Manufacturing Jobs Up 400,000 Under Trump; +37,000 in July

By Terence P. Jeffrey | August 3, 2018 | 8:51 AM EDT

(CNSNews.com) - Manufacturing jobs in the United States increased by 37,000 in July and have now increased by 400,000 since Donald Trump became president, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“Manufacturing added 37,000 jobs in July, with most of the gain in the durable goods component,” said the BLS employment report. “Employment rose in transportation equipment (+13,000), machinery (+6,000), and electronic instruments (+2,000).”

“Over the past 12 months, manufacturing has added 327,000 jobs,” said the report.

In December 2016, the last month before President Trump was inaugurated, there were 12,351,000 people employed in manufacturing in the United States. In July, there were 12,751,000—an increase of 400,000.

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Total nonfarm payrolls increased by 157,000 for the month

The unemployment rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point to 3.9 percent, as expected.

Average hourly earnings increased 2.7 percent over the same period a year ago.

Previous months' jobs numbers were revised substantially higher.

Jeff Cox | @JeffCoxCNBCcom

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155,965,000 Employed in June: 11th Record-Setter Under Trump

By Susan Jones | August 3, 2018 | 8:40 AM EDT

(CNSNews.com) – Following last month’s strong employment report, the numbers released on Friday were even better in some respects.

The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics says a record 155,965,000 people were employed in July, the 11th record-breaker since President Trump took office 19 months ago.

"Our economy is soaring. Our jobs are booming. Factories are pouring back into our country, they coming from all over the world. We are defending our workers," President Trump told a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday.

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Hispanic unemployment again hits new record low in July

by Joseph Lawler | August 03, 2018 08:35 AM

Unemployment for Hispanic workers again plumbed a new record low in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

The unemployment rate for Hispanic or Latino workers fell to 4.5 percent in the month, lower than the previous record of 4.6 percent that was set just the month before.

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1. 'I LIKE MIKE'

Trump Lashes Out at LeBron James

President Trump hurled personal insults at Lebron James on Friday night after the basketball star criticized him in an interview with CNN. “Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do,” Trump tweeted. He concluded his tweet with an apparent reference to basketball legend Michael Jordan and the ongoing debate of who is the better NBA player of all time, saying, “I like Mike!” The comment came after James told CNN’s Don Lemon he believed Trump was using sports to sow discord in the country. “I can’t sit back and say nothing,” James said, recalling the NFL kneeling protests that saw Trump intervene and call for suspensions of players. James’ comments about the president came after he won praise for opening an $8 million public school for at-risk youth in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.

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1. SURPRISE

UN: North Korea Has Not Stopped Its Nuclear Program

North Korea has continued to develop its nuclear and missile programs despite international sanctions, according to a new report by the United Nations. The report, which was submitted to the UN Security Council late Friday, warns that Pyongyang has stepped up activities in a range of sanctioned spheres that include transferring coal at sea and defying an arms embargo, as well as financial sanctions, according to the Associated Press. North Korea “has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs and continued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products, as well as through transfers of coal at sea during 2018,” the report says. UN experts say Pyongyang has also continued military cooperation with Syria and has been attempting to sell weapons to Yemen’s Houthis. The findings come after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said North Korea is “closer” to denuclearization following Kim Jong Un’s summit with President Trump in June. Pompeo acknowledged, however, that there is still a “ways to go” before complete denuclearization as North Korea continues to violate sanctions.

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10. CALLED OUT

Judge: Trump Administration ‘100 Percent’ Responsible for Reunifications

A federal judge told lawyers representing the Trump administration that it was “100 percent” the government's responsibility to find the parents of children who were separated by family separation and deported by immigration officials. “It appears only 12 or 13 of over 500 parents have been located, which is just unacceptable at this point. And it appears that there is not a plan in place,” U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw told them on Friday, lamenting that the government did not have a clear plan on how to locate the deported parents. The Trump administration also suggested that the American Civil Liberties Union, who is suing the government on behalf of the parents, to use their own resources to help find the parents. “All of this is the result of the government’s separation and then inability and failure to track and reunite,” Judge Sabraw said. “And for every parent who is not located there will be a permanently orphaned child, and that is 100 percent the responsibility of the administration.” She then ordered the government to appoint a person or team to “to prepare and present to the court a clear plan for remaining reunifications.” Many of the over 400 parents who were deported are located in countries like Guatemala and Honduras. On Thursday, the ACLU told the court that the government’s databases don’t have sufficient home addresses for about 120 of the children who still need to be reunified.

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1. NOT SO FAST

Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Restore DACA

A federal judge on Friday upheld an order for the Trump administration to restore the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying ending the Obama-era program would be “unlawful and unconstitutional.” U.S. District Judge John Bates issued a 25-page opinion finding that the federal government had failed to “elaborate meaningfully” on the “primary rationale for its decision” to end the program, which protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation if they were brought into the country as children. In April, Bates had given the Trump administration 90 days to provide justification for its move to end the program. The government now has 20 days to either appeal Bates’ ruling or resume the program. Bates joins judges in California and New York in ruling to save DACA, while several other states are continuing their own legal bid to stop the program.

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Wife of Marine Veteran Deported to Mexico Under ‘Zero Tolerance,’ Lawyer Says

The wife of a Marine veteran was deported Friday after living in the United States for nearly 20 years, according to Reuters. Alejandra Juarez, 38, left her husband and a child behind as she boarded a plane from Florida to Mexico. “Mr. President, you deporting me is not going to hurt just me; you’re making a veteran suffer,” Alejandra Juarez said at the airport. “You always say you love veterans. If you really love veterans, why didn’t you pardon me?” The woman’s lawyer claims that President Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy is to blame for her deportation, since she was previously considered “low priority” and had been checking in with immigration authorities every six months. Juarez attempted to enter the U.S. illegally in 1998 but was deported, then successfully re-entered in 2000. That same year, she married Temo Juarez, an Iraq veteran and naturalized citizen. Her first deportation reportedly made her ineligible for “getting a visa or becoming a citizen,” and she was discovered by law enforcement in 2013 during a traffic stop. Juarez was able to live a normal life in the U.S. by checking in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials twice a year, but that apparently changed when new deportation rules were put in place. She plans to live in Mexico with her youngest daughter, while her husband and other child remain in the U.S. MUST BE AN MS-13 MEMBER ?!?!

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SAFE HEAD SPACE

Trump Fans Are Suckers and QAnon Is Perfect for Them

And aggrieved, and paranoid, and thrilled to have “An Answer” that explains everything about the world they hate and tells them Trump is great and they’re pretty good, too.

Conspiracies are hard. They're even harder when you're stupid.

