Hell freezes over as Jim Acosta, Joe Scarborough praise Trump's D-Day speech - Fox News

President Trump’s speech on Thursday honoring the brave Allied fighters who "stood in the fires of hell" on the 75th anniversary of D-Day drew unexpected acclaim from two of his biggest mainstream media critics: CNN’s Jim Acosta and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.

“This is perhaps the most on-message moment of Donald Trump’s presidency today. We were all wondering if he would veer from his remarks, go off of his script but he stayed on script, stayed on message and, I think, rose to the moment,” Acosta said on CNN immediately following the speech.

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The CNN White House reporter is often combative with Trump and members of his administration but praised Trump’s remark that the men who stormed the beach are among the greatest Americans who have ever lived.

“That could not be more of a fact check true,” Acosta said. “It was really one of those moments that Donald Trump needed to rise to in order to, I think, walk away from the cemetery, walk away from this hallowed ground and have people back at home saying, ‘You know what, no matter what I think about the current president of the United States, he said the right thing at Normandy. He did the right thing at Normandy.’”

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Even Jim Acosta and Joe Scarborough complimented President Trump’s D-Day anniversary speech.

Acosta then said Trump “hit all of the right moments” when paying respect to the D-Day heroes.

Over on MSNBC, recurrent Trump critic Scarborough echoed Acosta’s thoughts.

“[Trump] delivered what, again, I believe is the strongest speech of his presidency,” Scarborough said, noting that it was a “beautiful moment” when Trump acknowledged that many of the troops feel the “heroes were the ones that never came back” but the survivors formed a remarkable generation.

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Viewers on the pair of liberal networks were presumably shocked, as Acosta and Scarborough typically condemn Trump’s every step. Acosta even has a book coming out titled, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America,” which is billed as “an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers [Acosta] faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth” as “public enemy number one.”

Acosta, who has raised eyebrows inside CNN for blurring the line between reporter and pundit, was recently named the media member who “hates” Trump the most by “Unmasked — Big Media's War Against Trump” authors L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham of the Media Research Center.

“He would proudly wear the moniker of the face of the Resistance if it was bestowed on him by us, but we won’t do that. No man in the world of journalism has made a mockery of his profession quite like this man,” Bozell and Graham wrote.

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” duo Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski share the second spot on the list of media members who clearly loathe the president. The married co-hosts were famously tight with Trump before eventually turning on him. They now criticize the president on a regular basis, but Scarborough had nothing but positive remarks about Trump’s D-Day speech.

Fox News’ Bradford Betz contributed to this report.

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Trump, Macron mark D-Day 75th anniversary at Normandy - ABC News

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German Nurse Niels Högel Convicted of Murdering 85 Patients - TIME

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German nurse who killed at least 85 patients jailed for life - CNN

Niels Hoegel, a 42-year-old former nurse who is considered Germany's deadliest post-war serial killer, was sentenced to life in prison at the District Court of Oldenburg.

While summing up the trial, the judge said Hoegel's actions were "incomprehensible: That's the word that characterizes this."

The health worker had previously confessed to killing 100 patients -- aged between 34 and 96 years old -- at two hospitals in northern Germany between 2000 and 2005. However Hoegel was acquitted of 15 cases on Thursday because there was not enough evidence.

Hoegel was accused of giving his victims various non-prescribed drugs, in an attempt to show off his resuscitation skills to colleagues and fight off boredom.

In past hearings, Hoegel said he felt euphoric when he managed to bring a patient back to life, and devastated when he failed.

Police suspect the true death toll may be as high as 200, but can't be certain as many patients were cremated before autopsies could be performed, reported Agence France-Presse news (AFP) agency.

The former nurse is already serving a life sentence for six convictions, including homicide and attempted homicide in 2008 and 2015. Those convictions led authorities to investigate hundreds of deaths and exhume the bodies of former patients in the clinics where he worked.

Hoegel asked his victims' families for forgiveness on Wednesday for his "horrible acts."

"I would like to sincerely apologize for everything I did to you over the course of years," he said during the hearing, AFP reported.

'Collective amnesia'

One of the biggest questions in the case is how Hoegel was able to murder so many people apparently under the watch of hospital staff.

Former colleagues at the Delmenhorst clinic where he worked admitted to having had their suspicions about Hoegel, according to AFP. But all the staff from the other hospital in Oldenburg who testified said they were oblivious to the rising death toll.

During sentencing Judge Sebastian Buehrmann criticized what he called staff's "collective amnesia," adding that Hoegel's killing spree was "incomprehensible."

About 126 relatives of the victims are co-plaintiffs in the trial, which has been running since October 2018.

CNN's Atika Shubert contributed to this story.

