This post is part of a larger series including my original Master Timeline which begins in 1985 when Trump attempt to open a Casino in Australia was denied because of his links to the mob, and he first began talking about becoming a diplomat/negotiator with Russia so he could “end the Cold War in an hour” which has been split due to length with a new Master List Vol 2 beginning in Mid-June, and Master List Vol3 beginning in Late August.
Several of the biggest recent revelations are that not only were Facebook Ads paid for by Russians Trolls, but also about $80,000 was paid directly to U.S. Activist for them to stage protests.
On Tuesday, the newspaper RBC published a major investigation into the work of a so-called Russian “troll factory” since 2015, including during the period of the US election campaign, disclosures that are likely to put further spotlight on alleged Russian meddling in the election.
RBC said it had identified 118 accounts or groups in Facebook, Instagram and Twitter that were linked to the troll factory, all of which had been blocked in August and September this year as part of the US investigation into Russian electoral meddling.
Many of the accounts had already been linked to Russian disinformation efforts in western outlets, but RBC said its sources at the troll factory had provided screenshots of the internal group administration pages of some of the groups, as proof they were run from Russia. It also spoke to former and current employees of the troll factory, all of whom spoke anonymously.
Perhaps the most alarming element of the article was the claim that employees of the troll factory had contacted about 100 real US-based activists to help with the organisation of protests and events. RBC claimed the activists were contacted by Facebook group administrators hiding their Russian origin and were offered financial help to pay for transport or printing costs. About $80,000 was spent during a two-year period, according to the report.
Another interesting item is that a former Russian Oligarch told Ari Melber on MSNBC that the secret meeting between Jared Kushner and Sergey Gorkov of VEB Bank during the transition period was likely directed by Putin since Gorkov “never acts on his own, he always follows orders.” And apparently that Kushner has been completely “freaked out” over the Mueller investigation particular since Reince Priebus was interviewed and he has inside knowledge on the decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey — which at the time Kushner supported as a “smart political move” since so many Democrats were angry at Comey’s handling of the Hillary email investigation.
Obviously, that didn’t go as planned.
Former CIA director Brennen says it’s highly implausible that Russia influence campaign didn’t have help from some Americans, but Yahoo News interviews an alleged hacker from the St. Petersburg Troll farm who says they were required to binge watch Netflix’s House of Cards in English to get familiar with the wedge issues inside the American political system, which I suppose is helpful if you need tips on how to exploit and kill a reporter, a Congressman and a prostitute in order to slide through the backdoor into the Presidency.
Lastly Newsweek has posted a detailed outline of how the Russian influence and collusion plot may have worked out, even without those in the Trump campaign fully realizing what was really going on.
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September 28th—
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Reps from Twitter appear for a closed-door discussion with Senate Intel staff over Russia interference, while former Trump advisor Boris Ephsteyn is interviewed by House Intel staff.
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Far-Right Protestors plan another Tiki Rally for Charlotte, NC. but it descends into chaos due to infighting.
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Kushner’s attorney Abbie Lowell accidentally forwards an email to a prankster that shows that jared didn't disclose use of his private email for official business to the Senate Intel staff.
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Twitter reveals that RT spent $274,000 on ads and promoted tweets during 2016, and tells Congress that they found 200 false accounts linked to the 400 Facebook accounts that had been linked to Russian Troll Farms.
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Huckabee-Sanders claims the anthem protest scandal is “pretty black and white” [Yeah, no kidding. So far no one at Wh has explalned why alt-Righters like Milo, Richard Spencer and Unite the Right have Free Speech rights with the Confederate Flag, but NFL players don’t with U.S. flag.]
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Russian hacker Peter Leveshov is arrested while on vacation in Barcelona Spain and admits in court that he’s worked for Putin’s United Russia party for the last ten years.
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Rep. Steve Scalise returns to the House after 3 months recovery from being shot in the hip.
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Tom Price promises to pay back cost of “his seat” on the 26 private chartered flights amounting to $52,000, leaving the other estimated $350,000 of what he and his staff spent to U.S. Taxpayers. Then Politco reports that Price also took another $500k worth of flights to Geneva, Berlin, Beijing & Tokyo on Military aircraft authorized by the WH. Repubs argue “whataboutism” with Nancy Pelosi but she only used a Military plane as Speaker because GHBush required it for security reasons, and the House Sargent at Arms requested a larger one than Dennis Hastert’s so it wouldn’t need to refuel in order to reach San Francisco.
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CNN reports EPA head Scott Pruit has also been using private jets and military planes for travel as well has spending a another $25k for his own private soundproof booth. All of which is nothing like when Treasury Secretary Mnuchin requested a government plane to take him on his wedding & honeymoon, which was denied, then he used another to fly to Ft. Knox to “check on the gold” at the same time that the total solar eclipse was at 95% in the area.
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Politico reports that Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke used a private plane to fly from his home in Whitefish Montana to Las Vegas at a cost of $12,375. He took a chartered fly between Caribbean islands St. Croix and St. Thomas, he used military planes to fly to Norway, and then to Alaska and a military helicopter to fly from Fort Bliss to see the Organ Mountains monument in New Mexico in June. He then used a Bureau of Land Management helicopter to survey the Basin and Range National Monument at the end of July.
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Trump continues to blame the failure of healthcare on a phantom “Hospitalized Senator” when noone in the Senate is in a hospital despite the bill being pulled due to the opposition of Sens. McCain, Paul and Collins.
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The humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico grows critical as 10,000 containers of supplies sit on the docks without drivers or fuel undelivered to those in need. A 3 Star General is assigned to handle logistics, but it’s been almost a week and many deaths are imminent.
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Reports surface of a 2008 appearance by Trump on the Howard Stern Show where he talks about an 80 year-old man who had collapsed and hit his head during a Red Cross Benefit. All the rich donors, including Trump, turned away as his wife screamed and he slowly bled out on the floor until a set of Marines — who had seats back in the corner even as the guests of honor — rushed forward to provide the man aid and carried him out. Trump was focused on the blood, ‘Get that blood cleaned up, it’s disgusting.'” and neglected to call to check on the man afterward.
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Donald Trump Jr. ditched his secret service protection to “kill a big Moose” in Canada
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Arkansas Fire fighter loses his job for saying Anthem protestors should be “shot in the head.”.
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Trump waives shipping restrictions for Puerto Rico, finally.
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Trump’s new choice to head the DEA Joseph Fuentes following the departure of Chuck Rosenburg is a supporter of Racial Profiling and accused civil rights activists of being “professional race baiters” who "scapegoated" cops.
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Despite claiming he isn’t pre-occupied with the NFL Trump called Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones four times to discuss “anthem stuff.” He also says the “Owners are afraid of their players, it's disgraceful.” [Because what, they should be keeping their players in dungeons between games so they show the proper “respect”?]
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WH advisor Stephen Miller pushed for the inclusion of Chad in the updated travel ban over the objections of the State Dept ahd Homeland Security.
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US slated to end the program to accept child refugees fleeing violence from Central America
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Former OSHA Chief says that Trump’s rollback of worker safety rules limiting the exposure to silica dust which tends to induce cancer and tuberculosis will prove deadly.
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Trumpsters claim Obama is being paid to stage a rebellion with the NFL anthem protests. “We didn’t have this kind of racial hatred before Obama. I’ve never seen this kind of racial hatred in my life — never. He poisoned our society and he did it deliberately to start a civil war. He’s just a paid thug. We need to know who he works for, but he’s a thug.”
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Senate Judiciary committee approves Trump choice to head Criminal Division of the DOJ, Brian A. Benczkowski, on a party-line vote despite the fact he has no courtroom experiences and has never worked as prosecutor after he had worked on the Trump campaign before working to defend Russia’s Alfa Bank from an investigation of their being linked to the Trump campaign.
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Tucker Carlson tries to debate Spike Lee’s reaction that Trump’s comments display a “plantation mentality” as being “racially inflammatory and untrue” and gets brutally punked by an African-American attorney Monique Pressley.
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September 29th —
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September 30th —
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October 1st —
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Leaked WH memo documents how National Security Advisor Tom (Dead Eyes) Bossert planned to avoid blame and responsibility for the slow response to Hurricane Maria.
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Pentagon releases assessment of Puerto Rico that denies things are “going well” as the WH likes to claim noting that power is out for 95% of the people and only 45% have access to drinking water.
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In an effort to gain certification to sell their cyber security solutions to the Russian pubic, Hewlet Packard Enterprise provided copies of the source for their ArcSight product, which is used by the Pentagon, to a Russian defense agency.
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Black Lives Matter protestors join the LA Chargers on the field during the National Anthem, half the Baltimore Raven’s kneel before the anthem and are still booed even though they stand for the song.
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Trump tweets to SecState Tillerson telling him not to bother trying to negotiate with “Little Rocket Man” saying “We’ll take care of it.” Axios reports that during a September Oval Office meeting Trump told his staff to describe him as an erratic and “crazy” and “unpredictable” — to foreign leaders so it’s all basically an act and negotiation strategy. Kinda.
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In Nevada where it’s legal to own and sell fully automatic assault weapons without a license a 64 year-old White man Stephen Paddack takes 10 rifles into the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Las Vegas strip and begins firing fully automatic rounds using a “bump stock” through his 32nd floor windows down onto a crowd of 20,000 gathered for country artist Jason Aldean, 59 people are killed over 500 are wounded. He’s found dead in his room by police from a self-inflicted wound. ISIS claims credit, but no one believes that. The FBI says there are “No connections to international terrorism.”
