Saturday, July 25, 2020
The week when everything changed for Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53532880\\\\\\\\\
I 's as though in January 2017, Donald
Trump was given a shiny, new car. The best, most beautiful car the
world has ever seen. And in July 2020, the president made an important
discovery about it.
It has a reverse gear.
America's Covid response is flawed. But even the gold standard nations are seeing big outbreaks
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/24/world/coronavirus-response-resurgence-wave-intl/index.html
The United States has been widely criticized
for its approach to the coronavirus pandemic, and the lack of strict
nationwide measures to contain the outbreak is reflected in the highest
number of cases and deaths in the world.
Yet
even countries lauded for their fast and effective responses to
Covid-19 are seeing large outbreaks and resurgences of the infection, as
it becomes clear that successes in containing the virus are often only
temporary.
Making BT-Baiting Great Again
BS"D
Making Ba'alas Teshuva-Baiting Great Again
3 Menachem Av, 5780 °° July 24, '20 (Parshas Devarim)
by Binyomin Feinberg
We
received documentation on the latest developments in another case of a
religious female Refusenik, Kasanya Z., a recent Ba'alas Teshuva [newly
Torah-Observant], studying in religious school in Ramot. She is being
terrorized with the spectre of arrest and incarceration in Israeli
Military Prison, over her steadfast resolve to comply with the Torah
obligations of refusal of Israeli military draft directives. Her draft
date is this coming Sunday, July 26. The Draft Office just sent a denial
of the request recently made by an attorney intervening on her behalf.
So, the Army is primed for a confrontation.
The
Chazon Ish is known to have advocated for employment of unusually
strong measures to save girls from the draft. If those of us who are
graced with the capacity to intervene in a civil manner do so
expeditiously, that option generally proves more than sufficient, to
avoid the alternatives.
As we posted yesterday (https://
The
fact that Kasanya initially received a draft deferment apparently is
being leveraged to proffer the veneer of a rationale to persecute her
over her choice to opt for religious observance, as if her deferment was
conditional to shunning repentance.
Of course,
the Draft Office, the bastions of timeless truth that they are, are
ever vigilant for girls faking religiosity. However, personal reference
is the standard protocol to vet such girls. Rayon Dat is utterly
unnecessary and counterproductive.
Speaking
about faking Judaism, see the quote in the aforementioned post of
yesterday, in a somewhat different context, from a member of the CJV.
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In commemoration of the release of the esteemed b'nos Beruria sisters one year ago, we repost this:
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"... And if someone, like Pinchos, is one among a multitude, and every man is against him when he dares to speak out for truth and to fight for the Law -- the more lonely his stand, the greater the number of his adversaries, the more powerful is his word, the mightier his deed."
-- Rav Shamshon Raphael Hirsch OB"M (1808-1888), (in "Judaism Eternal," vol. 2, p. 293)
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Update link for the month of Tammuz to check in case we post during the week between our regular Wednesday/ Thursday posts:
https://docs.google.com/
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Friday, July 24, 2020
New study finds hydroxychloroquine is ineffective against COVID-19
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/284106
A new study has found that antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine is
not effective at treating COVID-19 and may cause adverse effects, The Hill reported Thursday.
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine,
found that hydroxychloroquine did not improve outcomes for the 667
COVID-19 patients participating in a randomized trial at 55 Brazilian
hospitals.
Concentration camp guard convicted in one of the last Nazi trials in history
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/23/europe/nazi-guard-germany-conviction-intl/index.html
The 93-year-old man,
identified as Bruno D., was charged with 5,230 counts of accessory to
murder over his time as an SS guard at the Stutthof concentration camp
from 1944 to 1945.
Trump scraps Republican convention in virus 'flare-up'
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53521896
A Democratic strategist involved in their conference planning said:
"I wonder who will have the better convention - the party who recognised
the limitations early on and have been planning for a mostly
virtual/digital television production to capitalise on a prime-time
audience of millions, or the clowns who keep moving theirs from place to
place and have no concrete plan a month out."
