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Oxford — A football player, a volleyball striker, a captain of the bowling team and an aspiring artist.

Those were the four students tragically killed in Tuesday afternoon’s mass shooting at Oxford High School and who were identified by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.

Late Tuesday, authorities said Hana St. Juliana, 14, Madisyn Baldwin, 17, and Tate Myre, 16, were the three students who initially lost their lives following a five-minute rampage at the Oakland County high school. A fourth student died Wednesday morning: Justin Shilling was 17, authorities said.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said their families have been notified and each family has been assigned a deputy to remain as long as they need and “to provide the protection they deserve.”

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Myre, a football player and honor roll student, died in a patrol car as a deputy rushed him to a local hospital, Bouchard said in a 10 p.m. Tuesday update on the investigation.

“One of our deputies, due to the severity of wounds, loaded up one of the children in his car and, sadly, that child died in the car,” Bouchard said. “One of our employees who was in the 911 center as part of the team taking the emergency calls, had a relative killed. This touches us all personally, deeply and will for a long time.

“We will leave no stone unturned.”

Shilling was a senior and co-captain of the school’s bowling team and was an employee at Anita’s Kitchen in Lake Orion.

The restaurant posted a tribute to Shilling Wednesday afternoon, saying “he was an exemplary employee, a devoted friend and co-worker, co-captain of his bowling team, and simply a pleasure to be around.”

“Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time,” the restaurant said, adding that since opening its Lake Orion doors in December 2019, much of its staff has consisted of Oxford High students. “We often marvel at how blessed we are to have such amazing kids as part of our Lake Orion team. Simply put — we would not be a restaurant without them. Our heart aches for them all today, as they begin to heal from this terrible tragedy.”

In online tributes, friends said Baldwin, a senior, was expected to graduate this year. She had already been accepted into several colleges, some with a full scholarship.

“She was an artist who loved to draw, read and write. She was the eldest of three siblings,” friends wrote.

Juliana, a freshman, was the youngest victim killed. She was No. 9 on the Oxford volleyball team and had been playing front row in volleyball since middle school. She also played on the school’s basketball team and made her high school debut the night before she was killed.

Source Article from https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2021/12/01/victims-oxford-high-school-shooting-identified-hana-st-julian-madisyn-baldwin-tate-myre/8817875002/

WASHINGTON — Like any master showman, President Donald Trump surely knows the goods can’t stay hidden from the audience forever.

The Mueller Report will come out.

There’s pressure from Trump’s presidential rivals and Congress — the House voted unanimously for its release. The president himself has said he favors putting it out. And there’s a long history of government documents, from the Pentagon Papers to the Iran/Contra report and the Starr report, making their way into the public domain through authorized release, congressional dump and just plain old leaking.

Like Trump himself said, that might be exactly what he wants.

If he’s exonerated, he’ll be the first to yell “NO COLLUSION!” from the Twitter mountaintop and from campaign rallies in the valleys of the Midwest.

“Without an indictment against him, Trump is going to hammer home the waste of time, taxpayer money and resources to prove that he was right all along and that he did nothing wrong,” said Ron Bonjean, a veteran Republican strategist who helped shepherd Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch through his Senate confirmation process.

Trump may do that even if the report casts brutal aspersions on his activities and those of his family and friends — or if it delivers a mixed bag of reasons that special counsel Robert Mueller declined to prosecute certain individuals in the Trump orbit.

After all, Trump’s no stranger to spin.

The bottom line for him, and for GOP voters, is that Mueller didn’t file charges against him.

Source Article from https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/get-ready-trump-spin-mueller-report-n986536

Rep. Greg Steube R-Fla., said Sunday that House Democrats are unlikely to work with President Trump on immigration and won’t meet the Trump’s deadline to solve the crisis on the Mexico border.

Trump originally announced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids would start in several major cities with the goal of apprehending thousands of illegal immigrants, but called off the operation at the last minute at the request of congressional Democrats. He then said Saturday he’d give Congress two weeks to come up with a solution before giving ICE the green light to proceed.

“I was in the Rose Garden with the president when he announced his immigration plan and then hours later Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi said it’s dead on arrival,” Steube said Sunday on “America’s News HQ.” 

“We have had a Congress where Democrats have absolutely stalled on doing anything as it relates to the crisis on the border. Even now Democrats and the left are saying that we have a crisis on the border.”

