SPORTS | B1 LOCAL & STATE | A3 CHASE ELLIOTT LAKE COUNTY HANGS ON FOR SHELTER WILL FIRST NASCAR TACKLE FERAL CUP VICTORY CAT PROBLEM Monday, August 6, 2018 YOUR LOCAL SOURCE FOR LAKE & SUMTER COUNTIES @dailycommercial Facebook.com/daily.commercial 75¢ Trump concedes purpose of ’16 meeting President on Twitter that the 2016 Trump Tower Robert Mueller’s ongoing the meeting my wonderful the president read: “We pri- acknowledges meeting between a Kremlin- investigation into possible son, Donald, had in Trump marily discussed a program meeting between son, connected lawyer and his son links between the president’s Tower,” Trump wrote. “This about the adoption of Rus- Russian lawyer was was to collect information campaign and Russia. Trump was a meeting to get infor- sian children that was active ‘to get information on about his political opponent, unleashed particularly fury mation on an opponent, and popular with American an opponent’ casting new light on a moment at reports that he was anx- totally legal and done all the families years ago.” central to the special coun- ious about the Trump Tower time in politics — and it went But since then, the story By Jonathan Lemire sel’s Russia probe. meeting attended by Donald nowhere. I did not know about about the meeting has The Associated Press Trump, amid a series of Trump Jr. and other senior it!” changed several times, searing tweets sent from his campaign officials. But 13 months ago, Trump eventually forced by the dis- BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — New Jersey golf club, tore “Fake News reporting, gave a far different explana- covery of emails between the President Donald Trump into two of his favorite tar- a complete fabrication, tion for the meeting. A July on Sunday acknowledged gets, the news media and that I am concerned about 2017 statement dictated by See TRUMP, A8 LOCAL & STATE | A3 LEESBURG DeSantis cashes in HAS LONG HAD A NEED FOR HOTEL ROOMS Texas Republicans squelch ‘red fl ag’ gun law prospects By Jim Vertuno improve campus security in The Associated Press response to the deadly May attack at a Houston-area high AUSTIN, Texas — Texas school that left eight students schools have been adding and two teachers dead. metal detectors and armed personnel in an effort to See GUNS, A6 Ron DeSantis, Republican candidate for Florida governor, speaks at a rally with President Donald Trump in Tampa on Tuesday. Trump’s support has brought in waves of campaign cash for DeSantis from national donors. [DAN WAGNER/GATEHOUSE MEDIA] Trump’s backing nationwide. of Marvel Entertainment. brings national funding Trump’s early morning Other big GOP contribu- for GOP hopeful tweet June 22 — saying that tors also are getting on board DeSantis “will be a Great with Trump’s formal backing By John Kennedy Governor & has my full of the Palm Coast congress- GateHouse Capital Bureau Endorsement” — swiftly lead man over Republican rival to $500,000 in contributions Adam Putnam in the Aug. 28 TALLAHASSEE — Presi- from the GOP’s single biggest primary, turning the usual in- dent Donald Trump’s spenders, Las Vegas casino state focus of the governor’s endorsement of Republican magnate Sheldon Adelson and contest into a national affair. Ron DeSantis for Florida his wife, Miriam. Even former Gov. Jeb Bush, governor included not only Another $500,000 also the son of one president and In this May 18 photo, law enforcement offi cers respond to a massive rally in Tampa last arrived last month from Laura the brother of another, relied Santa Fe High School after an active shooter was reported on week — it also brought a fresh Perlmutter, a Trump inaugu- chiefly on Florida financing campus in Santa Fe, Texas. [STEVE GONZALES/HOUSTON CHRONICLE torrent of cash to the cam- ration committee member, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO] paign from top GOP donors whose husband, Ike, is chair See DESANTIS, A8 Slow rollout, more fi ne print with Trump health care options By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar about his new health care new plans and get approval For people who need an Short-term, limited-dura- The Associated Press options and “millions and from state regulators, and two individual policy and are tion insurance— just approved millions” of people will be major industry groups have anticipating cheaper plans — and association health WASHINGTON — Presi- signing up. actually expressed concern this fall, the advice seems to plans represent the Trump dent Donald Trump says But insurance companies about potential downsides for be: Look carefully and read insurers are “going wild” say it will take time to design consumers. the fine print. See HEALTH, A6 VOLUME 142, ISSUE 218 Local and State ............. 