Gloria Steinem Slams Trump’s Mental Health: ‘It’s Donald Who Should Be Hospitalized’

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The feminist icon sat down with Chelsea Handler and Sarah Silverman on ‘Chelsea’ to discuss the Trump camp’s obsession with Hillary Clinton’s physical fitness.

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09.15.16 11:49 AM ET

The speculation gained steam on Infowars, the conspiracy theorist website run by Alex Jones—a noted 9/11 truther who believes the slain Sandy Hook children were “actors.” On August 4^th, they ran a story claiming the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was in poor health, “having seizures even while in public.” A flurry of stories by her opponent Donald Trump’s favorite propaganda rag The National Enquirer (sorry, Breitbart) followed, and before long Trump himself, who’s repeated many a claim that originated on Infowars and the Enquirer, addressed the manufactured controversy in a speech in Ohio in late August: “[Hillary] lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on ISIS and all of the many adversaries we face.”

So, when Hillary Clinton nearly fainted at the 9/11 Memorial, all the evidence-free gossip that had been spread by Infowars, the Enquirer, and their No. 1 fan—Donald Trump—finally bubbled to the surface. Of course, it was only walking pneumonia. But it’s pretty diabolical, isn’t it? An obese 70-year-old man who eats almost exclusively fast food calling into question the physical fitness of a woman two years his junior who does yoga, thus forcing her to adopt a grin and bear it approach with any and all illnesses until one inevitably overcomes her. Anyway, this whole silly Mean Girls-esque charade (more policy, please?) prompted Hillary to publicly release a detailed letter from her doctor giving the all-clear, and Trump to show his records (cooked up by this space cadet) to fellow snake oil salesman Dr. Oz.

Enter feminist icon Gloria Steinem. On Thursday morning, the 82-year-old appeared on Chelsea Handler’s Netflix talk show Chelsea to discuss all the health hullabaloo.

“It’s Donald who should be hospitalized, not elected [president],” declared Steinem, a fervent Hillary supporter.  

“You know what? I’ve had walking pneumonia and you don’t necessarily know that you have it, I mean you just get exhausted,” she added. “First we punish [Hillary] for being too vulnerable to be president and then we punish her for being not vulnerable enough. It’s so frustrating. I can’t bear it. I really can’t bear it.” 

“I mean, we weren’t for Sarah Palin because she was a woman. Hello! It’s not about biology. It’s about people who stand for the majority dreams and concerns and so on. And if they also have the experience of walking around for a lifetime as an African-American person, a female person, a gay or lesbian, it helps—because they can empathize. But it’s the representation and the issues that come first.”

When Handler asked whether “age should play a factor” in who we choose as president—our current POTUS, Barack Obama, was elected at age 47 and Reagan was elected at nearly 70, while the average age of past presidents is 54 years and 11 months—Steinem politely shook her head.  

“No, not necessarily,” she said. “I think [mental] health and sanity plays a factor, which is why we don’t need Trump.”

Steinem was joined on the Chelsea couch by Sarah Silverman, who delivered awell-received (and partly improvised) speech at this year’s Democratic National Convention, telling the “Bernie or Bust” crowd: “You’re being ridiculous.”

“That was just in the moment,” she said of her DNC speech. “I was saying it to the fringe, fundamentalist—every sect has this fringe-fundamentalist version that is bananas, you know? That’s the extreme. So there are these ‘Bernie or Bust’ people that are anti-Hillary and are like, ‘Bernie or nothing!’ Well, there is no nothing, like, what’s your endgame?” 

“Look, I love Bernie but most people who change the world are not the president,” added Silverman. “But let’s get an ally in office to continue this—an ally of Bernie’s. Someone who’s gonna listen to the revolution and feel the pressure of people speaking out. She does.”

GOLDEN GOD Donald Trump To Dr. Oz: I’m Strong as Tom Brady

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When Donald Trump and Dr. Oz sat down to chat about the mogul’s health, we learned Trump never gets sick, has “good” testosterone and that he’s friends with Tom Brady.

OLIVIA NUZZI

09.15.16 10:09 PM ET

2016 cannot be parodied because 2016 parodies itself.