Steube suggested House Democrats had no interest in attacking the issue head-on.

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“I sit on the immigration subcommittee on [the House Judiciary Committee] — they’ve done nothing as it relates to fixing this problem,” he said. “And, we as Republicans are fighting to do it. We have bills filed but they’re not wanting to move anything forward.”

Fox News’ Leland Vittert challenged Steube, saying Republicans had a chance to pass immigration reform after the 2016 elections when they had control of both congressional chambers and the White House.

“I wasn’t in Congress when that happened but I will tell you that people in my district were upset that when the Republicans had the majority, they weren’t able to get that done, and I think — I’m certainly going to be fighting to bring the majority back to Republicans in the House and if we do win the majority in 2020 you will see all of us focus on this immigration issue,” he replied.

Vittert continued to press Steube asking why voters should trust Republicans to follow through when they couldn’t deliver on immigration the first time.

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“I think you have a president who is very focused on this issue,” he replied. “I wasn’t there so I can’t speak of what he was telling congressional leaders but… I came into Congress with a very conservative class of leaders from all across the country, and we all feel very strongly about this issue.”

Steube also said Trump’s willingness to compromise with Democrats gave him hope that Congress could stem the tide of illegal immigrants pouring across the border, and finally find a permanent fix to the immigration crisis.

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“The president certainly is willing to make a deal. Look at the things that he offered. I mean, he’s willing to go a lot farther than the probably more conservative members of the House are willing to go to get a deal. I think with the president’s leadership on this, hopefully, we can get something done,” he said.

“But, all the Democrats are doing is stalling and doing nothing on this issue right now while hundreds of thousands of people every month are coming illegally into our country.”

Fox News’ Leland Vittert contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-stalling-immigration-ice-raids-steube

Ukrainian forces in the south of the country say they have struck key bridges in the Kherson region as their counteroffensive to retake the Russian-occupied city gathers pace.

In an update on Facebook, Ukraine’s Operational Command “South” said that missile and artillery units had carried out four strikes on Russian control and command points as well as four “logistical arteries” into Kherson — the Kakhovsky, Darivsky, and two Antonivsky bridges — with the damage inflicted on the bridges restricting the Russians’ use of them as supply routes for their forces in the city.

Ukraine’s military also said that its forces had killed almost 160 Russian troops in the region and destroyed 60 pieces of enemy equipment overnight.

“In our operating area, the environment is steadily complex but controlled. The destruction of hostile logistic paths, reserves and control points continues,” the operational update from the unit said. It added that Russia’s occupying force was “mostly demoralized, but continues to resist.”

Ukraine had flagged earlier this summer that it planned a counteroffensive to retake lost territory in southern Ukraine but some officials have become more tight-lipped about the offensive since it began earlier this week, wary of giving away tactical information or of building expectations of a quick victory in Kherson.

Nataliya Humenyuk, the head of the United Coordinating Center of Security and Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine, said during a press conference on Monday that “the most important thing to know at the moment is that any military operation requires conditions of silence, and the fact that any news from the front causes such a stir is actually very wrong.”

“In the conditions of a hybrid war, in the conditions of an information war, one must realize that any actions, even if they are very inspiring, must be carried out and have a logical conclusion, and only then will they be effective.”

While the counteroffensive had “inspired everyone,” she said, “you need to be patient and understand the rules and sequence of actions of military units.”

— Holly Ellyatt

Source Article from https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/31/russia-ukraine-war-updates.html

President TrumpDonald John TrumpForget the spin: Five unrefuted Mueller Report revelations Lara Trump: Merkel admitting migrants ‘one of the worst things that ever happened to Germany’ Financial satisfaction hits record high: survey MORE on Thursday dismissed the threats posed by former Vice President Joe BidenJoseph (Joe) Robinette BidenElection analyst says Biden could face uphill battle attracting small-dollar donors Biden’s announcement was a general election message, says political analyst Gillibrand ‘not worried’ about being ‘discounted’ in 2020 race MORE, Sen. Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisThe symbol of ‘Wakanda’ and black political vision Seven big decisions facing Biden in 2020 primary Sanders dominates, Buttigieg surges in 2020 social media battle MORE (D-Calif.), former Rep. Beto O’RourkeRobert (Beto) Francis O’RourkeCory Booker releases 10 years of tax returns Buttigieg gets first congressional endorsement O’Rourke to give commencement address at Texas’s oldest black college MORE (D-Texas) and others as they seek the Democratic nomination to challenge him in 2020.