They are, however, deeply compelling. Some people need a single, grand unifying theory of why the world refuses to line up with their expectations. When difficult realities confront people without the intellectual horsepower to understand and accept the truth, some turn to conspiracy theories to paper over the holes in their worldview. No matter how absurd, baroque, and improbable, conspiracies grow on their own like mental kudzu where inconsistencies aren't signs of illogical conclusions, but of another, deeper layer of some hidden truth, some skein of powerful forces holding the world in its grip.

After Donald Trump's rally in Tampa this week, the notorious QAnon scam became America's conspiracy of the moment. And why not? In the face of Trump's daily meltdowns, mood swings, and unmedicated rage episodes in which he lashes out at every target in reach, his base is desperately looking for a version of reality that gives them some comfort and stability.

This Q conspiracy is filling the political bloodstream of the Trumpentariat and has been bubbling up inside the right for the last few months, and while Will Sommer and others have covered the story, there seemed to be a media shock moment after the Qbots showed up at Trump’s Tampa rally.

Conspiracies—this one in particular—give their devotees a sense of coherence that is lacking in everything Trump does. QAnon presents Trump as the character he plays on TV; bold, commanding, strategic, and brilliant...as opposed to the real Donald Trump, who displays the dignity, intelligence, and honesty of a strip-club tout with tertiary syphilis.

In Q's world, Donald Trump is courageously leading an effort to round up and punish—I'm not exaggerating—tens of thousands of child predators who occupy the highest reaches of government. Q and Don, side by side, doling out the secret knowledge to the new elite. Instead of getting a clearance, all you need to do is check out 4chan, Reddit, or YouTube.

Some even believe Q composes these messages for their eager consumption and interpretation at Trump's direction, the amanuensis to an orange Nostradamus whose quatrains appear on the same image boards that feature bronie porn, hentai spank-bank material, and tween Neo-Nazi shitposter incels, instead of penned on parchment.
The QAnon conspiracy theory showed up at a Trump rally

hey're desperate to believe "Q" is a senior official cleared at the highest levels (as one former NSA official jokingly called it, “TS/SCI NOSEBLEED”) who is busily leaking cryptic messages to them. Set aside that the Q clearance is a Department of Energy designation, and is for access to particular nuclear weapons matters, not the Bondian highest-reaches-of-government shenanigans to which Q claims access; this entire thing reeks of enough bullshit to fertilize Mars.

The claims of Q-Anon make Nostradamus look like Hemingway. Naturally, they're elliptical, variable, and impossible to cross-check. Hundreds of YouTube videos, blog posts tweets, Facebook items, and speculation follow each post, a Confederacy of Dunces that ramifies this idiocy out into dumber and dumber dead ends. QAnon asks its believers to "follow the breadcrumbs" and fill in the blanks. Those blanks get filled with epic idiocy.

The glee with which the followers of this absurdity latch on to imaginary deportations of Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, and others to Gitmo is notable. Several times, Q has promised them that any moment now the rest of the Deep State will occupy the darkest holes of the American prison system. QAnon tells them that retribution is at hand, and they’re ravenous for more. Lurid and exciting for the rubes, but as of yet, Hillary Clinton walks free. If that even is Hillary Clinton, and not a shapeshifting reptilian overlord.

Those of us with the unfortunate awareness of the clownishly risible QAnon conspiracy cult have been reveling in the comedy gold, lavishly overwrought, dangerously stupid proclamations of Q for months. We've alternated between laughter and wide-eyed shock at how credulous Trump’s Army of Cletuses must be to fall for such an obvious, ludicrous con. Then again, Donald Trump put the “con” in “conspiracy” as far back as his embrace of birtherism. If the puzzle surrounding QAnon is a fever dream wrapped in an enigma, coated with nougat, rolled in nuts and filled with a creamy center of delusional paranoia, Trump's own role in fostering it is right out of the Lil Tots' First Book of Authoritarian Strategy.

For actual authoritarians and the merely dictator-curious, building a separate, hermetic truth defined only by the Dear Leader is 101 stuff, and goes hand in hand with the relentless attacks on the free press an enemy of the people.
Of course, it's just trolling. It’s just a prank by some chan-autists. It makes me shake my head to explain to people that the idea of a conspiracy this grand and elaborate has as much chance of working as Skeeter's plan to cook meth in the WalMart bathroom.

Why has Q eaten the Trump-right's minds? Why does it work on them when it's so obviously, evidently a gigantic pyramid of digital horseshit?

It works because stupid people are stupid and because Donald Trump's Administration loves what QAnon does to stoke the fires of paranoia, resentment, and division. QAnon works for Trump because people who are not knowledgeable about the world, politics, government, the intelligence community and reality more broadly are desperately looking for confirmation that they're on the winning team. Q tells them that they're on the right side of history and that for once in their dreary little lives they and only they possess the secret, hermetic knowledge from inside the esoteric cult.

Q represents where the former GOP has gone in the era of Trump; possessed the desire to have a private space that makes even Fox News look mild in comparison, grasping desperately for a different reality.

When even aggressive conspiracy-pusher faux-journalist loons and alt-lite thought leaders Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec find QAnon too crazy to promote, it should make you pause. Both men were aggressive promoters of the Pizzagate theory, in which a Washington D.C. restaurant was falsely alleged to be the center of a global child sex-trafficking, cannibalism and prostitution ring. Both were all-in on the cruel and false Seth Rich story, and a raft of other pro-Trump efforts to mainline fantasy conspiracies into the American body politics.

If it's too crazy for those edge cases, it's too crazy.

No, Trump fans, the storm isn't coming. There is no Great Awakening. "Where we go one we go all" is a path to disappointment and madness, not to some brave new future where Donald Trump's genius and his army of secret soldiers purge America of a vast, secret deep state of hostile insiders and pedophiles.

Q is a meta-hoax, a recursive scam in service of a scam called the Trump Presidency. The "drops" are meaningless claptrap, noise without real signal, and most certainly not the signs of the new reality its eager marks desire.

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Bill Maher Exposes the Insanity of QAnon: Trump Used to ‘Walk in on Miss Teen USA Pageants’

Yes, many Trump supporters believe in a ridiculous internet-based conspiracy theory that Trump is a holy savior exposing a vast left-wing pedophilia ring.

“I can always tell when it’s time to come back from a vacation because the state is on fire,” cracked Bill Maher.

After a month-long break, the political satirist returned to his HBO show Real Time and caught up his viewers on just some of the things they may have missed—including what the comedian branded Trump’s “hillbilly-Nuremberg rallies” in Tampa, Florida, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

“He calls the media the ‘enemy of the people’—except of course for Fox News. They’re so far up his ass they’re the enema of the people,” said Maher, adding, “We live in a country now where reporting reality gets attacked because it threatens the fantasy world created by the cult leader.”
But perhaps even more disturbing than Trump’s continued attacks on the press were the gaggle of QAnon Trump supporters that popped up at his rallies this past week, with many brandishing homemade signs and/or sporting custom T-shirts.

