Thursday, July 13, 2017

White House Sources Suggest They Hate Their Jobs, Are Terrified of Being Fired and other top stories.

  • White House Sources Suggest They Hate Their Jobs, Are Terrified of Being Fired

    White House Sources Suggest They Hate Their Jobs, Are Terrified of Being Fired
    Anyone have a copy of I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me? Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images Last Thursday, convinced that his press team was mishandling the spiraling scandal over his firing of FBI Director James Comey, President Trump decided to sit down with NBC’s Lester Holt. Rather than teaching his staff a lesson on crisis management, President Trump made the situation far worse when he casually suggested that he might have engaged in obstruction of justice. That night Politico noted that the i..
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  • Donald Trump Is a Clear and Present Danger

    Donald Trump Is a Clear and Present Danger
    Recklessly firing FBI Director Jim Comey eliminated any remaining doubt: Donald Trump and his administration cannot be trusted to have any role in investigating his and his entourage’s relationship with Russia and Russians. Yet he is about to seize control of that probe, while the Republican-controlled Congress acts less like a coequal branch of government and more like a White House subsidiary.Compounding this, the White House’s efforts Monday to deceive the American public about the president ..
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  • Confederate Gen. PGT Beauregard statue is 3rd New Orleans monument to be taken down

    Confederate Gen. PGT Beauregard statue is 3rd New Orleans monument to be taken down
    USA Today Network Danny Monteverde, WWL-TV, New Orleans Published 4:31 a.m. ET May 17, 2017 | Updated 15 minutes agoCLOSE Workers in New Orleans took down a Confederate monument to General P.G.T. Beauregard, the third of four such monuments to come down in the city. (May 17) APA worker in protective gear takes down an Army National Guard flag from the statue of Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard during the statue's removal from the entrance to City Park in Ne..
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  • Merrick Garland has no interest in becoming FBI director

    Merrick Garland has no interest in becoming FBI director
    Judge Merrick Garland, whose Supreme Court nomination was ignored by Senate Republicans, has no interest in running the FBI, according to a friend. Garland's name surfaced Tuesday after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he recommended ...
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  • Donald Trump should reshuffle his communications team

    Donald Trump should reshuffle his communications team
    ANALYSIS/OPINION:While some might consider it a problem, President Trump contemplating changes to his communications team is a good sign on many levels.First, we know the messaging from the White House is key to the transparency needed for the American people to know what the president and his administration are actually accomplishing.In the past, we used to be able to count on the legacy media to be informed, but those days are over. Instead of reporters working on stories to bring us the news,..
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  • The Big-Money PR War Over Seth Rich's Death

    The Big-Money PR War Over Seth Rich's Death
    Citing a former Fox News contributor-turned-private-eye, a local Fox station reported that slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was “communicating with WikiLeaks prior to his death” and it could be proven with “tangible evidence on Rich's laptop.” But a spokesman for Rich’s family said there’s a gaping hole in the Fox 5 D.C.’s report: That private investigator, Rod Wheeler, doesn’t have access to Rich’s laptop.“We know where Seth’s personal computer is. We know where his DNC computer is. Neither [Rod Whe..
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  • Chelsea Manning Is Expected to Leave Prison, 28 Years Early

    Chelsea Manning Is Expected to Leave Prison, 28 Years Early
    “I look forward to working with her in the coming days and weeks to provide her with the support and stability she wants and needs to heal and plan out the next stages of her life,” said Chase Strangio, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who helped represent Ms. Manning in a suit over her medical treatment in prison. “The traumas of the past few years will not simply evaporate when she walks out of the prison.” A member of her support network said that her legal team — which also includes..
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  • Kellyanne Conway responds to 'Morning Joe' hosts

    Kellyanne Conway responds to 'Morning Joe' hosts
    By Jonah Engel Bromwich, New York Times News Service 7:56 PM Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday responded to criticism from the hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that she had been disingenuous in her promotion of President Donald Trump during the campaign, calling their claims “not true” and “absurd.” Her response came a day after the hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, used their show to claim that Conway had complained off camera about having to act as Trump’s campaign manager and had o..
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  • John Cornyn Takes Himself Out of Running to Lead the FBI

    John Cornyn Takes Himself Out of Running to Lead the FBI
    Photo Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, on Capitol Hill last month. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, lacking support from Senate Democrats and possibly several Republicans, on Tuesday took himself out of consideration to be the next director of the F.B.I.“I have always considered public service to be a great privilege,” Mr. Cornyn said in a statement, adding: “Now more than ever the country needs a well-..
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  • Deadly tornadoes leave people trapped, unaccounted for in Wisconsin, Oklahoma

    Deadly tornadoes leave people trapped, unaccounted for in Wisconsin, Oklahoma
    Last Updated May 17, 2017 4:41 AM EDT CHICAGO -- Two people died and dozens were injured when tornadoes flattened a mobile home park in western Wisconsin and parts of a housing subdivision in Oklahoma during powerful spring storms that battered an area from the South Plains of Texas to the Great Lakes. In Wisconsin, Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said a tornado damaged the Prairie Lakes Estates trailer park north of Chetek. The National Weather Service reported it touched down in the ..
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