Ivanka Trump sees her family as the next Kennedys, book claims
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Donald Trump defends Ivanka amid email scandal
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Ivanka Trump sees her family as the next Kennedys, book claims
While many may not be the biggest fans of President Donald Trump and his family, his daughter Ivanka Trump reportedly views them as the next Kennedys.
A new book titled Kushner Inc. by journalist Vicky Ward outlines Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner’s time in the White House, but not in the most flattering light.
According to Harper’s Bazaar, Ward conducted interviews with 220 people who know the couple over a two-year period, with some claiming the pair are “power hungry” and using their positions in the White House to gain access to those with power and influence.
Gary Cohn, a former economic advisor for President Trump, says Ivanka expects she will one day become commander-in-chief, following in the footsteps of her father.
“She thinks she’s going to be president of the United States,” Cohn told Ward following his departure from the White House.
According to Town and Country, Ivanka believes her father’s reign as president is “the beginning of a great American dynasty” for the Trump family.
"She thinks this is like the Kennedys, the Bushes, and now the Trumps,” Cohn has claimed.
While Ivanka is clearly ambitious, the new tell-all book claims the 37-year-old is actually her father’s “greatest weakness”, and her relationship with the president is described as “more complex anyone could fathom”.
nterestingly, another book published last year, titled Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, also detailed Ivanka’s ambitions to become the first female US President.
The 2018 book also claimed President Trump placed his daughter and her husband in advisor roles against the advice of “almost everyone they knew”.
At the time the White House did not respond positively to the explosive book, and is yet to comment on the most recent release of Kushner Inc.
Letter: Greater Fall River needs Ed Markey in the United States Senate
Letter: Greater Fall River needs Ed Markey in the United States Senate
Posted Aug 24, 2020
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At the onset of COVID-19, when Greater Fall River needed support for community organizations assisting homeless people, Ed Markey helped secure nearly $1.3 million in CARES Act funding for emergency shelter and support for individuals facing homelessness.
When Fall River needed funding to hire new firefighters, Ed Markey delivered and helped secure $2 million in FEMA grants for the Fall River Fire Department.
When Greater Fall River incurred costs after Superstorm Sandy and Winter Storm Nemo, Ed Markey helped to secure $500,000 in FEMA grants to pay for the damage. And when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission decided to approve a new LNG terminal in Fall River, Ed Markey condemned and fought against it.
When Greater Fall River needs him, Ed Markey delivers.
As members of the South Coast delegation, we’ve had the privilege of working with Senator Markey. We’ve seen his leadership, empathy, and creativity. He’s been a partner in our efforts to tackle issues ranging from lack of Internet access to the climate crisis, and leads on those issues on a national scale -- while never forgetting to deliver for Greater Fall River locally.
Ed Markey knows that justice demands our focus be broad and our ambition high. He knows we must rethink and reform every aspect of American society if we want our country, our Commonwealth, and Greater Fall River to be equitable and offer opportunity for all.
As elected officials, we feel more confident in our ability to implement progressive policy with Ed Markey as a partner. As residents, we feel safer with Ed Markey as our senator. Ed has always fought for us. And he’ll always fight for you. Vote for Ed Markey between now and Sept. 1.
Senator Michael J. Rodrigues
Representative Patricia A. Haddad, Speaker Pro Temp
Representative Paul A. Schmid, III
Representative Alan Silvia
Representative Carole A. Fiola
Losing Again: Trump's Postal Plot Backfires Amidst Bezos Feud | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
Pres. Trump’s alleged efforts to subvert the Post Office for his own political agenda go beyond the current scandal over voting by mail. MSNBC’s Ari Melber reports on a long-running feud with billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, including incriminating secret White House meetings reported by the Washington Post itself, and why the scandal matters now amidst allegations of election impropriety and the Postmaster General facing Congress, in a new installment of The Beat’s special Backstory series. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. http://www.thebeatwithari.com
Fmr. DHS Chief Of Staff Details Decision To Leave Trump Administration | MTP Daily | MSNBC
Former DHS Chief of Staff Miles Taylor discusses what led up to his decision to leave the Trump administration. Aired on 8/25/2020.
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RSN: FOCUS: Jacob Blake Paralyzed From Waist Down After Police Shooting, Father Says
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FOCUS: Jacob Blake Paralyzed From Waist Down After Police Shooting, Father Says
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Edwards writes: "The father of Jacob Blake says that his son is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by Kenosha, Wisconsin police officers multiple times in the back."
