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gtyb Hillary Clinton rsquo fight for the Dad vote - Jeaoneuntor - 11-29-2024 Psly Bush Gets Cortisone Shot For Ailing Shoulder The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on House Administration on Tuesday announced that it is banning TikTok from al stanley website l House-managed mobile devices due to a number of security risks. House staffers are now barred from downloading TikTok onto House devices and must remove the app from any mobile devices onto which it is currently downloaded, according to a memo from House Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor.The House now joins a growing number of government entities banning the stanley flask Chinese-owned social media app from government devices. The Senate earlier in December approved a measure that would ban all federal employees from downloading or using the app on government devices. Several states, including Texas, Georgia, Maryland, South Dakota, South Carolina and Nebraska, have also banned the app from government devices. The U.S. military has stanley cups uk also banned its members from using the app on government devices.TikTok has faced rising concerns over national security due to Chinese parent company ByteDance. U.S. officials have repeatedly warned that the Chinese government could force the company to share the data it collects on its users. We do have national security concerns, FBI Director Christopher Wray said in November. They include the possibility that the Chinese government could use it to control data collection on millions of users. The Trump administration had threatened to ban the app completely unless it was s Qers On Morning After, Obama Campaign Makes Its Case This is my Creators S stanley cups uk yndicate column for this week. I have known Nancy Pelosi since 1980, when I had a very friendly dinner with her and her husband, both of whom struck me then and continue to strike me now as very nice and very intelligent people. But I fear she got over her head in her trip to Damascus. Friendship and hope are not enough to protect us in a dangerous world.Public-opinion polling continues to indicate that Americans are downbeat about the nation s economy. Yet as these numbers from the Examiner indicate, our economy is more robust today than it was when Bill Clinton was president.In National Review s the Corner, Stanley Kurtz makes the point that Iran s nuclear program constitutes a threat of exactly the sort that everyone agreed would justify action in Iraq. Which is not to say that a military response is appropriate, but it does raise the question. Interestingly, a recent poll shows that Europeans say they would support airstrikes against nuclear-armed Iran. But most Europeans don t want their countries to spend mor stanley canada e on defense. They evidently want the United States to do the dirty work of eliminating Iranian nuclear weapons--and to be free to criticize that action th stanley cup emselves. There is a word for this combination of attitudes: adolescent. Teenagers expect their parents to protect them. But they want to be able to gripe about it anyway. Astonishing Double Standards Department, Example 1: Officials at San Franci lygx Obama: I was too polite in debate - Jeaoneuntor - 11-30-2024 Vfhu State Department issues alert for Americans traveling to Europe this summer Ben Carson will spend the next two weeks with most of his time devoted to promoting his book A More Perfect Union and raising money, rather than at public campaign events organized by his team.A report by ABC News on Thursday said Carson had put his public campaign events on hold while he goes on his book tour, but Carson campaign spokesman Doug Watts told CBS News that the idea that Carson is suspending his campaign in any way is patently false. There are 100 ways that you can campaign on a daily basis, Watts said. Through the end of October, Watts said Carson has 18 fundraising events, which he termed campaign events. Watts claimed that Carson would have six open campaign events in the two-week period. Asked what they were, he stanley cups said Carson had an open retai stanley cup l event on Thursday morning in Atlanta for breakfast and has another event scheduled in Virginia on Friday that is closed to the press. He also counted an upcoming appearance on ABC s This Week among the campaign events.Watts p stanley cups rovided a list of a few other events in October that included retail campaign stops in Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Carson, a former neurosurgeon, had committed to go on a book tour last year when he signed his book contract, Watts said. A description of the book that Carson wrote said it s about his defense of the Constitution from those who misinterpret or undermine it. Watts asserted that Carson has done his fair share of public Gxez Clinton: Extend Unpaid Family Leave Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts cups stanley Gov. Mitt Romney gestures during a business roundtable at a local car dealership, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Ross D. Franklin copo stanley Updated 10:05 p.m. ETTUCSON, Ariz. -- One day after staging a fundraising raid on Texas Gov. Rick Perry s home state, Mitt Romney courted business audience here on Wednesday, making his first visit of the 2012 campaign to a state where Gov. Jan Brewer just moved up next year s presidential primary date.In a meeting where he fielded questions from a group of about 40 business leaders, Romney emphasized his business credentials and let slip that he had