Trump called Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News, where the two men engaged in a roughly 45-minute conversation railing against the president’s detractors and floating allegations about improper behavior by federal law enforcement.

At the conclusion of the discussion, Hannity asked Trump to respond to the names of a handful of Democratic candidates with a couple words that came to mind.

Trump shared a rare public critique of Harris, telling Hannity that “she’s got a little bit of a nasty wit, but that might be it.”

Of Biden, he said he’s landed on the derisive nickname “Sleepy Joe,” suggesting that the former vice president lacks the energy to handle the presidency.

Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersElection analyst says Biden could face uphill battle attracting small-dollar donors Gillibrand ‘not worried’ about being ‘discounted’ in 2020 race Biden’s sloppy launch may cost him MORE (I-Vt.), who along with Biden is polling at or near the top of most Democratic primary polls, has “a lot of energy,” Trump said.

“But he’s got misguided energy, and he’s done very poorly in terms of the Senate,” Trump said.

Trump cast doubt on the chances of O’Rourke’s candidacy, calling it a “fluke” and arguing the former Texas congressman is “fading very fast.”

“And Mayor Pete is not going to make it,” Trump said of South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete ButtigiegPeter (Pete) Paul ButtigiegColbert links large 2020 Dem field to Avengers: ‘A group of every available person in the universe’ The Hill’s Morning Report – Trump tells House investigators ‘no’ Buttigieg draws new scrutiny, criticism MORE, who has surged in recent polling. “I’m rooting for him, but he’s not going to make it.”

The president has publicly expressed confidence about his abilities to defeat any candidate that emerges from a field of roughly 20 candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

Recent polling of hypothetical 2020 matchups have shown Biden and Sanders leading or running neck-and-neck with Trump.

Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/440780-trump-offers-critiques-of-2020-democratic-candidates

President Trump’s decision Thursday morning to surrender to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s demand that he wait until after the government shutdown is resolved to deliver his State of the Union speech in the House chamber is going to make it a lot less likely that Pelosi, D-Calif., gives in on the funding for a border wall.

Sure, in the larger scheme of things, this childish skirmish doesn’t matter much. No lives are going to be affected by whether the date of a speech is on Jan. 29 on some other time. But in an ongoing negotiation with no real movement, any standoff is going to become a proxy battle.

In this case, Pelosi’s petulant action of rescinding her invitation to the State of the Union was an effort to flex her muscles. Trump responded, first, by canceling a congressional delegation’s overseas trip and then sending a letter on Wednesday signaling he was going to show up anyway, widely seen as an attempt to force her hand. But Pelosi didn’t flinch — she has the power to block a resolution calling a joint session of Congress and was willing to use it. Instead of trying to call her bluff by showing up, and forcing her to shut off the lights on him, or delivering the speech an an alternate venue, he instead announced he was completely capitulating.

As Mark Levin noted, Pelosi is now going to see this as weakness. Trump lashed out, he tut-tutted, but ultimately he gave Pelosi exactly what she wanted without getting anything in return.

At this point, there’s very little reason to believe that Pelosi will give in. Her party is unified behind her, Trump is the one who’s getting more blame for the shutdown, and her base would flip out if she agreed to fund the border wall. Now, on top of this, she has even more reason to believe that he’ll eventually cave.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trumps-surrender-on-the-state-of-the-union-makes-it-even-less-likely-pelosi-will-give-in-on-border-wall

KRYVYI RIH, Ukraine — In a war fought on the expanse of steppe in southern and eastern Ukraine, victory or defeat is in large part decided by the logistics of moving men, weaponry, ammunition, fuel and food over vast distances — all of which could become more difficult for the Russian army after the partial destruction of the Kerch Strait Bridge.

The 12-mile span, part of which now slumps into the Black Sea, had been a linchpin of Russian military logistics for a sprawling land war. The bridge is important for tying Russia with the Crimean Peninsula; the peninsula, in turn, had been used as a staging area for attacks elsewhere in Ukraine.

Since early summer, Ukraine has focused its strikes on supply lines, with the Kerch Strait Bridge marking a cherished prize for a military force that for months has been publicly hinting at its plans to hit the span.

