Psychiatrist: Trump is a “con man”! | M.N.: It should be 100% obvious to everyone. Open your eyes, already! Do not make it too late!
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President Trump is a “con man” who is making the current public health crisis “all about himself”– 2:56 PM 2/28/2020
Dr. Lance Dodes, a contributor to bestselling “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” tells Lawrence O’Donnell that President Trump is a “con man” who is making the current public health crisis “all about himself”- which could have grave results for Americans. Aired on 02/27/20.
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Dr. Lance Dodes, a contributor to bestselling “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” tells Lawrence O’Donnell that President Trump is a “con man” who is making the current public health crisis “all about himself”- which could have grave results for Americans. Aired on 02/27/20.
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One of the byproducts of the Russia collusion hoax is that people like me have lost a lot of faith in law enforcement. And that is saying a lot, considering that, to a fault, I find myself reflexively defending the cops.
But thanks to all of the leaks, lies and partisan score-settling coming from Jim Comey’s FBI, I can honestly say that I don’t trust them anymore.
In fact, I haven’t had this dim a view of the FBI since J. Edgar Hoover was trying on the new spring line of dresses at Bonwit Teller.
And I’m not alone. According to Pew Research, since early 2017, the share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents with a positive view of the bureau has fallen 16 percentage points, from 65 to 49 percent.
In spite of this loss of trust, all the evidence suggests that they’ve learned absolutely nothing from their failed attempt to remove President Trump from office.
In fact, these same agencies are now playing dirty pool trying to sink Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the presidency.
One day before the Nevada Democratic caucus, someone leaked a story suggesting that Russia was interfering with the Democratic primary to help Sanders’ campaign.
Sanders said that law enforcement met with him a month before the story broke to tell him about their intel.
And just in case anyone cares, the “intelligence” info turned out to be wrong and was walked back almost immediately after Democrats finished voting in Nevada.
I feel like I’ve seen this movie before. If you liked “50 Shades of the Steele Dossier,” you’ll love the sequel!
Adam Schiff is probably already building a case for the impeachment of President Bernie.
Granted, I can see why Russians who hate America would want Bernie to be president. They’ve already lived through Communism.
From what I hear, the only contact Russia has recently had with Bernie is trying to get him to pay the hotel bill from his honeymoon in Moscow. Something about the mini-bar.
Enough is enough.
Somebody needs to tell them that FBI stands for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, not the Federal Bureau of Impeachment.
At this point I’m not worried about the Russians trying to influence our elections, I’m worried about Jim Comey’s pack of politically motivated jackals.
This mess needs to be cleaned up, and fast.
When local police departments are caught abusing their power, the feds step in and force them to enter into a consent decree.
Under these decrees, corruption is rooted out and reform is implemented.
Unfortunately, there’s not really a mechanism to do that with out-of-control federal agencies.
Which is why President Trump’s appointment of Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell as acting director of national intelligence was so necessary.
If you’ve been watching cable news the last few days, you’ve seen Grenell batted around by his critics for not having worked in the FBI or CIA before.
But these days, that should not be seen as a flaw, it should be seen as an attribute.
The culture at the top of these agencies is clearly toxic. An outsider is exactly what the doctor ordered to come in with a mop and a bucket, and make those agencies respectable again.
I would note that the failure of these agencies to perform basic duties goes well beyond their political hatchet jobs against Trump and Sanders. They’re also the same people who falsely told us that Iraq had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, that a movie caused our embassy in Benghazi to be attacked and that the Egyptian government was in no danger of falling.Wrong, wrong, wrong.
I know Ric Grenell and have relied on him as a foreign policy analyst on my radio show. He has nerves of steel and a rock-solid commitment to fairness and justice.
Dirty cops, beware. There’s a new sheriff in town.
John Phillips can be heard weekdays from noon to 3 p.m. on “The John Phillips Show” on KABC/AM 790.
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Digging into the coercion and propaganda of J. Edgar Hoover
“The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI.”
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He was not a handsome man like some of the gangsters he pursued. He looked more like a snarling bulldog. We’re not sure what he looked like when he dressed in women’s clothes, but we do know he had a way with words. As the nation’s top “Gangbuster,” a potent protector of the American way of life and the impenetrable firewall between the Red Menace, Nazis and democracy, J. Edgar Hoover served 42 years as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
During those years he wielded sweeping — and sometimes illegal — police powers, while leading a public relations team that was second to none. Above all he knew words mattered, especially to polish his image, which in the end may have been more important than fighting crime.
