Sunday, August 14, 2016

Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson backtracks on blaming Obama for 2004 death of Humayun Khan


Trump Spox Katrina Pierson Destroys Kate Snow And Leaves Her Speechless! MUST WATCH!

Donald Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson admitted her timeline was off when she suggested that President Obama and Hillary Clinton were somehow to blame for the death of U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, who died in Iraq in 2004 when George W. Bush was commander in chief.

What I was talking about is Donald Trump has no connection with anything to do with Capt. Khan, Pierson said on CNNs New Day Wednesday morning. Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq. She did not support the surge. Barack Obama made things worse by invading more countries than President Bush did.

Donald Trump wasnt there, she added. That was the only point. Donald Trump is being blamed for something he had nothing to do with.

During a discussion with CNNs Wolf Blitzer the night before, Pierson was asked if her boss had any plans to apologize to the Khan family for suggesting that Ghazala Khan, Humayuns grieving mother, was not allowed to speak at last weeks Democratic National Convention because she is Muslim.

What exactly is Mr. Trump supposed to be apologizing for? Pierson asked. It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagements that probably cost his life.

The gaffe went viral overnight, as a hashtag (#KatrinaPiersonHistory) mocking her grasp of history began trending on Twitter.

Pierson even used the hashtag herself.

But it backfired.

The war of words between Trump and the Khans began at last weeks Democratic National Convention, where Khizr Khan delivered a stinging rebuke of Trump over his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States a policy that would have prevented his son from serving in the U.S. military.

Donald Trump, youre asking Americans to trust you with their future, Khan said. Let me ask you: Have you even read the United States Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy. Look for the words liberty and equal protection of law.

Khizr Khan said Piersons comments were another example of a lack of factual correctness among Trumps surrogates.

Please, show some decency, Khan said on CNN Tuesday following Pierson, a frequent guest on cable news.

On Wednesday, Pierson admitted she was absolutely wrong to assert Obama and Clintons actions cost Khan his life.

Thats why I used probably, she said. I was just going through the timeline. Because since then, we have had tens of thousands of soldiers that have been lost, 1 million wounded. Six trillion dollars later, how can we possibly put any of the onus on Donald Trump? Its absolutely absurd, and thats why you see so much confusion around this issue.

But no one was blaming Donald Trump for Captain Khans death, CNNs Alisyn Camerota said. You were blaming President Obama and he wasnt president yet.

Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=us&usg=AFQjCNEyvpFQ0A1DhLIxBO4wnevaO-1I5w&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52779175801157&ei=xl6wV7iHL4iR3AGY65LYBA&url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/katrina-pierson-trump-obama-clinton-000000132.html

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Donald Trump"s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson says (incorrectly) that it was Obama who "went into Afghanistan"


Katrina Pierson Gets Frustrated and Yells at CNN Anchor Over Her Latest Trump Spin Appearance

Donald Trump"s spokeswoman leveled false accusations against President Obama on Saturday, saying he started the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

When asked on CNN about Trump sayingObama was the "founder" of Islamic State, spokeswoman Katrina Pierson delivered a lengthy response in which she proclaimedit was Obama who "went into Afghanistan," where U.S. troops had begun fighting in 2001 under former President George W. Bush.

"Remember, we werent even in Afghanistan by this time," she said of Obama taking office in 2009. "Barack Obama went into Afghanistan creating another problem."

The visibly surprised CNN anchor pressed Pierson to confirm that she was saying thatObama took the country into Afghanistan.

"What I"m saying is the policies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that was Obamas war, yes, Pierson said.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Pierson cited audio problems.

Pierson, who ran unsuccessfully in a 2014 primary against Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), is a regular face on cable news, staunchly defending her boss.

But she"s also been the subject of controversy.

When Trump recently battled publicly with Khizr Khan, whose sonwas killed by a car bomb in 2004 while serving in Iraq, Pierson blamed Obama for the death of the fallen soldier. Humayun Khan was killed five years before Obamatook office.

"It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost [Capt. Khans]life," she said on CNN this month.

The nonpartisanPolitiFact ranked her claim "pants on fire" its harshest critiquein terms of false statements.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-donald-trump-s-spokeswoman-says-it-was-1471118986-htmlstory.html

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Leslie Jones finally gets to meet Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross at Rio 2016


Leslie Jones Is In Rio And It"s Awesome

Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross have advanced to the quarterfinals of Beach Volleyball - and no one is more excited than Leslie Jones.

The comedian has become a fixture of the Rio Olympics after she began hilariously live tweeting the games from her living room last week.