Russia has alternatives for transporting troops to staging areas where they can be reorganized into battle-ready units, but they are more costly, dangerous and time-consuming, Ukrainian and Western analysts and former military officials say. Other options include sailing ships to harbors in Crimea and sending trains and trucks on railroads and roads in other occupied areas of Ukraine.

“The biggest issue is not supplying, the biggest issue is staging,” Andriy Zagorodnyuk, a former Ukrainian defense minister, said in a telephone interview. “They were getting them ready for the battlefield safely in Crimea, forming battlefield units in Crimea and sending them to the frontline.”

With the bridge partly destroyed, Russia can use roads from the Ukrainian border that wind through the occupied towns of Mariupol and Berdyansk, hugging the coast of the Azov Sea, that weave in and out of range for Ukrainian rocket artillery. Troops would have to form battle-ready units inside Russia and travel longer distances in these formations, a less efficient means of supplying the front lines, Mr. Zagorodnyuk said.

By Saturday evening, rail service had been at least partly restored, and a train with 15 cars had successfully crossed the span, according to a Russian state news agency, Tass. On the undamaged side of the bridge, car traffic had resumed, the head of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov, said in a post on Telegram.

Those coastal routes are closer to Ukrainian positions than Crimea is and so are more vulnerable to attack. As if reinforcing these difficulties, Ukraine on Saturday struck a cargo train with rockets in Ilovaisk, a city in the occupied portion of Donetsk region, Petro Andrushenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said.

“The occupiers now have big problems with supplies from both sides,” from the south in Crimea and from the east via the land borders with Russia, he said.

Railroads, the means of military logistics so preferred by the Russian army that it has whole units dedicated to rail travel, called Railroad Forces, do not connect all areas occupied by the Russians in southeastern Ukraine.

The explosion on the Kerch Strait Bridge will affect Russia’s ability to resupply and reinforce units in the southern provinces of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Rob Lee, a Russian military specialist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, said in an email. Mr. Lee said it was unclear if the Russian military had enough ferries to cross the Kerch Strait to offset the disruption of rail and road traffic.

Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London, said Russian logistics would shift toward a rail line to the city of Melitopol, far closer to Ukrainian front lines than Crimea.

The route, he said, is “vulnerable to disruption” by Ukraine’s army. Hindering Russian resupply efforts would particularly benefit Ukrainian towns near the front line, which have been repeatedly shelled, Oleksandr Vilkul, the military governor of Kryvyi Rih, said in an interview.

“The occupiers managed all supplies for the south over the Crimean bridge,” he said. “Any difficulties for them in these logistics is naturally positive for us.”

Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Frankfurt, Germany.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/08/world/russia-ukraine-war-news

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that black legislators planning to boycott his appearance at a Virginia event commemorating the 400th anniversary of the rise of American democracy are going “against their own people.”

Trump said African Americans “love the job” he’s doing and are “happy as hell” with his recent comments criticizing a majority black district in the Baltimore area and its congressman.

Trump spoke at the White House before heading to historic Jamestown in Virginia.

Black state lawmakers plan to stay away from Trump’s speech, in part over what they call Trump’s disparaging comments about minority leaders.

A last-minute announcement that the president would participate in the Jamestown commemoration Tuesday marking the first representative assembly in the Western Hemisphere injected tension into an event years in the making. Some other top Democrats have also pledged a boycott in protest.

President Donald Trump, right, listens to a reporter’s question during a bilateral meeting with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Friday, June 28, 2019. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, left, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, second from left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, third from left, listen. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)




Demonstrators gathered Tuesday morning near the site where Trump is to speak.

“The commemoration of the birth of this nation and its democracy will be tarnished unduly with the participation of the President, who continues to make degrading comments toward minority leaders, promulgate policies that harm marginalized communities, and use racist and xenophobic rhetoric,” the caucus said in a statement Monday.

The boycott comes after Trump’s weekend comments referring to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings’ majority-black Baltimore-area district as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” A caucus statement didn’t specifically mention Cummings but said Trump’s “repeated attacks on Black legislators and comments about Black communities makes him ill-suited to honor and commemorate such a monumental period in history.”

Black Caucus chairman Del. Lamont Bagby told The Associated Press in an interview that the group reached a unanimous decision to boycott the event more than a week ago but that the president has “continued his attacks” since then, including with his remarks about Cummings’ district.

The anniversary comes at a time of heightened election-year partisanship in the aftermath of political scandals that rocked Virginia’s top state elected leadership.