Marshall University associate professor Stephen M. Underhill covers that aspect of Hoover’s career in his new book “The Manufacture of Consent: J. Edgar Hoover and the Rhetorical Rise of the FBI.” The book, published by the Michigan State University Press, is part of its rhetoric and writing series.
Underhill readily admits his book is meant for the academic world, but it also will be enlightening to Hoover followers and to those who, during the anti-war, red scare and civil rights movements, thought they were under surveillance.
Hoover and his agency not only developed surveillance files on criminals but also his friends and enemies, and he often used the content of those files to coerce them to do his bidding. Numerous presidents used Hoover’s unique talents to investigate their enemies and build incriminating evidence on them about something unsavory they did, such as drug use, homosexuality or infidelity.
Underhill first became interested in the FBI and Hoover because his aunt was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the ’50s. “She had visited Russia and had enrolled in Russian language classes and she was blacklisted. She was a nurse and was unable to find a job until 1970,” he said.
Underhill said that after reviewing her FBI file, he discovered the Bureau had not seen her as a risk. “She was blacklisted because she pinged,” he said.
Fast-forward a few years, and Underhill is working at the National Archives as a student assistant making $15 an hour as the lead reference person for processing records relating to the FBI.
In 1994, a truckload of declassified FBI records relating to its propaganda activities arrived at the Archives. It was at a time he was looking around for a dissertation topic.
“After understanding what was in these records, I knew what I was going to do. I have to write about this but I am going to take my time,” he said. Following the rules in place at the time, he began using Freedom of Information Act requests to access the files. His inside position, however, did give him a leg up.
“There was a Wal-Mart-sized wall of files in boxes,” he said. Because he knew what was in the boxes he could make more specific requests. Requesting records through FOIA at the federal level can be very wonky because you have to know what’s there before you can ask for it, Underhill said.
Not surprisingly, before he left the Archives he discovered the FBI had purposely slowed down the time to process his requests. The Archives now prohibits requests from student workers.
Underhill shows how carefully Hoover and his team of public relations practitioners chose his words for public consumption, how he used and abused media along and spread popular myths.
For example, he used words and metaphors to create images of wrong doers, aligning them with vermin, contagion and dope.
He also borrowed from the masculinity espoused by the old frontier in defending Americanism. In a speech he once said, “the vital test of Americanism is the revival of the pioneer spirit of our ancestors.”
The venomous speech he used with African-American and foreign-born was especially derogatory.
While doing this, Underhill said Hoover masked his sexuality with his own portrayal of masculinity and his choice of words. Who could doubt his courage and his virility if they listened to his speeches?
He also was a master showman perhaps influenced by one of his staff, who was once a clown and a PR person for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.
Tourists visiting the FBI headquarters in the ’50s were given a demonstration of a blazing 50 caliber Tommy gun and heard insider stories about gangsters, bootleggers, Nazis and commie spies the FBI had brought down.
Underhill said, “He was a genius, but an evil genius.”
The author now ponders what would the course of history be if we didn’t have Hoover. He asks, “Would there have been a Cold War?”
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In recent days, President Donald Trump has aimed his ire at the nation’s legal system. He has repeatedly attacked the forewoman of a jury that rendered a verdict against a longtime associate (Roger Stone); railed at a Democratic critic (House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff), goading his surrogates into demanding a federal investigation into Schiff; and urged two liberal Supreme Court justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor) to recuse themselves from cases involving him and his administration.
And, oh yes, in the midst of all this, Trump anointed himself the nation’s “chief law enforcement officer,” a title that the Constitution does not confer on him and which undermines the important tenet that law enforcement be insulated from politics.
And what has the person generally called the chief law enforcement officer — Attorney General William Barr — done about this? Well, a couple of weeks ago, Barr called on Trump to stop tweeting about pending cases. But since then, as Trump responded to this mild rebuke by defiantly ramping up his attacks, Barr has been mum.
When Barr was nominated, we were encouraged that he would add gravitas and stability to one of the most important posts in government. He had served in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and seemed far better qualified than Matthew Whitaker, who was occupying the job on an interim basis after Jeff Sessions was pushed out.
