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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Mixed signals from
Trump on VA nominee
as allegations build
Associated Press
Macron tells
Congress of ‘special’
US-French bond
WASHINGTON — French President
Emmanuel Macron drew today on the “shared
bond” of U.S.-French relations to call for a
rejection of isolationism and instead for the
countries to bond together anew for a 21st cen-
tury security.
Macron opened a joint meeting of Congress,
saying “the American and French people have
had a rendezvous with freedom.”
Speaking almost directly to President Donald
Trump, Macron quickly turned to the top issues
of Syria, free trade and the Paris accord on cli-
mate change — issues where he and Trump dis-
agree — as he urged the United States not to
retreat from world affairs, but to embrace its his-
toric role as a military leader of world affairs.
“We are living in a time of anger and fear
because of these current global threats,” Macron
told lawmakers. “You can play with fears and
angers for a time, but they do not construct
anything.”
With a nod to great American leaders, includ-
ing former President Franklin Roosevelt, he
warned against sowing seeds of fear.
In recounting common bonds from the ear-
liest days of the United States, Macron talked
about a meeting between Ben Franklin and the
French philosopher Voltaire, “kissing each oth-
er’s cheeks.”
In an apparent reference to his friendly meet-
ings this week with Trump, he said, “It can
remind you of something.”
Macron was speaking as part of his visit to
the United States. It’s the first time a president
from France has addressed Congress in more
than a decade, but follows a tradition of foreign
leaders appearing at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump seems likely to
win travel ban case at
Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump
appears likely to win his travel ban case at the
Supreme Court.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice
Anthony Kennedy both signaled support for
the travel policy in arguments today at the high
court. The ban’s challengers almost certainly
need one of those two justices if the court is to
strike down the ban on travelers from several
mostly Muslim countries.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the most
aggressive questioner of Solicitor General Noel
Francisco in his defense of the Trump policy,
and the three other liberal justices also raised
questions about it.
The justices voted in December to allow the
policy to take full effect pending their full con-
sideration. Today was the first time they took it
up in open court.
The Trump administration is asking the court
to reverse lower court rulings that would strike
down the ban.
The Supreme Court is considering whether
the president can indefinitely keep people out of
the country based on nationality. It is also look-
Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
People pay tribute at a memorial in Toronto to the victims of Monday’s van attack.
Toronto van attack suspect may
have felt anger against women
TORONTO — A chilling Facebook message posted before a van plowed onto a crowded
Toronto sidewalk has raised the possibility the suspect in the attack nursed grudges against
women, and it is bringing back memories of a 1989 massacre of 14 women that remains one of
Canada’s most traumatic acts of violence.
A crowd gathered late Tuesday in Toronto’s North York community to pay their respects to
the van victims at a makeshift memorial of roses, candles and messages of condolence.
Earlier in the day, the 25-year-old suspect, Alek Minassian, was charged with first-degree
murder in the deaths of 10 pedestrians mowed down by a rented van that he sent careening
along a mile of a busy walkway. Fourteen others were injured.
The gender issue arose because of what police called a “cryptic” Facebook message posted
by Minassian just before the incident that suggested he was part of an online community angry
over their inability to form relationships with women.
The now-deleted post saluted Elliot Rodger, a community college student who killed six
people and wounded 13 in shooting and stabbing attacks near the University of California,
Santa Barbara, in 2014.
Although police said Monday’s rampage did not appear linked to international terrorism,
the use of a vehicle to kill mirrored tactics used by terrorists in France, Germany, Spain, New
York City and elsewhere.
ing at whether the policy is aimed at excluding
Muslims from the United States. A decision is
expected by late June.
People waited in line for seats for days, and
this morning opponents of the ban demonstrated
outside the court holding signs that read “No
Muslim Ban. Ever” and “Refugees Welcome,”
among other things. In another sign of height-
ened public interest, the court was taking the
rare step of making an audio recording of the
proceedings available just hours after the argu-
ments. The last time the court did that was for
gay marriage arguments in 2015.
