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WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly blew up a meet- ing with Democratic congres- sional leaders on Wednesday, de- claring that he could not work with them until they stopped in- vestigating him and lashing out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accus- ing him of a cover-up. He then marched out into the Rose Garden, where reporters had been gathered, and delivered a statement bristling with anger as he demanded that Democrats “get these phony investigations over with.” He said they could not legislate and investigate simulta- neously. “We’re going to go down one track at a time,” he said. The tempestuous clash be- tween Mr. Trump and Ms. Pelosi suggested that efforts to forge bi- partisan legislation on issues — already a long shot — may effec- tively be frozen for the foresee- able future while the president and his opponents wage war over the various investigations now underway. The confrontation came on a day when talk of a possible im- peachment drive raised tempera- tures on both sides of the aisle. Restive House Democrats pressed Ms. Pelosi to open a for- mal inquiry aimed at removing the president from office for high crimes and misdemeanors while both sides sought to gain the up- per hand in the escalating con- flicts over testimony and docu- ments. The Justice Department struck a deal with the House Intelligence Committee to provide some secret material related to the special counsel investigation of Mr. President Trump cut short a meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, above, and Senator Chuck Schu- mer after three minutes Wednesday. In the Rose Garden, he demanded they stop investigating him. DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Continued on Page A20 ERIN SCHAFF/THE NEW YORK TIMES REBUKING PELOSI, TRUMP CONDEMNS ‘PHONY’ INQUIRIES ABRUPTLY ENDS MEETING Hope for Bipartisanship Erodes After Speaker Claims Cover-Up This article is by Peter Baker, Katie Rogers and Emily Cochrane. VOL. CLXVIII . . . No. 58,336 © 2019 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2019 U(D54G1D)y+?!#!&!#!} For three years, Donald J. Trump has treated the details of his personal and business fi- nances as a closely guarded se- cret. On Wednesday, those secrets moved two steps closer to becom- ing public. A federal judge in Manhattan ruled against a request from Pres- ident Trump to block his longtime lender, Deutsche Bank, from com- plying with congressional subpoe- nas seeking his detailed financial records. In Albany, New York law- makers approved a bill that would allow Congress to obtain Mr. Trump’s state tax returns. Those actions came two days after a federal judge in Washing- ton ruled against Mr. Trump’s bid to quash another congressional subpoena to get his accounting firm to hand over his tax returns and other financial documents. The court rulings and the New York legislation represent the most serious attempts to pierce the veil that surrounds Mr. Trump’s finances. They increase the odds that congressional Dem- ocrats, who have become more vo- cal in their calls to undertake im- peachment proceedings against the president, could enter such a fray with ample ammunition about Mr. Trump’s business deal- ings. “Very excited,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after learning of the Manhattan judge’s ruling. “Two in one week!” Mr. Trump has already ap- pealed the ruling over the sub- poena to his accounting firm, Mazars USA, and will almost cer- tainly appeal the ruling handed down on Wednesday. The commit- tees have already agreed to give any appeals a chance to play out before enforcing the subpoenas, but House Democrats are now closer than ever to securing a vast cache of long-sought documents. Mr. Trump’s finances have been largely a mystery from the mo- ment he declared his candidacy for president. He broke with dec- ades of precedent by refusing to release his federal tax returns. His company, the Trump Organiza- tion, is private, and he has dis- closed minimal information about how the company makes money and the sources of that income. Mr. Trump has faced persistent criticism over the interplay be- tween his private business and his public office. The president fre- quently visits his golf resorts and his private club, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., and owns a hotel just blocks from the White House that is frequented by foreign dig- nitaries. Continued on Page A21 Effort to Shield Trump’s Secrets Hits 2 Setbacks Judge Backs Subpoena and Albany Closes In GIANNI