In Washington, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said the caucus was pushing “a political agenda.”

“President Trump passed criminal justice reform, developed opportunity zones securing record-setting investment in distressed communities, and pushed policies that created the lowest unemployment rates ever for African Americans, so it’s a bit confusing and unfortunate that the VLBC would choose to push a political agenda instead of celebrate this milestone for our nation,” she said in a statement.

Caucus members also pledged to boycott the rest of a weeklong series of events marking the anniversary and have instead planned alternative commemorations Tuesday in Richmond, Virginia’s capital.

At an early-morning ceremony, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam told a gathering of dignitaries that the ideals of freedom and representative government spread from Jamestown in 1619. But he also noted the first assembly was significant for those not included: women, enslaved Africans and Native Americans.

Northam called that the paradox of Virginia, America and its representative democracy.

Trump is scheduled to give remarks later Tuesday morning, joining with state and national leaders and others at a commemorative session of the Virginia General Assembly.

Today’s Virginia General Assembly, considered the oldest continuously operating legislative body in North America, grew out of the assembly that first gathered in 1619.

The anniversary comes as lawmakers in Virginia are grappling with the fallout from scandals that engulfed the state’s top three elected officials earlier this year.

A blackface photo scandal nearly destroyed Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s career. Then, as it looked like Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax might ascend to the governorship, two women accused him of sexual assault. Fairfax, who plans to attend Tuesday, has vehemently denied those allegations.

Attorney General Mark Herring, also a Democrat, has separately faced calls to resign after acknowledging he dressed in blackface decades ago.

All three men remain in office.

Source Article from https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/07/30/trump-black-leaders-boycotting-him-go-against-own-people/23782612/

“Contrary to the President’s arguments, the Committee possesses authority under both the House Rules and the Constitution to issue the subpoena, and Mazars must comply,” wrote Judge David S. Tatel, who was joined by Judge Patricia A. Millett. Both were nominated by Democratic presidents.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/congress-can-seek-eight-years-of-trumps-tax-records-appeals-court-rules/2019/11/13/b4fc8002-fc07-11e9-8906-ab6b60de9124_story.html

A Central Point father of four who wished President Joe Biden and the first lady a wonderful Christmas and added “Let’s go, Brandon,” at the end of a live streamed Santa tracker call told The Oregonian/OregonLive that he didn’t intend his parting message to be vulgar.

“At the end of the day, I have nothing against Mr. Biden, but I am frustrated because I think he can be doing a better job,” said Jared Schmeck, 35, who works for an electric company and was previously a Medford police officer for six years until he resigned in July 2018. “I mean no disrespect to him.”

The phrase “Let’s Go, Brandon” has become a conservative dig at the Democratic president, a code for “F— Joe Biden,” which resulted from an Oct. 2 NASCAR race in Alabama, where a crowd was shouting the vulgar chant, but a TV reporter suggested during an interview with the driver, Brandon Brown, who had just won his first Xfinity Series, that the crowd actually was chanting, “Let’s go, Brandon.”

Schmeck said he’s not a “Trumper,” but described himself as “free-thinking American and follower of Jesus Christ.”

Schmeck said he and his family call into the NORAD Santa tracker every Christmas Eve. He said he wasn’t aware the call would be livestreamed.

When he called Friday night from his sons’ Christmas-decorated bedroom, he was told First Lady Jill Biden would be taking calls.

“I thought it would be automated. We just waited on hold and then they answered,” he said. “And I thought, ‘wow, this is real.’ “

When Jared shared the names of his children, President Biden immediately honed in on the boy named Hunter, sharing that they have a son and grandson named Hunter as well.

Jared’s 11-year-old Griffin told the president he wanted a piano for Christmas. His son Hunter said he wanted a Switch.

“Switch?” Biden questioned.

Schmeck, kneeling between his sons’ beds and holding his cell phone out so all could hear, explained to the president that it’s short for Ninetendo Switch. Schmeck went on to share that his daughter Piper wanted a Barbie doll airplane and his 2-year-old daughter Penelope would be happy with any presents from Santa. Schmeck asked for a “quiet night.” The president retorted, “Lucks of luck dad,” and all laughed.

Biden urged all the children to get to bed by 9 p.m. and stay asleep until midnight or Santa wouldn’t show.

“Well, have a Merry Christmas. Have a wonderful Christmas,” the First Lady said.

