North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum flatly denied over the weekend a report in The Washington Post that claimed that former President Donald Trump offered to cut regulations for oil companies if their executives raised a billion dollars for his efforts to retake the White House. Burgum made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” with host Margaret Brennan when asked about the recent report. “I was at that meeting,” Burgum said. “That did not happen. That is not what happened at that meeting. And that’s been reported over and over and over again.” “He didn’t ask for a billion dollars in donations, and there was no quid pro quo,” he continued. “I mean, think what he did last time for the energy — this guy cut regulation for everybody, whether they donated to him or not. He helped get gas prices down for all Americans, Republicans, independents and Democrats, whether they donated to him or not.” He said that it infuriated him that people who were not at the meeting “report it like it’s a fact, when it’s not a fact.” “He didn’t make promises. He listened,” Burgum later added. “He went around the room for two hours asking each of the people to tell me, what are your challenges, what are you facing, what are the — what are the things — he was there learning the whole night about the challenges that we’re facing.” Burgum noted that oil executives are not always thrilled with Trump because Trump wants to lower oil prices. “Oil executives are not thrilled when he says, ‘I’m going to get oil prices down,'” he said. “You know, they make more money when oil prices are up.” WATCH: “There was no quid pro quo,” North Dakota’s @GovDougBurgum says about a meeting he attended between Donald Trump and oil executives, denying reports that Trump told the executives he’d reduce regulations if they raised $1 billion to reelect him. Burgum, who is being considered… pic.twitter.com/vo9ysRDYsX — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) June 2, 2024

Nashville-based singer Reyna Roberts wowed the crowd and almost all the judges during her AGT audition during the Season 19 premiere. The aspiring country star took the stage with her own band to perform a radio-ready original titled Raised Right. Before showing off her vocals, Reyna shared that the lyrics came to her while watching Star Wars one day. “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this character was not raised right,’ and I was like, “Wait, that’s a great title. I’m gonna use that and then make it about my life,” she told Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, and Sophia Vergara, who were all charmed by the tale. After explaining the backstory, she called her band out, and they got the audience on their feet as they performed the catchy tune. When Reyna Roberts finished the crowd went wild, and the AGT judges offered their opinions. “AGT” Contestant Reyna Roberts Was Featured On Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Album Howie Mandel was surprisingly unimpressed with Raised Right, which earned him a roar of boos. The other three judges, however, gave the singer major praise. “You have an amazing voice. I love when you really belt it out; I love when you hold the note. I also love this look,” Heidi shared. Sophia added, “I think you’re such a complete artist.” “I think you know exactly where you’re going,” Simon gushed. “I am so thrilled, beyond thrilled, actually, that you came on this show. You have no idea.” Heidi gave Reyna Roberts a “No,” but Simon, Sophia, and Heidi gave her a “Yes,” which was enough to keep her on the show. And she will likely be stiff competition for the other Season 19 competitors. Reyna has already released her first album, Bad Girl Bible, in 2023. She was also featured on Beyoncé’s cover of the Beatles’ Blackbird, which appeared on her Cowboy Carter album. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Aspiring Country Singer Gets Crowd Amped With Grammy-Worthy “AGT” Audition, Watch appeared first on InspireMore.

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Over the last five years, the Stop & Shop Food Pantry has provided $100,000 in healthy food donations to make sure students don’t come to school hungry. They’ve hit a home run against hunger—and the Boston Red Sox have stepped up to the plate to celebrate the victory. The baseball team’s first baseman Triston Casas […] The post Entire School Surprised with 500 Tickets to a Red Sox Game–Thanks to Food Pantry’s Continuing Generosity appeared first on Good News Network.

ABC This Week host George Stephanopoulos, ever the Clinton operative, attempted to engage Trump defense attorney Will Scharf with an array of Democrat talking points. At no point during this interview did it go well for him. Watch Scharf shoot Stephanopoulos down on the issue of judicial recusal, as he goes for  cheap Thomas/Alito whataboutism on judicial recusal: WILL SCHARF: This is a prosecution that should have never been brought. This was a case tried in front of a judge who clearly should have recused. I think we have a lot of fair complaints with the way that this trial was conducted, and I think ultimately President Trump will be vindicated on appeal. GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: The ethics panel for the state of New York said the judge was not required to recuse. SCHARF: Well, I think when you look at binding Supreme Court precedent, including most notably the seminal case on judicial recusal, Caperton v. Massey, even the appearance of impropriety can require a judge to recuse for reasons of due process. Here, I think we have far more than an appearance of impropriety. The fact that Judge Merchán contributed to Joe Biden during the 2020 election, many of the other issues that we've raised in our recusal papers throughout this case. I think Judge Merchán should have clearly recused and I think that's going to be an issue that the appellate courts are gonna have to deal with. STEPHANOPOULOS: If appearance of impropriety is the standard for recusal, then why shouldn't Justice Thomas and Justice Alito have to recuse from the cases before the Supreme Court? SCHARF: I think the appearance of impropriety there is not nearly as severe. I think you're not talking about financial conflicts of interest. You're certainly not talking about a judge who's violated judicial code of conduct in terms of political contributions. I think that's frankly stunning. Speaking as a former attorney, former law clerk, I've never heard of a judge contributing to political candidates before. I've certainly never heard of a judge sitting in judgment over the opponent of the political candidate he contributed to.  Stephanopoulos’ attempt at a cheap tu quoque on the recusal point proves that the trial has always been about politics rather than about the law. The same can be said for media coverage, especially on the most aggressively pro-Biden broadcast network news division, and especially on the Sunday show hosted by the Clinton White House’s most notorious attack dog. “Hurr Durr What About Thomas and Alito” is nonresponsive and even dismissive to the merits of Scharf’s arguments on Merchán’s non-recusal as one of several factual bases for an appeal of the guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump.  The entire interview transpired in this manner. On the issue of the weaponization of the justice system against opponents of the party in power, Stephanopoulos tried to whatabout Scharf with the old 2016 “lock her up” chants against Hillary Clinton, and got promptly schooled: ABC’s @GStephanopoulos: “You talked abt the weaponization of the legal system. Of course, it was former President Trump, who throughout the 2016 campaign led chants of ‘Lock her up’ about Hillary Clinton.” Schooled by Trump lawyer @WillScharf: He “didn’t weaponize DOJ.” #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/2MpoqzWqru — Brent Baker ?? ?? (@BrentHBaker) June 2, 2024 After getting schooled on weaponization of government, Stephanopoulos trotted the jurisdictional talking point- that there was zero coordination between the Biden DoJ and New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office. Scharf obliterated by pointing out the glaring link between Biden’s DoJ and the prosecution of Donald Trump: former DoJ #3 Matthew Colangelo. Rude and condescending. @GStephanopoulos to Trump lawyer @WillScharf: “Sir, I’m not going to let you continue to say that, there’s just zero evidence of that...This has nothing to do with Biden. Do you want to answer the question about the sentencing process or not?” #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/6qNikWFVyc — Brent Baker ?? ?? (@BrentHBaker) June 2, 2024 What we can learn from this interview, aside from Stephanopoulos’ usual condescension, is that the Regime Media will firmly fall in line in defending this verdict, damage to our institutions be damned.  

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