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Two firings: for writing "Pig" on cop's coffee cup, and for Newsweek reporting error about Trump

It was not a good holiday for two employees in separate cases of workplace mistakes.

From KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma: "Starbucks says they fired a barista who printed "PIG" on five coffee cups ordered by a police officer on Thanksgiving. The police chief at Kiefer Police Department, a community just outside Tulsa, said the officer was picking up drinks for their dispatchers as a "thank you" for their hard work. Starbucks and the barista who printed the label reached out to the Kiefer Police Department and apologized for the incident."

Read more here.

Separately, Newsweek reports it fired a reporter whose name was on a story that falsely said President Trump spent Thanksgiving "tweeting and golfing" when he was actually in Afghanistan serving up dinner to U.S. troops and speaking with them.

Read more here.

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London stabbings: the latest in a string of Islamic extremist terrorist attacks

London stabbing terrorist suspect Unman Khan of Pakistan, police photo

The suspect in Friday's London terrorist stabbings was an Islamic extremist man whose family came to Great Britain from Pakistan. He had been released early from prison after a previous terrorism-related conviction.

Usama Khan, 28, was shot and killed by police after the stabbing spree in central London, in which he allegedly killed two people and injured three more.

Officials say Khan was released from a British prison in late 2018 with an ankle monitor. He had plead guilty in 2012 in a plot to blow up the London Stock Exchange, the U.S. Embassy in London, and other buildings. Khan reportedly also admitted to other terrorism-related offenses at the time, involving recruiting jihadists for a terrorist training facility in Pakistan that masqueraded as a school.

The group of men convicted with Khan in 2012 had been bugged by police and were reportedly overheard "claiming that fewer than 100,000 Jews died in the Holocaust and talking about how Hitler had been on the same side as the Muslims because he understood that “the Jews were dangerous."

Khan's 16-year prison term had automatically been cut short based on early release conditions in the United Kingdom, according to reports.

According to news reports, "Khan was originally classed as never to be released unless deemed no longer a threat but this condition was later lifted."

In a letter from jail in 2012, Khan had insisted he was reformed and wanted to be deradicalized to become "a good British citizen."

The Associated Press reported that Khan was attending a program that works to educate prisoners when he went on the stabbing rampage.

Friday's attack happened near the site of a 2017 attack attributed to the Islamic extremist terrorist group ISIS. In that incident, one terrorist slammed a white van into pedestrians on London bridge, then three men got out of the van and began stabbing people. Eight people were murdered and 48 others injured. Police shot and killed the three terrorists.

The 2017 attackers were identified as Khuram Shazad Butt, a Pakistani man who had become a British citizen; a failed asylum-seeker from Morocco or Libya named Rachid Redouane; and Moroccan-born Youssef Zaghba.

The 2017 attack was preceded by a similar vehicle ramming and stabbing three months before at Westminster Bridge in London. Five people were murdered. That attack was blamed on 52-year-old Khalid Masood who'd been released from prison after several previous knife-related offenses. Police shot and killed him on the scene.

2017 London terrorist Khalid Masood

Across England, crime recently rose 13%. There has been a rash of unrelated stabbings and other violent crimes.

Much of Europe has struggled with terrorist incidents committed by Muslim extremists. There was an uptick in such attacks after a 2015 refugee influx from mostly-Muslim countries. Numerous refugees went on to commit terrorist attacks in Germany and elsewhere.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel originally opened the borders to one million asylum-seekers in 2015. There was a backlash after refugees launched multiple attacks in Germany. An Afghan refugee injured five in an axe attack on a German train. A Syrian refugee suicide bombing injured 15 outside a German music festival. Another Syrian refugee stabbed to death a woman and injured five. And a Tunisian refugee killed 12 by plowing a truck into a German Christmas market – all in 2016.

Germany has quietly closed the door to refugees and is ramping up deportations.

Greece has recently announced it plans to try to halt the incessant flow of refugees who come in rafts from North Africa and the Mideast through Turkey to Greek islands.

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Unions say foreign workers taking Obama stimulus funds

The following is from a story I reported for CBS News on April 13, 2012. The Executive Producer of the CBS Evening News at the time killed the report. It was published on the web, only. The video has since been taken down.

