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U. S. House Speaker Says Tax Reform Bill Will Be Passed By Thanksgiving
U.S. House majority speaker Paul Ryan with President Trump last week.
Former President Barack Obama Shows Up In Chicago For Jury Duty; Not Chosen
Trump Supporter: Papa John’s CEO Calls Out NFL Protest For Business Losses; Gains Support Of Alt-Right
Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter went on a tirade about the NFL protest hurting his business that led alt-right members to endorse his business as its official pizza spot.
Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Wash- ington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday morning. Then he heard the words most prospective jurors pray for: You're dismissed. The court- room went into a frenzy.
The 44th president's mo- torcade, considerably shorter than the one when he lived in the White House, left his home in the Kenwood neigh- borhood on the city's South Side and arrived at the Richard J. Daley Center shortly after 10 a.m.
Former President Barack Obama inside the jury assem- bly room at the Daley Center in Chicago, Ill.
Obama, wearing a dark sport coat, dress shirt, but without a tie, waved to peo- ple who gathered outside.
Shortly before noon, Cook County Chief Judge Timo- thy Evans told reporters that the former president had not been selected for jury duty. But Obama was ready to serve if told to do so, Evans said.
In fact, Obama was also summoned in 2010 but that was during the period when he was the most powerful leader in the world, and he was able to postpone report- ing, according to his spokes- woman, Katie Hill.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday he is confident the Republican Party's bid to over- haul the tax system will pass the House by Thanksgiving, lining up with an aggressive timeline set out by the White House.
"We’re on track for moving this through the House before Thanksgiving. That’s our plan," Ryan said during an appear- ance on "Fox News Sunday.”
Congressional leaders are pushing to meet the Thanks- giving goal to get a tax bill on President Donald Trump's desk to sign by the end of the year. But the Senate's failure to convert on a House bill to re- peal the Affordable Care Act has left some wary that the tax bill could run into similar road- blocks.
However, not all House Re- publicans were happy, either. Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York tweeted that he planned to vote no on the bill in its cur- rent form, citing the proposal's elimination of the deduction for state and local taxes, also known as SALT.
”I am a NO to House #TaxReform bill in its current form. A lot of good aspects, but its not there yet," he tweeted, linking to a longer statement.
According to the bill, indi- viduals would still be able to deduct their local and state property taxes but only up to $10,000.
For that reason, the legisla- tion has struck a nerve with other New York and New Jer- sey Republicans.
Republicans Losing Elections All Over U. S.; Democrats Gain 2 Governorships
After Papa John's founder and CEO John Schnatter blamed NFL players protest- ing and the NFL for not end- ing the protests for the company's sagging sales, white supremacists are showing him some support.
Schnatter is a known Trump supporter, and after expressing his disappointment in the NFL's inability to put a stop to the protests, he has gained major support of racists.
According to Complex, Adrian Sol, a columnist for The Daily Stormer, the white supremacist website published a post full of racist vitriol with a caption reading " Papa John: Official pizza of the alt-right?"
The post includes a pepper- oni pizza with the pepperoni slices made into a swastika, and Sol also refers to the NFL as the "Negro Felon League."
On Wednesday, Papa John's stock dropped 12 per- cent and Schnatter blamed it
on the NFL, and then linked it to recent protests. However, these claims are unfounded and there is no evidence of a direct correlation between the two.
While white supremacists may start buying Papa John's pizzas by the dozens, the com- pany is quickly trying to back- track – making it clear this is not the type of endorsement they want. Schnatter is hav- ing to disavow that it is "the official pizza of the alt-right.”
Trumpism took a beating. Exit polls revealed an un- mistakable anti-Trump back- lash Tuesday, as Democrats won resounding victories in governors races in Virginia and
New Jersey.
Now, President Donald
Trump and his fellow Repub- licans are racing to rescue the party after Republican Ed Gillespie took a resounding defeat in Tuesday's Virginia gu- bernatorial election and De- mocrats also took back the governor’s seat in New Jersey as first-time candidate Phil Murphy defeated Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno (R), capping a tumultuous eight years of term-limited Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s leading the state. The GOP took losses in dozens of down-ballot contests across several states.
They contend that Virginia voters spurned a consummate Washington insider, even though a massive turnout surge in Democratic strongholds sug- gests there was little Gillespie could have done to overcome the anti-Trump wave.
Of course, the president took aim at the defeat by tweeting,
Top republican, Ed Gillespie was defeated by Virginia’s for- mer Lt.goverenor and key de- mocrat, Ralph Northam. And a democrat is also the governor of New Jersey.
Gillespie "did not embrace me or what I stand for," while still in Asia.
Majorities of voters in both Virginia and New Jersey disap- proved of the job Trump is doing as president, with signif- icant numbers of voters in each state saying Trump was a rea- son for their vote. And far more of those voters said they made their choice to oppose Trump than to support him.
Omarosa’s ‘Crashed’ Wedding Photos At White House Are Not Allowed To Be Posted
Omarosa Manigault’s
wedding party crashed the White House before her big event in April.
Four unnamed White H o u s e officials told Politico that prior to her nuptials, Manigualt staged an “ex- tended wedding photo shoot” at the White House in her bridal attire — something that caught “fellow senior aides and some security officials” by
Omarosa Manigault and Pastor John Allen Newman married on April 8th.
surprise as “some lawyers and other senior aides were not briefed in advance.”
Her visitors were said to have “loudly wandered around” the Rose Garden and West Wing, sources told Politico.
The 43-year-old director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison isn’t even al- lowed to post the pictures on- line.
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