CIPRIANO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Children playing soccer in Palermo, Sicily, where issues over migration are playing out. Page A14. Migrants’ Complicated Identity in Sicily Days after a billionaire pledged to pay the collective student debt of the entire 2019 Morehouse Col- lege graduating class, euphoria was not the only emotion in the air. On Morehouse’s Atlanta cam- pus and beyond, administrators, students and parents — and no shortage of philanthropy experts — have spent the last few days wondering how, exactly, Robert F. Smith, a titan tech investor, would fulfill his promise to 396 gradu- ates. The surprise announcement was both an extraordinary gift — and a complicated one. At the end of a graduation cele- bration on Sunday night, Shaquille Lampley returned to his dorm room on campus, opened the computer and stared at his student loan estimates. They to- taled more than $200,000 in loans taken out by his mother, covering six years in school. “I just kept looking at the number and think- ing to myself, this would cripple me for life,” said Mr. Lampley, 24, who earned a degree in sociology. “I am so grateful and still in shock about this gift, and now I have so many questions about how this will be processed.” Among the questions: Are all student loans included? Does the pledge include loans taken out by the graduates’ parents? What about gifts from home equity loans? Expected to run well into the millions of dollars, the pledge will not benefit those who never made it to graduation because their crushing debts forced them to withdraw before they earned a de- gree. “I felt a level of survivor’s guilt,” said Myles Washington, 21, one of the graduates expecting to re- ceive tens of thousands of debt re- ‘Survivor’s Guilt’ After Billionaire’s Stunning Gift This article is by Audra D. S. Burch, Alan Blinder and Ron Lieber. Graduates’ Debt Relief Comes With Burdens Continued on Page A22 The new laws that prohibit abortion as early as the sixth week of pregnancy have been called “heartbeat” legislation by supporters, a reference to the flickering pulse that can be seen on ultrasound images of a devel- oping embryo. But when the American Civil Liberties Union announced a legal challenge last week to one such law in Ohio, there was no mention of the word “heartbeat” in the news release, which referred to the law instead as “a ban on al- most all abortions.” In Georgia, Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who narrowly lost the governor’s race last year, called the measure in her state a “forced pregnancy bill.” A sign at a protest against the law in Atlanta this week turned the idea into a slogan: “NO FORCED BIRTHS.” The battle over abortion has long been shaped by language. Af- ter abortion opponents coined the “pro-life” phrase in the 1960s to emphasize what they saw as the humanity of the fetus, supporters of abortion cast themselves as “pro-choice” to stress a woman’s right to make decisions about her body. In the mid-1990s, the term How Phrasing Has Intensified Abortion Battle By AMY HARMON Continued on Page A18 KASHGAR, China — A God’s- eye view of Kashgar, an ancient city in western China, flashed onto a wall-size screen, with colorful icons marking police stations, checkpoints and the locations of recent security incidents. At the click of a mouse, a technician ex- plained, the police can pull up live video from any surveillance cam- era or take a closer look at anyone passing through one of the thou- sands of checkpoints in the city. To demonstrate, she showed how the system could retrieve the photo, home address and official identification number of a woman who had been stopped at a check- point on a major highway. The sys- tem sifted through billions of records, then displayed details of her education, family ties, links to an earlier case and recent visits to a hotel and an internet cafe. The simulation, presented at an industry fair in China, offered a rare look at a system that now peers into nearly every corner of Xinjiang, the troubled region where Kashgar is located. This is the vision of high-tech surveillance — precise, all-seeing, infallible — that China’s leaders are investing billions of dollars in every year, making Xinjiang an in- cubator for increasingly intrusive policing systems that could spread across the country and be- yond. It is also a vision that some of President Trump’s aides have be- gun citing in a push for tougher ac- tion against Chinese companies in the intensifying trade war. Be- yond concerns about market bar- riers, theft and national security, they argue that China is using technology to strengthen