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Head of Miami’s police union uses the Vegas shooting to bash the NFL protests arguing that police are brave and put their lives at risk every day and aren’t the deadly killers and thugs that many African-Americans proclaims [Although they definitely are, if not worse]. He texts to the NYTimes “While NFL players express a false perception of police officers by inciting hate and division by disrespecting the U.S. flag, the reality is law enforcement risks their lives every day for America.” [They also kill about 5 Americans per day.]
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OJ Simpson is released from Prison for his parole, but Trump told Howard Stern back in the 90’s that he was framed by the LAPD planting evidence.
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October 2nd —
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Huckabee-Sanders chokes up as she reads a statement about the Vegas shooting, she argues “it’s not the right time to talk about gun policy”, then switches and decides to talk about the how strong gun laws in Chicago haven’t slowed down all the shootings there. She also ignores that Trump didn’t pause to talk policy issues when the Orlando Pulse shooting occurred using it as a reason to justify is travel ban, even though that shooter was born in New Haven New York.
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CHIP expires, congress does nothing about it.
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Rep Robin Kelly (R-IL) whose district includes Chicago points out that most of the guns in her city come from Mike Pence’s Indiana and Paul Ryan’s Wisconsin because there is no effective Federal straw purchaser law to stop them from being imported and resold locally.
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Trump offers a muted response of condolences to the Las Vegas mass shooting in direct contrast to the bellicose blustering he offers whenever a Muslim is involved in a crime. In a public statement he calls it “an act of pure evil” and offers his “warmest condolences”
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Cleveland Cavaliers owner is bombarded with racists messages in retaliation for Lebron James calling Trump a “bum” because of his attack on Stephen Curry.
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The Atlantic reports on new emails that show that two weeks after joining the Trump campaign Paul Manafort was having his Ukrainian helper Kilminik sending information to Russian Oligarch and Putin ally Oleg Deripaska with the hope of “impressing him”, this may have been because of an outstanding $18 Million dispute and lawsuit between them over money Deripaska gave Manafort to invest into a Ukrainian telecom company.
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The WaPo reports that Michael Cohen even after his private interview with Senate Intel staff just a week ago had two more unreported contacts with Russian nationals during the campaign. Weeks before the RNC he had exchanged emails with a “business associate” to attend a conference that would have including a personal appearance by Putin. The other was in 2015 he received a proposal for a Trump branded residential project in Moscow from a billionaire who used to be a member of Russian Senate.
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Facebook admits that the 3,000 false ads paid for by Russia’s troll farm the Internet Research Agency for $100,000 may have been viewed by over 10 Million people.
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Sen. Burr (R) head of the Senate Select Intel Committee says he’s satisfied that Kushner didn’t deliberately lie to them about his private email server use [He just plain forgot then?] But then the WH announces their assessing hundreds of emails from yet another third private account on the Kushner server used by both Ivanka & Jared. [Face palm!]
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Hayes and Maddow unload on the media over the Vegas Shooting, “If this isn’t terrorism, what is?” The internet pretty much blows up over that very same question.
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Pat Robertson blames the Vegas shooting on “disrespect for Trump and the National Anthem.”
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Tom Petty suffers a massive heart attack and is placed on life support, but no brain activity is found. He passes away later that night.
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Interior Dept’s Inspector General starts an investigation into Sec. Zinke’s use of private and military aircraft to travel.
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Three Kansas men are held by federal authorities for allegedly plotting to blow up a Muslim mosque and an apartment building predominantly occupied by Somali refugees.
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October 3rd —
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October 4th —
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October 5th —
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October 6th —
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October 7th —
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October 8th —
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Grassley goes public with his attacks on the Steele Dossier calling it the “most notorious document in recent political history.”
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Roger Stone calls James Clapper a “Cocksucking Perjurer” for his statement that Trump’s mental state may lead us into Nuclear War.
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Pence stages a premeditated walkout of the SF 49ers v Colts game over 20 players protesting during the anthem saying “it’s not too much to ask NFL players to respect the anthem”. Trump admits he told him to walk out. [I figure that respect is a two-way street and the anthem with the racist 3rd verse should get respect when America has earned it on civil and human rights, and it hasn’t yet.] His trip to not see a football game on AF2 cost taxpayers $240,000 for just the plane, not including Secret Service and advance staff.
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Ex-Breitbarter Kurt Barcella says Bannon is colluding with white nationalist to advance a radical agenda..
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Santorum blames gun mass murder on video games, TV and media — but not on guns themselves as if we didn’t have a 1st Amendment and also adult and violence ratings for games, TV and movies.
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Facebook announces it will manually review ads targeting politics, religion and race. But concerns arise that they plan to use right wing friendly partners to do the vetting.
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Russia threatens to block Facebook if it doesn't store user data locally.
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Hurricane Nate makes landfall on the Gulf Coast as a Cat 1.
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Trump says Sen. Corker who plans to retire, didn't have the “guts to run” and won’t support his agenda. Corker snaps back at Trump saying the WH “has become an adult day care center.”
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Trump’s digital director Brad Pascale talks to 60 minutes and says the majority of their digital budget was spent on Facebook, and that they had some Facebook employees embedded within their effort.
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FEMA Admin Brock Long says San Juan Mayor Cruz’s comments are “political noise.”
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After some Kennesaw State Cheerleaders take a knee during the anthem they are pulled from pre-game activities the following week.
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Trump whines about getting “so little appreciation” for helping Puerto Rico, while private citizens and entities take up the job of providing supplies to the people as Mayor Cruz continues to yell “We Need Water.”
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Harvey Weinstein is fired from his film company 3 days after revelations of a long standing history of sexual harassment.
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NRA opposes ban of bump stocks, even though they have suggested that the ATF reexamines their regulations on them.
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Trump issues demands which holds DACA recipients hostage to his building the wall and green card changes against blue collar immigrants.
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October 9th —
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Attorney Scott Balber, who represents Aras and Emin Agalarov, provided CNN with an email exchange and a five-page talking points memo intended to show the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower did not amount to collusion between Russia and the GOP campaign, the emails claim the meeting was about the Magnitsky Act only & Emin’s promoter Rob Goldstone made up the parts about Hillary and DNC receiving money from Russia, although Veselnitskaya apparent brought a folder with dirt about Hillary with her.
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Pruitt announced Trump admin will abandon Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
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Russia recruited BLM activists on youtube who were Bernie supporters who converted to Trump and against “that bitch” Hillary.
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Wapo reports Russians spent “tens of thousands” on Google ads which appeared on Google Search, Adwords, Doubleclick, Gmail and Youtube as well as Facebook and Twitter. McClatchy reports that they also targeted current and former veterans with conspiracy theories and propaganda.
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Kellyanne Conjob snaps at Fox and Friends when they (correctly) suggest Pence’s anthem walkout was a “political stunt.”
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Megan McCain debuts on the View and gets schooled on the anthem protests and true patriotism by Sunny Hostin, Goldberg and Behar.
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Black feminist author and Rutgers University professor Dr. Brittney Cooper says on MSNBC Sunday that Trump and Pence are trying to silence black athletes’ police brutality protests in the name of preserving the doctrine of white supremacy and fascism.
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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says “Stand for the anthem or don’t play.”
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Jemele Hill is suspended two weeks by ESPN for suggesting that those who oppose Jerry Jones placing black players in a box should “look to the advertisers.”
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The Hill reports that NY Attorney General Schneiderman plans to sue the EPA for dropping Obama Climate Change rules. Meanwhile Washington State AG Bob Ferguson sues the Trump admin over it’s policy to allow employers to reject contraceptive coverage.
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Trump’s 2020 Campaign begins fundraising off of Pence’s NFL walkout stunt.
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Charlottesville PD issue a “unlawful wounding” warrant for alt-Right beating victim Deandre Harris because he had tried to defend himself and one of his attackers, Harold Ray Crews who is facing his own charges, complained to the DA.
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Kellyanne Conjob says Sen. Corker’s claim that Trump needs “adult supervision” are “irresponsible” — which drives a CNN panel she’s “completely bonkers.”
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October 10th —
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Trump promises he will give “great healthcare with the stroke of a pen — fast” somehow. Then he threatens the NFL with cutting their tax breaks unless they change their rules to force players to stand during the national anthem, which is clearly a 1st Amendment violation except that the NFL already gave up those tax breaks two years ago.
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Trump tells Forbes that if Tillerson called him a “fucking moron” then maybe they should take an IQ Test, and he promises he would win. Mensa offers to administer the contest.
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Fox and Friends host Ainsley Eardhart complains that “too many people have died” for NFL players to protest and she just wants her “pizza and popcorn” although police have killed twice as many Americans as all terrorists since 2001, and more unarmed people have been killed by police than died on 9/11.
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Huckabee-Sanders claims Trump’s IQ Test challenge with Tillerson was just a joke, and that he never meant to imply Rex “wasn’t incredibly intelligent”. [No, just that he thinks he’s “smarter” than everyone on the planet] CNN trolls her with 12 clips of Trump talking about IQ Tests, she also continues to support Trump’s false claim that “America is the highest taxed nation” which it isn’t.
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CNN roasts Trump for his IQ claims when he can’t even spell “Liddle” correctly. Also “Covfefe.”
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The tension between Senate Intel and Judiciary committees heats up over the Steele Dossier.
