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Observations - August 2019

August 19, 2019 --

Questions Concerning the Alleged El Paso Shooter ...

Lawyers for the family of Patrick W. Crusius, 21, the alleged El Paso gunman, confirmed to CNN that his mother called the Allen, Texas police department in late June concerned that her son owned "an 'AK" type of weapon and did not have experience in handling the weapon. According to this report the matter was dropped after the mother told the police that her son was not suicidal or did not pose a threat to anyone. But why would a 21-year old, whose parents were divorced and who lived with grandparents until recently before the shooting, have "an AK type of weapon?" Do political cries for various forms of gun control drown out call to familial responsibility today?

Zelensky Update ...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People party gained a majority in the national parliament, winning 254 seats out of 450. This is the first time since independence that a political party in Ukraine won a clear parliamentary majority. President Zelensky plans to come to New York for the United Nations General Assembly session, opening in September and is likely to meet with President Trump at that time. He reportedly wants to hold a referendum on whether Ukraine should join NATO. Thus far Democratic presidential candidates have not been asked their view of U.S. policy toward Ukraine, much less questioned Joe Biden's business ties to Ukraine under Mr. Zelensky's predecessor, Petro Poroshenko.

One Reason to Defend Trump ...

From Barton Swaim, in The Wall Street Journal, August 13: "[T]he president's meanest adversaries on the left will level a charge so dishonorable, so wantonly unfair, that you feel almost bound to defend him."

An Inconvenient Truth ...

LPR does not expect The New York Times to acknowledge, in its attacks on the administration's immigration policy, that in its June 14, 1939 editorial, "In Elder Brewster's Steps, " the paper declared that the days of mass migration to America were over. As LPR has previously pointed out, the editorial appeared as the liner St. Louis with its 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany , headed back to Europe, after being turned away from Cuba.

August 7, 2019 --

The Real Alibi?

"The real story is the Russians interfered in our election. And Trump committed obstruction of justice." Hillary Clinton, on The Rachel Maddow Show, quoted in The New York Times, May 3, 2019.

The Bias is in the Adjective ...

A New York Times article on preparation among House Republicans to question Robert S. Mueller III called Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan "one of the Republicans' most recognizable attack dogs." The story went on to describe Rep. Matt Gaetz, " a firebrand from Ohio."

 

August 5, 2019 --

It's More Than Impeachment ...

MSNBC contributor and Democrat advisor Donny Deutsch said on the cable network July 26, "We may not have won the battle of impeachment, but we're going to win the war of putting [Prtesident Triump] in jail. Whatever we have to do. And we're not going to necessarily play fair,"

Concerning Day to Day Supervision at the Office of Special Counsel …

28 C.F.R. 600.7(b) provides, in part, "The Special Counsel shall not be subject to the day-to-day supervision of any official of the [Justice] Department." Did Mr. Mueller himself supervise his office, or was he merely a figurehead, for a get-Trump cabal?

A July 24 New York Times lead sentence that is the envy of the Trump Resistance …

"SAN JUAN, P.R. — Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico announced his resignation on Wednesday night, conceding that he could no longer credibly remain in power after an extraordinary popular uprising and looming impeachment proceedings had derailed his administration."

Note to the Democratic presidential candidates ...

Please be advised that while you call for various forms of "Medicare for All,"
this citizen, covered by Medicare Advantage, has lost his doctor and has seen his co-pay doubled.