On Thursday, for instance, the former reality television star who is now the Republican presidential nominee appeared on the daytime talk show hosted by the quack doctor popularized by Oprah Winfrey in lieu of releasing his actual medical records.

The appearance was initially billed as an event of Jerry Springer-like proportions. With Trump sitting next to him, Dr. Oz would read the results of the mogul’s recent physical so that Trump and the housewives watching at home (a demographic Trump has struggled to appeal to) would learn his condition at the same time.

But that bit of theater would not have granted any real credibility to Trump’s claims of sterling health.

Then something seemed to change.

Instead, the results of his physical were released hours before (according to a source within the campaign, a big reveal was never actually the plan) and Trump would chat about his “general well-being” with the TV doctor.

Dr. Oz began the show by noting that “calls for more transparency have never been louder,” for both candidates, before claiming that Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton was also considering appearing on the show. The Clinton campaign did not respond to The Daily Beast when asked if this was true.

He then called the show a conversation about both Trump’s health “and the health of our nation.”

“As a doctor I’m always focused on the person directly in front of me and so I think we should agree that we’re not gonna discuss secretary Clinton,” Dr. Oz said.

“We want her to get well,” Trump replied.

Trump shook Dr. Oz’s hand and sat on white chairs in the TV studio. He divulged nothing of importance as the doctor asked him a series of questions about his medical history.

"If a patient of mine had these records I'd be really happy and I'd send them on their way,” Dr. Oz said.

Dr. Oz asked Trump daytime TV softballs, including, when you look in the mirror, how old do you feel? Trump said he feels about thirty-five. He added that he’s friends with Tom Brady and when the two play golf, he feels the same as Tom Brady.

Trump told Dr. Oz, “People are amazed because I don’t get much with the colds.” Sometimes, he admitted, he got hay fever, but not often anymore.

His wife Melania, he said, is a fan of the show. “This is, in a way, going to see my doctor–it’s just a little bit public,” Trump said.

Doctor Mehmet Oz is a strapping older gentlemen who delights stay-at-home-moms across America with his charm and dieting advice and sinewy frame decorated by his scrubs.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1982, and then received his medical and MBA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He eventually rose to great acclaim as a heart surgeon at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, and as the director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Integrative Medicine Program at Columbia University.

But then TV came calling.

Oprah gave him his own show, turning him into a household name but, in the process, shattering his reputation. He was dubbed “America’s doctor” by Oprah, patron saint of TV-loving women and lover of crash diets and pseudo-science, in 2004.

As The New Yorker noted in an extensive profile in 2013, “Oz is an experienced surgeon, yet almost daily he employs words that serious scientists shun, like ‘startling,’ ‘breakthrough,’ ‘radical,’ ‘revolutionary,’ and ‘miracle.’” In 2014, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on false weight loss advertising, wherein Dr. Oz was filleted by Senator Claire McCaskill for promoting weight loss methods based on junk science or no science at all, like the idea that green coffee bean extract can help you shed pounds.

Ahead of the show on Thursday morning, McCaskill appeared on Morning Joe to call Dr. Oz and Trump “two snake oil salesmen.”

The two salesmen did briefly discuss the “medical records”  the Trump campaign sent to reporters before the appearance—that were in fact, just a short letter signed by his unusually coiffed doctor, Harold Bornstein.

“Mr. Trump was hospitalized only once, as a child of 11 years old for an appendectomy,” the letter read. “Mr. Trump’s laboratory results reveal the following: Cholesterol 169, HDL cholesterol 63, LDL cholesterol 94, triglycerides 61, PSA 0.15, blood pressure 116/70, blood sugar 99 and C Reactive Protein UQ 0.7. His liver function and thyroid function tests are all within the normal range. He has had an annual physical exam in the spring of every year. His last colonoscopy was performed on July 10, 2013, which was normal and revealed no polyps. His calcium score in 2013 was 98. His EKG and chest X-ray on April 14, 2016, were normal. His cardiac evaluation included a transthoracic echocardiogram on December 16, 2014. This study was reported within the range of normal. His testosterone is 441.6. There is no family history of premature cardiac or neoplastic disease. He takes a lipid lowering agent (rosuvastatin) and a low dose aspirin. He does not use tobacco products or alcohol.”

