The latest update in the Master Trump/Russia Timeline has quite a few interesting events. Mueller has issued 13 indictments against Russian targets who had used social media ads, trolls and bots to push the election toward Trump which has finally put to rest the questions of whether or not this investigation is a “hoax” and Russians tried to influence the election — clearly they did.
This event also moves us considerably further down the road on the question of whether these efforts changed the results of the election as Mueller’s indictment very specifically points out that members of the Internet Research Agency visited the U.S. to learn details about our electoral process, and then pushed hard against Trump’s republican opponents such as Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, then pushed in support of Clinton’s opponents Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein. In the end their plan seems to have worked as the shift in Sanders voters in the key states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were more than enough to make the difference, even before the impact of the Comey letter about Anthony Weiner’s laptop.
For actual data from the Guide to the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey, 16% of those who voted for Sanders in the PA primary voted for Trump in the general. In WI and MI, it was 9% and 8% respectively. To put this into raw numbers, Sanders-to-Trump voters ultimately gave Trump the margin he needed to win in each of those states:
- In Wisconsin, roughly 51K Sanders voters backed Trump in a state he won by just 22K votes.
- In Michigan, roughly 47K Sanders voters backed Trump in a state he won by just 10K votes.
- In Pennsylvania, roughly 116K Sanders voters backed Trump in a state he won by just 44K votes.
Keep in mind that a Sanders-to-Trump vote is doubly painful because it likely represents a net +2 for Trump (absolute +1 vote for Trump and likely -1 vote for Clinton). Also, the above analysis in these three states is before you even get to Sanders voters who protest voted for Stein/other or didn't vote at all. And these folks were not Rs. They were generally ideologically progressive and voted for Dems in the past.
Additional Paul Manafort’s partner Rick Gates has decided to plead guilty and becoming a cooperating witness agains Manafort and presumably Trump, becoming the third such witness including Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos to make such a deal.
The significance of this can’t be understated as Papadopoulos is the first link in a conspiracy chain to illegally violate either the Sanctions against Russia or the Logan Act or both when he personally sat down with Trump and was tasked with reaching out to the Russian government and Putin. When his efforts were successful in reaching Russians with connections to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he reported back to Trump that a direct meeting with Putin was possible, only to have that plan shutdown by Jeff Sessions in March. However according to Papadopoulos plea document it was Manafort and Gates who then discussed sending “someone low-level” instead of Trump so as not to “send a signal.”
On the same day that Papadopolous’ Russian contact agreed to sending a substitute for Trump, Corey Lewandowski authorized Carter Page to travel to Russia where he met with the Deputy Prime Minister and also high ranking execs with Rosneft Oil who despite the fact that they are a sanctioned company, informed Page about an impending sale of 19% of Rosneft stock. The Steele Dossier argues that brokerage fees on this deal were offered to Page in exchange for Trump limiting or blocking sanctions on Russia, which remains to be proven but hasn’t been disproven, yet.
Papadopoulos was also later informed by his Russian contacts that they had “thousands of Hillary’s emails” yet instead of informing the FBI about this he apparently told some random girl in a bar who reached out to members of the Australia State Dept and they later got Papadopoulos to repeat this claim after getting him drunk in a London wine bar. [So how credible is it that he didn’t tell anyone else in the campaign?] The Australians informed the U.S. and the information eventually reached the CIA and FBI who started their investigation of Trump and Russia at that point, but no one in the Trump campaign ever did. In fact, Papadopoulos’ lies to the FBI about these contacts is what he was ultimately convicted for.
Now with the indictment of the Russian Troll Farm and Gates pleading guilty Mueller has a a base conspiracy case and a corroborating witness to Papadopoulos and his efforts to reach out to the Russians during the campaign — all of which could mean charges of violating FEC rules, violating Sanctions and the Logan Act, Conspiracy, Misprision of Felony and Aiding and Abetting the Russian effort to attack our Democracy for anyone involved in these efforts — which includes Trump himself personally right up front at the beginning.
And all that’s before you get to the obstruction involved in Don Jr’s secret meeting with Russians at Trump Tower where he agreed to modify Magnitsky Act sanctions in exchange for “dirt” on Hillary Clinton — only the Russian’s let the dog eat their homework, so he threw them out — Trump’s attempt to lie about that meeting being “mostly about adoptions” in a statement that was crafted on Air Force One, Kushner and Flynn’s secret meetings with Russian ambassador Kislyak and their discussions about Sanctions which Flynn lied to the FBI about, Trump’s attempts to have FBI Director Comey “let Flynn go” and “tell people he wasn’t being investigated” before firing Comey, then applying similar pressure on DNI Dan Coates and CIA Director Pompeo. Not to mention the efforts of Devin Nunes and his magically self-bunking memo which claims the FBI had no good reason for a FISA warrant on Page, except his being twice recruited by Russia as an intel asset.
Meanwhile Kushner seems to have finally lost his access to classified materials because of his stalled Security Clearance after the Nuclear fallout of the Rob Porter scandal, while Mueller looks deeper and deeper into his shady foreign business practices.
And Trump continues to blame Obama for everything including “not doing enough to stop Russia” which he had previously claimed “didn’t do anything” ignoring the fact that Obama went to Congress about it and Mitch McConnell was the one who wouldn't do anything. Obama actually had the FBI, NSA and Homeland Security stop the cyber hacks right away, then he went and got personally in Putin’s face about it. Trump on the other hand, hasn’t even bothered to do that much — and is still not implementing sanctions on Russia, just like they asked.
This post is part of a larger series including my original Master Timeline which begins in 1985 when Trump attempt to open a Casino in Australia was denied because of his links to the mob, and he first began talking about becoming a diplomat/negotiator with Russia so he could “end the Cold War in an hour” which has been split due to length with a Master List Vol 2 beginning in Mid-June which features Peter W. Smith’s attempts to get Hillary’s deleted emails from Russian hackers, Putin kicking out 700 of our diplomats and Trump thanking him for it, Scaramucci’s hiring and firing and the Race Riots of Charlottesville, Master List Vol3 beginning in Late Augustwhich covers Don Jr’s statements to Congress admitting he was trying to “vet” Hillary by accepting Russian dirt about her, Flynn’s Nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia and the beginning of Trump’s attacks on NFL players for kneeling Master List Vol 4 beginning in Mid-October which covers the Trump’s trip to Asia, the Sgt. LaDavid Johnson condolence call, Harvey Weinstein and Roy Moore scandals and Master list Vol 5 starting in late November which features the guilty plea for lying to the FBI by Michael Flynn and the publishing of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” about Trump’s first 100 Days. Vol 6 continues in January with the after math of “Fire and Fury” as well as the beginning of the Rob Porter White House Domestic Violence scandal.
Continued Daily Updates for this installment are as follow
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February 10th —
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February 11h —
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February 12th —
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February 13th —
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WaPo reports that ICE is focusing even more heavily on undocumented immigrants without a criminal record and breaking up families.
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Hackers stole over $17 Million (1 Billion rubles) from Russian banks during 2017 using the Cobalt Strike Security tool.
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Kaspersky Labs claims that Russian hackers have developed malware that can use the desktop app Telegram to mine cryptocurrencies such as Monero and Zcash.
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Conservative commentator S.E. Cupp says “Every single woman in this White House should stay home until someone with some independent authority can promise them they are safe at work,” she said.
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Politico reports that Omarosa Manigault-Newman was fired by John Kelly because she “had been using the White House car service — known as ‘CARPET’ — as an office pick-up and drop-off service, something strictly forbidden by the federal government.” [So that’s enough to bounce Omarosa, but domestic violence and failing his security clearance isn’t enough to bounce Porter?]
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Chris Cuomo :“Domestic abuse is an entirely different echelon of concern in this society, Domestic abuse is another thing. People die because of this. [Trump] knows this. He ignored it on purpose. It’s not an open question.”
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Fired WH speechwriter David Sorensen’s ex-wife Jessica Corbett slams Trump’s “due process” tweet. “He got due process when I answered the FBI agents truthfully.” She said the FBI’s first question to her was, “why did you and David get a divorce?” “Because he was abusive,” Corbett said. “And I escaped and survived.”
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CIA Director Pompeo testifies that Trump’s tweet claiming that CiA had paid $1 Million for dirt on him is “atrocious” and “ridiculous” information. [Besides It was NSA who only paid $100k to buy back stolen cybertools, and got a video of someone they claimed was Trump with some hookers in Russia]
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FBI Director Wray says that Porter's background preliminary report was delivered in March, the full report was completed and delivered last July, and that they processed a request for a follow-up by November, then closed it in January — yet Porter was still working in the WH with a permanent clearance until last week.
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Sen. Kamala Harris grills Wray about whether Trump should be given access to sensitive Russia Intel — Wray says they wouldn’t share it with the WH, but that they could still get it through Congress. [I suspect he’s thinking of you Devin Nunes!] She also asks if it was appropriate for Trump to declassify a memo that the FBI said was “Inaccurate”, he says that Trump has that authority but doesn't comment on whether it's appropriate.
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DNI Dan Coats testifies that basically the U.S. is already under attack by Russian cyber agents — who are trying to disrupt the 2018 midterm elections. He expects “Russia to continue using propaganda, social media, false flag personas, sympathetic spokesmen, and other means to influence to try to build on its wide range of operations and as bait social and political fissures in the United States.” However he does not state that there is a plan in place to counter these attacks.
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Politico reports that WH staff had attempted to have Porter deny the abuse allegations with reporters off the record, even after the picture of his first wife’s black eye was released.
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Sen Joni Ernst (R-IA) on the Porter scandal “You can’t justify it.” [Nope]
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Gingrich torpedoes a Fox and Friends conspiracy theory about Susan Rice’s “by the book” memo to herself. She was probably just tidying up her notes for a memoir later. “I've had it happen to me”.
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Israeli Police recommend corruption and bribery charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu.
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Only a day after one is sent to Don Jr. house another package of apparently harmless white powder is sent to Obama’s DC offices.
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Former U.S Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul says “Trump’s fragile ego” is why he refuses to acknowledge and respond to the Russian cyber threat against our elections.
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CNN reports that Porter had been in serious negotiations to be promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff before he resigned last week.
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ABC reports that Porter told other WH aides that he broke his second ex-wife’s window “by accident” instead of a fit of rage.
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Huckabee-Sanders gets grilled over a slow turning spit over the White House Wife Beaters Club. She continues to say that Kelly didn’t know about the abuse allegations until the day after the black eye picture was published and claims that things were stalled at the WH personnel security office. She also says that the new Trump budget from yesterday fully funds the Violence Against Women Act, which is funny because the previous one cut that funding by 93 percent. April Ryan asks about this but Sanders ducks the question and when April says Mulvaney didn’t mention this yesterday, she says "It's because you probably didn’t ask the question, next?”
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Hannity : “Secret Sperm” in the Obama portrait — don’t even ask.
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DNI Coats issues a security warning about Climate Change — so apparently Trump forgot and missed some spots in his anti-Science and fact purge.
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NYTimes reports that WH Officials were hesitant to do anything about Porter’s held up Security clearance because doing so would have highlighted the fact that Jared Kushner’s security clearance is held up too. So by coddling Porter they were also coddling Jared and the other 30-40 people whose clearances are still pending in the WH.
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CNN panelist suggests that Huckabee-Sanders got mushroomed on Porter [kept in the dark and feed crap!] “It’s pretty clear to me that if the White House press secretary doesn’t have this information,” Bloomberg’s Joshua Green continued, “it’s because her boss doesn’t want her to have this information.”
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Shep Smith walks Fox Viewers through the damning timeline of the WH horrible response to Porter and the Wife Beaters.
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NBC news shows a clip of Trump ending a WH meeting and when a reporter asks him for a statement to domestic violence victims — he leaves the room without comment.
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Katy Tur states that Kushner’s outstanding $1.2 Billion loan on 666 Park Avenue presents a significant security risk, and is yet another reason his clearance may be held indefinitely.