“This is a big movement on the right. See, we don’t hear about these things because we’re not crazy,” Maher explained. “Q is a person—a member of the ‘deep state,’ way high up in the ‘deep state’—but now he’s turning on them, and he’s revealing that the world is run by a giant pedophile ring. Really. Every president since Reagan has been part of it… you know who’s a pedophile? Tom Hanks. Steven Spielberg. And who’s gonna stop this? Trump. Because who’s more qualified to stop pedophilia than the creep who used to walk in on Miss Teen USA pageants?”

Maher was of course referring to a BuzzFeed report from October 2016 wherein five former Miss Teen USA contestants came forward to allege that Trump would barge in on the girls while they were changing—including “some as young as 15.”

“I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a man in here,’” Mariah Billado, former Miss Vermont Teen USA, told BuzzFeed.
If that weren’t enough, The Daily Show previously dug up footage of Trump from a 1994 episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous that showed the real-estate mogul discussing his 1-year-old baby Tiffany.

“Well, I think that she’s got a lot of Marla. She’s a really beautiful baby—she’s got Marla’s legs,” said Trump. Then, making a hand gesture to indicate large breasts, he added, “We don’t know whether or not she’s got this part yet, but time will tell.”

Oh, and there’s also Trump’s curious friendship with sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.

“He wasn’t being a creep, he was looking for pedophiles!” Maher joked of Trump’s creepy Miss Teen USA pop-ins. “He’s the Serpico of child molesters! Trump loved those girls like they were his own daughter.”
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Anybody sick of winning yet? I’m not!

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The United States “dethroned” Hong Kong this week to take the top spot as the World’s most competitive economy; further signaling a robust US recovery under President Trump and the recently passed GOP tax cuts.

“The U.S. dethroned Hong Kong to retake first place among the world’s most competitive economies, thanks to faster economic growth and a supportive atmosphere for scientific and technological innovation, according to annual rankings by the Switzerland-based IMD World Competitiveness Center,” writes the new report.

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Unlike Trump, first lady has kind words for LeBron James

WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump stepped away from her husband’s criticism of NBA star LeBron James to compliment his work on behalf of children and even offer to visit his school for at-risk children.

“It looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the First Lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today.” Mrs. Trump’s spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement Saturday.

The statement’s tone was in stark contrast to President Donald Trump’s tweet Friday night following James’ appearance on CNN in which he told journalist Don Lemon that he “would never sit across” from Trump, whom James has criticized in the past. The interview took place at James’ “I Promise” school in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.

“Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon,” Trump tweeted in a swipe at a news network he often derides. “He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do.”

While many former and current professional athletes jumped to James’ defense, Mrs. Trump’s spokeswoman noted that the first lady’s Be Best initiative for children promoted “the importance of responsible online behavior” as well as their well-being and healthy living.

“Her platform centers around visiting organizations, hospitals and schools, and she would be open to visiting the I Promise School in Akron,” Grisham said.

Mrs. Trump has stood apart from her husband’s views before. In June, when migrant families entering the U.S. illegally were being separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under Trump administration policies, she said through her spokeswoman that she “hated” to see the separations and that she believed the U.S. needed to be a country that “follows all laws, but also a country that governs with heart.”

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Michael Jordan Backs LeBron James in Trump Feud

Hours after President Trump closed out a tweet bashing LeBron James with the declaration, “I like Mike,” Michael Jordan himself chimed in to side with James. “I support LJ. He’s doing an amazing job for this community,” the basketball legend told NBC News through a spokesperson Saturday. Trump had earlier taken to Twitter to insult James’ intelligence, apparently incensed by a CNN interview the Los Angeles Lakers star did in which he suggested Trump was using sports to divide the country. Jordan's response came shortly after social media users had called on him to take a stance in the dispute.

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Bill Russell: Being criticized by Trump is the 'biggest compliment you can get'

NBA legend Bill Russell praised LeBron James and CNN host Don Lemon after President Trump attacked the two men, saying they “must be doing something right.”

Russell also cited Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.), as well as NFL players attacked by Trump, saying that at “this time & place for any African American…to be criticised by @realdonaldtrump means you must be doing something right!”

“As I have said before- Its the biggest compliment you can get,” he added.

At this time & place for any African American, @KingJames @donlemon @RepMaxineWaters @repjohnlewis & #NFL plyrs to be criticised by @realdonaldtrump means you must be doing something right! As I have said before- Its the biggest compliment you can get. @TwitterSports @MSNBC @CNN

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The former Celtics star and coach has previously shared images of him kneeling while wearing his Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in solidarity with athletes who kneel during the national anthem. Russell was the first African-American to coach a major professional sports team.

Trump has attacked players who kneel during the anthem to protest racial injustice.

Trump targeted James and Lemon in a tweet late Friday, writing that James "was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon" who "made Lebron [sic] look smart, which isn’t easy to do." Others have come forward to defend James, including NBA legend Michael Jordan, who praised James for "doing an amazing job for his community."

Lemon interviewed James earlier this week about the former Cleveland Cavaliers star's new "I Promise School" for at-risk children in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.

The NBA player was critical of Trump during the interview, saying that the president was trying to use sports to divide the country.

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Trump: I ‘destroy careers’ of Republicans who say bad things about me

President Trump bragged about his prowess in defeating the Republicans who oppose him, saying at an Ohio rally that he “destroys” the careers of GOP politicians who dare defy him.

“How do you get 100 percent of anything? We always have somebody who says ‘I don’t like Trump, I don’t like our president, he destroyed my career,'” Trump said.

“I only destroy their career because they said bad things about me and you fight back and they go down the tubes and that’s OK,” he added.

Trump didn't name names, but he's on a winning streak in GOP primaries, as candidates he's backed have repeatedly defeated those he sided against.

The most notable example was Rep. Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor who lost a GOP primary for reelection to his House seat earlier this summer.

Trump tweeted his opposition to Sanford on election day, needling him for a past controversy in which he disappeared from public view to, according to his staff, hike the Appalachian Trail. Sanford, married at the time, was actually in Argentina seeing his girlfriend.

Trump also recently backed Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp over Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle in a GOP primary, and saw Kemp win.

But Trump hasn't always been on the winning side. He backed Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) last year but saw Roy Moore pull off a primary victory.

Still, the recent successful primary picks have put Trump's stamp further on the GOP, suggesting it has become Trump's party.

