Jackson: Trump belongs ‘with the storm troopers’ at Selma – AOL
Jackson: Trump belongs ‘with the storm troopers’ at Selma – AOL

SELMA, Ala. — Famed civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, here to commemorate the 1965 voting-rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge said he believes President Trump would have been on the side of the “storm troopers” who beat protesters in what has gone down in history as “Bloody Sunday.”

Yahoo News asked Jackson what he thought Trump “would have been doing” if he was in Selma at the time.

“Probably with the storm troopers,” Jackson said.

Among the victims that day was John Lewis, now a Democratic congressman from Georgia. Trump was in college in 1965.

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Many Democrats, including some presidential candidates, have labeled Trump a “racist,” a characterization he disputes. His longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, said in his testimony to a House committee Thursday that Trump often made racist remarks about blacks.

Jackson, a 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, was a close ally of Martin Luther King, who helped lead the Selma marches.

Jackson then shared a story about segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who led the state on “Bloody Sunday” and declined to protect the marchers.

“I asked George Wallace one time — I was having prayer with him after he was very ill, ‘Why did you unleash the horses on the marchers? He said, ‘I did them a favor,’” Jackson recounted.

Jackson asked Wallace, who died in 1998, what he meant.

“He said, ‘Well, if I had not put the troops on him, the mob would have been worse.’ It never occurred to him to turn the troops on the mob, but the marchers,” said Jackson, adding, “That is a mentality. That. is a deeply embedded point of view.”

Jackson was attending the annual “Martin Luther King & Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast,” which also hosted several current Democratic presidential candidates. He began his comments by saying he was “deeply concerned” that Selma was “being used as a prop.” He describes the city as “the birthplace of modern democracy” and suggested the voting rights protests there led to a “new majority” in the country including minorities and young people.

“But my concern is that while Selma is the birthplace, it’s being used as a prop. Selma is the 9th poorest city in the country. Ms. Boynton, who invited Dr. King here as the host, her house is condemned. Selma is 40 percent poverty,” Jackson said.

He said Selma would be the ideal venue for a “rural reconstruction project.”

“The reason we have a Democratic Congress is because of Selma. There should be some evidence of it,” said Jackson.

The Democrats at the breakfast included 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who was being honored at the event, and two current candidates, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who has said he will make a decision about whether to enter the 2020 race by the end of this month was also in attendance.

Yahoo News asked Jackson if he felt the current presidential candidates were taking Selma’s needs seriously.

“All of them now speak to … voter enforcement to offset voter suppression, but beyond voting, there must be fruits of democracy. Where are the fruits?” Jackson asked, adding, “There should be some plan. HUD should be here, HHS should be here. There should be some evidence Selma is the birthplace of democracy.”

Asked about voter suppression, a major concern of Democrats in recent elections, Jackson noted the increasing number of minorities in Congress, and said the country has made “tremendous strides” in “spite of the voter suppression.” But he said there are ongoing “schemes to suppress the vote” including gerrymandering that favors white, Republican districts. He brought up the 2016 presidential election.

“Hillary won by three million votes. Trump is the president,” said Jackson, adding, “Schemes to undermine the vote are very real and very alive.”

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Trump points to Dems over failure of North Korea summit | TheHill – The Hill
Trump points to Dems over failure of North Korea summit | TheHill – The Hill

President TrumpDonald John TrumpLawmakers discussed possible pardon talks with Cohen: report 5 takeaways as Republicans close ranks at CPAC Donald Trump puts past presidents to shame with North Korea policies MORE on Sunday appeared to point blame at Democrats for the collapse of his negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week.

“For the Democrats to interview in open hearings a convicted liar & fraudster, at the same time as the very important Nuclear Summit with North Korea, is perhaps a new low in American politics and may have contributed to the “walk” Never done when a president is overseas. Shame!” Trump tweeted.

The president was referring to the testimony of his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, which occurred simultaneously with his summit in Hanoi, Vietnam. 

Cohen testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, where he accused the president of lying to the public about hush money payments and floated the possibility of Trump’s collusion with Moscow.

Cohen was sentenced to prison last year after pleading guilty to financial crimes, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress. He sentence is set to begin on May 6.

While Cohen was on Capitol Hill, Trump was in Hanoi, at his second meeting with Kim.

Trump entered negotiations with the hope of securing a deal that involved North Korea denuclearizing, but talks ended abruptly without any type of deal, which Trump alludes to in his tweet. 

The president told reporters following the summit that the U.S. was not willing to fully lift sanctions in exchange for partial denuclearization, stating that “[s]ometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times.”

A North Korean official disputed that characterization of the country’s position adding that Kim “may have lost the will” to engage in future negotiations.

“This proposal was the biggest denuclearization measure we could take at the present stage in relations to [the] current level of confidence between the DPRK and the United States,” North Korea’s foreign minister said.

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‘We’re not going to turn on our own’: Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount – The Washington Post
‘We’re not going to turn on our own’: Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount – The Washington Post

Robert Costa

March 2 at 4:24 PM

When President Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen testified last week that his former boss was a “racist” and “con man” who routinely skirts the law, Republicans showed little interest in following up on his claims.

They shrugged when Trump called murderous dictator Kim Jong Un a “real leader” and once again elevated the North Korean leader on the world stage.

And faced with a vote on Trump’s legally contested declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border, just 13 of 197 House Republicans opposed him.

Acquiescence to Trump is now the defining trait of the Republican Party more than two years into his presidency — overwhelming and at times erasing principles that conservatives viewed as the foundation of the party for more than a half century.

Trump’s ownership of the GOP was on vivid display again Saturday, when the president appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, an annual gathering that has transformed into a raucous celebration of Trump, featuring propaganda-style art and a speaker who declared that the president was “chosen by God.”

Standing before an exuberant crowd chanting “Trump!” and “U-S-A,” Trump spent two hours railing against the “failed ruling class,” calling the special counsel’s Russia investigation “bullshit” and portraying his election as a major moment in global history.

“We are reversing decades of blunders and betrayals,” Trump declared at one point, before asserting that he was only joking in 2016 when he asked Russia to release Hillary Clinton’s private emails.

“Lock her up! Lock her up!” CPAC attendees roared at the mention of the former Democratic presidential nominee.

In interviews over the past week, Republicans on Capitol Hill offered an array of reasons for their unflinching loyalty to Trump as the 2020 campaign begins to take shape: a deep-seated fear of his pull with their supporters in primary races; fraying consensus about conservatism as nationalism takes hold of the party; and shared partisan disdain for Trump’s perceived enemies in the news media and the Democratic Party.

“We’re not going to turn on our own and make the Democrats happy,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), who is up for reelection in 2020. “We don’t see any benefit in fracturing, but we do see a lot to lose.”


People walk by a portrait of President Trump at CPAC on Friday at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

Republicans say Trump’s overhaul of the federal judiciary and the confirmation of two Supreme Court justices, along with the passage of the GOP’s sweeping tax law, have helped bind the party together through bouts of political turbulence — from the loss of their House majority to the longest government shutdown in history to the torrent of developments related to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s ongoing probe of Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.

All of it has left Trump firmly in control. Most potential 2020 primary challengers sit on the sidelines as the GOP establishment rallies around Trump’s reelection. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who once gave Trump a jar of hand-selected Starbursts candy as a gift, is a Trump booster and confidant. Former GOP foes in the Senate, such as Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), flatter him and are regulars at his golf courses.

“They fetishize this nonconservative in the Oval because it’s tribal,” said Mike Murphy, a veteran GOP strategist and Trump critic. “It’s us versus them, we’re right and they’re evil, and it’s created this Trump cult that dominates the party.”

Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.), a Democrat who fended off Trump’s attempts to unseat him in last year’s midterm election, said of Republicans: “I don’t understand why they allow all of this stuff to go on. I would bet money two years ago — 20 years ago — that this would never happen. I’m not sure Watergate would be prosecuted under the conditions we have today.”

Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) publicly acknowledged what many Republicans say privately: The GOP is wholeheartedly accepting behavior and policies from Trump that would spark outrage from a Democratic president, particularly Trump’s attempt to use executive power in defiance of Congress to secure funding for a wall along the Mexican border.

“It’d be a little different,” Simpson said with a chuckle. “If President Obama had done the national emergency, Republicans would have gone crazy.”

Nonetheless, most Republicans backed Trump’s move last month, seeing it as a political exit ramp for the president as he flailed during the latest shutdown fight. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) urged Trump not to do it, only to eventually accept it. When House Democrats forced a vote Tuesday on legislation to overturn Trump’s declaration, just 6 percent of House Republicans dared to break publicly with Trump.

One defector was Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.), a libertarian-leaning Republican who is well known for clashing with leadership. Trump backers in his ruby-red district were incensed.

“I’m feeling it right now,” Massie said. “Lots of phone calls for voting that way. But it’s okay, because my district knows me. For those who don’t have that brand, it’s more dangerous for them to try and take an independent path, because they’ll be seen as being against the president.”

Opposition among Senate Republicans has been more visible. Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), facing a difficult reelection race next year, has said he would vote to curb Trump’s use of emergency powers in this instance, worrying that a Democratic president could “exploit” those powers in the future. Three GOP moderates — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lamar Alexander (Tenn.) and Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) — have also voiced opposition to Trump’s declaration and called on him to withdraw his plan or risk a rebellion.

But Trump had an ominous warning for those GOP critics in an interview last week with Fox News anchor Sean Hannity: “I think they put themselves at great jeopardy.”

On foreign policy — long the bastion of Republican hawks who have been hostile to dictators and supportive of global institutions — Trump has been cast as a GOP hero, despite his feuds with allies, protectionist trade policies and chummy engagement with autocrats such as Kim, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

When Trump declared after a summit with Kim in Hanoi last week that the North Korean leader was not responsible for the death of former prisoner and U.S. college student Otto Warmbier, most Republicans stayed mum.

“He’s doing a hell of a job as commander in chief,” Graham said at CPAC on Thursday.


Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, center, poses for photos at CPAC on Thursday. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

Trump’s near daily dismissal of the Mueller investigation as a “witch hunt” has become another GOP refrain. Trump’s elected allies, such as Reps. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), have buoyed the cause, repeatedly questioning the integrity of the Justice Department and FBI in the process.

Partisan loyalty to an embattled president has plenty of historical precedents. Many Republicans stood by Richard Nixon during Watergate and by Ronald Reagan during the Iran-contra scandal. Bill Clinton was supported by most Democrats even as he was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

Any high-profile voices in the party objecting to Trump are increasingly scattered or silent, while the “Never Trump” faction from the 2016 campaign has all but fallen into obscurity.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who served as a foil to Trump and called him “dangerous,” passed away in August. Former president George H.W. Bush died in November, and his son, George W. Bush, shuns attention. Other onetime opponents have retreated, such as Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who has quarreled with Trump at times but has mostly stayed out of the spotlight.

Former Massachusetts governor William Weld has expressed interest in running against Trump in the Republican primary, but he is little known nationally. Former Ohio governor John Kasich (R) continues to toy with the idea but has not committed to a bid. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) is also intrigued, but has said an insurgency would be futile unless Trump’s GOP support crumbles.

According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll in January, 75 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents approve of Trump’s performance in office.

The Republican National Committee, led by Romney niece and Trump ally Ronna McDaniel, is using aggressive measures to stave off any possible primary threat. RNC members passed a resolution giving Trump the party’s “undivided support” and effectively merged with Trump’s campaign.


A sign reading “Liar Liar Pants on Fire!” is seen behind Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) during the testimony Wednesday of President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

“They will lose horribly,” McDaniel said at CPAC about Trump’s potential Republican primary challengers.

Graham, who has undergone a dramatic metamorphosis from noisy Trump foe to vocal supporter, isn’t worried about the scandals engulfing the White House.

“I think people know what they’re going to get with President Trump,” Graham said in an interview. “A lot of people said some of the same things about him in the campaign. I’ve come to get to know the president. I like him, I understand his warts.”

But Cohen, who served as a top RNC official following Trump’s 2016 victory, offered words of caution for the president’s defenders during his House testimony Wednesday.

“I did the same thing that you’re doing now,” Cohen said, addressing Republicans on the panel. “And I can only warn people, the more people who follow Mr. Trump as I did, blindly, are going to suffer the same consequences that I’m suffering.”

Cohen was given a three-year prison sentence in December for lying to Congress, tax evasion and breaking campaign finance laws. He will report to prison in May.

Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.

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China is reportedly offering to lower tariffs on US farm, chemical and auto products as trade deal gets closer – CNBC
China is reportedly offering to lower tariffs on US farm, chemical and auto products as trade deal gets closer – CNBC

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China is offering to lower tariffs on U.S. farm, chemical, auto and other products as part of a trade deal that is nearing completion, a new report says.

The Wall Street Journal in that report Sunday also said that as part of that trade pact, the United States is considering eliminating most if not all of the trade sanctions imposed on Chinese products last year.

Bloomberg News reported Friday that the final deal is being prepared and that the pact could be signed by President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping within weeks.

A summit between the two leaders could happen sometime in March, according to both Bloomberg and the Journal.

“Speaking of China we’re very well on our way to doing something special. But we’ll see,” Trump said Thursday.

But Trump, speaking in Hanoi, Vietnam, after ending negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without reaching an agreement on that communist nation’s nuclear program, added, “I am always prepared to walk.”

“I’m never afraid to walk from a deal, and I would do that with China, too, if it didn’t work out,” the president said.

The U.S. has threatened to place tariffs of 25 percent on $200 billion of Chinese imports if no deal is reached.

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Rand Paul’s vote likely gives Senate enough to oppose national emergency declaration – CNN
Rand Paul’s vote likely gives Senate enough to oppose national emergency declaration – CNN

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Washington (CNN)The Senate likely now has enough votes to pass a measure blocking President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration after Sen. Rand Paul signaled his support for the resolution of disapproval.

    CNN’s Manu Raju, Lauren Fox, Clare Foran and Alex Rogers contributed to this report.

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China is reportedly offering to lower tariffs on U.S. farm, chemical, and auto products as trade deal gets closer – CNBC
China is reportedly offering to lower tariffs on U.S. farm, chemical, and auto products as trade deal gets closer – CNBC

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China is offering to lower tariffs on U.S. farm, chemical, auto and other products as part of a trade deal that is nearing completion, a new report says.

The Wall Street Journal in that report Sunday also said that as part of that trade pact the United States is considering eliminating most if not all of the trade sanctions imposed on Chinese products last year.

Bloomberg News reported Friday that the final deal is being prepared and that the pact could be signed by President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping within weeks.

A summit between the two leaders could happen sometime in March, according to both Bloomberg and the Journal.

“Speaking of China we’re very well on our way to doing something special. But we’ll see,” Trump said Thursday.

But Trump, speaking in Hanoi, Vietnam, after ending negotiations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un without reaching an agreement on that communist nation’s nuclear program, added, “I am always prepared to walk.”

“I’m never afraid to walk from a deal, and I would do that with China, too, if it didn’t work out,” the president said.

The U.S. has threatened to place tariffs on 25 percent on $200 billion of Chinese imports if no deal is reached.

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Trump again slams Cohen, Democrats: ‘I am an innocent man’ – New York Post
Trump again slams Cohen, Democrats: ‘I am an innocent man’ – New York Post

President Trump on Sunday continued to knock the “collusion delusion” of the Democrats’ Russian investigations and once again referred to a book manuscript from his former longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen.

