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Maxine Waters tells Trump to resign, 'just get out' at TIME 100 Gala honoring her
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who has
long called for Trump's removal from office, said at the TIME 100 Gala
Tuesday night that she wants him to resign.
(AP)
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., called on President Trump
to "please resign" at the TIME 100 Gala on Tuesday night, so that she
"won't have to keep up this fight of your having to be impeached."Waters was prompted by a questioner who asked her if she had some advice for Trump.
"I don’t think you deserve to be there," Waters said, referring to the president. "Just get out.”
The annual event in New York assembles celebrities and prominent figures to celebrate the world's 100 most influential people according to TIME.
In the 2018 TIME 100, Waters was named as one such influencer. Actor Yara Shahidi praised Waters as "so eloquent in letting the world, particularly the white men of Congress who dare test her acumen, know that she is not here for any nonsense."
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Tuesday night's comments were relatively tame for Waters, who has previously called Trump the "most horrible man I've ever seen in my life."
Last month, Trump said Waters suffers from a 'very low IQ' and called on her to take an IQ test.
Waters responded that either the Russia investigation, or the allegations of porn star Stormy Daniels, will ultimately bring Trump down.
"I'm not going to be intimidated by him," Waters said.
Video shows ex-Clinton aide in profanity-laced confrontation with cops
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| A video released Tuesday shows Caren Z. Turner, a former finance committee member for Hillary Clinton, in a confrontation with police officers over her daughter's traffic stop. (Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) |
Police released a video Tuesday showing a former
financial adviser to Hillary Clinton getting involved in a heated,
profanity-laced confrontation with several officers.
"You may shut the f--- up!" the woman, Caren Z. Turner, 60, shrieks at an officer at one point.
Most recently, Turner has been a commissioner with the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and was chairwoman of its
ethics committee, Politico reported. She was forced to resign last week because of the interaction with police during Easter weekend.“The Port Authority has zero tolerance for ethics violations,” PA spokesman Ben Branham told the website.
According to a police report from March 31, Turner's daughter had been pulled over by police while driving, but allegedly could not provide proof of insurance or registration. So Turner was called to the scene to help resolve the matter, NJ.com reported.“The Port Authority has zero tolerance for ethics violations.”
Police video then shows Turner demanding to know what was going on, and brandishing her credentials as a Port Authority commissioner.
"I need to know," Turner repeatedly tells the officers, demanding information about the traffic stop.
The officers tell her that they are under no legal obligation to provide details because her daughter and the daughter's passengers were all over age 18.
Turner appears to grow increasingly frustrated, and demands that the officers refer to her as “Commissioner” rather than “Miss.”
In the police report, an officer writes that he advised Turner "to speak with the driver of the vehicle for more information,” based on the way she was “attempting to misappropriately user her professional position to gain authority in this situation.”
When an officer attempts to end the conversation, Turner says: “You may not tell me when to take my child. You may shut the f--- up!”
Allegations of a code of ethics violation prompted the Port Authority’s inspector to investigate. Turner resigned after learning of the investigation, the Port Authority said in a statement Monday.“You may not tell me when to take my child. You may shut the f--- up!”
A spokesman for the Port Authority called Turner’s actions “indefensible.”
Turner has yet to comment on her resignation or the allegations of violating the board’s code of ethics. Her name and photo have reportedly been removed from the Port Authority website.
Turner was appointed to the Port Authority by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. A Democrat, she had previously served on finance committees for Hillary Clinton, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.
Comey's memo leak contact had 'special government employee' status at FBI
The Columbia law professor James Comey used as a go-between last year to leak the contents of sensitive memos to the media confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday that he previously worked as a “special government employee” (SGE) for Comey’s FBI on an unpaid basis.
The professor, Daniel Richman, confirmed the special status in response to an inquiry from Fox News, while referring other questions, including on the scope of his work, to the FBI.
"I did indeed have SGE status with the Bureau (for no pay)," Richman wrote in an email.
Richman emerged last year as the former FBI director’s contact for leaking memos documenting his private discussions with President Trump – memos that are now the subject of an inspector general review over the presence of classified material. Sources familiar with Richman’s status at the FBI told Fox News that he was assigned to "special projects" by Comey, and had a security clearance as well as badge access to the building. Richman’s status was the subject of a Memorandum of Understanding.
Sources familiar with Daniel Richman’s status at the FBI told Fox News that he was assigned to "special projects" by Comey, and had a security clearance as well as badge access to the building.
Incidentally, another “special government employee” who has come under scrutiny was Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, among others, previously questioned Abedin's special status that allowed her to work at the Clinton State Department and private-sector entities at the same time.
Lawmakers are only beginning to raise questions about Richman’s status. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo,” said the information about Richman and his special FBI status first emerged during closed-door testimony by Comey's former chief of staff James Rybicki before the House oversight and judiciary committees.
"[D]uring that deposition, it was brought out that Daniel Richman, the guy who information was leaked through to The New York Times, had this special status called special government employee status, where he could sort of come and go in the FBI,” Jordan said. He said he could not speak to the significance, but "it seems kind of interesting that the guy who Comey leaks to is a good friend, who had this sort of unfettered access into the FBI."