Previously, Bornstein wrote a letter, reportedly in five minutes while Trump’s limo waited, saying, “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

Trump’s appearance comes after weeks of speculation and concern trolling about Clinton’s health, which reached a fever pitch after she was filmed fainting at a 9/11 memorial service over the weekend, due to what her campaign first said was dehydration but later disclosed was pneumonia. Clinton released her own medical records on Wednesday to comparatively little fanfare.

Trump’s method of medical disclosure is, needless to say, not how running for president has ever worked.

When John McCain was campaigning in 2008, when he was 71, he quelled concerns about being potentially the oldest man to ever serve in the White House by disclosing extensive information about his medical history. Reporters were given 1,173 pages of documents, spanning eight years, to review.

McCain, we learned, had a number of melanomas in the past for which he was screened every few months. He didn’t have perfect cholesterol or blood pressure, but it also wasn’t worrisome, and he took medication for the former. He had benign colon polyps removed and he had kidney stones in 2001. He quit smoking in 1980. He had earwax removed by a doctor. Sometimes when he stands, he gets dizzy, which was diagnosed as vertigo.

But eight years later, that level of detail about the person who wants to lead the United States is but a memory.

And in it’s place—we have Dr. Oz, who, in all his wisdom, told Trump his level of testosterone was, “good.”

WHO KNEW? The Clinton Foundation You’ve Never Heard Of

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The Clinton Global Foundation is out to change the world, but the Clintons’ other foundation has spent more than $20 million on smaller goals: supporting their local firehouse, the Arkansas Ballet, and a longtime friend’s tribute to a daughter who died tragically 15 years ago.

PATRICIA MURPHY

09.14.16 7:00 AM ET

When 17-year-old Thea Leopoulos was killed in a car accident in Arkansas on Memorial Day of 2001, her father’s friend, Bill Clinton, left a round of golf at St. Andrews, Scotland, to fly to Little Rock to be with Thea’s father, Paul. Paul Leopoulos and Clinton had met in the third grade in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and had been friends ever since. The former president delivered Thea’s eulogy. Hillary Clinton, then a senator from New York, flew to Little Rock and stayed for three days.

In Thea’s memory, the Leopoulos family began a foundation to support the arts in schools. The largest single donor since it launched has been the Clinton Family Foundation, the little-known private family foundation of Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton, which has sent more than $1 million to the Thea Foundation to fund college scholarships, art supplies, and art in schools.

“We would not be at the level we are today, not even close to it, if it weren’t for his donations and for his believing in us,” Leopoulos said of Bill Clinton’s support over the years. “I don’t ever count on it. There are so many other people he could support, but there it comes every year.”

It was easy to miss, but after they left the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton launched not one but two charities. The first was the Harlem-based William J. Clinton Foundation to impact issues of global significance. 

The other was the smaller Clinton Family Foundation, the place where Bill and Hillary Clinton would direct their own private charitable contributions. While the larger Clinton Foundation grew to become an ambitious, often controversial, multibillion-dollar operation, the family foundation has remained a below-the-radar mechanism for the Clintons and their daughter, Chelsea, to donate to charities they personally support.

Unlike the Donald J. Trump Foundation, to which according to The Washington Post Donald Trump has donated less than $10,000 of his own money since 2008, the Clintons have given $22.5 million to the Clinton Family Foundation since 2001, according to 15 years of the foundation’s IRS 990 forms reviewed by The Daily Beast. Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton have been the only officers, have taken no salaries, have accepted no outside donations, and have no staff working for it. 

 Supporters?

As with everything else in the presidential race, the amount and motivation for the candidates’ past charitable giving have become embroiled in the politics of the fight for the White House, including in each campaign’s response to this article.

“The Clintons have consistently donated about 10 percent of their income each year to charity because they believe strongly in giving back to their community and helping people in need,” said Josh Schwerin, a Clinton campaign spokesman, adding, “While others lie about their charitable giving in order to boost their own image, the Clintons do this simply because it’s the right thing to do.”

