thank you baker
#FLAGSOUT
I think so.
Right now there is a lot of negative press with so much out there now about "Qanon".
It makes sense..
Chicago mayor accuses Trump of creating 'hate-filled environment' that led to Jussie Smollett's 'hoax'
(CNN)Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel accused President Donald Trump of creating a "hate-filled environment" in which he said "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett "thought he could take advantage of a hoax about a hate crime."
The Democratic mayor said Trump contributed to "a toxic, vicious cycle," pointing to the President's remarks about the 2017 Charlottesville rally that there were "fine people on both sides" of a clash between white supremacists and counter-protesters.
"The only reason that Jussie Smollett thought he could get away with this hoax about a hate crime is because of the environment President Trump created," Rahm Emanuel told reporters Thursday.
Emanuel said Trump should "stay out of this," responding to the President's announcement on Twitter Thursday that the Justice Department and FBI would review Smollett's case.
"This is a president that drew a moral equivalency between people who are trying to perpetuate bigotry and those who are trying to fight bigotry," Emanuel said.
Smollett, who is black and gay, told Chicago police that he was attacked on January 29 by two men who yelled racist and homophobic slurs, put a noose around his head, poured bleach on him, and shouted, "This is MAGA country," police said. After investigating the case as a possible hate crime, Chicago police later said they believed Smollett staged the attack by hiring the two men and then filed a false police report.
Smollett was indicted on 16 counts of disorderly conduct, but a prosecutor dropped all the charges on Tuesday. The actor has stuck to his story that he was attacked in January, insisting that he's been "truthful and consistent on every single level since Day One."
Emanuel called the prosecutor's decision to drop the charges "a whitewash of justice," while Trump said that the case "is an absolute embarrassment to our country,"
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/politics/rahm-emanuel-donald-trump-chicago-jussie-smollett/index.html
MEGHAN MCCAIN AND JOY BEHAR SPAR OVER TRUMP’S SPECIAL OLYMPICS FUNDING ISSUE: ‘STICK WITH FACTS’
Things got heated Friday when Meghan McCain and Joy Behar sparred over the best way to debate how President Donald Trump’s administration initially cut funding for Special Olympics and then reversed course.
It happened during a panel discussion on “The View” when Behar and other co-hosts attacked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for being “out of touch” talking about her extreme wealth and McCain suggested that “character assassinations “on both DeVos and Trump won’t be as effective as sticking “with facts.”
“I don’t like her. I don’t like him,” McCain explained. “As everyone is very clear, I have a lot of personal feelings about the president. But for me to get through this administration, I can’t — I can’t traffic in this kind of way. I have to stick with facts or I’m going to lose my mind.”
“Why would you stick with facts when they’re all about alternative facts?” Joy Behar responded.
“Because I am better than they are. Because I hold myself to a different standard than they do,” the former Fox News contributor shared. “And the second I go low with this administration is the second I lose my credibility and my character and I will not do it.”
“It is because the American people got emotional and showed their heart and their anger and their frustration that this is getting so much attention,” Ana Navarro interjected. “If we start reading statistics.”
McCain, who rarely holds back her thoughts, snapped back that she wasn’t “reading statistics.”
“This is an emotional issue,” Behar said. “You don’t want people running the country who have no sympathy or empathy for the poor and disabled.”
“But Joy your argument yesterday saying it was merely four trips to Mar-a-Lago for the president, I think for a lot of people was the fact that changed our minds,” McCain shared. “Because that’s a lot of garbage, that four trips to Mar-a-Lago were the equivalent of funding the special Olympics.”
“If you wanna talk about personalities or whatever, that’s the fact that I think was the killshot for this,” she added. “It’s ridiculous. four trips to Mar-a-Lago versus Special Olympics funding?”
“You know, one of the ways that Donald Trump won is to be emotional and not give facts,” Behar replied. “He won that way.”
“Well, I don’t have the luxury that all of you do because — for all the obvious reasons,” McCain explained. “I don’t have that luxury and I have to try to stick in facts.”
“Well, we’ll do both,” Behar responded and threw to a commercial break.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/29/joy-behar-meghan-mccain-special-olympics-funding-fight/
Watch Live: President Trump Press Conference At Mar-a-Lago
President Trump, while surveying the Herbert Hoover Dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee in Florida, said he is holding a press conference at Mar-a-Lago this afternoon at 4 p.m., and added that he thinks it's about Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon. Politico reported Friday afternoon that McMahon is stepping down from her position.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/03/29/watch_live_president_trump_press_conference_at_mar-a-lago.html
yeah that whole group is connected.