by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, August 6. Happy birthday to my wife, Kelly! 🙂
- For the first time, Trump confesses that his campaign turned to Russia for help
- China Meets Trump’s Tariff Hardball With Pledge to Endure
- Trump says tariffs are working “big time.” Here are 5 pieces of evidence that’s not the case.
- President Admits Trump Tower Meeting Was Meant to Get Dirt on Clinton (Bingo. This tweet “serve[s] as an admission that the Trump team had not been forthright when Donald Trump Jr. issued a statement in July 2017 saying that the meeting had been primarily about the adoption of Russian children.” Also note: “It is illegal for a campaign to accept help from a foreign individual or government.”)
- Trump Finally Admits His Campaign Colluded With Russia At Trump Tower Meeting (“The latest version of the 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer basically undercuts numerous Trump claims.”)
- The Day Trump Told Us There Was Attempted Collusion with Russia
- On climate change, it’s time to start panicking (“The crisis over global warming warrants an unparalleled response”)
- Did Trump Just Admit to an Impeachable Offense?(“Prosecutor Brett Kavanaugh says yes. Judge Brett Kavanaugh says no.”)
- Rick Gates — and the lies he’s admitted telling — to take center stage at Paul Manafort’s trial
- Indonesia earthquake: Hundreds await rescue as quake hits resort islands Bali and Lombok
- Hiroshima marks 73rd anniversary of atomic bombing
- Trump lawyer: President’s meddling to help Flynn was like stopping FBI spying on Martin Luther King (“A really dumb analogy by Jay Sekulow.”)
- ‘Major disaster’ declared, but no Trump tweet on California’s raging wildfires
- President Dumb and Dumber (“A review of the many insults Trump has spouted since he declared his candidacy finds that although he has called many people dumb, or dummies or low I.Q., the targeting of that particular insult at women, including minority women, occurs with curious frequency and is often a singular line of attack against them, rather than one of many.”)
- Forget left and right. This is what will determine the midterms. (“Corruption vs. clean government.”)
- Republicans’ hypocrisy on racism (“They’re mad at Sarah Jeong but not at President Trump.”)
- Steel Giants With Ties to Trump Officials Block Tariff Relief for Hundreds of Firms
- The Progressives’ Plan to Win in 2018 (“At the annual Netroots Nation conference in New Orleans, progressives called for building a multiracial coalition and focusing on turnout, not winning back Democrats who voted for Trump.”)
- Apple Removes Alex Jones and Infowars Podcasts From iTunes (“‘Apple does not tolerate hate speech,’ the company says.”)
- Republicans Seem Very Worried About Tuesday’s Ohio Special Election
- CBS says it takes the Les Moonves allegations seriously. Its actions don’t inspire confidence.
- Armed Trump Supporters March on Portland, Beating Up Opponents and Calling for Hillary Clinton’s Arrest (“Led by a fringe Republican candidate, hundreds of far-right militants swarmed into Portland, Oregon to fight ‘evil leftists.’ Cops seemed more concerned with antifa.”)
- In 2008, America Stopped Believing in the American Dream (“The mood in America is arguably as dark as it has ever been in the modern era.”)
- Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin calls for total ‘shunning’ of ‘liar’ Sarah Sanders after she leaves White House
- Trump claims California is throwing away water instead of fighting fires and touts cutting down trees as cure (Trump is completely demented.)
- Ex-GOP director confesses ‘the alt-right has taken over the Virginia Republican Party’
- What is the real Danville? Kaine, Stewart see two different cities
- Levar Stoney column: Let’s count everyone
- Kaine launches first TV ad of U.S. Senate race (“The Kaine campaign said it will spend $158,000 for the first week of airing the introductory ad in markets in Richmond, Roanoke, Norfolk and southwest Virginia.”)
- Youth detained in Virginia on alleged plan for violence at school (“According to the Culpeper County sheriff’s office, the 13-year-old had said ‘he intended to take revenge’ on someone who had allegedly bullied him over several years, and also intended “to shoot ‘the deserving.’”)
- Bill Farrar column: Outside investigations of police shootings help build community confidence in law enforcement
- A Hampton Roads company is accused of diluting Chesapeake blue crab meat. Crabbers are frustrated.
- Editorial: The story behind Virginia’s 23 missing historical markers
- A muggy week, with some storm chances in the middle
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