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In this 2005 photo, Donald Trump prepares for an actualization on “Days of Our Lives" with added Arianne Zucker (center). He is accompanied to the set by “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush. (Obtained by The Washington Post)
With Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve
THE BIG IDEA: The circadian beck of revelations about animal aggravation should be viewed, at atomic in part, as a belated backfire to Donald Trump’s 2016 victory, which came admitting the actualization of the “Access Hollywood” video and several women who accused him of misconduct.
In October 1991, Anita Hill testified during Clarence Thomas’s accepting audition that he had sexually addled her aback she formed for him at, of all places, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thomas denied wrongdoing, and he got confirmed. The backfire didn’t appear until 13 months later.
Women beyond the country were disgusted by how ailing Hill was advised by assembly from both parties, including then-Senate Judiciary Lath administrator Joe Biden. There were alone two women in the Senate then. Four were adopted to accompany them in 1992. A celebrated cardinal of women were additionally adopted to the House — 24, the better distinct cardinal adopted to the House in any distinct election. Nationally, 11 women won aloft affair Senate nominations and 106 women were on the acclamation for House slots in the accepted election.
That one high-profile case propelled endless added women to get complex in accessible service. Now there are dozens of high-profile cases of declared animal misconduct, from the U.S. House to accompaniment houses and from the aggressive to the media. It stands to acumen that this could advance to bigger backfire at the acclamation in 2018 and 2020 than we saw during what’s accepted as the Year of the Woman.
The massive women’s marches on the Saturday afterwards Admiral Trump’s commencement were a augury of bigger things to come.
Danica Roem falls to her knees afterwards accepting a anxiety from Joe Biden congratulating her for her acclamation win. Roem is the aboriginal transgender administrator adopted in the United States. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post)
Democratic victories in this month’s off-year elections were apprenticed by women. Avenue acclamation showed a big exhausted in the party’s administering amidst affiliated women and white women with academy degrees.
A bonanza crop of women won down-ballot races. A abettor absitively to run adjoin a canton abettor in New Jersey because of an abhorrent Facebook column about the women’s march. She exhausted him.
The filing borderline to run for Congress abutting year has not yet appear in best states, and there are abounding awful able changeable candidates in awash primary fields who are allusive to booty on macho incumbents.
In her 1991 book “Backlash: The Undeclared War Adjoin American Women,” the columnist Susan Faludi accurate boundless reactionary blowback to the feminist movement that was actuality fed by apocryphal narratives appearing from bourgeois anticipate tanks, appearance magazines, the boilerplate media and Hollywood. A year later, there was backfire to the backlash. Afterwards Trump won, there was boundless abhorrence amidst women’s advocates that it would accept a air-conditioned aftereffect on victims of animal advance accepting the adventuresomeness to appear forward. The accomplished few weeks accept apparent that they were conceivably ever pessimistic.
Men accept been alleviative women unfairly aback Adam abhorrent Eve for bistro the angel in Genesis. The behavior that’s actuality declared in the acceptance advancing out this abatement didn’t alpha in the aftermost few years. It’s been activity on forever. It’s advancing to ablaze in a way that makes bright it’s ancient and systemic, not a one off actuality and there. Leaders in best industries accept that they cannot accumulate accoutrement for the bad actors in their bosom or abide bold like the botheration doesn’t exist. This represents a sea change in accumulated America.
Now the accessible catechism is how voters will respond. Afterwards Thomas was confirmed, the accessible chat eventually confused on. Abounding Democrats looked the added way aback Bill Clinton’s delinquency came to light.
Many Republican voters are now attractive the added way, as well. A new Quinnipiac University poll suggests that animal aggravation is beneath of a dealbreaker for the party’s grass roots in the Trump era than it was before: By a 63 percent to 29 percent margin, GOP voters say they would argue aggravating to abolish Trump from arrangement alike if the assorted animal aggravation allegations adjoin him were accurate true. Bisected of Republican voters nationally accept GOP senators should let Roy Moore serve in the Senate if he is adopted abutting month. And 43 percent of Republicans say they would “still accede voting” for a applicant who faced assorted animal aggravation allegations, so connected as they agreed with them on the issues. In contrast, 81 percent of Democrats said they would absolutely not vote for such a candidate, as did 61 percent of absolute voters.
The advancing year will accommodate a barometer of how abundant things accept changed. The aboriginal assay will appear in three weeks in Alabama.
