Joe Biden Visits Stonewall Ahead Of LGBTQ Uprising’s 50th Anniversary

NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Biden paid a visit Tuesday to the Stonewall Inn ahead of the 50th anniversary of an uprising that helped spark the gay rights movement.

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president spent about 30 minutes at the New York City tavern. He mingled with patrons, went behind the bar and took selfies with visitors.

“When people had the courage to come out and stand up and speak, say who they were, all of a sudden people realized, ‘Whoa, these folks are just like me,'” Biden said. “And I’m really proud of the folks in here and the courage it took for what they did.”

The bar is a reincarnation of the original Stonewall, which was the site of an infamous police raid in 1969.

At the time, police crackdowns on gay bars were commonplace, but at the Stonewall Inn, patrons and protesters resisted the officers.

Street protests continued for several days.

The bar is marking the anniversary of the uprising on June 28.

A park across from the Stonewall Inn is now a national monument to gay rights.

Here’s why Jeffrey Gundlach thinks Trump might drop out of 2020 presidential race

If the U.S. economy tanks in the next year, President Donald Trump might not even bother running for re-election, “Bond King” Jeffrey Gundlach said Wednesday.

“I am not even sure he’s going to really run,” the DoubleLine Capital chief executive told Fox Business’s Neil Cavuto during an interview Wednesday.

Citing historical precedent, Gundlach noted: “Lyndon Johnson ran for a while too and then pulled out because of the war problems. . . . Things can change”

Gundlach said Trump’s re-election chances depend almost entirely on the economy. And just last week, he predicted a 40% to 50% chance of a U.S. recession within the next six months, and a 65% chance of a recession in the next 12 months.

But if the economy remains healthy, he said Trump will win a second term.

Trump kicked off his re-election campaign with a rally Tuesday night in Orlando, Fla.

GZERO VIDEO: Has Russia taken control?

NEW YORK (GZERO MEDIA) – “That script – Russia has taken over, Russia is controlling our government, our leaders are beholden to the Kremlin – it just resonates in this primal and instinctive way,” says American journalist Glenn Greenwald, who co-founded The Intercept investigative website.

This video is made available to The Straits Times under a partnership with GZERO Media, a subsidiary of the Eurasia Group.

GZERO VIDEO: Does America pose the greatest threat to world peace?

NEW YORK (GZERO MEDIA) – “If you poll the world and say, ‘What is the country that poses the greatest threat to world peace?’, they won’t say Iran or Russia or China, they’ll say the United States,” says American journalist Glenn Greenwald, who co-founded The Intercept investigative website.

This video is made available to The Straits Times under a partnership with GZERO Media, a subsidiary of the Eurasia Group.

House panel may question Trump associate Felix Sater as soon as Friday

WASHINGTON — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Wednesday that Russian-born business executive Felix Sater will talk to House intelligence committee staff behind closed doors as part of its investigation into Russian election interference.

Schiff wouldn’t give a date for the interview, but another person familiar with the meeting says it will happen Friday. The person requested anonymity to discuss the private interview.

Sater worked with President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, on a Trump Tower deal in Moscow before the 2016 election. The project was later abandoned.

Schiff says the committee will talk to other witnesses related to the Moscow project in future interviews.

The committee scheduled an open hearing with Sater in March but postponed it. Cohen is serving a three-year prison sentence.

McDonald's Kansas City burger in UK starts barbecue feud

McDonald's has started a trans-Atlantic barbecue feud with the introduction of a Kansas City-themed hamburger in the U.K.

Outgoing Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James said Tuesday that the fast-food chain should "stay in your lane" in a tweet that included a picture of what he says a "real" burger looks like. Kansas City is known for its style of dry-rubbed, slow-cooked meats drizzled in tomato-molasses sauce.

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Other Twitter users rushed to join the mocking after McDonald's proclaimed "Yeehaw" as it promoted its "Kansas City Stack" on social media.

Barbecue powerhouse Q39 kidded "Yeehaw, mate!" while Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que retweeted a scathing critique of the burger and added "face with tears of joy" and "rolling on the floor laughing" emojis.

McDonald's says the bacon-topped burger is available until June 25, but not in America.

Bette Midler Continues Trump Twitter Wars With Doggerel Poem On Melania

Bette Midler is back on the Trump stump via Twitter. This time, she composed a bit of doggerel that references the President’s wife.

Midler tweeted yesterday:

There once was a girl from Slovenia
Who now lives right on Pennsylvinia
To the East Room she’ll flee
From her husband’s wee wee
While he plays with his own schizophrenia

The Twitter war between the two eventually captured the attention of Democratic presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden, who called Trump’s tweets about Midler during the 75th anniversary of D-Day “astounding,” and not in a good way.

Midler also has won support from Matthew Modine, a member of SAG-AFTRA running to unseat president Gabrielle Carteris.

“I’m told the leader of the free world squeaked that the Divine Ms. M is a ‘washed up psycho,’” Modine told Deadline. “I wish we all had half the chutzpah, temerity, humanity, love of nature and cheek as Bette Midler.”