Or rather it doesn’t, when those politicians are named “Trump” or happen to have an (R) by their name like Steve “Cantoloupe Calves” King who got away with open racism for years, or Kevin McCarthy who tweeting about “Steyer, Soros and Bloomberg” trying to “buy the election.” However when it’s a Democrat like Gov. Northam, VA Attorney General Mark Herring or freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar the first place they go is under the bus even after they’ve acknowledged the wrongness of the statement and actions and have apologized.
CNN host Erin Burnett showed a clip of President Donald Trump speaking to a Republican Jewish Coalition where he made a similar comment to Omar’s. Democratic commentator Keith Boykin said that it was outright hypocrisy to hear Trump call for Omar to apologize and resign since he refuses to do the same for his own racist statements.
Burnett played a super-cut of Trump’s racist comments publicly about the “very fine people on both sides” of the Charlottesville white supremacist rally. The Pocahontas attacks on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) might be meant as an insult directed at her, but it’s using a famous Native American as a pejorative. There are also the attacks Trump hurled at Mexicans who come to the United States.
“Look at my African American over here,” Trump said at a rally before the 2016 election.
“Negotiating with China…. they say, ‘We want deal!'” Trump told a rally audience in 2015, mocking the way they speak.
When exactly has Trump apologized for anything? Oh wait yeah, he apologized for the Access Hollywood Tape, then he said the tape was fake and he didn’t think it was even his voice and, oh-by-the-way, he’s still a birther.
In recent months, [advisers] say, Mr. Trump has used closed-door conversations to question the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. He has also repeatedly claimed that he lost the popular vote last year because of widespread voter fraud, according to advisers and lawmakers.
One senator who listened as the president revived his doubts about Mr. Obama’s birth certificate chuckled on Tuesday as he recalled the conversation. The president, he said, has had a hard time letting go of his claim that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States. The senator asked not to be named to discuss private conversations.
Seriously, man?
So Jake Tapper decided he was going to put up the horrid anti-Semitic post by Rep. Omar but the control room just wasn’t able to get it together.
On CNN’s The Lead Wednesday, host Jake Tapper put together a segment chronicling all the times the president has engaged in conduct far more offensive than Omar’s tweet about AIPAC.
Tapper kept asking his control room to show the graphic of Omar’s tweet, instead, they played clips of GOP anti-Semitism. From Trump’s anti-Semitic tweets to his comments made to Jews about them controlling politicians with money, each example was displayed. Each time, Tapper asked his control room to show the Omar tweet, but each time, they played something Republicans did.
“We seem to have some issues here sorting out which anti-Semitic tropes are offensive and which ones are not,” Tapper said. “We’ll be right back as we sort this out.”
Trump claims he can’t be anti-Semitic because he likes Jared so much and obviously his daughter Ivanka has converted and all their children are being raised Jewish. First of all that’s Ivanka’s decision and choice not his and secondly all that proves is his not an Absolute Racist, he has the ability to make exceptions for “some of the good ones.” But when it serves his purposes he’s not above tweeting out an image of Hillary Clinton over a pile of money and a star of david with the claim that she’s “corrupt.”
The concern expressed by many Jews is that Trump, who earlier this year was slow to condemn former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and has on several occasions retweeted messages from white supremacists, is bringing into the mainstream a sentiment that has largely been relegated to the dark underworld of the Internet.
The latest controversy has been roiling since Saturday, when the image first appeared in Trump's personal Twitter feed, along with his message, "Crooked Hillary - Makes History!" Soon thereafter, amid criticisms from some Jewish groups, Trump's campaign deleted the tweet and issued a new image featuring a red circle instead of the star.
But then Wednesday night, in a free-wheeling speech to thousands of supporters in Cincinnati, Trump expressed regret that the image had been changed.
"I said: 'Too bad. You should have left it up,' " Trump said. "I would have rather defended it -- just leave it up and say: No, that's not a Star of David. That's just a star."
No, it wasn’t “just a star” those have five points, not six. No, it wasn’t a sheriff’s badge, those usually have circles at the tips. No, that wasn’t an apology.