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Still struggling Puerto Ricans with only 10% power and 45% with drinking water slam Trump “All he brought was those napkins.”
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell considers creating a policy that players “should stand during the anthem” which is already a rule, but not an hard requirment. Famed Coach Mike Dikta claims there hasn’t been any “oppression in America for 100 years”, which is exactly why we had the Civil Rights Act, 24th Amendment Against Poll Taxes of 1964, and Voting Rights act of 1968.
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Politico reports that Carter Page intends to plead the 5th Amendment when called by Senate Intel.
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Hillary Clinton condemns Weinstein for his sexual harassment and assault allegations. Kellyanne Conjob whines about it not being fast enough, while ignoring that Trump continued to support Roger Ailes & Bill O’Reilly after they were fired over harassment charges. P.S Trump hasn’t said anything about Weinstein other than he “wasn’t surprised.”
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RNC chair says the allegations against Weinstein “are not even comparable” to the sexual harassment and assault allegations against Trump because he “didn’t have women coming forward” against him, but she’s wrong, there were at least 13 accusers and two rape cases submitted against Trump.
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Wary of big rallies White Nationalist shift to using flash mobs to spread their hate messages.
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Trump criticizes Jemele Hill and ESPN as “failing” after she’s suspended for criticizing Cowboy’s owner Jerry Jones, showing he’s angrier at her and NFL protestors than he is at Richard Spencer & White Supremacists— although ESPN can't fully explain how she violated their social media policy.
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New York Magazine reports that Mattis and Kelly had discussed “tackling Trump if he lunges for the Nuclear football” just in case he actually tried to act on any of his B.S. trolling tweet threats.
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Deandre Harris’ attorney S. Lee Merritt posts a video showing that Harold Ray Crews was attacked by someone else besides Harris, one guy in a black helmet — with two buddies who pulled him off — who might be Antifa actually. This was after the attack on Harris which began when Crews tried to spear someone with his Confederate flag and Harris swung a flashlight at him — and missed — only to be then jumped & beaten by six neo-Nazis.
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October 11th —
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October 12th —
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Puerto Rican official death toll rises to 45, while 113 people remain missing. At least two people have died from leptospirosis, which spreads when the urine of infected animals gets into drinking water, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz says “People have been drinking water from creeks contaminated by dead animals.”
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Trump threatens to begin pulling first responders out of Puerto Rico. Mayor Cruz turns to the UN and Unicef to “stop the genocide” that “Hater in Chief” Trump continues to ignore.
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Rep Scott Perry (R-PA) goes up against Chris Cuomo to defend Trump on Puerto Rico claiming “if half of them don't have water — they’d be dying, and they’re not.” although they actually are and that’s the point. Vox reports that the death toll may be as high as 500.
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Texas Union hits back at Jerry Jones threat to bench protesting players charging that his bullying of players violates the National Labor Relations Act. Trump say the league should have suspended Kaepernick when he first protested (they actually didn’t even notice until the third time) and that would have been illegal too.
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Politico reports that senior WH advisors are considering offering Trump for an interview with Mueller in order to stop the Russia probe because certainly he won’t fall into a perjury trap by lying like he has several times before under oath.
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Newsweek reports that Kushner failed to include his ownership of real estate tech firm Cadre on his disclosure forms and that he continues to profit from it while working for the government.
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Before he blasted Democrats for taking money from Harvey Weinstein, Steve Bannon was in business with him.
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Former Obama Admin lawyers file a motion for injunction against Kris Kobach’s voter suppression commission.
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Ana Navarro thumps Ben Ferguson’s attack on Eminem claiming his songs have endorsed violence against women, she says “A rapper doesn’t have the nuclear codes” . Yeah, and as if Johnny Cash actually “killed a man to watch him die” and Eric Clapton really “shot the sheriff.” Some songs are just telling a story, not a manifesto or confession.
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Don Lemon calls Ferguson’s endless blather on anthem protests being against the Troops “BullShit.”
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Trump doubles down on his threats to NBC’s license saying they’ve become “so partisan, distorted and fake” and praises Jeffrey Lord — who was fired from CNN for a “Seig Heir” tweet — as ‘One of my few sources of truth’. Morning Joe erupts in laughter at Trump pulling NBC’s non-existent license: ‘Only a moron would think that’ — [That’s “F-cking Moron” to you Mika.]
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Paul Ryan responds to Trump and says the “Press has a right” to write anything and GOP Sen. Sasse asks Trump if he has renounced his oath of office due to his attacks on the 1st Amendment?
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Trump signs Obamacare sabotage executive order which will turn the exchanges into a defacto High-Risk poll and drives costs for the sick sky high potentially impacting 6 Million people. This makes his 50th Executive Order, twice the number signed by Obama during the same period and more than any President in the last 50 years.
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Loretta Lynch is called to meet with House and Senate Intel committees over the Russia investigation and her Tarmac Talk with President Bill Clinton.
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Charlottesville sues to ban White Nationalist from marching and protesting in their city.
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Rose McGowan tweets about powerful men in Hollywood protesting Weinstein, who harassed her years ago, and gets her account suspended.
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FBI generates report that claims White people and police should be afraid of “Black Identity Extremists” who are “very likely to perpetrate violence against law enforcement in retaliation for police killings of unarmed black people.”
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Puerto Rico’s Former Governor Alejandro Garcia Pedilla (D) says there’s just one reason for Trump’s slow and weak response to their disaster “He’s just Racist.”
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October 13th —
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Trump after claiming he “met the President of the Virgin Islands” — which means he must have bumped into a mirror — cuts Cost Sharing subsidy payments that eliminate copays and deductibles for those in the ACA exchanges below 400% of FPL adding more gasoline to his anti-Obamacare trash fire, two state AGs vow to fight him in court with lawsuits. That soon rises to 18 States.
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Trump also “decertifies” the Iran Nuclear reeducation deal even though both the UN and State Dept have certified their compliance, he says he can cancel the deal altogether unless Congress and all nations involved renegotiate over other issues, and then Treasury declares the Iranian Republican Guard as a “Terrorist Organization” to which they say it’s an “Act of War.” Iranian President Rouhani says they will remain committed to the deal as long as their interests are served, but some world governments worry that their nuclear program may start up again.
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Roger Stone reveals the identity of his go-between with Julian Assange to House Intel as Radio Host Randy Credico [He doesn’t mention Jerome Corsi] but is still working with former Rep. Bob Barr to avoid being subpoenaed.
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Mueller interviews Reince Preibus about the firing of James Comey while House Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sign onto a letter by Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX), the Daily Caller reports, that attempts to undermine the Mueller investigation with charges of political bias.
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NBC News reveals two loans, valued at $26 million and $7 million, from Oleg Deripaska to Cyprus-based companies tied to Manafort — all part of $60 Million that passed between the two. This is in addition to the $18 Million Derapaska provided for a private equity fund in 2015 and the $30 Million he was paid to support Putin’s agenda overseas by Derapaska between 2006 and 2009.
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Manafort spokeman Jason Maloni — who is under subpoena from Mueller and has testified to the Grand Jury — responds to NBC at first by saying “Mr. Manafort did not have any outstanding debts to clients at the time he began working on the campaign” , he then offers a revision which removes that sentence. [IMO This may be why Manafort offered to give Derapaska a “person briefing” on the Trump campaign last June in order to “get whole.”]
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Jackson Jaguar’s owner Shahid Khan, the only non-white NFL owner says the others are like “85-year-old guys who don’t think they’re racist, but they are.”
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KKK Imperial Wizard who fired a gunshot at Corey Long during Charlottesville protests is denied bail while 3 of his fellow Alt-Right protestors are convicted of staging a riot.
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Barbara Leeden, a Conservative Activist, former staffer for Chuck Grassley and friend of Mike Flynn just like Peter W Smith who communicated with Russian hackers, attempted to search the “dark web” to find copies of Hillary’s deleted emails because that’s obviously where she must have put them.
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Indiana Republican drafts bill to make journalist register with the police, arguing that their 1st Amendment should be as limited as his 2nd Amendment.
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Hillary Clinton had been castigated for waiting 5 days to condemn Harvey Weinstein, but Ivanka Trump hasn’t done it yet. Meanwhile Don jr. can’t stop blasting Hollywood over Weinstein, but has nothing to say about the allegations against his dad, and also once said that women, including his sister, who get harassed should just change jobs — which is something Ivanka refused to do when she was actually harrassed herself.
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October 14th —
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October 16th —
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October 17th —
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Senate Intel has subpoenaed documents from Mike Flynn’s son and may call on him to testify.
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Trump plummets 92 spots on the Forbes Top 100 Richest Americans list.
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Ari Melber interviews former Oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had been the richest man in Russia until Putin had him jailed. He talks about Sergey Gorkov who used to work for him and now runs VEB bank and states regarding his clandestine meeting with Kushner during the transition that Gorkov runs Putin’s private slush fund and “would never act on his own, he follows orders.”
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Moscow newspaper RBC Daily has an explosive new expose (in Russian) that details how “Russian trolls posing as Americans made payments to genuine activists in the US to help fund protest movements on socially divisive issues,” according to The Guardian’s reporting. Fake Russian Facebook accounts that were Facebook group administrators contacted around 100 real US activists and then sent them a total of roughly $80,000.
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Fox’s Shep Smith and Judge Napolitano rip apart Devin Nunez sham shadow “investigation” of the Steele Dossier.