“I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well,” Schmeck responded, and added, “Merry Christmas and Let’s Go Brandon!”

The First Lady winced, and the president immediately responded, “Let’s Go Brandon, I agree.”

Then President Biden attempted to find out if Jared was calling from Oregon.

“By the way are you in Oregon? Where’s your home?” the president asked. With no response, Biden said, “I think we lost him,” and moved on.

By then, though, Schmeck had gotten off the phone. He said he didn’t hang up on the president but that he was disconnected.

Soon afterward, Schmeck’s wife on Instagram posted, “My husband may or may not have just told joe and jill Biden ‘let’s go Brandon’ on the phone,’ “ punctuated by two crying emojis. Schmeck also posted a video of their conversation with Biden and the First Lady on his YouTube channel, writing, “We talked to President Joe Biden on Christmas Eve! #letsgobrandon”

From Christmas Eve to Christmas Day, Schmeck’s parting remark to Biden fueled fury on social media.

U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-CA, wrote on Twitter, “I refuse to believe we are this indecent as people. Not on Christmas Eve. And not to a person who lost his wife and daughter at Christmastime. We are better than this. Be kind and #Merry Christmas.”

Another on Twitter wrote: “Imagine being a grown man so infantile and disrespectful that you say the slur ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ to the president in front of your own kids and dozens of others. This is a sad time.”

Others lambasted his remark. One person wrote on Twitter, “Some of us celebrate Christmas Eve w gratitude for the birth of Jesus, others shout obscenities to entertain their son and @YouTube audience.”

“Wow. #jaredschmeck is gonna trend for the first time in his life, and not in a good way,” wrote another on the social media site.

Schmeck called his remark a “joke,” and a reflection of his frustration with Biden’s policies, including the federal vaccine mandates, inflation and global supply chain problems that have caused shortages in consumer products.

“And now I am being attacked for utilizing my freedom of speech,” Schmeck said, adding that he’s been receiving some vague but threatening phone calls since the Santa tracker call.

“I understand there is a vulgar meaning to ‘Lets go Brandon,’ but I’m not that simple minded, no matter how I feel about him,” the 35-year-old father said Christmas morning. “He seems likes he’s a cordial guy. There’s no animosity or anything like that. It was merely just an innocent jest to also express my God-given right to express my frustrations in a joking manner…I love him just like I love any other brother or sister.”

Asked why he resigned from Medford police on July 15, 2018, Schmeck wouldn’t say.

He went on to say he “stood 100% behind what I did and what I said.”

— Maxine Bernstein

Email at mbernstein@oregonian.com; 503-221-8212

Follow on Twitter @maxoregonian

Source Article from https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2021/12/oregon-father-of-four-who-told-president-biden-lets-go-brandon-on-christmas-eve-call-said-he-meant-it-in-jest.html

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La familia de César Arellano Chumacero pide ayuda para trasladar el cuerpo del vigilante a su natal Piura.

El vigilante asesinado trabajaba en la discoteca donde Eduardo Glicerio Romero Naupay disparó a quemarropa a los presentes. | Fuente: RPP

César Arellano Chumacero trabajaba como seguridad en la discoteca Zeven de Independencia, cuando Eduardo Romero lo asesinó  a él y a otras dos personas la noche de este viernes. Su tía, Diosa Arellano, le dijo a RPP Noticias que su sobrino ha dejado a 3 hijos en la orfandad y pidió ayuda para llevar el cuerpo a su natal Piura.

“Nos enteramos por la televisión, pero no queríamos creer que era él. César trabajaba hace seis años en la discoteca, es un padre de familia de 3 niños, que han quedado en la orfandad. Mi sobrino es de Piura, pero vive en Lima. Allá tiene dos hijos de su primer compromiso y del segundo tiene una hijita que vive acá”, comentó en RPP Noticias.

Diosa Arellano pidió “que se haga justicia” y que se sanciones a los responsables que le permitieron a Eduardo Romero portar un arma de fuego. “En Piura, su papá aún no se entera. No puede venir a Lima porque está delicado de salud, por eso necesitamos ayuda para llevar el cuerpo allá”.

La tía del vigilante César Arellano Chumacero llegó a la Morgue Central de Lima, donde está el cadáver de su familiar. | Fuente: RPP

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The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington. And fear is what’s driving this week’s blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr.