There’s also the way that Trump has reacted to migrants fleeing violence in Central America — which is fueled by the U.S. drug trade — by claiming “Illegal immigrants don’t have the jurisdiction of the United States” even though the 14th Amendment says the they absolutely do if their on our soil, and he advocates for tent city camps to detain children and families who are an “invasion” and says soldiers on our border should “consider a rock to be a gun.”
And there was his false ad about the “cop killer illegal immigrant” Luis Bracamonte which falsely claimed that “Democrats let him and Democrats let him stay” but he was later deported during George W. Bush’s administration twice and arrested three times in the jurisdiction or Arizona Republican Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
And then there was the Trump rally where a supporter was screaming “Jew S.A.” at reporters.
If you look at Trump’s incessant attacks on the media — whom some argue are controlled by “rich Jews” — then yes, that supporter was getting right to the heart of Trump’s campaign and the social split between the GOP and the rest of the country who “just don’t trust the media” because they think they’re “too liberal.:
But what they really mean is that they’re under the control of too many liberal jews.
And there’s the fact that anti-Semitism including the attack on the Pittsburgh synagogue have been rising in the days of Trump, and the shooter was specifically inspired by Trump campaign claims that Jews are helping bring criminal immigrants into the country.
Despite all this, the person that we need to pillary and have thrown out of congress is Rep. Ilhan Omar when she makes a reference to this Puff Daddy song in reference to a political action committee when she happens to be Muslim and they’re Jewish.
Or maybe she was talking about this 2002 Ice Cube, Mike Epps movie.
Because when people say “It’s all about the Benjamins” the first thing I think about isn’t the trope that jews are greedy . Lots of people are greedy.
Actually, Rep. Omar’s main problem with AIPAC is their support of repressive and inhumane policies in Israel and the contested territories, and it should be possible to criticize that without attacking Judism as a religion. Omar showed this when she directly challenged Elliot Abrams who is our current envoy to Venezuela over whether his policies today will echo the humanitarian crisis and genocides that he ignored in El Salvador and Nicaragua decades ago.
Elliott Abrams, who currently serves as the Trump administration’s special envoy to Venezuela, reacted angrily when Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) questioned him about his past support for murderous Latin American regimes.
In particular, Omar questioned Abrams about whether he was still proud of dismissing accurate reports about the infamous El Mozote massacre that was carried out by American-trained troops in El Salvador in the 1980s.
“More than 800 civilians, including children as young as two years old, were brutally murdered,” Omar told him. “During that massacre, some of those troops bragged about raping a 12-year-old girl before they killed her. You later said that the U.S. policy in El Salvador was a ‘fabulous achievement.’ Do you still think so?”
A visibly upset Abrams told Omar that it was a “fabulous achievement” that democracy came to El Salvador, but Omar wouldn’t let him dodge the question and he eventually had to admit that he didn’t think a mass killing conducted by American-trained forces was something to be proud of.
“Would you support an armed faction within Venezuela that engages in war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide if you believed they were serving US interests as you did in Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua?” Omar asked.
Omar may have submitted a tweet that put her in a pile of dog poop, but I think we can use someone like this in Congress right now on the Foreign Affairs committee asking questions like this which need to be asked.
It should be possible to criticize how the border is being handled, or how many people enter who are undocumented — most of whom arrive by plane and overstay their visas just like the rapper who was recently arrest by ICE — without it being racial, but since Trump came out the gate with “Mexicans are Rapists” that hasn’t been the case.
Republicans are using Omar’s mis-tweet as “what-about-ism”, as a deflection and dodge to help hide their own long history of statement, after statement, after statement of anti-Semitism while at the same time supporting the oppressive and deadly policies of right-wing Israeli leaders.
That becomes absolutely clear when you go back and follow the original thread of this which started with a tweet by Glenn Greenwald defending Omar and also Rep. Tlaib for having a right to criticize government policies as a part of free speech against the GOP which was already attacking them for being Anti-Semitic even before this.
Omar and freshman Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib — the first two Muslim women elected to Congress — have signaled support for the Palestinian-led BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) against the Israeli government over its treatment of Palestinians.
