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NYPD investigating sexual assault claims against magician David Blaine

The New York Police Department confirmed they are investigating sexual assault claims against magician and endurance artist David Blaine.

Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea told reporters at an unrelated news conference that Blaine is under investigation, the Associated Press reported.

Shea didn't provide details on the case and would not say whether or not investigators interviewed the illusionist.

The Daily Beast was the first to report that the NYPD had taken statements from two women accusing Blaine of sexual assault. The report, which cited only unnamed sources, claimed that one of the accusers said Blaine assaulted her in 1998 at his Manhattan apartment.

n 2007, Blaine was investigated for sexual assault after a former model accused Blaine of raping her in London in 2004. Blaine denied the allegations and he was never charged with a crime, as Scotland Yard detectives declined to take further action after investigating her claim.

Blaine, 45, is as known for his sleight of hand as he is for his survival stunts: He was buried underground for a full week without food or water in New York in 1999; in 2003 he remained suspended in a plexiglass case 30 feet above the Thames Rivers in London for more than 40 days.

The NYPD told Fox News of the case only that it "takes sexual assault and rape cases extremely seriously, and urges anyone who has been a victim to file a report so we can perform a comprehensive investigation, and offer support and services to survivors."

Representatives for Blaine did Fox News' return multiple requests for comment.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/nypd-investigating-sexual-assault-claims-against-magician-david-blaine

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I never heard of him either; I thought the name was strange….reminded me of Nipsey Russell (pic related). I remember Nipsey played the Tin Man in the movie 'The Wiz' with Michael Jackson.

I also thought it very odd the name of suspect is Eric Holder….

Strange days we are living in. But his story is very interesting, nonetheless.

Meet the Former Republican Governor Who Could Stop Trump in the 2020 Primaries

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld says Trump will likely belittle him if he officially challenges the president, but warns he's not 'going to sit there and be a punching bag'

Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld says the Mueller report hasn’t changed his thinking about challenging U.S. President Donald Trump in the Republican primary.

Weld said last week during an appearance in Concord, New Hampshire: “I wasn’t really counting on the president getting caught in the soup.”

Weld says special counsel Robert Mueller did a great job with his “customary thoroughness” and added that the whole report should be made public.

The former Republican governor and 2016 Libertarian nominee for vice president is exploring a primary contest against Trump. Weld has yet to announce a final decision but has said one will come this spring.

Weld says Trump will likely belittle him if he officially challenges the president.

Weld says, “I’m not going to sit there and be a punching bag.” Weld told the New Yorker in early March he has a strategy to beat Trump for the Republican nomination, starting with winning New Hampshire, a state where he is well-known and well-liked from his time as governor of neighboring Massachusetts.

Weld says, "Well, if you show strength in New Hampshire, then the Trump campaign operation has to take you seriously. And I’m confident of doing well there. I think that all the New England states could be in play, the mid-Atlantic states, certainly, California, Oregon, Washington, the states in the West, the intermountain west."

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/meet-the-former-republican-governor-who-could-stop-trump-in-the-2020-primaries-1.7083346

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yep, this one reeks of fuckery.

Valerie Jarrett: I still haven’t accepted Trump is president

Valerie Jarrett, a senior White House adviser to former President Barack Obama, writes in her new book that she still hasn’t accepted President Trump won the 2016 election.

"Since the night Donald Trump became president, I’ve been going through the five stages of grief, sometimes all five in the same day,” Jarrett writes in Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward, according to Axios.

"In the beginning, denial and anger were high on the list; I still haven't embraced acceptance,” she writes.

Jarrett, a longtime adviser to Obama and his wife Michelle, said that Trump's unexpected victory against Hillary Clinton felt “like a punch to the stomach.”

“Obviously we were surprised by the outcome of the election. It kind of was like a, I’m not sure what the right analogy would be, but like a punch in the stomach, let’s say. Soul-crushing might be another description,” Jarrett said at the time. “But that’s the democracy that we have: The people get to decide and the elections matter and we have to get about the business of doing our job.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/valerie-jarrett-i-still-havent-accepted-trump-is-president

As Trump attacked Mueller, he offered mea culpa to Rosenstein, source says

(WASHINGTON) — Four months ago, shortly after President Donald Trump’s Twitter account sent out an image suggesting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should be prosecuted and imprisoned for appointing special counsel Robert Mueller, the president took the rare step of telling Rosenstein it was a mistake, according to a former Justice Department official informed of the conversation.

As described by the former official, the mea culpa came in a private phone call, within days of Trump retweeting the meme that showed Rosenstein, Mueller and several Obama-era officials behind bars.

“[W]hen do the trials for treason begin?” the Trump-endorsed image asked.

But on the private phone call afterward, Trump insisted to Rosenstein that he didn’t notice the veteran prosecutor in the image’s background before it was retweeted, according to the former official.

Publicly, Trump stood by the controversial post.

The previously unreported anecdote reflects how — despite unrelenting attacks on Mueller, Mueller’s team and others at the Justice Department — Trump often tried to avoid clashes with Rosenstein, the person who appointed Mueller in the first place.

“There was a healthy respect between the two,” Ian Prior, a former Justice Department spokesman under the Trump administration, told ABC News.

“The bottom line,” according to Prior, is “despite everybody’s concerns” that Trump was trying to derail the Mueller probe,” at the end of the day, he really just let the investigation run its course, and he respected Rosenstein as a person.”

