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Report: Former Pool Boy Describes Years-Long Sexual Relationship With Jerry Falwell Jr. And Wife – Forbes
Report: Former Pool Boy Describes Years-Long Sexual Relationship With Jerry Falwell Jr. And Wife – Forbes

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A former pool attendant turned business partner of Jerry Falwell Jr. claims he engaged in a years-long sexual relationship with the recently departed Liberty University president and his wife, stoking renewed controversy surrounding the leading Christian conservative figurehead and President Trump ally. 

KEY FACTS

In a Reuters report published Monday, Giancarlo Granda, who says he met the Falwells at age 20 while working as a pool attendant in a Miami Beach hotel, detailed a years-long relationship with the couple that involved him having sex with Becki Falwell while Jerry Falwell Jr. watched. 

“Becki and I developed an intimate relationship and Jerry enjoyed watching from the corner of the room,” Granda, now 29-years-old, told Reuters, describing sexual encounters in hotels in Miami and New York, and at the couple’s Virginia home, “multiple times per year.” 

Granda provided emails, text messages and other evidence to support his claims. 

After Reuters reached out to the Falwells about the claims, Jerry Falwell Jr. sent a 1,200-word statement to the Washington Examiner in which he said his wife had an engaged in an “inappropriate personal relationship” with Granda which he had used to try and extort money, but made no mention of his own involvement. 

Granda’s connection to the Falwells made news in 2018 when Buzzfeed reported the details of a business they all launched together, which ended in a falling out and lawsuit in which Granda claimed he’d been wrongly cut out. 

On Friday, Liberty University’s board of trustees said it had not yet made a decision “whether or not to retain Falwell as president” after he was put on “indefinite leave” on August 7. 

The university did not respond to Forbes’s questions about how the Reuters report would impact the board’s decision, and Jerry Falwell’s lawyer Michael Bowe did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

Crucial Quote

Granda, who said he began the sexual relationship with the Falwells willingly the month he met them in March 2012, now says his “immaturity, naiveté, instability or a combination thereof” made him the “ideal target” for the Falwells, and he feels he was preyed upon.

Key Background 

Falwell came under the spotlight earlier this month after posting a picture of himself on a yacht while on vacation with his pants unzipped, his midriff hanging out, a drink in-hand and his arm around a woman. 

The picture quickly drew accusations that Falwell was acting in a way that wouldn’t be tolerated for the students of his university, resulting in calls for his resignation from GOP lawmaker and former pastor Rep. Mark Walker, who said Falwell’s “ongoing behavior is appalling.” Falwell has been involved in several large controversies since taking over as president of Liberty University, a Christian college started by his father, Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr., nearly 50 years ago. After offering a pivotal endorsement of Trump in the 2016 election, Falwell was criticized by students for silencing anti-Trump sentiments and creating a “culture of fear.” In a 2019 Politico exposé, Liberty staff alleged Falwell would discuss his sex life at work in graphic detail and show off photos of his wife “in provocative and sexual poses.” Falwell has also been criticized for photos that emerged of the Liberty president and members of his family partying at a Miami Beach nightclub in 2014 (his school did not allow co-ed dancing and drinking). 

Update: This story has been updated to reflect the correct date that Granda said the relationship began, 2012.

Further Reading 

“Business partner of Falwells says affair with evangelical power couple spanned seven years” (Reuters) 

“Exclusive: Falwell says Fatal Attraction threat led to depression” (The Washington Examiner) 

“Jerry Falwell Jr. Put On ‘Indefinite Leave’ From Liberty University After Latest In Long String Of Scandals” (Forbes) 

“‘Someone’s Gotta Tell the Freakin’ Truth’: Jerry Falwell’s Aides Break Their Silence” (Politico)

“Jerry Falwell Jr. And A Young Pool Attendant Launched A Business That Sparked A Bitter Dispute” (BuzzFeed News) 

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Man who threatened to crash stolen plane into Walmart didn’t have pilot’s license, Mississippi officials say – CBS News
Man who threatened to crash stolen plane into Walmart didn’t have pilot’s license, Mississippi officials say – CBS News

Authorities say a plane that was circling over northern Mississippi and whose pilot had threatened to crash it into a Walmart store landed safely on Saturday.

Gov. Tate Reeves announced on Twitter that the “situation has been resolved and that no one was injured.” He thanked law enforcement agencies that helped in bringing the aircraft down. 

The pilot, identified as 29-year-old Cory Wayne Patterson, was in custody and charged with grand larceny and making terroristic threats, Tupelo Police chief John Quaka said during a Saturday afternoon press conference.

Patterson, an employee at the airport in Tupelo, allegedly stole the Beechcraft King Air C90A just after 5 a.m. — when the air traffic control tower was unmanned. He does not have a pilot’s license or experience in landing planes but has had some flight instruction, Quaka said. His job at the airport involves refueling planes.

A Walmart in the town was evacuated just after 5:20 a.m. after Patterson called 911 and reported that he was going to fly the plane into the store, Quaka said. Major streets in Tupelo were also shut down.