Two GOP senators who have repeatedly criticized Trump, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Bob Corker of Tennessee, are also not running for reelection.

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Trump praises Jim Jordan at Ohio rally: 'A brave, tough cookie'


JPresident Trump brought Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on stage at his rally in Ohio on Saturday night, giving the conservative lawmaker a public boost as he runs for Speaker of the House.

“Jim Jordan, how great is he?” Trump said, before bringing the lawmaker on stage.

The crowd chanted “Speaker of the House” as Jordan stood on stage.

Trump's public nod of camaraderie with the conservative Republican, a regular presence on cable television who has criticized special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and backed the impeachment of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, was also notable given the controversy dogging Jordan surrounding allegations he knew of sexual abuse while serving as a wresting coach at the Ohio State University.

Jordan has denied that he knew of instances of abuse. Some past wrestlers from the program have backed him, while others say he either knew or had to have known of the allegations.
Once Jordan took the stage, he rattled through a list of Trump’s accomplishments, including deregulations, nominating Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

“What a great defender he’s been, what courage,” Trump said after Jordan left the stage. “He’s a brave, tough cookie along with some of his friends.”

“I didn’t know he was going to be here,” the president continued. “I looked over and said, ‘I don’t want to wrestle him, he’s tough.’”

Fox News coverage of the rally also showed Jordan posing for photos with members of the crowd before Trump went on stage. There was a brief "Jordan" chant from the crowd.

Jordan has launched a bid to succeed retiring Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). He's seen as a long-shot for the post, but has the support from the House Freedom Caucus, which is setting itself up to be a kingmaker in the selection.

Republicans will have to hold on to the House majority this fall, however, to win the speakership.

The controversy at Ohio State surrounds allegations of sexual abuse by a team doctor. Trump has previously said that he "100 percent" believes Jordan, who has said he did not know of the abuse.

Ohio State has launched an investigation into the sexual abuse allegations, and several lawsuits have been filed against the university. The doctor accused of the abuse, Richard Strauss, died by suicide in 2005.

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Trump touts Fox News, attacks cable news competitors at rally

President Trump once again praised Fox News during a campaign rally Saturday night, touting the network’s ratings and hosts while also attacking its competitors.

“Oftentimes I’m getting ready to do the fake news with CNN or MSNBC — MSNBC is so corrupt it’s so disgusting,” Trump said.

“I would say they’re almost, they’re worst,” he said. “They’re really a fake news group of people.”

“Here’s the good news the guys that we love, they’re blowing them away in the ratings,” Trump said, before listing a series of Fox News hosts, including Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and “the great Lou Dobbs."

“CNN is down at the bottom of the totem pole, MSNBC isn’t even close to being next to these shows,” Trump said. “So we’re blowing them away, and that’s good because those are the people that love us.”

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TRUMP: "Often times I'm getting ready to do my fake news with CNN and MSNBC. MSNBC is so corrupt, it's so disgusting. I would say almost they're worse, they are really a fake news group of people."

He then name-drops Fox News hosts, says "*we* are blowing them away."

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Trump is an avid consumer of Fox News and often tweets about the network’s programming — he name checked Hannity, a close friend and confidante of his, during another rally this week.

Hannity’s Fox News show was the most-watched cable program in July. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow came in third in last month’s ratings, after Fox News' Carlson.

AdWeek reported that CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time" was the network's only show during July to make the top 10 most highly-rated cable news programs among the key demographic of adults, ages 25 to 54.

Trump has repeatedly attacked and sought to discredit outlets like CNN as "fake news."

The Ohio crowd broke into chants of "CNN sucks" ahead of the president's arrival on stage.

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Clinton tweets support for LeBron after Trump attack: 'We need more like him in this world'

Hillary Clinton offered her support to NBA star LeBron James on Saturday after President Trump attacked him on Twitter, calling James a “world class athlete and a class act.”

“[James] is a great family man, incredible ballplayer, gives back to his community, and isn’t afraid to speak his mind,” Clinton tweeted on Saturday.

“We need more like him in this world,” she added.

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Lemon had interviewed James about the school for at-risk youth the NBA player is opening in his hometown of Akron, Ohio.

James was also critical of the president during the interview, saying Trump was using sports to “divide” the country.

Others have shown support for James since Trump’s tweet: Michael Jordan, who the president said he liked, said the former Cleveland Cavaliers star is “doing an amazing job for his community."

First lady Melania Trump’s spokeswoman said in a statement Saturday that “it looks like LeBron James is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation,” adding that the first lady is “open” to visiting his new school.

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Trump fears his son may have inadvertently gotten into legal trouble: report

President Trump reportedly fears that his son Donald Trump Jr. may have inadvertently gotten himself into legal trouble.

The Washington Post reported Saturday that Trump has told advisers and close confidants he doesn’t believe his son knowingly broke any law, but said Trump Jr. could have unwittingly crossed a legal line.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining Trump Jr. for his role in arranging a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower between a Russian lawyer and Trump campaign officials, including himself.

Music publicist Rob Goldstone told Trump Jr. in an email that the Russians were offering damaging information on Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton as part of their support for Trump.

“If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” Trump Jr. replied to Goldstone.

Trump Jr. later called the meeting a waste of time and said they only discussed Russian adoption policies.

CNN reported last month that Trump’s former longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen is willing to tell Mueller that then-candidate Trump approved the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, though Cohen reportedly does not have evidence to back up his claims.

Trump and others, including Trump Jr., have asserted numerous times that the president did not know about the meeting until The New York Times first reported about it last July.

Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said after the CNN report that the president did not know about the meeting, calling Cohen's claims "flat out untrue."

Trump Jr. testified before Congress last year that his father did not know about the meeting.

Still, an ex-Trump Organization executive pushed back on the president and his allies' claims that then-candidate Trump was unaware of the meeting, saying it was "impossible" for Trump not to have known about such an arrangement.

"Impossible, in my opinion, based on my experience working with Trump and everybody that worked with Trump," Barbara Res told CNN when asked if it was possible that Trump Jr. would not relay a message to his father about Moscow's support for Trump's presidential bid.

"Something major, something newsworthy, something press-worthy would always go before Trump."

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Meyer, Jordan, Ohio State blackeyes: Darcy cartoon

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Ohio State University's morality losing streak has been extended. Urban Meyer being put on paid leave over allegations he failed to report domestic abuse claims against an assistant, followed eight former wrestlers accusing former assistant wrestling coach Rep. Jim Jordan of also turning a blind eye to their claims of sexual abuse by a team doctor.

The Meyer's story broke as OSU continues to conduct an investigation into sex abuse claims against the late athletic department doctor, that now extends beyond the wrestling team.

