or not McGowan’s accusations are genuine.
McGowan has been an outspoken opponent of Newsom’s administration. A video she uploaded on Thursday in which she slammed him and his wife, calling them both “frauds,” was widely shared on social media.
“I have the receipts. I wish I didn’t. I wish you were all real. I wish you really did help, but you don’t and you’re on the side of wrong.”
Several Chinese Communist Party-backed influence groups have sponsored events and trips to China for U.S. officials – including Joe Biden’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack – as part of a broader crusade to increase collaboration between the two countries on agriculture and farming.
The unearthing of the United States Heartland China Association (USHCA) ties to Chinese foreign influence groups follow reports of Chinese Communist Party members and firms buying up American farmland, raising national security concerns among lawmakers.
Founded by former Democrat Governor of Missouri Bob Holden, the USHCA purports to be a “bipartisan organization committed to building stronger ties between USHCA Region (20 states located in the USA between the Great Lakes to the Gulf) and the People’s Republic of China.”
“Our focus will be on Trust Building efforts connecting government officials; business leaders; educational and community interests with like minded institutions between the Heartland Region and the People’s Republic of China,” the group’s mission statement euphemizes.
In addition to partnering with various branches of the Chinese regime, the USHCA also is “proudly working with” the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF).
The USHCA has also co-hosted events alongside the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), regarded as the “public face” of the United Front and an “avowed arm of the party-state.” The U.S. State Department has described the group as seeking to “directly and malignly influence” U.S. state and local leaders.
Through USHCA’s partnerships with the National Governor’s Association and The United States Conference of Mayors, the aforementioned Chinese Communist Party-linked influence groups have courted several American representatives with sponsored speeches or travel. Joe Biden’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack has participated in events with the USHCA – which “celebrated” his appointment to Biden’s cabinet – as recently as May 2020.
The group also hosts an annual “U.S.-China Agriculture Roundtable”, which counted presentations from officials including Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig, Director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture Chris Chinn, and Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture Thom Petersen in 2021.
In partnership with CUSEF, the USHCA has also sponsored trips to China for delegation consisting of American heartland mayors. CUSEF has also deployed this tactic on American journalists, offering free trips to the country in exchange for “favorable coverage,” according to Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) filings. The trips functioned as part of a broader effort to “effectively disseminate positive messages to the media, key influencers and opinion leaders, and the general public” regarding China.
USHCA delegation participants have also called for closer collaboration with the Chinese Communist Party on agriculture and farming, including Sioux Falls, South Dakota Mayor Paul TenHaken in an op-ed recently wiped from the internet, upon return:
It is time that Sioux Falls looks at developing deeper, more consistent relationships with key Chinese communities and businesses. Both the city leaders of Guangzhou and Shenzhen—with populations of 20 million each—expressed interest in forming some government partnership between Sioux Falls and one of their city districts. These relationships are critical first steps in establishing both trust and economic partnerships between our communities. One of our largest employers—Smithfield Foods—is owned by a Chinese parent company, and my office has had several other discussions with business development opportunities that have Chinese ownership ties. The Sioux Falls economy would strengthen via stronger cultural and business relations with key Chinese partners.
Among the other representatives joining USHCA’s inaugural 2019 delegation were Mayor of Carmel, Indiana James Brainard, Mayor of Youngstown, Ohio Jamael Tito Brown, and Mayor of Maumee, Ohio Richard Carr.
In a blistering op-ed published in the Daily Mail, Morgan pointed to Friday’s fight in which transgender fighter Alana McLaughlin, 38, used a “powerful chokehold” on a fellow MMA fighter who happened to be a biological female.
McLaughlin, a special forces combat veteran, defeated 32-year-old Celine Provost after placing her in a match-winning chokehold on Friday. The Friday match was McLaughlin’s debut as a MMA fighter. McLaughlin easily ended the fight just three minutes and 32 seconds into the second round.
“It made me sick to watch a once-male special forces combat veteran beat up a woman on TV,” he wrote. “It’s time to stop this trans sport insanity before women start being killed.”
McLaughlin, who took up MMA training earlier in 2021, fought against Provost, who has competed in the extreme sport for at least a decade, but as Morgan pointed out, Provost simply “couldn’t compete with the overwhelming physical strength of her opponent.”
Instead, Provost was barely able to leave a mark on McLaughlin, who was once a muscle-bound special forces operative.
