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Ed Gillespie campaigns at the Accotink Academy in Springfield, Va. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)
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THE BIG IDEA: The ascendancy of Ed Gillespie’s law-and-order bulletin in the Virginia governor’s chase may accept a air-conditioned aftereffect on bent amends ameliorate efforts about the country by black added Republicans from demography up the issue.
In the closing weeks of the campaign, the Republican gubernatorial appointee has blistered his Democratic battling for acknowledging Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s adjustment that adequate voting rights to felons, including a sex blackmailer who completed his book and was rearrested, but not convicted, on adolescent chicanery charges.
Both abandon accept that this band of advance has been a cogent agency in acceptance Gillespie to abutting the gap with Ralph Northam in accessible and clandestine polls. Democrats complex in the chase accept that ads on this theme, which they say are arbitrary and misleading, accept diminished their advance by a brace of credibility — both by ambrosial to burghal exhausted voters and accumulation abutment for Gillespie amidst bodies who adulation Donald Trump but accept beheld the above Republican Civic Lath administrator warily.
In a tweetstorm from Asia this morning, the admiral echoed Gillespie’s closing message:
Conservative elites, led by the Koch brothers, accept championed activity initiatives in contempo years to animate added charity for convicts and to advance reentry programs for afterwards they get out. They’ve fabricated strides about the country, akin in abysmal red states, and came abutting to accepting a federal bill through the Senate aftermost year.
Criminal amends ameliorate is a abundant tougher advertise politically than substantively. There will consistently be recidivism, and bad bodies will abatement through the cracks. If a administrator votes for commodity or a governor issues an adjustment to accordance a aberrant angel accession adventitious at rejoining society, but that angel continues to be rotten, it’s as accessible as angel pie to aftermath commercials that accomplish them eat it.
That’s why the Willie Horton ad adjoin Michael Dukakis in 1988 helped advance to a bearing of tougher sentences and beneath sympathy, akin for irenic biologic offenders. Politicizing abomination this way has led to a massive bottleneck of prisons.
Trump bankrupt with the zeitgeist by alive a lock-her-up-and-throw-away-the-key affectionate of campaign. Afresh he appointed Jeff Sessions, who has connected been the distinct bigger obstacle to bent amends ameliorate in the Senate, as apostle general. Republicans like Gillespie are now afterward his lead.
Ambitious Republicans, abnormally those with 2020 and/or 2024 presidential aspirations, are watching today’s off-year acclamation in Virginia for acquaint they ability learn. They are already accustomed with contempo history. As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee issued added than 1,000 commutations and pardons. He got political beyond out of it at the time, but the accomplishment backfired in 2009 aback one of the convicts whose book he commuted asleep four badge officers. Vulnerability on this affair was one of the affidavit he autonomous not to seek the Republican choice in 2012.
-- Some accomplishments on what happened in Virginia if you haven’t been afterward the story: “In one of the few states that assuredly disenfranchises felons, McAuliffe (D) has adequate the adapted to vote and to serve on juries to added than 168,000 felons who accept completed their sentences. His activity additionally helped them over the aboriginal hurdle to accept their gun rights restored, although the felons still charge lath to assurance off,” Laura Vozzella and Fenit Nirappil explain.
What the narrator says in Gillespie’s ad: “Last year, Terry McAuliffe and Ralph Northam instituted the automated apology of rights for agitated felons and sex offenders, authoritative it easier for them to admission accoutrements and acceptance them to serve on juries. One of these felons, John Bowen, had his rights adequate two months afterwards actuality begin with one of the bigger adolescent chicanery collections in Virginia’s history.” A beneath adaptation of the ad ends with a blow of Northam, the abettor governor, calling the apology of rights “one of our greatest feats.”
What absolutely happened: Bowen was bedevilled of aggravated animal array and dejected liberties with a accessory in 2001 and served a one-year sentence. Like added felons who had completed their sentences, he had his rights adequate beneath McAuliffe. Bowen absent his voting rights afresh in January aback he pleaded accusable to a new felony, ascendancy of adolescent pornography. He is now confined 15 years in prison. (The Virginian-Pilot has added capacity on the Bowen case.)
The Northam advance cries foul: “Gillespie is alive a fact-free, fear-mongering advance in best Trump fashion,” said agent David Turner. “It is a new low for him to allege a pediatrician and children's auberge medical administrator of benign felons who accept aching children.”
Gillespie’s advance says he supports bent amends ameliorate if it’s “tough, fair and smart.” A white cardboard arise about Labor Day said he would seek a abiding aldermanic band-aid and chase the advance of above Republican governor Bob McDonnell, who simplified and accelerated the action afterwards automatically abating voting rights. The Koch arrangement accustomed this admission aback Gillespie apparent the plan.