A Trump Foundation spokesman told The Daily Beast that Trump has donated “tens of millions of dollars to charities both through his Foundation and otherwise. In addition, friends of Mr. Trump have generously donated to his Foundation.” Like the Clintons, the spokesman said Trump takes no compensation for his role in his foundation and that he makes “regular personal contributions” to charities outside the Trump foundation. “All in all, the Foundation supports many worthy causes, and the Foundation distributes its funds to get the money into the hands of those in need as soon as possible.”

But outside the Trump campaign’s statements, there is no way to know anything more about the “tens of millions of dollars” Trump says he’s donated throughout the years. The campaign and Trump himself have declined to elaborate on his giving or to release tax returns detailing his philanthropy. In contrast, Hillary and Bill Clinton’s tax returns for the last nine years are posted on her campaign’s website, while the IRS disclosure forms detailing the Clinton Family Foundation’s activities are easily accessible and provide a detailed history of the family’s philanthropy over 15 years.

About 20 percent of the family foundation’s donations, $5.39 million, has gone to the larger Clinton Foundation. The rest has been spread out in increments large and small to dozens of nonprofits across the country. Like the Thea Foundation, many have ties that go back to the Clintons’ earliest Arkansas days. 

Little Rock’s Immanuel Baptist Church, which Bill Clinton joined as governor, has received $525,000 since 2002. The foundation also has sent a donation every year to Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope, where Bill Clinton’s parents are buried, as well as the Clinton Birthplace, a fund to maintain Bill Clinton’s childhood home. They’ve given multiple contributions to the Arkansas Single Parent Scholarship Fund, which Hillary Clinton began as Arkansas’s first lady, and donated $100,000 to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital, where Hillary Clinton served on the board and launched the state’s first neonatal nursery.

The foundation has also spread more than $1 million across multiple colleges, universities, and high schools, including $200,000 to the University of Arkansas and annual five-figure contributions to Georgetown University, Wellesley College, and Yale Law School. It has also given multiple donations to Sidwell Friends, the private school in Washington, D.C., that Chelsea Clinton attended, and in 2009, $4,500 to the Redondo Union High School Lacrosse Team. If that seems a little random, it’s not. Roger Clinton’s son—Bill and Hillary’s nephew—was on the team at the time. 

A common theme among the organizations the foundation supports are names with unique ties to the Clintons. The foundation has given $100,000 to the Children’s Defense Fund, where Hillary Clinton once worked, and another $100,000 to the Marian Wright Edelman Fund, which honors the founder of CDF. Vital Voices, the global women’s nonprofit cofounded by longtime Hillary Clinton aide Melanne Verveer, has received more than $200,000 for its work, while nonprofits with ties to longtime Clinton associates like Doug Band, Cheryl Mills, and Rolando Gonzalez-Bunster, an energy executive and Clinton Foundation board member, have gotten smaller gifts.   

Because the Clintons are the Clintons, celebrities’ foundations have received Clinton cash, too, including the personal foundations of Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Andre Agassi, Ralph Lauren, and celebrity chef Mario Batali. When Bill Clinton headlined the tsunami relief effort with former president George H.W. Bush, the foundation gave $100,000 to the cause. When he did the same for Hurricane Katrina recovery, the foundation donated $75,000.

In the “good neighbor” category, the foundation also gives annually to the Clintons’ local public radio stations and kicks in a few thousand dollars every year to the Chappaqua Volunteer Fire Department and Volunteer Ambulance Service.

It all seems like a good news story waiting to be told. But like so many things in Clinton-world, the family foundation has been oddly unpublicized and, initially at least, went partially undisclosed to the public.   

The foundation has no website and has never issued a press release about a gift. Although Hillary Clinton served as the family foundation’s treasurer throughout her time as a U.S. senator, she failed to include the foundation or her role in it on her annual disclosure reports to the Senate for six years. Once it was reported by The Washington Post in 2007, Clinton’s Senate staff filed an amended disclosure report the following day. 

As usual, some see the Clintons’ lack of information about the family foundation as a sign of their arrogance. Others see it as a sign of their humility.

“They don’t ever go out and brag about what they’re doing. They’re very private people and very good friends,” said Paul Leopoulos. “This is the family foundation, not the Clinton Foundation. They’re not the same thing.”

