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White House And Political News
Stacey Dash Blames Tweet Against Cong. Waters On Intern
Renewed Pledge To Make Mexico Pay For Wall
When all else fails, blame the intern. Stacey Dash is de- fending herself after a tweet ap- peared on her account Thursday (Aug. 24) calling Rep. Maxine Waters (D.- Calif.) a “corrupt media buf- foon.”
The comment was in re- sponse to a BET.com article sharing Waters’ Black Girls Rock speech, which aired on the cable network earlier in the week.
“This is how you spin a cor- rupt media buffoon sucking up her late in life 15 minutes,” the tweet read.
On Friday (Aug. 25), Dash clarified that the post was from an alleged intern, even though she’s no fan of Waters.
“Let me clarify that an intern wrongly used ‘buffoon’ in a re- cent tweet,” she wrote. “I don’t
Stacey Dash and Maxine Waters
need to be disrespectful to dis- agree.”
To further explain her feel- ings about the 79-year-old Congresswoman, Dash tweeted a January blog post where she claims Waters worked to “extend her fifteen minutes of fame” by calling for Donald Trump’s impeach- ment.
President Donald Trump Sunday renewed his pledge to make Mexico pay for a border wall between the U. S and Mexico, days after threat- ening to trigger a government shutdown if congressional Re- publicans don’t include fund- ing as they take on a spending bill due Sept. 30.
“With Mexico being one of the highest crime nations in the world, we must have THE WALL,” Trump posted on Twitter. “Mexico will pay for it
through reimbursement/other. The president did not elab- orate on how Mexico would
cover the cost.
Trump has asked for $1.6
billion to begin border wall
construction, but not all con- gressional Republicans agree about the merits of a fight to spend potentially billions of dollars more on a border bar- rier as they seek for tax cuts.
Pres. Trump To Visit Texas On Tuesday
Sec. Of State Says President ‘Speaks For Himself’
President Donald Trump will visit hurricane- ravaged Texas on Tuesday, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.
"We are coordinating lo- gistics with state and local of- ficials, and once details are finalized, we will let you know," press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said. "We continue to keep all of those affected in our thoughts and prayers.”
Earlier Sunday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott heaped praise on the federal government’s response to Hurricane Har- vey, and Trump convened ad- ministration leaders to discuss the recovery from the storm that battered the Texas
Flooding in Texas.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seemingly distanced himself Sunday morning from President Donald Trump’s widely criticized responses to a deadly white supremacist rally earlier this month in Virginia, telling “Fox News Sunday” that there should be no doubt about the U.S. government’s commit- ment to long-held values but that “the president speaks for himself.
Tillerson was asked Sun- day about the president’s re- marks in Phoenix last week, in which he defended his initial response to the white suprema- cist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, which included a con- demnation of “hatred, bigotry and violence — on many sides.”
Tillerson said Sunday that the nation’s commitment to combating discrimination should be without question.
coast over the weekend and continues to drop deluging rain on the Houston area.
Their efforts came as it be- came clear that the situation was bad and could possibly
get much worse.
Trump held a Cabinet
meeting Sunday with Vice President Mike Pence to discuss the gravity of the sit- uation.
Sec. of State Rex Tillerson is distancing himself from the President’s remarks about Charlottesville.
“We express America’s val- ues from the State Department. We represent the American people, we represent America’s values, our commitment to freedom, our commitment to equal treatment of people the world over and that message has never changed,” Tillerson said. The president speaks for himself.”
Trump’s Pardon Of Arizona’s Former Sheriff Is Major Mess For Republicans
President Donald Trump might have hurt Arizona Republicans headed into a competitive Senate race.
Trump's efforts to un- seat Republican Senator, Jeff Flake in the state's 2018 Republican primary have left Trump's allies confused and divided over which of several possible anti-Flake candidates should get their support.
And the President's deci- sion to pardon controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- qui- etly, on a Friday night, with Hurricane Harvey set to make landfall in Texas as a Category 4 storm -- handed Democrats such a potent tool to turn out Latino votes that it might not matter who the GOP puts on the ballot.
The Arpaio pardon is sure to please Trump's base - - particularly those who favor a strict crackdown on immigration, many of whom
Donald Trump and his friend, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.
attended his campaign rally Tuesday night in Phoenix, the Maricopa County seat.
But it also could come at a steep political cost.
While Maricopa is one of the few major urban coun- ties in the United States that still backs Republican presi- dential candidates.
Arpaio, meanwhile, was easily ousted last year after 24 years in office as Mari- copa County sheriff. Demo- cratic challenger Paul Penzone won 56% to Arpaio's 44%.
Arpaio is a deeply con- troversial figure, in part for
his immigration sweeps that targeted Latino neighbor- hoods and the conditions in his county jail, which in- cluded an outdoor "Tent City" in the Arizona desert.
He was convicted of crim- inal contempt last year for defying a 2011 court order to stop detaining people based on suspicion of their immi- gration status with no evi- dence those people had committed another crime.
Donald Trump’s deci- sion to pardon Joe Arpaio has focused a spotlight on the 85-year-old former sher- iff.
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