Negotiators subsequently made contact with Patterson and were able to convince him not to fly the plane into the Walmart, according to Quaka.

The Beechcraft was in the air for more than five hours, circling over Tupelo and another community nearby. An online flight tracking service showed the plane meandering in the sky for several hours and following a looping path.

Law enforcement told the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal shortly after 8 a.m. that the plane had left the airspace around Tupelo and was flying near a Toyota manufacturing plant in nearby Blue Springs.

Just after 9:30 a.m. local time, Patterson posted on Facebook from the plane. At the conclusion of the post he wrote “goodbye,” Quaka said. The plane was low on fuel. But, with some instruction from a private pilot, Patterson was able to land the plane about 30 minutes later.

The plane sustained minimal damage during the landing, Quaka said. The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane touched down in a field several miles northwest of Ripley Airport in Ripley, Mississippi. 

No one was injured in the incident.

CBS affiliate WCBI-TV posted video of the plane flying over the area.

Leslie Criss, a magazine editor who lives in Tupelo, woke up early and was watching the situation on TV and social media. Several of her friends were outside watching the plane circle overhead.

“I’ve never seen anything like this in this town,” Criss told The Associated Press. “It’s a scary way to wake up on a Saturday morning.”

Former state Rep. Steve Holland, who is a funeral director in Tupelo, said he had received calls from families concerned about the plane.

“One called and said, ‘Oh, my God, do we need to cancel mother’s funeral?'” Holland said. “I just told them, ‘No, life’s going to go on.'”

Patterson will likely face federal charges as well, Quaka said.

Multiple federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the FAA, were involved in the investigation. They are still working to discern a motive.

The airplane drama unfolded as tens of thousands of college football fans were headed to north Mississippi for Saturday football games at the University of Mississippi in Oxford and Mississippi State University in Starkville. Tupelo is between those two cities.  


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Woman escapes from cinderblock cell in Oregon, prompting FBI search for more possible victims – CBS News
Woman escapes from cinderblock cell in Oregon, prompting FBI search for more possible victims – CBS News
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Senate investigators pursue Moscow-based former Trump associate – CNN
Senate investigators pursue Moscow-based former Trump associate – CNN

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London and Moscow (CNN)Senate investigators want to question a Moscow-based American businessman with longstanding ties to President Donald Trump after witnesses told them he could shed light on the President’s commercial and personal activities in Russia dating back to the 1990s, multiple sources have told CNN.

      CNN’s Nathan Hodge, Tim Lister, Kara Scannell and Evan Perez contributed to this report.

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    Workers say Facebook was warned of 2020 election misinformation: report – New York Post
    Workers say Facebook was warned of 2020 election misinformation: report – New York Post

    Facebook knew that the spread of political misinformation was flourishing on its platform – but the company largely failed to address concerns from employees who raised alarms, a report found.

    Workers flagged the rampant conspiracy theories and proliferation of QAnon-related content before the 2020 presidential election and Jan. 6 siege on the US Capitol, according to new internal documents obtained by the New York Times.

    But employees’ calls to action sparked by false claims about the election results were either ignored or mishandled, the Times said.

    Some of the newly published reports were obtained by Facebook product manager turned whistleblower Frances Haugen, whose disclosures have renewed concerns about the role the company played in the attack on Capitol Hill by Donald Trump supporters.

    An internal probe analyzed the company’s efforts to silence Stop the Steal supporters, who backed the false claims that Trump won the election, according to the article.

    Facebook workers flagged conspiracy theories and the proliferation of QAnon-related content before the 2020 presidential election.
    AP

    “Enforcement was piecemeal,” and Facebook should “do this better next time,” the documents said.

    The morning of the riot, user complaints about posts that incited violence had soared, a spreadsheet analyzed by Facebook employees reportedly showed.

    As the mob stormed the Capitol, Facebook mass-deleted pro-violence posts, a worker told the Times. Other employee recommendations, like preventing groups from changing their names to incite violence, were not implemented, according to the report.

    On the day of the riot, user complaints about posts that incited violence had grown — as Facebook employees reportedly analyzed.
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    “I wish I felt otherwise, but it’s simply not enough to say that we’re adapting, because we should have adapted already long ago,” one employee reportedly wrote. “There were dozens of Stop the Steal groups active up until yesterday, and I doubt they minced words about their intentions.”

    “I’ve always felt that on the balance my work has been meaningful and helpful to the world at large. But, honestly, this is a really dark day for me here,” another worker reportedly wrote.

    A day after the attack, the company found user content that violated company policy had been published at a rate of seven times higher than normal. Many posts “suggested the overthrow of the government” or “voiced support for the violence,” according to the newspaper’s review of the documents.

    Frances Haugen’s disclosures have outlined concerns about the role Facebook played in the attack on Capitol Hill by Donald Trump supporters.
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    The findings are at odds with the company’s public spin on its role in the violence. Earlier this year, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said the deadly riot at the Capitol was “largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate.” Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg told Congress his company “did our part to secure the integrity of our election.”

