Because he wanted to divert attention from what happened Tuesday night.
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Maybe he thought he could divert attention from his domestic troubles.
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He needs to divert attention from his domestic problems, both political and legal.
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Their strategy is to create chaos to divert attention from the central charges.
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Doing so can divert attention from other military challenges, like long-term modernization.
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That move was intended to divert attention from the growing accusations against Trump.
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The point is to muddy the waters, to divert attention from actual scandals.
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YORK: We&aposve got a new scandal to divert attention from the old scandal.
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Security forces are quick to shoot, and keen to divert attention from their misconduct.
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But without mentioning Mr. Trump, he said they divert attention from the bigger culprit.
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These are blatant attempts to divert attention from the administration's persecution of migrant families.
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The designer chose the black and white stripes to divert attention from the low ceilings.
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And there's nothing like a petty Twitter spat to divert attention from what matters most.
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And yet he also managed to divert attention from policies doing real damage to Americans.
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Or maybe because he wanted to divert attention from the scandals plaguing his White House.
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The group wanted to "divert attention from the achievements" of President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
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They say AMS is trying to divert attention from its own liability for flawed devices.
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No buzzing phone, yelling kids, or lovely daydream will divert attention from their primary task.
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A revival of the fashion business may help divert attention from the clan's infrastructure business.
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The real grounds: one more effort to divert attention from and obfuscate the Mueller investigation.
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They knew very well that actually that was an effort to divert attention from legislation.
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Vona accused Fidesz of trying to divert attention from endemic corruption he called "corruption terrorism".
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Does research divert attention from what we know works: eliminating emissions and adapting to climate impacts?
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Opposition politicians suggested that the prime minister was trying to divert attention from his own troubles.
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Or they claim that human rights divert attention from more critical social issues, such as inequality.
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Donald Trump has thrown a dead cat onto a table to divert attention from allegations of corruption.
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He also seeks to divert attention from the party's own culpability in creating the supposed spiritual vacuum.
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Justin Fairfax were no coincidence but, rather, a deliberate act to divert attention from the other scandal.
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This summer, while nuclear tensions are center stage, we can't afford to divert attention from biological threats.
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Broidy's latest false allegation is yet another desperate attempt to divert attention from his own illegal activities.
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Broidy's latest false allegation is yet another desperate attempt to divert attention from his own illegal activities.
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Oryem said Congo might be using reports of M23 movements to divert attention from the political crisis.
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Today's "glossy, feel-good feminism," she says, threatens to divert attention from the real issue: systemic inequality.
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Yameen's party called the complaint "ludicrous", saying it was a tactic to divert attention from the court case.
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The alleged aim was to divert attention from the investigation of Donald Trump's possible links to Russia's government.
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The intention of Kenya is to divert attention from El Adde, [Somali,] where hundreds of Kenyan troops died.
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Reid added that Trump's comments show the billionaire wants to "divert attention" from his own past controversial comments.
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Opposition parties fear that talks on changing the Constitution, once underway, would divert attention from Ms. Park's scandal.
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This conception of university entrepreneurship does not divert attention from the long-established roles of teaching and research.
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He accused Democrats of playing "some political game" to divert attention from tax cuts and a strengthening economy.
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They were being held to be dumped in order to divert attention from anything that might derail Trump.
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Some have suggested that the purpose of the action was to divert attention from the ongoing impeachment proceedings.
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The earnings season's opening is likely to divert attention from the ongoing U.S.-China and U.S.-Europe trade war.
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Last month, Martinelli said on Twitter that Varela was going after him to divert attention from his own problems.
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"Clinton, through her surrogates, is just trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband."
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Maybe he keeps talking crazy to divert attention from the fact that he doesn't have anything else to report.
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News analysis Critics see a concerted effort to shift blame, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.
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She could have seized on further tests or military provocations to divert attention from her own disaster, they say.
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In this reading, the president is a puppet-master whose tweets distract from scandal and divert attention from substantive issues.
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Of course, these public displays of affection could just be an elaborate ruse to divert attention from the real contenders.
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The problem with the statistics released by the CDC is that they divert attention from the severity of the crisis.
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It's impossible to determine his motivations, of course, but the effect is often to divert attention from less flattering issues.
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The earnings season has helped divert attention from geopolitical and trade concerns, which have roiled the markets in recent months.
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Trump probably released the 2 pages to show he paid taxes once to divert attention from Russia & CBO report on #Trumpcare.
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"Clinton, through her surrogates, is just trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband," Trump added.
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The generals now have the president's ear, perhaps because he badly needs a war to divert attention from the Russia investigations.
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Myanmar has been trying to attract foreign investors and divert attention from 730,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled the country since 2017.
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The arrest had knocked local markets as it threatened to divert attention from passing pension reforms seen as crucial to the economy.
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Pakistan said recently India's accusations stemmed from its attempts to divert attention from its "state terrorism" and "brutalization of peaceful, unarmed Kashmiris".
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But it makes it easy for lava jato suspects to divert attention from their own misdeeds to the blunders of their pursuers.
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Some analysts and reporters speculated that the broad use metric is meant to divert attention from the Facebook app's waning user growth.
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At the same time, Mr. Johnson has been criticized for focusing on issues that divert attention from the city's more traditional concerns.
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But much of what surrounds her in this glittery, haphazard production seems to be working overtime to divert attention from that performance.
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Trump could also go the other way, rushing to make a China deal to boost the economy and divert attention from impeachment.
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Hopes about a strong reporting season have helped divert attention from geopolitical and trade worries, which have roiled the markets in recent months.
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"You expect them to say something like that to try to divert attention from the very serious allegations that he's facing," he said.
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Not to mention, as Mashable has previously pointed out, it's a fun way to divert attention from some of their less charming qualities.
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Having something to divert attention from that uncomfortable Oh my goodness, I'm getting my picture taken, what do I do with my hands?
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He accepted the impeachment motion last December partly to divert attention from his own mounting legal woes, but also because of personal animosity.
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Mr. Erdogan, who heads an Islamic political party, has long used America as a whipping boy to divert attention from his political problems.
