What does this tweet (from 10 minutes ago) mean? First of all, I don’t think Trump gets the “Game of Thrones” reference. Secondly, what sanctions? With Election Day on November 6, this sounds like a stunt. UPDATE: Oh, okay. He’s talking about Iran sanctions. Joffrey grew up. https://t.co/hpL8fjze0j — Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) November 2, 2018 A nice retort from Game … Read More
Document Dump – Military Response To Migrant “Invasion”
Unclassified documents obtained from two Defense Department officials by Newsweek support the conclusion that the sitting president’s plan to deploy troops to the southern border to repel refugees is “a waste of time” for which there is no evidence of need: The U.S. intelligence community assessed that the “most likely course of action” was a dwindling of migrants as it reached the … Read More
The Hilarious Plot To Derail Mueller, Part Two
Today’s the day for Jacob Wohl’s big press conference on his supposed Mueller assault allegations. I detail the early hilarity here. Wohl and Burkman have doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on their allegation that the accuser is very credible. And they said they will reveal all at a press conference at the Rosslyn Holiday Inn at noon today. Wohl has … Read More
The Watergate Road Map
The Jaworski “Road Map,” the last great still-secret Watergate document, became public Wednesday when the National Archives released it under Judge Howell’s ruling from earlier this month. It sees the light of day for the first time in four and a half decades at a remarkable moment, one in which a different special prosecutor is considering the conduct of a different president and … Read More
The Plot To Derail Mueller
Well, well, well: An alleged scheme to pay off women to fabricate sexual assault allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been referred to the FBI for further investigation, according to a spokesman for the special counsel’s office, Peter Carr. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, … Read More
Trump Wants To Defy Constitution By Ending Birthright Citizenship
He can’t do this. He should know it: President Trump said he was preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship in the United States, his latest attention-grabbing maneuver days before midterm congressional elections, during which he has sought to activate his base by vowing to clamp down on immigrants and immigration. “We’re the only country in the world where … Read More
The Squirrel Hill Massacre And The Abhorrent White House Response
WaPo: Conspiracy theories are flourishing in America, from the Oval Office to the fever swamps of the Internet. They include the viral notion that the liberal 88-year-old billionaire George Soros, a Hungarian American Holocaust survivor, is funding the migrant caravan slowly making its way from Central America in the direction of the United States. It’s not true, but it has … Read More
Breaking: Bomber of 12 Trump Critics In Custody
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have detained a person in connection with the mail-bomb scare that widened to 12 suspicious packages, a Justice Department official said Friday. Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said authorities planned to announce more information at a press conference. Earlier Friday, authorities said suspicious packages addressed to New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former National Intelligence … Read More
Dow Now Lower Than January 1
This year, the Dow opened at 24,824. As of right now (3:52 pm) it is at 24,675. It is the end of October, and the Dow is down. Put another way, in Trump’s first full year as President, the Dow went down for the first time in eight years. And the DJIA is Trump’s metric about how the economy is doing. P.S. … Read More
Leaving Out The “White”, Trump Admits He Is A “Nationalist”
President Trump: "I'm a nationalist." pic.twitter.com/3lxCrtSkrN — MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 23, 2018 Some reactions from history: Greg Sargent: “You know what I am? I’m a nationalist, okay? I’m a nationalist,” President Trump shouted at a rally in Texas on Monday night. Just before saying this, Trump claimed that “we’re not supposed to use that word,” suggesting that it required great courage to make this declaration. … Read More
Polarization Isn’t The Problem; It’s Conservatism, Stupid
Food for thought, from Eric Levitz at NY Magazine: While Democratic and Republican voters earnestly (and vehemently) disagree on plenty of issues, surveys suggest these disputes are hardly more numerous or severe than they were three decades ago (when bipartisan comity was still alive and well on Capitol Hill). When asked to opine on discrete questions of public policy, the … Read More
Got One
From the Department of Justice, just now: Russian National Charged with Interfering in U.S. Political System ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A criminal complaint was unsealed here today charging a Russian national for her alleged role in a Russian conspiracy to interfere in the U.S. political system, including the 2018 midterm election. “The strategic goal of this alleged conspiracy, which continues to … Read More
I Voted Early Today, So Let’s Take A Snapshot Of Election 2018
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Mueller (Prelimnary?) Report Coming After November Elections
According to a report in Bloomberg today, shortly after the midterm elections, Special Counsel Robert Mueller will release findings on whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to swing the 2016 election and whether Trump himself obstructed justice: Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to issue findings on core aspects of his Russia probe soon after the November midterm elections as he … Read More
Trump Administration Tries To Cover For Saudis
If Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flew to Riyadh to read the Riot Act to Saudi rulers over the apparent murder of Jamal Khashoggi, he hid it well behind cheery smiles and professions of amity. But then outrage has been conspicuously absent from the Trump administration in the two weeks since Mr. Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, never to be … Read More