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Pompeo meets Iraq PM in Baghdad: Iraq government source
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad late on Tuesday, an Iraqi government source said.
The visit to Iraq came after Pompeo canceled a planned visit to Berlin and as the administration of President Donald Trump ramps up pressure in the Middle East on Iran.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iraq-pompeo/pompeo-meets-iraq-pm-in-baghdad-iraq-government-source-idUSKCN1SD2I1?il=0
people think we have problem's with debt here. Wait… PBOC will print soon again, even though they say they won't. Funny how the FRB said the same thing in 2008 too
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POTUS "fixer" Cohen says he helped Falwell handle racy photos
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Months before evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr.’s game-changing presidential endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016, Falwell asked Trump fixer Michael Cohen for a personal favor, Cohen said in a recorded conversation reviewed by Reuters.
Falwell, president of Liberty University, one of the world’s largest Christian universities, said someone had come into possession of what Cohen described as racy “personal” photographs — the sort that would typically be kept “between husband and wife,” Cohen said in the taped conversation.
According to a source familiar with Cohen’s thinking, the person who possessed the photos destroyed them after Cohen intervened on the Falwells’ behalf.
The Falwells, through a lawyer, declined to comment for this article.
Cohen, who began a three-year prison sentence this week for federal campaign violations and lying to Congress, recounted his involvement in the matter in a recording made surreptitiously by comedian Tom Arnold on March 25. Portions of the recording — in which Cohen appeared to disavow parts of his guilty plea — were first reported April 24 by The Wall Street Journal.
The Falwells enlisted Cohen’s help in 2015, according to the source familiar with Cohen’s thinking, the year Trump announced his presidential candidacy. At the time, Cohen was Trump’s confidant and personal lawyer, and he worked for the Trump Organization.
The Falwells wanted to keep “a bunch of photographs, personal photographs” from becoming public, Cohen told Arnold. “I actually have one of the photos,” he said, without going into specifics. “It’s terrible.”
Cohen would later prove successful in another matter involving Falwell, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen helped persuade Falwell to issue his endorsement of Trump’s presidential candidacy at a critical moment, they said: just before the Iowa caucuses. Falwell subsequently barnstormed with Trump and vouched for the candidate’s Christian virtues.
Reuters has no evidence that Falwell’s endorsement of Trump was related to Cohen’s involvement in the photo matter. The source familiar with Cohen’s thinking insisted the endorsement and the help with the photographs were separate issues.
Cohen’s connection to the Falwells sheds light on the formidable alliance between Trump and a man who, through his university, is one of the most influential evangelical figures in America. Falwell’s backing helped galvanize evangelicals and persuaded many Christians concerned about Trump’s past behavior to embrace him as a repentant sinner.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-falwell-exclusive/exclusive-trump-fixer-cohen-says-he-helped-falwell-handle-racy-photos-idUSKCN1SD2JG?il=0
captcha is not that big of a deal. making too much out of it. Agree it did not slow the "guest's" down but it has had some positive aspect's of it.
well it is reuter's too. Hate using them but they are timely if nothing else. Club fed prison is a bit too cute as well
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