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Instead, Democrats accused Republicans of attacking a veteran F.B.I. agent to divert attention from Russia's effort to promote the election of Mr. Trump.
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Friday's Las Vegas rally builds on previous efforts by the President and his campaign to divert attention from the race to replace him.
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According to Lakoff, Trump uses lies to divert attention from the "big truths," or the things he doesn't want the media to cover.
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Analysts said voters had viewed the referendum as a ruse by the PSD, which supported the change, to divert attention from more pressing concerns.
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"I think it's an attempt to divert attention from a full repeal effort," said State Representative Darren G. Jackson, a Democrat from Wake County.
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Unchecked autocrats turn on the weakest and most vulnerable as scapegoats, and lash out in foreign misadventures to divert attention from problems at home.
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Apparently, the way forward for the Democrats is to divert attention from uncontrolled illegal immigration and to focus it instead on complaints about Trump.
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President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are scapegoating China as try to divert attention from the president's early failures on the coronavirus pandemic.
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The planned chaos theory says that Trump—aided by Stephen Bannon—is behaving like a maniac to divert attention from some sort of master plan.
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They are an attempt to divert attention from the conservative movement's real attacks on our community's vote, our health care, our liberty, and our jobs.
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This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in his Administration.
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This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration.
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Mitsotakis accused Ankara of deliberately encouraging migrants to head to the border to "promote its geopolitical agenda and divert attention from the situation in Syria".
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"Crystal McKellar's lawsuit is a thinly veiled attempt to divert attention from her own wrongdoing," Mithril said in a statement in response to her litigation.
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Unfortunately, people have cynically seized on this confrontation to divert attention from the conversation we need to be having about anti-Muslim bigotry and white supremacy.
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Democrats say that the Republicans focus on that and also on the Uranium One 2010 deal is an effort to divert attention from the collusion investigation.
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Sansa uses traditionally feminine traits of passive acceptance, appeasement, and tactics of mediation in order to stall her enemies, delay action, and divert attention from herself.
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That sparked concerns that the government would resort to short-term stimulus and divert attention from much-needed structural reforms to lift the economy from recession.
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The new responsibility of answering to shareholders, the S-1 said, could "divert" attention from senior leadership in a way that negatively impacts the overall business.
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Republican officials are nearing a state of panic as Mr. Trump's near-daily provocations divert attention from the perceived vulnerabilities of Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
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So when the 2019 election rolled around, Modi decided to lean into his nationalist platform, which served to divert attention from the country's more pressing problems.
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Clinton said calling for his resignation "makes perfect sense," but warned against allowing Mr. Barr's behavior to divert attention from the findings of the Mueller report.
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Some individuals on Twitter said Mr. Welch was an actor used by the mainstream media to divert attention from the alleged crimes at Comet Ping Pong.
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Investigators are supposed to connect dots in this way, so this outrage was just a tactic intended to divert attention from the President's abuse of power.
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Military and police officials said that the assault was an effort to divert attention from a government offensive in the south that Mr. Duterte had ordered.
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Pro-Saudi commentators suspected Iran aired the accusation to divert attention from the attack on Riyadh's embassy in Tehran by protesters enraged at the Shi'ite cleric's execution.
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If desperate enough, Trump may find a pretext to launch an attack against Iran or North Korea in an attempt to divert attention from his domestic troubles.
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Allies of the president are seeking to divert attention from impeachment proceedings into claims that he asked Ukraine to investigate the Bidens in exchange for military aid.
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Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat on the intelligence panel, said he views the allegation as an attempt to divert attention from the ongoing probe into Russian contacts.
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Those attacks, alongside allegations of a U.S.-led conspiracy and other manufactured claims, distract and divert attention from what the substance of this vote really was about.
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Toys can be mirrors of society, often invented in response to events and trends, sometimes created to divert attention from what may be happening at the time.
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But none of his myth-peddling, none of his vitriol, and none of his unsubtle threats can change the truth; they can only divert attention from it.
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Democrats say the probe is designed to divert attention from the Mueller investigation onto a familiar GOP punching bag — Clinton — and muddy the waters surrounding his work.
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In 1998, Republicans wondered aloud whether Clinton ordered air strikes against Afghanistan, Sudan and Iraq to divert attention from his affair with Monica Lewinsky and subsequent impeachment.
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"This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration," he said.
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During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump paraded some of Bill Clinton's accusers, seeking to divert attention from the sexual misconduct claims that he was facing. Mrs.
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In a video statement released in early April, he said his downfall had been engineered by Nissan executives trying to divert attention from their own weak performance.
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He has denied any wrongdoing and said on Twitter last month that his successor, Juan Carlos Varela, was going after him to divert attention from his own problems.
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The bad jokes about the Roadster's ludicrous speed out there are already pouring in, plus this pomp is helping divert attention from Tesla's recent Model 3 production delays.
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Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, said Tuesday that he worries President Donald Trump will shut down the federal government to divert attention from the House's impeachment probe.
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His critics compared the moment to the 1997 film "Wag the Dog," in which an administration manufactured a fake war to divert attention from a president's sex scandal.
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" The spokesman, Jassim al-Thani, of the Qatari Embassy in Washington, called Mr. Broidy's lawsuit "a transparent attempt to divert attention from U.S. media reports about his activities.
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But it's also true that revving up the wall fight allows Mr. Trump to divert attention from so much of the other drama threatening to swallow him up.
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"Before coming out, you work—unconsciously, but you work—to sort of divert attention from those parts of yourself that you don't want to expose," he told me.
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The fight played out against a backdrop of concerns that Saudi Arabia was using this and other big sporting events to divert attention from its human-rights violations.
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Mr Trump's subsequently arranged trip to meet Kim Jong Un on the front-line between the two Koreas looked like an effort to divert attention from this climb-down.
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An opposition leader denounced the announcement as a ploy by Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama to divert attention from Tirana's failure to start entry talks with the European Union.
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"While funding may go into the provision of safe abortion services, that will divert attention from other things that they are doing, like nutrition, like child health," he said.
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Western powers are concerned a plebiscite in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region - including the oil-rich city of Kirkuk - could divert attention from the war against Islamic State militants.
