Wednesday, November 13, 2019
HOUSE REPUBLICANS' DEFENSE STRATEGY FOR IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS REVEALS FLAWS: ANALYSIS
https://www.newsweek.com/house-republicans-defense-strategy-impeachment-hearings-reveals-flaws-analysis-1471255
House Republicans have geared up for the first public impeachment hearings in the Ukraine scandal, set to take place this week, by having GOP staffers send a memo to lawmakers that outlines the strategy to best defend President Donald Trump.
Democrats Look to Build Case That Trump Tried to Bribe or Extort Ukraine
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/impeachment-strategy-republicans.html
With nationally televised hearings set to begin, Democrats described the president’s actions in the starkest terms yet, echoing the constitutional definition of behavior that warrants impeachment.
There’s a Surprisingly Plausible Path to Removing Trump From Office
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/12/path-to-removing-donald-trump-from-office-229911
It would take just three Republican senators to turn the impeachment vote into a secret ballot. It’s not hard to imagine what would happen then.
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
She went from a liberal non-voter to burning books with white supremacists. Here's why she finally left the movement
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/30/us/white-supremacist-woman-reeve/index.html
In May 2017, Samantha went to a book burning in upstate New York. She had entered the inner circle of the modern white power movement called the alt-right, and it was the moment its activists see in retrospect as the peak of its power.
The home was classically suburban, with a picnic table and a fire pit in the backyard. The atmosphere was like a family barbecue, but she felt an air of intensity. They stood around the fire and cheered as books were tossed into the flames. Some gave Nazi salutes. Samantha did, too.
"It's all so surreal," Samantha says now. "You're literally standing there, going, 'I'm at a book burning at someone's house. Like, there are families that live next door. There's probably a nice person who lives across the street, and I'm burning books about Jewish people.' ... It doesn't even feel like it's wrong or right. It just feels unreal."
At the time, she texted a friend that it was the best weekend of her life.
Donald Trump’s Worst Deal
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal
The President helped build a hotel in Azerbaijan that appears to be a corrupt operation engineered by oligarchs tied to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Undercover in the Orthodox Underworld-Mendel Epstein FBI Case
https://gen.medium.com/undercover-in-the-orthodox-underworld-83c61ba3aa83
But aside from the occasional angry husband outside of Mendel’s home in Flatbush, where he lived with his wife and their nine children, and aside from the occasional slashed tire or dead fish on the porch, Mendel was considered a necessary if unpleasant feature of Orthodox life. “For Jewish fundamentalists, he was a hero because he made the system work,” said Susan Aranoff, a longtime get activist. “And the system has to work, remember, because if the Torah is right and just, then its law can’t be wrong.”
Monday, November 11, 2019
Trump’s bluster crashes into a barrage of impeachment facts
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/11/trump-instincts-unimpeachable-presidency-ukraine-069015
But Trump’s tactics of speaking directly to supporters, branding catchphrases and casting critical information as fake may not work as well on impeachment as Democrats gather testimony and evidence from top officials not beholden to the Trump orbit. Even Trump himself is not sure he can beat impeachment, said a person close to the White House.
Trump Jr. heckled off stage — by Trump’s own supporters
Donald Trump Jr. was heckled — by his father’s own supporters — during a book-tour stop over the weekend, a report said Monday.
President Trump’s eldest son was on stage in a lecture hall at the University of California on Sunday to promote his new tome, “Triggered: How The Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us,’’ when the 450 people in the audience were told there would be no Q&A session with him “due to time constraints,’’ the Guardian said.
The White House’s most conservative supporters, who had chanted “USA! USA!” when Trump Jr. walked on stage, soon started yelling, “Q&A! Q&A!”
They refused to stop, even as Trump Jr. tried to argue that if he did a question-and-answer session, the Republican administration’s liberal enemies would twist his answers to suit their own agendas.
Trump Leaves Israel in the Lurch
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/israelis-arent-happy-trumps-syria-withdrawal/579103/
The problem for Israel today, though, goes beyond the surprise. If Obama was too cautious for many Israelis, Trump has now shown them how his approach to foreign policy—impulsive, isolationist, transactional, turning on a dime with no alternative in place—can work against their interests. And Netanyahu—who praised Trump in almost messianic terms and who knows how poorly he responds to criticism—now has few tools at his disposal to object to this policy. Israelis can only shake their heads at the absence of any strategy as they survey the regional fallout.
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