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ROME Halfway through summer, Rome gets riverside beach Summer’s half over, but the people of Rome finally have their Debris lies on top of motorcycles Sunday after an earthquake in Bali, Indonesia. A strong earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island beach along the Tiber River. of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 82 people and shaking neighboring Bali, one week after another quake on Lombok killed more than The artificial beach officially a dozen. [FIRDIA LISNAWATI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS] was inaugurated on Friday. But thunderstorms and uncom- pleted details kept Romans waiting until Sunday for a full day of sunbathing and beach Powerful quake rocks Indonesia volleyball near Marconi Bridge. Rome’s populist mayor, Virginia Raggi, promised the Second earthquake On Lombok, soldiers and “I was watching TV when I the director general of civil riverside strand months ago. hits tourist island of other rescuers carried felt a big shake,” said Harian, aviation. There had been a Admission is free, and the beach Lombok, one week injured people on stretchers a Lombok woman who uses half-hour evacuation at the is set to be open until October. aft er fi rst; 82 dead and carpets to an evacuation one name. “The lamp was Lombok airport following Critics say the sand and lounge center. shaking, and people were the quake because the elec- chairs are so far away from the By Ros Idin National Disaster Miti- shouting ‘Get out.’ I ran out tricity went off. TV showed heart of the Italian capital, resi- and Ali Kotarumalos gation Agency spokesman into the dark because the crying women consoling dents might as well travel a little The Associated Press Sutopo Purwo Nugroho power cut off.” each other outside Lombok’s farther to swim in the Mediter- said the toll had risen 82 A tsunami warning was airport. ranean Sea at Ostia. MATARAM, Indonesia with hundreds others were lifted after waves just 15 cen- The island was already — A powerful earthquake injured. Earlier officials said timeters (6 inches) high were reeling from a magnitude MOGADISHU, SOMALIA struck the Indonesian tourist at least 39 people had died. recorded in three villages, 6.4 quake on July 29, which Two car bomb blasts island of Lombok on Sunday, A total of 65 of the deaths said Dwikorita Karnawati, killed 16 people. kill six in Somalia killing at least 82 people and in North Lombok district, the head of Indonesia’s Like Bali, Lombok is shaking neighboring Bali, nine in West Lombok dis- Meteorology, Climatology known for pristine beaches Two car bombs hit Somalia on one week after another quake trict, four in the provincial and Geophysics Agency. and mountains. Hotels Sunday, killing six people. on Lombok killed more than capital Mataram and two The quake was felt strongly and other buildings in both Somalia’s Islamic extremist a dozen. each in Central Lombok across Lombok and Bali and locations are not allowed to rebels claimed responsibility for The latest quake, which and East Lombok districts, had damaged houses on both exceed the height of coconut the first suicide car bomb blast triggered a brief tsunami Nugroho said. islands, Nugroho said. trees. that that killed four people when warning, damaged buildings Thousands of houses were Frightened people poured Indonesia is prone to it exploded near the gate of a as far away as Denpasar on damaged, and most of the out of their homes to move earthquakes because of its military base in Afgoye town, 18 Bali, including a department dead victims were hit by col- to higher ground, particu- location on the Pacific “Ring miles northwest of Mogadishu. store and the airport termi- lapsed houses, Nugroho said. larly in North Lombok and of Fire,” an arc of volca- Al-Shabab has claimed the nal, where ceiling panels The quake, recorded at Mataram, the capital of West noes and fault lines in the responsibility for the attack, were shaken loose, authori- magnitude 7.0 by the U.S. Nusa Tenggara province, Pacific Basin. In December according to the group’s radio ties said. Geological Survey, struck said Iwan Asmara, a Lombok 2004, a massive magnitude arm, Andalus. Video showed screaming early Sunday evening at a disaster official.