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Rank-and-file Dems revolt against Pelosi over resolution to condemn anti-Semitism – Fox News
Rank-and-file Dems revolt against Pelosi over resolution to condemn anti-Semitism – Fox News
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Accusations of anti-Semitism against Rep Omar dividing Congress

Author Victor Davis Hanson weighs in on Democrats’ divide over Omar’s controversial comments.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is “taken aback” by the growing dissent and anger among rank-and-file Democrats over a possible resolution to formally condemn anti-Semitism, a Democratic source told Fox News on Wednesday — highlighting Pelosi’s tenuous grip on control over the House and underscoring the growing power of the party’s nascent far-left progressive wing.

Pelosi even reportedly walked out of a meeting Wednesday with Democrat House members, setting down her microphone and telling attendees, “Well if you’re not going to listen to me, I’m done talking.”

The stalled resolution originated after freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, for at least the second time in recent months, ignited an uproar for echoing tropes critics have deemed anti-Semitic. In February, she suggested on Twitter that supporters of Israel have been bought. The congresswoman then accused American supporters of Israel of pushing people to have “allegiance to a foreign country.”

Omar — who also tweeted in 2012 that “Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel” — refused to address questions on Wednesday about accusations that she’s anti-Semitic.

Meanwhile, debate over how to address her latest remarks has overtaken House Democrats in recent days.

A frustrated senior House Democratic aide told Fox News on Tuesday: “Here we are again, fighting with ourselves. I’ve spent another week dealing with this and not on policy.”

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A vote on the resolution, which was originally planned for earlier this week, did not appear on the House’s official docket for Thursday.

President Trump, turning to Twitter on Wednesday, highlighted Democrats’ troubles getting the resolution passed. He wrote that their failure to “take a stronger stand” against anti-Semitism was “shameful.”

Fox News has been told that the Democratic caucus is trying to get the language of the proposed anti-Semitism language “right,” and that there is concern about mentioning Omar by name — a non-starter for many members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

Two knowledgable sources said such a scenario could increase security threats against Omar, who is a Muslim.

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Republicans did not specifically name Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, in a bipartisan disapproval measure that followed comments that seemingly defended white nationalism earlier this year. But GOP leaders stripped King of his committee assignments as punishment — while Omar remains on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Democrats say they have no plans to oust her.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., departs after talking with reporters during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill on Feb. 7. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

By the same token, Fox is told Democrats are also concerned about making “a martyr” out of Omar if they don’t address some of her controversial comments.

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“I’ve spent another week dealing with this and not on policy.”

— Frustrated House Democratic aide

Pelosi, for her part, was stunned by criticism among some Democratic members who complained they weren’t informed in detail about the resolution; freshman Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., for example, asserted the Democratic leadership team failed in its duty to inform members about the resolution’s details.

But senior leadership sources scofffed at that assertion, saying Pelosi spoke with multiple lawmakers all weekend long about the measure.

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Fox News was also told one senior House Democratic lawmaker expressed concern about the influence pro-Israel interest groups have over the Democratic caucus, prompting debate about a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism in the first place. Their complaints came in contrast to the push by a trio of Jewish lawmakers who have pushed hardest for the resolution: House Ethics Committee Chairman Ted Deutch, D-Fla., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, D-N.Y.

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One senior House Democrat even suggested the rift in the caucus was emblematic of age-old tensions between Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

“He’s more AIPAC,” said the Democrat. “She’s more J Street. The caucus is more J Street these days.” That’s a reference to two major, pro-Israel lobbying organizations in Washington.

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The apparent tension comes as freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib — who herself has been accused of recent anti-Semitic comments — also clashed with party leadership on Wednesday, after joining protesters to say she’d introduce a resolution this month urging the Judiciary Committee to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Pelosi has consistently resisted calls to impeach Trump, saying such an effort would be premature.

A senior House Democratic leadership aide, however, disputed the divide between Pelosi and Hoyer.

Lawmakers are also buzzing about if they should even address the comments by Omar at all. There’s a concern about precedent.

“Should the House condemn [House Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for what he said about George Soros?” asked one lawmaker who requested to not be identified. In 2018, McCarthy tweeted: “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg to BUY this election! Get out and vote Republican November 6th. #MAGA.” (Soros, Steyer and Bloomberg all are of Jewish heritage.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib joined protesters with CREDO Action and By the People, a new advocacy group pushing for the impeachment of President Trump. Together they urged members of Congress to begin impeachment proceedings. (Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib)

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McCarthy has since deleted the tweet.

One source questioned if House Democrats ever attempted to rebuke former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., who was known for questioning if President George W. Bush knew of the 9/11 attacks ahead of time. She also questioned U.S. support for Israel and demanded a more balanced approach when dealing with the Palestinians.

The prolonged delay in passing an anti-Semitism resolution — which threatens to become a public-relations headache for Democrats with each passing day — spilled over into the 2020 presidential race as well on Wednesday, as White House contender Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish, defended Omar in a statement.

“Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world,” Sanders wrote. “We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel. Rather, we must develop an even-handed Middle East policy which brings Israelis and Palestinians together for a lasting peace. What I fear is going on in the House now is an effort to target Congresswoman Omar as a way of stifling that debate. That’s wrong.”

Added Elizabeth Warren: “Branding criticism of Israel as automatically anti-Semitic has had a chilling effect on our public discourse and makes it harder to achieve a peaceful solution between Israelis and Palestinians.”

Fox News’ Chad Pergram and Alex Pappas contributed to this report.

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‘Not my fault’: Trump struggles to defend his record amid setbacks on immigration, trade, North Korea – The Washington Post
‘Not my fault’: Trump struggles to defend his record amid setbacks on immigration, trade, North Korea – The Washington Post

David Nakamura

Seung Min Kim

Josh Dawsey

March 6 at 6:54 PM

President Trump proclaimed in a freewheeling speech to a conference of conservatives last weekend that “America is winning again.” But his administration has been on a pronounced losing streak over the past week.

Trump is losing ground on top priorities to curb illegal immigration, cut the trade deficit and blunt North Korea’s nuclear threat — setbacks that complicate his planned reelection message as a can-do president who is making historic progress.

Late last week, Trump flew home empty-handed from a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi — and, within days, new satellite images appeared to show that the North was secretly rebuilding a rocket-launching site.

On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that unauthorized border crossings have spiked to the highest pace in 12 years — despite Trump’s hard-line rhetoric and new policies aimed at deterring migrants.

And on Wednesday, the Commerce Department said that the nation’s trade deficit is at a record high — in part due to punitive tariffs Trump imposed on allies and adversaries. Trump vowed throughout his 2016 campaign and during his presidency to shrink the trade deficit, which he views as a measure of other nations taking advantage of the United States.