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Michael Cohen states he paid Stormy Daniels $130k out of his own pocket in order to “protect Trump” and claims he didn’t violate FEC rules because it wasn’t a "political contribution”, but then basically since he admits it was to “protect” Trump's campaign it's an unreported $130k in kind donation to the Trump campaign — which is against FEC rules. Unfortunately the FEC isn't likely to take it up because they’re totally understaffed and paralyzed by partisan bickering.
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Politico reports that OMB on the advice of WH Personnel Security Office had issued a directive in November blocking new hires in the WH with only interim clearances, but previous hires — Like Sorensen, Porter and Kushner — were exempt from this freeze.
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NYTimes reports that Don McGahn encourage Porter to resign in Novemberafter he’d learned about Porter’s security clearance being delayed in September after his girlfriend had called him directly about the abuse.
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WH refuses to provide a spokesman for Anderson Cooper — so he just lists all of Huckabee-Sanders' gaslighting lies about Wife-Beater club one after another and another and another.
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April Ryan reports that the National Security Council was aware of Porter’s domestic violence and so was WH Counsel Don McGahn who was informed last Janauary.
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CNN commentator and former CIA/FBI Official Phil Mudd says that Wray’s debunking of Kelly’s bogus Porter story is a ‘stiletto knife’ into the back of the White House. Jake Tapper also surgically dismantles WH Talking points on Porter.
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February 14th —
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US investments in foreign solar power production have doubled in Trump’s first year due to last minute rules implemented by the Obama Administration.
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Chris Cuomo slaps down Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-OH) ridiculous “FBI Tried to impact the Trump campaign by not telling anyone they were surveilling Carter Page after he left the campaign” theory in just 2 mins.
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Fox attacks school for opposing the pro-Slavery 3rd verse of the National Anthem: “They’ll listen to trashy music.”
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House Oversight Chair Trey Gowdy launches a Porter investigation: “How the hell was he still employed?”
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Maggie Haberman reports that John Kelly’s allies now realize Trump is the one leaking dirt on him to the press.
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NSA headquarters in Ft. Meade is attacked by a black SUV crashing their barricades and a shooting.
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Huckabee-Sanders cancels the WH Press briefing due to a Active Shooter situation at a Florida High School.
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Russian trolls ignited fake KKK fears at Mizzou in 2015 as racial protest there increased.
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Paul Ryan says Trump should ‘absolutely’ come out against wife beating: “I mean, come on.”
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Trump finally says that domestic violence is “bad, mkay?” after nine days. I’m totally opposed to domestic violence and everyone knows it. It almost wouldn’t have to be said’ [But it does, it does!]
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Treasury Sec Mnuchin says we’ll have sanctions against Russians ‘in the near future’. [Yeah, sure they will.]
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Romney is running for the Senate.
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Leaked chat message from 2015 show Jullian Assanges’ preference for the GOP and sympathy toward Russia. [No kidding?]
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Stormy Daniels says she’s now “Free to Talk” after Michael Cohen breached their contract. [Ruh Roh!]
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EPA’s internal watchdog states they won’t expand their investigation into Director Scott Pruitt’s growing travel scandal because of limits of budget, staff and time.
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Former New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram explains to Katy Tur how Michael Cohen has blown his own Stormy Daniels alibi?
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WH Staff without permanent clearances — including Kushner — get to read the President’s Daily Security Brief, even though Trump doesn’t read it himself.
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19 year-old Florida Gunman Nikolas Cruz who killed 17 people yesterday is revealed to have been previously expelled from that same school for carrying a firearm and threatening his classmates particularly women, he’d used the fire alarm to defeat their “shelter in place” protocol which he had also been trained on, had brought smoke grenades and a gas mask, dropped his gun and escaped the school only to be picked up a mile away, had been investigated by the FBI for posting “I’m gonna grow up to be a school shooter”on a youtube video comment and had trained on firearms with White Supremacist Group “Republic of Florida.”t
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February 15th —
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Former Federal prosecutor and Illinois attorney general candidate Renato Mariotti notes that Trump’s attempt to get WH Counsel McGahn to talk then Acting FBI Deputy Director Dana Boente into formally announcing Trump “was not under investigation” before he fired Comey which could lead to yet another obstruction charge.
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House Democrats introduce bill to fund $1 Billion for voting and election security.
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Florida AG Pam Bondi announces their states Gun Security Plan — to pay funeral expenses and counseling for shooting victims also known as the “After-the-Horse Leaves the Barn” or the “Mopping-Up-the-Spilled-Blood” policy.
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CNN reports over 100 WH officials served with only Interim Clearances until November, including Ivanka Trump.
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Russian citizen Vladimir Drinkman is sentenced to 12 years for hacking US computers in 2012 after he was arrested in the Netherlands and extradited to the U.S. in 2015.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov categorically denies allegations from a British official that Russia was responsible for the “NotPetya” cyber-attack last year.
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Putin sends condolences to Trump after Florida Shooting.
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Former GOP Rep. David Jolly (FL) blasts his own party as he tells Don Lemon “Republicans will never do anything on gun control, you’ll have to flip the House if you want results.” [Yeah, let’s do that.]
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Ted Cruz accuses Dems of “politicizing” the Florida shooting, then he blames Obama for Gun Violence. “Had the Obama administration simply followed federal law and enforced the law, existing gun laws made it illegal for the Sutherland Springs shooter to buy a gun,” he opined. “But the Obama administration failed to report his criminal conviction so he wasn’t in the background check system.” [That was actually the DOD and VA who didn’t share information with the ATF and FBI, but let’s not blame the Pentagon and Troops for anything...]
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IRS subpoenas investors in Kushners real estate projects, but this doesn’t appear to be related to the Mueller probe.
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Study indicates that “Fake News” may have helped Trump win in 2016. [Yeah, ya think? It certainly wasn’t facts and truth.]
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Trump urges students to always report “erratic behavior” by their classmates, which apparently in the case of Cruz they did because he had been expelled. Also I’d like to report some “erratic behavior” by a man currently occupying the White House — can we have him expelled please?
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Stormy Daniels saved a dress she wore during sex with Trump and plans to have it tested for his DNA. Hopefully it’s not also red.
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Vanity Fair reports that an upcoming book, The Gatekeepers, will document how Reince Preibus argued that letting Jeff Session resign would have created a “Spiral of Calamity.”
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Ann Coulter calls for an end to the FBI’s Russia probe because they didn’t immediately locate and arrest Nikolas Cruz after his vague “I’m gonna be a school shooter” youtube comment, claiming it’s the same thing as ignoring warnings about Mohammad Atta before 9/11 — but wait, who was it that did that again because I distinctly remember a Presidential Daily Briefing and a Pheonix Memo that was produced by the FBI…? Maybe Kushner would have noticed it with his Interim Clearance.
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Trump’s Muslim Ban suffers another defeat as a discriminatory policy before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals by 9 to 4.
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Jeff Sessions says he will vigorously enforce federal gun laws and violent crime laws to preemptively prevent mass shootings. [Yeah, ok, but the last 10-20 mass shooters nearly all bought their guns legally and oh by the way Trump’s latest budget would slash funding for the national background check system by 16% — so good luck with that.]
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Paul Ryan has not yet ruled out possible contempt charges against Steve Bannon for refusing to answer questions from House Intel, but he hasn't ruled it completely IN either.
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Right on Cue, Russian Bots begin spreading false stories about the Parkland Florida shooting.
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Douglas High Senior Carly Nowell takes down Tami Lahren over the Parkland Shooting.
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Republic of Florida takes credit for providing the Parkland shooter with at least one of his guns.
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Reports are that Manafort’s co-defendant Rick Gates may be negotiating a plea deal. after having a “Queen for a Day” interview where he was allowed to tell them everything he knows and anything he did without receiving any charges for it as long as it’s the truth. [It turns out later, they he lied in this meeting.]
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Bannon spends hours talking to Mueller team and supposedly answers every question, however he also talks again to House Intel and only answer 25 questions pre-written but the WH with a string of “No”, and refuses to answer anything else about his time after the campaign with a sorta claim of “executive privilege”
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Republic of Florida’s leader backtracks on having links to Nikolas Cruz — “we have a bunch of guys named Nicholas.”
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February 16th —
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Mueller announces the guilty plea and indictment of Richard Pinedo Jr. for identity fraud in attacking online digital payment companies where “hundreds of bank account numbers” where involved and Pinedo personally collected tens of thousands of dollars. His Lawyer Jeremy Lessem claims he “made a mistake” but had “no knowledge” of who was paying for the information he stole. [Could it be, Russia?]
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Rod Rosenstein gives a press conference that announces that 13 members of the St. Petersburg based “Internet Research Agency, Concord Management & Concord Catering” have been indicted for their social media efforts to “violating U.S. criminal laws in order to interfere with U.S. elections and political processes.” The indictment notes that the defendants were by mid-2016 “supporting the campaign of Donald Trump and disparaging Hillary Clinton,” sometimes posing as Bernie Sanders or Jill Stein supporters. He states Americans listed in the indictment were “unwitting pawns.” According to the indictment 3 low-level Campaign Officials were directly contacted by members of IRA by email while setting up rallies in Florida.
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Romney formerly announces his bid for Utah Senate.
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FBI admits that they failed to follow up on a tip stating that Nikolas Cruz “intended to kill people.” Sessions calls for this failure to be investigated. Rick Scott calls for FBI Director Chris Wray to resign, but says nothing about the 39 times the Broward County Sheriff and Florida Child and Family visited Cruz’s home and did nothing.
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James Risen writes for the Intercept that Trump has implemented a “an almost Textbook definition of Treason.”
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Carl Bernstein states that “Trump can not dismiss this. “It is very hard for these Republicans who have gone along with this business of witch hunt to continue to do so after this,” Bernstein concluded.”
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Trump visits Parkland shooting victims in a Florida hospital.
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The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow reports that former playboy playmate Karen McDougal shared an 8 page note include details with her month’s long 2006 affair with Trump, for which she was paid $150k by the National Enquirer not to share.
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Former CIA and NSA director Gen. Michael Hayden slams Trump and alt-Right conspiracy theories claiming the Russian attack on our democracy is “a hoax.” Ex-CIA Chief Brennan says the new Mueller indictment ‘puts a lie to Putin’s claims of innocence.
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John Kelly tightens security clearance procedures post the Rob Porter scandal and now limits access to classified materials to persons with only Interim Clearances — including Kushner.
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16 year old Parkland shooting survivor Sarah Chad tweets a challenges “piece of shit” Trump to debate gun control with her “face to face”.
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RNC spokeshill Kayleigh McEnany falsely claims on Fox that the new Mueller indictments “exonerates Trump” — nope, it doesn’t.
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Marc Kasowitz’s former spokesman Mark Corallo, who had quit his job when he heard Hope Hicks state that Don Jr’s emails about meeting with Russians would “never get out” is interviewed by Mueller.
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Mark Warner, Adam Schiff and Elijah Cummings state that this indictment vindicates the Mueller probe. Paul Ryan says it shows the “extent of the subterfuge” in Russian meddling. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) says the Mueller indictments “just put Moscow on notice.” [And also the WH.] Florida Sen Marco Rubio rejects the notion that new gun laws could have prevented Parkland. Nunes said the indictments are “gratifying” which is pretty funny since just last week he was claiming the entire investigation was tainted by partisanship and illegitimate.
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Trump claims the indictment vindicates him: “Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President,” he tweeted. “The Trump campaign did nothing wrong – no collusion!” [Except the indictment didn't address that issue so that’s coming dude, that’s coming...]
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In the same statement, Trump said, “It’s time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories, which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, [Oh, you finally noticed?!] and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions. [Say what?] We must unite as Americans to protect the integrity of our democracy and our elections,” he went on.” [Yeah, right — that’s why all the Intel Chief’s just testified that you’ve been doing NOTHING to protect “the integrity” of our elections or punish Russia.]
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Trump claims Dems are to blame for “totally abandoning DACA recipients” even though he’s created this crisis when he set an artificial 6 month deadline and when it was the WH who promised to Veto just about every bipartisan DACA proposal.
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He also claims that we need to focus on the “difficult question of mental health” — but this wasn’t a case of mental disability, schizophrenia or psychosis or anything on the DSM 5— it’s was depression, isolation, violence, racism and hatred — which is a matter of attitude, not sickness.