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A NEW FRONT IN THE CULTURE WAR —
TRUMP GOES TO BAT FOR ROY MOORE:
-- The admiral threw in his lot with Moore and accustomed to addition his Senate bid — breaking with Republican leaders in Washington as he emphasized the Alabama GOP applicant “totally denies” multiple, actual credible allegations of animal delinquency with boyish girls. Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker and David Weigel report: “We don’t charge a advanced actuality in there …’ Trump said about [Moore’s opponent, Doug Jones]. ‘I’ve looked at his record. It’s abhorrent on crime. It’s abhorrent on the border. It’s abhorrent on military.’ The comments came afterwards a anniversary in which added Republican leaders in Washington, including [Mitch McConnell] had cut ties with Moore and declared on him to avenue the race. They additionally stood in adverse to Trump’s own abutment for the [RNC’s] accommodation aftermost anniversary to cull assets from the state[.] . . . There were no signs Tuesday that the RNC would about-face course, but a arch administering official said the president’s comments could alert a beyond accomplishment to abutting ranks abaft Moore.” The president, who was accused of animal delinquency by several women during aftermost year's campaign, added, “A lot of things are advancing out, and I anticipate that’s acceptable for our society, and I anticipate it’s very, actual acceptable for women, and I’m actual blessed a lot of these things are advancing out, and I’m actual blessed it’s actuality exposed.”
-- Aback asked whether he would butt with Moore, Trump responded, “I'll be absolution you apperceive abutting week.” The animadversion already afresh attenuate Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who has afresh emphasized Trump’s absence from the advance aisle in Alabama. (CNN)
-- Privately, Trump has criticized Moore’s abounding changeable accusers — cartoon parallels with the ample accumulation of women who accused him of animal aggravation during the final amplitude of the 2016 campaign. Politico’s Alex Isenstadt reports: “During activated conversations with arch Republicans and White House aides, the admiral said he doubted the acceptance presented by Moore’s accusers and questioned why they were arising now[.] … Trump’s embrace of Moore is shaped by a array of factors, admiral say, including his long-running abhorrence to alienate his bourgeois base, abundant of which is afraid with Moore. … He has additionally appear to analyze with the candidate. As enactment Republicans withdrew their abutment for Moore in contempo days, one arch White House official said, the admiral remembered that abounding of those aforementioned abstracts alone him, too.”
-- White House sources said the contempo flood of animal delinquency allegations fabricated it easier for Trump to addled the waters. CNN’s Jeff Zeleny reports: Two Republicans accustomed with Trump’s cerebration said “the chat has badly afflicted aback November 9, aback The Washington Column bankrupt the annual of the allegations adjoin Moore. Then, it was artlessly one bad amateur — a Republican. ‘Since then, it's become abundant harder to acquaint who the bad guy is,’ said a Republican abutting to the White House, acquainted that the allegations adjoin Democratic Sen. Al Franken, the renewed babble about Bill Clinton, the atomic revelations about bequest accuser Charlie Rose and the abeyance of New York Times anchorman Glenn Thrush were all developments the Admiral was afterward closely.”
-- Doug Jones has about remained bashful on the Moore allegations (though he told CNN in a abrupt annual that he believed the women), but his advance took them on in a new ad that some see as a assurance Jones needs to fan the bonfire of altercation in the campaign's final stretch. David Weigel and Michael Scherer report: “The latest ad by [Jones] plays aback criticism of [Moore] that Ivanka Trump, Advocate Accepted Jeff Sessions and Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) gave in the after-effects of allegations that Moore fabricated exceptionable advances on boyish girls. The ad targets Republicans and Republican-leaning voters, who accomplish up a majority of the state. The ambition is to accord them permission to vote for a Democrat in the Dec. 12 adapted election.” (Click aloft to watch.)
MEANWHILE, THE RECKONING CONTINUES —
IN CONGRESS:
— The House Acceptance Lath said it has launched a academic assay into allegations that Michigan Rep. John Conyers, the baronial Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, sexually addled changeable aides and acclimated arrangement funds to achieve a complaint. Elise Viebeck and Mike DeBonis report: “On Tuesday, Conyers initially denied that he had acclimatized animal aggravation claims[.] … Afterwards in the day, he antipodal himself and accustomed the adjustment while emphasizing that he never accepted fault. ‘I especially and angrily denied the allegations fabricated adjoin me, and abide to do so,’ Conyers said[.] ‘My arrangement bound the allegations — with an accurate abnegation of accountability — to save all complex from the rigors of abiding litigation. That should not be absent in the narrative,’ he stated.” (Amber Phillips annotated Conyers’s abounding annual here.)
— Anon afterwards the delving was announced, it was appear that addition woman who formed in Conyers’s arrangement accused him of circadian animal aggravation in an attempted lawsuit. BuzzFeed News’s Paul McLeod and Lissandra Villa report: “A above scheduler in the Conyers' arrangement attempted to book a closed accusation adjoin him this February in the US District Cloister for the District of Columbia that alleges she suffered exceptionable affecting by the Democrat ‘repeatedly and daily.’ She alone the accusation the abutting month, afterwards the cloister denied her motion to allowance the complaint. The woman was not complex in the 2015 animal aggravation and blameworthy adjournment complaint that Conyers acclimatized in 2015[.] … The accusation centered on behavior that took abode later, from 2015 to 2016, but involves agnate allegations.”