On Sunday night, Omar was responding to a tweet from prominent journalist Glenn Greenwald, who said, "Equating [Omar and Tlaib's] criticism of Israel to Steve King's long defense of white supremacy is obscene (McCarthy said it's worse). In the US, we're allowed to criticize our own government: certainly foreign governments. The GOP House Leader's priorities are warped."
In response to Greenwald's post, Omar tweeted, "It's all about the Benjamins baby," followed by a music emoji, which suggested that money was calling the tune for McCarthy.
When asked to explain where the money she was referring to came from, Omar tweeted: "AIPAC."
An Omar spokesman said the tweets "speak for themselves."
This was the “offensive” tweet, simply saying the name AIPAC in reference to being a funder of Isreali policy was a bridge too far. This was a planned pre-meditated attack on Omar and Tlaib with an equally bigoted trope that all Muslims hate Jews.
We all need to stop falling for the okey-doke people.
On the specific Russia side of things we have some interesting development with Russian Oligarch Pavel Fuchs who attended Trump’s inauguration and now seems to have been yet another person who tried to build a Moscow Trump tower back in 2003 only Trump turned down his offer of just $20 Million for the branding deal.
Acting AG Whitaker’s performance before House Judiciary was a mess and greatly reminded me of how GOP Reps treated by both Rod Rosenstein and former FBI Agent Peter Strzok accusing them repeatedly of unproven conspiracy theories and pelting them with accusations of bias. Only Rosenstein and Strzok actually answered the questions they were asked in detail, they weren’t just stalling for time and trying to “rope-a-dope” their way to the end. Also Whitaker’s testimony may have likely been an audition for him to take over for Jared Kushner, uh, Mike Mulvaney as WH Chief of Staff.
And then there’s Senate Intel Chairman Richard Burr who said their probe has found “no collusion”, [Which is an amazing thing to say considering the fact the Michael Cohen lied about talking to Russians, Manafort lied about talking to Russians, Roger Stone lied about setting up a communication network between the Trump campaign and Wikileaks who were supplied hacked emails by the Russians, and Michael Flynn lied about talking to Russians] but Ranking member Mark Warner says he’ll “reserve judgment” until the probe is complete.
Speaking of Roger Stone: he now demands a hearing on the conspiracy theory that Mueller tipped off CNN so they could film his arrest. His lawyer claims they received a text from CNN’s Sarah Murray with a link to the indictment at 6:22 am saying was still sealed at that time, but the SCO Office had posted the indictment on their site at 6:17 am. CNN actually had multiple stake outs in multiple locations that morning, and the indictment was only sealed until Stone was arrested, which had already happened.
Lastly, in an upcoming new book “The Threat: How the FBI protected America in the age of Terror and Trump” Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says that Rod Rosenstein didn't want to write the memo that excused the firing of James Comey, he only did it because he was ordered to do so and was emotionally frustrated, and unable to sleep, over it.
Here are the rest of this weeks daily updates in the endless stream of Trump corruption.
- February 6th—
- Sen Schumer says the SOTU speech was like “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde.”
- Former Sen. Santorum says it was his “worst delivered speech.”
- Ann Coulter: “Lamest, Sappiest" ever.
- Reports are that despite his false claims of wanting a positive relationship with the new Congress Trump had grumbled that Schumer is a “Son of a bitch” and Biden is “Dumb” at a pre-SOTU lunch.
- House Intel votes to send all their Russia investigation transcripts to Mueller.
- Pence defends the shutdown saying it's “never a mistake to stand up for what you believe." [Actually it is a mistake to make a million other people dangle on the hook for what you believe when it's deluded, bigoted bullshit.]
- Michael Cohen’s testimony to congress is delayed due to the “interests of the investigation.” [This indicates they might be using his statements or documents in another ongoing case.]
- Peggy Noonan says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had “bad night at the SOTU” [And no one knows what the hell she's talking about.] Other Repubs continue to freakout over AOC’s “lack of joy" at SOTU. [Trust me as a Democrat, most of what I saw from Congress people was amazing patience and restraint at holding in their disgust at Drumph's endless lies, gaslighting and bullshit — but still nobody yelled “YOU LIE" at him.]
