Due to pure length I’ve had to again split the Master Trump Russia Timeline Vol1 (1985-to Mid June 2017) and Vol 2 (June — Late August, 2017) so the continuing summary of periodic updates and new entries will be placed here as Vol 3.
The latest developments are that Trump’s longtime convicted criminal Russian mobster associate Felix Sater has not only stated behind closed doors that he and Trump as likely to “go to prison” for their shady deals with Russia, but that he also promised to get Putin’s help in getting Trump elected, as he wrote to Michael Cohen in November of 2015.
“Michael I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putin’s private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. We both know no one else knows how to pull this off without greed or stupidity getting in the way. I know how to play it and how to get this done. Buddy, our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote in one email, according to the Times. “I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
This is in addition to the fact that he was trying to get Trump Tower Moscow built right during the middle of the election and that just two months later in January Michael Cohen emailed Putin aide Dimitr Peskov at the Kremlin for help with that.
“Over the past few months I have been working with a company based in Russia regarding the development of a Trump Tower - Moscow project in Moscow City,” Cohen wrote Peskov, according to a person familiar with the email. “Without getting into lengthy specifics, the communication between our two sides has stalled.”
So besides the fact the Russian bank they intended to use to finance this tower, VTB Bank, is 60% owned by the Russian government and under sanctions so doing pretty much any business with them was illegal as well as a potential violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act — which features civil and penalties up to $1 Million per violation and criminal penalties up to 10 years in prison — what was that about “Not having anything to do with Russia” stuff again?
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July 27th —
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CBO score of Skinny Repeals says that it would take Healthcare from 16 Million people and increase premiums by 20%.
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Newsweek reports that Russia used Facebook to try and trick Macron supporters prior to French Election.
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Senate ignores Trump’s call to investigate Hillary Clinton again.
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Lindsay Graham says firing Sessions and/or Mueller would be the beginning of the end of Trump’s presidency.
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The Joint Chiefs announce no one is going no where based on a Tweet, Trump hasn’t given them any formal instructions on trans soldiers yet.
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Bill Browder testifies to Senate Judiciary and tells them that Veselnitskaya and Ahkmenttshin were clearly operatives for Putin and Russian Intel offering Kompromat on Clinton to see if anyone in the Trump camp would take the bait.
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He explains how Putin and Chaika had Magnitski and Boris Nemsov murdered and tried to poison Kara-Murza twice to cover up their graft and corruption.
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Having the Magnitski act repealed or limited is a prime Putin goal.
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He also says that Fusion GPS was also funded by Russians because they like to “Play both sides” — which suggests some of the more salacious items in the Steele Dossier may have been fed to them as disinformationto help make it easier to discredit the overall report.
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Kellyanne Conway throws Preibus a “shiv in the ribs” for leaking Scaramucci’s financials — which he probably didn’t do.
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Scaramucci gives a mad crazy interview on CNN about his financial forms being leaked even though it’s still public information calling in right in the middle of an interview with Ryan Lizza.
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Scaramucci then calls Ryan Pizza of the New Yorker directly and gives him a rambling profane on the record interview.
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He demands to know who leaked that he was having dinner with Hannity, Trump and Melanie that night, and that he’d fire everyone in the White House until Lizza told him. (He can’t do that, he can only fire press and communications people — Preibus could do that, or Trump. And since when is having dinner with the Trumps and Sean Hannity a matter of National Security?)
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He says that he’s not out to promote himself and “Suck his own cock” like Steve Bannon, he’s trying to promote Trump. [And doing a wonderful job of it he is too...]
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He claims Preibus is a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic paranoiac” who leaked his financial forms — although the forms are public information — because he didn’t want him hired in the first place. [And who could blame him for that prescience?]
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He claims he has ‘digital fingerprints” of alleged leakers given to him by the FBI (which would be illegal for them to do) and also he’s not on the approved WH/DOJ communications list, neither is Preibus.
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He says they need to “Kill all the fucking leakers.”and that “People in this administration think their job is too save the country from Trump, that’s not their job, it’s to inject Trump into the nation”— eww..just ewww.
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Propublica obtains a set of talking points created for DNI Dan Coates which shows that the relationship between the Intel Community and Trump is highly strained. [No kiddin?]
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The Senate fails to pass each and every single Trumpcare proposal including “Repeal/Replace” and“Repeal/Delay” and even eventually fail even with the Hail-Mary “Skinny Repeal” after Senators John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski vote against it.
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McConnel says the failure to repeal O-care is “disappointing”, whines about losing then sarcastically asks “Let see what the Democrats have.” Schumer calls for bi-partisan cooperation to help fix the lingering problems of the Health Care Market.
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Trump says they should now ‘let O-care Implode” although what he really means is he’s going to have Tom Price sabotage it even further until Dems cry “Uncle.”
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Devin Nunez continues pushing his Obama “Unmasking” Story.
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Manafort is scheduled to meet with Senate Judiciary today, but negotiates a later date.
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New Russia sanctions bill gets sent to Trump’s desk.
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July 28th —
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Trump calls for Police Brutality by telling assembled cheering Long Island Police to "don’t be too nice” when slamming them into the back of a paddy wagon and “don’t hold their head” when placing them in the back seat. “You can take the hand away, okay?”
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Trump fires Reice Preibus via Tweet, makes DHS head Kelly as new Chief of Staff. Preibus finds out on a rain soaked tarmac as AF1 arrives back in Washington, others get out of his Suburban and his car leaves the motorcade and goes off on it’s own instead of returning to the WH.
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Scaramucci’s wife, who had been estranged with him for months, files for Divorce because of his naked political ambition “Deirdre is not a fan of Trump” which means he’s gonna have to learn that special trick of Bannon’s now.
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Russia expels U.S. 755 Diplomats and seizes an American compound in “retaliation” for the new sanctions bill that Trump hasn’t yet signed calling them “Illegal” and unjustified.
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August 13th —
- Trump gives a rambling confused statement on Charlottesville that talks about violence “on many sides” and never mentions white supremacist or neo-Nazis.
- Washington Post reports Trump staffer George Papadopoulos repeatedly offered to set up “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump,” “Putin wants to host the Trump team when the time is right,” Papadopoulos wrote in an email to former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on April 27, 2016. He also told Lewandowski he had fielded “a lot of calls over the past month” related to a meeting between the Trump campaign and Russia. “Russia has been eager to meet with Mr. Trump for some time and have been reaching out to me to discuss,” Papadopoulos said in a separate email to former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
- August 14th —
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August 15th —
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Kushner faces lawsuit for over charging rent in NYC.
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Trump retweets meme of a train running over a CNN reporter.
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Trump angrily argues during an Infrastructure Press Briefing that “Both Sides” were at fault in Charlottesville violence and stuns much of the GOP who quickly criticize his comments. He claims that if Gen. Lee and Stonewall Jackson statues have to come down so do monuments to Washington and Jefferson since they were slave owners, although they never attacked and waged war against America over it, they fought Britain to increase freedom, not decrease it and thus his real White-Power bona fides are finally revealed and confirmed.
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August 16th —
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August 17th —
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The Spectator reports that Felix Sater — who helped sell many Trump properties to various Russians through his former real estate firm Bayrock — may have flipped for the FBI again and that he has said the both he and Trump “are going to prison.”
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Cantwell states emphatically that he’s “Not a coward.” No one is impressed, particularly not PayPal and Ok, Cupid who cut him off for life.
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Sen Bob Corker (R-TN) says in response to Trump Charlottesville comments: “The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful,”
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UVA Librarian Tyler McGill suffers a stroke from being struck in the neck with a Tiki Torch by Unite the Right protestors.
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Foreign Policy reports that Wikileaks refused to receive or publish 68 Gig of negative data on the operations of the Kremlin.
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Buzzfeed reports that Trump is furious that “Bannon is taking credit for my election.”
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A Van strikes 50 people in Barcelona, 13 are killed. 2 suspects are taken into custody but no information about them or their motive is released immediately.
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Trump tweets in support of “beautiful Confederate Statues” and decrying “Terrorism in Barcelona” then later endorsed a questionable internet rumor that a U.S. General in the Philippines committed the War Crime of mass executions using bullets laced with pigs blood to deter terrorists, when in actuality he sat down with Muslims, ate their food, learned their language, customs and read the Koran with them. CNN’s Jake Tapper says “He just suggested we should study a lie.” But he still hasn’t said anything about the firebombing of a mosque in Minnesota, the car crashed into a crowd near a mosque in London or the machete attack against Democrats in Kentucky.