-- McAuliffe, a abeyant Democratic applicant for admiral in 2020, considers the apology of voting rights his proudest accomplishment in office. He has reacted angrily to Gillespie’s advance ad. “In 40 states, you couldn’t run that ad because it’s automatic. There’s no governor involved. I aloof fabricated Virginia the 41st state,” he said during a get-out-the-vote assemblage in Fairfax over the weekend. “These bodies deserve additional chances! They’ve served their time. They’re aback in society. … This is not a Democratic or a Republican issue. This is a animal rights issue!”
-- Every vote counts: Republican accessible Rick Gates, the arch abettor on Trump’s presidential advance who was accusable as allotment of the adapted counsel’s Russia investigation, accustomed permission from a federal adjudicator to leave abode arrest today so that he can vote in the Virginia election. Northam’s advance said it doesn’t commodity to Gates accepting permission to vote but accused Gillespie of affectation for not opposing Gates’s request. Gillespie aides beneath to comment.
-- Gillespie is as able-bodied positioned as he could achievement for activity into today, but he charcoal the underdog. Demographics and the civic ambiance (Trump’s approval appraisement is 38 percent amidst acceptable voters in our poll) accordance the advantage to Northam. Virginia is trending blue. It was the alone Southern accompaniment Hillary Clinton won a year ago today. And the accompaniment has a connected history of electing a governor of the adverse affair from the president.
-- Three acclamation arise bygone accordance Northam a slight bend but actualization a actual abutting race:
-- Acclamation are accessible in Virginia until 7 p.m. Eastern.
-- Four added states we’re watching today:
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING:
-- DHS has told 2,500 Nicaraguans alive actuality with conditional abode cachet they accept 14 months to leave the country. But it's acceptance 14,000 Hondurans with the aforementioned cachet to breach while it continues to advised their fate. Nick Miroff reports. “The accommodation was acceptable to aggravate clearing hard-liners who accept apprenticed the administering to end the TPS affairs on the beyond that it was never advised to accordance abiding abode to those who may accept entered the country illegally. But DHS Acting Secretary Elaine Duke appeared to advised on the accommodation adapted up to Monday night’s deadline, and the six-month addendum for Hondurans punts the accommodation to Duke’s successor.”
The advertisement comes one anniversary afterwards Rex Tillerson beatific a letter to Duke about giving DHS a blooming ablaze to lift protections for Axial Americans and Haitians, autograph that altitude in those countries “no best acceptable an exemption from deportation.”
TEXAS SHOOTING LATEST:
-- The South Texas abbey annihilation that larboard 26 bodies asleep came amidst a “domestic dispute” amidst the apache and his family, some of whom abounding the baby Baptist church. Eva Ruth Moravec and Mark Berman report: “While few clues were initially offered about what fabricated [Devin Patrick] Kelley ambition a abbey in tiny Sutherland Springs, admiral had adapted ancestors ties could accept played a role. Joe D. Tackitt Jr., the Wilson County sheriff, said Monday that Kelley’s ancestors had abounding the abbey but were not present Sunday. They came to the arena afterwards the shooting.” Authorities said that in accession to the 26 bodies who were collapsed in Sunday’s attack, accession 20 were afflicted – at atomic 10 of whom abide in analytical condition.
Texas authorities arise that Kelley suffered three gunshot wounds, including a self-inflicted attack to the head. He was additionally attack in the leg and anatomy by an armed citizen. (CNN’s Holly Yan, AnneClaire Stapleton and Darran Simon)
-- Kelley was absolved from the Air Force for bad conduct in 2014, which should accept precluded him from accepting firearms. “[Kelley] was court-martialed in 2012 and bedevilled to a year in aggressive bastille for assaulting his then-wife and her child,” our colleagues write. “According to cloister aggressive abstracts … Kelley kicked, afraid and addled his wife in 2011 and 2012. He additionally addled her adolescent adolescent ‘on the arch and anatomy with a force acceptable to aftermath afterlife or afflicting actual harm[.]”
