Erdogan gave the most detailed account of the timeline surrounding Khashoggi’s murder, including how Saudi’s scouted the city and countryside the day before, and how they sent a body double walking around town after the murder.
On Wednesday pipe bombs were sent to Obama, the Clintons and CNN’s New York studios. This follows similar bombs sent to George Soros on Monday.
In tweets and public statements, one at a rally and another at the White House, Trump has all but blamed the pipe bomb delivery–up to 10 by the end of the week–on the mainstream media’s negative reporting on his administration: “A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News.”
He also fed into the false flag conspiracy theory that is percolating in right wing circles by tweeting the word “bomb” in quotes: “Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this “Bomb” stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows – news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!” This was tweeted just hours before the bomber, an outspoken Trump supporter, was captured. Here is a list of all the people who were the target of the bomber, and they are all Trump critics or people Trump has called out for criticism.
Trump is clearly frustrated that the bombing attempts have moved the news cycle away from the midterm, and potentially created a negative narrative for himself and Republicans. In a public statement after the suspect was captured he said of the Republicans running for Congress: “They were also competing with this story,” he said with palpable frustration. “Now our law enforcement’s done such a good job,” he added, “maybe that can start to disappear rapidly because we don’t like those stories.”
On Saturday a virulent anti-Semite shot up a Pittsburgh Synagogue, killing 11 people at a baby-naming ceremony.
Immigration News:
According to new government numbers:
- 47 separated kids still in custody.
- Parents of 33 already deported.
- Lawyers for families say “government has not yet provided… a timeline” for 258 reunited but still-detained families.
We also learned that the government revised its number of children separated to 2,668, having discovered 14 previously unaccounted for separated children.
According to a new government report, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services were in the dark about the child-separation policy until Sessions publicly declared the Zero-Tolerance policy, thus they were unprepared to carry it out. Also: “Data released on Tuesday by Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of the Border Patrol, showed that the agency apprehended 16,658 people in families in September, a record. Such arrests reached 107,212 for the 2018 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, exceeding the previous high of 77,857 in the 2016 fiscal year. In total, nearly 400,000 people were apprehended by border agents in the 2018 fiscal year.”
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Trump’s Job Approval: 42.4%