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Mike Huckabee says if you take down Robert E. Lee, you have to take down Mt. Rushmore.
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With “Infrastructure Week” not quite complete, Trump gives up on his infrastructure council.
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August 18th —
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Steve Bannon is Fired and quickly reports surface here’s going to take Breitbart to Defcon1 Thermonuclear Global War against Trump. Cue the Russia Bots of Doom. Subsequent reports say that he intends to use Brietbart to go to War with Trump’s enemies — which now, is just about everyone.
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Michael Cohen writes House and Senate Intel a letter falsely claiming that he had ended the Trump Tower Moscow Project in in January of 2016, that it hadn’t been widely discussed within Trumpco, that he’d never agreed to travel to Moscow and he didn’t recall the Russian government responding after he had emailed Peskov about it. These were all lies.
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Also a former friend and aide of Preibus, George Sifakis, leaves the WH.
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Buzzfeed reports that Mueller’s investigation is now targeting Donald Jr concerning his meeting with Veselnitskaya and Akhmetshin.
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Reports surface that besides Bayrock’s Tefvik Arik Trump has financial links to post-Soviet era oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, who had been charged with stealing between $4-$10 Billion from Kazakhstan’s largest banks through loans and shell companies and had been working with Trump on 2 Tower projects in (former soviet) Georgia through a company run by Michael Cohen. The same report also notes the connection of oligarch Alexander Shnaider, who has mob ties, and had been involved in the Toronto Trump Tower deal.
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16 out of 17 members of Trump’s Arts Council resign en mass in protest of Trump comments about Charlottesville. He says “Nah ah, I QUIT YOU”, they say “No, We quit you first!”
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Heather Heyer’s mother Susan Bro refuses to speak with Trump in protest of his comments on Charlottesville, while Mitt Romney calls for him to apologize. He doesn’t.
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7 Charities have cancelled fundraisers scheduled to be held at Mar-a-Lago.
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Charlottesville Police issue arrest warrant for Chris Cantwell for illegal use of gases and injury by caustic agent or explosive,
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ISIS reportedly takes credit for the Barcelona Van attack which Spain authorities say involved 12 people, 4 are in custody and 5 had been killed in a police raid.
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August 21st —
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Trump showing his usual level of sociopathic empathy deficit disorder responds to the crash of the U.S.S. McCain which injured five sailors and where ten remain missing with “That’s too bad.”
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Paul Ryan holds a CNN Town hall and gives a weak tepid condemnation of Trump’s statements on Charlottesville — Tapper says it “Wasn’t morally ambiguous, it’s was Morally Wrong.”
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Virginia State Attorney issues four warrants for Christopher Cantwell.
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The U.S experiences it’s first total solar eclipse in 38 years, Shep Smith freaks the heck out. Trump stares into the Sun without glasses — “Finally, he establishes a Blind Trust.”
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North Korea releases fake propaganda videos of their missiles hitting Guam.
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Rep. Bryan Zollinger (R-ID) claims that Obama may have “staged the Charlottesville riots.” [Facepalm!]
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“Art of the Deal” Ghost writer Tony Schwatz gets a loud racist voicemailcriticizing him for saying Trump “will resign.”
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Katrina Peirson — yes, she’s still here — goes ballistic on Fox claiming “Slavery is an example of how special and wonderful this country is.” [Uh, er, what?]
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NYTimes reports that Akhmetshin has close ties to the FSB and Putin, had helped Russian oligarchs using sophisticated cyber hacks for their benefit, helped unmask corruption at a Krygystan Air Force base which Russia wanted purged of U.S. personnel, and got Federal prosecutors to file charges against an American businessman who happened to be a CIA operative working in Russia.
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USA Today reports that Trump’s extended family and their extensive travel is draining the resources of the Secret Service Dry.
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Treasury Sec Mnunchin uses a government plane to fly to visit Fort Knox as an excuse to view the Solar exclispe at 95% totally, he also brings Mitch McConnel.
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August 22nd —
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ABC News reports that Christopher Steele met with and has given the FBI the names and contact information for the sources of his Trump/Russia dossier.
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CNN reports that Glenn Simpson, partner with Fusion GPS the oppo research team that had contracted with Steele to produce his dossier, has testified for 10 hours before Senate Judiciary behind closed doors. Fusion also provided 40,000 pages of documents to the committee.
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At his Phoenix rally Trump attacks the media as “Fake” while misquoting his own statements about Charlottesville and his “unequivocal” condemnation of White Supremacy, except for the “Good Ones” and the BLM/Antifa “Chargers” which he doesn’t bring up this time. He hints at pardoning ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio who was convicted of violating a court order to stop his deputies from profiling, targeting and discriminating against Latinos. He claims the media won’t show the size of his crowd, but they do, and he claims the protestors outside are only a few, but they aren’t. And he leads a chant calling for the death of John McCain.
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Police and Protestors lob bottles, bricks and tear gas back and forth at each other during and after Trump’s rally, no injuries are reported.
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CNN responds to Trump’s attack and begins to say he sounds “unhinged.” Don Lemon says “His speech was without thought, without reason, devoid of facts, devoid of wisdom,”
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NYTimes reports that Trump’s relationship with Mitch McConnell has deteriorated down to explicative filled phone calls over Trumpcare’s failure and the continued Russia probes in congress.
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Trump’s airwar against ISIS passes the civilian death toll of Obama’s entire Presidency.
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Trump’s pick to protect U.S. workers from abuse as Deputy Secretary of Labor is a former lobbyists for forced abortion sweatshops.[Oh, lordy!]
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Alex Jones suggest reparations for White People. [Yes, really]
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McClatchy reports that Mueller’s investigators may have found that Manafort may have received between $80-$100 Million from Russian and Ukrainian Oligarchs over the past decade.
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Trump gives a speech on his new Afghanistan policy, which is basically more war, more killing, no end in sight and no nation building. [Which is different from the last 17 years before this how exactly? Oh yeah, no “dates certain.”]
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A rabidily racist Trump supporter — the same one who called Tony Schwartz — leaves a vicious bigoted message for CEO Ravin Ghandi — who has Indian heritage but was born in the U.S. — because he is one of the CEOs who left one of Trump’s economic council
- August 23rd —
- Trump pardons ex-Sherrif Arpaio for his contempt of court conviction for refusing to stop discriminating against latino citizens. This he does despite — or perhaps because of — his history of racial discrimination and targeting of Latinos for arrest and detention, the horrific conditions in his “concentration camp” jails which have led to record suicides and in custody deaths, and his attempts to intimidate and wrongfully arrest journalist and politicians who criticize him with bogus trumped up charges. Also he’s a birther, like Trump.
- Hungarian Nazi Badge wearer Sebastian Gorka resigns from the WH amid rumors of his anti-Semetism. [Who knew?]
- Reports are that Meuller is investigating how involved Flynn, his son and his consulting firm were with Robert W. Smith’s attempts to aquire Hillary emails from Russian hackers. He also issues subpeonas for grand jury testimony from 6 PR firms which had worked for Flynn and Manafort and if they were really trying to accomplish their stated goal of supporting Ukraine’s entry into the EU or if they were really implementing a covert/false-flag effort in support of Putin.
- Reports are that in 2007 Trump said “This is the first he’s heard...” that his employee Felix Sater was convicted of fraud in 1998. [Really? Odd, since that’s why Sater had to leave Bayrock LLC in the first place and go to work for Trump.]
- WH advisor Gary Cohn writes a resignation letter because of Trump’s support for anti-Semitic Neo-Nazis who chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, but he doesn’t hand it in. Mnunchin say’s “Gary is excited to be working here.”
- Trump’s approval rating per Gallup drops to just 34%.
- Ex-White Nationalists confirms that Trump is using the same slippery bigoted dog whistle rhetoric that helped recruit them into hate groups.
- Armed man slashes tarp on Charlottesville monument and says Heather Heyer died ‘playing in traffic’ [Nope, you can’t make this ish up.]
- Grassley says he will have the Judiciary committee to vote on releasing the testimony from Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS on the Steele Dossier.
- Shep Smith calls out Trump for trying to “rewrite history” with his Pheonix speech. [Don’t you know he’s been doing that since he rode down the escalator in Trump Tower?]
- Pro-Russia social media cyberbots begin to amplify rightwing rhetoric over Charlottesville claiming ““Dems and Media Continue to IGNORE BLM and Antifa Violence in Charlottesville” except there really wasn’t any to ignore. Did any neo-Nazis go to the Hospital? Nope.
