POPE VISITS QUAKE-STRICKEN TOWN
SCHIFF: TRUMP SHIFTING ATTENTION FROM RUSSIA
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday that President Trump’s claims about illegal wiretapping and news leaks are an attempt to distract people from the overall investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians who sought to influence last year’s election.
“I would tell people, whenever they see the president use the word ‘fake,’ it ought to set off alarm bells,” said Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaking on CNN’s State of the Union.
While Schiff said “I don’t think we can say anything definitively at this point” about the probes of Trump and Russia, the president denounced the entire set of investigations and continued to stress claims that former president Barack Obama and his administration had him wiretapped last year.
NEW YORK POST APOLOGIZES FOR ‘HEIL PRESIDENT’ ALERT
The New York Post issued an apology Sunday on Twitter after an April Fools’ Day hack of the
Post app resulted in a flurry of push alert notifications including “Heil President Donald Trump!”
“The push alert system for our mobile app was compromised this evening. Please accept our apologies,” the Post tweeted early Sunday.
The Trump reference was one in a burst of Post alerts sent late Saturday, possibly aimed at Trump, that included some religious references and a dash of Nirvana. Social media quickly pounced on them, but the notifications lasted just a few minutes.
“In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned,” one of the alerts said. Another, which quoted a line from Nirvana’s song from 1991
Come As You Are: “Take your time, hurry up, the choice is yours, but dont be late.”
PRO-ASSANGE CANDIDATE WINS IN ECUADOR ELECTION
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will likely be able to remain at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London after voters in Ecuador on Sunday narrowly elected ruling party candidate Lenín Moreno over conservative Guillermo Lasso.
Moreno, the political successor to President Rafael Correa, had said he would allow Assange to stay. Correa in 2012 granted asylum to Assange, who hasn’t left the embassy since.
Moreno won the presidential runoff with 51% of the vote, according to an official quick count by by the National Electoral Council, although Lasso was seeking a recount after three exit polls showed him winning by a comfortable margin.