At Barr’s Senate confirmation hearing, he pledged “to provide the leadership necessary to protect the independence of this department.”
Barr has not lived up to that promise. In some respects, he has been more destructive than his predecessors: His pedigree has given him cover as he shreds the rule of law and promotes overly expansive views about executive power.
During his year on the job, the attorney general:
— Put a pro-Trump spin on the Mueller report, rushing to clear the president of attempting to obstruct justice despite substantial evidence to the contrary.
— Oversaw a department that took a nothing-to-see-here attitude toward a whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s effort to shake down Ukraine’s government for dirt on a political rival.
— Reversed the decision of career prosecutors who were seeking a harsh sentence for Stone, a Trump confidante convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction. Four prosecutors quit the case, and one left the Justice Department altogether.
— Reopened the case of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, undermining the work of career prosecutors. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI in 2017 but later — at a time when Trump was pressing the Justice Department to be nice to his friends and harsh on his foes — asked to withdraw his plea.
— Until very recently continued the highly problematic pursuit of former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who raised alarm bells about Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.
Before Barr, there had been some highly suspect actions taken by Justice, including a meritless lawsuit brought against the merger of AT&T and Time Warner that appeared to be based on Trump’s antipathy toward Time Warner’s CNN unit.
But the political interference has ramped up under Barr’s tenure. His actions have shocked former Justice employees (more than 2,600 of whom signed a letter calling on Barr to resign after his intervention in the Stone case) and prompted alarm among federal judges.
Barr said this month that Trump’s tweets and other comments are making it impossible for him to do his job. But does the attorney general see that job as doing impartial justice or the president’s bidding? Barr’s effort to straddle that line is growing increasingly untenable.
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In sifting signs of the times, one came through the other day like an alarm bell, the sort of horror that tells us just how dangerous things are becoming and how all people committed to a civil and just society must push back against the creeping darkness.
FBI agents arrested four suspects from four different states as part of a conspiracy “to threaten and intimidate journalists and activists,” according to the Justice Department.
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The four targeted Jewish journalists and journalists of color, authorities allege. The threatening material they sent these journalists included Nazi symbols, images of Molotov cocktails and threats.
We live in a time when information, even the most basic facts, are in constant question. False information spreads like wildfire while the truth struggles to catch up.
Journalists who are tasked with sorting fact from fiction have too often become the first target of those who would obscure and even seek to destroy truth in the name of furthering their own will to power.
In this charged and dangerous environment, amplified in the poisonous echo chamber of social media, can anyone be surprised that extremists like those arrested this week single out journalists for attack and worse yet mix and mingle racism and anti-Semitism with their attack on the freedoms of press and speech?
In such a time, it is particularly dangerous to see the working press so persistently singled out for ridicule and diminishment.
These arrests are another opportunity for President Donald Trump to put aside his attacks on the free press and to support the work of journalists — even those whose reporting he disagrees with.
It is one thing to disagree. But planting the label fake news on basic reporting — something the president did 273 times last year — and standing by while supporters at rallies harangue and curse members of the press is not acceptable.
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It’s important to note that it is the Justice Department, under Trump, that is bringing the case against these alleged extremists — Kaleb Cole of Montgomery in Southeast Texas; Cameron Brandon Shea of Redmond, Wash.; Taylor Ashley Parker-Dipeppe of Spring Hill, Fla.; and Johnny Roman Garza of Queen Creek, Ariz.
Everyone should be grateful for that.
But more should be done. Ideas shouldn’t be shouted down on campus just because they offer an opposing view. Free speech shouldn’t be squelched because it doesn’t fit an approved narrative. And leaders — starting with the president — should denounce efforts to undermine, intimidate and harm the press.
The founders understood just how critical a free and robust press is to the function of a democracy. But they didn’t love it, either.
George Washington, of all people, was the subject of brutal press coverage — much of it unfair and false in a way that wouldn’t stand up to modern standards of responsible news organizations. Even the great pamphleteer, Thomas Paine, turned on Washington in bitter response to Washington’s decision not to help free Paine from a French prison.
“Monopolies of every kind marked your administration almost in the moment of its commencement. The lands obtained by the revolution were lavished upon partisans; the interests of the disbanded soldier was sold to the speculator; injustice was acted under the pretence of faith; and the chief of the army became the patron of the fraud,” Paine wrote.