— In a statement, Nancy Pelosi declared for an acceptance assay but didn't say whether she would ask Conyers to resign. She appears accommodating to let him break on as the top Democrat on Judiciary, which would baby-sit abeyant allegation affairs adjoin Trump. “As Associates of Congress, we anniversary accept a albatross to advocate the candor of the House of Representatives and to ensure a altitude of address and respect, with aught altruism for harassment, discrimination, blowing or abuse,” the boyhood baton said.
— Alike afore the revelations, adolescent House Democrats were blame Conyers to footfall abreast from his administering role. The New York Times’s Yamiche Alcindor, Nicholas Fandos and Jonathan Martin report: “[H]e has been a ambition of Democrats who are acquisitive to accompany beginning claret into the Judiciary Lath administering for some time, three aldermanic admiral said. He has already handed over abundant of the circadian lath assignment to agents aides and added Democratic associates in contempo years, and has about appeared disoriented. In at atomic two abstracted occasions — already at a United Automobile Workers blow in Michigan and already at a affair of top Democrats on Capitol Hill — Mr. Conyers showed up cutting pajamas, according to two bodies accustomed with the incidents.”
— Paul Farhi letters that the far-right “Pizzagate” cabal theorist provided abstracts on Conyers to BuzzFeed afterwards alms to pay $10,000 for them: “The activity was fabricated in a alternation of now-deleted tweets aftermost week. ‘I will pay $10,000 for the capacity of these settlements. Cash or Bitcoin or assay or whatever you want,’ he tweeted. [Mike] Cernovich beneath Tuesday to say whether he absolutely paid anyone; he additionally said he didn’t apperceive whether BuzzFeed knew about his offer. BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith said Tuesday he was not acquainted of the offer. A BuzzFeed abettor said the armpit ‘would never pay for information[.]’ … In an annual beforehand Tuesday, Smith said his armpit ‘carefully vetted’ all the abstracts Cernovich aboriginal offered aftermost week, aloof as it would a tip by any added source.”
— The Detroit Chargeless Columnist Editorial Lath says “Conyers charge resign:” “John Conyers Jr. charge go — afterwards 53 years in Congress, afterwards a arch career of angry for equality, afterwards accidental so abundant to southeast Michigan and the nation. It’s a adverse end to his accessible career. But it’s the adapted aftereffect for the beauteous subterfuge his arrangement has advantaged here, and a bare admonishing to added associates of Congress that this can never be tolerated.”
President Trump and Vietnam's admiral participate in a commemoration in Hanoi. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
IN THE MILITARY:
-- Three White House aggressive cadre accept been removed from their posts amidst allegations they had abnormal acquaintance with adopted women while traveling with Trump on his contempo Asia trip. Carol D. Leonnig, Dan Lamothe and Julie Tate report: “The annual associates all formed for the White House Communications Agency, a specialized aggressive assemblage that helps accommodate the president, carnality president, Abstruse Annual and added admiral with defended communications. The aggressive is analytical three Army noncommissioned admiral who allegedly bankrupt anxiety during Trump’s cruise to Vietnam this month, admiral said. The adventure comes afterwards four aggressive cadre on the aforementioned White House aggregation faced allegations accompanying to their behavior during a cruise to Panama in August with [Pence]. Those men … stood accused of demography adopted women afterwards hours into a defended breadth as they were advancing for Pence’s arrival, admiral said.” A Aegis Administering abettor accepted the behavior of the aggressive cadre in Vietnam is actuality investigated.
Minnesota accompaniment Rep. Tony Cornish (R-Vernon Center) appears on the House attic at the Capitol in St. Paul. He appear his abandonment afterward accusations of animal misconduct. (Glen Stubbe/Star Tribune/ AP)
IN STATE HOUSES:
-- A brace of Minnesota accompaniment assembly — one a Democratic senator, the added a Republican adumbrative — appear they will resign in the deathwatch of animal aggravation allegations. From the Star Tribune’s J. Patrick Coolican and Jennifer Bjorhus. “Word of the resignations of Sen. Dan Schoen and Rep. Tony Cornish came aural two hours of anniversary other, capping a beauteous arrangement of challenge that vividly accustomed a new acquaintance of what abounding assembly say has been a abiding altruism of abusage of women alive at Minnesota’s Capitol. Both men had been beneath burden from leaders of their parties to resign.”
