Pence was on standby to take presidential powers during Trump's hospital visit, book claim

Mike Pence was placed on “standby to take over the powers of the presidency temporarily”, if Donald Trump had needed to be anesthetized during a surprise visit to hospital last November, according to a book released on Tuesday.

The White House said the visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda was part of Trump’s annual physical. But it was not on his official schedule as previous physicals had been and no further details were immediately provided.

The news that the visit could have led to a spell in power for Pence is contained in Donald Trump v the United States, by the Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt.

“In the hours leading up to Trump’s trip to the hospital,” Schmidt writes, “word went out in the West Wing for the vice-president to be on standby to take over the powers of the presidency temporarily if Trump had to undergo a procedure that would have required him to be anesthetized.”

“Pence never assumed the powers of the presidency, and the reason for Trump’s trip to the doctor remains a mystery.”

Schmidt’s book contains revelations about the danger many at the Department of Justice and FBI and in the White House itself thought Trump posed to the country he leads.

After the Walter Reed visit, the president’s doctor, Sean Conley, said the “interim checkup” was kept secret because of “scheduling uncertainties”.

“Despite some speculation,” he added, “the president has not had any chest pain, nor was he evaluated or treated for any urgent or acute issues. Specifically, he did not undergo any specialised cardiac or neurologic evaluations.”

A summary of Trump’s annual physical was released in June this year. A memo from Conley said there were “no findings of significance or changes to report”.

But Trump was the oldest president to be inaugurated for the first time and is now 74. His fondness for junk food and reliance on golf for exercise have contributed to discussion of his physical health.

Earlier this year, former White House doctor Ronny Jackson told the New York Times efforts to make Trump eat more healthily included “making the ice cream less accessible” and “putting cauliflower into the mashed potatoes”.

Trump has consistently accused Joe Biden, his 77-year-old opponent in this year’s election, of mental frailties related to his age. But the president’s own mental health has also been widely questioned, with any slips while reading auto-cued speeches or uncertain movements parsed in the media.

In June, after Trump appeared to struggle to walk down a gently sloping ramp at West Point, Bandy Lee, a Yale psychiatrist and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, wrote on Twitter: “This is a persistent neurological sign that, combined with others, would be concerning enough to require a brain scan.”

At a rally in Tulsa in June, Trump rubbished such speculation. As CNN reported, the president “dedicated 1,798 words to retelling the story of his speech to cadets and his halting, tentative walk down a ramp. By way of comparison, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was 272 words – or roughly one-sixth as long.”

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Interesting theory. Although, I'll stick with pre-packaged, already in possession, CHY NA Biden Ballots, that will prove VOTER FRAUD before the election.

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A. Philip Randolph was the most important civil rights leader to emerge from the labor movement. Throughout his long career, he consistently kept the interests of black workers at the forefront of the racial agenda. Whereas civil rights leaders such as W. E. B. Du Bois argued that the problem of the twentieth century was “the color line,” Randolph concluded that it was the question of the “common man.”

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/a-philip-randolph

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By Douglas Perry, The Oregonian/OregonLive

"What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around?" reporter Aaron Altman says in the 1987 Hollywood classic "Broadcast News." "Nobody is going to be taken in if he has a long, red, pointy tail. … He will look attractive and he will be nice and helpful, and he will get a job where he influences a great, God-fearing nation – and he will never do an evil thing. He will just bit by little bit lower standards where they are important."

This is the most-famous dialogue from arguably the most-quotable movie of its decade. But at the time a lot of Americans thought it was off-base.

The Devil probably did have a long, red, pointy tail, they believed. And he did a lot of evil things. In fact, he did evil things all the time – including inspiring the nation’s youth to horrible acts of depravity.

The 1980s saw what's been called "Satanic Panic," a nationwide phenomenon that led to dire accusations, horrific violence and high-profile criminal trials. And Oregon was far from immune to the sensation. Here we take a look at the Beaver State's battles with Beelzebub during the "Greed is Good" decade.

The Satanism hysteria of the 1980s had many causes, from conservative religious fears about the normalization of permissive values to a growing wariness of the psychic costs of a technocratic society. Throw in the arrival of cable-TV news, with its predilection for hyping terrible local crimes into collective national fears, and a widespread dread of the Evil One became unavoidable.

The 20th century's foremost advocate for pop Satanism was Anton LaVey, who spent the 1970s drawing attention to his own unique brand of media-friendly Satan worship, focusing largely on the worthiness of hedonism. LaVey wrote books and appeared on talk shows and hung out with movie stars, and so by the 1980s, his ability to shock was long gone. That meant, some people feared, that younger occultists increasingly were embracing actual demonic acts in a return to Satanism's truly evil roots.

Worried Americans started to see the Devil's work in almost everything, including horror movies and the board game Dungeons & Dragons. Most of all, of course, Satan could be found in popular music.

In 1982, Oregon news reports announced, “state police in Columbia County found 23-year-old Delmer Anholt of Portland kneeling over the mutilated body of his 19-year-old girlfriend, Tara McCarthy, in a graveyard near St. Helens. In his first interview with Anholt, county investigator Dalton Darrick recalls that the suspect was ‘obsessed’ with his girlfriend’s pregnancy. He referred constantly to the ‘demon seed’ insider her and his compulsion to kill the unborn child.”

Two years later, Pendleton police tracked a “local Satanic cult of teenagers” led by a 24-year-old known as “Wizard.” They hoped the cult would peter out after the Wizard was convicted on arson charges.

984 also brought the trial of Vancouver’s Gail Lorraine Ray for the shocking murder of her 6-year-old daughter.

Ray, known as “Big Gail,” said she held a plastic bag over her daughter’s face while trying to remove a piece of pepperoni that had become lodged in the girl’s throat. “I tried to get her to respond in every way I could,” Ray said. “I figured I’d put a plastic bag over her face and get her to at least gasp for air. And she didn’t.”

The jury didn’t buy it, quickly finding the woman guilty of first-degree murder.

Prosecution witnesses during the trial testified that Ray was “a high priestess in a Satanic cult.”

A 13-year-old boy admitted that, on Ray’s order, he had held down the arms of the screaming 6-year-old while Ray suffocated her.

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https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2018/02/how_a_nationwide_panic_about_d.html

102 out of 175 people arrested in Kenosha after the Jacob Blake shooting have been out-of-towners, police say

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