US move to shut China's Houston consulate draws questions about political motives
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/politics/us-china-consulate-analysis/index.html
Jeff Moon, a former assistant US trade
representative for China, noted the State Department said the Houston
order was a response to Chinese intellectual property theft and said
that raised questions about why only one consulate was targeted.
"If that were the real reason, the US
would close the San Francisco consulate, which covers Silicon Valley,"
said Moon, who was among those who suggested politics might be at work.
"This action is red meat for Trump supporters who are eager to retaliate
against China and divert attention from Trump's disastrous Covid-19
policy."
Judge suggests Cohen was jailed as payback for Trump book
https://www.ft.com/content/12f093c8-3b43-4225-ac54-dd7eeface6a
A federal judge has ordered Michael Cohen released from prison again and accused the Trump administration of payback over the president’s onetime lawyer penning an unflattering book as a motive for his latest incarceration.
“How can I take any other inference but that it was retaliatory?” Judge Alvin Hellerstein said at a court hearing in Manhattan on Thursday, according to media reports. He ordered Cohen released from prison by Friday.
Trump's legal authority to deploy agents to U.S. cities may be limited, experts say
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-race-protests-law/trumps-legal-authority-to-deploy-agents-to-us-cities-may-be-limited-experts-say-idUSKCN24M2WF
Legal experts said Trump can deploy federal agents to enforce federal laws, but lacks carte blanche.
“The president is not the king,” said Kent Greenfield, a Boston
College law professor specializing in constitutional law. “The president
does not have the ability to require states to enforce their laws in a
certain way, or to elbow aside their law enforcement abilities.”
Federal
law gives Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf power to
deputize agents to protect federal properties, such as the federal
courthouse in Portland, and people there.
White House Press
Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Tuesday that this enforcement power
may extend beyond the physical boundaries of federal properties.
This Is Still Happening: Chad Wolf
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/this-is-still-happening-chad-wolf-family-separation-portland.html
Multiple
parts of the Bill of Rights bar unidentified federal agents from
conducting secret abductions and tear-gassing peaceful protesting moms.
While Wolf has attempted to use a bizarre and narrow legal interpretation to justify these clearly unlawful practices, he and his roving paramilitaries have already been sued by the ACLU as well as Oregon’s attorney general.
Thursday, July 23, 2020
The power of the placebo effect
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mental-health/the-power-of-the-placebo-effect
"The placebo effect is more than positive thinking — believing a
treatment or procedure will work. It's about creating a stronger
connection between the brain and body and how they work together," says
Professor Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, whose research focuses on the placebo effect.
Placebo: the Belief Effect
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539455/
A whole chapter is devoted to the power of belief and its effects on
physiology, highlighting the possible differences between individuals, however
well matched they are in statistical terms. What the book does not discuss is
the conflict between such personal characteristics and evidence-based medicine
(EBM), which depends on observations in groups rather than
individuals.4 Evans'
analysis suggests that there are ‘complex ways in which people come to
believe their treatment will be effective, sometimes putting the evidence of
their senses above the voice of authority, while at other times doing
completely the opposite’. Many within the medical profession continue to
be guided by similar instincts, describing their thought processes as clinical
judgment. It is issues of this sort that have made EBM so hard to implement.
As discussed in chapter 5, a dampening effect of placebo on the acute phase
response could be interpreted as reflecting the uniquely human social
expectation of care from
others.5 Perhaps the
most intriguing part of the book, coming from this former psychotherapist, is
the exploration of the role of psychotherapy. His conclusion is that, even if
psychotherapy proves to be no more than placebo, this does not necessarily
detract from its usefulness; and, if it is better than placebo, our failure to
understand how it acts on the brain may be analogous to our ignorance of
exactly why certain drugs are effective. Evans is at his best when writing
from personal experience. Whatever the reader's conclusions about the
scientific arguments, his examples and delivery provide a thoroughly engaging
way into this debate.
Trump accused of deploying 'secret police' as part of 'authoritarian' law enforcement surge
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/23/world/meanwhile-in-america-july-23-intl/index.html
American presidents generally don't try to invade their own country.
