The Commentariat -- July 30, 2016
Presidential Race
Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times: "Computer systems used by the campaign of Hillary Clinton ... were hacked in an attack that appears to have come from Russia's intelligence services, a federal law enforcement official said on Friday. The F.B.I. said that it was examining reports of 'cyberintrusions involving multiple political entities' but did not identify the targets of the attacks. That statement came on the same day that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the House Democrats' fund-raising arm, said its computer systems had been hacked." -- CW ...
... Ellen Nakashima & Tom Hamburger of the Washington Post: "The Clinton presidential campaign said Friday that an 'analytics data program' maintained by the Democratic National Committee had been hacked but that its computer system had not been compromised, denying news reports Friday that the campaign had become the third Democratic Party organization whose systems had been penetrated." -- CW
Ann Gearan, et al., of the Washington Post: "Hillary Clinton kicked off a three-day, swing-state bus tour on Friday with a rally ... in the same city [Philadelphia] where she accepted the Democratic party's presidential nomination Thursday night.... Clinton and [Tim] Kaine will now travel by bus through Pennsylvania and Ohio, two states that are critical battlegrounds in the November election." -- CW ...
... CW: I thought both Kaine & Clinton did a good job. Worries about Kaine's speaking style seem much overwrought.
James Downie of the Washington Post: "... Clinton's [convention] speech got the job done. It was -- and I mean this as a compliment -- a competent speech, with the surprisingly controversial argument that a president needs to be competent.... In raising the issue of competence, Clinton's speech made the general election less like a contest of Republicans and Democrats and more a fight between intelligence and irrationality." -- CW ...
... Frank Rich on Clinton, Trump & Kaine. Always a good read. -- CW ...
... Gail Collins & Arthur Brooks discuss the Democratic convention. You might want to skip Brooks' entries. -- CW ...
Cristiano Lima of Politico: "Khizr Khan, the father of a fallen Muslim American war hero who powerfully denounced Donald Trump's rhetoric and policies at the Democratic National Convention..., Friday night urge[d] Republican leadership to distance themselves from the GOP nominee.... Delivering what he described as 'the other half' of his Thursday address on MSNBC's 'The Last Word,' Khan ... tearfully singled out House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a plea to 'repudiate' the rhetoric and policies of Trump." -- CW ...
... Richard Oppel of the New York Times writes another story on Democratic-convention speaker Khizr Khan. Khan's speech "electrified the convention and turned Mr. Khan into a social media and cable news sensation." Khan, who holds as advanced degree from Harvard Law, wrote his own speech without assistance from a speechwriter or Michelle Obama:
... CW: Speaking of Michelle Obama, somebody should explain plagiarism to confederates. Mark Hensch of the Hill: In a tweet,Sean Spicer, the chief strategist of the Republican National Committee (RNC), accused Hillary Clinton of plagiarizing Alexis de Toqueville in her convention speech when she repeated the bromide, "America is great because it is good." I'm all surprised that Spicer hasn't called for a cease-and-desist from Donald Trump for plagiarizing Ronald Reagan's widely-used campaign slogan, "Let's make America great again." Dan L., in a comment he made here a couple of days ago, may have provided the best lesson on plagiarism, though his quip was probably way too subtle for the boneheads of Right Wing World: "Loved Michelle's speech.... I do question her claim of growing up on a goat farm in southern Slovenia though." ...
... Conservative Josh Barro of Business Insider: "Khan demanded to know whether Donald Trump had even read the Constitution, pulled out his pocket copy, and offered to lend it to Trump. I watched this moment live and was awed by it. I watched it again Friday morning, and I cried ... because it was even necessary for someone to stand up at a party convention and explain why that candidate is wrong. I am angry at Donald Trump, and I am angry at the people who voted for him. But most of all I am angry at the senior Republicans who are standing by and acting as if this is fine -- endorsing him in the belief that he will lose but that standing together will stem the loss of congressional seats, or endorsing him in the hope that he will grow up if he wins." ...
... CW: Why, Josh, of course Trump has read the Constitution -- all twelve articles of it, which is five more than Khan or anyone else has read.
