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Demovictory9's JournalCritics Lash Jared Kushner For Saying Bolton, Kelly, Mattis Didn't 'Have What It Took'
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jared-kushner-nepotism-bolton-ivanka_n_5e3618f5c5b69a19a4b06309Critics Lash Jared Kushner For Saying Bolton, Kelly, Mattis Didn’t ‘Have What It Took’
Like a wife who’s the president’s daughter.
News watchers’ jaws dropped when CNN reported Saturday that Donald Trump’s son-in-law and political neophyte Jared Kushner claimed that former national security adviser John Bolton, booted defense secretary Jim Mattis and John Kelly, former White House chief of staff, simply “didn’t have what it took” to work in the Trump administration.
The comments are part of a CNN interview with Fareed Zakaria that will air Sunday. Kushner, referring to the heavyweights, claimed they left the administration because Trump “cycled out a lot of the people who didn’t have what it took to be successful ” in the White House.
Kushner was head of his family’s real estate business with absolutely no political experience when he was named senior White House adviser by his father-in-law as soon as Trump took office.
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Critics on Twitter wondered what a guy like Bolton, whose government work stretches back some 40 years, might need to have what it takes. They had some ideas:
Walter Shaub
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a relative in a high place
Natives&ImmigrantsAreUS
@LillianRodrigu6
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A marriage to a Trump and no morals?
82 percentage points separating the two parties in their views of the president ...
Eighty-nine percent of Republicans and just 7% of Democrats approved of Trump on average during the third year of his presidency, according to polling by Gallup. The 82 percentage points separating the two parties in their views of the president was greater than for any other year of any other presidency.
That persistent polarization has led to unusual stability in Trump's approval rating. While approval ebbs and flows from poll to poll, Trump's rating have remained within a roughly 10 percentage point range for three years. Trump's approval rating is unlikely to change with partisans staunchly in their camps. There's not much room for improvement among Republicans, and he's unlikely to gain any support from Democrats.
https://www.al.com/news/2020/02/polling-public-opinion-on-trump-remains-steady.html
Best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark dies at age 92
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-mary-higgins-clark-dead-20200201-uw7enrzq5rhdjaekk2vzeo7vhi-story.htmlBest-selling author Mary Higgins Clark dies at age 92
Calif repubs never learn: at my local market this morn.. petition - recall Gavin Newsome/anti-immig
they were only reaching out to certain demographics to sign the petition, not me. so I went home and looked it up.
recall gavin newsome, anti sanctuary, anti-immig. don't they every learn!! Calif is dark dark blue now... not going to put up with that mess.
Bill Maher made a political ad for the Democrats!
https://twitter.com/MysterySolvent/status/1223465552007651328Man Dumped From Wheelchair in Dispute Over Parking Space, "Amazed no one intervened"
A California man is facing charges of attempted kidnapping and assault after a Target customer was dumped out of his wheelchair.
Philip Kinstler, who has used a wheelchair for 30 years, arrived at the Pleasant Hill store on Jan. 11 to find a vehicle parked in a disabled spot without a permit, reports KPIX. The 52-year-old says he tapped on the window of the vehicle to notify a female occupant before heading into the store to return a shirt.
He was at the customer service desk when he was approached by a man police identified as Jimmie Tiger. Kinstler says the man demanded he return to the lot to apologize for having scared his partner, per the Washington Post. Surveillance video shows the man speaking to Kinstler for a minute before wheeling him away from the counter. As Kinstler grabs a sign, the man flips him out of his chair, then walks away.
Arrested more than a week later, 32-year-old Tiger pleaded not guilty to attempted kidnapping and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and was released on $180,000 bail, per Newsweek. Police said community members worked with law enforcement "to find a quick resolution." But Kinstler, paralyzed from the chest down due to a rare degenerative disease called syringomyelia, says he was amazed that no one intervened. "All they had to do is stand in front of my wheelchair" but "they did nothing," he tells KPIX, adding he's "never been that scared." He tells the Post that he broke his wrist in the fall, leaving him unable to drive or get out of bed by himself. Two people followed Kinstler and his assailant, per the San Francisco Chronicle. Police say witnesses also cared for Kinstler until police arrived, and submitted a partial license plate.