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"The Qatar Embassy in the U.S. disputed those allegations at the time, calling the legal action "a transparent attempt to divert attention from U.S. media reports about his activities.
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Some view calls for independence as an attempt to divert attention from internal issues and rally Kurds behind Barzani, who remains president months after his mandate expired in August.
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The proposal, which trade diplomats had anticipated for months, may seek to divert attention from Chinese fishing subsidies, which are under fire in negotiations at the same WTO committee.
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Conveniently, they also provide some counterprogramming for Republicans to use to divert attention from the ongoing questions about Trump's potential obstruction of justice that Democrats are sure to emphasize.
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Her lawyer, Mr. King, said the accusation that Ms. Hardy demanded money was "an attempt to smear the victim and divert attention from her very specific and supportable claims."
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But chronic pain may divert attention from other mental activity, leading to poor memory, and some studies have found that allaying pain with opioids can lead to cognitive improvements.
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But opposition parties denounced the reshuffle as a bid by Park to divert attention from the political crisis, which has dragged her approval rating to an all-time low.
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These arguments divert attention from the question of what a 21st century conservative policy agenda should be, and they are likely do so for the rest of his presidency.
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Qatar said the allegation, reported by the UAE's state news agency WAM, was intended to divert attention from what it said were violations by Emirati military aircraft of its airspace.
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They are not receptive to tub-thumping about patriotism and greatness, which is sometimes described as an opioid designed to divert attention from the core problems of injustice and corruption.
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"Investors expressed concerns about the political environment and the risk that it could divert attention from setting policies aimed at accelerating growth and creating more work opportunities," the Treasury said.
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Jeffrey Eilender argued the claims are too old and portrayed the case as an attempt to divert attention from a federal probe into Russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 election.
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Jason Marczak, director of the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center, told Fox News the explosions afforded Maduro the chance to divert attention from the numerous problems facing Venezuela.
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China has been promoting use of the index partly to divert attention from the yuan's value against the dollar which has fallen near its lowest in 8-1/2 years.
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Bernstein, a CNN contributor, led the remarks by saying that Nixon targeted the media in an attempt to divert attention from his own misconduct and that of his administration's officials.
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Mr. Ghosn has denied the allegations, attributing his fall to a coup engineered by Nissan's top leadership that he said was intended to divert attention from the company's poor performance.
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The big picture: Some have speculated that Trump's involvement in the case was meant to divert attention from his racist tweets attacking 4 congresswomen of color, says the Washington Post.
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He's certain to deem them culpable for stymying Moore and to rage at them, if only to divert attention from how ineffectual his blessing of Moore turned out to be.
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They would have to develop new ways to fill this critical information gap, which would require time, significant new budgetary expenditures, and divert attention from such states as China and Iran.
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But the reshuffle quickly provoked anger from opposition parties saying Park was trying to divert attention from the political crisis, which has dragged her approval rating to an all-time low.
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" Clinton said Trump is trying to divert attention from "very serious fraud charges against Trump University that have basically been confirmed by some of the highest officials who worked with him.
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Government forces took the students as a "mass distraction tactic" to divert attention from President Paul Biya's inauguration Tuesday, Ambazonia Defense Forces spokesman Tapang Ivo Tanku said in a Facebook post.
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Mr. Trump's convoluted nonanswers, his grade-school rhetoric and his nonstop Obama bashing were transparent attempts to divert attention from his incredible lack of knowledge, understanding or experience in world affairs.
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Some view such calls for independence as an attempt to divert attention from internal issues and rally Kurds behind Barzani, whose mandate as president expired last year, but remains in office.
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Monday's news conference, held on a sunny street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, showed how Mr. de Blasio seems to be growing increasingly frustrated as the investigations divert attention from his agenda.
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But the former president has denied any wrongdoing and said on Twitter on Monday that his successor, Juan Carlos Varela, was going after him to divert attention from his own problems.
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For any administration, a Supreme Court opening or major legislative effort -- such as President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in his first term -- can divert attention from key lower court posts.
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But the previously unpublished study, commissioned by the board and conducted by an aviation safety expert, accused Boeing of emphasizing the pilots' mistakes to divert attention from the company's design missteps.
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The DA's Thandeka Mbabama told parliament that expropriation without compensation was a way to divert attention from the failure by successive ANC-led governments to get to grips with the issue.
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I am rather skeptical of the advisability of spending significant effort analyzing each one, when so many seem either to express petulance or to divert attention from other, more pressing issues.
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Zangrillo's filing appears to be part of a legal and public relations strategy to divert attention from the criminal fraud for which he has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
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Paul is among the members of the GOP who've been eager to use the focus on the whistleblower to divert attention from the abuse of power Trump is charged with committing.
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" On Twitter, Ilyse Hogue, the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, called the president's announcement "a desperate attempt to divert attention from his criminal presidency and fire up his radical base.
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When they weren't offering irrelevancies, Trump's allies on the committee were interrupting, demanding futile roll call votes and even shouting over each other in order to divert attention from the evidence.
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"The baseless charge based on a supposed incident in Bangkok in May 2015 against me was to divert attention from the misconduct and to thwart my career at UNAIDS," Loures said.
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Rather, many suspect Netanyahu has publicized the operation in order to boost his popularity ahead of elections and divert attention from damning corruption allegations brought against him in recent months and weeks.
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The radical nationalist Jobbik party's chairman, Gabor Vona, complained of untrue reports about him and his party in several pro-government outlets, saying the government was trying to divert attention from corruption.
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Instead, the working group will divert attention from the intense allied consultations that should be underway, namely on increasing the pressure on Tehran once Washington formally withdraws from the deal in May.
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Trump's decision to shine a spotlight on the women — he held a brief event with them before the debate — could divert attention from his own explosive remarks in a recently released videotape.
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He wanted to divert attention from what Mueller had said about him and what I had commented about Mueller to his relationship with me, his relationship with me is not the story.
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Service Employees International Union Local 73, which represents the aviation officers, has accused the aviation commissioner, Ginger Evans, of scapegoating the officers to divert attention from mismanagement, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
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For the likes of Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, being associated with global soccer can help divert attention from the international indignation at the killing of a dissident.
