The parents of infant Charlie Gard, who suffers from a rare genetic condition and reportedly has brain damage, were devastated just days ago when London’s High Court sentenced the 10-month-old to death and ordered his life support turned off. In a last-minute appeal, they were given a few more days to be with their son and shockingly received a message from President Donald Trump that they were not expecting.

According to Daily Mail, Chris Gard and Connie Yates were first denied their request to transport Charlie to the United States for advanced medical care not available in Britain. It would seem that the overgrown egos of doctors at the Great Ormond Street Hospital who are handling Charlie’s case are the primary cause of the court’s decision to deny the family hope or further treatment.

As the heartbreaking story drew worldwide attention, Charlie’s family and their supporters around the world raised over 1 million dollars specifically for the opportunity to get him to American doctors who may be able to help him. Unfortunately, it mattered little to the High Court.

In the final days granted to the parents to say goodbye to their son, President Donald Trump has an unexpected message for the devasted parents, and in typical Trump fashion, he took to Twitter with it.

If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 3, 2017
The message Trump posted on Twitter quickly caught the attention of thousands on social media in just a couple of hours. However, whether or not the social medicine death panel in Britain will allow Charlie’s family to take Trump up on the president’s offer has yet to be seen.

So far, Charlie’s parents have been denied even the chance to seek help from doctors outside the UK medical system. It seems ironic that a country which has become impotent in protecting their own citizens in just day to day life is so quick to deny an infant hope for survival.

Even the Pope has joined in on the conversation, releasing a statement saying that Charlie’s parents should be allowed to “accompany and treat their child until the end.” The Vatican also released a statement saying the pope “is following with affection and sadness the case of little Charlie Gard and expresses his closeness to his parents.” Although the Pope has proven, so far, to be a rather liberal individual, perhaps his words will help to influence the court in Charlie’s favor.

Just days ago, Chris Gard and Connie Yates released the following video in response to the court’s decision to honor their final request to take their son home to die.
The child has been at the center of a contentious legal battle between his parents and the specialist at the hospital who say that the therapy trial in the US is experimental and would not help, according to Fox News. However, at one time or another, nearly every successful medical procedure or therapy was experimental. America’s leading doctors would not be offering Charlie’s family help if it were to conduct some kind of radical experiment on an already suffering child.

This seems more like the socialized medical system in Britain doesn’t want their ugly underbelly exposed and would rather see an infant die than to simply let the family use the resources they have raised to take Charlie to the United States. Meanwhile, there’s a push for NHS-funded womb transplants for transgendered “women,” who were born biological males. You can’t even make this stuff up.

Governor Chris Christie was caught red-handed at the New Jersey shore. Paparazzi captured the moment Christie realized the jig is up, and he has been in damage control mode all day long. Whether you love or hate Christie, you’ll be amazed by his bravado as many New Jersey citizens are completely pissed off by his actions. You don’t want to miss this.

A dispute between Gov. Chris Christie and the Democratic leader in the state’s General Assembly, Vincent Prieto, has blocked the Legislature from passing a state budget. Their fight is over a plan to overhaul control of the state’s largest health insurer, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, a non-profit that operates under special state laws.

Christie ordered all “non-essential” state services to be closed down and that includes the Jersey Shore, which is a huge destination for the 4th of July weekend. Police are stationed, blocking entrances, and anyone caught on the beach could be arrested. So, when a seasoned photographer got a hunch, he got his crew and they went up in a Cessna plane.

Scouring the Jersey Shore, Andrew Mills was looking for a large figure on the sand, which wasn’t too hard to spot. Sure enough, Mills’ intuition was right. The only people on the beach were Christie and his family, soaking up the sun.

“In my 23 years as a photojournalist, I’ve been on enough stakeouts to know when I’ve been made, and Gov. Chris Christie looked right at me as I pointed the long-range lens at him from the Cessna about a thousand feet above Island Beach State Park in Berkeley Township on Sunday,” reports Mills.

Mills captures Christie with his wife Mary Pat seated next to him, both in beach chairs. Around them are his kids and extended family. Christie can access the beach from the Governor’s beach house, and he ordered his security detail to stand guard.

