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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016
Three more taken
into custody as
Bundy urges refuge
occupiers to leave
Grant County man watches
arrests of standoff leaders
Hannibal stayed there well
into the night; they eventually
395
Site of planned
Stranded for hours as author-
let him drive through the scene.
town hall meeting
7
ities blocked the highway, a
ORE.
He was told there was a dead
Tuesday, Jan. 26
Grant County resident watched
body ahead.
19
as some of the leaders of the
He saw a vehicle about a
26
refuge occupation were arrested
quarter or half a mile up the
26
John Day
Tuesday.
road and the passenger-side
Prairie
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26
BAKER
City
The FBI and Oregon State
window appeared to have been
Canyon City
Police closed a portion of U.S.
shot out. That vehicle had left
MALHEUR
NATIONAL
Highway 395 between John
the highway and probably
GRANT
FOREST
Day and Burns to apprehend
traveled 50 feet up into the
MALHEUR
CROOK
NATIONAL
the
occupation
leaders
snow.
Seneca
FOREST
41 miles of
traveling north to John Day for
“There was a ton of people
U.S. Highway 395
a community meeting. Ammon
there last night,” both FBI
closed Tuesday,
Bundy and four others were
agents and many state troopers,
Jan. 26, during
arrested, and one suspect died
he said.
apprehension of
after being shot by police.
He was held up from 3:30
Ammon Bundy
Dave Hannibal, of Dayville,
p.m.
to about 11 p.m. before
395
20
and six other
did not see the exchange of
driving out.
militants.
Burns Municipal
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Hannibal said, although he
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agrees government overreach
area for law
Burns
He was driving north on U.S.
can be oppressive, he believes
Hines
enforcement assets
20
Highway 395 near the Devine
solutions can be found through
78
205
Ridge summit, 50 miles
“collective participation” rather
Crane
HARNEY
Malheur
south of John Day, Tuesday
than “taking up arms and taking
Lake
395
afternoon when he came across
over buildings.”
four vehicles of FBI agents.
“I’m pleased that the
Harney
An FBI agent had a conver-
situation has been resolved,”
Wagontire
78
Lake
sation with Hannibal, telling
he said. “... To take up arms
Refuge headquarters;
him he couldn’t pass until they
against the government in
site of occupation by
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today’s world is a losing propo-
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militant group
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realize that the FBI was waiting
sition at best. It is sad someone
WILDLIFE
for the Bundy caravan to come
REFUGE
died over this.”
by on Highway 395.
John Day resident Kim
Approximate site of
N
Frenchglen
Hannibal was on a side
McKrola was also trying to
Hammond Ranch
20 miles
street, parked at a 90-degree
return home Tuesday evening,
angle from the highway, as the
but the road was closed. She
205
Alan Kenaga/Capital Press
FBI waited for the Bundy group
said no hotel rooms were
to show up. When the FBI which was blocking both lanes.
He saw law enforce- available.
pulled out onto the highway, he The FBI asked Hannibal and ment arrest two people in the
“Every hotel was full mostly
the vehicles behind him to back rear vehicle. There was no E\ JRYHUQPHQW RI¿FLDOV DQG
pulled out behind them.
He watched the detain- up south. There was a snow- ¿JKW IURP ZKDW KH VDZ 7KH one hotel manager told me 200
ment of the people who were mobile behind Hannibal; he detainees were handcuffed and more police were coming over
traveling in the rear vehicle of backed up a good distance.
sat on the highway. He saw two today (Wednesday),” she said.
the Bundy caravan.
Then Hannibal sat on the people he had seen on the news,
Erick Bengel of The Daily
He pulled onto the highway side of the road and watched but he couldn’t name them with Astorian contributed to this
behind the last FBI suburban, from afar, taking photos.
certainty.
story.
Blue Mountain Eagle
Area in
detail
read this statement from his
client: “Please stand down.
Go home and hug your
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Three the courts.”
It was unclear whether
members of an armed
group occupying an Oregon the rest of Bundy’s followers
wildlife refuge surrendered still holed up at the Malheur
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said, hours after their jailed south of Burns were ready
leader urged the remaining to heed his advice. Occupier
David Fry said in a live
occupiers to go home.
The
three
arrests stream from the refuge that
Wednesday came a day after ¿YH DFWLYLVWV UHPDLQHG DQG
the arrests of leader Ammon they were in touch with the
Bundy and seven others FBI.
Meanwhile, details began
and the death of another
occupier in a confrontation to emerge about the confron-
tation Tuesday on a remote
with law enforcement.
The group, which has highway that resulted in the
included people from as death of Robert Finicum.
Bundy followers gave
far away as Arizona and
Michigan, seized the head- FRQÀLFWLQJDFFRXQWVRIKRZ
quarters of the Malheur Finicum died. One said
National Wildlife Refuge Finicum charged at FBI
on Jan. 2. They want federal agents, who then shot him. A
lands turned over to local member of the Bundy family
said Finicum did nothing to
authorities.
The FBI and Oregon provoke the agents.