Yet that's effectively what local officials say Donald Trump is up to, as he prepares to send hundreds of federal law enforcement
officers to Chicago and to Albuquerque, New Mexico. "Donald Trump's
troops" will not be allowed to "terrorize our residents," Chicago Mayor
Lori Lightfoot has warned. Albuquerque leaders say they don't need
"Trump's secret police."
The
President, however, says he's just trying to quell street violence --
which he claims has been fostered by the anti-police policies of radical
Democratic leaders. "This bloodshed must end," he said Wednesday.
Gabi Barbash walks away from virus czar post; Ronni Gamzu takes job instead
https://www.timesofisrael.com/gabi-barbash-walks-away-from-virus-czar-post-ronni-gamzu-takes-job-instead/
Former senior health official Gabi Barbash, who was selected by the
government to lead Israel’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, on
Wednesday night said he was walking away from the job.
Prof. Ronni Gamzu, a former director general of
the Health Ministry who now heads the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, will
assume the position instead of Barbash, with the agreement of Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein.
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Federal agents retreat to Portland base as protesters control streets
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/22/portland-federal-agents-protesters
But if the intent was to intimidate the protesters into abandoning
the few square blocks of downtown Portland under their control, it
backfired spectacularly.
Residents of a city with a long history of radical street protest
were outraged at the tactics which suddenly revitalized a protest
movement that was waning after more than 50 nights of demonstrations.
It is now the federal agents who appear under siege, reduced to
defending the courthouse from attempts to break in or set it on fire. In
a visible surrender of ground, the DHS taskforce has even abandoned
bothering to re-erect a fence around the federal building torn down on
Saturday night.
Neither Alternative, Medical or Halachic
BS"D
"Neither Alternative, Medical, or Halachic"
By Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter
1 Av, 5780 (July 22, '20)
Recently,
a book in Hebrew appeared in Israel, entitled "Ki Ani HaShem
Rof'echah," which is actually a second version of an English book,
initially published over three years ago, entitled "Alternative Medicine
in Halacha." Subsequently, the second English version appeared as well.
The
basic thesis of the book is to legitimize the notion of "Chi." The
author, originally from France, acknowledges that Ch-i is a Taoist
concept. In fact, a bit of independent research confirms that the idea
of Ch-i is actually foundational to both Taoist and "New-Age"
Avoda-Zorah/kefirah (heresy). In fact, a bit of additional
investigation establishes that the concept of Ch-i is a heretical
divinity notion, inasmuch as it essentially deifies created or imagined
forces. We explain this in detail in our 2008 Hebrew monograph,
"Mishmeres HaKodesh," part 3.
Unfortunately,
the author of "Alternative Medicine in Halacha" seeks (explicitly) to
incorporate the idea of Ch-i into Judaism, adapting the
kefirah/idolatrous concept to appear more marketable to
monotheistically-oriented people. In addition, he proceeds to "explain" a
host of mystical/paranormal practices based on this concept of Ch-i,
and related new-age ideas. Moreover, he attempts to argue that these
practices (e.g. "energy healing," Applied Kinesiology, Health
Kinesiology) are legitimate therapeutic and/or diagnostic techniques,
and even permitted by the Torah. He even goes to the bizarre extreme of
trying to legitimize and mattir "long- distance energy healing." That
itself should say more than enough.
It
was said about the "Holy Roman Empire," that it was neither holy, Roman,
nor an empire. It should be similarly observed about the aforementioned
book, entitled "Alternative Medicine in Halacha" that it
too is neither about "Alternative" systems, or Medicine. Rather it is an
promotional work advocating "New-Age" / "Universal-Energy-Healing"
approaches. Moreover, the book certainly cannot make any claim to be
Halachic. Even on the very face of it, the author acknowledges trying to
wed foundational Toaist notions with Judaism. That alone suffices to
render this and any other writings of this author out of bounds for the
Torah observant Jew.