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Federal judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu blocks Travel Ban 3.0. He states the policy “suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor: it lacks sufficient findings that the entry of more than 150 million nationals from six specified countries would be ‘detrimental to the interests of the United States,'”
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Trump claims he’s called “virtually” all the Gold Star Families — but of course, he hasn’t even 12 days after the deadly Niger attack on 4 U.S. Green Berets.
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Trump finally calls Myeshia Johnson the widow of fallen Green Beret Sgt. La David T. Johnson in Miami and reportedly tells her “I guess he knew what he signed up for.” When the call ends she tells her Congressional Rep Frederica Wilson who was there and listened to the call that Trump “didn’t even know his name.”
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PA Insurance Commissioner announces rate hikes of 30% as a result of Trump cutting CSR payments, also it’s seems that it will increase the deficit by $196 Billion and take away care for 1 Million people. Trump says he thinks Dems will get the blame for it, But then tweets that he’ll support a bipartisan fix to the CSR payments.
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Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray draft a bipartisan fix to continue CSR payments for Obamacare.
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NFL Players and owners meet to discuss the anthem issue — Commissioner Goodell reports that their policy remains unchanged, Players “should stand” for the anthem but the league will take no action against players who do not.
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Maddow reports that Homeland Security nominee Kirstjen Neilsen had been one of the key persons in the WH Homeland Council who failed to respond to news of the levee breaches during Hurricane Katrina, and that the USNS Comfort which has been docked in San Juan for a week and has hundreds of beds is still only seeing 40 patients.
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October 18th—
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Vanity Fair reports that Kushner has been “freaked out” over Mueller’s investigation and the firing of Comey “since day one” — which is pretty odd since he recommended and supported it at the time claiming it would be a “political win.” Apparently he’s really worried now that Preibus was interviewed by Mueller. Kushner now has a new lawyer Charles Harder who had previously represented Hulk Hogan against Gawker and also Harvey Weinstein.
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Trump claims he’s done more in 9 months than any President in History. [Which is of course, Fucking Wrong since FDR Implement the New Deal in his first 100 Days.]
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Don Lemon schools an anti-anthem protest former Football player that we have freedom of speech in America, forcing everyone to stand is “Un-American” because this is not an authoritarian dictatorship like North Korea.
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And we have more fallout from Widow-gate:
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Jake Tapper blast Trump for using “reckless words” with the family of a fallen solder.
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MSNBC’s Heather McGhee says “The one thing that the Johnsons and the Khans have in common is that they are Gold Star families of color. And again, the reflex that Donald Trump has to make an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ that falls along racial lines is so, so jarring.”
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MSNBC’s Stephanie Rhule bursts into tears trying to report on Trump’s Gold Star family call. She says “That’s what matters here! For just a moment, focus on these brave American heroes who were defending our freedoms and their devastated families today.”
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Whoopie Goldberg on the View explodes over Trump’s call to Johnson’s widow “Have you no shame, sir?” Goldberg said. “Have you no shame? I’m infuriated.”
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Fox’s Laura Ingraham says “Nutbag” Rep.WIlson is “lying about the phone call” and she can tell because she wears a funny hat. [It’s Florida, that hat keeps the sun off your face, also Southern women love their hats and Frederica wears them in tribute to her grandmother.]
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Fox and Fools says Johnson’s widow should be “Grateful for the call, the President isn’t required to make it.”
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Hannity said Wilson is a “national disgrace.”
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Sgt. Johnson’s mother confirms Rep. Wilson’s claims and says Trump “disrespected my son.” [So, that’s that right? Nope.] Johnson’s wife Myeisha also confirms this.
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Wapo discovers that Trump had offered to personally give $25,000 to Chris Baldridge, the father of a fallen soldier killed by Afghan police, but he hadn’t sent the check until reporters asked about it. WH spox call the media “disgusting” for bringing it up instead of admitting it’s disgusting that they had to bring it up in order for the check to get sent.
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Whitney Hunter — widow of U.S. paratrooper Sgt. Jonathan Hunter who was killed by a car bomb in August — says she was told Trump would call her, but she tells CNN he never did.
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Rep Frederica Wilson says that the Niger ambush that killed 4 Green Berets “may be Trump’s Benghazi” [Ya think?]
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Tomi Lahren admits on Fox she has “no idea” why NFL players are protesting, but she’s infuriated by it anyway. She then claims, without asking a single player — “If you asked 100 players, you’d get 100 different answers.” [Nope, just one.]
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A second Federal Judge blocks Trump’s Travel Ban 3.0 claiming that the addition of some government officials from Venuzeula and about 100 people from North Korea doesn’t change the fact that Trump specifically stated he wanted a religious anti-Muslim ban.
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Daily Beast reports that Kellyanne Conway, Don Jr, and Mike Flynn all issued repeated retweets of Breitbart and other articles from an account called @TEN_GOP that claimed to be from Tennessee Republicans but was really authored by the Russian Troll Farm. Also Trump sent that fake account a personal “Thank You.”
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Trump tweets that he opposes the Alexander-Murray CSR Fix because he’ll never support “payoffs to insurance companies”.
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House Government Reform Committee members threaten to call for subpoenas to get documents related to Mike Flynn’s Nuclear power plant deal with sanctioned Russian companies from the WH.
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Former CIA director Brennen says it’s ‘implausible’ that Russians didn’t meddle in our election without American help. [I don’t know, binge watching House of Cards could do a lot to bring them up to speed...]
- Mnuchin says “math made him” give a big tax cut to the rich in Trump’s new tax plan.
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Jeff Sessions invokes executive privilege while testifying to Senate Judiciary, Sen. Franken grills Sessions over his shifting stories about Russian contacts and “who he considered a Trump surrogate.” Dick Durbin tells Sessions “You would have blown up if another AG dodged questions like you.” Sheldon Whitehouse asks if the DOJ has any plans for legislative fixes to help prevent another Russian hack/troll attack and Sessions doesn’t seem to have any idea and says “He’s open to suggestions.”
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Huffpo reports that some of Alabama Senate GOP nominee Roy Moore’s funding came from a ‘Total Nazi’ org — not just neo-Nazi.
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Maddow reports on Trump’s pattern of using diversions to avoid questions and news they don’t like, starting with using “Obama Wiretape Trump Tower” to divert from multiple revelations of WH Russian contacts last March to diverting from how they had ignored the Niger ambush by making an issue of whether or not Obama and other Presidents had called the Gold Star families.
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October 19th —
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An Oklahoma School issues a new rule banning symbols of protest and requiring students to stand during the National Anthem. [Since public schools are part of government that seems constitutionally questionable.]
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Rep Frederica Wilson begins receiving death threats for her criticism of Trump’s phone call with Sgt. Johnson’s widow.
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WH reports that John Kelly is disgusted that his son’s death was used as a political football. [He should be!]
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Florida police brace for massive protests at the University of Florida during today’s speech by Richard Spencer.
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Trump suggests the Steele Dossier was part of a false concocted conspiracy by Democrats with Fusion GPS, the FBI and Russian government. He demands to know “Who paid for it?”
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George W. Bush delivers a blistering 16-minute repudiation of Trumpist nativism and division.
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Wapo reports that Euvince Brooks, father of fallen soldier Sgt. Roshain E. Brooks who died during a “mishap” in Iraq battling ISIS wants his daughter to teach him twitter so he can call Trump “A Damn Liar”, since he never received a call.
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The Bipartisan Alexander/Murray CSR payment bill gains cosponsor despite Trump’s opposition.
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Trump gives himself a “10 out of 10” for his response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico — but 28% of the island is still without fresh drinking water and 80% without power.
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Sen McCain says WH isn’t being upfront with America about the Niger Attack. This is amid reports that there was an official statement drafted about the attack, but it wasn’t released instead Huckabee-Sanders read some of it out loud. Trump said nothing.
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Kellyanne blames all the criticism of Trump’s remarks to Sgt. Johnson’s widow on the negativity of “Haters.” [At this rate those “Haters” are going to be most of the country soon.]
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Dick Spencer’s supporters are outnumbered 50 to 1 by counter-protestors and police at his UofF rally.
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Newsweek posts an outline of exactly how the Russia collusion plan may have worked.
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Gen. Kelly comes out and talks about the loss of his son, and lashes out at the Press and “this woman” Rep. Wilson who he calls an “empty barrel” for revealing details of Trump’s Gold Star call. “It stuns me that a member of Congress would have listened in on that conversation. Absolutely stuns me,” Kelly said. “And I thought at least that was sacred.” He admits he himself suggested Trump mention sacrifice is part of what Sgt. Johnson signed up for, which obviously got lost in translation. Kelly says “Trump expressed his condolences as well as he could.” [OK, but that doesn’t explain why he decided to turn this into a pissing contest in the first place and then lied about what he said.]
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Emails obtained by BuzzFeed showed that a sympathetic Breitbart article by Milo Yiannopoulos on the “alt-right” was actually a collection of thoughts Yiannopoulos solicited from avowed racists, showing he was using Breitbart as a method to “launder” racist ideas to make them more palatable by the mainstream.
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Michelle Deford who is also a Gold Star mother on CNN reacts to Kelly’s statement and says that she herself had someone tell her “they knew what they signed up for” and hearing the way Trump said it followed by “But it still hurts I guess” was appalling and showed a deep lack of empathy, particular for an African-American family.