An Oregon man who says
State Police said that
45-year-old Duane Leo he witnessed the shootout
Ehmer of Irrigon, Oregon, says he heard about a half-
and 34-year-old Dylan dozen shots but didn’t see
Wade Anderson of Provo, anyone get hit, and that the
Utah, turned themselves shooting happened quickly
in around 3:30 p.m. — over maybe 12 or 15
Wednesday. And 43-year- seconds. Raymond Doherty
old Jason S. Patrick of told Portland TV station
Bonaire, Georgia, did the KOIN-TV that he was about
100 feet back and couldn’t
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Portland on Wednesday, saw them shooting at each
his attorney, Mike Arnold, other.”
By KEITH RIDLER
and TERRENCE PETTY
Associated Press
AN ANALYSIS
There or not, Donald Trump drives the GOP debate
GOP debate
is tonight at 6
on Fox News
debate stage Thursday night,
Trump said he will host an
event at the same time to raise
money for wounded veterans.
The move puts the other
seven Republican partici-
By STEVE PEOPLES
pants in an awkward position.
Associated Press
Attack the party’s absentee
front-runner, and provide him
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa with even more attention? Or
— Once again, Donald Trump ignore him, and leave voters
steals the show.
wondering what they think
The billionaire Republi- of the national front-runner’s
can’s decision to tangle with hardball play just days before
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presidential debate before
“I think, you know, the
Iowa’s kickoff caucuses all but media’s been handled by
ensures that he — and he alone him,” New Jersey Gov. Chris
— will dominate the conversa- Christie, one of Trump’s rivals
tion in the closing moments of for the GOP nomination, said
campaigning in 2016’s leadoff in an interview Tuesday night
state.
on Fox News. “And I think,
It’s a move that for any other you know, folks have allowed
candidate would probably be him to do things that no other
viewed as un-presidential. But candidate’s ever been allowed
for Trump, it’s more likely to to do in American presidential
serve as fresh evidence that history.”
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“This takes guts, and moments. He’s questioned
is the kind mentality our whether Arizona Sen. John
country needs in order to McCain is worthy of being
Make America Great Again,” called a war hero, graphically
Trump’s campaign charged criticized Fox News anchor
in a statement that cited Megyn Kelly and unveiled
his campaign slogan and a widely condemned plan to
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decision.
States.
Instead of appearing on the
Each led his rivals, political
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks
with University of Iowa football players before a campaign
event at the University of Iowa Field House, Tuesday, in
Iowa City, Iowa.
professionals and pundits
to predict his undoing. But
instead, Trump has main-
tained his support in the pref-
erence polls he loves to tout
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to capture the feelings of a
Republican electorate deeply
skeptical of the party’s estab-
lishment and the country’s
news organizations.
“I think in some ways,
we’ve got to start pushing
back. And I think he’s just
demonstrating that, pushing
against the liberal media,”
said Yvonne Galusha, 57, a
Trump backer who works at
the University of Iowa and
attended his Tuesday night
rally in Iowa City.
For the past several days,
Trump had sought Kelly’s
removal as a moderator of
the Thursday night debate.
His back and forth with the
network reached a tipping
point on Tuesday afternoon,
when Fox News mocked
Trump with a sarcastic
statement that said the leaders
of Iran and Russia “both intend
to treat Donald Trump unfairly
when they meet with him if he
becomes president.”
His rivals tried to paint his
reaction — “Let them have
their debate and let’s see how
they do with the ratings,”
Trump said — as the latest
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the White House.
“If he doesn’t want to be
there, that’s OK with me,”
Christie told Kelly on her
show Tuesday night. “But I’ll
tell you this: the American
people should wonder if
you’re not willing to show up
when everything isn’t going
your way and exactly the way
you want to.”
That’s an argument yet to
dent Trump’s standing among
his supporters, who view
such actions as a reminder
of what they like most about
him: Trump plays by his own
rules, even if that means taking
on his party’s leadership and
his party’s favorite television
network.
“With me, they’re dealing
with somebody that’s a little
bit different,” Trump said.
“They can’t toy with me like
they toy with everybody else.”
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to hide their disappointment,
if not their concern for the
tremendous power Trump
wields in the 2016 primary
contest.
“Every candidate has the
right to decide not to partici-
pate in a sanctioned debate,”
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in charge of the Republican
National Committee’s debate
efforts. “Time will tell whether
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hurts his campaign.”
Trump’s campaign manager,
Corey Lewandowski, said
Wednesday that “Mr. Trump
doesn’t play games. ... He
walks away from bad deals.”
“At the end of the day,” he
said on MSNBC, “Mr. Trump
is going to have the last laugh.”
Debates have long been
considered critical moments for
voters and candidates alike, and
Fox News was more pointed
than the RNC in its response
to Trump’s decision to sit their
event out. “We’re not sure how
Iowans are going to feel about
him walking away from them
at the last minute,” the network
said in a statement.
Marc McGee, a graphic
artist who lives in Cedar
Rapids and was at Trump’s
rally Tuesday night, said
Trump made the wrong call.
“You should show up and
go through the motions, you
know,” he said. “If I was mad
at work, I don’t just stay home,
you know.”
Still, the 52-year-old voter
said the decision didn’t really
bother him, describing it more
likely an attempt to draw
attention than anything else.
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