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Sununu Warns: Crowded Field Could Lead To Trump Win
Day Of Days Was Nearly Eight Decades Ago
It Was The Supply Chain, After All
Franklin police believe that 42-year-old Jamie Bell shot himself in the neck after killing his girlfriend, 35-year-old Nicole Hughes, and their 18-month-old daughter, Ariella Bell, at their Elkins Street home on June 3. After searching for the murderer for several hours, police found Jamie Bell’s body off River Street, on the bank of the Merrimack River.
Hughes’ five-year-old daughter survived the attack, having been shot in the arm and having a laceration on her back. She was treated at a hospital in Boston, and relatives have taken her in. A GoFundMe site had raised about $7,600 for her care as of 5:30 p.m. on June 5. There will be a vigil for Nicole and Ariella at Bessie Rowell Community Center today at 8 p.m.
Jamie Bell was a felon with a criminal record that included two counts of burglary, but while he was known for drug use, he had no history of violence, according to his brother, Josh Cross.
Investigators with the New Hampshire Attorney-General’s Office are looking into the events leading up to the murders.
Sununu Warns: Crowded Field Could Lead To Trump Win
Governor Chris Sununu announced his decision to remain in New Hampshire, saying that he wants to avoid a crowded race for the Republican nomination for president in 2024, saying it could lead to former President Donald Trump winning the nomination and dooming the party. “Right now, Donald Trump’s cost us from the U.S. Senate to governorships to school board seats,” Sununu said. “His message cost the Republican Party dearly across the country. He can’t win in November of ’24.”
Sununu continued that message in a Washington Post opinion piece, saying the Republican Party must break free of Trump and the culture wars or face “electoral irrelevance.” He said the party should return to “classic conservative principles of individual liberty, low taxes, and local control,” and “expand beyond the culture wars that alienate independents, young voters, and suburban moms”.
Trump responded to the remarks on his Truth Social platform, saying, “RINO Chris Sununu stated in his Fake Opinion published in The Washington Compost, ‘I’m not running for president in 2024. Beating Trump is more important.’ … No, he’s not running for President because he’s polling at Zero, and has no chance of winning.” Trump added that New Hampshirites have “gotten wise to Chris Sununu” and “they no longer like or respect him.”
Sununu told Bash, “The math has shown Donald Trump has no chance of winning in November of ’24. He wouldn’t even win Georgia. If you’re a Republican that can’t win Georgia of November ’24, you have no shot, and he’s proven that. Not only has he proven it, but the candidates he gets behind in a good conservative state like Georgia lose the race. His messaging doesn’t translate.”
Day Of Days Was Nearly Eight Decades Ago
Seventy-nine years ago, on June 6, 1944, American, British, and Canadian Forces, along with other Allies, launched an airborne assault and amphibious landings along a 50-mile stretch on the Normandy Coast in what was termed the Day of Days, today known as D-Day. During the first 24 hours, 18,000 paratroopers came from the sky and 160,000 men in 7,000 ships stormed the beaches under the cover of thousands of aircraft to surprise the Germans and liberate Europe.
My brother, Eddie, was not even a year old.
Leon Gautier, who is now 100 years old, is the last surviving member of the 177 French green berets under the command of Captain Philippe Kieffer who took part in the Normandy landings. He was a 17-year-old when he landed on Sword Beach in a hail of enemy fire. Today, he joined French President Emmanuel Macron at a seafront ceremony marking the anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Peter Orlando, now 101, was a U.S. Navy radio man off Omaha Beach during the landing. He served on the USS ATR-2, an oceangoing rescue tug whose mission was towing damaged and stuck landing craft away from shore, and he was well within firing range of the Germans. He told the Washington Post, “I was only 22 and too dumb to be scared. We were only 1,000 feet from the shore. I was standing on the bow like in the movie ‘Titanic.’ An officer saw me out there and hollered, ‘Orlando, get the f--- in here!’”
General Dwight David Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces, and he was prepared to accept the responsibility should the mission fail. He drafted a letter in advance to address that possibility:
Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.
It Was The Supply Chain, After All
Ben Bernanke, former chair of the Federal Reserve, and Oliver Blanchard of the Peterson Institute for International Economics have conceded that they had been wrong in thinking that inflation would spin out of control. The economy is in excellent health, despite the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill that they blamed for the higher prices the reached a 9.1 percent inflation rate in June 2022. It has now fallen to 4.9 percent.
The spike, they write, was attributable not to the Biden Administration stimulus plan and its effects on the labor market, but rather to the price hikes caused by COVID-driven supply chain snafus — just as the president had said.
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Horrible tragedy. How does anyone murder a child?