This season, Ohio State should maybe play under the moniker "Blackeyes" instead of Buckeyes. It appears highly unlikely Meyer will be coaching the OSU Blackeyes in 2018

Zach Smith was fired as wide receivers coach days after his ex-wife, Courtney, filed a domestic violence protection order against him, and after a record of domestic abuse incidents, dating back to 2009, were reported.

Courtney Smith alleges she confided to Meyer's wife Shelly, about a 2015 domestic violence incident. Text messages between the two included photos of a bruised Courtney Smith.

Smith believes Urban Meyers knew of the 2015 incident. "I do believe he knew, but instead he chose to help the abuser and enable the abuser and believe whatever story Zach was telling everybody"

Courtney Smith: OSU never investigated known allegations

"No one from the university came to me and asked me for my side of the story, claimed Courtney Smith. "They knew there was an investigation going on and not once did anyone call me and ask me what happened."

Meyer denies knowing about 2015 incident but knew about 2009 charge.

Urban Meyer denied knowing about the 2015 incident Courtney Smith told his wife about. "I was never told anything."

But Meyer did acknowledge knowing about a 2009 incident for which Smith was charged with a felony for domestic violence against his then pregnant wife. Meyer said he and his wife tried to help the Smiths find counseling. Courtney Smith ultimately declined to press charges in 2009.

In 2009, Smith was serving as a graduate assistant under Meyer in Florida. Despite being charged with a felony domestic violence, Meyer didn't fire Smith and hired him at Ohio State in 2012 with a salary of $340,000.

From 2012 to 2018, there were nine police reports of domestic violence involving the Smiths, who divorced in 2015. According to Courtney Smith, many of the incidents were witnessed by the couples offspring. She said all the coaches wives knew she was being abused.

Meyer could be fired with cause under his contract.

Under the Meyer's contract extension, the university can fire him for cause for failure to report the domestic violence claims.

"Coach shall promptly report to Ohio State's Deputy Title IX Coordinator for Athletics any known violations of Ohio State's Sexual Misconduct Policy (including, but not limited to, sexual harassment, sexual assault, sexual exploitation, intimate violence, and stalking) that involve any student, faculty, or staff that is in connection with a university sponsored activity or event."

Smith is the grandson of Meyer's mentor, former OSU coach, Earl Bruce. Bruce gave Meyer his start in coaching and Meyer's returned the favor by hiring Smith.

Regardless of the personal Smith-Bruce-Meyer's connection, Meyer's showed horrible judgement in not firing Smith in 2009 and then hiring him, at $340,000, no less, in 2012.

Smith was considered a run of the mill coach. That Meyer would risk his reputation, the school's reputation and his huge salary, over an average coach with a long record of domestic abuse incidents, is stunning.

Incredibly, Meyer claimed firing Smith after the domestic violence protection order was filed was a "very tough call." It shouldn't be a tough call for OSU to fire Meyer for demonstrating such tone-deaf, poor judgment.

Sports pundits are speculating that Meyer will land in the NFL after being fired. Maybe, maybe not. While I could see him with a team like the Bengals, the NFL may not be quick to hire him after the leagues own domestic violence sandals.

Report: Jordan pressured retired coach to get accusers to recant.

Look for Rep. Jim Jordan to enter into the official Congressional Record a thank you note to Urban Meyer for drawing attention away from the allegations against Jordan.

NBC News reports that retired Ohio State wrestling coach Russ Hellickson tried to get two of the eight former wrestlers who accused Jordan of ignoring sex abuse complaints, to recant their stories.

The wrestlers told NBC that in text messages, Hellickson said that he could get their recantations out into the press, and that he was being pressured to do so by Jordan. Jordan is trying to replace Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House.

Maybe OSU should rehire Tressel.

Next to Meyer and Jordan being accused of turning a blind eye to domestic violence and sex abuse, Jim Tressel turning a blind to players trading "gold pants" and jerseys for tattoos is pretty tame, and would be welcomed.

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Americans still hate the new GOP tax law — and Republicans should be nervous

A pair of new polls suggests Americans still aren't on board with the new Republican tax law, and its unpopularity could be a problem for the GOP in this year's midterm elections.

Just 39% of Americans in a new survey from Gallup said they supported the new tax law, while 52% disapproved of the law. That represents a slight improvement from Gallup's survey immediately after the law's passage in January, when just 33% of respondents supported it.

But the law remains significantly underwater, and many people aren't sure how it will affect their income.

According to Gallup:

9% of people surveyed said they expected their taxes to increase under the new law;

18% expected their tax burden to decrease;

17% said they expected their taxes to stay the same;

56% said they weren't sure.

According to the Tax Policy Center , 65% of Americans should see a tax cut of more than $100 in 2018, while 6% should see an increase of $100 or more.


Also on Monday, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal released their own poll showing the law is unpopular. Just 27% of people told NBC/WSJ that the law was a good idea, while 36% said it was a bad idea. Thirty-four percent of people did not have an opinion.

The polls are another in a line of recent data hinting at the law's political implications. For instance, most Americans have not noticed a larger paycheck since the law was enacted. According to a CNBC poll released in March , just 32% of people reported an increase in take-home pay since the law was implemented in January.

The law's unpopularity is particularly worrying for Republicans, since the issue is expected to be the centerpiece of the party's 2018 midterm messaging.

For instance, the GOP-linked American Action Network has spent about $30 million in ads focusing on the tax law since August and is running $1 million worth of ads this month in vulnerable GOP districts.

The law also did little to help sway the special election in Pennsylvania, which was won last month by a Democrat, Conor Lamb, even though President Donald Trump carried the district by almost 20 points in 2016. Republican spending on ads that focused on the law dived in the weeks leading up to the vote, and Lamb hammered the GOP by saying the law favored the rich.

Bob Bryan Apr. 16, 2018, 5:34 PM

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More and more people seeing the truth.

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Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll
Today’s @realDonaldTrump approval ratings among black voters: 29%
This time last year: 15%

Trump says tariffs are working “big time.” Here are 5 pieces of evidence that’s not the case.

Ask the farmers who need the $12 billion bailout.

President Donald Trump really wants the American people to believe his trade war and tariffs are all working out exactly as planned — and ignore mounting evidence that might not be the case.

Trump fired off a series of tweets over the weekend celebrating his trade aggressions. His administration has imposed tariffs on a variety of imports from China, Canada, Mexico, the European Union, and Japan, and on Sunday, Trump said they’re “working big time.” Whatever the outcome — companies pay tariffs, or they start building in the US — he said it means “jobs and great wealth.” He also declared that tariffs will help the US pay down the deficit. (It won’t.)

