12/16/2024 05:12 CDT/Online version

ABC SETTLES WITH TRUMP AFTER DEFAMING HIM; TRUMP, GOP READY TO END DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME

TODAY’S TOP TEN

ABC, STEPHANOPOULOS APOLOGIZE TO TRUMP, PAY $15 MILLION

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS AND ABC APOLOGIZE to Trump, pay him $15 million to settle defamation lawsuit. Fox News.

TRUMP SAYS HE AND KEY REPUBLICANS WILL PUSH to end Daylight Savings Time. Just the News.

DEMOCRATS IN D.C. RETHINKING THEIR ALL-OUT resistance to Trump because it is failing. The Hill.

D.C. RESTAURANT SERVER FIRED after comments about refusing service to Trump officials. Fox News.

TRANSGENDER ISSUE ADS MOVED VOTERS to Trump, Republicans, new poll shows. American Principles Project.

DESPITE SPENDING MILLIONS, LIBERAL GUN CONTROL groups lost big in 2024. Restoration News.

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE REPORT alleges a “collusive climate cartel” tried to force Exxon to go “net zero.” Just the News.

TRUMP’S PLAN TO REVIVE KEYSTONE XL pipeline project faces huge hurdles. Washington Examiner.

TRUMP SELECTS FORMER DNI CHIEF RICK GRENELL to serve as presidential envoy for special missions. Breitbart.

WHY IT’S PROBABLY BETTER TO JUST THROW PLASTIC materials in the trash rather than recycling. Real Clear Politics.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• The evaporation of the Obama mystique. Victor Davis Hanson.
• Daniel Penny and Soros madness. John Kass.
• How ProPublica’s failed hit job on Hegseth might have ensured his confirmation. M.D. Kittle.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Senator Eric Schmitt: Voters rejected media, Democrats’ lawfare. ABC News.
• Public recycling is a dead-end street. John Stossel.
• Mollie Hemingway: Media is weakened and we should take advantage of that. Real Clear Politics.

LATEST FIRST RIGHT PODCAST

• Host Hayden Ludwig interviews culture warrior Terry Schilling about American Principles Project’s fight to expose “Trans Inc.” Rumble.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• The “mad major” who fed false information to the Nazis. The Telegraph.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@TonyClimate) The number of academics willing to lie about a particular topic, is normally an indicator of how much money is involved. Tweet.
• (@EsotericCD) If Hegseth hadn't kept his admission letter as a memento then what a news cycle we would be having right now. That really is an enormous problem. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• FBI HAD 26 SOURCES IN D.C. ON J6 — 17 entered Capitol grounds. Just the News.

BONGINO REPORT TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL

• George Stephanopoulos and ABC Apologize to Trump, Pay $15 Million to Settle Defamation Suit BONGINO REPORT.

STATE OF THE RACE

• New Senate composition: Democrats 47, Republicans 53.
• New House composition: Democrats 215, Republicans 220.