https://www.newser.com/story/286343/man-dumped-from-wheelchair-in-dispute-over-parking-space.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_img_b
Woman Tricks Friend Into Quitting Job, Gets Over 2 Years
Woman Tricks Friend Into Quitting Job, Gets Over 2 Years
Helen Dove, 31, is found guilty of fraud
Helen Dove, left, and Kimberley Baker.
https://www.newser.com/story/286355/woman-tricks-friend-into-quitting-job-gets-over-2-years.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_img_b
A British woman is facing over 2 1/2 years in prison for tricking a friend into believing she had found her a dream job, the Guardian reports. Helen Dove, 31, impersonated 15 people and sent thousands of emails in an elaborate scheme against 43-year-old Kimberley Baker—all while they were so close that Dove became Baker's main bridesmaid, the court heard. "She was my best friend, she was someone I was with 24/7, that did everything with me," Baker tells the Liverpool Echo. "She went on holiday with us, looked after the kids with me, took the kids to school, so I had no reason not to believe her." Dove and Baker apparently met two years ago at a riding school, where Baker said her dream was to work in children's services. That's when Dove falsely claimed to be an adoption worker.
Soon Dove claimed jobs were available with her supposed employer, a children's services department, so Baker took a voluntary redundancy from her job—and was dragged along for seven months as Dove impersonated employees, forged bank statements, and falsified employment contracts in what appeared to be a drawn-out hiring process. Dove's lawyer claims she did it as "a desperate and misguided attempt" to keep Baker's friendship because Dove had no family and "craved that domestic closeness." But Dove pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud and was sentenced to 2 years, 8 months, along with a $2,000 fine. "I was heartbroken," says Baker, a mother of three. "I couldn't believe someone could do something so cruel. ... She didn't have any heart or feelings."
Journalist Gwen Ifill Honored With Black Heritage Forever Stamp
Gwen Ifill didn't want it to be a big deal.
The legendary journalist knew she'd served as a trailblazer for women and especially a beacon of what is professionally possible for women of color. But in an interview with The New York Times, she said she was eager for the days when it would not seem "like any breakthrough at all" for a black woman to be anchoring a national news program.
https://www.npr.org/2020/01/29/801055141/journalist-gwen-ifill-honored-with-black-heritage-forever-stamp
And yet, more than three years after her death, Ifill is still making breakthroughs. This time, on a stamp.
Trump allies are handing out cash to black voters - events where they lavish praise on Trump
Trump allies are handing out cash to black votersOrganizers have begun holding events in black communities where they lavish praise on the president while handing out thousands of dollars in giveaways.
Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.
The first giveaway took place last month in Cleveland, where recipients whose winning tickets were drawn from a bin landed cash gifts in increments of several hundred dollars, stuffed into envelopes. A second giveaway scheduled for this month in Virginia has been postponed, and more are said to be in the works.
The tour comes as Trump’s campaign has been investing its own money to make inroads with black voters and erode Democrats’ overwhelming advantage with them. But the cash giveaways are organized under the auspices of an outside charity, the Urban Revitalization Coalition, permitting donors to remain anonymous and make tax-deductible contributions.
The organizers say the events are run by the book and intended to promote economic development in inner cities. But the group behind the cash giveaways is registered as a 501(c)3 charitable organization. One leading legal expert on nonprofit law said the arrangement raises questions about the group’s tax-exempt status, because it does not appear to be vetting the recipients of its money for legitimate charitable need.
"Charities are required to spend their money on charitable and educational activities,” said Marcus Owens, a former director of the Exempt Organizations Division at the Internal Revenue Service who is now in private practice at the law firm Loeb & Loeb. “It's not immediately clear to me how simply giving money away to people at an event is a charitable act.”
Asked about the legality of the giveaways in a brief phone interview, the Urban Revitalization Coalition’s CEO, Darrell Scott, said that most gifts were between $300 and $500, and that the group mandates that anyone who receives over $600 fills out a W-9 form in order to ensure compliance with tax law. He did not respond to follow-up questions about how the giveaways were structured and whether they met the legal standard for a charitable act.
Scott declined to name the donors funding the effort. "I'd rather not,” he said. “They prefer to remain anonymous."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/trump-black-voters-cash-giveaways-108072
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