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Rosie O'Donnell On Jimmy Kimmel    Welcome back Rosie O'Donnell.   Early in my celebrity photographer career I got to meet and photograph Rosie O'Donnell many many times. From day one, I adored her. Her publicist back then was Ed Callaghan who was Irish and loved his cocktails. We all loved Ed Callaghan because when he called you to photograph one of his clients, you knew it was cocktails and a party.  But meeting Rosie back then, she was starting out her career too. From day one she was funny and such a nice person to talk too. I was always around no matter what publicist handled her, she went from comedy clubs and then because huge in so many Broadway shows. She also because a nighttime fixture at many of the events they had around New York City back then when our city was really a fun place to be. Then her talk show stardom. What a career! Back then, we all knew Trump and we all hung out with him at parties. Trump was always a moron. I was good friends with h...

  Campaigning For President NEW YORK -- What is the best-selling rock & roll biographer in the show business realm doing, writing a book on politics with “Campaigning For President?” asks author Mark Bego, “One of the reasons why this is a viable transition into another literary genre for me, is that political campaigns are 90% show business, and the act of finding an audience and playing to it—just like the music business.”  Bego, whose last two books— “Band of Gold” with Freda Payne, and “Joe Cocker:  With A LOT of Help from His Friends”—both from Yorkshire Publishing—electrified the charts and further solidified his position as “the Prince of Pop Biographies” (a title given to him by Publisher’s Weekly).  On the heels of the Cocker biography, Bego was approached about reviving and updating the popular 2008 book: “Campaigning For President.”  According to him, “I am always up for a new literary adventure—and this seemed like a fun and historically relevan...

 Ivana Trump Funeral  New York City Icon Ivana Trump, the first wife of President Donald Trump, was laid to rest in a funeral service at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic church in Manhattan today. The former president was in attendance with wife Melania Trump, plus Ivana and Donald’s three children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. Also in attendance were Donald Trump's wife Melania Trump with son Barron Trump.

Sen. Chuck Schumer On The View Sen. Chuck Schumer reacts to Pres. Trump saying he publicly he takes hydroxychloroquine, the racial disparities of COVID-19, and the firing of inspector general. Sen. Schumer calls it “reckless” for Pres. Trump to say he is taking hydroxychloroquine, a drug the president has touted that’s unproven for COVID-19 treatment. He adds, “Don’t take it. It doesn’t work. Talk to your doctor if you have symptoms.” He tells us he understands the desire for Americans to return to work, but says, “If we move too quickly this could come back”: “If we don’t solve the health problem, we’re not going to solve the economic problem.” Sen. Schumer calls Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ comments saying the state has succeeded in its fight against COVID-19 “premature.” “To compare New York and Florida is sort of like apples and oranges,” he adds. The Senate minority leader criticizes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s response to the $3 trillio...

Moron & Criminal President Donald Trump Washington, DC -- In response to breaking news yesterday, that President Donald Trump, threatened to withhold federal funding from Nevada and Michigan after Michigan’s Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced vote-by-mail plans, Executive Vice President for Policy and Program Marge Baker released the following statement: “Trump’s outburst over vote-by-mail options in two states is more forewarning that he will stop at nothing to corrupt the presidential election. He is making a dangerous -- and potentially illegal move -- by threatening to withhold federal funds from states that are working to ensure that the American public can vote safely in the midst of a pandemic. Many states have previously mailed out such applications and Republican states have made similar decisions to mail out applications this year, so this is clearly a partisan attack on states led by Democratic governors and illustrates Trump’s familiar pattern o...

TRUMP'S DID NOT WANT TO RENT TO AFRICAN AMERICANS OR HISPANICS NOW THIS via You Tube -- The Trump's once forced 900 mostly Black families living in Coney Island out of their homes — here's how the family used taxpayer money to decimate a New York neighborhood. This is a must see story. Trump's used the code letter (C) on apartment applications to tell the agents the person was colored and not to rent to them.  Washington Post -- When a black woman asked to rent an apartment in a Brooklyn complex managed by Donald Trump’s real estate company, she said she was told that nothing was available. A short time later, a white woman who made the same request was invited to choose between two available apartments. The two would-be renters on that July 1972 day were actually undercover “testers” for a ­government-sanctioned investigation to determine whether Trump Management Inc. discriminated against minorities seeking housing at properties across Brooklyn a...

Cory Booker On The View Sen. Cory Booker explains his endorsement of Joe Biden, saying he “has the best chance" of beating President Trump. Booker explains why he's backing the former vice president, saying he “has the best chance of not only beating Donald Trump, but of beginning to heal the country.” "As I look at the future, I know that Joe Biden is the best position of the people in that race," Booker tells the hosts, just one day after endorsing Biden. "I'm excited about the prospect that he could help unify the Democrats ... and actually be the leader that can reach out to independents, to moderate Republicans." On his critiques of Biden early in the race, Booker says he’d “support the candidate that can best beat Donald Trump and I’m doing exactly that.” Adding, “He ain’t perfect, but I think he’s the guy that’s going to help us to create a more perfect union.” “I respect Bernie, love Bernie, and will continue to work with ...