So far, Trump has targeted steel and aluminum imports from many American allies and put tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese goods, this week floating the idea of increasing them. China has retaliated with tariffs of its own and is threatening even more, and while Trump reached a truce with the European Union to pull back from a full-blown trade war, a grander trade deal between the US and the EU is hardly guaranteed. In fact, the renegotiated, better trade deals Trump promised on the campaign trail have largely failed to materialize, with the exception of an agreement reached with South Korea in March.

But Trump keeps insisting everything is going just fine.

In tweets on Saturday, he said that tariffs will make the United States “much richer than it is today” and cited the recent decline in China’s stock market as evidence of their success. “We are Winning, but must be strong!” he wrote.

There are some winners in Trump’s trade war. The US steel industry, for example, has benefited from rising steel prices (although Trump, for some reason, keeps lying about US steel opening new mills). The US economy is doing well, though it’s unlikely much of that is a direct result of Trump’s trade tactics.

But there are a lot of losers too — farmers in need of a bailout, manufacturers that use aluminum and steel in their supply chains, American consumers discovering the “tax” tariffs impose is actually on them.

As Trump continues to insist his trade tactics are going spectacularly, here are five pieces of evidence that might not be the case.

1) Farmers needed a $12 billion bailout

“Tariffs are the greatest,” Trump declared in a tweet in late July. Hours later, reports emerged that his administration is planning to give $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers hurt by those “great” tariffs.

As Vox’s Tara Golshan laid out, the agriculture industry is among the hardest-hit sectors as foreign countries retaliate with tariffs of their own. China, Mexico, and Canada have responded to the US’s measures with taxes on American soybeans, dairy, pork, apples, and potatoes, among other products. Prices for soybeans have dropped to a 10-year low, and soybean exporters rushed to get their product out of the country earlier this year ahead of the impending trade war.

Trump’s trade tactics, effectively, have necessitated a $12 billion farmer bailout.

2) Other countries are making trade deals without the US

After taking office, Trump announced that he would withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and promised to make good on his campaign trail promises to renegotiate new deals he deems more fair, including an overhaul of NAFTA. That’s not exactly how it’s worked out — there’s still no new NAFTA, and the bilateral deals Trump has focused so much of his rhetoric on have largely failed to materialize.

What’s more, other countries are moving on without the US.

Japan and the EU in July agreed to an outline for a trade deal that would rival the size of NAFTA — a consequence, in part, of Trump’s TPP withdrawal. The same goes for the 11-country Asia-Pacific trade agreement signed in March, which will reduce tariffs on nations that together make up more than 13 percent of the global economy. (Had the US signed on to the deal under the TPP, it would have represented 40 percent.) China has also been shopping for new trade agreements as the US has stepped back from the global stage.

“Other countries now have very strong incentives to do business independent of the US and independent of the dollar,” Moody’s Analytics economist Mark Zandi recently told me.

3) The tariffs are showing up in consumer prices and business decisions

Tariffs are taxes imposed on goods and services. Trump’s case is that it’s foreign companies that pay them, but ultimately, they often wind up being shouldered by US consumers. And there’s evidence that’s what’s happening now.

Aluminum and steel tariffs could cost the US beer industry $348 million per year alone, according to the Washington Post, citing the Beer Institute. The rest of the beverage industry is taking a hit, too: Coca-Cola, for example, has said it has to raise prices. The National Association of Home Builders has said that Trump’s tariffs on softwood lumber from Canada have increased the cost of building a home by $7,000. The machinery maker Caterpillar has said it will raise prices. Winnebago is upping the cost of its RVs, too, and washing machine prices have spiked.

Harley-Davidson has said Trump’s trade tactics will result in it moving some production overseas altogether. Mid-Continent Nail announced layoffs because of them.

4) The tariffs aren’t making a dent in the United States’ debt

Trump’s claim on Sunday that the tariffs would allow the US to start paying down “large amounts” of the US’s $21 trillion debt isn’t true.

The amount of tariffs the president has imposed so far — about $85 billion worth of foreign goods — isn’t enough to make a dent in the US’s $21 trillion deficit. The Washington Post’s Heather Long did the math and found that Trump’s tariffs would raise about $21 billion at most, or 0.1 percent of the total debt:

Since taking office, Trump has added substantially to the debt, with a large tax cut and additional government spending on the military and various domestic priorities. In total, he has added about $1.6 trillion to the debt since taking office (higher if you take into account additional interest charges), according to the Congressional Budget Office. The money raised from the tariffs does little to counterbalance all the money Trump has added to the debt.

He has also announced $12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by the tariffs. That is additional spending that further reduces the money raised from his tariffs by nearly half.

5) We still don’t know what winning looks like for Trump

As eager as Trump is to declare a victory lap on trade, it’s still unclear what exactly a victory would entail.

The aluminum and steel tariffs were imposed under the justification of protecting national security, but they are hitting the US’s closest allies and partners and could ultimately undermine America’s goal to put pressure on China. It’s unclear whether the national security justification is anything more than an excuse for Trump to do something he’d already had his mind set on doing.

Trump got some concessions out of European Commissioner Jean-Claude Juncker in July, including a pledge that the EU will import more US soybeans and liquefied natural gas, while the US said it would stop future tariffs while they continue to negotiate over the steel and aluminum taxes. Still, it’s unknown what the broader goal is here.

And on the China front, the trade war seems to be ratcheting up, with both sides considering more measures. Multiple experts recently told me that there’s still an off ramp to the trade war, but a big part of the problem is that no one knows what Trump really wants — including, perhaps, Trump himself. The president has focused much of his energy on talking about trade deficits, but economists say he seems to sometimes misunderstand them, and he’s never laid out an exact picture of what, in his mind, constitutes a good trade deal.

“There’s always a way out of these things, there’s always a deal to be done,” Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently told me. “But it’s very hard with the Trump administration to figure out what those deals might look like.”

For now, it looks like Trump is just going to keep insisting everything’s going well.

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Major U.S. Steel Firms With Trump Ties Successfully Blocking Tariff Exemptions: Report

Two major steel firms with ties to the Trump administration have successfully blocked hundreds of requests from American companies to exempt themselves from President Trump’s massive tariffs, according to a Sunday report from the New York Times. The exemption process, the Times notes, was created to help domestic businesses survive under the crushing 25 percent steel tariff, which was put into place this March. Companies could apply for the exemption if they needed a product that wasn’t otherwise available in the United States—but American steel producers were also permitted to object. Since May, more than 20,000 applications have been submitted. The Times adds that Nucor and United States Steel, both of which have ties to the administration, have objected to more than 1,600 such applications in recent months and have not yet failed in their efforts. Approximately half of the 639 denials that have already occurred, the Times adds, came after an objection from Nucor, United States Steel, or one other major firm. Their actions have drawn the ire of rejected businesses, which accuse the firms of “hiding behind the government to try to keep them going.”