    Internal concerns about hate speech and fake news surrounding the 2020 contest had been brewing in Silicon Valley at least a year and a half earlier, the article said.

    One Facebook researcher wrote that she received baseless content from QAnon — a fringe movement which the FBI classified as a potential terror threat — within days of opening a new right-leaning test account, according to the report.

    Within weeks, her feed reportedly “became a constant flow of misleading, polarizing and low-quality content,” thanks to content suggested by Facebook’s algorithms.

    A day after the attack, Facebook came across user content violating company policy that was published at a rate of seven times higher than normal.
    AP

    A left-leaning test account also was fed political misinformation and “low quality” memes, the worker, who quit in August 2020, reportedly said.

    Facebook was “knowingly exposing users to risks of integrity harms,” she reportedly wrote in her exit letter, citing the network’s slowness on cracking down on baseless conspiracy theories.

    About a week after the election, a company data scientist wrote to coworkers that 10 percent of all US political content being viewed were posts spreading the claim that the election results could not be trusted, the newspaper found.

    Facebook began relaxing its political oversight after the election, even as Trump posted “They are trying to STEAL the Election,” on Nov. 4, three former employees told the paper.

    Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg claimed the Capitol riot was “largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate.”
    AP

    “They should be trying to understand if the way they designed the product is the problem,” Yaël Eisenstat, an ex-Facebook worker in charge of the safety and security of election ads, told the paper.

    Company spokesman Andy Stone told the outlet the site was “proud” of its work safeguarding election content.

    “The responsibility for the violence that occurred on Jan. 6 lies with those who attacked our Capitol and those who encouraged them,” he reportedly said.

    Facebook began to scale back its political watch after the election, even when Trump posted “They are trying to STEAL the Election,” on Nov. 4.
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    The Times article comes a day after the Washington Post reported that another whistleblower told regulators the company blew off 2017 concerns about hate speech as a “flash in the pan.”

    While “some legislators will get pissy” Facebook is “printing money in the basement,” a Facebook official reportedly said.

    Facebook and Twitter did move to censor the The Post’s exposé of Hunter Biden’s influence peddling in The Ukraine before the election, a move that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later told Congress was a “total mistake.”

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    FSU shooting latest: Victims identified, police release timeline – ABC News
    FSU shooting latest: Victims identified, police release timeline – ABC News
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    Suspect arrested in NYC subway stabbings that killed 2, injured 2 others – NBC News
    Suspect arrested in NYC subway stabbings that killed 2, injured 2 others – NBC News
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    PHOTOS: See the wildflower ‘superbloom’ happening across California – NPR
    PHOTOS: See the wildflower ‘superbloom’ happening across California – NPR
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    Condenado responsable de la muerte del conductor de Noticias Uno – El Colombiano
    Condenado responsable de la muerte del conductor de Noticias Uno – El Colombiano

    El juez 14 penal de Bogotá condenó a 22 años de prisión a Arnulfo Flórez Agudelo, alias “Perra Flaca”, uno de los responsables de la muerte de Miguel Ángel Perdomo -conductor de Cecilia Orozco, directora de Noticias Uno y columnista del diario El Espectador- quien fue asesinado el pasado 16 de octubre en la capital del país.

    Flórez Agudelo fue detenido en Granada (Meta) y condenado por los delitos de ocultamiento de material probatorio, concierto para delinquir, homicidio y hurto agravado. En la audiencia de imputación de cargos el acusado se declaró culpable de tres cargos, y no aceptó su participación en el delito de homicidio.

    Recuerde: Conductor de directora de Noticias Uno fue envenenado

    La Fiscalía General aseguró que los empleados de la empresa Aseo Capital alertaron a las autoridades del hallazgo de los restos del cuerpo dentro de una bolsa de basura de color azul; paralelamente, un habitante de la localidad de Kennedy encontró partes humanas que según los análisis forenses, eran de Perdomo.

    De acuerdo con el ente investigador, Perdomo fue víctima de una banda que empleaba escopolamina para realizar robos. La organización delincuencial operaba en la avenida Primera de Mayo con la carrera 68, suroccidente de Bogotá, cuando personas buscaban “amanecederos”.

    El caso

    En la madrugada del 16 de octubre de 2016 Perdomo llegó a un establecimiento llamado “Punto 69”, donde le dieron una bebida que lo durmió.

    Mientras tanto, una persona identificada como “Tato” le consultó a alias “Cristian” cómo iban a robar a Perdomo. Sin embargo, los atracadores se dieron cuenta de que el conductor había muerto por la sustancia.

    Según explicó el ente investigador, Arnulfo Flórez Agudelo trabajaba como “jalador” en el sector, y él fue el que le dijo a Perdomo que fuera a dicho establecimiento, pues él también hacía parte de la organización en la que era identificado como “Perra flaca”.