“The president hasn’t shown much of an ability to cut good deals with Congress or anyone else,” said Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.), who is mulling a Senate run in 2020. “Almost the only time he has been successful at one of his goals is when he can set the terms unilaterally. That’s why he’s done a lot of executive orders, executive actions, like the travel ban, deregulations, emergency declaration. Those are things that don’t require any negotiation at all.”

Trump took office on a pledge to buck conventional wisdom, sideline Washington’s political class and tackle long-standing problems with a mix of outside-the-box improvisation and dealmaking skills honed during his real estate career. “I alone can fix it,” he declared at the Republican National Convention in 2016.

Yet as he has struggled to fulfill some of his signature campaign promises, Trump has consistently blamed others for his woes.

He has criticized the administrations of President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush for not reforming the immigration system or reining in North Korea. He has railed at Democrats for failing to support his proposed border wall and implored them to ratify new trade deals. And he has even attacked fellow Republicans, obliquely slamming former House speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.) during a Rose Garden news conference last month for not having pushed faster to get a deal on the wall.

White House officials argued that rather than being a setback, the immigration trends could bolster Trump’s argument that he is justified in taking unilateral action on the border. Federal authorities detained 76,103 migrants at the southern border in February, up from 58,207 a month earlier.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday that the numbers were clear evidence that Trump was right to declare a national emergency last month.


U.S. President Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi on Feb. 27 during a summit that later collapsed. (Evan Vucci/AP)

“If that doesn’t define crisis, I don’t know what does,” she said. “Congress should have fixed this problem. The president tried multiple times to get Congress to work with him to address the crisis. They failed to do so, and now the president has to do what is absolutely necessary.”

Republican allies praised the president for eliminating business regulations, helping pass a major tax cut in 2017, appointing two conservative Supreme Court justices and scores of lower-level judges, and nurturing an economy with low unemployment.

They emphasized that challenges such as North Korea will take time and chided Democrats for blocking Trump’s agenda.

“The House is just involved in investigations and really not concerned about legislation,” said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) said Trump is “very frustrated right now with all of us. He wants to get results and we’re looking at a two-year period where it’s pretty obvious the other side doesn’t want to do anything.”

But Trump’s critics said his policies have made things worse.

On immigration, the administration has sought to block asylum seekers at legal ports of entry along the border, prompting them to try to find alternative pathways into the country. The president shut down parts of the federal government for 35 days — the longest such closure in U.S. history — in an ill-fated fight for border wall funding, even though experts said the surge of migrant families is not a threat to national security and that a wall would do little to curb it.

On trade, Trump’s tariff war with China has harmed U.S. farmers as Beijing slashed agricultural imports. Although the president has signaled that a trade deal is close, analysts said an accord would not fundamentally alter the U.S. trade relationship with the world’s second-largest economy.

And on North Korea, officials have said, the president’s decision to rush forward with bilateral summits with Kim have led to difficulties for U.S. negotiators engaging with their counterparts over technical and complicated nuclear matters, as Kim has preferred to deal directly with Trump.

Simon Rosenberg, founder of NDN, a liberal think tank, noted that the tax cut has not met GOP projections for economic growth and could add significantly to the ballooning federal deficit.

“The reality is he can’t point to a single thing that’s better today than when he came to office,” Rosenberg said.

Although he has projected confidence, Trump has fretted in private over his difficulties. During the government shutdown, the president’s approval ratings dipped to 37 percent in a Washington Post/ABC News poll, one of the lowest marks of his tenure.

Since then, his numbers have fluctuated. This week, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll put his approval at 46 percent, while a Quinnipiac University survey pegged it at 38 percent.

During a marathon speech Saturday to the Conservative Political Action Committee, Trump veered off script, spending much of the time attacking his rivals, including congressional Democrats, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and news organizations. Trump spent less time on his governing record.

On trade, he defended his use of tariffs and suggested the United States had accrued large trade deficits because past administrations were afraid to use that tool as leverage. On North Korea, he blamed the Obama administration for allowing the Kim regime to send “rockets flying all over the place” and said his team was “making a lot of progress.” On immigration, Trump called current U.S. laws “crazy” and said he felt empowered to declare a national emergency “because our Congress can’t act.”

“Not my fault I inherited this mess, but we’re fixing it,” he said during the speech.

Trump at times also appears determined to prove that he is making progress. He publicly contradicted his own intelligence chiefs, who testified to Congress in January that there is no evidence that North Korea is willing to give up its nuclear program.

Asked by a reporter Wednesday about the satellite images that showed construction work at the ­Sohae Satellite Launching Station, Trump said he would be “very disappointed” if the news is confirmed, but he added that it was “a very early report.”

Senior White House aides have sought to cast the Hanoi summit as a sign of Trump’s negotiating fortitude and unwillingness to settle for a bad deal. Yet Trump has grown frustrated by the largely negative coverage of the summit, a senior White House official said, and his aides briefed lawmakers this week to explain his goals. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to characterize internal discussions.

“He thought they closed the gap on some issues,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said. “He just said, ‘North Korea isn’t ready to make a deal.’ ”

Last year, Trump berated Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over the rising border crossings. Though he no longer blames Nielsen, aides said, Trump told his staff that the shutdown dispute sent an important message to his conservative base that he is fighting for them.

On trade, Trump postponed a March 1 deadline to impose another round of tariffs on China in hopes of a deal. White House aides are planning events for Trump and Vice President Pence in the Midwest this spring to tout an updated trade deal reached last year with Canada and Mexico that Congress has yet to ratify.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said in an interview that farmers support Trump but are growing antsy.

“These folks are with you, they want to see you be successful,” Rounds said, speaking as if he was sending a message to Trump. “But you’re going to have to deliver some results.”

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John Kelly differs with Trump on immigration, mum on security clearances – NBC News
John Kelly differs with Trump on immigration, mum on security clearances – NBC News

DURHAM, N.C. — Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said he disagreed with some Trump administration policies — particularly on immigration — but dodged questions Wednesday about the president reportedly intervening to secure top-secret security clearances for his daughter Ivanka Trump and son–in–law, Jared Kushner.

Kelly, in an appearance at Duke University, did not deny reports that President Donald Trump circumvented the usual process to grant the security clearances or that he later wrote a memo outlining his concerns about it. He simply said he believes any such conversations with the president would be privileged and that he’s not at liberty to discuss security clearances.

It was a notable contrast to Kelly’s aggressive pushback on news reports while in the White House about his actions and relationship with Trump. On Wednesday he even stressed several times the importance of a free press.

