In this week’s update in the Timeline of Trump Russia Corruption, we have a ton of new developments. The headline issue, which itself isn’t somewhat under-reported is the fact that the Trump administration has recently ordered that previously redacted portions of Carter Page FISA Warrant be released and the text message from nearly all of Trump’s favorite punching bags from the FBI and DOJ — from Comey to Bruce Ohr — involved in the start of the Russia investigation also be released.
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump ordered the declassification of various documents and text messages related to the Russia investigation that both the House Intelligence and House Oversight committees have requested.
The order included selective portions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application on Carter Page and "all FBI reports" prepared in connection with the FISA warrant request, according to a statement Monday from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
The President also ordered the Justice Department to release all text messages related to the Russia investigation from former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official. Trump has singled out all of those individuals in the past with withering criticism, often on Twitter.
Democrats were predictably not very happy about this since it strongly smacks of obstruction of justice to force the DOJ to reveal details on their Russia investigation, while that investigation is still in progress.
"President Trump, in a clear abuse of power, has decided to intervene in a pending law enforcement investigation by ordering the selective release of materials he believes are helpful to his defense team and thinks will advance a false narrative," said House Intelligence Committee ranking member Adam Schiff in a statement. "With respect to some of these materials, I have been previously informed by the FBI and Justice Department that they would consider their release a red line that must not be crossed as they may compromise sources and methods."
Trump continues to falsely believe that Carter Page and the Steele dossier were the start of the Russia investigation when in fact it began several weeks before Steele even wrote his first memo as a result of reports that his foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos had been told that the Russian’s had gained access to thousands of emails related to Hillary Clinton and instead of reporting this information to the FBI they had tried to get their hands on it themselves in order to help their campaign.
What’s even more interesting is that they are only asking for certain specific pages from the Page FISA Warrant to be unredacted, but not others. Which pages are those?
This is the full text of the statement from the Press Secretary’s office.
At the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency, the President has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to provide for the immediate declassification of the following materials: (1) pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page; (2) all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and (3) all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications.
In addition, President Donald J. Trump has directed the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.
So what might there be on page 10-12 and 17-34 of the Carter Page FISA application?
Page #10 talks about links between Carter Page and Russian Intelligence officers that goes back to 2013 where several of them were indicted and one was ultimately prosecuted and convicted for espionage.
Page #11 mentions Page’s links to Russia oil firm Gazprom.
And Page # 12 discusses the details of Page’s previous interviews with the FBI which occurred during the timeframe of that previous investigation in 2013.
What could it be in these pages that Trump really wants to have revealed? Well, it’s possible that it’s what’s not in these pages that Trump and certain GOPers want to highlight. The argument I’ve seen on wing-nut/RT media is that the Page FISA Warrant is invalid because it doesn’t mention that the Russian spies that were indicted and prosecuted in 2013 thought Page was an “idiot” and the warrant supposedly didn’t mention this.
Basically, what happened with the FISA abuses is such a grave and glaring crime, that it explains why people like disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and disgraced former anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok are begging for money online.
These individuals know that President Trump has snared them, and they’re about to go down.
The FBI omitted from its application to spy on Carter Page the fact that Russian spies had dismissed the former Trump campaign adviser as unreliable – or as one put it, an “idiot” – and therefore unworthy of recruiting, according to congressional sources who have seen the unredacted document.
The potentially exculpatory detail was also withheld from three renewals of the wiretap warrant before a special government surveillance court. The warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court allowed the FBI to spy on Page and others he was in contact with for almost a year, the sources also confirmed.
The main problem is that they did say he was an “idiot” but that didn’t mean they didn’t think he was a good target for recruitment, quite the opposite.
The Russian spies, however, had one promising lead. This was a guy—an energy consultant based in New York City. Unlike the women, he was eager to help. And, it appeared, keen to make money in Moscow. There was a drawback: The source—whom the FBI called “Male-1”—was something of a dimwit.