“At this point let me be clear: McLaughlin was a war hero, rising through Army ranks to become a special forces medical sergeant who went to serve in Afghanistan in 2007 as part of an elite, 12-man team,” Morgan wrote. “There, she helped save many lives as she treated IED casualties in a highly dangerous combat zone. I have huge respect for her military service, during which she was awarded eight distinguished service medals.”
A conflicted history
McLaughlin, who grew up in South Carolina, has said that her mother — who had a strongly religious background — disowned McLaughlin once she heard that her son would soon be her daughter.
She told the Guardian in a Wednesday interview that a neighbor’s son raped her when she was just 5 years old after having been subjected to what she referred to as “masculine time” with the neighbor’s sons.
In the years following the incident, McLaughlin’s family reportedly sent her to various conversion therapies to change her outlook on sexuality and gender. It didn’t take, McLaughlin said, and she ended up begging her parents for gender reassignment surgery from a young age.
Before shipping out to Afghanistan, McLaughlin told her mother during a particularly heated phone call, “Maybe I should just go get myself killed at war.”
McLaughlin’s mother reportedly snapped, “Maybe you should.”
Elsewhere in the interview, McLaughlin said, “My whole life I was a runt. I was undersized, I was bullied, I was raped, I was beaten, like I did not have an easy time. The story of my life has been trying to physically resist people that were larger and stronger and more skilled than me.”
‘Sickening to watch’
Morgan continued, “Regardless of her military record or personal struggles growing up, none of this justifies what happened on Friday night. I found the bout sickening to watch.”
“It was obvious very quickly that McLaughlin was too strong, and equally obvious that this strength came from the 33 years she spent as a biological man,” Morgan continued. “As I’ve said before, the restrictive hormone treatment that sports authorities make transgender women do before they can compete in women’s sport does not reduce muscle density or power.”
Calling the disparity “potentially deadly,” Morgan added that such practices would end up killing women one day.
Morgan, who added that he’s always supported trans rights to fairness and equality, said that while transgender men and women deserve fair treatment across the board, allowing mixed biological sexes to compete against one another in contact sports such as MMA will only lead to danger for biological women.
“If you’re in any doubt about how unfair this all is, let me take you through a brief history of what’s happened when male athletes have transitioned to be women and then competed against women born with female bodies,” he wrote. “In 2017, American sprinter CeCe Telfer was ranked 390th among male NCAA Division II athletes in 400m hurdles. In 2018, Telfer transitioned, and in 2019, Telfer was national NCAA Division II women’s 400m champion.”
He also pointed to New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard, who qualified for women’s tournaments and in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Hannah Mouncey, an Australian handball player who dominated on the country’s women’s team after scoring zero goals in 22 appearances for the men’s team, and more as examples of unfairness in competition.
“We’ve already seen the same unfairness manifest itself with the first transgender MMA fighter, Fallon Fox, who served in the US Navy then transitioned, became an MMA fighter, and won all but one fights,” Morgan noted. “In one of them, she fractured a woman’s skull. I fear worse is to come.”
“[McLaughlin is] a girl born with the massive physical advantage of a male body,” Morgan concluded. “Yet now she’s deliberately participating in a grotesquely unbalanced physical environment for other women. It’s unfair, unequal, and in the case of combat sport, incredibly dangerous. But the real crime going on here is against women’s sport.”
Though Republicans are often blamed for lagging Covid-19 vaccination rates, former President Donald Trump is blaming Democrats like Kamala Harris for any hesitancy, for “disparaging” the vaccines while he was president.
Trump made it clear this week during an interview with Fox News that he believes Democrats have only themselves to blame for not being able to hit their vaccination goals, saying President Joe Biden’s recently announced mandate for companies with more than 100 employees “shouldn’t be necessary.”
Vaccination rates in Republican-leaning states have typically been lower than others, and polling has shown Democrats being far more willing to get inoculated, but Trump says it was the Democrats sitting in the current administration that turned vaccines into a partisan issue.
“Of course, they famously said, if Trump came up with it, I’ll never take it,” he said, referring to comments made by several Democrats, including now-Vice President Kamala Harris, questioning the vaccines’ connection to Trump when they were first developed under his Operation Warp Speed.
Harris specifically said in October of last year that she would take a coronavirus vaccine if it was promoted by Dr. Anthony Fauci or other health officials, but not if Trump was the only one pushing it.
“If Dr. Fauci, the doctors, tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it,” she said. “But if Donald Trump tells us we should take it, I’m not going to take it.”
“If you remember, when I was president, there were literally lines of people wanting to take it,” the Republican said. “Now, you have a different situation, and it’s very bad.”
It is a “lack of trust” in Biden and the current administration that is keeping some from getting jabbed, Trump added.