-- Several women accept accused California Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra of exceptionable animal advances. LA Times’s Melanie Mason and Dakota Smith report: “Late one August night in 2010 at a bar, Sylvia Castillo slid into a berth abutting to [Bocanegra], who was afresh the arch of agents to California Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes. … She asked if he had apparent a acquaintance she was attractive for and fabricated baby talk. Suddenly, ‘he pounced,’ she said. ‘He affective me with one hand, affective my arch and shoved his argot into my mouth,’ Castillo said in an annual this month. ‘With his added hand, he put it up my dress. I put my duke bottomward to stop him from aggravating to grab at my crotch.’”
-- “Since aftermost year, at atomic 40 assembly — about all men — in 20 states accept been about accused by added than 100 bodies of some anatomy of animal delinquency or harassment,” a USA TODAY NETWORK assay found.
-- An Alaska accompaniment administrator told a bounded annual outlet the accompaniment assembly didn't accommodate able avenues for reporting animal harassment. “I accept heard from changeable agents that there is a common animal aggravation botheration in the Assembly which prevents them from activity safe, admired and professional,” Rep. Ivy Spohnholz (D) said.
-- Leaders of Colorado’s Accepted Assembly are reviewing their own animal aggravation policies. CBS4 Denver’s Tori Mason reports: “The lath will altercate hiring an absolute adviser to analysis the accompaniment legislature’s absolute procedures apropos aggravation and affair recommendations. This comes afterwards Accompaniment Rep. Steve Lebsock, and others, were accused of animal harassment. Afterwards those reports, Rep. Lois Landgraf said the alone way to assure women at the accompaniment Capitol was to accompany in a third-party to investigate the allegations. The analysis will accouterment issues like whether an alfresco affair should be accustomed to handle aggravation complaints.”
-- Now that Virginia has adopted its aboriginal aboveboard transgender lawmaker, the acceptable Republican apostle of the House of Delegates wants to do abroad with the attitude of acclamation associates by their gender pronouns. Antonio Olivo reports: “Instead of the ‘gentleman’ or ‘gentlewoman’ from a accustomed jurisdiction, assembly will all be referred to as ‘delegate’ if Republicans advance ascendancy of the chamber, House Majority Baton M. Kirkland Cox (R-Colonial Heights) said . . . Conservative assembly hailed the change as a way to abstain what they said could be a potentially awkward situation. But one of the longest-serving House Democrats declared the accommodation ‘shameful’ and said assembly ‘ought to be big abundant to get over these hang-ups we have.’”
IN MEDIA:
-- CBS and PBS appear they were departing means with Charlie Rose, afterward letters the award-winning broadcaster made “unwanted animal advances” toward at atomic eight women amid the backward 1990s and 2011. J. Abandon du Lac, Elahe Izadi and Ben Terris report: “'Despite Charlie’s important journalistic addition to our annual division, there is absolutely annihilation added important, in this or any organization, than ensuring a safe, able abode — a admiring ambiance breadth bodies feel they can do their best work,’ [CBS Annual Admiral David Rhodes wrote in a agents memo]. ‘We charge to be such a place.’ PBS concluded its accord with Rose and canceled administering of his programs ‘in ablaze of yesterday’s revelations,’ backer Jennifer Rankin Byrne said in a statement.”
-- Rose’s own advertisement ally batten bluntly about the allegations on “CBS This Morning,” briefly dispatch out of their newsroom personas as they bidding both acrimony and admiration at their co-host’s declared behavior. J. Abandon du Lac, Amy B Wang and Marwa Eltagouri report:
-- The administering of the New York Times is “torn” over whether to blaze brilliant White House contributor Glenn Thrush over his declared delinquency adjoin adolescent women journalists, Vanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo writes: “Among the assorted accepted and above Times advisers I batten with — including men and women, managers and subordinates — bodies were angry with whether the allegations adjoin Thrush acceptable his abortion — a catechism conceivably complicated by the actuality that best of the challenge occurred above-mentioned to his hiring, and did not absorb any Times colleagues. For some, Thrush’s misdeeds were not of the aforementioned consequence as those of, say, [Mark] Halperin … or Rose. … There is, however, one affair anybody seems to accede on: the stakes could not be higher.”
-- NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly explains how her annual alignment has addressed letters of animal delinquency amidst its top employees: “I was afraid aback [the Hollywood Reporter’s Kim Masters] told me the claims adjoin Weinstein had been an accessible abstruse in Hollywood for years. Really? I’ll accept to accepting wondered, a tad judgmentally. If you all knew, why didn’t you address about it? Ah, how the chickens came home to roost. … Turns out we at NPR had been sitting on our own accessible secret. Amidst the many, abounding questions that champ at me is this: How did I absence a aspersion advance aural our own walls? How did a accomplished newsroom of reporters get biconcave on our own story? … But to me, the best auspicious development has been NPR’s activity of accepting its journalists to awning our own agitation with the aforementioned accuracy we would administer to any added organization.”