Mr. Barr tolerantly sat through hours of Democratic insults at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. His reward for his patience was to be labeled, in the space of a news cycle, a lawbreaking, dishonest, obstructing hack. Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly accused Mr. Barr of lying to Congress, which, she added, is “considered a crime.” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he will move to hold Mr. Barr in contempt unless the attorney general acquiesces to the unprecedented demand that he submit to cross-examination by committee staff attorneys. James Comey, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, lamented that Donald Trump had “eaten” Mr. Barr’s “soul.” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren demands the attorney general resign. California Rep. Eric Swalwell wants him impeached.

These attacks aren’t about special counsel Robert Mueller, his report or even the surreal debate over Mr. Barr’s first letter describing the report. The attorney general delivered the transparency Democrats demanded: He quickly released a lightly redacted report, which portrayed the president in a negative light. What do Democrats have to object to?

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Some of this is frustration. Democrats foolishly invested two years of political capital in the idea that Mr. Mueller would prove President Trump had colluded with Russia, and Mr. Mueller left them empty-handed. Some of it is personal. Democrats resent that Mr. Barr won’t cower or apologize for doing his job. Some is bitterness that Mr. Barr is performing like a real attorney general, making the call against obstruction-of-justice charges rather than sitting back and letting Democrats have their fun with Mr. Mueller’s obstruction innuendo.

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But most of it is likely fear. Mr. Barr made real news in that Senate hearing, and while the press didn’t notice, Democrats did. The attorney general said he’d already assigned people at the Justice Department to assist his investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. He said his review would be far-reaching – that he was obtaining details from congressional investigations, from the ongoing probe by the department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, and even from Mr. Mueller’s work. Mr. Barr said the investigation wouldn’t focus only on the fall 2016 justifications for secret surveillance warrants against Trump team members but would go back months earlier.

He also said he’d focus on the infamous “dossier” concocted by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS and British former spy Christopher Steele, on which the FBI relied so heavily in its probe. Mr. Barr acknowledged his concern that the dossier itself could be Russian disinformation, a possibility he described as not “entirely speculative.” He also revealed that the department has “multiple criminal leak investigations under way” into the disclosure of classified details about the Trump-Russia investigation.

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    NBC News said in a statement that the journalist did not intend to contact or photograph the jurors and is cooperating with authorities. Police said “there was no breach of security regarding the jury, nor were there any photographs obtained”.

    Mr Rittenhouse, 18, is facing five felony charges for shooting three men in the aftermath of police brutality protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin on 25 August 2020. The most serious charges are first-degree homicide for the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber.

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    “Last night, a freelancer received a traffic citation. While the traffic violation took place near the jury van, the freelancer never contacted or intended to contact the jurors during deliberations, and never photographed or intended to photograph them,” NBC News said in a statement to CNN.

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    As Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate was being decided, protesters from both the “guilty” and “not guilty” camps outside Wisconsin courthouse displayed unusual bonhomie.

    The supporters of Black Lives Matter and those of Rittenhouse shared pizza together and spoke of unity as they withstood the bitter cold together despite their opposing views.

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    A man who was confronted by police for carrying a rifle without a permit and hurled obscenities about Black Lives Matter protests confirmed he was a fired Ferguson police officer.

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    El “escape” de Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán nuevamente es noticias, al menos en las redes sociales. El famosos narcotraficante se “fugó”, en una noticia falsa que se corrió en las redes sociales. En Honduras, decomisan un arsenal valorado en medio millón de lempiras.

    En este resumen de noticias de este viernes, te presentamos las que mayor impacto tuvieron en Honduras y el planeta entero:


    Falso escape del Chapo Guzmán enciende las redes sociales

    El narcotraficante Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán ha vuelto a encender las alertas este viernes tras difundirse su supuesta tercera fuga.
    Un sitio que se hace pasar por el portal de noticias ABC News publicó información falsa de que el líder del cartel de Sinaloa se había fugado.

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    Revelan forma en que operaban los cachiros

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    “Los Cachiros financiaron partidos políticos de todas las tendencias, desde candidatos a alcaldías hasta congresistas y quizá incluso en niveles más altos. Sabotearon las investigaciones locales contra ellos y otros grupos, infiltrándose en la policía, las procuradurías locales y los juzgados de todo el país. Compraron empresas constructoras, para así poder ganar contratos con el gobierno y luego pagarles sobornos a los políticos que habían apoyado sus postulaciones durante las licitaciones. Apoyaron invasiones de terrenos de empresas rivales. Y asesinaron impunemente a sus rivales en el negocio del narcotráfico y a otras personas que se les opusieron”, detalló teven Dudley, codirector de InSight Crime.

