Trump Manager Charged, Supremes Split
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Vol. 5, No. 90
Bruising Campaign: Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski turned himself in yesterday in Jupiter, Fla. to face misdemeanor battery charges for grabbing a reporter for Breitbart News. Lewandowski’s arrest was the subject of a daylong gabfest on cable news and dominated part of last night’s Republican town hall in Milwaukee.
Trump and his campaign people say Lewandowski did nothing wrong and will fight the charges.
Video of the incident shows Michelle Fields following Donald Trump in a crowd and Lewandowski jerking her away. Fields resigned from Breitbart saying they had not publicly supported her after the incident.
Trump has been accused of whipping up crowds to the point of violence. His opponent Ted Cruz said of the Lewandowski incident, “This is the consequence of the culture of the Trump campaign.”
Hillary Clinton called Trump a “political arsonist.”
In a town hall meeting in Milwaukee last night, Trump backed off his pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee, no matter who it is. He said he hasn’t been treated fairly.
The Supremes: A 4-4 split in the Supreme Court has resulted effectively in a win for public employee unions that require non-member government employees to pay union fees. Before Justice Antonin Scalia died, the court appeared to lean toward ruling that a group of California teachers would not have to financially support the teachers’ union they refused to join.
The split decision leaves the union rules in place. A ruling in favor of the dissident teachers would have financially weakened public employee unions across the country, and hindered their bargaining power.
It’s Political: A week before his state’s primary, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has thrown his support to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over Donald Trump. He tweeted, “Americans want leadership. I endorse @TedCruz, a principled constitutional conservative who can win.” Walker was briefly the Republican presidential favorite until he was crushed by Trump last September.
iHack: An Israeli newspaper reports that the FBI got help from an Israeli company to hack into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists. The website of the company, Cellebrite, says they can get into a locked iPhone 5C, the phone in question, as well as other locked phones. Apple had refused to help the FBI do it.
World: The EgyptAir hijacking ended yesterday in Cyprus after authorities arranged for the Egyptian hijacker to speak to his ex-wife. All passengers and crew were safely released.
The Obit Page: Patty Duke, the Oscar-winning actress who struggled with bi-polar syndrome and starred in a popular 1960s sitcom, died at age 69 after suffering a ruptured intestine.
Duke starred on Broadway at age 12 in “The Miracle Worker” about the blind and deaf Helen Keller. In 1962 she won the Academy Award for the same role in the movie adaptation.
In “The Patty Duke Show,” which ran from 1963 to 1966, she played identical cousins who got into innocent mishaps. Duke was taken from her alcoholic mother by her managers who controlled her life, took her money, and, she later wrote, sexually abused her. She ended up marrying four times.
About her television show she wrote, “I hated being less intelligent than I was. I hated pretending I was younger than I was, I hated not being consulted about anything, having no choice in how I looked or what I wore, I hated being trapped.”
Gold Watch: Network news bosses are notorious for interrupting their reporters’ weekends, theater plans, dinners, vacations, honeymoons, and now even their retirement. A week ago, CBS News announced that after 35 years veteran foreign correspondent Allen Pizzey had signed off for the last time. Then the Brussels suicide bombs went off the next day and the office called.
Pizzey has taken the lead in CBS’s coverage of the attacks and the subsequent manhunt. He’s been retired for more than a week and has yet to see the beach.
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