Mali President Resigns Following His Detention by Mutinying Armed Forces Officers

On 18 August, a group of officers from the Malian armed forces staged a mutiny, capturing the country’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga and reportedly taking control of the capital Bamako.

Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said on Tuesday he was resigning and dissolving parliament and dismissing the government after being detained by the rebellious armed forces units.

""I inform you on my decision to resign, and to relinquish my authority from now on", he said on state television. "I want no blood to be spilled to keep me in power".

Earlier, ECOWAS suspended Mali from its decision-making bodies and all financial flows with the country and called for sanctions against "putschists and their partners and collaborators".

The president's resignation comes in the wake of the ongoing political crisis in the landlocked West African state, with supporters of the opposition 'June 5 Movement' taking to the streets to demand Keita's resignation starting earlier this summer. Clashes on 11-12 July between protesters and security forces led to the deaths of 11 people, with over 120 reported injured.

The opposition accuses Keita of failing to deal with corruption and restore security in the country amid escalating jihadist and inter-communal violence and has criticized controversial legislative elections held in late March, which were reportedly accompanied by kidnappings and death threats against observers and local officials.

https://sputniknews.com/africa/202008191080210509-mali-president-resigns-following-his-detention-by-mutinying-armed-forces-officers/

‘You Better Get Some Ice For That’: Here’s What To Know About Bill Clinton And #METOO Allegations

Former President Bill Clinton, who is scheduled Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, has faced allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Clinton reportedly traveled and vacationed with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Clinton has been accused of sexually harassing Paula Jones, of raping Juanita Broaddrick, of sexually assaulting Kathleen Willey, and of repeatedly sexually assaulting Leslie Millwee.

Former President Bill Clinton, who will speak Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention, has faced allegations of rape and sexual assault and reportedly traveled and vacationed with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Clinton’s Tuesday night speech follows the release of photos showing him receiving a massage from an alleged Epstein victim. Clinton and Epstein’s relationship has continued to draw attention throughout the summer of 2020 following the arrest of Epstein’ cohort, Ghislaine Maxwell.

Apart from suspicions about his relationship with Epstein, who died in jail in 2019 from apparent suicide while facing charges of sexual trafficking, Clinton has been accused of sexually harassing Paula Jones, of raping Juanita Broaddrick, of sexually assaulting Kathleen Willey, and of repeatedly sexually assaulting Leslie Millwee.

Clinton did not respond to requests for comment regarding this story. He has denied all of these allegations.

Monica Lewinsky

Clinton notoriously had an affair with a subordinate, Monica Lewinsky, while he was president of the and she was a 22-year-old White House intern. Clinton was 27 years older than Lewinsky at the time.

House Republicans impeached him, saying that Clinton had lied to federal investigators after he initially denied the relationship with Lewinsky, but the Senate acquitted him and Clinton stayed in the White House until 2001.

Lewinsky reflected on the experience in light of the #METOO movement to Vanity Fair in February 2018, noting that though she has called the relationship consensual and will not call it “sexual assault,” she also believes that it constituted “a gross abuse of power.”

“I now see how problematic it was that the two of us even got to a place where there was a question of consent,” she adds. “Instead, the road that led there was littered with inappropriate abuse of authority, station, and privilege.”

Paula Jones

Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones told Sean Hannity in 2016 that Clinton exposed his genitals to her and propositioned her for sex in 1991 during a government quality-management conference.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/08/18/bill-clinton-dnc-me-too-sexual-assault/

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After this third alleged assault, Millwee says Clinton came to her apartment and repeatedly knocked on her door for “probably five, ten minutes” calling her name and saying, “I know you are home. Please answer the door.”

“I did not answer the door,” she told Breitbart. Millwee said that her grandmother was staying with her at the time because she was afraid of Clinton. The following day, Millwee said she saw Clinton at a fair where neither of them acknowledged his alleged visit the night before.

The alleged incident was “the final straw” for Millwee, who told Breitbart that she decided to leave her job at the station.

Millwee had formerly written about Clinton allegedly touching her inappropriately, flirting with her, and showing up to her house in a book she published in January 2011, Breitbart noted. The book also says that she introduced her grandmother to him at the fair, an encounter that conflicts with her story to Breitbart.

The book, and her allegation, received little attention, according to Breitbart.

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TX Governor Proposal Would Financially Punish Cities That Defund Police

Before 'woke' city councils in Texas vote to defund their local police amid a far-left movement to eliminate law enforcement, local officials may want to wait and see if a new proposal by Governor. Greg Abbott (R) to cap property taxes grows legs.

Under new legislation introduced by Abbott, municipalities which defund police departments will be unable to raise revenues by raising property taxes, according to CBS Dallas.

"To maintain the safety that our communities deserve today we are announcing a legislative proposal that will discourage defunding law enforcement in Texas," said the governor during an afternoon press conference. "Any city that defunds police departments will have its property tax revenue frozen at the current level. They will ever be able to increase property tax revenue again if they defund police."

"Cities that endanger residents by reducing law enforcement should not then be able to turn around and go back and get more property tax dollars from those same residents whose lives the city just endangered," added Abbott.

The City of Austin voted to move some $21 million to fund local social services and community resources — including response to the coronavirus, mental health aid programs, violence prevention, victim services and food, housing and abortion access. Another $80 million is set to be redistributed to similar city services, and $49 million will be spent on the Austin Reimagine Safety Fund, which aims to provide alternative forms of public safety and community support besides policing.

During the Fort Worth press conference Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said, “When I think about what Austin has done… had any other mayor of any other city in Texas been as irresponsible as they have been they would have chaos and their citizens would be in danger. It is only because of our DPS force of state troopers, hundreds that came to the aid and recuse of APD, that Austin didn’t turn into a potential Seattle or Portland.” -CBS Dallas

Unbelievable.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/tx-governor-proposal-would-financially-punish-cities-defund-police