    Flórez Agudelo habría sido quien se percató de que Perdomo había muerto, por lo que lo amarró a la silla, para que pareciera que estaba dormido, mientras cerraban el establecimiento.

    En el bar, Perdomo fue desmembrado y los hombres decidieron dejar los restos en varios puntos de la capital. Posteriormente, le pagaron tres millones de pesos a una persona para “desaparecer” la motocicleta en la que se transportaron los restos.

    Source Article from http://www.elcolombiano.com/colombia/condenado-uno-de-los-responsables-de-la-muerte-del-conductor-de-noticias-uno-CB7021062

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    Don Lemon calls Biden ‘the big guy’ during CNN town hall – Fox News
    Don Lemon calls Biden ‘the big guy’ during CNN town hall – Fox News
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    CNN anchor Don Lemon referred to President Joe Biden as “the big guy” during Wednesday’s night presidential town hall.

    During the town hall, which took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lemon asked Biden about his experience being “the big guy.”

    “You’ve been the big guy for six months now in the White House. Can you take us behind the scenes, something that was extraordinary or unusual that happened that stands out to you?” Lemon asked.

    SOURCE ON ALLEGED HUNTER BIDEN EMAIL CHAIN VERIFIES MESSAGE ABOUT CHINESE INVESTMENT FIRM 

    “The big guy” was notably used as a reference to Biden in a leaked email thread allegedly involving Joe’s son Hunter Biden making a deal with a Chinese energy firm. In 2020, Fox News confirmed the authenticity of an email dated May 13, 2017 that detailed a discussion for “remuneration packages” for people involved in a business deal. A section of the email contained a propriety split reading “10 held by H for the big guy?” which was later confirmed to reference Joe Biden.

    Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. remarked on this connection as well tweeting “Wow. Even Don Lemon knows Joe Biden is the “Big Guy”! #HuntersEmails.”

    Hunter Biden was referenced once during the town hall when Joe declared himself to be “proud” of his son. Scandals surrounding Hunter Biden have been frequently underplayed by media outlets with past examples being referred to as “Russian disinformation.“

    Regardless of whether Lemon intended to reference the emails or not, various Twitter users panned Lemon’s performance as moderator for the town hall.

    Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn tweeted, “Don Lemon is not a journalist. He is an activist. #BidenTownhall.”

    Donald Trump advisor Jenna Ellis also wrote “Don Lemon of course isn’t a journalist. He’s a activist and political hack. Obama himself said it to Jake Tapper — that he’s “leaving journalism altogether” to join CNN. Rolling on the floor laughing.”

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    During the town hall, Biden also referred to Don Lemon as “one of the most informed journalists in the country.”

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/media/don-lemon-calls-biden-the-big-guy-during-cnn-town-hall

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    President Biden claimed more kids are dying of guns than cars. That’s not the whole story. – NBC News
    President Biden claimed more kids are dying of guns than cars. That’s not the whole story. – NBC News
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    Shooting at Ramadan event in West Philadelphia leaves 3 injured, 5 in custody, police say – CBS Philly
    Shooting at Ramadan event in West Philadelphia leaves 3 injured, 5 in custody, police say – CBS Philly
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    Amber Guyger’s defense says she was on autopilot the night she shot Botham Jean in ‘innocent’ mistake – The Dallas Morning News
    Amber Guyger’s defense says she was on autopilot the night she shot Botham Jean in ‘innocent’ mistake – The Dallas Morning News

    Updated at 3 p.m.: Revised to include opening statements from Guyger’s defense team.

    Amber Guyger missed many chances to realize she’d parked on the wrong floor of her apartment complex before she shot Botham Jean in his home, a prosecutor told jurors during opening statements of Guyger’s murder trial.

    But her defense attorney said she was simply on autopilot the night of the shooting — that she had made an “awful and tragic, but innocent” mistake.

    Guyger, 31, was an off-duty Dallas police officer who was still in uniform when she killed Jean at the South Side Flats near downtown. She says she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own the night of Sept. 6, 2018, and thought he was a burglar.

    Minutes before the shooting, after she’d pulled into the parking garage, Guyger was carrying on a conversation with her partner — with whom she had a sexual relationship.

    Throughout that day, Guyger and Officer Martin Rivera had been texting about meeting later that evening, after her shift ended. She wrote that she was “super horny today,” lead prosecutor Jason Hermus told jurors.

    Just before the shooting, she sent him a Snapchat message that said, “Wanna touch?”

    Guyger had been on the phone with Rivera as she drove home. At one point, after she pulled into the parking garage, she pulled over to continue the conversation. At 9:55 p.m., the call ended.

    At that point, Jean had “less than three minutes to live,” Hermus said.

    Fired Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger (center) arrives for the first day of her murder trial in the 204th District Court at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas on Monday. Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean, an unarmed 26-year-old neighbor in his own apartment last year. She told police she thought his apartment was her own and that he was an intruder. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

    He said Guyger had failed to spot many clues that should have shown her she was on the wrong floor.