“After more than two years of Presidential Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and other broke the law. The hostile Cohen testimony, given by a liar to reduce his prison time, proved no Collusion! His just written book manuscript showed what he said was a total lie, but Fake Media won’t show it,” he posted on his Twitter page, referring to Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee last Wednesday.

“I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start – And only because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!” he continued in a second tweet.

Cohen made a series of sweeping allegations against Trump during his appearance, including that the president lied and committed crimes while in the White House.

But the once trusted lawyer for the president said he did not have “direct evidence” that Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russians during the 2016 election.

On Saturday in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump singled out the investigations being conducted by Mueller.

“Unfortunately you put the wrong people in a couple of positions and they leave people for a long time that shouldn’t be there and all of a sudden they’re trying to take you out with bulls—,” he told the crowd of conservatives.

Mocking the Democrats and their “collusion delusion,” Trump blasted them for overreaching for launching a series of new investigations into him now that they are in the majority.

“This phoney thing looks like it’s dying so they don’t have anything with Russia there, no collusion,” Trump said of Mueller’s investigation. “So now they go in and morph into ‘Let’s inspect every deal he’s ever done. We’re going to go into his finances. We’re going to check his deals. We’re going to check’ — these people are sick.”

In a tweet on Friday, Cohen accused Cohen of writing a “love letter to Trump” in a book deal he was pursuing with publishers.

He appeared to be referring to a report in the Daily Mail that said Cohen had been shopping a book deal but it collapsed after he was charged in Manhattan federal court.

Cohen is scheduled to report to prison on May 6 to begin serving a three-year sentence after he pleaded guilty last fall to tax evasion, campaign finance violations and lying to Congress.

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Jackson: Trump belongs ‘with the storm troopers’ at Selma – AOL
Jackson: Trump belongs ‘with the storm troopers’ at Selma – AOL

SELMA, Ala. — Famed civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, here to commemorate the 1965 voting-rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge said he believes President Trump would have been on the side of the “storm troopers” who beat protesters in what has gone down in history as “Bloody Sunday.”

Yahoo News asked Jackson what he thought Trump “would have been doing” if he was in Selma at the time.

“Probably with the storm troopers,” Jackson said.

Among the victims that day was John Lewis, now a Democratic congressman from Georgia. Trump was in college in 1965.

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Many Democrats, including some presidential candidates, have labeled Trump a “racist,” a characterization he disputes. His longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, said in his testimony to a House committee Thursday that Trump often made racist remarks about blacks.

Jackson, a 1988 Democratic presidential candidate, was a close ally of Martin Luther King, who helped lead the Selma marches.

Jackson then shared a story about segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace, who led the state on “Bloody Sunday” and declined to protect the marchers.

“I asked George Wallace one time — I was having prayer with him after he was very ill, ‘Why did you unleash the horses on the marchers? He said, ‘I did them a favor,’” Jackson recounted.

Jackson asked Wallace, who died in 1998, what he meant.

“He said, ‘Well, if I had not put the troops on him, the mob would have been worse.’ It never occurred to him to turn the troops on the mob, but the marchers,” said Jackson, adding, “That is a mentality. That. is a deeply embedded point of view.”

Jackson was attending the annual “Martin Luther King & Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast,” which also hosted several current Democratic presidential candidates. He began his comments by saying he was “deeply concerned” that Selma was “being used as a prop.” He describes the city as “the birthplace of modern democracy” and suggested the voting rights protests there led to a “new majority” in the country including minorities and young people.

“But my concern is that while Selma is the birthplace, it’s being used as a prop. Selma is the 9th poorest city in the country. Ms. Boynton, who invited Dr. King here as the host, her house is condemned. Selma is 40 percent poverty,” Jackson said.

He said Selma would be the ideal venue for a “rural reconstruction project.”

“The reason we have a Democratic Congress is because of Selma. There should be some evidence of it,” said Jackson.

The Democrats at the breakfast included 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who was being honored at the event, and two current candidates, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who has said he will make a decision about whether to enter the 2020 race by the end of this month was also in attendance.

Yahoo News asked Jackson if he felt the current presidential candidates were taking Selma’s needs seriously.

“All of them now speak to … voter enforcement to offset voter suppression, but beyond voting, there must be fruits of democracy. Where are the fruits?” Jackson asked, adding, “There should be some plan. HUD should be here, HHS should be here. There should be some evidence Selma is the birthplace of democracy.”

Asked about voter suppression, a major concern of Democrats in recent elections, Jackson noted the increasing number of minorities in Congress, and said the country has made “tremendous strides” in “spite of the voter suppression.” But he said there are ongoing “schemes to suppress the vote” including gerrymandering that favors white, Republican districts. He brought up the 2016 presidential election.

“Hillary won by three million votes. Trump is the president,” said Jackson, adding, “Schemes to undermine the vote are very real and very alive.”

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John Bolton on Trump accepting Kim’s Warmbier denial: ‘My opinion doesn’t matter’ – USA TODAY
John Bolton on Trump accepting Kim’s Warmbier denial: ‘My opinion doesn’t matter’ – USA TODAY
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US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he doesn’t think North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was involved in the mistreatment of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died after being detained in the isolated country. (Feb. 28)
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White House national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday that North Korea should give a “full accounting of what happened” in the death of an American citizen who fell into a coma while in the regime’s custody. 

Bolton made the remark when asked during an interview with CNN if he agreed with President Donald Trump, who took North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “at his word” that he did not have any involvement with Otto Warmbier’s mistreatment. 

“Look, the president made it very clear he considers what happened to Otto Warmbier an act of brutality that’s completely unacceptable to the American side,” Bolton told “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper. “The fact is, the best thing North Korea could do right now would be to give us a full accounting of what happened and who was responsible for it.” 

When Tapper pressed Bolton if he agreed with Trump that Kim didn’t know about the fatal injuries Warmbier suffered in North Korean custody, Bolton said, “My opinion doesn’t matter.” 

“You’re the national security adviser to the president,” Tapper replied. “Your opinion matters quite a bit.” 

“I am not the national security decision-maker. That’s his view,” Bolton explained. 

Critics equated Trump’s acceptance of Kim’s denial to other incidents where he believed notorious strongmen’s professions of innocence, such as when he accepted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denial of interference in the 2016 election and implied we will never know if Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. 

“He’s not saying he’s siding with dictators over Americans,” Bolton said. “As with what I just said on North Korea, the administration position expressed by the president and every other official who has addressed it is we want a full accounting from the Saudis. So I think that’s entirely consistent with finding out, getting to the bottom of what happened.”

Warmbier was a 21-year-old student at the University of Virginia when he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for allegedly vandalizing a propaganda poster during a visit to the reclusive communist nation in 2016. He fell into a coma in North Korean custody and died from a brain injury shortly after returning to the U.S. in June 2017. 

“I don’t believe he knew about it,” Trump said of Kim last week after their summit in Vietnam was cut short. “He tells me that he didn’t know about it and I will take him at his word.” 

Trump also said Kim – whom he called his “good friend” – felt “badly about” Warmbier’s death. 

Otto Warmbier’s parents respond: ‘Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son’

‘I hold North Korea responsible’: Trump says Warmbier comments ‘misinterpreted’

“Kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son, Otto,” Fred and Cindy Warmbier said in a statement on Friday after Trump’s comments about the death of their son. “Kim and his evil regime are responsible for unimaginable cruelty and inhumanity.”

In response to the criticism, Trump tweeted that he had been “misinterpreted” – although he did not explain how – and said, “Of course I hold North Korea responsible for Otto’s mistreatment and death.”

“I love Otto and think of him often!” Trump said. He did not go so far as to directly blame Kim, however. 

Former ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson, who spent years negotiating with North Korea, said in an interview with MSNBC that it was “inconceivable” that Kim could not have known about Warmbier’s treatment. 

