Conspiracy-loving President Trump soon will get a chance to tackle a new one related to the mysterious drug overdose death of singer Prince.
Filmmaker Marie Pizano said she is coming to Washington to film those pushing for a new investigation into Prince’s death and their march to the White House. The “Justice for Prince” bid, headed by psychic Abigail Noel, wants Trump to look into her belief that Prince, a Jehovah’s Witness, was murdered.
While some may sneer at Noel’s claims and her profession, Pizano told us that Noel has regularly said simply, “let’s just investigate and seen what we turn up.”
Noel has made her case on Facebook and in the media. …
• A new University of Missouri study and book help to crack the code on how Democrat Jimmy Carter came from nowhere to beat former President Gerald Ford in 1976. The secret: Ultra-popular “Saturday Night Live” helped. In “Saturday Night Live and the 1976 Presidential Election: A New Voice Enters Campaign Politics,” out soon, two school professors argue that the portrayal of a bumbling Ford by comic Chevy Chase doomed the incumbent, while Carter came off in a positive light. Of course, once Carter became president, he was mocked on the show. Now, they’re working on a new book comparing how President Carter and President Trump have been treated on SNL. …
• Ellen McConnell Blakeman, one of the first women to be a Senate page, died Feb. 11 in Illinois. In 1971, she and two other young women broke the 188-year tradition of page boys when then-Republican Sen. Charles Percy appointed her. She later became chief of the pages, with the title “floor boy.”
Ellen McConnell Blakeman, one of the first women to be a Senate page, shown with mentor Sen. Charles Percy.
As an adult, she was known for her group A Long Swim, which funded research of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which she died of. She was active in the U.S. Capitol Page Alumni Association, and several former pages attended her funeral. …
- Spotted at the fifth annual “Friends of IP: Right on Innovation” dinner hosted Thursday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center and The Motion Picture Association of America – Suhail Khan of Microsoft, Mike Rose of Comcast; Kip Eideberg of Association of Equipment Manufacturers; Tori Eberlein of ALEC; Bill Morley of Altrius Group, LLC; Katie McAuliffe of Americans for Tax Reform; Andrew Kovalcin of Advanced Advocacy; Karen Kerrigan of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council; Jared Parks of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Greg Saphier of MPAA
• More than ever before, House Republicans believe that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will be their best foil in the 2018 midterms. A GOP memo said, “We are so thankful she remains the leader of the Democratic Party. We are so, so thankful.” An adviser said the GOP will run on the tax cut bill passed last year and “against dastardly Nancy Pelosi.” …
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
