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Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onAugust 24, 2018
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Article snippet: Attorney General Jeff Sessions directly rebuked President Trump’s criticism of him in an unusually pointed statement Thursday afternoon.   “If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash,” President Trump said, though he added “I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job.”   The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump.  Trump rarely turns his attention to Africa, but when he does, it often backfires.  Photos and video captured NBC News intern Cassie Semyon’s mad dash from a Virginia courthouse.  The practice of allowing criminal defendants to cooperate, or “flip, which President Trump criticized Wednesday, is a classic tool in a prosecutor’s tool box, experts said.  In a new TV ad, Governor Charlie Baker touts his fiscal management skills, as well as the state’s $1 billion budget surplus. But why the state had all that extra cash is far more complicated.   The National Association of Realtors is funding online ads, direct mail, and polling in the Seventh Congressional District.   Nancy Pelosi is the chief villain of Republican campaign ads. The leader some Democrats promise to vote against. The subject of much speculation that her grip on power is coming to an end.  US Representative Duncan Hunter was swarmed by demonstrators yelling ‘‘shame on you!’’ as he left a federal courthouse Thursday.  President Trum... Link to the full article to read more

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