Last year, Trump’s outside advisers reportedly wanted the president to take a harder public stand against Rosenstein. But appearing on Fox News at the time, Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani offered this philosophy: “Rod Rosenstein is one of the people in charge of this case, so I’m not going to get involved in critiquing his conduct unless at the end we have to.”

As a Trump nominee and long-time Republican, Rosenstein wasn’t just overseeing Mueller — he was also in charge of carrying out Trump’s political agenda at the Justice Department, organizing federal efforts to fight terrorism, illegal immigration and gang violence. “[Rosenstein] was able to develop a good rapport with the president on things outside of the Mueller investigation,” Prior said.

‘A witch hunt’

From the start of Mueller’s probe, Trump was more willing to criticize his then-attorney general, Jeff Sessions, than his deputy attorney general.

To Trump’s great dismay, Sessions had recused himself from overseeing the growing probe of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election because of his previous work on Trump’s campaign, forcing Rosenstein to handle the matter.

At a press conference on May 18, 2017, the day after Rosenstein appointed Mueller, ABC News’ Jonathan Karl asked the president for his reaction to “Rod Rosenstein’s decision.”

“Well, I respect the move,” Trump responded. “But, the entire thing has been a witch hunt.”

In the nearly two years since, Trump posted more than 50 messages to Twitter criticizing Mueller specifically or invoking Mueller’s name to attack the investigators looking at alleged ties between Trump’s associates and Russian operatives.

Mueller was the face of the investigation and the one driving it, but even Sessions — who had no role in the investigation — was chided by Trump at least 16 times on Twitter.

By contrast, Trump posted three messages targeting Rosenstein by name, according to an ABC News review of online archives cataloging the president’s tweets.

At times, Trump even promoted Rosenstein as proof of his own innocence.

Last year, Trump cited Rosenstein’s early push for the removal of then-FBI Director James Comey to dispute growing allegations that Comey’s firing in early May 2017 was intended to stop ongoing FBI investigations.

“How could there be obstruction on firing Comey, when the man who’s in charge of [the investigation] wrote a letter that was far stronger than anything I would have written?” Trump said in a January 2018 interview with the Wall Street Journal.

When Rosenstein then announced charges against 13 Russians for allegedly spreading false information ahead of the 2016 election, Trump highlighted Rosenstein’s “news conference” and tweeted this quote from him: “There is no allegation … that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity.”

Trump: Rosenstein is ‘great,’ and his critics are ‘folk heroes’

As Trump recently described it, he and Rosenstein maintain “a good relationship” because “we work on a lot of [important] things” together. At public events last year, Trump called Rosenstein one of the “great” members of his administration and thanked him for working “so hard” on threats to public safety.

MORE:https://www.mycentraloregon.com/2019/04/02/as-trump-attacked-mueller-he-offered-mea-culpa-to-rosenstein-source-says/

A large crowd of fans gathers to pay tribute to the rapper Nipsey Hussle after he was shot dead outside his Los Angeles clothing store

BREAKING VIDEO: Chaos at memorial for rapper Nipsey Hussle as several people were reportedly injured

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1112939095276183552

Very strange….people running in fear, while others just stand around with phones and signs??

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good morning!

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>>6016163

I haven't seen it yet….

wow

MSNBC, NBC News stay silent on editor DNC 'bullying controversy,' embrace Ocasio-Cortez with town hall

It’s all silent at 30 Rock in response to allegations a top political editor tried to "intimidate” him into spiking a story about the Democratic National Committee in a chilling phone conversation that he says had her acting as a political operative and not a fellow journalist.

Dafna Linzer, the managing editor of NBC News and MSNBC’s political coverage, was accused by freelance journalist Yashar Ali of trying to block him from publishing the dates of the 2020 Democratic Party primary debates.

Ali, a high-profile reporter whose work has appeared in the Huffington Post and New York magazine, said he suspects Lizner made the move to benefit the DNC, not her employers.

Fox News has contacted MSNBC regarding the shocking allegations multiple times since they made headlines Friday afternoon, but the network is yet to respond.

Some media commentators have linked the controversy surrounding Linzer and the network’s high-profile Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., town hall last Friday.

“Both are examples of liberal groupthink,” Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor told Fox News.

“The traditional media angle on this is the press thinks they did nothing wrong. Look at how CNN tried to whitewash it.

“But when a “neutral” journalist takes the role of political operative and isn’t disciplined, then everything that outlet does is suspect.”

Gainor then turned his attention to the town hall, saying: “This is MSNBC cheerleading Ocasio-Cortez, the most left-wing person in Congress.

“Even better, watch when the press complains that conservatives are fixated on her. No, they aren’t. They are just noticing how much the major media love socialism.”

The Ocasio-Cortez town hall, hosted by MSNBC primetime host Chris Hayes, wasn’t a hit with audiences Friday night.

According to Nielsen’s early ratings, it garnered 1,568,000 total viewers while Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s program had 2,656,000. CNN’s Anderson Cooper picked up 733,000 total viewers.

Fox News drew 420,000 viewers aged 25-54, while the MSNBC town hall had 232,000 viewers and CNN had just 155,000 in the demo, the ratings showed.

The town hall was a chance for Ocasio-Cortez to present her progressive policies, including the Green New Deal.

“I didn’t expect them to make total fools of themselves,” Ocasio-Cortez told the roaring crowd, referring to critics of her proposal. “Frankly, I expected a little more nuance and I expected a little more concern-trolling.”

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/msnbc-nbc-news-stay-silent-on-editor-dnc-bullying-controversy-embrace-ocasio-cortez-with-town-hall