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Paul Manafort Likely To Go To Jail On Friday, Former U.S. Attorney Predicts
Paul Manafort
“Go directly to Jail. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.”
Those words from the game Monopoly sum up what a former U.S. attorney said Paul Manafort should expect when he heads to court on Friday for a hearing about revising his bail.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked a judge to revoke bail for President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager over accusations of witness tampering.
“He’s going to have to bring his toothbrush,” a former U.S. attorney said.
Bernie Sanders Considering 2020 Run Against Donald Trump Former Campaign Manager Reveals
I’d vote for him!
The campaign manager for Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential run hinted that the Independent senator from Vermont may run for the White House again in 2020.
Sanders is “considering another run for the presidency,” but for now is completely focused on his congressional re-election campaign in November, Jeff Weavers said in an interview with C-Span host John McArdle on Monday.
Sanders made waves as the progressive who consistently challenged former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in his 2016 primary bid. His platform largely focused on issues like universal healthcare and income equality
When Sanders announced his candidacy for president in 2015, he was 50 points behind Clinton in almost every major national poll. But with his popularity among young Democratic voters, he closed that gap and ended up winning 22 states and about 45 percent of the pledged delegates before conceding and endorsing Clinton at the Democratic National Convention.
“One of the reasons he was so successful [in 2016] was that people out in the country sensed, rightly, that he was an authentic messenger for the message he was delivering,” Weaver told McArdle during the interview.
Sanders returned to Vermont after conceding, and continued to work as the state’s senator. But he hardly gave up his fight against Donald Trump and the Republican party. For the past two years he has travelled around the country supporting Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Now Sanders faces his own re-election race during the country’s midterm elections on November 6, 2018.
In 2012, Sanders won his first senate re-election campaign with 71 percent of the vote. Even after his 2016 presidential campaign, which forced the senator to focus heavily on national issues more so than state politics, voters in Vermont overwhelmingly approved of Sanders as a Morning Consult poll found that 87 percent of the state’s voters still supported the long-time lawmaker.
“If reelected, you can be sure that I will continue to be the fiercest opponent in the Senate to the rightwing extremism of Trump and the Republican leadership,” Sander said in a tweet on May 21, hours after his announcement that he will seek re-election.
Though there are still six months until the midterm elections, America is already looking forward to possible 2020 presidential runs. New polling conducted by CNN shows that in a one-on-one match up between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, Sanders is already a leading candidate, beating Trump by a 55-to-42 percent margin among registered voters. First, though, Sanders would have to navigate a Democratic primary. While politicians have yet to officially declare their campaigns for 2020, it is rumored that popular figures like Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Cory Booker may be in the mix.
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Attorney Michael Avenatti calls for investigation into Rudy Giuliani’s personal and business finances
Taking to Twitter early Saturday morning, the attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels called upon the media to take a look into the personal finances of Rudy Giuliani who is currently representing President Donald Trump.
Attorney Michael Avenatti had a few questions on Saturday morning, including about Columbus Nova — a firm which retained Trump’s embattled attorney Michael Cohen to help bring in GOP clients — but he was pressed on Twitter about Giuliani’s financial situation. That was when he called on the press to do a little digging around on the former mayor of New York City and his financial entanglements.
Responding to a tweet that read, “Curious if anyone’s been demanding the personal financial, business and family details of @RudyGiuliani as well?” Avenatti had a suggestion.
“Now this is an excellent question. Hopefully some members of the media will chime in this weekend and tell us what current steps are being taken to investigate and publish on the other 13+ lawyers in the cases – Giuliani, Ryan, Harder, Blakely, etc. Why just me? #Waiting,” he wrote.
As for Columbus Nova, Avenatti suggested more will come out of an investigation into the company and its relationship with Cohen.
You can see the tweets below:
Now this is an excellent question. Hopefully some members of the media will chime in this weekend and tell us what current steps are being taken to investigate and publish on the other 13+ lawyers in the cases – Giuliani, Ryan, Harder, Blakely, etc. Why just me? #Waiting. https://t.co/tUMRnd4kZ6
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 26, 2018
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Now this is an excellent question. Hopefully some members of the media will chime in this weekend and tell us what current steps are being taken to investigate and publish on the other 13+ lawyers in the cases – Giuliani, Ryan, Harder, Blakely, etc. Why just me? #Waiting. https://t.co/tUMRnd4kZ6
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 26, 2018
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Scientists can’t explain why diplomats in Cuba are suffering from ‘traumatic brain injury’
For two years, diplomats posted to Cuba have been suffering a mysterious illness.
They say they have heard painful, high-pitched noises and lost their hearing. “Some were asleep and awakened by the sound, even as others sleeping in the same bed or room heard nothing,” the Associated Press reported. Scores have reported headaches, dizziness, nausea and difficulty concentrating.
Douglas Smith, director of the Center for Brain Injury and Repair at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, evaluated 24 affected Americans. He said his patients looked “exactly like the patients we would see in a concussion clinic,” according to the CBC.
His team has found “perceptible changes in [the] brains” of the victims, including changes to the “white matter tracts that let different parts of the brain communicate.” But none reported blows to the head.
Many of the victims reported trouble processing information. Some said they could not remember things anymore and struggled to come up with the right words when writing or speaking.
The symptoms have struck 24 Americans and 10 Canadians, including some minors. So far, investigators have not found their cause.
Initially, investigators suspected some kind of sonic attack. But they found little evidence of that. And scientists say acoustic waves have never been shown to alter the way the brain works. There has been suspicion that the ailment is something like a mass hysteria. But doctors say the changes to the brain that they see rule that out. They suspect it is a medical condition, though environmental assessments have yielded few clues.