Adam Nagourney of the New York Times compares the Democratic & Republican conventions: "Democrats were more polished.... Mr. Trump's sloppy convention was a missed opportunity, and sent up warning flares for Republicans already concerned about his capacity to grapple with the basic mechanics of American politics.... High contrast? Try night and day.... When were Americans last presented with two such starkly different views of the country as Mr. Trump's bleak portrayal of a country under siege, and Mrs. Clinton's 'best days are ahead of us' optimism?... Cleveland and Philadelphia proved [conventions] can still be riveting and influential.... [Hillary is] on her own now.... [Democrats] managed to seize what for many years have been the defining symbols of the Republican Party: God and country.... Mrs. Clinton has her party mostly behind her.... Mr. Trump's convention had the absence of prominent Republicans.... Finally, with apologies to George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, George Bush and even Bill Clinton, this convention showed once and for all that when it comes to pure political talent -- the ability to move a crowd, seize a moment, and deliver a speech that rises to a challenge -- Barack Obama laps the field." -- CW ...
... Ben Kamisar of the Hill: "... Donald Trump distanced himself from the planning of last week's Republican National Convention after the Democrats' event, which ended Thursday, posted higher television ratings for three of the four nights. 'I didn't produce the show -- I just showed up for the final speech on Thursday,' the Republican presidential nominee told The New York Times when asked about the differences between the two parties' conventions." -- CW
Fred Kaplan: Don't worry about those intelligence briefings the presidential candidates are about to get. "... according to former senior intelligence officials who have helped prepare them in the past, these briefings contain no material classified higher than Secret. And, as anyone familiar with such matters knows, nothing very sensitive is revealed in documents marked Confidential or Secret. Retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and the NSA, told me in an email that these briefings are 'very generalized treatments' designed to give nominees a broad-brush view of the global threats as the intelligence community sees them.... The director of national intelligence, currently James Clapper, prepares the briefings, though the president can set further limits on what they can and cannot reveal." -- CW ...
... Sarah Wheaton of Politico: "White House chief of staff Denis McDonough kicked off the official coordination for handing off power with a call to both presidential campaigns on Friday. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that he's 'ready to pass the baton' to Hillary Clinton. But passing the bureaucracy is a much more complicated undertaking, and now that she and Donald Trump have become their respective parties' official nominees, their campaigns are eligible for new government resources to help them prepare for transition -- even though only one of them will actually complete the process." -- CW
Maureen Dowd does a "lightning round" interview of Donald Trump. He likes President Obama -- "He's got some quality going" -- Michelle Obama & Chelsea Clinton.
Cristiano Lima: "Donald Trump late Friday accused Hillary Clinton of intentionally stacking debates against primetime programming to 'rig' the election process, despite the fact that ... the non-partisan Commission on Presidential Debates ... set the schedule ... last September.... The schedule includes a Sunday night debate on Oct. 9 that will air concurrently with an NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and the North Carolina Panthers." CW: This could be the first of many Hillary-rigged-debates excuses Whiney Man uses to back out of debating her. He thinks he's a great debater, but surely his campaign staff knows better. See also Marvin S.'s comment in today's yesterday's thread.
Jessie Hellman of the Hill: "Donald Trump said Friday he's 'taking the gloves off' in his general election fight against Hillary Clinton after she railed against him in her acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination. 'You know, it's interesting, every time I mention her, everyone screams 'lock her up,' and you know what? I've been nice but after that performance last night, I don't have to be so nice anymore. I'm taking the gloves off," the Republican presidential nominee said at a rally in Colorado." ...
... Here's a list, dated July 5, of some of the "nice" things Trump has said about Hillary Clinton. They include, "erratic," "bad temperament," "dangerous," "looking very bad," "should star in a reboot of 'Liar, Liar,'" "no strength, no stamina," "totally flawed." And of course, "crooked." ...
... Louis Nelson & Nolan McCaskill of Politico: "Donald Trump launched a fresh takedown of Hillary Clinton on Friday, with the Republican presidential nominee leading the effort and dispatching his surrogates to join the attack." -- CW ...