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McClatchy reports that dozens, if not hundreds, of Russian operated Troll farms located in former Soviet block countries such as Macedonia, Albania and Cyprus are still operating inside the U.S. in addition to the St. Petersburg Troll farm of 80-90 employees at Glavset.
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Foreign diplomats are bypassing Trump chaos by going directly “President” Pence who's office of Foreign Affairs is apparently more knowledgable about international issues than Rex Tillerson’s depleted State Dept.
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Newsweek reports that Chuck Grassley is investigating allegations that the FBI — at the time under director Mueller — failed to inform the Obama administration of potential corruption involving the Russian company that purchased Canadian firm Uranium One, and that some members of the board had supposedly submitted $Millions in donations to the Clinton Foundation at the same time. [Technically as Snopes points out most of these donations were made long before Hillary was SecState, the members who made those donations had already left the company by the time the deal, she had no direct involvement in the Uranium One sale which was actually handled by one of her deputies who didn’t even have veto power over the sale anyway and was only part of making a recommendation to the President, also none of the uranium actually left the US.]
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Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan believe Trump’s criticism of the NFL is simply his own vindictiveness for having been denied a team after he lost his own team in the CFL.
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Rep. Tim Walberg (MI-07) tells constituents at a Town Hall that if their upset about Trump’s tweets and think he needs to be impeached they need to “Get a life, Get a life. Get a Life.”
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Obama returns to the campaign trail in support of Robert Northam in the Virginia Governor race with a fiery anti-Trumpism speech stating “Our Democracy is at stake”
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Trump again attacks Rep. Wilson claiming she “secretly” listened in on the condolence call, when in fact she a family friend who was invited into the car with the family and they choose to put the call on speaker.
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Trump also begins perrsonally interviewing applicants for the NY US Attorney positions, which seems self serving since that’s his own families jurisdiction.
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Maddow connects the Niger ambush to the incomprehensible inclusion of Chad in Travel Ban 3.0. which borders it because Chad began withdrawing their battle hardened counter-terrorism troops from NIger the friday after Ban 3.0 was announced in protest. This means that the local support and backup our Troops would would have normally had was no longer available.
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Maddow reports that the Wisconsin voter ID law may have suppressed as many as 45,000 Democratic votes in a state the Trump won by just 20,000 votes.
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Putin says that Americans need to stop making fun of Trump because it shows the weakness of our political system — rather than, I think it’s strength because we can take a joke, and he can’t.
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October 20th —
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October 21st —
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October 22nd —
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October 23rd —
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Myeshia Johnson appears on Good Morning America and tells George Stefanopolous that Trump “didn’t know my husband’s name” he had to read his name off of a report he had in front of him and stumbled over it, she also said that Rep. Wilson’s account of the conversation was 100% correct. She says she was the one who asked for the call to Master Sargent Neill to be placed on speaker.
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The deputy editor-in-chief of Russia’s only independent radio station is mysteriously stabbed in Moscow.
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Lawyers for Fusion GPS ask a judge to block Devin Nunez subpoena to their bank which would disclose the donors who paid for the Steele Dossier. They argue the subpoena is overly broad and could potentially destroy the company. [Which is probably exactly the point: retaliation.]
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Bill O’Reilly says he’s “Mad At God” for not protecting him from Sexual harrasment allegations. He’s also PO’d at the NYTimes for reporting about his $32 Million settlement.
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In defense of Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes Trumpeteer Stephen Moore suggests that “powerful men shouldn’t meet alone with women” for which former Fox correspondent Kirsten Powers cuts him off at the balls on CNN.
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An Illinois man blames social media trolls for his facebook post threatening to lynch Rep. Frederica Wilson.
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The father of slain solider Dillon Baldrige finally receives the $25,000 check Trump promised to send him during a condolence call back in June, largely because the press asked about it. He’d previously received a condolence letter but the check was missing.
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Ted Cruz wants Trump to release the JFK Files — which were scheduled to be released anyway — to prove his father wasn’t part of the conspiracy, which was just another BS conspiracy that Trump made up in the first place.
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Buzzfeed reports that the Russian Troll farm also had an Instagram account which pretended to be a Native American Standing Rock protestor. “DEAR RACISTS IN AMERICA,” one of the posts read. “YOUR CAR IS JAPANESE, YOUR BEER IS GERMAN, YOUR ELECTRONICS ARE TAIWANESE, YOUR FASHION IS FRENCH, YOUR OIL IS SAUDI ARABIAN, YOUR VODKA IS RUSSIAN, AND NEVER FORGET THE LAND YOU LIVE ON IS MINE.”
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October 24th —
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Devin Nunez begins his own investigation into the Uranium One deal and Hillary Clinton, and like Grassley is focused on whether the FBI shared information about corruption by some members of the company before the deal was completed.
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Hillary Clinton responds to the renewed Uranium One investigations saying “I would say it’s the same baloney they’ve been peddling for years, and there’s been no credible evidence by anyone.”
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Bill O’Reilly’s talent agency UTA drops him.
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Putin’s favorite Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has had travel restriction placed on him by his House committee due to his willingness to spout Kremlin propaganda and attempts to have a one-on-one sit down with Julian Assange.
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Supreme Court drops plans to review the Hawaii Travel Ban case as the timeframe for the original 120 day ban expires today, and the policy has been replaced by another ban. This means the lower court ruling restricting the ban holds.
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Trump critic Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) declines to seek re-election stating “there may not be a place for a Republican like me in the current Republican climate or the current Republican Party.” This means Flake’s seat will be up for grabs in 2018.
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Trump visits Capital Hill to talk about Tax Reform, and both Sen Corker and Flake publicly blast Trump as utterly untruthful, childish and poor model for American values that debases the country.
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Sen Orrin Hatch and Rep. Kevin Brady put forward a temporary Obamacare “fix" [more like Hostage negotiation] that would restore CSR payments but also kill the both the individual and employer mandates as well as include abortion restrictions.
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Kid Rock says “Fuck No” he’s not running for Senate. “I have a new album coming out, I have a tour” even though he also put up a KId Rock for Senate website.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy begin a joint investigation into why the FBI and then Director Comey disclosed they were investigating Hillary Clinton’s email but didn’t disclose they were also investigating Donald Trump’s links to Russian hacking and election influence.
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Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan says that Bush was no better than Trump and offerred her “no comfort” after the death of her son Casey in Iraq. She never received a call, all she got was a letter signed by autopen.
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Huckabee-Sanders says comparing Niger to Benghazi is “just a cheap attempt to taint this presidency” — [Actually that was true of Benghazi, Trump has already tainted himself and made it worse by his treatment of Myeshia Johnson.] P.S. the Rohingya crisis is also his Ruwanda and may soon turn into his Bosnia.
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A Trump supporter/waiter encounters Bruce Maxwell, an African American Baseball player who is a catcher for the Oakland A’s who took a knee during the anthem in protest and refuses to serve him in an Alabama restaurant, having another waiter take his place.
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Fox News criticizes Hillary Clinton for “using a bad word” during her appearance on the Graham Norton show. [First of all have these dumb fracks even seen the Graham Norton show? Almost everyone curses because it’s British TV and they don’t have the nanny FCC breathing down their neck and secondly what she said was just quoting George W. Bush’s reaction to the Trump inauguration speech. “That was some weird shit!”]
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The Steinle Murder trial begins, since her shooting was an accident because the bullet ricocheted off the ground before it hit her, this should be something.
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Law Professor Seth Abramson lays out how Trump should be impeached for knowingly violating 18 U.S.C. § 2 “aiding, abetting and procuring for a crime” after the fact by his multiple attempts to payoff Russia for their acts of computer fraud — particularly after he was official informed of their involvement in this crime during his first classified security briefing on August 17, 2016 and his second briefing and report on their attack on our elections on January 6th — yet he continued trying to have the sanctions over Crimea lifted — via Jeff Sessions & Mike Flynn’s discussions with Kislyak, also Jack Kingston who told Russia businessmen “Trump can look at sanctions”, members of Flynn’s NSA staff requested the sanctions be lifted prompting the State Dept to notify Congress who began drafting a new sanctions bill which would make lifting them illegal without their approval, Michael Cohen and Felix Sater brokered a Ukranian “peace deal” which tried to remove sanctions, members of WH staff asked State to drop the “Oil portion” of the sanctions which they denied, and Trump has so far refused to implement the latest round of Russia sanctions even after signing the bill himself — all the while Russia still retains control of Crimea after their illegal annexation of the country. Quid Pro and Quo.
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Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on a letter asking Sessions General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism.
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CNN reports that EPA head Scott Pruit will be hiring 12 more members to his security detail, bringing their total head count to 30 while he also proposes cutting the EPA budget by 30%.
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Wapo reports that lawyer Marc E. Elias representing the DNC and Clinton campaign had hired Fusion GPS who subcontracted out to Christopher Steele to work on his dossier of Russian links to Trump between the RNC and the election, much of which has since been confirmed by the Intel agencies own report on Russian interference. This occurred apparently because Elias law firm Perkins Coie released Fusion GPS from their attorney client privilege because of the subpoenas submitted by Devin Nunez & Chuck Grassley. However, the report wasn’t given back to Fusion GPS or the Clinton campaign, instead Steele gave the information to the FBI — for which they offered to pay him after the election, but when they didn’t seem to react to his reports he gave it to David Corn at Mother Jones, and a former British ambassador to Russia Andrew Wood facilitated getting copies to John McCain who personally gave them to James Comey.