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Education Sec. Betsy Devos says Congress “has to lead” on gun violence, she says It’s “their job.” [Funny I thought it was Trump’s job to “lead.”] Treasury Sec. Mnuchin on Gun Violence “I urge Congress to look at these issues.” [Really, do ya man?]
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February 21st —
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The Chronicle reports that Adam Schiff says that Democratic Memo on Carter Page’s FISA warrant will likely be released this week.
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Buzzfeed reports that FinCEn had enough information about potentially money laundering by Manafort to move on him as early as 2014.
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David Hogg shrugs off conspiracy theories that he’s a “crisis actor” — “It shows me that I’m doing the right thing.”
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CNN reports that WH staffers have said that Porter’s domestic abuse was ignored because his clearance problems would have looked bad for Kushner.
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Trump rage tweets about why Jeff Sessions isn’t investigating Obama over Russian meddling. [Uh, hm… yeah, that happened.]
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Don Jr. tells an Indiana newspaper that Trump being in the WH is costing his businesses “Millions of Dollars” [Good!]
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CPAC doesn’t include the NRA’s Wayne Lapierre on their published schedule to limit protests, but he’s speaking at the conference anyway.
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Trump says he will hold a “Listening Sessions” with Students and Teachers who survived Parkland, Columbine and Newtown.
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Russia’s Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov accused the US of trying to meddle in Russia’s internal affairs ahead of a presidential election next month after the indictments of 13 members of the St. Petersburg Troll Farm for meddling in the 2016 U.S. elections.
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Anderson Cooper suggests that crime scene photos from Parkland should be publicly released so that people fully understand what an AR-15 can do. Van Jones states “They have a thousand excuses. And, I have to say, whenever this thing happens, if it’s a Muslim, they want to politicize it within seconds. If it’s a Mexican — build the wall. If it’s a black person — more cops and prisons. If it’s a white person, it’s mental health.”
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Sarah Huckabee-Sanders gets slaughtered for her bogus claim that Trump has been “tougher on Russian than Obama” which fits they’re pathological need to constantly one-up the previous President in a ridiculous petty way.
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Van Jones shuts down Jack Kingston’s repeated attack on the Parkland Survivors as being “Tools of the Left.”
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Wapo reports that former Russian Troll farmer Marat Mindiyarov describes that those who worked on the American desk there “were people with excellent language skills, interpreters, university graduates,” he said, “It’s very hard to tell it’s a foreigner writing because they master the language wonderfully.”
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MSNBC’s Stephanie Rhule maps out how Manafort and Zwaan are linked to Yanakovych on behalf of various Russian Oligarchs with ties to Putin, and how Papadopoulos interacted with Prof. Mifsud who had contacts in the Russian Foreign Ministry & the Russian Ambassador to England, plus Flynn's various contacts with Kislyak. [She doesn't mention Kushner participation with Flynn’s Russian contacts, and Don Jr. Russian contacts, or that Flynn was trying to setup a Saudi deal to build Nuclear Power plants using sanctioned Russian contractors, and Trump’s attorney Michael Flynn with Felix Sater were trying to get Trump Tower Moscow built with Putin’s help.]
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February 21st —
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Rick Gates pleads guilty to conspiracy against the US and lying to federal investigators and agrees to cooperate with Mueller. He admits to lying about “not discussing Ukraine” during a 2013 meeting on Capitol Hill which included Putin’s favorite Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher and lobbyist Vin Weber.
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Philando Castille’s mother blasts Lapierre ‘If he cared about the good guys, he would’ve stood up for my son’. [Right, he didn’t!]
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Trump trashes gun free schools at CPAC — which is a place that people aren’t allowed to bring guns.
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CNN denies a story pushed by Tucker Carlson and Trump that a pro-Gun rights student from Stoneman Douglas wasn’t allowed to ask a question and instead was given a scripted answer. [And who might expect that a gun-nut might try to gain attention for his agenda?]
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Alyson Camerota blasts CPAC organizer Matt Schlapp over Lapierre’s divisive CPAC speech where he had attacked the Parkland survivors and said they “hate freedom.” She also goes after Dana Loesch for claiming the media “Loves Mass Shootings!” [By that rule, they must Love Donald Trump too, because they’ve given him wall-to-wall coverage for the last 2 years]
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Mueller unseals a third indictment against Paul Manafort immediately after his last set and Gates guilty plea which include charges that hey hid tens of $Millions that they received from lobbying for Ukraine, and that he had conspired in 2012 with law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom which included attorney Alex van Der Zwaan who has also pleaded guilty [That’s the 5th guilty plea] to lying about his contacts with Gates as part of secret plan to lobby for Yanakovych’s pro-Russian party in Ukraine and support the prosecution of one of his political rivals without officially registering as Foreign agents.
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Amnesty International Officially declares Trump a Human Rights violator. "The spectres of hatred and fear now loom large in world affairs, and we have few governments standing up for human rights in these disturbing times," said Salil Shetty, head of Amnesty. "Instead, leaders such as al-Sisi, Duterte, Maduro, Putin, Trump and Xi are callously undermining the rights of millions," referring to the leaders of Egypt, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia, the US and China.
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Trump during a press event with the Prime Minister of Australia again repeats his nutty “arm the teachers” plan and insults the SRO who didn’t enter the school at Parkland even through three other Broward deputies didn’t either. He then says that teachers love their students but armed security and police don’t, which is just fucked up. He says he’s going to let John Kelly decide if Kushner gets to keep his clearance or not, then he goes on and on about how much he needs Kushner “for world peace.”
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CNN reports that Rosenstein informed McGahn two weeks ago that the status of Kushner's clearance is pending and will remain so until the completion of the Mueller probe.
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February 24th —
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‘Blue Lives Matter’ and Trump fans are behind #FireSheriffIsrael because he shouted at NRA spokeshill Dana Loesch.
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Former RNC chairman Michael Steele says the GOP is ‘clearly’ more racist: ‘How quickly they revert to race as a weapon’
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Former US Attorney Barbara McQuade explains how a conspiracy case can be formed against Trump. “If they are soliciting things from a foreign government, receiving things of value from a foreign national, that would disrupt the fair administrations of our elections and could be conspiracy to defraud the United States,” she continued. “I think the indictment that was handed down last week, naming the 13 Russians, provides that foundation on which Robert Mueller can build if he finds the evidence linking Americans to be co-conspirators with the Russians.” �[Yeah, he’s already found that with Papadopoulos, Page and Don Jr. — he’s just not ready to indict over it, yet.]
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Mediaite publishes the original email from CNN that shows that CNN had simply asked Haab to limit himself to just one question he himself had submitted for their Town Hall because of time contraints, Fox had instead promoted a doctored version of the email to support the false claim that “CNN scripted” the questions.
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Susan Rice’s attorneys send a letter to Grassley and Graham which debunks their conspiracy theory that she had discussed the Steele Dossier with outgoing President Obama during the transition, because she didn’t.
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The 10 Page counter-Nunes memo from Adam Schiff is released with numerous redactions. [3 of those pages are actually Citations and References, so it’s really only 7 pages of core information]
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The FBI counter-intelligence investigation began in July 2016 due to reports of Russian contacts by George Papadopoulos and the FBI didn’t receive any information from Christopher Steele until Mid-September, seven weeks later.
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Page was no longer a member of the Trump campaign when FISA surveillance began in October 2016 meaning that “the campaign” wasn’t spied on by these warrants, but he had a long history of contacts with Russian intelligence officials some of whom had been prosecuted in 2013, while the FBI had interviewed him about his Russian contacts in March 2016, and he travelled to Russia twice in 2016 in July and December where he admitted meeting the Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Communications Director for Rosneft.
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DOJ did rely on Steele’s reporting for their initial FISA application, as he had been found to be a credible source by FBI several times before and had been previously paid, but they didn’t pay him this time.
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Steele was no longer a source for the FBI by January before the time of the 1st renewal of the FISA warrant because he had gone to the media in late October after becoming frustrated with Comey’s public announcements and renewal of the Clinton email investigation without also disclosing the investigation into Trump, so they didn’t really rely on Steele’s information for the final two applications.
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The memo mentions that not only were Page and Papadopoulos being investigated for their contacts with Russians several other members of the Trump campaign were also being investigated — and we could expect that that would include Flynn, Manafort and Gates — however all the names of these persons are redacted meaning that the FBI/DOj may have pending investigations indictments of completely new people coming down the pike. In fact the indictments and guilty pleas by Flynn, Manafort and Gates are mentioned later in the memo — so why the redactions unless these are different people like Don Jr. and Kushner?
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Steele’s sources had alleged that he had met Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin and discussed a financial exchange involving brokerage fees on the sale of Rosneft stock in exchange for the reduction of Russian sanctions — which by the way is Quid Pro Quo collusion — and that Page was informed by Kremlin Official Igor Divyekin — just as Papadoplous was informed by Prof. Mifsud — that the Russians had compromising material against Clinton which they would release in support of Trump. Other Independent sources confirmed Steele's reporting Page's contacts in Moscow, but the details about these contacts were redacted.
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The FISC was informed about Steele history as a previous credible sources for the FBI, and they were also informed that his employer Glenn Simpson at Fusion GPS had been hired by a law firm with “political connections”, the specific names and details were redacted and masked but the obvious potential for political bias was made clear to the court.
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Four different FISC judges had approved the warrants individually, 3 of them had been appointed by George W. Bush, one had been appointed by George H.W. Bush. [This last bit was actually a hand-written correction in the margins of the memo.]
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The surveillance of Page did yield worthwhile intelligence which is largely why the warrant was renewed 3 times but details on results of that surveillance has been redacted.
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Both Page and Papadopoulos had been in contact with multiple Russians during the campaign and had been informed of their desire to meddle in the election in favor of Trump with negative material about Clinton, a specific conspiracy directly between the two of them wasn't required for the DOJ to want to keep a close eye on them both, however Manafort and Gates were aware of Papadopoulos contacts with the Russians and Lewandowski specifically authorized Page’s trip to Moscow on the same day that Papadopoulos Ministry of Foreign Affairs contact agreed that someone “low level” besides Trump should come meet the Russians.
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DOJ had included the reference to Isakoff’s Yahoo News article in September not to corroborate Steele, but instead used it along with another article to point out Page’s false public denials about his contacts with members of the Russian government.
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Nunes’ inference that DOJ Deputy Assistant AG Bruce Ohr who acted as a go-between for Steele was somehow part of a secret cabal including Sally Yates and Rob Rosenstein is hampered by the fact Ohr worked on drug and organized crime cases and wouldn’t have any direct influence on counter-terrorism cases.
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Nunes’ additional claim that Peter Strzok and Lisa Page somehow orchestrated the Page FISA warrant is hampered by the fact that they had disparaging text messages about several persons in the campaign including Democrats such as Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, McCabe had testified the had “no idea” what their “insurance policy” texts were really about, and that Strzok had personally written the first draft of the memo which announced the re-opening of the Clinton email investigation.
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The Schiff memo also repeatedly attacks Devin Nunes and Republicans for trying to undermine the Mueller Russia investigation.
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February 25th —
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Trump does a phone interview with Fox’s Judge Janine to rant about Adam Schiff being a “leaker” and a “bad guy”. He scoffs at his counter memo claiming that “after 18 months they have nothing to connect to Russia.” — which is just damn lie since Page and Papadopoulos alone talked to plenty of Russians, were informed about the DNC/Clinton hack and didn’t report it to the FBI — which is Misprision of Felony and aiding and abetting after the fact.
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At CPAC Nunes also blows off the Schiff memo as being part of a “coverup” with the FBI and DOJ then turns around and blames Obama for the Russians meddling in our election, although he did respond to it at the time while Trump and Republicans have done less than nothing about it.
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Ana Navarro blasts Nunes CPAC appearance “I think it tells you what the Trump base has become. They’re going to believe anything that Donald Trump or Devin Nunes says,” she said. “The folks who want to believe Nunes do. the folks who want to believe the Democrats do. I feel this investigation is just so politicized. So irresponsible, so off the rails. It’s like the American people are being asked to be mediators in the midst of a divorce.” [War of the Roses, redux!]