Doctor's still don't know if Jacob Blake's injury is permanent as the family continues to try to make sense of the shooting.
he father of Jacob Blake says that his son is paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by Kenosha, Wisconsin police officers multiple times in the back.
Blake’s father, who is also named Jacob, told the Chicago Sun-Times that on the morning of the shooting, he had just been talking to his son about celebrating his grandchild’s 8th birthday.
By the evening, the older Blake had gotten the news that his son had been shot by Kenosha police officers. He then saw the graphic video of the shooting.
“What justified all those shots?” the older Blake said. “What justified doing that in front of my grandsons? What are we doing?”
Blake’s father is now making the trip from Charlotte, N.C. to be with his son.
“I want to put my hand on my son’s cheek and kiss him on his forehead, and then I’ll be OK,” his father said. “I’ll kiss him with my mask. The first thing I want to do is touch my son.”
According to the report, doctor’s still don’t know if Blake’s injury is permanent.
tRump's new miracle cure by Mike Lindell, convicted felon, offers POISON, 5 Cops Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Case Were Also Part of a Botched Raid in 2018
5 Cops Involved in Breonna Taylor’s Case Were Also Part of a Botched Raid in 2018
The incident traumatized a family, led to zero charges, and is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit filed against the Louisville Metro Government.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — At least five of the officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s case were part of another botched drug raid a year and a half before the 26-year-old was killed. The 2018 incident traumatized a family, led to zero charges, and is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit filed against the Louisville Metro Government.
Unredacted body camera footage obtained by VICE News shows unidentified Louisville Metro Police officers ramming through the front door of West Louisville resident Mario Daugherty, firing flash bangs into his house, and shouting at Daugherty’s girlfriend, Ashlea Burr and their crying children — who were 13 and 14 at the time — to come outside.
At least five of the officers involved in the raid — Brett Hankison, Myles Cosgrove, Mike Campbell, Mike Nobles, and Joshua Jaynes — would go on to take part in Breonna Taylor’s case. Hankison, Cosgrove, Campbell, and Nobles were present for the execution of the raid on Taylor’s home; Jaynes requested the search warrant.
“It’s like we relive this stuff every day,” Daugherty told VICE News. He says the entire family is still traumatized by the experience. “I mean, our kids, they’ll never forget about this stuff. And it just hurts.”
VICE News reported on the 2018 raid earlier this year as part of a documentary about Taylor’s case and the danger of both no-knock and quick-knock warrants.
According to the search warrant, officers had received a complaint that marijuana was being grown and sold out of Daugherty’s house. Unlike in Taylor’s case, the warrant was not for a no-knock raid. But the body camera footage clearly shows that the SWAT team did not knock prior to entering and used a battering ram to force open the door while simultaneously shouting, “Police! Search warrant!”
One of Daugherty’s daughters, Zariyah, who was 14 at the time, ran out the back of the house thinking they were being robbed as SWAT members broke through the door. Officers found her in the alley behind her house, in the rain, and yelling at her with guns drawn to get on the ground.
One officer can be heard asking her whether she had any weapons or guns on her person or in her hair. Zariyah told VICE News she was trying to get her grandmother who lived next door.
Daugherty and Burr filed a lawsuit against Louisville Metro Government and several unnamed officers involved in October 2019, a year after the botched raid on their home.
“We just wanted to get our story out there because we didn’t want this to happen to anybody innocent and anybody innocent’s life to get lost,” Daugherty said.
The city moved to dismiss the case. Five months later, Taylor was killed.
Daugherty and Burr didn’t realize the overlap in officers until recently, when they were watching the news. They recognized Hankison, looked back at some of the paperwork LMPD had left behind, and noticed two familiar names: Hankison and Cosgrove.
“She looked up at me and started crying,” Daugherty said. “He [Hankison] was here. Two of them was in our home.”
Shortly before protests against police brutality erupted across the nation, now-vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath of Georgia sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the raids on Taylor and Daugherty’s homes. They cited “troubling parallels between these cases” and requested an independent investigation “to determine whether the Louisville Police Department has engaged in a pattern or practice of constitutional violations.”
