President Trump calls U.S. attorney for Utah a ‘garbage disposal unit’ for closing Hillary Clinton probe

>President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning called U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber “a garbage disposal unit” for closing an investigation without charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

>Huber, who has served as Utah’s top federal prosecutor since 2015, had been tapped by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to launch an inquiry into the Clinton Foundation and its ties to the sale of a Canadian uranium company — with mining stakes in the Western United States — to a Russian nuclear agency as well as Clinton’s handling of classified emails.

>In January, after a multiyear effort, Huber ended the investigation. Trump, during a Wednesday morning tweetstorm, praised a spoof Twitter account about Huber while slamming the real federal prosecutor.

>Sessions asked Huber in November 2017 to review whether the FBI abused its authority in surveilling a former top aide to Trump’s campaign and whether federal officials should have probed deeper into allegations of Clinton’s ties to the sale of controlling rights for Uranium One.

>Huber spent more than two years investigating the Clinton allegations — all of which had been essentially debunked — and closed the case without charges.

>“Current and former officials said that Huber has largely finished and found nothing worth pursuing — though the assignment has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to lawmakers,” current and former administration officials told The Washington Post.

Email from school principal re NIGGERS

rom: Mark Wenzel <mwenzel@asd103.org>

Date: June 2, 2020 at 7:52:51 AM MDT

To:

Subject: Recent events

Reply-To: mwenzel@asd103.org



Dear Students, Staff, Families and Community,

Our new equity policy calls on us to stand up when we see inequity. Now is the time to do so.

The recent killings of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd once again underscore the deep-rooted racism and harm that communities of color experience every day.

These acts spotlight the continued injustice that pervades our country. They lead to a sense of grief, despair and hopelessness.

To students, families, and communities of color in Anacortes and beyond, we see you, we respect you, we support you. We understand that for 40 million African Americans, these stories are traumatizing and heartbreaking.

We know that we cannot achieve equity without a direct confrontation with inequity. And we cannot achieve racial equity without a direct confrontation with interpersonal, institutional and structural racism.

To our white students, families and community, we urge you to become an ally. Psychologist and author Beverly Tatum says: “White children are often racially isolated as a consequence of segregated schools and neighborhoods, and consequently limited in their understanding of people different from themselves. White parents who want to interrupt the cycle of racism must learn to talk to their children about it and model their own anti-racist activity.”

USA Today published a thoughtful piece on how to talk to your kids about racism, based on an interview with Beverly Tatum and psychologist Erlanger Turner. I encourage you to read it and discuss it with friends and family.

The Anacortes School District commits to asking hard questions of how we hold ourselves accountable for dismantling the systems that enable racism, bigotry and hate.

In the meantime, we want to support the immediate needs of our students with school and community resources. Please reach out to your teacher, school counselor, principal, or another trusted adult if you need support.

Superintendent Mark Wenzel