Flailing Don: I blame Bam for hacking
PRESIDENT TRUMP isn’t the only one in his administration who thinks a border wall can solve problems.
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross once built an illegal wall on the perimeter of his swanky Southampton estate to block the noise from the Indian reservation across the street and the traffic along Montauk Highway.
When the billionaire cabinet member was told he couldn’t have the wall, he waged a threeyear legal battle with the local zoning board of appeals that he ultimately lost.
Ross installed the sound barrier after his infant grandson kept waking up from the procession of cars and trucks along the highway and from the parade of customers at the tax-free tobacco shops on Shinnecock Nation land.
The noise also made it nearly impossible for his family to have a conversation on his sprawling front yard, Ross said in court records. And it drowned out the serene sounds of his water fountain, he claimed.
The wealthy investor applied for a variance with the zoning board of appeals in January 2001, shortly after purchasing the home for $1.35 million. To bolster his case, he hired an acoustic expert, who found that noise levels in his yard were as much as four times louder than the local ordinance would permit at night. AS HIS CAMPAIGN remains under investigation for possible collusion with Russia, President Trump is pointing fingers at . . . his predecessor.
Trump in an interview on Sunday accused President Barack Obama of doing “nothing” about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election despite knowing about it for months.
“I just heard today for the first time that Obama knew about Russia a long time before the election, and he did nothing about it,” Trump told “Fox & Friends Weekend.”
“If he had the information, why didn’t he do something about it?”
Trump said the mainstream media was giving a free pass to Obama’s inactions while rigorously reporting on the investigations into the Trump campaign.
There are several congressional probes into Russia’s cyberattacks on the 2016 campaign, and special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether anyone in Trump’s campaign collaborated with the Kremlin.
Despite his blasting of Obama, Trump has alternatively given public statements that seemed to both support and to doubt the intelligence community findings about Russia’s role in the election.