Additionally, in this version of the book, the author opted to publish a letter, bitterly and inaccurately lashing out at critics of his book. The letter was ostensibly signed by several Rabbis. Included was a signature of R. Shmuel K. I was alerted to the letter by Rav Moshe Green ZT"L - about three eyears ago, in the summer of 5777. At the time, I called Rav K. Rav K. unequivocally responded that he didn't sign it, and he was clearly distraught over it then. At that time, he authorized me to publicize the fact (of the forgery).
May we merit the Final Redemption speedily in our days, in the merit of avoiding foreign theological influences.
Good Chodesh,
Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,
Tomim Tih'yeh
Donald Trump’s Surprising Message for Ghislaine Maxwell: ‘I Wish Her Well’
https://www.vogue.com/article/donald-trump-ghislaine-maxwell-i-wish-her-well
Maxwell,
the longtime associate of late financier Jeffrey Epstein and his
alleged coconspirator, who Trump has been photographed with over the
years, along with Epstein himself. The reporter asked if Trump thought
that Maxwell was going to “turn in powerful men” following her recent
arrest on multiple charges related to the serial sexual abuse of girls
and young women by Epstein.
Any rational person—and certainly any
rational politician running for reelection—would clearly have dismissed
the question as being irrelevant to the topic at hand and briskly turned
to another reporter to change the subject. Not Donald Trump.
He paused for a second, seeming to give the question serious consideration, and then said,
“I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well,
frankly. I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I
lived in Palm Beach and I guess they lived in Palm Beach.” Then he
added, again, “But I wish her well.”
the Shitah of Chi is a foundational "god" concept of Eastern religion (BOC p.91;191,2)
BS"D
1 Av, 5780 (July '20)
Esteemed Readers,
The
attached documents present some basic information regarding the actual
nature of the foundational Taoist divinity notion of "Ch-i," which
Rephoel Szmerla unfortunately seeks to incorporate into Judaism, in his
book inaccurately titled "Alternative (sic) Medicine (sic) in Halacha"
(sic). It was said about the "Holy Roman Empire," it was neither holy,
Roman, nor an empire. The aforementioned book is neither about
"Alternative" systems, or Medicine, rather avdocating for New-Age Energy
Healing approaches. Moreover, the book certainly cannot make any claim
to be based on Halacha, e.g. even just for the simple reason that -
even on the face of it - he acknowledges trying to wed foundational
Toaist notions with Judaism.
His book, initially published three years ago, was recently published in Hebrew, with a similar (second ) English version.
In
this version, Szmerla opted to publish a letter, bitterly and
inaccurately lashing out at critics of his book, with a signature of R.
Shmuel Kamenetsky. Rav Kamenetsky clearly informed me, at the time I was
alerted to the letter - by Rav Moshe Green ZT"L - about 27 Tammuz, 5777
[Erev Shabbos] - that he didn't sign it; and he was clearly distraught
over it then. At that time, he authorized me to publicize the fact (of
the forgery). (At that time, he declined to sign a letter to that
effect, however.)
Good Chodesh,
Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,
Tomim Tih'yeh,
GOP congressman: Trump’s Ghislaine Maxwell comments were ‘unacceptably obtuse’
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/22/gop-congressman-trumps-ghislaine-maxwell-377855
Rep. Chip Roy on Wednesday blasted
President Donald Trump’s well-wishes for alleged Jeffrey Epstein
co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell as "unacceptably obtuse."
Trump was asked about Maxwell’s case at his Tuesday evening news conference and said "I wish her well, whatever it is.”
The comment quickly sparked outrage on social media and inside the Department of Justice.
Roy (R-Texas), among the most conservative members of the GOP, slammed
the president's kid-gloves treatment of a woman charged with grooming
young girls into a circle of sexual abuse.
“This is unacceptably obtuse for a woman accused of the most morally depraved of crimes, @realDonaldTrump,” Roy wrote on Twitter. “She needs to be severely punished... and justice must be served for the girls she abused. For ALL involved.”