Relatively subdued and cautious, Kelly landed some gloved swipes on his former boss — at one point saying if Trump’s former Democratic rival had won the presidency and asked him to serve, he would have worked for her.

“If Hillary Clinton had called me, I would have done it,” Kelly said.

The wide-ranging question-and-answer session before several hundred people marked the first time Kelly, who left the White House at the end of 2018 after a rocky tenure, has publicly addressed the president’s role in his family members’ security clearances.

A retired four-star general, Kelly initially served as Trump’s Homeland Security secretary. But it was the chief of staff job he took in July 2017 that he said was “the least enjoyable job I’ve ever had.”

“But it was he most important job I’ve ever had,” he said.

Kelly, though diplomatic, showed repeatedly where he disagreed with Trump on immigration issues.

On the administration’s handling of children at the southern border, he was critical, though he blamed then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions for catching the White House by surprise with the adoption of a “zero tolerance” policy.

Contrary to Trump’s comments that many immigrants coming to the U.S. border are criminals, Kelly added: “And by the way, they’re overwhelmingly not criminals. They’re people coming up here for economic purposes. I don’t blame them for that.”

He didn’t defend Trump’s decision to declare a national emergency to get funding for a border wall and said: “We don’t need a wall from sea to shining sea.”

Kelly also expressed disagreement with deploying U.S. troops, even National Guard troops, to the border, as Trump did last fall before the midterm elections.

“Generally speaking I would always look for another way to do it,” Kelly said.

Asked about Trump’s executive order establishing a travel ban just days after taking office — while Kelly was Homeland Security secretary — he said it was a mistake made by inexperienced White House staff who didn’t run the policy through the usual process-gathering process for input from relevant government agencies.

The White House staff “got a little bit maybe out in front if their skis,” he said.

Kelly also defended the cost of maintaining the NATO alliance, the merits of which Trump has repeatedly questioned. And he took credit for initially organizing a series of briefings that convinced Trump not to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Syria.

When Trump tapped Kelly as his chief of staff the White House had little internal structure and was largely seen as chaotic. Kelly didn’t seem eager for the job and spent his initial weeks trying to install process and order to the West Wing.

Despite reports by NBC News and others that Kelly saw himself as the “adult in the room,” he denied taking that view.

“In my view everyone in the room was an adult,” he said.

When he decided it was time to leave, saying the job exhausted him, he joked that the advice he gave to his successor, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, was: “Run for it.”

Carol E. Lee is a national political reporter for NBC News.

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Martha McSally Says She Is a Survivor of Sexual Assault in the Military – The New York Times
Martha McSally Says She Is a Survivor of Sexual Assault in the Military – The New York Times

Ms. McSally’s testimony was met with an outpouring of support from her fellow lawmakers, including her female colleagues who have pushed the Pentagon to more forcefully address the issue of sexual assault.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, who is running for president and who has made curbing sexual assault in the military one of her central policy goals, said she was grateful that Ms. McSally was present “and spoke that truth.”

Ms. Gillibrand, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel that Ms. McSally addressed, offered a measure in 2013 that would have taken sexual assault cases outside of the military chain of command and given military prosecutors, rather than accusers’ commanders, the power to decide which cases to try, a potential sea change to the military justice system.

That attempt failed, but in recent years, lawmakers have made changes to the military’s legal system, including ending the statute of limitations on assault and rape cases, making it a crime to retaliate against victims who report assaults and requiring the dishonorable discharge or the dismissal of anyone convicted of sexual assault or rape.

In a Congress with historic numbers of women, Ms. McSally’s revelation was another instance of a female lawmaker stepping forward to share a personal experience of trauma.

Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, came forward in January to say that she had been sexually assaulted by her husband. Representative Katie Porter, Democrat of California and a single mother of three, has spoken openly about the domestic abuse she said she suffered in her marriage.

Ms. Ernst said she sent Ms. McSally a message after her testimony, saying, “I love you and I support you.”

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So Far, Donald Trump’s Trade War Is an Utter Failure – Slate
So Far, Donald Trump’s Trade War Is an Utter Failure – Slate

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Trump admin directed border agents to target Spanish speakers, Latin Americans: AP | TheHill – The Hill
Trump admin directed border agents to target Spanish speakers, Latin Americans: AP | TheHill – The Hill

The Trump administration has instructed border agents running an asylum program to target Spanish speakers and Latin American migrants, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press.

The program was launched in late January to handle the cases of immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. and initially only was applicable to those turning themselves in at border crossings.

According to The Associated Press, a memo from a top Border Patrol official says the program expanded last week to include those illegally crossing the border.

The memo also reportedly laid out instructions on who to allow through the traditional asylum process and who to send back to Mexico. Those allowed to go through traditional processes include LGBT migrants, pregnant women, Mexican asylum seekers, children traveling alone, and those in medical distress, according to the AP.

Another directive in the memo reportedly orders border officials to check if those seeking asylum are convicted of any felonies and to notify Mexico at least 12 hours prior to their return. 

Critics have pointed out that the program’s guidelines almost solely target Central Americans. 

A second memo sent to top Border Patrol officials on Tuesday reportedly revealed that the agency is being pressured to employ the program as much as possible. Another memo obtained by the AP showed that the program is being expanded to include people who cross the border illegally between crossing points. 

The news of the reported memos comes as the southwest border saw a significant jump last month in apprehensions and denials of people attempting to enter the United States.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows that 66,450 people were apprehended after crossing the border between ports of entry in February, compared to 47,986 the previous month.

The sharp increase in apprehensions was led by a continuing upward trend in crossings by family units, according to figures released by the administration.

It’s unclear to what extent the higher numbers are due to a sustained increase in migrants fleeing Central America, or if the data are skewed by the behavioral changes of migrants, such as traveling in caravans and generally surrendering to authorities rather than sneaking in. 

Source Article from https://thehill.com/latino/432975-trump-admin-has-directed-border-agents-to-target-spanish-speakers-latin-americans-ap

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Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer – Washington Examiner
Jeopardy’s Alex Trebek diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer – Washington Examiner

Longtime host of the game show “Jeopardy!” Alex Trebek has been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer but vowed to fight the disease and continue to host the show as long as he can.

“Just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year, this week I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer,” Trebek said in a video announcement. “Now normally, the prognosis for this is not very encouraging, but I’m going to fight this, and I’m going to keep working and with the love and support of my family and friends and with the help of your prayers also, I plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease. Truth told, I have to, because under the terms of my contract, I have to host ‘Jeopardy’ for three more years. So, help me, keep the faith, and we’ll win. We’ll get it done. Thank you.”