The FBI intercepts record:
PODOBNYY: [Male-1] wrote that he is sorry, he went to Moscow and forgot to check his inbox, but he wants to meet when he gets back. I think he is an idiot and forgot who I am. Plus he writes to me in Russian [to] practise the language. He flies to Moscow more often than I do. He got hooked on [the Russian state energy company] Gazprom, thinking that if they have a project, he could rise up. Maybe he can. I don’t know, but it’s obvious he wants to earn loads of money.
SPORYSHEV: Without a doubt.
Podobnyy explained he intended to string Male-1 along. That meant feeding him “empty promises.” Podobnyy would play up his connections to Russia’s trade delegation, to Sporyshev, and pretend his SVR colleague might “push contracts” the American’s way.
PODOBNYY: This is intelligence method to cheat! How else to work with foreigners? You promise a favour for a favour. You get the documents from him and go tell him to fuck himself. But not to upset you I will take you to a restaurant and give you an expensive gift. You just need to sign for it. That is ideal working method.
They’re not saying he's an idiot and we don't want to work with him, they’re saying he’s an idiot — so let’s USE THIS FUCK.
The righties such as Hannity don’t quite understand this and think that there some type of hidden surprise deep inside the Lucky Charm’s Box of the Page FISA warrant and also inside the text message between Page, Strzok, Comey and Ohr.
They’re folminating about a newly released text message that mention a “Media Leak Strategy” that went between Page and Strzok, but unfornately they’ve got that story exactly backwards as Strzok’s attorney has revealed this discussion wasn’t about a plan to have the DOJ release information about Carter Page’s FISA Warrant — they actually fired Christopher Steele as a source because he went to the media — it was about stopping leaks which was a problem they were having with media leaks coming from the New York FBI Office which was full of Hillary Haters including the leak that the NY FBI Office had discovered emails on Anthony Weiner’s laptop which was hinted at by Rudy Giuliani on Fox News before James Comey sent his memo about it to Congress, as House Democrats have noted.
“Republicans in Congress repeatedly cherry-pick, mischaracterize, and then leak bits and pieces of documents to fabricate conspiracy theories to protect President Trump, and this is just the latest example,” they wrote. “The documents clearly show that Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page were not discussing how to leak documents to the press—but whether the Justice Department should change its regulations to stop leaks to the media.”
They blasted Republicans for promoting lies.
“We don’t know how many times Republicans will try this same trick—or how many times President Trump will take advantage of them—but they need to start fulfilling their constitutional duty to conduct credible oversight of the Executive Branch rather than acting as the President’s personal defense counsel.
Some of the messages between Page and Strzok were very specifically about leaks coming out of New York which they felt were politically motivated and how much that disgusted both of them.
Page: Yeah and I made the mistake of reading some stupid NYPost article about how some agents are ready to revolt against D [Director Comey] because on MYE [Clinton Email Investigation]. Now I’m really angry.
Strzok: There are a bunch of ignorant people out there blinded by their politics.
Page: Sometimes reminds me how how deeply politics, like religion, can blind objectivity.
Strzok: You can’t read that sh*t and frankly let them the b [Bureau] is better off without them.
Page: I can’t help it, it’s click bait. I emailed it to you.
But clearly, the GOP is not going to highly THOSE TEXTS between Page and Strzok because they’re much too busy chasing a Deep State White Whale that actually exists on their own side out of the NY FBI Field Office.
October 31st: Loretta Lynch and Comey discuss letter to Congress and issue of anti-Clinton bias in New York Field Office, a pattern of bias she says “has put us where we are today.” According to Lynch, Comey said it had become clear to him “that there is a cadre of senior people in New York who have a deep and visceral hatred of Secretary Clinton. And he said it is, it is deep. It’s, and he said, he said it was surprising to him or stunning to him … and it was hard to manage because these were agents that were very, very senior, or had even had timed out and were staying on, and therefore did not really feel under pressure from headquarters or anything to that effect.” (IG Report, p. 387)
The problem with there releasing all these documents unredacted — which I honestly think the DOJ will probably refuse to do because of the risk to current ongoing investigation — is that it may severely hamper and obstruct the core of Mueller’s investigation by revealing confidential sources and methods used by the FBI and the NSA just as they revealed that Stephen Halper was an FBI informant who had secretly talked to George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
All of this was pointed out specifically by Jeffrey Toobin on CNN.
