by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, July 28.
- Trump and Son at Legal Risk If Found Lying About Russia Meeting (“Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen reportedly ready to challenge account”)
- Vladimir Putin invites Donald Trump to Moscow in counteroffer (The KGB “handler” wants to see his American “asset” again.)
- We Should Probably Pay Attention to the Fire Tornado (“Also, to the fact that the Great Chinese Climate Hoax is making wildfires bigger and badder all over the world.”)
- Iran is much smarter than Trump (Who isn’t much smarter than our disgraceful dotard-in-chief?)
- Venting about press, Trump has repeatedly sought to ban reporters over questions (Trump is a menace in every way.)
- Donald Trump Promised Dirt On Clinton 2 Days Before Trump Tower Meeting
- Witness list for trial of Trump’s former campaign chief released (“U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday submitted a list of 35 potential witnesses for the trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort due to begin next week in Virginia, including bankers and accountants likely to testify regarding charges of bank and tax fraud.”)
- If Cohen Is Telling the Truth, That Ought to Be Ballgame (“We now stand at a yes-or-no moment in this country’s history.”)
- Well this is awkward: All of the times that Team Trump praised Michael Cohen (“Life comes at you fast.”)
- The framers worried about corruption. Their words may now haunt the president. (“Will the emoluments lawsuit lay bare Trump’s tax returns?”)
- House GOP starts summer break on a note of friction
- Despite Trump’s assurances, states struggling to protect 2020 election
- The baseless, shameful campaign to discredit Rod Rosenstein (Anyone involved in this campaign should be automatically NOT considered for any leadership position, and preferably should be ousted from Congress.)
- Trump took credit for the jobs report, but he’s missing the big picture (“Economists say the GDP growth is more of a short-term bounce.” We had the same or bigger bounces during the Obama administration.)
- Why Does Trump Keep Lying About His Dealings With Russia?
- Why Economic Growth Might Be Weaker Than It Looks
- Trump Predicts 9 Percent Growth, Budget Surplus by End of Presidency (In fact, the budget deficit is absolutely EXPLODING, thanks to the Republicans’ crazy tax cuts for rich people and corporations. As for the growth rate, there is absolutely no chance we’ll hit 9 percent growth, that’s just insane.)
- Sinclair’s latest “must-run” is basically just Mike Pence talking about how great the Trump administration has been (Do NOT watch WJLA-TV7 “news”)
- U.S. judge denies gun control groups’ attempt to block 3-D gun blueprints
- Portrait of the President As a Con Man (“Michael Cohen’s ongoing revelations show Trump for who he is: a world-weary operator in sleaze and outright deception. But the scam is fraying.”)
- Les Moonves and CBS Face Allegations of Sexual Misconduct (“Six women accuse the C.E.O. of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.”)
- Twitter and Facebook Need a Bigger Cleanup (“Even a cautious approach to purging bots and trolls causes investors to freak out. So why not take decisive action?”)
- “If You’re a Predator, It’s a Gold Mine.” (“Police reports and call logs reveal shelters housing immigrant children are deeply disturbing.”)
- Exclusive: Kimberly Guilfoyle Left Fox News After Investigation Into Misconduct Allegations, Sources Say (“Sources tell HuffPost that Guilfoyle, who is dating Donald Trump Jr., engaged in emotionally abusive behavior and showed colleagues personal photos of male genitalia.”)
- Why Starbucks, Disney, and Tom Brady are all shunning plastic straws (Ditch them completely, other than for people who really need them.)
- Trump political appointee known for using social media to spread #PizzaGate conspiracy theories pushed out
- Here are 4 far-right evangelical extremists who have made absurd statements during the Trump era (Bummed that E.W. Jackson didn’t make the list.)
- Facebook’s Hard Fall Shows the Pitfalls of Big Data
- Putin wanted to interrogate me. Trump called it ‘an incredible offer.’ Why? (” If the Trump administration does not act, then Congress should adopt new sanctions and other coercive moves to deter Russia from threatening U.S. government officials with detention. If the United States fails to protect its own citizens, it will send a message of weakness and permissibility to Moscow (and everywhere else).”)
- Trump admin has no central strategy for election security, and no one’s in charge
- Russian Hackers Appear to Shift Focus to U.S. Power Grid (You mean the country head by Putin’s “handler” and BFF?)
- President of Right-Wing PAC Mocked After Accidentally Reminding Everyone About Jim Jordan Allegations (Yep, it’s Virginia’s disgrace, Ken Kookinelli, at it again.)
- “What are you THINKING”? Ken Cuccinelli makes WORST possible case for House Speaker Jim Jordan
- Va. Republican Senate candidate Stewart depicted Danville as a dystopia. The city wasn’t having it. (“During conversations inside local coffee shops and businesses during the past week, several people have expressed resentment against Stewart, said Buckner, an independent.”)
- Anne Holton to focus on women, education during swing for Tim Kaine in Valley
- Federal judges in Va. revoke permit for pipeline, saying impact on national forest not fully reviewed
- Pipeline projects hit legal snags in federal court, work suspended in parts of Virginia, W.Va.
- Mountaintop Mining Is Destroying More Land for Less Coal, Study Finds (“Using satellite images, researchers tracked the scars spreading across Appalachia. They found 3 times more land being stripped per ton of coal than in the 1980s.”)
- Why MS-13 is a campaign issue in Rep. Comstock’s race for reelection (“Wexton accused Comstock of ‘fearmongering and race-baiting’; Comstock called her ‘out of touch.'”)
- Virginia Governor Appoints State’s First-Ever Chief Data Officer (“Carlos Rivero, who has spent his career in academia and federal government positions, will be Virginia’s first CDO.”)
- EPA: Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort is mostly on track (One thing we can all do is get rid of our lawns, or most of our lawns, and replace them with native plantings.)
- Editorial: Which modern Virginians do you admire? (Strongly agree on Tim Kaine’s father-in-law, former Gov. Linwood Holton, who “declared an end to segregation, escorting one of his daughters to an integrated school and appointing African-Americans to key state offices.”)
- Republican to resign from Virginia House of Delegates, raising chance of a power shift (Love the click-bait headline; in fact, this deep-red district was won by Ed Gillespie 61%-37%, Jill Vogel 66%-34%, Donald Trump 62%-32%, Ken Cuccinelli 57%-32%, etc.)
- U. of Virginia Center Defends Hiring of Former Trump Official, Over Faculty Resistance (It’s not defensible.)
- Slow steps on improving mental-health care in Virginia
- Virginia Beach police to start using body-worn cameras
- Man accused of raping fellow UVA student will not serve any time after entering Alford plea
- Nearly half the prosecutors in Portsmouth have left in the past two months
- Amid pressure after Marcus-David Peters’ death, Richmond police release use-of-force and crisis intervention training materials
- Increased sunshine is here for a weekend visit, but rain chances grow into early week
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