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Trump supporters yell ‘illegal’ at dark-skinned legislative staffers

They also asked a Navajo legislator if he is in the U.S. illegally.

LARRY NASSAR SENTENCED TO 175 YEARS IN GYMNASTICS MOLESTATION CASE

Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina concluded Nassar’s sentencing in dramatic fashion. After reading excerpts from a letter he had recently written to her, she threw the paper aside as if it were a piece of trash

“I just signed your death warrant,” Aquilina now famously declared. The reaction by the judge was met by cheers.

Others didn't feel the same way. Kevin Daley, a reporter with the Daily Caller, called the judge “disgraceful” in a column.

“The judge told Nassar he could not be rehabilitated, took enormous satisfaction in, as she put it, signing his death warrant, and openly mused about subjecting him to gang rape,” Daley wrote.

Graeme Wood, a reporter with The Atlantic, felt Aquilina’s “beautiful souls” remark crossed a line, too. “The dignity of the proceedings was diminished by a few words, though, that the judge offered by way of regret," Wood wrote. "... Subjecting Nassar to a lifetime of rape is not my idea of justice, and fantasizing about it is not my idea of judicial temperament."

Andrew Cohen of the New Republic said Aquilina’s “relentless hostility and anger toward Nassar” made her seem biased.

“She did this by treating Nassar as if he were something far less than an American entitled to all of the constitutional protections of a fair tribunal,” Cohen wrote.

LARRY NASSAR SENTENCED TO 175 YEARS IN GYMNASTICS MOLESTATION CASE

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LARRY NASSAR SENTENCED TO 175 YEARS IN GYMNASTICS MOLESTATION CASE

He is age 54 now. I suspect that if he wins an appeal for a new sentencing with a different judge (note: he pled guilty), he'll end up with the same 40 year minimum. But even if he gets the lowest possible minimum of 25 years, he'll have to live to age 131 (and get the maximum time off for good behavior while he's in federal prison) in order to benefit from it.

Aint quite followin your math, there, eh, Roy?

layman wrote:

Aint quite followin your math, there, eh, Roy?

54 (his current age)
+51 (the number of years he'll have to spend in federal prison if he gets the maximum time off for good behavior, also counting time credit for already having spent the past year in custody)
= 105 (the youngest age at which he'll be turned over to a Michigan prison)
+25 (the lowest minimum sentence that the Michigan judge could have imposed if she had shown the greatest leniency)
= 130 (the youngest age that he could have been eligible for parole if the Michigan judge had shown the greatest leniency)

What is it that you're leaving out? Are you saying that he was convicted of the same crimes in two different venues, both Federal and State?

He has a 60 year federal sentence for having child pornography on his computer.

Six-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman, who also accused Nassar, wrote a statement thanking Aquilina for her “professionalism, compassion and commitment” to allow each of the victims to tell their side of their story.

Hollywood Hypocrites: Self-proclaimed feminist stars keep attacking Sarah Sanders for her looks

Hollywood women have banded together like never before on issues including pay inequality and sexual harassment, declaring that women all over the world need to stick together and be supportive of one another. But experts say several stars aren't practicing what they preach when it comes to Donald Trump's press secretary, Sarah Sanders.

Self-proclaimed activist Chelsea Handler wrote in an op-ed for Thrive in Dec. 2016: "Let's stop it with the dialogue about how women look or what they wear, or if they've gained or lost weight. We are more guilty of this with each other than most men are."

Cher has often spoken out about the sexualization of women, declaring at the Women's March on Jan. 20 that she "believe[s] in this movement."

But both stars recently attacked Sanders solely over her looks.

Cher tweeted to Sanders on Tuesday to "stop dressing like a sister wife."

Handler has gone even further than Cher by mocking Sanders' "summer whore lipstick" and calling her a "harlot" on her Netflix show. Comedian Fortune Feimster even wore exaggerated makeup to play Sanders for a skit on Handler's now-defunct series.

Penny Nance, President and CEO of Concerned Women for America, told Fox News Cher's recent insults proves Hollywood feminists don't play by their own rules when it comes to conservative women.

"Cher's attack on Sarah is yet another example of how liberal women in all types of powerful positions stand up for only those women who adhere to their ideology," Nance told Fox News.

Dan Gainor, vice president of business and culture at the Media Research Center, echoed Nance's comments adding that the recent attacks on Sanders' looks are "especially offensive."

"They don't just attack her for being conservative. They dare to treat her as if she's not a woman. He added, "Liberals hate anyone who doesn't side with them."

"An awful lot of women in America look more like Sarah Sanders than the Hollywood starlets who are bashing Trump and his supporters on all the award shows," Pinsker explained. "If you want to disagree with Ms. Sanders' political positions, that's perfectly legitimate, but mocking her for being normal-looking isn't exactly empowering to women."