    She had worked a long shift that day — 13.5 hours — before she left the police substation where she worked about 9:30 p.m. But Hermus made a point to say that Guyger spent several hours of her shift indoors at Dallas police headquarters, where she and a few other officers had taken three suspects for an interview.

    “I don’t want to give the impression that she was running around chasing criminals all day,” said Hermus, who stood in front of jurors but glanced at Guyger at times.

    Guyger parked on the fourth floor, backing into a spot in her white Dodge pickup, Hermus said. Then she missed several clues, he said.

    One of Guyger’s neighbors, for example, had a large decorative planter outside her third-floor apartment, Hermus said, but no such thing was on the fourth floor. Lighted signs displayed the apartment numbers outside each unit.

    “She walks past 16 different apartments and fails to register the number 4 on any one of them,” Hermus said.

    He held up a bright red doormat that Jean had outside his door. Guyger, on the other hand, had no mat — only gray concrete outside her door, Hermus said.

    Assistant District Attorney Jason Hermus shows a photo of Botham Jean to the jury during his opening statement Monday. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

    She entered Jean’s apartment through an unlocked door. Once inside, Hermus said, she missed more clues.

    He said Guyger failed to notice the smell of marijuana in Jean’s apartment. Presumably, hers did not smell of marijuana, he said. And her apartment was neat, Hermus said. Jean’s was cluttered and missing a large table near the entryway that hers had.

    He said Guyger made a series of unreasonable errors that led to Jean’s death.

    “For her errors, for her omissions, Bo paid the ultimate price,” Hermus said.

    Guyger, seated next to one of her attorneys, Toby Shook, appeared to be watching Hermus as he spoke, with her head turned slightly to the left.

    Hermus noted that Guyger sent two texts to Rivera while she was on the phone with 911. One said, “I need you … hurry,” and the other said, “I f—– up.”

    Guyger was outside Jean’s apartment when first responders arrived.

    “She should have made it her point of existence to take care of that man,” Hermus told jurors.

    Following a break after the prosecution’s opening statements, Guyger’s attorney Robert Rogers described the 31-year-old as a dedicated officer who had dreamed as a young girl of joining the police force.

    He told jurors that Guyger had “firmly and reasonably” believed that she was in her own apartment the night she killed Jean.

    Fired Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger (right) listens to Assistant District Attorney Jason Hermus (not pictured) delivers the grand jury charge against her before his opening statement in the 204th District Court at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Monday, September 23, 2019. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

    Rogers described the South Side Flats apartment complex as confusing and said most residents got around “by feel.” He said more than 90 residents had reported unintentionally parking on the wrong floor.

    He said prosecutors’ suggestion that Guyger was planning to meet Rivera after she got home was false. The two flirted with each other “all the time,” but they hadn’t had a sexual encounter in months and Guyger was “trying to move on,” Rogers said.

    “What was going through Amber’s mind was just, ‘I’m going home,’ ” he said. “‘I’m done with my day of work, I’m exhausted and I’m going home.’”

    She was “on autopilot” when she parked on the fourth floor of the parking garage. She did not note that her neighbor’s decorative planter was not on the fourth floor, nor did she note the floor mats, Rogers said.

    “She’s tired, she’s almost home, she’s walking the same way she’s always walked,” Rogers said.

    Once she entered Jean’s apartment, Guyger believed she was confronting a burglar, Rogers said.

    “She’s trying to process this as she’s stepping into her apartment and at the same time, I’m sure Mr. Jean is thinking, ‘What is this person doing? Who is coming into my apartment?’ ” Rogers said. He’s confused, he’s wondering what’s going on. She’s thinking, ‘Why is this man in my apartment?’ ”

    Members of the media wait to get into Judge Tammy Kemp’s courtroom for the beginning of the trial. The Fired Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger is facing a murder charge in the 204th District Court at the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Monday, September 23, 2019. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)

    He said Guyger had tunnel vision, so she wasn’t noticing the differences between her apartment and Jean’s.

    Rogers said Guyger started to say “Hands!” but Jean drowned her out, yelling “Hey, hey!”

    “Why is he yelling at me? Why is he coming at me? Why is the display of my gun not working? He must have a weapon,” Rogers said, describing Guyger’s thought process. “He must want to kill me because I caught him burglarizing my apartment, and he’s getting closer.”

    After she fired her gun twice, striking Jean once in the chest, Guyger walked over to where he lay bleeding, Rogers said.

    “It starts to dawn on her as she approaches Mr. Jean’s body what a horrible, horrible mistake she has just made,” Rogers said.

    In response to prosecutors’ suggestions that Guyger should have been tending to Jean while on the phone with 911, Rogers said Guyger knew she couldn’t physically help him and believed his best chance at survival was to get emergency medical services to him.

    He acknowledged that she did text Rivera, her partner, while on the phone with 911, calling him her “rock.”

    He told jurors that prosecutors wanted to hold Guyger to an “impossible standard.”

    “They are holding her and twisting and turning and making things that are innocent mistakes into evil acts,” he said.

