Trump levels new blast at Sessions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions gathers his thoughts as he takes the podium for his press conference on efforts to combat violent crime at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia on Aug. 9 in Macon, Ga.
spending began in 2016 with inquiries by the Federal Election Commission. The FBI first conducted a search of Hunter’s office in February 2017, shortly after Trump was inaugurated.
Trump’s tweets – denouncing Sessions for in effect failing to use his official authority to try to tip the electoral scales in favor of Republicans – came even as he is under investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III for possibly seeking to obstruct justice in the Russia probe, including by his
past attacks on Sessions for not ending it.
The president’s outburst came toward the end of a holiday weekend marked by his reported frustration over five days of televised commemorations for the late Sen. John Mccain, R-ariz., a frequent target of Trump’s derision. He was not invited to any of the memorial events, culminating in a funeral Saturday in Washington’s National Cathedral where Trump’s predecessors, Barack Obama and George W. Bush, gave the eulogies.
Tropical Storm Gordon will grow into a hurricane as it grazes offshore natural gas and oil fields, where it has already sparked evacuations, before coming ashore somewhere along the Louisiana and Mississippi coastline early Wednesday.
Gordon, with top winds of 50 miles per hour, was about 50 miles southwest of Fort Myers, Fla, according to a National Hurricane Center advisory.
“Gradual strengthening is forecast during the next 36 hours, and Gordon is expected to be a hurricane when it makes landfall along the central Gulf Coast,” Senior Hurricane Specialist Stacy Stewart wrote in his forecast. “All preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion, as tropical storm conditions are expected to arrive in the warning areas Tuesday afternoon or evening.”
A man stood and yelled “shame on you” as Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl on Sunday addressed the sex abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church and asked parishioners to pray for Pope Francis as he deals with the problem.
A video of the incident inside Annunciation Catholic Church in Washington shows the man, identified by CNN as Brian Garfield, walking angrily toward the exit after he could be heard yelling at Wuerl during a short speech, in which the cardinal also asked parishioners to forgive his “errors in judgment” in handling sexual abuse claims while he was a bishop in Pittsburgh. Garfield, who could not be reached for comment Monday, told CNN that he is a lifelong Catholic angry about the findings of a grand jury report in Pennsylvania released last month that documented abuse by 300 priests over the course of 70 years.
– Appeal-democrat news services