Pompeo discusses Venezuela, economic ties in call with Brazil's Bolsonaro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed collaboration on Venezuela, tackling transnational crime and ways to strengthen economic ties in a phone call with Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, the State Department said on Monday.

Pompeo congratulated Bolsonaro on his election victory, the department said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-election-trump/a-trump-bolsonaro-bromance-could-be-brewing-after-brazilians-big-win-idUSKCN1N31BZ?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuters+World+News%29

Trump Tells Caravan: ‘Our Military is Waiting for You!’

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BREAKING: Yet another lie from @AndrewGillum. The undercover @fbi agent was literally involved at the political launch of his statewide efforts. Donations weren’t disclosed and laws were broken. #TooCorrupt

Mayor Andrew Gillum said a 2016 trip to Tampa on a developer’s private plane was for city business, but a new batch of emails show the meet-up with Tampa Bay politicos was part of the ramp up to his run for governor.

Republicans already are saying Gillum violated state law by reimbursing the developer for the flight with $400 from a mayoral office account that is supposed to be used strictly for official business.

The documents were released by Chris Kise, a lawyer with longtime Republican Party ties who represents Adam Corey, a former lobbyist and restaurateur at the center of a local FBI corruption investigation.

Kise released the documents as part of a subpoena from the Florida Commission on Ethics related to Gillum's travel to Costa Rica and New York.

"These were inadvertently excluded from Friday production," Kise said in his letter to Ethics Commission investigator Keith Powell…. more here

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/10/29/more-documents-show-andrew-gillums-tampa-trip-campaign-related/1808018002/

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/10/286975.htm

https://twitter.com/statedeptspox/status/1057020481302355969

https://twitter.com/POTUS_Schedule/status/1057019444105564160