Judge deals big
setback to Trump on
‘Dreamers’ program
SAN DIEGO — A federal judge ruled that
the Trump administration must resume a pro-
gram that has shielded hundreds of thousands of
young immigrants from deportation, but gave it
90 days to restate its arguments before his order
takes effect.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge John D.
Bates in Washington, if it survives the 90-day
reprieve, would be a new setback for the admin-
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Waffle House
suspect’s ex-bosses
asked feds to help him
SALIDA, Colorado — The co-owner
of a Colorado crane company that once
employed the Waffle House shooting suspect
said they urged the Secret Service to try to help
him after he was arrested at the White House last
year.
Police say Travis Reinking, 29, killed four
people and wounded four others with an AR-15
rifle Sunday as he stormed the restaurant in
Nashville wearing nothing but a green jacket.
But Reinking had exhibited erratic behavior
for years before the shooting. Darlene Sustrich,
who co-owns a Colorado crane company where
Reinking once worked, said they got a call from
the Secret Service after he refused to leave a
restricted area at the White House last July.
“We told them, ‘Hang onto him if you can.
Help him if you can,’” Sustrich said.
Reinking has been charged with four counts
of criminal homicide. And a tweet from the
Metro Nashville Police Department said he also
faces four counts of attempted murder and one
count of unlawful possession in the commission
of a violent felony.
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istration because it would require the adminis-
tration to accept requests from first-time appli-
cants for the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program. Two nationwide injunctions
earlier this year applied only to renewal requests.
Bates said the administration’s decision to
end DACA, announced in September, relied
on “meager legal reasoning.” He invited the
Department of Homeland Security to try again,
“this time providing a fuller explanation for the
determination that the program lacks statutory
and constitutional authority.”
The judge, ruling in favor of Princeton Uni-
versity and the NAACP, wrote Tuesday that the
administration’s explanation was “particularly
egregious” because it didn’t mention that many
of the hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries
had obtained jobs and pursued education based
on the assumption that they would be allowed
to renew.
The Homeland Security Department didn’t
immediately respond to a request for comment.
The administration said in September that it
would phase out DACA over six months, call-
ing the program started in 2012 under President
Barack Obama an abuse of executive power. It
said it was forced to act because Texas and other
states threatened to sue, raising the prospect of a
chaotic end to the program.
WASHINGTON — His nomination in peril,
Veterans Affairs nominee Ronny Jackson fought
to convince lawmakers of his leadership abili-
ties as more details of accusations against him
emerged, ranging from repeated drunkenness to
a toxic work environment as he served as a top
White House doctor.
President Donald Trump sent mixed signals
about his choice to lead the sprawling veterans’
agency, suggesting during a White House news
conference that Jackson may want to withdraw
because of unfair scrutiny. But the president pri-
vately urged his nominee to keep fighting to win
Senate confirmation, and Jackson showed few
signs of backing down.
A 2012 report by the Navy’s Medical Inspec-
tor General found that Jackson and a rival phy-
sician exhibited “unprofessional behaviors” as
they engaged in a power struggle over the White
House medical unit. It found a lack of trust in the
leadership and low morale among staff mem-
bers, who described the working environment as
“being caught between parents going through a
bitter divorce.”
The inspector general report included no ref-
erences to improper prescribing of drugs or the
use of alcohol, separate allegations revealed by a
Senate committee.
Jackson declined to answer reporters’ ques-
tions about those allegations and gave no indi-
cation he would withdraw. The White House
disputed that he had improperly administered
medication, saying the medical unit passed reg-
ular audits by the Controlled Substance Inven-
tory Board.
After the Senate Veterans Affairs Commit-
tee abruptly postponed his confirmation hear-
ing, which had been set for today, Jackson vis-
ited lawmakers to assure them he was fit to lead
the VA.
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