- Cantwell, who is still in hiding from Charlottesville PD, reveals that his attorney has ditched him.
- James Clapper questions Trump’s “mental fitness” to be President after his Arizona speech.
- Kushner heads to Israel to try again for a peace deal after things went so “well” last time, which they didn’t.
- Michigan Senate candidate Kid Rock curses Colin Kaepernick, because that’s just what wannabe government leaders do.
- Scarborough asks “Who are these people?” in Trump’s crowd calling for John McCain’s death? [Arizona GOP voters?]
- Politico reports that Trump is so obsessed with the Russia investigation and the bill to protect Mueller from being wrongfully fired that he’s calling GOP Senators to scream and curse at them and can’t keep focused on day to day business.
- CNN reports that Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff Rick Dearborn last June when he was an advisor to the Trump campaign and Jeff Session’s Chief of staff had sent an email to Corey Lowendowski about someone nicked name “WV” trying to arrange a meeting between Trump and members of the Russian government including Putin at about the same time as Don Jr.’s meeting with Veselnitskaya. This is the second staffer in addition to NatSec advisor George Papadopoulos who had also tried to set up this kind of meeting last April according Trump campaign emails given to congress.
- Cantwell turns himself in to police, judge denies bail.
- Trump calls Clapper “a liar” for his mental fitness comments via — guess what — twitter. He also slams Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell over the debt ceiling vote, which hasn’t even happened yet.
- Dems, rising from their long slumber, try to defund Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission.
- CNN locates and interviews former Russian ambassador Kislyak on the streets of Moscow, he says that the allegations that he’s a “Spymaster” is “nonsense”. He says that the future of US/Russians relations will be “difficult.” And that sanctions and tensions will make it hard to resume a normalcy in our relationship.
- Politico reports that Trump has been repeatedly and angrily calling up GOP Senators such as Bob Corker and Thom Tillus to complain about bills he doesn’t like such as the Russia sanctions and Mueller protection legislation.
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August 25th —
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Trump pardons ex-Sherrif Arpaio for his contempt of court conviction for refusing to stop discriminating against latino citizens. This he does despite — or perhaps because of — his history of racial discrimination and targeting of Latinos for arrest and detention, the horrific conditions in his “concentration camp” tent city jails which have led to record suicides and in custody deaths, his attempts to intimidate and wrongfully arrest journalists and politicians who criticize him with bogus trumped up charges. Also he’s a birther, like Trump.
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Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas near Galvaston as a Category 4.
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Gorka says he didn’t resign from the WH, but yet, he’s still out. He eventually rejoins Breitbart right besides Bannon.
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Richard Painter blasts Arpaio as “One of the worst” law enforcement officers in the country,
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Paul Begala argues that the Arpaio pardon is a signal to Mueller’s targets, Flynn, Manafort, Kushner and Donald Jr, that Trump will protect them if they face charges.
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Ana Navarro links Trump’s Charlottesville comments to his support for racists like Gorka and Arpaio because, yeah, that makes total sense.
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NYTimes reports that Trump has cancelled an Obama era program to increase public works projects at the Department of Transportation. [So much for “American jobs” and “Infrastructure” and stuff.]
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Bannon vows to bring down Mitch McConnell “I’m going to light him up.” [Well, you could just offer to trip him so he falls onto his back, then he’d be helpless!]
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Trump slaps sanctions on Venezuela because of their “Dictatorship” — which is totally unlike his other dictator pals Erdogan, Putin or Duterte.
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August 28th —
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Vanity Fair reports that Gen Kelly, the Joint chiefs and other military leaders are despondent about Trump’s support for White Supremacy but are afraid that quitting might make things worse.
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Pics from Camp David show Trump sitting alone in the corner glumly as Pence runs Hurricane Harvey situation room.
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Emails uncovered by the NYTimes shows that Sater promised Putin’s help in getting Trump elected: “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote in one email, according to the Times. “I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
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WaPo reports that Michael Cohen in January of 2016 sent an email to Putin deputy Dmitry Peskov trying to get talks regarding Trump Tower Moscow restarted. Cohen says that things didn’t proceed because they lacked “confidence” the licensee could accomplished the deal — the previous attempted licensee had been the Agalarov family who were instrumental in Don Jr’s secret meeting with a former Russian Government Lawyer and probable Spy seven months later — and that he was just doing a “normal” business deal. [Right, “normal” business with a Russian government owned bank (VTB) under sanctions for their annexing Crimea? How’s that legal? Answer: it’s not under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 which levies civil fines up to $1 Million per violation and criminal penalties up to $10 Million and 10 Years in Prison.]
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AP reports that in 2005 Trump filed a $17 Million insurance claim for Mar-A-Lago following a Hurricane when only $3000 worth of repairs were needed, he ultimately admits that he may have pocketed some of the money transferring it to personal accounts claiming that under the terms of his policy "you didn't have to reinvest it."
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Trump gives a press conference and ignores a question about the danger presented by Russia in just 3 seconds, claims his pardoning of Racist Sheriff Joe is “popular because his Arizona rally crowd cheered”, he says Texas will continue to get disaster funding despite his threat to shutdown the government over his border wall which he continues to say Mexico will “ultimately pay for”, then he attempts to equate pardoning Racist Sheriff Joe with every commutation and pardon by every other President — like the recent commutation of Chelsea Manning — ignoring the fact he had previously tried to get Sessions to drop the case which was potentially obstruction and that the only other pardon cases besides Arpaio’s where the convict never did any jail time at all was that of then fugitive Marc Rich and resigned in disgraced President Richard M. Nixon. [Also some of the Iran-Contra criminals] He also claims he deliberately released the information about the Pardon during the middle of Hurricane Harvey’s landfall in order to get higher ratings!
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Mexico says they won’t pay a dime for the wall, but they will help Texas in the aftermath of Harvey.
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Houston Mayor tells immigrants “don't be afraid of deportation when you seek help”.
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North Korea fires a missile that travels directly over Japan showing just how effective all of Trump’s “tough talk” with Kim Jong-Un has been, which is to say — not at all.
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Leaked Discord chat logs show that the alt-Right planned to use violence at Charlottesville from the very beginning. [Shocker!] They even “joked” about running over counter-protestors.
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More info about the mysterious “WV” — Iraq War Vet Rick Clay from West Virginia — who had contacted Trump staffer Rick Dearborn last June is revealed indicating his efforts that he wanted to put Trump people in touch with members of the Russian government because they shared “Christian Values.”
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Trump fires promoter for his Phoenix rally because it was only half filled.
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US Atty Barbara McQuade explains to Rachel Maddow that if Trump was informed that his attempts to stop the Arpaio case was “improper” prior to his asking Comey to stop the Flynn case it would completely destroy his “ignorance” defense that there would be “nothing wrong” with making such a request.
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Gorka, now back at Breitbart, complains that Trump’s relentless Islamaphobic rhetoric isn’t Islamaphobic enough. Also MSNBC reports that one hour before his resignation letter became public, even though he still denies he “resigned” the Secret Service was told he was now banned from the building.
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Trump visits the Texas Hurricane Harvey damage zone and talks about how “Great the Crowd” to see him is, looks forward to being congratulated for doing such a “great job” on the recovery which has only just begun, promises lots of “home loans” for Houston, shows not the slightest sign of empathy or caring for those who are displaced or dead — and also hawks a bunch of his new “USA” hats.
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Daily Beast reports that Felix Sater in order to attack rivals such as former Bayrock CFO Jody Kriss had registered the domain names “IAmAF*ggot.com, IAmADirtbag.com, several variations of F*calBoy.com and F*calMatter.info, C*ntMan.net, Blackmailer.net, and V*ginaBoy.com”
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Former FBI agent Clint Watts scolds Trump’s Houston speech and his focus on home loans “Not everything is about money, people are dying.”
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SecDef Mattis freezes implementation of Trump anti-Trans military policy until it can be reviewed by experts.
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Putin’s favorite congressman Dana Rorhabacher meets Julian Assange and wants to talk to Trump about the Seth Rich/DNC fantasy.
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FBI refuses open records request from lawyer Ty Clevenger who appears bent on getting Hillary prosecuted for perjury saying “there isn’t enough public interest” to honor the request.
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Trump aims to get rid of Obama era rule requiring employers to reporter pay rates by gender and race because that won’t make it easier to get away with employer bias and discrimination even a little.