NBC then invited Jones to the games, finally giving her the chance to meet the athletes she had been admiring from behind a screen, including Walsh Jennings.

Leslie bowed down as the volleyball superstars first walked toward her, but Walsh Jennings quickly lifted her up and straight into a hug.

Leslie Jones finally got to meet her idol Kerri Walsh Jennings after Team USA advanced to the quarterfinals in women"s beach volleyball on Friday night

Jones then gave Walsh Jennings and Ross one of her famous pep talks before her idol gave the comedian a special pin to wear for the rest of the Rio Olympics

In another hilarious Twitter video, Jones showed the moment she gave Walsh Jennings and Ross one of her famous pep talks.

You came out hard and strong, but yall put that fire out, yall let em know whose number one, we gonna take this! she told the women.

Walsh Jennings then pinned her and told her not to lose it during her next week in Rio, but Jones could only excitedly scream "Oh my G*d!"

It was the beautiful culmination to Jones" superfandom of Walsh Jennings, which she has been happy to share on social media during the Rio games.

"Keri! USA! USA! USA!" Jones can be heard screaming as the three-time Olympic gold medalist and her teammate claimed another victory in Rio.

"Slaying, they"re f*****g slaying like the warriors that they are," Jones says in another tweet. "The sand warriors that they are! Go Kerri, go April, go, go, go!"

In one tweet Jones asked her fans to send good energy to Walsh Jennings and Jones.

"They"re better than these Italian chicks man, they"re tough man, send some love this way, USA!" Jones said, her voice hoarse from her screams of support.

It was the beautiful culmination to Jones" superfandom of Walsh Jennings, which she has been happy to share on social media during the Rio games

"Slaying, they"re f*****g slaying like the warriors that they are," Jones says in another tweet. "The sand warriors that they are! Go Kerri, go April, go, go, go!"

At one point Jones hilariously apologized that she wasn"t tweeting as much as usual

"These b*****s look tough," she said of the Italian team. "But that"s okay! Cause Kerri and April slay all day!"

At one point Jones hilariously apologized that she wasn"t tweeting as much as usual.

"I"m trying to give all my energy to my girls, so if I"m not posting a lot its because I"m trying to give it all to them yo, they"re so f*****g incredible!" she said.

And Jones" love is hardly one-sided. Both Walsh Jennings and Ross retweeted the Ghosbusters star"s posts of appreciation about the unbeatable pair last week.

And Walsh Jennings made sure to tweet Jones when she finally touched down in Rio.

"I am SO pumped you"re coming!" she wrote to Jones on Wednesday.

Jones" love is hardly one-sided. Walsh Jennings said she couldn"t wait to meet the Ghostbusters star after her match on Friday

And Jones made sure to send some last words of support before it began

And when Jones asked the pair if she was officially meeting them after their match on Friday night, Walsh Jennings said she couldn"t wait, and asked Jones to send them some words of luck.

"GO GO GO YOU MIGHTY WARRIORS OF THE SAND!!," Jones wrote. "YOU GOT THIS!! AND YOU LOOK HOT DOING IT!! CHEAH SLAY ALL DAY USA!"

Jones kept the live tweets coming for her fans as she walked to meet her idol, telling them "I"m on my way to meet Kerri Walsh, I am losing all of my f*****g s**t right now."

"Please don"t let me embarrass myself."

Jones caught judo and trampoline before she headed to beach volleyball, watching the men"s match before Walsh Jennings and Ross stepped into the sand.

"Where are the speedos?" she inquired as she watched the men play.

Jones made sure to send her love to USA"s swimming team, as she had to miss Phelps" and Ledecky"s final individual races in Rio to catch Walsh Jennings.

"Slay all muthaf*****g day!" she wrote after another golden night for Team USA in the pool, including a world record by Ledecky.

"USA made that pool their b***h!"

Jones got to cheer on Phelps on Thursday night in Team USA"s personal cheering section, thanks to his teammate Conor Dwyer.

Jones shared her excitement on Twitter as she arrived at the Rio Olympics on Thursday. The SNL star was invited to cover the Games after her enthusiastic Tweets

It was there that she met Olympic gold medalist Lily King and hung out with massive swim fan (and Academy Award-winning actor) MatthewMcConaughey.

Jones, 48, started off her first day in Rio by catching the incredible women"s gymnastics all-around competition, where Simone Biles took gold.

"I just watched USA win a gold and silver medal! Yeah, I just did that!" Leslie said.

"Them folks down there got real medals, yo. So if I ran on the floor and snatched one of the medals, do you think they would beat my a***?," she joked.

The SNL star shared her amazement after arriving in Rio earlier on Thursday.

