Thursday, June 25, 2020
Federal appeals court orders Flynn judge to dismiss charges
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/24/dc-circuit-orders-flynn-judge-to-dismiss-charges-337751
The
ruling Tuesday may not be the last word on the issue. Any active judge
on the D.C. Circuit — including dissenting Judge Robert Wilkins — could
call for a vote to bring the matter before the full court en banc. The
court’s active bench is currently made up of seven Democratic appointees
and five Republican ones.
But the victory, no matter how temporary, was greeted with celebration — not just by Trump, who called the ruling “great!” but his Justice Department too.
Bolton’s book reveals: Trump was America’s first anti-Kurdish president
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/boltons-book-reveals-trump-was-americas-first-anti-kurdish-president-632756
The US President, according to former National Security Advisor John Bolton, is actually anti-Kurdish and dislikes a minority group in the Middle East that has been consistently pro-American.
532 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/282444
Health Ministry reports that the number of coronavirus cases is greater than 460 for just the second time since April 9.
US said to slam covering of Jerusalem embassy Pride sign as sovereignty breach
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-said-to-slam-covering-of-jerusalem-embassy-pride-sign-as-sovereignty-breach/
The Jerusalem Municipality’s covering
of an LGBT pride banner from an external wall of a US Embassy facility
in the capital continued to draw protest on Wednesday, with one American
official comparing the issue to Israel’s planned annexation of parts of
the West Bank.
“While Ambassador Friedman is fighting for annexation in the
United States, are you invading our sovereign territory here?” the
senior embassy official fumed to Channel 12 news, referring to the
envoy’s trip
to Washington for talks at the White House on whether the Trump
administration should back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to
begin the process of annexation from July 1.
Trump promised to pay for Covid care. But patients with long-term symptoms see huge bills.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/24/trump-pay-coronavirus-symptoms-338924
The Trump administration’s pledge to
protect Covid-19 patients from massive medical bills is falling short
for a growing number of survivors who experience long-term complications
from the virus.
Doctors are discovering
life-threatening and costly long-term health effects ranging from kidney
failure to heart and lung damage. That’s exposing a major gap in the
federal government’s strategy for ensuring patients won’t go broke
because of a coronavirus diagnosis.
The 6 Trump Bombshells Still Waiting to Explode
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/25/trump-bombshells-waiting-explode-altitude-339203
Three and a half years into his presidency we know so much that it raises the question: What do we not yet know about Donald Trump?
The question itself is a sign of the
times. All presidents have gaps between the heroic picture they seek to
project to the world and the messy, chaotic, compromised reality of
daily life in the White House. Understanding any presidency is a vast
puzzle. But never before have so many pieces of the puzzle been
disgorged contemporaneously, in such a relentless and flamboyant way.
Almost every turn of the news cycle produces an episode that—in more
conventional times—could easily be the headline of the last Woodward
book or the kind of revelations coaxed from deep in the archives decades
after the fact by the likes of a historian like Robert A. Caro.
How Bill Barr's Manhattan transfer went awry
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/25/william-barr-jay-clayton-sec-338703
Shortly
after 9 p.m. that evening, Attorney General Bill Barr made two
announcements in one fateful missive: Geoffrey Berman, the powerful U.S.
attorney for the Southern District of New York, was stepping down from
his job, effective immediately. And President Donald Trump would
nominate Clayton to take his place. In the meantime, the U.S. attorney
for New Jersey would step in.
There was just one hiccup: Berman hadn’t actually resigned.
Trump team looks to prevent a Tulsa-style debacle in Jacksonville
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/25/trump-team-prevent-tulsa-debacle-jacksonville-florida-339124
“Sadly, protesters interfered with
supporters, even blocking access to the metal detectors, which prevent
people from entering the rally,” Tim Murtaugh, communications director
for the Trump campaign, said in a statement following the Tulsa rally.
The campaign didn’t say how many people were turned away; reporters on
the ground disputed that protests at the entries prevented rallygoers
from ultimately entering.
New lawsuit demands details on Bolton book review
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/25/john-bolton-book-review-lawsuit-339368
Officials, including a federal judge,
have accused Bolton of putting national security at risk by bailing out
of the review process. He contends he thought the process was done in
April and that an additional round of checks senior officials initiated
was a transparent effort to cater to Trump’s desire to suppress the
tell-all book, which paints a deeply unflattering portrait of Trump.
“The
Bolton case describes a prepublication review process driven by the
whims of the political appointees in the White House, shrouded in the
deference courts traditionally give the Intelligence Community on
questions of national security,” he said. “The public deserves to know
if the claims made behind closed doors about Bolton's book hold up to
the scrutiny of a skeptical judge in a more demanding FOIA context.”
As feud with Trump erupts, Bolton goes from pro-Israel hero to ‘John who?’
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-feud-with-trump-erupts-john-bolton-goes-from-pro-israel-hero-to-john-who/
Bolton is dominating headlines this week with his new tell-all book,
“The Room Where It Happened,” in which he depicts Trump as a
know-nothing prone to placing his personal fortunes above the country’s
and seeking political favors from Ukraine, China, and Turkey. In
response, Trump is threatening his former national security adviser with
criminal action for allegedly disseminating classified information
(Bolton says the book was cleared by censors for publication; the White
House disagrees).
The Trump-Bolton clash puts Jewish Republicans and right-wing
pro-Israel groups in an especially tricky situation. They have long
hailed Bolton as a voice of moral clarity willing to speak hard truths
in defending Israel, often in the face of international consensus. But
this time, Bolton is fixing his aim on a president whom many of his
erstwhile pro-Israel allies view as the best friend Jerusalem has ever
had in the White House.
Senior health official advises elders to avoid events, public transportation
Prof. Sadetzki says authorities should discuss scaling down number of participants at events, public not observing health regulations to blame for resurgence of coronavirus
In light of the recent spike in coronavirus cases, the head of Public Health Services at the Health Ministry Prof. Siegal Sadetzki on Thursday advised senior citizens to avoid attending events with many participants and traveling on public transportation to avoid getting infected.
New York imposes quarantine on eight US states
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53167780
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut
have asked people travelling from states where Covid-19 cases are
rising to go into self-isolation for 14 days.
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