- Rep. Debbie Dingle asks for prayers for her husband former Rep. John Dingle who has been placed under hospice care.
- Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring says that he went to a college party in the 80's in blackface pretending to be Curtis Blow. [He apologizes sincerely and doesn’t consider doing a moonwalk.]
- VA Lt. Gov Fairfax continues to maintain the sexual assault allegation against him is “false and hurtful.” Then his accuser publicly goes on the record with a detailed account of the assault during the 2004 DNC, She has also apparently told her story to Rep. Bobby Scott whom she had dated, but this was the first time she revealed all the details.
- Pelosi says that Trump should “not bring threats to the floor of the House.”
- House Intel Chairman announces that Dems will reboot Nunes flawed incomplete Russia probe.
- Acting AG Matt Whitaker doesn’t invoke executive privilege prior to his testimony.
- Trump claims he’s never heard of Adam Schiff [He’s previously called him “Little Adam Schitt” in a tweet] and again whines about “Presidential Harassment.”
- Schiff responds: “I can understand why Trump is terrified of investigations.”
- Russian Oligarch Pavel Fuchs offered Trump $20 Million for a Moscow Tower branding deal in 2006, but he turned it down as not being enough money. Fuchs, who like Deripaska is banned from entering the US, says he was introduced to Trump by late Soviet-born developer Tamir Sapir who had worked on the Trump SoHo project, and that he had attended the Inauguration and threatened to get violent over having bad seats which brought the attention of Mueller.
- Rep. Matt Gaetz decides to rail about illegal immigration during a hearing on mass gun violence [even though not one mass shooter has been an illegal immigrant, yet] and when two Parkland parents [including one who had tried to shake Kavanaugh’s hand only to be ignored] shout at him to shut up and stop changing the subject he tries to have them thrown out of the hearing. Other Dem reps question whether something can be done when people openly lie in the committee. [Sadly, no.]
- DOJ announces investigation of the 2006 plea deal for Trump friend and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein by Trump’s Labor secretary Alexander Acosta who was then a US Attorney in Florida.
- GOP operative Paul Erickson who dated Russia spy Maria Butina is indicted on money laundering and wire-fraud.
- February 7th —
- February 8th —
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announces that he’s being blackmailed by David Pecker’s AMI/National Enquirer over some intimate pictures he texted his mistress Lauren Sanchez who blew up his 25 year marriage with his wife Mackenzie. AMI wanted Bezos to tell the WaPo — which he owns — to report that the National Enquirers support for Trump. capturing and killing the Karen McDougal story and promotion of Saudi Arabia “wasn’t politically motivated” [even though it is — and also financially motivated.] Details are sketchy on whether the pictures were hacked from his phone [possibly the same way that Saudi Arabia hacked Khashoggi's phone using malware developed by the Israeli NSO Group] or if Sanchez’ brother Michael, who is pals with Carter Page, Roger Stone and Scottie Nell Hughes, gave the pics to AMI.
- Ivanka states she has “Zero concern over the Mueller probe” and that she knew “almost nothing about the Moscow Tower” [Which is funny since she had tried to hook Michael Cohen up with a Russian wrestler to help coordinate things, picked the architect for it and also had a planned an “Ivanka Trump” branded spa for the project.]
- Trump freaks out because Adam Schiff has hired former members of the National Security Council for House Intel staff. [Which is perfectly normal and also they probably come from prior administrations, not his.]
- Jerome Corsi and his crazy gonzo attorney sues Roger Stone for defamation and trying to give him “heart attacks and strokes.”
- WaPo reports the Bezos’ investigator thinks that a “government entity" may have leaked the illicit text messages to AMI for political reasons. [If that’s true it suggests a gross misuse of a FISA warrant for political payback which is far worse than anything suggested by the Carter Page warrant. Or worse, illegally bypassing a FISA or criminal warrant.]
- In an upcoming new book “The Threat: How the FBI protected America in the age of Terror and Trump” Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says that Rod Rosenstein didn't want to write the memo that excused the firing of James Comey, he only did it because he was ordered to do so and was emotionally frustrated, and unable to sleep, over it.