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Parkland survivor David Hogg defends SRO Scot Peterson "Who wants to go down the barrel of an AR-15, even with a glock?" Scot Peterson, "just like every other police officer out there at heart - is a good person.” He also blasts Dana Loesch for duping NRA members: ‘Everything she says is spectacle’.
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Rick Santorum just like other GOPers plays the “Broken Home” card to rationalize School Shooting and get blasted for blaming single moms for mass murder.
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Newsweek reports that just prior to the closing of the Peyongchang Winter Olympic Ivanka Trump briefed the South Korean President on sanctions against the DPRK even though she herself doesn’t have a permanent security clearance. This was probably necessary because Trump’s nominee for ambassador to South Korea backed out due to his juvenile threats against North Korea.
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Maggie Brown daughter of songwriter Oscar Brown who wrote “The Snake” wants Trump to stop misquoting her fathers song out of context in order to bash immigrants.
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Pro-Trump Parkland father Andrew Pollack who had spoken at his "listening sessions” blasts the idea of banning AR-15s and implementing gun controls instead of hardening schools and arming teachers. “We can get together on school safety. But when you polarize it, this event and every other media — we don’t care about gun control right now. That’s a big issue in the country and you’re not going to get everyone together on it.”
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Broward Sheriff Scott Isreal stuns Jake Tapper when he touts his departments “amazing leadership” when it’s reported that 4 of his deputies didn’t enter Stoneman Douglas to confront the gunman. He claims only one deputy, SRO Scot Peterson, failed at his duty. Further reports are that Peterson didn't enter because he thought the gunman was outside.
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NRA’s Wayne Lapierre doesn’t support Trump’s plan to raise the minimum age to by Semi-Auto Rifles to 21 or to ban bump stocks. Loesch had previously said they did support these efforts now she said “we support no plan.”
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Salon reports that Trump backs a plan to go full-on Duterte by making drug dealing punishable by death, but somehow I doubt he’s going to start with companies like Merck and Glaxo-Smith Kline who’ve help push the widespread use of opiods even though they now kill 65,000 Americans per year.
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February 26th —
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Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) who owns a gun factory blame video games and a “lack of Jesus” in our schools for mass shootings.
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Trump testily folds his arms as Washington State Governor Jay Inslee rips apart his ridiculous “arm the teachers” plan by pointing out that proper law enforcement training for this would take as much as six months and Teachers don’t want this on their plate.
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Trump says he would have stopped the Parkland shooter “even without a weapon” — which is just completely deluded, particularly since he can’t seem to walk 300 ft without a Golf Cart and he stood by and did nothing while a guest at Mar-a-Lago lay bleeding on the floor.
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WSJ reports that Trump’s legal team is plotting to deny Mueller an interview with him so that he won’t be liable for lying under oath.
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Rep Mike Conway (R-TX) who is leading the House Intel Russian investigation in Nunes stead due to his “recusal” says he doesn’t see any need for Congress to scrutinize loans given by Deutsche Bank to President Donald Trump on the grounds that it isn’t a Russian bank. ‘[Yeah, they were only involved in money-laundering $10 Billion in Russian money, while Trump owes them $350 Million so why bother investigating them?]
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Former Naval Intel and NSA officer Malcolm Nance — who actually does have SWAT training — slams Trump’s plan to arm teachers. “But if you’re not really trained, you’re not proficient, it’s not like in the movies. The movies have nothing to do with reality. You’re putting yourself where you can be killed.”
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SCOTUS rejects Trump’s attempt to end the DACA program and deport dreamers.
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Eric Trump says that Russia meddling “started off as a hoax”, then says but ‘I wish Obama would have’ stopped them. [So is it hoax or is it real? Also Obama did block their attempts to attack our voting systems even though some states resisted claiming it was a “Federal Power Grab”, then -y’know- he Sanctioned Russia. And just how are those sanctions doing now?] He also says he didn’t think the Schiff memo “Said anything, and claims it confirmed that the FISC wasn’t informed about political funding of Steele research” [Which is a lie]
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Santorum gets spanked by Chris Cuomo on gun laws. “But if you look at places around the globe, the only metric that distinguishes the United States is the ease of access of guns and the number of guns. Whether it’s mental health or the family unit, the nuclear unit, the only metric that matters are the guns and who gets them.”
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Politico reports that Kelly “does not plan to recommend to the president that he grant Kushner a waiver, but he is unlikely to resign if Trump ultimately decides to do so.” Meanwhile Trump whines that the “security clearance process is broken” because his staff isn’t getting cleared fast enough, ignoring the fact that it’s likely because they probably don’t deserve clearances.
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Former RNC Chair Michael Steele rejects CPAC’s apology for their racist insult that he was chairman just because “he was a black guy.”
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Delta cancels discounts for NRA members and Georgia State Lawmakers threaten to cancel a tax cut they receive for fuel unless they restore the discounts.
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20 States sue to end Obamacare claiming that the cancelling of the Individual Mandate under the tax bill renders the law “unconstitutional.”
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Don Lemon blasts Trump’s claim that showing courage under gun-fire is just like making a difficult putt on the golf course. “Are you taking their lives seriously?” [Nope.]
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February 27th —
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NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers states that he has not received the authority from Trump for US Cyber Command to battle Russian and other foreign attacks on their own home field.
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Sarah Huckabee-Sander get grilled about U.S. Cyber-Command being left in “stand down” mode.
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“But Admiral Rogers is the one that would have the agency that could actually go and confront the Russian intrusion at the source,” [ABC correspondent Jonathan] Karl insisted. “And he hasn’t been given the authority. In fact, he says the Russians haven’t paid a sufficient price to make them change their behavior. Why not give him the authority?”
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“Nobody is denying him the authority!” Sanders shot back. “We’re looking at a number of different ways that we can put pressure [on the Russians]. This president… has been much tougher on Russia than his predecessor. [No, the fuck he hasn’t] Let’s not forget that this happened under Obama. This didn’t happen under President Trump. If you want to blame somebody on past problems then you need to look at the Obama administration.”
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“This is not about the past!” Karl points out. “This is about preventing intrusion in the next election. He says he needs the authority and hasn’t been given it.”
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Trump goes on a mad early morning tweet-rage claiming “No collusion” quoting Jonathan Turley on Fox and Friends, complaining about “crimes by Clinton” and then “WITCH HUNT!”
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Kushner’s Realty Co is now in talks to buy remaining portions of 666 Park Ave. from their partner Vornado Reality.
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When asked by NBC News’ Peter Alexander about Trump’s continued support for accused domestic abusers sexual assaulters and wife beaters like Rob Porter and Roy Moore Ivanka tried to deny her father had defended the two men [He sure fucking did!] before pivoting to a discussion of domestic violence in general, debating “how much sexual violence is acceptable?”
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Parkland’s school superintendent states that Nikolas Cruz had refused school counseling once he turned 18, and there was no recourse available, also a neighbor of Cruz had reported him killing frogs and potentially attempting to kill her dog. She felt he would murder someone but when she reported it the officer told he needed an “imminent threat” and left.
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Norway bans semi-automatic weapons 10 years after neo-Nazi Anders Brevik’s killing spree that left 69 progressives — including children — dead.
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Hope Hicks — Trump’s “Communications Director” who never communicates anything in public — goes before House Intel for 9 hours and refuses to answer questions but without evoking executive privilege on direction from the WH just as Steve Bannon, Corey Lewandowski and Don Jr. did.
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Several Dems walked out in the middle of the interview because Republic block her from getting subpeonaed like Bannon was. “We got Bannoned.”
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During her interview she admits she has to sometimes tell “white lies” for Donald Trump in her role as communications director. [Would that include her claim that there were “no contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians” even after Kushner had emailed her about Don jr. talking to Wikileaks via twitter?] She denies lying about connections to Russia, but we already know she already did that.
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She doesn’t answer any questions about the firing of James Comey or the Don Jr./Veselnitskaya meetings or how the initially false statement about it being “about adoptions” was drafted, or whether she claimed Don Jr. emails would “never get out”, but she does admit that she first learned about it on July 2017. [Which is interesting because I think Don Jr. testified to House Intel that he told her about it while she was on AF1 on July 8, 2017.]
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David Hogg agrees to debate Alex Jones over one of his batshit crazy conspiracy theories, which will absolutely go viral.
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Politico Reports that Mueller has dropped all 17 remaining charges against Rick Gates as a result of his cooperation, which suggests Gates has given him decisive killer evidence against Manafort or one or more of his other targets. Even Flynn is still looking at jail time.
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Paul Ryan standing next to Steve Scalise announces that he’s not focused on gun bans, but instead want to look at background checks and mental health red flags to curb school shootings. Scalise says he supports people having AR-15s because “they use it to defend themselves.”
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Sessions says DOJ is slowly inching forward to banning bump stocks.
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Chris Cuomo calls out on Carter Page after he claims the U.S. government meddled in it’s own elections, not Russia which is just nucking futz.
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CNN’s Brianna Keiller calls BS on Georgia state lawmaker Michael Williams (R) who claims it’s unfair for Delta to punish NRA members and not cancel discounts they give “Left Wing Organizations” like Planned Parenthood, even though he can provide no evidence of such discounts. “I saw it on Google, I can’t remember where.”
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CNN reports that White House aides resent Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for just “Playing Government”. Chief of staff John Kelly and other senior officials were reportedly infuriated that the president’s daughter represented the U.S. in South Korea.
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Kushner’s clearance is severally downgraded from TS/SCI to Secret, but he remains — so far — employed in the WH. Obviously middle-east peace teeters in the balance. Several others are similarly downgraded while four other WH aides lose their jobs because they couldn’t pass background checks.
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Professor Joseph Mifsud who had told Papadopoulos about Russia having “Thousands of Hillary’s emails” has completely disappeared. even his fiancee can’t find him.
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NBA Champion Golden State Warriors visit the African American History Museum in Washington instead of Trump at the WH and invite some local kids to join them.
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HUD Official is retaliated against for blowing the Whistle on Secretary Ben Carson spending ridiculous amounts to redecorate his office.
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Sen John Thune: I’d rather Trump not nominate his own pilot to lead the FAA. [Actually he nominated Mike Pence’s pilot who had skidded their plane off the runway during the election.]
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Wapo reports that China, Mexico, the UAE and Israel all claimed to have methods to manipulate Jared Kushner due to his financial issues and fucking incompetence on Foreign Policy. [What, not Russia?]
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The American intelligence community confirms that they had knowledge of Kremlin-compromised voter registration systems and state websites in at least seven states as of January 2017 — but did not inform the states of that information because they didn't have anyone with the proper clearances. Those states were Alaska, Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announces that the Justice Department’s inspector general will investigate the circumstances that led to a former Trump campaign aide Carter Page’s surveillance.[Yeah, ok that’s going to be a total waste of time.]
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Glenn Haab, father of Parkland survivor Colton Haab admits to doctoring emails after his son falsely claimed CNN scripted their gun town hall to fTucker Carlson.
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Ben Carson’s HUD spent $165k on ‘lounge furniture’ in addition to the $31k doled out for Ben Carson’s dining room after he cut spending for homelessness. [So I’m thinking he needs to be made to let a few homeless people live on that nice lounge furniture and dining room.]
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Rick Wilson on slams ‘corrupt little snake beta-male’ Kushner over his ‘greedy, sloppy’ business dealings. [Tell us how you really feel Rick!]
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Brad Pascale is named as Campaign Manager for Trump’s re-election then almost immdiately gets exposed in a penny-stock scandal.
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Ken Starr tells Anderson Cooper that Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians is a “counter-indication” of collusion, he says he greatly respects Mueller, but says that he doesn’t see obstruction of justice in the firing of Comey in order to stop the Russia investigation even though he himself claimed Bill Clinton obstructed justice for having a conversation with his own secretary even when she wasn’t even on a witness list at the time. He argues that “wasn’t a legal matter, but a matter of impeachment.” So Trump I guess he can’t be prosecuted yet, but he could be impeached.[Although I wouldn’t recommend it until he’s indicted or an unindicted co-conspirator.]