The 78-year-old Trebek said he wanted to publicly announce his diagnosis to keep with the spirit of transparency of the show and to avoid the spread of misinformation.

The Canadian-American has hosted game shows in the U.S. since 1973 and began hosting the “Jeopardy!” reboot in 1984. He has helmed the show ever since.

Trebek holds the record for the most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter from the Guinness Book of World Records. Trebek has recorded more than 7,000 episodes.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jeopardys-alex-trebek-diagnosed-with-late-stage-pancreatic-cancer

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Can Democrats love the voters Hillary hated? – Washington Examiner
Can Democrats love the voters Hillary hated? – Washington Examiner

Hillary Clinton rolled out new excuses for her loss, disenfranchisement in particular, but also promised not to run again. If Democrats are smart, they’ll ignore her excuses and take to heart the real lessons of 2016.

The most important lesson from Hillary’s loss is this: Don’t hate the swing voters.

Donald Trump won the White House by swinging tens of thousands or hundred of thousands of voters from Obama, and by bringing many other prior nonvoters out of the woodwork. Also, millions of Obama voters stayed home — a group that included hundreds thousands of working-class whites.

With all these swings, Trump swung working-class counties in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin, enough to win all four states and the White House.

Trump, at the same time, underperformed earlier Republicans in the wealthier parts of America.

Hillary showed her true colors when she declared this result some sort of a victory. “If you look at the map of the United States,” she explained to an overseas audience, “there’s all that red in the middle where Trump won. I win the coast, I win, you know, Illinois and Minnesota, places like that.”

What are the “places like that”?

“I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product,” she explained. “So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was looking backwards.”

The 2018 election furthered this division. Democrats took over the House of Representatives in part by picking up dozens of seats in upper-middle-class suburban districts. The new bragging point for Democrats is that they are the party of the highly educated and the successful. It allows for the self-serving explanation that people who know the real deal vote Democratic, and only the clueless bitter clingers vote Republican.

The choice for 2020 is: Do Democrats prefer the pride of being the party of the elites, or are they willing to sully themselves by trying to win over the “backwards” places full of deplorable bitter clingers?

If they want to win, they need to tune out Hillary and the commentators who insist that Trump’s base was purely racists —the folks who declare “ There’s no such thing as a good Trump voter.”

This will involve accepting that working-class suffering is real — even for white people.

The data tell the story clearly. Life expectancy in the U.S. is falling, driven by a sharp decline among working-class whites. Labor-force participation remains low, and the rates of men on disability remains high. Working-class marriage rates are falling, and out-of-wedlock births are rising among the working class.

Behind all of this are decades of stagnating wages. But there’s something more important at play here: the collapse of community cohesion and local institutions of civil society.

Too many liberal critics wave away the nostalgic-sounding laments about how America used to be great. To them, this is just the revanchist griping of old, straight, white dudes who are upset that their privilege is eroding. But when the population of your town is shrinking, when the churches and coffee shops are closing down, when the Memorial Day Parade has disappeared, there’s a real loss.

Trump exploited that loss by promising he could bring back what used to be. Of course he can’t — in fact, turning to a strongman just exacerbates the problem of community erosion by drawing power and attention away from the human level. But Hillary played into Trump’s hands by trying to deny that the suffering was real, and by portraying all the changes as progress.

Can any 2020 Democrats do better? Maybe. But right now it appears doubtful. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio is reaching out for the working class, and willing to talk about the “dignity of work” — a concept many on the Left like to mock. But even he demeans the importance of community connections. He penned a snarky retort to an insightful David Brooks column recently.

“Brooks, in ‘ It’s Not the Economy, Stupid’, writes: ‘It’s not jobs, jobs, jobs anymore. It’s relationships, relationships, relationships,’” Brown wrote. “Actually it’s wages, wages, wages.”

This denial that social dissolution is a problem is the same sort of coldness that sunk Hillary.

The suffering is real. The condescension is both heartless and politically destructive. Can the Democrats have enough heart to have a chance at beating Trump?

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/can-democrats-love-the-voters-hillary-hated

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GOP senator reveals she was sexually assaulted when she served in the military – CNN
GOP senator reveals she was sexually assaulted when she served in the military – CNN

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    DNC Bars Fox News From Hosting 2020 Primary Debates – NPR
    DNC Bars Fox News From Hosting 2020 Primary Debates – NPR

    Following a report about the close relationship between the network and the Trump White House, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said the party will not allow Fox News to host any of its primary debates in 2020.

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    Following a report about the close relationship between the network and the Trump White House, DNC Chairman Tom Perez said the party will not allow Fox News to host any of its primary debates in 2020.

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    “I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters. That is why I have made it a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including FOX News,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement Wednesday.

    “Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and FOX News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, FOX News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates,” the statement adds.

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    Former Fox News President Bill Shine is now the White House communications director, and Trump has given dozens of exclusive interviews to Fox while eschewing other networks, often deriding them as “fake news.” Host Sean Hannity has appeared as a special guest at Trump rallies, and in the New Yorker story, he is referred to as essentially “a West Wing adviser.”

    Among many other details in The New Yorker article, Mayer also writes that former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes, who died in 2017, had tipped Trump off to some debate questions during the 2016 cycle. This includes a now-infamous clash with then-Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly over his past comments about women, though Kelly has said she does not believe Trump received the question in advance. Another source had allegedly alerted Trump there would be a question about whether he would eventually support the GOP nominee.

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    “We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate,” Sammon said. “They’re the best debate team in the business, and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters.”

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    Sean Spicer will cooperate with Judiciary Committee probe: "There’s nothing that I have to hide” – AOL
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    National security adviser General Michael Flynn (L) arrives to deliver a statement next to Press Secretary Sean Spicer during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington U.S., February 1, 2017.

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    White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during a daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. Spicer conducted his first official White House daily briefing to take questions from the members of the White House press corps.

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    Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks as television screen displays journalists who participate in the daily briefing via Skype at the White House in Washington U.S., February 1, 2017.

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    former assistant to US President Donald Trump Anthony Scaramucci attending a meeting on the opening day of the World Economic Forum, on January 17, 2017 in Davos, and White House spokesman Sean Spicer during a press briefing on June 20, 2017 at the White House in Washington, DC.

    Sean Spicer resigned as White House press secretary Friday in protest at a major shakeup of Donald Trump’s embattled administration, an official told AFP. Spicer — the administrations most recognizable face after the president — resigned after just six months in office, having been increasingly sidelined in recent weeks. Spicer reached breaking point on Friday, the White House official said, when Trump appointed Anthony Scaramucci to be the new communications director, a bid to reset the scandal-wracked administration.