- Acting AG Whitaker testifies to the House Judiciary Committee:
- He repeatedly invokes executive privilege for any of his conversations with Trump, but then says he didn't talk to Trump about the Mueller probe. [Which is amazing since before he went to work at Session’s chief of staff, he had interviewed to defend Trump from Mueller in the slot that eventually went to Ty Cobb. So how does he interview for the job of defending against Mueller, without discussing Mueller?]
- He arrogantly tries to enforce the 5-min rule on Chairman Nadler’s questions himself, when the Chairman doesn't really have a 5 minute rule.
- He tries to filibuster every question with “I thank you for the question” even when it’s a simply “Yes” or “No” answer and the matter is already part of the public record.
- He says to the GOP members that he’s concerned about how CNN was able to be present for Roger Stone’s arrest suggesting their was a leak from Mueller. [Even though CNN has repeatedly explained they figured it out because the Grand Jury met on Thursday instead of Friday, plus one of the prosecutors had luggage with him — for the trip to Florida.]
- He has recently said that “Mueller is wrapping up” his investigation and claims he has “nothing to add" to that, although he later admits “Mueller will finish, when he decides to finish.”
- He says that if he were in Don Jr’s. position and a foreign operative offered him “dirt" on his opponent he would “most likely contact the FBI.” [Wow, decisive ain't he?]
- He says Mueller is an honest man, but he won’t walk back his previous “Witch Hunt” accusations.
- He says he hasn't denied funds to Mueller the way that he specifically suggested could be done when he was on Don Lemon’s show.
- He does a fast riverdance over who in the DOJ asked him to recuse himself and why he ignored that advice, then he then does his best Nuremberg Lieutenant impression when he's grilled over the failure to notify appropriate agencies and get their input over the Family Separation/”Zero Humanity” policy — which like Cruella De Nielsen, he denies they have — when he was Sessions’ chief of staff.
- He also denies that Trump “lashed out at him" over the guilty plea by Michael Cohen, even though that was also publicly reported.
- He reveals that a US Attorney Gregg Scott from California sat in on the Mueller probe briefing. [Uh, why?]
- Reports are that Trump has made 8 members of his Golf Clubs into U.S. Ambassadors.
- Fox and Fools disgustingly uses a fatal shooting on a subway platform by a supposed MS-13 member to blast Ocasio-Cortez for her “abolish ICE” stance. She responds: “Unlike these people, I actually care about my community,” she said in a tweet. “We’ve been monitoring this heartbreaking situation and have been working with the community to heal.”
- Roger Stone asks for a new Judge and vows to fight any gag order. [You really can’t fight that, if the judge orders it — then that's it.]
- Ronan Farrow and at least one other reporter say that they've been blackmailed by AMI/National Enquirer to change their reporting about their links to Trump also. “Stop digging or we’ll ruin you.” Daily Beast Editor in Chief Noah Shactman says several of their reporters were threatened by AMI attorneys while they reported on AMI helping Trump during the 2016 campaign.
- NYTimes reports that in 2017 Saudi Crown Prince MbS was recorded by US Intelligence telling one of his top aides that he would “use a bullet" on WaPo reporter Jamal Khashoggi if he didn't stop criticizing the Kingdom. [This brings into question whether US intel followed the “duty to warn” Khashoggi of the threat and also why Trump and Pompeo have claimed MbS had nothing to do with his eventual murder in 2018?]
- The AMI Board says they will investigate Bezos claims.
- Former Enquirer Editor says the threats against Bezos where a way to “kiss and makeup with Trump” after they agreed to cooperate with SDNY. [Uh, committing crimes when you have a plea deal tends to fuck up the plea deal, just ask Manafort.] CNN source expert says AMI’s blackmail will “all come out now.”
- Polls of Dems say Northam should resign by 2-1. He tells his staff he definitely won't resign.
- A second woman accuses Lt. Gov Fairfax of sexual assault and rape when they were in college together.