Ten Louisville Metro Police Department officers were named in the search warrant inventory form for the 2018 raid, which was recently obtained by VICE News. Three of the four officers who were placed on administrative reassignment following Taylor’s death are on that list: Hankison and Cosgrove, who fired their weapons during the raid on Taylor’s apartment; and Jaynes, who requested the no-knock search warrant.
Two more, Campbell and Nobles, were also present during the raid on Taylor’s home, according to testimony given by Sgt. John Mattingly. It’s unclear why the Louisville police did not originally identify them as present.
Hankison has since been fired. His termination letter says he “displayed an extreme indifference to human life” during the raid on Taylor’s home. Hankison appealed the decision, but his appeal is on hold until the criminal investigation is complete. Hankison’s lawyer did not respond to our request for comment.
The search warrants for both raids also allegedly have some holes according to lawsuits filed by both Daugherty and Taylor’s family. Among the evidence that was used to justify the warrant for Taylor’s home were suspicious packages connected to a suspected drug dealer, which police claim they confirmed with a U.S. Postal Service inspector. But Louisville’s U.S. Postal Service inspector told local news outlet WDRB that "there's no packages of interest going there.”
According to Daugherty’s lawyer, Joshua Rose, “the supposed justification for searching my client’s house for drugs was virtually nonexistent.” Rose says the warrant was based on a complaint filed before Daugherty had even moved in, and that the police didn’t act on the complaint until over four months after it was filed, when they say they saw a Black man stop by the house for 10 minutes one day, and that they could smell weed outside on two occasions. They don’t appear to have verified whether the occupants of the home had changed before requesting the warrant or executing the raid.
According to the inventory form, police found a small amount of marijuana in the home, but no plants. The police don’t appear to have uncovered any evidence of intent to sell. They never charged Daugherty with anything.
The Louisville Metro Police Department did not respond to our request for comment.
According to the lawsuit, which was filed 5 months before Taylor’s death, Daugherty and his family were not only seeking judicial redress, but also hoped to prevent a similar, and possibly fatal, raid in the future.
“I feel like after it happened to us, if the leaders would have stepped out and tried to assist us, I feel like we could have gotten a change way before Breonna’s death,” Daugherty said. “I feel like her death could have been avoided.”
Cover: Body camera footage of a 2018 raid shows Louisville police breaking down the door of West Louisville resident Mario Daugherty. (Louisville Metro Police Department)
Trump’s new miracle cure?
Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, told CNN that Trump is “enthusiastic” about using oleandrin as a potential therapeutic for coronavirus. Oleandrin
is an extract from the plant Nerium oleander. The raw oleander plant is highly toxic
, and consumption of it can be fatal.
Trump confirmed he's "heard about" oleandrin when asked Monday on the White House South Lawn, but still seemed to be in an information-gathering phase.
"Is it something people are talking about very strongly?" he asked the reporter.
"We'll look at it, we'll look at it, we're looking at a lot of different things. I will say the FDA has been great. They are very close. We're very close to a vaccine. Very close to a therapeutic. I have heard that name mentioned, we'll find out," the President said.
Last week, Lindell was added to the board of Phoenix Biotechnology, which makes oleandrin, and received a financial stake in the company. Anderson Cooper confronted Lindell about his promotion of the dangerous extract:
Lindell: "This thing works it's the miracle of all time ... You are just misconstrued because the media is trying to take away this amazing cure that works for everybody.”
Cooper: "Sir, just for our viewers, you have no medical background. You're not a scientist. A guy called you in April, said he had this product. You are now on the board and going to make money from the sale of this product. ... And you stand to make money from it. How do you sleep at night?" (video
)
Less crazy, but not without controversy, Trump has pushed the FDA to issue an emergency authorization for blood plasma as a Covid-19 treatment. Dr. Fauci reportedly
intervened to put the order on hold, cautioning that the data is still too weak.
The idea
is that people who have been sickened with COVID-19 and then recovered will have antibodies in their blood that helped them fight off the infection. By giving that convalescent plasma to sick patients, those antibodies should in theory help a patient currently sick with COVID-19 recover.
However, it is unclear if plasma treatments are effective for people with COVID-19. The newest study
lacked a control group, limiting the conclusions we can draw from its results. Other studies
have failed to show a definitive benefit.
Trump was asked about the FDA pause, Trump suggested it was engineered to hurt his re-election chances:
"Well, I hear great things about it, that’s all I can tell you. It could be a political decision because you have a lot of people over there that don't want to rush things because they want to do it after November 3."(clip
)
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