In this month’s update to the Master Timeline of Trump Russia Corruption Michael Moore appeared on Democracy Now this week to promote his new movie Fahrenheit 11/9 about the election of Donald Trump and it’s consequences.
Moore: Trump is the result of decades, decades, of us allowing this country to go down a road that has very little to do with democracy and equal rights and what’s fair and very much toward letting the rich, letting corporate america, Wall Street run the show and call the shots. When I say, for instance, that Donald Trump cares very little for democracy and is trying to whittle what away what he can of what we call our democracy. That's really, to be fair to him, not really unusual. He’s a CEO, he’ a billionaire, generally CEOs don’t run their business like democracies. They don’t like democracy, that’s not how they live, that’s not how they run their business and as billionaire they want to grab as much of the pie as possible. So their not really into everybody having a fair slice of the pie, or a seat at the table. So he’s really just acting like most people of his class. I gotta believe, if you’re a billionare, you gotta hate a system that says “one person, one vote.” Because if we really are one person, one vote there are 325 Million of us and maybe 1,000 of them. Imagine if you were on the other side, if you were one of them that’s doesn’t look very good, because that means that 325 Million can just suddenly pass laws and tell you what to do.
That problem facing them would be Democracy. In order to retain and expand what they have the American oligarchs have to short-circuit democracy, they have to redirect and distract it away from resharing the economic pie from mostly favoring CEOs and shareholders to also prioritizing workers, clients and consumers.
This is the true and very real battle going on in America, between the powerful and the powerless. The people and the corporations, and the only way they win is by using divide and conquer tactics.
The divisions of Identity Politics, race, gender, religion and orientation are merely a distraction. Trump is a corporate fascist, transferring power from the people into the hands of industry and trusting their “benevolent guidance” to rain the droplets of prosperity onto all our heads.
When in reality, that rain is little more than piss on our shoulder.
In the next segment, Moore talked about the teachers strike in West Virginia and how that gradually spread like wild fire across the state until they got a raise not just for themselves, but also the custodians and the bus drivers.
Moore: That kind of solidarity, if we all ever get together and support each other, and not cross each other picket lines that is the scariest thing for these people beacause they won't know what to do. They won’t be able to run their businesses, they wont’ be able to run their schools. They won’t be able to do anything.
This is why Russian oligarch totalitarians love Donald Trump and why they were willing to commit cyberwar in order to help install him in the White House. It’s about the money, the massive hoarding of cash by viciously demonizing innocent immigrants as the “enemy” as “evil” and “despicable” when their literally running for their lives from gangs and terrorists and then using draconian policies against them that quite literally repeat the types of pograms that were used against the Jews in Germany — forcibly separating children from their families, forcibly imprisoning innocent children at taking a ¼ $Billion away from cancer and AIDs research to fund their kiddie prisons — a policy which Moore points out that the last of the living Nuremberg prosecutor has said is a “crime against humanity.”
The desperate mad dash confirms conservative activist Brett Kavanaugh with a penchant for ruling in favor or corporations over people to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme court as additional allegations of sexual misconduct against him pile higher and higher.
It’s become so bad that the Kavanaugh's college friend Louisa Garry who has been prominently featured in commercials supporting him from the so-called Judicial Crisis Network has pulled her name from a letter of support for him.
Implementing facism requires a complicit judiciary, which is why the GOP will ram through Kavanaugh's confirmation with as much vigor as they blocked Merrick Garland’s nomination even though at this point with accusations and allegations of sexual misconduct piling up Kavanaugh just might end up in court as a defendant for sexual crimes while not wearing his SCOTUS robes.
Then there’s the push to shove Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein out the door as a means to kneecap the Mueller investigation.
Former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal who wrote the Special Prosecutor laws points out in the above video with Chris Hayes that If Rosenstein is fired he could be replaced by current Solicitor General Noel Francisco who is a naked partisan with no prosecutorial experience that previously written that the FBI went too easy on Hillary Clinton. He's also been critical of the Mueller investigation.
“I don’t think it would be appropriate for the Department of Justice to appoint” a special counsel, he said, adding “my own personal belief is that when you hand these issues off to the career prosecutors in the public integrity sections in the US attorneys’ offices in the Department of Justice, those attorneys are generally better able to assess whether a case should be pursued.”
So he might change the mandate for Mueller from investigating the Trump campaign to investigation Hillary Clinton emails — again -— or the Clinton Foundation — again — or Uranium One — again — because that’s what Trump has been harping on for months and would, they think, make everything shady that is found on Trump seem like “business as usual” when it’s really, totally, not. Or he might just shut the entire thing down, although I suspect Mueller may have already handed off some of the more critical elements of the probe to SDNY and the DC US Attorney.
That is assuming he can survive and ethical review and doesn’t need to recuse himself like Jeff Sessions since he used to be a partner in Jones Day the same law firm as WH Counsel Don McGahn which had worked for Chris Christie during “Bridge-gate” and also had worked for the Trump Campaign.
The next in line if Trump can’t use the Presidential Vacancies Act to slide someone else who has already been Senate confirmed into Rosenstein’s position would be Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio who had previously been the General Counsel for Florida Governor Rick Scott, had served as the executive director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, and had been an adjunct professor at Florida State University College of Law. Which means his experience as a prosecutor is pretty slim.
All of this is fascism, and all this is totalitarianism, and they’re not going to be giving up on this overnight.
Between weekly updates, the daily details for the next month will be posted here:
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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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Devin Nunes dismisses the Mueller investigation as ‘Russia Kool-aid’.
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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 —
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Dr. Ford’s attorney notifies Grassley that she will not testify before there is an FBI investigation of her allegations. [For comparison the FBI did do an investigation of Anita Hill’s allegations, which only took 3 days — however they only talked to Thomas, Hill and a state judge who was a long-time friend of her’s whom she had confided in. They didn’t talk to Thomas’ then-girlfriend Lillian McEwen who years later fully confirmed all of Hill’s allegations and claimed Thomas wanted them to try a 3-way.]
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Mark Judge refuses to testify claiming he wasn’t present at the party, or he doesn't remember the party or something.
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Fox News publishes a report that claims Dr. Ford could have beaten the polygraph if she’s a ‘psychopath’. [Actually, that should be “antisocial personality disorder”, like Trump.]
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Trump claims the “real” victim is Kavanaugh in reaction to Dr. Ford’s allegations and that the FBI “knows Kavanaugh very well" after doing six previous background checks on him. [So he’s not calling for them to investigate this specific claim.]
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David Kris, former assistant attorney general for national security under President Obama, told CNN that Trump’s move to declassify FISA warrants and other documents related to the Russia probes was such an “extreme departure from the rules and norms that have governed this field” that professionals and leaders in the intelligence community may consider resigning.
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A high school classmate of Dr. Ford, Cristina King Miranda who also signed letter of support for Ford claims to remember an “incident” involving Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and that it was "talked about for days afterward at the school” says that she may not come forward because she has been overwhelmed by media requests. She later deletes her Facebook post and says she can’t confirm that the event occurred, only that she heard about it at the time [Which still makes Kavanaugh and Judge into liars because they claimed they weren’t there, or else it didn’t happen.]
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Trump visits the Carolinas in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence and tells a storm victim to ‘have a good time’ he also has a “divorce” from his supporter Ron DeSantis who is running for Florida Gov. for not backing his Hurricane Maria lies. Trump claims that if Manafort tells Mueller the truth “there will be no problem” and that “We’ll have to make a decision” if Blasey Ford makes a “credible showing” before the Senate, he also compares the assault allegations to the ‘Russian witch hunt’.
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Kamala Harrris office in San Diego receives a letter from an anonymous constituent in Oceanside, CA who claims the she was raped repeatedly by Brett Kavanaugh and a friend in a car while attempted to get a ride home.
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Trump administration admits that it’s lost track of 1,500 immigrant children — again.
- September 20th --
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September 21st —
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Trump tweets that “Kavanaugh is under assault by the radical left” and claims that Dr. Ford would have gone to police if assault was ‘as bad as she says’ [Ah, the real Trump has finally escaped his minders and arrived trotting out a dumb idea that didn't work at all for Bill Cosby.]
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Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo counters Trump saying the sexual assaults cases are among the least reported of all crimes.
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Yale psychiatrist says Trump is getting worse mentally: “I suspect he’s unable to tolerate reality.”
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Trump considers canceling his call to release classified FISA documents saying that “several of our close allies” have called him concerned about it. Instead, the DOJ Inspector General will decide.
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An engine plant in Mike Pence’s hometown takes a $200 Million hit due to Trump’s trade war with China.
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The Guardian reports that people close to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange held private meetings with Russian officials last year to discuss a potential plan to help Assange escape the Ecuadorian embassy in London and flee to another country on Christmas Eve 2017.
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Four Harvard Law students published an op-ed in the Harvard Law Record, suggesting Brett Kavanaugh should not be allowed to return to the school unless he has been investigated.
- The DailyCaller claims that Dr. Ford’s attorneys Debra Katz and LIsa Banks are “anti-Trump Democrat shills” because they had been scheduled to be headliners at a fundraiser for Sen. Tammy Baldwin, but have since backed out of the event.
- Washington Times also claims that Dr. Ford lead a “wild childhood on the Dewey Beach party scene because of an anonymous restaurant owner says that two boys once got into a public fist fight over her. [Actually heavy drinking and acting out are common signs of trying to cope with the trauma of a prior sexual assault]
- Rightwing blogger Sara Carter reports that in early 2017 the FBI didn’t officially agree with CIA and NSA assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 Election to benefit Trump but continued to investigate anyway. She wrongly claims that the investigation was started by the Steele dossier. [That assessment was based on NSA intercepts of text messages by Russian intel saying that Putin was directing the cyber attack which FBI sources couldn’t independently confirm] Agent Strzok was concerned with “oversharing” with the WH, and also leaks about the investigation coming out of the CIA.
- NYTimes reports that anonymous DOJ sources claim that after Comey was fired then Acting AG Rod Rosenstein had considered with Andrew McCabe suggesting the 25th Amendment to other cabinet-level members and wearing a recording device when talking with Trump to help gather evidence. This report prompts Reich-Wing media via Brietbart to argue that both Sessions and Rosenstein should be fired before the midterms even though Rosenstein says the report is “not accurate” and some argue that his talk of a wiretap may have been “in jest.” But other sources say that Rosenstein even suggested that potential replacement Directors should wear a wire during their interview with Trump. [That would include Mueller who became Special Counsel chosen by Rosenstein one day after he interviewed for FBI director]
- In response to Trump’s attack on Dr. Ford Sen. Susan Collins says “I was appalled by the president’s tweet,” [which is really bad news if she decides to take it out on Kavanaugh in his confirmation.] Sen. Lisa Murkowski could also vote against Kavanaugh because the Alaskan Governor and Lt. Governor have both come out against his confirmation.
- Comey’s friend Ben Wittes of Lawfare blog says that Rosenstein's “Nondenial Denial” indicates that the 25th Amend/Wiretap story is “factually accurate.” and that he did consider ousting Trump. [Rosenstein likely reconsidered this after Comey’s memos were released and instead assigned Mueller as Special Counsel]
- Buzzfeed reports that Mueller may be looking into several financial transactions on $3.3 Million between Aras Agalarov and Ike Kaveladzi which occurred just prior to the Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting. Citibank, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley had flled “suspicious activity” reports on these transactions.
- ShareBlue reports that former GOP mega-donor Seth Klarman who gave $7 Million to the GOP during the Obama years has now given $1 Million to the Senate Majority PAC and $2 million to the super PAC supporting House Democrats,” according to the Washington Post because he’s alarmed by Trump’s radical and dangerous presidency.
- Wall Street Journal is reporting that former Trump attorney John Dowd tried to use the White House legal defense fund to pay off legal fees for both Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, but the proposal was rejected because their charges were for crimes which occurred before they were working for Trump.
- Axios reports that Jeff Sessions is considering a rule change that would mean immigrants fleeing persecution or domestic violence in their home countries could be left in inhumane border detention centers for years, with no right to a trial. Sessions has personally decided to take on an immigration case that would allow him to make detention mandatory for any asylum seeker caught crossing the border. Not only would that mean detaining thousands of people, but it would also mean detainees could no longer receive expedited resolutions to their cases. [This would directly violate the UN resolution on Refugees which was ratified in 1968 by Congress.]
- According to a report from Axios, the steady trickle of high profile conservative pundits abandoning the GOP could be the precursor to a flood of mainstream Republican voters following them believing that the party has become synonymous with Donald Trump, much to their dismay.