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Reports are that Mueller is crossing Trump’s “red line” and investigating his business and finances before the election.
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February 28th —
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Continuing his “Ready. Fire. AIM!” general strategy Trump rage-tweets to complain that it’s “DISGRACEFUL” that AG Sessions has asked the DOJ Inspector General to look into the Carter Page FISA warrant issue instead of other DOJ Lawyers [which would actually require another Special Counsel] because the current IG hasn’t “delivered” a report on Comey yet [although he has magically managed to release text messages from Strzok and Page] and is supposedly an “Obama guy” [like that’s a bad thing?’]
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Manafort pleads “Not Guilty" and faces Sep 17th trial date.
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Fox News who spent less than 30 seconds on Jared Kushner’s failed security clearance decided they needed to take 3 minutes to complain that San Diego State has a class on the “Impeachment of Trump” — “They’ve convicted him already!!” [Yeah, actually, conviction is a criminal trial thing, Impeachment is political.’]
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Sessions slams back at Trump’s Tweet saying he was confident that his office was acting appropriately — and he said that he would continue to “discharge my duties with integrity and honor” as long as he served as attorney general. [Woah, what a classy way to say “Fire Me, Beyotch!”]
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Kushner doesn’t quit after having his clearance level reduced and complains to friends he feels like “he’s being picked on” when it’s really all because of his own actions. That would apparently prove his “critics correct” about him but really being dull, naive and clueless tends to prove itself.
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Sen Ron Wyden on the Intel Committee demands public hearings on Trump’s financial ties to Russia.
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Trump excludes Florida’s Democratic Senator Bill Nelson from a ‘bipartisan’ meeting on guns — just like he did after hurricane.
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David Hogg calls out Trump as a coward. ‘Stand up to the NRA and rip off your shock collar’:
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Huckabee-Sanders cancels a scheduled press briefing which is of course totally coincidental to Kushner’s clearance getting flushed.
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Trump holds his bipartisan gun round-table:
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He argues for his “arm the teachers” plan and eliminating “Gun Free” zones again saying that’s only way even though a Georgia teacher today fired a gun in their classroom. He says he supports raising the minimum gun purchasing age to 21, and getting rid of bump stocks. He also claims Parkland police should have taken Nikolas Cruz guns, even if they had no legal authority to do so. [Way to go Fascism Boy!]
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Sen Feinstein points out that she became SF mayor after a gun assassination [Harvey Milk] and even carried a weapon after being threatened, but still supports an semi-automatic rifle ban. He expresses support for this, but argues she needs to work with Manchin/Toomey who also have a similar ideas on their background-check bill.
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Sen Rubio argues that the problem is we need stronger coordination at the state and local level which would help identify dangerous persons.
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Sen. Grassley argues that it isn’t fair to demonize the mentally ill because most of them aren’t dangerous. Glassley also blames Violent Movies for causing “problems in the culture” [So we throw the 1st Amendment under the bus to protect the 2nd?]
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Rep. Steve Scalise argues for expanding concealed carry, but Trump says that should be handled in a separate bill.
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Sen Klobuchar talks about the fact that 9,000 women have been killed in the last few years by spouses and boyfriends — and argues that states with a strong background check rules have 38% less gun deaths.
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Sen. Thune says we need to create buyers permits once someone passes a background check, then law enforcement can crack down on illegal sellers who ignore background check rules.
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Rep. John Rutherford (R-FL) admits that he takes his concealed carry weapon right through “gun free” zones because he claims he doesn’t know where they are. [Do you really need a sign about that kind of thing in airports and schools?]
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Hope Hicks announces that she’ll be retiring in the next few weeks — so what, now she goes back to modeling for Mabeline and dating Rob Porter?
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NBC news reports that Mueller is examining Trump’s efforts to get the Hillary/DNC emails released by Russia. [Oh, that’s so collusionary!]
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Rep. Tom Rooney tells Erin Burnett that before Hope Hicks was asked about telling “White Lies” she had denied that she had ever lied in connection to any type of Russian collusion, and that the House Intel investigation needs to be “shut down” because none of their witnesses so far have admitted to improper Russian contacts. [However, Hicks, Don Jr, Bannon and Lewandowsi all refused to answer questions about their involvement in the campaign and transition exactly when those Russian contacts happened.]
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Rep. Juaquin Castro says to Anderson Cooper that the question to Hicks was actually “Has the President every asked you to Lie?” and she’d basically admitted he might asked her to say he was busy or on the phone when he wasn’t.
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WaPo reports that Mueller is looking into Trump’s constant badgering of Jeff Sessions to determine if it was attempted obstruction. They state that Trump refers to him as “Mr. Magoo” and his staff had bought him a bullet proof vest with him name on it to signify his constantly being under fire. He also ribs Trump’s complaining by going to dinner with Rob Rosenstein.
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Wapo reports that Jared Kushner had held meetings inside the West Wing during the transition with investment companies that soon afterward loaned his families companies a Half $Billion.
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CNN reports that Trump berated Hope Hicks for admitting she sometimes lies for him — and that was her ‘final straw’.
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NBC reports that Mueller is looking into whether the Trump admin knew about Hillary’s stolen emails before the Wapo reported it. [Which means their doing an integrity test, because Papadopoulos already knew as of April, and they have his emails so they know who he told.]
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March 1st —
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CBS news reports that according to Rep. Eric Swalwell Hicks denied telling anything but “white lies” in support of Trump and claims she didn't lie about anything related to Russia [Except about everything], but she did admit that Michael Flynn asked her to say something she later learned was false. Although Swalwell doesn’t specify what that was.
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John Kelly “jokingly” says ‘God punished me’ when he made me Trump’s chief of staff. [Yeah, he’s not done yet.]
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Anastasia Vashukevich a professional “sex-guru” from Belarus — who also goes by Nastya Rybka — is arrested in Thailand, and says that she has information linking Oleg Deripaska — who she previously had an affair with — to the Kremlin and their efforts to affect the election in favor to Trump. She’s offering this information in exchange for asylum in the U.S. [Which seems unlikely since the U.S. State Dept under Tillerson would have to approve it.]
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Meghan McCain attempts to corner Rep. Schiff on The View about his not yet providing proof of “collusion” and gets her butt handed back to her in small diced chunks.
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Devin Nunes writes Jeff Sessions a letter claiming that the FBI broke the law by requesting a FISA warrant for Carter Page based on a “partisan dossier” even though Sessions has already announced an IG investigation into exactly that, and his claims about the warrant have already been crushed into dust by the Schiff Memo.
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The DailyBeast reports that they had gained access to a cache of documents from the Russian troll farm IRA showing they had used their Blactavist and other accounts on Twitter, Reddit and Tumbler to sponsor a violent confrontation between confederate monument defenders and anti-Racists at Stone Mountain. Shortly afterward RT covered the event and blamed all the violence on the anti-Racist groups.
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CNN reports that FBI counter-intelligence is now investigating Ivanka Trump due to her involvement with a shady Trump Tower project in Vancouver.
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The US Ambassador to Mexico Roberta Jacobson suddenly quits because, well fuck, why the hell stay?
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E. Scott Lloyd, the head of the Health and Human Service’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, barred refugee women from speaking with lawyers — and forced them to give birth against their will.
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Vladamir Putin displays his comedy stylings as he assails American ‘propagandists’ during an interview with NBC’s Megyn Kelly.
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Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg claims Kushner was ‘doing nefarious things’ in the White House. [What, Really!!??]
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NBC news reports that Robert Mueller is looking into means to charge the Russian hackers who hacked and leaked emails sent among high-ranking officials in the Democratic National Committee in 2016. [About damn, time!!]
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An afraid WH is prepping for H.R. McMaster’s exit as early as next month.
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Trump again says executing drug dealers could solve the opioid crisis during a rant at White House summit. [Will he start with the Pharmacist at the local Rexall?]
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Buzzfeed reports that with Hope Hicks departure other WH personnel are looking to get the heck out of dodge, but nobody will hire them.
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Trump implements new tariffs against China and Europe with Steele and Aluminum imports, and Fox freaks as the Dow plunges in response to his steep new tariffs.
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Nunes is caught leaking text messages by Sen. Mark Warner meant to discredit Russia probe, although they only reveal his attempts to contact Chris Steel which were fully authorized by Senate Intel.
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Scaramucci does a media blitz to convince Trump to fire ‘General Jackass’ John Kelly, because he only listens what happens on the news, not in the WH.
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CPAC chief doubles down on racial comments about Michael Steele because of course, he does.
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Idiot Rep. Patrick Duffy says Hillary Clinton ‘did nothing to protect people from influence of Russians in the last election’ ignoring the fact SHE WASN’T IN THE GOVERNMENT AT THE TIME— and makes me really sad I ever watched his season of “The Real World” for more than a nano-second. At the time I thought Puck was the worst human ever, but guess what? I was wrong.
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Chris Cuomo kneecaps Scaramucci’s defense of Hope Hicks : She lied about Russia meetings. [Yep!]
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57% percent of Americans believe Trump is a racist after his first year of in office, but the sad part as only 25% of Republicans have figured it out yet.
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Pulse and Parkland survivors meet together in the Orlando club and vow to fight back for change.
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Ben Carson tries to cancel his order for $30,000 worth of dining room furniture, after House Oversight asks for his record about it. [But apparently not the $160,000 in lounge furniture.]
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Kellyanne Conway claims that the meeting where Trump supported Diane Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban, raising the minimum purchase age to 21 for rifles and suggestions to yank guns out of the hands of troubled people “before due process” — was not a “gun control” meeting.
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March 3rd —
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NBC news reports that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross brought a bunch of business people to the WH to distract Trump over his frustration with Hope Hicks, and talked him into imposing a rash Steele and Aluminum Trade Tariff.
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Swedish appliance manufacturer pulls the plug on $250 million Tennessee plant investment in retaliation for Trump tariffs.
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Eric Holder tells Jeff Session : ‘I had a president I did not have to protect’.
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Judge Janine goes off on Jeff Session: ‘He lost his prosecutorial balls’.
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Tucker Carlson makes the nutty claim that liberals want to sexually assault people if they don’t turn over their guns. [Actually we find them pretty icky!]
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US Gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety pledges $2.5 million for marches to end school shootings — so now you can say they’ve been “paid”, but it’s still not Soros money.
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VA Secretary David Schulkin is allegedly growing increasing “paranoid” about an impending IG report criticizing his use of security detail to run errands.
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Former CIA Director Brennan worries about Trump holding nuke codes after petty Alec Baldwin spat.
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EU targets Harley Davidson, Levi’s in Trump trade war.
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NBC reports that Mueller is investigating if Kushner has used his WH position to enrich his personal business.
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NYTimes reports that John Kelly and Trump both want to push Jared and Ivanka out of the WH.
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Trump’s former advisor Karl Ichann, who left because of some shady trading practices, apparently sold off $31 Million in Steele Stocks just before Trump called for his tariffs. Then Trump counter threatens to place tariffs on European cars after the EU threatens to put tariffs on Levis, Harley-Davidson and bourbon.
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Mueller has subpoenaed personal documents phone and email records going all the way back to 2015 for Trump campaign associations including Steve Bannon, Michael Cohen to Hope Hicks, Paul Manafort and Roger Stone.
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Devin Nunes appears on Mark Levin’s new show on Fox News and claims that Obama spied on and unmasked Trump officials all based on a dossier that was produced by the Clinton Campaign and that Obama illegally leaked this information which isn’t true — but probably sounded good to him when he said it.
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David Cay Johnston points out how “Tariff Trump” had gone out of his way to use cheap steel from China on his buildings.
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Rep. Maxine Waters tweets that Congress should talk to Stormy Daniels to ask her about Trump’s mental state; “She observed him up close.”
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LATimes column rips Ivanka for her connections to Sweatshops, Mobsters and shady deals.