Washington endured it all, knowing that a free Republic must have a free press.
Extremists would like to silence the American conversation. They would prefer a darkness where the only sounds were their own messages of hate and division and even violence.
Arresting and prosecuting people who would use violence to dominate our debates is essential to ensure the rule of law and the right to free expression. It’s the right step for the Justice Department to take.
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If it was accompanied by support from the bully pulpit, it would be all the more effective.
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This does look like Magendovid – the Hebrew Star of David with the shrewd and predatory looking Russian Bear inside, and the circled R sign on a side: “Registered”, the Trademark.
I think, that this picture might be the point of the message and the explanation, in my humble attempt at interpretation: the alliance between the Israeli and the Russian Intelligence Services, who are the inheritors, the descendants, the Necrophiliac Lovers, and the abductors – hijackers of the dead woman – the German Abwehr. Mazel Tov! Finally, you’ve got yourzelev-e-z ar-rezted-d!!! M.N. | 8:48 PM 2/27/2020 ____________________________________________________ » mikenov on Twitter: stolen hearse with a casket and body inside – Google Search google.com/search?q=stole… 27/02/20 20:09 from TWEETS BY MIKENOV from mikenova (1 sites) stolen hearse with a casket and body inside – Google Search google.com/search?q=stole… Posted by mikenov on Friday, February 28th, 2020 1:09am mikenov on Twitter _____________________________________________ 
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A stolen hearse with a casket and a woman’s body inside has been recovered after the driver crashed the vehicle during a police chase on a Los Angeles freeway.
The casket was found still inside the hearse after the crash on the 110 Freeway on Thursday morning.
Authorities confirmed that the black Lincoln navigator that crashed was the same vehicle that had been stolen from outside St. Anthony Greek Orthodox Church in East Pasadena on Wednesday night.
Police said they had taken the driver into custody.
A stolen hearse with a casket and a woman’s body inside has been recovered after the driver crashed the vehicle during a police chase on a Los Angeles freeway on Thursday
Video footage from news helicopters showed that the vehicle sustained heavy front-end damage
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Benjamin Grubb told KTLA that a member of the public had reported seeing the SUV on the highway.
The Los Angeles Police Department was pursuing the vehicle when it crashed.
Video footage from news helicopters showed that the vehicle sustained heavy front-end damage.
Grubb said the body did not appear to have been disturbed but it was unfortunate that the family of the dead person had ‘to be put through further trauma’.
The hearse was stolen from outside the church while one of two bodies was being unloaded a night earlier.
The hearse belonged to a mortuary that had been contracted to transport two bodies to the church.
A mortuary attendant had taken one of the caskets into the church while the other was left in the vehicle outside.
Police said they had taken the driver into custody following the crash. Photo courtesy of CBS LA
The casket was found still inside the hearse after the crash on the 110 Freeway on Thursday morning.
Authorities confirmed that the black Lincoln navigator that crashed was the same vehicle that had been stolen from outside St. Anthony Greek Orthodox Church in East Pasadena on Wednesday night
Video footage from news helicopters showed that the vehicle sustained heavy front-end damage
Police said the hearse had been stolen by the time the worker came back out.
The sheriff’s department had appealed to the thief on social media on Wednesday to return the body.
‘Out of all the bad decisions you have made, at least make one good one and bring back the deceased person and casket inside the Navigator,’ it tweeted.
The sheriff’s office later tweeted their thanks to the person who reported seeing the stolen hearse.
‘Huge THANK YOU to the good samaritan that called law enforcement when they saw the stolen vehicle,’ they tweeted.
‘We also want to send condolences to the family members of the deceased person, who had to deal with this tragedy.’
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House Democrats on Thursday unanimously blocked a resolution condemning Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) over his comments praising murderous Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
After Sanders commended Castro for a “massive literacy program” during a 60 Minutes interview Sunday, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R., Fla.) announced a resolution condemning the Vermont senator. A Cuban American whose family fled to the United States, Diaz-Balart said the resolution declares “solidarity with the people of Cuba as they struggle against totalitarianism while demanding human rights, democracy, and freedom.”
House Democrats blocked the resolution in a party-line vote Thursday, with two Florida Democrats skipping the vote despite previously criticizing Sanders’s comments.