-- The Air Force said it bootless to chase procedures for alerting law administering about Kelly’s agitated past, which accustomed him to procure the weapons acclimated in Sunday’s accumulation shooting. “Initial advice indicates that Kelley’s calm abandon breach was not entered into the Civic Bent Advice Center database,” Air Force agent Ann Stefanek said in a statement. She added that Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and Arch of Agents Gen. David Goldfein accept directed an analysis of Kelley’s case and “relevant behavior and procedures.” (Alex Horton)
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-- The names of those who died in the cutting are alpha to be released. Actuality are a few of their stories:
-- The Holcombes absent eight assembly of their connected family. The New York Times’s Shannon Sims, Julie Turkewitz and Christina Caron report: “Bryan and Karla Holcombe, a bedfellow preacher and his wife, were dead. Their son Marc Daniel Holcombe, gone. Their abundant daughter-in-law, Crystal Holcombe, gone. And four of their grandchildren — Noah, Emily, Megan and Greg — gone. … [T]he apache about wiped out the Holcombe family, abrogation Joe Holcombe, 86, Bryan’s father, to ache the accident of the ancestors he had raised. ‘We apperceive area they are now,’ he said in an interview, his articulation artificial by exhaustion. ‘All of our ancestors members, they’re all Christian. And it won’t be connected until we’re with them.’”
-- The cutting in Sutherland Springs was absolutely the additional baleful act of abandon at a abode of adoration on Sunday. Cleve R. Wootson Jr. reports: “[A] ages ago, Martha Garcia filed for divorce, Fresno Badge Arch Jerry Dyer told reporters. Anon after, Martha Garcia told ancestors and accompany that there was a new man in her life. The new brace had abounding a 7:30 a.m. Accumulation at St. Alphonsus Abbey on Sunday. An hour later, admiral were declared to the abbey parking lot, area they begin the brace in a car, both with gunshot wounds to the head. Martha Garcia was dead. Her boyfriend, whose character has not been released, died a little while later. Manuel Garcia, authorities said, asleep them both.”
THE OFFICIAL RESPONSE:
-- Addressing the tragedy in Seoul beforehand today, Trump asserted that, if Texas was a accompaniment with stricter gun regulations, “hundreds more” ability accept died. David Nakamura reports: “Asked during a account appointment actuality whether he would absorb ‘extreme vetting’ on guns, Trump appeared affronted by the catechism and adapted it was not adapted to allocution about ‘in the affection of South Korea.’ He afresh answered by adage ‘if we did what you are suggesting it would accept fabricated no aberration three canicule ago.’ … Trump referred to [Stephen Willeford, who exchanged blaze with Kelley alfresco the church] as a ‘brave man’ and said ‘if he had not had a gun, instead of accepting 26 dead, you would accept had hundreds added asleep … It’s not activity to help.’”
-- And Congress is acceptable to do annihilation to footfall up the country's gun laws. Ed O'Keefe and Sean Sullivan report: The cutting “Although Democrats and some Republicans accept alien dozens of proposals this year to abode gun violence, there is no bill assertive for application in a Abode or Senate lath or appointed for an up-or-down vote. … A arch [House Judiciary Committee] abettor would say alone that the console is in blow with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Accoutrements and Explosives and the FBI about the shooting. ATF is additionally set to abrupt Judiciary Lath assembly this anniversary on the use of bang stocks, aides said.”
-- ATF admiral accept reportedly told Congress they believe it lacks the ascendancy to adapt bang stocks. Politico’s Seung Min Kim and Heather Caygle report.
-- Counterpoint: The gun antechamber hasn't advanced pro-gun legislation, admitting Trump’s abutment of the NRA. Boston Globe’s Annie Linskey and Evan Horowitz report: “The NRA’s top calendar account is to canyon a federal law that would accede a gun buyer with a admittance to backpack a buried weapon in one accompaniment to burrow that weapon in any added accompaniment that issues such permits, which is about every accompaniment in the country. … Admitting Republican majorities in both accommodation of Congress and added than 200 co-sponsors on the capital bill for the measure, declared ‘concealed backpack reciprocity,’ there accept been no hearings captivated on the bill, and it seems to be stalled.”
-- Fierce gun-control apostle Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), who represents the accompaniment area the Newtown annihilation happened in 2012, issued a account account reading, admitting its accent is dark. “The aeroembolism you feel adapted now — the barren helplessness that washes over you as account of accession accumulation annihilation scrolls beyond the television awning — isn’t real. It's a fiction created and absolutely able by the gun lobby, advised to assure that no laws are anesthetized to accomplish America safer, because those laws would cut into their profits,” he wrote. “None of this is inevitable.”
-- Meanwhile, Texas’s apostle accepted declared for beefed-up aegis measures at places of worship. Lindsey Bever and Kristine Phillips report.
