Friday, June 16, 2017

Betty MacDonald, her favourite flower and destroyed phones


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Betty MacDonald in the living room at Vashon on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
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Hello 'Pussy' it's Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Pippi Longstocking: 

You complained on Thursday about the unfairness of the Russia investigation, wondering on Twitter why Hillary Clinton’s connections to Russia are not being similarly scrutinized.




Twitter users quickly responded, with many of them tweeting a version of the same thing: Because you’re the president.
Moments later, you continued to rant about your former rival for the presidency, saying — wrongly — that Mrs. Clinton had “destroyed phones w/ hammer, ‘bleached’ emails, & had husband meet w/AG.”



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If you are fond of beauty you adore beautiful flowers.

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It'll be available during next week. 

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Daniel Mount wrote a very interesting article about Betty MacDonald and her garden but I doubt you can find the info on Betty MacDonald's favourite flower in it. 


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Calling Inquiry Unfair, Trump Asks: What About Clinton’s Russia Ties?






 
President Trump after visiting Representative Steve Scalise at a Washington hospital on Wednesday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump complained on Thursday about the unfairness of the Russia investigation, wondering on Twitter why Hillary Clinton’s connections to Russia are not being similarly scrutinized.





Twitter users quickly responded, with many of them tweeting a version of the same thing: Because you’re the president.
Moments later, Mr. Trump continued to rant about his former rival for the presidency, saying — wrongly — that Mrs. Clinton had “destroyed phones w/ hammer, ‘bleached’ emails, & had husband meet w/AG.”





Those accusations were apparently references to stories that emerged during the campaign. An aide to Mrs. Clinton (not Mrs. Clinton herself) told the F.B.I. that he had disposed of Mrs. Clinton’s old cellphones by “breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.”
An employee of the company that ran Mrs. Clinton’s private email server used a program called “BleachBit” to delete files; the F.B.I. concluded that Mrs. Clinton was unaware of the deletions.
It was Bill Clinton, Mrs. Clinton’s husband, who had a conversation with Loretta Lynch, who was serving as attorney general, on Ms. Lynch’s plane, leading her to recuse herself in the email case involving Mrs. Clinton.
The complaints about Mrs. Clinton came after a series of morning tweets in which Mr. Trump mocked federal investigators, saying they made up a “phony collusion with the Russians story” amid new reports that Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, is looking into whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct justice in the case.
“They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice,” Mr. Trump tweeted just before 7 a.m.
In a later tweet, the president once again called the Russia investigation a “witch hunt” and called the people leading it “very bad,” apparently a reference to Mr. Mueller and others at the F.B.I.





Mr. Mueller has requested interviews with three current or former senior intelligence officials, according to a person briefed on the investigation. The move suggests he is examining whether the president sought their help in trying to get James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, to end an investigation into Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser.


The special counsel is also seeking documents from the National Security Agency relating to the intelligence agency’s interactions with the White House on the Russia investigation.
Together, the requests from Mr. Mueller indicate new scrutiny on whether the president tried to influence the Russia investigation through conversations he had with Mr. Comey, whom he ultimately fired, or with other officials.
That would make Mr. Trump a subject of a sprawling inquiry that he has repeatedly said has no merit. During a Rose Garden news conference last Friday, the president insisted that Mr. Comey was “a leaker” of information and said that Mr. Comey’s testimony on Capitol Hill helped clear the president of wrongdoing.
“Yesterday showed no collusion, no obstruction,” Mr. Trump said of Mr. Comey’s testimony.
The president’s tweet on Thursday morning makes it clear that he remains dismissive of the investigation. Mr. Trump reportedly considered firing Mr. Mueller as special counsel, but was talked out of it by aides who worried about the consequences of taking such an action.
Christopher Ruddy, a longtime friend of Mr. Trump’s, had said publicly that Mr. Trump was considering terminating Mr. Mueller. Mr. Ruddy said the president believed that Mr. Mueller had conflicts of interest that should have made him ineligible to lead the investigation.
Mr. Ruddy said, in a PBS interview, that Mr. Mueller’s previous law firm represents some members of Mr. Trump’s family. And he revealed that Mr. Trump had interviewed Mr. Mueller to replace Mr. Comey as F.B.I. director the day before Mr. Mueller was selected to serve as special counsel.
The tweet from Mr. Trump on Thursday suggests that he still believes Mr. Mueller has conflicts of interest that undermine his ability to lead the Russia inquiry.