Trump Hates the System, 28 Pages
Monday, April 11, 2016
Vol. 5, No. 102
The Numbers Game: Donald Trump’s campaign is accusing Ted Cruz of “Gestapo tactics” after Cruz swept up all 34 delegates in Colorado over the weekend. Trump posted on Twitter last night, “The people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians. Biggest story in politics. This will not be allowed!”
The Colorado Republicans did not have a caucus or a primary. Instead, Cruz won all the delegates through a series of meetings with party bosses. In addition to Colorado, Cruz’s more professional organization has stung Trump in In Louisiana, Colorado, South Carolina and Iowa.
Cruz is now 226 delegates behind Trump as the Republicans are likely to have a contested convention.
Fake News: Despite a growing belief by both the public and politicians that the press makes things up, The Boston Globe yesterday chose to publish a front page of news — entirely made up — about what it would look like if Donald Trump were president. The headlines say, “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN,” “Markets sink as trade war looms,” and, “New libel law targets ‘absolute scum’ in press.”
The Globe, in its own way, has joined a lineup of real CNN reporters covering a fake president on HBO’s “House of Cards.” Trump, as you might expect, called the stunt stupid. Speaking in Rochester, NY, he said the Globe “made up the whole front page,” which “is really no different from the whole paper.”
In an accompanying explanation, the Globe editorial board wrote that, “It is an exercise in taking a man at his word. And his vision of America promises to be as appalling in real life as it is in black and white on the page. It is a vision that demands an active and engaged opposition.”
28 Pages: CBS’s 60 Minutes reported last night that the Obama administration is deciding whether to declassify 28 pages of documents that may describe a Saudi Arabian support network for the 9/11 attackers while they were living and preparing in the US. Former US Sen. Bob Graham, who has read the 28 pages, told Steve Kroft that, “I think it is implausible to believe that 19 people, most of whom didn’t speak English, most of whom had never been in the United States before, many of whom didn’t have a high school education– could’ve carried out such a complicated task without some support from within the United States.”
I Spy: A Taiwan-born Navy officer who became a naturalized U.S. citizen is being accused of passing classified information to China. Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin faces charges of espionage, attempted espionage and prostitution.
The officer is assigned to the headquarters for the Patrol and Reconnaissance Group, which controls naval spy planes and drones.
Lin is accused of passing information “with intent or reason to believe it would be used to the advantage of a foreign nation.”
Nation: Will Smith, 34, a former defensive end who played with the New Orleans Saints when they won the Super Bowl in 2010, was shot and killed in an apparent incident of road rage in New Orleans over the weekend.
Smith was in his Mercedes SUV with his wife Racquel when he was rear-ended by a Hummer, causing him to smack into the tail of a car occupied by two of his friends. Smith and the driver of the Hummer “exchanged words,” according to police, and the other driver pulled out a gun, shooting Smith dead and wounding his wife. Police arrested a man named Cardell Hayes, 28.
Hayes’ lawyer said, “My client was not the aggressor, in terms of the behavior that happened after the accident,” although Smith was left slumped over his own steering wheel.
Sub Par: British golfer Danny Willett came from five strokes behind in the last nine holes to rob Jordan Spieth of his second consecutive Master’s win in Augusta, Ga. It was the first major tournament win for the 28-year-old Willett.
Spieth dropped six strokes on holes 10-12. He hit the water twice. Spieth said, “I just think it was a very tough 30 minutes for me that hopefully I never experience again.”
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