- Nadler says he needs more answers from Whitaker and that he may put the subpoena he withdrew back on the table.
- Butina’s sentencing is delayed as she continues to cooperate with prosecutors.
- February 9th—
- February 10th —
- Pecker denies Bezos’ blackmail claims. “All AMI Wanted was the Truth.” [You shouldn't have to use people’s dick pick selfies to get that just give them a statement f’r chrissakes.]
- Mulvaney says that Trump may still declare an emergency even if Congress gives him funding for border barriers. [Then why the fuck did we have a 35 day shutdown?]
- Warren suggests Trump might be in jail by 2020: “He may not be a free person.”
- Trump claims he’s “Generally working, not relaxing” during executive time. [If by “working” you mean watching Fox and Friends, Hannity and tweeting.]
- Sen Amy Klobachar enters the 2020 race during a Snow storm. [The media fawns over her “not too liberal” stance against Medicare-For-All and the New Green Deal claiming that makes her “electable.” This bullshit is going go on for a while I think.]
- Jack Tapper asks Rep Liz Chaney about Trump’s reference to seeing Elizabeth Warren on the campaign “TRAIL.” [Which is a reference to the murderous Trail of tears] and she refuses to respond to that but instead also attacks Warren for her “false” claims of being a Cherokee and Native American and claims she did it to “Get Benefits” [She never said she was Cherokee or part of the a tribe, she has correctly said she has some Native American ancestry and she never received any benefits for saying that, ever.]
- Northam says “I’m not going anywhere” then says that this year is the 400th anniversary of African Indentured Servants first arriving 90 miles away in Virginia. [Which is true, but feels like he’s trying to hard to be “sensitive” to African-American concerns.] He’s asked “Did you not know you were born to white privilege” and he’s says “I knew, but I didn't know how much impact it had.”
- Tax Refunds have shrank by about 8% due to withholding changes in Trump’s tax bill.
- February 11th —
- P.S. No one wants to work for the Border Patrol.
- Daily Beast confirms that Michael Sanchez, the brother of Jeff Bezos Girlfriend Laura Sanchez, was the sources of the text messages provided to AMI.
- Axios publishes more of Trump's scheduled which shows he spent half of his time this week on “Executive Time” so the WH goes on a crusade to find the leaker and Trump tweets that it should be reported “positively” saying that he’s “generally working” during Exec Time.[Working by watching Hannity!]
- Dems slam freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for tweeting “It’s all about the Benjamins” in reference to AIPAC because it's a anti-Jewish stereotype, although it’s also true about most lobbyist groups.
- Steve Schmidt throws two tantrums on a podcast he helped found when he’s asked about advising Howard Schultz and then again when he’s asked about Elizebeth Warren’s tax plan. [Although the 70% top marginal rate is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez idea.]
- Mueller Team’s discussion with the Judge during a pre-sentening hearing shows they believe that Manafort violated his plea deal because he was expecting a pardon.
- Sen. Klobachar admits that she’s “tough on her staff, because she has high expectations.” [Are male Senators pussy cats with their staff?]
- Judiciary Chair Nadler joins other Dems bash the “anti-semitic tropes” of Omar’s tweet. [Would he have done that if she wasn’t Muslim and she wasn't talking about AIPAC? Maybe if she hadn't quoted the title of a Puff Daddy song and an Ice-Cube movie?]
- Some Historians are “baffled” by Northam’s reference to “Indentured Servants”. [But he's right, Racial Slavery didn’t start in Virginia until the 1662 when “Virginia decided all children born in the colony to a slave mother would be enslaved. Slavery was not only a life-long condition; now it could be passed, like skin color, from generation to generation.”]
- Trump claims the NYAG’s “anti-Trump bias” taints the lawsuit against his charity Foundation. [That's like saying the Cop is only giving you a speeding ticket because he’s too “anti-speeding.”]
- Dem leadership calls for Omar to apologize.
- WSJ reports that AMI asked the DOJ if they needed to register as an agent of Saudi Arabia because of their glossy “The New Kingdom” special magazine about MbS. [If you have to ask, it’s probably too late — but no, the DOJ said they were fine since it was only one issue.]