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Trump: My Attacks on the Media Are a ‘Great Service’ to Nation

President Trump launched into the latest full-blown assault on the media Sunday morning, declaring that he is doing a “great service” to the nation by labeling the press the “enemy of the people.” Apparently in response to widespread criticism of his rhetoric on the media, which experts have warned could lead to violence, the president said the “fake news” media “purposely cause great division & distrust.” “They can also cause war. They are very dangerous & sick!” he wrote. His latest attack on the press comes just days after his own daughter, Ivanka Trump, laughed off the notion of the media as the “enemy of the people” and said she did not view it that way.

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2. ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

C-SPAN Alerts FBI on Caller Who Threatened CNN Hosts Don Lemon and Brian Stelter.

C-SPAN on Monday said it has reported to the FBI a caller on its Washington Journal program who threatened to shoot CNN anchor Don Lemon and host Brian Stelter. “They started the war. If I see ’em, I’m going to shoot ’em. Bye,” said the man, who claimed to be from State College, Pennsylvania. C-SPAN said it passed the information to the FBI and cooperated with CNN security. When the threats were made, the C-SPAN host did not hear them, and thus allowed them to air, the network claimed in its statement.

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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.

PORTLAND, Oregon—Hundreds of armed supporters of President Donald Trump, led by a fringe Republican congressional candidate, marched on Saturday, leaving blood from scattered street fights in their wake.

Ostensibly a campaign event for long-shot U.S. Senate hopeful Joey Gibson, members of his group Patriot Prayer urged the president to lock up his political opponents, including Hillary Clinton, and promised violent retribution for anyone who threatened their right to “free speech” or armed self-defense. Groups of Trump supporters swarmed through the streets, singling out people of color to fight, some of whom appeared to belong to small vigilante squads of local anti-fascists, as well as others who appeared to be mere passersby. Police announced four arrests, but gave no estimate of injuries.

Extremist group watchdogs such as the Southern Poverty Law Center warned ahead of the event that it could turn into “another Charlottesville.” It did not, but only in the sense that no one was killed. Such warnings, prompted by Gibson’s provocations, put all eyes on the rally.

“Only when they antagonize do we react. Stand your ground,” Gibson told supporters in a promotional Facebook video. “This is a brotherhood, a sisterhood. To bleed together, that's what's important. To bleed together.”

His supporters flocked from around the West Coast and the country, a contingent of Proud Boys, "Three Percenter" militia members, Trump-supporting bikers, fundamentalist Christians, and college Republicans. Gibson had insinuated that his supporters would bring guns into the city and many apparently did, although to comply with local ordinances, the weapons stayed stowed in backpacks.

Trump-supporting rallygoers will tell you the city suffers from a plague of communists, anarchists, and godless unbelievers, namely because of the large antifa presence.

“If someone is gonna attack, I’m going to defend my neighbor. I’m here to take a bullet for my neighbor,” Graeme Whitmeyer, who drove two hours to Portland for the Republican rally, told The Daily Beast...................

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ONE MORE - THIS IS THE GUY VOTERS WILL BE VOTING FOR AS A UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM ARIZONA REPRESENTING AND VOTING FOR WE THE PEOPLE - FUNNY BUT SAD !!
Joe Arpaio on Sacha Baron Cohen: I ‘Never Agreed’ to Blow Job From Trump

‘I didn't even know what he was talking about,’ the GOP Senate candidate said of his outrageous ‘Who Is America?’ appearance.

Former sheriff and current GOP Senate candidate Joe Arpaio apparently has no idea that he accepted the hypothetical offer of an “amazing blow job” from President Donald Trump on the latest episode of Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America?

In a new interview with the Phoenix New Times, the 86-year-old Arpaio says that he “never agreed” to oral sex from the president who recently pardoned him. This is despite the fact that when Baron Cohen—in character as a Finnish internet celebrity named OMGWhizzBoyOMG—asked him directly, “If Donald Trump calls you up after this and says, ‘Sheriff Joe, I want to offer you an amazing blow job,’ would you say yes?” Arpaio answered, “I may have to say yes.”

“I didn't even know what he was talking about,” Arpaio explained. "I couldn't even hear what the hell he was saying... He had a bad accent. He was twisting things around.” As for Baron Cohen’s questions about “hand jobs,” the former sheriff seemed similarly perplexed, adding, “We were talking about illegals and working with your hands!”

At another point in the interview, Baron Cohen asked Arpaio if he thinks Trump has ever had a “golden shower,” a covert reference to the alleged Russian “pee tape.” Arpaio replied, “Wouldn’t surprise me.”
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https://youtu.be/bHvjHbL2utk

“He mentioned Trump and gold — I thought he was talking about a gold shower,” Arpaio said on Monday.

The night before, his communications director, former Breitbart News reporter Jennifer L. Lawrence, tweeted at Baron Cohen, “It’s not going to be awkward at all explaining to @RealSheriffJoe what you meant by ‘golden shower.’”

In another interview with The Arizona Republic, Arpaio said of Baron Cohen, "He showed one good thing: He showed how I support the president.” Arpaio complimented the exaggeratedly dimwitted character during the interview, saying Trump would like him “because you think like he thinks.” Arpaio seemingly had no explanation for the moment in which lectured a small donut figurine about the virtues of gun ownership.

And yet despite Arpaio’s claims that he couldn’t hear or understand what the comedian who saying during their interview, he knew enough to try get ahead of the inevitable embarrassment last month, giving an interview to Breitbart in which he talked about how “uncomfortable” he was with Baron Cohen’s questions.

“I felt uncomfortable with some of the words they were using but I had to live through it. I am not the type of guy who gets up and walks out. I never walked out in thousands of interviews. I just take it,” he explained of the interview, which he was told was being broadcast live to two million people. “I was kind of shocked,” he added. “But I figured this is Finland and this is a famous comedian.”

[Arpaio's candidacy is emblematic of how Republican politics have been ... Joe Arpaio ready for fight against Democrats in bid for U.S. Senate]

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Did someone say Global Warming in a baseball folder? That's my cue to try to help you kool aid drinkers. ... And please, if you ever wasted 1 red cent on an Al Gore book or documentary, tell me. First, I want to make fun of you the rest of our lives. Second, I have some prime real estate out here in Montana to sell you. It is right inside Glacier National Park. It's spectacular, and I'm willing to give you a great deal.

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Failed Prognostications of Climate Alarm

Anthony Watts / August 7, 2018

“If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit [between now and] the year 2025 to 2050…. The rise in global temperature is predicted to … cause sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the middle of the next century.” — Philip Shabecoff, “Global Warming Has Begun.” New York Times, June 24, 1988.

