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To: James Seagrove who wrote (1039095)	11/16/2017 10:54:28 AM
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SHORT AND FAT KIM JONG-UN VERY TRIGGERED BY TRUMP TWEET, SENTENCES US PRESIDENT TO DEATH! NOT Satire breitbart.com North Korea: Trump 'Sentenced to Death' for Insulting Kim Jong-un with Tweet Olivier Douliery/Pool via Bloomberg/Getty / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR North Korea state media declared that President Donald Trump had been “sentenced to death by the Korean people” on Wednesday following Trump’s latest attack on North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Twitter. “The worst crime for which he can never be pardoned is that he dared malignantly hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK,” an editorial by North Korea’s state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun read. “Trump, who is no more than an old slave of money, dared point an accusing finger at the sun. He should know that he is just a hideous criminal sentenced to death by the Korean people.” The editorial went on to state, “He will be forced to pay dearly for his blasphemy any moment,” and noted that “[t]he second on the list of his hideous crimes is that he malignantly hurt the dignified DPRK and Korean-style socialist system.” It added, “The third of his thrice-cursed crimes is that he spouted a load of rubbish to paint a black picture of the happy life of the great Korean people.” Trump mockingly tweeted at Kim from Vietnam, towards the end of his historic Asia tour last week, saying, “Why would Kim Jong-Un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat’?”: Also last week, President Trump delivered a powerful speech to South Korea’s legislative body where he vowed to defend the United States and its allies against Pyongyang’s aggression. “All responsible nations must join forces to isolate the brutal regime” in North Korea, Trump said. “You cannot support, you cannot supply, you cannot accept,” he said, adding that “we will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. We will not be intimidated. And we will not let the worst atrocities in history be repeated here, on this ground we fought and died so hard to secure.” North Korea threatens to wipe out the United States using nuclear weapons on a regular basis through its state media. However, for the first time in September, the nation openly threatened an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strike on the United States. North Korean U.N. Ambassador Ja Song Nam issued a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday in which he blamed the United States for the causing what it described as “the worst ever situation” following a series of joint military exercises by the U.S. and South Korea. The U.S. has deployed nuclear war equipment and is ready to strike should North Korea initiate an act of war. Also on Monday, a North Korean soldier attempted to gain freedom by dashing across the Joint Security Area, or the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), located at the 38th parallel, in an attempt to defect to South Korea. The soldier was reportedly shot five times but made it to freedom and is recovering. Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1039095)	11/16/2017 11:01:31 AM
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Detroit police officers fight each other in undercover op gone wrong. Sources say it started when two special ops officers from the 12th Precinct were operating a “push off” on Andover near Seven Mile. That is when two undercover officers pretend to be dope dealers, waiting for eager customers to approach, and then arrest potential buyers and seize their vehicles. But this time, instead of customers, special ops officers from the 11th Precinct showed up. Not realizing they were fellow officers, they ordered the other undercover officers to the ground. FOX 2 is told the rest of the special ops team from the 12th Precinct showed up, and officers began raiding a house in the 19300 block of Andover. But instead of fighting crime, officers from both precincts began fighting with each other. Sources say guns were drawn and punches were thrown while the homeowner stood and watched. The department’s top cops were notified along with Internal Affairs. Each officer involved is now under investigation as the department tried to determine what went wrong. I’m having a hard time working up any sympathy for undercover cops engaged in a sting operations aimed at using asset forfeiture to seize citizens’ cars.

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1039095)	11/16/2017 3:58:05 PM
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SLATE: Al Franken Should Resign Immediately: Democrats’ credibility on sexual harassment is at stake.