Reps. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D., Fla.) and Donna Shalala (D., Fla.) did not vote on the resolution, though both voted on the item immediately following it and Shalala spoke on the House floor just minutes before missing the vote. Both Democrats slammed Sanders following his defense of Castro. Mucarsel-Powell called the comments “absolutely unacceptable” and Shalala asked Sanders to “speak to some of my constituents before [deciding] to sing the praises of a murderous tyrant.”
Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D., Fla.) also criticized Sanders’s comments, calling them “ill-informed and insulting.” However, she voted to block Diaz-Balart’s resolution.
The three congresswomen represent districts with large populations of Cuban Americans. They have distanced themselves from Sanders as they face reelection.
“You cannot condemn Israel and compliment Castro and win in Florida,” Murphy told Bloomberg News.
Sanders has yet to receive an endorsement from Florida’s Democratic congressional delegation. Mucarsel-Powell told the Miami Herald she is “seriously considering endorsing another candidate.”
Diaz-Balart’s resolution condemned Castro’s “use of firing squads, imprisonment, torture, and acts of repudiation to suppress dissent in totalitarian Cuba.” The Florida Republican admonished his Democratic colleagues Thursday for voting to block the resolution.
“It’s shameful that House Democratic Leadership refused the opportunity to condemn Senator Bernie Sanders’s inaccurate, hurtful, and irresponsible comments on the racist, terrorist Castro regime,” Diaz-Balart said. “Unlike Sen. Sanders and House Democratic Leadership, I’m proud to, once again, stand with my Republican colleagues in solidarity with the Cuban people and not with the regime that oppresses them.”
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This banner in support of Molson Coors is hanging in the Brewers dugout for today’s televised game. COMPLETE COVERAGE Tom Haudricourt / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Investigators were at a home believed to be that of the Molson Coors shooter in the 8200 block of West Potomac Avenue in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
Investigators were at a home believed to be that of the Molson Coors shooter in the 8200 block of West Potomac Avenue in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
An investigator works near a home believed to be that of the Molson Coors shooter. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A police officer leaves a home near the intersection of West Courtland Avenue and West Potomac Avenue Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020. Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Susan Ullenberg, a screen printer for Brew City Brand, holds up a “Miller Strong” T-shirt printed at the company in Milwaukee’s Third Ward on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Brew City Brand was making the T-shirts for Molson Coors employees. On Wednesday, a Molson Coors employee shot and killed five workers and then killed himself. MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
Susan Ullenberg, a screen printer for Brew City Brand, guides a “Miller Strong” shirt off the dryer. MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
Susan Ullenberg of Brew City Brand works on screen printing “Miller Strong” T-shirts at the company on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
Susan Ullenberg, a screen printer for Brew City Brand, works on a “Miller Strong” shirt at the company in Milwaukee’s Third Ward Thursday. MIKE DE SISTI / MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
An employee walks in the Molson Coors Milwaukee campus off of West Highland Avenue in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. In one of the worst shootings in Wisconsin history, a gunman killed five people — and then himself — during a rampage Wednesday afternoon on the Milwaukee campus of Molson Coors. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Molson Coors facility on the Milwaukee campus off of West Highland Avenue of Molson Coors in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Molson Coors security guard uses his radio while patrolling Molson Coors facility on the Milwaukee campus off of West Highland Avenue of Molson Coors in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, a day after an employee killed five workers and then himself. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A Molson Coors security guard uses his radio while patrolling Molson Coors facility on the Milwaukee campus off of West Highland Avenue of Molson Coors in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
TV vans and media are set up outside Miller Valley in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. The brewery complex towers over either side of West State Street in Milwaukee, forming a “valley.” Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
TV vans and media are set up outside Miller Valley in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A single car remains in a Molson Coors parking lot on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, the day after a worker killed five others and himself. The Molson Coors office is closed for the rest of the week and the brewery will remain shut down for the time being, the company’s CEO said, “to ensure our people have time to cope.” Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A single car remains in an otherwise empty Molson Coors parking lot. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Molson Coors brewery in Miller Valley in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Molson Coors facility on the Milwaukee campus off of West Highland Avenue in Milwaukee on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020. In one of the worst shootings in Wisconsin history, a gunman killed five people — and then himself — during a rampage Wednesday afternoon at the Milwaukee campus. Mike De Sisti / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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The man who opened fire at the Molson Coors plant Wednesday, killing five co-workers and himself, had been involved in a long-running dispute with a co-worker that boiled over before he came back with two guns and started shooting, according to law enforcement and brewery sources.
