Monday, July 13, 2020
Mary Trump is releasing a book. Michael Cohen is finishing a book. Both are being restricted
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/12/media/mary-trump-michael-cohen-books-reliable-sources/
Michael Cohen's sudden return to prison
is under scrutiny because his lawyers say the dispute
centered on
"restrictions in paperwork designed to prevent him from finishing a book
about the president."
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"No standard probation forms include language related to media contacts," CNN's David Shortell and Mark Morales report. But the form presented to Cohen seemed to be tailored specifically to him. CNN has obtained a copy. This has all the appearances of an attempt to stifle Cohen's right to speak freely about his work for President Trump.
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Criteria for imposing lockdowns on cities to be published in advance
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/283404
PM agrees to demand by Aryeh
Deri to publish guidelines for declaring restricted areas amid reports
of discrimination against haredim.
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri demanded at the weekly Cabinet meeting
Sunday that the criteria for the declaration of a neighborhood as a
restricted area be published before areas are closed off so that the
haredi community will not feel that it is being targeted by the
government.
Prime Minister Netanyahu accepted Deri's request and ordered that the
criteria for the closure imposed on each locality be published on the
prime minister's website.
Historians will likely rank Trump as one of the worst presidents
Historians will likely rank Trump as one of the worst presidents
A new Gallup poll puts President Donald Trump's approval rating at 38%. His disapproval rating stands at 57%.
The average poll similarly shows Trump's approval rating hovering around 40%, while his disapproval rating is above 55%.
What's the point: Trump's approval rating isn't getting any better. In the polls, he is continuing to lose to former Vice President Joe Biden by double-digits. Trump could win a second term, but there is no clear path to doing so.
If gedolim dont follow halacha better to have them become idolators
Berachos 63a-b)
R. Safra said: R. Abbahu used to relate that when Hananiah the son of R. Joshua's brother went down to the Diaspora,38 he began to intercalate the years and fix new moons outside Palestine. So they [the Beth din] sent after him two scholars, R. Jose b. Kippar and the grandson of R. Zechariah b. Kebutal. When he saw them, he said to them: Why have you come? — They replied: We have come to learn Torah [from you]. He thereupon proclaimed: These men are among the most eminent of the generation. They and their ancestors have ministered in the Sanctuary (as we have learnt: Zechariah b. Kebutal said: Several times I read to him39 out of the book of Daniel). Soon they began to declare clean what he declared unclean and to permit what he forbade. Thereupon he proclaimed: These men are worthless, they are good for nothing. They said to him: You have already built and you cannot overthrow, you have made a fence and you cannot break it down.40 He said to them: Why do you declare clean when I declare unclean, why do you permit when I forbid? — They replied: Because you intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine. He said to them: Did not Akiba son of Joseph intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine?41 — They replied: Don't cite R. Akiba, who left not his equal in the Land of Israel. He said to them: I also left not my equal in the Land of Israel. They said to him: The kids which you left behind have become goats with horns, and they have sent us to you, bidding us, ‘Go and tell him in our name. If he listens, well and good; if not, he will be excommunicated. R. Safra said: R. Abbahu used to relate that when Hananiah the son of R. Joshua's brother went down to the Diaspora,38 he began to intercalate the years and fix new moons outside Palestine. So they [the Beth din] sent after him two scholars, R. Jose b. Kippar and the grandson of R. Zechariah b. Kebutal. When he saw them, he said to them: Why have you come? — They replied: We have come to learn Torah [from you]. He thereupon proclaimed: These men are among the most eminent of the generation. They and their ancestors have ministered in the Sanctuary (as we have learnt: Zechariah b. Kebutal said: Several times I read to him39 out of the book of Daniel). Soon they began to declare clean what he declared unclean and to permit what he forbade. Thereupon he proclaimed: These men are worthless, they are good for nothing. They said to him: You have already built and you cannot overthrow, you have made a fence and you cannot break it down.40 He said to them: Why do you declare clean when I declare unclean, why do you permit when I forbid? — They replied: Because you intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine. He said to them: Did not Akiba son of Joseph intercalate years and fix new moons outside of Palestine?41 — They replied: Don't cite R. Akiba, who left not his equal in the Land of Israel. He said to them: I also left not my equal in the Land of Israel. They said to him: The kids which you left behind have become goats with horns, and they have sent us to you, bidding us, ‘Go and tell him in our name. If he listens, well and good; if not, he will be excommunicated.
Berachos (63b)Tell also our brethren in the Diaspora [not to listen to him]. If they listen to you, well and good; if not, let them go up to the mountain, let Ahia1 build an altar and let Hananiah play the harp,2 and let them all become renegades and say that they have no portion in the God of Israel’. Straightway all the people broke out into weeping and cried, Heaven forbid, we have a portion in the God of Israel. Why all this to-do? — Because it says, For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.3 We can understand that if he declared clean they should declare unclean, because this would be more stringent. But how was it possible that they should declare clean what he declared unclean, seeing that it has been taught: If a Sage has declared unclean, his colleague is not permitted to declare clean? — They thought proper to act thus so that the people should not be drawn after him.
WHCA president accuses McEnany of 'denying reality' during press briefings
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany may have resumed regularly scheduled press briefings, but ABC News correspondent Jon Karl argued Saturday that she's not conducting them the right way.
Karl,
who leads the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA), penned an
op-ed in which he accused McEnany of giving partisan monologues and
"denying reality" during press briefings.
"The job is to inform
the public: to be an intermediary between the president and a press
corps the public relies on for information ... Denying reality and using
the White House podium for purely political purposes is a violation of
public trust," he wrote in The Washington Post.
He
added: "Briefings under the current press secretary rarely last 30
minutes -- which is short by traditional standards -- but routinely
include opening and closing messages that more closely resemble the
monologues of a partisan political talk show than a public official’s
briefing."
Trump’s refusal to appeal to centrists could make Biden president and give Dems Senate majority
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/biden-trump-race-arnon-mishkin
Former Vice President Joe Biden is getting help in his presidential campaign from a surprising source — President Trump.
Rather
than trying to appeal to centrist voters — moderate Republicans,
independents and moderate Democrats — to widen his base of support, Trump is doubling down on his most extreme positions in an effort to boost turnout by his most fervent supporters in November.
In
addition to posing grave risks to the president’s reelection chances,
this unconventional strategy increases the chances Democrats will
capture majority control of the Senate and expand their majority in the
House of Representatives.
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