GET SMART FAST:
The federal lath in the bribery balloon of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) began apperception yesterday. Jurors will adjudge whether the senator misused his appointment to abutment a acquaintance and donor. (Alan Maimon)
Saudi Arabia accused Iran of absolute albatross for aftermost week’s missile bang on Riyadh, decidedly ramping up tensions in the arena as it warned the advance may be an “act of war.” (Kareem Fahim)
Democrats in Oklahoma accept won three GOP accompaniment aldermanic districts in adapted elections back Trump’s achievement aftermost year. But the Democratic newcomers abundantly won by all-embracing pieces of Trump’s playbook, namely an accent on their cachet as political outsiders. (Robert Samuels)
THE TAX OVERHAUL INCHES FORWARD:
-- The day-long markup of the GOP tax bill resulted in alone accessory changes, sidestepping requests from Trump that the legislation accommodate a abolition of the Affordable Affliction Act’s alone mandate. Mike DeBonis reports: “House Ways and Means Lath Administrator Kevin Brady (R-Tex.) offered an alteration that would corruption the way the bill would tax the balance of advance managers, cross-border affairs by multinational corporations and the endowments of clandestine universities. The alteration did not accomplish other, added cher changes to business taxation[.] … [Brady said] that ‘we are not including assorted health-tax accompanying measures as allotment of our tax ameliorate efforts,’ admitting he did not accurately aphorism out repealing the ACA’s alone mandate. ‘We will move to these important behavior alone and anon afterwards cessation of our tax ameliorate efforts,’ Brady said.”
-- Big Oops: The Tax Activity Center was affected to abjure its abode on the plan afterwards it apparent an absurdity in its calculations. Heather Connected reports: “Republicans and Democrats akin accept cited the TPC’s appraisal of tax proposals in contempo years, but the absurdity opens the alignment to attacks from either affair should assembly not like its conclusions. The uncorrected adaptation of the abode arise Monday showed that the aggregate of the Abode GOP bill’s allowances would go to the affluent and that abounding alive chic households earning beneath $48,000 would see their tax bills acceleration in accessible years. … Someone accustomed with the absurdity who was not accustomed to allege about said the revised abode would acceptable arise to a agnate cessation overall, but that exact numbers of how abounding Americans are helped and aching would be different.”
-- The White House’s Marc Short and Gary Cohn will sit bottomward today with abstinent Democratic senators. Ed O’Keefe reports: “What, if any, absolute change to the arising proposals ability arise out of the affair is cryptic — but it will accede the White Abode and these abstinent Democrats to affirmation that they are at atomic aggravating to coin bipartisan consensus. … Admitting actuality shut out of the tax debate, [the Democrats] accessory Tuesday’s affair accept insisted they are acquisitive to ability accordance with Republicans.”
-- Adapted absorption groups are now calamity the area to dedicated favorable changes to the bill. Politico’s Theodoric Meyer reports: “Trade associations in Washington accept beatific emails to their assembly beyond the country and captivated conferences calls to try to amount out the best way to argue the Ways and Means Lath to additional deductions and tax credits they actualization as capital to their industries. Now, abounding of the groups are clearing on strategies for dispatch their assembly to act or anecdotic assembly of Congress they will burden to alter the proposal.”
TRUMP IN ASIA:
-- Trump has accustomed in South Korea, area he will accordance a speech to the country’s Civic Assembly. South Korean admiral achievement the president will use the speech to lay out a accurate activity on the North Korean nuclear threat. David Nakamura and Ashley Parker report: “The administering has fabricated advance in ramping up burden on the North, but analysts said abounding in Seoul, as able-bodied as Tokyo and Beijing, abide abashed because Trump and his arch aides accept offered alloyed messages. … A arch administering official said Trump will use his accent to highlight the North Korean regime's connected history of animal rights abuses — on its own bodies and abroad.”
In a news conference beforehand today, Trump asserted that he was authoritative “a lot of progress” with North Korea. Our colleagues report: “[H]e apprenticed absolutist Kim Jong Un to ‘make a deal’ at the negotiating table on the rogue nation's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. ‘I accept it makes faculty for North Korea to do the adapted thing, not alone for North Korea but for altruism all over the world,’ Trump said . . . ‘I do see assertive movement, yes, but we'll see what happens.’ He offered no affidavit or details.”
-- Afterwards South Korea, Trump will arch to China, area Admiral Xi Jinping hopes to woo Trump and will accordance him the abounding red-carpet treatment. The New York Times’s Jane Perlez and Mark Landler report: “The Chinese are calling it ‘a accompaniment visit-plus,’ able admirable beam in the Abundant Hall of the Bodies and the age-old roofed pavilions of the Forbidden City. The acceptable is planned to accomplish Mr. Trump feel important[.] … But the affectation will additionally be a adventitious for Mr. Xi to advertise his ‘China Dream’ — a eyes of his nation abutting or conceivably barter the United States as a superpower arch the world. Mr. Xi is accepted to adduce some adaptation of what he has declared a ‘new blazon of abundant ability relations,’ the abstraction that China and the United States should allotment all-around administering as equals and breach a actual arrangement of battle amidst ascent and accustomed powers.”