To: James Seagrove who wrote (1039095)	11/16/2017 7:44:33 PM
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Taxpayers pay legal bill to protect Trump business profits Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAYPublished 3:06 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2017 \| Updated 4:32 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2017 (Photo: Alex Brandon, AP) Taxpayers are footing the legal bill for at least 10 Justice Department lawyers and paralegals to work on lawsuits related to President Trump's private businesses. Neither the White House nor the Justice Department will say how much it is costing taxpayers, but federal payroll records show the salaries of the government lawyers assigned to the cases range from about $133,000 to $185,000. The government legal team is defending President Trump in four lawsuits stemming from his unusual decision not to divest himself from hundreds of his companies that are entangled with customers that include foreign governments and officials. In the cases, Justice Department attorneys are not defending policy actions Trump took as president. Instead, the taxpayer-funded lawyers are making the case that it is not unconstitutional for the president's private companies to earn profits from foreign governments and officials while he's in office. The government lawyers and Trump's private attorneys are making the same arguments — that the Constitution's ban on a president taking gifts from foreign interests in exchange for official actions does not apply to foreign government customers buying things from Trump's companies. The plaintiffs, including ethics groups and competing businesses, argue the payments pose an unconstitutional conflict of interest. What a neat way to take bribes ... just get people to throw business your way. The Justice Department for weeks refused to answer questions about how many employees were working on the cases and for how long, falsely saying the agency doesn't track such information. USA TODAY identified the government legal staff who are defending Trump’s business profits using the agency's own internal case-tracking database, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The Justice Department traditionally defends the office of the president and its occupants’ rights in court, sometimes under novel circumstances. However, the cases about Trump’s businesses create a historically awkward and unusual position for the public lawyers: the result of their arguments in court is to protect the president’s potential customer base. “We’ve never before had a president who was branded and it’s impossible to divorce from that brand,” said Stuart Gerson, who served as chief of the Justice Department's civil division for Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. “It’s blurring the lines because it’s so unusual. I can’t think of a precedent where another civil division lawyer has been called on to defend the president under these circumstances.” More: Trump's hotels will not track all foreign profits USA TODAY Investigation: Most Trump real estate now sold to secretive buyers [ With Slavic and Turkish accents. And soon Chinese accents. ] USA TODAY Investigation: Trump gets millions from golf members. CEOs and lobbyists get access to president [ The US government is a money making business for Don the Con. ] The conflict-of-interest lawsuits that the Justice Department attorneys are working on hinge on Constitutional provision aimed at making sure federal officials do not get anything of value from foreign powers that might conflict with their first duty to the United States. [ Trump's first duty to the US? HA ha ha. His first duty is to Trump! ] Ethics watchdog groups and other plaintiffs contend that ban applies to foreign governments and officials buying Trump real estate, hotel rooms or other services. Trump’s federal and private lawyers argue that the foreign government customers’ payments are not gifts offered in exchange for him taking action on their behalf. “In the emoluments cases, you’ve got the DOJ defending him on constitutional principles, but their end goal is to let him keep his money and they’re defending his personal interests,” said William Weinstein, a New York attorney suing Trump in one of the foreign payments cases. [ Govt lawyers are working to establish the emoluments clause is meaningless. Cause it gets in the way of him monetizing the Presidency. ] The government and private attorneys working on the cases related to Trump's private businesses all declined comment. Whether Trump is defended by public or private lawyers can depend on whether someone is suing Donald Trump the person or President Donald Trump. In the case of the Washington hotel Trump's company operates six blocks from the White House, he is defending attacks from all sides, from those who named him in his government capacity, and as the real estate mogul who still draws profits from his family-run hotel empire. Last month, Brett Shumate, DOJ’s deputy assistant attorney general argued Trump’s case in a Manhattan courtroom. He said that foreigners staying in Trump’s hotels aren’t providing “foreign gifts” because there is no proof they got an official benefit from the U.S. government in exchange for patronizing the president's business. “President Obama, we know he received royalties from the sale of books during his presidency," the government lawyer argued in court. "Did he violate the Emoluments Clause because he likely would have received royalties from the sale of the books to foreign government representatives?” Shumate went on to say the arguments that the founders intended for a president’s businesses to not sell things to foreign government customers was absurd. In the end, if the government lawyers' arguments win, Trump’s companies – and he – gain financially. The Justice Department lawyers' involvement is “strange,” said U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who pressed Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a hearing last month about how his department determined it was appropriate to defend Trump in the cases about his private businesses. Sessions said he “believed” DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel was consulted. Spokesmen for both the DOJ and the Office of Legal Counsel would not answer questions whether the office reviewed the appropriateness of DOJ attorneys working on the case. “It’s the responsibility of the Department of Justice to defend the Office of the Presidency in carrying out its activities against charges that are not deemed meritorious," Sessions said. "We believe that this is defensible and we’ve taken the position that our top lawyers’ believe is justified." The department blocked a USA TODAY request under the Freedom of Information Act seeking release of time sheets for attorneys working the case, arguing the lawyers’ hours are covered by attorney-client privilege. USA TODAY has appealed. For President Trump, the free government attorneys are a bargain. Private attorneys in places like Washington and New York could cost him at least $500 to $1,000 an hour. “In many ways, they’ve sued the wrong person. When Paula Jones sued Clinton she didn’t sue the president, she sued the alleged sexual assaulter, a private person,” said Andy Grewal, a law professor at the University of Iowa that has written about the emoluments challenges. Although President Clinton was represented by a private lawyer, because he was sued as a private citizen, DOJ went to court on multiple occasions to argue that the president should not have to defend a private civil suit while in office. Had the court agreed with that view, it would have allowed him to put off dealing with a harassment suit until he left office. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/15/taxpayers-pay-legal-bill-protect-trump-business-profits/848354001/ [ If Maralago is the Southern White House, all the profits should go into the federal treasury. ]