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November 17, 2018

Jacob Wohl says he was joking about being behind Avenatti accusation

I think Wohl thinks he's in trouble.

Wohl backtracked on his previous tweet in which he claimed “Surefire Intelligence strikes again,” in regards to news that Avenatti had been arrested.

“Just to be in jest, not anything serious,” Wohl told us after we asked him why he tweeted such a comment. “Just in jest, yeah… sarcastic remark… joke,” he continued.


https://hillreporter.com/exclusive-jacob-wohl-speaks-out-about-michael-avenattis-arrest-14645
November 16, 2018

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi's assassination

Source: Washington Post

The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing, according to people familiar with the matter.
The CIA’s assessment, in which officials have said they have high confidence, is the most definitive to date linking Mohammed to the operation and complicates the Trump administration’s efforts to preserve its relationship with a close ally.

A team of 15 Saudi agents flew to Istanbul on government aircraft in October and killed Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate, where he had come to pick up documents that he needed for his planned marriage to a Turkish woman.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-concludes-saudi-crown-prince-ordered-jamal-khashoggis-assassination/2018/11/16/98c89fe6-e9b2-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html



Will Trump finally punish the Prince?
November 16, 2018

NYT editorial: The 17 Saudis sanctioned by Trump include neither the Prince nor anyone close to him

And, oh, Mohammed bin Salman, the 33-year-old de facto ruler, exonerated. "Absolutely, his royal highness the crown prince has nothing to do with this issue," Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir assured reporters in Riyadh on Thursday. The American sanctions do not rise to the prince’s level, nor to those closest to him.


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/opinion/saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-trump-khashoggi.html
November 15, 2018

Judge: Florida election workers are "untrained" in signature matching

He gave voters until Saturday to correct discrepancies.

“Here, potentially thousands of voters have been deprived of the right to cast a legal vote — and have that vote counted — by an untrained canvassing board member based on an arbitrary determination that their respective signatures did not match,” wrote the judge, appointed to the federal bench in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama. "Such a violation of the right to vote cannot be undone. "


My concern is that not all of those disenfranchised will have time to correct their votes in two days.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/11/15/federal-judge-gives-florida-voters-until-saturday-correct-signature-problems-roiling-close-races/
November 11, 2018

Sinema continues to inch ahead in slow Arizona vote count

Source: AP

Democrat Kyrsten Sinema is continuing to inch ahead in the slow-motion finish to Arizona’s U.S. Senate race.

On Saturday night, she remained a little more than a percentage point ahead of Republican Martha McSally. She gained 4,000 votes from a batch of ballots tallied in Maricopa County as well as a few thousand from elsewhere in the state.

It may take until Thursday to count all the votes. Arizona typically takes more than a week to tally its mail ballots. McSally is hoping for a late shift toward her in the remaining ballots. There are more than 250,000 outstanding. About 2.4 million votes were cast in the election.

Read more: https://www.apnews.com/9d3c6b8a274340829050b56a010e1941

November 9, 2018

Florida law enforcement department finds no evidence of voter fraud in Florida

Allegations of fraud by Rick Scott just rejected by the Florida Department of law-enforcement:
https://twitter.com/rosspalombowplg/status/1060978715629371399?s=21

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