Here’s Every Time Donald Trump And Ghislaine Maxwell Have Been Photographed Together
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/07/21/heres-every-time-donald-trump-and-ghislaine-maxwell-have-been-photographed-together/#53655f77183d
Topline: During a Tuesday coronavirus briefing,
President Trump offered well-wishes to Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey
Epstein’s longtime confidante who now faces multiple federal charges
related to Epstein’s alleged sex ring. In the 1990s and early 2000s, all
three traveled in the same social circles, and Maxwell was photographed
with the future commander-in-chief multiple times. Here’s every photo
of them we could find:
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tests positive for coronavirus
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/15/oklahoma-gov-stitt-tests-positive-covid-weeks-after-trump-rally/3287401001/
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced Wednesday he tested positive for the coronavirus weeks after attending President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa.
Trump Just Wishes This Monster Well
https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/donald-trump-on-ghislaine-maxwell-i-wish-her-well.html#_ga=2.92903261.1113001022.1595421481-1291269160.1584289974
President Donald Trump took a moment out of today’s coronavirus briefing (his first in months) to send well wishes to an old party pal: Ghislaine Maxwell. As in, the British socialite recently arrested and charged
for her alleged role procuring underage girls for Trump’s former
friend, Jeffrey Epstein. As in, the Epstein associate who could potentially name some pretty big names in her conversations with federal authorities. Asked
on Tuesday if he thinks Maxwell will “turn in powerful men,” the
president told a reporter that he “hasn’t been following it too much,”
really. But when it comes to Maxwell, he said, “I just wish her well,
frankly.”
Fact check: At his first coronavirus briefing since April, Trump repeats a handful of classic false claims
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/21/politics/fact-check-trump-coronavirus-briefing-july-21/index.html
In his first coronavirus briefing since April, President Donald Trump
got a little more accurate about the state of the pandemic in the US --
but also continued to make some of the same false claims and promote
some of the same misleading narratives of his previous moments in the
White House briefing room.
Trump, reading from prepared remarks, acknowledged a "concerning rise" in cases in the South
(he had previously dismissed the sharp increase as mere evidence of how
many people are being tested) and said the situation will get worse
before it gets better (he had previously claimed, as late as June, that
the virus was dying out).
But Trump's new tone, like previous Trump new tones, did not last long.
He
continued to boast that the US has done many more tests than other
countries, ignoring the fact that many peer nations did so much better
controlling the virus that they haven't needed to keep conducting so
many tests.
He continued to say that the virus "will
disappear," declining to acknowledge the inaccuracy of his previous
suggestions that it would disappear without much harm to the American
public -- or the possibility that it will take years for the virus to be
eradicated, if it goes away at all.
And
Trump repeated some of the specific false claims we and others fact
checked repeatedly in earlier stages of the crisis: his claim that he
inherited "empty cupboards" of supplies and ventilators, that he shut US borders to China and Europe, and that governors do not need anything from the federal government.
Senate Republicans: No reason for Biden to 'sound the alarm' on Russia
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/21/senate-republicans-no-reason-for-biden-to-sound-the-alarm-on-russia-377030
Senior Senate Republicans are
rejecting Joe Biden's amped-up public warnings about Russian
interference in this year's presidential election, saying foreign
adversaries' efforts to meddle in U.S. democracy are nothing new after
the Kremlin's hacking operation four years ago.
Senate
Homeland Security Chair Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) suggested that Russia has
been interfering in Western elections “for decades.”
“Does it surprise me if China's probably doing the same thing? Not at all,” he told POLITICO.
The GOP comments came a day after Biden offered his starkest warnings to date against any interference by Russia or other foreign governments like China.
“I am putting the Kremlin and other foreign governments on notice,” the former vice president said Monday,
three days after disclosing that he had begun to receive briefings from
U.S. intelligence officials as the presumptive Democratic nominee. “If
elected president, I will treat foreign interference in our election as
an adversarial act that significantly affects the relationship between
the United States and the interfering nation’s government.”
Religious leaders warn against Pompeo's push for religious freedom as priority human right
https://thehill.com/policy/international/508199-religious-leaders-warn-against-pompeos-push-for-a-hierarchy-of-human
More than 30 faith leaders on Monday issued a warning against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s new push to put property rights and religious freedom at the forefront of American diplomacy.
