Yesterday Trump called out Democrats’ behavior at his speech last week, where he received much less applause. “They were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘Treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not,” Trump said, adding, “Can we call that treason? Why not.” Today, the White House had to issue a statement saying that Trump was being “tongue in … Read More
Nunes Forced To Admit Central Point Of His Memo Was… Er…. Wrong
Yesterday, Devin Nunes and the slapstick co-conspirators who hoped to bring down the FBI and Justice Department with a 4-page memo were foiled by their own incompetence. Nunes and company hinged the entirety of their hopes on stating that the FBI failed to disclose the political origins of the Trump-Russia dossier, used to secure the initial FISA warrant on a … Read More
The Nunes Memo: It’s Here — Is It “Worse Than Watergate”?
10:30 am – Trump is expected to approved the release of the memo reports said last night, but he’s not going to have the White House release it. That will be left to the House Intel Committee. Reports say that Trump was warned last night by Chief of Staff Jon Kelly that the memo isn’t the huge thing that Trump thinks it … Read More
The Nunes Memo: Will It Be Released Today?
JUST IN: President Trump has read the FISA memo, as delivered to the White House, multiple White House officials tell @NBCNews — NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) February 1, 2018 Trump told people he would release it (it was heard on an open mic as he was leaving the State of the Union speech. The memo supposedly implicates the FBI in its … Read More
Two Developments In Trump Russia Scandal
CNN was on a roll last night, breaking two stories — first, the smaller one: (1) The right wing and Fox News have been making much of emails between two FBI agents, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The two were having an illicit affair, but more importantly, their emails to each other show a strong anti-Trump bias. When Mueller found out … Read More
Obstruction Related To Trump Tower Meeting
And the hits keep on coming for the Trump team. Let’s go back to July 2017, only 7 months ago, but 7 years in Trump scandal time. I wrote on July 11: With a few days off for breathless recovery, the Trump-Russia collusion scandal has been a steady stream of bombshells. A big one dropped yesterday: Donald Trump Jr (a … Read More
Breaking: More Trump Insisting On Loyalty From DOJ/FBI
CNN: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited the White House in December seeking President Donald Trump’s help. The top Justice Department official in the Russia investigation wanted Trump’s support in fighting off document demands from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes. But the President had other priorities ahead of a key appearance by Rosenstein on the Hill, according to sources familiar … Read More
PA State Legislature Gets Ballsy
Think Progress: In an audacious move by a political leader who could potentially be held in contempt of court, Pennsylvania Senate President pro tempore Joseph Scarnati (R) informed the state supreme court on Wednesday that he will openly defy one of the court’s recent orders in a gerrymandering case. On January 22, the state supreme court struck down the state’s gerrymandered congressional maps — … Read More
Running For The Hills?
It’s a stampede for the exits. The Hill reports: Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, announced Wednesday that he will not run for reelection. “There is a time to come and a time to go. This is the right time, for me, to leave politics and return to the justice system,” he said in a statement on Twitter. … Read More
The Nunes Memo Likely To Be Released Soon – Massive Fail Expected
In an incredibly transparent display of partisanship, the House Intelligence Committee voted on Monday to: (1) Release the Nunes memo (2) Ignore requests from the FBI and the DOJ to vet the Nunes memo before any release; and (3) NOT release the Democratic memo explaining why the Nunes memo is bullshit Although the White House has five days to review … Read More
Breaking: Another Trump Official Resigns For Impropriety
Trump’s top public health official resigned from her post just now after mounting questions about financial conflicts of interest, the Department of Health and Human Services announced. The resignation comes one day after POLITICO reported that Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bought shares in a tobacco, drug and food companies one month … Read More
Trumps SOTU
From what I saw, which wasn’t much, it was a very low energy Trump speech. As usual, he read it without knowing what it said, as if he was seeing it for the first time. It was the third longest State of The Union speech in history. Contrary to what was billed, it was not a unifying speech. He took … Read More
Breaking: McCabe Steps Down
Multiple U.S. officials say that FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is stepping down from his post today and taking “terminal leave” meaning that he will stay on until his retirement in March (that was always his plan) so he can receive full retirement benefits. This may very well be McCabe’s own decision, but given Trump’s demands for his ouster and … Read More
The Chess Pieces Are Moving
New York Times: A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of a former Trump campaign associate shortly after taking office last spring, according to three people familiar with it. The renewal shows that the Justice Department under President Trump saw reason to believe that the associate, Carter … Read More
Speaking Of Sex Scandals…
While we wait for the doors to blow wide open on the Trump-Daniels sex scandal (IF they blow open, that is), let’s chew on this: Casino mogul and Republican National Committee (RNC) finance chair Steve Wynn is facing accusations of sexual misconduct, including that he forced a woman to have sex with him in 2005, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Wynn, … Read More