... Aaron Blake of the Washington Post: "... Mike Pence ... Friday morning cr[ied] foul over President Obama alluding to Donald Trump as a 'homegrown demagogue.' 'I don't think name-calling has any place in public life,' Pence said.... 'And I thought that was unfortunate that the president of the United States would use a term like that.' At almost exactly the same time as the Pence transcript was being sent out to reporters, here's what Trump was tweeting: 'Crooked Hillary Clinton mentioned me 22 times in her very long and very boring speech. Many of her statements were lies and fabrications!... "Little" Michael Bloomberg, who never had the guts to run for president, knows nothing about me. His last term as Mayor was a disaster!... Crooked Hillary said that I "couldn't handle the rough and tumble of a political campaign." Really,I just beat 16 people and am beating her!'" CW: IOKIYAR. ...
... Ben Jacobs of the Guardian: "Donald Trump used Twitter, as per his habit, to respond to Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech on Thursday night. In a brief series of tweets, the Republican nominee started by attacking 'Hillary's refusal to mention radical Islam' in her speech. Trump also bashed Clinton as 'owned by Wall Street' and claimed her 'vision is a borderless world where working people have no power, no jobs, no safety'. Trump eventually concluded with 'no one has worse judgement [sic] than Hillary Clinton -- corruption and devastation follows her wherever she goes.'" -- CW ...
... Josh Voorhees of Slate: "Trump's fans can't get enough of his macho act, and the clear pleasure they derive from this particular show comes from the double meaning of the word hit.... The overarching narrative of the DNC criticism of Trump was that he is a thin-skinned bully who can't be trusted to keep his cool when provoked. And here was Trump, in effect, saying the very same thing -- to cheers." See also yesterday's Commentariat. -- CW
Ken Vogel of Politico: "Top Donald Trump donors tried to set up a meeting between the GOP presidential nominee and Charles Koch in Colorado Springs on Friday, but Koch aides rejected the entreaties, according to two Republicans with knowledge of the outreach." CW: So it would seem that Charles Koch is more principled than McConnell, Ryan, & most of the rest of the GOP establishment.
Show Me the Returns! Judd Legum of Think Progress: "ThinkProgress conducted an analysis of coverage of Trump's tax returns in major newspapers during 2016 and compared them to the coverage of Mitt Romney's tax returns in 2012.... In January 2012, under pressure from the media Romney released his 2010 tax return and a summary of his 2011 return. It was less than any other major party candidate in decades.... Nevertheless, in the first seven months of his election year, Romney generated more than twice the coverage of his tax returns -- almost all of it critical -- than Trump has generated this year.... Among those critical of Romney's failure to disclose his returns was Donald Trump himself. In a January 2012 appearance on Fox News, Trump said that Romney was being 'hurt really very badly' by refusing to release his tax returns. He implored Romney to 'release them now.'" ...
... CW: Clinton has released 15 years of her returns. Her campaign should attack Trump relentlessly on this. Every day in every way, Clinton should be asking, What is Donald hiding? She & her surrogates should speculate, too, on what-all might be revealed in the secret returns. Ties to Russia? Mob connections? Zero income? Huge business losses? Zero charitable contributions? Just make up stuff, the wilder the better. The Clinton campaign should needle the hell out of Trump. He'll take the bait.
Nancy Benac of the AP: "Donald Trump's flurry of offhand remarks and abrupt zingers on Russia -- praising Vladimir Putin, dismissing NATO -- have jolted the world, not to mention the U.S. presidential campaign.... The idea of fostering U.S.-Russian cooperation isn't outlandish.... It's what Trump is willing to do to achieve those goals and the way he expresses his views that have shocked many foreign policy experts. The notion of refusing to defend NATO allies who don't pay their bills, for example, or of buddying up to Putin despite his aggressive stances is jarring to Democrats and Republicans alike. And it's on the minds of foreign leaders." -- CW ...
... Tim Egan makes the case against having a despotic traitor as president. (Yes, it has come to that.) "Trump is now a national security risk, actively rooting for a foreign adversary to tamper with an American election. And very soon, he will start receiving classified briefings on that adversary. Ehhhhhcellent!" -- CW (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Gail Collins has a quiz on the conventions. CW: I missed two, both of which had to do with things Donald Trump said, not that I don't hang on his every word. If you want to get all the answers right, pick the ones that have Trump ludicrously blaming somebody else for his screw-ups & potential failures. (Yeah, that should have been obvious to me. My bad.)