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2019-06-06 11:55:00Z
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D-Day 75th anniversary marked by Trump and world leaders: Live updates - CNN

Donald Trump greets veterans before starting his speech.  MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

US President Donald Trump singled out another veteran, Private Pickett, describing his ordeal on the beaches at Normandy.

"And today, believe it or not, he has returned to these shores to be with his comrades. Private Pickett, you honor us all with you presence," Trump said.

Private Pickett then rose to a huge round of applause, before Trump walked over to hug him. "Tough guy," Trump said, after returning to the podium.

"Today, America embraces the French people, and thanks you for honoring our beloved dead," Trump went on. "To all of our friends and partners, our cherished alliance was forged in the heat of battle, tested in the trials of war, and proven in the blessings of peace. Our bond is unbreakable."

He turned back to US troops who took part in the Normandy landings. "They were fathers who would never meet their infant sons and daughters, because they had a job to do -- and with God as their witness, they were going to get it done."

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Three Americans checked into a resort on the same day and died within a week. Now their families want answers - CNN

Suddenly, she felt ill after a drink from the minibar, family spokesman Jay McDonald told CNN affiliate WFMZ. Shortly after, she collapsed and died.

Schaup-Werner is one of three Americans who've mysteriously died within a week at a resort in the Caribbean nation.

Five days later, Maryland couple Edward Nathaniel Holmes, 63, and Cynthia Ann Day, 49, missed their scheduled checkout time at another hotel at the same resort. When hotel employees checked on them, they were dead, police said.

'We just want to understand this'

Hotel workers found Holmes and Day on May 30. They checked into the hotel on May 25 -- the same day as Schaup-Werner and her husband, Dan Werner, who were celebrating their wedding anniversary.

"The bizarre issue of the same hotel and these things happening within days of each other and the complete unexpected nature of what happened to Miranda, we just want to understand this," McDonald told the affiliate.

"At one point, she was sitting there happily smiling and taking pictures and the next moment she was in acute pain and called out for Dan and she collapsed."

Holmes' daughter said she wants the mystery of her father's death solved.

"It should have never happened," Dajuan Holmes-Hamilton said.

Taxi driver says victim appeared happy

A taxi driver who picked up Schaup-Werner and her husband from Santo Domingo Airport and dropped them off at the resort told CNN the couple appeared happy and tipped generously.

The driver, who did not want to be identified, said the trip took 40 minutes from the airport to the hotel. Once they arrived, he helped them with their luggage and took off.

Days later, the driver said, he went to pick them up for their return trip back to the airport, and was told they'd checked out.

He found out Schaup-Werner had died from the news, he said.

Maryland couple took part in other activities

Holmes and Day were from Prince George's County, and were supposed to fly back home the day they were found.

They'd spent several days in the Dominican Republic taking part in several activities. Three days before they were found dead, they went on an excursion to Isla Saona, according to Bahia Principe Hotel. The hotel also believes the couple visited the capital of Santo Domingo because a bag from a pharmacy there was found in the room.

Days before their deaths, Holmes posted Facebook photos of him and Day enjoying their time in open waters.

"Boat ride of a lifetime!!!" one caption said.

Authorities give more details

The bodies of all three Americans were transported to forensic science institutes in the the nation for examinations, officials said.

In the case of Schaup-Werner, paramedics provided first aid, but she died in the room, according to Col. Frank Felix Durán Mejia of the Dominican Republic National Police. Her cause of death has not been determined, and a toxicology report is pending, but no violence was involved, the police official said.

Prosecutors are investigating the circumstances of her death, the nation's attorney general's office said Wednesday.

As for Day and Holmes, police said an autopsy concluded the couple had respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, an abnormal buildup of fluid in the lungs.

Blood pressure medications were found in the room, along with three medications, including an opioid and an anti-inflammatory, according to police and the attorney general.

Resort's information differs from officials

The resort operator, Bahia Principe Hotels & Resorts, said it followed all security protocols. There are no indications of any connection between the two cases, it said.

Authorities did not provide a cause of death in Schaup-Werner's case. However, the resort said it "was determined to be a heart attack." It said her husband provided statements saying she had a history of heart conditions.

McDonald said Schaup-Werner was treated for a heart condition 15 years ago but had not had more recent issues.

"She had been seemingly healthy. He was not aware of anything going on with her health," he told the affiliate.

And while police told CNN on Monday that Day and Holmes died as a result of respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, the hotel said Wednesday that their cause of death has not been determined.

"The case of Mr. Holmes and Ms. Day remains under investigation by the authorities with the results of toxicology tests still pending," the resort operator said. "We disapprove of any conjecture on possible causes of death and urge all to respect the families while the investigation is ongoing."