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/26/self-proclaimed-feminist-stars-keep-attacking-sarah-sanders-for-her-looks.html

“The [Fox] network is increasingly engaged in a misinformation campaign aimed directly at the American people for the purposes of sowing confusing and spinning a web of protective armor around the president, who is being investigated,” said Steve Schmidt, the Republican political strategist who ran John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Schmidt, who is also an analyst for MSNBC, said he’s noticed a marked shift on Fox in the past week, as commentators have ramped up their attacks on institutions, like the FBI, once sacred to conservatives.

“This is not normal. Not healthy in a democracy,” he said.

Stuart Stevens, the Republican who served as chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, had a similar view.

“In the 1960s, some rich white radicals attacked the justice system, ranted about government conspiracies and called for violent opposition,” he wrote in an email. “They called themselves Weathermen. Now the same is happening, and they call themselves conservative commentators. But it’s equally nutty.”

Jennifer Rubin, a conservative columnist at The Washington Post, noted to POLITICO that the points being made on shows like "Hannity" and "Fox & Friends" echo those being reportedly pushed by Russian bots on social media.

“When they turn on a dime and begin adopting the same position as Russian bots and start attacking the FBI, we’ve gone to a whole new level of crazy,” she said.

“It’s almost like Fox has become the RT, the Russia Today, for the administration and the Kremlin,” she added.

...In a Thursday interview on CNBC, Bill Kristol, the Weekly Standard editor who was a Fox News analyst from 2002 to 2012, alleged that the channel has become increasingly conspiratorial over the past several years, saying, "Seventy-five percent of it seems to be birther-like coverage of different issues."

...Charlie Sykes, a longtime conservative radio host and MSNBC contributor, said he believes the recent ramping-up of Fox News hosts’ rhetoric is due to the Mueller probe gaining intensity.

In the past week, news has emerged that Mueller has interviewed Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former FBI head James Comey. Whether and when Trump would speak to the special prosecutor has also been in the news.

Sykes believes that Fox News hosts’ campaign to protect Trump — echoed throughout conservative talk radio — will have long-lasting effects.

“Long term, you’ve done tremendous damage to a number of institutions that we used to respect,” Sykes said.

Sessions pledges to depoliticize Justice Department

Well, Bill, ya gotta admit: He's got a damn good point there, eh!?

We learned this week that President Trump in June ordered the firing of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, but few Republicans on Capitol Hill bothered to raise an eyebrow. In more settled times, this kind of presidential assault on an independent investigation would have stirred grave concerns throughout the halls of Congress. But Trump’s corrupted coalition has instead trotted out one twisted conspiracy theory after another, all designed to distract the president’s most fevered fans and concoct a case against Mueller’s investigation.

US President's Donald Trump's plan to offer citizenship to undocumented migrants has pulled off the rare trick of uniting left and right - in outrage.

The White House has outlined a plan for nearly two million people to become citizens, in exchange for $25bn (£17.6bn) for a Mexico border wall.

Liberal activists called the deal "a white supremacist ransom note". Conservatives slammed it as "pathetic".

Trump-allied Breitbart News called him "Amnesty Don" in a headline.

Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which lobbies for fewer migrants, asked followers on Twitter to burn their Make America Great Hats, which Trump supporters wore during his campaign.

Ann Coulter, the author of the book In Trump We Trust, labelled it "a crap deal".

"Impeachable if wall isn't built and dedicated first, with speeches & balloons," Ms Coulter added.

Radio host Mark Levin called the plan "absolutely pathetic".

"Ladies and gentlemen, we just gave up half the battlefield," Mr Levin told listeners on Thursday night.

Kelli Ward, a Republican Senate candidate from the US border state of Arizona, told ABC News: "I respectfully and strongly disagree with the White House's framework for immigration that they put out."

After Mr Trump first suggested the idea of giving citizenship to some undocumented immigrants, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, told Bloomberg News: "I do not believe we should be granting a path to citizenship to anybody here illegally."

The Democrats' Senate whip, Dick Durbin, said: "Dreamers should not be held hostage to President Trump's crusade to tear families apart and waste billions of American tax dollars on an ineffective wall."

United We Dream, a young immigrants' organisation, called the White House plan "a white supremacist ransom note".

Immigration activist Eddie Vale called it a "legislative burning cross", a reference to the Ku Klux Klan.

House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called it "an act of staggering cowardice".

Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton, one of the most conservative voices on immigration policy, said Mr Trump's plan was "generous and humane".

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the proposal "indicates what is necessary for the president to sign a bill into law".

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said he believed Mr Trump's ideas "will help us ultimately reach a balanced solution".

Draining the swamp? D.C. lobbying during Trump administration surges to highest level in 7 years