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In making the issue a central theme of the political debate, he might divert attention from Argentina's grim economic situation as it struggles with negative economic growth amid a soaring debt crisis.
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Some Venezuelans even suspect that he is a plant by the government, used to justify harsher tactics against dissenters and to divert attention from an escalating power struggle among senior government officials.
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"I loved it at first — it's very bright," she said, noting that her goal with the floor has always been to divert attention from the inexpensive cabinets that came with the house.
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The opposition says the SNS is trying to divert attention from a row over the distribution of 300 million euros ($353 million) in EU subsidies by the education department, which it controls.
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Western powers worry the plebiscite - which would include the oil-producing city of Kirkuk - could ignite conflict with the central government in Baghdad and divert attention from the war against Islamic State militants.
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Opposition lawmakers have alleged the SNS pulled out of the coalition to divert attention from a row over the distribution of 300 million euros ($351.69 million) in EU subsidies by the education ministry.
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"We resign from the criminal provisions," the head of prime minister's office, Michal Dworczyk, told public radio, saying those parts of the bill would divert attention from the original point of the legislation.
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Kirchner claimed that Mr. Macri's government had co-opted parts of the judiciary to damage her reputation and divert attention from the government's new economic policies, like cuts in energy and transport subsidies.
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But that conviction was eventually overturned, and Hupp was recently sentenced to life in prison for a murder prosecutors believe could have planned to divert attention from Faria's death, according to NBC News.
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They're using the legislation to fire disabled veterans, silence and retaliate against whistleblowers, and divert attention from their failure to hold supervisors – who are the root cause of problems at the VA – accountable.
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"Instead of taking responsibility and ensuring the return of our misappropriated trade secrets, SunPower subsidiary Cogenra raced to court to divert attention from its conduct by filing a meritless lawsuit," SolarCity told TechCrunch.
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Second, Mr. Trump's insistence that "Emailgate" is worse than Watergate serves to divert attention from the fact that, in my opinion, Mr. Trump is remarkably Nixonian, perhaps even more so than Nixon himself.
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Some Kremlin critics said their harsh treatment and public shaming after an outcry was used to divert attention from bigger problems in the country, including an unpopular measure to increase the pension age.
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Many Democrats, in turn, have said House leaders were cowed by a Republican effort to divert attention from bigotry within their own ranks and that Omar is being held to a different standard.
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The "I want nothing" defense -- no matter how many times or how loudly Trump shouts it -- is a cheap distraction and should not divert attention from the actual evidence of his corrupt intent.
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Opposition parties such as the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have accused the Modi government of obstructing the film to divert attention from what Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called Punjab's "crippling drug problem".
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Given his domestic troubles, and a defiant Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, he may well choose to pursue a classic "wag the dog" policy so as divert attention from his domestic travails.
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Indeed, Donald Trump's threat to inflict on Iran "CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE" may very well have been an effort to divert attention from the Russia investigation.
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"This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear, and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration," Schumer said in a televised rebuttal from the Capitol.
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The RNC official and a senior White House official said the revelations gave Republicans and the White House an opportunity to go on the offensive and divert attention from the investigations facing the President.
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Kilicdaroglu's party say the Gezi arrests are an attempt to divert attention from a slowing economy, high inflation and rising unemployment - significant weak points in Erdogan's election plans after years of stellar economic growth.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's President Hassan Rouhani accused Western powers of trying to exploit differences between the world's Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims to divert attention from the Israel-Palestinian conflict, state television reported on Friday.
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Every South Korean president — including Mr. Moon — has vowed to take politics out of the agency, only to be later accused of using it to harass political opponents or divert attention from domestic crises.
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Such a move would also strengthen the diplomatic impact of the punch and perhaps insulate Trump from any claims that he is acting to divert attention from worsening political and legal woes at home.
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As part of his apology, Spacey announced he was gay but angered many in the LGBT community and beyond who saw his announcement as an effort to divert attention from the accusation by Rapp.
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Opposition spokesman Yahya al-Aridi told Reuters that the Damascus delegation was trying to divert attention from the main objective of the talks - political transition, a phrase used by the opposition to mean Assad's ouster.
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Guaido, who heads the opposition-controlled congress, and the United States say Maduro's claims that the U.S. sabotaged the power grid with a "cyberattack" are an attempt to divert attention from the government's own failings.
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Setting the expectations too high for what an attack looks like can divert attention from more realistic and still pretty devastating attacks on the electric system and blunt the need to prepare for smaller attacks.
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Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University in New York City, warned that such technological initiatives could divert attention from dealing with the root causes of climate change.
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Opposition leaders immediately accused Ms. Park of making the surprise proposal to divert attention from a growing scandal that involved some of her close associates and helped push her approval ratings to a record low.
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For decades, every president — including Mr. Moon — has vowed to take politics out of the agency, only to be later accused of using it to harass their political opponents or divert attention from domestic crises.
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"The Chairman does not comment on the substance classified briefings, and the President is trying to divert attention from his blatant firing of the acting [director of national intelligence] for briefing Congress," the official said.
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Nicholas Opiyo of rights organization Chapter Four said he felt Museveni was unlikely to resume assenting to executions, and described his tweet as "political talk" to divert attention from the constitutional amendment, which fueled public anger.
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Spacey, as part of his apology to Rapp, announced he was gay, which angered many in the LGBT community and beyond who saw his announcement as an effort to divert attention from the accusation by Rapp.
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Some opposition politicians and activists have accused the PSD of using the vote as a smokescreen to divert attention from its leader's legal problems, and its clashes with the European Commission over the rule of law.
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Speaking to the tabloid Bild, he suggested — without professionally reviewing the material — that the clip may have been fabricated as a way to divert attention from what he hastily declared a murder of the German man.
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Democrats have accused Republicans of launching a spurious investigation of Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, to divert attention from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible collusion between President Donald Trump's election campaign and Russia.
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The Workers Party said in a statement that the charges were baseless and being used to divert attention from other investigations, including one into a former federal prosecutor, referring to a case Janot announced on Monday.