    The trial got underway about 12:30 p.m., after more than two hours of delays because of a pretrial hearing.

    The defense questioned whether Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot violated a gag order by discussing the case in an interview with KDFW-TV (Channel 4).

    Judge Tammy Kemp is visibly upset about the defense presentation of evidence that Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot gave an interview about the trial when a gag order was in place. The interview aired Sunday night. (Tom Fox / AP)

    In the interview, which aired Sunday night, Creuzot spoke about whether Guyger should have been charged with manslaughter or murder based on the facts of the case. He told the station that murder was the appropriate charge.

    “And so this issue of manslaughter that it was manslaughter — I wrote no, this is more appropriately a murder case based on the facts as reported,” Creuzot said in the short clip. “I’ve studied what we have and I feel comfortable going forward on it, but I don’t have any idea as to how it will end up.”

    Judge Tammy Kemp was visibly frustrated to learn of the interview, shaking her head. A gag order in the case prevents prosecutors and the defense from publicly discussing the case.

    Guyger’s defense moved to renew their motion to change the venue for the trial and asked for a mistrial, which Kemp denied. She questioned the 12 jurors and four alternate jurors individually about Creuzot’s interview. All told Kemp they had not seen it or any media coverage about the case since they were chosen as jurors. The jury will be sequestered for the entire trial.

    Earlier in the morning, prosecutors asked the judge to allow them to admit evidence including text messages Guyger sent to her partner the day of the shooting, which was later presented during opening statements.

    Guyger and Rivera had been in a relationship for about a year that “ebbed and flowed.” It had been ramping back up around September, Hermus said.

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    2/2Now-fired Dallas police officer Amber Guyger said Jean’s door was unlocked and ajar and that she entered his apartment thinking it was hers and mistook him for a burglar. Jean had a red mat in front of his door. Guyger did not. Jean’s family says he would not have left his door open and unlocked.(Jennifer Emily / Staff)

    Eight women and four men make up the jury, and all four alternates are women. The jury, selected more than a week ago, won’t have to decide whether Guyger killed Jean, a 26-year-old accountant from St. Lucia. That is not in dispute. Instead, the jurors will listen to the evidence and decide whether Guyger’s killing of Jean was a crime.

    Amber Guyger and Botham Jean(Mesquite Police Department and Instagram)

    And if it was a crime, is it murder? Or a lesser charge such as manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide?

    Guyger’s attorneys are expected to argue she made a “mistake of fact”: believing that she was in her apartment and that she needed to defend herself from someone she thought was a burglar.

    If jurors believe a “reasonable” person could have made that mistake, Guyger could be found not guilty of murder. If they don’t, they could find her guilty. If the jury does find Guyger not guilty of murder, they would then deliberate the lesser charges.

    Murder is punishable by up to life in prison. Criminally negligent homicide is punishable by up to two years in a state jail.

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    2/2Now-fired Dallas police officer Amber Guyger said Jean’s door was unlocked and ajar and that she entered his apartment thinking it was hers and mistook him for a burglar. Jean had a red mat in front of his door. Guyger did not. Jean’s family says he would not have left his door open and unlocked.(Jennifer Emily / Staff)

    Jean worked for PriceWaterhouseCoopers after graduating from Harding University in Arkansas. He was buried in a cemetery by the sea in St. Lucia the same day Dallas police Chief U. Reneé Hall fired Guyger.

    Jean, who loved to sing and was a song leader in his church, dreamed of returning to St. Lucia and becoming prime minister.

    Guyger was originally arrested on a manslaughter charge, but a Dallas County grand jury indicted her for murder. Dallas attorneys who are not involved with the case say murder is the appropriate charge because, in Texas, manslaughter is a reckless act and she intended to pull the trigger.

    State District Judge Tammy Kemp is presiding over Amber Guyger’s murder trial.(Ryan Michalesko / Staff Photographer)

    Guyger is free on bond during the trial. She posted a $200,000 bond when she turned herself in on the murder charge and a $300,000 bond when she was arrested previously on a manslaughter charge.

    The trial is expected to last two weeks. The jurors were told to pack a suitcase with enough clothes for two weeks — or one if they wanted to do laundry.

    They won’t have access to their phones during the trial, Kemp told them during jury selection.

    Listen to The Dallas Morning News special audio report, The Death of Botham Jean: Amber Guyger on Trial

    More on how to listen and subscribe to our audio reports:

    To listen to these reports on your mobile device and have future episodes delivered automatically, search for “The Dallas Morning News” on any podcast platform. (The largest is Apple Podcasts, so here’s a quick link to our feed there. And here’s a link to our feed in Spotify.) We’ll also post our reports on our website each time there’s a new episode. There are four episodes from before the trial began and more audio updates during the trial.

    If you’re not already a subscriber to The Dallas Morning News, please become one to help support our journalism and new initiatives like this one. Our listeners will find a special offer at dallasnews.com/audio.

    Read more about Amber Guyger and Botham Jean.