- Former and current White House officials warn that Donald Trump is going to go on a Deep State “jihad” over the Rosenstein report. The NYT op-ed gave an opportunity to really drive home the deep state stuff. With this new story, it gives additional credibility.”
- According to a court filing, CNN contributor and NDA’d former Trump aide Jason Miller allegedly gave his pregnant stripper girlfriend an abortion pill without her knowledge hidden inside a smoothie — the pill sent her to emergency room due to bleeding and she nearly went into a coma. The unborn child did not survive.
- Conservative lobbyist and former clerk for Antonin Scalia Ed Whelan who concocted the doppelganger theory of Kavanaugh’s innocence apparently searched for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford on LinkedIn before her name was officially revealed.
- The Maryland police chief in the city where Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh allegedly sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when they were teens said the department is prepared to investigate the accusations when and if a complaint is filed.
- Rep. Jerrold Nadler blasts House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Goodlatte for considering a subpoena for Andrew McCabe's notes on his meetings with Rosenstein — which are currently in the possession of Meuller’s team. [The irony here is that they wouldn’t subpoena anything that Dems asked for when the House was doing their own Russia investigation.]
- Ingraham says Trump should fire Rosenstein “Today” but Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity say “No, It’s a trap.”
- Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly calls Trump to tell him his tweets attacking Dr. Ford are not helping in the Kavanaugh nomination.
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- September 23rd —
- NYTimes reports that the GOP is starting to worry that the meltdown of the Kavanaugh nomination will hurt them in the mid-terms, particularly with women voters.
- WH leaks that Kavanaugh is struggling with questions about drinking and his sex life during prep sessions. “I’m not going to answer that,” Kavanaugh said at one point according to a senior White House official, who said that the questions were designed to go over the line and that he struck the right tone.
- Dick Durbin: Questions about Kavanaugh’s “HS Drinking must be part of any relevant questioning.” [Ruh, roh!]
- ShareBlue documents the 7 lame and ridiculous excuses that the GOP has already attempted to defend Kavanaugh.
- WaPo reports that the Republican Party’s overwhelming problem with losing female voters because the GOP is increasingly looking like a party of white men, a conservative pollster and consultant warned that a “pink wave” of women voters is coming that will kill them at the midterm elections.
- The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow reports that Deborah Ramirez, a fellow Yale Student of Kavanaugh’s claims he exposed himself to her during a dormitory party. She said that he “thrust his penis” into her face, and “caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.” Michael Avenatti announces that he also has a Kavanaugh related witness he is representing, and it’s not Ramirez.
- Fox viewers explode over one of their polls indicating the majority of voters believe Dr. Ford over Judge Kavanaugh: “Liberal Bullshit.”
- Former Georgetown Prep student Eric Ruyak nailed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge in a Facebook post this week claiming Judge not only attacked him for outing a priest who molested youth but tried to blame it on “unchecked liberalism.”
- South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman decides to tell a “joke” during a debate with his Democratic rival: "Did you hear about this?" Rep. Ralph Norman said at the opening of the debate, according to The Post and Courier. "Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out saying she was groped by Abraham Lincoln."
- Mark Judges ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Rasor backs up Ruyak and calls Judge out for lying about the Georgetown Prep party culture telling Ronan Farrow that she met Judge at Catholic University and that she felt morally obligated to challenge his characterization of “horseplay” in high school. Judge told her a different story about an incident involving him and other boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman. Judge made it sound consensual and never named any other men involved. She does not know whether Kavanaugh participated. “It was disgusting,” the woman said. “They treated women like meat.”
- Kavanaugh has also been accused of liking his law clerks to have a “certain look.” He also clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski, who was forced to resign after multiple sexual harassment allegations. Kavanaugh then allegedly lied about what he knew.
- Farrow also reports that Senate Republicans learned of the second Ramirez’s accusations against Kavanaugh last week and have been attempting to speed up the confirmation before it came out.
- Avenatti tweets a letter to the Chief Counsel of Senate Judicial nominations saying he is aware of “significant evidence of multiple house parties” in DC in the 80s where Kavanaugh, his friend Mark Judge and others would “target women with alcohol/drugs to allow a train of men to subsequently gang rape them.”
- Kavanaugh says he has a Calender from 1982 that clears him of any wrong-doing and doesn't show him attending a party with the people Dr. Ford described [However, it does show him attending parties and that could be some of the ones that Avenatti is describing.]
- Senator Feinstein calls for the Kavanaugh hearings to be postponed until the Farrow allegations — not to mention the Avenatti allegations -- can be properly investigated.
- Lindsey Graham declares: “I’m not going to ruin Judge Kavanaugh’s life over this.”
- Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), the GOP Senate nominee, said Friday that giving credence to allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a young woman when they were teenagers was “even more absurd” than Anita Hill’s accusations that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her because of Kavanaugh’s age at the time and because it was “an attempt or something that never went anywhere.”
- September 24th —
- In an interview with Politico, Michael Avenatti says that he has multiple clients who can corroborate that allegations against Kavanaugh and Mark Judge and one of them is a third victim.
- Trump says he doesn’t believe people who wait 30 years to make an allegation and all the accusations against Kavanaugh are “totally political.”
- White House director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp demanded to know on Fox, “Why the heck are we having a hearing if [Democrats are] believing [Dr. Ford] and not even giving Brett Kavanaugh the fair process that he deserves?”
- Meghan Kelly is yelling at her own panel over Kavanaugh ‘He’s saying he didn’t do it!’
- Montgomery Country Investigators announce they have been contacted by yet another Kavanaugh victim which is the fourth now after Dr. Ford, Deborah Ramirez and the victim represented by Avenatti.
- Shareblue reports that In an open letter to senators, Amnesty’s executive director Margaret Huang raised several areas of concern at Kavanaugh may have committed human rights abuses, starting with Kavanaugh’s role as an attorney in the George W. Bush White House during the time after the 9/11 terror attacks, when the administration oversaw the rollout of an interrogation program that included tactics such as torture, forced disappearance.
- Bloomberg and Business Insider report that the WH has put together a draft order, which is not yet finalized, is intended to “address online platform bias” by making Twitter and Facebook nicer to conservatives.
- Trump says that the allegations against Kavanaugh are "totally political," and that "I am with him all the way," adding "There's a chance this could be one of the single most unfair, unjust things to happen to a candidate for anything. But I am with Judge Kavanaugh and I look forward to a vote." [Two words, Mr. Trump: Merrick. Garland.] Then he tweets Democrats have made “false acquisitions [sic]” against Kavanaugh.
- Rosenstein meets with John Kelly at the White House amid rumors that he has either just resigned or is about to be fired. But he goes on to attend a principles meeting afterward. Reports are that Trump had hoped the Rosenstein kabuki theater distraction would keep the news off Kavanaugh for a few hours. However, his lawyers blow the hat trick claiming the Mueller probe should be “paused" to rehash Dossier-gate, FISA-Gate and Deep-State-Gate yet again if Rosenstein is fired.
- Rosenstein and Trump are set to meet on Thursday, which is at the same time as Dr. Ford and Kavanaugh are supposed to be at the Judiciary Committee hearing. [Serving up massive distraction number two for this week.]
- Grassley accuses Dems of “witness coaching” against Kavanaugh, ignoring that Kavanaugh just spent 4 days straight at the WH being prepped for his testimony.
- Kavanaugh goes on Fox News to defend himself claiming he's been “smeared” he doesn’t say he criticizes Dr. Ford’s claim of being sexually assaulted but claims it “wasn’t by him' [the Ed Whelen strategy] because he was a virgin in high school. [Technically, he wasn't accused of intercourse in either case so that doesn't help.] He also says “False accusations won’t drive him out of the process”, but he has no explanation for why the FBI shouldn’t investigate this case. He’s interviewed by Martha MacCallum who was a big defender of Roger Ailes against allegations of sexual harassment, misconduct and assault.
- Federal convict George Papadopoulos thinks he’s discovered a "massive plot” of spy agencies in England and Australia daring to spy on people. [I know, shocker.]
- Ronan Farrow tells Anderson Cooper that there were other individuals, some on the record, that independent of Ramirez have come forward as witnesses during and after the fact of Kavanaugh’s sexual assault on her.
- Kavanaugh’s yearbook entry refers to him as being a Renate Alumnius, this is supposedly a sexual conquest reference to classmate Renate Schroeder Dolphin which appears 14 times in the entire yearbook. Dolphin had been one of the 65 women who signed a letter of support for Kavanaugh, his attorney claims it refers to an innocent kiss between the two which was shared at a public event.
- NYTimes reports that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested resigning so he wouldn’t have to testify to Congress about claims that he wanted to remove Trump from office, but apparently, his offer wasn’t accepted. If Rosenstein quits his replacement has to go through Senate confirmation, but if he’s fired someone who is already confirmed can take his post. His likely successor Solicitor General Noel Francisco has a conflict as he was a partner with a law firm that represented the Trump campaign.
- Ronan Farrow reports that two of Kavanaugh’s supporters who had signed a letter by his lawyers disputing the claims of Elizabeth Ramirez have withdrawn their support, one of the former supporters is Louise Garry who has been prominently featured in a pro-Kavanaugh commercial paid for by the Judicial Crisis Network.
- Ending her pretense of being civil to Kavanaugh accusers, Kellyanne Conway begins to smear them on CBS This Morning. “I thought that [Kavanaugh’s] comment last night about the second so-called accuser is incredibly instructive,” Conway said. “He’s now calling this a smear campaign. Indeed, this is starting to feel like a vast left-wing conspiracy.”
- Trump signs his first new trade deal, this one with South Korea, which really isn't new it’s just the same deal we already had with a few adjustments favorable to export more U.S. cars.
- September 25th —
- Kavanaugh’s former roommate from 1983 at Yale James Roche tells San Francisco local TV that Brett “became aggressive and belligerent when he was very drunk. I did not observe the specific incident in question, but I do remember Brett frequently drinking excessively and becoming incoherently drunk.” Roche was also a friend of Ramirez and supports her as being an “honest person.”
- Axios reports that according to a leaked Justice Department document, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was on his way out the door on Monday, with an official statement prepared to announce his exit.
- ABC’s George Stephanopoulos confronts Huckabee-Sanders with evidence that Trump always sides with accused sexual predators and rapists — that’s because HE IS ONE — so she does what she does and changes the subject.
- Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow fact check Kavanaugh’s Fox Interview. At one point during the interview, Kavanaugh said of the incident, which he denies, “If such a thing had happened, it would have been the talk of the campus.” Mayer noted that, as she and Farrow reported, at least one witness suggests that the event was talked about on campus in the days afterward. Kavanaugh’s asserted that all men & women he knew in college consider this ‘inconceivable’ — but his roommate at the time, James Roche, has found it fully credible.
- Trump talks some shit about Iran in a hallway at the UN, nuff said. He also says that the Kavanaugh allegations are a “con game being played by Democrats.”
- WH says they're open to having Elizabeth Ramirez added to the Kavanaugh hearing, but Grassley hasn't said anything about it yet.
- Steve Kantrowitz, who graduated from Yale with a B.A. in history in 1987, says that Kavanaugh claimed he wasn’t a virgin during his freshman year at Yale in contrast to his claims on Fox News that he hadn't engaged in sex until many years after high school.
- Sarah Huckabee-Sanders says on Fox and Friends that “every SCOTUS nominee deserves a vote.” Well, yes they do — SO DID MERRICK GARLAND!
- Former McConnel Chief of Staff whines Democrats are trying to ‘avenge’ snub of Merrick Garland by attacking Kavanaugh. [Actually no, that wouldn't be good enough — blocking every nominee until Trump leaves office would do it.]
- Foxes Tomi Lahren claims the #MeToo movement as a ‘Democrat-driven’ plot. [You think they would have avoided snaring Liberal icons like Al Franken, Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby in that plot then, wouldn’t you?]
- Foxes clip of Trump’s UN speech cuts off just before the delegates start laughing at him after he brags about how great his accomplishments in just under 2 years “more than any other Administration” has been. Yeah, it's not like other Presidents fought the Civil War or won WWII, ended the Bosnian War, authorized the mission that killed Bin Laden, ended the Great Depression or the Great Recession, built the Hoover Dam, the Interstate Highway System, Mount Rushmore, signed the Social Security Act, Medicare Act, Civil Rights Act, Violence Against Women Act, Homestead Act or Affordable Care Act, Balanced the Budget, created the EPA, CFPB and FEMA or sent Astronauts to the moon.