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Mere hours after Huckabee-Sanders scoffs at a reporter for citing the WaPo as a source for debunking the WH claim that Sen Corker “supported Obama’s Iran Deal” — which he didn’t and so what if he did anyway? — she turns and then retweets the WaPo story about the DNC funding the Steele Dossier which they did but only after funds from a GOP source stopped in April.
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The WSJ reports that the Manhattan U.S Attorney’s Office is investigating money laundering ties by Paul Manafort in conjunction with the Mueller investigation, while the Brooklyn US Attorney is apparently investigating Kushner’s business dealings.
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A protestor throws Russian flags at Trump as he passes through the Capital.
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October 25th —
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Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, directly reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to ask for his assistance in obtaining and publishing Hillary Clinton’s missing emails, Assange himself later confirms the Nix request but says they turned it down.
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Cohen testifies to Senate Intel and repeats the false statements from his previous letter that the Trump Tower Moscow project ended in January of 2016.
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Trump continues to claim he said Sgt. La David Johnson’s name “without hesitation” after reading it from a chart — which technically is exactly what Myeshia said he did because he didn’t already know the name, he had check a reference and read it. He won’t say that he’ll apologize to Myeshia and claims his memory is better than hers, even though there were at least two other people, La David’s aunt and Rep. Wilson, that totally confirm her version of the conversation.
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Tomi Lahren wants a Clinton apology for Trump dossier: ‘This makes me excited to see her 33,000 deleted emails’ [Yeah, that’ll be coming just seconds after Don Jr. apologizes for his Dad lying about his secret meeting with Veselnitskaya and Ahkmetshin. Any… minute...now.]
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Kaspersky Labs admits it obtained suspected NSA hacking code from US computer.
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Paul Ryan demands that the FBI provide documents linked to the funding of the Steele Dossier, although from all previous reports they offered to, but never actually paid anything for it themselves — all of which conveniently ignores the fact that Steele and Fusion GPS began work on the dossier while being paid by a Republican.
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Trump chooses not to deport wealthy Chinese fugitive once he finds out he’s a Mar-a-Lago member.
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A California judge blocks the attempt made by 18 states to restore CSR funding for Obamacare.
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Democrats and Republicans on Senate Judiciary split into two investigations, Chairman Chuck Grassley is continuing his witch hunt into the Steel Dossier and — again — Hillary Clinton’s emails, while Ranking Member Fienstein and Democrats will investigate Russia hacking and election influence.
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Whitefish Energy lashes out on twitter at San Juan Mayor Cruz and threatens to pull out fo the Island after she questions how they managed to qualify for the $300 Million contract to restore power to Puerto Rico. Cruz says Whitefish’s contract should be voided.
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ICE agents stake out hospital room of 10-year-old undocumented girl with cerebral palsy, to hold her — or potentially any undocumented members of her family who come to visit — in detention for deportation.
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School officials, including both teachers and administrators, harassed a student at Klein, Texas’ Oak High School for years over her choice to sit out the pledge of allegiance according to a federal lawsuit based on West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, a Supreme Court case from 1943 that the US government and public schools cannot legally compel students to stand for the pledge.
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Trump blames the generals for the Niger ambush, by pointing out the he didn’t specifically authorize the mission.
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Author Joshua Green tells Anderson Cooper on CNN that the voter micro-targeting operation run by Jared Kushner with Cambridge-Analytica targeted unlikely states like Michigan and Wisconsin where Trump was 6-7 points behind, and the Russian social media ads, bots and trolls also targeted those same exact states indicating potential coordination between them.
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Ongoing threats to Frederica Wilson’s life are preventing her from casting votes in Washington.
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Bakari Sellers says on CNN that Trump has a high amount a “psycopathy” in his personality and that he’s devoid of empathy and that he’s a sociopath.
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Ben Carson says “people were looking for something to criticize” Trump about on his condolence call to the Johnsons.
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Democratic Donor Tom Steyer begins a nationwide campaign calling for Trump’s impeachment.
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October 26th —
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Sessions reveals he “might” not be recused from investigating the Steele dossier. Trump says it’s “complete discredited” — but that’s not even close to being true.
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AP reports that an election server and it’s 2 backups were wiped after Voting Rights advocates sued the Georgia Attorney General after a security hole found on the server had not been closed six months after it had been found.
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Sen. Tom Coburn — who is also a medical Doctor — says ‘We have a leader who has a personality disorder’
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Trump and Cambridge-Analytica mega-funder Rebekah Mercer tried to buy access to Clinton emails but ran into ‘major legal liabilities’, allegedly she also offered to have CA index the DNC emails on Wikieaks to make them easier to search and sort.
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Bill Browder goes on Fox & Friends to discuss the Steele dossier and says that he’s sure the FBI can tell bullshit from the truth.
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Deranged conspiracy theorist who believe the Vegas/Route 91 shooting is a “hoax” are sending death threats to survivors on the shooting and their families. “I hope someone shoots you in the head.”
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Twitter bans ads from Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik.
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Huckabee-Sanders gets busted for saying the Russia probe is ending by Fox’s Bill Hemmer — “No one at DOJ told you it’s wrapping up.” She wrongfully proclaims that no evidence of wrongdoing has been linked to Trump associates and that’s it getting “worse” for Democrats, which is nonsense.
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Ron Reagan Jr. wants Trump impeached.
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Reddit shuts down “alt-Right” forums after Trump loving user stabs his own father.
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Trump finally begins to implement the new Russia sanctions — 26 days late, but then Tillerson cuts the Obama-era office for overseeing foreign sanctions.
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The FBI files on JFK are released — almost, only 2,800 out of 35k are included because apparently all the national security redactions, which were the Trump admins responsibility, weren’t yet done.
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Gorka says Hillary is “guilty of Treason and Espionage” for the Uranium One deal and should be executed for it like the Goldbergs, which is really dumb because they weren’t tried for Treason since we weren’t at war with Russia at the time, she had nothing personally to do with the deal because it was the responsibility of her Deputy Jose Fernandez, and that Uranium is still in the U.S., because it was about ownership of the mines not who owned the Uranium, plus Rosatom doesn’t have an export license for it anyway however Trump Tower Moscow, the Veselnitskaya meeting, the Mayflower Hotel Meeting over sanctions, blocking anti-Russian planks at the RNC, $100 Million to Manafort and his promising to “brief” Derapaska, the sale of 19% of Rosneft, trying to have sanctions lifted on Russia at least 5 times for no reason, then lying about it to the FBI, trying to demand loyalty and block the investigation into Flynn, lying about why Comey was fired, lying about why Don Jr. met with Russians, trying to setup a secure backchannel to the Kremlin inside the Russian embassy to avoid U.S. intel, secret meetings with the crown Prince of Bahrain, and trying to get ahold of Hillary’s deleted (and presumably stolen) emails at least 3 times — from foreign hackers, Julian Assange and the Dark Web — is all is just fine.
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Trump declares opiods a “National Health Crisis” — which doesn’t allow any funds to be appropriated to deal with it, unlike when he previously declared it a “National Emergency” which does include funds, but no one in the WH did any paper work on it back then.
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A car drove into a group of people who were protesting President Trump’s immigration policy, outside Congressman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) office in Brea, California.
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FEMA had a 100 page Emergency Plan for a Hurricane hitting Puerto Rico — but now refuse to release copies of it to the public.
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The GAO agrees to investigate Trump’s Voter Suppression Commission.
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October 27th —
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October 30th —
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Mueller’s indictment are unsealed, they charge Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates for 12 counts of conspiracy, false statements, failure to register as a foreign agent and money laundering over $75 Million from the Ukraine and Russia which was funneled through offshore accounts largely in Cyprus. — Manafort and Gates are arranged and plead “Not Guilty”. Bail is set for $10 Million for Manafort and $5 Million for Gates, both are placed under house arrest.
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Mueller also indicts former Trump National Security Advisor George Papadopoulos who pleads guilty and reaches a deal regarding his lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians, including, the Russian Ambassador to Britain, a Professor in London who told him in March that Russia had “thousands of emails” detailing dirt on Hillary Clinton — which he states even before the GRU breached the DNC email system or Podesta’s emails, but after the FSB intrusion and before either was publicly known — as well as meeting with Putin’s “Neice” and a contact with links to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs about setting up a meeting between Trump and Putin. This was communicated both to Lewandowski, Manafort and Gates who apparently discussed going forward with meetings in Russia but only with low level staffers instead of Trump to not send the “wrong signal.” These communications go on until days before Manafort leaves that campaign due to the first inklings of his Ukrainian money scandal coming forward. Apparently Papadopoulos was arrested and began cooperating back in June, just one day after the no-knock Warrant was served on Manafort’s house.
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Coincidentally Papdapoulos interviewed with the FBI was just a few days after Flynn also lied to the FBI, and happened on the same day that Trump attempted to get Comey to drop the case against Flynn.
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Trump attorney Jay Sekolow claims that Papadopoulos was only convicted of lying and claims it has nothing to do with the campaign, except that he was lying about what he was doing with Russians on behalf of the campaign.