Other News & Views
Nolan McCaskill of Politico: "The Obama Presidential Library will be built in Chicago's Jackson Park, the Obama Foundation announced Friday. 'Jackson Park will be the site of the Obama Presidential Center,' the Obama Foundation said in a statement. 'The center will be located in the heart of the South Side, which has been the home to the First Family for many years.'" -- CW ...
... Here's President Obama's statement on the selection of Jackson Park. -- CW ...
... CW: We should appreciate the irony of the first black American president's locating his library in a park named for an earlier American president who made his livelihood entirely on the backs of slaves:
In all reality, slavery was the source of Andrew Jackson's wealth. The Hermitage was a 1,000 acre, self-sustaining plantation that relied completely on the labor of enslaved African American men, women, and children. They performed the hard labor that produced The Hermitage's cash crop, cotton. The more land Andrew Jackson accrued, the more slaves he procured to work it. -- Andrew Jackson Foundation, on the official Website for the Hermitage, the Jackson family plantation
... CW: I move that Chicago rename Jackson Park "Barack and Michelle Obama Park."
Paul Blake of ABC News: "A bill that creates a federal labeling standard for foods containing genetically modified ingredients (commonly called GMOs) was signed into law by President Barack Obama today." -- CW
Peter Sullivan of the Hill: "Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) on Friday called on Congress to return from its summer recess early to provide funding to fight the Zika virus. The call comes after officials in Florida announced earlier in the day that there is a high likelihood that the first cases of the virus being transmitted in the continental United States by mosquitoes have occurred." See also Friday's News Ledes. -- CW
Robert Barnes & Ann Marimow of the Washington Post: "Voting rights activists scored legal victories in key presidential election states Friday, with the most important being a federal appeals court ruling that North Carolina's Republican-led legislature enacted new voting restrictions in 2013 to intentionally blunt the growing clout of African American voters. The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit was an overwhelming victory for the Justice Department and civil rights groups.... In Wisconsin, where one federal judge already had eased restrictions on voter-ID requirements, another struck additional elements of the law passed by the legislature and signed by Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.). U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson said he would strike more of the law if he were not bound by the Supreme Court's decision that states may use properly written voter-ID laws to guard against voter fraud." CW: Peterson is an Obama appointee. Elections matter. (CW Note: This is an update of a WashPo story on the North Carolina decision, linked yesterday.) ...
... The New York Times story on the North Carolina decision, by Alan Blinder & Michael Wines, is here. Update: The Times story now also includes reporting on the Wisconsin decision. -- CW
Gabriel Sherman of New York: Fox "News"' former booking director "Laurie Luhn told the lawyers at Paul, Weiss..., the New York law firm hired by 21st Century Fox to investigate sexual-harassment allegations against [Fox 'News' CEO Roger] Ailes..., that she had been harassed by Ailes for more than 20 years, that executives at Fox News had known about it and helped cover it up, and that it had ruined her life. 'It was psychological torture,' she later told me.... New York was able to independently corroborate key details in her account, including that she was sexually involved with Ailes for many years, from sources who worked at Fox at the same time she did. Additionally, I viewed documents Luhn retained, including a copy of the $3.15 million severance agreement she signed in 2011 that includes iron-clad nondisclosure provisions." CW: Luhn's story, in Sherman's recounting, is just awful.
Beyond the Beltway
Pauline Repard, et al., of the San Diego Union Tribune: One San Diego police officer was shot dead & another critically wounded by at least two suspects whom police have captured & jailed. "Police said [the officers] had been shot several times. Investigators did not know if they had been ambushed." -- CW
John Wisely of the Detroit Free Press: "Six more state employees were charged with crimes today for their roles in the Flint Water Crisis because of negligence and arrogance, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said. 'Some people failed to act, others minimized harm done and arrogantly chose to ignore data, some intentionally altered figures ... and covered up significant health risks,' he said at a news conference today. The result, Schuette said, 'was water was poisoned.' Charged today were three employees of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Liane Shekter Smith, Adam Rosenthal, and Patrick Cook, as well as three others from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services; Nancy Peeler, Corinne Miller, Robert Scott." -- CW (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
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The politicians in Michigan and Flint are pushing the blame for the water disaster down the line to some powerless workers that were taking orders. All the fault will ultimately end up with the janitor and the Governor and his followers will be blameless.
