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White House and Political News
President Trump’s Approval Rate Is Lowest In Polling History
Terrorist Kills 8; Injures 11 In New York Was An Uber Driver
Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov was arrested for the attack.
Former Trump Campaign Adviser’s Email Says Meeting With Russians Was ‘Approved’
George Papadopoulos, third from the left, seen in this Insta- gram post by Trump.
Former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos made a significant claim in an email: Top Trump campaign officials agreed to a pre-elec- tion meeting with representa- tives of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The message, if true, would bolster claims that Trump’s campaign attempted to collude with Russian interests. But it’s unclear whether Papadopou- los, who pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation, was merely boasting when he sent the July 14, 2016, email to a Kremlin-linked con- tact. There’s also no indication such a meeting ever occurred, according to Bloomberg Poli- tics report.
The email is cited in an FBI agent’s affidavit supporting criminal charges against Pa- padopoulos, a young foreign policy volunteer on Trump’s campaign. But it’s not included in court documents that de- tailed his secret guilty plea and his cooperation with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Mueller Probe
The evidence gleaned dur- ing Papadopoulos’ three months of cooperation could further advance Mueller’s in- vestigation into possible collu- sion by Trump’s aides.
This latest email, one of many unsealed on Monday, runs counter to the steadfast denials by Trump and his sup- porters that anyone attempted to work with the Russians.
Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Papadopoulos, a low- level adviser that few people on the campaign knew, “has al- ready proven to be a liar.”
Writing to the Russian con- tact a week before the Republi- can National Convention, Papadopoulos proposed a meeting for August or September in the U.K. that would include “my national chairman and maybe one other foreign policy adviser” and members of Putin’s office and Russia’s foreign ministry.
“It has been approved by our side,” Papadopoulos wrote.
President Donald Trump’s approval rating hit a new low point last week, ac- cording to the latest NBC News/WSJ poll.
The poll, conducted from Oct. 23-26, found that only 38 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s job performance as president while 58 percent disapproved. The approval rat- ing was a drop from the previ- ous lowest point of 39 percent,
Pres. Trump’s rating is the lowest of any president in the 70 year history of poll taking.
which was found by the same poll in May.
A Washington Post/ABC News poll taken last spring put Trump’s approval rating even lower ― at 36 percent. That was the lowest of any president in polls dating back 70 years. At the same time in their pres- idencies, former President Barack Obama and George W. Bush had approval ratings of 59 percent.
Police identified 29-year- old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov as the driver who plowed a Home Depot rental pickup into a bike path near the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan Tuesday af- ternoon.
Uber has confirmed that Saipov was one of its drivers. The ride-hailing service re- leased a statement Tuesday night saying he passed a back- ground check to become an Uber driver and had been ac- tively driving on the platform
for more than six months.
He emigrated legally from Uzbekistan seven years ago, 1
year before 9-11.
Uzbekistan is bordered by
five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Tajikistan to the southeast; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the south- west.
Saipov was taken into cus- tody after he exited the truck. President Donald
Trump referred to him as a
“very sick and deranged per- son.” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he had been rad- icalized in the U.S. and a note found at the scene referencing the so-called Islamic State.
Those who knew him ― al- beit vaguely ― offered com- peting descriptions, some saying he was calm and others characterizing him as aggres- sive.
At least eight people were killed and 11 people were in- jured in the attack that New York City officials have identi- fied as an act of terrorism.
Russians Targeted Racial Divide Long Before 2016 Election And Also Black Lives Matter Movement
. Black leaders have con- demned the Russian efforts in the 2016 election cycle that apparently sought to divide African-Americans both from whites and from each other, but nothing about those efforts is new.
Russian and Soviet influ- ence-mongers have spent decades pressing as hard as they can on the most painful areas of the American body politic, from the days of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to the current era of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Some of the details about the latest chapter in the story have become clear, but much
Vladimir Putin and Former President Barack Obama.
NFLPROTEST
ways, from amplifying con- troversy within the U.S. to organizing real-life events such as political rallies.
"We can't conclusively say these actions impacted the outcome of the election," Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., chairman of the Con- gressional Black Caucus, said
in an Oct. 10 statement. "But we can say that these ads caused harm and additional resentment to young people who unselfishly fight for jus- tice and equality for African Americans and other mar- ginalized communities."
The work, known by intel- ligence officers as active measures, apparently contin- ues. In the racially charged national debate over mostly black NFL players protesting by kneeling during the na- tional anthem, Twitter ac- counts linked to the Russian 2016 influence campaign have tried to turn up the vol- ume both on pro-player and anti-player accounts.
about it remains either un- known or under wraps.
Americans may learn more when the House and Senate Intelligence Commit- tees and a Senate Judiciary subcommittee convene a trio of hearings they've scheduled for Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 with three big technology plat-
forms.
Facebook, Google and
Twitter — which have said they'll send their top lawyers to testify — have discovered they sold ads to agents of in- fluence as part of the Russian attack on the 2016 election.
Agents also used the serv- ices to interfere in other
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