- Bill Cosby is sentenced to 3-10 years for sexual assault. Cosby’s publicists Andrew Wyatt claims that his prosecution was a “racist and sexist” attack by anti-black and anti-male forces. He claims some of the evidence from a recording was falsified, and that it’s part of a larger movement against men including the attacks on Kavanaugh.
- McConnell states that Kavanaugh will be confirmed, even though the hearing with Dr. Ford is still 3 days away.
- Harvard Prof. Jeannie Suk Gerse writes in the New Yorker that both Kavanaugh and Judge may have criminal liability for sexual assault against Ford.
- Senate Judiciary reschedules Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote for Friday, the day after the Ford hearing. GOP members of the committee blow off a conference call with Deborah Ramirez’s lawyer [only the Dems showed up], then they refuse to invite her to the Thursday hearing. GOP members choose Maricopa Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell to question Dr. Ford so they don’t have to do it, and she’s also a woman — who happens to have a massive backlog of unprosecuted sexual assault cases with 34% of rape kits remaining untested in her district which was investigated by the DOJ for ignoring sexual assault cases involving immigrants and where only 10% of reported assaults are prosecuted compared to the national average of 34.5%. [So they found a token woman prosecutor to do the questioning who is also extraordinarily bad at her job.]
- MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell points out that the legal drinking age in Maryland was 21 at the time that Kavanaugh was 18 years old.
- Wall Street Journal reports that an internal investigation into authorized government funds being used to chauffeur FEMA chair Brock Long around found he spent $151,000 in taxpayer dollars, but the funds were never authorized. Long’s aide Keith LaFoucade, then destroyed the evidence detailing the trip in efforts to cover for Long during the investigation.
- According to Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), Republicans haven’t even agreed on the final text of the bipartisan election security bill known as the Secure Elections Act, which would have required states to use backup paper ballots and perform audits after elections to ensure that no voting systems were hacked or otherwise compromised because they’ve been so busy protecting the Kavanaugh nomination.
- WH Deputy Press Sec. Rah Shah is expected to depart after the Kavanaugh confirmation is complete.
- September 26th—
- Rawstory reports that Arizona prosecutor Rachel Mitchell’s former ultra-conservative boss Andy Thomas was disbarred following an abuse of power case. The agency that Mitchell comes from has come under fierce criticism for its handling of rape cases and has a poor track record of getting justice for victims of rape, child molestation or domestic violence cases. In 2016, there were 3,290 rapes reported across Arizona. Police only made 344 arrests as a result. That clearance rate of Arizona rape cases stands at approximately 10%, well below the national average of 34.5%. Before the feds stepped in, Maricopa County had a backlog of 4,000 untested rape kits.
- National Poll states that 54% of Republicans want Kavanaugh confirmed even if the sexual misconduct allegations are true.
- Trump tells reporters that he wished the GOP had rammed through the Kavanaugh nomination without hearing from Ford and accuses China of trying to “meddle in our elections" because their counter tariffs are targeted against Trump supporters and voters, but he still says nothing about Russian election interference.
- Christine Blasey Ford’s husband and three friends send signed affidavits to the Judiciary committee backing up that she had revealed her allegations against Kavanaugh years ago.
- Murray Waas has published an explosive new report in the New York Review of Books that claims that Pence, White House counsel Don McGahn and former chief of staff Reince Priebus all went to Trump on February 10, 2017, and told him that he needed to fire then-national security adviser Mike Flynn, but Trump refused to fire him. Flynn eventually resigned after two WH officials leaked that he was being investigated by the FBI to the WaPo.
- Avenatti releases a sworn statement from his client then calls into the View to reveal that his new client Julie Swetnick was a witness to various house parties in Bethesda where women were gang-raped after drinking spiked punch, which was also attended by Kavanaugh and Judge. She doesn't claim that they raped or attacked anyone, but they did participate and help get the women drunk. She also says that at a different party she herself became a victim of this scheme. Her affidavit is signed under risk a perjury and she is prepared to provide information both to the Senate and to the FBI.
- Carrie Severino, who is the spokesperson for the Judicial Crisis Network that supports Kavanaugh is visibly shaken by the allegations of gang rape. “Well, obviously these are very serious allegations,” Severino stuttered, evading the question. “And the experience Swetnick describes is horrible. So — and — and the challenge here is the Judiciary Committee is looking into it.” [But the committee won't be looking into it, they won’t even get on a conference call with Deborah Ramirez’s lawyer.]
- MSNBC interviews a Trump supporter from Bozeman Montana: “Groping a woman? At 18?” she says incredulously. “I mean how many guys do you know who think that’s no big deal?” she asked her young daughters, who nodded affirmatively. “It’s not a big deal,” the woman continued. [It wasn’t a grope, it was attempted rape.]
- Lindsey Graham: “A lawyer to porn stars has taken this debacle to an even lower level.”
- Trump lashes out at Avenatti: “Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh,” Trump claimed. [Uh, but Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to being involved in exactly what Avenatti was accusing.]
- Kavanaugh releases his Calenders for the summer of 1982 to the Judiciary committee.
- Chuck Schumer calls on Kavanaugh to withdraw his nomination, Susan Collins says that she’s very concerned about the date rape allegations and taking them "very seriously.” Basically, all Dem members of the Sen. Judiciary committee agree with Schumer.
- Kavanaugh responds to the new allegations: “This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone, don’t know who this is and this never happened.”
- Trump says that all the allegations against Kavanaugh are a big “con job” by the Democrats who are “laughing like hell” over it, “They are all false accusations, in certain cases.” as he gives a rambling 120 min solo press conference that bounces from twisted theories on trade policy to Syria and never finds the rails. He claims that the UN leaders were laughing with him, not against him. [They say the opposite.]Dr.
- Ford motor company's CEO says that Trump’s tariffs may cost them $1 Billion in profits.
- Kavanaugh’s attorney Beth Wilkinson shames Swetnick for not informing the police and “still going to those parties.” [She did tell the police after she herself was attacked and finally understood what was happening.]
- Yale grads say that if Ramirez had reported Kavanaugh to the school back at the time, they wouldn't have taken it seriously, consequently, they wouldn't have reported it either. “Very likely if something like that happened you wouldn’t report it to the university, you may tell a friend,” Minouche Kandel, a woman who attended the same residential college as Kavanaugh when he was there, said. “It wouldn't have even occurred to me to say something.”
- Dr. Christine Blasey Ford releases her prepared statement for the Judiciary Committee.
- According to documents posted by Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Epstein, Kavanaugh was reportedly involved in an incident on a boat in a Newport, Rhode Island harbor. An unverified Twitter account later allegedly recanted the statement,
- NBC reports another anonymous allegation against Kavanaugh from 1998: “When they left the bar (under the influence of alcohol) they were all shocked when Brett Kavanaugh, shoved her friend up against the wall very aggressively and sexually,”
- Avenatti slaps down Don Jr. for calling him a "porn star lawyer”: Your dad is the one who slept with her.
- The lawyer for Deborah Ramirez says about the Kavanaugh hearing ‘This feels like a setup. The President just indicated that the Committee hearing tomorrow would be open to all three victims,” attorney John Clune tweeted, “but we have not received a response to our request for an FBI investigation and the Republican Committee staff refused to even speak to us on the phone.”
- Staff from both the minority and majority on the Judiciary place a phone call to Kavanaugh to interview him on the record both about the allegations from Julie Swetnick about date-rapes at parties and the anonymous allegation sent to Kamala Harris that he and a friend had committed repeated rapes of a girl in a car while taking her for a ride home.
- September 27th —
- Writing in the Guardian, Michael Lewis explains when former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie explained in April 2016 that he would need to either pay to hire a transition team himself or would have to use campaign funds to pay for it. When the press reported that $Millions had been raised for the transition Trump exploded. “You’re stealing my money!” Trump yelled at them. “You’re stealing my f*cking money! What the f*ck is this?”
- Trump and Rosenstein delay their meeting for a week.
- Dr. Christine Blasey Ford testifies about her assault by Brett Kavanaugh. Some of her testimony is delivered through tears.
- Grassley says there’s no reason for the FBI to be involved in this investigation and quotes Joe Biden from 1991 saying “the FBI doesn’t determine anything” which ignores the fact that they do provide non-partisan factual information.
- He also claims that GOP members have tried to interview all of the other witnesses and accusers, but that is a lie since they wouldn’t even talk to Deborah Ramirez’ attorney John Clune on the phone.
- Feinstein mentions the other accusers including Ramirez and Swetnick and also others including Kavanaugh’s former roomate Roche who stated that Brett was a “belligerent” drunk, and another who stated that his claim that he never blacked out or had memory loss “was not accurate.”
- Grassley berates Feinstein for bringing the other witnesses claiming this hearing is only about Ford [but since they’re going to do the confirmation vote tomorrow that means they’re not going to look at anyone else.]
- Dr. Ford notes that her email had been hacked and false statements recant her account had been sent without her knowledge.
- She tells Diane Feinstein that she could not have been wrong about identifying Brett, “This is not a case of mistaken identify.”
- She tells Rachel MItchell that it wasn’t a “party” but rather a gathering of kids in a pre-party setting which would likely occur after she was allowed to be out at night.
- She tells Sen. Leahy that the person who Ed Whelen claimed was the “Real” attacker was actually the person that had originally introduced Ford to the other members of the party. [This would be Squi.]
- Leahy asks “What do you remember the most?” and Ford says “the sound of Brett and Mark laughing with each other” during the assault.
- In response to Sen. Durbin she talks about running into Mark Judge who worked at a local supermarket [the Potomac Safeway] who went “white” when she walked in and said “Hello” about 6-8 weeks after the incident. [Consciousness of Guilt.] She says that if someone could confirm the date of Judge’s employment at the Safeway they could nail date the timing of the party.
- Durbin says the GOP has concocted two alternate suspects who have both claimed to be her “real” attacker, but she says she’s 100% certain it was Kavanaugh.
- Durbin complains about “obstruction by the other side” [by which I think he means the failure to produce 90% of Kavanaugh’s documents] and Grassley gets angry about Feinstein not violating her promise to keep Dr. Ford’s ID confidential by immediately sharing her letter with the GOP.
- Trump is reportedly “raging” because Dr. Ford’s testimony appears to be credible.
- Fox News contributor Kevin Jackson claims that Dr. Ford is a “lying skank and a slut, who should stop opening her legs” — he is soon after terminated by Fox. [Which is an upgrade since it took them years to get rid of Ailes, O’Reilly and Eric Bolling. Although Steve Doocy is still there.]
- Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies before Judiciary in a performance which is basically one long petulant self-absorbed belligerent hyper-partisan tantrum.
- He’s angry. shouting and upset, pleading his innocence, frequently gets choked up and argues that his sports, his grades, his successes mean he's not mean to women. He says he didn’t know Christine Blasey Ford in school.
- He chokes up again when talking about his calendars, which he says he kept because his father did the same. He claims the Calendars "exonerate” him because he only drank on weekends because of work, and his calenders only show him in DC on 3 weekends, none of which show him at a gathering that included Mark Judge and PJ as described by Ford.
- He echoes Clarence Thomas and calls the hearing a “national disgrace” then viciously attacks Democrats and claims this effort is “Payback for the Clintons” [Which tells me he’s carrying around guilt for his efforts to hound Bill Clinton with Starr Investigation.]
- He says he’s never assaulted a woman, “Not in high school, not in college, not ever.”
- He liked beer, he still likes beer, but “not to the point of blacking out” [Although he does admit falling asleep after having a beer, which is the same thing as passing out and that’s something Mark Judge wrote that he did.]
- He says the allegations by Ramirez and Swetnick are a “joke and a farce.” [We might be able to assess that if they were allowed to testify.]
- To prove he’s not mean of belligerent to women he screams at Sen. Feinstein and refuses to answer her question about whether he would support an FBI investigation. He’s repeatedly asked if he would ask for an FBI investigation and he repeatedly says "he’ll support what the committee wants..”
- Durbin ultimately tells him if he wants an FBI investigation he should turn around and tell Don McGhan, whose sitting right behind him, to have Trump request one.
- Klobachar asks Kavanaugh if he’s blacked out and he asks her “Have you?” multiple times. [Way to again disrespect a women there pal.] He eventually apologizes.
- Sen. Leahy asks if he is “Bart O'Kavanaugh" who became so drunk he threw up from Mark Judge's book and he says “You’d have to ask Mark.” Leahy says "I’d like too...” [But….]