(CBS News) Michigan once had the worst unemployment rate in the U.S. So when stimulus tax dollars poured into the state's electric car industry, residents had reason to celebrate. But what happened next has angered some of President Obama's most ardent supporters.

In 2010, Obama and Vice President Biden personally appeared to break ground at two Michigan plants. The plants were getting a combined $300 million under the stimulus program to build electric car batteries.

But as it turns out the companies getting all those American tax dollars are largely owned by Koreans. They bought a lot of Korean equipment and supplies. And they filled some of those sought-after jobs with Korean workers. That drew anger from local labor unions. They say pictures, taken inside the plants show Korean nationals doing hands-on work that should be done by Americans.

"I think there's a lot of anger out there, not to be confused with any sort of prejudice against anyone from another country," said Mark Mangione, who represents 1,000 labor union members in west Michigan. "This is American taxpayer dollars and there should be American jobs that are created with those American taxpayer dollars."

The companies, LG Chem and Dow Kokam, wouldn't agree to interviews. but they told CBS News the Korean workers are temporary and legal and have "unique ... expertise (with) highly sophisticated equipment."

But just how many there are remains a mystery. The companies won't tell us. Dow Kokam acknowledged 150 on site last December, but won't give a grand total.

LG Chem calls the union complaints "baseless" and says Korean nationals haven't been "used to provide labor or craft work."

The unions insist they've seen foreign workers doing the very jobs Americans could do.

"The thing that was alarming to us was that there are people actually doing the work out there, installing the machinery, doing electrical work, piping work, mill right work, installing the machines in this plant," Mangione said.

The unions wrote complaint letters to the Labor Department and the president, but got few answers. So they filed a Freedom of Information Act request. 

In it, they asked for payroll records of LG Chem contractors performing construction work. The government's response named 18 companies; at least 11 of them are Asian firms. 

Energy Department officials say they're confident all laws are being obeyed, but declined our interview request to talk about foreign workers on stimulus jobs. The companies pointed us to broad totals, saying stimulus money has indirectly helped create 2,000 temporary construction jobs and 300 full time jobs.

The unions say they're grateful for jobs that have come to Michigan -- they just wish all of them were filled by out of work Americans.

Read the story at the link below:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unions-say-foreign-workers-taking-stimulus-jobs/

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Lessons from media mistake #100 in the era of Trump

The following is a news analysis.

Note: On Sat. Nov. 30 Newsweek reported firing the reporter in question. Details here.

This point isn't to pick on someone in particular. It's to learn what the latest media mistake in the era of Trump tells us about some badly broken national journalism.

The misreporting occurred on Thanksgiving Day. It made #100 on my list of major media mistakes. It was committed by a political writer at Newsweek.

The writer called it an "honest mistake." But I suggest it's something far more serious, from a journalistic standpoint. I'll explain why.

First, we'll review the errors.

Newsweek's Jessica Kwong wrote:

And...

Of course, this proved to be untrue. President Trump actually spent Thanksgiving traveling to Afghanistan, speaking with U.S. troops, and serving them dinner.

Even more startling: it's the second year in a row that national media made the same mistake. Last year, NBC falsely reported that Trump was the first President since 2002 not to visit the troops at Christmastime.

Here are the main issues behind the Newsweek reporting.

1. Lack of basic reportorial knowledge

I'm not a political reporter nor do I closely follow the White House. Yet one thing I wondered on Thanksgiving morning was whether Trump would visit the troops on Thanksgiving or Christmas (or both) this year. All recent presidents have done so.

One would think a national political reporter and any editors would know to be watching for the annual "surprise visits." It's hard to imagine that someone entrusted to write and edit political material for a national publication doesn't have this basic thought process. It makes one wonder about the supposed expertise about those writing important national political stories.

2. Failure to attribute

The Newsweek article would not have been wrong and unjournalistic had the reporter, Kwong, not included her own assumptions and supposition. Or, if she received the bad information from a source, she would not have been wrong if she had she included proper attribution as basic standards call for. For example she could have written:

President Donald Trump has been spending his Thanksgiving holidays at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, which he calls the "winter White House," and [resort officials/White House officials say] this year [will be] no exception."

Often in today's news stories, journalists have abandoned the basic practice of attributing information to its source. They improperly declare information to be factual even though they do not know it firsthand to be true. This was one of the problems with the Newsweek snafu.

