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My mom asked for a divorce. My dad made his mother his pension beneficiary — then killed himself. Now my mom and grandma are feuding. Who is right?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/my-mother-asked-my-father-for-a-divorce-he-replaced-her-with-my-grandmother-as-beneficiary-on-his-pension-then-took-his-own-life-what-should-they-do-2020-02-08?mod=cx_picks&cx_navSource=cx_picks&cx_tag=mw&cx_artPos=7#cxrecs_s\\\

‘My grandmother and mother both have lawyers, and they both say that they are going to get this pension. It’s been dragging on for nearly two years’

 

Michael Bloomberg goes full Trump troll in his new golf ad

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/31/politics/michael-bloomberg-trump-golf-ad/index.html

 Trump, as Bloomberg well knows, is decidedly vain and appearance focused. There is nothing that will bother Trump more than seeing an ad like this that is clearly intended to make Trump look out of shape and sort of bumbling. (One image shows Trump climbing up a hill at a golf course on all fours.)
 

Did Pastor Rick Wiles Call Trump Impeachment a ‘Jew Coup’?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rick-wiles-trump-impeachment/

In late 2019, we received multiple inquiries from readers about reports that Rick Wiles, a controversial right-wing pastor, had launched a virulently anti-Semitic attack on leading congressional Democrats, claiming that impeachment proceedings against U.S. President Donald Trump amounted to a “Jew coup.”

Such reports were published by the Times of Israel, and the websites BoingBoing.net and RightWingWatch.org, among others. 

Those articles were accurate. On Nov. 22, Wiles dedicated an entire 97-minute episode on his online channel TruNews to what the episode billed as “Jew Coup: Seditious Jews Orchestrating Trump Impeachment Lynching.”

Trump ousts Jewish officer, ambassador who testified in impeachment inquiry

https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-officer-who-testified-against-trump-escorted-out-of-white-house/

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who served on National Security Council, and Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the EU, both fired two days after president’s acquittal by Senate

 

'Campaign of intimidation': Vindman's lawyer responds to new attacks by Trump

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/08/alexander-vindman-trump-attacks-112512

 Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s attorney vigorously pushed back Saturday on President Donald Trump publicly tying the impeachment witness’ ouster to insubordination and leaking information.

In a statement, attorney David Pressman said Trump’s claims “conflict with the clear personnel record and the entirety of the impeachment record of which the President is well aware.”

 

The Trump administration went back on its promise to protect whistleblowers' safety

https://www.businessinsider.com/vindman-firing-us-government-protecting-whistleblowers-2020-2

 In a Friday night segment, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow pointed to a November 2019 tweet from Marcus Weisgerber, an editor at military and defense outlet Defense One, which contained a transcript of an exchange with Esper, where the secretary said there was "no retaliation" allowed under the law against whistleblowers.

"All I'm saying is that if you come forward with information that you feel is, that you feel you are a whistleblower, then you are protected," Esper said, according to the transcript.

 

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Despite his impeachment trial acquittal, Trump clearly guilty of a high crime

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/judge-andrew-napolitano-despite-his-impeachment-trial-acquittal-trump-clearly-guilty-of-a-high-crime

  "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." – George Orwell, "1984"

The Senate impeachment trial of President Trump ended not with a bang but a whimper. What different outcome could one expect from a trial without so much as a single witness, a single document, any cross-examination or a defendant respectful enough to show up?

Law students are taught early on that a trial is not a grudge match or an ordeal; it is a search for the truth. Trial lawyers know that cross-examination is the most effective truth-testing tool available to them.

But the search for the truth requires witnesses, and when the command from Senate Republican leaders came down that there shall be no witnesses, the truth-telling mission of Trump's trial was radically transformed into a steamroller of political power

Prominent sex offender rabbi Berland arrested in Jerusalem

https://www.timesofisrael.com/prominent-sex-offender-rabbi-berland-reportedly-arrested-in-jerusalem/

 Police investigating over 200 complaints alleging systematic exploitation of the desperately ill; protesters clash with police during arrest of leader of cult-like sect

 

CNN fact checks Trump's claim about Ivanka during speech

Bill Taylor: No question about the facts in Trump's impeachment