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LAPD says they don’t need the surplus military gear Trump is now offering after reversing another Obama era rule to limit their distribution to local police forces.
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Trump Jr. is scheduled to meet with the Senate Judiciary staff for a closed door “transcribed interview.”
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Mueller’s grand jury issues subpoenas for testimony and documents from Manafort’s attorney Melissa Laurenza and his spokesman Jason Maloni.
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Black Church terrorized by KKK and Neo-Nazis who claim the “Day of the Rope” is coming which comes from the climatic chapters of The Turner Diaries were all non-Whites are summarily executed by hanging all around the U.S.
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Disgraced televangelist Jim Bakker says a “Christian Civil War” will commence if Trump is impeached. Charles Blow argues that this is exactly by plan and design.
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Rep Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) reportedly files an amendment to a House spending bill that could cut off funding to Mueller’s investigation after six months.
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Fox News goes off the air in Britain for lack of viewers.
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ACLU sounds the alarm that ICE is planning to destroy documents showing their systematic abuse of immigrants.
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Some legal experts say Trump trying to “pardon his way out of the Russia scandal” would be the stupidest possible plan, particularly since it would like trigger local and state prosecutors like Eric Schneiderman in NY to start looking into these matters and Trump can’t pardon anyone from State charges.
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Trump says “All options are on the table” in response to North Korea’s most recent missile launch over Japan.
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UN states Hurricane Harvey’s intensity and record rainfall are likely linked to Climate Change.
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NBC reports that Mueller is looking at whether Trump committed obstruction by manipulating Don Jr.’s initial statement about his meeting with Russians last June.
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August 30th —
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Trump is in his “worst mood ever” with his ongoing feud with Tillerson and Cohn over his Charlottesville comments neither of whom he can afford to fire. He just keeps wondering “When does all this get better?” [You could try asking the transgender soldiers you’re trying to fire for no reason but honestly for you? Never pal, not until it’s over.]
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Politico reports that Homeland Security had warned local police in Charlottesville in advance about violent clashes between alt-Right/Neo-Nazi protestors and others, but on the day of the event they just stood back and did nothing even when a gunshot was fired just feet from their position.
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Dmitry Peskov responding to questions from CNN admits that they did receive the email from Cohen about the Trump Tower Moscow project. "But, since, I repeat again, we do not react to such business topics -- this is not our work -- we left it unanswered." [They didn’t.]
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Fox decides what they’re really missing after the sexual harassment exodus is a young, loud, obnoxious white blonde racist chick on their payroll: so they hire fired ex-Blaze correspondent Tomi Lohren. Meanwhile NBC is in a panic over Fox exiter Megan Kelly who seems to only be able to attract “Old White Guys” to her show as they regret firing popular POC host Tamron Hall. [Whoopsie!]
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Bloomberg reports that the GAO is investigating the circumstances of Trump’s lease arrangement with the government for his Trump International Hotel DCwhich makes him both the owner/operator and lease holder at the same time.
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TPM reports that TrumpCo had tried to open a tower in Moscow three times starting in 2005 with a deal they signed with Bayrock LLC, again in 2013 with their Miss Universe Moscow partners the Agalarov’s and lastly in 2016 right during the Presidential campaign with sanctioned VTB bank.
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Financial Times reports that Rinat Akhmetshin the former Russian Army Official who is now a lobbyist and apparent private fixer with links to international hacking efforts in support of various friends of Putin who just happened to wind up in a meeting last June at Trump Tower with Don. Jr, Manafort and Kushner spent several hours testifying to the Mueller Grand Jury on August 11th.
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Politico reports that prosecutors are concerned the likelihood of a pardon by Trump may limit their ability to obtain Manafort’s cooperation, so apparently they are coordinating with NYAG Schniederman, who had obtained a $25 Million settlement in the fraudulent TrumpU case in November, to apply state based pressure on him that can’t be affected by Trump. Former Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks states “I think it’s a brilliant idea, I think it absolutely could work because I believe that the abuse of the pardon power could actually amount to an obstruction of justice”
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NBC news does a panel with Trump voters and one expresses his dismay about Trump’s total lack of empathy. He believes in the message but feels “the messenger is flawed.”
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Philadelphia sues Jeff Sessions over his Sanctuary City rules.
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The Intercept reports that the U.S. ambassador to the UAE. Yousef Al Otaiba, an Emirati national and son of an OPEC oil baron, has been leading a hard-charger double life as a State Dept official and a partier involving sex-workers and money-laundering who happens to be a close personal friend of Kushner and CIA head Mike Pompeo.
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Eric Trump says his father “Ignores all the critics” or else he’d grow “suicidal from depression” if he did, meanwhile Trump tweets more complaints about his critics in “dying magazines” which is not exactly like “ignoring” his critics at all.
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Scott Dworkin notes that the 2013 Trump Tower Moscow project included plans and a specific location despite claims by Trump attorneys that there “were no plans”
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September 1st —
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Bloomberg reports that Russian cyberbots are now hyping the danger of AntifA activists arguing that they should be declared a “terrorist group” while downplaying the deadly danger of KKK, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi and Alt-Right violence.
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Mueller obtains a multipage letter that White House Attys had spiked back in May written by Stephen Miller to Comey stocked with Trump’s long simmering complaints and whines about Comey “not publicly stating he isn’t under investigation” even though now he is for obstruction. WH Counsel had found the letter “problematic” as a justification for firing Comey, following which Rosenstein and Sessions were consulted which provided “cover” for a choice that was already decided. Whether this letter includes references to dropping the Flynn case isn’t revealed.
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Cantwell’s lawyer says he “was just joking about genocide” — which is funny where and how, ever?
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Tony Schwartz ghost-writer for “Art of the Deal” says there’s “No way Trump pays that $1 Million” to Harvey Victims.
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Government agencies still haven’t investigated the full impact of Russian cyberbots and troll pushing fake news stories onto social media, or just how many voters where impacted by the intrusion and manipulation of voter registration systems in 21 states.
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Trump gives Kelly a “dressing down” and he tells aides he hasn’t been spoken to like that in his entire 35-year career.
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Russian politician laments Trump’s incompetence “Why did we elect such a President? Trump is a political infant, who is being severely swaddled,” the host continued, to which a female host replied, “and placed into geopolitical coffin.”
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Politico reports, White House aides like now-fired staffer Reince Preibus tried to warn Trump against firing Comey because it could create a political “firestorm.” “It turned out to be what everyone was afraid of,” one adviser told Politico. “A pivotal point for his presidency, and not a good one.”
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Various attorneys begin to argue that Pence’s prior knowledge and involvement in the Miller letter makes him vulnerable to charges of Misprison of a Felony.
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Smoke emanates from the soon to be abandoned Russian consulate in San Francisco suggesting the implementation of the Russian intel process of burning sensitive documents when a facility is compromised.
Russia promises harsh response in retaliation for consulate closings.
Eric Trump claims CNN won't report Trump’s $1 Million pledge to Harvey victims, but they already had reported it meanwhile Trump still owes Sandy Victims and $5 Million for Obama Birth certificate. Besides Trump and Eric can’t use their foundations to donate to anyone because both are under investigation by NYAG Scheiderman.
Chat logs show that violent Charlottesville protestors organized by “Unite the Right” tried, but failed to hide their racism.
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Homeland security designates AntifA a “domestic terrorist threat” even though they’ve never killed or bombed anyone while Right-Wing groups such as the Army of God and Unite the Right have.
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Trump claims “rigged system” based on rumor for GOP Senator that Comey drafted a letter exonerating Clinton before the investigation was complete. He also circumvents COS Kelly’s strict rules for briefing him by making personal calls to his pals like Bannon on his personal phone, which probably violates the Presidential Records Act.
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- Eric Bolling’s 19 year-old son, and only child, suddenly dies, later reports suggest cocaine use was involved.
- Rush Limbaugh calls Hurricane Irma — which has sustained 185mph wins for 36 hours straight — a “liberal hoax”, but then he evacuates from his Palm Beach home anyway.
- WH quietly issues one year extension of the Cuba Trading with the Enemy ban just as Hurricane Irma strikes the island.
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September 10th —
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September 11th —
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Sen Feinstein says Don Jr. will testitfy before Judiciary “come hell of high water”
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Russian Billionaire Dmitry Firtash, who is currently free on a $175 Million Bond in Austria, and is reportedly linked to the Russian Mob and dealings with Paul Manafort, is fighting extradition back to the U.S. to face trial. Manafort has denied he ever did any deals with Firtash, only admitting that “opportunities were explored.”
