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VOL. CLXIX ... No. 58,504 © 2019 Company NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2019 $3.00 A Cornerstone GIULIANI LED PUSH Of the G.O.P. TO SWAY UKRAINE, Turns Wobbly TOP WITNESS SAID Voters in the Suburbs Tilt to the Democrats TESTIMONY BY DIPLOMAT

This article is by Trip Gabriel, Jon- athan Martin and Alexander Burns. House’s Public Hearings RICHMOND, Va. — For the on Impeachment Are second Election Day in as many years, suburban voters demon- Set for Next Week strated enormous political power in electing or aiding Democratic candidates in historically Republi- By NICHOLAS FANDOS can areas, underscoring the drift WASHINGTON — The top of many moderate voters from the American diplomat in Ukraine G.O.P. in the era of President identified Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump. President Trump’s personal law- In the Virginia suburbs of Nor- yer, as the instigator behind the folk, Richmond, and Washington, drive to get Ukraine’s president to Democratic candidates flipped six announce investigations into Mr. legislative seats from Republican Trump’s political rivals, telling im- control on Tuesday — crucial peachment investigators last gains that helped Democrats take month that Mr. Giuliani was act- control of both chambers of the ing on behalf of the president. legislature and put state govern- ment under one-party control for House Democrats on Wednes- the first time in a generation. day released a transcript of the Many Democrats ran on gun con- private testimony by the diplo- trol issues and other local con- mat, William B. Taylor Jr., as they cerns, but also excoriated Mr. named him as the first of several Trump’s conduct in office. witnesses who will testify publicly next week in a slate of impeach- BRITTANY GREESON FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES In suburbs around Philadel- ment hearings. They will begin Nakiya Wakes’s son, Jaylon, has had 30 suspensions. “Soon, you’re going to have to suspend the whole school system,” she said. phia, which were battlegrounds in the 2016 election and will be again laying out a case that Mr. Trump in 2020, Democrats notched his- abused his office to secure politi- toric wins. They defeated the last cal favors from Ukraine. Republicans on the five-seat Dela- Lawmakers plan to question A Legacy of Poisoned Water: ‘Damaged Kids’ Fill Flint’s Schools ware County Council, in a suburb Mr. Taylor and George P. Kent, a that kept electing Republicans to senior American diplomat who schools, receive 30 suspensions began rising four years ago, when local offices while rejecting many and rack up 70 unexcused ab- the water contamination became By ERICA L. GREEN Republican statewide candidates, sences. In one of Ms. Wakes’s High Rates of A.D.H.D. public, bolstering a class-action and they took control of the board FLINT, Mich. — Nakiya Wakes clashes with Flint Community and Autism, and a lawsuit that demanded more re- of commissioners in Bucks could not understand how her Schools, she delivered a warning sources for Flint’s children. County for the first time since the wiry, toothy-grinned 6-year-old to administrators: “You can’t Cloud of Stigma That lawsuit forced the state to 1980s. had gone from hyperactive one keep suspending him because establish the $3 million Neurode- And in the Kentucky governor’s school year to what teachers de- soon, you’re going to have to sus- velopmental Center of Excellence, race on Tuesday, Democrats car- scribed as hysterical the next. pend the whole school system.” which began screening students. ried the home counties of Lou- Then, in 2015, the state of Michi- Five years after Michigan whelm the education system. The screenings then confirmed a isville and Lexington by nearly gan delivered a diagnosis of sorts: switched Flint’s water supply to The contamination of this long- range of disabilities, which have triple the margin they ran up in Ms. Wakes’s neighborhood’s wa- the lead-saturated Flint River struggling city’s water exposed prompted still more requests for the 2015 governor’s race. Four ter — which her son, Jaylon, had from Lake Huron, the city’s lead nearly 30,000 schoolchildren to a intervention. years ago, too, the Republican been drinking and bathing in for crisis has migrated from its neurotoxin known to have detri- The percentage of the city’s stu- candidate for governor, Matt Bev- more than a year — was saturated homes to its schools, where neuro- mental effects on children’s devel- dents who qualify for special edu- in, carried the conservative Ken- ANNA MONEYMAKER/THE NEW YORK TIMES with lead, at some of the highest logical and behavioral problems oping brains and nervous sys- cation services has nearly dou- tucky suburbs south of Cincin- levels in the city. — real or feared — among stu- tems. Requests for special educa- bled, to 28 percent, from 15 per- nati; this time around, two of William B. Taylor Jr., the top Jaylon would cycle through two dents are threatening to over- tion or behavioral interventions Continued on Page A14 those three counties broke for the American envoy to Ukraine. Democratic candidate, Andy Beshear. oversees policy in the region, dur- Mr. Bevin, who was on the ballot ing a televised joint session on this week seeking a second term Wednesday. Then on Friday, they Authorities Say as governor, is now about 5,000 will hear from Marie L. votes behind Mr. Beshear, who