3. Failure to fact check

There's an old saying: "assume" makes an "ass" out of "u" and "me." As silly as it may sound, these are words for a journalist to live by. One thing I've learned in all my years is that no matter how obvious something seems, no matter how many other reporters have the same interpretation, no matter what the video seems to clearly show -- it is frequently wrong. Frequently.

That's why when writing a news story it's important to follow the basic journalism standard of checking your assumptions. Kwong should have contacted the White House to see if her assumption that Trump would be golfing on Thanksgiving was true. If they told her it was, she need only attribute that and -- even if he ended up in Afghanistan -- she couldn't be journalistically faulted for the bad information because it would have been attributed to its proper source, not words as if coming out of her mouth directly.

4. Failure to "correct"

Although Newsweek corrected the story-- they didn't really correct the story. They called it an "update." This disingenuous. There was no real update. The story hadn't changed. The reporter simply learned that her information was false and had to change it.

That's a correction. At least it should be. It's probably worth an apology, as well.

5. False information remains

Even after the correction, Newsweek retains the false headline stating that Trump golfed on Thanksgiving. He didn't.

The same lessons can be said of many media mistakes. If Time magazine had bothered to follow basic journalism standards and ask the White House, they would not have falsely reported that Trump had removed the bust statue of Martin Luther King from the Oval Office the day he was inaugurated.

If proper attribution had been used and fairness standards followed, NBC, CNN and The Washington Post would not find themselves being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars by a Catholic High School student who was smeared and whose actions were widely misrepresented on the news.

I'm not suggesting that we should be infallible and never make mistakes. We're all human.

However, I think that given the evidence now in hand, it's hard to argue there's not bias at the root of this rash of mistakes. They are bush league errors that would have garnered students in journalism colleges an automatic "F" on an assignment. At least that's the way it used to be. National journalists and their editors should know better.

But more significantly, the mistakes are almost entirely-- if not entirely--in one direction: the one that makes Trump look worst. If they truly were "honest mistakes," wouldn't half of them.. or at least a handful.. cut the other way?

Yet nobody mistakenly reported that Trump spent the holiday in Afghanistan with the troops when he'd actually been golfing at his resort. The opposite was reported.

Nobody mistakenly reported that Trump paid a high rate of taxes only for us to learn, when the records were released, that he didn't pay any taxes. The opposite was reported.

On election night in 2016, nobody called a state win for Trump that he'd actually lost. The opposite was reported.

The misquotes, the anonymous sources who prove wrong, the improper context-- they all cut in the direction of being anti-Trump.

I often hear people retort that Trump lies more than the media. The implication is that somehow the media's mistakes are justified because of what we believe the flawed moral character of the target to be.

These are dangerous arguments, in my opinion, from a journalistic standpoint. Our obligation is to cover our subjects fairly and to maintain the same standards even when we don't like the subject-- especially, perhaps, when we don't like him.

Otherwise, why have standards?

The way we cover those we perceive as the enemies of our own views helps define how good we are, as journalists, at the job we're entrusted to do: covering the news.

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Granny's sayings: A nostalgic trip down memory lane

Many of us on Twitter recently began sharing old sayings and phrases. It was so much fun, I decided to compile some of them here for easy reading. I didn't get to copy all of them, but there are quite a few.

Enjoy!

Who sneezed with their eyes open and they blew out of their head?

...or whose facial expression got "stuck that way...?"

Wife's mother told her ears would permanently protrude if she kept tucking her hair behind them.

Whose eyes crossed and got stuck?

Hey it happens. You just have to pre-plan your own gene pool to get the required syndrome. Easy-peasy lemon squeasy.

If you break your leg, don't come running to me.

"I'll wash your mouth out with soap"

What happened to your mother's back when you stepped on a crack?

Watching too much to would turn your eyes into raisins

Mother knows best!

Technically, it's "How ya like dem apples?"

Me: climbing tree Mom: freak out Dad: "If you fall and break your leg don't come running to me."

I Don't Know...Whatda Mean Ya Don't Know...

LOL. With every safety rule that's out there, some fool had to do it first, and the rest of us suffer for it.

I heard about those guys from a bunch of surgeons.