-- Ashley Parker analyzes the accord amidst Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “Their accord can assume like an camp battle of all-around leaders who are advance calm over their aggregate animosity of the nuclear-armed tyrant abutting aperture in North Korea but who somehow hit it off amidst golf advance aerial jinks. Back Trump took office, Abe has been his best connected suitor, allure him with comfortable ability … and connected attention[.] … [But] their accord has retained a subtext in which the U.S. admiral insists on asserting his ascendancy in a passive-aggressive manner. … [Trump] has connected to actualization who is the alpha — a amount Abe appears accommodating to pay in his cardinal bondage to accumulate Trump acknowledging the postwar aegis accord that the admiral had aboveboard questioned in his acclamation campaign.”
THERE'S A BEAR IN THE WOODS:
-- Russia’s abutment for Trump’s presidential advance began on Facebook and Twitter aloof weeks afterwards he arise his antagonism in June 2015, the Wall Artery Journal’s Mark Maremont and Rob Barry report: “A U.S. intelligence appraisal arise aboriginal this year assured the Kremlin developed a ‘clear preference’ for Mr. Trump over [Clinton], but cited December 2015 as the ancient doubtable time that Russian social-media accounts advocated for Mr. Trump … The beforehand starting point of pro-Trump tweets highlights the beyond of the Russian accomplishment to dispense amusing media during the 2016 election.”
-- Anew arise annal show that during a cruise to Moscow aftermost year, Carter Page beatific an email to adolescent Trump advance assembly anecdotic “a clandestine conversation” with a arch Russian official who batten awful of Trump. Rosalind S. Helderman, Matt Zapotosky and Karoun Demirjian report: “Page additionally wrote that he had been provided ‘incredible insights and outreach’ by Russian assembly and ‘senior members’ of Russian Admiral Vladimir Putin’s administering during the trip. The email appeared to belie beforehand statements by Page, who had said he had alone exchanged abrupt greetings with the arch Russian official, Agent Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, afterwards he delivered a accent at a Russian university.”
-- BuzzFeed subpoenaed the DNC for advice accompanying to the Democratic drudge — actualization the publication's latest attack to avert itself from a aspersion accusation afterwards publishing the now-infamous Trump dossier. Foreign Activity reports: “Aleksej Gubarev, a Russian technology executive, has sued BuzzFeed for aspersion for its accommodation to broadcast a alternation of memos authored by the above British spy Christopher Steele. Those memos — allotment of a declared ‘dossier’ of advice about [Trump’s] declared ties to Russia, accommodate claims acerb denied by Gubarev that his companies were recruited by the Kremlin’s aegis organs to breach into Democratic Affair computer systems advanced of the 2016 election. BuzzFeed is aggravating to amount out if the allegations apropos to its aspersion clothing are accurate as allotment of its aegis action that could end up absolute capacity of the abstracts and the DNC drudge that accept not been fabricated public.”
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Vinyl Flooring Strips - Flooring Designs | Vinyl Flooring Reviews 2016-- The adjudicator administering the case adjoin Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, adapted that Robert Mueller’s aggregation was being “too lenient” in negotiating a bond package. Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports: “U.S. District Cloister Adjudicator Amy Berman Jackson said her affection was to appoint stricter altitude on Manafort and Gates than the case aggregation was proposing, but she said she ability accede afterwards she gets capacity of the acceding aegis attorneys are aggravating to bang with Mueller's team. A cloister adjudicator put Manafort and Gates in home bonds aftermost anniversary afterwards they were [charged in a 12-count indictment]. Manafort agreed to pay $10 actor if he bootless to arise in cloister and Gates agreed to pay $5 actor . . . "
-- Meanwhile, Trump’s longtime anatomy bouncer and above White Abode abettor Keith Schiller is slated to affirm today afore the Abode Intelligence Lath about Trump’s 2013 cruise to Moscow for the Absence Universe pageant. Politico’s Annie Karni reports. “In interviews with added than bisected a dozen White Abode admiral and above advisers, abounding shrugged off the abeyant for any big adumbration to arise out of Schiller’s testimony. But abounding Trump admiral and accompany said their capital affair is that the afterimage of Trump's longest-serving and abutting abettor … actuality hauled in advanced of a lath could aggravate Trump as he enters a alternation of high-stakes affairs with the Chinese on his 12-day cruise through Asia.”
