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Kimberley Strassel: They won’t sink Zinke (Fox News)
To serve in the Trump administration is to deserve hazard pay, and lately that’s especially true of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.
The green-industrial complex claimed Scott Pruitt’s scalp last month, ginning up a storm of ethics allegations that forced his resignation as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Now it has shifted focus to Zinke. But it’s hitting walls. Zinke isn’t giving his detractors easy opportunities. He has aides who know and follow the rules, and backing in the White House and in Congress.
Not that the incoming is pleasant. Few movements are better funded and coordinated or more messianic than the environmental left. They despise a Trump team that is correcting decades of backward energy and environmental schemes and are working furiously to bring down the reformers. Unlike green groups of 20 years ago, which focused on policy, today’s effort is focused almost entirely on personal destruction. [Read More]
Judge threatens to hold Jeff Sessions in contempt over asylum deportation (The Washington Times)
A frustrated federal judge lashed the Trump administration Thursday and threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt after being told the government had deported an asylum seeker despite clear assurances she wouldn’t be touched.
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the government had “spirited away” the woman and her child, sticking them on a place back to El Salvador early in the morning even though she was a plaintiff in a groundbreaking case aiming to overturn the administration’s new stricter asylum policy.
It was the latest black eye for the administration’s deportation machinery, which just weeks ago drew the ire of other judges after admitting hundreds of illegal immigrant parents were ousted from the country without their children during the chaos of the zero-tolerance border policy. [Read More]
Maryland Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ben Jealous is demanding that several television stations in the Baltimore media market take down an advertisement by the Republican Governors Association that labels him a socialist, arguing that the ad is “blatantly false and misleading.”
John J. Temple Jr., an attorney for the Friends of Ben Jealous campaign, sent a letter to WJZ, WMAR, WBFF and WBAL on Thursday urging that the stations “should cease airing this false advertisement immediately” to remain compliant with Federal Communications Commission licensing requirements. [Read More]
Airbnb threatens to cancel accounts of users who participate in Unite the Right rally (Fox 5 DC)
Airbnb has threatened to cancel the accounts of anyone renting from them who participates in the Unite the Right rally in the District this weekend.
The hospitality company cited its terms of service, stating users agree, “To treat everyone in the Airbnb community — regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age — with respect, and without judgment or bias.” [Read More]
Kanye West: ‘Liberals Can’t Bully Me’ for Being a Trump Supporter (National Review)
During a Thursday night appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” rapper and vocal Trump supporter Kanye West accused “liberals” of trying to bully him through the expectation that his race would determine his political affiliation.
“Just as a musician, African-American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things, you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me,” said West, who has been roundly criticized for his support of the president by his show business colleagues. “And then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn’t say it out loud or my career would be over; I’d get kicked out of the black community because blacks — we’re supposed to have a monolithic thought, we can only, like, we can only be Democrats and all.” [Read More]
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