2017年8月21日 星期一

Trump Agenda Update: Charlottesville Aftermath, Bannon Out

The week started with the heightened visibility of white supremacists and ended with the ouster of the president's chief strategist.
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Monday, August 21, 2017

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Trump Rebuts Criticism After Charlottesville
Good afternoon. Here's what's happening with President Trump's agenda.
After receiving criticism for his initial response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., and delivering a carefully considered condemnation of white supremacy groups, President Trump again blamed "both sides" of a conflict that pitted the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis against anti-white supremacy protestors and radical activists known as antifa.
Next came a C.E.O. rebellion within the president's advisory councils, and the removal of monuments that celebrate controversial Civil War figures from public grounds.
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Bannon Out, But Not Gone
On Friday, Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, was ousted from the White House and returned to managing the right-wing media outlet Breitbart News. Here's a guide to Mr. Bannon's time as an adviser to Mr. Trump, and what will now happen to the nationalist agenda that Mr. Bannon promotes.
Here are the top officials in the Trump White House who have left.
New Afghanistan Strategy: More Troops
President Trump has settled on a new strategy to carry on the nearly 16-year-old conflict in Afghanistan, likely opening the door to the deployment of several thousand troops.
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News Analysis
Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost
By GLENN THRUSH AND MAGGIE HABERMAN

During a shouting-match of a news conference, an angry president asserted that "alt-left" activists in Charlottesville were as much to blame as neo-Nazis.

Feature
Alexander Marlow, editor in chief of Breitbart News.
Down the Breitbart Hole
By WIL S. HYLTON

Steve Bannon once said it was the platform for the alt-right. Its current editors disagree. Is the incendiary media company at the nerve center of Donald Trump's America simply provocative — or dangerous?

Fact Check
S&P Global Market Intelligence found that Amazon paid an average tax rate covering federal, state, local and foreign taxes of 13 percent from 2007 to 2015.
Does Amazon Pay Taxes? Contrary to Trump Tweet, Yes
By LINDA QIU

President Trump wrongly suggested, again, that Amazon does not pay taxes. The company paid $412 million last year and collects sales taxes in all states that levy them.

Carl C. Icahn was bullish on the election of President Trump.
Carl Icahn Quits as a Special Adviser to President Trump
By MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN AND ALEXANDRA STEVENSON

The billionaire investor's views on environmental regulations had raised criticism from Democratic lawmakers.

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