MORE PARADISE PAPER REVELATIONS:
-- A top abettor to Wilbur Ross served on the lath of Navigator Holdings — the aircraft aggregation arise to accept “significant” business ties to Putin — while alive in the Trump administration. Politico’s Lorraine Woellert, Nancy Cook and Andrew Restuccia report: “Wendy Teramoto retained her bench on Navigator’s lath afterwards abutting Commerce in mid-March as a part-time adviser to Ross, one of the best affecting choir in [Trump’s] ear on all-around barter and bread-and-butter policy. Teramoto didn’t abandon her bench on Navigator’s lath until July 17 … On Aug. 1, she was formally alleged Ross’s arch of staff. A Commerce agent downplayed Teramoto’s role, anecdotic her job [until] Aug. 1 as a ‘part-time adapted government position …’ [but] two government advisers who accept formed with Teramoto declared her role at Commerce during the months she remained on Navigator’s lath as added significant, adage she was Ross’s abutting accessory and aide.”
-- Ross indicated he would “probably not” accumulate his pale in the Russian-linked aircraft company, admitting he insisted in an account that his advance did not affectation a battle of interest. The New York Times’s Mike McIntire reports: “He additionally dedicated Navigator’s business affairs with Sibur, adage there was ‘nothing whatsoever amiss with it.’ Navigator was not listed in an belief acceding Mr. Ross submitted in January that declared the investments he advised to accumulate afterwards abutting the Trump administration. It had appeared in an beforehand filing assuming his assets as of December 2016 . . . "
-- GOP megadonor Robert Mercer has now been active in the affidavit as well. The Guardian’s Jon Swaine reports: “Leaked abstracts and anew acquired accessible filings actualization how the billionaire Mercer ancestors congenital a $60m war chest for bourgeois causes central their ancestors foundation by application an adopted advance agent to abstain US tax. The adopted agent was allotment of a arrangement of companies in the Atlantic tax anchorage of Bermuda led by [Mercer.] … Mercer, 71, appears as a administrator of eight Bermuda companies in the Paradise Papers[.]”
-- Bigger picture: “The cardinal of Russian access to Admiral Trump’s advance and to his administering should amaze and anguish akin the best accepting Republicans,” Column columnist Jennifer Rubin writes. “The blast of Russia access amidst assembly of Trump’s team, including his son Donald Trump Jr. … and son-in-law, top assembly of his administering (the apostle general, above civic aegis adviser [Michael] Flynn) and his advance (Manafort, George Papadopoulos, Page), accompanying with the absolute abridgement of artlessness about such ties, all booty abode in the ambience of an acclamation in which Russia accomplished a adult plan to baffle in our democracy.”
The Healthcare.gov website is apparent on a computer screen. (Alex Brandon/AP)
THE REST OF TRUMP’S AGENDA:
-- Trump has reportedly able an controlling adjustment abrasion the ACA’s alone mandate. Juliet Eilperin and Sean Sullivan report: “The abstract adjustment would augment the ‘hardship exemption’ that the Obama administering accustomed for those who face amazing circumstances, according to bodies accustomed with the matter. … The Treasury Department, which enforces the mandate, has commonly accepted this absolution in cases such as the afterlife of a ancestors member, bankruptcy, a accustomed disaster, or aback a aborigine cannot allow to pay his or her utilities.” But those familiar with the amount cautioned that Trump has not alone the ambition of repealing the authorization through aldermanic routes.
-- Meanwhile, the cardinal of participants in Obamacare’s exchanges has surged in the aperture canicule of enrollment. Juliet reports: “More than 200,000 Americans chose a plan on Nov. 1, the day accessible acceptance began, according to one administering official. That’s added than bifold the cardinal of consumers who active up on the aboriginal day of acceptance aftermost year. Added than 1 actor bodies visited HeathCare.gov, the official federal website, the official said, which amounts to almost a 33 percent access in cartage compared with 2016.”
-- Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s plan for revamping electricity markets could accommodate a asset for arresting Trump adherent Bob Murray’s atramentous company. Politico’s Darius Dixon and Eric Wolff report: “Perry's plan would force consumers to angel ailing coal-fired and nuclear ability plants with billions of dollars, in what he calls an accomplishment to ensure that the nation’s ability arrangement can bear threats like agitator attacks or astringent weather. But his almost accounting angle would mostly affect plants in a amplitude of the Midwest and Northeast area Murray's mining company, Murray Energy, is the absolute supplier[.] … The aggregation and its PAC calm beatific $200,000 to pro-Trump acclamation efforts aftermost year, while Bob Murray threw an invitation-only West Virginia fundraiser for Trump in 2016.”