- Eventually the GOP side drops the cross exam by Rachel Mitchell and Sen. Graham after bragging he voted for Sotomayer and Kagan angrily assault democrats for a “strategic smear” of Kavanaugh. “I feel ambushed.” [Everyone pretty much says Dr. Ford felt pretty “ambushed” too.]
- Ted Cruz, nuff said.
- He tells Sen. Harris that he didn’t watch Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, “but he will.” [The WSJ indicates that this was a Lie and he was watching from the Dirksen Senate building] Harris compares his record side by side with Gorsuch and asks him, if Democrats didn’t organize a massive smear campaign against him, why would they do it against you? Harris also points out that being nice to some women isn't absolute proof that you’re never mean to other women.
- Trump tweets: “Judge Kavanaugh showed America exactly why I nominated him. His testimony was powerful, honest, and riveting,”
- Sen. Feinstein denies that she leaked Dr. Ford’s letter to the Intercept, and the Intercept confirms that it wasn’t leaked by Feinstein or her staff.
- CNN reports that Collins, Murkowski, Flake and Manchin all huddle together to confer after the hearing.
- Kellyanne Conway claims that Kavanaugh will drop his visceral Democrat hating bias once he’s joins the SCOTUS. [Oh, bullshit! Thomas has been an admitted Liberal hater for decades now.]
- Chris Cuomo reports that Kavanaugh Yale friends spent his testimony texting each other about all of his self-serving lies.
- The leading Catholic Magazine retracts their endorsement for Kavanaugh.
- The American Bar Association calls for Kavanaugh's confirmation to be paused until an FBI investigation is completed.
- Phillip Bump from the WaPo notes that Blasey Ford’s mentioning that she saw Mark Ford working at Safeway 6-8 weeks after the incident is confirmed in his book, and by comparing timing in the book with Kavanaugh's Calendars indicates that the incident occurred on Thurs July 1st — a three day Holiday weekend before July 4th — which shows a gathering with Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, PJ and Squi. [This is the same group described by Ford. Squi also happens to be the person Ed Whelan claims is the “real” attacker and is someone who Ford had been going out with for a time.]
- Woman hating Incels are now claiming Kavanaugh as one of their own since he claimed to be celibate until “years after High school.”
- Sen. Jeff Flake announces that he will vote to confirm Kavanaugh and gets a major earful from tearful women in the Senate elevator who say he is telling all women that their suffering and surviving of sexual violence doesn't count.
- September 28th —
- The Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing begins.
- Grassley lies saying that his staff repeatedly reached out to Swetnick to accept her statements and evidence and ignores that he staff wouldn't get on the conference call with her attorney. Democrats hold a press conference outside the meeting.
- Sen. Feinstein says “Not one senator, as far as I know, has had the opportunity to or question Deborah Ramirez … They are right that we should not rush to judgment, and it’s not fair to assume Judge Kavanaugh is guilty without gathering the information. But it’s equally unfair to have heard from a credible, poised, and brave witness and simply ignore what we heard and move forward immediately,”
- Sen Orrin Hatch claims “we can't allow more time for more smears” against Kavanaugh. “We’ve had enough time on this to choke a horse.”
- Sen. Leahy points out that the other witness such a Judge and PJ didn't say that assault didn’t happen, they said they didn't remember or witness it and Kavanaugh repeatedly lied about that under oath. He says that Kavanaugh exhibited “conspiratorial madness” for blaming Sen. Feinstein and Dems for “laying in wait” with Dr. Ford’s allegations.
- Sen Graham laments the loss of bipartisanship on Judicial nominations — blowing past the deliberate theft of Merrick Garland’s valid nomination — and says the allegations against Kavanaugh are “garbage” and that he feels sorry for Dr. Ford.
- Sen. Durbin points out that the ABA has asked to hold the confirmation until the FBI investigates and notes that Dr. Ford was willing for the FBI to look into the case but Judge Kavanaugh constantly dodged the issue. Grassley says the ABA letter was on from the ABA President and doesn’t change the recommendation of the standing committee who gave him a “Well Qualified” recommendation.
- Sen Whitehouse points out the the July 1st entry on Kavanaugh’s calandar matches the known attendees described by Dr. Ford, and claims that investigator Kavanaugh when he was part of the Starr probe wouldn’t have accepted a letter like Judge's denying he remembered the gathering. [In fact, they didn’t accept Monica Lewinsky’s affidavit that she didn't have any inappropriate contact with Bill Clinton after they received the tapes from Linda Tripp.] Grassley blows this off by saying there was one extra name on the calandar, so it “wasn’t the same gathering" which ignores the fact that Ford left early because of the attack and someone else could have joined them later.
- Sen. Coons says that it’s not his goal to hold this nomination under after the election — the way that Garland’s nomination was held — and says that he would oppose such efforts. He would simply like 1 week for the FBI to investigate all the current allegations.
- Sen Mike Lee claims that the FBI could have investigated if Feinstein had given them the letter in July, but she did give it to them in September 12th and they still didn't investigate then because they needed approval from the WH, which they didn’t get.
- Sen. Booker argues that Kavanaugh’s Yale roomate has said that he’s a “mean belligerent drunk”, another of his Yale housemates says that he was clearly not remembers some of the times that he was deeply inebriated, and other Yale classmates said that he had lied to the Judiciary committee.
- Emails obtained by the New Yorker indicate that GOP staff members deliberately held up gaining testimony from Deborah Ramirez about Kavanaugh.
- Yale Law School calls for Kavanaugh’s confirmation to be held until an FBI investigation is complete.
- After he’s confronted in an elevator by tearful assault survivors Sen. Jeff Flakes strikes an agreement with Sen. Coons where he will support voting Kavanaugh out of committee, but he will vote against him in the full Senate if he there isn’t a week extension given to allow the FBI to investigate. At which point Sen. Grassley abruptly adjourns the hearing after having a vote, claiming there is a “two hour rule.”
- House Intelligence votes to send some of their Russia probe interview transcripts to the DNI for declassification review prior to be publically released, but they don’t include an interviews with Director Comey, Admiral Rogers, Director Brennan and Putin’s favorite congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
- Trump says that he’ll do whatever the committee wants to do, but he doesn’t specifically authorize the FBI to investigate — but he says he’ll review the issue later in the day.
- CNN reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski has joined Flake and requesting a 1 week delay for the FBI to investigate with McConnel meaning that Kavanaugh is effectively blocked, for now.
- Trump agrees to allow the FBI to investigation the accusations against Kavanaugh including those by Christine Ford and Deborah Ramirez. Kavanaugh and Judge pledge to cooperate.
- September 29th—
- September 30th —
- Former sex-crimes prosecutor Wendy Murphy says that Kavanaugh asking Kobuchar “Have you (ever been black out drunk?)” is a key sign of an abusive personality. “The reason, in my opinion, this was corroborative of Dr. Ford, is simply because that level of arrogance and entitlement — the idea that he was in a position to ask questions of the Senate Judiciary Committee — that level of entitlement is correlated with high incidence rates of sexual assault,” she explained.
- Yale classmate Charles Ludington delivers a statement to the FBI that Kavanaugh was a frequent and heavy drinker at Yale where he became belligerent and aggressive. “I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man's face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail.” He says Kavanaugh's testimony was a “blatant mischaracterization” of his drinking.
- Kellyanne Conway admits she’s a sexual assault survivor, but then says something about people being responsive for what they say…?
- Kavanaugh supporter Carie Sheffield claims that the entire Senate and $20 Trillion economy has been put on hold by an FBI investigation that wouldn't make it past a local court, although the DOW and S&P both closed up on Friday.
- Trump says FBI is doing a really great job’ doing ‘whatever it is they do’ on Brett Kavanaugh.
- The Intercept reports that Kavanaugh didn't “bust his tail” to get into Yale, he was a Legacy since his Grandfather was an alumnus.
- Walter Schaub calls "Cover Up” for the WH limiting the FBI investigation.
- Lindsey Graham says that he’ll vote for Kavanaugh even if the FBI does link him to sexual assault. “My mind’s made up.” Then he demands that the FBI investigate Senate Democrats over the Kavanaugh hearings.
- Rep. Ted Lieu: No employer would hire sexual assault suspect who ‘yells at you’ and lies during interview.
- Amy Kobuchar explains on CBS how excessive drinking could make someone like Kavanaugh forget that he’d attacked someone else.
- Dr. Ford's attorney reveals that the FBI has not yet requested to speak to them.
- Michael Caputo claims that Black Lives Matter social media accounts will call for a "Riot" when Kavanaugh is confirmed. [No, actually I think there will be a Pussy Riot — and it will probably be posted by Russian Bots!]
- James Comey writes an op-ed that says that the FBI will find out everything it can, even if it’s interviews are restricted.
- Kanye West tweets that he wants to abolish the 13th Amendment which (partially) abolished Slavery in order to “make America whole” — which is literally the dumbest fucking shitheaded idea he's ever come up with.
- CNN's Jeff Zeleny tweets that Deborah Ramirez has supplied the FBI with the names of additional witnesses to the drunken Yale party.
- Matt Lewis tells an all women’s panel on CNN that it's wrong to “drunk shame” Kavanaugh.
- The DOJ sues California for Governor Brown signing their own “Net Neutrality” law.
- Flake and Coons agree on 60 Minutes that Kavanaugh’s confirmation is “Over, if he lied to the Judiciary committee.”
- Former Laura Bush Chief of Staff Anita McBride snarls at Jeff Toobin when he points out how much worse Republicans treated Merrick Garland, than what Diane Feinstein did to Kavanaugh. [Which was nothing actually, since she didn't leak the letter to the press]
- Sen. Tom Cotton says the Sen. Feinstein and her staff are being investigated (by whom?) for being the source of the leak about Ford’s letter — they’re not — and calls for the D.C. Bar Association to investigate Dr. Ford’s lawyers for allegedly withholding the offer by Grassley to interview her in California.
- Wingnut media accuses Feinstein’s chief of staff Heather Sawyer of leaking details of Ford's letter to the media in violation of Senate Rule 29(5) for which the penalty is expulsion from the Senate. [Except that rule involves classified internal Senate documents, not the contents of a private letter to a Senator.]
- October 1st —
- Trump gives a press conference to do a big victory lap over his reaching deal with Mexico and Canada — then he goes basically nuts attacking Democrats to deflect from Kavanaugh, blaming Feinstein for strategically leaking Ford’s letter, even though she didn’t, claiming he has dirt on one Dem Senator "acting aggressively”, continues to say that Sen. Blumenthal is a “liar” over Vietnam — for which he apologized for decades ago — whines that they had to “go back to high school” to find dirt on Kavanaugh and attacks Kaitlan Collins for asking questions.
- Trump scolds another reporter for asking a question about Kavanaugh during his big victory lap after rebranding negotiations that were done by the Obama Administrations for TPP as his own, then mocks ABC reporter Cecialia Vega before she even gets to ask a question: "I know you’re not thinking, you never do.”
- Judge Janine: “Democrats are Demon Rats, that's what I said DEMON RATS.”
- Separated migrant children start being moved into unregulated and unlicensed Tent Cities in the middle of the night so they can’t run away. “The move can be downright traumatizing, the Times reports. The children are reportedly woken in the middle of the night with little to no prior notice. Emergency contacts are written onto belts and strapped to the frightened minors, who are then loaded onto buses and taken away.”
- Devin Nunes claims : Questioning Kavanaugh signals ‘collapse of the republic’. [Really, it doesn't.]
- A classmate of Deborah Ramirez tells Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer at the New Yorker that he remembers hearing about their drunken encounter and he's been trying to contact the FBI about it, but they haven't been responding.
- Megan Kelly flies into a rage over Kavanaugh on the Today Show arguing the FBI shouldn’t be investigating: ‘You cannot prove a sexual assault’. [You don’t have to… just you have to prove he’s not credible and likely lied under oath. This is his audition, not her trial]
- Rachel Mitchel's letter to GOP Senators indicates she viewed her role only as assessing whether she would file a criminal case on Dr. Ford's behalf — even though this is not currently a criminal matter — not whether there was probable cause to further investigate Kavanaugh, whether he lied, or should be confirmed. Essentially Ford was on trial, but not Kavanaugh. MItchel's former colleague Matthew Long tells MSNBC that she was ‘allowing politics to bleed into her judgment’. She was also spotted laughing and tossing back beers with Grassley’s staff after the hearing.
- Chris Coons states that the FBI interviewing only four Kavanaugh witnesses ‘is not enough’.