Anthony N. Ferrill, 51, had worked as an electrician for more than 20 years, about 17 of them at Molson Coors, according to multiple sources and online employment records.
A co-worker who asked not to be identified for fear of being disciplined said Ferrill believed he was being discriminated against because he was African American and that he frequently argued with at least one of the victims, a fellow electrician.
The co-worker said Ferrill often watched movies on his phone during the day, which the other electrician took issue with, and that the two accused each other of going into each others’ offices and stealing tools or tampering with computer equipment.
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About a year ago, the employee said, Ferrill started saying he believed brewery workers were coming into his home, bugging his computer and moving chairs around.
“I was: ‘Are you serious, Anthony? What?’ We all kind of joked about it, saying we should maybe get him an aluminum hat. Things just started getting weird. But he was dead serious about it,” the co-worker said.
But another co-worker, Keith Giese, said Ferrill seemed fine when he saw him earlier this week.
“I never had a clue. I talked to him a couple of days ago and he seemed fine to me,” Giese said. “I had no idea that there was a problem, that somebody could snap like that.”
As word spread Thursday that Ferrill was the shooter, co-workers and neighbors echoed that surprise.
“He was a very good electrician, a very good worker and I couldn’t say anything bad about the guy,” said Phillip Rauch Sr., who retired in April after working with Ferrill for 15 years. “Every time I worked with him he was always in a good mood.”
Ferrill was a licensed industrial journeyman electrician and a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Milwaukee. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1987 to 1991 and was honorably discharged, according to Rick Flowers of Milwaukee County Veterans’ Services.
Ferrill received a VA loan to help purchase his three-bedroom ranch home in the 8200 block of West Potomac Avenue. He had lived there with his wife and family since 2004.
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Ferrill has a long history of back pain that was made worse when he was in car accidents in 2009 and 2010, according to court records. He was a co-plaintiff with the MillerCoors LLC Health Benefits Program in a 2015 lawsuit in connection with the second wreck.
A report filed as evidence in that suit, written by Glendale physician Jeffrey Gorelick, states Ferrill’s back problems started about 25 years earlier.
He would use Vicodin, an opioid-based pain killer, and Cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant, when lower back pain flared up, Gorelick wrote.
“In spite of the back pain, he works every day as an electrician and pushes himself to get through the day,” wrote Gorelick, who filed the report in support of Ferrill’s lawsuit. “However, he is known on weekends to sometimes spend most of both days in bed recovering to allow him to get to work the next week.”
The physician quoted Ferrill as saying: “Anything involving low back stamina I can’t do. Shoveling, bending over at work, stooping, awkward positions, lifting my daughter.”
The report notes that Ferrill had three children, two who were in their 20s at the time and one who was 7.
Ferrill normally worked more than 50 hours a week, Gorelick wrote.
Ferrill underwent multiple shoulder surgeries and had been forced to take time off work intermittently for years, according to neighbor Erna Roenspies, who said she had become close to Ferrill and his wife during the 15 years they’ve lived on her block. A few years ago, he told her insurance investigators were parked in the neighborhood, watching to see if he was working around the house, which could affect his workman’s compensation claim, Roenspies said.
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Police continued to occupy Ferrill’s home Thursday; detectives and officers occasionally emerged with items.
Police tape still surrounded the house, which has a playset in the backyard, as neighbors struggled to reconcile the helpful man they knew with the heinous act authorities say Ferrill committed.
Roenspies said Ferrill sometimes helped her around the house, especially after her husband of 60 years died three years ago. She last saw Ferrill about a week ago when he came to help her with a faulty hot water heater.
“He was like my son,” Roenspies said Thursday. “He was a person who would help anyone in the neighborhood. This, it’s a shocker. I still don’t believe it.”
She said Ferrill was a gun collector, putting them together in his home. He told her it was his hobby.
“I said, ‘I hate guns. I don’t want to see them,” she said. And she said she never did.
Elizabeth LaPine has lived in the neighborhood for 11 years. She said she once saw what she believed to be a gun safe delivered to the home.
“I knew he was interested in guns,” LaPine said.