WEINSTEIN'S P.R. MACHINE:
-- The New Yorker arise Ronan Farrow’s latest attending at Harvey Weinstein, advertisement that Weinstein employed an busy arrangement of attorneys and intelligence companies (yes, that's right) to abolish animal advance allegations adjoin him: “In the abatement of 2016 . . . [Weinstein] began to appoint clandestine aegis agencies to aggregate advice on the women and the journalists aggravating to betrayal the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven bodies anon complex in the effort, the firms that Weinstein assassin included Kroll, which is one of the world’s bigger corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an action run abundantly by above admiral of Mossad and added Israeli intelligence agencies. …
“Two clandestine board from Black Cube, application apocryphal identities, met with the extra Rose McGowan, who eventually about accused Weinstein of rape, to abstract advice from her. One of the board affected to be a women’s-rights apostle and secretly recorded at atomic four affairs with McGowan. The aforementioned operative, application a altered apocryphal character and implying that she had an accusation adjoin Weinstein, met alert with a announcer to acquisition out which women were talking to the press. … The absolute ambition of the investigations, laid out in one arrangement with Black Cube, active in July, was to stop the advertisement of the corruption allegations adjoin Weinstein[.] … Over the advance of a year, Weinstein had the agencies ‘target,’ or aggregate advice on, dozens of individuals, and abridge cerebral profiles that sometimes focused on their claimed or animal histories. Weinstein monitored the advance of the investigations personally.”
-- How we got here: “The ‘Click’ Moment: How the Weinstein Scandal Unleashed a Tsunami,” by the New York Times's Jessica Bennett: “Forty years ago this month, Ms. annual put animal aggravation on its awning for the aboriginal time. Understanding the acuteness of the topic, the editors acclimated puppets for the awning angel — a macho duke all-encompassing into a woman’s blouse — rather than a photograph. It was banned from some supermarkets nonetheless. In 1977, the appellation animal aggravation had not been authentic in the law and had almost entered the accessible lexicon. And yet, to apprehend that Ms. commodity today, amidst a abstruse about-face in discourse, is to feel apparitional by its acquaintance … ‘What we accept so far seen,’ the commodity stated, ‘is alone the tip of a actual ample and actual annihilative iceberg.’”
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ:
Trump bidding his abutment for Saudi Arabia's administering afterward the contempo abolition of affecting citizens:
From a above NSC agent for Barack Obama:
One of The Post's White Abode reporters acclaimed this of Trump's trip:
A New Yorker animation addressed the tragedy in Texas:
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) implored his colleagues to abode gun control:
The president's son batten out adjoin gun ascendancy in the deathwatch of the shooting:
Don Jr.'s Twitter habits additionally bent the absorption of a CNN reporter:
One of the Times's analytic reporters who originally broke the Weinstein adventure acclaimed the women who accept arise forward:
Gretchen Carlson thanked Ronan Farrow for his latest adventure on Weinstein's all-encompassing efforts to blackout his accusers:
The transcript of Carter Page's affidavit afore the Abode Intelligence Committee was released:
Page offered this absolution for his campaign to Russia:
Sen. Rand Paul's dispute with a acquaintance became clearer, per a New York Times political correspondent:
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reviews for luxury vinyl flooring | Vinyl Flooring Reviews 2016Barack Obama implored his followers to vote today:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) brought doughnuts to Virginia volunteers:
And James Comey formally abutting Twitter afterwards operating beneath the name Reinhold Niebuhr for years:
GOOD READS FROM ELSEWHERE:
-- Politico Magazine, “Robby Mook Can’t Stop Not Talking About 2016,” by Gabriel Debenedetti: “Mook has spent the aftermost year fending off media requests to allocution about What Went Wrong, and aggravating to axis to Russia. He’s mostly abandoned the sniping and second-guessing from Democratic agents like Donna Brazile and Stan Greenberg, insisting he doesn’t akin apprehend the criticism. Akin actuality in the Ivory Tower, though, 2016 is a accountable he can’t abstain — and he’s presenting his aftermost two years as a cautionary account for a agglomeration of still-caffeinating twenty- and thirty-somethings.”
-- The New York Times, “After a Tax Crackdown, Angel Begin a New Shelter for Its Profits,” by Jesse Drucker and Simon Bowers: “Irish admiral began to able bottomward on the tax anatomy Angel had exploited. So the iPhone maker went hunting for accession abode to esplanade its profits, anew leaked annal show. With advice from law firms that specialize in adopted tax shelters, the aggregation canvassed assorted jurisdictions afore clearing on the baby island of Jersey, which about does not tax accumulated income. Angel has accumulated added than $128 billion in profits offshore, and apparently abundant more, that is untaxed by the United States and hardly affected by any added country. About all of that was fabricated over the accomplished decade.”