spent the previous day in Perry territory - raising money in Dallas and Houston. stanley cup As he has through most of his campaign, Romney continued to train his sharpest criticism on President Obama, calling Tuesday s GOP victories in two special congressional elections votes of no-confidence in the administration s economic policies. He said let me borrow $800 billion to stimulate the economy and then I ll hold unemployment below eight percent, and it has not been below eight percent since, said Romney. By his own definition, he s failed. So give someone else a chance. And obviously I hope to be that person. Because what I do is what the country needs. . . I do turnarounds. The reference was to Romney s exper hflh Betty Ford: Pioneer for women s movement - Jeaoneuntor - 11-30-2024 Qjcg Obama Tries to Rally Support for Midterm Vote Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle questioned the decisionby former Defense Secretary Robert Gates to publish a behind-the-scenes memoir that is highly critical of the Obama administration, saying it could hamper thepresidentrsquo ability to conduct foreign policy.Gatesrsquo; memoir, published last week, callsPresident Obamarsquo team by farthe most centralized and controlling in national security of any I had seensince Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger ruled the roost, and tookparticular aim at Vice President Joe Biden at stanley mugs being well-intentioned but frequentlywrong on foreign policy issues. The White House has defended Biden.Even Sen. MarcoRubio, R-Fla., who is himself one of Mr. Obamarsquo many critics, said the timingof the book could hurt the country. stanley mug Rubio: War on poverty failed because itrsquo incomplete 09:08 stanley cups Mypreference would be that people would refrain from writing these sorts ofthings until the president is out of office because I think it undermines theability to conduct foreign policy, Rubio said on CBS Face the Nation. But because the book is out there already, Rubio went aheadand questioned both the president and former Secretary of State HillaryClinton, whom he could face in 2016 if either d Cbqu Former President George W. Bush receives Distinguished Leadership Award This story was written by Charles Brace, The Daily CardinalWisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle announce stanley mug d on Tuesday that the state government might temporarily shut down in the coming months if the budget process is not finished soo stanley mugs n.Doyle said in a press conference on Tuesday that non-essential governmental workers might be temporarily laid off and all members of his cabinet are being asked to consider future cuts to staff stanley mug , according to Doyle spokesperson Carla Vigue. The threat of a government shutdown remains very real, Doyle said in the press conference. Vigue said no specifics have been set on what might happen in a partial government shut down and that issues like government grants and bonds complicate what might happen. No deadlines have yet been set on when the possible shutdown might occur, according to Vigue. Its all up in the air right now, Vigue said. Doyle briefed Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch on the possibility of a shutdown early Tuesday, according to Huebsch spokesperson John Murray. The Department of Corrections running out of money in March and the University of Wisconsin-Madison facing cuts next semester were two possible outcomes mentioned by Doyle, Murray said.Murray said the Assembly Republicans did not yet have a reaction to the possible shutdown until more specifics of the plan were announced, but they are skeptical of the announcement. Based on the governor s track record over the past few weeks, it seems like he i ymqd Rand Paul plans to filibuster budget deal - Jeaoneuntor - 11-30-2024 Jlft Sen. Visits Myanmar for Talks with Leaders Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and her testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Judge Bre stanley quencher tt Kavanaugh in September dominated the news cycle, with her every wo stanley cups uk rd scrutinized by both sides of the political aisle and the media. Since the hearings, Ford has been mostly silent.Ford released a statement on a GoFundMe page collecting donations for her last week. The page was created on Sept. 18 with an initial goal of $150,00. It has raised nearly $650,000 on her behalf. Words are not adequate to thank all of you who supported me since I came forward to tell the Senate that I had been sexually assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh, Ford wrote. Because of your support, I feel hopeful that our lives will return to normal. After thanking her supporters, Ford wrote that the generous contributions that have allowed her and her family to protect themselves from frightening threats and increase security on their home.According to Ford, the funds were partly used to pay for a security service since Sept. 19, which has recently begun to taper stanley bottles off, as well as housing and security costs incurred in Washington DC, and local housing for part of the time we have been displaced. She received death threats and her family was forced out of their home, said her lawyer Debra Katz in September.Ford wrote she has closed the GoFundMe account for further contributions. All unused donations after completion of security expenditures will be donated to organiza Qkfw GOP Sen.: Veterans disability claims backlog a national embarrassment Nancy made nice.Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose fire-breathing, anti-Bush speech on Monday was cited by some Republicans as a reason for the billrsquo defeat on Monday, was valedictory, bipartisan and focused on stopping Democratic defections in her closing speech just now.We must reassure the American people that this crisis will lead to reforms that will strengthen their economic futures, said Pelosi, who made a point of thanking pay stanley website -as-you-go Blue Dog Democrat John Tanner, whose caucus remains a source of concern on the upcoming vote. It is paid for ndash; it is paid for, she said of tax extenders added by the Senate. No new deficit spending must be stanley cup our mantra. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c89db82e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c89db82e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c89db82e-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 stanley trinkflaschen display: block; szqk Obama unveils unprecedented climate change plan - Jeaoneuntor - 11-30-2024 Wquk Lindsey Graham s super PAC protests his exclusion from Republican debate with ad President Trump s reelection campaign announced it raised a record-breaking combined total of $131 million in the month of June, along with the Republican National Committee and joint fundraising committees and maintains a massive cash war chest head stanley bottles ing into the summer with over $295 million in the bank.According to the campaign, the entities brought in an average of $4.3 million a day. Last month, Mr. Trump s re-election team also announced it had smashed its single-day fundraising record across all GOP committees, bringing in $14 million on Mr. Trump s birthday, June 14th. The Trump campaign s monumental June fundraising haul proves that peo stanley uk ple are voting with their wallets and that enthusiasm behind President Trump s re-election is only growing, said Trump 2020 Campaign Manager Brad Parscale, in a statement Wednesday. According to Kantar/Ca stanley cup mpaign Media Analysis Group tracking, the Trump campaign spent $34 million on ads in June alone including television ads predominantly in battleground states but also in states including Iowa and Georgia. Tracking also shows the campaign has already reserved nearly $100 million television ads for local broadcast and cable in six battleground states including $37 million in Florida, $18 million in Ohio, $16.5 million in North Carolina, more than $14.5 million in Pennsylvania, $7 million in Wisconsin and just over $5 million in Arizona. National chair of the Trump Victory Finance Committee, Ki Xemp CBS News 2024 presidential election analysis: How many voters are persuadable CBS News - A top campaign adviser to President Obama said the long Republican primary has weakened that party s candidates for a match-up against Mr. Obama in the fall stanley cup . Robert Gibbs, the president s former press secretary and current campaign strategist, said on CBS News Face the Nation that the negative ads and campaign trail rhetoric has damaged whoever the potential nominee is. I know at what these candidates have been saying, tearing each other apart with negative ads, it is a process that in many ways has torn each of them down, and I think has weakened them for a fall election, Gibbs told host Bob Schieffer. He said the campaign has become corrosive for both front-runners Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. I think it s become destructive, Gibbs said. Still, he offered that it s a fascinating process to watch. Nearly half of the states have voted in this Republican nominating season, and no candidate is close to achieving the necessary 1,144 delegates necessary to clinch the nomination. Mitt Romney is in the lead wit stanley thermobecher h 428 delegates, followed by Rick Santorum with 179 delegates, according to estimates by CBS News. Despite Saturday s statements by Santorum that foreign policy might be a top priority among voters, Gibbs disagreed. He stanley cup said the economy is going to the main issue in the election, and that it won t be a referendum on the president, but will be a choice between the president s ideas and those of the Re xwor A New Israel Lobby - Jeaoneuntor - 11-30-2024 Zhfa Report: No Chinese Offshore Drilling Near Cuba Washington mdash; The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with a bid by Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip to toss out his conviction and grant him a new trial, an effort that s bolstered by the state s Republican attorney general who has raised issues with prosecutors actions in the proceedings.Arguments in the case known as Glossip v. Oklahoma came nearly a decade after the defendant unsuccessfully challenged the state s method of execution, and after the high court has intervened to sto stanley taza p his execution twice before. Glossip, stanley mugs 61, has faced nine execution dates in all and eaten his last meal three times.His most recent reprieve came last year, when the Supreme Courtagreed to blockGlossip s death by lethal injection. Months later, the justices took up his bid for a new trial after Oklahoma s top law enforcement official argued the defendant s conviction and sentence should not stand. At oral arguments before the Supreme Court, lawyers for Attorney General Gentner Drummond and Glossip, both represented by former solicitors general, urged the justices to grant the defendant s bid for a new trial, arguing in part that his due process rights were violated. The court appointed an outside lawyer, Christopher Michel, to argue in favor of upholding Glossip s conviction and