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., also raised questions about the status.
"It's certainly interesting that Director Comey would offer a special job and give full access to his friend when there are 35,000 employees at the FBI. And it isn't just that he gave these memos to a friend--he gave them to another FBI employee he had hand-picked to act as a 'special government employee' of the FBI. The question becomes: how many other people did he give these memos to?" he told Fox News in a statement.
According to the Office of Government Ethics, a special government employee is "an officer or employee who is retained, designated, appointed, or employed to perform temporary duties, with or without compensation, for not more than 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days."
Fox News first reached out on Friday to Richman, who initially declined to comment on his special status with the FBI. Based on new information, Fox Newson Tuesday provided detailed questions about his responsibilities under the "special projects" portfolio -- and whether they included the Clinton investigation, the Russian counter-intelligence probe, andcontact with the media on behalf of senior FBI leadership.
Similar questions were provided to the publisher of Comey's book, "A Higher Loyalty." There was no immediate response.
Richman does appear in cryptic text messages between demoted FBI agent Peter Strzok and re-assigned FBI lawyer Lisa Page on Nov. 2, 2016 a week before the election. Texting about a New York Times report, Page writes, "Jesus. Another article pushed by nyt on this. Richman is a friend of Comey and [former FBI general counsel James] baker.”
This may be a reference to a Nov. 1, 2016 story headlined, "FBI's Email Disclosure Broke a Pattern Followed Even This Summer,” that quotes Richman on Comey's decision to re-open the Clinton email case before the election.
He says in the article, “Those arguing that the director should have remained silent until the new emails could be reviewed — even if that process lasted, or was delayed, until after the election — give too little thought to the governing that needs to happen after November. If the F.B.I. director doesn’t have the credibility tokeep Congress from interfering in the bureau’s work and to assure Congress that a matter has been or is being looked into, the new administration will pay a highprice.”
Richman’s Columbia bio page says he “served as a consultant to the Department of Justice” and he is “currently an adviser to FBI Director James B. Comey.”
Fox News first reached out to the FBI on Monday about Richman’s status and followed up Tuesday with detailed questions -- regarding his responsibilities under the “special projects” mandate, his security clearance, physical access to the bureau and whether he was the only special government employee during Comey's tenure. The FBI had no comment on Richman or Fox News' specific questions about his work for the bureau. A spokesperson said the FBI has employed a number of “special government employees” on an unpaid basis, and challenged the notion anyone has “unfettered” FBI access.
Bush-appointed federal judge rules Trump's DACA rescission was 'unlawful and must be set aside'
A George W. Bush-appointed federal judge on Tuesday ruled that President Trump's decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, "was unlawful and must be set aside."
U.S. District Judge John D. Bates in Washington became the third judge to rule against the White House's plans to end the program.
Judges William Alsup and Nicholas Garaufis, both Clinton appointees, had each issued injunctions earlier this year preventing the administration from terminating DACA based on its stated rationale that the Obama-era program was an illegal executive overreach.
In his ruling, Bates noted a "non-trivial" possibility that the administration would be able to remedy his concerns by providing an alternative rationale.
"Athough the substantive flaws in DACA’s rescission are curable in theory, the Department may face practical obstacles when attempting to remedy them," Bates wrote. "Nonetheless, there remains a 'nontrivial likelihood' that the agency could justify DACA’s rescission on remand."
But Bates' 60-page ruling was mostly bad news for the White House for now. It requires that immigration officials "accept and process new as well as renewal DACA applications" if the administration "cannot better explain its view that DACA is unlawful" within a 90-day stay period.
"[T]here remains a 'nontrivial likelihood' that the agency could justify DACA’s rescission on remand."DACA allowed immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children, known as Dreamers, to stay and work legally under renewable permits. President Trump announced last year that he would end the program started by President Obama.
It was officially rescinded in March, but DHS is continuing to issue renewals because of the previous court orders.
Bates' underlying reasoning -- that Trump's decision to terminate DACA was impermissibly "arbitrary and capricious," lacking even a minimal coherent legal justification -- mirrors Alsup and Garaufis' judgment.
The White House's decision "was predicated primarily on its legal judgment that [DACA] was unlawful," Bates wrote. "That legal judgment was virtually unexplained, however, and so it cannot support the agency's decision."
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But unlike Bates, Garaufis and Alsup had stopped short of ordering that the Trump administration also resume processing new DACA applicants, saying they could not show the same level of harm as existing beneficiaries.
The court "cannot say that plaintiffs have demonstrated either that these individuals would be irreparably harmed without injunctive relief or that the balance of equities favors these individuals to the same extent it favors existing DACA beneficiaries," Garaufis wrote in February.
Bates' decision stays the proceedings until July 27, by which point both parties have to file a joint report "stating whether DHS has issued a new decision rescinding DACA and whether the parties contemplate the need for further proceedings in this case."
Bates' ruling came in a pair of cases whose lead plaintiffs are the NAACP and Princeton University.
In a tweet responding to the ruling, the ACLU called the decision "a huge blow to the Trump administration's bottom line."
The civil rights group added: "DACA is constitutional, deal with it."
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