"We"re going through the streets of Rio... it"s crazy!" she said."It"s official y"all. I"m in Rio."

"We"re on our way to gymnastics, Man. We about to go see the USA kill it, man. That"s what we do."

Leslie quickly headed to the gymnastics as she cheered on Aly Raisman and Simone Biles as they won gold and silver in the all-around individual competition

"If I ran on the floor and snatched one of the medals, do you think they would beat my a***?" she joked after watching Simone and Aly claim gold and silver

"I really feel like there"s a lot of sexuals up in there," she joked while driving by the Olympic Village where athletes live during the competition

Driving past the Rio coastline, she added: "I"m telling you right now, the camera is not doing no justice for how beautiful this water is."

The actress kept the silly videos coming as she showed off her hotel, bragged about driving in the "Olympic lane" and speculated about all the hookups happening at the Olympic Village.

"Yeah b***ches, I am in Rio," she said, sharing video of her hotel"s pool."This is how we do it in Rio! I don"t see no d**n Zika nowhere," she said.

Arriving at the Olympic Village, the stand-up speculated about all the action going on between athletes, and joked about getting busted by the tough security.

"450,000 condoms CHEAH!", Leslie captioned a video of the apartment towers.

"Where all the athletes live at, yo. It"s called the Olympic Village," she explained, adding: "I really feel like there"s a lot of sexuals up in there. A lot of sexuals."

The Ghostbusters star was invited to cover the games by NBC after enthusiasticly live-Tweeting the Olympics

After she finally arrived at the gymnastics, the Top Five actress was quick to share the view from her seats and plot to get closer to the athletes.

"I am like actually here, watching these lovely gymnasts," she marveled, adding: "I"m trying to get a closer seat tho."

"Let"s go Aly! Team USA! Champion!" she cheered as she posted video of the warm-ups and the all-around competition.

The stand-up vet and Olympics die-hard was offered a job covering Rio for NBC after her enthusiastic live-Tweeting and love of the Games went viral last week.

Her coverage of the Games marked a triumphant comeback to Twitter, after Leslie quit the network in June over a torrent of racist and sexist abuse aimed at her by trolls angry that the "Ghostbusters" remake had replaced the original male cast with women.

In Rio, Leslie will attend live swimming, track and field, gymnastics, and beach volleyball, and will meeting athletes and share her passion for the Olympics on-air and online, NBC said.

The SNL star"s hilarious live Tweets of the Olympics from her living room quickly went viral and earned her an invite from NBC to cover the games in Rio

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3738549/Leslie-Jones-finally-gets-meet-Kerri-Walsh-Jennings-April-Ross.html

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Unrest after deadly Milwaukee Police shooting


Good old fashioned race riot in Milwaukee -- large scale black mob violence

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- City leaders pleaded for calm after violence erupted for several hours Saturday night on Milwaukee"s north side following a man"s fatal shooting by police earlier in the day, with the mayor imploring parents of anyone at the scene to "get them home right now" after at least four businesses burned and one officer was hurt.

At a news conference just after midnight, Mayor Tom Barrett said the situation appeared to be calming after a riotous scene in which as many as 100 protesters skirmished with police, torching a squad car and tossing a brick through the window of another. Police mounted at least two efforts to push the protesters out of an intersection at the heart of the violence.

The unrest began several hours after a man fleeing police after a traffic stop was shot and killed. Police said the man was armed, but it wasn"t clear whether he was pointing the gun or aiming it at officers. Barrett said the man was hit twice, in the chest and arm. Neither his race nor the officer"s was immediately released, nor were they identified.

The shooting was being investigated by the state. The officer was wearing a body camera, Barrett said.

At least three people were arrested in an uprising that Barrett said was driven by social media messages instructing people to congregate in the area.

"We have to have calm," Barrett said at the news conference. "There are a lot of really good people who live in this neighborhood."

Milwaukee Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton echoed Barrett"s plea for help restoring order.

"We understand the frustration people feel with the police community nationally. ... We have to go through the process of finding justice, but we have to be able to restore order to these neighborhoods," Hamilton said. "Please participate in restoring order to these neighborhoods."

Barrett said the 23-year-old man who died was stopped by police for "suspicious activity." Police said earlier that he was carrying a gun that had been stolen in a March burglary in suburban Waukesha.

"This stop took place because two officers ... saw suspicious activity," Barrett said. "There were 23 rounds in that gun that that officer was staring at. I want to make sure we don"t lose any police officers in this community, either."