authori- tarianism at home and abroad — and that the United States must stop it. Developed and sold by the China Electronics Technology Corporation, a state-run defense manufacturer, the system in Kashgar is on the cutting edge of China Imposes A Spying State In Its Far West Monitoring of Muslims With a Virtual Cage By CHRIS BUCKLEY and PAUL MOZUR Continued on Page A6 The elections for the European Parlia- ment come in a nationalist, populist time, when a battle is being fought over the soul of the Continent. PAGE A4 INTERNATIONAL A4-14 Europe’s Murky Future A former New York City detective has admitted his role in a brothel and gam- bling ring and could get 12 years in prison. PAGE A24 NEW YORK A24-29 Brothel Ringleader in Plea Deal A federal judge in California found that the chip-making giant charged cell- phone makers “onerous” fees for the use of its patents. The company said it would appeal the ruling. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-8 Ruling Against Qualcomm Andrew Yang has made his Taiwanese- American ethnicity a central part of his campaign for president. PAGE A16 NATIONAL A16-23 ‘Opposite of Donald Trump’ Quentin Tarantino’s Manson-themed “Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood” plays like a love letter to the film indus- try, Manohla Dargis writes. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-8 Paying Homage to Hollywood Sarah Vowell PAGE A33 EDITORIAL, OP-ED A32-33 Keith Bush always insisted he did not kill a girl when he was 17. At age 62, he has been exonerated. PAGE 29 Cleared of Murder On Jan. 3, St. Louis had the worst record in the N.H.L. Now the Blues will play for the Stanley Cup. PAGE B9 SPORTSTHURSDAY B9-12 Hockey’s Turnaround Artists Investigators could not be sure if a picture from a 1984 yearbook really showed Virginia’s governor. PAGE A23 No Answers on Racist Photo American officials backed off an earlier State Department announcement that warned of new chemical attacks by the Syrian government. PAGE A14 Looking for Evidence in Syria Researchers pinpointed two industrial provinces in the eastern part of the country as the primary source of emis- sions of a banned gas. PAGE A8 China Blamed for Ozone Harm ... You can’t investigate and legislate simultaneously - it just doesn’t work that way. You can’t go down two tracks at the same time. Let Chuck, Nancy, Jerry, Adam and all of the rest finish playing their games ... Donald J. Trump @RealDonaldTrump This article is by Emily Flitter, Jesse McKinley, David Enrich and Nicholas Fandos. WASHINGTON — Harriet Tub- man — former slave, abolitionist, “conductor” on the Underground Railroad — will not become the face of the $20 bill until after Presi- dent Trump leaves office, Treas- ury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday. Plans to unveil the Tubman bill in 2020, an Obama administration initiative, would be postponed un- til at least 2026, Mr. Mnuchin said, and the bill itself would not likely be in circulation until 2028. Until then, bills with former President Andrew Jackson’s face will continue to pour out of A.T.M.s and fill Americans’ wal- lets. Mr. Mnuchin, concerned that the president might create an up- roar by canceling the new bill alto- gether, was eager to delay its re- design until Mr. Trump was out of office, some senior Treasury De- partment officials have said. As a presidential candidate in 2016, Mr. Trump criticized the Obama ad- ministration’s plans for the bill. That April, Mr. Trump called the change “pure political correct- ness” and suggested that Tub- man, whom he praised, could be added to a far less common de- nomination, like the $2 bill. “An- drew Jackson had a great history, and I think it’s very rough when Tubman as New Face of $20 Bill? Not Before President Exits Office By ALAN RAPPEPORT Continued on Page A18 GO-SLOW STRATEGY The House speaker pushed back at the presi- dent. News Analysis. PAGE A21 Thomas Silverstein, a killer and white supremacist, was in solitary confine- ment for 36 years. He was 67. PAGE A30 OBITUARIES A30-31 America’s Most Isolated Inmate Late Edition Today, variably cloudy, early morn- ing showers, high 74. Tonight, show- ers or heavy thunderstorms, low 63. Tomorrow, partly sunny, high 76. Weather map appears on Page A26. $3.00
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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump abruptly blew up a meet-ing with Democratic congres-sional leaders on Wednesday, de-claring that he could not workwith them until they stopped in-vestigating him and lashing out atSpeaker Nancy Pelosi for accus-ing him of a cover-up.
