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Pres. Offers ‘Condolences In Las Vegas Shooting; Says Nothing About Guns
Trump during his speech in Alabama.
Trump Dedicates Golf Trophy To Hurricane Victims; Scheduled To Visit Puerto Rico
President Donald Trump on Monday offered his sympathy for victims of the mass shooting that terrorized a coun- try music concert in Las Vegas the night before.
At least 50 were dead and hun- dreds more injured after Stephen Paddock, 64, began shooting at the thousands of attendants of the Route 91 Harvest Festival from the 32nd floor of a nearby hotel.
dock dead of an apparent self- inflicted wound after breaching his room at the Mandalay Bay hotel, where he had at least 10 guns.
Later Monday morning, read- ing prepared remarks from the White House, Trump called the shooting “an act of pure evil” and commended first responders and local officials.
He also offered his prayers and announced that he plans to visit Las Vegas on Wednesday.
While residents in Florida, Houston and Puerto Rico con- tinue on with the grueling process of rebuilding their com- munities that were destroyed by natural disasters, on Sunday (Oct. 1) Donald Trump dedi- cated a golf trophy to the victims of Hurricane Irma, Maria and Harvey.
Trump traveled Sunday be- tween two New Jersey golf courses
The President, who started the weekend at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, fin- ished with an appearance at the Presidents Cup, a prestigious in- ternational golf tournament held at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City.
Trump, who as a civilian fre- quently blasted President Barack Obama over his golf outings, faced similar criticism as his administration grappled
Trump has spent weekends on various golf courses during the Hurricane disaster crisis.
with the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
But it appeared, on social media at least, to be a working weekend. This is what he tweeted:
“On behalf of all of the people of Texas, and all of the people — if you look today and see what is
happening, how horrible it is but we have it under really great control — Puerto Rico and the people of Florida who have really suffered over this last short pe- riod of time with the hurricanes, I want to just remember them,” Trump began, “And we’re going to dedicate this trophy to all of those people that went through somuchthatwelove—apartof our great state, really part of our great nation.” he said.
The president’s trophy dedi- cation came after San Juan’s Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz criticized Trump’s slow relief response to the people of Puerto Rico.
From a golf course in Bed- minster, New Jersey this week- end, Trump took to Twitter to slam Cruz and allege the hurri- cane victims are just being lazy.
Trump is scheduled to visit Puerto Rico Tuesday (Oct. 3)
Police said they found Pad-
Mary Mary Singer Tina Campbell
You Think We Have Trouble With North Korea? Russia Displaying Large Scale Military Power
Reveals She Voted For Trump
According to the New York Times, a recent major exercise by the Russian military revealed significant strides in its ability to execute large-scale operations, using drones and other new technology, that would be part of any all-out war with the United States in Europe, according to American and allied officials.
Preliminary Pentagon and NATO assessments of the exer- cise, one of the largest of its kind since the end of the Cold War,
Tina Campbell, of the con- troversial half of Mary Mary has admitted that she voted for Trump because he’s a Christian.
During an interview with The Root, the one half of the gospel group Mary Mary said she was- n’t thrilled with either candi- dates, but found commonality with Trump because of his be- liefs.
“I was faced with two presi- dential candidates that I really did not approve of and so I had to find something, a commonal- ity with one of them, that would make me feel like if I have to vote, I should utilize my right to vote,” the 43-year-old singer said. “Since I don’t prefer either of them, what can I find that would make me vote? And some of Donald Trump’s views on Christianity, honestly, is what caused me to vote for him.”
Campbell admits that she
Russia troops are using drones and other technology in large scale operations recently.
are classified and will take months to complete.
American intelligence offi-
cials suspected something would unfold, because of the Russian troop buildups in August.
Tina Campbell is known for being very vocal on their real- ity show. Now she tells why she voted for Trump.
doesn’t agree with a lot of Trump’s decisions, similar to how she didn’t agree with a lot of Obama’s, but says it’s not her job to judge, but to pray for the Commander-In-Chief.
He’d made Supreme Court history before, crafting the argu- ment to dismantle legal segrega- tion in U.S. public schools in the landmark case of Brown v. the Board of Education in 1954.
Now, on Oct. 2, 1967, Thur- good Marshall was poised to make history again — this time as the first Black man to take a seat as a Supreme Court justice.
Marshall, the grandson of a slave who had become famous for using the U.S. Constitution to fight for equal rights, would move from arguing cases before the nation’s highest court to being one of nine justices to de- cide them.
President Lyndon B. Johnson made an unan- nounced visit to the Supreme Court to witness the moment, the culmination of Johnson’s shrewd political maneuvering.
“It was often said around the Johnson White House that what LBJ wanted, LBJ got,” wrote Wil Haygood in his best- selling biography, “Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination
President Lyndon Johnson Made History:
Thurgood Marshall Was First Black Sworn
In As Supreme Court Justice 50 Years Ago
President Lyndon Johnson and Thurgood Marshall, who erupts into laughter, stands with his family a few members of the Supreme Court.
That Changed America.”
In June, 1967, the president told reporters that he had just spoken with Chief Justice Earl Warren and informed him he was sending Marshall’s nomination to the Senate.
Marshall, Johnson noted, “has argued 19 cases in the Supreme Court since becoming Solicitor General.
Prior to that time, he had ar- gued some 33 cases. The statisti- cians tell me that probably only one or two other living men have argued as many cases before the Court — and perhaps less than
half a dozen in all the history of the nation.”
On Aug. 30, after an intense debate in the Senate, Mar- shall’s nomination was con- firmed by a 69-to-11 vote. Eleven Southern senators voted against his confirmation, complaining not about his race but about his “activist” temperament.
Two days later, on Sept. 1, 1967, in a private ceremony at the court, Marshall, then 59, took the constitutional oath of office from Justice Hugo Black, who had once been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
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