by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, December 8.
- Court filings directly implicate Trump in efforts to buy women’s silence, reveal new contact between inner circle and Russian
- Mueller says Manafort told ‘discernible lies,’ including about contacts with an employee alleged to have Russian intelligence ties
- 5 big takeaways from the new Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort filings
- The government implicates Trump and the Trump campaign in federal campaign finance violations (Trump campaign people for prison.)
- The Mueller Investigation Nears the Worst Case Scenario (“WE ARE DEEP into the worst case scenarios. But as new sentencing memos for Trump associates Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen make all too clear, the only remaining question is how bad does the actual worst case scenario get?”)
- Is This the Beginning of the End for Trump? (“Sentencing memos reveal damning evidence about collusion and campaign finance violations.”)
- The latest filings show that nobody can save Trump now
- Trump’s Justice Department just implicated him in directing a felony (“‘Individual 1’ sure sounds familiar.”)
- Cohen spoke with Russian to set up Trump-Putin meeting, Mueller reveals (“Trump implicated in campaign finance law violations as prosecutors allege he directed lawyer to pay off two women”)
- Manafort told ‘multiple lies’ after agreeing to cooperate, Mueller says (“Mueller tells court ex-Trump campaign chair lied to FBI and to the special counsel’s office on five different matters”)
- Exclusive: Mueller investigators questioned John Kelly in obstruction probe
- The Special Counsel’s Cohen Sentencing Brief Is Ominous for Trump
- The Department of Justice Calls Donald Trump a Felon
- The Michael Cohen Sentencing Memos Are Damning for Trump
- Trump Will Nominate William Barr as Attorney General
- William Barr believes in Justice Department independence. He might have to fight for it.
- U.S. Adds 155,000 Jobs in November as Hiring Slows Modestly
- Paris braced for new riots as ‘Yellow Jacket’ protests sweep France (“Protests that began last month against planned tax hikes on gas have since morphed into a wider rebuke of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency.”)
- The Memo: All eyes on Kelly as Trump shake-up gathers steam
- Whose Attorney General Will William Barr Be? (“The Senate has a long list of questions for President Trump’s latest nominee.”)
- GOP power grabs pour gas on ‘resistance’ in key Midwest states (“Republican legislators in Wisconsin and Michigan have reignited Democratic energy since the midterms in two narrow Trump states.”)
- Nick Ayers is Trump’s next chief of staff — unless his enemies can stop him (“President Trump informally offered the top job to the young White House aide last month. Then the knives came out.”)
- The Last Gasp (“James Comey spent hours on Friday talking about Hillary Clinton’s emails before the House Judiciary Committee. In the end, he seemed bored—and annoyed.” Complete waste of time.)
- Tillerson calls Trump undisciplined. Trump calls Tillerson ‘dumb as a rock.’ (The guy with the tiny brain calls the former head of a massive energy company “dumb as a rock?” Alrighty.)
- From Rex Tillerson to William Barr: Who Would Work for Donald Trump?
- Trump Chooses a Loyal Foot Soldier for the UN (“Heather Nauert, currently the State Department’s chief spokesperson, is not known for challenging her superiors.” Nor is the former Fox & Friends flunkie in any way qualified for this job.)
- VA Secretary Once an Enthusiast for Racist Arch-Traitor Jefferson Davis
- There Are at Least Four (4) Reasons the President* Just Took Another Trip to the Bananas Factory (”
It’s all happening. None of it’s good.”) - ‘I don’t think this presidency is ever going to regroup from today’: Harvard prof explains why Trump is done
- ‘Centrist’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means (“But if, as a lot of people seem to believe, anyone who is not full-tilt behind the Green New Deal and/or Medicare For All is unacceptably ‘centrist,’ then the word has lost all meaning and the Democratic Party is in danger of losing its way.”)
- Election irregularities uncovered in a second North Carolina county (“A probe into election fraud expands amid growing calls — even among some Republicans — for a new vote.”)
- Watch Sen. Mark Warner talk about cyberattacks from Russia and China
- Sen. Mark Warner blasts Google for work on censored Chinese search engine
- State Attorney General Mark Herring to run for Virginia governor in 2021 (“Democrat Herring, who took a pass on the race in 2017, is attempting to use his perch as the state’s top lawyer as a springboard to the Executive Mansion.”)
- BREAKING: “Special Master” Issues Report, Maps on Virginia Racial Packing Case; Federal Court Rejects VA Republicans’ Motion to Stay Court Order for New Map
- Federal court releases plans for possible redistricting in Virginia, refuses to delay process (“The court ordered new maps to remedy racially gerrymandered districts. A hearing is set for Jan. 10.”)
- Editorial: Virginia Republicans could learn from George H.W. Bush (But they won’t, of course.)
- Amazon’s Va. headquarters expected to have $15 billion economic impact by 2030
- Muslim elected to Congress tells E.W. Jackson to ‘just deal’ after he complained about hijabs (The fact that Virginia Republicans nominated a raving bigot like Jackson – and then nominated another one in Corey Stewart – shows you what kind of party this is.)
- Ilhan Omar shuts down right-wing pastor who says Congress is becoming ‘Islamic republic’
- Schapiro: Va.’s senator’s plan for cybersecurity – and its unlikely backer
- Gov. Northam Uses Loophole to Hide Documents in Responses to FOIAs on Air and Water Boards, Meeting with Dominion
- Very Bad Day for Dominion: Fourth Circuit Ruling Stops All Work on Atlantic Coast Pipeline as Virginia Pipeline Resistance Goes National
- Virginia files lawsuit against Mountain Valley Pipeline, alleging environmental violations
- “For the first time, #Virginia officials reject Dominion Energy’s long-term #energy plans”
- An easy tax question, and a hard one (“Gov. Ralph Northam and his economic development team want them to take on a more difficult riddle: how to reform business taxes.”)
- W. Taylor Reveley IV column: On education, Amazon is thinking decades ahead. Virginia should too (“W. Taylor Reveley IV is president of Longwood University”)
- Self-professed neo-Nazi James A. Fields Jr. convicted of first-degree murder in car-ramming that killed one, injured dozens
- HRC Endorses Pro-Equality Jennifer Boysko for Virginia’s 33rd Senate District Special Election
- UVa approves tuition and fee increases
- Virginia Beach must explain how it spent $340,000 in legal fees, state Supreme Court rules
- Virginia Beach to study reforesting southern parts of city to battle flooding
- Patrick Corbin arrives, Bryce Harper all but exits, and Mark Lerner takes charge of Nats
- Sunday’s snow forecast is looking moderate for Richmond, with major snow to the southwest and minor amounts to the north
- Expect a cold weekend as a snowstorm passes to the south on Sunday
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