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BY BRIAN BEUTLER, PRIYANKA ARIBINDI & CROOKED MEDIA Thursday, August 15, 2019 |
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| —Tim Ryan on the *best* thing he had at the Iowa State Fair |
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| BETRAYAL |
| President Trump pressured Israel to retaliate against two members of the U.S. government, and Israel did it for him.
Sound crazy? It’s completely nuts! It also could have long-term consequences for the U.S.-Israel relationship and become part of eventual articles of impeachment against Trump.
Here’s the story.
Yes, that’s all real...
What does it mean? It’s a huge black eye for the U.S.-Israel relationship, to the extent that there remains a relationship between the two countries, rather than just an opportunistic alliance between Netanyahu’s government and the Republican Party. The Israeli government just interfered in U.S. government affairs to single out two of Trump’s political enemies for punishment. Democrats will come to power again, and won’t forget this. It’s also a huge boon to the BDS movement.
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| Ohio’s new Republican secretary of state has embraced his predecessor’s process of purging voters from voting rolls if they haven’t voted in six years and don’t respond to a mailed notice. This “use it or lose it” system leaves people of color, low-income voters, and homeless people most vulnerable to being purged from the rolls and later denied the right to vote.
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| The one and only AOC stopped by Crooked HQ! On the latest episode of Pod Save America, the congresswoman and Jon Favreau chat about immigration, race, the Green New Deal, and Democratic messaging. Stick around to hear Jon and Dan break down the results of our new Wisconsin poll with Change Research, and the strengths and vulnerabilities Trump has in a pivotal state. Trust me—this is an episode you don’t want to miss.
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| Rather than support Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters as concerns over their safety mount, President Trump has continued to suggest that they work out their differences with Beijing’s “great leader” Xi Jinping before the U.S. and China reach a trade deal. He will sell out any person and any worthy cause for his own political gain.
The House Judiciary Committee has subpoenaed former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to testify publicly in September as part of its impeachment inquiry. The White House reportedly hopes to invoke executive privilege to block Lewandowski from testifying, but Lewandowski never actually worked in the administration, which makes any claim of privilege illegitimate. If they try this, Democrats should add Trump’s obstruction of congressional investigations to articles of impeachment, and should use inherent contempt powers to compel Lewandowski’s testimony, rather than wait months for the courts to sort it out.
Trump reportedly wants the U.S. to buy Greenland. That’s it, that’s the story.
Officials in the semi-autonomous British territory of Gibraltar released an Iranian tanker and its crew after holding them for six weeks, in defiance of a U.S. request. Iran has not indicated whether it will release the British tanker it seized in retaliation.
The FBI seized over a dozen AR-15 style rifles and 10,000 rounds of ammunition from the home of an 18-year-old in Ohio who threatened to shoot up Planned Parenthood on a meme site, and arrested him for allegedly threatening to assault a federal law enforcement officer.
Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy revealed “multiple breaks in his neck bones” including one that is more common in victims of homicide by strangulation than in people who hang themselves, raising more questions about the circumstances of his death.
Philadelphia police took a man with an extensive criminal history into custody after an eight-hour shooting standoff that left six officers wounded. All six were treated and have been released from the hospital. The top federal prosecutor in Philly, a Trump appointee, seized on the episode to issue an extraordinarily inappropriate political attack on the city’s district attorney.
A correctional officer at a private prison in Rhode Island drove a pickup truck into Jewish activists protesting the facility’s work with ICE. Several protesters were struck, though none suffered life-threatening injuries. According to authorities at the facility, the employee has been placed on administrative leave pending the results of internal and law-enforcement investigations.
Former Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) dropped out of the presidential race today, and said he’ll give “some serious thought” to running for Senate.
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| Victims of childhood sexual abuse filed over 400 lawsuits in New York after the state’s new law that expands the ways survivors can use the legal system for justice went into effect on Wednesday. The New York Child Victims Act created a one-year period during which now-adult survivors of child sexual abuse can sue their abusers or negligent institutions, regardless of how long ago the abuse happened.
The state’s courts were reportedly expecting so many suits that they assigned 45 judges to deal exclusively with them. Cases are expected against the Archdiocese of New York, Jehovah's Witnesses, Rockefeller University, and the Boy Scouts, among others. When California passed a similar law in 2002, Catholic dioceses in the state had to pay over $1 billion in settlements. |
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| The FDA has effectively endorsed a three-drug regimen that shows a 90 percent success rate against the deadliest strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Tuberculosis has surpassed AIDS as the leading infectious cause of death around the world, and though this particular strain of TB is rare (there are 30,000 cases of it among the 10 million people who are infected with TB annually), it is highly resistant to antibiotics and had previously meant certain, quick death.
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