Insane Donald Trump Washington, D.C.— A diverse coalition of national groups cautioned Congress today not to use the novel coronavirus emergency as an excuse to lavish more tax cuts on the wealthy and corporations or to enact payroll tax cuts. The 13 initial letter signers argued in a letter to the House and Senate for “an aggressive response to the economic and societal impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak, but caution[ed] against allowing this national emergency to be used to demand tax cuts that will be poorly targeted, lack the biggest bang-for-the-buck and favor those families that have the most resources to weather the crisis.” Other groups are expected to sign the letter in coming days. The groups also wrote: “Such undesirable tax strategies also include payroll tax cuts. They would provide little immediate stimulus to the economy because they would be relatively inefficient and paid out in small increments over time. Moreover, payroll tax cuts provide the ...

Joe Biden Say's He Is Best To Beat Trump Despite rocky primary start, Biden tells The View he's still the best candidate to 'beat Trump' "I’m heading south now where I feel good,” the former vice president told the co-hosts. “Ninety-nine percent of the African-American vote hasn’t voted yet and 99% of the Hispanic vote hasn’t voted yet,” he adds. "I believe I'm going to beat Trump."  Biden reacts to Rush Limbaugh questioning Pete Buttigieg’s electability because of his sexuality: “Pete and I are competitors, but this guy has honor, he has courage, he’s smart as hell.”  He reacts to recently resurfaced audio of Mike Bloomberg: “Every single thing I’ve said for the last 40 years has come up... we’re just now getting into looking at people’s records.” Joe Biden On Attorney General Barr Biden tells the co-hosts Pres. Trump "has weaponized" the Attorney General's office. When asked if Trump "learned a lesson...

The View Whoopi Goldberg's view of Donald Trump’s decision to award Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his State of the Union address. Whoopi wasn’t impressed by her co-host Meghan McCain’s rationale for why the president would give the controversial talk show host the award. On Wednesday’s episode of “The View,” Goldberg started things off by referencing Limbaugh’s recent announcement that he has advanced lung cancer before admitting she didn’t think he deserved the nation’s highest civilian honor. “You know, I am very sorry that Rush is ill, because you never want to wish bad stuff on people,” Goldberg said. “He has stage 4 cancer. But I’m sorry, I thought that the Medal of Freedom was supposed to go to people who actually did stuff.” Goldberg named a few people she thought were more deserving of the award, including Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), who died last October. “I didn’t understand,” she said. “You’ve got a Tuskegee Airman si...

IMPEACHED DONALD TRUMP The city would move to end its contracts with the Trump Organization under a resolution expected to be introduced Thursday by Manhattan Councilman Mark Levine. “If New York City isn’t good enough for you to live in, then it’s not good enough for you to run businesses in. We want you out now!” the Dem said of Trump, who recently changed his legal residence from Manhattan to Palm Beach, Fla. The non-binding resolution calls on Mayor de Blasio not to renew renew the Trump Organization’s four contracts with the city and cites a litany of grievances — from alleged constitutional violations to a recent state attorney general investigation finding Trump misused his charitable foundation. “It’s just a matter of profound offense to most New Yorkers that our city has given four lucrative Parks (Department) concessions to the Trump Organization,” Levine said. “The Trump Organization is a company that is deeply entangled in a criminal conspiracy and ...

Hot Topics: Rudy Giuliani "Associates" Arrested “The biggest mistake that he made is assuming that President Trump is loyal because the minute that he makes Trump look bad, he is going to be tossed right to the curb,” Abby Huntsman says. “I think it’s going to be really hard to convince Mitch McConnell and Republicans in the Senate to go through with impeachment. That being said, I think Democrats are going to have to focus much of their efforts if they want to get him out of office at the ballot box.” “We have now been speaking about it for three weeks, and we are still going be speaking about it because we’re now talking a criminal indictment,” guest co-host Ana Navarro says — but adds: “You are never going to convince Trump’s base to drop him.” Navarro continues: “Here’s what I would say to Republicans who, you know, this week are whining and crying and thrashing on the floor over the Kurds: He’s doing this a year before the election — what do you think he...

The View On Send Her Back Hot Topics: Trump claims to disavow "send her back" chant. "The bottom line is he didn't tell them to stop," says Sunny Hostin. "He didn't tell them that it was inappropriate, and I believe that that was something that he gave them permission to say. He normalized it." "One thing that I read that was fascinating was that Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law who is also an adviser to his 2020 election campaign, did a warmup act to cue up the crowd," Hostin adds. "She led them in a call and response chant and she said, 'If you don't love our country, the president said it, you can' and the crowd responded, 'leave'. She ginned it up already." "History is not kind to racists... There is only so much excusing you can do of what Donald Trump has done this week," says guest co-host Ana Navarro. "We have seen the legitimization of racism." "I do thi...

