EXCERPTS from a speech @JeffFlake plans to deliver on Wednesday, comparing Trump’s comments on the media to Stalin:
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Report: U.S. warned Jared Kushner about Wendi Deng Murdoch
In 2017, U.S.
counterintelligence officials warned Jared Kushner that Chinese-American
businesswoman Wendi Deng Murdoch could be using her close relationship
to Kushner and Ivanka Trump to push the Chinese agenda, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Why it matters: The
warning was part of an ongoing effort to alert Kushner of the risks of
dealing with people with foreign connections. Murdoch, who kept her
married name after divorcing Newscorp CEO Rupert Murdoch in 2013, has
been on counterintelligence radars for years. U.S. officials assessed
that she was lobbying for a $100 million Chinese garden at the National
Arboretum in D.C., which was ultimately deemed a security risk because
its 70-foot tower could be used for surveillance.
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Flake to invoke Stalin in speech on Trump's anti-media attacks
Sen. Jeff Flake is planning to confront President Trump's anti-media comments in a speech to the Senate this week, comparing Trump and the president's labeling of the media as the "enemy of the American people" to comments made by Josef Stalin.
"Mr.
President, it is a testament to the condition of our democracy that our
own president uses words infamously spoken by Josef Stalin to describe
his enemies."
Link: https://www.axios.com/flake-compares-trumps-1515950342-3f0d27f5-ae18-4330-9b6a-8c0bef10e53c.html
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