It has been 30 years since the alarm bell was sounded for manmade global warming caused by modern industrial society. And predictions made on that day—and ever since—continue to be falsified in the real world.

The predictions made by climate scientist James Hansen and Michael Oppenheimer back in 1988—and reported as model projected by journalist Philip Shabecoff—constitute yet another exaggerated Malthusian scare, joining those of the population bomb (Paul Ehrlich), resource exhaustion (Club of Rome), Peak Oil (M. King Hubbert), and global cooling (John Holdren).

Erroneous Predictive Scares

Consider the opening global warming salvo (quoted above). Dire predictions of global warming and sea-level rise are well on their way to being falsified—and by a lot, not a little. Meanwhile, a CO2-led global greening has occurred, and climate-related deaths have plummeted as industrialization and prosperity have overcome statism in many areas of the world.

Take the mid-point of the above’s predicted warming, six degrees. At the thirty-year mark, how is it looking? The increase is about one degree—and largely holding (the much-discussed “pause” or “warming hiatus”). And remember, the world has naturally warmed since the end of the Little Ice Age to the present, a good thing if climate economists are to be believed.

Turning to sea-level rise, the exaggeration appears greater. Both before and after the 1980s, decadal sea-level rise has been a few inches. And it has not been appreciably accelerating. “The rate of sea level rise during the period ~1925–1960 is as large as the rate of sea level rise the past few decades, noted climate scientist Judith Curry. “Human emissions of CO2 mostly grew after 1950; so, humans don’t seem to be to blame for the early 20th century sea level rise, nor for the sea level rise in the 19th and late 18th centuries.”

The sky-is-falling pitch went from bad to worse when scientist James Hansen was joined by politician Al Gore. Sea levels could rise twenty feet, claimed Gore in his 2006 documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, a prediction that has brought rebuke even from those sympathetic to the climate cause.

Now-or-Never Exaggerations

In the same book/movie, Al Gore prophesied that unless the world dramatically reduced greenhouse gasses, we would hit a “point of no return.” In his book review of Gore’s effort, James Hansen unequivocally stated: “We have at most ten years—not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions.”

Time is up on Gore’s “point of no return” and Hansen’s “critical tipping point.” But neither has owned up to their exaggeration or made new predictions—as if they will suddenly be proven right.

Another scare-and-hide prediction came from Rajendra Pachauri. While head of a United Nations climate panel, he pleaded that without drastic action before 2012, it would be too late to save the planet. In the same year, Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, predicted “global disaster” from the demise of Arctic sea ice in four years. He too, has gone quiet.

Nothing new, back in the late 1980s, the UN claimed that if global warming were not checked by 2000, rising sea levels would wash entire countries away

There is some levity in the charade. In 2009, then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted that the world had only 50 days to save the planet from global warming. But fifty days, six months, and eight years later, the earth seems fine.

Climate Hysteria hits Trump

The Democratic Party Platform heading into the 2016 election compared the fight against global warming to World War II. “World War III is well and truly underway,” declared Bill McKibben in the New Republic. “And we are losing.” Those opposed to a new “war effort” were compared to everything from Nazis to Holocaust deniers.

Heading into the 2016 election, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson warned that “a vote for Trump is a vote for climate catastrophe.” In Mother Jones, professor Michael Klare similarly argued that “electing green-minded leaders, stopping climate deniers (or ignorers) from capturing high office, and opposing fossil fueled ultranationalism is the only realistic path to a habitable planet.”

Trump won the election, and the shrill got shriller. “Donald Trump’s climate policies would create dozens of failed states south of the U.S. border and around the world,” opined Joe Romm at Think Progress. “It would be a world where everyone eventually becomes a veteran, a refugee, or a casualty of war.”

At Vox, Brad Plumer joined in:

Donald Trump is going to be president of the United States…. We’re at risk of departing from the stable climatic conditions that sustained civilization for thousands of years and lurching into the unknown. The world’s poorest countries, in particular, are ill-equipped to handle this disruption.

Renewable energy researcher John Abraham contended that Trump’s election means we’ve “missed our last off-ramp on the road to catastrophic climate change.” Not to be outdone, academic Noam Chomsky argued that Trump is aiding “the destruction of organized human life.”

Falsified Alarms, Compromised Science

If science is prediction, the Malthusian science of sustainability is pseudo-science. But worse, by not fessing up, by doubling down on doom, the scientific program has been compromised.

“In their efforts to promote their ‘cause,’” Judith Curry told Congress, “the scientific establishment behind the global warming issue has been drawn into the trap of seriously understating the uncertainties associated with the climate problem.” She continued:

This behavior risks destroying science’s reputation for honesty. It is this objectivity and honesty which gives science a privileged seat at the table. Without this objectivity and honesty, scientists become regarded as another lobbyist group.

Even DC-establishment environmentalists have worried about a backfire. In 2007, two mainstream climate scientists warned against the “Hollywoodization” of their discipline. They complained about “a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.” To which Al Gore (the guilty party) responded: “I am trying to communicate the essence [of global warming] in the lay language that I understand.”

“There has to be a lot of shrillness taken out of our language,” remarked Environmental Defense Fund’s Fred Krupp in 2011. “In the environmental community, we have to be more humble. We can’t take the attitude that we have all the answers.”

Most recently, Elizabeth Arnold, longtime climate reporter for National Public Radio, warned that too much “fear and gloom,” leading to “apocalypse fatigue,” should be replaced by a message of “hope” and “solutions” lest the public disengage. But taxes and statism don’t sound good either.

Conclusion

If the climate problem is exaggerated, that issue should be demoted. Enter an unstated agenda of deindustrialization and a quest for money and power that otherwise might be beyond reach of the climate campaigners. It all gets back to what Tim Wirth, then US Senator from Colorado, stated at the beginning of the climate alarm:

We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

“Right thing” in terms of economic and environmental policy? That’s a fallacy to explode on another day.

Oh, and in case you haven't heard, the Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography just recorded the warmest ever temperature in the water off their pier in the Pacific Ocean. And quickly proclaimed this is how global warming will play out!

It was the warmest ever temp they recorded in their 102 year history!!

It beats a record dating back to 1931!

The temp?

78.6

The previous record in 1931?

78.4

Wow, in 87 years the ocean raised 0.2 tenths of a degree one day!!

We are all doomed!

It also begs the question - in 1931 when the warmest temp of 78.4 degrees was recorded in the first 13 years of their existence, was that also proof of man made global warming?

Or in the 87 years that the temp was lower, was it proof of man made global cooling???