New York Post Cover On Enquirer & Jeff Bezos  Amazon Owner Jeff Bezos is claiming that the National Enquirer head David Pecker tried to blackmail him about his affair and threatened to publish with nude photos. Bezos,titled his post "No thank you, Mr. Pecker ," shared what he said was an email from AMI's chief content officer Dylan Howard, in which Howard threatened to release intimate and personal photos and text messages of Bezos and a woman the National Enquirer said he was having an affair with. Nothing is below David Pecker and The National Enquirer. I know them both very well having worked on stories for many years before Pecker brought the Enquirer, The Star, The Globe and destroyed the magazine business in America.  He even screwed John Kennedy Jr on a high end magazine called George. After only a handful of issues of George Magazine which John Kennedy Jr. was very involved with, Pecker pulled the plug. This was a very traumatizing event In ...

THE VIEW On Trump’s nod to women in Congress: "I found it to be an empowering moment for women," Abby Huntsman says. "I thought it was a moment that we could all get on our feet and be so proud of how far we've come. Obviously, I think the Republican party has a lot of work to do to get women to run and to win." "I thought they were trolling him," Sunny Hostin says. "They ran because they didn't like his policies." "Take the moment when it comes. State of the Unions are so much a part of sort of signaling your politics in one way or another to your base of supporters," Meghan McCain says. "The feather in the cap of the wave of the Democratic congresswomen who were recently elected, 100% were in the right taking their moment last night." On Trump's mentions about the border wall, immigration, and Russia investigation: "Does the name Richard Nixon ring a bell? Nixon said enough with ...

Our Corrupt President Donald Trump Washington — Six Trump White House officials including Principal Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah violated the Hatch Act by using their official government Twitter accounts to engage in partisan political activity, the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) ruled today based on complaints filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). OSC reprimanded each staffer noting that any future engagement in prohibited political activity will be considered “a willful and knowing violation of the law, which could result in further action.” The six Trump Administration officials cited for Hatch Act violations are: Principal Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah, Deputy Director of Communications Jessica Ditto, Executive Assistant to the President Madeleine Westerhout, former Director of Media Affairs Helen Aguirre Ferré, Press Secretary for Vice President Mike Pence Alyssa Farah, and OMB Deputy Communications Director Jacob Wood. As noted...

Rosie O'Donnell Talks To CNN Actress Rosie O'Donnell talked to CNN's Chris Cuomo about why she has turned a feud with President Donald Trump into activism in leading a nightly protest at the White House since Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. EDITOR NOTE: Rosie O'Donnell is right on the money with everything she has said and is saying to CNN. First of all, she knows the guy as do I, personally. He was always a lying piece of crap. It is very funny how Donald Trump calls everything "FAKE NEWS", as The Donald is the inventor of "FAKE NEWS".  His publicity stunts over the years in New York City are what movies are made of. He could care less about the poor, the homeless or the sick. FACTS! One example. Years ago I was doing a photo shoot at the Metropolitan Club across the street from the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time. Ivana and Donald Trump walked out and a homeless guy was asking for a dollar. It was ...

Michael Avenatti On The View Michael Avenatti on Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen "In retrospect, I'm glad Michael Cohen did take those recordings," Avenatti says. "You deserve to know what your leaders have done and whether... they've committed crimes. It's just that simple. Everyone should be demanding the release of these tapes." Avenatti discusses what the contents are on the disc he tweeted a picture of in March: "As soon as we get it back from law enforcement, I'll be happy to talk about it." Avenatti says Stormy Daniels' arrest was 'politically motivated' Avenatti says he believes there will be "no question that it will be proven" Daniels' Ohio arrest was politically motivated: "In America, we should not be using the power of the badge to arrest our political enemies." WATCH   Avenatti discusses possible run for president in 2020 ...

Cynthia Nixon On The View New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon weighs in on Trump signing an executive order to keep migrant families together: "I am glad he has signed this executive order against himself, protecting them from him. I wish he would sign some more executive orders protecting us from him." She calls to abolish ICE, saying the federal agency has "strayed so far from the interests of the American people and the interests of humanity — we need to abolish it." She reacts the press' difficulties getting access to child detention centers, and compares it to coverage of the Vietnam War: "When you show people what's really happening, and the brutality and the injustice ... it's very hard to defend this kind of a policy." "The problems that we have start at the top," she says of why she's running for governor, and discusses taking on Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "We're a Democratic s...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren On The View Sen. Elizabeth Warren talks immigration, Trump's campaign spying claims, North Korea summit & Sen. Warren reacts to Pres. Trump blaming "horrible law that separates children from [their] parents" on Democrats: "The fact that children are being torn out of the arms of their mothers is on Donald Trump's head and nobody else's!" Sen. Warren says Pres. Trump is attempting to "undermine" American institutions with claims his campaign was spied on: "As Trump hears the hoofbeats, that [the Mueller investigation's] getting closer to him, he's throwing everything he can in the road." "I want to see America find a way to help move North Korea to denuclearization — that's hard!" Sen. Warren says of the summit. "You gotta have a plan, and you've gotta have people to execute ... I want to see a plan and I want to see America succeed." ...