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DOJ reverses itself and backs Arpaio as an advocacy group protest his pardon as “eviscerating judiciary power.” Meanwhile Arpaio tells Univision that he’ll never apologize for racially profiling “the Hispanics” because he was “just doing his job”, except that he was convicted of repeatedly detaining innocent people without probable cause, he wasn’t a federal immigration officer at the time and it’s their job to do, not his.
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On Live National TV a member of the Russian Duma says “US Intel services slept while Russia elected a president of the U.S.” [It wast really a bit more of a dickish brag than a confession]
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California, Minnesota, Maryland and Maine sue Trump over his threat to terminate DACA in six months.
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Huckabee-Sanders smears Comey as releasing “privileged information” to the press — which he didn’t do because the FBI said the memo he shared was unclassified — and claims he gave “false testimony”, although she fails so say exactly what was false or offer any proof it was false.
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Mexico recinds it’s offer to send support to Texas after Hurricane Harvey largely because of a deadly Earhquake and Hurricane Katia hitting their own eastern shore.
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Kid Rock tell his audience that “He Loves Black People” — and we can tell, he’s been stealing our clothes and our music for years when he’s not waving the Confederate Traitor Flag and talking shit about Colin Kaepernick.
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The Kremlin begins working on a plans to further slash the size of the U.S. Embassy.
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Robert E. Lee’s revend Nephew goes on The View and criticizes evangelicals for failing to speak out against racism.
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William Gardner, the chairman of Trump’s “Election Integrity/Suppression” Commission says voter turn would be higher if we brought back Jim Crow Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests even though that would completely violate the 24th Amendment.
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TrumpCo breaks his “no new deals” pledge by hiring a construction company owned by the Chinese Government to work on Trump World Golf Club Dubai.
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Michael Isikoff & Hunter Walker at Yahoo News reports that Former Sputnik News WH correspondent Andrew Feinberg was interviewed by the FBI on August 1st and turned over documents and emails to them as they appear to be examining how they may have attempted to influence the 2016 Election. Feinberg says he regularly took direction from the Kremlin, but they went too far when they asked him to “obtain the CIA director’s stolen emails.”
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Man with a Confederate/Traitor Flag on his truck is arrested for trying to Run Down AntiFa demonstrators in Vancouver Washington.
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UN Votes unanimously to place every harsher sanctions on North Korea.
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Politico reports that Law Enforcement Officials claim open carry laws that let both neo-Nazis and AntiFa bring AR-15s to protest rallies are a “ticking time bomb.”
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WH lawyers reportedly wanted Kushner to leave due to his Russia ties, but were overruled.
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Flynn loyalist who had been ousted from the NSC and who had provided Devin Nunez with the “unmasking” information, joins House intel committee staff.
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Olbermann points out that Trump talked right through the two moments of silence at 9:58 and 10:03 for when the planes struck during 9/11. “This what they meant by ‘Never Forget’”
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Preibus and McGahn both lawyer up and hire the same attorney, William Burck, which is real weird considering they probably have conflicting interests as former WH Chief of Staff and current WH Counsel.
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September 12th —
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September 13th —
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CNN reports that House Democrats have sent special counsel Robert Mueller evidence that Flynn failed to disclose that, in 2015, he helped broker a $100 billion deal between the government of Saudi Arabia and a Russian state-owned company, pocketing $25,000 from the deal. The Guardian further notes that this deal continued to be worked by the Trump Admin even after Flynn was fired, and that it had involved building joint US-Russian Nuclear Reactors utilizing sanctioned Russian weapons exporter Rosoboron.
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DOJ refuses to allow the Senate to interview members of James Comey’s FBI staff as they may be active witnesses to Trump’s attempts at obstruction, meanwhile Congress continues to slow-roll allowing Mueller access to the full transcripts of interviews with Manafort, Don Jr. and Kushner.`
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TPM reports that various Twitter troll accounts run out of St. Petersburg Russia not only sent out repeated pro-Trump messages they also frequent generated anti-Black Live Matter and anti-Immigrant links and message during the election.
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Mike Flynn refuses to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee for the second time since May, unless his demands for immunity are met.
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Daniel Craig Trump’s selection for the #2 spot a FEMA drops out of his nomination because of his alleged falsification of travel records and timekeeping records while a member of the Bush Admin in 2005.
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Michael Flynn’s son — who accompanied him on his paid trip to Moscow in 2015 — is reportedly under FBI investigation for his role in his father’s actions.
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NBC’s Katy Tur writes in her book about covering the Trump campaign that he gave he gave her an unwanted and unexpected kiss on the cheek backstage before an appearance on Morning Joe.
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Congress sends Anti-White Supremacy measures to Trump to be signed, there are doubts that he will.
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Don Jr. slams Democrats because it took 5 allegations of sexual misconduct to oust the Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, “It took 5?” he says, meanwhile his dad is still in the White House after allegations of unwanted sexual advances and assault from 12 women. Now 13, including Katy Tur.
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Watchdog group American Oversight sues the DOJ for information regarding their response to the revelations that Jeff Sessions met with Kislyak three separate times and failed to disclose all them during his confirmation hearings or on his SF86 forms.
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Susan Rice says she had the ID of Trump officials — Kushner & Bannon — “unmasked” after they met secretly with the Crown Prince of the UAE which was on the behest of Kislyak as part of their “back channel” efforts with Russia.
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Huckabee-Sanders continues to lay out a criminal case against Comey even though it’s completely inappropriate since that’s Jeff Sessions/Bob Mueller’s job, she says that ESPN reporter Jemele Hill should be fired for saying “Trump is a White-Supremacist” and falsely claims that Trump has been “more bipartisan in the last 8 days, than Obama was in 8 years” which is just plain bullshit,
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Trump’s lawyer Sekulow just “coincidentally” echoes Sanders’ call for Comey to be prosecuted.
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Preet Bharara tweets “One day after POTUS spox says Sessions should investigate Comey, Trump's TV lawyer sends same signal. Hey Sessions! Like your job? Hint hint”
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Trump signs Congressional resolution condemning White Supremacists, then meets with GOP Senator Tim Scott, the only African American in the Senate, who was concerned about jobs and his response to Charlotteaville. Trump doubles down on his “both sides” attack and again criticizes AntiFA claiming “many people are saying” he was right, or something which may be a vague reference to the intensity of protests against Ben Shapiro speaking at Berkeley.
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Paid Russian Trolls and bots on Facebook and Twitter promoted positive Trump stories about his crowd sizes while bashing Black Lives Matter and Illegal Immigrants.
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Far Right in Congress begin to have a full-on China Syndrome over Trump DACA deal with Democrats meanwhile angry Trumpsters start burning their MAGA Hats in protest “You’ll never make America Great Again.” [Yeah, wake up call there Billy Joe Jim Bob, he was never going to anyway.]
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Thinkprogress reports that ESPN had attempted to pull Jemele Hill from the air after her “White Supremacist” comments about Trump. ESPN disputes the claim.
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Ben Ferguson flailingly tries to justify Huckabee-Sanders comments on Jemele Hill while ignoring the fact that Trump himself called Obama “Racist” — without any justification — and no one in the Obama White House ever said he should be “fired from the Apprentice” because that would have been an ethics violation.
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Carter Page files a $75,000 defamation suit against Yahoo News over stories regarding his contacts with Russians.
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Hannity proclaims to an all White panel — which includes Tomi Lahren — “We’re not Racist, and neither is Trump or the people around him.” [Not Donald “Both Side” Trump, not Lahren who’s railed endlessly against Colin Kaepernick for his method of protesting police brutality, not Gorka who wears a medal for Hungarian Nazi collaborators, not Sessions who was denied a Federal Judge post because of his racism, and not Hannity who spends most of his shows demonizing Black Lives Matter as being the same as the KKK and pretty much any Black person who get shot down in the street by police. Nope, no racists here.]
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Even after being threatened by Devin Nunez with Contempt unless they deliver the Steele documents or else explain why not in an open hearing under oath scheduled for today, Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Wray don't show up and no hearing happens. Nunez office is silent about whether they received the documents.
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September 15th —
- Scott Dworkin files an ethics complaint against Huckabee-Sanders for her comments supporting ESPN firing Jemele Hill. SHS responds to the complaint claiming “she’s not the one who made outrageous statements.” [Yeah, like have you seen the “@POTUS” twitter feed lately? Or Ever?]
- Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni testifies for two hours before the Mueller Grand Jury, but is completely tight-lipped afterward declining to answer any questions from reporters.
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Trump tweets about “Loser” terrorist who planted a firebomb in a London subway, calls for an even bigger travel ban, and claims he’s “Done more to stop ISIS” in 9 months than Obama did in 8 years, which is stupid because during that 8 years US & Iraqi forces chased ISIS out of Iraq down to just one final town, Mosul. Now they’re out of of Mosul too thanks to the Iraqi Security Forces trained by Bush & Obama’s Army, not Trump.
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Theresa May criticizes Trump for speculating that the London firebomb attacker was “Muslim” because the investigation is still ongoing.
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Trump tweets smack-talk about ESPN losing viewers and demands they apologize for “untruth”. They don’t.
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Historians explain the origin of the 19th century German nationalist crowd chant “Blood and Soil” (Blut und boden).
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Michael Moore calls for NFL boycott as long as Colin Kaepernick remains without a team.
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Like a Walking Dead Zombie Trumpcare begins to lift it’s bug infested head again in the GOP Senate led by Sens. Graham and Cassidy.
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Vanity Fair reports that both the Mueller and congressional investigation are looking more and more closely at whether Kushner’s voter data operation coordinated with Russian bots and Trolls.
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Reporters pull a tag-team repeatedly asking Huckabee-Sanders about her comments that ESPN should fire Jemele Hill every time she tries to cut the question off, another reporter asks about Hill again.
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Buzzfeed reports that Flynn, Kushner and Bannon all secretly met with King Abdullah of Jordan on Jan 5th in the Four Seasons Hotel to discuss their Saudi Nuclear Power Plant “Marshall Plan” using a sanctioned Russian weapons company for security. [I guess Blackwater/Xe is still unavailable then?] Flynn, Kush and Bannon all deny that the Nuke plants were discussed, but law enforcement sources say otherwise.
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Chicago Tribune reports that prosecutors said they had “thousands of intercepts” involving Ukrainian oligarch Dimitri Firtash who has reported ties both to Manafort and Putin, is being held in Austria after being indicted on bribery and money-laundering chargers and has been fighting extradition for 3 years. Manafort denies these ties.
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Protests in St. Louis form in the streets and the National Guard is called after a judge decides a police officer who stated “I’m gonna kill this mother-fucker” during a police chase, then shot Anthony Lamar Smith 5 times after crashing into his car, then is seen on dash cam footage grabbing something from his bag before “discovering” a gun that only has the officer’s DNA on it, should be acquitted on murder charges. Some officers are injured by thrown rocks and some protestors are hurt by SUV which drives through them.
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September 18th —
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Trump goes to the UN to withdraw from the Paris Climate accord and brags about his Trump branded condos across the street.
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St Louis continues a cycle of peaceful day time protests over the police shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, followed by night time vandalism and violence after the official protest ends.
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Trump & WH lawyers John Down and Ty Cobb are overheard — while having lunch at the Steak House next door to the NYTimes Offices — loudly discussing their fears that they may be overheard in the WH by staffer moles equipped with recording mics — like “wired” narcs secretly recording the mob -- for the Mueller investigation. Experts question whether this means they functionally waved attorney client privilege by accidentally/on purpose leaking this info with a Times reporter at the next table.
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CNN reports that Manafort was wire-tapped under a FISA warrant before and after the election, and that Prosecutors have told him he will be indicted.
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Trump hints at dropping out of the Iran Nuclear deal, even though his administration has twice certified that Iran has been in compliance and so has the UN.
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Kellyanne Conjob slams the Emmys for attacking Trump “You’re showing the world you're easy with an insult” What, she’s never seen the Emmys before? Also Stacy Dash says the Emmys are the lefts “Bully Pulpit”. Uh yup.
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Rick Wilson mocks Trump supporters “ ‘Fatal Attraction-level bonkers fury’ over DACA reversal, while six Dreamers sue over Trump’s decision to end DACA.
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Don Lemon tells TMZ ESPN should apologize to Trump right after Trump apologizes to Obama for years of birtherism.
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Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify before the Senate on Tuesday Sep, 19th.
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Sinclair’s 174 local TV stations are forced to air “Terrorism Reports” featuring Boris Ephsteyn, the Trump campaign’s other internal Russian besides Felix Sater, even when there is no Terrorism to Report.
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Art of the Deal Ghostwriter Tony Schwartz says Trump would send his kids to prison to protect himself.
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Session’s DOJ turns a blind eye to online stalking and abuse — while racial hate crimes explode across the nation.
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Conservative commentator Scottie Nell Hughes files a sexual assault lawsuit against Fox Business Host Charles Payne and against Fox for retaliation for her speaking out. “In July of 2013, I was raped by Charles Payne,” Hughes told the Times. “In July of 2017, I was raped again by Fox News. Since then, I have been living an absolute hell.”
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Sean Spicer tells the Glenn Thrush at NYTimes he “absolutely regrets” berating members of the media for accurately reporting the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd.
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John McCain compared the new Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill — which apparently won’t be analyzed by the CBO for weeks — to “Murder or Train Robbery”, which is not a good sign that they’ll get to 50 votes.
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Rhode Islands vows to pay DACA renewal fees for all the DREAMers in the state.
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September 20th —
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Mueller demands access to WH docs in 13 different categories including.
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1. Internal communications and documents related to Mike Flynn’s FBI interview in January.
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2. Documents related to Flynn`s conversations with the Russian ambassador in December.
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3. Records on acting Attorney General Sally Yates’ warnings to the White House about Flynn.
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4. Materials related to Flynn’s departure from the White House.
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5. Communications on Trump’s campaign foreign-policy team, which may have included at least one suspected Russian agent.
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6. Documents related to Trump’s meetings with former FBI Director James Comey before his firing.
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7. Records of internal White House discussions about Comey’s firing.
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8. Documents related to external White House communications about Comey’s firing.
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9. Documents related to Sean Spicer’s comments about Comey the week before his firing. (Where he stated he had the Trump’s “Full Confidence.”)
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10. Materials related to Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Russian officials the day after Comey’s firing.
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11. Records related to last summer’s Trump Tower meeting between top members of Trump’s team and Putin-connected Russians.
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12. Documents related to the White House’s response to media inquiries about the Trump Tower meeting. (Which were reported dictated by Trump himself and a giant set of lies by omission.)
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13. Any email or document the White House holds that relates to Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman.
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Trump tells African leaders at a UN Lunch meetings that he has “friends who make a lot of money” off their countries” and invents the brand new nation of “Nambia.”
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Melania gives an anti-cyber bullying speech at the UN, and the world responds with “Start with your husband!”
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Chuck Grassley threatens to subpoena two of Comey’s former staff - Carl Ghattas and James Rybicki — as Mueller refuses to let them have a private interview with congress since it might hurt his obstruction investigation against Trump.
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WaPo reveals that Manafort in July of 2016 — just 11 days before the RNC — offered to give private updates on the status of the Trump campaign through his Ukrainian intermediary Kilminik — who has ties to Russian Military Intelligence [GRU] — for a Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with alleged links to the Russian mob, who had secretly paid Manafort $10 Million per year to promote Putin’s agenda in the US and former Soviet Republics (such as Ukraine) between 2006 and 2009 without his registering as a foreign agent (not until June of this year), almost as if Manafort had been a paid Russian asset providing status updates to his long time “handler” and benefactor Deripaska on behalf of Putin while he was Trump’s Campaign Chairman. [Bojemoi!]
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WSJ reports that Mueller has interviewed Rosenstein over his contribution to the firing of Comey. They also report that the RNC paid $166k to Don Jr’s. Lawyer Alan Futerfas.
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Manaforts lawyers are refusing to take calls from the Senate.
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NYTimes reports that while he’s being investigator for being a possible foreign agent — without registering as such until recently — Paul Manafort has been lobbying for Kurdish independence in Iraq.
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Erdogan claims Trump called to apologize after Turkish Bodyguards viciously attacked and beat protestors in DC. So he’s apologizing for the Protestors and not the beatings then?
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Fox News unretracts and defends the false Seth Rich story.
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Lewandowksi asks for life sentences for anyone who improperly “influenced the election” — how’s he’s going to serve and arrest them in St. Petersburg he doesn’t mention — but he does mention Manafort, Flynn, Roger Stone, Rick Gates and Carter Page. [Interesting list of suspects!]
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Black employees at Trump’s DC Hotel Steakhouse alledge a pattern of racial discrimination.