Russia hacks Dem. systems but not GOP. Hmmmmmmmmm
Maybe I can come up with a conspiracy theory.
I just saw the video of President Trump wanting to hit the little guy. How is it possible that this idiot will get one vote.
I also saw a video of Trump telling everyone how wonderful Bloomberg was as mayor.
@ carlyle: I understand that the authorities investigating the Flint disaster are "working from the bottom up." The flinty Governor will be at the top of their list. We'll see, won't we, if people in high places get their just desserts.
One of those high placed people is Roger Ailes whose sick, exploitive sexual encounters has finally been revealed causing his demise. Laurie Luhn's pathetic story makes my skin crawl. How many women choose to degrade themselves for a place at the table? It's an old story, but I'm hoping less and less of this deleterious behavior will occur. On your knees bidding must end and any dancing should be because the music moves you.
Frank Rich says that Hillary changed her mind about the TPP trade agreement because " Sanders forced her to quit." That's not how I recall her change of mind so I looked it up. Until the deal was done it appeared to her that it was good––"the gold standard of trade agreements" plus as Obama's SOS she had to comply, but the end result did not protect American workers enough for her satisfaction.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/05/hillary-clinton/hillary-clintons-revisionist-history-tpp/
P.S. The ultimate slap in the face of our school yard bully who if he ever encountered the constitution would have been to use the pages to wipe himself on those long treks in the woods during his stint at that military school. Khizer Khan humiliated Trump in a way no one else could at this stage, not that it will resinate with the Don or with his sycophants. But maybe it stirred a little more something in the hearts of our Republican leaders.
I'm not surprised that Donaldo got the number of articles in the Constitution mixed up with the number of commandments in the Bible. It's a frequent mistake made by lots of people.
It appears that Kareem was wearing a lapel pin that looked like the Army 2nd or 3rd Armored Division patch. Since he was not in the Army, it is not clear whether it really was a unit pin or just something that looks like it. Maybe he has a relative in armor?
Tim Kaine wears a Blue Star Family lapel pin, indicating he has a family member (his son) in active service. You saw stories that the NC GOP retracted its criticism that Kaine wore the Honduran flag lapel pin -- and, that flag bears no resemblance to the Blue Star emblem, other than being rectangular.
Mr. Khan said DJT has not sacrificed anything for his country.
Mr. Trump wears a flag pin.
Maybe everyone who has some skin in the game (service members; veterans; blue and gold star families; teachers; cops; firefighters; responders) should start wearing their emblem lapel pins to show that they are sacrificing, and in many cases are willing to offer it all up for this country or their community. Unlike the sunshine patriots who wear flag pins but never put a thing on the line.
Tweet, tweet, it's me again, the great Donaldo.
Crooked Hillary has gone and done it again!! Big cheater. She scheduled the debates to suit herself. On Sunday when all real Americanz will, of course, be watching football like they should. Did you know I was a big pro football owner once? It was incredible. I had the best players. The NFL was so afraid I'd take over and make the league great again. But fuck them, I started my own league. And it was greeeeat! Liars and losers blamed me for destroying that league but my team needed the big stars. All I was demanding was that the other owners pay my players. I knew we would crush everyone but everyone was jealous of my greatness so the league died. Losers.
And now Hillary is jealous of my debating skills and scared I'll make her look like a dumb broad. You know how broads are , right guys? So she scheduled the debates so none of my fans will tune in to watch me kick her ass. Dem liars are trying to say that some loser commission set up the debate times a long time ago and Hillary had nothing to do with it. That's a lie, right, boys? We know it's all rigged.
And anyone who says I'm ascared of debating that bitch is a loser too. But any debate time I don't like, or if I think the questions will be rigged and the moderators are against my greatness , I just won't show up. Losers.
She can debate herself. Without me, no one will watch. In fact, we probably don't need any debates. Let her try to beat me on Twitter. No one can!