“North Korea is a totalitarian dictatorship. Anything that the leadership does has to be approved by the man at the top,” said Rosa Park, director of programs and editor at The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

Tapper told Bolton, “I don’t know one expert on North Korea who thinks that anything could have happened to Otto Warmbier without Kim Jong Un knowing about it ahead of time.”

“Good for them,” Bolton replied without elaborating.

“I give my advice to the president,” Bolton said. “He makes up his own mind. That’s why he’s president.”

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Bolton also defended Trump’s second summit with Kim, which ended early without any agreement. 

“I don’t agree at all that it was a failed summit,” Bolton said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I think the obligation of the president of the United States is to defend and advance American national security interest and I think he did that, by rejecting a bad deal and by trying again to persuade Kim Jong Un to take the big deal that really could make a difference for North Korea.” 

Bolton said Trump is “not desperate for a deal, not with North Korea, not with anybody if it’s contrary to American national interest.” 

Contributing: John Fritze, USA TODAY; Jackie Borchardt and Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati Enquirer

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The casket of Otto Warmbier is carried from Wyoming High School followed by his father, Fred Warmbier, center, after the funeral, June 22, 2017, in Wyoming, Ohio. Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student who was sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years in prison with hard labor in North Korea, died this week, days after returning to the United States. Bryan Woolston, AP

 

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US House panel begins probe of possible Trump obstruction – AOL
US House panel begins probe of possible Trump obstruction – AOL

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said on Sunday the panel would seek documents from more than 60 people and entities as part of a probe into possible obstruction of justice and abuse of power by President Donald Trump.

Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler told ABC’s “This Week” the panel wanted to get documents from the Department of Justice, the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. and Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, among others.

“We are going to initiate investigations into abuses of power, into corruption … and into obstruction of justice,” Nadler said. “It’s our job to protect the rule of law.”

“It’s very clear that the president obstructed justice,” Nadler said. He said it was too soon to consider whether impeachment should be pursued, however.

“Before you impeach somebody, you have to persuade the American public that it ought to happen,” he said.

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Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the House subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations, makes a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, as the House Judiciary Committee met to approve rare bipartisan legislation that would reduce prison time for some nonviolent drug offenders. The aim of the bipartisan bills is to reduce overcrowding in the nation’s prisons, save taxpayer dollars and give some nonviolent offenders a second chance while keeping the most dangerous criminals in prison. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)




As evidence of obstruction, Nadler cited Trump’s firing of former FBI Director James Comey, who at the time was leading an investigation into Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Moscow.

That investigation was subsequently taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is expected to deliver his findings to the U.S. attorney general within weeks.

Nadler also cited what he called Trump’s attempts to intimidate witnesses in the investigation.

The White House, the Justice Department and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Nadler said the committee on Monday would release the list of people and organizations it would be requesting documents from. (Reporting by Tim Ahmann; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Sonya Hepinstall)

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Trump claims unrevealed Cohen book manuscript shows testimony was ‘total lie’ | TheHill – The Hill
Trump claims unrevealed Cohen book manuscript shows testimony was ‘total lie’ | TheHill – The Hill

President TrumpDonald John TrumpLawmakers discussed possible pardon talks with Cohen: report 5 takeaways as Republicans close ranks at CPAC Donald Trump puts past presidents to shame with North Korea policies MORE on Sunday renewed his attacks against his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, claiming that a manuscript Cohen allegedly wrote proved that the attorney’s congressional testimony last week was a “total lie.”

“After more than two years of Presidential Harassment, the only things that have been proven is that Democrats and other broke the law,” Trump tweeted. “The hostile Cohen testimony, given by a liar to reduce his prison time, proved no Collusion!”

Trump has insisted that Cohen wrote a manuscript last year that was a “love letter” to Trump, contradicting his criticism of Trump in his congressional testimony. No manuscript has been publicly released, and Cohen’s publisher said he never turned one in.

Trump on Sunday maintained that Cohen’s unseen book manuscript proved his testimony was a lie. He said in a separate tweet that the “Fake Media won’t show it.” 

“I am an innocent man being persecuted by some very bad, conflicted & corrupt people in a Witch Hunt that is illegal & should never have been allowed to start – And only because I won the Election! Despite this, great success!” Trump said. 

Cohen, who was sentenced to prison last year after pleading guilty to financial crimes and campaign finance violations, publicly testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. His testimony included several allegations that Trump committed crimes over the years. 

Among other things, Cohen said that Trump directed him to break the law and make a nondisclosure payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had an affair with the president.

Republican lawmakers dismissed Cohen’s credibility, pointing to his prior admission that he lied to Congress about plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. 

Trump on Friday accused Cohen of committing perjury “on a scale not seen before,” citing the book manuscript as evidence. 

“Congress must demand the transcript of Michael Cohen’s new book, given to publishers a short time ago,” he wrote on Twitter. “Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony. Like a different person! He is totally discredited!”

Cohen’s proposed book, which had been tentatively titled, “Trump Revolution: From The Tower to The White House, Understanding Donald J. Trump,” was scrapped in May 2018 due to the former fixer’s legal troubles, according to The Daily Beast. 

“We never saw a manuscript from Mr. Cohen,” Rolf Zettersten, the publisher of Center Street, the imprint that considered putting out Cohen’s book, told Politico last week.

Lanny Davis, an adviser and attorney for Cohen, told The Hill last week that Cohen had been offered a “substantial” advance last year for a book about the president. Davis said Cohen declined the offer. 

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California sisters, 8 and 5, reported missing in heavily-wooded area, sparking massive search – Fox News
California sisters, 8 and 5, reported missing in heavily-wooded area, sparking massive search – Fox News
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Two California sisters missing

Authorities in California launched a desperate search for two missing sisters who are believed to have walked off into a wooded area by their home on Friday, but not without leaving some clues behind.

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that Caroline Carrico, 5, and Leia Carrico, 8, were last seen at 2:30 p.m. on Friday outside of their home in Benbow, located about 70 miles south of Eureka in the northwest part of the state.

Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal said at a news conference on Saturday the girls had asked their mother to go for a walk in the afternoon and were told no. The mother was then getting things ready around the house and realized at around 3 p.m. that the girls were gone.

Leia (left) and Caroline are seen in this undated photo. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said the two girls are believed to have walked off into the wooded area nearby their home.
(Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office)

After trying to conduct her own search with neighbors, family and friends, Honsal said the mother contacted the sheriff’s office around 6 p.m.  Sheriff’s Special Services deputies, Southern Humboldt Technical Rescue and CAL FIRE crews responded and conducted an initial search of the area throughout the night.

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“This is a very rural area,” Honsal told reporters, adding that the search areas consist of steep, heavily wooded terrain.

Additional search crews arrived on Saturday from neighboring counties, and officials said during a news conference that clues were discovered in the woods. Lt. Mike Fridley said that some granola bar wrappers found in the woods matched the brand in the Carrico’s residence that the mother said were recently purchased.

At least 10 search teams are involved in the search for Leia and Caroline Carrico.
(Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office)

“So the wrappers showed us a direction from where they started to where the wrappers ended,” Fridley said.

In addition to the trail of wrappers, Fridley said that some of the girl’s boot prints were discovered in the woods that have helped guide searchers to try to help pinpoint the sisters in the rural area. Helicopters from the U.S. Coast Guard have been used to try to give a better view of the rugged terrain, but Fridley said so far that technology on the aircraft has not been helpful in the thick, wooded area.

“As the information comes in we react to it,” Fridley said. ‘It’s kind of like a chess game.”

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Caroline is described as 3-foot-6, 40 pounds, with hazel eyes and blonde hair with “bright purple streaks,” according to the sheriff’s office. The 5-year-old was last seen wearing a maroon rain jacket with white horses, blue jeans and pink boots.

Leia is 4-foot-2, 85 pounds, with hazel eyes and blonde hair in addition to a “large freckle” on her left cheek.  The 8-year-old was last seen wearing a dark gray hooded long sleeve shirt and purple rain boots.