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It was the second ballistic missile fired at the city by Houthi rebels in Yemen in two months, and may have been timed to divert attention from King Salman's planned announcement of the kingdom's 2018 budget.
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Democrats have accused Republicans of launching a spurious investigation of Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, to divert attention from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged links between President Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.
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Mujahid says that "American General Nicholson is making such fabricated statements to divert attention from his failures and keep the Washington media busy with false claims instead of exposing the failed Trump (administration&aposs) strategy" in Afghanistan.
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So they are resorting to these tactics of reaching for the most extreme rhetoric and the most extreme activity to try to divert attention from the fact that they&aposre agenda has failed and continues to fail.
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Typically, a politician who wants to divert attention from a subject he prefers the public not be overly interested in will introduce another subject that will act the way a glittering toy acts on a susceptible baby.
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In a speech on Monday, Modi accused Pakistan of committing atrocities in its own province of Baluchistan, escalating a war of words that Islamabad said was intended to divert attention from the troubles in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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Defenders of the suicide-prone, drug-using segment of white middle-class America are attempting to divert attention from their own class, by suggesting "huge" increases in drug use and overdose deaths among the poor and minorities.
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Nunes' efforts include repeated attacks on the Justice Department and FBI to divert attention from the Russia investigation and lying to the American people to cover up his secret work with the White House to shield Trump.
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Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has signaled moral opposition to the wall and vowed to oppose any funding, said the president is seeking to divert attention from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and other White House problems.
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Speaking to reporters after the incident, Margraves said he was embarrassed by his outburst in court and apologized, saying he did not want to divert attention from his daughters, or other survivors who were speaking out against Nassar.
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It's a lucky candidate who gets the chance to divert attention from her problems by giving a speech in the city where her opponent bankrupted several casinos and dodged the bills of a long line of small businesses.
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The difference this time around is that, if Wheeler's claims are true, the president of the United States used the outlet to spread fake news to divert attention from the ongoing investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia.
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France, a key backer of opposition forces in Syria, said the Islamic State defeat in Palmyra was positive news, but should not divert attention from the fact that the main culprit for the conflict is the Syrian government.
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In recent years some student organizations have curbed their support for local remembrances of the 1989 crackdown, saying they feel little affinity with China and that the memorials divert attention from calls for democracy in Hong Kong itself.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on a House of Representatives committee accused its Republican leaders of launching a spurious investigation of Hillary Clinton to divert attention from inquiries on alleged links between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia.
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More than anything, such fights are a reflection of his focus on what it takes to keep his restive populist base behind him, and a ritual of self-preservation intended to divert attention from other, more damaging narratives.
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I got suckered into what was nothing more than another effort to divert attention from the major kerfuffle about his comments on Charlottesville, Va. All in all it was a great speech, and kudos to the writer(s).
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The vision for floating cities has raised questions over whether they could divert attention from dealing with the root causes of climate change, which by boosting sea levels threatens low-lying coastal communities with storm surges and flooding.
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"Over the past three years, IBM has attempted to conclude a fair and reasonable patent license agreement with Groupon, and we are disappointed that Groupon is seeking to divert attention from its patent infringement by suing," Shelton said.
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Democratic leaders have played down Republican efforts to divide the party, and accused Republicans of trying to divert attention from a popular legislative agenda that includes shoring up health care coverage and expanding background checks for gun purchases.
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"What we have right now is the Hillary Clinton campaign using a speculative allegation about hacks that have occurred in the past to try and divert attention from our emails, another separate issue that WikiLeaks has published," he said.
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China has been promoting use of the index, partly to divert attention from the yuan's value against the dollar CNY=CFXS which has fallen almost 7 percent this year and is near its lowest in 16.343-1/2 years.
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Since those losses undermine the jihadists' claim to have a powerful state with its own territory, high-profile attacks abroad serve as "force multipliers, because they divert attention from what is happening in Iraq and Syria," Professor Gerges said.
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President Trump's tweet that "oil prices are too high" and "OPEC is at it again" is timed to message the cartel to boost their production and to divert attention from a Democratic offensive on pump prices, experts tell Axios.
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"I am concerned that the constant focus on the nuclear issue continues to divert attention from the terrible state of human rights for many millions of North Koreans," Michelle Bachelet, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a statement.
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A source close to Samsung told Mashable the company didn't want to divert attention from the recall and make it about battery suppliers, and instead wanted to focus on getting affected Note7 phones returned or exchanged as quickly as possible.
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Democrats accused President Donald Trump, and the committee's chairman, Republican Representative Devin Nunes, of using concerns related to the Obama administration to divert attention from allegations of collusion between Trump's campaign and Russians attempting to interfere in the 2016 election.
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Park's proposal was welcomed by her Saenuri Party but drew suspicion from rival parties which saw it as a move to divert attention from an influence scandal involving old acquaintances and to keep herself relevant as her presidency winds down.
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After more than two decades as one of the most dynamic live acts in rock and roll, Kruspe says that the band decided to return to the studio to divert attention from their peerless showmanship and back to the songs.
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Is the Expansion truly a way to help startup founders fight back against harassment from investors, or is it just a way for some prominent VCs to divert attention from the pervasive harassment and sexism that exists within the tech industry?
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"You expect them to say something like that to try to divert attention from the very serious allegations that [Moore's] facing and the very credible statements from the women in Etowah County that have been coming out," he said in Troy.
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" Hardy's attorney, Howard E. King of King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, LLP, said of Seacrest's denial statement: "Not only is that false, but it is an attempt to smear the victim and divert attention from her very specific and supportable claims.
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In response to former FBI Director James Comey's powerful testimony Thursday detailing President Trump's efforts to squelch the bureau's investigation into Michael Flynn, Trump is embracing a tried-and-true Washington tactic: divert attention from a scandal by smearing the messenger.
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While Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has denounced the attacks on the Saudi embassy, he pointed the finger at Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, saying that it should not divert attention from its execution of the dissident Shiite cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.
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Of the many odd twists in the partisan noise around the impeachment, Mr. Trump's effort to divert attention from suspicions about the intrusion away from Russia — implicit in his July 25 telephone conversation with Mr. Zelensky — may be the oddest.