John Lasseter, arch artistic administrator of Walt Disney and Pixar Activity Studios, speaks during the Detroit auto appearance in January. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
IN ENTERTAINMENT:
-- Disney announced that activity arch John Lasseter would be demography a six-month leave of absence afterward animal delinquency allegations. Steven Zeitchik reports: “The aggregation accustomed bearding ‘missteps’ via a annual from the executive. But the Hollywood Reporter, which bankrupt the story, cited allegations that Lasseter had fabricated exceptionable acquaintance with abundant changeable colleagues and collaborators over a aeon of years. Lasseter is one of the best important abstracts in avant-garde entertainment, and a aspersion that sidelines him could accept added all-encompassing implications for the industry than abounding of the added revelations of animal delinquency that accept annoyed Hollywood over the accomplished six weeks.”
-- Ronan Farrow’s latest New Yorker assay into Harvey Weinstein abstracts how the Hollywood ambassador “used nondisclosure agreements … to balk accountability for claims of animal aggravation and advance for at atomic twenty years”: “He acclimated these kinds of agreements with employees, business partners, and women who fabricated allegations — women who were about abundant adolescent and far beneath able than Weinstein, and who active beneath burden from attorneys on both sides. Weinstein additionally hid the payments underwriting some of these settlements. In one case, in the nineteen-nineties, Bob Weinstein, who co-founded the blur collapsed Miramax with his brother, paid two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, almost six hundred thousand dollars today, to be breach amid two changeable advisers in England who accused Harvey Weinstein of animal aggravation and assault. The funds came from Bob Weinstein’s claimed coffer annual — a move that helped burrow the acquittal from admiral at Miramax and its ancestor company, Disney, as able-bodied as from Harvey Weinstein’s spouse.”
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING:
-- A abettor alike from the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet comatose into the Pacific Ocean off Japan while accustomed 11 aggregation and passengers. Anna Fifield reports: “Eight bodies accept been rescued and are in ‘good condition[.]’ … The chase for the actual three is continuing. This is the latest blow to activity the 7th Fleet, which is based in the Japanese anchorage of Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, and has endured assorted collisions at sea this year, including two involving guided-missile destroyers that larboard 17 sailors dead. The C2-A Greyhound aircraft was on a accepted flight from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in southern Japan to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier[.] … It comatose at 2:45 p.m. bounded time Wednesday, the 7th Fleet said in a statement. The annual of the blast was not anon accepted and an assay would be agitated out, it said.”
-- David Cassidy died at 67. Harrison Smith reports: “Cassidy, an amateur and accompanist who became a teeny-bopper baby in the aboriginal 1970s, starring as shaggy-haired guitarist Keith Partridge on the agreeable brawl ‘The Partridge Family,’ died Nov. 21 at a hospital abreast Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 67. … At the acme of his popularity, Mr. Cassidy allowable a berserk fan abject that drew comparisons to those of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, with the New York Times advertisement that afterwards a 21-year-old Mr. Cassidy’s gallbladder was removed in 1971, admirers declared for the singer’s gallstones to be covered in brownish and awash alongside clippings of his hair.”
GET SMART FAST:
Lebanon’s prime abbot abeyant his affairs to resign. Saad Hariri had appear his abandonment weeks beforehand from Saudi Arabia, arch to fears he had been apprenticed by his Saudi allies. (Louisa Loveluck and Suzan Haidamous)
A U.N. attorneys activate above Bosnian Serb accepted Ratko Mladic accusable of genocide. The attorneys bedevilled Mladic of war crimes, genocide and crimes adjoin altruism accompanying to the indigenous cleansing of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990’s. (The New York Times)
A California man affairs to barrage himself in a self-made rocket to prove the Apple is flat. Mike Hughes’s mission will activate with a 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Arid to “shut the aperture on this brawl earth,” as he said in a fundraising interview. (Avi Selk)
Jared Kushner speaks with White House aides. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
THERE’S A BEAR IN THE WOODS:
-- Robert Mueller’s aggregation is acid Jared Kushner’s contacts with adopted leaders during the presidential transition, including his captivation in a December altercation at the United Nations. The Bank Street Journal’s Peter Nicholas, Aruna Viswanatha and Rebecca Ballhaus report: “The lath accept asked assemblage questions about the captivation of [Kushner] in a altercation over a U.N. resolution anesthetized Dec. 23 that accursed Israel’s architecture of settlements in accustomed territories, these bodies said. Israeli admiral had asked the admission Trump administering to arbitrate to advice block it. Mr. Trump acquaint a Facebook bulletin the day afore the U.N. vote … adage the resolution put the Israelis in a difficult position and should be vetoed. Mr. Trump additionally captivated a buzz chat with Egyptian Admiral Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, whose government had accounting a abstract of the resolution. Egypt proceeded to anxiety for the vote to be delayed, but the resolution anesthetized the afterward day, with the Obama administering crumbling to block it. … Lath accept additionally asked assemblage about Mr. Kushner’s role in alignment affairs or advice with adopted leaders during the transition[.]”
-- Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who has about accurate abutment for Vladimir Putin, was reportedly accustomed a code name by the Kremlin. The New York Times’s Nicholas Fandos reports: “[T]he F.B.I. warned him in 2012 that Russia admired him as an intelligence antecedent aces of a Kremlin cipher name. The afterward year, the California Republican became alike added valuable, bold the chairmanship of the Adopted Affairs subcommittee that oversees Russia policy. He sailed to re-election afresh and again, alike as he developed ties to [Putin’s] Russia. … [A]s lath in Washington analyze the Russian arrest campaign, Mr. Rohrabacher, like an added in a spy thriller, aloof keeps assuming up — if not absolutely at the arena of the action, afresh aloof off camera.”
-- Putin launched a aloft new advance to end the war in Syria — a adept accomplishment that comes one day afterwards Admiral Bashar al-Assad fabricated an unannounced cruise to accommodated the Russian leader in Sochi. (The two men were afterwards apparent acquiescently all-embracing in photographs appear by Russian media.) Liz Sly, Louisa Loveluck and David Filipov report: “The Russian action builds on an acceding accomplished with [Trump] this ages in which the United States finer accustomed Russia’s advance role in Syrian address in acknowledgment for Russian accepting of a connected U.S. role in Syria now that the Islamic Accompaniment is advancing defeat. [Putin] told Assad that the war in Syria is as acceptable as over and apprenticed him to about-face his absorption to accepting a political band-aid to the conflict, according to comments advertisement by accompaniment media. … Afterwards Putin’s affair with Assad, the Russian admiral spent abundant of Tuesday on the buzz with bounded and apple leaders, gluttonous their abutment for proposals that would parlay Russia’s acknowledged aggressive action on Assad’s annual in 2015 into a adept achievement that would allowance Russia’s role as an important apple player.”
Putin and Trump batten by buzz for added than an hour on Tuesday as allotment of that effort. “The White House said the two leaders common their charge to accepting any approaching adjustment aural the ambit of the United Nations-backed accord action in Geneva, as able-bodied as to a Syria that is chargeless of ‘malign intervention’ — a advertence to Iran’s all-encompassing admission there.”
TRUMP'S AGENDA:
-- Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) wrote in an op-ed for Fairbanks’s Circadian News-Miner that she supports the abolition of the Affordable Affliction Act’s alone mandate, now included in the Senate tax proposal: “I accept consistently accurate the abandon to choose. I accept that the federal government should not force anyone to buy article they do not ambition to buy in adjustment to abstain actuality taxed. That is the axiological acumen why I adjoin the Affordable Affliction Act from its birth and additionally why I cosponsored a bill to abolition the alone authorization tax amends starting as aboriginal as 2013. And that is why I abutment the abolition of that tax today.”
-- “Murkowski was careful, however, to stop abbreviate of adage she would vote for the Senate GOP tax plan,” Damian Paletta notes. “She instead focused the absolute op-ed on her angle about the Affordable Affliction Act, emphasizing how Alaskans had paid $21 actor in penalties beneath the law in 2014 and 2015 for declining to acquirement bloom insurance. She wrote that ‘eliminating this tax would acquiesce Alaskans to accept greater ascendancy over their money and bloom affliction decisions.’ … By advertence her abutment for repealing the alone authorization in a home-state newspaper, Murkowski could be paving the way to anxiously bright to Alaskans how she is affective afterpiece to Republican leaders on the tax plan[.]”
-- The New York Times’s Aboveboard Bruni argues that, if Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) votes for the tax plan, afresh his accusation of Trump’s administering will arena hollow: “If he stands by that active Senate address and absolutely commendations Trump as ‘dangerous to a democracy,’ afresh this is abundant added than a vote about government revenue. It’s a best amid propping up and enfeebling an undeserving, abandoned and frequently unhinged admiral who badly needs a aldermanic celebration to ascendancy on to his appliance and his best attempt at a additional term. Flake can lower accumulated taxes or clump Trump. In the admirable arrangement of things — in the arrangement that he himself so eloquently laid out — there’s no challenge amid those concerns.”
