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Trump’s Tweet Against Mexico Contradicts Staffer’s Praise
Clueless Stacey Dash Withdraws From Congressional Race
Stacey Dash announced that she’s given up her run for Congress.
Just weeks after she re- vealed her aspirations to be- come a U.S. congresswoman, the actress has changed her mind.
“After much prayer, intro- spection and discussions with my family, I am withdrawing my candidacy for California’s 44th Congressional District,” Stacey said in an email to CNN.
The former Fox News commentator explained that she began her congressional bid with the best of inten- tions.
Stacy was running to rep- resent an area of California that includes cities like Compton, Watts, San Pedro, and North Long Beach. These areas have always leaned democratic.
Stacey Dash has withdrawn her candidacy.
However, Stacey has been a very vocal conservative re- publican, so we can’t imagine who would have voted for the Clueless star in California’s 44th district. It’s not exactly her base.
Stacey said that she’s choosing to lay down her campaign to focus on her family.
Donald Trump had some strong words for the Mexican government on Easter morn- ing. In a series of tweets, he chastised Mexico for not curb- ing illegal immigration.
That’s the same country Trump’s own homeland secu- rity secretary Kirstjen Nielsen praised just last week for cooperating with the U.S. on border issues.
“We are neighbors, we are allies, we are friends,” she said in heavily-accented Spanish after announcing three new border-security agreements between the U.S. and Mexico.
The belligerent tone Trump uses when talking publicly about Mexico belies the more civil interactions his adminis-
tration has with Mexican offi- cials. Despite the president’s frequent rants and threats, the two countries have carried on with their work on the routine issues that define their rela- tionship, including immigra- tion and trade.
The Mexican govern-
m e n t has actively stopped un- documented immigrants from making it to the U.S. It ramped up detentions and deporta- tions of Central Americans to help the Barack Obama ad- ministration handle a surge of immigrants into the U.S. from that region starting in 2014.
White House Interns: 99.9% White
A Texas woman was sen- tenced to five years in prison Wednesday (March 28) for voting in the 2016 presiden- tial election despite being on supervised probation from a previous conviction.
Crystal Mason, a 43- year-old mother of two, main- tains that she was never informed that it was illegal to vote as a convicted felon.
Mason reportedly waved a jury trial and instead left her sentencing fate in the hands of District Judge Ruben Gonzalez.
Mason cast her vote in the 2016 election at the en- couragement of her mother. When she arrived at the polling location her name wasn’t on the list, but she was given a provisional ballot. However, Mason admitted to not reading the ballot but noted that she was being as- sisted by a worker at the polling place. Although her ballot was later flagged, Mason wasn’t told that her vote was illegal until three months later when she was arrested after checking in with her probation officer.
Crystal Mason was sen- tenced to 5 years for voting.
Though Mason was re- manded into custody imme- diately after being sentenced to five years in the voting case, her attorney, J. War- ren St. John has already filed an appeal that could get her released on bail.
Per a previous report from 2017, Mason said that she believed she was being tar- geted because she voted for Hillary Clinton.
Nearly 500,000 convicted felons in Texas were not al- lowed to vote in the 2016 election. However, Texas has come under scrutiny for voter suppression against black and Latino voters.
The White House is yet again facing fierce criticism over the lack of diversity of the participants in its intern program.
A photograph released
2018 class of White House interns.
Friday shows President Donald Trump posing with the spring intake, who are overwhelmingly white:
“The White House in- tern photo is like a Where’s
Waldo for a non-white per- son — in a country that is about 40% non-white,” tweeted political scientist and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas.
Woman Sentenced To 5 Years For Voting
China Claps Back At Trump With Tariffs On 128 Goods Sold To U.S.
China will impose a 15 per- cent tariff increase on goods including American fruit and nuts and add a 25 percent tar- iff on pork, recycled aluminum and other goods, the govern- ment said.
The move to impose the du- ties comes just over a week after the Chinese Commerce ministry had announced it was considering tariffs on the goods. Just over a week later, those tariffs are taking effect. The move is expected to lead to escalating tensions between the two large trading nations,
Trump with the president of China.
leading many to worry that American farmers will be casu- alties in a tit-for-tat trade war. China ’s move is to counter President Donald Trump's
new tariffs on steel and alu- minum, levying duties that will take effect Monday on more than $3 billion in U.S. exports to the country.
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