Leia (left) and Caroline are seen in this undated photo.. The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said the two girls were reported missing on Friday.
(Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office)

“All available resources are being utilized by searching personnel,” the sheriff’s office said. “Through the collaborated efforts of all the involved agencies, we are working to resolve this incident as quickly and safely as possible.”

Honsal urged the public to avoid the area while search teams are working unless given permission by the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office.

“Please do not self-deploy in these rural areas,” he said, adding that efforts can be dangerous and also throw off the scent for search dogs in addition to destroying evidence such as footprints.

“The search area is closed to unauthorized aircraft, including citizen drones,” the sheriff’s office said on Twitter. “Citizen drones are making it dangerous for our assisting helicopters to fly. Please do not operate a drone in the search area. Thank you for your support as this search continues.”

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The sheriff stressed that there are no signs of foul play involved, and the family is being “fully cooperative.”  There were also no signs of a crime scene at the family home.

“We don’t know where these girls are. They could have made it to the highway, some stranger could have picked them up,” he said. “We don’t know. We’re looking at all the different contingencies that could be out there.”

A public tip line has been established for any information regarding the possible whereabouts of Caroline and Leia Carrico at (707) 441-5000.

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John Bolton says North Korea owes full explanation over Otto Warmbier’s death – CNN
John Bolton says North Korea owes full explanation over Otto Warmbier’s death – CNN

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    With the Chicago skyline around him, Bernie Sanders will on Sunday conclude his two-part presidential campaign launch by emphasizing the role of race and racial discrimination in American society.

    His audience is expected to hear about the senator’s civil rights activism at the University of Chicago in the 1960s and his arrest during a South Side protest against public-school segregation. The anecdotes, those advising Sanders hope, will allow him to connect with voters and help distinguish him in a diverse Democratic field.

    “This is the origin story of a political revolutionary,” Shaun King, a writer and activist, said as he introduced Sanders at a kick-off event in Brooklyn on Saturday.

    Sanders is attempting to build a new kind of campaign, one that seeks to address the weaknesses of his 2016 run by expanding his appeal to nonwhite voters.

    In Brooklyn, Sanders said: “One of the proudest days of my life was attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr.”

    Last time out, the Vermont independent struggled to win over African Americans and other minority voters. He has worked to build more connections with the black community. He joined a unionization effort led by nonwhite workers in Mississippi and backed activists pushing for criminal justice reform in Los Angeles. On Sunday, before speaking in Chicago, he will join his former opponent Hillary Clinton at the annual Martin and Coretta King unity breakfast in Selma, Alabama.

    Yet Sanders has continued to face criticism for the way his speaks about race and racism. On a recent visit to South Carolina, an early voting state where black voters made up about roughly 60% of the Democratic primary vote in 2016, Sanders attempted to reset his message, declaring that “racial equality must be central to combating economic inequality”.

    “History defines him,” Nina Turner, a former Ohio state senator who is a co-chair of Sanders’ campaign, said in Brooklyn. “But it’s not just about what he did in the 60s and the 80s and the 90s, it is about what he is doing right now.”

    Elements that powered Sanders insurgent campaign in 2016 have given the 77-year-old Democratic socialist clear advantages in the crowded 2020 primary: small donors and big rallies. He has raised millions of dollars from a loyal base of supporters contributing as little as $3; his kick-off rally at Brooklyn College drew roughly 13,000 people.

    Yet this race will be very different from the anti-establishment, insurgent campaign he ran in 2016. The once-unknown Vermont senator has near-universal name recognition and polling shows him near the front, and in some states leading, the field of declared and potential challengers.

    Acknowledging recently that his 2016 campaign was “too white” and “too male”, Sanders has sought to build an operation that reflects the strong desire within the party to elevate women and minorities. His 2020 effort will be led by Faiz Shakir, the first Muslim campaign manager of a major US presidential candidate. Co-chairs include three people of color: Turner, California congressman Ro Khanna and San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz.

    He has also sought to address criticism of his campaign’s handling of sexual misconduct allegations in 2016 by instituting mandatory training and strict reporting guidelines.

    The race for the party’s nomination has already attracted more than a dozen candidates and several more big names are weighing bids, including former Vice-President Joe Biden, former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg. The field is dominated by women and minorities, such as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, who have weaved their biographies into campaign narratives.

    In Brooklyn, Sanders injected his now-familiar policy speech with details of his childhood. For a candidate who has resisted speaking about himself, it represented a rhetorical shift.

    Citing his “experience as a child, living in a family that struggled economically” as something that “powerfully influenced my life and my values”, he roared: “I know where I came from.”

    His strong accent emphasizing the point, he said: “And that is something I will never forget.”

    He also sought to draw a sharp contrast between his modest upbringing and the billionaire president from Queens. He told the crowd: “I didn’t have a father who gave me millions of dollars to build luxury skyscrapers, casinos and country clubs.”

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    If Robert Mueller’s report disappoints, it’s because everything on Russia has been a disappointment – Washington Examiner
    If Robert Mueller’s report disappoints, it’s because everything on Russia has been a disappointment – Washington Examiner

    Every turn of every investigation into Russia and the 2016 election has hit a dead end, and likewise, no one should expect a thrill ride when special counsel Robert Mueller finally turns in his report.

    A new Time article by former prosecutor Renato Mariotti readies liberals and other critics of President Trump for that ultimately disappointing outcome to the yearslong special counsel investigation. True, that’s the likely end facing Trump’s opponents, but Mariotti is 100 percent wrong in arguing that it will be because of a “successful disinformation crusade” by Trump.

    Mariotti wrote that Trump “worked to raise a nearly impossible and definitely illogical bar for Mueller to clear: proving ‘collusion’ and charging a grand criminal conspiracy involving the Trump campaign and the Russian government.”

    No, no, no, no, no. Any raising of expectations for the special counsel was done exclusively by the Democratic Party and the national news media, both of which in 2017 demanded the creation of a special counsel with limitless legal authority to find the golden egg, proof that Trump’s campaign had worked in coordination with Russia to tip the election in his favor.

    Yes, that demand came after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, who was probing former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s clandestine conversations with Russian officials. But it’s well worth a reminder that firing Comey was also something Democrats and liberals in the media wanted.

    The hardest evidence that anything happened with Russia in the 2016 election are indictments of some Russians for “fraud and deceit.” The product of their mass conspiracy was a bunch of tweets and Facebook posts spread on the Internet with the intention of getting people angry about politics. In essence, Russians looked at what was already on America’s Facebook and Twitter and repeated it.

    What an ingenious plan to snatch the election from Hillary Clinton!

    The grand social media scheme wasn’t a heist. It was a mirror.

    After Facebook took measures in 2017 to fight any “fake” political posts on the platform, one liberal organizer told the Washington Post: “Russians might have been there, but Russians are not creating and invoking these feelings. These are real feelings, not Internet-created feelings.”

    The FBI, the House, the Senate, and the entire national news media have been investigating Russia and any ties to Trump since 2016. Here are some of their findings:

    • Michael Flynn contacted Russian officials during the presidential transition and asked that they not escalate tensions with the U.S. over sanctions enacted by the Obama administration. There was no crime here until Flynn lied to the FBI about it.
    • Well, into the 2016 election, it appears Trump was pursuing a business deal in Russia to construct a Trump Tower Moscow, a project he has reportedly fantasized about since the 1980s. There is no crime here.
    • Paul Manafort, who for a period served as one of Trump’s campaign managers, reportedly showed internal polling campaign data to a Russian, a crucial bit of information, no doubt, in Russia’s tweet strategy. There is no crime here.

    The purpose of the Time article is to sink expectations lower than they already were, as every “revelation” of the never-ending Russia nightmare has failed to lead us to the holy grail.

