2016 Election

The election was between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump won the election on February 9th 2016. Donald Trump won the election by the help of a few people. He worked with experienced leaders to help him form his organization. He promised them that he will get them higher in their job but they never got anything in return.

This is why some people have trouble believing Trump on what he says, but after Trump won he met with president Obama. Obama and other people from the White House trained Trump for big choices he may have to make in the future. Even though he won and Hillary lost, they still respected him. In the meeting of Trump and Obama everything was calm. Him and Obama didn't like each other but in the meeting they had to put their past behind and focus on what the meeting was about. Donald Trump respected Obama and Obama respected Donald Trump as well. At the meeting they taught him many things of what he could do if something major happened in the future.

The CIA thinks that Russian hackers might have hacked the election and that, that made Donald Trump win. Hillary had more votes than Donald Trump at the start but then lots of people started voting or Trump. They voted for him at the electoral college, but CIA thinks students and U.S citizens may not have voted and they think it might have been some hackers but they don't have much evidence yet to prove their theory. When Donald Trump won the election he was happy and proud that he won because the whole time during the elections he's said things he's wanted to do and now he finally can. Hillary wasn't so happy. The CIA thinks hackers made Trump win but the citizens know that Hillary deleted emails. Even though all this happened people still thought Trump was the worst out of all.  The article claimed, “U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies are investigating what they see as a broad covert Russian operation in the United States to sow public distrust in the upcoming presidential election and in U.S. political institutions, intelligence and congressional officials said.” This quote shows how there was distrust in the election and in the way people think about the election. This is why it is never good to threat people like Trump has before, and it's also not a good idea to lie about deleted emails because then the citizens of the U.S won't think you're worthy enough to be the leader of the country.

                         

Nonfiction Blog

What has happened in my book so far is that some people have gone to jail for murder, robbery, and shootouts. A man named Black Jack formed a gang. That gang he formed was made to rob from trains. Black Jack was not afraid of anyone, if he had to use his gun he did it. He committed many crimes when he formed that gang. He robbed, he killed, and he got into shootouts. In one shootout that Black Jack was in, he got injured and was arrested afterwards.

The part I found interesting was the part about "Bounty hunters and thief takers." It's interesting because I never really knew that bountys existed before. "Whether bounty hunters in the American Wild West or thief takers in 18th century Britain, some people have always been ready to catch criminals for a rich reward. There were few sheriffs in the new, 19th century towns of the United States, so bounty hunters flourished as rough and ready peacekeepers." I like this little passage because it basically explains what bountys were, what you would get if you caught them. But it also said people wanted to catch them for the rich reward, which is money. So some people might have been greedy and wanted money.

One thing I've learned so far is about bountys. I learned what they are, what some did, and how people caught them. People would catch for money or because they didn't want the bounty killing people. I also learned about Black Jack. Black Jack was a criminal that formed a gang ad used them to steal gold from trains. He also murdered people and wasn't afraid of anyone.


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