He then marched out into theRose Garden, where reportershad been gathered, and delivereda statement bristling with angeras he demanded that Democrats“get these phony investigationsover with.” He said they could notlegislate and investigate simulta-neously. “We’re going to go downone track at a time,” he said.
The tempestuous clash be-tween Mr. Trump and Ms. Pelosisuggested that efforts to forge bi-partisan legislation on issues —already a long shot — may effec-tively be frozen for the foresee-able future while the presidentand his opponents wage war overthe various investigations nowunderway.
The confrontation came on aday when talk of a possible im-peachment drive raised tempera-tures on both sides of the aisle.Restive House Democrats
pressed Ms. Pelosi to open a for-mal inquiry aimed at removingthe president from office for highcrimes and misdemeanors whileboth sides sought to gain the up-per hand in the escalating con-flicts over testimony and docu-ments.
The Justice Department strucka deal with the House IntelligenceCommittee to provide some secretmaterial related to the specialcounsel investigation of Mr.
President Trump cut short a meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, above, and Senator Chuck Schu-mer after three minutes Wednesday. In the Rose Garden, he demanded they stop investigating him.
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For three years, Donald J.Trump has treated the details ofhis personal and business fi-nances as a closely guarded se-cret.
On Wednesday, those secretsmoved two steps closer to becom-ing public.
A federal judge in Manhattanruled against a request from Pres-ident Trump to block his longtimelender, Deutsche Bank, from com-plying with congressional subpoe-nas seeking his detailed financialrecords. In Albany, New York law-makers approved a bill that wouldallow Congress to obtain Mr.Trump’s state tax returns.
Those actions came two daysafter a federal judge in Washing-ton ruled against Mr. Trump’s bidto quash another congressionalsubpoena to get his accountingfirm to hand over his tax returnsand other financial documents.
The court rulings and the NewYork legislation represent themost serious attempts to piercethe veil that surrounds Mr.Trump’s finances. They increasethe odds that congressional Dem-ocrats, who have become more vo-cal in their calls to undertake im-peachment proceedings againstthe president, could enter such afray with ample ammunitionabout Mr. Trump’s business deal-ings.
“Very excited,” House SpeakerNancy Pelosi said after learning ofthe Manhattan judge’s ruling.“Two in one week!”
Mr. Trump has already ap-pealed the ruling over the sub-poena to his accounting firm,Mazars USA, and will almost cer-tainly appeal the ruling handeddown on Wednesday. The commit-tees have already agreed to giveany appeals a chance to play outbefore enforcing the subpoenas,but House Democrats are nowcloser than ever to securing a vastcache of long-sought documents.
Mr. Trump’s finances have beenlargely a mystery from the mo-ment he declared his candidacyfor president. He broke with dec-ades of precedent by refusing torelease his federal tax returns. Hiscompany, the Trump Organiza-tion, is private, and he has dis-closed minimal information abouthow the company makes moneyand the sources of that income.
Mr. Trump has faced persistentcriticism over the interplay be-tween his private business and hispublic office. The president fre-quently visits his golf resorts andhis private club, Mar-a-Lago inPalm Beach, Fla., and owns a hoteljust blocks from the White Housethat is frequented by foreign dig-nitaries.
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Effort to ShieldTrump’s SecretsHits 2 Setbacks
Judge Backs Subpoenaand Albany Closes In
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Children playing soccer in Palermo, Sicily, where issues over migration are playing out. Page A14.Migrants’ Complicated Identity in Sicily
Days after a billionaire pledgedto pay the collective student debtof the entire 2019 Morehouse Col-lege graduating class, euphoriawas not the only emotion in the air.
