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Donald Trump Clearly Doesn't Care About Election Security
Civil Rights Icon Rep. John Lewis Hospitalized
For the first time during his presidency, Donald Trump chaired an election security meeting Friday in which senior-level national security experts discussed ways to protect America’s electoral process from for- eign interference.
The Washington Post re- ports, however, that the meeting lasted less than an hour and no new directives on how to counter or deter threats against election med- dling were discussed. Offi- cials only discussed actions taken so far to repel attacks against the US election sys- tem.
House Democrats criti- cized Trump for not taking on the issue sooner.
“This meeting should have happened months ago and the President deserves no special credit for doing what he is charged to do ... by his oath of office,” said Reps. Bennie Thompson (Miss.),
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Civil rights icon and Geor- gia congressman Rep. John Lewis has been hospitalized but was released Sunday, his spokeswoman says.
Spokeswoman Brenda Jones told CNN that Lewis was under routine observa- tion but she did not give de- tails of the nature of his illness or where he is hospi- talized.
CNN affiliate WSB-TV re- ported that Lewis was being treated at a hospital in metro Atlanta, and the station quoted unnamed sources as saying Lewis became ill on a flight to Atlanta on Saturday. Lewis, 78, has represented Georgia's 5th Congressional District, which includes much of the city of Atlanta, since first being elected in 1986.
In February 2011, Presi- dent Barack Obama pre- sented Lewis with the
REP. JOHN LEWIS
Presidential Medal of Free- dom, the country's highest civilian honor.
The long-serving Democ- rat was a young activist and leader of the Student Nonvio- lent Coordinating Committee when, in March 1965, he joined forces with Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead a voting rights march out out Selma, Alabama.
Robert A. Brady (Pa.), Eli- jah E. Cummings (Md.) and Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), the ranking Democrats on, respectively, the Homeland Security, House Administra- tion, Oversight and Govern- ment Reform, and Judiciary committees.
Trump continues to be highly criticized for his meet- ing with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki,
where he appeared to dismiss U. S. intelligence agencies’ assessments that the Kremlin coordinated efforts to meddle in the 2016 Presidential Elec- tion.
Basically, U. S. intelligence agencies have agreed that the Kremlin interfered with the 2016 Election and Trump still isn’t doing enough to en- sure that the U. S. is prepared to repel repeated attempts.
Eric Holder Says He's Interested In Being President
Omarosa Will Take Down President Trump In An ‘Explosive, Jaw-Dropping’ New Tell-All Book
Omarosa Manigault Newman, who left the White House last year after a fraught tenure, isn’t done spilling all the tea served at 1600 Penn.
Gallery Books announced Thursday that Omarosa is releasing a “stunning tell-all” titled “Unhinged: An In- sider’s Account of the Trump White House.” The book, billed as an “explosive, jaw- dropping account,” hits shelves Aug. 14.
Omarosa joins a shortlist of former Trumpers with stories to tell. Sean Spicer is on a national tour for his book, “The Briefing,” and An- thony Scaramucci’s “Trump, the Blue-Collar President” is scheduled for October. But unlike those titles, “Un- hinged” is allegedly far from a glowing account of the Trump administration.
Omarosa’s loyalty to the Trump brand was fierce until her drama-filled White House departure in Decem-
Former reality star turned White House aide turned real- ity star Omarosa Manigault is spilling the tea on her days at the White House.
ber. She spent nearly 15 years in Trump’s inner circle, making a name for herself as one of the original bad girls of reality TV on “The Appren- tice” and later as a staffer with unfettered access to the president despite a nebulous job description.
Since her exit from the Trump orbit, Omarosa has dropped plenty of hints that a tell-all was in the works. Days after her firing (or resigna- tion — the details are still hazy), she told “Good Morn- ing America” that she had “quite a story to tell.”
During an appearance on “Celebrity Big Brother,” Omarosa said she was “haunted” by the president’s erratic tweets and would not vote for him again “in a mil- lion years.” According to a Gallery Books press release, Omarosa and the president are done: “That relationship has come to a decisive and definitive end.”
There’s no word on how much Omarosa pocketed for “Unhinged,” but one indi- vidual close to the reality star said she received a deal in the low seven figures. Gallery Books is an imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS, the network that airs the Big Brother franchise.
Cincinnati Democrats wasted no time with Eric Holder.
"Do you at least have any interest in being president of the United States?" City Councilman Wendell Young asked him Friday — the first question to the for- mer U. S. attorney general as a who's who of Democrats in the Cincinnati area sat in a cramped law office confer- ence room.
After his standard caveats -- he says it's something he needs to talk about with his family and won't actually de- cide on until early 2019 -- a confident Holder leaned in.
"Am I interested it?" he
asked. "Yeah, I'm interested!" Holder, the nation's top law enforcement official for six years under former Presi- dent Barack Obama, has been publicly ruminating about a presidential run for months. His standard stump speech is littered with criti- cism of the Republicans in power. And with the Demo- cratic field to take on Presi- dent Donald Trump in 2020 wide open, Holder -- along with former Vice Pres- ident Joe Biden -- could credibly claim the closest ties to the last Democratic presi- dent, a potent rallying point for a party in search of a stan- dard-bearer.
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