Trump’s modus operandi is revealed. I love this: President Trump boasted in a fundraising speech Wednesday that he made up information in a meeting with the leader of a top U.S. ally, saying he insisted to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the United States runs a trade deficit with its neighbor to the north without knowing whether that was true. … Read More
The House Intelligence Committee Has, After A 14 Month Long In-Depth Investigation, Found No Evidence Of Collusion Or Coordination Between The Trump Campaign And Russia To Influence The 2016 Presidential Election
Or, as Trump would put it… Yup. And except for the word “in-depth”, I guess what he tweets is true. (Well, also, the committee only worked six months out of the “14 month long” investigation) While special counsel Robert Mueller’s work may seem to be reaching a boiling point, the House Intelligence Committee as thrown in the towel, as far … Read More
Rexit (and Pompin)
And now, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is out. To show you how ineffective this White House is, there isn’t a straight story about when/how this occurred. The news reported Tillerson found out due to a tweet, according to Steve Goldstein, undersecretary for public diplomacy: Rex Tillerson found out he was fired by President Trump’s tweet on Tuesday morning, according … Read More
Breaking: Package Bombs in Austin Texas
This morning, a package exploded inside of an Austin home, killing a teenager and wounding a woman. The woman is expected to survive. Austin police believe the explosion was linked to a similar bombing on March 2, when a 39-year-old man was killed when a package exploded. All the victims were black. As this news was coming out, yet a THIRD … Read More
Moments From Sec of Education Betsy Devos’ Crash-And-Burn Interview On 60 Minutes
Sec. of Education Betsy DeVos struggles to answer fairly basic questions on school performance on 60 Minutes pic.twitter.com/lFVq3USwUW — Axios (@axios) March 12, 2018 Will Secretary DeVos scrap Obama-era “guidance on how to identify, avoid, and remedy discriminatory discipline”? “We’re studying it carefully,” the secretary tells 60 Minutes. pic.twitter.com/RiQKyenMQB — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) March 11, 2018 Reactions: MAGA people are … Read More
Stormy Daniels Offers to Return Payment to End Deal for Her Silence
This is cute and clever. Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says she had an affair with President Trump, offered to return $130,000 she received from Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer in 2016 for agreeing not to discuss the alleged relationship. In exchange, the actress (aka Stephanie Clifford) seeks an end to her deal to keep quiet about what she says was … Read More
Weekly List 69
This week, Trump acted like a dictator, taking policy matters into his own hands. After praising China’s President Xi for ending term limits, Trump took controversial actions, imposing tariffs and setting up a meeting with Kim Jong-un — both against his party’s positions, and taken after foregoing or ignoring experts’ and allies’ advice. Amid record turnover, Trump’s inner-circle continues to shrink, which … Read More
Breaking: Shots Fired At Yountvile (Napa Valley, California) Veterans’ Home; Hostages Taken
Here we go again: The time of those tweets (2:18 pm, 2:16 pm, and 2:04 pm) are EST (my time), but it is 3 hours earlier in California where this is taking place. Here are the early details: YOUNTVILLE (KRON) – The Veterans Home of California Yountville is on lock down Friday morning after reports of an active shooter who is holding 3 … Read More
Trump’s Lawyer Used Trump.Org Emails To Negotiate Payment To Porn Star
NBC: President Donald Trump’s personal attorney used his Trump Organization email while arranging to transfer money into an account at a Manhattan bank before he wired $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence. The lawyer, Michael Cohen, also regularly used the same email account during 2016 negotiations with the actress — whose legal name is Stephanie … Read More
Trump To Meet With N. Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un
Flashback: I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man… — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2017 Flashforward to present The White House didn’t make the announcement. It was made by the South Korean envoys on the White House driveway (this Administration really can’t do PR … Read More
This is torn from the blog of John Bambenek, a security analyst and Republican candidate for Illinois State Senate, about his conversations with Guccifer 2.0 (G2). The post is entitled MY CONVERSATIONS WITH GUCCIFER 2.0 & THE SURPRISING ELECTION INFLUENCE OPERATIONS. As attention turns to threats facing 2018’s midterm elections, we’re learning hard lessons from what went down in 2016. (Plus, … Read More
Trump Talks To Witnesses Who Talked To Mueller
For a man unconcerned about Russia collusion, Trump seems very concerned. This reminds me of Nixon, who just COULD NOT keep Watergate off his mind and meddled in it to the point that he became part of it. New York Times tells us: The special counsel in the Russia investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which … Read More
A New Russia Collusion Angle: George Nader
Last night the New York Times reported that George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who advises Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates, is cooperating with the Mueller investigation and gave testimony last week to a grand jury. The reason why this is significant is that Nader was actually present at two meetings that could be key in proving that … Read More
Mueller’s Legal Theory
I am uploading this essay by Ben Wittes and Emma Kohse on where Mueller is going with his latest indictment. Briefly, he has taken the abstract word “collusion” — a word Trump and others use, but is legally meaningless to Mueller and other legal eagles — and pinned several statutes to it, most notably 18 U.S.C. §371, the conspiracy statute. It applies … Read More