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The Root reports that “Trump’s pick for the U.S. Sentencing Commission [William G. Otis] has written that black people and Latinx commit more crimes because of their collective sub-standard values [Yeah, but they don’t, so what’s your next excuse?], and appears to think that selling an eighth of weed (a low-level offense) is akin to child rape,”
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Devin Nunes whines that Stephen Colbert mocking him is “dangerous for the country.”
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March 4th —
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Trump says Chinese President Xi, who has his position for lie, “Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot.” [oh, Hell No!] He then says during a Grid-Iron dinner that Rep. Maxine Waters ‘Needs an IQ Test” [Yeah, and that bullcrap ain’t racist at all.] He also says he was late arriving because “Jared couldn’t get past security.”
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Trump claims that his steel and aluminum tariffs will go away if he re-negotiates NAFTA, which is a plan even Steven Moore can't get on board with.
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Las Vegas shooting survivors Ben Claypool and Lisa Page claim Congress has blood on it’s hands for failing to respond on guns.
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Trump Organization employees are ousted from his Trump Tower in Panama city, by the Tower’s new owner. Trump’s name is then striped off the building.
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Christopher Steele tells the New Yorker that he noticed corruption involving Trump and Russia back in 2011 when he found that the Kremlin had bribed FIFA Officials to have the world cup held in Russia. One of those officials Chuck Blazer rented a $1,800 per month suite at Trump Tower.
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He came across Trump Tower again in 2013 when the FBI hired him to investigate an international money laundering and gambling ring led by Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov, who also rented property in the Tower. That year over a dozen of Tokhtakhounov’s associates were arrested and prosecuted by Preet Bharara, Tokhtakhounov was out of the country at the time, and later that year was seen on the red carpet as Trump’s Moscow Miss Universe Pageant.
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Steele also tells the New Yorker that his contacts in the Russian Foreign ministry have heard that the Kremlin influenced Trump not to hire Mitt Romney as Secretary of State and instead choose Rex Tillerson.
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He had never been informed by Fusion GPS that the DNC and Clinton campaign had been their clients, and the Clinton campaign was never informed that Steele had gone to the FBI with what he’d found.
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He had investigated the murder of former FSB Officer Alexander Litvenyenko who was poisoned using Polonium after defecting to England, and had indentified the FSB, and thereby Putin, as being responsible.
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Mueller appears to be investigating the death of “Oleg Erovinkin, a former F.S.B. officer and top aide to Igor Sechin, the Rosneft president. On December 26, 2016, Erovinkin was found dead in his car. No official cause of death has been cited” and these is not yet any proof that Erovinkin was a source for Steele who may have been silenced by the Russians in retaliation.
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Obama’s former Chief of Staff Dennis McDonough tells Chuck Todd that Mitch McConnel personally watered down Obama’s public response to the Russian hacking and meddling.
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NYTimes reports that Mueller’s investigators have questioned an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates in addition to questioning others about possible attempts by the UAE to buy political influence in the United States
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March 5th —
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Trump tweets that Obama “meddled in the election” by starting an investigation of his campaign “when there was no evidence of wrongdoing” [Yeah, there was — Papadopoulos was negotiating with Russians who told him they had (illegally) obtained Hillary’s emails and he didn’t report it] and also that he didn’t “do anything about Russia” [But he did quite a bit up to and including threatening to using “armed force if they didn’t stop before election day”]
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Richard Clarke tell CNN’s Chris Cuomo that Trump could “Fry Russian Computers” but instead hits sits idly by as Russia continues to meddle with the U.S. as we head to the 2018 midterms.
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Nikolas Cruz older brother Zachary admits in court to having bullied him when he was younger along with his friend, and regrets that he did that now.
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WSJ reports that Citi National Bank had flagged Michael Cohen’s payment to Stormy Daniels as suspicious to Treasury, and Cohen had complained that he “wasn’t re-imbursed for it” which is something I think the FEC would like to know about. He also missed two deadlines for the payment supposedly because he couldn’t contact Trump — who he had previously claimed had “nothing to do with the payment.” [So why did he need to contact him about it first?]
- NYTimes reports that the State Dept hasn’t spent $120 Million intended to fight Russian Meddling.
- Conservatives in DC whine to the Washingtonian that Liberal women won't date them even if they don't support Trump “It’s like a black mark” --[Hm.. more like scarlet red letter hat!] “The political divide has gotten so wide that a lot of younger liberals don’t have any interest in meeting conservatives,” says another writer at the same publication. [Yeah? And? What the frack else where you expecting when “Mexicans are Rapists” is your opening line?] “A lot of times you’ll connect with someone [on an app] and they’ll Google you, find out you worked for Trump’s campaign, and then it’s pretty much all downhill from there,” [I’ll bet.]
- NYTimes reports that Putin opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny, had posted an Russian corruption expose on youtube which relies heavily on videos and photographs from Anastasia Vashukevich which shows her on a 3 day yatch trip during August of 2016 with Oleg Deripaska and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko which was allegedly part of a plot to bribe him using prostitutes.
- On the recording Deripaska says that “Eduardovich is friends with [former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs] Victoria Nuland” Nuland was one of the first persons to government to receive copies of the Steele Dossier, which she referred to the FBI.
- Vashukevich has told reporters from her cell in Bangkok that she has 16-18 hours of records of Deripaska and Prikhodko including their discussions of the 2016 U.S. election.
- Navaly ponts out on his video that Prikhodko is friends with Igor Sechin, CEO of Rosneft.
- Former Trump aide — who had once tried and failed to teach Trump the Constitution — Sam Nunberg refuses a subpoena to testify before Mueller’s Grand Jury. He tells the WaPo “Let him arrest me, I’d don’t plan to go in [to testify]” He had already been interviewed for 5 hours by the FBI.
- Nunberg tells Gloria Borger on CNN “They asked for every communication with Steve Bannon, Roger Stone — my mentor who I speak with frequently — and Carter Page — like I would talk to that moron.“
- They asked me ridiculous questions like ‘Did I hear Russian spoken around Trump Tower?’ [Obviously he was out the day Veselnitskaya and Achmetshin showed up]
- They think that Roger [Stone] colluded with Julian Assange. Roger quit because of how I was treated [after he was fired].
- I came up with the Wall, with the Muslim ban, with how he treated Jeb Bush. Corey wanted to push us out. Trump treated me like crap.
- Keith Schiller had said that — that idiot — Emin [Agalarov] had offered to send women to his room [in Moscow in 2013] and Trump refused it”
- Trump may have very well done something with the Russians during the election, we already know that Michael Cohen was trying to do Trump Tower Moscow.
- Mueller thinks Trump is the “Manchurian candidate” and I disagree with that. [Oh, man this dumb fracker is so going to prison for contempt — like by tomorrow!]
- Nuberg also does a bonkers 20 minute interview with Katy Tur on MSNBCwhere he claims Mueller probably “has something on Trump.”
- Huckabee-Sanders gets asked about Nunberg saying “Mueller has something on Trump” and goes ballistic. “I definitely think he doesn’t know that for sure because he’s incorrect,” Sanders said. “I’ve said many times before that there was no collusion with the Trump campaign. Anything further on what his actions are, he didn’t work at the White House so I certainly can’t speak to him or lack of knowledge that he has.”
- A Georgia GOP Official shares a video that claims the Parkland survivors ‘rehearsed’ the massacre before a ‘fake shooting’.
- Nunberg gets on the phone again with this time with Jake Tapper. [Why man, why???]
- He says he believes Trump knew about Juniors meeting with Veselnitskya.
- He says he didn't communicate with “scumbag, weird dude” Carter Page and that he thinks Page colluded with the Russians.
- He says Comey “deserved to be fired for letting Hillary off”, but it was dumb to fire him because since he didn’t do anything about Hillary he wouldn’t do anything about Trump, however Mueller is an “honorable man.”
- Mueller wants him to rat out Roger Stone and he won’t do it, or bother scanning his emails for contacts with Stone, Manafort, Gates, Bannon and Page. [Dude email comes with Search!!]
- Nunberg goes on Erin Burnett for yet another interview, [STOP dude, just STOP!] this time face to face where she points out that Susan McDougal went to prison for 18 months for not talking to the Starr Grand Jury.
- He doubts that he’s going to go to jail over this. [I bet you will!}
- He complains that there are “two rules for Democrats and Republicans — Why didn't they ask for all this information from Hillary Clinton?” [They actually did you dumb doufus!, that’s how they provided 33,000 emails to the FOIA office in the first place. That investigation was very detailed.]
- “Do you know how I’ve been treated by Donald Trump? I hate the guy.”
- “I’m not going to go through all these emails in order to bash Roger Stone.”
- He says Trump told him he was going to “keep this quiet” when it came to his racist Facebook posts, but then Lewandowski and Hope Hicks released a statement and Trump called him up and fired him.
- Maybe I’ll just give them my “password” — I have no problem with complying. But why do I have to sit here and do this like a paralegal. [Apparently he’s a lazy fuck who just doesn’t want to do all the work searching his emails. —Facepalm-—].
- The idea that Trump colluded with Russia is a joke, Putin is too smart and Trump couldn’t keep his mouth shut. [He pretty much hasn’t, really]
- He believes Trump knew about the Don Jr meeting, in advance because he mentioned he would “have a big speech about Hillary.” [That was on June 7th two days before the meeting. 4 days after Goldstone’s first email[
- Why did Page go to Russia when he was an “Energy Consultant” while Obama had sanctioned Russian Energy? [Well, actually — that’s a good point.’’]
- Burnett points out to him that Roger Stone has admitted that he talked to Wikileaks via an intermediary and his DM’s to them were published via The Atlantic, and his answer is to yet again complain that “Republicans get Targeted” and it was wrong that Hillary “Got Off.” [Not if she didn’t violate the law like you are.]
- “What are they [Mueller] going to continue to ask us for stuff, it’s ridiculous?”
- Burnett says she smells alcohol on his breath, he says he hasn’t been drinking. She asks “anything else?” And he says “My meds, anti-depressants!” [Whatta Shocker!]
- “I didn’t steal from the campaign, I didn’t have an illicit affair with a married man?” [Who could he possibly mean beside Lewandoski and Hicks?]
- Angela Rye throws a literal fit “Kids have died” when GOP panelist Alice Stewart calls people at the Oscars hypocrites for having armed guards — most of whom are actuallty police or licensed PPOs — while criticizing the NRA. [Yeah, it’s not like famous people have ever been stalked, attacked or murdered — Dominque Dunne, Gianni Versace — or anything.]
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Republican strategist Mike Murphy on Monday told NBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell an “international businessman” said special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) agreement Donald Trump had with Russian interests during the 2016 campaign. [Technically he may mean the letter of intent for Trump Tower Moscow]
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Florida Senate Votes against arming most teachers, however they do allow weapons for former military, police or those who members of the Reserve Officers Training Corp. The bill also raises the minimum purchase age for rifles to 21 with a 3 day waiting period, and allows police to petition a court to find a person “dangerous”.
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DNI Dan Coates tells Senate Armed Services Committee “We are under cyber attack. We have entered a period that can best be described as a race for technological superiority against our adversaries who seek to sow division in the United States and weaken U.S. leadership,” He also says “we don't have a policy” on how to handle Russia election interference.
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Fox and Friends refuses to mention the Nunberg said Trump may have committed crimes. “He was inebriated!”
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Nunberg reverses his position from his previous all day media meltdown, and says he might actually cooperate with the Grand Jury after all, probably.
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Leaked emails show that a businessman with ties to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) tried to convince US President Donald Trump to fire Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for not supporting the UAE-backed blockade of Qatar.
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Mueller’s office tells Trump to punish Kellyanne Conway for violating the Hatch Act twice, 1st when she asked people on Fox and Friend’s to buy Ivanka products, and again when she called people to vote for Roy Moore over Doug Jones for Senate.
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W. Bush quips that Trump makes him look “Look pretty good.”
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Rep. Claudia Tenney cries “fake news” when being questioned about her nutty claim that “most mass shooters are Democrats”
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The Daily Beast reports House Intel Committee has leaked information about the Steele Dossier to Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Former John McCain staffer David Kramer had acted as a go between in delivering a copy of the dossier from British Ambassador to James Comey — days after his testimony in late December his lawyer received a call from Cohen’s lawyers asking about the dossier. His lawyer complained to the committee about the leak.