“He could declassify how to make an atomic bomb,” Toobin said of the power the president has to declassify documents. “I mean he’s got plenary authority to declassify anything he wants. Let’s be clear about what is going on here: The president is doing nothing to reveal what went on when the Russian government tried to determine the outcome of our election. He has done nothing but obstruct that investigation.”
What Toobin said, however, is that Trump is using his special selection of powers to pursue his political enemies and discredit the Russia investigation.
And he has done nothing to try to stop the interference in our elections by the Russian government,” Toobin said.
“That’s important,” Collins argued. “The president has tried to make the case it is illegal and he has fudged the facts while he tried to make that case publicly. He will be able to pick and choose the text messages that he believes are most unflattering of the FBI and tweet them out.”
Just to nail this point down, the leaks and release of even the redacted version of the Page FISA Warrant and the outing of Stephan Halper as a confidential FBI source has already
caused our Russian Intel sources and contacts to go dark, which just might be a permanent condition.
WASHINGTON — In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russia’s intentions to try to tip the American presidential election — and a detailed assessment of the operation afterward — thanks in large part to informants close to President Vladimir V. Putin and in the Kremlin who provided crucial details.
But two years later, the vital Kremlin informants have largely gone silent, leaving the C.I.A. and other spy agencies in the dark about precisely what Mr. Putin’s intentions are for November’s midterm elections, according to American officials familiar with the intelligence.
The officials do not believe the sources have been compromised or killed. Instead, they have concluded they have gone to ground amid more aggressive counterintelligence by Moscow, including efforts to kill spies, like the poisoning in March in Britain of a former Russian intelligence officer that utilized a rare Russian-made nerve agent.
These efforts to protect Trump from a legitimate intelligence inquiry is doing very real damage to our intelligence services, this new traunch of releases is not going to improve this situation.
Secondly, there is the issue of the alleged assault by SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh which has only come to light in the last few days starting with when the Intercept reported that Senator Diane Fienstein was
“keeping a secret document from other Democrats.” We now know that this document was a letter from Professor Christine Blasey Ford who has contacted the Washington Post and her local congressperson with her allegation that Kavanaugh had assaulted her at a party in 1982 and that she has specifically begged,
begged for anonymity.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have privately requested to view a Brett Kavanaugh-related document in possession of the panel’s top Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, but the senior California senator has so far refused, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.
The specific content of the document, which is a letter from a California constituent, is unclear, but Feinstein’s refusal to share the letter has created tension on the committee, particularly after Feinstein largely took a back seat to her more junior colleagues last week, as they took over Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings with protests around access to documents.
The letter took a circuitous route to Feinstein, the top-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. It purportedly describes an incident that was relayed to someone affiliated with Stanford University, who authored the letter* and sent it to Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat who represents the area.
The entire gist of this report is actually a slam and attack on Feinstein so it’s not logical that she or someone in her office, as opposed to other frustrated Democrats, was the source for this story. This evenutally led to reporters tracking down Blasey Ford which left her no choice but to come forward publically, but what hasn’t been reported well is the fact that even though Feinstein had honored Dr. Ford’s wish and kept her ID confidential and didn’t share the letter with other Democrats she did notify the FBI so that they could investigate, only they didn’t because they needed the authorization of the White House.
The White House hasn’t asked the FBI to investigate the allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman when they were in high school, a request required for the bureau to take further action, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have said they want the FBI to investigate the allegation. But FBI background investigations are conducted under specific procedures and through requests from government agencies -- which in Kavanaugh’s case would come from the White House, said the two people who asked not to be identified discussing the sensitive matter.
People may be unhappy that Feinstein honored Dr. Ford’s request not to publicize her claims and kept the letter confidential, but you can’t also claim that she deliberately leaked the information just to stall the Kavanaugh nomination because it’s fairly clear the leak didn't come from her office.