- Mitch McConnell attacks accuser Julie Swetnick for having been accused in a lawsuit that was dropped of having made unwanted sexual advances on a co-worker, and also being accused of falsely filling out her job application with the claim that she had graduated from John’s Hopkins University. [None of this changes the validity of her allegation.]
- Alan Dershowitz claims that Swetnick should be interviewed by the FBI but only if she waives attorney-client privilege so that they can also ask if her claims were planted by Michael Avenatti. [So is she a liar or a stooge who perjured herself with a sworn statement first?]
- Investor’s Business Daily claims that another Yale classmate has sent a “tip” to the Judiciary Committee claiming there was a another fratmate of Kavanaugh’s who liked to expose himself and could be the “real” suspect for the Ramirez allegation. [Wow, they have a lot of alternate/real suspects who just aren’t Kavanaugh don’ they?]
- Gallup reports that “Sixty-one percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners and 58% of Republicans and Republican leaners say they are more enthusiastic about voting in November compared to prior elections” suggestion that Kavanaugh rage is spreading among the GOP.
- Frank Luntz tells Bloomberg News that the 2018 midterm elections are “going to be the largest gender gap in modern American history” when it comes to women’s support for one political party.
- MSNBC legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Danny Cevallo lays out the potential lies told by Kavanaugh under oath.
- Senator Feinstein tells Politico that Kavanaugh may have violated Grand Jury rules in relation to the Vince Foster investigation and lied about it to the Senate. “According to a memo from the National Archives, Brett Kavanaugh instructed Hickman Ewing, a colleague and deputy independent counsel in the Starr investigation, to ‘call [Chris] Ruddy’ about matters before a grand jury, which would be illegal to disclose,” [According to David Brock’s Blinded by the Right, Ewing also disclosed confidential information to him about his attempts to indict Hillary Clinton for being involved with Foster's death after “having an affair" with him — but Brock thought the story was garbage.]
- The New York Times reports that the White House gave authorization to expand the investigation from an initial limited list of witnesses, provided that the review is completed by the end of the week. [During his press conference Trump says that he's essentially deligated the list of witnesses to GOP members of Judiciary, so it's expanded, but not really expanded since Grassley is openly attacking Swetnick personally.]
- House Republicans consider a subpoena for James Comey after he turns down a private interview to, yet again, grill him over how and why the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump began - aka Dossier-Gate.
- In an interview on MSNBC Jule Swetnick named the Montgomery County officer to whom she reported being attacked and sexually assaulted after a party with Georgetown Prep students including Kavanaugh and Judge That officer has since died, but records still exists although they will take some time to track down.
- Yale classmate Chad Ludington tells Wolf Blitzer that Kavanaugh lied to the Senate about the extent of his drinking and his belligerence when drunk. ‘Brett has not told the truth — his lies should have consequences’. He describes a point where Kavanaugh grew violent and threw a beer at someone after a mildly derogatory remark that led to a fight which ended in one person being arrested.
- A police report from a bar fight in 1985 indicates that Kavanaugh was interviewed by police after the incident where he threw ice at someone else. His friend Chris Dudley then allegedly hit the same man targeted by Kavanaugh on the ear with a glass. [This may be the same incident that Ludington mentioned.]
- Trump’s popularity ranking among Russians sank from 53 percent to 19 percent. Overall, a new Pew Research study shows that with the 25 countries sampled, 70 percent of participants said they lack confidence in Trump.
- Tucker Carlson rabidly rants about “White Genocide”, because of course he does.
- The organization Demand Justice documents 29 complete and annotated blatant lies by Kavanaugh.
- Maryland changed the drinking age from 18 to 21 on July 1, 1982 — the same day as the suspect "get together" with Ford, Judge, PJ and Kavanaugh at Timmy’s house from Kavanaugh’s calendar. All of his underage drinking was illegal.
- The head of the North Caroline GOP party claims that Swetnick is a criminal who should be behind bars for a being a “child trafficker” wrongly claiming that she was complicit in the gang-rapes that she herself became a victim of and then reported to the police.
- NBC news reports that days before the report in the New Yorker was published Kavanaugh had texted some friends — Kerry Bercham and Karen Yarasavage — who had copies of pictures of him and Deborah Ramirez together at a wedding where she had been trying to avoid being near him. Kavanaugh had tried to get the friends to support him, and they were saying they didn't at the time know why Ramirez was avoiding Kavanaugh — now we know. [This also indicates that Kavanaugh lied to Sen. Orrin Hatch when he said the first he’d heard of Ramirez allegations was from the New Yorker report.]
- The Senate Judiciary Committee releases a transcript of a call between majority and minority staff with Kavanaugh from the day before the Ford hearing where he was asked about all of Swetnick’s allegations and also allegations from a letter sent to Kamala Harris office in San Diego by a Jane Doe who claims to live in Oceanside, CA and says that Kavanaugh and a friend assaulted and took turns repeatedly raping her in a car, where she simply wanted a lift home. He complained and whine quite a bit, but ultimately denies everything.
- Chris Ludington confirms with Chris Cuomo that the event that generated the police report in New Haven is the same he was recounting, and that he has been emailed by the FBI to fill out a form and supply his testimony. He has no recollection of Kavanaugh misbehaving with women. Chad admits that he disagrees politically with Kavanaugh and with what happened to Merrick Garland, but he doesn't hold any of that against Brett.
- Kavanaugh's roomate Dan Murphy claims he never saw him blackout from drinking even though that goes against what Yale alumnis Liz Swisher, James Roche and Chad Lundington have said.
- The WaPo reports that Harvard has released a letter that says that Kavanaugh will not be returning to teach in the spring.
- Roger Canaff, an anti-violence advocate, and who trained with Mitchell, said that Dr. Ford had the most compelling argument that he has ever heard. He said that the five-page memo Mitchell released had several gaps. “I’m distressed by this report. It seemed gratuitous. She states there’s no clear standard as to what the Senate Committee would need to use. Frankly, the report ends up reading like a conclusion in search of a list of evidence of points to support it rather than a bunch of points leading up to a rational conclusion.”
- Sen. Bob Corker tells to sexual assault victims who confront him in an airport and share their stories with him “I know ya’ll are having fun...”
- October 2nd —
- WSJ reports that Trump tried to have a restraining order placed on Stormy Daniels as early as this past February. “Mr. Trump told Mr. Cohen to coordinate the legal response with Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, and another outside lawyer who had represented Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization in other matters,” the Journal reported. “Eric Trump, who is running the company with his brother in Mr. Trump’s absence, then tasked a Trump Organization staff attorney in California with signing off on the arbitration paperwork.” [This means he lied April 5th on AF1 when he said he “knew nothing about” the payment to Daniels, because he was already telling Cohen and Trump lawyer Jill Martin to stop her from talking via arbitration.]
- NYTimes reports that budgets cuts have nearly crippled the IRS ability to fight against tax cheats.
- CNN Allison Camerota says Trump “...feels empathy for the accused”’
- The investigation of an email hack against anti-Trump conservative operative Cheri Jacobus has been transferred to the Mueller team.
- Trump’s state department is now denying visas to unmarried same-sex partners of foreign diplomats.
- Sen. Joni Ernst says the Trump’s Mexico-Canada trade deal is a ‘great win’ — before admitting she has no idea what’s in it.
- Former Federal Prosecutor Mimi Rocah says that Kavanaugh's behavior under oath is ‘Unbecoming of somebody sitting on the Supreme Court’
- Bloomberg reports that the FBI background investigation has been expanded beyond just 4 witnesses to include Julie Swetnick, but it doens't include Kavanaugh’s drinking or whether he committed perjury.
- Pat Leahy on Kavanaugh: ‘The SNL skit was too accurate’.
- Trump says it's ‘A very scary time for young men in America’ even though 1 in 6 women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, and only 2% of claims turn out to be false.
- Rawstory reports that in 1999 then Congressman Lindsey Graham said that you shoud impeach ‘perjurer’ judges because ‘you couldn’t send him back in a courtroom’
- Mueller is presenting the Grand Jury with copies of Roger Stone's text messages and emails, which indicates he might be putting together an indictment for Stone.
- MSNBC reports that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony was "sufficient" and the FBI has no intention to interview her.
- Trump says Kavanaugh lying to the Senate “would not be acceptable to me." [Well, he did - about 30 times]
- FBI interviews Mark Judge.
- Avenatti provides a second witness with a sworn affidavit to the Judiciary committee who supporters Julie Swetnick's claims about party drinks being spiked by Kavanaugh and others with Quaaludes and grain alcohol to makes girl less likely to resist sexual advances. This witness is a friend to both Ford and Kavanaugh and confirms many of the circumstances and situations described in both Ford and Swetnick’s accounts.
- Trump mock's Christine Blasey Ford at a rally in MIssissippi: “How’d you get home? I don’t remember. How’d you get there? I don’t remember…What neighborhood? I don’t know. Where’s the house? I don’t know… upstairs, downstairs, where was it…but I had one beer, that’s the only thing I remember.”
- NYTimes obtains a letter by Kavanaugh about planning for Beach Week where he refers to himself as “Bart” [just like in Judge’s book] and claims they should warn the neighbors: ‘We’re loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us’
- Hillary Clinton mocks Kavanaugh’s nutty revenge conspiracy theory: ‘36 years ago we started this against him’:
- Trump and Stephen Miller had plotted to expel 193,000 American-born children with their parents who were in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status due to international disasters.
- Grassley and the GOP Judiciary members release a letter from her ex-boyfriend suggesting Julie Swetnick is too much of a slut to be gang-raped.
- Mark Judge’s ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Rasor provides a sworn statement for the FBI since they haven’t bothered to interview her yet.
- The FBI expands the background examination beyond the four initial witnesses allowed by the GOP Judiciary, but not by much.
- Various witnesses Richard Oh, Mark Krasberg and Jo Miller have been trying to contact the FBI in support of Deborah Ramirez, but haven’t received a response.
- Deborah Ramirez is interviewed by the FBI for over two hours, but she expresses concern that they won’t follow through.
- A surprise inspection of an ICE detention facility found that 15 out of 20 rooms had bedsheets which has been fashioned into nooses, and several suicide attempts had taken place.
- Nathan Robinson editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine publishes a 10,000 word essay documenting all of Kavanaugh’s lies under oath and also a companion video.
- According to human resources firm AON 99% of companies who benefited from the Trump tax break are hoarding the money rather than raising wages.
- October 3rd —
- Trump trashes the “failing New York Times” for their story about his families tax fraud schemes.
- Kellyanne Conway denies that Trump mistreated Dr. Ford: ‘She’s been treated like a Fabergé egg’. [Not by the GOP or Trump.]
- Kavanaugh's Yale roomate Jamie Roche tells Anderson Cooper that he lied about the extent of his drinking and tendency to black out.: "He lied under oath.” He also says that Deborah Ramirez account is “credible”, but he isn’t included in the additional FBI background check.
- Pro-Kavanaugh Rape survivor on Fox News says the #MeToo ‘victim mentality’ hurts women — and that Dr. Ford is lying.
- Kavanaugh classmates Mark Oster and Michael J. Procter take back their initial support for him: His testimony was ‘disheartening’ — and disqualifying;.
- Max Boot laments Trump’s public attack on Dr. Ford. ‘How low can he go?’.
- Legal experts point out that ironically Kavanaugh has previous ruled that false statements of innocence could be used as evidence of guilt.
- James Melville resigns as ambassador to Estonia because he believes Trump’s “America First” mantra is nothing more than a sham. “I am extremely uncomfortable with the trade policies the United States is pursuing. I also believe it is a historic mistake to cozy up to Russian President Vladimir Putin,” he wrote.
- Democrats claim that Republican’s assertion that previous Kavanaugh background checks did not show any signs of sexual misconduct is false, but secretcy prevents them from elaborating.
- AP reports that officials at a single U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency office in Bogota, Colombia have been investigated passing secrets to cartels and using government funds to hire prostitutes..
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed Dr. Ford’s sister-in-law, Sandra Mendler, who said processing the trauma in public has been hard on the family. “It’s really terrible to be challenged and have the key points misrepresented. I think for everybody who listened — there was a lot of discussion about how memory works in somebody who has experienced trauma,” she said.
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WH receives the new FBI Background check which includes the 302’s for 9 witnesses but no analysis or conclusions about the information they’ve provided. The report is hand delivered to Congress for members to review confidentially. Mitch McConnell schedules a cloture vote for Kavanaugh for the next morning, with his final confirmation vote planned for the next day (Saturday).
