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3 speakers featured at GOP convention have been charged with crimes

A nurse who spoke at the Republican National Convention in August was arrested for allegedly shooting a woman in the stomach.

A nurse who praised Donald Trump’s pandemic response at the Republican National Convention in August was arrested last week and charged with malicious unlawful assault after she allegedly shot a woman in the stomach, according to a local West Virginia television station.

The woman, Amy Johnson Ford, claimed self-defense in the shooting, according to WCHS, which also reported that the shooting victim is “doing well and has non-life-threatening injuries.”

Ford — who says she volunteered as a nurse in New York to help the city when its hospitals were overrun with COVID-19 patients — was selectedto speak at the convention to help boost Trump’s image in the wake of his failed coronavirus response. Continue reading.

How the Republican Convention Created Money Woes in Two Cities

New York Times logoDonors are wondering why they gave to a Charlotte event that has mostly been scrapped. And Jacksonville fund-raisers find money is on hold because of concerns about the surge in virus cases.

WASHINGTON — The abrupt uprooting of the Republican National Convention from Charlotte to Jacksonville has created a tangled financial predicament for party officials as they effectively try to pay for two big events instead of one.

Tens of millions of dollars have already been spent in a city that will now host little more than a G.O.P. business meeting, and donors are wary of opening their wallets again to bankroll a Jacksonville gathering thrown into uncertainty by a surge in coronavirus cases.

Organizers are trying to assuage vexed Republicans who collectively gave millions of dollars for a Charlotte event that has mostly been scrapped. The host committee there has spent virtually all of the $38 million it raised before the convention was moved, leaving almost nothing to return to donors, or to pass on to the new host city. Continue reading.