In other massively bad news for Trump his former campaign manager Paul Manafort has made a full cooperation agreement with the Mueller investigation in order to avoid his secord trial agreeing to two charges of conspiracy in addition to his origin 8 guilty charges from his first trial. Of course the Reich-wing is saying this doens’t matter because there’s
nothing that Manafort can say that might impact Trump. But they’re very wrong.
We might get ready for wishful thinking from the left, on ‘Ooo! He’s gonna flip! He’s gonna flip!'” Coulter said. “But all of this, I guess you could be excited if you think Donald Trump who some of the liberals consider an incompetent buffoon had this vast international conspiracy to steal a presidential election from the most qualified person ever to run for president.”
She then said that journalists and investigators have been looking for two years and still don’t have any evidence Trump did anything wrong.
“Then what is it exactly that Paul Manafort is going to flip on?” Coulter asked. “I think they’re getting over excited about nothing. Also consider manafort didn’t have that much to do with the campaign. He didn’t come into it until trump had been running for a year. It’s kind of crazy enough to think that Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz colluded with the foreign power, but Trump, it was Donald Trump and him for one year. He was there for a month or two. What on Earth do they imagine he is going to have on Trump.”
What they might find out from Manafort could be if there were any plans made to cover up the violation of campaign finance laws and the Logan act made before the Veselnitskaya meeting, Why he agreed to work on the campaign for free when he owed Oleg Deripaska $18 Million, why he tried to “get whole” with Deripaska by giving him a “private briefing” on the Trump campaign, why he had the RNC platform changed on arms for Ukraine and then lied about it, why he met secretly with a former member of Russian Military Intelligence during the Campaign to talk about Deripaska, why there was Russian intel chatter on the Trump campaign asking them for help which specifically mentioned Manafort's name?
CNN excerpt:) In the summer of 2016, US intelligence agencies noticed a spate of curious contacts between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian intelligence, according to current and former US officials briefed on the investigation… CNN has learned that investigators became more suspicious when they turned up intercepted communications that U.S. intelligence officials agencies collected among suspected Russian operatives discussing their efforts to work with Manafort, who served as campaign chairman for three months, to coordinate information that could damage Hillary Clinton's election prospects, the US officials say. The suspected operatives relayed what they claimed were conversations with Manafort, encouraging help from the Russians.
This wasn’t the first time that Manafort had worked to damage the Hillary Clinton’s reputation, he’d also attempted to plant ant-Hillary stories in the Wall Street Journal and US websites starting as ealy as 2011.
Paul Manafort signed off on the project to place articles in the Wall Street Journal and smear then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton through briefings to websites such as Breitbart News, reported The Guardian.
Manafort’s associates also proposed doctoring Wikipedia entries to undermine a key opponent of Ukraine’s then-president Viktor Yanukovych, setting up a fake think tank in Vienna to spread pro-Yanukovych views and a social media blitz aimed at targeted audiences in the U.S. and Europe.
The Guardian obtained materials detailing these efforts from 2011 to 2013, when Manafort was paid millions of dollars to lobby on behalf of Yanukovych’s pro-Kremlin government.
So it just might be possible that Manafort knows a little bit of something about the anti-Hillary stories pushed by the Russian Troll farm through Twitter and Facebook during the 2016 election.
Then there’s the bad news that Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen is lobbying Mueller for a cooperation deal.
I had written last month that Mueller isn’t interested in creating a deal wtih Cohen because if he was, he would have already tried to make that deal. I still think that’s true, so far, but that doesn’t mean that Cohen want a deal, quite desperately. Clearly he wants a deal to help lessen his sentence for the 2 felonies he’s already pleaded guilty to, but that doesn’t mean that Mueller agrees. At least not yet.
We’ll see.
Lastly this week also saw the release of Bob Woodward's “Fear” and the bottom line on that book is the apparent fact that Trump seems to be — like many in the Reich-wing — completely resistant to reality.