My sister-in-law's father always carefully explained to her that smoking actually killed the germs in you.

Who knew? On the other hand, he did live into his 90's - puffing away, to the end.

He died from the splinter left in his finger, that traveled into his bloodstream and up to his heart. My ancient grandmother had us believing that one, until my Dad one day heard her, started laughing and told her to quit with the old wive's tales.

I had emergency surgery cuz I ran through the house and a sewing needle broke off in my foot. ER doc laughed, “What makes you think it’s in there?” “It moves.” X-ray Emergency surgery

Who actually caught a cold with wet hair?

Who actually caught a cold with wet hair?

We should just take all the warning labels off of everything and let it all sort itself out!

My husband still follows that rule.

Although I have known a few whose grumpy expression “got stuck that way” and wondered if their dear mother forgot to warn them about that possibility.

Support EMS, run with scissors

Dunno but Lisa Giddings really did het her toung stuck to the freezing cold light pole.

Who went blind? And would he do it again?

The same guy who’s face stuck that way

And that kid whose face stuck that way!

Can't go swimming for an hour after eating

Who is the kid that stopped crying when his mom said if you don’t stop I’ll give you something to cry about?

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...or whose facial expression got “stuck that way...?”

...and who fell and “broke his neck...?”

I got one for u..who is the original Smart Alick?

The same guy who went swimming right after eating.

keep stretching your mouth and it will stay like that!

Its all eyes and games until someone gets their fun poked out...

Same, stupid, eyeless, person,

I might not be here today if not for the 4 warning labels on my pillow.

Someone like my brother who went running across the yard holding a toy rifle and ended up with it protruding through the side of his cheek.

Oh, you mean 'Lefty' and 'Holey Joe'?

It's almost like catching cold.

I had a friend put his eye out at the driving range! Ball shot straight up and back at him, blinded him!

For ridiculous people. ...the second Tuesday of next week.

My grandmother used to say she’d rather go fishing than eat when she’s hungry.

If it was a snake it would have bit you. When I couldn't find something right next to me

"Baked into a pie."

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From Jersey: "What do you want, egg in your beer"?

I would think; 'time to burn the midnight oil' would have been used a lot in college.

My Dad used to say “If you had a brain you’d be dangerous”

“Run that up your flagpole and salute it”

“I was mortified!”

My dad used to tell me “Boy!! I’ll knock a knot on your head and dare it to rise!”

"How does that grab you?"

I am 1 of 9 kids, my Mom would say “put a egg in your shoe and beat it” when we pestered her.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and a fool, something to put in his mouth.

My grandfather emigrated from England and his advice to me no matter what I was doing was “ Now be sure to watch your P’s and Q’s.

My grandmother: “That makes me madder than seven kinds of thunder!” and... “That’s a treat instead of a treatment!”

Madder than a pole cat in a phone booth.

I've told you forty 'leven times...

That food's so good it will make your tongue slap your brains out.

I'll knock the taste out of your mouth.

My mother would say, "my right eye is twitching" when she thought I was up to something. No idea what she meant.

Writing them is far more valuable than remembering silently. My mother's grandmother married a defector from the Confederacy, suffered loneliness as he was held in a Conf. POW camp, and lost her father and brother to Conf. terrorism. She lost her sight and raised her family.

Pretty is as pretty does. Also my mom, don’t cry over spilled milk.

A friend of my Mom used to say " Whenever somebody offers to do you a favor....run like hell!"

My grandmother would say, "Now's the time to eat" when she had finished preparing the meal and we all sat time to eat. Alongside her was the wooden spoon.

"Sheryl Sheryl strong and able, get your elbows off the table. This is not a horse's stable, but a first class dining table."

Patience petunia

My Dad would always say “Don’t talk so much, you might learn something”.

Nothing to be learned in the second kick of the mule.

When you eat soup “Like little ships that go out to sea I dip my spoon away from me”

My Mamaw (Grandmother) would say "you sweep around your back door and I will sweep around mine". That was her way of saying mind your own business!

As for music, the bad goes in the spit-tune.

My granny would sometimes get fed up and say “ Son of a Pup !”

If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Moms know everything, because we have eyes behind our heads.

My mom’s advice on complaining about things you cannot change: “You may as well save your breath to blow your coffee.”