I've just been over at the TPM site, where all 5 of the headlines under LiveWire have to do with Trump.
My god. He is becoming more unraveled by the day. I'm hoping he'll have a complete meltdown and collapse so we can read the headline, "Trump collapses at campaign event, admitted to mental hospital." Will that finally rid of us of this psychopath? Prolly not.
Also, why don't I hear anyone demanding that congress pass a law stating all presidential candidates must make their tax returns public?
I'm beginning to think I'm the crazy one.
Thoughts on today's posts:
I obviously watched too much of the conventions as I scored 100% on Gail Collins quiz, but Marie's tip probably helped a little.
Why is the GMO labeling standards being signed into law getting more attention? This is progress!
Is Julian Assange paying Russia to provide him the dirt on the DNC?
As to the Flint workers being charged for crimes; okay, maybe they needed a job, but bad enough to covering up the poisoning of children?? How depressing that the main concern would be saving their jobs instead of saving children. (Assuming that was their concern). These folks may only have been doing what they were told, but they had the option of refusing and didn't do it.
Snyder is working fast and furiously to pile up enough bodies to obscure his culpability for Flint's contaminated water. I'm sure he's still looking around for more warm bodies to elevate the body count.
Just caught a "teaser" on MSNBC from the Sunday Stephanapolous interview with Trump. He asked Trump what would you say to Mr. Khan. I'm paraphrasing, "I'd tell him that there are a lot of Muslim terrorist attacks." On the accusation that Trump has sacrificed nothing or no one, again paraphrsing, "Sounds like Hilary Clinton's staff wrote that." Then, "I've sacrificed a lot, I have created thousands, tens of thousands of jobs." Hmmm...not to mention the time he has spent in salon chair maintaining that horror show on top of his head. No sarcasm, I bet the hairdresser had to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Again, campaign ads, in a kind of call and response style, with Mr Khan and Trump would be highly effective. Two ads, actually, one with Trump and another with the two moral midgets Ryan and McConnell. The GOP is profoundly flawed at the DNA level. If the rhetoric and the behavior isn't a big enough clue, the shape of Trey Gowdy's heady is deeply disturbing (who said the Dems can't be politically incorrect - sorry Michelle)
@Marvin. I think the odds, on your suggestion that Trump will not show up for the debates, is over 50% possible.
@unwashed
.." I'm not surprised that Donaldo got the number of articles in the Constitution mixed up with the number of commandments in the Bible. It's a frequent mistake made by lots of people."
Especially if they have never read the Bible or the Constitution, which likely is the case with Donaldo!
Diane, is Trump shows up for a debate I hope Hillary mentions something about Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. I am sure he knows all about them.
@Marvin, perhaps it's just rumor, but never fear, I'm sure
that Trump must already have his advisor (recall a guy by the name of Herman Cain? An acknowledged expert on U-bek-beck-beki-stan. Or so, I've heard!
Marie,
Of course you are correct about the Jackson of Jackson Park. But I'm from Chicago and NOBODY connects it to Andy. More likely thought to be after Michael, Pollack, or Browne.
I've just discovered that you can pick up a lot of good stuff from Twitter. Judd Legum (from Think Progress) is a great source - funny and great put downs. Today he tweets about Trump lying about getting a letter from the NFL voicing dismay over debate schedule. Also today, he tweets, or links to, Trumps ATTACK on Mr. Khan. Another story out today that the three little girls that sang at a Trump rally may sue Trump for broken promises, some of which were money. Twitter is definitely RC, but some may find it fun and it is nice to know that there are others out there that feel as we do.
I don't know how to do links to my source, but Think Progress should cover all Judd's tweets or just search 'judd legum twitter' and scroll away. It's not necessary to be a twitterer in order to follow along.
OMG! Of course you all know I meant to say "definitely not RC"...
Have you ever seen a Trump tweet? Take a look at this one...
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/759191265988653056
(Never tried this before. Let's see if it works)
Here's the link to the possible Freedom Girls suit against Trump...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/trump-freedom-kids.html?_r=0
The lawmakers in Michigan and Flint are pushing the fault for the water catastrophe down the line to some weak specialists that were taking requests.