Police with shields and helmets moved slowly into an intersection after 11 p.m., telling a crowd of about 50 people to disperse. Some threw rocks and other debris at police, who held up their shields. They also threw objects at a business a half-block from the intersection. A nearby traffic light was bent over and bus shelters overturned.

An earlier standoff involved more than 100 people pushing against 20 to 30 officers. Officers got in their cars to leave at one point and some in the crowd started smashing a squad car"s windows. Another police car was set on fire.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that one of its reporters was shoved to the ground and punched.

The businesses that burned included a BMO Harris branch, a BP gas station, an O"Reilly Auto Parts store and a beauty supply store. Firefighters held back from the gas station blaze because of gunfire.

Police said the man who was shot had an arrest record. The 24-year-old officer who shot the man has been placed on administrative duty. The officer has been with the Milwaukee department six years, three as an officer.

Source: http://www.wtmj.com/news/unrest-after-deadly-milwaukee-police-shooting

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JO 2016: l"athlte russe Darya Klishina exclue


Darya Klishina Дарья Клишина 2015 4v European Team Championships Cheboksary June 21st

La Russie pourrait finalement ne compter aucun reprsentant dans les preuves d"athltisme des Jeux olympiques 2016. Darya Klishina, sa seule athlte initialement retenue, en a t exclue ce samedi. Elle a immdiatement fait appel devant le Tribunal arbitral du sport, localis le temps des Jeux, et qui en a fait l"annonce.

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La sauteuse en longueur tait la seule russe repche initialement par la Fdration internationale d"athltisme (IAAF). Cette dernire avait exclu l"ensemble de l"athltisme russe la suite de la publication du rapport McLaren mettant en lumire un dopage d"Etat. "Il semble que Klishina soit cite dans le rapport McLaren", a indiqu l"AFP une source proche du dossier.

"L"IAAF confirme qu"elle a retir Darya (Klishina) son ligibilit exceptionnelle, a dclar un porte-parole de l"IAAF l"AFP. Ce retrait est fond sur une nouvelle information que nous avons reue et partag avec Darya la semaine dernire."

Klishina, 25 ans, sauteuse en longueur, tait la seule des 68 athltes Russes initialement retenus autorise concourir Rio car elle est installe en Floride depuis 2013. L"IAAF avait estim en juin que cela l"avait prserve du systme de dopage mis en place par la Russie.

Darya Klishina lors d"un meeting Tcheboksary, en Russie, le 21 juin 2016.

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Les autres stars de l"athltisme russe sont toutes prives des Jeux comme la double championne olympique de saut la perche, Yelena Isinbayeva, qui rvait de finir sa carrire en beaut Rio avec une troisime mdaille d"or lors de ses cinquimes JO. La sauteuse en hauteur Mariya Kuchina, championne du monde en 2015 a galement d rester la maison tout comme le "hurdleur" Sergey Shubenkov.

Source: http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/sport/athletisme/jo-2016-l-athlete-russe-darya-klishina-exclue_1821160.html

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Former Lions RB Jahvid Best to run at Olympics


Jahvid Best returns to Cal

Jahvid Best"s football career might be over but his Olympic dreams are about to be fulfilled.

Best, a former high school sprinter, has been approved to run the 100 meters for Saint Lucia"s Olympic track and field team. Best has a Saint Lucian father who holds dual citizenship.

"When I think [about] the road I have traveled to get here I get tons of emotions. A couple of years ago my lifetime dream was crushed," Best told NBC. "I was devastated, but I never stop dreaming and believing in myself. My family has instilled a lot of values that has enabled me to persevere through it all."

The former Detroit Lions running back met the Olympic qualifying standard of 10.16 seconds. Best registered a personal-best of exactly 10.16 in the 100 meters on April 2, according to NBC Sports. Despite reaching the qualifying time, Best had to wait until he was given the green light on representation.

"This is a huge accomplishment for me, but at the same time this is just the beginning. I have only been in this sport for two years professionally, and plan on being around for a long time," Best explained. "Above all else I"m excited to get out there and make my country and family proud!"

His personal-best mark wouldn"t have made the 100-meter final at the recent U.S. Olympic Trials.

Best"s NFL career ended after just two seasons due to concussions. The Lions drafted Best in the first-round of the 2010 NFL Draft out of California.

It"s good to see him continue his track and field career after his football one was cut short.

Source: http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000675206/article/former-lions-rb-jahvid-best-to-run-at-olympics

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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Un juge recommande la libration de Brendan Dassey de "Making a Murderer"


Defense attorneys celebrate Brendan Dassey ruling

Source: http://quebec.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/08/12/un-juge-recommande-la-liberation-de-brendan-dassey-de-making-a-murderer_n_11480444.html

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