She said it was hard to believe Ferrill was the shooter.
“I would never believe it … that he could do something like that,” LaPine said. “He didn’t give me the impression that there was anything wrong. It didn’t seem like there was anything different.”
Ferrill had a Doberman pinscher named Lucas, LaPine said.
“He loved that dog,” LaPine said. “He played ball with it in the street when there wasn’t much traffic. He’d throw the ball down the street and the dog would chase after it.”
LaPine said Ferrill walked the dog every day before leaving for work.
She said Ferrill looked out for his home and his neighbors.
“He had given me his phone number about a year ago,” LaPine said. “He said ‘If you see anybody messing around the house or anything like that … give me a call.’ ”
Neighbor Patricia Dibb said she felt “shock, anger, sadness” when she heard about the shooting.
“Sadness for the families; sadness for his wife; sadness for his daughter,” Dibb said while holding back tears. “Sadness.”
LaPine said she also feels terrible for the families involved, including the Ferrills.
“If you’re mad at somebody or something, talk it out, don’t shoot it out,” LaPine said. “You’re just hurting so many families.”
If you or someone you know was impacted by this shooting, please reach out to reporter Gina Barton at (414) 224-2125 or <a href=”mailto:gbarton@gannett.com”>gbarton@gannett.com</a>.
Ashley Luthern, Mark Johnson, Rory Linnane, Talis Shelbourne, Mary Spicuzza, Maria Perez, Raquel Rutledge, Ricardo Torres, Bruce Vielmetti and Cary Spivak of the Journal Sentinel staff and Nick Penzenstadler of USA Today contributed to this report.
Contact Gina Barton at (414) 224-2125 or <a href=”mailto:gbarton@gannett.com”>gbarton@gannett.com</a>. Follow her on Twitter at @writerbarton.
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On Wednesday, the Trump campaign filed a defamation complaint in the New York State Supreme Court against the New York Times over an opinion piece from March 2019. Titled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo,” the piece was published three days after Attorney General William P. Barr issued his summary of the Mueller report. Barr wrote that former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.”
In the essay, Max Frankel — who served as executive editor of the Times from 1986 to 1994 — appeared to be playing off Barr’s summary. Here’s the lead of the piece:
Based on such language, the Trump campaign is claiming damages in the millions of dollars. The allegations, argues the complaint, are false, as proven by the Mueller report and “many other published sources.” It continues: “Among other things, there was no ‘deal,’ and no ‘quid pro quo,’ between the Campaign or anyone affiliated with it, and Vladimir Putin or the Russian government.”
It’s tough to defame a presidential campaign, and the complaint is clear-eyed on this matter. The document concedes that for the purposes of the law, the Trump campaign is a public figure — meaning that it needs to prove the Times wrote false things with knowledge of their falsity or with “reckless disregard” of their truthfulness. That is the so-called actual malice standard.
And in its attempt to meet that standard, the Trump campaign complaint concedes that the Times, in fact, is not corrupt in the least. To substantiate the point that the newspaper knew the falsity of its opinion piece, the suit argues that the pages of the Times provided plenty of real, actual news: “Extensive information, including stories in The Times published before the Defamatory Article, established that, at most, there had been isolated contacts between individual Russians and some persons associated with the Campaign, which did not result in any ‘deal’ or ‘quid pro quo,’ ” reads the complaint. It goes on to cite four New York Times stories that pretty well established that the famous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials, a Russian lawyer and others produced nothing of value to the campaign.
By any honest — or even lazy — reading of the Frankel opinion piece, it’s clear that the author wasn’t alleging any acts of specific collusion or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. It was an “overarching deal,” not an illegal conspiracy. The freedom to write just such material without losing millions of dollars in a jury verdict is precisely why the First Amendment grants a wide berth for opinion and commentary on matters of public interest. Citing the landmark 1964 case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, University of Georgia professor Jonathan Peters tweeted:
The Trump campaign’s complaint comes off the desk of Charles Harder, the attorney who represented Hulk Hogan (whose real name is Terry Bollea) in the privacy case that resulted in the eventual bankruptcy of Gawker Media. He sent a preposterous threat letter to CNN last fall.
