NATION/WORLD
Friday, September 7, 2018
East Oregonian
Trump officials cry ‘Not me!’
as he fumes over column in
The New York Times
WASHINGTON (AP) — One after
another, President Donald Trump’s top lieu-
tenants stepped forward Thursday to declare,
“Not me.”
They lined up to deny writing an incendiary
New York Times opinion piece that was pur-
portedly submitted by a member of an admin-
istration “resistance” movement straining to
thwart Trump’s most dangerous impulses.
By email, by tweet and on camera, the
denials paraded in from Cabinet-level offi-
cials — and even Vice President Mike Pence
— apparently crafted for an audience of one,
seated in the Oval Office. Senior officials in
key national security and economic policy
roles charged the article’s writer with cow-
ardice, disloyalty and acting against Ameri-
ca’s interests in harsh terms that mimicked the
president’s own words.
Trump was incensed about the column,
calling around to confidants to vent about the
author, solicit guesses as to his or her identity
and fume that a “deep state” within the admin-
istration was conspiring against him. He
ordered aides to unmask the writer, and issued
an extraordinary demand that the newspaper
reveal the author to the government.
As striking as the essay was the long list
of officials who plausibly could have been its
author. Many have privately shared some of
the article’s same concerns about Trump with
colleagues, friends and reporters.
Twitter permanently bans
Alex Jones, Infowars, citing
abusive behavior online
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter perma-
nently banned right-wing conspiracy theorist
Alex Jones and his Infowars show for abu-
sive behavior, a day after CEO Jack Dorsey
testified before Congress about alleged bias
against conservatives on the platform.
The company said Jones won’t be able
to create new accounts on Twitter or take
over any existing ones. In a tweet, it said it
would continue to monitor reports about other
accounts potentially associated with Jones or
Infowars, and will “take action” if it finds any
attempts to circumvent the ban.
Twitter said Jones posted a video on
Wednesday that violates the company’s pol-
icy against “abusive behavior.” That video
showed Jones berating CNN journalist Oli-
ver Darcy for some 10 minutes in between
two congressional hearings on social media.
Dorsey testified at both hearings, but did not
appear to witness the confrontation.
Jones had about 900,000 followers on
Twitter. Infowars had about 430,000. Jones
did not immediately respond to a request for
comment.
AP Photo/Noah Berger
A scorched VW Beetle rests in a clearing after the Delta Fire burned through the
Lamoine community in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday.
New Jersey Democratic Rep. Frank Pal-
lone praised Twitter’s action in a tweet. “Glad
Twitter is taking steps to put an end to the abu-
sive behavior from Alex Jones & Infowars,”
the tweet stated. “Tweets designed to threaten,
belittle, demean and silence individuals have
no place on this platform.”
Mexican prosecutors find
166 skulls in mass graves
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Investigators said
Thursday they have found 166 skulls in clan-
destine burial pits in the Gulf coast state of
Veracruz, one of the biggest mass graves dis-
covered so far in Mexico.
Veracruz state prosecutor Jorge Winck-
ler said that for security reasons he would not
reveal the location of the site.
Mexican drug cartels frequently use clan-
destine pits to dispose of their victims.
Winckler said the bodies were buried at
least two years ago and did not rule out find-
ing more remains. He said investigators had
found 114 ID cards in the field, which held
about 32 burial pits.
Clothes, personal possession and other
parts of skeletons also were recovered, but
investigators focused on the skulls in count-
ing, because each corresponds to one person.
California takes financial
wallop from wildfires
SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOR-
EST, Calif. (AP) — California is taking a
financial wallop from unrelenting wildfires
that have drained its firefighting budget and
prompted nearly $1 billion in property claims
even before the start of the dangerous fall fire
season, officials said Thursday.
The disclosures came as a roaring blaze
in a rural area near the Oregon border closed
45 miles (72 kilometers) of heavily traveled
Interstate 5, the main highway from Mexico
to Canada.
Fierce orange flames forced panicked
truckers to abandon big-rigs and brought
screams from motorists as they watched the
advancing fire in Shasta-Trinity National
Forest.
A decision was expected Friday on when to
reopen the highway.
The wildfire flared just weeks after a blaze
in the Redding area killed eight people and
burned about 1,100 homes.
Democrats make final
attempt to block Kavanaugh
confirmation to High Court
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Demo-
crats mounted a last, ferocious attempt Thurs-
day to paint Supreme Court nominee Brett
Kavanaugh as a foe of abortion rights and a
likely defender of President Donald Trump if
he makes it to the high court. But their chances
of blocking Trump’s nominee seemed to fade
away by the end of a second marathon day of
testimony in his confirmation hearing.
Questioning of the 53-year-old appellate
judge wound down without him revealing
much about his judicial stances or making any
serious mistakes that might jeopardize his con-
firmation. In what almost seemed like a cele-
bration, Kavanaugh’s two daughters returned
to the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
room for the final hours of testimony, accom-
panied by teammates on Catholic school bas-
ketball teams their father has coached.
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The hearing pivoted during the day to Roe
v. Wade, the high court’s landmark abortion
case. The Democrats’ best hope of stopping
Kavanaugh — who could swing the court
further to the right for decades — would be
branding him as a justice who might vote to
overturn the ruling, attracting the votes of two
Republican senators who support abortion
rights.
A newly disclosed email suggested he once
indicated the abortion case was not settled
law, though Kavanaugh denied in the hear-
ing that he had been expressing his personal
views on the issue.
The tone in the email from 2003 contrasted
with his responses to questions on Wednesday
when he stressed how difficult it is to over-
turn precedents like Roe. In the email, Kava-
naugh was reviewing a potential op-ed arti-
cle in support of two judicial nominees while
he was working at the George W. Bush White
House. The document had been held by the
committee as confidential, but was made pub-
lic Thursday.
Film academy president says
popular Oscar proposal
was ‘misunderstood’
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The idea to hand
out a popular film Oscar has been shelved
for now following widespread backlash, but
film academy president John Bailey says that
the new category was well-intentioned in its
efforts to reflect a changing industry and mis-
understood by its critics.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences said Thursday that it will further
study plans for the category, citing the fact that
implementing a new award three quarters of
the way into the year would create challenges
for films that have already been released.
The academy announced the new cate-
gory for “outstanding achievement in pop-
ular film” last month without parameters,
spawning immediate questions about the cri-
teria and how it would impact critically and
commercially films such as “Black Panther,”
which has been cited as a possible best pic-
ture contender.
Bailey told The Associated Press he was
surprised by the negative reaction to the new
category and feels that that people did not
understand its goal to give recognition to the
kinds of films that are being made today.
“The idea of this award was not about try-
ing to make sure that certain kinds of big mass
market pictures get recognized. To my mind,
it’s more about the kind of pictures that are
so difficult to get made,” Bailey said, citing
films that he worked on like “The Big Chill”
and “Ordinary People” as the kind of “mid-
dle pictures” that major studios don’t make as
many of and, when they do, aren’t often rec-
ognized with the film industry’s most presti-
gious award.
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