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Puerto Rico takes a direct hit from Hurricane Maria, the entire island loses electrical power and may not regain it for months.
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Mueller demands phone records from AF1 meeting when the false statement about the Veselnitskaya meeting was crafted, he also requests documents from Sean Spicer’s May 3rd press conference where he insisted Trump “had confidence in Comey” which was only 5 days before he had Stephen Miller draft his grievance letter about Comey on the 8th which was rejected by McGahn and then a false replacement letter was written by Rosenstein before Comey was finally fired on the 9th, the next day.
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Buzzfeed reports that the personal information of thousands of anti-Racist protestors were posted on Reddit pastebin file that is being shared among Trump supporters allowing them to be personally targeted at their home, work, schools and personal phones for harassment and intimidation.
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Manafort plans to leave the U.S. to continue his lobbying work for Kurdish independence in Iraq.
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The New York Times reports that the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom was recently questioned by federal investigators over its work on behalf of Manafort benefactor Viktor Yanukovych, the former Kremlin-backed president of Ukraine, who fled to Russia amid political turmoil in 2014.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday released a statement in support of a violent student-directed video portraying police officers in pig masks hanging a black male with the American flag, arguing the film is protected by the First Amendment.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov and officials from multiple countries around the world are rejecting Trump's promise to "totally destroy" North Korea.
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Facebook promises to turn over 3000 Russia generated ads to Congress.
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The Intercept reports that Men’s rights and nativist groups such as the “Proud Boys” are gradually moving to separate themselves from the term “alt-Right” in the wake of Charlottesville and the “Unite the Right” rally even threatening legal action to those who call them “White Nationals” or “White Supremacist” and instead attempt to adopt the term “Alt-Lite.” [Yeah, I told ja so.]
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Gorka tells Newsweek that Steve Bannon helped write Trump’s UN speech which proclaimed the US “totally destroy” North Korea even though Bannon has stated “there are no viable military options” there without killing Millions of South Koreans. So why’s one fired guy tells another fired guy is still writing speeches?
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Trump announces an executive order of new banking and business sanctions against North Korea. Mnuchin claims banks won’t be able to do business both with the US and the Jong-Un regime. How exactly that will be enforced with the power of Congress or the UN remains in question beyond U.S. government agencies and contractors.
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The View hilariously rips Melania over he UN anti-bullying speech: ‘Does she even know who her husband is?’
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Sean Spicer claims during an interview that he “didn’t knowingly lie” to the American people — so basically he was telling unknowing lies about crowd size, the Veselnitskaya meeting and the real reason James Comey was fired? How about the rule that if you don’t know the truthful answer to the question, you don’t. answer. it?
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Despite Trump’s claims he had “no knowledge” of Felix Sater’s criminal past, reports indicate that one of his bodyguards Gary Uher was a former FBI agent who had worked directly on the case that led to Sater’s plea deal on his tax fraud case on condition of him becoming an FBI informant in 1998.
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Ann Coulter frustrated by Trump’s flip/flop on DACA calls for vigilante death squads against the “third world immigrants” who ruined America. [Knew that was coming didn’t cha?]
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Stephen Colbert responds to Trump tweet that the Emmy’s were the “lowest rating ever” by pointing out that it was watched by 11.4 Million people, which is higher than last years lowest ever ratings of 11.3 Million by chanting “We Suck Less. We Suck Less.”
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TPM notes that even more of the claims from Steele Dossier appear to be correct.
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He claimed Russia had amassed a dossier of negative information on Clinton, which is very similar to the folder reportedly brought by Veselnitskaya to Trump Tower which she offered to share with Donald Jr, but didn’t according to Ahkmetshin.
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That Wikileaks was used to distribute stolen information hacked by Russian Intel, which Homeland Security has confirmed.
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That fear and intimidation were used to gain cooperation and aid from some independent hacking agents as opposed to “patriotism” as Putin later claimed,
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That Carter Page met with Rosneft Oil head Igor Sechin and “top Putin aide” Igor Divenkin during one of his trips to Russia was confirmed by Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News before the dossier was made public.
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That Michael Cohen contacted Russian nationals, although it was unsure as to the exact date and persons involved later reports indicate that Cohen did email the Kremlin for help on Trump Tower Moscow and although he denied visiting Prague on the dates Steele mentions — which may have been a completely different “Michael Cohen” — the photo of his passport he provided does have stamps from the Czech Republic.
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WSJ reports that U.S. intelligence and FBI placed surveillance on Manafort in mid 2016 because they suspected he was an operative for Russia.
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Foreign Policy reports that Kremlin-backed media outlet RT attempted to purchase Twitter handles “@NotHillary” and “@NotTrump” that would allow them to covertly influence the election with undecided voters without revealing who they really were. Twitter said “No.”
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Trump tweets attacking the Russia Investigation yet again with classic “WhatAboutism” : “The Russia hoax continues, now it's ads on Facebook. What about the totally biased and dishonest Media coverage in favor of Crooked Hillary? [You mean the fact that the FBI cleared her of all criminal accusations, yet Comey still personally trashed her in complete violation of FBI standards and protocols, then released information about an ongoing investigation — without ever mentioning they were also investigating your campaign at the same time?] He also says “The greatest influence over our election was the Fake News Media "screaming" for Crooked Hillary Clinton. Next, she was a bad candidate!” [A bad candidate that got 3 Million more votes than you did.]
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Kim Jong-Un responds to Trump’s UN speech and calls him a “Dotard”, then his Foreign Secretary threatens to detonate a Hydrogen Bomb over the Pacific Ocean, so clearly all that “tough guy” talk is having the exact desired effect.
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Russian foreign minister Lavrov tells both Trump and Kim Jong-Un to “Tone down the bellicose rhetoric.” [So great, the autocratic kleptocrats are the adults in the room now?]
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John McCain drives a 9-Inch Nail through the eye of the latest Trumpcare Zombie Graham-Cassidy which Brookings says will take care away from 21 Million people by officially announcing he won't vote for it.
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Joel Olsteen, after his horrible PR during and after Hurricane Harvey, opens his prosperity gospel church to a jewish congregation, because nobody has ever, ever thought of that before.
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In protest of his 2015 comments anecdotally supporting the premise of the so-called “Ferguson Effect” where police are supposedly afraid to do their jobs for risk they might be accused of bigotry or brutality students at Howard University chant “No Justice No Peace” while James Comey attempts to give them a convocation. [Know you audience dude, know your audience.]
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ACLU sues St. Louis police over their handling of the Anthony Lamar Smith protests.
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Betsy Devos changes Obama era rules on campus sexual assault to make thing “more fair” to the accused assaulters, as if that’s something that really needed, anywhere.
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Anthony Scarimucci who clearly isn’t a fan of Steve “Sucks his own cock” Bannon, tells The View that he does have “White Nationalist Tendencies”. “If you read Breitbart, it’s got a lot of that white nationalist economic fervor.” [No, kiddin’, it does?]
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Kremlin spokesman Dimtri Peskov, yes Michael Cohen’s Dimitri Peskov, states that Russia did not attempt to use Facebook ads to influence the U.S. election even though Facebook themselves have just promised to provide 3000 of these ads to Congress.
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TPM reports that those false Facebook ads were generated by fake profiles with stolen pictures of innocent people intended to make it appear they were generated by Americans, not Russians.
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House Intel committee member Mike Quigley warns that the ground is being laid to have Mueller fired in order to cancel Russia investigation.
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The Seattle Times reports that Russian hackers attempted to access the election systems in Washington State, but — according to them — failed. This was apparently a seperate attempt from the breaches in 39 other state election systems noted by Bloomberg.
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Sen Grassley as part of his ongoing counter-investigation of the Russia investigation sends a letter to the FBI asking if they warned the Trump campaign about contacts between themselves and Russians. [a) They should’ve already know that since they were there at the time, b) They told CONGRESS and Mitch McConnell refused to support a joint bipartisan public statement about Russian interference and 3) What do you think Sally Yates was doing in Don McGahn’s office when she came there to tell them about Flynn & Kislyak??!]
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McCain blast Grassley for “clearly trying to distract” from the investigation into Russia.
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DHS informs 21 states that their elections systems were targeted by Russian government “cyber actors” including Wisconsin, Alabama, Oklahoma, Oregon, Delaware, Colorado, Connecticut and Washington are informed that the breaches were unsuccessful.
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Some researcher argue that the 470 false Facebook accounts from the Internet Research Agency may be the “tip of the iceberg” since 50,000 false accounts were identified by French authorities during their election, and IRS’s former building now houses a new company called Glasvet.