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    Trump Says U.S. States Don’t Need the Amount of Ventilators They Requested – Newsweek
    Trump Says U.S. States Don’t Need the Amount of Ventilators They Requested – Newsweek

    President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday evening that he believes that the coronavirus battle will not require the number of medical equipment pieces that have been requested by some states.

    Trump has been the subject of criticism over the distribution of medical equipment from federal stockpiles, with some state governors saying they do not have enough ventilators available to properly care for patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

    “FEMA says, ‘we’re sending 400 ventilators,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said at a Wednesday news conference. “Really? What am I going to do with 40 ventilators when I need 30,000?”

    Newsweek reached out to Governor Cuomo’s office for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

    “I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said for some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” Trump said. “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You know, at a major hospital sometimes they’ll have two ventilators. All of a sudden they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?'”

    “Look, it’s a very bad situation,” the president continued. “We haven’t seen anything like it. But the end result is we gotta get back to work and I think we can start by opening up certain parts of the country.”

    While many lawmakers have asked Trump to use the powers of the Defense Production Act (DPA) in order to impel American manufacturers to create more medical equipment, the president said companies have “stepped up” and volunteered to make them on their own.

    “I haven’t had to use [the DPA],” Trump said. “We had Ford step up, General Motors step up, 3M step up, so many companies stepped up and they’re making vast amounts of things but when you talk about ventilators, that’s sort of like buying a car. It’s very expensive, it’s a very intricate piece of equipment, heavily computerized and the good ones are very very expensive.”

    “They say, like Governor Cuomo and others, we want 30,000 of them. 30,000!” Trump exclaimed. “You go to hospitals, they’ll have one in a hospital and now all of a sudden everybody’s asking for these vast numbers.”

    However, Trump said his relationship with Cuomo had improved and that New York would be receiving an adequate amount of help, if not everything the governor had asked for.

    “I don’t think that certain things will materialize,” Trump said, “a lot of equipment is being asked for that I don’t think they’ll need, but we’re building four hospitals, four medical centers and many other things.”

    Trump announced Thursday during a coronavirus task force news briefing that the USNS Comfort, a hospital ship, was expected to dock in New York Harbor to assist health care workers with coronavirus patients. Not originally planned to complete retrofitting for coronavirus care for another three weeks, Trump said the ship was expected to arrive Saturday.

    “This is tremendous,” Trump told Hannity. “These are warships. These are ships that take care of the soldiers in battles and they are big and powerful.”

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    NY Gov. Cuomo snaps at reporters who asked if NYC schools will remain open, Twitter explodes – Fox News
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    New York City shuts down in-person learning due to COVID-19 spike

    Mayor Bill de Blasio says closure will last through at least Thanksgiving; Aishah Hasnie reports.

    New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo got into a shouting match with reporters Wednesday while denying that New York City public schools would be shut down due to a spike in coronavirus cases — only for Mayor Bill De Blasio to announce the closures minutes later. 

    The exchange began when Wall Street Journal reporter Jimmy Vielkind pressed Cuomo about whether he would overrule any decision by city officials to close schools.

    “What are you talking about? ‘You’re now going to override,’ we did it already! That’s the law!” Cuomo shouted. “An orange zone and a red zone, follow the facts!”

    “I’m still confused,” Viekind responded. 

    “Then you’re confused!” Cuomo shouted back. 

    “I’m confused and parents are still confused as well,” Viekind asserted. 

    “No, they’re not confused. You’re confused,” Cuomo told the reporter. “Read the law and you won’t be confused.”

    Another reporter asked point-blank if schools will be open “tomorrow,” to which Cuomo responded, “The schools are open by state law,” but the reporter called out the dodge and backed up Viekind’s line of questioning. 

    CNN FINALLY CRACKS DOWN ON GOV. CUOMO’S NURSING HOME CONTROVERSY AFTER GIVING ANCHOR’S BROTHER SOFTBALL TREATMENT 

    “Well, I don’t really care what you think. Of course, you agree with him because you’re in the same business with him,” Cuomo said. 

    Moments later, New York Times reporter Jesse McKinley broke the news to Cuomo that de Blasio’s office had announced the school closures beginning Thursday, something the governor eventually acknowledged. 

    “That 3% [benchmark], the mayor set, in my opinion, in a collaborative with the parents,” Cuomo said. “That was the agreement and the agreement should be honored.”

    The governor’s hostile exchange with reporters sparked heavy backlash on social media. 

    “For someone who presided over so many deaths, especially so many avoidable deaths in nursing homes!, Governor Cuomo should perhaps be a little less overconfident, little less mocking, and a little less aggressive in Covid (!) briefings with the media,” MSNBC analyst Mehdi Hasan reacted.

    “That’s some Trumpian treatment of a reporter asking a legitimate and fair question, @NYGovCuomo,” Politico reporter Andrew Disiderio said. 

    “Andrew Cuomo is like the Joe Pesci character of a Martin Scorsese movie without any of the likeability,” Daily Wire contributing editor Harry Khachatrian tweeted.