When announcing his new mandate – which is already facing numerous potential legal challenges – Biden grew visibly frustrated with the unvaccinated and said the administration’s patience was “wearing thin.”
“They disparaged the vaccine, and now they wonder why people aren’t wanting to take it?”Trump said in response to Biden’s comments. “It’s a disgrace.”
Some critics have called on Trump, who is vaccinated himself, to do more to promote the jabs, though he has already been promoting them as safe. At a recent rally in Alabama, the Republican was even met with some boos from the crowd of his own supporters when he advocated getting inoculated.
Trump responding to boos in Alabama after saying: "I recommend take the vaccines. I did it. It's good. Take the vaccines": "That's okay, that's alright. You got your freedoms. But I happened to take the vaccine. If it doesn't work, you'll be the first to know. But it is working." pic.twitter.com/seJfGYtl5Y
Despite concern from health officials about the unvaccinated, over 75% of US adults have received at least one dose of a vaccine, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and nearly 65% are fully vaccinated.
“Why not change? Why not go big? Why not put a stake in the heart of evil, because that’s what this really is, this is good and this is evil.”
Actress and social activist Rose McGowan appeared at an event on Sunday in support of radio host Larry Elder’s effort to defeat Governor Gavin Newsom in the upcoming recall election. McGowan slammed the Newsoms and other so-called liberal establishment elites, and announced that she is no longer a member of the Democrat Party.
“I’ve traveled the world and I’ve had so many people say to me, ‘Americans are the most uneducated,’ not wrong, but, they are wrong in this: It’s undereducated,” McGowan said. “It’s systematic, and it’s done to you all on purpose to keep you part of a complicity machine that benefits few that is not a country, or a state, for everyone. This is a country for people who like hair gel and the Bahamas. And I really wish I had better news, it gives me new pleasure to be the bearer of like, truth, which is sometimes ugly.”
BREAKING: Actress and activist Rose McGowan says she is no longer a Hollywood Democrat, endorses Larry Elder for California Governor, and calls out the elitist establishment that has been DESTROYING the United States from coast to coast and everywhere in between. #YesOnRecallpic.twitter.com/XZaj0TUCwi
McGowan continued, “but do you want a society that has gangrene on its leg, but puts on a fancy suit and pretends it’s not there while they hobble in pain, or do you want to just stop, look at reality, take your medicine, clean up the wound, and run. Run free. Why not change? Why not go big? Why not put a stake in the heart of evil, because that’s what this really is, this is good and this is evil.”
The activist and actress also added, “I know that this place has it in it to be better, I know it does. I’ve met so many good people in this country. not the elites, absolutely not. But the person I meet that’s the housekeeper at the hotel I’m staying at, who shouldn’t even have that title because she’s a queen of a woman. And then we have the Jennifer Seibel Newsoms of the world. Why? Why do you keep choosing that, why do you keep electing that?”
Harvey Weinstein Victim Claims Newsom’s Wife Bullied Her In Attempt To Drop Accusations, Will Appear With Republican Candidate Sunday
On Sunday afternoon, actress Rose McGowan will meet with Republican California gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder to speak to the media. The event comes only two days before the state’s recall election, in which Elder is attempting to defeat incumbent Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, contacted McGowan six months before she came out with sexual assault accusations against Harvey Weinstein, according to McGowan. Newsom’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, said she had received a letter from Weinstein’s attorney, David Boies.
“So this woman, I don’t know, some blonde lady name with the last name of the Newsom, cold-calls me, and was like, David Boies wants to know what it would take to make you happy,” McGowan explained to Dave Rubin on the Rubin Report YouTube show.
As reported by the Washington Free Beacon, according to financial disclosures, Newsom has accepted expensive bottles of wine from Boies, including one in 2017, roughly six weeks after the publication of a New Yorker report alleging that Boies attempted to dig up dirt on Weinstein accusers, among them McGowan.
Fox News reached out to Newsom’s office for comment on the accusations but did not get a response right away.
Beginning at 1 p.m. local time, Elder and McGowan will make an appearance at the Luxe Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
Elder told Fox LA that McGowan “has produced emails that were sent to her from Gavin Newsom’s wife.” and that he does not know whether or not McGowan’s accusations are genuine.
McGowan has been an outspoken opponent of Newsom’s administration. A video she uploaded on Thursday in which she slammed him and his wife, calling them both “frauds,” was widely shared on social media.
“I have the receipts. I wish I didn’t. I wish you were all real. I wish you really did help, but you don’t and you’re on the side of wrong.”