death sentence.Over the course of nearly two hours, the justices sparred with lawyers over whether information from prosecutors notes about their k botella stanley ey witness that w Mnmy New GI Bill Gives Veterans More Resources For College Complete Inaugural CoverageC-SPAN has posted a nice video providing a behind the scenes look at the run-through for the stanley cup inauguration ceremony and parade. See the president be sworn in below the speech he offers is probably shorter than what we ll be hearing Monday : ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1611884-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--i stanley cup d-d1611884-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-d1611884-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Brian Montopoli Brian Montopoli is the national reporter and political analyst for CBSNews. Twitter stanley cup Facebook Rufe Running A Network Like A GOP Campaign Update: Five days before Election Day, on Oct. 30, reggaeton artist Nicky Jam withdrew his endorsement for former President Donald Trump after previously announcing he supported him because he backed Trump s plans for the economy. After comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a floating island of trash at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, Nicky Jam announced to his 42 million social media followers he was rescinding his endorsement. I never thought in my life that a month later a comedian would come along and criticize my country, speak poorly of my country, therefore I renounce any support for Donald Trump, he said in Spanish in an Instagram post.The outreach to Latino voters by Republican and Democratic campaigns this year is es stanley canada pecially noticeable in key battleground states where the Latino vote could be decisive for either party, and one of those states is Pennsylvania. It s the biggest of the battleground states, with 19 el stanley kubek ectoral votes at stake, and it s home to a sizable Latino community: 53% are Puerto Rican. The campaigns of both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have been trying to connect with prominent Puerto Rican voices in the culture as a stanley cup way to court a community that could prove decisive in November.In August, Puerto Rican reggaeton artists Anuel AA and Justin Quiles joined Trump on the campaign trail at a Pennsylvania rally in late August. Anuel AA endorsed Trump and slammed President Biden before speaking di Cgui Sen. Tim Scott announces he s dropping out of 2024 presidential race CBS From stanley water jug CBS News Scott Conroy:DERRY, N.H. -- As he greeted voters at his final polling precinct stop this morning, Mitt Romney made the case that even if he loses in New Hampshire today, he would still be a viable Republican candidate. The dynamics of this race I expect stanley trinkflaschen to change month to month, Romney said. A couple of months ago, the whole idea was gosh, Mitt, I gotta be able to win Iowa and New Hampshire to be able to stop Rudy Giuliani. Now we re not talking about Rudy Giuliani or stopping Rudy Giuliani. It s an entirely different race. Asked about how the campaign is shaping up for the January 15th primary in Michigan, Romney turned to his roots in the state. We re already running ads in Michigan, he said. We ve got a good ground team in Michigan. I was born there. I know the car industry mdash; it s been something I care very deeply about hellip; Michigan is very personal for me, and so I think I ll be able to do well there. Romney was also asked whether he felt that Mike Huckabee ha stanley spain s an edge in South Carolina, which votes along with Nevada on January 19th, due to the former Arkansas governor s evangelical base. You know, I think it gives him a good start in South Carolina, Romney said. I can t tell you how it ll play out there. I believe the people of South Carolina will decidemdash;as most Americans domdash;based on who they think has the experience and the vision and values to lead the country and to beat kzuu 2016 by the numbers: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump - Jeaoneuntor - 11-30-2024 Ybbe How Obama s Cling To Guns And Religion Remarks Got On The Web President Trump on Friday invited members of the U.S. Coast Guard to play golf, as he finishes out the year in Florida.The White House said Mr. Trump had invited Coast Guard members to Trump International Golf Club, with some coming from nearby Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet. About 60 members were expected to participate, and the White House said the president will also host the group for lunch.White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said the president wanted to thank these service members personally for their service to this nation. The president has praised the Coast Guard for their work during hurricanes in Texas and Florida. Mr. Trump visited the same station over Thanksgiving to hand out lunches.The president, speaking vaso stanley alongside some of the service members to reporters, called his golf course one of the greatest in the vaso stanley world. He also pointed out his golf game to those present. Enjoy the course. I think all of you were watching my shot, the president joked, adding that he got a birdie. The president is spending the holiday season at his club Ma stanley france r-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, as he completes his first year in office. Mr. Trump has spent some of his time golfing during his stay in Florida, although those sessions are closed off to the press and public. More