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WH issues a bizarro world statement in response to the Special Counsel that claims that Conway actually “complied with the Hatch Act” when she pretty clearly didn’t.[Middle Finger Message received.]
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Huckabee-Sanders dodges question of whether Trump talked to Karl Ichann about the tariffs when he did his big steel and aluminum stock dump.
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Reports are that since the Trump admin weakened restrictions on the dumping of coal ash, more coal ash has begun to be dumped in the rivers and streams near coal plants leading to elevated levels of arsenic and radium. [Making America Toxic Again!]
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Major U.S. Solar companies blame jobs cuts on Trump’s solar power tariff.
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CNN panel including Brook Baldwin laughs in Rick Santorum’s face after he says Devin Nunes ‘thoroughly’ investigated Russiagate. [Yep, that’s a knee slapper alright.]
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NYTimes reports that Top WH Economic Advisor Gary Cohn plans to retire in protest of Trumps tariffs against our allies.
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WaPo reports that Mueller has requested documents related to Michael Cohen’s attempt to broker a Trump Tower Moscow deal and the attempted Ukrainian “Peace Deal” which would have ended Russian Sanctions.
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Trump’s golf course removes the Presidential Seal because that was totally illegal.
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Opiod overdoses are up 30 percent in the last year (Making America Overdose Again!)
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20 Year-old man sues Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart because they refuse to sell him a gun.
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Trump Admin sues California over Sanctuary Cities — which is funny because California had already been winning in court over this.
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Trey Gowdy asks for a [Another?] Special Prosecutor to look into the surveillance of Carter Page — even though there was nothing wrong with that, at all.
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Stormy Daniels sues Trump to invalidate her NDA over their affair because he forgot to SIGN IT! Her filing indicates Trump knew about the payment meaning it could have violated FEC laws. She claims she was coerced into signing a false statement by Cohen, he had even tried to pressure her in February by filing an arbritation motion against her.
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New York Times reports George Nadler, an adviser to the United Arab Emirates who met with Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon during the presidential transition is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller. Nadler also went with Erik Primce to the follow on meeting in the Secheylle Islands with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi. Mueller is reportedly looking into whether Nader “funneled” money from the UAE to Trump’s political campaign, according to the Times. ‘[OH looky, MORE FEC violations!]
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Atlantic correspondent Natasha Bertrand stated on Hardball that Mueller probably has Trump tax returns by subpoena from Treasury. [OH please, let that be true.]
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Trump vows to “Conteract” Russian (or somebodies) meddling in the 2018 Election. [Using what? His Magic Mullet Hair Helmet!!?]
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March 7th —
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European Union targets peanut butter, orange juice and whiskey in escalating trade war with Trump.
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Retiring WH Advisor Gary Cohn complains he only used 20 percent of his brain power in that job.
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The creator of Pepe the Frog is suing Infowars.
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Jeff Sessions accuses California of ‘secession’ and ‘nullification’ over sanctuary cities when in reality it’s an unfunded mandate he’s trying to push to get local jails to illegally hold people until ICE finally shows up.
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The Guardian reports that a nerve agent similar to VX or Sarin was used against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, England, leaving them both unconscious and in critical condition just one day before the New Yorker’s report on Chris Steele which mentioned that some of his contacts were located in the UK.
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Blue Collar Trump voters are not whelmed by by his tax cut. “It’s lunch money.”
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Fox Host Bill Hemmer Grills Huckabee-Sanders over Russia: ‘The American people need to know the meddling will be dealt with’
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Homeland Security announces that the DACA protections for 700k young people remain in place due to court intervention.
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Sam Nunberg insists his world wind media blitz wasn’t a drunken meltdown. “‘I was trending number 1 on Twitter from a couch.” [Hopefully he had his pants on!]
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Sens. Shaheen and Klobachar send letter to voting equipment venders asking about Russian access to their source code.
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ABC news reports that multiple WH aides — including one Melania aide — have been fired over security clearance issues, but Jared and Ivanka remain.
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Oakland’s Mayor Libby Schaaf claps back at Sessions claim that she had put LEO’s at risk by warning immigrants about ICE raids by pointing to a chart showing violent crime in the city has dropped by 25% in the last five years.
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Betsy Devos does a photo-op at Stoneman Douglas High, talks to 3 people, pets a dog and leaves, then Dwayne Wade shows up and is welcomed like a conquering Hero.
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NBC News reports the Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen had recently obtained a ‘secret restraining order’ to stop Stormy Daniels from talking — which is weird because if it’s a secret, how’s she supposed to know about it?
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Rep. Mark (Appalachian Trail) Sanford (R-SC) blasts trump for his Stormy Daniels Affair. ‘If it was a Democrat’ there’d be hearings’ [Or possibly an impeachment!]
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NBC News reports that during her House Intel testimony Hope Hick revealed she had been locked out of her two email accounts during the campaign and one of them had been hacked.
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Richard Painter says ‘This was covered up illegally’ about the Trump-Stormy affair.
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Senator Kamala Harris torches Jeff Sessions for bringing up slavery in defense of DOJ’s ‘war on California’.
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Stormy Daniel’s lawyers calls out Michael Cohen’s ‘ludicrous’ claim he paid her without Trump’s knowledge — which if true, would've been an ethics violation and could get his ass disbarred.
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WaPo reports that George Nader has confirmed to Mueller that the secret Sechelle’s meeting with Erik Prince, the UAE and Russians was intended to setup a secret back-channel for communications between them which contradicts Prince’s testimony to House Intel.
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Several former DOJ Officials have filed an amicus brief that alleges that Trump may have tried to influence the Time-Warner/AT&T merger in order to punish CNN.
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March 8th —
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CNN reports that Trump is furious at Huckabee-Sanders for linking him to Stormy Daniels.
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The Telegraph reports that the poisoned former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal lives near a consultant for Christopher Steele’s Orbis Business Intelligence. Skirpal remains in intensive care.
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Trump signs his Steel and Aluminum Tariffs, but only after Steve Mnuchin reminds him not to walk off and forget again — which he’s done about 4 times during signings.
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David Corn and Michael Isakoff report that on top of advancing Miss Universe contestants who were from countries where Trump had business interests, he also would block contestants who were “too dark or too ethnic” looking.
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Trump agrees to meet one-on-one with Kim John Un, but he doesn’t have any real experts or North Korea on his staff or at the State Dept. anymore.
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Van Jones says the GOP would have put Obama in Gitmo if he’d done ‘half of what Trump did last week’ alone.
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The Prosecutor General of Ukraine has launched an investigation into claims surrounding an alleged multi-million dollar lobbying contract with sanctioned VTB Bank that names one of Trump's most influential fundraisers, Elliott Broidy.
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NYTimes reports that Trump has been questioning witnesses such as McGahn and Preibus who’ve been interviewed by Mueller. Sean Spicer says there’s “no problem” because he just likes to exchange “pleasantries” however CNN reports that John Kelly and other staffers have repeatedly warned him not to have these conversations with witnesses.
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The Daily Caller publishes an op-ed written by Oleg Deripaska where he claims collusion between Trump and Russia is a “manufactured non-scandal.” “The ever-changing ‘Russia narrative’ in American politics is today’s ‘Wag the Dog’ scenario,” he argues that “Deep State” Democrats are using this non-scandal to promote more military spending. [I don’t think he really saw “Wag the Dog” because that’s not how it worked at all.]
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Adult film actress Jessica Drake, who had accused Trump of inappropriate sexual contact, happens to also be named in the Stormy Daniel’s NDA under the pseudonym “Angel Ryan”.
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Michael Cohen inks a deal for a “Tell-All” book which is weird since really telling all would clearly violate attorney-client privilege.
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The U.S. Department of Interior spent $139,000 to fix three sets of doors in Secretary Ryan Zinke’s office. Supposedly he wasn’t aware of this.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Schulkin — who apparently loves to have the government fly him to vacation in Europe — is so afraid of his own staff that he posted an armed guard outside his office.
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While negotiating the $130,000 payment and NDA with Stormy Daniels and her attorney during the last days of the election, Michael Cohen used a trumporg.com email address which doesn’t really validate Huckabee-Sanders claim that the payment had “nothing to do with Trump, the Trump organization or the campaign.”
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ABC reports that Michael Cohen claims that the $130,000 that he paid Daniels came from his home equity line of credit.
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House Oversight Ranking Member Elijah Cummings demands that Chairman Trey Gowdy subpoena the WH after the refused to answer Gowdy’s previous letting about Rob Porter’s security clearance.
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WSJ reports that Trump’s attorneys have crafted a deal for him to be interviewed, but only if they keep to just one topic and also promise to conclude the Trump portion of their investigation within 60 days after the meeting. [Can use say Grand Jury Subpoena?]
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Rep Sean [Idiot] Duffy gets roasted by Fox News analyst Marie Harf when he claims the Trumpsters had to use back-channels because “Obama wiretapped” them. [Page and Manafort were tapped but they had both already left the campaign, and Flynn was specifically warned that Kislyak was being monitored then blabbed with him anyway.] “There is no indication that Trump Tower was tapped,”
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Reporter Brian Karem asked if it was dangerous for the U.S. to be sending signals that it wants to build up its nuclear arms stockpile even more and Huckabee-Sanders answers that false narratives are “more dangerous.” “This thermonuclear war we’re talking about — you don’t come back from that,” Karem pushed back. “Isn’t it dangerous to…” “I think it is dangerous to push something that is a narrative that is not at all what this administration is pushing,” Sanders interrupted.
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March 12th —
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Democrat Conor Lamb pulls ahead of Repub Rick Saccone in the PA-18 district special election which Trump had previously dominated and CNN says ‘They’re in big trouble’:
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WSJ reports that Republicans on House Intelligence Committee are moving to end Russia probe ahead of midterm losses.
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Polls indicate the Putin will win his re-election with 69 percent of the vote.
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Stormy Daniels offers to pay back the $130k to Michael Cohen, but he hasn’t responded yet.
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Bombs planted in packages left on the doorsteps of homes in minority neighborhoods in Austin Texas kills a black teenager and critical injures two others including a 75 year old Latina.
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Officials from Qatar declined to cooperate with Mueller as he investigated the meeting which included George Nader and Republican donor Elliot Broidy. Obama NSC spokesman Ned Price claims that they did this as a favor to Trump and they’ll be expecting a favor in return. They believe Trump endorsed a blockade imposed by the UAE and Saudi Arabia as retaliation by Jared Kushner, who unsuccessfully tried to get their finance minister to invest of 666 Park Ave.
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Writing over at Townhall.com, Trump fan Kurt Schlichter thinks civil war against “U.S Troops, Liberals and Democrats” is more likely today than it has been in the past because “the central tenet of the Democrat Party platform is now hatred and contempt for Normal Americans.”
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British PM Theresa May states that the nerve agent used against former FSB spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter was manufactured in Russia and presents a serious threat to international security. Russia says “Nah… wasn’t me. Somebody else did it, nobody saw me do it, nobody can prove anything!”
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Huckabee-Sanders announces Trump’s “Gun Plan” which closely resembles the Florida plan and basically gives the NRA everything they want, leaving the question of Semi-Automatic Rifle bans or age requirements to the states. She’s also asked about the poisoning of Sergei Skripal which she denounces and says the U.S. will offer all available aid to England, but she never says the word “Russia’ and calls the attack “indiscriminate” — when it seems they discriminated quite a bit on exactly who their target was going to be.
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Leaks to reporters at Buzzfeed, WSJ and New York Magazine from Trump’s own legal team show they’re scrambling in desperation as Mueller and Stormy Daniels close in.
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House GOP intel committee cancels on pending interview requests, shuts down the Russia/Trump probe and releases draft report — which rejects conclusion Putin wanted to help Trump. Former FBI agent Phil Mudd says “he wouldn’t wipe his ass” with their report.
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Sam Nunberg tells Ari Melber that Mueller is looking into Trump’s payoff to women. Quoting a section from Michael Wolff’s “Fire & Fury” in which former White House adviser Steve Bannon suggested one of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers “took care of” a hundred women via settlements.