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Huckabee-Sanders claims that Papadopoulos “only attended one meeting” [although he announced at that meeting that he was working on establishing contacts and meetings Russians with links to the Kremlin] that none of his suggested meetings were approved [although they were fully supported and encouraged by high-level campaign staff including both Lewandowski & Manafort] and that’s he was essentially a nobody. She claims that all of the charges against Manafort & Gates relate to their actions before they were in the campaign, but that is untrue as his financial entanglements were with both Yanakovich and also Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska who paid him nearly $30 Million to represent Putin’s interests between 2009-2011, and whom Manafort tried to “pay back” by providing him a “personal briefing” on the Trump campaign just before the Republican Convention. There's also the potential issue that Manafort reportedly tried to ask the Russians for “help in their campaign against Hillary” even after the June meeting with Veselnitskaya which Huckabee-Sanders still says resulted in “no action” — which is a bit like saying it’s not a crime to try to rob a bank if you don’t get out the door with the money.
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JIm Acosta blasts Huckabee-Sanders diversions on Papadopoulos who clearly communicated with multiple Russians and was cleared to do so and meet with them asking “How is that not collusion?” [It is exactly collusion.]
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Federal court blocks enforcement of Trump’s transgender military ban.
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Politico Reports that Jared Kushner made a secret trip to Saudi Arabia last week to push forward the $110 Million arms deal Trump announced earlier this year during his own trip to the region.
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Conway says Trump is not focused on the Russia investigation, meanwhile he generates six tweets complaining about it and asking why they aren't investigating Hillary Clinton and Fusion GPS. [Because they don’t need too, nitwit.]
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John Podesta’s brother Tony steps down from his lobbying firm amid allegations he's being looked at by Mueller because he had worked with Manafort on some deals.
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Manafort’s attorney Kevin Downey complains that FARA has only been charged 6 times and only obtained one conviction and he claims the charges of holding his money offshore to avoid paying U.S. taxes as “ridiculous” then storms off.
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October 31st —
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An Uzbekistan immigrant Sayfullo Saipov drives a Home Depot truck down the bike path in NYC killing 8 people and injures 11 more. He’s shot and captured by police, his social media indicates connections to ISIS.
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Trump blames Chuck Schumer for the New York Truck attack claiming that he entered the nation 7 years ago due to a Schumer supported Diversity Visa program, however that was a bipartisan bill that was signed in 1990 by George H.W. Bush and since then Schumer had supported ending that program in 2013 as part of comprehensive immigration reform which was blocked by Republicans. He also considers sending Saipov to Gitmo.
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Google, Facebook and Twiiter execs appear before Senate Judiciary to explain why they didn’t recognize that political ads were being paid for in rubles, it doesn't go well. Not at all.
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John Kelly tells Laura Ingraham that he’ll never apologize to Rep. Frederica Wilson, that “Robert E. Lee was an honorable man who chose his State over his country” and that the Civil war could have been avoided if they had been “more willing to compromise”. He also calls for a Special Counsel to investigate Democrats, Uranium One and the Steele Dossier. [Yep, he’s Trump’s “Boy” alright.]
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WaPo reports that Papadopoulos attempted to broker a meeting between Trump campaign member Boris Ephsteyn and Sergei Millian who was apparently Christopher Steele’s source for the “golden showers” story.
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Robert E. Lee’s descendants blast Kelly’s statements and asks him to stop Trump from “enacting Racist policies.” Actor Wendell Pierce responds to Kelly “They raped my grandmother, lynched my uncle… you racist pr*ck’ Ta-nahisi Coates blasts Trump pointing out that allowing slavery to exist in certain states at all — with the Missouri Compromise, the three-fifths compromise, and the Fugitives Slave Act compromise since several northern states wouldn’t implement the Fugitive Slave clause requiring them to recover runaways save — were themselves a series of compromises that were made and the South STILL wasn’t satisfied, and that Lincoln wasn’t an abolitionist at all, he instead had offered to pay slave owners reparations to send Blacks back to Africa and they still wouldn’t do it.
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Huckabee-Sanders defends Kelly’s statements on the Civil War and Robert E. Lee claiming “all our leaders have flaws” and berates reporters for turning his clearly bigoted and ignorant comments into “something they aren’t” — which was bigoted and ignorant— and claims it's “disgusting and absurd to suggest anyone in the WH would support Slavery” which apparently Kelly thinks defending was “honorable”
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Twitter trolls dupe Don Jr. into promoting another conspiracy theory that’s nearly as bad as Pizza-gate.
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Lowendowski whines that the FBI should have warned Trump not to hire Manafort — yeah, but Obama directly warned him not to hire Flynn in the first place and we all know how that turned out, right?
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North Koren tunnels used in their nuclear tests collapses killing 200 people.
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November 3rd —
- Judge denies Veselnitskaya request to re-enter the U.S.
- Trial date for Manafort and Gates is set for May 7th.
- Online Bots stoke racism in midst of Virginia Governors race in support of GOPer Ed Gillespie
- The Daily Stormer decides to make Papa John’s the official pizza of the Alt-Right.
- Don Lemon smashes a Trumpsters attempt to divert attention away from the Mueller Russia investigation onto the Hillary/Uranium One deal with a few sentences.
- AP reports that Guccifer 2.0 altered some of Podesta’s emails before releasing them including adding the word “Confidential” falsely in order to get reporters to notice them more.
- Franken slams Sessions ‘He either has a terrible memory or he is deliberately not telling me the truth’. [I’ll take Door #2 johnny.]
- ICE releases Rosa Maria Hernandez a 10 year-old girl with Cerabral Palsey they had be detaining due to an ACLU lawsuit.
- Trump demands the Supreme Court punish lawyers from the ACLU who helped a teen girl in ICE detention complete the abortion she wanted, showing he really doesn’t understand how the legal system works at all, if they acted improperly he should file a complaint with the Bar association.
- Surprising absolutely no one with a brain the Las Vegas/Route 91 shooter was a Trump supporter, as were I would guess, many of the people he shot.
- Nadya from Pussy Riot tells Lawrence O’Donnell how similar Trump is to Putin. “We pay for them to tell us bullshit. Putin likes him because he has no political beliefs, he doesn’t believe in Democracy or Human Rights.”
- After a Judge spares jail time for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl following his guilty plea for desertion in 2009 just before he was captured by the Taliban — Trump calls it a “disgrace”, because of course he does ignoring the fact that his own calls for Bergdahl’s execution helped prompt the final decision because the Judge Col. Jeffery R. Nance of the Army, said during a hearing late last month that Trump’s public comments about the case would be treated as “mitigation evidence.” Trump has also called for the NYC Truck attacker to be sent to Gitmo and executed even though he hasn’t even been tried yet.
- Keith Olbermann battles Meghan McCain on The View over whether Trump is more damaging to the nation than Bin Laden & the Iraq War.
- Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is hiring 70 foreign workers on H-2B visas this winter — a 9 percent boost from last year.
- Steve Bannon’s attempts to influence and communicate with the WH violates ethics laws that prevent former Exec branch employees from talking to people at their former job for at least a year.
- Former Kremlin “political technologist” Gleb Pavlovsky tells PBS Frontline that Putin believes that he was responsible for Trump winning the election.He doesn't say that Putin and Trump worked together for that goal.
- Trump who just last week said he had "one of the great memories of all time” in his dispute with Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson says he doesn’t remember much about George Papadopoulus bragging that he’d made multiple contacts with Russians and had pitched for Trump to personally meet Putin. He also tweet/demands that the FBI investigate Dems and Clinton’s emails, [which they did already], Podesta’s emails [which they are now because they were stolen by Russian intelligence], Uranium One [which Hillary wasn’t involved in] and the Steele Dossier [which is proving more and more accurate as time passes].
- Newsweek publishes a list of 2,752 now deactivated twitter bots used by Russia’s Internet Research Service/Glavset during the election. Some are obviously Russian, but others claim to be “News” like “@DallasTopNews” or “@MilwaukeeVoice”, various Western individuals like “@MaryRobinson111, some pretend to be activist groups “@NotMyHeritage, @LgbtRally and @BlacktivistsUS” or GOP outlets “@10_gop, @TEN_GOP, @realTEN_GOP and @ELEVEN_GOP.” or Democrats “@NewYorkDem.”
- NYTimes reports that Carter Page has testified before the Mueller Grand Jury.
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- November 6th —
- Bloomberg reports that Veselnitskaya said during a television interview in Moscow that Don Jr. was open to reversing the Magnitski act: “Looking ahead, if we come to power, we can return to this issue and think what to do about it,” she recalled Trump Jr. telling her at the 2016 meeting. “I understand our side may have messed up, but it’ll take a long time to get to the bottom of it.” which sounds like a Logan Act violation and a “Theft of Honest Services.” And that he asked for it in exchange for evidence that Clinton’s campaign accepted illegal donations connected to tax evasion, which Veselnitskaya didn’t bring. She says the meeting was a failure, but that she’d be willing to testify before the Senate in open session.
- Former Federal Prosecutor Renato Moriotti says Don Jr. could be at serious criminal risk based on Veselnitskaya’s interview, particularly if he asked for the “dirt” on Clinton in exchange for modifying the Magnitski Act.
- The Paradise Papers are released which documented millions of financial transactions and loans. At least 13 allies, major donors and Cabinet members of U.S. President Donald Trump appear in the docs, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s interests in a shipping company that makes millions from an energy firm whose owners include Russian President Vladimir Putin’s son-in-law and a sanctioned Russian tycoon,"
- During his semi-sane rambling 8-hour House testimony Carter Page:
- Confirms that the blocking of the RNC platform plank was implemented by JD Gordon from the House team by providing an email from himself to Gordon.
- He had bragged about “some incredible insights and outreach” he received from “a few Russian legislators and senior members of the Presidential administration here”, but that appears to have resulted mostly from watching Russian TV, not personal contacts.