In a statement,
faith leaders across denominations warned that Pompeo’s push for a
hierarchy of rights with religious freedom at the top “will weaken
religious freedom itself and undermine respect for and damage the
protections of the universal values of human dignity.”
The
statement was led by the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan
progressive policy institute, and signed by leaders from the Catholic,
evangelical, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh and Buddhist faiths.
Defense Secretary Esper has ‘concern’ about federal agents wearing military camo uniforms, spokesman says
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/esper-concern-federal-agents-wearing-military-camo-uniforms\
Defense
Secretary Mark Esper has expressed “concern” within the Trump
administration about federal agents dressing up in military uniforms
while handling protests and riots in places like Portland, Ore., chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Tuesday.
“We want a system where people can tell the difference,” he told reporters.
Coronavirus in Israel: 1,977 new cases in a day; death toll hits 430
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/coronavirus-cases-climb-1977-in-the-last-day-635906
Israel hit another coronavirus
peak on Wednesday: Some 1,977 people tested positive for the novel
coronavirus on Tuesday - the highest number in a single day since the
start of the crisis.
With just more than 27,000 people screened, the infection rate is over 7%. Another 303 people were diagnosed since midnight.
Bill banning gay conversion therapy passes initial vote, enraging ultra-Orthodox
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-banning-gay-conversion-therapy-passes-initial-vote-enraging-ultra-orthodox/
A bill outlawing controversial “gay conversion therapy” passed a
preliminary vote in the Knesset on Wednesday, drawing cheers from LGBT
rights advocates and angering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
ultra-Orthodox political allies.
The bill advanced after Benny Gantz’s Blue and White party
supported the legislation, in a move that generated a fresh coalition
crisis. The government’s Labor party also broke with the coalition to
back the bill.
Though discouraged by the Health Ministry, the practice remains legal
in Israel, and is still accepted in some conservative and Orthodox
circles.
The bill still has to pass three readings and be approved by a
Knesset committee before it becomes law and the practice is outlawed.
After the vote results were announced, many in the plenum started applauding, but ultra-Orthodox lawmakers were visibly furious.
They shouted at Gantz, “You will not be prime minister,” an
apparent threat to topple the government before the defense minister is
set to replace Netanyahu as premier in November 2021.
Trump Told U.S. Ambassador to Get U.K. Government Help Steering British Open to His Resort
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/trump-ambassador-woody-johnson-uk-help-british-open-golf-tournament.html
The umpteenth example of President Donald Trump trying to profit off the presidency comes via
the New York Times, which reports that in 2018 Trump pressured his
newly appointed ambassador to the U.K., Woody Johnson, to try to get the
British government to help steer the British Open golf tournament to
his Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland. The British government doesn’t
normally have anything to do with the selection of the venue for the
high-profile yearly tournament, which, as a major driver of publicity
and interest, could have been a financial boon for the Trump-owned
course. But that’s how Trump sees government generally and his position
within it specifically—something to be leveraged for personal gain.
You’d like to think that the American ambassador, as a representative of
his country, upon hearing such an improper, unethical request,
disregarded the president’s desire for a personal favor. But you’d be
wrong.
More than a dozen mayors join Portland in asking Trump administration to withdraw federal forces
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/us/portland-protests-mayors-withdraw-federal-forces/index.html
More
than a dozen mayors have joined Portland in asking the Trump
administration to remove federal forces from or stop plans to send them
to major American cities.
In
a letter Monday addressed to Attorney General William Barr and Acting
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf, the mayors
called the administration's intention to deploy federal forces against
protesters an "abuse of power."
The
letter -- signed by the mayors of Portland, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago,
Washington, DC, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, Los Angeles, San Jose,
Oakland, Tucson, Sacramento, Phoenix and Kansas City, Missiouri -- calls
on the administration to withdraw federal forces from the cities where
they are currently deployed and halt plans to send them elsewhere.
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