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Rudy Giuliani Wildly Wrong in Partisan Tweet About Murders in Chicago This Weekend

However, the actual number of people murdered over the weekend was ten. Fox News reported this hour that sixty-three people were shot and ten killed. The Chicago Tribune reports the numbers as 73 people shot with 11 fatalities.

These are awful, horrific numbers. There is clearly a problem and the people of Chicago need to hold their leaders accountable. It’s tragic and terrible.

But Giuliani’s account was wildly inflated, and that does matter. It matters when the media misrepresents the number of shootings on school grounds for partisan gain or in support of an agenda, and it matters now when the President’s lawyer, a ubiquitous cable news guest, inflates the number of fatalities for partisan gain.

At the time of this post the tweet is still his most recent, and is uncorrected.
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Advisors Reportedly Telling Trump to Stop Tweeting About the Trump Tower Meeting


In light of all the commotion President Donald Trump has caused with his latest tweet storms, a new report claims that the president’s advisers are imploring him to stop tweeting about his son’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.

Trump caused a major media uproar over the last few days, not only because he admitted Donald Trump Jr. took the meeting to get dirt on his political opponents, but also because the two repeatedly denied that the meeting was held for that purpose. The president is calling “fake news” on the reports saying he’s worried about his son’s legal exposure on this matter, but in the meantime, there are lingering questions about this, along with Michael Cohen‘s claim that Trump Sr. personally approved the meeting before it happened.

A source close to Trump’s advisors has told CNN that the president is being told to stop tweeting about Jr.’s meeting:

The President was advised that his tweeting only gives oxygen to the topic, even if those around Trump do not believe there is any truly new development.

This development comes as Robert Mueller continues to incorporate Trump’s Twitter history into his investigations of Russian collusion and obstruction of justice.
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Hopefully he keeps tweeting about the meeting...
 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/05/democrats-mostly-united-netroots-nation-event

'Discourse is not discord': Democrats mostly united at Netroots Nation event

The gathering brought together nearly a dozen potential Democratic presidential candidates who rallied around a broadly similar progressive program

Democrats emerged mostly united from the progressive Netroots Nation event this weekend in New Orleans.

The gathering, which brought together nearly a dozen potential Democratic presidential candidates who rallied around a broadly similar progressive program at the event which drew over 3,000 people from across the country.

The moderate speaker, congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio, who spoke last month at a convention convened by the centrist thinktank Third Way, reaffirmed his support for Medicare for All and legalizing marijuana while the most leftwing, socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a call for Democratic unity.

Across the sprawling convention center, Democratic operatives and activists lounged on couches making social visits while panels were held on a host of topics ranging from the most effective ways to use text messaging as a campaign tactic to a session about “menstrual equity”. The conference had the ambience of a family reunion. Activists mourned longtime attendees who had died in the past year and shared obscure inside jokes at a beer soaked pub quiz inside the main hall.

Despite the broad policy consensus, questions of race and gender still remained for attendees to grapple with.

“I’ve got nothing against old, white men,” Mike Lux, a veteran progressive activist, told the crowd Saturday. “Some of my best friends are old, white men. But we’ve got way too many of them in the House and the Senate.”

Organizers boasted that two-thirds of the speakers were people of color, 63% were women and a quarter identified as LGBT. Those speaking in the main hall almost seemed contractually obliged to mention Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate in Georgia who would be the first black female governor in America if elected.

The shift could be seen around the event where a stray Bernie Sanders bumper sticker might be found stuck to the back of a Macbook but attendees were far more likely to wear a T-shirt bearing the image of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “Alexandria the Great” and issues of racial and economic justice were viewed as fundamentally interwound.

“I have a problem with that phrase, ‘identity politics,’” said Senator Kamala Harris of California on Friday. “Let’s be clear – when people say that, it’s a pejorative. That phrase is used to divide and used to distract. Its purpose is to minimize and marginalize issues that impact all of us. It’s used to try and shut us up.”

The conference which has a history of disruption by Black Lives Matter activists saw a similar protest on Saturday. But while past events saw activists demand that presidential candidates explicitly state that “Black Lives Matter,” those crowding the stage holding signs saying “#blackasscaucus” were focused on administrative issues.

The protesters accused organizers of not inviting enough local activists and demanded that Netroots include them in planning, and better schedule panels and sessions led by people of color, so that they did not conflict with each other.

“I see some of you are uncomfortable. Your white fragility is showing. Your white tears are showing – I’m ready to drink them,” one activist told the crowd.

When they finished, Rev Angel Kyodo Williams, a Zen Buddhist priest who appeared periodically throughout the conference to lead participants in deep breathing exercises, returned to the stage afterward to praise the room for “holding space for protest”. She asked the crowd to repeat her: “we are going to change it”.

“If we can’t change it amongst ourselves at the biggest progressive activists conference how are we going to change it anywhere else?” she told them.

Yet, despite these occasional cracks in the facade, there remained a strong political and policy consensus at the event. As New York mayor Bill DeBlasio told attendees “it’s not a time for moderation: It’s a time for progressives to double down on what we believe in.” And Ryan told the Guardian that while Third Way had “some creative ideas that we should all look at that can very easily become part of a progressive agenda,” in his opinion “the energy in the party is [at Netroots.]”

Ocasio-Cortez, who has raised ire in some circles by promoting primary challenges against a number of veteran Democratic elected officials, appealed for unity.

“Discourse is not discord,” insisted the Democratic nominee for Congress in a New York district. “Family can argue and that’s alright because we come out healthier on the other end.”

Ocasio-Cortez who campaigned as an unapologetic socialist, tried firmly to root her views into the history of the Democratic Party and depicting them as a natural evolution from the policies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.

“These are not new ideas,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “We are picking up where we last left off, when we were last our most powerful, when we were our last greatest. It’s time to own that our party was the one of the Great Society, of the New Deal, of the Civil Rights Act. That’s our party. That’s who we are. It’s time for us to come home.”
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People need to be aware of voting laws as it relates to your respective state......don't let Trump's daily issues distract you from this

https://politics.myajc.com/news/sta...oter-registration-law/tuzifo37vnhJQn5ja0oUYI/

Kemp defends Georgia’s ‘exact match’ voter registration law

By Mark Niesse

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Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is rejecting a lawsuit threat from a civil rights organization over the state’s “exact match” method for verifying voter registration applications.

The threatened lawsuit would allege that the “exact match” system has a high error rate and a negative impact on African-American, Latino and Asian-American voters, according to a July 18 letter from the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law to Kemp.

Kemp, a Republican, said the potential lawsuit is a political stunt as he’s running for governor. He faces Democrat Stacey Abrams in the November general election.

“Nov. 6, 2018 is right around the corner, which means it’s high time for another frivolous lawsuit from liberal activist groups,” Kemp said in a statement Friday. “Federal and state law clearly authorize Georgia’s matching process for new registrants.”

The “exact match” law, passed by the Georgia General Assembly last year, requires voter registration information to match driver’s license, state ID card or Social Security records. Mismatched voter registrations are put on hold, and applicants are given 26 months to correct discrepancies.

“Georgia’s ‘no match, no vote’ policy has already disenfranchised tens of thousands of eligible voters and has had a particularly onerous effect on minorities and the poor,” said Kristen Clarke, president and executive director for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, in a statement July 19.

The State Election Board plans to meet in closed-door executive session Tuesday to discuss ongoing litigation, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.
 
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