On Morehouse’s Atlanta cam-pus and beyond, administrators,students and parents — and noshortage of philanthropy experts— have spent the last few dayswondering how, exactly, Robert F.Smith, a titan tech investor, wouldfulfill his promise to 396 gradu-ates. The surprise announcementwas both an extraordinary gift —and a complicated one.
At the end of a graduation cele-bration on Sunday night,Shaquille Lampley returned to hisdorm room on campus, openedthe computer and stared at hisstudent loan estimates. They to-taled more than $200,000 in loanstaken out by his mother, coveringsix years in school. “I just keptlooking at the number and think-ing to myself, this would crippleme for life,” said Mr. Lampley, 24,who earned a degree in sociology.“I am so grateful and still in shock
about this gift, and now I have somany questions about how thiswill be processed.”
Among the questions: Are allstudent loans included? Does thepledge include loans taken out bythe graduates’ parents? Whatabout gifts from home equityloans?
Expected to run well into themillions of dollars, the pledge willnot benefit those who never madeit to graduation because theircrushing debts forced them towithdraw before they earned a de-gree.
“I felt a level of survivor’s guilt,”said Myles Washington, 21, one ofthe graduates expecting to re-ceive tens of thousands of debt re-
‘Survivor’s Guilt’ After Billionaire’s Stunning GiftThis article is by Audra D. S.
Burch, Alan Blinder and RonLieber.
Graduates’ Debt ReliefComes With Burdens
Continued on Page A22The new laws that prohibitabortion as early as the sixthweek of pregnancy have beencalled “heartbeat” legislation bysupporters, a reference to theflickering pulse that can be seenon ultrasound images of a devel-oping embryo.
But when the American CivilLiberties Union announced a legalchallenge last week to one suchlaw in Ohio, there was no mentionof the word “heartbeat” in thenews release, which referred tothe law instead as “a ban on al-most all abortions.” In Georgia,Stacey Abrams, a Democrat whonarrowly lost the governor’s racelast year, called the measure inher state a “forced pregnancybill.” A sign at a protest against thelaw in Atlanta this week turnedthe idea into a slogan: “NOFORCED BIRTHS.”
The battle over abortion haslong been shaped by language. Af-ter abortion opponents coined the“pro-life” phrase in the 1960s toemphasize what they saw as thehumanity of the fetus, supportersof abortion cast themselves as“pro-choice” to stress a woman’sright to make decisions about herbody. In the mid-1990s, the term
How PhrasingHas IntensifiedAbortion Battle
By AMY HARMON
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KASHGAR, China — A God’s-eye view of Kashgar, an ancientcity in western China, flashed ontoa wall-size screen, with colorfulicons marking police stations,checkpoints and the locations ofrecent security incidents. At theclick of a mouse, a technician ex-plained, the police can pull up livevideo from any surveillance cam-era or take a closer look at anyonepassing through one of the thou-sands of checkpoints in the city.
To demonstrate, she showedhow the system could retrieve thephoto, home address and officialidentification number of a womanwho had been stopped at a check-point on a major highway. The sys-tem sifted through billions ofrecords, then displayed details ofher education, family ties, links toan earlier case and recent visits toa hotel and an internet cafe.
The simulation, presented at anindustry fair in China, offered arare look at a system that nowpeers into nearly every corner ofXinjiang, the troubled regionwhere Kashgar is located.
This is the vision of high-techsurveillance — precise, all-seeing,infallible — that China’s leadersare investing billions of dollars inevery year, making Xinjiang an in-cubator for increasingly intrusivepolicing systems that couldspread across the country and be-yond.
It is also a vision that some ofPresident Trump’s aides have be-gun citing in a push for tougher ac-tion against Chinese companies inthe intensifying trade war. Be-yond concerns about market bar-riers, theft and national security,they argue that China is usingtechnology to strengthen authori-tarianism at home and abroad —and that the United States muststop it.