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Almost every Democrat tried to divert attention from Strzok's texts -- some used their questions to refer to all the people who have pleaded guilty in the Russia probe so far, or to refer to what they see as the President's sins.
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TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, seeking to allay concern he would divert attention from fixing a fragile economy to revising a pacifist constitution after a big election win, said on Monday changing the charter would not be easy.
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India, it said, was making these allegations to divert attention from its brutality in trying to control the armed revolt in Kashmir, and warned against any retaliatory measures across the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between the nuclear-armed countries.
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The world may never know why, exactly, Mr. Trump chose to divert attention from the political chaos — just before turning the fire hose back on himself — by posting a video on Twitter of his performance at the 2005 Emmy Awards.
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Describing the incursion as a "blatant Israeli act of aggression," the statement accused Israel of acting to support Islamic State "terrorist gangs" to raise their morale in their fight against the pro-Assad forces and divert attention from Syrian Army victories.
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When Nike recently featured Colin Kaepernick, who led the kneeling movement, in an advertisement, Trump used it as a convenient symbol to rally his base and divert attention from the parade of scandals and missteps that have characterized his administration.
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But some women's groups and opponents say it reinforces an outdated, stereotypical image of women and helps the PiS divert attention from the charges that it has ridden roughshod over the rule of law by trying to shackle the constitutional court.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders denied the President was trying to divert attention from all that with his trade announcement, saying it was hardly news that Trump thinks global commerce, particularly as practiced by nations like China, cheats American workers.
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At the time of his early-March tweetstorm, he was trying to divert attention from a fresh embarrassment: Attorney General Jeff Sessions had failed to disclose, during confirmation hearings, that he had had contacts with Russia's ambassador to the United States.
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"Many people will see it for what it is, which is a rather crass last minute attempt to divert attention from the much more difficult questions around our anti-terrorism policy," said former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, a Liberal Democrat.
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In a sign of just how tense the relationship has become, British and Russian ministers used openly insulting language while the Russian ambassador said Britain was trying to divert attention from the difficulties it was having managing its exit from the European Union.
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Nadler used the final remarks to reiterate the need for witnesses and dismiss Trump's defense as a series of distractions meant to divert attention from the question of whether the president abused his power in pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals.
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Maduro condemned Pérez's heist last year as part of a coup attempt while some speculated that the green-eyed rebel with the high cheekbones was the centerpiece of a government plot to divert attention from street protests that claimed more than 120 lives.
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But Devin Nunes and other Republicans fired back that Yates and John Brennan, and other Obama officials are just trying to divert attention from the real story, which is that the FBI may have infiltrated the Trump campaign and basically spied on it.
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" In response to Seacrest's statement, Hardy's attorney, Howard E. King of King, Holmes, Paterno & Soriano, LLP, told PEOPLE: "Not only is that false, but it is an attempt to smear the victim and divert attention from her very specific and supportable claims.
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Now, with a clear enemy walking free, Mr. Bolsonaro can divert attention from successive mistakes — from his inability to control the fires that recently ravaged large parts of the Amazon to his embarrassing offenses against world leaders — and retake his anti-corruption rhetoric.
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Kirchner has denied all the allegations and says she is being attacked by a judiciary guided by her enemies to sully her legacy and divert attention from the market-oriented economic reforms of Mr. Macri, which have been the target of recent protests.
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Adolf Hitler was an awkward nonentity, his stock of knowledge drawn from the early 20th-century Viennese equivalent of the Reader's Digest, with herbicidal bad breath and an over-large nose to divert attention from which he grew a still more ridiculous mustache.
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Mr. Nunes, supported by a rotating coterie of conspiracists in Congress and the usual suspects on right-wing cable news, has labored to divert attention from the expanding Russia investigation by tossing out sinister-sounding allegations of wrongdoing by federal law enforcement officials.
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Alida Vracic, a political scientist and executive director of a local think tank, Populari, said politicians have been stoking fears of an armed conflict for decades in order to divert attention from corrupt practices, a collapsed health system and a bankrupt pension fund.
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Yet even before Thursday, the view among Democrats and even some Republicans was that Mr. Nunes was given access to the intelligence reports to divert attention from the investigations into Russian meddling, and to bolster Mr. Trump's debunked claims of having been wiretapped.
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That conspiracy theory has helped feed Trump's distrust of the government he leads, and it's been a main counterargument of Republicans who want to divert attention from Trump's behavior as documented in the House impeachment inquiry and Robert Mueller's special counsel report.
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The president has characterized the drive to remove him as an entirely partisan exercise that will cost Democrats their majority in the House, and a high-profile Democratic defection could help bolster his case while allowing him to divert attention from the vote.
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The uproar over President Donald Trump's travel ban on seven countries is making markets anxious, and traders are worried the policy will create divides among Republicans and divert attention from the Trump policies that pushed stocks higher, like tax cuts and increased fiscal spending.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A spokesman for Yemen's Houthi group on Thursday dismissed U.S. accusations that Iran had supplied a missile fired at Saudi Arabia last month, saying it was an attempt to divert attention from the United States' decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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Mark Warner (D-Va.) pointed out to reporters that the White House has a history of trying to divert attention from scandals and that, if the president really wanted to do something to protect election integrity, he could back the Senate's bipartisan election security bill.
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"This outrageously frivolous lawsuit is yet another desperate attempt by Michael Avenatti to continue his 'publicity tour,' as well as divert attention from the recent allegations against him relating to bankruptcy proceedings and the failure to withhold millions of federal employee taxes," Wedge said.
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But under successive military dictators, including Park Chung-hee, the father of the current president, Park Geun-hye, the intelligence service and other state agencies were also accused of concocting fake spy cases to arrest and discredit dissidents and divert attention from domestic crises.
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"This president just used the backdrop of the Oval Office to manufacture a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention from the turmoil in his administration," Schumer said in the midst of a 21625-day government shutdown sparked by a partisan disagreement over funding border barriers.
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In expediting the process, the 63-year-old is likely looking to benefit from current traction as well as divert attention from recent scandals and cement his leadership before a new political party formed by Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike makes inroads, experts widely agreed.