Mills recalled the moment Christie looked him right in the eye, saying, “Most of the time, I get the shots and make a clean getaway. But once in a while, when the eyes meet, you know the jig is up.” He added, “[I]t wasn’t difficult to find him. There Christie was, with family and friends, on a long and empty stretch of beach near the governor’s shore residence, nobody else within a country mile.”

Reporting for NJ.com, Mills continued, “In one photo, Christie looks me dead in the eye. He has to know what’s happening. Why else would a plane make two passes over his private beach party when there’s no one else around? Did we know he would be sunbathing on a closed beach? No, but we took a shot and it paid off.”
Christie then made the huge mistake of saying in a presser that he did not “get any sun” that day. His poor press secretary had to make up a story, saying, “Well, he was wearing a hat, so he didn’t get any sun.” When that went over like a lead balloon, Christie said the beach house is separate from the park and that his family does not ask for any state services. Christie, who is in his final months in office, added, “Run for governor, and you can have a residence there.”

PRESIDENT TRUMP OFFERS TO HELP DEATHLY ILL BABY BRITAIN THINKS SHOULD “DIE WITH DIGNITY”
JULY 3, 2017
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In a tweet this morning, President Donald Trump stated his desire to help a terminally ill British baby.

As reported previously, Charlie Gard’s parents would like to bring him – using crowdsourced funds – to the United States to partake in an experimental treatment they believe could save his life.

The European Court of Human Rights, however, has ruled against the parents’ wishes, siding with doctors in stating that Gard – who, according to Sky News, suffers from a rare genetic condition and brain damage – should “die with dignity” in a British hospital.

Their belief is that Gard is suffering and the experimental treatment in the U.S. is unlikely to change that.

And so, Gard’s life machine was set to be turned off on Friday.

However, as The Daily Mail reports, the hospital later relented and announced it would leave Gard on the machine for a few more days.

As the situation gained international attention, Pope Francis spoke out and expressed his support for Gard’s parents and their wishes to accompany him to the United States for treatment.

Now, President Donald Trump has added his voice to the mix.

“If we can help little #CharlieGard, as per our friends in the U.K. and the Pope, we would be delighted to do so,” he wrote on Twitter this morning.
It’s unclear exactly what Trump could do given that European officials have ruled on the matter.

An analysis of White House salary data reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration is spending $5 million less of taxpayer money on his staff than his predecessor.

Trump employs 377 people at the White House, with a total of $35.8 million, while former President Barack Obama paid $40.9 million for 476 employees in 2015, according to data analyzed by Open The Books.

Another key difference between the Obama and Trump White House is the first lady’s staff. Michelle Obama retained 24 staffers in the first year of the Obama White House. Melania Trump currently employs four — a chief of staff who is also listed as advisor to the president, a deputy chief of staff, a communications director, and a scheduler.

“Projected four-year savings on the White House payroll could top $22 million,” Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open The Books, writes for Forbes. Those projected savings include Trump’s promise to accept one dollar in salary and give the remainder back to the U.S. Treasury.
Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, both advisors to the president, are not accepting any salary. Most top White House staff, including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa Manigault, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, and 17 others make $179,000 annually.

The news for the news media keeps getting worse.

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll out Monday shows that while the public has low trust in the Trump administration, they trust the media even less.

Just 30 percent of Americans said they have a “great deal” or “good amount” of trust in the news media, the poll shows. That’s lower than the 37 percent of Americans who said the same about the Trump administration. The poll found that 37 percent of adults said they trust the media “not at all,” while another 31 percent said they have “not very much” trust in the news media.

Democrats trust the media far more than either Republicans or independents, the poll shows. While 56 percent of Democrats said they have a “great deal” or “good amount” of trust in the news media, just 28 percent of independents and nine percent of Republicans said the same.

Trust in media appears to be headed in the wrong direction.
The percentage of Americans who have a great deal or good amount of trust in the media dropped four points over the last four months, down from 34 percent when NPR ran the same poll in March. The drop in trust in the media follows a rough stretch for journalists, as reporters have botched several stories on the Trump administration in recent months. (RELATED: CNN’s Month-Long Nightmare)

Americans also have low trust in opinion polls, according to the latest NPR poll.