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Britain accused Russian military intelligence (GRU) of directing a host of cyber attacks aimed at undermining Western democracies by sowing confusion in everything from sport to transport and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Britain said the GRU was associated with a host of hackers including APT 28, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Pawnstorm, Sednit, CyberCaliphate, Cyber Berkut, Voodoo Bear and BlackEnergy Actors. “This pattern of behaviour demonstrates their desire to operate without regard to international law or established norms and to do so with a feeling of impunity and without consequences,” Foreign Secretary Hunt said.
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The New Yorker reports that the Georgetown Prep classmate says that he personally heard Kavanaugh “talk about Renate many times” and that “the impression I formed at the time from listening to these conversations where Brett Kavanaugh was present was that Renate was the girl that everyone passed around for sex.” This indicates again that he lied under oath, this classmate generated a sworn statement of his account and sent it to the FBI.
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NY Mayor Bill De Blasio says the city will seek to recoup the tax money the Donald Trump owes.
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October 4th —
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Prior to full release of the FBI report Trump is triumphant and continues to defend Kavanaugh. ‘This great life cannot be ruined by despicable Democrats’. WaPo says that behind the scenes he’s furious at WH Counsel Don McGahn for foisting Kavanaugh on him. Trump also claims that the “harsh treatment of Kavanaugh will help the GOP in the midterms” and that “Obstructionist” Dems will never be satisfied with the FBI investigation.
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Judge Anthony Napolitano says on Fox that the FBI not interviewing Dr. Ford was a big mistake: ‘Those allegations are going to stick’.
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Fox News Judge Jeanine claims Real victims of sexual assault don’t wait 36 years to come forward. [Yeah they do, just ask Bill Cosby.]
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Grassley states that they have begun reviewing details of supplemental FBI background check, GOP members claim they don’t see “anything new” that cooberates Dr. Ford.
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1,200-plus Law Professors sign a letter opposing the confirmation of Kavanaugh because of his demeanor during the Ford hearings. [Whether this might be used to have him disbarred is a good question.]
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Ford’s Lawyers, law makers and the public call the new FBI investigations a fraud, charade and a sham because so many credible witnesses were ignored, [But then again so many have provided probable cause for an ethics and perjury inquiry against Kavanaugh even if he is confirmed.]
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The DOJ indicts seven hackers working for Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) who had committed wire fraud, money laundering, identity theft and attempting to steal data intended to be used to discredit anti-doping efforts in sports and the Olympics as well as the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in April which had been analyzing the chemical weapons used in the Skripal attack and in Syria.
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Melania is greeted with ‘not a sh*thole’ sign during her solo trip to Africa.
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Senator Diane Feinstein states after reviewing the FBI background report that the “most notable part of this report is what’s not in it” because Ford and Kavanaugh weren’t interviewed, nor were dozens of other coorberating witnesses for Ford and Ramirez. “It looks to be the product of an incomplete investigation that was blocked, perhaps, by the WH. I don’t know. [It was Grassley] They blocked millions of [Kavanaugh’s] documents, it now appears they blocked the FBI.”
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Senator Chuck Schumer agrees with Feinstein, but also states that he disagrees with Grassley’s claim that “there was no misconduct" revealed by the supplemental review. He further calls for the new background information to be made public, and complains that they were only provided one copy of the document for all 100 senators to review.
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Mitch McConnel again touts that the ABA granted Kavanaugh it's highest rating, while claiming that the ABA President who denounced him was "just playing politics” and calls all the allegations against Kavanaugh a "feeding frenzy" of ridiculousness. He claims that Judiciary and the FBI "couldn’t find any” witnesses to coorberate Ford’s story. [Actually looking for them would have been something, the Ghost of Merick Garland's SCOTUS seat says “BOO!” ]
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Senator Collins says that the supplemental investigation appears to be “very thorough.” Sen. Flake agrees with Collins and says there’s no additional corroboration.
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Special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained audio recordings of radio interviews that Trump ally Roger Stone conducted with talk show host Randy Credico that could blow up Stone’s story about how he came into contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He’s been claiming that Credico was his link to Assange, but he actually told Credico that the has “someone who was a back channel” to Assange, which would obviously not be Credico.
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North Carolina Republicans use a fake photo to imply Dr. Ford was too ugly to rape.
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Sen. Mike Lee claims that there was “no list of witnesses" given to the FBI for them to interview and Sen. Thom Tillis says: “They were told to examine all current, credible claims” against Kavanaugh. Grassley says “I didn’t talk to the FBI” to tell them who to interview and “all witnesses referred by Deborah Ramirez” were interviewed when CNN reporter Manu Raju says that she had a list of 20 people to confirm her story, and Ford had 8 additional people. Sen. John Cornyn says “This wasn't a search for the truth by Dems, it was 'search and destroy’.” Sen. Orrin Hatch says “I personally resent the calumny that has been heaped upon [Kavanaugh]. I don't think they should go after nominees from the Republicans or Democrats when they get an A/B rating. We want competent Federal Judges who are not biased.” [Yeah bullshit, Merrick Garland had an “A” Rating too."]
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The Ledger reports that last week, James Patrick posted a credible threat on Facebook, saying he planned to shoot members of Congress depending on the outcome of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Florida man was arrested, yet, oddly enough, Facebook still hasn’t removed the post,
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Senator Doug Jones reveals that Kavanaugh supporters had called and said they hoped his female staffers were sexually assaulted.
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Megyn Kelly blasts the #MeToo movement :‘We have swung the pendulum so far against men, took away their due process rights’ [The Senate is not a court room, this was a job application.]
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MSNBC host Eddie Claude Jr blasts Mitch McConnell: Was Tamir Rice innocent until proven guilty.
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Grassley rages at Democrats “rock bottom” tactics, accuses the press of being biased for not highlight the pro-Kavanaugh protestors then says “I would like to have the future mending things so we can do things in a collegial way” [Which basically no one believes, because that would require restoring the filibuster to 60 votes.’]
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Former Justice John Paul Stevens says during an interview that he’s changed his mind about Kavanaugh because of this partisan ragefest testimony during the Blasey Ford Hearings.
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Sen. Joe Manchin says he was “thrown out” of the room while reading the FBI’s Brett Kavanaugh report.
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The New York AG files a new suit against the Trump Charirty Foundation including Don jr. and Ivanka for using Foundation funds for political activity.
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Nichole Wallace decries claims of an impending “Red Wave” over Kavanaugh” ‘It’s lunacy’.
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Former CIA interrogator says that he’s never seen a more “deceptive” interview subject than Kavanaugh.
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Greg Guttfield thinks Kavanaugh is Jesus: ‘Democrats decided to crucify someone yet again!’. [Democrats were in Jeruselem?]
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Sen. Orrin Hatch gets shouted at near the elevator by Anti-Kavanaugh rape surivivors then waves them off and tells them to ‘grow up’.
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Kavanaugh writes an editorial in the WSJ where he attempts to rationalize and justify his being “emotional” during his testimony by claiming that he was there as a “father & husband” — “I was very emotional last Thursday … I said a few things I should not have said,” [No, you said things you shouldn’ve have been thinking!] He claims that he can be a fair minded judge. [No one seriously belives this either because he doesn’t bother to apologive for his behavior and he’s already clearly shown that his can be an angry partisan dickhead when he wants to be.]
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Avenatti says Kavanaugh is “completely full of shit, there’s ‘no question’ Brett Kavanaugh is ‘lying’ about his past. [Now also lying about his future.]
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Salon points out the Fox News is using the Kavanaugh debacle to continue to stoke White Male resentment and grievance.
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Ford’s lawyers point out on CNN that they did tell Christine about the offer to meet with her in California, but that was only with staffers not members of the committee. She wanted to talk to the committee, and was probably slightly confused about that question during the hearing.
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Melania goes to Africa and cosplays a Colonialist including a pith helmet, then dons the Belloq's off-white suit and hat from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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October 5th —
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Morning Joe plays a 2015 tape of Kavanaugh claiming that a SCOTUS Justice must maintain a calm demeanor and stay above the partisan fray — which is a standard that he himself has massively failed to maintain.
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Orrin Hatch’s hometown paper accuses him of having a ‘medieval’ attitude toward women in scathing editorial.
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Ken Starr goes on CNN to defend Kavanaugh’s behavior and justify his personal outrage over being questioned over sexual assault even when he was the person who wrote all the sexually salacious questions for Bill Clinton and Starr had no problem with it, then former Clinton Press Secretary Joe Lockhart points out that Starr lost his job a Baylor University because he failed to respond to an outbreak of sexual assaults and rapes committed by members of their football team. [PS. Kavanaugh was on the football team at Georgetown Prep.]
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Trump smearss anti-Kavanaugh protestors as ‘rude elevator screamers’ who are ‘paid by Soros’ in unhinged Twitter rant. [Obviously he’s been watching Ingraham lately.]
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Kellyanne Conway defends Kavanaugh’s relationship with women by saying ‘His law clerks have been female’. [Yes, but only when they look a certain way.]
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Sen. Doug Jones says that Kavanaugh op-ed backfired and convinced him to vote ‘no’. [Whoops!]
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Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin says that Kavanaugh’s op-ed is a sad attempt to repair his ‘shredded reputation’.
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Grassley starts off the opening statement prior to the Kavanaugh procedural vote by angrily ranting into the mic about ‘mob rule’ being used to derail his confirmation. [That would be the voice of the American people screaming in your ear Senator.] He claims echoeing Kavanaugh and Cornyn that this wasn’t a search for the truth, it was a “search and destroy” mission by the Dems.
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Sen Kamala Harris delivers a blistering anti-Kavanaugh speech. “[The FBI] should have been allowed to do their full job. But instead the White House did not allow it. This was not a search for the truth. Instead, this was about politics and raw power to push through an unfit nominee.”
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Flake and Manchin vote “Yes” on the procedural as does Sen. Collins arguing that Kavanaugh promised her that he wouldn’t overturn Roe and there isn’t “conclusive evidence” in the FBI report that corroberates Dr. Ford. Sen. Murkowski votes against Kavanaugh because his demeanor in the Ford hearing violated Federal Judicial rules of conduct. He passes the procedural vote 51 to 49.
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Daily Beast reports that Russian online trolls are apparently supporting Kavanaugh because, well fucking of course they are. “Guess what stands in Kavanaugh’s way?” said Kremlin propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov. “Certainly, the disease of malignant feminism … used to destroy promising careers and eliminate political opponents.”
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Flake says that he’ll vote “Yes” on Kavanaugh’s final confirmation, Murkowski says she’ll vote “No” — but with Manchin who believes “something happened with Ford” but not that Kavanaugh did it and Collins — who gives a 45 min speech pledging her support — “yes” votes his confirmation is assured.
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Karl Rove cries that the GOP is toast as long as Trump is president: ‘We’re screwed for now’. [You’re not the only ones.]
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Somebody mentions Merrick Garland on Fox News — Shit gets crazy.
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The ABA considers recinding their support for Kavanaugh after he brags about having a “Very Qualified” rating.
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Murkowski’s facebook page is flooded with rape accusations and threats after she announces ‘no’ vote on Kavanaugh.
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Kavanagh supporters are spotted wearing gear supplied by lobbyists, but somehow Fox News and Trump are not on the case to claim “bias.”
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Chicago Jury finds former Police Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of second degree murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald.
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Amanda Marcotte writes at Salon: “So it’s true, Republicans really do hate women.” [Oh I think they like them well enough when they’re compliant and docile, they just don’t like “malignant feminism” which would be when they have brains and willpower.]
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Rober Mueller files papers to take control of Paul Manaforts former Condo in Trump Tower.
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sHouse Dems promise to Investigate Kavanaugh if they take control in November.
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Kavanaugh ‘s former classmates show texts that indicate he tampered with potential witnesses.
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Grassley says that there are no Republican women on the Judiciary committe because it’s ‘a lot of work’ [So GOP women are lazy, because the Dems have 4 women on Judicairy?]
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Jeffrey Toobin says that with Kavanaugh on the court, all hells gonna bust lose starting with overturning Roe.
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Brian Kilameade gets heckled on the New York Subway : ‘Tell Trump to stop grabbing p*ssies!’.
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Hannity calls for a lockdown of Congress over ‘dangerous and out-of-control’ Kavanaugh protests.
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NyTimes reports that when Trump suggested completely opening up the Kavanaugh background check WH Counsel Don McGahn told him they should keep it limited or else it might prove “potentially disastrous.”
