by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, August 25.
- McCain to discontinue medical treatment (“Well-wishes poured in Friday as lawmakers and others realized the war hero is in his final days.”)
- Trump calls off high-level North Korea visit by Pompeo (So much for Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize? LOL)
- Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin’s Plans for Midterms
- Pope Francis is heading to Ireland in the midst of scandal. It may be his toughest crowd yet. (“Decades of child sex abuse scandals have eroded Irish trust in the Catholic Church.”)
- Trump shows strain from scandals, but no new political strategy (“Analysis: The scandals engulfing his presidency grew more intense this week, but Trump has shown no signs of developing a more sophisticated strategy to address them.”)
- How This Will End (“Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers.”)
- What Other Dirt Is in David Pecker’s Safe? (“The entrance of The National Enquirer owner is a sign we’re now knee-deep in the sleaze.”)
- Trump’s terrible week: stunning news and whispers of impeachment (“At around 4.30pm, in courtrooms 200 miles apart, a pair of Trump associates delivered a one-two punch – and that was just Tuesday”)
- Aides expect Trump to go rogue on Manafort pardon
- It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word Obstruction Is (“Why Trump doesn’t realize White House Counsel Don McGahn may have already given Robert Mueller everything he needs.”)
- The Greatest Disappointment of the Trump Presidency (“The institutional fabric of the United States has proven more tenacious and resilient in responding than many feared. The Republican Congress has not.”)
- Oil Companies Want Taxpayer Dollars to Protect Their Facilities Against…Climate Change (Beyond parody.)
- The Senate is desperate to avoid another government shutdown — but Trump isn’t (“It looks like Congress won’t give Trump his border wall money. Will he force a government shutdown over it?”)
- Trump meets with promoter of ‘QAnon’ conspiracy theory in Oval Office (I keep using words like “appalling” and “disgusting” to describe Trump, and…yep, here I go again.)
- Trump Org. CFO’s immunity deal is new problem for Trump (“While it is unclear that CFO Allen Weisselberg’s reported deal — first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Friday — puts Trump in any specific legal danger, it does mean that prosecutors investigating former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen will be talking closely to a man with deep knowledge of Trump’s businesses.”)
- It Would Take Exactly One Senator to Get Trump’s Taxes (“What does he owe to Russia? Here’s how a single Senate Republican could begin to unravel the mystery.”)
- New York Prosecutors May Pose a Bigger Threat to Trump Than Mueller (“The offer of immunity to the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer is reminiscent of moves law enforcement used as they were taking down the Mafia.”)
- How Far America Has Fallen (“The thing with every shocking revelation about Trump is that it’s already baked into his image. I’ve never met a Trump supporter who did not know exactly who he is.”)
- Allen Weisselberg, Longtime Trump Organization CFO, Testified and Was Granted Immunity in Cohen Probe (“Accountant is third longtime confidant of Mr. Trump known to have provided information in hush-money investigation that has implicated the president”)
- Allen Weisselberg, the Man Who Knows Donald Trump’s Financial Secrets, Has Agreed to Become a Cooperating Witness
- Mueller’s ‘speaking indictments’ offer clues to strategy
- Exclusive: Ex-Trump World Tower doorman releases ‘catch-and-kill’ contract about alleged Trump affair
- Spiro Agnew lawyer: Trump should resign to keep Mueller from prosecuting his family
- Conway’s husband to Trump: What we need is a president who understands faithful execution of the law
- TPUSA Members Quit in Protest of ‘Exploiting’ Mollie Tibbetts’ Death (“Iowans in the right-wing campus org resigned after accusing Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk of seeking to ‘exploit’ a student’s murder to suit an anti-immigrant ‘political agenda.’” Yep, that’s exactly what Corey Stewart is doing as well; maybe his staff should resign too?)
- Trump’s Toxic Friendship (“Politics 2018: the wives under the bus.”)
- The Trump White House Doesn’t Want Untainted Elections
- Tesla to stay public after investors tell Elon Musk: ‘please don’t do this’
- Trump Escalates Feud Against Jeff Sessions With New Sarcastic Tweets
- A big win for progressive Democrats? Party looks set to limit power of superdelegates
- Democratic Split on Impeachment Talk: Officials Avoid It, but Voters Are Eager for It (It’s stupid, as there’s zero chance Trump will actually be impeached and convicted by Republicans.)
- Hurricane Lane downgraded to tropical storm
- Republican campaign staffers allegedly forged signatures to get Independent on ballot, spoil vote (What did Scott Taylor know and when did he know it? Somebody should go to jail over this.)
- Video: At VA Tech Forum, Tim Kaine Stresses Last Two Words of Pledge of Allegiance, “For All,” in STARK Contrast to His Trump “Mini-Me” Opponent
- Horrific deaths, brutal treatment: Mental illness in America’s jails (“People with mental illnesses in jails around the country are routinely dying in horrific ways and under preventable circumstances, a Virginian-Pilot investigation has found.”)
- U.S. Senate candidates Kaine, Stewart discuss issues at Virginia Tech student forum
- A ‘cult’ vs. ‘common ground’: Tim Kaine and Corey Stewart offer different visions in forum
- Aubrey L. Layne Jr. column: Governor Northam’s tax plan boosts the middle class
- Schapiro: Va. Democrats aim to party like it’s 1974
- Lawyers for Virginia House GOP renew call for stay of redistricting order
- 4 dead people, 59 fraudulent signatures found on petitions filed by Scott Taylor’s campaign (“The Virginian-Pilot recently conducted a two-week investigation of the petition signatures, trying to contact each voter listed on the dozens of pages submitted by five people paid by Taylor’s campaign. More than half of those reached declared the signatures to be fraudulent.”)
- Virginia could be the last state needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. A new campaign aims to make sure it happens.
- When elected officials step down early in Chesterfield, those tapped to replace them usually win
- Governor signs easement for historic black cemetery in Hampton
- One more comfortable day before heat and humidity come rushing back
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