Here are the daily details:
- September 12th —
- Putin says the two suspects in the Skirpal poisoning case are “civilians" and not “criminals” or members of Russian Military intelligence.
- The Intercept reports complaints from Democrats that Ranking Judiciary member Diane Feinstein has possession of a secret letter with information about the Kavanaugh nomination. [This is a letter from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford about being sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh during a party in 1982, which Feinstein had promised on Aug 31st to keep confidential, after the Intercept report she refers the letter to the FBI.]
- Woodward explains on Morning Joe how Trump throws tantrums when confronted with the truth. “In the foreign policy areas, the handling of North Korea, Afghanistan, the Middle East, all of the immigration issues, all of the trade issues, I was able to excavate and find out actually what happened,” Woodward said. “This is the pattern — he won’t face what’s real.” When confronted by his aides who say things like the WTO rules in favor of the U.S. 85% of the time, he won't take their advice and call them to confirm it, and when asked why he believes what he does he says “I’ve believed these things for 30 years.”
- Released “Committee Confidential” emails involving Brett Kavanaugh indicate that although he had testified in 2006 that he “didn’t handle” the nomination of Judge William Haynes to the Federal Bench, Kavanaugh did consult on his selection in 2002 and played golf with Haynes in 2003. Other documents indicate that he was involved in decisions on the Bush detainee interrogation policies although he testified that he wasn’t.
- Trump is reportedly starting to believe he might be Impeached by a Democratic House, but thinks that it may be an advantage since the Senate will never remove him and he’ll be able to use it to “play the victim” for his 2020 re-election campaign.
- Joe Klein argues on CNN that “We have a national crisis right now, and it is very serious, and we have to focus on that,” he said. “It is yet another source that says that we are dealing with a very fundamentally deranged person who is leading our country right now,” Klein said. “And thank God there are people, sane people who are surrounding him, who might limit the damage because the legal recourses here move very, very slowly.”
- GOP party officials are fearful that they may lose control of the U.S. Senate, a prospect the Washington Post called “unthinkable” up until now. “Shipwreck” is the word used by a party operative talking to the Post.
- Eric Trump trashes Woodward on Fox News: “Don’t you think people look through the fact, you can write some sensational, nonsense book, CNN will definitely have you on there because they love to trash the president. It’ll mean you sell three extra books, you make three extra shekels...” [So now we can add “anti-semite” to his asshole qualifications.”
- Trump’s ICE and DOJ are using onerous demands for voting records to try and suppress the vote in North Carolina and other states while ignoring the use of fraudulent absentee ballots to support Republican candidates.
- Buzzfeed reports that Trump ally Aras Agalarov made a bunch of suspicious cash transferals of $1.2 Million from their bank in Russia to previously unused accounts in New Jersey starting immediately after the Don Jr/Veselnitskaa meeting and again after Election day.
- ABC TV spiked the airing of an anti-Trump Episode of Black-ish which has already completed production and had all copies of the script “wiped from the planet” to prevent offending red-state viewers.
- Former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr says on MSNBC that Trump can be subpoenaed and he can also be indicted, but not under the current DOJ rules that Mueller is working with — however, those rules can be changed.
- Two sources who spoke to ABC News said Manafort’s team is “pushing prosecutors for a plea agreement that does not include cooperation, at least as related to the president.”
- Gloria Borger argues that Trump's attacks the Special Counsel may have backfired as Mueller’s popularity ratings have improved and the majority of American believe Trump should sit down and be interviewed.
- Conservative ex-Republican Max Boot unloads on Tucker Carlson’s latest anti-diversity rant as “Racist and Un-American" in a WaPo column.
- “He may be much worse than he was when I worked for him,” former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res told MSNBC’s Ari Melber. “We were able to control him and we had a good crew” after Res wrote a column claiming that Trump had had all braille writing removed from Trump Tower’s elevators. “I‘m sure it’s true,” Res said. “I‘m sure everything they said was true.”
- Senator Orrin Hatch states Trump had better not fire Jeff Sessions because he would probably only be able to get a Democrat through the Senate as a replacement.