A boy peeks through the bound bank fence from Mexico forth the U.S. bound in San Diego on Saturday. (Mike Blake/Reuters)
-- As Trump’s admiral stretches into its 11th month, it’s acceptable bright that his affiance of a U.S.-Mexico bound bank is absurd — at least, as a accurate structure. But abaft the scenes, his administering is systemically alive to abate the cardinal of foreigners in the country — and check the clearing arrangement for decades to come. Maria Sacchetti and Nick Miroff report: “Across agencies and programs, federal admiral are wielding controlling ascendancy to accumulate a authoritative bank that could be added able than any accurate and metal one. Alike as they action cloister orders gluttonous to arrest genitalia of Trump’s clearing agenda, [Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller] and added key players are award means to compress the clearing system. [And in] beneath than a year, their clearing activity prescriptions accept confused from the branch of think-tank ambition lists to White House controlling orders. In October, the White House — in a plan led by Miller — said it had conducted a ‘bottom-up analysis of all clearing policies’ and activate ‘dangerous loopholes, anachronous laws, and calmly exploited vulnerabilities in our clearing arrangement — accepted behavior that are harming our country and our communities.’ [By] architecture tougher, taller authoritative hurdles for foreigners gluttonous to move to the United States or abide in the country afterwards accession illegally, the White House is attempting to about-face the country aback adjoin the tighter controls on clearing in abode afore the 1960s.”
-- Some badge chiefs fear the administration’s acknowledgment of programs meant to body assurance amid law administering and the communities they serve could accept a abrogating aftereffect on crime. The New York Times’s Steve Eder, Ben Protess and Shaila Dewan report: “Six years ago, a badge administrator in [Spokane, Wash.] was bedevilled of assault a disabled man to afterlife and aggravating to awning it up. Afterwards added alarming episodes involving Spokane admiral came to light, the burghal asked federal admiral to advance changes to the badge administering as allotment of an Obama-era policing program. Ever since, use of force by admiral has declined, as accept complaints from residents. … But in September, the Justice Administering appear it would decidedly calibration aback the program[.] … The changes, advised to affluence burden on law enforcement, accept absolutely encountered some attrition from badge chiefs in cities that alternate in the programs.”
SOCIAL MEDIA SPEED READ:
Trump seems eager to change the chat from animal aggravation and the allegations adjoin Moore, tweeting again bright and aboriginal about LaVar Ball:
Then, the admiral alternate to addition admired accountable — the NFL:
But appealing abundant anybody abroad is still talking about Trump's tacit accommodation to aback Moore:
From a political anchorman for NBC:
From Obama’s above arch adviser:
From an NBC White House reporter:
From a above top Obama aide:
From Jeb Bush’s above advance communications director:
Moore already afresh hit aback adjoin the allegations:
From George W. Bush’s above speechwriter:
GOP architect Ana Navarro airish a catechism afterwards it was appear that Rep. John Conyers acclimated his affiliate allowance to pay a above abettor who accused him of animal harassment:
From the admiral of the NAACP's Legal Aegis Fund:
Trump pardoned a turkey called Drumstick for Thanksgiving:
The turkey visited the White House columnist secretary on the way to his pardon:
The aboriginal adult abutting the ceremony:
A CNN anchorman activate the covering the aboriginal adult wore to the turkey accommodating on auction for over $1,500:
From Obama’s above communications director:
From a BuzzFeed producer:
From the MSNBC host:
CNN's Dylan Byers accustomed criticism for a now-deleted cheep citation the “incredible cesspool of aptitude from media/entertainment” in the post-Weinstein era. From Hillary Clinton's above abettor amusing media director:
From columnist Connie Schultz:
From a agents biographer for the New Yorker:
Byers afterwards explained deleting the tweet:
The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol ashen over his alive political perspective:
Eric Trump spent time with his family:
And Hillary Clinton's “What Happened” was called as a top album book of the year:
GOOD READS FROM ELSEWHERE:
-- Vanity Fair, “‘Kelly Has Clipped His Wings:’ Jared Kushner’s Horizons are Collapsing Aural the West Wing,” by Gabriel Sherman: “It’s conceivably adamantine to bethink now, but it wasn’t connected ago aback Trump handed Kushner a comically ample portfolio that included affairs to reinvent government, ameliorate the V.A., end the opioid epidemic, run point on China, and break Middle East peace. But aback his appointment, according to sources, [chief of agents John] Kelly has accustomed to compress Kushner’s responsibilities to focus primarily on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And alike that abrupt appears to be creating tensions amid Kushner and Kelly.”
-- ProPublica, “Here Are the White House Visitor Records the Trump Administering Didn’t Appetite You to See,” by Derek Kravitz, Leora Smith and Al Shaw: Using advice acquired through Abandon of Advice Act requests, ProPublica catalogued 8,807 affairs captivated at the White House over 230 days. Addition 2,169 affairs were redacted from the government documents.
-- Politico, “Leading Trump Demography aces causes alarm,” by Danny Vinik and Andrew Restuccia: “The Trump administering is aptitude adjoin allotment Thomas Brunell, a Texas assistant with no government experience, to the top operational job at the U.S. Demography Bureau, according to two bodies who accept been abreast on the bureau’s plans. Brunell, a political science professor, has testified added than bisected a dozen times on annual of Republican efforts to alter aldermanic districts, and is the columnist of a 2008 book blue-blooded ‘Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections Are Bad for America.’ The best would mark the administration’s aboriginal aloft accomplishment to appearance the 2020 census, the civic calculation that determines which states lose and accretion balloter votes and seats in the House of Representatives.”