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    While Spicer acknowledged the committee’s responsibility to serve as a check on the executive branch, he called its work a “potential fishing expedition,” arguing that going through the president’s history of financial dealings seems a step too far.

    The motivation behind the committee’s dig for documents, Spicer implied, was a realization on behalf of Democrats “that while some people did some bad things, that there were some people that clearly interfered with the last election, that there was no collusion.”

    However, that assessment amounts to mere speculation, since special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has yet to be released.

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    A snub and a last minute Hail Mary. Trump’s tough lesson in North Korean diplomacy – CNN

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      The US trade gap with the rest of the world jumped to a 10-year high of $621bn (£472.5bn) last year, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s deficit reduction plan.

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      Melania Trump closes ‘Be Best’ tour with criticism of the media – NBC News

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      There is a tension between a decades-old Justice Department policy against public comment on decisions not to bring criminal charges and the requirement in the special counsel regulations that Mueller explain which criminal cases he brought and which ones he declined to bring. Rosenstein in February said, “If we aren’t prepared to prove our case beyond a reasonable doubt in court, then we have no business making allegations against American citizens.”

      This policy might lead Mueller to keep his explanations of his declination decisions brief, legal experts said, and Barr subsequently could opt not to disclose those parts of the confidential report. Department policy, presented in a 1973 Nixon-era memo and reaffirmed in a 2000 Clinton-era memo, is that a sitting president cannot face a criminal indictment.

      Some lawyers have said this policy, combined with the practice of generally not explaining decisions not to prosecute someone, limits what Mueller can put in the report about Trump’s conduct. Other lawyers have said Jaworski, who had an analogous role, set a precedent that Mueller would be within his power to lay out a case for removing Trump from office through impeachment, as Starr did with Clinton in 1998.

      Reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Will Dunham

      Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-report/why-muellers-report-might-be-a-letdown-for-trump-critics-idUSKCN1QN1EH

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      Michael Cohen’s Congressional Testimony Leaves Big Unanswered Questions On Trump – NPR
      Michael Cohen’s Congressional Testimony Leaves Big Unanswered Questions On Trump – NPR

      Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

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      Michael Cohen, former attorney and fixer for President Trump, testifies before the House oversight committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

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      Michael Cohen is scheduled to return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a fourth session with members of Congress within two weeks — but even that likely won’t exhaust the subject of his decade of work for President Trump.

      For as much information as Trump’s former lawyer has given Congress — and prosecutors — about his previous life, there are as many questions raised by his testimony that don’t yet have clear answers.

      Democrats have seized on the leads Cohen offered to unleash a swarm of requests for interviews, documents and other materials as part of the investigations they promised to launch into Trump’s election, business and more.

      The president, meanwhile, says that virtually nothing Cohen has said is true, and that Democrats only want to harass him to hurt his re-election chances.

      As the political skirmishing heats up, here are four big questions that remain unresolved.

      Why did the Trumps keep Cohen out of the June 2016 meeting with the Russians?

      Cohen told members of Congress he didn’t have any “direct evidence” the Trump campaign conspired with the Russians who attacked the 2016 election, but that he had his “suspicions.”

      Cohen said he didn’t know in June of 2016, for example, that Donald Trump Jr. had received, via intermediaries, an offer of help from the Russian government that prompted him to convene a meeting with a Russian delegation in Trump Tower.

      A Russian lawyer who has since been charged in an unrelated case gave Trump Jr., then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner a political tip about Democratic fundraisers.

      People who have talked about the meeting said the tip did not involve easy-to-exploit dirt about Hillary Clinton that Trump Jr. had expected and he said he took no further action after the meeting.

      The elder Trump denies he knew then what was happening or about the Russian overtures to his campaign. But Cohen said media coverage in 2017 caused him to remember a conversation “probably in early June of 2016” in which Trump appeared to authorize Trump Jr. to go ahead with the meeting in Trump Tower.

      The fact of the meeting has been established and investigated exhaustively. And Cohen isn’t the first to say that he believes the elder Trump authorized the meeting — which would suggest he was aware, in real time, of Russia’s interference in the election.

      But so far there isn’t any public evidence to support Cohen’s claim beyond the circumstantial observation that nothing in Trump world happened without Trump’s say-so. Democrats and Trump’s opponents had hoped phone records might help prove the elder Trump knew of the meeting in advance and gave his approval, but they did not.

      Cohen might not be telling the truth and last week Republicans battered him for hours over his confessed false statements, including to Congress.

      Even if his account is accurate it still doesn’t explain everything. What made Trump decide when to involve Cohen and when to exclude him?

      Trump trusted Cohen enough to negotiate with powerful Russians about a potential Trump Tower real estate project in Moscow — a project about which Trump and the White House encouraged Cohen to lie to Congress, Cohen alleges.

      Trump also trusted Cohen to handle so much other alleged dirty work — from paying people off to threatening reporters to quibbling with Forbes over Trump’s ranking on its list of wealthy people.

      So why didn’t Trump and his son trust Cohen enough to bring him up to speed about the meeting with the Russians?

      Did the Trumps do anything beyond welcome the work of WikiLeaks?

      Cohen told Congress he was in the room when GOP political consultant Roger Stone phoned Trump to say he’d just talked with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange was about to release a stink bomb that would hurt Hillary Clinton’s campaign, he said.

      “Mr. Trump responded by stating [words] to the effect [of], ‘wouldn’t that be great’?” Cohen told the House oversight committee last week.

      That corresponds with an account given in the indictment unsealed against Stone in January, which described him talking with Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks throughout the year.

      Stone and Assange both deny they spoke on the phone, as Cohen described. Stone also has pleaded not guilty to the charges that he lied to Congress and obstructed congressional investigators’ efforts to find out what happened.

      But Justice Department prosecutors do suggest that Stone might have been able to communicate with Assange via a series of intermediaries.

      What isn’t clear is what else Trump and his camp might have done besides simply welcome the free help they were getting in the campaign.

      Did they ask Stone to ask Assange to arrange releases on specific dates? Did they ever ask who was behind the material that Assange was releasing?

      Roger Stone, arrives at the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on February 21, 2019.

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      Investigators have established that the emails and other documents released by WikiLeaks in 2016 were stolen in cyberattacks by Russian intelligence officers, including a dozen who have been charged by Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.

      What prosecutors have alleged in Stone’s indictment is that Trump’s campaign welcomed all this, tried to find out more about it and looked forward to the effects on the political environment — but not that they actively conspired with the Russians who were behind it all, or even that they asked Assange to do anything.