Developed and sold by theChina Electronics TechnologyCorporation, a state-run defensemanufacturer, the system inKashgar is on the cutting edge of
China ImposesA Spying StateIn Its Far West
Monitoring of MuslimsWith a Virtual Cage
By CHRIS BUCKLEYand PAUL MOZUR
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The elections for the European Parlia-ment come in a nationalist, populisttime, when a battle is being fought overthe soul of the Continent. PAGE A4
INTERNATIONAL A4-14
Europe’s Murky FutureA former New York City detective hasadmitted his role in a brothel and gam-bling ring and could get 12 years inprison. PAGE A24
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Brothel Ringleader in Plea DealA federal judge in California found thatthe chip-making giant charged cell-phone makers “onerous” fees for theuse of its patents. The company said itwould appeal the ruling. PAGE B1
BUSINESS B1-8
Ruling Against Qualcomm
Andrew Yang has made his Taiwanese-American ethnicity a central part of hiscampaign for president. PAGE A16
NATIONAL A16-23
‘Opposite of Donald Trump’Quentin Tarantino’s Manson-themed“Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood”plays like a love letter to the film indus-try, Manohla Dargis writes. PAGE C1
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Paying Homage to Hollywood
Sarah Vowell PAGE A33
EDITORIAL, OP-ED A32-33
Keith Bush always insisted he did notkill a girl when he was 17. At age 62, hehas been exonerated. PAGE 29
Cleared of Murder
On Jan. 3, St. Louis had the worstrecord in the N.H.L. Now the Blues willplay for the Stanley Cup. PAGE B9
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Hockey’s Turnaround ArtistsInvestigators could not be sure if apicture from a 1984 yearbook reallyshowed Virginia’s governor. PAGE A23
No Answers on Racist Photo
American officials backed off an earlierState Department announcement thatwarned of new chemical attacks by theSyrian government. PAGE A14
Looking for Evidence in Syria
Researchers pinpointed two industrialprovinces in the eastern part of thecountry as the primary source of emis-sions of a banned gas. PAGE A8
China Blamed for Ozone Harm
... You can’t investigate andlegislate simultaneously - itjust doesn’t work that way.You can’t go down twotracks at the same time. LetChuck, Nancy, Jerry, Adamand all of the rest finishplaying their games ...
Donald J. Trump@RealDonaldTrump
This article is by Emily Flitter,Jesse McKinley, David Enrich andNicholas Fandos.
WASHINGTON — Harriet Tub-man — former slave, abolitionist,“conductor” on the UndergroundRailroad — will not become theface of the $20 bill until after Presi-dent Trump leaves office, Treas-ury Secretary Steven Mnuchinsaid Wednesday.
Plans to unveil the Tubman billin 2020, an Obama administrationinitiative, would be postponed un-til at least 2026, Mr. Mnuchin said,and the bill itself would not likelybe in circulation until 2028.
Until then, bills with formerPresident Andrew Jackson’s facewill continue to pour out ofA.T.M.s and fill Americans’ wal-lets.
Mr. Mnuchin, concerned thatthe president might create an up-roar by canceling the new bill alto-gether, was eager to delay its re-design until Mr. Trump was out ofoffice, some senior Treasury De-partment officials have said. As apresidential candidate in 2016, Mr.Trump criticized the Obama ad-ministration’s plans for the bill.
That April, Mr. Trump called thechange “pure political correct-ness” and suggested that Tub-man, whom he praised, could beadded to a far less common de-nomination, like the $2 bill. “An-drew Jackson had a great history,and I think it’s very rough when
Tubman as New Face of $20 Bill?Not Before President Exits Office
By ALAN RAPPEPORT
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GO-SLOW STRATEGY The Housespeaker pushed back at the presi-dent. News Analysis. PAGE A21
Thomas Silverstein, a killer and whitesupremacist, was in solitary confine-ment for 36 years. He was 67. PAGE A30
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