Yes, well… I don’t think you need a legal degree to come to this conclusion. Trump, who wouldn’t know the truth if it landed in his pants, would perjure himself. Greg Sargeant points out the real fear: President Trump’s lawyers are urging him to avoid an interview with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III because he is a pathological liar … Read More
Volatile Dow
After plunging a few hundred points on Friday, the Dow dropped a record-breaking 1175 points yesterday. That the most points, but fortunately, the 4.6% drop was not the highest percentage-wise. All in all, 1 trillion dollars in net worth was lost. It probably was a correction, but it raised fresh anxieties among Americans who have seen their retirement savings and household … Read More
Trump: Democrats Were Treasonous For Not Applauding Me At The State Of The Union
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
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
Trump Tried To Fire Mueller In June 2017
First the New York Times, then the Washington Post and then NBC News reported this big bombshell Thursday night: President Trump wanted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller back in June 2017 — but then backed off. Trump, in Switzerland, responded to last night’s news: “Fake news folks, fake news. Typical New York Times fake stories.” The story is simple: President Trump ordered the firing … Read More