      The tape

      On Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, for example, The Washington Post revealed the now-infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape on which Trump is heard making lewd, politically embarrassing remarks about women. WikiLeaks released a tranche of emails, stolen by Russia’s GRU spy agency, on the same day.

      Trump’s camp, according to the Stone indictment, had been expecting something from WikiLeaks all week.

      Trump’s campaign welcomed the email releases and praised Stone, according to the court papers, but there is no allegation in the Stone indictment that Trump’s aides asked him to ask Assange to unleash the material in order to soften the political impact of the Access Hollywood tape.

      Cohen also was asked directly last week about whether Trump coordinated or signaled for the release.

      “I am unaware of that,” he said.

      There could be other evidence not yet public that draws a stronger connection between Trump, WikiLeaks and the Russians or suggests an as-yet unknown cause-and-effect chain of events.

      But based on what’s available today, the campaign appears to have simply embraced what the Russians were doing on Oct. 7, as opposed to having actively colluded with them to bring it about.

      Stone says he didn’t have any inside line to WikiLeaks. He was just making it appear to Trump’s people that he did.

      And Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani has said that Trump didn’t get a heads-up about WikiLeaks in 2016, but even if he did — as Cohen and prosecutors both now say — that wouldn’t be against the law. Giuliani compared it to getting a call from a newspaper that was about to publish a big story.

      The version of events given by Cohen and prosecutors undercuts those denials about the facts. If this is all there is, though, it falls short of an active conspiracy in which the Russians and Trump’s campaign were working hand-in-glove to try to win the 2016 election.

      The question now is whether this really is the entire story, or whether Congress — or Mueller — has more evidence about active involvement by Trump or the campaign.

      What else is in the “treasure trove?”

      Although Cohen says he wasn’t involved with any Russia collusion, he was the key player on dealing with another big project for Trump ahead of Election Day in 2016 — hush money.

      Cohen arranged to pay two women who said they’d had sexual relationships with Trump in order to keep them from talking publicly at a critical time in the presidential race.

      “I don’t think anybody would dispute this belief that after the wildfire that had encompassed the [Access Hollywood] tape that a second follow-up to it would have been pleasant,” Cohen said. “And [Trump] was concerned with the effect that it had on the campaign, on how women were seeing him, and ultimately whether or not he would have a shot in the general election.”

      To get control of the situation, Cohen paid $130,000 to an adult film actress named Stormy Daniels. And he worked with American Media Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, to arrange for the company to pay $125,000 to a former Playboy model, Karen McDougal. Trump has acknowledged the payment to Daniels but the president denies the claims of both women that he had extramarital relationships with them years ago.

      Trump reimbursed Cohen for the Daniels payment but never paid AMI, which is run by his friend David Pecker. Cohen said that wasn’t the first time Pecker had done such work for Trump but not been repaid.

      “Catch and kill”

      In fact, there was a whole playbook used by Trump, Cohen and AMI for these situations: “catch and kill.”

      The publisher would buy material or the legal rights to a person’s story, but never use them. People — like McDougal, before she later went public — were in the position of not being able to talk publicly about their own experiences because they’d sold those rights to AMI.

      AMI and Pecker amassed what Cohen called a “treasure trove” of documents and other materials about Trump, including rights to stories that weren’t even true — but which were at least kept out of circulation.

      When Pecker was attempting to take another big publishing job as the boss of Time Magazine, Cohen even looked into trying to buy the trove from AMI, he told members of Congress last week.

      The big question that raises is: what else is in AMI’s Trump treasure trove?

      How credible is Cohen?

      Trump’s former attorney has caused a lot of political problems for his onetime patron, but Cohen may have brought on a few of his own.

      The president’s allies have underscored what they’ve called false statements that Cohen has made to Congress even since his federal guilty plea for lying to Congress.

      Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan and North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, two influential Republicans who both sit on the House oversight committee, have asked the Justice Department to investigate what they called Cohen’s false statements, including about his criminal record and the position they say he sought in the Trump administration.

      Cohen acknowledged his past untruths but said he doesn’t need to lie anymore because he has broken free of Trump’s thrall. The questions raised by Jordan and Meadows, however, suggest that Cohen’s situation now might be more complicated — and leave a question mark about everything else he has said.

      Source Article from https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/700411541/the-big-unanswered-questions-after-michael-cohens-capitol-hill-marathon

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      Reporter’s Notebook: Kim looks to prosperous neighbors and contemplates a choice for North Korea’s future – Fox News
      Reporter’s Notebook: Kim looks to prosperous neighbors and contemplates a choice for North Korea’s future – Fox News
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      US, North Korea trade blame for failed negotiations

      Many headlines from Hanoi read “Trump/Kim Summit Ends in Failure.”

      Having just returned from reporting on the summit from both Vietnam and South Korea, the reality requires greater nuance.

      South Korea and Vietnam have this in common: Each has served as the theatre of battle for two brutal and lasting wars with significant American involvement. And each has a valuable lesson for North Korea.

      These days, West Hanoi is booming. Reportedly, Vietnam’s GDP has been growing at 7 percent for six years. But to my eye, it seems closer to 500 percent. Tall buildings that serve businesses and provide housing have sprung up from former shanty towns. Farmers, who for generations have toiled in the fields outside Hanoi, are moving to the city and joining the burgeoning working middle class.

      TRUMP WAS ‘ABSOLUTELY RIGHT’ TO END TALKS IN VIETNAM, SAYS NORTH KOREAN DEFECTOR

      There is a stunning JW Marriott in West Hanoi where President Trump and his traveling crew stayed during the week.

      Downstairs where Trump held his press conference, there is a bar called the ‘Cool Cats Jazz Club.’ The bartender – born in June 1992 – says the surrounding area and its growth has surprised even him. “This used to be a few low-lying buildings and the rest was rice fields,” he says.

      Vietnam embarked on specific market reforms, but kept the ruling Communist Party in control. It is a saggy form of Communism, and not something Lenin would have accepted in the Soviet Union. Yet, it seems to benefit both the locals who emerge into a different, prosperous life and the loyal party members, who keep their positions in government. So far, it seems as if everyone is winning.

      But the Vietnamese government will admit that its current economic boom – which helped move this country from its former Third World status to “an emerging market” – did not begin until it normalized relations with the United States 23 years ago, during the administration of President Clinton.

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      Years ago, I was in Vietnam just before the change occurred. As a 26-year-old backpacker, I took advantage of the changing laws and toured Vietnam in December 1992. Locals were allowed to take partial ownership in cafes and hotels. The country seemed to be on its hands and knees from years of war, searching for a new, secure footing. Travel was basic, barely manageable.