    There’s a lot of wreckage as a result of Mueller’s rampage into the past professional lives of Trump associates. That alone kneecapped Trump’s presidency, compromising any goodwill he might have had with congressional Democrats and depressing his political capital with the public.

    Democrats almost certainly won’t get the final kill shot from Mueller’s report. But that’s not Trump’s fault. It’s theirs.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/if-robert-muellers-report-disappoints-its-because-everything-on-russia-has-been-a-disappointment

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    House committee chair calls for Rep. Ilhan Omar to apologize for ‘vile, anti-Semitic slur’ – USA TODAY
    House committee chair calls for Rep. Ilhan Omar to apologize for ‘vile, anti-Semitic slur’ – USA TODAY

    Freshman Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar is once again facing criticism and charges of anti-Semitism from her own party’s leadership for comments about the political influence of Israel.

    On Friday, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., called on Omar to apologize for “a vile, anti-Semitic slur” she made at a town hall event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday where she suggested Israel demands “allegiance” from American lawmakers. 

    “I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country,” the congresswoman from Minnesota said in a video of the event shared on Facebook.

    She was joined at the event by Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.; and Mark Pocan, D-Wis.

    Omar and Tlaib are the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Omar said she was concerned that because of their religion, “a lot of our Jewish colleagues, a lot of our constituents, a lot of our allies, (think) that everything we say about Israel (is) anti-Semitic because we are Muslim.” 

    She said the charge of anti-Semitism is “designed to end the debate” about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

    Rep. Ilhan Omar punches back at Trump: ‘You have trafficked in hate your whole life’

    More: Trump says Rep. Ilhan Omar should be ‘ashamed’ over ‘anti-Semitic’ tweet condemned by Dem leaders

    Omar said she was “sensitive to” and “pained by” accusations of intolerance. But she added that “it’s almost as if every single time we say something, regardless of what it is we say,” she and Tlaib are “labeled” and “that ends the discussion because we end up defending that and nobody ever gets to have the proper debate of what is happening with Palestine.” 

    Critics said Omar’s remarks played into old doubts about the loyalty of American Jews. 

    “The charge of dual loyalty not only raises the ominous specter of classic anti-Semitism, but it is also deeply insulting to the millions upon millions of patriotic Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, who stand by our democratic ally, Israel,” the American Israel Public Affairs Committee said in a statement. 

    Engel said it was “unacceptable and deeply offensive to question the loyalty of fellow American citizens because of their political views, including support for the Israel-U.S. relationship,” in a statement on Friday. “Worse, Representative Omar’s comments leveled that charge by invoking a vile anti-Semitic slur. 

    “This episode is especially disappointing following so closely on another instance of Ms. Omar seeming to invoke an anti-Semitic stereotype,” Engel said, referring to her controversial statement last month that money from AIPAC was used to buy support for Israel. 

    “Her comments were outrageous and deeply hurtful, and I ask that she retract them, apologize and commit to making her case on policy issues without resorting to attacks that have no place in the Foreign Affairs Committee or the House of Representatives,” he said. 

    Last month, Omar sparked outrage when she tweeted that American lawmakers’ lack of criticism for Israeli policies was “all about Benjamins” and AIPAC’s influence. The remarks drew criticism from both Democrats and Republicans, and House Speaker Nancy, D-Calif., demanded that she apologize. 

    Omar did apologize for – and has since deleted – the tweets. She also deleted a 2012 tweet that had been criticized for claiming Israel had “hypnotized the world” into ignoring its treatment of Palestinians. 

    “Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes. My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans as a whole,” she said in a statement on Feb. 11.

    “That is why I unequivocally apologize,” she said, although she added that she was not apologizing for “the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA, or the fossil fuel industry.”

    When asked about Omar’s remarks at Wednesday’s town hall, spokesman Jeremy Slevin referred to Omar’s previous apology and told the Associated Press that “we must distinguish between criticism of a particular faith and fair critiques of lobbying groups.” 

    “She has consistently spoken out about the undue influence of lobbying groups for foreign interests of all kinds and her comments were about just that. To suggest otherwise is an inaccurate reading of her remarks,” he said. 

    House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has objected to Omar’s placement on the House Foreign Affairs Committee since she was appointed to the seat in January because of her criticisms of Israel. 

    On Friday, a poster linking her to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was put on display as part of a Republican event in the West Virginia statehouse. The poster sparked an angry confrontation that resulted in one doorkeeper being injured and the sergeant-at-arms’ resignation after she reportedly said that “all Muslims are terrorists.” 

    “No wonder why I am on the ‘Hitlist’ of a domestic terrorist and ‘Assassinate Ilhan Omar’ is written on my local gas stations,” Omar tweeted in response to news of the poster. 

    More: Elliott Abrams bristles at Rep. Ilhan Omar’s ‘attack’ for his Iran-Contra role

    More: Rep. Omar starts furor with tweets on ‘compromised’ Sen. Graham, Israel ‘evil doings’

    Follow William Cummings on Twitter @wccummings. 

    Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/03/ilhan-omar-accused-anti-semitic-remark-israel-criticism/3048379002/

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    Here are maps with the predicted timing and snowfall totals for Sunday’s storm – The Boston Globe
    Here are maps with the predicted timing and snowfall totals for Sunday’s storm – The Boston Globe



    Forecasters predict an incoming winter storm will drop several inches of snow across New England, beginning late Sunday and continuing overnight into Monday morning.

    The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning through 10 a.m. Monday for most of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and warned that the Monday morning commute could be hazardous as a result of the storm.

    In a series of maps below, the weather service has outlined how much snow could fall and when different communities should expect it the storm to arrive and depart.

    Snowfall totals

    The weather service’s most recent forecast puts the likely total snowfall in Greater Boston at about 6-8 inches for the overnight storm. Those numbers are slightly lower for Western Massachusetts and the Cape and Islands, which may get more like 4-6 inches of snow.

    However, if the storm worsens in the time before it arrives in New England, Greater Boston could get up to 9-10 inches of snow and the Cape would likely be the only area of the state to see less than 8 inches.

    On the lighter side, forecasters say that a tempered version of the storm could result in about 4 inches of snow for Boston and less than an inch in Western Mass. and on the Cape.

    Storm timing

    Forecasters expect the snow to arrive in Massachusetts around 7 p.m. Sunday, when it comes up from the southeast.

    All told, the storm should move through the region in about 12 hours.

    The snow should begin falling in Greater Boston by 9 p.m. and start last on the North Shore and Cape, which may not see any flakes until closer to midnight.

    The snow will start leaving the state around 5 a.m. Monday, when it should stop snowing in Western Massachusetts. But forecasters warn that the snow could linger in Greater Boston until 8 a.m., likely causing problems for Monday morning commuters.

    Peter Bailey-Wells can be reached at peter.bailey-wells@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @pbaileywells.

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    Over 60 document requests being sent Monday: House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler – ABC News
    Over 60 document requests being sent Monday: House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler – ABC News
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    Democrats prepare for end of Robert Mueller probe with new investigations – Washington Times
    Democrats prepare for end of Robert Mueller probe with new investigations – Washington Times

    WASHINGTON — Emboldened by their new majority, Democrats are undertaking several broad new investigations into President Donald Trump and setting the stage for a post-Robert Mueller world.

    Whether the special counsel’s final Russia report is damning of the president or not, Democrats in charge of a half-dozen House committees are planning to flood the administration with document requests, calls for testimony and even subpoenas if necessary. The investigations reach far beyond Mueller’s focus of Russian interference and collusion in the 2016 campaign.

    The Democratic efforts increased this past week after Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, appeared before two House committees and a Senate committee. In his public testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cohen called the president a “con man” and a “cheat” and gave Democrats several new leads for inquiry.

