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After Military Takeover, Zimbabwe’s President Of 37 Years Resigns
$20M Ad Campaign To
Impeach President Trump
Zimbabwe’s Robert Mu- gabe resigned as president Tuesday after 37 years in power, as parliament began impeachment proceedings against him.
“My decision to resign is vol- untary on my part and arises from my concern for the wel- fare of the people of Zimbabwe and my desire for a smooth, non-violent transfer of power,” said Mugabe in his letter which was read out in parlia- ment, sparking cheers and dancing.
Cars began honking horns and people cheered in the streets, as the news spread like wildfire across the capital, Harare.
Mugabe, who had been the world’s oldest head of state at 93, said that proper proce- dures should be followed to in- stall new leadership.
Mugabe’s resignation brought an end to the im- peachment proceedings brought by the ruling ZANU-
Democratic mega-donor and billionaire environmen- talist Tom Steyer on Sunday defended his $20 million na- tional television and digital ad campaign calling for Con- gress to impeach President Donald Trump, saying "it's very important and urgent that we get him out of office."
”The fact of the matter is this President has performed in a lawless way throughout the campaign and throughout his presidency and he is an urgent threat to the American people," Steyer said on Sun- day morning's "State of the Union.”
"So to sit here and wait doing absolutely nothing is the wrong thing to do. The American people want this man impeached."
Some Democratic leaders,
Robert Mugabe, right, is out as president of Zimbabwe and his former enforcer, Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was fired by Mu- gabe as V. P. and exiled is his replacement.
Amid Allegations: Cong. John Conyers Steps Down As Judiciary Committee Leader
U. S. Rep. from Michigan, John Conyers.
Obamacare Enrollment Surge Surprises Experts
Tom Steyer has spent $20M in advertising to push for im- peachment.
including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Cal- ifornia and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland, have said now is not the time for House Democrats to push for impeachment.
PF party after its Central Com- mittee voted to oust the presi- dent as party leader and select recently fired Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa as his replacement.
According to some, Zim- babwe may have rid itself of aging despot Robert Mu- gabe, but the country now finds itself in the jaws of “the Crocodile” — a former guer- rilla fighter and despised henchman accused of oversee- ing the deaths of thousands of
political opponents.
The ex-fighter, Mnan-
gagwa, was sworn in Friday as the southern African na- tion’s first new leader in nearly four decades. He has promised to create a “new, unfolding democracy.”
He greeted an exuberant crowd of tens of thousands in Harare, the capital, with a raised fist and promised to fix the country's rampant unem- ployment. "I must hit the ground running," he said
Rep. John Conyers, who has served in the U. S. House of Representatives for more than 50 years, said last week that he was not going to resign his seat over accusa- tions of sexually harassing fe- male staffers.
Conyers, in a series of tweets, plead his case, noting that he still denies the allega- tions against him, but says he made the decision because he “cannot in good conscience allow these charges to under- mine my colleagues in the Democratic Caucus, and my friends on both sides of the aisle in the Judiciary Com- mittee and the House of Rep-
resentatives.
Conyers has represented
parts of the Detroit area in the House since 1965, this week confirmed the settlement of a wrongful termination com- plaint in 2015 from a staff member who had accused him of sexual harassment.
Conyers’ lawyer, Arnold Reed, told the New York Times that Conyers never admitted to any wrongdoing in the settlement.
“It’s not a situation where Mr. Conyers has said that he did anything wrong, that he admitted guilt or acknowl- edged responsibility for any allegations,” Reed said.
After a slash in advertising funding, shorten enrollment timeline and dire predictions from experts, signups for Oba- macare have surged in the first weeks of open enrollment.
The uptick in signups is ex- actly what supporters of the healthcare law were hoping for, but experts urge people to keep perspective because such an early surge does not always turn into a trend. It is impor- tant to wait for the final enroll- ment numbers.
This is the first open enroll- ment of the Trump adminis- tration and it has been quite robust, even considering the uncertainty that the many months of repeal attempts in Congress, insurer exits and ris- ing premiums, have caused.
In just under three weeks,
almost 2.3 million people have signed up for Obamacare ex- changes according to the Cen- ters for Medicare and Medicaid Services. They say this year has exceeded the signups for the same period during Barack Obama’s presidency.
Standard & Poor’s has pre- dicted that enrollment num-
bers could drop by 1.6 million compared to last year’s 12.2 due, at least in part, to the un- certainty that President Trump has caused in the marketplace.
The health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Larry Levitt, said that enroll- ment has been up each day but also cautioned that the early numbers can be misleading when it comes to predicting final numbers.
The rhetoric coming from the Trump administration is only serving to confuse those in the market further. The president has claimed that Obamacare is “imploding” and when Republicans failed in their attempt to repeal the law, Trump started slashing at the law in any way that he could.
Pres. Trump On Track To Triple His Golf Outings Over Obama’s In First Year In Office
President Donald Trump could be on track to spend as much as triple the time former President Barack Obama did on the golf course in his first year in office -- and to play more than former President George W. Bush did in eight years in office.
Trump spent Saturday at his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, marking the 81st day that the President has visited one of his golf courses -- and his fourth straight day at a club. A law enforcement source said Trump played with golf leg- end Jack Nicklaus, a long- time supporter of the
President Trump spent the Thanksgiving holiday at his home in West Palm Beach, where he had a few golf out- ings scheduled. One included Tiger Woods.
President.
It is unclear, however,
whether Trump golfs each day he visits a course or how many rounds he plays when he does. White House aides rarely confirm that the President is golfing, but Trump did so himself on Friday, announcing that he was playing with golf- ing stars Tiger Woods and Dustin Johnson.
Trump's golf outings are notable only because he re- peatedly mocked Obama for the time he spent on the golf course and said he wouldn't have time if he were elected president.
"If I win I may never see my property -- I may never see these places again," Trump said at an August 2016 event.
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