McConnell on impeachment: 'I'm not impartial about this at all. I swore to God I would be impartial but I'm not.' #JustKiddingGod🤷🏼♂️ https://t.co/MhSUsoErdq
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There's a shift happening in Major League Soccer that can't be ignored.Say goodbye to the days of "retirement league" labels and welcome a fresh batch of highly ambitious players arriving from various parts of the world. The impact of stars like David Beckham, Wayne Rooney and Zlatan Ibrahimovic was vital for building exposure. But this is officially a new era.Take a look at some of the biggest offseason acquisitions and you'll notice a trend of Latin American players jumping on board. Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez was the biggest splash, with the Los Angeles Galaxy reportedly signing the Mexican star on Friday.Another prime example is new Sporting Kansas City striker Alan Pulido, the leading scorer during Liga MX's Apertura season last fall. With aspirations of donning the Mexican national team jersey again, Pulido saw the move to MLS as a no-brainer."The decision I made to be here is because the league has become very competitive, they've brought in players of high caliber," Pulido said. "The quality has improved and it also makes me happy that there are more and more Mexicans here."
Some proponents have even resurrected words like nullification and interposition, terms first used extensively by Southern secessionists prior to the Civil War and more recently during the "massive resistance" to federal laws requiring desegregation in the 1960s. [...]Despite the rhetoric about gun confiscation and governmental overreach, most of the measures proposed by Democrats are widely supported by Virginians. A December poll indicated that universal background checks, one of the first measures that will be enacted, are supported by 86 percent of Virginia voters. A bill that would allow courts to temporarily prevent the dangerously mentally ill from having access to firearms, the so-called "red flag" law, enjoys the support of 73 percent of Virginians, and similar measures have been passed in seventeen states and D.C., including Florida, Nevada, New York, and Colorado.
CNN said that in the audio, Trump did not repeat that Soleimani was an imminent threat. Trump said Soleimani was "saying bad things about our country" before the strike, which led to his decision to authorise the assassination.
The large color photograph that greets visitors to a National Archives exhibit celebrating the centennial of women's suffrage shows a massive crowd filling Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Trump's inauguration.The 49-by-69-inch photograph is a powerful display. Viewed from one perspective, it shows the 2017 march. Viewed from another angle, it shifts to show a 1913 black-and-white image of a women's suffrage march also on Pennsylvania Avenue. The display links momentous demonstrations for women's rights more than a century apart on the same stretch of pavement.But a closer look reveals a different story.The Archives acknowledged in a statement this week that it made multiple alterations to the photo of the 2017 Women's March showcased at the museum, blurring signs held by marchers that were critical of Trump.
In March, Parnas sent Harvey a link to a story by conservative columnist John Solomon suggesting the Ukrainians sought to help Hillary Clinton win in 2016."Any documents for us or are you going to keep working through Solomon?" the Nunes aide texted back a few days later.
Steve Hassen, a cult expert and author of a book called "The Cult of Trump," spoke to Insider about the ways in which Trump and his circle behave share characteristics with cults."What's interesting and shocking to me is to hear Lev Parnas describe [Trump] as a cult leader and such, and I'm curious how he arrived to that insight," Hassen said, referring to an MSNBC interview Parnas gave."I knew that Trump fit the stereotypical profile of all cult leaders, which is essentially malignant narcissism, which is the narcissism -- plus the psychopathic elements of feeling above the law, the pathological lying, paranoia, the jealousy, the harassment," he added.The cult comparison has also been used by Michael Cohen, Trump's one-time lawyer. A friend of Cohen's told The New York Times last February that Cohen "would describe it as being something akin to a cult" and he "got sucked into it.""First of all, cult leaders think they're above everybody else, above the law, and then everything exists for their adulation," Hassen said."Cult leaders think nothing of using people like pawns to get their way, and it doesn't matter if there are people on the staff saying this is a bad idea, which apparently Bolton did," Hassen said. In December The New York Times reported that former national security adviser John Bolton tried to convince Trump to release military aid to Ukraine."His will matters more than any rationality and the potential consequence," Hassen continued.He said cult leaders also have a tendency to cast out anyone who disagrees with them. He says this can be seen in the record high turnover of staff in the Trump White House.
Newly released text messages show the extensive communication between Rudy Giuliani's indicted 'fixer' Lev Parnas and an aide to Rep. Devin Nunes, the Republican ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee.House Democrats released the messages in a document dump on Friday, showing Parnas texting with Derek Harvey, a top Nunes aide.The messages show that Harvey was far more involved than previously known in Parnas and Giuliani's freelance investigation into Ukraine matters, including their theory that Joe Biden had corruptly influenced an investigation into a gas company where his son sat on the board.
A woman who says she was Jeffrey Epstein's first known victim claims in a new lawsuit that the multimillionaire sex offender introduced her to Donald Trump when she was 14, saying "This is a good one, right?"