Sunday, June 28, 2020
Trump wasn't briefed on report Russia paid Taliban to kill coalition forces in Afghanistan, White House says
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/27/afghanistan-white-house-denies-trump-briefed-russia-bounty-report/3272352001/
The White House denied Saturday that President
Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had been briefed on an
intelligence finding that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly
offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill American troops and
other coalition forces in Afghanistan.
“The
United States receives thousands of intelligence reports a day, and they
are subject to strict scrutiny,” White House press secretary Kayleigh
McEnany said in a statement.
While the White
House does not routinely comment on intelligence or internal
deliberations, “the CIA Director, National Security Advisor, and the
Chief of Staff can all confirm that neither the President nor the Vice
President were briefed on the alleged Russian bounty intelligence,”
McEnany said.
EU to reopen borders to 14 countries starting July 1, Israel, US left out
https://www.jpost.com/international/eu-to-re-open-borders-to-14-countries-starting-july-1-israel-us-left-out-632984
European Union members agreed to reopen their borders to citizens of 14 countries, with Israel
excluded from the list as its situation regarding the COVID-19 pandemic
is more serious than in Europe, according to a report published by Le Monde.
Among other nations also excluded by the EU include the United States, Russia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The Trump Referendum
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-referendum-11593127700
He still has no second term message beyond his own grievances.
President Trump may soon need a new nickname for “Sleepy Joe” Biden.
How does President-elect sound? On present trend that’s exactly what Mr.
Biden will be on Nov. 4, as Mr. Trump heads for what could be an
historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate down with
him.
Grassley chides Trump, Fox News for answer on second term agenda
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/27/chuck-grassley-fox-news-trump-second-term-342088
Sen. Chuck Grassley laid blame on Fox
News — and President Donald Trump — on Saturday over failing to
articulate what his administration’s second term priorities would be
during a recent interview with the news organization.
The Iowa Republican tweeted that Trump
got “off point” when asked by Fox’s Sean Hannity what his goals would
be if re-elected, but appeared vexed at Hannity for helping the
president “digress” instead of helping Trump form a more intelligible
answer.
The criticism from Grassley comes a
day after he encouraged Trump to heed the advice of a scathing Wall
Street Journal editorial that warned Trump could only serve one term.
“Will somebody w access to the Oval
Office read the WSJ editorial ‘The Trump Referendum’ to President
Trump,” Grassley wrote in a tweet on Friday. “We won’t hv more good
scotus justices or the best economy in 50 years like we hv had if he
doesn’t follow that advice.”
Saturday, June 27, 2020
In Someone Else’s Court
https://mishpacha.com/in-someone-elses-court/
This
past week, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that was nothing
short of a legal earthquake. In a speech on the floor of the US Senate,
Republican senator Joshua Hawley of Missouri called it “truly a seismic
decision… a historic decision.”
In Bostock v. Clayton County, a 6-3 majority held that Title VII of
the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which protects against discrimination on the
basis of gender, also protects against discrimination on the basis of
gender identity and orientation. The biggest shock of the decision is
that the majority opinion, which Chief Justice John Roberts joined, was
written by Trump-nominated Justice Neil Gorsuch.
Do you see? “That’s what, when we nominated him and confirmed him, we
wanted him to do.” So where does a religious person go to take back the
vote he cast, holding his nose, for a party that has betrayed so many
of his values?
Appeals court: Trump wrongly diverted $2.5 billion for border wall
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/26/court-trump-wrongly-diverted-billions-border-wall-341862
A federal appeals court on Friday
ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of $2.5 billion
from military construction projects to build sections of the U.S. border
wall with Mexico, ruling it illegally sidestepped Congress, which gets
to decide how to use the funds.
In two opinions, the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals agreed with a coalition of border states and
environmental groups that contended the money transfer was unlawful and
that building the wall would pose environmental threats.
Trump move to take US troops out of Germany 'a dangerous game'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/08/trump-move-to-take-us-troops-out-of-germany-a-dangerous-game
British politicians and European military experts have warned that Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw 9,500 troops from Germany risks handing a strategic advantage to the Kremlin and undermining the postwar western military alliance.
It would also affect the United States’s ability to operate in the
Middle East and Africa – although there is scepticism as to whether the
notoriously fickle president will be able to carry out the threat before
November’s election.
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