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Trump gives a rally in Alabama for Senatorial candidate Luther Strange and states that NFL owners should “fire any Son of a Bitch” that disrespects the flag by kneeling [even though the idea to do that came from an ex-Green Beret in order to show respect] and even though he himself stated in 2011 that burning the flag was a perfectly acceptable protest and the third verse of the National Anthem is decidedly pro-Slaver and racist. He complains about penalties for hard hits saying it has “ruined the game” even though on the same day autopsy information reveals that Aaron Hernandez who had committed murder and suicide was suffering from severe brain damage due to CTE.
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September 23rd —
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Colin Kaepernick’s mom responds to Trump “Guess that makes me a proud bitch.”
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NFL Commissioner Goodell slaps down Trumps statements saying the NFL is at their best when they “build a sense of unity.”
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Trump doubles down claiming “athletes giving the privilege to earn $Millions shouldn’t be allowed to protest. Tell them to stand”. Then he starts a twitter fight with Steph Curry of the Golden State Warrior because he said he wasn’t sure he wanted to visit the White House, so Trump disinvites him. Strangely he didn’t say anything when his pal Tom Brady skipped his teams visit to the Obama White House. Nor did he say anything when two dozen members of the Patriots didn’t visit the WH this year.
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The Warriors respond by cancelling their WH Visit entirely, the mayor of DC then invites them to visit him instead of Trump. Lebron James chimes in calling Trump a “bum”. NBA Union head Chris Paul says Trump doesn’t have the manhood to call someone an SOB to their face.
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DHS releases list of 21 State Election systems that were attacked by Russia. Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. Only Illinois confirmed that the breach was successful.
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September 24th —
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Dozens of players drop to their knee during the Anthem during Sunday’s games, others including coaches and owners lock arms in solidarity with each other in protest of Trump's comments. The Pittsburg Steelers stay in the locker room during the anthem except for one player who is a former army ranger. Terry Bradshaw lights up Trump on Fox Sports saying “He doesn’t understand what freedom means.” NBA Champion Warriors coach Steve Kerr says “You know what else is disrespectful to our flag? Racism.” Kobe Bryant says “Trump divides America.”
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Fox Host Pete Hegseth asks “What are we protesting? “This is the least sexist, least racist, most equal, most free country in the history of mankind.” Er, not if people don’t have the freedom to protest a national anthem that has a racist third verse, while U.S police have killed more Americans since 9/11 than died in Washington, New York, Iran and Afghanistan combined by an order of 5 to 1.
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Fox News sends a White Host to ask (mostly) White Fans about Anthem protests, race and police aren’t mentioned. Yeah, it’s Hegseth again.
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Trump tweet attacks John McCain for his opposition to Graham-Cassidy claiming premiums have skyrocketed “116% in Arizona” ignoring the fact that subsidies cover most of the cost of those increases for people on the exchange, that only 1 plan actually increased over 100%, over 50 plans decreased in price. He claims Alaska’s premiums increased 200% when in fact the overall average in Alaska was a 25% increase. However when you include the tax credits — which will be cut under Graham-Cassidy — that increase goes down to just 1% for out of pocket costs.
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After Facebook CEO Zuckerberg had dismissed the idea that the platform was being used by foreign propagandists to distribute fake news last Nov 19th, Obama personally took him aside at a conference to set him straight. Also it’s reported that even though they had denied any strange Russian activity, Facebook had twice contacted the FBI about Russia in 2016.
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Politico reports that Jared Kushner used his own private email account after the election along with his official White House account.
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Rabid Trump fans argue that Baltimore Ravens owner Shahid Khan should be deported because he locked arms with his players, even though he’s been an American Citizen since 1991.
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Mnuchin says players can do “Free Speech on their own time” — which kinda means it’s not really free now is it?
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Long time GOP dirty trickster and Trump buddy Roger Stone who communicated with by Guccifer 2.0 and Julian Assange flatly denies any Russia collusion to House Intel in private meeting, because he’s plenty credible since also admits in his written statement that he had an ongoing online relationship with at least one suspected Russian agent sharing DMs and retweets between them. He refuses to share the ID of the journalist who was his link to Wikileaks and Assange, he again says when he said it would be “Podesta’s time in the barrel” he was talking about financial links to Russia, but those links belong to John’s brother Tony & the Uranium deal he had nothing to do with. He claims the DNC hack was a “inside job” from an article in The Nation that even The Nation has debunked.
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Spicer Lawyers Up finally as Mueller interviews for WH current and former staff grows closer.
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Trump spends dinner with GOP supporters bashing Jeff Sessions for his recusal — which was recommended by professional staff at DOJ. “He was dripping with venom.”
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Iraq holds the vote on it’s Kurdish independence referendum, it’s not clear if Paul Manafort traveled there for the event.
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Chicago PD vows to “Discipline” officers who were photographed “Taking a Knee” and raising a Black Power salute for making a political statement while in uniform.
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Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones takes a knee while locking arms with his players who all kneel together before the anthem is played.
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At least 6 of Trump’s staff including Kushner, Ivanka Conway, Bannon & Cohn used private email while in the White House to conduct government business.
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Susan Collins confirms she’s a “No” vote on Graham-Cassidy which along with Rand Paul and John McCain’s opposition puts the Zombie back to death. CBO’s preliminary estimates are released and they say that “Millions” would lose health coverage.
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WaPo reports that Russia’s Facebook ads were intended to highten fear of Muslims and Black Lives Matter.
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Sarah Huckabee-Sanders claims Trump’s “Son of a bitch” statements are “appropriate” and that it had “Nothing to do with Race” even though the protests are mostly by African-Americans against Police Brutality and Racism. She says that if the issue is police brutality they should “protests the officers that are protecting them, not the flag.” CNN panelists call it “alarming and appalling.” Yep, you betcha.
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Trump finally tweets about Puerto Rico after Huckabee-Sanders is asked why he’s posted over a dozen times about the NFL and sports players but not the impact of Hurricane Maria.
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US Appeals court partially allows Texas anti-Sanctuary City law.
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Tommie Smith who raised the Black Power salute as a Gold Medalist in the 1968 Olympics appears on CNN and says to Trump “It’s time to understand, time to converse with the Players” and the reason their protesting.
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Trump “spiritual advisor” Dallas Texas Pastor Robert Jeffries says protesting NFL players “ought to be thanking God that they live in a country where they’re not only free to earn millions of dollars every year, but they’re also free from the worry of being shot in the head for taking a knee like they would be if they were in North Korea.” [Really, man?] He also says Trump is “no racist.” [Ok, sure he just plays one whenever the cameras and microphones are on him just to fool the rubes.]
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the IRS after some negotiating is reportedly sharing information with Mueller about Manafort’s taxes going back 11 years all the way back to when Manafort began working with Oleg Deripaski to help promote Putin’s interest in the U.S. and former soviet states,
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Mueller is probing 3 Russian affiliated donors who may have given $Millions to the RNC and Trump’s inaugural fund.
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Trump privately admits to waging a “White Working Class Culture War” he claims Obama and Democrats “foisted” upon him. He finally starts talking about Puerto Rico and twice blames “the Atlantic” for their problems. Yes, the Ocean.
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Sen Grassley complains that FBI staff connected to Comey who have been interviewed by Mueller have signed non-disclosure agreements preventing them from sharing all of what they’ve told Mueller with Congress.
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Luther Strange loses the primary runoff for Sessions open Alabama Senate against theocrat nutbag Judge Roy Moore so Trump defies the Presidential records act and starts deleting his tweets praising Strange.
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Reports surface that HHS Secretary Price — who had a history of trading the stock of companies he was overseeing in the House, and wants to cut spending on Medicare & Medicaid — has taken over $300,000 worth of tax payer funded private plane flights and used much of it to visit family and his own properties, including $17k for a flight from Washington to Philadelphia which is a 2 hour train ride away.
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Trump orders the Navy's Hospital ship U.S.N.S. Comfort to Puerto Rico two days after Hillary Clinton requested it. It will depart in 4 days and arrive 5 days after that from Norfolk.
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Acting DEA head Chuck Rosenburg — who had been James Comey’s Chief of Staff at both the DOJ and FBI — resigns in protest of Trump’s comments endorsing police brutality saying his has no respect for the “Rule of Law.”
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Thinkprogress creates a Anthem Protest Tracker across the entire nation and all sports.
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Continued now with Volume #4….