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Today in the Trump AdministrationCork Wine Bar sues Trump hotel over stanley termohrnek unfair competitionHow do you compete with a restaurant at President Donald Trumprsquo hotel down the road from the White House Two Washington restaurateurs argue you canrsquo;t mdash; and have sued him over it.The plaintiffs are Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross. They allege unfair competition under local law and have filed a lawsuit against Trump personally stanley quencher and the Trump Old Post Office LLC, which operates the Trump International Hotel. The two plaintiffs own Cork Wine Bar, which is in the Logan Circle neighborhood, about a mile and a half away from the hotel. Cork Wine Bar is a well-regarded brick-walled market and wine bar that serves New American small plates.Comey meets with senators, House membersFBI Director James Comey went to Capitol Hill Thursday to bri stanley mugs ef the Gang of Eight members of Congress on President Trumprsquo wiretapping allegations, as well as other national security matters, CBS Newsrsquo; Nancy Cordes reports. Comey met with the Gang of Eight in two separate meetings -- one with the senators and one with the House members. The Gang is composed of the leaders from each party in the House and Senate, as well as the chair and ranking member from the House and Senate Intelligence Committees.Sean Spicer says White House is not aware of any Justice Department investigation into TrumpWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday str Ppwt Chris Christie reveals he was in the ICU for 7 days with COVID-19
PERETZ ON PLAME....I suppose if there were a competition for worst professional analysis of the Plame scandal and the Scooter Libby commutation, Marty Peretz s contribution would have to be the leading contender.It was from the beginning a politically motivated case, as Dershowitz argues in this morning s Post, the appointment of the special prosecutor, the prosecutor s own obsessions, the case itself with the doubtful and understandably doubtful but diverse memories of many witnesses, including the defendant, the especially harsh sentence pronounced by the judge, the refusal of the appellate court to continue Libb stanley cup becher y on bail -- all of these were politically motivated. And, thus, in and of themselves, unjust.I haven t the foggiest idea what any of this means. Libby was charged by a prosecutor appointed by a Republican administration, a criminal sentence was issued by a judge appointed by a Republican president, and Libby s appeal was heard by two more judges appointed by Republican presidents. The sentence was well within the guidelines of a Republican president s Justice Department. They re all in on some kind of partisa stanley cup n political scheme to undermine Bush How Why As Sullivan put it:This is an argument Marty does not provide a scintilla of evidence that any of these things was politically motivated . Not one. How was John Ashcroft s appointment of a special prosecutor stanley thermos mug politically motivated What exactly are Patrick Fitzgerald s unnamed obsessions How is the sentence out |
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