- He met the deputy Prime Minister Arkadiy Dvorkovich, a fact which he had never previously disclosed — but seems to nearly confirm one of the memos from the Steele Dossier. According to Steele Page met Divyekin who had told him the Kremlin had damaging information on Hillary Clinton they wanted to give the Trump campaign (which is the 3rd time this has been reported it happened with Papadopoulous and Don Jr.).
- Page also confirmed that he “possibly” had contacted Andrey Baranov, the head of investor relations at the Russian oil company Rosneft in advance of his July 2016 visit — which also sounds much like the Steele claim that he met Rosneft head, Igor Sechin, which has been confirmed by U.S. Intelligence sources.
- Page states that Baranov “may have briefly mentioned” the sale of a significant portion of Rosneft stock — a sale which was again predicted in the Steele Dossier, and took place one day before the election, exactly one year ago, and was revealed publicly on Dec 7th.
- He sent an email on May 16, 2016 suggesting Trump visit Russia — just like Papadopoulos — “to raise the temperature a little bit.”
- The Magistrate Judge in the Manafort/Gates cases expresses skepticism that they should forego GPS monitoring for them as flight risks.
- Woman cyclist who had flipped Trump’s motorcade the bird is fired from her government contractor job.
- Trump says the Texas Shooting isn’t a “Gun Situation” claiming it has to do with “mental health” even though there are no reports yet that the shooter wasn’t diagnosed with emotional problems, and that the solution to mass shootings is having more people with Guns — which he says while he’s in Japan which doesn’t allow open gun ownership and doesn’t have any mass shootings.
- Texas Shooter Devin Patrick Kelley appears to have been attempting to attack his ex-wife and in laws who had attended Sutherland Springs Church but they weren’t present at the time of his attack, he had purchased 4 guns in the last few years even though the FBI should have been notified that he had been convicted in a military court martial of spousal and child violence and been incarcerated for 12 months. After being released he had a Bad Conduct discharge from the Air Force which denied him all benefits, including mental health coverage and anger management counseling. 26 people died from his assault, including the pastors 14 year-old girl and a 17 month old baby.
- The Texas shooter had been driven off by a neighbor with his own AR-15 who ran out barefoot when he heard the shots, he managed to hit him in the side between his body armor, then twice more in the as he fled in a car. He pursed him with the help of a passing driver for 11 miles until he finally stopped and was found him dead from a self-inflicted wound.
- Anthony Weiner begins his 21-month prison sentence.
- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman — who has already visited Trump in the WH house and met privately with Jared Kushner — stages a round-up off all challengers to his ascension to King, Trump says he “knows what he’s doing.”
- Kevin Spacey is fired from House of Cards as a result of the many allegations of sexual harassment hurled against him, in addition to complaints from Anthony Rapp and Richard Dreyfuss’ son, Harry.
- Papa John’s tells Nazi’s “Dont eat our pizza” and I’m just sure they’re gonna listen.
- Lara Trump sends out a Tweet that attempts to yet again link Hillary and Obama to a socialist scheme attributed to Saul Alinski that he never actually wrote.
- The Air Force admits that they didn’t add Kelley’s domestic violence conviction and prison sentence into the NCIC which would have prevented his weapons purchases.
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- Rob Johnson of Crowdstrike who first investigated the DNC hack says that going public with it in July “forced the Russians to accelerate their timeline” as he suspects they had intended not to release the information until October. “I don’t think the Russian intelligence services were expecting it, expecting a statement and an article that pointed the finger at them.” [Technically Julian Assange revealed he had “emails linked to Hillary” on June 12, 2016 several days before the Wapo revealed the hack, then Guccifer 2.0 dumped the first files of DNC oppo-research file on Trump the next day.]
- Former NSA Analyst John Schindler at the Observer states that multiple Intel agencies have sex tapes featuring Donald Trump, but several of them may be forgeries intended to be counter-intel planted by the Russians. He doubts the existence of the Steele “golden shower” tape.
- ESPN analyst Tim Tebow declined to speak out against Richard Spencer’s White Supremacist Rally at UofF.
- Rawstory reports that the source of Veselnitskaya’s “Dirt” on Clinton was an Oppo-Research Document from Fusion GPS which claimed some campaign donations to her and the DNC had been made illegally [Which is only a crime if they knew it at the time and accepted them anyway.]
- Fox and Friends freaks out over Paisley and Underwood at the CMA’s “Isn’t Country music supposed to be conservative?” [Sometimes, but that doesn’t mean it’s Trumpist too.]
- Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke reportedly plans to resign in protest over pressure from White House officials to expel tens of thousands of citizens of Honduras who are staying in the United States under protected status.
- ‘We are at risk of a coup’: GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz demands Mueller resign — and the DOJ investigate Clinton — because yeah sure, they haven’t don't that before.
- A Democratic member of the Trump’s Election Suppression Commission filed suit against the them in federal court in Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning, alleging that its Republican leadership has intentionally excluded him from deliberations and violated federal transparency laws.
- Carrier says it plans to lay off 215 more workers this coming January, just months after it laid off more than 300 employees earlier this year. The deal that the company struck with Trump gave it $7 million to keep some jobs in the United States, although it still is moving many of the jobs at its Indiana plant down to Mexico anyway.
- Wapo reports that RT has finally agreed to register as a Foreign Agent.
- Alabama GOP Senate Nominee Roy Moore runs to Breitbart to preemptively deny a WaPo report about his improper relations with underage girls in the 70’s.
- Dems on the Senate Foreign Relations committee have been investigating worldwide Russian Election Crimes on their own because Republicans on the committee just won’t bother.
- Federal investigators name the woman who claimed to be “Putin’s Niece” to Papadopoulos as an attractive Russian model name Olga Vinogradova who may have been a “cut out” with a handler in the Kremlin.
- Rand Paul’s attacker pleads Not Guilty to assault charges. [The dude has 6 broken ribs, how’s this gonna work? The anger fairy did it?]
- CBS and ABC report that Trump aide Stephen Miller has been interviewed by Mueller’s investigation, mostly likely about his involvement in drafting the original letter justifying the firing of James Comey before that was vetoed by White House counsel and Rosenstein was brought in to come up with a new set of excuses for it.
- WSJ reports that the DOJ is seeking a plea deal with Manafort’s ex-son in law Jeffrey Yohai over shade real estate deals he made using shell companies.
- Comedia Louis CK is accused of sexual misconduct by five women.
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- Thousands March in Hollywood in a #MeToo march against sexual abuse.
- The Atlantic reports that Wikileaks and Don Junior were in repeated contact via twitter and email offering them suggestions and that on several occasions he tweeted the information and links which they had provided to him. A former WH Counsel says this contact and coordination with a foreign nation — Assange — is a Federal Crime.
- Trump travels to the Philippines and claims he discussed human rights abuses with Duterte, but Duterte’s government says he’s a liar and the subject never came up. He says nothing publicly about the thousands who have been killed in Duterte’s “Drug War.” Then he chuckles as Duterte calls the press a bunch of “spies.”
- Giant protests against Trump break out in Manilla including burning a swastika laden Trump effigy, which authorities counter with water cannons and batons.
- GOP Billionaire donor Sheldon Adelson publicly drops Roy Moore apologist Steve Bannon under the bus, then backs over him.
- Coffee maker company Keurig pulls their ads from Hannity due to his support of Roy Moore amid his pedophile allegations and his calling Moore’s accuser a liar only to be attacked by Russian bots and twitter trolls.
- Court documents show that Papadopoulos informed Stephen Miller about the “Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton” which puts him also in the cross hairs for conspiracy to aid and abet cyber crime by not reporting it to the FBI.
- Trump nominates former Pharma exec Alex Azar to replace Tom Price at HHS claiming the guy who used to profit from the high price of drugs is now going to help bring those prices down. [Yeah, right..sure he will.]
- Moore threatens to sue the WaPo over the story about the sex allegations against him, but they had 30 on the record sources for that story — how’s that going to work?
- Moore acquires a fifth accuser Beverly Young Nelson who gives a compelling tearful account of how he sexually assaulted her in his car behind the restaurant she worked in when she was just 16, he denies knowing her or the restaurant but she has a copy of her High School year book with his signature which name checks the restaurant. Locals also note that Moore was banned form the local mall for trying to pick up teenage girls.
- Mitch McConnell say Moore should step aside, “I believe the women.” Pat Toomey says the allegations against Moore “have more credibility than his denials.” Bill Cassidy also rescinds his support for Moore making a total of 3 GOP Senators who’ve backed away from him. Within hours that total grows to 16 GOP Senators including Hatch, Collins, Cornyn, Graham and McCain.
- Brett J. Talley who was nominated by Trump for the Federal Bench in Alabama besides never having ever tried a court case, also failed to disclose on his conflict of interest forms that he’s married to WH Counsel Dan McGahn’s chief of staff Ann Donaldson who was present and took detailed notes concerning the decisions and advice given by WH Counsel on the firing of James Comey. Talley was confirmed by committee and is expected to come up for a full Senate vote within a week.
- Surprising no one with a brain, “Women’s Advocate” Ivanka Trump stays completely silent on the allegations against Moore just as she hasn’t said anything about Harvey Weinstein. Still.
- Wapo reports that Sessions is considering a second special counsel to investigate the Clinton Foundation and the Uranium One deal. That won’t last for long.
- November 14th —
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Continued with Volume #5.