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House Intell Committee member Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL) admitted his panel has “lost all credibility” after waffling on whether or not he accepts his party’s conclusions on the Russia probe.“Two things: From what I said last week is we have gone off the rails and now we’re a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day’s news. We have lost all credibility and we’re going to issue probably two different reports.”
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Trump’s personal aide John McEntee is briskly escorted out of the WH in the middle of the night without his coat or personal property.
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March 13th —
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Wapo reports that Sam Nunberg and another witness told Mueller that Roger Stone met with Julian Assange in 2016. Another associate told Mueller that Stone revealed in spring 2016 that Assange told him that WikiLeaks had obtained emails that would torment top Democrats such as John Podesta, then campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton.
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FBI agents who travelled to Bangkok to interview the Belarus “Sex-Guru” Anastasia Vashukevich who claims she has evidence of Russian collusion — but were denied by Thai officials saying only attorney’s and family could visit her, however CNN reporters have previously been allowed to speak with her in jail.
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ICE official James Schwab quits in disgust because he ‘couldn’t bear the burden’ of lying for the Trump administration” They had asked him to perpetuate false claims against Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf blaming her for “864 criminal aliens and public safety threats remain[ing] at large in the community,”
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Michael Isakoff and David Corn’s new book Russian Roulette confirms that Papadopoulos was personally authorized by Trump to try and setup a face-to-face meeting with Putin during the campaign in 2016.
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Rachel Maddow interviews Isakoff and Corn and discusses the Moscow Pee Tape allegations where they point out Trump and Emin visited a Vegas club called “The Act” which has performances of simulated urination as well as other key aspects of their book.
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Rex Tillerson finds out that he’s been fired via a Tweet and that he’s being replaced by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Reports are that Trump did this because Tillerson had blamed Russia for them nerve agent attack on former FSB spy Sergei Skripal, but apparently Tillerson wasn’t told this.
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CNN reports that John Kelly had asked Tillerson to resign, but he had refused — hence the tweet-firing.
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Bloomberg reports that two months after Kushner joined the WH as a senior adviser, his family sold off a $103 Million stake in a property they own in Brooklyn to a Japanese company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp, whose major shareholder is the Japanese government.
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CNN reports that sources have told them that John McEntee was fired by the WH because he’s being investigated by Homeland Security for serious financial crimes.
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Reports are that Kellyanne Conway accompanied former HHS Sec Tom Price on four of his taxpayer funded private jet trips — for which he has repaid the government $59,000.
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Moscow mocks Tillerson being fired : “Have they started blaming Russia yet for the Washington staff changes?” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a text message sent to AFP.
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Vox reports that Tillerson gets to keep $Millions in tax breaks from Exxon stock he sold off in order to comply with ethics and conflict of interest rules.
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Trump’s new pick to head the CiA Gina Haspel has a history as an undercover agent and was directly involved in the Bush era torture program in Thailand including the destruction of evidence.
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Tillerson unlike Comey, Flynn and so many others, gets to make a farewell statement during which he calls out Russia, but says just about nothing about Trump.
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Judge tells Manafort that he ‘faces the very real possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison’
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Analysis by Politico shows that Republican-backed ads mentioning tax cuts in Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district have been “essentially non-existent” since the start of March. This panics many in the GOP who realize their “But we gave you lunch money!” plan to stay in power seems to be falling on it’s face.
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British PM Theresa May does what Trump will never do : Hold Russia Accountable by demanding answers from their ambassador and planning retaliation for their chemical attack on British soil.
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Trump himself mumble mouth’s through a semi-condemnation. "It sounds to me like it would be Russia based on all the evidence they have. It sounds to me like they believe it was Russia and I would certainly take that finding as fact. As soon as we get the facts straight, if we agree with them, we will condemn Russia or whoever it may be."
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Meanwhile another Russian ex-pat and Putin Critic, Nikolai Glushkov is found dead at his London home.
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Trump then fires the State Dept aide who confirmed that Tillerson was fired via tweet, which contradicted from the WH Narrative [i.e.. LIE] that this had been planned and discussed for weeks, and it had nothing to do with Tillerson blasting Russia for their UK attack.
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Trump tweets a financial justification for his wall — as he comes to view wall samples in San Diego — that comes from a bigoted anti-semitic group of Holocaust deniers who think it will “drop the crime” rate by as much as $18 Billion.
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House Intel member Trey Gowdy writes a letter stating that “Russia had disdain for Secretary Clinton and was motivated in whole or in part by a desire to harm her candidacy or undermine her Presidency had she prevailed” which directly contradicts Rep. Conaway’s draft report which claims “Russia didn’t meddle.”
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Rep. Schiff announces the House Intel Democrats will release their own minority report and it will include evidence of collusion and will “seek to rebut the GOP conclusions” and “detail all the investigative avenues that House Republicans declined to take — the interviews that they didn’t conduct, and the leads that they didn’t try to chase down and verify.” He produces a 21 page “Status of the Investigation” document which lists witnesses not interviewed and document not yet reviewed which include Kellyanne Conway, Natalia Veselnitskaya, Sergei Millian, Deutsche Bank, Sean Spicer, Reince Preibus, Cambridge Analytica, Crowdstrike, Bayrock, Facebook, Google and Twitter. Also Individuals they would like to bring back include Bannon, Lewandoski, Hicks, Don Jr, Kushner, Michael Cohen and Erik Prince.
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March 14th —
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Black leaders in Austin see signs that package bombings are hate crimes. “I don’t believe in coincidences.”
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The Forward reports that Tillerson may be been fired to protect Kushner and his side plot to use the UAE to blockade Qatar, which was potentially in retaliation for the Qatar finance minster not granting his family a loan on 666 Park Ave.
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Trump picks CNBC’s Larry Kudlow to replace Gary Cohn as economic advisor and the stock market tanks 200 points. Other CNBC reporters are crest fallen as the stock fall.
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New York Times reports that an internal recommendation has been given to Sessions arguing that McCabe deserves to be fired over allowing his staff to talk to reporters, even though he will officially retire next week. Firing him early would cancel his pension.
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Students from thousands of schools across the nation walkout of class and stand silent for 17 minutes in honor of the Parkland victims. Six White Guys stand in the cold in Ohio to protest that protest. Chicago Police pick one black teenager Aminah Green to arrest out of a crowd of hundreds.
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Rand Paul's announces that he will vote “No” on the confirmation of torture implementer Gina Haspel for CIA Director.
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Moscow vows to retaliate to Britains expulsion of their diplomats. [Interesting they didn't retaliate to Obama’s diplomat expulsion after Michael Flynn said “we’ll review everything.”]
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Professional Mountain climber who crested Everest 7 times says he could get over Trump’s border wall samples “easily.” [Pitons man, it’s all about the pitons...]
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley admits that Russia was responsible for the chemical attack on England that nearly killed Sergei Skripal and his daughter. [??!!!]
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Don Jr. and his wife Vanessa are getting divorced [And who wouldn’t want the get the fracking heck OUT of that family right now?]
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25 House Dems write letter stated Kushner must be fired because it’s: ‘Impossible to have faith’ that he won’t enrich himself’ [That actually should go for Trump too.]
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According to Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman, Trump has discussed firing Sessions and replacing him with current EPA chief Scott Pruitt. Since Pruitt, unlike Sessions, has not recused himself from being involved in Russia-related matters, he would be completely free to shut down the probe.
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Maddow lays out what Trump says and what the facts are — constantly diverge.
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Religious groups are creating a set of underground safe houses for the undocumented to be protected from ICE.
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Stormy Daniels Lawyer points out that a 2nd Trump Lawyer who works for the organization in California, Jill Martin, signed paper work related to the NDA and Arbitration but she says “she acted as an individual” just like Michael Cohen.
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Morgan Pehme, who wrote and directed the Netflix documentary film Get me Roger Stone tells Ari Melber that Stone was obsessed with reaching Juliane Assange because he had said he had “more Hillary emails” and he wanted to “destroy Hillary Clinton.” They had even made plans to travel to London to meet Assange, but those plans fell through.
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Mike Pence is headlining a fundraiser for his brother’s congressional bid at Trump’s D.C. hotel.
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CNBC reports that John Dowd, the lawyer defending Donald Trump during the Russia investigation, broke campaign finance law by donating more than is legally permissible to the Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign by $300 above the limit.
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Axios reports that Trump staffers are living in terror and fear inside ‘the most toxic working environment on the planet’.
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Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz offers to plead guilty if prosecutor will waive the death penalty.
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Senate votes to weaken Dodd-Frank.
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Jimmy Kimmel goes shopping at the Trump Organization Online Store and finds that not one of the products they buy were made in America, and some are missing federally required country of origin notifications prompting them to file a complaint with Federal Authorities.
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March 15th —
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Adam Schiff wonders ‘Had a Russian nerve agent been used on someone in our country, could we count on on [Trump]? [To fight back and defend us? Fuck no!]
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CNN panel does a “March Madness dead weight bracketing’ of which Trumpster is likely to go next — VA Sec Adam Schulkin with his armed person guard and EPA exec Scott Pruit and his ‘soundproof booth” and both Ben Carson and Ryan Zinke’s insane spending all rank highly.
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Trump tries to tweet-splain his making up BS about a trade deficit to tell Canada’s Justin Trudeau.
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Kellyanne Conway snaps at Fox and Friends for mentioning the massive WH turnover rate, while Trump apparently auditions new aides by watching them on TV.
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The Trump Admin levied sanctions for Russian Election Meddling — The measures target five entities and 19 individuals — including the FSB, Russia’s top spy service; the military intelligence agency [GRU] and 13 people recently indicted by Robert Mueller, [This will be news to Trump!]
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Former DOJ Official Matthew Miller calls a new filing from Manafort’s attorney “silly” because it tries to claim charges should be dropped because they don’t specifically involve “Russia meddling”. [Even though they actually do since much of the money Manafort laundered came from Russia via Oleg Deripaska.]
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RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel claims ‘There is no chaos inside the White House’. [Riiight!]
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Mueller subpoenas the Trump Organization for documents related to their past dealing with Russia. which may include the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant, his various attempts to open Trump Tower Moscow and the $200 Million he’s received directly from Russian in real estate rentals and sales.
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Fox News Chief Intelligence Correspondent Catherine Herridge claims this is a breach of Mueller’s authority, and that he has already exceeded it when he began investigating links between Kushner and the UAE for which she directly blames Rosenstein since he has to approve all expansion of Mueller’s investigation.
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Politico reports that Trump’s lawyers finally admit that he may have to be interviewed or testify and begins to prep him for being possibly interviewed personally by Mueller as soon as next week.
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CREW charges that Steve Mnuchin has spent nearly $1 Million in tax payer funds on private flights back and forth across the country.
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AP reports that Russia had hacked into the American Energy Grid until they were recently discovered and expelled, this information had been known for some time according to Wired but was just suddenly leaked to AP now. [This may be why Haley sudden condemned the Russia chemical attack in England and magically mysteriously we can has sanctions now!]
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Sens. Grassley, Graham, Cornyn and Tillis from Judiciary want a Special Counsel for the Special Counsel because Session’s call to have the Inspector General to analyze things isn’t strong enough. [Yes, really man.]
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Kris Kobach’s “expert” witness undercuts his claims of rampant voter fraud.
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New research, conducted by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany, revealed playing violent video games for prolonged periods does not make adults more aggressive. "We did not find relevant negative effects in response to violent video game playing," said lead author Simone Kühn. "The fact that we assessed multiple domains, not finding an effect in any of them, mak�-.tes the present study the most comprehensive in the field.”
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Shep Smith takes a swipe at Hannity and Tucker : “They don’t have rules, they can say whatever”
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Seth Rich’s parents say “Our son was Murdered Again” by the fake news stories promoted by Hannity and Fox.
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Sen. Feinstein calls on CIA to release docs related to Haspel’s involvement in torture.
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CREW publishes portions from a Treasury Dept. Inspector General report that documents that Sec. Mnuchin spent nearly $800,000 in tax payer money on military plane flights.
Continued with Vol # 8