from CBS News Xoxs 2016 candidate Mike Huckabee heads to Israel By Associated Press Special Correspondent David Espo.Call it campaign growing pains. Or bad luck. Or a combination of the tw stanley cup usa o.By any name, Sen. John McCain is hampered by missteps and self-generated controversy in the early days of the general election campaign for the White House.Take his most recent trip through several states and the Canadian capital, a five-day span during which he courted conservatives and independents alike, raised more than $10 million and began detailing his considerable differences with Sen. Barack Obama on energy policy. Still, on Tuesday, he criticized his rival for proposing a windfall profits tax on the oil industr stanley us y. The attack was complicated by McCain s earlier statement that he would consider the same thing.The following day, he met with a group of stanley thermos Hispanics in Chicago. Aides who had kept word of the event secret were placed on the defensive within hours after one participant criticized some of McCain s comments. On Thursday, the Arizona senator flew to Iowa, a likely battleground state in the November election, where he expressed sympathy with victims of severe flooding and pledged support for federal recovery aid. The event was overshadowed by President George W. Bush s appearance elsewhere in the same state on the same day.Friday s trip to Canada brought more controversy.McCain arrived aboard his chartered campaign jet, yet told reporters at a news conference, this is not a political campaign t ixnb With sequester in place, what s next - Jeaoneuntor - 12-01-2024 Mffe Report: Obama to propose $300B jobs plan JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.mdash; Facing mounting calls to re stanley cup spain sign following sexual misconduct allegations, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens appears to be taking a cue from President Trump as he fights for his political survival amid a MeToo movement that has felled dozens of other prominent politicians and public figures.Referencing events in Washington, D.C., Greitens is using wording similar to that used by Mr. Trump to denounce accusations of unwanted sexual aggression as lies and fake charges and the investigations into his alleged wrongdoing as a political witch hunt. Mr. Trump has thus far survived. But reaction from fellow Republicans indicates Greitens may have a more difficult time mdash; in part, because allegations about Trump s behavior were known before his election, whereas Greitens had cultivated a campaign persona of an all-American hero. On Thursday, Missouri Senate Majority Leader Mike Kehoe became the highest-ranking Republican state lawmaker calling for Greitens to immediately resign following the release ofa legislative report detailing testimonyfrom a woman who said Greitens slapped, grabbed, shoved and threatened her during unwanted sexual encounters. Kehoe said Greitens has lost his moral authority. Greitens said Wednesday that a state House committee s report on an investigation into his extramarital affair with his h stanley canada airdresse stanley cups uk r is a political witch hunt. Should the governor choose not to resign, I am persua Qtox McCain Irked by Questions About 2004 Veep Talks Backers of a California ballot initiative that would drastically increase Republican chances of retaining the White House in 2008 have raised $1.2 million, including $316,000 in eight days this month ndash; and supporters say theyrsquo;re on pace to qualify for the vote in June. The group, California Counts - Make Your Vote Count!, reported Tuesday it had raked in $855,000, mostly from a handful of huge contributions, according to a filing with the California Secretary of Statersquo office. That doesnrsquo;t include $350,000 in contributions which are either below the reporting threshold of $5,000 or which arrived in the past week, campaign manager Dave Gilliard said. stanley quencher He had predicted it would cost $2 million to collect the signatur stanley drink bottle es to earn a spot on the statersquo ballot in plenty of time to affect the 2008 election. We are still on track stanley termosy to submit our signatures by the end of the month, he said Wednesday. California Countsrsquo; initiative would divide the statersquo 55 electoral votes proportionally, rather than the current winner-take-all format. That would be a huge boon to the eventual Republican presidential nominee, since the GOP has little chance of carrying California, which has voted Democratic in the last four presidential elections. The Republican candidate would stand a good chance of winning as many as 19 of the statersquo electoral votes, though, under the formula proposed by the i hxpj John Paul Stevens, retired Supreme Court Justice, has died at 99 - Jeaoneuntor - 12-01-2024 Ixvg Today s Economic News The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol unveiled testimony from top officials in the stanley cup Trump administration at its high-profile prime-time hearing on Thursday, with lawmakers making the case that former President Donald Trump was at the center of stanley cups uk a conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election.The footage offered a preview of the committee s plans to unveil the findings of its monthslong investigation over the course of several upcoming hearings, drawing upon the mountain of evidence that congressional investigators have obtained from interviews with more than 1,000 witnesses, including some of the key figures in Trump s attempt to hold onto power.6 new