    “cuomo is being incredibly condescending and rude for someone who wrote a book about how well he managed the pandemic before it was over,” BuzzFeed News deputy director David Mack wrote. 

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    Mayor de Blasio issued a statement on Wednesday afternoon confirming the closures. 

    “New York City has reached the 3% testing positivity 7-day average threshold. Unfortunately, this means public school buildings will be closed as of tomorrow, Thursday Nov. 19, out an abundance of caution. We must fight back the second wave of COVID-19,” the mayor tweeted.

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    ‘American Taliban’ militant John Walker Lindh released from prison – Fox News
    ‘American Taliban’ militant John Walker Lindh released from prison – Fox News
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    ‘American Taliban’ militant John Walker Lindh released from prison

    An American who joined the Taliban in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks has been released from federal prison early. Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly calls the move ‘disgraceful’ on ‘Fox & Friends.’

    John Walker Lindh, the captured Islamic militant who at age 20 journeyed to Afghanistan to join the Taliban and fought alongside the terrorists in the days after 9/11,  was released from a U.S. federal prison in Indiana on Thursday, his lawyer confirmed to the Washington Post — despite lawmakers’ concerns about the “security and safety implications” of freeing an unrepentant terrorist who officials say continues to “openly call for extremist violence.”

    Lindh, dubbed the “American Taliban,” had been serving his sentence at the Terre Haute, Indiana facility. He was discharged several years before completing the 20-year prison sentence he received for joining and supporting the Taliban, with officials citing “good behavior” for the early release. The former Islamist fighter and enemy combatant, named “Detainee 001 in the war on terror,” was captured alongside a group of Taliban fighters in 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan.

    DAUGHTER OF AMERICAN KILLED AFTER SPEAKING WITH LINDH SLAMS UPCOMING EARLY RELEASE

    As he reintegrates into American society, Lindh will have a set of heavy restrictions placed on him. Some lawmakers, however, question whether the safeguards are stringent enough.

    “We must consider the security and safety implications for our citizens and communities who will receive individuals like John Walker Lindh, who continue to openly call for extremist violence,” Sens. Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., wrote in a letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons late last week and that was obtained by the Washington Post.

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    In the letter, the lawmakers reportedly sought details on how the agency is working to prevent prisoners such as Lindh from committing additional crimes after their release. They also asked which other “terrorist offenders” are next in line to be freed and how the Federal Bureau of Prisons determines whether or not someone is an “ongoing public threat.”

    Lindh has been blamed for playing a role in the death of Johnny “Mike” Spann, a U.S Marine turned CIA paramilitary operative who became the first American to be killed in combat in Afghanistan. Spann’s daughter, Allison, told Fox News in March that Lindh’s early release “feels like such a slap in the face.”

    LINDH IS SET TO BE RELEASED – SHOULD WE BE WORRIED?

    In November 2001, U.S forces learned that an American – Lindh – was among the cluster of Taliban fighters left in limbo after their leader surrendered to the Northern Alliance in the northern Afghanistan province of Mazar-i-Sharif. Spann was the first to go into a compound there, serving as a prison, to interview Lindh, peppering him with questions about where he was from and what he was doing. But Lindh refused to respond.

    “In those moments, when he chose to stay silent, he sealed his fate as a traitor to the United States,” Allison Spann said. “At any point, he could have warned him that something was being planned.”

    Hours later, Lindh’s fellow detainees erupted in a violent revolt that left Mike Spann dead.

    The initial charges leveled against the then 20-year-old Lindh in 2002 included one for murder conspiracy due to the role he played in the deadly prison rebellion.

    However, nine of the ten counts in an indictment were then dropped and Lindh ended up pleading guilty to disobeying an executive order outlawing support to the Taliban and for possessing a weapon in Afghanistan.

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    Lindh at the time told a U.S. district judge he never intended to kill Americans.

    “I did not go to fight against America, and I never did,” Lindh said, according to The Washington Post. “I have never supported terrorism in any form, and I never will … I made a mistake by joining the Taliban. Had I realized then what I know now, I would never have joined them.”

    Sentencing reports have indicated that “good behavior” may serve as justification for Lindh’s early release.

    A convert to Islam hailing from northern California’s Marin County, Lindh made the journey to Afghanistan after journeying through Yemen and Pakistan as a 19-year-old shortly before the Sept. 11 attacks. He underwent training in Kandahar and met with Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden on at least one occasion.

    In 2017, the National Counterterrorism Center, according to documents obtained by Foreign Policy, underscored that Lindh continued to “advocate for global jihad and write and translate violent extremist texts.”

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    Furthermore, he is alleged to have told a TV producer last March that he would “continue to spread violent extremism Islam upon his release.”

    When he leaves lockup, Lindh, according to court records viewed by the Washington Post, will need permission to obtain Internet-connected devices, will not be allowed to talk online in any language but English and will be barred from having a passport, among other restrictions.

    Fox News’ Greg Norman and Hollie McKay contributed to this report.

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