- Rep. Omar apologizes fully for her tweet, but stands by her criticism of AIPAC.
- Four Fairfax staffers resign after the second assault allegation.
- DC Federal prosecutor files papers regarding FARA convict Sam Patten which may mean the investigation into more straw donations to Trump’s Inauguration may be heating up.
- MIchael Cohen postpones his interview with the Senate due to meds he's taking following shoulder surgery.
- “Team of Vipers" author Cliff Sims sues Trump for trying to enforce the campaign NDA against him. [Government employees have freedom of speech and whistle-blower protections which override a corporate styled NDA.]
- The Border Security negotiations reach a tentative deal to avoid another shutdown.
- February 12th —
- Trump and Beto plan dueling rallys across the street from each other in El Paso.
- Northam launches a “listen tour” to rehab his image.
- Former Astronaut Mark Kelly launches a campaign for John McCain’s senate seat.
- Mark Meadows isn't overjoyed with the border security compromise since it only has $1.35 Billion in barrier spending and limits CBP detention beds to 40,000. However Fox and Fools celebrates the deal.
- 8 Migrant families sue DHS for $Millions because of separation crisis trauma. [Oh, this is going to go class action.]
- Trump’s ex-lawyer John Dowd claims he knows more than Mueller knows because of the joint-defense agreements. [So that means they saw Rich Gates, Michael Cohen and MIchael Flynn flipping from a mile away?]
- Mitch McConnel supports the border security deal and hopes Trump will sign it. He also attempts a stunt vote on the Green Jew Deal to try and scare Dems.
- Hogan Gidley, whose name still isn't Tidley, says the WH hasn't seen the border deal yet. Trump apparently isn't thrilled. “I can't say I’m happy.” Then he say’s Omar’s apology was “lame” and insincere, and that she should resign from congress or at least leave the Foreign Affairs committee. [As if anything she said was like Steve “Cantaloupe Calves/White Supremacy” King has been spouting for years and gotten away with up until last month.]
- El Chapo is convicted on all charges.
- BBC requests a security review of the Trump rally where their cameraman was assaulted.
- WHCA calls on Trump to condemn violence against reporters. [Good luck with that.]
- Roger Stone’s wife is soliciting donations to his legal defense fund from Gingrich’s email list.
- WH asks Trump rally goers to “be respectful” after attack on BBC Cameraman. [We’re two fracking years into this merde and they JUST NOW decide to say their people should “be respectful”? That’s like hanging up a “Don’t Rape” sign in the dorm, because you finally noticed that’s a THING.]
- Dozens of members of the White Supremacist Prison Gang New Aryan Empire from Arkansas are indicted on Violence, Meth, and RICO charges.
- Senate votes to end debate on the Barr nomination, meaning it can now move to a floor vote.
- Howard Schultz has a Presidential Town Hall on CNN even though he hasn’t declared he's running for President yet. [So I guess Beto will get the next Town Hall since he hasn't announced either, right?]
- He doesn’t support Medicare-For-All because he claims “You won't be able to keep your doctor” which would only be true if they don’t accept Medicare and nobody makes MediGap plans. He says we should just “fix” the ACA to bring down prices — but that problem is being caused by States who didn't fully implement the ACA.
- He doesn't support wealth taxes.
- He supports Gun Control.
- He claims he grew up in the projects and “doesn’t see color.” [So he can't tell puce from purple?]
- He’s basically a Republican-Lite.
- Trump’s pal and Inauguration Chair Tom Barrack defends the Murder and dismemberment of Khashaggi. Asked about Khashoggi’s murder, Barrack said “whatever happened in Saudi Arabia, the atrocities in America are equal, or worse …” [What!!?]
- Senate Intel Chairman Richard Burr says their probe has found “no collusion”, but Ranking member Mark Warner says he’ll “reserve judgment” until the probe is complete.
- Scott Jennings finally admits Trump's racism after Erin Burnett rolls him a supercut of all the bigoted shit he’s been saying for years now.
- Former CIA Director John Brennan says that finding “Criminal Violations" is not the job of the Senate Intel Committee.