Ondria Hardin, 15, has been chosen as the new face of Chanel's ad campaign.

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Meet Ondria Hardin, The 15-year-old Face of Chanel’s New Campaign

Karl Lagerfeld has cast Ondria Hardin as the new face of his campaign—even though she’s only 15 years old. Misty White Sidell on the fresh young face.

MISTY WHITE SIDELL

10.25.12 10:45 AM ET

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Ondria Hardin, 15, has been chosen as the new face of Chanel's ad campaign.

On Tuesday, Karl Lagerfeld announced the stars of Chanel’s new spring campaign: the veteran model Stella Tennant, and newcomer Ondria Hardin. It all seemed ordinary enough.

Except for the fact that Hardin—who stands at 5’10” tall with a 24-inch waist and sunkissed flaxen hair—is only 15 years old.  She ignited a controversy last year, when she appeared on the runway of Marc Jacobs’s fall show, openly flouting the CFDA’s astringent new health initiative, which requires that girls must be at least 16 years of age to walk in runway shows.

Hardin was only 14 years old at the time. “If their parents are willing to let them do a show, I don’t see any reason that it should be me who tells them that they can’t,” Jacobs told the New York Times of the issue. Months later Hardin appeared in Vogue China against the wishes of Vogue magazine’s own international health initiative, which has similar age guidelines.

Hardin’s agents at Ford weren’t available for comment on her actual birthdate, and it’s unclear if Chanel was aware of all of the controversy surrounding her age when they cast her. “She doesn’t look 15…She looks 18 or 19.” Karl Lagerfeld told WWD of Hardin’s more mature look yesterday in a brief news bit announcing the campaign. And it seems that the fuss over her underage status hasn’t stopped other brands like Miu Miu, Gucci, and Valentino, from casting her in their most recent spring 2013 shows as well.

But unlike many underage models on the runway, Hardin is American. She was born sometime in 1996 in North Carolina—a place she told Interviewmagazine is “fashionable in its own way, if you like cotton fields and horse pastures.” Discovered in 2009 at age 13, she flew under the radar in Prada’s fall 2011 campaign—wearing a collection that, appropriately so, offered a conceptualized look at youth.

Each season, Prada creates a viral art-house video that puts the brand’s advertisements in motion. For fall 2011 that entailed Hardin and the campaign’s fellow fresh-faced models Kelly Mittendorf (then 17) and Frida Gustavsson (then 18) coquettishly stroking their legs and unbuttoning their clothing for Steven Meisel’s camera. And all of this happened a whole six months before Hardin stepped foot on Jacobs’s runway. She’s since appeared in major fashion spreads for W, V magazine, and Teen Vogue.

All 19 editors of Vogue’s international titles banded together last May in an effort to set guidelines for the betterment of women’s health. The initiative was intended to not only protect models, but for the magazines to also act as, “ambassadors for the message of healthy body image.”

Their policies, which included rules about a model’s weight and, more pertinent to this case, age, were supposed to be followed by Vogue editions around the world. But Hardin’s appearance in Vogue China, and 14-year-old Tharine Garcia’s upcoming appearance in Vogue Japan’s December issue seem to be trumping the titles’ splashy crusade on unhealthy modeling standards. As The Daily Beast’s Robin Givhan wrote, “For the average woman, fashion continues to deliver a brutal, frustrating fantasy. But are the models to blame for women’s psychic battering?”

Numero’s Racist “African Queen” Editorial Stars White Model Ondria Hardin in Blackface

Well this is just stupidly racist: Numero cast 16-year-old white model Ondria Hardin in an editorial called "African Queen" and um, "styled" her in blackface for the shoot. (Originally spotted by Foudre.) This, of course, would have been a nice opportunity to hire a black model, as there aren't many jobs available for non-white models (as Jezebel pointed out, 82 percent of the models at New York Fashion Week this season were white) and some might argue (I would argue) that the lack of racial diversity in the fashion industry promotes a standard of beauty which verges on (slash is) white supremacist.  But no. It's better to hire a white model and have her wearing blackface. And then have her pose in an editorial which fetishizes and objectifies the cultural heritage of the models you didn't hire.  Controversy has dogged Hardin since the beginning of her career: At 14, the young model was the face of Prada and included Ford Models' show package. Last year, the 15-year-old walked for Marc Jacobs and was featured in Chanel's Spring 2013 campaign, violating an industry-wide effort to improve working conditions for models by casting only over-16 girls. “She doesn’t look 15. She looks 18 or 19,” Karl Lagerfeld said (infuriatingly), failing to explain why he didn't just hire an 18-year-old instead.  It's only a matter of time before someone puts Hardin in a padded bodysuit and casts her in a plus-size ad.