First Amendment attorney Ted Boutrous provided an opinion on the complaint’s merits:
The New York Times has issued this statement: “The Trump campaign has turned to the courts to try to punish an opinion writer for having an opinion they find unacceptable. Fortunately, the law protects the right of Americans to express their judgments and conclusions, especially about events of public importance. We look forward to vindicating that right in this case.” The Erik Wemple Blog asked the Times to address the suit’s claim that the newspaper didn’t contact the campaign prior to publication — evidence of actual malice, according to the complaint. “It was an opinion piece on reported news, not reporting on new facts. We wouldn’t expect the writer to seek comment from the campaign (or Putin, for that matter),” responded Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy.
By the recollection of the Erik Wemple Blog, the Frankel piece didn’t cause an uproar in the public square. Frankel’s was among many voices addressing Trump and his inexplicable amity toward Russia. Yet the complaint suggests grand impact: “The Defamatory Article has forced, and will continue to force, the Campaign to expend funds on corrective advertisements and to otherwise publicize the fact that the Campaign did not collude with, have a deal with, or have a ‘quid pro quo’ with Russia regarding the 2016 election. The Campaign has been damaged in an amount to be proven at trial.”
If the Trump campaign were really so concerned about this particular opinion piece, surely it requested a correction or retraction at the time, right? “We never saw any demand for a correction or retraction,” Murphy noted in an email.
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Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., suggested Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe will lead to criminal charges.
Collins, who has served as the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee but is leaving the role after announcing a Senate campaign, described at CPAC what he believes will come out of Durham’s probe.
“This is not going to be a Mueller report; there won’t be a report,” Collins told Fox News, noting that Durham and his team have kept very “quiet” about their work. “When he’s ready to charge people, he’ll charge people.”
He added: “And that’s when we’ll know.”
Collins’ comments came just moments after he spoke at CPAC on the topic of the Russia investigation at the FBI, and the appointment of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, as well as his nearly two-year investigation.
“Durham is investigating, Attorney General Bill Barr has expanded his reach into the intelligence community,” Collins said during the presentation, adding that he has “grand juries” and “everything else” at his disposal.
Last year, Barr appointed Durham, of Connecticut, to review the events leading up to the 2016 presidential election and through Trump’s January 20, 2017 inauguration. But, as Fox News first reported, Durham has since expanded his investigation to cover a post-election timeline spanning the spring of 2017 — when Mueller was appointed as special counsel.
Durham has investigated CIA officials and other officials throughout the intelligence community. Former CIA Director John Brennan has said that Durham plans to interview him and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Those interviews have yet to take place, a source familiar with the investigation told Fox News earlier this month.
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(CNN)Dan Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who played a major role in the impeachment proceedings, is leaving his perch on the House Intelligence Committee, a move that underscores how House Democrats are shifting away from high-profile investigations into President Donald Trump in the run-up to the November elections.
Goldman, who previously worked as a top prosecutor at the US attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, was hired last year at the beginning of the new Congress as a director of investigations on the House Intelligence Committee. And after the House opened an impeachment inquiry last fall, Goldman took the lead in the House in questioning witnesses both in public hearings and behind closed doors.
Goldman is the third high-profile House Democratic adviser to leave Capitol Hill since the end of Trump’s impeachment trial when he was acquitted by the Senate earlier this month. The other two, Barry Berke and Norm Eisen, served as top advisers on the House Judiciary Committee before they left Capitol Hill earlier this month.
Goldman, who is returning to New York, began to share news of his departure on Wednesday with his colleagues. Asked for comment, Goldman said it was “an honor of a lifetime” to work under Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, and the committee to “help provide a vital check on the President, as the Constitution requires Congress to do.”
Goldman added: “I’m indebted to my colleagues for working tirelessly in pursuit of that objective. While I am eager to return to New York to spend some much-needed time with my family, I know that the committee’s work will continue apace under Chairman Schiff’s leadership.”
Schiff praised Goldman’s tenure at the committee.
“Over the past year, Dan Goldman has provided strategic guidance, wise counsel and steady leadership to our Committee through a turbulent, but critical time,” Schiff said in a statement. “We know that the team Dan helped us build from scratch will continue their important work, and while we will all miss him in the committee, we know that his family is excited to get him back.”
The next investigative steps for the House Intelligence Committee remain unclear. While Democrats have not ruled out issuing a subpoena to hear testimony from former national security adviser John Bolton, for instance, Democratic leaders have been mum about whether they plan to go that route.
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