- Feburary 13th —
- Klobachar raises $1 Million in donations after her snowy announcement rally.
- National Debt hits $22 Trillion.
- Trump tweets support for the border security deal.
- After railing against it on Day One, Hannity softens on the deal on Day Two.
- House Dems consider issuing a subpoena for the interpreter notes from Trump's private meeting with Putin. [Trump probably took them and tore them up, which would violate the Presidential Records Act.]
- Santorum on Border Deal: Trump is “clearly not a winner.” [So then “So much winning” is already over?]
- CNN reports that Trump will accept the deal, then use Executive Action for more wall.
- Pence jumps on the Omar bash-wagon. “There should be consequences.”
- Omar [finally] hits back at Trump: “You have trafficked in Hate your whole life.”
- While Pence and Trump are jumping all over Omar, neither one of them has said a thing about Steve King. SHuckabee is the one who condemned King.
- Roger Stone demands a hearing on the conspiracy theory that Mueller tipped off CNN so they could film his arrest. [Yeah, people that are not YOU Roger, don't operate like low-life gangster wanna-bes.] His lawyer claims that received a text from CNN’s Sarah Murray with a link to the indictment at 6:22 am saying was still sealed at that time, but the SCO Office had posted the indictment on their site at 6:17 am. [CNN actually had multiple stake outs in multiple locations that morning.]
- Manafort again says to the court that he didn't lie to Mueller, although he did have a secret meeting at a Cigar Bar with Rick Gates and Kilimnick in August of 2016 on the top of 666 Park Ave. where he gave him inside polling data from the Trump campaign. That would be the campaign sharing election information with a Russian GRU asset. [Collusion!!]
- Senate Homeland Committee delays vote on Trump’s ICE nominee Ronald Vittieto because of a “NeoKlanist" tweet. [Oh vey.]
- Trump gets a new $50,000 Golf Simulator to make his “Executive Time" less sucky.
- Reports are the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov bragged about calling and berating SecState Pompeo over the Skripal Sanctions. [So are guys are taking tongue lashings from Russians after they try to murder someone now?]
- Rep. Ilhan Omar questions Trump envoy to Venezuela Elliot Abrams asking him if he’ll support the same type of death squads and massacres in Venezuela that he previously supported in El Salvador during the 80’s.
- Lobbyist Sam Patten is scheduled to be sentenced in April for being an unregistered foreign agent and straw donor for a Ukranian Oligarch to attend the inaugural. Patten had also worked with Cambridge Analytica’s parent company as well as Manafort, Gates and Kilmnick. [This sentencing date indicates that Mueller doesn't need his cooperation anymore.]
- Unsealed documents involving the Mueller Grand Jury indicate that the subpeona case involving an unknown company which they have been fighting also includes prosecutors for the DC US Attorney's Office.
- House minority leader McCarthy slams Omar without mentioning the 13 years that the GOP ignored Steve King's racist bullshit.
- Tom Barrack apologizes for his disturbing comments dismissing the murder of Jamal Khashoggi
- Tomi Lahren says if Trump signs the Border deal he can “forget about 2020.”
- House Freedom Caucus calls for a clean CR — again — to avoid a “bad border deal.”
- FEMA Administrator Brock Long resigns.
- FEC begins inquiry into $1 Million which was funneled and not reported through Manafort linked Pac.
- GOP Rep Drew Ferguson from Georgia had a racist book about Robert .E. Lee open to a page that talked about how Africans were better off under slavery under a glass display in his office.
- Judiciary Chair Nadler threatens to formally depose Whitaker because several items in his House testimony contradicts other information. Whitaker claimed that Trump didn't lash out at him over Michael Cohen’s guilty plea, when their are several witnesses who say otherwise. He said he hadn’t shared his views of the Mueller investigation with anyone, but he’d also interviewed to be a defense attorney for Trump against Mueller — so how’d that work?
- Federal Judge determines that Manafort lied to Mueller in 3 out of 5 cases mostly involving his communications with Kiliminick and his plea deal agreement is voided which allows him to be sentenced to to the fullest extent of the law.
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