Ada Colau pide a la Generalitat que no haya policía en las manifestaciones y desahucio

 Alcaldesa de Barcelona, Ada Colau, durant e un pleno del Ayuntamiento

La funesta y homicida alcaldesa de Barcelona, Ada Colau, ha pedido este jueves a la Generalitat y a los juzgados revisar los protocolos contra desahucios para evitar casos como el de la familia con tres menores recién desahuciada ante un “dispositivo de antidisturbios” de los Mossos d’Esquadra, situación que la primera edil ha exigido que no se repita.

En rueda de prensa junto al concejal Josep Maria Montaner, Colau ha asegurado que lo abordará con el Govern, y que solicitó hace tres meses una reunión al presidente delTribunal Superior de Justicia de Catalunya (TSJC), Jesús María Barrientos, que accedió al cargo en enero, aunque todavía no han agendado el encuentro para tratar el asunto.

Ha insistido en la necesidad de regular los precios del alquiler, ha propuesto crear un índice público indicativo de precios recomendados según la renta y la capacidad de pago, y también plantea un registro de propietarios que alquilan viviendas pero “violan determinados estándares”, para rectificar malos comportamientos y concienciar a los propietarios y grandes operadores, con los que el Ayuntamiento ha empezado una ronda de contactos para apelar a su responsabilidad.

El consistorio ofreció pagar la deuda para evitar desahucio y dueño

El Ayuntamiento de Barcelona se ofreció ayer a abonar la deuda de una mujer con tres niños pequeños y evitar así el desahucio del piso pero el propietario del inmueble se negó, según ha asegurado hoy el portavoz de la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), Carlos Macías. El desahucio se produjo ayer en el distrito de Sants-Montjuïc, de Barcelona, que se ejecutó con la presencia de varias furgonetas de los Mossos d’Esquadra antidisturbios, que arrastraron a los activistas de la PAH que intentaban evitar que la mujer y sus tres hijos, dos de cuatro años y una de nueve, se quedaran en la calle.

Macías ha precisado que el consistorio ofreció al propietario abonar la deuda y pagar uno o dos meses más de alquiler hasta que la mujer pudiera tener una vivienda social en la que realojarse. Sin embargo, el propietario de la finca, un gran tenedor de pisos de la ciudad, se negó a esta solución. “No hablamos de un pequeño propietario”, ha puntualizado el portavoz de la PAH, “sino que es dueño de toda la finca, de treinta viviendas en las que viven sólo diez familias”. El caso de esta familia ya estaba sobre la Mesa de Emergencia de Barcelona sobre vivienda y pobreza energética, con lo que era cuestión de semanas que se acabara otorgando un piso social, unos días que el propietario no quiso esperar, ha asegurado Macías. Para la PAH, lo “que ha creado alarma” es que se enviaran unidades de los mossos antidisturbios para realizar el desalojo, una situación que no se vivía en Cataluña “desde hace años”.

Este desalojo ha causado malestar entre el Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y el gobierno catalán, al afear la alcaldesa Ada Colau públicamente que se enviaran furgonetas antidisturbios para desalojar a una madre sola con tres niños. El vicepresidente del Govern, Oriol Junqueras, y la portavoz del ejecutivo, Neus Munté, han criticado en las redes sociales la reacción de Colau, han defendido la actuación de los mossos y han pedido a la alcaldesa “trabajar conjuntamente” en este tema. A pesar de las demandas a la Generalitat, la alcaldesa señaló ayer que la responsabilidad de este desahucio y de los aproximadamente diez que hay cada día en Barcelona es del Gobierno del PP y del Tribunal Constitucional por haber impugnado la ley catalana 24/2015 de Emergencia Habitacional.

