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In unguarded moments with senior aides, President Trump has maintained that Black Americans have mainly themselves to blame in their struggle for equality, hindered more by lack of initiative than societal impediments, according to current and former U.S. officials. After phone calls with Jewish lawmakers, Trump has muttered that Jews “are only in it for themselves” and “stick together” in an ethnic allegiance that exceeds other loyalties, officials said. Trump’s private musings about Hispanics match the vitriol he has displayed in public, and his antipathy to Africa is so ingrained that when first lady Melania Trump planned a 2018 trip...

I sense we’re about to hear anti-Trumpers screech in unison: “WHY DIDN’T BOLTON TESTIFY TO ALL OF THIS IN NOVEMBER WHEN THE HOUSE IMPEACHMENT TEAM ASKED HIM TO?”Not me, though. Nothing would have changed if Bolton had testified. The Senate’s acquittal would have been even more embarrassing than it was, sure. But no one would have voted differently. Public opinion wouldn’t have moved much, if at all. This is who Trump is. There are many things that can be said about the details from Bolton’s book published this afternoon at the NYT and WaPo, and about the longer excerpt...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez never met a camera she didn’t like. And she doesn’t bother spending any time in her district, helping her constituents, either. So, of course, on Monday, AOC — seeing a chance to cash in politically with a crisis — headed to the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, to view a housing center for foreigners who have tried to sneak into America or have claimed political asylum. She wanted everyone to know, so she took to social media to make a slew of claims, none of them substantiated, including one against agents with the U.S. Customs and...

Four dentists from California, including three brothers, who faced rape charges for the alleged assault of a woman at the Wynn Las Vegas, had all charges dismissed in court Monday. Charged were Ali Badkoobehi and brothers Poria Edalat, Saman Edalat and Sina Edalat. The charges included sex assault

Full title: Female blogger is ordered to pay US Army colonel she accused of rape $8.4million in damages after he claimed the false allegations cost him a sparkling military career A jury has ordered a female blogger to pay an Army colonel she accused of rape a total of $8.4million in damages. Susan Shannon, 52, who now lives in Everett, Washington, first alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Army Colonel David 'Wil' Riggins in 1986, while they were both cadets, on her blog in 2013. She said she waited three decades to come forward about her experience because of...

They say if you want to catch a liar, merely let them talk. In the case of Judge Roy Moore accuser Leigh Corfman, just let her mother talk. In an interview with Breitbart News, Corfman’s mother Nancy Wells contradicted a key detail of her daughter’s sexual advancement claim against the Alabama GOP Senate candidate. As Breitbart News reporter Aaron Klein noted on Sunday, “Wells, 71, says that her daughter did not have a phone in her bedroom during the period that Moore is reported to have allegedly called Corfman – purportedly on Corfman’s bedroom phone – to arrange at least...

There’s a difference between being touched and being popped.Without mentioning her by name, the “stump for Trump girls” had a few choice words for former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields who reported battery to police against Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.After distinguishing a “touch” from a “pop,” the over-the-top sisters Lynette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson said that “if you don’t know the difference … bi**h, you may need a stitch.”Watch the clip via “The Viewers View.”

A disbarred lawyer for a black New York teen who falsely accused six white men of rape in 1987, says her wages shouldn't be garnished to pay a defamation award. Tawana Brawley's former lawyer, Alton Maddox, said in a letter to state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman that Steven Pagones, a former prosecutor who won a defamation suit in 1997 after Brawley falsely claimed he was one of the men who attacked her in 1987, should not get money from garnishing Brawley's wages from her nursing job, the New York Post reported Sunday. "New York and Virginia have conspired to deprive...

How the press covered for Billy Bob (BJ Clinton) as he was running for President in 1992. One of Bill Clinton's earliest public lies was made while being interviewed on 60 Minutes back then. "I did not have relations with Gennifer," was his statement, as he sat beside a more naive looking Hillary on the 60 Minutes set. Was that the interview where the stage lighting came crashing down very close to the Liar 'N Chief? Hillary was nodding her head in agreement with Bill's confession of chastity, standing by her man, as she was remembering how many times she...

