R. Kelly in solitary confinement following jailhouse beatdown

R. Kelly has been placed in solitary confinement following a jailhouse beatdown from another inmate because it’s the only place he’s safe, the disgraced artist’s lawyer told The Post Thursday. “That’s the only place they can protect him,” said Steven Greenberg, Kelly’s Chicago-based attorney. Sometime Wednesday, a disgruntled inmate, furious over lockdowns caused by Kelly, came into his cell and started attacking him, Greenberg said. “My understanding is, everytime there is a pro-R. Kelly protest outside of the jail, they lock down the entire facility,” the lawyer said during a brief interview. “When they do this, inmates don’t get their commissary, they don’t get their shower, stuff like that and since they’re fairly sporadic anyway, they get upset. So they’re penalizing everyone in the facility because people are protesting in support of Kelly.”

The attorney characterized the attack as a mere “dust up” and said there were “minor injuries, nothing broken” but that’s only because guards were able to quickly snuff it out. “I’m still very concerned because sure this time the guards were able to quickly stop something from happening but what happens if someone goes in his cell with a shank or something like that? Or the guards are busy doing something else?” Greenberg said. “We were fortunate this time but who’s to say next time?” Kelly is awaiting trial on a series of child sex abuse charges and has repeatedly petitioned the courts to release him amid the coronavirus pandemic but those requests have all been rejected.

https://pagesix.com/2020/08/27/r-kelly-in-solitary-confinement-following-jailhouse-beatdown/

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Time for a true "opening" scene?

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Do you have the link for it? Dont' think I've seen this one.

'Come up with more money': Pelosi not budging on virus aid stalemate with Trump

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t back down on her demand that Republicans agree to at least $2 trillion in the next round of coronavirus aid, a signal that a weekslong impasse will not end soon. The California Democrat questioned at her weekly press conference, “Why should there be a bill that has far less than what the public needs?” Pelosi was expected to talk by phone Thursday afternoon to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who told reporters in the Capitol on Saturday that he was trying to meet with her in person, but she was unavailable. The two sides abandoned meeting in person earlier this month after days of closed-door meetings did not yield a compromise. Pelosi has since then refused to meet with Meadows or Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin unless they agree to her demand that the negotiations start at a minimum of $2 trillion in overall spending, which is a non-starter for the GOP. “They have to move,” Pelosi said when a reporter pointed out the White House has not agreed to the $2 trillion after weeks of futile talks. “They are just going to have to come up with more money.”

Senate Republicans introduced a $1 trillion coronavirus aid package in July. House Democrats passed a $3 trillion aid bill in May. Pelosi has since raised the price of the House aid proposal to $3.7 trillion and is calling on the GOP to “meet halfway” on cost. Pelosi said the health and economic impact of the coronavirus requires a massive federal spending bill. Congress has already passed $3 trillion in coronavirus aid since March, and much of it remains unspent. Republicans have little enthusiasm for another big spending bill, but many are willing to back the $1 trillion GOP proposal. They argue Pelosi's bill includes spending unrelated to the coronavirus. Pelosi said Thursday the GOP proposal offers far too little to help the nation cope with the continuing outbreak. “We need a flood of money for this,” Pelosi said. “We have a pandemic and the economic consequences of again and again bad numbers in terms of unemployment today. And they're coming in with an eyedropper.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/come-up-with-more-money-pelosi-not-budging-on-virus-aid-stalemate-with-trump