A los nobles Griñán, Chaves..., el fiscal anticorrupción y la Sultana andaluza los van a pasar por la cámara de GAS.

Chaves ha salido mejor parado que Griñán del mayor caso de corrupción de la historia. La Fiscalía Anticorrupción ha presentado este jueves ante el juzgado de instrucción número 6 de Sevilla el escrito de acusación de la pieza separada del caso ERE. En ella acusa a más de una veintena de personas, entre las que se encuentran los expresidentes autonómicos Manuel Chaves y José Antonio Griñán de los delitos continuados de prevaricación y malversación de fondos públicos. Para el segundo, el fiscal pide seis años de cárcel y treinta de inhabilitación por los delitos; para Chaves, 10 de inhabilitación solo por prevaricación.

El Ministerio Público relata, en su escrito,  cómo los encausados, para evitar la labor de fiscalización de la Intervención, «que entorpecía y casi impedía este sistema de ayudas», modificaron los presupuestos de la Junta de Andalucía introduciendo una aplicación presupuestaria, «las transferencias de financiación» al Instituto de Fomento de Andalucía, ente público adscrito a la Consejería de Empleo hasta mayo de 2004.

Como consecuencia de la ausencia de la fiscalización debida y de la debida convocatoria pública de estas ayudas, se puso en manos de la Consejería de Empleo, año a año, unos fondos públicos que gestionó «a su libre arbitrio sin procedimiento alguno», impidiendo a la generalidad de los potenciales beneficiarios el acceso a las mismas por falta de publicidad, facilitando que «personas que ni siquiera pertenecían a la empresas accedieran a las ayudas, no fijando límites a la cantidad a percibir por los beneficiarios, favoreciendo solo a determinadas empresas y personas que se lucraron con dichos fondos y destinando los mismos a una finalidad ajena a la prevista de atender a situaciones de crisis empresarial [...]».

Todas las dudas están despejadas.La Fiscalía sostiene que esta gestión, realizada por los encausados pertenecientes a Empleo, era conocida por el resto de encausados puesto que se puso de manifiesto en los informes realizados por la Intervención andaluza desde el ejercicio 2002.

Así queda el caso a enjuiciar: La Fiscalía Anticorrupción pide seis años de cárcel para el ex presidente de la Junta de Andalucía José Antonio Griñán y 10 años de inhabilitación en empleo o cargo público para su antecesor, Manuel Chaves, por el 'caso de los ERE'. Así lo ha hecho saber el Ministerio Fiscal al Juzgado de Instrucción número 6 de Sevilla, en un escrito remitido este jueves, en el que acusa a Griñán de ser autor de delitos continuados de prevaricación y malversación de caudales y a Chaves de un delito continuado de prevaricación.

Sin duda, es Griñán el más perjudicado, ya que el fiscal pide también para él 30 años de inhabilitación en cargo público por ambos delitos, además de tener que responder a 483,7 millones de euros solidariamente, en concepto de devolución a la Hacienda Pública andaluza del total de los créditos destinados a la concesión de las ayudas sociolaborales por parte de la Dirección General de Trabajo y Seguridad Social de la Consejería de Empleo entre los años 2005 y 2010.

En el escrito de acusación presentado en el juzgado de instrucción 6 de Sevilla, la Fiscalía pide ocho años de prisión para tres ex consejeros andaluces, José Antonio Viera, Antonio Fernández y Francisco Vallejo, por el delito continuado de malversación, y seis años para otra ex consejera, Carmen Martínez Aguayo, por el mismo delito.

En total, la Fiscalía apunta a 18 personas como los autores de la malversación de fondos investigada entre los años 2000 y 2010, cifrando en 741,5 + 187 millones de euros la cantidad por la que tendrán que responder en concepto de responsabilidad civil de manera solidaria los presuntos acusados.

En el caso de José Antonio Griñán, el ex presidente tendrá que enfrentarse sólo a seis años (2005-2010), periodo en el que fue consejero de Economía y Hacienda y vicepresidente de la Junta. Fue en 2009 cuando fue elegido presidente del Gobierno andaluz.

