by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, June 16.
- Next Move Is Trump’s After China Hits Back in Trade-War Opener
- Chinese Tariffs Are Already Hitting Trump Voters (“Local newspapers across the heartland are full of tales of how his trade war has cost jobs and income.”)
- Trump told 4 lies about the inspector general report in one short Fox News hit
- Chuck Todd: Trump told a breathtaking number of ‘outright lies’
- Trump opens his mouth — and spews lies
- Trump unloads from White House lawn
- Why China ‘holds all the aces’ in a full-blown US-China trade war
- Paul Manafort ordered to jail after witness-tampering charges
- The Trump administration is committing violence against children (“Separating families at the border will inflict long-term damage on young people”)
- I don’t recognize this country anymore (“Separating families reflects a failure of imagination and leadership.”)
- This isn’t religion. It’s perversion. (“Members of the group formerly known as the GOP follow the president over the cliff.”)
- Trump admits he dictated lie about his son’s meeting with a Russian lawyer, says it doesn’t matter (“The president claims it doesn’t matter because the statement was made to ‘the phony New York Times.'”)
- Hours before Paul Manafort went to jail, Trump said he had ‘nothing to do with our campaign’ (“You know, Paul Manafort worked for me for a very short period of time.”)
- 2,000 children separated from parents in six weeks under Trump policy (“US cardinal: ‘Separating babies from mothers is immoral’”)
- The FBI under Comey was a ship of fools. And cost Clinton the election (“There was no need to reopen the investigation into Clinton’s emails, especially so late in the election. Now Trump has fresh ammo in his attack on institutions”)
- Michael Cohen Signals Interest in Cooperating With Investigators
- Trump Blows Up House Immigration Bill Modeled on His Own Proposal
- Christian Leaders To Jeff Sessions: The Bible Does Not Justify Separating Families (“It goes against pretty much the entire Bible in the ethos of Jesus, and it’s deeply un-Christian.”)
- Trump Is Making Us All Live in His Delusional Reality Show
- Mueller’s Warning to Trump: The Cover-Up Is Also a Crime (“Paul Manafort’s jailing is the latest example of Trump associates learning the hard way that there are consequences for lying to federal agents.”)
- Let’s Not Forget the President*’s Former Campaign Manager Is in Jail (“Paul Manafort stands accused of, among other things, conspiracy against the United States.”)
- There’s an Elderly Man on the White House Lawn and He May Not Be Well (“The cascade of lies, accompanied by plenty of wheezing, was not encouraging.”)
- This Nation Is Politically Deranged (“The Justice Department Inspector General’s report proves the nation became addicted to unreality.”)
- Sen. Mark Warner: Justice Dept. IG Report Shows Comey’s Actions ‘Benefited Trump Campaign’
- What Jeff Sessions got wrong when quoting the Bible (“If we’re committed to using the Bible to argue about immigration, let us not start by taking Romans out of context. Instead, let’s listen to the overwhelming witness of scripture on behalf of the foreigners in our midst. Let’s start with love.”)
- Plant that causes third-degree burns, blindness found in Virginia (“Giant Hogweed, an invasive plant that can cause third-degree burns and permanent blindness, has been found in Virginia, according to researchers at the Massey Herbarium at Virginia Tech.”)
- Goodlatte moves to subpoena FBI agent accused of anti-Trump bias (Goodlatte continues to be BADlatte.)
- Rep. Goodlatte Says OIG Report Makes It Clear Clinton Got Breaks (BADlatte is demented.)
- Corey Stewart’s win in Virginia means further degradation of civic discourse
- Corey Stewart is a walking train wreck (“A worshipper of Trump and the Confederacy, the candidate is terrifying.”)
- Editorial wrap-up: Is Tim Kaine really ‘a stiff’? (“In a tweet endorsing Stewart, President Trump called his opponent, incumbent Sen. Tim Kaine, a ‘total stiff’ — thereby demonstrating yet again his own cluelessness. Agree or disagree with Kaine (and we often disagree), the harmonica-playing, laid-back, just-plain-Tim is the polar opposite of a stiff — ‘total’ or otherwise.”)
- Schapiro: In Virginia, denying women the vote was about keeping blacks down
- FERC upholds approval of Mountain Valley Pipeline project (Three Trump appointees. F*** FERC.)
- A peek into changes of heart on Virginia’s Medicaid expansion
- As Mountain Valley Pipeline work continues, state water board ponders its next move (If the Water Control Board has any integrity, the next move is obvious.)
- Gov. Northam announces drop in unemployment rate, lowest since 2007
- Seasonable warmth of today trends to potentially dangerous heat by Monday
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