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POLITICS 10/27/2018 08:25 pm ET President Donald Trump condemned the apparent anti-Semitic attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pennsylvania. By Carla Herreria President Donald Trump on Saturday encouraged a revival of the death penalty while condemning the deadly mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue allegedly carried out by an anti-Semitic gunman. “When you have crimes like this, whether it’s one, or another one on another group, we have to bring back the death penalty,” Trump said, speaking at a rally in Murphysboro, Illinois. “They have to pay the ultimate price,” he added. “They can’t do this. They can’t do this to our country. We must draw a line in the sand and say, ‘Never again.’” The president called for stronger death penalty laws earlier Saturday before another speech at the Future Farmers of America Convention in Indiana. “When people do this, they should get the death … [Read more...] about Trump Touts Death Penalty After Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

POLITICS 05/14/2018 05:58 pm ET Trump will profit from Indonesian resort project that will get $500 million in Chinese loans in a deal sealed days before before his tweet ordering help for ZTE. By S.V. Date 540 WASHINGTON – A mere 72 hours after the Chinese government agreed to put a half-billion dollars into an Indonesian project that will personally enrich Donald Trump, the president ordered a bailout for a Chinese-government-owned cellphone maker. “President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast,” Trump announced on Twitter Sunday morning. “Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!” Trump did not mention in that tweet or its follow-ups that on Thursday, the developer of a theme park resort outside of Jakarta had signed a deal to receive as much as $500 million in Chinese government loans, as well as … [Read more...] about Trump Orders Help For Chinese Phone-Maker After China Approves Money For Trump Project

Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Politics Log In Subscribe Log In Today’s Paper Advertisement Supported by ByKatie Rogers and Jeffery C. Mays Oct. 27, 2018 MURPHYSBORO, Ill. — President Trump said on Saturday that “the hearts of all Americans are filled with grief” after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue left at least 11 people dead, and he called on the country to combat hate crimes together. “It will require all of us working together to extract the hateful poison of anti-Semitism,” Mr. Trump said to a rally crowd here at an airplane hangar in rural Illinois. “The scourge of anti-Semitism can’t be ignored.” Still, Mr. Trump again demonstrated that he would not be swayed from the call of the campaign trail during a politically volatile and violent midterm election season. Not as the death toll at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh mounted. And … [Read more...] about Trump Calls for Unity After Synagogue Shooting, Then Swiftly Denounces Democrats

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is accusing the media of wrongly blaming President Donald Trump for a mail bomb plot and a deadly weekend shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. She said Monday at a press briefing that the first thing the president did was condemn the attacks and the first thing the media did was blame the president. Trump critics have said the president's harsh partisan rhetoric has fueled such attacks. Sanders told reporters that people should place the responsibility for the two attacks on the individuals responsible. Florida resident Cesar Sayoc is charged with federal crimes in the mail bomb plot on high-ranking Democratic officials and CNN. Robert Bowers is charged with killing 11 people in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. … [Read more...] about Sanders: Media Wrongly Blaming Trump for Attacks

White House Communications Adviser Mercedes Schlapp on Monday said Democrats who are accusing President Donald Trump of setting a divisive tone in the wake of the weekend synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh are being "outrageous." “You have these Democrats, and some members of the media, who are the ones being dividing, who are the ones demonizing this president, who’s the one who’s putting the blame on the President for the acts of these sick and deranged individuals,” Schlapp told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." Such statements, on the part of Democrats are "irresponsible." "This is a moment of unity for our country and the Democrats continuously overplay their hand when they keep putting the blame and trying to demonize President Trump," said Schlapp. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., on Sunday told CNN's Jake Tapper that Trump's "whole political strategy is about division," and that creates a "climate that's just sulferous." "The president has called for unity, … [Read more...] about Mercedes Schlapp: ‘Outrageous’ to Accuse Trump After Shootings