      The pitch from President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might appeal to many: You give up your nukes, we will end the sanctions and North Korea can prosper like your neighbors to the South and your Communist brethren in Vietnam.

      Today Hanoi bustles with commerce and motor scooters. They seem to buzz like hornets in an immediate and unstoppable hurry. And every driver has a smartphone in their pocket. There is a revolution of accessible information underway globally.

      They are on IG and WhatsApp and Facebook and they are connected to each other and to a world outside their own borders. Information influences policy, it moves society and it can wield the power to change governments.

      Chairman Kim Jung of North Korea knows this. The information revolution has him surrounded and it is only a question of time before it slowly corrodes his iron grip.

      The arc of modern development currently runs against his hermetic kingdom. I believe he is, in fact, trying to adopt certain market reforms that will improve the standing for many within his own country and lead to a more secure economic future. This is why he is insistent on getting sanctions relief. He needs to meet and satisfy the inexorable pressure that comes in a world that is increasingly global.  At the same time, he wants badly to maintain his nuclear capability, the key to his family’s grip on power. But when information is so easily transportable, secrets are harder to keep. Autonomous rule is harder to maintain.

      TIMELINE: TRUMP-KIM SUMMIT JOINS LONG LIST OF KEY MOMENTS BETWEEN WORLD LEADERS

      So how does he do it? How does he move toward market reforms, maintain power and keep at least part of his nuclear stockpile?

      That is his dilemma. Call it Kim’s choice.

      North Korean leader Kim Jong Un listens as he meets with President Donald Trump, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, in Hanoi. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

      Of course, he can look to his southern neighbor to see the progress first hand.

      I visited South Korea on my way home from the summit. Seoul is a massive city – population 10 million plus. And it is bumping.  Modern and clean and efficient. In my 25 hours there, I only scratched the skin of this deeply textured country. I joined a group to visit the DMZ, about an hour’s drive north from Seoul.

      A short drive out of the city, the left side of the road is lined with barbed wire. Incursions by North Korean spies, explains Grace, our guide, have made it necessary. To depart such a modern, developed world capital and to be immediately consumed by the long-standing and unsettled conflict is startling.

      The DMZ visit reminded me of being in West Berlin in 1986.  Confined, surrounded by a system of demand and decay. You know instinctively it can’t last. But how much longer can it withstand the pressures of a world in a constant bull market? Kim knows this.

      I called Grace over for a question. “Do you believe your country would have developed the way it has without the presence of 28,000 American forces?”

      “No,” she says flatly. “Not possible.”

      Peering through a high powered set of binoculars across the 1.6-kilometer stretch of the DMZ, I spotted two people who were walking through a field and climbing over a berm. They were dressed in dark, colorless clothing characteristic of a Communist regime. The most wily among their leaders – the most paranoid, the most ruthless – make it their business to last as long as possible.

      Back in Seoul, I sat in my hotel room watching television news recapping Chairman Kim’s visit to Hanoi in Korean. He stayed an extra 36 hours for an official visit after Team 45 was wheels up for Washington. It strikes the obvious as you watch a background report on North Korea’s nuclear program – Kim had completed something that was started by his grandfather. In the midst of his starving, forbidden kingdom – with limited access and limited assistance from outside his sealed borders – he achieved nuclear status. In this world today, he stands out.

      The pitch from President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might appeal to many: You give up your nukes, we will end the sanctions and North Korea can prosper like your neighbors to the South and your Communist brethren in Vietnam.

      It is a compelling sale, but today there is no sign Kim is willing to embrace it. After Hanoi, he seems to be moving forward at his own, self-preserving speed.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reporters-notebook-kim-looks-to-prosperous-neighbors-and-contemplates-a-choice-for-north-koreas-future

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      Hillary Clinton lights up the internet with ‘Mean Girls’ tweet – AOL
      Hillary Clinton lights up the internet with ‘Mean Girls’ tweet – AOL

      Hillary Clinton on Tuesday was quick to fire back after President Trump mocked her for not running in 2020.

      The exchange started with a tweet by Trump: “‘(Crooked) Hillary Clinton confirms she will not run in 2020, rules out a third bid for White House.’ Aw-shucks, does that mean I won’t get to run against her again? She will be sorely missed!”

      Minutes later, Clinton posted a “Mean Girls” meme on Twitter.

      The New York Daily News notes her tweet included a GIF from the cult classic movie featuring Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan. The captioned text read: “Why are you so obsessed with me?”

      Hours prior, in a News 12 interview, Clinton had ruled out a 2020 presidential bid.

      “I’m not running, but I’m going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe,” Clinton said. “I’m not going anywhere. What’s at stake in our country, the kind of things that are happening right now are deeply troubling to me.”

      Hillary Clinton

      Trump’s nickname: “Crooked Hillary”

      US Attorney General Jeff Sessions

      Trump’s nickname: “Mr. Magoo”

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      Steve Bannon

      Trump’s nickname: “Sloppy Steve”

      (Joshua Roberts / Reuters)

      Elizabeth Warren

      Trump’s nickname: “Pocahontas”

      Former FBI director James Comey 

      Trump’s nickname: “Slippery James Comey”

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      Kim Jong Un

      Trump’s nickname: “Rocket Man”

      Chuck Todd 

      Trump’s nickname: “Sleepy eyes / sleeping son of a b—h”

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      Marco Rubio

      Trump’s nickname: “Little Marco”

      Dianne Feinstein

      Trump’s nickname: “Sneaky Dianne Feinstein”

      (Joshua Roberts / Reuters)

      Ohio Governor John Kasich

      Trump’s nickname: “1 for 38 Kasich”

      (REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk)

      Bob Corker

      Trump’s nickname: “Liddle’ Bob Corker”

      NBC correspondent Katy Tur

      Trump’s nickname: “Little Katy”

      (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

      Chuck Schumer

      Trump’s nickname: “Cryin’ Chuck / Fake Tears Chuck”

      Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)

      Trump’s nickname: “Jeff Flake(y)”

      (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

      Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL)

      Trump’s nickname: ‘Wacky Congresswoman Wilson”

      (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

      Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)

      Trump’s nickname: “Little Adam Schiff”

      (REUTERS/Yuri Gripas)

      Journalist Megyn Kelly

      Trump’s nickname: “Crazy Megyn”

      (Mikhail Klimentyev\TASS via Getty Images)

      The New York Times

      Trump’s nickname: “Failing New York Times”

      (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton)

      Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

      Trump’s nickname: “Lyin’ Ted”

      (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)

      MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski

      Trump’s nicknames: “Crazy Joe Scarborough/Psycho Joe” and “Dumb as a Rock Mika”

      (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo)

      Jeb Bush

      Trump’s nickname: “Low energy Jeb Bush”