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To many, Mr. Maduro's call to rewrite the Constitution seemed like an effort to divert attention from the political crisis he has been facing in the streets and to avoid elections that his governing United Socialist Party is likely to lose, according to polls.
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The report will say the probe was properly launched but lower-level employees made a series of mistakes, according to two sources familiar with the matter -- information Trump is certain to seize on as a way to divert attention from the House impeachment inquiry.
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It's all part of what critics see as a relentless effort led by the powerful media outlet to do what it has also done in the United States and Britain — shift blame to the left, protect conservative leaders and divert attention from climate change.
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However, Thomas R. Pickering, who was ambassador to Israel during the Reagan administration, called it "a serious foreign policy mistake" and an attempt either at "ego satisfaction" or an effort to divert attention from a special counsel's investigation into the Trump campaign's ties with Russia.
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"It is not beyond our imagination that this is an effort to divert attention from the current realities of the market where Uber has faced major setbacks including the recent incidents of Uber vehicles being seized by the Government authorities," the company said in its statement.
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"It is unfortunate that Mr. Herrera, who is also legal counsel for TJPA, has chosen to take the focus off finding a fix for the building and is instead attempting to divert attention from the real culprit here — a government agency that has behaved recklessly," Johnston said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday dismissed comments by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Moscow would match any U.S. move to deploy new nuclear missiles closer to Russia as propaganda designed to divert attention from alleged Russian violations of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
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"It is unfortunate that Mr. Herrera, who is also legal counsel for TJPA, has chosen to take the focus off finding a fix for the building and is instead attempting to divert attention from the real culprit here - a government agency that has behaved recklessly," Johnston said.
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Kirchner claimed that Mr. Macri's government had co-opted parts of the judiciary to sully her reputation in an effort to divert attention from market-oriented economic changes, like the recent easing of energy and transport subsidies, whose cost she said was being borne by Argentines.
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The answer, I'd argue, is that it's a diversionary tactic — a way to avoid facing up to the way our system is rigged against workers, similar to the way talk of a "skills gap" was a way to divert attention from bad policies that kept unemployment high.
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The disclosure came just a half-hour after the publication of a recording in which Mr. Trump boasted of grabbing women's genitals and was an apparent attempt to divert attention from that explosive story, which threatened to derail Mr. Trump's chances of capturing the White House.
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He said Mr. Trump and Stephen K. Bannon, then the president's chief strategist, were "trying to divert attention" from the president's refusal to offer a full-throated denunciation of neo-Nazis and other white supremacists whose rally in Charlottesville led to the death of a counterprotester.
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And a really enterprising confidant might have intimated that a sensational military operation could scan as a cynical effort to divert attention from impeachment, as well as an example of the same brand of self-interested autocracy with which the House's articles of impeachment charge the president.
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Then I took my friends to dinner and was like, 'Hey, not to freak you guys out but you're the most straight cisgender-looking people we're friends with, so if it comes down to it, please be prepared to stick up for us or divert attention from us.
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Park nominated Kim Byong-joon, a former cabinet minister under a liberal ex-president, as premier last week but the move, which requires a parliamentary approval, drew anger from the opposition as a bid to divert attention from the crisis and yet another example of her heavy-handed approach.
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Bannon says US locked in 'economic war' with China, slams White House colleagues A second source familiar with Bannon's thinking said the chief strategist was trying "to divert attention from Charlottesville criticism" by offering the controversial comments to the American Prospect reporter, knowing the comments would grip headlines.
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The President set off new questions about his state of mind and the possibility he was trying to divert attention from his legal woes in a tweet Wednesday in which he taunted Russia over its ability to shoot down US missiles in an apparently looming strike on Syria.
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But the argument that the Price-Anderson liability limit is a "subsidy" is simply incorrect; it has become an obvious tool with which to divert attention from the indefensible subsidies and cronyism now bestowed upon "renewable" electricity, ethanol mandates and the other such manifestations of wealth redistribution through politics.
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The strategy marks a pivot for the Democrats, as party leaders have throughout the year discouraged members from offering improvements to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), fearing they would highlight problems with the law and divert attention from the Republicans' months-long struggle to repeal and replace it.
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"This outrageously frivolous lawsuit is yet another desperate attempt by Michael Avenatti to continue his 'publicity tour,' as well as divert attention from the recent allegations against him relating to bankruptcy proceedings and the failure to withhold millions of federal employee taxes," Davidson's spokesman, Dave Wedge, told CNBC in an email.
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Renewed conflict in Crimea and the Ukrainian region of Donbas could also help divert attention from the 25th anniversary of Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union, which Ash says will be celebrated with much "fanfare" in Ukraine but "expose scars and vulnerabilities in Moscow" ahead of the State Duma elections.
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A spokesperson for Ola called the lawsuit "frivolous and false," adding, "It is not beyond our imagination that this is an effort to divert attention from the current realities of the market where Uber has faced major setbacks including the recent incidents of Uber vehicles being seized by the government authorities."
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Bannon's remarks may have served to momentarily divert attention from the President's controversial response to the violence in Charlottesville, but his comments also offered damaging insight into the divisions inside the Trump administration and showed the chief strategist undercutting the President on the most significant national security issue facing the administration.
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"Instead of undertaking dangerous steps and resorting to baseless accusations, Trump should review the illegal presence and behavior of his troops in the region and avoid making accusations to divert attention from their responsibility," said ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi, according to state TV. Reporting by Dubai Newsroom; Editing by Kevin Liffey
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The journalist speculated that the government, with the help of the media, is pursuing Del Castillo in order to divert attention from unanswered questions still hanging over the drug lord's arrest, such as the possibility that the authorities caught up with him because of luck, rather than because of sophisticated intelligence.
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Protests against conditions in Gaza were held in several parts of the territory on Thursday in defiance of Hamas officials, and local security forces were videotaped beating some demonstrators with clubs, leading to speculation that Hamas might welcome an exchange of fire with Israel to divert attention from the protests.