    SEE ALSO: EXCLUSIVE: Collateral damage: Russia probe spurs death threats, financial ruin for those not charged

    The stepped-up oversight could eventually lead to, or even serve in place of, impeachment proceedings. While many liberal members of the Democratic caucus think impeachment is warranted, Democratic leaders have been cautious, saying they first want to investigate.

    A look at the status of some of the House investigations:

    HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE

    The committee is reopening and expanding an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election that the Republican majority closed last year. At that time, Republicans said, over Democratic objections, that there was no evidence to show that Trump’s campaign colluded or conspired with Russia. The top Democrat on the committee then, California Rep. Adam Schiff, said Republicans had prematurely closed the matter without interviewing key witnesses and demanding important documents.

    Schiff is now chairman, and last month he announced a broad new investigation looking not only at Russian interference but also at Trump’s foreign financial interests. Schiff said the investigation will include “the scope and scale” of Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election, the “extent of any links and/or coordination” between Russians and Trump’s associates, whether foreign actors have sought to hold leverage over Trump or his family and associates, and whether anyone has sought to obstruct any of the relevant investigations.

    The committee interviewed Cohen in private on Thursday and will finish the interview this coming Wednesday. After Cohen left, Schiff announced that the committee will hold an open hearing later this month with Felix Sater, a Russia-born executive who worked with Cohen on an ultimately unsuccessful deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow.

    ___

    HOUSE OVERSIGHT AND REFORM COMMITTEE

    This committee was in the spotlight when Cohen testified publicly last Wednesday. The chairman, Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, said afterward that he wanted to call in several people mentioned repeatedly by Cohen. That could include Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg and possibly two of Trump’s children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump.

    The committee’s jurisdiction touches on all parts of government. On Friday, Cummings demanded that the White House turn over documents by Monday related to security clearances after The New York Times reported that the president ordered officials to grant his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s clearance over the objections of security officials. Last Tuesday, the committee voted to subpoena administration officials over family separations at the southern border.

    The committee is also looking into other conflict of interest issues within the administration, including at Trump’s hotel in Washington, and into prescription drug prices.

    ____

    HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

    The House Judiciary Committee would be in charge of impeachment, but the chairman, New York Rep. Jerrold Nadler, first wants to examine Mueller’s report, whenever it comes out. Nadler has helped lead the charge to pressure the Justice Department to release the full report to the public.

    He has also hired two veteran lawyers and Trump critics as the committee gears up to investigate the department and review Mueller’s final conclusions. The lawyers, Barry Berke and Norman Eisen, have been retained on a consulting basis.

    Nadler said when he hired them that the committee was determined to “ask critical questions, gather all the information, judiciously assess the evidence, and make sure that the facts are not hidden from the American people.”

    The committee also called in the former acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, and plans to question him again in the coming weeks. Whitaker is a close Trump ally who had criticized the Mueller report before he was appointed. William Barr has since been confirmed as attorney general.

    ____

    HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

    The chairman, Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal, is expected to eventually try to obtain Trump’s tax returns, which the president has refused to release. But for now, Neal is taking it slow.

    The law says the treasury chief “shall furnish” the requested information to members of the committee for them to examine behind closed doors. But reality is more complicated, and the request could end up in a lengthy court battle between Congress and the administration.

    Last month, Neal held a hearing in which experts discussed the authority under current law for Neal to make a request for any tax returns to the treasury secretary. The hearing also examined proposals to compel presidents and presidential candidates to make years of their tax returns public.

    ____

    HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE

    The committee’s head, California Rep. Maxine Waters, has focused on Deutsche Bank, the German asset management firm that has loaned Trump’s real estate organization millions of dollars over the years. She said this past week that the bank is cooperating with requests for documents.

    The committee is working with Schiff, who along with Waters has said he wants to investigate whether Russians used laundered money for transactions with the Trump Organization. Trump’s businesses have benefited from Russian investment over the years, and Schiff has said he wants to know whether “this is the leverage that the Russians have” over Trump.

    Waters said she is also interested in looking at Trump’s embattled charitable foundation that is shutting down after agreeing to a court-supervised process and at White House budget director Mick Mulvaney’s tenure at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She has said Mulvaney may be called to testify.

    ____

    HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

    The chairman, New York Rep. Eliot Engel, is also working with Schiff and his committee to review Trump’s encounters with and connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin, including a private meeting between the two in Helsinki last year. Trump would not disclose the full details of what was said in their meeting.

    The two committees have worked with House lawyers to figure out the appropriate way to investigate that meeting. That could include getting information from a translator who attended.

    Engel has said that the committee will hold hearings “on the mysteries swirling around Trump’s bizarre relationship with Putin and his cronies, and how those dark dealings affect our national security.”

    The committee is also looking at the administration’s policy toward Saudi Arabia and response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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    NBC News/WSJ poll: 2020 race will be uphill for Trump, but he has strong party loyalty – NBC News
    NBC News/WSJ poll: 2020 race will be uphill for Trump, but he has strong party loyalty – NBC News

    WASHINGTON — A year and a half before the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump faces formidable obstacles in his bid for re-election, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

    Just four in 10 voters say they would re-elect him next year; 58 percent don’t think he’s been honest and truthful regarding the Russia probe; and 60 percent disapprove of his recent national emergency declaration to build a border wall.

    But Democrats who want to defeat Trump have hurdles of their own. The president’s job rating remains stable with nearly 90 percent of Republicans approving of his job. And a majority of Americans remain confident in the economy, believing that there won’t be a recession in the next year.

    Add it up, and 2020 is shaping up to be yet another close presidential race, say the Democratic and Republican pollsters who conducted the NBC/WSJ survey.

    “It’s a 45-55 against the president at this stage of the game,” said Democratic pollster Peter Hart.

    Bill McInturff, a GOP pollster, added, “As long as these economic numbers look like this, that always keeps an incumbent president in the race.

    And Fred Yang, another Democratic pollster, argues that the contours of the race will change once there’s an official Democratic opponent to Trump.

    “Another lesson we painfully learned from 2016 is that elections are a choice between candidates and not a referendum on one candidate,” he said.

    The NBC/WSJ poll — conducted Sunday Feb. 24 to Wednesday Feb. 27 — comes amid another turbulent week in Trump’s presidency, highlighted by the congressional testimony by his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen’s, failed nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea, and the Democratic-led House of Representatives voting to reverse Trump’s emergency declaration on the border.

    Still, attitudes about the president remain steady, with 46 percent of Americans approving of Trump’s job performance — up three points from January, although that’s well within the poll’s margin of error.

    The top groups approving of Trump: Republicans (88 percent), rural residents (60 percent), whites without college degrees (60 percent), men (54 percent) and whites overall (54 percent).

    The top groups disapproving: African Americans (88 percent), Latinos (64 percent), women (61 percent), those ages 18-34 (57 percent), whites with college degrees (55 percent) and independents (51 percent).

    Forty-one percent of registered voters say they will “definitely” or “probably” vote for Trump in 2020, versus 48 percent who say they will “definitely” or “probably” vote for the Democratic candidate.

    Those numbers for Trump are worse than what Barack Obama faced at this same point in time in the 2012 cycle, when 45 percent said they’d vote for him, while 40 percent would vote for the Republican opponent.

    But they’re on par with Bill Clinton’s numbers in January 1995, when 38 percent said they’d vote for Clinton, versus 42 percent who said they’d pick the generic Republican candidate.

    Both Obama and Clinton won their re-election contests.

    The most popular (and unpopular) presidential characteristics

    The NBC/WSJ poll also tested 11 different presidential characteristics.

    The most popular: An African American (a combined 87 percent of all voters say they are “enthusiastic” or “comfortable” with that characteristic), a white man (86 percent), a woman (84 percent), and someone who is gay or lesbian (68 percent — up from 43 percent in 2006).

    The least popular: A Muslim (49 percent are enthusiastic or comfortable — up from 32 percent in 2015), someone over the age of75 (37 percent) and a socialist (25 percent).