- Woodward slams back at Eric Trump: “I just hope no one would talk like that, frankly, I think that just doesn’t fit. I’m sorry. Anyone talks like that, whether it’s a dog whistle or whatever the intent is, it’s not — part of the point of this book is that we need to have a serious debate about serious issues. And to use invective and this attack rhetoric, whatever it might be, it sets us back.”
- In additional excerpts from Woodward’s “Fear,” Trump exploded in white-hot rages when Comey released his notes and fostered the appointment of Mueller as Special Counsel: “Trump’s mood deteriorated overnight and the next day, May 18, was the worst,” the book continues. “The president erupted into uncontrollable anger, visibly agitated to a degree that no one in his inner circle had witnessed before. It was a harrowing experience.” “We barely got by,” Porter told the aide.
- Katy Tur clashes with Matt Schlapp who continues to insist that Trump’s lie about this being the first time the GDP is higher than un-employment in 100 years is true, even though even Fox News has already debunked it, and the WH budget guy has apologized for it being wrong. Schlapp aslo gets hammer by CNN’s Alison Camerota when he tries to downplay Michael Cohen’s felony campaign finance convictions which he said were specifically requested by Trump.”
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- September 14th —
- Paul Manafort agrees to plead guilty for conspiracy and witness tampering in exchange for a full cooperation agreement which requires him to be interviewed, provide documentation and testify without his attorneys or the 5th amendment on “any and all matters”.
- 895,000 people lose power as Florence batters the Carolinas with rain as a Cat 1 Hurricane.
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- FBI refuses to investigate secret letter allegations against Kavanaugh reported by Democrats.
- Trump's aides believe he will pardon Manafort — which could be an impeachable offense.
- President Donald Trump is rebranding NAFTA as the USMC pact—for U.S., Mexico and Canada—though he’s still threatening to ditch the “C” if Canada doesn’t bend to his wishes.
- Admiral Bill McRaven, former commander of Seal Team Six when they implemented the raid on Bin Laden, resigns from a Pentagon Board in protest against Trump.
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WH reacts to Manafort plea deal: “This has nothing to do with Trump.” [The deal doesn’t but Manafort’s cooperation arrangement could.]
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65 Women from Kavanaugh high school days sign a letter attesting to his integrity. [What guy who knows 65 women from high school that well, has integrity that high?]
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Senator Mark Warner states that any pardon for Manafort by Trump would be a “gross misuse of power.”
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Conservatives are outraged by Nike hiring Kaepernick, while their stock rises to an all-time high of $83.47 per share.
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Vanity Fair magazine’s Emily Jane Fox reported that former Trump Organization executive and “fixer” Michael Cohen is in talks to “flip” and cooperate with Mueller. [Which proves me wrong.]
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Pompeo slams John Kerry for his discussions with Iran asking them to maintain the Nuclear Agreement and "wait out Trump.”
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Former WH ethics czar Norm Eisen tells Jennifer Rubin at WaPo: “The reported cooperation agreement could be devastating to the president — and those around him. Manafort, for example, could implicate not only the president in the Trump Tower meeting — but also others who were involved such as Don Jr. or [Jared] Kushner,”
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Paul Manafort “has no info on President or campaign,” Trump’s former lawyer John Dowd wrote in an email to other lawyers involved in the case, according to New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman.
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September 15th —
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September 16th —
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Tomi Lahren calls anyone who votes for Democrats stupid and ill-informed.
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Alyssa Milano calls out Collins and Murkowski for continuing to consider Kavanaugh after they threw Al Franken under the bus.
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Kavanaugh friend Mark Judge who was allegedly in the room during the assault denies it happened, but he also mentions in his books about a hard-partying friend named “Bart Kavanaugh."
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Politico reports that a WH source says “No way, not even a hint of it,” the lawyer said according to the site. “If anything, it’s the opposite. If somebody can be brought down by accusations like this, then you, me, every man certainly should be worried. We can all be accused of something.”