My grandpa, watching my grandma prepare at the holidays, use to tell us all before we ate our meal, in Spanish, “a home isn’t built on the grown, it’s built on a woman”. Grandma would always add “a tired one”

Grandmother...”Only boring people are bored.”

Here’s one particularly good for today. When cautioning us about not thinking before speaking, she’d say, “Thoughts unspoken can fall back dead. God Himself can’t stop them once they’re said.”

My dad used to say something i don't quite remember... smile or your face'll freeze like that? SOmething like that

He also used to keep telling me that I "need to step up to the plate, young man!" which annoyed the shit out of me because I hate sports.

"Precious Memories" !

My mother’s favorite saying was man oh man oh Manischewitz!

It is the average man that learns from his mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others, and it is the damn fool that makes the same mistakes over and over again. Dated and sexist, but still true.

My grandfather would hold the door open and say “dirt before the broom” as I walked past when I was little. I’d catch it and look back to his knowing smirk . I miss that man.

My mom’s favorite saying—“This too shall pass.”

“God gave you two eyes, two ears, and one mouth, because you should look and listen twice before you speak” Martin Vandenburg “A wise man understands how little he really knows“ Wilhelmina Vandenburg Love you and miss you both Mom and Dad.

“The man who sells apples eats apples for lunch"

My great-great grandmother, around age 75 or so and after raising a horde of kids, would say “I was born this way, what’s your excuse?”. Sadie Teson, God Bless her soul...

Also grandma - “there is always someone better off than you and someone worse off than you, don’t judge either.”

Didn't have a lot to piss in or a window to throw it out. There is some history to this saying. Tanneries used pee to tan hides. But people during the depression were so poor the didn't have a lot to sell their pee.

Don't have two nickels to rub together.

Those convinced against their will Are of the same opinion still.

Put your mind in gear before putting your mouth in motion.

My Gramp would say “ You cannot polish Sh*t.”

"The boy doesn't know shit from Shynola"

My grandmother once said that shit wouldn't smell so bad if it wasn't stirred

Tighter (with money) than bark on a tree.

My Moms favorite, sh&t or get off the pot.

Problems are like laundry on the clothesline; we’ll ALWAYS choose ours because we know them.

My Mom used to say “you pays your money, you takes your choice”

He’s so crooked he’d swallow a nail and pass a screw ...

“Tired of living, scared of dying”

He's so crooked, you have to screw him in the ground when he dies.

Grandpa, to end a conversation " you are beating a dead horse "

“Never fight a pig in the mud”

Grandpa used to always say "That's slicker than cow snot on a doorknob".

My grandmother “do what makes you happy, nobody is getting out of this life alive so be happy while you’re here.” Also “only whores and little girls wear red shoes.” Southern belle wisdom. Lol

I will slap the pee water out of you. Granny never cussed.

Quit picking your nose or you’ll get worms!

You are not ready to live until you’re ready to die!

On my Dads side, "Hard to kill a German, they're made of piss and vinegar"

Sounds better than the soap my granny used to shove in our mouths. That's what I get for coming home from the 5th grade with the F word.

Even libs will like this one: waste not, want not.

When we were being bad my grandma would say I’m gonna whoop your dickens. Never knew exactly what that entailed.

Heavens to Betsy Who's Betsy? Bald headed baby Jesus

My Grandpa always said, "You don't get time, you make time". Truer words never spoken..

My Dad : When all else fails read the directions

My grandpa used to tell me he’d separate my habits from my ideas.

Never Bite Off More Than You Can Chew.

"Nothing washing dishes can't cure." Grandmother

My grandma used to tell me “Don’t pee on that”.

My Dad said, I've had worse than that on my lip and never stopped whistling, and keep on crying and I'll give you something to cry ABOUT.

My momma, when she's trying to reconcile with someone, says she's " mending fences".

My mom, 91, favorite saying, "Old age ain't for sissy's."

My mom said of people full of themselves (if unsure just refer to some of those swell diplomats working at State that testified last week) “ My, he’s very important with himself”.

“You’re a gentleman and a scholar”

Grandma about Grandpa “he can squeeze a nickel until the buffalo shi*s"

And in South Africa , In Afrikaans, this phenomenon, i.e. when it rains and the sun shines, the traditional belief is Jakkals trou met wolf se vrou, meaning 'Jackal marries wolf's wife'.