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Proving yet again that Republicans are basically evil scum Kavanaugh supporters Andre Bauer claims he would question his own daughter’s sexual assault claim if her friends didn’t back her up. [What do you think the attacker would invite an audience to watch?]
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Federal Court rules for California over Trump in sanctuary city case.
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October 6th —
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October 7th—
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October 8th --
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Pompeo says that North Korea is ready to let inspectors into missile, nuclear sites. [Yeah right, let’s see.]
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Rosenstein flies on AF1 with Trump finally having a chance for that face-to-face meeting.
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Ex-Republican Conservative commentator Max Boot says "Vote Democratic up and down the ticket because — the GOP needs to be razed to the ground’.
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Jeffrey Toobin shutdown people complaining about how badly Kavanaugh was treated: ‘Women were kicked to the curb’.
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Mark McKinnon from The Circus tells CNN “Get back to pocket book issues, when Democrats fight culture wars, they lose.”
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McConnell claims that the women who had been sexually assaulted and were protesting Kavanaugh were “assaulting the Senate” with their words and peaceful actions and stuff.
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Trump’s lawyers attempt to have the case against him by Stormy Daniels dismissed, which is nonsense since Michael Cohen has already admitted all the key elements of her suit are true when he pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations.
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Lindsey Graham says U.S. ties with the Saudis may be strained if a former Saudi journalist was murdered in their Istanbul embassy while arranged for a marriage license with his Turkish fiancee. He also says that Kavanaugh was treated like “The slut whore drunk.”
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Whoopie Goldberg schools Abby Huntsman after she says: “Democrats took advantage of Dr. Ford, I believe, and I think Republicans didn’t take the time to actually listen, and so I feel like I’m in this place — can we get to the other side?” [No, there is no other side unless things significant change.] “You have to listen, you don’t have to make up your mind,” Goldberg said. “You have to take a minute to listen because things like this, you know, and maybe (Cramer) didn’t realize he was being kind of flippant about it, but (Heitkamp’s) mother had gone through sexual assault so it was meaningful for her.”
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The New York Posts reports that the DOJ seized a $42 Million five story mansion belonging to Oleg Deripaka a half block from Central Park. The mansion is currently occupied Dasha Zhukova, a good friend of Ivanka Trump and the ex-wife of Russian oligarch Roman Abrmovich, who is business partners with Deripaska.
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Politico reports that Trump’s attorney maintain joint defense agreements with 32 different indivduals who are targets and witnesses in the Mueller probe including Paul Manafort who has now signed a cooperation deal, arguing that this could be the method used to coordinate a massive cover-up.
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NYTimes reports that Rick Gates took proposals from Israeli intelligence firm Psy-Group for “online manipulation” tools that would have been used to help the campaign gain an edge over primary challengers and Hillary Clinton in 2016. One proposal was to use bogus personas to target and sway 5,000 delegates to the 2016 Republican National Convention by attacking Senator Ted Cruz. Another proposal describes opposition research and “complementary intelligence activities” about Mrs. Clinton and people close to her. [This seems identical to services that may have been provided by Cambridge Analytica and also the Russian Troll Farm.]
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Trump claims that Kavanaugh was “proven totally innocent” of the charges against him and says that were only “a campaign of of personal destruction based on lies and deceptions” brought against him by “evil people”, that it was all a hoax by the Democrats that will coast them the mid-terms and apologies to Kavanaugh on behalf of the nation during the ceremonial confirmation. He also again calls for “Stop and frisk” to be installed in Chicago.
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Kavanaugh goes back to his pandering fake version 1.0 and claims that he will be a “fair and open-minded Justice” for all persons that come before him and he will not rule based on the type of person involved in the case, or their party. “I will be a team player on a group of 9, a force for stability and unity”, and brags that he’s hiring all female clerks for the SCOTUS which is a first. [I hope they carry mace.]
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Blasey Ford’s lawyer says she “horrified” by Trump’s mockery and won’t be able to return home for ‘ll
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Pelosi files requests for all files from the FBI on Kavanaugh’s interviews.
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Hope Hicks gets hired by Fox [Because who else would possibly have her?]
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October 9th —
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Writing for the Washington Post, former FBI agent Asha Rangappa who specialized in counter-intelligence says that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian involvement into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is virtually unstoppable no matter what the president does to derail it. The current Russia investigation, originally referred to in the F.B.I. as ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ isn’t just a single case on Russian election meddling. Rather, at this stage it is a spider web of tens or dozens of cases on intelligence officers, their agents and individuals and organizations helping Russia that are investigated independently, cross-referencing pertinent information to other cases as necessary.”
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley resigns her position abruptly and announces she’ll be leaving at the end of the year. According to HuffPost, Haley was the recipient of the largesse from private businessmen in 2017 who paid for $24,000 worth of multiple flights Haley took between New York, Washington D.C. and her home in South Carolina. The flights were included on her financial disclosure forms which were reported to the State Dept. Inspector General by CREW. She is also $1 Million in debt.
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Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush Michael Allen told MSNBC that the reason for U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s abrupt resignation was likely because she was tired of being ‘steamrolled’ by National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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WaPo National security reporter John Hudson also says Haley has recently seen her influence over administration policy ebbing as national security adviser John Bolton has asserted more authority in the decision-making process.
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Andrea Mitchell theorizes that Lindsey Graham may take a post in the Trump administration (replacing Jeff Sessions?) so Nikki Haley can run for SC senator.
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Megyn Kelly claims that Kavanaugh may not remember assaulting Blasey Ford because it was so ‘minimal’ he forgot about it.
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According to the Moscow Times and video posted by the troll farm, “an unknown suspect” broke into the first floor of the Russian intelligence operation in St. Petersberg known as the Troll Farm “and threw a Molotov cocktail inside” at around 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
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Trump campaign staffer Michael Caputo tells Mueller witness Andrew Miller that Kavanaugh will be an “ally” on the SCOTUS because of his expansive view of executive power.
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Trump leads a “Lock her Up" chant against Senator Diane Feinstein.
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October 10th —
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Trump says China is not ready for a trade deal, repeats threat of more tariffs.
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Richard Pinedo Jr. who had pleaded guilty to identity theft by Mueller and had apparently helped the Russians implement some of their money laundering schemes is scheduled to be sentenced today in Federal court. He gets six months in federal prison and two years probation.
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Hurricane Michael approaches landfall at the Florida panhandle as a Category 5, causing massive devastation in it’s wake.
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USA Today publishes an error filled fact-challenged editorial by Trump criticizing Democrats and Medicade-for-All.
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Pro Publica reports that Trump had personally lobbied Japan PM Shinzo Abe to support a casino project by GOP megadonor Shelden Adelson.
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Pollster Larry Sabato says the ‘Red wave ain’t gonna happen’: .
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Rand Paul gets slammed after saying the current political rhetoric will get someone killed : ‘Her name was Heather Heyer’:
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Melania wants it both ways: ‘I do stand with women, but we need to show the evidence’.
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Brian Kilameade suggests on Fox that #MeToo ‘has gone too far’ because pioneer women were ‘tougher’ about rape. [They were also tougher about Bear and “Injun” attacks, you want more of those too?]
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DHS Secratary Neilsen freaks out under questioning from Sen. Kamala Harris: We do not ‘detain’ children, we ‘care for them’. [In Detention Tent Camps in the Texas desert?]
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Trump say Hurricane Michael is “Like a big tornado”, then goes to a campaign event in Pennsylvania as landfall approaches.
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The Kushner Family companies sell a building at 225 Randolph in New York which had been linked to a pay-for-play scam with Apollo Global Management.
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The Dow drops over 800 points in a massive stock sell off, which Trump claims is just a “correction.”
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Brett Baier reports on Fox News that Chief Justice John Roberts has referred over a dozen ethics complaints related to Brett Kavanaugh to outside judges for evaluation.
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Senate candidate Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) mocks Colin Kaepernick for being blackballed by the NFL during Trump’s rally. [Kaepernick does have a suit over this, and that’s evidence in his favor.]
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WaPo reports that Rosenstein’s 25th Amendment comments were part of a sarcastic joke that arose during an argument with former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. “Rosenstein wanted McCabe out of the Russia probe [because his wife had run for office as a Democrat], and McCabe felt differently, arguing that it was the deputy attorney general [because Rosenstein had written the letter the got Comey fired], not the head of the FBI, who should step away from the case.”
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New York Magazine reports that Ben Rhodes and other Obama officials had put together a plan using Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice to certify the election if Trump had contested a win by Hillary Clinton.
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Melania whines to ABC News that she’s the most ‘bullied person in the world’. [Nope, not even close.]
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Sen. Tom Cotton — without a shred of proof — claims that Sen. Schumer released the Ford letter to the press. “I believe the Schumer political operation was behind this from the very beginning,” Cotton told conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt during his radio show. He reasoning is that one of Ford’s friends Monica McClean who advised her to contact Feinstein, used to work for Preet Bharara who used to be Schumer’s chief counsel. Cotton claims “I strongly suspect that Chuck Schumer’s political operation knew about Ms. Ford’s allegations as far back as July and manipulated the process all along...” However Schumer didn’t even have a copy of the letter from Feinstein on Sept 14th when it was quoted nearly in full by the New Yorker.
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October 11th —
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Trump’s attorneys agree to answer 15 questions from Mueller in writing on collusion but nothing about obstruction.
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Trump supporter claims that harrasment victims need to just ‘cross their legs and quit acting like they want something’. m,,m14
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Former CIA analyst Alex Finley says that the Guardian’s analysis of the latest filing by the Trump campaign against the lawsuit by the DNC screams collusion because it admits that they coordinated with Wikileaks who have been indicted by Mueller for their releases of the hacked emails.
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Florida suffers about $10-13 Billion in damage from Hurricane Michael which essentially wipes several towns completely off the map.
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Kanye’s gives an oval office rant about jobs, slavery, prisons, his M.A.G.A hat makes him feel like Superman because he grew up surrounded by women’s energy and “I’m with her” didn’t appeal to him [which accidentally explains how Trump’s blatant misogyny helped his election chances], says Trump should use an iPlane as AF1 and his $200 Million deal with Adidas saying he’d been mis-diagnosed with bi-polar disorder when he really has sleep deprivation dementia and stuff —which is totally F.U.B.A.R. [So, take a nap will you please — isn’t sleep deprivation dementia the same thing Trump has?]
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Thinkprogress reports that while corporate profits have jumped 7% since the passage of the Trump tax cuts average hourly wages have only grown by 0.4% compared to the previous year.
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Former BP Deep Water Horizon defense attorney Jeffrey Bossert Clark is confirmed to head the Justice Departments environmental defense division after Republicans are joined by Joe Manchin and Claire McKaskill.
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As suspicions rise that Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing for a week after trying to get a marriage license from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to marry his Turkish fiancee was murdered while inside the building because of his criticism of the repression of the Saudi regime. In response Trump says he’s troubled by the reports, but then questions whether he was a U.S. Citizen (he was a permanent U.S. Resident) and says he doesn’t want to jeopardize the $110 Billion arms deal he negotiated with the Saudis, [which hasn't been finalized yet] by implementing sanctions under available laws such as the Magnitski Act.
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Following the standard of Scott Pruit, EPA’s new Administration Andrew Wheeler adds 5 new appointees to the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) who have all downplayed established science linking the negative impacts of air pollution to public health.
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Turkey provides audio and video of Khashoggi being arrested, interogated tortured and murdered inside the Saudi consulate. Trump is still indecisive.
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Senators from states racked by Hurricane damage completely ignore the IPCC’s dire new climate change report. “It’s totally unrealistic,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told the Huffington Post. “They must have parachuted in from another planet.” “They might as well be calling on me to sprout wings and fly to Canada for the summer,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) told HuffPost. “How is that new? They’ve said the same thing before,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
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Amnesty International reports that the Trump administration is violating human rights rules and lying about abuses implemented by the border patrol against legal asylum seekers. The U.S. is prohibited from sending asylum seekers back to countries or territories where their lives or freedom would be threatened, either directly or indirectly, yet that is exactly the policy of the DHS. The report found that DHS implemented a de-facto policy of turning away of asylum-seekers along the entire U.S.-Mexico border, including at designated ports of entry, a policy that Nielsen herself admitted exists. She labeled it the “metering” of asylum claims.
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The Trump administration waives 30 environmental protection laws — including the the Endangered Species Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Migratory Bird Conservation Act, and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act which means the potential environmental impacts won’t even be examined — in order to allow for construction of their Border wall across South Texas.