things we learned from the first public Jan. 6 hearingIn one clip played during Thursday s hearing, former Attorney General William Barr told committee that he told Trump his claims that the election was stolen were bullsh** and that he didn t want to be a part of it. You can t live in a world where t stanley tumblers he incumbent administration stays in power based on its view, unsupported by specific evidence, that there was fraud in the election, Barr said in a taped interview displayed by committee Chairman Bennie Thompson. Barr resigned as attorney general in late December 2020, shortly after he said publicly that the Justice Department saw no evidence of widespread fraud that would have changed the election results, comments that infuriated Trump.Jason Gjal Strickland Is Not Qualified To Be Obama s Vice President, And He Knows It CBS From CBS News Fernando Suarez:SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO -- Hillary Clinton reached out to uncommitted superdelegates at a celebration rally in Puerto Rico after a double-digit win on the island helped push Clinton past Barack Obama in the kubki stanley popular vote, according to the Clinton campaign s count. We are winning the popular vote, Clinton told the crowd, but she reminded supporters eager to see Clinton as their nominee that Democratic Party rules do not award the nomination to a candidate based on popular vote, rather through delegate votes. So when the voting concludes on Tuesday, neither Sen garrafa stanley ator Obama nor I will have the number of delegates to be the nominee, Cli stanley thermobecher nton said. I will lead the popular vote, he will maintain a slight lead in the delegate count. The decision will fall on those leaders in our party empowered by the rules to vote in the Democratic convention. I do not envy the decision you have to make, but a decision has to be made. Her analysis of the delegate count isn t totally accurate, however. After Tuesday, Obama will be very close to clinching the nomination, even if no superdelegates endorse him between now and then. And in terms of pledged delegates, he has already received a majority of those, so there s no possible way she can catch him in that count.With the nomination winding down, the only thing left for Clinton to do is to make the case to uncommitted superdelegates that her lead in the popular vote m ldco Google CEO Sundar Pichai says there are no plans to launch search in China - Jeaoneuntor - 12-01-2024 Hvkg Bill Clinton, Obama together again Nervous, and at one point in tears, Donald Trump s former communications director Hope Hicks on Friday told the jury in his criminal trial about how he reacted in 2016 and 2018 when news reports surfaced about allegations of extramarital sexual encounters and his attempts to suppress them.Hicks was Trump s top press aide during his 2016 presidential campaign and later served as White House communications director. On the stand, she testified about how she and others in Trump s orbit handled revelations about the hush money payments made to two women bef stanley tumbler ore the election.Earlier in the trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that Hicks had been in and out of a 2015 Trump Tower meeting where Pecker, Trump and Michael Cohen, Trump s attorney at the time, allegedly hatched the scheme to bury stories about Trump, a tactic now known as catch and kill. But Hicks said she was initially unaware of the deals in 2016 to pay two women, Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels, for their silence about alleged sexual encounter stanley website s with Trump. Hicks testified that she first learned of the payments on Nov. 4, when a Wall Street Journal reporter sent her questions about McDougal, a former Playboy model who received $150,000 from the Enquirer s parent company.Hicks also had a front-row seat to one of the mos stanley mugs t pivotal moments of the 2016 campaign: the release of the infamous Access Hollywood tape, a 2005 recording in which Trump is he Eodo Trump hopes for massive rallies of 25,000 this year A CONSTITUENT MATTER ....The New York Times tells the story today of Donald Diamond sometimes referred to as The Donald, Arizona s answer to Donald Trump , a wealthy Arizona real estate developer who is one of John McCain s top campaign fundraisers. A decade ago, Diamond wanted to buy some land at a California Army base that was being closed:When Mr. Diamond wanted to buy land at the base, Fort Ord, Mr. McCain assigned an aide who set up a meeting at the Pentagon and later stepped in again to help speed up the sale, according to people involved and a deposition Mr. Diamond gave for a related lawsuit.....The McCain aide s assistance with the Army helped Mr. Diamond complete a purchase in 1999 that he soon turned over for a $20 million profit.....For the California projects, the campaign said the McCain aide arranged the introduction to an Army official for Mr. Diamond s team as a constituent matter. The campaign said it had no knowledge of the aide helping to expedite the sale.Indeed. A constituent matter. McCain s pal managed to snag this prime coastal land mdash; co stanley mug mpl stanley cup ete wi stanley mug th special water rights mdash; for $250,000 and then sell it two years later for $30 million. That s some serious constituent service. Diamond himself, though, is a little more forthcoming about the ways of the world:Associates say he revels in his ability to work the system, as his friend and sometimes partner, Stanley Abrams, put it: Nobody is as connected as Donald. Mr. Diamond is c |