WASHINGTON—A lawyer for Tom DeLay said Monday that the Justice Department has ended an investigation of the former congressman and won't file criminal charges. One of Mr. DeLay's lawyers, Richard Cullen, said the Justice Department's Office of Public Integrity informed Mr. DeLay's legal team early last week that it was ending the investigation. Justice Department spokeswoman Laura Sweeney declined to comment, which is normally the case when the department ends a criminal probe without filing charges.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has ended its six-year criminal probe of the ties between former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff without filing any criminal charges against the former congressman. One of DeLay's lawyers, Richard Cullen, said Monday the Justice Department's Office of Public Integrity informed DeLay's legal team early last week that it was ending the investigation. "Six years is a long time and I'm sure he wishes it had happened years ago," Cullen said of the conclusion of the investigation. Cullen added that "for me, the result trumps the timing." Justice Department spokeswoman...

Wrath of a woman scorned? You betcha! It took Tonya Craft less than two weeks to sue her accusers - all of them - after she was acquitted on all counts of sexual molestation of children in her kindergarten class. Read about it here (The Chattanoogan, 5/24/10). I wrote about the acquittal here. Up until May 19, 2008, Tonya Craft had been a kindergarten teacher for years and with a spotless record. Teaching youngsters was her career, her life, and from all accounts, she was good at it. Not any more. That’s because on May 19, 2008, the accusations started....

In spite of all the safeguards that democratic, freedom loving, human rights defending nations have built-in into their constitutions to stop such abuses the fact remains that those bent on advancing their own agenda or bent on stopping those they oppose will always find a way to trample on the constitutional rights of their opponents. The case against Rosen and Weissman (formerly of AIPAC) is a prime example of how power can be abused to stop certain ideas, while advancing the opposite ones. The case against them has just collapsed, why? Because the government failed to come up with convincing...

SARAJEVO (AFP) - Bosnian authorities are investigating rape allegations against retired Canadian General Lewis MacKenzie, who commanded UN peacekeepers in Bosnia at the start of the 1992-95 war, an official said. ADVERTISEMENT "We have the testimonies of women that he visited the detention camp several times and was not only witnessing, but also participating, in rapes there," Sarajevo county prosecutor Oleg Cavka told AFP. He was referring to the detention camp called "Sonja" in the Sarajevo suburb of Vogosca where Bosnian Serb forces forcibly imprisoned non-Serb women, notably Muslims, and forced them to be their sex slaves. Cavka refused to...

The bad news for the Trojan football team seemed to come in waves after the Rose Bowl. Now the team, and specifically quarterback Mark Sanchez, is finally experiencing a positive resolution to what became a very public problem. The sexual assault allegations against Sanchez have been dropped by Los Angeles County prosecutors.

Lacrosse defense: Stories changed By John Stevenson : The Herald-Sun jstevenson@heraldsun.com May 26, 2006 : 10:20 pm ET DURHAM -- Two weeks before identifying lacrosse player David Evans with "90 percent" certainty in a police photo lineup as one of her attackers, the accuser in the Duke rape case failed to pick him out in an earlier photo lineup, according to a defense motion filed Friday. The motion hammered yet again at the prosecution, saying among other things that the accuser changed her story at least twice during the initial investigation, that the nurse who examined her in the emergency...

Lawyers representing one of three Duke University lacrosse players charged with rape want details about any toxicology tests performed on the accuser, asking in a motion filed Monday whether such evidence even exists. "No such toxicology report, if it exists, was provided to the defense," wrote attorneys Kirk Osborn and Ernest Conner, referring to nearly 1,300 pages of evidence prosecutors provided to defense attorneys last week. The attorneys represent Reade Seligmann, one of three lacrosse players charged with raping a woman hired to perform as a stripper at a March 13 team party. Seligmann's attorneys want a judge to order...

A man is accused of rape. Even if he is innocent, his reputation is forever smeared. Bettina Arndt examines whether either party should be named in sexual assault cases. There is a businessman in Toowoomba who's had a very lucky escape. He's just suffered the horror of being accused of rape but at the end of his trial last month he was acquitted by the jury. The alleged victim in 1998 reported the man to her church and five years later to the police, claiming he'd had sex with her 17 years earlier, when she was 14. But his real...

DURHAM, N.C. - An attorney for one of three Duke University lacrosse players charged with rape wants prosecutors to release evidence they’ve collected, including the cell phone logs and any criminal history of the accuser. Reade Seligmann was due in court Thursday afternoon for his first appearance since his indictment last month. His attorney, Kirk Osborn, wants to use what would normally be a brief hearing to ask the judge for records complied by authorities during their investigation, as well as reduction in Seligmann’s bond.

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