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    Decomisan armas valoradas en medio millón de lempiras

    Más de diez potentes armas de fuego fueron decomisadas en las últimas horas en tres operativos en la colonia Las Torres de Comayagüela, en la capital de Honduras.
    “Este tipo de armas es utilizada únicamente por las fuerzas de seguridad del Estado, un arma de corte ilegal, en manos de particulares”, indicó el portavoz de la Secretaría de Seguridad, Luis Osavas.

    “Son armas con alto poder de fuego. Es una incautación que su valor oscila en medio millón de lempiras”, explicó Osavas.


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    El único sospechoso abatido por la policía luego de la matanza del jueves en Dallas fue Micah Johnson, un negro de 25 años que carecía de antecedentes policiales y reservista del Ejército, que estuvo movilizado en Afganistán entre noviembre de 2013 y julio de 2014.

    Johnson fue muerto al fin de un gigantesco cerco policial que incluyó el uso de un robot con explosivos.


    Honduras, el 52 país más peligroso del mundo, según GPI

    Según un informe del Global Peace Index (GPI), Honduras es el segundo país más peligroso de Centroamérica.
    El mundo es hoy más peligroso que hace un año, ha indicado el último informe del Global Peace Index (GPI) del Instituto de para la Economía y la Paz en este 2016.
    La décima edición de este informe incluye a 163 país donde concluye que Islandia es el país donde menos violencia existe en todo el mundo.
    Los 163 estados cubren más del 99% de la población mundial y se evaluó a través de 23 indicadores. El índice mide la paz mundial mediante tres grandes temas: el nivel de seguridad y protección en la sociedad, en la medida de conflicto nacional e internacional, y el grado de militarización que existe en cada estado.
    Los conflictos regionales en el Oriente Medio y el Norte de África se intensificaron lo que significa que los países más peligrosos del mundo de 2015 se hizo aún más grande.
    Siria, Sudán del Sur e Irak son los países más peligrosos del mundo, destaca el informe. Otros estados frágiles y que están en los primeros lugares son Afganistán, Somalia, Yemen y la República Centroafricana.
    Mientras que Pakistán y Corea del Norte salieron del top 10 y sorprendentemente Ucrania, país europeo, hora ocupa el octavo lugar debido al conflicto con los separatistas pro-rusos en la región de Donbass.

    20% de la población de Somalia y Sudán del Sur, respectivamente, y más del 60% de la de Siria “.
    Europa sigue siendo la región geográfica más tranquila y destaca Islandia, Dinamarca y Austria como los países más pacíficos del mundo. Sin embargo, a pesar de la tranquilidad relativa de Europa, la puntuación media en Europa se deterioró debido a los incidentes de terrorismo en París y Bruselas, así como el aumento de la violencia y la inestabilidad en Turquía, un país que también ha sufrido profundamente y se ubica en la 19 posición.

    Los países más peligrosos del mundo
    1. Siria
    2. Sudán del Sur
    3. Irak
    4. Afghanistan
    5. Afghanistan
    6. Yemén
    7. República Central Africana
    8. Ucrania
    9. Sudán
    10 Libia
    11. Pakistan
    12. República Democrática del Congo
    13. Rusia
    14. Corea del Norte
    15. Nigeria
    16. Palestina
    17. Colombia
    18. Líbano
    19. Turquía
    20. Israel
    21. Venezuela
    22. Egipto
    23. India
    24. México
    25. Filipinas
    26. Burundi
    27. Mali
    28. Chad
    29. Eritrea
    30. Azerbaiyán
    31. Irán
    32. Bahrein
    33. Kenia
    34. Camerún
    35. Arabia Saudita
    36. Ruanda
    37. Zimbaue
    38. Sudáfrica
    39. Tailandia
    40. Kirguistán
    41. Mauritania
    42. Tayikistán
    43. Djibouti
    44. China
    45. Ethiopía
    46. Costa de Marfil
    47. Guatemala
    48. Guinea-Bissau
    49. Myanmar
    50. Republica de Congo
    51. Nigeria
    52. Honduras
    53. El Salvador

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