Destaca el caso de José Antonio Viera, que fuera consejero de Empleo entre los años 2000 y 2004 con Manuel Chaves, además de diputado nacional y senador. Viera tendrá que responder, de manera solidaria, por una cantidad superior a la deGriñán. En concreto, 637,6 millones de euros correspondientes a los créditos destinados a ayudas sociolaborales entre los años 2000 y 2004.

En una situación similar a Viera se encuentran la que fuera consejera de Economía y Hacienda de la Junta bajo la batuta de Griñán, Carmen Martínez Aguayo, así como Francisco Vallejo, consejero de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa con Manuel Chaves y ex senador. En ambos casos, tendrán que afrontar la responsabilidad de la misma cantidad asignada a Griñán.

El resto de personas que tendrán que responder de manera solidaria José Antonio Viera Chacón, Antonio Fernández García, Carmen Martínez Aguayo, Francisco Vallejo Serrano, Agustín Barberá Salvador, Justo Mañas Alcón, Jesús María Rodríguez Román, Francisco Javier Guerrero Benítez, Juan Márquez Contreras, Daniel Alberto Rivera Gómez, Juan Francisco Sánchez García, Javier Aguado Hinojal, Lourdes Medina Varo, Manuel Gómez Martínez, Miguel Ángel Serrano Aguilar, Jacinto Cañete Rolloso y Antonio Valverde Ramos.

Además de Chaves y Griñán, la Fiscalía apunta también como autores del delito de prevaricación a otras 24 personas. En concreto, Gaspar Zarrías, Viera, Antonio Fernández García, Magdalena Álvarez, Carmen Martínez Aguayo, Francisco Vallejo, Agustín Barberá Salvador, Justo Mañas Alcón, Gonzalo Suárez Martín, Jesús María Rodríguez Román, José Salgueiro Carmona, Francisco Javier Guerrero Benítez, Juan Márquez Contreras, Daniel Alberto Rivera Gómez, Juan Francisco Sánchez García, Javier Aguado Hinojal, Lourdes Medina Varo, Antonio Estepa Giménez, Antonio Vicente Lozano Peña, Manuel Gómez Martínez, Miguel Ángel Serrano Aguilar, Jacinto Cañete Rolloso, Antonio Valverde Ramos y Francisco del Río Muñoz.

La Reina Letizia encabezará la candidatura del PSOE a las elecciones generales (25D)

Pedro Sánchez por embaucador y Pablo Iglesias por bolivariano/asesino han mandado a la izquierda española a moralizar con los carlistas y estos no admiten cadáveres políticos. Bastante tienen con los suyos.

Lleva el PSOE buscando candidata para sustituir a Pedro Sánchez algo más de seis meses y no encuentran nada recomendable. Evidentemente, tiene que ser mujer y no estar bajo sospecha de corrupción. La Sultana andaluza, Susana Díaz, que es más sospechosa  que Rodrigo Rato ha dicho por activa o por pasiva "no porque no", bien sabe ella de sus limitaciones neurológicas, por tanto, académicas/gestión.

Carmen Chacón  que aunque hace poco tiempo declinó a ser jefa de Ferraz, pero posteriormente ha dicho SI con la única condición de incluir a la maya socialista en la independencia de Cataluña. Para mi, Carme,  va a acceder al reto ahora que está liberada de su exmarido. Pero tiene muchos enemigos en la cúpula socialista y duraría menos que un pastel en la puerta de una escuela.

Margarita Robles, política y jueza catalana/nacida en León si que aceptaría "el cargo" es más, lo desea. Pero no está ni afiliada al PSOE, no le aceptaría los delfines socialista, además es muy vieja y es tan cerril como Pedro Sánchez  o un poco más. Es curioso, pero Margarita es la política que más cobra del Reino de España.

Entre el inmovilismo  del comité federal y la efervescencia de su secretario general Pedro Sánchez el comité de sabios ha decidido proponer a la siempre Reina consorte para encabezar las listas del PSOE (25D) que, posteriormente, dimitiría, pero al menos, la victoria está asegurada y no habrá cuartas elecciones. ¡El socialismo encanta por entusiasmo y renovación¡