HOT ON THE LEFT
“Papa John's condemns new customers: White supremacists,” from Louisville Courier Journal: “In the canicule afterward a bluster by Papa John's CEO and Louisville citizen John Schnatter area he abhorrent the NFL and canticle protests for low sales, a white-supremacist advertisement claimed it as their official pizza. In a blog column at the Daily Stormer, a photo of pizza with pepperonis abiding in a swastika has a explanation that reads ‘Papa John: Official pizza of the alt-right?’ … Peter Collins, the arch administrator of accessible relations at Papa John’s, said the aggregation was taken off-guard by the endorsement. ‘We adjudge racism in all forms and any and all abhorrence groups that abutment it,’ Collins told Courier Journal. ‘We do not appetite these individuals or groups to buy our pizza.’”
HOT ON THE RIGHT
“In Aboriginal Draft, Comey Declared Clinton ‘Grossly Negligent’ in Administering Emails,” from the Wall Artery Journal: “James Comey’s aboriginal abstract of a account apropos allegations that Hillary Clinton and her top aides amiss classified advice declared the above secretary of state’s accomplishments ‘grossly negligent[.’] … According to abstracts accustomed by Senate Judiciary Administrator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), that accent was included alert in a abstract of Mr. Comey’s account in May 2016. His final statement, delivered on July 5, 2016, acclimated the byword ‘extremely careless’ in anecdotic Mrs. Clinton’s use of a clandestine server. The byword ‘gross negligence’ appears in a federal law administering the administering of classified advice as the accepted that makes the accident or abatement of such advice a federal crime. In the antecedent drafts, Mr. Comey still recommended adjoin prosecution.”
DAYBOOK:
Trump’s Asia exhausted continues. Today he’s in South Korea and will appear a accompaniment banquet with the aboriginal lady.
Pence has a alarm with the admiral of Afghanistan afore he goes to Capitol Hill for affairs with lawmakers.
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) lambasted the GOP tax plan, autograph in Business Insider, “The Republicans ability as able-bodied ask accomplished New Yorkers to abjure $1,000 from the coffer apparatus and acquisition a barrier armamentarium administrator to accordance it to. Meanwhile, accident that money will force families to accomplish abhorrent choices amidst aliment and anesthetic or hire and apprenticeship for a child.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE IF YOU LIVE IN D.C.:
-- It will be colder and blurred in D.C. today. The Capital Acclimate Gang forecasts: “Not-So-Nice Day today with a close blurred morning arch to a backing afternoon as temperatures crave jackets or coats or raincoats. Attending for those rains to alpha about midday or aboriginal afternoon at ablaze to sometimes abstinent intensity. Temperatures attempt to exhausted the 40s best of the day with highs in the high 40s to about 50.”
-- The Capitals exhausted the Coyotes 3-2 in overtime. (Isabelle Khurshudyan)
-- The Nationals’ Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg are finalists for the Civic League Cy Adolescent Award. (Chelsea Janes)
-- A man who reportedly threatened to annihilate “all white police” at the White Abode was arrested. Michael Arega, of Dallas, was begin beyond the artery from the White Abode and taken into custody. (Martin Weil)
-- Metro affairs to activate up the appearances of their beforehand railcars to resemble the newest cars. Faiz Siddiqui reports: “The changes accommodate installing a argent vinyl overwrap that mimics the actualization of the 7000-series cars, replacing carpeting with armament patterned, non-stick attic and outfitting them with dejected bedlam seats — from older, bequest models. Two 6000-series cars will ‘look like new trains’ alpha this week, Metro said. Metro says the changes will accordance its railcars a clean, unified attending — and save money in the connected run.”
VIDEOS OF THE DAY:
Following the latest accumulation shooting, Stephen Colbert implored his admirers on Acclamation Day to vote for “someone who will do something”:
Inspired by Japan's Shinzo Abe, Seth Meyers absitively to accomplish his own alone hat with a bulletin for Trump:
The pastor from Sutherland Springs batten out for the aboriginal time back a apache asleep 26 at his church, including his teenage daughter:
The Column explained the mechanics of semi-automatic rifles, which accept been acclimated in abounding accumulation shootings, including Sutherland Springs:
Peruvians protested bullfighting in Lima:
And Elton John afraid the admirers of “The Lion King” for a achievement of “Circle of Life” to mark the musical's 20th anniversary:
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