    And regarding socialism, just 18 percent of all Americans say they view the term positively, versus 50 percent who see it in a negative light.

    The numbers for capitalism are almost the exact opposite: 50 percent positive, 19 percent negative.

    Democratic voters pick boldness over pragmatism

    With the first Democratic presidential contests taking place a year from now, 55 percent of Democratic primary voters say they prefer a nominee who proposes policies that could bring major change (despite their cost and difficulty passing into law), as opposed to 42 percent who say they would rather support someone whose policies might bring less change (but cost less and might be easier to pass).

    What’s more, 56 percent of Democratic primary voters say they want a candidate whose issue positions conform to their views, while 40 percent say they prefer someone who gives the party the best chance to defeat Trump in 2020.

    “I think we’re getting early signals from Democratic primary voters that they are looking for bigger change and someone who agrees with them on policy,” said McInturff, the Republican pollster.

    Also when it comes to the 2020 election, a minority of all Americans — 38 percent — say the two-party system is seriously broken and the country needs a third party. But that’s the highest percentage on this question dating back to 1995.

    And when it comes to the Republican Party, 37 percent of GOP primary voters say they’d like to see another Republican challenge Trump for the party’s presidential nomination, while 59 percent say they’re opposed.

    Nearly 60 percent say Trump hasn’t been honest on the Russia probe

    Only 37 percent of all Americans say they believe President Trump has been honest and truthful when it comes to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, while 58 percent say they disagree.

    There’s a considerable contrast by party: 75 percent of Republican respondents say they believe Trump has been honest and truthful, versus 27 percent of independents and 6 percent of Democrats.

    Forty-eight percent of all respondents say special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Russia matter has given them more doubts about Trump’s presidency, compared with 47 percent who say it’s given them no more doubts.

    And two-thirds of Americans — 66 percent — say they want Mueller’s findings to be released to the public.

    Optimism and pessimism about the economy

    As for views on the economy, 53 percent of Americans say they believe the United States won’t be in a recession in the next 12 months, compared with 33 percent who disagree.

    But when asked about their own economic situation, 59 percent say 2019 will be a year to hold back and save because harder times are ahead, while 34 percent think it will be a time of expansion and opportunity.

    The NBC/WSJ poll was conducted Sunday Feb. 24 to Wednesday Feb. 27 of 900 adults – nearly half by cell phone – and the overall margin of error is plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.

    The survey also measured 720 registered voters (plus-minus 3.7 percentage points), 247 Democratic primary voters (plus-minus 6.3 percentage points) and 210 Republican primary voters (plus-minus 6.8 percentage points).

    Mark Murray

    Mark Murray is a senior political editor at NBC News.

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    Trump order protecting campus free speech is right response to Berkeley assault – Fox News
    Trump order protecting campus free speech is right response to Berkeley assault – Fox News
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    UC-Berkeley police make an arrest following the attack of a conservative student

    Police have made an arrest after a conservative student was attacked at the University of California, Berkeley.

    President Trump acted boldly in defense of our First Amendment rights when he announced Saturday that he will sign an executive order requiring colleges and universities to protect free speech on their campuses in order to qualify for federal research dollars.

    The president is right to stop our government from handing out taxpayer dollars to subsidize institutions that practice censorship – regardless of whether that censorship is used against those on the left or the right.

    According to the National Science Foundation, the federal government gives colleges and universities over $26 billion annually to conduct research, the Washington Post reported.

    CHARLIE KIRK: BERKELEY CAMPUS ASSAULT ON CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST SHOWS INTOLERANCE BY TRUMP-HATING LEFT – SUSPECT NOW ARRESTED

    The Constitution’s First Amendment protects all Americans against government efforts to restrict free speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, the right to peaceably assembly and the right to petition the government for the redress of grievances. It’s been part of the Constitution since 1791 and is fundamental to guaranteeing our liberty.

    The president made his announcement at the Conservative Political Action Conference alongside Hayden Williams, a field representative for the Leadership Institute who was assaulted last month at the University of California-Berkeley while he was recruiting students to join the conservative group Turning Point USA.

    Williams was repeatedly punched in the face in the unprovoked attack, leaving him with multiple bruises and a black eye. A video of the brutal assault went viral, receiving attention by Fox News and other conservative media organizations but little attention in the left-wing anti-Trump media.

    A suspect in the attack was arrested Friday. Authorities said Zachary Greenberg, 28, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and attempting to cause great bodily injury.

    “College campuses have become increasingly unsafe for conservatives,” Charlie Kirk, the founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, told Fox News earlier. “Our amazing Turning Point USA team was talking and then confronted by the hateful left, which resulted in the assault and punching in the face just because of a difference of opinion. If the attacker was wearing a MAGA hat, this would be classified as a hate crime and all over every news channel.”

    The silencing of conservatives on college campuses is serious problem that has spread across our nation. Even when administrators don’t actively prevent conservatives from speaking on campus, individual extremists sometimes take matters into their own hands by physically assaulting the speakers.

    Regrettably, Kirk is right – far too many academic institutions treat the concept of free speech with open hostility, arguing that it’s merely a tool of “white oppression” and “privilege.” And while the media jump to attention when liberals are attacked for their speech, attacks on conservatives get far less attention.

    The silencing of conservatives on college campuses is serious problem that has spread across our nation. Even when administrators don’t actively prevent conservatives from speaking on campus, individual extremists sometimes take matters into their own hands by physically assaulting the speakers.

    Ironically, some of the most intolerant people in our society are the very ones who preach “tolerance” in order to advance a radical “social justice” agenda that demands ideological conformity and scorns independent thinking.

    That’s not the way we do things here at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, where I serve as president.

    Even though Liberty University is a private institution that cherishes its Christian values, we also take pride in hosting high-profile speakers with different points of view. And we’re proud to report that our students don’t resort to violence when they encounter activists with whom they disagree.

    We’re not afraid to expose our students to the views of those on the left – even the far left. We don’t think our students are delicate snowflakes who must be sheltered from free speech and the open exchange of competing ideas.

    In 2015, for instance, we hosted democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who spoke about a vast array of political and economic topics at our twice-weekly convocation with all main campus students in attendance. Last year, former President Jimmy Carter delivered the keynote speech for our 45th Commencement.

    Having a former Democratic president and a socialist who wanted (and now wants again) to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee did not frighten us. We invited them because we want our students to hear a diversity of viewpoints. This, after all, is why our founders created the First Amendment.

    No Liberty University student threw a punch at either President Carter or Sen. Sanders or tried to shout them down, even though it’s a safe bet that most of our students disagree with most of the left-wing political positions that the two embrace.

    Liberty University is no ordinary college campus and we are pleased to report that our students are able to handle open political discourse and free speech without resorting to violence.

    This week, for instance, we hosted an event featuring some of America’s leading activists, war heroes and public officials. They spoke about defending free speech, conservative activism, honoring our veterans and much more.

    The distinguished guests included Donald Trump Jr.; Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin; President Trump’s former White House press secretary, Sean Spicer; Kimberly Guilfoyle, formerly of Fox News; and actor Gary Sinise, an outspoken champion for military veterans.

    During the event, we were also thrilled to reveal that Vice President Mike Pence will serve as our commencement speaker on Saturday, May 11 — news that was cheered by some 10,000 Liberty University students when Pence announced it during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which was live-streamed directly to campus.

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    Sadly, hosting a similar event at the University of California-Berkeley or any other liberal college would be practically impossible, since most institutions of higher education in America are actively silencing conservative voices while giving violent radicals a “safe space” on campus.

    Free speech and intellectual diversity are two of the most important pillars of a college education. That’s why I urge every college and university in the country to go further than just complying with President Trump’s upcoming executive order. I urge them to actively encourage open political discourse on their own campuses – just as we do at Liberty University.

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