Yovanovitch, the former Ameri- 2 Inside has claimed victory. Mr. Bevin on can ambassador to Ukraine, about Wednesday formally asked state her abrupt recall to Washington officials to undertake a check and this spring amid a campaign to Spied for Saudis recanvass of the voting machines smear her as disloyal. and absentee ballots in the race, citing “irregularities” without The announcement, after six This article is by Kate Conger, providing details. weeks of fact-finding that largely Mike Isaac, Katie Benner and For Mr. Trump and other Re- took place in the Intelligence Nicole Perlroth. publican leaders, the ongoing po- Committee’s secure chambers, SAN FRANCISCO — Ali Alz- litical realignment of the suburbs was a sign that Democrats now abarah was an engineer who rose — which was essential to Demo- feel they have assembled a strong through the ranks at Twitter to a crats’ flipping Republican-held Continued on Page A18 job that gave him access to per- congressional seats in 2018 and sonal information and account retaking the House — is a discon- data of the service’s certing disadvantage that they STONE’S TRIAL OPENS Records millions of users. have shown little ability to re- suggested a closer link between Ahmad Abouammo was a me- verse. Democratic officials, in President Trump and an effort to dia partnerships manager at the Continued on Page A11 obtain stolen emails. PAGE A17 company who could see the email addresses and phone numbers of Twitter accounts. On Wednesday, the Justice De- partment accused the two men of Trump’s Online War Room Aims using their positions and their ac- cess to Twitter’s internal systems Its Spears at Decorated Colonel to aid Saudi Arabia by obtaining ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA/REUTERS information on American citizens King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun of Thailand in Bangkok last month. and Saudi dissidents who opposed the policies of the kingdom and its By MIKE McINTIRE and NICHOLAS CONFESSORE leaders. Days after a decorated Army commentator Jack Posobiec had The two men, Mr. Alzabarah lieutenant colonel offered damag- retweeted a lengthy thread by a and Mr. Abouammo, were Purging Palace of ‘Evil,’ Thai King Bolsters Rule ing testimony about President Florida man — a fan of QAnon, a charged with acting as agents of a Trump’s conduct on a July phone fringe conspiracy about the “deep foreign power inside the United then the 67-year-old king has as- call with Ukraine’s leader, Mr. state” — claiming to have wit- States, in the first complaint of its By HANNAH BEECH Scandals and Ousters sembled a court whose intrigue kind involving Saudis in the coun- frequently spills onto the pages of Trump stood on the South Lawn nessed Colonel Vindman “bash BANGKOK — The denuncia- the Royal Thai Government Ga- and issued a vague but ominous America” in conversation with try. The case raised questions tions have swirled through Thai- Fit for a Tabloid zette, which normally records warning. Russian officers during a joint mil- about the security of American land’s gilded palaces with the more anodyne matters. “You’ll be seeing very soon itary exercise in Germany in 2013. technology companies already rhetorical extravagance of a what comes out,” Mr. Trump said That accusation was unsub- under scrutiny for spreading dis- Shakespearean history. The explosive details of the pal- And last week, four more court- on Saturday, referring to the offi- stantiated and has been rejected information and influencing pub- The official consort to the king ace purges stand in contrast to the iers, two of whom were described by some of the colonel’s col- lic opinion, showing that these was accused of trying to upstage reserved tenor of the seven-dec- cer, Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vind- leagues. Even so, Mr. Posobiec’s firms can be penetrated from the the queen and “undermining the as bedchamber pages, were re- ade reign of King Bhumibol man. inside as well. nation,” leading to the stripping of moved for “extremely evil mis- Adulyadej, his father. At the time Mr. Trump was not more spe- post was retweeted by Mr. It also underscored the broad her royal titles after less than conduct.” of his death in 2016, King Bhumi- cific. But an attack on Colonel Vin- Trump’s son and chief defender, effort that Crown Prince Moham- three months on the job. Nearly half a year ago, King bol was the world’s longest-serv- dman’s character and motives Jr., driving it med bin Salman of Saudi Arabia A grand chamberlain was re- Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodin- ing royal. He did not leave Thai- was already making its way from through conservative social me- and his close advisers have con- moved for “severely immoral dradebayavarangkun was land for decades, and he was often the dark corners of Mr. Trump’s dia circles and onto pro-Trump ducted to silence critics both in- acts” that allegedly included forc- crowned in a lavish spectacle cul- pictured in rice paddies or fac- social media following to the front websites, whose stories the side the kingdom and abroad. Ja- ing a paramour to undergo an minating in the placement of a 16- tories with his subjects. lines of the impeachment battle. younger Mr. Trump promoted to Continued on Page A15 abortion. pound crown on his head. Since Continued on Page A6 One day earlier, the right-wing Continued on Page A18

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