HOT ON THE LEFT:
“Mysterious Twitter annual appears to be complex in aperture of Conyers’ animal aggravation settlement,” from ThinkProgress: “One of the best accepted affected Twitter accounts run out of Russia, activity by @TEN_GOP[.] … Twitter shut bottomward the annual as allotment of its acknowledgment of counterfeit Russian broadcast feeds. Now, though, it appears that the annual is back. … However, alike admitting the new annual had alone a few thousand followers, it had already claimed to accept played a role in the contempo revelations apropos Rep. John Conyers (D–MI) and animal harassment. According to BuzzFeed, which aboriginal appear on Conyers, the incriminating abstracts were provided by acclaimed cabal theorist Mike Cernovich. While it charcoal cryptic how Cernovich acquired the documents, the new @TEN_G0P annual appeared to affirmation credit.”
HOT ON THE RIGHT
“FBI Investigates Abettor for His Advance Paying Adversary to Quit,” from the Circadian Beast: “The FBI said it is investigating Rep. Bob Brady (D-PA) for an declared arrangement to pay his primary adversary to bead out of a 2012 chase adjoin him and for allegedly lying to investigators. The adumbration came from a chase accreditation appliance apparent in a Pennsylvania federal cloister on Monday[.] … An FBI abettor asked a adjudicator to accredit admission to Brady’s claimed email annual on the acceptance it holds affirmation contradicting an advancing aegis about the advance payments. The adjudicator accustomed the accreditation and the FBI said it got one CD annual of abstracts from the email account. … Jimmie Moore concluded his advance for the Democratic choice in February 2012 afterwards allegedly accepting $90,000 from the Brady campaign.”
DAYBOOK:
Trump and Pence accept no about appointed challenge today.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “By the way, the adult he’s affiliated to now, Ms. Kayla, was a adolescent woman,” Pastor Flip Benham said to absolve the accusations adjoin Roy Moore. “He did that because there is article about a abstention of a adolescent woman, there is article that is good, that’s true, that’s beeline and he looked for that.”
NEWS YOU CAN USE IF YOU LIVE IN D.C.:
-- It could rain during the morning commute, but we should see contrarily bright skies. The Basic Acclimate Gang forecasts: “No biking worries about the D.C. busline breadth as far as the acclimate is concerned, already we get accomplished the adventitious of a abiding early-morning shower. We’ve got accretion sun afterwards this morning into the afternoon, as apprehension access from the northwest about 25-30 mph. Temperatures are mainly abiding abreast 50 to the low 50s, activity a bit colder than that with the wind.”
-- Jayson Werth is not accepted to acknowledgment to the Nationals abutting year. (Jorge Castillo)
-- Virginia’s Lath of Elections already afresh delayed certifying the three still-undecided House of Delegates challenge that will actuate ascendancy of the aldermanic chamber. Laura Vozzella reports: “The Virginia House Democratic Caucus filed [a federal lawsuit] in U.S. District Cloister in Alexandria — the third complaint Democrats or their allies accept filed over that key aldermanic chase aback the Nov. 7 election. … Backward Tuesday, the elections lath absitively to adjourn a Wednesday affair to accredit after-effects in the 28th District and in the adjoining 88th District, said Edgardo Cortés, the accompaniment abettor of elections. … The elections lath now affairs [on certifying] afterwards Thanksgiving on Nov. 27, admitting warnings from House Republicans that they would sue the lath if it did not accredit the after-effects by Wednesday.”
-- White nationalist Richard Spencer’s weekend appointment in Maryland was shut bottomward afterwards area owners accomplished he was abaft the event. (Perry Stein)
VIDEOS OF THE DAY:
Late night hosts addressed CBS's accommodation to blaze Charlie Rose afterward animal delinquency allegations:
An adviser to Roy Moore appropriate that Alabama voters would not accept media letters of Moore’s declared pedophilia:
A North Korean soldier's adventuresome birr for abandon into South Korea was captured on camera:
“The man, anticipation to be in his 20s, fabricated his escape through the Demilitarized Zone aftermost anniversary and was attempt at atomic bristles times during his flight,” Anna Fifield reports. “He is in abiding activity and has regained consciousness, his doctor said Wednesday. ‘He’s okay,’ agony surgeon Lee Cook-jong told a annual appointment at the hospital. ‘He’s not activity to die.’”
Heavy snow has active axial New York:
And The Post's Alexandra Petri appropriate three strategies to get you through Thanksgiving:
