Seminole Tribe of Florida: Cesar Sayoc is Not a Member of Seminole Nation
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Trump supporter at Charlotte rally: Obama, Hillary probably sent bombs to themselves to sway voters
A Trump supporter who attended Friday evening's rally in Charlotte, N.C., said he thinks former President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent themselves bombs in order to score political capital for the Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. NBC News' Ali Vitali spoke to a man named Avril Runyon, identified as a supporter of President Trump, before the event, asking about the bomb scare this week. "Barack Obama probably sent his to his-self, and Hillary Clinton probably sent hers to herself," Runyon said. He said the man arrested earlier in the day, Cesar Altieri Sayoc Jr., for his suspected role in mailing out the explosives was "probably not" behind the act. Asked what the upside would be for prominent Democrats to send themselves the bombs, Runyon replied, "Trying to bring people — feeling — over to their side."
WATCH: Talking to Trump supporters before tonight's rally, our @alivitali met one man who said he thinks Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton probably mailed pipe bombs to themselves.
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Pipe bombs were sent to several Democratic figures through the mail this week, including Obama and Clinton. CNN's office in New York was evacuated earlier this week due to a suspicious package sent to former CIA Director John Brennan, who is a commentator for MSNBC/NBC News, not CNN. Another package found Friday was addressed to former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper at CNN.
Sayoc, of Aventura, Fla., was arrested Friday at an AutoZone store in Plantation, Fla. He has been charged with five federal crimes, interstate transportation of an explosive, illegal mailing of explosives, threats against former presidents and certain other persons, threatening interstate communications, and assaulting current and former federal officers. The windows of his white van, which was picked by authorities, bore pro-Trump decals and at least one that said, "CNN Sucks.”
Trump returned to North Carolina on Friday for a "Make America Great Again" rally to help boost GOP candidates ahead of the 2018 midterm elections less than two weeks away. Despite the week's bomb scare, the raucous crowd in Charlotte chanted "CNN sucks" and "Lock her up" slogans, the second of which was created for Clinton, throughout the evening.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-supporter-at-charlotte-rally-obama-hillary-probably-sent-bombs-to-themselves-to-sway-voters
Avenatti fires back at Grassley over referral for Kavanaugh accusation probe
Lawyer Michael Avenatti fired back at Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Friday, after Grassley referred the attorney and his client Julie Swetnick for federal investigation. Grassley’s office sent the Justice Department two referrals Thursday and Friday asking that Avenatti and Swetnick, who accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, be investigated for interfering in Kavanaugh’s confirmation process.
"How ignorant is Grassley? He keeps publicly demanding an investigation knowing full well that it will likely never happen - it is all for show. And if it does, he has placed Kavanaugh at risk of being removed from the SCOTUS. This is what happens when you never attend law school,” Avenatti wrote on Twitter late Friday.
Swetnick, according to an NBC story published Thursday, said that Avenatti “twisted [her] words” in his Oct. 2 statement that said she had observed Kavanaugh spiking drinks at a party decades earlier. Swetnick initially issued a sworn statement on Sept. 26.
Grassley has referred both for investigation on the basis they may have committed federal criminal offenses of conspiracy, false statements, and obstruction of Congress. “When a well-meaning citizen comes forward with information relevant to the committee’s work, I take it seriously. It takes courage to come forward, especially with allegations of sexual misconduct or personal trauma,” Grassley said in a statement issued Friday. “But in the heat of partisan moments, some do try to knowingly mislead the committee,” he said. "Thankfully, the law prohibits such false statements to Congress and obstruction of congressional committee investigations. For the law to work, we can’t just brush aside potential violations. I don’t take lightly making a referral of this nature, but ignoring this behavior will just invite more of it in the future.”
Avenatti told Law & Crime Grassley was “full of crap” and “knows nothing about the law” because Grassley is not a trained lawyer.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/avenatti-fires-back-at-grassley-over-referral-for-kavanaugh-accusation-probe
National network of Catholic church leaders told to preserve all communications
The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has asked the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to preserve all electronic and paper documents in case other federal prosecutors need to look into accusations of sexual assault against current and former church leaders, according to a report published Friday. The U.S. attorney's office also asked for all documents belonging to affiliate archdioceses, dioceses, archeparchies, eparchies, and personal ordinariates, as well as confirmation from the conference that it will cooperate.
U.S. Attorney William McSwain, who wrote the Oct. 9 letter, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania recently claimed 300 "predator priests" had molested more than 1,000 children over the span of seven decades. Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Justice Department started an investigation into child sexual abuse at a Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., has launched a telephone and email hotline for anyone who was sexually abused by church leaders as a child so they can report these crimes. The Victim Witness Assistance Unit of the office as well as its Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section teamed up on the project. All submissions will be looked over by criminal investigators, prosecutors, and victim advocates from those two offices. From there, eligible cases will be referred to law enforcement for prosecution. It's not clear if D.C. officials suspect a similar issue may have been or still be taking place in the district.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/national-network-of-catholic-church-leaders-told-to-preserve-all-communications
WOOHOO Anon Excellent Work here!
Indeed, you play with fire you get burned.
Also take a closer look at the hats and the cameras…shifty camera to the right and a hat magically appears…
Mexico, Canada play hardball on trade deal over steel tariffs
Juan Carlos Baker, Mexico’s deputy commerce minister, said Friday that his government may not sign the final text of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade if the U.S. does not agree to provide exemptions to its tariffs on steel and aluminum. The Trump administration is balking at that demand, however, as its counter-proposal, a quota system, is getting the cold shoulder from both Mexico and Canada, which is also seeking an exemption from the tariffs. “We believe we need to solve that issue before the signing takes place,” Baker told reporters in Ottawa. The signing has been tentatively set for the end of November.
It was the toughest threat yet from one of the negotiators over the deal that would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mexico and Canada have lobbied the U.S. to lift exemptions to the tariffs, 25 percent for steel and 10 percent for aluminum, arguing that now that the talks for the USMCA deal are complete, there's no need to maintain those tariffs.
The U.S. however has resisted providing the exemptions, fearing that doing so would allow China, the main target of the tariffs, to harm the U.S. steel industry. "The president is reviewing the steel and aluminum tariffs,” said Kelly Craft, U.S. ambassador to Canada, Friday at a forum hosted by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. "That is not something that is against Canada … It’s just protecting North America from other countries that will be passing raw materials through, and also to protect our steel industry at home." The White House initially carved out exceptions for Canada and Mexico to its steel and aluminum tariffs , then revoked them in June as a way to pressure both countries during the talks to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The U.S. has proposed replacing the tariffs with a quota system, similar to what it did for South Korea regarding steel, when in August it allowed a quota of 70 percent of average steel exports to the United States in the years 2015 to 2017. Neither Canada nor Mexico are expressing interest on that, according to an administration official who requested anonymity to discuss ongoing talks. As a consequence, there isn't much talk going on between the countries to resolve the tariff issue, the official said. A Canadian government official, speaking anonymously, told the CBC earlier this week, that a quota proposal was a concession that Canada would make. Officials see no reason why they cannot return to status quo on metal imports from before the NAFTA talks. “There is no need for those tariffs to be in place," Canadian Ambassador David MacNaughton said Friday in Ottawa.
Backers of the administration's policies say a quota is still the best compromise for all sides. "From a U.S. industry perspective, tariffs are similarly effective to quotas if done right," said Michael Stumo, chief executive officer of the business-labor Coalition for a Prosperous America. "From Canada's perspective, they should want quotas rather than tariffs because with a quota, their industry gets the money, but with a tariff, the U.S. government gets the money." Critics charge that the systems lead to cronyism. "They empower foreign governments to pick winners and losers by deciding which steel or aluminum companies are allocated part of each country's quota to export to the United States," said Bryan Riley, trade policy analyst for the National Taxpayers Union. "That's one reason quotas may be harder to get rid of than tariffs — they can create a political constituency in foreign countries in support of the quotas."
Hugo Perezcano Diaz, deputy director of the international law research program at Canada's Centre for International Governance Innovation and a former NAFTA negotiator, speculates that the quota talk may be leading to an alternate solution, a closed three-country market. "Canada has already adopted a safeguard against imports of steel products from the rest of the world, including Mexico," he said. "If Mexico were to do something similar and the three countries close the North American market, the U.S. may feel sufficiently protected to eliminate the tariffs."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/mexico-canada-play-hardball-on-trade-deal-over-steel-tariffs
Also one camera is in a more upright position in the top pic..and then look at the tarp version, it seems to be folded.