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Organ Transplant Bill Will Ensure Americans With Disabilities Won’t Get Sent To The Back Of The Line

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The House of Representatives recently passed legislation that will help to protect some of the most vulnerable patients in need of organ transplants. As the mother of a daughter with a disability who may one day need a transplant, I applaud this compassionate and common-sense action. Yet it also speaks to the failures of our transplant system that lawmakers felt compelled to act in the first place.

The bill, the Organ Transplant Discrimination Prevention Act, sponsored by Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., does what its title implies. It directs the board overseeing the national organ transplant system, and other entities (like transplant hospitals), not to discriminate against an individual’s access to an organ transplant “solely on the basis of that individual’s disability.”

One might reasonably ask why this legislation should be necessary. Organ transplant centers already care for vulnerable patients, so why should they ever discriminate on the basis of disability? Unfortunately, that logic fails to consider the dysfunctional way our organ transplant system has operated for far too long.

Multiple investigations by Congress and outside entities have demonstrated the problems with the organ procurement organizations (OPOs) that run the transplant system nationwide. These regional organizations have had localized monopolies for decades — and their behavior reflects that fact. In many cases, OPOs have ignored patient complaints and lost organs during the donation and transplant process.

OPOs also have a history of discarding organs viewed as less-than-perfect, because staff view maintaining a good “success rate” for the transplants they do perform as preferable to performing more procedures

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Ex-Girlfriend: Kamala Harris’ Husband Slapped Me In The Face

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The alleged ex-girlfriend of Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has come forward accusing him of slapping her across the face, according to a report released Thursday.

Speaking with the Daily Mail, the woman, who has reportedly chosen to remain anonymous, contended that the outlet’s prior reporting about the incident in question is true. As The Federalist’s Tristan Justice previously noted, three friends of the alleged victim claimed to the Daily Mail that Emhoff — the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris — “struck the woman named under the pseudonym ‘Jane’ following a glitzy night out at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival in France.”

The alleged victim’s friends also provided photos, “other documents and communications corroborating elements of the story,” according to the outlet.

Described by the Daily Mail as a “successful New York attorney,” the accuser reportedly did not want to go on the record at the time the outlet published its first story on the alleged incident. According to the Daily Mail, she changed her mind after witnessing Emhoff’s “alleged hypocrisy by claiming to be a feminist in media interviews, [which] finally became too much for her.”

“What’s frightening for a woman that’s been on the other end of it, is watching this completely fabricated persona being portrayed,” she said. “He’s being held out to be the antithesis of who he actually is. And that is utterly shocking.”

Emhoff is a central figure in his wife’s presidential campaign, and legacy media have attempted to cast him as a model of masculinity and

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Democrats Peddle Conspiracies About Trump’s Age In Desperate Final Push

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A pair of medical emergencies delayed a Pennsylvania town hall with former President Donald Trump this month and kicked off a round of conspiracies about the Republican nominee’s age.

“Trump Bobs His Head to Music for 30 Minutes in Odd Town Hall Detour,” The New York Times headlined its coverage.

“After multiple interruptions, Donald Trump cut off questions and seemed to decide that it would be more enjoyable for all concerned — and, it appeared, for himself — if he fired up his campaign playlist,” the Times reported.

The delay provoked headlines across mass media uncritically depicting Trump as a senior who is suffering the same cognitive decline that ultimately forced President Joe Biden out of his race for reelection this summer.

“Trump’s Bizarre Turn At Town Hall Has Critics Asking New Questions About His Health,” The Huffington Post titled its coverage.

“Trump sways and bops to music for 39 minutes in bizarre town hall episode,” The Washington Post stated.

“Is Trump okay?” asked The Week. “Former president’s mental health is firmly back in the spotlight after ‘bizarre’ town hall event.”

“This should freak everybody out,” said Whoopi Goldberg on “The View.” “This freaked me out. He’s freaked me out a lot, but this really upset me.”

Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign seized on the moment to characterize the 78-year-old ex-commander-in-chief as cognitively deteriorating in the final moments of his third presidential run.

“Trump appears lost, confused, and frozen on stage as multiple songs play for 30+ minutes,”

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Here’s How The Media Are Lying Right Now: John Kelly And The New York Times Edition

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Everything about that highly promoted New York Times “interview” with former Trump White House Chief of Staff John Kelly — a general, if you haven’t heard! — reeked of fakery. But a piece of audio from the recorded phone conversations between Kelly and the Times reporter that wasn’t released until two days after the article proves just how artificial it truly was.

The original article was published on Tuesday and included a mix of audio snippets and text quotes of Kelly, presumably offering his answers to questions that the reporter, Michael Schmidt, was asking. At the very bottom was a sound clip labeled, “Kelly on the Importance of Character Over Policy.”

“I’m not recommending anything to anybody,” Kelly is heard telling Schmidt. “I’m just saying — other than, that when you’re looking to vote for someone, regardless, you’ve got to, you’ve got to look at the character and all those kinds of things and then start looking at the individual’s policies.” (Must be nice to live so comfortably that you can afford to vote first and foremost based on whether someone seems pleasant enough rather than how that person’s decisions would literally change your life and your loved ones’ lives.)

In Thursday’s edition of the Times’ “The Daily” podcast, however, there’s a more extended version of that recording that precedes Kelly’s remarks. In that version, Schmidt says something first. “Is there anything else that we need to talk about or is this enough?” he says to Kelly. “I think it’s plenty,” Kelly replies.

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