Thursday, June 18, 2020
Conservatives Should Feel No Investment in Confederate Monuments
The Richmond statue of Lee, which
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has said is coming down, has long been a
point of contention. Its unveiling in 1890 was a key moment in the
creation of a cult of Lee, as a man of “moral strength and moral beauty”
as a speaker put it that day.
Frederick Douglass appropriately
scorned this movement. “It would seem,” he wrote sarcastically, “that
the soldier who kills the most men in battle, even in a bad cause, is
the greatest Christian, and entitled to the highest place in heaven.”
Antifa, Big Tech, and abortion: Republicans bring culture war to police brutality debate
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/17/judiciary-color-327023
The House Judiciary Committee late
Wednesday approved a major police reform bill on a party-line vote, the
first step by Congress to address a crisis that has roiled the country
since George Floyd died in police custody on May 25.
Yet for much of the day, the panel was
ensnared in acrimonious cultural and political quarrels that had little
to do with the underlying issue of police brutality, which the
legislation is supposed to address.
The "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,"
in fact, was a recurring theme throughout the proceedings. Rep. Debbie
Lesko (R-Ariz.) at one point offered an amendment to cut off federal
police grants to any municipality that allows an autonomous zone to be
created within its borders.
Rep.
Pramilya Jayapal (D-Wash.), whose district is home to the Seattle zone,
was upset by Republicans’ repeated attempts to raise the issue. She
blamed Fox News and “right-wing media pundits” for what she said was
“misinformation” being spread about her hometown.
“I
don’t know how to keep telling people that what they’re saying are
lies,” Jayapal said, growing exasperated as she again slapped down
Republican accusations of a “law-enforcement-free micro-state” in her
district. “Please stop this nonsense and let’s get back to the bill
that's at hand.”
Bolton says Putin 'thinks' he can play Trump 'like a fiddle' in new claims ahead of book release
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bolton-putin-play-trump-like-fiddle-book
Former national security adviser John Bolton took President Trump to task Wednesday, saying he thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin can play Trump “like a fiddle.”
Bolton made the claim during an appearance on ABC News’ “World News Tonight with David Muir,” ahead of his 592-page memoir.
The book is expected to paint a scathing portrait of Trump and his
administration, lending the most vivid first-person account yet of how
Trump conducts himself in office.
“I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. I think Putin is
smart, tough -- I think he sees that he’s not faced with a serious
adversary here,” Bolton said of the president’s relationship with Putin.
“I don’t think he’s worried about Donald Trump.”
Host Martha
Raddatz asked Bolton why certain deals with other leaders like Putin
have gone awry despite Trump seeing “himself as a dealmaker.”
“Well
the president may well be a superb dealmaker when it comes to Manhattan
real estate. Dealing with arms limitation treaties on strategic
weapons, dealing in many many other international security issues are
things far removed from his life experience,” Bolton said. “When you’re
dealing with somebody like Putin who has made his life understanding
Russia’s strategic position in the world, against Donald Trump, who
doesn’t enjoy reading about these issues or learning about them -- it’s a
very difficult position for America to be in.”
George Floyd protests: Who are Boogaloo Bois, antifa and Proud Boys?
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-53018201
While in many cases peaceful, the protests have also featured scenes of police brutality, looting and violence.
Politicians,
law enforcement and commentators on the left and right have accused a
number of fringe groups of encouraging and participating in acts of
violence.
BBC News has been examining these groups on social media platforms.
Bolton, in book, accuses Trump of 'obstruction of justice as a way of life,' asking China's Xi for 2020 help
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bolton-in-book-accuses-trump-of-obstruction-of-justice-as-a-way-of-life-asking-chinas-xi-for-2020-help
Former national security adviser John Bolton alleges in his upcoming 592-page memoir that President Trump regularly
gives "personal favors to dictators he liked," backed the idea of more
concentration camps in China, and asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to
help him in the 2020 election, according to excerpts obtained and
published by several media outlets.
Bolton book bombshells: Trump asked China's Xi for reelection help and told him to keep building concentration camps
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/politics/bolton-book-trump/index.html
Former national security adviser John Bolton has
leveled a stunning accusation against his former boss, claiming in his
new book that President Donald Trump personally asked his Chinese
counterpart, Xi Jinping, to help him win the 2020 US presidential
election, according to a copy obtained by CNN Wednesday.
Bolton
also charged that when Xi told Trump last year that China was building
concentration camps for the mass detention of Uyghur Muslims, Trump said
Xi should go ahead building the camps, "which he thought was exactly
the right thing to do."
At
another meeting during last year's G-20 Summit in Osaka, Bolton writes
Trump "stunningly" turned the conversation to the upcoming 2020
election. The former national security adviser said Trump "stressed the
importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and
wheat in the electoral outcome," adding that he "would print Trump's
exact words, but the government's prepublication review process has
decided otherwise."
Judaism's holiest sites to be left out of sovereignty plan?
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/282035
Rachel's Tomb, Tomb of
Patriarchs and Joseph's Tomb may be left out of sovereignty map. Dagan:
'We can't abandon our holy places.'
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
12 false claims Trump has made about Obama since last month
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/17/politics/fact-check-trump-obama-lies-policing-justice/index.html
President Donald Trump keeps taking shots at former President Barack Obama.
A lot of them are lies.
Trump has long been fixated
on his predecessor. Since May 1, as his presidential campaign against
former Vice President Joe Biden has heated up, Trump has made at least
12 separate false claims about Obama and his record in office.
Trump added a new one Tuesday in a speech about police reform, declaring that Obama and Biden "never even tried" to fix problems in policing. That's not even close to true.
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