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Eric Holder And VP Mike Pence Have Twitter War Over ‘MAGA’ Slogan
NRA Could 'Be Forced To Shut
Attorney General Eric Holder: "His legacy will en- dure, and his important work will go on, in the efforts of all who continue to speak out for peace, for freedom, for justice, and for the dignity to which every human being is entitled. I was deeply sad- dened to hear of his passing today, and will hold his friends, loved ones, and countrymen and -women in my thoughts and prayers."
Attorney General Eric Holder and Vice President Mike Pence are have found themselves in a twitter beef this week.
Huff Post reports, that the two got into a spat over President Donald Trump‘s campaign slogan “Make America Great
Great Again,’ I think to my- self, exactly when did you think America was great?” Holder asked. “It certainly wasn’t when people were en- slaved. It certainly wasn’t when women didn’t have the right to vote. It certainly was- n’t when the LGBT commu- nity was denied the rights to which it was entitled.” Holder responded and said “America IS great” and “can- and must-be greater still” and the “Make America Great Again” slogan means, “YOU think America is not great now-and is backward looking. America is at its best when we look forward, em- brace an uncertain future and make it ours. That is what defines American great- ness.”
Executive Vice President
EL PASO, Texas — Hun- dreds of migrants being held in an outdoor camp under- neath a bridge that connects the U. S. and Mexico told BuzzFeed News that had they known they’d face such harsh conditions at the Texas border before they left, they may not have made the journey.
The immigrants, held b e hind a chain-link fence topped with razor wire, said they’ve endured cold and windy nights sleeping on bare, rocky dirt underneath the Paso Del Norte International Bridge that links Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. Most of the immigrants had nothing but thin, mylar blankets. Above, roosting pigeons dropped feces on them.
“You know, America has done superb things, has done great things, and it has been a leader in a whole range of things, but we’re always a work in process,” he added. “Looking back, ‘Make Amer- ica Great Again’ is inconsis- tent with who we are as Americans at our best where we look at the uncertain fu- ture, embrace it, and make it our own.”
After Holder’s comments, Pence took to Twitter Thurs- day with photos of American and one simple question to defend the President’s slogan as second-in-command. “Ex- actly when do you think America was great,” he ques- tioned.
Maxine Waters Says Trump Is
AG ERIC HOLDER Again”. Holder stirred the
pot on Wednesday when he told MSNBC‘S Ari Melber that the “notion of greatness” that President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan “never in fact really existed.”
“When I hear these things about let’s ‘Make America
NRA executive vice presi- dent Wayne LaPierre hit group members with a four- page letter. In it, he blamed the group’s financial woes on Andrew Cuomo, who or- dered state regulators to en- courage insurance companies, state-chartered banks and fi- nancial services companies to review their relationships with the NRA.
According to The Daily Beast, LaPierre believes the threat is imminent.
Banks are backing out of business with the gun owner’s group that remains silent when black gun owners are killed by police. Mounting pressure could cripple the group, LaPierre said.
“Right now we’re facing an attack that’s unprecedented not just in the history of the NRA, but in the entire history of our country. And if this at- tack succeeds, NRA will be forced to shut down forever,” LaPierre wrote.
While a suit by the NRA al- leging Cuomo violated First Amendment rights is moving forward after a November court decision, the suit claims the association has suffered millions in damages as a re-
NRA Executive Vice Presi- dent, Wayne LaPierre.
sult of Cuomo’s directive, warning it “could be forced to shutter its multimillion-dollar television network, NRA TV, or a number of its print publi- cations.”
Beyond the Empire State’s stumbling block, Donald Trump’s pro-gun presidency may have proved the biggest blow to the NRA, as income took a $55 million hit in 2018, the third year of double-digit losses. While the group comes under scrutiny for its ties to Russian officials and its possi- ble illegal coordination with the Trump campaign, its midterm contributions last year were a third of its output during the 2014 election cycle.
Down Forever,' Says
'It’s Hell There': This Is What It’s Like For Immigrants Being Held In A Pen Underneath An El Paso Bridge
Families are seen inside a temporary migrant holding area set up by Customs and Border Protection under the Paso del Norte International Port of Entry between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, March 27, 2019, in El Paso, Texas.
The report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller al- legedly calls for no indict- ments, but that’s not going to stop U. S. Rep. Maxine Wa- ters from continuing to go hard on Donald Trump.
“I want to tell you that this president has a way of trying to get into people’s heads and indoctrinate them,” Waters told MSNBC host Joy Reid of AM Joy on Sunday.
“He’s been saying ‘no col- lusion, no collusion, no collu- sion’ over and over again for a long time now and he’s going to try and conclude that this report is proving that there’s no collusion and you have a lot of his syco- phants who will take the nod from him and they’ll say the same thing, but we cannot allow them to get away with this,” Waters continued. “He does this all the time. This is not the end of any- thing.”
Waters, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, added, “It’s the
U. S. immigration officials said they have been over- whelmed by the influx of mi- grant families trying to enter the country, filling facilities to capacity, and forcing officials to temporarily house people under the bridge in what they describe as a transitional shel- ter.
On Thursday morning, as cars and travelers went back and forth across the two bor- der cities on the bridge above, a group of immigrant men and a young boy talked and pointed to the razor wire that encircled them. Behind them was a line of portable toilets. On the floor were the metal- lic-looking plastic blankets they were given to brave the shivering cold.
Reporters were able to view immigrants inside the pen for a brief time before Border Patrol agents asked that they leave the area. Sev- eral immigrants at a nearby Greyhound bus station said they spent nights under the bridge before they were re- leased pending scheduled ap- pearances before immigration judges.
N. Rosales, a woman from Honduras who crossed into the U. S. with her son, spent about three days under the bridge until she was moved to a Border Patrol holding cell at the adjacent processing facility. She asked that her full name or age not be used, fearing retaliation from immigration authorities.
REP. MAXINE WATERS
end of the report and the in- vestigation by Mueller but those of us who chair these committees have a responsi- bility to continue with our oversight.”
She said, “It’s not the end of everything.”
Waters also noted that if the Mueller report is not made public then U.S. Attor- ney General William Barr should be subpoenaed.
“We want full disclosure,” Waters said. “The American people deserve to know what our special counsel has dis- covered over these 22 months.”
Still A Suspect Despite
Mueller’s Report
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