It said Schaup-Werner was at the Bahia Principe Bouganville while Holmes and Day were at Bahia Principe La Romana.

Millions of Americans visit the Caribbean nation

Tourism is a key part of the nation's economy, and its coastal resorts are a popular choice for travelers.

The tourism industry made up more than 17% of the country's economy last year, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.

In 2018, about 6.5 million tourists visited the Dominican Republic, more than any other Caribbean nation, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The country attracted 2.2 million tourists from the United States, which is more than any other country in the region.

Forty-eight Americans died in the Dominican Republic between 2016 to 2018. The deaths were a result of several things, including drowning, homicide, suicide, vehicle or other types of accidents, the State Department said.

New York couple killed in a crash

The three recent deaths happened a few months after a car crash in the Dominican Republic killed two other Americans.

In March, a car carrying New York tourists Orlando Moore and Portia Ravenelle plunged into the Caribbean after the pair left for the Santo Domingo airport to catch a flight home, the nation's police said. The body of Moore, 40, was found at sea, authorities said.

Fishermen found Ravenelle, 52, and took her to the hospital, but she died days later.

CNN's Rosa Flores reported from the Dominican Republic and Faith Karimi wrote and reported from Atlanta. CNN's Jamiel Lynch, Kevin Conlon and Jason Hanna contributed to this report.

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World War II Paratrooper Recounts Parachuting Into Normandy On D-Day - NPR

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Retired Pvt. Leslie P. Cruise, 95, remembers June 6, 1944 clearly. Standing at the airplane's edge, preparing to jump onto the enemy lines of Normandy on D-Day, fear didn't occur to him.

"It was very moving and exciting," Cruise tells NPR's Noel King. "We fly over the channel, you can look out the window and see the silhouettes of the ships. We know what's going to happen now; we've talked about it but look at all those ships down there, my gosh."

The nonagenarian, who joined the military in 1943, is one of the last surviving paratroopers from World War II. Were it not for Cruise and the success of his division, the 82^nd Airborne, the course of history might have looked remarkably different.

Four years prior to Cruise's enlistment, Adolf Hitler began annexing land in Europe and exerting force across the continent. The D-Day operation, which took over a year to plan and became the world's largest seaborne invasion, was an attempt to block Hitler's army and reverse the direction of influence on the battlefield.

"The paratroopers played an absolutely key role on D-Day," says Keith Huxen, senior director of research and history at the World War II Museum in New Orleans. After parachuting down, they could commandeer crucial holding spots and protect the troops coming in from the beaches.

Cruise prepared to jump on the night of June 4, but the operation was delayed due to weather. The paratrooper, dressed and ready to go, slept atop his grenades until Gen. Eisenhower OK'd the mission the next day.

Crouching on the plane with his fellow paratroopers in the 505^th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Cruise readied himself.

"It was a lot of noise," he remembers. "You've got hundreds of planes one after the other – vroom, vroom! Well, there they go, we're going next," Cruise says.

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Given the greenlight to jump, he says, it was "like a slingshot out the door."

Then, he says, the parachute snapped open. "You think, 'Ah, good. That's the best feeling,'" Cruise says. "I'm not coming down at 90 miles an hour."

One of more than 13,000 American paratroopers on D-Day, Cruise survived the world's deadliest war. Almost half of the men in the 82^nd Airborne Division suffered causalities or went missing in action.

Cruise's friend Pvt. Richard Vargas was one of those who died on the battlefield. Cruise watched him die beside him during the mission. Cruise and his division were charged with liberating French towns from the Germans. They saw 33 days of severe fighting.

"His body was sacrificed for mine, simple as that," Cruise says. "So that was a traumatic experience among others but that was probably the most moving. So I always think of that as my physical salvation."

Following D-Day, Cruise parachuted into Holland for Operation Market Garden and was injured by shrapnel in Belgium. To this day Cruise still has almost a half-inch of shrapnel in his wrist, according to an interview with National Geographic, which ended his military career and sent him back to America.

He attended the University of Pennsylvania on the GI Bill and enjoyed a long career as an architect. He takes pride in his family, which includes 15 great-grandchildren.

Now seven decades removed from his service, the veteran wants to honor the legacy of his comrades-in-arms by sharing his story.

"It was them, it could have been me. But I've been blessed that way and so you have to go and account for it one day."

The number of World War II veterans who can tell their stories is shrinking rapidly. The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that 348 World War II veterans die every day.

Asked how Americans can honor veterans and commemorate D-Day, Cruise underscores civic responsibility.

"I want [people] to appreciate what history has done for them and what it has done for this country," Cruise says. "Sacrifice is not just done by the World War II generation. ... Show some citizenship."

Victoria Whitley-Berry and William Jones produced and edited this story for broadcast.

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