Hillary Clinton, Ben Shapiro, and media boost GoFundMe to rebuild historically black churches that burned down

A new push is underway to raise funds to rebuild churches in the United States after catastrophic damage was done to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday. Responding to high-profile money declarations to help rebuild the French landmark, Huffington Post journalist Yashar Ali urged his Twitter following Tuesday to help raise funds on GoFundMe to rebuild three historically black churches in Louisiana after they were burned down by a suspected arsonist.

“The rebuild of Notre Dame will be well funded. In the past month, three historically black churches in Louisiana were destroyed by a racist arsonist. He has been charged with hate crimes, but these churches need your help. Please join me in donating,” Yashar said Tuesday.

The rebuild of Notre Dame will be well funded. Yashar was joined by several prominent media and public figures after encouraging them to match his $1,000 donation. Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro matched Yashar’s donation along with CNN host Jake Tapper, late night host Seth Meyers, and actress Kristin Davis. Hillary Clinton retweeted the link to the GoFundMe, which has raised over $350,000 of their $1.8 million goal, with the majority of the money coming within the last day. Three historically black churches burned to the ground on March 26, April 2, and April 4. A week later, the son of a deputy sheriff was arrested in connection with the events.

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Deputy sheriff's son charged in connection with string of fires at historically black churches in Louisiana

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-church-fires-louisiana-suspect-holden-matthews-charged/

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DOJ lost Mueller excuse to dodge questions on Clinton emails investigation, GOP leaders say

Top Senate Republicans are renewing the push for access to more information on the FBI’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server now that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has concluded. In a letter sent to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, three Senate chairman argue the Justice Department can no longer cite the ongoing Russian interference investigation as a reason not to comply with their demand for a briefing.

“Now that the Special Counsel’s investigation has concluded, we are unaware of any legitimate basis upon which the Department can refuse to answer the Judiciary Committee’s inquiries,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote in their letter. The Republicans previously requested information on a classified appendix to the Justice Department inspector general’s report titled, “A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election," that was released in June 2018.

“The classified appendix raises significant issues associated with the FBI’s failure to review certain highly classified information in support of its Midyear investigation,” they wrote, referring to the code name for the email investigation. “In particular, the Inspector General noted that it learned that the FBI acquired classified material that ‘may have included information potentially relevant to the Midyear investigation.’ The FBI even drafted a memorandum in May of 2016 stating that access to the information was ‘necessary to complete the investigation.’ However, that memorandum was never completed.”

The 568-page inspector general report found former FBI Director James Comey was “insubordinate” and “affirmatively concealed” his intentions from Justice Department leadership during the investigation into Clinton's private email server. The report also slammed former FBI investigator Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were having an affair with each other, for anti-Trump tweets that suggested "a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate’s electoral prospects."

Though the report criticized FBI actions as unorthodox and at times improper, ultimately it concluded that this did not change the outcome of the Clinton email investigation. Mueller concluded his investigation last month, issuing a nearly 400-page report to Barr on his findings. Barr intends to release a redacted version of the full report on Thursday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-lost-mueller-excuse-to-dodge-questions-on-clinton-emails-investigation-gop-leaders-say

Inspector general slams 'insubordinate' James Comey, concludes bias did not hinder FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails

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