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DHS suggests a change to the “public charge” rule that would deny visas and green cares to as many as 24 Million immigrants who may have used SNAP or TANF benefits.
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Michael Cohen switches his party registration back from Republican to Democrat again after just 1 year.
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Max Boot slams false rumors that Khashoggi was allied with the Muslim Brotherhood and also Trump for saying that an arms deal was more important than the murder of an American resident and Wapo journalist.
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S.E. Cupp states that Kanye ‘A man who’s clearly not OK and a president ready to exploit it’.
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MSNBC's Yamiche Alcindor is baffled by Kanye's rant: ‘He was trafficking in stereotypes’ — and it won’t help Trump one bit'.
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Trump and Rand Paul again falsely claim that Eric Holder was “inciting violence.” “Trump blasts leftwing mob leader Eric Holder for his call to VIOLENCE against Republicans - Trump warns him, "he better be careful what he wishes for...."
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Eric Holder responds to allegations that he was “uncivil” and called for violence when he said when “They go low, we kick them.” Ok, stop the fake outrage. I’m obviously not advocating violence. (In fact, when I was AG violent crime in the US was historically low.) I’m saying Republicans are undermining our democracy and Democrats need to be tough, proud and stand up for the values we believe in - the end.
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Former NFL star and Trump supporter Hershel Walker calls for Don Lemon to be pulled off the air. “Went to bed appalled over @donlemon despicable behavior laughing at @TaraSetmayer and @Bakari_Sellers awful remarks about Kanye West’s visit with @realDonaldTrump!! Woke up wondering why @CNN doesn’t take all three off the air?#SHAMEFUL #CNN“
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October 12th --
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MSNBC panelist Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of the new book, “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President, argues there is plenty of damning evidence of Trump collusion: “Trump was signaling the Russians.”
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Turkey releases pastor Andrew Brunson who had been accused of being part of Fatullah Gulen’s coup attempt in 2016, Trump sends a plane for him to come visit the White House.
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Rawstory points out the the $4,000-9,000 wage increased promised by Trump and Congress following their tax cut bill simply hasn't materialized.
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Melania is interviewed by ABC news and claims she never really even thought anything about the Stormy Daniels allegations, she supports her husbands immigration policy including his changes to chain migration then she says she believes that children should be able to sponsor Visa's for their parents [which she did for her own parents, and Trump would STOP], she also admits that her “I really don't care" jacket was trolling the media.
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Trump’s attorneys are preparing to answer 15 questions about collusion provided by Meuller after months of trying to gain his testimony.
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Don jr. retweets an accusation that murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi was a terrorist ally.
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The Washington Post reports that the United States’ trade deficit with China has only widened since the implementation of tariffs and hit a record-high $34.1 billion, according to Chinese statistics released this week.
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SNL’s Taren Killam reveals that Lorne Michaels forced cast to make Trump ‘likeable’ prior to election.
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The View's Abby Huntsman says the WH exploited Kanye. ‘It was a spectacle for them’
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Maggie Haberman tells CNN that the WH staff were ‘hugely embarrassed’ by Trump-Kanye visit.
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Paul Krugman says the GOP is ‘flat-out lying’ about everything because they know their Fox News fans will believe anything.
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Voting rights expert Michael Waldman blasts George SecState and GOP Governor Candidate Brian Kemp for suppressing black voters: Hasn’t ‘been this bad since Jim Crow’.
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Trump claims Ivanka was be “incredible as the new UN Ambassador. Everyone wants Ivanka.”
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Republican GOP challenger Tom Wolf threatens to ‘stomp’ Pennsylvania Dem incumbent governor’s face with ‘golf spikes’ as GOP whines about Dem ‘incivility’.
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Kudlow tries to tout Trump’s economy on CNBC and gets smacked down: “Understand that Larry Kudlow in 2006 and 2007 was writing articles about ‘it’s the greatest story never told’, ‘the boom lives on’, ‘the recessionistas are wrong the pessimists are wrong’,” Brown said, mocking Kudlow’s record. “In December 2007, basically ‘there is no recession’. And of course, that was the first month the recession had started.”
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Fox host Juan Williams gets accused of being ‘a token’ by white co-host and all hell breaks loose.
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Khashoggi apparently set his Apple Watch to record his interrogation — so recordings of his murder may have been uploaded to iCloud.
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Rachel Maddow lays out of Georgia SecState Brian Kemp ignored warnings about Russia hackers during 2016 claiming the help being offered by DHS was a “government takeover”, while later cybersecurity firms discovered that Georgia’s election systems was unprotected, and Meuller documented in their GRU indictment that George, Iowa and Florida were all targeted for Russian hacking, but no evidence remains because Kemp had the servers wiped. Now he’s blocking 53,000 registrations because of his "exact match" system, 70% of them are Black.
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The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel against Sarah Huckabee-Sanders on Friday and requested the OCS investigate if Sanders violated the Hatch Act by posting the photo on her with Kanye in a MAGA hat government social media account.
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According to the Washington Examiner, Andrew McCabe has been indefinitely delayed by the FBI as they “vet” it’s contents. He says he was “disappointed” by the indefinite delay; saying his President’s “attacks on me symbolize his destructive effect on the country as a whole.”
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October 13th --
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The freed pastor Andrew Brunson visits the WH and priases Trump while he puts down Obama.
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Trump claims “we don't know what happened [to Khashoggi']” even though there's a recording of what happened from his Apple Watch. "Perhaps it looks like he's not around [around], he may have been killed.”
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Trump praises Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Ohio rally, why exactly wouldn’t he idolize a traitor who fought against America?
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30 members of the Alt-Right Proud Boys were caught on camera perpetrating a brutal beating outside of event at New York’s Metropolitan Republican Club.
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Reichwing media claims a peaceful “Prayer meeting” that was attacked by Antifa. “A prayer rally in Portland, Oregon was ruined, when an angry leftist mob showed up, and started fights and burned the American flag. The domestic terror group Antifa, crashed the prayer rally, and chaos and violence instantly ensued.”
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Salon argues that Trumpsters, Republicans and Conservatives are willing to put up with outright corruption, bigotry, lies and malfeasance because of “what-about-ism” where they believe the other side does it “just as much” — but they don’t.
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“We’ve never seen anything like this” GOPers begin to panic as Dems spend ‘cash by the truckload’ on midterms.
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The Texas Tent Internment Camp balloons to 10x it’s original size to hold 3,800 kidnapped migrant kids.
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Turkey obtains Khashoggi’s Apple Watch recordings.
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NGO’s warn that climate related disasters are increasing as temperatures rise.
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NYTimes reports that Jared Kusher paid little or no taxes between 2009-2016 despite being worth approximately $324 Million by using depreciation to claims his properties are worth far less than they actually are. [Which is the same tactic used by Trump’s family to avoid paying $450 Million in inheritance taxaes.]
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Economist argue that Trump’s attempt to regionalize trade rather than globalize it is likely to create inflationary affects that had been avoided over the last few decades and wipe away any trade economic and deficit gains he might temporarily achieve.
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Federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah says Trump’s written answers to Mueller are essentially worthless and a waste of time. “I have never done a written interview, I don’t know any prosecutor who has or would ever want to,” Rocah noted. “I think this just is a compromise, I think if he really needed the interview — the information from Trump on the collusion piece — he would … make him come in for an interview by subpoena and fight over a subpoena if he had to.”
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WaPo reports that the WH is mulling over yet another border family separation plan to slow immigration.
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The Daily Caller reports that Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is calling on FBI Director Christopher Wray to hand over documents related to former FBI general counsel James Baker meeting during the 2016 campaign with Michael Sussmann, a partner at Perkins Coie. that represented the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign and allegedly provided Baker with documents related to the Russia hack on the DNC, but Republicans have decided the meeting is “suspicious”, even though they are usually whining that the DNC didn't provide enough data about the hack to the FBI or hand over their email servers.
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House Judiciary chair Rep. Goodlatte threatens to subpoena Rod Rosenstein. “[Rosenstein] has not agreed to come for a transcribed interview on the record. He needs to agree to do that. If he does not agree to do that very soon, I will issue a subpoena for him to appear,
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The Blaze reports that Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released a letter Friday that revealed Hillary Clinton had her security clearance revoked along with 5 of her staffers – but also that she had requested the change herself, rather than have it punitively yanked in retaliation as was John Brennan’s clearance.
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October 14th —
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Former Obama administration State Department senior advisor Nayyera Haq says that private economic deals will stall any effort to seek justice for Khashoggi because of the ‘crown princes’ Kushner and bin Salman covering it up:
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Trump vows on 60 Minutes that ‘severe punishment’ for Saudi Arabia if Khashoggi was killed. [He was, but you won’t do jack, pal.] Then he says that America would be ‘punishing’ itself if it halts Saudi arms sales. [See? Nothing.]
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Chicago Tribune smashes Sessions for his late after the half move to scuttle the police consent decree that has been revolutionizing the relationship between cops and the black community.
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WaPo reports that Kushner is pleading with the Saudis to ‘be transparent’ about Khashoggi. [Yeah, right, fat chance.]
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Saudi Arabia warns that it will retaliate against any economic sanctions over Jamal Khashoggi.
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GOP yanks funding for ‘Putin’s favorite congressman’ Rohrabacher as his campaign collapses.
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Top Iowa paper slams Rep. Steve King for consorting with ‘fascists and neo-Nazis’ and endorses his opponent.
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Washington Lawyer Pat Cipillone is tapped to replace WH Counsel Don McGhan according to Axios and the Wapo.
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Fox and Friends whines about the SNL Skit over Kanye in the Oval Office. “They use comedy to push an agenda,” Hegseth complained after reviewing the SNL clip. “If you support this president you are either crazy or you’re racist. Those are the two boxes! So, Kanye can’t be racist, then he’s got to be crazy.” [He himself said he had mental issues and it was pretty obvious he was correct. Also there’s a third option: being a selfish deluded myopic empathy-challenged asshole.]
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Trump campaign is offering to sell copies of it’s database of supporters’ contact info to any business ‘not hostile to the president’.
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Portland Rightwing ‘Law and Order’ march erupts into ‘huge bloody brawl’.
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Trump surrogate and former Tea Party leader Amy Kremer says “It’s a scary time” and GOP is in danger because witches put a ‘hex’ on Brett Kavanaugh. She also claims Trump never threatened journalists and entire MSNBC panel overwhelms her with examples from his retweeting violent memes of CNN staff being body slammed, run over by a train and murdered, to directly threatening Katy Tur and causing her to need security. There’s also the time CNN hosts and their families home address and private phone numbers were doxed and they began receiving death threats and protests outside their homes from Trump fans.
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Trump goes golfing for the 210th day while Hurricane Michael victims pick up the pieces.
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Congressswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) demands the DOJ investigate Wilbur Ross for perjury over census lies. “He lied to my face.”
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Kevin McCarthy’s brother-in-law scammed millions from a government contract based on false claim of Native American ancestry.
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Marco Rubio lies about Climate Science after several Florida cities are wiped off the map by Hurricane Michael’s storm surge.
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Trump’s 60 Minutes appearance is a steaming hot mess.
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He claims “I’m not a baby.” when Leslie Stahl brings up the fact that Putin has murdered poliical opponents and journalists. He ignores that Russia interfered with the election by claming that China “did it too.” [??!!]
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He claims “rogue killers” could be responsible for Khashoggi since he asked the Saudi King and he denied it. [But did he ask Crown Prince MBS too?]
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He claims he has “no intention” of shutting down the Mueller probe. [As long as they don’t file charges against you, right?]
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He basically admits the cruelty is the point of his border policy that his child seperation policy is the “same as Obama's” when it fucking isn’t, Obama didn’t forcibly separate anyone, illegally deny valid asylum claims, trick people into signing deporation forms, cancel Temporary Protective Status for the parents of 163,000 U.S. citizen children, deport people for unpaid parking tickets or build internment tent camps for children in the middle of the Texas desert.
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He claims that he “wants to heal” after Kavanaugh and Democrats don’t. [The open wound — again — is now sitting on the SCOTUS for the next 30 years, so that not likely to heal.]
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He claims he didn't make fun of Dr. Ford and only called into question what she didn’t remember. [Which is a fucking lie, he’s was doing a stand-up routine at her expense.] “I think she was treated with great respect” he claimed. Stahl asked “But do you think you treated her with respect?” “Oh, yes I do." [He’s Non compos mentus.] “It doesn’t matter, we won.” [It ain’t over.]
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October 15th —