      (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

      Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)

      Trump’s nickname: “Crazy Bernie”

      (REUTERS/Joshua Roberts)

      Jim Acosta

      Trump’s nickname: “Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News CNN”

      (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

      CNN 

      Trump’s nickname: “Clinton News Network”

      (Photo by John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)

      Former Sen. Al Franken

      Trump’s nickname: “Al Frankenstien”

      (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

      Democratic congressional candidate for Pennsylvania’s 18th district Conor Lamb

      Trump’s nickname: “Lamb the sham’

      (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

      ‘Good Morning America’ anchor George Stephanopoulos

      Trump’s nickname: “Little George”

      (Photo by Ray Tamarra/GC Images)

      Face The Nation

      Trump’s nickname: “Deface the Nation”

      (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

      Former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond

      Trump’s nickname: “Mad Alex”

      (Photo by Chris Radburn/PA Images via Getty Images)

      Former Vice President Joe Biden

      Trump’s nickname: “Crazy Joe Biden”

      (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

      Former U.S. President Barack Obama

      Trump’s nickname: Cheatin’ Obama

      Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

      Trump’s nickname: “Little Michael”

      (mpi04/MediaPunch /IPX)




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      When Officers Aren’t Charged in Police Shootings – Rolling Stone – Rolling Stone
      When Officers Aren’t Charged in Police Shootings – Rolling Stone – Rolling Stone

      California has an assisted-suicide law. It was in effect when Stephon Clark went running into his grandmother’s backyard nearly a year ago, pursued by two Sacramento police officers who shot and killed him there. But the state’s End of Life Option Act didn’t apply to Clark. Sacramento district attorney Anne Marie Schubert, who announced Sunday that she wouldn’t charge his killers with a crime, knew that Clark wasn’t terminally ill. But Schubert, who put up fences on public property outside her G Street office in downtown Sacramento last March to shoo away protesters, went further. She also heavily implied that Clark was suicidal at the time of his death.

      In both her 80-minute press conference and the report that followed, Schubert noted Clark’s inexcusable history of domestic violence against his fiancée and the mother of his two children, Salena Manni. She also mentioned his fear of being incarcerated again for a new incident that occurred two days before he died. The report indicated that the contents of Clark’s cell phone, the same one that the cops mistook for a gun that night, showed that he’d been doing searching for “information related to suicide the day before and the day of the fatal shooting” and had sent a text to Manni on the 17th that read, “Let’s fix our family or I’m taking all of these.” Pictured, according to Schubert’s report, were a handful of Xanax pills.

      Even if Clark hoped that the pursuit would end in his death, it isn’t necessarily legal for police in California to help him commit “suicide by cop.” That phrase, a convenient fiction since it absolves those doing the actual killing, has been used to both explain why people are the victims of officer-involved shootings and to excuse the officers who perpetrate the acts. But here’s the rub: Schubert later denied that she intended to convey that Clark had a death wish. So why, then, did she bring up his mental state at all? She claimed that it would have been admissible in court had the case gone to trial. So what? That doesn’t fully explain what happened that night, nor why she filed no charges.

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      Reached by Rolling Stone for comment and clarification, Schubert’s office said the District Attorney “is not available for follow-up interviews or further statements.”

      The district attorney’s decision was the result of an unjust process: Cops investigate other cops, then a prosecutor — who works with those cops all the time on cases — relies upon their judgment. This one also relied upon their cash: Schubert took in $13,000 in campaign donations from law enforcement last March less than a week after Clark was shot. No matter how many outside experts she lined up to bolster her decision, the D.A.’s Sunday announcement not to prosecute the officers with murder or another related crime was injury enough. This is a Sacramento community that has seen the newly re-elected Schubert investigate more than 30 such police shootings and not file a single charge. It was an insult to African-Americans throughout the nation who have seen district attorneys give cops a pass for these types of incidents all too regularly.

      We may have expected Schubert to exonerate the officers, then all but prosecute the dead victim. It’s one thing for the Sacramento D.A. to describe why the case is not winnable, or why the cops allegedly didn’t break any laws. It is quite another for her to sully the memory of a dead man and the reputation of his family with previously undisclosed facts that bore no relevance to the guilt or innocence of the officers involved. She did the latter on Sunday and impugned the mentally ill in the process by insinuating that Clark’s desperation would cause him to act criminally and to put police in a life-threatening position.

      Stevante Clark, the brother of Stephon Clark who was killed by police last year, speaks during a news conference at the Genesis Church in Sacramento, Calif., on March 3rd 2019.

      Even now, 352 days after the incident, we still don’t know how many times Clark was shot. Schubert reports seven times, though she doesn’t detail how many bullets the cops fired at him. (It was 20, by most reported counts.) The independent autopsy findings released last March by forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, which Schubert disputed in her report, concluded that Clark was shot eight times — including six times in the back. Not once was he hit in the front of his body, Omalu concluded, despite the Sacramento police claim that he was in a “shooting position.” Well, why would Clark be in a shooting position if he didn’t have a gun?

      Clark’s brother, Stevante, has rebounded from a well-publicized hospitalization for his mental health issues since Stephon’s death. A nationwide study published last summer concluded that when police officers kill unarmed black people, it damages the mental health of African-Americans living in those states. 

      Sacramento police arrested 84 people Monday night at a protest, including a Sacramento Bee reporter. They were demonstrating because they want the officers who killed Clark fired. I also believe these men should lose their jobs. But fundamental to any civil rights demand is a call for increased mental health awareness among law enforcement. Not only can cities save lives with properly trained personnel to handle and de-escalate situations, but in circumstances like Clark’s, that awareness can ensure that a person’s despair won’t be weaponized against them once they are dead and buried. From Dontre Hamilton to Freddie Gray, mental illness has played a part in police killings — either making them more likely, as per studies, or used as an excuse even when the justification is sketchy. To even imply that Clark wanted to die is to use a person’s pain in their absence, to damn them once by killing them and then again by speaking for them out of turn.

      What happened in Sacramento that night was the logical conclusion of “broken windows” policing at its most extreme: a helicopter and several officers pursuing a potential vandal in a residential neighborhood. Schubert is part of a larger criminal justice apparatus that has gone awry in California, the state where police are most likely to commit lethal force first against black people. But that is why the district attorney’s report, while it offers a token note of sympathy for Clark’s family at the end, could have instead done some critical thinking about how we ended up here in the first place. Holding the police accountable may be too much to expect from the prosecutor who literally fenced out nonviolent protesters, only to later cast blame upon a dead man for his own demise.

      Source Article from https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/stephon-clark-shooting-803723/

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