For cryin out loud.

because she burnt the biscuits.

What gets me about that is... the *devil* _married_?

Well, I'll be jiggered.

Jesus take the wheel!

In Fiji, among the Indian community, it's "a mongoose wedding is happening."

Yep, over yonder.

An itchy right hand means money is coming your way.

When a thunderstorm rolled in, shed tell me to 'Put the dog in the back room'. She was convinced dogs attracted lightning, lol

Now we're cooking with gasoline!

Explaining how the cow ate the cabbage. Can't get blood from a turnip.

If there is thunder "the devil is bowling."

“I’ll be riding Shanks mare” (It means to walk)

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Baby Swap: Switched at birth or stolen? Friday on ABC 20/20

"Swapped baby" Arlena Twigg

It's one of the most heart wrenching and incredible stories I've ever reported. I started covering it in 1988 while a local news reporter in Tampa, Florida at the then-CBS affiliate WTVT. It's "the baby swap case."

I revisited this amazing story in 1993 when I worked at CBS News. A nurse who worked at the hospital where the swap occurred confessed to me that the baby swap was no accident.

Watch video promo of the ABC story

Now, ABC's 20/20 is updating this story with new information. The report airs Friday Nov. 29 at 9pm. The producers interviewed me as well as other reporters and many people involved in the story-- first and foremost: the "swapped baby" Kimberly Mays.

Watch Switched at Birth or Stolen? on ABC Fri. Nov. 29, 9pm.

Under the category of "it's a small world," a friend of my Dad's is attorney Arthur Ginsburg. I attended school with is daughter. He represented a father in the baby swap, Bob Mays, and is interviewed in the ABC 20/20 story.

Also interviewed, a friend of mine from Florida, an attorney named Dan Moody, whose firm represented nurse Patsy Webb who confessed to me, on her death bed, that the babies were intentionally swapped. (Moody's wife Nancy is friend of mine from childhood.

Read more by clicking the link below:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7731555/Woman-switched-birth-opens-divorcing-biological-parents.html

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REPORTS: Deposition claims Qataris aimed to recruit both Democrats and Republicans

Under the category of "tangled web": this article in The Jerusalem Post.

Explosive testimony given in a Florida court naming [Rep.] Ilhan Omar [D-Minnesota] as a Qatari asset, also implicated a number of other prominent American citizens, including political activist Linda Sarsour and senior advisor to United States President Donald Trump, Jared Kushner.

Jerusalem Post

Omar denies being "a Qatari asset."

From Al Arabiya English:

In explosive testimony made by video link from Toronto, Canada to a Florida District Court on October 23, Kuwaiti-born Alan Bender claims to have deep ties with governments and royal officials across the Middle East including Qatar. In his statement, he says he met Qatar’s Secretary to the Emir for Security Affairs Mohammad bin Ahmed bin Abdullah al-Masnad and two other senior Qatari officials.

The three allegedly claimed credit for the meteoric rise of Omar, saying:

If it wasn't for our cash, Ilhan Omar would be just another black Somali refugee in America collecting welfare and serving tables on weekends,” according to Bender’s sworn deposition.

Alan Bender, Oct. 23 deposition

The deposition was obtained by Al Arabiya English and authenticated by the attorney for the plaintiffs.

It's unclear how many, if any, of the allegations are true. You can read more for yourself by clicking the link below.

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Full-text-of-deposition-naming-Omar-also-names-Sarsour-and-Kushner-as-Qatari-assets-609143

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Catholic teen's defamation suit against NBC moves forward

Nicholas Sandmann (left), January 2019

The Kentucky teenager who claims he's the victim of a false portrayal by the news gets to move ahead with his defamation lawsuit against NBC.

Nicholas Sandmann was on a school trip in Washington D.C. last January when he came face to face with a Native American activist. News reports showed video of the encounter and portrayed it as a confrontation initiated by Sandmann.

Numerous analysts and commentators later apologized for what they called a mischaracterization.

Sandmann is suing NBC, The Washington Post and CNN for $275 million.

Click the link below to read more on the story at Epoch Times.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/judge-allows-covington-students-defamation-suit-against-nbc-to-proceed_3155846.html

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