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"The WTO has rejected yet another of the baseless claims the EU has made as it attempts to divert attention from the $22 billion of subsidies European governments have provided to Airbus and that the WTO has found to be illegal," Boeing general counsel Michael Luttig said in a statement.
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The 67th edition of the "Berlinale" opens on Thursday with "Django", which takes viewers back to occupied France in 1943 and the life of Romani guitarist Django Reinhardt who refuses to take part in a tour of Germany that the Nazis want to use to divert attention from American "negro" jazz.
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Many suggested that the devices were the handiwork of liberals with an end goal of making the GOP look bad, divert attention from "left-wing mobs," and distract from the caravan of about 7,000 Central American migrants traveling up to Mexico on foot with the ultimate goal of reaching the Southern border.
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In the speech, the former vice president said the attacks on his family were intended to divert attention from the widening impeachment inquiry into Mr. Trump's attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens — and he cited them as proof that the White House feared him more than any other Democratic presidential contender.
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The explanation elicited scorn and disbelief in Italy, where members of Mr. Regeni's family and the Italian government suspected that the Egyptian government, already under fire for its poor human rights record, was seeking to divert attention from the possibility that Mr. Regeni had been killed by members of Egypt's security forces.
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The irony of the ongoing impeachment saga in the House is that while Democrats initially charged their Republican colleagues with raising process complaints to divert attention from the facts of the case, at each step of the way Democrats have come around to addressing those complaints to lend greater legitimacy to their proceedings.
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There was also a strong suspicion that a President under political and legal siege was casting around for a year-end win to add to a triumph represented by the passage of a criminal justice bill, and to divert attention from a concession in a duel with Congress over funding for his border wall.
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" A Fox spokesperson shot back at the notion that the network posts outrage-bait: "CNN's false assumptions about our content is only a pathetic attempt to divert attention from the fact that they are now losing on digital in addition to their continued last-place ranking in television ratings for the last 17 years.
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Looking for a foil ahead of the midterm elections, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, latched on, suggesting that conservatives had moved to impeach Mr. Rosenstein merely to divert attention from the former college wrestlers who have accused Mr. Jordan of knowing about sexual misconduct at Ohio State University and doing nothing.
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Resistance will take place inside and outside of Congress, which will try to divert attention from this important subject, or those who will raise the question of delaying the Puerto Rico status issue, which can be expected as a result of the establishment of the new Fiscal Oversight and Management Board on the island.
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But I can tell you, Republicans like Devin Nunes are pushing back tonight, saying that Sally Yates and other Obama officials are just trying to divert attention from the real story, that in the words of Nunes, a bright red line was crossed when the FBI allegedly infiltrated the Trump campaign and allegedly spied on it.
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Patriotic Republicans and Democrats should draw a clear red line, and enforce it appropriately, if a president falsely accuses his predecessor of committing a crime to divert attention from Congress, law enforcement agencies and counter-intelligence services investigating whether or not there was collusion between anyone associated with him and Russian agents attacking our democracy and supporting his candidacy.
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It's illogical to think the Trump administration has a defined plan to distract and divert attention from Mueller's investigation since there are so many stewing world events sparked by Trump's belligerent foreign policy -- last week it was a looming tit-for-tat trade war with China and a surprise decision to send US troops to the border with Mexico.
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Democrats and gun control advocates accused Republicans and the National Rifle Association of using school safety to divert attention from what they see as the real issue: the proliferation of guns that have been used in mass shootings at concerts, in movie theaters, on college campuses, in churches and at workplaces, as well as at public schools.
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But her decision to dramatize the fight also represented an embrace of Mr. Trump's own signature political tactic: an attempt to divert attention from a divisive internal debate — in this case a drive by two dozen of her caucus members to push ahead with impeachment — with a headline-grabbing attack, in hopes of uniting her own political base.
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Nadler accused Goodlatte of working to divert attention from the "chaos" surrounding President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's administration.
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"It is deeply troubling that Lincoln Center, one of the world's leading cultural institutions, is helping the Israeli government to implement its systematic 'Brand Israel' strategy of employing arts and culture to divert attention from the state's decades of violent colonization, brutal military occupation and denial of basic rights to the Palestinian people," the letter reads.
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A North Korean state newspaper on Thursday called President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE a "psychopath" and said that he was weighing a pre-emptive strike against the country to divert attention from political turmoil in the U.S., The Washington Post reported.
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" In his memoirs, Nixon would later grumble that he met resistance when he tried to declassify the names of those tapped, showing how some of his predecessors had also used these tools to gain political advantage: "[M]y staff resisted me...most of my advisers argued that if I revealed the activities of previous administrations, it would look as if I were trying to divert attention from myself by smearing others.
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One Defense Department official suggested that Mr. Trump wanted to divert attention from his mounting legal troubles: the Russia investigation; the sentencing of his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, in a hush money scandal to buy the silence of two women who said they had affairs with him; and his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, who was harshly criticized by a federal judge for lying to investigators.
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Grab raises up to $856M to boost payments business as rumors swirl of a merger with rival Gojek Southeast Asian on-demand transport startup Gojek denies that it is involved in talks to merge with Grab, but today Grab announced a piece of news that could either divert attention from that story — or more likely stoke the fires of speculation that it is indeed gearing up for a deal. 4.
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Critics of the government worried that Mr. Trump's visit would divert attention from concerns that Law and Justice had set the country on a dangerous course since taking power in 2015, undermining the Constitution, stoking cultural division, casting gays and lesbians as enemies of the state, attacking the free press and drifting dangerously away from the democratic society the country fought so hard to secure after decades of Communist rule.
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While Democrats have been careful to cast calls for the probe as nonpartisan and focused on national security, the effort could also divert attention from President-elect Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's agenda while raising questions about the election's integrity.
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Ted DeutchTheodore (Ted) Eliot DeutchHouse Democrats urge Trump to end deportations of Iraqis after diabetic man's death House conservatives call for ethics probe into Joaquin Castro tweet Democratic leaders seek to have it both ways on impeachment MORE (D-Fla.), who represents the district including the Parkland high school where 17 people were killed in a mass shooting last February, said Republicans were simply trying "to divert attention from the historic moment" of passing the background check bill.
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