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She wanted her ex-husband to die with a happy thought; she told him Trump had been impeached
President Trump. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
When Michael Elliott died, the last voice he heard was that of his ex-wife, his best friend.
In a short phone conversation moments before Elliott took his last breath, she told him what he wanted to hear.
“I told him that everything's going to be all right,” Teresa Elliott told The Washington Post. “And Donald Trump has been impeached.”
Michael Elliott died “peacefully,” surrounded by friends and neighbors in his home in a suburb outside of Portland, Ore., according to an obituary published in the Oregonian.
Teresa Elliott, who lives in Texas, said she couldn't make it to Oregon in time. So on April 6, one of Michael Elliott's friends called her and told her that he was about to die. The two talked as someone held up the phone to the dying man's ear.
Afterward, one of his friends took the phone “and told me that he had completely relaxed and taken his last breath, and he was gone,” Teresa Elliott said.
In his obituary, the 75-year-old was described as a “Porsche enthusiast” who owned a dozen of the German cars throughout his life. But there's nothing he loved more than golf, the obituary said, becoming a founding member of a golf club in Oregon.
His health had declined over the past decade, but it became worse after congestive heart failure was diagnosed a couple of years ago. He had been bedridden the past several months, Teresa Elliott said. The two, who didn't have children, remained close friends after their divorce.
Michael Elliott was a longtime Democrat and was very interested in politics; a “CNN junkie” appalled by the current political climate. He found President Trump to be a “loathsome individual,” Teresa Elliott said. Asked what, specifically, her ex-husband had said about Trump, she said, “Nothing that you could print.”
She said she gave her ex-husband the false news because she wanted him to die with a happy thought.
Whether Trump would be impeached has been in the public discourse even before the November presidential election.Allan J. Lichtman, an American University historian who had predicted that Trump would become president, had already made the case for his impeachment. He told The Post's Peter W. Stevenson in September that if elected, the real estate mogul would be impeached by a Republican Congress that would rather have a President Pence.
Now, just a few months removed from when Trump took office, Lichtman has already written a book: “The Case for Impeachment.”Professor Allan J. Lichtman of American University was one of the few professional prognosticators to get President Trump's election win right. In his new book, he says Trump could be impeached. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)
“This one is not based on a system; it's just my gut. They don't want Trump as president, because they can't control him. He's unpredictable. They'd love to have Pence — an absolutely down-the-line, conservative, controllable Republican,” Lichtman told The Post. “And I'm quite certain Trump will give someone grounds for impeachment, either by doing something that endangers national security or because it helps his pocketbook.”
Look inside the spectacular Irish castle where Rory McIlroy is reportedly getting married
Golf has something of a Royal Wedding on the way, apparently.
Rory McIlroy, who has been engaged to former PGA of America employee Erica Stoll since December 2015, will get married in Ireland’s famed Ashford Castle on April 22nd, according to the Belfast Telegraph:
A phone call to the exclusive luxury hotel yesterday about the possibility of booking a room for the weekend after next was greeted with a polite reply: “Sorry but we are fully booked.”There was no confirmation from the reservations clerk, however, that the Castle had been rented out by Rory and Erica, who are regular visitors to Ashford.They’ve spent two New Year’s Eves in the five star hotel, where they enjoyed candlelit dinners and champagne as the clock counted dow
.Some pictures of the five-star resort:
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Atlas V rocket has successful launch to space station
CAPE CANAVERAL — Godspeed, S.S. John Glenn.
An unmanned cargo ship named in honor of the pioneering astronaut is on its way to the International Space Station after launching from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday atop a modern version of the Atlas rocket Glenn rode into orbit in 1962.
United Launch Alliance’s 19-story Atlas V thundered from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41 at 11:11 a.m. ET, flying through a few low clouds on a northeasterly trajectory over the Atlantic Ocean.
Twenty-one minutes later, an Orbital ATK Cygnus craft packed with more than 7,600 pounds of food, supplies and experiments separated from the rocket’s Centaur upper stage.
Rendezvous at the international research outpost orbiting 250 miles overhead is planned Saturday morning, after Thursday’s scheduled launch and docking by an astronaut and cosmonaut who will join three Expedition 51 crew members.
Research aboard the Cygnus include a mini-fridge-sized plant growth chamber and experiments studying DNA to better understand the aging process and a potential improvement in chemotherapy treatment of cancer.
LIFTOFF! @OrbitalATK’s #Cygnus cargo vehicle leaves Earth to deliver cargo and supplies to @Space_Station: nasa.gov/live
The launch was the third of a Cygnus cargo craft by United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V, which can launch heavier loads that Orbital ATK’s own Antares rocket based on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
The mission was ULA’s fourth launch of 2017; the next one is not expected before August.
SpaceX is next up on the Eastern Range, with a Falcon 9 rocket targeting an April 30 launch of a classified National Reconnaissance Office mission from Kennedy Space Center’s pad 39A.
Horrific: Six shot outside Alabama church; media SILENT because…
Earlier this month convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences. (Roof shouldn’t worry though, any competent attorney should be able to get that reduced to four.) In June of 2015, then 20 years old, Roof entered Emanuel AME Church, known locally as “Mother Emanuel Church” and shot the place up. He is a monster who should and will never walk the streets a free man again.
Roof’s shooting spree was seized upon by the media as an example of what hate-inducing materials like the Confederate flag can produce in unstable individuals. Reports of Roof’s visits to Confederate landmarks fueling his rage were used as reasons to justify the removal of such landmarks and ultimately then-governor Nikki Haley signed a bill into law that removed the confederate flag from the South Carolina state capital.
The media couldn’t get enough of the narrative of a young, white racist shooting up a black church.Fast-forward to Easter Sunday 2017 — yes, two days ago. There was another instance of a young man shooting up a black church in the south. But as opposed to Roof’s shooting, this one very few have heard about.
A search is underway for the shooter at Cathedral of the Cross A.O.H. Church of God in Birmingham, AL. A headline befitting of this incident is: Mass Shooting by Black Suspect at Black Church Carnival. But there are no such headlines. Not in the mainstream media anyway.
Yesterday AL.com carried the story:
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