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Ann Coulter dismissed Manafort's cooperation agreement: ‘What is it exactly he’s going to flip on?’: [Any plans made to violate campaign finance and the Logan act made before the Veselnitskaya meeting, Why he agreed to work on the campaign for free when he owed Oleg Deripaska $18 Million, why he had the RNC platformed changed on arms for Ukraine, why there was Russian intel chatter on the Trump campaign asking them for help, and they mentioned Manafort's name?]
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Dr. Christine Blasey Ford comes forward to say that Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her 36 years ago when she was 13 and he was 17 while drunk by holding her down with his hand over her mouth and trying to get her clothes off, but he was unsuccessful. Kavanaugh says that he doesn’t remember being at the party, but Ford had mentioned it to her husband and her therapist in 2012 and passed a polygraph on the subject requested by her attorney.
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September 17th --
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Dr Ford agrees to be interviewed by the Senate and testify about the assault by Kavanaugh.
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Only 2 of the 65 women who had previously vouched for Kavanaugh continue to stand by him after Christine Ford comes forward.
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Republicans repeatedly whine that Democrats should have brought up the allegations by Dr. Ford weeks ago behind closed doors, even though she had told Sen Feinstein at the time she didn't want to go public, and now their schedule to vote on Kavanaugh confirmation is going to have to be pushed back possibly until after the mid-terms and then the Dems will demand that his vote is held up until after the new Congress comes in January under the McConnel rule in payback for Merrick Garland. [Which I think would be great, but they’re just projecting because establishment Dems would never pull shady fucked up shit like that.] Hearings on the assault allegations are scheduled for next Monday.
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Fox host Kennedy explodes at her (fake) Liberal co-host over the Kavanaugh assault allegations and rants about Ted Kennedy. "He was a liberal hero for decades. The question is are you offended because of this guy on the other side.” [That attitude didn't save Harvey Weinstein or Al Franken.]
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Ex-Diplomat Uzra Zeya who has 27 years experiences says that she couldn't advance at the Trump State dept because she couldn't pass the "Breitbart Test" of being white and male. “No one should harbor illusions, however, that a president who relies on ‘central casting’ to make hiring decisions and routinely disparages African-Americans, Muslims, women, and immigrants would champion those who don’t resemble him,” she writes
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Showing that he's still a clueless dickhead Don Jr. puts up an Instagram post: “Hi Cindy will you be my girlfriend, love Bret.” There are two checkmark boxes, one for yes, one for no. At the top is printed, “Judge Kavanaugh's sexual assault letter found by Dems….” Junior also tweets a conspiracy theory about Anderson Cooper kneeling in flood water to make a Hurricane look worse in 2008 - but Cooper has the receipts and the complete footage.
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200+ alumnae from Dr. Ford's former high school sign a letter of support.
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Kavanaugh’s alleged accomplice/alibi witness Mark Judge included a quote in his 1983 yearbook “Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs”
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Wall Street Journal reports that the investigation into improper taxpayer-funded travel by FEMA administrator Brock Long has been referred to prosecutors for potential criminal charges
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Orrin Hatch says even if Kavanaugh had committed rape: ‘it would be hard for senators not to consider who he is today’.
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Two sources tell Bloomberg News that the White House has not given a green light for the FBI to investigate Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that Kavanaugh groped and assaulted her. The sources said that the FBI can not move forward with an investigation without the permission of the White House.
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Trump has also instructed the Justice Department "to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr."
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CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin calls it "Insane" that Trump is releasing classified docs and texts on the Russia investigation. “Let’s be clear about what is going on here: The president is doing nothing to reveal what went on when the Russian government tried to determine the outcome of our election. He has done nothing but obstructs that investigation.”
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Two days before the debut of his new show on Viceland "The Hunt for the Trump Tapes" Tom Arnold gets into a scuffle with producer Mark Burnett at a pre-Emmy party and tells him that the New Yorker's Ronan Farrow - whose reporting started the “#MeToo” movement — has copies of the Apprentice outtakes which show Trump saying the N-Word, degrading women and insulting his son Eric by calling him a "Retard.”
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September 18th --
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September 19th —